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Try Tilapia for a Heart-Healthy Change of Pace

Think salmon and tuna are the only heart-healthy fish on the block? Think again. High-protein tilapia (and baked tilapia, in particular) is another delicious, cholesterol-friendly fish that makes a great addition to your diet.

Although not as high in omega-3 fat as salmon or tuna, tilapia is still considered heart-healthy. It is low in saturated fat and has only 30 calories per ounce.

Hank Shaw, Fish & Seafood Cooking Expert, says, "tilapia are native to Africa, where they were first farmed -- possibly by the ancient Egyptians."

Now most tilapia are farmed in Latin America, China, Indonesia and in the U.S. South.

A Non-Fishy Fish

Tilapia is a great choice for those who don't like the taste of fish, as it is mild, very lean, very white and has almost no flavor of its own.

Preparation Tips

Having no discernible flavor of its own, tilapia easily takes on the flavor of the ingredients it is prepared with. Try tilapia with citrus (lemon, lime, oranges), savory (tarragon, dill) or spicy (chili peppers, chili sauce) toppings, or Asian flavors. Tilapia is delicate, so it's best fried, steamed, baked or broiled. Do not eat it raw, and do not grill it. For low cholesterol, steaming, baking or broiling are the best choices.

What to Look for When Buying Fresh Fillets

Look for vibrant-colored flesh.

Smell it. The fillets should have no pungent aromas.

If there is liquid on the flesh, it should be clear, not milky. Milky liquid on a fillet is the first stage of rot.

If possible, press the fish flesh with your finger. It should be resilient enough so your indentation disappears. If your fingerprint remains, move on.

Tilapia Nutrition Facts Information

Per 3-ounce baked serving of tilapia: 109 calories, 20 calories from fat, 2.2 g total fat, 0.8 g saturated fat, 0.5 g polyunsaturated fat, 0.8 g monounsaturated fat, 46 mg cholesterol, 48 mg sodium, 323 mg potassium, 0 g carbohydrates, 0 g dietary fiber, 0 g sugars, 22.2 g protein, 1% calcium, 3% iron

Is tilapia a low-mercury fish?

Shereen Lehman, MS, the Nutrition Expert, says, "The U.S. Food and Drug Administration and U.S. Environmental Protection Agency test and monitor mercury levels in all the fish and seafood that are sold commercially here in the U.S., and [tilapia is one of the species] among the lowest in mercury, and can be consumed freely."

The other 14 fish lowest in mercury are:

