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About one month ago I purchased and installed an M1A pickup in an older, but otherwise quite normal, Takamine acoustic guitar. I am experiencing serious problems with feedback. Two kinds occur. One appears to be a harmonic high. The severity of this type depends on the note plucked. The second is a strong low pitched form that seems to come from the body of the guitar. I can stop it by pressing hard on the guitar body. I have tried several amplifiers and a PA with identical results. I have repositioned the pickup from the fret side to bridge side of the sound hole, and have tried different angles. I messed around with the height of the poles. I have installed several different thicknesses of felt, cork, or paper washers to isolate the pickup from body vibrations. Only very thick (~1/8") washers have any effect, although they do not solve the problem. It returns if the volume is elevated.
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BooyaCS wrote:Desormoux is what I think you mean and Big Brown doesn't have a bad hoof Casino drive does (the quarter crack is nothing and the hoof specialist is a doctor I don't think he would risk his reputation if something happened to the horse).Anyhow betting to win money you don't bet Big Brown. Not at 2/5 odds. Casino Drive is the "sexy" pick but he won the Peter Pan having to get pushed across the line. Big Brown won a race 2/8 of a mile longer hand ridden. Just some thought. Also the only race where they have raced on the same distance is the FL derby and the Peter pan. Big Brown was in .29 of Casino Drive's time and Big Brown wasn't really trying in that one either.I guess there are still going to be questions out there. How bad did Casino Drive hurt his hoof. Is the Quarter Crack that big of a deal for Big Brown? What about Denis of Cork or Ank Nail (sp) (who won a maiden on turf at 1.5 miles).
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Swerb wrote:No one is beating Big Brown. I'd be shocked.I'm going to once again tie him up in a bunck of exactas, tris, and supers and hope to get lucky. A big one boxed, some straights with BB winning. I'll post em when I make em.
by pup » Sat Jun 07, 2008 10:13 pm
Pup wrote:Gotta lay something on a 4-horser without Big Brown. With the bad hoof, if he gets a bad run, there is no way he gets pushed hard to sneak into the top 4. Disermo (sp?) will pull back if he doesn't think he has it.
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LGA revision bill passes through committee
ST. PAUL – The House bill that overhauls the Local Government Aid funding formula was put aside for later inclusion in a more comprehensive bill Wednesday during a hearing the Minnesota House Property and Local Tax Division.
A coalition of rural cities and metro cities organizations cooperated to formulate methods for distribution of LGA funds.
The bill simplifies city categories to small, medium and large with only a maximum of three factors calculating how much funding is received. House researchers stated that the factors, which vary for each category, were based around factors statistically shown to account for approximately 50 percent of spending variation with cities in individual categories. It also strips out complexities in the current LGA law.
The bill calls for overall appropriations scaled on inflation, which was done in 1994 to 2003, and it adds a calculation for unmet need. The changes affect how LGA funds are distributed so cities with greater needs get a bigger portion. There is also a formula to scale funding down when it is not needed. These provisions are intended to make LGA more customizable and have a more direct correlation in funding change.
The bill received strong support from the DFL members of the committee. They expressed interest in returning to the 2003 LGA funding levels, which were used before several years of LGA cuts to help balance the state budget. They emphasized that an improved LGA formula would help city budgets and possibly reduce property taxes.
Several Republican lawmakers on the committee objected to the bill. Rep. Pat Garofalo (R-Farmington) voiced concerns that the adjustment for inflation clause is based on the implicit price deflator factor. He was concerned that inflation consistently scales faster than personal income, resulting in automatic spending increases that would be the "baked into the brownies" of state budget.
Rep. Jerry Hertaus (R-Greenfield) questioned half the state population not being on LGA and objected to determining need on factors such as how many houses in city were built before 1940.
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Executive Director's Report - Week of February 1
By Steve Locke
Last week, for a couple of days, I was in the San Diego Chula Vista Olympic Training Center and had the opportunity to participate in a number of events oriented toward elite team and athlete development. Included in my schedule was meeting the women's national team (a collection of refined, well educated, and motivated athletes), visiting the Chula Vista Olympic Training Center (OTC) High Performance staff (also refined, highly motivated ...and, well educated), and renewing acquaintances from years past with Tracy Lamb, director of the OTC, and his associate Dave Stowe (Dave is an extremely competent guy who has been at the Chula Vista site since its inception; I met Tracy Lamb years ago when he was at the Lake Placid, New York OTC; he has obviously advanced himself through his considerable talents). A little more on Tracy and Dave later in this report.
During my visit with Terry Walsh, who as High Performance Technical Director oversees the entire High Performance and pipeline development programming for USA Field Hockey, I was keen to see some of the technology employed by our coaches. Terry patiently took me through the regimen of technology used and the one software piece that particularly impressed me was one that Terry has developed over the years. Using that particular technology enables Terry and his coaching staff to determine trends of any particular team, graphically peg weak and strong areas both within our teams and our competition, and to study existing player motion technique plus what may become more advanced technique through the sport's evolution. It was fascinating. What was even of more interest was that the software could apply to almost any sport. Terry's program has been duplicated in other genres of sport, but not to the sophistication levels he created for field hockey and that he now uses. It is great to be cutting edge, and the application of software use for measurable analysis certainly beats the seat of the pants approach to coaching that I experienced growing up.
Now back to Tracy and Dave; you are undoubtedly aware that USA Field Hockey in hosting a FIH World Cup Qualifier at Chula Vista later this year. Typically, no matter the sport, these sorts of events can be quite expensive, and this event is typical. It will be expensive. In fact, within our budget we show a $137K loss*(see below), and we are in the process of chipping away at that amount even with the date approaching in March. Our circumstance within the USA is that we do not receive governmental subsidy for international events. As mentioned in a previous weekly report, most Olympic associations throughout the world receive a governmental largess for underwriting their teams' activities and staging events. It surprises many people from abroad and even from within this country that sport does not receive US Federal funding or, for that matter, generally any type of governmental contribution. We are reliant on what we can raise as an organization. So is the United States Olympic Committee.
During the course of my visit last week to Chula Vista, we had a conference call with the personalities engaged in presenting the FIH World Cup Qualifier. They included Laura Darling (General Manager), Terry Walsh, Kate Reisinger (Director of High Performance), Tracy Lamb and Dave Stowe (both from the Chula Vista OTC), and myself. The purpose of the call was to precisely determine who was paying for what (USA Field Hockey or the United States Olympic Committee). Bear in mind that both organizations operate with a very thin margin. Without going through the detail of it all, both Tracy and Dave stepped up and are generously providing many items typically they would not in event production. We are grateful and, indeed, as we approach London and its Olympic Games, we are specifically grateful to the USOC for their greater investment into field hockey. All in all, we can underline that the USOC's willingness to invest in field hockey to a greater extent than in the past has to do with the performances of our teams and the competence of our high performance group.
