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In a flash, Tyler Clementi's story appears to have proven that many gay college students are vulnerable to torment and harassment, despite increasing efforts on campuses to promote tolerance and provide resources. Moreover, the Rutgers University student's death has shed light on a continuing debate among college administrators about the best way to serve students who may be uncertain about their sexual identities or are taunted for being gay.
Clementi jumped to his death [1] from the George Washington Bridge last week, after his roommate, Dharun Ravi, allegedly streamed online video of Clementi engaged in an intimate encounter with a young man in Ravi and Clementi's dorm room. It was just three days later that Clementi, 18, informed his friends on Facebook that he was "Jumping off the gw bridge sorry."
"Our colleges and universities are not the welcoming places we think they are for the LGBT [Lesbian Gay Bisexual Transgender] community," said Zack Ford, who writes a blog [2] about higher education and gay issues.
In a striking coincidence, just a few days passed between Clementi's death and the release of a troubling national report [3]on the campus climate for gay students. The report by Campus Pride, a nonprofit network supporting gay students, found that about one quarter of gay staff, faculty and students in the U.S. said they'd experienced harassment, and nearly all – 83 percent – said it was based on sexual identity.
Given the prevalence of reports from students who feel harassed over sexual orientation, it's disturbing to contemplate that one or two specific incidents may have triggered Clementi's actions, Ford said.
"There are people who are experiencing tons of those moments throughout their experience at the university, but for him it [maybe] only took one. So what does it say? It shows it really is a real problem, and on so many campuses the students themselves have to be their own advocates, they have to be surrogate administrators," Ford said. "Tyler's story speaks to just how hard it can be being out on campus and what the real consequences of that negative climate can be."
It is unclear whether Clementi was openly gay. His roommate's reported Tweets appeared designed to expose Clementi for "making out with a dude." Ravi and Molly Wei, another Rutgers freshman, have both been charged with invading Clementi's privacy [4] in connection with the surreptitious taping.
"If the charges are true, these actions gravely violate the university's standards of decency and humanity," Richard L. McCormick, president of Rutgers, said in a written statement [5] Wednesday.
While the case at Rutgers is still unfolding, it has intensified an ongoing discussion about how best to serve students who are openly gay or questioning their sexual orientations. Some students at the university have been pushing for a "safe space" on campus, specifically designated as gender-neutral or welcoming. Such a move, however, raises obvious questions about segregating students based on sexual identity.
Robert O'Brien, an assistant instructor of anthropology at Rutgers who has joined students in the safe space push, said their efforts had thus far been greeted with a lukewarm reception from administrators.
"[Students] were told things like they don't' understand how the world works. They were told Rutgers is all a safe space, so why would they need a safe space in their dorms," said O'Brien, who identifies as bisexual and gender-nonconforming. "What the students are ultimately asking for is, first of all, the right to a dorm space that is going to be accepting of LGBTQ."
The residence life coordinator at Rutgers did not respond to an e-mail inquiry Thursday, and public affairs officials did not respond to requests to arrange an interview.
While residence life officials across the country are working to protect students from harassment over sexual orientation, there's debate about the extent to which dorm room assignment methodologies can or should fit into an overall strategy. Gender-neutral dormitories [6], for instance, have been established "in the best of faith" only to become targets for vandalism [7] and harassment, said Norbert Dunkel, past president of the Association of College and University Housing Officers -- International. On the flip side, deciding not to establish housing that caters to gay students means universities are less able to start targeted programming in the dormitories, he said.
"So the question is which way do you go, and there's not an answer to that yet. There is a struggle that housing is having," said Dunkel, assistant vice president and director of housing and residence education at the University of Florida.
Florida has not designated housing with regard to sexual identity, opting instead to employ a Facebook application called RoomBug [8] that allows students to pick their own roommates based on interests, lifestyle choices, identities or other factors. While students may choose one another based on interests as varied as music or study hours, the application would allow them to discuss sexual orientation if they chose.
Successfully protecting students from harassment, however, goes well beyond effective room pairings, experts say. Many colleges have implemented a host of additional support services for gay students, and Rutgers is no exception. The Center for Social Justice Education and LGBT Communities [9], housed under student affairs at Rutgers, was designed to provide educational, social and leadership development programs for gay students and "allies." Additionally, the Bisexual, Gay and Lesbian Alliance of Rutgers University (BiGLARU [10]) traces its roots back to the origins of gay civil rights movements on college campuses.
Rutgers's nondiscrimination policy, [11] which is more far-reaching than that of many colleges, also covers "sexual orientation, gender identity and expression." A Campus Pride study of individual campuses [2], which used universities' own survey responses to assess campus climate, gave Rutgers four of five possible stars overall and three of five stars in the area of housing and residence life.
What Clementi's death may painfully illustrate, however, is that even students on a campus considered to be proactive don't always find the help they need. Indeed, reports indicate [12] that Clementi may have used an anonymous message board to express doubts about how the university would respond if he actually complained.
While some campuses have made progress providing resources, most aren't doing enough, said Shane Windmeyer, founder and executive director of Campus Pride. Citing research from the group's recent survey, Windmeyer said there's a disconnect between what colleges say they're doing to support students and the "institutional" resources – beyond the mere presence of student groups – that are actually in place.
"We have had this picture that colleges and universities are these progressive institutions," he said. "Only about 7 percent of our colleges and universities across the nation actually have LGBT [institutional] support. That's alarming.
