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Your letters: January 20, 2010
Down on unions
Re: Joe Howry's Jan. 17 column, "An ugly stain of public-employee unions":
Howry is to be congratulated for his Sunday column regarding the tactics of public-employee unions. There was a time in this country when unions were vital, but that time is long since past. Union leaders are now the new "robber barons." Unions, along with their liberal government partners, destroyed Detroit.
It is interesting to note that former Assembly Speaker and San Francisco Mayor Willie Brown, a huge union-supported politican, now acknowledges that unless we do something about public-employee union pensions, a bankruptcy judge will as California finishes its descent as a failed state.
— Mike Kohl, Simi Valley
Tale of two presidents
In 2004, President George W. Bush had the popular president of Haiti, Jean Bertrand Aristide, kidnapped and banished to South Africa with the threat that he could never return to Haiti.
During his term in office, President Bill Clinton restored President Aristide to office on promises from Aristide that his government would make economic policy changes, which then proved detrimental to the Haitian economy.
In co-chairing private fundraising efforts for the Haitian crises after last week's earthquake, are these two former American presidents using the opportunity to atone for their egregiously destructive past actions? Or, will this be another opportunity dictated by their self-interest and their slavish adherance to U.S. corporatism to make a buck in Haiti?
— Sheila Suarez, Newbury Park
Supports Parks
I am concerned that Supervisor Linda Parks may be challenged for re-election by termed-out Assemblywoman Audra Strickland. It appears Strickland is a career politician who has expressed interest in running for the most convenient office available. First, secretary of state; then county treasurer-tax collector; and, now supervisor.
I understand she doesn't even live in our district! Most importantly, Parks has much critical work to focus on rather than a re-election battle.
I must confess I am a strong supporter of Parks. Her accomplishments are many. I am thankful for her 16-year effort resulting in the creation of a new state park rather than development at Ahmanson Ranch and for the estimated 45,000 fewer vehicle trips on Highway 101 each and every day. That's 10 minutes less driving time to downtown Los Angeles every day, each way.
I am thankful for her successful push for the funds to widen Highway 23 without any new taxes. I am thankful for her voting for increased police services, faster ambulance response times and her support for our firefighters.
I hope Strickland is successful in finding some worthy position other than that of 2nd District Ventura County supervisor.
— Jay Kapitz, Oak Park
On the mark
Re: Terry Paulson's Jan. 18 column, "Wake-up call starts to register":
Paulson said what so many of us have wanted to see published in the newspaper. My only prayer is that the liberals will read it and ponder the truths he so succinctly stated. Thank you, so much.
— Deanna M. Keller, Camarillo
'Democracy strengths'
Re: Ed Jones' Jan. 14 column, "Democracy Difficulties":
Never let it be said that Jones lets facts, logic and the American democratic system interfere with his own illogical interpretation of events.
He accuses Republicans of impeding the agenda of President Barack Obama, yet recognizes that Democrats have an unstoppable majority in Congress.
When he discusses the bailout process that was expanded to the extreme by the new administration, it doesn't occur to Jones that it may have been a bad move to begin with. Additionally, he forgets to inform us that in 2008, two leading Democrats, Barney Frank and Christopher Dodd, initially instigated the banking failures by forcing Freddy Mac and Fannie Mae to loosen their loan qualification criteria early. Thankfully, criteria are once again tightened.
Blaming the Republicans for obstructing the healthcare bill is pure silliness. Non-Democrats were allowed only 72 hours to review what took several months behind closed doors to create. Certainly, not my view of transparency that candidate Obama promised. Why didn't they do as promised by Obama — televise it over CSPAN?
Thank God the American people, not Republicans, are protesting passage of the original healthcare plan. Jones has forgotten that our representatives are supposed to represent us, the American people, not a specific political party. He blames the Republicans for obstructing the Democrats' agenda. With a healthcare disapproval rate of 58 percent and approval rate of only 37 percent, according to a recent Gallup poll, the Republicans are at least trying to represent their constituency; the Democrats are ignoring them.
When we have proper representation, I call it "Democracy strengths," not "Democracy difficulties." Please, remember to teach that in your political science classes.
— Steve Stump, Camarillo
War profits
Is there anyone out there who is not aware that former Vice President Dick Cheney represents the arms merchants of this country, who make billions of dollars while sending young Americans to war?
Are there still people who do not realize that the posturing of Cheney and former President George W. Bush are the greatest asset dictators that subjugated countries could wish for?
I first became aware of the results of these kinds of politics as an exchange scientist to the old Soviet Union. I remember asking a Russian counterpart, "Why do the people on the Moscow subway look at me with such hostility?" His answer: "Because of you and President Reagan, his family does not get enough to eat."
He was obviously referring to the cost of the Cold War to ordinary Russians. Of course, the war-merchant propaganda will claim that this is how we defeated the Soviet Union, but most accredited international experts concede that the communist system was a recognized failure, and if our opponents could not have preached the threat of a militant America, the Cold War would have ended much sooner.
Unfortunately, I don't expect those who tolerate such crackpot theories as the "birthers," "death panels" or "tea baggers" to be swayed by either fact or knowledge.
— James B. Forrest, Ventura
Wright solution
Instead of looking for an angel to front a quarter of a million dollars every year or asking the taxpayers of Ventura to foot the bill for the people who want to use the Wright Library, users should assess themselves.
At $1 each for every adult book checked out — if the library is as busy as its patrons indicate — raising that kind of money shouldn't be hard. It is a user fee, so it is not a tax and doesn't need voter approval.
In order to encourage juvenile usage of the library, don't charge for children's books that are checked out. Of course, the caveat is that the funds must stay at the Wright Library and not be used for any other library in the system.
I frequently do that with the used books they sell. I buy the book and when I am done reading it, donate it back to the library. It wouldn't make that much difference to carry that over to general library books.
— Charles E. Voigtsberger, Ventura
Re: your Jan. 15 article, "Obama proposes to tax large banks":
The only transparency of this presidency is cluelessness. Now, President Obama wants to tax big banks which is an obvious populist ploy to turn around his sagging approval numbers.
If most of these large banks have already repaid their Troubled Asset Relief Program, or TARP, money, with interest, then this is nothing but a shakedown of the institutions that this country needs to turn around our sputtering economy.
We need job creation but the only thing created by this administration is uncertainty of how taxes and regulation will affect small-business investment and the banking system. The private sector will not invest and expand unless they are relatively certain that they will make a profit. But "profit" is a bad word to the Democrats. They refer to it as "greed."
In the slogan, "tax cuts for the rich," the word "rich" needs to be replaced with "job creators," but this president and the Democratic Party are clueless of this concept.
— Michael Pringer, Thousand Oaks
Penalizing success
Re: your Jan. 15 article, "Obama proposes to tax large banks":
There President Barack Obama goes again, penalizing success. Let's have more small struggling banks. Then the Fed can claim credit for saving them.
— Hal Wilder, Camarillo
Who will pay the bill?
