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We all evolve from one thing and into another. It's life's process. If we stagnate and do not change and grow then our whole reason for being here is less than what is desired. Purpose, is to be positive and be healthy while enjoying what our planet has to offer.
Along the way from that initial glowing purpose we meet up with negative forces. Our bodies react in a negative fashion when we begin to absorb all of that negativity. How does the body react? It either gets sick, mentally or physically, or it packs on weight or causes us to loose dramatic weight. We do have the ability to focus on positive energy and grab back the control of our life. In focusing on what we do want which is healthy bodies, and why we want it, we can rest in the knowledge that the positive aspects of that desire will manifest. Yes, it will take work. However, anything worth having will demand that you put forth effort in attaining it.
So daily, and yes, sometime moment by moment, I keep my mind focused on the outcome of my actions, and focus on the real desire in my heart.
Talking for a minute about how our mind tries to protect us and the often resulting event.
Abuse happens here on different levels. Some mentally, physically, and others spiritually. When we experience abuse and pain, often that or those events, becomes our focus. Our bodies are stimulated to protect itself. That is one scenario. The other is the escape route syndrome where we agree with the conflict at hand and decide to let ourselves starve to death. Unfortunate that some feel these extremes in life. It's all about getting control though. Whether it's packing on weight to keep safe, or starving to get out of life. It's still about control.
There is a way which is better.
Today focus on what you makes you feel happy. What makes you smile? Fill your day with any positive energy you can find. I don't care if it's painting swirly's on the floor of your kitchen. Find that happy spot today and be in it! .... easy huh? no... not always.
When you are besieged with a lot of storm, it's hard to locate 1 thing which brings back the peace of your mind. However, in locating the peace in some area, you can build on it. ... Just one brick at a time. Build build build.... happy,, peace,, joy...
When I wake in the morning, I lay there and begin to look for things to be thankful for. ..... mmmm my toes don't hurt! The bed is soft. My blankets are warm.... I have a roof over my head. Everything on me right now is at total peace, and not sore.... and I keep building that list. When I get out of bed, I continue to find positive aspects. ... I have toilet paper. It's cool I have coffee. I'm happy Wal-Mart has the ability to bring me things from all over the globe, so I can exist happily with things I desire. My dog loves me. My cat is so funny.
The sky is lovely this morning. The trees in my yard are such a blessing on hot days. I'm happy they didn't get hurt in the wind storm last night. ....
Now, by the time you make your own list... the negative energy which has built up in your life begins to fade and loose it's strangle hold on the new day.
We really can introduce Positive Energy into our days, by what we think. ... I mean come on.. that other 3/4s of the brain which scientist say is unused, has to be good for something.
Well, this may seem basic, but I tell you this morning, it really is life, and peace... It's also scripture.
-Think on these things... Whatsoever is lovely, peaceful, of good report... keep your mind focused on these.-
That's Minospeak-paraphrased but, you get the drift.
Alright.. I'm done talking now. I feel good that I have left you what felt good inside to share with you today.
Hugs to you Goonies out there who read my blog, and hugs to you folks who read this and aren't Goonies :)
------- Long Silence----
while my Pitiful state of Negativity is dismantled brick by brick---
I know from reading blogs lately, that I'm not the only one who can feel overwhelmed with the responsibility of life or of taking charge of it. Oh it's so easy to just let the emotions of each day or the situations which hit daily, over come us and our resolve to be better, get healed, or just outright loose weight.
We want too so bad, but how bad? For everyone that answer is different.
This past week was really a hurdle for me. In a journey you always are going to hit a mountain of decision or of choice. This was one of many. I was tired of blogging, tired of everything, and tired of having to be accountable for every morsel of food going in my ever opening mouth. I know it was more emotional than actual, but still, the reaction I had wasn't good.
Did I gorge? Nope... Not really. I treated myself to a nice meal out with my choice food (Disgusting cheese fries). However, it was what I wanted more than life itself (at that moment). Ah yes, then I wanted a DONUT!... But, that was my choice too. I didn't eat it because I was tempted to eat one in front of me that just happened to be in arms reach .. no. I actually waited for two whole weeks and was particularly good and saved up a bunch of calories.
Then what? ..... I went ahead and weighed on my scheduled day and it said I gained F I V E pounds!! FIVE!! ... I almost cried.
Now I know I'm not one to binge eat so that didn't worry me, but what did concern me is that after being so "good" was I always to suffer and never get to eat anything I really wanted again??????? Oh I mean without gaining weight... I wasn't very happy.
Well, I could have really went on a downhill spiral. I didn't... but, I thought about it. Decided NO, that wasn't what I wanted, because even if I didn't loose another ounce, I really felt MUCH BETTER and my body wasn't suffering all the symptoms I once had, so Yes, it was worth it just to keep going and stay healthy.. even if chubbily so.
Being as I knew I'd been absolutely the best I could be for WEEKS I should have seen a weight loss. So, there had to be something going on which was countering my effort... I thought and thought...
Of course! The dang Prednisone! Now I knew stuff about Prednisone but really didn't take the side effects to heart. I know I can stomp out most trouble spots in life and this was just one more. ::shrug:: OK, so that was a little bit of miscalculation on my part. Not only does Prednisone have the ability to make you crave, it also is a water hoarder, so all that water I had been so faithfully drinking was sticking in my body... Well dang! Of course I gained 5 lbs. ...
OK with that information on hand, I knew from the cycles my body usually ran that it'd be dropping off that water soon. Thankfully, it did, this week! YEAH!! ... I'm back down to my pre-5 lb wight gain and also .5 less! Yeah again!
Now, at least I walked though the physical situations and know it was temporary. I'll keep doing what I'm doing with a vengeance and keep going till I kick FATS butt.... ( Boy I sound brave) :)
Hugs to you guys
I woke up hearing this song this morning. ... I don't know how many of you have a song list playing in your head, but mine goes 24-7. I have no idea why, but any time of day you can ask me what's playing and I can go into that section and pull out the song playing in the background. ... I thought I was weird, but both my girls have this too. OK so maybe we are all three just weird.
Anyhow, this song was playing this morning repetitiously, and it was pretty insistent that I go look up the Lyrics. I'm happy I did actually, because I never had known "all" the words, but was very familiar with the score.
It really fits where I'm at right now. And in reading blogs this morning it seems to fit where a lot of people are. ... What it really comes down to saying in so many words is, "This too shall pass".. "hang on"... "be persistent" .. "Be your own Hero" "You aren't alone"
"things will look brighter" But, you go ahead and read the lyrics, perhaps you will get a smile on your face and know that you really aren't alone.
Hugs to you all
"The Morning After"
(Song from "The Poseidon Adventure")
(As recorded by Maureen McGovern)
There's got to be a morning after
If we can hold on thru the night
We have a chance to find the sunshine
Let's keep on looking for the light.
Oh can't you see the morning after?
It's waiting right outside the storm
Why don't we cross the bridge together
And find the place that's safe and warm.
It's not too late, we should be giving
Only with love can we climb
It's not too late, not while we're living
Let's put our hands out in time.
There's got to be a morning after
We're moving closer to the shore
I know we'll be there by tomorrow
And we'll escape the darkness
We won't be searching anymore.
There's got to be a morning after
(There's got to be a morning after)
There's got to be a morning after
(There's got to be a morning after)
There's got to be a morning after
(There's got to be a morning after)
There's got to be a morning after
(There's got to be a morning after)
There's got to be a morning after
(There's got to be a morning after)
There's got to be a morning after
(There's got to be a morning after).
(c) Copyright 1972 by 20th Century Music Corp. & Fox Fanfare Music Inc. International copyright secured. All rights reserved.
- SONG HITS, Summer 1974.
So, What's next?
I think there is a place where most of us sit and question, what we are going to do next along our process of life... It's the place of reasoning. We are trying to make life style changes and along the way we see results of that challenge...
Having met the challenges head on and having worked our ways through each one, we suddenly find ourselves outside of the fog and mist of the battle.
