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|Many people believe that having sex will bring them the affection, love, and purpose in life they now lack. But instead of happiness and contentment, it often results in decreased self-esteem, pain, rejection, and sometimes tragedy. Some people today don't think we have a social problem in the area of the nation's sexual behavior.. But we do have a problem, and it is one of the most serious we face.
Many in America are familiar with Lauren Chapin, the actress who played Cathy Anderson in the popular television series "Father Knows Best." But according to several sources, such as the Phoenix Gazette, as Cathy grew up in the real world, she encountered a life far different from that portrayed in the TV show. Searching for happiness, she recalls, "I slept with many, many people trying to find love, to find self-worth. And the more people I slept with the less self-worth I had." As the years passed, before she became a Christian, Lauren Chapin suffered the results of searching for love and meaning through casual sex. Her involvement with numerous lovers, drugs, and Hollywood's "fast lane" (which she termed a "death zone") proved costly. It affected her health, brought eight miscarriages, and resulted in time spent in a mental hospital, and even prison.[1]
Many people are like Lauren. They believe that having sex will bring them the affection, love, and purpose in life they now lack. But instead of happiness and contentment, it often results in decreased self-esteem, pain, rejection, and sometimes tragedy.
Some people today don't think we have a social problem in the area of the nation's sexual behavior. They continue to call for sexual liberty to counteract "repressive" and "puritanical" attitudes. But we do have a problem, and it is one of the most serious we face.
Many regional and national studies have revealed similar findings. For good or ill, the generation of the "sexual revolution" has transferred its sexual values to the larger society and even to its own children. Billions of dollars have been spent on sex education and family planning programs that have resulted only in a dramatic increase in promiscuous sexual activity and its consequences. The Washington Post revealed "that half of U.S. girls have now had intercourse by the age of fifteen.[2]"
A major research study of eleven million teenage boys showed that 66 percent had had sex, the average age of the first encounter was sixteen, and by eighteen the average boy had had sex with five different girls.[3]
A New York polling firm supplied forty-one questions, describing the "average" adolescent, to 1,300 students in sixteen high schools, 1600 students in ten colleges, and 500 parents of teens in twelve cities. This and other studies found that:
Senate Bill 2394 of the state of California discussed some of the statistics of teenage sexual behavior in that state:
By age nineteen, 75 percent of unmarried women have had or are having sexual intercourse.[7]
Unfortunately, statistics on sexual activity (or anything else) can be difficult to assess.[8] They are easily manipulated and can be misleading, so we encourage caution in accepting the above figures as absolutes.
But the teens who are sexually active still number in the millions—and even if some figures are inflated, no one can deny that a serious problem exists.
Former Secretary of Education William J. Bennett, in a speech to the National School Board Association, revealed some sobering facts:
Bennett himself confessed, "These numbers are an irrefutable indictment of sex education's effectiveness in reducing teenage sexual activity and pregnancies."[10]
According to a national survey listing items that teenagers consider to be a problem, premarital sex relations ranked number one. Here are the things teenagers are concerned about:
For decades, Planned Parenthood and other "family planning" agencies have promised the American public that the crisis of teenage pregnancies, abortions, and sexually transmitted diseases would ease or cease if young people were thoroughly educated about their sexuality, given contraceptive methods and devices, and encouraged to develop sexual practices that were "right for them."
But it would appear that the crisis has escalated, largely as a result of such education—there are now far more pregnancies, abortions, and major epidemics of sexually transmitted diseases than ever before. Proponents claim that the reason for this is a continued shortage of comprehensive sex education programs. But this is false. "Different studies produce different figures, but they all confirm that sex education is common across the country... Numerous studies confirm the prevalence, not shortage, of sex education courses in the United States. This finding should cast serious doubt on the [Planned Parenthood subsidiary] Guttmacher Institute's claim that the teen pregnancy rate is due to a lack of programs in the schools."<ref>Ibid., 18.</ref>
The reason that so-called comprehensive sex education has failed our children—unfortunately, at their expense—is because many sex educators (1) do not understand the problem and, therefore, (2) propose wrong solutions. Modern sex education is not only a failure, it can be harmful to children in a number of ways.
In fact, it can be demonstrated demographically that wherever "comprehensive sex education programs" exist, the rates of teenage sex activity, pregnancy, abortion, and sexually transmitted diseases continue to mount. But in those districts promoting abstinence, parental involvement, and education concerning the consequences of promiscuity, there is a significant reduction in these four crisis areas. This is documented by Josh McDowell (The Myths of Sex Education), Dinah Richards (Has Sex Education Failed Our Teenagers?: A Research Report), the research of Jim Sedlak, national director of Stop Planned Parenthood, Brad Hayton (No Protection: The Failure of Condom-Based Sex Education), and the research of professor Jacqueline Kasun of San Jose State University, to name a few (see chap. 9).[12]
In February 1992, coauthor John Weldon told a leading representative of Planned Parenthood on national television that studies had confirmed the problems of comprehensive sex education. Her response was only a flat denial that this was true (see chap. 8). She claimed that Planned Parenthood was essential to the nation's health.[13]
What is so tragic is that we have abandoned our own children to sexual promiscuity in the guise of helping them "handle" their sexuality. But teenagers don't want sex; they want values and meaning in their lives. They want love. In fact, a study conducted in the junior high schools of a major American city revealed that 67 percent of kids said their greatest need in sex education was not the "comprehensive sex education" of Planned Parenthood, but rather learning how to say no to sexual pressure.[14] Even teens can recognize that sexual intimacy is often too powerful for adolescents to handle responsibly—why many sex educators can't seem to understand this is a bit of a mystery.
Susan is a good example. Although Susan was raised in a Christian home and understood the importance of not becoming romantically involved with unbelievers, she fell into the wrong crowd and began dating a young man with whom she soon fell in love.
Susan intuitively knew that she was not ready for sexual activity, but because of her love for this man, she gave in to his continual encouragements to "show her love" for him. Once she had given in, her boyfriend abandoned her, apparently satisfied with his conquest. But Susan was crushed; she felt used and betrayed. It took her several months of counseling and almost a year to heal from the consequences of a single, brief, sexual encounter. "I wish I had known," she said. "I knew I wasn't ready, but I couldn't deal with the intimidation of my sex-ed class."
Teenagers have enough problems today without being encouraged into early sexual activity. Various studies, including one by the U.S. Surgeon General, reveal that many of the nation's teenagers and twenty-three million college students are now drug and alcohol abusers because their lives lack meaning and purpose. Because there is so little faith in the future, it is also easy for them to "live for today" in terms of physical or sensual gratification. Unfortunately, this only compounds their problems. For example, Brandon told us how he felt about life as a teenager: "Life is so boring. So I've found my own excitement. I don't have a lot of money, but sex is a cheap thrill that doesn't cost anything and can be done anywhere. It is easy to find a girl who is willing. Life is so meaningless anyway, why not?" Brandon never knew that Shirley, one of his "cheap thrills," would later kill herself as a result of his sexual abuse. Or that he would spend twenty years in jail upon conviction of rape.
