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Throwing Away the Question: Who is MLB's Jeremy Lin?
You've probably heard some of the nation talk nonstop about this new kid Jeremy Lin, and being an Asian-American myself it's been hard to ignore, try as I may to hit that "ignore" button or "hide this story" on Facebook as many times as I can. This dude has no doubt worked his tail off to get where he is in the limelight right now and he, his family, and his supporters should be very proud. The Asian-American (and I imagine the Taiwanese and at least some of the Asian community) is definitely going nuts. I watched him last night and I was impressed, but I still don't care about the NBA. Another one of those "more fun to play than watch" sports (what a lot of basketball and football fans say about baseball, too), in my opinion, and does not have the same beauty of strategy and history as baseball does for me.
Someone asked Keith Law earlier this morning:
Now the issue for me is not that Tebow and Lin do not seem similar, it's that I don't understand the obsession with these guys. You don't see me obsess over Buster Posey do you? Oh, you do? Oh. Well, let's get back to the question at hand: Who is the MLB's Tebow/Lin?
Not anyone right now. Ryan Vogelsong had a story everyone was talking about last year (and should've nailed him the Comeback Player of the Year Award, personal bias perhaps), every time Freddy Sanchez plays the Dodgers, Vin Scully tells his story, and there are quite a number of individuals that grow up in poor families and neighborhoods that found a way to live their dream. As familiar as that last story might be, it's still pretty damned impressive, if you ask me. To say though, that the MLB needs someone like that? Ridiculous. MLB does not need a figure like Lin or Tebow to pop up to make the game more beautiful. Does not need someone like that to sell out more stadiums in New York, Philadelphia, San Francisco, but if he showed up for Oakland, you never know… they might fill up 10,000 seats in a game with a new guy like that! It is not to say someone like this would not be welcomed, I'm just saying it is not important that the MLB have someone like a Tebow or Lin. Would the MLB love to have someone like that to market around though? Sure. There's just no one like that in the MLB at the moment.
I have a hard time imagining who could be that type of a figure? Is this a ethnic-driven thing? If it is, I can't see anyone going crazy for someone with a certain background since MLB's had that one covered, except for maybe Russia, the Middle East, and parts of Africa. The hysteria would more be on in those areas of the world, and not in America.
Also, you could really say that the NBA, through all its bad publicity throughout the past year really needs someone like Lin, and the NFL, through all of its bad publicity throughout the past year really needs Tebow. Those organizations are stoked they have these two figures within their own league. The MLB may have their own problems, but none to the degree the NFL/NBA has had since steroids.
So, good for the NFL and the NBA. They need something good to go for them. The MLB and its fans will look on and realize that our season with all its Bud Selig competitive balance, upcoming and current stars, lack of a salary cap, huge minor league system, we're doing alright.
Andres Torres: The #Mets Pretty Good 5th OF
Teams all want OF depth in their system. What's great about the game is we all have our own opinions on different athletes. Andres Torres is an interesting case. I don't need to tell you his story, because you know it. But Jon Heyman took a break from talking about the line at Delta to talking Torres, the nicest guy in the history of nice:
To which big man Dave Cameron of Fangraphs quickly responded:
So I thought that I would look around a little bit for some stats from 2009-2011 about Andres Torres and how he compares to the rest of the league, mostly because that's what Mr. Cameron did in a later tweet. Here's how Andres ranks in the last 3 years:
wRC+ — tied for 34th at 113
WAR — 19th at 11.1
Fangraphs' Fld metric — 4th at 39.7
wOBA — tied for 40th at .342
ISO — 36th at .184
SLG% — tied for 45th at .436
OBP — 60th at .332
SB — 33rd at 51 total
I'm not saying Andres Torres is an All-Star, and these stats don't suggest that either. I'm not saying he has to start for you — we all saw 2011. But 5th OF? Come on, Heyman.
Josh Hamilton Reaction
By now, you know the story. Josh Hamilton was at a bar Monday night and had a relapse. You've heard 10,000 different opinions since then, and maybe even saw or read his apology. I didn't, but since I heard of the happening last night, I became indescribably sad. Not angry. Not disappointed. Certainly not happy nor rejoicing. In the end, as much as we love baseball or the athletes that we have been fortunate enough to watch, we still live a life.
Josh Hamilton's struggles have been well chronicled. Another history lesson wouldn't be necessary here. What I'm sad about is that when it happened you knew what would happen: the reaction of the general public would go nuts on him. Some people kept calm and tried to put perspective on it and were successful. Josh Hamilton is a human being, and I have a hard time getting on someone for going back to something they were once addicted to. I've never experienced drug/alcohol abuse, so I'm not going to pretend I can 100% empathize nor even close to criticize the man.
Rather, I'm with the crowd that pulls for him, that hopes he is able to reach the goals he wants to in his recovery, and that he is able to play out his baseball career until he says he's ready to retire. Even news from today stating that contract extension talks are on hold for Hamilton with the Rangers saddens me a little bit, but you can also put me in the bunch that believes in him and that he will recover. The media and others will not let the world forget about the relapse or his history, and that's fine since they have a right to voice their opinion, but if he says he's committed to being better, I stand right beside him.


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Several questions faced the Minnesota Golden Gopher basketball team as they entered Big Ten conference play. How would they handle the relative increased level of competition? Would they play up to their opponent after playing down so often in the non-conference season? How would the team look with both Al Nolen and Devoe Joseph healthy and playing? These questions were more or less answered in Minnesota's frustrating 68-60 road loss to Wisconsin in the Big Ten season opener in which they were torched by Jordan Taylor and unable to convert down the stretch in the first in a gauntlet of games that will see the Gophers face Michigan State, Purdue and Ohio State in three of their next four contests.
