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I popped into the Levine Museum of the New South last week.
It's in Charlotte, and as I walked around downtown before my museum visit, the city felt so new that it was hard for me to imagine it had much history at all. I had the sense that the city had sprung whole out of a subdivision.
The Levine Museum set me straight, detailing the history of Charlotte since the Civil War in its premier and permanent exhibit, Cotton Fields to Skyscrapers.
When you get into the skyscraper era, the exhibit makes the point that the New South is not culturally homogenous — all sorts of people live there, from many countries and even from that place that can feel like another country, the north.
But just when I was feeling sort of kumbaya, I was reminded that that proximity, and even residency, cannot eliminate all differences:
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On Shimelle's blog today she's posted a link to this cracking You tube video.
A chap called Nick over at the 52 New Things blog began 2010 with the idea of doing something new every single week, and hopefully raising some money for a worthwhile cause along the way.
One of the things on Nick's list was to write and record a Christmas single in 52 days. He's done it, and you can see it above.
Nick's goal is to get his song "Christmas Day TV" to number 52 in the charts by 12th December and raise £5,200 for the Alzheimer's Society. You can buy the song from iTunes here:
for the very bargain-licious price of just 79p.
Sign up for the Facebook group in support of the cause here:
Go on....do something new today :)
Last night Kendo decided he must have chocolate cake.
I wasn't really in the mood for an all out baking session. I was even less in the mood for having to drive to the shop to buy baking supplies. So, time for a bit of ingenious throwing together of ingredients to make yummy chocolate sponge pudding..... in the microwave!
Here's my "bung it together from what you've got" recipe:
Marie's Easy Peasy Microwave Chocolate Sponge Pudding.
4oz caster sugar
4oz unsalted butter
4oz plain flour
1tsb baking powder (or you could use 4oz self-raising flour and skip the baking powder, I only had plain in though)
3 eggs
2 tsp milk
1 tsp vanilla extract
1.5 oz cocoa powder
Cream the butter and sugar in a bowl, add the eggs one at a time and mix well, add the vanilla extract. Mix in the flour, baking powder and cocoa. Add the milk if the mixture is very thick.
Put some chocolate in a microwaveable bowl (I used a packet of milk chocolate chips I found lurking in the cupboard but any chocolate will do), add the pudding mixture on top. Cover with cling film (DON'T VENT!). Put the bowl in the microwave on full power for about 5 and a half minutes (my microwave is 700 watt - adjust the time accordingly). Leave to stand for 5 minutes.
I served mine with minty green custard (a la school dinner puddings) and it's delish. To make the custard....well....open a tin or packet of custard, stick it in a bowl or jub, heat it in the microwave as per the instructions. Add 1-2 tsp of peppermint essence and a splash of green food colouring (this is completely optional, but somehow it always tastes mintier to me if its green!).
It was a bloomin' gorgeous pudding (if I do say so myself) and for a cold winters night the fact that it took about 15 minutes start to finish was a total bonus (not long stood in the cold kitchen!).
Sorry there's no photos.... it got snaffled up by the hungry hoards (including me!) before I even had a chance to think about taking a snapshot. Maybe next time.
If you were to go here.
And take a look at this post.
Then you'd know why I'm showing you this today:
and marvelling at the fact that this was taken in 2005!! FIVE years ago!
How on earth did that happen??

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Computer and Electrical Engineering and Computer Science
|Potential senior project
Interested in writing an app for "Country Western Shooting"
that would teach patterns of the game?
The app would be touch screen based and provide great real-world
If interested contact Sean Phillips. Email:
posted dec 2014
|NNSA Application now open, deadline to submint is December 15th at 12:00 PM EST.
The NNSA internship application is now open for the Summer of 2015. The
deadline to submit is December 15th at 12:00 PM EST. Please see announcement
attached and share among friends if they are interested and meet the eligibility
criteria. If anyone has questions regarding these opportunities, please
encourage them to contact us at email@example.com .
posted nov 2014
|Winter 2015 Advising Notes Update
Computer Science students who are on the waitlist in Winter 2015 for core
300-level CMPS courses and who plan to graduate by June 2015 should contact
Dr. Melissa Danforth for individual course substitution plans. In general,
given the large number of seniors on the waitlists, an additional 400-level
course (beyond the 400-level course requirements for the CMPS concentrations)
can be used to substitute for a 300-level core course for those who are
planning to graduate by June 2015. You will need to come by Dr. Danforth's
office for a substitution form in order for your grad check to be
processed correctly. This is a temporary substitution purely for those trying
to graduate by June 2015, as additional sections of the courses are planned
for the 2015/16 academic year.
posted nov 2014
|CMPS 305 in Winter 2015
For those who are interested, CMPS 305 - Numerical Analysis, can be used as
a substitution for a 400-level elective course for the main Computer Science
track. The course meets on MWF from 11:30-12:40 and Th from 10:00-12:30, and
is being taught by Dr. Marc Thomas. The prereqs are Calc 3 and CMPS 221. It
is also cross-listed with MATH 305 for any mathematics majors who might be
interested in the course.
posted nov 2014
Mitchell is ranked #1 in Division I 500 Freestyle swimming and
3rd in 1650 Freestyle Swimming!!! Mitchell also knows how to code. :)
posted nov 2014
|Josh Hardin Senior Seminar Presentation
Monday the 24th at 5:00 PM
posted nov 2014
|Embedded Systems/Firmware Engineer needed in Paso Robles
ATC (a division of Scientific Drilling International) needs
This individual
will be responsible for projects and work dedicated to designing, debugging
and maintaining firmware. The individual will also work with internal
customers and engineering teams for feedback and process improvements.
Job responsibilities and requirements include: * Understands hardware / software interactions * 2-5 years experience with firmware. Bachelor's Degree in CSC, CPE or related engineering field required * Knowledge of embedded systems development and test tools such as JTAG, logic analyzers, and oscilloscopes. Experience with version control and build/make systems is a plus.If you are interested contact the ATC HR team at email@example.com
posted sep 2014
|U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) 2015 HS-STEM Summer Internships
Application deadline: December 22, 2014
Undergraduate students receive a $6,000 stipend plus travel expenses.
10-week research: Argonne, Berkeley, Livermore, Los Alamos, Oak Ridge, and
Areas of research: Engineering, computer science.
U.S. citizenship required
posted nov 2014
|Course Offering Updates
The two year rotation and Spring 2015 course offerings have been updated in
response to staffing issues. The changes since the July update are noted in
bold font. See the
two year rotation
of courses and the
2014/15 course offerings
for the latest schedule.
posted oct 2014
|Pearson Student Coding Contest
The Pearson Student Coding Contest calling on students who develop
relevant and innovative applications that integrate with the Pearson APIs.
