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Hawaii's public schools clearly need to improve. We take a look at the No. 1 public education system in the nation, to see what success looks like. What can we learn from Maryland's example?
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It's been a rough year for public education in Hawaii. State leaders responded to a budget crunch by killing 17 days of instruction, and then bickered the rest of the school year away. The situation made national news, prompting headlines like, "Hawaii's Children, Left Behind." We've been near the bottom of national student performance rankings for years; going from mediocre to laughingstock certainly wasn't the change anyone hoped for.
Hawaii's Department of Education has been promising reform and then failing to deliver it for so long that it seems sometimes that people have forgotten things don't have to be this way. We might be falling short in our goals, but other states have managed to turn things around, and built public education systems of which they can be proud, or at least not ashamed.
We decided this year to take a look at one of these states, to see how things get done in a functional department of education, and to gather lessons we could apply here in Hawaii.
American education's newspaper of record, Education Week, has for two years in a row ranked Maryland's public education system No. 1 in the nation in its "Quality Counts" Annual Education Report. The report card grades states on both their education policies and their performances—a big-picture look at how well each system is doing. And Maryland is doing great.
How did they get to the top slot? How can we get there too?
• Hawaii and Maryland have a lot in common.
At first glance, it might not make sense to compare Maryland with Hawaii. It has more than four times as many people, after all, and boasts a diversified economy with strong transportation, tech and manufacturing sectors.
But start looking at the factors that always get cited as reasons for Hawaii's lagging performance, and there are a surprising number of similarities.
The percentage of Maryland families below the poverty level in 2007, according to the U.S. Census? 5.4. The percentage of Hawaii families? 5.4.
The percentage of Maryland children who have difficulty speaking English? 3. Hawaii's? 4.
Both states even have the same above-average rate of school-age children attending private schools: 18 percent each, compared with 11 percent, nationally.
And perhaps most importantly, Maryland has risen to the top of the public education pile while spending $600 less on each student than Hawaii. Education Week found that, adjusted for regional cost differences, Maryland spent $11,074 per pupil in 2007, while Hawaii spent $11,676. (Per-pupil expenditure is a tricky statistic, because it depends on whether you include costs such as employee benefits. Dividing the DOE's total expenditures by total enrollment gives a figure closer to $16,000.)
What's the secret? Why do Maryland schools succeed while Hawaii's languish? To find out, we spoke with Maryland state Department of Education employees at all levels, from the state superintendent to the principal of a local high school. We found six things key to Maryland's success that Hawaii is either not doing well, or not doing at all.
• Maryland takes accountability seriously.
Everyone says they care about accountability, but Maryland has been demanding it for years.
State superintendent Nancy Grasmick says Maryland's turnaround started in 1993, when the state established its own statewide standards and created a reporting system called the Maryland School Performance Assessment Program.
The program predated the national No Child Left Behind (NCLB) program in tracking individual school performance and breaking out data for subgroups such as ethnic minorities and economically disadvantaged students. Underperforming schools were targeted with improvement efforts, up to, and including, restructuring.
"For the first time, we were able to measure the progress of schools with a consistent set of standards," says Grasmick. "It was an important event in the educational history of Maryland."
When NCLB went into effect in 2001, Maryland simply retooled its assessment program to meet the federal requirements.


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John Meyer: I was delighted to discover a workout room at the Main Press Center in Beijing. I can't say for sure that it's the first one at an Olympics MPC, but it's the first one I've ever noticed, and this is my eighth Olympics.
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In this, my final MMO Log for Star Trek Online, I desperately claw my way through PVP combat and missions based on classic Trek episodes in my quest to make it to commander rank before the series ends.
I want a new ship. That was my ending thought in the third Star Trek MMO Log, and it's how I begin this one. All of my efforts in this final week's worth of playing are focused on that one goal. Will I make it? The suspense is killing me!
Tuesday, February 16th, 10:00PM Eastern
This is it. Bolstered by the determination I exhibited in my previous MMO log, I am ready to log on tonight and start shooting my way towards Commander rank. As I've explained previously, Star Trek levels are divided into ranks. Levels one through ten, for instance, are Lieutenant rank. Once you hit eleven, you are technically a Lieutenant Commander zero, until you spend skill points. They you are officially a Lieutenant Commander one.
Each rank affords you a new ship, more crew spaces, and lots of new places to put weapons and other devices, so gaining rank is a huge thing in Star Trek Online.
Right now I am a Lieutenant Commander four. I have a long way to go.
And little motivation to get there it seems, at least this evening. I tool around a bit, talk to the guild, rearrange my equipment, and wander off to watch television. Not a good start.
Friday, February 19th, 1:00AM
Those of you handy with numbers might have noticed a bit of a temporal jump there. Due to personal issues, I couldn't make it online on Wednesday and most of Thursday, despite my best intentions. Now it's time to make up for that.
It's late at night, and I need sleep, so I decide to try and complete a quest I have that requires me to take place in a ground fleet action. Until now, I've only participated in space fleet actions, in which massive numbers of players take on massive amounts of powerful enemies from the safety of their very large spaceships. Now I have to beat feet with Starfleet.
Unlike normal ground missions, in a fleet action it's just you without your crew, teaming up with a large group of other players in order to accomplish some ground-based goal. In this case, we had to take out Klingon scouts encroaching on a Federation dig site or something. Then we have to jam communication signals. Finally, we have to defend the camp until a timer runs out. Once the timer finishes, awards are doled out to the top performers in the Federation group.
I've not done the best job maintaining my ground equipment. Luckily for me, these folks have.
In space fleet actions, it's easy to find yourself alone against incredible odds. In this particular ground action, we find safety in numbers, tearing through the Klingon forces with nary a problem.
As I arrived late and didn't have the best weapons, I didn't win an award, unless you count the joy that comes from camaraderie as a reward.
Me neither. It's bedtime.
Friday, 8:00AM
They say sleep is for the sleepy. Apparently not.
