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|Mobilize opposition to the Vietnam War
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|(continuation) Today the working people
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|The youth movement and internal democracy
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Published by the Socialist Caucus for the consideration of the 1967 Federal NDF convention. Caucus convention headquarters: Green Room, Walker House Hotel (3 minutes from the convention floor) 121 Front St. W., Phone: EM 3-4041. After the convention: Box 872, Station F, Toronto, Ontario. Produced by voluntary labour.
In the two years since the last convention the Party's prospects for power have increased considerably. To a certain degree this increased support is due to the recognition by sections of the working people of the need for their own political party and a conscious abandonment of the parties of the corporate elite. But to a larger extent, as analysts have pointed out, it is based not on a clear programmatic alternative but on the disarray and unattractiveness of the old line parties. We maintain this later kind of support is built on sand. To build a firmly rooted mass political movement with the power and stamina to survive the attacks and shifts of the opposition, the Party must offer a program which gets at the roots of the problems of the working people.
The present program of liberal reforms differs little, at least not fundamentally, from the ones offered by the old line parties. Its core is support for the capitalist system made to work more equitably through various reforms and controls. Since this projects the NDP as an alternative by virtue of some greater ability to reform, the most serious problems confronting Canadian working people are reduced to changes in Parliamentary faces and personalities. The impossibility of a Party based on the working people creating an economic democracy with a reform capitalist program is demonstrated vividly by the British Labour Party which now as a virtual captive of the British corporate elite is putting forward policies the capitalist parties hesitated to push.
Within this framework, we think the 1967 Federal Convention faces four major issues. We think the position the party takes on these issues is crucial for its development and the struggle for a political and economic democracy. It is our contention that the socialist perspective on the following issues must become policy NOW if the Party is to move forward to build a movement capable of solving the problems of the workers and farmers of this country.
Resolution C-17 of our 1965 Federal Convention expressed horror and apprehension at the agony of the Vietnamese people and the escalation of an internal social upheaval into a world wide war. The barbarism and slaughter of that period has been dwarfed into insignificance by the present U.S. onslaught against the Vietnamese people. Warnings of the drift to a world nuclear war have come from prominent world figures.
The role of the Canadian government has become clear. Our yearly "death to the Vietnamese" exports of chemicals, explosives and armaments have passed the $300,000.000 mark. Our "quiet diplomacy" has proven to be nothing but a front for American intervention in Vietnam and totally consistent with our criminal material complicity.
In this period world wide opposition to the U.S. war has developed. In the United States the opposition of millions of its citizens crystallized into a demonstration of over half a million last April 15. Canada has seen the development of a significant anti-war movement with student and civic committees in most Canadian cities.
In this period what has the NDP done to build opposition to the Vietnam war? Our Party is the only party with an anti- Vietnam war position. Yet it is fair to say that although the record has been made in the House of Commons and to a lesser extent outside the House, the Party has studiously avoided the Vietnam issue. Ridings have not been encouraged to spend energies in this direction and the fight against the war has been falsely counterposed to the job of building the NDP.
This tokenist approach is reflected in our failure to seriously expose the Pearson government's criminal complicity in the War.
The U.S. government cares little about speeches in the Canadian Parliament. Governments, and this includes the U.S. government respond when masses of citizens begin to speak and act in an organized way. The consistent lying by the U.S. government on the nature of the war is a reflection of the effect of the anti- war sentiment which has been crystallized around the hundreds of demonstrations, meetings, and other actions of the anti-war movement inside and outside the United States. The fact that the anti-war movement has not yet been able to create conditions which can force the U.S. government to stop is not testimony to its futility but to the magnitude of the task.
The NDP can play a big role in strengthening the anti-war movement on this continent. It is false to say that NDP participation narrows opposition to the war. Since the question of war is the most profound of all political issues those serious about their feelings will gravitate to the party which expresses them. In other words, the NDP has the opportunity to make the anti-war feeling in this country into a powerful political movement.
But to do this means a serious effort to mobilize people. The failure of the parties of the German working people to mobilize the population against the Fascist movement led to the Second World War. This points to the kind of responsibility now facing the NDP. The convention must adopt a perspective of allocating resources, funds and party energy to the fight against the war.
The War is escalating. Let the Party get serious and escalate its efforts to stop the War against the Vietnamese and the drive toward World War III.
The struggle for a socialist Canada is inseparably linked to the continuing fight by the working people to defend their organizations and maintain and improve their standard of living. With the increasing intervention of the big business government through the courts and the legislatures against the workers and farmers, the working people have more and more accepted the necessity of building their own Party. The NDP is the product of this development and, as Canada s labour party, reflects the needs and aspirations of the majority of Canadians who make up one side of the struggle which characterizes capitalism.
Today the working people and hence the NDP are under attack to the point where the issue is fast becoming the very existence of the labour movement as an effective instrument for the defense of the rights and gains of the working people.
A tangle of legal restrictions curtails union organizing and bargaining. The right to strike is restricted to a small minority of the working population. Those who have maintained this most basic democratic right find themselves ineffective before the strike-breaking actions of the courts. In British Columbia and Ontario unionists have been jailed. Across the country, hospital, hydro, gas, railway workers and now teachers have been forced to compulsory arbitration. This entire campaign has been wrapped up in an orgy of anti-labour propaganda, pinning inflation on the organized workers as profits, prices, and rents rise steadily.
