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The other day I was driving with my brother and his son, Hunter. Hunter is obsessed with his Wii video game. I was asking him what he wanted for Christmas and he has a huge list. One was a video game.My brother stepped in immediately and reminded Hunter that the game he wanted is for 10 year olds. Hunter quipped back that that is only three years away and he really wanted it. My brother reminded Hunter that he didn't want to grow up too fast.
That thought has eaten at me. Time is short. It creeps by and then is gone in an instant. I have memories that seem like yesterday that happened 20 years ago. I think turning 40 has made me a bit more nostalgic. But lately, I have been taking stock.
I didn't have to work this morning but woke up early to a flock of birds in my front yard. My dog Bella stayed burrowed under the blankets, and I moved forward with my day. I crept, hazily, to the kitchen to brew my strong pot of Ethiopian blend fair trade coffee. I looked to the back yard.
There was a mist hovering over the trees as squirrels tried to infiltrate our bird feeders. At the bottom of my back yard stood three deer. Seeing them this time of year is unheard of, but there they stood. Peaceful. Tranquil. Beautiful.
Normally, things like this mean very little to me. I am not outdoorsy and sometimes don't stop to notice the beauty that surrounds us here in West Virginia. They stayed there for about 10 minutes until my annoying neighbor's dogs caught sight of them, and the symphony of barking began.
As they crept off into the woods, I could not distinguish where they began and ended as they disappeared from view. I stopped to notice the hazel and orange leaves that littered my yard like Mother Nature's confetti. The hues of the leaves mixed one on top of the other like a deck of cards.
As I stood on my deck, the chill of fall entered my lungs from the cool air. This a true sign of another rafting season has come to a close. It seems like yesterday that we welcomed March with our first rafters. Then the flood of summer guests began and we were in full swing. Certain things stay with me.
I remember Cody and Bill winning the Blob contest on the Fourth of July. Cody was thrilled.
I remember Rita Cassaro visiting me in the office to thank me for another great vacation. She loves our 2 -bedroom Chalets.
I remember Katie and Phil organizing a group and coming for the weekend.
I remember Scott Olive regaling me with stories from his days on the Gauley.
I remember fun days in the office with Chris and Jeannie – 2 new friends that I am grateful for.
The memories are endless. But life is about moving forward. I know many of you reading this have your own special ACE memories. Share them with us. What was the highlight of your trip? What is your best memory? Do you plan to make some memories of your own next year?
One last thing: Take a minute today and look around. To your family. To nature. To life. And enjoy the day.


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Minati, Ludovico and Rosazza, Cristina and D'Incerti, Ludovico and Valentini, Laura and Scaioli, Vidmer and Loveday, Catherine and Bruzzone, Maria Grazia (2009) Functional MRI/Event-related potential study of sensory consonance and dissonance in musicians and nonmusicians. NeuroReport, 20 (1). pp. 87-92. ISSN 0959-4965
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Pleasurability of individual chords, known as sensory consonance, is widely regarded as physiologically determined and has been shown to be associated with differential activity in the auditory cortex and in several other regions. Here, we present results obtained contrasting isolated four-note chords classified as consonant or dissonant in tonal music. Using event-related functional MRI, consonant chords were found to elicit a larger haemodynamic response in the inferior and middle frontal gyri, premotor cortex and inferior parietal lobule. The effect was right lateralized for nonmusicians and less asymmetric for musicians. Using event-related potentials, the degree of sensory consonance was found to modulate the amplitude of the P1 in both groups and of the N2 in musicians only.
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I haven't been updating this blog much recently. But in the tradition of year-end roundups, I've decided to collect a few personal favorites from the things I've written over the last year.
- At Policyshop, I wrote a number of posts, but one of the most-read ones was this reply to Glenn Greenwald on Citizens United and the limits of a libertarian First Amendment.
- A theme of a lot of my work at Demos/Policyshop has been to counteract the illusion that corporations are a natural part of the economic landscape. Corporations and their internal processes are a product of public decisions and government action, and the public should be able to hold them to higher standards. This post on the need to save antitrust from Bork and the Chicago School influence drew on a lot of those ideas as well.
- This piece for Guernica, After Me, The Flood, described the destructive feed-back loops that extractive institutions can produce. I asked whether contemporary elites were any more enlightened than the elites of the Ancien Regime who sped their society to collapse in the lead-up to the French Revolution.
- The American Prospect ran a few of my corporate reform pieces.
- A paper I wrote in law school, Cornography: Perverse Incentives and the United States Corn Subsidy, was published in the Journal of Food Law & Policy.
- From the Harvard Law & Policy Review blog, I want to share this piece on why we need the courts to take an active role in election administration. Another election law piece was on the challenge to Section 5 of the Voting Rights Act, and argued that a little-known clause in the Fourteenth Amendment makes it exceedingly clear that Congress had the power to reauthorize the VRA in 2006.
- Lastly, I spent of lot of 2012 re-familiarizing myself with some important legal realist thinkers. (Barbara Fried's book on Robert Hale is phenomenal). This piece, also for HLPR, was my attempt to argue that First Amendment law needs rethinking in light of the realists' critique of the public-private distinction. Current First Amendment law ignores the positive state interventions that enable corporate and private "speech" and essentially says that "The State May Giveth, But The State May Not Taketh Away." This purely negative liberty understanding of the Amendment has to be wrong.
This last piece was a personal favorite, and I hope to build on these ideas in the coming year. I hope to get a few long form things written this next year too and to finish another law review piece, this time on federalism.
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(Monticello, NY - 4:12 PM) – Legislature Chairman Jonathan Rouis (D-District 4) and County Legislators Elwin Wood (D-District 3) and Jodi Goodman (R-District 6), Chair and Co-Chair of the Community and Economic Development Committee respectively, announced today the creation of a countywide "Microenterprise Assistance Program" (MAP), made possible with a $185,000 grant from New York State's Community Development Block Grant (CDBG) Economic Development Program.
"The program will provide grants between $5,000 and $35,000 for business start-ups or existing enterprises with five or fewer employees," noted Rouis. The MAP will target two types of small businesses of importance to the County: "Main Street" goods and services, located within downtown, village or hamlet business districts, and agriculture-related businesses. "This strategy responds to the diverse geography of the County and builds on our innate strengths – our traditional Main Street communities and our farms and agri-businesses that support them," explains Wood.
This dual focus also leverages the existing funding available through the County's Main Street Revolving Loan Fund and Agri-Business Revolving Loan Funds. Goodman states, "The goal with the Microenterprise Program is to help bridge the gap and make it more feasible for small businesses to take advantage of the very affordable loan terms that are available. It's also intended to guarantee success by providing training and help with business plans as a condition for receiving the grants."
The Microenterprise Assistance Program is a collaboration of the County's Division of Planning and Center for Workforce Development, Sullivan Renaissance, the Sullivan County Chamber of Commerce and Liberty Community Development Corporation. Funding comes from the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development (HUD) through CDBG funds administered by New York State Homes and Community Renewal. Conditions of the grant include requiring participating businesses to contribute at least 10% of the cost of the project and to create one new job offered to or made available to persons from low- or moderate-income (LMI) households. Alternatively, if the owner is LMI, the business may quality. New jobs must start within 24-months, and businesses receiving grants must participate in an Entrepreneurial Assistance Program as a requirement for receiving funds. The Microenterprise Grant comes on the heels of two recent grant awards secured by the Division of Planning in support of the County's economic development efforts, both from the U.S. Department of Agriculture's Rural Development Program. In August, Sullivan County received a 2011 Rural Business Enterprise Grant (RBEG) for $186,500, to fund the purchase of equipment for a dairy processing facility, or "creamery," which will provide local farmers with new opportunities for processing, marketing and distributing milk products commercially. The County will own the equipment and lease it to a private operator, who will receive the option to purchase the equipment at the end of the lease term. The County will dedicate lease payments to a revolving loan fund targeting dairy producers.
