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It's that time of year again — the bustling holiday season when millions of consumers search for, click on and buy gifts for their loved ones online. Despite the impressive ease of doing so...
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Data security is a huge issue for any business today, as hackers have become increasingly sophisticated and, in many cases, their attacks are able to go completely undetected. The reasons individual...
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One of most interesting parts of my job at Blue Coat, is seeing firsthand the ebb and flow of new technologies as they enter and leave the security market. It's fascinating to witness the...
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Security vendor Blue Coat has announced an anti-malware product that it claims is the first to bridge the gap between day-to-day operations, incident containment and resolution.
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It's no secret that IT security threats keep evolving. Today's advanced persistent threats (APTs) are increasingly sophisticated, diverse, targeted, aggressive…and successful. Security breaches still happen at an alarming rate, despite the fact that security technologies and...
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Blue Coat Systems has introduced their new Blue Coat Advanced Threat Protection solution, which the company is touting as the first to deliver a comprehensive Advanced Threat Protection lifecycle defense that blocks known threats, proactively detects unknown and already-present malware, and...
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Solera Networks, a Blue Coat company, unifies threat intelligence, security analytics and visibility, making it possible for enterprises to protect against and rapidly resolve advanced targeted attacks.
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Vitamin D has been recommended as a way of reducing the risk of heart disease. The University of Warwick has conducted a study which found that middle aged and elderly people with high levels of Vitamin D could reduce their chances of developing heart disease by 43 per cent. Acorrelation between high levels of the vitamin and low levels of diabetes occurrence was also revealed. Denise Armstrong, lifestyle manager for Heart Research UK, commented: "We advise people to get out, expose [themselves] to sunlight, eat a healthy diet, and make sure they get enough vitamin D." She added that people are "quite ignorant" of the health benefits of vitamin D and suggested eating healthily and getting sufficient sunlight exposure were preferable to taking supplements. Around 2.6 million people in the UK are living with coronary heart disease, making it an important health issue to tackle. It also claims 91,000 lives a year, adding to its gravity.
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FGX International announced Monday it has acquired Suntech Optics Inc., a privately held company based in Vancouver, British Columbia. The acquisition also included the purchase of Suntech Optics subsidiaries Naked Eye Enterprises and Bugaboos Eyewear Corp.
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Manufacturing unexpectedly accelerated in November at the fastest pace in more than two years, pointing to a pickup in business spending that will help propel the U.S. economy in early 2014.
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Gregory A. Woods, president and chief operating officer of Astro-Med Inc., will replace Everett V. Pizzuti as CEO following Pizzuti's retirement next month, the maker of specialty printers and data-acquisition systems announced Monday.
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On Dec. 6, Hasbro Inc. employees will partner with nonprofit organizations in 36 countries on community service projects benefiting underserved children for the toymaker's first-ever "Global Day of Joy."
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Astro-Med Inc., maker of specialty printers and data-acquisition systems, posted net income of $1.1 million, or 14 cents per diluted share, for its fiscal third quarter, a decline of 15.2 percent compared with last year's third-quarter net income of $1.3 million, or 18 cents per diluted share.
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WASHINGTON – A profitable General Motors Co. is poised to shake off a half decade of U.S. government oversight next month, underscoring the comeback of a once-moribund industry and gaining leeway …
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Textron Inc. – parent of Bell Helicopter, Cessna Aircraft Co. and Textron Systems – will acquire flight-simulation and aircraft-training product companies Mechtronix Inc. and Opinicus Corp., the company announced Friday.
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Supfina Machine Co. Inc., a privately held machine-tool manufacturer that operates as an independent subsidiary of Germany's Supfina Grieshaber GmbH & Co., recently broke ground on a 21,192-square-foot, $2.6 million expansion to its facility at Quonset Business Park.
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Precious metals recycler Gannon & Scott has completed an $8 million expansion of its factory on Sharp Drive, the company said Thursday.
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The New England Clean Energy Council has named The NanoSteel Co. Inc. its Emerging Company of the Year, the company announced Friday.
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Sarasota Christian School freshman point guard Blake Morrow finished with 28 points, seven assists and six rebounds to lead the Blazers to a 71-56 victory over St. Petersburg Canterbury in the Class 2A-District 9 championship Feb. 8.
Morrow has scored 474 points this season, leading Sarasota Christian to a 20-7 record and its second-consecutive district title.
Morrow will lead the Blazers into the Class 2A-Region 3 quarterfinals versus District 10 runner-up Southwest Florida Christian Feb. 14.
"I like the feeling of the game. You can become good if you work hard every day and do the things you need to do to become good.
I think we knew coming into the game that we were going to win. We beat them by 60 points the last time we played them. We had that mindset, and they played well. We weren't really thinking this was a team that could beat us. Now we know we can't come in thinking we're going to win just because we beat a team.
I work hard every day. That's helped me. My teammates help me get open, and they have confidence in me. They tell me to shoot if I want to shoot.
Defense is a mindset. I can play defense when I want. It's whether I want to or not.
Winning a state championship would mean a lot, because Henry (Ford) is a close friend of mine. It's his senior year, and he wants to win a state championship. So, it would be (great) to be able to play for a championship and have him go off of the court as winner and for us not to lose a game."
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The SpringHill Suites is less than a mile from Arnold Palmer's Latrobe Country Club and is convenient to Greensburg, Ligonier and Jeannette. Close to Idlewild Amusement Park and Saint Vincent College.
Free Wi-Fi and Breakfast
A complimentary hot and cold breakfast buffet is available each morning, and free high speed internet and Wi-Fi are available throughout. Also featured are an indoor pool, fitness center and business center.
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Each suite features separate sleeping and sitting areas with sofa bed, mini-fridge and microwave. 32-inch flat screen TV's, large work desk, coffee/tea maker, hair dryer, iron and ironing board as well.
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Relax in our sparkling indoor pool and soothing whirlpool, and don't miss a step in your healthy routine in our 24-hour fitness center. Enjoy the complimentary hot and cold breakfast buffet each morning, or grab a snack and drink from the 24-hour Market. Stay connected at our 24-hour business center, with free Wi-Fi, PC and printer. We've thought of it all at SpringHill Suites Pittsburgh Latrobe, including complimentary high speed internet and Wi-Fi and a free local area shuttle!
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Well, Capcom has answered many a fans' prayer and has finally graced Mega Man freaks around the world with their second collection, this one concentrating on the first six games of the Mega Man X series. Each of these six games has secrets galore in it - and naturally, IGN Guides is here to save the day. We won't insult you with mundane information for the six games and mire you down in useless detail, but rather give you the information you really need to have a complete gaming experience. You'll find information for each game on each boss, each Heart Container location, each armor piece location, weapon information, and even a FAQ specific for each title. This is, by far, the most exhaustive source for this collection in existence. And what's more, over 500 screenshots accompany the guide's text to give you those visual markers that are sometimes desperately needed. Additionally, an all-new idea, the Flowchart, has been written for each game to get you from point to point through the game in the easiest and most concise way possible.