In general the Party is known for the defense of the working man and woman—its so-called labour bias. On the other hand it must be stated that there are serious weaknesses to the Party's approach to the problems of the workers. The Party has accepted the illusion that the working people and the corporate elite have common interests and consequently has made some serious mistakes.
In 1962, at a time when the BC labour movement was being attacked by legislation and police dogs, NDP leader Strachan joined the Socred government in condemnation of the BC labour leaders. The failure of the NDP to oppose the 1963 trusteeship over five Great Lakes and Maritime Seamen's unions strengthened attempts by the government to interfere in the internal affairs of the unions. In the 1966 railway strike, although the Party was clearly the voice of the demands of the railway workers, the parliamentary record shows the NDP position weakened by a seeming fear of a showdown between the liberal government and the railway workers with the consequent desire to make the totally unacceptable railway bill "palatable to the workers". The extension of this direction which brings the NDP to straddle the class fence is developed in David Lewis' position on compulsory arbitration submitted to the CLC (Canadian Labour Congress—ed.) September 1966 Conference. In practice it would mean compulsory arbitration if necessary, but not necessarily compulsory arbitration. In a similar manner, Robert Cliche, apparently worried over the militant mood of the Quebec teachers, failed to come out in solid support for their demands and rights during last winter's strike.
These examples, along with the prevalent view that the unions are merely sources for funds and organizers reveals a potentially dangerous trend illustrated by the British Labour Party which now supports wage freezes and unemployment. Adaptation to the needs of big business could destroy the NDP as a party of the working people which as Bert Gargraves, Regional representative of the United Steelworkers said, in a 1964 meeting of the Political Education Committee of the Toronto and District Labour Council, must be developed "in our own image"—that is the image of labour and not the image of the less- than-a-thousand who make the controlling economic elite.
This means the NDP must establish closer political as well as organizational ties with the workers. Ridings must give active support to workers struggles. Workers and trade union activists must have responsible positions in the Party. The weight of trade union participation in conventions must be increased. Party candidates at all levels must more and more come from the ranks of labour. Above all, the Party policy must be clear and unequivocal. It must reflect the Party's class position as a labour party.
In a few words this means uncompromising active opposition to: 1) Compulsory arbitration in any form or other restrictions on the right to strike. 2) Strike breaking use of the courts through injunctions, intimidation, and police action. 3) Interference by the government in the internal affairs of the unions.
The party of the working people must speak and act like one. In this lies its future.
One of the biggest economic problems facing Canadian working people are the effects of the anarchy of the railway transportation system. The core of this problem is the privately- owned Canadian Pacific Railway. In our opinion the case for nationalization of the CPR has been made many times and the Party is now called upon to raise this demand and through its campaigns as it moves towards power, and prepare itself for its implementation.
Since Canadian farmers through the Canadian Federation of Agriculture and the National Farmers Union have adopted this policy, a similar NDP policy would serve to mould farmer-labour unity on a programmatic level. The Alberta NDP has called for nationalization of the CPR. To put meaning into this policy it must become a federal plank.
The validity of the demand becomes clear when the past record and present role of the CPR is examined. The picture presented is profit at the expense of service. Instead of being an instrument for national development, the CPR has become a fetter on the economy. For those who say the CPR could be "controlled" there is no supporting evidence for such a claim. A corporation of such power will continually seek loopholes in legislation if not simply ignore it.
CPR shareholders from the beginning have raked in large profits from the railway auxilliary enterprises: hotel, mining, airlines, etc. But in addition it has scandalously milked the public purse. Bill Dodge in the March 1964 CCF Comment, states that in the period since its inception in 1880 to 1940, the CPR received cash grants from all levels of government amounting to 119.1 million dollars. In addition, it has received land grants including mineral rights to 36.9 million acres.
In 1965 this corporation had an estimated 1.3 billion dollars in assets, netted 44 million plus another 19 million through its wholly owned holding company, Canadian Pacific Investments—profiting off the land grants previously mentioned.
A striking contrast to this picture is the publicly owned Canadian National Railway, formed by bailing out a number of bankrupt lines during the depression. The government laid out 100 million dollars to renew rolling stock and 90 million to turn the hodge-podge of lines into an integrated transcontinental system, as well as $804 million in accumulated debts.
As of 1954, the net capital debt of the CNR was one and a half billion (Canadian dollars -ed.) with the former owners still being paid. Small wonder the CNR requires an annual subsidy when this financial burden is compounded by the fact that the CNR serves less profitable areas and takes the risks of new development thus serving the needs of the CPR and big business in general.
From any view the Canadian people in one way or another, whether through poor transportation facilities, high costs, government subsidies are paying for the huge profits of the CPR. It is equally clear that over the year the Canadian workers and farmers have paid for the CPR many times over. Thus there can be no argument against adopting a policy which intends to give the Canadian people what is already theirs.
