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Once again, California stands on the verge of a xenophobic tantrum. The outburst du jour: a special ballot initiative scheduled for June to ban bilingual education.
At first, the initiative sounds reasonable. The group pushing it, English for the Children, seeks to redress problems that transcend racial politics by banning public school instruction in a child's native language. Who doesn't want kids to speak English so they can succeed?
But like its predecessors on the state's list of measures affecting minority populations, the initiative, mostly aimed at Latinos (California's largest immigrant group), will likely morph into an electoral shriek.
In 1994, Proposition 187 sought to remove state services to undocumented immigrants; in 1996, Proposition 209 sought to end state-supported affirmative action. (Both passed, but Proposition 187 has been tied up in court challenges over its constitutionality.) In both of those precedent-setting campaigns, proponents, largely Republicans, exploited fearplentiful in California, where whites will be a minority within a few years. Advertisements for Proposition 187 depicted an invading horde of illegal immigrants, the not-so-subtle message being, "Stop this takeover." Many Latinos saw this as a racial attack, and, two years later, nearly three-fourths voted for Bill Clinton.
Already, the Republican Party in California has endorsed this new initiative, upholding the GOP's record as the Democratic Party's best recruitment tool. Within two decades, Latinos will surpass African Americans as the country's largest minority. Latinos voted overwhelmingly for Democrats in the '96 elections in California and Texas, where close to half of the nation's 29 million Latinos live (9.1 million and 4.9 million, respectively).
It would seem the Democrats have a lock on the Latino vote. Take Art Torres, the chairman of California's Democratic Party, who crowed about his opponents' "image problem" at a debate last fall with state Republican Party chairman Michael Schroeder. "They've been great," Torres says of Republicans and their anti-minority message.
Such assuredness is a huge mistake. "Art can be as smug as he wants," says Schroeder, acknowledging that his party has an image problem. But Schroeder sees Republican potential in the Latino vote. Prior to the immigrant-bashing wave, Latinos voted in huge numbers for Ronald Reagan, and in 1990 California's Republican Gov. Pete Wilson got 45 percent of their vote. "[Torres] knows as well as I do that as long as everyone feels welcome, we will get a lot more Hispanics," Schroeder says.
One reason is social conservatism among some Latinos. Campus activism on race and identity issues exaggerates the perception that Latinos are liberal. But their conservative cultural background often influences their politics. In part due to Catholicism, in part to strong family institutions, issues such as abortion and "values" rhetoric play well with Latinos. ("So they didn't vote for [Bob] Dole," says Schroeder, conceding that in the past some Republican ads have been racist. "Even if they agree with him on the issues.")
Another reason is the diversity of Latino cultures and, even more important, the difference in economic status among Latinos. From recent immigrants to generations-old, long-established families in the United States, Latinos are not a cohesive voting bloc, at least not like blacks, who, although often ignored by the Democrats, have stuck by them. Latinos, whose assimilation patterns have been compared to those of turn-of-the-century Italian immigrants, tend to vote more along class, not racial, lines, subjugating identity to economic concerns.
Nobody exemplifies the complexities of the Latino vote better than Rep. Loretta Sanchez (D-Calif.), who trumped six-term GOP incumbent Bob Dornan in the 1996 congressional race. The first-generation Mexican American turned the Orange County, California, seat Democratic and surprised the nation in the process. But until 1992, Sanchez herself was a Republican. She dropped the Anglo, married half of her name (Brixey) when she ran against Dornan. And while she's certainly no Dornanshe's pro-labor, for example, and labor largely supported her campaignher priorities include small government and tax incentives for businesses.
For many years, the political cliché describing the Latino population was the "sleeping giant." If awakened, it would have a profound impact on America's political and social landscape. In many ways, Republicans and Democrats alike were happy that the giant slumbered. It made things easy.
Now, the Latino vote is a lot more up for grabs than people think. The number of Latino voters is growinghaving increased by 19 percent nationally from 1992 to 1996. Some 5 million Latinos voted in the last presidential election, 1.3 million of them in California, where Latinos accounted for 10 percent of the total voting population. That number can and will hit 20 percent.
While Democrats and Republicans each believe they have some advantages in capturing that vote, both parties may be fooling themselves.
Pendejos!" the woman said, deriding Latino politicians. Some in the room squirmedit's akin to calling them "assholes" or "dickheads." She was speaking at the opening assembly of the Latino Academy, a symposium held last year in San Antonio, Texas, by the Southwest Voter Registration Education Project, a major player in the record 1996 Latino voter turnout. This first-ever event, designed to develop Latino political awareness, featured sessions targeting activists, youths, and politicians; creating it had long been a dream of Southwest Voter, which has organized at the grassroots level for more than two decades.
The woman was essentially criticizing politicians for "turning white." About a third of the 93 attendees applauded. Many rolled their eyes. It was a moment that demonstrated the great division among Latinosand it represented the focus of the entire weeklong event. Concentrating on identity, and not strictly on hard political maneuvering, might seem odd at an event meant to advance Latino social and political power. But it's at the heart of the complexity of the Latino vote.
California's Proposition 187 was the turning point. At first, a majority of Latinos polled favored curbing illegal immigration, no more sympathetic to undocumented workers than were blacks or whites. But when Proposition 187 grew into an attack on all Latinos, cultural identity kicked in. In 1994, even staunch Republican Latinos reluctantly switched sides. Democrats have admittedly had an easy sell ever since.
Gov. Pete Wilson's race-baiting tactics are so well known that rapper Tupac Shakur invoked his name in lyrics as a handy symbol of intolerance. Using Proposition 187 to help his re-election campaign in 1994 and Proposition 209 in his doomed presidential bid two years ago, Wilson has actively courted the white voter base: Even though they account for only half the California population, whites comprise three-fourths of the state's electorate. Also problematic is Dornan. Ever since losing to Sanchez, he has been on a ceaseless bleat claiming illegals tipped the margin and, a year and a half later, is still seeking a rematch.
But Dornan will vanish, and this year term limits will keep Wilson from running again. What will the Democrats do then? Torres confidently says a new crop of racebaiting Republican poster children will take their place. "We'll have some others in the wings," he says. "Believe me."
Torres shouldn't be so sure. California, with its 54 electoral votes, is a Latino power basetime and again, a state in which precedents are set. But as the bilingual initiative heats up and candidates for the 1998 gubernatorial election begin to square off, it seems little is being done right.
Take Sen. Dianne Feinstein, who's a strong possibility for the governor's race. She's considered an odds-on favorite in the Democratic Party's white-black-liberal power axis. But she's equal to Wilson as an immigrant basher, scoring huge negatives in Republican polls (with more than 40 percent of Latino men opposing her, according to Schroeder). At press time, Feinstein hadn't announced her position on the bilingual measure, but she regularly uses "get tough on immigration" rhetoric and has supported Republican legislative proposals to crack down on immigration, including tightening border control measures.