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Interview: Jonathan Last on America's Looming Demographic Crisis (with Transcript)
I've long enjoyed Jonathan Last's articles at the Weekly Standard, whether it's an iconoclastic look at who the real good guys were Star Wars, or a prophetic look at the similarities between England's anti-war left in the 1930s, and America's own self-described intellectuals today. For What to Expect When No One's Expecting: America's Coming Demographic Disaster, his first book, he decided to take on the topic of America's coming demographic collapse, which could see the US facing the same birth-dearth that is crippling Japan and magnify our hemorrhaging entitlement problems until we're the super-sized equivalent of Greece.
But in era in which the San Francisco Chronicle can quote the "founder of Washington state's Progressive Kid, which has a Web site with suggestions on how to raise kids with good values," when she says with a straight face that "There is nothing more bacchanalian than a kid's birthday party," (Really? Nothing more bacchanalian…in San Francisco…?), as Jonathan acknowledges in our interview, "I think that's just sort of important to acknowledge, that people aren't crazy. They're not entirely irrational if they, you know, back away from having kids." Along with a fair amount of tough love from Jonathan towards those who choose to become parents.
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● How Jonathan initially became interested in demographics.
● What he thinks about Mark Steyn's America Alone, which famously argued, "It's the demography, stupid!"
● What are the demographics of the Muslim world?
● What do professional demographers think about Paul Ehrlich, the author of the infamous 1968 book, The Population Bomb, which causes so many on the left to be terrified of overpopulation to this day?
● What caused previous American demographic slumps?
● How will America's demographic decline exacerbate its ongoing fiscal hemorrhaging and education bubbles?
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1. Reality
Very interesting stuff; but none of it is new to me.
Unsurprisingly, not a word is mentioned about the radical demographic changes taking place in America i.e. the shifting ethnic composition of the U.S. population. And not a word is mentioned about the skyrocketing illegitimacy rate in the U.S.
Here are some shocking statistics which went completely ignored in the interview:
1)European-Americans have declined from around 89% in 1960 to 63% — and will be a minority by 2043.
2)In 1960, only 16 million Americans did not trace their ancestors to Europe. Today, the number is 116 million.
3)Out-of-wedlock births comprised 5.3% of total births in 1960, including 2.3% of white births and 23% of black births.
Today, the illegitimacy rate is 41%. Among whites, it is 29%; among Hispanics, it is 53%; among blacks, it is 72%.And the craziest statistic of all:
4)Births to married women in the United States, 4 million in 1960, fell to 2.3 million in 2011.
We are witnessing not the coming death of a civilization, but the ongoing death of a civilization. America is clearly in the throes of it's death.
February 18, 2013 - 1:00 am Link to this Comment | Reply-
Fail Burton
Liberals are hilarious on this topic – any fool can see the vast changes American influence has had in uplifting the Third World, although it's a thin veneer with little depth beyond the surface. Men on donkeys with cell phones isn't an end game.
But for some reason, bringing the Third World here won't downgrade America. That veneer in the Third World would have some depth if the equivalent thing happened and millions of Americans flooded those countries.
Eventually America is the one that will have a veneer, and perhaps some isolated enclaves of tech and productivity in Montana and Idaho, though I wouldn't count on it at the rate immigrants are pouring in.
February 18, 2013 - 9:05 am Link to this Comment | Reply -
We had a "shortage" of births during the Great Depression. We have a "shortage" of births now for the same reason. Children are increasingly "expensive" today. For those with lower incomes, they have become just too "expensive" a luxury today. With the increasing costs of health care, plus the added "overhead" of Obamacare, people are retreating and trying to save all they can. The cost of Obamacare means that people will have less disaposaable income available, so consumer demand will be less. That means fewer jobs, since the deficit is already so high that adding additional trillions to it would be the height of foolishness!
February 18, 2013 - 4:40 pm Link to this Comment | Reply-
Try reading the book. If you did, you would have been informed that this "shortage of births" has been going on for 40 years. That is, despite couple's financial health they refuse to have more than 1-2 children. In recent years having one child is the norm.
February 19, 2013 - 6:49 am Link to this Comment | Reply
2. Fail Burton
Unbelievable. Science fiction writers aren't professional demographers either and they've been spectacularly right on this subject. You don't have to be a pro, merely have eyes, have traveled a bit and have the brains to make simple comparisons. If doubling the Earth's population from 1970 to now doesn't do it for a person then I'm not sure what threshold would. In many places in this world, people live like animals – because of overpopulation.
There is no more land, there are a lot more people. Read about family farms being divided up til nothing's left in the Punjab. Read about coffin hotels, the explosion of shanty town building in Rio de Janeiro, (some 700) the deforestation of the northern Guatemala jungle due to expanding families. Guatemala had 7 million people in 1980 – they have more than double that now.
"…none of the countries in Central and South America below the replacement rate send us any significant amount of immigrants." Who in their right mind would say such a thing? Does he have figures for illegals? We don't know what it is. We know it's a lot and that it's rising. Your eyes will tell you that. The idea that Latin America will stop sending us their overflow is an insane fantasy. There's a million Guatemalans in America alone.
People and traffic in Mumbai are stacked like cordwood, Sao Paolo and Mexico City are insane megalopolises, Egypt has grown to the limit it can on one river, and there is a risk of war with Sudan in the next quarter century as they manipulate the Nile River to the detriment of Egypt. Nigeria and Java are disasters waiting to happen. I don't get this play – not at all. The worth of a human being has dropped to the point where slavery and human trafficking have made steady advances.
I see no reason to hang this on Erlich – he's one guy. So he was hasty. So what? Million died by starvation decades before his book, in China and Russia, and millions die from starvation around the world each year. It can and has happened. Our resources are finite and we're going to find out how much so soon enough.
The overflow is headed for the West. This has already worked to demographically and politically subvert those countries, and this is only the beginning. The politically correct floodgates have only been open for a relatively few years.
One day in America, when we have a billion people, people are going to look back on the racist and conformist '50s liberals love to lie about and shed tears at the passing of a golden age of peace. People will shed tears because in the mid-'60s, that's when it all changed and we became morons. Our great-great grandchildren will spit on our graves for what we've wrought. There's not a single doubt in my mind about it. People old enough to see what's gone are chuckling already at what fools we've become.
February 18, 2013 - 2:01 am Link to this Comment | Reply-
Micha Elyi
In many places in this world, people live like animals – because of overpopulation.
–Fail BurtonHong Kong and The Netherlands are two places among the most densely populated in the world. Yet they defy your "people live like animals" claim.
Perhaps Rush Limbaugh is correct when he says the problems of the unindustrialized world aren't too many people but too little capitalism.
I see no reason to hang this on Erlich – he's one guy. So he was hasty. So what? Million died by starvation decades before his book, in China and Russia…
China and Russia, the examples you choose, only strengthen Rush Limbaugh's point about people suffering because of too little capitalism.
One day in America, when we have a billion people, people are going to look back on the racist and conformist '50s liberals love to lie about and shed tears at the passing of a golden age of peace.
I'm sure the larger families of the 1950s will be recognized as a big part of those years being "a golden age".
February 18, 2013 - 8:39 am Link to this Comment | Reply-
Fail Burton
First of all, who said anything about capitalism or Limbaugh? And the unindustrialized world practices more laissez-faire capitalism then we do. Limbaugh doesn't know what the hell he's talking about. He's spent his entire adult life in the constrictions of a radio studio.
