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It's Pirate Time for the GOP
The party needs to be unpredictable and bold—and grab some of Obama's issues.
It's official. Congress is now less popular than cockroaches and colonoscopies, though more popular than the ebola virus and gonorrhea. Really. The numbers came, this week, from a Public Policy Polling survey. The House and Senate have an approval rating of 9%.
GOP governors are the party's most esteemed leaders, but they're not in Washington. The Republican voice and presence in our national debates comes from its members on the Hill. They're the ones America sees on the news every day, which is unfortunate because they are, largely, deal makers, legislators and even plain speakers who are not necessarily gifted explainers or thinkers.
They are up against the Democratic voice and presence. That would be President Obama (approval rating in the low-to-mid-50s) and his White House. He is just off a major electoral win, commands the national mic, is about to be celebrated at a second swearing-in, and will soon give a nationally covered inaugural address. Also he just won on the fiscal cliff, for now. We'll see the blowback. Payroll taxes have just gone up, ObamaCare is yet to be fully instituted and will be costly, things are about to get more expensive for everybody. But at the moment he's king.
And what the Republican Party has each day going up against him—presenting the party's case, explaining its thinking—is a disparate and fractious lot of varying talent who, again, are connected to an institution less popular than cockroaches.
It doesn't, at the moment, seem a fair fight.
Normally we see Republican congressmen and senators in a gaggle, and their message always seems to get lost. They're usually talking about pieces of things, some part of a bill, or an amendment. Little they say seems to cohere, or to connect with a higher purpose, intent or meaning. What they say doesn't amount to a cacophony—it's not that lively. Their message always seems muted and blurred.
Congressional Republicans haven't been able to come up with an immediate and overarching goal or a strategy to achieve it. Many feel as if they're always in the dark, unclear on what the leadership is thinking or about to do.
But a goal and strategy are needed. Without them, everything will seem ad hoc, provisional, formless, meaningless. The public will see it that way, especially in comparison to the president, who seems these days to have a surer sense of what he's about, and a greater confidence that you've finally twigged on to it, too.
So here's an idea for Republicans in Congress. It has to do in part with policy, in part with attitude and approach.
They should starkly assess their position. It isn't good. They just lost an election, they're up against the wall, they have to figure out how to survive and thrive as a party that stands for something, while attempting each day to do the work that needs doing for a country in trouble. The challenges are huge, the odds long.
They can sit back and be depressed and whine. Or they can decide: It's pirate time.
And really, it is.
Now is the time to fight and be fearless, to be surprising, to break out of lockstep, to be the one thing Republicans aren't supposed to be, and that is interesting.
Now's the time to put a dagger 'tween their teeth, wave a sword, grab a rope and swing aboard the enemy's galleon. Take the president's issues, steal them—they never belonged to him, they're yours!
In political terms this means: Reorient yourselves. Declare for Main Street over Wall Street, stand for the little guy against the big interests. And move. Don't wait for the bill, declare the sentiments of your corner.
Really, it's pirate time.
Examples of what might be done:
If you are conservative you are skeptical of concentrated power. You know the bullying and bossism it can lead to. Republicans should go to the populist right on the issue of bank breakup. Too big to fail is too big to continue. The megabanks have too much power in Washington and too much weight within the financial system. People think the GOP is for the bankers. The GOP should upend this assumption. In this case good policy is good politics.
If you are a conservative you're supposed to be for just treatment of the individual over the demands of concentrated elites. Every individual in America making $400,000 a year or more just got a tax hike that was a blow to the gut. Regular working people are seeing their payroll deductions increase. But private-equity partners who make billions enjoy more favorable tax treatment. Their income is treated for tax purposes as a capital gain, so they're taxed at far lower rates. This is called the carried-interest exemption, and everybody knows it's a big con.
The Republican Party should come out against it in a big way. Let the real rich pay the same percentage the not-actually-rich-but-formally-declared-rich are paying. If the Republicans did this they'd actually be joining the winning side, because carried interest will not survive the new era. If congressional Republicans care about their party they'll want it to get credit for fairness, as opposed to the usual blame for being lackeys of the rich.
Republicans make too much of order and discipline. Sometimes a little anarchy is a good thing, a little disorder a sign of creativity and independence of thought. If there are voices within the GOP that are for some part or parts of gun reform it would be good for them—and for the party—to come forward now. I love the Second Amendment and I'm not kidding, but I have to say tens of millions of assault weapons in the hands of gangbangers and unstable young men couldn't be what the Founders had in mind.
We need a little moderation here, a little give.
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Finally, Republicans should shock everyone, including themselves, by pushing for immigration reform—now. Don't wait for the president, do it yourselves, come forward individually or in groups with the argument for legalization of who lives here now. Such bills should include border control and pathways for citizenship, but—and most important—they shouldn't seem punitive or grudging and involve fines and lines and new ways to sue employers. The world has changed. Ease up now. In the past 10 years immigrants, legal and illegal, have fought our wars. We need to hurry in those who are trying to bring gifts we need into the USA. Whoever comes here learns to love our crazy country, or at least appreciate it. If we do a better job of teaching them why the goodness we have even exists, we will do OK.
The point here is to have the GOP lead in terms of good policy. But it's also important for the Republicans to show the variety, disagreement and alive-ness that exists within the party. It is not some grim monolith, some thought-free zone, or was not meant to be. It's not bad to be unpredictable. Living things are.
Members should loosen up, speak for their corner, put together caucuses, go forward, move. Go on TV, dagger and sword, and make your case.
Really: It's pirate time.


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Petroleo Brasileiro SA, Brazil's state-controlled oil company, rose to the highest in four weeks after Energy Minister Edison Lobao signaled the government is considering raising regulated gasoline prices.
Petrobras, as the Rio de Janeiro-based producer is known, rose 4 percent to 19.65 reais at the close in Sao Paulo, the highest price since May 22.
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New Mexico Game and Fish officials said more wildlife will start showing up in urban areas because the drought is affecting their food source.
That's why officials say it's up to residents not to entice them into back yards and populated areas.
"We can't leave food out. A lot of people like to give dogs an unlimited amount of dog food and that's an invitation to coyotes, rodents and bears," said Maj. Donald Jaramillo with Game and Fish.
Bears are waking up from hibernation, and officials said it's a good time to put away bird feeders and secure trash. Also, clean grills after using and never put food in a tent.
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A jaw fracture is a break in your child's mandible (lower jawbone).
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- Acetaminophen decreases pain. It is available without a doctor's order. Ask how much your child should take and how often he should take it. Follow directions. Acetaminophen can cause liver damage if not taken correctly.
- NSAIDs , such as ibuprofen, help decrease swelling, pain, and fever. This medicine is available with or without a doctor's order. NSAIDs can cause stomach bleeding or kidney problems in certain people. If your child takes blood thinner medicine, always ask if NSAIDs are safe for him. Always read the medicine label and follow directions. Do not give these medicines to children under 6 months of age without direction from your child's healthcare provider.
- Pain medicine may be given. Ask your child's healthcare provider how your child can take this medicine safely.
- Antibiotics may be given to help treat or prevent a bacterial infection if the bone broke through your child's skin.