Healthcare for all, but will we pick and choose who is paying for it? Please tell me how unions can be shielded from paying taxes on their health plans while the private-sector employees are not.
If I am not mistaken, unions were very large supporters of President Barack Obama's election. It is reward time. Democrats are the supporters of this plan. Republicans are against this plan. Democrats are rewarding their base by exempting a large portion from paying for the plan. Sounds like they are using a Republican charge card to pay for the bill.
Since Democrats just scaled back the unions paying for the new "Cadillac plan" tax, where will the money come from to replace this lost revenue stream?
— William F. Klepper, Simi Valley
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John Keagy, CEO and Co-Founder of GoGrid, spent some time with Detecon's Thorsten Claus in March 2010 and the interview was recently published in DMR, The Magazine for Management and Technology. In the interview titled "Future of Cloud (IX) – Interview with John Keagy, CEO and Co-Founder of GoGrid and ServePath", John discusses why he believes that Telcoms will get marginalized if they only concentrate on network buildout as well as what potential partnerships and services could look like.
The full article and interview are available on the Detecon-DMR site as well as below:
GoGrid is one of the most innovative "full service" Cloud providers for over 2000 business customers in more than 100 countries worldwide. Clients include small to medium technology companies, large enterprises, International, Federal, State and local government agencies, and web hosting resellers. Together with GoGrid's parent company ServePath, GoGrid is able to offer dedicated hosting, public clouds, and a highly flexible hybrid solution, plus a wide variety of managed services that are usually fairly complex and costly to provide, such as disaster recovery, content delivery networks, or load balancing, paired with a "10,000%" Service Level Agreement (SLA) – six minute service outage means ten hours of service credits. Recently GoGrid made its proprietary cloud computing operating system dubbed 'SkySys' publicly available to transform existing datacenters into Clouds, allowing multi tenancy including billing, real-time reporting, and support.
DMR: How do you position GoGrid in the market?
John Keagy: From the telecom provider perspective we are next to Amazon the largest Infrastructure-as-a-Service provider with a feature-complete offering. What I mean by that is that we are offering both Linux and Windows servers in the Cloud with integrated cloud storage, integrated load balancing, hourly billing, and we're doing it for nearly 10,000 customers.
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A2 Students Participate in Invention Convention
A2 Charter School student spent time over the last months learning about the invention process in an integrated experience called The Invention Convention. The students researched inventors and inventions of the past, and developed an idea to meet a need, to solve a problem, or to entertain. Students were required to investigate whether their idea already existed before they developed a model of their creation. Students advertised their inventions in commercials that modeled different propaganda techniques to their classmates and teachers, Mrs. Kathy Nelesen and Mrs. Sandy Spatt. The students presented the work to their families at A2 Student-led Parent Teacher Conferences. Finally, the inventions were put on display in the Jackson/A2 library for all to enjoy.
When asked to discuss the learning that took place during the course of the months-long process, fourth grade students identified a variety of insights and learning progress. Harrison S. reported increasing his comfort as he talked in front of groups after doing the many presentations associated with his Bouncy Ball Yoyo. Brooks W. was happily surprised when his research failed to reveal a toothbrush exactly like the electric model he proposed that comes with an automatically loading toothpaste feature. It proved to him that even in today's world it is still possible to have new ideas. Robby H. commented, "I had to apply past knowledge to the strategies I used to figure out information about the inventors." Lejla G. said of her robotic house-cleaner, "There are so many steps involved in the whole invention process." Helen F. summed up the learning she achieved while creating her automatic lost item finder by saying, "Inventing is not as easy as it seems."
Fifth grader, Keith B., who submitted a plan for a computer that was charged by operator action commented, "Inventing is a hard process," Mackenzie M. added, "There is a lot of thinking needed just to even figure out how the invention would work."
A2 science teacher, Sandy Spatt, was particularly pleased with the level of student research. She said, "Students were very thorough in investigating their ideas using a variety of sources to methodically learn about their individual topics."
The A2 Charter School is in its fourth year of operation in the Sheboygan Area School District. It is an accelerated school for self-directed fourth and fifth graders that is located at 2530 Weeden Creek Road. The school shares facilities with Jackson Elementary School.
Sheboygan Area School District Press Release
February 22, 2011


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2013 Mini's Draw UPDATE (April)
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(KARE) Ptacek's grocery store in Prescott, Wisconsin has always been known for its generously sized bratwurst.
"One and a half times the size," boasts Pat Ptacek as he holds a brat package bulging at the seams. "This one curls around right here so it won't even fit on the tray," he smiles.
But on Labor Day, the fourth generation grocery store did itself one better when it grilled a 152-foot-long bratwurst in the parking lot.
"I haven't slept in about three weeks worrying about that bun," said Pat's dad Mike Ptacek, who baked the brat bun the day before on the same 152-foot-long cement block grill.
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text: I'm not sure my spelling of the table name is correct but I would like some opinions/advice regarding this table. I have been given the above 3.5'x 7'table and it will need cloth and possibly new rubber. Fortunately I have new Olhausen Accufast rubber already but my concern is is the quality of this table vs the cost of 860 Simonis cloth and paying a mechanic to set it up professionaly. One table mechanic told me the table was a low quality table when the were used in the 70's and not worth putting any money into fixing it up. What do you think?


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I decided to ease into the 43 classics I'm reading this year by working through Jane Austen's books. I plan to reread her most commonly read novels, Pride and Prejudice, Sense and Sensibility, and Emma, but I wanted to begin with the ones I have never read.
Mansfield Park was the first Austen novel I selected. I finished it last week on one of my new favorite FREE IPhone apps, Stanza, which is helping me to accomplish another of my 43 things - not to buy another paper-based book.
(As an aside, Sid is teasing me every day with the millions of rumors about the new latest greatest I-reader/tablet/coffee-maker, etc. that Apple will be announcing next week. I have several friends with Kindle, and I have serious reader envy. Stanza is tiding me over....)
So back to Mansfield Park...
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Jane Austen's home
This was a good read overall. It's about a poor cousin (Fanny Price) who gets sent to live with her wealthy aunt and uncle to look after her and make sure that she grows up decently. They also help her older brother who is a sailor move up in the ranks of the navy.
She is fairly ignored by everyone in the family except her other aunt, who treats her mainly like a poor relation who should be grateful for everything she has and her wealthy aunt, who basically just wants Fanny to wait on her and keep her company.
A love triangle ensues, of course, and some very bad behavior by most of the young people while the uncle is away on business.
The ending is perfect Austen, although it was a little uncomfortable for me as a modern reader.
It's worth a look if you like Jane's other books! I'm planning to watch the movie online this weekend.
