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'Parents for Truth' Campaign Backs Abstinence-Based Education
Parents need to do more to fight against the harmful effects of "comprehensive" sex education on young people, according to the National Abstinence Education Association (NAEA).
"'Comprehensive' sex education is often very graphic and explicit," said NAEA Executive Director Valerie Huber in a statement. "It is not age-appropriate, and it actually encourages sexual activities that put teens at risk for not only disease, but a host of other consequences."
In their new "Parents for Truth" campaign, the pro-abstinence group hopes to recruit one million parents over the next three years in a prolonged battle against comprehensive sex education programs.
Huber explained why it is crucial for parents to organize and bring to the national spotlight the importance of abstinence education.
"With abstinence education, the purpose is to provide all of the risks associated with teen sexual activity and encourage them to wait until marriage. And while contraception can be discussed, it's always within the context of why abstinence is the best choice," Huber said.
Huber noted that among the biggest problems today is that parents feel resigned into believing in the invincibility of comprehensive sex education proponents like Planned Parenthood.
Planned Parenthood, the nation's largest provider of surgical abortions, reportedly funnels millions of dollars every year into what pro-family groups dub "condom-based sex education."
"We're looking for active coalitions of parents who are fighting this battle right now so that we can assist them," Huber said.
"We know that if parents can be mobilized and can be informed on this issue, they will be able to accomplish far more than any funding from our opponents will be able to accomplish," she explained.
According to a study by The Heritage Foundation, research overwhelmingly supports the case for abstinence-based education in place of "comprehensive" sex education in schools.
In the study, 15 out of 21 abstinence-education programs "showed positive behavioral results in the students, including the delay or reduction of sexual activity."

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Re: Ubuntu 6.10 Edgy config errors
somebody know how add the pictures in the changer
Ubuntu 6.10 Edgy config errors
The configuration dialog triggers errors:
andrew@yoda:~$ wallpaper-tray
(wp_tray:6383): libglade-WARNING **: could not find signal handler 'on_button_close_pressed'.
(wp_tray:6383): libglade-WARNING **: could not find signal handler 'on_button_apply_pressed'.
(wp_tray:6383): libglade-WARNING **: could not find signal handler 'on_button_add_dir_pressed'.
(wp_tray:6383): libglade-WARNING **: could not find signal handler 'on_button_rem_dir_pressed'.
It is as if the buttons don't have any actions registered to them. This problem occurs with the Add, Remove, and even Close button.
Great little project.
I've been looking for something like this for a long time.
back up
the page is back up (redesigned). yes i know there are a few subtle problems, i'll get around to sorting them out.
i'll sort out an fc4 rpm before long.
Homepage and Alternative
I'm unable to access the homepage, so I don't know what this package is like.
An alternative to this is change-background.py by Davyd Madeley of GNOME.
More compromise
I think wallpaper tray is a great piece of software. This is exactly what I was having in mind for months and started implementing using Ruby/GNOME.
And well, since I liked it very much, I'm working on packaging, _officially_, for the Debian platform. Please take a look at:
But I do think it needs a little bit more of... attention. I just discovered version 0.5.0 which was relased a few days ago, and I was trying to see the ChangeLog giving information about changes, but it doesn't. You don't print anywhere, AFAIK, your real name, only your nickname. And well, little details like those. Apart of that, this definitively rocks.
An open, cross-platform journaling program.
A scientific plotting package.


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We love barbecue, in all its incarnations, from all over the country (and other countries as well), so we've embraced the diversity and introduced Trader Joe's Carolina Gold Barbecue Sauce, capturing a beloved regional flavor. This rich, thick, golden-hued, mustard-based sauce reminds us of some of the best grilled meats we've enjoyed in the Carolinas. It's sweet & smoky, with a hint of molasses and an ideal blend of spices. Use it as a glaze near the end of barbecuing, as a sauce for burgers and sandwiches, or as a dipping sauce for chicken or veggies. You can even go non-traditional and use it as a sauce for meatballs. No matter how you use Carolina Gold Barbecue Sauce, your result will be grilled goodies that are worth their weight in gold - Carolina Gold. We're selling each 18 ounce bottle for $2.69, a golden value, every day. You'll find it in our grocery aisle.
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Arab World Studies (BA)
Offered by the Critical Race, Gender, and Culture Studies Collaborative, College of Arts and Sciences. The BA in Arab World Studies is an interdisciplinary major that offers students the opportunity to learn about Arab societies from multiple perspectives. The strength of the program is its holistic approach to studying the Arab Middle East, which is analyzed through its politics, economy, gender relations, literature, geography, religion, and its place in a globalizing world.
Admission to the Program
Formal admission to the major requires a grade point average of 2.50 (on a 4.00 scale) in two courses related to the major.
- 120 credit hours with a cumulative GPA of 2.00 or better
- Completion of college writing requirement
- Completion of university mathematics requirement
General Education Requirements
- A total of ten courses, consisting of two courses from each of the five foundational areas
- At least one course from Area Five: The Natural and Mathematical Sciences must include a laboratory science component
- No more than two courses may be taken in the same discipline
Major Requirements
- 36 credit hours with grades of C or better including a minimum of 15 credit hours at or above the 300-level
- Demonstrate Arabic language proficiency through completion of two years of college-level study (ARAB-203) or equivalent as certified by the Department of World Languages and Cultures
Course Requirements
Foundation (9 credit hours)
Complete one course from the following:
Concentration (15 credit hours)
Complete 15 credit hours with one course from each of the following categories:
- GOVT-310 Introduction to Political Research (3) 3
- SISU-206 Introduction to International Relations Research (3) 3
- SISU-368 Differences and Similarities in Conflict Resolution (3) 3
- SOCY-320 Introduction to Social Research (3) 3
- SOCY-321 Sociological Reasoning with Quantitative Data (3) 3
- SOCY-322 Qualitative Research Methods (3) 3
- Other methodology course approved by program advisor
- SISU-393 International Relations Theory (3) 3
- SOCY-315 Classical Social Theory (3) 3
- WGSS-400 Feminist, Gender, and Sexuality Theory (3) 3
- Other theory course approved by program advisor
- HIST-248 Introduction to Modern Middle East (3) 3
- SISU-215 Contemporary Middle East (3) 3
- SISU-319 Arab-Israeli Relations (3) 3
- SISU-365 Topics in Identity, Race, Gender, and Culture: Middle East (3) 3 : The World of Islam
- Other history course approved by program advisor
- GOVT-487 Gender and Politics in the Middle East (3) 3
- SOCY-235 Gender in Transnational Perspectives FA3 (3) 3
- WGSS-225 Gender, Politics, and Power FA4 (3) 3
- WGSS-350 Interpreting Gender in Culture (3) 3 (approved topic)
- ECON-458 Economics of the World Regions (3) 3
- IBUS-244 International Management Practices (2-3) 2-3 : Gulf Cooperation Countries (3)
Electives (9 credit hours)
Complete 9 credit hours from the following or other approved courses:
- AWST-491 Internship in Arab World Studies (1-6) 1-6 (3 credit hours required)
- COMM-280 Contemporary Media in a Global Society FA3 (3) 3
- RELG-470 Islam (3) 3
- SISU-365 Topics in Identity, Race, Gender, and Culture: Middle East (3) 3 : Contemporary Islam and International Relations
Capstone (3 credit hours)
- 3 credit hours in an approved capstone project course
Arabic Language Requirement
Students must demonstrate Arabic language proficiency at the intermediate level (ARAB-203). Students with previous experience with the language may test out of one or more of the following courses (evaluation conducted in collaboration with the Arabic language program).
Combined Bachelor's and Master's Degrees
American University offers students the opportunity to earn both undergraduate and graduate degrees through its combined bachelor's/master's programs. See Combined Bachelor's and Master's Degrees for more information.


