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Wednesday November 03, 2010 05:27 by B.O. Solidarity Network
At first glance, one might wonder what the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan have in common with a UN peace mission on the opposite side of the world, in Haiti, a non Muslim country. Indeed, from the standpoint of US military casualties or US military expenditures, there is little in common The Wars in Iraq and Afghanistan and the UN Occupation in HaitiBut for a few weeks earlier this year, after the January 12th earthquake, there were proportionally as many US troops in Haiti as in Afghanistan in 2009, before Obamas surge. And the death toll of over 300,000 and the devastation which left more than 1.2 million people homeless certainly made Haiti look like a war zone. The militarization of rescue efforts, which gave absolute priority to establishing and maintaining military control rather than to the distribution of critical aid left piling up in airport hangars, and the division of Port-au-Prince into red, orange and green security zones, were eerily reminiscent of US occupation policies. And although military control was soon handed back to a beefed-up UN multilateral mission, the MINUSTAH, this relatively brief US military incursion was quite revealing in terms of US political and strategic interests. Why did the US react with such a massive troop deployment in Haiti? What is at stake for the US in Haiti? Why should the US anti-war movement consider Haiti as another front in the US military campaigns of aggression? What do these policies have to do with the US New World Order globalization agenda? Much as Viet Nam and the aborted Bay of Pigs invasion of Cuba are long lasting symbols of US imperialist failures and overreaching ambitions, the failures of the US war efforts in Iraq and in Afghanistan are re-stamping the tag of paper tiger onto the flanks of the US war machine. Notwithstanding the corporate medias complicity in attempting to cover up the US military debacle, fewer and fewer in the US believe in George Bushs mission accomplished or that the US has won, is winning or will win these 2 wars. Even a precarious stalemate at the cost of a continuing military occupation seems overly pretentious. The National Priorities Project at costofwar.com puts current military war expenditures at over $1 trillion. Thats close to $37 billion for New York City alone, or about $4,400 for each one of us in this room. But, according to Nobel economist Joseph Stiglitz, the current total economic cost of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan is four to six times higher than that, at $4-6 trillion. This figure includes an estimated $900 billion to care for returning disabled US veterans who are reportedly dying 3 times faster upon their return than they were in actual deployment. The immorality and injustice of these wars that have claimed over 1.4 million Iraqi civilian casualties, according to justforeignpolicy.org, are the foremost reason we should oppose them, not their military costs. However, it seems clear that the figures for military spending point to relevant underlying class interests at stake in these military conflicts. The US military industrial complex, or the US War Machine, has devised a new kind of war, the so-called War on Terror, which can supply it with a seemingly endless source of military conflicts. Quite conveniently, the enemy is everywhere, and supplemental military appropriations and Patriot acts get voted in Congress with almost no opposition whatsoever. On top of that, the odious character of military operations themselves, with their indiscriminate slaughter of civilians, ensures a steady supply of new recruits for those who oppose the US. And the targeting of the worldwide Muslim community has made the War on Terror a self-fulfilling renewable policy. Having conveniently shrugged off the now useless WMD motive, or even the War for Oil strategic imperative, the most thriving sector of the US industrial economy, and one of the sectors of the US ruling class with uncontested political power in both Republican and Democrat ruling class political parties, the US Military Industrial Complex reigns as one of the dominant fractions of the US capitalist ruling class. Northrop Grumman, Lockheed Martin, GE, Boeing, Bechtel, Halliburton, Blackwater, DynCorp, Xe Services all these huge multi-legged monsters have successfully pushed through their agenda of expanding and privatizing war. But they are not alone. Indeed, US wars of aggression can best be understood as policies that are intimately tied to the overall agenda of US dominated capitalist globalization (as outlined by PNAC [Project for a New American Century], the right wing think tank that predicted the need for another Pearl Harbor) and the ever-increasing dominance of finance capital as the hegemonic fraction of the US capitalist ruling class. Follow the money: in 9 years, the military industrial complex got about $1 trillion in supplemental appropriations for its 2 wars. The financial sector got about that much in the bailout in one year, and much more in loan guarantees from the Federal Reserve. Without getting sidetracked into theoretical debates, its important to realize that US and international capitalism are governed by several deep inherent contradictions that provoke recurring crises. Among them are a tendency for falling rates of profit (money makes money and the money money makes more money compounded interests mean the systematic reinvestment of profits driven by competition, mutual funds, 401k funds, pension funds meaning that there is a constant need to find new sources of profits for new capital by reducing labor costs, leading to offshore outsourcing and offshore sweatshop manufacturing ) contradictions between state and private monopoly capital (like the health care crisis and the military industrial complex), contradictions between finance and manufacturing (the real estate crisis, just think, what part of the bailout did GM get? What part did AIG get?), contradictions between nationalization of profits and expansion of multinational corporations and contradictions between the national character of capital and the internationalization of finance (how long will China keep taking paper money in exchange for manufactured goods?). These contradictions result in national debt crises, balance of trade crises and currency crises. Different capitalist ruling class fractions seize upon these recurring crises to promote and implement their own agendas, however overriding class interests unite the US capitalist class behind a two pronged agenda of Free Trade capitalist globalization combined with US global military expansionism as its safeguard. Why are capitalists so obsessed with Free Markets and Free Trade? Not because theyre free and democratic, but because Free Markets mean dog eat dog competition where the big dogs wins, and to back up these wins, just like the loan sharks need an enforcement arm, US capitalism needs its military. The US nuclear arsenal is the ace in the hole that backs up the dollar as an international currency. Capitalism would like us to believe that were just one bubble away from the next round of prosperity In reality, real wages in the US have been falling since the 1970s. Just ask offshore sweatshop workers how good the last bubbles were New World Order, (a phrase re-coined by George H Bush in a speech on September 11, 1990), capitalist globalization is an overall agenda of the US capitalist ruling class that uses Free Trade policies to promote capitalist and imperialist expansion, and uses debt crises to implement austerity programs that reduce wages and social benefits for workers and increase profits for capitalists. Free Trade policies provide opportunities for US led multi-national corporations to expand internationally in dominated, so-called Third World countries, as big bullies, gaining monopolies by buying out newly privatized state industries or by sheer market strength, overtaking local industry and agriculture and establishing