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Dr. Kerry Back counts on equations to have plenty to say about people
The subject of economics has long intrigued Dr. Kerry Back. Since college, he has been captivated by the fact that people actually build models that can capture human behavior and explain day-to-day phenomena."I'm interested in understanding things and economics is very powerful in explaining an important part of the world," said Back.
Some may argue that standard models are inadequate to express how people really operate. But the underpinning of these theories, explained Back, is that most people act rationally and in their own self-interests. In economics, self-interest means maximizing profits and dollar values. "If you postulate that people behave rationally, you can predict their behavior to some extent and get useful mathematic descriptions, not with exact numbers, but in general terms of how people behave in certain settings."
There is, however, the occasional surprise, with Back mentioning the recent financial crisis as an example. "People clearly did not understand how the world had changed with regard to mortgage backed securities and lending standards."
Models have to be based on history, but Back said that not all elements of history were incorporated into the models, particularly when it came to lending standards. He found it a little surprising that sophisticated financial professionals were trading on models without adapting them to the changes in the environment in which they were operating.
No matter what the models are telling him, Back is not one to give stock tips. In fact, he doesn't think that anyone can really tell you a sure thing about an individual stock. But he's certain of a few things. Over the past decade, there have been dramatic changes in the way stock exchanges operate. Technology is playing
an increasingly significant role as executions are now measured in milliseconds, and those with data servers located at the exchanges have the speed advantage. But how exactly it will all evolve and what it will look like ten years from now—that's speculation—interesting speculation for Back.
He's intrigued by research studies that assess the performance of different investment strategies. Several of his students are involved in an independent project working on strategies to beat the market and manage money based on their strategies. While most of Back's students will go into the corporate world, he believes that an understanding of investing is something every financial person in business should possess.
Back cites three varieties of generic investing models. The first is the "Warren Buffett" style; fundamental analysis, which is very hard to do and, since a lot of people try to do it, very competitive. The second is based on price trend, buying winners and selling losers. The third combines elements of the first two, with computers helping with calculations and making recommendations.
"Of course," Back acknowledged, "you have to program the computer so you better find things that work!"
In the classroom, Back likes to tie things together with quantitative investment strategies, using historical returns and fundamentals to build algorithms. He encourages discussions about ideas, analysis of strategies, and how to implement them.
Each time Back teaches a class, he thinks of contributing factors in different ways and often gains new insights. His broadened perspective has caused him to consider writing a second edition of his well-received 2010 book, "Asset Pricing and Portfolio Choice Theory."
"There are some things I know now that I could do better after teaching the subject a few more times; things I should have added or done differently. You learn something new every day."
Kerry Back holds the J. Howard Creekmore Chair in Finance at the Jones Graduate School of Business. Prior to joining the faculty in 2009, he was on the faculties of Northwestern University, Indiana University, Washington University in St. Louis, and Texas A&M University. He was senior associate dean and was named a university distinguished faculty member at Washington University in St. Louis. He earned a B.A. in economics at Western Kentucky University and a Ph.D. in economics at University of Kentucky. He teaches investments to MBA and Ph.D. students at the Jones School.


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By coincidence, the same week my travels bring me across the pond, The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion 5th Anniversary Edition lands in Europe. Releasing on 23 September (and one day earlier in Australia), the game will be available on PS3 and 360 for £19.99/€29.99 and on PC for £14.99/€19.99.
Like the North American release, the 5th Anniversary Edition includes:
- The Elder Scrolls IV: Oblivion: With the empire ready to crumble, the gates of Oblivion open and demons march upon the land. You must find the lost heir to the throne and unravel the sinister plot that threatens to destroy all of Tamriel.
- Knights of the Nine: A fallen King has been unchained from the darkness of Oblivion to seek vengeance upon the Gods who banished him. Only a champion pure of heart can vanquish the evil that has been released.
- Shivering Isles: Enter the torn realm of Sheogorath – a world where Mania and Dementia reign. Do you have the strength to survive his trials, to tame a realm fraught with paranoia and despair, and wear the mantle of a God?
- Oblivion Game Map: A full-colour map of Cyrodiil and the Shivering Isles
- A bonus disc: Featuring a behind-the-scenes documentary on the making of Oblivion
Update: I've seen folks asking if the game comes in a steelbook case. It does not — it uses a standard case.


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Topic: Two years yesterday
I'm putting this here because I'm not really "discussing" anything...
It was 2 years ago yesterday that I had to start my journey. I went for an ultrasound and "something" was found. Two years ago today was my first of MANY CT Scans and other tests... I mostly remember praying that it was all a mistake and that I just had a "fatty liver"!
"Don't just have minutes in the day; have moments in time."
Any opinions I give are based on personal experiences, and are not based on medical knowledge. I strongly suggest receiving medical care and opinions.


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Plans to change the way services for young people are provided will be up for discussion when Westbury Area Board meets next week.
Wiltshire Council has come up with four options for the future of services for youngsters and people coming to the area board meeting next Thursday get the chance to ask questions about what any changes might mean in the community.
There will also be the chance to find out more about the recent What Matters to You event, which saw local people coming up with a range of projects and ideas on how to solve Westbury's community issues.
The area board will be discussing the event and its results and pledging to take action. Some of the statistics outlined at the event showed Westbury faces some serious issues from high rates of childhood obesity and domestic violence through to child poverty.
Also at the meeting will be news about how the council plans to allocate social housing in the future, including information on how people are banded according to their need for homes and what factors are considered in who gets housed.
Other local issues will include an update on the community campus, a presentation on Healthwatch and news about other issues raised by local people.
The meeting in the Laverton will feature a change in the line up of the area board, as Jerry Wickham has been elected as councillor for Ethandune since the last meeting Jerry Wickham - representing the villages around Westbury.
The area board has almost £40,000 to give away in grants this year and is looking forward to welcoming applications for community projects. Grants up to £5,000 are available.
More details and an online application form are available at www.wiltshire.gov.uk/areaboards or alternatively, contact the community area manager on 01225 718627.
Anyone is welcome to come along to the area board and the meeting will start at 7pm with refreshments from 6.30pm.