Then looking over our shoulder at the scenes left behind us; how long it took, how much work, how much bloodshed is left in the aftermath of the war... Are we ready to forge ahead into the next battle? Or are we ready for the next one? .. Tough call sometimes.
Along the way of where you intend to be, I think you need to have in place some serious mile markers. That's a "goal" or a "dream". Something very clear and concise so when you reach that point in your journey you won't get lost or loose focus on the direction you wish to take. I'm still clarifying mine.
It's a bit scary though. Honestly, I'm not sure what I want body wise. I do believe I can be whatever I wish to be. ... But, the question is what do I really want? You'd think that being 51 a person, one could actually know what they want, wouldn't you?
Ah not so. I used to think "older adults" had their crap together too. They don't; unless I'm a social abnormality who perhaps has some unique quirk other 51 year old folks don't have.
I really did have a goal to loose 30 lbs, and now that is reached. It's not enough though, and I knew ahead of time I'd want to loose more, but I felt compelled to break down this journey into more manageable sections. Yeah, I posted I want to loose 20 more, but I already know in my head, that number is more like 40. At that "40" number my whole body shudders (See that's why I try not to put down numbers)....
Loosing 40 more pounds will place me at 160. I always thought I'd be happy there. ... What happens when I get there and find, "Hey, I want to loose more!"... Moan.. Does this end? Ever?? No....
I know it doesn't end. I've lived this scenario before. What was "learning a whole new way of life", translates into "Receiving a whole new way of life", which translates into maintaining that new lifestyle, forever...
I think that's the real challenge I'm not sure about... It really scares me. I don't want to end up in the same roller coaster ride I was in last time, where stress and life and my own lack of resolve to maintain my own work, failed me. Inside I hope I am a stronger person than I was back then. I pray so.. I really do.
As long as I stay on program and do the healthy choices I know I should make, I see no problem loosing any amount of weight. I have confidence in that part fine. And as long as my body cooperates and does it's part, all should proceed normally.
For me though... looking at the next year doing this same thing over and over is a bit daunting... I think it's time for me to revamp my food list and add in some more surprises. Perhaps I'm getting bored.
So, now you know that with every "mile marker" in your journey comes the reevaluation of your current situation. You take on new supplies, new ammo, and new men. You send in troops to make sure the path is clear and then make a plan to keep forging ahead....
Well, that's where I am at right now. Tomorrow I think I'll likely feel more on my game, and I'll shout to the men and ship ahead of me..
"Damn the Torpedoes Full Steam AHEAD"!!!
Quoted: "A career naval officer, Farragut earned acclaim in the North with his capture of New Orleans in 1862. As Rear Admiral Farragut, he won his greatest victory in 1864 at the Battle of Mobile Bay. Lashed to the rigging of the USS Hartford, he reportedly ordered his flagship to proceed through heavily mined waters with the famous command: "Damn the torpedoes! Full steam ahead!" "
And, I am going to keep this visual of him "Lashed to the Rigging", never leaving his vision... Never leaving the battle.
Hugs to you Goonies (And anyone else in similar battles)... :)
Hey.. I just remembered, that I can actually SLEEP again. I've been going over the last few years, and I remembered how I use to have such a hard time sleeping. I'd wake up so much in the night- so much so- that often I'd just get up and watch TV till I fell back asleep. I hated that. It felt like I was always trying to catch up with sleep. I was also grumpy most of the time.
So... for the last two weeks, I'm not waking up every hour or two. I'm not tossing and turning, and I don't hurt as bad as I was (The Dr. says, I have RA). The pain at night was almost unbearable. Id' have to pop pain pills just to sleep. I'd even take one about 3 AM so I could relax enough to go back to sleep. .. Well, I'm down to 1 pain pill a day from 3. That's great news, trust me. I hate pills and don't take them very well. They just gag me.
That's one amazing change since loosing weight. I'd forgotten how wonderful a good nights sleep is.
Another thing which effected my sleep was the weight on my chest. If I lay on my back, the weight on my chest would roll forward and cause me so much discomfort on my neck, I felt like I was struggling to breathe. I think that's when I finally woke up and decided I was heading down a hill fast, and if I didn't find some brakes on the situation, I was going to end up on the Nightly news...
"Woman Suffocates in Bed" - I remember crying that day.
I found Sparkpeople when I was looking for a free online "carbohydrate counter".
My first attempt at SP was a failure, I got frustrated and quit... I even forgot I had an account with them. Then, March hit, my daughter was in a tizzy because she said, "Mom, I'm fat, ugly and hate myself"... Oh god.. Sigh. Nothing motivates you like seeing your child suffering. I picked SP back up and we both dove in face first:)
She's lost a lot of weight now. She's looking so much happier with herself. Having control back is something you can not buy in a store.
I can only guess she's lost about 40 lbs herself. When she started she refused to weigh. The numbers would have just did her in... But, she's been dedicated to this and wants a "new life". She weighed yesterday and was 176! We both know she was over 200. Mostly because she was wearing a size 22 pants. Now she's in 16! .. What a difference a few months of commitment makes huh?
My other daughter is down a good bit too. She just started SP last week. She wanted to take off 25 lbs. She's down 8 lbs. A goal is a goal no matter how far away or what size. It's a personal effort and requires changes that take time. She's well on her way to seeing "less of herself" soon.
OK, well I'm babbling a bit here, but I'm very excited. Not only for my own success, but for my family. We have an extra "topic" to discuss lately.. LOL "EATING RIGHT"... New products we find which helps, and what changes are taking place with our bodies.
So, I want to encourage you to keep going.. keep going.. keep going. You can do this. Really..
Goonie Hugs to you all


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[Bumped for informational purposes. At least one of us is keeping our heads about this whole thing. Probably helps that he's actually, you know, watched Hoke's teams play. Thanks to BSU Alum07 for a great Fan Post. - MnB Dave]
As a Ball State alum and Michigan fan who attended Ball State for four of Brady Hoke's seasons in Muncie, I thought that I would offer some observations about Ball State's offensive and defensive schemes during his time at Ball State.
The Offense
Coach Hoke's first offensive coordinator Ed Stults was a disaster. He ran a conservative Lloyd Carr style offense with a lot of I-formations and two tight end sets which would've worked well if Ball State had a running back who could carry the ball productively or two good tight ends. Add in the fact that Ball State had no capable option at quarterback and wide receivers who could reliably and consistently catch passes and you have a massive fail of an offense.The only bright spots of the Cardinals' offense was wide receiver Dante Ridgeway, running back Adell Givens (who flunked out after his only season at Ball State, and tight end Michael Steinhaus. After two seasons of this debacle, Stults got demoted to tight ends coach and was made assistant head coach to sugarcoat the demotion.
To replace Coach Stults, Stan Parrish was hired in 2006 as the new offensive coordinator. Coach Parrish junked the previous offensive scheme almost completely. He still employed two tight ends due to Steinhaus and Darius Hill being two of the biggest weapons on the offense, but also used a lot more three and four wide out formations and the fullback ceased to exist in the offense. Ball State ran a balanced, one back attack with Joey Lynch and the Nate Davis excelling at quarterback, MiQuale Lewis at running back, and Dante Love at wide receiver/running back/quarterback. The offense was the engine that drove Ball State, which thank God for that, because as you'll see after the jump, the defense didn't exactly put the fear of the God in the Cardinals' opponents.
The Defense
Ball State technically had the same defensive coordinator, Mark Smith, for all six seasons of Coach Hoke's tenure. I say technically, because by the end of Coach Hoke's tenure in Muncie he was also the de facto defensive coordinator in addition to being the head coach. For the first four years of Coach Hoke's tenure, Ball State ran a defense that the media mostly called a 3-4 defense, but I think would be more accurately described as a 4-3 under defense. The last two seasons, when Coach Hoke was basically running the defense, Ball State mostly used the 4-3 defense, although the 4-3 under defense was also still used.