Anchovies

Atlantic Mackerel

Catfish

Clams

Crab

Crawfish

Freshwater Trout

Haddock

Herring

Oysters

Pollock

Salmon

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BUT DO NOT SIT THERE AND LIE (Refering to the bolded)
If you 'Like' Anything about the Sixers and as Celtics fan your being fake and insulting both teams. Don't forget these teams are Rivals your not suppose to like them. Respect them? okay sure but dont be so casual about it.
When its all said and done the words when its everyone else its u applys here
Dont act all high and mighty like your doing the sixers fanbase a favor by bashing Iverson. Your pissed off and bitter that Paul Perice who you believe to be better never got the same level of praise and recognition. Thats all this is about thats all its ever been about and to pretend otherwise is insulting.
dont act like your defending our history.
Ps. You dont know Iverson Personally you have no right to speak on his 'True Nature' .
He's just stupid, doesn't make him a bad person. Just not too bright.
Of course I hated the '81 76'ers, but not much later the 76'ers fell to ruin and so did the Celts - with very little to stoke it up since the mid 80's.
What good is winning if there isn't a great team involved? The two Championships against the Rockets in the 80's was a major let down compared to facing the Lakers, or that ECF Series against the 76'ers dwarfed the Rockets Series's.
I might have a lot of dislike for some players (invariably volume shooters), but ahead of that I'm a serious student of the game, having both played D1, seen the NBA back to the days of Russell, and recently retired from coaching 15 years worth of AAU and Travel teams ages 10-16. So just because I loathe Iverson doesn't mean I don't know what I'm talking about. I'm also mostly hated on the Celts board due to my constant picking on the phoney image and lies told over there about Rondo.
Try to see if you can put that all together...
BTW, I've never been a big PP fan having to fight a good sized collection of Celts fans on PSD about how he was better then Bird - of all the cockamamie baloney.
Iverson could be the best 1 on 1 under 6' player of all time - too bad the game is 5 x 5, and efficiency counts for a very great deal.
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6/27/09: We expect [Rondo] to play by the rules and be a leader as a point guard. We need him to be more of a leader, Ainge said. There were just a couple situations where he was late this year, I dont know if he was sitting in his car, but showed up late and the rest of the team was there. We have team rules and you have to be on time. He was fined for being late, he said he was stuck in traffic, and its just unacceptable.
told you all since 2010 he was a toolbag.....
Oh Btw tell those fans your arugeing with that pierce shouldn't even be mentioned in the same conversion as Bird. But dont you pretend you have never argued Perice>Iverson because its the first argument i have ever had with you.
As for the bolded this is where u miss my point once again. i understand that post is a slide at Iverson as a teammate once again calling him all about himself but you seemed to totally Ignore that i said u have no right to judge a players True nature because u don't know them personally.
Untill a report comes out saying u and Iverson have known each other for years and some crazy **** went down i don't care about how u view Allen Iverson no one does stop trying to FORCE your opinion on others
Where is you evidence AI is a selfish guy? and dont just bring up FG% because so much more goes into it than that.
I do have too give you credit on 1 thing though bagwell your the one Celtics fan i know who doesn't criminally overrate Rondo
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Kidsilk Haze Glamour
We have taken popular shades from the Kidsilk Haze range, a fine yarn made from a blend of super kid mohair and silk, and added a thread of sequins. Ideal for lace stitch accessories this yarn is lightweight and glamourous, the sequins give a unique and random pattern to the finished knitted fabric, making it ideal for evening wear or just that little bit of added sparkle.
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True Story: So last week I got a touch of the stomach flu, well normal people would refrain from eating to help settle their stomach but not this chick, I thought if I keep trying this and maybe that I would find that one thing that would make me feel better!! Surprise Surprise when the only thing that accomplished was me gaining weight 😦 So Monday night I show up for FP4H(First Place 4 Health) and do my weigh in and I am exactly the same weight as when I started 7 weeks ago. Bummer!!
Ok so here's the fork in the road: I can either bemoan the fact that I gained weight and go back to eating and not exercising because you know this just isn't working or I can pray about it and continue on the path that the Lord has told me to do. Guess what I did!!
Well…I did BOTH! I had to bemoan for a bit but then I said wait a minute, Why did I gain the weight? What did I do different? Was I listening? The answer is I gained the weight because I was thinking that food was going to heal my stomach and make me feel better (haha), and NO I wasn't listening. The Lord allowed me to go through this mini struggle/backslide to remind me that He's got this, I don't need to worry.
The Bible tells us in Psalm 107.9 "for He satisfies the thirsty and fills the hungry with good things." and of course I was reminded of "I am allowed to do all things, but not everything is good for me to do! Even if I am free to do all things, I will not do them if I think it would be hard for me to stop when I know I should." 1 Corinthians 6:12.
So my little struggle helped me to see that this journey I am on isn't about weight loss (though the result will show some) but mainly about trust and following directions (for a type A personality this is a bit hard).
So I prayed and I listened and then I got on the scale this morning and surprise surprise….the weight I gained isn't there and I actually lost an extra pound.
Are you trying to get healthy? what changes have you made?
One helpful tip someone told a group of us was that she need to "see" the weight coming off so she got 2 containers and in one of the containers she put 1 marble for each pound she wanted to lose and in the other container she was gonna put the pounds that she lost. I thought this was a cool idea so I decided to do the same. I rummaged in the closet and found these pretty candle holders.
Then I went to the local Dollar Store and picked up some pretty blue glass stones. How are you keeping tract of your weight loss?
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New York pianist Lance Horne loves being part of Sydney's ''great international family'' of cabaret performers.
He's performed with Alan Cumming at the Opera House and composed and arranged for Amanda Palmer and Australia's own (though she refuses to confirm it) Meow Meow.
Horne says Sydney is an ''amazing platform for the arts, and cabaret in particular''. Much of this he credits to Virginia Hyam, the former Opera House head of contemporary culture, who was programming such acts there when cabaret was less fashionable at many other venues.
Now the city is experiencing a cabaret renaissance in venues such as Slide, Ginger's at the Oxford Hotel in Darlinghurst, The Standard in Surry Hills, the Bordello Theatre in Kings Cross and the Factory Theatre in Marrickville.
And Horne's assessment of the local scene carries heft. Next month he will perform with Cumming and Liza Minnelli at the Town Hall Theatre in New York.
Before that, however, Horne is musical director for LOVE ME, an all-star cabaret at The Standard, presented in association with ACON and Sydney Mardi Gras, with a line-up including Tom Sharah, Elana Stone and Steve Smyth.
Riches don't always follow a passion for cabaret: a few years back, Horne had to use budget accommodation in a hotel on Pitt Street. Sleepless, he got up and wrote a song called January, which Meow Meow recorded: I overlook the McDonald's/Lest it overlook me …
''Audiences love cabaret because it returns them to a natural state of interaction with a performer,'' says Horne, who has brought to Sydney a video of an Alan Cumming performance to which performer Courtney Act will duet on Sunday.
But Sydney cabaret chanteuse Christa Hughes, another star of LOVE ME, says cabaret's appeal is more about artifice.
''What I like about cabaret is that it's not natural,'' says Hughes, wearing a fez, long lashes and hot pink lycra. ''I think everybody wants to escape reality TV.''
Phil Scott, the Wharf Revue writer and pianist, recently filled in at Ginger's as host of Sunday night cabaret Showqueen in Darlinghurst for regular host performer Trevor Ashley. Last Sunday, Scott duetted with special guest iOTA.
''The cabaret stage is where you work out what makes you unique, and different from everyone else,'' says Scott, who doesn't include burlesque in his definition of cabaret. ''Cabaret is about paring back to an innate truth - even when it's comic - whereas burlesque is about commenting on and through performance, and adding an ironic perspective to it.''
Performer Maeve Marsden, artistic director of Blackcat Productions, which programs cabaret at different venues, agrees there has been a renaissance of cabaret in Sydney.
''But it's hard to promote cabaret in Sydney, with media and audience often not knowing whether to expect burlesque or musical theatre,'' she says. ''Fortunately, Sydneysiders are finally starting to realise that cabaret is both and neither.''
It is a ''fusion of music and story and politics and sex and silliness''.
New Zealand-born ''demi-drag'' cabaret artist Spanky - whose characters include Candice McQueen and whose day drag name is Rhys Morgan - spent seven years performing a London residency and has given private concerts to Elton John and Alexander McQueen.
''A lot of bars are putting on cabaret performers as a way of drawing people back into the bars,'' he says, noting that big-production musicals are expensive to see. He is about to do his first Sydney show, Nasty, at Slide on Oxford Street on February 28.
''Don't get me wrong, I love seeing a great big show, but the scope and even the political aspects that can come through in cabaret, there's nothing like it. I love that cabaret is so intimate. You're so close. I can literally reach out and touch people.''
Performer and pianist Jeremy Brennan, who also programs cabaret acts at Slide on Oxford Street, says that for musical theatre stars, ''it's part of the thrill to break out of character and take to the stage without the artifice of production''.
LOVE ME, The Standard, Surry Hills, February 24; Nasty, Slide, Darlinghurst, February 28; Meow Meow performs with the Australian Chamber Orchestra, Opera House, from April 23.