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If Bruce Thornton is going to lead the Georgia running game to a higher level, he'll have to wait until next year.
The freshman tailback from LaGrange suffered a fracture/dislocation of his left wrist during Monday night's practice at Sanford Stadium and will be out ''indefinitely,'' Bulldog coach Jim Donnan said Tuesday. The injury all but guarantees Thornton will be redshirted this season; even if he can return at full strength, it will likely be too far into the fall to justify using a year of eligibility for the former all-state performer.
Team orthopedic surgeons Mixon Robinson and Robert Hancock performed surgery on Thornton shortly after practice ended. The doctors inserted pins in Thornton's wrist to stabilize the fracture.
''I talked to him this morning, I was a lot more concerned about his pain level than anything, it's very painful,'' said Donnan. ''It's a disappointment for him and for us, he was doing really good. He ran about 40 yards and got tripped up and his hand got underneath him and a guy landed on him. That puts us in a difficult situation, particularly if Patrick's hurt.''
The nature of senior tailback Patrick Pass' injury, which also occurred Monday evening, is up in the air. Pass was helped off the field favoring his right ankle, and sat out the remainder of the scrimmage. He did not dress out for either of Tuesday's practices.
''His foot got turned underneath, very similar to what Robert Edwards did on the first play against Arkansas State (in 1997), we don't know how long he's going to be out,'' Donnan said. ''We're getting him a new brace, we feel like he's going to be able to practice either (today) or Thursday, but based on swelling and all, we don't know.''
All in all, it was a bad day for the Georgia backfield, as freshman DeJuan Green also missed one workout with a stomach virus (though Donnan said he doesn't expect Green to miss any more work). Brett Millican, who also left Monday's practice early, was back at full speed Tuesday.
Despite those setbacks, Donnan said the injuries wouldn't compel him to ease off on the hitting.
''This week's going to be tough, we're going to have contact every day and we've just got to hold onto it and hope it works out,'' he said. ''The only way to learn how to tackle and how to block and how to run is to hit, so we've gotta do it.''
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Discover new languages this spring at Penobscot School
Rockland — Courses now starting at the nonprofit center for language learning include Beginning Russian, 10 Wednesdays, from 4:30 to 5:45 p.m., beginning March 6; Japanese Calligraphy, four Wednesdays, from 4:45 to 6 p.m., March 6 and Deutsche Kultur, eight Thursdays, from 4 to 5:30 p.m., which starts March 21.
The latter, offered by Rhineland-native, Renate Tower, will investigate the German language via its stories, artifacts and games. This is a multi-level class, and some past German study is recommended.
Also, students may get a second chance at Spanish or French with the second section of Martes intensivo, running for seven Tuesdays, 9 a.m. to noon, starting March 26 with Billy Smith and Keys to French, six Wednesdays, 4:30 to 6 p.m, starting April 3 with Winnie Easton-Jones. Keys to French is a beginners course.
For more information about classes and events, please visit the website, penobscot.us, call 594-1084, or stop by the school, located at 28 Gay St. Penobscot School was founded in 1986 in Rockland as a nonprofit school and center for international exchange.


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Bordeaux Team Comes to L.I. To Share Expertise
By HOWARD G. GOLDBERG
Published: August 3, 1988
BOTH the Medoc region of France, home of fine Bordeaux wines, and Long Island, home of an expanding wine industry, have maritime climates. Both have soils rich in sand, gravel, silt and clay. They even have cabernet sauvignon and merlot in common.
What the vintners and grape growers of the North and South Forks of Long Island do not have, however, is 300 years' experience: the Medoc's grapes were first cultivated in 1688; Long Island's vineyards were first planted in 1973. But the two started to close the gap the other day. Long Island wine growers invited seven Bordelais standouts to the region and picked their brains during four days of field trips and symposiums.
Lawrence Fuller-Perrine, a grape specialist at the Cornell University Horticultural Research Laboratory at Riverhead, L.I., conceived the $25,000 project. It was co-sponsored by the Long Island Wine Council, an organization of producers; the Long Island Grape Growers' Association; Cornell; the Board of Cooperative Educational Services in Suffolk County and the Long Island Regional Education Center for Economic Development.
''Long Island wines are nice and soundly made, but they are not great,'' Mr. Fuller-Perrine said. ''We are a babe in the woods trying to figure out the potentials of our area'' and how to make ''great wines in a good vintage year.''
Alex Hargrave, a co-owner of the Hargrave Vineyard in Cutchogue, L.I., said it was logical to seek guidance from ''the archetype,'' Bordeaux.
Merlot wines - soft, smooth and easy drinking - emerged as the visitors' favorite. ''It might find an interesting competitive niche,'' said a guest, Paul Pontallier, the director of Chateau Margaux.
The Bordelais said they found the aromas and complexity of Long Island chardonnays and sauvignon blancs appealing, but they had trouble with red wines.
New York's wine industry is undergoing a revolution. Once based on native labrusca and French-American hybrid grapes, it is increasingly adopting European vinifera grapes, which produce the world's best wines.
Do not try to imitate French and California styles, the visitors from Bordeaux told their hosts. As May de Lencquesaing, owner of Chateau Pichon-Lalande, put it, ''Even if we told you all our secrets and every last detail - we have nothing to hide -you couldn't duplicate our wines.''
Viticultural consultants present were Dr. Alain Carbonneau, a grapevine specialist from the Institut National de la Recherche Agronomique, and Dr. Gerard Seguin, a soil expert from the University of Bordeaux. These were not exactly household names at the Fox Hill Country Club in Baiting Hollow, where the symposium was attended by 120 guests, including grape growers and wine makers from Connecticut, Rhode Island, California, Virginia and Pennsylvania. But in the Medoc, when these men speak, chateaus listen.
Luis San Andres, a chardonnay grower in Laurel, L.I., said he understood why. ''Their standards are extraordinary,'' he said.
The delegation also included Pierre Vagny, an authority on mechanical harvesting at the Institut Technique de la Vigne et du Vin at Montpellier, France's main viticultural research center, and Alain Fouquet, the United States representative of Seguin Moreau, a major barrelmaker.
To gather information for their critiques, the visitors spent two days scanning the terrain, examining vine training systems, clambering into vineyard trenches to inspect soil profiles and tasting red and white wines. They emerged with strong impressions of the fruit grown on 1,300 acres at about 30 vineyards and of the wine produced at 11 operating wineries.
Dr. Seguin explained the importance of mastering ''terroir,'' a very Gallic notion, by providing Long Island specifics. In the international debate about the forces that define wine quality, terroir is often translated to mean simply ''soil.'' Dr. Seguin said the word, properly understood, meant far more: an ecosystem that integrates site, soil composition and drainage, climate, vines, rootstock, grape varieties and the human role in farming and wine making.
In analyzing vine-training systems, a facet of terroir, Dr. Carbonneau sang the praises of ''the lyre,'' which draws its name from the contours given to vines by the trellis wires. He said the lyre should be used on Long Island, because it would ideally capture and diffuse light, enabling well-ripened grapes to accumulate the compounds that give wine an appealing fruity aroma.
Jean-Jacques Godin, the general manager of Chateau Pichon-Lalande, enthralled his hosts with his palate and insights into wine making. At Bidwell Vineyards in Cutchogue, Daniel Kleck, the wine maker, poured a sample of the '87 sauvignon blanc. Mr. Godin swirled it in the glass, rolled it around his mouth, spat it out, wiped his lips with a blue handkerchief, gazed into the distance and said: ''color - lovely,'' ''lots of freshness,'' ''very elegant.''
While Mr. Godin's praise was unstinting, his fault-finding, diplomatically expressed, was razor sharp. Now and then vintners winced, especially when he addressed the main flaw in their red wines (grassiness) and other defects (uneven quality, lack of style).
