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Watchdog evidence about fares in London on 18/06/2009
London TravelWatch has said that the travelling public needed a period of stability and consistency when the Mayor and Transport for London (TfL) set fares, rather than the 'stop/start' approach of increasing one year then decreasing them the next. It also warned that cash fares should not increase further to ensure value for money for London's visitors and tourists.
London TravelWatch gave evidence to the London Assembly's Budget and Performance Committee on the impact of the Mayor and TfL's fares policy this morning (Thursday 18) at City Hall.
David Leibling, Chair of London TravelWatch's Fares and Ticketing Committee, said: "London's transport users have been subject to considerable change in fares and ticketing policies over the past ten years, subject to either huge increases in fares or fares freezes. This inconsistency is confusing and unsettling for passengers.
"We are also concerned that bus fares remain affordable. Buses are the most commonly used form of transport in the capital (except walking) and high fares are more likely to disproportionately affect the most disadvantaged parts of society."
London TravelWatch's conclusions in full were as follows:
• TfL should recognise that users have had a sustained period of change in the mix and level of fares on the network in the past few years and that users would like to have a period of stability and consistency of fares rather than a 'start/stop' approach of fare increases, followed by a decrease and then an increase, and/or changes to the eligibility for concessionary fares.
• TfL should consider keeping cash fares at present levels in order to improve London's 'value for money' for visitors and tourists.
• TfL could consider whether Oyster Pay As You Go fares need to be set at 5p or 10p gradations, or could be set at other combinations so as to limit percentage increases in cost to the user.
• TfL should maximise its potential income from existing sources, by reducing the potential for fraud, increasing the attractiveness of its' services, marketing these and maximising service availability where this can be done at little or no extra cost.
• TfL should not be required to reduce expenditure where this would have the effect of reducing income by either making services unattractive, unreliable or potentially unsafe.
• TfL should conduct customer satisfaction surveys across all modes to measure the public's perception of 'value for money', and seek to improve on the current position, bearing in mind the link to service levels in terms of quantity and frequency.
• TfL when making a decision on fare levels and budget spending should take account of the fact that buses are the most commonly used mode (apart from walking), and that changes here are most likely the most disadvantaged parts of society.
• The Mayor should review some political decisions such as the replacement of articulated buses with conventional ones at higher costs and to scrap the Western Extension of the Congestion Charge where this would reduce TfL's income or increase its costs.
• The Mayor should not seek to reduce National Rail services in London as a means of obtaining additional grant aid.
• TfL should not assume that because they have been able to implement some substantial increases in fares without apparent reduction in demand in recent years that they would be able to do likewise to close any gap in their budget, given the changed general economic circumstances
• TfL and the Mayor in setting fares and their budget should seek to avoid a vicious circle of decline resulting from reduced income, followed by reduced service levels, which in turn reduces income again.
The voice of London's transport users
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"The Music of the Night" is a song from the musical The Phantom of the Opera. The music was written by Andrew Lloyd Webber with lyrics by Charles Hart.
Initially made famous by Michael Crawford, the actor who originated the role of the Phantom both in the West End and on Broadway, the popular song has sold millions of copies worldwide and has been translated into many different languages. The Really Useful Group filmed a video starring Crawford and Sarah Brightman (who did not sing), which featured the original lyrics to the song. Crawford later recorded the song as duet with Barbra Streisand for her album "Back to Broadway" (1993). This version of the song also appears on her greatest duets album.
In the musical, it is sung after the Phantom lures Christine Daaé down to his lair beneath the Opera House. He seduces Christine with "his music" of the night, his voice putting her into a type of trance. He sings of his unspoken love for her and urges her to forget the world and life she knew before. The Phantom leads Christine around his lair, eventually pulling back a curtain to reveal a mannequin dressed in a wedding gown resembling Christine. When she approaches it, it suddenly moves, causing her to faint. The Phantom then carries Christine to a bed, where he lays her down and goes on to write his music.
Sarah Brightman declared at the London's Royal Albert Hall Concert in 1997,[1] that the song was originally written by Andrew Lloyd Webber for her, the first time he met her. That version had different lyrics and was called "Married Man". The lyrics were later rewritten and the song was added into The Phantom of the Opera. After her run as the original Christine, she began using the song in her solo concerts.
A year before The Phantom Of The Opera even opened at Her Majesty's Theatre, the original version of the song was performed at Andrew Lloyd Webber's own theatre at Sydmonton, along with the first drafts of the show. The audience were a specially gathered group of Webber's acquaintances. The Phantom was played by Colm Wilkinson, who sang "The Music Of The Night" in Act One. As Charles Hart had not yet become involved in writing the song, in places the lyrics were very different from the ones used in the three variations of the song.
One version of "The Music of the Night", as performed by Sarah Brightman, has alternate lyrics, as well as an alternate ending, replacing the line "To the power of the music that I write," with "To the harmony which dreams alone can write".
Puccini controversy[edit]
Because of very noticeable similarities between the song and a recurring melody in Giacomo Puccini's 1910 opera, La Fanciulla del West (The Girl of the Golden West), Webber has been accused of plagiarism by several individuals. Following the success of Phantom, the Puccini estate filed suit against Webber, accusing him of plagiarism, but the suit was settled out of court and details were not released to the public.[2]
Meryl Davis and Charlie White used the song when ice dancing at the 2010 Olympic Games in Vancouver and won a silver medal. Jackie Evancho included the song on her 2012 album Songs from the Silver Screen.
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- ^ Ouzounian, Richard (2006-01-02). "Aspects of Andrew". Toronto Star.
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- Alternative lyrics to the song
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Cookbook authors and internationally famed chefs are making veganism bigger than ever in 2014.
With the onset of a fresh year, cultural gurus are predicting what trends will dominate the next 365 days, and according to Food and Wine's restaurant editor Kate Krader, vegan celebrity chefs are among 2014's favorable forecasts. Krader notes on CNN's website that globally renowned restaurateur Jean-Georges Vongerichten's forthcoming New York City raw eatery, ABC Home, is a sign of big chefs doing big things with plant-based food. She also cites Rene Redzepi, an internationally lauded chef from Copenhagen, who has added mushroom steaks to his specialty repertoire; also, Redzepi reportedly told the Economist that people should include more vegetables in their diets. Krader reports that even cookbook authors are going the way of the vegetarian—British Chef April Bloomfield is releasing A Girl and Her Greens, a stark contrast to her earlier work A Girl and Her Pig.