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At the Capstone dinner, you will enjoy themed decor, unique foods, and specialty drinks. Your maitre d', servers, and chefs will all be students in the Harrah Hotel College. The Capstone Café is a long-standing tradition in the college and a culinary treat!
We will be serving Tuesday nights:
- February 26 - Manna - Fine French Cuisine
- March 5 - Authentic Spanish Experience
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Diana Eck, a Bozeman native who is an international expert of religious diversity based at Harvard University, will receive an honorary doctorate degree from Montana State University during the university's spring commencement, university officials announced today.
MSU's spring commencement ceremonies are scheduled for 9 a.m. and 1:30 p.m. Saturday, May 4, at the Brick Breeden Fieldhouse. Eck will receive the honorary doctorate during the afternoon ceremony.
"We are delighted to honor Dr. Eck with the highest commendation MSU confers," said MSU President Waded Cruzado. "She is a remarkable individual and scholar and very deserving of this recognition."
Eck is a prominent scholar of religious diversity and professor of comparative religion and Indian studies at Harvard University.
Since 1991 she also has headed the Pluralism Project, a research team at Harvard exploring the religious diversity of the United States. The project has documented the growing presence of the Muslim, Buddhist, Hindu, Sikh, Jain and Zoroastrian communities in the U.S.
She is the author of "Banaras, City of Light," "Darsan: Seeing the Divine Image in India," "Encountering God: A Spiritual Journey from Bozeman to Banaras," and "A New Religious America: How a Christian Country Became the World's Most Religiously Diverse Nation," and other books.
Among numerous other awards, Eck received the National Humanities Award from former U.S. President Bill Clinton and the National Endowment for the Humanities in 1998 and the Montana Governor's Humanities Award in 2003.
Eck received a bachelor's degree in religious studies from Smith College in 1967 and a master's degree in South Asian history from the University of London in 1968. In 1976, she earned a doctorate from Harvard in the comparative study of religion.
Eck's mother, Dorothy Eck, was a longtime state representative and received an honorary degree from MSU in 2003. Her father, the late Hugo G. Eck, was an MSU professor of architecture.
For more information about MSU's spring commencement, see http://www.montana.edu/commencement.
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Using the latest 3D printing technology and dinosaur fossils from the Museum's paleontology collections, a group of high school students recently spent two weeks producing models of dinosaurs—and learning to think like paleontologists—as part of the innovative program "Capturing Dinosaurs: Reconstructing Extinct Species Through Digital Fabrication."
Which Came First: The Bird or the Bird Brain?
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New research led by the American Museum of Natural History provides evidence that dinosaurs evolved the brainpower necessary for flight well before they actually took to the air as birds.
Museum Artist Steve Quinn Honored with Lifetime Achievement Award
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If anyone was born to work at the American Museum of Natural History, it is Stephen C. Quinn, who retired this spring after 39 years as an artist in the Department of Exhibition. This past weekend, Quinn was honored with the Garden State Taxidermists Association's Hansen-Schneider Lifetime Achievement Award.
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O-rings are the most Important Components of your Underwater Camera System. If the O-ring is lubricated, it will be elastic enough to shape itself uniformly around the channel providing a proper seal. If it is dry, there will be too much friction to allow it to reshape itself uniformly. It will not safeguard against flooding. Underwater Photographic Equipment cannot be Watertight unless the O-rings that Seal it are Flawless. Always carry Spare O-rings in your Camera Case. Replacement O-rings for all Sea & Sea Equipment are available in Protective Blister Packs.
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The Sea & Sea O-ring Set for the YS-15 Pro Strobe Series is a must for the Serious Underwater Photographer. The Set includes all Diver Replaceable O-rings for the Strobe and includes a small tube of silicone Grease for lubricating. Sea & Sea recommends O-rings to be replaced annually or when you are in doubt of their integrity. O-ring Set makes a great Save-a-Dive Kit item. O-ring Set is covered by a 12 month limited warranty.
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TightVNC 1.3.9
- All platforms: Added support for the standard RFB protocol version
3.8 with TightVNC extensions.
- All platforms: Made "host:port" parsing maximally compatible with
VNC4. Interpreting a number in host names like somehost:5900 as an
actual port number if it's not in the range [0..99].
- Windows Server: Various user interface enhancements - changes in
GUI labels, tray icon with a red border when incoming connections
are not possible for any reason, more information in the tray icon
tip, smarter logic in displaying the Properties dialog, and more.
- Windows Server: Fixed a problem introduced in TightVNC 1.3.8 -
default passwords were not respected if user passwords were not
- Windows Server: Slightly improved handling of passwords. One of
the notable changes is that now it's enough to enter a view-only
password without providing primary password.
- Windows Server: Fixed problems with running WinVNC service and
Terminal Services. When a Remote Desktop (RDP) client connected to
the console, WinVNC showed black screen and did not restore normal
operations even on disconnection of that RDP client. Now, we
always share the console correctly, and disable simultaneous RDP
and VNC sessions. The changes were ported from VNC 4.1.2.
- Windows Server: Better way of simulating Ctrl+Alt+Del. There are
reports that this solves the problem with greyed username and
password fields on Windows 2003 Server (bug #887617).
- Windows Server: Bugfix for the bug #1109102: attempt to restart
the machine remotely via TightVNC led to disconnect if there was
some non-saved data, and further connections were rejected.
- Windows Viewer: Multiple selection now works in file transfers,
thanks to developers at Novell and personally Rohit Kumar.
- Windows Viewer: The viewer terminated silently when the server
dropped connection right after accepting it. Now we report such
- Windows version source archive: Included project files for
compiling with Visual C++ 2005 Express Edition. Also, all required
libraries are now included within the source distribution.
- Other improvements and bugfixes, see ChangeLog files within the
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Beginning in 2001, Project Safe Neighborhoods task forces were created in all 50 states. PSN task forces were overseen by
the U.S. Attorney's Office in their jurisdiction. The multiagency task forces developed programs to reduce firearms violence
in their districts and enlisting community involvement.
PSN uses a strategic research-based model — built on successful approaches used in Boston Ceasefire, the 10-city Strategic Approaches to Community Safety Initiative (SACSI) and Richmond's Project Exile — to reduce gun violence through enforcement, deterrence and prevention.
At the core of PSN is increased federal prosecution of illegal gun possession and use. Other PSN intervention strategies include
police patrols and chronic violent offender and re-entry programs. PSN-prevention strategies included neighborhood development,
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Reviewed By David B (SANDY HOOK, CT) Reviewed for a 2017 Chevy Corvette —1/27/2017 4:24 AM
The price I paid, including discounts and promotions made this car cover a very good value. It is a quality product, and of course easy to install. The fit is decent, although not quite as good as the name "satin stretch" would imply. The fitment around the rear end of my 2017 Corvette Grand Sport is a little loose. Overall, I am pleased with the purchase, it will serve it's purpose.


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We follow the guidelines set down within Academic Senate Policy S96-11 Fair Use of Copyrighted Materials; Intellectual Property regarding broadcast/satellite recording and tape duplication.
- We can copy videos for SJSU faculty for use in their classes. We do not copy tapes for students.
- We cannot copy tapes that are copyrighted without the specific written permission of the copyright holder. This permission must be on the copyright holders letterhead
- We only copy whole cassettes. We do not cue tapes or edit tapes. Equipment for that purpose is available on the first floor of the Instructional Resource Center at Media Services.


