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Billing cycles guide companies on when to charge customers and help businesses estimate how much revenue they will receive. They also enable internal departments, such as accounts receivable, to monitor how much revenue has yet to be collected. The recurring cycle also lets customers know when they can expect to be charged.
The date at which the billing cycle begins depends on the type of service being offered and the customer's needs. For example, an apartment complex may send a bill for rent on the first of every month, regardless of when tenants had signed their individual leases. This style of billing cycle can make accounting easier, as well as making the payment due date easier for tenants to remember. Companies may also choose to use a rolling billing cycle. A cable provider may set a customer's billing cycle to align with when that customer began service.
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Teachers allege it is an attempt to collect 'donations'
The Education Department's reported move to sanction new higher secondary batches and schools in the unaided sector has drawn criticism from teachers' associations.
Association representatives said implementing the move without scientific planning would only serve the interests of school managements in illegally collecting huge sums of money under the pretext of 'donation,' from candidates aspiring to fill the teaching posts thus created.
The government has not yet made any attempt to find out which schools actually needed a higher secondary batch.
The present move to start new batches and school in every panchayat, according to the Kerala School Teachers Association (KSTA), is unscientific and with clandestine motives.
"It is learnt that the Education Department was planning to sanction a majority of these new batches in the aided sector to help the managements to get huge amounts of money from prospective teachers," said KSTA State general secretary M.Shajahan.
The Kerala Aided Higher Secondary Teachers Association (KAHSTA) has also strongly come out against the Education Department's move.
According to a joint statement issued by the Association president Joshy Antony and Treasurer A.K. Abdul Hakkim, shortage of higher secondary seats was there only in the districts of the Malabar region, including Kasaragod, Malappuram and Kozhikode.
The authorities should know that 50,000 higher secondary seats remained vacant in different southern districts of the State, said the statement.
"The State government's move to sanction over 600 new Plus Two batches across the State would invite far-reaching consequences," said Mr. Hakkim.
"This will only serve the interests of the greedy school managements, who have already struck a clandestine deal with the political party which handles the Education portfolio in the State," he alleged.

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Updated April 16, 2009 Case 06 One More Look at Social Networking Background Information Social networking web sites have had negative publicity in recent years, due to them being targeted by pornography and predators (Bird, 2006, ¶4). Businesses still see profitability in social networking, and many are starting to show how social networking is suited for more than the teenage population. Furthermore, a study conducted in 2006 entitled "Engaging the Social Networking Generation" (Roach, 2006), reported new ways universities were communicating with high school juniors through the use of social networks. The study found that over half of respondents would, "read a blog authored by a faculty member" (Roach, 2006, ¶4) for further student and faculty information, and upcoming activities occurring at the institution. Social networking encompasses many different communities and includes resources such as dating networks and, teen social networks (e.g. MySpace.com). Media outlets all over the country are buying into social networking. The Hearst Corporation bought eCrush.com, a relationship finder website. Other media companies have jumped on the social networking band wagon, "the Walt Disney Company, the CBS Corporation, Viacom, and NBC have all been busy planning new social networking features for their various Web sites" (Siklos, 2007, ¶9). Due to the overhead expense, but potential of profit gains, companies continue to invest and are also marketing (e.g. IBM and Microsoft) social networking software products (Whiting, 2007). Youth ministers and religious affiliates are using social networks to, "to stay connected with their students" (Bird, 2006, ¶3), because many of their youth group members are real with their lives in terms of topics they will discuss about their personal lives. Many musicians promote themselves, as did Lily Allen who, "built up a huge fan base on the social networking site before her UK breakthrough last year" (Music Week, P.8, 2007). Social networking is becoming big business as many companies are realizing, and for many working in the business world LinkedIn.com is where they stay up with friends, business associates, and daily business transactions that may occur. The digital music company Snocap has struck a deal with MySpace.com and Youtube.com to allow independent record labels to sell downloads on their websites. For many social network fanatics who have a desire to gain access to music not already played on the radio, "music downloads will be available in the MP3 format, enabling purchasers to play them on any portable music player" (Internet Business News, 2007, ¶4). The British Broadcasting Corporation (BBC) announced earlier this year they would launch there own social networking website in order to heighten its online presence (Internet Business News, 2007), in an attempt to market more products to consumers in the UK. The University of Alabama Computers and Applied Technology Program (2009). Technology 1 Education: A series of case studies. Available at http://www.bamaed.ua.edu/edtechcases/. Updated April 16, 2009 Social networks have found major popularity throughout many populations. MySpace recently became the most visited website on the planet and has proven to be an advertisement pot of gold. The other social networks have attracted similar attention from, "other media groups and investors" (The Economist, 2006, ¶3) for what they hope will be a similar outcome. Preview The teenage culture has given much popularity to social networking websites, mainly due to the ease of accessibility the websites offer to the other teens in many parts of the world. Social sites are usually created around a theme, such as sharing music and finding relationships, and many are not governed so members are able to post any content they choose to their personal web space. Recently, a negative light has fallen on some social networking companies since people can gain access to personal information. Social network members may post any personal information on their web pages in addition to posting scantly clad, as well as nude pictures along with vulgarity that may be accessed by anyone with a connection to the internet. Over fifty million visitors logged on MySpace.com in one month last year, which suggests that, the popularity of social networking web sites is not going anywhere for quite a while. Teens all over the world have shown they enjoy the use of social networking, and the lack of supervision of the sites themselves can only continue to add chaos to an already established craze. The education profession must first learn these social sites, and then teach students successful ways to govern their personal use of the web sites. There are many positive aspects to social networks members are using today to "get ahead" in the technology world. Focus Questions As you study the following case, keep these questions in mind: (1) Are social networks appropriate resources for use in education? (2) Do students develop the social skills needed for their future careers, through the use of social networks? (3) Do social networks nullify ethics practices in education and business? The Case For A Good Cause The sixth period Entrepreneurship and Small Business Management Class at Lemon Bay High School is made up of juniors and seniors. The class is split right down the middle with twelve boys and twelve girls. All of the students in the class have taken at least one other business course while attending high school. The teacher, Mr. Jimmy Edwards, enjoys this group of students very much. He has considered giving the class a final project, as he always does, but this time he gives the students a bit more liberty to complete