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Saturday, February 23 marks 1000 days in prison for Bradley Manning – a young gay man locked up for allegedly leaking the U.S. diplomatic communications published by Wikileaks.
These leaks exposed the rampant criminality of American foreign policy – but President Obama has chosen to imprison the alleged leaker, Manning, rather than those who committed violent war crimes such as massacring journalists and other civilians in Iraq.
Manning deserves honor and praise rather than imprisonment.
His alleged leaks helped spur the "Arab Spring" of rebellions across North Africa by exposing the dirty dealings of the Bush and Obama administrations with dictators in the region.
They showed that the Obama administration knew of the impending coup against Honduras's elected government in 2009, yet did nothing to stop it, let alone the wave of violence initiated by the coup regime once it took over.
From Russia to Saudi Arabia to Iran, the leaks show that both Obama and Bush have consistently promoted American domination over the world versus human rights. Adding insult to injury, Obama has taken Bush's expansion of the national security state to truly frightening proportions, prosecuting more whistle-blowers like Manning than every previous administration combined.
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This website contains resources for Cardiovascular Perfusion.
The tabs at the top of this page include the following resources:
eBooks: eBooks (e.g., Harrison's Internal Medicine) and eBook collections (e.g., AccessMedicine).
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Morgan Stanley Can't Get Enough of Zynga
It's possible Morgan Stanley investment clients have lost twice on Zynga's IPO.
First, as our colleagues have reported, Morgan Stanley mutual funds in February bought stock in the online-game company while it was still a private company. That investment round came at a valuation for Zynga of about $14 a share, which means the investors in those Morgan Stanley funds now are down about $28 million, as shares of Zynga closed trading Friday at $8.81 apiece.
But the Morgan Stanley funds didn't stop there.
According to a new regulatory filing, Morgan Stanley funds now own about 16 million shares of Zynga, or 16% of the company's total publicly available stock. The regulatory disclosure doesn't say when Morgan Stanley bought the Zynga shares, nor what price it paid for the stock.
But if Morgan Stanley acquired the additional Zynga stock in the company's IPO, the extra batch of 10 million shares is again underwater, to the tune of nearly $13 million.
Remember that Morgan Stanley also handled Zynga's IPO last month, the latest in a string of high-profile tech IPOs led by Morgan Stanley bankers. Morgan Stanley and its investment-banking peers (think Goldman Sachs and Facebook) have frequently plowed money from their investment funds into private companies. And those investments then can serve as footholds to land duties handling the companies' initial public offerings.
The investment banks say their asset-management arms make decisions autonomously and aren't influenced by driving business to their IPO-underwriting colleagues.


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Chris Kilham in Vanuatu, South Pacific
Chris Kilham is a medicine hunter, author and educator. The founder of Medicine Hunter Inc., Chris has conducted medicinal research in over 40 countries. Chris is The FOX News Medicine Hunter and appears on FOX News Health TV both online and in US and international television markets. He also writes a weekly FOX News Health Column and is on the Medical Advisory Board of The Dr. Oz Show. As Explorer in Residence for Naturex of Avignon, France, Chris conducts medicinal plant research for the largest botanical extraction company in the world. He is also the Sustainability Ambassador of the Naturex Foundation, which funds community development projects in various countries.
Chris works with companies to develop and popularize traditional plant-based food and medicinal products into market successes. These include kava, maca, rhodiola, schisandra, tamanu oil, cat's claw, dragon's blood, ayahuasca, and dozens of other plants.
Chris is the author of fourteen books, including Hot Plants, The Five Tibetans, Psyche Delicacies, Tales from the Medicine Trail and Kava, Medicine Hunting in Paradise. His latest book, The Ayahuasca Test Pilots Handbook: The Essential Guide to Ayahuasca Journeying provides a comprehensive guide to the world of ayahuasca shamanism, healing, and spirituality. Chris also writes articles on plant medicines for several publications, and was a contributing columnist for FOX News Health for 8 years. Richard Branson features Chris in his book, Screw Business as Usual.
Chris lectures extensively on holistic health and botanical medicines, throughout the United States and the European Union, Hong Kong, Thailand, Dubai, Australia, Peru, Vanuatu and many other countries. Recent appearances include, BIDMC & Harvard Medical School - Integrated Medicine, American Herbal Products Association, International Herb Symposium, Vitamin Shoppe, GNC, In Cosmetics, American Herbalists Guild, Missouri Botanical Garden, Atlanta Botanical Garden, Medicines of the Earth Symposium, Natural Products EXPO East, Natural Products EXPO West, Southwest Yoga, Midwest Yoga, Plant Teacher's Convergence, University of Massachusetts, Evolver, Geneva Vitafoods Conference and HBA New York.
As a guest expert, Chris has presented across a wide variety of sectors to companies such as; Coca Cola, Pepsi, Unilever, Pfizer, Roche, Beiersdorf, Avon, L'Oreal, Chanel, Estee Lauder, Clorox, Glaxo SmithKline, Merck, Clarens, Body Shop, Royal Canin, GNC, and Whole Foods. He is also a regular advisor to Woman's World, Fox News Health, and various industry and trade publications.
Chris has appeared as a guest expert on over several hundred radio and television programs including news programs on ABC, CBS, NBC, PBS, CNBC, CNN, MSNBC, BBC, HDNET, Oprah & Friends, FOX TV, NPR, and most recently, Chelsea Handler's "Chelsea Does". As a TV correspondent and guest he has spoken about medicine hunting, traditional botanical medicines, nutraceuticals, environmental and cultural preservation and other related topics for a wide variety of audiences. Chris has appeared on over 1500 radio programs and more than 500 TV programs worldwide.
Chris Kilham has been featured in The New York Times, Newsweek, CNN, The Dr. Oz Show, NBC Nightly News, ABC 20/20, Psychology Today, Outside Magazine, LA Yoga, LA Weekly, UTNE Reader, International Herald Tribune, CNBC Power Lunch, HD Net World Report, Prevention Magazine, FOX News, Natural Health Magazine, Oprah & Friends, PBS Healing Quest, Good Morning America, Organic Spa Magazine, Ode Magazine, Woman's World, and many others.
Chris is also developing herbal products with Purity Products, to bring to market concepts that Chris supports. Their first collaborative products are Vital Brilliance, Vital Maca, Vital Rest, Vital Focus, and Green Tea CR.
An avid body surfer and adventure traveler, Chris lives and works in Massachusetts with his wife, artist/activist Zoe Helene. Chris and Zoe travel the globe on Medicine Hunter expeditions, and work together to promote plant medicines, environmental protection and cultural preservation.
CNN calls Chris "The Indiana Jones of natural medicine."
Books by Chris Kilham
Along the way, Chris has written a number of books. They range from stories about medicine hunting to marketing for the Natural Products Industry, to practical advice on yoga practice and sexual health. A new edition of Chris' popular yoga classic, The Five Tibetans, has been endorsed by mind/body/spirit leaders such as Dr. Mehmet Oz and Deepak Chopra. Chris' most recent book, The Ayahuasca Test Pilots Handbook - The Essential Guide to Ayahuasca Journeying is available for pre-orders and will be published November 2014. The Ayahuasca Test Pilots Handbook provides a practical guide to ayahuasca use, aiding seekers in making right—and safe—decisions about where to go, who to drink with, and what to expect. Please visit Books by Chris Kilham for more details.
Ayahuasca & The Shaman's Pharmacy
Since 1994 Chris has worked, traveled and studied with shamans in Brazil, Peru and North America. He has participated in many dozens of ceremonies, both with and without the ingestion of ceremonial psychoactive drugs. He is experienced with Sacred Plants, including Ayahuasca, San Pedro cactus, peyote, coca, sacred mushrooms, and tobacco.
Chris advocates sane drug policy and the shamanic and ritual use of hallucinogens. He is the founder of The Ayahuasca Test Pilots, a collaboration of individuals who engage in the ceremonial practice of ayahuasca journeying with skilled shamans. His latest book, The Ayahuasca Test Pilots Handbook: The Essential Guide to Ayahuasca Journeying offers a clear, concise, and delightfully readable book on ayahuasca shamanism, and is a must-have guide for anyone curious about this powerful plant potion.
