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Mr GEORGANAS (8:25 PM) —I rise to speak on one of the most fundamental issues facing Australian society today—this coalition government's industrial relations policy. I oppose the Workplace Relations Amendment (Work Choices) Bill 2005. Regardless of what the previous speaker, the member for Maranoa, had to say, of course the unions are fighting. They are fighting the fight of their life: they are fighting to maintain workers rights; they are fighting to maintain the minimum wage; they are fighting to ensure that they keep leave loading, overtime pay and everything else that they have fought for for the Australian public for well over 100 years.
This bill is specifically designed to drastically curtail the working conditions and undermine the living standards of ordinary Australian working people. It constitutes an unprecedented class offensive being waged against the working men and women of Australia. It is nothing less than an attempt to turn back the clock to the 19th century and reinstate a master-servant approach to industrial relations in this country.
Before turning to some of the more controversial components of the government's package, I would like to briefly touch upon two matters that highlight the contempt with which this government is prepared to treat the Australian public. The first concerns the Orwellian language that it has shamelessly employed. Over and over again the government has resorted to falsehoods and deceit in the lead-up to the introduction of this legislation. Just like in Orwell's classic Nineteen Eighty-Four, key words and phrases used to support this draconian bill mean exactly the opposite of what the government claims they mean.
Two examples will perhaps suffice to illustrate this point. The Prime Minister and his workplace relations minister incessantly claim that this legislation is all about providing workers and employers with choices and have gone to the extent of labelling the bill Work Choices. In fact, the bill is all about strengthening the bargaining position of employers at the expense of working people. For many millions of Australian workers, the only real choice they will have once this legislation is passed is to accept exactly what their employer decrees or lose their jobs.
The other example concerns the new body to be set up to determine minimum wages—the so-called Australian Fair Pay Commission—which the government wants to use not to increase the real value of the minimum wage but instead to reduce it in line with its far right ideology. In Britain, at least the government had the honesty to label such a body as the Low Pay Commission. The hypocrisy and dissembling which have characterised the Howard government's handling of the industrial relations debate have debased the English language and, in the process, further eroded public confidence in the parliament.
The second preliminary matter I feel obliged to raise involves the obscene haste with which the government has sought to rush this legislation through the parliament. The bill is almost 700 pages long. It is the most radical raft of industrial relations changes that have been introduced in this nation in more than 100 years, and it will have a profound impact on the economic wellbeing and job security of our fellow Australians. Yet this government is hell-bent on pushing the bill through as quickly as possible and with as little debate as possible.
With an issue of such importance to the entire community, you would have thought it essential that sufficient time be made available to provide the community and the parliament with the opportunity to digest the government's proposals and to come to grips with their far-reaching implications. At the very least, two or three months should have been put aside to enable full public consideration of this very important bill. That the government is prepared to use its numbers to force the bill through with only a minimum of scrutiny highlights the contempt with which it is prepared to treat both the public and the parliament.
A key aim of the legislation is to shift workers from industrial awards and collective enterprise agreements onto Australian workplace agreements, known as AWAs. The government's rationale is that this will enhance workplace flexibility, stimulate productivity growth and, in turn, lead to higher wages. While the legislation may result in increased flexibility, this is likely to be a one-way street. Employers will be able to demand greater flexibility from their work force, but only under exceptional circumstances will it be possible for workers to benefit from any increased flexibility.
Penalty rates, rostered hours, overtime payments and other allowances are all at risk under this government's brave new world of flexible working arrangements. Most at risk will be the lower paid, particularly women workers, who already bear the brunt of the work-life collision. We should all be working to improve the balance between work and our family lives—not making it worse as has been the case under this government.
Nor is the government's package likely to increase productivity. Profits might increase, but there has been no evidence put forward by this government that suggests that its draconian proposals will improve productivity. On the contrary, the low-wage philosophy which underpins its proposals runs the risk of locking Australia into a low productivity economy. At a time when we should be building the skill base of the Australian work force in order to improve our international competitiveness and paying people a decent wage in the process, this government has embarked on a divisive campaign to roll back the hard-won gains that have made Australia a great country and a land of opportunity.
The government's claim that the AWAs will result in higher wages is also false. Average full-time adult non-managerial hourly ordinary time earnings are higher for workers employed under collective agreements than for those employed under AWAs. Women on AWAs have been particularly hard done by, earning 11 per cent less than their counterparts on collective agreements. And while workers on AWAs experienced an 11 per cent drop in earnings between 2002 and 2004, those on collective agreements had an average increase of six per cent.
The most vulnerable workers, however, under this government's package will be young workers. The Prime Minister has yet to explain how a 16- or 18-year-old can possibly bargain on an equal footing with BHP Billiton, Holden, Woolworths or, for that matter, medium-sized or small employers. They will simply be told: 'Take it or leave it. There's a hundred people waiting at the door to sign that very contract that you won't sign.' Young people are going to be ripe for exploitation of the worst kind. It is already happening—we know that—but under this government's package exploitation will be institutionalised. The government has even gone to the extent of legally sanctioning the use of duress by employers to force young workers, and for that matter any other workers, onto AWAs.
This government's proposals will also result in the stripping of industrial awards: existing conditions will, over time, be eliminated or cut back to the bare minimum. No longer will the award system provide a safety net. Award conditions will no longer be protected by law.
What is worse, Mr Howard's legislation provides employers with numerous options for removing workers' existing conditions, even where they have expressly chosen to work under collective agreements. This may not happen overnight; it is likely to be a slow burn. It is, nevertheless, central to the government's agenda. For instance, once a collective agreement has expired, all an employer has to do is give the workers 90 days notice in order to declare the workplace award free and collective agreement free. Once this is done, the only obligation on the employer is to comply with the government's minimum employment conditions. These so-called 'guaranteed' conditions are four weeks annual leave, personal leave, parental leave, a limit on the number of ordinary working hours and the minimum wage. But even here all is not what it appears to be. The government has made it clear that it is prepared to allow annual leave to be reduced to two weeks a year and has already flagged its intentions to reduce the real value of the minimum wage. This is a government ideologically committed to institutionalising unfairness.
This is also evident from the government's proposals for the treatment of unfair dismissal. Protection for workers from arbitrary dismissal has been a feature of Australia's industrial relations landscape for many decades. It is integral to any sense of industrial fairness. Despite this, the government has decided to proceed with a platform of extremely regressive proposals. For several years, the government has indicated its intention to limit unfair dismissal protection to workplaces with more than 20 workers. Prior to the introduction of this bill, it declared that unfair dismissal protection would be available only for workers who had an employer with a work force with more than 100 workers. This proposal apparently did not go far enough. We now find that even in the case of employers with more than 100 workers it will be possible to also dismiss people on the grounds of so-called 'operational' necessity. This is an incredibly elastic formula that will essentially allow employers to sack workers on the flimsiest of pretexts provided it can be dressed up as an 'operational' requirement. At the stroke of a pen, millions of Australian workers will be disenfranchised from protection against arbitrary dismissal.