After falling behind 40-30 early in the second half, it appeared that Minnesota might be supremely outmatched on a night where Taylor was seemingly scoring at will and Wisconsin was not committing any unforced errors. The Badgers logged only two turnovers for the entire GAME, forcing Minnesota to get it done offensively without any help.
Even with Jon Leuer (16 points) and Taylor (22 points) dominating offensively, the Gophers found themselves in a position to tie or even take the lead after Taylor missed a three-pointer with 26 seconds remaining. A late second-half spark erased the Badger lead and even gave Minnesota a brief 54-53 advantage on a thunderous Trevor Mbakwe dunk, but the Gophers would only score six points over the final six minutes of the game. Minnesota, who outrebounded Wisconsin to the tune of 42-24, failed to pull in the awkward miss and were forced to foul again, icing the Badger win.
Though the Gophers failed to record the win, the loss overall wasn't alarming. The team put itself in a position to win in an extremely tough environment against a fundamentally solid team. Wisconsin doesn't take very many ill-advised shots, doesn't turn the ball over and doesn't miss free throws. Put those together and Minnesota had to play near perfect basketball to pull out the win on the road.
Mildly frustrating was the fact that Gophers found themselves in a position to tie and even win late in game, but were not able to convert on several given opportunities on relatively easy attempts. In fact, Minnesota was 1-9 from the field in the final four minutes, several of which were shots that came from within 10-15 feet and had second-chance opportunities.
The Gophers travel to Lansing on Friday to square off against the Michigan State Spartans; the next in a series of early-season tests that will show us who the Gophers really are this season.
Who did what:
- Ralph Sampson III had a solid game and found himself involved heavily during crunch time. Sampson ended the night with 14 points and seven rebounds (five of which were offensive) before fouling out. Sampson also found himself at the free throw line five times down the stretch, but hit only two of the shots when he could have tied the game. Minnesota didn't miss many free throws, but those two definitely hurt.
- Trevor Mbakwe recorded his eigth double-double of the season, pulling down 11 rebounds to match his 11 points. Though he filled up the stat sheet on paper, he didn't get himself involved at great lengths throughout the game, and mainly scored on put backs. Th0ugh the Gophers didn't own any sort of size advantage over Wisconsin, it would have been nice to see what Mbakwe could have done given the opportunity down low.
- Rodney Williams came out strong to start the game, scoring five quick points, but quickly disappeared. He looked lost for much of the game after that, not getting himself open and not quite sure what to do with the ball once he got it. After his initial outburst, Williams was basically a non-factor.
- Al Nolen had an enigma of a game, failing to record a point while pulling down six rebounds in the process and grabbing two rebounds. Nolen wasn't his lockdown self on defense, due mainly to the fact that he wasn't able to get into a rhythm by splitting time down the middle with Devoe Joseph. Nolen also found himself mismatched against Jon Leuer a couple times on key possessions after defensives switches, allowing Jordan Taylor to light up Ralph Sampson. Going 0-6 from the field, Nolen missed three key attempts in the final two minutes that would have brought the Gophers to within one points or even tied the game.
- Blake Hoffarber did his best to separate himself and get open shots, but was often faceguarded and only got off four three-point attempts. Blake ended with 12 points on 5-10 shooting, including 2-4 from beyond the arc.
- Devoe Joseph came off the bench to record 14 points, dish out seven assists and only turn the ball over once in reserve point guard duties. However, for every shot that Joseph was able to convert on, he had a completely ill-advised shot that banked hard off the backboard and went right back to the Badgers. This was epitomized after a Gopher timeout with four minutes left in which Joseph pulled up off the inbounds and was completely off target. With the team down by three at the time and in a tight battle, a shot like that is completely worthless. Joseph had several nice conversions, but also left us scratching our heads as he has so often this season with fast-break pull-up jumpers and spin moves in traffic. Further, he was a complete defensive liability and contributed directly to many of Taylor's 22 points. Joseph is an offensive weapon, but he needs to learn to reign it in, and soon.
- Colton Iverson, who will be seeing increased minutes with Mo Walker's season-ending injury, scored two points on 1-5 shooting, though he did make his size known, pulling down seven rebounds. Like I said before, Iverson is in desperate need of some touch down low, and with Walker out, he'll need to be a big, solid reserve.
- Mav Ahanmisi, Chip Armelin and Austin Hollins were relative non-factors off the bench, combining for three points in 15 total minutes.
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Well, here goes. This is something I've wanted to do for a long time. Some of my earliest, fondest memories were in the kitchen serving as "groundhog" for my mom or dad. In New Orleans, kids learn to eat (and drink) early! The whole process of cooking has always created a time for bonding and sharing in our family. In a modest, middle-class upbringing, it was the time when our only "family heirlooms" were passed along from one generation to the next - one recipe at a time.
But more than the specific dish being created in any one session, it was the LOVE of cooking that I learned. I can't understand people who either don't like to cook or are so intimidated by it that they won't even try. In my mind, FOOD IS ART. There are no mistakes - well, as long as it's not burned beyond hope or simply toxic. Just get in there, IMPROVISE, and toss some pots around. Sometimes, mistakes are the real keepers!
