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Romney doesn't need to talk about America becoming like Europe. He needs to warn us about America becoming like California.
It's been a week marked by mistakes, some new and some continuing.
The pro-Obama Super PAC ad that essentially blames Mitt Romney for a woman's death from cancer is over the line, and if it's allowed to stand the personal attacks that have marked the presidential campaign will probably get worse. If the president rebukes the PAC and renounces the ad—and he should, and he'd look better doing it than not doing it—then we'll all know there's an ethical floor below which things can't sink. The ad was a mistake for a number of reasons, one being that it makes the president look perfidious and weak: "Mudslinging is all we've got." It also may finally injure his much vaunted likability ratings.
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Conservative critics are correct that the Romney campaign's pushback was weak. When someone suggests in the public arena that you are a killer you do have to respond with some force. Since media outlets have already pointed out the ad's claim is false, no one would think it out of bounds if Mr. Romney hit back with indignation and disgust.
Actually, that would be a public service. The ad's cynicism contributes to a phenomenon that increases each year, and that is that we are becoming a nation that believes nothing. Not in nothing, but nothing we're told by anyone in supposed authority.
Everyone knows what the word spin means; people use it in normal conversation. Everyone knows what going negative is; they talk about it on Real Housewives. Political technicians always think they're magicians whose genius few apprehend, but Americans now always know where the magician hid the rabbit. And we shouldn't be so proud of our skepticism, which has become our cynicism. Someday we'll be told something true that we need to know and we won't believe that, either.
I suspect some conservative used the Romney campaign's listless response as a stand-in for what they'd really like to say to Mr. Romney himself, which is, "Wake up, get mad, be human, we're fighting for our country here!"
Mr. Romney is not over-managed by others—he isn't surrounded by what George H.W. Bush called "gurus"—but he over-manages himself. He second guesses, doubts his own instincts. Up to a certain point that's good: Self-possession is a necessary quality in a political leader. But people don't choose a leader based solely on his ability to moderate himself. They're more interested in his confidence in his own judgment, or an ease that signals the candidate has an earned respect for his own instincts.
Some of the unperturbed sunniness you see modern political figures attempting to enact may be traceable to Ronald Reagan, the happy warrior who set a template for how winners act. But the Reagan of the 1950s and '60s was often indignant, even angry. When he allowed himself to get mad, or knew he should be mad and so decided to feign anger, it was a sight to behold. "I'm paying for this microphone," he famously snapped to the moderator of the 1980 primary campaign debate in Nashua, N.H. He didn't win that crucial state by being sunny.
A lot of politicians misunderstand this part of their art. A few months ago I talked with a Republican candidate for the U.S. Senate. I asked to hear the outlines of the candidate's planned appeal to voters. The candidate leaned forward and said with some intensity, "I'm going to tell them I can get along with people. I can work with the other side."
This was a great example of confusing the cart with the horse. Why would anyone vote for you, especially during a crisis, only because you play well with the other children? What are your issues, where do you stand, what will you do when you get to Washington? If you believe in something and mean to move it forward, the people will give you a fair hearing, and if you make clear that you hope to make progress with the help of a knack for human relations, that's good too.
But this cult of equability, this enforced, smiley, bland dispassion—Guys, we're in a crisis, you've got to know how to fight, too.
And you've got to fight on the issues.
Both candidates wasted some time this week calling each other names in a sort of cheesy, noneffective, goofy way. "Obamaloney." "Romney Hood." Actually goofy isn't the right word because goofy is fun, and there's no wit or slash in what they were doing.
Calling Mr. Romney's economic plans Romney Hood was dim because everyone likes Robin Hood, so Romney Hood sounds kind of like a compliment. Now and then the foes of a candidate accidentally do him a good turn. The Soviets thought they were disparaging Margaret Thatcher when they called her the Iron Lady. She was cold, wouldn't bend, couldn't compromise. The British heard the epithet and thought: Exactly! And exactly what we need!
An admiring nickname meant as an insult was born. Mr. Romney should go with it, lay out how he'll save taxpayers from the predators of the liberal left and call that Romney Hood.
