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Debates of June 4th, 1999
House of Commons Hansard #238 of the 36th Parliament, 1st Session. (The original version is on Parliament's site.) The word of the day was preclearance.
- Preclearance Act
- Whig Standard
- Pedahbun Lodge
- Spanish And Portuguese Synagogue
- Access Awareness Week
- D-Day
- Tiananmen Square
- Children Victims Of Aggression
- Justice
- Bloc Quebecois
- Ontario Election
- Tiananmen Square
- René Lévesque
- National Transportation Week
- Ontario Election
- Environment Week
- Ontario Election
- Chantale Tremblay
- Immigration
- Halifax Rifles
- Government Contracts
- Kosovo
- Fisheries
- Taxation
- Softwood Lumber
- Millennium Scholarships
- Trade
- Fisheries
- Francophonie
- Trade
- Pesticides
- Canadian Heritage
- Canadian Armed Forces
- Endangered Species
- Athabasca River
- Bill C-32
- Agriculture
- Health Canada
- Nav Canada
- Farm Credit Corporation
- Agriculture
- Kosovo
- Safe Boating
- Points Of Order
- Privilege
- Ways And Means
- Government Response To Petitions
- Petitions
- Questions On The Order Paper
- Preclearance Act
- Carriage By Air Act
- First Nations Land Management Act
- Natural Gas
Tiananmen Square
Statements By Members
11:05 a.m.
Bill Blaikie Winnipeg—Transcona, MB
Mr. Speaker, on the 10th anniversary of the massacre at Tiananmen Square the NDP pays tribute to the memory of those who were killed that day and to the courage of the students and others who stood up for democracy.
Since then progress on the all important political and human rights front has been tragically absent in China. The NDP calls on China to realize that while we understand the concern about stability in a country with a history of internal conflict, the reality of the world today is that countries which bottle up dissenting views and squash dissenters are courting disaster. We therefore call on the government of China to release those still in prison.
We also call on China to moderate its views on Tibet, and on the World Bank not to approve a project which would move Chinese farmers into an area used by Tibetan and Mongolian herders for centuries.
We have seen all too recently the ethnic conflict that eventually occurs when the historic population of an area is demographically attacked by an influx of a politically dominant group. The World Bank should not finance such a scheme.
René Lévesque
Statements By Members
11:10 a.m.
Odina Desrochers Lotbinière, QC
Mr. Speaker, yesterday, in the presence of several dignitaries, including Premier Lucien Bouchard, Corinne Côté-Lévesque and former PQ ministers, a bronze life-size statue of René Lévesque, the politician who played a pivotal role in the history of Quebec, was unveiled.
Mr. Lévesque was one of the principal architects of the quiet revolution and, in 1968, he founded the sovereignty-association movement that would lead to the creation of the Parti Québécois. Elected premier of Quebec in 1976, and returned to office in 1981, he and his government were responsible for major reforms, including the farmland protection legislation, Bill 101 and the electoral reform legislation.
We join with all Quebecers in paying tribute to the force behind the greatest political movement in Quebec; the movement that will carry us to sovereignty.
Despite the referendum defeat of May 20, 1980, René Lévesque never lost faith in the people.
We heard Mr. Lévesque loud and clear and we too say "À la prochaine".
National Transportation Week
Statements By Members
11:10 a.m.
Stan Dromisky Thunder Bay—Atikokan, ON
Mr. Speaker, the week of June 6 to 12 marks National Transportation Week. This annual celebration recognizes the important role played by Canada's transportation system in the social and economic life of our nation, providing hundreds of thousands of jobs and moving Canadians and their products throughout the country and to international destinations and markets.
The theme of National Transportation Week '99, "Transportation: Safe, Reliable, Efficient", draws attention to the ongoing dedication to the safety and reliability demonstrated by Canada's transportation community and to the sector's continued efforts to maximize its use of the latest transportation technology.
The kick-off is in Moncton today, National Transportation Day. Celebrations include a day-long conference and the annual awards dinner. Other events are planned throughout the week and throughout the country.
It is my hope that Canadians will take time this week to reflect on the central role that transportation plays in maintaining our quality of life and to consider how Canadian innovation can help prepare transportation for the challenges of the upcoming millennium.
Ontario Election
Statements By Members
11:10 a.m.
Progressive Conservative
Jim Jones Markham, ON
Mr. Speaker, on behalf of the Progressive Conservative Party of Canada I congratulate Premier Mike Harris and the Ontario Conservatives for their convincing re-election to government.
Premier Harris and his team have shown that reducing taxes is one of the fundamental tools to create jobs and spur economic growth, economic growth which generates the revenues needed for quality health care and education. Ontario embraced progressive change to get the province back on track, reversing the status quo of failed Liberal and NDP policies.
Voters from my province are also hungry for a similar agenda for change at the federal level. Last week's Gallup poll shows that the Progressive Conservative Party of Canada is the clear choice of 31% of the Ontario electorate. Just as Ontario voters chose the provincial Conservatives yesterday, Ontario voters are starting to choose the federal Conservatives as the only true alternative to the federal Liberals.
Environment Week
Statements By Members
11:10 a.m.
Paddy Torsney Burlington, ON
Mr. Speaker, today is the last day of Environment Week, a week set aside each year for Canadians to recommit themselves to environmental action.
Canada's environment is important to all Canadians. The Government of Canada is committed to protect all species at risk, all plants and animals, wherever they are in Canada. We will do so with a holistic Canadian strategy that includes legislation, programs, partnerships and citizen engagement.
Let us be clear. Across Canada we have a long list of laws and regulations put in place to protect wildlife, such as the Canadian Wildlife Act, the Migratory Birds Convention Act and the Fisheries Act, just to name a few.
Canadians are concerned about the state of wildlife and its habitat and that support continues to increase. This government and this minister are determined to make the right environmental decisions so we can pass on a proud natural legacy to future generations of Canadians.
Ontario Election
Statements By Members
11:10 a.m.
Philip Mayfield Cariboo—Chilcotin, BC
Mr. Speaker, common sense prevails. Last night Mike Harris and his team held their heads high and claimed the first back-to-back Conservative majority in Ontario in 30 years.
What makes this victory all the sweeter is knowing that the federal health minister declared all-out war against Mike Harris and proved to be as influential in provincial politics as he is at the cabinet table. Unfortunately for Dalton McGuinty, his greatest handicap was neither himself nor his platform, but the high tax, soft on crime, unethical spending and health care gutting policies of the federal Liberals.
Not only were the hapless Liberals soundly rejected, but more importantly from a B.C. perspective, the socialist, protectionist NDP was relegated to non-party status. History does repeat itself. Its meagre nine seats is a carbon copy of its 1993 federal failure.
The people of Ontario have spoken. They want lower taxes, safer streets and a sound commitment to education and health care spending. They want Mike Harris.
Chantale Tremblay
Statements By Members
11:15 a.m.
Jocelyne Girard-Bujold Jonquière, QC
Mr. Speaker, today I am proud to pay tribute to the exceptional work done by Chantale Tremblay, a nurse in the riding of Jonquière and recipient of 3M's innovation clinique award.
Mrs. Tremblay was the leading force behind a program introduced in the fall of 1998 at the Résidence Georges-Hébert to ease the transition of new residents to the long term care facility. Activities were set up for the pre-admission period, the day of admission, and the post-admission period.