cheap labor assembly sweatshops. Debt crises provide the political opportunity to implement these otherwise unpopular austerity measures. These Free Trade policies, pushed through via various international agencies such as the IMF, the World Bank, the IDB, the WTO, and through regional trade accords such at NAFTA and CAFTA, enable capitalist imperialist globalization to coerce through debt and achieve goals that it once used to pursue mainly through colonial wars. But the Free Trade option is not the only option wielded in this outright capitalist class war. When governments resist the implementation Free Trade policies, or when outright imperialist expansionism is too tempting for neo-cons to resist, as in Iraq, the iron hand behind the Free Market is swift to enter into action. As always, US global military expansionism is the safe keeper of US capitalist expansionism. This one-two punch of capitalist expansionism is implemented in part by international finance institutions on the Free trade side, such as the IMF, the World Bank, the WTO and international trade accords, and in part by international politico-military alliances such as NATO and the UN, on the enforcement side. To quote a 2002 Global Sweatshop Coalition forum in which the BO solidarity Network took part: Whether through outright invasions to seize control of the Middle East's oil reserves or through negotiated Free Trade agreements to establish sweatshops and privatize state run monopolies, the common objective is to bust open markets for US corporations to pillage the resources of oppressed and dominated nations. That is why those who mobilize against the war are aligned in their struggle with those who battle exploitation, repression and corporate globalization.That was our statement in 2002. As a result of complying with these IMF, World Bank and US State Department mandates, Haiti has privatized the Minoterie, the State flour mill, Ciment dHaiti, the state cement industry, Enaol, the state vegetable oil company, and more recently, Teleco, the state phone company, and partially privatized EDH, the state electricity company. All these privatizations have effectively eliminated most sources of funding for government programs. The Haitian government, reduced to mendacity, depends on foreign grants and loans for 70% of its budget. Haiti cut its import tariffs, reduced government subsidies on most primary goods, eliminated trade restrictions, cut the size of the government by more than 70%, eliminated the army, reduced spending on social services to the point that the budget for the state university is about $10 per student per year. The Aristide government set up a Free Trade Zone on the Dominican border, jailed union organizers, gave complete impunity to illegal union busting practices by factory owners, and delayed and limited the cost of living adjustment of the minimum wage to half its legally mandated level. But that was not enough. In 2004, the US intervened militarily again, with France and Canada, and again escorted Aristide out of Haiti. This intervention came about as a result of US funded destabilization of Aristides government, compounded by growing popular discontent due to government corruption scandals and repressive practices. In February 2004, a band of about 200 CIA funded mercenaries headed by Guy Philippe and Louis Jodel Chamblain, crossed over from the Dominican Republic and laid siege to Port-au-Prince, Haitis capital. That was enough to provoke Aristides removal. The US again led the way in establishing a UN proxy occupation of Haiti. This new US proxy occupation force, the MINUSTAH, a French acronym for Mission des Nations Unies pour la stabilisation en Haïti, or in English, the UN Stabilization Mission in Haiti, came about as a result of negotiations between the main superpowers engaged in Haiti: the US, France and Canada, and emerging regional powers, Brazil, Argentina and Chile, resulting in UN Security Council resolution 1542. According to a February 2006 GOA (US Government Accountability Office) report, the US government is able to save about 85% of the cost of maintaining a US occupation force in Haiti by relying on a UN multinational force. With US military resources stretched by the ongoing wars, clearly, UN intervention was a viable option. Currently, the MINUSTAH is composed of about 9,000 military personnel from 19 different countries, 3,000 police personnel from 50 different countries, and about 2,000 civilian personnel. The MINUSTAHs military is headed by a Brazilian contingent of about 1,300 troops. Its current budget is about $732 million per year, of which the US contributes about 27% and the Haitian government about 0.2%, or about $1.4 million. Throughout its 6-year term, the MINUSTAH occupation has cost more than $4 billion, or about $440 per Haitian citizen, in a country where most adults struggle to make $2 a day. But why should the Haitian popular masses object to getting such massive peacekeeping efforts? After more than 500 years of invasions, genocide, pillage, enslavement, occupations, government overthrows, racist discrimination, embargos, and imperialist domination and exploitation, why should the Haitian people object to a little foreign aid? Or, as some Brazilian passers by asked us as we were recently picketing the Brazilian consulate demanding the withdrawal of MINUSTAH troops from Haiti: why are we blaming Brazil? Arent they helping us? And now we want them to get out? We gave them some fliers and told them that we dont need soldiers with guns and tanks to give out aid, we need doctors and tractors, and that in Brazil, there are also popular protests against Brazilian participation in the MINUSTAH, and they seemed to understand, but that of course, is only part of the story. On the face of things, a UN peacekeeping mission to train the Haitian police and help run democratic elections should be welcomed by all good-hearted peace loving people. But if UN peacekeeping missions are so good-hearted, why choose Haiti? Is there a UN peacekeeping mission in Mexico, where the drug war has resulted in over 26,000 civilian casualties over the last 3 years? Was a UN peacekeeping mission dispatched to Honduras after the military overthrow of Zelaya in June 2009? Is there a UN peacekeeping mission in Colombia, the worlds most dangerous country for trade unionists and a country engaged in civil war since the 1960s? Clearly, in Central and Latin America, there are other countries with higher rates of kidnapping and political violence. So what makes Haiti so special that it should benefit from the benevolence of the more than 50 countries that take part in the MINUSTAH occupation? In many ways the US proxy occupation of Haiti can be best described as a crime of opportunity. In Creole we say: Dan pouri gen fòs sou bannann mi or rotten teeth are strong when eating ripe plantains. Haiti represents the exacerbated contradictions brought about by the forced implementation of the mantra of Free Market policies. Because of the systematic planned weakening of the Haitian state, rendered impotent, puppet-like through successive US backed coups and the dissolution of the Haitian army, Haiti is an easy target for imperialist aggression, presenting almost no resistance. Indeed, every year the Haitian government itself renews its request for the prolongation of the MINUSTAH occupation. Having been rendered a failed state through years of oppressive policies, the Haitian government is itself a partner in its own receivership. Haiti is like the canary in the mineshaft of capitalism, and because of its extreme poverty it is one of the weakest links in the empire. As such, Haiti is made into an example of compliance with all the dominant models of neoliberalism. It does not matter that these prescriptions, like free trade and sweatshop promotion fail utterly to develop the countrys economy. What is most important is to keep Haiti in line and to prevent revolutions or catastrophic overflows that would send boatloads of refugees to the shores of Florida and destabilize the region. Its OK if Haiti becomes