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My code takes a string that's been simply encrypted using an alphabetic character shift method, decodes it, and outputs the line in it's original form. So if the shift was -2, "d" would be "b" etc. Problem is when I use a forloop, it skips any spaces in a string. I need to output the code with the spaces, and splitting the string to keep the words separate seems like a really complicated way of doing it. Any hints? Thanks plenty in advance
here's my inadequate code with a forloop, at the moment;
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code= input()
def decode(code,s):
for i in range (len(code)):
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Deputies: Man leaves girl in median after crash
Published: Thursday, July 11, 2013 at 2:34 p.m.
Last Modified: Thursday, July 11, 2013 at 2:34 p.m.
MADERIA BEACH, Fla. — Deputies say a 41-year-old man crashed his SUV into a telephone pole and left a 7-year-old passenger alone in the median before crashing into two more cars stopped at a red light.
Pinellas County Sheriff's deputies say the first crash happened around 10 p.m. Wednesday. A witness saw an air bag hit the little girl and approached the vehicle to help, but the man drove away.
A short time later, he stopped the car and left the child left alone in the median. Another witness called 911. The vehicle then hit two vehicles stopped at a traffic light, injuring both drivers.
The man tried kicking out the cruiser window after his arrest. He faces multiple charges, including DUI, driving with a suspended or revoked license and child abuse.
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Something that has become abundantly clear to me in the 15+years I have been working with customers online is that even though you design and build cutting edge products, many of your customers often know more about using them than you. I think this revelation occurs to individuals long before organizations. It is pretty easy to suffer from organizational myopia, thinking that we know everything about the products or solutions we produce.
It is a company's job to design and build products/solutions, yes; but customers' jobs are using them every day to help run their businesses. This is especially relevant when we start to talk about high-tech products, particularly in the B2B sector, but can apply to just about anything from computers to guitars to food mixers.
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Maybe you could get a little money to report on the daily conditions, or start taking pictures and make a sweet calendar with "the best of the last 365 days, you wish you were here" theme to sell. You might be able to get local shops to sell it for you for the good cause. This would only be peanuts compared to the big ideas going on here, so hopefully someone hooks you up with some really great advice. Good luck!
Kure, good on you man! I think it's awesome and I'm sure you have some days when it would be real tempting just to skip it (only one day right). Keep it up!
I like the end of the year thing. You should share what you are doing with Trace Adkins, he is a huge wounded warriors supporter. Guy has a big heart...heck he might like what your doing so much that he'll put on a concert for your grand finale!!
Awesome bro. Way to serve your fellow citizens. What do you do on the flat days and victory at sea days?
Primo, please don't call the place I grew up a dump. Much of the state is actually very nice to look at. I'd be glad to post a couple of my pre-Sandy photos from my neighborhood to confirm that if you need.
Or flat days I just wait till dead low tide. There's always something at low tide.
Victory at sea days are the worst. I surf a 8 footer most times so its hard to duck dive. I just keep paddling until I can get far enough out to get into one. I've had some miserable miserable days during strong winds....
Kurebeachsurfer - I like your mindset - surf everyday and help a lot of people. I have a son on the autism spectrum. I've been involved in fundraising and have formed a charity with my wife and our son's swim instructor. Here's my two cents. Make it clear you are a charity stating your 503 (C) status, if you're not a charity yourself, use something like firstgiving or provide a link to the charity. Be clear who you are raising money for. There must be 20 autism charities alone. Surfer's Healing ties into what you're doing. There's probably a local charity associated with Surfer's Healing etc.
Our charity is Kells Kids - we raise money for a scholorship fund to teach autistic and special needs kids how to swim. We also sponsor SUP events and races for the parents. FYI - Children with autism are likely to have a wondering incident where drowning is a strong possibility.
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Java working here without any changes to Backtrack.
Code:root@bt:~# java -versionjava version "1.6.0_20" OpenJDK Runtime Environment (IcedTea6 1.9.13) (6b20-1.9.13-0ubuntu1~10.04.1) OpenJDK Client VM (build 19.0-b09, mixed mode, sharing)
First of all Good Morning everyone.
I have been trying to get Java installed in BT5 R3 for two days. I have searched each of the discussion boards and tried to install via the wiki off of the main page. I have searched google and tried every way the I could find listed.
I am running BT5 R3 in oracle virtualbox
when I run the first command to update alternatives
update-alternatives --install /usr/bin/java java /opt/java/jre1.7.0_05/bin/java 1
I receive the following error
update-alternatives: warning: forcing reinstallation of alternative /usr/lib/jvm/java-6-openjdk/jre/bin/java
beacuse link group java is broken.
updaate-alternatives: warning: not replacing /usr/bin/java with link.
when I run the following command
java --version
I receive
the program 'java' can be found in the following packages:
* gcj-4.4-jre-headless
* openjdk-6-jre-headless
* cacao (you will have to enable component called 'universe')
* gij-4.3 (you will have to enable component called 'universe')
*jamvm (you will have to enable component called 'universe')
All I am trying to do is get java running in firefox.
Any and all assistance would be appreciated.
Java working here without any changes to Backtrack.
Code:root@bt:~# java -versionjava version "1.6.0_20" OpenJDK Runtime Environment (IcedTea6 1.9.13) (6b20-1.9.13-0ubuntu1~10.04.1) OpenJDK Client VM (build 19.0-b09, mixed mode, sharing)
Back|track giving machine guns to monkeys since 2007 !
Do not read the Wiki, most your questions will not be answered there !
Do not take a look at the: Forum Rules !
Check out point 2) in my post here:All I am trying to do is get java running in firefox.
Any and all assistance would be appreciated.
"hey buddy its quite easier to install just follow my commands
1:download the java package frm java website &plz note the package size and ur downloaded package size are same
2:now we have to create a directory in which we have to install for.eg:-"cd /usr/java/" you can use this directory also
3:now move the the downloaded package from downloads to the created directory in this case we have "cd /usr/java/"
4:unpack the tarball and install for e.g:-"tar zxvf jre-7u7-linux-i586.tar.gz"
5:The Java files are installed in a directory called jre1.7.0_07 in the current directory.
In this example, it is installed in the /usr/java/jre1.7.0_07 directory.
When the installation has completed, you will see the word Done.
6elete the .tar.gz file if you want to save disk space."
hope i have you guide you properply.
First of all, the update-alternatives is used to install/modify "Links" to an application. Let's say yo have 2 app that do the same thing, in your case, java, now the update-alternatives will decide for you (unless you change this option), what app will be used.