Mrs. Tremblay liked to say that she did not invent the wheel, but she played a key role in supervising, co-ordinating and assessing each stage of the program in co-operation with the 50 or so employees at the facility.
We wish Mrs. Tremblay, good luck as she joing the list of candidates for the Grand Prix Innovation clinique to be awarded next fall at the Congrès des infirmiers et infirmières du Québec.
Statements By Members
11:15 a.m.
Pat Martin Winnipeg Centre, MB
Mr. Speaker, Canada claims to welcome new Canadians to our country. In fact we rely on immigration to grow our population. Yet the road to becoming a Canadian is fraught with barriers, roadblocks and pitfalls.
First, there is the landing fee head tax of $975, plus $500 of other fees and charges. This is a huge barrier to people from poor and developing nations.
The head tax is bad enough, but even more and more frequently landed immigrants wishing to reunite their families are being forced to produce DNA evidence to prove they are related. The cost of over $1,000 per person in advance is absolutely prohibitive and completely unfair.
On behalf of the Somalian community and other ethnic groups that are disproportionately inconvenienced by these harsh and punitive measures, I urge the government to change its policies regarding the DNA testing and stop deterring those who seek to make Canada their home.
Halifax Rifles
Statements By Members
11:15 a.m.
Progressive Conservative
Gerald Keddy South Shore, NS
Mr. Speaker, this summer is the 250th birthday of the city of Halifax and would be an apt time to reactivate the Halifax Rifles.
This regiment began in 1749 when the city of Halifax was founded. Historically, among the distinguished Nova Scotians who served with the Halifax Rifles were a father of Confederation, two prime ministers of Canada, five premiers of Nova Scotia and five lieutenant governors of Nova Scotia, along with numerous mayors of the city of Halifax.
The defence minister has consistently refused to reconsider reactivating the Halifax Rifles, using the excuse that he would have to deactivate another unit. This is simply not true.
It is time for the Minister of National Defence to recognize the importance of the Halifax Rifles to the city of Halifax and Canada by reactivating the Halifax Rifles. It would make a terrific 250th birthday gift to the city of Halifax.
Government Contracts
Oral Question Period
June 4th, 1999 / 11:15 a.m.
Chuck Strahl Fraser Valley, BC
Mr. Speaker, the Prime Minister defends his Shawinigan spending spree by saying that he was just doing good for Shawinigan. That sort of depends on whether one is a long suffering taxpayer or one of the lucky beneficiaries of a government grant.
The $6 million CIDA contract to a man who donated $10,000 to the Prime Minister's campaign, bought a half million dollars of land from the Prime Minister's company and then received an untendered contract to pave the driveway to the Prime Minister's cottage is just a bit coincidental.
Can the Prime Minister not see that doing good for his riding also means that he should have been a mile away from these obvious conflicts of interest?
Government Contracts
Oral Question Period
11:15 a.m.
Windsor West
Herb Gray Deputy Prime Minister
Mr. Speaker, the Prime Minister had no contact whatsoever with the process of deciding on the CIDA contract in question. The decision was made by an arm's length committee, with the majority of voting members being part of the Government of Mali.
Is the hon. member suggesting that these people are part of some Malian branch of the Liberal Party? No wonder the hon. member's party is losing all credibility. What he is saying is totally ridiculous.
Government Contracts
Oral Question Period
11:15 a.m.
Chuck Strahl Fraser Valley, BC
Mr. Speaker, if the Liberals could make it an arm of the government they probably would.
It is kind of him to be the human shield for the Prime Minister, but the Prime Minister has allowed himself to get into an obvious conflict of interest and then justified it by saying he was just doing something good for his constituents.
The unemployment rate in that region remains at over 12%. It does not matter how many grants, loans, political contributions and election rhetoric come from the Prime Minister. That rate has remained chronically high for far too long.
Why did the Prime Minister allow himself to get into this obvious conflict of interest, a mess that has left his constituents with chronic high unemployment?
Government Contracts
Oral Question Period
11:15 a.m.
Windsor West
Herb Gray Deputy Prime Minister
Mr. Speaker, the premise of the hon. member's question is totally wrong and inaccurate. There is no conflict of interest. Yesterday the member for Calgary Southeast when referring to the Prime Minister said:
—he accuses opposition members of having benefited from HRD grants going into their ridings when no one has presented a shred of evidence of a personal financial benefit on the part of a member of the opposition from a grant made in their riding.
No one in that party or in the opposition has presented a shred of evidence against the Prime Minister of any wrongdoing. They should apply to the Prime Minister the same standards they want applied to themselves.
There is no conflict of interest. This is evident from anything that has been said. The Prime Minister has acted perfectly properly.
Government Contracts
Oral Question Period
11:20 a.m.
Chuck Strahl Fraser Valley, BC
Mr. Speaker, if it was just a shred it would be one thing, but there are too many coincidences to be believed. The Prime Minister says, for instance, that he does not own his shares in the Grand-Mère golf course any more.
The dictionary defines sold or sale as "the exchange of a commodity for money". The Prime Minister defines sold as "I still own them and I am trying to exchange them for money, but while I own them it is okay if the value of that property goes up because of some taxpayers funds".
Which definition will the Deputy Prime Minister choose?
Government Contracts
Oral Question Period
11:20 a.m.
Windsor West
Herb Gray Deputy Prime Minister
Mr. Speaker, the Prime Minister has said in the House that he sold the shares in the company in question in 1993 before he became Prime Minister. He does not own the shares.
I would like to ask the hon. member why he keeps raising this matter. Is it, as I said the other day, to hide the disintegration of the Reform Party, to hide the failure of the united alternative concept, and to hide the revolt of Reform members against their leader? Is that not what is going on?


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The NSVRC staff is guided and assisted by a diverse and distinguished national Advisory Council committed to ending sexual violence. Council members serve a three-year term during which time they participate in quarterly conference calls, annual meetings, committee work, and provide consultation on a variety of topics as needed. To nominate yourself or someone else (with their permission) for the NSVRC Advisory Council please complete the information requested in the following form. Nominations are reviewed annually.
Current Members
Pam Brown, M.Ed
Health Scientist/Project Officer
Center for Disease Control and Prevention
NCIPC - Division of Violence Prevention
Atlanta, GA
Member: 2015
Pam Brown is a Health Scientist in the Prevention Practice and Translation Branch of the Division of Violence Prevention in CDC's Injury Center and has served as a project officer for CDC grantees in the DELTA FOCUS (intimate partner violence prevention) and Rape Prevention and Education (RPE) programs. Pam began her work at the CDC in 2010 as a CDC Foundation Senior Fellow in the role of Project Director for DELTA PREP, a CDC Foundation/Robert Wood Johnson Foundation grant-funded project supporting state coalitions to build organizational, state and community capacity for primary prevention of intimate partner violence. Prior to working at the CDC, Pam was the Director of Programs at Prevent Child Abuse Georgia, providing leadership for a statewide network of community-based organizations engaged in child maltreatment prevention work. In this position Pam provided oversight for implementation, management and program evaluation of Georgia's statewide Healthy Families America home visiting program, Georgia's 1-800-CHILDREN Helpline, PCA Georgia's statewide child sexual abuse prevention programming, and the development and delivery of child maltreatment prevention training for professionals from multiple disciplines.