Teenagers rarely see the consequences of actions that are done in a moment of passion or misguided love. As Mary, a fifteen-year-old girl recalls, "I had no idea what the cost would be. But it took losing my virginity at a very young age, my self-respect, my fertility, bringing ruin to another person's marriage, acquiring an incurable disease, much guilt, and a year and a half of distrusting men before I realized that sex is not something that can be entered into lightly."
On the TV special "C. Everett Koop, M.D., Listening to Teenagers,"[15] the former Surgeon General commented, "Teenagers are walking through a mine field." He noted that most teens have little or no self-esteem, and this leads to drugs, alcohol abuse, and sexual promiscuity. It was startling to hear him say that almost 50 percent of teenagers suffer from depression severe enough to require treatment. Home problems, grade problems, relationship problems, and parental drug and alcohol abuse are some of the causes.
He also emphasized that what adolescents choose to do is what puts them at risk. For example, teens can no longer afford to not worry about AIDS (Acquired Immune Deficiency Syndrome), because teenage infection rates are increasing dramatically. Yet more than 50 percent have had sex by eighteen, and every year one in ten teenage girls becomes pregnant. Further, 50 percent of teenagers drink, and one in three is a heavy drinker; thousands die each year in alcohol-induced car accidents—and there are millions of homeless teenagers. Thousands more commit suicide—a "last resort" that is surprisingly not infrequently linked to premarital sexual intercourse (see chap. 10).
What is the solution? Dr. Koop emphasized that "communication is the first step in health care" and that sometimes the right words are better than a doctor's prescription. He noted that lack of communication between parents and teens is the greatest problem we face.
Josh McDowell, who has given more than eighteen thousand talks to more than eight million students and faculty at more than a thousand universities and high schools in seventy-two countries has outlined both the problem and the solution in The Myths of Sex Education.
He observes that almost all teenagers and college students have two basic fears—that they will never be loved and that they will never be able to love. As McDowell points out, "One out of every two marriages ends in divorce, and many of the couples who remain married model hatred, distrust or apathy instead of love. No wonder so many kids today are unable to develop close, intimate relationships."[16]
When parents don't show love to their children, those children may search for love elsewhere. One questionnaire among a thousand high school students revealed that 50 percent were uncertain that their parents loved them.[17] McDowell explains: "Fathers are often worse offenders than mothers in failing to communicate love. . . . I truly believe that lots of hugs between fathers and their teen daughters would do more to stop the teen pregnancy epidemic than any other single factor."[18]
In discussing the reasons that children become sexually involved, McDowell further reveals,
It can't be denied that need for love and intimacy is one of the deepest needs we experience. Unfortunately, this is something that liberal sex education, thinking it is working on behalf of teens, continues to deny them by promoting the very promiscuity and personal insecurity it seeks to prevent.
Fathers and mothers need to learn not only how to express love to their children, but they also need to know the facts concerning the current social situation in which their children are being reared and educated by society. If the sexual epidemic is a search for love, and parents meet their children's need for love, coupled with a common sense, abstinence-based presentation of sex education, then the current tragedy can be halted.


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I have an application(Java) which delivers an embedded Jetty. By default I try to get the Port 8080 for the Jetty Server. If the Port is in use, I try a random one:
try {
socket = new ServerSocket(def);
} catch (IOException e) {
socket = new ServerSocket(0);
The problem is that I have a customer who runs a Tomcat on 8080. If tomcat is closed, everything is fine. If Tomcat is running as service, and my app wants to get a port, it gets the default port(8080) although tomcat is listening there. If browsed localhost:8080/test.html, I get a http 404 from the Tomcat.
So somehow it seems tomcat is sleeping as long as there is no real request on the 8080 port.
I'd like to know why and how that's working and how I can alter my java-code to catch that problem.
kind regards


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Putnam, Robert D, and David E Campbell
. 2010.
American Grace: How Religion Divides and Unites Us
. Simon & Schuster.
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American Grace is a major achievement, a fascinating look at religion in today's America. Unique among nations, America is deeply religious, religiously diverse and remarkably tolerant. But in recent decades, the nation's religious landscape has been reshaped. America has experienced three seismic shocks, say Robert Putnam and David Campbell. In the 1960s religious observance plummeted. Then, in the 1970s and 1980s a conservative reaction produced the rise of evangelicalism and the Religious Right. Since the 1990s, however, young people, turned off by that linkage between faith and conservative politics, have abandoned organized religion entirely. The result: growing polarization. The ranks of religious conservatives and secular liberals have swelled, leaving a dwindling group of religious moderates in between. At the same time, personal interfaith ties are strengthening. Interfaith marriage has increased, while religious identities are increasingly fluid. Putnam and Campbell show how this denser web of personal ties brings surprising interfaith tolerance, notwithstanding the so-called "culture wars."American Grace is based on two of the most comprehensive surveys ever conducted on religion and public life in America. It includes a dozen in-depth profiles of diverse congregations across the country, which illuminate the trends described by Putnam and Campbell in the lives of real Americans. Nearly every chapter of American Grace contains a surprise about American religious life.
Roilos, Panagiotis
. 2010.
Imagination and Logos: Essays on C. P. Cavafy
. Harvard University Press.
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This book explores diverse but complementary interdisciplinary approaches to the poetics, intertexts, and influence of the work of C. P. Cavafy (Konstantinos Kavafis), one of the most important twentieth-century European poets. Written by leading international scholars in a number of disciplines (critical theory, gender studies, comparative literature, English studies, Greek studies, anthropology, classics), the essays of this volume situate Cavafy's poetry within the broader contexts of modernism and aestheticism and investigate its complex and innovative responses to European literary traditions (from Greek antiquity to modernity) as well as its multifaceted impact on major figures of world literature—from North America to South Africa.
Nye, Joseph S., Jr.
. 2010. "
American and Chinese Power After the Financial Crisis
The Washington Quarterly
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The United States has been widely blamed for the recent financial crisis. As the U.S. economy floundered and China continued to grow in the great recession of 2008–2009, Chinese authors launched "a flood of declinist commentary about the United States." One expert claimed that the high point of U.S. power projection was 2000. The Chinese were not alone in such statements. Goldman Sachs advanced the date at which it expects the size of the Chinese economy to surpass the U.S. economy to 2027. In a 2009 Pew Research Center poll, majorities or pluralities in 13 of 25 countries believed that China will replace the United States as the world's leading superpower. Even the U.S. government's National Intelligence Council projected in 2008 that U.S. dominance would be "much diminished" by 2025. President Dmitri Medvedev of Russia called the 2008 financial crisis a sign that the United States' global leadership is coming to an end, and even a sympathetic observer, Canadian opposition leader Michael Ignatieff, suggested that Canada should look beyond North America now that "the noon hour of the United States and its global dominance are over."One should be wary, however, of extrapolating long-term trends from cyclical events, while being aware of misleading metaphors of organic decline. Nations are not like humans with predictable life spans. For example, after the United Kingdom lost its American colonies at the end of the eighteenth century, Horace Walpole lamented its reduction to "as insignificant a country as Denmark or Sardinia." He failed to foresee that the industrial revolution would give the United Kingdom a second century of even greater ascendency. Likewise, Rome remained dominant for more than three centuries after the apogee of Roman power. Even then, Rome did not succumb to the rise of another state, but died a death of a thousand cuts inflicted by various barbarian tribes. Indeed for all the fashionable predictions of Brazil, China, or India surpassing the United States in the next decades, the greater threats may come from cuts from modern barbarians and non-state actors.