I wake up early, eager to get a jump on some of the exciting-looking story missions I have lined up on the path to becoming a Commander. One, called The City on the Edge of Never, I've been told is particularly Trek-worthy, but first I have to complete its pre-requisite.
Technically I don't have to. Both missions are open and available, but when I see the description of something occurring in one mission included in the next, I like to go in order.
The prequel mission is called The Ultimate Klingon. A geneticist by the name of Amar Singh, a follower of the teachings of one Khan Noonian Singh, is working on biologically enhancing the Klingon and the Gorn in order to create a powerful master race, just as Khan tried to do with humans in the past.
The fiend! I rush to the Korvat system, which lies in the reddish Klingon section of space. The members of my fleet are not amused by me typing "Little Red Korvat - woo-hoo!" in our chat channel. Hmph.
Once we find Singh's base, it's a simple matter of watching my crew members being tossed about by augmented Klingon and Gorn troops while I crouch and hit the fire rifle hot key over and over again. We confront the mad scientist, he sics two giant Gorn on us, we shoot them dead and take the misguided soul into custody.
Case closed...or is it? Time for work!
Friday, 9:00PM
(Editor's Note: If don't want to spoil one of the best missions in the game, skip down to Saturday's entry.)
The City on the Edge of Never kicks off with a mission to rendezvous with the U.S.S. Kirk, which has been involved in thwarting several Klingon attacks on medical bases in the past few weeks. It turns out Amar Singh was working with a Klingon Ambassador named B'vat, and the two expressed interest in time travel.
As we arrive at the rendezvous, we find the Kirk under Klingon attack, led by B'vat himself. What could he want with the Kirk? After waging a firefight through the bowels of the ship, we discover his target: Miral Paris, the daughter of Star Trek: Voyager's Tom Paris and half-Klingon B'Elanna Torres. In that television series it was revealed that certain Klingons think Miral is the kuvah'magh, a Klingon savoir figure. Obviously B'vat is a believer. He kidnaps Miral and beams back to his ship. We give chase.
B'vat leads us to a strange, quarantined planet in a remote system, where one of the Federation's greatest secrets lies - the Guardian of Time. Oh yes, we're going to do the time warp.
We beam down to the planet, fighting our way through Klingon ground troops, but it is too late - B'vat and Miral have gone through the portal. The Guardian speaks to us, with voice acting, which is a nice touch, tasking us with flying our ship through a time portal and setting the past right.
We emerge in the year 2270, and B'vat is helping some ancient Klingon ships take on a similarly ancient Federation vessel. It's the U.S.S. Enterprise! Kirk's U.S.S. Enterprise!
That dirty Klingon was going to kill off Kirk in the past, but with our aid the Enterprise survives, and B'vat flees. Spock, voiced by Leonard Nimoy himself, hails us, asking for identification. Fearing a temporal paradox, we give chase to B'vat instead.
Once we catch up with B'vat's ship we board her, and are greeted by a very odd welcoming committee.
Smooth-headed Klingons fighting alongside ridge-headed Klingons. It's like old-home week!
After a desperate battle through the Klingon vessel, we come face-to-face with B'vat....but this isn't Ambassador B'vat. It's his younger, smooth-headed self. In a brilliant bit of classic Trek writing, young B'vat questions how his older self became so bitter, asking my crew and I to give his older self the honorable death in combat he so desires.
Not a problem.
B'vat goes down, and we head back to the Guardian in order to head home, but damn if those Klingons didn't set a trap for us. Several waves of enemy ships attack, wanting to dissect our ship to gain advantage over the Federation with future technology. When all seems lost...
...here comes the Enterprise! With Spock's help we dispatch the attackers with shielding left to spare. Hailing us one last time, Spock explains that he is familiar with time travel, and that we should get going. We pass through the Guardian one more time, the past is saved, and I sit back in my chair with a huge grin on my face.
This mission might have just made the entire game for me. Everything about it was simply perfect. If Star Trek Online fails for some reason, this mission will always be remembered.
Before I go to bed, I spend about an hour trying to take on the Crystalline Entity. A massive creature that appeared in Star Trek: The Next Generation, in Star Trek Online it returns as a giant, mobile raid boss that no one can agree how to kill.
Entering into the zone with the creature, I am greeted by dueling lines of chat in the zone box. Some say I should target the Entity and ignore the countless crystal shards coming off of it, chasing ships and exploding for massive damage. Others say I should shoot the crystals before they return to the Entity, healing it. I fly around for about an hour, firing on the Entity and avoiding the shards. We get it down to 25% health, and then it regenerates up to 80% again.
Accusations are thrown, people log off, and I decide it is time for bed. I'm still only a Lieutenant Commander six, and I've got a long way to go.
Saturday, February 20th, 10:00AM
My girlfriend has a lunch appointment, so I kick back and boldly go places for a few hours. I take on a mission that involves The Doomsday Machine, an original series episode about a gigantic weapon that looks like a dried slug with no head.
Following up on a previous mission, I locate some advanced weapons the Klingons are stockpiling - special, ultra-destructive torpedoes. After sneaking through a nebula to beam down onto a planet, I take out several Klingon squads and confiscate four of the projectiles. Beaming back up to the ship, the Doomsday Device appears, as dried and slug-like as ever, as you can see in the picture at the top of this article.
I have to fly through a destroyed planet's core to charge the torpedoes, and use them four times on the Doomsday Machine. It's pretty much a cakewalk. So much for Doomsday. And look, the girlfriend is home, with food. I've heard good things about food.
Sunday, February 21st, 3:00PM
This is it. I promised myself I would get Commander this week, and with my time on Monday and Tuesday severely compromised, this is the only day I have left to make four more levels and earn my Commander's stripes, or pips.
Moving on from Klingon space, my newer missions mainly deal with the Romulan threat. I perform a quick delivery mission, a few station-based fetch quests, and then I face my first major issue with the missions in Star Trek Online.
A Starfleet Admiral believes that a remote Romulan outpost is manufacturing weapons in order to stage an invasion of Federation space, and she wants my ship to go investigate. That's fine, no problem.
