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Skip to comments.New legislative push for open carry gun law in Texas stirs emotions
Posted on 12/01/2012 8:17:11 PM PST by marktwain
A sophomore Texarkana state representative caused a stir this week when he announced he would once again push for an open carry gun law when the legislative session convenes in January.
Rep. George Lavender hopes to spearhead legislation that would allow residents who have been approved for concealed-weapon carrying to carry holstered pistols in the open.
He was behind similar legislation that was not passed in the 2011 legislative session.
Texas is one of six states that forbids open carry in all forms.
I definitely support open carry. The concealed handgun law to me is ridiculous... I am still carrying a gun on me, even if you dont know. I honestly think open carry would be better because potential criminals could see right off ... Just the mere sight of a gun on a guys belt is a deterrent, said Bob Godell, owner of The Gun Doctor in Longview.
Godell said firearms have been an important part of his life so much that when he retired, he purchased the shop.
He said he has little tolerance for people who were more afraid if a gun was visible than concealed.
It seems silly to me. Someone who has a weapon concealed is the same person with the same gun as someone who is open carrying. I see no purpose in hiding the fact that you are carrying the gun, Godell said. I would say, Get over it.
Community activist Wray Wade said he was 100 percent against any type of open carry law.
An open carry law would only create more confusion in the gun control battle that exists now in this country, Wade said.
(Excerpt) Read more at news-journal.com ...
It'll never happen until we depose the RINO speaker Straus the Louse.
"...create more confusion..." ???
Is this Wade guy some sort of idiot??? Stoopid??? Or...Is he just skeered of those of us who do know what real situation is in this country...
Typical poster boy of the Hoplophobic community...
I've always been a supporter of Texas growing up, and eliminating the restrictions against carrying in this manner in this state...We've had the CHL system in place now for over 15 years...Most Texans have become accustomed to the idea of carrying a firearm for lawful, self-defensive purposes...
We've got too many weak sisters in Austin.
Straus and Dewhurst need to ride off into the sunset in the general direction of their ranches.
I would rather keep things as they are, than have them come back later and say only open carry will be allowed. I don't want to lose the option to carry "concealed".
Don't be afraid. Push for Constitutional Carry.
Geez, enough with the irrational fear of firearms already.
Don't get me wrong, I would love to have something
else hanging down to my knee.
BTW, open carry didn't bother the State Trooper that was my neighbor when I was in NM. He borrowed it once, because he knew I had snake shot in it, and he didn't want to use his issue piece.
When I open carry, it may or may not be observable, depending on what I'm wearing, and what kind of work I'm doing.
I shouldn't have to worry about it, given the second amendment.
Good for Rep. George Lavender. I'm all for folks seeing big iron on my hip ;)
I hear ya! It would be nice to carry without having to be concerned with keeping it hidden.
Who is Dewhurst?
I agree whole-heartedly with you! I would like to have the option to carry either way. After all, some of our pretty dresses just wouldn't look right with a holster strapped on.....know what I mean—LOL!
I agree whole-heartedly with you! I would like to have the option to carry either way. After all, some of our pretty dresses just wouldn't look right with a holster strapped on.....know what I mean—LOL!
If,....if, I had a gun, I'd be all for this!!
As it is, ya can carry a long gun in the open. There is some debate on 'how' the carry is so that 'alarm' is not raised. A simple sling should work and over the shoulder.
Its already legal to carry a long gun in the open in Texas
I know, thats why I brought it up.
I must have misunderstood it, sorry
"Wait a minute. Wait a minute. No one's saying you can't carry a gun. All we're saying is that you just can't carry a gun in town. Is that so bad?" —Tombstone
Idaho has open carry without a permit needed. Concealed carry needs a permit.
Sorry Mark, but it's already DOA and everyone from the speaker to the lt. gov, and the gov have admitted as much. Got three minutes of news time though.
I am sooooo tired of buying little guns.....
Okay...I STILL don't get why everyone thinks open carry doesn't exist in Texas. The Texas Constitution already says 'open carry' is legal in section 23 of the Bill of Rights.
The declaratory clause:
Every citizen shall have the right to keep and bear arms in the lawful defense of himself or the State;
The restrictive clause;
but the Legislature shall have power, by law, to regulate the wearing of arms, with a view to prevent crime.
The thing about the Law is that it cannot negate itself, so the restrictive clause only means the legislature can regulate HOW arms can be worn......not if they CAN BE worn.
To assume the restrictive clause can cancel the declaratory clause makes every written Constitution pointless!
He is the Lieutenant Governor in TX.
With liberals common sense simply does not exist.
For example: If a thug was intent on robbing a store by violent means would he:
1. Walk in the store, look around for any signs of armed personnel and if none were seen, violently rob the store?
2. Walk in the store, look around for any signs of armed personnel and if one was seen, leave the store and find another one that fit rule #1?
The only way the thug could be sure of his decision would be by seeing a customer wearing a holder and a gun. Under concealed carry there would be no way for the thug to know and consequently, the robbery would go on.
Virginia is considered a "Gold State" for open carry.
I really like it because I can carry either way and if my jacket or shirt moves and my pistol is uncovered I can't get arrested.
I carry open or concealed as my mood and circumstances dictate.
When I'm working outside in some places, I want my .38 with snake-shot on my hip, near to hand without running afoul of the law.
Moving to what Virginia has would be a step forward for Texas. But Constitutional Carry is my end game goal.
I would like Constitutional Carry also, but I want it for every state so we do not run afoul of stupid laws while traveling/visiting.
Writing that, I do not want the Federal Government involved in any way. Having a Federal law would allow them to insinuate themselves even more into the situation and then they could start dictating terms. To the point where they could start narrowing the actual right into oblivion.
This morning, I talked FTF with TX Sen Kevin Eltife's local aide and asked him to convey to Eltife that we, his constituents, want him to sponsor Lavender's bill in the Senate.
I prefer to carry concealed for tactical and social reasons -- but I don't accept being considered a criminal should I choose to reveal my weapon.
It's that simple.
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In a few minutes all of the problems that had been associated with Google Maps disappeared. The four current "Crow Wing Lakes" and several other lakes morphed back to the land of 1913 -- through the 1920s and perhaps beyond. The configuration of the 1913 Crow Wing Lake and Mud Lake (which my uncle called Dead Lake) were very similar to Ralph's drawing of the two lakes in his map.
Once the lakes were aligned, the vexing problem of "which way was north?" was solved. The world of Ralph as a boy had been charted by a short stretch of the Mississippi River and the Great Northern Railroad line and he oriented his map on these two features. However, these two important landmarks of his youth were not due north as it appeared on his map, but due West from his home area around Crow Wing Lake. When the lakes, the railroad track, and the Mississippi were in proper alignment, then all of the farms, roads, and landmarks of his letters made sense to me.
As I studied the map, I realized that his map encompassed a world that was only 1 1/2 to 2 miles by nearly 4 miles, a total of not quite 8 square miles. No wonder he could describe the details of his youth so well, for he often told of walking, hunting, fishing and working on every mile around his home. Now, I can see that was true, and I now have a good idea of where my aunts and uncles were born, the location over the years of the homes of his parents, grandparents, aunts, uncles and neighbors. I know how far he had to walk or ride a horse to school or to the train station as the map opened up a new window on his world. Ralph's map is indeed a treasure.