The government claims that its unprincipled position on unfair dismissals is designed to assist small business, although it now looks as though this claim will have to be amended to include the big end of town as well. Do not get me wrong: Labor is not opposed to a review of procedural fairness in relation to unfair dismissal legislation. But this government's jackbooted approach will set job security in this country back 100 years—and along with it the quintessentially Australian notion of what we have all known as a fair go. This government seems determined to throw out the baby, the bathwater and the bath when it comes to unfair dismissal law.
The government also claims that existing unfair dismissal provisions discourage employers from employing more workers. Estimates by members opposite vary, but figures as high as 80,000 have been bandied around. Empirical evidence to back up these claims, though, has been conspicuous by its absence. Hardly surprisingly, the claims have been dismissed out of hand by serious commentators. As expressed by one leading researcher, Dr Paul Oslington, who has attempted to model the government's claims:
Even if we do the simulations as optimistically as we possibly can, you can't get any substantial impact on employment.
By any objective standard, unfair dismissal legislation is an industrial relations issue in need of some tweaking here and there. That this government is prepared to jettison any sense of even-handedness in this area is a reflection of its ideological obsession and the lengths it is prepared to go to to placate the more reactionary elements within the business community.
Almost two million workers, approximately 20 per cent of the Australian work force, depend on the minimum wage. Historically, increases in the minimum wage have been set by the Australian Industrial Relations Commission. Since coming into office in 1996 this government has consistently argued for minimal increases in the minimum wage. The minimum wage is currently $25,188 a year. If the government had had its way, the minimum wage would only be $22,500 a year. That is $50 a week, or $2,600 a year, less than what has been awarded by the Australian Industrial Relations Commission. Over the period from 1997 to 2005 the minimum wage increased by 9.2 per cent in real terms. Had this government's approach been adopted by the Australian Industrial Relations Commission the minimum wage would have fallen by 1.6 per cent in real terms.
The government argues that the increases awarded by the Industrial Relations Commission have priced the unemployed out of the labour market. Its solution is lower minimum wage increases and, in real terms, a decrease in the minimum wage. Yet during this period jobs have continued to grow. In the last five years, for example, jobs growth has been in the order of 10.4 per cent. In other words, although there have been real increases in the minimum wage there has also been an increase in employment and a fall in unemployment. The government has chosen to ignore these inconvenient facts. Instead, it has opted to shoot the messenger by removing the Australian Industrial Relations Commission from its traditional role in wage setting. It will be replaced by the misnamed Australian Fair Pay Commission. Although nominally independent, members of this commission will be determined by the government and will have fixed terms of appointment. From the outset, the commission will be under pressure to adopt the government's position on minimum wage increases. If the government's track record is anything to go by this is likely to result in reductions in real terms in the minimum wage. Once again, fairness will be sacrificed on the altar of ideological obsession.
The damage will not, however, stop there. A lower real minimum wage will inevitably have a spillover effect on other wage earners, since it is the base upon which many other wage levels are set. This in turn, over time, may well have the effect of reducing the real value of wages for workers who earn more than the minimum wage. In doing so it may also reduce in real terms average weekly earnings. In addition, as increases in the old age pension are linked to increases in male average weekly earnings, any reduction in the value of male average weekly earnings is bad news for pensioners. As you are aware, Madam Deputy Speaker, I have the honour of representing the people of Hindmarsh, which has the oldest age profile of any electorate in Australia. If we go through the same experience as New Zealand did when it deregulated its labour market in the 1990s then we can expect the living standards of pensioners to be adversely affected. For Labor it is totally unacceptable that older Australians should end up as collateral damage in this government's reckless campaign to cannibalise Australia's industrial relations system.
Trade unions have played a vital role in our society over the last 100 years. They have made a major contribution to raising the living standards of ordinary working people in this country. The trade union movement is still the largest voluntary organisation in Australia. Trade unions have acted to curb the worst excesses of our industrial society and have sought to enshrine human dignity as a right for all, not just for the rich and privileged. Many of the human rights and industrial conditions we take for granted are the direct result of many struggles over many decades by many working people committed to building a better society. These gains have now been placed in great jeopardy.
This government has an ideological hatred of trade unions and in this bill has gone to great lengths to shackle their ability to act on behalf of Australia's working men and women. This government's legislation is nothing less than a full-frontal assault on the rights of working people to organise in defence of wages and working conditions. It seeks to make access to workplaces by union representatives much more difficult, it seeks to curb the right of workers to take legitimate industrial action, it seeks to provide the minister with extraordinary powers to interfere in industrial disputes—which, incidentally, are at a historical low—and it seeks to impose harsh penalties for even the slightest infractions by workers or their representatives. In short, this bill is an attempt to get rid of unions while not actually prohibiting them outright.
This policy is as short-sighted as it is vindictive. Increasingly, public policy in Australia has been dominated by corporate business interests. If we are to have a vibrant democratic society it is absolutely essential that we have countervailing forces that can challenge the dominance of the big end of town. The trade union movement has been an important part of this countervailing coalition. If we truly value our freedoms and our way of life we need to defend trade unions. Not only are trade unions necessary to protect and advance the interests of ordinary working Australians, they are also essential to ensuring that our society does not end up simply being an adjunct of big business.
This bill is without doubt the most nasty and divisive legislation that has been introduced into this parliament in living memory. What makes matters worse is that it is as unnecessary as it is regressive. The government's industrial relations program is at best a fourth-rate issue that has been shoved up the public policy agenda because of a 20-year ideological obsession nurtured by the Prime Minister and his acolytes. The government has at no stage put forward a coherent and reasoned case that would warrant such a drastic overhaul of this country's IR laws. Much of its argument for change is premised on the simplistic view that a deregulated labour market is the best, indeed the only, way forward for Australia in terms of employment growth and prosperity. This is despite the fact that there are many countries, particularly in Europe, which have more regulated labour markets but which also have higher living standards and better employment outcomes than is the case in Australia. In this respect we could learn much more from countries such as Norway, Sweden, Denmark and the Netherlands. This would be much more preferable than continually seeking to impose the worst aspects of the American system on the Australian community.
Madam Deputy Speaker, when I made my first speech in this place I referred to the ever-increasing pressures that Australian families have to contend with. In doing so I also called for a return to the traditional Australian ethos of a fair go. With this bill this government has made it abundantly clear that it is not interested in the welfare of ordinary Australian families or in the fairness that in the past has helped make Australia such a great place to live. While we may lose the vote on this bill in this place I can assure you that Labor will repeal this odious piece of legislation at the first opportunity. With the support of the Australian people, this could be as early as 2007.