Chris speaks at the Evolver's Ayahuasca Monologues, where he combines his decades of experience in the field of yoga with his deep involvement in South American shamanism. He is a thought leader in the ayahuasca scene, and has written articles on shamanism for Reset.Me, Reality Sandwich, FOX News, and other venues.
Chris is recognized as a chief in Vanuatu, South Pacific, is known as "Maxipe" which means "black vulture" by the Macuxi indians, and has lived with and visited dozens of native tribes in Amazonia and in other cultures. Shamans in both Brazil and Peru recognize Chris as one of their kind and a bridger of worlds, and have engaged in numerous ceremonies to bolster his energy and support his work with medicinal plants and native cultures.
At the University of Massachusetts at Amherst Chris teaches the popular ethnobotany course The Shaman's Pharmacy through the Department of Plant & Soil Sciences. This intensive immersion course takes students to the Peruvian Amazon, where they learn about medicinal plants, the rainforest, and native culture.
Yoga and Meditation
Chris is also a seasoned speaker and presenter on yoga and meditation, at venues across the United States. Since 1971 Chris has taught yoga to thousands of people in classes at colleges, universities, dance centers, conferences, hospitals and jails. In his yoga presentations, Chris integrates information and methods of yoga, meditation and the martial arts, to enhance mind/body integration and sexual health, and to promote healthy aging. His best-selling yoga book, The Five Tibetans, is published in twenty-six languages and was featured on The Dr. Oz Show and Fox News Health.
The New York Times describes Chris as, "Part David Attenborough, part Indiana Jones." A medicine hunter by profession, Chris travels the world in search of natural remedies, and appears on TV and radio programs globally. He has studied and learned from numerous yogis, mystics, shamans, and healers. As the FOX News Medicine Hunter his TV segments appear in over one hundred countries.
Public Speaking
Chris Kilham is a charismatic public speaker. He regularly presents to a wide variety of audiences, in the following areas of expertise:
- Medicinal Plants
- Global Environmental Sustainability
- Cultural Preservation
- Ethical World Trade
- Shamanism
- Ayahuasca
- Sacred, Psychoactive and Psychedelic Plants
- Hot Plants (Natural Aphrodisiacs)
- Yoga and Meditation
- Adventure Travel
- Holistic Health/Fitness
- Natural Products Industry & Organic Trade
A holistic approach to health is a multidimensional endeavor. Eating well, using medicinal plants, exercising, and staying vital in many ways, are all part of total wellness. Additionally, adventure travel, preservation of native cultures and environmental sustainability are at the heart of Medicine Hunter activities. In talks and presentations around the world, Chris shares a deep knowledge of highly integrated holistic health, and the plants, people and places he encounters around the world as a medicine hunter.
"There are few things I enjoy more than speaking about medicinal plants, foreign lands, and native cultures. An old shaman once said to me 'You bridge the worlds.' I never forgot that. It is tremendously rewarding to share what I learn out in the field in far-flung places. " - Chris Kilham
Today the communication landscape is more diverse than ever before. Topics like shamanism, psychoactive plants, aphrodisiacs and native practices now are received warmly. Speaking from decades of experience, with candor, humor and extraordinary images from the field, Chris compels audiences to embrace natural medicines, environmental preservation and indigenous cultures, to think broadly, and to know more.
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Monday, 10.18.2010 / 11:01 AM ET / News
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|Kovalchuk skated Monday with Elias and Josefson.
He overhauled his lines, putting Ilya Kovalchuk on right wing with Jacob Josefson and Patrik Elias, and forming new trios of Rod Pelley-Jason Arnott-Jamie Langenbrunner, and Adam Mair-Tim Sestito-David Clarkson.
"Hard but good," Langenbrunner said of a grueling session that featured plenty of skating and one-on-one battle drills. "It's not that you want it, you just go out there and work. I think that's what was accomplished today."
The top line of Zach Parise, Travis Zajac and Dainius Zubrus combined for the lone goal in Saturday's loss to Boston, and remained together Monday. The players will have a couple of days to get accustomed to their new potential linemates before visiting Montreal on Thursday.
"We have one win," said the captain. "I think we're looking for something, yeah. Obviously, what we were doing wasn't working, so we're trying something."
The next few days are critical for getting the team back on the same page. The Devils have gotten off to a 1-4-1 start and will play seven of their next eight on the road. They have scored seven goals in five games since potting a season-high three in their Oct. 8 home opener.
"We're going to work on facets of our game," MacLean said. "We have to work on D zone, we have to work on our neutral zone, our O zone, our power play. We have to work on our game. We have the time here to work on our game. As I said, since the season started, we really haven't had any practice time. We'll have three days here to work on tightening some things up."
On a positive note, the coach liked what he saw on Monday.
"Yeah and that's what we need," he said. "We need that effort, and we keep talking about it. We have to have that night in, night out."
MacLean has noticed Pelley's hard work in recent games, and installed him with Langenbrunner and Arnott for some added energy.
"I think Pells has played well and Pells has some good energy there," the coach said. "Hopefully he'll give a little zip to the line on the forecheck and help them out. Jason's got a good shot, and we need to get those lines going."
We need that effort, and we keep talking about it. We have to have that night in, night out. - Head coach John MacLeanPelley tried to take the change in stride.
"Obviously, they're two veteran guys, and whether it's a game or practice, it's enjoyable for a guy like me to play with them," Pelley said. "If it happens that we're together in a game, so be it, just work hard."
Langenbrunner pointed a finger at himself and indicated that he and Arnott need to be better. The captain has three assists and a minus-6 rating, and is still looking for his first goal.
"We have to simplify and just get back to work," Langenbrunner said. "We're trying to make something happen when it isn't there. I think that goes for a lot of us. We're trying to find a way to score every shift, and that's not the way you play hockey. You go out there and you play the game and then the opportunities will come. I don't think it's been a lack of effort. It's a lack of playing in the right areas and doing the little things. That's what we've been missing."
The ZIP Line experiment of Kovalchuk with Parise and Zajac remains on hiatus. Kovalchuk played left wing with Josefson and Clarkson in Saturday's game, but was back on the right side for practice.
"We'll see how he goes here," MacLean said. "I think Josefson has played a couple of nice games. I think he's a good player. I think with Patty there, it should be good for Josefson to have those two guys on either side of him to help him along."
The coach was encouraged by the play of his top line on Saturday. Zubrus had some success with Parise and Zajac last season, including the Jan. 29 meeting with Toronto in which they combined for four goals and seven assists.
"I saw them forecheck really hard," MacLean said. "I saw them do a lot of good things. They worked extremely hard and I thought they worked extremely well together."
Magnan recalled
The Devils made a roster move Monday, assigning 19-year-old defenseman Alexander Urbom to Albany (AHL), and recalling 24-year-old blueliner Olivier Magnan.
Magnan had one assist in three games with the Devils' top minor-league affiliate, which has won two in a row since dropping the home opener.
"I'm pretty happy," he said. "You're playing hockey to get that phone call to play in the NHL. I'm pretty excited about it."
Magnan received the call last night from Albany GM Chris Lamoriello.He was told to get to New Jersey in time for practice, and hopes to bring a solid defensive presence to the blueline.
"It's an opportunity," he said. "When you get a chance, you just jump on it."
In Albany, he was paired with Mark Fayne and Harry Young to bolster the penalty kill.
"I want to do the same job I was doing there, which was play hard defensively, maybe get some PK time and play well in my zone," he said.
Urbom impressed in training camp, and will get valuable seasoning in the minors. MacLean expects Magnan to play Thursday in Montreal.
"(Urbom) came and had a good camp, he got some experience, but he needs to keep developing as a player," MacLean said. "He needs to get some ice time, and from what I understand, Mags has played very well down there, the games he's played. I know him, he's been in the organization a few years. He's a strong kid, he skates well, competes hard. He'll get an opportunity."
