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As the fiscal struggles of the nation's federal, state and local governments have deepened over the past several years, a silver lining has emerged: Agencies at all three levels have been getting much smarter about how they spend their IT dollars.
Government agencies' growing awareness that they can improve what IT delivers without spending more will be especially helpful in 2011 as IT budgets flatline before an expected return to more normal growth. According to government market research firm INPUT, total IT spending by local, state and federal agencies will dip slightly to $156.1 billion in 2011 (down from $156.5 billion during 2010), before experiencing modest annual growth that will see that figure rise to $189.5 billion in 2015.
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Government IT leaders hope that the penny-wise decisions they've been making are providing a foundation for smarter investments as purse strings loosen in the coming years. Toward that end, agencies and municipalities have been turning to technologies—or, in some cases, organizational methodologies—that can stretch their IT dollar while setting the stage for adding future capabilities.
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"If you have a strong story as a technology vendor or provider about how to spend the same dollar but get more return for it, you're going to be well-received in government IT departments today," says Dana Gardner, president and principal analyst for IT consultancy Interarbor Solutions.
In particular, categories such as cloud computing, IT support and analytics have emerged as areas where governments can make investments that pay dividends quickly by delivering improved functionality and business agility.
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Nearly a decade ago, the U.S. Forest Service was hampered by a disjointed IT environment that required each district office to provide its own IT support, overwhelming IT staff and leaving users dissatisfied. Also, the ineffective help desk setup was pulling the agency's 36,000 employees away from the activities that had led them to join the Forest Service, says Dana Watts, IT specialist and customer help desk operations lead for the Forest Service, one of the U.S. Department of Agriculture's largest agencies.
"Employees don't want to be inside, waiting for someone to fix their computers, or waiting on the phone for someone to route them to the right person," Watts says.
To consolidate its help desk operation, improve the user experience and save money, the agency outsourced its Tier 1 call center to IBM, signing a five-year deal in 2002. The service improved things, but it lacked an online self-service component. Also, an inflexible contract forced it to pay stiff penalties for amending the agreement on the fly.
Once the contract expired, it was extended two years while the Forest Service searched for a new solution, ultimately again awarding the contract to IBM. However, this time, the vendor proposed a cloud-based solution that included components provided by subcontractors, such as an incident management system from RightNow Technologies. The new contract specified that the Forest Service would pay only for incident volume.
The results speak for themselves: Since 2006, the Forest Service has increased the portion of inquiries it resolves on first contact from 45 to 60 percent. And, over the first two years of the new contract, the volume of help desk inquiries—about 25,000 each month—has decreased by 10 percent. It's compelling evidence that Forest Service employees are increasingly solving their own issues using the online self-service environment, which features a knowledge base of some 30,000 documents. In addition, amendment penalties have been all but eliminated.
Users aren't just taking from the system—they're giving back, too. Watts says employees are providing feedback on their support experiences an impressive 20 percent of the time, and that feedback forms the basis of quarterly configuration updates to the help desk system.
"They can actually see and touch the changes we're making based on the information they're giving us," says Watts, who looks forward to squeezing even more out of the system as the agency becomes more familiar with its capabilities.
Few things are more crippling to local government than a broken e-mail system. Just ask Brad Barnell, IT director for Greenwood County, S.C. The county's 300 e-mail users weren't even on the same system. Like most counties, Greenwood was cash-strapped, so only the power users—about one-fourth of county employees—were on Microsoft Exchange, while the rest were supported by a free Unix-based product called SquirrelMail.
The county's IT staff, which consisted of three people, had to pay a vendor about $18,000 a year to manage the environment. To make matters worse, the e-mail addresses weren't consistent, spam was rampant and e-mailed inquiries from the public were falling through the cracks.
Barnell reached out to Google, which referred him to Cloud Sherpas, a systems integrator that specializes in migrating organizations to Google Apps and Google Mail. The county moved all its users to Google Mail, for annual fees of $15,000 for 300 Google Apps licenses—$3,000 a year less than it had been paying its vendor for e-mail maintenance.
"It takes all those hours that were going to be spent on e-mail and lets us use them on other projects," Barnell points out. Those projects include developing a Web presence to give the public access to services online, more training for staff on other technologies, and migrating software into a new data center.
Barnell hopes to leverage the other Google Apps tools—Google Talk, Google Calendar, Google Docs and the rest—to reduce on-premises storage requirements in the new data center. "The cloud is perfect for us," he says.
Like many states, Utah had allowed each agency to develop its own IT footprint, and the resulting redundancies and service duplications made it impossible for the state to know what it was spending on technology.
"The way they did accounting for each of the agencies, there wasn't even an IT line," says the state's CIO, Stephen Fletcher. "There were program lines, such as Medicaid, with all IT costs embedded into overall program costs."
Things came to a head when state officials received a request for a new document management system that was identical to one they'd just approved for another agency—and the requesting agency bristled at the state's suggestion that the two agencies share the system. So the state passed legislation mandating an IT cost-cutting initiative that would pull IT out of individual agencies and consolidate it into a centralized organization, with Fletcher having final say on all IT purchases statewide.
Over the next 18 months, IT was reorganized, and cost-cutting efforts began. Fletcher had his staff go through everything, establishing a baseline cost and performance objective for each.
