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WASHINGTON, May 16 (UPI) -- Due to the risks of permanent tattoos -- allergic skin reactions, infection, tetanus, hepatitis B, hepatitis C, MRI complications -- many turn to temporary tattoos, but they too have health risks.
Some consumers think temporary tattoos are a safer alternative to permanent tattoos because they do not involve needles. Some decals or transfers may contain color additives approved for skin application and the designs fade.
However, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration warns some with temporary tattoos report reactions that may be severe and can long outlast the temporary tattoo. They include redness, blisters, raised red weeping lesions, loss of pigmentation, increased sensitivity to sunlight and even permanent scarring. A reaction can be immediate, or can occur weeks later.
Chemist Bhakti Petigara Harp, epidemiologist Katherine Hollinger and chemist John Gasper, all of the FDA's Office of Cosmetics and Colors -- who presented a webinar -- said henna, a brown, orange-brown, or reddish-brown tint made from a plant, is approved by the FDA only for hair dye. An archived version of the webinar is coming soon, the FDA said.
Henna is not approved for direct application to the skin, for the body-decorating process known as mehndi. An import alert is in effect for henna intended for use on the skin and is illegal in the United States.
In addition, other ingredients are added to create "black henna" and "blue henna" to make the color darker and to last longer on skin. Black henna may contain the black color p-phenylenediamine, also known as PPD, which is only permitted for use as a hair dye.
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Being in a relationship with an abusive individual can involve many different risks to your well being. Survivors of domestic violence often benefit from calling their local domestic violence program's hotline to have a conversation about their individual, unique situations. To find the number to your local domestic violence program, please click here.
Your situation is unique, and no one knows better which risks you face than you. You are the expert about your life, your circumstances and environment, your partner and the ways in which he uses tactics of power and control, your children, and what your partner has done in the past if you have attempted to make changes in your relationship. You have a unique analysis of what you see as your primary risks and most pressing needs, and a unique view of what is most dangerous in your particular situation. You also might feel overwhelmed and unsure about what to do, due to the ways in which your partner might have emotionally abused you and caused you to question your ability to make good decisions and accurately view your reality. Regardless of the situation, you might find it helpful to contact a local domestic violence program and discuss your circumstances with an advocate. Advocates can assist you with their knowledge of community resources and might be able to help you think of some options that haven't occurred to you yet. Often women report that it is a relief to be able to talk to someone they don't know about their situation who can help them come up with some new ideas and approaches.
In your relationship, you probably face two main types of risk: risks that come from your partner and risks that occur because of your life situation. We call the first type of risks (the ones you face you're your partner) batterer generated risks. These include ways in which your partner poses danger to you through his actions. Such risks include:
- physical injury (such as hitting, kicking, pushing you, or causing your body harm)
- psychological harm (such as how you feel about yourself when your partner verbally abuses you, the impact of being isolated from your friends or family has on you)
- risks to your child or children (of emotional or physical harm, or the way in which your partner might cause your child to
- financial risks (such as ruining your credit, forcing you to quit a job, or not giving you access to money),
- risks to family and friends (as batterers often threaten family or friends if you want to leave a relationship or make other changes),
- the risks that come with losing your relationship (such as loss of friends, loss of status in your community),
- possible risks involving arrest (if you might have a problem with drug or alcohol abuse or have been forced to participate in illegal activities with him) and legal status (if you are an immigrant and your residency status depends on your partner).
Thinking through the ways in which your partner's actions place you at risk helps you decide what are the most pressing needs and can assist you in identifying strategies to reduce some of the risks.
In addition, you might face other risks that are related to your unique situation, called life generated risks. These include all of the risks that you face that are not under control of your partner, but your partner might manipulate these realities to further his power and control. Such risks include:
- Your personal financial situation (if you have recently lost a job or have little job experience or education)
- the location of your home (often where your home is located depends on your need for transportation and the access you have to certain services or resources)
- any physical or mental health conditions you might currently be dealing with,
- the failures of institutions such as police, hospitals, courts, or other organizations to effectively and supportively respond to you, and
- discrimination based on race, ethnicity, gender, sexual orientation, or other bias.
These risks, while often not as obvious to service providers as the way in which your partner is harming you, will play a large role in whatever decision you make. In addition, your partner can use some of these risks to further his control. For example, if you have a chronic health condition (such as diabetes) that your partner didn't cause, he can further his control by threatening to take you off his health insurance policy so you don't have access to needed medication. If you have called the police before in the past to protect yourself and they police didn't believe what you said and blamed you, your partner might tell you that if you tell anyone about the abuse, no one will believe you. Experience showed you this was true with your experience with the police.
In addition, you are probably also thinking of the risks that your children face when making decisions about your relationship. You think about how any decisions you make will impact your children, both in positive and negative ways. While analyzing your risks, make sure to include thinking through the possibility of serious risks to your children. How is the violence in your home impacting your children? What is their relationship with your partner like? Are they in danger of physical and sexual abuse? Will your partner try to take your children away or call child protective services if you leave? Again, talking through these realities with a friend, family member, or advocate at a local domestic violence program might be helpful.
Regardless of what you identify to be your risks in your relationship, it is important to consider the risk for severe or life-threatening violence. Only a small number of domestic violence survivors are killed by their partners, but it happens often enough that you need to think seriously about this potential risk. We know that many perpetrators often escalate their violence when a survivor attempts to leave a relationship. You know your partner best, and you know how your partner has responded in the past to changes your relationship, so you are often in the best position to analyze this. At this point, we have no way of determining which abusive individuals choose to use severe violence or commit homicides, but we do know that such things as access to weapons, prior threats to kill if you leave, and separation are markers for increased risk. Often the best predictor of life-threatening violence is the woman's perception of danger, so it is important to listen to your instincts. In addition, think through the following things while determining your risk:
- Your partner's history, including previous assaults on you, suicide attempts or threats, homicide attempts or threats, access to weapons and/or use of weapons, batterer experience with childhood victimization,etc.
- Your partner's behavior, including drug and/or alcohol use, monitoring and stalking, escalating frequency or severity of assaults, threats with a weapon, abuse of children, abuse during pregnancy, etc.
- Your partner's personality- if he is paranoid or jealous, insecure or dependent, entitled or possessive of partner, has a lack of empathy, is cold or cruel
- What is occurring right now, such as separation, your partner suffering a recent loss (losing a job or loss of a loved one), an illness, availability of weapons and if your partner has access to them
- Additional elements that indicate extreme danger, such as a sudden change in your partner's behavior, violence to pets, violations of protective orders, your partner increasing your isolation, new threats to do extreme harm, and/or obsession with violent pornography
Again, there is no way to know for sure who poses the most risk or not. It is important to note that even if you have not seen any of the indicators listed above, that does not mean your partner is not dangerous. But if you feel like you are in increased danger, either because of reviewing the above factors or due to your instincts, a good place to start is to contact your local domestic violence program and ask to speak to an advocate about creating a safety plan to address the risks you have identified. A safety plan is a plan designed to reduce the risks you and your children face. Though you might never have heard of the term "safety planning," it is something you have been doing actively as you have tried to keep yourself and your partner safe. Safety plans involve developing strategies to increase your safety and is customized to your individual experience. An advocate can help you come up with strategies to respond to a wide range of situations, including strategies to decrease your risks and increase your safety when staying in the relationship, when leaving the relationship, and in instances where you feel you are in danger.
