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PAWTUCKET – Bernie Carbo assumed custody of his grandson when he was two. This same lad has matured into a 14-year-old with big-league hopes, no doubt fueled by a grandfather who authored one of the most memorable home runs in Red Sox lore.
Surprisingly, Carbo was not asked to relive his famous pinch hit, three-run home run that tied Game 6 of the 1975 World Series upon a recent visit to McCoy Stadium. Conducting a 20-minute briefing in the press box before heading downstairs to sign autographs and pose for pictures alongside fellow '75 Sox teammate Bill Lee, Carbo talked about his belief that the game a detox program that seriously addresses the issue of performance-enhancing drugs.
"I don't want my grandson to play professional baseball if he has to juice up with steroids or human growth or whatever," stated the 65-year-old Carbo, these days a practicing minister in Theodore, Alabama. "I want it out of the game."
Carbo wants baseball to see the light in the same way he once did. His 12-year playing career was over at 33 because of poor choices with alcohol and drugs.
"I take responsibility for me, Bernie Carbo. I made the wrong and bad choice. You can't turn it around," he said looking back.
Carbo recalled the temptations that were interwoven with baseball's culture in the 1970s. He said players walked into the trainer's room to find Benzedrine and Dexedrine available on the counter. Following his Rookie of the Year selection by the Sporting News in 1970, Carbo received an invitation from a weight-lifter to spend the offseason in California.
In addition to pumping iron, the program included taking steroids. With little cash in his pocket, this career .264 hitter elected to bypass on a chance to improve his physique.
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Others did, and the results were apparent to Carbo.
"There were times in spring training in 1973 or 1974 where you would look at a guy who weighed 180 pounds and say, 'You look big. Geez, you must be 220 pounds.'"
The reply was often, "Well, I'm just weightlifting."
"That's what everybody thought," said Carbo.
The major off-the-field focus during Carbo's era was increased awareness about player salaries. The numerous strikes and lockouts of the 1970s resulted in players gaining a larger share in the profits generated by big league clubs.
"We had to win a championship and get into a World Series in order to get a raise. It didn't matter what we hit. If you didn't win in the playoffs, you didn't receive a raise," said Carbo about the "one for all, all for one" compensation system that was apparently at the root of the owner's purse strings. "The raise we did get was being the World Series – $9,000 –$10,000 at that particular time. It was an incentive to play as a team, know each other and win, play through injuries and do whatever.
"The year I won Rookie of the Year, I was offered a $1,000 raise above the minimum salary," Carbo said. "There was no bargaining. (The offer) was sent to the commissioner who sent it back to the club you were with. Either you played or went home and carried a lunch bucket.
"As players, we went on strike to make the money better for today's players," he said. "We had to find jobs in the winter."
Carbo's generation's unified front on the issues of free agency made it possible for the players who came after them to shop their talents to the highest bidder, enabling today's massive salaries that would've once seemed unimaginable.
Now he feels that the time has arrived for this generation's much-wealthier players to band together and take a stand against performance-enhancing drugs.
The Mitchell Report that was released in 2007 followed the mandatory steroid testing program that was enacted prior to the 2004 season. The former turned out to be nothing more than a glorified witch hunt while the latter has done little to discourage players from continuously cutting corners. To Carbo, the potential financial rewards from performance-enhancers are too tempting for many players to resist.
"How can someone like Melky Cabrera, who missed the playoffs and World Series, sign a two-year contract with Toronto for $16 million. That's a heck of a reward, don't you think so?" said Carbo. The Miami Clinic Scandal that surfaced earlier this month demonstrated that baseball still has a long fight ahead in the war on PED use. The fallout remains forthcoming, with names such as Alex Rodriguez or Ryan Bruan potentially facing lengthy suspensions.
Carbo feels that Major League Baseball is so conscious of public relations that the scandal "will be thrown under the rug. I don't think anything will happen. That just shows you what's going on with baseball.
"(PEDs) have been in the game a long time. It's just coming out more often because of what's happening outside the game," Carbo said. "We're finding people that are supplying the players with the drugs and they're getting busted and they're mentioning the other players who are doing it. That's the only way we're finding anything out."