A rational, cheap, efficient transportation system is a vital need for Canadian working people. Nationalization of the CPR is the key to such a system. The NDP can demonstrate its
seriousness and committment to the workers and farmers by adopting as policy the demand for nationalization of the CPR now.
The development of a powerful and efficient electoral machine is necessary for any party serious about taking power. But it is also true that meaningful power—power which can bring about the society we want requires a rooted and politically active mass base.
In our opinion the Party has tended to substitute an electoral machine for this politically active mass base. Riding associations tend to be shells to be activated during election campaigns. Party life has been reduced to the activity of the various provincial and municipal offices and paid staff. Conventions are more pep rallies than serious discussions of Party policy. There is a general acceptance of the concept that organization is everything and program and political discussion fruitless wasteful pastimes we cannot afford. Policy should be left mainly to the professionals. As a result of these trends the democratic structure of the Party tends increasingly to be without meaningful living content.
This development is a reflection of the party's reformist program which projects social change through the manoeuvers and abilities of statesmen at the top rather than the mobilization of the people on the basis of a program for fundamental change.
The logic of this approach is expressed clearly in the developments in the youth movement. Here the drive by the Party to control and supervise it, in effect to destroy its autonomy has resulted in the elimination of the youth movement as a means of attracting radical youth to the ranks of the NDP. In Ontario, the YND has been reduced to a mere committtee of the Party with an appallingly low 150 members.
This attitude to what could be a vibrant politically active youth movement is a reflection of the general problem. In contrast to the youth where the caucuses of the right and left have flourished, the Party since its inception has never seen open, fraternal debate of fundamentally different views. Socialists have been continually expelled and red-baited (from the NDY and NDP -ed.), the most recent being the Ontario expulsions of last May.
The political witch hunt has characterized much of the internal life and in these periods the democratic rights of the membership have been ignored. The myth has been created that the present liberal reformist program is permanent and that Left criticism is tantamount to disloyalty to the Party.
The implications of this situation are enormous. Without a viable youth movement the Party's future is considerably weaker. Without local organization which seriously discusses policy the Party loses one of its chief attractions—that of a political movement responsive to and controlled by the grass roots. It means a political organization which, despite its considerable resources and staff, is dead on its feet. The British Labour Party has not solved the problems of the British working people. The witch hunt, destruction of the youth movement, ossification of the local organizations, and the substitution of a machine for a movement are features of the BLP at this time.
These internal conditions lend credence to the saying that "all political parties and politicians are the same". Many New Democrats are disturbed by them. Steps should be taken to correct them. Concretely this means: 1) The building of a mass youth movement, autonomous and free to respond to the needs of Canadian youth. 2) Affirmation of the right of party minorities to organize caucuses within the party. 3) Opportunities guaranteed for minorities to present their views in the Party press. 4) Rigid adherence to procedures which protect the democratic rights of the membership. The building of a mass youth movement in the context of the flowering of internal democracy would go a long way to developing the kind of mass committed strength the Party needs.
The Socialist Caucus is a grouping of members of the New Democratic Party who agree on the necessity to win the NDP to a socialist program.
We are concerned with the tendency of the Party as it moves closer to power to support the evils of a social system it has vowed to change. We have seen this happen to the British Labour Party which now supports a war to make the world safe for capitalism and the scourge of unemployment as a cure for economic ills.
We see the NDP, Canada's labour party, as a tremendous and inspiring advancement for the Canadian working people, but maintain that the present program of liberal reforms will fail to bring about the economic and political democracy we desire.
We reject the panaceas of labour-management cooperation, and an independent Canadian capitalism, and stand by the basic concept of the Regina Manifesto, the founding document of the CCF, which called for the establishment of a socialist society—based on a publicly-owned and controlled planned economy as a first step to solving the problems of war, insecurity, alienation, discrimination, and unemployment.
If you would like other literature or information about the Socialist Caucus then drop in to the convention headquarters at the Walker House Hotel, or write to the Caucus at Box 872, Station F, Toronto, Ontario. If you wish to contact Socialist Caucus supporters in your area, then write to the following New Democrats who are correspondents for the Socialist Caucus Bulletin:


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In the classical theory black holes can only absorb and not emit particles. However it is shown that quantum mechanical effects cause black holes to create and emit particles as if they were hot bodies with temperature\(\frac{{h\kappa }}{{2\pi k}} \approx 10^{ - 6} \left( {\frac{{M_ \odot }}{M}} \right){}^ \circ K\) where κ is the surface gravity of the black hole. This thermal emission leads to a slow decrease in the mass of the black hole and to its eventual disappearance: any primordial black hole of mass less than about 1015 g would have evaporated by now. Although these quantum effects violate the classical law that the area of the event horizon of a black hole cannot decrease, there remains a Generalized Second Law:S+1/4A never decreases whereS is the entropy of matter outside black holes andA is the sum of the surface areas of the event horizons. This shows that gravitational collapse converts the baryons and leptons in the collapsing body into entropy. It is tempting to speculate that this might be the reason why the Universe contains so much entropy per baryon.
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DUs faced these facts, and fought hard to preserve their Fraternity. Some obvious changes were needed in the Anti-Secret Confederation. More centralized government of the chapters would be a big help. Issues about Fraternity insignia and ritual were unclear. It was obvious that the Convention of 1864 would be critical to DU's future.