Volchenkov still sidelined
Anton Volchenkov did not practice and remains sidelined after taking a Nicklas Backstrom slapshot to the face on Oct. 9. He sustained a broken nose and has been suffering from a stiff neck.
"I would welcome him back," MacLean said. "As far as getting him back, I would love to have him back, but I want to get him back when he's healthy."
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FREMONT -- The commission redrawing state political boundaries appears poised to split Fremont into two Assembly and congressional districts despite fierce opposition from city political leaders.
A majority of commissioners Wednesday expressed support for congressional district maps that would divide Fremont along Peralta Boulevard and Mowry Avenue, placing about 65 percent of the city's residents -- along with all of Newark -- in a district where most voters are from Santa Clara County.
Likewise, commissioners appeared to back new Assembly districts that would divide Fremont roughly in half along Walnut Avenue and Stevenson Boulevard, with the southern portion of the city and Newark being placed with Milpitas and eastern San Jose.
All of Fremont, along with the rest of the Tri-City area and Hayward, still would be part of a single state Senate district, under the commission's latest proposal. San Leandro would be in Assembly and state Senate districts with Oakland, but in a congressional district with Hayward.
While the maps still are preliminary, the 14-member commission seemed resigned to splitting Fremont as it approaches its July 28 deadline for issuing a final plan to realign congressional, Assembly and state Senate districts. The commission must equalize the population in each district, based on numbers reflected in the 2010 census.
"I just think this is the lesser of the harm that is done," Commissioner Michelle DiGuilio said of splitting Fremont.
The last round of redistricting in 2001 left Fremont -- the Bay Area's fourth-largest city -- intact and the largest city in its congressional and Assembly and state Senate districts.
Fremont political leaders fear the proposed redistricting would dilute the city's clout in both Sacramento and Washington.
"I think we're going to be underrepresented," said John R. Smith, a local Democratic Party leader. "We will be totally overridden by any of the concerns from Santa Clara County."
Indo-American political activists also have opposed the commission's plan, fearing that a divided Fremont would sap their emerging clout in southern Alameda County.
Fremont residents have been showing up by the dozens at commission meetings and public hearings after early redistricting proposals divided the city.
Last week it appeared that the lobbying effort had been effective when the commission issued a new congressional map that had all of Fremont grouped together with Hayward, Union City, Newark, the Tri-Valley area and portions of Contra Costa County.
However, commissioners rejected that because it would have placed Richmond into a congressional district with rural Yolo County near Sacramento.
On Wednesday, the commission endorsed shifting Richmond into a congressional district with Berkeley and Oakland. That forced it to reshuffle other East Bay congressional districts, moving San Leandro south into a district with Hayward, Union City, Dublin and the Tri-Valley area, and pushing southern Fremont and Newark south into a district with Santa Clara County.
Commissioner Connie Galambos Malloy, of Oakland, proposed placing Livermore and Pleasanton with Santa Clara County, but a majority of commissioners rejected the proposal.
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A decent crowd is sure to converge on O'Connor Park in Tullamore on Saturday evening as Galway and Kilkenny meet again to decide who will face Dublin in the Leinster hurling final on Saturday week.
The drawn game ended in a welter of excitement with the Tribesmen finding the net three times before Henry Shefflin and Joe Canning exchanged points to ensure parity.
Michael Duignan feels Galway have room for improvement ahead of the replay. However, he goes with a "more balanced" Kilkenny to prevail.
Speaking to RTÉ Sport, he said: "I think there's room for improvement in Galway. There was that ten minutes in the second half the last day when they were outscored by 1-08 to no score. A number of their players did not play that well.
"Kilkenny over the 70 minutes last Sunday had the better balance" - Michael Duignan
"In saying that, you'd have to be impressed with the character Galway showed at the end. The subs they brought on made a difference and the urgency was there.
"Kilkenny, however, over the 70 minutes last Sunday had the better balance. They looked good when they had that purple patch in the second half. I think they'll have learned the lesson from letting a big lead slip.
"They are going to miss Michael Fennelly and Richie Power but they should have enough to get over the line."
Duignan also cast his eye over the weekend hurling qualifiers.
Antrim v Offaly
"Ballycastle is a tough place to go. Antrim's recent record against Offaly is good. Offaly go there without any great expectation but they've made five changes from the last day [against Kilkenny].
"I think Colin Egan and David Kenny coming into the half-forward line will add a bit of strength and steel there.
"There's a lot of hurt pride in Offaly since the Kilkenny defeat and that might help them produce a big one-off performance. I'm going for an away win."
Waterford v Laois
"I think Laois' display against Galway was ranked last weekend with Galway's performance against Kilkenny. They go there [to Walsh Park] with a real chance.
"Waterford are re-building and have quite a few young players coming into the squad. Their form against Cork the first day was very good; however, they'd have been disappointed with how things went in the replay.
"I think at home Waterford just might have enough in what will be a close game."
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Seawolves Shut Out Binghamton 10-0
May 21, 2004
Stony Brook, N.Y. - Kevin Fitzgerald tossed a complete game four-hit shutout and Dave Mischo cracked a two-run homer to cap a four-run first inning as the Stony Brook baseball team cruised to a 10-0 victory over Binghamton on Friday afternoon. The Seawolves now stand at 25-24 overall, 10-9 in the America East and can secure the fourth and final spot in next weekend's conference championships with one victory in tomorrow's double header with the Bearcats. With the loss, Binghamton's record fell to 21-20, 8-10.
The Seawolves jumped on top of Bingamton with a four-run first inning, loading the bases before Nick Theoharis and Kevin Solano plated runs on fielder's choices and Dave Mischo capped the frame with a two-run blast to centerfield to give Stony Brook a 4-0 advantage after one.
Fitzgerald (6-2) dominated from that point on, striking out eight batters without giving up a base on balls while not allowing a Binghamton baserunner to reach third base all game. Fitzgerald retired the side in order in the first three innings and in the ninth to finish out his fourth complete game of the season.
Stony Brook tacked on runs in the second and fourth innings on a pair of RBI singles by Matt Devins, while Andrew Larsen drove in a run in the sixth inning with a single that plated Cole Cicatelli to give the Seawolves a 7-0 lead. A Chris Sipp sacrifice fly and and RBI single by Stephen Didsbury upped the SB lead to 9-0 in the seventh before Kevin Solano capped the scoring with a solo home run, his seventh of the season, in bottom of the eighth.
Devins went 4-for-5 with a run and two RBI while Larsen went 3-for-4 with two runs scored and an RBI to lead a Seawolves offensively.
Keith Ford led Binghamton with a 2-for-3 afternoon that included a double. David Lind (2-6) suffered the loss on the mound.
Stony Brook and Binghamton will play a double header tomorrow at University Field starting at noon to determine which team will earn the final spot in next week's playoffs in Orono, Maine. Stony Brook needs one victory to secure the fourth spot in the tournament while Binghamton would earn the final berth with a sweep. Albany, Northeastern and Maine have secured the top three spots at the championships. For a complete breakdown of seed scenarios log on to www.americaeast.com and click on the "Baseball Playoff Picture" link.


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August 16, 2006
USDA Awards $9 Million in Grants and Loan Guarantees for Clean Energy
The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) announced on August 8th that it will award $9 million in grants and loan guarantees for 12 renewable energy and energy efficiency projects in Iowa, Kansas, and Oregon. The funds will support three renewable energy installations in Iowa: a 2-megawatt wind turbine, a biodiesel production facility, and an anaerobic digester to convert manure into a gaseous fuel. The USDA funds will also support a biomass-fueled combined heat and power system at Rough & Ready Lumber in Cave Junction, Oregon, a project that was coincidentally mentioned in last week's newsletter. Additional grants and loans will go toward more efficient grain dryers at three Iowa facilities and energy efficiency improvements for two businesses in Kansas and one in Oregon. See the USDA press release, the recipients list (PDF 21 KB), the USDA Rural Development Web site, and the story from last week's newsletter. Download Adobe Reader.