The 2014 coding contest is open now. For details go
This contest could be a jumping off place for your senior sem project.
posted sep 2014
|IEEE Student Branch at CSUB
Attention new students: The IEEE student branch at CSUB is seeking new
members. The club is starting a mentor program for incoming students which
will help them become more active in the engineering community and promote
extra curricular involvement as well as help new students build a foundation
for success in their engineering disciplines. The IEEE offers opportunities
for students to participate in a variety of engineering competitions and
projects. We will be having our first meeting Thursday September 25th, 2014
at 3:30pm in Science III 311.
You can contact Chase Cook, email@example.com, or James Vassar, firstname.lastname@example.com, for more information.
posted sep 2014
|SFS Dissemination Workshop
Click on the following link to go to the page for the SFS Dissemination
Workshop: http://www.cs.csub.edu/~melissa/revs-up/
posted aug 2014
|Theta Oilfield Services Needs Full-Time Coder
Theta needs a FULL-TIME entry-level developer.
Any interested applicants can contact Kenny at
firstname.lastname@example.com. For more information on the company
visit www.gotheta.com.
posted july 2014
|New Electives for Electrical Engineering
The courses ECE 306, ECE 425, and ECE 426 have been added to the list of
Electrical Engineering electives for the 2013/15 catalog. ECE 306 and ECE 425
are being offered in Fall 2014.
posted jun 2014
|Grimmway Farms Network Administrator
Under minimal supervision, maintains Active Directory,
Install, repair, and perform preventive maintenance of servers and
related software and hardware failures. Use project management skills
in order to complete multiple tasks concurrently. Test and install
new network applications or systems as assigned. Develop and
maintain proper system documentation.
Application Instructions:
Apply through RunnerLink - Job #7271 (www.csub.edu/cece - "student/alumni" link - RunnerLink)
posted jun 2014
|Bolthouse Farms Internship Opportunity
Bolthouse Needs a Programmer Analyst
Intern. We are flexible with the start date, but are looking for solid
candidates who have already completed some programming courses and are in search
of a programming internship opportunity for this summer.
Contact: Jaress Loo, Custom Development Lead
Email: firstname.lastname@example.com
posted may 2014
|Aaron Swartz Documentary
JUST RELEASED trailer for the documentary
Internet's Own Boy.
We will be showing the documentary as soon as it is released.
posted apr 2014
|Nonfat Media looking for web developers
Nonfat Media develops and maintains high
traffic, high visibility dynamically driven websites for parent companies.
You will work in small teams of developers - communication skills,
attention to detail key assets. Candidates must currently be eligible to
work in US.
Desired Experience & Skills:
Send resume to firstname.lastname@example.com; For more about this position and
others, please see:
|Congrats David O., LabVIEW Associate Developer !
You should get certified as a National Instruments
LabVIEW Associate Developer. LabVIEW certification would
be a great addition to your resume. You can take the
exam at Bakersfield College. Go here for details. Our very own David O. has passed
the exam!
posted apr 2014
|Computer Science and Engineering Club
Friday, April 11th at Noon the Computer Science and Engineering Club will be having a meeting to elect
new officers and discuss the next year's activities. Please attend and tell the other club members!
posted apr 2014
|Regarding Lawrence Livermore internships
From Ryan Alldrege:
As promised, I also spoke with Daphne regarding the links for students interested in internships or full-time positions.
posted apr 2014
|Congrats to Alfonso P, Josh W, Sulaiman A, and Sean A!
The CSUB Student Research Competition winners have been announced. In the
Engineering and Computer Sciences category, Alfonso Puga won 1st place for
his presentation on his web server artificial immune system research and the
team consisting of Josh Ward, Sulaiman Alkadashee, and Sean Acord won 2nd
place for their UAV research. Congratulations to all!
posted mar 2014
|Additional Seats in PHIL 316 for Spring
Philosophy has opened up additional seats in PHIL 316 for Spring. If you
had planned to take PHIL 316 in Spring but had not signed up yet due to
it being closed, you can sign up now. You may need to add yourself to the
waitlist until Peoplesoft gets around to processing the waitlisted students.
posted mar 2014
|Musicians Needed for CEE/CS Department Song Mix
Contact Luke at firstname.lastname@example.com or see donna for details.
posted mar 2014
Our very own swimmer Mitchell H ranked 7th in the nation
in 1650 freestyle and will be traveling to Austin Texas to
compete in nationals. Wish him luck!
posted mar 2014
|Congratulations to Alfonso!
Alfonso Puga has won first place in the Computer Sciences and Information
Management poster session at the Emerging Researchers National Conference
(ERN 2014) in Washington DC. His poster was titled "Web Automated Immune
System" and was about the code he has developed as part of his research
assistant job for Dr. Danforth under the NSF SFS cybersecurity grant.
Congratulations to Alfonso!
posted mar 2014
|Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory visit
From Travis Burns:
Dear Faculty and Members of the Computer Science and Engineering Club:
Do you want to visit Lawrence Livermore National Laboratory and have a private tour? Now is your chance!
Monday March 31st we can go visit!
What you need to do:
1. Be a citizen of the United States of America. I tried to get around this, but could not.
2. Call 925-422-7511 and talk to Daphne. Have your social security number.
3. Email her at email@example.com with your name, date of birth, address, phone number, email address, and confirm your citizenship.
4. Confirm with Travis Burns that you are going.
posted mar 2014
|OwlCam is Back!
The owl is back at Sci II in CSUB. View the OwlCam to see the nest and
progress of the owlets:
posted feb 2014
|Spring 2014 Course Changes
Due to low enrollments and logistical issues, ECE 277 (Special Topics - High
Speed Rail) has been deferred to Fall 2014. In its place, ECE 434 (Control
Systems) will be offered in Spring 2014 at the same time as ECE 277. ECE 434
counts as an elective course for both engineering programs. If you had ECE
277 on your graduation check, please see your advisor to update your course
plan. If you have any questions about ECE 434, contact Dr. Wei Li.
posted feb 2014
|JTI Electric Needs CE/EE Part-time Interns
Are you a EE or CE major in your senior year and interested in Controls
and Automation?
Interns will assist and receive training in control design,
programming in RSLogix5000, HMI and SCADA systems Design/programming,
and more.
This is a short term opportunity with a long term perspective.
20 hours per week at $15.00/hr.
Please send resume to Nader Shokry at
See www.jtielectric.net
for info on company.
posted jan 2014
|Congrats Anthony B!
Anthony nabbed an on-campus job at the Faculty Teaching & Learning
Center (TLC). Good job Anthony!
posted jan 2014
|Hot Job Market for Coders
Bureau of Labor Statistics predicts 97,000 more US computing jobs than
US computer science graduates EACH YEAR! And US companies are
outsourcing less than 1/3 of overall coding jobs.