But he and his supporters should drop the argument that if we don't change our ways we'll wind up like Europe. That's a mistake because Americans like Europe, and in some complicated ways wouldn't mind being a little more like it. In the past 40 years, jumbo jets, reduced fares and rising affluence allowed a lot of Americans, especially the sort who vote, to go there. The great capitals of Europe are glamorous, elegant and old, the outlands are exquisite. What remains of the old Catholic European ethic that business isn't everything, life is everything and it's a sin not to enjoy it, still has a lure. Americans sometimes think of it as they eat their grim salads and drink from their plastic water bottles.
When Americans go to Europe they see everything but the taxes. The taxes are terrible. But that's Europe's business and they'll have to figure it out. Yes what happens there has implications for us but still, they're there and we're here.
What Americans are worried about, take as a warning sign, and are heavily invested in is California—that mythic place where Sutter struck gold, where the movies were invented, where the geniuses of the Internet age planted their flag, built their campuses, changed our world.
We care about California. We read every day of the bankruptcies, the reduced city services, the businesses fleeing. California is going down. How amazing is it that this is happening in the middle of a presidential campaign and our candidates aren't even talking about it?
Mitt Romney should speak about the states that work and the states that don't, why they work and why they don't, and how we have to take the ways that work and apply them nationally.
Barack Obama can't talk about these things. You can't question the blue-state model when your whole campaign promises more blue-state thinking.
But Mr. Romney can talk about it.
Both campaigns are afraid of being serious, of really grappling with the things Americans rightly fear. But there's no safety in not being serious. It only leaves voters wondering if you're even capable of seriousness. Letting them wonder that is a mistake.
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When major oil companies report their quarterly profits next week, they're once again expected to post record numbers. With crude trading around $60 a barrel, the oil industry is enjoying one of the biggest windfalls in its history. But as the industry looks for places to put that cash, it's finding it harder and harder to put funds to work finding new deposits of oil and natural gas.
By just about any measure, the past three years have produced one of the biggest cash gushers in the oil industry's history. Since January of 2002, the price of crude has tripled, leaving oil producers awash in profits. During that period, the top 10 major public oil companies have sold some $1.5 trillion worth of crude, pocketing profits of more than $125 billion.
"This is the mother of all booms," said Oppenheimer & Co. oil analyst Fadel Gheit. "They have so much profit, it's almost an embarrassment of riches. They don't know what to do with it.
The reason for the boom is simple. Much of the investment in finding that oil -- and developing the wells and pipelines needed to produce it -- has already been made. So an oil field that was profitable with oil selling for $20 a barrel is much more profitable with oil trading around $60.
That's left the industry with a happy problem -- what to do with enough cash to fill a supertanker. Many publicly traded oil companies have been busy buying back their own stock, which helps drive up the price of the rest of the shares left on the open market. Since January 2002, stocks of major oil companies have gained 88 percent; during that period the Standard and Poor's 500 index has gained less than half as much.
Oil producers have also given investors a raise by gradually increasing the dividends paid out to shareholders. And they've paid down their debts to record low levels. ExxonMobil, for example, is virtually debt-free -– with a cash pile of more than $25 billion.
All of this industry good fortune has not escaped the notice of consumers, whose anger at higher gasoline prices has been rising in lock step with the price of crude. The energy bill recently enacted by both houses of Congress provides little relief for U.S. energy consumers. But a continued rise in prices could bring increased political pressure to find ways to lower the cost of energy, according to Tom Kloka at the Oil Price Information Service.
"This is something that Americans regard as their birth right," he said. "If gasoline prices are still north of $2.25 (a gallon) when we reach the midterm election, there's going to be an awful lot of outrage."
Even as their overall profits have soared, major oil companies are earning a relatively modest 8.7 percent profit margin -- the portion of the sale of each barrel that hits the bottom line. Major banks and drug makers, for example, enjoy profits margins that are twice as big.
Keeping the oil flowing
Not all of the proceeds from the surge in oil prices has gone straight to the industry's bottom line. As oil prices rise, so do oil companies' costs. For starters, they pay royalties to governments that lease the rights to drill -– a payment that ranges as high as 18 percent in the U.S. Domestic oil producers also pay taxes of about 40 percent, according to Gheit. So as the price of oil rises, so does the bill for royalties and taxes.