Many Long Island cabernets and some merlots show herbaceous bouquets and flavors. The proprietors of Bordeaux's patrician chateaus, which define world standards for red wines, consider that a defect. Wine drinkers in the New York region do not seem to mind these so-called veggies, however, for Long Island's annual production of 250,000 cases sells out readily. But the grassy flavors trouble ambitious vintners.
The French experts reassured them on that score. The problem, originating in vineyard practices, is solvable, they said. So, too, are the problems of lack of concentrated flavor and low fruit tannins in the reds.
Warning against overuse of technology, Mr. Pontallier of Chateau Margaux said: ''Each time you touch wine, the quality decreases. Don't make a treatment if it is not strictly necessary.''
Cabernet sauvignon, a late-ripening grape, often is not fully matured when autumn chills Long Island. The grassiness arises partly from this immaturity and possibly from young vines planted in the 1980's. To compensate, the French advised the East Enders to use a rootstock that hastens ripening, and recommended cabernet franc, a Bordeaux varietal used to bolster blends of merlot and cabernet sauvignon.
What will Long Island vintners do differently as a result of their meeting with the French? Ray Blum, owner of the Peconic Bay Vineyards in Cutchogue, said, ''I'm going to increase my red wine production, and will hold back some and age it longer and put out a reserve - something with character.''
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Running Data Transformation Services (DTS) Packages
SQL Server 2008 provides optional management, run-time, and design-time support for SQL Server 2000 Data Transformation Services (DTS) packages that were created by using the DTS tools and object model.
Data Transformation Services (DTS) is deprecated. For more information, see Data Transformation Services (DTS).
For more information about using DTS packages after installing SQL Server 2008, see the following topics:
For information about how to install support for DTS, see How to: Install Support for Data Transformation Services Packages. SQL Server 2008 does not install run-time support for DTS packages. You have to install this run-time support before you can run DTS packages.
For detailed information about how to use DTS with SQL Server 2008, see Support for SQL Server 2000 DTS in SQL Server 2008 R2.
For important information about how to secure DTS packages, see Securing DTS Packages Stored in SQL Server.
In SQL Server 2008, with Integration Services and the Backward Compatibility components installed, you can run DTS packages by any one of the following methods:
Use the Execute DTS 2000 Package task to run a DTS package from inside an Integration Services package. For more information, see Execute DTS 2000 Package Task.
Use the dtsrun utility (dtsrun.exe) to run a DTS package at the command prompt.
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Ronnie Dale Allen, 34, of 750 Roper Road died Sunday, June 4, 2000.
Mr. Allen was a son of Robert Thomas Allen, Canon, and the late Betty Sue Bratcher Allen. He was a painter and was of the Baptist faith.
Services will be at 2 p.m. Wednesday at Pruitt Funeral Home, Royston, with the Rev. Eldon Massey officiating. Burial will be in Cary Memorial Gardens, Royston.
Survivors, in addition to his father, include two brothers, Wendell Allen, Royston, and Nelson Allen, Danielsville; nieces and nephews.
The family is at the residence and will receive friends from 7-9 p.m. today at the funeral home.
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When it comes to math help for kids, we, as parents, are finding someone changed the math we knew as students. No matter if math was a subject where you received top scores as a student, or if it was a subject that consumed you with dread, the fact is we need to look at our children's math homework in a new light.
The math we learned in elementary school was all about watching a teacher's demonstration of a way to solve an equation and then replicating the process, over and over again, until the task was mastered. You either understood the math application or you were left to feel like you were trying to jam a round peg in a square hole. In the past, there was one approach to every mathematical solution in our younger years.
When it comes to math help for kids today, it may seem like they are doing a different kind of math all together, when the fact is, they are learning the same content with a different approach.
Sound familiar? In some math curriculums today, students are able to learn different strategies for solving problems and then choose one they are comfortable with in tackling math practices. The theory is that it is a better foundation for young students in preparation for higher math forms when the topics will include more critical thinking skills in algebra, geometry etc.
Check at your child's school to see what they offer parents for homework help. See if there are conferences or meetings and take advantage of the opportunity to see what the overall goals of the curriculum are for the school year. Find out what kind of support is available and attend any meetings or presentations.
Math was not my strongest subject (I sent math tutors home in tears!) and I am making a real effort to approach the topic the second time around with my older child with a new outlook (glass of wine). Nothing can make a parent start to unravel more at homework time than when you hear "No! That's not the way the teacher said to do it!"
One night my son was talking about some math practice that involved a sort of grid for solving a multiplication problem. The process was completely lost on me, so I suggested that we each use our own method and see if we got the same answer. I scribbled my way of doing a multiplication practice and he explained his process as he filled numbers in on his grid that he had drawn.
I still didn't understand his method, but he did, and most important, he was completely confident and at ease with the method, which is the goal of what they are trying to do with children and their approach to problem solving. It's not your mother's math, kids!
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B_Tour is a platform for artistic urban tours and urban practices and is curated and managed by Christin Endter and Yael Sherill. The tours provide locals with a new perspective of their city and inspire community life and civil participation. B_Tours provide an intimate setting for an exchange with a group of strangers based on a common shared interest in one's city. Participants develop a better understanding and empathy to their city in general and their neighbourhood in particular as well as the people who inhabit it.
For Alt_Cph16 Crosscuts B_Tour trains locals from the Sundholm area in guiding and storytelling. As a participant in the tours during Alt_Cph you will experience a deeply personal guided tour in the locals' own neighbourhood.
About B_Tour
B_Tour was established in 2013 as a curatorial platform for artistic urban tours by Christin Endter and Yael Sherill. B_Tour invites local and international city inhabitants, artists, architects and activists to apply different methodologies of artistic research in order to reflect on current issues concerning urban life and public spaces. B_Tour has been working with approx. 100 projects in Berlin, Belgrade and Leipzig. B_Tour also curated a series of panel discussions about current urban matters called B_Talks; a public screening program, workshops, networking events and special programs for young people.
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They have become so commonplace that some people don't even pay attention, and yet the potential harm could hit close to home. Security breaches are jeopardizing the personal information of millions of online customers yet many of those consumers don't know where to turn.
The latest incident involves shoe giant Zappos. The Amazon-owned shoe seller announced that personal details of more than 24 million of its customers could be in the hands of hackers. That information may include customer names, e-mail addresses, home addresses, phone numbers and the last four digits of credit card numbers.
But what should you do with that sort of information. Privacy experts say if you think you are a victim, it's time to change your password and email address, maybe even get a new credit card. But where can you turn to complain, that's even more of a mystery for many people. But that that could soon change.
"If you are frustrated and you think your privacy has been violated, we urge you to go to our website and file a complaint," said Amber Yoo with Privacy Rights Clearinghouse.
The San Diego based non-profit organization has spent years fighting for the rights of consumer on privacy issues. They noticed that too often people who have had their information stolen or potentially exposed to hackers don't know where to turn for help. The organization has started an online complaint center.
"For the first time consumers can come to our website and fill out their complaint in one spot and we will forward it to the appropriate parties," said Yoo.
She says in many cases there are multiple agencies that handle security breaches including law enforcement.
Amber Yoo says by forwarded complaints to government agencies, companies will be held accountable for their actions. If more people know where to turn for help, it may put pressure on private business and politicians to make online transactions and personal data more secure.
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This paper was produced by the participants in the Asian NGO Regional Fellows Program held in Baguio, Philippines, in October 1992, under the joint sponsorship of the Asian NGO Coalition and the Institute for Development Research, with funding from the Ford Foundation. Participants included Chandra de Fonseca (Sri Lanka), Sunimal Femando (Sri Lanka), David Korten (US), Tony Quizon (Philippines), Sixto Roxas (Philippines), Bishan Singh (Malaysia), and Felix Sugirtharaj (India).