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Skocpol, Theda, and Lawrence R Jacobs
. 2010.
Health Care Reform and American Politics: What Everyone Needs to Know
. Oxford University Press.
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The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act signed by President Obama in March 2010 is a landmark in U.S. social legislation. The new law extends health insurance to nearly all Americans, fulfilling a century-long quest and bringing the United States to parity with other industrial nations. Affordable Care aims to control rapidly rising health care costs and promises to make the United States more equal, reversing four decades of rising disparities between the very rich and everyone else. Millions of people of modest means will gain new benefits and protections from insurance company abuses—and the tab will be paid by privileged corporations and the very rich. How did such a bold reform effort pass in a polity wracked by partisan divisions and intense lobbying by special interests? What does Affordable Care mean—and what comes next? In Health Care Reform and American Politics: What Everyone Needs to Know, Lawrence R. Jacobs and Theda Skocpol—two of the nation's leading experts on politics and health care policy—provide a concise and accessible overview. They explain the political battles of 2009 and 2010, highlighting White House strategies, the deals Democrats cut with interest groups, and the impact of agitation by Tea Partiers and progressives. Jacobs and Skocpol spell out what the new law can do for everyday Americans, what it will cost, and who will pay. Above all, they explain what comes next, as critical yet often behind-the-scenes battles rage over implementing reform nationally and in the fifty states. Affordable Care might end up being weakened. But, like Social Security and Medicare, it could also gain strength and popularity as the majority of Americans learn what it can do for them.
Ocitti, Jim
. 2010.
Oteka Okello Mxoka Lengomoi: A Legend Among the Acholi of Uganda
. Sahel Books Inc.
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Dr. Jim Ocitti is the author of two highly acclaimed books on Uganda: Political Evolution and Democratic Practice in Uganda 1952–1996 and Press, Politics and Public Policy in Uganda: The Role of Journalism in Democratization, both published by the Edwin Mellen Press, Lewiston, NY. He has served as a Senior Communication Advisor to the United Nations and worked as a Journalist in Uganda, Germany and the Netherlands. Dr. Ocitti obtained his PhD from the University of Bristol in the United Kingdom and attended Harvard University as a Postdoctoral Fellow in International Conflict Analysis and Resolution. He was also a Fellow in International Affairs at Harvard's Weatherhead Center for International Affairs. In this book, he traces the life of one of the most illustrious military and political leaders in Acholi of Northern Uganda at the intersection of history between the nineteenth and twentieth centuries by illuminating the man's contribution to social change in Northern Uganda during the malleable early phase of colonial rule in the area. This book illuminates the life of Oteka Okello Mwoka Lengomoi, a legendary figure in the history of Acholi of Northern Uganda between the nineteenth and twentieth centuries. The book traces Mwoka's life from early childhood to his elevation to the position of Oteka, or military commander, of the Chiefdom of Puranga and narrates his relationship with key socio-political figures within the region, such as the king of Bunyoro-Kitara Kingdom, major chiefs in Lango and Acholi, and the British colonial authorities. The book shows Mwoka's various levels of contribution to social change in Acholi within the British colonial setting, as he became the single most important and dependable local leader for the British in their imperial designs in the area. It documents the circumstances under which the Oteka was assassinated and the implication of his demise on Acholi politics and society. It shows how, in the wake of his death, many of his children and grandchildren rose to various levels of influence within Acholi and Uganda. The book ends with a brief narrative of the history of the Chiefdom of Puranga from which Oteka Okello Mwoka Lengomoi originated and of which he was a principal player.
Patterson, Orlando
. 2010. "
Jamaica'S Bloody Democracy
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The violence tearing apart Jamaica, a democratic state, raises serious questions not only about its government's capacity to provide basic security but, more broadly and disturbingly, the link between violence and democracy itself.The specific causes of the turmoil are well known. For decades political leaders have used armed local gangs to mobilize voters in their constituencies; the gangs are rewarded with the spoils of power, in particular housing and employment contracts they can dole out. Opposition leaders counter with their own gangs, resulting in chronic violence during election seasons.These gangs eventually moved into international drug trafficking, with their leaders, called "dons," becoming ever more powerful. The tables turned quite some time ago, with the politicians becoming dependent on the dons for their survival. A case in point is the reliance of Prime Minister Bruce Golding on one notorious don, Christopher Coke, whose refusal to surrender for extradition to the United States to stand trial on gun and drug charges led last week to virtual warfare on the streets of the capital, Kingston, and the deaths of scores of civilians.Endemic political corruption is hardly Jamaica's only problem. Add to it paltry rates of economic growth, widespread poverty and income inequality, vast urban slums and a police force considered brutal and despised by the poor, and it is little surprise that the island nation's homicide rate is always among the handful of the world's highest.Yet Jamaica, to its credit, has by global standards achieved a robust democracy. However great the violence during elections, voting is fair and governments change at the national level regularly and fairly smoothly. The judiciary, if overburdened, is nonetheless independent and relatively uncorrupt. There is a vigorous free press, and a lively civil society. Freedom House has continuously categorized the island as a "free" country.For most observers of democracy, Jamaica's violence seems an anomaly. Democracy is held to be inherently prone to good order and peace. According to this "democratic peace" doctrine, democracies do not go to war with each other, and in domestic life they provide nonviolent means of settling differences. Violence, writes the political theorist John Keane, is anathema to democracy's "spirit and substance."It may or may not be true that democracies do not wage war with each other, but a growing number of analysts have concluded that, domestically, democracies are in fact more prone to violence than authoritarian states, measured by incidence of civil wars, communal conflict and homicide.There are many obvious examples of this: India has far more street crime than China; the countries of the former Soviet Union are more violent now than they were under Communism; the streets of South Africa became more dangerous after apartheid was dismantled; Brazil was safer before 1985 under its military rule.Three good explanations are offered for this connection between democracy and violent crime. First, it has been persuasively shown by social scientists like David Rapoport of the University of California at Los Angeles and Leonard Weinberg of the University of Nevada at Reno that the electoral process itself tends, on balance, to promote violence more than peace.Sometimes the ballot can substitute for the bullets of civil wars, as in Nicaragua in 1990 when the Sandinista government was voted out peacefully. However, the opposite is more often the case, as in Greece in 1967, when electoral uncertainty led to a military coup, and Algeria in 1992, when elections were canceled in the face of a certain victory by a fundamentalist Islamic party, leading to civil war.Another well-supported argument is that democracies are especially vulnerable to ethnic conflict and organized crime. In diverse democracies, the temptation of leaders to exploit ethnic identity for political ends is an all too frequent source of major conflict, sometimes culminating in oppression of minorities and even genocide. We saw this happen in Rwanda in 1994 and the former Yugoslav states in the 1990s. Dennis Austin, who has studied political strife in India and Sri Lanka, has concluded that in such societies "democracy is itself a spur to violence" adding "depth to the sense of division." Organized crime, especially international trafficking in drugs, has become a serious threat to democracies worldwide. Felia Allun and Renate Siebert, the editors of an important scholarly collection, "Organized Crime and the Challenge to Democracy," argue that "it is by exploiting the very freedoms which democratic systems offer that organized crime is able to thrive ... although mortifying democratic rights, these kinds of crimes need the democratic space to flourish."A third, more nuanced argument is suggested by the work of the Norwegian political scientist Havard Hegre, who has shown that nondemocratic regimes become more prone to civil unrest, and more likely to threaten or start wars with neighboring countries, as they enter the transition period toward becoming democratic. The arc to democratic peace is therefore U-shaped. Authoritarian regimes can tyrannize their citizens into less violence. But as their states become more democratic, the mix of persisting authoritarian traditions and democratic freedoms can be lethal, sometimes resulting in complete state collapse, as in Yugoslavia.It is only when such countries get very close to democratic maturity that social violence rapidly declines. At least that is the conclusion that my Harvard colleague Ethan Fosse and I came to after examining the relationship between homicide rates and Freedom House's democracy rankings.Yet even in these countries on the cusp of democracy there is a complicating factor — they are usually also going through the transition from a poor economy to a more developed one. The expectations of citizens in these transitional economies often outrun the capacity of society to meet them; people get frustrated and feel unfairly treated, leading to high risks of violence.The worst possible situation for a state, however, is for its economic transition to stall or fail before the transition to mature democracy is complete. And this is what Jamaica now faces. For the first dozen years after independence from Britain in 1962, progress toward democracy and self-sustained economic growth moved nicely in tandem. But then the oil crisis and recession of 1973, and the efforts by the democratic socialist government of Prime Minister Michael Manley to deal with hard times, knocked the wind from the sails of economic progress, and Jamaica has never really recovered. (Disclosure: I was an adviser to Prime Minister Manley at that time.)To see what happens when a country accomplishes both transitions, we need only look at the neighboring Afro-Caribbean island of Barbados. It has a similar colonial past, and became independent just three years after Jamaica. Yet Barbados' per capita income is now more than twice that of Jamaica, its standard of living puts it among the developed world and Freedom House places it on a par with Western Europe in terms of the maturity of its democracy. Sure enough, Barbados also has one of the lowest homicide rates in the hemisphere.Barbados, unfortunately, is not typical. Jamaica, though an extreme case, is more in line with other democracies of the hemisphere, including Colombia, Venezuela, Trinidad and Tobago, Mexico and even Brazil, where the treacherous joint transition to democratic maturity and economic security has been accompanied by horrendous levels of crime.As the American government decides how to respond to the crisis in Jamaica, a product of the (proper) insistence on the extradition of Christopher Coke, it would do well to view developments there in these broader terms. The problem of Jamaica might not seem so insoluble if Americans were to have a more sympathetic understanding of the transitional plight of this little country, brought on in large part by its unwavering struggle toward a more mature and equitable democracy.
Orlando Patterson is a professor of sociology at Harvard.
Abdelal, Rawi E
. 2010.
Constructing the International Economy
. Cornell University Press.
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Focusing empirically on how political and economic forces are always mediated and interpreted by agents, both in individual countries and in the international sphere, Constructing the International Economy sets out what such constructions and what various forms of constructivism mean, both as ways of understanding the world and as sets of varying methods for achieving that understanding. It rejects the assumption that material interests either linearly or simply determine economic outcomes and demands that analysts consider, as a plausible hypothesis, that economies might vary substantially for nonmaterial reasons that affect both institutions and agents' interests.Constructing the International Economy portrays the diversity of models and approaches that exist among constructivists writing on the international political economy. The authors outline and relate several different arguments for why scholars might attend to social construction, inviting the widest possible array of scholars to engage with such approaches. They examine points of terminological or theoretical confusion that create unnecessary barriers to engagement between constructivists and nonconstructivist work and among different types of constructivism. This book provides a tool kit that both constructivists and their critics can use to debate how much and when social construction matters in this deeply important realm
Helpman, Elhanan
. 2010.
The Mystery of Economic Growth
. Harvard University Press.
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Far more than an intellectual puzzle for pundits, economists, and policymakers, economic growth—its makings and workings—is a subject that affects the well-being of billions of people around the globe. In The Mystery of Economic Growth, Elhanan Helpman discusses the vast research that has revolutionized understanding of this subject in recent years, and summarizes and explains its critical messages in clear, concise, and accessible terms. The tale of growth economics, as Helpman tells it, is organized around a number of themes: the importance of the accumulation of physical and human capital; the effect of technological factors on the rate of this accumulation; the process of knowledge creation and its influence on productivity; the interdependence of the growth rates of different countries; and, finally, the role of economic and political institutions in encouraging accumulation, innovation, and change. One of the leading researchers of economic growth, Helpman succinctly reviews, critiques, and integrates current research—on capital accumulation, education, productivity, trade, inequality, geography, and institutions—and clarifies its relevance for global economic inequities. In particular, he points to institutions—including property rights protection, legal systems, customs, and political systems—as the key to the mystery of economic growth. Solving this mystery could lead to policies capable of setting the poorest countries on the path toward sustained growth of per capita income and all that that implies—and Helpman's work is a welcome and necessary step in this direction.
Tushnet, Mark
. 2010.
Why the Constitution Matters (Why X Matters Series)
. Yale University Press.
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In this surprising and highly unconventional work, Harvard law professor Mark Tushnet poses a seemingly simple question that yields a thoroughly unexpected answer. The Constitution matters, he argues, not because it structures our government but because it structures our politics. He maintains that politicians and political parties—not Supreme Court decisions—are the true engines of constitutional change in our system. This message will empower all citizens who use direct political action to define and protect our rights and liberties as Americans.Unlike legal scholars who consider the Constitution only as a blueprint for American democracy, Tushnet focuses on the ways it serves as a framework for political debate. Each branch of government draws substantive inspiration and procedural structure from the Constitution but can effect change only when there is the political will to carry it out. Tushnet's political understanding of the Constitution therefore does not demand that citizens pore over the specifics of each Supreme Court decision in order to improve our nation. Instead, by providing key facts about Congress, the president, and the nature of the current constitutional regime, his book reveals not only why the Constitution matters to each of us but also, and perhaps more important, how it matters.
Sen, Amartya, Jean Paul Fitoussi, and Joseph Stiglitz
. 2010.
Mismeasuring Our Lives: Why Gdp Doesn't Add Up
. The New Press.