Feinstein has written off Latinos, says Gloria Molina, a Los Angeles County supervisor, vice chair of the Democratic National Committee, and one of the nation's most prominent Latino politicians. "If she decides to run, she is going to have nothing but problems from our community, from a leader like me," Molina says.
Feinstein is so onerous that Molina says she could entertain the possibility of voting for Dan Lungren, the state attorney general running for the Republican nomination, as long as "Lungren would demonstrate leadership" on Latino issues. "I don't know who I'd pick," she says. "I know it would be a horrible thing...for me to encourage people to vote for a Republican. I hope that will never happen."
The scenario is not so far-fetched: Lungren was a reluctant supporter of Proposition 187, once telling the Sacramento Bee, "I don't fear immigrationÉ[it] contributes to the greatness of this country." More recently, he has announced his intent to "court the Catholic vote" in his gubernatorial campaign (partially a euphemism for the largely Catholic Latino vote) and to emphasize education and family issues.
The national parties, of course, aren't on the streets in California trying to get out the vote; instead, they are wallowing in a corporate buckfest. The Democrats' Torres is openly contemptuous. "We try to stay away from them," he says of the Democratic National Committee. "They come into the state with their vacuum cleaners and take the money and run. They're doing their own thingand we bless them," he adds sarcastically.
The Republicans aren't doing much better. At the California Republican State Convention early last year, the National Republican Hispanic Assembly sought a modest $500,000first from the state party and then from the national partyto help organize and target Latino voters in California. At the end of the year, no support had come through, according to representatives of the NRHA's Sacramento chapter.
But there is a secret to connecting with Latino voters: old-fashioned, get-out-the-vote, door-to-door contact. A Southwest Voter study in Colorado demonstrated that rather than responding to slick TV ads and mailings, Latinos, more than any other group, respond to personal politics. In the study, voter turnout increased by 15 to 20 percent in neighborhoods where campaign workers visited each house. The party that canvasses will win much of the total vote.
Both California party chairmen agree this is key. Door knocking, says Torres, was what gave Loretta Sanchez her nearly 1,000-vote edge. His GOP counterpart, Schroeder, says, "You have to work it manually. Someone in the community has to stand up and say, 'I am a Republican.'" Schroeder is working hard to lay out the welcome mat for Latinos (despite his own position as Dornan's lawyer). Among his many efforts, he organized a statewide outreach appeal that drew 500 community leaders to a meeting last fall.
And California Republicans plan to attack Democrats in key districts. An NRHA project called Voto Dos Mil, or Vote 2000, which is intended to attract Latino voters to the GOP for the next presidential election, calls for concentrating in 16 areas where Democrats are considered vulnerable in the state.
Other high-profile Republicans are also in tune with the Latino vote. In Texas, Gov. George W. Bush has been outspoken against immigrant bashing. And there's New York Mayor Rudolph Giuliani, who has aggressively positioned himself as a champion of immigrant rights.
On the other coast, Richard Riordan, the mayor of Los Angeles, took 60 percent of the Latino vote when he ran for re-election in 1997. Riordan, a moderate who ranks high with voters on the issues of crime, business, and education, has stayed away from California's anti-immigrant fray. His election marked the first time that more Latinos than African Americans voted. Significantly, their vote split from the black vote, which went to Tom Hayden, the Democratic candidate.
"Giuliani and Riordan show all bets are off," says Antonio Gonzalez, president of the Southwest Voter Registration Education Project. "Right now you have an infusion into the Democratic Party, in places where the immigration stuff is happening." But this, he warns, will change when the immigration debate dies down. "I see Latinos being split up."
Indeed, America's Latino immigrants may prove to be less like their turn-of-the-century Irish and Italian counterparts, who, at least for a generation, stayed with the Democratic Party. Rather, their party affiliation may more rapidly divide along class lines, and the question is whether Democrats and Republicans will wake up to this reality.
Dale Maharidge is the author of The Coming White Minority: California's Eruptions and the Nation's Future. His last article for Mother Jones, "California Schemer," was a profile of Gov. Pete Wilson that appeared in the November/December 1995 issue.


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GPD: Shooting at Spanish Trace Apartments
Gainesville Police and other local law enforcement agencies are currently on the scene of a shooting where the shooter has not yet been captured.
Around 3pm Wednesday afternoon, A GPD officer responded to the Spanish Trace Apartments at 3500 Windmeadows Blvd for a domestic-related call. Upon arrival, the officers heard gunshots coming from apartment 11. The GPD officer called for backup and retreated with two victims that had been shot. The victims were evacuated and transported to a local hospital with non life-threatening injuries.
The shooter is believed to be contained in an apartment unit in the complex. Multiple officers including SWAT, K-9 and helicopter units are currently in the area attempting to locate the shooter.
Updates will be released as they become available.
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There's a custom search for the 'Creative Commons' made by Envato …
No one?
Hey, guys.
I know that Helvetica is not a free font, but I love this font and I'd like to use it in my future projects. Now what kind of licence do I need to use this font in a commercial project? and how can I get it?
And would that licence give me the right to include the font in the project files? (i.e the fonts folder in a theme to be used by the @font-face in the css).
So you want a very good theme that no one has bought yet and you want the author to remover from the market?
I think your chances are slim, unless you don't mind if someone else already bought it.
I'm just gonna talk about the footer, because that what caught my eye the most. The footer has some messing content, like the 'Recent Posts' section, where is the rest of it?
The contact form needs a lot of styles, it looks very basic.
The line height is a mess.
The whole design needs a lot of work.
It's very basic for PSD category
The whole website is one layout, all pages look pretty much the same.
The colors are very depressing, you should add some colors to it, or if you prefer the gray shades, you should use'em in a much better way.
Also you should work more on the footer and you should enhance the graphic quality, like buttons and such.
And pay attention to the details, like hover statements, what should links look like, and that kink of stuff.
I hope I didn't upset you with my opinion.
Good luck with the design.
It's nice, but it's a very common design here on TF, you know what I mean?
You gotta make it more unique than that
And I don't know if it's the preview quality or not, but the text looks blury and jagged.
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Is Your House Making You Sick? Mold Monologues Part 1
— Paul Gleason, The Menace of Mold, Emagazine.com
Some doctors say that molds and fungus are at least indirectly responsible for 65% of all illnesses. You don't have to smell or see mold for its effects to harm your health. Toxic molds and fungi may be hidden within your home and making you, your children, or your pets sick. We learned the hard way about molds, and the damage they can do to health and quality of life. This is the first part in my ongoing "Mold Monologues" blogs. The whole purpose of me writing this series is to help others by sharing the experience and wisdom that we gained through our struggles to regain health. I will share both our failures and successes in the hopes that others may learn from our experiences, and it will help them to avoid suffering and to maintain or regain health.