a wasteland of zombies, as long as it doesnt create a bad example by implementing nationalist policies instead of neoliberal free trade policies or as long as, god forbid, it doesnt become socialist. Peering through and peeling away the humanist language of the UN security council resolutions, one can see the class objective of the MINUSTAHs mandate: save Haiti for capitalism, through capitalism, even if that means laying the country to waste. Free trade that destroys the national economy, assembly sweatshops that pay slave wages built right next to earthquake survivor refugee camps (Coraille Cesslesse), Monsanto GMO seeds and fertilizers, mango cola and exclusive beach clubs, thats the proven-failed prescription that complies with the New World Order mantra. Thats the $11 billion ICRH Haiti reconstruction plan ratified in the March 31st donor conference in New York. In this sick logic of for profit development, even in Haiti, the poorest country in the Western Hemisphere with the lowest wages, the only way to promote investment and grow the economy is to make it more profitable for investors to invest, by lowering the already starvation wages. That was Bill Clintons major achievement last year as he rallied more than 100 investors to save and develop Haiti. That was what Wyclef Jean meant when, announcing his candidacy, he proclaimed that: Haiti is open for business. Why cant those few who have so much tighten their belts a little bit for development? But we should ask the same question about policies here in the US. In 1985, even after close to 30 years of economic regression and degradation under the Duvalier dictatorships, Haiti was self sufficient in rice production. According to US Department of Commerce statistics, in 1985 Haiti produced 163,000 tons of rice and imported only 7,000 tons. By 1995, after IMF mandated trade liberalization measures cut import tariffs from 35% to 3% under Aristide, Haiti was importing twice as much rice as it was producing, and by 2000, it was producing only 130,000 tons of rice, but importing 220,000 tons. Haiti's extremely low import tariff on rice is part of the trade liberalization policies which earned it a score of 1 on the IMF's 1999 Index of Trade Restrictiveness, making Haiti the least trade restrictive country in the Caribbean, but also the poorest. When Bill Clinton recently reflected on these policies, he admitted to their failure and commented that he regretted those policies that were more beneficial to rice farmers in Arkansas than Haiti. Crocodile tears: that did not stop Clinton for lobbying for limiting a 6-year delayed adjustment to the minimum wage to half what it should have been under Haitian law and from promoting slave-wage sweatshop Free Trade zones as the main alternative for industrial development in Haiti. Is that humanism, economic realism, or just plain pandering to capitalist greed? Is there no other way? We think there is. The Haitian people think there is. Like in Iraq and Afghanistan, elections are being organized this year in Haiti because, as per the Free Trade mantra, elections promote political structures that are favorable to the free trade agenda. Less than a year after the January 12th earthquake that destroyed much of the capital, killed over 300,000 people and left 13% of the population homeless, Haitians are being urged to go to the polls to choose a new government. Having exhausted the Préval governments legitimacy, imperialism needs a new puppet to rubber-stamp its so-called reconstruction program. The Haitian people are being asked to choose one of nineteen candidates, none with any popularity or program but all with false promises, because imperialism finds it necessary to legitimize its continuing mandate of occupation. As quoted from a 2008 NACLA article: The UN Stabilization Mission in Haiti (Minustah), which began its mission in June 2004, has been marred by scandals of killings, rape, and other violence by its troops almost since it began. As has been documented by human rights investigators and declassified U.S. government documents, Minustah conducted a number of raids into Haitis slumsostensibly to target armed gangsthat have repeatedly left scores of unarmed civilians dead. In February 2008, the U.N. Office of Internal Oversight Services released its findings from an investigation into accusations against Sri Lankan MINUSTAH troops. It found that acts of sexual exploitation and abuse of children were "frequent" and occurred "at virtually every location where the contingent personnel were deployed." No UN soldiers were ever brought to justice. On July 6, 2005, in an operation aimed at capturing Dread Wlimé, a gang leader in Citè Soleil, one of the largest slums of Port-au-Prince (the capital of Haiti) with thin-walled dwellings, a squad of 440 UN Brazilian troops fired more than 21,000 rounds of ammunition in a span of a few minutes, according to internal UN reports, in an operation that lasted about 7 hours overall. Various independent sources reported that there were about thirty civilian casualties, among which were about twenty women and children. Dread Wilmé and a few of his associates were also killed. On December 22, 2006, another UN raid in Cité Soleil resulted in 30 more reported civilian killings, although the UN disputes that number. There are numerous other documented incidents of MINUSTAH violence resulting in civilian casualties. Recently, on August 17, Gerard Jean Gilles, a 16 year old Haitian boy was found hanged inside a UN Nepalese compound in Cape Haitian. This year, protests throughout Haiti against the MINUSTAH occupation have been on the rise. The January 12th earthquake exposed the MINUSTAHs incompetence and uselessness. 12,000 soldiers and police bearing arms, none of whom speak the countrys language, cannot provide any security to the Haitian masses. They do not provide any deterrence to rapes and kidnappings. Their only role is to maintain the government in power. They only point their guns at the poor and at protesters. As long as they are in Haiti, the government can implement the neo-liberal agenda with impunity. No wonder, the Haitian government is quite willing to renew the MINUSTAHs mandate every October. In Creole we say: Si pa t gen sitirè, pa ta gen vòlè, meaning, "there would be no thieves without those who entice them". In the case of the MINUSTAH and the Haitian government, this is a 2-way relationship. They are clear associates, complicit servants to the policies of exploitation and domination of the Haitian ruling classes and of imperialist interests. The fear in popular circles is that a new era of repression will begin after this years November 28 elections. With worsening conditions resulting from the implementation of failed agendas, popular unrest is sure to be on the rise, and the MINUSTAH is sure to be called upon to keep the peace. Already, a peaceful, legal protest on October 15, this year, in front of MINUSTAH headquarters was violently repressed by the Haitian national police and MINUSTAH forces. Over 400 protestors were tear gassed and violently beaten back with batons for attempting to protest the extension of the MINUSTAHs mandate for an additional year. We call on the anti-war movement here in the US to mount an anti-occupation campaign as part of its stand against global imperialist aggression. We call on the US progressive community to build an anti-occupation movement in solidarity with the popular movement in Haiti. We must unite our struggles against neo-liberal austerity policies that reduce our wages and social benefits here with the struggle against the implementation of these same policies abroad. Our struggle against neo-liberalism, New World Order policies, wars and occupations is part of our class struggle to free ourselves from capitalist domination and exploitation. We must realize that the anti-war movement just like the anti-globalization movement is fundamentally a worker solidarity movement in a global class war. That is why the anti-war movement, just like the anti-globalization movement must be rooted in anti-imperialism