The IT organization's first target was data center consolidation. The 35 data centers were scaled back to two—a primary data center and a backup facility—both with virtualized machines that leave the state well-positioned to deliver cloud-based services. For a one-time $4 million investment, Utah is reaping $4 million annually in reduced operating costs, shaving more than 25 percent from its previous data center budget.
Fletcher and his staff then considered IT security, which was plagued by gaps. They also deployed a system to manage help desk tickets, purchasing and asset management so that agencies would know what they were spending on IT; adopted a single suite of software development tools to ensure a consistent methodology; introduced hundreds of online applications that citizens can use to access services; and installed a data warehouse fronted by the latest business intelligence tools so agencies could slice and dice information.
Along the way, Fletcher also reduced the state's IT staff from 1,000 to 750 people through attrition, slashing another $25 million in annual IT spending.
Fletcher is now looking to further reduce operating costs with desktop virtualization and converged communications, and by retiring mainframes. He's also considering joining with other states to create a single pool of geographic data that could greatly reduce storage costs, and he's open to obtaining additional services from other governments or agencies.
Fletcher believes his holistic approach to IT works better than simply making across-the-board IT cuts. Using technology and consolidation to help reduce the state's overall budget by 10 percent has a much larger impact than just shaving 10 percent from the IT budget. "Every state is trying to put a model together to make that happen," says Fletcher. Count Utah among those that have figured it out.
Like Utah, the state of Montana needed to transform its outdated data center, which was housed in the basement of a 1940s-era building that was a nightmare to secure and was plagued by antiquated, inefficient power and cooling resources. In 2005, incoming Governor Brian Schweitzer toured the data center and, according to CIO Dick Clark, declared, "Now I've got one more thing to worry about."
Five years later, Clark's staff had completed the migration to a new primary data center with top-of-the-line security, a strong foundation for future cloud computing initiatives and energy efficiency that other data center operators will envy.
The key to the reduced energy footprint is a component that's brought the facility the most notice: a "heat wheel" from KyotoCooling that reduced cooling costs to between 7 cents and 12 cents for each dollar of electricity used—down from as high as $1.50. "I think it's going to be the norm in the relatively near future," says Clark.
New York City is also undergoing an ambitious data center renewal. Over the next four to five years, the city will consolidate more than 60 data centers—most of which are agency-specific—into a single data center environment that will likely be spread across two or three facilities. IBM will lead the first phase of the project, migrating the first six to 10 agencies into the new facilities.
Jim Fowler, first deputy commissioner of New York City's Department of Information Technology and Tele-communications, says the $96 million effort will pay for itself by the time it's completed, and that it will yield ongoing operational savings of $40 million a year through improved efficiencies, technology standardization and reduced staffing needs, along with lower power, cooling and real estate costs.
Fowler believes that agencies at all levels of government will be watching the project closely to learn anything that will help them with their own data center consolidations. "We have no choice but to be on the main stage because of our size and scope," he acknowledges.


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Two arguments Paul Snowdon has brought against the causal theory of perception are examined. One involves the claim that, based on the phenomenology of perceptual situations, it cannot be the case that perception is an essentially causal concept. The other is a reductio, according to which causal theorists' arguments imply that a proposition Snowdon takes to be obviously non-causal (A is married to B) can be analyzed into some sort of indefinite 'spousal connection' plus a causal ingredient. I conclude that neither argument is sound. The reason that Snowdon's critiques fail is that, since causal theories need not be about 'effect ends' that are internally manifest to perceivers, no such ostensibly separable, non-causal property as it being to S as if he were perceiving O need be an essential element in a causal theory of perception.
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- 10.1007/s12136-011-0143-z
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- Springer Netherlands
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- Causal theory of perception
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- Perception
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Dinner in the studio
It's 1:30am and I'm feeling incredibly sleepy but I feel like I just have to do this spontaneous blog post! As you can tell, I never ever schedule my posts and always write my entries randomly, whenever I feel like it. So yes. Here's a sleepy blog post! (I'm a granny and usually go to bed at 10.30!) So writing this post at this unearthly hour, is possibly not a very good thing to do, especially after having about 6 glasses of wine! But here I go!
I just came home from one of the most beautiful and inspiring dinners of my life! In line with this year's Melbourne Food & Wine Festival, clever potter Shelley Panton is hosting a series of artisan dinners in her Middle Park studio. Dinner guests get to have a night out, relaxing over great food and wine. All served on Shelley's gorgeously beautifully handmade ceramic wares. (Trust me! You just want everyone of her wares when you're eating off them!) At the end of the night, the guests each get to bring home a nice little napkin. Every round of studio dinners, Shelley collaborates with a Melbourne maker to come up with these napkins. And this year, I was lucky enough to be invited by Shelley to be the special artist/maker of her napkins! And major thanks to Frankie & Swiss, for if it wasn't for their amazing printing skills, those napkins would not even be possible! I've blogged about it previously here and here. So feel free to take a look! I've always been a fan of Shelley's pieces and am lucky enough to own 3 of her cups and a little salt dish. I use one of my cups quite a bit. It's become my favourite one! I dream one day to be able to fill my kitchen and dining table with many more of her plates and cups. I just love the idea of how much each piece is filled with so much time and effort and of course, love!