Ball State was mediocre on defense for all six seasons, although the last two seasons were a marked improvement, with the punter usually being the best player (if you count punters as part of the defense). I wouldn't necessarily read too much into this, the MAC isn't known for its strong defenses, most of the time a defensive stand means holding the opponent to a field goal. That doesn't mean that Ball State was a complete disaster on defense, they had some very good players, just not a whole defense of good players. Ball State still had a standout defensive end in Brandon Crawford, an All-MAC linebacker in Bryant Haines, All-MAC safety in Erik Keys, a NFL draftee in safety Justin Beriault, and a possible future NFL safety in Sean Baker. The linebackers and safeties were consistently the strongest units of the defense, so the reign of the Michigan Safety Hating God maybe finally coming to an end, with the defensive line and cornerbacks taking turns being the weakest link.
[God I hope you're right about the safeties and linebackers - MnB Dave]

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Small Business Award calls for nominations
May 28, 2013
Small businesses have to work hard to keep ahead of the big box stores, and King County wants to recognize that.
Small businesses create two-thirds of the new jobs in the county, according to a press release from King County. For the third year in a row, King County Executive Dow Constantine is celebrating small businesses by asking for nominations for the Small Business Awards.
Businesses are eligible for nomination if they operate within King County, have 50 or fewer employees, and have been in business for at least three years. Cities, chambers of commerce, certain business organizations, and small business owners may nominate local firms that meet the criteria. Go to www.kingcounty.gov/smallbusinessawards to fill out the nomination form for your favorite small business. Nominations close July 15.
An average of 125 firms are nominated each year. Three finalist firms are selected in each of seven categories, and winners are announced at a ceremony attended by nearly 250 people from local chambers of commerce, cities and small business organizations.
King County executive to join local discussion of coal trains
May 7, 2013
King County Executive Dow Constantine will join a discussion of controversial coal trains, coal ports and their impact on the Pacific Northwest at the May 15 meeting of Democrats in the 5th Legislative District in Issaquah. The public is invited.
Constantine, who opposes the plan to ship coal from Montana and Wyoming through the Northwest to proposed ports at Cherry Point near Bellingham and Longview, will be joined by representatives of two leading opponents of the plan — Washington Conservation Voters and Power Past Coal, according to a press release from the 5th District Democrats.
The coal train meeting is the focus of the May 15 monthly meeting of the 5th District Democrats at Issaquah City Hall's Eagle Room, 130 E. Sunset Way. Networking starts at 6:30 p.m.; the meeting starts at 7 p.m.


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On Feb. 28, 2013, approximately 286 businesses and municipal employers filed an amicus brief in support of a challenge to the federal Defense of Marriage Act (DOMA), now before the U.S. Supreme Court.
The former leader of the Walt Disney Co. will kick off the International Builders' Show (IBS). Also on stage: the Capitol Steps.
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Build the location lighting setup that suits your style
Increasingly, we're finding pros opting to shoot with TTL-dedicated shoe-mounts rather than deal with large, bulky studio gear on location. For some work, the more robust monolight and battery-powered power-pack systems are more appropriate. All of these choices help us bypass concerns over electricity on location and get right to work.
Whichever lighting system you choose, you'll also need to accessorize it with light shapers (umbrellas, softboxes, grids, etc.) and grip gear (basic light stands, for starters). Keep in mind how you'll be transporting the equipment. It often pays to keep it light.
The Totally Mobile Solution
Outdoor shoots, especially near water, pose various hazards to lighting gear. We can get around the problem simply by doing away with the added strobes and just using existing light. However, we still can exercise some control over the lighting with the aid of collapsible panels to screen sunlight, and other panels to bounce light where needed. Some of these devices can prove unwieldy, necessitating the help of an assistant. Such light-control devices are available from California Sunbounce, Lastolite and Photek, among others.
|Selected Resources: Radio Remote Systems
|Triggering lights remotely can be done simply by using the provided sync cord or wirelessly, via photocell, infrared or radio remote. Many of today's shoe-mounts and mobile/studio lights already come with one or more of these options. However, you may still need an optional transmitter connected to the camera. (Select cameras provide a "commander" mode, enabling the built-in flash to wirelessly trigger the off-camera TTL-compatible strobes.)
Since radio remote systems continue to gain momentum, I've singled them out, offering sev-eral popular choices that are said to work with a wide range of equipment. Unlike photo slaves and infrared systems, radio remotes don't require a direct line of sight, but they may suffer interruptions when surrounded by metal shielding and strong electromagnetic currents. Many studio flash manufacturers also offer their own branded products.
CyberSync (www.paulcbuff.com)
EL Skyport (www.elinchrom.us)
FreeXwire (www.quantuminstruments.com)
MicroSync Digital (www.microsyncdigital.com)
PocketWizard (www.pocketwizard.com)
RadioPopper (www.radiopopper.com)
Strobies iSync4 (www.interfitphotographic.com)
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[I'm copying www-tag, so that the issues are widely aired] Hello Richard, > -----Original Message----- > From: Richard Tobin [mailto:email@example.com] > Sent: 11 November 2002 15:48 > To: Misha Wolf > Cc: email@example.com; firstname.lastname@example.com > Subject: Re: Namespaces 1.1 Last Call -- I18N WG comments > > > I was just looking at your proposed IRI identity examples, and I see > that they all have an ampersand in the middle (both red&rose and > CV&resume). These would have to be & or similar in the actual > attributes, which seems to complicate the examples unnecessarily and > obscure the main differences. Did you really mean to use ampersands? We discussed your mail at our telcon yesterday and our response is ... Firstly, please do *not* rely on the mail archive for our examples, as the archive doesn't correctly display the text of our message. The archive link is: http://lists.w3.org/Archives/Public/xml-names-editor/2002Oct/0002 The text of our messages as originally sent is: | Dear xml-names-editor, | | On 28/09/2002 13:53:10 Misha Wolf wrote: | > On 27/09/2002 21:04:18 Misha Wolf wrote: | > > Dear xml-names-editor, | > > | > > This mail contains some of the comments of the I18N WG on: | > > Namespaces in XML 1.1 | > > W3C Working Draft 5 September 2002 | > | > [The suggested examples below have been extended to include a decimal| > numeric character reference, and have been slightly re-arranged.] | > | > Suggested examples: | [...] | | It turns out [blush] that we had spelt "resumé" incorrectly. It | actually has two accents and so isn't ideal as an example. So we | propose "red&rosé" rather than "CV&resumé". | | Suggested examples: | | Consider: | xmlns="http://www.example.org/namespaces/red&rosé" | xmlns="http://www.example.org/namespaces/red&rosé" | xmlns="http://www.example.org/namespaces/red&rosé" | xmlns="http://www.example.org/namespaces/red&rosé" | xmlns="http://www.example.org/namespaces/red&rosé" | xmlns="http://www.example.org/namespaces/red&ros%c3%a9" | xmlns="http://www.example.org/namespaces/red&ros%C3%a9" | xmlns="http://www.example.org/namespaces/red&ros%c3%A9" | xmlns="http://www.example.org/namespaces/red&ros%C3%A9" | xmlns="http://www.example.org/namespaces/red&rosÉ" | where "é" has been defined to be "é". | | The first 5 are identical for the purpose of namespace reference | matching and have the normalized attribute value [1]: | http://www.example.org/namespaces/red&rosé | | The remaining 5 differ from the first 5, as well as from each other,| and have the following normalized attribute values, respectively: | http://www.example.org/namespaces/red&ros%c3%a9 | http://www.example.org/namespaces/red&ros%C3%a9 | http://www.example.org/namespaces/red&ros%c3%A9 | http://www.example.org/namespaces/red&ros%C3%A9 | http://www.example.org/namespaces/red&rosÉ | | [1] http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-xml#AVNormalize | | | Misha Wolf | I18N WG Chair We stand by the issues highlighted by our examples. If the XML Core WG wants to highlight (all of) these issues using a larger number of simpler examples, that's OK with us. The motivation for the high level of detail is that the original Namespaces spec doesn't define its terms (eg "character" or "exactly the same character-for-character") and doesn't provide examples to illustrate the many gotchas. We mustn't make the same mistake this time around. The issues we have sought to highlight are: 1. The value of a namespace name is obtained by applying the steps described in: 3.3.3 Attribute-Value Normalization http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-xml#AVNormalize 2. Identity between namespace names is determined by doing a binary match on the results of those steps. 3. Consequently, the following *are identical* (where "é" is a reference to an entity containing "é"): é é é é é and the following *differ* from the above and from one another: %c3%a9 %C3%a9 %c3%A9 %C3%A9 É 4. Furthermore, given: xmlns="http://www.example.org/namespaces/red&rosé" the corresponding namespace name is: http://www.example.org/namespaces/red&rosé Regards, Misha for the I18N WG > > -- Richard > ------------------------------------------------------------- --- Visit our Internet site at http://www.reuters.com Get closer to the financial markets with Reuters Messaging - for more information and to register, visit http://www.reuters.com/messaging Any views expressed in this message are those of the individual sender, except where the sender specifically states them to be the views of Reuters Ltd.Received on Wednesday, 13 November 2002 11:19:46 GMT
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As lawmakers rush to reinstate his Initiative 747, ballot measure promoter Tim Eyman isn't exactly lavishing them with praise.