A "musty" smell means mold—always! A moldy smell means lots of mold, though some molds are highly toxic and others not nearly as dangerous. However, just because you don't see or smell mold in your home does not mean it is not there. You may be healthy for years and find that a mold-related downturn in your health has slowly crept up on you without your having realized it. If you are totally healthy and don't have any musty or moldy smells around your home, and no reason to suspect that mold might be invading your home, that's terrific—you might as well skip this series of articles. However, if you or someone you know suffers from any of the following list of symptoms, I suggest you read on:
On a clear, blue, Sunday afternoon in February 2004, Josie (my wife) and I had a nearly perfect afternoon snorkeling in the warm ocean waters of Maui, and paddling our ocean kayak to within 50 yards of two large humpback whales. When we arrived home later that day, we found my wife's mother lying on the couch, deathly ill and barely able to move. After a few days of caring for her mother, my wife also fell ill with similar symptoms. As Josie's condition deteriorated, she developed severe headaches and an ugly rash and bruises that looked as if she had been severely beaten. We took her to see a doctor at the local Kaiser clinic. When we showed him her rash and bruises, we asked if he thought that toxic mold might be the culprit. He assured us that mold could not cause a rash like that. Desperate to find answers, we extended our search for clues to the Internet and found photos of identical rashes and spontaneous bruises on people suffering from black mold poisoning caused by the highly toxic Stachybotrys black mold. At this point, we cultured the air in our rental home with petri dishes, finding that Aspergillus, Stachybotrys, and Fusarium, three of the four most infamous toxic molds, were prevalent in our rented home. We quickly moved into a temporary apartment until we could find a long-term rental to move into. It turned out that the spontaneous bruising that Josie saw on her body was a sign of internal hemorrhaging and that she was just one small step away from brain and lung hemorrhaging, permanent brain damage, and potential death. Had we listened to our first doctor and continued to stay in the mold-contaminated home, Josie may well have died. Thus began a long saga of dealing with mold-generated health problems that eventually caused me to close down my building business, purge almost all of our personal possessions (due to mold contamination), and return to the mainland so my wife could recuperate in a climate less conducive to mold growth. These toxic molds problems came a hair away from killing both my wife and mother in-law, and nearly bankrupted us.
In some cases, like the flooded homes in New Orleans with black mold growing all over the place, mold is an obvious problem that commands attention, and its obviousness makes it clear that drastic measure, such as the use of respirators and Tyvek protective clothing (including Tyvek booties and hoods) are mandated. In other cases, like our rental home on Maui, the mold is a hidden demon, devastating the home's occupant's lives without leaving obvious clues to the cause of their misfortune.
Our first winter in this beautiful older island home, on the normally dry side of Maui, was fine. However, our second winter was a different story. It was the wettest winter in 100 years, flooding our downstairs guest room and my wife's office twice. In these areas, we noticed a smell like cat urine, but figured that the prior occupants must have had cats and that the moisture was just bringing out old smells. What we did not know was that this smell was not from prior pets, but was actually the smell of a highly toxic black mold known as Stachybotrys, which was given new life by the record-breaking rains and was thriving hidden within the walls and around the foundation of our home.
I am not a mold remediation expert, but I am a licensed general contractor, and I have considerable firsthand experience gained from my own family's personal battle with toxic mold poisoning. My intention is to share what we have learned, and point you toward sources for expert information, effective health services, and mold remediation, should you identify the need.


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I am trying to use bootstrapping in STATA 12.1 to calculate 95% confidence intervals of "sensitivity", "specificity", and "accuracy" on a clustered dataset of diagnosing positive and negative lymph node metastases clustered by pelvic side (right and left pelvic sides). I am new to programming with STATA, and am having some problems with the CIs, which I assume are likely related to my initial programming attempts.
I am using the module senspec to return the true positives (TP), false negatives (FN), TN, FP, calculate accuracy, and return the sensitivity, specificity, and accuracy, which I downloaded from:
My bootstrapping program looks like this (apologies for what is likely an inelegant attempt):
capture program drop bootstrap_sens_spec_da
program define sens_spec_da, rclass
tempvar s_calc_sens s_calc_spec fp1 fn1 tp1 tn1
senspec `1' `2', sensitivity(`s_calc_sens') specificity(`s_calc_spec') nfpos(`fp1') nfneg(`fn1') ntpos(`tp1') ntneg(`tn1')
return scalar calc_da = (`tp1'+`tn1')/(`tp1'+`tn1'+`fp1'+`fn1')
return scalar calc_sens =`s_calc_sens'
return scalar calc_spec =`s_calc_spec'
Then, I am using bootstrapping to calculate the confidence intervals:
bootstrap r(calc_sens) r(calc_spec) r(calc_da), reps(1000) cluster(side): sens_spec_da histo_LN_ bin_R3_LN_
estat bootstrap, all
Some of the time this seems to work although the CIs seem large, compared with the results that one gets for sensitivity and specificity when not accounting for clustering using, for example, diagt. Sometimes it does not work at all. Using diagt to find the sensitivity and specificity for the 3rd reader works fine, but the bootstrapping fails. Here is the output of diagt:
. diagt histo_LN_ bin_R3_LN_
| bin_R3_LN_
histo_LN_ | Pos. Neg. | Total
Abnormal | 25 19 | 44
Normal | 25 171 | 196
Total | 50 190 | 240
True abnormal diagnosis defined as histo_LN_ = 1
[95% Confidence Interval]
Prevalence Pr(A) 18.3% 13.6% 23.8%
Sensitivity Pr(+|A) 56.8% 41.0% 71.7%
Specificity Pr(-|N) 87.2% 81.7% 91.6%
And here is STATA's output of bootstrapping on the readings for R3 (the third reader):
. bootstrap r(calc_sens) r(calc_spec) r(calc_da), reps(1000) cluster(side): sens_spec_da histo_LN_ bin_R3_LN_
Bootstrap results Number of obs = 240
Replications = 1000
command: sens_spec_da histo_LN_ bin_R3_LN_
_bs_1: r(calc_sens)
_bs_2: r(calc_spec)
_bs_3: r(calc_da)
(Replications based on 2 clusters in side)
| Observed Bootstrap Normal-based
| Coef. Std. Err. z P>|z| [95% Conf. Interval]
_bs_1 | 1 . . . . .