Susan Chasson
SANE Practice, Health Law
Provo, UT
Member: 2012
Susan Chasson is the Sexual Assault Nurse Examiner Coordinator for the Utah Coalition Against Sexual Assault. She has helped hospitals and communities create programs for providing health care and forensic evidence collection to victims of sexual violence in Utah for more than 20 years. She practices as a family nurse practitioner at the Merrill Gappmayer Family Medicine Clinic in Provo, Utah and is a part time faculty at Brigham Young University in the College of Nursing.
Maia Christopher
Executive Director
Association for the Treatment of Sexual Abusers (ATSA)
Beaverton, OR
Member: 2010
Maia has been the Executive Director of ATSA for the past seven years, where she has been instrumental in developing strong partnerships with victim advocacy organizations. Prior to that, Ms. Christopher spent 18 years providing treatment services and developing treatment programs for individuals who offended sexually and non-sexually. Ms. Christopher has worked in correctional systems in Canada and the United States. She has made numerous national presentations related to the treatment and management of individuals who sexual offend in both the United States and Canada.
Nancy Hoffman, M.A, LPC, CSW
Executive Director
West Virginia Foundation for Rape Information and Services (WVFRIS)
Fairmont, WV
Member: 2014
Vice Chair
Nancy Hoffman, M.A, LPC, CSW, is the state coordinator for the West Virginia Foundation for Rape Information and Services, (FRIS). Prior to that, as the first executive director of HOPE, Inc. she was responsible for opening a shelter and rape crisis center that serves five counties in north central West Virginia. She has served on several national committees and working groups on sexual violence for such organizations as the Centers for Disease Control, the International Association of Chiefs of Police, and End Violence Against Women International. She has presented at numerous state and national conferences, including the International Conference to End Violence Against Women and several National Sexual Assault Response Team Conferences. She has authored articles for several state and national publications. In 2001 she was part of a 15 member delegation from the United States to South Africa which was formed through the People to People Ambassador Program to address the issue of violence against women.
Keith L. Kaufman, Ph.D.
Professor of Psychology
Portland State University
Portland, OR
Member: 2013
Dr. Kaufman is a Licensed Clinical Psychologist and a Professor of Psychology at Portland State University (PSU) in Portland, Oregon. He has chaired state prevention committees in Ohio and Oregon and co-chaired the committee that created Oregon's first statewide sexual violence prevention plan. Dr. Kaufman is also a member of the National Coalition to Prevent Child Sexual Abuse and Exploitation. He was on the board of the National Alliance of Sexual Assault Coalitions and is a Past President of the Association for the Treatment of Sexual Abusers. His clinical work has involved the assessment and treatment of both child sexual abuse victims and juvenile sexual offenders. Dr. Kaufman has provided program consultation in the areas of prevention, intervention, program evaluation, and research. He has developed psycho-educational treatment modules for juvenile sex offenders incarcerated by the states of Oregon and Ohio. Dr. Kaufman currently provides prevention and safety consultation to Boys & Girls Clubs of America and Big Brothers and Big Sisters of America. He also provides technical assistance to RPE funded prevention programs in Oregon.
Dr. Kaufman has authored two books, a variety of book chapters, and numerous research articles addressing sexual violence and sexual violence prevention. This work has been supported by a number of Federal, State, and local grants. His most recent book, Preventing Sexual Violence: A Practitioner's Sourcebook (NEARI Press, 2010) is a comprehensive sexual violence prevention volume. Dr. Kaufman co-authored the first prevention chapter to be included in Interpol's member manual. He was also recently awarded a Vision of Hope grant by the Pennsylvania Coalition Against Rape to support the development of a prevention self-assessment strategy based on the Situational Prevention Approach for the more than 4000 Boys & Girls Clubs nationwide.
Patrick Lemmon
Violence Prevention Consultant
Portland, OR
Member: 2013
Patrick J. Lemmon thrives on helping committed groups of people find the path to creating the communities they want to live in. For more than twenty years, he has helped organize communities, and particularly men in communities, to speak out for ending men's violence against women. He recently moved to Portland from Washington, DC, where he was co-founder and Executive Director of Men Can Stop Rape and a member of the Board of Directors for the DC Rape Crisis Center. In Portland he consults with nonprofit organizations on strategic planning, evaluation, and management issues, serves on the Board of Directors of the YWCA of Greater Portland, and co-chairs the Men's Engagement Committee for the Oregon Sexual Assault Task Force. Honors include the Ms. Foundation for Women's Gloria Award and American University's Capital Area Peacemaker Award.
Julie Lindahl, PhD
SHARP Program Manager
Sexual Harassment/Assault Response and Prevention (SHARP) Program
US Army Space and Missile Defense Command/Army Forces Strategic Command
Huntsville, AL
Member: 2015
Dr. Lindahl completed a Doctor of Philosophy (PhD) in Psychology degree with a specialization in Forensic Psychology. Other educational background includes Criminal Justice, Public Law and Government, and Industrial/Organizational Psychology. Dr. Lindahl has been working in the human service field with the military to include Marine Corps, Navy, and Army. Dr. Lindahl is credentialed by D-SAACP/NOVA at a Level II certification and currently re-certifying as Level III. Prior to federal employment, Dr. Lindahl worked in the private sector as a Program Manager for Mental Health/Substance Abuse/Developmental Disability Services and as a Property Manager. Dr. Lindahl's work with victims and offenders extends over 10 years across non-profit, profit, educational and military sectors. Her specialties include victimology, offender behavior, crisis intervention and training, and advocacy services and supports such as victim advocacy, legal services and processes, and liaising with law enforcement. Dr. Lindahl's recent research sought to identify use and satisfaction with victim advocacy services and supports among victims of sexual assault and compared such among first-time victims and victims of multiple sexual assaults. Additional interests include researching effectiveness of services and supports, re-victimization and secondary victimization, offender behavior and accountability, and further exploring the scholar-practitioner model within the military and educational sectors.
Sarah McMahon, M.S.W., Ph.D.
Associate Professor
Associate Director, Center on violence Against Women & Children
School of Social Work, Rutgers University
New Brunswick, NJ
Member: 2015
Sarah McMahon is an Assistant Professor at the Rutgers University School of Social Work and also serves as the Associate Director for the School's Center on Violence Against Women and Children. Her research focuses on violence against women and children, prevention and social change, and instrument development. Dr. McMahon has extensive experience in designing and implementing studies with college students to measure their knowledge, attitudes and behaviors related to sexual violence, with a focus on bystander intervention. She serves on the NJ State Sexual Violence Prevention and Public Education Committee as well as the NJ Domestic Violence Fatality and Near Fatality Review Board. Prior to her position at the School of Social Work, Dr. McMahon worked in a clinical setting, providing crisis intervention and counseling to survivors of various forms of interpersonal violence and delivering prevention education to the wider community.
Kelly Parsley, M.A.
