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Raheem Khawaja* was a troubled boy who came to KidsPeace in the fall of 2009. Raheem's family had emigrated from Pakistan shortly after his birth; he had no conscious memories of living in Pakistan and was grounded in American culture… skateboarding, cartoons and McDonald's. Raheem had done very well at his local elementary school, which was located within walking distance from his new home. His father walked him to school in the morning, and his mother was waiting at home for him when he returned afterwards. Raheem did well academically and had many friends. It seemed like middle school would be a smooth transition. However, problems started almost immediately in the fall of his sixth grade year. Raheem was suspended twice for fighting on the bus. His grades dropped, and he became moody and unhappy. His parents grew concerned. What was wrong with their son? When they asked him, he had no answers. His pediatrician assured them that the onset of puberty often produced such changes in behavior… this reassured them, for a time. Then, following another bus incident, Raheem was suspended for bringing a knife to school. The guidance counselor insisted that the parents take their son to the emergency room to obtain a psychiatric evaluation. It was then that Raheem was admitted to the KidsPeace Hospital for treatment.Raheem was pleasant and cooperative during his stay. He followed the rules and did not exhibit any behavior problems. The Treatment Team had a difficult time understanding why this cheerful boy was having such a difficult time at school. The therapist gathered a comprehensive history of Raheem's experiences, and everything she was told appeared to support the story of a developmentally normal, healthy boy. Then she asked Raheem's parents about their own lives. Suddenly, the picture began to change. Mr. Khawaja's face grew troubled; his wife looked down at her hands entwined in her lap. In halting English, Mr. Khawaja began to talk about living in Pakistan during war. "We lost our home," he explained, "As many did. Raheem was born in the basement of a building that had been bombed. There was nowhere safe to go, and my wife couldn't travel in her condition. The neighbors helped us." The clinician asked gently, "Did you lose many people who you cared about?" Mrs. Khawaja began to cry. Her husband merely responded, "It was very bad. Ever since we were young. We came here and were very happy to be in the United States."As the days went on, the clinician worked closely with the Khawaja family, and significant issues emerged. Living in a war zone where they feared for their lives, and the lives of their loved ones, every day had emotionally traumatized Raheem's parents. Their experiences of terror, loss and catastrophe had shaped the way they responded to the world. They thought that all of these problems would disappear when they came to America, and what they found was that the fear and panic that they'd learned to live with came to America with them. Raheem's parents lived every day in fear and he, living with them, did as well.The events that this family experienced create a tragically familiar story to many of the professionals who work in mental health treatment. A traumatic event is defined as a single experience, or an enduring series of events, that completely overwhelm the individual's ability to cope¹. Traumatic events include some of the experiences that we least like to think about: Violent crime, natural disasters, accidents, wars, community violence, child physical and sexual abuse, bullying and domestic violence. While there are many different situations that can be considered traumatic, these events have one thing in common: They are events that cause overwhelming feelings of fear, helplessness and/or horror.² Think of the victims of concentration camps; the earthquake survivors in Japan; Viet Nam veterans.We are only beginning to understand the role that traumatic events play in the development of mental health problems, substance abuse and disruptive and dangerous behaviors. Severe and chronic trauma may lead to physical changes inside the brain and to the brain's chemistry, which damage the person's ability to adequately cope with stress. This is particularly problematic for children. Children who have witnessed or have been victims of interpersonal and community violence, have been neglected or have suffered terrible losses often present with a wide range of emotional and behavioral problems ³.Children, like Raheem, can also suffer from secondary or "vicarious" trauma. This form of traumatization impacts people who are in a close relationship with traumatized individuals. Raheem's parents' experience of terror and loss had resulted in changes in their entire approach to life. Mrs. Khawaja in particular was afraid to leave the house. Moreover, she was terrified to let her child out of her sight and would panic when she put him on the bus in the morning. Mr. Khawaja was working two jobs and feared that he could at any time lose his jobs, and his family would again be homeless. Raheem told the clinician that he wished he didn't have to go to school; he believed that he was safer at home, with his parents, and that they needed his help.What is significant about Raheem's situation is that the clinician asked this family about their history of trauma. In many cases, such information is overlooked as frustrated parents, overworked professionals and harried teachers focus on more immediate approaches to behavior. Often, the child is punished by suspensions or expulsions; various medications are tried without a thorough understanding of the problem; or the behavior is minimized or ignored until it becomes a significant threat to the safety of the community.At KidsPeace, we recognize the role of trauma in the lives of the children and families who come to us for help, and we treat the entire family. The Sanctuary® Model, which is being implemented as the model of care at KidsPeace, provides the tools and the theory to help us to create a culture of safety, empowerment and positive change. This model teaches that, in order to recover from trauma, people need to live in a community of supportive people who are committed to their growth and healing. While KidsPeace strives to provide that for our children, we recognize that the best place for a troubled child to heal is in a safe, supportive family; and the best place for a troubled family to heal is within a safe, supportive community. KidsPeace is committed to using the Sanctuary Model, its theories and its tools to help our community become one where children and families, like the Khawajas, find peace.For more information on the Sanctuary Model, visit the site http://www.sanctuaryweb.com or contact the author at 800-25PEACE.¹Van Der Kolk, B.; McFarlane, A.; Weisaeth, L., Eds. (1996). Traumatic Stress: The Effects of Overwhelming Experience on Mind, Body, and Society. New York: Guilford Press.²Bloom, S. L. (1997) Creating Sanctuary: Toward the Evolution of Sane Societies. (1997). New York: Routledge.³Farragher, B. and Yanosy, S. (2005). Creating A Trauma-Sensitive Culture In Residential Treatment. Therapeutic Community: The International Journal for Therapeutic and Supportive Organizations 26(1): 97-113.Leslie Tenbroeck, LCSW, Sanctuary® Coordinator and Clinical Instructor at KidsPeace, has over 20 years experience working in the mental health field with a broad range of direct-care experience with children and families. Ms. Tenbroeck has extensive experience in crisis management; she has taught courses in Handle with Care and Professional Crisis Management and is currently a certified instructor for Life Space Crisis Intervention. She has taught courses in conjunction with the American Health institute, the Penn State Cooperative Extension and Norwich University. She is affiliated with the Sanctuary Institute and is an advocate for trauma-informed care. For the past nine years, she has been teaching and assisting in developing curriculum for direct care staff in multiple areas of instruction related to children's developmental and behavioral health, including the treatment of self-injurious behavior, therapeutic relationships, group therapy and trauma treatment. She is currently the designated coordinator for the implementation of the Sanctuary Model at KidsPeace. Ms. Tenbroeck lives in Allentown, PA, with her husband and two sons.