_bs_2 | 0 (omitted)
_bs_3 | .1833333 .0235188 7.80 0.000 .1372373 .2294294
(notice that the first two results, for sensitivity and specificity, fail to match with diagt)
This is my first time posting to the STATA listserv, so I give my apologies in advance if I have provided too much (or not enough) detail. I can attach the dataset if that would be helpful. Any suggestions would be much appreciated!
Lauren Bains
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Within a short walk of Spotsylvania Towne Centre, Fredericksburg Hospitality House and Conference Center is within a mile (2 km) of United States National Slavery Museum. This 196-room, 3-star hotel has an outdoor pool along with a 24-hour fitness center and free in-room WiFi. Also nearby are Fredericksburg Area Museum and Cultural Center and Fredericksburg Expo and Conference Center.
Start your day off right with a free full breakfast, served each morning from 6 AM to 10:30 AM. Enjoy dining at one of 2 onsite restaurants including Shannons Bar and Grille, which specializes in American cuisine. Savor a meal from the comfort of your room with room service, or make new friends over drinks at the bar/lounge.
All of Fredericksburg Hospitality House and Conference Center's 196 rooms are air-conditioned and have an array of amenities, including balconies or patios, coffee makers, and free newspapers. 32-inch plasma TVs come with satellite channels, and guests can stay connected with free WiFi. Bathrooms have hair dryers and free toiletries. Free local calls, ironing boards, and desks are also available.
Fredericksburg Hospitality House and Conference Center features a nightclub, an outdoor pool, and a children's pool. If you drive, take advantage of free parking. The front desk is staffed 24/7 to help with dry cleaning/laundry, luggage storage, and securing valuables. Other amenities at this family-friendly hotel include a 24-hour fitness center, free WiFi in public areas, and 10 meeting rooms.
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In addition to an outdoor pool, Fredericksburg Hospitality House and Conference Center provides a 24-hour fitness center and a children's pool. Dining is available at one of the hotel's 2 restaurants. A bar/lounge is on site where guests can unwind with a drink. Guests can enjoy a complimentary breakfast each morning. Wireless Internet access is complimentary.
Business-related amenities at this 3-star property consist of a business center and meeting rooms. Event facilities measuring 9000 square feet (836 square meters) include a conference center. This family-friendly hotel also offers a nightclub, a picnic area, and coffee/tea in a common area. Complimentary self parking is available on site.
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Fredericksburg Hospitality House and Conference Center offers 196 air-conditioned accommodations with complimentary newspapers and coffee/tea makers. Rooms open to balconies or patios. 32-inch plasma televisions come with satellite channels. Bathrooms include shower/tub combinations, complimentary toiletries, and hair dryers.
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Room service (during limited hours) is available.
Shannons Bar and Grille - This restaurant specializes in American cuisine and serves dinner only. Guests can enjoy drinks at the bar. A children's menu is available. Happy hour is offered. Open select days.
Ledo's Pizza - This family restaurant specializes in American cuisine and serves breakfast, lunch, and dinner. A children's menu is available. Open daily.
A complimentary full breakfast is served each morning between 6 AM and 10:30 AM.
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An outdoor pool and a children's pool are on site. Other recreational amenities include a 24-hour fitness center.
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Minimum check-in age is 21
Check-in time ends at midnight
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- Children are welcome.
- Kids stay free! Children 17 years old and younger stay free when using existing bedding. Children may not be eligible for complimentary breakfast.
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Esporão adds first vintage Port
Portuguese producer Esporão has launched its first ever vintage Port in the form of Quinta dos Murças 2011.
Timed to coincide with Alentejo-based Esporão's 40th anniversary, the release also comes from one of the most highly acclaimed vintage Port declarations in recent years.
Bought by Esporão in 2008, Quinta dos Murças lies on the steep northern bank of the Douro close to Regua. Its vines are aged between 15 and 65 years old and are mostly the traditional Douro varieties, although there is also some Cabernet Sauvignon and Sauvignon Blanc.
The same estate also produces unfortified wines under its Assobio Douro DOC brand. This part of the portfolio is also expanding, with the creation of a white from the 2011 vintage and a 2013 rosé.
Introducing these new additions, Esparão's head winemaker David Baverstock said: "I am delighted that we are able to use these very old, low yielding vines that produce extremely concentrated grapes, highly prized for vintage port, but also very complex and intense wines."
UK agent Barwell & Jones will be showing the Esporão range to the trade at the New Douro Tasting on 20 February in London.


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Daring to Resist: Jewish Defiance in the Holocaust
Edited by David Engel, Eva Fogelman, et al.
Museum of Jewish Heritage — A Living Memorial to the Holocaust, 146 pages, $22.95.
'Daring to Resist: Jewish Defiance in the Holocaust," a catalog published to accompany an exhibition of the same title that recently opened at New York's Museum of Jewish Heritage, begins with an arresting image of opposition, and pride. Taken by Rachel Posner, wife of Rabbi Akiva Posner, who was the last rabbi of prewar Kiel, Germany, the photograph is framed from the interior of their home looking out, foregrounding a menorah in the windowsill, while beyond the window's pane, from the balcony of an opposite building, hangs a swastika flag. It is Hanukkah 1932. Subsequent pages and galleries host a trove of similarly improbable and miraculous truths: a Passover Haggadah handwritten in Hebrew script in the Unterluss labor camp in 1944, an underground typewriter and copies of underground newspapers and bulletins, a homemade radio from the Jasenovac concentration camp, and, perhaps most disturbingly, photographic evidence of the systematic murder of European Jews — taken, developed and reproduced as early as 1942.
This catalog is another, and ultimate, example of such defiance — seeking as it does to document a challenge to the cliché of congenital Jewish weakness in the face of oppression and murder. That famous stereotype is as follows: Jews, as a lame and bookish species given to culture and leisure, went like lambs to the slaughter. As with all stereotypes, though, the existence and transmission of such represents a flaw in the historical record. "Daring to Resist" seeks rectification — and does so with impressive intelligence.
Most familiar Holocaust images and accounts, both documentaries and those fictionalized after the fact, are inevitably those of the camps: from Buchenwald survivor Eugene Kogon's "The Theory and Practice of Hell" to Steven Spielberg's "Schindler's List," the most lastingly famous narrative portraits of the Holocaust come from the Appelplatz, the tragedies of the gas chambers and ovens. "Daring to Resist" offers an illuminating alternative: not just that image of a menorah's symbolic defiance but also the spectacle of Jewish resistance fighters organized in the ghettos, and reproductions of forged identity cards and telegrams issued in partisan code. Here are snapshots of men and women who did not, who would not, "go gently." As an antidote to a millennium of poisonous accusations of impotence or inaction, their lives are vital to an understanding of the true nature of Jewish European existence.