NEXT UP: Northanger Abbey


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Session D42: Focus Session: Physics of Cancer I -- Evolution and Resistance
2:30 PM–4:54 PM, Monday, February 27, 2012
Room: 156C
Sponsoring Unit: DBIO
Chair: Robert Austin, Princeton University
Abstract ID: BAPS.2012.MAR.D42.5
Abstract: D42.00005 : Emergence of fractal behavior and other changes of cell surface during malignant transformation: AFM study of human cervical epithelial cells
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Maxim Dokukin
(Clarkson University)
Nataliia Guz
(Clarkson University)
Craig Woodworth
(Clarkson University)
Igor Sokolov
(Clarkson University)
Fractal behavior, self-similarity when zooming in or out, is frequently found in natural patterns emerged from chaos or any far from equilibrium systems. While expected and observed for tissues, the emergence of fractal behavior associated with malignant transformations was not observed at the level of single cell. Here report on the appearance of fractal behavior when normal human cervical epithelial cells become malignant. This was found by analyzing the adhesion maps imaged with AFM working in HarmoniX mode. Normal and malignant (a mix of cancerous and precancerous) cells were enzymatic only extracted from cervical tissue of healthy individuals and cancer patients, respectively. A surprising 100{\%} discrimination of malignant and normal cells was observed. Although we previously reported differences in surface (brush) layer of cancer cells, the unambiguous quantitative divergence of the fractal behavior of the adhesion maps is a surprise (in particular, when compared to no difference found in the regular AFM images). The nature of the observed difference in the adhesion behavior will be discussed. These results may suggest that the fractal dimensionality can be treated as a new potential ``physicomarker'' for detection of individual cervical cancer cells.
To cite this abstract, use the following reference: http://meetings.aps.org/link/BAPS.2012.MAR.D42.5


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Washington Report on Middle East Affairs, March 1999, pages 60-62
People Watch
Senator Simon Recalls AIPAC Request That He Run Against Charles Percy
By Lucille Barnes
Former Illinois Democratic Sen. Paul Simon reveals in his newly published autobiography how he came to run against former Senate Foreign Relations Committee Chairman Charles Percy in 1984. The American Israel Public Affairs Committee, Israel's principal Washington, DC lobby, has long considered Percy's defeat by Simon a high water-mark of its influence on Congress. Simon, who was in the House of Representatives at the time, said that first "two longtime friends, Bob Schrayer and Stan Weinberger," begged him to run (read pledged financial support) against Percy, who not only had voted to permit Boeing to sell Saudi Arabia AWACS aircraft (which later served the U.S. and Saudi-led coalition so well in the Gulf war), but also had suggested that not only were there Palestinians, but also that they had "rights." Then, Simon wrote, he received a call from "a nationally respected Jewish leader from Chicago, Bob Asher" (an AIPAC board member). Given the change in U.S. public opinion in the subsequent 15 years, perhaps the next campaign to unseat a Senate Foreign Relations chairman will be by North Carolinians trying to oust Sen. Jesse Helms, who thinks he can keep his seat by giving unstintingly to Binyamin Netanyahu's Israel, despite its blatant defiance of the U.S.-backed Middle East peace process.
The nomination as U.S. ambassador to the U.N. of former Assistant Secretary of State for Western Europe Richard Holbrooke, who strong-armed into existence the successful Dayton agreement to settle the Bosnian civil war, still has not been submitted to the U.S. Senate. A problem surfaced with an anonymous charge that after he left the State Department the persuasive/abrasive Holbrooke had violated U.S. lobbying rules by not waiting the required year before using his government contacts to set up meetings in Hungary on behalf of his new employer, Credit Suisse First Boston bank. Justice Department investigators found no evidence of wrongdoing there, but instead ran across charges of a similar violation on behalf of Credit Suisse in Korea. What's important about the delay is not Holbrooke's possible job at the U.N., from which Madeleine Albright secretary of state in the administration of President Bill Clinton, but the fact that while holding the job Holbrooke will be well positioned to succeed Albright if she should step down before the end of the Clinton administration, or if and when Vice President Al Gore succeeds Clinton. In Holbrooke's case there should be no belated ethnic revelations as was the case with Albright. Holbrooke's father, a Scarsdale physician, was Jewish. His mother was not.
The Palestinian cabinet has accused American multimillionaire and financier of Israeli extremism Irving Moskowitz of "waging a campaign of colonization and gross provocation which represents a direct challenge to the Palestinian people." Moskowitz got his financial start buying and selling hospitals and then bought up the city council of a whole town, Hawaiian Gardens, on the wrong side of the tracks in Los Angeles County. There he has built a bingo parlor and sleaze empire to help finance the Jewish nationalist Ateret Cohanim movement, which seeks to Judaize Arab East Jerusalem. Moskowitz financed the final phase of a tunnel dug along the foundations of the Haram al Sharif, Islam's third holiest site in the world, and was present when Israeli troops opened it to connect the Jewish and Arab quarters of the Old City, setting off Israeli-Palestinian rioting and gunfights in which more than 60 persons were killed. In early January he visited Israel to line up election campaign financing for right-wing extremist candidates.
New York state assemblyman Dov Hikind from Brooklyn, traveling with Moskowitz, said he had no doubt that Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu was the right man to support.
In Hebron, the Moskowitz group was greeted with music and dance by Jewish settlers. "These are people who love us and help us, they are real lovers of Israel," said Baruch Marzel. "They can't sleep at night if they don't give money to Hebron."
Israeli Knesset member Yossi Sarid, who leads the dovish Meretz party, said, "The Moskowitz phenomenon is both frightening and disgusting. The very thought that a man who makes his money from betting parlors is also gambling with our fate fills me with apprehension."
Accompanying Moskowitz on his January trip to Israel and the occupied territories was out-of-control Congressman Michael Forbes (R-NY), whom the American Task Force for Palestine (ATFP) now calls a "rogue congressman." AP reported that both Moskowitz and Forbes were heckled by Israeli peace activists as they toured the Ras al-Amoud area of East Jerusalem, where Moskowitz hopes to finance a new Jewish settlement this spring. Said ATFP Executive Director Michael Sanford, "Rather than going to Israel to urge them to abide by their signed commitments, Congressman Forbes has gone to support their violations of them...To call for "˜coexistence' by encouraging the building of Jewish-only settlements in illegally occupied territory on land that was confiscated from Palestinians is not only ironic, it's just plain bizarre."
David Tenenbaum, an Orthodox Jewish engineer at the U.S. Army's plant in Southfield, MI, was investigated for 10 months by the FBI starting in 1997 on suspicion that he had released classified information on armor systems, Patriot missile countermeasures, Bradley fighting vehicles and Humvees to Israel. The government dropped the investigation last July, but now Tenenbaum has filed a lawsuit seeking $120 million in damages from the Justice Department and several officials. His lawyer, Martin Crandall, said Tenenbaum's Jewish faith might have made him a target in what the lawyer called "an ethnic-oriented persecution."