Delegates from Hamilton and Rochester went to Middlebury, ready to act. The times kept all other chapters from attending, except Rutgers, which had not sent word. But Rutgers was vital; the ASC needed four chapters for a quorum. March 9 brought a grim mood; no DU from Rutgers had appeared.
But the afternoon brought great news: A Rutgers delegate, Thomas W. Jones, had arrived! The quorum was met and Convention could act!
Brother Jones' arrival electrified the gathering. The DUs sprang into action. Within a day, the Convention formally adopted the name Delta Upsilon, in common but not universal use. It approved a new Constitution. It approved the DU badge used today, which had been adopted in 1858.
Growth and Maturity
After the Civil War ended and college life returned to normal, DU began to grow again. The mood was cautious, as the men wanted DU only at the strongest colleges and universities. And they found fertile ground: Colgate, New York University, Miami University, Brown, Cornell, Marietta, Princeton, Syracuse and Michigan. By 1880, DU had grown to 15 active chapters.
Further illustration of DU's prominence comes in the achievements of DU alumni from this period. There were many diplomats and governors, corporate presidents, religious and military leaders and pioneers in industry.
There were steps toward maturity, laying the foundation of the DU you know today. In 1879, the convention recognized that active opposition to secret fraternities was no longer needed. As our Ritual of Initiation states, the abuses of power were no less evil, but there was no longer the need to battle secrecy actively. So DU changed its formal policy from anti-secrecy to non-secrecy.
About the same time, journals began to appear among general fraternities. Delta U also started one, with sporadic issues of Our Record in 1867 and 1869. Then in 1882, the Quarterly began publication, first as the University Review, then as the Quarterly. We haven't missed an issue since. DU is proud to issue one of the oldest continuously published fraternity magazines.
Our first published history, The Quinquennial, appeared in 1884, DU's 50th year. It contained a brief history of each chapter and a list of members. DU's 50th anniversary sparked a surge of new chapters: Northwestern, Harvard, Wisconsin, Lafayette, Columbia, Lehigh, DePauw and Pennsylvania, Technology and Swarthmore.
DU broke ground in other areas. Minnesota in 1890, was the first chapter west of the Mississippi River. Tufts, a local society formed in 1886, became the first chapter approved through petition in 1891. Stanford and California became the first West Coast DU chapters in 1896. McGill became the first Canadian chapter in 1898, and DU became an International Fraternity. Nebraska became the first Great Plains Chapter on December 9, 1898.
Into the 1900s
DU's growth slowed after 1900, but continued in measured steps. Petitioning societies, often well-established local fraternities with solid records of achievement on their campuses--were examined closely, and conventions often delayed acceptance into Delta U. Some groups petitioned five or more times! By 1920, DU had staked its claim to excellence in the burgeoning universities of the Alleghenies and the Midwest: Chicago, Ohio State, Illinois, Penn State, Iowa State, Purdue, Indiana, Carnegie and Kansas.
In 1909, one of DU's most illustrious alumni, Charles Evans Hughes, Colgate and Brown 1881, led the move to incorporate the Fraternity. Incorporation under New York law meant that DU created an Assembly of graduate Trustees, who in turn elected the Board of Directors. This board governs DU between meetings of Convention and Assembly.
Delta U went to Washington in 1911, our first chapter in the Pacific Northwest. Five years later, the first Manual of Delta Upsilon was printed, the earliest predecessor of the book you are now reading. Wesleyan was revived in 1919. Virginia opened the South for DU in 1922. Oregon State joined DU in the same year.
Emphasis on chapter quality paid solid dividends. The 1920s were exceptional years for DU. For much of the decade, DU ranked above all other national fraternities in grades. A Permanent Trust Fund, established in 1921, is now a major force in DU financial stability, as you'll read in another chapter.
DU added more excellent universities, public and private, to its chapter roll: Missouri, Iowa, Dartmouth, Oklahoma, Johns Hopkins. This quality has continued: of the 32 DU chapters between 1885 and 1928, 26 remain active today.
1929: No Crash for DU
The Great Depression hit colleges hard, but DU was well prepared. Not a single chapter was lost--in fact, DU added UCLA, Manitoba, Washington and Lee, Western Ontario, Washington State, Oregon, Alberta and British Columbia from 1929 to 1935. This good fortune was the result of solid foresight; many other fraternities' chapters were not so fortunate.
Many chapter houses were occupied for military needs during World War II, as had happened in the first Great War. But then came a surge of interest in college fraternities, and DU rode the wave as well.
The Great Depression hit colleges hard, but DU was well prepared. Not a single chapter was lost--in fact, DU added UCLA, Manitoba, Washington and Lee, Western Ontario, Washington State, Oregon, Alberta and British Columbia from 1929 to 1935. This good fortune was the result of solid foresight; many other fraternities' chapters were not so fortunate.
Many chapter houses were occupied for military needs during World War II, as had happened in the first Great War. But then came a surge of interest in college fraternities, and DU rode the wave as well.