Secondly, exceptions aren't rules, they are exceptions. Hong Kong and the Netherlands are tiny places built up from smart and orderly societies. Mumbai and New Delhi each have as many people as the entirety of the Netherlands. And you can't compare Hong Kong, a blip when it comes to population density at only 7 million, with an island like Java, which is only 650 miles long, averaging maybe 80 miles wides but with 135 million people. Java's population density is more than 5 times that of New York state and is the most heavily populated large island in the world.
India or the Philippines have 11 of the 12 most densely populated cities in the world, and they have 16 more of the next 39.
And the fact people live like animals is just that, a fact, not a claim.
I've seen people living in box cars in Guatemala City, favelas in Rio de Janeiro where the aroma of feces is pungent and 24/7, as well as families sleeping on the streets of that city at night so thick I had to step over them to walk down the sidewalk. In Jakarta and Belize City I've seen canals that are open, bubbling sewers with an unbelievable stench, and people living right over them. Mumbai is one massive sh-thole and every time you wipe your nose in New Delhi you'll see black from the pollution. Fabulous Kathmandu is an ugly urban dystopia with lines of cars waiting for gas longer than a football field. Varanasi is another, almost unbelievably filthy, urban nightmare where I visited a man with a wife and 4 kids who lived in a room about 9 by 6 ft – typical. As I speak there is a severe shortage of Type 80 octane used by older cars and taxis in Cairo. As you can imagine in a place like Cairo, with 20 million people by the way, there are a lot of old cars. I could list a lot more but I've made my point.
February 18, 2013 - 12:59 pm Link to this Comment | Reply-
I think perhaps you should read Mystery of Capital by DeSoto
http://www.amazon.com/Mystery-Capital-Capitalism-Triumphs-Everywhere/dp/0465016154/ref=sr_1_1?s=books&ie=UTF8&qid=1361290016&sr=1-1&keywords=mystery+of+capitaland then see if you can figure out why Hong Kong and Netherlands are orderly and densely populated, but other highly populated areas are less ordered and less healthy. (hint property rights)
February 19, 2013 - 8:09 am Link to this Comment | Reply
You should read the book and concentrate on the stats and do not rely solely upon anecdotal information. Population density is a sub-problem. However, when you take into account the birthrates globally you see something quite different. The US will never get to a billion people – it won't even get to 400 million. And how can it? Europe and South America, as well as North America, Russia, China, and Japan and Korea will soon be losing people. Yes, the population is growing; but the median age of the globe is rapidly going up. People are living longer. By 2050 over 340 million people in China will be over 60. The ratio of males to females in China is now 123 to 100. Even in Muslim nations the birthrates are plunging (See Egypt, Indonesia, Algeria, Iran, Turkey, et als).
Even in India there's a large subdemographic that is failing to reproduce in sufficient numbers.
We are approaching a time bomb.
February 19, 2013 - 6:58 am Link to this Comment | Reply
3. clamdigger53
Not my worry,i had lots of them.Fortunately I've a paranoid person who distrusts government in all matters. The choice is government or Family. Now government is an evil being,large, blind,fat,self important and self-serving in the best of times, and a nation is truly fortunate to be hampered by only a small one.Isn't it amusing when sports commentators bite their tongue after blurting out that that running back is one of thirteen children,it's funny,you know it is.I don't mean a government style family,i mean the normal type!
Good luck with your one over educated child as you all proceed into the future.I'll have none of it!February 18, 2013 - 3:46 am Link to this Comment | Reply -
4. daveinga
there are easy solutions to some of these problems we have.
want to stop our explosion of out of wedlock births? simply quit rewarding freeloaders with $$$ for having kids they can't pay for.
fix immigration (long overdue)? seal the border (yes, it can be done), give nonviolent illegals a chance to register w/ real proof of past residency, to become citizens, and allow for a sensible guest worker program.
want to stop our spiraling divorce rate? stop nofault divorce and award custody to the best parent, regardless of gender, with generic c.s. awards not based on gender. joint custody w/ equal responsibilitie$ and right$ should be the ideal, not some rare option.
want to stop welfare fraud? we already had this under control until the little giveaway stuff for votes guy came along.
fix health care? some minor adjustments to insurance laws, like allowing companies to cross state line and such, could have solved this problem long ago w/o socializing 1/6 of our economy.
all of our problems are fixable, but not w/o cutting the socialist $$ cord to uncle sugar's teats. we have really been over paying for legislators who produce nothing of any value, much like any room full of lawyers. i guess if the only tool in your tool chest is a lawyer boondoggle, then everybody looks like a potential victim, or chump.
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5. Micha Elyi
In many places in this world, people live like animals – because of overpopulation.
–Fail BurtonHong Kong and The Netherlands are two places among the most densely populated in the world. Yet they defy your "people live like animals" claim.
Perhaps Rush Limbaugh is correct when he says the problems of the unindustrialized world aren't too many people but too little capitalism.
I see no reason to hang this on Erlich – he's one guy. So he was hasty. So what? Million died by starvation decades before his book, in China and Russia…
China and Russia, the examples you choose, only strengthen Rush Limbaugh's point about people suffering because of too little capitalism.
One day in America, when we have a billion people, people are going to look back on the racist and conformist '50s liberals love to lie about and shed tears at the passing of a golden age of peace.
I'm sure the larger families of the 1950s will be recognized as a big part of those years being "a golden age".
February 18, 2013 - 8:37 am Link to this Comment | Reply -
Great article and interview. One thing to point out though that Mr. Last perhaps is unaware of – Palestinian fertility is indeed declining quite a bit. See the recent column that David Goldman (aka Spengler) just wrote on this website where he discusses this topic.
February 18, 2013 - 9:12 am Link to this Comment | Reply-
Actually he mentiones it in the comments to his article, not in the article itself. Here is the link to an article he references in those comments, where he actually does discuss it:http://www.tabletmag.com/jewish-news-and-politics/72679/time-out
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Actually he mentions it in the comments to his article, not in the article itself. Here is the link to an article he references in those comments, where he actually does discuss it: http://www.tabletmag.com/jewish-news-and-politics/72679/time-out
February 18, 2013 - 9:15 am Link to this Comment | Reply -
Palestinians make a couple extra ,for suicide bombs!
February 18, 2013 - 10:55 am Link to this Comment | Reply -
Fail Burton
"According to an article in Guardian (2008) using PCBS census figures, the Palestinian territories have one of the fastest growing populations in the world, with numbers surging 30% in the past decade (2008). There was 3.76 million Palestinians in the West Bank, Gaza and East Jerusalem, up from 2.89 million 10 years earlier." – Wikipedia
Let us know when the fantasy kicks in.
February 18, 2013 - 1:04 pm Link to this Comment | Reply-
Abelard Lindsey
Spengler says they do not. Arab fertility has actually declined in recent 1-2 decades and is actually declining at a faster rate than Europe.
February 18, 2013 - 7:53 pm Link to this Comment | Reply
7. Tex Taylor
A word to the young…and a little off topic but I believe worth the mention.
To each their own. But if you ask me, Mr. Last makes the same mistake he accuses others of – bad measurement, at the very least incomplete measurement to come to his conclusions about happiness.
I wonder if Mr. Last will look back at some of the foolishness of these statements made in this article and realize how ignorant and superficially intelligent he was as a younger man? Sentimentality is no weakness – it's a strength. It's basically what makes us human.
Who you ought to talk to if you're looking for direction to what really makes people happy is not statistics of young parents or potential parents of child bearing years, but palliative care givers. And you'll get a very different set of responses about happiness or what brought happiness from people who have lived it – all of it.