At this point, it seems apropos to mention the importance of our sponsor partners. Simon Hoskins serves USA Field Hockey as our Director of Marketing and does magnificent work. He recognizes that in each case of our development of a sponsor partnership that we must convince business owners the importance of USA Field Hockey and also look toward helping them receive a realistic return on their investment through their relationship with us. Each of our partners are extremely important to us. Take a look at the first part of this report and it becomes even more evident of their importance. Likewise, it is important for us to look after their well-being and to support each sponsor partner at every turn. With that in mind, we will be prospecting ways to enhance relationships measurably for all of our partners in numerous ways and often with a custom relationship in mind. The bottom line is that they each must sell product. And, we must help them. The quid pro quo is obvious. But in today's report, I just wanted to offer a thank you to every sponsor-partner involved. In subsequent weekly reports, and through other media outlets used by USA Field Hockey, you are going to be learning a lot more about our partners; they are an eclectic group who are all passionate about the sport and their products.
This Friday I will be traveling to Orlando to attend the Disney Field Hockey Showcase, and to attend my first USA Field Hockey Board meeting. I look forward to both.
And, finally, in a topic that has nothing to do with field hockey, it has been interesting to observe the soap opera-ness of late night television, Craig Ferguson joins the fray...
The Late Late Show with Craig Ferguson: It's a sad day for American literature. The legendary author J.D. Salinger passed away at the age of 91. Well, come on, he was 91. After he wrote "Catcher in the Rye," Salinger was best known for becoming a recluse. He was famous for wanting not to be famous. He retreated to a farm in New Hampshire and refused to do any publicity. In America, he disappeared. It was as if he had his own show at 12:30 on CBS.
Have a great week!
*You may have a little sticker shock over this deficit number. I did, too. A lot of this has to do with international competition, and especially having international competition on your own soil (there is always a home advantage). It is critical for the USA to have a team compete in FIH World Cup. However, only 12 teams can make the grade and making the grade means qualifying. Hence the FIH World Cup Qualifier at Chula Vista. When conducting these events, the host country must sign a contract with the international federation (FIH) and meet certain standards. Standards (meeting international field of play requirements) can add up in a financial sense. So, in weighing the advantage of having the competition on home soil and meeting the financial obligations can create short term angst. However, if the team finds itself qualified and in the top 12 countries eligible to compete in the FIH World Cup, USA Field Hockey will realize long term gain not only in meeting our mission to have top caliber international teams, but in a financial sense in becoming more meaningful to sponsor partners.
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Kutch is a desert "island" in northwest India, surrounded by the salt march Rann and the Arabian Sea. Here, a rich range of distinctive textile traditions have thrived until today. Kala Raksha, a grass roots social enterprise co-founded by Judy Frater, has worked with weavers, block printers, bandhani artisans and especially embroiderers of Kutch for two decades to nurture their creative capacity.
Through her anthropological perspective Ms. Frater will use the experience of Kala Raksha to explore the dynamic relationship between fashion and tradition, and examine how mutual influence shaped and reflected changing identity among traditional embroidery artisans of Kutch. Judy Frater is Project Director of Kala Raksha, which promotes traditional crafts of this area through a design school, Kala Raksha Vidhyalaya, and markets the work of local artisans under the Artisan Design trademark to certify the maker's unique creation and further the concept of intellectual property. Ms. Frater will be accompanied by two Rabari nomadic women, embroiders and camel herders.


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Garlic-Onion Tortilla Stack
- 3/4 cup roasted garlic
- Olive Oil
- 2/3 cup canola oil
- 4 cups small-diced red onion (about 2 pounds)
- 3 tablespoons unsalted butter
- 2 tablespoons sugar
- 5 tablespoons grated Parmesan
- 1/4 cup mayonnaise
- 3 tablespoons minced fresh cilantro
- Kosher salt and freshly ground black pepper
- Twelve 8-inch flour tortillas
- 2 tablespoons balsamic vinegar
DirectionsWatch how to make this recipe.
Add the garlic to a skillet over low heat with a little olive oil and cook until the garlic just squishes.
Meanwhile, in a large skillet over medium heat, heat the canola oil. Add the onions and cook until lightly browned but not overly dark, about 5 minutes, stirring regularly. Add the butter and sugar and cook until the onions have thoroughly browned, 20 to 25 minutes.
Add the roasted garlic, Parmesan, mayonnaise, cilantro and salt and pepper to taste and stir to combine. Remove from the heat, transfer to a medium bowl and set aside to cool. Cover and refrigerate for at least 4 hours.
Reserve one-third of the mixture in the refrigerator to use to make the dipping sauce. Evenly spread the remaining mixture on the top of 11 of the tortillas. Stack the tortillas on top of one another and top with the remaining tortilla. Wrap the tortilla stack in plastic wrap and refrigerate for 12 to 24 hours to set up.
Preheat a grill to medium. Cut the stack into 16 wedges. Using tongs, grill each wedge on the cut sides until it's warmed and grill marks appear.
Mix the reserved onion mixture with the balsamic vinegar to make a dipping sauce; season to taste. Serve the wedges with the dipping sauce.
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Center for Policy Innovation Lecture #05 on United States Government
April 2, 2012
April 2, 2012 | Center for Policy Innovation Lecture on United States Government
Abstract: The triumph of the administrative state has been made possible by the emasculation of the legislative power. Washington's problem is not merely federal spending and debt; it is the arrogance of centralized power. The time is therefore ripe for a major national discussion not only about the size of government, but also about the processes of government. Americans have a choice: to be governed by the rule of law, as hammered out in open legislative debate carried on by elected representatives who are directly accountable to us, or the rule of administrators who are most certainly not accountable to us. The rule of regulators is arbitrary and unaccountable government—exactly what the Founders wished to prevent in crafting the Federal Constitution.
Steve Kroft of CBS recently interviewed President Barack Obama. In response to a question on his job performance, the President ranked himself fourth among America's chief executives (behind Lyndon Johnson, Franklin Roosevelt, and Abraham Lincoln) in the production of policy initiatives.[1]
Critics quickly ridiculed his self-assessment as narcissistic nonsense. They're wrong.
President Obama is transforming American government. Few Presidents have enjoyed more success in enacting such a large policy agenda in such a short period of time.
Combine this massive legislative production with his zealous regulatory program. While Washington's bureaucratic regime has been growing since the early 1900s, under President Obama its growth has exploded. In 2009 and 2010 alone, federal agencies issued 7,076 final rules.[2]
While the President insists that his regulatory output is less than that of President George W. Bush, a closer look reveals that his "major" regulations—those having an annual impact of at least $100 million each—were more numerous. Since President Obama took office in 2009, federal agencies have issued 75 major regulations with an annual additional cost to the economy of $38 billion.[3] Taken altogether, the Small Business Administration last year estimated that the total cost of America's regulatory burden reached $1.75 trillion—more than twice what Americans pay in individual income taxes.[4]
The U.S. Departments of Agriculture, Commerce, Treasury, and Health and Human Services (HHS) and the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) are at the center of this regulatory storm. They alone account for 43 percent of all rules in the federal pipeline.[5] Of the 43 major rules issued in 2010, 10 were based on EPA mandates.[6] With the President's health and environmental initiatives alone, the Obama White House has dwarfed the regulatory agenda of its predecessors.
