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Bryan Caplan's latest post at Econlog draws a damning portrait of John, the political activist, who neglects his family to pursue his activism.
After a while, though, you start to wonder about John. How does he hold down a job? You soon discover that John lost his job years ago – and hasn't bothered to find another. Anytime John gets a little money, he spends it on bus tickets, computer upgrades, and other activist paraphernalia. As a result, his children are hungry and ragged. When criticized, John angrily responds, "I'm too busy fighting tyranny to feed my family."
I think you'll agree that John is a terrible human being. Why? Because his priorities are demented. Political activism is a luxury. Before you engage in this luxury, you must satisfy your basic responsibilities to provide for yourself and your family.
And Caplan goes on to persuasively argue that we should apply this same line of thinking to those who would like to leave their war-torn, or impoverished, or politically oppressive countries and come to the United States–rather than arguing that they should stay home and try to fix it. (Bryan doesn't mention it, but you could make the same argument about moving your kids out of failing school and into a more successful one.)
It's a great blogpost, and well worth your time, and it caught my attention because Charles Dickens explored this same kind of "political activist who neglects the family" character in his novel Bleak House. Mrs. Jellyby "is a lady of very remarkable strength of character who devotes herself entirely to the public. She has devoted herself to an extensive variety of public subjects, at various times, and is at present (until something else attracts her) devoted to the subject of Africa; with a view to the general cultivation of the coffee berry — and the natives — and the happy settlement, on the banks of the African rivers, of our superabundant home population."
She is also a mother who does not notice when her children fall down the stairs, get their heads stuck in railings, or are hungry, dirty, and unloved.
Dickens doesn't use his neglectful activist as a way to critique immigration policy, but as a way to critique the British Empire–so focused on the "White Man's Burden" that it neglects the poor within its borders.
But the message is the same. Political activism is a luxury good.
What if John died fighting ifor the resistance n the Warsaw uprising, or after being struck by a police officer during one of gandhi's peaceful protests, or fighting for the union in the civil war? Isn't volunteering to go into danger and then dying, all for the sake of a political cause, the ultimate in shortchanging your family for politics? Is everyone who has ever done it a terrible human being?
I think Caplan is ignoring the difference between political activism in a democracy, done in service of enacting preferred policy, and political activism in a tyranny, done in service of winning fundamental human rights. People tend to treat the latter as moral regardless of personal or familial cost.
I am not at all sure about whether doing any of those heroic things is really right for married people. It must depend a lot on the details of the particular situation. I think your instinct to praise it is not because the heroism is always correct, but because it is always the duty of outsiders to praise heroes.
Rather I say, the pressure to stay at home will come (rightly!) from the home front, from fearful spouses and bewildered children. But there is another side to that ledger, and it is for us strangers who benefit to honour self sacrifice.
Please, tell me more about how political participation is a luxury fit for people with sufficiently high levels of wealth and income. This is sure to be compelling, and isn't just a transparent bit of sophistry, built on contrived strawmen and tortured simile. No equivocation here.
Sean II
I don't think you understand what "luxury" means, when the term is being used by an economist.
Before wetting your pants about the return of poll taxes and boards of freeholders, you might pause to consider what Caplan actually meant.
Boooring. Income elasticity of demand greater than 1. But please, tell me some more about what I don't know about basic economics.
In any case, neither Caplan nor Skwire are using the term in its economic sense – the propensity to be active is assumed for the purposes of the silly strawmen. Their points don't have anything to do with a descriptive observation about the proportion of resources individuals devote to political activity given different levels of income. They can't even be construed as saying political participation *ought* to be a luxury good – the underlying message appears to be that it's no good at any income.
There's really not much to get in either post. It's some contrived, polemical thought experiments slopped over some gutter sniping about "activists" based on lazy caricatures.
If Caplan wants to say, "If your kid is starving you should earn some money" he can just say that. If he wants to say, "poor people with kids ought to conform to authority lest they risk upsetting their precarious station," he can say that too. I mean, he has no problem making an embarrassment of himself for attention, and he's got a well paid sinecure, so why begrudge him the luxury?
Sean II
Wow. Histrionic is not usually your style. You trying something new for 2014?
In no particular order: a) Caplan is not telling anyone to conform to authority. Putting activism further down on the list of one's preferred good is not the same as becoming a conformist. b) You're ignoring his point about the piss-poor yield of political activism, which is key to the whole argument. c) He pretty clearly was using "luxury good" in its economic sense. d) I'm still not convinced you understand that term as it's used here. e) Why so hostile? Caplan's purpose is to defeat the line of anti-immigration argument which says that a poor Mexican's first duty is to sacrifice his life fighting for a better Mexico. Surely you share that goal with him?
f) Don't be a hypocrite. If you had a close friend among the Syrian rebels, wouldn't you want him to take Caplan's advice…instead of risking his only life to (maybe) topple Assad, so that 18 months later a fresh dictator can emerge from the ashes of some doomed provisional government?
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Wow. Histrionic is not usually your style. You trying something new for 2014?
In no particular order: a) Caplan is not telling anyone to conform to authority. Putting activism further down on the list of one's preferred good is not the same as becoming a conformist. b) You're ignoring his point about the piss-poor yield of political activism, which is key to the whole argument. c) He pretty clearly was using "luxury good" in its economic sense. d) I'm still not convinced you understand that term as it's used here. e) Why so hostile? Caplan's purpose is to defeat the line of anti-immigration argument which says that a poor Mexican's first duty is to sacrifice his life fighting for a better Mexico. Surely you share that goal with him?
f) Don't be a hypocrite. If you had a close friend among the Syrian rebels, wouldn't you want him to take Caplan's advice…instead of risking his only life to (maybe) topple Assad, so that 18 months later a fresh dictator can emerge from the ashes of some doomed provisional government?
If Caplan concludes that political activism is a luxury, I suppose he reaches the wrong conclusion. His analogy seems rather to equate leaving an oppressive state with political activism, and this equation makes perfect sense to me.
If I'm subject to an oppressive state, I can change my state in one of two ways, by trying to reform the state oppressing me or by withdrawing from it and seeking a better life subject to another state. Both acts are political. Both change the state to which I am subject. Is sacrificing to improve a rotten state more noble than depriving the state of a subject? I don't think so.
Of course, withdrawing from a state can also be costly in the short term, but if a person weighing options concludes that withdrawal is less costly than trying to reform an oppressive state, then withdrawal is heroic political activism. Fighting a losing battle is simply foolish.
I agree that we have a special obligation to those closest to us, but I'm not sure you and B.C. have drawn the correct implications. On similar logic, we might also have a more stringent obligation to our friends, neighbors, and even countrymen than to complete strangers living abroad. This could impinge an unrestricted right to immigrate. FWIW, my thought on this here: http://naturalrightslibertarian.com/2012/08/must-libertarians-be-cosmopolitan/.
Mark Rothschild
Mark, you have correctly identified a rather large ethical problem
for some left-libertarians: immigration.
Is restricting who may or may not cross our borders consistent
with libertarianism?
My opinion is that not only is immigration control compatible
with libertarianism, it is inherent, and derived from property rights.
That's ridiculous. You're infringing the natural right to migrate, and the natural right to engage in commerce, and denying your property rights to rent or sell your property to anyone you choose.
Mark Rothschild
The property in question is that part of the earth called
the United States of America, which is the personal property of the American people by devise of an inalienable tenancy in common.