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I know that is hard to believe but hot sauces are not all alike. Sure they are made with vinegar and spice and all things nice, but just like any other food item, there is a large difference in many of them especially regional products like Mexican Hot Sauce or Asian Sauces.
Many people think that hot sauces are interchangeable but each one has its place within the type of food they were created for. Take the hugely popular Tapatio Mexican hot sauce. While this is actually a California brand, it is shipped throughout Mexico and the west. This type of product is made to enhance foods with a spicy jalapeno hot pepper flavor such as rice and beans and Mexican soups, seafoods, and the like. Valentina is another popular Mexican hot sauce. Both of these are made from red pepper with vinegar but they are not exceedingly hot. They are considered by many to be more a flavor enhancer.
If you are looking for a more garlic hot pepper flavor, try the Siracha Hot Sauce from Thailand, sometimes known as the Rooster. Some say this is more of a sweet hot sauce than a spicy hot sauce but that could be more from the garlic and sugar. It is in a class of its own and it is a staple in Asian restaurants and any kitchen that makes Asian food on a regular basis. The flavor is truly unique.
If you live in the South, then you are never without Tobasco hot sauce. Made from the tobacco pepper, this is a staple in most of the southern homes as well as most of the US homes, I am sure. Tobasco is the main hot sauce used in southern spicy cooking as it has a unique flavor all its own. Its mild pepper sauce is something we all grew up on and we enjoy it on eggs, in biscuits, in fried chicken and in many of our food staples. Heck, Tobasco could be a food group all on its own with its popularity in the US.
Next time you are looking for a hot sauce, grab a few new ones and try them out with different foods and see how they taste and enhance your foods. A few shakes could make a huge difference and a new level of enjoyment.
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(Library Resource Management Systems, Inc.) LRMS has finalize its Multi-lingual OPAC and Easy Search Library Catalog. This includes our Standard Online Public Access Catalog and a simple to use Easy Search Catalog. Easy Search is button activated for use by the librarian or Library Patron. Designed for all ages using Graphical Buttons for Title, Author, Subject, Reading Levels; search for Lexile reading levels and other popular Reading Program levels. We have added a well organized Dewey Decimal materials Graphical search that displays only those materials present within your collection.


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Syracuse Chiefs announce first round of guests for Hot Stove
Annual event set to take place on Friday, February 1
By Syracuse Chiefs | January 16, 2013 9:06 PM ET
Beasley will return to Syracuse this year for his second season as the team's skipper. In 2012, he led the Chiefs to a 70-74 record and saw 12 different Syracuse players promoted to Washington. Beasley has been named a Manager of the Year three different times in the minor leagues by Baseball America.
Last year Booker guided Chiefs hurlers to a 3.95 ERA and the fewest walks allowed in the International League. The 2013 season will be his fourth in a Syracuse uniform, making him the longest tenured member of the current coaching staff
Washington front office executives Minniti, Harris, and Scialabba all played integral roles in assembling the Nationals team that posted the best record in Major League Baseball last season. The Nats finished the year with a 98-64 record and the franchise's first division title since moving to DC in 2005.
The upcoming season will be Mobley's 22nd as President of the International League. He is a two-time recipient of the Warren Giles Award for outstanding service by a Minor League President (1994, 2002) and was Baseball America's 2002 Minor League Executive of the Year.
The 2013 Hot Stove will take place on Friday, February 1 at the Holiday Inn Convention Center in Liverpool. A silent auction and cocktail hour will get underway at 5:30pm with the dinner program set to begin at 7:00pm. The event will benefit the Syracuse Chiefs Charitable Foundation, Inc., a 501(c)(3) corporation which implements programs to improve the health and educational opportunities of families and youth in the Central New York community and provides financial assistance to other 501(c)(3) organizations with similar purposes.
The event will also include a brand-new Fan Fest complete with interactive games, activities, displays and photo opportunities that will take place during the cocktail hour. This year's Syracuse Baseball Wall of Fame induction class will also be revealed at the Hot Stove.
Tickets for the Hot Stove are $55 for adults, $25 for children 12 and younger and $500 for a table of 10. Fans may purchase tickets in person at the Chiefs ticket office at Alliance Bank Stadium or by calling 315-474-7833 during normal business hours, Monday-Friday from 9am to 5pm.
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Lodi's three Rotary clubs banded together to host a concert, "Rotary Rocks," in June. Proceeds from the event, in coordination with the Bill and Melinda Gates Foundation and Rotary International, will provide $24,000 towards Rotary's 26 year campaign to rid the world of the polio disease.
Rotary's polio eradication program provides teams of Rotarians from all over the world administering polio immunizations and raising funds to contribute to this ever-important cause.
With the help of this program and the worldwide support from others, Rotary International proudly anticipates that by the end of 2014, the polio disease will be completely eradicated from the entire world.
We are proud to say, "We are this close"!
The donation event took place at the Lodi Rotary Club meeting on Thursday, July 25 at the Lodi Eagles Lodge on Lockeford Street in Lodi.
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The FSBC is a strengthened partnership and collaborative effort between the City of Ferndale, Ferndale DDA, Ferndale Area District Library, Ferndale Area Chamber of Commerce, Ferndale Schools , Oakland County Michigan Works! - Ferndale, and Ferndale small business owners.
