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ABC7 WEATHER: Rainy and overcast with highs in the mid-70s. http://wj.la/72e8x6
CHOPRA POWER: You know, the guy going the wrong way on the escalator in that commercial, per the Virginian-Pilot, "State Sen. Ralph Northam, the only local Democrat seeking statewide office this year, was edged out on his home turf in a straw poll of Hampton Roads party activists Thursday night. The Norfolk lawmaker drew 104 votes, just shy of the 110 polled by his opponent, former state and federal technology czar Aneesh Chopra of Arlington County. The two are seeking the Democratic nomination for lieutenant governor in a primary election Tuesday.
"The straw vote in the other contested race, for attorney general, was more lopsided. Justin Fairfax, a former federal prosecutor from Fairfax County, outpolled his opponent, state Sen. Mark Herring of Loudoun County, 159 to 59." http://bit.ly/13oNX0r
THIS STUFF IS GETTING CONFUSING: Of more snooping, per the Washington Post, "The National Security Agency and the FBI are tapping directly into the central servers of nine leading U.S. Internet companies, extracting audio and video chats, photographs, e-mails, documents, and connection logs that enable analysts to track foreign targets, according to a top-secret document obtained by The Washington Post.
"The program, code-named PRISM, has not been made public until now. It may be the first of its kind. The NSA prides itself on stealing secrets and breaking codes, and it is accustomed to corporate partnerships that help it divert data traffic or sidestep barriers. But there has never been a Google or Facebook before, and it is unlikely that there are richer troves of valuable intelligence than the ones in Silicon Valley." http://wapo.st/1ba8gQL
SHOCKER: Or not, per City Paper, "Former D.C. Councilmember Michael Brown told supporters (Thursday night) that he plans to plead guilty after being caught in a bribery sting. . .The investigation by the FBI began a year and a half ago. . . .Undercover agents posing as local businessmen offered Brown money in exchange for help becoming a Certified Business Enterprise, which would give them an advantage when competing for contracts. Brown needed the money because of marriage troubles, according to an NBC 4 report. In April, Brown dropped out of his campaign to regain an at-large seat on the D.C. Council in a special election. He had lost his bid for re-election in November, coming in third in a race for two seats." http://bit.ly/12vtaf1
SAME-SEX MARRIAGE: The nation more or less shrugs, per the New York Times, "A solid majority of Americans opposes a broad national right to same-sex marriage, saying the power to legalize gay unions should rest with the states even as most support marriage equality for gay people, according to the latest New York Times/CBS News poll.
"The survey comes as the Supreme Court is preparing to issue decisions this month on two high-profile same-sex marriage cases. Justices are weighing the constitutionality of California's ban and the Defense of Marriage Act, a 1996 law that denies federal benefits to same-sex couples; the public appears squarely in favor of overturning that law." http://nyti.ms/14jXG9s
TROPICAL STORM ANDREA: Clear those storm-drain openings, per the Associated Press, "After bringing rains, heavy winds and even tornadoes to parts of Florida, Tropical Storm Andrea was moving quickly toward the coast of Georgia and the Carolinas early Friday, promising sloppy commutes and waterlogged vacation getaways through the beginning of the weekend. The first named storm of the Atlantic season was losing some intensity late Thursday and by early Friday, its winds were down to 45 mph (75 kph)." http://apne.ws/19Oktg0
THE MARYLAND JAIL THING: And its latest episode, per the Baltimore Sun, "The head of security at the Baltimore jail failed a polygraph test administered after a federal indictment alleged widespread corruption on her watch, corrections secretary Gary D. Maynard told lawmakers at a hearing in Annapolis. Shavella Miles is the only person to have been removed following the allegations, but an internal inquiry has progressed down the ranks with all jail employees subject to review. Maynard said Thursday that the supervisors of 13 corrections officers charged in the federal case are under investigation.
"A federal indictment unsealed in April alleged that the Black Guerrilla Family gang, under the leadership of inmate Tavon White, set up a sophisticated smuggling ring at the Baltimore City Detention Center with the help of corrections officers. The allegations sparked criticism and a flurry of activity to restore order and eradicate corruption at the troubled facility." http://bsun.md/13eJoEq
TRAYVON MARTIN: And George Zimmerman, per the Miami Herald, "The audio played in court Thursday remains as chilling as ever, cries recorded in a 911 call that captures the violent struggle between George Zimmerman and Trayvon Martin, ending in a fatal blast of gunfire. Lawyers played the recording Thursday as part of a crucial hearing to determine the extent of expert testimony that will be allowed during the trial when jurors will try to decide who was hollering in fear during the confrontation." http://hrld.us/15N1gbX
POLITICO PLAY: "Roger Ailes doesn't think homosexuals are out to get him. He frequently jokes about his weight. He doesn't believe Rupert Murdoch calls him "cuckoo," but brags that his boss does call him "paranoid" - and he's wealthier for it. If Fox News headquarters is under attack, Ailes plans to stay behind, with a monitor to watch others scurrying out of the building.
"If you've been wondering what's on the mind of Roger Ailes, now you know. The chairman and CEO of Fox News gave us a statement - remarkable in its detail and vitriol - quarreling with the portrayal of him in Jonathan Alter's new book about the 2012 campaign, "The Center Holds: Obama and His Enemies." Ailes is billed as one of those enemies, with cameos through the book (one index entry: "Ailes, Roger, paranoia of"). Many of the allegations are rehashed from a 2011 Rolling Stone piece by Tim Dickinson, but Ailes took aim at Alter. "Jonathan Alter got 3 out of 13 items within a range of being at least partially correct," Ailes wrote in an email to us. "The rest are patently, provably false and Alter either needs to check into a first year journalism program at Columbia or a rage counseling center immediately." http://politi.co/1baD9Ey
GEORGETOWN CARJACKING: Just the facts, per ABC7WJLA, "An armed carjacking took place early Friday morning in northwest D.C. The incident took place at the Exxon gas station along 3600 M Street, northwest, in the Georgetown area. The victim was pumping gas at the station when the suspects carjacked her. She was uninjured in the incident. The carjacking lead to the police chase, where the vehicle eventually crashed along Clara Barton Parkway. The suspects, who are described as three black males, bailed from the crashed vehicle. Police have one suspect in custody and are on the lookout for the suspects." http://wj.la/13grJw3
WAR ON WOMEN: An oldie but goodie, per the Washington Examiner, "Democratic gubernatorial candidate Terry McAuliffe on Thursday called for tougher penalties on employers who discriminate against women, reviving President Obama's 2012 campaign strategy in which the GOP was portrayed as being at war with women. McAuliffe proposed legislation that would force companies caught paying men higher wages than women to give victims triple their unpaid wages. Current Virginia law puts the penalty at double the wages." http://bit.ly/12vLZP7
FRAGER'S HARDWARE: Funeral for a friend, per the Washington Times, "Customers, neighbors and employees Thursday struggled to come to terms with the fact that a beloved general hardware store was no more, the victim of a four-alarm fire that destroyed the 93-year-old Capitol Hill institution.
"What little remained of Frager's Hardware after the fire Wednesday evening was a far cry from what its patrons remember. Windows were blown out, the shattered blue-green glass covering the sidewalk along the store. The white "True Value" sign above the entrance had turned dark black, while an American flag that normally hung above the front door was singed and wrapped around its pole." http://bit.ly/1bbUUDr
OBAMACARE AND VIRGINIA: Of getting the word out, per the Richmond Times-Dispatch, "Virginians can expect to hear from health care officials in Washington often this summer and fall as the federal government begins preparing the public for opportunities to buy health insurance in a new kind of marketplace.