No one deserves to be abused and live in fear. Remember that you are not alone and there are people available to assist you with thinking through your options. You are in an extremely difficult situation that you did not cause, but just by looking at this page, you are showing your strength as you seek ways to increase your safety and protect yourself and your children.
Information for this page was taken from Safety Planning with Battered Women: Complex Lives, Difficult Choices written by Jill Davies, Eleanor Lyon, and Diane Monti-Catania (1998). For more safety planning resources, see Advocacy Beyond Leaving, by Jill Davies (2010).


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I began drinking mate six years ago, on my first trip to Argentina, and liked it immediately, even though many find it rather bitter. The picture, Mate, in which the woman drinks from the gourd while two gauchos look on admiringly, is by Juan Manuel Blanes, taken with a flash (unfortunately visible in the centre of the picture) from a book of prints of his works in the library of the National Museum of Visual Arts (Museo Nacional de Artes Visuales) in Montevideo, where last Thursday I spent a couple of hours researching Blanes' work, with the kind assistance of two librarians, after hearing about him from Diego Vidart during a lunch of pizza and warm chickpea bread.
Blanes is the most influential Uruguayan painter, and to a large extent, the creator of the myth of Uruguayan national identity. In fact he deserves a post of his own, and one day he may get one. He did many paintings of rather glamourized gauchos, frequently drinking their national beverage, lassoing horses et cetera (the word lasso is from the Spanish 'lazo', a knot, bow or loop). In Uruguay everyone drinks mate, all of the time. In Argentina and Brazil it is also popular, but the Uruguayans are nuts about it. Everywhere they go they carry a flask and a gourd, and a mobile phone. They wear dark glasses too, when the sun is out, which is most of the time. This site tells you all you need to know about drinking mate, especially its many health benefits (it is, among other things, a powerful antioxidant) but the site is, I would venture, somewhat partisan.
All I know is that it tastes like supercharged green tea, delivers a healthy-feeling kick, keeps me alert, and takes the edge off my appetite, so must be good for dieting, and might eventually relieve some of the circumference of the Blanco belly. Plus it is somehow very comforting, sucking on a silver straw.


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CHICAGO -- The White Sox entered Wednesday's contest leading the Major Leagues in runs per game (5.86) and ranked No. 1 in the American League in average (.276), OPS (.803), slugging percentage (.450) and on-base percentage (.353). They also stood second with 19 home runs.
Hitting coach Todd Steverson is not solely responsible for the turnaround. After all, the offense does feature new players such as Adam Eaton and Jose Abreu, not to mention a rejuvenated Alexei Ramirez. But there's no question Steverson's influence has been felt.
"He is demanding that you compete. That you fight," executive vice president Ken Williams said of Steverson. "That you do not waste, we have 27 outs to win this game offensively, don't waste a single out.
"So you got to give Todd Steverson a lot of credit for that. And like I said, as well as [general manager] Rick [Hahn] and his guys bringing the talent in to execute."
Steverson isn't getting overly giddy through results based on 14 games, but he believes the current success can help the White Sox hitters when times get tougher.
"To be honest with you, you are happy that this happens, because you see the results of that type of attitude and that type of determination to make every out worth your while," Steverson said. "The season is ups and downs and over 162, so you have to remember what it was like. If you were never there, you can't remember what it was like.
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Statistics show the surest way for anyone to land a job in their chosen field is to finish college and earn a degree or certificate.
During Commit to Complete Week, Oct. 12-16, more than 2,500 students from across the colleges of DCCCD signed a pledge to commit to their classes, school work and graduation.
As one student explained, "the pledge is basically a physical demonstration of my internal decision to move forward in life. I am committed to finishing my degree."
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Students who pledged to complete their degree or certificate had the option to fill out their form during a campus event or online. Some administrators, faculty and staff also chose to sign the pledge, committing themselves to do whatever they can to facilitate completion of student credentials.
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Survivors of United 232 crash gather in Sioux City
SIOUX CITY, Iowa — Twenty-five years after United Flight 232 cartwheeled down a runway airport here, the video of the DC-10 crashing and burning still brings a hushed silence from those watching.
But a 25th anniversary gathering Friday night, the first of three weekend events, also drew laughter and applause from the audience as two panels of rescued and rescuers remembered what happened on July 19, 1989.
Capt. Al Haynes, who piloted the aircraft that had left Denver en route to Chicago with a final leg to Philadelphia, received a standing ovation as he mounted the steps to the stage at the Orpheum Theatre. As he has so many times in the past, Haynes deflected the praise.
"That was for everybody associated with Flight 232, not me, but thank you," the 82-year-old retired pilot said. Haynes has spoken on Flight 232 1,700 times, donating each honorarium to charity, including those in the Sioux City area.
Haynes and an experienced crew were flying the jumbo jet over northwest Iowa when a catastrophic engine failure occurred, cutting all hydraulics in the plane. A flight manual that covered all possibilities never considered that might happen.
"You're mistaken," Haynes was told when he reported the problem, which shook the plane like a bomb, to airline officials in San Francisco. A pilot and flight instructor, Denny Fitch, flying as a passenger joined the three-man crew to help find a solution to the problem. They used engine thrust to fly in circles for 45 minutes, nearing the Sioux City airport.
Flight attendant Jan Brown had instinctively sat down when the plane was rocked. She later received second- and third-degree burns when her nylons melted to her legs.
"I'm not getting sucked out of the airplane," she recalled thinking. "I'm with it to the end."
Moderator Jim Wharton described the evening as a way to salute the day's heroes and to recognize the thousands who never received credit for their actions.
Haynes did that with air traffic controller Kevin Bachman, who was seated in the audience. He described Bachman's voice as "the most controlled, smooth voice" he had ever heard.
"He deserves a tremendous amount of credit," Haynes said.
When Flight 232 crashed, 184 crew and passengers survived, with 138 walking away. Of the 296 on board, 112 died.
Dennis Swanstrom, then commander of the 185th Air Refueling Wing, Iowa Air National Guard, said that when he saw the smoke erupting from the plane, he didn't imagine anyone could survive. Then he heard on the radio, "Believe it or not, people are coming out."
More than 400 emergency personnel from 50 surrounding communities had been summoned, and the area turned into a triage scene.
Dr. Quentin Durward, a neurosurgeon, was standing in his hospital's emergency room when he heard the jumbo jet go overhead. He had been listening to a second-by-second description of the plane coming down.
Briefly, it appeared that the plane would land safely on the runway. Then it tilted to the right. Expectation and joy changed to a chill down his spine, Durward said.
The first patient had been moved from the airport to the ER in 16 minutes, he said. The physician became emotional as he recalled the work done by Dr. Mike Wolpert, then head of trauma. He described it as magnificent.
Nine crew members were present at the weekend activities, including Susan Callender, who has been a flight attendant for 28 years. She survived the crash with whiplash, cuts and bruises.
"It feels really good to be back here," she said of the return to Sioux City. "There's a lot of emotion reconnecting with the people who took care of us."