- Do not give aspirin to children under 18 years of age. Your child could develop Reye syndrome if he takes aspirin. Reye syndrome can cause life-threatening brain and liver damage. Check your child's medicine labels for aspirin, salicylates, or oil of wintergreen.
- Take your medicine as directed. Call your healthcare provider if you think your medicine is not helping or if you have side effects. Tell him if you are allergic to any medicine. Keep a list of the medicines, vitamins, and herbs you take. Include the amounts, and when and why you take them. Bring the list or the pill bottles to follow-up visits. Carry your medicine list with you in case of an emergency.
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- Help your child clean his teeth 4 to 6 times a day. Use a water pik or a small, soft toothbrush. Ask your child's healthcare provider for information about mouth care.
- Your child may need more rest than he realizes while he heals. Quiet play will keep your child busy so he does not risk injuring himself. Have your child read or draw quietly. Ask your child's healthcare provider how much rest your child needs and when he can return to regular activities.
- Do not let your child play sports while his jaw heals. His fractured jaw may bleed, bruise easily, or break again. Ask your child's healthcare provider when it is safe for your child to play sports again.
- Your child may not be able to eat solid food for a period of time. He may need a liquid diet, so his jaw can rest and heal. He may need to use a straw to drink if his upper and lower teeth are wired together. Ask your child's healthcare provider how to cut the wire quickly if your child needs to vomit or has a coughing attack. Keep the wire cutters where you can quickly find them.
- Over time, your child may be able to eat soft foods that are easier to bite, chew, or swallow. Soft foods are applesauce, baby food, bananas, cooked cereal, cottage cheese, eggs, pudding, and yogurt. Ask your healthcare provider for more information about what foods or liquids your child is allowed to eat or drink.
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- Your child's splint breaks or gets damaged, or becomes soaked with blood.
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LABA: A Laboratory for Jewish Culture is a program of the 14th Street Y that uses classic Jewish texts to inspire the creation of art, dialogue and study.
Part of LABA is the House of Study, an artist fellowship program for which around 10 culture-makers, a mix of visual artists, writers, dancers, musicians, actors and others, are brought together to study classic Jewish texts in a non-religious, open-minded setting. The fellows use the study to inspire work which is featured on this website and in our series of LABAlive events and performances. Every year LABA focuses its study around a theme. Previous themes include Paradise, Eros, Blueprint, Eat, Mother and Time. This year's theme is Beauty.
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Ronit Muszkatblit, artistic director, was born in Germany and raised in Israel. She is a theater director and the founding member of woken'glaicer theater company and Operatzia as well as a member of posttheater ny/berlin. Ronit curates and directs in various capacities with a focus ion opera, theater and multi disciplinary events. Her most recent directing credits include all the LABALive events and the operas "SPHINX" (Culturemart HERE) and "3WEEKS" (MAP grant, 14th st Y) both by Yoav Gal . Her most recent theater credits include: "Hanna and the Moonlit Dress" by Itzchak D'miel (14th St. Y), "Nature of Captivity" by Mathew Paul Olmos (Mabou Mines Suite @ PS 122), "Cantaloupe" by Gina Bonati (Boston ); "ON ART," an adaptation of "Art" by Yasmina Reza (Rohkunst Bau, Berlin); "It is said the men are over in the steel tower" by Hideo Tsuchida,(TBG Theater, NYC); Struwwelmensch (Rohkunst Bau Festival, Berlin);) "Matchmaker Matchmaker" (Stadts Bank Berlin); "Quartet" by Heiner Müller (Westbeth Theater, NYC); "The Child Dreams" by Hanoch Levin (Staged Reading 59E59, NYC). Ronit received her MFA in directing from the Actors Studio Drama School and trained at La Mama Umbria (Italy) and with Siti Company.
Elissa Strauss, editorial director, is a freelance writer who lives in Brooklyn. She is a columnist for The Week and the Jewish Daily Forward and also contributes to places like Elle.com. Salon, Jezebel on matters of gender and culture. She is currently working on her first novel which takes place in her hometown of Los Angeles. www.elissastrauss.com
Ghiora Aharoni, creative adviser, founded his multi-disciplinary studio for art, architecture and design in Manhattan in 2004. Prior to opening his own studio, Aharoni worked at several distinguished architectural firms including Studio Daniel Libeskind and Polshek Partnership. Since establishing his studio, Aharoni has designed numerous projects in New York. His artwork, furniture designs and installations have been exhibited in New York and in India, and are in private collections in the U.S. and Europe. He holds a Master of Architecture from Yale University. www.ghiora-aharoni.com
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Becky Deitsch Skoff is the Director of Administration of the Arts, Jewish Life and Programs at the 14th Street Y. For the last 6 years, Becky has worked to build the Arts, Ideas and Jewish Culture department at the 14th Street Y from the ground up, including launching theater, dance, teen theater camp, and Jewish life programs. She is a graduate of the Master's program in Arts Administration at Boston University, and has worked for numerous nonprofit performing arts organizations throughout the U.S., including the Roundabout Theatre Company, the Citi Performing Arts Center in Boston, the Phillips Center for the Performing Arts in Gainesville, FL, and the New Harmony Theatre and Lincoln Amphitheatre. She has also coordinated national educational tours with Chamber Theatre Productions. Becky lives in Teaneck with her husband, playwright and attorney Judah Skoff, and her son Benzi.
Ruby Namdar was born and raised in Jerusalem. He completed his BA (Sociology, Philosophy and Iranian Studies) and his Master's degree (Anthropology) at the Hebrew University in Jerusalem. His first book, Haviv, a collection of short stories, was published in 2000 and won The Ministry of Culture's award for the best first publication of the year. The manuscript also won The Jerusalem Fiction award for 1998. His critically acclaimed new novel Habayit Asher Neherav was published in 2013 and won Israel's biggest literary prize, the Sapir Prize. He is currently living in New York and teaches Jewish and Israeli literature.
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Regis Pecos was born and raised at Cochiti Pueblo and is a lifetime member of the Traditional Tribal Council. He has been a Council member since 1978 and has served terms as Governor as well as Lt. Governor.
Mr. Pecos has spent much of his professional life advancing the interests of American Indian citizens at the tribal, state and national levels. Previous posts include Executive Director of the New Mexico Office of Indian Affairs (a position he held for 16 years under four governors of the State of New Mexico), Economic Development Specialist and Director of Research for Americans for Indian Opportunity and Instructor at the Institute for the Development of Indian Law. Currently, Mr. Pecos is the Chief of Staff for the Governor of the State of New Mexico.
Mr. Pecos also has served on numerous committees, boards and task forces at all levels of government. At Cochiti, he has been a member of the Economic Development Review Committee, the Environmental Review Committee, the Education Task Force and the Land Reacquisition Task Force; in the latter role, he led the fight to return over 35,000 acres of land to the Pueblo's control. Beyond his service to the Pueblo, Mr. Pecos has been a member of the Bernalillo Public Schools Board of Education and the Santa Fe Indian School Board, which he served as Chairman for 12 years. He has served the State of New Mexico and U.S. government as a member of the Governor's Council of Policy Advisors on Rural Economic Development, the Planning Committee for the National Indian Policy Institute, the National Task Force on Cultural Resource and Rights Protection and the National Environmental Protection Agency Pollution Prevention Environmental Education Task Force.