"It's absurd to think we haven't done more on our college campuses in 2010."


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Kellie Pickler's new album is coming out on January 24th – what if that CD came with an autographed guitar?The website Taste Of Country is giving away a chance for you to win a copy of '100 Proof' and a Kellie Pickler autographed guitar! The contest closes on January 31st, so hurry up!! Head to Cat Country 107.3's Facebook page to get all the details on the contest!
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Gia Lewis-Smallwood already had plenty of reasons to love the Tucson Elite Classic before Saturday.
Now she has another.
The 34-year old Champaign, Ill., native threw the discus 214 feet 10 inches to break the 32-year-old Roy P. Drachman Stadium record of 211-5 3/4 set in 1981 by seven-time Scottish champion Meg Ritchie, a former UA star.
Lewis-Smallwood's winning mark came on her third throw of the evening. It set a new personal best and locked up her fourth title at the UA-hosted meet that showcases the best throwers and jumpers in the nation.
"I would cry if they cancelled this meet," said Lewis-Smallwood, who threw in for Team USA in the 2012 London Games. "This is my absolute favorite meet of the year.
"There are so many people around the ring being supportive. They're all throwers too, they know you and they want you to do well and because of that the atmosphere is so incredible and most throwers throw something big every year."
Lewis-Smallwood also won the women's discus on Thursday (204-5), and she and went out with a bang Saturday, throwing 214-1 on her sixth and final toss.
"I've been working on putting some things together that were eluding me so today I actually put them together," she said. "Finally some things that were, in pieces great, but I couldn't put them together, I put them together."
Since last summer when she competed in the London Games, Lewis-Smallwood has been on a roll. Although she finished 15th in the qualifying round and didn't advance to the finals she said it taught her so much.
"That changed my life," she said. "It changed my outlook on throwing, it changed my training, it changed everything about what I do.
"That was one of the single greatest experiences of my life, and I was filled with so much hope and so much desire that I didn't want to take any time off. I was so motivated by it."
One of the biggest things she took out of her trip was improving her technique.
That's also something that made a difference on Saturday from Thursday as she perfected her blocking the front, or keeping her left leg straight, at the perfect time.
"I'd either time it late or time it early or not do it," Lewis-Smallwood said. "So today I kind of got a feeling for it."
Lewis-Smallwood, a University of Illinois graduate, hopes this is only another building block for her.
She has competed on the national level since 2000 and finished in the top three at the outdoor championships in 2010 and 2011.
However, some of her best memories have come from the Tucson Elite Classic, where she first hit the World A standard of 203-4 and has set multiple personal records.
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Gentry, 23, was the club's 10th round pick in the 2006 draft. He split his full-season debut evenly between Single-A Clinton and High-A Bakersfield. The University of Arkansas product batted .273 with 31 doubles, four home runs, and 42 stolen bases in 109 total games. The centerfielder has drawn praise as one of the organization's top defensive outfielders.
Twenty-two year old outfielder K.C. Herren enjoyed a breakout season with the Clinton LumberKings in his fourth season in the organization. The Rangers' second round pick in 2004, Herren hit .329 with nine triples and four home runs in the 2007 season's first half. However, he stumbled to the finish line, as the Washington native batted just .225 after the Midwest League All-Star break.
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Ian Gac, a 6-foot-3, 245-pound first baseman, is the only infielder representing the Rangers in Hawaii this winter. Although Gac has been in the organization for parts of five seasons – he was a 26th round pick in 2003 – the Seattle native is just 22-years-old. Gac has outstanding raw power, but has often struggled to make consistent contact. In 70 games with the short-season Spokane Indians this year, Gac batted .237 with a league-leading 15 home runs.
Right-handed reliever Jose Marte will be the lone pitcher to make the trip to Hawaii. Marte, who stands tall at 6-foot-5, worked as Bakersfield's closer in the second half of the 2007 campaign. The 24-year-old was sent down to Single-A Clinton after getting knocked around in the season's first half. But after performing well with the LumberKings, Marte was promoted back to Bakersfield and was dominant as the club's closer. The tall righty posted a 2.10 ERA with 11 saves in 28 second-half appearances (30 innings) for the Blaze.
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Why Does Sarah Palin Bring Out The Mean Girls In Us?
Any female who's survived the treacherous battleground of a junior high school slumber party knows that no one can bring a girl down harder and faster than another girl. Slumber parties from my past always included as many crying jags, jabbing insults, hurtful gossip, and broken friendships as they did romantic comedies and popcorn balls. So is it any surprise the people who are most aggressively pushing for the immediate downfall of Sarah Palin are other women? In recent interviews, Palin's comes across like a nervous beauty pageant contestant, and many of us grownup women can't throw her bra in the freezer fast enough — metaphorically speaking, of course. So what is it about Sarah Palin that brings out the Mean Girls in us? Why are women — smart, savvy, sophisticated women — the first to use sexist tactics to bring a woman down? Some women fear someone like Palin, who opposes gun control and a woman's right to choose, who questions the existence of global warming and supports censorship, will affect not only women's roles and rights in society, but the health and progress of our nation in general if she's elected Vice President of the United States. Looking to oppose her politically, we use whatever dirty tricks and high-powered artillery we've got in our bags to shoot her down. For a lot of us, that means objectifying her in a sexist way that only another woman could. We make fun of the way she speaks, question her parenting skills, mock her "sexy secretary" look, deem her a redneck, and laugh at her beauty pageant past — and we do it all in the name of "political consciousness." Many women would rather see Palin crying in the bathroom than governing in the White House. Ignoring the issues, we turn into nasty female attackers to assert our political ideals. Maybe some women think desperate times call for desperate measures. But if Palin ends up a loser, and she's the one throwing a tantrum behind a locked bathroom door this time, will we be happy knowing our mean tricks and mean girl ways played a part in keeping her out of office?