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To study the effects of ocean acidification, ten huge plastic containers called mesocosms are in place in the Gullmar Fjord in Sweden.
The project is unique: mesocosms of this size have never been used for such a long period of time. The experiment is part of a worldwide research project, and includes researchers from the University of Gothenburg, Sweden.
The mesocosms were lowered into the fjord with the help of divers from the research vessel Alkor and each one will now enclose 55,000 litres of seawater, containing organisms from the winter waters of the Gullmar Fjord. Carbon dioxide is added to half of the mesocosms and the researchers are going to observe the effect of different acidity levels on marine plants and animal plankton by monitoring the plankton over many generations and measuring the chemistry of the water every day. They are also going to add herring and cod larvae to see how they develop in the enclosed seawater. Similar studies have been carried out previously on a smaller scale in Polar environments, off the coast of Hawaii and off the Finnish and Norwegian coasts, however, mesocosms of this size have never been used for such a long period of time. This is the largest and longest experiment on the impact of climate change on marine ecosystems that has ever been carried out. A team of sixty international researchers are now based at the Sven Lovén Centre for Marine Sciences, University of Gothenburg to carry out the research in the Gullmar Fjord from January through June 2013 under the leadership of top German researcher Ulf Riebesell.
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Bochel, Catherine and Bochel, Hugh (2000) The careers of councillors: party, gender and politics. Ashgate Publishing Ltd. ISBN 1840140968, 9781840140965
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Abstract: | Drawing on a variety of research, including two surveys of councillors undertaken in Scotland, England and Wales, qualitative interviews and the re-analysis of existing data, this book aims to contribute towards research on local government councillors by exploring and developing the idea of "careers" of elected councillors and by examining their ambitions and the types of posts held during their period of office. In particular, the book examines the "career" experiences of men and women councillors, including the differential rates of participation, and progression to senior posts in elected local government. Developments including a growth in the number of "full-time" councillors and the Labour government's proposals for the modernization of local government make the consideration of career a prominent area. These and other issues, such as recruitment, party and gender differences are explored in the context of this book. |
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Former "American Idol" judge Randy Jackson may be back on the show -- as a mentor. (Allen J. Schaben / Los Angeles Times) |
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The Skinny: The boss is going on vacation next week and wisely giving me reign over the Fix. Or maybe not so wisely, given I stayed up too late watching "The Thick of It" on Hulu. Today's headlines include Disney layoffs and a carriage deal between CBS and -- wait for it ...
Daily Dose: There's still no CBS deal with Time Warner Cable, but there is one with Verizon. CBS Corp. reached a new carriage agreement with Verizon that continues retransmission of CBS-owned stations and "dramatically" increases distribution of CBS Sports Content to Verizon's FiOS TV customers. It sounds like they reached the 3-year accord pretty quickly.
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Down and out at the mouse house: Disney/ABC Television Group, which includes the ABC network, local TV stations and the Disney Channel and ABC Family cable channels, is cutting about 175 jobs as part of its restructuring. The move fits with Walt Disney Co.'s larger slimming efforts. Cuts like these don't always result in worse performance, as we've seen with ABC News. Details from the Los Angeles Times and Ad Age.
Iovine out at Idol? It looks like Jimmy Iovine's going to have a little more time to make headphones with Dr. Dre. Deadline says the record producer is leaving "American Idol" and will be replaced by Randy Jackson as a mentor for the show's contestants. Iovine came on in Season 10, replacing Simon Cowell, but not really. Cowell and Iovine actually have a pretty interesting history, which Deadline touches on.
CNN up, MSNBC down: There's no topping Fox News, but CNN had a summer surge, with an assist from the George Zimmerman trial. The other two cable news giants actually slipped compared with last summer, helping CNN push past MSNBC in some categories. Variety has the full rundown.
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Hardin Memorial Hospital recently announced that it has reached an agreement to acquire Surgical Specialists PSC, a physician-owned private practice of five general surgeons, three urologists and support staff located in Elizabethtown. Hospital trustees approved the $3.5 million purchase during a late October board meeting. HMH President and CEO David Gray said that although the acquisition is an unbudgeted agreement, the hospital would be making the purchase with available cash on hand.
Gray and Hardin County Judge-Executive Harry Berry noted the purchase price to be fair and that the practice has a strong trend of quality care.
Acquisitions such as this are not at all uncommon in the healthcare industry. Cuts to physician reimbursement fee schedules through Medicare and private insurance provider plans that took effect earlier this year have eaten into the profits of physicians in private practice, making employment a more attractive option. And, as the specifics of health care reform continue to materialize and usher in change for hospitals, acquisition of such practices can help hospitals meet mandated requirements that are coming, better control the quality of care their customers receive, and secure access to the physicians from whom they receive it. With the continuation of changes in the health care market, an increase in such agreements can be anticipated.
Unfortunately, though, such acquisition strategies aren't without risk. Hospitals often find it hard to manage and integrate into overall operations the private practices they've bought. At the same time, physicians and surgical specialists within these acquired practices equally find it difficult to integrate as "employees" from the flexibility and independence previously enjoyed in their private practices.
These hurdles and others will be challenges Hardin Memorial Hospital administrators and the physicians of Surgical Specialists must work together to address.
Now that an acquisition and purchase price agreement has been reached, working out and formalizing clear, manageable and measureable operating goals, compensation structures and quality will help to ensure that this acquisition adds value, both for the hospital's bottom line and equally for the physicians involved. If either side of this equation is out of balance, the potential for a favorable outcome from this acquisition will be at risk and the ultimate losers will be the patients and taxpayers both endeavor to serve.
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Reliance Petroleum
Type | public company (BSE: 532743) |
Industry | Petroleum and Gas |
Founded | 2008 |
Headquarters | Ahmedabad, India |
Key people | Mukesh Ambani |
Products | Petroleum |
Revenue | 36.78 billion (US$590 million)[1] |
Parent | Reliance Industries |
Website | www.reliancepetroleum.com |
Reliance Petroleum Limited was set up by Reliance Industries Limited (RIL), one of India's largest private sector companies based in Ahmedabad. Currently, RPL is subsidiary of RIL, and has interests in the downstream oil business. RPL also benefits from a strategic alliance with Chevron India Holdings Pte Limited, Singapore, a wholly owned subsidiary of Chevron Corporation USA (Chevron), which currently holds a 5% equity stake in the Company.[2]
Jamnagar Refinery[edit]
Refining activities of Reliance Industries Limited are carried out at the Jamnagar refinery complex with refining capacity of 1,240,000 barrels per day which is 65 million tonnes per anum.