In 1996, Mr. Pecos became the first American Indian to be appointed as a member of the Board of Trustees for Princeton University. In 1999, he received New Mexico's highest honor, as he was named New Mexico's Distinguished Public Servant.
Mr. Pecos received a B.A. in history and political science in 1977 from Princeton University and is currently a Ph.D. candidate at the University of California, Berkeley. He is also the Director and co-founder of the New Mexico Leadership Institute and is devoted to bringing Native people of New Mexico together in forums to discuss the issues challenging the indigenous nations.
Oren R. Lyons is a traditional Faithkeeper of the Turtle Clan and a member of the Onondaga Indian Nation Council of Chiefs of the Six Nations of the Iroquois Confederacy, or the Haudenosaunee (People of the Long House). He recently retired from the State University of New York at Buffalo, where he was a professor in American Studies and directed the Native American Studies Program.
Oren Lyons was born in 1930 and raised in the traditional lifeways of the Iroquois on the Seneca and Onondaga reservations in western and central New York State. After serving in the U.S. Army, he graduated in 1958 from the Syracuse University College of Fine Arts. He then pursued a career in commercial art in New York City, becoming the Art and Planning Director of Norcross Greeting Cards. He has exhibited his own paintings widely and is noted as an American Indian artist.
Since his return to Onondaga in 1970, Chief Lyons has been a leading advocate for American Indian causes. He is recognized internationally as an eloquent and respected spokesperson on behalf of Native peoples and is a sought after speaker on topics as broadranging as American Indian traditions, Indian law and history, human rights, environmental issues and interfaith dialogue. He has received numerous honors and awards, including the Honorary Doctor of Law from Syracuse University. To mark the Columbus Quincentenary in 1992, he published Exiled in the Land of the Free (co-edited with John Mohawk), a major study of American Indians and democracy.
In 1982 Chief Lyons helped to establish the Working Group on Indigenous Populations, an advisory body to the Geneva-based United Nations Human Rights Commission and has been an active member in the Working Group. He serves on the Executive Committee of the Global Forum of Spiritual and Parliamentary Leaders on Human Survival and is a principal figure in the Traditional Circle of Indian Elders, an annual council of traditional grassroots leadership of the major Indian nations of North America. In 1990 he received the Ellis Island Congressional Medal of Honor and, that summer, was a negotiator between the Mohawk Indians and the governments of Canada, Quebec and New York State in the crisis at Oka. On April 16, 1991 Chief Lyons led a delegation of 17 American Indian leaders who met with President Bush in Washington. Later that same year, he was the subject of a one-hour PBS television documentary. In 1992 he organized a delegation of the Iroquois Confederacy to the United Nations Conference on Environment and Development in Rio de Janeiro and was invited by Maurice Strong, Secretary General of UNCED, to address the national delegations.
A lifelong lacrosse player, Oren Lyons was a collegiate All-American in the sport (invented by the Iroquois), and the Syracuse University team had an undefeated season during his graduating year. He is currently Honorary Chairman of the Iroquois National Lacrosse Team, which in 1990, at the World Games in Perth, Australia, became the first Indigenous national team in any sport to compete against the national teams of recognized nation states (such as the United States, Canada, Great Britain, and Australia). In 1993 he was elected to the Lacrosse National Hall of Fame.
Sherry Salway Black is the Director of the Partnership for Tribal Governance at the National Congress of American Indian. She is the past Executive Director of the Ovarian Cancer National Alliance and an ovarian and endometrial cancer survivor. Ms. Black's experience includes nonprofit management, health care administration, business and economic development and philanthropy. Prior to coming to the Alliance, Ms. Black served for 19 years as Senior Vice President and on the board of directors for First Nations Development Institute, an international non-governmental organization working with Indigenous peoples in the United States and internationally. Previous work experience includes various positions with the Indian Health Service (DHHS, PHS) and as a researcher for a Congressional commission studying issues affecting American Indian and Alaska Native peoples.
Ms. Black currently serves on the board of directors of the Council on Foundations where she has served as the treasurer, a member of the Executive Committee, the Finance and Investment Committee and a member of the Governance Committee. Other current board positions include the Johnson Scholarship Foundation, Trillium Asset Management Corporation, and the Hopi Education Endowment Fund. She also serves on the advisory committee for the National Congress of American Indians' Policy Research Center. Past board positions include First Nations Development Institute, First Nations Oweesta Corporation, American Indian Business Leaders, Native Americans in Philanthropy and Women and Philanthropy.
Ms. Black has a Masters of Business Administration degree, with a health care administration major, from the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania. She is a member of the Oglala Lakota Nation and is originally from South Dakota. She and her husband, Ronald Simpson Black, live in Falmouth, Virginia.
JoAnn Chase, Mandan/Hidatsa and Arikara, is a Rockefeller Foundation Next Generation Leadership Fellow and a consultant to several Native and non-Native not-for-profit groups regarding public policy, fund raising, public relations, and management issues. Currently, she advises the Youth Justice Funding Collaborative, a New York based program; the African American Policy Institute, a New York City national center that does policy analysis and community based outreach and education; and, RamScale Productions, a New York multi-media arts center that does both multi-cultural and commercial programming; and, the Media, Arts & Culture Unit of the Ford Foundation. She is the former Executive Director of the National Network of Grantmakers, a donor membership organization devoted to supporting and expanding progressive philanthropy.
JoAnn served eight years as the Executive Director of the National Congress of American Indians, this country's oldest and largest national Indian membership organization. Under her leadership, she tripled the organization's staff, operating budget and tribal membership. Her leadership facilitated unprecedented visibility and viability for NCAI as a strong and credible voice for Native America.
JoAnn has a law degree from the University of New Mexico Law School and a baccalaureate in film theory and criticism from Boston University. Currently, she serves on boards for Harvard University 's Honoring Nations' Program and NAES College . She speaks regularly to private and public audiences regarding Native issues.
Karen Diver is in her third term as Chairwoman of the Fond du Lac Band of Lake Superior Chippewa. This position serves as chair of the tribal government and CEO of the reservation's corporate boards. The Fond du Lac Reservation is the 2nd largest employer in northern Minnesota with over 2,200 employees. She is currently serving as Vice-President of the Minnesota Chippewa Tribe (MCT), comprised of six members Bands, and Chair of its Finance Corporation. Karen also serves on the Board of Directors for the Corporation for Supportive Housing (CSH). She has previously represented area tribes on the Indian Health Service Tribal Self-Governance Committee. Karen served for three years as the Director of Special Projects for Fond du Lac and for eleven years as the Executive Director of the YWCA of Duluth. Karen attended Harvard as a 2002 Bush Foundation Leadership Fellow. Karen has extensive board experience in the nonprofit sector including six years on the Minnesota Council of Nonprofits Board of Directors and the Women's Foundation of Minnesota, serving two terms as chair of both boards. Karen was a founding member of American Indian Community Housing Organization, the Duluth Community Action Program, Duluth Family Services Collaborative and the Duluth Human Rights Commission. She was an appointee of President Obama to the State, Local and Tribal Leaders Task Force on Climate Preparedness and Resiliency, and co-chaired the Natural Resources Committee. She has a Bachelors in Economics from the University of Minnesota, Duluth, and a Masters in Public Administration from the Kennedy School of Government at Harvard University.