You can use either openjdk-6-jre which is the Open source Java or the Sun Java, or in case of having both installed, use update-alternatives to choose which one to use..Every time you install a app which does the same thing, it will be updated by update-alternatives.
Try this as an example: update-alternatives --config x-www-browser
It will give you the info as to how many web browsers are installed and which one is the default (used in your system)...The one with asterisk is the default..If you want to make another web browser to be the default just give the option...
The same thing with java..
The update alternatives install LINKs not programs...
Please, read more about update-alternatives, use the "man update-alternatives" in the terminal...Is all about links...
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Good morning all.
This issue is fixed. I downloaded the 64 bit iso and everything worked as it should.
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WALLER, Texas - The sacrifice of life in the military often means missing important moments with family, like visiting their kids at school or even witnessing the birth of a child. But Friday, one local soldier came home to do both.
Krestyn Ivy, 7, and her brother Gavin, 5, huddled inside the Holleman Elementary School gym to honor our troops for a pre-Veterans Day celebration. What they didn't know was that the soldier they'd be honoring was their father, Army Spc. Ben Ivy.
As the two siblings stood for the Pledge of Allegiance, Ivy emerged and Krestyn went running into her dad's arms.
"It's been too long," Ivy said, bouncing both his children on his lap. "It's a great feeling to know that you're not (forgotten.)"
Ivy has been stationed at Ft. Eustis, Va., for months preparing for his deployment to Afghanistan early next year. Before that, he spent two years at Ft. Bliss in El Paso.
"I've missed both their birthdays a couple different times," Ivy said. "I missed my wife's birthday and anniversaries."
But tomorrow is a birthday he will not miss.
"We go in tomorrow and have a C-Section and have a baby," Ivy's very pregnant wife, Lindsey, said wiping away tears of joy. "It's amazing. Words can't describe it. (Ben) is here. Everything's gonna work out fine."
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If you wish to change to "Undeclared," go to the Academic Advising Office in Schofield 226. An adviser in the department can:
- address your concerns about choosing or changing programs.
- assist you by discussing degree requirements, class choices and academic concerns.
- identify the types of internship opportunities available to you.
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Key-note address by Ambassador Wittig: "Beyond Europe – Germany's global commitment"
Key-note address by Ambassador Peter Wittig at the Annual Meeting of the Members of the American Council on Germany:
"Beyond Europe – Germany's global commitment"
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"Ladies and gentlemen, distinguished guests,
Secretary Kerry recently made Berlin his first destination in Europe, continental Europe that is, when he embarked on his first foreign trip in office. And while he was in Berlin, he recalled how he – as a young boy and son of a Berlin-based US diplomat – rode his bike through the Berlin of the Cold War. And he told people how he ventured even into the Eastern part of the city, much to the chagrin of his father who – quite reasonably – was afraid of major international complications.
Now, I don't know whether Secretary Kerry would have prefered a bike to his Limousine on his latest visit to Berlin – but surely the episode underlined how much he himself bonded with our capital, and with our people, before he then said that the US relationship with Germany is "unquestionably one of our strongest, most vibrant alliances in the world."
This gives credit to the work of the American Council on Germany: because you help to nourish this vibrant alliance, you fill it with life. An alliance that goes much further than mere politics, but is rooted in a set of shared values, in common interests and very often in strong personal relationsships. And sometimes even in biking adventures.
Ladies and Gentlemen,
Wall Street and Turtle Bay are part of the same City – but on some issues they seem like worlds apart.
Wall Street – like much of the international media – currently watches Europe through the "debt lens". Their focus, quite understandably, is on how Europe is dealing with the debt crisis. These efforts go far beyond questions of financial policy, but touch on the very substance of the European project.
Chancellor Merkel has expressed her conviction that Europe will emerge stronger from this crisis than it entered it. And I can assure you that both Germany's government and its people are dedicating the utmost political will and substantial resources to this end. There's no doubt that Germany is at the heart of current efforts to overcome the crisis.
By contrast, Turtle Bay is not so much about Europe and the debt crisis. The United Nations worry about violent conflicts and turmoil in hot-spots around the world, and they try to deal with the pressing global challenges of the 21st century: e.g. terrorism and fragile states, poverty and disease, climate change and global warming. This is where Germany's global commitment, beyond Europe, comes to the fore – and this is what I want to talk about tonight.
Ladies and gentlemen,
while Europe is a large contributor to these efforts – approx. 40% of the UN's budget is paid for by EU governments (compared to 22% by the US) – the notion of Europe as an integrated supranational structure is largely alien to the world of the United Nations.
The United Nations, still very much a product of its time, is basically a body created by governments for governments. Over decades it has developed into an institution widely (though not universally) regarded as a force for good – an impression sometimes obliterating the fact that member states still are in the driver seat. All 193 of them. And all 193 of them with their own national interests – sometimes narrow, sometimes wide.
The United Nations is the forum where Germany's global commitment becomes manifest, a commitment that goes beyond Europe – but is driven by the same motivation: to contribute to a peaceful, prosperous and free world.
Ladies and gentlemen,
Allow me to walk you through some of the examples on the agenda of the United Nations and to show you where and how we put our commitment into practice, and how we take part in the international community's efforts to maintain international peace and security, one of the core tasks of the United Nations. Our involvement in these issues was obvious while we served as a non-permanent member on the Security Council in 2011/12 – but our contribution did not and will not depend on this role.
First I want to talk about the upheaval in the Arab World. The beginning of the so-called Arab Spring coincided with the beginning of our Security Council membership back in 2011. In our view it was clear right from the start that these changes had a fundamental impact on stability and security in the region.
This is why Foreign Minister Westerwelle had addressed these developments very early on in the Security Council. He stressed the right of the population in the Arab world to peaceful change. In consequence, we worked hard to have the Security Council put the Arab hot-spots – Libya, Yemen, Syria – swiftly on its agenda. This was easier said than done since quite a number of Security Council members regarded these developments as purely internal affairs.
Why were we so keen to have the Council involved early on? Because we are, in general, convinced: the earlier and the more united the Security Council acts, the greater is its political leverage and impact, and the better are prospects to arrive at a political solution to the crisis. The absence of unity and the failure to act can bring devastating consequences, as shockingly illustrated by the Syrian example.