I'm slightly unnerved by the fact that she accompanies us on the mission, standing stoically behind me as my crew blasts their way through Romulan guards towards the base's computer.
According to the computer, all the base is manufacturing is medical supplies, which makes me feel like utter shit. I killed all of these scientists and there were no weapons of Federation destruction onboard?
The Admiral is nonplussed, assuring me that once I've been fighting the Romulans as long as she has, that I'd know they were hiding weapons here.
Okay, first - ripped from the headlines much?
Second - at this point, if I had any choice in the matter, I would have left. I certainly wouldn't have continued butchering innocent scientists, only to be called out by the Romulan Commander at the end for being a heartless butcher.
After we kill the Romulan, the Admiral reveals herself as a shape shifter, hoping to start a war between the Federation and the Romulans.
We do battle, she morphs into the dead Romulan Commander and beams out. I am far too pissed at the outcome of this mission to continue playing today. Scripted content is fine, until you force the player to do something he or she doesn't want to do.
I feel better after eating a sandwich, but I'm still a rather surly Lieutenant Commander eight. Three more levels, and an attitude. Sounds like it is time to PVP.
I have a repeatable PVP mission, which gives me substantial experience for every five Federation versus Klingon death match-type games I take part in. Losing a round I make half a bar of experience (there are ten bars per level). Winning I earn a full bar. It's time to turn on grinding mode.
From around 5:30PM to 11:30PM, I participate in round after round after round of PVP, earing skill points, experience, and the admiration of my peers. Perhaps it is my weapon selection, my chosen skills, or my Escort-class ship, but I'm consistently on top of the damage charts every round I play.
Unless the Klingons swarm and the Federation doesn't party-up. In that situation, where the enemies are picking us off one at a time, I fly around in circles outside of the range of the attackers. Sometimes I sing a little song while doing so.
At 11:34PM, I cross the threshold into Lieutenant Commander eleven. Spending my skill points, I graduate to Commander one. I trans warp back to Earth Space Dock, and soon I'm in my brand-new ride.
Behold the U.S.S. Titanic. Long may she sail.
The Game So Far
This week was one of highs and lows. Star Trek Online continues to wow me in terms of fan service, with references to all versions of the television series littered liberally throughout the universe. To be able to walk in the footsteps of the great Captains and crews from the series is an amazing feeling, and when those footsteps cross with your own, the experience sings.
As much fun as I had with the story missions, I was disappointed with that one Romulan mission, and the fact that grinding PVP content was a faster way for me to progress than through normal missions doesn't seem right. I'm a fan of a PVP system with its own rewards, separate from your standard earning of experience points. In other words, as little as I played this week, I shouldn't have made it to Commander rank.
But I have, and I've got a feeling I will be continuing for quite some time. Until I'm the pilot of a Defiant class vessel, I will not be truly fulfilled.
I hope you all enjoyed these four installments, and that you've gotten a good idea of how much time I've spent playing, along with how I spent my time with the game. Stay tuned Friday for Kotaku's full review of Star Trek Online, and keep an eye out for the U.S.S. Titanic. It has a nasty habit of listing to one side.


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In the days since, though, attention has turned to a second point: What was a train full of oil, from a field 2,000 miles away in the western USA, doing in eastern Canada? Isn't that what pipelines are for?
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Good question. The answer is that there has been a huge, but little noted, boom in the use of railroads to transport oil. The oil that devastated Lac-Megantic, Quebec, for example, came out of the Bakken field in Montana and North Dakota, where production has surged in an area with little pipeline infrastructure.
Trains go places pipelines don't, and railroads can quickly expand capacity without the regulatory obstacles that slow or block new pipelines. U.S. oil shipments by train are up almost 50% over last year, according to the Energy Information Administration.
In comparison with trains, pipelines move oil more efficiently and cheaply, but when they break they spill more oil. Train accidents tend to spill less oil, but the fatality rates for train accidents are higher than for pipeline mishaps.
This surge in oil train shipments has big implications, not least for the seemingly endless controversy over the proposed Keystone XL pipeline, which would bring oil from huge tar sands deposits in western Canada to terminals in the central USA. Keystone needs approval by the State Department, and ultimately by President Obama, because it crosses the U.S. border. The process has dragged on for years; a final decision could come later this year.
As we've argued previously, Keystone deserves to be approved. It would provide a secure new source of crude for a nation that still imports about 36% of its oil. And if the pipeline is not built, the oil won't stay in the ground. It will find its way to other places by other means.
Environmentalists insist that blocking Keystone would limit or stop production of tar sands oil, but growing evidence suggests that won't happen. Not only are producers able to use trains, there are proposals to expand or re-purpose two existing Canadian pipelines that would carry tar sands oil either west to Pacific Rim markets or to the east. The Bakken oil was headed for a refinery in eastern Canada.
Obama said recently that Keystone should be approved only if it did "not significantly exacerbate" greenhouse gas emissions. Interestingly, an initial analysis by the State Department concluded exactly that, reasoning that if Keystone were not built, the tar sands oil would be sold anyway.
Critics have attacked the report, and their critiques have some merit. Pipeline politics in Canada are also difficult, and shipping oil by train is up to three times as expensive as pipelines. But those are details. The Lac-Megantic crash is a tragic reminder that whether it comes from U.S. fields or Canada's tar sands, oil will find a way to market one way or another. The best outcome is for that market to be here.
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THE blend of passionate advocacy and lucid analysis that Ross Gelbspan brings to this, his second book about global warming, is extremely readable because the author's voice is so authentic. When Gelbspan first encountered the issue as a reporter nine years ago, he writes, he had no inkling of how it would change his life. But as he put together the evidence of the global climate crisis he describes in this book, he found himself pulled inexorably to do more than simply write about it. So he now feels called to a kind of mission: to describe what is happening, to single out the specific failures and misdeeds of politicians, energy companies, environmental activists and journalists who share responsibility for our predicament, and then propose bold solutions that -- unlike more timid blueprints already on the public agenda -- would in his view actually solve the problem.