The USDA also released an analysis of its renewable energy and energy efficiency programs, prepared by USDA economists. The report notes that the USDA spent $1.4 billion on energy-related programs over the past five years and expects to spend another $272 million this year. More than half a billion dollars have directly subsidized biofuels production, although that program is slated to end this year. The USDA Rural Development program has supported 650 energy projects, including 168 energy efficiency projects, 132 biofuel projects, 130 wind power projects, 92 anaerobic digesters, and a variety of other renewable energy projects. The report examines a variety of policy options for future consideration, including a higher Renewable Fuels Standard, extended renewable energy tax credits, a production subsidy for cellulosic ethanol, and an expanded research program. See the USDA press release and the executive summary (PDF 156 KB) and full text (PDF 235 KB) of the report.


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I just wanted to send out a reminder about tomorrow night's event, IXDA in
NYC. The details are below.
The theme of the evening is building your career. We will have Judy Wert
from Wert & Company Recruiting. There will be a short formal facilitated
interview, and then we are going to open up the floor to your questions. If
you can come with prepared questions about hiring and finding a job as an
interaction designer in NYC and the state of hiring in NYC, we would really
appreciate it.
This is a great opportunity for you to get your questions answered by one of
the best recruiters in New York City for design professionals.
No RSVP is required.
We hope to see you there,
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Join Us for the IxDA NYC Monthly Gathering on January 24
Join us as Judy Wert of Wert & Company, Inc., an executive recruitment and
consulting firm, helps us dissect the world of opportunities and recruiting
for interaction designers by sharing her experiences with some of the top
design companies in North America, Europe, and Asia. She will provide a
forum for discussion to include: recruiting and interviewing strategies,
sharing stories, and discussing industry trends within the Interaction
Design community! She invites your questions for the discussion. Feel free
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Date: Tuesday, January 24, 2006
Time: 6:30 8:00 pm
Location: Parsons Design Lab
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Bet. 5th and 6th Ave. (closer to 6th)
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Cost: Free (Donations are appreciated. If you¹d like to donate to
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representing a range of industries from entertainment, television, fashion,
and retail to architecture, design, interactive, and academia. She is
actively involved in the global design community, nurturing over two decades
of talent and relationships with leading organizations. Judy has an
established reputation for consulting on large-scale creative team-building
with major organizations and leading brands.
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The Interaction Design Association (IxDA) is a non-profit professional
organization whose focus is promoting both the field of interaction design
and the interests of an international community of practitioners, managers,
educators, and students of interaction design. Our organization¹s goals are
- Communicate the unique perspective that interaction design brings
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Hot Links: Dallas City Hall, CPS cases not done yet
In fact, as today's stories remind us, we've got a ways to go until these big news events conclude.
1. As a now-convicted Don Hill wonders why jurors and God did not "give us this one," I wondered when the other public official enmeshed in the FBI's bribery investigation will go on trial. The News' Gromer Jeffers Jr. happened to report today that the judge is asking about possible courts dates for State Rep. Terri Hodge (shown at right). Meanwhile, it appears some are already trying to undercut her 2010 re-election opponent. Their argument: He's too educated.
2. On the list of people who can consistently strike fear into Child Protective Services, state Sen. Jane Nelson has got to be near the very top. She has long led reform efforts targeting the agency. Now she is questioning whether four recent deaths of children while under CPS' watch, including that of an Arlington toddler, is a broader pattern, report The News' Brooks Egerton and Scott Goldstein.
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Enstrom's Candy has given quite the gift to the community Wednesday.
The local candy supplier has donated about 20,000 pounds of toffee to the Salvation Army and other charitable organizations.
This is about $400,00 worth of its famous toffee.
Enstrom's said its sales this year were down and they had a lot of toffee left over so they decided to make lemonade from its lemons.
The Salvation Army went around to various charitable organizations like Catholic Outreach, the soup kitchen and Food Bank Of The Rockies to distribute it.
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What the government is doing is asking people to pay for spectrum on the basis of the auction-determined price. No player wants their excess spectrum re-auctioned. (But) you cannot continue a system where you under-price something and therefore, somebody gets rich. That's just not possible.
ET: Do you think it could be difficult to meet the timelines set by the Supreme Court for the auctions, given the industry's reservations and slower decision-making at the Centre?


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Wonderful Heritage Brochure Reveals Youghal's Fascinating Past
– By Christy Parker
A NEW SOUVENIR BOOKLET tracing Youghal's rich heritage is set to inform and delight visitors to the town. For that matter it makes a wonderful reading inducement for locals as well, it being a fair bet that most of us traverse our local streets as oblivious to the historical significance of our surroundings as a bookie to a begging bowl.
Youghal Heritage Trail was researched and written by historian, retired headmaster, marathon cyclist and all round knowledgeable bloke, Kieran Groeger. "The idea for the book arose when representatives from the Youghal 4 All group and the Chamber of Commerce and Tourism tour guide training, particularly with a view to greeting coach tours, some months ago," Kieran explains. "The Chamber asked me to prepare some scripts and over time it evolved into booklet material that is, I hope, a helpful accompaniment and souvenir for tourists taking the town's Heritage Walk." The budget behind the six-week enterprise, he adds, was "precisely nothing but time and effort."
So much….
The work comprises 28 pages of intriguing facts, legends and anecdotes detailing centuries of deaths, births, marriages, skulduggery, revolt, conspiracies, achievements, tragedies, disasters, treachery, more marriages, slaughter, farce, greed, ambition, failure, yet more murders, unbelievable cruelty, revenge, religion, hope and survival with a cast ranging from nobility to poor, famous to infamous, stranger to invader, traitor to local; our ancestors basically. Youghal, the reader may surmise having read it, has quietened down a lot.
Delivered throughout in a chatty, informal, colloquial style, the wonderfully illustrated booklet leads us from the Market Square (Page 3) through the town and back to the Mall Arts Centre/Town Hall (Page 28) En route we encounter such notable (or notorious) company as Youghal 'witch' Florence Newton, Suffragette Anna Haslam, Fr. Peter O'Neill, Walter Raleigh, Cromwell, the Red House ghost, the Quakers, Danny 'Dúis' McCarthy, the Boyle family and Shakespeare. Oh, and Pat Lynch of –and because of- Fox's Lane Museum. They pages pause to consider landmarks like the old Courthouse, St. Mary's Collegiate Chapel, the Priory, Myrtle Grove, the Town Walls, the Alms Houses and St. Mary's Catholic Church. The reader further encounters Youghal Lace, the civil war, duels, floggings, hangings and soup kitchens. There are small advertisements too, from times and places long past, to remind us how Youghal once echoed to the quaint and curious.
Within the generalisations lie gems of beguilement such as these:
• The Courthouse was built during the Great Famine (there were other, lesser famines too) as part of Relief Works for people to earn money to buy food.
• Gulliver's Travels author Dean Swift lived in Youghal occasionally.
• In 1302 local merchant John Don had his wife's lover Stephen O'Regan captured and castrated. O'Reagan sued for "loss of yearnings," won the case and was awarded £20.
• Youghal nuns and 60 skilled lace makers worked, -in pre-electricity times- for a combined total of 90,020 hours to make the train Coronation dress train for Queen Mary in 1911. It was considered "the most magnificent example of Irish needlepoint lace ever seen."
• Floggings took place at the Clock Gate. A whip usually comprised nine pieces of leather with little knots. Following the 1798 rebellion particularly, hundreds, or even thousands, of lashes might be administered, "each pulling a bit of skin off the body." The screams would echo throughout the town. Women and children were tied to the back of a cart and dragged through the streets and flogged to the beat of a little drummer boy.
• Two friends, Anthony Watters and Hercules Langrishe fought a duel after arguing over a sugar bowl at breakfast. Watters killed Langrishe but they are buried side by side in St. Mary's Collegiate Church. Duels took place outside town –at the Ferry Point, Rhincrew and Clifden.