Talk to people whose kids are grown. The most common response I get from parents is that they regret not having more children after finally getting older and wiser, figuring out what really brings you "happiness." This isn't limited just to mothers but fathers too.
Was raising children, especially toddlers, a pain in the ass? You betcha; it was consuming. Is having two incredibly accomplished now grown kids worth in retrospect?
Absolutely you betcha. I have two grown, beautiful daughters that are worth more to me than all the money in the world, all the happiness money could buy. And I know I speak for their momma.
February 18, 2013 - 9:32 am Link to this Comment | Reply-
Yeah, I find those happiness measurements a bit useless. Compare them, perhaps, to those same 2 people in 30 years and I would guess the numbers would be at least inverted in not a larger gap to those who had children. I'm in the trenches right now with my 4 (10, 7, 5, and 2), but my Mother-in-law often comments, "It's so nice having adult children." And MY Mother often says, "You have to survive parenthood to get to be a grandparent."
So I'm enjoying my kids as best I can (though I may be tired and overwhelmed right now) and looking forward to the days when we can be friends and enjoy one another as adults.
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8. Denver Bob
Well do any of you think that people see nothing they want to see continued here or would care to inflict on the innocent? The same question might be asked many places.
I am sick of reveal religion moralizing and blaming others. Simply put, the common vision offers nothing to the commons.
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9. elby
Tex, I'm with you on this one. I had 6 children. I wish I had more! My youngest is 15, and they all grew up too fast. The best advice I got as a parent was to enjoy them because they grow up too fast. I wish I had followed that advice more.
It is a myth that it is expensive to raise children. My husband and I together haven't cumulatively made a million dollars over our entire marriage, yet we have managed to raise 6 children.
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10. jgo
Well, I agree that we're headed in a very bad direction, with far far far too much immigration — both legal and illegal.
Part of the reason college is so expensive is supply and demand, together with hyper-credentialism on the part of lazy employers and HR clones. If a year of private, self-driven study is good, they think 2 years at a college must be so much better, and 4 years or 8 or 10 must be better, still. Then they leap from that to, "no one must be able to use these here computer thingies, and idiot-phones, and tablets unless they have at least a master's degree and 2-3 years of calculus and diffeq. And then the next one has to brag, "Why we don't even consider the ones who don't have a PhD.", and then the next adds, "and at least 2 years of post-doc", and then "2 post-docs. No one could possibly develop an app without having completed at least a couple post-docs."… and so it regresses.
"Where has the global fertility decline come from?"
People choose to reduce fertility when they feel over-crowded, and when prices of things (like land) which respond to population numbers and crowding increase, when they see no net advantage from having one more child over not having one more child (i.e. the marginal subjective value of another child).
OK, Ehrlich wasn't totally correct, and a bit of a crank. He exaggerated. But even Julian Simon has admitted that he was not totally wrong.
I can't help but reflect that my grand-father, who was not a wealthy man, owned some 500 acres, houses, barns, corn-cribs, tractors, combine, work-horses… when he died, with no debt. Between land use regulations and over-population, I couldn't even afford, when my line of work and my own STEM career was booming, to seriously consider buying a single acre and home. Few seriously consider saving up enough to actually buy a home and land outright rather than merely enough to take out what ends up being a life-long mortgage. What with infill mandates, the vast majority who can even afford a ticky-tacky free-standing home are stuck with a lot of a tenth of an acre or less (especially when you consider that you'll still be saddled with thousands of dollars in taxes each year and monopoly-priced utilities).
Florida's Democrat governor took some heat a couple decades back when he chipped in with some friends to buy a couple hundred acres and restore one rustic cabin and build a couple more like those typical in the area back in the 1830s (also for his scary "assault rifle" "good for only one thing", killing varmints, and, as he pointed out, wild turkey). Anyway, the regulators and eco-fascists threw a fit over him "sub-dividing agricultural land", "leap-frog development" blah blah blah.
When you look at the quality and workmanship of things like furniture, clothing, tools… Ordinary, lower-middle-class (as the leftists would call them, because everyone must be pigeon-holed into a rigid class system) Americans used to own solid oak furniture, some with thick marble tops, not mere veneers. In my father's time the closest we had was granite window sills, too thin to hold up, and pine. I don't see the average working man affording such, today. What we have, today, is shoddily glued together saw-dust and plastic that collapses when the humidity rises a bit, and the upholstery falls apart (nauga doesn't hold a candle to well-tanned leather or even rugged textiles made 60-120 years ago; OK so they didn't have perma-press, and laundering was more laborious). And, speaking of which, there's no way most families can afford to rely on only the man to be the participant in economic activities reaching outside the family. We certainly can't let the boys hunt or trap on their ways to and from school to bring in a little something extra for the soup because people are crammed too close together, and the government school thugs and brain-washers would be calling out the SWAT teams with heavy armor.
The way I figure it, all this push by the pols to import more cheap, young, pliant labor has 3 possible bases:
(1) they want to "save" the Socialist Insecurity Abomination, ObummerDoesn'tCare, Medicare and Medicaid (except that the Europeans have already proven that this tactic doesn't work, and such evil leftist scams should not be saved, anyway);
(2) they, personally, or those close to them, have a way lined up to profit from the cheap labor;
(3) they prefer to be over-crowded, themselves and get psychotically lonely when they are not constantly barraged by the touch, sight, smell and sound of other people at all hours.If you want to have 3-4 children and can support them, that's fine; just don't let them slop over into other people's space. Raise them up in your own condo, and sub-divide it for them, and recycle all of your own air and water and food, and see how far that gets you. And don't let me see you over-using the "commons" for your own personal benefit without paying your "carbon tax" and such.
"the Palestinian territories have one of the fastest growing populations in the world"
Exactly. They have — Arafat had — an intentional policy of over-populating. And as the over-population drives more poverty, they whine and say, "You other people should be ashamed of yourselves that we over-bred and are over-crowded and poor. It's all your fault!" And, they also actively encourage migration/invasion/infiltration into what they consider to be enemy territory. That Europeans let them, thinking they were going to be there only temporarily, was a huge mistake.
Correct immigration (long over due) by
(1) sealing the borders;
(2) giving non-violent illegal aliens a chance to leave of their own accord;
(3) actively seeking out violent or thieving or con-artist illegal aliens, imprison, fine, collect restitution, and eject them;
(4) reduce "legal" immigration and visitor visas and guest-work visas and exchange visas to levels that can actually be managed (and by "managed" I mean being able to know within less than an hour where any one of them is and whether they have been initiating force or fraud, and being able to escort them out if necessary within a day when the visa expires — 100K to 300K total in the USA at any one time, not 5M-30M); and (5) conduct proper background investigations on every visa applicant to try to determine whether they are likely to initiate force or fraud (not only whether they have done so in the past, but whether they might be infiltrators/invaders/sleeper operatives). We already have multiple paths to citizenship, FCOL.Hong Kong and The Netherlands and India and Red China and Japan and Union City NJ and much of France and California and Chicago and Manhattan and Boston and Atlanta and DC are all over-populated and over-crowded. If you like being over-crowded, you're welcome to go live in such places and try to generate there some respect for individual rights, including property rights, RKBA/self-defense, freedom of speech and other communication media (political and religious, which seem to be eroding here), freedom of religion, the right to travel by individually owned and private means (i.e. private vehicles big enough to carry your family and all of your stuff, another right being intentionally attacked by the collectivists), reasonably low government extortion (below 10% of earnings).
Hughes's First Law of Population Dynamics: If you want to get somewhere, people will be in your way.
1st Corollary: The more urgently you want to get somewhere, the more numerous and slower will be the people in your way.February 18, 2013 - 4:41 pm Link to this Comment | Reply -
11. Wes
Mark my words; the preponderance of European-Americans will leave this continent for another perhaps Australia, perhaps back to the land of their fathers. A risky experiment is underway by our Progressive leaders.