The effects of trauma in children may linger and manifest themselves physically and behaviorally. Will Isemann, President of CEO of KidsPeace, and the clinical experts at KidsPeace have compiled a list of tips to help parents talk to their children about what has happened to upset them and look out for future signs of distress:1. Listen to children. Allow them to express their concerns and fears.2. Regardless of age, the most important issue is to reassure children of safety and security. Tell children that you, their school, their friends and their communities are all focused on their safety and that those around them are working for their safety. Have discussions about those dedicated to protecting them like police, teachers and other school officials, neighbors, their government and all concerned adults throughout the community.3. When discussing the events with younger children, the amount of information shared should be limited to some basic facts. Use words meaningful to them (not words like massive devastation or sniper, etc.). Share with them that weather or geological shifting has caused a specific disastrous event in a certain part of the world or some bad people have used violence to hurt innocent people in the area. Discuss that we don't know exactly why this has happened, but a natural disaster or violence has occurred. Do not go into specific details.
4. School-aged children will ask, "Can this happen here, or to me?" Do not lie to children. Share that it is unlikely that anything like this will happen to them or in their community. Then reiterate how the community is focused on working to keep everyone safe in the community.5. Parents, caregivers and teachers should be cautious of permitting young children to watch news or listen to radio that is discussing or showing mass death or carnage. It is too difficult for most of them to process. Personal discussions are the best way to share information with this group. Also, plan to discuss this many times over the coming weeks.6. When discussing the events with preteens and teens, more detail is appropriate, and many will already have seen news broadcasts. Do not let them focus too much on graphic details. Rather, elicit their feelings and concerns and focus your discussions on what they share with you. Be careful of how much media they are exposed to. Talk directly with them about the tragedy and answer their questions truthfully.7. Although this group is more mature, do not forget to reassure them of their safety and your efforts to protect them. Regardless of age, kids must hear this message.8. Be on the lookout for physical symptoms of anxiety that children may demonstrate. They may be a sign that a child, although not directly discussing the tragedy, is very troubled by the recent events. Talk more directly to children who exhibit these signs:• Headaches• Excessive worry• Stomach aches• Increased arguing• Back aches• Irritability• Trouble sleeping or eating• Loss of concentration• Nightmares• Withdrawal• Refusal to go to school• Clinging behavior.9. Parents and caregivers should often reassure children that they will be protected and kept safe. During tragedies like these, words expressing safety and reassurance with concrete plans should be discussed and agreed upon within the family and can provide the most comfort to children and teens.10. If you are concerned about your children and their reaction to this or any tragedy, talk directly with their school counselor, family doctor, local mental health professional or have your older children visit KidsPeace's teen help website, www.TeenCentral.Net, which provides anonymous and clinically screened help and resources for teen problems before they become overwhelming.|
In the last fifteen years, a number of large-scale attacks at schools have made the issue of school violence a prominent concern across the United States. Despite the massive attention focused on this issue, there are widespread misconceptions about school violence.Frequency of Homicides at SchoolPerhaps the biggest misconception is that school shootings and other types of school-related homicides are common events and/or increasing in frequency. The reality is much different. According to Dr. Dewey Cornell, in his book School Violence: Fears Versus Facts, "the average school can expect a student-perpetrated homicide about once every 13,870 years." In other words, most schools will not have a homicide within our lifetimes, or for many lifetimes to come.The peak academic year for school homicides was 1992-1993. Since then, the rate has decreased significantly. The Youth Violence Project at the University of Virginia recorded 42 homicides on school grounds in 1992-1993. In the ten years from 2000 through 2009, the average was 6.3 deaths — a dramatic reduction. And, in both 2008 and 2009, there was only one homicide on school grounds each year.What accounts for this decline? It is impossible to say for sure, but it is noteworthy that the turning point in the homicide rate occurred between the years 1999 and 2000. From 1992 to 1999, the school homicide rate averaged 30 deaths per year. From 2000 to 2009, it averaged 6 deaths per year. Perhaps this reflects the impact of the attack at Columbine High School that occurred on April 20, 1999. Although there had been large-scale rampage attacks at schools prior to Columbine, it was this attack that really made school safety a prominent national concern.If this hypothesis is correct, it suggests that schools' efforts to increase safety made a difference. Or perhaps students became more sensitive to warning signs of violence and started reporting their concerns to parents, teachers, counselors or administrators. Whatever the reason, the data clearly indicate that school-related homicides have become very rare events. On average, school is the safest place children can be.It is hoped that the current economic climate does not result in reduced funding for schools. Budget cuts could potentially result in an increased risk of violence. Cuts to faculty, counselors, security officers and others might adversely affect the ability of schools to maintain the level of safety that has been established.Who Commits School Shootings and Why?Certainly, school homicides can take many forms including beatings, stabbings and shootings, but it is rampage school shootings that have received an overwhelming amount of attention. These attacks involve a student going to his own school and opening fire — generally at random people. Who commits such an act? Initially, researchers focused on identifying a profile of rampage school shooters. This effort, however, missed the fact that