• In 1709 a Mr Spratt a renowned troublemaker called Mr Spratt was thrown off the town walls and killed while very drunk. Several people were tried for his murder. Two said they would have liked to have killed him but another said he had followed the deceased's brother for two miles and "would have murdered him too if he had been able to overtake him." All were acquitted.
• The Red House ghost is considered a gentle spirit who "leaves people with a sense of well- being and peace." Occasionally she also allegedly tidies up and lays out people's clothing for the next day.
• The Alms Houses doors are so small because Richard Boyle, who had them constructed, wanted people to bow in recognition that they were poor.
• Boyle was "repulsive, greedy, unbelievably wealthy" and the father of 16 children, some of whom he didn't see for years on end. He arranged marriages for his daughters from the age of six and had them shipped off to her prospective in-laws!
• The Quakers meeting house is in Ashe Street near St. Mary's Catholic Church. One of the Suffragette's founding members was Youghal-born Quaker Anna Haslam (nee Fisher). Living very nearby was Fr. Keller, a jailed hero who fought the Protestant landlords against unfair rents and won. Keller absolutely loathed suffragettes.
• William Shakespeare "probably" visited Youghal as his theatre company three times travelled from Bristol to perform here. He was also a friend of Walter Raleigh and of the poet Edmund Spencer, who both lived here. A former harbour Master of Youghal was one Thomas "Shakespere" from Bristol.
• In 1921, in Youghal: there were five trains running daily to Cork; a ferry every half hour to Ferrypoint; a butter market every Saturday; a livestock market once a month; two picture palaces; 12 hotels; 15 bakers; Hot Sea and Turkish baths at the Mall; War of Independence raids on houses; an IRA bomb that killed seven and injured 25 unarmed bandsmen from the 2nd Hampshire Regiment as they marched down the New Line towards Claycastle.
• A selection of "Small Ads from Times Past" requests 'A young Protestant and needle woman of strict honesty, sobriety, good temper and cleanliness' to mind four children. There is notice given also that Paddy Maher's "Select" Bar (now the Point) stocked "Only Drinks of the Highest Quality!"
• On this page too, readers/visitors are urged, "Don't leave without meeting Bill French (Church Street), local guide and historian. Conducted tours to places of historic interest by appointment." And that, I suppose is what is called coming full circle.
Youghal Heritage Trail –Souvenir Booklet is available from Cree's and Youghal Tourist Office. Price: €4.
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Despite the fact that most Americans, now that they've had a year to assess the TSA's scope-and-grope procedures, are opposed to the strip-search scanners, and despite the fact that the TSA has already spent billions on them (at $150,000 to $180,000 a pop), the agency has just announced that it is increasing the number of scanners in airports and outfitting some of them with this newfangled ATR — Automated Target Recognition — software.
ATR is the software that presents so-called Gumby or stick-figure images instead of the anatomically graphic images that the machines have been presenting heretofore. As described by TSA spokesperson Pat Ahlstrom, the original images — and the ones still seen on machines that don't have ATR — are "graphic, no doubt about it."
So far, ATR is being installed only on millimeter wave scanners, not backscatter, or x-ray, scanners. The latter have raised health concerns among scientists, physicians, and passengers because they haven't been rigorously tested. (Then again, neither have the millimeter wave scanners.)
And don't forget — as has been reported countless times and admitted by TSA administrator John Pistole himself, just because you go through the scanner doesn't mean you won't also be pulled aside for a grope. The two aren't mutually exclusive.
So next time you go to the airport and stand in line at the checkpoint, get ready for your close-up! You might be able to see your own Gumbified image on the screen right in front of you. Unless you're forced through a backscatter machine, in which case your privates are anything but to a TSA agent sitting in an undisclosed location.
Sorry we can't reveal it — that would be SSI.
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Valdosta, GA - Valdosta State suffered its first loss in its inaugural season when the Blazers fell to Tampa, 5-1, to stand at 4-1 on the season.
The Spartans brought a barrage of shots from the beginning, notching 13 shots in the first period and six in the second for a total of 19 to Valdosta State's four, two of which were on goal.
Goalkeeper Olivia Mills saw her first challenge in goal and she responded with six saves, but Tampa placed 11 on goal with the first coming just five minutes into the match.
Jazmin Perry scored her fourth goal of the season off a rebound on Samantha Kay's shot. Just over 15 minutes later, Gabby Russo put one in the top left corner from Brittan Spence, then Spence finished Tampa's scoring with a hat trick.
She scored once before the first half to claim a 3-0 lead. Marta Bertsos found Spence on a breakaway for Spence's second goal of the season. Spence opened the second half with a goal from Alyson Gregorowicz in the 54th minute. Two minutes later, Spence finished a Charlotte White cross for the 5-0 lead.
Valdosta State, determined not to be shut out, scored in the 71st minute. Morgan Cutts, one of four players to record a shot, finished to put Valdosta State on the board. But it was not enough.
Other shooters for VSU on the night included Abbi Edwards, Lauren Ingram and Emily Cooper, who had the other shot on goal.
Valdosta State will look to rebound against Barry on Sunday at 12 p.m.


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A Decade of Decay
The current stock market slump caps a string of letdowns in the years since 1999
Don't look now, but we're putting the final touches on the market's Lost Decade, the worst showing for U.S. stocks since the Great Depression. That's right. Call off the dogs. Send in the clowns. Color me presumptuous, arrogant, and ignorant of history. But the facts have my back.
We kicked off the millennium with an all-time high for the Standard & Poor's 500-stock index, capping a remarkable 18-year stretch. A $10,000 investment in 1982 ballooned to a quarter-million by 2000. Bartenders and manicurists played the pink sheets. In Cisco (CSCO) we trusted. Even Tony Soprano's wife watched CNBC.
Then came dot-bomb, September 11, Enron, WorldCom, and Adelphia. Shareholders discovered CEOs had fleeced them for $6,000 shower curtains and anatomically functional ice sculptures. The Nasdaq, the index of our New Economy hopes and dreams, crashed. Heartbroken and betrayed, we fled to seemingly stable real estate.
Despite Iraq and a quadrupling of oil prices, the S&P eventually revisited its peak in 2007. Emboldened, the pros urged us to buy Citigroup (C), arguing it couldn't possibly get any cheaper. They swore that retiring baby boomers would covet the dividends of large-caps. They said real estate would neatly hand the baton back to stocks.
What they forgot to mention was that subprime would whack the market right back down. The index's average annual gains of 1.7% for the decade are the worst since the 1930s. Sure, we've got two more years to go. But 2008 has already opened with the biggest one-day drop in 25 years. And just a week into January the market gave back all its gains from 2007.
In all, the S&P 500 would have to surge a total of 54% by 2010 for the decade merely to match the lowly 1970s. Back then, when stagflation, gas lines, and Barry Gibb's mane dominated the zeitgeist, the market returned an average 5.8% a year. The current decade's gains lag even those of the 1940s—marred by Nazi marauding, Pearl Harbor, and Hiroshima.
Granted, there have been bright spots. U.S. small caps picked up much of the slack from their bigger brethren. And emerging markets have never had it so good.
But mom and pop aren't having any of it. Investor sentiment is actually lower than it was at the market's panicky bottom in 2002. Indexes made new records just months ago, doubling from their trough. Great! But some $54 billion still fled U.S. stock funds last year. And retail money market funds collected more money than any other asset category; overall, trillions of dollars now sit parked in cash. Citigroup's dividend may be in jeopardy these days, but the National Bank of Tempur-Pedic has a cushy balance sheet, thank you.
With the "R" word front and center, lots of "rational" investors are quaking in fear—blindly stockpiling gold and willingly accepting Treasuries at yields so low that they're actually negative after inflation and taxes. By way of comparison, U.S. equities sport an average earnings yield (profits divided by price) nearly double that of government bonds. Financial consultancy Trend Macrolytics notes that this disparity between Treasuries and U.S. stocks is the widest it has been since 1983, a signal that shares could be significantly undervalued.