David M. Gipp is President of DM Gipp & Associates LLC and Chancellor of the United Tribes Technical College, Emeritus). He was born in Fort Yates, North Dakota and is an enrolled member of the Standing Rock Sioux Tribe.
United Tribes Technical College was founded by fives tribes and their leaders in the late 1960s. It serves an average of more than 300 adults and 240 children and is one of the most innovative residential post secondary educational models in the United States. As President, Dr. Gipp oversees United Tribes' accredited community college, K-8 elementary school and two early childhood centers, as well as a host of additional direct service programs for reservation citizens, including the Sacred Child Program, the ND/SD Business Development Center, a transportation technical assistance center and the Regional Comprehensive Technical Assistance Center.
Since 1972, Dr. Gipp's professional work has been principally in the development of tribal colleges. He was instrumental in developing the first national legislation that assists tribally controlled community colleges. Among other posts, Dr. Gipp was the first permanent executive director (1973-1977) of the American Indian Higher Education Consortium and has served several times as the organization's president (1978-1980, 1991-1993 and 1999-2000). He is also the past chairman of the American Indian College Fund. Dr. Gipp's awards include selection as 1995 Indian Educator of the Year by the National Indian Education Association and as 1997 North Dakota Multicultural Educator of the Year; in July 2000, he received the Economic Development Administration's first CP Grant award for service in community economic development.
Dr. Gipp was educated at the University of North Dakota (1969) and holds a Doctorate in Laws, Honoris Causa , from North Dakota State University (1991) for his contributions in development tribal higher education.
Brian Henderson (Apache) is Senior Advisor to the Chairman of Espírito Santo Financial Group. Prior to joining Group Espirito Santo, Mr. Henderson devoted over 36 years to the Financial Services industry, including 22 years at Merrill Lynch & Co. and 14 years at the Chase Manhattan Bank Most of Mr. Henderson's years at both Merrill Lynch and Chase were in international investment and commercial banking, with his last position at Merrill Lynch as Chairman of the Public Sector Group.
Mr. Henderson serves on the following not-for-profit boards: The Institute for the Study of Diplomacy, School of Foreign Service, Georgetown University; the American Indian College Fund; National Museum of the American Indian, (Smithsonian Institution); The International Advisory Council of the Manhattan School of Music and Vice Chairman of the Atlantic Council of the United States.
Mr. Henderson is a graduate of Georgetown University's School of Foreign Service. He also attended the University of Barcelona and Edinburgh University. Mr. Henderson is married, has three daughters and lives in New York City.
Andrew Lee is currently a Young Global Leader of the World Economic Forum.
Previously, he was Vice President for New Businesses at Aetna, Inc., a Fortune 100 diversified health care benefits company that serves more than 36 million people in the United States and around the world with information and resources to help them make better informed decisions about their health care. At Aetna, Mr. Lee was responsible for developing the company's Accountable Care Solutions business, which works collaboratively with hospitals and health systems across the country to improve health care quality, efficiency and patient satisfaction. From 2009 to 2011, Mr. Lee was chief of staff to Aetna's Office of the President. As a member of Mark Bertolini's senior team, Mr. Lee was responsible for driving the efficacy of management processes in Aetna's Business Operations and facilitating the development and implementation of a differentiated business strategy. In addition to his role in New Businesses, Mr. Lee is the co-executive sponsor for ANative, Aetna's employee resource group dedicated to American Indian and Alaska Native issues. Prior to assuming his chief of staff role in February 2009, Mr. Lee led Aetna's Office of Public Policy, which works at the intersection of public policy and business opportunity and seeks to advance the company's thought leadership on health policy issues of national importance.
Prior to joining Aetna in 2005, Mr. Lee served as executive director of the Harvard Project on American Indian Economic Development, a research and service institution at the Harvard Kennedy School that works on economic and social development among American Indian nations. While at the Harvard Project, he founded Honoring Nations, a national awards program that identifies, celebrates, and shares information about outstanding tribal government programs. From 1996 to 1998, Mr. Lee worked in the Governance and Civil Society unit of the Ford Foundation's Peace and Social Justice Program.
Committed to contributing to the vibrancy of the nonprofit sector, Mr. Lee serves on a number of national boards. He is the vice-chairman of the board for Smithsonian's Heye Center of the National Museum of the American Indian, and is a member of the board of governors for the Harvard Project's Honoring Nations tribal governance awards program. He also serves on the tribal policy board for Portland State University's Institute of Tribal Government, on the council of advisors for United National Indian Tribal Youth (a youth leadership organization) and the on the national advisory council for a think tank associated with the National Congress of American Indians. From 2003 to 2010, Mr. Lee was a trustee of the Nathan Cummings Foundation, where he served on the foundation's investment committee and chaired its governance committee.
Mr. Lee co-authored The State of the Native Nations: Conditions Under U.S. Policies of Self-Determination, published by Oxford University Press in 2008, and he also co-authored a chapter on effective social service delivery in Rebuilding Native Nations: Strategies for Governance and Development, published by the University of Arizona Press in 2007. Mr. Lee has been recognized for his leadership: In 1999, Americans for Indian Opportunity selected Mr. Lee to be an "American Indian Ambassador;" in 2001 he testified before the U.S. Senate Committee on Indian Affairs; and in 2004 USA Weekend magazine profiled him as one of seven "Native American Standouts" nationwide. In March 2011, Mr. Lee was selected as a Young Global Leader by the World Economic Forum, which each year recognizes up to 200 of the most distinguished young leaders under the age of 40 from around the world. He is the first American Indian to receive this honor.
Mr. Lee received his undergraduate degree from Hamilton College and a master degree in public policy from the John F. Kennedy School of Government, Harvard University, where he was a Christian A. Johnson Native American fellow and a Woodrow Wilson fellow in public policy and international affairs.
Born and raised in Connecticut, Mr. Lee's extended family resides on the Seneca Nation of Indians' Cattaraugus Indian Reservation in western New York. Mr. Lee, his wife and three sons live in Glastonbury, Connecticut, and in his spare time, he enjoys flyfishing, bowhunting and playing lacrosse competitively.
Michael Lipsky is Senior Program Director at Demos, a public policy research and advocacy organization based in New York. Before coming to Demos in October, 2003, he served for twelve years as a Senior Program Officer in the Ford Foundation's Peace and Social Justice Program, where he managed a portfolio of approximately 100 grants, creating and then managing initiatives to strengthen government and public accountability in the states. He is one of the founding organizers of the State Fiscal Analysis Initiative, a 34-state effort to provide critical data on state fiscal policy.