the task. Normally Mr. Edwards assigns a fundraising task to donate the proceeds to a local charity, however this year a neighboring community has been devastated by a natural disaster that tore through the community. The class is split evenly into two teams, the blue team and the orange team. Both groups are given the task of developing a promotional campaign to raise as much money as possible with, all proceeds collected by both teams going to the neighboring The University of Alabama Computers and Applied Technology Program (2009). Technology 2 Education: A series of case studies. Available at http://www.bamaed.ua.edu/edtechcases/. Updated April 16, 2009 communities' relief effort. The fundraising project will take place for a four week time period and the goal for the class is to raise approximately four thousand dollars. The orange team gets right to work using their creative and decorative skills to create a banner, posters, and flyers to be posted all over school. The team also decides to set up a table before and after school outside of Mr. Edwards's room, and they set up a table in the lunchroom for the whole school to donate. The blue team realizes the orange team will decorate posters and flyers, yet they choose to use this approach as well. They avoid creating a banner to post in the school, but they do collect money before and after school, as well as at lunch by alternating guys to wear signs and carry money cans all throughout the day. Ted is the Chief Executive Officer of the blue team. His brother is in a rock band, and they post songs and videos of the band on the popular social networking site MySpace.com. Ted's brother has commented numerous times about the band's popularity growing because the free promotion they get online. Ted has the idea to create a MySpace page discussing the fundraiser, and puts links to photos of the devastation on the webpage. At the top of the page Ted posts the comment "Please help us help them" with the school address and phone number on the web page. Mr. Edwards is a bit leery of the use of any social networks as a marketing and promotional tool, because of all the negative publicity some of the web sites have had in the past. His fear is that comments published to the web pages may be detrimental to the outlook of the school and community, if the web space is not governed properly. Another concern of Mr. Edwards is that the county which he teaches in has established a county wide block of any social networking websites. He is very excited that Ted has come up with an innovative promotional strategy, and would like to see if the social network can help to generate some much needed fund raising dollars. Discussion Questions (1) Should the blue team be prohibited from the use of social networks on school premises for this fundraising opportunity? (2) Is the county wide block of social networks hindering the students' ability to develop critical communication skills? (3) Should Mr. Edwards be less concerned with the students' promotional methods, and more concerned with the amount of money each team is bringing in? (4) Would the blue team lose a substantial amount of donations if Mr. Edwards were to stop them from using the social network as a promotional method? Links www.myspace.com www.facebook.com The University of Alabama Computers and Applied Technology Program (2009). Technology 3 Education: A series of case studies. Available at http://www.bamaed.ua.edu/edtechcases/. Updated April 16, 2009 www.linkedin.com www.blackplanet.com Resources BBC to launch social networking websites. (British Broadcasting Corporation) (2007, January, 11). Internet Business News, Retrieved March 15, 2007, from General Reference Center Gold. Thomson Gale database. Alabama Virtual Library Remote Access. 23 Mar. 2007 Bird, C (2006, November, 26). Social Networking: it's a teen thing. National Catholic Reporter, Retrieved February 25, 2007, from http://findarticles.com/p/articles/mi_ml 141/is_6_43/ai_n17154183/ Hanging with the in-crowd; social networking (2006, September, 16). The Economist, Retrieved March 15, 2007, from Student Edition via Thomson Gale database. MAKING IN AMERICA: Lily Allen. (Feb 17, 2007) In Music Week, p8. Retrieved March 01, 2007, from Student Edition via Thomson Gale: http: //find. galegroup. com/ips/infomark. do?&contentSet=IAC- Merlin establishes with Snocap for MySpace (2007, January, 22). Internet Business News, Retrieved March 15, 2007, from Thomson Gale database. Roach, R (2006). Prospective college students receptive to electronic social networking recruitment methods, survey finds. Diverse Issues in Higher Education online December 2006 edition Siklos, R (2007, January 21). Big Media's Crush on Social Networking. The New York Times, online: Business Section. Whiting, R (2007, February, 19). Social Networking: Not Just For Teens Anymore. VARbusiness, 23.4, Retrieved February 24, 2007 from http://find.galegroup.com The University of Alabama Computers and Applied Technology Program (2009). Technology 4 Education: A series of case studies. Available at http://www.bamaed.ua.edu/edtechcases/.
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December 21, 2009, New York, NY -- "Doing it the old way really doesn't work," according to film producer Thomas Woodrow, "So few films actually succeed that way." It's a sentiment that's been shared in countless panel discussions and private conversations in 2009. Now, with a new year and another c...Read More »
December 14, 2009, New York, NY -- In theaters, via VOD, online and DVD, more and more movies are available on various platforms these days, but with so many options, how do you filter to find new and classic films? Personally speaking, I mainly rely on friends and film critics.Read More »
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Amsterdam, The Netherlands, November 23, 2009 -- This 15th weekly column begins with why I love Frederick Wiseman and concludes with why I love documentary cinema. Since seeing "La Danse" a few weeks ago at New York's Film Forum, I've been wanting to make the following statement: Frederick Wiseman i...Read More »
This speech was delivered at the recent CPH:DOX Forum in Copenhagen. Jon Reiss will be doing a presentation today at 6 p.m. at IFC Center in Manhattan and selling his book, "Think Outside the Box Office," immediately after. The book is also available for purchase on his website.Read More »
New York, NY, November 16, 2009 -- The annual New York Film Critics Circle awards dinner on January 14, 2001 gathered the group of leading U.S. film critics at Windows on the World atop the North Tower of New York City's World Trade Center. For many reasons, it's a night that is hard to forget. In a...Read More »
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As my kitchen turned master bathroom nears completion, I have had a few more people come through for some of the finishing touches. If I have had six people see the bathroom, five of them have asked why I didn't either move the window or move the bathtub so that the bathtub was in front of the window.
Because I didn't want to.
Now, I will freely admit that I am a lot more practical than most and I will make a mind movie in a minute so as I think about the bathing experience, I cannot, for the life of me, come up with a good reason to have the tub in front of the window. During the day, when I would be able to see the lovely view of my neighbor's yard outside my window, I'm rarely afforded the time to languish in a tub. When I do have that kind of time, it is late evening or nighttime, when that window becomes a big black square. Nothing to be seen there. And neither of these even address the issue of doing a jaybird imitation in front of a window. Yet, every picture in every magazine and on every show has the bathtub in front of a window.
Am I missing something? Am I really the only one in America that doesn't want my Mrs. Doubtfire figure on display?
If it isn't a good idea to you, then it isn't a good idea for your room. Those five people can take baths in their own houses(!) lol.
When we bought our house 20+ years ago, there was a pair of casement windows behind the jacuzzi tub in the masterbath. When we renovated the room, we replaced them with double hung windows. With top-down/bottom-up shades, we are able to open the windows from the top for sunlight and a lovely breeze... and spare our neighbors from their Mrs. Doubtfire view. Sometimes though, once I'm in the tub, I like to raise up the windows for a cooling breeze. Sitting in the tub, I don't see the neighbors' house, just the treetops outside my window. Ahhhhhh!