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Release Notes: This version mostly contains artwork changes: there are a large number of new cars, and the menu background has been updated. When it comes to functionality, there are some small bugfixes, but most importantly, there are several changes in how the Windows version installs itself, which will hopefully fix some issues of Ultimate Stunts on Windows Vista and Windows 7.
Release Notes: Car-car collisions have improved, the track editor has some new functions, sound on the OpenAL platform now works better (with optional libvorbisfile support), and OpenAL is now also used in the Windows version. A pause function was added, and configuring keys and joysticks has become easier.
Release Notes: This version contains another major improvement in the track editor: the route information will now be automatically recalculated when you make changes to the track. This is an important step towards completeness of the track editor. Other changes are a more user-friendly settings editor and a different slip model, which should make the car handling a bit easier.
Release Notes: This version has some graphical improvements, like a smoke effect on crashed cars, and improved environment/sky rendering. Collision sounds are now transmitted in network games and stored in replay files. Some new functionality has been added to the track editor, greatly improving its usefulness. Some effort has been made to make it easier to compile Ultimate Stunts on Mac OS X.
Release Notes: The most important change in this release is that cars will now crash if they collide too fast with other objects. Some of the other changes are collision sound improvements, a new and fancy OpenGL mouse cursor, and the addition of a navigation compass to the track editor. The Linux (x86) binary packages are now based on OpenAL instead of FMOD (the Windows binaries will follow later).
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tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-9854179.post7255121412240998124..comments2017-08-28T08:49:18.975-05:00Comments on Julie Berg: Run On: Peace. At Last.Julie Bhttp://firstname.lastname@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-9854179.post-46306817604334634932007-11-16T10:38:00.000-06:002007-11-16T10:38:00.000-06:00You were voted a board member of the UMTR last nig...You were voted a board member of the UMTR last night! So was I. You'll get all the details from Larry or Alicia.

I finally started a training blog.
http://stevequick.blogspot.com/SteveQhttps://email@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-9854179.post-45809657022815813212007-11-15T13:14:00.000-06:002007-11-15T13:14:00.000-06:00You guys-my nutritional information for EVERY DAY ...You guys-my nutritional information for EVERY DAY is in the link on the side bar-it says My Food Leanness Lifestyle or something. Every day for the past year or so is there.Julie Bhttps://firstname.lastname@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-9854179.post-79876365781475477802007-11-15T13:09:00.000-06:002007-11-15T13:09:00.000-06:00I also love that you're posting your nutrition pla...I also love that you're posting your nutrition plans - it is indeed inspirational, and you're reflections on how going sugar-less is affecting your energy levels are incredibly motivating!SnarkyPantshttp://firstname.lastname@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-9854179.post-1782124604080788082007-11-15T06:06:00.000-06:002007-11-15T06:06:00.000-06:00Ever since I read your post about hunter, I've bee...Ever since I read your post about hunter, I've been paranoid running on the trails. I'm glad they don't have deer season where I run, I hope anyway.. Glad your is over with.

Great job sticking with the "sugarless" program, That is some great will power there..

ps. I was thinking about doing McNaughton 100 in '08, I was wondering if you could send some tips my way on how to train for night running, firstname.lastname@example.com
Thanks.RunBubbaRunhttps://email@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-9854179.post-80436088719322007482007-11-14T14:33:00.000-06:002007-11-14T14:33:00.000-06:00I'm loving that you, Olga, and Ronda are posting y...I'm loving that you, Olga, and Ronda are posting your nutrition info. It is really helpful. I definitely needed a good kick in the caboose and watching y'all is very motivating! Thanks for the great post!Carilynhttps://firstname.lastname@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-9854179.post-37118991133542857412007-11-14T12:05:00.000-06:002007-11-14T12:05:00.000-06:00Awesome, Juls!!! You rock, girl, just get'r done:)...Awesome, Juls!!! You rock, girl, just get'r done:)olgahttps://firstname.lastname@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-9854179.post-15801769743505217412007-11-14T07:42:00.000-06:002007-11-14T07:42:00.000-06:00Yeah for the sugar. That *was* one of my addictio...Yeah for the sugar. That *was* one of my addictions as well. I went cold turkey along with, caffeine, asparatmine (which read up on that crap and it's worse than any sugar), cheese and meat. I feel wicked awesome also!!! I never thought I could be satisfied with just fruit for breakfast, but I feel so much better.

Honestly, again, you were one of my biggest inspirations!!

Way to go hitting the weight too! I am thrilled for you!!

Have you ever looked into stevia or agave? I have just avoided anything like that while I detox as well.

Great job and what a fantastic post to read first thing in the morning!!

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tom79 (3)...Necrotica (3.5)A fun little debut that showed Rush's hard rock influences; just be aware that this is not...sonictheplumber (3.5)...Waior (3.5)Hey baby, it's a quarter to eight and I feel I'm in the mood....
DragonHeartstring (5)Rush hit hard with a great, rocking debut album full of spectacular guitar solos, demented...Insignia7 (4)If you're in the mood and what you're doing is nothing, take a friend and find your way to...
why you have this rated at a 3.5 but reviewed at a 2? :3
they call me the working man
i guess thats what i am
It's not favourite either, but it's not that bad. I dont agree with most of it, but you back up your opinions well and this is a pretty solid write up. good work
Album Rating: 3.5lol.
Digging: Isis - Panopticon
Working Man rules.
Album Rating: 5.0neg'd hard
Album Rating: 3.5This is a great 74' rock album. Comparing it to the rest of their discog is just a bad idea because it causes you to lose perspective. It had some solid rock tracks and should be appreciated as such. 2 is overly harsh imho. Having an album that charted and eventually gets certified is difficult for any band and deserves a healthy dose of respect in it's own right.
Album Rating: 3.5album is fun, 2 is too low
"yes i am serious about reviewing their whole discography, people."
why does that feel like a threat more than a promise
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Album Rating: 3.5this>colors
Album Rating: 4.5I love this album.
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The American spirit of independence ensures that Fourth of July celebrations across the nation remain in the grass-roots realm, despite intense efforts by clever marketers and merchandisers to co-opt, standardize and "brand" such events. There's still a reassuring variety of designations for patriotic occasions taking place Wednesday:
"Honor America Day" (Anadoka, Okla.); "Let Freedom Sing" (Nashville); "Go 4th on the River" (New Orleans); "Four Legged Fourth" (Turnwater, Wash.; the grand marshal of the parade is Otis, the town's sole police dog); "The Heartbeat of Freedom" (Orlando, Fla.); "Lights on the Lake" (Lake Tahoe, Calif.), "Kaboom Town" (Addison, Texas), "Stars and Stripes Days" (Brainerd, Minn.), "Fourth of July Powwow" (Arlee, Montana); "Red, White & Blue on the Green" (Summerville, S.C.); "Welcome Home, Returning Heroes" (Wolfeboro, N.H.); "Indepen-Dance (Palms Hotel, Las Vegas).