David C. Korten, who edited the following piece, can be reached at the People-Centered Development Forum, 14 E. 17th St., Suite 5, New York, NY, 10003, tel. 212/620-7137; fax 212/242-1901.
We in Asia have long defined our choices as between the Western capitalist system of economic theory and practice, and the theory and practice of Marxist socialism. It is ironic that while Marxist theory predicted the collapse of the capitalist economic system and presented itself as the single viable alternative to capitalist hegemony, its practice in the countries of Eastern Europe and Eurasia has collapsed in disarray. Now flush with a sense of victory over its fallen opponent, capitalism seems resolutely blinded to the self-destructive consequences of its own present path.
The evidence is mounting that both Marxist socialism and free-market capitalism have failed the majority of human society, and for strikingly similar reasons:
- They both built economic systems that celebrated the destruction of the living systems of the Earth.
- They both ignored the social and political consequences of concentrating economic power in unaccountable, centralizing institutions – the state in the case of Marxism and the transnational corporation in the case of capitalism.
- Both took a narrow, economistic view of human needs.
- Both equated growth in the economic output of the firm with improved human well-being and neglected the community as a natural economic unit. Both used essentially the same models of national income accounting.
- Both systems were basically Western constructs, products of Western thought and experience.
Neither system is a suitable guide for Asia, which is home to more than half the world's people, as well as half the world's 1.2 billion people who live in absolute poverty. Asia's economic miracle has been a miracle only for a small fraction of Asia's peoples and holds little real promise for the rest.
Asia faces a stark reality. The industrialism-consumerism model on which the practice of free-market capitalism has been based has depended historically on the ability of industrializing countries to colonize the resources of others. The scramble for the forests, lands, and minerals of Indo-China, Irian Jaya, and Papua New Guinea is already underway. Where will Asia turn once these are exhausted?
Furthermore, if only China and India, with a combined population of some 2 billion people, were to heed the call of transnational capital and Western governments to pursue the unsustainable Western economic model, they would surely push the global ecological system into collapse long before providing over-consuming lifestyles for even a fraction of their citizens.
Asia's hope for the future lies in an alternative model of human progress. That model would combine efficiency of resource use with a rediscovery of life's innate spiritual character and the inseparable spiritual connection of every person to nature and community.
We believe that the essential elements of an alternative model are at hand. The breakthrough in our own thinking came when we realized that what we were looking for was not an alternative theory of development, which almost inevitably buys into many of the assumptions of the prevailing growth model. The alternative we sought was a theory of sustainability, which begins from a wholly different set of premises.
Our theory of sustainability draws its premises from the critiques of the two failed dominant systems of economic thought and practice, insights from Asia's rich cultural and spiritual heritage, and the wisdom of indigenous peoples. The emergent theory takes a holistic view of human needs. It at once identifies the roots of the ecological crisis and helps us to predict the conditions under which the dynamics of human social processes are most likely to work toward a balanced relationship between human society and the planet's ecology.
Our theory of sustainability is grounded in the most fundamental of insights: that all life is an expression of a single spiritual unity and that the spiritual growth of the individual consists of advancement toward the full, conscious realization of this unity.
Spirituality, community, and a bonding to place or habitat are central values that have unified the Asian cultures over centuries. This was manifest in countless cultural norms, such as the injunction that when a tree is harvested, two must be planted. Where nature has been scarred, it must be given time and opportunity to heal. In these many ways, sustainability is integral to Asia's cultural tradition.
A balanced and harmonious relationship between human communities and their natural environment is associated with a reverence for the spiritual unity of life and a strong bonding to community and place. Such communities almost universally develop cultural values that maintain a sense of continuity linking past and future generations to physical place.
In addition to the gift of life shared by all of nature, the human species was endowed with the special gift of self-awareness. With this powerful gift, our species set out on a unique evolutionary course of social, material, and spiritual advancement as we consciously reshaped our relationship with the living Earth. Yet, as with all powerful abilities, this gift contained both creative and destructive potentials.
In his book The Dream of the Earth,1 Thomas Berry refers to the dynamics of our consumer society as the supreme pathology of all history, a pathology in which humanity has virtually defined consumption as the highest human purpose.2 He suggests we have lost our way due to the lack of a story that gives meaning to our existence. This is something a dedication to consumption can never provide. That story must give us a sense of our special role and purpose in life's evolutionary journey.
The gift of awareness conveyed an awesome responsibility not shared by other species. To accept responsibility for life does not imply rejecting modern technology or returning to the lifestyles of those groups that continue to live untouched by the modern world. We are poised to reach for new levels of social, intellectual, and spiritual advancement far beyond the reach of previous generations specifically because of the current potential to meld both ancient and modern wisdom to this end.
However, to prepare the way we must replace the prevailing economics of alienation with its antithesis, the economics of community.
Moving toward a sustainable human societies involves far more than making a few adjustments at the margins of the economy and investing in conserving technologies. It means creating a framework of economic institutions and management practices that anchor economic power in community and achieve a substantial degree of equity in power relationships.
An economics of community provides the foundation for an economic practice aimed at restoring a necessary balance in the relationships among people, place and community. Spirituality and community – not money – define the dominant binding ties in such an economics. The preservation of the long-term productive potential of ecological resources receives a high priority, and long-term returns to community take precedence over short-term returns to the individual investor.
The economics of alienation (see below) is deeply imbedded in society's dominant institutional systems and procedures. This includes the national income accounting systems by which gross national product (GNP) – the universal proxy for national well-being – is measured. One basic flaw of the GNP accounting system is that what it measures isn't really national product. It is simply the aggregate product of the business enterprises from whose accounting records it is compiled. There is no accounting for gross natural product, or gross people's product.
The firm is not expected even to be aware of, let alone manage, the external social and environmental costs of its production. This same externalization is carried all the way through the aggregation process. Consequently, GNP takes no account of such things as the loss of environmental resources or deterioration in the educational level of the work force over time – even though these represent clear losses to society.
The clean-up of the Exxon Valdez oil spill was counted as a net gain for the Alaskan economy, and the insurance payments for the bombing of the World Trade Center in New York showed up as a net gain for the economy of New York City. Thus both were good for the economy by current accounting practice.
Furthermore, GNP includes only the income and costs reflected in the income statements and balance sheets of business firms operating in the formal sector. Subsistence production, household labor, and the rental value of owner occupied dwellings are all excluded in most countries. This excludes a substantial portion of those activities on which most of the world's people depend for their livelihoods.
Work on an alternative system of a community-based economic accounting system is well underway in the Philippines. This system takes the household and the community as the primary units of analysis and aggregation. The economic performance of firms would be addressed in subsidiary accounts that reflect their contributions to the community and those who reside in it. This approach represents an important step toward a practice of sustainability derived from the theory of sustainability outlined earlier. 3
In this system the community unit defines both a citizenry and a habitat with definable characteristics of land, water, soil cover, vegetation, marine resources, and mineral resources. The citizens are classified by characteristics such as age, gender, occupation, education, and income levels. Each household is defined in terms of its bundle of economic needs, which the system compares with actual consumption.
The community balance sheet includes its natural resource as assets. Production processes, such as in agriculture, forestry, mining, fisheries, trade, services, create flows between asset or stock accounts, sectors, factors of production, and households or consumers. This provides the basis for a community-based double-entry accounting system.
The accounts may be organized according to a hierarchy of settlements – households comprising hamlets comprising neighborhoods comprising villages clustered around market towns clustered around an urban center. At all levels the community-based accounting system defines an economy that is inseparable from its habitat and defines an essential role for local government in the management of that economy and its underlying natural resource base.
Since the community-based accounting system accounts for both natural and human capital stocks, the social and environmental costs of economic activity are automatically internalized and highlighted. The clear cutting of a forest is reflected immediately in the reduction of relevant asset accounts.