The national health law expands the administrative power of the HHS Secretary beyond anything previously attempted. The Secretary is required to act—indicated by the statutory language "shall"—1,563 times in the final language of the legislation, and 40 specific provisions of the law mandate or permit the issuance of regulations.[7] Senate Republican Policy Committee staff estimate that the new law creates 159 new agencies or entities, but the Congressional Research Service says that the exact number is "unknowable" inasmuch as certain powerful federal offices are created administratively without direct congressional authorization.
While the law's schedule of implementation stretches out over eight years, the most far-reaching provisions—the mandates on individuals, employers, and states—take effect in 2014. Nonetheless, in less than two years, the national health law has already generated over 11,000 pages of rules, regulations, and guidelines and related paperwork in the Federal Register.
Just consider the law's 15-member Independent Payment Advisory Board (IPAB). The powerful board will make its initial recommendations for detailed and specific Medicare payment cuts in January 2015, and the Secretary is empowered to put them into effect unless Congress enacts an alternative set of payment cuts to meet statutory Medicare spending targets.[8] The board's automatic recommendations are subject to neither administrative nor judicial review, and the law further requires a three-fifths Senate majority to block IPAB's prescriptions.
Peter Orszag, President Obama's former director of the Office of Management and Budget (OMB), has observed that the extraordinary power of this new board is "the largest yielding of sovereignty from the Congress since the creation of the Federal Reserve."[9]
In 2010 alone, Congress enacted 217 bills that became law, but that same year, federal agencies issued 3,573 final rules covering a wide variety of economic activities.[10] Today, more than at any other time in our history, we are less and less governed by the rule of law, hammered out in legislative deliberations as the Founders intended, and more and more governed by the rule of regulation. We are subject to edicts promulgated by administrators—persons we do not know and will never know, persons protected by civil service law and tenure who are not accountable to us and will never be accountable to us. Nonetheless, the administrators' detailed decisions have the force of law.
Regulation, as law, can and does directly affect whether or not we can start or run our businesses, determine how many persons we can or cannot afford to hire, how we may or may not use our land or dispose of our property. Not only do administrators publish thousands of pages of regulations, but our fellow citizens can sometimes also go to jail for violating them.
Ladies and gentlemen, we are witnessing the triumph of the administrative state, but that conquest is only possible because of the emasculation of the legislative power. The Founders made Congress the lawgiver, as clarified in Article I, Section 1 of the Federal Constitution. So much of their focus, reflected in The Federalist and other writings, was on how to check and balance the predominant legislative power, to channel and contain personal ambition and factional interest, to restrain potentially tyrannical majorities and safeguard the rights of beleaguered minorities, to secure personal liberty and protect the rights of property.
Though federal power has grown steadily since President Washington took the oath of office, today the relationship between the individual and the government is changing in a qualitative way. Americans are increasingly the subjects of an administrative regime rather than the free citizens of a democratic republic with a limited government.
Picking Winners and Losers. This steady transfer of legislative power to administrators has another inescapable consequence: arbitrary rule. The champions of administrative power invariably couch their arguments in appeals to expertise. The more complex the economic sector to be planned or regulated, the more that strict uniformity in the application of the rules becomes problematic.
In broad congressional grants of power, lawmakers give administrators wide latitude in the development and enforcement of the rules, so those who make the rules can also unmake them by granting waivers and exemptions. In the case of the health care law, HHS has already granted over 1,722 temporary waivers to certain businesses, unions, and gourmet restaurants in San Francisco that don't have to comply with national coverage rules that apply to other companies throughout the country.
Treating similarly situated Americans differently, either as individual citizens or as citizens of a particular state, amounts to arbitrary rule; and arbitrary rule is inherently unjust.
Today's debate over the powerful bureaucracy is usually framed in terms of economic impact: How will federal rules affect economic growth and job creation, the price of gasoline or electricity, the cost of health insurance or the quality of medical care? While this level of debate is necessary, it is insufficient. Yes, we cannot neglect the trees, but it is really the health of the forest that matters.
The big question is this: How does this bureaucratic ascendancy affect ordinary Americans? My answer: Our very civic life is at stake, not just our prosperity.
The current trend is an affront to our self-government. The tacit assumption: Millions of us are not smart enough to make our own decisions for ourselves. Rather, we need to be closely supervised by officials. They will prescribe for us, for example, what kind of light bulbs and washing machines we should use. The provision of nutritional or caloric information on restaurant menus, or food items dispensed through vending machines, is now a federal mandate under Section 4205 of the Affordable Care Act.
Our supervision, though distant and impersonal, becomes more precise and detailed. We are to become increasingly dependent on government for our well-being. Today, almost half of Americans (48.5 percent) live in households that are getting some form of government assistance, largely funded from federal revenues, but nearly half (49.5 percent) of our citizens pay no federal income taxes. But today's Progressives are still dissatisfied. In their view, the many are to be even more dependent on the few, and the few (the hated "rich," however they are defined) should be paying even more in taxes than they do today.
Over time, these dynamics will change the character of our people, with corrosive consequences for our political culture and our economic prosperity. America will have a progressively larger class of dependent citizens, and that spirit of freedom and independence for which the Founders risked their lives and fortunes will be broken.
It does not have to be this way. Our task is to paint the big picture, the overarching framework of American civic life. The great medieval philosopher St. Thomas Aquinas, the "First Whig," defines law as an edict of reason, promulgated by the sovereign for the common good of the community.[11] The law instructs citizens in their rights and duties, and thus has a teaching function. That being the case, as lawmakers, you must become teachers of the Constitution, carriers of our rich political culture of republican government.
What must we do to preserve and protect the constitutional traditions of limited government, individual liberty, the separation of powers, and the unique advantages of federalism? James Madison, "the Father of The Constitution," was not a lawyer, but he was a Congressman. And in that role, he was also a teacher: He routinely employed his formidable talents in the education of his colleagues and fellow citizens on the first principles of government.
In my reading of the public mood, you also have an eager audience. More and more Americans hunger for the wisdom of the Founders, are reading their biographies, and seek to understand their tightly reasoned arguments for the adoption of our Constitution. They are also becoming aware that there is something deeply wrong with the way in which they are being governed and that this process deviates from the intentions of the Founders. They correctly sense that modern government is ever more distant and disconnected from them. They are right.
President Obama, like President Woodrow Wilson, is a real "Progressive," but what does that mean? In his recent speech at Osawatomie, Kansas, he recalled President Theodore Roosevelt's "New Nationalism."[12] A genuine Progressive, TR favored the imposition of inheritance taxes and the income tax and became the standard bearer of the Progressive Party in 1912.
Reflecting that tradition, President Obama and his ideological allies are also vigorous champions of aggressive executive power.[13] Commenting on President Obama's governance, New York Times columnist David Brooks predicts, "When historians look back on this period, they will see it as another progressive era…. It's a progressive era based on faith in government experts and their ability to use social science analysis to manage complex systems."[14]
Welcome to the "100 Years War" of American politics. Progressivism, after all, was America's dominant political movement from 1890 to 1920. While the Progressives are identified with social reform and the reining in of corporate interests and trusts, they focused intensely on structural reform of government, particularly civil service reform and the democratization of our politics.