See Calvin College Study.
posted jan 2014
|Computer Science and Engineering Club Meeting
The Computer Science and Engineering Club will be holding a club meeting
Monday January 13th at 9:30 am to determine a new Treasurer and talk about
more fund raising opportunities. We will be meeting in SCI III 324.
posted jan 2014
|Engineering Technician Position at OXY, 10800 Stockdale Hwy, Bakersfield, CA
Qualifications: Minimum education of an AA degree in computer science, engineering, or mathematics. Proficiency with Microsoft applications, including Access. Strong time management skills. Ability to work with minimal supervision. Demonstrated effectiveness as a team player. Strong oral and written communication skill set.For specific qualifications for open positions and to apply, log onto www.oxy.com/careers. See: Engineering Specialist - Reservoir (00007957) Engineering Technician/Specialist - Reservoir (00008853)
posted dec 2013
|Jr. System Admin. Needed
See Job Description.
Salary range is between $38-42K annually with
401K, Health, Dental and Vision Benefits as well.
Candidates can email resumes to email@example.com.
posted dec 2013
|U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) 2014 HS-STEM Summer Internships
The U.S. Department of Homeland Security (DHS) is now accepting applications
for a 10-week undergraduate student internship program in the summer of 2014.
The internship program provides research experiences at one of several research
facilities located across the country. Accepted students will receive a $5000
stipend plus limited travel expenses. U.S. citizenship is required.
Areas of research: Engineering, computer science, mathematics, physics,
chemistry, biological / life sciences, environmental science, emergency and
incident management, social sciences, and more.
Application deadline: January 6, 2014
Detailed information and application guidelines: http://www.orau.gov/dhseducation/internships/
posted dec 2013
|Private Tutor needed for Ruby
Contact Jason at (818)450-4424. $20/hr. Start ASAP.
posted nov 2013
|summer research opportunity for CSU students
Interested in pursuing a career in K-12 science or math education?
Participants earn $4,500 to do research at a national lab, private research facility, or university. Up to $2,250 in additional support for housing is available to those who qualify.
The 2014 STAR Program runs from June 16 to August 16, 2014.
We will be accepting applications online through January 31, 2014.
To find out more about STAR or to apply go to:
posted nov 2013
|RLH Fire Protection has Opening for Jr. System Administrator
This position is part or full time.
See job announcement
for details.
posted nov 2013
|Level I Technology Consultant Needed at CSUB TLC
See job posting
posted oct 2013
|Congrats Paul H!
Paul H is among the first 75 to complete
the second part of the IBM Master the Mainframe competition 100% correct!
He is gonna be getting some swag, (basically clothing and the
like). Paul is continuing with the 3rd part (real world
applications). GO PAUL!
posted oct 2013
|Theta Oilfield Services Needs Software Developer
see ad.
posted oct 2013
|Kern Health Systems Looking for Software Developer - Programmer I/II
See kernhealthsystems.com/employment/
for details.
posted oct 2013
|Opening for Mobile Application Developer with Visionary Media Group
Are you a Web/Mobile App
Developer (Android) looking for an unpaid internship?
Visionary Media Group is seeking a
self-motivated and cooperative coder to
develop and support large-scale projects.
For more info email email@example.com.
posted oct 2013
|Designers & Drafters Needed
IES Engineering (local)
has openings for Designers and
Drafters in their Electrical and Mechanical Departments.
Interested students can submit an application and resume
this link
or contact Mallory Reese Administrative Assistant
IES Engineering
8800 Crippen St., Bakersfield, CA 93311
Desk: 661.381.7956 | Office: 661.381.7800
posted sept 2013
|Tutor Needed in Computer Science
If you are interested in doing one on one
computer science tutoring call 661-665-8325. This is not
an on-campus job.
posted sept 2013
|Dr. Previdi to lecture on Control System and Mechatronics 2:30--3:30pm, Friday 10/25 in SCI III Rm 313
All Students and Faculty are welcome!
Dr. Previdi, Associate Prof in Control Systems and
Mechatronics at the University of Bergamo, Italy
spoke at ASME Mechatronics Conference at Stanford.
He is currently a visiting professor at the University of California in
Santa Barbara.
posted sept 2013
|IBM Master the Mainframe Contest Begins Monday, October 7
Registration for the 2013 IBM Master the Mainframe Contest is now! This
year, the IBM Academic Initiative System z team is giving away $53,000+ in
prizes, including Google Nexus 10 tablets and expenses-paid trips.
The technical challenges will give you
sought-after skills and hands-on experience with four different
operating systems!
Visit the 2013 MM homepage for details and registration.
You can use this contest as a jumping off place for
your Senior Project.
posted sept 2013
|Congrats Anthony G!
Anthony is our first EE major to land a job in Bakersfield. He
will be a Facilities Engineer, Automation & SCADA.
Well done, Anthony!
posted sept 2013
|CSUB and Tianjin University Joint Research on Mind-Controlled Humanoid Robot
Dr. Wei Li and faculty at Tianjin University
made great progress this summer on Cerebot, a Mind-Controlled Humanoid Robot
Platform. See this
blog post on his RobotLab.
Video clips of Dr. Wei's research:
(1) SSVEP model ,
(2) P300 model,
(3) Obstacle Avoidance,
(4) Go Through Door ,
and (5) Exploration and Surveillance
posted sept 2013
|Interested in Grad School? USC REACH Program Event, Nov 21-22
REACH targets underrepresented US students entering Jr year
and considering a PhD
in CE/CS. Students attend presentations about
research, tour USC, meet current students, and
attend workshops on applying for PhD admission and
funding graduate study.
See REACH website for how to apply.
posted aug 2013
|Congrats to Heidi S!
Heidi nailed a great internship! She and 3 other students from
across the US will work this summer on
NASA's Interface Region Imaging Spectrograph (IRIS) mission
at Stanford and Lockheed Martin Solar and Astrophysics Laboratory (LSMAL).
posted may 2013
|DSP & Communications Lab
Dr. Mehrpouyan's
DSP & Communications Lab features vector signal generators and analyzers, NI ELVIS II
boards and much more state-of-the-art equipment.
posted may 2013
A welcome message from the Chair of CEE/CS.
See CE/CS/EE Requirements for ABET accreditation.


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Very Good Recipes of Lemon and Chocolate
There are 20 Lemon and Chocolate recipes on Very Good Recipes.
Do you like lemon and chocolate recipes?
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Click on the title of a recipe or the photo of a dish to read the full recipe on its author's blog.