and in support for popular movements. The answer is not in ousting neo-cons and voting Democratic leadership into the White House, Bush did most of that: Wolfowitz, Lake, Noriega, and now Rumsfeld and Cheney are gone, Obamas Iraq policy is Bushs Iraq policy, the war in Afghanistan is now Obamas war. The answer is in challenging the system and in changing it. TINA, that was Margaret Thatchers proclamation, that capitalist slap on our collective worker faces. But the popular movement in Haiti believes that we have an alternative. The popular movement is growing, spearheaded by organizations like Batay Ouvriye that bring working class leadership to specific and broad mobilizations for all kinds of demands, from adjusting the minimum wage, to the respect of worker rights to organize, to agrarian reform, to protesting GMO promotion and the privatization of water resources, to student rights, to demanding the withdrawal of all MINUSTAH occupation forces In recent protests in Haiti, broad coalitions have been forming around these demands. Groups like Batay Ouvriye (Workers Struggle), MODEP (Democratic Popular Movement), Chandel, SOFA (Haitian Women in Solidarity), FRAKKA (Housing Action and Reflection Front), PAPDA (Promotion of an Alternative Development), Tèt Kole òganizasyon popilè (Alliance of Popular Organizations), Antèn Ouvriye (Workers Antenna), PEVEP (Platform of Fired Public Sector Workers), CATH (Autonomous Federation of Haitian Workers), Komite Relèvman Divivye (Divivye Renewal Committee), Tèt Kole ti Peyizan Ayisyen (Alliance of Small Haitian Farmers), Asosiyasyon Solidarite ti Peyizan Plezans (ASPP) (Association of Small Farmers in Palisance), Mouvman Òganizasyon ti Peyizan Plezans (MOPP), (the Plezans movement of organized small farmers) and many others, have been building up these mobilizations. But these struggles are facing more and more repression; they are starving for resources and need our support. On October 12, the Haitian police shot dead Jean Louis Filbert, a mathematics professor who was peacefully protesting for constitutionally mandated free education. We appeal to you, as part your stand against the wars, against the occupations, to build a solidarity movement with these surging struggles. These are struggles that can eventually drive out the occupation forces, and thats precisely why they are more and more targeted. And thats why they deserve our support. |
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If you are familiar with Ari Seth Cohen's blog Advanced Style, you've already seen the photographs and interviews he's done with older women (and some men) who have loads of style, panache, elegance, and wit. Most of the photographs were taken in New York City, which does seem to have an abundance of fabulous dames. (He's also got some recent shots of Italians, and plans to branch out to other areas.)
If you haven't seen the blog, the book Advanced Style is a great introduction to the concept of having style throughout your life. Ranging from flat-out elegant (think Grace Kelly, Lena Horne, Lauren Bacall) to wild and colorful (think Betsey Johnson), these women really know who they are. In a society that worships youth, it's really inspiring to see women dress and age on their own terms. One of Cohen's subjects, Ilona Royce Smithkin says, "If you try to imitate too much, you will look like nothing. Never compare. You are you!" Another quote, from Lubi, is "Some might see it as gray hair, age, genetics, stress, etc. I see if differently. I see it as platinum elegance." Oh, me too!
There is also a terrific interview at the end of the book between Dita von Teese (elegant cabaret artiste) and Ilona Royce Smithkin. Their discussion about fashion and style bridges the age gap, with both of them talking about personal style and how it influences their lives.
My all-time favorite book is Auntie Mame, a character who epitomizes the idea of individual style and flair at any age Really one of the most fun books ever written (I'm not so wild about the movie versions). I'm also a huge fan of RuPaul, who personifies "eleganza" and fabulousness. I am still working on my own style, and trying to be less conservative and have more flair. Or at least a bit more elegance.
I hope you'll pick up a copy of Advanced Style and/or check out the blog. I think you'll love it! I leave you with one of my favorite shots of my grandmother Lee, in her late 70s, on a cruise in 1960.

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October 17, 2005 MSF Operations in Tropical Storm Stan-Affected Areas of Guatemala
Ten days after Tropical Storm Stan hit Guatemala and El Salvador Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF) teams have conducted assessments by land and helicopter covering most of the affected areas. Nearly 70 international and national staff are now assisting Guatemalans affected by the flooding and landslides. In addition to providing first-aid kits and medical assistance, MSF is consolidating its initial emergency response by increasing access to potable water and by setting up an epidemiological surveillance system to monitor diseases such as malaria and dengue, endemic in areas most-affected by the tropical storm.
Teams are working in the Solola, Retalhuleu, Escuintla, Santa Rosa, Quetzaltenango, and San Marcos departments.
Three logisticians, a doctor, and a nurse first arrived in the Lake Atitlan area on Friday, October 7, and carried out assessments in the towns of Santiago de Atitlan and San Pedro Laguna, which were reported to be severely affected by the storm. Almost 6,000 people are estimated to be living in 40 provisional shelters in Santiago de Atitlan. Two MSF trucks carrying 7,000 kilograms of relief materials (including a basic emergency medical materials, blankets, mattresses, and drinking water) arrived in the area on Saturday, October 8. On Tuesday, October 11, an additional truck carrying 4,500 kilograms of relief supplies was sent to the area. Those supplies included plastic sheeting, blankets, and materials for purifying 22,000 liters of drinking water.
Access to potable water and overcrowding in shelters remain the main health concerns as numerous affected people, left homeless by the tropical Storm, cannot find shelter in churches, schools, or with their extended families.
MSF accessed the area by helicopter. An MSF vehicle delivered two emergency medical kits to Champerico (population of 8,000).
During assessments carried out last week, MSF teams discovered two small towns where no aid had been provided at all since the beginning of the emergency. The communities of Canoítia and Santa Ana had very limited water supplies, the majority of houses were damaged, and the healthcare center had collapsed.
There are now approximately 850 people living in 3 shelters. MSF organized a health committee in one of the shelters and made a donation of chlorine, hygiene, and health supplies. Following assessments carried out in Chiquimulilla and several surrounding villages (population of 3,100 families), MSF is concerned by risks of outbreaks of diseases such as malaria and dengue fever. In order to reduce transmission risks of these diseases, MSF is planning to clean and disinfect more than 3,000 wells in Chiquimulilla, distribute 10,000 insecticide-impregnated mosquito nets, set up vector control systems, and continue to assess the housing situation of displaced people in the area. In the next days, mobile medical teams will visit communities around Chiquimulilla to carry out consultations and epidemiological monitoring.
MSF has also carried out assessments in San Marcos and the surrounding villages, donating two emergency medical kits in Tacana in San Marcos zone.
At least 6,000 people still live in provisional shelters in Coatepeque (population of 130,000). MSF carried out medical consultations in a shelter for 400 people displaced by the storm before it closed on Wednesday, October 12. Authorities affirm that the health situation is under control. MSF is still monitoring the situation while normal activities carry on in the MSF AIDS clinic in Coatepeque.