No modern American political movement has been more successful. Within a relatively short span of time, progressives backed the adoption of four transformative amendments to the Constitution. They fostered the income tax (Sixteenth Amendment) and secured direct election of U.S. Senators (Seventeenth Amendment); many backed Prohibition (Eighteenth Amendment); and they allied with the suffragettes (Nineteenth Amendment). In the several states, they broke the power of the political bosses and enacted initiative and referenda and the recall of public officials.
Long before the New Deal of the 1930s, Progressives concentrated power in Washington. With the backing of the Progressives, Congress created the Federal Reserve System (1913) and the Federal Trade Commission (1914). Federal employment soared.[15] During the Great War, Congress (in the Overman Act of 1918) gave President Wilson enormous discretionary power to consolidate and rearrange executive offices and agencies. Meanwhile, dissent, especially criticism of America's entry into the war, was suppressed.
"Permissiveness," the hallmark of the Sixties, was never welcome among Progressives, old or new. Under the rule of the new Progressives, if you want to just "do your own thing," you won't. You will do what you are told. If you think you can just "turn on, tune in, and drop out," think again. You will be forced, for example, to buy government-approved health benefits—including federally certified abortifacients—or pay a fine. You will behave. You will conform. You will comply. You will not march to a different drummer.
The old Progressives were earnest and well-intentioned—old-fashioned "do gooders." They were also stern and sober social reformers. During the Progressive Era, Congress suppressed the lottery business and interstate prostitution. They enforced prohibition on the sale and manufacture of alcohol,[16] and they imposed taxes on narcotics. Personal vice had become a public enemy. Professor Charles Beard, a leading Progressive historian, wrote in 1930: "Perhaps no country in the world, except Russia, places so many restraints on what is called 'personal liberty,' the right to do as one pleases in personal conduct and on the use of property."[17]
Because Progressivism is an old and recurrent stream in our public life, its influence on public policy is so immense that it is a given: part of our national landscape. Progressive intellectuals generally had—and still have—a profound faith in social science, a conviction that scientific expertise was the key to social progress, especially in a social and economic order that was increasingly complex. Administration was to be the change agent. Again, Beard: "Thus, in our day, a new social science is being staked out and developed—the science of administration in a 'great society.' If the 'great society' is to endure, then it must make itself master of administration."[18]
For Progressives, true liberty was not merely freedom from, or "negative" liberty, meaning freedom from arbitrary rule or tyrannical coercion, as embodied in the venerable natural rights tradition of the American Revolution. True liberty was the freedom to be, to act, to grow personally and to fulfill one's potential.
This was "positive" liberty. It was to be achieved by the removal of economic and customary restraints, creating fairness in social and economic relations, liberating all persons, regardless of class or condition, from the unwelcome vicissitudes of the market and providing child care, education, universal health care, and pensions: in short, security. Justification for government action would be grounded, as Beard argued, not in power, but in service. This new liberty would be secured through broad-scale central planning and social and economic regulation.
Positive liberty, therefore, was to be achieved through the positive state. Think personal "growth" in a straitjacket.
Such ideological assumptions justified a federal role in health care and a national system of social insurance (based on the German model) for pensions in the Progressive Party platform of 1912. They explain the passion for centralization of power, particularly in the executive branch of national government, where scientific expertise would be able to work its will. "Progressivism," wrote Professor Ralph Gabriel of Yale University, "was an aspect of the rising cult of science."[19]
But Progressivism carries within it the seeds of contradiction. While Progressives long championed the democratization of our institutions, sunlight in government, and the elimination of the baneful influence of corporate interests, they clung stubbornly to a faith that public problems could be effectively solved through bureaucratic decision-making: little bands of experts appointed to an expanding number of government boards, commissions, or panels. That is at the heart of the Progressive conception of modern government.[20]
Populist rhetoric notwithstanding, the reality of Progressive rule is profoundly undemocratic, precisely because it takes crucial decision-making that directly affects the lives of millions of citizens "out of politics." Thus, you have the administrative state: the rule of administrators.
Consider one more salient fact: Progressive intellectuals, yesterday and today, offer a direct and very public challenge to the Founders.
Writing in 1915, Charles Merriam summarized the intellectual tendencies of American political science:
It is evident that the modern idea as to what is the purpose of the state has radically changed since the days of the Fathers. They thought of the functions of the state in a purely individualistic way; this idea modern thinkers have abandoned, and while they have not reached the paternalistic or socialistic extreme, have taken the broader social view. The protection theory of the state is on the decline; that of the general welfare is in the ascendant.[22]
Where the Founders were united by a philosophical conviction that a basic, constant, but flawed human nature was rationally governed by divinely ordained natural law, the source of natural and inalienable rights, Progressive intellectuals insisted that human nature was in constant flux. Real social progress depended not on conformity to a natural order, but was possible if, and only if, social analysis was rigorously scientific and properly applied to social problems.
Where the Founders argued that popular sovereignty was the supreme power of the state, expressed in the fundamental law of the Constitution, Progressive intellectuals favored the linear evolution of a new popular democracy, reflected in their "living Constitution" and guided and organized by scientifically trained experts.[23] Possessed of an allegedly superior understanding of the social and economic problems that beset "the great society," the experts should be well armed with the administrative power to correct its imperfections.
Since there are no fixed limits to government and the Constitution itself was to be understood as a "living" instrument, governing was ultimately a continuous exercise of well-intentioned power, a process of constant experimentation amidst the changing conditions of American life. The influential philosophy of Dewey and the political science of Charles Beard, Herbert Croly, Frank Goodnow, Charles Merriam, and Woodrow Wilson are must reading for anyone who wants to understand how and why we have the government we have today.
The late James Burnham, a prominent political scientist of a very different persuasion, described the emerging administrative state as the "Fourth Branch" of government and attributed its evolution to the steady decline of Congress.[24] An unwise and unrepentant and continuous congressional surrender of legislative responsibilities, Burnham insisted, only fed the growth of an increasingly independent power center: "The bureaucracy, like the Carolingian Mayors of the palace in 8th Century France, not merely wields its own share of the sovereign power but begins to challenge the older branches for supremacy."[25]
What Merriam called the "paternalistic or socialistic extreme" in 1915 has today been reached, but that path was long ago paved by a new political science that repudiated the tradition of natural law and natural rights, that rejected the philosophical assumptions embodied in the Declaration of Independence and the sophisticated political thought underlying the Federal Constitution.[26]
Ladies and gentlemen, we must engage forcefully in this overdue national debate on the future of our personal and economic freedom. As Members of Congress, you alone can draw the line, confront and roll back the growing power of the "Fourth Branch" of government. By bringing it under control, you do more than help the economy. You can help revitalize America's civic life.
In undertaking this task, Members of Congress must explain to our fellow citizens in clear and plain language exactly why they are doing what they are doing. Remind them that excessive regulation is not simply about the impact of rules on economic growth or job creation, as important as those concerns are, but is directly destructive of our self-government. In planting the flag on the high ground of first principles, Members of Congress need to insist on their own responsibility for the policies and decisions that govern our people. Their task is nothing less than the restoration of democratic accountability to federal policymaking.
In one sense, Members of Congress have little or no choice in the matter. Government by administration is at variance with constitutional principles on a variety of levels.[27]
This is arbitrary government, the very antithesis of constitutional order. But how, exactly, can we roll it back?