school shooters are not a homogeneous group.Nonetheless, there are common misconceptions about school shooters. People often think school shooters are loners, victims of terrible mistreatment and detached from their schools and communities. It is also commonly thought that school shootings are acts of retaliation against specific people who tormented the shooters. In most cases, however, school shooters do not fit this description.In almost every case, school shooters have friends. In most cases, they are not victims of bullying. They are often involved in activities at school and in the community. And they rarely target anyone who picked on them. So who are school shooters?As explained in my book, Why Kids Kill: Inside the Minds of School Shooters, the perpetrators of rampage school attacks fall into three categories:• Psychopathic shooters. These are youths who are narcissistic and sadistic. They have deficits in the ability to experience empathy, guilt and remorse. They reject traditional values and morality and meet their own needs at the expense of others.• Psychotic school shooters. These youths experience hallucinations and delusions. The most common type of delusion can be described as paranoid, although some of them also have delusions of grandeur. In addition to hallucinations and delusions, these youths have significant social and emotional deficits.• Traumatized shooters. Whereas the psychopathic and psychotic shooters come from intact families with well-functioning parents, the traumatized shooters come from broken homes and dysfunctional families. They have parents with criminal histories. They have parents who abuse drugs and alcohol. These youths are victims of emotional abuse, physical abuse and sometimes sexual abuse. They bounce around from one relative's home to another, sometimes ending up in multiple foster homes. Their lives are unstable and unsafe year after year, and eventually they reach the breaking point.The fact that someone is psychopathic, psychotic or traumatized, however, does not mean he is destined to be a killer. In fact, most people in these three categories are not violent. The categories help us to understand the types of youth who commit school shootings, but the categories are not complete explanations. There are always other factors involved that shape the behavior of the perpetrators.But if the attacks are not retaliation against bullies, what is the motivation? Motivations vary across shooters and, even within one shooter, there can be multiple factors driving him to murder. Sometimes shooters are seeking fame and to establish powerful identities for themselves. They may be lashing out at the world, unleashing pent-up rage and frustration. They may attack the students they envy — those kids who seem to have everything going for them. The shooters may be paranoid and believe their lives are in danger; thus, they lash out at others in an act that they conceive of as self-defense. They may hear voices telling them to kill people. Occasionally, there is a specific target, but this is not necessarily a bully. It is perhaps more likely to be a girl who rejected the shooter or a principal who symbolically represents the school.What works in prevention?When people think about preventing school shootings, they often think in terms of physical security measures: ID badges, video cameras, metal detectors and so on. Though these measures serve a variety of purposes, they do not stop school shootings. Rampage attacks have occurred at schools with metal detectors and even armed security guards. By the time a student enters a building, armed and willing to die, physical security measures will not stop the attack. Similarly, lockdown drills may help to minimize casualties during an attack, but they do not prevent an attack.What can be done then to prevent school shootings or other school-related homicides? The best approach is to focus on educating students on the warning signs of violence. It is, of course, important to educate faculty and staff as well, but students are really the eyes and ears of a school. If someone is planning a violent attack, other students are most likely the ones who will know about it. If they are trained in what to look for and how to report their concerns, school shootings can be stopped entirely. In fact, the majority of foiled attacks have been stopped because students came forward with what they knew.|Dr. Langman has worked with children and adolescents for over twenty years. He spent 12 years at KidsPeace and now consults to the organization. Dr. Langman's book, Why Kids Kill: Inside the Minds of School Shooters, was named an Outstanding Academic Title of 2009 by the American Library Association. It has been translated into German and Finnish and is forthcoming in Dutch. He has been interviewed over one hundred times by media outlets in the United States, Canada, Europe, Australia and the Middle East. He has appeared on CBS-TV, CNN, Fox and the BBC. His research on school shooters has been featured in articles carried by The New York Times, The Washington Post, The Los Angeles Times, Forbes, USA Today, Education Week, Junior Scholastic, MSNBC, Yahoo News, and thousands of other news outlets. Dr. Langman writes a blog for Psychology Today. His research on school shooters has been cited in congressional testimony on Capitol Hill. His website is www.schoolshooters.info. Dr. Langman received his B.A. in psychology from Clark University, his M.A. in counseling psychology from Lesley College, and his Ph.D. in counseling psychology from Lehigh University. In addition to being a psychologist, Dr. Langman is a poet and playwright.
Historically, the theme of stories told by those who have had encounters with conduct disordered kids, or the programs that house them, have all started with anger, which then led to aggression, which climaxed in violence. These stories pretty much have the same plot, one episode after another. Eventually, people tired of making up excuses for the vast population of kids who are misunderstood and labeled them "Conduct Kids."
Today, the Conduct Kid still exists; he is your brother, cousin and friend. He is every teenaged kid opposed to the norms of society or the directives given by a parent and/or seeks to evade the long arms of the law. He has the potential to be wise but chooses to be misunderstood. He has the potential to be loved but chooses to be distant. He chooses nothing because, oftentimes, he has never been given a choice – or at least that's how he sees it. >>Read More
This article appeared in the Spring/Summer Issue of Healing Magazine®. Download of PDF of the issue by clicking here.