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COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. (May 9, 2011) – The current U.S. Women's National Team Weekly update released on May 9 includes briefs on U.S. players competing overseas and other team news.
SUMMER TRAINING BLOCK STARTS: The U.S. Women's National Team summer training block started May 2 at the team's training headquarters at the American Sports Centers in Anaheim, Calif. As of May 4, U.S. Women's National Team Head Coach Hugh McCutcheon (Christchurch, New Zealand) and his staff are training 19 players with additional athletes to join the group upon completion of their overseas club seasons. The U.S. Women's National Team training sessions, generally held 9 a.m. to noon on weekdays, are open to the public free of charge. The current group includes setters Alisha Glass (Leland, Mich.), Jenna Hagglund (West Chester, Ohio), Carli Lloyd (Bonsall, Calif.) and Courtney Thompson (Kent, Wash.). Liberos currently training are Kayla Banwarth (Dubuque, Iowa) and Tamari Miyashiro (Kaneohe, Hawaii). Opposites currently training are Kindra Carlson (Eaton, Colo.) and Destinee Hooker (San Antonio, Texas). The middle blocker group includes Alexis Crimes (Rancho Cucamonga, Calif.), Jessica Jones (Naperville, Ill.), Lauren Gibbemeyer (St. Paul, Minn.), Danielle Scott-Arruda (Baton Rouge, La.), Tracy Stalls (Denver, Colo.) and Elisha Thomas (Grass Valley, Calif.). Outside hitters in the gym are Cynthia Barboza (Long Beach, Calif.), Jill Collymore (Bellevue, Wash.), Angie Forsett (Lake Mary, Fla.), Alix Klineman (Manhattan Beach, Calif.) and Becky Perry (Austin, Texas).
FORMER NATIONAL TEAM MEMBER WINS AMAZING RACE: Jennifer Hoffman (Chicago), a former U.S. Women's National Volleyball Team member, and her sister LaKisha captured the 18th Edition of the "Amazing Race," a CBS-TV reality series. The pair won the reality series' $1 million grand prize despite not winning a single leg of the event until the final round aired on CBS on May 8. Hoffman, a middle blocker, competed for the U.S. Women's National Team at the 2005 Montreux Volley Masters event in Montreux, Switzerland, along with the 2005 Front Range Tour against Brazil. In college, Hoffman was an AVCA All-American in 2005 while leading the University of Louisville Cardinal to a 31-3 record and spot in the NCAA Division I National Tournament regional semifinal round. For more information on the Amazing Race, visit cbs.com/primetime/amazing_race.
AKINRADEWO'S TEAM FINISHES THIRD: Foluke Akinradewo (Plantation, Fla.), who has been playing with Toyota Autobody of the Japanese V-League during the 2010-11 club season, helped her team to a third-place finish in the 60th Kurowashiki Tournament that ended on May 5 at the Osaka Prefectural Gymnasium. JT won the women's side of the tournament, while NEC finished with the silver medal. Toyota won four consecutive matches in the tournament before falling to eventual champion JT 21-25, 25-22, 25-19, 25-23 in the semifinal round. In the quarterfinal round victory over Denso, Akinradewo scored 18 kills on 28 errorless attempts to go with two aces and a block for 21 points. In the semifinal loss to JT, she tallied 21 kills on 44 errorless attacks, along with a block for 22 points. Akinradewo produced a combined .542 hitting efficiency (39 kills, 0 errors, 72 attempts) in the quarterfinal and semifinal rounds.After the March 11 earthquake and tsunami, Akinradewo elected to stay in Japan to compete in the final tournament despite the V-League suspending the season before the playoffs.
LARSON WITH KAZAN IN RUSSIA: U.S. Women's National Team outside hitter Jordan Larson (Hooper, Neb.) is playing for Dinamo Kazan of the Russia Super League during the 2010-2011 pro club season. Kazan, the top seed in the Russia Super League playoffs after finishing the regular season with a 20-2, topped Uralochka-NTMK 18-25, 25-16, 25-23, 27-25 on May 3 to win the Russia Super League best-of-three semifinal round series. Larson collected 19 kills on 46 attacks to go with two aces for a total of 21 points in the victory. She added a 48 positive percent on 27 service receptions. Kazan will now face Dinamo Moscow in a best-of-five championship series for the league playoff title. The first three matches will be played May 10, May 11 and May 15. If necessary, the series will continue on May 16 and May 19. During the regular season, the teams split a pair of four-set matches. Dinamo Moscow won the first meeting on Jan. 16, while Kazan won the rematch on March 25 to help capture the regular-season title.
KIM GLASS WITH RABITA BAKU IN AZERBAIJAN: Kim Glass (Lancaster, Pa.), a 2008 Olympic Games silver medalist with the U.S. Women's National Team, is competing for Rabita Baku of the Azerbaijan professional league in 2010-11. Rabita captured the Azerbaijan Final Four playoff title by finishing with a 7-2 record through the three round-robin playoff weekends. Rabita started the third Final Four playoff round with a 25-23, 25-14, 22-25, 25-15 victory over Lokomotiv on May 5. Glass contributed eight kills on 23 attacks, two blocks and an ace for 11 points. She also added a team-high 41 service receptions out of a possible 74 attempts for the entire team, compiling a 54 positive percent. After winning six consecutive matches in the playoffs, Rabita hit a snag in falling to Igtisadchi 19-25, 28-26, 25-18, 25-23 on May 6. Glass was a sub in only the third set and provided just two attack attempts. In the finale, Rabita rallied to defeat Azerrail 15-25, 23-25, 25-23, 25-22, 25-9 on May 7. Glass was credited with four kills, one block and one ace for six points while totaling a team-high 39 service receptions.
TAMAS WITH AZERRAIL BAKU: Jennifer Tamas (Milpitas, Calif.), a 2008 Olympic Games silver medalist playing middle blocker for Team USA, is playing for Azerrail Baku of the Azerbaijan Super during the 2010-11 professional club season. Heading into the third Final Four round with a 3-3 record, Azerrail was still in the hunt for a possible gold medal in the Azerbaijan playoffs. The squad defeated Igtisadchi 25-23, 22-25, 25-17, 25-21 to open the third round on May 5. Tamas tallied two kills on five attempts with two aces for four total points. However, Azerrail lost to Lokomotiv 25-18, 20-25, 25-20, 18-25, 15-12 on May 6. Tamas was credited with two kills, two aces and a block for five points. In the final match of the playoffs, Azerrail won the first two sets over champion Rabita, but fell in five sets 15-24, 23-25, 25-23, 25-22, 15-9. Tamas was credited with two blocks, an ace and a kill for four points. Azerrail finished the Final Four playoffs with a 4-5 record and the silver medal.