First, reaffirm the primacy of congressional authority. Under Article I, Section 1 of the Constitution, all legislative powers are to be vested in the Congress of the United States. Making the law is a sovereign act, and the sovereign, the people of the states united, through the Philadelphia Convention of 1787, delegated that specific power to the Congress. As elected representatives, Members of Congress are agents of the sovereign, the principal. Logically, no agent is or can be superior to the principal. Recall that the Founders assumed legislative supremacy in a republic;[31] that among the three branches of the federal government, the Congress would be the first among equals.
In the first place, Congress should cease delegating excessive legislative power to administrative agencies. Congress needs to stop passing vague laws, seeding bills with broad and even aspirational language and transferring to administrators untrammeled power to fill in the blanks. Congress needs instead to write clear and concise statutes to accomplish their 18 legislative obligations specified under Article I, Section 8.
Examining the issue of legislative delegation in 1928, Supreme Court Justice William Howard Taft declared that "It is a breach of the national fundamental law if Congress gives up its legislative power and transfers it to the President, or to the judicial branch."[32] Since that time, however, the federal courts have routinely approved of congressional delegations of such power, treating these instances as "political questions." But that simply bounces the ball, so to speak, back to the congressional court.
When occasions arise when a limited delegation of legislative power to an agency seems to make sense, then Congress must decide whether that delegation is or is not constitutional. While among some of your colleagues there is a prejudice that constitutional interpretation is somehow something that only federal judges do, you need to remind them that such a notion is factually incorrect. In 1789, in a speech on the floor of the House of Representatives, Madison was explicit on this point: "Nothing has yet been offered to invalidate the doctrine that the meaning of the Constitution may as well be ascertained by the legislature as by the judicial authority."[33] It is also historically inaccurate. As Burnham notes, "Throughout the 19th century the great constitutional debates raged, and for the most part were acted on, in the halls of Congress, not in the courts."[34]
In any case, it is not your responsibility to guess how the federal courts may or may not decide some future case. Members of Congress have taken an oath to uphold and defend the Constitution and to act and apply constitutional principles to any legislative measure at hand.
Second, take direct control of regulatory production. With the flood of mandates issuing from the executive branch, Members of Congress are often unpleasantly surprised by the products that are issued under their alleged authority. They discover, too late, that a rule allegedly flowing from a statutory provision is not what they intended, or exceeds the statutory objective, or may even directly contradict what Congress intended.
In enacting the REINS Act (Regulations from the Executive in Need of Scrutiny) sponsored by Representative Geoff Davis and Senator Rand Paul, Kentucky Republicans, the House has adopted a promising remedy for these problems. The bill would require that all major regulations—those having an annual economic impact of $100 million or more—be approved by a vote of Congress before they take effect.
The REINS Act would be transformational. If this bill became law, it would make Congress directly accountable for the biggest rules that impact the lives of millions of Americans. It would be compatible with the primacy of Congress as the lawmaking authority under the Constitution, and it would directly restore democratic accountability to government.
On December 7, 2011, the House of Representatives enacted the bill by a handsome margin of 241 to 184. While the Senate has become a graveyard of budget and reform initiatives, you should not let the matter rest. The public needs to be educated on the meaning and scope of what members of the House of Representatives are trying to accomplish.
Third, establish a Congressional Office of Regulatory Analysis. Model it after the Congressional Budget Office and, like the CBO, make the office report to you on the estimated costs and impact of major regulations that are pending, as well as regulatory authority embodied in bills that come before you. House and Senate rules should be changed to require a regulatory impact analysis for legislation similar to the existing requirement of a CBO score.
Fourth, use the Congressional Review Act of 1996. The law requires that federal agencies are required to send their final ("major") rules to the Comptroller General of the United States and to the House and Senate before they take effect.[35] After final rules are published, Congress has 60 days to enact a joint resolution of disapproval of the rule and render it null and void. As the Congressional Research Service (CRS) has found, federal agencies have simply failed to abide by the law, citing over 1,000 instances where they have not reported major rules to Congress and the Government Accountability Office.[36] When federal officials are unable or unwilling to abide by the law, the Constitution gives you ample ammunition—like the power of the purse—to retaliate. Go for it.
Fifth, require formal rulemaking for major rules. Today, almost all federal rulemaking is what is called informal rulemaking. With this process, the agency gives notice of its intention to propose a rule and invites and receives comments in writing from interested parties. Not surprisingly, Washington's numerous lobbyists switch their focus from Capitol Hill to federal departments and agencies, where there is even less transparency. After the notice and comment period, the agency then publishes a proposed rule and then, after a specified period, a final rule.
A better idea is to return to formal rulemaking, as originally provided in the Administrative Procedures Act of 1946, for "major rules." [37] Before the 1970s, this was the norm. The formal process requires the presentation of evidence in an open hearing presided over by an administrative law judge. Contending parties have the right to make presentations before the ALJ, as well as a right of cross-examination. The ALJ would be authorized to issue a subpoena to secure factual information relevant to fashioning the rule. This public record, and only this public record, would become the basis of the rule. No backroom deals.
A reassertion of congressional authority, as outlined here, would change the way Washington works. Most of our fellow citizens would probably think that's a good thing.
But champions of the status quo would doubtless argue that more direct congressional control over regulation, such as reviewing and approving major rules, would unduly delay necessary action and thus undermine the efficiency of government. Ideologues, intent on using this process to advance an unpopular agenda, can also be counted on to oppose remedial legislation. And those with great, even childlike, faith in central planning will also oppose any such resurrection of congressional power.
Now and then, some prominent spokesman for that point of view will slip up and make a boldly elitist declaration that ordinarily the unwashed masses don't know what is good for them, and "we"—the enlightened ones—do. They would say that we simply cannot and should not depend upon democratically elected officials to intervene in those maddeningly mind-numbing details of public policy—particularly in health care, energy, or environmental policy. Congressmen simply do not and cannot have the requisite knowledge and judgment to make competent decisions.
Democratic decision-making in a legislative body must therefore give way to administrative decision-making, safely insulated from the parochial and partisan hubbub and properly informed by scientific and technical expertise. In Chapter 5 of his groundbreaking book The Road to Serfdom, the late Nobel Laureate Friedrich Hayek brilliantly describes the inevitable decline of democratic decision-making through the rise of central planning.[38]
Modern government, of course, does require genuine expertise, but technical expertise in measuring, say, the impact of a chemical substance on food or air or water or wildlife involves a limited number of variables. A technical solution to a particular technical problem, however, can have a broad general impact far beyond a limited number of variables in any given administrative calculation. Champions of the rule of experts often misunderstand or simply ignore the nature of political decision-making, the making of law, which necessitates a prudential balancing of competing goods and necessary trade-offs in certain costs or consequences for employment that are elemental to sound public policy. Technical expertise in a narrow field of public policy is no substitute for sound political judgment, a judgment enhanced by full and open democratic debate.