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Yeah the videos I'm currently uploading are pretty raw and early so we usually keep the first round cuts hidden away until they're in a little better shape
I just upload the first videos for the guys without RBN accounts so they can look over the charts and see if anything jumps out at them as being off
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Blarg! All my hopes and dreams crushed...
Though don't get me wrong, I love your style of authoring in terms of interaction with the artist. I can imagine an artist myself being very happy with an authoring company like this..........
I usually don't care for any kind of instrumental tracks, but Fantomenk's The Massacre is a track that even I would buy in a heartbeat (If ever made available on PS3, that is).
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Hey noble what happen to fenton project's if we only saw sepia. It was in 30% peer review and then it dissapeared today
Oh my god! Hyperdrive is in peer review! please get this through soon please I can't wait any longer! By your command doesn't do any justice for me. Also Reviewers please get If We Only Saw Sepia in the store It would be my first design work to ever appear in a video game!
Just wondering if you guys ever got in touch with ArnoCorps and if so, did it wield any positive outcome?
Sent them off a message, but I've yet to hear anything back. Doesn't mean anything however as sometimes it takes months for bands to get in contact with us.
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Posted: Jan 31, 2013 9:57 PM by Andrew Masuda
Updated: Jan 31, 2013 10:34 PM
Molly Schlemer and Jonae Ervin combined for 34 points to lead the Cal Poly women's basketball to a 78-40 win over Cal State Fullerton on Thursday in a Big West Conference game in the Mott Athletics Center. The Mustangs snapped a two game losing skid and improved to 5-3 in Big West play and 11-8 for the season. The Titans fell to 3-5 in conference and 7-13 overall.
The Mustangs fell behind 8-4 early in the first half, but Ervin fueled a 16-4 run to give the Mustangs the lead for good. Ervin had 11 of her 15 points in the first half. Cal Poly shot 48 percent in the first half on 13 for 27 shooting. Schlemer, a Righetti High graduate, added 9 points in just 9 minutes in the first half.
Cal Poly came out firing in the second half and went on a 34-8 run to put the game out of reach. Schlemer scored 10 points in the second half to finish with a game-high 19 points, her seventh-straight game with 10 or more points.
The Mustangs made 19 of their 29 shots in the second half for a 66 percent clip. They shot 57 % for the game.
The Mustangs recorded assists on 23 of their 32 baskets for the game. Ervin led the team with 8 assists and Ariana Elegado added 6.
Cal Poly outrebounded the Titans 40-28. Nikol Alison came off the bench to grab a team-best 8 rebounds to go with 8 points. Schlemer added 7 boards and Ervin added 6.
The Mustangs and their fans wore red during the game as part of a Red Out. The event raised awareness of heart disease, the leading cause of death among women in the United States. The American Heart Association's Wear Red Day is on Friday.
Cal Poly is now 8-3 at home this season.
Cal Poly hosts UC Riverside on Saturday at 4:00 p.m. It will be wear pink day as part of the Play4Kay initiative to raise awareness about breast cancer.
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RV breakfasts made easy
RVers looking for a quick and easy way to cook breakfast on the run may find the microwaveable Breakfast Sandwich Maker a great addition to their vehicle's kitchen.
This small plastic device can be used to cook eggs and breakfast meats in just minutes.
It contains receptacles for two eggs as well as a meat tray to cook bacon or sausage. It can be used for all the components of a delicious breakfast sandwich, or can be used to cook just the eggs or the meat, depending on your appetite.
Eggs can be easily removed from the unit using the included egg lifters. And, the lid keeps splatters contained, reducing clean up time.
It is also dishwasher-safe, which cuts down greatly on the pans you would use to cook the contents of a breakfast sandwich.
Camping World customers who gave the Breakfast Sandwich Maker a five-star rating say it is also ideal for at-home use.
"We love this little sandwich maker," says one Camping World customer." We can have breakfast ready to go in less than five minutes! I don't know how we survived without it! It's durable and easy to clean."


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New and Returning Commuter Students (qualifying by commuting standards):
Commuter Form (Web form that you will fill out and submit online)
New Resident Students: New Student Housing Questionnaire
The Housing Questionnaire for New Students has been moved inside MaloneXpress, the University's student portal.
To Access the Housing Questionnaire:
- Log into your MaloneXpress Account.
- Inside MaloneXpress, select the Campus Life Tab (at the top of the page)
- On the Campus Life Tab, select the Housing and Vehicle Info Page from the left hand menu
- In the middle of the Housing and Vehicle Info Page select the New Student Survey
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Thermal design power
The thermal design power (TDP), sometimes called thermal design point, refers to the maximum amount of power the cooling system in a computer is required to dissipate. The TDP is typically not the most power the chip could ever draw, such as by a power virus, but rather the maximum power that it would draw when running "real applications". This ensures the computer will be able to handle essentially all applications without exceeding its thermal envelope, or requiring a cooling system for the maximum theoretical power (which would cost more but in favor of extra headroom for processing power).
In some cases the TDP has been underestimated such that in real applications (typically strenuous, such as video encoding or games) the CPU has exceeded the TDP. In this case, the CPU will either cause a system failure (a "therm-trip") or throttle its speed down.[1] Most modern CPUs will only cause a therm-trip on a catastrophic cooling failure such as a stuck fan or a loose heatsink.
For example, a laptop's CPU cooling system may be designed for a 20 watt TDP, which means that it can dissipate up to 20 watts of heat without exceeding the maximum junction temperature for the computer chip. It can do this using an active cooling method (e.g. forced convection) such as a fan or any of the three passive cooling methods, convection, thermal radiation or conduction. Typically, a combination of methods is used.
Since safety margins and the definition of what constitutes a real application vary among manufacturers, TDP values between different manufacturers cannot be accurately compared. While a processor with a TDP of 100 W will almost certainly use more power at full load than a processor with a 10 W TDP, it may or may not use more power than a processor from a different manufacturer that has a 90 W TDP. Additionally, TDPs are often specified for families of processors, with the low-end models usually using significantly less power than those at the high end of the family.
The dynamic power consumed by a switching circuit is approximately proportional to the square of the voltage:[2]
(where C is capacitance, f is frequency and V is voltage).
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- ^ Testing Thermal Throttling in Pentium 4 CPUs with Northwood and Prescott cores, By Stanislav Garmatyuk , March 26, 2004, iXBT Labs
- ^ Enhanced Intel SpeedStep Technology for the Intel Pentium M Processor - White Paper, Intel Corporation, March 2004
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South Florida is as much an idea as it is a place, and few events express that idea as consistently as Big Night in Little Haiti.