HANEEF-PARK LEADING IGTISADCHI IN AZERBAIJAN: Two-time Olympian and 2008 Olympic silver medalist Tayyiba Haneef-Park (Laguna Hills, Calif.) is playing for Igtisadchi of the Azerbaijan Super League. Igtisadchi entered the third Final Four Round with a 2-4 record and still within reach of a medal in the Azerbaijan playoffs. However, Igtisadchi dropped the first match of the third Final Four to Azerrail 25-23, 22-25, 25-17, 25-21 on May 5. Haneef-Park charted a team-high 16 points with 13 kills on 30 attacks and three aces. Igtisadchi bounced back with a 19-25, 28-26, 25-18, 25-23 victory over regular-season champion Rabita on May 6. Haneef-Park recorded 17 kills on 48 attacks and an ace for 18 points in the upset victory to stay within medal contention. On the final day, Igtisadchi downed Lokomotiv 20-25, 25-22, 26-24, 25-22 on May 7 to earn the bronze medal with a 4-5 record in the Final Four playoffs. Haneef-Park scored a match-high 27 points with 22 kills on 55 attacks, three blocks and two aces.
DAVIS, METCALF, RICHARDS HEADLINE LOKOMOTIV BAKU IN AZERBAIJAN: U.S. Olympians Nicole Davis (Stockton, Calif.) and Nancy Metcalf (Hull, Iowa), along with 2008 U.S. Olympic Team alternate Kristin Richards (Orem, Utah), are playing for Lokomotiv Baku of the Azerbaijan Super League. Lokomotiv finished the three rounds of Final Four playoffs with a 3-6 record for fourth place. Lokomotiv opened the third stage with a 25-23, 25-14, 22-25, 25-15 loss to regular-season and playoff-champion Rabita on May 5. Metcalf contributed 17 points, all on kills coming from 46 attacks. Richards downed seven kills, a block and ace for nine points to go with a 52 positive reception percent on 33 chances in the loss. Davis handled 20 reception attempts with a 65 positive percent. Lokomotiv bounced back to defeat Azerrail 25-18, 20-25, 25-20, 18-25, 15-12 on May 6. Metcalf collected 24 kills on 55 attacks, two blocks and an ace for a match-high 27points. Richards added eight kills and two blocks for 10 points, while handling 33 service receptions with a 48 positive percent. Davis provided a 76 positive reception percent on 29 chances. Lokomotiv ended the playoffs with a 20-25, 25-22, 26-24, 25-22 loss to Igtisadchi on May 7. Metcalf scored 22 points with 20 kills on 48 attacks and two blocks. Richards charted 10 kills and an ace for 11 points to go with a 64 positive reception percent on 25 chances. Davis, who was named the Best Libero of the Azerbaijan playoffs, handled a team-high 28 service receptions with a 61 positive percent.
HARMOTTO WITH LIU-JO VOLLEY MODENA IN ITALY: U.S. Women's National Team middle blocker Christa Harmotto (Hopewell, Pa.) is playing for LIU-JO Volley Modena in Italy's Serie A League during the 2010-11 professional club season. Modena, which finished the Italian Serie A regular season in eighth place, defeated Florens Castellana Grotte on May 4 and May 6 in the knock-out best-of-three playoff round. Harmotto scored 17 points with 11 kills on 22 attacks and a match-high six blocks in helping Modena to a 22-25, 24-26, 25-22, 25-17, 15-12 come-from-behind victory over Castellana Grotte on May 4. For a photo gallery of the contest, click here. Modena picked up where it left off at the end of the first match with a 25-17, 25-16, 25-19 victory in the second contest on May 6 to advance to the next round. Harmotto did not play in the second contest.
BERG, HODGE WITH VILLA CORTESE IN ITALY: U.S. Women's National Team setter Lindsey Berg (Honolulu) and Megan Hodge (Durham, N.C.) are competing for MC-Carnaghi Villa Cortese in the Italian Serie A league during the 2010-11 professional club season. Villa Cortese (17-5, 47 points), which captured the Italian Serie A regular season title, will face eighth-seed LIU-JO Volley Modena in best-of-three quarterfinal matches contested May 10, May 12, and if necessary, May 14.
PAOLINI WITH NOVARA IN ITALY: Lauren Paolini (Ann Arbor, Mich.), a middle blocker on the U.S. Women's National Team, is competing this professional season in Italy with Asystel Volley Novara of the Italian Serie A Division. Novara (12-9, 38 points), which finished sixth in the Italian Serie A regular season, will play Scavolini Pesaro (14-8, 46 points) on May 9, May 11, and if necessary, May 13 during the best-of-three quarterfinal round.


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October 6, 2007
Tonight's Lineup
Rollins, ss; Utley, 2b; Burrell, lf; Howard, 1b; Rowand, cf; Victorino, rf; Ruiz, c; Nunez, 3b; Moyer, p.
Backs to the wall. This team has been there this year. We need to make a statement by getting on the board early and taking the rowdy Rockies crowd out of the mix. The law of averages has to catch up with the kid Rocks, as they are called. They are 17-1 in their last 18 games. On the numerous coin flips last month they won everyone but one.
It will be interesting to see how the starting pitchers fare, a veteran in Jamie Moyer and a kid in Ubaldo Jimenez.
Today was a beautiful day in Denver, temperatures in the 80s. Tomorrow, a dip into the high 50s. Wind was very strong today, 25-25 mph. During BP, the wind was blowing out to left field.
While wondering around downtown Denver there were very few fans wearing Rockies gear. In Philly everything is red and white. Tonight, the crowd will be a purple sea.
One of the scalpers a couple blocks from Coors Field was not only peddling tickets for tonight but he was selling brooms. Hopefully, we can stick those brooms.
Coste to Coast
(Catcher Chris Coste is providing his insight into the Phillies on game days): "Let me start by saying that as much as I like being home during the off-season, I am absolutely not ready to go home yet!
"We have fought and clawed all season long, and after climbing out of a hole last month, we have a huge hole to climb out once again. One thing is for sure, the 2007 fightin' Phils are not ready to quit and we will fight to the very end, hopefully all the way to November."
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I just want to express, as a longtime Phils' fan (watched Bunning pitch his perfect game on Father's Day over the Mets in '64, an auspicious year after what they did to those same New Yorkers in 2007), how wonderful the team played this year. What an exciting group of mostly young and a few older guys as they came together as a real team and just did a fantastic job.
Running into and losing to an equally talented but red hot Colorado Rockies' ball club was absolutely no dishonor. They did their best and are to be commended. No hanging heads, for long, for these players.
Kudos to all the 2007 Philadelphia Phillies players!
Devoted fan in Augusta, GA


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It's never too late to learn!
That's one lesson that mothers of sponsored children taught Diego Felipe Coj Guarchaj, a CFCA staff member in Guatemala who has worked with CFCA for 13 years.
It began in 2007, when CFCA staffers started a literacy program in the town of Nahuala for mothers who wanted to learn how to read and write.
CFCA scholars taught the mothers as part of their community service project.
In 2008 more mothers wanted to learn, so the CFCA office in Nahuala contacted Guatemala's national committee for literacy, a government-run institution that helps people finish their primary education.
In 2011 more than 75 mothers graduated from primary school with that literacy program.
Several of these mothers expressed a desire to continue their education, so the CFCA office encouraged them to apply for CFCA scholarships.
In 2012, Diego said 23 mothers and two fathers are now CFCA scholars. Classes include natural science, social studies, math, computers and writing.
"Twenty-three of the students are in seventh grade, one is in eighth grade, and one mother is in her first year of high school," Diego said.
(Related link: Read more about the value of education for sponsored children in Guatemala.)
