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'God, thank you for Mandela'
A VEHICLE with Nelson Mandela's coffin pulled away from his home as retired archbishop Desmond Tutu said: "God, thank you for Nelson Mandela".
It's time to move on, but I've enjoyed the challenge
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Australia remembers 'great' man
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We'll still spy on Indonesia: Abbott
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'God, thank you for Mandela'
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Seven ways Mandela changed us
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How do you deal with a bad, ineffective, toxic boss?
(Brad Shorkend on Radio 2000 – Just Ice Show, 22nd Feb at 08.20 a.m.)
A snippet of the conversation…
The boss is a terror (in your opinion)… what do you do? Do you leave? Find another job? What if the boss is technically your client?… do you keep "firing" your clients and finding new clients every time they are not how you'd like them to be? Newsflash… you'll have no more business! So… my answer here is to change the playing field, deliberately tilt the dynamic in your favour.
You cannot change your boss, but you certainly can change the way your boss relates to you… and even better, he/she will have no idea that you are doing so.
For this I have three power words… attitude, rapport and strategy!
The attitude that you take into the space is the key starting point. In life we will deal with many people that we don't like… what attitude do we CHOOSE to bring to those engagements?
If your attitude is that nothing will change and there is no point in trying… well then that's what you'll get, no change! If your attitude is that you can have a positive energy towards the situation and create the best possible conditions and environment for the relationship and your happiness in that space… well, we get what we focus on and so what do you think you'll get? Correct… exactly what you focus on!… and in this case positivity and possibility for change.
Building rapport is the cornerstone of all successful relationships be they professional, social, romantic… if there is no connection, then everything about that dynamic seems like hard work. So in your difficult boss situation… for example, if the boss is a big-picture thinker ask him to chat through his vision for your project and how you can be behaving powerfully into that vision. He'll love hearing the sound of his own voice, and will almost certainly feel a stronger affinity towards you because you're talking his language.
Also, by bringing some of the bosses thinking into your process you have him much more on board… the potential beginning of a perfect professional relationship. By then making a point of keeping the boss in the loop, you energetically reel him in even closer.
Finally strategy… everything that we do in our lives involves strategy. Driving a car involves strategy, making breakfast involves strategy, romance involves strategy etc. If there is no plan (whether we are aware that we are planning or not)… the car would stall, breakfast would be frozen bacon with melted ice cream and uncooked pasta, and romance would be somewhat unromantic. So know what you want to achieve, and plan how to do this most effectively.


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Feb 21, 2013
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As we've been pointing out the government will of course still grow but we are going in depth tonight on the impending specific budget reductions known as the the sequester the director of the president's.
National Economic Council Gene Sperling joined us from the White House briefing room a short time ago I started out by asking him.
If anything is being done now to stop sequestration.
From happening.
-- A couple of different things you've seen both the House Budget Committee.
Leader Chris van -- you've seen the senate budget committee chair Patty Murray both put out.
She helps balance plans that would give us from runway four year keep to sequester from going into effect.
And then give us time to work together but what exactly this country needs which is a balanced approach to further deficit reduction as you know we've already reduce the deficit.
Over two and half trillion dollars in the president's made very clear pending and is again making clear today.
-- doubt we.
His offer to speaker Boehner is still on the table that would cut our deficit.
Another one point eight trillion dollars bringing total deficit reduction over.
Four trillion dollar so there is a path forward -- -- board.
There's no surprise it's bipartisan it's compromise it means there's going to be entitlement savings and there's also going to be some -- savings from closing loopholes and tax expenditures.
No one's gonna get a 100% of what they want but that's the balanced way forward that can help us avoid the self inflicted wound.
-- the sequester.
You know Republicans obviously have issue with a 2.5 trillion you talk about it we can go into that and we have on the show many times but.
About the senate Democrats they didn't move it out of committee but they never voted on that plan on the floor and as you know they control.
The senate chamber -- -- -- Well I think you'll see a vote coming up on.
On the sequester.
Had to put something that would.
Help delay that for.
Over the next year you've already seen the elements of short term balanced plan.
I want to get to a question about -- for authority.
Why not get these agencies like the Pentagon and the other agencies why not call for them to have transfer authority for this sequester the ability to move money around.
To be able be reached this 85 million dollars without.
Affecting personnel and having painful decisions that affect.
Personnel negatively.
Brad anyone tell issue that there are some easy off ramp here is not being straightforward get this request or goes into effect in any form.
85 million dollars in cuts over seven months.
Two defense it is estimated that it would cost us 750.
Thousand jobs -- -- get a transfer authority.
Think that that's what I call that doesn't know that doesn't change anything because it's not about just who would be laid off it's about the contraction.
Can harm that it causes the economy and look there is no way that you can come up with some easy offer him.
That is gonna prevent the fact that if you have to cut.
Billion dollars in -- that a harsh arbitrary way over the next year that it is gonna be very harmful for education for national defense.
No matter how.
How you slice it.
OK so that's a non starter on transfer authority.
What what about the Warren -- this is the worker adjustment and retraining notification act.
Has defined it protects workers their families and communities requiring most employers with 100 or more employees to protect notification.
Last sixty days calendar days in advance of plant closing.
Closings aggressive layoffs.
In July of -- twelve Department of Labor labor -- just a letter.
To a number of contractors.
Many of them are saying that they didn't have to put out.
Notification -- then in September.
-- and be put out a letter and here it is saying that they in Denver unified these companies these contractors.
And said -- any resulting employee compensation costs for warn act liability.
As determined by a court.
As well as attorney fees and other litigation costs.
Irrespective of litigation outcome would qualify as allowable cost -- be covered by the contract and agency if otherwise reasonable and palatable.
I guess what Republicans.
Saw that as was -- the OMB was saying.
Don't send out the pink slip notices ahead of the election we don't want that notice.
Because the elections coming but now they're seeing it as.
This is a blank check for trial lawyers.
If somebody gets fired without the sixty day notice.