KidsPeace, the 130-Year Old Children's Charity, Becomes Part of the Ithaca Community
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KidsPeace, the 130-year old children's charity, has opened its doors in Ithaca to help provide foster care to local children striving to overcome crises in their young lives. The new program will allow KidsPeace to serve children in foster homes in the local community, giving them an opportunity to stay near familiar surroundings, rather than moving farther away from home.
On Tuesday, November 8, KidsPeace hosted an Open House at its new office location, 179 Graham Road in Ithaca. Prospective foster parents, the local county Departments of Social Services, other local child service organizations and local businesses were in attendance.
Representatives from the offices of U.S. Congressman Maurice Hinchey and U.S. Senator Kirsten Gillibrand were in attendance. The start-up of the program is being funded by a federal grant secured by Representative Hinchey. "KidsPeace therapeutic foster care program is going to make a difference in the lives of countless children throughout the region," said Hinchey. "I was pleased to secure $250,000 in federal funding to help bring this program to Ithaca, because of the numerous foster children in need of the emotional and behavioral support this program will provide. Today's grand opening is only the beginning, and I look forward to seeing the work they do in the years ahead." Senator Gillibrand sent a letter of congratulations, which was read aloud during the presentation.
The special guest speaker for the event was the Honorable David M. Brockway, Acting Justice for Chemung County Supreme Court and Judge for Chemung County Family Court. Justice Brockway gave a special interactive presentation on "Judicial Perspectives: What Foster Parents and Caseworkers Should Know," sharing his knowledge and vast experience, which foster parents and professionals alike found helpful and informative.The KidsPeace Ithaca Foster Care & Community Program, the sixth foster care and community programs location operated by KidsPeace in the state of New York and the 36th of its kind in eight states and the District of Columbia, offers a specialized form of foster care known as therapeutic foster care programming, which provides caring, well trained, licensed foster homes and families to children with emotional and mental health needs who have great potential to be successful within their communities. The Ithaca program will recruit and certify local foster homes for children, providing the home- and community-based services they so desperately need to feel safe, heal from their emotional scars and experience a sense of home, family and community. A supportive, caring foster family can give youth in crisis a sanctuary and can prevent cycles of their past from determining the course of their future.Understanding the effects of trauma experienced by the youth we serve, and recognizing the need to address these effects, KidsPeace has developed a Model of Care based on the studies and research around promoting resilience in youth. Toward this end, KidsPeace has been an integral participant in the development of a program called "Together Facing the Challenge," participating in two NIMH- (National Institute for Mental Health) funded studies conducted by the Behavioral Health research staff at Duke University. "Together Facing the Challenge" is a training curriculum and program designed to further enhance therapeutic foster care and includes effective community-based treatment practices for youth with emotional and behavioral disorders. This skills curriculum was recently deemed a highly esteemed "Evidence Based Practice" through the California Evidence-Based Clearing House.
The KidsPeace Ithaca Foster Care and Community Programs will benefit from the resources and expertise of the nearly 130-year history of KidsPeace. KidsPeace, established in 1882, is a time-tested children's charity dedicated to helping children overcome crises in their young lives. KidsPeace, whose mission is to provide hope, help and healing to children, families and communities, operates programs in ten states and the District of Columbia with a continuum that includes community-based programming, therapeutic foster care (36 locations), web-based counseling, residential treatment, educational services and inpatient psychiatric hospitalization.
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I think that absolutely everyone should read this profoundly necessary evisceration of Sam Harris, the Moe of the New Atheist Three Stooges, written by Jackson Lears and published by the Nation. It may be my favorite essay published this year; it goes well beyond the usual stalking horses of New Atheism and speaks to some of the fundamental analytical and ethical issues confronting our species, particularly when it comes to progress and the limits of knowledge. Read the whole thing, seriously.
I just wanted to highlight one particularly effective part of the essay because I think it connects with some of the issues that have come up regarding the Osama bin Laden killing. There's nothing remotely unusual, for me, about feeling totally alienated from the political blog mainstream, but it's worth saying how profoundly, dispiritingly wrong the conventional politico mainstream is when it comes to pacifism. And it comes from a place, as most political conformity does, of incoherent moral reasoning.
Lears rightly dings Harris for his inconsistency when it comes to pragmatism, consequentialism, and intentionalism.
Harris's version of scientific ethics does not allow for complexity. In The Moral Landscape, he describes his philosophical position as a blend of moral realism ("moral claims can really be true or false") and consequentialism ("the rightness of an act depends on how it impacts the well-being of conscious creatures"). He does not explain why he has abandoned the intentionalism he espoused in The End of Faith. Nor does he spell out how his newfound consequentialism can allow him to maintain his justification of collateral damage (which surely "impacts the well-being of conscious creatures"), or how his new view differs from the pragmatism he had previously condemned. Pragmatism, the argument that ideas become true or false as their impact on the world unfolds, is nothing if not consequentialist.Indeed. Harris must defend the moral supremacy of intentions, as any defender of American aggression must, because that is the fig leaf with which we defend our ceaseless appetite for killing innocent people. As it has become harder and harder, thanks to digital technology, to deny that we and our proxies routinely kill civilians whose only crime was living outside of the developed world, it has become more important for those who insist on the superior morality of the United States to, say, Hamas to defend our rosy intentions. The problem with intentionalism, of course, is that intentions are impossible to empirically verify, and thus intentionalists are endlessly vulnerable to the dishonest. (This is particularly a problem for a defiant empiricist like Harris, although as Lears makes plain, Harris's commitment to empiricism is similarly inconsistent.) I am frequently aghast at the prevalence of foreign policy intentionalists in the political world; such people have no capability whatsoever to condemn a power like the United States, which kills innocent civilians as a matter of routine and yet claims always that such killing is not its intent.