And, speaking of improvising, here's what's cooking at my house on 1/1/11:
9x12 glass casserole dish
4 cups of holiday breads cut into 1 inch cubes
6 eggs
4 cups of leftover eggnog (ours has lots of booze in it - we used Pennsylvania Dutch brand)
ground nutmeg
Spread bread cubes evenly in the dish. Whisk eggs and eggnog together and pour over the cubes. You want the cubes to just barely be covered by the liquid. If they aren't, whip up another egg or two with equal parts of nog and pour over the top. Finally, sprinkle LIGHTLY with ground nutmeg. Bake at 350 for 40 minutes or until set. You can serve a big square for dessert (or even breakfast) sprinkled with confectioner's sugar. Maple syrup would be good too! Or you can make whiskey sauce. I haven't decided yet. If I go with whiskey sauce, I'll post my recipe here. If you can't wait, just google whiskey sauce.
So, over the holidays, several folks gave us sweet breads - pumpkin bread, a lovely sweet Italian bread with currants, another raisin bread. I wanted to use them all up before they just sat on the counter and turned into a science project. This is what I came up with. The bonus is that, now, we won't have that big bottle of eggnog clogging up the fridge either - till we throw it out when we discover it in the back, oh, sometime around July 4th.
Anywho, time to finish up the holiday goodies and start the New Year fresh! I hope you'll join me on this great blogging adventure. Meanwhile, let's eat!!
Saturday, January 1, 2011
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I do love your cooking Cher : )ReplyDelete
I think this is a great idea.
I love your new blog. And the bread pudding looks delicious.ReplyDelete
Can't wait to see some GF posts! N'awlins-style!
Looking forward to following you as you enter into this new adventure.
Happy New Year to you and your family.
Kathleen Eason Dillon
Girl, I done been tellin' ya - spread the good news: your cooking! Have you ever seen me miss a holiday meal at your house? Not in 33 years and counting :-)ReplyDelete
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In the misty mountain tops or deep in the forests lived the patupaiarehe – fairy-like beings who were seldom seen. They could lure people away from safety with the music of their flutes, and had magical powers and special knowledge. Some believe that red-haired Māori are their descendants.
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In Māori traditions, patupaiarehe are fairy-like people who live in the forest or on the misty mountain tops. Sometimes they are called tūrehu or pakepakehā.
What did they look like?
Patupaiarehe had light skin and red or fair hair. They did not have tattoos. Some people said they were small, and others said they were a normal size. In Whanganui stories, patupaiarehe were giants.
Where were they found?
Patupaiarehe were seldom seen. They were thought to live in several places in the North Island, including in the Waikato, around Rotorua and in the Urewera mountains. They also lived in some places in the South Island.
What were they like?
Patupaiarehe were afraid of the light, and were only seen at twilight or in the mist. They wore mats and red flax clothes, and could sometimes be heard playing their flutes.
Ponaturi were another fairy people who lived in the sea. They had red hair, light skin and long claws. They only came onto land at night.
What happened when they met people?
Sometimes patupaiarehe would put people under a spell and steal them away. They made love to beautiful women, and some people thought their children were the redheads called urukehu. To keep them away, people would paint themselves with smelly mixtures, or cook food, because patupaiarehe hated the smell. Fire and light would also frighten them away.
Patupaiarehe sometimes taught people magical chants and other skills. They were good at fishing, and one chief spied on them to learn how to make nets.


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Philippine President orders quake investigationPhilippine President Benigno Aquino has ordered an investigation into possible violations of the building code following Tuesday's 7.2 magnitude earthquake in the Visayas region which has resulted in at least 171 deaths and widespread damage and destruction to critical infrastructure in Cebu, Bohol and Siquijor provinces.
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Earthquake disrupts hospitals and schoolsThe death toll in Tuesday's 7.2 earthquake in the Philippines has risen to 156 with 3.2 million people affected including 47,000 displaced. There have been 1,213 aftershocks recorded including 24 of which were felt. An assessment released today by the National Disaster Risk Reduction and Management Council cites damage or destruction of over 2,000 homes and damage to seaports, airports, churches, government/public buildings, hospitals and private establishments in the Provinces of Bohol, Cebu, Iloilo, Negros Occidental and Leyte. Two bodies were recovered yesterday from the inside the collapsed Congressman Castillo Memorial Hospital and city engineers declared three other hospitals in Cebu City unsafe to be occupied.
|17 Oct 2013
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DRR champion launches national Resilience AwardPhilippines Senator Loren Legarda marked the 2013 International Day for Disaster Reduction with the launch of a national Resilience Award to inspire local leadership to build safer communities. The United Nations Champion for Disaster Risk Reduction and Climate Change Adaptation unveiled the initiative on the same weekend in which Typhoon Nari left at least 13 people dead in the northern provinces of the Philippines; a sobering reminder of the urgent need to strengthen resilience in this highly-hazard prone country. At least 750,000 people were affected before the typhoon made its way out into the South China Sea towards China and Viet Nam.
|14 Oct 2013
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People with disabilities: a power for change not a burdenBANGKOK, 20 September 2013 – Chaiyaphon Phupharat knows what he is talking about when he speaks about disability and how people living with disabilities are more vulnerable when disasters happen. In 1995, when he was 33 years old, Mr Chaiyaphon was involved in a road accident and has been in a wheelchair since. The incident prompted him to join the Council of Persons with Disabilities in Thailand and he has since become the organisation's director.