What's to prevent trial attorneys from saying the OMB or the government is going to sue and the the government's going to have to pay for it.
Well -- that was quite a lot in one step so let me try to answer.
I do believe that out last year we there was an understanding that the whole design of this sequester something we would have preferred.
Not to I have taken place we wanted to get an agreement.
We would have preferred if we hadn't fortunate -- to be a combination of revenue.
And specific spending but this is what happened and everyone understood the goal was to prevent it from happening and so I think the idea was is that.
Because the goal is to not go over and the class not have sequestration go off.
And there seem to be willing us on both sides that we there was less reason for us to be concerned.
That there was going to be this necessary harm unfortunately.
We've now gone through periods where those who control the leadership of the house -- of representatives are fairly explicitly telling people.
That they are quite content to have the sequester go off.
Then in those situations it's much harder to suggest that there is not a real worry that you're gonna have this type.
Of harm you guys don't but we are where we are -- -- budget office -- will -- an office the democratic Congressional Budget Office saying.
Jobs would I got -- so is the -- and they can pick up the tab if all these contractors -- soon.
You know what I will let the -- -- General Counsel -- I answer those questions I think the important thing people should understand.
Is that we don't have to go this way.
This president put out.
His offer to John Boehner today.
It had over a trillion dollars in spending cuts it was one point eight trillion dollars in additional -- or direction.
Two thirds of it isn't spending cuts yeah he's serious about spending we we -- want to compromise but this is our attention we don't have that compromise from both sides that is yeah.
Go out -- I've asked about the warn act and I know we got the talking points about.
The different points I was asked about the warn act in -- notifications.
And do you think this is a potential problem I mean.
If you did notice allegations didn't go out or for the election under.
Fortunately -- unfortunately.
I think that at this point there is much greater concern because unlike.
Last fall where both sides were not still saying that of course we -- -- work something out.
You now have the Republican -- suggesting people controlled leadership that they actually plan.
To have let the sequester go into -- fact that's not what we want that's not our message our message is let's work together.
And and have compromise -- senate popping point that's about specific.
Hard choices this president just put out about 400 billion in Medicare savings you know that's very difficult to do over ten years.
He would not be calling for that type of reform.
Difficult choices.
If he was not serious about reaching -- bipartisan compromise we just need a partner that is willing to work and compromise so we can help this economy and our fiscal path get on a stronger.
New way forward I appreciate your time if you can.
-- mentioned to the OMB General Counsel would love to have them on to answer those questions back the warn act as well.
We don't we also book TV ESP NEC here so we're happy to help -- anyway all right James thanks so much issue.
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We purchased 6 total, and these chairs look great around our dining room table. The color isn't as 'red' as shown in the picture, but has a slightly burnt orange hue to it. However, they still look great. They are also a little firm, but we figure they will soften the more we use them. Overall, they look good and are a great deal.
I bought 2 sets, that is, 4 chairs in total. They come 2 in a box, and must be assembled. The level of difficulty in assembling them is average. If you have assembled chairs before, you will know how to do this. I coordinated them with my natural oak flooring and oak table, and light green walls, and they look GREAT ! You can dress them up, or dress them down. They are quite elegant, and would go good in a formal setting. To my delight, the pattern is centered and balanced on the chair. I got them at the sale price, which was a real bargain. The seating is very cushioned and comfortable. The back-rest is wide and supportive. The legs are dark brown wood. Each chair is heavier than it looks. BUY THESE CHAIRS ! You will not be disappointed. They are very nice.
We ended up buying six of of these for a 4' wide round table. They fit perfectly. The color and fabric are very classy and the seats very comfortable. My daughter put them together without much difficulty.
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These chairs look great with my refurbished 75 year old dining room set -- they come with no instructions but assembly isn't too hard without them. Since they update the set, I now need to order more. Would recommend these chairs but color is more of rusty red which actually goes great with my decor. If they were actually a true red I might not have liked them as well.
I really like the chairs but they don't really look like the picture on Overstock as stated in previous comments. The wood on the legs are a lot lighter than I expected, but still looks good with my dining table. The chairs are more of a burnt orange than red but really are beautiful, so I have no complaints.
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Year in wild weather: Vicious heat waves, wildfires, hurricanes and superstorms
Dec 17, 2012
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What B twelve had more than its fair share of wild weather.
Whether it -- destructive deadly or just plain hot.
Extreme weather affected Americans in every part of the country.
After a mild winter the most rain roared in with tornadoes.
Twisters tore through several states wiping -- communities and killing several people.
A devastating EF four tornado with winds of up to 200 miles per hour hit the midwest.
Henry bill and Maryville Indiana completely obliterated.
Heartbreaking stories of families ripped apart like this tragic case of father Angel -- Her family was killed when the twister struck their mobile home he -- was found in the field near her home but died later.
The summer months brought little relief with fourteen temperatures -- -- -- -- the coast and midwest along with historic drought conditions.
With soaring temperatures community's struggle to maintain their water supply.
Farmers -- effective action of their crops and ranchers were able to their cattle.
It was the worst drought in fifty years that -- two thirds of the nation.
The drought conditions made it right for wildfires.
The -- dove canyon fire in column battle raged for days killing two people destroyed over 300 homes and scorching over 181000.
It was fueled by the dry -- and fierce winds.
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Won't Get Fooled Again: Day 25
Submitted by shuler on Sun, 2009-02-15 12:46.With the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 now on its way to Obama for his signature, the question remains about what happens next. Word is Obama will be setting the stage for his next initiative -- a global fix on broken mortgages. Again, this demonstrates a clear set of scheduled (and unscheduled) events libraries of all types might use to promote a greater awareness about the implications of the soon to be enacted law (and subsequent policies and initiatives) for their communities. Recovery.gov is still aborning, profit and non-profit groups will offer, or do so now, there own web-enabled looks at the massive spending bill.