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Lazaridis School of Business & Economics
Inflation and Price Adjustment: Evidence from Canadian Newspaper Prices (ABSTRACT)
T. Fisher & J. Konieczny
published: 2006 | Research publication | Refereed Journals - Economics
Fisher, T.C.G., & Konieczny, J.D. (2006), "Inflation and Price Adjustment: Evidence from Canadian Newspaper Prices", Journal of Money, Credit and Banking, 38 (3), 615-634.
ABSTRACT: The paper studies the effect of inflation on price behavior using price data from Canadian daily newspapers. We test the Sheshinski and Weiss (1977) monopoly price adjustment model on a sample of monopolistic as well as oligopolistic newspapers, in contract to earlier studies that uses data from oligopolistic or monopolistically competitive markets. The results depend crucially on the assumptions about how often the first collect information and revises its optimal pricing policy. With infrequent policy revisions, the results for monopoly newspapers support the model. The results for oligopoly newspapers are similar.
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The Holocaust Violence
The Forgotten Holocausts
Heading the list of the errors made by some who describe the Holocaust is the way they ignore the Nazis' other victims, apart from the Jews. The Nazis didn't restrict their campaign of genocide to Jews alone, but also included such ethnic groups as Gypsies, Poles and Slavs, the mentally and physically handicapped, and religious communities such as the Catholics and Jehovah's Witnesses. This chapter shall examine the "forgotten holocausts" waged against these groups, which are generally totally neglected.
Savagery Against the Wretched: The Genocide of the Handicapped
Most people think that the Nazi Holocaust began with the slaughter of the Jews. Actually though, before the Jews, another group was subjected to Nazi murder: The mentally and physically handicapped and those with hereditary diseases in German society. In his book The Origins of Nazi Genocide, the historian Henry Friedlander writes:
In the postwar world, Auschwitz has come to symbolize genocide in the twentieth century. But Auschwitz was only the last, most perfect Nazi killing center. The entire killing enterprise had started in January 1940 with the murder of the most helpless human beings, institutionalized handicapped patients.116
In order to understand the reason behind that, we need to look at Nazi ideology, which was based on racism. One of racism's practical applications was the false theory of "eugenics," which foresaw the "improvement" of the human race in the same way as an animal species is improved, through selective breeding. First, the Nazis decided to eliminate the handicapped and those with hereditary diseases, which they felt would "damage the race."
The concept of eugenics was born with Darwin's theory of evolution. In his book The Origin of Species, Darwin consistently referred to the improvement of species, and in The Descent of Man he put forward the lie that mankind was just another species of animal. Darwin's cousin Francis Galton took his erroneous claims another step further, and formulated the theory of eugenics.
Galton's 1869 book Heredity Genius discussed a number of so-called "geniuses" in British history, and put forward the mistaken idea that they possessed particular racial characteristics. Following that claim, Galton suggested that British blood was genetically superior to that of other nations, and that steps needed to be taken to protect it. In his twisted view, that theory applied to all races, not just to the British.
According to the theory of eugenics practiced in Nazi Germany, the physically and mentally handicapped were seen as an obstacle to the development of society. This perverted view led to the slaughter of thousands of the handicapped and elderly.
After Galton, the concept of eugenics' fiercest advocate was the German Darwinist biologist Ernst Haeckel, accepted as one of the Nazis' ideological forefathers. Haeckel was the first to speak openly of the brutal killing for eugenic purposes. In his book Wonders of Life, he maintained the inhumane idea that "handicapped babies need to be killed with no loss of time," and claimed that this would not constitute murder, since those babies were not yet conscious.117 Also, as part of the "laws of evolution," Haeckel wanted to kill all those sick and handicapped who might hold back the so-called evolution of society. He opposed giving them medical treatment which, he argued, only prevented natural selection:
Dr. Karl Brandt, who maintained that handicapped babies should be murdered as soon as they were born.
Hundreds of thousands of incurable people, for instance the mentally ill, lepers, and those suffering from cancer are being artificially kept alive, yet that brings no advantage to them or to society in general... In order to be freed from this evil, these patients must be given a quick-acting and effecting poison, by decision and under the observation of an authorised commission.118
This barbarity theorized by Haeckel was to be put into practice by Nazi Germany.
As committed practitioners of the deception of social Darwinism, the Nazis adopted the theory of eugenics in that same form. The Forgotten Crimes report, by the Disability Rights Advocates organization, describes the mass murder of the sick and handicapped by the Nazis, and sets out their monstrous view of these innocent people:
Instead of accepting disability as an aspect of life in all societies, German [Nazi] ideology considered disability to be a sign of degeneracy and viewed nearly any disabled person as a "life not worthy of life." People with all kinds of disabilities, depression, retardation, cerebral palsy, muscular dystrophy, cancer, mobility impairments, "slow learners," deafness and blindness were labeled as "useless eaters." People with disabilities were the first victims of Hitler's efforts to create a master race; the elimination of people with disabilities was a central component of the Nazis' plan to "purify" the Aryan race.119
The first stage of the Nazis' campaign to eliminate the handicapped was sterilization. Between 1933 and the start of World War II in 1939, that policy was enforced with total ruthlessness. Hundreds of thousands of handicapped people were rounded up from hospitals, clinics or their homes, sent to "sterilization centers" and forcibly operated on. As a result of these clumsy operations, a good many patients died, and the majority suffered terrible pain for months. Furthermore, for many years, most were unable to recover from the psychological damage thus inflicted. One study carried out after the war showed that some sterilization victims still suffered violent pains up to ten years after the event, and that a third still suffered psychological trauma.120
Following sterilization, the murder of the handicapped began, by an order issued by Hitler to his staff, known as order Aktion T-4:
Hitler's strategy progressed phase by phase. First there was sterilisation. From 1933 onward, more than 400,000 handicapped people were forcibly sterilised… Then the official murder program known as Aktion T-4 began. That program had been specially designed with the handicapped in mind. The methods of extermination that the Nazis would use on their Jewish victims, for instance the gassing of people forced into the "shower rooms," were first developed under the handicapped people program. As a result, more than 275,000 people were killed in the framework of the Aktion T-4 program. That figure does not include those handicapped people who lost their lives in the camps after Aktion T-4 had come to an end. During the war, an unknown number of other handicapped people were killed in regions invaded and occupied by the Nazis. As the areas under their control expanded, the Nazis murdered handicapped men, women and children, without regard to race, religion or political opinions.121
The Nazis branded those suffering from depression, the crippled, cancer sufferers, the mentally ill, the deaf and blind—all kinds of handicapped people—as "useless eaters." This twisted ideology is still continued by neo-Nazis today.