Chair, Health Sciences Department
Carroll College
Helena, MT
Member: 2016
Parsley has been a victim advocate for twenty years and speaks nationally on violence prevention. She currently chairs the Health Sciences Department at Carroll College and serves both on St. Peter's Hospital Board of Directors and the Lewis and Clark County board of Health. In 2006, she wrote the field guide that Montana law enforcement use to respond to sexual assaults, and in 2008 she completed the field guide law enforcement use to respond to domestic violence. In 2011, she was named Outstanding Prevention Professional of the Year by the national organization Everfi, and she was given the Visionary Voice award in 2015. This past spring she was chosen to serve on the White House Think Tank to End Violence on Campuses.
Holly Ramsey-Klawsnik, Ph.D.
Klawsnik & Klawsnik Associates
Canton, MA
Member: 2011
Dr. Holly Ramsey Klawsnik of Klawsnik & Klawsnik Associates in Canton, Massachusetts is a researcher, Licensed Marriage & Family Therapist, and Licensed Certified Social Worker. She has provided extensive clinical services to children, older adults, and adults with disabilities and has provided forensic evaluations and consultations for agencies charged with investigating alleged victimization. She has conducted multiple research studies, including National Institute on Aging-funded study of sexual victimization of vulnerable adults in institutions and a study of sexual assault against older adults within the family. Holly has authored over 85 articles, book chapters, and training manuals including "The Sexual Violence in Later Life Information Packet" published by the NSVRC. She has testified before the US senate on elder abuse and is a frequent conference speaker. She is a content expert on the National Committee for the Prevention of Elder Abuse "Polyvictimization in Later Life Project" funded by the US Department of Justice in which the NSVRC is a national partner. She was an invited participant in the 2010 White House Roundtable on Sexual Violence. As a trainer for health and mental health, criminal justice, Adult Protective Services, and sexual assault and domestic violence professionals, her work focuses on investigative victim interviewing, trauma impact and resolution, casework intervention, mental health problems, and professional self-care. She is the Director of Research for the National Adult Protective Services Resource Center. This project is funded by the U.S. Administration on Aging to provide secondary prevention of violence against vulnerable adults.
Jennifer Rauhouse
Executive Director/Founder
Peer Solutions
Phoenix, AZ
Member: 2011
In 1981, Jennifer Rauhouse began her work to end sexual, relationship and family violence including child abuse, before it begins. She founded Peer Solutions in 1996 and has developed, implemented and evaluated STAND & SERVE (S&S), a locally and nationally recognized student, school, family and community primary prevention initiative designed to cultivate safety, equality and respect as norms to prevent the underlying causes of harm before they begin. Jennifer works with and has provided trainings with an emphasis on youth and community mobilization for Arizona, California, Idaho, Louisiana, Massachusetts, Missouri, New Jersey, New York, Kentucky, South Dakota, Virginia, Washington and Wyoming.
Delilah Rumburg
Chief Executive Officer
Pennsylvania Coalition Against Rape
Member: 2000
Delilah Rumburg has served as Executive Director and Chief Executive Officer of PCAR since 1995; she has been responsible for overseeing PCAR's tremendous growth and outreach to communities not only in Pennsylvania, but throughout the nation. Ms. Rumburg served on two Department of Defense Task Forces on Sexual Assault since 2005. Both Task Forces issued reports to the U.S. Congress on their findings and recommendations on how the military can improve services to victims of sexual assault in the armed forces and work to eliminate sexual violence. In addition, she previously served as a member of the National Advisory Council (NAC) on Violence Against Women, under Attorneys General Janet Reno, John Ashcroft and Alberto Gonzalez. Ms. Rumburg continues to work on national policy on violence against women by serving on many national boards and committees. In 2011 she travelled to South Africa with the Global Partnership to End Violence Against Women and served as faculty on the Sexual Violence Institute. Ms. Rumburg was recently asked to participate in the US-Russia Civil Society Partnership Program.
At the state level, Ms. Rumburg was a gubernatorial appointee to the Pennsylvania Commission on Crime and Delinquency (PCCD) for nine years. Previously, Ms. Rumburg served as chair of the Pennsylvania Victim Services Advisory Committee, was a gubernatorial appointee to the Governors Partnership for Safe Children and most recently was appointed by Governor Tom Corbett to serve on the Task Force on Child Protection In addition she serves on the Advisory Council of Temple University's Institute on Disabilities. In 2006, she was a recipient of the National Crime Victim Service Award presented by the U.S. Department of Justice. She is professionally certified as a fund raising executive through the Association of Fund Raising Professionals.
Mira Yusef
Executive Director
Monsoon United Asian Women of Iowa
Des Moines, IA
Member: 2014
Mira Yusef is the co-founder and current executive director of Monsoon United Asian Women of Iowa (Monsoon), an organization serving victims/survivors of domestic violence and sexual assault in Asian and Pacific Islander communities in Iowa. She is also one of the founders and currently serving as a steering committee member of the National Organization of Asian Pacific Islanders Ending Sexual Violence (NAPIESV). She has a Master's in Social Work with specialization in Community Organizing and a Master of Arts on Southeast Asian Studies from the University of Michigan, Ann Arbor. She was a recipient of a Fulbright Fellowship in 2004-2005, to pursue research in the Philippines on Muslim Filipina domestic workers employed in Muslim households in the Middle East and in 2006, awarded the National Security Education Program (NSEP) David Boren Fellowship to study Indonesian at the University of Michigan for one semester and to study Malaysian as well as pursue her field research in Sabah, Malaysia, for six months on human trafficking between the islands of Sabah, Malaysia and Mindanao, Philippines. Ms. Yusef has the privilege to connect her past academic work with her local work with Monsoon, and her national and transnational work with NAPIESV.


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An Australia-based online store has begun to ship 2TB (2000GB) hard disk drives (HDDs) from Western Digital. This is the first time in many years when usually cautious WD is the first to company to ship the world's largest hard drive to date.
WD's first 2TB drive belongs to WD Caviar Green series, thus, trades performance for power efficiency. The model WD20EADS sports 32MB cache, 7200rpm spindle speed, Serial ATA-300 interface and is available from Mwave.com.au for $251 (AUD $377.8).
Usually WD Caviar Green family of hard drives sport 5400rpm spindle speed in order to remain quiet as well as consume less power, however, with the 2TB model the company decided to boost performance of the unit by installing higher-speed motor. Potentially, this may indicate that WD is preparing a new Green line with enhanced performance.
Typically WD is relatively conservative about introduction of world's top capacity hard drives that feature higher amount of platters or platters with leading-edge areal density, which reduces reliability; thus, Hitachi GST and Seagate are usually the first to introduce "milestone" HDDs. However, with 2TB, it seems that WD is the first company to start commercial shipments.
Western Digital officials did not comment on the news-story.
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by Anton Shilov
Advanced Micro Devices and DICE said on Monday that the long-awaited patch for Battlefield 4 video game would be delayed. Instead of this month, the patch, which may speed up the title on AMD Radeon hardware, is now projected to be released sometimes in January. The two companies did not disclose reasons for the delay.
"After much consideration, the decision was made to delay the Mantle patch for Battlefield 4. AMD continues to support DICE on the public introduction of Mantle, and we are tremendously excited about the coming release for Battlefield 4! We are now targeting a January release and will have more information to share in the New Year," the statement by AMD reads.