In Ocós, MSF opened a small clinic and a supply center where a medical team carried out consultations during two days, treating 130 people, mostly for minor conditions.
MSF installed three 40,000-liter water tanks in Ocós. In the coming days, the team will clean up wells and set up other additional water and sanitation activities in Ocós, Limones, and La independencia.
MSF has also conducted assessments through the Mexican border to reach the isolated town of Malacatan in Guatemala.
© 2013 Doctors Without Borders/Médecins Sans Frontières (MSF)


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Our Theory - "The End"
Artist Bio:
Our Theory is a French rock/post-hardcore band that was born in 2011 from the minds of Bastien Berhault (singer) and Mehdi Major (guitar/vocals). They were joined later by Damien Bauthamy (guitar, ex-Borderline), Thomas Pain (Drums) and Yoann Andrieux (bass). Our Theory has for mission to give a kick to the French music scene with a mix of tension and restlessness that is characteristic of post hardcore, along with its intensive melodies. With a pure, melodic and deep voice from their singer, strong rhythms and intensive riffs, they create an intensive tension on each of their tracks.
Shortly after getting together, they were getting noticed in the scene and their success keeps growing day after day! Stage wise, the band already had the chance to play in France and Europe and share the stage with bands such as Young Guns, Memphis May Fire, Escape The Fate, There For Tomorrow, Eyes Set To Kill, Of Mice & Men, Devil Sold His Soul and Closure in Moscow. Their début album "Collapse" is out since September the 30th and features Bert from Chunk! No Captain Chunk! and Edward Gibbs ex singer in Devil Sold His Soul. Considering what has already been achieved so far and so fast, Our Theory is a band to follow very closely!
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Jet Pack - "The Heat of the Moment"
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Midlands alt-rock band Jet Pack return with an arena rock anthem in waiting.
"The Heat of the Moment" is the second and final single to be lifted from this year's acclaimed "Chasing Sunsets" EP. A sunburst of soaring melodies and honest lyrics, this Matt O'Grady [You Me At Six, Deaf Havana] produced track shows the band demonstrating their more commercial leanings while still packing a rock punch.
To coincide with the single release the band are putting out a video directed by Ant Thornton. The band release the video exclusively through Blank TV on Monday 28th November, ahead of a run of dates with fellow Midlands Band Conduit via booking agency RDM.
December 2013 Thur 5 – The Grapes, Stafford Fri 6 – The Abbey Inn, Oldham Sat 7 – The Derby, Barrow-in-Furness Sun 8 – TBC Mon 9 – The Golden Cross, Coventry Tue 10 – Vagabonds, Brierly Hill
About The Video:
The video was filmed during one of the hottest days in the UK last summer. The band lugged their gear up a long uneven coastal path to a cliff edge where they ploughed through all the live performance in a couple of hours before hey lost the light.
The location is actually on a golf course next to the beach but no golfers felt the need to bother us - very good of them.
By the end of the day there was some very British sunburn on display while we cooled down with a pint of beer.
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Beretta Suicide - "Changes?!"
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Big riffs. Soaring solos. Pounding drums and duelling vocals. This is the sound of Leeds through the eyes of 3 punk deviants brought up on Sex Pistols, Motorhead, Ramones, Wildhearts and booze…
Beretta Suicide are a fiery 3-piece from Leeds (UK) on a mission to bring the danger and honesty back to Rock n Roll. Fiercely independent, they tell stories of the highs and lows of life from the dirty streets and dark bars of Leeds.
Joey K (Lead vocals / Bass), Joe Clements (Guitar) and Pert (Drums) met in 2011 following an online ad posted by Pert looking for band members "sick of the safe and sterile music scene". The three bonded over their love of tattoos and low slung guitars knowing straight away they'd found their gang, their brotherhood.
Their debut self titled EP found its way into blogs and zines and got an enthusiastic reception. Growing interest in the band lead to support slots with Zico Chain, Sorry & the Sinatras (feat. members of the Wildhearts, Black Halos and Ginger's band), Glitterati, The Plight, UK Subs, Max Raptor, Dead City Ruins and the Computers to name just a few…
Beretta Suicide have sold out The Water Rats Theatre in London on their own and have toured Europe supporting The Misfits.
Their debut album takes influence from bands such as The Wildhearts, The Ramones, The Sex Pistols, Guns n Roses and Motorhead. Firm believers in the old adage 'If it aint broke, don't fix it', Beretta Suicide haven't reinvented the wheel – but they have experimented with the formula to become a new, leaner and meaner beast. This is Punk Rock with an insatiable hunger and fire in its eyes.
Due to hit the road in support of their release, their live show is quickly gaining a reputation as chaotic - intent on partying like it's the end of the world. These boys live for nothing else. Have nothing else. Believe in nothing else.
The debut album 'Beretta Suicide' is released October 7th through Animal Farm records.
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We Are The Catalyst - "Tomorrow"
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We Are The Catalyst was formed in Varberg, Sweden, by Catrin Feymark and Kenny Boufadene in November of 2012.
After several years of touring and releasing albums as members of the Swedish Modern Metal act One Without, both Kenny and Catrin felt the need to do something different from what they had previously done both musically and ideologically.
The first single "Beware of Snakes" was released in November of 2012 which also meant that the band started to receive attention from media and fans around the world. The second single "This is Paranoia" was released in December together with the bands first music video. Next in line was the release of the cover of "Swedish House Mafia's" hit song "Don't You Worry Child", also this time together with a music video. The cover was well received by fans of both acts, with many SHM fans claiming that they did not expect to like a rock cover of the song, but that they had been positively surprised.
A few releases later and the band released their first EP; "Panem Et Circenses" on May 2nd 2013, and are now working on their full-length debut album.
About The Video:
We got in touch with Grzegorz Jonkajtys, (who has worked on movies such as Transformers, Terminator Salvation, Cloud Atlas, Pacific Rim, Star Trek Into Darkness, Sin City, Pans Labyrinth and many more) through our manager, and loved what he had done with his short film "Legacy", so we started talking about a possible collaboration and ended up doing the video for "Tomorrow" using "Legacy" as the storyline, with a fantastic result!
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Today were going to do a test fit of part number 46045 from Highland on this 2003 Cadillac CTS. This is our universal cargo mat. This also comes in gray as part number 45045 as well as tan part number 44045. Now these mats are semi-custom fit; they do have cutout lines inscribed onto the mat so you can make your mat fit the car the way you want it to. And the mat does have a small raised edge all the way around and channels in the middle of it to keep dirt and debris contained in the liner and not in your carpet. These liners are easily removed and cleaned with just soap and water as well.