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The beginning of a new year is often a time when people plan how to allocate their charitable dollars. Typically, that means selecting the charities that go hand in hand with their passions and deciding how much to donate. But there's also a way to align your investments and values that can make you feel good while you make money.
Socially responsible investing has been around for more than 50 years, but since then, the number of choices in mutual funds and investment styles has grown significantly. "If you want your investments to align with your values, you can find good investment opportunities that have a social mission," says Jennifer Murtie, director of client services at Federal Street Advisors in Boston.
For example, she says, there are U.S. equity managers investing in companies with an environmental mission, practiced through energy efficiency or recycling. Other funds might focus on how companies are run -- paying fair wages to employees or demonstrating a commitment to diversity, for instance.
But by emphasizing their social conscience, many investors are worried they'll lose out on investment performance. With so many funds available, that shouldn't be a concern, says Murtie. "From an investment perspective, you can build a diversified portfolio of managers across all asset classes," she says, but adds that due diligence is still required to ensure you have the best. "We look for exceptional investment managers focusing on these social factors and hold them to the same standards as any other investment managers."
So how can average investors find mutual funds that align with their personal values? Murtie suggests searching The Forum for Sustainable and Responsible Investment's website, which lists all mutual funds with a social mission by category. "If you're passionate about human rights, for instance, you'll be able to choose among several funds" with that mission, she says.
But Murtie cautions that you'll still have to do the same due diligence as you would on any investment: Read the fund's prospectus, research the manager, understand how it invests, know the risks and make sure the fund's goals match your own time horizon and investment needs.
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Fox News: Fair and Balanced — and, according to a new survey, the most trusted news source around.
Tucked inside a big Brookings survey on immigration are a few questions about the integrity of television news. And there, 25 percent of respondents say they trust Fox more than any other TV source for "accurate information about politics and current events," giving the network a slight edge over generic broadcast news. By contrast, MSNBC places last with just five percent, a hair behind The Daily Show.
This isn't the first time a poll has found Fox as the most trusted news source. For five years running, the network has taken top honors in PPP's annual media survey. Jon Terbush
White House Press Secretary Sean Spicer already has a name in mind for the chapter of his life that he spent serving under President Trump. In an interview with The Washington Post on Friday, the day he submitted his resignation, Spicer suggested he'd call this particular chapter that's coming to a close "Exciting Times." "Hopefully we're midway through the book of my life," Spicer said, when asked what he'll do once he leaves in August.
Though Spicer may have made some ill-advised comparisons to Adolf Hitler and hid in the bushes during his 182-day-long tenure, he insisted Friday that he has no regrets. He claimed he's stepping aside because the president "wanted to bring on some folks"; The New York Times reported Spicer stepped down because he "vehemently disagreed with the appointment" of Anthony Scaramucci as communications director. "[It was] better to give them an opportunity to have a clean slate and evaluate what we've done. To figure out what's working and what needs to be improved upon," Spicer said.
Spicer didn't offer any specifics on what he'll do next, though he said he's "sure there will be plenty of opportunities." Becca Stanek
Ousted National Security Adviser Michael Flynn now has a consulting firm called Resilient Patriot
Ousted National Security Adviser Michael Flynn has a new consulting firm: Resilient Patriot, LLC. In his post-Trump administration venture, Flynn will advise private equity firms on potential deals. Though Resilient Patriot is the name Flynn's son — who posted about the Pizzagate conspiracy theory — used on Twitter, Flynn's son will not be involved.
Flynn's brother told The Associated Press that while there's still a "cloud over" his brother, he is "moving on with his life" since he resigned in February after misleading Vice President Mike Pence about his conversations with Russian Ambassador Sergey Kislyak. "I think he's not worried about going to jail or anything like that," Flynn's brother said.
Flynn is being looked at as part of the ongoing investigation into whether there was any collusion between the Trump campaign and Russia during the 2016 presidential election. Flynn, who didn't register as a foreign agent until after he resigned, also failed to disclose income from three Russia-linked firms. Becca Stanek
Accused al Qaeda recruiter Ali Charaf Damache is scheduled to face a civilian trial Friday in Philadelphia, breaking with President Trump's campaign promise to fill Guantánamo Bay with "bad dudes." Hardliners, including Attorney General Jeff Sessions, have traditionally criticized the prosecution of suspected terrorists on American soil, with Sessions in particular claiming such suspects "do not deserve the same legal rights as common criminals and that such trials were too dangerous to hold on American soil," The New York Times writes. "With Mr. Damache's transfer, Mr. Sessions has adopted a strategy that he vehemently opposed when it was carried out under President Barack Obama."