The refinery is able to process a wide variety of crudes- from very light to very heavy (from 18 to 45-degree API) and from sweet to very sour (with sulphur content from 0 to 4.5%).
RPL commenced its crude processing on 25 December 2008. The secondary processing units are now under synchronisation and commissioning. The entire refinery complex is expected to attain full capacity shortly.[when?]
With an annual crude processing capacity of 580,000 barrels (92,000 m3) per stream day (BPSD), RPL will be the sixth largest refinery in the world. It will have a complexity of 14.0, using the Nelson Complexity Index, ranking it one of the highest in the sector. The polypropylene plant will have a capacity to produce 0.9 million metric tonnes per annum.[citation needed]
The refinery project is being implemented at a capital cost of Rs 270,000 million being funded through a mix of equity and debt. This represents a capital cost of less than US$10,000 per barrel per day and compares very favourably with the average capital cost of new refineries announced in recent years.[citation needed] The International Energy Agency (IEA) estimates the average capital cost of new refinery in the OECD nations to be in the region of US$15,000 to 20,000 per barrel per day.[citation needed] The low capital cost of RPL becomes even more attractive when adjusted for high complexity of the refinery.
- ^ "BSE 2008–2009 Data". www.bseindia.com. Retrieved 15 August 2010.
- ^ Reliance Petroleum Ltd.


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MLK and the Purpose of Education
You know elite universities are in trouble when their professors say things like Edward Rock. Rock, Distinguished Professor at the University of Pennsylvania Law School and coordinator of Penn's online education program, has this to say about the impending revolution in online education:
We're in the business of creating and disseminating knowledge. And in 2012, the internet is an incredibly important place to be present if you're in the knowledge dissemination business.
If elite colleges are in the knowledge dissemination business, then they will overtime be increasingly devalued and made less relevant. What colleges and universities need to offer is not simply knowledge, but education.
In 1947, at the age of 18, Martin Luther King Jr. wrote a short essay in the The Maroon Tiger, the Morehouse College campus newspaper. The article was titled, "The Purpose of Education." In short, it argued that we must not confuse education with knowledge.
King began with the personal. Too often, he wrote, "most college men have a misconception of the purpose of education. Most of the "brethren" think that education should equip them with the proper instruments of exploitation so that they can forever trample over the masses. Still others think that education should furnish them with noble ends rather than means to an end." In other words, too many think that college is designed to teach either means or ends, offering the secrets that unlock the mysteries of our futures.
King takes aim at both these purposes. Beyond the need for education to make us more efficient, education also has a cultural function. In this sense, King writes, Education must inculcate the habit of thinking for oneself, what Hannah Arendt called Selbstdenken, or self-thinking.
"Education," King writes, "must also train one for quick, resolute and effective thinking." Quick and resolute thinking requires that one "think incisively" and "think for one's self." This "is very difficult." The difficulty comes from the seduction of conformity and the power of prejudice. "We are prone to let our mental life become invaded by legions of half truths, prejudices, and propaganda." We are all educated into prejudgments. They are human and it is inhuman to live free from prejudicial opinions and thoughts. On the one hand, education is the way we are led into and brought into a world as it exists, with its prejudices and values. And yet, education must also produce self-thinking persons, people who, once they are educated and enter the world as adults, are capable of judging the world into which they been born.
For King, one of the "chief aims of education" is to "save man from the morass of of propaganda." "Education must enable one to sift and weigh evidence, to discern the true from the false, the real from the unreal, and the facts from the fiction."
To think for oneself is not the same as critical thinking. Against the common assumption that college should teach "critical reasoning," King argues that critical thinking alone is insufficient and even dangerous: "Education which stops with efficiency may prove the greatest menace to society. The most dangerous criminal may be the man gifted with reason, but with no morals." The example King offers is that of Eugene Talmadge, who had been governor of Georgia. Talmadge "possessed one of the better minds of Georgia, or even America." He was Phi Beta Kappa. He excelled at critical thinking. And yet, Talmadge believed that King and all black people were inferior beings. For King, we cannot call such men well educated.
The lesson the young Martin Luther King Jr. draws is that intelligence and critical reasoning are not enough to make us educated. What is needed, also, is an educational development of character:
We must remember that intelligence is not enough. Intelligence plus character—that is the goal of true education. The complete education gives one not only power of concentration, but worthy objectives upon which to concentrate. The broad education will, therefore, transmit to one not only the accumulated knowledge of the race but also the accumulated experience of social living.
Present debates about higher education focus on two concerns. The first is cost. The second is assessment. While the cost is high for many people, it is also the case the most students and their families understand that what colleges offer is priceless. But that is only true insofar as colleges understand their purpose, which is not simply to disseminate knowledge or teach critical thinking, but is, rather, to nurture character. How are we to assess such education? The demand for assessment, as well meaning as it is, drives education to focus on measurable skills and thus moves us away from the purposes of education as King rightly understands them.
The emerging debate about civic education is many things. Too often it is a tired argument over the "core" or the "canon." And increasingly it is derailed by arguments about service learning or internships. What really is at issue, however, is a long-overdue response to the misguided dominance of the research-university model of education.
Colleges in the United States were, up through the middle of the 20th century, not research-driven institutions. They were above all religiously affiliated institutions and they offered general education in the classics and the liberal arts. Professors taught the classics outside of their specific disciplines. And students wrestled with timeless questions. This has largely changed today where professors are taught to specialize and think within their disciplinary prejudices. Even distribution requirements fail to make a difference insofar as students forced to take a course outside their discipline learn simply another disciplinary approach. They learn useful knowledge and critical thinking. But what is missing is the kind of general education in the "accumulated experience of social living" that King championed.
I am not suggesting that all specialization is bad or that we should return to religious-affiliated schools. Not in the least. But many of us know that we are failing in our responsibilities to think about what is important and to teach students a curriculum designed to nurture self-thinking and citizenship. We avoid this conversation because it is hard, because people disagree today on whether we should read Plato or Confucius or study Einstein or immunology. Everyone has their discipline to defend and few faculty are willing or able to think about an education that is designed for students and citizens.