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One of the most novel events of the spring? Arizona Polo Club's Picnic and Polo Clinic.
Spectators are invited April 20 to bring a picnic lunch and spend the afternoon on the fringes of the polo field, watching mallet-wielding riders on horseback charge after a fast-moving ball.
There will also be chances to learn how to play the game, as club members will be running demonstrations and clinics for interested spectators the same day.
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The National Security Archives at George Washington University recently published translations of Soviet Politburo meetings on Afghanistan. They are more illuminating than the combined words of America's punditocracy that litter the nation's editorial pages. For one, they probably reflect the administration's deliberations with uncanny accuracy. For two, they are free of the domestic political maneuvering that editorial writers in the US seem incapable of putting aside. Reading them for their content and applying the words to the US situation requires letting go of the American exceptionalism that plagues our thoughts, but it is important to remember that such exceptionalism will be our downfall…so it's best to dispense with that in any case.
Mikhail Sergeyevich applies the idiomatic phrase "…… vydelyvnet Krendelya" to Karmal. We could use it do describe Karzai, Obama, Clinton, McChrystal, et. al.. It translates literally as "….. is walking like a pretzel." The figurative meaning is that someone is staggering and weaving like a drunk; that is, not being straight-forward.
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We have put together an exciting series of sessions for Saturday to share with everyone involved in the soccer community, and as a member of VYSA, we hope you will come and take advantage of all we have planned.
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Comments: 1) The _ops are either too limited in scope, or too wide in scope. We have a bunch of function pointers in struct net_device. We are adding a bunch more func ptrs in a new struct foo_ops. If it is called ethtool_ops, I can support the addition of struct ethtool_ops *etops; to struct net_device. However, if we call it netdev_ops, the structure's name no longer describes its purpose. If we call it netdev_ops, we should move ALL the function pointers in struct net_device into netdev_ops as well, and deal with the associated driver breakage. So, either change the name back to ethtool_ops, or go all the way. The current name to me implies a job half-done. Personally, I would prefer the more radical "move all funcptrs into netdev_ops". This is closer to other Linux kernel APIs.
Either way, I'd vote for netdev_ops, because I want to add generic 'ioctls' that work on struct net_device, not necessarily just ethernet devices. However, it's a minor issue since the code will work regardless.
3) The func ptrs _count() are totally bogus. We have an unconditional indirect reference to a function call which does nothing but return a driver constant. I personally think that having ethtool_ops members manually calling the ->get_drvinfo hook is a _lot_ cleaner than 10,000 foo_count hooks. 3.a) Further, we will inevitably be adding more counts in the future. If we wanted to be truly expandable, and you really don't like the counts being in struct ethtool_gdrvinfo, then create a struct ethtool_counts that puts all the constants in one place.
Suppose we do this, how will we make a user-space app that tries to read this be backwards/forwards compatible? This is one of the reasons I was hoping for some versioning information that could be probed at run-time from user-space. Could bump the version each time we change something that is difficult to detect in user-space. (ie, adding a new ethtool-cmd is easy to detect because we'll get EINVAL or something when it's not there, and a success when it is, but getting a different sized struct, or a struct who's members have changed their meaning, will be more difficult to detect I believe.) Programs that do not wish to deal with the cruft of versioning can just ignore it, but ones that are designed to be very robust can do the extra work to deal with the different versions.
4) I don't see why ethtool.h suddenly needs to include linux/types.h, when it hasn't needed it in all this time until now.
If we're changing lots of stuff...it would be nice to change the u32 etc to something that user-space can easily handle, as ethtool.h is (for better or worse) being included from user-space. Minor issue again as it can be dealt with via type-defs etc. Thanks, Ben -- Ben Greear <greearb@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> <Ben_Greear AT excite.com> President of Candela Technologies Inc http://www.candelatech.com ScryMUD: http://scry.wanfear.com http://scry.wanfear.com/~greear
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Pimpewaug-Rte 7 traffic light? ArchivedPimpewaug-Rte 7 - WiltonHow many traffic lights were installed and you left out this intersection? Cannot get out of there going left towards Wilton...it's not safe!
22 Seeley Rd wilton - Wiltonthe Fed RR Admin has said mandatory horn blowing at road crossings is not necessary IF the crossing have proper safety gates. Ours do -- and we shouldnt have to listen to this unnecessary noise pollution
2 Grumman Hill Rd Wilton, CT 06897, USA - WiltonWhile going on Rt. 7 South, there is no left turn signal light at the Grumman Hill Rd. intersection. This street leads to the Montessori School, so in the morning it is fairly well traveled. Turning left from Rt. 7 to Grumman Hill Road is very dangerous. A green arrow light during morning rush hour would be very much appreciated by those waiting to turn left at the light, as well as by commuters being congested into one lane because of those intending to turn left. Drivers with children in the car often take risks when jumping in to traffic to make a left turn since the traffic going in the northerly direction is unrelenting.