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Chocolate cake with lemon cream + film By Traces of Sweet Muffins 10/23/14 09:32 This specially prepared a cake for my mother, who recently celebrated her birthday. It was important to me at this, he may be clogging or sweet. Rather, light and refreshing. → Add to my recipe book
Lemon Chocolate Cake By Priya's Versatile Recipes 10/16/14 00:00 Chocolate cake is our family favourite and my kids just love chocolate cake with anything in it. Obviously i'll try to add fruits,seeds,nuts depending upon the ingredients available in my pantry. You can see varieties of chocolate cakes in my cake collections... Add to my recipe book
Chocolate Pomegranate Cake with Lemon Curd and Strawberries By Chocolate Log Blog 07/19/14 09:59 So enamoured was I with the chocolate, lemon curd and strawberry combination after I made these chocolate waffles, that I knew immediately that was what I would use for my birthday cake last week. What I didn't then know was that I would add pomegranate... Add to my recipe book
Chocolate Cake Waffles, Lemon Curd and Strawberries By Chocolate Log Blog 07/03/14 18:56 When I was browsing through Chocolat by Eric Lanlard in order to write the review I posted recently, I was caught by his recipe for chocolate waffles. I knew I would have to make them in the not too distant future. When I came back from a preserving course... Add to my recipe book
Nettle, Lemon and White Chocolate Cupcakes By Chocolate Log Blog 05/28/14 12:54 There is no doubt about it, nettles are jam packed full of goodness and there seems no end to their health benefits. Be wary of their sting when raw by all means, but once cooked, they make an excellent spinach substitute. At a time of year when there is... Add to my recipe book
Nettle, Lemon and White Chocolate Cupcakes By Chocolate Log Blog 05/12/14 19:29 There is no doubt about it, nettles are jam packed full of goodness and there seems no end to their health benefits. Be wary of their sting when raw by all means, but once cooked, they make an excellent spinach substitute. At a time of year when there is... Add to my recipe book
Lemon Scented White Chocolate Truffles By Lucy's Friendly Foods 04/10/14 15:00 I had intended to make these truffles to stand in as the little chocolate eggs found on chocolate cornflake nests for the girls to take in for their classes as an Easter treat. As it turned out, little S's class was well catered for on the chocolate nest... Add to my recipe book
Sautéed Shrimp with Buttery Lemon-White Chocolate Sauce By The Galley Gourmet 02/14/14 14:52 Chocolate say hellooo to the the savory world. The word sexy comes to mind with this dish. Yes, I said sexy. Food can be sexy, right? Here we have succulent sautéed shrimp drizzled with a buttery lemon-white chocolate sauce nestled on a bed of arugula--... Add to my recipe book
Lemon & White Chocolate Scones w/ Lemon-Cream Cheese Drizzle By The Café Sucré Farine 01/27/14 18:41 Have you heard the old saying: "You can't slurp soup all week and sip on Sundays"? My mom used to lay that one on me, trying to coerce me into good manners. My dad died when I was nine and mom raised six little hoodlums (five siblings and myself) on her... Add to my recipe book
Christmas Entertaining with Glenisk + Dark Chocolate and Lemon Mousse with Chocolate Chip Crème Fraîche By Salt, Pepper and a Dollop of Cream 12/17/13 15:15 Christmas can be a daunting time with so much to buy and make and do {I know of some families who completely redecorate for the festive season but that's one … Continue reading → Add to my recipe book
Berrylicious .... Raspberry & Lemon Cream or Blackberries & white Chocolate Cream , with Sesame Praline Tart By JacobCrackers 11/28/13 12:07 Take a trip down Memory lane with these old-Fashioned favourites . Whether you are planning a family afternoon tea , Dinner party or for a girl's indulgent get together , these are extremely simple to make , inexpensive , fool proof , quick and a Special... Add to my recipe book
Chocolate meringue cake with lemon cream By Traces of Sweet Muffins 11/18/13 18:29 Delicate, melt-in-your mouth chocolate meringue, which breaks the delicious sweetness of lemon cream with lemon curd. With each bite you will want more and more. → Add to my recipe book
White Chocolate and Lemon Giant Cupcake (Gluten Free) By I'd Much Rather Bake Than... 09/21/13 11:59 I am NEVER making a secret birthday cake again. There, now I've added in a bit of drama let me pour out the excuses for the even worse than usual photography and abandonment of all attempts at food styling. It was my housemate Lauren's birthday on Thursday... Add to my recipe book
Lemon and White Chocolate Cookies By Annie's Noms 07/08/13 17:27 Hi everyone. I'm sorry I've been a bad blogger recently, I'm still really struggling with energy/feeling dizzy. I got my blood results and found out that I'm anaemic. In a way, I'm relieved as it is easily treated and I'm hoping that I will start to feel... Add to my recipe book
Chocolate Lemon Cake By Lottie's world of cakes and bakes 06/20/13 12:43 This weekend I completed the British Heart Foundation London to Brighton Bike Ride, but this time on my lovely new bike! It was a great day, I really enjoying doing it, although it can be hard at times, it was also a great way to celebrate father's day... Add to my recipe book
Lemon and White Chocolate Loaf Cake & Ultimate Blog Party 2013 By Annie's Noms 04/10/13 17:30 This year, I'm taking part in the Ultimate Blog Party for the first time! I'm super excited to be linking up this year, I've linked up to the Speciality blog list which is for blogs based on one thing (food, craft, fashion etc) and I'm looking forward to... Add to my recipe book
Best Shortbread Two Ways: Espresso Chocolate and Salted Lemon Rosemary By Salts Kitchen 04/05/13 01:38 At the 11th hour I noticed this month's Gluten Free Ratio Rally: shortbread. Awhile back I made my favorite Bundt Cake for the ratio rally and decided what a wonderful opportunity to push myself again. Time to be creative and … Continue reading → Add to my recipe book
Eggless Lemon Tea & Pistachio Chocolate Cake By Priya's Versatile Recipes 03/14/13 11:07 I love challenges, especially food challenges, they will definitely pull you to bring out our creativity and obviously your creative mind will dish out many fabulous dishes. Here comes my one creative bake aka cake with lemon tea and pistachio for our this... Add to my recipe book
Lemon, Lavender and White Chocolate Cake By Blissfully Scrumptious 10/24/12 12:40 This is just a simple sponge cake but the flavour combination is delicious! Recipe Ingredients:- 150g caster sugar 150g softened butter 3 eggs, beaten 150g self-raising flour 1 teaspoon baking powder zest of 1 lemon small handful lavender flowers (fresh... Add to my recipe book
Lemon and vanilla chocolate dipped biscuits By Carmela's kitchen 09/26/12 19:37 A small treat. A delicious nibble, call it what you fancy. Everyone loves a biccie with their tea or coffee. A nibble or a complete dunk, I will let you be the judge of that one!! These morsels of loveliness are so quick and simple to make, great fun to... Add to my recipe book


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MarineMax Announces New Board Member
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I'm as thrilled as anyone that the country rejected the GOP's army of what James Wolcott calls "rape philosophers" and birth-control McCarthyites. But let's also remember what that means: in the 21st century, one of our two political parties mounted a serious national campaign, and came damn near close to winning, on the basis of a medieval ideology that we thought we had overcome a half-century ago. That we won this battle is good news; that we had to fight it is not.
Sluts!21 Mar
Social conservatives are targeting the underlying framework of Eisenstadt v. Baird (1972). One of the less well known birth-control Supreme Court cases, Eisenstadt established that unmarried women and men have a right to use birth control. Jonathan Moreno and Francis Killing have a good analysis over at The Nation:
In Liberty and Sexuality, [historian David] Garrow quotes extensively from conservative commentators who claim that Eisenstadt was intended to legitimize sexual liberty and to extend separate the privacy right from marriage and family. Privacy, up to then, was essentially a patriarchal concept with the family as the property of the husband. Limbaugh expresses the same sentiment in cruder ways. Sexually active women who are freed from the fear of pregnancy are "sluts." Had Sandra Fluke, the 30-year-old single Georgetown Law student, been married, would Limbaugh have ranted that she wanted us to "pay for her to have sex?" We doubt it.