But, what strikes me as missing from these techno-centric transparency efforts is the inability to explain the politics (or the policy implications) behind the numbers. One small example -- when people look at Thomas' links to H.R. 1, they will find seven different versions of the bill (soon to be eight when the President makes it a public law on Tuesday.) No where in the Thomas web site is any of this explained. I am fully aware there are links to selected published guides produced by the House Clerk and Senate Secretary that explain the legislative process -- but how many times have seen the thousand yard stare displace interest in the eyes of users as you attempt to explain the treasure hunt in locating relevant information sources. I think the basic operating program of American civic engagement is not the information technology. It's these fundamental government information sources (laws, regulations, rules, court decisions, reports, studies, etc.) And the technology still can not deepen the necessary political and social contexts of how all these information sources relate to each other.
This one is for Daniel Cornwell --Imagine the possibilities if -- somehow, someway -- our several library associations were able to coordinate a national civic literacy program to enable trained and interested government information librarians to engage citizens in workshops, discussion groups, classes, and events that discuss and outline sources of information about the government's efforts to recover from the economic crises. This is the context building (and deepening) often missing from purely technological approaches.
See you Day 26.
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Won't Get Fooled Again: Day 24
Submitted by shuler on Sat, 2009-02-14 03:59.Happy Valentines Day! Happy Stimulus Day! Late last night, the U.S. Senate signed off on the stimulus deal. Far from an object of attraction between political partisans (only three republicans (all Senators) voted in favor of the legislation) -- a significant victory for Obama and his plans to "reboot" our national political/social perspective nonetheless.
So, what will the various open government/civic information partisans do with this milestone? Perhaps it will give some hope that in spite of the lack of bipartisanship, it demonstrates a certain strength among democrats to hold their focus in face of strong republican push back. For the last fifty years, the democratic/liberal forces always seemed more receptive to the devices and desires of the free government information coalition. And the legislation itself represents a funding opportunity of a different kind, what with its millions of dollars slated for improvement in schools, universities, public libraries, and broadband infrastructure. Of course, who and when will get this federal bounty still remains to be seen.
But, again, it just one more indication that we live in a time beset by both dislocation and opportunity. And in the fog of economic turmoil it is often difficult to distinguish between the two. I go back to my call for some kind of professional unity among the library associations and groups on this important issue. At the risk of sounding like some old testament prophet wandering in from a desert to harangue a community -- a time of reckoning is upon us. The principal institutional arrangement for national access to government information -- the federal depository library system -- is in a period of strategic planning and reconsideration of its core mission. Governments are either rushing blindly, or deliberately, into the next stages of digital government. Special interest groups and other organizations are well down the road towards the articulation of an evolved new civic information structure that does not necessarily assume the necessity of libraries in the same way these ancient institutions served in earlier epochs of technology.
Participate in person, or virtually, in the upcoming Federal Depository Library council meeting in April. Note, especially, that the Public Printer is specifically asking library directors of depository institutions to come to Florida and participate. With many of these directors contemplating their future involvement in the depository program, and many more reorganizing stand-alone government information departments into mergers with other units, or out of existence all together -- you just have to know we are well past the tipping point. Change is going to come. It is just a question of how much we want to shape that change.
The Association of Research Libraries has launched a major study to consider the future structure of the federal depository library program. As the study's prospectus points out --
There is a need and opportunity to identify a sustainable framework that will provide access to and preservation of government information in the years ahead. A new framework will address financial sustainability as well as the essential components of infrastructure for collaboration among federal depository libraries and with other stakeholders. Working with consultants, ARL will identify and explore such a framework that permits flexibility in the future while ensuring enduring access and providing for the efficient management of the legacy collections to insure the broadest public access to government information. Such access has been the hallmark of the FDLP. The framework approach is proposed as an opportunity to specify one or more models for configuring collection resources, access infrastructure, and expertise that would optimally support the the interests of an informed public and the capacity of our Nation's libraries.
When nearly 66 percent of the depository libraries are house in academic institutions, such an examination will have no small influence on many of those library directors being invited to Florida by the Public Printer.
And at this summer's annual ALA conference, the Council on Legislation will host a special session among all participating ALA chapters, divisions, and roundtables with a specific interest in the depository library program's future.
Just as Congress and the President struggle to work together in very difficult circumstances that challenge their constitutional prerogatives, especially steeped in the partisan bitterness that lingers from the last several national elections, so to will librarians and their allies need to come to terms and work together to build next century's civic information infrastructure. As a librarian with twenty-five years experience I really, really want my beloved institution to be part of that great project. As a student of our country's long running political and social conflicts, I know that what I want and what will happen is often determined by how much I am willing to join the discussion and the struggle in an effort to make that crucial difference. These next five months offer any number of opportunities to contribute. As I said in yesterday's blog -- a vibrant civic exchange of public information depends more on the sustainability of critical relationships between citizens and their government, and less on the methods/technology of civic information distribution.
And just as St. Valentine represents both the romantic notion of love and faithfulness, there is a much more complicated side to this particular martyr's faith -- a defiance of authority to honor relationships. As one account puts it --
... Valentine was a priest who served during the third century in Rome. When Emperor Claudius II decided that single men made better soldiers than those with wives and families, he outlawed marriage for young men — his crop of potential soldiers. Valentine, realizing the injustice of the decree, defied Claudius and continued to perform marriages for young lovers in secret. When Valentine's actions were discovered, Claudius ordered that he be put to death.
One doesn't need to be a martyr. Just get involved.
See you on Day 25.
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Won't Get Fooled Again: Day 23
Submitted by shuler on Fri, 2009-02-13 11:12.Tapping back into the "raw power" theme, I just read the New York Times article on Carl Malamud mentioned here by Jim Jacobs. I found the article curious for the simple reason that it equates "free" access to massive amounts of court records with power, and a good form of power, or what he calls the "operating system for democracy." Though this kind of rhetoric sparks the necessary energy to get people to leave their couches and join the open government brigade at the barricade, I think it also paints a too simplistic picture of the complex arrangement of constitutional and legal traditions that favor a highly evolved civic engagement.