In hearings today, he called lawmakers "amateurs", told Democrats "You've kind of sold out every principle you believe in," and exhorted them to broaden the bill with these words:
"Don't partially pander. If you're going to pander, make sure that you totally pander."
Not surprisingly, they declined his suggestion.
But wait, there's more. It turns out an Eyman fan named Paul Fraser has created a feature-length documentary about Eyman. Title: The Battles of Tim Eyman.
Is Tim Eyman a sly huckster out to hoodwink the public or is he a citizen activist fighting for the public good? The answers may surprise you!
Actually, Fraser's answer won't surprise you in the least if you view the trailer by clicking on the www.battlesoftim.com website.
Fraser reportedly trailed Eyman for well over a year, gathering video. Here's more on Fraser:
…he has written, directed and produced independent films. In addition, Paul has produced countless television commercials.
Inadequate and incomplete media coverage of Arnold Schwarzenegger and Dino Rossi inspired Paul to produce, "The Battles Of Tim Eyman".
A former credit manager, Paul is now the executive producer of the film and video department for Delux Entertainment.
Colfax businessman and farmer Joe Schmick, 49, will replace Rep. David Buri, R-Colfax in the state House of Representatives.
County commissioners from Spokane, Whitman, Adams, Asotin, Franklin and Garfield counties voted Monday for Schmick out of a pool of candidates recommended by district Republican precinct committee officers. Buri stepped down recently to take a job with Eastern Washington University.
Schmick got 11 votes to Palouse Mayor Michael Echanove's 6 and Cheney's Tedd Nealey's 1, according to Mary Beth Becker, clerk for the Whitman County commissioners.
Schmick owns a 900-acre wheat, barley and bean farm, as well as a vending-machine business in Spokane and Whitman counties. He ran unsuccessfully for the House in 2006. He ran on a four-plank platform: jobs, health care, education and property rights.
An Eastern Washington University alumnus (accounting), he's served on the state barley commission and farm bureau and is former president of the Whitman County Farm Bureau.
"In 1707, the British navy lost four warships and 2,000 lives in the Isles of Scilly. The first ship to hit the rocks was Admiral Shovell's. Three more ships full of sailors and soldiers followed the leader to their deaths."
So begins what has to be the most literary of the many recent criticisms of the state ferry system. Read the Evergreen Freedom Foundation's Lynn Harsh's full post here.
A new poll between the two presidential frontrunners suggests that Washington is a tossup in next year's election.
The University of Washington's Washington Poll reports that an Oct. 22-28 poll of 601 registered voters (margin of error: =/- 4 points) found that 46 percent of the respondents favored Hillary Clinton. The same percentage favored Rudy Giuliani. (In Eastern Washington: Giuliani 58 to Clinton's 37.)
But when the faceoff is Barack Obama versus Giuliani, the poll found, Obama does well: 50 percent to Giuliani's 42 percent, with substantially more of the Giuliani voters not feeling strong about it. (Eastern Washington: Giuliani 49 percent to Obama's 41.)
Among Democrats in the primary, Clinton leads 44 percent to Barack Obama's 29 and John Edwards' 16.
Among Republicans, the primary race is tighter: Rudy Giuliani has 34 percent to John McCain's 19, Fred Thompson's 16 and Mitt Romney's 15.
A Powerpoint with more of the poll results is available here.
Catching up…
Among the questions I'm frequently asked by visiting Eastern Washingtonians during the legislative session: "Where can we get something to eat?" (It's comes in third, after "Is parking always this hard to find?" and the inevitable "Do you have a bathroom?")
Until now, the nearby prospects have been bleak. The Prichard library building housed a cafeteria-type operation for the past few years, but that closed this summer, after the operator concluded that she couldn't turn a profit in the off-session.
Now, good news: students and instructors from South Puget Sound Community College are taking over the operation.
According to the state's landlord agency, the Department of General Administration, the college's baking and pastry program students will serve food with a "focus on the use of fresh products from local vendors."
That sounds promising, particularly given the cafeteria's culinary track record.
The students and staff hold an open house from 10 a.m. to 1:30 p.m. Friday, but will open for operations in the first week of January. The session starts the second week.
Embattled Rep. Jim Dunn, stripped of his committee assignments and state travel money and publicly rebuked by his own caucus leader after an alleged "inappropriate" remark to a woman after a recent Tri-cities meeting, is vowing to run for re-election next year.
Here's what Dunn had to say to Columbian columnist Gregg Herrington:
"She just happened to be sitting in the wrong place," Dunn said. "I was upset about something else and unfortunately that affected my remark to her. … The incident wasn't all that great, and I apologized within a few minutes. She seemed to be OK with it. She didn't move away."
A lot of this is political crap. … I haven't done anything to be ashamed of. I have done nothing the constituents of my district should be ashamed of either."
(Hat tip: Chris Mulick.)
Flanked by sheriffs from several counties, Gov. Chris Gregoire this morning announced a sweep — eventually statewide — to corral sex offenders who refuse to register or violate other terms of their release.
Three sex offenders were arrested in the hours following the 6 a.m. Monday launch of what Gregoire termed "Operation Crackdown."
Gregoire's set aside up to $100,000 to pay for police overtime for the four counties — Chelan, Douglas, King and Yakima — now taking part. Gregoire said she intends to make the push statewide.
Most of those being sought in Chelan and King counties are Level 1 offenders, judged less likely to reoffend than 2s or 3s. But they still have to register, even if homeless.
"We're trying to make the point to them that we're not going to play games," said King County Sheriff Sue Rahr. "…We want the Level 1s to know that we are watching them."
S-R reporter Tom Clouse reports today that Washington State University was offered the chance to host the 2008 vice presidential debate in Spokane.
…And said no.
WSU had been hitting up corporate donors to cover the $1.35 million cost of a presidential debate, in anticipation of "the opportunity it would have provided to showcase WSU and our region on a national and international stage," as Michael Tate, the school's Vice President of the Division of Student Affairs, Equity and Diversity said Monday.
But the No. 2? Not so much, apparently.
This on Tuesday from the delighted-sounding understudy, St. Louis:
"Anytime St. Louis is put before national and international viewership, it's great," (convention commission spokeswoman Donna) Andrews said. "Where we get the benefit is from the … media coming in to cover the debate. We hope they make a long weekend around it."
Andrews said she was surprised Spokane officials turned the event down.
"We don't know the factors that went into that," Andrews said. "Spokane turned it down, great. St. Louis will take that business."
Said Harry Sladich, director of the Spokane Area Convention and Visitors Bureau:
"I'll bet the cities who hosted the vice presidential debates didn't have near the impact," he said. "We would rather save ourselves for another day when we can get a presidential debate."