"Marilyn Tavenner, the newly confirmed administrator of the country's Medicaid and Medicare programs, said Thursday in Richmond that the federal government will use new ways of reaching out to Virginians from now through September to begin enrolling them in a federal health benefits exchange Oct. 1." http://bit.ly/10V5PAA
PEPCO PUSHBACK: It's official, per Gazette.Net, "Montgomery County has filed its objection to Pepco's request for a rate hike and a new surcharge on its customers. The utility has asked the state's Public Service Commission to approve new rates that will net a projected $60.8 million in revenue, a change that will cost the average customer $7.13 more per month." http://bit.ly/113jW3o
A LITTLE LATE, BILL: Oh well, per the Roanoke Times, "Speaking Thursday to a group of Roanoke County business leaders, Lt. Gov. Bill Bolling criticized his party's gubernatorial candidate, saying if Ken Cuccinelli didn't embrace business incentives programs he wouldn't be a "jobs governor." Bolling, who dropped his bid for the Republican nomination in November, said he thinks the current attorney general's views likely stem from a lack of hands-on experience." http://bit.ly/11wx3x1
SPORTS, BRIEFLY: San Antonio beats Miami 92-88 in Game 1 of the NBA Finals.
TRENDING ON ABC7 FACEBOOK: "You won't believe this video even after you've watched it. In surveillance footage released by MPD officials, a man casually walks up to couple dining on a 12th Street NW patio, talks for a few moments, then pulls out a gun. Watch the video and read the story of this brazen robbery here." http://wj.la/18RLw8T
NEWSTALK: Among today's guests (10 a.m., NewsChannel 8) is Prince George's County State's Attorney Angela Alsobrooks, who will be asked about a recent gang conviction, the Supreme Court DNA ruling and other local cases.
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Ashlynn Geringer, a 4-year-old Lumpkin County girl who has leukemia, received an interesting birthday present Saturday: a family friend's hair.
I have never made a holiday meal.
Employees ranging from teenagers to middle-aged adults hustled at their stations during the fast-food restaurant's lunch rush Tuesday afternoon.
A triumphant entry into Jerusalem, the Last Supper with the 12 disciples, a trial and crucifixion followed by his death and burial and finally his resurrection all happened in a week's time. Christians call it Holy Week.
We've been picking flowers and sticking them in containers for thousands of years.
Orly Padawer of Cleveland said she's looking forward to the Passover feast known as the Seder.
A temporary, handwritten sign marks the site of the small cemetery. It reads "New Bethel Church, Strickland Cemetery."
Carolyn Hogan said she didn't expect much when she sat down in front of the computer and typed her long-lost sister's name in the search bar.
Marcie Dover was 19 years old when he left his home in Alabama for basic training, New Jersey and eventually a ship to Europe in 1944. He hadn't even had a chance to finish high school before being drafted.
While many Christians prepare for Easter with egg hunts and religious services during Holy week, members of the Jewish faith are anticipating the arrival of one of its major observances: Passover.
If you've owned your vehicle for a while, you've likely spilled a few drinks, dropped a couple of french fries or worse - let the dog ride shotgun. And that new-car smell is nothing more than a fading memory even after a wash and vacuum.
Last fall, musician Jason Kenney of Dahlonega didn't know if he would even record his first solo album because of the financial involvement.
Don't tell James Beard Award-winning food writer Michael Ruhlman that eggs are trending.
Editor's note: Savannah King and J.K. Devine trained and participated in the Greater Hall County Chamber of Commerce Chamber Chase. The following are their separate accounts.
After the last student left the theater to return to class, Gale Allen took a breath and laughed. She said she'd been warned about speaking to middle school students before her arrival.
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It took Strother Randolph more than a year to convince his wife, Cindy, to consider leaving their home of 25 years and move into a ...
Step aside, Oscar Mayer. There's a new mayor of wieners in town - it's Landon Brockmeyer.
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The first time Alexis Rodriguez walked into a support meeting for individuals with myasthenia gravis, all he could see was white hair.
Summer activities are gearing up as schools close for their break, but that does not mean learning is over. Many vacation Bible schools set to ...
Whether you are a fashionista with a perfectly color-coded closet or a man who wears five of the same type of shirt every day, chances ...
Harold Kanady of Murrayville eats at Reid's Cafe almost every day. Some days he even eats there twice a day.
In Megan Noble's line of work, the more misshapen, wacky and strange, the better.
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Democrats at Work Part V
By popular request, a fifth post to bear the weight of comments about Democrats at work.
Lessons from Ebola
While Ebola outbreaks are not new, the latest outbreak has provided some important lessons. These lessons are actually nothing new, but the outbreak does provide a focus for discussing them.
The first lesson is that most people are very bad at risk assessment. In the Ebola hot spots it is reasonable to be worried about catching Ebola. It is also reasonable to be concerned about the situation in general. However, many politicians, pundits and citizens in the United States are greatly overestimating the threat presented by Ebola in the United States. There are only a few cases of Ebola in the United States and the disease is, the experts claim, difficult to catch. As such, the chance that an American will catch Ebola in the United States is extremely low. It is also a fact Ebola outbreaks have been contained before in countries with far less medical resources than the United States. So, while it is prudent to prepare, the reaction to Ebola has greatly exceeded its actual threat in the United States. If the concern is with protecting Americans from disease and death, there are far more serious health threats that should be the primary focus of our concern and resources.
The threat of Ebola is overestimated for a variety of reasons. One is that people are rather susceptible to the fallacy of misleading vividness. This a fallacy in which a very small number of particularly dramatic events are taken to outweigh a significant amount of statistical evidence. This sort of "reasoning" is fallacious because the mere fact that an event is particularly vivid or dramatic does not make the event more likely to occur, especially in the face of significant statistical evidence. Ebola is indeed scary, but the chance of infection in the United States is extremely low.
Another reason is that people are also susceptible to a variation on the spotlight fallacy. This variant involves inferring the probability that something will happen based on how often you hear about it, rather than based on how often it actually occurs. Ebola has infected the 24 hour news cycle and hearing about it so often creates the psychological impression that infection is likely.
As I have consistently argued, threats should be assessed realistically and the response should be proportional to the actual threat.
The second lesson is that the politicians, media and pundits will exploit scary things for their own advantages. The media folks know that scary stories and fear mongering get viewers, so they are exploiting Ebola to the detriment of the public. Ebola has been made into a political issue, so the politicians and pundits are trying to exploit it for political points. The Republicans are using it as part of their narrative that Obama is an incompetent president and thus are emphasizing the matter. Obama and the Democrats have to strike back in order to keep the Republicans from scoring points. As with the media, the politicians and pundits are exploiting Ebola for their own advantage at the expense of the public.
This willful misleading and exaggeration is clearly morally wrong on the grounds that it misleads the public and makes a rational and proportional response to the problem more difficult.
The third lesson is that people will propose extreme solutions without considering the consequences of those solutions. One example is the push to shutdown air travel between the United States and countries experiencing the Ebola outbreak. While this seems intuitively appealing, one main consequence would be that people would still come to the United States from those countries, only they would do so in more roundabout ways. This would make it much harder to track such people and would, ironically, put the United States at greater risk.
As always, solutions should be carefully considered in terms of their consequences, costs and other relevant factors.
The final lesson I will consider is that the situation shows that health is a public good and not just a private good. While most people get that defense and police are public goods, there is the view that health is a private good and something that should be left to the individual to handle. That is, the state should protect the citizen from terrorists and criminals, but she is on her own when it comes to disease and injury. However, as I have argued elsewhere at length, if the state is obligated to protect its citizens from death and harm, this should also apply to disease and injury. After all, disease will kill a person just as effectively as a terrorist's bomb or a criminal's bullet.