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"We are announcing a series of revenge operations called 'An Eye for an Eye.' Your Alawite villages will pay a very dear price for every chemical rocket that you've launched against our people."
According to Syrian state-run television's depiction of events, government forces came across the site of the gas attack when they entered the rebel stronghold of Jobar on the edge of Damascus. The bodies of some of those killed in the attack early Wednesday had been found there.
Several of the soldiers were "suffocating" from exposure to gases as they entered the city, according to state TV.
"It is believed that the terrorists have used chemical weapons in the area," Syrian TV reported, citing an anonymous source. The government uses the term "terrorists" to describe rebel forces.
Broadcast video showed a room containing gas masks, gas canisters and other paraphernalia that could be used in a gas attack. The army said it uncovered the cache in a storage facility in Jobar. CNN could not independently confirm the authenticity of the video.
"We said it from the first moment and, here, we assure again that we have never used chemical weapons (around Jobar) or any other region in any form whatsoever -- ... liquid, gas or whatever," Information Minister Omran al-Zoubi said in an interview on Lebanese television.
He blamed the rebels.
Opposition accusations
The rebels say that government forces fired rockets into the heavily populated civilian area. Opposition spokesman Badr Jamous from the Syrian National Coalition claimed that some of the rockets delivered chemical payloads.
More than 1,300 people were killed, most of them by gas, said Khaled al-Saleh, another spokesman for the group.
Al-Saleh said that medical teams in the affected area had administered 25,000 shots of atropine -- a medication used to treat people exposed to the nerve gas sarin -- after the attack.
Doctors Without Borders said three hospitals it supports in Syria's Damascus governorate reported having received some 3,600 patients displaying neurotoxic symptoms last Wednesday morning.
"The reported symptoms of the patients, in addition to the epidemiological pattern of the events -- characterized by the massive influx of patients in a short period of time, the origin of the patients, and the contamination of medical and first aid workers -- strongly indicate mass exposure to a neurotoxic agent," said Dr. Bart Janssens, director of operations.
Video showed rows of bodies without apparent injury, as well as people suffering convulsions or who appeared to be struggling to breathe.
CNN could not verify where or when the videos were recorded, and could not confirm the number of casualties.


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A list of beekeepers that sell their local honey to the public.
Bill Vinduska
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Wichita, & Marion
Spring and Fall honey
Comb honey
Spun honey
Bullseye Bill in The Scenic Flint Hills , KS
Billy Smart
B Smart Apiaries
South Central Kansas
Local Extracted Honey
Local Comb Honey
Raw, Unheated & Unfiltered
BEE-L snob since 1999
What's a swarm in April worth?
Swobee's Honey Farm (Bruce Swob, owner)
PO Box 37
Albert, Kansas 67601
fax 620-923-4300
Central Kansas local wildflower & various crop honey
Bears - squeeze 12oz. & 24oz.
Plastic containers w/ flip-top lids- 1#, 2#, 3#, 5#
Straws- (flavored & regular honey)
Containers up to 5 gallon
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Born in a tough Los Angeles suburb, actress
Lindsay Wagner
quickly became accustomed to having to work hard and fight harder for the things she wanted out of life. The blonde, 5'11" Wagner supplemented her modelling and singing income by teaching theater arts to schoolchildren. In 1971, she was signed to a $162-per-week contract at Universal Pictures, under whose auspices she played supporting roles in such TV series as The Bold Ones and Owen Marshall, M.D. and co-starred in the theatrical features
Two People
(1972) and
The Paper Chase
(1973). Though she received good reviews for her work in the last-named film (in which she was cast as the daughter of imperious law professor
John Houseman
), Lindsay was summarily dropped by her studio in 1975. At the same time, Universal executives were looking for a tall, athletic actress to play a "bionic woman" opposite
Lee Majors
in a special two-part installment of the weekly TV series
The Six Million Dollar Man
. Lindsay's contract was extended an extra few days to permit her to play the role of Jaime Sommers -- and when the two-parter was spun off into the
Bionic Woman
TV series in 1976, Lindsay, still bitter over her firing, demanded a then-staggering sum of $17,500 per program, and a percentage of the merchandising profits. After the cancellation of
Bionic Woman
in 1978, Lindsay kept her star shining brightly such made-for-TV movies as
The Incredible Journey of Dr. Meg Laurel
Callie and Son
I Want to Live
(1983), Convicted (1986),
The Taking of Flight 847: The Uli Dedrickson Story
(1989), and
I Want to Keep My Daughter
(1995). She has also appeared in several TV-movie sequels to The Bionic Woman, including 1993's Bionic Ever After. In addition to maintaining her successful acting career,
Lindsay Wagner
has entered the booming instructional-video market with Lindsay Wagner's New Beauty: The Accupressure Facelift. ~ Hal Erickson, Rovi
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He remains one of the true icons of late 20th and early 21st century evangelism. But what of his early years -- the years that led him into full-time ministry? As scripted and directed by acclaimed actor Robby Benson (The Chosen), this fact-based historical drama depicts Billy Graham (here played by Armie Hammer) as an earnest young man whose life is irrevocably changed via his interaction with another up-and-coming follower of God, Charles Templeton. Though fast friends, the men reach a crossroads and fork off in opposing directions when Templeton's faith buckles beneath the weight of the scientific revolution and the evidence that he perceives as an unshakable threat to Christianity. The disbelief that Templeton demonstrates, in turn, convinces Graham to take the altar call in the Depression-era South, in an effort to bring people to God who find themselves mired in agnosticism and atheism. Martin Landau portrays Charles Templeton as an old man, Josh Turner plays George Beverly Shea, and Stefanie Butler co-stars as Graham's wife, Ruth Bell Graham. ~ Nathan Southern, Rovi
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Relocated to Colorado in the wake his parents' messy divorce, seventeen year old California transplant Robbie Zirpollo lands a job at a local water park while attempting to find his footing on dry land in this sexy, sun-soaked comedy featuring Alan Thicke and Lindsay Wagner. Robbie grew up in Oceanside, but when his father runs off to Mexico with the secretary and the family savings, his mother decides to move to Colorado and make a fresh start. Later offered a summer job tending the grounds at Water World by his uncle, Robbie accepts and strikes up a friendship with amiable park employee Alex, who soon gets him transferred to Aokee's Surf and Snack shack. When Alex discovers Robbie is a naturally born surfer, he quickly sets about trying to convince the wave-twisting newcomer to enter the park's annual Employee Olympics. But while Alex longs to see the Surfer King trophy back in its rightful place behind the concessions stand, the park owner's daughter has a decidedly different agenda in mind for Robbie. ~ Jason Buchanan, Rovi
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Sentenced to work on a country ranch after running afoul of the law, troubled teen Jerome (Simon R. Baker) begins to turn over a new leaf thanks to the kindness of two rough-hewn cowboys, and the compassion of empathetic ranch owner Mrs. Ainsley (Lindsay Wagner). ~ Jason Buchanan, Rovi
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Thicker Than Water