Saying that the state has no assurance that all local governments will comply with her request to keep their 2008 property-tax increases below the now-unconstitutional 1 percent limit, Gov. Chris Gregoire has called a one day special session "to deal solely with property taxes."
"I believe we can easily enact the necessary legislation during a one-day session," she wrote tonight to Senate Majority Leader Lisa Brown, House Speaker Frank Chopp, House Minority Leader Richard DeBolt and Senate Minority Leader Mike Hewitt.
Interestingly, Gregoire is sending them TWO proposed bills: One would reinstate the 1 percent property tax limit (Initiative 747) that the Supreme Court threw out Nov. 8.
The other "will provide a property tax deferral for all families under our state's median income level." (Median household income in Washington for 2006, according to the state budget office: $56,807.) If both pass, it's unclear from the letter what effect the latter might have on state and local coffers.
In a brief interview earlier tonight, Brown, D-Spokane, said that she hoped the session's talks would be broader than simply reinstating the 1 percent cap.
"There are concerns about whether or not we're really providing relief to the people who need it most," she said. Although there are exemptions and deferrals for senior citizens, she said, those don't touch younger families struggling to afford a home.
As Rep. Jim McIntire, D-Seattle, noted at the start of yesterday's revenue forecast, the economy looked like the Olympia weather outside: a little rainy.
Chang Mook Sohn, the state's chief revenue forecaster, says that tax and other revenues are now likely to be $130 million lower than expected — a big number, yes, but only 4/10 of 1 percent of general-fund revenues — in the 2007-2009 two-year budget period.
Why? Largely due to less real estate excise tax rolling in. That's what was primarily driving a long string of better-than-expected revenue forecasts over the past three years.
State revenue growth — a roaring 18.7 percent increase in 2005-07 over the prior biennium — is now expected to taper off to about 7.6 percent for 2007-2009.
Also, employment growth is slowing, particularly in the construction industry and, to a lesser degree, in aerospace.
Nonetheless, Sohn said, employment is "still very strong" here, growing 3 percent a year while nationwide it's growing at just 1.2 percent. Aerospace, construction, software and professional and business services still remain relatively strong.
All told, the state has gained nearly 240,000 new jobs in the last three years, almost 47,000 of which were in construction.
Sohn said he's not expecting a recession in 2007-2009, although he said that $100-a-barrel oil over the long term would both crimp growth and spur inflation. Still, Sohn said he's expecting oil prices to stabilize at $70-$80.
At Politico.com, writer Ryan Grim has a roundup of the types of leaks that political reporters tend to get, and why.
A couple of examples:
The Pre-emptive Leak: A corollary of the above, this is a strategy to disseminate damaging news extremely early in a campaign so that it's an old story by the time it matters.
Lehane cites an example from last decade. "In 1998, congressional Republicans had a report on Gore and campaign fundraising that was designed to be devastating," he writes in an e-mail.
The report "'found' its way to The Wash[ington] Times on a Saturday morning, which (a) tainted the report as it was covered initially in a right-wing publication, (b) diminished news value by having [the] Times preview it, (c) came out on a Saturday a.m. (good day to kill a story) and (d) allowed Gore operation to point to the leak as proof of the partisan nature of the inquiry and undermine its credibility."
The Accidental Leak: "It's generally a good rule of thumb to be friendly with the press. [But] not everyone in the press is your friend," says Jones. "It's a transactional relationship."
Forgetting that can result in loose lips and is a surprisingly common reason for a leak.
Hat tip: Gene Rose at NCSL.
In Seattle in about an hour and a half, People for Our Public Schools will make "an announcement" that will presumably be a declaration of victory in the tight race to make it easier for school districts to pass property tax levies.
Early reaction from lawmakers:
"The number one priority of people in Washington state is educating our kids, and that's shown with the apparent passage of the simple majority for local schools…it's obviously a close vote, but I'm happy the voters have spoken."
-Sen. Rosemary McAuliffe, D-Bothell, who chairs the Senate education committee
"…I'm thrilled that voters have spoken and our schools will now be on equal election footing as fire districts, sports arenas and jails."
-Sen Tracey Eide, D-Federal Way, who sponsored the bill in Olympia — as she has since 1993.
S-R staff writer Erica Curless has a wonderful story this morning about wonderfully-named Idaho Gov. Butch Otter and his "Capitol for a Day" visits around the state.
These are a variation on Washington Gov. Chris Gregoire's town-hall meetings, but apparently with less advance publicity.
Shoshone County wasn't too captivated by Gov. Butch Otter's visit Tuesday, with only a mother and her home-schooled son showing up for the "Capitol for a Day" session.
But if you're picturing a big, echoing room with three people in it, think again.
About 40 people crammed into the room, but they didn't exactly count as "average citizens." All were elected or held some type of government job.
"I've never seen so many suits in Wallace in my life," Mayor Ron Garitone said while welcoming Otter and several directors of state agencies, including Environmental Quality and Housing and Finance. "Someone drove by a little while ago and asked who died."
Otter has held 11 of these events, at which he offers his time to any resident with a question, problem or compliment.
In Wallace, however,
His offer was met with silence and nervous glances around the room, which was decorated with paper Thanksgiving turkeys and fake leaves.
As Curless reports, even the home-schooled fourth grader was lukewarm on the event, yawning, staring off into the distance and venturing that "it probably won't be interesting to me for another 16 years." A visit to the capitol in Boise — in which he posed for a picture in the governor's stuffed leather chair — was more exciting than actually meeting the man himself. (Aside to Olympia: Why don't kids here get to sit in the governor's chair?)
To salvage the day, Mayor Garitone
suggested the governor walk down the street and check out the "probabilistic" center of the universe – a sewer access cover that declares Wallace the official center of the universe. No one can prove it is or isn't the center, Garitone explained in a 2004 dedication ceremony of the curious city landmark.
But as Randy Stapilus notes, low turnout (and reportorial snickering) shouldn't detract from what remains a good idea.
The fact that you didn't have an automatic flash mob at Wallace doesn't mean you're doing something wrong. The fact that the results weren't entirely under control may mean you were doing something right.
Correction: Otter's event was actually titled Capital for a Day, which presumably saved everyone the cost of schlepping the dome up Highway 95 and the Lewiston Grade.
Update: A sharp-eyed reader in Olympia notes that former Gov. Gary Locke did exactly the same thing in Yakima, Spokane, Vancouver and Everett.
In a stunning turnaround from election night a week ago, late-arriving ballots, particularly from King County, now have HJR 4204 winning, at least for now. The numbers:
Numbers still coming in…Stay tuned…
Boy, this is starting to feel like 2004.
New vote tallies are starting to roll in on HJR 4204, the constitutional amendment to allow passage of school tax levies by a simple majority, rather than the decades-old requirement of a 60 percent "supermajority."
The amendment is still failing so far, but the margin — more than 1,000 votes this morning — is now down to 649 votes.
Sure, it'll have Hillary Clinton and Rudy Giuliani. But Washington's 2008 presidential primary ballot will also include folks like Democrat Mike Gravel (bring U.S. troops all home in 120 days, free health-care vouchers for all, end the federal income tax in favor of a national sales tax, allow same-sex marriage, end the criminalization of drugs) and Republican Alan Keyes (similar plan with the income tax and a national sales taxes, get the U.S. out of the United Nations, pro-death-penalty, anti-gay-rights).
So says Washington Secretary of State Sam Reed, today releasing a preliminary list of candidates on the '08 presidential ballot. Under state law, Reed must pick potential nominees who are "generally advocated, or recognized by national media." Minor party candidates are nominated by their parties' conventions.
"There were a couple of people right on the cusp," said Reed, citing both Gravel (pronounced "gra-VELL") and Keyes. "I decided to err on the point of being inclusive rather than exclusive."
And Reed had a sad note for the Al Gore fans out there: "Very importantly, the candidate has to consent," he said. Reed's office keeps getting requests from folks who want to draft Gore, but to avail. "So far, he hasn't consented yet." (And it doesn't look likely: yesterday it was announced that Gore had joined a California venture-capital firm.)