As a live music performance unfolds on the third Friday night of each month, the plaza at the Little Haiti Cultural Center is a blur of colors and skin shadings, hipsters and families, hip-hoppers and old-guard survivors. Make your way through the packed yard and bits of conversation come at you in a jumble of languages and accents.
The event is a collaboration between the cultural center and the Rhythm Foundation, a nonprofit arts presenter that's about to launch its 25th season. And while the foundation has presented bigger shows and better-known names, few events embody its mission, and its success, better than Big Night.
"I just came back from a booking conference, and I see a lot of … packages created for someone to check some 'diversity' box," says Laura Quinlan, director of the Rhythm Foundation, in a recent conversation at its Miami Beach office.
"When I fill out a grant application and they ask the diversity question I always have problems with it because it is so inherent to what we do. Our mission is to build cross-cultural audiences through music — and we have seen it develop."
The Rhythm Foundation has presented major World Music figures such as Indian sitar master Ravi Shankar, African pop singers Baaba Maal and Youssou N'Dour, Argentine folk singer Mercedes Sosa, Spanish flamenco/hip-hop group Ojos de Brujo, Haitian band Boukman Eksperyans, flamenco guitarist Paco DeLucia, reggae star Jimmy Cliff and Brazilian singer-songwriters Caetano Veloso, Milton Nascimento and Gilberto Gil, who returns Sunday to help celebrate the anniversary (see box).
"There is a lot of music that we got to hear, thanks to the foundation," says Maria del Valle, executive director of the Art Center/South Florida and a former director of the Centro Cultural Español, where she collaborated with the Rhythm Foundation on several projects." They have worked with a clear focus and great tenacity, season after season, and that eventually pays off."
There is no mystery to the organization's success, Quinlan says.
"When we've had a successful show it's been because we have worn out our feet on the pavement," she says. "Now marketing to niche audiences is so much easier than when we started, but we still have to get out there, into the communities. In a city like Miami there is no substitute for grassroots promotion, for knowing people and for knowing the communicators."
In fact, says James Quinlan, her husband and the co-founder and board chairman of the Rhythm Foundation, "There's a great deal of suspicion when someone comes to work with your culture … so partnering and collaborating has been key for us to get stakeholders in the community to believe in what we are doing and believe in it as much as we do, embrace it and make it theirs."
As successful as this approach has been, the programming and growth of the Rhythm Foundation has reflected the economic, social and cultural changes in South Florida.
A native of Detroit, James Quinlan moved here from New York in 1987. He was responding to a call from his friend Paco de Onis, a concert promoter who had fallen in love with the opportunities in Miami Beach in general and the Cameo Theater in particular, then "a nonfunctioning, basically abandoned, movie theater.


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etm is an acronym for Event and Task Manager. It provides a simple, intuitive format for using plain text files to store event, task, and other data items, a command line interface for viewing stored information in a variety of convenient ways, and a cross-platform, PyQt-based GUI for creating and modifying items as well as viewing them. Displayed items can be grouped by date, context, keyword, or project and can be filtered in various ways. A display of busy and free times is also supported, as is a ledger view of time spent that is suitable for client billing. Alarms are supported for events and repetition for both events and tasks in a powerful and flexible manner.
GroupOffice is a groupware suite that takes your office online, implementing online collaboration and CRM. It allows you to share projects, calendars, files and email online with co-workers and clients. It is easy to use and fully customizable. It also features synchronization with PDAs and Outlook.
Fanurio is a time tracking and billing application designed to help freelancers manage their work and be paid for it. You can organize your work per client using projects, mark invoices as paid and track the overdue ones, mark your work as billable (flat rate, hourly rate) or non-billable, create partial invoices at any time during the project, create invoices for single or multiple projects, customize invoice templates using your own layouts, import clients from other applications by means of a CSV file, export data to a CSV or Excel file, and create backup copies of your data.
Tiki Wiki CMS Groupware is a full-featured, Web-based, multilingual, tightly integrated, all-in-one wiki, CMS, and groupware. Tiki can be used to create all kinds of Web applications, sites, portals, knowledge bases, intranets, and extranets. Tiki offers a very large number of features "out-of-the-box". It is highly configurable and modular. All features are optional and administered via a Web-based interface. Major features include a robust wiki engine, news articles, discussion forums, newsletters, blogs, file and image galleries, bug and issue trackers, a link directory, polls/surveys and quizzes, FAQs, a banner management system, calendar, maps, mobile access, RSS feeds, a category system, tags, an advanced themeing engine (Smarty), spreadsheet, live support, shoutbox, inter-user messaging, menu generator, advanced permission system for users and groups, internal search engine, external authentication support, and more. It was formerly named TikiWiki.
LogicalDOC is a Web-based document management system that is easy to use and learn. Its architecture leverages best-of-breed Java technology to achieve a powerful and flexible solution. It supports its users with a powerful search engine (Lucene), Web service interface (JAX-WS via CXF) compatible with .NET and PHP, versioning, annotation on documents, a WebDAV interface, importing and exporting from .zip files. Documents can be organized into hierarchical folders, searched using the integrated search engine, or browsed by Tag. The system is extensible thanks to the technologies used (Spring-Hibernate) and its plugin architecture.
The Expense Submittal System (ESS) is a Web-based solution for the creation of expense reports, expense report approval, payment, and accounting. The complete expense reporting process is covered. ESS provides report entry, approval routing, corporate policy checking, credit card statement importation, and report payment.
Nuxeo Platform provides a framework and set of components to address document management and collaboration needs, including metadata/taxonomies, versioning, lifecyle management, workflow, relations, searching, reporting, transformation, auditing, and retention. Its flexible extension system, based on OSGi, allows developers to quickly configure and extend the platform by creating new components. Its default Web user interface, based on the JSF standard, uses AJAX to create a pleasant user experience. It can also be accessed by a rich client interface through the use of Web services, for instance using the Eclipse-based Nuxeo RCP rich client platform.
GNU TeXmacs is a free wysiwyw (what you see is what you want) editing platform with special features for scientists. The software aims to provide a unified and user friendly framework for editing structured documents with different types of content: text, mathematics, graphics, interactive content. TeXmacs can also be used as an interface to many external systems for computer algebra, numerical analysis, and statistics. New presentation styles can be written by the user and new features can be added to the editor using Scheme.


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Will 2012 roar or whimper?
Posted on Thursday, December 22, 2011 at 07:50 AM
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- How do the Irish regard their American visitors? With pride
I hope ye are all having a serene season to date as we venture into that surreal limboland between the dying of an old year and the incoming of its successor.
These are indeed strange and surreal days, hours, minutes and seconds. Some of them seem to last for a month, others are quicksilver.