An Algerian and Irish citizen, Damache was transferred to the U.S. from Spain and is suspected of plotting a failed attempt to kill a Swedish cartoonist who drew the Prophet Muhammad with a dog's body. Damache is also believed to have worked as a recruiter for al Qaeda.
"For years, Republicans portrayed civilian trials as a weakness in Mr. Obama's national security policy," the Times writes, adding: "Mr. Damache's transfer represents a collision of the Trump administration's tough rhetoric and the reality of fighting terrorism in 2017." Read more at The New York Times. Jeva Lange
Rompers for men are "nowhere near new," but they may never have a moment like they did earlier this year. Decades after James Bond rocked a similar one-piece on screen, a garment called the RompHim divided the nation when it made its first social-media appearance in May, and by the time its creators started shipping to customers, "a slew" of knockoffs were trawling for startup funding on Kickstarter, most of them failing to repeat the RompHim's success. But one company, Getonfleek, went wild with the concept, churning out scores of outré variations. The top seller? This tribute to Kim Jong Un ($100).
Hours after he issued his resignation Friday, White House Press Secretary Sean Spicer tweeted that it's "been an honor and a privilege to serve" under President Trump. Spicer said that he will step down from his role in August:
It's been an honor & a privilege to serve @POTUS @realDonaldTrump & this amazing country. I will continue my service through August
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Spicer's resignation was announced shortly after it was confirmed that Trump had offered Anthony Scaramucci the role of communications director. The New York Times reported that Spicer "vehemently disagreed" with the appointment of the Wall Street financier. Trump reportedly asked Spicer to stay on, but Spicer declined.
The Associated Press reported that Spicer said after his resignation that he thinks the White House "could benefit from a clean slate." Becca Stanek
Anthony Scaramucci, President Trump's newly hired communications director, is on the books as having donated a nice chunk of change to former President Barack Obama and former Vice President Joe Biden in 2008. FEC donor records indicate the Wall Street financier gave $2,300 to Obama for America on May 31, 2008, the Chicago Sun-Times' Washington Bureau Chief Lynn Sweet reported.
Now, Trump himself has also donated to Democrats, including to Hillary Clinton and the Clinton Foundation, as well as the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee and the Democratic Congressional Campaign Committee.
But on top of Scaramucci's donation, the new communications director has also made some less-than-complimentary comments about his new boss. In an August 2015 appearance on Fox Business, Scaramucci called Trump a "hack politician" and "an inherited money dude from Queens County."
The president's staff wasn't exactly on board with his decision to hire Scaramucci either: Scaramucci's hiring was apparently the impetus for White House Press Secretary Sean Spicer's resignation Friday. White House Chief of Staff Reince Priebus and Trump's chief strategist Stephen Bannon also reportedly weren't thrilled. Becca Stanek
On Friday, just after President Trump offered Wall Street financier Anthony Scaramucci the position of White House communications director, White House Press Secretary Sean Spicer resigned in protest. Spicer apparently ardently disagreed with Scaramucci's hiring and believed he could not do the job, NBC News' Katy Tur reports.
But perhaps it is more surprising Scaramucci wanted the job in the first place, given the way he talked about then-candidate Trump in an August 2015 appearance on Fox Business. "He's a hack politician," Scaramucci declared. "I'll tell you who he's gonna be president of, you can tell Donald I said this: the Queens County Bullies Association."
Scaramucci further hammered Trump on his outer borough roots. "You're an inherited money dude from Queens County," Scaramucci said, seizing on the president's notorious insecurity about fitting in with the Manhattan elite when he was a real estate mogul. Scaramucci also knocked Trump for "the way he talks about women" and for his "big mouth."
Now, Scaramucci will be in charge of massaging the messaging that comes from that "big mouth." Watch his appearance below. Kimberly Alters
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An ad hoc committee will plan and conduct a public workshop to evaluate critical scientific issues in assessing cancer and noncancer effects from oral exposure to inorganic arsenic. Informed by the workshop, the committee will prepare an interim report providing recommendations on how those issues can be addressed in EPA's IRIS assessment. After EPA has revised the IRIS assessment, the committee will review it to determine whether the scientific literature on inorganic arsenic was adequately evaluated, whether appropriate methods were used to derive cancer risk estimates and noncancer reference values, and whether dose-response relationships between inorganic arsenic and cancer and noncancer effects were appropriately estimated and characterized. As requested by Congress, the committee will also determine whether the arsenic document reflects recommendations made in Chapter 7 of the 2011 NRC report on formaldehyde for improving descriptions of methods and criteria for selecting studies, approaches to evaluating critical studies, weight-of-evidence analyses, and justification of modeling approaches in IRIS assessments. The workshop will enable the committee to gather a variety of perspectives from stakeholders and others on the issues.