Washington will vote in the primary on Feb. 19, a couple of weeks after most of the country. That was a calculated risk by Reed and Democratic and Republican leaders, who decided that the state had more clout to gain as a potential tie-breaker than jostling for candidates' attention in the first found alongside giants like California and New York.
For those of you — like, perhaps, Prophet Atlantis — who want to get on the presidential primary ballot yourself, there's still time. You can petition for a spot by getting signatures from 1,000 registered voters "who affiliate with" the GOP or Democratic Party. Deadline: Dec. 21, 2007.
Here's the 2008 ballot list so far:
-Joe Biden
-Hillary Clinton
-Chris Dodd
-John Edwards
-Mike Gravel
-Dennis Kucinich
-Barack Obama
-Bill Richardson
-Rudy Giuliani
-Mike Huckabee
-Duncan Hunter
-Alan Keyes
-John McCain
-Ron Paul
-Mitt Romney
-Tom Tancredo
-Fred Thompson.
Palousitics covered the GOP precinct committee officers' picking of three nominees to replace former Rep. David Buri, R-Colfax.
The day, according to writer (and PCO, apparently) Tom Forbes, started with six nominees: Jeff Phelps, Tedd Nealey, Joe Schmick, Michael Echanove, Allan Gainer and Darin Watkins.
Here's some comment from each.
When the dust settled, the top three were:
Palouse Mayor Michael Echanove, Colfax farmer Joe Schmick and LaCrosse farmer and teacher Tedd Nealy.
-Joe Schmick, a farmer from Colfax.
-Tedd Nealey, a farmer and teacher from LaCrosse.
-and Michael Echanove, mayor of the city of Palouse.
All three have run unsuccessfully for legislative seats before: Echanove in 2004 and Schmick and Nealey last year.
The final selection will be made by the county commissioners in the legislative district, meaning Whitman, Spokane, Adams, Asotin, Franklin and Garfield counties.
GOP gubernatorial candidate Dino Rossi wants Gov. Chris Gregoire to call a one-day special legislative session by the end of November to reinstate the 1 percent property tax cap that the state Supreme Court yesterday threw out.
"This cannot wait until January," Rossi said, raising the specter of big tax hikes now. "…Simply asking local governments to not raise taxes is not enough."
Gregoire said yesterday that she'll push lawmakers — in January — "to thoughtfully reinstate a property tax cap." She's previously said that the right level would be somewhere between 1 percent and 6 percent, but not set a number that she'd like to see.
Gov. Chris Gregoire enjoys slightly more support than Republican challenger Dino Rossi, according to a new poll from the University of Washington.
The poll (Phone interviews of 600 registered voters, margin of error +/- 4 percent) shows the following support for the following candidates:
Gregoire: 47 percent
Rossi: 42 percent
Libertarian Ruth Bennett (who I don't think is running yet, if at all in 2008): 2 percent
"Other": 1 percent
Undecided: 7 percent
The Washington Poll, a nonpartisan survey sponsored by UW's Institute for the Study of Ethnicity, Race and Sexuality, correctly called five of the six measures on the ballot this month, erring only in suggesting that voters would agree to make it easier for school districts to pass school levies.
The year before, the poll correctly predicted 5 races out of 5.
The geographical breakdown in the most recent poll is:
Puget Sound: 50 percent Gregoire, 38 percent Rossi, 2 percent Bennett.
Eastern Washington: 36 percent Gregroire, 52 percent Rossi, 5 percent Bennett.
Recently registered voters seem to like Rossi (45 percent to Gregoire's 38) and Bennett, whereas stalwart voters (voting in three out of the past three general elections) like Gregoire: 49 percent to Rossi's 42.
Party defectors are about equal: 5 percent of Democrats said they supported Rossi; 6 percent of Republicans backed Gregoire. Independents were also about equally split between the two: 43 percent Gregoire to 41 percent Rossi.
Interestingly, the results suggest that Gregoire does better among older voters (45 years old +) than Rossi does.
In a split decision, Washington's highest court minutes ago ruled that a property tax cap approved by voters in 2001 is unconstitutional.
"The text of the initiative misled voters about the substantive impact of the initiative on existing law," Justice Bobbe Bridge wrote for the court's 5-4 majority.
Initiative 747, approved by 58 percent of voters, generally capped total property tax increases at 1 percent a year, unless voters approved more. Today's state Supreme Court decision means that limit reverts to its 1997 level: 6 percent more per year.
In a dissent, Justice Charles Johnson wrote that voters clearly understood what they were doing: reducing the tax increases to 1 percent.
"The majority seems to suggest that the voters are unable to think or read for themselves, when in fact our democratic process is based on the assumption that voters do in fact read and understand the impact of their votes," he wrote.
The initiative was challenged by three non-profit groups and one county: Whitman County.
The county commissioners there have said that they were worried that limiting the tax increases to 1 percent — below the average rate of inflation — would slowly eat away at the budgets of fire departments and other small taxing districts in the region.
The central issue in the court case was whether voters thought they were reducing the cap from.
In November of 2000, voters approved anti-tax activist Tim Eyman's Initiative 722, which lowered the cap from 6 percent to 2 percent unless voters okayed more. The lower cap was promptly challenged in court.
While that court fight was going on, Eyman in 2001 launched a yet-stricter measure — Initiative 747 — to bring the cap down to 1 percent.
In February 2001, the 2-percent cap was declared unconstitutional, a decision that the state Supreme Court upheld that September. The property tax cap reverted back to 6 percent more per year.
Meanwhile, however, Eyman was pushing ahead with I-747, gathering and filing signatures and getting the measure on the ballot in November 2001. It passed.
The problem: the new ballot measure language cited the old 2 percent cap.
As a result, King County Superior Court udge Mary E. Roberts ruled a year ago, voters were led to believe they were voting for just a modest reduction in the cap — from 2 percent to 1 percent. In reality, the cut was much more dramatic: from 6 percent to 1 percent.
"The voters were misled as to the nature and content of the law to be amended," Roberts wrote in a June 2006 ruling. "…The constitution forbids this." So she declared I-747 to be unconstitutional.
The state Supreme Court today agreed, with Bridge saying "Simply put, a voter reading the textt of the initiative would have perceived a much smaller impact on government coffers than would actually occur under I-747, a fact the dissent ignores. The text of the initiative misled voters about the substantive impact of the initiative on existing law."
Wrote Johnson: "Here, voters were informed there was a previous higher tax, and this amendment reduced that maximum tax to one percent.
Whether the former tax cap was six percent or two percent, the voters understood the effect of this law was to reduce the tax, and this is what they voted to approve."
UPDATE: "Now every homeowner in Washington is threatened with a massive property tax hike," said Senate Minority Leader Mike Hewitt, R-Walla Walla. Such jumps could be particularly big, he suggested, if state tax officials interpret today's ruling to mean that cities, counties and other local taxing districts could have increased taxes 6 percent a year all along.
Hewitt, R-Walla Walla, said Republicans will again try to pass a bill to reinstate the 1 percent limit. But doing so would require significant support from Democrats, who have a strong majority in both the House and Senate. Gov. Chris Gregoire, a Democrat, said earlier this year that she thinks she and lawmakers can find a middle ground somewhere between 1 percent and 6 percent.
UPDATE 2: Eyman — working the phones hard with reporters this morning — sounds indignant, although the ruling seems likely to spin up the anti-tax folks that tend to write him checks.
There are 1,700 local taxing districts, he said, and "every single one of them now has a checkbook that's been granted to them by five justices of the Supreme Court."
What happens next, Eyman said, will be a crucial test for the governor and legislative leaders, including Senate Majority Leader Lisa Brown, D-Spokane, and House Speaker Frank Chopp, D-Seattle.
"The liberal justices did Frank Chopp, Lisa Brown and Christine Gregoire no favors by dropping this powder keg in their laps right now" on the eve of a major election year, Eyman said.