Carbo says that rather than increasing punishments for PED use, it might make more sense to establish a period of leniency to encourage more players to come forward and admit abuse.
"You're going to have to wean it until you have the opportunity to help these people get off the drugs. It has to take time, but you have to be very lenient with it initially because there are so many players who are cheating. There's an epidemic going on," said Carbo. "For the first year, you have to have leniency. Then if you get tested and caught in the second year, you get out of the game."
Carbo was asked if his generation should have put forth a greater effort to stem the tide of performance enhancers before their use grew to their present proportions.
"Sure, there could been. There should have been, put it that way," he said. "For me as a fan and a man who played the game and went through all the things I went through and now becoming a Christian, I turn on the TV and I wonder. Is it this guy?"
Carbo said that it's a terrible feeling to fear that young players today might feel pressured to use drugs just to have a shot at making it to the professional level.
"The ones who care are baseball fans and people who have young children," said Carbo. "That's why it's a bad situation."


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An order of the Rochester-based appeals court, dated Tuesday, does not say why Agola was suspended or how long her suspension is to last. She would have to reapply to the appellate panel for permission to resume her practice after the term of suspension.
Agola, 47, specializes in civil rights cases such as employment discrimination, sexual harassment and police abuse, and has brought a number of high-profile lawsuits over the years. She has offices in Brighton and Buffalo.
Agola also has had run-ins with judges, particularly in federal court. She was reprimanded last year by a U.S. Court of Appeals grievance panel, which cited repeated delays and inadequate case filings. Agola, who told the panel her practice had grown too fast and she'd be unable to manage her caseload properly, was directed to undergo extra training and supervision.
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After you have created spatial columns, you can populate them with spatial data.
Values should be stored in internal geometry format, but you can convert them to that format from either Well-Known Text (WKT) or Well-Known Binary (WKB) format. The following examples demonstrate how to insert geometry values into a table by converting WKT values to internal geometry format:
The following examples insert more complex geometries into the table:
SET @g = 'LINESTRING(0 0,1 1,2 2)'; INSERT INTO geom VALUES (GeomFromText(@g)); SET @g = 'POLYGON((0 0,10 0,10 10,0 10,0 0),(5 5,7 5,7 7,5 7, 5 5))'; INSERT INTO geom VALUES (GeomFromText(@g)); SET @g = 'GEOMETRYCOLLECTION(POINT(1 1),LINESTRING(0 0,1 1,2 2,3 3,4 4))'; INSERT INTO geom VALUES (GeomFromText(@g));
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SET @g = 'POINT(1 1)'; INSERT INTO geom VALUES (PointFromText(@g)); SET @g = 'LINESTRING(0 0,1 1,2 2)'; INSERT INTO geom VALUES (LineStringFromText(@g)); SET @g = 'POLYGON((0 0,10 0,10 10,0 10,0 0),(5 5,7 5,7 7,5 7, 5 5))'; INSERT INTO geom VALUES (PolygonFromText(@g)); SET @g = 'GEOMETRYCOLLECTION(POINT(1 1),LINESTRING(0 0,1 1,2 2,3 3,4 4))'; INSERT INTO geom VALUES (GeomCollFromText(@g));
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Inserting a
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literal syntax:
INSERT INTO geom VALUES->
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INSERT INTO geom VALUES (GeomFromWKB(?))
Other programming interfaces may support a similar placeholder mechanism.
In a C program, you can escape a binary value using
and include the result in a query string that is sent to
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|Posted by Clive Page on July 29 2003 1:50am
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At present the only way (that I can see) to populate a column of geometry type is to use a sequence of INSERT (or I suppose UPDATE) statements, which are rather verbose and slow. It would be nice to have a defined format for an external file so that one could do a bulk load, using LOAD DATA INFILE.
|Posted by Gijsbert Noordam on September 16 2003 11:01pm
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The key to a successful adoption of the SPATIAL EXTENSIONS in MySQL is the ability to be able to bulk load spatial data. From my experience, other database platforms with support for spatial data (notably: Oracle) have been held back for years because of the difficulty of loading legacy GIS data. In that light, being able to use LOAD DATA INFILE for bulk loading spatial data would -- indeed -- be a very important first step.