Dream followers. Risk takers. Passion makers.
Small business owners typically put their entire life saving on the line in order to start their business, to take risks, allowing them to follow their personal passions. Business owners choose to launch their new idea in Ferndale, the community where the entrepreneurial spirit is welcomed and nurtured.
The FSBC supports all dream followers, risk takers, and passion makers with small business startup, growth and expansion support.
What We Do
The City of Ferndale has a goal to be a welcoming place to start and operate a business.
The partnership efforts of the FSBC seeks to strengthen its palette of services to:
Each FSBC member organization offers a combination of and at varying levels of support services including retention, attraction, growth, and expansion services through technical assistance, consultations, training or connections. The FSBC coordinates and cross-supports initiatives to better respond to local small business owner needs and wants.
The FSBC defines small businesses as:
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The FSBC was initiated and convened by Councilwoman Melanie Piana. She saw a need to strengthen and connect local business owners through each stage of business growth (idea, start up, existing and growing) among the organizations in Ferndale dedicated to serving small businesses.
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Delusions of grandeur or relentless ambition? Sometimes it's hard to tell the difference.
The Morphine Dream is not just a title for this book, it was a real event. It occurred while I was a patient in the New England Baptist Hospital on Mission Hill in Boston. It was on a warm summer night long ago – in 1981. I was lying in my hospital bed, trying to wake up from the latest of several knee surgeries. It was yet another failed attempt to get me walking. The prognosis was not good. The Doctors were saying I wouldn't walk again. Worse, I was in terrible pain. It was a few moments later when the nurse came in and said "Do you need some pain medicine, honey?"
I had just gotten a shot of morphine in the recovery room, but what the heck. I said "Absolutely, the more the merrier".
About 15 minutes later I got a shot of morphine. Perhaps an hour later, a different nurse came in and said "Did you get your shot?
I said "No."
Shortly afterwards I got my second shot of morphine. Then there was a shift change and a different staff came on duty. Soon another nurse came into my room. She asked "How are you doing tonight?
"I'm not doing too well, I need some pain medicine."
I got my third shot. I was in a different world. My thoughts were scrambled. When a different nurse appeared a little while later asking me if I needed medication, I said "Yes" again. I was sky high on morphine. For the first and only time in my life I was under the influence of drugs. \
I began listening to some motivational tapes and the first thing I remembered hearing was "Where do you want to be in five years. Write it on the top of a pad". I wrote "Harvard Law School" on the top line of a yellow legal pad. It was a strange thing for me to write because I had never thought of Harvard Law School in my entire life prior to that moment.
The next suggestion was "Make a list of the things you have to do to get there."
I wrote my list. Number one was "Get a GED." That was really a stretch because I didn't even know what a GED was. My second item was "Go to community college." That was equally strange because I had no idea what the difference was between colleges or universities or community colleges and junior colleges. Third was different as I was very familiar with the concept. I wrote the letters K A – which meant Kick Ass – something I had learned how to do as a young boy under my stern task master at the time – my father.
Then the speaker said: "Now turn the page and write about where you want to be in ten years."
I wrote "Walking USA." I drew maps of the United States and drew on them different routes I would feasibly follow. Having been told I would likely never walk again it was pretty foolish. The morphine was at work on my mind. I had always thought about walking across the country, ever since I was a lad of seven or eight. I was actually drawing maps of routes to take me too many special places. Apparently, that was my way of deciding I would walk again, despite the bleak prognosis of the doctors.
I was dreaming, I thought. I finally fell into a deep and long sleep. I remember tossing and turning all night, dreaming of Harvard Law School and walking across the country. I dreamed of walking through cities. I dreamed of walking through the Rockies and the "Amber Waves of Grain. I would walk among the "Big" trees of the Redwood Forests and through the "Big Sur". I dreamed of the "Green Mountains" of Vermont and of "Purple Mountains Majesty" and "From Sea to Shining Sea"
I woke up thinking about my all-night dreams. However, the legal pad was right beside me on the bed. The handwriting was mine. But it still seemed to be nothing more than foolish dreams. That would quickly change.
The doctor and a nurse arrived after breakfast and immediately came to my bedside. The Doctor asked "How are you doing this morning?"
"I'm great! I have decided I'm going to Harvard Law School and I am going to walk across the country".
He turned to the nurse and said: "I don't know how much morphine you've been giving him, but stop. He's delirious – he thinks he's going to Harvard Law School."
I had never accepted that I couldn't do something – especially if someone told me I couldn't do it. The thought of going to Harvard Law School and walking across the country began to sink in. I told myself; "You can do it – go for it."
So, with no experience as a student except completing the ninth grade in middle school – and with a prognosis that said I would probably never walk again, I turned all my attention to the morphine dream.
The things I had written on the pad seemed to be absurd and ridiculous – at least to others. To me, it wasn't a dream – it was my destiny. I was allegedly in a position where I couldn't do anything anymore, so focusing on the morphine dream became my private reality.