Doctors and many other public officials brainwashed by Nazi propaganda thought it was their duty to carry out that unbelievable barbarity. The spread of Social Darwinist teachings, which themselves formed the very essence of Nazism, naturally led to the loss of such moral virtues as compassion and mercy, as commanded by religious moral values. The following extract describes an incident in Hadamar, one of the six centers set up to kill the handicapped under Aktion T-4, and reveals to what level Nazi ideology had brought German society:
For example, the slaughter of the handicapped at Hamadar (one of the six main killing centres), took place with bureaucratic regularity and "productivity." It was considered most important to keep morale at high levels for the success of this operation. In order to keep both "productivity" and the morale of the hospital staff at the highest possible level, the administrators frequently emphasised the importance of the program. In the summer of 1941, a ceremony held in the lobby of the right wing of Hadamar formed a milestone in the killing program. All hospital staff attended, and were offered [drink]… After the introductory festivities, all those in attendance were invited down into the hospital basement and participated in the ceremony to mark the "cremation of the 10,000th patient." The corpse was festooned with flowers and small Nazi flags, and one of the doctors made a short and emotional speech confirming the importance of the work being done in Hadamar. The body was then burned, and some of those present made mocking speeches "in memory of the dead." The others listened and laughed, and a party was then held to the accompaniment of polka music.122
The massacre of handicapped children and babies was a tragedy all of its own. Although "work" had been proceeding in that direction since 1933, the real impetus was given on August 18, 1939 by the Reich Committee for Scientific Research into Serious Illness of Hereditary and Protonic Origin. Under a "child euthanasia" decree, the Committee was to be notified of all newborn babies, and children under the age of three, suspected of having serious hereditary diseases. The "serious diseases" in question included Down's Syndrome, physical deformities, and paralysis. Those babies "reported" as being suspected of having such diseases were subjected to medical tests. If confirmed, their documents were marked with a "+", and they were sent to the death centers. One of the Nazi doctors of the time, Dr. Karl Brandt, said, "The aim behind rounding up such babies was to kill them as quickly as possible after birth." Thirty child euthanasia departments were opened in hospitals across Germany, and hundreds of babies are known to have been murdered in each and every one.
Babies were sometimes killed by poison injected into their hearts. Some Nazi doctors behaved even more monstrously, however, and simply allowed them to starve to death. One of these, Dr. Hermann Pfannmuller, is reported to have held one starving baby by the heels, saying, "This one has a few days left."123
One of the worst aspects of this barbarity is the way that it has been "forgotten" to a large extent. The report by the Disability Rights Advocates organization stresses the fact:
In spite of greatly heightened interest in the Holocaust in recent years, silence has surrounded the mass atrocities inflicted on men, women and children with disabilities under the Nazi regime. The vicious and systemic persecution of people with disabilities during the Nazi era has been overlooked and greatly underestimated in historical research and our collective remembrance of the Holocaust. The result is widespread public ignorance of these horrors – an ignorance often perpetuated by the indifference of politicians, academicians and the media. Moreover, restitution measures have been virtually non-existent.
Some people erroneously believe that the number of victims with disabilities is relatively small. However, ample evidence shows that people with disabilities were subjected to slave labor, were looted, plundered, and otherwise exploited, both within Germany and in the territories conquered by the Nazis. In every way that other victims, such as the Jews, suffered and lost, people with disabilities suffered and lost...
... [However,] no memorial center or museum specifically for survivors with disabilities exists anywhere in the world today... Moreover, although there are literally hundreds of Holocaust memorials internationally, it is exceedingly rare for any of them to give more than a passing reference to people with disabilities. Most do not even mention the horrors inflicted on disabled people during the Holocaust.124
In short, the "genocide of the handicapped" that formed one important dimension of Nazi barbarity has been largely forgotten. One of the dangerous results is a loss of sensitivity to the subject, and the neo-Nazis who dream of resurrecting the Nazi system are trying to take advantage of that gap. Moreover, the twisted Social Darwinist logic that underpins that negative view of the handicapped still prevails, making the situation even more serious. The Disability Rights Advocates report Forgotten Crimes (which would later be published as a book) makes it clear that "hostility towards the handicapped" is, sadly, still influential in Germany:
... where many people with disabilities are treated as second-class citizens and are viewed as economic burdens and inconveniences. Discriminatory attitudes have resulted in acts of targeted violence, including public taunts, insults, harassment, attacks, beatings and killings. Neo-Nazis ("skinheads") have led the abuse. Reports show that skinheads have beaten a blind man to death, severely beaten five deaf boys, thrown a wheelchair-using man down subway stairs, and shouted taunts such as "They must have forgotten you in Dachau," and "Under Hitler, you would have been gassed." The Journal of the British Council of Organizations of Disabled People reports that as many as 1000 disabled German citizens have been physically or verbally harassed in a single year.125
These painful facts lead us to an important conclusion. The genocide of the handicapped must never be forgotten, and with regard to them, slogans such as "Never again" must also be fixed in peoples' minds. To protect the rights of the handicapped, a much more effective strategy must be implemented worldwide.
The Gypsy Genocide
The Nazis' racist ideology also placed the Gypsies in the category of the so-called "inferior races that need to be eliminated." When the Nazis came to power, a policy of repression against Gypsies living in Germany began to be implemented. With their artistic abilities and individual lifestyle, Gypsies are welcomed in many countries as an important cultural element, but in Nazi Germany became the targets of an inhuman hatred.
In a statement issued in 1936, Dr. Hans Globke, one of the drafters of the Nürnberg Laws, stated that Gypsies were a foreign race. A decree published on December 14, 1937, described them as "incorrigible criminals," and decided they should be isolated from German society. From the beginning of 1938, Nazi officials began to round them up and send them to concentration camps. Later, in her doctoral thesis, Eva Justin of the German Health Ministry's Racial Research Department described the Gypsies as "a great danger to the purity of the German race." The Buchenwald camp set up a special section for Gypsies. Most of those sent to the Mauthausen, Gusen, Dautmergen, Natzweiler and Flossenburg camps died there.
Gypsies were also subjected to a program of forced sterilization. Gypsy women married to non-Gypsy men were forcibly sterilized in operations at a hospital in Düsseldorf-Lierenfeld. Some died during sterilization, and most of the pregnant women so operated on lost their lives.126
In 1938, Heinrich Himmler, the head of the SS and second most senior figure in the Nazi hierarchy, personally took over the "Gypsy problem," and transferred the Gypsy Affairs center from Munich to Berlin. From then on, the elimination of the Gypsies, like that of the Jews, would be one of Nazi Germany's aims.
Above: Prisoners in the Buchenwald death camp. Among them is the Nobel Prize-winning author Elie Wiesel. Thousands of Gypsies, as well as Jews, were slaughtered in this camp.
The mass destruction began in the summer of 1941. At that time, Special Einsatzgruppen teams were set up to find Gypsies and kill them or send them to the camps. Tens of thousands of Gypsies (including women, the elderly, children and infants) were sent from Germany to Poland, and from there to the Belzec, Treblinka, Sobibor and Majdanek concentration camps. Some 30,000 Gypsies from Holland, France and Belgium were sent to Auschwitz. The great majority were killed by the Nazis. According to Dr. Franciszek Piper, director of the Auschwitz Museum History Department, "23,000 gypsies were transferred to Birkenau [a part of Auschwitz], of whom 21,000 were killed." As Auschwitz commandant Rudolf Höss wrote in his memoirs, "there were a large number of children, old people aged nearly 100, and pregnant women" among those Gypsies killed.