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'I've managed disasters and not fell in a screaming heap'Stuart Mawbey is an emergency service volunteer worker and manager as well as a person living with disabilities. He has spent the last 15 years assisting in emergencies in the Australian States of South Australia and New South Wales. Here he reflects on the immense personal satisfaction he derives from his volunteerism as well as the ongoing challenges he faces as a person living with disabilities. As a volunteer with the State Emergency Service (SES) our primary role is to assist the community with floods and storms, however I have also participated in remote area search and rescue, forensic searches, bushfire assistance, traffic control and safety for community events.
|6 Sep 2013
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Disability survey: 'Take my wisdom, not my dignity'Double amputee Firoz Ali Alizada believes that people living with disabilities are the biggest untapped resource for disaster planners around the world. The 31-year-old uses the example of his home country Afghanistan where people living with disabilities remain on the margins of decision making despite providing such a compelling example of day to day resilience.
|3 Sep 2013
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UNISDR Champion tackles land degradation in the PhilippinesUNISDR Champion, Senator Loren Legarda, today announced she is proposing new legislation to tackle the problem of land degradation in the Philippines which is one of the most disaster-prone countries in the world.
|30 Aug 2013
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Island states plot safe course to SamoaSmall Island Developing States will this week seek to plot a course to a safer and more resilient future as part of their preparations for a major conference next year. The Inter-regional preparatory meeting for the Third International Conference on Small Island Developing States (SIDS), which opens today in Bridgetown, Barbados, brings together nations from the three SIDS regions – Caribbean, Pacific and the Atlantic, Indian Ocean, Mediterranean South China Seas (AIMS) – to forge the way forward.
|26 Aug 2013
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Unified strategy provides 'more bang for your buck'World-leading efforts to unite climate change adaptation and disaster risk management into one overarching strategy will provide 'more bang for your buck' a senior Pacific development leader says. The Director-General of the Secretariat of the Pacific Community, Dr Jimmie Rodgers, said future generations would judge today's leaders on how bold their actions – not words – were in building safer and more resilient communities and countries.
|15 Aug 2013
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School director pioneers safer learning for pupilsAn innovative school director in northern Thailand has shown how his pupils can learn in safety with little additional financial cost and burden on staff. The Director of Baiboonlamphun School, Mr Pachernwaat Srichai, said school safety was becoming more of a priority with parents demanding secure environments for their children.
|23 Jul 2013
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'The fact we learn so slowly means we pay for it in dollars'"Neither disasters nor climate change is an issue for the future it's an issue for today. The fact that we learn so slowly means we are paying for it – and we are paying in dollars" – the Head of the UN Office for Disaster Risk Reduction (UNISDR) Ms Margareta Wahlström challenges the world to strengthen its approach to disaster risk management and reverse the escalation in direct economic losses from disasters. Ms Wahlström was interviewed for this TVNZ news report while at the 2013 Joint Meeting of the Pacific Platform for Disaster Risk Management and Pacific Climate Change Roundtable in Fiji, this month.
|22 Jul 2013
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'This bridge has been destroyed six times so now we build it higher and stronger'The leader of Fiji's disaster-hit Western Division has pledged to forge an integrated cross-sectoral strategy to achieve a safer and more resilient future. Western Division Commissioner Mr Joeli Cawaki and his team of technical experts told the head of the UN Office for Disaster Risk Reduction (UNISDR), Ms Margareta Wahlström, that integrated planning and action was vital after being hit by two serious floods and a major cyclone in 2012.
|19 Jul 2013
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Tonga's motto inspires leaders to safeguard a resilient inheritance"God and Tonga are my inheritance" – the motto of this Pacific Kingdom – has inspired its leaders to move to safeguard their country for future generations. Their efforts represent an inspiring example of ambitious disaster and climate resilient development steered by strong national leadership that is based on community ownership.
|17 Jul 2013
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Pacific environment leader warns: 'We will be the first to go under'The head of a major Pacific regional organization said the region's acute vulnerability left it no alternative but to lead the world in integrating risk reduction and climate change action into one over-arching strategy to secure a sustainable future. The Director General of the Secretariat of the Pacific Regional Environment Programme (SPREP), Dr David Sheppard, said the Pacific would rise to the challenge but they needed the world to join efforts too.
|16 Jul 2013
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'Recovery the key to future relevance of Pacific regional organisations'A landmark study says that regional organizations involved in disaster risk management in the Pacific will have to demonstrate excellence in technical assistance and be aligned to international financial flows to remain relevant.
|15 Jul 2013
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Pacific provides perfect springboard for HFA2 discussionsThe UN Office for Disaster Risk Reduction (UNISDR) today praised the Pacific for providing a 'perfect springboard' into the coming 18 months during which the world will prepare a new, longer term and more ambitious post-2015 framework to achieve safer and more resilient communities and nations.
|11 Jul 2013
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Bank chief urges business to lend its resilience wisdomBusinesses that bounced back quickly from a recent spate of disasters have a lot to teach policymakers and community leaders about resilience, a banking executive told a major Pacific development forum today.
|10 Jul 2013
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'Like our ancestors, if we have the heart, we can do it'Pacific government ministers today said community leadership was the key to success of innovative approaches to integrated climate change and disaster risk reduction action across the region.
|9 Jul 2013
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UNISDR chief: integrated action will help billions and save trillionsThe Head of the UN Office for Disaster Risk Reduction (UNISDR), Margareta Wahlström, today hailed the Pacific as it committed to a world first of integrating action in disaster risk management and climate change in one strategy to secure a sustainable future for this increasingly threatened region.
|8 Jul 2013
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Pacific goes to work early on disaster risk reductionEvery day the Pacific wakes up and goes to work ahead of the rest of the world and next week it will do the same as it kicks off a series of regional consultations that will shape the successor agreement to the Hyogo Framework for Action after 2015.
|4 Jul 2013
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UNISDR chief honours Canberra as a role model cityThe Head of UN office for Disaster Risk Reduction, Margareta Wahlström today officially acknowledged Canberra as a Role Model city for UNISDR's Making Cities Resilient Campaign by presenting a certificate to the Australian Capital Territory Minister for Police and Emergency Services, Simon Corbell.