Let's stop bad mouthing all colleges. Much good happens there. Yet let's also recall King's parting words in his essay:
If we are not careful, our colleges will produce a group of close-minded, unscientific, illogical propagandists, consumed with immoral acts. Be careful, "brethren!" Be careful, teachers!
King's The Purpose of Education is your weekend read.
The "E" Word, Part Two
This Weekend Read is Part Two in "The "E" Word," a continuing series on "elitism" in the United States educational system. Read Part One here.
Peter Thiel has made headlines offering fellowships to college students who drop out to start a business. One of those Thiel fellows is Dale Stephens, founder of Uncollege. Uncollege advertises itself as radical. At the top of their website, Uncollege cites a line from the movie "Good Will Hunting":
You wasted $150,000 on an education you coulda got for a buck fifty in late charges at the public library.
The Uncollege website is filled with one-liners extolling life without college. It can be and often is sophomoric. And yet, there is something deeply important about what Uncollege is saying. And its message is resonating. Uncollege has been getting quite a bit of attention lately, part of a culture of obsession with college dropouts that is increasingly skeptical of the value of college.
At its best, Uncollege does not simply dismiss college as an overpriced institution seeking to preserve worthless knowledge. Rather, Uncollege claims that college has become too anti-intellectual. College, as Uncollege sees it, has become conventional, bureaucratic, and not really dedicated to learning. In short, Uncollege criticizes college for not being enough like college should be. Hardly radical, Uncollege trades rather in revolutionary rhetoric in the sense that Hannah Arendt means the word revolution: a return to basic values. In this case, Uncollege is of course right that colleges have lost their way.
Or that is what I find interesting about Uncollege.
To actually read their website and the recent Uncollege Manifesto by Dale Stephens, is to encounter something different. The first proposition Uncollege highlights has little to do with education and everything to do with economics. It is the decreasing value of a college education.
The argument that college has ever less value will seem counter intuitive to those captivated by all the paeans to the value of college and increased earning potential of college graduates. But Uncollege certainly has a point. Currently about 30% of the U.S. adult population has a degree. But among 20-24 year olds, nearly 40% have a college degree. And The Obama administration aims to raise that number to 60% by 2020. Uncollege calls this Academic Inflation. As more and more people have a college degree, the value of that degree will decrease. It is already the case that many good jobs require a Masters or a Ph.D. In short, the monetary value of the college degree is diminished and diminishing. This gives us a hint of where Uncollege is coming from.
The Uncollege response to the mainstreaming of college goes by a number of names. At times it is called unschooling. Unschooling is actually a movement began by the legendary educator John Holt. I recall reading John Holt's How Children Learn while I was in High School—a teacher gave it to me. I was captivated by Holt's claim that school can destroy the innate curiosity of children. I actually wrote my college application essay on Holt's educational philosophy and announced to my future college that my motto was Mark Twain's quip, "I never let school interfere with my education"—which is also a quotation prominently featured in the Uncollege Manifesto.
Unschooling—as opposed to Uncollege—calls for students to make the most of their courses, coupling those courses with independent studies, reading groups, and internships. I regularly advise my students to take fewer not more courses. I tell them to pick one course each semester that most interests them and pursue it intently. Ask the professor for extra reading. Do extra writing. Organize discussion groups about the class with other students. Go to the professor's office hours weekly and talk about the ideas of the course. Learners must become drivers of their education, not passive consumers. Students should take their pursuit of knowledge out of the classroom, into the dining halls, and into their dorms.
Uncollege ads that unschooling or "hacking your education" can be done outside of schools and universities. With Google, public libraries, and free courses from Stanford, MIT and Harvard professors proliferating on the web, an enterprising student of any age can compose an educational path today that is more rigorous than anything offered "off-the-shelf" at a college or university. I have no problem with online courses. I hope to take a few. But it is a mistake to think that systems of massive information delivery are the same thing as education.
What Uncollege offers is something more and something less wholesome than simply a call for educational seriousness. It packages that call with the message that college has become boring, conventional, expensive, and unnecessary. In the Uncollege world, only suckers pay for college. The Uncollege Manifesto promotes "Standing out from the other 6.7 billion"; it derides traditional paths pointing out that "5,000 janitors in the United States have Ph.Ds."; and cautions, "If you are content with life and education you should probably stop reading… You shall fit in just fine with society and no one will ever require you to be different. Conforming to societal standards is the easy and expected path. You are not alone!"
At the core of the Uncollege message is that dirty and yet all-so-powerful little word again: "elitism." Later in the Uncollege Manifesto we are told that young people have a choice between "real accomplishments" and the "easy path to mediocrity":
To succeed without a college degree you will have to build your competency and reputation through real world accomplishments. I am warning now: this is not going to be easy. If you want to take the easy path to mediocrity, I encourage you to go to college and join the masses. If you want to stand out from the crowd and change the world, Uncollege is for you!
At one point, the Uncollege Manifesto lauds NPR's "This I Believe" series and commends these short 500 word essays on personal credos. But Uncollege adds a twist: instead of writing what one believes, it advises its devotees to write an essay answering the question: "What do you believe about the world that most others reject?" It is not enough simply to believe in something. You must believe in something that sets you apart and makes you different.
Uncollege is at least suggesting that it might be cool to want, as it has not been for 50 years, to aim for excellence and to yearn to be different. In short, Uncollege is calling up students at elite institutions to boldly grab the ring of elitism and actively seek to stand outside and above the norm. And it is saying that education is no longer elite, but conventional.
It is hard not to see this embrace of elitism as refreshing although no doubt many will scream the "e" word. I have often lectured to students at elite institutions and confronted them with their fear of elitism. They or someone spends upwards of $200,000 on an education not to mention four years of their lives, and then they reject the entire premise of elitism: that they are different or special. By refusing to see themselves as members of an elite, these students too often refuse to accept the responsibility of elites, to mold and preserve societal values and to assume leadership roles in society.
Leading takes courage. In Arendtian terms, it requires living a public life where one takes risks, acts in surprising ways, and subjects oneself to public judgment. Leading can be uncomfortable and dangerous, and it is often more comfortable and fun to pursue one's private economic, familial, and personal dreams. Our elite colleges have become too much about preparing students for private success rather than launching young people into lives of public engagement. And part of that failure is a result of a retreat from elitism and a false humility that includes an easy embrace of equality.