For a Pulitzer Prize-winning reporter at the top of his game, this is a career detour requiring courage I greatly admire. Moreover, he candidly describes how, as he opened himself to the implications of what he was learning in his dogged pursuit of this story, he has undergone something of a personal transformation. He writes that it has become ''an excruciating experience to watch the planet fall apart piece by piece in the face of persistent and pathological denial.'' He describes how mountain glaciers around the world are melting, most of them rapidly. And he cites early examples of environmental refugees like those created in recent weeks in Bangladesh, vulnerable to catastrophic flooding as sea levels rise.
In the course of this transformation, Gelbspan has become a different kind of reporter, one who recalls the great reforming journalists of the first decade of the 20th century -- Upton Sinclair, Ida Tarbell, Lincoln Steffens and others -- who not only reported on political corruption and corporate excesses but connected them to larger destructive patterns that had developed in the economy and politics of their time. They agitated for policy reforms, many of which were enacted into statutes when they became part of the progressive movement's agenda: antitrust laws, the Food and Drug Administration, railroad regulation, wage and hour laws, workmen's compensation and child labor laws, to name a few.
It is in that spirit that Gelbspan pursues solutions for climate change that can ''also begin to reverse some very discouraging and destructive political and economic dynamics as well.''
Part of what makes this book important is its indictment of the American news media's coverage of global warming for the past two decades. Indeed, when the author investigates why the United States is virtually the only advanced nation in the world that fails to recognize the severity of this growing crisis, he concludes that the news coverage is ''a large reason for that failure.''
At a time when prominent journalists are writing mea culpas for allowing themselves to be too easily misled in their coverage of the case for war in Iraq, Gelbspan presents a devastating analysis of how the media have been duped and intimidated by an aggressive and persistent campaign organized and financed by coal and oil companies. He recounts, for example, a conversation with a top television network editor who was reluctant to run stories about global warming because a previous story had ''triggered a barrage of complaints from the Global Climate Coalition'' -- a fossil fuel industry lobbying group -- ''to our top executives at the network.''
He also describes the structural changes in the news media, like increased conglomerate ownership, that have made editors and reporters more vulnerable to this kind of intimidation -- and much less aggressive in pursuing inconvenient truths.
Gelbspan's first book, ''The Heat Is On'' (1997), remains the best, and virtually only, study of how the coal and oil industry has provided financing to a small group of contrarian scientists who began to make themselves available for mass media interviews as so-called skeptics on the subject of global warming. In fact, these scientists played a key role in Gelbspan's personal journey on this issue. When he got letters disputing the facts in his very first article, he was at first chastened -- until he realized the letters were merely citing the industry-funded scientists. He accuses this group of ''stealing our reality.''
In this new book, Gelbspan focuses his toughest language by far on the coal and oil industries. After documenting the largely successful efforts of companies like ExxonMobil to paralyze the policy process, confuse the American people and cynically '' 'reposition global warming as theory rather than fact,' '' as one strategy paper put it, he concludes that ''what began as a normal business response by the fossil fuel lobby -- denial and delay -- has now attained the status of a crime against humanity.''
I wouldn't have said it quite that way, but I'm glad he does, and his exposition of the facts certainly seems to support his charge.
Gelbspan also criticizes the current administration, documenting its efforts to ''demolish the diplomatic foundations'' of the international agreement known as the Kyoto Protocol, and describing its approach to energy and environmental policy as ''corruption disguised as conservatism.'' Again, he backs up his charge with impressive research. Moreover, his critique is far from partisan. He takes on environmental groups for doing way too little and for focusing on their own institutional agendas rather than the central challenges.
When Gelbspan addresses the subject of solutions, he first gives a detailed analysis of all the significant plans that have been offered, and then endorses a maximalist approach called the World Energy Modernization Plan, developed six years ago by an ad hoc group that met at the Harvard Medical School. His basic argument is that it is far too late in the game to waste time on strategies that might be more politically feasible but don't actually do enough to begin to solve the problem.
He may be right, but the plan's authors, though distinguished, remind me of Sam Rayburn's remark that he'd feel a lot better ''if just one of them had ever run for sheriff.''
THE fact is, many who have worked on this problem believe it may be essential to begin with a binding agreement among nations and then, after governments and industries shift direction, toughen the goals. That is the formula used successfully in the Montreal Protocol in 1987 to begin reducing the emissions that cause destruction of stratospheric ozone. Three years later, the standards were dramatically tightened in the London Amendments, and by then most resistance had dissipated.
The Kyoto Protocol (which may soon become legally effective if Russia ratifies it, even though the United States has not) has been criticized by many, including Gelbspan, for not going nearly far enough to reduce the emissions that cause global warming. But it has simultaneously been condemned from the opposite side for going too far. If Kyoto does take effect, we may find that after industries and countries begin to comply, it will be easier to expand the limits of what is politically possible.
But Gelbspan's point is a powerful one and is well argued. And he has, in any case, performed a great service by writing an informative book on a difficult but crucial subject.
Correction: September 12, 2004, Sunday Because of an editing error, a review in the Book Review on Aug. 15 about ''Boiling Point,'' by Ross Gelbspan, on global warming, referred incorrectly to the author's participation in a Pulitzer Prize. As he writes in the book, he was not among the staff members of The Boston Globe named in 1984 for the prize, in local investigative specialized reporting about race relations. The Globe, however, designated him a ''co-recipient'' because of his editing of the series.


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M. Joseph Sobran, Jr. passed away peacefully at age 64 on September 30. The diabetes he had fought for many years won out. Born in Ypsilanti, Michigan, on February 23, 1946, he earned a bachelor's degree in English from Eastern Michigan University where he specialized in Shakespearean studies and later taught English and lectured on Shakespeare. Always a great lover of the bard's works (he could recite from memory many passages from the plays and sonnets), he later wrote Alias Shakespeare: Solving the Greatest Literary Mystery of All Time in which he claimed that Edward de Vere, the 17th Earl of Oxford, was the real Shakespeare.