|28 Jun 2013
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"When things turn to custard you need good governance"Two countries sitting at opposite ends of the world are emerging as beacons of good practice in terms of innovative public-private partnerships that have been proven to reduce disaster risk.
|21 Jun 2013
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Marshall Islands water crisis underlines Pacific's drought riskThe UN Office for Disaster Risk Reduction (UNISDR) today issued a warning that a lack of safe drinking water is emerging as a major natural hazard for many small islands in the Pacific.
|19 Jun 2013
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Developer unveils vision of cities as havens during disastersAn innovative urban developer in one of the world's most hazard-prone countries has urged public and private sector leaders to embrace his company's vision of building cities that 'people escape to rather than run away from' during disasters.
|17 Jun 2013
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Sendai welcomes next World Conference on DRRSendai City in Japan has been selected to host the World Conference on Disaster Risk Reduction in 2015. The city of one million people in the northern region of Tohoku was one of the hardest hit zones in the March 2011 Great Japan Earthquake and Tsunami.
|23 May 2013
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UNISDR welcomes India's new National Platform for Disaster Risk ReductionUNISDR Chief, Margareta Wahlström, today welcomed yesterday's inauguration by the Prime Minister of India, Dr. Manmohan Singh, of the country's National Platform for Disaster Risk Reduction which brings to 86, the number of such platforms around the world. These National Platforms provide important support to the implementation of the Hyogo Framework for Action, the global agreement on reducing disaster losses.
|14 May 2013
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Kiwi of the year mobilizes world youth for disaster resilienceWhen college sophomore Sam Johnson started a Facebook page following the September 2010 earthquake in Christchurch, New Zealand, to rally his peers to help affected communities, he never imagined that his idea would eventually mobilize an 'army' of young people across the country to take up similar efforts.
|1 May 2013
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Myanmar media rally for Cyclone NargisFive years after Cyclone Nargis claimed over 138,000 lives, the UN Office for Disaster Risk Reduction is joining forces with the media in Myanmar to highlight the lessons learned as the anniversary of the tragedy comes around.
|10 Apr 2013
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Central Asia meets on HFA2Regional cooperation on disaster risk reduction in Central Asia and the South Caucasus received a major boost this week as representatives from eight countries consulted with the UN Office for Disaster Risk Reduction (UNISDR) on a post-2015 framework for disaster risk reduction.
|15 Mar 2013
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UNISDR Chief returns to tsunami affected townAlmost two years after the devastating Great East Japan Earthquake, UNISDR Chief Margareta Wahlström, paid a return visit to one of the worst-affected towns, Minami-Sanriku, in Miyagi Prefecture, and met with the Mayor, Mr. Jin Sato.
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Five Months at Harper High School in Chicago—With 29 Kids Shot at & 8 DeadFebruary 18th, 2013 by Celeste Fremon
EDITOR'S NOTE: WitnessLA is taking Monday off. We'll be back to our regular reporting tomorrow.
In the meantime, we want to strongly recommend to you a completely extraordinary 2-part story produced by the public radio show, This American Life.
This 2-part series takes a look at the violence affecting Harper High School in Chicago where, during the last school year, 29 current and recent Harper students were shot. Twenty-one of those kids were wounded. Eight of them eight died.
"Watching this," said the program's host, Ira Glass, "it's hard not to think that if you grafted these facts on to another high school, in a wealthier place, maybe a suburb…In other places that would be national news, right? We would all know the name of that school."
But most of us have never heard of Harper.. Nor do we hear much about a similar kind of everyday violence that goes on in certain neighborhoods in Los Angeles. When we do hear about a shooting, it's often labeled "gang-related," the unstated implication being that the victim must have somehow deserved it, that what goes around comes around—unless, of course, the victim is specifically designated "innocent."
This story of Harper High School drills down past those careless assumptions.
"For everything we've all heard about children and gun violence," says Glass, "there are basic things we don't hear so much about. Like what it's like to live in neighborhoods that have to cope with so much bloodshed. This is a school that knows this problem in a way that most of us around the country don't."
The administrators at Harper (who seem, by the way, like unusually caring and level-headed educators) gave TAL's three reporters remarkable access for a full semester, five months. When violence struck—as it does with some regularity—the reporters recorded the staff as they jumped into action. They recorded private and painfully difficult meetings with families and students.
The result is one of the most affecting and accurate pieces of journalism I've run across in a very long time.
I'll have more to say after Part 2. But for now, just listen.
Back tomorrow with our regularly scheduled programming.
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Uhm, well I had a birthday, and I had a fun big party and then a fun little party, so that was good.
2) What are you reading?
I'm reading The Promised Land by Mary Antin (avoid at all costs), a bunch of criticism on life writing, a book on life writing, and I'm about to start another Jewish immigrant narrative. Oh, and I have to read the texts I'm assigning my students too, but I can't remember what they are. HA.
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Sun to Release xVM Virtualization Under GPL v3 License
Published: December 6, 2007
by Timothy Prickett Morgan
As part of its "rolling thunder" development and marketing campaign to become a powerhouse in server virtualization, Sun Microsystems this week has announced some more details on its xVM server virtualization products and the related tools to manage them. The company has also announced that the programs that comprise the xVM suite will be available as an open source project under the GNU General Public License v3--the first such Sun product to adopt the new license.
According to Oren Teich, director of marketing, Sun will make the xVM Ops Center tool, which is used to manage physical and virtual servers, available on January 8. Sun had said only a month ago that xVM Ops Center 1.0, which is an amalgam of existing Sun tools with a new and consistent Web interface coded in AJAX, ready for market by December. Considering it is the holiday season, a small slippage means pushing it into the new year. Slip happens, as they say in IT.