Right. Because your completely incorrect and arbitrary reinvention of a 200 year old contract that says the opposite of what you think trumps hundreds of thousands of years of natural human rights. GOT IT!
Got any better argument?
Mark Rothschild
"200 year old contract"? Not sure what you are referring to.
At issue is the nature of the relationship of the American people to the land. That relationship is (like other human rights) in essence a question of property rights, as I indicated in my post.
United States of America? Constitution? 9th Amendment? 10th Amendment?
In any case, pure possession of land really isn't truly a libertarian thing. But let's make believe it is. I have my land, you have yours. What right do you have to tell me I can't hire someone, or let them live on my land, because they come from another country? If someone wants to come and buy my land, what right does anyone have to tell them they can't? Simple, they don't have the right, they only have the power. Corrupt, inappropriate power. For the same arbitrary reason, we could say that every child born must become a citizen through taxation or some form of trial or be kicked out.
And what if you live in Ohio and it secedes, legally? And the US is okay with it, but now you're not allowed out. You're cut off, none of the other states will do anything but shoot you for trespassing. Think that tramples your human rights a bit? I have a relationship with several pieces of land, but they're not permanent. I've moved over and over. Because that's my natural right. Just as easily, the rest of the world could decide that no American is allowed out of the country. It's all just arbitrary horseshit that infringes on people's rights. By the same token, you could say that you have no right to a firearm in the US because…..it just got decided. And no right to self defense. If someone attacks you, you have to take it until government arrives. Because…..that's the relationship.
If government attacks you, you wait in vain for anyone to arrive, because that's the relationship.
Mark Rothschild
You wrote, "What right do you have to tell me I can't hire someone, or let them live on my land, because they come from another country?"
None, of course. You have the right to hire whomever you please, and you have the right to admit anyone onto your property.
The forgoing is not incompatible with the exclusive right of the American people to the land. This property right is very much like a tenancy in common, where each owner (American) has an undivided, inalienable,
equal heritable interest in the property (America).
Now, the property right in question is not a freehold property right, but a bundle of rights and usufruct that are both precedent to, and a subset of the totality of possible rights. As such, this bundle of rights and usufruct are different and do not compete with your
property rights.
The inalienability of this property right is similar to
other inalienable rights, where the inalienability does not diminish the right. For example, your right to your own life is absolute, but also inalienable.
For example, it would be is inadmissible to sell yourself into slavery, but this does not diminish your absolute property right in yourself.
Yeah….that's all nice and good, but we stole the land from someone else and forgot to check all that horseshit when we did. You can't protect your "right" to "American property" without infringing on my rights as an American and everyone else. Exclusive land rights aren't even remotely libertarian. Discrimination and xenophobia aren't libertarian. Extreme rationalization to the point of turning logic into bullshit isn't libertarian. Call it whatever you want – elitisim, xenophobia, classism, but don't call it libertarian or compatible with libertarianism. You can't call it public property and then say "let me see your papers". You can't call it private property, but decide who qualifies.
Mark Rothschild
You wrote, "Discrimination and xenophobia aren't
Here you are giving voice to a misconception that
libertarianism is a philosophy of life. It is not.
Libertarianism is concerned with the relationship between man and state only. If you want to make claims about the duties of man to man or what anyone should or should not think or feel about other people then you are entitled to do so in the context of moral philosophy or religion, but not in the context of libertarianism.
I think that you are highlighting another problem. It seems
to me that many left-libertarians want to incorporate Christian or democratic morality into their libertarianism.
This is not possible. Now, it is possible to simultaneously hold beliefs about moral duty to your fellow man (e.g. don't hate or despise him because of his identity group), while at the same time being a libertarian. However, when you conflate the two you pollute both.
I am not conflating though i think you are rationalizing nationalism and protectionism for some reason. I am just taking stabs at why. Borders are arbitrary. Human migration is not.
Mark Rothschild
You wrote, "Borders are arbitrary." I'm not sure what you
mean by arbitrary. In any case I am not
advocating or rationalizing any "ism" – only property rights. I am not
surprised that left-libertarians have a problem with these ideas, but I'm glad
we were able to have this discussion without rancor.
Neither left nor right. Open immigration was the paradigm in America for millenia before the US, and 100 years after. Federal immigration control is unconstitutional. Property rights means that I can sell or rent my property to anyone, for any reason. It means I can hire whomever I want to work on my land or for my business. Government telling me that I cannot is an infringment on my rights and that of the other party. It's as simple as that. Further, the purpose of the Federal government WAS to protect the people from military invasion, to protect rights and to promote commerce. NOT to put limits on commerce or tell anyone their rights don't exist based on arbitrary accidents of birth.
Mark Rothschild
John, how would you evaluate the statement that your property is yours only because of accident of birth?
In any case, it appears to me that you are making a
legalistic argument. I'm not making an argument based on historical precedent, or legalism. The principle involved has nothing to do with the Constitution or history of millenniums past.
Well, my property is mine because I paid for it. Or created it.
I'm arguing the libertarian position on multiple levels. Borders exist not to keep people in or out, but to define what government has jurisdiction based on historical precedent. But the libertarian argument is that the government has no legitimate power to tell people where they can or cannot live.
Mark Rothschild
I was asking rhetorically, assume that you inherited your property. Do you have a right to it?
This is one of my arguments about undivided, inalienable,equal, heritable interest in the land.
If you can understand the land as the personal property of the inhabitants then a lot of moral questions are resolved. The key to understanding this is the idea that real property rights exist in two forms simultaneously.
I do understand your position. You reject my argument that there are ancillary rights by virtue of occupation of land and that property in land does not have the two aspects I have described.
I acknowledge that yours is the mainstream libertarian view.
I understand the utilitarian nature of group property rightswhen people must band together to fend off raiding parties and invasion, where mass groups would be killed or driven off their land. It's similar to gang mentality. "protect your turf". But I don't see that as a legitimate interest that one would want to promote. It is a reaction to extreme danger, not something that one would want to actually promote in society. Almost like saying "I'm a libertarian and thats' why we should huddle in our living rooms clutching a gun". I do believe the US was pretty much the only country founded on the concept of open immigration and it has always served us well and we have been able to defend our our collective territory quite well.
Tenancy in common doesn't presuppose equal interests in the underlying property. That's tenancy in the entirety, which is a subspecies of tenancy in common, typically associated with marriage. And neither of them presuppose inalienability, though for 'entirety' alienation must be jointly agreed to.
Mark Rothschild
The terminology is borrowed from real property law, but the correspondence
is not exact.
I don't know about natural rights, or any other foundation of ethics. From the very little that I know of anthropology, it seems that both property rights and and national territories have a common conceptual ancestor.
In some environmental conditions, tribes and family groups would claim a territory and control who entered. In other conditions, many nomadic groups might range over the same land — but even they would have been somewhat familiar with each other – at least as much as the citizens in a modern state. 100,000 years ago, I doubt it would have been safe for merchants to walk the earth freely bargaining with strangers.
Sure, families and tribes would claim whole areas, but rarely divided them up into specific plots. It was more like their property, as long as they could defend it. But the main issue of nationalism was because one large group would decide that it was going to take the land, the possessions and often lives of other large groups for no other reason than they wanted it. The world has never been terribly libertarian because most people are evil.