The texts collected here alongside the images are just as revealing: Rabbi Leo Baeck's "Honor and Inner Strength" is reprinted, his message delivered to German Jewish communities during the Shabbat Nachamu observance (the Sabbath of Consolation that immediately follows Tisha B'Av) of summer 1935, as is a tragic excerpt from the justly famous diary of Polish Jewish physician Janusz Korczak, martyr of the orphans of Warsaw. Lesser known but overwhelmingly compelling are a number of compiled oral histories: from the surviving students of Friedl Dicker-Brandeis, a painter and teacher of art in the Czech camp of Theresienstadt, to that firsthand of Chaya Porus Palevsky, a Lithuanian Jewish partisan affiliated with the armed resistance movement known as Nekahmah (Revenge). Palevsky recounts movingly, but clear-eyed: "To keep our morale high, we decided to keep our group of ninety people together and fight any way we could. Gertman and I and eight others were sent to Linkmenys near Swieciany [Palevsky's hometown] to burn an electric station. We stayed in a peasant's house about 500 yards from the station. That night I dreamt that our group was surrounded and I heard shots. When I woke up I learned that three people had been killed; Gertman had been wounded and shot himself to avoid being captured by the Nazis. We promised ourselves that when we were liberated, we would bury the corpses in Swieciany."
"Daring to Resist: Jewish Defiance in the Holocaust" — and the posterity it should ensure for the men and women and their deeds remembered herein — is itself also a form of liberation, a freeing. The history documented in its pages is, to many Jews, unfortunately too new to be otherwise.
Joshua Cohen is a literary critic for the Forward.
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I got a chance to see play this today while waiting for travelers to trickle in from North America, even a couple of Brits, who are residents of Bermuda joining us for the first time. Everyone arrived on time, and with their luggage, though we did have one bit of drama when we discovered that one traveler arrived at one of Oslo secondary airports instead of the main one. So she got a bonus ride on the Norwegian bus system through a part of Norway none of the rest of us will see.
I've been grousing lately about the prices in Scandinavia, and when I crossed the border by train yesterday into Norway, I definitely entered into sticker shock twilight zone.
One of our objectives in selecting hotels is to find locations which offer quality options for traveler free time. To date we have tried not to make an exception on arrival day, which means we are not generally selecting airport hotels for our international tours. Since we moved away from group air travel a few years back, the commitment to hotels in interesting locations has complicated the process of getting travelers from the airport to the hotel.
Oslo is a prime example, with a 40 min. taxi ride providing the most cost-effective way to move travelers who trickle in throughout the day, into the heart of old Oslo, right on Oslo Fjord and just a block away from the main pedestrian shopping and hangout zone.
I thought I had the best possible system in place in Oslo, using the taxi desk to order up the taxi when travelers were ready, and usually getting one of the lower cost taxi companies to take our each group
That was a $30 mistake. After first saying "no", the wife of this couple resorted to the woman's prerogative. After she was gone I asked the taxi desk to call a taxi., but was informed that 1) the taxi could not wait for us so we could not order taxi until ready and 2) in 3 min., at 5 PM, the rates would increase by 200 kroner, just over $30.
Our traveler was quick, and my watch said only 4:59 PM when I placed the order. But my watch was slower than theirs, and I didn't know how to plead the Norwegian word for "grace" (but I definitely tried in English), so we paid the extra 200 kroner. The next Norwegian phrase I'm working on is "budget buster".
And now, I have one more reason to resent all the non-productive time we spend on "comfort stops" :)


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Canada's plan for aging cars a lemon: consultant
TORONTO (Reuters) - Canada's government must offer more than token incentives if it wants to be serious about getting older, less-efficient cars off the road, one of the country's top industry consultants said on Thursday.
But Dennis DesRosiers, head of DesRosiers Automotive, said the Conservative government lacks the fortitude to combat the environmental concerns.
"The only truly effective way in an incentive program is to have a carrot and a stick, and we don't have politicians with enough guts to actually try to remove vehicles that are older," DesRosiers told Reuters.
In a speech in Toronto on Wednesday, Environment Minister John Baird said Ottawa was poised to unveil a plan that will offer rewards to drivers that scrap their old vehicles.
"We will have an initiative in the coming weeks on that," Baird said during a lunchtime address to the Economic Club in Toronto. He gave no specifics.
This followed a federal discussion paper released in the summer that outlined a number of incentives including cash, free transit passes and rebates on new, fuel-efficient vehicles.
"The incentive options offered through this new program will aim to accelerate the removal of older vehicles from the road and to encourage Canadians to consider sustainable transportation alternatives," the document said.
It also set aside C$6 million ($5.9 million) in this year's budget to fund a vehicle retirement program.
DesRosiers noted, however, that these small incentives will do little to get the less efficient, more polluting cars, typically more than 10 years old, off the road. Continued...


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Yao Fu Yun – Hangzhou, China
How long have you been growing tea?
More than 30 years.
What got you started in the Tea industry?
Hangzhou is a beautiful place with mountain and water, which is a suitable for tea growing. I love the place and I love tea. So I work for tea. Our tea garden is a state-owned when I began to work 30 years ago.
Can you describe a typical day out in the field. How many hours would that be?
I go to the tea garden at 7 am every morning. First I will do some weeding and loosing the soil. I stop at about 11 am. The weeds can be easily withered and cannot be survival after weeding. Then I will have lunch and take a nap for one hour. In the afternoon I will check the tools to see if needing repairing. And then I will do some fertilization and pruning. Pruning can make the tea leaves to grow up easily. Besides, it can help us to pick up tea leaves easily as well. The above is what I do during leisure time. Normally I will work in the tea garden for 9-10 hours a day. If the tea season is coming, I will be very busy to make teas the whole day. I must finish making the tea leaves picked at the same day, no matter how late is. Otherise the tea leaves are useless and waste.
What is your favorite part of growing tea? What inspires you to keep going?
It is a hard work in any part of tea growing and tea making. The most favorite part for me is the picking and frying. It is not the question of how much I earn, but I can calculate the result of the whole year hard working. I can know if I do a good job or not duing one year. Besides Frying is very important for lung jing too. Experience can make a good tea. Different persons can frying different teas with the same tea leaves.
Conversely, what is the hardest part of your job?
The hardest part is the weather. Our job is depending on the weather. For example, when the buds come out in spring, it will hurt the buds if it rains for several days. If suddenly sunrise after several days raining, the buds will be charred and damaged. As a result, it will reduce the quantity. Another example is we can not picking if it is raining during the picking season when the buds are in the best situation. If picking after the rain, the buds will be bigger which we will have to lower down the grade. This is very difficult because nobody can control it.
How has tea farming changed over the years?