417 Olmstead Hill Rd Wilton, CT 06897, USA - WiltonIt is so unnecessary to have a No Turn on Red / Stop Light at the intersection of Olmstead Hill Road & Route 7. At night, you won't see a car for minutes & you just have to sit there. In the morning, you risk missing your train. Just a few months ago, it was a stop sign! Please get rid of this.
3-37 Nod Hill Rd Wilton, CT 06897, USA - WiltonTraffic light or 2 Stop signs(1 north and 1 south) on 33 & Nod Hill Rd Very limited visibility for both North and South Rt 33 drivers. Nod Hill drivers w little or no visibility. Extremely dangerous during rush hours.
This will also allow Signal Hill residents to turn safely north/south onto Ridgefield road.
Valley Road at Silver Hill Area Archived49-325 Valley Rd New Canaan, CT 06840, USA - New CanaanFull of potholes along southbound side of road.
Inadequate sign ArchivedBelden Hill Rd Wilton, CT 06897, USA - WiltonGoing north on Belden Hill there is a stop sign to turn left on Drum Hill. There is also a warning sign that cautions that traffic from the left does no stop. The bigger problem is that traffic from the right also does not need to stop and it is harder to see traffic from the right coming. The sign should be updated to include both warnings.
LOTS OF POTHOLES Archived1-99 Millstone Rd Wilton, CT 06897, USA - WiltonMillstone Road is basically a series of pot holes that have been badly "patched". There is not one stretch of level road...
Merwin Meadows - WiltonThe benches inside the playground are broken and some have sharp pieces of wood. Dangerous for the kids
Cheesespring At Drum Hill - WiltonComing out of Cheesespring at the stop sign onto Drum Hill, there is a peach colored colonial house with hedges on the corner. The hedges block the visibility and drivers turning onto Drum Hill have difficulty seeing traffic coming from the right.


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After many years of planning, delays, a vote of the people and stalling tactics, the railroad crossing at the end of South Main Street, connecting the city to the lakefront, is now open.
On Wednesday, Nov. 7, the barriers were moved and the first vehicles crossed the tracks onto South Main Road and into the area desiganted for future development.
"It has been one difficult battle," said City Administrator Steve Gasser. "IT has been more than 10 years since the start of the project, but it is finally finished."
Gasser, who started on the project when he was hired as administrator in 2006, has been through many delays and plan changes and negotiations to try and get the project finished. It has been a daily project for him to track the progress of communications and work with the South Dakota Congressional delegation in the final push to get the project completed.
"I give a lot of credit to Steve who kept pushing to make sure this project was completed," said former mayor Kyle Jensen, who was also a councilman when the planning for community revitalization began. "We had a vision and many revisions, but we finally got it done!"
Jensen said the credit should go to the community and those committee members who worked hard to build a plan for the community, which really began in 1999.
"The people should remember all of the work that was put into this crossing," said Jensen. "The community rallied around this project and voted on it and they got it done. I am just happy to have had a part in it."
The long, drawn out process began when Darrell Gill was mayor and members of the community and the city council decided it was time to breathe some life back into Mobridge.
A large town hall meeting was held and residents formed committees to revitalize Mobridge.
"I really think the people of Mobridge wanted this done," said Gill. "It was their desire that got this crossing completed."
He said Jensen and current Mayor Jamie Dietterle are the vehicles that helped the project to completion.
"It was the determination of the people to see this through," he said.
It was many years and many council members who worked to complete the vision set forth in 2001.
"We are 'can do' people in Mobridge and we get it done," said Jensen.
He said all of the activity in Mobridge right now, including the addition to the A.H. Brown Library and the work on the new swimming pool, is a testament to that "can do" attitude of the community.
Gasser said the future of the riverfront development is in the hands of the community.
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There are a number of plans being discussed at this time, but Gasser said those involved "aren't in a big hurry" to make any decisions.
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The new crossing was built as a bridge to the land south of the railroad tracks for development, a dream of some city officials since 1999 when the push for the crossing began in earnest.
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In my previous post, I listed and linked to six books author by prolife authors, only one of which was not a college or university professor. It was brought to my attention by writer Sara Pulliam Baily that none of the authors are women. She writes on twitter:@fbeckwith@between2worlds I could see the point that these authors aren't consulted. Also, are there women you'd add? Thanks for dialogue.— Sarah Pulliam Bailey (@spulliam) August 10, 2015 To which I repl … [Read more...]
Serious work on abortion by female prolife scholars
"Potential Persons" in the "After-Birth Abortion" Article
This is my latest over at The Catholic Thing. Here's how it begins: As readers of The Catholic Thing are well aware, the Journal of Medical Ethics, a periodical to which I have contributed, recently published the controversial article, "After-Birth Abortion: Why Should the Baby Live?", written by the philosophers Alberto Giubilini and Francesca Minerva.Throughout the article, the authors refer to fetuses and newborns as "potential persons," which, I am sure, sounds like an odd neologism for … [Read more...]
Cardinal George of Chicago: "We cannot — we will not — comply with this unjust law."
The following is an open letter authored by Francis Cardinal George, the Catholic Archbishop of Chicago. It is addressed to the Catholics of his diocese: Dear Brothers and Sisters in Christ: I write to you concerning a most serious matter that negatively impacts the church in the United States directly, and that strikes at the fundamental right to religious liberty for all citizens of any faith.The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services announced on Jan. 20 that almost all employers, … [Read more...]