Former U.S. Secretary of State Henry Kissinger, who once advised the Israeli government to close the West Bank to the media and suppress the Palestinian intifada "as quickly as possible—overwhelmingly, brutally and rapidly" and suggested early in the Iraq-Iran war that the U.S. should do nothing to halt it, just gets more embarassingly like the Nazis from whom his parents once fled. At a New York fund-raising dinner organized by Ben-Gurion University in late November after the Wye agreement had been signed by Netanyahu and Palestinian President Yasser Arafat in Clinton's presence at the White House just in time for U.S. elections, Kissinger advised Israel not to hand over any more territory to the Palestinians pending conclusion of a permanent status agreement. The problem, of course, is that by following the advice, which he did, Netanyahu reneged on the agreement which he had just signed, and also further postponed the beginning of final status talks by calling new Israeli elections.
If you listen very carefully, you learn that not all members of the U.S. Congress want to bomb Iraq back into the stone age. In a Nov. 16 release African-American Congresswoman Cynthia McKinney (D-GA) complained that "up to now our policy toward Iraq has been one of all stick and no carrot." She noted that "the U.S. has never engaged Iraq in discussions to draft terms for the lessening of sanctions," or "a time-table or clear commitment on the mechanism or conditions for lifting sanctions. The Iraqis have therefore never been given any incentive to cooperate with U.S. or U.N. demands." She noted also that in the United Nations some "now call sanctions against Iraq a weapon of mass destruction."
U.S. Ambassador to India Richard Celeste set off a political storm on the subcontinent by calling upon New Delhi to disclose publicly its requirements for a minimum nuclear deterrent. In an interview with the press trust of India he asked, "How many missile systems and warheads does India need to have a minimum nuclear deterrent?" Responded Indian Defense Minister George Fernandes: "How we address our security concerns is our problem...If the U.S. thinks that it can express concern over other countries' security requirements, then other nations should also have the right to express their concern over the United States."
The American-Arab Anti-Discrimination Committee (ADC) issued a statement mourning the death of Kwame Ture, formerly known as American civil rights activist Stokely Carmichael, at his home in Conakry, Guinea, at the age of 57. Noting that he had been a freedom rider and chairman of the Student Non-Violent Coordinating Committee (SNCC), the ADC said Ture had been "especially supportive of the cause of the human and national rights of the Palestinian people. In spite of his struggle against cancer...on Nov. 5, just 10 days before he died, Ture announced plans for a trip to protest U.S. travel restrictions and embargoes against Libya, Cuba, Sudan and Iraq," the ADC said.
On Dec. 31 the Council on American-Islamic Relations (CAIR) called upon Rep. Jim Saxton (R-NJ) to retract a statement published on the Internet claiming the Prophet Muhammad violated terms of a treaty when it was expedient to do so. CAIR president Nihad Awad demanded an apology to the American Muslim community saying, "It is disturbing that you, in your capacity as a United States congressman, would make such a deeply offensive and demonstrably false statement regarding the Prophet of Islam, the religion of six million Americans and more than one billion people worldwide. The Prophet Muhammad never broke any treaty."
The incident recalled the retraction U.S. News and World Report, whose publisher, Mort Zuckerman, is a leading U.S. Zionist, had to print of a similar accusation. On June 24, 1996 the magazine's editors wrote, "We deeply regret any ambiguity in the language...It was the Meccans, not the Prophet Muhammad, who broke the peace of Hudaybiah of 628."
Israeli Ambassador to the U.S. Zalman Shoval, in an article published Jan. 6 by the Washington Times, blamed the Palestinian Authority for the breakdown of the Wye agreement only days after it was signed at the White House. The following day State Department spokesman James P. Rubin said at his daily press briefing: "We do not share Ambassador Shoval's assessment at all. The Palestinians have, in fact, worked hard to implement many of their commitments under the Wye agreement, including annulling clauses in the Palestinian National Council Charter and stepping up the fight against terror...It is the Israelis who have not fulfilled their...obligations to withdraw from a further 13 percent of the occupied West Bank."
President Clinton has nominated Iranian-American businessman and donor to the Democratic Party Hassan Nemazee to be U.S. ambassador to Argentina. He is chairman of the Nemazee Capital Corp. of New York, and members of his family have contributed $124,000 to the Democrats since 1994. Mr. Nemazee also has made occasional campaign contributions of $500 and $1,000 to two Senate Republicans particularly sympathetic to Israel. They are New York Sen. Alfonse M. D'Amato, defeated last November, and North Carolina Sen. Jesse Helms, who, as chairman of the Foreign Relations Committee, must approve Mr. Nemazee's nomination. Nemazee also has given $5,000 to Vice President Al Gore's political action committee.
Former U.N. humanitarian coordinator for Iraq Denis Halliday expressed his support Jan. 18 for French proposals to lift the eight and a half year embargo on Iraqi oil sales while maintaining tight arms controls. Halliday, 67, who resigned his Baghdad position last September to protest the continuing sanctions, told journalists during a visit to Paris, "There is no nice way to say this is a genocide...we have to stop this collective punishment of the Iraqi people."
U.S. Ambassador to Israel Edward Walker ordered the U.S. Embassy in Tel Aviv closed Dec. 31 and reopened it Jan. 4 after receiving what embassy spokesman Larry Schwartz called a "credible and specific threat." The State Department closed 40 U.S. embassies in Africa for several days in December.
Prof. William Rubenstein of the University of Wales charges in the February issue of Britain's History Today magazine that Leopold Amery, the member of parliament who, during World War I, drafted for British Foreign Secretary Lord James Arthur Balfour the "Balfour Declaration" expressing British support for "the establishment in Palestine of a national home for the Jewish people," spent his life covering up his Jewish ancestry. Rubenstein describes Amery's deception as "possibly the most remarkable example of concealment of identity in 20th century British political history."
In his autobiography, published in 1955, Amery said only that his mother had fled Hungary after 1848 and that his father came from an old English family. In fact, Rubenstein said, Amery changed his middle name from Moritz to Maurice and did not mention that his mother, Elizabeth Johanna Saphir, was of Jewish descent. "Most men—especially those in public life—who are hiding their Jewish ancestry would take pains to distance themselves as far as possible from Jewish issues," Rubenstein wrote. "Many might have become anti-Semites. But, most remarkably, Amery behaved in precisely the opposite way."
An example of such behavior was Amery's role, as assistant secretary to the war cabinet, in establishing the Jewish Legion, which was the forerunner of the modern Israel Defense Forces. A powerful Amery speech in parliament also is thought to have played a key role in precipitating the departure of Prime Minister Joseph Chamberlain in 1940 and the accession to power of Winston Churchill, who led Britain throughout World War II.
Ironically, one of Amery's sons, John, apparently did become an anti-Semite. He defected to Nazi Germany and was hanged for treason in London after World War II. Another son, Julian, was a Conservative member of Parliament who died in 1996.
Russian President Boris Yeltsin reiterated Russia's strong objection to U.S. and British air attacks on Iraq in a 40-minute telephone conversation with President Clinton Dec. 30. National Security Council spokesman David C. Leavy said the two leaders also discussed Russia's economic crisis and its parliament's delay in ratifying the second strategic arms reduction treaty, called Start II.