If the Legislature and governor reinstate a cap that's higher than 1 percent, Eyman said, "all the people that are just dying to have their property taxes lower are going to storm the castle in Olympia."
Update 3: GOP gubernatorial candidate Dino Rossi says he's not surprised that Gov. Gregoire doesn't support a return to the 1 percent cap: "…She is after all the governor for the government who is more concerned about making people pay higher taxes than honoring the will of the voters."
The state Supreme Court says it's likely to issue its opinion tomorrow morning in Washington Citizen Action v. State of WA, which challenges the constitutionality of Washington's I-747 property-tax limit. (Among the plaintiffs: Whitman County.)
It's a complex case, but here's a primer:
Prior to 2000, local property tax increases were typically capped at 6 percent more per year. But in November of that year, voters approved anti-tax activist Tim Eyman's Initiative 722, which lowered the cap to 2 percent unless voters okayed more. The lower cap was promptly challenged in court.
While that court fight was going on, Eyman in 2001 launched a yet-stricter measure — Initiative 747 — to bring the cap down to 1 percent.
The 2-percent cap was declared unconstitutional by a Pierce County judge in February 2001, a decision that the state Supreme Court upheld in September of that year. The property tax cap reverted back to 6 percent more per year.
Meanwhile, however, Eyman was pushing ahead with I-747, gathering and filing signatures and getting the measure on the ballot in November 2001. It passed.
The problem: the new ballot measure language cited the old 2 percent cap.
As a result, King County Superior Court udge Mary E. Roberts ruled a year ago, voters were led to believe they were voting for just a modest reduction in the cap — from 2 percent to 1 percent. In reality, the cut was much more dramatic: from 6 percent to 1 percent.
"The voters were misled as to the nature and content of the law to be amended," Roberts wrote in a June 2006 ruling. "…The constitution forbids this." So she declared I-747 to be unconstitutional.
That ruling was appealed to the state Supreme Court, and argued this past May. (Justices Mary Fairhurst and Jim Johnson recused themselves.)
Local Democratic lawmakers Chris Marr and Don Barlow will hold a town hall meeting Nov. 16 from 10 a.m. to noon at the Southside Senior Activity Center, 3151 E. 27th Ave., Spokane.
Topic: health care issues, "including long-term-care insurance, nursing homes, the sale of Deaconess and Valley hospitals, Medicare co-payments, and help with prescriptions for low-income patients."
Oh, it's good to be back. The Fred Russell trial in Cowlitz County, my base of operations for the past 3 1/2 weeks, is over. (Russell, the WSU student who drove drunk and killed three other students in 2001, before fleeing to Ireland for several years, was convicted on all counts. He'll be sentenced in Whitman County, probably next month.)
But alas, while I've been basking in the pale fluorescent lights of Courtroom 2 and frantically filing copy over the wireless at Kelso's Sunrise Bagels (good bagels, too), much has happened:
-Rep. Jim Dunn, R-Vancouver, was publicly slapped by his own caucus over "inappropriate" comments he allegedly made to a woman after a recent legislative meeting. (Postman was on it, and has the full story — or the full obtainable story — here.)
(Also: David Goldstein, at horsesass.org, gave this incident the memorable headline "BREAKING… Republican legislator outed as heterosexual.")
-Gov. Chris Gregoire became a cover, um, governor. Governing magazine named her — the only governor on the list — one of nine "Public Officials of the Year." From the article:
Opinion polls early on ranked her as one of the three least popular governors in the nation. Yet she hung tough during the recounts, the lawsuit, the shouts of protest and the bad poll numbers. "I said whether I'm governor for four months or four years, we're going to get going here," says Gregoire. And that's just what she did.
With each passing year, Gregoire's approval rating has increased, and her standing as a deft and inclusive deal-maker has grown more solid. The list of her accomplishments would be the envy of any governor, ranging from budget surpluses to ambitious education and economic development initiatives to the resolution of some of the state's longest running legislative battles.
(GOP chairman Luke Esser's version: "38 Years in Gov't Earns Gregoire Bureaucrat Stardom.")
-State Rep. Don Barlow, D-Spokane, was the first state lawmaker to "shadow" a nursing home worker for the day, as part of a push by the Service Employees International Union to show legislators what rank-and-file health-care workers' jobs are really like.
-And, oh, yes, there was an election. As things stand now:
-Rainy Day fund, Tim Eyman's I-960 and Referendum 67: all passing.
-Allowing school levies to pass with a simple majority of votes, instead of the current 60 percent "supermajority": failing.
-multi-billion-dollar tax increases for roads and transit in central Puget Sound: failing.
-Spokane Mayor: Likely Mary Verner. Incumbent Dennis Hession (who's election night party briefly banned reporters) looks like he'll join the very long line of one-term Spokane mayors.
-and in east King County, perennial candidate Richard Pope lost to Republican King County Councilwoman Jane Hague, "despite her pending drunken-driving charge and her admission that she once padded her résumé," as the Times put it.
And thanks, readers, for sticking with me. Check back early and often.
Harold Clarke, Secretary of the state Department of Corrections, has resigned. He's moving to Massachusetts, which has hired him to head that state's prison system.
In a six-sentence news release, Gov. Chris Gregoire thanked Clarke for his work.
"Secretary Clarke has made significant contributions to public safety in Washington," she said. "This has not been an easy task for Harold or his family and, on behalf of the people of Washington, I thank him for his service."
State GOP chairman Luke Esser — one of many Republicans to criticize Gregoire for the Department of Corrections' early release of some felons — said that Clark is being "scapegoat"ed by Gregoire.
"I disagree with Harold Clarke's approach to public safety," Esser said in his own press release, "but I don't blame him for leaving after Gov. Gregoire threw him under the bus for following her orders."
Look for felons and prisons to be a big GOP talking point in the governor's race, judging by this and other recent Republican criticism of Gregoire.
"Gov. Gregoire continues to support the early release of felons and has explicitly pursued a "no-new-prisons" policy of knowingly refusing to build sufficient prison capacity – even though she increased state spending by a record 33%," Esser said.
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NEW YORK Teens who routinely smoke marijuana risk a long-term drop in their IQ, a new study suggests.
The researchers didn't find the same IQ dip for people who became frequent users of pot after 18. Although experts said the new findings are not definitive, they do fit in with earlier signs that the drug is especially harmful to the developing brain.
"Parents should understand that their adolescents are particularly vulnerable,'" said lead researcher Madeline Meier of Duke University.
Study participants from New Zealand were tested for IQ at age 13, likely before any significant marijuana use, and again at age 38. The mental decline between those two ages was seen only in those who started regularly smoking pot before age 18.
Richie Poulton, a study co-author and professor at the University of Otago in New Zealand, said the message of the research is to stay away from marijuana until adulthood if possible. "For some it's a legal issue," he said, "but for me it's a health issue."
Pot is the most popular illegal drug in the world, with somewhere between 119 million and 224 million users between the ages of 15 and 64 as of 2010, the United Nations reported. Within the United States, 23 percent of high school students said they'd recently smoked marijuana, making it more popular than cigarettes, the federal government reported in June.
Young people "don't think it's risky," said Staci Gruber, a researcher at the Harvard-affiliated MacLean Hospital in Belmont, Mass. Gruber, who didn't participate in the new work, said the idea that marijuana harms the adolescent brain is "something we believe is very likely," and the new finding of IQ declines warrants further investigation.
Experts said the new research is an advance because its methods avoid criticisms of some earlier work, which generally did not measure mental performance before marijuana use began.
"I think this is the cleanest study I've ever read" that looks for long-term harm from marijuana use, said Dr. Nora Volkow, director of the National Institute on Drug Abuse, which helped fund the research.
Ken Winters, a psychiatry professor at the University of Minnesota and senior scientist at the Treatment Research Institute in Philadelphia, said the new findings aren't definitive, but they underscore the importance of studying how marijuana may harm young people. He had no role in the work.