Here, our early efforts to arrive at a unified position in the Security Council failed: three times Russia and China chose to double-veto a European draft resolution that would have condemned human rights violations, demanded an end to the violence and called for an inclusive, Syrian-led political process. The message these – and the following – vetoes sent to Syria was basically twofold: Assad could still bank on the support of his patrons – as some observers called it, a "license to kill". And the Syrian people couldn't hope for the international community's united support. This was a recipe for further violent escalation.
But the most important aspect transcends Syria: the Council doesn't not live up to its responsibility to maintain international peace and security. Instead it dashed the legitimate hopes and aspirations of the people in the Arab world. These hopes were, in the case of Syria, continuously deceived: even the mediation efforts by the League of Arab States were not supported by Russia and China, as they would not relent their strategic support to the Assad regime.
Today the Syrian crisis has developed into an unprecedented humanitarian and political disaster at the heart of the Arab world – with the risk of an explosive spill-over to neighboring countries and long-term consequences for regional stability. This risk is severely aggravated by the chemical arsenal in Assad's stock. Their very existence is a major concern for us, and the possibility of their use is extremely alarming.
We know that there are voices calling for arming the opposition forces. This is a difficult, complex debate. You know that Germany has taken, much like the US, a rather cautious approach. We are afraid that more weapons might not only end up in the wrong hands and further fuel the conflict, but also render a post-Assad scenario even more difficult. Our goal remains a political solution – as elusive as it may seems today. This is why we are working hard to support unifying the opposition groups – as challinging as it is right now. Yet, their organization and structure is crucial to any meaningful political process: only if there's a credible and inclusive alternative will the Assad regime erode, only then will some of the minorities loose their fear of a post-Assad-Syria, and only then will they have a real choice – and make their move.
The case of Syria was one of the rare examples where the clash of national interests – that shapes the daily work at the United Nations – did not take place behind the scenes, but came to the fore and reminded the public of the basic configuration of this organization – an assembly of souvereign nation states.
The case of Syria is, in several ways, instructive for the way we German diplomats go about our business - in the Security Council and beyond:
- First, a sustainable political solution is always our top priority. This is why we strive for an early engagement of the international community so that we prevent crises rather than just manage them once they break out.
- Second, we work in close partnership, with our European and – of course – our transatlantic partners, but also with our partners in the region: in the case of the new conflicts in the Arab world particularly with the League of Arab States and its key members.
- Third, we try to build bridges, however challenging und slow this sometimes may be – I am thinking here in particular of bridges to the emerging powers of the "global South".
The approach I outlined about the way Germany assumes its global responsibilities can also be seen when looking at the Iranian nuclear program.
Together with our European partners France and the UK, our transatlantic partner and the other permanent members of the Council, Russia and China, – the so called E3+3 – we continue to pursue the dual track approach: showing willingness to negotiate and at the same time exerting pressure. As Foreign Minister Westerwelle has unequivocally made clear: we cannot accept Iran acquiring nuclear weapons and we want to prevent it through diplomatic and political means.
Iran responded with positive comments to the latest offer of negotiations by the E3+3 in Almaty, which the German government cautiously welcomed. But we also made clear that talks for talks' sake aren't enough but that we, the international community, need tangible, substantive results as long as the window of opportunity is open. Iran should not think that it can draw us into an endless game of playing for time.
And again, the same approach is valid for the third conflict I want to touch upon, the crisis in Mali: The fight against terrorism in the north of Mali is not just a concern for the Malian people and its African neighbors. It is a common concern, shared by the European and Western countries. The failure of the Malian army to fight back well-armed intruders from the North, compounded with the feeling of marginalization by the North-Malians plus major internal divisions in Bamako led to a political vacuum and a collapse of effective Malian state authority over its full territory.
After the swift military action of France, which we supported, our goal is to work towards a sustainable political solution. A political solution that must include a roadmap, a return to constitutional order, a reconciliation within the country, and economic and social participation in the south, but especially in the north. Germany has offered to play an active role in a political process, as it did in the 90s of the last century.
The German Foreign Minister recently emphasized that we will lend our support to enable the Africans themselves to play their role in stabilizing northern Mali. To this end, the German Bundestag mandated the deployment of up to 330 German soldiers. One part of these troops is meant to provide support for African contingents deployed in Mali, another part is assigned to the European Union's training mission for the Malian army.
Ladies and gentlemen,
Syria, Iran and Mali are only but three examples to illustrate how we put our global commitment into practice. There would be much more to say on our other priorities, on the Middle East, on our commitment to Israel, on our engagement in Afghanistan or our activities in the Balkans.
I have emphasized that we are committed to work towards political solutions. But the case of Mali illustrates that the real world is not just about diplomacy. Allow me therefore a couple of words about Germany's military engagement abroad.
Libya and Syria have demonstrated that there is no blueprint for each decision on military action, and there won't be. There always needs to be a careful and cautious assessment for each single, individual case. The first and most basic question for us will always be whether our German constitution allows for the military action in question. That is usually the case if the deployment is part of an international effort mandated by the United Nations Security Council or part of a collective security system. The framework prescibed by the German "Grundgesetz" is less broad than that of our European partners. Another basic question is whether the German parliament is ready to authorize such a military action. Let's not forget: the German Bundeswehr is a "paliamentary Army". And then there will also be political considerations about the situation in question: Is the military deployment required – in terms of security or for humanitarian goals? Is a deployment the adequate and wise choice? Do we have the ability to carry it out – and do we have a perspective to get the job done? Is there any realisitic exit strategy?
There are a lot of questions involved with military deployments, and none of them are easily answered. Not in Germany, and not in other democracies. We always and consistently have to convince our public – in each and every case – that the price we're paying with military action is worth it, that it is in our interest and that it is based on the values we represent. And this is why partners – who today expect Germany to take part in international efforts to maintain peace and security, also with military means – cannot and should not expect any automaticity in these decisions.
Thomas de Maizière, the German Minister of Defence (and alumnus of the Young Leaders Programme of the ACG), recently said in a speech that the united and sovereign Germany, being one of the strongest economies in the world, shares a responsibility for the maintenance of international security – and that we will assume this responsibility within our capacities and resources. He made clear: we don't want to abdicate our international responsibilities, we know them well.