Both the financial gains from economic activity and the consumption of the goods and services produced are allocated by household, so distributional outcomes are also integral to the system. It is clear who is capturing the returns from productive processes, what household needs are being met and what needs are not. Resource flows into and out of the community are also highlighted, thus providing a very different perspective on investment decisions than do conventional methods.
Many investment projects are highly profitable to a firm or individual, yet very costly for the community. Clear cut logging for export is a graphic example. Logging activities can produce enormous profits for individual firms and register positively in GNP without providing sufficient returns to the community in the form of wages and fees to compensate for losses from increased flooding and drought, soil loss, downstream siltation, and the costs of replanting.
Export processing zones provide another common example. They expropriate land, dominate local government decision making, enjoy tax holidays, demand fully developed infrastructure that must be paid for by local taxpayers, make priority claims on local water supplies and power generation, have few linkages to the local economy other than hiring labor at low wages, and contaminate local land and water supplies with their toxic wastes. The firms may generate handsome profits that go abroad, without compensating the community for its costs.
With a community-based accounting system, the full costs and benefits to the community are revealed so that investment proposals may be assessed accordingly. The community may then negotiate with outside investors and trade interests on the basis of a community balance sheet, exactly as a firm now decides whether to engage in a given market transaction based on the results anticipated for its balance sheet.
Community-based accounting supports application of the principle of subsidiarity – i.e., that each decision should be made at the lowest feasible organizational level – and its corollary that, to the extent feasible, basic needs should be met within smaller, more localized economic units.
This means that smaller units will seek trade with one another and with larger units only as the exchange offers clear advantages to the community over local production. Otherwise, the preference will be for local producers.
The community-based accounting system provides a tool for managing such choices in the community interest. This strengthens the link between the community's well-being and the health of its local ecosystems. It also reduces external dependence and thereby the potential for exploitative alienation of its resources by external interests.
The effective application of the community-based accounting system demands broadly based community involvement. By establishing the concept of a local economy, the relationships of human interests to place and community take on new meaning. This in turn enhances awareness that the community's ecological resource base is the foundation of its well-being over time. The community becomes deeply aware of the consequences of giving free reign to footloose capital and external trading interests seeking only to extract local value for export. Social practice based on an economics of cooperation and ecological stewardship is encouraged.
Our dominant institutions are blinded to the deeper realities of the sustainability crisis by their own power imperatives. So long as this remains the case there is no prospect that they will provide the leadership we so badly need. Informed and enlightened citizen action is our only hope.
Replacing the action of financial calculation with action of the spirit goes right to the core of the transformational process. As that awareness builds perhaps our most important task is to encourage one another to trust our inner knowledge and to find the courage to act upon it. s
1 Thomas Berry, The Dream of the Earth, Sierra Club Books, 1988.
2 Note that in current practice economic growth, not consumption, is the higher goal. Consumption is only a means.
3 For further inforrnation contact Sixto K. Roxas, President, SKR Managers and Advisors, Inc., No.59 Hillside Loop Blueridge A, Quezon City, Philippines, tel. (63-2) 721-9096; 791-757; fax (63-2) 722-5547.
We believe the source of our collective social and ecological crisis can be traced to the long historical processes by which the human species has become increasingly alienated from community and nature. This alienation has both intellectual and institutional roots.
Intellectually it is rooted in the Western concept of dualism, which sets humanity apart from nature and legitimizes the view that humanity has not only the right, but also the obligation to subdue nature to its own benefit.
The concept of separation was central to Descartes' thesis that humans have the ability to be objective observers of reality. This simple idea unleashed the intellectual and institutional forces that produced the remarkable scientific and technological advances of Western society.
These advances in turn set in motion a long period of exponential growth in the demands that human economic activity places on earth's ecosystem. The dynamics of this growth continuously strengthened the basic illusion that through their command of technology, humans have become the masters of the natural world and no longer need to heed its limits. It is curious indeed that a species that prides itself on its intelligence continues to maintain this arrogance in the face of the mounting body of evidence that the underlying belief is based on nothing more than a dangerous self-delusion. Why?
The answer may be found in the extent to which money has become the arbiter of values and the motivating force of nearly all human institutions and activities. The quest to endlessly replicate money has become so deeply embedded in human values and institutions that we might easily conclude that it is the organizing principle of public policy.
The profound implications of that quest become clear only when we recognize that the historical process has been one of substituting money, a substanceless artifact, for spirituality, the universal life force, as the primary source of value, meaning, and identity in human society.
Our collective obsession with the replication of money is both cause and consequence of our collective alienation from the reality of the spiritual nature of all life. This alienation is the root cause of the social and ecological crisis that now threatens our collective future.
Money serves two functions in modern society: as a medium of exchange and as a storehouse of value. Its function as a medium of exchange is purely utilitarian, a useful and positive institutional invention.
It is money's ability to serve as a storehouse of value, wholly divorced from any intrinsic or instrumental values, that has made it a powerful instrument of alienation. As money becomes the activating force of institutions, the holder of a large store of monetary credits is increasingly able to exercise alienating claims over the natural resources, talents, and knowledge of others.
Financial debts are a particularly common instrument of alienation. International debts owed by countries to commercial and multilateral banks have the alienating power of bonding the labor and resources of future generations of one country to the future generations of another.
The persistent processes of alienation have become a daily experience in poor rural communities around the world. As ties to community and place are broken, dispossessed people migrate to cities where they become dependent on the monetary economy. Money becomes a substitute for the affiliational ties of community and place. The accountant replaces the religious teacher as the arbiter of value.
The greater one's relative economic power and the more seamless the global economy, the greater the freedom enjoyed by the powerful to exercise claims over the non-monetary resources of the poor.
Released from the constraints of place and of obligation to community, those who control accumulated financial credits seek out ecological surpluses. The poorer the existing claimants of those resources, the more easily the holder of financial credits may gain control of them and shift any related social and environmental burdens onto those unable to protest.
Under conditions of equality, however, it is difficult, if not impossible, for one group to alienate another from their physical resource base. The greater the inequality, the greater the freedom enjoyed by the powerful to plunder the environmental resources of others. The greater the plunder, the greater the displacement and further impoverishment of the weak – until the point of social and ecological collapse.
It is neither poverty nor wealth that creates environmental destruction. It is inequality. Equity is an essential precondition for sustainability.
The behaviors of both rich and poor exacerbate the sustainability crisis: the rich by their overconsumption of resources beyond what the ecosystem can sustain; the poor by having large families that increase the number of human claims that future generations will make against whatever resources remain. Each is responding to the alienation process in terms of their own experience and the opportunities available to them.
The wealthy seek to fill their social and spiritual emptiness through consuming the material goods that advertisers relentlessly assure them will provide them with a sense of identity, empowerment, popularity, and meaning.
The poor seek to reduce the overwhelming sense of insecurity created by loss of community and rights to ecological space by having children – the one thing they can call their own and their only prospective source of care in their hour of need.
Bringing both consumption and population levels into balance with what nature can sustain is an essential precondition for sustainability. Both require the elimination of gross political and economic inequality.
– by the ANGOC, IRED Asia, and the PCD Forum


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From: "Wild" <>
Subject: Re: [CHS] Unknown mail senders.... deleted
Date: Mon, 20 May 2002 11:11:58 +0100
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Why Waste our time telling us you do, That what everybody should be doing.
You are subscribed to a service that means you receive mail FROM PEOPLE you
don't know.
So PLEASE TELL ME. How are they going to be in your ADDRESS LIST?
You could email them and ask if they intended you to recive mail from them.
But to expect people to mail you first about sending you mail. as you did
say you have deleted mail without attacments.
The fist rule of email is any attachments from any source you don't know or
trust, IS DELETED. end of story.
This Type mail is of the same as reporting every virus attack or joke.