The problem with your formulation is that the United State is not itself a free community, since people may not withdraw from it at will and therefore lack the democratic freedom to reform it. I doubt that a free community could ever be as vast as central North America (much less the larger U.S. empire), but even if it could in theory, it certainly is not in reality.
If the U.S. were a free community, then as John notes, people desiring to respect the claim of an immigrant to land in their neighborhood, rather than the claim of some subject of the United State, they would. Immigration to the United State is restricted, by the totalitarian decrees of a tiny committee of incredibly powerful men in the District of Columbia, precisely because subjects of the United State are not free.
The land titles secured by the United State are not libertarian titles, not remotely. They are entitlements to monopoly rent secured by a state serving its own rent seeking constituents, hardly freer than the European, feudal estates that my ancestors left when they came here.
Mark Rothschild
Martín, your critique of the history of the United States government is well taken and hypocrisy duly noted.
No titles to property would be defensible if any taint of original misappropriation would void them. So, in order to acknowledge property rights at all, we have to look at the totality of the chain of ownership and make reasoned judgments.
In any case, the argument that the American people have an undivided, inalienable, equal, and heritable interest in America has nothing to do with legal augments you could make in behalf of the government in Washington.
The legal interests of the government in Washington are not formulated or justified on the basis of property rights. Therefore from a libertarian point of analysis they do not have any purchase.
That is why you are correct in dismissing such claims.
Jerome Bigge
People may have a right migrate, but does the country of their choice have the right to refuse them?
Countries don't have rights. They only have powers.
Jerome Bigge
Most of the rest of the developed world is
more "fussy" as to who they let in. Most
likely due to more social benefits than what
we have here in the USA. France let in a lot
of Muslims because Algeria was a former
colony of France. Germany got a lot of
Turks because they needed cheap labor.
A lot of Mexicans came to the US to work
in agriculture because few Americans were
willing to do "stoop labor". The Mexican
drug cartels and the attendant violence
has also driven many across the border.
Jerome Bigge
That's the problem with BIG and other socialist policies masquerating as libertarianism. As soon as you have programs like this, you have giant agencies that will clamp down on many freedoms to ensure that the system is "fair" and that people aren't scamming off it and that people who "don't deserve it" aren't sneaking in to get it. Anything that rewards non-productivity by taking from the productive is Marxists as it follows his maxim.
John Halstead
This is not very persuasive. One feature of the activism mentioned here is that it appears to be completely ineffective. But there are effective forms of activism and that poses a real question as to how much we should devote to ourselves and our family. Instead of buying our child a £20,000 car, we could save ten lives. The claim that we ought to save the ten lives is hardly an obviously lampoonable position. If there is some warrant for us to look after ourselves and our family it seems to me to be drastically limited by our extensive duties to poor strangers.
As for the 'poor within our borders', I don't see how this counts in favour of open immigration. Also, the poor in our borders are considerably less poor than the poor in distant countries.
Is that the actual message though?
It seems to me that "John" is spending his energy outward, trying to control others, instead of inwards, helping himself in his family. He is not an "activist", he is a control freak. He is attempting to control the impossible, which is EVERYONE, and in doing so, is unable to control that which is within his grasp.
It seems to me an allegory about liberalism versus libertarianism, but I wouldn't be surprised that a BHL might miss this, being confused about the whole subject entirely.
And even so….when you have a government that's crushing you because of its "bleeding heart", you have to spend some energy on fighting that. It's when you spend energy creating government to cover your guilt and selfishness, that is when it's a total waste of energy.
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NORTH AUGUSTA, S.C. (WRDW) -- It's an argument the City of North Augusta continues to hear.
"We're going through using a statute to eliminate blight, and we're lying to everybody! That's what it comes down to, Mr. Mayor," said River Club HOA President Steve Donohue during a public meeting on October 21.
In order to finance Project Jackson, the $150 million development to bring the GreenJackets, a hotel, and more to North Augusta side of the river, the city will have to use a Tax Increment Financing (TIF) district. A TIF district diverts future tax revenue that'll be generated by the growth to pay for the project itself. However, to establish a TIF, by law, 'blight' must be present.
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"In this area right here, off this Railroad Avenue, you could almost walk from foundation to foundation," says Riley, who believes the plot of land is definitely blighted.
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"This was the last vestige of pottery-making was right here at this river," he says.
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"Daddy used to tell me all the time, 500 men would walk the bridge every day and work down here, and it was quite an undertaking at that time," remembers Mark Baynham, Jr.
Baynham is a fourth generation potter in North Augusta. Riley considers Baynham the last of the Edgefield-area potters. Up until the mid-1970s, Baynham made flowerpots near the 13th Street Bridge with a clay mill now displayed underneath the bridge in North Augusta.
"Often said that it made a coal mine look like a picnic," he says. "I'm telling you, it was tough."
Besides pottery, there were two brick kilns, several lumber plants, a veneer plant, a cotton pickery, and several furniture factories.
But nowadays, the industry is gone. Ruins of the once great factories and mills remain, however. All of the ruins, though, are in disastrous conditions.
A brick-making office building has lost its roof. Many of the tile bricks that compose it have flaked off into the structure itself. Just outside the door of the structure is an inflatable mattress. Yards away, an old shed, which once housed brick-making equipment, now holds a collection of smashed televisions. A couch with exposed springs and bags of garbage line the back corner. Further to the east, what was once a drier for the veneer plant is now a homeless camp. Trash, sleeping bags, and debris literally form a carpet inside the drier. Nearby, an old factory bathroom is now a toppled mess of cinder-blocks.
"We've found different types of criminal activity along the Riverfront, because it's so hidden," says Glover.
"People used it as a dump illegally, you know," adds Riley. "But absolutely, it's blighted."
That's exactly why the city will continue pushing forward with Project Jackson.
As for preservation of the historical structures, a 2004 study says the buildings down there aren't worth saving.
"The standing structures on the project site are in dilapidated to ruinous condition," it reads the report titled
Cultural Resources Survey of the North Augusta Riverfront Project. "It is our opinion that neither the property nor any of its elements are eligible for listing in the National Register of Historic Places."
However, the report does identify a few archaeological sites work saving. Glover says, most importantly, a Native American burial site will be preserved. Glover says it was become green-space called Preservation Park.
However, Glover hopes the council will pass the TIF financing plan for what he sees as a blighted piece of land.
"It would be interesting if someone went in there and left all the structures and all of the foundations but took down the trees, and then if you ask people if they think it's blighted, I think you would get a different answer," Glover says.
Note: Currently, the land is private property, so hikers or anyone else should not venture off the Greeneway, since the terrain in those woods is treacherous and quite dangerous.


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We wish we could be in Illinois next weekend to watch our friend Lorrisa Julianus play Zenobia in Zenobia the musical.
At Geode Press we love finding fans of Zenobia. We read about Zenobia the musical and started corresponding with the talented Lorrisa Julianus who wrote the musical. We shared with her a copy of Zenobia-Birth of a Legend and found she loved Zenobia and her story as much as we did. In January we were able to interview Lorrisa and we wanted to share the interview again.
This is part one of the interview with Lorrisa Julianus about Zenobia the musical:
Here is part two of the interview:
Reviews from the August 15th Zenobia the musical found on Facebook at https://www.facebook.com/events/191811024328214/:
- "Lorrisa is a superstar. The world just hasn't figured it out yet".