And stay tuned: The Federal Reserve is likely to cut interest rates even more, depressing bond yields further and making it increasingly masochistic to stick with cash. "The falling yields are a big safety net for stocks," says market strategist Jason Trennert of research firm Strategas Research Partners. "It makes them far cheaper than bonds."
The smart money isn't holed up like the rest of us. The rarefied likes of Warren Buffett and Citadel's Ken Griffin are plowing capital into equities, particularly financials, ground zero for the subprime meltdown. Sovereign wealth funds are on the prowl. And foreign companies are wheeling and dealing. They accounted for nearly half of U.S. mergers and acquisitions in the last quarter of 2007. If we don't eat our home cooking, others will.
But it's your party, and you can cry if you want to. Stuff that mattress. Burn those unopened brokerage statements. Exile your 401(k) login to the Siberia of your subconscious. Go ahead and write off the market for the next 24 months. This decade is a lost cause.
For all our sakes, I hope I'm wrong.


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These two things happened in the same week.
On Monday, Obama rolled out his Atrocities Prevention Board. While in reality, this appears an excuse to sanction Israel's enemies, in theory at least, it's an initiative to find alternative tools to prevent the massacres of women and … children.
Obama put Samantha Power in charge of this effort.
On Thursday, Obama's Labor Department withdrew rules designed to prevent kids under the age of 16 from being paid to perform dangerous farm jobs.
Obama's equivocations regarding imposing limits on businesses are usually attributed to Samantha Power's husband, Cass Sunstein.
It must take a lot of effort for this power couple, working so hard to help and hurt kids all in one week.
What a beautiful couple. I hope they name their first child Signature Strike Sunstein.
Has anyone asked the President, or Sunstein, why they've declared a war on children? Given that the President's prior remarks re: the birth control debate, did anyone ask him how he'd like it if his kids lost an arm or a leg in a farm accident that could have been prevented?
U.S. Department of Labor – Wage and Hour Division (WHD) – Child Labor – Notice of Proposed Rulemaking to Amend the Child Labor in Agriculture Regulations
parental exemption allows children of any age who are employed by their parent, or a person standing in the place of a parent, to perform any job on a farm owned or operated by their parent or such person standing in the place of a parent. The re-proposal process will seek comments and inputs as to how the department can comply with statutory requirements to protect children, while respecting rural traditions.
Thomas Hobbes voiced the stark traditional English view of the legal status of children: "For the child like the imbecile and the crazed beast there is no law."
Children therefore, whether they be brought up and preserved by the father, or by the mother, or by whom- soever, are in most absolute subjection to him or her, that so bringeth them up, or preserveth them. And they may alienate them, that is, assign his or her do- minion, by selling, or giving them, in adoption or servi- tude to others; or may pawn them for hostages, kill them for rebellion, or sacrifice them for peace, by the law of nature, when he or she, in his or her conscience, think it to be necessary. —The Elements of Law 23.8 (EW 4 157)
To paraphrase F. Scott Fitzgerald,
The test of first rate Villagers is the ability to hold two opposed ideas in the mind at the same time.
Child farm labor takes a heavy toll worldwide the "family Exemption" is reprehensible.
US Department of Labor
Office of Child Labor, Forced Labor, and Human Trafficking (OCFT)
By the Sweat & Toil of Children (Volume V)
Efforts to Eliminate Child Labor
U.S. Department of Labor
Bureau of International Labor Affairs
Chapter 2 excerpts:
Work hazards affect children to a greater degree than adults, in some cases causing irreversible harm to their physical development, with serious consequences for their futures.13 For one, children beginning work at a young age have a longer period of exposure to cumulative hazards. Carrying heavy loads or adopting unnatural positions during work can permanently distort or disable a child's growing body. Working children often grow up to be smaller than their counterparts who have attended school.14 Children are particularly vulnerable to accidents since they are often unaware of the dangers or precautions to be taken at work.15 Safety equipment designed for adults often does not fit children, and tools and equipment designed for adults are difficult for children to handle.16
More of the world's working children are employed in agriculture than in any other sector.
Children often begin work in the agricultural sector at a very young age and perform a variety of tasks related to the planting and harvesting of crops. They work, often along with their parents, in subsistence (purely family-based), small-holder, and commercial farming.36 As described below, the dangers faced by children working in agriculture are manifold. Their work frequently interferes with their education,
This report was produced by the staff of the International Child Labor Program and is published by the U.S. Department of Labor, Bureau of International Labor Affairs.
Isn't that a typo? Shouldn't it be Atrocity Promotion Board?
i don't know about now, but not so many years ago far labor was the most dangerous job category for children under 18.
farming, and i think commercial fishing, also happen to be among the most dangerous for adults. the ubiquitous tractor and attachments gets a lot of credit here.
sounds like the dept of labor may have held onto the proposed rules to kill them. the white house may then have sent their letter feigning concern to the dol to mollify supporters of the ban.
i can say one thing from experience, small family farms can't thrive without the labor of the family's children.
bls report i copped from the daily beast which keeps track of this stuff:
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maybe milk and eggs ain't as cheap as you thought.
@orionATL: When I was 13 I was driving my grand uncle's tractor on his small dairy spread in Snohomish Washington. I was told to turnoff the engine and leave it in gear when I climbed down to open the gate. There was a sort of a parking brake but he warned me not to trust it…
Well he was right. As I reached the gate I heard the brake pop. I risked my life to stop the runaway tractor; I ran after it as it rolled backwards down the hill toward the creek, I was able run and grab the steering wheel and pull myself up into the seat and stop it. I was scared and never told anybody.
Recently here in Sonoma, another 13 year old wasn't so lucky-
David Yenni of Sonoma's Boy Scout Troop 16, releases a dove during a Memorial Day Observance in Sonoma, Monday May 25, 2009.
By PAUL PAYNE
Published: Wednesday, August 12, 2009 at 10:16 a.m.
Last Modified: Wednesday, August 12, 2009 at 10:16 a.m.
David Yenni, the 13-year-old from Schellville who was killed in a grain loading accident, was remembered by friends Wednesday as an avid Boy Scout with a wry sense of humor.
Human Rights Watch:
Agriculture is the most dangerous occupation open to children in the United States. Children work with sharp tools, heavy machinery, and dangerous chemicals, and die at four times the rate of other young workers. Yet they can legally do hazardous work in agriculture from which they would be banned by law in any other industryb
People who use censorship to protect themselves from the emotions that their obtuse opinions and ignorance create have no business commenting on the atrocity field. If you can't stand being told you have a tin ear for the suffering of the world, then you shouldn't write opinion pieces damning others on their attempts to stop atrocities.
You have a tin ear for the suffering of the world.
Sunstein in charge of child labor? Does that make him the new employment czar? Will he reform, instead, child labor practices in the US, including its notorious Pacific islands? Or will he make one of those island prime ministers his chief of staff, which would be truer to form for this administration?
Mr. Bush was pilloried by the Democrats, to little avail, for his astoundingly hypocritical behavior. Mr. Obama is hailed by them for it. Surely, it's time for the Nobel Committee to award Mr. Obama a new World Employment Prize. It would be as deserved as his peace prize.
That "tin ear" you imagine is really Mr. Obama's tin drum. He is banging away at it, purportedly in pursuit of reform, the way he banged away at it when he called to electioneering arms those who wanted humanitarian civil reform as an antidote to the brutal excesses of CheneyBush.
Mr. Obama's record of hypocrisy does not entitle him to the benefit of the doubt, let alone that his works be taken for face value rather than ironically. His performance routinely belies his promises in ways that only Karl Rove could admire.
@earlofhuntingdon: Oh, really?
And what benefit of the doubt is it to which you are entitled? Get out a map of Africa, of Cambodia, of wherever, and look at the places that were mentioned in their announcement. Then get another map and look at the criticisms in the essay above. Match the numbers of dead, if you can, you hypocritical nag.
The times I run face into the atrocities that are enumerated in the Obama speech are precisely those nights on which I know in advance I won't be sleeping. I have no reason at all to forgive you for ignoring them. I forgive others, but others don't laugh at people who try to raise awareness of them or do something about them.