God thank god you hav't got your fire wall reporting all traffic, Then you
would be reporting every time someone pings you, including your ISP.
Why blame users of Blueyonder.co.uk, this is one main suppliers of Internet
Service Services to the U.K. other users are just as Likey to be sending
and I'm sure if Micro$oft can be hit with a Virus, just think what if they
just deleted every message they got from unknown senders.
Please think about what you "you meant to say"
I thought about this mailing ;
;; it was in my delete-box for an hour, but I'm now sending it as I do
think People need to think about what they write.
With my work and the lists I am on I have to deal with up 500 mails a day.
so I may sound short or abrupt.
I am
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From: "James" <>
To: <>
Sent: Sunday, May 19, 2002 3:29 PM
Subject: [CHS] Unknown mail senders.... deleted
> Because of the proliferation of virus- laden messages, and continuing
attempts to contaminate my computers with same, I have adopted a practice of
not opening any mail with included attachments from unknown addressees. Any
such received mail is immediately deleted.
> I do have a firewall and several anti-virus programs guarding the
computers but I am unwilling to take the chance of having a cleverly-written
virus program sneak by.
> Over the past fortnight I have received several messages with attachments
from different individuals with the e-mail address of ... @
blueyonder.co.uk (var). I cannot find these people in my addresses listing
and am, therefore, concluding I do not know them.
> Their messages, with attachments, were immediately deleted, unopened..
> If I am in error, and these were innocent communications from these
people, I apologize slightly.
> I would ask that anyone wishing to send me a mail with an attachment first
contact me via the @rootsweb list. Just a simple " I will be sending you a
mail with an attachment" advice will be sufficient.
> Thank you all.
> Cheers,
> James
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Canada introduces new integrated plan for oil sands monitoring
22 July 2011
|Summary of the current oil sands developments (mining and in-situ) and associated land use changes in the Fort McMurray region, highlighting some of the challenges the integrated monitoring design addresses. Click to enlarge.
Canada's Environment Minister Peter Kent released an integrated monitoring plan for the oil sands region. The Government of Canada coordinated the development of the monitoring plan in collaboration with provincial, territorial and academic scientists and will work with the Province of Alberta on implementation.
The final plan includes components for monitoring air quality, biodiversity, and the next phase of water quality monitoring in the oil sands region. The plan is also to provide the scientific foundation necessary to provide governments and industry with the information that they need to continue to ensure the environmentally sustainable development of the oil sands resource, which Minister Kent called "a significant, long-term economic advantage for the people of Alberta, and all Canadians".
|"A key observation by expert reviewers of this Plan was that despite its technical competence, sound and timely implementation will dictate whether the Plan will succeed or fail in its goal of generating the data necessary to provide assurance that the oil sands are being developed sustainably."
|—An Integrated Oil Sands Environment Monitoring Plan
In December, 2010 a Federal Oil Sands Advisory Panel presented a report to the federal Environment Minister that reviewed current monitoring activities in the lower Athabasca River system, identified key shortcomings, and provided recommendations on what would constitute a world-class monitoring program for the oil sands region. The integrated monitoring plan follows the 2010 recommendations of the panel.
The results of Phase 1, a conceptual framework for a monitoring plan and detailed water quality monitoring scheme for the Lower Athabasca River, was released in March. While Phase 1 focused on the issue of water quality, it was recognized that there was a need to expand to integrate air and biodiversity monitoring, as well as broader water quality monitoring and effects assessment. Environment Canada says that this holistic approach is designed to focus on specific areas where there are gaps in the scientific data and to adapt to changing needs as environmental data and understanding change over time.
The Integrated Oil Sands Environmental Monitoring Plan includes four integrated components:
- Water Quality Monitoring Plan (Phase 1 Athabasca River Mainstem and Tributaries);
- Expanded Geographical Extent for Water Quality and Quantity, Aquatic Biodiversity and Effects, and Acid Sensitive Lakes Monitoring;
- Air Quality Monitoring for the Oil Sands; and
- Terrestrial Biodiversity and Habitat Monitoring.
Both the frequency of sampling and the geographic scope of coverage of the plan are linked to a series of decision triggers. Monitoring thus can be enhanced if important changes are detected at a given site, or alternatively, reduced where repeated sampling has shown no significant changes are occurring. All information will be available to the public.
The integrated ecosystem-based plan covers:
The Lower Athabasca watershed, including the Athabasca River mainstem and its tributaries the Peace-Athabasca Delta, and Lake Athabasca. In addition, relevant segments of the Peace and Slave River systems (including the Slave River Delta), acid sensitive lakes in Alberta, Saskatchewan, and the Northwest Territories;
Air quality and atmospheric deposition in northern Alberta, southern Northwest Territories, Saskatchewan and Manitoba; and
Strategic terrestrial habitats in Alberta and Saskatchewan.
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For Vancouver's Jonathon Litchfield, it's the small moments that matter. He believes the big ticket events in one's life – the birthdays, Christmas dinners and trips to Thailand – make up only a small fraction of our narrative. The majority of our time is spent performing small, practical tasks, and Litchfield's core belief is that these routines deserve our respect.
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This philosophy is on full display at Litchfield, a lifestyle shop that personifies its creator's mantra. Located in Vancouver's historic Gastown neighbourhood – just a block from our original showroom – the shop offers up a selection of practical offerings curated by Litchfield. Every item on display is connected by a common thread: quality – a theme that is woven throughout Litchfield's life. To him, quality means longevity: "It will last. You'll have it for hopefully longer than you need it."
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Any morning that my schedule allows it… the alarm goes off at 5 a.m. and I jump out of bed!
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If I'm getting up that early it means I get to go workout. I know that may seem insane to some people… and yes, more sleep would probably do me well… but going and doing something for ME for just one hour is a rare opportunity.
Part of what makes going to the gym so motivating are the people who I see once I get there.
One by one we stumble in.
I always have my coffee mug in hand. Some of us not matching because we got dressed in the dark so we don't disturb the family. It tends to be the same crowd that early.
This morning was interesting because it was all moms… all working moms… trying to get a quick workout in before the rest of the house wakes up!
We train hard. We sweat and we laugh. That one hour is ours and we give it all we've got.
But then it's funny because as SOON as the workout is over, as soon as we're done being tortured, we sprint out of there so fast. If we're lucky, our kids are still sleeping when we creep back home, and we don't miss a moment of the short time we get with them before heading back out the door to work.
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FILED: August 30, 2000
a political subdivision of the State of Oregon,
an Oregon corporation,
an Oregon corporation,
an Oregon corporation,
and TCI CABLEVISION OF OREGON, INC.,
an Oregon corporation,
and JOHN DOE CORPORATION,
Appeal from Circuit Court, Clackamas County.
Eve L. Miller, Judge.
Argued and submitted January 18, 2000.
John W. Shonkwiler argued the cause and filed the brief for appellant.
John Dudrey argued the cause for respondents. On the brief was Alexander Gordon.
Before Edmonds, Presiding Judge, and Deits, Chief Judge, and Armstrong, Judge.
Award of enhanced prevailing party fee vacated and remanded; otherwise affirmed.
Plaintiff appeals from a supplemental money judgment awarding defendants enhanced prevailing party fees under ORS 20.190(3). ORS 19.205(2)(c). The award followed the trial court's dismissal of plaintiff's claims after it granted defendants' motion for a directed verdict. We review for an abuse of discretion and remand.