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In February of 2008, amid the looming global financial crisis, President Nicolas Sarkozy of France asked Nobel Prize–winning economists Joseph Stiglitz and Amartya Sen, along with the distinguished French economist Jean Paul Fitoussi, to establish a commission of leading economists to study whether Gross Domestic Product (GDP)—the most widely used measure of economic activity—is a reliable indicator of economic and social progress. The Commission was given the further task of laying out an agenda for developing better measures.Mismeasuring Our Lives is the result of this major intellectual effort, one with pressing relevance for anyone engaged in assessing how and whether our economy is serving the needs of our society. The authors offer a sweeping assessment of the limits of GDP as a measurement of the well-being of societies—considering, for example, how GDP overlooks economic inequality (with the result that most people can be worse off even though average income is increasing); and does not factor environmental impacts into economic decisions.In place of GDP, Mismeasuring Our Lives introduces a bold new array of concepts, from sustainable measures of economic welfare, to measures of savings and wealth, to a "green GDP." At a time when policymakers worldwide are grappling with unprecedented global financial and environmental issues, here is an essential guide to measuring the things that matter.
Domínguez, Jorge I
. 2010.
Contemporary U.s.-Latin American Relations: Cooperation or Conflict in the 21St Century?
. Routledge.
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Drawing on the research and experience of fifteen internationally recognized Latin America scholars, this insightful text presents an overview of inter-American relations during the first decade of the twenty-first century. This unique collection identifies broad changes in the international system that have had significant affects in the Western Hemisphere, including issues of politics and economics, the securitization of U.S. foreign policy, balancing U.S. primacy, the wider impact of the world beyond the Americas, especially the rise of China, and the complexities of relationships between neighbors.Contemporary U.S.-Latin American Relations focuses on the near-neighbors of the United States—Mexico, Cuba, the Caribbean and Central America—as well as the larger countries of South America—including Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Peru, and Venezuela. Each chapter addresses a country's relations with the United States, and each considers themes that are unique to that country's bilateral relations as well as those themes that are more general to the relations of Latin America as a whole. This cohesive and accessible volume is required reading for Latin American politics students and scholars alike.
Good, Mary-Jo DelVecchio
. 2010. "
Contemporary States of Emergency: The Politics of Military and Humanitarian Interventions
." In . The MIT Press.
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From natural disaster areas to zones of political conflict around the world, a new logic of intervention combines military action and humanitarian aid, conflates moral imperatives and political arguments, and confuses the concepts of legitimacy and legality. The mandate to protect human lives—however and wherever endangered—has given rise to a new form of humanitarian government that moves from one crisis to the next, applying the same battery of technical expertise (from military logistics to epidemiological risk management to the latest social scientific tools for "good governance") and reducing people with particular histories and hopes to mere lives to be rescued. This book explores these contemporary states of emergency.Drawing on the critical insights of anthropologists, legal scholars, political scientists, and practitioners from the field, Contemporary States of Emergency examines historical antecedents as well as the moral, juridical, ideological, and economic conditions that have made military and humanitarian interventions common today. It addresses the practical process of intervention in global situations on five continents, describing both differences and similarities, and examines the moral and political consequences of these generalized states of emergency and the new form of government associated with them.
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Lamont, Michèle, Mario Luis Small, and David J Harding
. 2010. "
Reconsidering Culture and Poverty
Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science
. Annals of the American Academy of Political and Social Science.
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Mullainathan, Sendhil, and Glenn Loury
. 2010. "
Communitas: Rethinking Scarcity
." Bloggingheads.tv.
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Glenn Loury of Brown University and Sendhil Mullainathan of Harvard University discuss new social science thinking about poverty.
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Kelman, Herbert C, Lenore G Martin, and Stephen M Walt
. 2010.
Israel and Palestine—Two States for Two Peoples: If Not Now, When?
. Foreign Policy Association.
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The Boston Study Group on Middle East Peace is comprised of professional and academic members with strong interest in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. Some have been intensely engaged with this subject for decades. Others have closely followed the conflict within the context of their professional work in conflict resolution, international law and international relations, religion, and U.S. foreign policy. The Group's principal contribution is the jointly written Policy Statement entitled "Israel and Palestine—Two States for Two Peoples: If not Now, When?" The Statement stands as a collegial, collective enterprise that represents a consensus view of the group. Prior to drafting the policy statement each member undertook to research and write a background paper on one of the topics important to the statement.
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Marks, Stephen, and Bård A Andreassen
. 2010.
Development as a Human Right: Legal, Political and Economic Dimensions
. Intersentia Publishing.
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/* Style Definitions */ table.MsoNormalTable {mso-style-name:"Table Normal"; mso-tstyle-rowband-size:0; mso-tstyle-colband-size:0; mso-style-noshow:yes; mso-style-parent:""; mso-padding-alt:0in 5.4pt 0in 5.4pt; mso-para-margin:0in; mso-para-margin-bottom:.0001pt; mso-pagination:widow-orphan; font-size:10.0pt; font-family:"Times New Roman"; mso-ansi-language:#0400; mso-fareast-language:#0400; mso-bidi-language:#0400;}The relationship between the processes of economic development and international human rights standards has been one of parallel and rarely intersecting tracks of international action. In the last decade of the 20th century, development thinking shifted from a growth-oriented model to the concept of human development as a process of enhancing human capabilities, and the intrinsic links between development and human rights began to be more readily acknowledged. Specifically, it has been proposed that if strategies of development and policies to implement human rights are united, they reinforce one another in processes of synergy and improvement of the human condition. Such is the premise of the Declaration on the Right to Development, adopted by the UN General Assembly in 1986.This book explores the meaning and practical implications of the right to development and the related term of human rights-based approaches to development and questions what these conceptions may add to our understanding and thinking about human and global development. Opening with an essay by Nobel Laureate in Economic Science Amartya Sen on human rights and development, the book contains a score of chapters on the conceptual underpinnings of development as a human right, the national dimensions of this right, and the role of international institutions. The authors reflect the disciplines of philosophy, economics, international law, and international relations.
Whyte, Martin K
. 2010.
Myth of the Social Volcano: Perceptions of Inequality and Distributive Injustice in Contemporary China
. Stanford University Press.
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Is popular anger about rising inequality propelling China toward a "social volcano" of protest activity and instability that could challenge Chinese Communist Party rule? Many inside and outside of China have speculated, without evidence, that the answer is yes. In 2004, Harvard sociologist Martin King Whyte has undertaken the first systematic, nationwide survey of ordinary Chinese citizens to ask them directly how they feel about inequalities that have resulted since China's market opening in 1978. His findings are the subject of this book.
Cooper, Richard N
. 2010. "
Europe'S Emissions Trading System
This paper describes and evaluates the system for trading CO2 emission permits introduced by the European Union to encourage the reduction of greenhouse gas emissions to help abate climate change. This system represents a live example of a functioning trading system under the so-called cap-and-trade approach to limiting greenhouse gas emissions. Data are fully available for only one year (2008) of the fully functioning system, and that year was influenced by a sharp economic recession in the final months of the year, making evaluation difficult. Preliminary analysis suggests, however, that the trading system made only a limited contribution to reducing CO2 emissions.