Israel is perhaps the most striking example of the degree to which intentionalism can be applied like magic to inoculate a nation against criticism. It is taken as an article of faith that Israel never intends to kill innocent people while Palestinians always do, despite the fact that, in recent Israeli military campaigns like the Lebanon or Gaza incursions, the IDF kills far more civilians than terrorists do. Those of use who are critical of Israel are constantly called on to reconcile three divergent thoughts: that Israel never intends to kill civilians; that Israel has one of the most advanced, best trained militaries in the world; and that Israel is constantly killing civilians. You can detect the tension, I'm sure.
Now consider Adam Serwer, in response to yours truly:
Pacifists and many on the right actually retain similar moral frameworks when it comes to violence, although they come to different conclusions. Both are absolutists in that neither make real moral distinctions between different kinds of violence. In practice, the latter aids the former by blurring the moral lines between preemptive war in Iraq and violence in self defense. So while I don't think pacifism in this case is particularly moral, in practice their blurring of the distinction between justified and unjustified acts of violence gives them a kind of moral equivalence torture lovers are furiously trying to achieve.Now, one needn't target Serwer specifically; this sort of profoundly grown up moral logic is, after all, the bread and butter of establishment liberalism. But you'll note the difficulties bubbling under the surface, and you'll recognize why left-wing defenses of actions like the killing of bin Laden are typically so rife with anxiety. This is a consequentialist criticism; it asks us to consider what effect pacifism has in a world where others won't honor the pacifist moral code. Indeed, an intentionalist moral framework seems to me to privilege pacifism above all others. If intentions are what matter, pacificism is the logical endpoint of human moral progress as typically defined. Pacifists don't want anyone to commit violence or kill. The relevant criticism of pacifism is necessarily consequentialist, as is expressed here.
The problem with consequentialist arguments against pacifism is that consequentialism is the enemy of all projections of political violence. The OBL raid killed several other people, after all. Did they deserve to die? A pacifist has the clarity to say that no one deserves to die. For most of us, the question is tangled and provisional, but sure few would argue that the others deserved to die for the same reasons as OBL. If the consequences of killing bin Laden include the death of those who we are less morally justified in killing, I don't know how a consequentialst reading of the killing concludes that the operation was moral with anything like clarity or certainty. All of this occurs, also, as part of a broader conflict in Afghanistan and Pakistan, purportedly part of the same struggle that resulted in the bin Laden killing, where innocent life is taken daily and as a matter of course. Intentionalism requires that we respect those who would avoid the intentional taking of human life altogether; consequentialism requires that we judge those who kill children with drones in an equivalent moral vocabulary that we judge those who fly planes into buildings.
Perhaps I'm guilty of hypocrisy here; it would be far from the first time. At its worse, this kind of tangled logic strikes me as "any port in a storm" moral reasoning, where you throw together a potpourri of justifications and ethical theories as necessary to get to the point where you can justify America's various acts of violence. (It seems to me that this is pretty much the only way you could ever justify our endless capacity for military projection, through ethical frameworks tailor made for that task.) But I, too, am neither a consequentialist nor an intentionalist, or any other -ist, out of a fussy commitment to going through life with my political and ethical frameworks unnamed. This is why, despite my great admiration for their total indifference to the conventional definitions of seriousness in our corrupt political dialogue, I can't call myself a pacifist. I'm just muddling through as well.
But surely context matters. This conversation has been happening in a landscape where only a tiny handful of voices have expressed a measure of skepticism or uncertainty about the raid that killed bin Laden, where the national mood was one of abject joy. The most commonly expressed opinion, even among liberals, was that this was not only a moral action but one of unquestionable moral value. I can't tell you how many liberals I know responded to my questions by saying some version of "wait, we're doing this now? Even bin Laden, you've got to find a way to undermine America's righteousness?" This is the atmosphere that has been meticulously created and jealously defended by establishment liberals, one that has been enforced through the kind of endless hectoring and demonizing of dissent that Glenn Greenwald has endured on Twitter. (I know, I know-- the progressive cause will fail until Greenwald's hands hang from Bob Kuttner's mantelpiece.) Surely, the bar is higher for those who claim not only that OBL's killing was moral and legal, but that these facts are facts and uncontroversial.
All of this, I think, is deeply unhealthy to a muscular, unapologetic left. Never mind that "on this point, we can all finally agree" is a sentiment that is inherently illiberal. The OBL killing demonstrates, painfully, that the American left has retained its worst impulses, impulses which 9/11 and its long, sad aftermath revealed-- the seemingly ineradicable urge to purge in the contemporary American left, and the omnipresent specter of "I've got a big dick" liberalism, where nominal lefties demonstrate their toughness and courage by advocating that other people go die in war. This dynamic will never leave us; I'm sure William Saletan will desperately signal what a terribly tough guy he is by saying others should go fight for the rest of his life. What the OBL affair demonstrates so unmistakeably, and so depressingly, is that many other prominent liberals can, in the face of such extreme events, get with the nationalist program, and take their turns policing the discourse.


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James B. Osbon was a writer with a mission when he penned his new book, "Sand River," which is set in Aiken.
"I wanted to try to explain Aiken to the people who live here and to the people who don't live here. And I wanted to explain it from my point of view," he said. "My hope was, at the end, that someone reading this book would say, 'OK, I get it. I understand why I love Aiken so much.' "
Osbon, a native of Aiken who still lives here part-time, spoke about "Sand River" and his experiences growing up in the area during the spring general meeting of the Aiken County Historical Society on Sunday. A book signing and reception followed Osbon's talk at the Aiken County Historical Museum.