Ladies and gentlemen, German foreign policy is fully committed to building a stronger future for Europe. At the same time our commitment stretches well beyond Europe. We share part of the international community's responsibilities. But those two commitments are not separate from each other, they emanate from the same basic set of values and interests: only through partnerships and strong multilateral mechanisms can we achieve a peaceful and prosperous world. And only a strong Europewith a strong voice firmly anchored in a viable transatlantic partnership can find its place in a changing global order."


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How much does it cost to educate a child in a Manitoba public school?
It seems a simple enough question — we're supposed to have an equitable system in which every child receives a quality public education.
You could probably say it may take a little more to educate a high school student than an elementary school child, given the diversity of courses, one-subject teachers, and the need for more specialized labs and shops, and it figures that a rural division paying for a lot of busing would spend a little more than a city division.
But it should be pretty much the same across Manitoba, right?
No way.
While Manitoba superficially has a public education system based on a quality education for every child, it's a system crucially financed on the basis of the assessed value of properties within a school division whose boundaries are drawn on an arbitrary basis.
The lowest mill rate is in Gimli-based Evergreen School Division, and the highest mill rate is in Kelsey SD in The Pas, yet Evergreen spends well above the provincial average per student and $1,166 more per child than does Kelsey, thanks to a rich assessment base.
Is that the way we should be financing our children's education?
And even more significantly than just the size of the assessment base, how large or small a commercial base there is within that school division is startlingly significant — the smaller the commercial base, the greater the share of the burden of financing the school system a homeowner must bear.
That's why, even though Winnipeg SD has the highest mill rate in the city, by, as Jeff Stoughton would say, only a hair more than Seven Oaks SD, homeowners' taxes would be far higher were it not for all those office towers downtown and the Polo Park and Grant Park malls.
And finally, the amount spent on a child's education ultimately comes down to how much school trustees believe their residents are willing to pay in school taxes.
The highest percentage tax increases this year will be Brandon's 7.8 per cent, Garden Valley's 7.3 per cent — where startup costs for Winkler's new high school are hammering taxpayers for more than $2 million — and Winnipeg's 6.7 per cent.
Is this the way we should be financing our children's education?
Divisions spend $9,000 to $14,000 per student
WSD finance chair Cathy Collins lamented that trustees spent an inordinate amount of time trying to shave or add virtual nickels and dimes to a $365 million budget. They're paying $57,000 to buy and licence software for improved math education for almost 34,000 students, they're considering staggered bell times so WSD can run fewer buses but on multiple routes, they're subsidizing milk at a price of 10 cents a carton for school lunches.
"The reality is, the big ticket items are salaries," and those affect the quality of education directly, Collins said.
It costs an average of $11,473 this 2012-2013 school year to educate Manitoba children, but that ranges from $9,097 in Steinbach-area Hanover SD and $9,259 in Winkler-area Garden Valley SD, to $17,526 in Frontier SD, $13,993 in the Division Scolaire Franco-Manitobaine and $13,675 in Thompson-Based Mystery Lake SD.
There are 14 of 37 divisions below the provincial average on per-student spending, including all seven Winnipeg divisions.
To further numb your mind with numbers, Seven Oaks gets hammered for its high taxes, but it spends $963 less per child than does St. James-Assiniboia, whose commercial assessment base is more than four times as large. Seven Oaks can't afford to put any more load on homeowners.
St. James-Assiniboia, not to be outdone, argues that the province provides Seven Oaks with $1,969 per child more in equalization payments than it does to SJA.
Can you follow all that? Is this the way we should be funding children's public education?
Education Minister Nancy Allan once again this year increased the province's share of funding the $2.026-billion public education system at or above the growth in the provincial economy. She gave school divisions a 2.3 per cent increase in operating grants, or $27.2 million.
Allan also guaranteed that every division would get at least as much as last year — without that guarantee, 16 divisions would have received less money this year.
That $27.2 million still left about $40 million in normal annual spending increases to be covered by taxes, or to be achieved by cuts to jobs, programs, and services. Hands up any parents in favour of the latter option?
Consider the bizarre situation in Virden-based Fort la Bosse SD, where the provincial grant and equalization payment increases are both zero, spending will go up 4.6 per cent, yet property owners will barely be affected on their tax bills.
This is because of a huge jump of 6.5 per cent in the division's assessment base, thanks to the oil industry, explained Fort la Bosse secretary-treasurer Kent Reid.
"Most of our assessment increase here is due to the oil activity. (It) will affect residential very little, and actually, on average, our farmland education taxes will go down," Reid said.
Is this the way to finance a public education system?
Higher enrolment, no funding increase
Louis Riel superintendent Duane Brothers is still trying to figure out how his division could increase enrolment — the most significant criterion in establishing provincial operating grants — yet get not a penny more than it received a year ago.
"We are having some significant immigration," as well as a steady stream of families moving into the massive Sage Creek development, Brothers said. "There are probably 300 students out of Sage Creek attending our schools."
McCreary-based Turtle River SD remains the only school division in Manitoba with fewer than 1,000 students, having dropped three students to 740. With an increase in assessment allowing Turtle River to maintain last year's mill rate, and thus hold any tax increase to minimal levels, the division said on its website that it plans to implement full-day kindergarten. Division officials did not respond to numerous interview requests.
Not a single school division anywhere in Manitoba appears to have an outright tax freeze — though Mystery Lake, Flin Flon, Fort la Bosse, Turtle River and Sunrise say they're close.
Brandon school trustees increased school property taxes 7.8 per cent, the highest jump anywhere in Manitoba.
Already faced with the costs of serving a huge increase in enrolment, Brandon wants to hire more educational assistants, expand its full-day kindergarten, and implement strong new security measures for its high schools, all of which cost "big bucks," school board chair Mark Sefton said.
Brandon SD has had an additional 60 students arrive during this school year.
"We're over 8,000 students now — we're growing like crazy," Sefton said. "We're forecasting another three per cent" enrolment jump in September.
While per-student grants are a key criterion in funding, there's no way they cover all higher costs, Sefton said.
"We get about 61 per cent of our funding from the province," he said. "Our funding per-student is the fourth-lowest in the province. Every new student, it means $3,900 is coming from local taxpayers."
Many of the immigrant families coming to Brandon schools have two to four children, so while they're adding more than one child to the overall education costs, each of those families is only paying one property tax bill, Sefton said.
And then there's a change in security that would see BSD introduce a card access system to every outside door in its high schools.