Living in the countryside as I do, and have almost always done, I tend to visualize the New Year as akin to a newborn calf, still slick from the birthing, standing shakily on spindle legs in the tracks of the first steps yet to be taken.
The eyes are huge and innocent and very vulnerable. From where they are set the wide world must look so very big and frightening, especially if the mother is not in actual physical contact.
In even a week it will be different, and there will be the sprightly beginnings of independence, but the first hour and hours are different altogether. If you were born on a farm or ever saw a newborn calf you will know what I mean.
I've always been hugely impressed at the acuity of the farmers who bred the calves to observe them in those very first moments after birth and accurately foretell their later quality.
The gender is important, of course, because the dairy farmers always love to welcome new heifers as potential replacements for their cows. The bullocks will certainly be sold on.
But above and beyond that, the wise farmers can look at the newborn and somehow know if they will be healthy and thriving animals, potentially great milkers in the future, a real gift to the flock.
Breeding, they often say, is what counts.
On that basis, extending the focus further, I'm very much afraid that our incoming heifer will be much more of a burden than a gift.
I'm afraid that she will not thrive quickly, as good calves do, and it will cost a small fortune in veterinary fees just to keep her alive.
I fear for her long-term future, and accordingly for all our futures here in the Emerald Isle, once the home of a healthy Tiger cub, now beset by doom and gloom on all sides.
To go back to the farmers' views on the importance of good breeding, this animal is afflicted by bad breeding through the last three or four generations of her ancestors.
Both her mother and grandmother have been difficult bitches in the extreme, moving us further and further away from the land of milk and honey.
We have no control over these things, but if we had they should all have been dispatched to the knacker's yard at birth. Any replacement stock would have served us better. And that's the truth.
It is ironic that one of our most worthwhile voluntary organizations serving the Third World is called
Bothar. It is strongly supported by the farming organizations and has a lovely and novel approach to giving aid to those nations that are still worse off than we are.
Bothar sends hundreds of calves and goats and beehives and other animals directly to the Third World.
They are donated to families for whom a heifer is worth a fortune, both for milk and for the calves which are donated to other village families.
Likewise with the young goats. Bothar does great work and has been doing so for years now.
Bothar's program is assisted by veterinary experts who assess the donated animals here at home to ensure they are of sufficiently high quality for export to the Third World.
I have a feeling that these experts would reject out of hand the real-life equivalent of the spindly poor calf of a thing I visualize the incoming New Year to be.
Nevertheless, being forewarned is being forearmed. I could be totally wrong as I've been so often before.
Maybe we'll get a lusty bull calf of a New Year that will energize the whole economy and do a Pamplona job on the Brits before these surreal days come again.
We'll just have to wait and see.
In the meantime, peace to you all.
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jamieLM | Dec 29, 2011, 11:48 AM EST
Thank you for sharing your thoughts and giving us a view of Ireland though your eyes throughout 2011. Wishing you and Mrs. Dutch Nation peace and happiness in 2012 and all of us the strength to endure whatever difficulties come our way.
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jamieLM | Dec 22, 2011, 10:41 AM EST
I understand your analogy because I grew up on a large farm where we raised livestock which included baby calves and foals. I predict that America will "limp along" until the election in Nov. I have no predictions for the outcome in Nov. I hope the economies of Ireland and the U.S. will improve, but I predict that it'll be a very slow process, if it happens. All I know for sure is that life is full of uncertainties. I guess I'm on the "whimper" side for 2012.
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johnshiel | Dec 22, 2011, 10:31 AM EST
merry christmas to you, cormac and ms dutch nation, and to your familia nearby and scattered wide
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johnshiel | Dec 22, 2011, 09:40 AM EST
that surreal limboland -- yeah, I been there -- there was this bar by that name down on the coast, kinda surreal like, if ya know what I mean... and the people would walk around kinda funnylike - kinda wobbling and bowing and then snapping back up like gummy men, if ya know... funny how you came across a place just like that all the way over there... I wonder if that bar is still there...
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HR>What's the difference between Sam Zell's Los Angeles Times and Sam's Bagels on Larchmont?
None, if you take Mr. Zell's words to heart. He told his Tribune Co. employees in June that "we're in the business of satisfying customers, and we will respond to what they say they want." More poppy seeds and fewer cheese bialys? You got it, dollink. More King Kong and less King-Drew? What you say goes, bub. The customer's always right.
But Sam's Bagels, unlike Sam's Times, is not safeguarded by the First Amendment. In fact, the press is the only business singled out in the Constitution for protection. The reason, of course, is that the founders intended the press to serve as a fourth estate—a formidable check against the government's abuse of power, an essential outlet for dissent; not a mere privilege of democracy, in Walter Lippman's words, but "an organic necessity in a great society."
From John Peter Zenger until Sam Zell—have those names ever appeared in the same sentence before?—press owners have maintained that their mission is to do well while doing good, to turn a profit while also living up to their democratic responsibilities. Many of them have figured out how to do both: partly by subsidizing the stuff we need to be good citizens by selling us the fun and fluff we want; partly by deploying journalists' storytelling skills in order to turn essential information into compelling must-reads.
To Sam Zell, however, running the Times, as well the other papers he bought when he acquired the Tribune Co., isn't a public trust, and its stewardship doesn't include serving the public interest, no more than would running a bagel joint. Like the asset-stripping private equity buccaneers of the Blackstone Group, Zell's business is capitalism, plain and simple. Having saddled Tribune with more than $8 billion in highly leveraged debt (he invested only $315 million of his own money in order to take Tribune private), now he has to sell assets and cut costs at a furious pace in order to keep his debt service from eating up his profit.
In Los Angeles, that means not only putting Times Mirror Square up for sale (condos, anyone?), but also means slashing 250 jobs, including 150 news jobs; cutting 15 percent of the paper's pages per week, and, according to publisher David Hiller, "a redesigned flagship Los Angeles Times newspaper to debut in the fall, reflecting the work of the reinvent team." If Zell's editorially pared down, graphically tarted up and otherwise reinvented Orlando Sentinel is a sign of what's to come, our local paper will soon be a cross between My Weekly Reader and a ransom note.
I'm not saying that every one of the 150 Times journalists who'll be fired deserves a Pulitzer, but I am saying that a whopping proportion of them are assets that any community in its right mind would do all it could to keep on the job. I'm not claiming that print journalism is a swell business to be in right now, but I am contending that Zell's ocean of red ink is more a consequence of his own debt-ridden acquisition strategy than of declining advertising sales and circulation, and that he's punishing the city's civic IQ to make up for his piratical swagger. I'm not blind to the advent of free Web-based news and analysis, but I'm also gimlet-eyed about the nature of much of online content: a farrago of opinion, rumor and propaganda, and most of it (like most of local television news) parasitically dependent on the dwindling band of reporters and editors for national papers and wire services who actually get out of their pajamas, wear out their shoe leather and attempt to honor journalistic standards. I'm not pretending that the judgment of Times correspondents and editors is beyond reproach—everyone has a tale of bias or neglect to tell—but I do maintain that the Los Angeles Times is nevertheless among the top four papers in the country and that it would be a crime against democracy to dumb it down in order to cover Zell's monthly nut.