Currently, this -- sort of -- works because LOAD DATA INFILE is capable of loading (a representation of) the internal geometry format. It appears to me a SELECT ... INTO OUTFILE created file containing spatial data can be uploaded again. Naturally, it would be better if LOAD DATA INFILE was capable of handling WKT of WKB representations of spatial data.
A possible -- albeit lousy -- work-around is to load e.g. the WKT representation as a text column using LOAD DATA INFILE and then transfer the data into the geometry column using an UPDATE. For limited amounts of not too complex data this seems to work.
|Posted by Ian Scrivener on February 18 2005 3:33pm
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I took me some time to figure out how to populate a Spatial Point column from aspatial Decimal Lat/Long values.
UPDATE myTable
SET Coord = PointFromText(CONCAT('POINT(',myTable.DLong,' ',myTable.DLat,')'));
... is there a better way?
|Posted by Stein Haugan on February 27 2007 9:22am
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Clive Page and Gijsbert Noordam describe a problem that I have, too: Can't use LOAD DATA INFILE for geometry columns, b/c the input is dependent on a function (i.e. input is not literal data).
However, I think I've found a way to do it: Create "phantom" tables for insertions (one for each type of geometry to insert). Create insert triggers for each phantom table, and make the trigger call a stored procedure that converts the input coordinates (one phantom table column for each coordinate) into a geometry object, and inserts it into the actual geometry column.
I haven't implemented the solution myself, since the geometry inserts are only a small fraction of the time it takes to ingest a full record, but I can't see why it shouldn't work. It should also be fairly efficient. The phantom tables could be black holes, of course.
|Posted by Richard Bronosky on December 26 2007 4:10pm
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For those wanting to use LOAD DATA INFILE for spatial data, the solution may actually be hidden on the manual page http://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.0/en/load-data.html which demonstrates:
LOAD DATA INFILE 'file.txt'
INTO TABLE t1
(column1, @var1)
SET column2 = @var1/100;
The important thing to take away from this is:
1. Each column of source data can be routed to custom targets.
2. The targets can be destination table columns or user space variables.
3. The optional SET clause is evaluated after the custom targets are populated.
4. The optional SET clause allows you to use the full suite of MySQL functions to preprocess values loaded into user space variables.
These points should give you the power to systematically solve any data loading need. Does it not?
|Posted by Colin Guthrie on July 4 2008 2:56pm
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Re: Ian Scrivener's comment about using CONCAT to populate a Point column in a table that already has lat/lng fields:
I first took this approach too, but when reading the manual some more I noticed there were some functions MySQL provides that return WKB format.
I found that in a table of 23k odd entries, using the CONCAT method verses using:
SET point = PointFromWKB(Point(latitude, longitude))
(where Point() is a MySQL function that return WKB)
caused differences in three rows. I'm sure these differences are related to rounding and precision and wont really matter too much in all practical use.
Hope this helps.
|Posted by Jerry Fowler on November 17 2008 2:33am
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Re: Posted by Richard Bronosky on December 26 2007 4:10pm
Thanks for this. One is still compelled to use the CONCAT('POINT('... hack above in the LOAD ... SET statement.
The idea of using PointFromText(Point(a,b)) is nice, but doesn't work (5.0).
This, however, does:
CREATE TABLE `table_with_a_point` (
`id` bigint(20) not null,
`location` point not NULL,
`latitude` float default NULL,
`longitude` float default NULL,
`value` int(11) not null,
PRIMARY KEY (`id`)
create spatial index table_with_a_point_index on table_with_a_point(location);
LOAD DATA LOCAL INFILE 'somedata.txt'
INTO TABLE table_with_a_point
COLUMNS TERMINATED BY ' ' LINES TERMINATED BY '\r\n'
(id, latitude, longitude, value)
set location = PointFromText(CONCAT('POINT(',latitude,' ',longitude,')'));


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Among the literally dozens of accidents—a number of them with injuries—that occurred in the storm, Blowing Rock Fire & Rescue responded a wreck that involve a vehicle that slid about 75 feet down an embankment off Shulls Mill Road near Old Turnpike Road. Blowing Rock Fire/Rescue said the vehicle rolled several times before coming to rest against a tree. Firefighters said a female occupant in the vehicle was entrapped because her arm had come out of the window during the roll and was pinned under the vehicle. Firefighters had to stabilize the vehicle then use air bags to lift it off the arm to free the girl. Fortunately, the teenage girl did not sustain life-threatening injuries and was transported to Watauga Medical Center for treatment, and none of the other occupants were hurt.