The important thing as far as Sun is concerned is getting a product like xVM Ops Center out the door, which does far more than manage virtual machine or logical partitions on Sun iron. xVM Ops Center discovers and inventories servers, updates firmware, performs bare metal provisioning of physical and virtual servers, manages hypervisors, provisions applications inside guest operating systems, and provides compliance reports to ensure that only the right people have access to this capability. The provisioning is done by the N1 Service Provisioning Server, an existing Sun product that was the core of the systems management push Sun made in the wake of the dot-com boom and resulting server sprawl. The tool also combines the Sun Connection Service, which is a patching service that Sun has made available to the Solaris software stack thanks to its February 2006 acquisition of a company called Aduva.
xVM Ops Center is the command and control tool for xVM partitioning, and its goal is to bring a consistent management method to Xen, logical domains (LDoms, for Sparc T1 and T2 chips only so far), Solaris containers, and any other kind of partitioning tool Sun might adopt for its gear. Containers implement virtual private server (VPS) style of partitioning that has a shared kernel and file system pretending to be multiple, distinct servers, while logical or virtual machine partitions have a full guest operating system running atop a hypervisor.
Concurrent with this week's announcement of the xVM Ops Center 1.0 product and its January availability, Sun also divulged pricing for the initial release of the product. The xVM Ops Center satellite server, which allows local deployment of Sun patches, will cost $10,000 a pop, while a subscription to manage server nodes will cost between $100 and $350 per physical node. Teich says that the new code can scale to 5,000 or more nodes, which is considerably more than the 500 to 1,000 nodes that the prior N1 and Aduva products could manage per satellite server. The interesting thing about the xVM Ops Center product and the agent code that Sun is introducing is that it uses RSS feeds coming from the satellite server to send out patch and provisioning data to the agents running on the servers. The agents subscribe to the feeds, and only the agents initiate communication.
The other interesting bit of Sun's announcement this week is the company's plan to release its xVM products under the GNU GPL v3 license. Considering that parts of xVM are based on Xen and governed by the GPL v2 license, this is probably just a matter of taking the path of least resistance. The GPL licensing is also probably why Sun is pitching xVM Server, the actual collection of hypervisors, and xVM Ops Center, the tools to provision and manage, as programs separate and distinct from Solaris and its open source project variant, OpenSolaris. OpenSolaris is governed by Sun's own Community Development and Distribution License (CDDL), and there would almost certainly be licensing issues mixing Xen code and Solaris code together in a single project. (The lawyers would no doubt not even agree on that statement.) Sun has released Java under the GPL v2 license, and could again do so because Java is a free-standing project and code that runs atop of an operating system.
Sun has set up OpenxVM.org as the community where development of xVM code will be done, and will on December 10 make common agent container for xVM source code available through this site. Over time, the entire xVM software stack will be taken open source, according to Teich. This is expected to be accomplished by the end of the first half of 2008.
According to Sun's roadmap, a preview of the xVM Server 1.0 release is expected in January 2008; this will only run on and manage X64-based servers. In March 2008, a preview of xVM Ops Center 2.0 will be available, as will a second preview of xVM Server 1.0. In the second quarter of 2008, the fully integrated and ready for production xVM Ops Center 2.0 and xVM Server 1.0 software will be rolled out. At this point, Sun will support the management of Xen partitions on any X64 machine with xVM Server 1.0, but support for Solaris containers and LDoms with the xVM Ops Center management tool will happen later in 2008--exactly when, Sun is not saying. Solaris containers and LDoms will eventually be rolled into the xVM Server brand, but for now, they are available and standalone features of Solaris.
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January 2014 was remarkably mild across nearly all of Alaska, resulting in this January ranking among the "top ten" warmest on record for many Alaskan communities according to preliminary analyses.
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CAPE CANAVERAL, Fla. - NASA is poised to launch seven shuttle astronauts toward the International Space Station (ISS) Tuesday on what some have called the most ambitious orbital construction mission to date.
Commanded by veteran spaceflyer Pamela Melroy, the shuttle Discovery is slated to launch from Pad 39A here at NASA?s Kennedy Space Center (KSC) at 11:38 a.m. EDT (1538 GMT). Melroy and her crewmates plan to swap out one ISS crewmember, deliver an orbital hub to anchor future laboratories to the station and perform the complicated move of a 17.5-ton solar array segment to boost the outpost?s power grid.
?I think, by any measure, this will is one of the most challenging and audacious missions of the shuttle era,? said Discovery astronaut Scott Parazynski, lead spacewalker for the NASA?s STS-120 mission. ?We?re all very proud to serve and be a part of this flight.?
Set to launch spaceward with Melroy and Parazynski are Discovery pilot George Zamka and mission specialists Stephanie Wilson, Douglas Wheelock, Daniel Tani and European Space Agency astronaut Paolo Nespoli. Together, they will install the Italian-built Harmony node - the connecting point for European and Japanese laboratories waiting to fly.
During five planned spacewalks - the most-ever during a shuttle flight to the ISS - the STS-120 astronauts will also test new space shuttle heat shield repair methods, move the station?s $276 million Port 6 (P6) solar power truss segment from its mast-like perch to the station?s port-most edge, and then unfurl its expansive arrays. Parazynski compared the P6 relocation to moving an entire house from one neighborhood to another.
?We hit the jackpot, I won?t kid ya. I think this is every astronaut?s dream of a mission,? Melroy said before launch day. ?It?s going to be an enormous challenge.?
The flight will also be historic. Melroy, NASA?s second female shuttle commander, is set lead her crew into space to the ISS, where veteran U.S. astronaut Peggy Whitson is serving as the orbital laboratory?s first female commander. Whitson and her Expedition 16 crewmates took charge of the space station on Friday from its outgoing crew.