Interestingly, even many Republicans are pushing for a state response to Ebola. I suspect that one reason Ebola is especially frightening is that it is a disease that comes from outside the United States and was brought by a foreigner. This taps into fears that have been carefully and lovingly crafted during the war on terror and this helps explain why even anti-government people are pushing for government action.
But, if the state has a vital role to play in addressing Ebola, then it would seem to have a similar role to play in regards to other medical threats. While Ebola is scary and foreign, it is a medical threat and thus is like other medical threats. However, consistency is not a strong trait in most people, so some who cry for government action against the Ebola that scares them also cry out against the state playing a role in protecting Americans from things that kill vastly more Americans.
The public health concern also extends beyond borders—diseases do not recognize political boundaries. While there are excellent moral reasons for being concerned about the health of people in other countries, there are also purely pragmatic reasons. One is that in a well-connected world diseases can travel quickly all over the globe. So, an outbreak in Africa can spread to other countries. Another is that the global economy is impacted by outbreaks. So, an outbreak in one country can impact the economy of other countries. As such, there are purely selfish reasons to regard health as public good.
ISIS (or ISIL) got America's attention and now the war of rhetoric has begun in ernest. While the Republicans seem generally pleased that we are saddling up again, they have raised some criticism against President Obama's strategy. Interestingly, many of these criticisms have been aimed at Obama's word choices.
I recently heard an interview with Senator Marco Rubio on NPR. Rubio's main criticism seemed to be that Obama was unwilling to commit to destroying ISIS completely. The interviewer pointed out that such groups tend to reform or create spin-off groups rather than be destroyed. When the interviewer asked him if that goal was realistic or not, Rubio responded by saying that it could be done and gave an example of how the group that became ISIS had been destroyed previously. The interviewer politely noted that Rubio had actually supported his (the interviewer's) point, but let Rubio ignore his own example and switch quickly to another issue.
As a general rule, it seems difficult to bomb such groups out of existence, mainly because the groups are defined by ideas and killing old members tends to merely attract new members. Obviously, this method could work-with enough killing a group would run out of possible members. However, the history of radicalism and America's attempts to kill its way out of a problem show that destroying a group by bombing seems unrealistic. After all, we are still fighting Al Qaeda and ISIS can be plausibly seen as a new brand of Al Qaeda.
Another common criticism of Obama's words is that he did not say that he would do whatever it takes to destroy ISIS. He merely said he would do what it takes to do so. On the one hand, this could be seen as a petty semantic point, a mere whining about words. On the other hand, this could be taken as a more substantial point. After struggling to end the Afghanistan and Iraq wars that he inherited, Obama has been reluctant to get the United States into yet another costly, protracted and likely futile ground war in the Middle East. As such, when he has acted, he has done so with limited goals and minimal engagement. Interestingly, the results have been somewhat similar: we dumped billions into Iraq and ended up with a chaotic mess. We dumped far less into Libya and ended up with a chaotic mess. I suppose that it is better to get a mess on the cheap than for a high price.
Obama, I think, is wise to keep American involvement limited. The hawks crying for war seem to have amnesia regarding our last few adventures since Viet Nam. Unfortunately, escalating involvement (trying to do whatever it takes) has never paid off. It seems unlikely that this time will be the charm.
The obvious reply is that we have to do something, we cannot just let ISIS behead Americans and establish a state. I agree. My concern is the obvious one: doing something is not a good strategy and neither is doing whatever it takes. We should be honest and admit that we have not gotten it right in the past and that doing the same damn thing will not result in different results.
I am not going to tell McCain or Cheney to shut up-they have every right to express their views. However, they have no credibility left. So, they should talk-but it would be unwise to listen.
Unpatriotic Corporations & The Language Argument
In previous essays I have written about corporate personhood as well as corporate inversion. Corporate inversion, briefly put, is when a corporation buys a foreign corporation and then "inverts" ownership. For example, an American corporation like Burger King might buy a Canadian corporation and then move its corporate headquarters to Canada to take advantage of the lower tax rate. As might be imagined, some people have been rather critical of this practice. President Obama has even asserted that such corporations are unpatriotic.
While listening to NPR a while back, I heard an interesting argument advanced by one of the guests. He began by noting how Mitt Romney had taken some flak for asserting that corporations are people. He then mentioned how Obama called the corporations that engage in corporate inversion unpatriotic. He then raised the point that criticizing corporations for being unpatriotic is to accept them as people. This does raise a somewhat interesting question about whether this is right or not.
In the United States, corporations are legally persons—and the Supreme Court seems to be committed to granting them all the advantageous and convenient rights of actual persons (while not saying anything about the fact that it is illegal to own persons in the United States). I have argued at length that corporations are not people and should not have that legal status—so I will not repeat those arguments here. However, I will obviously address the issue of whether a corporation can be called unpatriotic without the accuser being committed to the personhood of corporations.
On the side of corporate personhood, it could be argued that being unpatriotic (or patriotic) requires the sort of intentional and emotional mental states that only a person could possess. As such, if a corporation is unpatriotic, then it is a person.
Interestingly enough, this sort of language argument has been used by various philosophers such as Socrates and John Locke. In arguing for universals, Socrates (or Plato) would proceed from how one talks to an ontological commitment. In discussing personal identity, Locke took the fact that people use expressions such as a person not being themselves as evidence that someone in a normal state of mind can be a different person from someone in an abnormal state: "human laws not punishing the mad man for the sober man's actions, nor the sober man for what the mad man did, thereby making them two persons: which is somewhat explained by our way of speaking in English, when we say such an one is not himself, or is beside himself; in which phrases it is insinuated, as if those who now, or at least first used them, thought that self was changed, the selfsame person was no longer in that man…."
The easy and obvious counter is that when someone refers to a corporation as being unpatriotic (or patriotic), she need not commit to the corporation itself being a person. Rather, the person is just using a shorthand expression in place of asserting that the people who decide to implement the inversion and make it happen are acting in (what is seen as) an unpatriotic way. To use an obvious analogy, if someone claims that a sports team is enthusiastic, the she is not committed to the team being a person—an entity over and above the players, coaches, etc. Rather, she is just using conversational shorthand to refer to the members of the team. If such conversational shorthand expressed a commitment to personhood, then people would be routinely expressing commitments to a vast number of entities—thus dramatically swelling the ontology of persons. This seems both odd and unnecessary. Given the injunction of Occam's razor, due care should be used when moving from how people speak to an ontological commitment. In the case of corporations and other groups, it would seem to suffice to attribute the mental states to the people that make them up rather than adding another entity to the matter. As such, the appeal to language argument for corporate personhood fails.
Thus, someone can claim that a corporation is unpatriotic (or patriotic) without being committed to corporate personhood. Just like a person can talk about team spirit without being committed to team personhood.
Hyperbole, Again
Hyperbole is a rhetorical device in which a person uses an exaggeration or overstatement in order to create a negative or positive feeling. Hyperbole is often combined with a rhetorical analogy. For example, a person might say that someone told "the biggest lie in human history" in order to create a negative impression. It should be noted that not all vivid or extreme language is hyperbole-if the extreme language matches the reality, then it is not hyperbole. So, if the lie was actually the biggest lie in human history, then it would not be hyperbole to make that claim.
People often make use of hyperbole when making rhetorical analogies/comparisons. A rhetorical analogy involves comparing two (or more) things in order to create a negative or positive impression. For example, a person might be said to be as timid as a mouse or as smart as Einstein. By adding in hyperbole, the comparison can be made more vivid (or possibly ridiculous). For example, a professor who assigns a homework assignment that is due the day before spring break might be compared to Hitler. Speaking of Hitler, hyperbole and rhetorical analogies are stock items in political discourse.