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Dunk Tank Prize is designed around shelves that can be configured differently to accommodate a variety of prize merchandise -- as few as four shelves, or as many as six. The shelves are spacious enough to hold multiple prizes, rather than just one. The game is 43" wide x 34" deep, and stands 75.5" high.
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As W.B. Yeats could have put it, ours is no country for old buildings. Each year, countless aging and outdated structures are dispatched by our $4 billion demolition industry. Even the recent economic retrenchment has hardly altered the nation's out-with-the-old, in-with-the-new mind-set. In 2010 alone, an estimated 104 million tons of materials flowed in from project sites all over the country, accounting for as much as 40 percent of the U.S.'s annual solid-waste stream. The garbage comprises not only rubble and rotting beams, but also countless odds and ends from new construction such as cast-off nails and packaging. So whether they're putting something up or taking something down, architects are indirectly making a mess.
What happens to buildings that we've replaced? The general procedure for clearing a site has remained more or less consistent for decades: Client contracts with architect, architect contracts with general contractor, who hires a demolition firm that turns refuse over to hauling company, and hauling company drops it off at the dump. Salvageable building parts, such as floorboards, tile, and windows, that could be pulled from the wreckage are often not, since few people know who might buy them and for how much, or where to stow them in the meantime. Likewise, taking the recycling route—in which materials are broken down into their constituent parts, reprocessed, and resold as new and, most likely, different products—could introduce a swarm of logistical challenges that builders have little incentive to pursue, particularly with so many cheap landfills nearby. As a result, with the exception of scrap metal, structural materials such as concrete (which can be recycled) often end up in the trash as well.
A Rebirth in Recycling
We are moving away from the status quo of how we handle our construction and demolition waste for many reasons. Dumping has become more expensive and thus less appealing for contractors and clients, says William Turley, executive director of the Construction Materials Recycling Association (CMRA), a national umbrella organization based in Eola, Ill., that represents 245 waste-management companies that give a second life to concrete, wood, and steel. Compared to Europe, which recycles an estimated 46 percent of its construction and demolition waste, the U.S. recycles at a rate of 30 percent. "Landfill prices [here] are still very low, but they're getting higher," Turley says.
At the same time, the design profession's growing environmental consciousness has led architects to look for new uses for old materials—a shift that has been a long time coming. Our past enthusiasm for all things new in construction stemmed largely from the Industrial Revolution, when improvements in manufacturing flooded the marketplace with freshly fabricated materials. More than a century later, necessity helped us curtail our prodigal practices. Turley notes, "Think of the end of World War II: In Berlin, they crushed up the debris and used it as the basis for new cities. That's where it [recycling] took off in modern times."
Technological advances are also spurring the more recent emphasis on recycling. Recycling plants can now process more material types faster and at less cost. Recent years have seen substantial improvements in on-site equipment—extractors that carefully pull apart rather than pulverize buildings, and mixed demolition shredders that automatically sort materials by type and grade, before cutting them down to size to be transported to the recycler. "Everything is dumped in willy-nilly and sorted," says Matt Griffis, project manager at Stanford University's Department of Land, Buildings, and Real Estate. The technology is worlds away from war-weary Germans carting bricks around in wheelbarrows.
Griffis observed a shredder in action during the demolition of Stanford's Frederick E. Terman Engineering Building. The 1978 classroom and office space had outlived its usefulness years ago and was rendered obsolete by state-of-the-art facilities on a nearby science campus. With no new building slated to go up on the site, the university created a public park that is now rising in place of—and with the help of—the defunct structure. A portion of Terman's concrete walls and foundations, ground on the spot by the mobile processors, instantly became the backfill for the park's sloping landscape. Altogether, 99.64 percent of the former building is being recycled on site or off. "It's like animals on the Serengeti," Griffis says. "Very little goes to waste."
Efficiency is paramount in the new demolition culture; the more material that can be retrieved with the least hauling and hassle, the better. The USGBC's LEED rating system has influenced this trend, granting a suite of points for the responsible handling of materials during building dismantling and design phases. LEED v3 lists seven potential credits in the Materials & Resources (MR) category; the award threshold for recycled materials is 10 or 20 percent of a project's total materials cost for one or two points, respectively. "LEED recognizes and encourages strategies that consider materials and resources from a long-term, life-cycle perspective," says USGBC spokesperson Ashley Katz. This holistic approach includes a point for regional materials sourced within 500 miles of the project site to reduce energy consumed in transport. That's a good incentive to find on-site uses for demolition debris.
The Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has also launched a number of programs to encourage the building industry to look more closely at sourcing and disposal. Its Lifecycle Building Challenge, for example, invites architects to "design for disassembly" and compete in creating structures that not only deploy reused or recycled materials, but are themselves primed for recycling when the buildings are eventually scrapped. The EPA's Construction Initiative encourages builders to look outside the typical sourcing channels to find recycled industrial materials. That process can go in reverse as well, with industry members looking to recycled construction materials for manufacturing materials; old wood pulled from aging structures, for instance, can be used to make biomass fuel.
Still, new buildings remain the prime destination for recycled materials, particularly as pre- and post-consumer waste products rise in demand among architects and clients. The recently completed Wisconsin Institutes for Discovery, a 300,000-square-foot LEED Gold hub for technological research and education in Madison, Wis., surpassed LEED's 20-percent mark for recycled building content. Getting there wasn't much of a challenge, according to project architect Rob Voss, AIA, of Philadelphia-based Ballinger. "The difficulty … [of using recycled materials] is so minor," he says. "The only thing that can happen is that something you specify turns out not to meet the requirement. Then you get back into product-research phase."
With in-house expertise on where to look for quality recycled resources, Ballinger only has to confirm that its contractors hold up their end of the material-handling bargain. "The benefit is so great, and the challenge is so little," Voss says.
The increasing prevalence and volume of recycled materials are supported by CMRA's Turley, who, citing a USGBC Technical Advisory Group member, says that MR credits are the most claimed points in the LEED schema. With local governments also getting into the act—Seattle, for one, offers an expedited permitting process for deconstruction projects that meet specific guidelines—even more designers will turn to recycled products.
Save It for Salvaging
Recycling is only one half of the waste-not strategy. "We say it [recycling] is all very well and good, but we also say many of these [materials] could simply be salvaged," says Anne Nicklin, executive director of the Building Materials Reuse Association (BMRA). As CMRA's counterpart on the reuse side of the materials equation, BMRA advocates for putting building components back into the resource pool without preliminary treatment by a recycler.
Architects are listening. In 2009, the Kansas City, Mo., office of BNIM completed work on the Omega Center for Sustainable Living, a 6,250-square-foot learning space on a rolling campus in Rhinebeck, N.Y. The LEED Platinum project extensively uses reclaimed woods pulled directly from former farm and factory buildings in the region, along with plywood planks from the 2009 inauguration platform of President Barack Obama. "We made an impromptu decision to use them," project architect Brad Clark says. In the reuse marketplace, getting the right materials is often a matter of timing. For a school in Kiowa County, Kan., completed in 2010, BNIM included wood salvaged from the wreckage of Hurricane Katrina.
"We're really starting to get plugged into, in a much more architectural way, the stream of these materials," says David Dowell, AIA, a principal of El Dorado Architects, also of Kansas City, Mo. Since expanding to include general contracting services, the firm has been working reuse deeper into its practice. For the Finn Lofts, a 2010 mixed-use residential and retail renovation and addition in Wichita, Kan., the firm didn't have far to look for high-grade scrap: the old wood floors of the existing structure were turned into interior cladding, achieving just the right look for the project's lighting and spatial plan. Once the initial design is in place, "you can weave in the sustainability story," Dowell says, reassuring the client that the reused materials will serve the project and the environment well.