- "I attended the first-ever performance of this locally written musical, by friends Lorissa Julianus (playwright, director/producer, title role) and Angela Salvaggione (composer). I don't know what I expected, but this wasn't it! This was no "home-made" show, but a fully mature and complex musical. Outstanding orchestrations sequenced by Michael Fudala, wonderful evil/comedic turn by Sharon Hand as the villian you love to hate. Costumes were myriad and excellent, providing color clues to the identities of the sizeable chorus. A wide variety of video projection provided the depiction of location and time passage. Get there in time to peruse the program so you can understand the identity of the characters, unless you're well steeped in ancient history and mythology. The story is at least somewhat a true one. Four more performances–over Labor Day weekend. Go to support local theatre. But you'll be rewarded by the thorough entertainment and sense of awe for the accomplishment of your local friends & colleagues."
- "The show last night was a-MAZ-ing!!! Really enjoyed the music – especially loved the ending!! The entire cast was phenomenal!! Loved Lorissa – she was a perfect Zenobia!! Also especially love Scott Bovaird and Dave Lichty's performances! Brilliant!! Special shout out to Julie Szeszol Kinsey on the AMAZING costumes – wow!!! Don't know where you get access to those sorts of costumes, but they were absolutely amazing!"
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Saturday, August 31 8pm
Sunday, Sept 1 7:30pm
Monday, Sept 2 7:30pm
The original live multimedia musical by Lorrisa Julianus & Angela Salvaggione
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The Florida Department of Health (DOH) has identified 10 new locally-acquired cases of the Zika virus in Florida, Governor Rick Scott announced on Monday.
Some Florida Keys residents are drumming up support against a new initiative to release genetically modified mosquitoes into their neighborhoods to fight Zika.
Four people in Florida are likely the first in the United States to contract the Zika virus by local mosquitoes, officials said Friday.
Summer calls for extra precautions when spending time outdoors, including taking proactive measures against mosquitos, ticks and other pests.
Public health officials are investigating a 'unique' case of Zika in Utah whereby a person reportedly became infected with the virus without a clear means of transmission.
The upcoming Rio Olympics have presented no shortage of health concerns for top athletes from around the globe.
Olympic athletes competing in Rio's polluted waters are fearful that performing on the biggest stage of their careers will affect their health.
The risk for spread of the Zika virus in the summer months has been assessed to be low to moderate across Europe.
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I watched a few interviews from Davos, but there is one comment in particular that has been stuck in my mind. In the same interview that is excerpted from Bloomberg below, Soros said that central banks do not control the exchange rate. On the surface, that does not seem to be such an enlightening statement. However, in light of the context of global coordination and the question posed by Grant Williams below, it's still bugging me.
George Soros at the dinner he hosted in Davos:
"Currencies have been incredibly stable for the past few years; there's now the possibility of fireworks."
As commenter SafelyGraze said under the following article on ZeroHedge.
"Inflation is the only 'solution' to the world's debt. There is no other option."
Inflation and war. Those are the only solutions.
Inflation, war, and domestic confiscation. These three.
Inflation, war, domestic confiscation, and debt forgiveness. Four and only four.
Inflation, war, domestic confiscation, debt forgiveness, and further borrowing.
And a new monetary system.
There is no other option.
Grant Williams poses the question of the day:
Do they really think it is possible for them all to devalue their currencies against each other simultaneously and achieve anything but rampant and universal inflation at some future point in time?
Here's a link to the article on ZeroHedge. Make note of the chart from Raoul Pal of the Global Macro Investor.
War Games: Grant Williams for Mauldin Economics
Here's the full Davos Soros "Bad News Messenger" Bloomberg video. Don't miss the part where George Soros explains the first-ever successful leopard changing its spots from destructive predator to vegetarian angel.


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Voices: Frank Woodruff, On Helping 'Orphans'
Frank Woodruff is CEO of Sapient Financial Group, a San Antonio, Texas -based insurance and advisory firm.
It's common knowledge in our industry that most advisers won't always be around to serve many of the clients to whom they sell products — especially products like life insurance, disability and long term care insurance. In many cases, clients outlive their adviser, or their adviser changes jobs and leaves their clients behind.
This leaves many advisers in the position of taking on a colleague's client roster, which usually doesn't generate immediate commissions. As a result, there are lots of orphan clients — clients without active advisers.
If there's no adviser overseeing a client's financial situation, there's plenty that can go wrong. For instance, I've seen cases where the beneficiary of a life insurance policy was the holder's ex-wife rather than his current wife. The original adviser wasn't there to make sure it was updated after the divorce.
I feel strongly that taking care of orphan clients is not just our ethical responsibility; it's also good business. Firms need to set in place a process to ensure that when an adviser dies or leaves the industry or region, his clients get passed along to a new adviser who is apprised of their situation.
When one of our advisers leaves the industry we ask him or her to write a list of five to ten colleagues entrusted to take on the clients they are leaving behind. We then dig up our records on each of these clients and update their new advisers on the policies or products the clients own, when they purchased them and why they purchased them.
Next, we send the clients a letter informing them of their previous adviser's departure — though many of them already know — and offering them the opportunity to meet with a new adviser. This meeting provides them a chance to review their financial situation with their new adviser and ask any questions they may have.
In one case I recall, a divorced 35-year-old raising a 10-year-old son bought a $100,000 life insurance policy from a Sapient financial adviser. Shortly thereafter the adviser left the industry. We found the client a new adviser who quickly realized that the client had stopped paying his insurance premiums due to a change of billing addresses, leaving his policy on the verge of lapsing. Thankfully, the adviser alerted the client, who started making payments again. Two years later the client died of a sudden illness. Now his only son is provided for by his insurance policy.
One of the first orders of business when taking on a new client is to reevaluate their current plan. In many cases clients have new goals or financial needs that have emerged since they last met with their former adviser. These new needs often generate new sales opportunities.
But taking on orphan clients isn't about making fast money; it's about developing a relationship. In this business, building relationships is what ultimately pays dividends — in the form of referrals and sales, and also in the form of moral satisfaction.


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I have a problem! When I try to detach shader I get an error "Unable to find an entry point named 'glDetachShader' in DLL 'opengl32.dll'.". I have found few similar topics, but their problem was old graphic card (I have 2 hd6790 in crossfire (opengl: is 4.2.12217) with latest drivers).
Could you please help me.
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Sorry for my bad English.
Here's a little update.
I have installed new beta drivers for my graphics cards and opengl version is now 4.3, but it has not solved the problem.
The same thing happens with glcreateshader.
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I have re-downloaded opentk (the same version) and drivers for graphic cards and now it works (I have no idea why).
There is another problem now (of course there is one).
I am slowly moving my project from tao to opentk. I was using Gl.gldrawArrays (Gl.GL_TRIANGLES, 0, size), and that worked with tao. When I switched to opentk, that won't work. I tried to change all of tao calls to opentk ( GL.DrawArrays(BeginMode.Triangles, 0, size ); ...), but it won't work. It just draws empty background (clear) color. I had two scenes in my program, in the first one, there was about 500FPS (FRAPS), and in the other about 160FPS. I was switching between those scenes with a keyboard. When I start my program fps is about 550 (maybe because opentk is faster than tao?), and when i switch the 2nd scene it is about 200, so it is taking some time to render more complicated 2nd scene. Please help.
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Unlike most other Western industrialized nations, the United States has found itself embroiled in one military conflict after another since the end of World War II.