What's the agenda on Independence Day? President Obama remains in Washington on Wednesday to preside over a naturalization ceremony for active-duty service members in the East Room of the White House, accompanied by U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services Director Alejandro Mayorkas and Secretary of Homeland Security Janet Napolitano. Yes, there's big doings a bit later: a picnic and concert for military families on the South Lawn; it's daughter Malia's 14th birthday, and of course, the nation's biggest fireworks display will be overhead at dusk. Watch the Fourth from an Obama-eye view here: www.whitehouse.gov/live. Mr. Obama, incidentally; leaves town Thursday for a two-day bus tour of Ohio and Pennsylvania.
Republican counterpart Mitt Romney, meanwhile, will spend an intensely family entric day at his 13-acre compound on truly overwhelming Lake Winnipesaukee, N.H., where the burgeoning Romney clan has vacationed since 1997. But duty calls. Mr. Romney will march in the local town parade at nearby Wolfeboro, accompanied by Sen. Kelly Ayottte.
Ardent supporters from Team Romney will also march in three neighboring town parades, with the U.S. military much on their minds:
"With bravery, sacrifice, and courage, members of our armed services are protecting freedom at home and abroad, and we thank them for their service to our nation," Tommy Schultz, a spokesman for the Romney Victory Fund, tells Inside the Beltway.
"We are reminded that elections are important and have consequences for our freedom and well-being. The last three years have been an important lesson: We need strong leadership in Washington to turn our economy around," he adds. "As president, Mitt Romney will preserve our freedoms from an intrusive government that has moved away from the intentions of our Founders, and will put our nation back onto the path of prosperity."
This libation will surely offend purists, but hey, it's a holiday. Here's a recipe for the "Patriotic Red, White and Blue Martini," courtesy of Hpnotiq, a chichi blue vodka hybrid. The ingredients: 2 oz. Hpnotiq, 1 oz. citrus-flavored vodka, 1 splash lemon-lime soda, a dash of grenadine. The instructions: Shake first three ingredients with ice, strain into a martini glass and slowly add a touch of grenadine, which will sink in the glass to produce a red layer. Garnish with a curl of fresh coconut, or chopped coconut.
He's long been on the short list as a vice-presidential candidate. Now we know for sure that Virginia Gov. Bob McDonnell will indeed be serving in an official capacity at the Republican National Convention in Tampa, Fla., at summer's end. Mr. McDonnell has been named chairman of the convention's platform committee, says Republican National Committee Chairman Reince Priebus.
Sen. John Hoeven of North Dakota and Rep. Marsha Blackburn of Tennessee will serve as co-chairmen.
In political circles, this is the proverbial big, lofty deal.
"The principles of our party and our vision for the country are contained in the platform. It is a document of immense importance and a testament to our dedication to individual liberty, economic freedom, and limited government," attests Mr. Priebus.
"I look forward to hearing from voters across the country as we seek to give voice to the concerns, priorities, and values of the American people. This process is about more than writing; it is about listening. Voters deserve a party who listens to them," responds Mr. McDonnell.
"No evidence of aquatic humanoids has ever been found. Why, then, do they occupy the collective unconscious of nearly all seafaring peoples? That's a question best left to historians, philosophers and anthropologists."
(An official statement from the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Agency on Tuesday, responding to public questions regarding Animal Planet's docu-drama, "Mermaids: The Body Found").
• 160 million Americans will celebrate July 4th with a cookout or picnic.
• 115 million will attend a local fireworks display or community celebration.
• 48 million will purchase patriotic merchandise; 35 million will attend a parade.
• $302.7 million: Dollar value of American flags, banners and similar emblems manufactured annually in the U.S.
• $223.6 million: Amount spent annually in the U.S. on fireworks imported from China.
• $32.40: Average amount spent on July 4th cookout food items to feed 10 people.
• 35: Number of American towns or cities containing the word "eagle"; 11 contain the word "independence"; 9 contain the word "freedom."
• $1.7 billion: amount Americans spend on hot dogs annually.
• Los Angeles, San Antonio, New York, Baltimore/Washington and Chicago are the nation's top hot dog-consuming cities.
(Sources: Data released for July 4, 2012, by the U.S. Census Department., the National Retail Federation, the National Hot Dog & Sausage Council, Indiana Farm Bureau)
• Happy Fourth of July, and thanks for reading Inside the Beltway.
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TURIN, Italy, May 4 (UPI) -- A former hangout for an Italian crime syndicate in Turin has reopened as a "gang-free" pub, officials say.
The new "Italia Libera" bar is run by Libera, an organization that converts former mafia property into socially responsible businesses, Italy's ANSA news agency reported Friday.
The drinking establishment was known as "Bar Italia" when it was owned by Giuseppe Catalano and was a headquarters for 'Ndrangheta, Italy's most powerful mafia organization.
"I hope this place brings refreshment not just to the palate, but to the conscience as well," said Libera director Don Luigi Ciotti in reopening the bar Friday.
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HOPE BARTON will be one of 26 artists participating in the Crescent Beach Paint Out held this weekend. Barton will paint in Washington Oaks Gardens State Park. By JUSTIN YURKANIN, firstname.lastname@example.com
Ask a plein air artist to talk about a memorable experience, and you're likely to hear a story that could have come from the Crocodile Hunter, or at least a bird watcher.
This weekend presents opportunities to find out what rattle snakes and paints have in common as 25 outdoorsy artisans take to the coast for the 2005 Crescent Beach Paint Out.
The three-day event invites plein air artists to paint on site from the St. Augustine Lighthouse and Museum to the interior of Washington Oaks Gardens State Park.
The artists can enter up to three works to win a title at an awards ceremony held from 2 to 5 p.m. Sunday at the recently opened Island Fine Art gallery, 6279 A1A S. There will be refreshments at the ceremony that is open to the public.
Plein air is a term for painting in the open air, recording natural light. The impressionists utilized this practice during Claude Monet's time, and plein air organizations are known to artists now throughout the world.
While registration to compete in the paint out is full, event coordinators said they will welcome any artist to pull up an easel and a canvas during the event. Organizers also invite the public to approach the artists and ask questions while they work.
Local art connoisseurs may recognize Hope Barton from the Butterfield Garage Art Gallery where she regularly shows. She plans to stake her post at Washington Oaks State Park.
Meet the artists:
The Crescent Beach Paint Out will take place today through Sunday from the St. Augustine Lighthouse and Museum to the interior of Washington Oaks Gardens State Park. Plein air artists will set up outside and paint the landscape on site.
The public is invited to talk to the artists as they paint this weekend or to pull up an easel and join the paint out.