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But what about Fulgencio Batista? Squeaky clean, he was a man America could work with.
"Do you think the US embargo might have anything to do with the misery? Just wondering...."Our embargo added to the misery of ordinary Cubans. Interestingly though, I didn't meet any Cubans telling me their system could have worked beautifully if the US hadn't thrown up an embargo -- which I believe was the official government line. What some of them did say, was that our idiotic embargo fostered a "siege mentality" which only served to prolong the Castro regime!
Okay, I admit ignorance on Che Guevara. Just read up quite a lot about him, and forced myself to look at as many accounts as possible so I could get a balanced view (not necessarily influenced by American propaganda). I was wrong about him.I won't change my view of Woody Allen, though. Say what you will. All the hang up about father marrying "daughter", etc... As long as she was legal and they love each other and are not abusing anyone, what's the harm? They're still together, so it must be real. Certainly more real than what Allen and Farrow had. My own family is pretty chaotic in that way, but I've come to accept that people tend to be chaotic that way. I know a LOT of families around the world that are. It's the clinging to rigid rules about who should be with whom in what capacity that causes all the trouble, the same way that people get all worked up about GAY (BPL, you really have to do something about this... it's discriminatory toward GAY people not to be able to write the word without the filter coming in) people or transvestites or transgenders. The feeling of it being creepy is your own inability to come to term with what makes others happy. Here, I'm NOT saying that I agree with things like pedophiles or rapists. It has to be mutual and both parties have to understand what they are doing. If someone can be tried for murder at 21 or legally go kill people in other countries, then they are old enough to decide whom they want to marry. To me the most important thing is that two people are happy. That is the most and rarest thing we can expect out of life.I'm pretty certain he would very much be against the present BSA policy.Bush, Chaney, Rumsfeld, Palin, Romney, Limbaugh, Caitlin Dickson, and Matthew Perry (bet a lot of you don't know who he is, and if you do, I'm talking from the other country's point of view)... now there are some creepy, scary, uncomfortable, and morally reprehensible characters. As to the misery of Cuba... almost all of it is because of the American embargo, not just because it stops anything from getting in, or out, but because it very effectively stops any change from taking place within the country. America never had the right to place an embargo on Cuba. What form of government they choose to follow is up to the Cubans, even if that is a dictatorship (just as no one would have the right to come into America to overthrow the government if America was led by a dictator), and if they decide to continue with a communist system that is their prerogative, whether or not Americans agree with communism or not (though I have to add that "communism" in it's original intended form has nothing to do with dictatorship. The very ideas are contradictory). The Cubans have a right to trade with whomever they choose, whether or not Americans agree with their choice of partners or not. America has no right to continue the embargo. Cuba is no threat (these days) to anyone. Did you know that, despite its limitations and lack of resources, Cuba has one of the most effective and progressive medical systems in the world? Two doctor friends of mine from the States visited Cuba in 1989 to evaluate the system there and came back quite astounded by what they found. They suggested to Harvard to study the system more and adopt some of the practices.Also, if you want to buy new parts for your 1950's model American cars, go to Cuba where cars have been stuck in time and locals have learned to re-manufacture worn down parts. One of my doctor friends is a 1950's car aficionado and bought quite a few parts that he could no longer find in the States, new.Enough pontificating.My main point is that I was wrong about Che Guevara.