"It'll enable us to do a more secure lockdown," he said. "It would be the main doors on magnetic switches, with key card access. It's big bucks, but it seemed reasonable to use."
Four Brandon schools already have full-day daily kindergarten, even though the provincial grants only cover half-day kindergarten costs.
"We did expand that to George Fitton School. That's totally a local initiative — there's no provincial support, it's on us," Sefton said. "We believe in it strongly. We're hoping that will be the equalizer for the kids — that's another big ticket item.
"We're seeing some pretty amazing results," with full-day kindergarten students reaching June reading levels by January, Sefton said.
"It's inner city schools," Sefton said. That's where early development can help many kids from difficult socioeconomics make up ground, he said.
Out in the Russell area, Park West SD will go with half-day kindergarten in the fall, but switch to full-day kindergarten in the second semester next year, said superintendent Tim Mendel.
"The rationale for starting the full-day kindergarten pilot may be coalesced into one simple statement: the more time children spend in school with qualified educators in quality educational programs, then the more they will learn," Mendel said.
"Current research clearly demonstrates that full-day kindergarten programs contribute to school readiness, improved literacy achievement in higher grades, the gap in achievement levels for lower socio-economic status students, improved retention rates, and better integration of students into the school community," he said.
But any division going to full-day kindergarten will have to carry the teacher's salary and every other penny of that additional half-day.
And we ask again, is all of this the way that we should be financing public education in Manitoba?
Breaking it down
How do I figure out my tax bill before it comes in the mail?
If you live in Winnipeg, use our handy calculator to find out what size bill you can expect to receive in the mail this spring. Just select your school division and enter your school division (and frontage, optional) to get the gist of your coming pain.
Note that this calculator is for estimation purposes only. Your actual tax bill may vary, and may include additional charges or credits.
Prefer to do your work by hand?
You'll need your assessment notice, or find out your (Winnipeg) home's assessed value here.
Multiply the assessed value of your house by 0.45 — this is called portioning. Taxes are calculated at 45 per cent of assessed value for homes, 65 per cent for businesses. Multiply this figure by the mill rate for your school division, then divide by 1,000. That will give you your school property taxes.
Then multiply that portioned assessed value by the municipal mill rate — in Winnipeg, it's 14.6 — and divide by 1,000, to get your municipal property taxes. Add the two figures. Feel free to shriek.
Finally, deduct $700 from your tax bill; this is the education property tax credit, money the province provides to soften the blow of tax bills, and which it labels education funding, though nary a single penny of it gets spent on education. It was simply a property tax credit until seven years ago, when the NDP decided it was politically expedient to lump it in as part of education funding.
What's a mill rate?
That's a key figure used to calculate how much tax you'll pay. Simplistically, without all the little details that will make your brain hurt, it's the product of dividing the amount of money the trustees wish to raise through school property taxes by the total assessment base of the school division, then fiddling with where the decimal point goes.
IN DEPTH: City school-division funding
River East Transcona School Division
Enrolment: 16,361 (+39)
Spending per student: $10,454
Mill rate: 14.65
)More than a decade after amalgamation, the Transcona high schools have grades 9 to 12, and the River East high schools still have grades 10 to 12.
Despite plans for subdivision development, most of the division's growth has been north of the Perimeter. Enrolment has stabilized this year, but that's only after a steady decline in the province's second-largest division.
RET planned to close two small elementary schools, until the province imposed its moratorium on school closings in 2008. Those small schools are still small.
With a net gain of 226 schools of choice students, RET has the biggest net benefit of students' ability to move freely from division to division. Many come for French language education or vocational, and there is also movement from the small Elmwood pocket of Winnipeg SD that lies east of the Red River.
The division has a strong Ukrainian language program, and a strong German program.
But those days of being far and away the second-largest division in the province appear to be becoming just the biggest of the middle-of-the-pack divisions.
Louis Riel School Division
Enrolment: 14,288 (+19)
Spending per student: $10,974
Mill rate: 13.286
Slowly, inexorably, the province's third-largest division watched the gap close, and this year finally moved below St. James-Assiniboia SD and can now boast the second-lowest mill rate in Winnipeg, just above Pembina Trails, the division that LRSD most resembles.
The division has started bouncing back after years of declining enrolment, gaining 19 this year, thanks primarily to immigration and to 300-and-counting families rapidly moving into the Sage Creek development.
Still, LRSD was poised to close as many as four schools when the moratorium came down in 2008, and only Archwood School is showing signs of getting off that list — thanks to new housing on Dugald Road.
The numbers are falling at Dakota and Glenlawn collegiates, after an intial surge when they absorbed the Grade 9s from the last of the old K-9 schools in St. Vital.
LRSD has the second-largest overall net loss anywhere of students through schools of choice, a loss division officials have a tough time explaining, since other city divisions attract students from outlying rural areas looking for French, vocational, or other programs.
Louis Riel is second only to Winnipeg SD in its outspoken and proactive efforts on issues of sexual orientation and gender idenity, championed by recetly-retired superintendent Terry Borys with the full backing of the board.
Pembina Trails School Division
Enrolment: 12,691 (+7)
Spending per student: $11,256
Mill rate: 13.106
Yes, that's the city's lowest mill rate.
The amount raised through property taxes has gone up 6.4 per cent, but taxes are up only 2.5 per cent, which means that, under the province's confusing, complex, and convoluted funding formula, Pembina Trails has enjoyed another good year of a higher assessment base.
Already enjoying the city's highest assessment per student, Pembina Trails will get an enormous windfall from IKEA and The Seasons of Tuxedo — several millions of dollars a year in property taxes without adding a single child to the costs of public education.
In fact, enrolment is going in the opposite direction, down almost 1,500 students over the past decade. Even the massive Waverley West megasuburb has failed to make a dent in declining enrolment, and has produced far fewer children than expected.
No longer heard are the demands for a fifth high school in the Lindenwoods/Whyte Ridge area — instead, empty seats are the order of the day.
Education Minister Nancy Allan has promised there'll be word very soon on the timing and the location of the first school to be built in Waverley West. nevertheless, the division scaled back its initial hopes for six K-8 schools, and possibly two high schools, and now sees the need for only four K-8 schools and one high school. The division has provincial approval to add classrooms at Bonnycastle School instead of starting from scratch in Waverley West, a move that has rankled Coun. Justin Swandel and led to the rare move of a city councillor sounding off on a school board issue.