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Cooper, Richard N
. 2010. "
Does the Sdr Have a Future?
This article will briefly address the future prospects for the dollar as an internationally acceptable denomination for assets, and then discuss the several ways in which the SDR or some other internationally-agreed reserve asset might partially substitute for the US dollar in its international roles, and even eventually replace it. It concludes that there is no practical substitute for the dollar in the near future, meaning the next decade or two; and that while the SDR could be made a substitute for the dollar along several dimensions in the longer run, it would require a major concerted effort by the leading governments of the world to do so.
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Kelman, Herbert C, Lenore G Martin, Stephen M Walt, and Boston Study Group Middle East on Peace
. 2010.
Israel and Palestine-Two States for Two Peoples: If Not Now, When?
. Foreign Policy Association.
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Israel and Palestine
, is written by the Boston Study Group on Middle East Peace: Alan Berger, Harvey Cox,
Herbert C. Kelman
Lenore G. Martin
, Everett Mendelsohn, Augustus Richard Norton, Henry Steiner, and
Stephen M. Walt
.The Boston Study Group on Middle East Peace is comprised of professional and academic members with strong interest in the Israeli-Palestinian conflict. Some have been intensely engaged with this subject for decades. Others have closely followed the conflict within the context of their professional work in conflict resolution, international law and international relations, religion, and U.S. foreign policy.The Group's principal contribution is the jointly written Policy Statement entitled "Israel and Palestine - Two States for Two Peoples: If not Now, When?" The Statement stands as a collegial, collective enterprise that represents a consensus view of the group.Prior to drafting the policy statement each member undertook to research and write a background paper on one of the topics important to the statement.
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Friday, February 3, 2012
Finally Success! ..... with Candida Cleansing ... finally found a solution!
Candida Cleansing ... what's that you ask? ... Candida is a yeast bacteria found in the gut of healthy individuals. It is wonderful when it does it's job and stays in the gut but because of all the processed foods and sweets we eat it multiplies and grows out into the rest of the body. When this overgrowth happens it becomes systematic creating all kinds of health issues and conditions. Symptoms may include rash, sore throat, skin blemishes, cough, fever, chronic sinus infections, irritability, mood swings, problems with quick memory recall or concentration, fatigue, dandruff anemia, headaches, dizziness, problems with PMS, allergies, eczema, depression, anxiety, restless nights, gluten intolerance, night sweats, white coated tongue, dry flaky skin, recurrent/chronic yeast infections, feeling in a fog, muscle twitching, toe or foot fungus, acne, unrefreshing sleep, acid reflux, not being able to gain weight, not being able to lose weight and many more.
Candida Cleansing is cleansing that helps these bacterias go back into the gut and become balanced again. About 4 years ago I learned about Candida after doing a cleanse much like the Master Cleanse. My body was cleansed of a lot of toxins and I felt great for awhile but then I started to get rashes. I thought it rather strange as I felt I had healed a great deal from La'au Lapa'au cleanse. I had done a liver cleanse and then an intestinal cleanse so I knew that the rash was not from the liver as I had cleansed my intestines after the liver. This was quite puzzling so my research began and I finally felt the cause had to be Candida. So for about 4 years I had been trying different cleansing and had not found one that worked effectively until recently. Candida Cleanse has finally made progress with these bacterias and after my first round of cleansing I am happy to share with you that all of my rashes have disappeared and the bacterias are beginning to go back in balance. Most probably I will have to do a few rounds to achieve total balance but seriously excited to finally find a cure. My friend who did this cleanse said that her Candida was back in balance after a month and that she stayed on the Candida diet for about 2 months.
Will there be side effects from this cleanse? Yes, usually there is a herxhiemer reaction or healing crisis where for a short period of time there will be side effects such as nausea or flu like symptoms, rash or inflammation. I wish I could say that I didn't have to go through a healing crisis but I did and it was the worst so far. My lips had begun to chap and then over the course of a few days had become crusty and little swollen. The corners had cracked and become crusty too. Then one night they suddenly started swelling up rather quickly over the course of a few hours. Both my friend and I were very concerned so we made a trip to the health food store where we purchased several items we thought might bring down the inflammation. I had been icing my lips but to no avail as they continued to swell. I had been researching quite a bit on the internet and discovered that there have been quite a few people who have this condition on a regular basis. It is called cheilitis glandularis and it comes and goes. Luckily for me it was just part of the healing crisis. Finally I prayed for an answer and realized I had not been drinking the lemon/peppermint essential oils water. As I drank the water the swelling in my lips came down rather rapidly and within about 2 hours was completely gone. I was totally amazed with the power of the essential oils to combat the inflammation and bring it down immediately. If you do the Candida Cleanse, please remember to drink your lemon peppermint water!
What products are part of the Candida Cleanse? ... The most important is GX Assist which is a combination of essential oils that eliminate the bacteria from the system. It is really important to also get Peppermint Essential Oil and Lemon Essential Oil. Also important to the cleanse is Life Long Vitality Pack, which helps ensure that you get the proper nutrition during the cleanse. You will also want to get Zendocrine which cleanses the liver. The cleanse starts by taking the GX Assist, 3 times per day for 10 days while drinking water with a few drops of the 2 aforementioned essential oils all day long, taking the Life Long Vitality pack and Zendocrine as instructed. After these 10 days are up, PB Assist (probiotics) is taken 3 times per day for 5 days and then 1 time per day for 10 days, along with the Life Long Vitality pack, Zendocrine and the essential oils in water. After these 10 days you can start the Candida Cleanse all over again. Many people may not even have a healing crisis with the cleanse but usually when the overgrowth is large there will be some kind of reaction. I will start my next round of the Candida Cleanse in 7 days and I am really looking forward to the changes that will come with the next round. Wish me luck!
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It is very important to change diet during the Candida Cleanse. Candida feed on processed foods, anything sweet like sugar including fruit sugar or sugar substitutes, and corn syrup which is often found in the ingredients list from just about everything in a box, can or carton at the grocery store and also found in sauces that go on meats or even egg rolls/spring rolls. Candida feeds on alcohol, yeast in bread and anything acidic so it is very important to have a very alkaline diet during the cleanse or it will not work.
These are many of the main foods you will want to avoid: Fruit juice of any kind, ketchup, mayo, butter, apple, apricot, banana, blackberry, blueberry, cranberry, grapes, guava, mango, mangosteen, orange, peach, papaya, strawberry, pineapple, cheese of any kind including vegan, brown rice, rye bread, wheat/wheat bread, whole meal bread, wild rice, whole meal pasta, alcohol, coffee, black tea, cocoa, honey, jam, jelly, mustard, miso, rice syrup, soy sauce, vinegar, yeast, dried fruit, beef, chicken, eggs, farmed fish, pork, shell fish, dairy, artificial sweeteners, syrup and mushrooms.
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Are you a true believer or a skeptic that medical travel will have a significant impact on the U.S. healthcare industry? I've talked to people on both ends of the spectrum and the spaces in between. While some predict emerging global options are the health system's new revolution, others say the barriers between consumers and offshore providers are too difficult for most to overcome.