Representatives of Palestinian President Yasser Arafat's Fatah party emerged from a Dec. 22 Palestinian Legislative Council meeting agreeing to disagree on whether he should re-declare a Palestinian state May 4, the day final status talks under the Oslo accords are to have ended. "It's very difficult for Arafat to back down from this expectation of statehood now," said Fatah secretary-general for the West Bank Marwan Barghouti. "It would be very damaging for his credibility." Council member for Nablus Hussan Khader said, "I am afraid Hamas will again appear on the scene. This is very dangerous because if there are bombings, it will help those to the right of Netanyahu." Moussa Zaabout, a council member affiliated with Hamas, said that the group had no need for bombings and added: "Hamas is not concerned with this...We know Israeli elections are just a way of postponing the peace process."
Members of the Kuwaiti Journalists Union have denounced the visit of their colleague, Hamed Bu Yabes, to Israel where he met with Prime Minister Binyamin Netanyahu and other Israeli leaders. The denunciation said Kuwaiti journalists reject contact with Israel, with which Kuwait remains in a state of war.
Former Pakistani Prime Minister Benazir Bhutto flew in late December to Dubai, where her three children are studying, after a court in Lahore overturned a Pakistani government order that had barred her from leaving the country because she faces corruption charges.
Israel has rejected a Polish request for the extradition of Solomon Morel, who commanded a camp for German prisoners of war under the Soviet occupation. The Polish request last April charged Morel with beating and torturing prisoners and creating inhuman conditions at the Swietochlowice camp, which he commanded from February to November 1945. Barbara Makosa-Stepkowska, a Polish Justice Ministry spokeswoman, said the Israeli decision ends the case in Poland, where the investigation begun in 1992 was the only one to date against a Polish Jew accused of crimes against Germans after their defeat.
Former Israeli Consul General in New York Colette Avital, who also has served as Israeli ambassador to Portugal, was recalled from a conference in Brussels in late November and suspended by Foreign Ministry Director General Eitan Ben-Tsur. Avital, a supporter of the Oslo peace process who frequently clashed with hard-line American supporters of the Likud Party in New York, is accused of giving a reporter for Ha'aretz, Israel's largest daily, an internal Foreign Ministry document laying out policy options in the event that Palestinian President Arafat proclaims a Palestinian state next May. Many foreign office officials said the charges against her were a settling of scores by right-wing officials for her leftist views.
"We must ask ourselves why such a courageous and outstanding person has been accused of leaking a document to the press," said Shlomo Ben-Ami, a former Israeli ambassador to Spain and Labor Party member of the Knesset. "I believe Avital...She is the best diplomat the foreign office has."
Israeli police arrested airport security guard Yair Ben-Aboo Jan. 4 on charges he called for the assassination of Israeli Labor Party leader Ehud Barak while awaiting Barak's arrival at Kiryat Shemona on a campaign tour.
In January, Cyprus put on trial two Israelis, Udi Hargov and Igal Damary, on charges they spied on Cypriot armed forces on behalf of Turkey. Israel has not said what their mission was, but they were intercepted while apparently planting or removing listening devices.
Exiled Saudi dissident billionaire Osama bin Laden told Time magazine he "instigated" the August bombings of two U.S. embassies in Africa. The interview appeared to be the closest Bin Laden has come to admitting a role in the Kenya and Tanzania attacks.
The U.N. war crimes tribunal has cleared the way for Bosnian authorities to prosecute a former Muslim warlord on charges that he blocked food convoys for civilians and mistreated prisoners of war. Fikret Abdic fought against Muslim-led Bosnian-government forces in the civil war and, when the fighting ended in late 1995, fled with 27,000 of his supporters to Croatia where he later became a Croatian citizen. Under the 1995 Dayton agreement, Bosnian authorities may not make war crimes arrests unless they first submit evidence to the international tribunal in The Hague and get approval to proceed. Croatia's constitution, however, bars extradition of its citizens for trial in another country except at the request of The Hague tribunal.
Lucille Barnes covers Washington, DC for U.S. and Middle East publications.


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Learn How To Do The Flutter Kick: Learning the flutter kick in a prone position is a important prerequisite to master if you want to learn how to swim the freestyle stroke. This article covers a few exercises to learn this important swimming technique in a simple way.
Head-Lead Supine Balance: This freestyle swimming drill introduces you to balance. Being balanced means that your body is perfectly horizontal in the water, which reduces drag and saves energy. In this drill you learn being balanced at first on your back to avoid breathing issues.
Head-Lead Prone Balance: This freestyle swimming drill is designed to teach you balance in the water in a prone position (lying flat on your stomach). This is a very good drill to learn how to keep your hips and legs close to the water surface with ease and without needing to kick hard.
Head-Lead Side Balance: In the front crawl stroke, spending more time swimming on the side makes you faster. This is because when you roll more on the side, you can use the larger back muscles in addition to the shoulder muscles for propulsion. However, because floating on the side in the water needs some getting used to, we use this drill to get comfortable in that position.
Head-Lead Nose Up / Nose Down: This swimming drill will teach you how to keep your balance in the water while rolling between different positions, face up and face down in this case. This is an important freestyle skill to master so that you can maintain balance when you roll on the side to breathe.
Head-Lead Looking Down: In this drill, you will try to maintain horizontal balance while rolling from side to side. This lets you practice balance at a high degree. Once you have mastered this drill you'll have more balance than you'll ever need in the front crawl stroke.
Hand-Lead Side Balance: In the Head-Lead Side Balance drill, you learned that swimming front crawl more on your sides improved propulsion. In this drill you will assume the same position but you will extend one of your arms overhead. This teaches you to make your body as long as possible in the water which reduces drag.
Hand-Lead Nose Up / Nose Down: This swimming drill lets you practice balance floating on the side with one arm extended forward. This is useful because you roll from side to side into this particular side position when you swim front crawl.
This drill also lets you practice dynamic balance, where you alternatively switch between a face up and a face down position. Being able to maintain balance while rolling on the side is useful because you roll in a similar way to breathe in.
The final set of swimming drills lets you transition into swimming front crawl. They teach you correct arm movements and coordination. They are called switch drills because you switch sides while completing a drill cycle.
Under Switch: In this drill the arm recovery is done underwater. This allows you to focus on and become aware of the synergy that exists between the arm movements and body roll while swimming front crawl.
Zipper Switch: This drill lets you focus on achieving a compact and efficient arm recovery. This allows you to decrease drag and save energy.
Over Switch: This is the last one of our freestyle stroke drills. It lets you practice an early hand entry during the arm recovery. This is to avoid the common tendency of overreaching during the recovery which for several reasons increases drag and can also lead to swimmer's shoulder. Once you have mastered this drill you will be ready to transition into swimming the full front crawl stroke.