Well, I think I'm getting a little bit loopy and long-winded. This is what wine does to my brains! But yup, all in all, dinner was wonderful! I am so so glad I was fortunate enough to go! The food by chef Nicolas of Embrasse Restaurant, was perfect and the wine, by Ben Haines.. Oh! Don't get me started! All I can say is, I am not even a wine person, but I had at least 6 glasses before losing count! I don't usually drink even a glass!
Thanks you once again Shelley, for everything! For picking me of all people, to do a special napkin for this event. I enjoyed every single bit of the entire journey, and your studio dinner was indeed truly an inspiring one! Thank you also, to the lovely sisters, Michelle and Jacqui from Frankie & Swiss, for going above and beyond, and printing those napkins up so beautifully! Everyone loved it and I do too! They're so precious!
Alrighty! I think I should really go to bed. I need to wake early tomorrow as I've got a whole stack of readings to do before class. My readings are about 'giftedness amongst children'. It is an interesting topic, but trust me, the notes and things I have to read. Oh they make me sleep just after 2 chapters! All the terms, theories, boring wordy stuff! zzzzzzzzz.....Okie dokie! Thanks for staying with me till the end of this post. I promise, no more rambling! My tummy's happy, my eye lids are ready and so is my brain.. so Good night! Sleep tight! Don't let the bed bugs bite!
PS: Print packs are now all sold out. I'm awaiting on payment from a few people. But if I don't hear back from them, by end of this week, I'll put what I have left up for sale. Will keep you guys posted!
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Oh how gorgeous! That looks like one very wonderful dinner party. Love your napkins, Dawn:) That dessert with the cute little mushrooms in adorable. It's very Heston Blumenthal. You did well to write this on 6 glasses of wine at 1am! I couldn't do it! xReplyDelete
So lovely to wake up and read your post, thanks for working with us, Dawn. At least the 6 wines were only half pours! Have a great week xxReplyDelete
Wow, what an amazing experience. That looks like the most fabulous dinner. What an amazing concept! And I love your napkins. Stunning pics too. I felt like I was there for a split second!ReplyDelete
I love the fish dish on the blue plate, it looks like a little tide pool at the seaside! Hope you are not feeling too rough today! :o)ReplyDelete
Look so yummy and pretty, I wish I could gobble everything up! lol.ReplyDelete
love the interplay between the tableware and the food.ReplyDelete
Dawn your napkins look so beautiful, delicately placed among a table that feeds the eyes as well as the tummy!!ReplyDelete
Such a cute funny post Dawn!ReplyDelete
Looks and sounds amazing and your napkins are wonderful! Hope you made it too class ok :) xx
Looks like a beautiful night Dawn! I love the napkins too, they look gorgeous. And sleep inducing readings are the worst part of studying - try articles on Measuring & Estimating - no words to describe how mind numbing those were heheReplyDelete
I ABSOLUTELY love this! I am bookmarking this because it's just so inspiring. One of my goals in the future is to run a pop-up style restaurant that involves the fine arts and helps get people exposure + create an unforgettable experience.ReplyDelete
Moreover, I stumbled upon you when looking for food illustrations, and also became interested in the residency you stayed at. What a wonderful find :) You are inspiring as well m'lady.
Hi Dawn wasn't it Aaron and Astrid Turner from Loam that did the dinner at Shelley Panton's on the 5th? Love the photos.ReplyDelete


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Toveco slowed down at the mine to get ready for the Gilsum Rock Swap. It was another great year for the Gilsum show with attendance around 5K. The Toveco Silent Auction was such a success that Lee is already planning on 2011 improvements. For the future the bulk of Toveco mineral specimens will be sold thru a Silent auction venue (Gilsum & maybe Franklin). Rocko who is set up next to Toveco will also expanded his silent auction for Gilsum 2011.
At the mine. We are still concentrating on the W/L good pegmatite area (check past blogs). As stated in past blogs I blasted this area 2 times before. And these shots didn't lift but cacitized. When this happens you have to re-shoot into a close solid rock zone and then excavate into the cavitized area. That is what is being done now. Because I have a small excavator this task also requires short hole blasting in the cavitized area which is a pain.
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Kledal, Paul Rye; Florence Oyiera, Habwe; Wanjau Njoroge, John und Kiarii, Eustace (2009) The Organic Food and Farm Sector in Kenya. In: The World of Organic Agriculture - Statistics and emerging trends 2009. IFOAM & FiBL, http://www.organic-world.net/yearbook-2009.html
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Yogurt Ur Way opened less than two weeks ago on the SE corner of 8th Avenue and E. Las Olas Boulevard.
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Even on a late afternoon, the new shop was bustling with a crowd that seemed to be flocking to the more exotic flavors such as Red Velvet, Blueberry Acai, or Dolce Leche. In total, there are 18 all-natural flavors of frozen yogurt, ice cream, sorbet, and custard manufactured by Yo Cream.
Yogurt Ur Way claims the frozen yogurt is special because of strict temperature regulation. Owners say yogurt served at 26 degrees freezes heavier and won't numb your taste buds -- allowing for a more glorious gustatory experience.