Mantle, a cross-platform application programming interface (that will only support Windows operating system initially) designed specifically for graphics processing units based on graphics core next (GCN) architecture, presenting a deeper level of hardware optimization. Being low-level API, Mantle can bypass all the bottlenecks modern PC/API architectures; according to AMD, Mantle enables nine times more draw calls per second than DirectX and OpenGL thanks to lower CPU overhead.
According to AMD and DICE (a fully-owned subsidiary of Electronics Arts), running games using Mantle API boosts rendering performance and can potentially enable higher-quality graphics. DICE's Frostbite 3 engine – which powers Battlefield 4, Need for Speed Rivals and multiple other titles – has already been optimized for Mantle.
Two main purposes of Mantle are to speed up game performance on AMD hardware and possibly introduce exclusive visual effects. 3dfx Glide, proprietary API by 3dfx, served the same purposes over a decade ago, back in the 1990s. Nonetheless, AMD does not seem to want to compare Mantle to Glide. Moreover, AMD hopes that eventually Mantle will be an industrial standard.


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Burglar flees two east Spokane homes
SPOKANE, Wash. - A burglar was tossed out of two different Spokane homes Tuesday morning by two different women.
The home invasions happened not far from each other, above the Northwood subdivision between Argonne and Jensen Roads, and in both cases police say the burglar used a pry bar to break through the front door.
The first home belonged to Audrey Minton, who said she was upstairs and able to make enough noise to scare the intruder off.18241800
"I heard a bump which sounded like our heat going on and I came down a few minutes later and was just kind of looking around," Minton said. "I saw that our door frame was off and that's when I realized someone had tried to get inside our house. I think somebody had come by earlier to see if we were home and them when they saw my husband leave later in the afternoon he figured it was probably a good time to come in and rob our place."
The next home was just a few blocks away. Taryn Pemberton was taking care of her six-month-old daughter upstairs when she heard the front door burst open.
"I got halfway down the stairs and I realized it was not one of the neighbor kids. I went back upstairs, grabbed my gun and locked my bedroom door. I grabbed our daughter and I went into our bathroom." Pemberton said. "Either he heard me rack the gun or lock the door ... and decided this wasn't a friendly environment for him after all."
The burglar is described as a skinny, white male just over six-feet tall.
Police say burglars tend to target homes that look like nobody is home, so it's smart to always leave a light on and a radio or TV playing.


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I'm still makin my dough this way and I see absoutely no reason to change it
Ronzo, what type of oven arrangement did you have when you made those pies?
Put dough into an oiled bowl, cover with plastic and let rise 1 1/2 Hrs.at room temp.Turn dough out onto lightly oiled surface, divide into 2 balls.Transfer balls to lightly floured surface, dust lightly with flour,cover with plastic and let rise 1 1/2 Hrs.


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Several students from Pulaski and Russell counties participated in a graduation ceremony on June 27, 2013. In total, Project BEAM served 111 students from Pulaski, Russell, Adair, Casey, Clinton, Wayne and McCreary Counties during the past fiscal year (June 30, 2012 to July 1, 2013).
Those graduating from the program in 2013 include the following:
Clinton County:
Harley Brown
Tabitha Farlee
Cheryl Moore
McCreary County:
Ronald Clark
Harry Wainscott Jr.
Pulaski County:
Charles Jasper
Gabriel Jovel
Abisai Jiminez
Christopher Maxfield
Maria Osorio
Mario Taborda
Wayne County:
Keith Bruce
Lori Cordell
Holland Cundiff
Kenneth Fugate
Timothy Gregory
Christopher Guinn
Johnnie Hall
Louis Popp
Turpin Nathan
Project BEAM is administered through a grant to Somerset Community College by the Office of Migrant Education, U.S. Department of Education. To be eligible for Project BEAM, students must be considered either out of school youth (age 16-19) or be over the age of 19. They must need to earn a GED, have worked on a farm or had a spouse or parents who worked on a farm in the last two years. Instruction is available in English and Spanish.
Qualified students can receive payment for instructional time and assistance with GED testing fees. Project BEAM also provides free books and study materials along with one-on-one tutoring for students.
Project BEAM is a grant program that assists students with preparation for the GED exam. The program pays eligible students $5 per hour, provides books and instructors for all GED subjects and pays the initial testing fee. The program also aids students with applying and enrolling in college.
Visit the Project BEAM webpage, offered in English or Spanish, or contact the Project Beam location nearest you.
There are seven locations for Project BEAM.
Adair County
(270) 384-1741
Casey County
(606) 787-4732
Clinton County
(606) 387-3236, ext. 3728
McCreary County
(606) 376-3430
Pulaski County
(606) 451-6865
(606) 451-6913
(606) 451-6872
Russell County
(270) 866-8836
Wayne County
(606) 340-0064


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October 2, 2014
- Fashion: What are you wearing, Gina Heartless?
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- Concert preview: Francesco Ferorelli finds musical freedom in Heaven's Jail
- Concert preview: Mike Watt returns with Il Sogno del Marinaio
- Concert preview: Screaming Females' Marissa Paternoster makes glorious guitar noise
- Concert preview: Singer-songwriter Sharon Van Etten continues her journey with Are We There
- Locals: Indie-punk trio Pretty Pretty navigates diverse conditions on Leather Weather
- Sensory overload: Mala gets her groove back
- Staff pick: Lydia Loveless a pop-obsessive at heart
- Movie review: Why "Gone Girl" is my pick for worst film of the year
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Suriana is a monotypic genus of flowering plants containing only Suriana maritima,[3] which is commonly known as bay cedar. It has a pantropical distribution and can be found on coasts in the New and Old World tropics. Bay cedar is an evergreen shrub or small tree, usually reaching a height of 1–2 m (3.3–6.6 ft) and sometimes reaching 6 m (20 ft).[4] The leaves are alternate, simple, 1–6 cm (0.39–2.36 in) long and 0.6 cm (0.24 in) wide.[5] The grey-green, succulent foliage yields an aroma similar to that of cedar when crushed, hence the common name.[4] Its yellow flowers are solitary or in short[5] cymes among the leaves.[4] Flowers have a diameter of 1.5 cm (0.59 in) when open, with petals 6–10 mm (0.24–0.39 in) long and sepals 7–10 mm (0.28–0.39 in) long. Bay cedar flowers throughout the year.[5] After fertilisation, the flowers form clusters of five dry, hard drupes 3–4 mm (0.12–0.16 in) in diameter. The drupes are buoyant and can maintain the viability of the seeds during long periods in seawater, allowing the seeds to be dispersed by the ocean.[4]
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So What Comes Next?
The Columbus Dispatch - November 07, 2013 09:47 AM
So now that Gregg Berhalter has been named the Crew's new coach and sporting director, what comes next?
First, Berhalter has to get to Columbus, and before that he has to get back to Sweden. From there, Berhalter and his family will fly to Ohio sometime this weekend and begin their search for a new home. Crew investor-operator Anthony Precourt will fly into town Monday, and Tuesday Berhalter will be publicly introduced as the head of the team's technical side.
Now comes an evaluation process that will see Berhalter assess the Crew roster as it stands, exercise options on players who fit into the plans going forward and begin the process of acquiring outside talent for next season. According to Precourt, that process has been ongoing in some form for weeks.