Let us agree with the President on one thing: His agenda is transformative. It is also intrusive, unpopular, and hostile to personal liberty. His "living and breathing" Constitution is hyperventilating. The time is ripe for a big national discussion not only on the size of government, but also on the processes of government. There seems to be a popular understanding, fed by the Tea Party among others, that Washington's problem is not merely federal spending and debt; it is the arrogance of centralized power.
We have a choice. Do we want to be governed by the rule of law as hammered out in open legislative debate, carried on by our elected representatives, directly accountable to us? Or do we wish to be governed by the expanding rule of regulation, the rule of administrators who are most certainly not accountable to us? Once again, the rule of regulation is the rule of regulators. But today, the rule of regulators is arbitrary and unaccountable government. Arbitrary and unaccountable government is exactly that ugly and repulsive thing that incited the American Revolution.
Our Revolution liberated our people, initiated a peerless experiment in self-government, and transformed the world. Our great task is to be true to the Spirit of 1776, the Spirit that made Philadelphia the Cradle of Liberty.
—Robert E. Moffit Ph.D., is Senior Fellow in the Center for Policy Innovation at The Heritage Foundation. This lecture is based on a presentation to Members of the U.S. House of Representatives attending the 14th Annual Congressional Retreat sponsored by The Heritage Foundation in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, January 25–27, 2012.
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[1] Said the President: "As you said yourself, Steve, you know, I would put our legislative and foreign policy accomplishments in our first two years against any president—with the possible exceptions of Johnson, FDR and Lincoln—just in terms of what we've gotten done in modern history." For the interview, see "Interview with President Obama: The Full Transcript," 60 Minutes, December 11, 2011, at http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-18560_162-57341024/interview-with-president-obama--the-fulltranscript-/#exzzlkzEjHMNu.
[2] Clyde Wayne Crews Jr., Ten Thousand Commandments: An Annual Snapshot of the Federal Regulatory State, Competitive Enterprise Institute, 2011, at http://cei.org/sites/default/files/Wayne%20Crews%20-%2010,000%20Commandments%202011.pdf.
[3] James L. Gattuso, "Taking the REINS on Regulation," Heritage Foundation WebMemo No. 3394, October 13, 2011, at http://www.heritage.org/research/reports/2011/10/taking-the-reins-on-regulation.
[4] Ibid.
[5] Crews, Ten Thousand Commandments.
[6] James L. Gattuso, Diane Katz, and Stephen A. Keen, "Red Tape Rising: Obama's Torrent of New Regulation," Heritage Foundation Backgrounder No. 2482, October 26, 2010, pp. 1–2, at http://www.heritage.org/research/reports/2010/10/red-tape-rising-obamas-torrent-of-new-regulation.
[7] Christopher J. Conover and Jerry Ellig, "Beware the Rush to Presumption, Part A: Material Omissions in Regulatory Analyses for the Affordable Care Acts Interim Final Rules," George Mason University, Mercatus Center Working Paper No. 12-01, January 2012, p. 3, at http://mercatus.org/sites/default/files/publication/Beware_the_Rush_to_Presumption_PartA_ConoverEllig.pdf.
[8] Robert E. Moffit, Ph.D., "Obamacare and the Independent Payment Advisory Board: Falling Short of Real Medicare Reform," Heritage Foundation WebMemo No. 3102, January 19, 2011, at http://www.heritage.org/research/reports/2011/01/obamacare-and-the-independent-payment-advisory-board-falling-short-of-real-medicare-reform.
[9] Orszag's comments were cited by Ezra Klein in "What Happens When Congress Can't Do Its Job?" WashingtonPost.com, March 29, 2010, at http://voices.washingtonpost.com/ezra-klein/2010/03/what_happens_when_congress_can.html.
[10] Crews, Ten Thousand Commandments.
[11] On Aquinas's philosophy of law, see Thomas Gilby, The Political Thought of Thomas Aquinas (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1958), pp. 124–136.
[12] "By turning to TR's 'New Nationalism' model, Obama has revealed once and for all that the intellectual antecedent of his administration is the progressive theory of governance…. His objective as president is to complete the progressive transformation of America, and define its next phase as assuring not equal opportunity, but 'fair' outcomes, by redistributing wealth and benefits through an ever more complicated and extensive government that regulates more and more of the economy and society." Matthew Spalding, Ph.D., "The String Pullers," National Review, December 31, 2011, p. 19.
[13] Senior Fellows at the Center for American Progress are explicit: "Concentrating on executive power presents a real opportunity for the Obama Administration to turn its focus away from a divided Congress and the unappetizing process of making legislative sausage." Center for American Progress Staff and Senior Fellows, The Power of the President: Recommendations to Advance Progressive Change, November 2010, at http://www.americanprogress.org/issues/2010/11/pdf/executive_orders.pdf.
[14] David Brooks, "The Technocracy Boom," The New York Times, July 19, 2010.
[15] From 1870 to 1924, America's population increased threefold, but federal employment jumped tenfold, from 50,000 to 500,000 employees. Charles A. Beard, American Government and Politics (New York: The Macmillan Company, 1930), p. 4.
[16] "One main goal of the Progressive movement was purification of government, as Progressives tried to eliminate corruption by exposing and undercutting political machines and bosses. Many (but not all) Progressives supported prohibition in order to destroy the political power of local bosses based in saloons." James H. Timberlake, Prohibition and the Progressive Movement, 1900–1920 (New York: The Macmillan Company, 1970), pp. 1–7.
[17] Beard, American Government and Politics, p. 8.
[18] Ibid., p. 41.
[19] Ralph Gabriel, The Course of American Democratic Thought (New York: The Ronald Press Company, 1940), p. 337.
[20] "The important governmental affairs at present, it may be argued, are also technically complicated matters to be conducted properly by experts." John Dewey, The Public and Its Problems (New York: Holt, Rinehart and Winston, 1927), p. 124. This is Dewey's masterwork of political theory.
[21] Beard, American Government and Politics, p. 100.
[22] Charles Merriam, American Political Theories (New York: The Macmillan Company, 1915), pp. 321–322.
[23] Surveying the fields of education, public health and welfare, transportation, and taxation, Dewey writes: "These are technical matters, so much so as the construction of an efficient engine for purposes of traction or locomotion. Like it they are to be settled by inquiry into facts; and as the inquiry can only be carried on by those especially equipped, so the results of inquiry can be utilized only by trained technicians. What has counting heads, decision by majority and the whole apparatus of traditional government to do with such things?" Dewey, The Public and Its Problems, p. 125.
[24] James Burnham, Congress and the American Tradition (Chicago: Henry Regnery Company, 1959), pp. 157–169.
[25] Ibid. p. 160.
[26] For an excellent discussion of this intellectual counterrevolution, see Thomas G. West and William A. Schambra, "The Progressive Movement and the Transformation of American Politics," Heritage Foundation First Principles Series No. 12, July 18, 2007, at http://www.heritage.org/research/reports/2007/07/the-progressive-movement-and-the-transformation-of-american-politics.
[27] See Gary S. Lawson, "Limited Government, Unlimited Administration: Is it Possible to Restore Constitutionalism?" Heritage Foundation First Principles Series No. 23, January 27, 2009, at http://www.heritage.org/research/reports/2009/01/limited-government-unlimited-administration-is-it-possible-to-restore-constitutionalism.