He has taught at the University of Wisconsin, Harvard University's Graduate School of Education, and for 21 years was a professor of political science at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. His publications include Protest in City Politics; the award-winning Street Level Bureaucracy; and Nonprofits for Hire: The Welfare State in the Age of Contracting (with Steven Rathgeb Smith). He holds a B.A. from Oberlin College and an M.P.A., M.A., and Ph.D in politics from Princeton University. He is currently a visiting professor at Georgetown University's Public Policy Institute.
Heather Kendall-Miller is Denaina Athabaskan and is a tribal member of the Native Village of Dillingham. Since 1993 she has worked as a staff attorney of the Native American Rights Fund (NARF), where she practices exclusively in the area of tribal rights and subsistence. In addition to her work for NARF, Ms. Kendall-Miller serves on the Board of Trustees of the Alaska Conservation Foundation.
Together with fellow NARF staff attorney Lawrence Aschenbrenner, Ms. Kendall-Miller served as lead counsel for both appeals (to the U.S. Circuit Court and to the U.S. Supreme Court) of the landmark case State of Alaska v. Native Village of Venetie , which sought to determine the reach of Indian Country and, specifically, whether tribes in Alaska possessed the same broad powers as Indian tribes on reservations in the lower-48 states. While ultimately unsuccessful, the arguments forwarded by NARF laid important groundwork for new legislation, Native Alaskan government development and further juridical work.
Ms. Kendall-Miller received her B.A. from the University of Alaska-Fairbanks in 1988 and her J.D. from Harvard Law School in 1991. After law school, she worked as a Judicial Clerk for Chief Justice Ray Rabinowitz of the Alaska Supreme Court. She then received a two-year Skadden Fellowship to work for Alaska Legal Services and NARF in the area of Alaska Native Rights and was subsequently hired full time by NARF.
Wilson is a citizen of the Otoe-Missouria Tribe and an Osage headright holder. He is the Managing Partner and co-founder of Ietan Consulting and a fierce advocate for tribal self-determination. Wilson has dedicated his career to expanding and strengthening sovereign rights across Indian Country. He serves as the chair of the Notah Begay III Foundation and is a member of the board of the Nike N7 Fund and the Close Up Foundation, not-for-profit organizations that provide opportunities for Native youth.
Angela R. Riley is currently the Oneida Indian Nation Visiting Professor of Law, Harvard Law School. She is also Professor of Law at the UCLA School of Law and Director of UCLA's J.D./M.A. joint degree program in Law and American Indian Studies. From 2010-2015, she served as Director of UCLA's American Indian Studies Center. Her research focuses on issues related to indigenous peoples' rights, with a particular emphasis on cultural property and Native governance. Her work has been published in the top legal journals in the field, including Yale Law Journal, Columbia Law Review, California Law Review, Georgetown Law Journal, Texas Law Review and numerous others. She received her undergraduate degree at the University of Oklahoma and her law degree from Harvard Law School.
After clerking for Chief Judge T. Kern of the Northern District of Oklahoma, she worked as a litigator at Quinn Emanuel in Los Angeles, specializing in intellectual property litigation. In 2003 she was selected to serve on her tribe's Supreme Court, becoming the first woman and youngest Justice of the Supreme Court of the Citizen Potawatomi Nation of Oklahoma. In 2010, she was elected as Chief Justice. She now serves as Co-Chair for the United Nations - Indigenous Peoples' Partnership Policy Board, which is a commitment to the UN Declaration on the Rights of Indigenous Peoples, and calls for its full realization through the mobilization of financial and technical assistance. She is also the mother of two girls.
Honorary Board Members
Duane Champagne is professor of sociology and on the Faculty Advisory Committee for the Native Nations Law & Policy Center at the University of California, Los Angeles . He is a citizen of the Turtle Mountain Band of Chippewa from North Dakota.
Professor Champagne's research focuses primarily on issues of social and cultural change in both historical and contemporary Native American communities. He has focused on a variety of Indian communities including the Cherokee, Tlingit, Iroquois, Delaware, Choctaw, Northern Cheyenne, Creek, California Indians and others, and has authored and edited over sixty publications, including Contemporary Native American Cultural Issues (1999), Native America: Portraits of the Peoples (1994), The Native North American Almanac (1993) and Social Order and Political Change: Constitutional Governments Among the Cherokee, Choctaw, Chickasaw and Creek (1992).
Mark Macarro, tribal chairman of the Pechanga Band of Luiseño Indians, was first elected in 1992 and is serving his sixth term on the council and fifth term as chairman. Macarro's vision for the Pechanga people is to see the band strengthen its political self-determination and economic self-sufficiency by developing a diversified economy for the Pechanga Band.
A national leader, Macarro represents Pechanga in the National Congress of American Indians (NCAI) and on the board of directors for the National Indian Gaming Association (NIGA). As a Gray Davis gubernatorial appointee, Macarro was the only Native American to serve on the California Workforce Investment Act Board. Macarro is the current Chairman of the Riverside County Sheriff Native American Affairs Commission. He also served as a Riverside County Board of Supervisors appointee to the County Historical Commission. Macarro was also elected to the board of directors of Borrego Springs Bank, NA. As a charter board member Chairman Macarro helped found the Advocates for Indigenous California Language Survival (AICLS), a non-profit organization, in the early '90s.
Chairman Macarro believes it is critical to maintain and cultivate the Pechanga tribal culture, language, and traditional life ways so that the Pechanga people can preserve their unique tribal identity. Macarro is a traditional Luiseño singer, singing ceremonial Nukwaanish funeral songs at Indian wakes throughout area Indian reservations, and is a practitioner of Cham'teela, the Luiseño's native language. He has also been an apprentice bird singer to Robert Levi, an elder of the Torres-Martinez Reservation; having learned hundreds of Levi's birdsongs.
Macarro served as program manager for the library and museum at the Rincon Reservation from 1992 through 1995, as the director of youth education at Soboba Reservation's Noli School from 1990 through 1992, and began his career in Indian country as a grants/contracts administrator for the Pechanga Reservation in 1988. Macarro also served as a credentialed substitute teacher for grades 7-12 in the Riverside County Schools system, the San Jacinto Unified School District, the Colton Joint Unified School District, and Riverside City School District.
Macarro has a Bachelor of Arts degree in political science from the University of California, Santa Barbara and is a graduate of Colton High School.
Macarro was born in San Bernardino, California on October 7, 1963 and raised in Colton, California. Chairman Macarro's father, the late Leslie Macarro, was a Pechanga tribal member and a correctional peace officer killed in the line of duty in May of 1988. He worked for the California Youth Authority. His great-grandfather, Juan Macarro (1851-1920) served as Captain for the Pechanga Band during the first decade of the 1900's and was also a Nukwaanish singer. The office of chairman was formerly called \captain.\
Elsie Meeks, an enrolled member of the Oglala Lakota Tribe, is the former executive director of First Nations Oweesta Corporation (OWEESTA), a subsidiary of First Nations Development Institute.