I recall one of the left-oriented magazines to which I subscribed many years ago had a long article based upon Marxist ideology which suggested that capitalism needed wars to function profitably over the long term. Many economists have suggested that it was government spending on World War II that pulled the nation out of the Great Depression, not Franklin D. Roosevelt's policies.
While I am not so cynical as to suggest that our political leaders seek military confrontations to prop up the economy, I do think that Americans deserve a full post-war economic accounting as to who profited from our wars of choice. I am fairly confident that most citizens believe that huge sums have been wasted on unnecessary military ventures.
Thousands of America's finest have been killed and mutilated in what now appear to have been futile military ventures. We have an accounting of the casualties. We need an accounting of those who profited from the horrors these brave soldiers endured.
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As gas prices climb menacingly toward $5 a gallon, Silicon Valley residents are changing the ways they commute - but some of the new solutions are creating problems of their own.
Transit ridership is up across the Bay Area, but riders say parking at Caltrain and BART lots is so jammed that you have to arrive before 6:30 a.m. to find a free spot.
More drivers appear to be leaving their cars at home and bicycling to transit, but bike racks are filling up on local buses and Caltrain, and some riders are being left behind.
Those who use express buses out of Gilroy and Santa Cruz say it's hard to find a seat. On the BART line in Fremont, it's standing room only.
Some drivers are thinking of moving closer to their jobs. One fellow has even removed seats in his van to lighten his load and boost mileage.
"We are seeing large shifts in behavior," said Chris Knittel, an associate professor of economics at the University of California-Davis, who says this spike in gas prices is different from years past. "Compared to previous times, consumers now appear convinced that these prices are here to stay."
That attitude can lead to long-term changes, from the type of vehicles we buy to where we live.
"Not everyone buys a new car each year or moves every year, so it will take a while for these choices to filter through the economy," Knittel said. "But the process is under way."
For some, forking over $65 to fill up a Camry or $180 for a diesel truck is spurring immediate changes.
Elizabeth Finkler of San Jose is leaving her car at home and biking to a bus stop to get to work in Santa Clara.
Trouble is, only two bikes fit in the rack in front of a bus. And one night she was the fifth bicyclist waiting to catch a bus home.
"The driver wouldn't let me on because he already had two bikes on the rack and lots of passengers in the bus," she said. "I ended up speeding over to Scott Boulevard to get another bus and barely made it home for a visitor expected at 7:30."
The problem is more acute on Caltrain, where one in 15 riders wants to bring a bike on board, according to a Caltrain survey. Three in five say they've been bumped from crowded trains at least once in the past year, and one in four former riders who used bikes said being bumped is why they no longer take the train.
"It just got to be too much of a hassle," said Dan Ramirez of Mountain View.
John Calderon of San Jose often can't find a parking space at the Diridon depot in downtown San Jose. "Two or three times a week I have to scream over to Santa Clara" to park, he said - a drive that costs him an extra hour because fewer trains stop there.
Parking is even worse in Sunnyvale, where spaces at the Caltrain lot are limited and drivers arriving late often risk getting a ticket by parking in city lots that have a three-hour limit. And BART riders showing up after 7 a.m. can forget about parking at Fremont or Union City stations.
But transit is a relief for Ken Oliver, who bikes to the Morgan Hill Caltrain depot and then rides an express bus to San Jose.
He figures the cost of the train is better than spending $8 a day on gasoline. "With the monthly passes that my company subsidizes," Oliver said, "it is a no-brainer. The bus is well used. Always full."
Ian Crew of San Jose says his commute by BART to Berkeley is getting more difficult. First he can't find a parking place, then he can't find a seat. His wife works in San Francisco, and her gas expenses have the couple thinking of moving near the North Berkeley BART station so he can walk to work and she can take BART. "We may even sell one of our two cars once we move," he said.
The State Board of Equalization reported Friday that Californians have burned less gas every month for most of the past two years, with consumption falling 2 1/2 percent in February (factoring out the extra day in the leap year). The same trend is showing up nationwide, according to a federal transportation review.
But not all transit officials are convinced that high gas prices are the sole reason for increased ridership.
The Valley Transportation Authority revamped its bus system in January, adding more runs on its 15 most heavily used routes and increasing express bus lines.
Caltrain has seen a steady increase in riders since it added express service, shaving 30 minutes off a San Jose-to-San Francisco trip. And BART ridership keeps going up, for reasons beyond the price of gas.
"Congestion, bridge tolls, the ease and cost of parking in San Francisco and Oakland also play a big role," said BART spokesman Linton Johnson. "People don't change their habits overnight simply because the price of gas went over $4 a gallon. It takes time for people to feel it in their pocketbook."
Not for Donna Williams of Sunnyvale and her husband, Jim. They purchased scooters a year ago that get 80 to 90 miles per gallon. They promised their teens they would be careful and not do anything stupid - no lane splitting or riding to the front of a line of cars at a red light.
So far, so good. And so fun.
"Getting to work is now a blast," said Donna Williams, 46. "As an added benefit, we are also feeling about 25 years younger.
"Instead of spending $50-plus per week on gas, we spend $4. And talk about being green. Bet your Prius can't do that."
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How to Grow Plants from Seed
Two Parts:Preparing to PlantPlanting Your SeedsCommunity Q&A
Growing plants from seeds presents a number of benefits, including a huge variety of plants to choose from, 100% organic gardening, it is significantly cheaper than buying grown plants, and you'll get to enjoy the gardening process. Thankfully, if you're willing to exercise your patience, nearly anyone can accomplish growing plants from seed.
Part 1
Preparing to Plant
1Select your seeds. One of the many benefits of growing your plants from seed is that you have a much larger variety of plants to choose from. Visit a local nursery or head online to look for the perfect seeds for your garden. Keep in mind that unless you intend to keep your plants indoors, you'll need to choose varieties that thrive in your local environment. When you purchase your seeds, pay attention to the ideal soil temperature, water requirements, nutritional needs, and light needs for each species of plant.
- When you look for seeds, keep in mind that there are hundreds of species you likely haven't heard of, because they are only available as seeds (not as starts or cuttings).
- You can buy more seeds than you may want to plant at once, but there is a less likely chance of germination the older the seeds get.
2Prepare a soil mixture. Seeds can be planted outdoors, but suffer a much higher chance of dying if done so; garden soil is full of plant diseases and insects that can quickly kill of seeds. Therefore, start your seeds indoors in a soil-less potting mixture. Make your own mixture by combining equal parts of peat, vermiculite, and perlite, adding ¼ tsp of lime per gallon of potting mix created. This will create a loose, disease-free material for your seeds to quickly germinate in.
- Soil-less potting mixture holds no nutritional value, so you'll have to add fertilizer to your mixture as soon as your seeds have sprouted.
- Peat is highly acidic while lime is basic; you can do a pH test to make sure your mixture is near 7 (neutral) before planting your seeds for greater success.
3Prepare your other supplies. When planting indoors, you'll need a few things in order to ensure proper germination of your seeds. Purchase a set of seed trays or small containers for your seeds; biodegradable containers are appropriate, you don't just have to buy plastic or ceramic pots. You'll also need a heat and light source of some sort, because windows aren't good enough at providing both for your seeds. Pick up a heat lamp or plant lamp to keep your seeds plenty warm and bright. If you're able, you may also want to get a heat pad to go under your seed trays to keep the soil at a proper temperature.