Some Republicans have decided that Obamacare is going to be their main battleground. As such, it is hardly surprising that they have been breaking out the hyperbole in attacking it. Dr. Ben Carson launched an attack by seeming to compare Obamacare to slavery, but the response to this led him to "clarify" his remarks to mean that he thinks Obamacare is not like slavery, but merely the worst thing to happen to the United States since slavery. This would, of course, make it worse than all the wars, the Great Depression, 9/11 and so on.
While he did not make a slavery comparison, Ted Cruz made a Nazi comparison during his filibuster. As Carson did, Cruz and his supporters did their best to "clarify" the remark.
Since slavery and Nazis had been taken, Rick Santorum decided to use the death of Mandela as an opportunity to compare Obamacare to Apartheid.
When not going after Obamacare, Obama himself is a prime target for hyperbole. John McCain, who called out Cruz on his Nazi comparison, could not resist making use of some Nazi hyperbole in his own comparison. When Obama shook Raul Castro's hand, McCain could not resist comparing Obama to Chamberlain and Castro to Hitler.
Democrats and Independents are not complete strangers to hyperbole, but they do not seem to wield it quite as often (or as awkwardly) as Republicans. There have been exceptions, of course-the sweet allure of a Nazi comparison is bipartisan. However, my main concern here is not to fill out political scorecards regarding hyperbole. Rather, it is to discuss why such uses of negative hyperbole are problematic.
One point of note is that while hyperbole can be effective at making people feel a certain way (such as angry), its use often suggests that the user has little in the way of substance. After all, if something is truly bad, then there would seem to be no legitimate need to make exaggerated comparisons. In the case of Obamacare, if it is truly awful, then it should suffice to describe its awfulness rather than make comparisons to Nazis, slavery and Apartheid. Of course, it would also be fair to show how it is like these things. Fortunately for America, it is obviously not like them.
One point of moral concern is the fact that making such unreasonable comparisons is an insult to the people who suffered from or fought against such evils. After all, such comparisons transform such horrors as slavery and Apartheid into mere rhetorical chips in the latest political game. To use an analogy, it is somewhat like a person who has played Call of Duty comparing himself to combat veterans of actual wars. Out of respect for those who suffered from and fought against these horrors, they should not be used so lightly and for such base political gameplay.
From the standpoint of critical thinking, such hyperbole should be avoided because it has no logical weight and serves to confuse matters by playing on the emotions. While that is the intent of hyperbole, this is an ill intent. While rhetoric does have its legitimate place (mainly in making speeches less boring) such absurd overstatements impede rather than advance rational discussion and problem solving.
Republicans & Rhetorical Explanations
After a defeat, it is natural for people to try to explain why they were defeated. In some cases, the explanation provided is aimed at doing what an explanation is supposed to do: to provide an illuminating account of how or why something occurred. In other cases, the explanation is aimed primarily at influencing peoples' attitudes and behavior. Not surprisingly, an explanation that is aimed at achieving these goals is a rhetorical device known as a rhetorical explanation.
This is not to say that a rhetorical explanation need be in error—it could provide an accurate account of how or why something occurred. Being a rhetorical explanation is more a matter of intent—that is, those offering it do so at least in part to cause people to have a positive or negative feeling about a matter.
Back in 2012, the Republicans lost the presidential election and various people endeavored to explain how this happened. Some folks pointed to the demographics of America and how minorities played a critical role in the election. Others claimed that the media's love for Obama handed him the victory. One of the more interesting explanations was that the Republicans lost because they were not conservative enough.
More recently, the Republicans lost on their bid to get the Democrats to agree to delay or defund Obamacare. After this defeat, various explanations have been offered and among them is the claim that it was the result of the Republicans not conservative enough. In this context, this seems to mean not being will to let the shutdown of the government slide into defaulting on the national debt.
On the face of it, presenting the claim that the Republicans lost because they were not conservative enough seems to be a rhetorical explanation. After all, it seems to be aimed (in part) at chastising the Republicans who are being accused of not being adequately conservative. As such, people are supposed to feel negatively about these Republicans. It also seems to be aimed (in part) at creating positive feelings towards the conservative Republicans—it is supposed to be believed that they had the winning approach (but were betrayed by the Republicans in Name Only). This explanation might prove to have some bite—many Republicans are taking pains to cast themselves as being very conservative and repudiating the charge that they might be moderates.
While rhetorical explanations such as this are often used to make other people feel a certain way (positively or negatively), people can also use them on themselves. Whether the explanation is inflicted on others or self-inflicted, the problem is that such appealing explanations can make it very easy for a person to buy into an explanation that is not correct, thus leading to obvious problems. As such, it is worth considering whether the explanation about these defeats is correct or not.
If the explanation for the 2012 election was correct, then the prediction that would follow would be that the Republicans would have won if they had been more conservative. In this case, winning is clear—Mitt Romney (or a more conservative Republican like Michelle Bachmann) would have been elected rather than Obama.
For this to happen, more people would have had to vote for the Republican than Obama. Since this did not happen, for the explanation at hand to be correct, there seem to be three main options (and perhaps others).
One is that some conservatives voted for Obama because Romney was not conservative enough. They would have, however, voted for someone who was conservative enough. It seems reasonable enough to dismiss this option out of hand on the grounds that such people would not vote for Obama. Thus, it seems rather implausible to think that a more conservative Republican would have pulled votes away from Obama.
A second one is that some conservatives voted for someone other than the two main candidates or wrote in someone else rather than voting for Romney, thus allowing Obama to win. This is more plausible than the first option, but is still fairly unlikely. That is, it does not seem likely that enough people to change the election voted in this manner because Romney was not conservative enough.
A third option is that some conservatives decided to not vote at all because they thought Romney was not conservative enough, thus allowing Obama to win. Of the three, this is the most plausible. Elections in the United States have a low turnout and it certainly is possible that some of those who did not vote would have voted if there had been a candidate that was conservative enough. These voters would thus seem to have preferred allowing Obama to win over voting for Romney, but this would assume that the voters were rationally considering the consequences of their failure to vote. It could be a simple matter of motivation—they were not inspired enough by Romney (or their dislike of Obama) to vote.
It is also worth considering that the explanation is in error because a more conservative Republican would have merely increased the votes for Obama. As noted above, a more conservative Republican would not have pulled votes from Obama. What seems more likely is that a more conservative Republican would have lost the more moderate voters who voted for Romney. As such, if the Republican candidate in 2012 had been "conservative enough" Obama would have either still won or would have still won with a larger number of votes. After all, most Americans are not extremely conservative and being "conservative enough" would seem to involve holding views that most Americans do not hold. Thus, the explanation seems to fail.
Jumping ahead to the most recent defeat, the matter is somewhat more complicated in that the victory conditions are not so clearly defined. At the start of the battle, the Republicans wanted to defund or delay Obamacare—that would have been a win. However, as the shutdown continued, the Republicans seemed to become less clear about what they wanted—especially when Obama made it clear that he was not going to negotiate Obamacare.
Interestingly enough, the shutdown was explained by some as being the fault of the Democrats and after the Republican defeat, the more conservative Republicans are using the narrative that they would have won if the Republicans had been conservative enough—thus creating dueling rhetorical explanations.
But, to get back to the main point, the victory conditions were not clear. However, it could be speculated that a win would involve the Republicans getting more of whatever they ended up wanted than the Democrats got of what they wanted. So, I will go with that.
There is also the question of what it meant to be conservative enough. Given the rhetoric, it seems that what this means is being willing to take the United States into default if one does not get what one wants. If so, the Republicans being conservative enough would not seem to have yielded a win—unless what they wanted was a default on the debt and the ensuing economic and political disaster. If this is what counts as a win, then being conservative enough would have led to that "win"—a win that almost everyone else would regard as a disaster.