Osbon described "Sand River" as a work of historical fiction that focuses on a period from 1948 until the present.
"The boy in the story comes to Aiken because his mother dies," Osbon said. "The aunt he goes to live with is a historical nut and she tells him all this stuff about what Aiken is all about."
Osbon wove his childhood memories of growing up in Aiken into the plot of "Sand River" and also included facts about the area.
"The man of the family in this book works in the hardware business," Osbon said. "I put him in the hardware business because, believe it or not, Aiken was up to its ear in hardware stores in the 1950s."
There were no fewer than five such stores in the downtown area and two others nearby, according to Osbon.
"I knew the man of the family was going to get fired a couple of times because he couldn't keep his nose clean," Osbon said, "and he needed to be able to go somewhere else to work."
During his talk, Osbon reminisced about seeing his first television while staying in a hotel in Atlanta in 1948. Not long afterward, his father bought his own TV even though there were no television stations then in Augusta, Ga., or Columbia. Osbon's father put an antenna for the TV on top of a pole outside his home. The contraption included a device that made the antenna turn.
"In my book I tell a story about a family on the north side of Aiken that gets a TV," Osbon said. "Their antenna is like my father's."
The construction of the Savannah River Plant (now known as the Savannah River Site) in the 1950's and the implications for the Aiken community are prominent in the plot of "Sand River."
"The values that Aiken had before the SRS came here were good Southern values," Osbon said. "We were worried – and I address this in my book – about what SRS was going to do to those values. But what happened, I believe, is that the SRS people who came here were smart. They looked at what Aiken was doing and they said to themselves, 'This a pretty good little town, let's not mess things up.'
"Slowly they merged their values with our values," Osbon concluded, "and I think what we have today is a better town than we had before."
Xlibris Corporation is the publisher of "Sand River." Paperback copies of the book cost $20 apiece and hardcover editions are $30 each.
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Sat., Nov. 6
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(Release: June 22, 2011) - Hagerstown Community College professor Thomas Clemens recently won two awards for his work as a Civil War historian.
In April, Clemens received the Hagerstown Civil War Round Table's Henry Kyd Douglas Award, which is presented to individuals who have advanced the study of the Civil War through preservation, publication, and education. Clemens was chosen because of his work as a historian, reenactor, and licensed tour guide at Antietam Battlefield, as well as his numerous publications and book reviews on Civil War history.
Clemens received his second award in June when he was recognized as a 2010 Army Historical Foundation (AFH) Distinguished Writing Award recipient for his work on "The Maryland Campaign of September 1862, Volume I: South Mountain," the first part of a two-volume historical, annotated manuscript that details one of the most famous campaigns of the Civil War. The manuscript itself is the work of Ezra A. Carman, a Union colonel in the 13th New Jersey Infantry, who was later appointed as the historical expert to the Antietam Battlefield Board in 1894. After the war, Carman wrote a 1,800-page manuscript on the Maryland Campaign, using firsthand accounts from war veterans and his own personal experience. In addition to eyewitness accounts, the manuscript includes maps and photos. A biographical dictionary will be included in Volume II, which is expected to be released in 2012.
According to Clemens, Carman's manuscript sat untouched for decades in the Library of Congress, referenced by historians but never published in its entirety. Clemens, recognized internationally as one of the foremost historians of the Maryland Campaign, began studying the campaign as part of his doctoral dissertation, and has spent the last 11 years editing and annotating Carman's manuscript. The campaign itself Clemens has studied for more than 30 years.
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By primo from USA on 2012-04-06 14:43:31Things I liked:I have had this rifle for well over a year, it's the best inexpensive rifle I own. I have four Diana's and I can tell you the Blackhawk is an exact copy of the Diana 34, that is , I repeat a copy . The RWS Diana has the excellent materials and workmanship ,the Blackhawk is the poor mans version. Nothing to fret for with a little TLC you can make this skateboard run like Jag. I took mine apart and gave a tune an lube. The spring came bone dry from the factory, China, touché . Now after the tune the gun shoot very consistent 900 plus fps and just about 14 fp. Good enough to knock down pigeons, rodents and small prey. The spring this rifle brings is of excellent quality withstood 2 to 3 thousand shots dry as a bone,it didn't even make much noise. The piston looks just as good as the RWS, maybe 30 years from now you won't know the difference?
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By james from USA on 2013-03-13 21:22:29Things I liked:looks and feels ok needs weight see my post dated 2011-12-17 18:24:53 dont buy gun fell apart. this is no way near to being a rws 34 ...maybe the black color is what people are saying is the same.
Things I would have changed:poor quality .poor materials metal /plastic horrible groups. umarex is the company who imports rifle their repair dept did not fix problems.did replace a defective scope with upgrade.
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The Mad River Valley Interfaith Council serves the people of the MRV through outreach and the fostering of unity and understanding in God's love. The guiding principle of the Council is "neighbor helping neighbor." All churches and faith groups are welcome and no one is excluded. The Council strives to assist people with emergency needs or inadequate food supplies. As far as they are able, they provide limited financial grants and guidance for items such as fuel bills, car repairs, rent or medical bills. The Council usually sponsors other assistance programs, including Thanksgiving food baskets and vouchers for children during the holiday season. On an ongoing basis, the MRVIC operates the Mad River Valley Food Shelf located in Waitsfield to address the nutritional needs of anyone in The Valley
Mad River Valley Food Shelf and the Food Commodities program is located discretely behind Evergreen Place in Waitsfield. Food at the Food Shelf is available to those who can self-certify their financial need. It is open from 9 a.m. to noon on Tuesdays and 10 a.m. to noon on Thursdays and Saturdays. Guests may come for groceries once a week, and some items are limited.