In a country where only 15.6 percent of the female population is educated to at least a secondary level of schooling (think junior high), according to the Human Development Index, the mothers' achievements show their perseverance despite tremendous challenges.
Interview with Juana, CFCA scholar and mother of two sponsored children, Sandra and Byron
Before getting a CFCA scholarship, did you ever go to school?
My parents were able to send me to primary school. I finished sixth grade, but then I got married, and that was the end of my education. I was 17.
Why is this education important to you?
I took the decision to go back to school because I believe this is the only way in which I can aspire for a better life with my children.
What does your scholarship help pay for?
I receive $25 a month. With this money I am able to pay for the monthly school tuition and school supplies.
I also help by embroidering designs on skirts. People pay me about $5.50 for this work, and it takes me around three days to finish a whole skirt.
What do you enjoy most about these classes?
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Have you faced any challenges in going back to school?
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Our financial situation is also a challenge. The scholarship is the only way we can continue going to school.
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Sandra and I are in the same grade [seventh grade]; we take the same subjects and I am proud to be able to solve some of her questions.
Well, actually [laughing], she solves a lot more of my questions, especially with math.
Anything else you would like to add?
My dream is to become a professional nurse. I think there are good employment opportunities for this type of work, and I would also enjoy serving my community.
Interview with Diego, CFCA staff member in Nahuala, Guatemala
How do the mothers take care of their children during classes?
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What are particular challenges they face that other students may not have?
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Our staff is challenged to keep them all motivated because we do not want them to drop out.


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The Obama administration should stop trying to undermine California's public employee pension changes.
U.S. Labor Secretary Thomas Perez's abhorrent overreach into state affairs and misapplication of federal transportation law would undermine Gov. Jerry Brown's retirement reform efforts, would harm taxpayers and, ironically, the very workers he seeks to protect.
Pension costs are strangling local governments, sucking away funds needed to employ workers. Absent reasonable cost controls, more public workers will lose their jobs.
If anything, the retirement law Brown signed a year ago does not go nearly far enough to control rising costs. It's a foundation upon which more change must be built. However, Perez apparently wants to bring down the entire structure.
The labor secretary relies on a law Congress passed in 1964 to ensure public transit agencies didn't bust unions as they acquired financially troubled private transportation companies. To this day, federal transportation funding cannot be handed out until the Labor Department determines that workers' contract benefits would be preserved and bargaining rights would continue.
Perez claims California's pension changes violate that law. Some $4.3 billion of transportation funding could be affected.
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We're all trying to come to terms with the fact Ford Crown Victorias won't be sneaking up behind us on the highway. And by coming to terms, I mean slowing down just about anytime you see something in the shape of a Crown Vic. Some day, they're all going to be gone and we're going to be left guessing if our state's patrol is going to stop us in a Charger, Caprice, Taurus, etc. Rough.
The Panther platform could've been phased out a decade ago had a former Ford subsidiary had its way. Back in 1999, the Dearborn giant had just swallowed up Volvo, which made police versions of its cars for countries all over the world. Now they wanted a slice of the American market. And what better than import-loving California.
Back in April 1999, the Los Angeles Times wrote about the CHP putting some Volvo S70s painted in black and white and outfitted with the necessary items to take part in a pursuiting, say, a Ford Bronco. On paper, these old Volvos looked good against the beloved Crown Vics. Whereas the 4.6-liter V8 in the Ford made about 215 horsepower, trying to motivate something that weighs more than 4,000 lbs., the Volvo had a 2.3-liter boosted five-cylinder with 236 horsepower. And it was about 700 lbs. lighter than the opposition. Anyone who drove a V70R from the late-'90s knows it's surprisingly fast.
OK, so a Volvo doesn't have quite the same intimidation factor a big, rear-drive American sedan has when it pulls up behind you, but when it comes to actually catching up to chase suspects it definitely out-handles. And the cops who tested it in California's mountains, deserts and potholed freeways said "it runs strong, stops straight and has excellent handling." Any teen who's hooned a turbo Volvo as their first car could've told you that.
It was not to be, however, and it wasn't necessarily because of the "Buy American" political flack the CHP was getting (ignoring the fact the Crown Vic was made in Canada). Volvo's relationship with the CHP soured a year later when the S70 went out of production and the Swedes wanted to sell them the V70 in a patrol uniform. And for some reason, that didn't sit well with Officers Ponch and Larry Wilcox. Officers saw wagons as "soccer mom's car for hauling kids around," a Volvo rep said in 2000.
Funny, because this year, now that the Panther has been put down for good, the CHP wants to outfit officers with Ford Explorers. Because those don't scream "soccer mom" now, do they?
It's a case of what could have been if California adopted a Volvo as their state patrol car and if other states would've followed suit. But it's interesting to note the origins of the Explorer police interceptor come from the V70 the CHP turned down a decade before. Bet it still runs strong and stops straight.
What Euro police cars would you like to see in the U.S.?
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Solar Media as Renewable Energy Guidelines
Readers have had extensive opportunities to read about solar energy in these columns, in addition to having chances to grapple with surrounding issues and political economic ramifications. Only one of the experts that this column has encountered expressed doubt that, including wind and water and biomass, energy originating with the sun might be inadequate to proffer adequate motive force for human activities. David MacKay's bias was easy to uncover, yet readers may recall my promise to review his volume, Renewable Energy--Without the Hot Air.
That is not happening today, but I did want to reaffirm again the intention to take up the contentions of Dr. MacKay, with whom I profoundly disagree. Today, instead, I return to the life-work of Hermann Scheer, whose social democratic persistence in favor of solar and renewables has set cloudy and chilly Germany on the path to become this planet's renewable energy powerhouse.
Before engaging in the first piece of what will end up as a two-part review process, though, I decided to summarize briefly the solar authorities whom I've introduced in these essays who, unlike Professor MacKay, feel certain that the sun can meet all imaginable homo sapiens needs for power. Six such individuals or institutions, specializing in and passionate about the sun, have meandered across my section of the JustMeans platform.
Arjun Makhijani started us out. Observers may recall that he began his career as a nuclear physicist, before he helped the TVA cure itself of a glutted grid by minimizing nuclear investment. Readers first examined the Institute for Energy and Environmental Research(IEER), which Dr. M. founded and which he still leads.
In addition, the good professor's formidable challenge to the U.S., Carbon Free/Nuclear Free, expressed Dr. M's conclusion, after he delved the issues involved, that various renewable sources, with solar at the center, contained plenty of energy capacity to provide for all humanity's needs. Readers may recall that he started out a skeptic, taking on the multi-year investigatory process on the basis of imprecations from Dr. Helen Caldicott that he look at the matter deeply, whether a nuclear free future were possible without fossil fuels.
The Western North Carolina Renewable Energy Initiative(REI) also appeared here early in the JustMeans output of this humble correspondent. Even though a detailed look at REI solar has yet to make a debut in these pages, readers did get a brief REI overview in the context of a closer look at the Small Wind Initiative under the purview of Professor Dennis Scanlin and Marcus Taylor, his estimable assistant. REI participants at Appalachian State University do not doubt that a big chunk of N.C. energy could rapidly emanate from renewables, with much more available after appropriate policy and economic support.