Howdy, Miguel:Cuba's famed medical system has deteriorated badly since the heady days of the late 1980's -- due mostly to the wholesale withdrawal of Soviet aid. The know how is still there (so I was told) -- but much of the equipment is now outdated or out of order -- and various supplies of medication low or nonexistent. :( But not everything is bleak. Small-scale private businesses are opening up (restaurants, hostels, etc.). Indeed, certain segments of Cuba reminds me of China 30 years ago -- when that country was just opening up. Everything is open to haggling now -- even restaurant menu prices! Speaking of old cars, they are EVERYWHERE in Cuba -- lots and lots of old cars -- from the 50s especially -- but many even older. I took this snapshot when I was in the city of Santiago, Cuba -- an old man and his old car -- not sure which was older...
Edited by ben2world on 02/12/2013 01:21:09 MST.
If the Cubans have a right to trade with whomever they choose, well, so do Americans. That includes NOT trading with whomever they choose, doesn't it? Many of us here refuse to buy products from manufacturers whom we loathe for various reasons. Same thing- free market.That said, I very much agree that the embargo is now pointless. But it is also high farce to blame the state of the Cuban economy on the embargo- they trade with the rest of the world. Their system is simply f-ed up.Also, re: the Cuban medical system. Yes, a communist dictatorship can do any ONE thing well if it decides to, because if nothing else dictatorships can be politically efficient, sort of like a monarchy- there is only one font of power. But communist systems (and China no longer counts) simply don't have the economic clout to do everything well. For the Soviets this one thing was building a war machine. For the Cubans it was a medical system- because it had been one of Castro's big talking points during the revolution. But if absolutely everything else goes to hell it's sort of a Pyrrhic victory, isn't it? Pro-Cuban folks ALWAYS talk up the medical system, but that's sort of like saying of the Titanic "but the music was very nice."But... a dictator is a dictator. Castro, Batista, Assad, Shah Pahlavi, Tito, Somoza... whatever. It's embarrassing to support any of them, no matter what the realpolitik involved, but difficult to harm them without harming their subjects (victims) as well. One problem with some parts of the world- most of the Middle East comes to mind but also for instance Russia- is that as a cultural issue they WANT dictators. They have a long and cherished history of strong leaders and patronage systems- it's simply what they are used to.
Edited by acrosome on 02/12/2013 07:21:49 MST.
"But... a dictator is a dictator. Castro, Batista, Assad, Shah Pahlavi, Tito, Somoza... whatever."--------------------And over 1 million Cubans have left since 1959. Most coming to the US.
meh, and how many have also left Mexico, Guatemala, etc in the same time? I spent some time in Cuba on a couple occasions while working for a Latin American studies program (as well as working with Cubans and people who had lived in Cuba long term), and Cuba is really, really complex. I've don't thing I've ever experienced anything that challenged how I think more than spending time in Cuba. They've done some horrible things, as has every other country in the region (us included). They're a long-time enemy and Castro's an almost cartoonish villian to most of us, but just want to throw it out there that black and white judgements (good or bad) probably miss the mark...
We must ask, why has Cuba continued to be a miserable place for most of its citizens when most of the communist countries around the world failed; many of them collapsed two decades ago?Part of it is the martyrdom of Guevara and the "cultist" reverence for Castro. Both Castro and Batista gained illegitimate power.To say the US is the main problem due to the embargo doesn't hold water. Cuba can trade with other countries around the world, and has received significant aid from the Soviet Union and Venezuela over the years. The bottom line is that communism doesn't work, and Cuba is another in a long line of communist failures.For the most part embargoes should not be put in place unless a country is a military threat to the US. Missiles in Cuba were a threat. That threat no longer exists. We should lift the embargo, and if businesses want to risk investing in and trading with Cuba, then let them. Our government should stay out of it.One may wonder if the Cuban government really wants to trade with the US. Do they want the populace to deal with capitalism? Would this cause unrest? Look at China, freedoms have grown for the populace. Do the Cuban leaders want this?