That Uncollege is selling its message of excellence and elitism to students at elite institutions of higher learning is simply one sign of how mainstream and conformist many of these elite institutions have become. But what is it that Uncollege offers these elite students who drop out and join Uncollege?
According to its website, Uncollege is selling "hackademic camps" and a "gap year program" that are designed to teach young people how to create their own learning plans. The programs come with living abroad programs and internships. Interestingly, these are all programs offered by most major universities and colleges. The difference is money and time. For $10,000 in just one year, you get access to mentors and pushed to write op-eds, and the "opportunity to work at hot Silicon Valley startups, some of them paid positions." In the gap year program, participants will also "build your personal brand. Speak at a conference, Write an op-ed for a major news outlet. Build a personal website."
None of this sounds radical, intellectual, or all-that elitist. On the contrary, it claims that young people have little to learn from educators. Teachers are unimportant, to be replaced by mentors in the world. The claim is that young people lack nothing but information and access in order to compete in the world.
What Uncollege preaches often has little to do with elitism or intellectual growth. It is a deeply practical product being sold as an alternative to the cost of college. In one year and for one-twentieth of what a four-year elite college education costs, a young person can get launched into the practical world of knowledge workers, hooked up with mentors, and set into the world of business, technology, and media. It is a vocational training program for wannabe elites, training people to leap into the creative and technology fields and compete with recent college graduates but without the four years of studying the classics, the debt, and the degree. The elitism that Uncollege is selling is an entrepreneurial elitism measurable by money. By appealing to young students' sense of superiority, ambition, and risk-taking, Uncollege stands a real chance of attracting ambitious young people more interested in a good job and a hot career than in reading the classics or studying abstract math.
Let's stipulate this is a good thing. Not everybody should be going to liberal arts colleges. People unmoved by Nietzsche, Einstein, or Titian who are then forced to sit through lectures, cram for exams, and pull all-nighters writing papers cribbed from the internet are wasting their time and money on an elite liberal arts education. What is more, they bring cynicism into an environment that should be fired by idealism and electrified by passion. For those who truly believe that it is important in the world to have people who are enraptured by Sebald and transformed by Arendt, it is deeply important that the liberal arts college remain a bastion apart, a place where youthful exuberance for the beautiful and the true can shine clearly.
We should remember, as well, that reading great books and studying Stravinsky is not an activity limited to the academy. We should welcome a movement like Uncollege that frees people from unwanted courses but nevertheless encourages them to pursue their education on their own. Yes, many of these self-educated strivers will acquire idiosyncratic readings of Heidegger or strange views about patriotism. But even when different, opinions are the essence of a human political system.
One question we desperately need to ask is whether having a self-chosen minority of people trained in the liberal arts is important in modern society. I teach in an avowedly liberal arts institution precisely because I fervently believe that such ideas matter and that having a class of intellectuals whose minds are fired by ideas is essential to any society, especially a democracy.
I sincerely hope that the liberal arts and the humanities persist. As I have written,
The humanities are that space in the university system where power does not have the last word, where truth and beauty as well as insight and eccentricity reign supreme and where young people come into contact with the great traditions, writing, and thinking that have made us whom we are today. The humanities introduce us to our ancestors and our forebears and acculturate students into their common heritage. It is in the humanities that we learn to judge the good from the bad and thus where we first encounter the basic moral facility for making judgments. It is because the humanities teach taste and judgment that they are absolutely essential to politics. It is even likely that the decline of politics today is profoundly connected to the corruption of the humanities.
Our problem, today, is that college is caught between incompatible demands, to spark imaginations and idealism and to prepare young people for employment and success. For a long while now colleges have been doing neither of these things well. Currently, the political pressure on colleges is to cut costs and become more efficient. The unspoken assumption is that colleges must more cheaply and more quickly prepare students for employment. For those of us who care about college as an intellectual endeavor, we should welcome new alternatives to college like internet courses, vocational education, and Uncollege that will pull away young people for whom college would have been the wrong choice. Maybe, under the pressure of Uncollege, colleges will return to their core mission of passionately educating young people and preparing them for lives of civic engagement.
I encourage you this weekend to read the Uncollege Manifesto. Let me know what you think.
What is a Fact?
What is a fact? Few more thorny questions exist. Consider this, from Hannah Arendt's essay, "Truth and Politics:"
But do facts, independent of opinion and interpretation, exist at all? Have not generations of historians and philosophers of history demonstrated the impossibility of ascertaining facts without interpretation, since they must first be picked out of a chaos of sheer happenings (and the principles of choice are surely not factual data) and then be fitted into a story that can be told only in certain perspective, which has nothing to do with the original occurrence?
Facts are constructed. They are not objective. And there is no clear test for what is a fact. Thus, when Albert Einstein was asked, how science can separate fact from fiction, brilliant hypotheses from nutty quackery, he answered: 'There is no objective test." Unlike rational truths that are true outside of experience and absolute, all factual truths are contingent. They might have been otherwise. That is one reason it is so hard to pin them down.
Steve Shapin reminds us of these puzzles in an excellent essay in this weeks London Review of Books. Shapin is reviewing a new book on Immanuel Velikovsky by Michael Gordin. Velikovsky, for those born since the 1960s, caused an uproar in the 1960s and 70s with his scientific claims that Venus was the result of a dislodged piece of Jupiter, that comets led to the parting of the Red Sea, that it dislodged the orbit of Mars threatening Earth, and caused the relocation of the North Pole, not to mention the showering of plagues of vermin onto the earth that nourished the Israelites in the desert.
Gordin's book is about how American scientists went ballistic over Velikovsky. They sought to censor his work and schemed to prevent the publication of his book, Worlds in Collision, at the prestigious Macmillan press. At the center of the controversy was Harvard, where establishment scientists worked assiduously to discredit Velikovsky and stop the circulation of his ideas. [I am sensitive to such issues because I was also the target of such a suppression campaign. When my book The Gift of Science was about to be published by Harvard University Press, I received a call from the editor. It turns out an established scholar had demanded that HUP not publish my book, threatening to no longer review books for the press let alone publish with them. Thankfully, HUP resisted that pressure, for which I will always be grateful.]