I wonder if the home location and yard make a difference for people putting tubs below windows. My master bathroom (while not actually large enough for a tub) faces the street. If I were to have a tub in front of a big window, my neighbors would certainly be able to enjoy a view as well. I actually do have a window in my bathroom and I always keep the shade drawn. I haven't remodeled yet, but I've wondered what I will end up doing. Honestly, I don't really want my neighbors watching anything I do in the bathroom. If I had a large yard surrounded by trees and my bathroom faced the back of the house with a nice view of the yard and no neighbors, I would be more than happy to have a nice big window and not worry about drawing the shades.
Thanks for the responses! I actually have two, almost floor to ceiling, windows in my bathroom but neither are in front of the tub. I plan to put window film on the glass so light can come through but all things bathroom related remain private.
I just wondered if there was a reason, other than personal preference, why all of the bathtubs were in front of a window.
There's only so much wall space in a bathroom, and with most of it being taken up by mirrors over the sink, floor-to-ceiling tile in a shower, or a linen closet, etc, a logical place for a large window would indeed be over the low-height tub.
But I do agree, it depends on what (and who!) is outside of the window.
The back of my house overlooks woods and a lake. No neighbors. No pedestrians. No street view. Plus being on the second floor, there's the vertical isolation.
So there's the window over the tub, which I have no problem with...but there's the context of what's outside the window that can matter.
I do like the "top-down-bottom-up" window shades for tub windows. That way the bottom part of the window can be covered, but light can come through the top, like this one:
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Those are nice shades! I live in an urban area so someone can potentially see me through every window in my home. I don't mind that because I love living in the city. But seeing me enjoy a meal in my dining room is a little different than seeing me hike up a leg and sink down into my tub.
Dekeoboe, my house is over a hundred years old so the windows are hardly new! The film I'm using is the peel and stick variety so they can be taken off in the event I get liposuction or fall madly in love with my neighbors.
Sapphire69, I am with you. I don't understand the tub with windows idea. I do not think I know anybody wealthy enough to own enough land to make bathing in front of their window a sure-fire private occasion. A neighbor with a pair of binoculars could be on their own second floor. Or a hiker could be on a hill or a hunter in a tree stand. I would consider bottom up/top down shades essential for the tub windows.
Glad to see I'm not alone! After it was mentioned to me, I went looking at bathrooms online and they ALL had the tub in front of the window! For more than one reason, it was never a consideration for my bathroom.


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That, sir, is an oxymoron. Like "Military Intelligence" or "Deafening silence" or "clean coal"
The "mass pound" and "weight pound" may be equal at sea level in a certain location or whatever, but probably not equal at any other gravitational potential, which must make for some confusing equations and explanations. Therefore, Why the willful misunderstanding? Because its icky to have the same name for inertial mass and gravitational weight/force.
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Female U.S. Senators demand 'swift justice' against Malala's attackers
Washington, Oct. 21 (ANI): Fifteen female U.S. Senators have written a letter to Pakistan Prime Minister Raja Pervez Ashraf, expressing their outrage over the Taliban attack on teen education campaigner Malala Yousufzai and her friends Shazia Ramzan and Kainat Riaz.
The senators called upon the government to bring the attackers to justice and continue working to confront extremism and violence against Pakistani children, reports The Express Tribune.
Malala, 14, who earned international fame for raising voice against Taliban oppression in Swat, was shot in the neck and head and her two friends sustained injuries when the Tehrik-i-Taliban Pakistan (TTP) opened fire on their school van in Swat valley on October 9.
The senators, led by the Senate Select Committee on Intelligence Chairman, Senator Dianne Feinstein, said in the letter that an "attack against Malala represented an attack against all women across the world, and must not be tolerated".
"We hope that the Government of Pakistan will continue to work to confront extremism and heinous violence against its own children. We urge you to ensure that the perpetrators of this violence are brought to justice quickly, and that you might also redouble your own efforts to safeguard and advance girls' access to education and opportunities for them to reach their full potential as contributing and productive citizens," the letter stated.
The letter further stated that the world was horrified by the "brazen nature of the attack".
Malala is now recuperating at a hospital in Birmingham, UK. (ANI)
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Candle organization?
I went a tad overboard at Bath & Body Works semi-annual sale with candle purchases. I got all the sizes, small medium & large. I'd like to have them within easy reach so I can just grab and burn whichever one, whenever I'd like. Right now I have them still in the bag; looking for a storage solution. Any ideas? Thanks!
I store candles in a linen chest right inside the front door. It also holds extra sunglasses, house keys for guests, and table linens.
Look for a drawer you can clean out, and put a lighter and candle holders there too. It wouldn't hurt to also store a flashlight there, and you'll know where to head if the power goes out.
Think about whether you do best with "at hand" storage or centralized. If you have a main area that is the most common place you use the candles, see if you can store them -plus all the go-with's as claire said above--right near by. For me it makes me more likely to use them. I use a drawer in a buffet and I do keep the lighter and holders there too.
Also--and it's too late to hear this--I am moving back toward less candles is less work. I too get all fired up about them, I like certain colors or scents in certain rooms and seasons, used to like varying heights, using 3 together, all sorts of things. Then I would find that I needed to keep so many in order to fill out my "arrangements" or match or whatever, and one day it just all seemed like so much hoo-ha. In particular I have become disenamored of tall pillars because I end up wasting them unless I also use a saw or something to cut down and start fresh.
So to some extent this can be overcome by simplifying one's candle system--stick with all unscented white, or all red, or all a certain size. But, you might find that your next plan is to buy fewer candles, regardless of price!
I keep all my candles stacked on a small table in my family room. I like to look at them, some are in interesting glass bottles,they are all different colors, and I think some of their scent diffuses into the room. Stacked tallest in back, etc they provide a little "interest." My cat leaves them alone, guess she doesn't like the scent.
I have a basket that I keep all my votives in. It is on a shelf in my back bedroom so whenever I go in there, it smells yummy. I have a bottom shelf in a corner hutch that my jar candles all fit in. I don't like/use pillar candles and only use tapers for special occassions which I store in the fridge. I have a local candle store I frequent and they do candle refills for $.75 an ounce in whatever container you want. So I'm always taking in jars I find interesting to have filled w/candle wax of my favorite scents. Needless to say, I am looking for another storage area which I think is going to be a shelf in the in the entertainment center. I've just recently discovered Scentsy so have been buying those whenever I'm invited to a party. Haven't tried B&BW candles yet. I don't dare...I'll need a whole room just for candle storage at the rate I'm going!! :o)


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I have always been ambivalent about the Boy Scouts of America. The programs are tremendous. Boys learn a lot and have a ton of fun.