Plaintiff lives and farms on property off of Day Road in Wilsonville that he owns with his sister. In 1996, several acres of his farm land were taken for public use in a condemnation proceeding involving the West Linn-Wilsonville School District, a defendant in this case. Thereafter, the school district began construction on the acquired land. The construction included laying underground gas lines and cables along Day Road, as well as improvements to the road and shoulder area. In October 1998, plaintiff filed the claims in this action, including breach of contract and trespass claims against the school district, Northwest Natural Gas, Robinson Construction, Portland General Electric, US West and TCI Cablevision. He alleged that, in performing the improvements to Day Road, defendants obstructed his access for his farm to the road and, alternatively, that they operated equipment on his property without permission. He requested that the court grant relief either by requiring that defendants provide him access to the road or by awarding him damages equivalent to the cost of the removal of defendants' improvements.
When the case came to trial in January 1999, the parties agreed that the only issue was who should pay to remove a curb that blocked plaintiff's farm access to the road. They also agreed that the final judgment in the condemnation case was central in determining that issue. That judgment arose out of the parties' stipulated agreement. Plaintiff asserted that the plain language of the judgment reflected the parties' intent to preserve both his residential and farm access to Day Road. Defendants argued to the contrary. After plaintiff presented his case, the trial court granted defendants' motion for a directed verdict and subsequently signed a judgment dismissing plaintiff's claims with prejudice. (1) That judgment also states:
"IT IS FURTHER ORDERED AND ADJUDGED that West Linn have judgment against Kent Seida, plaintiff herein, for its costs and disbursements and its prevailing party fees pursuant to ORS 20.190(3) pursuant to findings made by the court and as set forth in a supplemental money judgment."
The school district is the only judgment creditor mentioned in that judgment.
Before it signed the above judgment, the trial court received a letter from plaintiff asserting that because the court had not specifically ruled on the issue of prevailing party fees, "the judgment should not include a ruling on those issues and leave the defendants to filing a standard cost bill as allowed by statute." The district responded that the court did not need to reach the prevailing party issue at that time and that the issue could be considered after the district filed a cost bill. In addition, defendants collectively wrote a letter to the court requesting that
"enhanced prevailing party fees in the amount of $5,000 be awarded only in favor of the School District and that each of the six prevailing defendants be awarded $500 pursuant to ORS 20.190(2)(a)(B) for a total award of $8,000 in prevailing party fees, plus their costs and disbursements."
Thereafter, the trial court communicated its ruling on the prevailing party fees issue to the parties in a letter opinion, stating its findings and concluding that "[t]he court awards an enhanced prevailing party fee of $3,000 to defendant West Linn-Wilsonville School District and $2,000 to the remaining defendants." The trial court then entered a supplemental money judgment, which states:
"* * * The court having reviewed the files and records herein and the written submissions of the parties, the court makes the following findings on defendants' claim for enhanced prevailing party fees pursuant to ORS 20.190(3).
"THE COURT FINDS that (1) plaintiff's claim lacked objective reasonableness, (2) an award of the larger prevailing party fee would not deter others from asserting others from asserting [sic] good faith claims in similar cases and (3) an award of the larger prevailing party fee might deter future meritless claims of this sort.
"IT IS ORDER [sic] AND ADJUDGED that based on these findings defendant West Linn-Wilsonville School District 3JT is awarded an enhanced prevailing party fee of $3,000 and defendants Northwest Natural Gas Company, Robinson Construction Company, Portland General Electric Company, US West, Inc., and TCI Cablevision of Oregon, Inc. are awarded and [sic] enhanced prevailing fee of $2,000.
"IT IS FURTHER ORDERED AND ADJUDGED that these defendants have judgment against Kent Seida, plaintiff herein, for their enhanced prevailing party fees pursuant to ORS 20.190(3) and for their costs and disbursements determined in accordance with ORCP 68."
Plaintiff makes five assignments of error concerning the award of enhanced prevailing party fees under ORS 20.190(3) in the above judgment. (2) ORS 20.190 provides, in relevant part:
"(1) Except as provided in subsections (2) to (5) of this section, a prevailing party in a civil action or proceeding who has a right to recover costs and disbursements in the following cases also has a right to recover, as a part of the costs and disbursements, the following additional amounts:"* * * * *
"(b) In a circuit court:"(A) When judgment is given without trial of an issue of law or fact or on an appeal, $60; or
"(B) When judgment is given after trial of an issue of law or fact, $85.
"* * * * *
"(2) In lieu of the prevailing party fee provided for in subsection (1) of this section, in any civil action or proceeding in which recovery of money or damages is sought, a prevailing party who has a right to recover costs and disbursements also has a right to recover, as a part of the costs and disbursements, the following additional amounts:"(a) In a circuit court:
"(A) When judgment is given without trial of an issue of law or fact, $250; or
"(B) When judgment is given after trial of an issue of law or fact, $500.
"* * * * *
"(3) In addition to the amounts provided for in subsection (2) of this section, in any civil action or proceeding in a circuit court in which recovery of money or damages is sought, the court may award to the prevailing party up to an additional $5,000 as a prevailing party fee. The court shall consider the following factors in making an award under the provisions of this subsection:
"(a) The conduct of the parties in the transactions or occurrences that gave rise to the litigation, including any conduct of a party that was reckless, willful, malicious, in bad faith or illegal.
"(b) The objective reasonableness of the claims and defenses asserted by the parties.
"(c) The extent to which an award of a larger prevailing party fee in the case would deter others from asserting good faith claims or defenses in similar cases.
"(d) The extent to which an award of a larger prevailing party fee in the case would deter others from asserting meritless claims and defenses.
"(e) The objective reasonableness of the parties and the diligence of the parties and their attorneys during the proceedings.
"(f) The objective reasonableness of the parties and the diligence of the parties in pursuing settlement of the dispute.
"(g) Any award of attorney fees made to the prevailing party as part of the judgment.
"(h) Such other factors as the court may consider appropriate under the circumstances of the case.
"(4) Nonprevailing parties are jointly liable for the prevailing party fees provided for in this section. A court may not award more than one prevailing party fee to a prevailing party under this section, or more than one prevailing party fee against a nonprevailing party regardless of the number of parties in the action, and, upon being paid the amount of the award, the prevailing party may not seek recovery of any additional amounts under the provisions of this section from any other nonprevailing party."
Plaintiff's first assignment of error is that the trial court erred by violating ORS 20.190(4) in awarding more than one enhanced prevailing party fee against him. He argues that
"[t]here are clearly two (2) separate awards of enhanced prevailing party fees and they are awarded to benefit separate defendants. ORS 20.190(4) is unambiguous in its intent and restriction. PGE v. Bureau of Labor and Industries, 317 Or 606, 610, 859 P2d 1143 (1993). The trial court may not award two prevailing party fees against Plaintiff Seida 'regardless of the number of parties (defendants) in the action.'"
As we understand plaintiff's argument, the above claim of error combined with the fact that the judgment on the merits awarded prevailing party fees only to the district means that the court was not authorized to award any enhanced prevailing party fee to the remaining defendants. Defendants first contend that plaintiff's assignment is not preserved under ORAP 5.45(2), because, according to them, it was not made to the trial court. However, defendants took the position below that only the district should be awarded an enhanced prevailing party fee. Plaintiff was not required to anticipate the court's sua sponte award to the other defendants that forms the basis for plaintiff's assignment of error.
Next, defendants argue that
"[t]he Circuit Court awarded one enhanced prevailing party fee against the nonprevailing party in the amount of $5,000, the statutory maximum, which it allocated among the six prevailing defendants. This award was in conformity with statute."
Whether the division of the award of an enhanced prevailing fee among prevailing parties is permissible under ORS 20.190(4) involves a question of statutory interpretation. The first level of statutory analysis requires us to examine the text and context of the statute. Subsection (1) of ORS 20.190 provides for a mandatory prevailing fee for a prevailing party in a civil action in circuit court. In lieu of the fee established in subsection (1), the prevailing party has a right to recover a higher fee under subsection (2) if the case involves money damages. Subsection (3) provides that "[i]n addition to the amounts provided for in subsection (2)," the circuit court may in its discretion award "up to an additional $5,000 as a prevailing party fee." In determining whether to award an additional fee, the court must consider a nonexhaustive list of factors set forth in the statute.