Most Americans disapproved of what Congress was doing and most blamed the Republicans. Presumably if the Republicans had been more conservative, this would have merely made people more annoyed with them—after all, the view of most people was that what was going on was bad, not that it did not go far enough into this badness. As such, it would seem that the problem was not that the Republicans were not conservative enough. They lost because they had a poor strategy and most Americans did not like what they were doing. The solution is, obviously enough, not being more of that—the result will just be worse for the Republicans.
Winning in Syria
As a general rule, it is a wise idea to properly consider victory conditions before engaging in military action. This consideration also involves assessing the means by which to achieve the proposed victory and the consequences of both success and failure.
In the past, we have gone off to war without proper consideration of the victory conditions and with delusions regarding how the war would play out. Iraq is, of course, the blood-stained example of this.
In some ways, Syria is reminiscent of Iraq: we have a president proposing military action based on claims about weapons of mass destruction. In the case of Iraq, we never found any such weapons. In the case of Syria, it seems rather certain that chemical weapons are present. It also seems likely that they have been used by someone. It is certain that thousands have been killed and millions of people have been displaced. There is obviously a need for something to be done regarding Syria, but what remains to be determined is what can be done and what should be done.
Because of the American experience with Iraq and Afghanistan, President Obama has been proposing a very limited approach with no "boots on the ground." The main objectives are to punish the government for allegedly using chemical weapons and to thus deter it from using them again (assuming they were used before). As such, one victory condition would be to punish Syria and another would be to deter the use of chemical weapons.
On the face of it, blowing stuff up would be punishment—so that is an easy condition to meet. Of course, there is the question of whether or not the punishment would be just. Deterrence is rather more difficult to achieve, although these seems to be no new evidence that Syrian forces used chemical weapons again (assuming they were used once). One rather important matter is that even if the Syrian government were deterred in regards to chemical weapons, they would still presumably be free to continue the battle with conventional weapons. As such, victory would seem to be that Assad's forces are killing people with bullets, shells and bombs rather than killing them with chemical weapons. I suppose that might be seen as some sort of victory.
There is also the broader goal/victory condition of regime change. Although the proposed attack is not supposed to be aimed at toppling the government, one objective seems to be to get rid of Assad. This raises numerous concerns.
One is, obviously enough, determining what it would take for him to relinquish power. Can he be removed by diplomacy or will force be required? Another is, also obviously, what would happen if he leaves or is removed from power. As it stands, the opposition to Assad is divided into various factions and each has its own distinct agenda. If Assad left or was removed, then that victory could lead to some rather negative consequences. For example, the civil war might shift to a battle between the various opposed factions and the killing would continue. As another example, an extremist group might eventually take power. As another example, Syria might become divided into zones controlled by various factions—perhaps similar in some ways to the divided Somalia. A failed state would obviously be a problem for everyone with interests in the region. There is also the real possibility of significant outside intervention as well. Iran, Russia and China certainly do not want Syria to collapse and Israel certainly does not want to allow its bitter enemies to gain a solid base of operation in Syria.
One thing is rather clear—we cannot bomb Syria into becoming a democracy. It might also be the case that the only way for us to not lose in Syria is to not become entangled in the civil war. While it is horrible that people are being slaughtered and displaced, we most likely lack the capability to make things any better in Syria. After all we also cannot bomb Syria into becoming a stable, war-free country.
What we can do, which we are already doing to some degree, is to provide humanitarian aid to those who have been displaced by the war and to protect them from violence. After all, by leaving they have made it clear they do not wish to be part of the civil war and keeping them from being murdered would not be morally ambiguous.
Chemical Weapons & Ethics
While the Syrian government has been condemned for killing people with conventional weapons, the "red line' drawn by President Obama was the use of weapons of mass destruction, specifically chemical weapons. Those more cynical than I might suggest that this amounted to saying "we do not like that you are slaughtering people, but as long as you use conventional weapons…well, we will not do much beyond condemning you."
While the Syrian government seemed content with conventional weapons, it has been claimed that government forces used chemical weapons. Fortunately, Secretary of State John Kerry did not use the phrase "slam dunk" when describing the matter. As this is being written, President Obama has stated that he wants to launch an attack on Syria, but he has decided to let congress make the decision. While this raises some interesting issues, I will focus on the question of whether chemical weapons change the ethics of the situation. In more general terms, the issue is whether or not chemical weapons are morally worse than conventional weapons.
In terms of general perception, chemical weapons are often regarded with more fear and disgust than conventional weapons. Part of this is historical in nature. World War I one saw the first large scale deployment of chemical weapons (primarily gas launched via artillery shells). While conventional artillery and machine guns did the bulk of the killing, gas attacks were regarded with a special horror. One reason was that the effects of gas tended to be rather awful, even compared to the wounds that could be inflicted by conventional weapons. This history of chemical weapons still seems to influence us today.
Another historically based reason, I suspect, is the ancient view that the use of poison is inherently evil or at least cowardly. In both history and literature, poisoners are rarely praised and are typically cast as villains. Even in games, such as Dungeons & Dragons, the use of poison is regarded as an inherently evil act. In contrast, killing someone with a sword or gun can be acceptable (and even heroic).
A third historically based reason is, of course, the use of poison gas by the Nazis in their attempt to implement their final solution. This would obviously provide the use of poison gas with a rather evil connection.
Of course, these historical explanations are just that—explanations. They provide reasons as to why people psychologically regard such weapons as worse than conventional weapons. What is needed is evidence for one side or the other.
Another part of this is that chemical weapons (as mentioned above) often have awful effects. That is, they do not merely kill—they inflict terrible suffering. This, then, does provide an actual reason as to why chemical weapons might be morally worse than conventional weapons. The gist of the reasoning is that while killing is generally bad, the method of killing does matter. As such, the greater suffering inflicted by chemical weapons makes them morally worse than conventional weapons.
There are three obvious replies to this. The first is that conventional weapons, such as bombs and artillery, can inflict horrific wounds that can rival the suffering inflicted by chemical weapons. The second is that chemical weapons can be designed so that they kill quickly and with minimal suffering. If the moral distinction is based on the suffering of the targets, then such chemical weapons would be morally superior to conventional weapons. However, it is worth noting that horrific chemical weapons would thus be worse than less horrific conventional (or chemical) weapons.
The third is that wrongfully killing and wounding people with conventional weapons would still be evil. Even if it is assumed that chemical weapons are somewhat worse in the suffering they inflict, it would seem that the moral red line should be the killing of people rather than killing them with chemical weapons. After all, the distinction between not killing people and killing them seems far greater than the distinction between killing people with conventional weapons and killing them with chemical weapons. For example, having soldiers machine gun everyone in a village seems to be morally as bad as having soldiers fire gas shells onto the village until everyone is dead. After all, the results are the same.
Another aspect of chemical weapons that supposedly makes them worse than conventional weapons is that they are claimed to be indiscriminate. For example, a chemical weapon is typically deployed as a gas and the gas can drift and spread into areas outside of the desired target. As another example, some chemical agents are persistent—they remain dangerous for some time after the initial attack and thus can harm and kill those who were not the intended targets. This factor certainly seems morally relevant.
The obvious reply is that conventional weapons can also be indiscriminate in this way. Bombs and shells can fall outside of the intended target area to kill and maim people. Unexploded ordinance can lie about until triggered by someone. As such, chemical weapons do not seem to necessarily worse than conventional weapons—rather it is the discrimination and persistence of the weapon that seem more important than the composition. For example, landmines certainly give chemical weapons strong competition in regards to being indiscriminate and persistent.
Thus, while a specific chemical weapon could be morally worse than a specific conventional weapon, chemical weapons are not inherently morally worse than conventional weapons.