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While going through the possessions left behind by her recently deceased father, a prominent and well-respected judge, High-powered attorney Natalie Jones (Melissa Gilbert) is shocked to come across a worn, yellowed snapshot showing her father in a warm embrace with famed rodeo trick rider Maggie Mae Jarrat. It soon develops that, unbeknownst to Natalie, Maggie and her dad had once been married. Hoping to get the full story, Natalie leaves her cosmopolitan surrounding and heads to wild horse country in Longmont, California, where she meets the late Maggie's gritty, tough-minded daughter Jess (Lindsay Wagner). The bond that slowly but surely develops between the two women leads Natalie to champion Jess' cause when greedy rancher Tom Grove (Grainger Hines) and his cronies begin killing off Jess' free-roaming horses so as not to "mongrelize" their own purebred stock. And, as a bonus, Natalie falls in love with dedicated local veterinarian Sam Nelson (Brian Wimmer). Made for cable, Thicker Than Water debuted March 12, 2005 on the Hallmark channel. ~ Hal Erickson, Rovi
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Voyage of Terror
A virulent virus erupts aboard a cruise ship. The government wants to blow it up, but a scientist is determined to find a cure or at least a way to contain the deadly disease. He must hurry, for time is short and the government is getting impatient. ~ Sandra Brennan, Rovi
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Frog and Wombat
In this comic suspense story, sixth-grader Allison Parker (Katie Stuart) likes to imagine herself something of a detective, keeping tabs on what goes on in her neighborhood and communicating with her best friend Jane Walker (Emily Lipoma) via walkie talkie. (In the manner of good spies everywhere, Allison used the code name "Frog" when talking via radio and insists Jane call herself "Wombat.") However, when the girl's new principal, Larry Struble (Ronny Cox), moves in next door, Allison begins to wonder if she might have a real mystery to investigate when Larry's niece Nancy (Jessica Cashman) disappears a few days after he's moved in. Convinced foul play is afoot, Allison begins snooping, with Jane her reluctant helper, though Jane is hardly as convinced as her friend when she decides that a missing refrigerator, a stray wedding ring, and some photos of a mystery woman add up to murder. Lindsay Wagner also appears as Allison's mother, in whom Larry seems to have taken an interest. ~ Mark Deming, Rovi
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The country is thrown into a panic when passengers aboard a routine flight from South American are discovered to have been exposed to cholera during the flight. Following the autopsy of the dread disease's first victim, officials launch a desperate all-out search for the remaining passengers and crew. ~ Sandra Brennan, Rovi
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Their Second Chance
Based on actual events, this made-for-TV drama stars Lindsay Wagner as Barbara Colvin, a woman about to become a grandmother. The new birth stirs up her own interest in finding the love-child she gave up for adoption some 20-odd years ago. With the help of the courts, Colvin is reunited with her long-lost daughter (Tracey Griffith) who now wants to meet her biological father Larry Kellum (Perry King) as well. The reunion of the three forces Barbara and Larry to reconcile with the past, their lost love and their child. ~ Bernadette McCallion, Rovi
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A Mother's Instinct
A widow's joy at finding new love evaporates when she learns that her new husband's checkered past includes an abandoned wife. After he disappears with his two sons, the two wives team up to find him. ~ Sandra Brennan, Rovi
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Sins of Silence
Lindsay Wagner stars in this TV movie as Molly McKinley, a former nun now employed (and grossly underfunded!) as a rape counselor. A teenager named Sophia (Holly Marie Combs) seeks out Molly's help after she is raped by the scion of a wealthy family. Refusing to release a confidential file that would reveal Molly's past promiscuity--and thus seriously compromise her case against her assailant--Molly is sent to jail. The problem now becomes two-pronged: If Molly wants to be released, she must hand over information that may allow the rapist to go free; and if Sophia doesn't speak up, Molly's future career will be destroyed. Although the film would seem to be inspired by the 1988 theatrical feature The Accused, it was based on a true story. Sins of Silence originally aired February 20, 1996 on CBS. ~ Hal Erickson, Rovi
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Bionic Ever After?
Steve Austin (Lee Majors) and Jaime Sommers (Lindsay Wagner) reunite for another go around as the popular 1970s bionic duo. In this two-hour TV-movie, the couple's long overdue wedding is put in jeopardy when Jaime suffers from a virus. Richard Anderson and Martin E. Brooks reprise their TV-roles as mentor Oscar Goldman and bionic-specialist Dr. Rudy Wells, respectively. ~ Bernadette McCallion, Rovi
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While visiting her deaf son in boarding school a widowed author meets a new man and everything in her life changes. This made-for-television drama is based on a novel by Danielle Steel. ~ Sandra Brennan, Rovi
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Lost in the Wild
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While heading towards a makeshift medical outpost deep into the Mexican jungle, one of three planes crashes, stranding a group of doctors and student nurses, some of whom are critically injured. This taut adventure follows the attempts of the others to locate the downed plane and save the lives of the survivors. Once the search party finds the injured medics, their next challenge is to get them to a proper medical facility. One in particular could die any moment. The searchers could have treated them on the spot had not local natives appeared and looted the downed plane of its drugs. A nearby landing strip promises a chance to get the injured passengers to safety, but unfortunately that would precipitate a night flight and recent anti-drug operations laws strictly prohibit flying after dark. One brave doctor volunteers to traverse the jungle to a nearby town in hopes of convincing authorities to make an exception. Meanwhile the rest of the entourage must somehow make it safely to the airstrip by daylight. Nurses On the Line: The Crash of Flight 7 features the acting talents of Robert Loggia,, Lindsey Wagner and Jennifer Lopez, ~ Sandra Brennan, Rovi
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She Woke Up
Surprisingly good soap opera in which the suspense and thrills are genuinely good revolves around a wealthy woman who awakens from a fourteen-month coma after an attempt is made on her life and now must remember who tried to kill her in order to prevent it from happening again. ~ Tana Hobart, Rovi
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To Be the Best
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Lindsay Wagner stars as Paula O'Neill in this made-for-TV miniseries based on the best-selling novel by Barbara Taylor Bradford. Paula's grandmother, Emma Harte, took a failing department store and turned it into the powerful Harte Industries retail empire, and now that Paula has inherited the family business, she is determined to expand their international success by launching a new store in Hong Kong. However, Paula's cousins Jonathan (Christopher Cazenove) and Sarah (Claire Oberman) are determined to wrest control of the company away from Paula, and begin running interference in her plans for global expansion. Paula soon learns that Harte Industries is on financially shaky ground, and her personal life begins to crumble under the strain of keeping Hart Enterprises afloat. As Jonathan uses the firm's financial woes to his advantage, Paula finds that Jack Figg (Anthony Hopkins), the company's head of security, may be her last line of defense against her devious relatives. Originally broadcast in August 1992, To Be the Best was a follow-up to 1983's A Woman of Substance, another miniseries based on a Barbara Taylor Bradford novel, which covered Paula's life before she took over the family business; Diane Baker played Paula in the earlier series. ~ Mark Deming, Rovi
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What prompted the Arts and Cognition Consortium research?