Elsie has over 20 years experience working for Native community economic development. Prior to her leadership and work at OWEESTA, Elsie was active for 15 years in the development and management of The Lakota Fund, a small business and microenterprise development loan fund on the Pine Ridge Reservation in South Dakota . Elsie has recently completed a three-year term on the Federal Reserve Board's Consumer Advisory Council. She serves as chairperson of The Lakota Fund and sits on the boards of National Community Capital Association, Corporation for Enterprise Development and the Oglala Sioux Tribe Partnership for Housing. She is also an Advisory Council member of Native Nations Institute. She was appointed by former Senate Minority Leader Tom Daschle to serve on the U.S. Commission on Civil Rights in 1999 and was the first Native American to serve on the Commission.
Alfreda Mitre is the Formor Chairwoman of the Las Vegas Paiute Tribe and has served in previous appointments from 1990-1992 and 1994-1998. hairwoman Mitre has worked toward economic diversity and completing the first phase of the Las Vegas Paiute Resort, which includes Sun Mountain and Snow Mountain golf courses (designed by Pete Dye), a clubhouse, gas station and highway interchange.
In 1999, Chairwoman Mitre received the Nevada Commission on Tourism award on Voluntourism for her work on the Las Vegas Paiute Resort. In addition, she is listed among the First 100, a compilation by the Las Vegas Review Journal of the 100 people who had the largest impact on Las Vegas over the city's first century.
Previously, Chairwoman Mitre served as Director of the University of Colorado's Upward Bound Program, which provides high school students from targeted communities with the opportunity to experience a college atmosphere before graduating from high school. Chairwoman Mitre was also the director of the Native American Resource Center at the University of California, Santa Cruz.
Susan M. Williams is a shareholder in Williams & Works, P.A., an Indian-owned and woman-owned law firm in Corrales , New Mexico . Ms. Williams, an enrolled member of the Sisseton-Wahpeton Dakota Nation, is a graduate of Radcliffe College of Harvard University (B.A., Magna Cum Laude , 1976) and of Harvard Law School (J.D. 1981). Upon graduation from law school, Ms. Williams joined Fried, Frank, Harris, Shriver & Kampelman, where she worked in the Indian Banking and Law department for five years. She was the Executive Director of the Navajo Tax Commission in Window Rock, Arizona and served as Chairperson of the Commission (1976-1978) and also returned to Harvard Law School as a lecturer in Indian Law for five years and then at Stanford Law School for one year
In addition, Ms. William serves on several Boards of Directors and National Advisory Committees on state-tribal relations, resource development and environmental protection, including the World Wildlife Fund, the American Bar Association, Water Resources Committee, the American Indian Resources Institute, St. Michaels Indian School, Indian Law Resource Center and the Grand Canyon Trust. Ms. Williams also serves on the Board of Directors of the Harvard Alumni Association. As a lead lobbyist in several successful Indian legislative efforts, Ms. Williams has impacted amendments such as one to treat Indian Tribes as states under the Safe Drinking Water Act, the Clean Water Act, and the Indian Tribal Governmental Tax Status Act. In April of 1989, Ms. Williams successfully argued the Big Horn case before the United States Supreme Court. She represents numerous Indian tribes on their water rights and other matters and is a member of the District of Columbia Bar, the New Mexico Bar, the American Bar Association, and the United States Supreme Court Bar.
Dr. Peterson Zah is a Diné from the Navajo Nation. Zah has worked for over 30 years to defend the interests of all Native American people and is widely respected among U.S. tribes.
In 1995, Dr. Zah was recruited by ASU to help address the education concerns of the growing Native American student population and their respective communities. He currently serves as the Special Adviser to ASU President on American Indian Affairs. During his tenure the university's Native American student population has doubled from 672 to over 1,400. He is recognized for his efforts to increase retention rates from 43 percent to 78 percent, among the highest of any major college or university in the country. His guidance and support has also allowed for creating one of the largest and most profound groups of American Indian faculty members in the country; totaling 26. Throughout his career he has made education his first priority. In the fall of 2004 he received a lifetime achievement award from the National Indian Education Association.
Zah's respect for the value of education is rooted in his own story. Born in 1937 and raised in the middle of the Navajo Reservation at remote Low Mountain, AZ. He left his home and family in 1953 to attend the Phoenix Indian School, later enrolling at Phoenix Community College and finally ASU, where he earned a bachelor's degree in education in 1963. He returned to his homeland as a vocational educator, teaching Navajo adults the essentials of the carpentry trade, and then as a field coordinator for VISTA Indian Training Center.
Quickly proving his leadership abilities, he is co-founder and later became executive director of DNA-People's Legal Services, a nonprofit legal services program for the Navajo, Hopi and Apache people. He assisted tribes in legal matters, set up widespread community education programs, and championed native rights.
In 1982, Zah was elected Chairman of the Navajo Tribal Council. In 1990, under a new tribal government, Peterson Zah was elected the first president of the Navajo Nation, leading the movement to restructure and modernize their governmental system from a council to a nation. This makes Dr. Zah the last Chairman of the Navajo Tribal Council and the first President of the Navajo Nation.
Zah who is considered one of the 100 most important Native Americans in the last century and a key leader in Native American government and education, received an Honorary Doctoral Degree of Humane Letters from Arizona State University in 2005. He is also the recent recipient of the 2008 Martin Luther King, Jr. Servant Leadership Award.


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Zloty Drops for Second Day as Europe Concern Grows Before Summit
Poland's zloty declined for a second day as reports showed economic conditions in the euro area, the country's biggest export market, worsened while European leaders gathered in Brussels to discuss ways to stem the debt crisis.
The zloty lost 0.8 percent to 4.2861 per euro as of 12:03 p.m. in Warsaw, the steepest drop among more than 20 emerging-market currencies tracked by Bloomberg.
Economic confidence in the euro area slumped to the lowest in more than 2 1/2 years in June, the European Commission said today. The Ifo economic research institute said Europe's sovereign-debt crisis will damp Germany's economic performance this year and a report showed unemployment in the nation climbed in June for the fourth month this year.
Euro-area finance ministers set the stage for today's gathering in Brussels of the European Union's 27 chiefs, approving Cyprus's bailout and detailing how they would aid Spanish banks. Consensus breaks down on safeguarding governments in Spain and Italy, with German Chancellor Angela Merkel rejecting calls to do more to cut their borrowing costs.
"We think that the road map for coming out of the crisis will be full of holes," Rafal Benecki and Grzegorz Ogonek, economists at ING Groep NV's Polish unit, wrote in an e-mailed note. "This won't bring optimism to financial markets."


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Oct 12, 12 at 9:44pm ^re: Doomsday Scenarios.
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Oct 15, 12 at 1:15am ^re: Doomsday Scenarios.
quote rubicant phantomWell that depends what scenario happens. Some of the ones we have discussed are potentially survivable. Some are completely unsurvivable.
In some cases there will be no-one left to learn anything.
Oct 15, 12 at 6:19am ^re: Doomsday Scenarios.
quote KR_1250Science it seems is a double edged sword, the more we advance the more toys we get to kill ourselves with. The soviets developed and tested the largest known nuclear weapon, it was a 50 mega-ton hydrogen bomb and they set it off in northern artic circle. they documented the inferno that vaporizes everything was as large as Paris, France, and the shock wave that flattens everything was 30+ miles in radius. Needless to say they tested it very far from any civilization >.>
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As you can see in the picture the mushroom cloud reaches high into the stratosphere. At that altitude the fallout could potentially get picked up and carried by the jet stream around the world. Even though the soviets didn't like us, they admired and feared the nuclear power. They wanted to make an even more powerful bomb, but chose to go with the one in the picture for safety.