Registered artists will compete, and prizes will be awarded from 2 to 5 p.m. Sunday at Island Fine Art, 6279 A1A S. There will be refreshments at the ceremony that is open to the public.
Call 471-5808.
Barton, who paints her plein air art with acrylics, said anyone interested in trying out the art technique may want to take a workshop so they know what to expect.
Once, she was surprised to find out that her husband had discretely killed a pigmy rattler near her while she was painting on site. Another time, a hawk swooped down and landed close to her easel.
She said she is looking forward to the event as a chance to mingle with other artists.
She said she used to be pretty shy but that making a career in the art world brought her out of her shell. More than four years ago, she owned a gallery in Clermont where she often had sidewalk art shows and the opportunity to meet new artists.
"When I closed my gallery, I realized there was a void in my life," she said, adding that her move to St. Augustine and participation in plein air events filled that void.
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Conservative columnist: Ryan made a mistake speaking at 'Values Voter Summit'Saturday, September 15, 2012The Washington Post's conservative political columnist Dana Milbank, in his column Friday, openly criticized GOP Vice-Presidential candidate Paul Ryan for his appearance Friday morning to speak before attendees at the Family Research Council's "Values Voter Summit."…
British producer jailed in Uganda for staging play depicting gay charactersThursday, September 13, 2012KAMPALA, Uganda -- The British manager of a bar and cultural center in the Ugandan capital city was arrested and remains in police custody after being denied bail for staging a play last week, whose main…
Transgender advocacy group condemns planned 'Anderson Live' segmentWednesday, September 12, 2012WASHINGTON -- The National Center for Transgender Equality on Wednesday denounced plans by the syndicated talk show "Anderson Live" to air a controversial interview with a person who claims an anti-baldness drug made them transgender.
Anti-gay Michele Bachmann in danger of losing congressional seatWednesday, September 12, 2012MINNEAPOLIS, Minn. -- A recently conducted internal tracking poll for Democrats in Minnesota's new 6th Congressional District shows that GOP incumbent Michele Bachmann could be in trouble.
Famed gay computer scientist Alan Turing honored with Monopoly editionTuesday, September 11, 2012BLETCHLEY PARK, U.K. -- Alan Turing, a mathematician and World War II codebreaker widely considered to be the father of computer science and artificial intelligence, and who committed suicide in 1954 after being sentenced to chemical…
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The entire West Bank is now considered by Netanyahu and his government not as 'occupied' territory but as 'disputed' territory, to which the Jews have as much a claim as its Arab inhabitants.
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Russian police probe video of girl, 8, driving at 100km/h
Video clip of Karina Mikulchik was shot by her mother, Yelena, goes viral on YouTube
Police in St Petersburg are investigating after video of a girl, eight, driving at 100 km/h through snowy scenery went viral on the internet.
The video clip of Karina Mikulchik was shot by her mother, Yelena, who was sitting in the back seat.
The video has been a massive hit, being viewed nearly 500,000 times on YouTube.
Karina seems unperturbed handling the Audi to the sounds of techno music from the stereo. A man sitting in the passenger seat tells her: "Come on! Accelerate! At least to 100! Don't be afraid."
The camera zooms in to show the speed creeping up to 100km/h.
"If Nastya saw me drive a car, she'd pass out right away!" the smiling girl says at one point, apparently referring to a friend, as she speeds through a snow-covered field on a narrow track. She does not appear to be wearing a seat belt.
At the end of the five-minute clip, the car pulls up to a house in a rural village.
The footage was shown on television after the mother posted the footage on her social networking page and YouTube.
Police are investigating traffic code violations and the parents' willingness to give the steering wheel to a child.
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A Mason County man is dead after a crash in Point Pleasant.
The accident happened on Saturday, Nov. 10.
Steven Potts, 37, of Henderson died from injuries he received when he lost control of his pickup truck and drove into a ditch about 6 a.m. on Charleston Road, according to a news release from the Mason County Sheriff's Department.
Authorities have not said what caused the accident.
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- Beautifully illustrated family history books with a difference by a frequent contributor to the UK family history press. I write for Family Tree Magazine UK; Discover Your Ancestors Online Periodical and Bookazine; Who Do You Think You Are? Magazine. The publishers of my family history books are Pen and Sword Books and The History Press. I tweet (and retweet) thought-provoking content designed to help you tweak your approach to (your family) history at @RuthaSymes . Do follow me.
Thursday, 13 February 2014
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It Runs in the Family: Understanding More About Your Ancestors
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I will be signing copies of my new book, It Runs in the Family: Understanding More About Your Ancestors (The History Press, 2013) at the Who Do You Think You Are Live Event at Olympia, London February 20th-22nd 2014.
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Primavera 2017 artist Laura Hindmarsh shares six films ahead of her specially curated edition of Art + Film on Saturday 16 September.
Why do some cultures prefer to eat with their bare hands while others use knives, forks or chopsticks?
'It can be what you want it to be'. Stallholders at the 2017 MCA Zine Fair say it how it is.
The National 2017: New Australian Art artist Erin Coates gets in the driving seat for our April film experience
Women of Fairfield co-curator and PYT Artistic Director, Karen Therese takes us on a food safari through Fairfield, Sydney.
What art-concoction have curators put together for our annual Primavera fundraiser bash?
Delve into our new Contemporary Film Series with Daniel Kasman, Director of Content at MUBI and film curator for August.
Siobhan learns from artist Jumaadi about his shadow puppet performance The Life and Death of a Shadow
Zinesters shu. & Mikaela Cailao share their how's and why's of zine-making
Let's twist! Artist Bridie Connell talks history of 60s Go-go dance & where it's at in Sydney today
Let's all take a moment to get to know the artist who will wave over the Museum with an ethereal wand and dip the building in gold for MCA ARTBAR.
Ahead of her MCA ARTBAR dubbed 'Koala Nutbush' we sit down with Rosie Deacon, Sydney queen of kitsch, whimsy and Australiana.
Film archive legends Jay Katz and Miss Death enlighten us
He has organised exhibitions of work by Ernesto Neto, Tracey Emin, David Shrigley, and Martin Creed. Arriving in Sydney in April is Dr Cliff Lauson, Curator of Light Show.
Benjamin Forster did a residency here at the MCA and was subsequently commissioned to create a work for one of our many walls.
Embracing Ignorance: MCA talks with artist Malcolm Whittaker, who leads Sonic Social event, Ignoramus Anonymous
Biennale Artistic Director, Juliana Engberg, discusses the curatorial process and thematic inspirations for Sydney.
MCA Artist in Residence Benjamin Forster
MCA Chief Curator and curator of War is Over! (if you want it): Yoko Ono, talks about the first major survey in Australia of works by Yoko Ono, once described by her late husband John Lennon as the world's 'most famous unknown artist'.