Walter Ratterman hated to talk politics as much as he loved to help communities gain mastery over a steady electrical current through solar techniques. While the chronicler typing away here extolled Saint Walter, whose tragic end was as unexpected as it was random, this humble correspondent did note the impossibility of avoiding politics. An attempt to finesse the inherent conflict of empire and political economy, in fact, tangibly impedes what Walt Ratterman stood for, the capacity of several billion cousins to gain a grid-of-their-own by means of solar voltaic ingenuity.
Jigar Shah, the much touted 'solar visionary' of the business end of sun-power, is politely persistent--smilingly relentless, really--in his insistence not only that solar is likely to become a major profit center in all but the most backward economies, but also that this manifestation of moolah will come to pass in the context of less and less government support, fewer and fewer subsidies. This humble correspondent kowtowed to his hallelujah attitude, at the same time that he remained dubious that solar could soar outside of an significant expansion of democracy first.
Henry Red Cloud, meanwhile, firm in his belief in joining old ways with new ways, has been revolutionizing his Lakota Sioux community in several ways. His renewable energy education efforts are empowering people who heretofore had an 80% likelihood of unemployment. He is keeping money in the neighborhood by making sure that any household can gain its own power supply, And he is bringing hope and a sense of engagement where before bleakness seemed omnipresent.
And just last week, Herr Scheer bid farewell in these lines. More than any other advocate for sunny juice, Hermann Scheer demonstrated the political consciousness--of social democracy, and the political economic analysis--of the mandatory dismantling of current power networks that has to happen, if proponents of this higher calling actually intend to achieve results that yield sustainable business and the 'business better' that comes from the sun.
I have been critical of all of these fabulous people, with the exception of former Representative Scheer. The basis for my admonitions, other than my innate propensities, has ever revolved around the inadequate political and social assessment of how a society, such as the USA, can stand a decent chance to do the right thing, choose the right path, and enable as sustainable future that flows from renewable energy choices.
Such critiques have become somewhat popular. The database search, garnered 50,000 relevant connections, everything from doubting the intentions of the world bank to working with legislative initiatives, all the while decrying "business as usual" as a death sentence for sustainability.
Stumbling Toward Sustainability, by the Environmental Law Institute's John Dernbach, powerfully articulates this recognition of inchoate and bumbling engagement with what people often indicate are number one priorities. Dernback's well-intentioned policy cheerleading, as indicated, has become quite common.
Marilyn Brown and Jess Chandler, just down the road from this humble correspondent at Georgia Tech, also analyzed this apparent conundrum. "While there are many barriers to the commercialization and deployment of clean energy technologies, those that are imposed by legislatures and regulators are particularly of interest as they operate at cross-purposes with government-stated intentions."
In scanning these complaints, legitimate as I agree that they are, I nonetheless came across zero sociopolitical grounding that the life of Hermann Scheer exemplified. By turning to some of his vast output in favor of solar--specifically the book, The Solar Economy--those among readers who also comprehend the validity of frequent complaints about sabotaged policy and so on have the option to appreciate a pathway out of the thicket, a democratic renewal that can operationalize what we say we want and what we admit we need.
Last Thursday, this humble correspondent both paid last respects to Herman Scheer, and contextualized his life to put this eulogy in perspective. Readers may recall that a comprehension of this 'miracle on the Rhine' necessarily entailed an investigation of German history in relation to empire and capital and political democracy in the ashes of dictatorship.
Moreover, the emphatic commitment to social democracy was also a core component of Herr Scheer's successes. Not only did he work through a socialist collective in making the policy innovation and technical upsurge that characterized his involvement manifest, but he constantly appealed to the necessity for a conjunction of renewable energy with local democracy in order for humankind to move forward from the crises so typical now on all fronts.
Additionally, of course, Hermann Scheer and his colleagues foresaw that imperial entanglements and war spending direly threatened a social upwelling in favor of solar energy. Furthermore, after his own abbreviated tenure in the nuclear industry, Herr Scheer rejected any further investment in atomic methods for making steam, a path that he helped to lead Germany to embrace and that has gained traction generally in many of the more socially democratic regimes in Europe.
Finally, in integrating these various underpinning modalities with his legislative and policy legerdemain, he called explicitly for the necessity of dismantling current power networks. In other words, a turn away from the capital intensive technological methodologies inherently revolved around disempowering the hegemony that these sectors have long exercised over 'advanced' societies and 'underdeveloped' countries alike.
Thus, Hermann Scheer saw a mutual interest on the part of all common citizens on our fair orb in building power from the ground up, simultaneously disengaging the ruling networks that currently provide so much of what we take for granted in the world. In the process of making these points politically, and advocating for new laws and policy, readers will recollect the phenomenal achievement that Herr Scheer was able to assist.
Germany grew from a society in which under four per cent of electricity was renewable to a colossus of the sun, more than quadrupling the proportion of power coming from wind and Sol, to more than sixteen per cent. This success, a dear factor for many Americans--and hence probably for JustMeans readers as well, is something that observers should keep in mind as they review, with this humble correspondent, one of the elements of Hermann Scheer's magnum opus in support of solar sources of power and livelihood.
Every text offers readers both the chance to explore new territory and to understand familiar environs in a richer and deeper way. Of course, everyone is busy. Reading is time consuming. The exigencies of existence impede engagement. Then again, survival may depend on folks' exploiting this 5,000 year old gift of cultural evolution, the magic possibility of text.
All that this humble correspondent will do to facilitate the process is to provide a synopsis of the organization and primary arguments of the fellow who, more than anyone else on earth, had helped to improve the chances for a renewable energy future. He's gone now. He's asked, repeatedly, that we join in and help rescue our own bottoms, and those of our children, from the holocaust awaiting humankind if we fail to act.
If nothing else, everyone, from every point on the globe, should consider Hermann Scheer's magnificent prefatory remarks. While this twenty page blessing and imprecations is rich with gems, a bedrock theme is that empowerment requires power, and personal and community capacity actually to create power is a key part of any democratic flowering. The "distributed" nature of sun-energy necessitates such a potentiation of people.
Part One, "Captivity or Liberation: Fossil Fuel and Solar Supply Chains Compared," evokes Hermann Scheer's roots in systems analysis. On the economic vitality and viability of solar, he and Jigar Shah would have a glorious meeting of the minds.
However, Hermann Scheer has a larger agenda. He envisions not increasing profitability to wealthy individuals and shareholders, but increasing prosperity for common folk in their regular associations and communal arrangements. This shift, from profit to prosperity, from private capitalization to social capitalization, makes all the difference in the world.
Part Two, "The Pathological Politics of Fossil Resources," is a cry for recognition from a boy whose first birthday arrived a few days prior to Hitler's suicide, when Germany lay in ruins, strangled by its lack of oil. Instead of any plausible pathway to human progress, "moral bankruptcy" and the reliance on force will flow as certainly from a fossil/Uranium Plutocracy's continuance as water flows from the melting snow atop the world's mountains.
Moreover, Herr Scheer shows the intellectual bankruptcy concomitant with coal and nukes and oil, the falsities of breeder reactors and plutonium reprocessing, all promising ease and productivity but embroiling humanity in a toxic stew that extends from the nursery at the cancer ward to the fake compassion at the lost soldiers and citizens who have been sacrificed to carbon and Uranium when sunshine could stand all people in much better stead.