But… the Boy Scouts have traditionally told its members that gay men and boys, ranging from 10% to 20% of the US male population, is not welcome. While not openly criticizing gays, the Boys Scouts' message has been clear: gays are bad and need to be kept away from "normal" boys, for the health of the "normal" boys.
I was a Boy Scout. Both of my sons were Boy Scouts. One of them earned his Eagle. Early in their scouting careers, I talked to them about this. I bluntly told them that they should certainly enjoy scouting but needed to be aware of this one piece and that I thought it was wrong. I told them that all men and all boys are people and deserve to be welcomed and appreciated, regardless of their sexual preferences.
Now the Boy Scouts is considering a shift in policy at the national level only. If adopted, it would be up to the local scouting organizations to decide whether to accept or reject gay men and boys.
I applaud the Boy Scouts of America for finally, openly considering a shift to be more inclusive. Sexual contact between Boy Scouts, and between the boys and the Boy Scout leaders is, and has been, illegal and against BSA rules, regardless of sexual orientation. Dropping this ban will have no effect on the scouting program.
And… I believe that the Boy Scouts of America needs to do more than adopt a national policy, leaving the local organizations to determine for themselves whether to follow suit or whether to continue to ban gays. I believe that the BSA needs to bluntly state that all men and all boys are welcome, regardless of sexual orientation; just as all are welcome regardless of skin color or religious preference. BSA needs to actively push that policy down to all of its troops, packs, and local organizations.
Some sponsoring groups, such as the Catholic Church and the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, may choose to discontinue supporting BSA organizations because of this decision. That is, of course, their right. It is important to realize, however, that a Boy Scout troop or a Cub Scout pack is a distinct organization from its sponsor. The troop or pack is not a part of the Catholic Church or a part of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. The local scouting organizations can, and should, operate under their own set of rules and guidelines.
It is time to stop treating gay men and boys as infectious carriers of a contagious disease. There have always been gay Boys Scouts and Boy Scout leaders. There always will be.
Few wives are as lucky as Candy. Not only does she have a freshly spray painted rudder push-pull tube drying in her dining room, but it is hanging from her chandelier! I'll bet that none of her girlfriends have anything anywhere near this cool.
Then again, maybe I'm lucky that she lets me build an airplane… in her garage… and sometimes in her house.
Thanks, Candy!
Good news: The Missouri State Teachers Association (MSTA) filed a law suit on Friday challenging Missouri Senate Bill 54, also known as the Amy Hestir Student Protection Act. The MSTA has asked the court to block implementation of the law pending a review of its constitutionality.
In addition to the problems that I cited in my earlier post, the law also forbids teachers who also happen to be parents from communicating privately with their own children.
While I fully understand the desire to protect children, and the desire to create legislation which will forge a safe society, the Amy Hestir Student Protection Act perfectly exemplifies a failing attempt to use a law to solve a problem which cannot be solved by government. The government can, and already has, made it illegal for adults and children to have inappropriate sexual contact. The government cannot force adults and children to only communicate "safely." We adults, parents, teachers, etc., bear the responsibility to teach our children how to communicate safely. We teach our kids about secrets, safe and dangerous; about telling a trusted adult if another adult does or says anything suspicious; etc. Most importantly, we teach our children how to build appropriate relationships with other adults. Teachers, in addition to teaching academics, play a vitally important role in helping children learn how to interact with adults.
Missouri is in the process of implementing a particularly bad law, forbidding contact on social networks between teachers and students. Formally, this is Missouri Senate Bill 54, the Amy Hestir Student Protection Act. The aim is laudable: protect vulnerable kids from predacious educators. Unfortunately, the law as written, and as being implemented by the school districts, is so problem-ridden that it does way more harm that good.
Here is a typical comment on implementation:
The Fort Zumwalt School District revised its electronic communications policy in June. "Basically our policy says that our teachers cannot have private conversations on a social network site," said Superintendent Bernard DuBray. "You can have students on Facebook and other sites, but you don't have a private conversation on them."
Any communications between students and teachers has to be open and available to parents and administrators, he said.
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The law prohibits social networking contact between students, past and present, and teachers. Here are just a few reasons why it is a bad law.
Teachers play a critically important role in the lives of many students. Often, kids will talk to teachers about things that they will not discuss with their parents. For instance, one of my high school friends trusted one of her teachers enough to have frank dialogs about sexual identity and pre-marital sex. These conversations happen in ways that are comfortable for the student. Most important, these conversations take place in private. If a student is comfortable talking on Facebook or via text messages, blocking that channel discourages the communication. I know a family of children suffering in an abusive home situation. (Yes, the local authorities are aware.) Can you imagine any of these kids talking to a teacher about it if the conversation was also open to the parents?
This law sends a whole host of bad messages to students. It tells them that, as a group, teachers are untrustworthy. It tells students that they are not skillful enough to judge safe versus unsafe private communication with teachers. It tells kids that they cannot learn about safe social networking with their teachers, though other adults are OK. It tells them that lawmakers and school districts can protect them in their on-line activities. None of these messages are true.
The Amy Hestir Student Protection Act overreaches any bounds of sanity. It forbids me, as a grey-bearded computer engineer, from having a private conversation on LinkedIn, a social networking site geared towards professional careers, with my high school physics teacher. It forbids a student from sending a text message to a teacher, even one saying, "Caught in traffic. Will be 5 minutes late. Don't let the field trip bus leave." It forbids a teacher from responding via text message, "OK."
As adults, we certainly need to keep our kids safe. We do that by teaching them good judgement and empowering them to practice that judgement in reasonably safe venues. We encourage our children to grow into independent adults who can protect themselves. We fail completely with bad laws like the Amy Hestir Student Protection Act.
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My greatest cheerleader never stopped believing.
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This article is hard to write not because of any uncertainty about what I want to say but simply because I want to gently suggest an idea to you. I do not want to come across as a know-it-all and raise your defenses. Maybe I worry too much. I am quite sure that you are open to considering new points of view; why else would you read posts like this? But still, I fret.
TV excites. The news makes our blood boil. It cranks us up, inflames our passions, gets the adrenaline pumping.
Talk radio excites. We tune in to shows that align with our own beliefs and listen to the callers who are most fired up, most opinionated.