MCA Artist in Residence Benjamin Forster attempts to define drawing in his fourth blog post.
MCA Artist in Residence Benjamin Forster discusses an interlude in his project at the MCA in his third blog post.
MCA C3 West Curator Anne Loxley talks to artist David Capra about Western Sydney.
MCA Artist in Residence Benjamin Forster discusses the development of his project at the MCA in his second blog post.
MCA Artist in Residence Benjamin Forster outlines his project at the MCA and his influences in his first blog post.
Artist Garry Trinh talks about his new project for C3West, recently launched in Western Sydney Parklands.
The artist dicussed her works in the show.
The artist dicussed his works in the show.
Ken Whisson interprets a passage from The Palm-Wine Drinkard
MCA Touring Exhibitions and Projects Manager Karen Hall discusses Almanac: The Gift of Ann Lewis AO currently on show at its final venue, Newcastle Art Gallery.
MCA Curatorial Assistant Kelly McDonald discusses Claire Healy and Sean Cordeiro's Par Avion featured in their upcoming MCA exhibition.
MCA Curatorial Assistant Kelly McDonald gives the latest on Lee Mingwei's The Mending Project
Bennett Miller discusses Dachshund U.N., part of Local Positioning Systems curated by Performance Space.
Jason Maling discusses his Physician performance, part of Local Positioning Systems curated by Performance Space.
Julie-Anne Long talks about her recent Val, The Invisible performance ahead of this Thursday's This is not a Lecture Theatre talk at the MCA.
Scottish artist Katie Paterson talks about her works in Marking Time.
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Howard likely won't return by end of June
Howard likely won't return by end of June
NEW YORK -- The Phillies said Ryan Howard is making progress in Clearwater, Fla., but don't expect him back in the lineup before the end of June.
Phillies general manager Ruben Amaro Jr. said Wednesday he preferred not to put a timetable on Howard's return from left Achilles surgery, but said, "I don't expect it," when asked if a return before July 1 is likely.
Howard's left calf has atrophied after months of inactivity following surgery in October and a second surgical procedure in February after developing an infection near the tendon.
"He's coming along really well," Amaro said. "But he's still got to get strength back in his leg, and he still has more work to do."
Amaro said Chase Utley, who has a chronic left knee condition, is improving a little every day, but offered no timetable for his return.


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Discussion in 'The Perfect Line and Other Riding Myths' started by jgrooms, Jan 9, 2013.
I don't see a tow rope as a good idea. You slow or stop and the sled doesn't???
"Today the adventure from the northernmost point of continental USA to the southernmost point started at Point Barrow. To get there I had to adapt the bike and the sledge to the climate and ice conditions. This was only possible thanks to my new friends who live here and who know this environment. Clifford, Nelson, Michael, Jacob, Charles and others, thank you guys! (picture by Michael Donovan)"
We are backing up a bit with videos, as Sjaak reports he will depart today. As you saw in the last post, Sjaak has worked out the sled attachment. Here is assembly of the sled detail.
We have a lot of video to post this week of his testing and retesting progress prior to taking off. A project like this obviously presented some unforeseen issues.As always, Sjaak keeps pushing through. Of course he's received a warm welcome and incredible assistance from the residents of Barrow. Sjaak thanks you all!!!
We'll do our best to keep you posted on his progress on the ice. But we are really looking forward to when he hits land in Canada and can send the video out.
-40 F in Barrow! The crankcase blow by directed into the airbox was freezing up the carbs!. So that's been vented 'elsewhere'. But the engine is running too lean. They've found some jets from a Yamaha snowmobile application.
And yes he is going to pull the sled with a rope. 100 ft of rope.
Day after tomorrow is planned departure if the air/fuel ratio is resolved.
The view from the SledCam.
Go Sjaak!
So this is a silly question, but technically, how does the "Entering Canada from the USA" thing work, doing this?
I mean going into Alaska and coming back into Canada at Hyder, they get extremely persnickety about the border crossing stop. Same with going to Pt. Roberts.
Is there a Port Customs shack in Tuk?
That would be...interesting.
"Hi I'm Sjaak coming from Barrow! I would like to enter Canada, please."
Customs: "Denied Entry."
Sjaak: :huh "But...but..."
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From Sjaak: "Dear Polar Ice Ride Adventure followers. A few days ago I succeeded in reaching Point Barrow, the northernmost point of continental USA. After having done a few more preparations I will leave Barrow tomorrow 21 February 2013 and head in the direction of Canada. Tests showed that the sledge and what I carry inside is far too heavy. But I have good hope we make it. I just start and see how it goes. Its good to know that if it really doesnt work I can always get off the ice near Deadhorse, still about 500 km ice riding from here. From there roads lead down to Key West in Florida, the southernmost point of continental USA where my journey will end.
Until I get off the ice you wont [hear from me]. But the plan is to give daily updates via satellite phone..."
After following the videos of the bike build and all of the required work/planning for this adventure, it's awesome to see his excitement at this point. The engine starts at -30 degrees Celsius. Go Sjaak!!!
I don't think that I have ever seen any motorcyclist so happy at 30 below zero!
Sjaak is an interesting guy.
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The sled is too heavy and the drag (fuel consumption) was greater than expected. Bike is working perfect, but fuel consumption is 4 x expected.
So Sjaak is shortening the route and heading to Pruhdoe Bay tomorrow (hopefully).
This video from a few days back is of more 'field' modifications.
The sledge actually has great directional control - so long as the direction you want to go is straight ahead.
The natives who live up there, and have accumulated a bit of experience in pulling sledges across the ice and tundra, will put a long - maybe 20' to 30' long - rope between their snowmachine and the sledge. They don't make sharp turns, but those are rarely needed if the rider is watching ahead. The rope's length allows the sledge to slide to a stop a safe distance behind the machine, and also has the added benefit of giving the sledge a sharp tug to get it moving after it has been sitting for a few minutes. Even in sub-zero temperatures the sledge's runners gain a bit of heat. Not enough to melt the ice, but when you add the pressure the sledge's weight puts on the ice, it will melt (try the string over the ice cube trick some time) and then refreeze, sometimes making it difficult to get the sledge moving again. With a long rope coiled behind the snowmachine, as soon as it becomes taut, the sledge comes loose. Of course, this also gives the rider a jolt, but they soon become accustomed to it, and are prepared for that. As long as Sjaak is moving in a straight line away from the sledge, the jerk would not tip his bike sideways, but might cause him to slide up onto the tank a bit :eek1 briefly.
Rough start. Hopefully tomorrow.
"Unfortunately I had to give up on the first attempt. The sledge, fuel and all the luggage was far too heavy to pull. To get less weight I have send 80kg/200lb by air to Nuiqsut, the first town where I can get off the ice and can go on the road system. Plan was to have a fresh start today. A severe weather alert caused another delay. Hopefully tomorrow afternoon I can go on my way."