We have seen several tantalizing studies over the years reporting an association between arts training and higher academic performance. Here is the question: Does this association occur simply because smart people are drawn to particular art forms? Or does early training in the arts actually cause changes in the brain that enhance other cognitive functions? The question is of tremendously widespread interest. And it has attracted such fierce defenders of either explanation.
Now that neuroscience is developing exquisite tools— particularly ways of imaging the brain to begin to study neural networks involved in cognition—the Dana Foundation wanted to spur top scientists to examine this question. So we assembled some leading cognitive neuroscientists to pose key ways of studying this question.
Did you find direct evidence, then, that training in any of the performing arts causes improvements in other cognitive skills?
No, we are not yet at the point of being able to determine causation. What many of the studies did find were strong correlations between arts training and several cognitive functions. Designing and carrying out cause-and-effect studies requires that we be able to randomly assign schoolchildren to an experimental and "control" group, provide— let's say music—training only to the experimental group, and compare that group's cognitive test scores and brain images to those of the control group. That's a hard thing to get schools to agree to do.
Tell us about the major correlations that consortium members found.
Let's start with the potential role of attention as described in Dr. Michael Posner's research at the University of Oregon. First, he has evidence that specific brain networks are involved in learning different art forms. He begins with the premise that some children are especially open to—interested in—one or more forms of art. By the way, he speculates that differences in children's openness to an art may have a genetic component, and genetic studies have begun to yield some candidate genes.
If a child is open to a specific art form, and receives training in it, the child will develop strong motivation to sustain attention to learn it. With highly sustained attention, according to Posner's research, the child essentially walls out competing things, and the child's cognitive abilities are generally enhanced.
Interestingly, his colleague at Oregon, Dr. Helen Neville, found evidence that attention may be the common factor that accounted for improved cognitive test scores in children in three groups of special Head Start classes: those who received music training, those who received training in how to focus their attention, and those who received regular Head Start instruction but in a smaller class size. So, classroom exposure to various arts in children who are open to one or more art forms may prove to be an important way to strengthen their abilities to focus attention in general.
Was music training correlated with other cognitive abilities?
Absolutely. Intensive music training was strongly linked to children's skills in geometric reasoning, according to Dr. Elizabeth Spelke's research at Harvard. This mathematics skill, which is essential for architects, engineers, astronomers and others, is one of three basic systems that underlie ability in mathematics.
Additionally, a striking correlation was found between music training and reading acquisition. Dr. Brian Wandell of Stanford found that the amount of music training children had in the first year of his three-year study directly correlated with the amount of improvements in children's reading fluency over those three years. He also found that the children with music training also demonstrated better phonological awareness, which is one of the central predictors of early literacy.
And here is where brain imaging has been really contributive to our understanding of this correlation. Using diffusion tensor imaging, he found that diffusion in the bundle of nerve axons that connect the brain's left and right temporal lobes is correlated with all measures of reading ability, but especially phonological awareness.
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What about other performing arts, such as acting?
Dr. Jonides also looked at the effects of training in acting on memory. He similarly found that trained actors don't have better verbatim memory than us non-actors. Rather, they are better able to extract the general gist from an experience—a cognitive strategy—and this skill is transferable to other verbal cognitive skills.
How about dance?
Dancers can tell you, from experience, that watching an expert is as important as doing the movements yourself, and Dr. Scott Grafton at [the University of California], Santa Barbara's study not only confirms that association but also provides some evidence of how that might be facilitated by the brain.
He found that learning to dance by effective observation is closely related to learning by physical practice. He has identified an "action observation network" in the brain in which there is a neural resonance between observed and embodied actions. Effective observational learning may transfer to other cognitive skills, and we are seeing some evidence of this, for instance, in research on stroke rehabilitation.
Based on the evidence to date, do you think educators should make opportunities to expose children to many forms of art and enable them to pursue those that spark an interest?
I'd say certainly. We have evidence suggesting that arts may be a way to strengthen abilities to focus attention that could benefit learning in general. We also have strengthened many correlations between arts training and specific cognitive skills that may be transferable. Until we have cause-and-effect evidence we cannot predict with certainty whether arts training will produce cognitive improvements, but these strengthened correlations provide an important step forward in learning how better to learn. We have instituted educational strategies based on far less.
And one must always remember, one can't lose with training in the arts. It brings so much to life in terms of enjoyment, metaphor and preparation for the uncertainties of our existence.
If randomized controlled trials are the only way to establish cause and effect, do you think that schools and parents should permit randomization?
As a scientist, yes, and as parent—still yes. But it is complicated. We're currently in a contradictory situation. Schools are closing arts programs due to budget crunches. So they have made the assumption that a cause-and-effect relationship does not exist. Yet schools and parents do not want, through randomization, to deny children access to arts training [by training some but not others]. Plus, so many children receive arts training outside of school. Thanks to advances in neuroscience, we have opportunities to explore existing correlations further at the brain level. Maybe then we'll be better equipped to deal with these educational dilemmas.
You can read the full "Learning, Arts, and the Brain" report here.
I believe that the arts makes people smarter. While studies have not been conclusive, one by Laura-Ann Petitto from the University of Toronto showed that students involved in either dance or music taught students to selectively focus their attention on specific tasks and resist responding to competing signals.
Ms. Petitto's findings are further supported by results found by Peter Perret, conductor of the Winston-Salem Symphony. After his introduction of music classes at Bolton Elementary School the percent of students at or above state standards shot up by 45%. This was just after one year!
Think of how musically educating students for 13 years, from K to 12th grade, could affect their intellects. Personally, at the high school I attend (I am a freshmen), most (about half) of the top 10% of students are involved in music, whether it be chorus, band, or orchestra. I find that band helps me learn to be more open-minded and to manage my time more efficiently.


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