For these Harvard scientists, Velikovsky was a charlatan peddling a dangerous pseudo science. The danger in Velikovsky's claims was more than simple misinformation. It led, above all, to an attack on the very essence of scientific authority. What Velikovsky claimed as science flew in the face of what the scientific community knew to be true. He set himself up as an outsider, a dissident. Which he was. In the wake of totalitarianism, he argued that democratic society must allow for alternative and heretical views. The establishment, Velikovsky insisted, had no monopoly on truth. Let all views out, and let the best one win.
Shapin beautifully sums up the real seduction and danger lurking in Velikovsky's work.
The Velikovsky affair made clear that there were radically differing conceptions of the political and intellectual constitution of a legitimate scientific community, of what it was to make and evaluate scientific knowledge. One appealing notion was that science is and ought to be a democracy, willing to consider all factual and theoretical claims, regardless of who makes them and of how they stand with respect to canons of existing belief. Challenges to orthodoxy ought to be welcomed: after all, hadn't science been born historically through such challenges and hadn't it progressed by means of the continual creative destruction of dogma? This, of course, was Velikovsky's view, and it was not an easy matter for scientists in the liberal West to deny the legitimacy of that picture of scientific life. (Wasn't this the lesson that ought to be learned from the experience of science in Nazi Germany and Stalinist Russia?) Yet living according to such ideals was impossible – nothing could be accomplished if every apparently crazy idea were to be given careful consideration – and in 1962 Thomas Kuhn's immensely influential Structure of Scientific Revolutions commended a general picture of science in which 'dogma' (daringly given that name) had an essential role in science and in which 'normal science' rightly proceeded not through its permeability to all sorts of ideas but through a socially enforced 'narrowing of perception'. Scientists judged new ideas to be beyond the pale not because they didn't conform to abstract ideas about scientific values or formal notions of scientific method, but because such claims, given what scientists securely knew about the world, were implausible. Planets just didn't behave the way Velikovsky said they did; his celestial mechanics required electromagnetic forces which just didn't exist; the tails of comets were just not the sorts of body that could dump oil and manna on Middle Eastern deserts. A Harvard astronomer blandly noted that 'if Dr Velikovsky is right, the rest of us are crazy.'
It is hard not to read this account and not think about contemporary debates over global warming, Darwinism, and the fall of the World Trade Center. In all three cases, outsiders and even some dissident scientists have made arguments that have been loudly disavowed by mainstream scientists.
No one has done more to explore the claims of modern pseudo science than Naomi Oreskes. In her book Merchants of Doubt written with Erik Conway, Oreskes shows how "a small handful of men" could, for purely ideological reasons, sow doubt about the 'facts' regarding global warming and the health effects of cigarettes. In a similar vein, Jonathan Kay has chronicled the efforts of pseudo scientists to argue that there was no possible way that the World Trade Towers could have been brought down by jet fuel fires, thus suggesting and seeking to "prove" that the U.S. government was behind the destruction of 9/11.
Oreskes wants to show, at once, that it is too easy for politically motivated scientists to sow doubt about scientific fact, and also that there is a workable and effective way for the scientific community to patrol the border between science and pseudo science. What governs that boundary is, in Oreskes words, "the scientific consensus." The argument that global warming is a fact rests on claims about the scientific method: value free studies, evaluated by a system of peer review, moving towards consensus. Peer review is, for Oreskes, "is a crucial part of science." And yet, for those who engage in it know full well, peer review is also deeply political, subject to petty and also not so petty disputes, jealousies, and vendettas. For this and other reasons, consensus is, as Oreskes herself admits, not always accurate: "The scientific consensus might, of course, be wrong. If the history of science teaches anything, it is humility, and no one can be faulted for failing to act on what is not known."
Just as Einstein said 50 years ago, in the matters of establishing scientific fact, there is no objective test. This is frustrating. Indeed, it can be dangerous, not only when pseudo scientists sow doubt about global warming thus preventing meaningful and necessary action. But also, the pervasive and persuasive claims of pseudo science sow cynicism that undermines the factual and truthful foundations of human life.
Arendt reminds us, with a clarity rarely equaled, that factual truth is always contingent. "Facts are beyond agreement and consent, and all talk about them—all exchanges of opinion based on correct information—will contribute nothing to their establishment." Against the pseudo scientific claims of many, science is always a contingent and hypothetical endeavor, one that deals in hypotheses, agreement, and factual proof. Scientific truth is always empirical truth and the truths of science are, in the end, grounded in consensus.
The trouble here is that scientific truths must—as scientific—claim to be true and not simply an opinion. Science makes a claim to authority that is predicated not upon proof but on the value and meaningfulness of impartial inquiry. It is a value that is increasingly in question.
What the challenge of pseudo science shows is how tenuous scientific authority and the value placed on disinterested research really is. Such inquiry has not always been valued and there is no reason to expect it to be valued about partial inquiry in the future. Arendt suggests that the origin of the value in disinterested inquiry was Homer's decision to praise the Trojans equally as he lauded the Achaeans. Never before, she writes, had one people been able to look "with equal eyes upon friend and foe." It was this revolutionary Greek objectivity that became the source for modern science. For those who do value science and understand the incredible advantages it has bestowed upon modern civilization, it is important to recall that the Homeric disinterestedness is neither natural nor necessary. In the effort to fight pseudo science, we must be willing and able to defend just such a position and thus what Nietzsche calls the "pathos of distance" must be central to any defense of the modern scientific world.
When science loses its authority, pseudo science thrives. That is the situation we are increasingly in today. There are no objective tests and no clear lines demarcating good and bad science. And that leaves us with the challenge of the modern age: to pursue truth and establish facts without secure or stable foundations. For that, we need reliable guides whom we can trust. And for that reason, you should read Steven Shapin's latest essay. It is your weekend read.
Albert Einstein on Thinking
"We cannot solve our problems with the same thinking we used when we created them."
-Albert Einstein
Five Perspectives on "The Conquest of Space & the Stature of Man"
Read Hannah Arendt's seminal 1963 essay, "The Conquest of Space and the Stature of Man".
Patrick Deenen, Rita Kogazon, Charles T. Rubin, Stephen Bertman, and Peter Augustine Lawler provide five different perspectives on the essay and its continued relevance today.


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Sign posted at my daughter's elementary school gym
Suns Fans Celebrate the Career of Steve Nash with a Giant Drawing of a Penis
Best fan sign ever
This will probably be the sign my Republican father-in-law ends up putting on his front lawn.
Best fan sign of the year: Packers fan uses game tickets to get back at cheating ex
Oh thank God. Now I can get my Egg McMuffin fix before the Thanksgiving feast.