Missing from the newspaper article's description of what happened to the PACER pilot project and its sudden suspension is the more messy aspects of democracy that try to balance privacy with open access, free access with the necessary infrastructure (that requires money and personnel to function) to sustain long-term availability of "raw data." This balancing act depends on a series of relationships between the courts, users, the GPO and its depository libraries. Simply downloading millions of pages, as one person did in California is not a relationship, it is simply a power surge that may or may not be made useful by people on the information grid.
However, as the article points out, Malamud does demand some level of privacy protection in these court documents, he puts that responsibility squarely back on the shoulders of the courts by pointing out that is the court's duty, and heavy lifting, to make sure this private information is not made publicly available.
What I would expect to see, if indeed Malamud is interested in becoming a future Public Printer is less focus on the power aspects of the information grid, and more focus on the redistribution stations necessary to make government information understandable, accessible, and sustainable over long periods of time. Libraries have done this for several millennium, and they will continue to do so with the different technologies now being deployed. It isn't a race to see who can make the most government information available. It should be a long engaged relationship between those in power and those the power serves to assure that the knowledge, information and necessary data are understood and usable by the citizen. Power without breakers or distribution centers only overwhelms, it does not inform.
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Won't Get Fooled Again: Day 22
Submitted by shuler on Fri, 2009-02-13 05:40.The thing that strikes me as I look through the hundreds of pages of the "American Recovery and Reinvestment Act" is simply this -- how is any normal human being going to deal with this mishmash of legalese, policy descriptions, and billions upon billions of dollars in budget figures?
When we speak of the power of "raw data" the positive and pragmatic benefit of government information distribution rests primarily on the ability of people to do something with it. This action can not be determined by the power's distribution mechanism (much in the same way ComEd here in Illinois can't tell me which devices in my home I can and can not turn on -- they just charge me for the overall electricity I use.) Traditional libraries (paper and print universe) functioned much the same way -- people picked and chose information or media depending on what their particular needs might be. Librarians may intervene by limiting who can use the services, how many items can be used, or help users sort out what they might want to use.
The power of text clouding, or the ability to pull out different stands of information from a large and complicated information object -- such as what ProPublica did for the stimulus bill -- moves the power relationship from one of passive distribution dominated by personal choices to passive distribution influenced by deliberative contextualizing by a third party. In other words, this third party takes the "raw data" and refines it into another kind of information by-product that might be more significant or meaningful to users. In fact, I would argue many traditional government information sources (i.e. Public Papers of the Presidents, congressional committee reports, Foreign Relations of the United States, Federal Register, or the Code of Federal Regulations) are of this type. What the web offers is the opportunity to make and distribute a wider variety of public information by-products.
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Won't Get Fooled Again: Day 21
Submitted by shuler on Wed, 2009-02-11 05:45.The new regimes in the White House and Capitol Hill continue their complicated policy waltz to seriously address the ongoing financial failures. Waiting for the turn on the dance card, advocates for free government information must surely grasp that the revelations and revolutions so hotly anticipated after last year's elections remain just that -- anticipations. We are still in tactical mode with our federal government (and state governments) when it comes to information technology and proactive and deliberative civic information policy. Yes -- agencies use social networking tools, cloud-computing and liberation of CRS reports by non-profit groups make more information easily accessible, and the use of twitter, blogs and otheer "push technologies" by elected officials deepen the connection betwen the elected and those who sent them into public service.
But is there a strategy? Has the Obama team, or the democratic leadership in Congress for that matter, revealed any long-term plans that take advantage of technology's democratic possibilities? Not really. If free government information advocates believe it is only a matter of time, the struggle for restoring confidence in the economy is necessarily taking precedence, then one would hope to see indications of the promised innovation and strategy. But that didn't happen. The stimulus legislation is mired in political horse trading, with much of the money supposed to address information infrastructure issues gutted from the Senate version. Other commentators reflect on just how much the the president's current efforts fall far short of the electoral promise in education or the treasury proposals to shore up the banking industry.
That is not to say Obama is little better than Bush. Not at all. What I am saying is that if any progressive or deliberative effort to strategically improve the country's vastly complicated civic information infrastructure through better institutions and use of technology is going to have to come from the grassroots.
So here again is one more reason to get involved at at the local, state and national level to shape and proposed the variety of proposals from government groups, library groups and citizen groups. In November the revolution won might be characterized in this way -- we are now able to talk about government as a POSITIVE force in our society. The revolution we wage now is to move beyond the rhetoric and put into something "shovel ready" into motion.
It won't happen any other way.
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Won't Get Fooled Again: Day 20
Submitted by shuler on Tue, 2009-02-10 19:15.In all the talk about the civic potential for digital information and local libraries, and there is much good and solid talk, the underlying economics of our institutions is often not on the agenda. With the economic crisis slowly spreading is pall over the nation, one has to wonder what the immediate future holds for any of our proposals for a more permanent and public system of access to government information.
Just here in Illinois, which is looking at a possible nine billion and the University of Illinois must consider its own financial future challenges. One is more than sure these economic choices are being made in thousands of libraries around the country.
So let me add another topic to discuss with our community -- the economics of libraries and their worth to the people they serve. Here is one insightful article about the range of funding mechanisms used throughout Illinois.
See you on Day 21
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Won't Get Fooled Again: Day 19
Submitted by shuler on Tue, 2009-02-10 15:40.Now that the Senate is close to a vote on the stimulus bill -- and we all know what a slugfest the conference committee is going to be as the two Congressional chambers work through their differences -- I think this could be another one of those "teaching moments" for our communities, let of course by government information librarians. Blogs are good, guides are good; but how about if a collection of public libraries and academic libraries banded together to put on a one or two hour program the describes the various intricacies of the legislation and how folks can get the information from the web. This can be done, considering how much energy we put into explaining tax forms and how to find ancestors.