While busy with graduate work at Eastern Michigan in 1971, Joe attracted the attention of William F. Buckley, Jr., as a result of a letter he'd written to the school newspaper defending the National Review editor's campus speaking appearance. Buckley saw the letter, invited Joe to New York for an interview, and hired him in 1972. There began 21 years of close association with the man many still consider conservatism's intellectual leader. That the relationship of the two friends and colleagues ended contentiously has to be considered a defining moment in Sobran's career.
In addition to his regular contributions to National Review, Joe wrote columns syndicated nationally by Universal Press Syndicate. His thoughts appeared regularly in Chronicles and Catholic Family News. Many will recall hearing some of his radio commentaries on the CBS "Spectrum" series. In later years, his columns were published monthly in Sobran's newsletter. Always a Catholic, he was a regular columnist for many years in The Wanderer, a Catholic newsweekly. Joe also wrote for The New American, the magazine affiliated with The John Birch Society.
Other than his book about Shakespeare's identity, Joe authored Single Issues: Essays on the Crucial Social Questions (Human Life Press, 1983) and Hustler: The Clinton Legacy (Griffin Communications, 2000). Many of his articles and speech texts appeared in The Church Today: Less Catholic Than the Pope? (1979), Power and Betrayal (1998), and Anything Called a Program is Unconstitutional (2001). His last major writing effort, never completed, was a book about Abraham Lincoln's presidency and its relation to the United States Constitution.
After years of being William Buckley's valued associate and close friend, Joe's fallout with his boss started in the mid-1980s when he questioned the Reagan-authorized attack on Libya, an incident roundly championed by National Review. The gulf between the two grew when Joe criticized the New York Times and the leaders of Israel for downplaying the harm done by Jonathan Pollard, the U.S. intelligence specialist sent to prison after pleading guilty in 1985 to spying for Israel. Joe didn't realize it at the time, but Buckley had become extremely friendly with the pro-Israel New Yorkers who published the American Jewish Committee's Commentary magazine. Leading promoters of socialist and internationalist neoconservatism, Commentary's leaders were also members of the Council on Foreign Relations, the world-government-promoting group Buckley had joyously affiliated with as far back as 1974.
Then, in the December 30, 1991 issue of National Review, Buckley wrote a five-part essay entitled In Search of Anti-Semitism that featured attacks on Joe Sobran, Pat Buchanan, and several others. Never explicitly aiming the actual charge at any of his subjects, Buckley cleverly stated that it had become increasingly difficult to defend them from the suspicion that it was merited. For many, the mention of a man's name in an article about anti-Semitism constituted sufficient proof that the he was guilty of harboring the odious view. What Buckley had done proved harmful to Joe down the road.
Even more, Sobran's consistent objections to George H. W. Bush's building of an imperial presidency rankled his former friend. The matter came to a head when Sobran opposed the Bush-initiated 1990 plan to attack Iraq known as Desert Storm (later to become Desert Shield). Joe entitled his disagreement with Buckley, "Why National Review is Wrong." The magazine had claimed that America absolutely had to send forces into Iraq to protect three vital interests: oil, peace and stability, and allies. Sobran responded:
Arab oil? We don't need it. "Peace and stability"? Nobody in the Gulf region threatens us. "Allies"? Such as — Turkey! Oh, brother.
Joe also saw a grand design behind the plans for war that President Bush (the elder) kept stating had to be waged because it would lead to the "new world order" and enhanced power for the United Nations. Joe advised, "Let's just remind ourselves that war always results in a bigger, stronger, more consolidated state." After the January 1991 invasion that ousted Saddam Hussein's forces from Kuwait, he stated his inability to fathom the logic that said "you may oppose a bad war only until it begins." And he added that President Bush was "the sort of politician our Founding Fathers were trying to prevent." An increasingly perturbed Buckley later revealed, after these comments from Sobran, he composed a letter asking Joe to resign but never sent it.
The final break with Buckley did come when Joe, in a very revealing and unflattering portrayal of his boss, responded to the change that he was a latent anti-Semite in a column in The Wanderer. Buckley suggested in his defense published in the next issue of the newsweekly that Joe might even have "medical" problems. A few days later, Joe was fired in a way that amounted to a final insult: the deed was carried out not by Buckley but by his anointed successor, John O'Sullivan. Joe subsequently observed that "being fired isn't nearly as bad as being betrayed."
In an unpublished essay Joe gave to me in 2001 after I had supplied him with a copy of the manuscript to my 2002 book, William F. Buckley, Jr.: Pied Piper for the Establishment, Joe wrote of his embarrassment in having to admit that my indictment of his former boss was on target. He summarized, "It took me many years to see what John McManus makes overwhelmingly obvious: Bill Buckley, American conservatism's longtime intellectual leader, has been a calamity for conservatism." Years later during a very enjoyable visit I had with Joe in February 2010, he expressed great enthusiasm for what I had written, even remarking that the published book I had recently supplied led him to "read it twice and make notations on dozens of pages."
Soon after Bill Buckley died in February 2008, this ever kindly gentleman who never hated anyone acknowledged that he and his former boss had shared a pleasant reconciliation. Joe stated, "My employment ended unhappily, much to my regret now, but I rejoice to say we patched things up a year or so ago."
Joe Sobran, a man who exemplified the term class was as fine a writer and thinker as America has produced in many decades. While he will be sorely missed, he should be remembered as one who had many friends and admirers, none of whom he ever betrayed. It was both a pleasure and an honor to know him. May he rest in peace.


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When you think of the holiday season, what comes to mind?
Family? Friends? Christmas trees? Decorations? Presents? Candles? Food? Mistletoe?
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Danika also points out that reports have shown that "the cords on most holiday lights contain lead at higher levels that what is allowable for toys." A Michigan-based group called The Ecology Center tested 68 light sets and found four out of five of those sets contained detectable levels of lead.