It is all too easy to carry this excitement into our conversations. I have played scenes like this all too frequently:
I meet up with you and we start talking about the news of the day. I heard some great story on the radio and it confirmed my opinions. I know what should be done so I tell you all about it. You know what should be done, too, and you tell me about your ideas. Trouble is, we do not agree. Since time is short, I cut to the chase to convince you that my ideas are right. I struggle to find the words that will change your mind. Eventually, we part ways. I am wired and whipped. The conversation was hard work, frustratingly so because I could not convince you. If only you would see it my way!
Sound familiar? I know that I can easily drop into that mode. I know that I have done so when I leave a conversation feeling somewhere between mildly annoyed and thoroughly angered because yet again I failed to convince. When we do that, we get caught between exhaustion and urgency. We tire of trying yet we cannot abandon the effort because so much is at stake.
I have found another way to converse which inevitably leaves me feeling good about my interactions. It is a little more work at the front-end of a dialog because I often tend toward my convince-you mode and I need to catch myself and change my pattern. Here is the trick: When I start a conversation with you, I consciously ask myself, How can I delight you today? That simple question changes my focus from me to you. Though I may enter the dialog with an idea in mind, an idea that I want to convey, I open myself to what you want to take away from our conversation. Maybe you have something that you need to get off your chest. Maybe you need to vent before you can hear my idea. Maybe you are so consumed with something else that my concerns pale in comparison. Maybe your mind is made up and we can agree to disagree before moving on to a more rewarding topic. Whatever it is, if I can delight you in our conversation then I will always leave the conversation invigorated and cheered rather than battle weary. Smiles are infectious. One of the best ways that I know to make myself smile is to see a smile on your face.
After I ask, How can I delight you today?, my immediate task is to find the answer. I have to know the how. When I was growing up, I tuned my E.S.P. to help with my interpersonal interactions. You probably did this, too. Have you ever wanted something particular for Christmas but been banned from asking for it because asking just is not right? Have you ever wondered what to get someone for his birthday but not asked what he wants because asking is just plain wrong? Trouble is, try as I might, I never got very good at the E.S.P. thing. One bad example came in junior high school when I got my dad a really cool atlas for Father's Day. He received it graciously but I do not think he ever opened the book. I was such a sensitive, loving son.
I have learned that the best way to answer, How can I delight you today? is to pay careful attention to what you say. When you are talking, I listen. Instead of trying to formulate my next sentence, instead of thinking about what I will say next, I pay attention to what you are saying. The downside is that there might be lulls in our conversation. After you stop speaking, there might be a little silence while I digest what I heard and come up with a reply. That's OK; if it moves me from convincing-you mode to conversing-with-you mode, the lull is a small price to pay.
Many of these ideas come from Nonviolent Communication: A Language of Compassion by Marshall B. Rosenberg. His writing is kind of dry but his ideas are golden. When we talk or write with the goal of simply understanding each other we grow closer together and avoid violence. At least in my life, I have found him to be right. For instance, I found myself arguing less frequently with my sons after I switched from telling them stuff to consciously trying to delight them. That did not mean that I gave up parenting them, that I tried to always give them what they wanted instead of what I thought they needed. I just climbed down off my high horse.
At the beginning of this blog posting, I worried that I would put you off. I hope that, instead, I have brought a little delight into your day. Please let me know how I did.
As I was running the other morning, I jogged past a mom who was shepherding her little ones out the front door and over to the school bus stop. The mother was a few steps behind her young daughter and I caught this snippet of conversation:
Mom: You have a spelling test today, Susan. I don't know where your words are.
Susan: I know them, Mom.
Mom: You sure?
I was stunned; this mother had had the chance to build her daughter up by responding, "That's great, Susan! I'm so proud of you." Instead, she told Susan that, not only was her word not to be trusted but that her ability to actually learn her spelling words was in doubt. With those double blows to her ego, it was no wonder that Susan had no answer to her mom's question.
You can spoil a child with too many material things but you cannot spoil a child with too much love. Legitimate praise for a job well done, legitimate recognition for honest effort, is always in order. Imagine how good it feels to have someone tell you that they believe in you, that they believe you did something well. Give the gift of that feeling to your children as often as you can. Be your kids' biggest cheerleader. I know you can and I know that you will be great at it.
We just watched Around the Bend with Michael Caine, Christopher Walken and Josh Lucas. To say that it was way better than I expected would be a gross understatement. I thoroughly enjoyed watching the family secrets slowly reveal, the characters slowly grow together, and the idiosyncrasies slowly resolve into sense.
There were moments when I chuckled at the thought of creating a situation like that for my kids. (Don't worry, guys, I won't really do it. Probably.) Mostly I left the film with a sense of gratitude for the closeness that we do have in my family. No, we aren't the Brady Bunch but I think we do pretty darned well.
We do have our bits of estrangement in the family, though; my grandfather, Joe Zemon, being a case in point. Neither my father nor my uncle (the two dashing young men in the photo to the right) would say word one about him to me or to any of my four cousins, yet I'm named after him. Who was he really and, before dying young, what did he do with his life?
I do kind of wish there was still a way to take a road trip with my dad and sons. It's too late to take my father along (moribund jokes aside) but I expect there will be more trips with the kids.
You'll find Around the Bend on Netflix (both watch instantly and as a disc). Highly recommended.
David, my younger son, co-organized the St. Louis Saab Convoy last weekend. Despite miserable weather, the St. Louis Swede Speed club got about 25 people to bring a dozen cars out for the St. Louis Save Saab Convoy, urging GM to sell Saab rather than close down the line.
Fox 2 News even covered the event. Click the photo to watch Fox's video.
Great job, David! Maybe your next Saab will have a Spyker engine hiding under the hood.


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Summer with the grandparents did not seem like a fun idea for me. They were much older than grandparents of my friends. They were the grandparents on my mom's side of the family. Mom and dad had us when they were almost 40 so grandma and grandpa were in their 60s. They did not even have Internet at their house. I had to go while mom and dad worked some things out. I had some money I saved up and asked if they would install Frontier Internet for Idaho before I arrived by plane. They were willing to go out of their way to keep me, and they figured that the technology would help me feel at home.
I fully intended to hide in whatever room they put me in and wile away the days communicating online with my friends back home. I was not there but a few hours when my grandfather asked me to explain a little bit about social media. He watched me get the router password and access the Internet on my tablet without any difficulty and was impressed. He told me all this later on. I have this natural desire to teach, and any opportunity that comes up to teach someone something makes me feel good. My grandfather later told me he knew that about me since I was a very young man.