So go bang your drum all you like. You won't convince anyone you care when you can't add up the numbers and you deny people the opportunity to try to stop violence against hundreds of thousands or millions on the basis of fifties or hundreds, however legitimate the claim may be. Make your claim and then either lead, follow, or get out of the way. But never obstruct, and for god's sake don't catcall. And never, ever make the ridiculous statement that someone has no right to call out an atrocity. The silence here and elsewhere on the supposedly progressive or whatever it fancies itself blogosphere after the verdict yesterday speaks volumes on the humanitarian illiteracy of the threadbare minds.
A little convenient world divided into two parts by a fantasy of imperialism and a thousand Saints George rushing to rescue the fair damsel of liberty from the fire breather. Trampled underfoot are the people who die in conflicts and atrocities more complex than fer em or agin em U.S. politics.
@ondelette: There is not a catcall here against Power. It is a fact that the initiative rolled out on Monday targets only Israel's enemies in the ME and not–as I have noted–Bahrain, which is a much more urgent problem than Iran right now.
But as I also note here Power's larger program is about finding better tools to stop atrocities. There was no catcall there.
In fact, this entire post would be nonsensical if I weren't relying on the illogic of Power working to save children while her husband worked to ensure they remain exposed to accidents.
I'm sorry if you didn't understand that.
thanks for sharing that story..
when i typed some of the above, i was thinking of two such incidents involving me.
in this first, a couple of farm hands i was tagging along with decided it would be fun to let me "drive" the tractor. they let climb me on the seat and helped me to get it rolling – at a very low speed. then one of the bastards thought it would be fun to turn the handle that was the throttle wide to open. the tractor took off bumping across the field. somehow i figured – guessed is more like it – to put my feet on clutch and brakes. my legs were barely long enough to reach them. i might have been 10.
in another, my own doing as a 13 yr old, i decided the side of a rocky hill that was never mowed needed tidying up. i hooked up the mower and went to work. at some point i started straight up the slope. the front wheels began to rise and rise some more. again, without knowing what i was doing, i hit the clutch and the machine drifted back and settled back to ground. i went home.
as you say, many, children included, have not been so lucky. a friend of a cousin was killed when his tractor fell on top of him as he tried to lift a dead cow with a front-end loader.
i was looking thru the bls stats and noticed how many injuries there were for dairying and also for grain operations.
"…Human Rights Watch:
Agriculture is the most dangerous occupation open to children in the United States. Children work with sharp tools, heavy machinery, and dangerous chemicals, and die at four times the rate of other young workers. Yet they can legally do hazardous work in agriculture from which they would be banned by law in any other industry…"
that comment or one like it is what i was recalling in my initial comment.
"oil seed and grain production" was one of the very high incidence agricultural categories i mentioned in my response to you.
another high category ("mine") was "dairy cattle and milk production".
and these stats are not limited to children but include all workers. stats involving children say 10-18 yrs might be much higher.
Where I used to live in West Texas, one of the local farmers fell off his tractor onto a slab of concrete some months back. It wasn't clear if he managed to get up and get back home, or if he called someone, but he spent some time in the regional hospital for a fractured skull – and he's lucky he's alive.
I've heard also of people being killed when the tractor rolled over and landed on them. And everyone gets told to turn the engine off and pocket the key before working on any kind of powered machine, even a lawn mower, because otherwise you can't guarantee it won't start while you have a hand in it. (Cotton strippers and combines have chains that pull the plants in and effectively shred them.)
If you say so. Personally, I still read your column as a swipe at both husband and wife and at Obama. You're almost as good as Greenwald at trying to weasel out of having said the opposite of what you're now claiming. You called it a program for screwing Israel's enemies and only an atrocity program in theory. I'd call that a catcall.
Some of us have to confront the results of atrocities from time to time. Did you know that unlike when you read about them, when they are absorbed by a human-to-human interface, it's about guaranteed you won't sleep for a while, possibly just feel like staring at nothing for hour after hour? And it's just secondary stress.
Pay attention to the list and stop trying to find a vulgar ulterior motive for everything. Go meet somebody from those places and stop all this incessant hammering on nits. It's totally infuriating that no one can do anything without you showing up with a secondary explanation and a list of things you want done first. I gave you my list, most of the casualties and atrocities had figures in the 10^5 to 10^6 approaching 10^7 range. NO we don't have to stop in our tracks to answer your "scores", first. You've never answered us.
@ondelette: I don't think that EW is the one with the tin ear. Her ears seem in pretty good shape, to me. Cut out the ad hominem, Ondelette. It does you no good.
Bob in AZ
@Bob Schacht: I call 'em the way I see 'em. I'm not interested in the good I do to myself. I'm interested in seeing that atrocities stop happening. Someone who thinks that making fun of a program to stop them is the right response deserves what they get. Maybe, just maybe, the response will more clearly point out that we do need some attempt to stop the atrocities next time.
Or maybe not. But blog columnists who are way too shielded from criticism by censorship and protective commenters shouldn't lob bombs at humanitarian initiatives without something constructive to say.
@P J Evans:" Turn off the engine and pocket the key." Good advice, but my point was that you can't count on a 13 year old boy to take good advice.
Samantha Power is a "Hawk" who helped win the war in Libya.
But although she is an expert on Genocide, she has not noticed the genocide in Irak and Afghanistan. Then she also married Cass Sunstein who regularly commits crimes. And Sunstein is part of the Government's Police State and censorship program. Remember everything is censored, including the damage from the BP Gulf pollution. Samantha is a shill, same as her husband.
The conflict between helping and hurting children, affects most parents of teenagers …
*Ducks and runs*
Well shucks, Marcy … I guess we finally found someone smarter than you, who also fact-checks her/his opinions. /s
@P J Evans: "…I've heard also of people being killed when the tractor rolled over and landed on them…. "
A prominent example was Doc Watson's son, Merle, who until then had always accompanied Doc on stage with his guitar, until the tractor rollover killed him. Doc still performs, without his son, but Merle is sorely missed.
Bob in AZ
@Frank33: Wanna back some of your shit up?
Let's start with genocide. Do you know the definition of genocide? Can you prove genocide in Iraq and Afghanistan? Be my guest, please lay it out, right here, right now. We can bring the case to the ICC. Any person may bring such a case to the Office of the Prosecutor, and any such genocide case compels the Security Council to act under a treaty signed 3 hours before the Universal Declaration of Human Rights. So if you've got the case, I know the address, and we can file it right away. We didn't get them to take our case the first time, but I'm sure you can enlist some real firepower here, much better than me, real lawyers and shit. You're so sure.
There is a case in the Sudan, though. That's one of the places I mentioned to EW before she deleted my comment. Not to mention that some indictments are already issued. In fact, there's probably a case for the Nuba mountains, right now this very moment. It's one of those atrocities that the new group is formed to try to deal with, I bet. There's a provincial governor and a commanding general on tape (go look it up on al Jazeera) giving orders for no quarters for military and civilians, a.k.a. "scorched earth." That's illegal under any regime of international law you like and a possible case for genocide, because it looks to fit the "intent to destroy in whole or in part" test.
But, hell, probably just an Israeli agenda or a shill or something. The women and children are hiding in the caves in the hills with no food, because the bombers are killing anything that moves, and some of the children are in a refugee camp just over the border. UNHCR can't convince them to move further from the border so it can't properly feed and sustain them, because they want to stay there so they can move back again because, well, they're children and they are too young to leave home. The older kids looking after the younger ones. 2,000 of them. But the hell with it, not our problem, there isn't an anti-Obama gong to bang here, nothing to see, move on.
Exposing some of these things to the cold light of international attention really helps, but how often do you write about it?
It's more important to scream about Samantha Power and Libya. I took no stance on Libya, other than that we were not informed well enough before the Security Council acted, and I continue that position. I explained at the time on FDL that I had to do that for my own reasons.