My critique of Roe v. Wade and its progeny
Sunday, January 22, is the 39th anniversary of Roe v. Wade (1973). Even though many citizens reject the opinion, not many know why it is so flawed. In chapter 2 of my 2007 book, Defending Life: A Moral and Legal Case Against Abortion Choice (Cambridge University Press), I offer a detailed analysis of Roe and some subsequent Supreme Court opinions. An earlier version of that chapter was published in 2006 (1.1, pp. 37-72) in the inaugural issue of the Liberty University Law Review under the title … [Read more...]
Libertarians for Life: A Nice Resource
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Defending Abortion Philosophically: A Review of David Boonin's A Defense of Abortion
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Live Action and Telling Falsehoods
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Notre Dame Vita Institute: Educating Prolife Leadership
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Call for Papers: University Faculty for Life Conference at Notre Dame (10-11 June 2011)
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My review of Abortion: Three Perspectives, by Tooley, Wolf-Devine, Devine, and Jaggar
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AGF Study No. 8: Reorganization of Ground Troops for Combat
It was therefore of the utmost importance that in the formative period the Army Ground Forces were commanded by Lt. Gen. Lesley J. McNair, who was by experience and inclination an expert in tactical organization, possibly the leading expert in the Army. General McNair personally directed his staff on this subject. The organization with which American ground forces entered combat in World War II was to a large extent the product of his mind.
General McNair's understanding of tactical organization, while drawn from many previous tours of duty and from study and recollection of World War I, was especially strengthened in the field exercises of 1937 and 1939 in which War Department plans for tactical reorganization were tested, and from which had come the triangular infantry division used by the United States in World War II. General McNair had been chief of staff of the division which had conducted the tests. These were perhaps the most searching and thorough tests ever made of so large a unit up to that date in the United States. They were planned to be as realistic as was permitted by conditions of peace and the lack of funds and of modern equipment in quantity. General McNair had determined how the general questions set by the War Department should be broken down
into specific problems for testing, how personnel, armament and other equipment should be apportioned for each problem, and how the problems should be umpired and the results appraised. Beginning with fundamental study of the infantry rifle squad an entire divisional organization was put together piece by piece. Matters on which alternative ideas were tested included frontages and firepower per man and per unit; ammunition allowances; transportation capacities; motor columns; the requirement for artillery in proportion to infantry, with consideration of calibers, ranges, trajectories and capacities for concentration; the echeloning of automatic rifles, machine guns and mortars in the infantry regiment, battalion, company and platoon; the personnel, time and equipment needed for maintenance of weapons and vehicles; the time elapsed in transmission of orders from division headquarters to front line units; the time elapsed in hauling ammunition and supplies to front line units from the railhead; the amount of service support to be incorporated in the division and the degree to which the division, in the interests of its own mobility and striking power, should depend on corps and army for supporting services and reinforcing weapons. Findings on these and other questions, in the form of concrete data and statistics, were embodied in an extensive report drafted by General McNair.4 By no means all the recommendations in this report were adopted. The War Department, while reducing the old square division of 22,000 men to a triangular division aggregating about 15,000, did not reduce to the strength of 10,275 recommended in the report. (See Annex I.)
General McNair carried over into his command of the Army Ground Forces not only the mass of knowledge acquired in the tests of 1937 and 1939, but a rigorous sense of what was meant by fact as distinguished from theory or speculation, a tendency to deflate claims not based on full attention to detail, and a grasp of principles of organization developed by long reflection on the subject and by having seen the application of principles in the field. He was peculiarly qualified to assimilate into a balanced judgment the fragmentary combat experience of American forces in 1942 and 1943, the experience of foreign armies so far as it was known, and the views of specialists under his own command. He tried to keep in proper perspective the views of the specialist and of the man on the spot, believing both too inclined to forget the larger team. Specialists, particularly in the newer specialties such as aviation, armor, psychological warfare, psychiatry, morale building and the more elaborate forms of military intelligence, easily exaggerated the importance of their own contributions and were frequently impatient of criticism from outside their own circles. The evaluation and control of a multitude of specialties was one of the most difficult and important problems of World War II. The man on the spot, locally responsible for a particular mission, likewise tended to resist control, strive for self-sufficiency, and assure the success of his mission by gathering under his own command as much as possible of the manpower and resources of the United States. The theater commanders represented this tendency on the largest scale. With so many theaters it was impossible to give any one theater commander the freedom given to General Pershing in World War I. The evaluation and control of theater demands was therefore another major problem of World War II. General McNair always insisted that the only final test of military organization, as of training and equipment, was combat. One of his first steps was to request the War Department to obtain reports from overseas on the adequacy of organization and equipment.5 But he was not awed by commanders who had been in combat, believing that many decisions could best be made in the zone of the interior, especially in 1942 and 1943, when only minor elements of the enemy ground forces were being engaged by American troops. He noted for the Requirements Section of his headquarters after his visit to Africa in April 1943:6
I talked to General Patton about armored organization as much as the available time permitted. At first he was against a reorganization of the armored division ... but after a brief explanation of our proposals he seemed to go along quite wholeheartedly. I was impressed rather forcibly and generally with the fact that the people over there are fighting and have given only fleeting
consideration to organization. Even though they have the prestige born of combat experience I certainly feel that their off-hand and fragmentary views are not infallible.