Finally, subsection (4) addresses issues that may arise when a case involves multiple plaintiffs or multiple defendants. The first sentence of subsection (4) provides that, where there is more than one nonprevailing party, they are jointly liable for the fees. The last clause also concerns multiple nonprevailing parties, which is not an issue in this case. The second sentence is the relevant portion of the statute for the purposes of this case. It provides: "A court may not award more than one prevailing party fee to a prevailing party under this section, or more than one prevailing party fee against a nonprevailing party regardless of the number of parties in the action[.]" The language is prohibitive in nature. It is clear from the statute's language that a court may not award "more than one prevailing party fee." Whether one fee can be awarded to multiple prevailing parties under the statute is not clear. Plaintiff interprets subsection (4) to mean that the court could impose only the fee on behalf of one of the prevailing parties. Defendants interpret the same language to mean that the court could enter multiple judgments, the sum of which represents the maximum amount available under the statute. Both constructions are reasonable in light of the language of subsection (4). (3) Therefore, we turn to the legislative history of ORS 20.190 to resolve the ambiguity in the statute.
The 1995 Legislature enacted amendments to ORS 20.190 as part of a more expansive tort reform effort. Or Laws 1995, ch 618, § 7. Subsections (2) through (7) of ORS 20.190 were added to the bill after it was initially considered. A joint subcommittee of Senate and House members held several public meetings and work sessions on proposed changes to the bill. Tape recording, Senate Floor, SB 385, May 23, 1995, Tape 148, Side A (statement of Senator Neil Bryant). During one of the work sessions, Representative Bryan Johnston raised the concern that the proposed language for subsection (4) of the statute was not clear. Tape recording, Senate Judiciary Subcommittee on Civil Process, SB 385, April 24, 1995, Tape 42, Side B. At the time of the discussion, the second sentence of what would become subsection (4) provided:
"A court may not award more than one prevailing party fee to a prevailing party under this section, and, upon being paid the amount of the award, the prevailing party may not seek recovery of any additional amounts under the provisions of this section from any other nonprevailing party." Senate Judiciary Committee, SB 385, May 8, 1995, Ex L (hand-engrossed bill with A56 amendment).
At the next work session, the subcommittee adopted an amendment that added the language "or against a nonprevailing party regardless of the number of parties" to address Representative Johnston's concerns. Tape recording, Senate Judiciary Subcommittee on Civil Process, SB 385, May 1, 1995, Tapes 44, Side B and 45, Side A; Senate Judiciary Committee, SB 385, May 1, 1995, Ex D (memorandum from Senate Judiciary Committee Counsel to Legislative Counsel). The following exchange occurred in that work session about the amendment:
"Rep. Johnston: So just for ease of illustration, if I were to sue the esteemed senatorial members of this committee, of which there are four, and lose my suit, how much would I be responsible for?
"Max Williams, Committee Counsel: If you were suing in circuit court, you would be responsible for a mandatory prevailing party fee of $500 and up to a discretionary amount of $5,000 which the judge could award.
"Rep. Johnston: And then they'd have to split it as they chose?
"Max Williams: Exactly. There is joint liability under the terms of this provision." Tape recording, Senate Judiciary Subcommittee on Civil Process, SB 385, May 1, 1995, Tapes 45, Side A.
When the bill was submitted to the entire Senate, Senator Bryant explained:
"Only one prevailing party fee is award--is to be awarded--notwithstanding the number of defendants. So this is another fairness example. If you have five defendants and they prevail, there's still only one prevailing party fee that can be awarded, in total, to those five." Tape recording, Senate Floor, SB 385, May 23, 1995, Tape 148, Side A.
While speaking in opposition to the bill, Senator Peter Sorenson expressed the same understanding of the bill:
"Although the bill's been modified, the basic problem I have with the [']loser pays concept['] is that now if you bring a lawsuit in Oregon and it's in circuit court and you lose your suit, you are at risk for $5,000 to be assessed against you in favor of the party that won the lawsuit." Id.
Likewise, when the bill was submitted to the House, Representative Johnston explained:
"If you lose at court, the winner automatically receives a fee of $500. And then we included a list of characteristics that a court could use to increase that fee from the mandatory minimum up to a maximum of $5,000." Tape recording, House Floor, SB 385, June 8, 1995, Tape 254, Side B.
The bill passed the House without substantive amendment to subsection (4), passed in the Senate again and became law.
As is apparent from the legislative history, ORS 20.190(4) is meant to prevent a nonprevailing party from incurring a larger penalty merely because there are multiple prevailing parties in the action. As the discussions and explanations reveal, the legislature's intent was to place a limit on the amount that a party would risk in bringing or defending an action. We are convinced from the above history that the legislature contemplated that a court or the parties could divide the amount awarded among the prevailing parties. Accordingly, we hold that the trial court did not violate ORS 20.190(4) by splitting the enhanced prevailing party fee in the supplemental money judgment between the school district and the remaining defendants. (4)
Plaintiff also assigns error to the adequacy of the court's findings under ORS 20.190(3):
"The Circuit Court erred by failing to make adequate findings that described the relevant facts, instead of merely asserting conclusions of law, for application of the legal criteria for awarding an enhanced prevailing party fee."
Those findings are:
"THE COURT FINDS that (1) plaintiff's claim lacked objective reasonableness, (2) an award of the larger prevailing party fee would not deter others from asserting others from asserting [sic] good faith claims in similar cases and (3) an award of the larger prevailing party fee might deter future meritless claims of this sort."
We have applied the requirements of McCarthy v. Oregon Freeze Dry, Inc., 327 Or 84, 957 P2d 1200, clarified on recons 327 Or 185, 957 P2d 1207 (1998), to review of an award of prevailing party fees under ORS 20.190(3). Wright v. Jones, 155 Or App 249, 252-53, 964 P2d 1048 (1998). In Wright, we summarized the requirement in McCarthy that
"findings regarding fees need not be complex or lengthy and may be made in any terms clear enough to permit meaningful review. 327 Or at 190. Brief descriptions of, or citation to, the factor or factors involved would be sufficient. Id. at 188. Criteria immaterial to the decision and not used by the trial court need not be included. Id." 155 Or App at 253.
Thus, the test is whether "the findings" are susceptible to meaningful review.
In this case, we are unable to review the court's application of the factors in ORS 20.190(3) because its findings are too conclusory; they do not express the court's reasons as to why plaintiff's claims lacked objective reasonableness, or why the court believed that they were not brought in good faith, or why other statutory grounds for the fee were applicable. See McCarthy, 327 Or at 188 n 1. Compare Wright, 155 Or App at 252-53 (where the trial court discussed the facts relevant to its award) with Ashley v. Garrison, 162 Or App 585, 592-93, 986 P2d 654 (1999) (where the trial court made findings, but did not distinguish between grounds for the award). We note that the mere dismissal of a claim is not in and of itself sufficient grounds to meet the statutory criteria. Consequently, remand is required because we are unable to conduct a meaningful review.
Plaintiff's other assignments of error and defendants' other arguments do not warrant discussion.
Award of enhanced prevailing party fee vacated and remanded; otherwise affirmed.
1. That judgment is not on appeal.
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2. The court also entered supplemental judgments on behalf of each defendant that divided the $2,000 prevailing fee among the individual defendants except for the district. Those judgments are not the subject of plaintiff's notice of appeal.
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3. We have found no Supreme Court cases interpreting this section or prior enacted versions of the statute that provide assistance in understanding the legislature's intent.
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4. We express no opinion as to whether the money judgments not on appeal, awarding $500 to each defendant under ORS 20.190(2), are viable and subject to execution. Plaintiff has appealed only from the supplemental money judgment.
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