Believing that there was an impending genocide in Libya wouldn't make someone a hawk, as multiple neutral organizations believed that. Believing in R2P also does not, unless the entire UN GA is a hawk, since it was adopted twice — by a body that rejected the 'Right to Interfere', France's (Koechner's) original proposition. It's a more complicated doctrine than just an excuse to go to war, the "Responsibility" in most cases, is that of the state itself, not others. So I would be careful before deciding that on the basis of Libya, the group put together by the Administration necessarily sees a military solution to atrocities. Especially right after they have been handed an example (Syria) in which a military solution cannot possibly work.
"Do you know the definition of genocide? " Yes.
"Can you prove genocide in Iraq and Afghanistan? " Yes. There was ten years of sanctions against Irak. Then a criminal war, based on lies. During this war toxic products, weapons such as depleted uranium will kill for decades. In Afghanistan, we have ten years of murder by drones and bombs.
"There is a case in the Sudan, though." Linkies? What would that be? Another war, added to Libya, Yemen, and what other wars are there. It is hard to keep count. There are only a finite number of wars that I can afford to pay for. So prioritize your favorite wars and make a list of the most necessary.
"I took no stance on Libya, other than that we were not informed well enough"
None of us are well informed about any of this because it is all TOP SECRET. Why should we believe Samantha. She is part of Total Information Disinformation. Samantha did marry a truly evil man. That is plenty of proof she is just another dee cee neo-con.
Liberal interventionists like Powers are just Neocon-lite.
@Frank33: You haven't proved a thing. You need to prove, if you actually read what I wrote, "intent to destroy, in whole or in part a national, racial, ethnical, or religious group". So go prove it, lay it out in detail.
What case would there be in the Sudan? Go look it up in the news, it's been in the news, or don't you read the news? Look up the Nuba Mountains. Look up South Kordofan. Look up Blue Nile. Look up Yida refugee camp. I told you where the videotape could be found, if you couldn't find it, here's the link:
Evidence of "intent to destroy in whole or in part". See? Did you know that law is done by evidence? Not by yelling and screaming at the person you've framed in your head as some kind of conspirator? I'm not a conspirator. I want people like those shown in the video arrested and brought before a court. Do we understand each other? The man in the video perpetrates atrocities. Do you understand what atrocities are?
We should see what her group comes up with. Do you understand her resume? She has worked in a lot of places where there are very complicated situations of violence. With the right team and the right motivation she might come up with something. Right now, we don't have a plan, so when atrocities start, the only people with a stack of paper on the table are the military. If you want to see something different, we need to start somewhere.
There have been some changes over the past few years, and the civilians have encountered some things to give them reason to work on their strategies. USAID is beginning to recover from having Bush dismantle them. The notion of running all of our relief aid out of our farm subsidies is running into stiff international opposition. The rest of the world is formulating climate change strategies. So this is a good time to be working on an initiative like this.
So let's at least see what they have before trying to stop them. Because if some jerk like you stops them and they would have done some good, I call it that you get the blood on your hands and I'm not going to let you wash them and go on to the next topic to yell about. I promise.
Your struggles against genocide are admirable. I wish I was wrong that Power has done little to stop genocide. But you have not provided much information that she has actually done anything. We would like to believe this President is not a murderous psychopath. But he is and Power is supporting him. I was disappointed time and time again by the Hope and Change Administration, but not anymore because they always choose violence and secrecy.
As for the Sudan, do you want US soldiers put in harm's way there. And some may be fatalities? Is it worth that much? But with the manipulation of facts, why should we believe anyone in Government about the Sudan or about anything. Wikileaks, showed the US Government ALWAYS LIES. If Sudan has raw materials worth stealing, then there will be a military intervention.
@ondelette you are so out of your element, you little Stockholm Syndrome sufferer, that you should just shut your mouth, walk outside, and shut the door quietly behind you. There was NO chance of genocide in Libya. Samantha Powers cares not one whim about genocide. She only cares about crying genocide when it is in the direct interest of the 1%. Libya, ironically, is experiencing genocide, but this time by the rebels that NATO supported. An entire town of 30,000 black Africans in Libya has been looted, demolished, and thousands massacred by the Libyan transitional army. Oh, BTW hard core jihadists now control large sections of Libya, which wasn't true when Gadaffi was in power. So not only are you and your idiot heroes responsible for real ethnic cleansing bordering on genocide, you're going to be responsible for the degradation of women and children by Islamic jihadists for decades to come. Pat yourself of the back, you vile anti-human, you should be so proud.
You and Bernard Henry Levi and Samantha Powers need to grow up and read some books. You support a leader who has destabilized an entire nation with NO PLAN to win the peace. Fools like you jumped into Libya head first without even thinking about the outcome, just like George W Bush did.
@ondelette: Oh, and I've got news for you. Obama is buddy buddy with the Sudanese government. There's a reason why no one gave a crap about Darfur, and official US foreign policy to the Sudanese government is one of them.


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Sales tax dip has Brownwood officials closely watching budget
BROWNWOOD, Texas - Sales tax collections are down in Brownwood, while much of the state is experiencing increases.
That has gotten the attention of Brownwood business owners and city leaders.
Normally, February is the month for sales tax numbers to be up, because it represents Christmas sales in December.
This year, however, that's not the case.
According to the city, sales tax revenue is down nearly 2 percent compared to this time last year, putting the city's budget down about 5 percent overall.
"We budgeted just a minimum 2 percent increase," City Manager Bobby Rountree said.
The city now plans to take steps to recover the budget.
"We'll look at our capital purchases, our large items. We'll just hold off, we'll postpone purchasing those and we'll see how the sales tax goes," Rountree said.
Wally's Card and Party Factory in Brownwood noticed the decrease in sales around Christmas.
"It was down compared to last year, going through the computers and checking the numbers. It's just customer count is less and the dollars they're sending are less," store manager Margaret McGuire said.
Is there a reason why spending has been more conservative this year?
"We've kind of kicked that around, and of course, it was right after the presidential election, and quite frankly there might be a lot more online shopping that goes on," Rountree said.
Whatever the reason, the city and Wally's Card and Party Factory are optimistic sales will turn around.
For the 2012/2013 fiscal year, the city of Brownwood has received nearly $1.9 million in sales tax after it budgeted nearly $2 million, putting the city about 4.8 percent under budget.


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GM and Coskata: Detroit's Biofuel Bet
The General wants to quell grumbling in the ranks. It may get more.
General Motors, like the rest of Detroit, has come under siege for producing thirstier vehicles than most European or Asian rivals (or even its own European brands). In response, GM has counter-attacked with a new website (GMnext) meant to quell consumer unrest and show where it's headed. The web's innaugural session directly addressed consumer concerns the auto giant is "greenwashing" its image. Tomorrow, the second web chat will feature GM's latest hoped-for silver bullet: ethanol producer Coskata.
GM's tie-up last month with Coskata grabbed headlines at the Detroit Auto Show. It also shows how much Detroit wants to put the onus for tackling environmental challenges anywhere other than inside its own cars.
For a few hundred dollars, auto makers can make regular vehicles "flex-fuel," or capable of running on a mix of gasoline and ethanol. Vehicles like that are considered "alternative-fuel vehicles" even if they're never filled with anything other than gasoline. GM wants half its fleet to be flex-fuel by 2012—coincidentally, about the same time it expects Coskata to begin seriously producing. That emphasis helps put the burden for reducing America's gasoline consumption outside Detroit—specifically, in Warrenville, Ill.
That's home to Coskata, which promises $1-a-gallon ethanol from all kinds of waste material. It has backers like Vinod Khosla, and so-called cellulosic ethanol wins environmental plaudits where first-generation ethanol made from corn or other plants doesn't. The recent energy bill mandates the production of 21 billion gallons of advanced ethanol by 2020, though none is yet commercially available. Coskata, for one, hasn't started production yet—or even built a plant. That's led to plenty of skepticism about its three-step gasification process and cheap ethanol hype.
Tomorrow's chat will be an opportunity for GM and Coskata to tackle those doubters head-on: The chat, with Coskata's vice-president for product development Wes Bolsen, is open to the public.