(Just days later Limbaugh wondered about Tracie McMillan who had just won a literary prize: "What is it with all these young single white women? Overeducated doesn't mean intelligent.")
Indeed, the opposition to the Affordable Care Act's no-cost birth control mandate is not actually about contraception or religious freedom but about sexual liberty. Garrow notes that several of the clerks for the Eisenstadt justices suspected sexual freedom was as much a part of the thinking of the justices as was the shadowy penumbra of privacy rights that were explicitly cited. It is about those whose consensual sexual unions are not legitimized by a state or sanctified by a faith. Today more women are simple eschewing marriage or postponing it, as well as postponing childbearing, than ever before, yet a simmering unease about unmarried sex remains.
h/t Sarah Posner
Birth Control McCarthyism14 Mar
Climbing aboard the anti-birth control bandwagon, the Arizona Senate Judiciary Committee voted 6-2 on Monday to endorse legislation that would: a) give employers the right to deny health insurance coverage to their employees for religious reasons; b) give employers the right to ask their employees whether their birth control prescriptions are for contraception or other purposes (hormone control, for example, or acne treatment).
There are three things to say about this legislation.
The Private Life of Power
First, as I argue in The Reactionary Mind, conservatism is dedicated to defending hierarchies of power against democratic movements from below, particularly in the so-called private spheres of the family and the workplace. Conservatism is a defense of what I call "the private life of power." Less a protection of privacy or property in the abstract, as many conservatives and libertarians like to claim, conservatism is a defense of the rights of bosses and husbands/fathers.
So it's no surprise, as I noted in the conclusion of The Reactionary Mind, that the chief agenda items of the GOP since its string of Tea Party victories in 2010 have been to roll back the rights of workers—not just in the public sector, as this piece by Gordon Lafer makes clear, but also in the private sector—and to roll back the reproductive rights of women, as this chart, which Mike Konczal discusses, makes clear. Often, it's the same Tea Party-controlled states that are pushing both agendas at the same time.
What I hadn't predicted was that the GOP would be able to come up with a program—in the form of this anti-birth control employer legislation we're now seeing everywhere—that would combine both agenda items at the same time.
Fear, American Style
Second, in a way, I should have foreseen this fusion because, as I argued in my first book Fear: The History of a Political Idea, in the United States, it has historically fallen to employers rather than the state to police the political opinions and practices of citizens. Focused as we are on the state, we often miss the fact that some of the most intense programs of political indoctrination have not been conducted by the government but have instead been outsourced to the private sector. While less than 200 men and women went to jail for their political beliefs during the McCarthy years, as many as 2 out of every 5 American workers were monitored for their political beliefs.
I've spoken about this issue on this blog before—my apologies to the old timers here; unfortunately, this point can't be repeated enough—but recall this fascinating exchange between an American physician and Tocqueville during the latter's travels to the United States in the early 1830s. Passing through Baltimore, Tocqueville asked the doctor why so many Americans pretended they were religious when they obviously had "numerous doubts on the subject of dogma." The doctor replied that the clergy had a lot of power in America, as in Europe. But where the European clergy often acted through or with the help of the state, their American counterparts worked through the making and breaking of private careers.
If a minister, known for his piety, should declare that in his opinion a certain man was an unbeliever, the man's career would almost certainly be broken. Another example: A doctor is skilful, but has no faith in the Christian religion. However, thanks to his abilities, he obtains a fine practice. No sooner is he introduced into the house than a zealous Christian, a minister or someone else, comes to see the father of the house and says: look out for this man. He will perhaps cure your children, but he will seduce your daughters, or your wife, he is an unbeliever. There, on the other hand, is Mr. So-and-So. As good a doctor as this man, he is at the same time religious. Believe me, trust the health of your family to him. Such counsel is almost always followed.
While all of us rightly value the Bill of Rights, it's important to note that these amendments are limitations on government action. As a result, the tasks of political repression and coercion can often be—and are—simply outsourced to the private sector. As I wrote in Fear:
There is little mystery as to why civil society can serve as a substitute or supplement to state repression. Civil society is not, on the whole, subject to restrictions like the Bill of Rights. So what the state is forbidden to do, private actors in civil society may execute instead. "If there is any fixed star in our constitutional constellation," Justice Jackson famously declared, "it is that no official, high or petty, can prescribe what shall be orthodox in politics, nationalism, religion, or other matters of opinion or force citizens to confess by word or act their faith therein." But what star in our constitutional constellation forbids newspapers like the New York Times, which refused during the McCarthy years to hire members of the Communist Party, from prescribing such orthodoxy as a condition of employment? What in the Constitution would stop a publisher from telling poet Langston Hughes that it would not issue his Famous Negro Music Makers unless he removed any discussion of Communist singer Paul Robeson? Or stop Little, Brown from refusing to publish best-selling Communist author Howard Fast?
The Sixth Amendment guarantees "in all criminal prosecutions" that the accused shall "have the assistance of counsel for his defence." But what in the Constitution would prevent attorney Abe Fortas, who would later serve on the Supreme Court, from refusing to represent a party member during the McCarthy years because, in his words, "We have decided that we don't think we can ever afford to represent anybody that has ever been a Communist?"
The Fifth Amendment stipulates that the government cannot compel an individual to incriminate herself, but it does not forbid private employers from firing anyone invoking its protections before congressional committees. To the extent that our Constitution works against an intrusive state, how can it even authorize the government to regulate these private decisions of civil society? What the liberal state granteth, then, liberal civil society taketh away.
Let's come back now to the birth control employer question. Thanks to the gains of the feminist movement and Griswold v. Connecticut, we now understand the Constitution to prohibit the government from imposing restrictions on access to birth control. Even most Republicans, I think, accept that. But there's nothing in the Constitution to stop employers from refusing to provide health insurance coverage for birth control to their employees.
And here's where the McCarthy specter becomes particularly troubling. Notice the second provision of the Arizona legislation: employers will now have the right to question their employees about what they plan to do with their birth-control prescriptions. Not only is this a violation of the right to privacy—again, not a right our Constitution currently recognizes in the workplace—but it obviously can give employers the necessary information they need to fire an employee. If a women admits to using contraception in order to not get pregnant, there's nothing in the Constitution to stop an anti-birth control employer from firing her.