Those who have a need or those who know someone in need of assistance can contact any of the Valley churches or faith leaders and they will provide guidance as to what services and assistance can be offered in a specific situation. Those who need access to the Food Shelf should just present themselves to a volunteer when the Food Shelf is open.
In some situations, especially if funds are not available, the MRVIC may encourage those in need of assistance for fuel, electric or other basic services to call 211 first. This state-wide number is staffed by personnel trained to help connect you with broader services provided by the state or an agency that addresses a particular need.
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The Wall Street Journal recently hosted a video segment at the Museum's Rose Center for Earth and Space. Watch the clip below to hear Department of Astrophysics Chair and Curator Mordecai-Mark Mac Low explain the science behind the Northern Lights and their relation to the Sun.
Animal Drawing: Q&A with Diorama Artist Steve Quinn
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When night falls on Thursdays at the Museum, a group of people carrying sketchpads and charcoal enters the doors and heads to the animal halls. For over 30 years, Stephen C. Quinn, an artist in the Museum's Exhibition Department and an expert on dioramas, has led a special evening course on Animal Drawingthat teaches students the art of drawing nature using the Museum's famous dioramas and displays. This spring's session will begin on Thursday, March 15. Below, Quinn answers a few questions about the course.
1.5 Million Watch Whales and Dolphins Play
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In early January, the Museum posted a Science Bulletin showing humpback whales and bottlenose dolphins apparently at play in the wild. Off the coast of Hawaii, whales repeatedly lifted dolphins from the ocean and let them slide down their heads back into the water. If you haven't already, watch the viral video below, which recently reached 1.5 million views on YouTube.
Science Bulletins is a production of the National Center for Science Literacy, Education, and Technology (NCSLET), part of the Department of Education at the Museum. Click here to learn more.
Curious Collections: Identifying a Rare Bird
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Ornithologists generally discover new species by collecting them in the wild. But early in the 20th century, Museum ornithologist James P. Chapin found one on a hat.
In 1913, Chapin, while serving as an assistant to German taxidermist and photographer Herbert Lang on what would become known as the Lang-Chapin Expedition to the Belgian Congo, came upon a native of the Ituri forest wearing a headdress with a distinctive feather. To the young naturalist, it suggested a pheasant or peacock, a strange possibility since these birds were native to Asia. Curious, he took it.
Photographing a Coral Wall's Inhabitants
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Curator John Sparks is blogging weekly about the upcoming exhibition, Creatures of Light, which opens on Saturday, March 31.
One of the amazing things about working on an exhibition is having the chance to incorporate our own research—sometimes, very recent research.
Within the past year, including just last December, my colleague, Museum Research Associate David Gruber (CUNY), and I have gone on multiple expeditions to the Cayman Islands and the Exumas, Bahamas, to photograph a coral wall and its inhabitants at night using special lights and filters to capture biofluorescence.
The phenomenon of biofluorescence results from the absorption of electromagnetic radiation at one wavelength by an organism, followed immediately by its re-emission at a longer, lower-energy wavelength. With special cameras, we captured brilliant red, green, and orange fluorescing corals, anemones, mollusks, marine worms, and a myriad of fishes, including sharks and rays.


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On Sunday, Aug 25, friends and family gathered at 1829 9th Ave. for the dedication of the new home for Gloria Greene.
The home was built in partnership with Habitat for Humanity of WV, Prim Law, Bowles Rice Attorneys at Law and Cyrus & Adkins Attorneys at Law. In addition to the regular volunteers and helpers from the law firms, students and visitors from Boston College, Johns Hopkins University, St. Peter's Prep, Bike and Build, Mechanicsburg Presbyterian Church and Trinity Lutheran Church assisted with construction.
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Wednesday, November 28, 2012
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I am writing to express my deep dissatisfaction with the ruling for the Goose Creek football players - yes, the football players.
I have taught over 35 years and worked with elementary to high school students. I have seen the profound effect we have on children when decisions are made in angry, punitive ways.
As adults who work in any area of youth we have an immense responsibility to make decisions that are fair, compassionate and most of all, apply to personal responsibility. The rash, unwarranted decision to punish a group of young men who had nothing to do with the technical paper work is tragic. This decision is life altering for many our youth depends upon adults to model and teach them how to handle situations. This punitive, misdirected decision shows the lack of understanding and character.
Our youth deserves to have punishments that are directed to the offending not the whole group. What a shame that they did not understand that these players had nothing to do with the paper work, the coach self reported the error and intended no malice an error I might add that seems to be a clerical issue from the previous school.
I worry about the unfortunate young man who is at the center of this. In his young life he has lived with more trouble, conflict and harshness than you or I have or will probably ever face. He has again learned that society does not always make sound, compassionate decisions but loves to resolve problems with punitive, misguided decisions that affect the group. He found a positive, welcoming group with the Gator football team. We can only hope he takes from this the good of the coaches and teammates and not feel the burden of the unjust decision.
I hope those who voted to eliminate the team can honestly look in the mirror each day and believe they made the right decision and not just a hard, mean-spirited choice.
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Community impatient in hit-and-run caseBy Brent Curtis
STAFF WRITER | April 17,2013Calls for an arrest and charges in a Rutland hit-and-run that killed a Mendon woman continue to be heard on the citys streets and in social media forums six days after former city attorney Christopher Sullivan told police he was the driver in the crash.
But a Vermont State Police crash reconstructionist and a former state prosecutor said this week that delays in cases like the one that killed 71-year-old Jane Outslay arent unusual as police and prosecutors try to gather all the evidence they need to build a strong case.