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Last updated at 12:43, Tuesday, 17 April 2012
Look up the definition of philanthropy and you'll find yourself suddenly bathed in a warm, rosy glow of benevolence.
It means – no matter where you find your reference – a love of humanity, selfless generosity, devotion to the greater good, kindness, sacrifice. Nowhere is it defined as a handy way of reducing your tax bill.
But that's what it has become of late. Our living language, which changes and evolves almost daily, has added a new nuance to the once universally recognised meaning of philanthropy.
Greed? Hmmm, well if not quite that yet, what about self interest? Quid pro quo? You scratch my back or I'll stab yours? Our elders, betters and richers (which isn't a word but, since they're the ones changing the language, it'll fit my bill on this occasion) are taking to wobbly moral high ground to spice up the simple with a convoluted complexity.
It's a mind game. One of the many they like to play to make little people wonder how on earth big people find the time and brain power necessary to manage their lives, our lives and more importantly their finances – without which we minnows would all go to the dogs without a hospice or hostel for the homeless to our names.
The row is over how much tax the super-rich should be excused from paying, if they – as philanthropists – donate to charities. It's an unseemly and vaguely ridiculous debate. At least, that's the way it seems to me. See, I can't help but wonder why the super-rich can't pay their taxes AND make donations to charity.
Call me naive – I've been called a lot worse, so feel free. But there's nothing in my book that equates philanthropy with under-the-counter deals. Whatever your income, however big your stash of cash, if you make a gift you do so willingly and generously without a negotiated reciprocal favour being on the agenda.
The Treasury says almost one in 10 people earning more than £10 million a year pays less than 20 per cent in income tax. Does a donation to a public school, a rehab centre for distressed rock stars or funding IVF for menopausal imported pandas make that more acceptable?
You may think it does – in which case we will politely beg to differ. But in my experience the millions of little folks who happily and dutifully donate to worthy, often essential charitable causes – services neglected by government specifically because of their genuine generosity – do so after they have met their obligations to the state, asking no favour in return.
Most of them are older, paying tax on their pensions and still keeping air ambulances in flight, hospital wards open, school equipment renewed, child cruelty prevention services in operation. They are the true philanthropists and their faces are slapped dismissively when they are taken rudely for granted and the special case of multi-millionaire tax avoiders is pleaded with such a passion.
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Kimmage: Absolutely. You know, David Walsh is coming out with a new book about Armstrong and in it he acknowledges is being a "fan with a typewriter" with Kelly. That was his introduction; that's where he started out from. But I'd absolutely agree with Feinstein—that's the constant struggle. Obviously to do well you need to be close to your subject, you need access, but how much are you prepared to compromise yourself as a journalist? So it's finding that line, that balance between getting the information, doing what you need to do to get the information, without compromising yourself as a journalist. That's the struggle.
People look upon the doping problem in our sport as black and white: They cheat, and they shouldn't cheat. It doesn't work like that. There are all sorts of people responsible for bike riders making choices they make, and one group of people who are not spoken of at all in the choices are journalists, people like me. You say, How does that work? Well, it works because you get cycling writers who are in the sport all of their lives and they know there's all this stuff going on and it is their job to go and expose that and report on that, and they don't do it. They become complicit in the problem. They become chamois sniffers or, more politely, fans with typewriters.
I'll give you an example of the problem. I was sent by [London's] Sunday Times to interview Floyd Landis [in 2010]. They flew me from Dublin to Los Angeles. I got a car and I drove out to sit down with Floyd. It cost our paper a fortune to do that, several thousand pounds. The transcript alone took me a week to do—that was another week's wages. I wrote the piece; I brought it to them. It was like 5,000 words. I was really happy with it. Opening paragraph: Straightaway there is this mention of an association with Lance Armstrong. Oh, no, no—we can't have that. You can't associate Floyd with Lance. His lawyers are going to be on to us straightaway, so you'll have to take that out. At the end of about a three-week period, I had so many lawyers say, You can't say that about Lance, you can't say that. The piece was absolutely utterly worthless. Useless. Probably the worst piece I'd ever written, and I was ashamed of it. I came away from that thinking, What is the point? Why do they do this? What is my job? Just incredibly frustrated. Because the truth about Floyd Landis was not in that magazine piece I wrote. It was just diluted pap. And what we're getting a lot of in our media today, in our newspapers today—diluted pap. We are not getting truth because we've got newspaper owners whose only interest is profit and newspaper editors whose only interest is in keeping their jobs. I came out of this process with Floyd very annoyed. Thankfully, NY Velocity ended up publishing the complete transcript of my seven-hour interview with Landis.
Look, riding your bike the most beautiful thing you can do. I think it's wonderful. And this is something that's really annoyed me more than anything else: Because I spoke out against doping, people said, He hates cycling. Well, how ridiculous is that? You speak out against doping and you hate cycling? That is the most ludicrous thing I've ever heard. The reason why it's important is that I have never encouraged my son to follow the path that I took—I would never do that unless I thought he had a fair chance of never having to make the choices I had to make.
BICYCLING: In what way is your life's story still being written?
Kimmage: Ultimately, Rough Ride is about the UCI. Rough Ride is about the problem in the sport that is the UCI. That hasn't been solved yet. Until it is solved, I'm still in there. It's still happening. I've issued a criminal complaint against both McQuaid and Verbruggen in Switzerland, and hopefully now the prosecutor in Switzerland will act on that and direct the Swiss police to investigate them. The endgame for me, while it would be very sweet to see them both behind bars, if they can actually remove them from our sport, force them to step down, that would be enough. There can be no solution until McQuaid and Verbruggen are removed from the sport. If that doesn't happen, the sport has no chance. I believe there's such momentum out there—anger across the sport—from sponsors to fans to riders, even though we don't hear their voice. They are frustrated about it. I actually don't believe McQuaid and Verbruggen can survive this.
When you put people in charge of a sport and they apply different rules to different people in that sport, you have a recipe for chaos, and that's how our sport has been run for 22 years. There's no fairness in our sport. It's never been there. Until you put people in there who make the rules the same for everybody, then you have no chance of having a clean sport.
BICYCLING: If the top guys at the UCI were removed, would you be content?
Kimmage: That's the first step. What would make me happy is to watch a Tour de France and watch the Tour de France where the yellow jersey has some really bad days and it changes hands. What would make me happy is a Tour de France with guys like Dan Martin. The Tour de France with 190 Dan Martins and David Millars, who come out and win a stage, then lose 40 minutes the next day. That would make me happy. But these robots who ride for three weeks and go faster in the third week, that doesn't make me happy. How great would our sport be then? If you could address the doping and take it out—Jesus! What a sport you'd have—the viewing numbers! It would just be fantastic.
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The 2009 edition of the SOCS Summer Undergraduate Research Symposium was held August 31st. It was a a great success, with a total of 17 well-prepared and professionally-delivered presentations.