No matter where you stand on the issue, at this point I haven't heard or read a convincing argument that the opportunity for widespread medical travel is not at least possible. We have plenty of cases of consumers traveling to the other side of the globe to receive surgical procedures that 10 or 20 years ago would have required long and involved inpatient care.
Frequently proponents of globalization cite the high cost of healthcare in America relative to overseas providers as the incendiary factor for medical travel's explosive growth. In the next five to 10 years we'll know for sure, but we'll need to see if these four aspects of the industry evolve enough to support outbound medical travel.
Technology coordinates care
The issue is not whether the technology exists; it does. The know-how and equipment necessary to monitor patients in remote locations, for providers dispersed across the globe to exchange data and ideas, for patients to access and use their health information. We have or can develop all of that. The real questions are: Will enough providers adopt the technology to support distance medicine? And will enough consumers use EHRs in meaningful ways to make healthcare choices?
Employers stop sponsoring healthcare
We've been seeing this one coming for a while now, and a shaky global economy only gives employers another reason to get out of the business of sponsoring healthcare. A recent example is yesterday's headline in the New York Times that GM needs to drop retirees' health plans. Employers are saying they can't support skyrocketing healthcare costs and stay competitive against global competition. The high cost of care isn't likely to come down anytime soon, so we'll see more employers attempt to delicately remove themselves from providing the benefit. At the same time, employers have a vested interest in their employees' health and could coordinate DM and individual plans for employees.
Healthcare consumerism finally takes hold
If employers coach employees out of sponsored insurance and into individual products with high deductibles, the thinking goes that since they've got skin in the game we will end up with real healthcare consumers. These consumers will shop for healthcare procedures the way they shop for cars, homes, and vacations. They will use the Internet to gather and compare information on price and quality and make informed decisions. And if the comparison is a $40,000 knee replacement in the U.S. versus $9,000 at a JCI-accredited hospital in India (including airfare), the barriers for medical travel won't seem so great anymore.
U.S. providers mount a response
Now if all of the above fall into place as some analysts predict they will, the last area to consider is how U.S. providers might respond. If pre- and post-operative opportunities emerge, one response could be that American providers see that they cannot compete on value and find ways of joining with offshore hospitals to provide a continuum of care for patients that choose the medical travel option. Another possibility is that we see more cases like Hannaford Bros Co., in which the supermarket chain added a medical travel option and soon found U.S. providers willing to make counteroffers.
There are a lot of ifs in this week's forward-looking column. While I've stated before that I don't yet consider U.S. outbound medical travel a major trend, it is a development worth watching very closely. In the healthcare industry especially, time is fleeting and these changes could be confronting us even quicker than we thought. As I consider these factors, I find myself becoming a believer more and more.
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got high and went straight for the Doritos. I'm some kind of walking cliche.
this morning he rolled over looked at me and said "oooo, you look like i need a drink" and then put on his clothes and left without another word
You thought that the "chillable" logo on the box wine was referring to a city in italy.
I like daylight savings. I don't care if it's 4 oclock it's not daydrinking if it's dark out
Just turned elections for the sorority into a drinking game. Right on.
Since when is my name a synonym for head?
I felt like I was in a real life creepy Myspace message. "girl u cute" ... "girl u got a really nice smile"
Someone sharpied 'shit show' on my tits. Someone with excellent penmanship
Any particular reason you put 2 smashed up limes in my back pocket last night?
i'm gonna start putting 34DD under other qualifications on my bartender applications and see if that helps
doesn't matter. i just recorded the power rangers theme song on my phone. and its loud. was thinking we could use it as our entrance song as we walk into bars.
So this text is costing me two dollars because I'm out of the country, but I just wanted to let you know it went well with the stripper last night
He finally admitted that he was drunk when I asked him how he got the rug burn on his chin and he replied "the worm contest"
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Vitamin E was once considered the miracle vitamin pill, but new studies have tempered that enthusiasm. It was thought that vitamin E was the wonder drug for heart disease, but it turns out that for patients already being treated with blood cholesterol medication and a blood pressure medication, adding a vitamin E supplement does not appear to be helpful. Now gene studies are helping identify which individuals are deficient in antioxidants, and according to Rimm, "for those people who are susceptible to oxidation, taking vitamin E is beneficial for lowering the risk of heart disease."
What about the newly popular supplements like fish oils and omega-3 fatty acids?
Rimm said for people with heart disease and those at risk for heart disease consuming enough fish or taking a fish oil supplement is definitely beneficial. And even for healthy people, Rimm stresses the importance of having fish in your diet. Rimm said that one to two servings per week should do the trick. He suggested salmon, tuna and shrimp for additional omega-3 fatty acids.
So what's the bottom line? According to the experts, eat a healthy diet, but a generic multivitamin is a good nutritional safety net, and don't forget to add 1,000 units of vitamin D. Rimm reminds people to watch their weight, exercise and stop smoking. It's still the best way to stay healthy.


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Lea Michele doesn't quite have the best skills in the kitchen. While the Glee star says she loves to cook, she also admitted to serving a not-so-good breakfast of raw eggs to her boyfriend and co-star Cory Monteith.
"I cooked something for my boyfriend the other day, and I don't think he really liked it," Michele said on The Tonight Show with Jay Leno. "I made him a little breakfast, like my version of an Italian croque-madame or something, but I think the eggs were raw and not cooked! It wasn't very good, but he was a very good sport."
Despite her limited culinary skills, Michele says she would still like to have her own cooking show some day.
"I love to cook so much. I like to cook everything," she said. "I really like to eat my food."
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Five years after the first financial catastrophe of the 21st century, Clark County is finally flexing some real muscle, dropping its role as an economic laggard, exceeding the growth rate of the nation and pulling closer to that of the state, the most recent labor market data show.
Could this be the county's economy?
In the 12 months through February, Clark County added a net 2,500 jobs, an increase of 2 percent over the year. By contrast, the nation and Washington posted annualized growth rates of 1.5 percent and 2.5 percent, respectively.
Whether the bounce will prove fleeting remains to be seen. To be sure, in better times, the county's annual growth rate typically clocks in at 2.5 percent to 3 percent. Nevertheless, as Scott Bailey, regional labor economist for the state Employment Security Department, put it: "We've been catching up overall."
That's not to say we're all caught up.
For perspective: Since February 2010, when employment losses stopped in the aftermath of the crash, Clark County has recovered 4,600 jobs, or 46 percent of the 9,900 jobs vaporized by the recession.
Manufacturing, nondurable goods and corporate office employment have experienced gains. PeaceHealth's establishment of headquarters in Vancouver, for example, pumped office jobs into the community. The housing market is forging a comeback, too. But the recession casts a long shadow: Residential building permits hover well below their average during the 1997-to-2006 decade.
As a result, Clark County's situation remains tenuous. A confluence of national and local factors is keeping it that way. The county, like so many other metro areas, got hammered by the worst economic calamity since the Great Depression, Bailey said. You simply don't get up, dust yourself off and quickly move forward from that.