February 18, 2013 - 7:09 pm Link to this Comment | Reply-
If there were a fresh and free frontier to flee to you'd already see European Americans, especially conservatives, fleeing there in record numbers. The freedom loving of our nation would go off somewhere to found a new free nation leaving behind the statist residue to much more rapidly slide into fascism they so desperately wish to live in. The problem is that there is no new frontier to flee to. Europe? Please, they're much further down the road to tyranny than we are and their demographics suggest a Muslim majority in the coming decades. They're basically a giant blue state infested with the same PC self-loathing authoritarians we'd be trying to flee from. Canada and Australia have largely the same problem, not quite as bad as Europe, and at least they won't be living under Sharia, but they're still infected with the same disease. Socialized healthcare and no gun rights? No thanks. Russia and the former Soviet bloc countries present a bit of an opportunity, they're short on a lot of freedoms but at least they have low taxes, and they still have some pride in their culture and identity unlike the rest of Europe. They've already had their little experiment with communism so maybe they'll continue to get better over the decades, who knows, but it's by no means a sure thing. Other than that where else would you go? South America's undergoing a wave of socialism, Africa will always be a hopeless sh*t hole, Asia is crowded and authoritarian, where would you go? Personally I think the best bet is someplace in America with a low population density and harsh enough climate to keep the nanny state types away. Places like Texas are conservative now, but eventually they'll be infested and overrun with refugees from blue wastelands like California who carry the plague of their noxious ideology with them. Go somewhere far from the Mexican border where an urbanite liberal simply won't make it. Someplace like Idaho, Montana, Wyoming, or Alaska. Someplace with like-minded people who just may help each-other hunker down and resist or ride out whatever comes.
Do you really want to know why the liberals are so gleeful right now? Why around the world they're so happy that America is finally succumbing to this sickness? It's because they know that this time there is no place for their intended victims (us) to flee to. They know that this is the last refuge of individualism and once we're under their yoke the peculiar brand of American liberty will no longer be a challenge to their ideology anywhere. Many of them really do hate us and get joy from seeing us suffer. They do not just want to live in their utopia, they want to force us to live in it too. That's the big payoff for them. They will cackle with glee knowing that somewhere a middle class white male is waiting in line behind a minority welfare recipient for government rationed healthcare. It's the whole basis of their ideology, punishing the "bitter clingers" will somehow make up for historical grievances. It's like an article of faith. My only solid recommendation is to surround yourself with like minded people who will actively or passively resist their schemes and create an environment hostile enough to leftist ideas that they stay out. Learn whatever skills you can to become as self sufficient as possible and live as healthily as possible, distributing goods and services like healthcare is and will be their primary means of coercion. Don't think there's some more free land you can flee to though, because this is it my friend.
February 19, 2013 - 12:59 am Link to this Comment | Reply-
George B
TPM, Texas has always had a significant percentage non-Caucasian population and lots of in-migration. I'm worried about majority-Latino school districts, but Texas has been able to assimilate people of diverse origins into a culture that values individual liberty. I credit the wisdom of Texans who wrote a constitution that keeps government local and on a short leash. By keeping the taxing and spending local, people who want less government can simply move a little further from the city and city people have limited ability to spend other people's money.
I believe that small business owners, independent of ethnicity, are a reservoir of strength for conservatives. The Vietnamese woman who cuts my hair, the Black man who trims my trees, and Mexican man who replaced the roof on my house know more about individual liberty and personal responsibility than Caucasian intellectuals who only talk about conservatism. They may not know who Friedrich Hayek is, but they understand economics. We'll be OK so long as the "can do" spirit gets passed down to children of all races.
February 19, 2013 - 9:03 am Link to this Comment | Reply -
"Go somewhere far"…
Sorry, Montana, Wyoming et al. are also being over-run. While New Yorkers were discussing the ground zero mosque, people in Montana were arguing about whether a Catholic monastery for up to 35 monks, on thousands of acres, with the closest neighboring drive 7 miles away, might generate excessive traffic on high holidays which might draw as many as 150 of the faithful. It's another example of too many people crammed closely enough together to be inherently annoying, even at those densities (much lower than those of, say, Ohio or Kentucky).
Now, they're talking about recovering the population of black-footed ferrets in the region. Each ferret requires a hunting range of about 67 acres, and lots of yummy prairie dogs. Only, back in the 1920s or so, some brilliant person carried some black plague infected rodents (and a few of their fleas) from California out there to try to kill the prairie dogs, which would infect the ferrets… and become a problem for humans. So, they're talking about having to vaccinate the ferrets, first. And they still haven't developed an effective vaccination for the bison, which carry brucellosis to/via the elk and the wolves and the cattle. Of course, if those critters were not so over-crowded, the diseases would die (would have died) out rather than spreading.
February 19, 2013 - 10:30 am Link to this Comment | Reply-
The monastery was in Wyoming, not Montana, and the issue was a couple of landowners who would have complained about the set-up if were 100 years ago. Regardless, the whole dustup ended in favor of the Monastery:
"Tuesday, October 5, 2010 at 1:00 p.m., at an open public hearing before the Park County Board of Commissioners, the monks were given unanimous approval to proceed with the building of Mt. Carmel for America. The commissioners wanted to know whether the land will continue to be used for ranching. The monks were happy to report that it will. They intend to keep the property as a ranch as well as work the land for farming. Father Daniel Mary explained … the Lord had already brought ranchers to the community who would help with 1,000 head of cattle that will graze on Mt. Carmel."
Wyomingites are the same as ever, which is why I'm retiring to Cody.
February 19, 2013 - 11:37 am Link to this Comment | Reply -
And they make damn fine coffee, if you want to help support them- Mystic Monk (they're online). Their coffee mugs have the coolest logo ever- my daughter demanded one before she went off to college.
February 19, 2013 - 11:41 am Link to this Comment | Reply
12. Abelard Lindsey
I'm not a pro-natalist at all. However, I recently bought and read this book. It is quite good and is, by far, the best of the "birth-dearth" books. Even though I don't agree with everything the author says in it, I still highly recommend it.
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13. Haiku Guy
The solution to the "Demographic Crisis" will be applied by the millions of senior citizens who never retire. With zero-percent return on investment, collapsing pensions, and unstable markets, the Post Boomer generation will not be able to afford to retire. So they will keep on working and earning until the day they shuffle off this mortal coil, so they won't need to depend on the younger generation to support them. Anybody below the age of fifty who is not planning on working well into his 70s is not being realistic about the future.
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14. Tom
GREAT interview, thanks for transcript (long asked for!).
The US solution, as long as supply holds up, should be to accept more immigration of English speaking able bodied young adults willing to work (English as second language).
I'm happy, tho a bit exhausted by our 4 kids, but we have plenty of food, clothes, a place to live; winter week vacation skiing, 2 summer weeks at the beach.
Policies to help families are not so easy tho — lower taxes and regulations are better than most active gov't actions.
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15. Janine
Nice interviews and book premise, except Mr. Last understated the research on parenting and happiness. Yes, some studies show that parents are less "happy" in their 20′s and 30′s, but parents are more happy in the 40′s and older than childless adults. In fact, the more children they have, the happier they are in later life. Adults without children show decreasing happiness as they age.
As the bumper sticker says, "If I had know how much fun grandchildren are, I would have had them first."
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16. Jeannette
You know, when I first had the first three kids, I wasn't very happy, but by the time we figured out how to raise them and we got some in-house drivers, things got a lot better. I'm definitely much happier after eight kids than I would have been with only three, and I know I'm much happier than I would have been with no kids. The dollar amounts they give for raising kids, sending them to college are way off. Hand-me-downs, bulk foods, bunkbeds, fourth-kid-free policies at Catholic schools, AP classes and in-town colleges bring the costs down quite a bit per child.