I almost hate to suggest this at this point because I realize it would take away somewhat from the spirit of this ride, but could Sjaak not put the wheels back on the sledge and try to carve a path through the bush over to Deadhorse via land?
I realize it would be rough going - perhaps the newly made friends in Barrow could go ahead of him in snow machines making a rough trail for Sjaak to follow - or perhaps a crude snow machine trail exists already this time of year from Barrow to Deadhorse? I'm sure the locals could answer this.
*IF* such a thing is even possible it would still serve the purpose of riding Barrow to Key West.
You should be able to use the wheels from Nuiqsut to Prudhoe. I guess they still have a winter road there. (I built one from PB to Nuiqsut years ago.) Also maybe an ice road out to Flaxman island, leaving from East POint.
Good luck!!
"Every day there is something new thats withholding me from leaving Barrow and getting on the polar ice. After bad weather before, it is was a coolant leak yesterday and today the generator which is necessary to preheat the bike failed due to dirt in the fuel system."
Anyone who's traveled in remote regions, with limited parts, less than ideal condition, etc, will appreciate the need for the unorthodox 'fix' as shown in this video.
Finally some video of the first tests...
Uh oh. We've been having unseasonably warm temps all the way up to Barrow.
"Dear Polar Ice Ride Adventure followers. Finally the moment of leaving the Top of the World is in sight. The wind which blows the snow over the ice will soon go down. This same wind brought movement in the ice on the west coast of Barrow and what was a thick ice layer of ice before, turned over night into open water. But I go to the east, together with Lioyd, a guide/escort which I hired with his snow machine. Apart from bringing safety he could also tow my sled if necessary. This way I can spare my motorcycle which can barely pull the heavy load. As soon as Lioyd gives the okay we leave from the Top of the World. Will it happen this time?
Until … Sjaak"
What was ice and snow in the distance is now open ocean. :eek1


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In his first press conference since taking office, Smith County Sheriff Larry Smith detailed the changes to the department he's made since his inauguration while talking about some upcoming plans.
One of the most noticeable changes Smith has implemented is going from staffing the department's downtown lobby during business hours to having it open 24 hours a day. Doors remained locked in the evenings for safety but a deputy is always available to buzz visitors in.
If you think you're spotting more deputies on the road you're right. Smith said, as of last month, a switch to 12-hour shifts is putting more deputies out in the county and on patrol at one time.
"All we were able to do before with four to eight units was react to calls," Smith said. "That's all we had any time whatsoever to do. So we're now able to do some proactive law enforcement."
Smith has also implemented a new system that holds the department more accountable for response times.
As for the black and white patrol cars themselves, they're changing from a "wrap" to a paint-job for a savings of $2,200 dollars a car.
Jail construction is on tap to be done in a year and after that the sheriff said he wants to start housing Federal inmates. That means instead of paying to send Smith County inmates out of town--like the current overcrowding requires--extra space will allow the county to collect up to $2 million a year by housing federal inmates. In turn, Smith said, that would pay off the jail expansion quicker.
Meanwhile, solving crimes could get a 21st century shot-in-the-arm courtesy of "tip411." The sheriff said the software has been bought and soon you'll be able to send a tip or even a picture of a crime from your smart phone. That software also allows an anonymous two-way conversation between investigators and tipsters.
Smith also highlighted recent high profile arrests like an accused murderer, an accused child molester and Smith County jailer who was arrested days after Smith took office.
"We're not going to have to call another agency in, whether it be the FBI or the Rangers or whatever to clean out from under our own door step," Smith said. "We're going to do it ourselves."


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but, see i totally disagree with this. I think you have it the other way around. I would say the lack of skill/knowledge would be the most important factor first. knowledge meaning, how to get out, where to be in the line up, the rules of the line up, how to turn, how to read waves...ect. I'm old school where the word "kook" meant all i described previously. Nowadays it seems the word kook has slightly taken on added meanings.
But disrupting others in the water would be a lack of knowledge. So i guess you could consider that a kook.
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Ok, i can agree with the lack of knowledge part but add the whole poseur aspect since that really makes it easy to spot the obvious kooks.
May 2, 2008, 04:42 PM #55
eh if you ask me the kook is the guy who sits outside on a day where the waves are knee high and your just messing around with some friends and you paddle for a wave he hasent caught yet then he drops in you pull out and on the way back out he starts saying stuff about you droping in on him when he has taken every half decent wave so far
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The Samoan community, dignitaries and fans of the late football great gathered Saturday to give an Oceanside landmark a new name: the Junior Seau Beach Community Center.
The center, below the Oceanside Municipal Pier, is a longtime hub of youth athletic activity. It sits next to the recently renamed Junior Seau Pier Amphitheatre, both buildings mere steps from the beach the Chargers star enjoyed during his youth and after his NFL career ended.
The City Council voted to name both venues after Seau, who died May 2 of a self-inflicted gunshot wound.
Saturday's ceremony brought hundreds together outside the community center to see the new sign unveiled. Seau was of Samoan descent, and the dedication ceremony was part of the Samoan Cultural Celebration that drew large crowds to the amphitheater all day.
At the celebration, awards were given to basketball players who participate in Junior's Juniors, a youth organization started and sustained by Seau.
"This is a special day, a remembrance of an icon, a hero not only in Oceanside but worldwide," Mayor Jim Wood said.
Rep. Eni Faleomavaega, D-American Samoa, said Seau's spirit was still with the community.
"His spirit is here for generations to come," Faleomavaega said. "He was a simple island boy who wanted to make people happy. Let's celebrate Junior's life. Let's all be happy."
County Supervisor Bill Horn reminded the crowd of Seau's charity foundation, noting that the foundation had given more than $4 million to the community, much of that to youth programs.
Annette Seau-So'oto, Seau's sister, said the ceremony was another reminder of the effect her brother ---- 43 when he died ---- had on the community.
"I'm happy to see again how much the community admired Junior, and it makes me feel proud as his sister to see and hear how much he accomplished, what a wonderful legacy he left behind," she said. "The family is thankful to the city and the Samoan community for what happened here today."
Carrie Linden, an Oceanside resident and Seau fan who has attended other events honoring Seau, said his legacy was established in Oceanside.
"Even though he's gone, his memory is still alive because of all the things he did for kids," Linden said.
Frank Zimmerman, an Oceanside High School teacher and coach who was a good friend of Seau's since middle school, said that though this is a sad time for family and friends, honors such as the ceremony help with healing.
"I met him playing soccer when we were kids, and we stuck together through all these years," Zimmerman said. "Not everybody knew this, but he was doing free workout sessions for kids on the beach recently. He loved being out here, surfing or riding his bike or taking his dog for a walk. He was a local guy."