By 1944, as will be seen below, General McNair was more willing to yield to theater opinion.
General McNair's leading idea in tactical organization was a simple and definite one to concentrate a maximum of men and materials in offensive striking units capable of destroying the enemy's capacity for resistance. The derivatives of this idea were many. One was to have a minimum of non-combat soldiers, to hold down non-tactical overhead and make tactical staffs small and efficient. Headquarters companies, staffs and administrative personnel could be kept small by elimination of unnecessary links in the chain of command, by reduction of paper work and the use of verbal orders. Combat units should be streamlined for quick decisive action; they should have only such personnel and equipment as were needed always. What a unit needed only occasionally should be held in a reserve pool under higher headquarters. Such pools not only kept personnel and equipment from idleness, but also permitted rapid massing for concentrated use. Transport and impedimenta of all kinds should be assigned sparingly and pooled where possible. Weapons and units primarily defensive in character should absorb as little as possible of the national resources. Special type units and excessively specialized personnel, useful on certain occasions only, should be discouraged. Links in the chains of supply and administration should be cut; divisions and corps should be lightened, with their overhead machinery relegated to armies.
These ideas were widely accepted. They were applications of the ancient principle of the economy of force. Some of them, such as emphasis on mobile warfare, the streamlining of the division and the use of pools, had been announced as basic by the War Department since 1935.7 No one advocated waste, unwieldiness or dispersion. Disagreement arose in the judgment of concrete cases. The distinctive thing about General McNair was the close attention he gave to concrete cases, and the strictness with which he defined, interpreted and applied the principles which nobody in theory questioned. In practice there were many obstacles to successful achievement of an economy of force. There was the tendency of every unit to demand additional men and equipment. There was the habit of "empire building," the tendency of an arm or service or specialty to multiply its functions as if in a vain effort to win the war alone. There was a tendency deeply rooted in American life to encumber the military establishment with comforts and conveniences, machines and inventions, technicians and experts, specialized services and complex agencies of control. Effects were cumulative increase in the number of dentists, for example, involved an increase of dental technicians; dentists and technicians had to be fed; dentists, technicians and cooks had to be transported; dentists, technicians, cooks and drivers required medical care; dentists, technicians, cooks, drivers and doctors needed clothing; hence quartermasters had to be added; all personnel required coordination, hence more higher headquarters; in the end a demand developed for more dentists. Against such proliferation, which added nothing to the real strength of the Army, General McNair resolutely set himself.
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The Bitstrips app is the latest viral craze to sweep the mobile world and it makes Facebook pages a whole lot more fun. The app just launched its 1.1.7 version for the iPhone, iPod and iOS users and is now number one in the free section on the apps store and google play.
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There are more than 1,000 templates to choose from and new ones are added daily. Users can create comics about their life, their status or just about anything and share them via social media platforms like Facebook.
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Cities in Latin America have experienced considerable physical and socioeconomic (SES) changes in the past two decades [
Considering the multiple environmental changes in urban areas, the purpose of this paper is to disaggregate the concept of "neighborhood environment" and to examine the types of neighborhood environmental factor(s) that may have a significant relationship with youth marijuana use. When adolescents live in low-income, high-crime, drug-dealing, trash-ridden neighborhoods, would any of these neighborhood characteristics matter more than others in predicting marijuana use? Indeed, there is growing evidence that neighborhood disadvantage may contribute to substance using behaviors among adults and youth [
Identification of specific factors that may be related to youth marijuana use requires urgent attention considering the high prevalence of marijuana use in Chile and the possibility of de-criminalizing marijuana use among adults in Chile and the recent legalization of marijuana use in Uruguay. It is within this context that in 2011, the most recent national survey of drug use among school-attending youth in Chile, estimated that 26.5% of 8th through 12th graders had smoked marijuana in their lives (14.4% for 8th graders and 37.1% for 12th graders) and that approximately 11.2% had used marijuana in the past month (9.9% of 8th graders and 12.9% of 12th graders) with minimal differences between adolescent males and females but with greater percentages among adolescents attending public schools than private schools highlighting socioeconomic differences [
In this study we report findings of a prospective study of neighborhood characteristics and marijuana use among adolescents in Santiago, Chile. We disaggregated the concept of "neighborhood environment" into three distinct measures. First, considering that variations in drug availability at the neighborhood level have been associated with variations in opportunities to use drugs and hence actual drug use [
This study is timely as the Chilean government has taken great interest in reducing the prevalence of illicit drug use [
Data for this study are from adolescents participating in the Santiago Longitudinal Study (SLS), a study of urban adolescents in Santiago, Chile. The SLS is a collaborative project between Chilean and U.S. institutions with funding from the National Institute on Drug Abuse (NIDA). Participants for this study included 1,076 youth (51.6% male) who participated in a study of substance using behaviors from December 2007 to 2010 when the youth were 12–17 years old (Time 1). A total of 771 adolescents (71.7%) were successfully re-interviewed when they were 14–19 years old in 2008–2011 (Time 2). Study participants came from a community based sample of low SES families from working-class "comunas" (municipalities) in the southern part of the city of Santiago who had earlier participated in a study of nutrition [
At Time 1, adolescents completed a two-hour interviewer-administered questionnaire to assess constructs measured in the study such as substance using behaviors, perceptions of neighborhood crime, drug use and selling, behavioral problems, and health, among others. At Time 2, the adolescents also completed an interviewer-administered questionnaire but due to funding constraints this was a shortened version of the questionnaire administered at Time 1. At Time 2, the questionnaire focused mainly on substance use questions. Interviews were conducted in Spanish in a private office at the study site by Chilean psychologists trained in the administration of instruments. Interviewers obtained adolescent assent and parental consent prior to commencing the interviews. The study received Institutional Review Board approval from the institutional review boards of the corresponding universities.