It's also interesting to me, what's happening in my mom's family: six offspring lived to marry and have children. Among the three conservatives: 14 children, 34 grandchildren (17 nonwhite under the current "one drop" rules), 7 great-grandchildren (all nonwhite). The three liberals produced: 10 children, 8 grandchildren, no greats so far. All white, FWIW.
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It was the first time any of the owners had been on the land, and, says owner Lavell Moeau, who has seven children, it was something she really wanted to do "for my babies". "Our mum used to throw a few of us kids in the car and we'd head out through Gladstone and go foraging. She used to tell us stories about where we were, but we were young, so I didn't really listen. Now I'm really interested.
"We've actually come up this way camping a lot, but I didn't even know we had land out here until I got the notice about the field day. I want my kids to know where their land is and how they're connected to it. And it's great to be able to come on here and meet the farmer and see what he's doing to the place."
Another owner on the visit, Lavinia (Lovey) Walker, says knowing about the land, and having the chance to visit it "helps us all to know the roots, and who we are to each other." In fact, in spite of having friends in common in Masterton, Lavinia and Lavell had only found out they were related when they met up for the field trip.
Māori Trustee Aotea/Takitimu and Te Waipounamu Regional Manager Novena McGuckin says she was happy to organise the day for the owners. "It's a great way for people to meet up and make connections. Our work at the Māori Trustee is part of the process that brings people back to the land and connects them with each other and on a day like this you can really see that happening."
So, if you get the chance to go on a field visit to your land, do what these owners recommend: "Go!" And if you and your whānau would like to go on a field visit to any of your land blocks, discuss it with your local Māori Trustee office.


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Case 189: Postoperative Bilateral Foot Ischemia and Toe Necrosis Relieved with Boot Therapy
Born October 13th, 1928, this man was to become well acquainted with surgeons. He had a herniorrhaphy in 1950, colorectal cystectomy in 1974, a cholecystectomy and appendectomy in 1989 and coronary artery bypass surgery on August 5th, 1998. There was a question of his having had cholesterol emboli to his feet at the time of surgery. He was discharged with foot sores but no severe pain. The feet became progressively worse over the next several weeks. He returned to his surgeon who had nothing to offer except the comment: "Let nature go..." Referred by friends, he came for consideration of therapy with the Circulator Boot on October 13th, 1998.
October 13th, 1998: The soles of his feet were cyanotic and painful. The right middle toes and the left 1st and 4th toe had distal necrosis. |
October 13th, 1998: His left heel was likewise very tender and cyanotic with a coin-sized black eschar on its posterior lateral aspect. |
October 13th, 1998: The dorsums of the feet were not cyanotic, but ruborous compared to a normal foot. |
He recalled weighing 145 pounds at age 18 and 180 pounds at age 25. He had reached a maximum weight of 228 pounds about 1995. He denied having diabetes but recalled being told he had a high sugar count about 1994 and was advised to diet. He had hypertension for six years and had a small stroke in 1995. He had smoked a pack of cigarettes a day for 40 years and quit in 1996. He was now impotent and had a bruit in his right carotid. His feet hurt at rest and he was capable of minimal walking. His femoral pulses were easily palpable with firm palpation (2+), popliteal pulses palpable with light touch (3+), the posterior tibial pulses 2+ and the dorsalis pedis likely present after searching (1+). Vascular tests were done. |
October 13th, 1998: There was good flow down the posterior tibials at the ankle level. Manual pressure on the posterior tibial arteries quieted the sounds in the dorsalis pedis in both feet, in the faint anterior tibial in the left anterior ankle and in the right perforating peroneal artery; in all of these vessels the waveforms were inverted signifying backward flow. The right anterior tibial could not be found. |
October 13th, 1998: The pulse volume waveforms fell off progressively down the legs. While low at the ankle, they were especially low in the left midfoot. |
Hence, he was thought to have occlusive disease in his anterior tibial and peroneal vessels, diminished overall flow in the mid-feet and negligible flow distally. His serum homocysteine level on October 14th was 31.2 (normal 4.9 to 14.6 micromol/L. Subsequent values for folic acid and vitamin B12 were 9 ng/ml (normal > 1.9) and 195 pg/ml (normal >200 and indeterminant 160-200). He was started on vitamin B12 injections. Pus from the 4th right toe grew out 4+ Pseudomonas aeruginosa. He was given a prescription for Cipro and gentamicin was injected into the necrotic portions of the toe before his Mini-Boot treatments until the infection was gone. Pus became apparent in the right great toe in December when heavy growths of Alcaligenes xylosoxidans and coagulase-negative Staphylococci were recovered. He was then treated with oral Doxycycline and local vancomycin. Patients with feet like these have pain day and night, and they do not tolerate debridements without anesthesia. We provide whatever oral analgesics they require. His daily treatments included: (1) a cleansing foot soak with Sea Soaks and dilute hydrogen peroxide (they are asked to keep their feet out of unsterile home baths and tubs); (2) local antibiotic injections into areas of obvious infection; and (3) Mini-Booting with the foot immersed in Sea Soaks and appropriate antibiotics if infection is present... or Mini-Booting the dry bandaged foot if no infection is present. The patient is often more comfortable in the Sea Soaks solution. His serial photographs document his course.
November 17th, 1998 |
Color improving |
Demarcation progressing |
Heel eschar discrete. |
Eschar beginning to separate. |
Partial autoamputations of right 2nd and 3rd and left 4th toes. |
Tips of the big toes still to heal. |
Ten toes with good color mostly intact |
Tip of left big toe epithelizing |
Heel ulcer close to healed |
Cap of left 4th toe debrided. |
Bone tip of left 1st toe shelled out giving good bleeding. |
Heel site reddened but intact. |
Comments: Whether this man had cholesterol emboli to both feet or whether he had advanced distal arteriosclerosis obliterans in his anterior tibial and peroneal vessels which occluded in the remote postoperative state is not clear. The symptoms of cholesterol emboli depend on the area where the emboli are created. Loosened plaque in the proximal aorta, for example, may embolize anywhere in the body from head to toe. The descending thoracic aorta may be the source of emboli to the kidneys, intestines, and muscles and skin from the abdomen to the toes. In this man, there were no symptoms of ischemia except in the feet. One might conjecture that plaque from the abdominal aorta embolized down both iliacs, spared the thigh, took a 90 degree turn into the anterior tibials blocking them and showered smaller emboli into the feet blocking flow into the heel and toes. The possibility of pre-existing occlusive tibial disease with new occlusions occurring due to a decrease in cardiac output, stasis and bedrest associated with his surgery is easier to imagine. A tissue biopsy might have helped to make a definite diagnosis but would also have created a new and likely painful lesion to heal. Practically, the exact diagnosis is not important in cases like his unless his surgeons entertain the possibility of operating on some source of recurrent emboli, an abdominal aneurysm for example. In regard to the legs, he was not a candidate for any other form of treatment (thrombolysis, angioplasty or bypass). With his disease beginning below his knees, he was a candidate for our Mini-Boot therapy. His prolonged treatment course would likely have been shortened with hospitalization to allow multiple treatments a day. He was at risk of losing both feet and is presented to illustrate the time course of outpatient treatment in such cases. He had several advantages in a sense: others had told him he might lose his feet, that there was no surgical procedure to help him and that he must "let nature take its course." He stuck to our program and did well. We have started on other patients who have panicked and gone elsewhere when advised that their disease was advanced enough to require amputation in many centers. Others have flown in for a day to have three or four treatments and left disillusioned they were not cured. Necrotic tissue just does not heal in a few days. One might have noticed that this is another current case. Now that we know we have a website where we can demonstrate our method, we are becoming better at taking pictures.