Oil producers also have to spend money to keep oil flowing from aging fields, by drilling more holes in the ground to squeeze fewer and fewer barrels out of the same fields. The cost of these oilfield services, everything from drilling rigs to pipelines, has risen by as much as 50 percent over the past five years, according to Gheit. So the cost of maintaining existing levels of production is now consuming more than half of the industry's annual capital outlays, most of which used to go to discovering new oil fields.
That means a smaller portion of oil industry profits are being put to work to find more oil. One big reason is that finding promising areas to develop new reserves has become increasingly difficult. In part, that's because the bulk of the world's oil reserves sit in the ground controlled by authoritarian regimes. The higher the price of oil goes, the easier it is for those regimes to maintain power and the less they need to turn to outside oil companies for investment, said A.G. Edwards futures analyst Bill O'Grady.
"Foreign investment brings in foreigners and their ideas," he said. "OPEC countries and Russia have worked vigorously not let that happen."
Despite pledges to increase output, most OPEC countries are pumping at full capacity already. And if oil prices are headed higher, those countries with the ability to boost output now have little incentive to do so if they wait and get more money for the same oil in the future.
As a result, Western oil producers have been forced to look for new reserves by shopping for other oil companies that have already found and developed deposits of oil and natural gas. As oil prices have risen, so has the value of another oil company's reserves. The current bidding war between Chevron and China's state-owned CNOOC is just the latest example.
But none of that investment in other oil companies is increasing the world's supply of oil. And without new discoveries, the price of oil will likely continue to rise.
"Basically, it's musical chairs, and every time you have fewer and fewer companies," said Gheit. "The people who are slicing pie among themselves -- the number is shrinking, but the pie itself is not growing. The pie is shrinking."
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You Can't Go Home Again. That's what they say. I never fully understood that phrase. You could always go home. If nothing else, you could always drive by your old home and remember the good times. And I often did that when I found myself back in my hometown.
The one place that was sacred to me in that whole town was the home of my grandparents, where we learned just about everything in life that we needed to know. I learned to hem my pants in that house, and it was in the kitchen that I learned to bake. It was where I learned how to control my temper and behave in a civilized manner. I learned about life and death there - watching with fascination as the guppy had babies, and in sadness when realizing the dog's bed was now empty...
The sight of that big Victorian-style house sitting on the corner lot, with it's white porch surrounded by the brilliant colors of roses, geraniums and zinnias, is a scene that will be etched in my mind forever, and it will still lower my blood pressure considerably just thinking about it. That house was more than just happy memories at Grandma's - it was a haven from the rest of the world, a little speck of normalcy in a life that was anything but normal. Turning onto their street and seeing the house sitting there like a beautiful fortress brings back just as many comforting feelings as it does tender memories.
The old folks had been gone a long time, but still I made it a habit to drive by on my rare trips back home. As I'd turned the corner, the eyes of my soul would see it all over again, and it felt good.
I don't know what happened. Perhaps I'd finally started seeing the old place with my eyes instead of with my heart. As I came around the corner, I saw a house much, much smaller sitting on an overgrown lot. The front steps, which we used to love to sit on, were sagging, and the paint was chipping off. I barely recognized it.
I spent the rest of the day driving around town, looking for something, but not really knowing what. I went to the park where we used to have family picnics. Everyone was gone now - just an empty pavilion remained. I drove out to the old family farm, to the site of the old grocery store, to the cemetery, past all of our old houses. Everyone and everything was gone. At some point, you truly can't go home again, no matter how long you drive.
It was several weeks later, back in the comfort of my current home with my family, working on a family history project, when my thoughts took me back again, walking through the park-like yard, holding onto my grandmother's hand while she taught me about flowers. And it was then I realized that while you can't go back home again, home can indeed come back to you.
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I was referred to your blog and loved it, great writing and very interesting stories so far. Thanks for signing on as a follower to my blog-"Those Old Memories". I have subscribed to yours and will be a regular reader. Good Luck!--Cheri H. (Sweetwater Sherry)ReplyDelete
This is a wonderful post about your grandmother's home and all you learned there, Karen. Bitter sweet, those old places, and yet knowing they're only there in our memories.ReplyDelete
Thanks, Nancy. Family history as a whole is kind of bittersweet, isn't it?ReplyDelete
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From allegations of Chinese hackers stealing American companies' trade secrets to a security breach at Target that compromised the personal and financial data of millions of customers, the United States is dealing with increasingly sinister security and privacy threats. To combat the onslaught of cybercrime, the government is in dire need of robust cybersecurity tools and practices, as well as individuals who are qualified to develop and execute them.