What follows is the story of a long walk—physical, figurative, and at times, metaphysical—across multiple landscapes in the long prelude to a different life. It is the story of the trials and tribulations I confronted as I set about pursuing the morphine dream. Now that you have the book in your hands or on your Nook, take the journey with me. If you find yourself beginning to dream about your own future, don't be afraid to "go for it – you can do it".
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Extension for final Tukituki Catchment Proposal decision
Government approves extension for final Tukituki Catchment
Proposal decision
The Minister for the Environment Amy Adams and Minister of Conservation Nick Smith have approved a one month extension to the timeframe the Board of Inquiry has to produce its final decision and report on the Tukituki Catchment Proposal.
Earlier this month the
Board of Inquiry released its one thousand page draft
decision granting resource consent for the Ruataniwha Water
Storage Scheme and at the same time finalising Tukituki Plan
Change 6, which sets minimum flows and water quality
measures for the catchment.
Noting the complexity and importance of its decision to the Hawke's Bay community, the Board had previously asked for and was granted a month time extension in February to issue its draft decision, which the Council and HBRIC Ltd supported.
The Hawke's Bay Regional Council and its investment company HBRIC Ltd wrote to the Ministers last week requesting an additional extension to allow the Board more time to consider comments on the draft decision.
In its comments, Council draws the Board's attention to aspects of the draft decision, which if confirmed, will have significant adverse implications in terms of administration of the Resource Management Act and its effect on the farming communities in the Tukituki Catchment.
Council Interim Chief Executive Liz Lambert says it welcomes the Ministers' decision and believes it will give the board additional time to consider the technical complexities of its decision.
The final decision is now due Saturday 28 June 2014, however Council understand the board will release its decision as soon as practicable within the new timeframe.


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how many times has it happened? does it clear up and return ? what are your medications? do you also have high blood pressure? bruise easily?
Hello again
What you get is called a subconjunctival hemorrhage. While its appearance can be alarming, it isn't a serious problem. It happens when a blood vessel in the conjunctiva (the white part of the eye) breaks and releases blood. This often tends to occur after frequent sneezing, coughing, after rubbing the eye or for no apparent reason. It tends to happen more frequently in people who have high blood pressure or you use blood thinning medicines, such as asprin, motrin, plavix, vitamin e, coumadin, among others. Vicoprofin is another one of the meds that can cause thinning of your blood. The blood will be reabsorbed into the body within a week or so. There is nothing you can do to make it go away sooner. Usually, there is a sensation of the eye feeling slightly full, or a mild pressure sensation and using artificial tears can help with this symptom. I hope you find this helpful, Dr. Stevens
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Pimsleur French Levels 1-4 MP3
Learn to Speak and Understand French with Pimsleur Language Programs
- Format: MP3 ( Also available in: CD )
- Lessons: 120
- Availability: In Stock: Available for immediate download
List Price: $450.00
Free Audio Lesson
Learn a new language while commuting, while cleaning the house, or working out. Like millions before you, discover the power of the scientifically sequenced and portable Pimsleur Method.
Includes 120 lessons and reading instruction as MP3 download (64 hrs), plus 4 Reading Booklets and a User's Guide.
The Easiest and Fastest Way to Learn French
Whether you want to travel, communicate with friends or colleagues, reconnect with family, or just understand more of what's going on in the world around you, learning French will expand your horizons and immeasurably enrich your life.
The best part is that it doesn't have to be difficult or take years to master. Thirty minutes a day is all it takes, and we get you speaking right from the first day. Pimsleur courses use a scientifically-proven method that puts you in control of your learning. If you've tried other language learning methods but found they simply didn't stick, then you owe it to yourself to give Pimsleur a try.
Why Pimsleur?
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What's Included?
- 120, 30-minute audio lessons
- over 4 hours of French reading instruction and practice.
- in total, over 64 hours of audio, all featuring native speakers
- a Reading Booklet for each level and a User's Guide
What You'll Learn
This program includes all of French Levels 1, 2, 3 and 4 – 60 hours of spoken language practice and 4 hours of reading instruction and practice. With this program you start from zero, first learning survival phrases and vocabulary, and eventually progressing to a high-intermediate level of speaking and understanding French. Every lesson contains an introductory conversation and isolated vocabulary and structures, as well as full practice of all vocabulary introduced. The emphasis is on pronunciation and comprehension to promote proficiency in spoken French. At the completion of this program, you'll be speaking and understanding French with near-fluency and with impressive conversational skills.
Reading Lessons are included at the end of Unit 30 for each level. These lessons, which total about four hours, are designed to give you practice sounding out French and then to help you progress to reading for meaning. They also provide extensive additional vocabulary. You'll be reading French with the ease and flexibility of a native speaker.
The Pimsleur Method
We make no secret of what makes this powerful method work so well. Paul Pimsleur spent his career researching and perfecting the precise elements anyone can use to learn a language quickly and easily. Here are a few of his "secrets":
The Principle of Anticipation
In the nanosecond between a cue and your response, your brain has to work to come up with the right word. Having to do this boosts retention, and cements the word in your mind.
Core Vocabulary
Words, phrases, and sentences are selected for their usefulness in everyday conversation. We don't overwhelm you with too much, but steadily increase your ability with every lesson.