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We wondered why a friend of ours kept traveling to Hobart, Tasmania. Recently she invited us to join her there. From the airport we drove over a bridge and through the city and suburbs. Nothing outstandingbut we kept on traveling. After a few difficult hairpin turns that took us slowly and sharply uphill, we saw the outline of the coast below. Still quite ordinary looking.
But as we drove up the steep driveway and arrived at our destination, the spectacular panorama of the city became clear. Even the bridge we had driven over that seemed so drab looked beautiful! Now we knew why she so often traveled there.
The lives of the pioneers of faith in Hebrews 11 had their share of hairpin turns and humdrum situations. But they pressed on and did not turn back. Their destination? Heaven, the city which has foundations, whose builder and maker is God (v.10).
Esther Kerr Rusthoi wrote about our journey to heaven in her hymn When We See Christ:
It will be worth it all, when we see Jesus;
Lifes trials will seem so small when we see Christ;
One glimpse of His dear face, all sorrow will erase;
So bravely run the race, till we see Christ!
Today, whether life is ordinary or difficult, keep pressing on. At the end of the journey, you will see the amazing place God has prepared for us. And it will be well worth it!
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I must say, I enjoy the group so very much. On that note, I need to explain who I am and why I joined. You see, I'm a woman. A friend, boy412, joined and I started to read the blogs here. I was so impressed with the comraderie and overall feel of the group that I wanted to join yet felt awkward because of my gender. I didn't want to shove my way in to prove any point, I wanted to join a group of people who I felt would be wonderful to know and had so much information to share. I had asked him to please post a question about how you gentlemen felt about women joining. Yes, I was aware that there were female members already so I knew I wouldn't be turned away but I was unsure regardless. The responses were mostly very positive and I don't recall any negativity, just some confusion and I suppose that's understandable given it's a mens group. Anyway, the long and short of this is that I am very glad I joined and I wish you all well!
Welcome.... You'll find the "guys" (indeed, you're not the only person with non-male-piping) are very welcoming here. Good to have you.
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If she weighs the same as a duck....
Huh? In England we'd say "If it looks like a duck, swims like a duck and quacks like a duck, then it probably is a duck". I could have missed the point entirely, but is a state-side version of the so-called "duck test"? If so how does it go?
And while I'm here, I should obviously welcome Dandelion on her first public outing. Hope you continue to enjoy the site and cute name too :-)
We have the same duck addage, but I think maybe this was a Monty Python reference??
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I believe Patchwork Jester was making reference to a line from Monty Python and The Holy Grail, but I'll wait and see what he says. Thank you for the welcome!
You guys are on the right track, though I'm somewhat boggled by the fact the Brit didn't get the reference first...
I'll simply join the choir: WELCOME!
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Yes welcome aboard. Besides, many of us on here can talk girl, so you will be OK. :-)
LOL, thank you. I'm also fluent in boy ;)
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Welcome to the group. Looking forward to hearing more from you and seeing some of your work.
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You're all so welcoming, I thank you.
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As the retrial to settle the damages in the Apple vs Samsung patents case reaches its closing arguments, Samsung's lawyer Bill Price accused Apple attorney Harold McElhinny of a racist remark, asking for a mistrial to be declared, reports Bloomberg.
Harold McElhinny, Apple's attorney, spoke yesterday of his memory as a child of watching television on American-made sets, and how because the manufacturers didn't protect their intellectual property their products no longer exist. "We all know what happened," he said at the conclusion of a damages retrial […]
McElhinny was "appealing to race," Price told the judge. "I thought we were past that." …
McElhinny denied that his statement had been racist.
I did not say a word about race, and I did not say Asian.
U.S. District Judge Lucy Koh rejected Samsung's motion for a mistrial. Price said he planned to file another motion under a different rule – apparently he doesn't think he's winning …
Apple is asking for $380M – a little less than the $410M it was originally awarded – while Samsung argues that it owes just under $53M. Phil Schiller had earlier put the importance of the iPhone into perspective by stating that Apple "bet the company" on it
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Still, that comment was a bit off color…but I guess that's what a lawyer's job is, to rile up judges :)
What's racist about it? As far as I'm concerned American is a nationality, not a race.
I guess truth does hurt. It's true, the country sold out to everyone except those who matter.
Where are 99% of hacked apps sold from?
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Blogs still rare, but foster community
44% of Net users create content online
One of the great promises of the Internet always has been that anyone can be a publisher online. Now a new study shows that promise is being fulfilled. Fifty-three million Americans -- nearly half of all adult U.S. Internet users -- have created content online by posting to Websites, blogging or sharing files, according to findings by the Pew Internet & American Life Project. And while Weblogs are still a very small -- but growing -- proportion of online content, they're showing a remarkable ability to foster online community.
With all the buzz about Weblogs these days, some might be surprised by how small a role Weblogs have played in online content creation. Only 2% of Internet users in this survey reported writing a weblog or online diary. And of those, only about 10 percent update their Weblogs daily, while most update their blogs once a week or less often.
It's clear from this and other studies that creating or reading Weblogs is still only a very small part of how people use the Internet. Still, this survey was conducted between March 12 and May 20, 2003. Other surveys by Pew, including one in early 2004, show that between 2% and 7% of Internet users publish a blog, indicating that the use of Weblogs is indeed growing.
But while only a small number of Net users write blogs, a slightly larger number of Net users -- 11 percent -- say they visit blogs written by others. And of these readers, a third report posting to or commenting on the blog entries that they have read -- an encouraging sign for Weblogs' ability to foster online community.
Imagine 30 percent of newspaper readers responding to articles they've read. No other media form in history has created so much feedback and interactivity with its audience.
How Content is Created
Here's a closer look at how all the content is being created online. Fourty-four percent of the nation�s adult Internet users (those 18 and over) have done at least one of the following:
21% of Internet users say they have posted photographs to Web sites.
20% say they have allowed others to download music or video files from their computers.
17% have posted written material on Web sites.
13% maintain their own Web sites.
10% have posted comments to an online newsgroup. A small fraction of them have posted files to a newsgroup such as video, audio, or photo files.
8% have contributed material to Web sites run by their businesses.
7% have contributed material to Web sites run by organizations to which they belong such as church or professional groups.
7% have Web cams running on their computers that allow other Internet users to see live pictures of them and their surroundings.
6% have posted artwork on Web sites.
5% have contributed audio files to Web sites.
4% have contributed material to Web sites created for their families.
3% have contributed video files to Web sites.
2% maintain Web diaries or Web blogs
Who Creates the Content
Pew found that content creators tend to be younger, highly educated and more urban and surburban than the average American -- similar to the makeup of the general Internet population. Among those online, all age groups are equally likely to create content. Here's a more detailed look:
In analyzing the numbers, Pew found that most content creators tend to fall into one of three distinct groups:
"Power creators" are the Internet users who are most enthusiastic about content-creating activities. They are young � their average age is 25 � and they are more likely than other kinds of creators do things like use instant messaging, play games, and download music. And they are the most likely group to be blogging.