Pick up a bowl, choose your flavor, fill it to your satisfaction, then head to the topping bar. Decorate your mound of sweetness with toppings like Chinese fruit candies (small beads of jelly fruit flavor that burst in your mouth), animal cookies, or raspberry truffle cups. Want something fresh? The bar also has fresh fruit options such as blackberries, sliced apple, and kiwi.
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I enjoyed the Cappuccino Frozen Yogurt (100 calories for 1/2 cup), sprinkled with chocolate fudge brownie bits and slivered almonds. My generous portion cost around $3 (45 cents per ounce).
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Life is stressful, challenges to our self-esteem around every corner, threatening to weaken our confidence that we are good people already, well on the way to the ideals we aspire to.
So you deflect the threats, hold on to that vision of yourself as good—exceptionally extraordinarily good, unusually kind honest and upright. When challenged you counter and dispel them by any means possible lest they infect your system. Hold firm to your ideals and your sense that you're reaching them. By identifying with your ideals you prove to yourself and others that you are on the side of good. And if they aren't convinced, they're wrong.
When people suggest that you might have some of the negative traits common in others, be indignant. Defend yourself. Shame them for accusing you of such traits. Don't give an inch on the slippery slope to self-doubt and despair. Be ever-vigilant because people will try to attack you, always for their own malevolent reasons.
It doesn't matter how you defend yourself, since yours is the cause of righteousness. You can accuse your critics of just trying to win, being too blunt, not using the right words, being too picky, trying to control you, making a mountain out of a molehill, misinterpreting you, having a hidden agenda, bullying you, nagging, complaining, whining, not accepting you--whatever stops them from challenging you.


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My loving Mom will be laid to rest next to my big brother Marcus who we lost two years ago. We feel certain this is what they both would have wanted.
We encourage those who knew her and all friends of the family to attend. Afterwards there will be a reception to rejoice in her Louisiana roots with good old-fashioned country cooking and mint juleps.
For those who would like to send flowers or remembrances, please send them to the address above. My mom loved flowers more than just about anything.
My mother also loved people – all kinds of different people. Because all three of her boys lived in Los Angeles at one point or another, and because she treasured sharing stories with our friends, she often said that she had, "So many sons and daughters in Los Angeles." We'd love to have all of her many sons and daughters over to help celebrate her life of strength, resilience, joy and love.
That said, we are working hard to reach all of her family and friends. Any help passing this information on to the folks who knew her would be greatly appreciated.
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The last few days have brought several developments in the sexual abuse allegations involving former SU basketball assistant coach Bernie Fine. Fine was fired Sunday night amid sexual allegations that involve Fine and young boys starting in the 1980s. Our Brad Vivacqua has the latest developments.SYRACUSE, N.Y. -- Bernie Fine may no longer be the men's associate basketball coach at SU, but it doesn't seem like his name is going away any time soon. There are questions that remain following recent developments over the past few days.
On Sunday, the university announced Fine had been fired in the wake of aired audio recordings on ESPN between one of the accusers, Bobby Davis, and Fine's wife. The network first published the allegations on November 17th, now with support from Mike Lang - Davis' step-brother – alleging that the two had been abused by Fine beginning in the 1980s.
SU basketball coach Jim Boeheim has remained firm that he knows nothing. Boeheim initially supported Fine, calling the allegations lies. He has since, through a statement, expressed regret for his initial remarks, admitting they may have been insensitive to the victims.
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In Haiti, a Social Enterprise Launches to Support Grassroots LGBT Activism
Alongside the surge in international attention since the 2010 earthquake in Haiti, there has been a sustained criticism of the way outside interventions have operated in the most destitute country in the Western hemisphere. One start-up organization, KOURAJ, is trying to break from the pattern, pioneering an innovative approach to development that functions in a bottom-up, self-sustaining manner, through the creation of a social enterprise that will ultimately provide financial autonomy.
KOURAJ consists of a group of activists and leaders in Haiti's Lesbian, Gay, Bisexual, and Transgender (LGBT) community who are focused on empowering themselves by overturning common conceptions of LGBT people as marginalized, vulnerable, and infected persons. Their first project, for which they are currently crowdfunding on Kickstarter, is a bar/cultural center that will be provide a space for Haitian artists to share their talents, while providing a space where Haitian 'masisi,' as LGBT are referred to, feel comfortable. Below, an American named Nick Stratton, who helped create KOURAJ, explains why the project is not only urgently needed in Haiti, but also an exciting model for grassroots, sustainable, community-based development.
Dowser: What led you to become involved in this work in Haiti?
Stratton: My work in Haiti began in Boston during college, where I was highly involved in the Haitian-American community, both on campus and in the city. Having spoken French fluently already, I started learning Haitian Creole before graduating in order to facilitate the move to Haiti. I finally made the move to Haiti with my partner of nearly two years, Vincent, who gave me the courage and support to live here. We did not come to Haiti to defend LGBT rights. Only after several months of getting to know the 'masisi' [LGBT] community in Haiti through simply hanging out with them did we realize the urgency and necessity of such a project. In that sense, friends got us involved in this work.
Why was it so urgent, at this moment in Haiti's history? It's a country with many problems; why focus on this one?