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Won't Get Fooled Again: Day 18
Submitted by shuler on Sun, 2009-02-08 19:57.It is just possible that the community organizing traditions shared by many public and academic libraries will find resonance with the Obama administration. Both draw on a culture of commitment and service to specific communities. In the case of Obama, a clear promise to "change" how things are done in Washington (not unlike the promises made by every president elected since the 1950's.) In return, Obama promises to speak directly to and for those individuals who voted for him. There is much talk about the grassroots organizing potential of Obama's millions of emails that give him a direct way to reach out to local and state-wide constituents. An electoral right and power often associated with the Congress rather than the president. Indeed, it is exactly this kind of direct outreach that Obama's administration is counting on to push Congress into acceptance of the massive economic stimulus package.
However, to judge by the track record of the federal depository library system, most librarians share a far different relationship with their communities. We tend to think of them less as individuals who "get us into office." There is only a very shallow tradition of working closely with the congressional districts of House members or Senators to coordinate the collection and service of federal documents. In most cases, academic and public libraries identify their immediate communities as the student and faculty of their respective institutions, or the set of voters that approve their budgets (usually a local government or public body.)
Where am I going with this? The suggestion, which I will develop more fully in subsequent blog entries, that libraries that share a clear mission to include government information service to their communities are going to have to redefine the who, what and why of that service. Further, this service will need to expand beyond the passive collection of "public documents" and add value in such a way that mirrors what many other community organizations are doing with either public programs and/or information. For example, suppose state and national library associations came up with a coordinated program that highlights the the recommendations of the Government Accountability Office's "13 Urgent Issues" to be considered by the new administration and congress. Indeed, FGI has laid the
foundation for this kind of national service over the last couple of months by pulling together the basic bones of bibliographic guides. However, there is still too little effort to push this kind of community information organizing to the necessary level where a library's community might come to expect this kind of information service as a matter of course.
Community organizing never rests.
See you on Day 19.
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Won't get Fooled Again: Day 17
Submitted by shuler on Sat, 2009-02-07 19:48.If we are to think in terms of sustainability when in comes to government information, especially in the context of our library organizations, then some attention will need to be paid to two critical areas -- how government information services are organized in libraries and how we teach future librarians to deal with government information.
Both these points will be examined more carefully in subsequent posts.
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Won't get Fooled Again: Day 16
Submitted by shuler on Sat, 2009-02-07 19:37.I think the Obama honeymoon is over. The withdrawl of nominees due to failure to pay taxes, sharp rebukes from House and Senate republicans over the economic stimulus package, That is not say his influence as a change agent is curtailed. You don't live and survive brutal Chicago politics for very long if you fall to the ground in a faint after your opponents deliver a quick partisan jab to the ribs (or even more painfully, sometimes by your supporters.)
It would be a mistake to assume any sense of goodwill and comity will overwhelm the toxic partisanship that has flooded our political swamplands over so many decades. It is going to take a few more hits, losses, and diversions to reverse such a trend. In this way, supporters of free and open government information ought to take the long view and realize that it will take at least eight more years to undo the damage done by the Bush administrations to the nation's robust exchange of public and civic information. As I said in an earlier blog post, if Obama is still President for those two terms, we at least have an executive officer who shares our rhetoric of democratic access to government information. Whether he will be able to hold fast against the entrenched institutional interests that resist this kind of free flow of information (too expensive, to hard, too threatening, too much a security risk) remains to be seen.
To this end, any of the near future plans from our various professional association discussions and study efforts must rise above the politcal tides that flow through the civic structures every two and four years. Just as there is a concepts of a "deep environment" argues for a perspective and planning structure that anticipates long term effects and relationships, so too there could be a concept of "deep civic information" that transcends the political life cycles of our national and state elections. This lesson was brought home again here in Illinois when our barely week old new Governor, and the newly elected leadership of the General Assembly, woke up to realize that they must now deal with a 9 billion dollar budget shortfall, state institutions that are either broken, obscure, or corrupted by indifference or political influence.
If librarians are going to salvage anything from this political train wreck, it will be a way to connect the governors and those they serve with those flows of public information that matter more than the politics.
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March 15, 2013 10:12 am | by Susan Haigh, Associated Press | News | CommentsThe president of one of the nation's oldest gun manufacturers closed down his Connecticut factory Thursday morning and bused 400 of his workers to the state Capitol so they could personally urge lawmakers not to pass gun control legislation that they say could risk their livelihoods.
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March 12, 2013 10:20 am | by Joe McDonald, AP Business Writer | News | CommentsFacing public outrage over smog-choked cities and filthy rivers, China's leaders are promising to clean up the country's neglected environment — a pledge that sets up a clash with political pressures to keep economic growth strong. An array of possible initiatives discussed by officials and state media ahead of this week's meeting of China's legislature include tightening water standards and taxing carbon emissions.
Lipton Brews $96M Deal To Stay In Suffolk
March 11, 2013 2:21 pm | by The Associated Press | News | CommentsThe parent company of the Lipton Tea is planning to invest more than $96 million to expand its Suffolk facility. Gov. Bob McDonnell announced the investment from Unilever on Monday. The largest tea processing facility in the U.S. employs nearly 300 in Hampton Roads.
Small Businesses Feel Sequester Pinch
March 8, 2013 1:45 pm | by CBS News | Videos | CommentsThe automatic sequester budget cuts are expected to slash $43 billion in defense spending over the next seven months - 8 percent of the Pentagon's budget. And, as CBS News' Ben Tracy reports, that will impact thousands of small businesses that work in the defense industry.
Toyota Chief Stresses Safe Growth
March 8, 2013 10:20 am | by Yuri Kageyama, AP Business Writer | News | CommentsAfter four tumultuous years bookended by an unprecedented recall crisis and a return to the top of the global auto industry, Akio Toyoda is refashioning Toyota Motor Corp. into a leaner company that's more imbued with the venture spirit of founder Kiichiro Toyoda, his grandfather.
Italy Protests Bridgestone Tire Plant Closure
March 8, 2013 10:15 am | by The Associated Press | News | CommentsItaly's labor minister is criticizing a decision by the Bridgestone tire company to close a plant in southern Italy as "serious and without reason." Corrado Passera protested in a letter to the Japanese company, released by the labor ministry Thursday, that the company had failed to work with authorities to find another solution.