During the McCarthy years, here were some of the questions employers asked their employees: What is your opinion of the Marshall Plan? What do you think about Nato? The Korean War? Reconciliation with the Soviet Union? These questions were directly related to US foreign policy, the assumption being that Communist Party members or sympathizers would offer pro-Soviet answers to them (i.e., against Nato and the Korean War). But many of the questions were more domestic in nature: What do you think of civil rights? Do you own Paul Robeson records? What do you think about segregating the Red Cross blood supply? The Communist Party had taken strong positions on civil rights, including desegregating the Red Cross blood supply, and as one questioner put it, "The fact that a person believes in racial equality doesn't prove that he's a Communist, but it certainly makes you look twice, doesn't it? You can't get away from the fact that racial equality is part of the Communist line." (Though Ellen Schrecker, from whose book Many Are the Crimes I have taken these examples, points out that many of these questions were posed by government loyalty boards, she also notes that the questions posed by private employers were virtually identical.) The upshot, of course, was that support for civil rights came to be viewed as a Communist position, making public support for civil rights a riskier proposition than it already was.
It's unclear what the future of Birth Control McCarthyism will be, but anyone who thinks the repressive implications of these bills can be simply brushed aside with vague feints to the religious freedoms of employers—more on this in a moment—is overlooking the long and sordid history of Fear, American Style. Private employers punishing their employees for holding disfavored views or engaging in disapproved practices (disapproved by the employer, that is) is the way a lot of repression happens in this country. And it can have toxic effects, as Liza Love, a witness before the Arizona Senate committee, testified:
"I wouldn't mind showing my employer my medical records," Love said. "But there are 10 women behind me that would be ashamed to do so."
In the debate over the legislation, Arizona Republican Majority Whip Debbie Lesko (also the bill's author) said, "I believe we live in America. We don't live in the Soviet Union." She's right, though perhaps not in the way she intended: unlike in the Soviet Union, the government here may not be able to punish you simply for holding unorthodox views or engaging in disfavored practices (though the government can certainly find other ways to harass or penalize you, if it wishes). What happens instead is that your employer will do it for the government (or for him or herself). As the president of Barnard College put it during the McCarthy years, "If the colleges take the responsibility to do their own house cleaning, Congress would not feel it has to investigate."
Whose Freedom?
Third, the standard line from Republicans and some libertarians is that requiring religious or religion-related employers (like the hospitals and universities that are funded by the Catholic Church) to provide health insurance coverage for their employees' birth control is a violation of their First Amendment rights to religious freedom. The same arguments have come up in Arizona. Just after she made the comparison above between the United States and the Soviet Union, Lesko added:
"So, government should not be telling the organizations or mom and pop employers to do something against their moral beliefs."
"My whole legislation is about our First Amendment rights and freedom of religion," Lesko said. "All my bill does is that an employer can opt out of the mandate if they have any religious objections."
Father John Muir, a priest at the All Saints Catholic Newman Center on the Tempe campus, said the controversial issue is not about birth control, but religious freedom and the First Amendment.
"It's not about birth control," Muir said. "It's about the right to live out your beliefs and principles without inference by the state."
There are many reasons to be wary of this line of argument, which I won't get into here. Instead, I'd like to recall some more history.
It's often forgotten that one of the main catalysts for the rise of the Christian Right was not school prayer or abortion but the defense of Southern private schools that were created in response to desegregation. By 1970, 400,000 white children were attending these "segregation academies." States like Mississippi gave students tuition grants, and until the Nixon administration overturned the practice, the IRS gave the donors to these schools tax exemptions. And it was none other than Richard Viguerie, founder of the New Right and pioneer of its use of direct-mail tactics, who said that the attack on these public subsidies by the Civil Rights Movement and liberal courts "was the spark that ignited the religious right's involvement in real politics."
According to historian Joseph Crespino, whose essay "Civil Rights and the Religious Right" in Rightward Bound:Making American Conservative in the 1970s is must reading, the rise of segregation academies "was often timed exactly with the desegregation of formerly all-white public schools." Even so, their advocates claimed to be defending religious minorities—and religious beliefs—rather than white supremacy. (Initially nonsectarian, most of these schools became evangelical over time.) Their cause, in other words, was freedom, not inequality—not the freedom of whites to associate with other whites (and thereby lord their status and power over blacks), as the previous generation of massive resisters had foolishly and openly admitted, but the freedom of believers to practice their own embattled religion. It was a shrewd transposition. In one fell swoop, the heirs of slaveholders became the descendants of persecuted Baptists, and Jim Crow a heresy the First Amendment was meant to protect.
So it is today. Rather than openly pursue their agenda of restricting the rights of women, the GOP claims to be defending the rights of religious dissenters. Instead of powerful employers—for that is what many of these Catholic hospitals and universities are—we have persecuted sects.
Knowing the history of the rise of the Christian Right doesn't resolve this debate, but it certainly does make you look twice, doesn't it?
Update (March 15, 4:30 pm)
This post got cross-posted at Salon; check out the comments there. In a very smart piece, also at Salon, Irin Carmon looks at the evolution (and continuities) of the GOP position on this issue. Also check out this excellent piece by Sarah Posner, again at Salon, which looks at the contributions of the Democrats to this morass we're in.
Also, on the question of whether the Arizona law allows employers to fire employees on the basis of whether they use birth control for contraception purposes or not, check out this.
Freedom Is, Freedom Ain't*25 Feb
A propos our discussion of libertarianism, birth control, and women's autonomy, this, from Benjamin Franklin (A Conversation About Slavery), seems relevant:
You Americans make a great Clamour upon every little imaginary Infringement of what you take to be your Liberties; and yet there are no People upon Earth such Enemies to Liberty, such absolute Tyrants, where you have the Opportunity, as you yourselves are.
It's hardly unprecedented in the American experience for the greatest cries of liberty to be heard among those who would most deny it to others.
*Freedom Is, Freedom Ain't is the title of a wonderful book about jazz and the civil rights movement by my friend Scott Saul. It's got no real connection to the theme of this post; I just liked the title and wanted to plug Scott's book. And plug Scott, too: he's currently working on a biography of Richard Pryor, which is going to blow your mind. If you want to get a taste of Scott's writing, check out this essay he did in Book Forum on the Jonestown tragedy in Guyana in 1979. I've read it about ten times; every time, I see something in it I hadn't seen before.
Love for Sale: Birth Control from Marx to Mises15 Feb
From Marx…
In On the Jewish Question, Marx famously critiques liberal theorists of religious freedom on the grounds that they merely wish to emancipate the state from religion. Assuming—wrongly, it turns out—that the 19th century state, or at least the American state, had indeed been fully emancipated from religion (e.g., there was no official state religion, no specific confessional requirement for the exercise of political rights, etc.), Marx notes that the American people are nevertheless quite religious. This leads him to the observation that "to be politically emancipated from religion is not to be finally and completely emancipated from religion, because political emancipation is not the final and absolute form of human emancipation." We may be free of religion at the level of the state, but we are not free of it in our everyday life (like most Enlightenment thinkers, Marx thinks of religion as a defect). To be truly free of it, we need to emancipate ourselves from religion, to shift our focus from the state to society itself, to get past the distinction between our public lives and private selves. Not just in matters of religion, as it turns out, but in other areas as well.