Meier and colleagues reported their work online Monday in the Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences. It was funded with governmental grants from the United States and Britain, and a foundation in Zurich.
The study drew on survey data from more than 1,000 people in New Zealand, everybody born in the town of Dunedin during a year-long span ending in 1973. In addition to IQ tests, they were interviewed five times between ages 18 and 38, including questions related to their marijuana use.
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Despite falling short of its primary endpoint in a trial to examine its effects in cystic fibrosis patients with the R117H mutation, Vertex's Kalydeco has scored an FDA advisory committee recommendation for approval in that population. And the way some see it, that's a sign of much, much bigger approvals to come.
Kalydeco in R117H patients? As AdComm nears, Vertex drug faces doubts
Vertex' orphan drug Kalydeco boasts a comparatively small patient pool that the drugmaker is trying to swell, with an eye on adding cystic fibrosis patients with the R117H mutation. But first, it'll have to get the FDA's OK, and new briefing documents suggest the agency still has some doubts.
Vertex scores 250 new Kalydeco patients with EMA approval
Vertex' patient pool for cystic fibrosis drug Kalydeco is getting wider--250 patients wider, to be specific. The European Medicines Agency has green-lighted the drug--originally approved for CF patients with at least one copy of the G551D mutation--for 8 additional mutations, spelling new revenue potential for the orphan drugmaker.
Arkansas stiff-arms CF patients seeking Vertex's $300K drug Kalydeco: WSJ
The drug-pricing battle continues, but this time, Gilead Sciences' Sovaldi isn't at the center. That dubious honor goes to Vertex Pharmaceuticals' cystic fibrosis treatment Kalydeco. According to a lawsuit filed by three CF patients, Arkansas Medicaid officials are locking them out of Kalydeco treatment.
Vertex could snag 250 more Kalydeco patients with EMA nod
Back in February, the FDA green-lighted Kalydeco to treat cystic fibrosis in patients with one of 8 distinct gating mutations, dramatically swelling the orphan drug's patient pool.
Vertex eyes another $45 million in sales as FDA swells Kalydeco's patient pool
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Vertex's Kalydeco flunks a Phase III for cystic fibrosis
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"There is not even a utopian feminist literature in existence," radical feminist Shulamith Firestone declared in her 1970 classic The Dialectic of Sex. The remark positions Firestone as an isolated visionary, dreaming lonely revolutionary dreams upon a mountaintop that few afterwards, and none before, could scale.
It's an image that has in large part come to define her. Susan Faludi's recent, lovely biography in The New Yorker, for example, presents Firestone as a woman ahead of her time, emphasizing the bitter isolation and disillusionment of her later years. Of Firestone's memorial service following her death in 2012, Faludi writes, "It was hard to say which moment the mourners were there to mark: the passing of Firestone or that of a whole generation of feminists who had been unable to thrive in the world they had done so much to create." Firestone was the first to look upon the future, and as a result, she doomed herself to wander out of time.
I don't want to deny the truth of that view of Firestone, or its power. I cried while reading Faludi's article. But I think there are also less lonely, more connected ways to look at Firestone's achievement.
To start, I'd point out that Firestone's claim that there was no utopian feminist literature in existence in 1970 was a considerable exaggeration. To pick only a couple of the best-known examples, in 1915 Charlotte Perkins Gilman serialized Herland, a vision of female utopia with asexual reproduction and no conflict or war. William Marston's Wonder Woman comics of the 1940s featured Paradise Island, a matriarchal all-female community of peace, loving submission, bondage, and giant space kangaroos.
Firestone, then, was not creating a tradition of utopian feminist literature; rather, she was working in that tradition. The Dialectic of Sex can be seen not (merely) as groundbreaking, but as a summation and continuation of feminist utopian imaginings.
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For Firestone in The Dialectic of Sex, that feminist utopian imagining is based on a two-part argument. First, gender difference (or "sex class") is rooted in biology. It is, furthermore, at the basis of all inequity, including economic exploitation and racial prejudice—she sees racist society as a kind of Fruedian oppressive patriarchal household, with blacks treated as infantilized children. Radical feminists, therefore—and, in her view, everybody who wants an equal society—"are talking about changing a fundamental biological condition." As a result, feminist revolution is deeply, almost unimaginably radical. "If there were a another word more all-embracing than revolution, we would use it."
So how will this uber-revolution be brought about? In the tradition of that radical tech-utopian Marx, Firestone hopes that advances in science can change material conditions enough to make equity possible. Cybernetics will eliminate the need for work; new reproductive technologies will eliminate the need for giving birth ("Pregnancy is barbaric...the temporary deformation of the body of the individual for the sake of the species").
Once we have eliminated both manual labor and female labor, in Firestone's vision, society can be reformed and the bourgeois family eliminated. Rather than living in nuclear units, people can live in larger households of 10 or so, where childcare can be spread around to all—and where children need not be age segregated and kept in forced immaturity for years. Moreover, Firestone argues, without the tyranny of biological reproduction, monogamy and even the incest taboo will be unnecessary, and can be abandoned ("Relations with children would include as much genital sex as the child was capable of—probably considerably more than we now believe"). Eroticism and intimacy and joy could then suffuse the entire culture, rather than being restricted to the cramped, circumscribed realm of romantic love. She concludes, "all relationships would be based on love alone, uncorrupted by objective dependencies and the resulting class inequalities."
Obviously, when you advocate for the end of pregnancy and the incest taboo, you are going to freak people out. Many people used Firesteone's speculations then (and still will use them now, I'm sure) to marginalize her work and thought.
But the truth is, these ideas are not especially marginal. In the first place they are (as Brian Attebery notes in Decoding Science Fiction) a rethinking of mostly male-penned paranoid dystopias like Invasion of the Body Snatchers, in which tinkering with reproduction and the nuclear family leads to irrational de-individualized nightmare feminine hives.
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The number of people registering for jobless benefits rose 38,179 from July to 4.63 million, according to data released today by the Labor Ministry in Madrid. That compares with an increase of 51,185 in the same month last year.
The euro area's fourth-largest economy contracted for a third quarter in the three months through June, pushing the European Union's highest unemployment rate to 24.6 percent, a record in the country's 36 years of democratic history.
Economists contradict Prime Minister Mariano Rajoy's forecast that unemployment has peaked at a quarter of the workforce. The proportion of jobless will rise to 26.1 percent in 2013, according to the median of nine forecasts in a Bloomberg survey.
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Originally Posted by
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What's yours? Placing low expectations and victim status on entire class of people for generations certainly hasn't helped, even if your intentions are good.
Please forgive any typos, I'm typing on my phone.
My suggestion is to start by requiring employers to offer paid (or government subsidized) maternity and paternity leave, establishing government-run or subsidized child care facilities (or offering vouchers for private care facilities) for parents who are working or looking for work, and welfare for poor families, all dependent upon the parents' willingness to either work, look for a job for a limited time, or be placed in a job found for them. Too many people feel they are "above" certain jobs...if McDonalds is hiring and you need a job, sorry, suck it up. You've got kids to support.
That's just addressing the result, though. It's not prevention. We need to get serious about sex education in this country and stop treating it like a yucky idea. The way the religious right approaches sex education is detrimental to society as a whole. Sex is not a bad evil yucky thing inspired by satan, it's a natural process that every person wants to start doing the moment they start noticing the opposite sex. Unplanned pregnancy is just as much a problem in rural Christian communities as it is in the inner city.
Sex and health education needs to be universal, and REQUIRED. Even for home schooled children. And it must be done according to state-sanctioned standards...MEDICAL standards. All children should be taught that abstinence is the only TRUE way to prevent pregnancy and disease, but that sex is a natural process, and that their bodies are not magical temples but actual biochemical machines with many different processes, needs and uses. I simply do not trust the religious right to do this on their own in a responsible way. It must be done in public, and BY the public.
I think this is a good start to answering the question of how to actually reduce the number of abortions, while actually helping to improve both overall public health and less reliance on the public dole.
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