Clashes At Goodyear Protest Of Factory Closure
March 7, 2013 12:25 pm | by The Associated Press | News | CommentsBurning the very fruit of their labor, workers from Goodyear clashed with police outside the tire-maker's French headquarters in a last-ditch attempt to save their jobs. Goodyear has been trying to restructure or close its plant in northern France for five years, saying tires made there no longer sell.
EU Probes Germany's Energy Discounts For Industry
March 6, 2013 2:23 pm | by The Associated Press | News | CommentsLarge electricity consumers were exempt from paying around €300 million ($390 million) in network charges last year alone — an arrangement that may put competitors in other member states at a disadvantage, said the Commission, which is also the 27-nation bloc's antitrust watchdog.
New Chinese Automaker Eyes European Market
March 6, 2013 2:19 pm | by Colleen Barry, AP Business Writer | News | CommentsA Geneva Motor Show newcomer is threatening to shake up the European automotive industry. Qoros, a joint venture between Chinese carmaker Chery Automobile Ltd. and an Israeli investor, previewed a compact sedan at the Geneva show that it aims to launch in eastern Europe later this year.
Factory Orders That Signal Investment Surge
March 6, 2013 2:18 pm | by Martin Crutsinger, AP Economics Writer | News | CommentsThe Commerce Department said Wednesday orders for so-called core capital goods, which also include equipment and computers, rose 7.2 percent from December. It was the biggest gain in more than a year and higher than the initial estimate the government made last week of a 6.3 percent.
Thailand Manufacturing Investments Accelerate In 2013
March 6, 2013 2:15 pm | by Joel Hans, Managing Editor, Manufacturing.net | News | CommentsPerhaps the largest new investment in Thailand for 2013 is a new Honda assembly plant worth 17.15 billion Baht ($570 million). The company says the new plant is necessary to keep up with demand for small cars in both the domestic and international markets, and is expected to begin production in April 2015.
Shell, BASF To Pay Workers Compensation
March 6, 2013 9:34 am | by The Associated Press | News | CommentsThe court says Tuesday on its website the companies agreed to a pay compensation of close to 180,000 reals ($90,000) to each of the 1,068 workers who were allegedly contaminated. They also agreed to provide workers with lifelong health plans valued at 200 million reals ($100 million).
Rockwell Automation Named One Of World's Most Ethical Companies
March 6, 2013 9:31 am | by Business Wire | News | CommentsFor the fifth time, the Ethisphere Institute has named Rockwell Automation as one of the "World's Most Ethical (WME) Companies," a recognition that highlights companies that outperform industry peers when it comes to business ethics.
ConAgra, CHS, Cargill To Form Flour Milling Co.
March 5, 2013 10:34 am | by The Associated Press | News | CommentsConAgra Foods is combining its North American flour milling business with that of a joint venture of Cargill and CHS Inc. to create a new business that will be called Ardent Mills. The three companies say the deal announced Tuesday will create a business that will have a broader view of the marketplace and be able to serve their customers better.
U.S. Power Grid Costs Rise, But Service Slips
March 5, 2013 10:19 am | by Jonathan Fahey, Associated Press | News | CommentsAmerica's power grid is like an old car. It gets the job done, even if its performance is slipping. But the repair bills go up every year and experts say only a major overhaul will reverse its decline. An Associated Press analysis of utility spending and reliability nationwide found that electric customers are spending 43 percent more than they did in 2002 to build and maintain local electric infrastructure.
PC Sales To Continue Slide In 2013
March 5, 2013 10:09 am | by Peter Svensson, AP Technology Writer | News | CommentsSales of personal computers will continue to shrink this year after a grim 2012, as consumers flock toward tablets, research firm IDC said Monday. IDC expects global PC sales to contract 1.3 percent this year after falling 3.7 percent last year.
Toyota Europe Seeks Profits Through Efficiency
March 5, 2013 10:04 am | by Colleen Barry, AP Business Writer | News | CommentsToyota Europe will post for the first time in five years a profit from just its car business for the 2012 fiscal year thanks to cost-cutting and improved efficiency, the head of the regional division said on the eve of the Geneva Auto Show on Monday.
Hyundai Executive: Europe Needs To Close Plants
March 5, 2013 9:17 am | by The Associated Press | News | CommentsA Hyundai executive says it's unclear what will happen in the European car market this year because manufacturers still haven't gotten a handle on their overcapacity problem. In addition to the difficult economy, idle factory floors are weighing on European manufacturers. But stringent labor protections have meant few factories have closed in recent years.
Sierra Nevada Beats Beechcraft For Plane Contract
March 1, 2013 10:18 am | by Roxana Hegeman, Associated Press | News | CommentsThe U.S. Air Force awarded a high-stakes contract worth more than $427 million to Sierra Nevada Corp. on Wednesday, dealing a major blow to Wichita-based Beechcraft as it emerges from bankruptcy protection. Sierra Nevada, based in Sparks, Nev., will initially build 20 light air support planes for use in Afghanistan under a contract that could ultimately be worth nearly $1 billion.


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Alex Rodriguez making third base the hot corner since return
Anyone who has watched the Yankees during the three weeks since Alex Rodriguez's return from offseason hip surgery doesn't need a data set to tell them 16 games of A-Rod has been exponentially better than four months of his subpar replacements.
But we have the data, so why not look through it?
Entering Saturday night, non-Rodriguez Yankees third basemen had hit .214 with a .256 on-base...
Read more »Could Alex Rodriguez play shortstop if needed?
Alex Rodriguez back at shortstop? The concept may not be so farfetched.
With Derek Jeter still rehabbing his calf strain, and Jayson Nix likely out for the rest of the season with a fractured hand, the Yankees are playing with a three-man bench consisting of one outfielder (Brett Gardner or Vernon Wells), one catcher (Austin Romine or Chris Stewart) and one first baseman (Lyle Overbay or Mark Reynolds).