We realized Haiti was ready for this type of project when we went to the beach in Jacmel. Nine masisi, including Vincent and I, walked onto the public beach one day in Jacmel. Immediately, all 150 pairs of eyes fell on us as we wriggled through the crowd. All of sudden, wild screams and chants arose from all sides, 'Masisi! Get out of the water! Leave the beach!' And this was no group of young hooligans; I spotted an elderly lady, a mother and her little child, all in unison chanting 'Masisi! Masisi!' Already, we were the only white people on the beach and had attracted a lot of attention; now we were the only masisi, too. I was scared to death. Our friends reassured us and calmly pointed out this was completely 'normal.' And then something happened that I never could have imagined. The masisi with us started playing with the crowd. They shook their [butts] in front of over one hundred swimmers; they posed and walked the cat walk down the beach; they even shouted back at everyone, 'Me, masisi? Then I guess I will be seeing you later tonight…'
'Courage,' was the only word that we could say. This day at the beach was the beginning of KOURAJ, which means 'courage' in Haitian Creole. We knew from that moment on, that no matter how hard the struggle would be, Haiti is ready for an LGBT rights-based movement, and that Haitian masisi are ready to lead the way.
What, to your knowledge, is the situation like for LGBT in Haiti?
For me, the most surprising aspect of the 'LGBT community' in Haiti is that it doesn't really exist, even though a strong LGBT culture does. Intimate networks of masisi exist in circles of friends, but unity and mobilization are still only aspirations here. Given the challenging 'masisi' life of isolation, secrecy, and fear of being cast out of the family, it is difficult to think beyond survival and wanting to simply be accepted. Difficult, but not impossible. Those few courageous individuals who do imagine a community beyond themselves are fighting for recognition and mutual respect in Haitian society. Haiti has beautiful drag queens, beautiful artists and musicians, beautiful dancers, and a beautiful LGBT culture. Unfortunately, all of this is overlooked by official, institutional ideas about masisi as simply 'vulnerable' or 'marginalized groups' infected with HIV/AIDS. In this sense, official discourse reduces gays in Haiti down to sick, poor, and vulnerable people. Societal rhetoric defines masisi as someone who rapes Haitian boys or who is a pedophile. Religious rhetoric dictates that masisi are mortal sinners and abominations to society. Violence against masisi is commonly justified because homosexuality is still considered a choice and not a characteristic acquired at birth.
These public definitions have cornered masisi into a very degrading situation; unsurprisingly, many members of the LGBT community have emotional and psychological problems. Creating an alternative discourse on masisi is the first step towards change, hence why KOURAJ has made a mass public communications campaign its primary objective.
How is KOURAJ providing resources and support for the masisi community?
The ideal for many masisi is to leave Haiti to live 'the good life' of gays abroad in Martinique, in Guadeloupe, in Miami, or in New York. KOURAJ's primary motivation for the bar is to create 'the good life' for LGBT persons right here in Haiti, such that masisi can aspire to live and work in their country with dignity, pride, and self-respect.
What resources do LGBT people have to support them, if anything?
Only three initiatives serving the LGBT community (and some not even explicitly LGBT) exist in Haiti: a psychosocial health organization called SEROvie that works with sexual minorities infected with HIV/AIDS, a health services organization for HIV/AIDS victims called POZ (not officially LGBT), and a lesbian organization FASCDIS with whom KOURAJ works.
KOURAJ sought to fill the empty space of LGBT advocacy using a rights-based framework and empowerment. We have worked closely with these organizations, and were disappointed in the processes and results they produced. All of them are 100% dependent on foreign money, mainly from USAID, the CDC, or other foreign NGOs and universities. They are focused on health, not on rights. KOURAJ leaders reject every one of these frameworks. Future LGBT organizations must realize that at the core of mental health disorders, rising rates of HIV infection, prostitution, and unemployment in the LGBT community is sexual orientation–and gender-based violence, discrimination, and stigmatization. LGBT groups must stop using self-defeating and dehumanizing language that describe the community as weak, vulnerable, victims, and marginalized. KOURAJ believes we masisi are powerful, capable leaders and role models for not just the LGBT community, but for all of Haitian society.
How did you develop the vision for KOURAJ's bar/cultural center?
The vision for the 'Yanvalou' [the bar/cultural center] [occurred] in response to two questions we asked ourselves: one, how can a rights-based political movement in the Haitian LGBT community secure long-term financial stability and sustainability that will ensure its continuity throughout the cyclical whims of international donors? And two, how can the LGBT community rest assured the decision-making process will remain rooted in the community despite its solid working relationships with large, powerful international NGOs? We knew we had to answer these questions if we were to take seriously the autonomy, sustainability, and capacity of the vibrant Haitian LGBT community to finally assert its rights.
How will the bar/cultural center [Yanvalou] benefit Haiti's population more generally?
We are working hard to make the Yanvalou a cultural hub of Port-au-Prince. Only four or five [performance] stages exist in this vibrant capital city for a population of 2.5 million Haitians [and they are expensive and difficult to get to from the capital city.] Film nights & festivals, the public art space, concerts, preventive health resources, and conferences will all be available free of charge in a location accessible to public transportation in lower Port-au-Prince.
Most importantly, the Yanvalou will become the first place in the entire country where the general population can encounter the LGBT world in a healthy environment. Masisi will be customers like everyone else, and they will participate in cultural events like everyone else. Finally, the general population will see for itself a strong, capable, creative, and proud LGBT community, and not within the context of HIV/AIDS, prostitution, or marginalization. This space will provide a humanizing, empowering step forward in changing public discourse in the struggle for human rights.