The main change is the using of pesticide. Before we can use pesticide according to the insects while now it is not possible to use casually. Because nowadays people are taking more care of their health. We can only use a little allowed by the country if the disaster of insects are serious. Besides, when we using pesticide, we must add water to make it lighter to avoid the pesiticide residue. Now we will feed some chicken to face the insects. Or catching insects by ourselves. Another change is the frying. Before we use firewood to fry the tea. After some time we use electricity. Now we use dedicated frying machine. Which can make faster. But we must control the tempreture and time whatever way we use.
What do you think makes your tea more unique or better than others?
Our teas are good because our circumstance is nice here. It is always foggy in the tea garden. Which can make the tea growing season longer. As a result, the teas are richer in taste and better in quality. On the other hand, we have long time experience in making teas. So we can keep the quality.
What makes the difference between a successful and unsuccessful harvest?
First the management of the tea garden is very imprtant. For example, is the weeding clean? Is the fertilizer enough? How is the condition of watering? Besides the control of insects disaster and the shape of cutting tea trees are all very important for the growing of teas. Second the weather is very important as what we talked as above. Which has become the most important at present.
Do you exchange growing secrets with other local farmers?
Yes. Because every persons has his own experience and inadequate. If we can share the experience all the tea gardens can make better harvest. Otherwise it is neither good for the tea garden nor for the farmers.
Are there any tips you can give on how to best brew your tea?
Here is my own experience. First of all, the water is very important. The best is minieral water. It can make the tea brewing the best. The tea is pleasant and will get sweetness after drinking. Second, the temperture is better around 85-90 degrees. In this way, it can not only make the best aroma, but also keep the effective material such as chlorophyll etc. Third, how much tea leaves we should put when brewing? Put less tea leaves to those taste is lighter while put more to those taste is stronger. This is flexible. Finally, don't soak tea leaves too long. The longest is not more than half hour. Because some bitter composition will come out after long soaking. Which will cause bad taste.
What is your favorite tea to drink and why?
My favorite tea is our lung jing [dragonwell]. I will taste every lot after production. In this way, I can drink not only the taste of initial teas, but also the result of hard working.
If you had any advice to give western tea drinkers, what would it be?
I suggest the west tea lovers buy some high quality teas with lighter taste. Because high quality teas will contain more buds, which is good for health because they contains more effective ingredients.
What does this project & contribution mean to you?
Money is not all for me. The most infection from the this program is the attitude from yours. The questions are more than we have thoughts. We must learn from you. I am touched by it.
What would be the main benefit of receiving this donation?
The biggest benefit is that it can help us to improve our tools such as bamboo basket which for loading the teas etc.


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A short biography of my life with a scientific emphasis…
I was born in Boston Massachusetts- the eldest son a family of seven. When I was born, my father was in the early stages of his career, and we bounced around for a couple of years, including six months in Hawaii. Unfortunately I was too young to remember any of it, but my mother insists that lizards ran all over me as I lay in my crib, perhaps originating my life long interest in herpetology.
Eventually my parents and their growing brood settled in Vermont. My early years there were in the countryside on a hill across from a dairy farm. I caught a lot of salamanders, garter snakes, and toads in the fields and woods around my parent's house. Honestly, it was the perfect place for a kid. After the third grade, we moved to what seemed to me a bustling metropolis: Burlington, Vermont. In Burlington, I compensated for my lack of access to Vermont's woods and streams with a number of pets including California newts, firebelly toads, and even a jeweled swift (Sceloperus sp.). I was also a student of Judith Allard, a fantastic high school teacher who provided me with a solid foundation in Biology.
After high school I attended Union College in Schenectady, New York. At Union I majored in Biology. I also managed to work part time in Barbara Pytel's lab where I studied freeze tolerance in grey tree frogs (Hyla versicolor). After college, and a sort stint working as a biochemist, I joined Tod Reeder's lab at San Diego State University. I had a wonderful time in San Diego and in the deserts of the American southwest chasing whiptail lizards (Aspidoscelis sp.). I also took a class in bioinformatics with Scott Kelley that got me hooked on PYTHON (the programming language).
After completing a Masters studying the population genetics of parthenogenetic whiptails, I worked briefly as a lab technician for Travis Glenn at the Savannah River Ecology Laboratory. There, I QCed microsatellite loci and risked life and limb learning to catch alligators. It was a fantastic experience.
Next, I joined Christopher Schneider's lab at Boston University to pursue a PhD. The primary thrust of my dissertation aimed at identifying genes and loci involved in the evolution of anolis lizards. Chris and I collaborated with Hopi Hoekstra and Jonathan Losos on this project, and I had a great time working with their students and post docs at Harvard. I also continued to collaborate with Travis and contributed to some papers describing a new approach for identifying and sequencing homologus loci (e.g., ultra conserved elements) across deep evolutionary time scales. For that project, Brant Faircloth and I wrote the post processing and tree building pipeline. I learned a lot from Brant and he helped me discover github and writing open source code. I also collaborated with Sean Mullen on a project investigating the genomics of adaptation in heliconious butterflies. While at Boston University, I also wooed and wed my wife Christine.
I graduated in 2013 and did a short six month post doc in computational genomics at the California Academy of Sciences. I worked with Brian Simison, Shannon Bennett, and Durrell Kapan on projects ranging from turtle evolution to Drosophila population genomics. This spring I started a new Post Doc in Sarah Tishkoff's lab at the University of Pennsylvania. There I'll be working on the genomics of demography and local adaptation in human populations in Africa.


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Calvin College student named Lilly Graduate Fellow
Aaron Abma, a philosophy and physics double major, is one of ten students selected in 2017 as a Lilly Graduate Fellow.
May 24, 2017 | News & Stories Staff
Calvin graduate continues incredible journey
On May 20, 2017, Garrett Bazany graduated from Calvin College—the latest achievement in an incredible seven-year journey.
May 20, 2017 | Michael Geertsma
Calvin celebrates the Class of 2017
On Saturday, May 20, 2017, more than 900 students participated in the college's 97th annual Commencement ceremony.
May 19, 2017 | Matt Kucinski
Partnering to improve mental health in Grand Rapids
In 2011, "Women Supporting Women: Supportive/Educative Groups for Ethnically Diverse, Urban, Impoverished Women Dealing with Depression and Anxiety" was launched in three Grand Rapids neighborhoods.
May 16, 2017 | Matt Kucinski
Calvin alum's Fulbright focuses on conservation efforts in Nicaragua
Through a Fulbright scholarship, Joel Betts '14 will be assessing the extent of agricultural and hurricane-induced forest loss in an indigenous territory in Nicaragua.