Graduated Interval Recall
Reminders of new words and structures come up at the exact interval for maximum retention and storage into your long-term memory.
Organic Learning
You work on multiple aspects of the language simultaneously. We integrate grammar, vocabulary, rhythm, melody, and intonation into every lesson, which allows you to experience the language as a living, expressive form of human culture.
Learning in Context
Research has shown that learning new words in context dramatically accelerates your ability to remember. Every scene in every Pimsleur lesson is set inside a conversation between two people. There are no drills, and no memorization necessary for success.
Active Participation
The Pimsleur Method + active learner participation = success. This method works with every language and every learner who follows it. You gain the power to recall and use what you know, and to add new words easily, exactly as you do in English.
The French Language
French is spoken by 55 million speakers in France, 3 million in Belgium, 1.5 million in Switzerland, 6.5 million in Canada, and 5 million in former French and Belgian colonies. It is an official language in 44 countries and an official language of the United Nations. An estimated 50 million people around the world speak French as a second language.
Tech Talk
- Lessons can be downloaded using the Pimsleur Course Manager App for iPad, iPhone and Android devices, and Mac or Windows computers, or
- Lessons can be downloaded as a zip file for use in iTunes or Windows Media Player.
- All purchased courses are backed up in your Pimsleur.com cloud-based digital library account.
- Lessons can be played on your iPod or any MP3 player.
- The Pimsleur Course Manager App can be installed on several devices for personal use only.
- Lessons are non-DRM (Digital Rights Management) MP3 files and can be copied onto a CD or DVD for playing in a CD/DVD player.
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Comments about Pimsleur French Levels 1-4 MP3:
A most wonderful addition to my classes at the Alliance Francaise, particularly for someone trying to learn French at "un certain age," never ever having studied French before. I try to do a lesson daily and particularly enjoy them when I'm walking in the park. The lessons improve my pronounciation, reinforce grammar and greatly help with my conversational skills. This is my third time listening to level 4, so I'm thrilled to know that there will soon be a level 5 available. I just hope that other levels will continue to be developed after the 5.
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A most wonderful addition to my classes at the Alliance Francaise, particularly for someone trying to learn French at "un certain age," never ever having studied French before. I try to do a lesson daily and particularly enjoy them when I'm walking in the park. The lessons improve my pronounciation, reinforce grammar and greatly help with my conversational skills. This is my third time listening to level 4, so I'm thrilled to know that there will soon be a level 5 available. I just hope that other levels will continue to be developed after the 5.
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I've worked with Pimsleur's French course from Phase I through Phase IV. I travel to France each year, and my ability to communicate in French and my ease with the language have dramatically improved each year because of Pimsleur. Even outside of Paris in places where they often speak no English, I've been complimented on my French. I'm looking forward to the next installment of the course.
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Comments about Pimsleur French Levels 1-4 MP3:
During my work outs at the gym, drinking coffee at the coffee shop, driving, waiting in line, walking in the park are places I take advantage of listening to product approach to learning French.
Hear the words spoken by a native speaker and repeat it is the easiest way for a practical approach when learning French. French words are broken down and pronounced clearly, which increase the ease in understanding French words. The meaning is given in the scenario in English prior to hearing the French dialogue.
I would love to have a spoken glossary where the most useful vocabularies are used in french along with the conjugations. The real life scenarios are fun to learn and practice. Learning the words we use regularly would enhance the product approach more effectively.
Reading and writing program is expensively costly for students and for the general use. I wish the cost for the total approach would be far less expensive.
Service and delivery comments:
I would suggest an addition to the listening portion where the most useful French words are use to be included in a separate section. Perhaps the 2000 most useful French words along with the conjugations and used in a sentence would build a further interest in learning French from Pimsleur.
This method of learning another language works well and is far easier when one is not tied down to a laptop. The empowerment of this approach is the freedom it offers when learning a language while on the go. I wish a section was included that has much more verbs that are commonly used.
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- Expensive
Best Uses
Comments about Pimsleur French Levels 1-4 MP3:
I have completed unit 1 and am starting unit 2. I did take French in high school and college but did not remember much beyond the typical 'bonjour' and 'comment vas-tu'.
I generally use the product while driving to work as I can practice repeating out loud while driving. I've tried both free and paid language learning products and while Pimsleur is somewhat 'old school' (no fancy apps here) I believe it works.
- Easy to use
- It Works
- Perfects Accent
- Portable
Best Uses
Comments about Pimsleur French Levels 1-4 MP3:
I have had the product about a month and just finished Lesson 22. I already have a background in French - some high school courses and other experience. So I know a lot of the vocabulary when it is introduced in the lessons. The biggest thing Pimsleur helps me with is pronunciation. Those "r"'s are still tough for me sometimes! It also helps with grammar a lot. I like the English explanations of some of it, but they also repeat various phrases to highlight differences in context. The reading lessons are great too, especially since I am more of a visual learner usually and seeing the words helps me remember them. However, I do wish that the vocabulary covered in the main lesson was then incorporated into the corresponding reading lesson to reinforce and visualize new words. Overall, I would recommend to anyone, but especially to people who might already have some background in French and just want to learn, or relearn, how to speak!