"I've been in conversations with Gregg Berhalter for over five, six weeks – with all of our candidates," he said. "He's had time to evaluate. He's been spending a lot of time. He was formally interviewed in mid-September in Columbus. He's had a lot of time to thoroughly analyze our roster. He's been studying our games and doing all sorts of data-driven analysis on our roster, qualitative assessments, talking with other coaches, just getting a feel, talking with Mark McCullers about our roster. We're going to be totally up to curve when it comes to our notification date on Nov. 26."
And what does Berhalter think of the Crew's roster? Without giving away any state secrets, the team's new coach said he sees pieces around which to build. After watching more than 15 Crew games, Berhalter said he is as familiar with the roster as he could be without actually having been the coach.
"I see good pieces," he said. "I see some good quality within the team. I think that the team can be relatively successful in a short period of time because the pieces are there. There's technical players, there's players with speed, there's players with strength. It's a good mix. Of course we're going to look to improve the roster, but I'm pretty pleased with what I see already."
At various points in the teleconference, Berhalter mentioned four players by name: Dominic Oduro and Federico Higuain (when discussing finishing chances on offense) and homegrown players Ben Speas and Matt Lampson (when both names were mentioned as part of the question about the team's youth system).
One player he will not have is Eddie Gaven, who surprised everyone and retired last Thursday. Berhalter said he has not reached out to Gaven to try and convince him to change his mind but that he wishes the midfielder was still on the roster.
"I know him from playing with him on the national team and I respect him," Berhalter said. "I think he had a great game and he's the type of player that I wanted to work with, but if a guy's heart isn't into it anymore you can't force something. He's a good guy. He's been around a while and he knows what he wants at this stage of the game. I wish him all the best. He'll be fine with whatever he does."
Although further roster decisions are obviously forthcoming, Precourt said the decision to cut ties with Matias Sanchez and Aaron Horton was made by former interim coach and technical director Brian Bliss – and that the decision would not have been vetoed by any of the club's finalists for the position.
Before Sanchez and Horton were cut and Gaven retired, Precourt said he was not sure the budget would call for a second designated player. Yesterday, Berhalter did not rule out the possibility.
"In terms of the designated player, we'll look at that situation," he said. "I don't think it's something that's a requirement right now, but we'll certainly look at it. We want to bring in someone that can make an impact. That's what's most important. If it happens to be a designated player, so be it, but we're going to look at a whole bunch of options to come up with the right person."
Yesterday was the final day of practice for the Crew, and players will not be required to be back in Columbus until sometime in January. Berhalter said he will reach out and try to get in touch with each player on the roster either via phone call or email in the coming days.
And as for positions of need, Berhalter was not forthcoming on the details.
"I don't think it would be right of me to start calling out individuals on the team this early in the game," he said. "We're going to look at the whole roster. We're going to evaluate the whole roster up and down and look to improve it. I think that some positions need more improvement but we're obviously going to determine that as we move forward in the next couple of weeks."


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Group, city look to make it Booksville
By MICHAEL KRUSE
Published February 6, 2007
BROOKSVILLE - Books, bookstores, book-themed coffee shops, bed and breakfasts and other businesses, poetry readings, film and literary festivals and a writer or writers in residence.
Could be Brooksville.
The folks who run the nonprofit Jack Kerouac Project of Orlando are looking for the first in a series of so-called "booktowns" they hope to establish in Florida and ultimately throughout the country. They are supposed to visit soon with city officials and downtown merchants and property owners. The potential move here, say those on both sides of the conversation, could turn this small city in Hernando County into a cultural draw for people in the state and the Southeast and even beyond.
"The idea is to use the universal appeal of books to create a cultural tourism destination," said Marty Cummins, president of the Kerouac Project, "and Brooksville looks like a very intriguing possibility."
"I think everyone's goal is to have a vibrant downtown," city redevelopment coordinator Brian Brijbag said last week, "and I think this would lead to that."
"It would bring new life to the city and put us on the map," county tourism director Sue Rupe said.
"They want to bring culture to Brooksville," said Sally Petrie, president of the Brooksville Business Alliance. "Who could be against that?"
Brooksville once was known as the home of the tangerine.
Local historian Bob Martinez says the 150-year-old county seat now is where the Old South meets New Florida.
The May-Stringer Hernando Heritage Museum has a glossy brochure that talks about "golden sunsets" and "sociable barbecue picnics" and relaxation on verandas set to "the beat of a mockingbird's song."
An advertising class at the University of South Florida in 2005 did a class project trying to come up with a catch-all slogan for Brooksville. The students came up with this: "Experience a Piece of Florida's History." All the talk the project spawned never led to much more than that.
Enter the booktown possibility.
"This could give us an identity," Brijbag said.
This is Brijbag's first full year as the redevelopment coordinator. He helped the Hernando County Fine Arts Council start the once-a-month downtown concert series called the Bandshell Bash. Now he looks around Brooksville and he sees artists' co-ops, and galleries, and second-story lofts, and a film festival at Hernando High School.
He's trying to use his position as a platform to change the perception of the town.
"I don't think every cultural event in Brooksville has to be a rodeo," Brijbag said.
Also, he says, it's not that far from Tampa and St. Petersburg. A drive to South Tampa from Tarpon Springs takes longer than from Brooksville what with the traffic on U.S. 19 and the Courtney Campbell Causeway and Interstate 275.
And it's not just cows and pickup trucks anymore.
Brooksville last year won the statewide cultural enhancement award from the Florida Redevelopment Association and was a finalist for the Florida League of Cities' award for "city spirit."
This city, Brijbag believes, could be a regional destination - as long as there's something here that's a real draw.
So. The Kerouac Project. It started in 1997 and is based in Orlando's College Park neighborhood in a tin-roof bungalow where Kerouac lived from July 1957 to April 1958. On The Road was published in the fall of '57 and made Kerouac famous after reviews called him the voice of the Beat Generation. The house in Orlando is also where he wrote The Dharma Bums in a frantic 11 days and nights before he ultimately moved to St. Petersburg and died there as a drunk in 1969.
The Kerouac Project is debt-free now, Cummins said, and wants to create these "booktowns," like Archer City, Texas, or Wigtown, Scotland.
Late last year Cummins started by sending an e-mail to community redevelopment directors through the Florida Redevelopment Association.
Brijbag responded.
"May I suggest the City of Brooksville for your consideration?" he wrote in a letter dated Dec. 18.
That led to e-mail back-and-forth.
From Cummins: "We would be happy to meet with you about Brooksville becoming a booktown."
From Brijbag: "I think you will find Brooksville ripe for your project."
From Cummins: "Let me know when you are ready to meet."
"The more I hear from you and discuss it with my Board members," Cummins wrote in an e-mail Jan. 24, "the more convinced I am that Brooksville is the place."
Cummins likes Brooksville, he said last week on the phone, because it's close to Tampa, St. Petersburg and Orlando, and it has a walkable downtown with authentic, historic buildings and homes. He likes that Brijbag is "energetic" and "forward-thinking." And he likes that Hernando County has no chain bookstores.
The key, he said, is having business or property owners downtown who want to be a part of the project or sell to investors. The Kerouac Project would help with financial backing.
"The next step is we sit down and see if the city fathers and the powers that be are really behind this," Cummins said. "We're anxious to see if Brooksville works out.
"If it's done right," he added, "it could draw people from all over the world, and that's not an exaggeration."