May 10, 2017 | Matt Kucinski
Dedicated to every student's success
Calvin College religion professor Matthew Lundberg is the 2017 winner of Calvin's Presidential Award for Exemplary Teaching, the college's highest faculty honor.
May 09, 2017 | Phil de Haan
Home court at Handlon
In late April, Calvin College students and alumni played basketball against inmates at Handlon Correctional Facility. And students in the Calvin Prison Initiative cheered on their fellow Knights.
May 02, 2017 | Jacquelyn Hubbard
Calvin Remembers Ed Ericson
Longtime Calvin English professor Ed Ericson is remembered for his excellent teaching and scholarly pursuits.
May 02, 2017 | Lynn Rosendale
Alvin Plantinga awarded the 2017 Templeton Prize
Longtime Calvin professor and alum Alvin Plantinga is awarded the Templeton Prize, recognizing his revolutionary thinking in Christian philosophy.
April 25, 2017 | Matt Kucinski
Nebraska Senator Ben Sasse will deliver the 2017 Paul B. Henry Lecture
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Fulbright allows student to pursue trio of passions
Micah Warners will be heading to Honduras to teach English to students from economically disadvantaged sectors.
April 22, 2017 | Matt Kucinski
Discovering a deeper passion for poetry
Calvin College English professor Lew Klatt reflects on his experience the past three years serving as poet laureate for Grand Rapids.
April 20, 2017 | Matt Kucinski
Guatemalan artists are focus of alum's research
In March 2017, Peter Cahill '16 presented his ceramics research at the National Council of Education for the Ceramic Arts conference in Portland, Oregon.
April 13, 2017 | Jacquelyn Hubbard
Calvin's robust research experiences lead to Goldwater success
The Goldwater success continues at Calvin College in 2017, with two more students being honored by the Barry Goldwater Scholarship and Excellence in Education Foundation.
April 11, 2017 | Matt Kucinski
Calvin remembers Jack Wiersma
Longtime Calvin education professor Jack Wiersma is remembered for his visionary leadership in special education.
April 11, 2017 | Lynn Rosendale
Religion major impresses at conference, wins research prize
Elena van Stee's paper was awarded the American Academy of Religion's undergraduate research prize. The award recognizes the best paper submitted by an undergrad at its regional conference.
April 07, 2017 | Jacquelyn Hubbard
Calvin College, Bridge Street House of Prayer partnering to help students succeed
Students who participate in the Mission School program at BSHOP are now able to earn six elective credit hours and fulfill Calvin's Cross-Cultural Engagement core requirement.
April 05, 2017 | Anna Delph
Calvin College professor receives Fulbright to study history of global hockey
Bruce Berglund will do research on three continents as he pursues a deeper understanding of hockey's emergence as a global sport.
April 04, 2017 | Matt Kucinski
Animals and the Kingdom of God Lecture Series celebrates 10th anniversary
On April 4, Calvin College hosts a lecture series that amplifies Christian scholarly voices in a discussion often shaped by secular perspectives.
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Festival of Faith and Music engages pop culture
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Japan's Courageous Central Banker
By Brian Bremner
Well, it's official: Japan's economy is once again below the water line. The worse-than-expected 0.8% annual decline in first-quarter gross domestic product announced on June 11 likely will be a followed by yet another quarterly contraction -- meeting the classic shorthand definition of recession. And with the next Bank of Japan (BOJ) policy board meeting set for June 14, you can already hear the clamor for the central bank to do something -- anything -- to turn things around.
Maybe because of Alan Greenspan, who happened to be chairman of the Federal Reserve during the longest U.S. economic expansion, the markets now tend to attribute supernatural powers to central bankers. So BOJ Governor Masaru Hayami has been vilified for not reaching into his grab bag of monetary tricks to save Japan. In fact, his critics have charged him with gross negligence for suggesting that what Japan needs is some tough economic medicine, rather than a quick-fix monetary gambit.
For that courageous act, he should be receiving accolades, not brickbats. So the question is: Are Hayami and his policy-board colleagues (who aren't elected officials) violating some sacred covenant that says central bankers shouldn't talk about structural reform, especially when it involves tough choices best left to the political pros? The Economist, Princeton University economist Paul Krugman, and others have argued just that.
If that's the case, the BOJ's real job is to pull out whatever weapons it can to reflate the economy. By that single measure, it has failed miserably. Sure, nominal interest rates are at zero. But, hey guys, wake up. If you adjust interest rates that factor in a deflation rate of 2% or so, in real terms, the price of money is far too high for an economy as weak and highly indebted as Japan's.
Think about this for a minute. It's true that the BOJ's mission is to work toward price stability, with the long-range goal of promoting sustained economic growth. And there's nothing in the central bank's charter about issuing a clarion call for structural reform. But you really can't have price stability if government policies promote profligate government spending, fail to address a dysfunctional banking system, or result in handouts to overcrowded, inefficient, and highly indebted construction and retail industries.
That's pretty much the situation in Japan. And putting aside for the moment whether the BOJ itself has made the situation worse, all these factors feed into the collapse of price stability and the deflation that bedevil Japan.
So when Hayami and his team give speeches on the need for serious reform, they're talking very much about price stability. In fact, before reformist Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi took power, Hayami & Co. were about the only voices out there talking about it at all. And that's precisely why central banks need to be independent of political meddling. Had the BOJ not won its independence in 1998, it probably would have been silent too.
As Morgan Stanley economist Robert A. Feldman points out, politicians think in terms of election cycles and view monetary policy as a short-term tool to get them through the next one. "Monetary matters are best taken away from legislatures -- even though the goals, constraints, and framework for conducting monetary policy are set by the legislature," he wrote in a recent analysis posted on the investment bank's Web site.
Even if critics doubt the legitimacy of the BOJ weighing in on structural reform, it still has the responsibility for pulling Japan out of its price slide, which is slamming profits and household incomes and costing jobs. The detractors argue that the BOJ ought to ramp up the money supply, underwrite Japanese government bonds, and maybe even buy up stocks, real estate, and sushi chains to pull the country out of the mire. Instead, it has done diddly-squat.
I'm not sure such criticism is deserved, since I've long been skeptical such stimulative monetary policy gambits would really work in this situation. The idea is that if you generate inflation of 2% to 3%, Japanese will start spending to lock in today's price on a Toyota before it costs more next year. Pumping a lot of cash into the money markets would get banks lending again, the theory goes. And inflation, of course, is great for debtors, who would see their debt loads melt away as the economy reflates.
My doubts are based on the fact that Japan's problems are too multifaceted for this treatment to be effective. Whether there's inflation or deflation, consumers aren't spending because they see no signs of a real recovery. The rational thing to do when you're anxious is to save, not spend. The banking system doesn't need more cash -- bankers are loath to lend when so much of Corporate Japan is ailing. Companies might get a lift from a bout of inflation, but the core problem is excess labor and capacity. Corporate profitability won't improve until those excesses are taken care off. That means painful structural reform.