- You can use a fluorescent lamp to heat and light your seeds, but get a special white bulb which reduces heat and will keep from burning them.
- If you plant your seeds far in advance, you may have to replant them into large pots before moving them outside (if that is your intention).
4Learn about your seeds. Before you plant, you need to know a few important things: the ideal growing conditions for that particular plant, the length of time the seeds take to germinate, and the earliest they can be planted outdoors. These will vary from plant to plant, and will determine what time of year you should begin planting. Typically, seeds should be planted 4-6 weeks prior to being moved outside, but this is not consistent among different seed species. You may have to plant your seeds indoors a bit earlier or later than usual as well, depending on what the outdoor weather conditions are like in your area.
Part 2
Planting Your Seeds
1Plant your seeds. Moisten your potting mixture so that it is fully damp; when seeds are first planted, they need an extra bit of water in order to start the germination process. Then, place each of your seeds in a separate container, and coat them with a layer of potting mixture about ¼ an inch thick.
- Some seeds should be planted together in groups rather than individually; check your seed packet.
- Certain species of seeds need lots of extra light when they're first planted, and should not be covered in soil at all (such as snapdragons and petunias).[1]
2Water your seeds regularly. Seeds rely on a constant supply of water to go through the germination process, thereby producing a sprout. Give your seeds water on a regular basis so that the potting mixture is always moist but never soaking. When your seeds outgrow their containers and are planted outside, they won't need nearly as much water to thrive.
- Check the specific conditions for watering for each species of seed that you are growing; some might like more or less.
3Keep your seeds warm. You can create greenhouse-like conditions for your seeds to easily provide the heat to aid in germination by adding a layer of glass to your seeds. Either use a small glass container, or place a pane of glass just over the top of the seed trays. This will trap heat and moisture, aiding in your seeds' growth. Otherwise, use a heat lamp as per usual in addition to a heat pad underneath your seedlings to help keep the soil in the 70-80 degree Fahrenheit range that is ideal.[2]
4Move your seeds to natural light when they've sprouted. After a few days or a week, you should notice your seeds begin to push tiny sprouts through the soil. At this point, they should be moved to natural sunlight supplemented with a lamp. Place them in a window that gets plenty of light throughout the day, typically a south facing window (north facing windows get the least amount of light, so avoid them). Keep the heat lamp/garden lamp on them as well to provide them with the heat that the window blocks out.
- If it is quite cold outside, you may need to place a heat pad between the planters and the window. Otherwise, the cold will be absorbed through the window and slow the growth of the tiny seedlings.
5Maintain and watch your plants. It should take several weeks before your plants are ready to be transplanted. Most plants go through a growth phase which makes it easy to know when they're ready to be moved outdoors. The first set of leaves that appear are known as the 'seed leaves'. The second set of leaves to appear are called the 'true leaves' and are a sign that your plants are matured and ready for moving. You can feed the plants with a bit of liquid fertilizer after they've sprouted, to help expedite this growing process.[3]
6Harden off your plants. 'Hardening off' is a process in which you slowly expose your plants to the fluctuating temperature and weather conditions outdoors, so that they don't suffer from transplant shock. When you're 1-2 weeks away from planting them outdoors, begin hardening them off. The first day, place them outside for a single hour, and then bring them back inside in their containers. Each day add an additional hour of time outside, until they can make it a full 24 hours outdoors in one setting.
- In the last week, you can tack on multiple hours at once instead of working in single hour increments.
7Transplant your seedlings outdoors. Follow the specific directions set for each type of plant, as their planting conditions will vary greatly. Move each small container plant outdoors into its permanent location. you can also choose to replant them in a larger decorative container to remain on a porch or in your home, instead. Transplanting generally involves wetting the soil, digging a hole slightly larger than your plant, and topping off the root ball with a bit more soil and a lot more water. You should always water your plants heavily immediately after transplanting, so as to reduce the risk of transplant shock.
8Maintain your plants. It will take a few weeks for your plants to fill in, but eventually they'll start looking full and wonderful in your outdoor garden space. Add a layer of mulch to the soil to block out weeds and trap in moisture. You should pull out weeds on sight, as these will steal space and nutrients from your plants if you do not. Water every few days (this will vary depending on what type of plant you're working with), and add fertilizer or compost once a month.[4]
Community Q&A
What causes the plants to be leggy?wikiHow ContributorLeggy plants develop when the plant receives too much heat and not enough light. The reason they go so leggy is that they are trying to reach for more light, so they grow quicker. This just results in a weaker plant and can cause the plant to die if left unresolved.
Which part of the plant develops seeds?wikiHow ContributorIf the plants are producing fruit or flowers, that part of it also has seeds in it. If not, plants produce bean kinds of fruits, which have raw seeds inside the bean pod, which has to be dried to get the seeds.
Are plants easy to grow?wikiHow ContributorYes, sometimes it depends on the type of plant. For a beginner needing to be inspired, pick something easy to grow, like a basic garden flower. Take the seeds and some dirt, also a pot and put most of the dirt in the pot. Then put about 6 to 7 seeds and put the rest over the seeds, but not to much, just enough to cover the seeds. Then give it water every day. The seed packets will always give you instructions for more customized care.
What causes plants to be really spindly?wikiHow ContributorOften this can be caused by a lack of light; the plants grow out really fast trying to reach a stronger light source. It can also be caused by a lack of nutrition, If the plants cannot get the nutrients they need, they cannot produce the thicker foliage of normal growth.
Can one seed produce more then one plant?Yes, this is very common actually. Think of it like twins, there are two embryos within the seed, so two sprouts appear.
How do I plant vegetables?Research germination time and care for the vegetable you want to grow, whether you need to cover the seeds with soil for them to germinate or not (if the seed is the size of a bell pepper seed or bigger, cover with soil, otherwise don't), and whether you need to soak the seeds in water before planting.
How can you tell if you are overwatering your plants?wikiHow ContributorToo much water causes your plant to wilt - almost as though it hasn't had enough water.
How often should I water my plant?wikiHow ContributorIt depends on the plant's preferred conditions and the environment, which determines how fast the soil dries out. For most plants, water when the soil more than 1" down starts to get dry.
Why are seeds successful?Most seeds have a hard outer coating that protects them from varying temperatures and moisture in the soil. Many species bear seeds that can last for years in the soil before finally propagating and putting up a new plant. They just need the right conditions -- sunlight, heat, moisture -- to finally push up a cotyledon or two and begin growing. They also have nutrients stored in the seed for the new plant to use as it grows roots and pushes up new shoots. Until that nutrient store is used up, they can be germinated in soil with no other nutrients, but this only lasts for a short time.
Can aerial roots breathe in air?wikiHow ContributorYes, they can, but should they be aerial? If the roots should not be aerial, then the exposure could also harm the plant by drying it out, not providing nutrients, allowing exposure to pathogens, etc.
What are the DNA structures of plants?
Will a plant grow from seeds if the original plant dies?
- Pick out a garden plot outdoors for your seedlings long before planting; you may need to amend the soil or make other preparations in the time that your seeds are germinating.
- Heat sources can present fire hazards. Use an aquarium thermometer to monitor soil temp Follow temp range given in specs. Keep below 102*F for safety.