As the weeks went by my grandmother and grandfather ended up with their own tablet computers. They got their own social media profiles, and they were now pretty savvy in everything from email to online security concerns. I will never forget the first day my grandmother bought something online. Now my grandfather has his own auction account and buys and sells. It was a fantastic summer. I did not want to leave. My mom and dad worked out their issues finally. It was nice going home, but it was also very nice to be invited back to stay at my grandparent's home whenever I wanted.


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Trevor Bayne to sit out Dover, return at All-Star race
CONCORD, N.C. (AP) Daytona 500 winner Trevor Bayne (FSY) will miss his third straight race this weekend when Kevin Swindell fills in for him at Dover International Speedway.
Bayne spent a week at the Mayo Clinic undergoing treatment for what doctors have called an inflammatory condition. He was released last Thursday.
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Roush Fenway president Steve Newmark says the team is encouraged by Bayne's progress but is being cautious in holding him out an additional week.
"Trevor's symptoms have subsided and we are very encouraged by his progress," Newmark said. "Still, we are going to exercise an element of caution with his return to the track and keep him out of competition for at least another week."
Newmark says Bayne should race in next week's All-Star race for the Wood Brothers, and return to his Nationwide ride in the May 22 event at Iowa.
"Trevor is itching to get back out on the race track, and, although it's hard to keep someone with his passion away, we feel it is in his best interest to hold off for another week," Newmark said.
Swindell, meanwhile, will make his fourth Nationwide start and first of this season. He's the son of Sprint Car star Sammy Swindell.
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Fifth annual Minneapolis Youth Violence Prevention Week begins March 23
The City of Minneapolis, in collaboration with PeaceMaker Minnesota, Minneapolis Public Schools, and Minneapolis Youth Congress – is encouraging the public and local agencies to participate in a week that calls attention to the issue of youth violence and how to prevent it in the community.
The week's activities include:
March 23: Intergenerational Community Discussion Circle
Emerge Community Development, 1101 West Broadway Ave, 5:30 pm-7:30 pm
March 24: Intergenerational Community Discussion Circle
We Win Institute, 3751 17th Ave S, 5:30 pm-7:30 pm
These events are an opportunity for community elders, adults and youth to come together to discuss youth violence prevention in their community.
March 25: Brothers and Fathers Institute Conference
U of M Humphrey School of Public Affairs, 301 19th Ave. S., 8:30 am-2:30 pm
In line with the mission of My Brother's Keeper, The Brothers and Fathers Institute is a conference designed specifically to help young men 14 to 24 reach their full potential. The institute empowers young fathers and young men who are at risk for early fatherhood. For more information and to register, see the Eventbrite invitation here.
March 26: Minneapolis PeaceMaker Awards Ceremony
Colin Powell Leadership Center, 2924 4th Ave S, 4:30 pm- 6:30 pm
March 27: Youth-led Peace Party
YMCA, 1711 West Broadway, 4:00 pm-8:00 pm
Event will feature:
Open Mic with spoken word, poetry, and rap
Launch of contest to compose original youth violence prevention songs, raps, etc.
Twin Cities artist Xross debuts Youth Violence Prevention song
Music, dancing and fun
Anyone can nominate a Minneapolis student, teacher, staff or youth worker for the Minneapolis PeaceMaker Award. This award is an opportunity to recognize people who are making a difference in Minneapolis schools through addressing youth violence and foster community peace. Winners will receive an award and cash prizes ranging from $250 to $1,000 for their school.
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Need a plant to shield water spray on tomato and beans
I don't exactly have a potager but I thought this would be a good place to ask this question. I have a particular raised bed in a corner that borders on our very small patch of lawn. The lawn is watered by a sprinkler system. The lawn is my husband's "area" of our garden and he has this random method of watering at what I personally consider to be odd intervals. He pretty much obliterated last year's rose season when I found out that he had their water line going at 4 am. Doesn't matter. Anyway, my problem is that when the sprinklers are on they can reach into about 2 feet wide of my 4-5 foot wide raised bed. Normally I wouldn't mind help with the watering except that everything I read about beans and tomatoes say keep the leaves dry. I was thinking of planting something along the edge of the bed that reaches maybe 24' so that it could perhaps shield my veggies behind.
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Could you expand your garden towards the sprinkler head? If so, your husband could adjust the sprinkler, so it isn't watering your garden, but he won't end up with a dead patch of grass.
Some nice flowers would give you a potager feel and help attract beneficial bugs. My favorites are marigolds (helps tomatoes by keeping away nematodes) zinnias, alyssum, nasturtiums and stock. Alyssum is great for keeping down weeds between the veggies and has a great fragrance...I love the lavender/white combination :)


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When you mention the ironic "The whole world is wrong and we are right." are you actually thinking about the US attitude of maintaining the embargo on Cuba? Or is it about the numerous US vetoes about Israel/Palestine conflict against most of the international community?
Should we include in the "not quite perfect record" of the US, the over a million death in Irak as pointed out by the well respected lancet?
The amount of death and torture initiated by US driven conflicts makes Castro and his regime appear like juvenile delinquents.
America is a trading partner with China, Russia, and North Vietnam, all former enemies. Trade, travel, and interchange between the USA and those countries has helped open them up to new and better ideas. The same will be true of Cuba. It is time to resume some form of relationship with Cuba, not carry on a fifty-year old feud. Imagine Cuba holding democratic elections in the near future as the society is opened up.
@ Pallisito
I like to believe it all has to do with strategy connecting to changing demographics. You are right that 50 years has achieved nothing in changing the current government and I firmly believe nothing will change as long as we have stubborn machismo leaders who enjoy power.
When the Soviet Empire collapsed and everyone stepped into the light, Castro made the defiant statement, "Marxismo, Lenninismo o muerto" and subsequently took his country into the worst self inflicted recession in history.
Hopefully with an aging country that is growing tired of its situation, not only with the USA but the rest of the world, a new demogrpahic of leaders will bring change. They must have already become tired of their situation in order to create the ironic joking twist statement, "the whole world is wrong and we are right".
Their propaganda is so tuned to the slightest adjustment by the civilised world towards Cuba as a sign of defeat and admission of being wrong (the whole world is wrong and we are right). We should not give them this opportunity. They should come to the horrid universal realisation of how they have been left behind and the world simply doesn't care for them.
If they don't want to play fair they must be left in the reserve bench.
When Cubans in the Island -including the Cuban government- say "the whole world is wrong and we are right" they say it with an ironical, joking twist...
Here in Miami, we Cuban-Americans echo the same sentiment and use the same phrase, but, amazingly, we mean it...