Also, it's not as if the BOJ has done nothing. That's clear from a new research paper by Masaaki Shirakawa, adviser to the BOJ's governor, at the central bank's Web site. Shirakawa estimates that Japan took an $8 trillion hit to its wealth from the combined collapse of stock and real estate prices during the 1990s.
In response, the BOJ guided interest rates down to near-zero levels by February, 1999, and -- save for a brief and ill-timed hiatus in 2000 that took a key short-term rate up a quarter point last August -- has kept them there since March. Shirakawa also points out that bank lending contracted, not increased, while Japan's monetary base expanded a brisk 7% to 8% from 1998 to 2000.
In fact, a big chunk of the excess cash that went into the banking system was reinvested in the Japanese bond market. Now, plenty of market watchers are worried about a bond-market bubble, which like the stock and land speculative runs in the 1980s, could end in tears (see BW, 6/11/01, "Japan's Perilous Bet on Bonds").
As for buying more Japanese government bonds, which the reflation camp can't get enough of, it seems, the BOJ already has been quite busy. The central bank holds about 11% of Japanese bonds outstanding. As for buying up corporate bonds, stocks, and all manner of other investments, that kind of brings us back to the question of the proper role for a central bank.
On the one hand, critics lash out at the BOJ for saying sensible things about overhauling the Japanese economy. On the other hand, they see no problem with the idea of the BOJ launching an effective nationalization of the equity and the corporate bond markets -- or even becoming a monster real estate developer. Last time I checked, that was called socialism, not capitalism.
Truth is, Japan is caught in a liquidity trap, where traditional monetary policies lose their punch. Should Prime Minister Junichiro Koizumi survive an electoral challenge this summer and push his tough-love measures through, the BOJ surely will do everything it can to prevent a collapse of the banking system and the economy at large.
But it's still going to hurt -- a lot. Just like it did in the U.S., when Fed Chairman Paul Volcker's campaign against inflation slammed the American economy in the '70s. And there's little the BOJ can do or responsibly should do to prevent the pain that must be endured to help the economy. Hayami may have his faults, but saying what needs to be said shouldn't justify his public lynching. It is, very simply, his job.
Bremner, Tokyo bureau chief for BusinessWeek, offers his views every week in Eye on Japan, only for BW Online
Edited by Beth Belton


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This is a blog to chronicle this portion of the life of Staff Sgt. Jason Ross, my son, as he mends, after an I.E.D. explosion, on March 7, 2011, while serving his country in Afghanistan.
Thursday, October 20, 2011
October 20, 2011
Jason went to the PACU and was back again at about 11:15. I was over at the lodge, getting ready to come back over to the hospital when I was called, by Jason, to let me know that he was back. They did the usual dressing changes and then this time they put a little more padding so that he could be a bit more comfortable when he sits up. One of the first things he said to me was that he was hungry and wanted me to just go down to the galley to get some food. I got myself a salad, it was nice as I made it myself, and a nice lunch for Jason. He was happy with what I brought and he said he wanted to get out in his chair shortly after he finished lunch.
We finished lunch and started to get ready to get into his chair. Actually, we're getting much better at this and it moves more quickly, so I don't feel like we're just spinning wheels. I helped him sit up in his bed to do an initial test of his comfort level and he was good. Like I said, they had put more padding on and it looks like it worked. He is still feeling some discomfort with the doaner sites, and he was a little nervous, yet it didn't matter, we were going forward. I got him into his chair and again, he felt some of the tenderness, though it wasn't so much that he didn't want to go. We were out of the room!
We went down to the MATC, after stopping a few times to talk to different folks. Some of the people that have come in the past, had come by to say hello to Jason, and I could tell that Jason was torn because he wanted to talk to them, and he also felt the need to get down to the MATC. We visited for about a minute and then excused ourselves. They understood and we were again moving. In the past I have had to push his chair, because usually we were running a little late. Today, we weren't under any particular schedule, so Jason pushed the chair on his own. The only time constraint was how long he would be able to remain out and in his chair. We arrived at the MATC and Jason immediately went to the hand crank machine, where he worked it for almost 15 minutes. Then he felt he needed to get back to the room and back in bed – he was uncomfortable.
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Jason did get a chance to speak with Mom today, a couple of times actually. The first time was earlier in the morning, prior to going to the PACU and then again this evening, after Bridgette, Yvonne and the girls had left for the evening. Jason wanted to surprise Mom with a call, and he did. Problem was that she still had some of the day care kids there, so she couldn't talk very long. I tried to tell her that it was alright, but she's the mom and therefore it didn't matter what I said, she felt bad that she couldn't talk with Jason without the interruptions. Anyway, that was pretty much the end of the day here anyway, so I told Jason I needed to get back to the Lodge, and told him I'd come by in the morning.
Thank you, for all the prayers and support. We've been going well over 7 months and we still need the help, so thank you, thank you, thank you and God Bless.
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- AnonymousOctober 20, 2011 at 9:16 PM
Exciting he gets to leave Bethesda! What an incredible journey, a miracle. Thank you Dr. Malone, I'm sorry I didn't get a chance to meet you but please know you are in my prayers. Maybe you can take a vacation to San Diego next year to meet all these prayer warriors. Thank you to everyone there at Bethesda hospital for everything you have done to help Jason, you are not forgotten! All of you are heros in my book. George and Linda, it's been a long journey but yet in just 7 short months look how far your son has come. Amazing Grace. Jason, I look forward to meeting you! Things are moving along now much faster, don't forget to breathe!ReplyDelete
All our best always,
Karen & Rob
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Something tells me you're never going to figure out their schedule...ReplyDelete
Praying in Seattle!
Proverbs 3:5-6 Trust in the LORD with all thine heart; and lean not unto thine own understanding. In all thy ways acknowledge him, and he shall direct thy paths.
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Wonderful picture with the baby. It is great to see all smiling. These are two little girls who will grow up being proud of their Daddy.ReplyDelete
May God continue to carry all of you through this journey.
You're all still in our prayers every day. We loved the new picture!ReplyDelete
Jason - I love your new picture too. How exciting to know that plans are in motion for your move to Cali. I am so excited for you all! Bless your Jason! Continued prayers for you and your family.ReplyDelete
I don't post a comment too often because I get your dad's blogs on my e-mail and don't go to the website unless dad says he posted a picture. I look forward to his posts to find out how you are doing. I am so happy for you that you will be coming back to California. What fantastic care you have received to bring you so far! Know you are in our thoughts and prayers....ReplyDelete


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