What strategies are you using to make your Kickstarter campaign successful?
Since we are creating a business, we reached out LGBT-friendly businesses in the US, starting with sponsors of NYC and Boston Pride Week. This strategy was not very successful, because most businesses are focused on local community development. It is very difficult to portray in a one-page letter why the Haitian LGBT community is relevant for businesses in Boston and New York City.
Recently, we hosted a masisi masked ball with food, drinks, a DJ, manifestos, and a drag queen show so LGBT people could celebrate Carnaval; the event was a huge success. Over 200 people attended in spite of the rain, and many Haitians gave small donations within their spending means after the event. Several guests commented that KOURAJ's home base was "the best dance floor in all of Port-au-Prince, 'the "best party they had ever been to,' and the 'first time masisi have ever been able to express themselves in security during Carnaval.'
The most effective strategy has been to reach out personally to individual friends and family in the States. Kickstarter funding can succeed using many strategies, including having a few rich donors or many small donors. We feel the second strategy is more legitimate for a community-based project like KOURAJ/the Yanvalou. In other words, if we can get 200 people to contribute $100 each, we have reached our goal. If we can get 800 people to contribute $25 each, we have reached our goal. We are confident we can find this many people who would like to see Haiti break from the development model of dependency on foreign NGOs, and who want to engage in the global struggle for LGBT rights & equality.
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Tony Judt: The Distinctions
The Memory Chalet
The title of The Memory Chalet refers to its method of composition. Locked inside a body made inert by amyotrophic lateral sclerosis, and faced with his shrinking future and approaching death, Tony Judt decided to revisit his past. Physically unable to write, but with a mind as sharp and active as ever, he plotted the twenty-five short essays that compose this book in his head, while he was alone at night, using a mnemonic device taken from accounts of the early modern "memory palace," whereby elements of a narrative are associated with points in a visually remembered space; but instead of a palace, he used a small Swiss chalet that he had once stayed in on vacation as a boy, and that he could picture vividly and in detail. He was then able to dictate these feuilletons the next day from the resulting structure. All but four of them were originally published as separate pieces in The New York Review, but their impact is much enhanced as a single book, a book that is at once memoir, self-portrait, and credo.
Judt says that ALS is in both senses an incommunicable disease, yet his articulacy in describing the condition almost makes you think you can understand what it is like to be helpless in this way:
Having no use of my arms, I cannot scratch an itch, adjust my spectacles, remove food particles from my teeth, or anything else that—as a moment's reflection will confirm—we all do dozens of times a day.
It is not as though you lose the desire to stretch, to bend, to stand or lie or run or even exercise. But when the urge comes over you there is nothing—nothing—that you can do except seek some tiny substitute or else find a way to suppress the thought and the accompanying muscle memory.
Ask yourself how often you move in the night. I don't mean change location altogether…merely how often you shift a hand, a foot; how frequently you scratch assorted body parts before dropping off; how unselfconsciously you alter position very slightly to find the most comfortable one. Imagine for a moment that you had been obliged instead to lie absolutely motionless on your back…for seven unbroken hours and constrained to come up with ways to render this Calvary tolerable not just for one night but for the rest of your life.
But he believes that the deeper experience of isolation and imprisonment cannot be conveyed; he feels as out of reach of the imagination of others as Kafka's Gregor Samsa.
The articulate recreation of the active life that he has lost is Judt's answer to his imprisonment and impending death, and it gives him a more personal posthumous existence than do his historical and critical writings, important as they are. These eloquent personal recollections are infused with historical consciousness, but they also explain and reflect the strong opinions and attitudes that marked Tony Judt as a distinctive presence among us, unforgettable to those who knew or read him. Wary of group identity, he was an Englishman but exceptionally cosmopolitan, a Jew who became an outspoken critic of Zionism, and an egalitarian social democrat who was also an elitist and a defender of meritocracy.
Judt was born in London in 1948, to secular Jewish parents with roots in Eastern Europe, and he experienced both the austerity of postwar Britain and the extraordinary social mobility and social transformation that followed it. He remained throughout his life a grateful beneficiary of the welfare state and of its educational largesse. He also loved public transport, and is lyrical in the description of the trains, buses, and ferries of his youth, which have declined sadly since:
I would park my bike in the luggage wagon at Norbiton Station on the Waterloo line, ride the suburban electric train out into rural Hampshire, descend at some little country halt on the slopes of the Downs, cycle leisurely eastward until I reached the westerly edge of the old London to Brighton Railway, then hop the local into Victoria as far as Clapham Junction. There I had the luxuriant choice of some nineteen platforms—this was, after all, the largest rail junction in the world—and would entertain myself with the choices from which to select my train back home. The whole exercise would last a long summer day.
Judt expresses affection for the material world in which he grew up, but words, ideas, and human institutions are the real substance of his life. He was one of those clever lower-middle-class boys who benefited from the opening up of British education after World War II. He went to a selective independent "direct grant" school that was funded by the local municipal authority and open without fee to those who did well on the eleven-plus exams. Judt says he hated school and remembers with respect only one of the masters, a ferocious teacher of German who instilled high standards through fear of his scorn. But he must have learned other things there, because he did so well on the entrance exams for King's College, Cambridge, that he was admitted without having to take the school-leaving exams (A levels); in consequence, he quit school halfway through his final year.