Things You'll Need
- Seeds
- Soil
- Variety of pots
- Fertilizer
- Water
- Sunlight
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In FY 77, a Naval Ocean System Center (NOSC) IR project, Advanced Research in Surveillance (NOSC IR 714009, DTIC 788 518) was undertaken to find ways to improve the product delivered by surveillance information-processing systems. This program provided the initial impetus for NOSC and others to examine the benefits to the ocean surveillance product (OSP) that could be obtained through multisource integration. Mainly through analysis of the Church Pedal experiment, the IR project found that improvements to the OSP could be obtained through cross-sensor correlation of data, through use of currently discarded data, and through cueing of sensors. This IR project transitioned to the Naval Electronics Systems Command (NAVELEX)-sponsored Multisensor Interaction 6.2 project where further algorithmic work was pursued by NOSC.
One result of the NOSC IR project's analysis of the Church Pedal exercise was the realization that improved usage of electronic intelligence (ELINT) data could contribute to the quality of the OSP. Additional exercises were held in the FY 77–79 time period, including Church Calm and Post Oak, which featured collection and analysis of ELINT data. Also, in FY 79, NOSC initiated an Independent Exploratory Development (IED) project, Ocean Surveillance Information Processing and Modeling (NOSC ZD49, DTIC ICZD 4900), which examined the way sensor data were being processed by OSIS and identified areas in which algorithmic approaches could improve the timeliness and accuracy of the OSP. ELINT was one of the areas identified. Based on these results, the IR project principal investigator developed and tested a statistical ELINT correlation algorithm that became Target Recognition by Extraction of Statistical Attributes (TERESA) under NAVELEX sponsorship in 1981. TERESA has impacted many fleet systems. It was directly incorporated into OBU and later became the basis for ELINT correlation approaches in the Advanced Tactical Workstation (ATW), in the Tomahawk Weapon Control System, in the Naval Tactical Command System–Afloat (NTCS–A), in the Joint Maritime Command Information System (JMCIS), and ultimately in the joint services' Global Command Control System (GCCS).
The NOSC Ocean Surveillance Tracker Correlator (OSTC) was a testbed for various surveillance multisource integration concepts and algorithms. OSTC led to bringing multisensor integration to the Ocean Surveillance Information System (OSIS) Centers in the mid 1980s via the OSIS Baseline Upgrade (OBU) Program, with TRW as the prime developer. This resulted in VAX-based systems, which were followed in the early 1990s by the Space and Naval Warfare Systems Command (SPAWAR)-sponsored OSIS Evolutionary Development (OED) Program to move the system to a workstation architecture.
Currently, INRI, Inc., is involved in further OED work that will result in improved software for the Joint Maritime Command Information System (JMCIS). TRW Systems Integration Group (SIG) is currently upgrading the Navy's Ocean Surveillance Information System under the Ocean Surveillance Information System (OSIS) Baseline Upgrade (OBU) / OSIS Evolutionary Development (OED) efforts.The Fleet Ocean Surveillance Information Facilities [FOSIF] and Centers [FOSIC] use the Ocean Surveillance Information System as their Tactical Data Processors (TDPs) to support the exchange of Over-The-Horizon Targeting (OTH-T) information between shore and fleet-based computer systems through the Tactical Data Information Exchange Subsystem (TADIXS).


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Great series of ""take-offs"" Bits. From the Google map they seem to be in a smaller waterhole than Horn Pond? Those babies have grown quite a bit too.
Thanks marbiz! - The swan was chasing off a pair of geese in it's territory, and this whole series took about 20 seconds. It was pretty interesting to watch - Swans do NOT like geese, that's for sure. This is a smaller swampier water pond that connects to the main pond, and a different pair from last year's. (There are 4 nests, and last year's mom is the swan on the nest on the row below these shots.)
Very nice serial. These is the one I prefer. And thank you for the explanation. Greetings, Miguel
Die sind SUPER!!!
Thanks Miguel and Danke Sonny ! I've been trying to get a shot like this for about a year, so I was happy!!!
What a photo, that wonderful stretched long graceful neck, and wings outstretched. Brilliant. Dianne
What a moment!
I dont agree with Guy this time I like this one the best...D
Thanks whoelius and Dianne! They sure are biiiiig birds!
Great catch. I wrote gooooooooooo kamaly on a pic (your serve to a mealy mouth spammer) and Guy said it took a while for him to figure out it meant go. I wonder if he will work out biiiig!!! Greetings. We all look forward to the spring offerings from Horn Pond. H
Congratulations, and a really beautiful and each one a little gem.
An affectionate greeting from Vigo, Spain. José Mª
LOLOL Helen - He's never responded, so I'm not sure if Guy ever did figure out what 'Biiiiig' meant!
And Thanks very much for your nice comment lazariparcero - Cheers to Spain :)
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Ask Idealware: eAdvocacy Alternatives to Kintera?
We do action alerts on state and local issues that enables our readers
to send email to officials like the Governor, state legislators, city councils, and county commissions. We can segment the list and target specific geographic regions, and we're able to provide copy for the readers to send as well.
Heather Gardner-Madras, of gardner madras | strategic creative says:
When Laura asked me about fielding this question I was eager to update my knowledge about what is available in this space, having worked on building such tools back in the day. So I contacted some of the smartest people I know in this arena including Rowan Price and the rest of Free Flow Data, TJ Griffin of Jackson River LLC and Jon Stahl at One Northwest. Unfortunately what I found out just verified what I already knew - your options for email advocacy are pretty limited right now.
Apart from Kintera there are really only 2 other major players that offer the email your representative feature complete with district look up and contact information: CapWiz (which is now Capwiz·XC and owned by Roll Call) and Convio, which is not likely to be less expensive. And although Democracy in Action is exclusively C3, they do have a for profit sister company Wired for Change that works with C4s. However I am not sure you can find the eAdvocacy tools you are looking for through that company.
If you don't need automated user districting and know the email addresses of your advocacy targets, CitizenSpeak might also be worth a look. CitizenSpeak started as, and still maintains, a simple system to create targeted email campaigns, but they recently rebuilt their platform as a Drupal module which opens doors to integrating this with the Drupal CMS. Since its a free open source service you won't find the power and features available from CapWiz and Convio, of course, but it seems to be a solid open source option for smaller organizations mounting targeted campaigns.
These are the main choices that I am aware of but of course I might have overlooked something great. So if readers know of a good option I missed, please leave it in the comments.
There are a couple reasons worth mentioning for this drop off in "Write your Representative" email tools and vendors:
1. Its not economically strategic for vendors to build and maintain email advocacy tools.So the upshot is that in moving away from Kintera and assessing other tool options, this might be an ideal time to investigate other means of mobilizing your supporters and trying new routes for advocacy as well.
In addition to the normal software development costs, the expense and difficulty of maintaining accurate and usable legislative target databases can become prohibitive.
2. The rise and proliferation of Webforms as the only means of online contact for elected officials.
Add to the expense of maintaining up to date contact information the more recent hurdle of cracking the ever growing and mutating number of webforms that legislators now require for contact and the market seems even less profitable.
3. There are growing doubts about whether email blasts to congress are effective.
Many nonprofits have cut back on eAdvocacy due to the reduced effectiveness of this approach in bringing about real policy change. The sheer volume of email congress receives has increased to the point where as Colin Delany says on ePolitics "Hill offices largely ignore them and will often treat thousands of identical messages as essentially a single message ..." At a state level and for custom targets like corporation heads email advocacy can still be effective, but this is obviously a much smaller market for vendors.