Manager Joe Girardi said he preferred the extra pitching that keeping Preston Claiborne affords, given that both long-men Adam Warren and David Huff were used extensively during Wednesday's win.
So what happens if regular shortstop Eduardo Nunez, still playing with a tight hamstring, is unable to complete a game?
"[Vernon Wells] lobbied yesterday, and I said, 'I don't think so Vern,'" Girardi said Thursday morning. "I have some ideas.
"You start thinking, how many people do you want to move around for one position? So I have some ideas. Hopefully it doesn't happen, but we'll see."
How about the Yankees current third baseman? You know, the one who used to play a pretty good shortstop before ceding the position to accommodate Jeter?
"I said 'I have some ideas,'" Girardi said to laughter. "I have a left fielder that's played second base, too."
That last comment could mean Girardi doesn't want to open the A-Rod-to-shortstop Pandora's box and would instead prefer to shift Alfonso Soriano to second, the position he played during his first stint with the Yankees, and free-agent-to-be Robinson Cano to short.
But Pandora's box would be a pretty interesting option, too.
Jeter begins his rehab assignment Thursday in Scranton for at least two games.
Alex Rodriguez will play both games for Yankees on Tuesday
With the Yankees hosting a doubleheader Tuesday against the Blue Jays, there's the potential for one day filled with twice the amount of all that comes with Alex Rodriguez.
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There is an intersection, normally begrudgingly admitted to by both sides, where stat mongers (like myself) and practitioners of the "eye test" meet.
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"60 Minutes" is reporting Friday that members of Alex Rodriguez's "inner circle" leaked documents implicating Milwaukee's Ryan Braun and Yankees catcher Francisco Cervelli in the Biogenesis performance-enhancing drugs investigation.
The people involved reportedly gave the documents to Yahoo! Sports shortly after the Biogenesis scandal broke in late January. Braun and Cervelli...
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Alex Rodriguez still has some of his old bat speed.
The embattled Yankees third baseman homered on the second pitch he saw off Tigers starter Justin Verlander, slamming a 92 mph fastball to left field. The solo shot led off the bottom of the second inning and tied the score at 1-1.
It was the first home run Rodriguez hit since returning to the Yankees on Monday in Chicago following offseason...
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Major League Baseball suspended Yankees third baseman Alex Rodriguez 211 games and handed out 50-game suspensions to 12 other baseball players Monday afternoon. Needless to say, there was no shortage of reaction on Twitter.
Check out some of the top Twitter reactions to the suspensions from baseball players past and present. We'll be updating this post as more athletes speak out. (Newsday...
Read more »Alex Rodriguez: 'Enough doctors, let's play'
Alex Rodriguez, in a new statement Thursday, says he's ready to play and wants to be in the Yankees' lineup Friday night.
"Enough doctors, let's play," Rodriguez said in a statement sent to a number of media outlets.
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In the wake of Ryan Braun's suspension, Alex Rodriguez is planning to appeal any possible suspension and does not intend on trying to work out a deal with Major League Baseball, according to USA Today.
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Family living on sailboat in Charleston welcomes newborn son aboard
Nicoles first love was travel. Then she met Jack Midence.
The two met in Honduras in 2005. Hailing from Illinois, she was a traveling nurse working at Loma de Luz, a mission hospital in Balfate; he was a native Honduran, an engineer and one of the hospitals founders.
Four years ago, the two were married in Illinois, rode off on a burnt orange motorcycle and have been living aboard their sailboat, christened the Kitty Hawk, ever since.
The boat has become central to their lives. Its become a kitchen, a dining room, a bedroom and for their 18-month-old daughter, Marietta, a playpen.
At 8:01 a.m. Tuesday, it became the birthplace of their son, Jack Benjamin, when he arrived into his fathers hands.
I had the privilege of catching my son as he was being born and placing him on his mamas chest for her to hold, Jack Midence, 53, said. It was a very emotional, very wonderful, wonderful experience.
After sailing to Honduras, the Bahamas, Washington, D.C., and elsewhere throughout the Atlantic, the family has been living in Charlestons Ashley Marina for the last two months, preparing for Jack Benjamins arrival.
The couple chose the city in part for Nicole Lavallee, a certified professional midwife of Coastal Birth Services, who has experience, albeit limited, with births aboard. The Midences birth was just her second on a sailboat, and it went well, she said, even if it was a little tighter on the familys 44-foot CSY craft.
But while their home is transient, Nicole and Jack Midence said theyre not so different from other parents.
At port, they stay in and read aloud, rather than go out with other sailors. Aboard, theyve baby proofed adding a net around the sides of the boat, adding another to their bedroom to make a playpen (or, as they call it, a baby jail) and installing a car seat on the deck. And Thursday morning, a line of cloth diapers were neatly clothespinned to the starboard netting.
I wouldnt know how to be a land parent, Nicole Midence, 38, said. This is all I know.
Like other parents, they work to make ends meet and stay debt-free. Jack Midence does boat repairs and maintenance when the family is docked, and Nicole plans to go back to work as a nurse eventually.
Boat work keeps us afloat, he joked.
The couple plans to homeschool their children, using their day-to-day experiences to explain otherwise sundry school subjects. Navigation with paper charts and compasses uses algebra. Observing marine wildlife exemplifies biology. Visiting sites like Fort Sumter helps make sense of historical concepts.
Like other parents, theyre protective of their kids, and Jack Midence said hes especially conservative and keeps close tabs on weather trends when he charts their course.
Thats why he contests media reports, like one article posted online by the (U.K.) Daily Mail, that his family was sailing and caught off guard when Nicole Midence went into labor Monday night.
It sounds quite a bit irresponsible to be out there with a woman about to give birth, Jack Midence said. As a captain, theres a great deal of responsibility on my shoulders. The safety of my whole family depends on us doing things right.
But even the restraints of parenthood havent sapped the couples adventurous spirit.