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CARACAS (Reuters) - Osmar Herrera is the kind of Venezuelan that President Hugo Chavez had in mind when he launched his flagship health program eight years ago: sick, impoverished and in need of a break.
But Herrera's predicament today illustrates how the socialist leader's biggest social spending experiment fell off the tracks and may become a liability in next year's election.
When the 60-year-old Herrera first started coughing up blood earlier this year, he sought help near his house at one of thousands of "barrio adentro" health centers that Chavez has built in poor neighborhoods, paid for with oil money.
Near collapse, Herrera was punted from one institution to another until eventually ending up in the thoracic ward of a run-down public hospital three hours from his home. He adores Chavez but laments his inability to provide hospitals in his area with the equipment they need to treat pneumonia.
"They should have it too, so that some people don't have more than others, so that everyone is at the same level," he whispered from his bed in a spartan, eight-patient room.
While the president, who is undergoing treatment for cancer, is whisked away to Cuba for chemotherapy as a pampered guest of its revolutionary leader Fidel Castro, frustration at home is mounting over marathon waits at crumbling hospitals and shortages of basic medicines and supplies.
The "barrio adentro" program -- "within the neighborhood" in Spanish -- began in 2003 with an ambitious promise to grant free health care to the most needy. Initially, the government built small primary care modules in Caracas' many slums, staffed by Cuban doctors. The centers later mushroomed all across the country.
In subsequent stages, the government talked of building rehabilitation and diagnostic centers with technology imported from allies Cuba and China. It would also erect new hospitals in poor areas and refurbish existing ones.
The goal was widely applauded and the program's early success boosted Chavez' popularity. Several years on, however, only a small percentage of the projects have been completed and traditional hospitals have been starved of cash as the government pours money into the alternative system.
A self-styled revolutionary and populist, Chavez has framed the health debate as a struggle of the downtrodden against the elite. He is counting on his health and housing programs and discount food and clothing stores to win votes in the 2012 election, seen as a close race against the opposition.
Nobody knows how much "barrio adentro" costs due to notoriously opaque fiscal accounts. Jorge Diaz, a health policy researcher, estimates the overall budget for public health reached 9 percent of gross domestic product in 2004, up nearly 500 percent from 1998 and above the 2 percent historical norm.
State oil company PDVSA, which invests some of its revenue from the OPEC country's vast oil revenues in Chavez' social initiatives, says it invested $650 million on "barrio adentro" last year and $6.36 billion from 2003-2010.
Meanwhile, maternal and child health indicators have deteriorated and health coverage has not improved, according to research by Diaz at the Central University of Venezuela's Center for Development Studies.
The country now has three parallel services with no coordination between them: "barrio adentro", traditional public hospitals and private clinics. Surveys show Venezuelans are increasingly losing confidence in the two public options and turning to private care despite the cost.
Even Chavez declared in 2009 that there was a medical "emergency" after reports that 2,000 of the 6,700 "barrio adentro" modules had been abandoned.
"To summarize it in the simplest way, I would say this has been a rip-off," Diaz said. "It started as an electoral bait with some health benefits but it turned into a fraud, not only for health reasons but a fraud of the national treasury."
The gap between the idea and reality couldn't be starker than at the dilapidated Jose Ignacio Baldo public hospital in Caracas' low-income west side.
The pediatric care unit was "temporarily" closed in 2007 for renovations supposedly funded by "barrio adentro". Four years later, it remains an empty shell in a yard overgrown with weeds but otherwise no signs of life. Five weathered billboards advertise projects awarded to contractors that never got done.
Doctor Maria Yanez, a kidney specialist, threw her hands in the air when asked recently how this was possible. "We have no idea what has been done with so much money," she said. "A barrel of oil is at $107, for example, and a ton of money has entered the country."
The 500-bed hospital with peeling paint and leaky ceilings is running at about 30 percent of its capacity. The one X-ray machine doesn't work and many of its underpaid doctors have bolted the country in search of a better life elsewhere.
"We can't attend patients that come with chronic illness and need dialysis because they haven't replaced our water treatment plant, which is needed for dialysis," Yanez said.
It's not all bad news. To be fair, millions of Venezuelans have better access to doctors thanks to "barrio adentro". The bigger picture of inefficiency and corruption doesn't affect Felicia Cuisy, a 66-year-old activist dressed almost entirely in "Chavista" red in a hardscrabble district of Caracas.
The rehabilitation center she volunteers at dispenses free eyeglasses and is brimming with new-looking machines and pulleys used for physiotherapy. A dozen doctors see some 100 patients a day.
"There was nothing here before ... This has been extremely important, like a ring on a finger," she chimes.
Chavez's health minister, Eugenia Sader, has appealed to people like Cuisy in almost daily announcements about new high-tech diagnostic centers showcasing equipment fresh off the boat from Cuba.
One one such occasion in mid-August, the breathless minister was interrupted by a surprise call from Chavez who had been watching from his sick bed in Havana, and decided to join in.
"I'm so happy to see how barrio adentro is progressing," he said. "Here I am, I'm from barrio adentro! A patient of barrio adentro, together with all of you!"


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Sen. Herb Kohl (D-Wis.) sent a STRONGLY WORDED LETTER to the FCC and the Department of Justice Wednesday urging the agencies to block the merger because it's just a bad deal for consumers. His letter said: "I have concluded that this acquisition, if permitted to proceed, would likely cause substantial harm to competition and consumers, would be contrary to antitrust law and not in the public interest, and therefore should be blocked by your agencies."
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Your Letters: Fields of opportunity in rural Minnesota
The steady growth of organic farming in Minnesota and the economic impacts of organics on rural communities cannot and should not be ignored. The USDA recently reiterated their commitment to organic production by announcing another $50 million in funding for the Environmental Quality Incentives Program (EQIP) Organic Initiative, which provides a 75 percent share of the cost of implementing organic conservation measures to those who qualify -- 90 percent for beginning, limited-resource and socially-disadvantaged farmers and ranchers.
In Minnesota, just over $1 million was awarded out of the $24 million distributed nationally last year. That total funding helped 64 Minnesota farms either get started in organic production or enhance their established operations, making the state tenth in the nation for funding awarded.
Farmers and ranchers involved in organic production or transitioning to organic have until March 4 to apply for the EQIP Organic funding for 2011 through their local Natural Resources Conservation Service office. The Center for Rural Affairs has also provided an EQIP Organic Initiative fact sheet at www.cfra.org/2010-eqip-organic-initiative and a Farm Bill Help Line at (402) 687-2100 to assist farmers and ranchers in applying.
With $50 million in national funding available this year, farmers and ranchers have a tremendous opportunity to take the leap into organic. The rewards to farmers, ranchers, rural communities and our food system will be with us for a long time.
John Crabtree
Center for Rural Affairs