My wife and I went to Cuba for our honeymoon. We loved it. Great people. Some of my favorite memories were watching all of the old 1940 to 1960 cars driving around in perfect shape (parts are scarce so the locals fabricate engine and chassis parts from scratch).We went to a pizzaria a few times owned by Canadians and employing Cubans. There has never been Communism in Cuba and always bouts of Capitalist drive. The issue is that the US Embargo helped make Cuba poor with no access to the basic needs. The misalignement with the USSR (and then Russia) didn't help the situation. Canada has provided imports to Cuba for many years without ill effect, not to mention several joint ventures that have proven fruitful for the Cuban people. When did I go to Cuba? 1994.Does Cuba want trade with the US? Only because that is where the glut of product is.
"Look at China, freedoms have grown for the populace. Do the Cuban leaders want this?"Very interesting to compare these two countries... I mentioned earlier that Cuba is slowly opening up, and some aspects of Cuba reminded me of China 30+ years ago, when it was opening up as well.But one BIG difference: The Diaspora.After China opened up, all through the 1980's, 1990, 2000s all the way up to the present -- the Chinese Disapora in Hong Kong, Taiwan, Singapore and other parts of southeast Asia were the largest investors in the Chinese economy -- beating out US and Japanese investors. Overseas Chinese were eager agents of change to their 'motherland'.Contrast that with the Cuban Diaspora. While most all of them eagerly sent remittances home to family and relatives and sometimes friends -- most were also adamant against any kind of investment or trade relations! A big part of the continued US embargo came about because of solid Cuban-American support!Today, China is freer in many ways than Cuban -- and quantum leaps ahead in economic well being overall. I have never understood why Cuban Americans are so willing to sacrifice the 11 million little people in Cuba -- in their woefully ineffective attempt to hurt the Cuban leadership... Even in religion, which can be a big catalyst of change (as in Poland) -- back when the late pope John Paul II visited Cuba -- the archbishop of Miami wanted to go, but couldn't (and didn't) -- not because of any US government interference -- but because Miami Cuban-Americans were practically up in arms against their archbishop visiting! So no go. Was Castro hurt in any way? Nope.
Edited by ben2world on 02/12/2013 12:00:04 MST.
"The issue is that the US Embargo helped make Cuba poor with no access to the basic needs."Castro and communism made Cuba poor. The Cuban economy is planned and controlled by the government. It has one of the worst human rights record of any country in the world. Cuba has been involved in many wars in Latin America and Africa.
Castro and communism make Cuba poor. The US Embargo prolongs it. And stupidly (IMO), Cuban Americans support that Embargo.
Edited by ben2world on 02/12/2013 12:02:53 MST.
"Castro and communism make Cuba poor."Wait, I thought Boy Scouts discriminating against Gays made Cuba poor. I am really confused.
And the Pope quit. I wonder how that will affect the poverty of Gay Cuban Boy Scouts.
"Castro and communism made Cuba poor."Because of the inability to get the basic goods. From the US. Without trade, economies suffer."The Cuban economy is planned and controlled by the government." Every economy in every capitalist nation is planned and controlled by the government to some degree. Given the inability to get goods through trade, quite frankly there isn't much to control. Notably, the country has some of the best health care available."It has one of the worst human rights record of any country in the world."Current? How far back do you want to go? Shall we discuss China? Or what about slavery in the US?"Cuba has been involved in many wars in Latin America and Africa."And so has the US, significantly.
"Castro and communism make Cuba poor. The US Embargo prolongs it. And stupidly (IMO), Cuban Americans support that Embargo."Ben,I agree we should lift the embargo -- let those businesses who choose to do business in Cuba do so. Let them assume the risks if they want. Why make the US the scapegoat? Cuba apparently got what they wanted with Che and Castro. Remember they were ANTI-America. Seems they got what they wanted. It was their revolution. Why is the US responsible to make the rest of the world economically feasible?Interestingly, I have met a lot of Cuban Americans in Florida -- most who are working people. They love Cuba and hate the government. They blame most of Cuba's problems on Castro. They would go back if private property and capitalism were allowed. They are for human rights first.
You misunderstood me, Nick. If you read my posts again, starting with my criticism of Che -- I place the blame squarely on the "revolutionaries" -- who are now the political leadership -- for wrecking Cuba. Our embargo, however, does play a role by stupidly providing Castro the rallying point he needed to get Cubans behind their government, in its struggle against the big, bad US bear.Most overseas Chinese I know dislike the Beijing government -- but they realize that "money talks" -- and the best way to bring about change is to be the agents of change themselves. Quite a contrast to most Cuban Americans who would rather keep their homeland down on its knees, just to spite Castro some more.