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All this would be true even if the majority of new laws were still passed by Parliament, rather than agreed between ministers in closed meetings in Brussels and then foisted on the people of Europe, often with no democratic scrutiny at all. Ministers and civil servants love that, of course, since they get to implement things they hanker after yet would never get through a national parliament (even one that works as imperfectly as ours) and which they can blame on "Brussels bureaucrats" as though it were nothing to do with them.
It's hardly surprising, then, that in recent years the constituency aspect of the job has come to be stressed, almost to the exclusion of all else. An MP becomes a superior sort of social worker, better-paid and with a much higher position in society, but with no training and, in many cases, less actual power (no MP, after all, is empowered to take children away from their parents). To be a "good MP", it is widely believed - by the public as well as by most MPs themselves - is to be a good constituency MP, the man or woman who spends as much time as possible in the region that returned them, who acts as a conduit between the ordinary citizen and the government, who raises particular concerns with ministers and who spends a lot of time hosting surgeries, visiting local schools, and getting his or her name in the papers. Quite a lot of that, needless to say, involves sending press releases written for the MP by party communications officers, promoting this or that benefit of government policy, or campaigning against this or that aspect of government policy, as may be appropriate.
Such a view of an MP's role is essentially feudal, or perhaps might be compared to the Roman system of clientela (or, for that matter, the Roman Catholic doctrine of the intercession of saints). The MP is the powerful courtier who will have a word with the king on your behalf, thus demonstrating both his influence and prestige and the king's essential benevolence. The basic problem with the concept, from a democratic point of view, is that deference is directed upwards. The first loyalty of the courtier is to the king (the senator's to the emperor, the saint's to God). As well interceding with the mighty, the go-between's duty is to represent the mighty to the powerless. An MP is in theory a representative of the people who elected them, but in practice a representative of their party to their voters. It is thus an uneasy position, suffused with contradictions. To be an MP is to have a basic conflict of interest. And everyone knows it. I suggest that this is the main reason people no longer trust their elected representatives.
The "good constituency MP", however honest, loyal and hard-working, can never adequately represent their constituents, for the simple reason that it is impossible to serve two masters, unless they are the type of independent-minded "maverick" who will never get (or seek) preferment within the party or government. In the narrow sense they may represent individual constituents who come to them with problems. But they will not be representing their constituents "as a whole". They will not even be representing themselves. The classic formulation of the MP's duty was, of course, that delivered by Edmund Burke in his address to the electors of Bristol in 1774, a passage much quoted but often misinterpreted. Burke said:
Certainly, gentlemen, it ought to be the happiness and glory of a representative to live in the strictest union, the closest correspondence, and the most unreserved communication with his constituents. Their wishes ought to have great weight with him; their opinion, high respect; their business, unremitted attention. It is his duty to sacrifice his repose, his pleasures, his satisfactions, to theirs; and above all, ever, and in all cases, to prefer their interest to his own. But his unbiassed opinion, his mature judgment, his enlightened conscience, he ought not to sacrifice to you, to any man, or to any set of men living. These he does not derive from your pleasure; no, nor from the law and the constitution. They are a trust from Providence, for the abuse of which he is deeply answerable. Your representative owes you, not his industry only, but his judgment; and he betrays, instead of serving you, if he sacrifices it to your opinion.
Burke says that the MP's first duty is to his conscience, and that by properly exercising his conscience he will best serve the voters. He is not a deligate, mandated to exercise his vote a particular way, like a member of the US electoral college. He should not blindly follow his constituents - but nor should he blindly follow "the law and the constitution". And it's striking that Burke doesn't mention party at all. Political parties were, it is true, more shifting, informal affairs in the 18th century than they are today. They were not institutions. But they did exist, and they did make claims upon the loyalty of members of Parliament.
In support of his contention that the will of the MP should not be "subservient" to the electors, Burke placed great store by the proper scrutiny of legislation. "Government and legislation are matters of reason and judgment, and not of inclination," he said. "What sort of reason is that, in which the determination precedes the discussion; in which one set of men deliberate, and another decide?" He was dismissing the claim that the electorate who might be "three hundred miles distant" from the debate in Parliament should tie their member's hands in advance. But he might, equally, have been talking of the system we now have, in which MPs troop, like sheep, through the lobbies on the instruction of the party machines, usually without having participated in the debate.
Authoritative instructions; mandates issued, which the member is bound blindly and implicitly to obey, to vote, and to argue for, though contrary to the clearest conviction of his judgment and conscience, these are things utterly unknown to the laws of this land, and which arise from a fundamental mistake of the whole order and tenor of our constitution.
Well, it was a long time ago. A hundred years later, WS Gilbert was satirising the careerist MP who "always voted at my party's call/ and never thought of thinking for myself at all". The party system had insinuated itself into the body politic, but the ideal of the independent representative was still strong enough for the line to have bite.
The current expenses imbroglio is in many ways overdone. Yet this is not an affair that has been "got up by the press", as some people appear to believe. The anger out there in the country is real. It is anger at the particular abuses that have been exposed, but it is also anger at a system that is increasingly perceived as unaccountable. The power of any individual citizen, or even a group of individual citizens (a local community or an organisation) over the government is negligible; that has always been the case. What is new is that the claims of the state to pry into and regiment every aspect of life are increasingly absolute, and increasingly hard to avoid.
Everywhere, it seems, "the government" is doing something: passing a new law, issuing new regulations, hectoring, lecturing, wagging its finger, claiming to have the solution to any problem that might arise. The state and its agents increasingly seem omnipresent and all-knowing, rather as God was or is supposed to be, but at least as inefficient as the deity when it comes to fulfilling individual requests. Moreover, the state's instinct is to impose strict liability. Individuals know that if they (even accidentally) put the wrong figure in a tax return, fail to declare the smallest alteration in their personal circumstances, park in the wrong place, or for a minute too long, drop a chocolate wrapper, look askance at a police officer, hop on a train that is leaving the station before they've had a chance to buy a ticket, say something that someone else interprets as "offensive", or even do something entirely legal that a computer didn't predict, then they stand a good chance of being hammered by the system. Yet they see members of Parliament, most of whom come across as uninspiring party drones, merrily scamming the tax system and claiming giant TV screens as a "necessary" expense to do their job. Of course they're angry.
I suspect that if the system enjoyed greater popular legitimacy (which it would, if it worked properly, if it managed to stop bad laws in their tracks and rein in the overmighty executive, if MPs represented their constituents rather than the parasitical party machines) then there would be less anger over these expenses claims. Yes, some of what has been unearthed has been unacceptable, and several MPs should go. Why are Hazel Blears, Tony McNulty and Jacqui Smith, to name but three, still ministers? Some degree of anger is justified and healthy. But what we are seeing is not the anger of people who see a good system being abused by crooks, but of people who have lost faith in the system, because the system has failed.
Sunday, 17 May 2009
What are MPs for?
What are MPs for? Easy. To represent their constituents, to scrutinise legislation, and to hold the government of the day to account. That's the theory, at least. And even the theory is complicated by the fact that some MPs are also ministers, and that far from holding the executive to account, they are the executive; and some MPs are whips, whose job is to hold not the government accountable to MPs, but MPs accountable to their party - which may actually be the government. For most MPs, most of the time, "scrutinising legislation" means voting in the way they are instructed to vote, usually without having read the bill, sometimes having only the very vaguest idea about what it contains. Such ignorance can extend even to ministers, who outside their own particular brief have will no time to consider the laws they pass, yet are bound by collective responsibility to vote for them on pain of resignation.