Auschwitz commandant Rudolf Höss
All the methods of destruction aimed at the Jews were also applied to the Gypsies. Einsatzgruppen teams killed Gypsies wherever they found them. One UNESCO article titled "Gypsy Victims of the Nazi Terror" gives the following information:
In Poland and in the Soviet Union Gypsies were killed both in death camps and in the open countryside… Wherever the Nazis passed, Gypsies were arrested, deported, or murdered. In Yugoslavia, executions of Jews and Gypsies began in October 1941 in the forests, where peasants still remember the cries of children being driven in trucks to the places of their execution.127
It is difficult to estimate how many Gypsies the Nazis killed, although the statistics give some idea. According to historian Raoul Hilberg, there were 34,000 Gypsies living in Germany before the Holocaust, the vast majority of whom were killed. Reports from the Einsatzgruppen responsible for the massacres in Russia, Ukraine and the Crimea indicate that some 300,000 Gypsies were slaughtered in those countries. According to the Yugoslavian authorities, 28,000 Gypsies were killed within the borders of Serbia alone. No estimate can be made of the number of victims in Poland: The historian Joseph Tenenbaum says that the Nazis murdered a total of at least 500,000.
Despite that terrible tragedy, the genocide of the Gypsies is generally ignored. In books, films and articles about the Holocaust, that genocide is either not referred to at all, or else portrayed as an unimportant matter. Ian Hancock of the Romany Archive and Documentation Center in Texas, says there is "a move to underrate the Gypsy genocide."128
Yet there was no difference between the way the Gypsies and the Jews were treated. Both groups were excluded from German society under the 1936 Nürnberg Laws. Adolf Eichmann, one of the most influential figures in the Holocaust, wrote, "The Jewish and gypsy problems need to be resolved together and at the same time," which effectively meant the destruction of both nations. In the concentration camps and those areas under Nazi occupation, Gypsies were murdered just as ruthlessly as Jews.129
Genocide Aimed at the Poles
Throughout the course of World War II, the Nazis killed some 6 million Polish citizens. Three million of these were Jews, and the others Catholics. Yet the drama of the Polish Catholics is generally forgotten or ignored.
Hitler's hatred of the Poles stemmed both from his regarding them as untermenschen (inferior people) and from the belief that they had occupied German lebensraum (space to live). That is why he aimed his first military attack at Poland. On August 22, 1939, the German armies suddenly invaded Poland, a move which sparked off World War II. A few days before the invasion, Hitler had given his commanders this message: "You must ruthlessly kill all men, women and children of Polish origin, or who speak Polish. That is the only way we can secure the space we need to live."130
Poland was one country where Nazi genocide was most widely perpetrated. The photograph shows a Polish Jew beaten by Nazis. In addition to Jews, three million Catholic Poles were also murdered.
Within a few weeks, Nazi armies had occupied all of Poland and, in accordance with Hitler's order, set about a systematic genocide. All landowners' property was taken away, and rationing was introduced. Polish children with features resembling those of the German race were forcibly taken from their families and sent to Germany, to be trained as soldiers. A complete massacre of the Polish intelligentsia was initiated. Hundreds of community leaders, mayors, civil servants, priests, teachers, judges, senators and doctors were executed publicly. Tens of thousands of other educated people were sent to the concentration camps and lost their lives there. Over the course of the war, Poland lost 45 percent of its doctors, 57 percent of its lawyers, 40 percent of its teachers, 30 percent of its technicians and engineers, and a large part of its journalists and men of religion.
Hitler also wanted to destroy Polish culture and everything to do with Poland. All middle schools and colleges were closed. All Polish-language newspapers were closed down. Libraries and bookshops were burned. All written cultural records and works of art were destroyed. Religious institutions were the most important target of all. Churches and other religious places were torn down. The majority of the country's priests were arrested and sent to concentration camps. The names of streets and roads were changed, their old Polish names replaced with new German ones.
The Nazis murdered 6 million Polish citizens. Half of these were Jews, and the other half Polish Catholics. At Auschwitz and the other death camps, the first victims were these Polish Catholics. The historian Richard C. Lukas writes, "So many Poles were sent to the concentration camps that just about every Polish family had someone who had been tortured or killed in the camps."131
As in Poland, many devout Catholics in Germany, and priests in particular, became targets of the Nazis, who hated Christianity and wanted German society to return to the pre-Christian pagan culture. After seizing power, they rounded up a great many Catholic figures and sent them to the concentration camps. In Dachau, a special section was set up for priests, and thousands were sent there. Only a few survived; some were shot, and others died by inches of starvation or disease. In the same way, Jehovah's Witnesses in Germany and territories under German occupation were arrested, sent off to the camps and killed, because they considered taking an oath of loyalty to Nazi Germany to be incompatible with their beliefs.132
All the Others Who Were Killed
As we have seen so far, Nazi savagery was aimed at a number of ethnic groups, not just the Jews. At the basis of this lay Hitler's racist theory known as lebensraumpolitik, which means "the room-to-live policy." Hitler suggested that Germany was not large enough for the German population and that the Aryan race was being "constricted." He then claimed that land belonging to eastern countries such as Poland and Ukraine should be taken to give Germans new "room to live." The populations in those areas, mainly Slav, were to be eliminated in order to provide that extra space.
In occupied countries, the partisans were resistance groups set up to fight the Nazis, who eliminated whole towns and villages on the pretext that they had supported the partisans.
Nazi documents show that within the borders of the Soviet Union alone, the "room to live" contained a population of some 75 million, which the Nazis intended to reduce to some 30 million—to be used as slave labor to meet the needs of Germans who were moving in. The Nazis planned to transport the remaining 45 million still further eastwards, or to kill them by various means.
The massacres the Nazis perpetrated against civilian population in their occupied areas show that they put this plan into operation. One justification for these was that the civilian populations had "supported the partisans"—resistance units established to fight the Nazis in occupied countries. The entire population of a village or town would be wiped out for allegedly having helped the partisans. According to the historian H. Kuhnrich's estimate, "5,900,225 people were killed as a result of the anti-partisan war." Of these, 4.5 million were Ukrainians.
Between 1939 and 1945, those non-combatants killed in Poland number more than 6 million. This represents 3 million Jews, 200,000 gypsies and the remainder Christian Polish Slavs. Almost all Polish intellectuals were murdered. In Yugoslavia, some 1.2 million civilians were killed: 9 percent of the total population. This figure excludes some 300,000 Yugoslavian troops or fighters who died during the war.