The three chapters in Part Three, "Throwing Off the Fossil Fuel Supply Chains," detail the technical plenty that awaits a world that embraces solar. Herr Scheer celebrates the creativity and ingenuity that his leadership helped to liberate in Germany.
But he looks around the globe for other cases. These show up especially in his writing about farming, the transformation away from a monocultue dependent on fossil fuel fertilizers and gigantic schemes of mechanization. In many ways, his ideas echo the hard-headed practicality of Wendell Berry, who never romanticizes farm labor, even as he recognizes the instances when human power or animal power provide apt substitutes to fuel and machinery. To this, of course, Hermann Scheer adds the practically unlimited inputs that are available in sunlight, along with water and soil the basis for our presence here.
The triad of chapters in the final section, Part Four, "Toward a Solar Economy," proffers a dialectic that moves from community power to the potential of solar technology to illustrate the greater stability, security, peace, and satisfaction that attend the transformation that, for now, is still available to us. He calls for a "creative destruction" of the fossil fuel and nuclear fuel cycles--as I've suggested, we should start calling them 'Fool Cycles'--out of which can emerge, like a Phoenix honest trading networks from capacitated communities on every continent.
When I read the volume, which did in fact require that I skim huge sections--this humble correspondent resembles most of my cousins, swamped and beleaguered, I tried to find interesting ways to determine where Herr Scheer was coming from, what POV he unintentionally or intentionally supported. I checked the index of the volume, to see how often 'expert' or 'expertise' showed up.
After all, solar power evolves from science, which is requisite in excellent adaptations of the sun's potential in technical terms. Fourteen occasions is the extent of The Solar Economy's reference to experts, however, slightly less than once every 25 pages.
'Democracy,' as one part of speech or another on the other hand, appeared 24 times in the volume. Moreover, since various forms of community came up on 17 instances, we might infer even more powerfully that Hermann Scheer valued democratic community at least three times as much as he valued 'expertise.'
This does not eschew knowledge, far from it. Such a way of thinking fiercely defends the notion that knowledge is a social and collective act, and that in fact the 'cult of expertise' is often no more honest, let alone honorable, than any snake-oil voodoo on the market.
The final term that I searched, 'nuclear,' showed up well over 100 times. Each time the context was the unity between fossil fuels and nukes, that the motion of history under the guidance of a fossil fuel regime inevitably moved toward atomic energy. Not only is this not a rational 'exit strategy' for a world suffering under monopoly fuel tutelage, it will irremediably worsen the suffering caused by carbon and elicit the real possibility of mass collective suicide. He explicitly argues that 'opportunity costs, ' are a huge rationale for rejecting nukes.
Herr Scheer closes this amazing intellectual and social document by clarifying the intersection among energy, work, and quality of life. He makes two important points in this regard.
The first is that 'technology' alone has never much improved human life. This especially adheres to situations when the technical implementation emanates from and primarily serves a master class. As Herr Scheer notes, "The burden on workers was only ever lightened as the result of action by politicians or trade unions. The future will be no different: technology may make improvements in living standards possible, but this is not guaranteed to happen" unless a redistributional dynamic comes to pass. He notes the decentralized ease with which such a dynamic could easily transpire under a solar regime.
The second point concerns the vast quantities of energy currently expended on domination. The subsumption of vast tracts of our fair home, and the people there, under one 'flag' or another, cannot help but accompany a fossil fuel, or he would quickly add, Uranium regimen. Not only will this quite likely result in the ruination of the biosphere, but it is also ethically monstrous and stupidly vicious toward each other and the Mother of us all.
"By taking hold of the visible hand of the sun and producing from sustainable resources, the world remains close to the land, and its inhabitants meet in a freer and more just environment. From riches for the few, be they individuals, companies or societies, will increasingly come wealth for all, more justly and more equally distributed. Renewable resources will bring a new era of wealth-creating economic development, initiated not by bureaucratic fiat, but by the free choices of individuals."
Needless to say, 'this is what democracy looks like,' when community and capacity and appreciation for social justice joins the sort of profound analysis of which we're capable. Readers might stay tuned for a forthcoming assessment of a film that Hermann Scheer produced just before his death.
Mike Ewall, of the Energy Justice Network, stated the matter as well as any of the interlocutors to whom this common citizen has appealed for insight and input. "Energy Justice is the first national organization to advocate a complete phase-out of nuclear power, fossil fuels, large hydroelectric dams and 'biomass' incineration within the next 20 years(as) possible, affordable and absolutely necessary. What is holding us back is only a lack of political will."
Of course, limiting his assessment to the U.S., Mike's assertion of the Energy Justice Network's primacy is beyond question. That an entire generation of German politicians, Socialist and Green, along with significant slices of other European political apparatuses, have antedated even the authoritative militancy of EJN is, to say the least, noteworthy.
Readers may remember a recent profile of Georgia's Green Party, which indicated that at least some political forces in this country are catching up and dovetailing with the impetus that EJN has given to community activism and engagement nationwide. This could not be anything other than a welcome development.
On the other hand, a twofold weakness seems indisputable in stating the way that a minor party represents the leading edge of 'sustainable business' thinking in this, the best of all possible worlds, the home of the free and the land of the brave. In the first place, inasmuch as citizens--such as many folks on JustMeans, for instance--have powerful networks and communities already, and yet have not demonstrated the sort of unequivocal affirmations that the likes of Greens, Social Democrats, and progressive NGO's have promulgated, the only conclusion is that a critical aspect of consciousness is missing.
Either that would be so, or the avowals about sustainablity and 'clean' technologies are the 'hot air' that Dr. MacKay characterizes in his book in a fundamentally different way. This is one of those situations where an erstwhile proponent of renewable energy and sustainable business cannot simultaneously maintain, 'Oh, I'm all for that stuff,' at the same time that he or she demurs about committing to democracy and popular empowerment.
The second weakness occurs in precisely the many communities that my many correspondents have introduced to JustMeans readers: Shell Bluff folks that WAND assists; the Madison County and other North Carolina communities that Lou Zellar serves so assiduously through the good offices of the Blue Ridge Environmental Defense League; the widespread agglomerations of aggrieved citizens whom Mike Ewall has helped on occasion to obtain surcease; and many more. These folks all too often lack capacity either to oppose on their own what is oppressing them, or to promote what would liberate them.
In some near-at-hand future, those who honestly want sustainability and appropriate technology have little hope outside of a democratic movement to back up such objectives. A party cannot lead; the people must assume command.
In The Strength to Love, Martin Luther King recognized the underlying fact that sets this up, that those who long for transformation must find a way of working with their cousins in order to obtain real change. "In a real sense, all life is inter-related. All are caught in an inescapable network of mutuality, tied in a single garment of destiny. Whatever affects one directly affects all indirectely."
In a nutshell, the inescapable implication is that, lacking democratic approaches and the intellectual and social capacity to back up the forms of majority-rule, this 'network of mutuality' spells doom. Of course, something akin to a paradise on the planet is available if citizens can find a way to work within the parameters requisite in this paradigm.