Seven Oaks School Division
Enrolment: 10,740 (+206)
Spending per student: $10,482
Mill rate: 16.715
Seven Oaks was for a long time Winnipeg's smallest division other than Seine River, and some people still wonder why it wasn't amalgamated with Winnipeg in 2002. The two divisions share geography and ethnosulural and socioeconomic demographics.
Now the division is soaring in size, surpassing St. James-Assiniboia and not that far behind Pembina Trails. The secret has been strong immigration into new homes in Riverbend and Amber Trails, without the empty-nester syndrome plaguing older areas elsewhere in Winnipeg.
Seven Oaks has always suffered from having a low commercial assessment base. Homeowners carry the burden far more than in other divisions, and there's the seeming anomaly of Seven Oaks having exceptionally high property taxes yet spending less per student than any other city division.
And with a diverse student population probably even more varied than Winnipeg SD, Seven Oaks should be spending more, not less, to meet students' needs.
West Kildonan Collegiate is already beyond capacity, and Maples and Garden City collegiates just keep growing, and growing, and growing.
St. James-Assiniboia School Division
Enrolment: 8,360 (-136)
Spending per student: $11,445
Mill rate: 13.352
Did you feel the Earth move?
It seems like forever that SJASD has boasted the city's lowest mill rate, but this week trustees were forced to pass a budget that allowed Pembina Trails SD to slip into the bottom spot, and Louis Riel SD to take second-lowest. It's believed to be the first time since the current mill rate system was established in the 1980s that St. James-Assiniboia does not have the lowest rate.
It's hard to believe that St. James-Assiniboia was once Manitoba's second-largest school division.
With no new housing developments, and empty nesters galore staying in their homes, the division continues to shrink.
It would be even worse were St. James-Assiniboia not enjoying a new increase of schools of choice students. The division forecasts that it will have fewer than 8,000 students by 2017.
SJASD has closed 16 schools since the 1980s, and would have merged Ness Junior High into Hedges School had the province not imposed its moratorium on school closings in 2008. The remaining school buildings are aging, and keeping them all open regardless of student numbers is costing a bundle in maintenance.
SJA has the highest proportion of property taxpayers who don't have kids in school, and only a large commercial assessment base has kept the division's taxes so low.
Seine River School Division
Enrolment: 3,864 (+36)
Spending per student: $10,817
Mill rate: 15.563
The division's city schools are among some of the smallest in Winnipeg.
St. Norbert Collegiate is bigger only than Nelson McIntyre Collegiate among city high schools, while Parc La Salle and La Barriere Crossings elementary schools are among Winnipeg's smallest schools. St. Norbert Immersion K-8 school has solid numbers.
Nowhere else in Manitoba does a rural-urban school division have such a large majority of students attending rural schools, and it's still not entirely clear why the NDP left those four city schools in Seine River when it imposed amalgation of school divisions in 2002.
Seine River is experiencing some growth through immigration, and it benefits from strong French-language programming — especially since Hanover SD does not offer French bilingual — but the growth and new schools are out in the country.
There is also an anomaly in schools of choice that isn't doing St. Norbert Collegiate any favours.
The expanding La Salle bedroom community does not have a high school, and La Salle students' catchment area high school is St. Norbert Collegiate. But Sanford Collegiate is closer to La Salle, and Red River Valley SD runs free buses across the division boundary to scoop up many of those La Salle kids and deliver them to Sanford each day.
The overall result is the largest net loss of schools of choice students anywhere in Manitoba.
Notes on charts and statistics:
Note that house assessed at a value of $200,000 may vary dramatically from one division to another — the figure is provided as a benchmark.
Most school divisions provided their numbers to the Free Press and/or posted them on the division website. Turtle River School Division and the Whiteshell School District did respond to numerous requests this year or last year.
The Division Scolaire Franco-Manitobaine's budget is based on taxes levied on parents of DSFM students by the school division in which they live, and transferred to the DSFM.
Frontier School Division is not included because special circumstances change its funding formula.


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New Book HighlightsThursday, September 8th, 2011
These works can be found on our New Book shelf in Bailey/Howe, an ever-rotating sampling of things we're adding to our collection. You can also review all our newest books online, and subscribe via RSS to receive alerts about acquisitions, by discipline.
The new cool : a visionary teacher, his FIRST robotics team, and the ultimate battle of smarts by Neal Bascomb
When Dean Kamen, a millionaire inventor, realized that most kids couldn't name a living scientist, he created the FIRST (For Inspiration and Recognition of Science and Technology) Robotics Competition to encourage high-school students to consider scientific careers. Bascomb follows team 1717, the D'Penguineers, from Goleta, California, during the 2009 season. The team of high-school seniors, all rookie robot builders, is led by Amir Abo-Shaeer, a physics teacher and the founder of a fledgling engineering academy.
Pages from a black radical's notebook : a James Boggs reader edited by Stephen M. Ward ; with an afterword by Grace Lee Boggs.
Born in the rural American south, James Boggs lived nearly his entire adult life in Detroit and worked as a factory worker for twenty-eight years while immersing himself in the political struggles of the industrial urban north. During and after the years he spent in the auto industry, Boggs wrote two books, co-authored two others, and penned dozens of essays, pamphlets, reviews, manifestos, and newspaper columns to become known as a pioneering revolutionary theorist and community organizer. –Publisher's information
Ruta Tannenbaum by Miljenko Jergović ; translated from the Croatian by Stephen M. Dickey
Set in the Croatian city of Zagreb, then a part of Yugoslavia, in the period between the world wars Ruta Tannenbaum's central character is an ingenue inspired by the real-life figure Lea Deutsch, the now-forgotten Shirley Temple of Yugoslavia who was murdered in the Holocaust. Using their shared Jewish heritage as a starting point, Jergovic´ constructs a fictional family history populated by historical figures with the precocious Ruta at the center. –Publisher's information
Unlikely friends : bridging ties and diverse friendships by James A. Vela-McConnell
There are those individuals who have established deep, lasting relationships with others from very different backgrounds of race, gender, sexual orientation, etc. Research indicates that such friendships are a relatively rare phenomenon. While many study the reasons for this pattern, the research presented here focuses on the successes of the few: 'How have you broken down the social distance between you and bridged the social distance that separates you?'