[28] In No. 48 of The Federalist, Madison writes: "The accumulation of all powers, legislative, executive, and judiciary, in the same hands, whether of one, a few, or many, and whether hereditary, self-appointed, or elective, may be justly pronounced the very definition of tyranny."
[29] In No. 22 of The Federalist, Alexander Hamilton writes: "The fabric of American empire ought to rest on the solid basis of The Consent of The People. The streams of national power ought to flow from that pure, original fountain of all legitimate authority."
[30] In No. 62 of The Federalist, Madison warns: "It will be of little avail to the people, that the laws are made by men of their own choice, if the laws be so voluminous that they cannot be read, or so incoherent that they cannot be understood; if they be repealed or revised before they are promulgated, or undergo such incessant changes that no man, who knows what the law is today, can guess what it will be tomorrow. Law is defined to be a rule of action; but how can that be a rule, which is little known and less fixed?"
[31] In No. 51 of The Federalist, Madison affirms: "In republican government the legislative authority, necessarily, dominates."
[32] Cited by Burnham, Congress and the American Tradition, p. 141.
[33] Jonathan Elliot, ed., The Debates in the Several State Conventions on the Adoption of the Federal Constitution (New York: Burt Franklin, 1888), Vol. IV, p. 399.
[34] Burnham, Congress and the American Tradition, p. 114.
[35] A "major rule," under the Congressional Review Act, is categorized as any rule that has an economic effect of $100 million or more annually on the economy. Beyond that, a major rule may also have negative consequences for state and local governments or for the competitive position of American companies in national or international trade.
[36] Curtis W. Copeland, "Congressional Review Act: Rules Not Submitted to GAO and Congress," Congressional Research Service Report for Congress, August 2, 2010, p. 2, at http://assets.opencrs.com/rpts/R40997_20091229.pdf.
[37] For a discussion of how, exactly, this could be done in the case of the health care rules, see Gary S. Lawson, "Reviving Formal Rulemaking: Openness and Accountability for Obamacare," Heritage Foundation Backgrounder No. 2585, July 25, 2011, at http://www.heritage.org/research/reports/2011/07/reviving-formal-rulemaking-openness-and-accountability-for-obamacare.
[38] "The clash between planning and democracy arises simply from the fact that the latter is an obstacle to the suppression of freedom which the direction of economic activity requires." Friedrich A. Hayek, The Road to Serfdom (Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1967), p. 70.


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This week, Queen's experimental rock duo Blues Control released Valley Tangents, their latest LP via Drag City.
Check out album track "Iron Pigs."
We also have a list of tour dates below (starting tonight in Baltimore). And, a special treat, a beautiful new video for album track "Love's a Rondo," featuring exquisite plastique movement from mime Tarik Davidson. Yes, File Under ? has finally done a post about mime!
"Love's a Rondo."
Directed by Tara Sinn. Filmed by William Strobeck.
Featuring Tarik Davidson aka Allstar the MTA Mime.
Thu. June 21 – Baltimore, MD @ Floristree Space
Fri. June 22 – Philadelphia, PA @ PhilaMOCA w/ Birds of Maya, Slow Tongued Beauty
Sat. June 23 – Brooklyn, NY @ 285 Kent w/ Purling Hiss, Tonstartssbandht, Jordan Redaelli, DJ Brian Turner, DJ Paul Major
Wed. July 25 – Pittsburgh, PA @ Gooski's
Fri. July 27 – Chicago, IL @ Hideout w/ Chandeliers
Sat. July 28 – Columbus, OH @ Ace of Cups w/ Pink Reason, Day Creeper
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CLEVELAND -- The Browns have confirmed the addition of former St. Louis Rams receivers coach Nolan Cromwell to Pat Shurmur's coaching staff.
Cromwell was named a senior offensive assistant. He replaces Keith Gilbertson, who has retired, according to a club source.
Cromwell joined the Rams in 2010, Shurmur's last season in St. Louis as Rams offensive coordinator. Cromwell also has extensive experience working under Mike Holmgren in Seattle and Green Bay.
Another connection is that Cromwell worked as Mike Sherman's offensive coordinator at Texas A&M for two years prior to joining the Rams. Sherman is a presumed candidate to be Browns offensive coordinator, but is also a candidate for the vacant head coach position with Tampa Bay.
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Episode 223: Jonathan Watkins
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This week, another in the series of interviews Duncan and Christian did at the Banff Centre while they were on art vacation, Jonathan Watkins!
Jonathan Watkins (born 1957) is an English curator, and is currently Director of the Ikon Gallery in Birmingham. Watkins emigrated to Australia with his family in 1969 and studied Philosophy and History of Art at the University of Sydney, where he later taught. He was curator of the Chisenhale Gallery in London during which period this relatively small local gallery became an internationally known centre of excellence – many of the Artists shown at that time later going on to major acclaim including a number of Turner Prize winners, Watkins later moved to the Serpentine Gallery from 1995 to 1997 and worked in a freelance capacity as curator of the Biennale of Sydney in 1998. Watkins now lives in Birmingham, England. He currently directs the Ikon Gallery, and recently unveiled plans for a new museum of modern art in Birmingham. Read more


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By LISA M. REED
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IRON MOUNTAIN – An Iron Mountain man faces two methamphetamine charges after being treated for injuries from a chemical explosion that occurred on Oct. 2.
Travis Boone Pearce, 30, of Iron Mountain, is charged with operating/maintaining laboratory involving methamphetamine, attempted delivery/manufacture of methamphetamine/ecstasy, and habitual offender, fourth offense notice.
According to the felony complaint, police were contacted by the Dickinson County Memorial Hospital in reference to the defendant being treated for injuries due to a chemical explosion. Evidence at the scene of the explosion, 724 N. Kimberly Ave., Iron Mountain, determined a meth lab had failed.
Investigation also revealed that the defendant purchased pseudoephedrine (Sudafed) less than two hours earlier and a tube cutter (used to cut open lithium batteries) shortly after that. Sudafed and a tube cutter along with other known ingredients used to make meth were recovered from the scene.
Pearce was treated at Columbia St. Mary's Regional Burn Center Milwaukee for treatment of third degree burns.
Arraignment will be in Dickinson County Circuit Court on Feb. 4 at 9 am. before Judge Richard J. Celello.
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EMS helicopter pilotsFebruary 27, 2013 by Tim McAdams
Having been an EMS helicopter pilot, I believe it is some of the most demanding flying a civilian pilot can do. The accident rate certainly supports this notion. One would think that this type of job would be at the top of the career ladder. One of those jobs that the most experienced and successful pilots would go after. However, that is not always the case.
Air medical should be an industry where turnover is low and getting in would take patience and persistence. This environment seems to be more prevalent in corporate helicopter operations. One reason for this might be higher pay and benefits. Despite the demanding work an EMS helicopter pilot is required to do, pay and benefits are comparatively low. Would higher pay help the industry? Is pay and benefits the only issue that needs to be addressed? The debate on this subject seems to crop up a lot, especially the idea of raising compensation levels to help the safety problem. Not that any one individual pilot will fly any safer with a bigger paycheck, but industry turnover will certainly decrease.