The problem with the idea of a newspaper being "in the business of satisfying customers" is that customers don't always know what they want, and they certainly don't always know what they need. What readers of the Times knew that they needed investigative reporters to spend months to expose lethal problems in Kaiser Permanente's kidney transplant program? Or to reveal the resignation-worthy doings of state insurance commissioner Chuck Quackenbush? Or to show how California's conservatorship system has been hijacked into a guardians-for-profit scheme that rips off the elderly and infirm? Enterprise journalism takes time, it's labor-intensive, it tells us things we didn't have the wit to know we need to know, it makes us a better society, and its future is endangered by return-on-investment Zellonomics.
While Sam Zell was eyeing Tribune, Beverly Hills businessman Albert Mizrahi paid $23 million for four buildings on Larchmont Boulevard. He immediately doubled and tripled rents, which forced longtime tenants like Larchmont Hardware and Van Dry Cleaning and Shoe Repair—Sam's Bagels' neighbors—to close up shop. Sam's is hanging on, reportedly via a "historical status" deal, but I wouldn't count on its lasting, and half a dozen other businesses on the boulevard are on their way out. Area residents were frustrated when they tried to stop what they saw as the destruction of Larchmont Village's character, but City Councilman Tom LaBonge correctly told them "that's a free-market issue."
The future of the Los Angeles Times is also a free-market issue. As long as a real estate speculator obeys the zoning laws, he's free to replace a local bagel joint with a high-end cupcake franchise. The same is true for the somewhat larger bagel business now owned by Zell, who is also a real estate speculator. In the deregulated era we're in, it's no doubt a retrograde sentiment to hold, but I'll say it anyway: Too bad there's no public interest obligation that a newspaper owner (or for that matter, a broadcast license holder) is legally required to fulfill.
To deal with his debt, Zell is in the midst of unloading Newsday to Cablevision for $650 million. If we're really lucky, maybe he'll have buyer's remorse about the Times. Various options are kicking around town, like taking the Times nonprofit and running it out of a journalism school or community foundation, or like finding some white knight who doesn't turn out to be another Wendy McCaw. Or maybe Tribune's KTLA might become the premier pay-per-view destination for user-generated porn and could plow the profits back into exposing itself. Or maybe Tribune's jalapeno-pumpernickel-with-a-shmear will turn out to be the next Pinkberry.
At this low point in print journalism's morale, just about anything seems preferable to watching powerlessly as this slow-motion train wreck plays out.
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Ever since the diaspora, Jews have been accused of putting something else—themselves, the dispersed Israelite people, then Israel itself—ahead of their own country. Jewish citizens of Russia, Germany and America, to pick just a few, have been slandered (and sometimes killed) for allegedly putting their allegiances to the Hebrew nation ahead of their patriotism toward the motherland, the fatherland or the homeland. This is vintage Protocols of the Elders of Zion.
And yet what do we hear today from Orthodox Jew Joe Lieberman?
"In my opinion, the choice could not be more clear: between one candidate, John McCain, who's had experience, been tested in war and tried in peace, another candidate who has not. Between one candidate, John McCain, who has always put the country first, worked across party lines to get things done, and one candidate who has not."
And just in case the media failed to notice, the McCain campaign—whose slogans include "Country First"—has now sent Lieberman's remarks to the entire political press corps.
What is to be made of this? Does Joe Lieberman not realize that he is using one of the oldest anti-semitic tricks in the book to accuse Obama of being the Islamic candidate?
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John McCain's team is vetting Virginia Republican congressman Eric Cantor, the only Jewish Republican in the House, as a possible vice presidential running mate.
Rep. Cantor's hardline Bush/Cheney positions on the issues make him potentially quite attractive to the far right, and his getting a 92% rating from the Christian Coalition couldn't hurt with the evangelical base.
Some see in Rep. Cantor a younger, more Republican Joe Lieberman. But given Sen. McCain's age and health history, I wonder whether the implausibility of Eric Cantor's answering the red phone at 3 a.m. might undermine any McCain campaign complaint about Barack Obama's experience.
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The e-mail came when I was in Mexico, at a fitness resort that—in pursuit of wellness—confines BlackBerry use to guests' rooms.
"Need to chat briefly with you regarding John Edwards and the effects of this scandal on his future political career." It was from a reporter I know at People. I had no idea what he was talking about. Though I'd cut way back on my news intake, not to mention my beloved carbs, while at the ranch, I figured that my furtive Web browsing during the week was keeping me reasonably well informed on the big stuff.
His follow-up message, in response to my away-from-my-e-mail auto-reply, vibrated in my pocket during dinner, where no one else at my table had a clue what scandal had erupted. I stole a look at the screen, my transgression, I hoped, concealed by the tablecloth.
"What do you think are going to be the effects on John's political future, most notably his chances for a vice presidential nod from Obama? From your perspective, where does this scandal, if you will, rank in the history of American politics? Why do you think so many people are appalled by these developments? His wife's illness?"
It would be 24 hours later that I fully re-introduced media toxins into my system. Ingesting the National Enquirer account of Edwards' purported Beverly Hills Hotel visit to the purported mother of his purported love child turned out to be as shocking to my system as the I Can't Believe It's Not Butter! Light that I unthinkingly shmeared on the ranch bread, won at bingo, that I'd brought home with me.
But the e-mail alone—"appalled," "his wife's illness"—was enough to get me to contemplate the awful, unsubstantiated conclusion the moment I got it. I know enough to mistrust rumors. But I couldn't help hypothetically feeling the same nausea, the same kicked-in-the-stomach wallop that hit me when Bill Clinton fessed up to his sexual infidelity and to lying about it. Appalled? No, more like heartsick.
I had spent the weekend before the Iowa caucuses—still undecided, even after the torture of watching what seemed like a gazillion pre-primary debates—taking in every minute of every Democrat's stump speech that I could find on C-SPAN. Some online issues poll I'd taken told me that Dennis Kucinich was the candidate closest to my views, but I was in no mood to be romantic or sentimental about my choice.
What surprised me was that Edwards turned out to be my candidate. I wanted a fighter, someone as furious about what had happened to America and to the Constitution as I was, and Edwards—unlike Barack Obama, who struck me as having been snookered by high-minded editorial writers' jonesing for bipartisanship—seemed ready to kick butt and take names. And much as I respect Hillary Clinton's smarts, I was world-weary of the pols and hacks who surrounded and spoke for her, and her stump speech sounded uncannily like what I had written for Walter Mondale; much as I respect him, 2008 isn't 1984.