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Coronary artery bypass grafting (CABG) surgery reroutes blood around
narrowed or blocked arteries, increasing blood flow to the heart muscle tissue.
The surgeon makes a vertical incision in the skin and muscle in the
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Restaurant Menu Tricksby Toby Amidor in Dining Out, October 20, 2010
Americans eat almost a third of meals away from home, but trying to order healthy choices can get tricky. Calorie counts found in many restaurants can make it easier, but menu booby traps may leave you with more calories than you bargained for. Luckily, you can walk into a restaurant armed with our smart tips.
The Menu Design
Restaurants pay people to design menus so your eyes will land on certain dishes. Did you know the most ordered up dish is typically the third one listed? Take your time to read through each item thoroughly. Or, plan ahead: read through the menu on the restaurant's Web site, or look for it on a site like allmenus.com.
The Dish
Dishes with lots of ingredients, like casseroles, stews and chilis are tough to gauge. You really don't know what's added to them, which can also mean more places for hidden calories. Instead, go simple and choose brightly-colored dishes heavy on fruits and vegetables (and nutrients!).
The Wording
You may thing you're ordering healthier fare, but watch out for tricky wordplay. Here are some words to be very cautious of:
- "Light" or "fresh": There is no formal definition for these terms. The restaurant (as opposed to a registered dietitian) decides that a dish is "light." These dishes are typically not lower in fat and calories than average fare. Even if the food is lower in fat or more nutritious, portions may still be out of control. My biggest pet peeve is when I see "light cream" on the menu — usually I find my food swimming in cream.
- Vegetarian: Don't be fooled: Not all vegetarian foods are healthy. Many restaurants rely on large amounts of oil, nuts and cheese to make vegetarian dishes appealing to the masses.
If you're trying to watch your fat and sodium intake, here are a few more words to watch out for:
- High-fat terms: Fried, crispy, creamy, rich, breaded, hollandaise, au gratin, alfredo, batter-dipped, croquette, parmigiana, tempura, flaky
- High-salt terms: Smoked, barbequed, pickled, teriyaki, soy sauce, broth
On the other hand, these terms usually represent better choices:
- Low fat terms: broiled, baked, grilled, poached, roasted, steamed.
The Calorie Counts
Many restaurants now provide the calories info for each dish, but don't rule a dish with a high count automatically. If the entree looks like a good option, ask to switch out higher-calorie sides and condiments (like fries and salad dressings) with lower-calorie alternatives. You can also ask the server to "hold" certain high-fat ingredients (like cheese or nuts) to bring the calorie count on the dish down. If portion sizes are huge, cut your entree's calorie count in half by boxing up part of your meal for later.
The Hidden Calories
They're lurking in so many places, so leave yourself a little calorie leeway. Butter is often the finishing touch for French toast, pancakes, noodles and vegetables, so ask for yours without. Also, if you order food from the griddle, like grilled cheese, hash browns, eggs or even pancakes, be prepared to get a little of the fat added to keep foods from sticking.
TELL US: How do you avoid menu tricks?
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During congressional hearings concerning Sonia Sotomayor's nomination to be a justice on the Supreme Court, we had an interesting exchange of ideas over lunch. Two of my friends were very concerned that Sotomayor might rule in future cases based upon her personal values and not the law itself. That is a valid concern. After all, justice is supposed to be blind.
I called Democratic Congressman Jim Marshall who represents Georgia's 8th Congressional District in Middle Georgia to check the status of health care reform currently lurching its way through Congress.
If you research the date Aug. 7, 1954, you won't come up with much. It certainly wasn't a red-letter day in history. A little exploration reveals nothing but a couple of UFO sightings on that date, one in Canada and one in Germany. I'm pretty sure there's no correlation, but that's also the day I was born.
Will there ever be a light at the end of tunnel for all of the unemployed workers in Georgia? If the latest numbers are an indication, it won't be anytime soon.
So many people keep asking me to handicap next year's governor's race, I feel a need to write something. They've kept insisting the past few weeks, even when I tell them handicapping is nigh impossible until the likely field is far more settled. This is going to be more of a survey and speculation of what's now going on, most behind the scenes.
The intense media blitz and debates about Professor Henry Louis Gates Jr. and Cambridge, Mass., police Sgt. Joseph Crowley over the recent weeks shows how much we are all being challenged to recreate our lives to meet 21st century demands.
If comments made in this space have in any way angered, dismayed or caused dry heaves to anyone who has read them, it may be that I should have calibrated my words differently. I'll guarantee Barack Obama knows what I'm talking about.
"Why be afraid of government?" a Princeton professor writing for CNN recently asked. Touting the need for Obama's health care plan, the disappointed professor added that, "Democrats are still scared about defending the value of government."
For over 40 years, Georgia has been the economic engine of the South. Our state's and region's growth and prosperity have been made possible through proper use of our abundant natural resources. Since the development of Buford Dam and Lake Lanier, our state and the metro Atlanta region have flourished.
People are fascinated by conspiracy theories. Conspiracies are the basis of blockbuster movies like "Angels and Demons," the fuel that feeds the anti-global warming folks, and the force that prompts people to deny the Holocaust. Some conspiracy buffs even believe 9/11 was an inside job engineered by our own government.
Recently on our way back to Gainesville from the gymnastics camp in Athens, my granddaughter asked me, "why did the U.S. get involved in the Korean War?" In her history class, she had studied other recent wars fought by our military, but that study did not include Korea.
After 22 years of legal and political posturing by successive governors, the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers and various state agencies, Georgia up and lost the last round of the "water war."
This is my first column since my rotator cuff surgery and it hasn't been easy getting the words to come out the way I intended them to. My left hand is slower than a Georgia Income Tax return and my right hand is totally unsympathetic and flies across the keyboard like a bunny rabbit.
When I was in the sixth grade, I wrote an essay titled "When I Grow Up." In it, I said, "I want to live in a house full of dogs, cats, babies and books." Happily, that wish came true in spades.
That gurgling sound you hear is the sound of metro Atlanta's economic prospects going slowly down the drain.
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DETROIT - Aides to Oakland County Executive L. Brooks Patterson say there is no change in his status since being serious injured in a car crash in Auburn Hills.
Patterson was a passenger when the vehicle he was riding in was struck by another car two weeks ago. His driver also was seriously injured.
Neither man was wearing a seat belt.
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