In addition, with supplemental funding from NIDA, we conducted a Systematic Neighborhood Observation (SNO) in 2008–2010. The SNO consisted of a systematic assessment of the built-in environment of the immediate area where youth lived. Social workers used a 21-item instrument to rate the amount of greenery, garbage, street dogs, drug paraphernalia, street noise and traffic volume, graffiti, discarded cigarettes and alcohol cans, overall trash, quality of housing exteriors, and whether people were congregating on sidewalks or in the street, among other items. Social workers conducting the assessment walked counterclockwise around the neighborhood blocks, rating each "cuadra" (a block face) until the "manzana" (neighborhood block) where the youth live was rated. Approximately 3,600 "cuadras" consisting of approximately 900 "manzanas" were rated. The SNO was conducted at Time 1.
The dependent variable, measured at Time 2 (approximately a year and a half after Time 1), was the number of occasions the adolescent had smoked marijuana in the past year prior to the interview with response categories "0 = no", "1 = 1–2 occasions", "2 = 3–5 occasions", "3 = 6–9 occasions", "4 = 10–19 occasions", "5 = 20–39 occasions", and "6 = 40 or more occasions". For completeness, adolescents who indicated they had never smoked marijuana or had smoked but not in the past 12 months were coded as zero.
There were three variables measuring neighborhood characteristics, all assessed at Time 1. The first two variables were based on adolescents' reports, while the third was based on the SNO. The first variable,
Demographic characteristics assessed included the adolescents' self-reported age and sex and their family's SES, also measured at Time 1. An SES index, a z-transformed scale, was created that consisted of a weighted linear combination of four items: mother's and father's completed years of education, monthly family income, and the higher of the occupational prestige scores of the mother or father. The SES index demonstrated high reliability (α = 0.81). The variable occasions of marijuana use in the past year assessed at Time 1, measured in the same manner as the dependent variable (measured at Time 2), was included as control.
Data were analyzed with bivariate statistics and with ordinal logistic regression, and the Brant test [
At Time 1, 6.6% of adolescents had ever used marijuana whereas at Time 2, 26.8% had ever used marijuana (see
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|2.8 (1.2)
|Neighborhood drug selling
|2.9 (1.2)
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Prospective association of neighborhood characteristics and occasions of marijuana use: Results of ordinal logistic regression (
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|Neighborhood drug selling/use
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In this study we examined the relationship of neighborhood characteristics with marijuana use among a community based sample of adolescents living in families and neighborhoods of low SES and where the presence of drugs is common [
For policy development, the findings of the current study suggest that broad based substance abuse prevention efforts to "improve the community", though important for the residents' overall quality of life, may result in little effect on subsequent adolescent drug use if opportunities to use remain accessible. Instead, the study findings suggest that attempts to reduce adolescent drug use in low income neighborhoods may do best if efforts concentrated on specific features of the "substance abuse environment" of those neighborhoods. For example, communities may organize themselves to prevent drug houses from becoming established, work with the police to minimize or eliminate drug trafficking and selling in the neighborhoods particularly when this occurs during the day when minors may be walking to and from school or playing outside after school, prevent drug dealing and drug use from occurring in and around their local school grounds, assist parents improve the monitoring of their adolescents, and increase supervised after-school activities through participation in clubs and sports.
The study findings should be interpreted with the following limitations in mind. First, the SNO were based on three social workers who independently rated the neighborhood blocks. Although everyone received the same training and supervision, budgetary constraints prevented us from assessing inter-observer reliability. Second, data from the Chilean Census are not available at the neighborhood block level and although some data are available at the municipality level, these data are not available for all 27 "comunas" (or counties) represented in this study and therefore these data were not included in the study. Finally, the sample of adolescents is based on a convenience sample from neighborhoods of mid to low SES and thus it is not clear the extent to which the findings can be generalized to the larger population of Chilean youth. Notwithstanding these limitations, the current study offers many strengths as well as valuable insights for further research. Strengths of this study include the large sample of community-dwelling adolescents from a developing country, the prospective examination of the associations between neighborhood characteristics and marijuana use, the use of both self-reported neighborhood characteristics that are disaggregated into two constructs, and what we believe the first ever systematic observation of neighborhoods in a Latin American country.
Future research with other populations and neighborhood contexts is needed to corroborate the findings of the current study. More specifically, more research is needed to better understand the process by which adolescents are influenced to use, or refrain from using, marijuana when their neighborhood contexts are such that the opportunities to use marijuana and other illicit drugs are a constant threat, potentially normative behavior, net of other neighborhood characteristics, adolescent personality factors, and family influences. Although it is certainly important to increase our understanding of the mechanisms by which neighborhood-level drug dealing and use influence adolescent marijuana use, it is just as important to learn of the strategies that adolescents utilize to remain drug free particularly among those who live in environments where illicit drugs are easily available. That is, more research is needed with urban youth worldwide to further understand the processes by which youth cognitive and behavioral decision-making, peer influences, parental monitoring, and contextual influences (e.g., interactions among community members and law enforcement, national and local drug policies) influence some, but not all or the majority of youth to use marijuana.