The worst losses were suffered by the Soviet Union. By May 10, 1943, the Nazis had captured some 5.4 million Soviet troops, of whom 3.5 million starved, froze to death, or were hanged, shot, or exterminated in the concentration camps. In 1944, when the Germans withdrew completely from Soviet territory the population of Ukraine had reduced from 42 to 27.4 million, a difference of 14.6 million. If we subtract those who migrated and survived captivity during the war, some 7 million people still lost their lives. Within the borders of the Soviet Union, 11 million fell victim to the Nazis' policy of mass destruction and genocide.133
All told, it appears that a total of 26 million people lost their lives as a result of the Nazi massacres of civilians. Of these, 6 million were Jews, up to 750,000 gypsies, and the rest Slavs living in such countries as Poland, Ukraine, Russia and Yugoslavia.
The total of all those who died in World War II, including all military and civilian casualties, is a staggering 55 million.
116Henry Friedlander, The Origins of Nazi Genocide: From Euthanasia to the Final Solution.
117 Ernst Haeckel, The Wonders of Life, New York, Harper, 1904, p. 21.
119Forgotten Crimes: The Holocaust and People with Disabilities, A Report by Disability Rights Advocates, Oakland, California, September 2001, p. 3.
120Biesold, Crying Hands: Eugenics and Deaf People in Nazi Germany, Washington, D.C., 1999, p. 147.
121 Forgotten Crimes:The Holocaust and People with Disabilities, A Report by Disability Rights Advocates, p. 3.
122 Hugh Gregory Gallagher, By Trust Betrayed: Patients, Physicians, and the License to Kill in the Third Reich Arlington, Virg., 1995, p. 13.
123 Forgotten Crimes:the Holocaust and People with Disabilities, A Report by Disability Rights Advocates, p. 14.
126 Myriam Novitch, "Gypsy Victims of the Nazi Terror," UNESCO Courier, October 1984.
128 Ian Hancock, "Downplaying the Porrajmos: The Trend to Minimize the Romani Holocaust," The Patrin Web Journal, 2000.
129 Ward Churchill, Assaults on Truth and Memory, Part II, 1997, ZNet.
130 Terese Pencak Schwartz, "How Could 5.000.000 Be Killed and Forgotten?," based on The Forgotten Holocaust by Dr. Richard C. Lukas.
131 http://www.holocaustforgotten.com/Lucaire.htm
132 "Who Were the Five Million Non-Jewish Victims?;" http://www.holocaustforgotten.com/fivmil.htm
133 Ward Churchill, Assaults on Truth and Memory, Part II, 1997, Znet.


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PLT Scheme version 4.0 is Coming Soon
PLT Scheme is now 13 years old. The initial version was little more than glue code between a few open-source libraries, which seemed to offer the quickest solution to our modest goals. Modest success leads to bigger goals, however, and then continued success leads to ever more ambitious goals. Before you know it, a mass of users, co-developers, libraries, and documentation rely on design decisions that were made for a much smaller project years before.
Naturally, many of those early design decisions turn out to be a poor fit for the project's eventual role. Starting from scratch isn't usually practical, so you gradually adjust the infrastructure to meet new needs. That was precisely the story for the version 300 series of releases for PLT Scheme. The biggest gap between our original and current goals was in run-time performance, so we replaced bytecode interpretation with a just-in-time native-code compiler, and we replaced a memory manager based on "conservative" estimates of pointer usage with one that uses precise information.
Performance improves a bit more with version 4.0, but mostly we've moved on to a bigger mismatch between the original and current goals: the way that PLT Scheme presents itself to users. PLT Scheme was originally conceived as R5RS Scheme with some extensions to make it practical, and with useful tools (notably an IDE) and libraries (notably a GUI library) built on that core. Our documentation and web pages reflected that architecture – which now seems completely upside-down.
Version 4.0 is a fresh start in the way that we present PLT Scheme. It's a new language. PLT Scheme is a dialect of Scheme, certainly, but it's not merely a superset of R5RS, R6RS, or other standards, and those standards are not really the best place to start understanding PLT Scheme. At the same time, the unique extensibility features of the PLT Scheme language and tools allow them to support other languages easily, including R5RS (though a new plt-r5rs executable), R6RS, and more.
Improvements to the PLT Scheme language include better syntax for modules, better support for optional and keyword function arguments, more expressive syntax for structure types, streamlined hash-table operations, new syntax for list comprehensions and iterations, a more complete and consistent set of list and string operations, and reduced dependence on mutable pairs. To current users of PLT Scheme, these changes will seem like the big ones behind version 4.0, but they're small compared to the overall re-organization and the accompanying documentation effort.
We wrote hundreds of pages of new documentation, including much more tutorial and overview information. We ported hundreds of pages of existing documents to new a system that produces cleaner, better organized, more consistent output. We will replace the old tangle of web pages (that try to explain a confusing federation of tools) with a simple page about "PLT Scheme." We have even streamlined the command-line flags for the main virtual machine.
The development of PLT Scheme version 4.0 took about one year of hard work. In retrospect, that doesn't sound too bad, considering the scale of the existing code base, the number of things that we improved, and the total size of the documentation (about 2000 pages in PDF form). Still, you can imagine how happy we are to arrive at a stable release, and we hope that the improvements in PLT Scheme version 4.0 work as well for everyone else as they do for us.
For a preview, see http://pre.plt-scheme.org/. The final version 4.0 release is just days away.


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A book written by Laurier Political Scientist Christopher Alcantara is a finalist for the prestigious Donald Smiley Prize, which is awarded to the best book published in English or in French in the field relating to the study of government and politics in Canada.
Negotiating the Deal: Comprehensive Land Claims Agreements in Canada was written by Alcantara, an associate professor in the Department of Political Science at Laurier, and published by University of Toronto Press in 2013.
Previous winners of this award include many of the most prominent scholars in the discipline and so its very exciting just to be nominated, said Alcantara. Usually the books that are nominated aim to address one or more of Canadas most pressing and vexing political problems, combining scholarly rigour with practical suggestions and solutions.
The Donald Smiley Prize, which is administered by the Canadian Political Science Association (CPSA), was established to honour the life and work of Donald V. Smiley (1921-1990) and to encourage the ideas of scholarship represented by this great Canadian political scientist.
There were three shortlisted books for the prize this year. In its report, the prize jury praised Negotiating the Deal: Comprehensive Land Claims Agreements in Canada for making an important contribution to the study of Aboriginal politics in Canada Alcantara offers a valuable, theory-driven and empirically rich account of land claims negotiations in Canada.
In the book, Alcantara examines the modern treaty process, identifying a set of factors that generate and prevent the Crown and Aboriginal governments from completing comprehensive land claims negotiations.
Canada has been negotiating modern treaties with Aboriginal peoples since 1973, yet the process remains difficult for many Aboriginal groups, said Alcantara. This book identifies what can be done to increase the number of treaty settlements in Canada. It also lays out a number of alternative paths to self-determination.
The other shortlisted books include Canadian Public Budgeting in the Age of Crises (McGill-Queens University Press) and Gendered News: Media Coverage and Electoral Politics in Canada (UBC Press).
The winning title will be announced at the CPSA presidents dinner in St. Catharines, Ont., on May 28, 2014.


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The $24.3 million dollar Kahoma Stream Bridge on Maui was recognized by the American Society of Civil Engineers at a ceremony this past weekend.