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Windward Mall celebrates Mother's Day and Cinco De Mayo | Events
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KĀNE'OHE BAY, HAWAI'I – Music is in the air this May at Windward Mall. Enjoy special Mother's Day performances, community choirs and be sure to support the efforts of Ke Kula Mele as they attempt to set the Guinness World Record for the largest steel guitar ensemble. Other highlights this month include a burrito eating competition of epic proportions to celebrate Cinco de Mayo and the birthday celebration of Ronald McDonald House. In addition, Windward Mall will also host a free disaster preparation course and pro-bono tax advice.
Windward Mall's May events include:
Ukulele Club of Hawaii
Tuesday, May 1, 5:30 p.m. to 7:15 p.m., Center Court
It's spring so let the music ring. This May, learn how to play the ukulele for free. Open to all ages and ability levels. Bring your own ukulele or borrow one from a limited supply. For more information call 235-1143.
Farmers Market at Windward Mall by 'Nalo Farms
Wednesdays, May 2, 9, 16, 23 & 30, 2:30 p.m. to 7:30 p.m., Macy's Wing
The Farmers Market by 'Nalo Farms has all the ingredients to make healthy summer snack. Find everything necessary for a delicious dinner at home or just stock up on healthy, midday snacks. The weekly market is held on the upper and lower levels of the Macy's wing where the weather is always perfect. Through a partnership with 'Nalo Farms and Dean Okimoto, the market offers over 50 vendors providing a diverse selection of local goods. Stop by Windward Mall every Wednesday for a chance to meet the farmers, fishermen and bakers who are passionate about sharing the food they provide to our community.
Windward Mall invites non-profits to raise awareness for their cause through exhibitions and encourages community performers to apply to share their talent at the weekly market. To find out more information please visit the website and complete an application form. http://www.windwardmall.com/events/event-application/
Line Dance Lessons by Parents without Partners
Thursdays, May 3, 10, 17, 24 & 31, 6:00 p.m. to 8:30 p.m., Center Court
Put those dancing shoes on every Thursday and learn how to dance country style. Don't be shy and give it a try. Line dancing lessons are open to all and will take place in Center Court every Thursday. This is a free event for the public.
Windward Nazarene Academy's May Day Program
Friday, May 4, 5:30 p.m. to 8:30 p.m., Center Court
May Day is Lei Day in Hawaii and the Windward Nazarene Academy has a special program planned to help the Windward community celebrate this unique holiday.
Free Pro-Bono Legal Clinics
Saturday, May 5, 11:00 a.m. to 3:00 p.m., Macy's Wing
To celebrate Law Week, the Young Lawyers Division of the Hawaii State Bar Association will offer free legal information at a pro-bono legal clinic in the Macy's Wing.
American Lung Association Event
Saturday, May 5, 11:00 a.m. to 2:00 p.m., Center Court
This May, the American Lung Association celebrates Asthma Awareness Month at Windward Mall. Enjoy live entertainment and fun activities while learning about asthma, asthma management and treatment.
Taco Del Mar Cinco de Mayo Five-Pound Burrito Eating Contest
Saturday, May 5, 11:00 a.m. to 2:00 p.m., Center Court
Prepare for a challenge worthy of brave competitors and hearty appetites. Celebrate Cinco de Mayo, Taco Del Mar style with an epic five-pound burrito eating contest. The contest will feature firefighters, police and athletes in a serious showdown between the island's fiercest competitors and largest stomachs.
Hawaii Youth Chorus
Sunday, May 6, 2:00 p.m. to 3:00 p.m., Center Court
Enjoy the melodious sounds of the Hawaii Youth Chorus as they perform a free concert in Center Court.
Military Mondays
Mondays, May 7, 14, 21, & 28, from 10:00 a.m. to 9:00 p.m.
Windward Mall continues to show its appreciation of Hawaii's military members and their families with Military Monday. Qualified shoppers will receive 15 percent off qualified purchases at more than 50 participating merchants, including Aéropostale, Ben & Jerry's, Cookie's Clothing Co., Champs, Get Wet!, Fantastic Sams, Hot Topic, Jam's World, Jeans Warehouse, Journey's, Ko'olau Pets, Little People Hawai'i, Local Motion, Mark's Hallmark, PacSun, Panda Express, T&C Surf, SoulTrex, Ruby Tuesday, Zales and more! The program is open to all active duty, retired military and qualified military family members with a valid U.S. Military ID.
Special Mother's Day Wind Wind Orchid Sale
Friday and Saturday, May 11 & 12, 10:00 a.m. to 3:00 p.m., Center Court
Moms love flowers, especially orchids. Find an exotic selection of gorgeous, locally grown orchids and native plants. Surprise mom with the thoughtful gift of flowers that she doesn't have to throw away.
Ronald McDonald House Birthday Celebration
Saturday, May 12, 11:00 a.m. to 2:00 p.m, Center Court
Join Ronald McDonald House Charities® of Hawaii as they commemorate 25 years of providing a "home-away-from-home" for seriously ill or injured children and their families. Watch the "Get Moving with Ronald McDonald" and meet him in person, get your face painted, request your favorite balloon sculpture and participate in games and other fun activities for the kids. Stop by the RMHC-HI table to learn more about their programs and the services they provide to families in Hawaii and the Pacific Rim.
Ke Kula Mele Mother's Day Concert
Sunday, May 13, 1:00 p.m. to 2:00 p.m., Center Court
Celebrate Mother's Day with beautiful ukulele and steel guitar music and support the Ke Kula Mele as they attempt to set the Guinness World Record for the largest steel guitar ensemble.
Royal Hawaiian Band Performance
Saturday, May 19, noon to 12:45 p.m., Center Court
The Royal Hawaiian Band returns to the Windward Kingdom. The Royal Hawaiian Band is the only band in the United States with a royal legacy. Founded in 1836 by King Kamehameha III, the band promotes distinct Hawaiian music through songs of the islands from past to present.
Kaimuki High "Vocalz" Performance
Saturday, May 19, 2:00 p.m. to 3:00 p.m. Center Court
The Vocalz return to Windward Mall for yet another spectacular show. Be prepared to be wowed by the excellent "vocalz" of these students.
Classic Car Show
Saturday, May 19, 5:00 p.m. to 9:00 p.m., Macy's Parking Lot
The East End Hot Rod Club will be showcasing their cars for the ever-popular Classic Car Show held every third Saturday evening from May through November. Windward Mall, Gyu-Kaku Japanese BBQ Dining and Ruby Tuesday, have partnered with the Hawaii Foodbank to accept canned food donations at every car show so be sure to bring a can. Bring the family to see all of the beautiful classic cars at this free and fun event.
Memorial Day Sidewalk Sale
Friday through Sunday, May 25-27, Mall Hours, Participating Merchants
Kick off summer with a fabulous new outfit or accessory. Windward Mall's famous sidewalk sale is back giving shoppers the opportunity to enjoy phenomenal discounts from participating merchants.
S.T.E.M. Showcase
Friday, May 25, 6:00 p.m. to 8:00 p.m.
The Partners in Development Foundation S.T.E.M Showcase aims to demonstrate interactive science in technology, engineering and math programs in partnership with sustainable and environmental Windward schools.
Disaster Preparedness Fair
Sunday, May 26, 10:00 a.m. to 2:00 p.m., Center Court
In Hawaii, families should be prepare disaster kits with supplies to last five to seven days. The American Red Cross will teach local residents more about how to prepare for a disaster, floor insurance and how to create and implement disaster kits.