I have known many good EMS helicopter pilots who have transitioned to fixed-wing aircraft or left the air medical industry to seek better pay and benefits. Instead of a stepping-stone to a higher paying job, EMS flying could be the career that pilots work hard to achieve. Over time, a low turnover rate will build an experience base of pilots skilled at making the tough decisions uniquely required by EMS flying.
A survey of pilots conducted by the National Emergency Medical Services Pilots Association found the number one suggestion to increase safety was to increase the quality and frequency of training. A close second was improving pilots' salaries and benefits. Unfortunately, all of these strategies require increased funding at a time when cost pressures are high. However, overcoming these challenges and moving toward increased training and compensation would bode well for the air medical industry.


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October 12, 2010 WIC Update
SUBJECT 1: Nutrition Education Topics in MOWINS
SUBJECT 2: FFY 2010 End of Year Billing Due December 10, 2010
SUBJECT 3: Education to WIC Participants on WIC Food Purchases
SUBJECT 4: Program for Dietetic Interns Reminder
JOB ANNOUNCEMENT: Lawrence County Nutritionist
Nutrition Education Topics in MOWINS: Please see the changes that have been made to the Nutrition Education topics in MOWINS to provide a more complete listing from which to choose. There are 3 different types of nutrition education contacts that can be used to document nutrition education provided to participants as listed below in MOWINS.
- Individual Primary Nutrition Education Contacts are those which are selected/provided at cert and recert. Under Individual Primary Nutrition Education Contact, in MOWINS you will see the removal/deletion of certain topics (e.g., converted from old system, immunization, etc.)
- Individual Secondary Nutrition Education Contacts are those which are selected/provided at subsequent visits. In MOWINS, you will see the addition of several topics in the 'individual secondary nutrition education'.
- Secondary Group Nutrition Education Contacts are those which are selected/provided at subsequent visits in a group setting. In MOWINS you will see the addition of several topics in the 'secondary group nutrition education'.
Attached are the revised listings of nutrition education topics for each participant category that are available for selection. If you have questions, please contact Vicki Strickland at email@example.com or 573-526-7961.
FFY 2010 End of Year Billing Due December 10, 2010: The deadline for submission of FFY 2010 end of year invoices is Friday, December 10, 2010. Expenses must have been incurred prior to October 1, 2010 to qualify for the FFY 2010 funding year. The grant year will close the end of December and payments beyond this date are not possible.
September Invoice due 10-10-2010
SUPP1 due 11-10-2010
SUPP2 due 12-10-2010 – ABSOLUTE DEADLINE
Please contact your District Technical Assistance staff if you need assistance.
Education to WIC Participants on WIC Food Purchases: In our continual efforts to have good working relationships between the WIC participants and the WIC vendors, it is very important that the Local WIC Provider staff educate the participants on how to redeem their checks at the grocery store. When we survey the WIC Vendors, they say the major issue that vendors have relate to the training of participants. The vendors believe that the participants are not properly informed about the types of approved foods or how to properly assist the vendors in having a successful WIC transaction. Treating each other with courtesy and respect goes a long way with both participant and vendor staff. We have 3 excellent education resources: the WIC ID folder, the Missouri WIC Approved Food List and the Power Point Presentation for Redemption of Check (below) which is at the WICLWP website.
PowerPoint Presentation for Redemption of Checks-Local-WIC Providers are required to provide participants with a complete explanation of how to redeem food instruments. By using the Redemption PowerPoint presentation local WIC providers can be assured all components of the required information will be presented to the WIC participant. The Redemption of Checks PowerPoint contains colored slides which are designed to be used electronically or printed (flipchart). If you have questions about this, please discuss them with your TA staff.
Program for Dietetic Interns Reminder: The Program for Dietetic Interns (PDI) is now taking applications for the 2011-2012 class-year. Up to four interns will be selected from the pre-select option. This is advantageous for employees of LWPs who are eligible to participate in the pre-select option. The deadline for the pre-select option is Dec. 15th. There is no fee for those interns who are employed by the MDHSS WIC program or employed by a Missouri Local WIC Provider. A $3,000 fee applies to all other interns. Be sure to use the "new" application form, which is required (see attached). The Dietetic Internship Recommendation form is also attached for your use. For more information, visit our website. If you have any questions, please contact Vicki Strickland at 1- 800-392-8209 or email@example.com.
Dietetic Internship Recommendation Form
Dietetic Internship Program Application
Nutrition Education Topics in MOWINS - Breastfeeding women
Nutrition Education Topics in MOWINS - Children
Nutrition Education Topics in MOWINS - Infants
Nutrition Education Topics in MOWINS - Postpartum (Non-BF) Women
Nutrition Education Topics in MOWINS - Prenatal Women
WIC Positions
Lawrence County Nutritionist: Part-Time Nutritionist needed to provide excellent customer service, patient-centered counseling and relevant nutrition education one on one and group settings. Develops and documents individual care plans for high risk clients; conducts certifications for eligible clients; promotes breastfeeding activities and education. Work approximately 2 days a week.
Minimum qualifications include: Bachelors degree in a nutrition related field with at least 15 semester hours in food and nutrition, including one course in diet therapy and one course in community nutrition. Please submit resumes to Lawrence County Health Department 105 West North Street, Mt. Vernon, MO 65712, or email to email@example.com. For questions call 417-466-2201. Equal Opportunity Employer


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Program offers families 'beach party'
FAIRMONT – Fairmont Area Schools wants younger children to get out and get active, despite the weather.
To that end, the school is hosting a beach party tonight for children up to 5 years old and their families. The party is a part of the Early Childhood Family Education's calendar of "extra opportunities" in January, and a way for families interested in registering for classes to learn more about the program.
Fairmont Elementary Assistant Principal Michelle Rosen says even those not interested in signing up for a class should consider stopping by, simply to give the kids a chance to run around and play.
"Learning is about playing, and playing is about learning," she said.
ECFE classes are for children up to 5 years old and their parent or caregiver. Classes are divided into a time for parents and children to play together before separating.
"The kids get to keep playing," Rosen said, "and the parent get to talk to other adults about what is this parenting journey we are on."
Other activities planned for the month are:
o Play-N-Learn: 9:30 a.m.-11 a.m. Jan. 4 and 9, for students 2-5 and a caregiver. Cost is $2 per family.
o Open gym: 3:30-4:30 p.m. Jan. 15 and 22, for students 1-5 years old and a caregiver. Cost is $2 per family.
o Love and Logic at Lunch: Noon-1 p.m. today, Jan. 23, 30, Feb. 6, 13. This is a parent-only class. They will bring their own lunch and talk about parenting topics. The cost is $30 for five weeks.
o Lapsit with the Library: 9:30-10:15 a.m. Jan. 10, 17, 24. Jennifer Tow, the children's librarian from the Martin County Library, will lead a storytime for students up to 2 years old and a caregiver. The cost is $2 per family.
o Super Saturday/Grandparents: 9:30-11 a.m. Jan. 12. For students 2-6 years old and their grandparents. $5 per class.
Parents also can get information about spring openings in the preschool program for 3-, 4-, and 5-year-olds.


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