The bridge, also known as the Lahaina Bypass, received the 2013 Overall Grand Outstanding Civil Engineering Achievement Award.
The ASCE Hawaii Section annually recognizes an exemplary civil engineering project that best illustrates superior civil engineering skills and represents a significant contribution to civil engineering progress and society.
The state Department of Transportation was honored to receive the award.
"Completion of this bridge was a key component in the first segment of the Lahaina Bypass, giving motorists a new alternate route to bypass the busiest section of Lahaina Town," said state DOT Director Glenn Okimoto.
The 360-foot, two-lane bridge structure was built with an inverted tier arch design, which places support beams below the road surface rather than above. This design was selected to minimize obstructions of ocean views for motorists and the Lahaina community. The support beam design also eliminates the need for foundation pillars below the bridge, which leaves the Kahoma Stream unobstructed.
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PHILADELPHIA – A novel protein marker has been found that identifies rare adult liver stem cells, whose ability to regenerate injured liver tissue has the potential for cell-replacement therapy. For the first time, researchers at the University of Pennsylvania School of Medicine led by Linda Greenbaum, MD, Assistant Professor of Medicine in the Division of Gastroenterology, have demonstrated that cells expressing the marker can differentiate into both liver cells and cells that line the bile duct.
Liver stem cells expressing FoxL1 (aqua blue) in an injured mouse liver near the bile duct. The FoxL1-containing stem cells are encircled by liver fibroblasts (royal blue), suggestive of a stem cell niche.
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In the future, this marker will allow for the isolation and expansion of these stem cells, which could then be used to help patients whose livers can no longer repair their own tissue. About 17,000 Americans are currently on a waiting list for a liver transplant, according to the American Liver Foundation. The findings appear online this month in the journal Hepatology.
"In a healthy liver, proliferation of mature liver and bile-duct lining cells is sufficient to maintain the necessary size and function of the organ," explains Greenbaum. "This even works when the liver is confronted with mild and acute injury, but the situation changes when injury to the liver is chronic and severe."
For chronic injury, the liver uses a back-up system that stimulates stem cells to proliferate and eventually differentiate into new liver cells. Greenbaum and colleagues found that these dual-potential stem cells can be identified and potentially isolated from other liver cells because they uniquely express the protein Foxl1. The team showed that in two mice models of liver injury, stem cells and their descendents were marked by the expression of FoxL1. The researchers propose to use this marker to isolate the Foxl1-bearing stem cells and transplant them back into damaged livers to restore function.
"At this point, we haven't identified the molecular targets that are regulated by Foxl1 in the liver stem cell," says Greenbaum. The researchers also do not yet know what signals activate the expression of Fox l1 and how exactly it is related to liver function. But, they finally have a molecular handle on identifying liver stem cells, which have remained elusive to scientists.
"This work has significant implications for cell-replacement therapies of chronic liver disease in the future," says Greenbaum.
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Phillies Spring Training: Top 10 Things To Do In The Clearwater Area
February and March are ideal months to visit Clearwater, Florida. It is not too hot, not too cold and even better, the Phillies are there for spring training.
The list to follow is an excellent guide to both Phillies spring training and the Clearwater area in general. Whether or not you have ever been to Clearwater before, you should find this information very useful or at the very least, entertaining.
However, be forewarned. Spring training in Clearwater can be addictive and may turn into a lifelong habit. There is currently no support group for spring training addicts so, managing this addiction will be up to you. Just remember to bring friends to share the fun.
Attend Practices
Everybody loves free and Phillies practices in Clearwater are just that. Once the whole team has reported and before games begin, daily practices are held at the Carpenter Complex next door to Bright House Field. Practice usually starts around 9:00am and runs until about 1:00pm, weather permitting.
There are four outdoor baseball fields at the Carpenter Complex arranged in a box pattern and the bleachers in between are for fans to sit and watch. Usually, all fields are in use at once and players may hop between fields to work on different skills or with different staff and players.
You will be able to wander around to see what is going on at all four fields. Some activities you can watch include pop fly drills, pitching practice, run-down drills, fielding practice and of course, batting. The sliding drills are especially fun to see as the players put on special "sliding pants" to reduce resistance and risk of injury.
There are public facilities on the grounds as well which include bathrooms and food vendors. The staff even sell some souvenirs. Parking is free as well so stay as long as you like.
Also keep in mind that practices can be a good time to get autographs from players.
Attend Games At Bright House Field
Unlike practices, games at Bright House Field are not free. But they are fairly cheap. Prices run from $13 to $34 per ticket.
In previous years, getting a ticket to a spring training game was relatively easy and could be done at the last minute. However, since the Phillies won the World Championship in 2008, spring training games are now much hotter items. Plan ahead and order tickets early.
Keep in mind when getting tickets that the home side at this ballpark is the third base side. So if it matters to you, you will know which side you prefer to sit on before buying.
Other games, called "B" games, mean the Phillies will be split into groups for the day. Some play in the regular game and others play the "B" game instead. Many of the "B" game players are those needing extra batting practice or players recovering from an injury and on some sort of physical restriction.
If you see a "B" game listed on a schedule, those are sometimes played before regular scheduled games at Bright House Field and are usually included with your ticket for that day. Other "B" games are played at the Carpenter Complex and are usually free and open to the public.
Visit Other Grapefruit League Ballparks
There are some really nice and interesting ballparks in Florida. When the Phillies have an away game, try going to see them at another park. Tickets are available through the home team's web site or in person at their box office.
Here are the other Florida ballparks with the approximate driving distances from Clearwater:
– 5 miles, Toronto Blue Jays, Florida Auto Exchange Stadium, Dunedin, FL
– 22 miles, New York Yankees, Steinbrenner Field, Tampa, FL
– 42 miles, Pittsburgh Pirates, McKechnie Field, Bradenton, FL
– 54 miles, Baltimore Orioles, Ed Smith Stadium , Sarasota, FL
– 59 miles, Detroit Tigers, Joker Marchant Stadium, Lakeland, FL
– 94 miles, Atlanta Braves, Champion Stadium, Lake Buena Vista, FL
– 97 miles, Tampa Bay Rays, Charlotte County Sports Park, Port Charlotte, FL
– 98 miles, Houston Astros, Osceola County Stadium, Kissimmee, FL
– 128 miles, Boston Red Sox, City of Palms Park, Ft. Myers, FL
– 128 miles, Minnesota Twins, Hammond Stadium, Ft. Myers, FL
– 152 miles, Washington Nationals, Space Coast Stadium, Viera, FL
– 178 miles, New York Mets, Digital Domain Park, Port St. Lucie, FL
– 208 miles, St. Louis Cardinals, Roger Dean Stadium, Jupiter, FL
– 208 miles, Florida Marlins, Roger Dean Stadium, Jupiter, FL
Of the closest ballparks, the Blue Jays in Dunedin is the easiest to get to. The Yankees in Tampa would be second. Steinbrenner Field is one of the nicer stadiums and has nice scenery with fountains, trees and a view of the Tampa Bay Buccaneers stadium across the street.