No trading? Food? Tulips? Wooden shoes?
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she has the freedom to spend time with whom she chooses-when she chooses-where she chooses!
As you can see from profile there is little she won't do to please if she likes& trusts you!
But you have to be willing& able to spend time with her in& out of bed-not just show up for sex!
Her limits sexually are-No toiletplay-no restraining her in ANYWAY- No real Pain for her- no kids or animals!
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She allso thinks that Fem me needs boyfriends(who want to treat me as a ****(not nice like she wants for herself)!
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CD/LP/Track Review
Craig Taborn: Junk Magic (2004)
With Junk Magic he has crossed a line where production matters just as much as actual performance, to the extent you can separate the two. Taborn recruited violist Mat Maneri, whose prominent voice rides alongside saxophonist Aaron Stewart's. Just as often as not, their instruments go through a machine before they're spit out on record, but don't be scared. It works.
Taborn's original compositions for this set tend to revolve around simple melodies and vamps which can be repeated, modulated, and developed until they become anthems. At other times they're dark and swirling, as with "Shining Through," where a sharp aroma of free interchange pervades the setting. Both styles reflect Tim Berne's own barely-contained freedom, and yes, Berne and Taborn have been collaborators.
Pianist (and now keyboardist) Matthew Shipp keeps an eye on things at Thirsty Ear's Blue Series imprint, and his own "nu jazz" developed through the imperfect Nu Bop to last year's enormously successful Equilibrium . Shreds of Shipp's work reflected here. Free improvisation, which lies at the roots of this music, rarely recedes from the mix. But the electronics are the key, and Taborn does them right. The main factors are synthesis, processing, and a barely imposed order. In fact, it's often difficult to figure out how much of the beats are machine- versus human-generated. That's a tribute to Bad Plus drummer David King, who seems quite at home in this hybrid environment.
Even despite the burgeoning sound of most of this record, these players pause for contemplation on a regular basis. "Bodies at Rest and In Motion" presents that slightly-distracted sort of reflection, definitely over the line into darkness. It stands in stark contrast to the minute-long old-school beatbox groove that follows and the outright reverberant piece that closes the record. Pay close attention to Mat Maneri's eerie viola parts on "The Golden Age."
This isn't a long record. Clocking in at almost 42 minutes, Junk Magic makes its impact and then fades. Four tracks are beat-laden, four are open to more abstract exploration. The balance is right, the record is good, and Taborn is moving forward. Borders are not barriers. No doubt about that. Stay tuned.
Visit Thirsty Ear on the web.
Track Listing: Junk Magic, Mystero, Shining Through, Prismatica, Bodies At Rest And In Motion, Stalagmite, The Golden Age.
Personnel: Craig Taborn: piano, keyboards, programming; Mat Maneri: viola; Aaron Stewart: tenor saxophone; David King: drums.
Record Label: Thirsty Ear Recordings
Style: Modern Jazz


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Petala backdoor (hacker's remote tool) was first found on 28th of September 2003. The backdoor provides a limited access to an infected system for remote hackers. The backdoor originate from Brasil.
Disinfection & Removal
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Technical Details
The backdoor is written in Visual Basic. Its file is 331 kilobytes long and has VB P-Code instead of normal Assembly instructions.
Techical details
When the backdoor's file is run, it installs itself to system. The backdoor copies itself to Windows folder as WINDATA.EXE file and to Windows System folder as MSJIS.EXE file. The backdoor creates startup keys for both these files in System Registry:
[HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\MICROSOFT\WINDOWS\CURRENTVERSION\RUN] "Microsoft Network Registry Control" = "%windir%\system\msjis.exe" [HKEY_USERS\S-1-5-21-484763869-746137067-854245398-1003\Software\Microsoft\Windows\CurrentVersion\Run] "Environ Monitor" = "%windir%\system\msjis.exe" [HKEY_LOCAL_MACHINE\SOFTWARE\MICROSOFT\WINDOWS\CURRENTVERSION\RUN] "Microsoft Network Control" = "%windir%\windata.exe" [HKEY_USERS\S-1-5-21-484763869-746137067-854245398-1003\Software\Microsoft\Windows NT\CurrentVersion\Windows\Run] @ = "%windir%\windata.exe"
The backdoor can also modify WIN.INI file to make its files start during every Windows session.
The backdoor can create the following files in Windows folder:
msjet.sys navrs.sys regbck.sys
The backdoor replaces SCRIPT.INI file of mIRC client with its own one. The new file instructs an IRC client to send the following message to all users joining a channel where an infected person is present:
Tranforme seu WINDOWS numa super estacao de trabalho interligada 24h na internet com os melhores servicos gr¡tis. Desde televis£o, cinema, ate jogos e supermercado, locadora, acougue, farm¡cia de todo brasil. Algo realmente nunca visto antes. E tudo com um simples update e com a garantia da microsoft. Confira:
We believe that the backdoor's author wanted the backdoor to spread through IRC networks, but this functionality was not completed for some reason.
The backdoor can be controlled using an IRC bot. Additionally the backdoor has a built-in FTP server and mail relay. A hacker can do the following actions using the backdoor:
Login to backdoor Change bot's nick Join or part a channel Send text message Set channel mode Start file Delete file Copy file Send SPAM Change IDENT Give or take voice (prefered user) Give or take op (channel operator) Ban or unban user Ignore user Uninstall backdoor Send URL Get process list Kill specified process List files on an infected hard drive Start frp server
The backdoor kills the following files:
%windir%\menu iniciar\programas\iniciar\wd.exe %windir%\Start Menu\Programs\StartUp\wd.exe %sysdrv%\Documents And Settings\All Users\Menu Iniciar\Programas\Inicializar\wd.exe
where %sysdrv% is system drive and %windir% is Windows folder.
The backdoor deletes files and terminates processes with the following names:
vsmon.exe minilog.exe zapro.exe avgserv.exe symtray.exe wingate.exe persfw.exe vsstat.exe vshwin32.exe webscan.exe rulaunch.exe mcshield.exe wg2eng95.exe nprotect.exe avgserv9.exe pstores.exe avgcc32.exe wg3eng9x.exe navapw32.exe wengmon.exe cjinject.exe ccevtmgr.exe navapw32.exe poproxy.exe proxy.exe csinsm32.exe monwow.exe cmgrdian.exe avconsol.exe avsynmgr.exe
F-Secure Anti-Virus detects Petala with the update released on
September 29th, 2003:
Detection Type: PC
Database: 2003-09-29_02
Description Created: Alexey Podrezov; 29th of September, 2003
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Happiness Quotes, Sayings about being happy
Stop looking for reasons to be unhappy. Focus on the things you do have, and the reasons you should be happy.