Next year, they plan to head to the Pacific Ocean and its Sea of Cortez, which separates Baja California and the rest of Mexico. Where theyll go from there is up in the air, though, Jack Midence said, even those plans are bound to change, as the family sails about the world not, he clarified, around it.
They say sailors dont have plans, he said. They have intentions.
But as those intentions surface, the couple are still getting used to having Jack Benjamin aboard.
Children, now, Jack Midence said, pausing. That sounds weird.
Its plural now, Nicole Midence added.


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Huggins Hospital has been fortunate to have a low medical staff turnover. Being a small, critical access hospital, primary care turnover affects the community in a significant way. In 2008 Huggins was faced with the need to recruit two primary care physicians. They quickly realized the environment was changing when very few candidates were presented who were interested in practicing traditionally. It seemed that two tracks had replaced one: inpatient or outpatient, not both. This prompted hospital administrators to begin discussions with their medical staff on how to preserve primary care in their community for the long term. After a year of discussions and researching different options, they came to the conclusion a Hospitalist program was necessary.
Due to immediate outpatient recruitment needs, Huggins decided to get the program started before they would be able to recruit the Hospitalist team. In January of 2009, Huggins Hospital's administration team met with Medicus to discuss a partnership for launching a Hospitalist program. After a few discussions and meetings, Huggins Hospital and Medicus entered into a partnership and the Hospitalist program officially launched on March 23, 2009.
"The Medicus physicians worked in conjunction with our local providers to ensure 100% coverage of the schedule," states Dave Tower, hospital president. "Over the course of the first 3-6 months, many changes took place with the structure of the schedule, how we integrated Medicus physicians into the system, established policies and procedures and integrated the Hospitalist program into our system and with our patients.
Medicus offered one point of contact who handled all of the staffing, scheduling and overall management of the program. The Medicus team played an active role in the credentialing process by supporting our Medical Staff team with a lot of the leg work that takes place. By partnering with Medicus, we didn't have to work with multiple companies to secure the coverage we needed.
We anticipated Medicus would provide coverage for the first 9 months, but we actually needed a few more months to complete our full time recruiting strategy. By March 2010, Medicus started to phase their physicians off the schedule and by June 2010, Huggins Hospital was fully staffed. To this day, we rely on Medicus to provide vacation and holiday coverage."
In 2007, we found ourselves in a transition stage with our Anesthesia Department at one of our hospitals. The incumbent group was nearing the end of their contract, and the new group was not slated to start for a few months. During this period, we were down 2-3 FTEs. Our affiliate hospital in Waynesboro also used locums Anesthesia doctors.
I was working with multiple locums companies representing multiple providers. We were experiencing quality issues with some of the doctors, and managing the process of covering the openings at both hospitals was becoming a full time job for me. I realized that I needed a better solution.
Medicus offered to manage my entire schedule for both hospitals and guarantee both the coverage and the quality of the physicians. We knew that Medicus was easy to work with, and the quality and consistency of the Medicus physicians was the best that we had experienced. So, we decided to work with Medicus exclusively, giving me a single point of contact.
Medicus seamlessly managed us through our transition. The quality of their clinical team, as well as the efficiency of their internal team allowed us to focus on the development of our new practice policies, operations and permanent recruiting.
Although the transition is over and we have a full staff, we use Medicus physicians for unexpected vacancies and vacation coverage - for Anesthesia and other specialties. Our medical staff and community enjoy seeing familiar physicians when we need help.
I would recommend Medicus to any facility that may find themselves in a similar situation.


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That assumes you know what GZ did and you don't. More of the same from you assuming that a criminal who was packing and should not have been, had good intentions.
You can't get it through your thick skull that GZ initiated it. Why not? He was in control of whether to let the guy go on about his business or initiate some interaction. He choose to initiate an interaction....PERIOD. The result of GZ profiling TM was him negligently killing him.
F the NRA
He didn't "stalk" him. He followed him. If every citizen would take on the same level of personal responsibility, we wouldn't have half the societal problems we have. We wouldn't have Rev. Marvin Winans getting car jacked in his own town. We wouldn't have people standing on street corners in open sight dealing drugs.
This whole "I'll let the government take car of it" is basically everything wrong with society today.
Police are not people's individual body guards. Their existence does not abdicate a citizen from exercising their rights.
"Number 43 added Four Trillion Dollars by his lonesome. That's irresponsible. Its unpatriotic." Barack Obama
I never realized so many people were vehemently against neighborhood watch.
Mom, whatever. Either way SHE said it, so in the Jury's mind that's a done deal that it was GZ yelling. Experts have basically said they dont know, the mom says it was not TM, combine it with the physical damage done to GZ and that's most likely case closed in the court's mind.


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June L. Anderson
June L. Anderson, 77, of Newton died on Monday, Nov. 5, 2012, at her home at Park Centre.
A funeral service will be at 11 a.m. Saturday, Nov. 10, at the Wallace Family Funeral Home. The family will greet friends from 10 a.m. until the time of the service on Saturday at the funeral home. Memorials to Progress Industries or the Jasper County Animal Rescue League may be left at the Wallace Family Funeral Home.
June, the daughter of "Cad-a-lac" Fred and Neva (Graves) Vespestad, was born on March 24, 1935 in Newton. She graduated from Newton High School in 1954. June was a lifelong resident of Newton. On Nov. 11, 1955, she was united in marriage with Gordon "Jerry" Anderson in Newton. June volunteered as the only Humane Officer in Jasper County starting in the late 1950s for many years. In 1963, she began working for the Jasper County Center for Retarded Children, which changed to Future, Inc. in 1971 and later to Progress Industries. June retired from PI on June 1, 1998, as the Director of Transportation. June served on the Jasper County Animal Rescue League Board of Directors. She and Jerry enjoyed taking car rides in their antique cars along with going to car shows and swap meets. She dedicated her life to children and animals. June and Jerry owned many pets throughout the years. Currently, they had a lab named Rocko.
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