Its not uncommon, said Robert Sand, former Windsor County states attorney. The last thing you want to do is prematurely file a case.
Such a view is contrary to the opinions of many in the Rutland community who have taken to Facebook in the days since Sullivan identified himself as the driver in the crash and surrendered the 2004 Lexus sedan he was driving at the time.
Many members of the community, including Emma Martens who came to a press conference at the police department Friday to ask pointed questions, believe Sullivan is receiving special treatment because he hasnt been arrested, charged or imprisoned and remains free with no restrictions on his travel or other activities.
A short update about the continuing investigation that was posted on the Rutland Herald Facebook page at 9 a.m. Tuesday garnered 70 comments by 6 p.m. most from posters frustrated by the lack of criminal charges in the case.
This man should certainly face charges, Proctor schoolteacher Chuck Laramie wrote Tuesday on Facebook. To say that (Sullivan) due to his presumed status is not getting special treatment would be ludicrous. Leaving the scene of an accident is a crime, for that he should at least be charged and arraigned.
Leaving the scene of a crash is a criminal charge in Vermont. For crashes involving property damage, its a misdemeanor offense. But fatal hit-and-runs can result in a felony charge and up to 15 years in jail if convicted.
Rutland City Police and prosecutors with the Vermont attorney generals office, who took over the case at the request of the Rutland County states attorneys office, have declined to comment on any specifics driving the investigation. But Police Chief James Baker on Friday emphatically denied any special treatment for Sullivan.
For anyone to think that we are treating Mr. Sullivan differently than anyone else is ludicrous, Baker said Friday.
We cannot take liberties away until we have the case and the evidence exactly right. We have to deal with facts, not rumors, the chief added.
Outslays family members said Tuesday they werent worried about the progress of the case.
Im not getting frustrated, Outslays husband, Merrill Outslay said. I recognize they have to do their job.
Outslays son, Gregor Outslay, said Tuesday the family has been more focused on laying his mother to rest than on Sullivan.
On our side of things theres no anxiety, he said. Were focused on the funeral and the wake and havent put that much energy and thought into the criminal case.
He added that Rutland Police have kept the family informed and have been supportive during the investigation.
While some onlookers suspect ulterior motives for delays in making an arrest and bringing charges in the case, Sand said the reality in most cases like the one in Rutland is far more practical.
Sand, who now works for the Shumlin administration and has no involvement in the investigation, said he couldnt say for sure what factors are influencing the case in Rutland. But he said from his experience as a prosecutor, taking the time to build a strong case and match it with the most applicable criminal offense is a top consideration.
There are a range of criminal offenses that could apply to a hit-and-run crash, each requiring a different threshold of conduct and evidence to prove.
Unless theres a public safety risk or a risk of flight, delaying and letting investigators build their case is the most prudent thing to do, he said. A careful review of the facts is exactly what the public should want the police and prosecutors to do before making charging decisions.
Examining evidence in hit-and-run cases can take a lot of time as investigators work backward to recreate elements that existed at the moment of a crash, according to Vermont State Police Sgt. Garry Scott.
Scott, the commander of the state police crash reconstruction team, said determining critical elements such as the vehicles speed can take time as investigators rely on a number of sources, including road marks, autopsy results and data stored in the computer system controlling a vehicles airbag system to come up with an exact rate of speed.
Scott added that it can be misleading to judge a vehicles speed based on the distance a pedestrian was moved after being struck by a vehicle.
At low speeds, he said, a pedestrian could be carried long distances on the hood and windshield. High-speed impacts are more likely to leave pedestrians at the point of impact as they are often thrown straight up into the air by a vehicle.
Careful analysis of forensic evidence is even important in cases where a confession has been made, Scott said, because sometimes the evidence shows that someone else was behind the wheel of a vehicle.
To determine who was driving in a crash, investigator often look for injuries from seat belts or the deployment of airbags and interviews are conducted with other passengers in the vehicle and anyone else who might have seen who was behind the wheel prior to a crash.
You want to tie everything together, Scott said. If you bring a bad charge early, it taints everything that happens in a case further on.
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After Julian was not invited for a couple of play dates, and was un-invited to a birthday party, I learned the hard way that my explanation to other parents that "even trace amounts of peanut could be harmful" may have led to misunderstandings.
I had not put risks and precautions (such as having an auto-injector available) into context for them; I'd simply alarmed them. Some parents felt they could not keep Julian safe in their homes.
I realized how important it was to watch that my concerns would not scare people or douse Julian's enthusiasm for the school experience. As he learned to take on more responsibility, and as the anaphylaxis policy became more entrenched, my anxiety lessened. Thanks to the support of the school community, Julian sailed through his elementary years and I came through with my sanity intact.
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There really is something about Cameron Diaz. The lovely leggy blonde has had dozens of leading men in her nearly 20 years as a film star, but she's had almost as many in her personal life too! Cam has been romantically linked to such diverse (some would say "random") dudes as Justin Timberlake, baseballer Alex Rodriguez, and even self-proclaimed Mind Freak, Criss Angel. But now it looks like she can add Diddy to her list of snuggle buddies.
Eyewitnesses told the New York Post that she and Diddy were mackin' it at at the Dream Downtown Hotel on Saturday night. It was apparently after 1 a.m. when Diddy arrived at her table, and soon the bottles of Ciroc started flowing. "They were kissing and making out," and being "very affectionate" as they danced before leaving together in the wee hours of the morning, the source said. Despite this, reps for both stars claim that the meeting was purely platonic. "They just friends," said Diddy's publicist, while Diaz's agent insists that they were simply discussing a movie project. Sure…
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