The Pirates' McKechnie Field in Bradenton is one of the oldest parks in the area, built in 1923. Although it was renovated in the early 90's, the park still boasts the original 1920's Spanish-mission style architecture including the masonry, stucco and structural steel materials. The seats are super tiny and very close together for a "get to know your neighbor" feel.
There are also several stadiums in the Orlando-Disney area including the Atlanta Braves' Champion Stadium and the Houston Astros, Osceola County Stadium. You could make this a combination trip if you would like to visit any Orlando-area attractions.
Some stadiums are very far away and should be considered only for overnight trips or by extremely adventurous fans.
Get Autographs
Spring training is a great time to get autographs from players. The atmosphere is very relaxed and most players are in a good mood. Depending on your level of dedication to this task, autographs can be obtained at practices, before and after games and even around town if you happen to bump into a player in public.
My next article will include a detailed list of the best ways and locations to get player autographs. Check back for that soon.
Have a Drink At Frenchy's Tiki Pavilion
Inside Bright House Field at the corner of left field is Frenchy's Tiki Pavilion. This full-service bar is open for every home game and is a great place to mingle with other fans, watch the game and have a cocktail.
You can even buy a game ticket in the "Tiki Terrace" section to guarantee a spot close to the bar. The stools which are directly at the bar are first come, first serve.
The bar service continues to run after the game as well. Some Phillies players have been known to stop by there to chat with fans or have a drink. Brett Myers, now with the Astros, was commonly found at the Tiki bar after games in years past. I also saw Ryan Howard pass by there after a game one time.
Shop At The Diamond Outfitter's Clubhouse Store
The souvenir store at Bright House Field is called Diamond Outfitters and is located next to the ballpark's west entry. You can enter the store both from inside and outside the ballpark, depending on game schedules.
Diamond Outfitters is a great place to shop for Phillies gear. They carry almost anything you can imagine such as tee-shirts, hats, raincoats, umbrellas, pens, trinkets, pins, souvenir bats and balls and more.
And if you ever wanted a Phillies hat with a palm tree on it, this is the place. The store is open on non-game days as well which is the perfect time to avoid large crowds as well.
Go To The Legends Game
This year, Bright House Field will host the Legends Game on March 13, 2011 at 5:30pm to benefit the Children's Cancer Center. The event is presented by the Major League Baseball Players Alumni Association and will be attended by both former MLB players and national celebrities.
Some of the guests scheduled to appear this year are Hall of Famer Jim Bunning, Bob Boone, Darren Daulton, Von Hayes, Mickey Morandini, Steve Bedrosian, Jeff Kent, comedian Larry "The Cable Guy," and meteorologist Dave Osterberg.
You can order tickets online through the Phillies web site.
Hang At The Beach
Unfortunately, at some point during your trip to Florida, there will come a time when there are no baseball-related activities going on. Take advantage of this opportunity and see what else Florida has to offer.
At Clearwater Beach, there is a nightly festival at Pier 60. The four-hour festival runs from two hours before to two hours after sundown. Jugglers, magicians, and a variety of entertainers perform for the crowd that gathers each evening. There are also local vendors selling jewelry, art work and souvenirs at very good prices.
And of course, there is the beach itself. Take a swim or simply relax on the white, powdery sand and soak up the warm sun rays.
See The Sights
The Clearwater are has much more to offer than just a beach. There are boat tours, dolphin watching, the Clearwater Marine Aquarium, spas, an art center and lots of great places to shop.
Just outside of Clearwater, take a drive to Tampa. You can visit Busch Gardens or take in the nightlife at Ybor City.
About 15 miles north of Clearwater, check out Tarpon Springs and the Sponge Docks for shopping, eco-tours, authentic Greek cuisine. You can also take Greek Cultural Classes and Workshops to learn about the areas fascinating history and customs.
For a longer road trip, head north east to Orlando. The two-hour drive is worth it if you are interested in Disney attractions, Sea World, Universal Studios and other fun family adventures.
Educate Yourself
Florida is a state rich in history. There are a wide range of options here to broaden your horizons.
Florida Holocaust Memorial Museum and Educational Center in St. Petersburg is the third largest of its kind in America. Check out the photography and documentary exhibits collected from all over the world.
If your childhood dream was to be an astronaut, you will not want to miss the Kennedy Space Center located 45 miles east of Orlando. It is a long drive, but if you have the time, the history here is amazing.
Closer to Clearwater, you can visit the Museum of Science and Industry in Tampa, the Dunedin Historical Museum or Heritage Village in Largo which is an open-air living history museum featuring 23 turn-of-the-century structures.
Now, pack your bags, grab some friends and prepare to have an amazing time in Florida!
Photos by Jenn Zambri Photography
*Read more about the Phillies at my other home page, Phightin' Phils Phorum in the My Team Rivals network*
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I've never been to Spring Training, but I hope to go to some of the parks, especially Bright House Field. It would be kind of neat to see a major league team play in more of a minor league setting. I would also hope to get a few autographs, maybe of players like Domonic Brown.
Oooh, Jenn. You made me wish I could be in FL for spring training this year! I loved going to Bright House Field last March. Lots of fun being in that part of the world. Sigh.
It isa not like I am hungry right now, but you forgot "eat two slices of great pizza at the Westshore Pizza stand" and Lenny's for breakfast and Phillies news.
Seriosuly, when you come into Clearwater on SR-60 you automoatically see a sign that proclaims Clearwater a
"Sports Town".
More than one night a week (end) I cruised Clearwater Beach or snuggled uo to a bucket of wings somewhere like the orignal Hooters on Gulf-to-Bay.
Clearwater is an amazing town, and your post mademore people crave……
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You and Sue like butt pictures ha? lol.
Wish I could go the Legend game. I got a cold that I hope I am over when my friends and I head to Arizona next Saturday but if not I'll just keep taking cold tablets.
Knowing me, I'd go to Frenchy's and forget how to get back home. Oh how jealous I am of you spring training regulars! Have fun!
After that, the Clearwater Chamber of Commerce owes you a Key to the City.


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Hurricane Sandy inflicted tremendous damage on New York's coastal communities [2]. The threat of more intense, more frequent storms driven by climate change has led Gov. Andrew Cuomo [3] to propose limiting development in vulnerable locations. Just as Sandy provided a preview of future climate risks, the governor's proposal may offer an example of one effective response.
The governor's plan would use up to $400 million from the $50 billion in federal Sandy relief funds to buy damaged homes within flood plains from owners willing to sell. If the plan is approved, the damaged homes would be razed and further residential development would be prohibited, allowing the land to serve as a flood buffer.
Home buy-outs have been a part of the Federal Emergency Management Agency's program for Hazard Mitigation Assistance [4] for several decades. For example, thousands of flood-prone properties in nearly 100 communities [5] in Missouri have been purchased, potentially saving millions in damages. Following the devastation of Hurricane Ike in 2008, hundreds of vulnerable properties in Galveston, Texas, were purchased as part of the program.
Cuomo's initiative represents a potentially large-scale application of the buy-out mechanism – 10,000 homes in the flood plain could be eligible for purchase by the state from willing homeowners.