President Obama's recent "compromise" over contraception—where religious-based employers like Catholic universities and hospitals are required to provide insurance coverage that includes free birth control but are not required to pay for it, leaving insurers to eat the costs; churches and other explicitly religious institutions will remain exempt from the provision—makes me wonder if we're not moving in the reverse direction.
98% of sexually active Catholic women essentially reject the Church's position on contraception. In this respect at least, society has emancipated itself from religion. Even so, the state allows its policies to be dictated by the Church elders. And judging by the growing Republican discontent with even this compromise, the state's capitulation to religion and religious sensibilities could get worse. Keep in mind, as Katha Pollitt points out, that we are not talking about isolated sects like the Amish, which don't depend on all manner of tax subsidies and public monies for their operations; these are large-scale institutions that would not exist in their current form were it not for the state's ongoing support.
…to Mises
Speaking of conservatives, the birth control debate recently led Mike Konczal back to Ludwig von Mises' classic 1922 text Socialism. Mises was a pioneering economist of the Austrian School, whose political writings have inspired multiple generations of libertarian activists in America and elsewhere. Mike took a special interest in the fourth chapter of Socialism, "The Social Order and the Family," in which Mises has some retrograde things to say about women and feminism. This led Mike to conclude prematurely that Mises was against birth control, which he wasn't, but as I make clear in the comments thread, Mike's larger point—that Mises was not in favor of women's sexual autonomy; nor, for that matter, was he in favor of other kinds of autonomy that would free women from the dominion of their husbands—still stands.
All this back and forth about the text prompted Brian Doherty, author of a wonderful history of libertarianism, to waspishly comment that, well, who really gives a shit what Mises may or may not have thought about women and birth control. Libertarians care about liberty; all the rest is commentary.
Mises does go on to address "natural barriers" that socialists want to overturn, and doubtless some of his own personal opinions about what those natural barriers might be would differ from moderns, liberal or conservative, which is exactly why [Konczal's] entire implied point doesn't make any sense to begin with. Those concerns are far more matters of opinion, not political philosophy, and in no sense should bind even those who have sworn fealty to Mises' general views on economics and liberty. (For example, I'm quite the Misesian in most questions of politics and economics, but can imagine an intelligent conservative argument that the "rationalization of the sexual passions" is in some sense harmed by birth control, though not in the specific procreational sense he is addressing specifically.)
But let's address the larger point, if there is one, besides that atop all of our heads for even talking about this: That polemical points can rightly be earned laying some judgment, whether real or imagined, of an intellectual founding father or influence on a political movement or tendency on to the backs of its younger followers–either to mock them or to insist that, no, this is really what their intellectual mission is: not to promote liberty, but to work for whatever Ludwig Von Mises liked or didn't like.
It is interesting, for those interested in intellectual history, that Mises saw free love as part of some larger socialist mission to destroy the family. But for the libertarian the relevant question is, is this voluntary or not, does this infringe on anyone's life, liberty, or property or not? "Anything that's peaceful," baby, as Leonard Read, one of Mises' great popular disciples in America, wrote.
Thus, there's a libertarian case to be made against forcing anyone to cover any specific medical care, birth control or whatever, in the insurance deals they make with their clients. But it has nothing to do with whether Ludwig von Mises was comfortable with free love, or birth control, or with catheters, or blood transfusions, or any other specific medical procedure that might or might not become a political controversy when the government tried to force people to sell insurance only on the condition that that insurance cover that procedure or medication's use.
Set aside the strangeness of someone who's written—for what were obviously more than antiquarian reasons—one of the best intellectual histories of libertarianism, in which Mises plays a not insignificant role, telling us that intellectual history, and Mises's role in it, doesn't much matter.
Also set aside Doherty's declaration by fiat that Mises's views on women are just "matters of opinion," which can be discarded as so much ancient prejudice, rather than genuine "political philosophy." (This chapter on Robert Nozick in Susan Okin's Justice, Gender, and the Family should make any reasonably literate political writer leery of the notion that a libertarian's views on women are somehow contingent or incidental and separable from their larger worldview. In Mises's case, it's doubly important to remember that he saw his chapter on women as one part of his campaign against socialism, an effort in which he styled himself the lonely leader of a small, heterodox band.
Socialism is the watchword and the catchword of our day. The socialist idea dominates the modern spirit. The masses prove of it. It expresses the thoughts and feelings of all; it has set its seal upon our time. When history comes to tell our story it will write above the chapter "The Epoch of Socialism."
Mises did not think his views on women were refractions of the age; he thought they were the dissonant wisdom of someone who had thought long and hard, against the dominant view, about such issues. And given that many socialists were making feminist arguments and gaining ground across Europe—Remember Red Vienna? It wasn't all economics, you know—I'm not sure Mises was entirely wrong in his self-understanding.)
Finally set aside, as one commenter on Mike's thread pointed out, the fact that many of Mises's views persist in later libertarian arguments.
The real reason Mises's arguments about women are so relevant, it seems to me, is that in the course of making them he reveals something larger about the libertarian worldview: libertarianism is not about liberty at all, or at least not about liberty for everyone. In fact, it's the opposite.
Here's Mises describing the socialist program of "free love":
Free love is the socialists' radical solution for sexual problems. The socialistic society abolishes the economic dependence of woman which results from the fact that woman is dependent on the income of her husband. Man and woman have the same economic rights and the same duties, as far as motherhood does not demand special consideration for the women. Public funds provide for the maintenance and education of the children, which are no longer the affairs of the parents but of society. Thus the relations between the sexes are no longer influenced by social and economic conditions….The family disappears and society is confronted with separate individuals only. Choice in love becomes completely free.
Sounds like a libertarian paradise, right? Society is dissolved into atomistic individuals, obstacles to our free choices are removed, everyone has the same rights and duties. But Mises is not celebrating this ideal; he's criticizing it. Not because it makes people unfree but because it makes people—specifically, women—free. The problem with liberating women from the constraints of "social and economic conditions" is that…women are liberated from the constraints of social and economic conditions.
Now Doherty will reply, well, that's just Mises's view of feminism, who cares, we libertarians stand for freedom. But the underlying logic of Mises's argument—in which the redistributive state is criticized not for making men and women slaves or equals but for making them free—cannot be so easily contained. It can easily be applied to other realms of social policy—labor unions, universal health care, robust public schools, unemployment benefits, and the like, which the left has always seen as the vital prerequisites of universal freedom—suggesting that the real target of the libertarian critique may be the proposition that Mises articulates here so well: that all men—not just the rich or the well born—and all women will in fact be liberated from the constraints of their "social and economic conditions."


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Cook County health officials expect to have test results this week that may help to pinpoint the source of a salmonella outbreak connected with a delicatessen at a Jewel-Osco store in Tinley Park.
The outbreak sickened 15 people, and tests so far show 11 of them having the same strain of salmonella bacteria, according to Amy Poole, spokeswoman for the county Department of Public Health.