The Security and Risk Analysis (SRA) degree program at Penn State's College of Information Sciences and Technology (IST) is designed to prepare students to join the front lines of cybersecurity. In recognition of the program's strengths and accomplishments, Penn State has been designated by the Committee on Networked Systems Security (CNSS) – a parent organization of the National Security Agency (NSA) and the Department of Homeland Security – as a National Center of Academic Excellence in Information Assurance/Cyber Defense Education for academic years 2014-21.
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Penn State's security and risk analysis program, which began around 2005, looks at how to design systems that are secure, how to measure risk and how to ensure that proper levels of privacy are maintained for individual technology users, businesses, government, and other organizations. The SRA major is based on an interdisciplinary curriculum that integrates areas of study in information assurance (both digital and physical security), intelligence analysis, law and policy and cyber forensics.
Santoro said that the high demand for cybersecurity professionals is prompting similar programs to be developed at other academic institutions. However, according to Santoro, Penn State's security and risk analysis major stands above its competitors in a number of areas, including: a strong curriculum that provides a combination of theory, experience with cybersecurity tools and consideration of law and policy; a solid research component that includes areas such as cybersecurity, privacy and intrusion detection; and the availability of the program online through Penn State World Campus, in which many active military members across the world have enrolled.
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Impact of Gun Control Legislation on Gun Deaths
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A new study links gun control laws with a significant decrease in deaths caused by firearms.
Each year, more than 30,000 people are killed by firearms in the United States. In 2010 alone, 68 percent of the more than 16,000 murders recorded in the United States were carried out using firearms, while 51 percent of the more than 38,000 suicides were associated with the use of firearms. Recent mass shootings, including those in Colorado, Wisconsin and Connecticut, have further aggravated the ongoing debate by people on both sides of this issue, as new gun control legislation is being considered by Congress.
Amidst the vigorous and ongoing debate regarding gun control legislation, passionate claims are being made by those for and against such legislation. For example, one argument put forth by advocates of minimal (or no) gun control is that placing limitations, of any kind, on gun ownership is not an effective means of reducing deaths caused by firearms. Yet, there is fairly abundant research data available linking the presence of guns in the home with a significant increase in the risk of gun-associated death (compared to homes in which there are no firearms), including both homicides and suicides associated with the use of firearms.
The effectiveness of existing gun control laws has also been heavily debated by opposing camps, with little consensus being arrived at in this area. Now, a newly published public health study adds compelling data linking tighter gun ownership regulations with a lower overall risk of gun-associated deaths, including homicide and suicide. This new study appears in the current issue of the journal JAMA Internal Medicine.
The authors of this study combined a review of firearms-related deaths in each state (using data from the Centers for Disease Control) with a review of existing gun control laws in each state. Following an analysis of this extensive data, the impact of gun control legislation on gun-associated deaths was then assessed for each state. The researchers also attempted to control for other socioeconomic and demographic factors known to be associated with gun-associated deaths, including age, gender, race/ethnicity, poverty, unemployment, level of education, population density, violence-related deaths not associated with firearms, and household firearm ownership.
Over the 4-year duration of this public health study, there were 121,084 gun-associated deaths in the United States. The average incidence of firearm-associated deaths varied significantly between individual states, ranging from a low of 2.9 per 100,000 people in Hawaii to a high of 17.9 per 100,000 people in Louisiana. Strikingly, states with the most stringent gun control laws had a 42 percent lower overall incidence of deaths associated with guns when compared with those states having the least stringent (or no) laws. More specifically, firearm-associated suicides were 37 percent less common in states with more stringent gun control laws, when compared to states with minimal or no gun control laws. Similarly, the incidence of firearm-associated murders was 40 percent lower in states with higher level gun control laws, compared to states with minimal or no firearms laws.
Taken together, the data presented in this landmark public health study significantly linked the presence of gun control laws with a marked decrease in firearms-associated deaths (including both suicides and murders), and the absence of such legislation was associated with a significant increase in gun-associated deaths.