You know why it's hard to be happy? Because you find it hard to let go of the things that make you sad.
Don't let little stupid things break your happiness.
Happiness is… an inside job.
Happiness is not the absence of problems, but the ability to deal with them.
Happiness can be found, even in the darkest of times, if one only remembers to turn on the light.
- Albus Dumbledore
Do more of what makes you happy.
A man may be happy anywhere that knows how to be contented.
- Wellins Calcott
Happy are those men who live without ambition, distrust, or disguise.
- Wellins Calcott
Joy and bliss can come from the little and most unexpected thing if only we program our mind to enjoy these little things.
The formula for happiness is:
Achievements in life / Expectations from life x Health.
If you have not learnt anything but have learnt one thing that the goal of life is to be happy, you have learnt everything!
Happiness is a shadow. If you chase it, it moves further away. But if you turn to make others happy, it will follow you. Make other happy and be happy.
If your dream was to have a million dollar and if you got it without earning it, you would not be as happy as you would, by earning it. It's not the achievement of goals that makes us happy, but looking through all the hardship that we have gone through to earn it.
I invite and acknowledge only positive thoughts and people who create happiness in my life.
A woman has only 2 problems. 1. Nothing to wear. 2. No room for all the clothes.
I am the richest man on earth because I am the happiest man on earth. After all, isn't happiness the greatest wealth in life?
You can find joy in small things which is big happiness.
Life has taught me that to be happy one must attain peace. For without peace, there can be no happiness.
Being happy doesn't mean that everything is perfect. It means that you've decided to look beyond the imperfections.
5 Rules to live a happier life :
1. Love yourself
2. Do good
3. Always forgive
4. Harm no one
5. Be positive
Just because I'm happy doesn't mean I have to smile.
Just because I smile doesn't mean I'm happy.


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Philip Rivers,
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Is Offensive Coordinator Kevin Gilbride's conservative and predictable play calling hurting the New York Giants?
No one is perfect and I'm not advocating firing the man but he has a history of making bad play calls at crucial times, I still remember his horrible play calls in the 4th quarter in 2009 against the San Diego Chargers which cost the GMEN the game. He is very conservative at the start of games and only opens up the playbook in 4th quarters when the Giants find themselves behind.
I wonder sometimes if having an aggressive offensive coordinator could help New York win without having to mount these late come backs which do not always work as seen this past week against the San Francisco 49ers. On twitter he is known as "KillDrive" and after watching his play calling for several years now there is evidence to back up that nickname.
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Periodically I'm transported to the extraterrestrial version of the United Nations. But instead of nations we're talking planets. So it's the Federation of Planets, like in Star Trek where I appear and I am a representative from the planet Earth. Assembled are about 100,000 beings from all over the galaxy. There's one representative of each sentient species present as that's all that can fit in the venue at one time. I am called to address what it's like to be a 21st century human female living in the country called the United States in the state of Hawaii on the planet called Earth. There are other representatives, I assume, who are called before this group, for I can only give the human female side of the equation and from the point of view of American 21st century culture and as I perceive it. I'm sure an advanced society, such as the Federation of Planets would poll opinions and perspectives from many members of a global population when evaluating something as important as the evolution of consciousness and the spiritual, political, scientific, religious and cultural progression of a society. When called to the council I am teleported to the center of a large arena where I stand in a spotlight that appears to shine from above but highlights me 360 degrees so I'm not lost in shadows. I can be clearly seen through a holographic image of myself projected to appear a few feet in front of the eyes of each individual in the arena. When I speak, I'm so close to their faces, it's like having a one on one discussion with each other. More at http://aquarianradio.com/2013/07/23/state-of-the-human-union-address/
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If I am not mistaken, the cost of running The United States has been placed on the backs of middle and low income Americans for as long as I have lived and that has been 74 years now.
It seems to me (Much the same as it seemed to my Dad and my Grandfather) that the wealthiest 1% always manage to receive some kind of special pass when it comes to contributing a fair share to the maintenance of the greatest Democratic Republic in History.
Oh I know, they claim to pay more than 70% of all taxes paid, but I am of the opinion that the amount of taxes that could be collected for The Treasury is severely curtailed by loopholes in the tax codes that give the very wealthy all those big tax breaks and by the fact that clever millionaires and billionaires know how to maintain accounts off shore on which no Income Taxes are ever due or paid and that this creates unfair pressures on the country.
Lately I have been hearing about a proposed budget plan called by the probably affectionate tag, "The Ryan Plan."
It is reported that among other things, this proposal which the front running candidate for President on the Republican Side is said to have endorsed would place the cost of health care squarely on the backs of senior citizens and the physically challenged through a plan to privatize traditional Medicare and issue vouchers with a limited value to those seeking health insurance coverage.
I am told that these vouchers will be used by those who receive them to purchase a health care insurance plan from private insurers.
I can almost see how quickly the initial value of those proposed vouchers will be absorbed in competitive pricing from the private insurance providers and how quickly someone with a modicum of business sense will find a way to match the voucher value with what I like to call, "The Purchaser's Share" of whatever plan is purchased.
I cannot guarantee that this is what will happen, but in my opinion, the temptation will be out there along with the opportunity unless someone has had the foresight to include a little "Regulation" of practices and procedures under the proposed plan.
And that is only the health care portion of this proposed plan that the Right and Far Right are pushing with such great energy now. This plan has even been called "Marvelous" by at least one political contender.
Then there is all the talk I have been hearing about how this "Ryan" Plan will cut back on Social Security and God only knows what else.
In a recent news program on television, I heard that even the Catholic Church has said that the "Ryan" Plan is out of sync with certain moral considerations.
Will Americans swallow all the advertising being done on behalf of this and other Right Wing proposals for getting America back on Her fiscal feet again?
I feel obligated to remind all who read here that America has always fared far better under Democrats than under Republicans and I hope voters keep that in mind as they approach the challenges of this coming Presidential Election.
I suggest reading the following very closely:
Some Details Of The Proposed Ryan Plan
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