Syria & Team America
As I write this, the United States and our allies are contemplating military action against Syria. While the Syrian government has been busy killing its people for quite some time, it is now claimed that it has crossed the red line by using chemical weapons. Thus, there is apparently a need for a military response.
The United Kingdom, which has often been the Tonto to America's Lone Ranger, has expressed reluctance to leap into battle. Even the American congress, which rushed to authorize our attack on Iraq, has expressed opposition to Obama taking executive military action. As others have said, memories of the "slam dunk" that led up to the Iraq war are playing a significant role in these responses. Interestingly, the leadership United Kingdom seems mainly concerned with how quickly the attacks will begin as opposed to being concerned about attacking Syria. In the United States congress's main worry seems to be that the President will rush ahead on his own and deny them what they see as their right to get us into war.
Despite the fact that the people of the United States and the United Kingdom seem opposed to attacking Syria, it seems likely that there will be an attack soon. One obvious reason is that Obama played the red line game (which, on the face of it, said to Syria that they could keep killing as long as they did not use weapons of mass destruction). If he fails to make good on his red line talk, the United States will lose credibility. From a moral standpoint, it could be claimed that the United States and the West have already lost some moral credibility by their ineffectual condemnation of the slaughter in Syria.
Assuming that we will be attacking Syria, there is the obvious question of what we should be endeavoring to accomplish and what plan we have for what will follow the attack. Iraq and Afghanistan stand as examples of what happens when we go to war without properly considering the matter and setting clear, attainable and worthwhile objectives.
One approach is a limited, punitive strike. That is, to attack Syrian targets in order to punish the government for its alleged use of chemical weapons. In this case, the obvious questions are whether or not the Syria government actually used chemical weapons and whether or not such a punishment strike would achieve its goal(s). The goal might be simple punishment: they use chemical weapons, then we blow some things up to pay them back for their misdeed. Or the goal might be deterrence via punishment: they use chemical weapons, we blow some things up. And we will keep doing it until they stop.
Morally, the Syrian government has certainly earned punishment and it would be a good thing to deter them from engaging in more killing—or to even deter them from killing with chemical weapons. However, there is the question of whether or not our attacks will be just punishment or adequate deterrence. If the goal is deterrence, then there is the question of how long we will engage in deterrence attack and what sort of escalation we should engage in should the initial attack fail to deter.
Another approach is to strike in support of the opposition. That is, to attack Syrian targets with the primary goal of improving the opposition's relative position. This could, of course, also be a punishment attack as well. In this case, the questions would be whether or not such intervention would be effective and whether or not the results would be desirable for the United States.
One obvious concern about the conflict in Syria is that it is not an oppressive government against plucky, freedom-loving rebels. If that was the case, then the matter would be rather easier. Rather, it is a battle between an oppressive government and a bewildering array of opposition groups (including an Al Qaeda franchise). There are also outside forces involved, such as Iran, Russia and China.
Because of the fragmentary and problematic nature of the opposition, it is important to consider the consequences of attacking in support of the opposition (or, more accurately, the oppositions). While the Syrian government is a morally bad government and an enemy of America, it has imposed order on the state and is, obviously enough, not the worst option. If, for example, the Syrian government were to topple and the area fell into almost complete chaos, that would be worse than the current situation. Even worse for the United States and most other people would be a takeover of the state by radical forces and extremists.
It is also rather important to take into account the possible and likely reactions of the other powers that are involved in the conflict. Iran, China and Russia have a significant stake in the matter and they might actually react to an American attack. Russia, for example, is sending warships to the area. While Russia or Iran most likely would not engage American forces in the region to defend Syria, this is not an impossibility. For example, the conflict could escalate from an accident.
Unfortunately, I do not have a great deal of confidence in any of the leaders involved in this matter. After all, there are rather different skill sets involved in being a politician who wins office and being able to make effective policy and military decisions. That is, playing the political game is rather different than war. That said, I do hope that wise decisions are made. But, no matter what, many more people are going to be killed—it is mainly a question of how many and with what weapons.


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one intriguing point : engines are running (vapor blurr behind the a/c) but the white end of each engine looks steady (even with 1/320 sec you can expect some rotational effect ? )
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I'm afraid I do not have an explanation for that, there is no photoshop trickery involved here except the faux HDR treatment so I cannot help you with that question?
I guess the RR Spey engine has a first row of fixed blades in front of the fan , hence the central hub is fixed as well
even though the exact model may be different, one can see such configuration on the photo here (the most precise I could find on the web with a short search
I 'll try to check , it was possibly a common design for turbo fan in the late 50's
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Blackburn always had the weirdest designs...
That they did, have you seen the Blackburn Roc. Lets just say she wasn't a looker but she more than made up for it in character.
Strangely Blackburns early designs were actually quite conventional and elegant. namelessfaithlessgod.deviantar…
I was thinking of the Roc when I said that, haha! I think the Type D is the only elegant Blackburn I've seen.
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DG.....you've been thinking (and chasing the wrong chicks) for a year. Go ride some others in that price class....like Paulie, my steel Romulus is a magic carpet-- to me. Go compare some bikes that compete with the Pilot. Eventually, as "bk" says, you've got to make some decision. Sometimes, all our "discussion" needlessly constipates the decision process.
There is no final, perfect marriage partner. You find a good one that seems to feel good to you and is made of a material you think you like-- and you make sure she fits-- and then go ride the heck out of her and have long and happy life together. Same with bikes. Rant over.


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The Weird Girls
A Novella (A Penguin Special from Signet Eclipse)
Cecy Robson
This book is available for download with iBooks on your Mac or iOS device, and with iTunes on your computer. Books can be read with iBooks on your Mac or iOS device.
Celia Wird and her three sisters are just like other 20-something girls—with one tiny exception: they're products of a backfired curse that has given each of them unique powers that make them, well, a little weird…
The Wird sisters are different from every race on earth—human and supernatural. When human society is no longer an option for them, they move in among the resident vampires, werebeasts, and witches of the Lake Tahoe region. Could this be the true home they've longed for? Um, not quite. After the sisters accidentally strip a witch of her powers in a bar brawl, they soon realize the mistake will cost them. Because to take on a witch means to take on her coven. And losing the battle isn't an option.
Includes a preview of the first full-length novel in the Weird Girls series, Sealed with a Curse—as well as introductions to the Weird World, and a letter from the author.
Customer Reviews
An intriguing must read!!!
This a wonderfully well written introduction to the Weird Girls series and a pleasure to read! ...an appetizer that has you begging for more! Cecy Robson does a phenomenal job creating a world very much like our own and yet without it's limits where only her gifted, storytelling imagination knows where we will go! Go Cecy, go!!! I was enveloped in her world and captivated by its' events. Have pre-ordered the next installment! : )
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- Print Length: 96 Pages
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GAINESVILLE — Two days after a late-game collapse at Kentucky, Florida Gators coach Billy Donovan still was at a loss for answers.
Bad turnovers, missed shots and poor rebounding cost the Gators down the stretch of Saturday's 61-57 loss. But Donovan said the problems go deeper than numbers on a stat sheet or Xs and Os.


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It was still in Japan in June this year! They make such a big deal out of picking the pearl and opening it. It's quite fun.
I've seen the one in Japan and everyone doing it seems to be having fun.
I just love pearls. There is a store near me that sells all kinds of pearls. I walked in with a friend. We found this 3 stranded necklace made with gold pearls. The lady there said, they were selling it with a 30% discount which was the employee discount....and the lovely price of this necklace....
I told the lady I could buy a Ford Focus for that price. The lady didn't like that response. We left that store shortly after that.
OH MY GOSH!!!! Indeed! That's a full year of uni in some places!! WOWEE!!!
I do try.