An example of how future sea level rise will likely increase the flood risk in coastal areas of New York. Source: "Response to Climate Change in New York State," Chapter 5 [7]
There are many ways coastal communities can strengthen their resilience [8] to severe storms and flooding. Some involve infrastructure, including raising homes on stilts or building sea walls, dikes, and flood barriers [9]. Other "softer" options seek to enhance the natural landscape's ability to block or absorb flood waters. These include adding sand to beach dunes and protecting coastal wetlands.
The buy-out program is part of a larger strategy the governor outlined to enhance resilience. In his State of the State address, he also touted the potential that new technologies offer to fortify transportation and energy infrastructure. At the same time, the buy-out program can keep people and structures out of harm's way, reducing future storm damages. And the buy-out properties would remain open space, affording upland residents a "soft" barrier against future floods.
The choice to buy out these homes may end up being a wise one. A disproportionately small number of flood-prone areas are frequent recipients of federal relief. Just 1 percent of properties insured under the National Flood Insurance Program (NFIP) account for 25-30 percent of losses [10] — costing the program $4.6 billion since 1978. As sea level continues to rise, coastal residents and public infrastructure are likely to be placed at even greater risk for damaging erosion, storm surge, and inundation. Spending millions today may ultimately save homeowners and the government billions tomorrow.
Governor Cuomo appears to be heeding the "wake-up call" [11] represented by the disruption and devastation of Hurricane Sandy. Should his plan be enacted and a significant number of homeowners participate, it could provide a valuable example of how land use incentives and policies can be applied to help us adapt to future extreme weather events and sea-level rise.
[1] http://www.c2es.org/blog/casolaj
[2] http://coastal.er.usgs.gov/hurricanes/sandy/photo-comparisons/
[3] http://www.nytimes.com/2013/02/04/nyregion/cuomo-seeking-home-buyouts-in-flood-zones.html?hp&_r=1&
[4] http://www.fema.gov/application-development-process/hazard-mitigation-assistance-property-acquisition-buyouts
[5] http://www.fema.gov/news-release/2008/09/01/missouri-flood-buyouts-save-lives-heartache-and-money
[6] http://www.c2es.org/docUploads/jcblog-1.png
[7] http://www.nyserda.ny.gov/%7E/media/Files/Publications/Research/Environmental/EMEP/climaid/11-18-response-to-climate-change-in-nys-chapter5.ashx%29
[8] http://www.epa.gov/climatechange/impacts-adaptation/coasts.html#adapt
[9] http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thames_Barrier
[10] http://www.c2es.org/docUploads/flood-insurance-brief.pdf
[11] http://magazine.columbia.edu/features/winter-2012-13/sandy%E2%80%99s-wake?page=0,0
[12] http://www.c2es.org/category/topic/science
[13] http://www.c2es.org/category/topic/us-states-regions


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Rochester Tops Toronto to Improve to 3-0
from Press Release
The back-to-back NLL champion Rochester Knighthawks (3-0) started the season with three wins for the first time since 1998 by beating the Toronto Rock (1-2) at home by a score of 12-8 before a crowd of 8,136 at Blue Cross Arena on Saturday night.
The NLL's reigning Goaltender of the Year, Matt Vinc, only needed to make 36 saves in net. It was the defensive unit in front of him that did a better than usual job breaking up passes and blocking shooting lanes.
"I'm pretty spoiled back there with not only the system that we play – it's great for a goalie – and the guys that are out in front of me," Vinc said. "They do whatever it takes, whether it's blocking shots, laying on the carpet, doing whatever it is. They play great team defense game in and game out."
"They play a great team defense, there's no question about it, no matter what five guys they have on the floor," Rock head coach John Lovell said. "It's difficult just to get easy shots on them. But I liked some of the looks we had. We just didn't have anything fall for us."
In addition to forcing a season-high 13 turnovers, the Knighthawks' defense limited the Rock (1-2) to only three 5-on-5 goals. Of the remaining five goals Toronto scored, three came in transition, one on a power play, and the other with an extra attacker on a delayed penalty.
"That's the one thing that what we got to do, limit the 5-on-5's," Rochester head coach Mike Hasen said. "Tonight, we were able to do that."
"You really got to make a good shot to beat him [Vinc], and that's been the case for a long time," Toronto captain Colin Doyle said. "We can't expect to come in here and hang 16 on him. It probably won't happen."
With a smothering effort on the back end, the Knighthawks were able to produce five unanswered goals bridging the second and third quarters, turning a tie into an 8-3 advantage.
Leading 5-3 after halftime, Cory Vitarelli scored back-to-back goals to begin the third quarter. His second goal, scored on the power play, was one of a few quick-stick goals that, with a pretty pass, caught Rock netminder Nick Rose out of position.
"We know 'Rosie' likes to challenge the shooter, and when he challenges the shooter, he's susceptible to the back side," Hasen explained. "It's something we were trying to do. Early, it wasn't quite clicking, but then we finally got a few."
"We're a good enough offense when we're in form and everyone is touching the ball," said Vitarelli, who suited up for his first game of the season. "Nick Rose is a good goalie. That's what we want to do, get him moving and out of the net. It worked a couple of times for us tonight."
Garrett Billings thought he cut the Rochester lead to 7-4 as he tip-toed the crease and deposited the ball past Vinc 5:42 into the third. A successful challenge by Hasen overturned the ruling on the field, and 29 seconds later, Cody Jamieson put his team up 8-3.
"I know he shot and he was in the crease, but his foot also came up and he stepped out of it," Lovell said. "It was a close one; I guess it was in the net before he stepped out of it."
"They go boom, boom, boom at the other end, and all of a sudden you're down 8-3," Doyle said. "Good teams will do that to you if you don't capitalize on your chances. The ones that we did have, which were scarce, we didn't capitalize on."
Rob Hellyer ended Toronto's nearly 22-minute scoreless drought when he scored on a delayed penalty call at 11:33 in the third. Jamieson responded just over a minute later to regain a five-goal lead entering the final quarter.
A tremendous individual effort by Stephen Keogh gave the Knighthawks their largest lead 1:02 into the fourth quarter. He outhustled a Rock defender to a loose ball after a blocked shot. Cutting down the middle of the floor, Keogh took a pass from Dan Dawson and went around-the-world to beat Rose. The highlight-reel goal extended the cushion to 10-4.
Stephan Leblanc, Doyle and Billings each scored once to reduce the deficit to three. For a moment, it was an eerily familiar scene. In the first two games, the Knighthawks allowed the opposition to go on second-half runs, putting both games in jeopardy. Jamieson, however, ended the lapse with his fourth goal of the contest 24 seconds after Billings' tally.
"Runs are bound to happen, its how you stop them," Brad Self said. "We didn't change our game plan; we didn't switch from the plan, they just found the net on a couple of shots. Then we got a big goal from 'Jammer,' and that was huge."
Hellyer scored his second only 40 seconds later, but Mac Allen dumped his first goal since April 9, 2011 as the quarter drew to a close.
Three Stars of the Game as selected by the media:
1) Cody
2) Stephen Keogh
3) Dan Dawson
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