The Ask Idealware posts take on some of the questions that you send us at email@example.com. Have other great options? Disagree with our answer? Help us out by entering your own answer as a comment below.
Advocacy Online is now in the
Advocacy Online is now in the US. They are officially launching at the NTEN NTC 2009. The product is definitely worth checking out.
Ghazal Vaghedi is their US contact: email@example.com
FYI - thedatabank
FYI - thedatabank www.thedatabank.com has been doing online advocacy systems since 1999.
Thanks csbagnall and david
Thanks csbagnall and david gelhufe for the additional options.
I had seen Advocacy Online in my net wanderings but assumed it was intended for non-US campaigns. It would be interesting to know if it offers state level US target information.
The Sunlight Foundatin API is interesting I found the link broken and believe the correct link is http://civicrm.org/node/205
A number of groups have done
A number of groups have done work integrating the Sunlight Foundation API, which provides the current information on districting and contact information for members of congress with CiviCRM. The result is a semi-custom e-advocacy solution.
This is certainly not a commercial product, but there are a number of CiviCRM experienced consulting firms that do this type of work including Dharmatech and Trellon.
Try Advocacy Online
Try Advocacy Online http://web.advocacyonline.net/
Also look here for a live example
See under 'What you can do'
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The Gifts of the Spirit and the Power of Prayer
The Easter Season ends with the celebration of Pentecost (June 12 in 2011). This day focuses on the Holy Spirit and the Spirit's gifts in the Church. The work of the Spirit and the traditional "Gifts of the Holy Spirit" are often hard to quantify. How do I measure "wisdom" or "understanding." And, if I am asking for "courage," does that make me sound like the Cowardly Lion in the
Wizard of Oz
The Holy Spirit isn't that wizard, dispensing gifts according to some arrogant whim. Rather, the gifts of the Spirit flow lavishly in the Church. We see that at Easter time as we witness people coming into the community. At a friend's parish here in my city, over 30 people were baptized at the Easter Vigil. At my own parish, I baptized an infant on Easter Sunday. In both cases, I'm certain, there was palpable joy among those gathered at Eucharist. While I cannot measure it, I can testify to that joy! More subtle is the power of prayer.
A while back, I suggested to Judy Zarick, our "Living Faith" producer, that she interview my friend Gloria Story about her email intercessory group, the "Power of Prayer Gang." I've been getting Gloria's emailed requests for prayer for a couple of years now. Within this email circle, I've become both a petitioner and recipient of prayer; a recent fall left me on crutches for six weeks. Can I measure prayer's effects? Well, Gloria does let us know when the sick recover and those in emotional pain are comforted. But we sometimes do not hear of all the effects of our prayer. Sometimes these are hidden in the heart of God and the one who prays. In some ways, such prayer parallels our ministry of communications. I rarely know exactly
is listening to our broadcasts, or reading this newsletter or our blog.
Although Facebook and other Web services give us statistics of "page views," they cannot measure the human heart. For that, I need faith, which is in itself a gift of God. So, I keep writing, recording, praying.
May God bless all our efforts--and all of you!
Father Greg Friedman, O.F.M.
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Michael is a cradle Catholic and former priest who left to marry. He remains Catholic because he has grown to understand that the Catholic Church brings him love, joy peace, gratitude, kindness and goodness. Michael Leach shines a light on the "good stuff" in Catholicism.
Ask a Franciscan
Franciscan Father Hilarion Kistner
answers five scriptural questions: 1) Why does Jesus say that he has come to bring division, not peace? 2) Are angels sent to those who are saved or to those who expect to be saved? 3) Why isn't John the Baptist considered the first martyr? 4) What does the Catholic Church teach about having women in authority? and 5) In the Lord's Prayer, why do some Bibles say "debts/debtors" and others say "trespasses"?
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At Easter, new Christians begin to receive and live the sacraments of the Church.
Judith Dunlap
has over 30 years' experience in parish ministry and throughout the country gives workshops in faith formation of adults and children. Her most recent book is
Bringing Home the Gospel: The Year of Matthew: a Weekly Journal for Catholic Parents
from St. Anthony Messenger Press. Judith speaks about the new connections we make through the sacraments of the Church.
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Barbara Beckwith
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Joan of Arc: God's Warrior
published by St. Anthony Messenger Press.
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Highlights from this episode include:
Living Faith
Judy Zarick interviews
Gloria Story
from Ohio. Gloria organized at her parish an email prayer chain called the "Power of Prayer Gang." Her "prayer warriors" are now all across the country--from Florida to Oregon and everywhere in between.
Ask a Franciscan
Franciscan Father Greg Friedman
answers two pastoral questions: 1) Is a Catholic who leaves the faith considered a heretic? and 2) What does the Church say about the circumcision of infants?
Marriage Moment
Susan Hines-Brigger
, assistant managing editor of
St. Anthony Messenger,
offers a commentary entitled "Celebrate Your Marriage."
Exploring Our Faith
John's guest is
Doctor Robert Wicks,
professor of pastoral counseling at Maryland's Loyola University. In his clinical practice, Wicks focuses on working with psychotherapists, physicians, nurses, educators, relief workers and persons in full-time ministry. He has written more than 20 books, most recently,
Prayerfulness: Awakening the Fullness of Life
(2009, Sorin Books), and
Bounce: Living the Resilient Life
(2009, Oxford University Press). Wicks reflects on the power of prayer.
Minute Meditations
Barbara Beckwith reads from
Enkindled: Holy Spirit, Holy Gifts
, by
Albert Haase, O.F.M. and Bridget Haase, O.S.U.
published by St. Anthony Messenger Press.
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The Child Development Center at the University of the District of Columbia is a comprehensive child care program providing early care and education for all children ages 2 1/2 to 5 years. The Center promotes a comprehensive approach to early childhood development that empowers families and communities with the knowledge, skills, information, and support services necessary to ensure the optimal development of all children. Services to children and their families include education, health, mental health, nutrition, parent involvement, and social services.
The Center follows Head Start standards and the principles of the National Association for the Education of Young Children's (NAEYC) Developmentally Appropriate Practices in the implementation of its educational program. The program is structured around the High Scope Curriculum. In this approach to preschool education, young children are seen as active learners, and the role of adults is to support them as they construct their own understanding of the world through interactions with people, materials, events, and ideas.
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Children are eligible for enrollment in the UDC Child Development Center from the age of two (2) years six months through five (5) years of age.
Parents may register their child/children for enrollment by completing all required forms, including all necessary medical documents, prior to the child's attendance. Once the Center has received all of the necessary enrollment forms, parents will be notified if a space is available for the child or if they have been placed on a waiting list for enrollment into the Center. Once parents have been notified that there is an opening, they will be required to meet with a member of the child's teaching team and the family services specialist.
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TANF recipients must have child's eligibility for services determined by the District of Columbia Department of Human Services.
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The Center is open from 7:00 a.m. until 6:00 p.m. Extended evening care is also available until 9:00 p.m. for children of University students only and who range in age from 2.5 years to 12 years old.
Location of Center
The Center is located at 4200 Connecticut Avenue, NW (Building 39/Suite A02). Telephone: 202.274.5213
Funding for this program is provided through a public and private agreement between the United Planning Organization Head Start Program and the D.C. Department of Human Services, Commission on Social Services Office of Early Childhood Development.


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