The findings suggest that "poverty", "crime", and "drug problems" may not be synonyms and thus can be understood discretely. As Latin American countries re-examine their drug policies, especially those concerning decriminalizing marijuana use, the findings suggest that attempts to reduce adolescent marijuana use in disadvantaged neighborhoods may do best if efforts are concentrated on specific features of the "substance abuse environment".
We are extremely grateful to the families in Chile for their participation in this study. This study received support from the U.S. National Institute on Drug Abuse (R01 DA021181; T32 DA007267) and the Vivian A. and James L. Curtis School of Social Work Research and Training Center.
Jorge Delva had the original idea for the study and took the lead conceptualizing, leading, and writing the manuscript. Wonhyung Lee conducted the analyses and contributed to the writing. Ninive Sanchez, Guillermo Sanhueza, Fernando H. Andrade, Wonhyung Lee, and Michelle Ho were responsible for data collection, entering, cleaning, and data management. Andrew Grogan-Kaylor and Fernando H. Andrade assisted with the design of the study. All authors contributed to the writing of the manuscript.
The authors declare no conflict of interest.


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No-bike zones are like killing mozzies with a sledgehammer
YOURSAY 'No wonder the police are so free to harass the opposition, arrest the candle-carrying public and stay put in air-conditioned police stations.'
Cops moot 'no motorbike zones' to curb crime
Joker: No motorbikes, lousy public transport... inspector-general of police (IGP) Khalid Abu Bakar is basically telling those who can't afford cars to just stay home or get ready to be robbed.
Never once has the police come up with suggestions that involve them doing real work. Rape? Don't wear revealing clothes.
Snatch theft? Don't carry bags and ban motorbikes. Break-ins? Install grills, don't open doors to strangers, hire guards and for goodness sake, don't put valuables in your house.
No wonder, the police are so free to harass the opposition, arrest the candle-carrying public and stay put in air-conditioned police stations to take photos of the rakyat who make police reports.
Myop101: I agree. Can we deem the whole Kuala Lumpur as a no-bike zone? Wait a minute, what would happen to our postal services?
Overlord: Limited accessibility to motorbikes, unreliable and badly connected public transport, but high car prices with more tolls. This sounds like a move to further enhance the brainless strategy of:
1. Reducing car prices through market forces (create more demand, thus creating high production volumes and hence prices can go down a bit).
2. Encourage those who can't afford to buy cars and do not like the idea to migrate into the jungle.
ACR: The motorcycles plying our roads are not safe, are a nuisance and an eyesore. The people relying on such vehicles are from a social class that should rightly take public transport. But till the MRT and LRT line extensions come to fruition, it is going to be difficult to implement.
Khalid should focus on crime prevention, crime investigation and integrity of the force. If you need to kill suspects in lock-ups to get your evidence then you know your investigation is rubbish.
When watching Crime Scene Investigation (CSI), one wonders whether the Royal Malaysian Police (PDRM) could actually function at that level - especially forensic investigations.
Focusing on unlawful assemblies is political and you know that, IGP. The fact that you mentioned that first is telling indeed.
Lover Boy: I really understand what knee-jerk reaction means. Smoking causes cancer, so ban cigarettes. Motorcyclists are the main cause of street crimes, so ban motorbikes in designated zones in city.
But these snatch theft often occur in housing estate and car parks outside central Kuala Lumpur. Don't believe me, ask minister Ahmad Shabery Cheek's daughter?
Fair and Open: We know the police have not really helped the rakyat with any constructive duties.
All the previous IGPs and Khalid talk about great ideas but in actual fact, the police become more brutal with each change of IGP. They become more like servants to BN. They are arresting more politicians than criminals.
Guyintheglass: Why do these people rob in the first place? Have the police caught any of the snatch thieves and interrogated them? If not, then you are not tackling the root of the problem. Symptomatic treatments will not reduce the problem.
Leon Chan: So, anything outside the safe zone is danger zone?
TTT: Banning of motorcycles in certain areas will only shift the crime to other areas. Take the example of the various tamans in Petaling Jaya that sprung up with gated concepts.
Yes, crime in those areas fell, but all that did was made the criminals go to another taman. Net result, crime stays at the same level.
However, this strategy will allow the police to say, "Crime has reduced in KL due to the banning of bikes", but they never report that crime has increased in PJ as a result.
James1067: It does not take a rocket scientist to teach the police how to prevent or even reduce crimes. All the billions spent over the years in seminars and overseas trips seem to have gone to waste. The answers have always been there staring you in your face.
Which is profitable, to have a memorandum of understanding (MOU) with criminals or send them to jail. In today's world of expenses and five-star living, the alternative of having MOUs with criminals will be more logical.
Well, you have to prove to the people that they are wrong on their perception of the police force first by taking action and not giving suggestions.
Over 50 years have passed us by and all we have are suggestions and no action such that today the crime rate send shivers down the spine of the public until they have to live in guarded communities.
Their faith in the police force is at the lowest as the cops spent more time serving their political masters rather than fighting real criminals.
Chandra Palasingam: Another great idea is to ban beds in Malaysia. I would say almost all non-accidental deaths in this country takes place on beds. I hope we, as a country, should stop using beds to improve the mortality of our Malaysians.
Green: You don't ban motorbikes. You only ban the male pillion rider.
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