We are an unstable race, with weapons of mass destruction that was at one time thought to be the sole power of the gods. Some scientists believe the reason we haven't heard anything from alien civilizations is because they wiped themselves out. Dr. Michio Okaku thinks that their are 3 types of civilizations we are type 0.... >.> . type one gets power from the whole of their planet from geothermal, to tapping the ocean currents for their energy. And they're unified under a single flag, but we're far from doing any of this...
Oct 15, 12 at 6:41am ^re: Doomsday Scenarios.
quote wildfireYeah your right. The Tsar was meant to use an extra Uranium tamper taking its overall yield over 100Mt. But they scaled it back with a lead tammper to limit the potential fallout.
This kind of bomb is obsolete now however. During its development the US were much further ahead with regards to ballistic missile technology. The US could place low yield warheads with great accuracy, something the soviets could not do. So to make up for this they planned very high power bombs who could miss their target by 5 or 10 miles and still guarentee its destruction. there was also a large focuss on the political effects of having "the biggest" bomb.
As the soviets developed ICBM's the need for such a device was gone. However the alternative is just as scary, maybe more so. Each ICBM carries from 1 to 12 warheads depending on the exact model. Each warhead can carry from a 100Kt tactical load to a 15Mt city destroying load. Modern nuclear weapons effectively "cluster bomb" their target with multiple independant warheads. The chance of survival within a designated zone is 0, simple as. Also it is suggested that more numerous bombs would kick up and disperse far more fallout than one large explosion. Infact some of the fallout can be irradiated multiple times as key cities, militairytargets and inustrial areas would be targeted not just by one warhead, but by multiple missiles s a redundancy plan incase some were intercepted. The BBC documentary "threads" suggested that key targets like Moscow, London and New York could be hit by over 30 individual warheads each with a minimum yield of one megatonne. Any one of these warheads would obliterate a city.
quoteYeah, one of the big questions in Astronomy was put forward by Enrico Fermi, it is called Fermi's paradox. If the apparent existance of intelegent extra terrestrials is so high, where are they? Why arnt they broadcasting? Why cant we hear them? This question has loads of potential answers. There are obvious ones such as "There is no-one there" or "Civilisations are rare and spread too far apart to read one another". But there are also more interesting answers.
One as you said suggests that soon after splitting teh atom civilisations destroy themselves in nuclear war. The other is more sinister, a strange form of cosmic natural selection. If Alien life is out there it is staying quiet for a reason. Those who do not are anhialated. I.E alien life is hiding from something, what we cant say. And the worrying thing is we are broadcasting like there was no tomorow if this was the case. Thankfully i find this an amusing story and not very likely.
|rubicant phantom
Oct 16, 12 at 2:58am ^re: Doomsday Scenarios.
quote KR_1250I have faith in the American military, all that top secret technology which has not been commercialised might save our butts one day… I hope.
Oct 16, 12 at 3:06am ^re: Doomsday Scenarios.
quote rubicant phantomWell like i said in some cases there is a possibility of survival but it just depends on too many factors. In some cases such as a solar flare taking down the power grid living in a high tech modern American city might be a death trap.
If the Yellowstone super Volcano went off the U.S would be the absolute worst place to live. You'd be better of in Afghanistan.
And in the case of a big enough impact event it simply doesnt matter where you live or how much money and technology you have. The event could render the planet completely uninhabitable, even for bacteria.
And remember what the U.S militairies and govornments main priority will be in such a scenario. The same as yours. Self preservation.
Oct 16, 12 at 8:23am ^re: Doomsday Scenarios.
Even if some does survive, the world they wake up in will be a world without even basic luxuries we take for granted. People think that farmers will have a head start .... Farming is one of the most advanced industry tech-wise, and you mean to tell me that farmers today know when and how to plant seeds by hand? I heard a statistic somewhere that only 10% of all of earth's land mass is suitable for crops and the like. We do farm in these places, and the latter places are the result of technology and gas powered machines fixing the environment to suit our needs. Las vegas was built in a desert for example.... and is only possible because of the hoover dam....
<- They've been able to farm in some of the driest environments and in the harshest soil because of modern technology and fertilizers. We will have to re-learn the things that our great grandparents took for granted.
Now don't get me wrong because it might sound like I'm advocating the use of hand labor in farming.... when I'm against the idea because today it just wouldn't work. We need these systems in place to feed the ever growing population of humans on the planet. I was simply pointing out the myth that today's farmer will be any better off than you or me. Depending on the apocolypse they might not even be able to grow food...
|Short Circuit
Oct 18, 12 at 2:56am ^re: Doomsday Scenarios.
quote KR_1250That's quite a scary thought.
I like to think that aliens are just too far away to contact us. While you can broadcast a signal to the stars, space is damn huge. If you don't know where to aim, you're not going to hit the same place twice. If you do know where to aim, an adjustment of your radio dish by less than a millimeter can mean that the signal is off target by a few lightyears.
Has anyone heard of the wow signal? Back in... the seventies, I think, astronomers were monitoring radio signals from space, and while it was all naturally occurring and meaningless, they did find one instance of something. It was a signal that was too complex and deliberate to be simple Quasar radiation, but it was never deciphered. It's possible that it was just a signal from Earth that had been reflected back and jumbled, but who knows?
Oct 18, 12 at 3:47am ^re: Doomsday Scenarios.
quote Short CircuitYeah thankfully i tend to agree with this. I take that thought even further. In my opinion if sentient techlogy capable life has even existed before us then it may only develop a handful of times per galaxy AND not all at once. Our Galaxy may see just a few civilisations rise and fall throughout its entire 13.5 billion years so far. None were even able to contact eachother as they missed one another by billions of years.
I see this as a far more likely scenario than a Galaxy teeming with technological alien sepcies.
quoteYeah i have read all about it. Really strange. Its one of these cases like the Alan Hills meteor where i still dont have an opinion. No explenation including ET origins seem to adequately explan it.
And the lack of repeatability makes it difficult to even put down to a technical glitch as the sequence could not be reproduced artificially.
|Short Circuit
Oct 18, 12 at 4:02am ^re: Doomsday Scenarios.
quote KR_1250It couldn't be a technical glitch? I didn't know that. How many other explanations are there? It almost has to be alien in origin.
Also, if other civilization have existed before us, wouldn't they leave traces? Maybe random satellites floating around, or objects left on moons...
Oct 18, 12 at 4:29am ^re: Doomsday Scenarios.
quote Short CircuitNot exactly. The engineers in charge could not reproduce it if it was a technical glitch. It could be something they missed but this seems relatively unlikely.
The next most likely explenation is a signal from an earth orbiting satelite however an exact match could not be made. Also earth orbitting satelites do not emit radio signals at the frequency it was detected at AND infact were banned from doing so because this frequncy matches the change of state fequency of Hydrogen and is specially reserved for astronomical observation. Again unlikely.