King's when he went there in 1966 was "the very incarnation of meritocratic postwar Britain," an ancient establishment with beautiful buildings and a distinguished tradition, now filled with students from selective state schools who had done well on exams, and who were invited to take on the inherited self-confidence that permeated the institution. Within a few years the formality, the gowns, the gate hours had been done away with, but while Judt was there he had the sense of membership in an elite, not of descent but of merit:
Promoted on merit into a class and culture that were on their way out, we experienced Oxbridge just before the fall—for which I confess that my own generation, since risen to power and office, is largely responsible.
One of Judt's fundamentals is an unapologetic belief in the importance of recognizing the distinction between excellence and mediocrity, and making it count. He is pitiless about the intellectual and cultural egalitarianism and anti-elitism that have made such progress in English education since his day:
For forty years, British education has been subjected to a catastrophic sequence of "reforms" aimed at curbing its elitist inheritance and institutionalizing "equality." …The worst damage has been at the secondary level. Intent upon destroying the selective state schools that afforded my generation a first-rate education at public expense, politicians have foisted upon the state sector a system of enforced downward uniformity….
Today, when the British government mandates that 50 percent of high school graduates should attend university, the gap separating the quality of education received by the privately schooled minority from that of everyone else is greater than at any time since the 1940s.
Although he is politically on the left, and a believer in reducing social and economic inequality, he has no sympathy for the notionally equalizing forces of multiculturalism and political correctness. Becoming an American academic, he found much to deplore:
Undergraduates today can select from a swathe of identity studies: "gender studies," "women's studies," "Asian-Pacific-American studies," and dozens of others. The shortcoming of all these para-academic programs is not that they concentrate on a given ethnic or geographical minority; it is that they encourage members of that minority to study themselves—thereby simultaneously negating the goals of a liberal education and reinforcing the sectarian and ghetto mentalities they purport to undermine.
He is likewise dismissive of the taboos on sexual expression and sexual relations that have closed in since the sexual liberation of his youth:
Since the 1970s, Americans assiduously avoid anything that might smack of harassment, even at the risk of forgoing promising friendships and the joys of flirtation. Like men of an earlier decade—though for very different reasons—they are preternaturally wary of missteps. I find this depressing. The Puritans had a sound theological basis for restricting their desires and those of others. But today's conformists have no such story to tell.
Because of these views some of his academic colleagues regarded Judt as a "reactionary dinosaur." That doesn't bother him, but at one point he suggests that there may be some incoherence in being politically on the left yet a defender of the elitism of universities:
In my generation we thought of ourselves as both radical and members of an elite. If this sounds incoherent, it is the incoherence of a certain liberal descent that we intuitively imbibed over the course of our college years. It is the incoherence of the patrician Keynes establishing the Royal Ballet and the Arts Council for the greater good of everyone, but ensuring that they were run by the cognoscenti. It is the incoherence of meritocracy: giving everyone a chance and then privileging the talented. It was the incoherence of my King's and I was fortunate to have experienced it.
I suppose this is irony; but it is worth spelling out that there is no incoherence in wanting to reduce economic stratification while preserving educational selection based on ability. That is just the common sense of the old left, which recognizes that not all kinds of inequality are the same, and that it will not help the poor to level the educational system. Judt was the kind of old-fashioned, academically conservative leftist who could make distinctions—now an endangered species.
He was also old-fashioned in his commitment to social democracy, his distrust of market capitalism and the privatization of essential public services, and his belief that a decent society should prevent the large inequalities of wealth that market economies tend to generate. He even goes so far as to liken the broad current acceptance of market orthodoxy to the earlier abasement of European intellectuals before the historical inevitability of communism. That, I think, is rhetorical overkill; while ideological dogmatism is plentiful, there is much more honest uncertainty and debate, both empirical and moral, about how governments can best harness the evident innovative and productive power of capitalism in the service of the common good.
The most complex feelings expressed in this memoir are about the Jews, Jewishness, and Israel. There was no religious observance in Judt's immediate family, and they always had a Christmas tree. He was one of only about ten Jews in his school, out of more than a thousand pupils. But he must have inherited a very strong sense of Jewish identity, because from the age of fifteen he was deeply engaged with left-wing Zionism, as an official of one of its youth movements, and he spent three summers working on Israeli kibbutzim, plus six months just before starting at Cambridge. He was a true believer:
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A: A few questions came in about Vincent, many asking if he was truly healthy, and the answer is yes, he is. As far as the concerns about his impact this season, McCoy and as his teammates believe Brown's time will come and he will contribute in a major way. In fact, he already is contributing by doing the little things well such as drawing coverage away from other receivers and blocking downfield. They may not show up on the stat sheet, but they are vitally important. Overall, he ranks fourth on the team with eight catches for 50 yards and one touchdown. For more on Vincent, here's what McCoy had to say about him on Monday:
"It's not like we're not trying to get him the ball, it's just Philip taking what the defense is giving him. All the receivers have done a great job of having the flexibility to move them around. In some of the no-huddle we have run, whether they are an X receiver or a Z receiver, they have done everything we asked them to do. His touches will come."