Edwards' populism rang my bell. He had some political problems—the haircut, the house, the lackluster performance in the Cheney debate—but watching him ignite crowd after crowd that snowy weekend, I experienced him as sublimely authentic. Plus, of course, there was Elizabeth.
It wasn't just her bravery in the face of cancer that made people love her. It wasn't just the young children. It was also how authentic she was, and how smart, and the sacrifice she was prepared to make, the trade of precious family time for a higher purpose.
John Edwards couldn't recover politically from his loss in Iowa. As I write this, his camp is dismissing the Enquirer story as typical tabloid trash. That may be entirely true, just as other political scandals, from John McCain's love child to John Kerry's swift-boating, have also turned out to be smears spread by political enemies. Is mentioning the Enquirer story lashon hara, the evil tongue? If you can't talk about contemporary political discourse—all of it, even the vile—you can't talk about contemporary politics.
Even if the Enquirer's story turns out to be no more than a hit job, I won't soon forget the feeling that those e-mails from People churned up in me.
As potentially appalled as I was for Elizabeth Edwards, as potentially amazed as I was by what would have to be John Edwards' colossal arrogance, what disturbed me most was the possibility that I may have been played for a chump, that I had been as politically naïve as any greenhorn who'd just fallen off the turnip truck, that my belief in Edwards—not just in the message, but in the message-bearer—demonstrated that, for all my years of accumulating a justifiable cynicism, I was still susceptible to the stagecraft of political authenticity.
The night that Obama won the Iowa caucuses, I found myself, like many Americans, thrilled by his rhetoric and moved by his story. The Edwards "scandal" has made me mindful of how inclined I have become to believe in Obama. His recent positional shifts, while disconcerting, I have chalked up to a misguided effort to chase voters who will never be for him anyway. But the emotional whiplash engendered by the Enquirer allegations has reminded me that Kool-Aid, like in-room cable news, was also absent at the wellness ranch.
I believed in "I still believe in a place called Hope" until the blue dress. Do I still believe in the "audacity of hope"?
New York Sen. Daniel Patrick Moynihan once remarked, "There's no point in being Irish unless you realize that sooner or later the world will break your heart."
He may just as well have said Jewish.
July 24, 2008 | 1:16 am
Posted by Marty Kaplan
"The world is waiting to love America again" ran the title of a recent London Observer editorial anticipating Barack Obama's visit to Europe.
Love may be too strong a word to describe the world's feelings for America when George W. Bush was first sworn in as president, but not by much. It's surprising, but irrefutable, to look back at the numbers he inherited. Polls taken in 1999 and 2000 show impressive majorities of people in nations all around the world holding favorable views of the U.S. In the immediate aftermath of Sept. 11, when headlines declared "We Are All Americans" in many languages, those numbers went even higher.
But today, love is not much in the air. As the Pew Global Attitudes Project put it, "Since 2002 ... the image of the United States has declined in most parts of the world. Favorable ratings of America are lower in 26 of 33 countries for which trends are available."
Some examples: In Germany, our favorability has fallen from 78 percent, when Bush was inaugurated, to 30 percent in 2007; in Britain, from 83 to 51; in Slovakia, from 74 to 41; in Argentina, from 50 to 16; in Turkey, from 52 to 9; in Indonesia, from 75 to 29.
The Bush/Cheney doctrine, of course, was never about being loved. Instead, they said they wanted America to be respected, which turned out to be code for being feared. No one disputes that national security depends on strength, which includes military and economic strength. But it also depends on ideals, and it's in that department—the values implicit in our actions—where the White House has lost the world's respect and actually undermined America's power.
Everyone knows the list of horribles: Unilateralism. Name-calling. Cowboy diplomacy. Pulling out of the Kyoto Protocol. Declaring the Geneva Conventions irrelevant. Abu Ghraib. Guantanamo. Branding negotiation as "appeasement." Preaching a "freedom agenda" while undermining domestic civil liberties. Supporting authoritarian regimes in the name of spreading democracy.
It goes on. And it has had an effect diametrically opposite to its intention. "Ironically," the Pew project says, "the belief that the United States does not take into account the interests of other countries in formulating its foreign policy is extensive among the publics of several close U.S. allies. No fewer than 89 percent of the French, 83 percent of Canadians and 74 percent of the British express this opinion."
For years, the Bush State Department has pursued numerous misbegotten and unsuccessful efforts at "public diplomacy," based on the premise that what America has is a communications problem, that we need a more effective marketing campaign for our national brand. In fact, what we have actually had is a problem problem—a policy problem, an actions problem, a contempt for differing points of view, an arrogance about human rights, a penchant for demonization.
Yes, there are evil people and bad states in the world, and they want to do grievous harm to us and our allies. But there is scant evidence that the approach of the past seven years has effectively contained or defanged them. In fact, the Bush State Department seems finally to have recognized this. In its dealings with Syria and Iran, there is a belated, twilight recognition that talk is not the same thing as capitulation. The agreement at the G-8 summit in Japan to halve greenhouse gases by 2050—2050!—may be pathetic, but at least it is less pathetic than denying their human causes and their lethal consequences.
There is a good reason that entertainment is America's No. 1 export, even at this nadir of our international reputation. The stories that Hollywood's products tell, the values they embody, are hopeful, idealistic, celebratory of human potential and achievement. Yes, some nihilistic stuff is American-made and globally consumed, too. But by and large, people around the world like our entertainment for the same reason that we do: It comes down on the side of dignity, freedom and good triumphing over evil. That's what America can mean to the world, and in some quarters—despite the bullying and blundering of the Bush years—still does mean.
When John F. Kennedy in 1963 told the world from the Brandenburg Gate, "Ich bin ein Berliner," he was explicitly identifying with all people whose freedom was threatened. But there was an implicit message in his words as well: Here is what it means to be an American. Here is what the values of the Declaration of Independence and the Constitution look like.
As The Observer observed, the world is waiting to love America again. Both Barack Obama and John McCain have a tremendous opportunity to change the face, and to change the meaning, of what "I am an American" has come to signify around the world. For the sake of our national security, and that of our allies, it can't come a moment too soon.
July 17, 2008 | 1:13 am
Posted by Marty Kaplan
Because this was happening a short taxi ride from the White House, I half expected someone from Dick Cheney's office to burst in at any moment, grab the microphone and proclaim the conference kaput, dissolved like an inconvenient parliament.
"I think this may be the best day of my life," Dr. Julie Gerberding, the director of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC), said at the opening of the 2008 Leaders-to-Leaders Conference she convened last week, along with the country's state and county public health officials. The agenda: To build a bottom-up coalition to change how America deals with health, to shift our focus from health care to healthiness and to the bigger social factors that determine our national healthiness.