No they don't, especially this woman. If she loved them so much and they were such a deal, I hope she bought them.


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Ten Things You Have To Do In New York In 2016
Here's a list of great things to do and see in New York State this year!
Here's a list of great things to do and see in New York State this year!
You can rub shoulders with the brightest faculty and students in the world right here in New York. Cornell University was recently named the 13th Best University in the world.
College Ranker recently complied a list of the Top 50 College Towns to live in forever. Two New York cities made the list.
The Ithaca-Tompkins County Convention and Visitors Bureau is taking a different approach to tourism for the winter months - and inviting you to head to an entirely different state!
The rivalry between two small schools in Upstate New York is the best in America. The 'Cortaca' game occurs annually between the State University of New York at Cortland and neighboring Ithaca College. This is why it's the best rivalry in the nation.
Utica is home to a family of peregrine falcons atop the Adirondack Bank Building downtown. Another Upstate New York city has recently been smitten with baby birds in residence.
Twice each year, the Friends of the Tompkins County Public Library swing open the doors to their warehouse on Esty Street in Ithaca for Upstate New York (and, no exaggeration, possibly the world's) largest used book sale.
We were walking near the Erie Canal in Utica this past weekend and encountered the domicile of a homeless man - a tent under an overpass, and it got me thinking about homeless people in Upstate New York. In Ithaca, the homeless have taken a part of town as their own and called it the Jungle.
Cory Booker, the mayor of Newark, New Jersey, and the unofficial mayor of Twitter, gave some social media love to Ithaca mayor Svante Myrick recently.


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100Vets is a national coalition of entrepreneurship organizations whose mission is to help launch 100 Veteran led startups each year. Built upon a collaboration between the Founder Institute, Tech Shop, Victory Media and Vet-Tech, 100Vets aims to proliferate startup resources such as expert mentors, corporate partners and funding to help veterans achieve entrepreneurial success.
The Institute identifies corporate supporters to reduce both the time and the costs of setting up a high tech business. Local partners are currently being recruited for this semester.


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Mournful Task Ending, Forever Unfinished
By DAN BARRY
Published: May 3, 2002
It is nearly done.
Through the blur of unnoticed seasons, in an effort without parallel, 1.6 million tons of material from the collapse of the World Trade Center have been dismantled, examined and carted off to be examined again. That fire-spitting, hellish mound -- crushed concrete and scorched metal and body parts -- has been reduced, one truckload at a time, to a few piles on a bedrock-bottomed pit.
Now, heavy machines called grapplers pick away at what little remains of a structural Colossus. Bulldozers lay the material out in patches that look like freshly tilled gray gardens. Firefighters rake through the gray, searching for pieces of people. Some mutter that the firefighters are moving too slow, but there is no overtime being paid. Besides, as one fire official put it: how long is too long to search for a finger?
The scene is both mesmerizing and macabre. ''It's a little hypnotic when you watch it,'' said John T. Vigiano, a retired fire captain who has kept vigil there for nearly eight months, ever since his only children -- a police detective and a firefighter -- disappeared in a summer morning's roar. ''It's like a ballet.''
The curtain is about to fall on this mournful ballet. The last of what was the trade center will be gone by the end of the month, creating profound physical and psychological shifts regarding a singular calamity. The recovery operation that began in Lower Manhattan on Sept. 11 will end -- only because there will be nothing left to dig out -- and a new phase, the rebuilding phase, will begin.
It means that the Salvation Army's rest-and-relaxation tent, called the Taj Mahal, will be taken down. That the Sunday Masses, in front of a cross made of girders, will end. That the residents will no longer worry about the dust billowing from departing trucks. That the laborers and police officers and counselors will share awkward farewells. That the firefighters will finally leave.
On a more universal scale, the end of the recovery operation will expose its most painful truth: that no matter how extraordinary the effort has been, it will forever be incomplete. The remains of 1,008 of the 2,823 victims have been identified, with more to come through DNA matches, but hundreds of families will not fulfill their need to bury loved ones. Coffins are meant to carry more than air, they say, and the urns of ground zero dirt that the city distributed were just that: dirt.
How, then, can private grief be balanced with public works? How can anyone tell Michael Pietronico, who lost his brother, that he is wrong in wanting the entire 16-acre site to be a memorial park? Or tell Monica Iken that she is mistaken to believe that her husband's heart -- his heart -- is in this spot?
Experiencing the Loss
The approaching end of the recovery is so emotionally freighted that government officials have been holding meeting after meeting to decide how best to mark the moment -- how to be dignified about an overwhelming indignity. In a recent letter that took weeks to compose -- the salutation reads ''Dear Family Member'' -- Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg and Gov. George E. Pataki explained that efforts to identify remains will continue at the medical examiner's office and at the Fresh Kills Landfill, where more than 105,000 truckloads of material have been brought. But they also gently noted that ''in the next few weeks, the official recovery effort at ground zero will be completed.''
Mr. Vigiano knows that the moment is near. The remains of his younger son, Detective Joseph Vigiano, 34, were found in October. (''Imagine being happy when they find the remains of your dead son,'' he said.) But there has been no trace yet of his older boy, John, a 36-year-old firefighter, and this father without children can do nothing but watch the diminishing piles.
In the first few months he was there every day, from 7 in the morning until 11 at night. But then he broke his arm at the site, and something else snapped as well. Now, he drives in every Wednesday from Deer Park, on Long Island, with other retired firefighters who come to support a man so respected on the job that he was called ''Monsignor.'' And on Sundays he escorts his wife, Jan; he gets her coffee, makes sure she wants for nothing as she stares into the abyss.
Mr. Vigiano is so much a part of the site that construction workers, police officers and firefighters have formed a protective cocoon around the slightly hunched man of 63. They shake his hand and are slow to let go, as though some of his grace might be transferred through touch. Mr. Vigiano says that he visits the disaster site for them and will remain here as long as they are here. But once the recovery is over, he is gone, and he has no plans to come back. ''There is nothing here for me,'' he said, looking down into the pit. ''My sons are in heaven.''
John Vigiano claims no ownership of how one should feel about the end of recovery at the disaster site. The matter is so immense that people come to it from different points in the circles of grief and awe.


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British illustrator Tony Luke has done a variety of comics projects. Most notbable was his work on the 'Dominator' manga for Kodansha's Comic Afternoon monthly. He also produced a spin-off of the 'Hellkatt' character from that series. Luke illustrated several covers for DC's Vertigo line. For 2000 AD and Judge Dredd Megazine, he illustrated episodes of 'Anderson, PSI', Nemesis the Warlock' and 'Judge Anderson'. As a writer he teamed up with Alan Grant and wrote several 'Judge Dredd' stories from 1993.
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2011-2015 Chevy Silverado / GMC Sierra 8-Lug 1" Rear Block Kit
- 1" Rear Block Kit
- Kit Includes E-Coated U-Bolts, Rear Blocks, Nuts And Washers
- Cast Iron OEM-Equivalent That Offers The Perfect Solution For Towing And Hauling
Mfg Part # : 66-3111
ReadyLIFT® OEM style rear block kits are now available for the new 2011-2014 GM 2500 HD single rear wheel pickups. These Rear Block Kits include (2) Rear Blocks, (4) E-Coated U-Bolts, (8) Nuts and Washers and will safely lift the rear of your 2011-2014 2WD and 4WD 8-lug Single Rear Wheel GM trucks 1". Based on OEM designs and never made out of light weight extrusions our 1" GM Blocks are made from cast iron just like the factory blocks, insuring maximum strength and reliability. ReadyLIFT® Block Kits will put a slight rake back in your Truck for hauling or towing and are designed to work with your ReadyLIFT® Suspension Leveling Kit. Like all ReadyLIFT® products these block kits come with our Lifetime Warranty.