"Older creators" have an average age of 58 and are experienced Internet users. They are highly educated, like sharing pictures, and are the most likely of the creator groups to have built their own Web sites. They are also the most likely to have used the Internet for genealogical research.
"Content omnivores" are among the heaviest overall users of the Internet. Most are employed. Most log on frequently and spend considerable time online doing a variety of activities. They are likely to have broadband connections at home. The average age of this group is 40.
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When war paranoia struck the West Coast in 1941, it did so with a vengeance. Suddenly one's Japanese neighbors -- farmers with cherry orchards, children who shared the neighborhood playground, their doting mothers -- were viewed as potentially dangerous.
Fear built on racism and led to tragedy, says history Professor Ellen Eisenberg. After Japanese planes bombed Pearl Harbor, every person of Japanese ancestry was removed from the West Coast. Whole families, most of them American citizens, were hauled away to camps where they were incarcerated behind barbed wire, some for as long as four years. No charges were filed, so no defense was possible.
Eisenberg's new book, The First to Cry Down Injustice? Western Jews and Japanese Removal During WWII -- recently named a finalist for the National Jewish Book Award -- looks at how West Coast Jews reacted to the wartime policy of incarceration.
"People get scared during war," says the Dwight and Margaret Lear Chair of American History. "In 1941 people really thought there would be an attack on the West Coast, and for all they knew, their next door neighbor was the enemy. The policy of removal was wildly popular in the West, and very few individuals or organizations spoke out against it -- even Jews, whose long history of oppression had led them to champion civil rights and protest discrimination."
U.S. Jews had begun to fight for the rights of blacks, Jews and Mexicans, but on the West Coast most remained tensely silent as their Japanese American neighbors were railroaded to incarceration camps. Because of the brutal treatment of Jews in Germany, American Jews wanted to support the war effort against the Nazis; many held uneasy, conflicted feelings about Japanese incarceration, and their reactions were mixed.
A Jewish organization in Los Angeles reported on Japanese Americans, contributing to the propaganda that led to their incarceration, while some in Seattle and San Francisco spoke out against the policy of removal. Many who didn't later regretted their silence, including Gus Solomon, a young Portland lawyer who eventually became a federal judge. "Given the overwhelming public support for the government policy, the silence of the majority of Jews suggests some level of disagreement," Eisenberg says.
Just as today's war paranoia can easily become aligned with racism, it did so during World War II. "There was a fundamental difference in the way Americans reacted to German and Italian Americans, as opposed to Asian Americans," Eisenberg says. "They assumed that citizens of Japanese descent had loyalty to the Japanese emperor in their blood. Playing American baseball didn't make them American."
Eisenberg's finding that a Jewish organization contributed to the propaganda against Japanese Americans has created surprise and discomfort, but serves as a "cautionary tale of how bad things can be done by good people," according to Brandeis University history Professor Jonathan Sarna. "The facts might upset some people because they want to think Jews would have supported oppressed groups," Eisenberg says, "but the evidence is crystal clear. This is what happens when people become paranoid.
"By the summer of 1942, all people of Japanese descent had been incarcerated and the hysteria had abated," Eisenberg says. "More people, including those in the Jewish community, were willing to speak out against the practice. The West Coast Jewish community also quickly shifted gears toward promoting civil rights in Mexican and black communities, and after the war they focused on Japanese rehabilitation. Their silence was short-lived."
The First to Cry Down Injustice was published in September, and Eisenberg is now co-authoring a broad history of Jews in the Pacific West, to be released in fall 2009. "Most Jewish American histories have an East Coast bias, with a focus on New York City," Eisenberg says. "But now regional Jewish history has a growing audience."
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Here are some of my reactions to Ellen Moers's "Money, the Job, and Little Women" [January]. Concerned as we all are to establish a meaningful tradition of middle-class women's attitudes toward work outside the home, we must, of course, consider Louisa May Alcott as an important 19th-century example of the independent spirit. Yet I think we have to be especially wary in looking at Alcott's work as an illustration of the same qualities her life exemplified. The very fact that she so needed the money her father failed to provide often caused her, I believe, to write what middle-class women wanted to hear most—that women's place was in the home, not in the job market.
That the character Christie is wealthy at the end of Work is not the result of any work she has done, but because she has received a husband's pension and an uncle's legacy. The work of God that the mixed group seated together finally see leading to women's liberty is really the traditional self-sacrificial or charitable work women have always done as an assertion of moral superiority over men. Significantly, early in the novel when Christie seems to be finding genuine self-fulfillment as an actress, her selfishness appalls her, and she gives up the stage, arguing to herself that she wasn't really good enough. What man would look at his profession similarly?
A contemporary critic of Work accused Louisa May Alcott of actually betraying the working girl by using marriage as a way out of difficulties instead of advocating better working conditions for those women who wished to remain independent. Perhaps her May ancestors made it truly impossible for her to identify with the women whose work she shared. . . .
Many middle-class women today might express similar disappointment that Louisa May Alcott followed the requests of her readers rather than her own better judgment in permitting Jo March to marry. Our chance for a feminine Huck Finn disappeared into the kitchen. But if both Huckleberry Finn and Little Women share the artificiality of their conclusions, both books remain equally valuable in suggesting what freedom can be, an especially difficult question for a woman.
Eugenia Kaledin
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I am delighted that Eugenia Kaledin's letter points up many of the conflicting tendencies in Alcott's work for which I had no space in the few paragraphs I gave the subject in my article. But both Miss Kaledin and I are inevitably guilty of simplifications: my worst, in omitting to mention that Alcott's alternate title for Work was Success; and hers, for leaving the impression that Alcott could handle the theme of "freedom" (for women or men) without its Victorian concomitant, "duty." That making money appeared the first of duties to a female Alcott was responsible, I believe, for the best and the worst of her writing.


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Local authors (and the archivist of the United States) will be Booksellers for a Day at The Regulator Bookshop on Saturday. Ten local authors will become booksellers for a day to help customers pick out books at Durham's Regulator Bookshop, in observance of Small Business Saturday and the first day of Shop Independent Durham Week.
Guest booksellers will include bestselling "Predictably Irrational" author Dan Ariely and bestselling young adult author Sarah Dessen. They will be joined by David Cecelski, Lora Florand, Katy Munger, Tim Tyson, Jim Wise, and children's authors Stephanie Greene and J.J. Johnson.
Former Duke head librarian David Ferrio, archivist of the United States, also will help sell books.
The Regulator's guest booksellers will be working two-hour shifts throughout the day, beginning at 10 a.m. and running until 9 p.m. A complete schedule will be available on the bookstore's web site, www.regulatorbookshop.com
The Regulator will be having a sale on dozens of its most "giftable" books, and customers can sign up for a chance to win a new facsimile edition of John James Audubon's "Birds of America," which normally sells for $350.
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-- Sarah Dessen. 10 a.m.-11:30 a.m.
-- David Cecelski. Noon-2 p.m.
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-- Dan Ariely. 4-6
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