Over two days, I heard so many encouraging ideas from the conference stage that didn't reflexively demonize public policy-making as nanny-statism that, well, as I said, the whole thing left me looking nervously over my shoulder for political-correctness enforcers from The Cato Institute or The Heritage Foundation.
As one speaker after another pointed out, America today ranks first among industrial nations in terms of how much we spend on health care, but last in terms of how healthy we are as a country. Pick any national metric of healthiness—life expectancy, infant mortality, birth weight, chronic diseases incidence—and America's comparative performance is in the cellar. It's true even when you adjust for European populations' relative homogeneity: if you only count white Americans, we are still the low man on the healthiness totem pole.
We Americans spend more than 90 percent of our health dollars on health care (on doctors, hospitals, insurance, machines, pharmaceuticals and the like), but it turns out that only 10 percent of how healthy we are as a nation is determined by what those health care dollars buy.
How can that be? What could possibly determine whether America is among the industrial world's healthiest nations, if not the thing we're all clamoring for: universal heath insurance? The answer—and this isn't a political opinion, it's an epidemiological finding—lies in the social determinants of our physical condition. Determinants like income, class, education, racism, the availability of public transportation, land-use policy, environmental policy, participation in the political process and a host of other factors that don't depend on our genetic makeup or our propensity to take personal responsibility for diet and exercise. Determinants that flow not from luck or individual choices, but from laws, regulations and priorities set at all levels of government and in the private sector as well. (If you want an alarming eyeful about this, check out the new California Newsreel documentary "Unnatural Causes.")
The way we currently think about health in America—about health care, that is—is completely understandable. We all want access to the best possible health care for our parents, our kids and ourselves, and we want it to be affordable, and we want plenty of choices. What's astonishing is that even if we covered all the uninsured's health care, we would still likely rank at the bottom of industrial countries for healthiness. The major causes of our country's healthiness or unhealthiness are all upstream of the things that send us to doctors and hospitals and pharmacies. The causes are poverty, and stress, and the amount of control and autonomy we have at our jobs, and whether there are showers there, and what they put in the vending machines. The causes are access to early childhood education, and to day care, and whether schools are built near asthma-breeding freeways. They are whether your neighborhood offers public libraries and public transportation and walking trails, or public dumps and liquor stores and fast food franchises.
"I had a colonoscopy the other week," the CDC's Dr. Gerberding told the 400 public health officials, business leaders and nonprofits she was hoping would sign on to a "healthiest nation alliance." "Actually," she added, "I was billed for two colonoscopies, though I'm sure I only had one."
Clearly she's not unaware of the madness of our present health care system. No one facing a family medical crisis wants anything but the best possible treatment at that moment. No one should lack access to quality health care. But prevention is even more important to the country as a whole than treatment is, and the free market alone hasn't and won't deliver the level of prevention we need.
To me, the underlying reason America has fallen so far behind in the healthiest nation race is the exhausted dogmas that have dominated public discourse for something like 30 years—Horatio Algerism, social Darwinism, the magic of the marketplace, deregulation is good, government is bad, pull yourself up by your own bootstraps and devil take the hindmost.
We now know what America looks like when those kinds of ideas rule, and not only in the health sector. I'm glad that, at long last, public officials are finding their voice to express politically transgressive thoughts, like the idea that income inequity and racism are bad for America's healthiness.
I just hope that the Ayn Rand Society doesn't get on their case.
July 4, 2008 | 1:34 am
Posted by Marty Kaplan
It's surprising that 40 years passed between the Nixon-Kennedy debates in 1960, which won the largest viewing audience in television history until then, and the airing of the first season of "Survivor," a monster hit that launched the "reality" boom that's dominated television ever since.
Those presidential debates were arguably the first reality show. What took so long for television executives to figure out that there's gold in them thar unscripted hills?
Maybe it's because "debate" is such a high-minded term. Maybe we're too embarrassed to admit that the history of presidential debates is actually a branch of the history of show business.
We speak with reverence about the Nixon-Kennedy debates, as though judging their outcome by whose 5 o'clock shadow looked worse on TV doesn't amount to Exhibit A of our susceptibility to stagecraft. We love recalling Ronald Reagan's putting away the age issue with a gag ("I am not going to exploit for political purposes my opponent's youth and inexperience"), as though his getting off a good joke were enough to undo our complicity in his subsequent cluelessness about Iran-Contra. We delight in noting how Al Gore's sighing, George H.W. Bush's looking at his watch and Michael Dukakis' unwillingness to bite Bernie Shaw's head off because of a hypothetical about his wife Kitty being raped, could well have lost them the White House, as though deciding presidential elections on "American Idol" criteria weren't an indictment of the shallowness of the media-political complex.
Yet, we keep on insisting that how a candidate does in a presidential debate is a useful surrogate for how he would do as president. What was there about George W. Bush's opposition to nation building in the 2000 debates that could have enabled us to anticipate his aggrandizing freedom-on-the-march agenda? What was it in Dick Cheney's performance during the debates that could have prefigured the most arrogant flouting of the Constitution in the history of the Republic? For that matter, what was it that Bill Clinton said to Bob Dole in 1996 that might have forewarned us of the indiscipline and heartache to follow? Only hindsight makes any of those encounters illuminating.
As an inveterate goo-goo, I know I should be encouraged by the new proposal from the Commission on Presidential Debates: To junk the 30-second timers and to give the candidates eight 10-minute segments to discuss single topics that are lobbed in by a moderator who then withdraws to the sidelines. But this strikes me as tinkering at the margins.
Candidates have an innate horror of going off message. That's why debate prep is a quadrennial growth industry in campaignland. Thick binders, with tabbed Qs & As on every conceivable topic, are already being assembled. Key phrases are being polled and focus-grouped. The most wounding attacks are being imagined and countered. Potentially embarrassing votes and quotes are being catalogued and repudiated. Jokes and one-liners are being contributed by advisers and gag-writers. Stand-ins for the opposition are being coached for rehearsal. Gimmicks and stunts are being compiled and considered: issuing a challenge to sign a no-new-taxes pledge, say, or to have your gums examined by a panel of independent periodontists.
Presidential debates are solemnly portrayed by the media as great learning opportunities for the public. But unless something goes very wrong, there is nothing substantive a candidate will say in a debate that he has never said before. We are conditioned by the press to expect spontaneity, candor, a bombshell, a Perry Mason ending. "Did you hear that? He's for the Arabs! He admitted it!" Or: "See? He's a just another Republican, in maverick's clothing." But what we actually get is political kabuki—scripted and choreographed down to the last gesture and gerund.
The early press reaction to the Commission on Presidential Debates' proposed format is a microcosm of what now counts for political analysis. At two of the three debates, candidates will sit together at a table. This, we are told in various media accounts, will have the effect of neutralizing the height advantage that Obama, at 6 foot 1, has over McCain, who is 5 foot 9.