That senseless mantra -which is ensconced in US policy towards Cuba- has led the US to refuse to play ball with the Cuban regime -as we have with China, with Vietnam and with other less than scrupulous regimes- and simply let the ball play us (in the guise of a dissident's suicide, a brutal and violent shoot-down of unarmed aircrafts, a new wave of repression and incarcerations) whenever a bearded Providence throws the ball at us...
What we do not seem to understand is that it is in the Cuban regime's interest for us to continue in this reactive mode, whenever the ball hits us, which is usually when we least expect it to. They can afford to be ironic about their being right and the whole world wrong, because they are in power, in control; we are not. We have not accomplished anything in over fifty years of dismissing what the rest of the world thinks of our policy towards Cuba, and we will not until we see the irony in it and decide to change it.
The primary beneficiary if the US embargo ends will be the Cuban sex industry. $2 goes a long way in Havana where professionals take up the trade and increase their income by 800% or more. Flights from the US are certain to increase. Cuba cannot compete with the hundreds of tropical destinations elsewhere.
There is no other real trade to be had, everything that Cuba has to trade already is being traded. The Cuban tourist infrastructure is inadequate and Cuban law precludes attracting investment capital. Cuba for the short term has only one option, only one marketing niche.
The Cuban economy already relies upon the sex trade, the end of the embargo can only in the short term increase this primary Cuban industry.
Carlos has a point. The Cuban leaders cannot see the forest for the trees. When a country is led by paranoid ideologues it will be hard for the future to arrive. The U.S has gone through countless President's, conservatives and liberals, while the Castros have been in power. Hell, Jimmy Carter was president during this time and he did nothing while the Ayatollah Khomeini took power of Iran. So for any to say that the US-Cuban relation is tenuous because of the U.S. is silly. The Cuban government is so paranoid they have even spurned President Obama. If Cubans want to be liberated from the control of the Castros, they should better look to themselves than from a lifting of embargos. I don't believe any amount of tourism will make a difference. The laws of Cuba will not have changed if tourist start going to Cuba. Americans casting dispersion about that gov't will be arrested, and put in danger the lives of those Cubans who they convey such notions to. Such are the practises of the Cuban gov't even now. It is Cuban law that is truly restrictive, not so much US laws. US laws is to protect it's citizens from ending up liek that USAID worker. In a Cuban jail for no reason.
I don't want to sound like an apologist for the Cuban government, which is abominable. But when they accuse people of being "spies," or of working for the overthrow of the regime, they aren't entirely off-base. The single most subversive thing a person could do in any of these authoritarian countries - Cuba, Iran, China, North Korea, Russia - is to provide people there with access to accurate information about the outside world.
Andrei Lankov's article in the November/December 2009 issue of Foreign Affairs goes into a lot of detail about how improved access to information could weaken the grip of the North Korean government. This isn't easy or quick-acting, but over the long term it could produce a virtuous cycle.
So, on the one hand, I think providing Cubans with internet access is great. On the other, I can understand why the communist government would be hostile to such efforts, no matter how innocent the intentions of those involved.
@ alexlondon I guess you can always talk something up and talk something down.
Cuba can have a lot of respect in Africa but at the same time countries like Angola (which Cuba apparently helped liberate) were all too happy to kick out the Cubans. I don't think you will find many Ethiopians who will talk well about Cuba. Cuba helped Mengistu cast terror like never seen before. Mengistu was eventually chased out of the country, tried and convicted for crimes against humanity (in abstentia). Mengistu is currently in hiding in Zimbabwe and Ethiopia was split in two (Eritrea was born as a country) thanks to the Cubans. In fact a dirty little secret of the Cubans is their instigation in what became the great Ethiopian famine of the 80's. I can go on and on talking about Cuba's atrocities in, for example, Mozambique where Cubans literally killed civilians and forced them to cut sugar cane. So now I have talked Cuba down.
Just as a counter, let me talk the USA up: You talk about US history, what about US history liberating countries like Kuwait, their deciding role in the second world war, etc?
The issue is that this is all history and most countries (particularly the USA) change as their administrations change. Through open argument, peoples' awareness and demands for better governance change. And I would like to imagine the USA does evolve into trying to be better, particularly in human rights.
Cuba on the other hand is not changing and not even trying to change. That's the core issue of the argument.
Who do you think the world respects more, USA or Cuba?
On second thought, I don't know why the USA is dragged into this. How about we compare capitalistic Canada to Cuba?
When referring to a process of governance, if an American were to say, "the whole world is wrong and we are right" that would be a nonsense statement. Most of the world has embraced Capitalist Democracy with freedom of speech as a central core to their principles.
I have been to Cuba, and seen with my own eyes the amount of propaganda that is fiercely pumped through their TV and press. Ongoing statements praising only Cuba and demonising the Europeans, USA and just about any other democratic successful nation. And that is where I learnt that the Cubans have even become numb to the propaganda and have a cultural phrase of disapproval, "the whole world is wrong and we are right".
I invite you to research CUBA and the UNHRC.
Even before the invention of the "unitary presidency", the President was allowed to conduct foreign policy pretty much however he saw fit, short of declaring war, and occasionally bringing a treat back to congress for them to approve. Thus, the current US treatment of Cuba is squarely in the domain of President Obama. It is not Bush's fault, the Republicans' fault, or Congress' fault. Mr. Obama could go far further towards normalizing relations if he wanted to.
The reality is that it serves the interests of both governments to maintain each other as enemies, even though it does not serve the interests of the citizens of both countries. Perhaps Mr. Obama doesn't particular care about Cuba either way, but given his ever-diminishing support in congress, cannot afford to loose a single vote on issues that he really does care about, and in true Chicago political style, he's willing to sacrifice Cuban-American relations (and the people of Cuba) in some horse-trading for votes on things he really wants like national health care.
To those who expected better, all I can say is, "How's that hope and change working out for you?"
However tragic these cases may be from a human point of view they should never be allowed to come in the way of larger State-to-State relationships.
I find this particularly true of Cuba vis-a-vis the US with the no less tragic 50-year history of back-to-back relations towering in the backdrop.
There is no denying the fact that this American Administration opened up new opportunities for Cuba to grab, both in words and small but significant goodwill gestures.
I would have expected Cuba to read them up correctly while acknowledging that internal political evolution will eventually have to come about.
It is not because of American pressure or the whimsical wishes of Cuban-Americans.
The Cuban model has had its heyday delivering on important areas of social advancement but also failing miserably on many others.
It would demonstrate foresight and wisdom if the Cuban leadership could see beyond ideology toughened up over decades of relative isolation.Some of it seems to stem from an islander's mentality.