But a dependence on homebuilding -- driven by land availability and by the county's role as an absorber of suburban population growth in the Portland metro area -- hasn't helped, either.
'People are finding jobs'
As the county's job growth has picked up, its unemployment rate has fallen, too. A 2 percent annualized jobs growth rate, Bailey said, means that "people are finding jobs." When the metro area's growth rate is revised in the coming months, Bailey said, it's expected to post the same rate as Clark: 2 percent.
What's more, Clark County's initial claims for jobless benefits under Washington's insurance system decreased 9 percent in February, "the lowest level since March 2007," according to Bailey's "Southwest Washington Labor Market News" report released Tuesday.
Still, Bailey added, the county remains home to nearly 20,000 unemployed residents. On top of that, the county continues to suffer from underemployment, in which people who want full-time jobs settle for part-time work instead.
The county's preliminary unemployment rate in February -- 9.6 percent -- will likely be revised upward to roughly 11 percent to account for unemployed county residents who previously worked in Oregon. A similar revision drove up January's initial jobless rate of 9.9 percent to 11.4 percent.
Since the 2008 financial crisis hit, Clark County's unemployment rate reached its highest level in March 2010: 15.9 percent.
Since then, the jobless rate has fallen, albeit in an agonizingly slow fashion. "Clark County is doing better" in 2013, according to Bailey, while its neighbors in Southwest Washington -- Cowlitz and Wahkiakum counties -- aren't.
The best unemployment rate in Washington -- 5.6 percent -- belongs to King County. That region has "some big, high-wage industries," Bailey said, which enables consumers there to spend more, which further expands the economy.
"Aerospace has been doing extremely well," Bailey said of King County, and Amazon and Google are expanding in Seattle. In fact, King County alone accounts for roughly 33 percent of Washington's labor market. "Take King County out," Bailey said, "and you've got the rest of the state looking a lot more like Clark."
Report on 2012
Nevertheless, Clark entered 2013 with some wind in its sails from last year -- although it was hardly a super-strong wind. In a recent analysis, Bailey reviewed the county's economic results in 2012. Among his initial findings:
• The construction sector posted a 3.7 percent increase in jobs last year. However, the annual average of 8,400 jobs remained well below the pre-meltdown peak of 13,000.
• The housing market, while improving, remained anemic. Permits were issued for 1,500 residential units in the year, according to preliminary Census data. That's the most since 2007 but still nowhere near the average of 3,900 in the 1997-2006 decade.
• Manufacturing "had a Jekyll-Hyde year," adding 500 jobs in the first half and none in the second half. Employment in the sector averaged 12,100 for the year. That compares with 13,900 in 2006.
• Retail trade saw "very modest job gains," increasing by 2 percent to reach 15,400 jobs -- still 800 below the sector's 2007 peak.
Land for jobs scarce
As it attempts to put the economic crash behind it, Clark County may stand at a crossroads.
Certainly, it's not alone in facing high unemployment and slow job growth. Bailey said other metro areas face similar situations.
The 2007-2008 financial crisis saddled scores of communities with large household debts and high home-foreclosure rates -- tremendous drags on consumer and business spending, which largely drive growth in the U.S.
The broader economy has to be working in a community's favor in order to turn things around. But communities can make choices about how they grow.
Bailey said Clark County, where land-use policies have favored residential development, has long served a special role in the Portland metro area by taking in more than its share of the region's suburban population growth. But it also has strengths, including Washington State University Vancouver, a strong workforce and good transportation links, he said.
Regional economic-development leaders are attempting to build on those strengths and to overcome a deficit of industrial land. Lisa Nisenfeld, president of the Columbia River Economic Development Council, said Clark County may have learned something from the bursting of the housing bubble. Providing "most of our prime land simply for homebuilding may not be in our best interest," she said, "if we want more people to stay and work in Clark County (and) not have to commute over the bridge."
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Example of Using Emerging Science to Address Regulatory Issues and Support Decision-Making: Beach Safety
Shorelines provide benefits to society as a whole and in particular are directly associated with tourism, which remains one of the largest economic sectors around the world. According to the Natural Resources Defense Council (NRDC 2011), beaches in the United States were given advisories or were closed 24,091 times in 2010—the second-highest number of advisories and closures in the 21 years since NRDC began reporting. It was suggested that aging and poorly designed sewage-treatment systems and contaminated stormwater were the main causes of pollution that led to fecal—indicator concentrations that exceeded the state's health and safety standards. There were also more than 9,000 days of Gulf Coast beach notices, advisories, and closures due to the Deepwater Horizon oil-spill disaster in 2010 (NRDC 2011).
As part of an overhaul of the Clean Water Act, the Beaches Environmental Assessment and Coastal Health Act mandated that research be undertaken to understand coastal pollution, address polluted sediments, decrease response time, and improve protection of public health (EPA 2006a); most of the research programs under this act have yet to be realized, and improving public-health protection has been slow. EPA has begun to update water-quality standards, address health studies and swimmer surveys, and advance the use of new genomic technology for the rapid testing of water quality. The development of the first standardized quantitative PCR method for enterococci is being promoted for recreational-water assessment (Wade et al. 2006). Evaluations based on new quantitative PCR methods for indicators in ambient and recreational waters are being published (Byappanahalli et al. 2010; Noble et al. 2010), but there are challenges to using these methods for regulatory purposes because interpretation of the signals may underestimate or overestimate human health risks and could lead to beach closures that cause unnecessary economic losses (Srinivasan et al. 2011). Continued investment in new methods, applications for surveys, and links to health effects and management strategies are necessary.
Wastewater and stormwater are key culprits in water pollution, and further improvement of water safety cannot occur unless point and nonpoint sources of pollution are elucidated. Research on microbial source tracking has advanced the use of molecular tools for investigating the presence of pathogens in impaired waters and to setting total maximum daily load requirements. EPA is taking a leadership role in the microbial source-tracking research (EPA 2005). In addition, California has organized one of the largest blind studies, the Global


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First off, before anyone tries to scold me about it - all my grading for the term is completed and my students are taking a quiz. See? Now you have a top secret look into what your teachers do while you take quizzes in class!
Being a member of a video game community like the one here on Giant Bomb always makes me wonder about the demographic of its posters. I know a lot of people tend to be college students, but I am still curious to see what careers/jobs other people have - and to answer questions about mine. I had a great discussion over on the Screened forums about planning for the film studies course I am teaching next year, and love talking about my job. So if you have questions or want to tell me about your job, do it!
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Getting off the elevator at the fourth floor, he thumped across the antiseptic hallway.
Before antibiotics, most newborn eyes were treated with an antiseptic, and Barnes pushed Argyrol as the cure of choice.
And I have to have whiskey because alcohol is both an antiseptic and an anesthetic.
antiseptic an·ti·sep·tic (ān'tĭ-sěp'tĭk)
Of, relating to, or producing antisepsis.
Capable of preventing infection by inhibiting the growth of infectious agents.