Roy Sakuma Ukelele Studio Performance
Sunday, May 27, 3:00 p.m. to 4:00 p.m., Center Court
Enjoy a great ukelele concert from some of the best young musicians in the world.
Located at the corner of Kamehameha Highway and Haiku Road in Kāne'ohe, Windward Mall offers shoppers from the Windward side and beyond a mix of national and local retailers with an emphasis on a family friendly atmosphere. Anchored by Macy's and Sears, the mall has a 10-screen stadium-seating Regal Theater, a 26,657-square-foot The Sports Authority, O'ahu's only children's soft-play area, plus more than 110 stores and eateries. More information is available at www.windwardmall.com.Windward Mall is owned by Kamehameha Schools.
Kamehameha Schools is a private, educational, charitable trust founded and endowed by the legacy of Princess Bernice Pauahi Bishop. Kamehameha Schools operates a statewide educational system enrolling more than 6,700 students of Hawaiian ancestry at K-12 campuses on O'ahu, Maui and Hawai'i and at 31 preschool sites statewide. Thousands of additional Hawaiian learners are also being served through a range of other Kamehameha Schools outreach programs, community collaborations and financial aid opportunities in Hawai'i and across the continental United States.


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Outside Florida's political quagmire
With his Nov. 20 column, "Florida needs hand counts in this game," Dante Chinni has injected a measure of sanity in this raucous argument over the ballot count in Florida.
As a member of the largely unrepresented moderate center, I have grown extremely tired of the childish behavior of leaders of both our political parties. It's time to end this farce. Neither Republicans nor Democrats have a lock on virtue in the Florida recounts.
And, whichever candidate eventually is granted Florida's electoral votes, the country will continue. It's time for us all to step forward, take a deep breath, and move on!
Gary Hobin Leavenworth, Kan.
Columnist Dante Chinni sounds like a faithful liberal spindoctor when he writes that "It is also unfair to say Gore just wants to keep counting votes until he wins. The Gore camp thus far has simply followed Florida law."
The first statement is illogical. Would Al Gore want to keep counting, recounting, and re-recounting if he were ahead? Concerning Mr. Chinni's second statement, the Gore minions have already sought to disregard Florida law that requires use of the vote tallies turned into the Florida secretary of state by 5 p.m. on Nov. 14.
Moreover, the Gore minions have sought to disregard Florida law that requires the Florida secretary of state to certify the winner on Nov. 18 after the overseas votes are counted.
Dana Dickie Nashville, Tenn.
I don't understand the big deal being made of the Florida voting question.
If a section of the ballot is not clear to 25 or 50 voters, but perfectly clear to 1,000,000 similar citizens, why blame the ballot? Why not those few people? If it happened to me (and it has) I'd leave that question blank and proceed to finish the rest of the proposals. If I don't understand a question, I don't blame anyone but myself. We need to accept "where the chips fall" and stop the political wrangling.
June Beckwith Oak Harbor, Wash.


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Chevrolet Aveo looks good, is spacious, well equipped and competitively priced which makes it even more attractive.
Saturday, June 23, 2012
Chevrolet's new Aveo is a good-looking spacious, well-priced supermini, says Andy Russell.
Price: £10,995 (range £9,995 to £13,615)
Engine: 1,229cc, 86PS, four-cylinder, petrol
Performance: 0-62mph 13.6 seconds; top speed 107mph
MPG: Urban 48.7; extra urban 68.9; combined 60.9
CO2 emissions: 111g/km
Benefit-in-kind tax: 13pc
Insurance group: 5E (out of 50)
Warranty: Five years or 100,000 miles
Will it fit in the garage: Length 4,039mm; width (excluding door mirrors) 1,735mm; height 1,517mm
It was the way my father looking at the supermini and questioned what we were going to drive to London in.
I told him we were taking the Chevrolet Aveo to which he pointed that it was only a small car.
And that is the misconception facing some superminis these days – some people still find it hard to accept that little cars can do the job perfectly well on our traffic-clogged roads.
We were travelling four-up with a bit of luggage and he was finding it hard to believe that we and it would all fit in but I have to say the Aveo did us proud.
This second-generation budget supermini is a pretty little thing with twin motorcycle-inspired headlamps and concealed back door handles aimed at giving it a coupe-like styling although I have to say you need a good imagination.
OK, it's not going to set the world alight – it hasn't got the class of Volkswagen's Polo or the dynamics of the Ford Fiesta but as value transport for people on a budget the Aveo is worth looking at. For it is competitively priced and well equipped while a five-year or 100,000-mile warranty gives peace of mind and adds to the appeal.
Power comes from all-new 86PS 1.2-litre and 100PS 1.4-litre petrol engines and 75PS and 95PS 1.3-litre turbo diesels which are making their Chevrolet debut in the Aveo.
I drove the 1.2-litre petrol unit, expected to be the big seller, which will trickle along at low revs in slow-moving traffic but doesn't have much low-down pull so it needs to be worked hard to make the most of the performance, especially travelling four-up which accounted for not seeing much more than 40mpg overall regardless of whether I was running around or cruising although I got 50mpg with a conscious effort to be economical. Fortunately it picks up crisply in the mid range and, once wound up, will maintain a 70mph cruise with relative ease although you are always aware of the engine note in the background – enough to have you cranking up the radio/CD's puny volume to near maximum to hear it clearly.
Chevrolet boasts the Aveo was designed to be sporty, engaging and enjoyable to drive but the suspension is more biased towards ride comfort than dynamic driving but that's no bad thing in a supermini runaround.
The supple suspension makes for a smooth, absorbent ride and does a good job of soaking up the thump of potholes and raised manhole covers. Handling is well-mannered in normal driving but press on and body roll builds through corners and the electric power steering loses some of its feel. But the biggest issue was noticeable tyre noise, particularly on corrugated concrete motorways, which became quite wearing especially with the audio system's volume struggling.
The Aveo is a supermini that can carry four large, tall adults very comfortably – five at a squeeze for short journeys – with a spacious cabin that has plenty of legroom in the back, without front passengers have to sacrifice some, while the tall roof gives decent headroom.
Not only did we carry the four adults but the well-shaped, deep-side 290-litre boot quite easily took two medium-sized suitcases, a couple of soft bags and four coats without having to remove the parcel shelf, although you do have to lift loads over the quite high sill. Rear seat backs split 60/40 and fold flat but leave a big step up from the boot floor.
Chevrolet has done a good job of making the cabin a pleasant place with soft curves on the fascia and textured trim but the hard plastics show how it has kept the cost down. That said, it feels well screwed together with good fit and finish and no annoying squeaks or rattles. And I liked the motorcycle-inspired instruments with a big round dial rev counter flanked by a digital speedo, bar fuel gauge and driver information display – all clearly visible through the steering wheel –and two rows of warning lights above and below. Simple rotary knobs control the heating and ventilation system while the audio system has large, user-friendly buttons.
Cabin storage is particulary good with big front doorbins, a twin glovebox and useful cubbyholes in the centre console and fascia for odds and ends. The driving position is fine but the seats are a little soft but still reasonably supportive on a long run.
Available in LS, LT and LTZ trims, the entry model includes air-conditioning, cruise control, remote locking, electrically-adjustable heated door mirrors and electric front windows. LT adds 15in alloy wheels, steering wheel audio controls, trip computer and Bluetooth connection. LTZ gains front fog lamps, six speakers, rear parking sensors and automatic headlamps.
Superminis are becoming increasingly attractive in these cost-conscious times as motorists look to reduce their running costs. The Aveo looks good, is spacious, well equipped and competitively priced which makes it even more attractive.
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