Single Rear Wheel Only (will not fit Dually)
ReadyLIFT Features
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Made from cast iron, not light weight extrusions
Built in locator pin, not pressed in
Puts the rake back in your truck for towing and hauling
Lifetime Warranty
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Works Great with our 66-3011 8-lug GM Leveling Kits
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Update on ElizabethElizabeth is 52 years old and married with six children.
She works hard to provide for her family. She buys and sells charcoal in the Philippines and requested a 27,000 PHP loan through NWTF to buy additional sacks of charcoal to sell.
Elizabeth has borrowed and paid 13 loans from NWTF before this loan. She has been running her charcoal business for 10 years and also earns income from farming rice.
Elizabeth aspires to save money to expand her business.
Previous Loan DetailsElizabeth is 51 years old and married with 6 children. She earns a living by farming rice in the Philippines. Elizabeth is borrowing 25,000 PHP through NWTF to buy fertilizers and other farm supplies. Elizabeth has been farming rice for 3 years and also earns additional income from buying and ... More from Elizabeth's previous loan »
Additional Information
About Negros Women for Tomorrow FoundationNegros Women for Tomorrow Foundation, Inc. (NWTF) is a non-governmental organization established with an aim to help men and women achieve self-sufficiency, particularly in the province of Negros Occidental's low-income communities. The organization offers its clients a wide variety of products, including loans for micro-entrepreneurs, hospital income benefits, life insurance, accidental death benefits and more. Kiva lenders' funds will be used to expand the reach of these products to low-income urban and rural communities.
Concurrent and Successive Loans
Our Field Partners often work with borrowers over a series of loans as the borrowers build credit, take out bigger loans, and expand their businesses. In order to make it easier for our Field Partners to post loans for borrowers who have been listed on Kiva before, we allow them to post successive and concurrent loans for their Kiva borrowers. This means that our Field Partners are able to post a borrower's second, third, etc., loan on Kiva without having to re-enter all of the borrower's information.
This borrower has been listed on Kiva before, so you'll see an updated loan description, as well as excerpts of the original descriptions from earlier loans. Most borrowers take out loans consecutively, meaning that they receive a second loan after having repaid the first. However, sometimes our Field Partners give out concurrent loans, allowing borrowers to take out one primary loan and a secondary "add-on" loan along with it. These "add-on" loans are typically smaller than the borrower's primary loan and serve a different purpose. Because Field Partners can now post loans as successive and concurrent loans, you will be able to track borrower progress over time and see the various ways a borrower is working with our Field Partners through funds from Kiva's lenders.
About Philippines
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Success!! The loan was 100% repaid
- Repayment Term
- 8 months (Additional Information)
- Repayment Schedule
- Monthly
- Pre-Disbursed:
- Dec 13, 2012
- Listed
- Jan 7, 2013
- Currency Exchange Loss:
- Possible
- Ended:
- Jul 17, 2013


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- GhanaFoodFunding via ID Ghana
Top-Class G...GhanaFoodFunding via ID Ghana
Crusade GroupGhanaRetailFunding via ID Ghana
Margaret's Group
Margaret has been selling fried fish for six years. This is her forth loan cycle with ID Ghana. With the Kiva loan that she receives, she will increase her capital and buy two cartons of fish to fry and sell to customers to earn more money. In the coming years, she would like to buy a plot of land and to see her children in school.
Margaret, together with four others, need a total amount of GHS 5,400 to grow their businesses.
Additional Information
About ID GhanaID Ghana is a microfinance NGO that provides financial and social services to underserved urban communities in Accra. ID Ghana's socially-oriented business model provides clients with a number of social services, including financial literacy training, group discussions led by peer educators on health and nutrition education, child schooling, basic medical services, and counseling and legal services for women victims of violence.
This is a Group Loan
In a group loan, each member of the group receives an individual loan but is part of a larger group of individuals. The group is there to provide support to the members and to provide a system of peer pressure, but groups may or may not be formally bound by a group guarantee. In cases where there is a group guarantee, members of the group are responsible for paying back the loans of their fellow group members in the case of delinquency or default.
Kiva's Field Partners typically feature one borrower from a group. The loan description, sector, and other attributes for a group loan profile are determined by the featured borrower's loan. The other members of the group are not required to use their loans for the same purpose.
Loan tags help lenders find loans that match certain areas of interest. You can add up to 5 tags for this loan.
About Ghana
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Success!! The loan was 100% repaid
- Repayment Term
- 9 months (Additional Information)
- Repayment Schedule
- Monthly
- Pre-Disbursed:
- Nov 30, 2013
- Listed
- Dec 30, 2013
- Currency Exchange Loss:
- Possible
- Ended:
- Jul 17, 2014


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Skyview's Parker Henry and Union's Tanner Nelson earned top honors on the football all-league team as the Class 4A Greater St. Helens League released its fall all-league teams.
Henry, a senior running back, was selected as the offensive player of the year for football. Nelson, a senior linebacker, was the defensive player of the year.
Skyview swept the top honors in volleyball and girls soccer. Senior Taylor Barrus was the volleyball player of the year, while senior Becca Sikora was the girls soccer player of the year.
Battle Ground junior Mark Tedder was the boys runner of the year, and Union freshman Alexis Fuller was the girls runner of the year in cross country.
Senior Felicia Williamson and junior Andrea Young, both from Union, share swimmer of the year honors.
Skyview senior Kent Andreasen was the singles player of the year and Union seniors Connor Horne and Mark Bright were the doubles team of the year in boys tennis.
And Union senior Alistair Docherty was the boys golf player of the year.
For a complete listing of the 4A GSHL all-league teams, see the high school scoreboard on page B5 or go to The Columbian's high school blog at www.360preps.com.
Six picked for Borderclash — Six Clark County runners have been selected to compete in the Nike Borderclash cross country meet Sunday at the Nike World Headquarters Campus in Beaverton, Ore.
The Borderclash is an annual race of the top high school cross country runners from Washington against their counterparts from Oregon. Berths on each team are based on performances in the high school state championships.
Skyview's Colby Gilbert is the lone Clark County boy on the Washington team. On the girls team is Union's Alexis Fuller, Camas' Alexa Efraimson, Austen Reiter and Megan Napier and Prairie's Nicole Goecke.
The Nike Borderclash will begin with the boys race at 10 a.m., followed by the girls race at 10:45 a.m.
Efraimson qualifies for nationals — Camas' Alexa Efraimson placed third overall and the Camas girls team finished fourth at the Nike Cross Nationals regional race in Boise, Idaho on Saturday.
Efraimson earned an automatic berth to the Nike Cross Nationals meet on Dec. 3 at Portland Meadows. The Camas team put itself in a position to earn an at-large berth, as only the top two placing teams earn automatic berths. Amy-Eloise Neale, from Glacier Peak High School in Snohomish, won the meet in a time of 17 minutes, 49 seconds. Katie Knight of Spokane clocked in 17:58. Efraimson followed at 18:23.
The Glacier Peak team, running under the club name of Snohomish XC Club, placed second to Summit XC Club of Bend, Ore. Summit scored 103 points and Snohomish had 117. Camas placed fourth behind Bozeman, Mont., with 155 points.
Andreasen picks Pilots — Skyview High tennis standout Kent Andreasen will be playing tennis for the Portland Pilots.
Andreasen signed his National Letter of Intent with the Pilots on Friday.
"We are thrilled to have Kent as part of the team at UP. He is a local kid and very familiar with our program. Kent will help us right away as his net game is more advanced right now then 90% of players playing college tennis," coach Aaron Gross noted. "As he gains confidence and strength I think he will become one of the best PNW players we will have had in the program by the time he is done."