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"They would go back if private property and capitalism were allowed. They are for human rights first."You are mistaking human rights with capitalism and the ability to get goods.I agree with Ben. Fine that some Cuban Americans are living the 'American Dream,' but why penalize those that are still in Cuba by supporting the embargo.You should know that not only Canada does successful business with Cuba but so do the Italians, Germans, and British, to mention a few.I have a sense you think Cuba is an economic wasteland, but this is not the case (and to trust the word of Cuban Americans who have been in the US for 30 years is probably not sufficient).It isn't perfect but it is coming along. Once the centrally planned government begins giving more autonomy to the economy, conditions will improve. Ending the US embargo can only help.
"You should know that not only Canada does successful business with Cuba but so do the Italians, Germans, and British, to mention a few."Then the US embargo should be of little consequence, right?
"Then the US embargo should be of little consequence, right?"If this, then that. So simple? Sure, Cuba could trade with any number of countries beside the US. And the fact it does poorly in trade reflects its own uncompetitiveness.But NOTHING rallies a small island nation than convincing people that the HUGE neighbor next door is out to get them. Do you not see this as a consequence of our embargo?
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WEST CARTHAGE Thirty-two voters who responded to an exit poll on Carthage Central School Districts capital construction proposal felt uninformed about the project, according to the districts compilation of polling data.
At Mondays meeting at Carthage High School, the Board of Education discussed what its next steps should be regarding the failed project and how to better inform residents.
Last week, the districts $16.9 million project which included security upgrades and basic maintenance was defeated 431-311.
I dont think we still have identified why the vote was defeated, said board member Mary Louise Hunt. If its just a general We dont want to pay taxes, then I understand.
If the first $13.2 million proposition had passed, taxes to pay for the project would have been $1.01 per $100,000 in assessed property value each year for 15 years. Together, the two propositions would have cost the average taxpayer $1.33 per $100,000 each year.
Only 209 of the 742 people who cast votes chose to complete the exit poll. However, not every section was filled out by all respondents. Only 174 people answered a question asking whether the voter felt well informed about the project.
According the exit poll survey, 36 percent of people who voted against the project felt uninformed about it.
Mrs. Hunt said there should be more informal sessions at libraries or in front of stores to educate the public on future capital projects. She said she did not want the board to pursue another referendum this school year.
Board Vice President Lori D. Miller said the taxes and savings could have been better explained.
We need to focus on the dollars and cents of the project, Mrs. Miller said. Really break it down for them. We do know who those naysayers are. We can get some feedback from them.
However, board member Brian K. Serota said that of the 14 residents who went to the projects public hearing, only a handful asked questions or aired grievances about the project. He said he felt it would be impossible to understand what the public wants if the public does not inform the board.
I dont really give a crap if someones offended, Mr. Serota said. I dont have any hidden agenda from something that happened five or 10 years ago.
According to the exit poll, 7 percent of negative voters and 9 percent of positive voters were informed through public information meetings. Approximately 57 percent of those who voted no were informed through the district newsletter or through mailings.
Superintendent Peter J. Turner pointed out that although more than 50 percent of the districts students are military-related, fewer than 10 people from Fort Drum voted on the project.
Can you get more voters if you set up a location at Great Bend? Mr. Turner said.
He said the board would need to make a decision on changing or adding locations soon, before legal notices are mailed. No decision was made at the meeting.
Board member Joseph A. Colangelo said he feared residents would think there was a hidden agenda behind moving the polling location.
People are going to think that the board is moving the location to get more yes votes from Fort Drum, Mr. Colangelo said.
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President Obama's Treasury Department is facing a lawsuit for stonewalling a Freedom of Information Act (FOIA) request relating to a planned carbon tax on fossil fuels. The Competitive Enterprise Institute (CEI), a watchdog group focused on energy and environmental regulations, filed suit Tuesday in U.S. District Court in Washington, D.C., announcing in a press release that it expects Obama's congressional cronies to propose the tax in the upcoming lame-duck session.