"You create a destination," Brijbag said, "and people will come."
"I'm really excited about it," Easy Street Home Decor owner Pierre Desjardins said. "I can't see how it could hurt."
"I want it here," said Petrie, the president of the business alliance. "I think it would be lovely.
"I can see it in my mind already," she said.
Information from the Orlando Sentinel and the New York Times was used in this report. Michael Kruse can be reached at firstname.lastname@example.com or 352 848-1434.


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Welcome to the second annual Best and Worst of [Insert Year Here] for the flight training industry. The 2010 blog, which you can read here, pointed to flight training dropout rates and the erroneous detention of John and Martha King as lowlights, but we saw some bright spots, too. (Hello, Young Eagles! Looks like you're getting a shoutout this year as well.)
What did 2011 bring? Well, we didn't see any beloved flight training figures erroneously detained, but we did see the FAA administrator abruptly leave his job following a drunk-driving arrest in early December. However, I'm not including him in the to Best of/Worst of list. You can tell me in the Comments if you think that was an error of omission.
So here we go, in no particular order.
1. The ongoing fracas at Santa Monica airport. Short version: The city council would like to close the six flight schools in operation there, citing "potential safety hazards" to the local neighborhoods, in spite of an impressive safety record. I guess the city of Santa Monica thinks pilots are hatched out of eggs or found in the cabbage patch. And hey, Santa Monica–your airport was good enough to train Greg Brady to fly. How many other airports can make that claim?
2. Another university aviation program gets the the ax. The University of Illinois's Institute of Aviation had been turning out pilots since 1946.
3. A California flight school owner is arrested and charged with helping foreign nationals fraudulently apply for student visas to attend flight schools. Innocent until proven guilty, but are we looking at a troubling trend here? See number 4.
4. Meanwhile, the TSA is being dinged for not enforcing the Alien Flight Student Program for several months back in 2010. (The temptation here to remark that the TSA is probably busy with other matters, such as protecting the nation's skies against grandmothers, is overwhelming. But all jokes aside, TSA, thanks for easing up on the whole patting-down-children thing.)
4. Isn't flight training hard enough without some moron shining a laser in your eyes? (Thankfully the student in this incident had a CFI on board who was not affected.)
1. Remember that California education-reform law we cited last year that would have required flight schools to pay $5,000 in initial fees? Flight schools are now exempt.
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3. With the number of female certificated pilots languishing at 6 percent of the total, women in the United States and Canada decided to do something about it. "Get women to the airport" events were held worldwide in 2010, and their organizers say they're going to keep going for 2012. AOPA honored Mireille Goyer, creator of the international Women of Aviation Worldwide Week initiative, for her efforts.
4. The FAA publishes a change to the regulations enabling student pilots to apply for the private certificate and instrument rating concurrently, and count dual cross-country instruction flight time toward eligibility requirements for the concurrent training. This sounds like a no-brainer, and a good way to save some money in the process. It's not for everybody–I couldn't have pulled it off–but if you're up to the challenge, why not?
5. EAA's Young Eagles program makes the list for the second year in a row, this time because EAA announced at AirVenture that it would be targeting its program to get more people to continue their flight training, and possibly opening it up to older individuals (the Young Eagles cutoff is 17).
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Walter, I enjoy reading about your baking at school.
I do too!Great pictures! We spend summers at Pymatuning. If I were a bit closer, I would love to help with anything you wanted to do off season!
Walter, I might like to go check out your operation sometime if it's allowed and if I'm welcome. Don't know if I'd be able to help you in the ways you seem to need help, but maybe I can be useful in some other way for a short time.
You are starting out the new school year with a bang! Glad to hear about it Walter. Mark
I really can't wait to head over there, man. I'm dying to see how you make it work. When summer is finally over (that is, when the pool gets too cold to use), you can expect me to ask you to put me on your guest list. Until then, keep teasing me with more stories and pics.
wow, I'll have to backtrack and read this thread from the beginning, but it looks and sounds like you have a pretty neat gig going on here, the kitchen and ovens look like the "real deal"! Great job working with kids like that, gotta be very rewarding to see them progress.
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The Brooklyn sun on September 11, 2001. (photo: by Joshua Treviño/Flickr, cc by-nc-nd 2.0)
In a perfect world, or at least a perfectly informed one, most Americans would have known something about Islam as the 21st century opened. They would have been aware that over one billion of the world's people belong to this faith that emerged from the monotheistic soil of Christianity and Judaism. They might also have known that Muslims would soon be the second largest religious group in the U.S., after Christians. And that statistic might have come alive in American imaginations in the form of the doctors and teachers, parents and citizens it represents.
But we don't live in a perfect world. September 11, 2001, was many Americans' catastrophic introduction to Islam. Certainly, up to then, there were Islamic images that populated the American sense of the world out there — threatening images, many of them, associated with bombed embassies or the first failed World Trade Center attack. Islamic terrorists were default suspects, too, we recall, in the immediate hours after the Oklahoma City bombing.
But September 11 was the day, as someone said, when the Middle East came to America. That Tuesday we woke up as post-Cold War people — citizens of the prosperous remaining superpower. By Wednesday we had become post-9/11 people, with newly fearful eyes on the world. And our new enemies declared themselves agents of Islam.
I was in Washington, DC, on that day seeking funding for the wild idea of a weekly public radio program on religion. I had been piloting programs for about a year, getting an enthusiastic response from listeners and a tepid one from programmers. Talk of religion, many argued, was necessarily proselytizing and divisive. Moreover, faith wasn't an appropriate focus for a weekly hour of public radio — not a reasonable, weighty subject for public life like politics or economics or the arts — best left as a private matter.
My appointment was to happen at 11 a.m. I was staying at the Dulles Hilton, getting ready, preparing my thoughts, and did not have the television or radio on. The terror of the day first reached me when I called to ask for directions and was told that the meeting was cancelled. When I reacted with surprise, the woman at the other end screamed down the phone, "Don't you know that we are under attack?" Shortly before I picked up the phone, the "third plane" had flown over my head from Dulles airport and slammed into the Pentagon. I turned on the television set and watched the second tower fall.
As my hotel filled with stranded travelers, I headed home to Minnesota in a rental car. I listened to the radio all the way, taking in the way religion ran irrepressibly through this nightmare. I remember gripping the steering wheel hard, knowing that I had this one little hour of radio with which perhaps to address it. And though I had deep experience as a journalist and a freshly minted graduate degree in theology from Yale, my learning curve on Islam was as steep as that of my listeners.
At this remove of time, at this ten-year milestone that compels us not merely to recall but to take stock, I'm aware of how difficult this learning curve has been. We had to unlearn, or learn to nuance, the earliest words, phrases, and images by which we initially made sense of chaos. I'd include the phrase "Islam is a religion of peace" in that category. Muslim and global leaders declared this with the best of intentions, extending it as an olive branch. But those words were not big and complicated enough, not vivid and dramatic enough to counter the pictures — of airplanes crashing into buildings; of people in business suits leaping to their deaths; of children orphaned and spouses widowed — we all had in our heads.