But Cuba is no small island and is only a stone's throw from big landmasses...
A closer interaction with China's vibrant entrepreneurs might inspire many in the regime's set-up to reflect on changes to the economic system that would benefit the greatest number.
I would think the ball is in Cuba's court.
The country does not lack internal intellectual resources to register positive changes that have happened all around it over 5 decades.
It would not be a sign of weakness to promote political and economic evolution from within in the wider interests of the Cuban people on whose behalf the successful revolution was once staged.
I sincerely marvel at people that defend totalitarian regimes. What a load! Castro and the current Cuban goverment have a little respect because its supposed social improvements still resonate with the generation that was in their 20´s in 1960... But most non-cubans which are 70 and pushing 80, their sons and daugthers and theirs respective grandchildren have moved -long ago- and practice a democratic-liberal outlook on politics and democratic discourse. There have been some failures, but Mexico has had non-PRI goverments, Brazil, Chile and Argentina have vital and vibrant democracies, so with the exception of Cuba and the Chavez Block (Ecuador, Nicaragua, Bolivia, Paraguay and Venezuela) all Latin American countries are INCREASING public liberties and improving human right issues. I pride myself a conservative, but I concur with the notion that a US led openeness would constitute the initial push to dismantle that odious and oppresive regime. Once the Cuban populace enters in contact with the denied pleasures and "privileges" of modern economic progress, interacting with free people there won´t be any hope for the "socalist paradise" that is Cuba today.
So again, Obama extends a hand to try to improve relations with a totalitarian nation where bad blood exists and has his hand slapped. What is the common thread with Cuba, N. Korea, Iran? Their regimes find that America is of more use as an enemy propagandized as the evil empire from which only the existing regime can protect the nation.
Cuba has quite a lot of (international) respect in Latin America, parts of Europe, much of Africa and Asia.
And the US, while having a track record in promoting freedom and human rights in some countries, also has plenty of history of supporting undemocratic and repressive regimes too, when it has suited US political and economic interests to do so.
Cubans are not the only ones who can joke "the whole world is wrong and we are right".
Throughout history, despotic governments only change under the
duress of armed revolt or financial failure. Fidel Castro can attest to the first and the USSR is an example of the second.
The U.S. Government has an excellent chance to initiate a
change in the power structure of Cuba by simply opening its
borders for money to flow into the Island through tourism
and trade.
Unfortunately, the Miami lobbyists are interested in keeping
Cuba isolated, and there are no competing lobbyists to change
the U.S. Government's position.
This position of: "We do not do business with dictators." is
seen in Burma, North Korea and Syria as well. It has not
worked in any of these regions.
The Chinese, in stark contrast, do business with everyone,
and their relationships are productive.
The simple force of millions of tourists and millions
of dollars would definitely change the structure of
Cuba within a decade.
The U.S. can easily cause the failure of the present Cuban
regime, but the State Department has capitulated to
those entrenched political forces in Florida.
Yep, I said it before the election and I'll say it again now... These dictators(tin pot or otherwise) don't give a damn about President Obama's "open hand". They were hoping he would be weak and allow them to get what they want from the Us while giving nothing back.
Cuba, Iran, North Korea, Burma.... the list has not changed.
Let's hope once he has forced the monstrous health care bill through he is wise enough to realize these people are power crazed despotic idiots who deserve nothing more then pure derision.
I would tend to agree with the last comment about a change in the American approach to Cuban relations. Since the US is essentially being used as a scapegoat for Cuba's economic woes, a lack of informal engagement (namely tourism) would just help perpetuate this. I can certainly understand how embargos and increased security can send a strong political signal of dissatisfaction with the current regime, but even in American foreign policy, there has always been room to mount protests against human rights violations without an economic freeze. Obviously, that's what the State Department has been doing with China.
While the United States' relationships with China and Cuba in terms of economic ties are different, it is still important to note that sometimes, changes in a regime can be made more by soft power in the form of increased exposure to American culture and capitalism. If indeed the Cubans are building a wall to obstruct an American news ticker, why not try influence by tourists? This particular method would also help broaden the appeal of America to the Cuba public, since it would help the shopkeepers mentioned in this article and boost the Cuban economy in a way that would not be so easily diverted by the government.
Oh America....when will you wake up to the Castro brothers simple 50 year old game of using you as the reason for all of Cuba's economic problems. Lift the embargo and effect real change with a flood of American tourists. Geeeezzzzz.....you would think...50 years and the embargo has done nothing to change the regime....maybe its time to try something new?
It's quite plausible to imagine that Obama had a Che poster on his dorm room wall. Despite this, he probably won't be able to make much headway here, for the simple reason that it is not in the interests of the Cuban government to have normal relations with the U.S. We're way too useful as a bogeyman, and as justification for Castro's repression. There have been several times in the past when relations were thawing, only to be put back in deep-freeze by Cuban government actions--for example, shooting down the planes of anti-Castro activists. This time, it's letting a dissident die on a hunger strike. Next time, something else will happen.
For starters the Economist has written extensively about the people jailed in Guantanamo, any claim otherwise is a Red Herring.
Mr Zapata is a dissident and the allegations of "fraud and repeated disorderly conduct" (to mention the few) are just code for trying to avoid being caught for speaking your mind.
The Cuban 5 jailed in the US were passing information on US Naval ship movements (among other information) to Cuba. Any communication on such issues from the USA to Cuba is clear espionage any idiot would be wise enough to realize the ramifications. Trying to hide behind the veil of "Anti-terrorists" is a pretty lame attempt at propaganda.
The Cuban torture of dissidents pales any of the US torture in history (including Cuban autrocities in Ethiopia and Angola). The UN Human Rights report clarifies this quite clearly.
If the "average" Cuban is not allowed to read a simple Vogue magazine (or the Economist for that matter), and is not even allowed to look at this internet site, it is obvious that the Cuban government has a lot to hide.
We are not fooled by lame attempts of propaganda.
BBC interviewed the Minister for Foreign affairs saying that the USA wants Cuba to amend their domestic affairs and does not respect Cuba's sovereignty. She went further to say that Cuba is the only country that the USA employs this policy.
WRONG! The USA employs the policy on many countries and has succeeded in many respects to push countries in a trajectory towards individual freedom and respect for individual rights (the USA doesn't have a perfect record but has clear signs that it continues to try better). Cuba on the other has has neither and has shown no intention of changing.
So long as prisoners of conscience remain in Cuban jails, Cuba will receive little international respect. Their propaganda will always try say otherwise, but even Cubans have an ironic saying, "The whole world is wrong and we are right."
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