While most people don't stick electrical cords in their mouths, they do touch them with their hands (and then touch food or their faces?) and all of the twisting and turning the cords while wrapping them around the tree or — in my house, the banister — can lead to lead dust in the air.
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To avoid possible lead contamination, it is advised that people either wear gloves when handling holiday lights or wash their hands afterward. I'm not sure what you can do about the possible lead dust in the air other than avoid strands of lights that contain lead in the first place. Or just don't decorate at all. Yeah, bah humbug and all of that. 😛
Actually, Alicia from The Soft Landing had some tips for safer holiday lights. "As we discussed in a recent article, locating PVC-free and lead-free light strings proved impossible, so your best bet is to focused on tracking down RoHS compliant products. We found Environmental Lights to be an invaluable source of well-researched options and SAFbaby also confirmed that Ikea offers safer light strands as well."
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I'm rethinking my decision to wrap our banister in lights and garland this year. Sure it looks pretty, but when my kids touch it nearly every time they come down the stairs, that ain't cool, people. That ain't cool. Maybe I'll have them wear gloves in the house? Or not. 😛 Next year I think we will only have lights on the tree in the house. Any other lighted decorations will be outside only. At least that will minimize our exposure a bit. I'm also trying to have my kids wash their hands whenever they handle any lights and cords this year (which is so much better than throwing them into a pile of lights, don't you think?). 😉 Live and learn and then learn some more.
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Most tenants can recognize activities that will surely violate an apartment lease (like throwing all-night parties). But in your haste to move in, you may have skimmed over some of the less obvious lease violations. And it's not always easy to separate fair conduct from something that could have your landlord inking up the old eviction stamp.
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Your landlord is around, so you introduce him or her to your pal/indefinite roommate: "This is Lance … he'll, um, be here awhile." Innocent enough, right? Whoops.
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Many landlords might declare having liquid-filled furniture, like water beds, a lease violation. Though it's not especially easy to puncture a water bed, a carelessly placed sharp object could be enough to warrant an ark. In other words, water beds pose a continuous damage risk your landlord likely won't want to deal with. On the bright side, for renters who simply cannot forego aquatic relaxation, putting a chaise lounge in your tub is still fair game (but don't quote me on that).
3. Upgrading your TV service
Say football season is approaching and you decide to upgrade to the deluxe sports package. No problem, right? Well, it depends on how you purchased this package. If it was by signing up for satellite TV, that might be a lease violation. Since you don't own the building, your apartment lease may forbid you from attaching objects like a dish to the building.
4. Taking a long, unannounced vacation
If you start buying Panama hats in bulk, it's probably best not to let your landlord see the receipts. Taking a long trip without telling your landlord how long you'll be gone could actually be prohibited by your apartment lease. Many landlords worry about what can happen in unattended units (burst pipes, bug infestation, etc.), so they may want the right to enter your place while you're jet-setting. Besides, if you're going to be away for a while, it's probably wise to have someone looking in on your place.
5. Overcrowding bedrooms
You may think that as long as rent is paid by all the tenants in your apartment, you have the right to add as many residents as you like. Not always true. Many leases, especially those written for apartments in college towns, restrict the number of occupants in any one bedroom.
We know that when money is tight, the prospect of dividing up your rent like an extra-large pizza is tempting. But in this case, it's best to follow the rules and observe the capacity laws.
6. Grilling
You: "You've got to try this duck confit burger I grilled up!"
Landlord: "Oh, it's delicious! So tender. You're a true artiste with the spatula. You'll have to give me the recipe. Now get out, punk."
Coldhearted, perhaps, but not totally out of line. Many lease violations come from using outdoor fire of any kind — and that includes grilling. This rule is common in large, multi-unit buildings where there isn't much outdoor space. But even if you rent a house and have an entire yard to yourself, it's always best to check your lease carefully before you break out the lighter fluid.
7. Losing your stuff to burglary
Wait a minute … how could being the victim of theft possibly be a violation on your part? Well, it's not the theft, but rather your lack of protection against it. See, some landlords actually require tenants to purchase renters insurance as part of their apartment lease. And, with all that renters insurance can do (like replacing your belongings after a burglary, for starters), who can blame them?
Get a renters insurance quote with us and see just how affordable coverage for your treasured possessions can be (and get your landlord off your back in the process).


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Ah Provence! My recent visit to the Luberon Valley (Little Luberon) didn't disappoint despite only having three days to tour the region. There is nothing quite like getting lost in the French countryside, visiting markets, truly eating farm to table, and sampling some seriously good wine. Oh, and the olive oil!
LA BASTIDE DE MARIE in Menerbes was our home base. I think I cried when we arrived, it was so beautiful. Think old world French country with clean, modern updates like glass shower doors, heated floors, flat panel TV's, etc. Set in a valley among vineyards (visit their winery) and under a blue sky, the setting is sublime. www.labastidedemarie.com
When we arrived at La Bastide de Marie, they asked us if we wanted the meal package that included breakfast, tea and dinner daily. We declined, saying we wanted to experience the region. So much for that! After dinner there the first night, we jumped at the package, looking forward to one exquisite meal after another, all walking distance from our room. Upon arriving to dinner, guests help themselves to hors d'oeuvres like tapenade, jamon iberico, radishes and cherry tomatoes from the garden, and are encouraged to sit by the fire and have an aperitif before dining. Dinner is served on the glass enclosed terrace with the daily menu written on a blackboard. Local cuisine with some Spanish influences. We learned that people come from all over the region to dine there, and I understand why. www.labastidedemarie.com
LE BISTROT DECOUVERTE in St-Remy-de-Provence was a wonderful spot for a traditional Provencal lunch outside on the terrace. Superb. www.bistrotdecouverte.com
Of course you must rent a car and tour the region. We didn't get to see as much as we would have liked since we only had three days, but what we saw was enough for me to want to book another trip next summer!
A visit to CHATEAU D'ESTOUBLON in Fontvieille offers tours of their olive grove and vineyard, as well as tastings and shopping. www.estoublon.com
Visit the markets. You could go to a different market each day in Provence and never get bored. We went to an antique market in L'Isle-sur-la Sorgue where I actually found the most beautiful smocked dresses for my daughter. Set along canals with lots to do, I could easily while the day away here.