Poole said the department is awaiting test results, expected by Friday, for the remaining four people as well as two deli workers at the store, 17117 Harlem Ave. She said test results completed for 17 other deli workers came back negative for salmonella.
The department was notified June 11 about cases of salmonella from hospital lab tests, and the deli was temporarily closed and prepared foods thrown away, she said.
The department hasn't been able to identify the source of the bacteria, other than to establish that there's a connection between the store and the salmonella cases, Poole said.
One Jewel-Osco customer, Colleen Ghelfi, sued the grocery chain Friday in Cook County Circuit Court, claiming that her son became ill after eating food purchased June 3 at the store's deli. He tested positive for a salmonella infection after a June 3 visit to a hospital emergency room, according to the lawsuit.


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Written Answers. - Prescribed Prostheses.
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231. Mr. R. Bruton asked the Minister for Health and Children the cost to his Department of providing prescribed prostheses without charge to all children who have no limbs; and if he will consider a reform in policy to guarantee this service. [20584/97]
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PARIS -- Foreign governments piled pressure on Algeria Thursday to quickly solve the hostage crisis at the In Amenas natural gas field, as the standoff between security forces and militants who have seized foreign nationals there extended for a second day.
BP, which operates the field along with Norway' s Statoil and Algerian energy company Sonatrach, said Thursday the situation at In Amenas "remains unresolved and fragile. Armed groups still occupy the site and hold a number of site personnel."
Militants with possible links to al Qaeda took about 40 foreign hostages on Wednesday, including several Americans, posing a new level of threat to nations trying to blunt the growing influence of Islamist extremists in Africa. The attack came days after France sent combat troops to fight alongside the Malian army, seeking to uproot an al Qaeda-linked insurgency in the West African nation.
France' s top target, al Qaeda in the Islamic Maghreb, or AQIM, claimed responsibility for the Algeria kidnappings, calling it retaliation. The claim couldn' t be verified, although AQIM has its origins in Algeria and operates across a swath of Africa.
The U.S., U.K., Japan, Norway, Austria and Ireland have all confirmed that some of their citizens are being held at the scene. The French government says it is unclear if French nationals are involved.
Algerian security forces failed in an attempt late Wednesday to storm the facility and reports on Thursday suggested there hasn' t been an additional attempt. Arabic broadcaster Al Jazeera said Algerian government snipers had opened fire on the site earlier Thursday, injuring two hostages there. The details couldn' t be verified.
An Algerian official said 20 foreign hostages, including Americans, escaped, the Associated Press reported Thursday.
Security experts say there are a number of options to free the hostages, including ransom negotiations by BP, U.S. government negotiations and U.S. military operations.
Al Jazeera reported the hostage-takers were ready for talks with foreign governments if there is a cease-fire by the Algerian authorities. The network said the condition was outlined in a telephone interview with one kidnapper who identified himself as Abou al-Baraa.
But the involvement of so many different foreign nationals could complicate efforts to quickly resolve the crisis, particularly given that Algeria has insisted it won' t negotiate with the hostage-takers.
"Algeria has always condemned the payment of ransoms to terrorist groups, because that' s a boost to the kidnapping industry," said Jean-Charles Brisard, an international consultant specializing in terrorism.
Mr. Brisard said he expects the Algerian army will act alone, despite so many other countries being involved. "The Algerian government is very much attached to its national sovereignty," he said. "The Algerians will settle it in their own way."
Japan' s foreign minister Fumio Kishida asked the Algerian government to make securing the lives of the hostages the top priority. The U.K. government also said it would consider any requests for military assistance from Algeria, but hasn' t received any.
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0320, 14 May, 2014. Off the coast of New Jersey, a merchant ship has stopped to lower a pair of rigid-hull inflatable boats. Each boat carries six al-Qaeda terrorists, armed with AK-47s and hand grenades. The boats come ashore, where they are picked up by two vans, which split up. One heads to Wayne, New Jersey, the other to Columbia, Maryland.
2337, 26 May, 2014. In the Situation Room, the President of the United States slumps down as the situation has ended. Terrorists have managed to strike the homeland, this time shooting up two shopping malls: The Willowbrook Mall and the Columbia Town Center. The death toll is over 250, and local emergency response workers are overwhelmed with the wounded and dealing with the IEDs left in the malls. Foremost among Americans' questions: How did this happen?
The Mumbai attack, which occurred in November, 2008, is a glaring wake-up call – and America could see it happen here.
India, which does not enjoy warm relations with all of its neighbors, has a heavily guarded land border. However, the Mumbai terrorists dodged that heavy security. They out-flanked it and came ashore at Mumbai from the sea. That same scenario could happen here in America.
Consider this: The total land border of the United States is 12,034 kilometers. Of that, about three-fourths are with Canada. Only 3,141 kilometers are on the border with Mexico. The total United States coastline is 19,924 kilometers – about 50 percent longer than the total American land borders. It is over six times the length of the U.S.–Mexico border.
While the 12,034 kilometers of land borders are guarded by the Customs and Border Patrol, with over 56,500 personnel and a $10.1 billion 2008 budget, the United States Coast Guard has to make do on a $9.955 billion FY10 budget with under 42,000 full-time personnel. Even if you add the reserves, the Coast Guard is covering more coastline with fewer people.
Worse, the Coast Guard is staring a smaller fleet in the face. The twelve Hamilton-class high-endurance cutters are to be replaced by eight Bertholf-class national security cutters, a 33 percent reduction in the force. The 29 medium endurance cutters are to be replaced at some point (if ever) by 25 new "offshore patrol cutters" that are presently vaporware.
Meanwhile, the government spends billions of dollars for other purposes. The Heritage Foundation reported that every year, $9 billion is spent because Congress has not implemented efficiencies recommended by the Department of Health and Human Services. That is almost 90 percent of the Coast Guard's FY 2010 budget request.
The Coast Guard needs to be upsized, and fast. They also need far more technology. Unmanned Aerial Systems (UAS) like the MQ-1 Predator and RQ-4A Global Hawks would help the Coast Guard monitor large expanses of coastal waters.
The systems are very cheap - $20 million per Predator system (4 UASs and the ground control system), and $37.6 million per Global Hawk. Purchasing the Coast Guard 40 Global Hawks would cost $1.5 billion at the fly-away cost. Thirty Predator systems would cost $600 million. The increased surveillance assets would be a start.
The other asset the Coast Guard needs is more hulls in the water – of all classes. More of the Bertholf-class cutters, more medium-endurance cutters, and a lot more patrol boats. More ships will mean that the Coast Guard can maintain a stronger presence. The existing fleet, even when supported by helicopters, can only cover so much ocean.
What makes the shortfall worse is that the Coast Guard has to do more than just secure the coasts. They also maintain navigational aids, carry out search-and-rescue missions, and even deploy overseas. The United States Coast Guard is stretched thin – too thin to secure our borders.
America could wind up paying for that thin level of protection down the road. To double the size of the Coast Guard would not be beyond the budgetary capabilities of the United States – if the politicians are serious about securing over 60 percent of America's border.