I don't doubt that for some American voters, a candidate's height is a worthy proxy for his presidentiality. Nor do I doubt that for other Americans, race or age or rumors will determine whom they choose. I am also aware—though it depresses me deeply—that the outcome of the election will likely depend on those voters who reach Election Day still undecided. Apparently a two-year campaign will have offered these swing voters in swing states insufficient information on which to base a decision.
That the result of a presidential race may depend on the limbic systems of a million or so Americans is a feature, not a bug, of universal suffrage. What Thomas Jefferson and James Madison proposed as countervailing measures to combat the potential dangers of self-government were a thriving public education system, an ingenious mechanism of checks and balances and a robust Fourth Estate. Unfortunately, none of these systems for safeguarding democracy from ignorance and subversion is in notably healthy shape today, which leaves us at the mercy of sound bites, canned quips and body language.
Instead of applauding genteel format tweaking, why don't we junk the Commission on Presidential Debates entirely? It was an outrage when, in 1986, the two political parties seized control of the debates from the League of Women Voters. Ever since, the candidates have signed Memoranda of Understanding under party auspices that virtually guarantee the twin hazards of civic piety and packaged zingers.
Rather than holding the debates in college auditoriums full of "soft supporters," why not broadcast one of them, say, from a crowded classroom in Dorsey High during lockdown and see which candidate can best connect with the future American workforce? Rather than pretending that questions like, "How can you do everything you promise and still balance the budget?" will get honest answers, why not ask the viewing audience to text in after each response whether they believed what they heard?
My first question for the candidates? "If you don't do something in your first 100 days that pisses off half the public, you'll be a lousy president who'll break the country's heart again. Energy, education, immigration, Iraq: nothing's got easy answers. Which of you has the balls to tell us some hard ones?" Well, maybe not "pisses off" and "balls." But you get the idea. And so should they.
June 27, 2008 | 12:56 am
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Transportation officials have finished installing a barrier along a Logan Canyon curve where several vehicles have slid off the road and plunged into the river below. It's the first step in the Utah Department of Transportation's plan to reduce the number of accidents on this particular curve.
Two adult Utahns have died in the last month from Hantavirus infection, which leads to a deadly lung disease. That comes as a surprise to the Utah Department of Health.
Epidemiologist Jody Baker says Utah typically only sees about one Hantavirus case a year and the fatality rate is about 32%.
"To have 2 fatalities so early in the season is definitely unusual. That's why we wanted to get the message out to the public to be aware of what to look for when it comes to exposure, rodent droppings, how to clean appropriately, and what symptoms to look for."
May 5 - 12 is Archeology Week in Utah. Lori Hunsaker, Deputy State Preservation Officer, explains why archeology is something to celebrate here in Utah:
"In Utah we enjoy some of the best archeology in the world and it isn't all limited to Salt Lake. It's all over the state...We want people to embrace and appreciate the rich and diverse pre-history and history that we have in Utah."
Huntsaker says it's easy to find a personal connection to the ancient people of Utah.
Saturday afternoon marked the 125th graduation ceremony and a milestone for nearly 4,500 students at Utah State University. Among students receiving bachelor's degrees is 98-year-old American Studies student, Twila Boston.
Twila grew up on a farm in Fremont and Loa, Utah, and left for nursing school in 1932 on her 19th birthday. She worked for many years as a nurse. When she returned to higher education recently, she joked it seemed the right thing to do:
"What else is there to do at my age except eat and read and sleep?"
The Bill of Rights celebration is an annual fundraiser for the ACLU Utah. Anna Brower is the Development Director for the ACLU of Utah. She spoke with UPR's Ashley Tolman about the organization's Bill of Rights Celebration taking place this week in Salt Lake City.
Brower explains the choice of this year's theme, "Power of the People":
Family members went to look for Mitchell Shaw of Riverdale when he failed to return from work. He was found dead at 2:00 Tuesday morning, crushed by a front-loader while working at Promontory Point.
Chief Deputy Kevin Potter of the Box Elder County sheriffs' office says Shaw was working by himself and operating an older style front-end loader with hydraulic arms: "Apparently he had leaned out over to the side and those arms came down on him. whether the hydraulics failed or he accidentally bumped levers, he was crushed against the side of the cab and he was killed instantly."
Utah's Department of Natural Resources is updating the Great Salt Lake Comprehensive Management Plan and its mineral leasing plan and is taking public comment on the plan until April 26. In addition, Great Salt Lake Mineral applied for a permit for evaporation ponds on 91,000 acres of the lake. The Army Corp of Engineers is working on a draft environmental impact statement.
Shirley Erickson Gorospe is Director of Evaporating Shorelines, a nonprofit organization responsible for producing a documentary of the same name.
These stories and the rest of today's headlines, plus the forecast tease from the Utah Climate Center.
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Governor Gary Herbert is being urged to veto a bill prohibiting filming on farms, ranches, and dairies. Matt Rice of Mercy for Animals says the bill is a "thinly veiled attempt" to keep cruel and corrupt practices hidden from public view. Ashley Tolman reports on both supporters and opponents of the bill.


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National Initiatives
To Engage Students, Faculty and Community …
UW Oshkosh participates in a series of interrelated national and statewide projects that align with the Governing Ideas related to teaching and learning excellence.
Wisconsin Campus Compact
UW Oshkosh participates in this compact to provide information and resources in support of engaging students in activities outside of the classroom and in support of the American Democracy Project (ADP).
Shared UW Oshkosh information with the state coordinator for posting as part of an online Resource Guide.
Vista Volunteers Project with Webster Stanley School New Voters Project and Green Campus/Earth Charter Program.
American Democracy Project
The UW Oshkosh campus is one of approximately 200 American Association of State Colleges and Universities (AASCU) participating in this national project that supports student civic engagement.
Building upon ongoing work on campus to engage students and faculty in service to the community, a multitude of service-learning projects are in place that highlight the constant engagement of students with the community under the guidance of the faculty.
With awareness on the value-added benefits of civic engagement, heightened by participation in the NSSE, the project accepted an invitation from the National American Democracy project to be part of a grant funded by the U.S. Election Assistance Commission, which sought colleges for programs that recruit and train college students to serve as nonpartisan poll workers and poll assistants.
The program is part of an effort to encourage college-student involvement and to assist state and local governments with administering elections. The campus agreed to be part of the program based on past outstanding performance related to interest in local, state and national elections; high rate of student voter registrants; and even higher rate of eligible student voters who cast votes.
The ADP sponsored projects with the Oshkosh Student Association and also is working side by side with the Reeve Union Office of Volunteerism to promote civic engagement.
The American Democracy Project coordinates the University's activities for Constitution Day as well as provides sponsorship for speakers to promote political and civic understanding.
Click here to read last year's report.