The farmers markets are abundant with olive oils, spices, wines, olives, produce and straw bags. We went to a smaller market in Coustellet where I bought straw market totes and spices. The market in Apt is bigger, but be sure to check which markets are happening on which days of the week so you can hit as many as possible. For me, the markets are the best part of visiting here!
A trip to the old town of LES BAUX-DE-PROVENCE will give you a workout as you climb up narrow stone walks that wind to the top, revealing a gorgeous view of the valley below and all the way to Arles. Considered one of the most beautiful villages in France, you can easily spend a day here visiting the castle, the church, seeing many of the shows they offer, and of course shopping. www.lesbauxdeprovence.com
We returned with olive oil from Chateau d'Estoublon. It comes in a very sexy bottle and I thought it was a great gift. We brought some home for ourselves and my stepfather. They also make a spray bottle version so you can just spritz your salad or bread. And did I mention it's delicious? www.estoublon.com
I also went nuts buying Provencal straw market totes. Mine has both top handles and shoulder straps!
Of course I had to buy a tablecloth and agonized over which pretty stripe to get….red, turquoise, yellow. I settled for a French blue thinking it was the most authentic.
Wine! I can't believe we lugged home three bottles of red and rose. We would have brought more of course but we had no room and our luggage was seriously overweight. Shipping isn't an option (for multiple cases only), so next time we will think ahead and bring another bag! www.labastidedemarie.com
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Student Hair Salon in Westcliff before I go into the points to help you choose your hairdresser, I should first outline the definition of what is a mobile hairdresser? A Hair Stylist is a hairdresser who usually works for his or herself visiting clients at their homes or place of work, or any other agreed venue and does not operate from a fixed hair salon or beauty shop.
Mobile Hairdressing As a Career
1.When to consider using a mobile hairdresser. The services of a mobile hairstylist may often be required to be used at a home for a wedding when it may often be inconvenient for the bride to travel to a hair or beauty salon to have her hair and her make-up done, requiring her then to travel back to her home to put on her wedding gown. Instead, the hairdresser will travel to the bride's home in order to style the bride's hair for her special day. A At Home Hair Services hairstylist is often in demand for Care homes, hospitals, prisons, the armed forces, and in many other situations where individual attention is required.
How to Become a Successful Mobile Hairdresser
4. Always Use a qualified hairdresser. As with Salon hairdressers, your mobile hairdresser should hold formal hairdressing qualifications. The UK national Vocational Qualification in Hairdressing (NVQ) is the only recognized qualification system, and more than 60% of mobile hairstylists are now trained to this standard. They should also hold professional indemnity insurance.
Your mobile hairdresser should be happy and prepared to recommend the perfect hairdos and often make-up to accentuate and compliment the individual looks of the customer, and offer suggestions on what hairstyle or make up should best suit the client.
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Portable hair salon stations are designed for the mobile hairdresser in mind. The mobile hairdresser is someone who is on the move, so he or she is need of special equipment that's lightweight and easy to carry. This is the case with portable hair salon stations.
The goal of a company that manufacturers portable hair salon stations is to to provide a new portable hair salon station which is susceptible of a low cost of manufacture with regard to both materials and labor, and which accordingly is then susceptible of low prices of sale to the consuming public, thereby making such portable hair salon station economically available to the buying public.
Portable hair salon stations can range from traditional and elegant shampoo bowls at hair styling stations, to revolutionary and ergonomically correct back wash units. Some portable hair salon stations are designed to impress clients with a trendy decor, as well as provide the amenities that top stylist demand, are available many styles and price points.
400-18 QSEp PORTABLE is a portable hair salon station with four casters. It features two full-extension drawers, breadboard pull-out, fully-equipped tip-out tool panel w/ holders for blow dryer, two standard curling irons, one large curling iron, clipper pocket, and six-outlet power strip.
The Role of a Mobile Hairdresser
If you have an aim to become a successful mobile hairdresser, then this information will be useful to make your dreams come true. You can be a successful hairdresser as well as you can open your business too. There are various ways to become a hairdresser but choosing accurate way will makes you to achieve highest level of success to becoming a successful mobile hair dresser. The best way to become a mobile hairdresser is straight entry into a salon as a trainee. Salons provide the most rewarding start as you will be paid to learn. Many salons permit trainees one day a week to attend college classes. This is a key to accomplish any formal acknowledgment.
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To become a successful mobile hairdresser you need to accomplish some requirements. Formal qualifications are necessary in a spirited market place. The national Vocational Qualification in Hairdressing (NVQ) is the only familiar qualification system. More than 60% of mobile hairdressers are now trained to this standard.
A mobile hairdressing is person whose profession is to cut or style hair, in order or change or uphold person's reflection as they desire. And this is accomplished throughout a permutation of hair coloring, hair cut and hair texture methods. The most important advantage in this job is the simple nature, which agrees to you to constant take out this in your own house.
The above information makes you able to understand about the requirements and the methods you should follow to become a successful mobile hairdresser. This is not too hard to be a mobile hairdresser, once you understand the trends and fashion you will come to know new methods of hairstyles and the skill you should obtain.


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Previously, Leta spent 10 years with the US Small Business Administration. He joined SBA in its Senior Executive Service Candidate Development attaining his SES certificate in September 2010. During his time with SBA, he has held positions at headquarters and in Field offices, including acting Deputy District Director in the Eastern Pennsylvania District office and Director in Delaware. He also served as Deputy Associate Administrator for Capital Access, overseeing all SBA loan programs. Most recently, he spent 4 years as Director for the U.S. Small Business Administration's Eastern Pennsylvania District Office. This office covers the 40 counties in Eastern PA, serving almost 750,000 small businesses and overseeing over $600M in SBA leading
Leta comes to SBA with an extensive background in marketing, sales, and general management in the private sector. Early in his career, he worked for seven years with Kraft/General Foods in Southern California in various capacities in marketing and sales. In 1991, he returned to the Northeast with George Weston Bakeries to run their $50 million Upstate NY division.