?The thing that is the best about this is that it happened totally by accident,? Melroy said. ?Nobody planned it.?
Tani will replace NASA astronaut Clayton Anderson, who is currently living aboard the ISS as an Expedition 16 flight engineer, during Discovery?s spaceflight. He and his crewmates hope to beat the weather for Tuesday?s planned launch. Current forecasts predict a 60 percent chance that rain showers and thick clouds could prevent the planned space shot.
Gateway to new labs, larger crews
Discovery?s STS-120 spaceflight will mark NASA?s 120th shuttle flight to date and the third mission this year to continue space station assembly.
But unlike this summer?s previous flights of the Atlantis and Endeavour orbiters - which delivered new truss segments, cargo, spare parts and solar arrays - Discovery is hauling up Harmony, which will increase the internal space of the ISS for the first time since Russia?s Pirs docking port arrived in 2001.
?Many people look at it as the gateway to the international partner piece of the space station,? Derek Hassmann, NASA?s lead ISS flight director during STS-120, told SPACE.com.
Harmony will serve as the anchor for the European Space Agency?s Columbus laboratory - slated to launch aboard Atlantis in December - and Japan?s three-segment Kibo laboratory. The new module will also hold quarters for ISS astronauts once the station?s crew complement doubled to six spaceflyers in 2009.
?It?s very exciting to think that the work we?re doing is going to enable this exciting new research and also enable a six-person crew capability in the future,? Parazynski said.
While Parazynski is making his fifth spaceflight with Discovery?s planned launch Tuesday, Zamka, Wheelock and Nespoli are making their first forays into orbit during the STS-120 mission.
?I can?t wait for the clock to count down to zero and the solid rocket boosters ignite,? said Zamka. ?Because that will be a nice reminder that the training is over.?
NASA will begin broadcasting Discovery?s STS-120 launch and mission operations live on NASA TV at 6:30 a.m. EDT (1030 GMT) on Tuesday. Click here for SPACE.com?s live launch coverage, mission updates and NASA TV feed.
- SPACE.com Video Interplayer: Delivering ?Harmony? with NASA's STS-120 Mission
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|King George III
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IntroductionOn January 16, 2013, ft.com reported President Barack Obama had issued "sweeping," restrictive executive orders as to military-style guns and ammunition, tightening background checks, and proposing toughest gun control laws in two decades.
This Obama Administration action has drawn sharp criticism. Those opposed to this express a clear political preference for Second Amendment respect over legislation by Presidential decree.
Additionally, this Executive Branch mandate begs the question whether Obama's action violates Separation of Powers under the United States Constitution. Accordingly, one must understand this doctrine's legal precedent.
The Steel Seizure Case:
In 1951, labor negotiations between United Steelworkers of America, C. I. O., and steel companies fell apart. This prompted threats of union strikes, setting a deadline of December 31, that year.
Factual Background
Shortly after this, the Federal Mediation and Conciliation Service (FMCS) intervened. Despite its intention to bring about a resolution, FMCS failed.
On December 22, 1951, President Dwight Eisenhower referred the dispute to the Federal Wage Stabilization Board (FWSB). Eisenhower ordered FWSB to recommend settlement terms based on an investigation. This, too, did not bring about a settlement.
On April 4, 1952, the Union threatened a nation-wide strike to begin 12:01 a. m. on April 9. All parties knew and understood the centrality of steel in the production of weapons and war materials.
Eisenhower anticipated a strike would jeopardize national defense and security. Therefore, the President, within hours of the beginning of the strike, issued Executive Order 10340. Thus, Eisenhower ordered the Secretary of Commerce to seize most of the steel mills and keep them running. The Secretary followed suit, taking possession and managerial control of the mills.
Steel mill managers obeyed under protest, and filed suit against the nation's Executive. The Steel Mills asked the court to stop the Secretary's action on grounds that it violated the Constitution. The Government defended this action as an inherent power based on the Constitution as well as historical and legal precedent.
On April 30, 1952, the District Court ruled against the Government, and issued an order restraining the Secretary from enforcing Executive Order No. 10340. Later that day, the Court of Appeals stayed the injunction. On May 8, 1952, the United States Supreme Court agreed to review the dispute.
Separation of Powers:
A Doctrine Without Precedent
Would Judicial Activism By Any Other Name Smell As Sweet?The foregoing summarizes the basis for Youngstown v. Sayer, 343 U.S. 579 (1952) (the Steel Seizure Case). With respect to Separation of Powers, scholars and courts have attributed great weight to Justice Jackson's opinion. Id. at 634-55 (Jackson, J., concurring).
Ironically, Justice Jackson wrote his concurrence without the benefit of any legal precedent. This blog entry will focus on Jackson's concurrence to explain the Separation of Powers Doctrine of the United States Constitution.
Oliver Wendell Holmes wrote about "the life of the law" in 1881 before he became a Supreme Court Justice. Understanding Justice Holmes contributes to understanding Justice Jackson's concurrence in the Steel Seizure case. Holmes famously wrote,
The life of the law has not been logic: it has been experience. The felt necessities of the time, the prevalent moral and political theories, intuitions of public policy, avowed or unconscious, even the prejudices which judges share with their fellow-men, have had a good deal more to do than the syllogism in determining the rules by which men should be governed.In the Steel Seizure case, Justice Jackson characterized the "comprehensive and undefined" power the Constitution grants the president as having "both practical advantages and grave dangers for the country . . . ."
Oliver Wendell Holmes, The Common Law, 1 (1881).