Several kinds of power result from harnessing the sun. Photovoltaic electricity captures many people's imaginations, because of its elegance and obvious utility. But several forms of solar heat have immense potential to fit snugly into a sustainable business paradigm: water heaters, space heaters, and process heat are all available from the sun, though the last of these may end up having less impact than the first two types of warmth.
And this is just the easy-to-view surface that solar energy presents to humankind. While options for untried solar applications may not be limitless, even a cursory reading of the main authorities considered over the course of these essays suggests tremendous untapped potential in a 'sunny side' uptake of the human prospect.
The underlying theme of what I've presented here, however, also with copious authority, and plentiful example, and a plethora of rationale, is that none of these plausibly marvelous qualities of solar as an energy source will amount to a proverbial hill of beans unless citizens facilitate the growth of another type of potency. I'm referring, of course, to people power.
What's coming up next Tuesday, by the by, doesn't equal democracy either. Voting is one essential element of democratic forms. However, as James Madison and Alexander Hamilton so elegantly articulated 220 years ago, rulers can utilize the structures and dynamics of representation so as both to protect the minority rights of the propertied and the plutocratic and to divide the masses into competing 'interests' that are as easily conquered as is a cavalcade of divided soldiers, all afraid and hoping to live, and devil take the hindmost.
Community, democracy, capacitation, and more such themes have been effervescent in the texts of this humble correspondent. Don Harris has begged us to 'listen to the trees' The students at Pugwash, following the lead of Bertrand Russell and Albert Einstein, have implored that we exit the nuclear highway and consider gentler means of energizing ourselves.
A recent scholar spoke about this in a powerful insistence in systemic thinking, the willingness to develop a sense of consciousness that takes people deeper, deeper into learning about the past and its links to the future, deeper into examining the interconnections among people and societies, and deeper into an awareness of human animality--that we can no more escape nature's enfolding grip than we can escape the necessity of being born of a woman.
In a section of his work entitled "Ecological Being, Social Organization, and Social Practice," he intoned as follows. "Like Marx in his early works, such as The German Ideology and the Paris Manuscripts, which address the concept of species living in an unalienated fashion, we need as well to focus on the distantiation that has occurred between us as Humans (and) other living beings and natural processes."
He goes on to insist on responsibility. "Human agency has a part to play in this overall world historical process, therefore we must retrieve our ecological selves (being) so that the Circle can be reconnected again. Consciousness raising, deep explorations, identification, and realization with other ecological selves need to take place so that a 'sense of place' and a 'sense of wonder' can return. What it means is identification and solidarity with all life."
And he closes dispositively. "In short, value changes that are more sensitive to the 'common circle' should be encouraged." That this is impossible outside of a democratic context ought to be obvious. Is it? Inquiring minds, as ever, would like to know.


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Four people were killed Sunday in fighting here between the Farouq Battalions, which favors elections, and Jabhat al Nusra, or the Nusra Front, which the United States has declared an al Qaida-affiliated terrorist group. Since then, Farouq has been massing men here in an example of the growing friction that's emerged in recent months as Nusra has captured strategic infrastructure across Syria's north and east, including oil and gas installations, grain silos and a hydroelectric dam.
Raqqa province, where Tal Abyad is, and Hasaka province, to the east, are poverty-stricken but vital to Syria's agriculture. Hasaka and Deir el Zour province to the south are the center of the country's oil industry.
"They want to control the border crossing here," said Abu Mansour, a member of Farouq in Tal Abyad. Like other rebels, he uses a nom de guerre to hide his identity from the government.
The rivalry between the groups is a reminder of how divided Syria's rebel factions are and how inaccurate it is to refer to the anti-Assad forces as if they were a single group, with a single goal. Indeed, while news stories for months often referred to rebels as the Free Syrian Army, that term is more an idea than an organization. Instead, the rebel movement comprises dozens of groups whose ideologies have only one common goal: the toppling of the Assad regime.
Farouq, which has battalions across Syria and espouses a moderate interpretation of Islam, controls border crossings with Turkey at Tal Abyad and Bab al Hawa, in northwestern Syria. Nusra has attempted to seize control of both crossing points since Farouq took them from pro-Assad forces last September.
The rivalry between the groups has become increasingly apparent as Nusra raises the volume of its calls for Islamic law. Recently, it suggested it might declare Raqqa, the largest city under rebel control, the center of an Islamic emirate. Last November, the group clashed with members of Kurdish militias after it seized the border crossing at Ras al Ayn.
Sunday's fighting badly wounded Mohammad al Daher, a popular Farouq leader known as Abu Azzam who'd also fought Nusra-affiliated militants at Bab al Hawa last year. He was taken to Turkey for treatment, and friends said he remained in intensive care Tuesday.
In candid moments, members of Nusra don't deny their links to al Qaida in Iraq and the Islamic State of Iraq, the al Qaida-linked group that battled U.S. troops there and continues to carry out attacks. All three groups call for establishing Islamic states in the areas in which they operate, in Syria and Iraq, and view non-Sunni Muslims as apostates who've rejected Islamic teachings. That includes Alawites, the sect to which Assad and about 10 percent of Syrians belong, as well as Shiite Muslims, who make up the majority of Iraqis and have dominated the government there since the fall of dictator Saddam Hussein.
Nusra has taken tough action against those who oppose its fundamentalist beliefs. In the city of Shadadeh, in southern Hasaka province, members of a moderate rebel group said Nusra members had dispersed a demonstration against them earlier this month by firing heavy machine guns in the air. A similar event occurred in the city of Mayadeen, in Deir el Zour province, after locals demonstrated against Nusra's establishment of an Islamic court there.
"They call us kufar," or non-Muslims, said Abu Mohammed, who leads a rebel brigade in Shadadeh. "We will have no choice but to be like the Sahwa," he said, referring to the tribal movement in Iraq that began in 2006 to kick al Qaida in Iraq followers from that country's western province of Anbar, which borders Hasaka and Deir el Zour. The Sahwa movement was crucial to American pacification efforts.
Members of other rebel groups increasingly liken Nusra to the Syrian government in its intolerance of any opposition, and they fear its spies. Nusra has detained secular activists who've spoken against it.
Abu Mansour said that for now, Nusra had withdrawn from Tal Abyad. But he expected more fighting.
"It seems we cannot deal with them peacefully," he said. "So it seems inevitable we will fight them, whether it is before the regime falls or after."
Enders is a McClatchy special correspondent. Email: firstname.lastname@example.com; Twitter: @davidjenders


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I was trying to use Database diagrams is SQL Server and got following error:
Database diagram support objects cannot be installed because this database does not have a valid owner. To continue, first use the Files page of the Database Properties dialog box or the ALTER AUTHORIZATION statement to set the database owner to a valid login, then add the database diagram support objects.
I tried to use this command to solve my problem
ALTER AUTHORIZATION ON DATABASE::mydb TO "domain\username"
but it did not help. When I changed my domain account to
sa and ran
ALTER AUTHORIZATION ON DATABASE::mydb TO sa
I got rid of this error. The question is, why domain account is not acceptable for database owner (it seems that only
sa annd
NT AUTHORITY\SYSTEM are acceptable)?