I do not aim to take a "political side" in the ongoing debate regarding gun control legislation in this article. However, the findings of this study, as with prior public health studies, strongly link the presence of gun control legislation, at the individual state level, with a significant decrease in the incidence of gun-associated deaths, including both suicides and murders. Sadly, however, I do not think that studies such as this one, no matter how scientifically valid, will do much to change the tenor of the ongoing debate regarding gun control legislation, particularly since recent mass shootings in the United States, including the shocking murder of 26 elementary school children and their teachers on December 14, 2012 in Connecticut, appear to have done little to bridge the enormous gap between those favoring more rigorous gun control legislation and those who remain opposed to such legislation. That being said, I hope that those responsible for considering and enacting such legislation will pay attention to public health studies such as this one when it comes time for them to cast their votes….
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Proverbs 16:24 "Pleasant words are as an honeycomb, sweet to the soul, and health to the bones."
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I really love your articles about beekeeping. There are very informative, in depth and helpful. Keep up the good work! As a small side note I really don't like reading about your supernatural beliefs and pieces from an old, out-dated book. Let's keep supernatural beliefs where they belong, in wars and violence.
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@Anka yes because atheist are never involved with wars or violence. Just ask the Jacobins, Bolsheviks, Stalin or Mao.
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Quote:"Using no way as way, having no limitation as limitation".
Quote:But, the Foundation is solidifying it into "ONE" way and thus also a "fixed" limitation. This flies in the face of what JKD essentially IS; alive, simple, direct and in particular, 'non-classical'.
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It turns out that Emma loves meat. She will gobble down her braised beef, shredded chicken or crumbled meatballs even before she even goes for the macaroni and cheese! So, this week I made an extra large (4 pounds!) batch of meatballs to keep in the freezer (here's my recipe & step-by-step guide... it is so much easier to make meatballs than you might think). Now, I'll be able to get one or two out of the freezer at a time for her lunches and our dinners.
I use pre-cooked meatballs all of the time - they work great crumbled up to make a quick meat sauce for pasta, or on a pizza. This recipe for calls for pre-cooked meatballs crumbled into the sauce. It is a great alternative to the typical browned meat as the texture and flavor of the meatball is far better. If you keep them in mass quantities in the freezer, it can be a really quick dinner.
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UNIVERSITY PARK, Pa. -- Gordon Jensen, professor and head of the Department of Nutritional Sciences and professor of medicine at Penn State, has been named the 2014 Jonathan E. Rhoads Lecturer by the American Society for Parenteral and Enteral Nutrition (A.S.P.E.N.).
The Jonathan E. Rhoads Lecture is A.S.P.E.N.'s most prestigious award. It recognizes scholars for their major contributions to the field of nutrition support therapy and their career-long commitments to improving the nutritional statuses of patients. The lecturer is recommended by the A.S.P.E.N.'s board of directors and is invited by the society's president to deliver a lecture at the society's Clinical Nutrition Week conference. This year's conference will be held in Savannah, Ga., on Jan. 18 to 21.
Jensen's research focuses largely on nutrition concerns in older populations. He and his colleagues develop and test nutrition screening and assessment tools that focus on specific functional and health care resource outcomes for older people. In particular, they study the impact of obesity on these outcomes. Jensen also promotes understanding of the central roles of inflammatory responses in malnutrition and obesity.
Board-certified in nutrition and internal medicine, Jensen provides consultation for adult nutrition support interventions at the Mt. Nittany Medical Center. These interventions entail the provision of specialized intravenous or tube feedings for malnourished patients who are unable to eat. Jensen also conducts outpatient clinics for malnourished patients with the Mt. Nittany Physician Group. For his clinical work, he has been nationally recognized by America's Top Doctors, a national guide that identifies the most outstanding doctors in the country.
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Jensen was appointed professor and head of the Department of Nutritional Sciences at Penn State in 2007. He also serves as a professor of medicine at the Penn State Hershey Medical Center and is a specialist in nutrition with the Mt. Nittany Physician Group.
Jensen earned a doctorate degree in nutritional biochemistry at Cornell University and a medical doctorate degree at Cornell University Medical College. He completed his residency training in internal medicine and his fellowship training in clinical nutrition at New England Deaconess Hospital, Harvard Medical School. In addition, he received a bachelor's degree in biology from Penn State.


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