Obama's plans for a carbon tax lost steam two years ago when, after passing the House, cap-and-trade legislation stalled in the Senate where Democrats realized the political suicide of raising gas and utility prices further. The lame-duck session provides fresh opportunity. Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-Nev.) expressed his intent the day after the election: "It's something, as we've seen with these storms that are overwhelming our country and the world, we need to do something about it."
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The latest report from the Board of Governors of the Federal Reserve System confirms what every sentient being already knows: The economy is in the dumper, with little improvement expected. The report used words like "considerably slower," "deterioration," "flattened out," "weak," and "depressed" to describe current conditions, and it even noted that excuses such as bad weather and the earthquake in Japan "appear[ed] to account for only some of the current weakness in economic activity." (Emphasis added.)
In other words, the Board had a BFO (blinding flash of the obvious) and finally had to come clean and admit that after two years of trying to stimulate the patient back to health, nothing has worked, and the patient is getting sicker.
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CROGHAN After 60 years of full-service gasoline sales, Monnat & Nortz Service Station is shifting gears.
The long-time Main Street business will discontinue its gasoline sales around Nov. 16 to focus on vehicle service and repair.
We have no ill feelings toward this at all, said co-owner Stephen G. Monnat. This is a business move. Its a sign of the times. We appreciate what our loyal customers have done over the years.
Were not going anywhere, added his brother and business partner Peter J. Monnat, noting that the business simply is changing its focus.
The impending move will leave Mullins Service Station on South State Street in Lowville as Lewis Countys lone full-service gas station.
Im sorry to see it happen, owner Robert J. Mullin said, recalling times he attended conferences with the Monnats when they were both Mobil dealers. But I can see where theyre coming from.
Mr. Mullin said he fully understands the difficulty of the business, particularly after going through a gasoline price war fueled by new and remodeled convenience stores in Lowville, and added he appreciates his customers support.
I hope we can continue to do it, he said, noting some people have never pumped gas in their lives.
Times are changing, and not necessarily for the better, Mr. Mullin said.
In a letter posted at the shop and sent to customers, the Monnats explained the rationale for their decision.
We believe that you would agree with us that there have been a lot of changes in the way we do business in todays fast pace world, more specifically the gas business, the letter states. Gas margins have not increased in over twenty years and continue to be eroded by the higher costs of doing business in todays economy. Credit card fees, ever changing DEC and EPA requirements, higher sales taxes, equipment feeds and rental charges are just a few directly related to the retail gas business.
The Monnats, who were named the 2006 Lewis County Chamber of Commerce Businessmen of the Year, said the most difficult part of the move has been informing long-time customers, some of whom rarely have purchased gas anywhere else, that they no longer will be able to fuel up their vehicles at their shop.
Its more than just a customer here, Stephen Monnat said. Its a relationship.
The shop will continue to sell propane, and the brothers hope to maintain their customer base for oil changes, tire sales and other mechanical and vehicle service work.
The business also will continue to accept credit cards, but the move will allow the Monnats to get rid of one of their two credit card systems to lower overhead costs.
The brothers who got the blessing of original owners Gilbert J. Monnat, their father, and Howard Nortz before announcing the change said the gasoline portion of the business hadnt been breaking even in years, particularly as more local residents began to do their shopping outside the small village. It became even more difficult in recent years, as escalating gas prices caused more people to bargain shop and avoid the full-service station, which regularly has charged several more cents per gallon than its self-serve competitors.
If anything, the community support kept us in it this long, Stephen Monnat said.
With gasoline removed, Monnat & Nortz employees will have more time to dedicate to the service portion of the business, as they wont need to stop what theyre doing for someone who pulls in for gas, the Monnats said.
The brothers added that, given their long history of full-service, it likely would have been even more difficult for customers to accept a move to a self-service model.
With the change in focus will come a change in hours.
New business hours will be 7 a.m. to 5:30 p.m. Mondays through Fridays and 7 a.m. to 1 p.m. Saturdays.
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