As if speaking through Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes, Justice Jackson wrote his concurrence based on insight he gained from prior experience in the Executive branch. This experience enabled Justice Jackson to understand,
The opinions of judges, no less than executives and publicists, often suffer the infirmity of confusing the issue of a power's validity with the cause it is invoked to promote, of confounding the permanent executive office with its temporary occupant. The tendency is strong to emphasize transient results upon policies . . . and lose sight of enduring consequences upon the balanced power structure of our Republic.Justice Jackson referred with respectful candor to the nation's founding generation. Comparing the task of determining the intent of the american forefathers to a similar task with respect to the forefathers in the Old Testament, Justice Jackson explained the Framer's intent "must be divined from materials almost as enigmatic as the dreams Joseph was called upon to interpret for Pharaoh." Additionally, the intervening century and a half had not yielded any evidence to clarify the issue.
Justice Jackson acknowledged both the founding generation and the importance of precedent. This is, almost certainly, because Jackson formulated the Separation of Powers doctrine here without the benefit of legal precedent or evidence of the Framer's intent.
The purpose of Separation of Power under the Constitution, wrote Justice Jackson, is to better secure liberty. Nevertheless, the Constitution "also contemplates that practice will integrate the dispersed powers into a workable government." Political realities, explained Justice Jackson, prevent the nation's leaders from conforming their actions to judicial definitions of power.
Separation of Power:
Justice Jackson explained presidential power under the Constitution in three scenarios. In the first scenario, the president's power under Article II is at its maximum.
The Legal Doctrine
1. When the President acts pursuant to an express or implied authorization of Congress, his authority is at its maximum, for it includes all that he possesses in his own right plus all that Congress can delegate. In these circumstances, and in these only, may he be said (for what it may be worth) to personify the federal sovereignty. If his act is held unconstitutional under these circumstances, it usually means that the Federal Government as an undivided whole lacks power.With respect to President Obama's Executive Order about guns, if President Obama issued these orders based on an Act of Congress, then they would have "the strongest of presumptions and the widest latitude of judicial interpretation, and the burden of persuasion would rest heavily upon any who might attack it."
In the second scenario, the president's power is sustainable, but less potent than the first scenario.
2. When the President acts in absence of either a congressional grant or denial of authority, he can only rely upon his own independent powers, but there is a zone of twilight in which he and Congress may have concurrent authority, or in which its distribution is uncertain. Therefore, congressional inertia, indifference or quiescence may sometimes, at least as a practical matter, enable, if not invite, measures on independent presidential responsibility. In this area, any actual test of power is likely to depend on the imperatives of events and contemporary imponderables rather than on abstract theories of law.Turning to President Obama's Executive Order, if President Obama issued these orders while Congress has not yet spoken on the issue, then the totality of circumstances will dictate their lawfulness. The primary factor appears to be the urgency of the moment where the harm of waiting would outweigh the value of allowing Congress to act.
In the final scenario, the president's power is weakest.
3. When the President takes measures incompatible with the expressed or implied will of Congress, his power is at its lowest ebb, for then he can rely only upon his own constitutional powers minus any constitutional powers of Congress over the matter. Courts can sustain exclusive presidential control in such a case only by disabling the Congress from acting upon the subject. Presidential claim to a power at once so conclusive and preclusive must be scrutinized with caution, for what is at stake is the equilibrium established by our constitutional system.Turning to President Obama's Executive Order, if President Obama issued these orders that directly contradict Federal Law as enacted by Congress, then his Executive Orders would be exceedingly weak.
A Deeper AnalysisIn the Steel Seizure case, even though the United States was at war with Korea, the Supreme Court held President Eisenhower acted in violation of the Constitution.
The Federal Government in the Steel Seizure case relied on the president's war power to justify the steel mill takeover. But process of elimination placed Eisenhower's action in his model's third category.
The steel mill takeover did not fall in Jackson's first category because Eisenhower acted without congressional approval. Additionally, the takeover did not fall within Jackson's second category because Congress had enacted three laws on point, and the steel mill seizure did not comply with any of them.
Eisenhower did not act consistently with any of the following areas where Congress authorized the Executive to seize property:
- Seizure of a plant which fails to comply with obligatory orders placed by the Government;
- Condemnation of facilities, including temporary use under the power of eminent domain;
- Where the general economy of the country is to be protected, not exclusive governmental interests.
Justice Jackson repudiated three arguments from the Solicitor General to justify Eisenhower's actions.
- The Constitution did not grant the President all the executive power of which the government is capable. This directly contradicts the history of conflict with King Edward III of England, and the Declaration of Independence. It also contradicts the Separation of Powers Doctrine implicit in the Article I powers granted to Congress, Article II powers granted to the President, and Article III powers granted to the Judiciary.
- The Constitution did not grant the President absolute authority under the War Power. The clauses granting this power do not contain concrete limitations. Although not an empty formulation of words, there are no contours for the War Power. Even though America was at war in Korea, the War Power did not justify seizure of the steel mills.
- The Constitution did not grant limitless Presidential authority to execute the laws. This is so because "No person shall be . . . deprived of life, liberty or property, without due process of law . . . ." U.S. Const. amend. V.
OpinionAs a government of laws, not of men, Eisenhower did not have power to seize the mills. For all these reasons, former Attorney General Edwin Meese indicated legislation by Executive Order about guns ought to subject Obama to impeachment.
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Milla Jovovich got into the Halloween spirit earlier this week with a bright orange gown at the 14th Annual Hollywood Awards Gala in Beverly Hills.
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Milla stars as the exotic dancer who becomes charmed by the infatuated teen's naïveté, with Mos Def, Steve Buscemi, and William H. Macy rounding out the cast of this coming-of-age drama that marks the directorial debut of longtime actor Macy.
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