In 1996, he went on to be Vice President of Sales at Weston's Philadelphia area corporate office, and in 2001 was promoted to Vice President/General Manager responsible for their $750 million bread division (Stroehmann, Arnold, Friehofer brands) with 10 manufacturing facilities and over three thousand employees. After leaving Weston in 2006, he operated a consulting business focusing on small to midsize manufacturing firms in the Northeast.
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Our newest intern, Kate Statton, senior at Rutgers, the State University of New Jersey, is both a romantic and a chocoholic. Here's her advice on Valentine's Day sweets.
"Having been a chocolate lover all my life, I've always been a fan of Valentine's Day. As a child, I looked forward to that special morning whenI would wake up, turn over in bed, and find a little heart-shaped box of Russell Stover's on my pillow. Now that I'm older and no longer live in my parents' house, I can't count on that red box being there in the morning, but I make sure to keep the warm sentiment of the holiday regardless. Whether it's putting cards under doors of dorm rooms or finding the perfect stuffed animal for a friend, I try to pass on my excitement to those around me.
"Determined to find something for everyone, I gathered an assortment of Valentine's Day chocolates, called over my co-workers in the Kitchen Appliances & Technology lab, and held a chocolate tasting. We had a lot of fun and after an abundance of tasting and a few overdoses, came up with a definitive go-to guide for Valentine's Day gifting.
- Godiva's Romantic Heart Assortment ($40) in a gorgeous satin heart, MarieBelle New York's treats in boxes with a vintage look, and Jacques Torres' Custom Chocolate Heart Box ($60). For the person more interested in the box than the candy inside, there's
Kids on your list will get a kick out of Godiva's chocolate message hearts. Also child-friendly: Jacques Torres Loves Me, Loves Me Not($19.20) game. Under each truffle it says "loves me" or "loves me not" for a delicious variation on pulling petals from a daisy.
- MarieBelle's VDay Red Box ($29) filled with truffles printed with a picture that's matched to a Valentine's Day fairy tale. If your valentine is a hopeless romantic, consider
- Love and Chocolate box ($15) filled with bonbons in unusual flavors like Balsamic Strawberry and a Wine and Chocolate Box packed with winey truffles--our fave Cabernet Sauvignon. Or treat your honey to Scharffen Berger($60) or Norman Love single-origin chocolates. Bonus: Love's Black set($15) comes in a very sophisticated black leather box. Gifting to a foodie? Cocoa Dolce Artisan Chocolates makes a
- Norman Love's 2011 Love and Kisses Chocolate Gift Box($35) which features the Red Hot Love truffle filled with cinnamon ganache. "For someone sweet and spicy order
- Norman Love. Each of his handcrafted chocolates is so beautiful, your sweetie may hesitate to actually eat them but it would be a shame because they're as delectable as they're good-looking. If you're looking for the prettiest sweets of all, go straight to
- La Maison du Chocolat's Heart of Ganache ($24). Its bonbons may look plain but the creamy fillings will leave your love swooning--the pink champagne truffle was tops in our taste test. OK, if all that matters is the deliciousness of the chocolate you'll be wanting
"And for those of you who, like me, are hard stuck on old traditions, Russell Stover continues to offer plenty of delicious candies in a variety of sizes, shapes, and designs at reasonable prices right at the corner drugstore.
"If you don't have any Valentine's Day traditions, I hope this list helps you start some and encourages you to leave something special on the pillow of the person you love, just like my mom always did for me. Happy Valentine's Day!"
For other Valentine's Day gift ideas, see Rachel Rothman's tech suggestions and our department's recommendations for cooks.
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The following vehicles are eligble for purchase of these plates:
- Class A, passenger cars
- Class M, multi-purpose vehicle
- Class EFT, (Agricultural plate only)
- Class EPO, trucks up to 1 ton (up to 26,000 lbs.)
- Class G, trailer
Vehicles with plates for individuals with disabilities or personalized plates can obtain Chesapeake Bay or Agricultural Plates. Seven (7) character personalized plates will not include the blue heron. In addition to the annual registration fee, there is an additional yearly fee for personalized plates.
There is an initial fee for purchasing either the Chesapeake Bay Commemorative Plate or the Agricultural Plate. In addition to the initial fee there is an annual fee that goes directly to the Chesapeake Bay Trust and/or the Maryland Agricultural Education Foundation.
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The natural world recognises no political boundaries: different countries have to work together to conserve the environment. The international conventions they agree must apply all across Earth in order to be effective.
Monitoring the implementation and enforcing such planetary-scale treaties represents a considerable challenge – one that it takes Earth observation resources to meet to the fullest.
Satellites yield information-rich views of the Earth on a variety of different scales from the local to the global. At low cost they can supply a consistent set of continuously updated data across the whole planet, including terrain too difficult or inaccessible for ground-based monitoring.
The information provided by satellites is sound, systematic and rigorous enough to be relied upon – following integration with other data sources – to establish general consensus on the current state of the environment as a basis for further action.
Satellite data also helps build up a global bank of technical knowledge which can in turn serve to establish efficient environmental modelling systems that can aid the supra-national decision making process in future.
As a first step to explore how current and future Earth observation systems may help the implementation of international environmental treaties, ESA set up the Treaty Enforcement Services using Earth Observation (TESEO) initiative in 2001, working with various treaty secretariats to develop satellite-based services to their operational requirements.
International treaties addressed by TESEO include the 1971 Ramsar Convention on Global Wetlands, the 1992 Kyoto Protocol to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change, and the 1996 United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification.
TESEO has paved the way for the Global Monitoring for Environment and Security (GMES) programme, now renamed Copernicus.
The Copernicus programme is a joint undertaking with the European Commission and is set to make a step change in the way we care for the planet by providing reliable, timely and accurate services to manage the environment, understand and mitigate the effects of climate change and help respond to crises.