On the first anniversary of September 11, I interviewed Ingrid Mattson on my program, which was, by then, off and running as a monthly national series. Mattson later became the first woman president of the Islamic Society of America, one of the largest and most influential umbrella groups of American and Canadian Muslim citizens. I asked where she would point non-Muslims for pictures vivid enough to arrest and correct those catastrophic images of Islam that were introductory for many. Here's how she answered me.
"Well, you've hit right on it. Violent actions are much more dramatic and memorable. A Muslim who's motivated by faith will sometimes in their life have an opportunity to do something, you know, grand. But most people don't. Most people, they live out their faith day to day by small actions of generosity, humility, and gratefulness. I think what Americans need to do is look around them and see many hospitals, for example. There are many Muslim doctors, and day after day they are serving people, they're helping people. Certainly, it's a result of their training, but it's also an aspect of their faith. There are Muslims working in soup kitchens and in shelters. That kind of drama … requires some kind of active outreach or at least a desire to look for those Muslims on the part of other Americans. But I believe that in the end it's worth it."
Ingrid Mattson's words, like her demeanor, were gently passionate, dignified, genuinely humble. I did not quite realize it at the time, but she embodied the defining characteristics of "ordinary" Muslims that I would discover in the course of my radio adventure in the decade ahead, the decade we are now marking. "Humility" is a weak word in modern ears, but it is a magnificent quality to experience in a person of integrity. We know this in our immediate circles of peers, family, and friends. Islam is at its heart deeply humble and profoundly egalitarian. It is most importantly a faith of being over speaking, a matter of when and how you pray, how you live, what you do.
I can report that, as Ingrid Mattson said, looking and listening beyond the headlines and into Islam — meeting Muslims halfway along that road to mutual understanding — is worth it. I have been immensely enriched by my Muslim conversation partners these past years. As soon as I returned from Washington in that fall of 2001, I began to learn about the spiritual, aesthetic, and intellectual heart of Islam. The languages and cultures that fostered it — Quranic Arabic, Persian, and Urdu — are rich with poetry, lush with beauty, steeped in learning. The thirteenth-century Muslim mystic and poet Rumi became one of the best-selling poets in the West in recent years, yet few knew to connect his gorgeous, playful, and cosmopolitan sensibility with the faith of over one billion of the world's people. He was a madrasa teacher, a theologian, a lover of life, a creator of beauty, and in his Islam those things are interrelated.
I have come to love a phrase that I hear repeatedly from my Muslim conversation partners: "the core moral value of beauty." This draws on a traditional Islamic teaching that God is beautiful and loves beauty. I first received it as a gift of thought in a conversation in the months after 9/11 with Khaled Abou el Fadl. He was raised in Egypt and Kuwait and barely escaped a fundamentalist path as a very young man. Today he is an esteemed professor of law at UCLA, a global humanitarian, and an interpreter of Islamic law in the modern world. His books have been passed around in secret in his birth country of Egypt for many years. He is fervently persuaded that the future of his faith depends on its recovery of its own core moral value of beauty. This is a taste of what he means by that, in part.
"Beauty is in creation. And ugliness is in the act of uncreation, or the undoing of creation. And I've never seen beauty in destructiveness. And those who find God in terrorism, in all types of violence, there is something that in my universe, in my experience, something that has awfully gone wrong … One of the extremely invigorating things for me [is] when God identifies God's beauty, God's own beauty, God talks about compassion, mercy, forgiveness, talks about the ability to balance, to understand the balance in a different context."
This kind of talk might sound frivolous in Western ears. But Khaled Abou el Fadl has put his life on the line for the recovery of this heart of his religious tradition. Like other remarkable and courageous Muslims I've encountered across these years, he does so in full knowledge that the outcome of this work is not certain and will not be completed in his lifetime. He is investing the best of himself for the sake of generations to come.
"We are under attack," the woman screamed at me on the telephone that day. That indeed is how it felt in that moment, and we would not be human if we had not experienced it that way. But this, too, was a first impression we had to overcome. The terrible scourge of terrorist radicalization of young people, the politicized distortion of Islam's holy teachings, the violence that continues to be done in the name of this faith — these are expressions of what is first and foremost an internal crisis within Islam. The numbers of Westerners who died on 9/11, and in other terrorist attacks since, pale in comparison to the number of Muslims who have died in such attacks. Muslims are on the front lines of this war, not Americans, not the West, not Christianity.
Suggestions that Islam needs a reformation are not very apt or helpful, in my mind. Long-term change will take its own shape in this very different tradition of hierarchy, theology, and devotion. And yet it is fair to say, I believe, that Islam is in an historic moment of ferment comparable to the decades of turmoil and brutality that preceded and followed the Christian Reformation. Islam, after all, is 700 years younger than Christianity. Roughly 700 years ago, Christians were the ones burning heretics at the stake and waging global holy wars.
Yet — and here is the most critical defining difference between that era of religious ferment and this — the Crusades were not televised. The Inquisition was not available for viewing on the Internet. The "terrorizers" of the Thirty Years War did not have modern travel, communications, and weaponry at their disposal.
Thankfully, the world continues to surprise us, and to dare us to see ordinary lives of dignity behind these kinds of dramatic acts that overwhelm headlines and obscure our vision of normalcy. As the tenth anniversary of 9/11 approached, Islam and "the Muslim world" stormed headlines in a whole new spirit. The fear that grew from the sense of being under attack had trained us to imagine "Arab streets" as a breeding ground for suicide bombers. Now it appears that the same frustrations and energies we feared have also, while we were not watching, become breeding grounds for democracy.
In March of this year, I took part in a remarkable gathering of activists and leaders from around the Muslim world. It is an annual gathering that was galvanized this year by the seismic change that has rippled from Tunisia through Egypt and beyond. The Egyptians and Tunisians in particular were quite transformative simply to be around. They manifest a sense of having lived through a miracle, even as they face the tasks ahead with gravity. "We have discovered ourselves," one long-time Egyptian activist proclaimed.
And there is a sense in which this moment challenges Americans to a new era of self-discovery as well as a new encounter with Muslim people and cultures. As we watched ordinary men and women, young and old, become citizens for the first time on Tahrir Square, we saw a version of our own national narrative unfolding. We saw humility and egalitarianism and lived goodness embodied. These qualities mingled, and will continue to mingle, with the darker capacities of humanity and of religion. But they allowed us to adjust our eyes to unforeseen beauty and possibility. They return me to words of another of my Muslim conversation partners in these years. Leila Ahmed, a professor at the Harvard Divinity School, is Egyptian-born and was the voice in a show we called "Muslim Women, and Other Misunderstandings." She said this:
"I no longer believe there's an Islamic world. Because where exactly are the borders? Are they in Chicago? Where are they? Where does the Islamic world end and where does the West begin? Is it in Paris? Where is it? I do think what happens in this country is going to be as much about the Islamic world as whatever happens 'over there.' The Islamic world is no longer over there. That's one thing. The other thing is, I think what we do, what we Americans do, will profoundly determine what becomes of what we're calling an Islamic world."
These words have rung in my ears for years, and at this milestone I'm able to hear them with a new measure of hope. In a very basic human sense, the questions and dilemmas facing Islam affect all of us. They are our questions, our dilemmas — not merely the domain of government or armies, but of citizens. They deserve our best thinking, our deepest courage, and our highest virtues.
This article was originally printed in the Fall 2011 issue of Oklahoma Humanities magazine.