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Hear Hear!
opps, must check my expense claim.
- 17 May 2009 at 21:56
The political ruling elite must be absolutely furious that their nice little earner has been brought to the attention of the public. With regard to any significant reform as usual they'll just trott out the old bollocks that "if it ain't broke don't fix it".
What I think will happen is Brown will say he's furious about what's happend and will announce the formation of an "independent" panel to review the debacle, he might even shuffle some of the worst high profile offenders out of the cabinet but then pray that it blows overs and gets forgotten come next years General Election.
- 17 May 2009 at 22:52
A fair critique of the bigger picture.
From what I observe, most people only tend to feel the emotion of a situation when it somehow connects with, or relates to, their own lives; which is perhaps why newspaper stories about personal crime, sex scandals and abused personal expense claims sell better than those about big business, arms deals and unimaginable suffering in distant lands.
Hmmm. Perhaps there's some use to EastEnders-style outrage, if it can eventually bring to the fore the festering discontent that most people seem to genuinely feel about how we are governed.
- 17 May 2009 at 23:18
- Anton Howes said...
An excellent post.
Perhaps the principle of standing as something more than just a glorified social worker could be used as a platform?
You'd have thought that members of parties would more often than not actually agree with what their party is doing though - it merely illustrates that the old party machinery is a vote-winning careerist machine rather than a coalition of aligned interests, no matter how much they'll claim to merely be an "inclusive, broad church".
Makes me all the more convinced that the Social Liberalist Party is on the right tracks (that's www.VoteLiberalist.org by the way).
- 17 May 2009 at 23:56
W.S. Gilbert had quite a few goes at the party system.
His views on the House of Lords (then entirely dominated by hereditary peers) were even more biting.
- 18 May 2009 at 05:51
- valdemar squelch said...
An excellent, thoughtful post. At some point the idea of genuine political reform was lost in this country - or became the province of the amiable/irrelevant fringe. Perhaps this farrago will shake things up.
- 18 May 2009 at 06:53
- WoollyMindedLiberal said...
Much of the problem stems from the fact that there are over 650 MPs at Westminster when the optimum size for an efficient effective legislature is said to be 150 - 200. Thus 500 out of 650, around 75%, of the MPs have no useful work to do and so work has been invented to keep them busy. Many of them are terribly busy and work long hours plus weekends, certainly the MPs I know are like that and I expect they are pretty typical in this regard.
I don't see a way out of this mess. Taking away the local MP is about as politically popular as closing the local hospital no matter how much of a death-trap the failing institution and demoralised staff might be.
- 18 May 2009 at 09:56
- The Heresiarch said...
Having fewer MPs would certainly save money. However, I'm not really persuaded by the argument that they have no useful work to do. The fact is, they are not actually doing useful work. But that doesn't mean the work doesn't exist, merely that other kinds of displacement activity - constituency surgeries and the like - have been (as you say, Woolly) invented to keep them busy.
What should they be doing? Properly scrutinising legislation. There is too much legislation which simply goes through on the nod. Fully and adequately debating what is proposed would easily fill up MPs time, many times over. I'd like to see three parallel parliaments, each with 200 MPs, dividing the legislative business between them.
By the way, I don't like your use of the word "efficiency". I don't really care about efficiency. It implies speed; an efficient parliament would presumably pass even more laws, when what we need is far fewer laws. Efficiency and democracy don't really mix, either: dictatorships are an efficient form of government. An inefficient parliament does at least hold up bad laws for long enough for them to be noticed by the country at large before it's too late.
- 18 May 2009 at 10:06
- Neuroskeptic said...
"But what we are seeing is not the anger of people who see a good system being abused by crooks, but of people who have lost faith in the system, because the system has failed."Quite, but it failed because the people of this country allowed it to -
We have the parliament we deserve.
And if people are angry at the present parliament, and at the behaviour of the present government, that's all very well and good, but the seeds of all this were planted when people stopped caring about what politicians actually do and settled for spin and image.
This is what political apathy has got us.
- 18 May 2009 at 10:20
- The Heresiarch said...
I'm not sure that's entirely fair. People didn't "settle for" spin and image: it's what they were presented with, what modern politics was turned into, and the broad mass of people didn't have any choice in the matter.
I don't think people ever really "stopped caring" about what politicians did. But over a period of time politics became assimilated to marketing; politicians started treating the public like customers to whom they were selling a product, rather than as fellow citizens. It used to be the case that parties fought elections so that they could govern the country. In recent years, and especially since the coming of New Labour, the idea has been to govern the country in order to win elections.
- 18 May 2009 at 10:38
- WoollyMindedLiberal said...
But why were people presented with spin and image in the first place? It cost time, effort and money to perfect the images and master the art of spin. It looks like an evolutionary response by political parties to an ecosystem that rewarded it. If people didn't want it then why the blazes did they go out and vote for it? Why did they sit there in focus groups and tell the marketing people they wanted it? So no, they didn't "settle" for it they pretty much insisted upon it and ruthlessly voted out anybody who didn't bow to their demands.
Why is oily smooth PR bozo Cameron the leader of the Tories rather than two-brains David Willetts or David Davis? Why are the Lib Dems not led by elder statesman Campbell or the bright but dimuntive Vince Cable? Why did Blair become Labour leader rather than Robin Cook or Charles Clarke?
We live in a democracy and the bad news is that we have absolutely nobody to blame for the politicians other than ourselves. People don't engage, they are lazy and apathetic - the press give them what they really want which are excuses for their laziness and apathy.
- 18 May 2009 at 13:24
- WoollyMindedLiberal said...
Displacement activity is pretty much all there is for most MPs. They have invented Select Committees which are actually rather a Good Thing (as 1066 and all that might have put it) to give themselves something to do. The executive has to maximise its payroll vote of ministers with hordes of underemployed junior ministers and unpaid bag carriers so that the government can get its business through. Does any other country have such a crazy system? We don't have one minister when we can have a team of them instead!
- 18 May 2009 at 13:36
WML: "But why were people presented with spin and image in the first place?"
The more cynical, like myself, would argue that it's because the government almost indistinguishable from the big business world that finance them.
It's the same people who are doing the same spinning for the same reasons: to deceive the public into thinking they are working for the benefit of the many (Low Prices! Special Offers! / Tough On Crime! For The People!), when in reality the very system itself guarantees that they working only for the benefit of the few.
- 18 May 2009 at 14:54
Heresiarch: "But over a period of time politics became assimilated to marketing; politicians started treating the public like customers to whom they were selling a product, rather than as fellow citizens."
And if my comment above has any credence, that's exactly what you'd expect.
- 18 May 2009 at 15:04
- WoollyMindedLiberal said...
How sweet, an unreformed socialist who sees the entire world as a plot by the Greedy Capitalists in their Top Hats and their big evil moustaches against the honest flat-capped working man.
If the present government really do intend to serve only a few at the expense of the many then they are amazingly inept in this regard. Presumably they raise taxes, brought in minimum wages, poured money into schools and benefits all as a cunning smoke screen to hide their evil machinations!
- 18 May 2009 at 16:35
A socialist? Hmmmm. Never really thought about it, politics doesn't really interest me outside of the history books. Nor do societies for that matter.
- 18 May 2009 at 17:53
MPs are for burning - simple!
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I have been given resluts from my bloods and Nuchal Translucecy as 1 in 200 and my doctor has said I am at high risk of a Down's baby. I am concerned and have chosen to have the Amnio. I feel a bit out of my depth with knowledge even though my doctor has explained things. It's a lot to take in and I am very worried. I am 33 and this is my second baby. Currently 13w3d. I guess I am scared of what the results will be as well.
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I feel for you. Being told that your are at higher risk than average for carrying a baby with Downs Syndrome is very stressful. I like to turn the statistic around to say that you have a 199 out of 200 chance of having a baby that doesn't have Downs Syndrome. I do know that 95% of women who are told their baby is at risk of Downs from a Nuchal Translucency are having a perfectly normal baby.
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- The risk of miscarriage from Amniocentesis is 1:100
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