Q: We are two games behind the Broncos and Chiefs in the AFC West and we are just three weeks into the season. Is it over for us? – Robbie Genters
A: Like you said, we are just three weeks into the season. There are still 13 games left to be played, and the Chargers still have all six of their AFC West matchups remaining. It's important not to get too worked up, when we aren't even at the quarter pole of the season yet. Also of note, last season the New England Patriots, Indianapolis Colts, Denver Broncos, Green Bay Packers and Washington Redskins all began the season 1-2 before making the playoffs.
Q: A position that so often is overlooked or taken for granted and I think is vital is a team's center. So much can go wrong from the snap to recovering from the snap to blocking effectively to, in our case, dictating the O line assignments. As a Chargers fan I will always feel grateful and lucky that we had the super reliable
A: Yes, I do. Hardwick is a steady force in the middle of the line and he has a great rapport with Philip Rivers. In speaking with the other starters that lineup alongside of him, all four of them said Nick is critical to the team's success. He bonded with
Q: On BoltsCast I saw you mention the Chargers needing to create more turnovers on defense. Thank you for saying that. I've been saying the same thing. My question is, how does the team go about creating more turnovers? Thank you – Jonathan Rider
A: The Chargers have a -3 turnover ratio, but the offense has done a good job with ball security this season. The team realizes they need to create turnovers, and they have emphasized that over the past few days. According to McCoy it's all about a mindset. They also believe once they get that next turnover, more will come. It is something that is contagious. Here is what McCoy had to say about it:
"I think turnovers in this league, from a defensive perspective, are all about an attitude and the approach to the way you do it. You watch the game last night in Chicago, they create turnovers. They've done that year in and year out and they get them in bunches. So I think it's a mindset. It's a way you've got to practice and that's what we're trying to do here. We started all of last week and during camp. You start with the turnover circuit, ways to create them, drills you try to do and it's just one of those deals where we've got to get our hand on more balls."


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Guggenheim analyst Marty Mosby also has a neutral rating on M&T, but said "this acquisition should increase MTB's tangible book value per share by approximately 10% while the synergies and portfolio restructuring helps to raise HCBK's returns on
Mosby raised his price target for M&T's shares by 15%, to $100, while raising his 2013 EPS estimate by a dime, to $8.00.
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Obesity has emerged as a major public health problem.
Despite these many changes, the WIC food packages have remained largely unchanged. Thus, it is time to address revisions in the WIC food packages that would enable the WIC program's potential to be realized more completely.
The U.S. Department of Agriculture's Food and Nutrition Service charged the Institute of Medicine's Committee to Review the WIC Food Packages with conducting a two-phase evaluation of the WIC food packages. In Phase I, the committee was tasked with reviewing the nutritional needs of population subgroups participating in the WIC program, assessing supplemental nutrition needs of these subgroups, and proposing priority nutrients and general nutrition recommendations. In Phase II, the committee was tasked with using the initial assessment to recommend specific changes to WIC food packages. In doing so, the committee was charged with considering the supplemental nature of the WIC program and making recommendations that are culturally suitable, non-burdensome to administration, efficient for nationwide distribution and vendor checkout, and cost-neutral. In addition, the committee was to consider burdens and incentives for eligible families and the role of the food packages in reinforcing nutrition education, breastfeeding, and prevention of chronic disease.
During Phase I of the project, the committee developed the criteria shown in Box ES-1 to guide its work. It also used various data sources to identify nutrients and food groups to try to increase or decrease in the food packages (called priority nutrients and priority food groups), with the goal of improving the nutrition of WIC participants. The committee's preliminary report, released in August 2004, included those findings. Subsequently, the committee received numerous public comments about the proposed


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UPDATE - On Wednesday, sources confirmed that Masahiro Tanaka has made his decision -- he'll join the New York Yankees. Here's a preview of what he'll bring to the Bronx:
12/17 - MLB and the NPB agreed on a new posting system Monday, meaning Japanese right-hander Masahiro Tanaka is likely on his way to the US.
It's too early to predict which team Tanaka will ultimately join, but we do have some evidence of the 25-year-old's repertoire on the mound -- specifically from his two-inning, six-strikeout relief appearance in the 2013 World Baseball Classic matchup between Japan and Cuba.
Tanaka had a rough start to his outing, allowing a single and a double to the first two batters faced. He settled in, however, and the third man up wasn't as fortunate.
That hitter, fellow blockbuster international Jose Dariel Abreu, quickly found himself in a 1-2 count. The fourth pitch of the at-bat -- a 94 MPH fastball -- left Abreu totally frozen:
Tanaka followed the strikeout of Abreu by allowing another single, but that would be the last batter to put a ball in play against the right-hander.
Right fielder Yasmany Tomas was the next strikeout victim:
Followed by catcher Eriel Sanchez, to end the inning:
And then in the fifth, Tanaka sat down shortstop Erisbel Arruebarruena:
Center fielder Guillermo Heredia:
and third baseman Yulieski Gourriel:
Of course, baseball is about far more than just balls and strikes, BABIP and ERA. But the scouts all agree -- Tanaka's synchronized line-dancing moves are also MLB-ready:
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