However i have another theory. The Militairy could have placed secret sattelites in orbit which do send signals on this frequency. Afterall when your enemy is searching for something you dont want to be found why not use a banned frequency they may not look for? This is completely possible and unfortunately just way more likely than an ET source. However there is no evidence for it.
As i said i have no personal opinion on this one. Its just such a shame the signal only appeared once. We will probably never get an answer.
quotePerhaps in their own systems but there are many problems to finding that evidence.
1: The distances involved. If i am right and the galaxy has produced only a handful of species throughout the milky ways 39 × 1012 cubic light years of volume that means we would most likey have to travel for thousands of lightyears to reach their resting place.
2: Time. Chances are these civilisations would be spread out over the galaxies 10+ Billion year history. We would be separated by around 1 or 2 billion years. If the alien civilisation lived on a planet with geological processes like volcanism, weathering and plate tectonics (A good bet since this is the only way for a planet to generate a natural magnetic field) then all evidence of the species could be wiped out by teh recycling planet. Artificial alien satelites would not fly in permenant orbits and would decay or receed so over thousands of years they would either crash and burn or float freely and unpowered in space. These could be discovered but it would be like trying to find a cold dark needle in a... well... Galaxy.
Also on this point if a civilisation lived around a main sequence sun like star then its luminosity and energy output would not remain stable (Our sun is not stable). Most main sequence stars increase in brightness and heat throughout tehir lives and have but a few billion years of usable energy at any one orbital position. the species would have to move their planets orbit (still not a permenant sollution) stabalise thier star or become trully space fairing to seek out new habitats. If they were not able then their entire civilisation and all traces of it could be wiped out by their stars death in number of ways.
Civilisations could develop aroudn Red dwarf stars. These are very long lived stars who's relative stability over great time periods could perhaps preserve alien artifacts on dead worlds without geological processes. But red dwarfs are incredable numerous and when trying to find a dead civilisation who no longer boradcast it would be a very long lived and arduous process to systematically search each system almost by hand.
It would be incrediably difficult to ever find a dead advanced civilisation without some kind of beacon. Ofcourse this just depends on the level of technology of the civilisation.
Were they much more advanced they could have constructed long dead mega-structures. They could have constructed ring worlds, dyson speheres or solar power stations big enough for us to detect thermally, spectroscopically or even visually. Thats a bit sci fi for me though. This kinda fits in with what wildfire was saying about stage 1, 2 and 3 civilisations. Its hard to see how a civilisation so spread through space with such high technology could even die out though.
|Short Circuit
Oct 18, 12 at 4:39am ^re: Doomsday Scenarios.
Ah, the military. That sounds much more likely, yeah. I don't understand what you were saying about that hydrogen frequency though? Does it cause a volatile reaction of some sort?
I guess there is a lot of possible time and distance between civilizations. It's just a sad thought that humans will die out someday, and there might not be any trace of us left.
Oct 18, 12 at 5:38am ^re: Doomsday Scenarios.
quote Short CircuitThis is the frequency of light at which Hydrogen absorbs photons. It is useful in spectroscopy for locatin hydrogen in space using radio telescopes. If you have ever seen hydrogen absorbtion lines in a spectrometer then this is the frequency of light at which Hydrogen is observable. Hydrogen is also the most common element in the universe so if we were using radio frequencies which overlapped this perticular part of the spectrum then astronomers would have a lot of interference from sattelites whenever trying to focus radio telescopes in to locate free hydrogen.
So heavy industry and the militairy agreed not to use this frequency.
quoteYeah there will be literally no traces of humanity left on earth if we dont get off this planet. And in the very long term there may be no earth as the sun expands and consumes the burnt out ember that used to be earth in a few billion years. The ultimate doomsday i suppose. However there will be some long lived evidence of humanity in space. Our two NASA voyager probes are in the process of leaving our system right now and will most likely traverse the galaxy for millenia. The New Horizons probe which will fly by Pluto in 2015 will also leave our system eventually and presumable more will follow as our space programmes develop. But for an alien race to find these would be indescribably difficult or lucky. Especially when the probes stop broadcasting. To give you an idea how difficult the Voyager probes have been travelling at 11km per second for 30 years and would take hundreds of thousands of years to get to our nearest star system. Which has just one planet we know of (only discovered this week) which is uninhabitable.
The good thing is that if alien species are born, live and die frequently then the Milky Way may be full of long dead probes drifting through space. It could be the only way we ever discover another species. I doubt that though. It would be like putting your hand out with your eyes closed, clenching your fist and catching a humming bird. Except we have the problem of not even knowing wither or not the hummingbird exists.
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The wave-swept deck
From U.S. Coast Guard reports
A man-overboard situation is one of the deadliest commercial fishing accidents. In a winter fishery, the crew has only moments to execute a rescue.
During the last week of November, an Oregon Dungeness skipper was checking equipment on his 67-foot steel boat and drilling and training his crew.
On an early December morning they left Charleston. As dawn broke on the second day of the trip, the skipper was at the helm with three of the crew on deck — one at the bait station and two tossing the 150-pound pots over the stern. The two remaining crew members were below grabbing some shuteye.
At about 7:15 a.m., a large wave swept the deck, and the crewman working the port side remembers being knocked off his feet and felt like he was "covered in white foam." As he was getting back up, he heard someone yell, "Man overboard!" Looking over the stern, he saw the other crewman in the water about 30 yards behind the boat.
The skipper also heard the man-overboard call and started to maneuver to get to the man in the water. At 7:20 he got off a mayday call to the Coast Guard.
In the meantime, the crew on deck worked to reach the man in the water with the life ring. He had stopped swimming and was having trouble keeping his head above water.
One of the crewmen prepared to jump in to assist, but another wave knocked him off his feet. The skipper brought the crabber close to the man in the water. By this time, the skipper remembers that "he was there for a moment, and then he just went down."
Within 25 minutes of the mayday call, two Coast Guard HH-65 helicopters arrived. Soon after, two motor lifeboats from Station Siuslaw River joined the search. The crabber's skipper kept searching with assistance from another vessel that responded to the mayday call.
The search went on until darkness and reduced visibility brought it to an end. The crewman was never found.
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Contributing factors included weather — winds from 25 to 35 knots and waves from 8 to 13 feet — fatigue and gear. Each member of the crew was getting about five hours of sleep a day plus cat naps. They were working on deck for six to 12 hours before the incident took place.
The crewmen setting pots were working on the port and starboard quarters with a rail height of just 30.5 inches.
It is believed the crewman who went overboard was wearing rubber bands around his pant legs to prevent deck water from washing into his boots. Seawater would have quickly filled his rain pants and boots, making it extremely difficult for him to remain afloat. It also would have been difficult for him to remove his rain pants with the weight of the water in his boots, combined with the bib-type shoulder straps and the fact that he was not wearing a PFD.
A National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health report revealed that a quarter of West Coast commercial fishing deaths from 2000 to 2009 were the result of falls overboard. None of the victims were wearing PFDs.
Newer PFD designs allow you to work without interfering with your with normal range of motion.
Keep up with your drills, look after your shipmates and wear a PFD on deck — fish safe!
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