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One of the most monumental printed books ever produced, John James Audubon's Birds of America, sold at Sotheby's London this week for £7,321,250 ($11,542,683) setting a new world record for any printed book ever sold at auction. There are only around 100 copies of this book which contains 435 hand-colored prints and is more than three feet tall. A different copy sold for $8.8 million in 2000.
Four collectors bid on the phones and in the room, driving the price above the estimates of $6.3 million to $9.5 million. The book was purchased by London dealer Michael Tollemache, who was bidding in the room and who described the work after the sale as "priceless." The Audubon was part of the sale of Magnificent Books, Manuscripts and Drawings from the Collection of Frederick, 2nd Lord Hesketh that brought in a total of £14,971,950 ($23,604,776 ) sailing over the high estimate of approximately $18.6 million and setting a record as the highest price ever achieved for a single-session sale of Books and Manuscripts ever held in London.
The sale also featured a first folio of Shakespeare's plays dating back to 1623, one of the most important books in English Literature. It sold for £1,497,250, right around the high estimate of £1.5 million and was purchased by Stephan Loewentheil. Forty letters relating to the imprisonment of Mary, Queen of Scots, including four letters signed by Queen Elizabeth I, sold for £349,250 ($550,628) (estimated at £150,000-200,000), a record for a group of Elizabethan manuscripts at auction.


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Classes are introduced into the Java environment when they are referenced by name in a class that is already running. There is a bit of magic that goes on to get the first class running (which is why you have to declare the main() method as static, taking a string array as an argument), but once that class is running, future attempts at loading classes are done by the class loader.
At its simplest, a class loader creates a flat name space of class bodies that are referenced by a string name. The method definition is:
Class r = loadClass(String className, boolean resolveIt);
The variable className contains a string that is understood by the class loader and is used to uniquely identify a class implementation. The variable resolveIt is a flag to tell the class loader that classes referenced by this class name should be resolved (that is, any referenced class should be loaded as well).
All Java virtual machines include one class loader that is embedded in the virtual machine. This embedded loader is called the primordial class loader. It is somewhat special because the virtual machine assumes that it has access to a repository of trusted classes which can be run by the VM without verification.
The primordial class loader implements the default implementation of loadClass(). Thus, this code understands that the class name java.lang.Object is stored in a file with the prefix java/lang/Object.class somewhere in the class path. This code also implements both class path searching and looking into zip files for classes. The really cool thing about the way this is designed is that Java can change its class storage model simply by changing the set of functions that implements the class loader.
Digging around in the guts of the Java virtual machine, you will discover that the primordial class loader is implemented primarily in the functions FindClassFromClass and ResolveClass.
So when are classes loaded? There are exactly two cases: when the new bytecode is executed (for example, FooClass f = new FooClass();) and when the bytecodes make a static reference to a class (for example, System.out).
The Java virtual machine has hooks in it to allow a user-defined class loader to be used in place of the primordial one. Furthermore, since the user class loader gets first crack at the class name, the user is able to implement any number of interesting class repositories, not the least of which is HTTP servers -- which got Java off the ground in the first place.
There is a cost, however, because the class loader is so powerful (for example, it can replace java.lang.Object with its own version), Java classes like applets are not allowed to instantiate their own loaders. (This is enforced by the class loader, by the way.) This column will not be useful if you are trying to do this stuff with an applet, only with an application running from the trusted class repository (such as local files).

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"Getting Things Done" With Obama
Recently I was speaking to a liberal friend about a writer I thought might be a good reviewer for a book I recently published on the Barack Obama phenomenon.
"He seems to be a lot less left than he used to be," I said about this writer.
"I think," my friend responded, "he decided he wants to get things done."
It's an old American trope: leftists don't live in the real world; they don't want or know how to "get things done." They don't have concrete and practical alternatives. They just want to complain. They are dysfunctional.
In an article on Obama's political origins in Chicago one of his early campaign staffers approvingly recalls how the young Obama ruffled the feathers of "black activists" and "community folks" with seeming indifference to "the struggle" and "the movement" in his practical quest "get the job done." (Ryan Lizza, "Making It: How Chicago Shaped Obama," The New Yorker, July 21, 2008).
The dichotomy between inherently counter-productive "ideology" and "getting things done" is a major theme in Obama's campaign and career. Again and again, he introduces his cabinet picks and policy ideas with stern admonitions about the need to steer a practical "get things done" course between the "ideologies" of the right and left, as if any key U.S. government agencies or policies have recently fallen under the direction of Marxists.
The "get things done" narrative is a big part of what "mainstream" (dominant corporate) media commentators say in support of the President Elect. Obama, the line goes, isn't an "ideologue," he's a "pragmatist." He soars above the unproductive realm of "ideology" to embody the practical, can-do spirit inhabited by "most Americans." He wants to "get things done."
Obama and his team of "the best and brightest" apparently have no ideology of their own. They're just "can-do" folks interested in using technical expertise to make policy in accord with the no-nonsense American people, who reject "ideology."
Skirting "The Real Issue to be Faced"
But who doesn't want to "get things done," really? And how much of a virtue is it to want to "get things done"? The highly ideological fascist dictator Benito Mussolini was hailed by Western businessmen for his practical success in making the trains run on time. Adolf Hitler and Josef Stalin certainly "got things done." So did Richard Nixon and George W. Bush and so on.
A President Obama may not seem likely to transgress on the level of these criminals, of course. That's good but progressives have sound reasons to be concerned about his definition of "getting things done." According to Larissa MacFarquhar in a carefully researched piece on the President Elect last year, the solutions offered in Obama's writings, speeches, and town-hall meetings are "small and local rather than deep-reaching and systemic." Such refusal to advance large reform - e.g. single-payer health insurance on the Canadian model - reflects what MacFarquhar found to be Obama's "deeply conservative" take on history, society and politics: "In his view of history, in his respect for tradition, in his skepticism that the world can be changed any way but very, very slowly, Obama is deeply conservative. There are moments when he sounds almost Burkean. He distrusts abstractions, generalizations, extrapolations, projections. It's not just that he thinks revolutions are unlikely: he values continuity and stability for their own sake, sometimes even more than he values change for the good."
MacFarquhar found that Obama's "deep conservatism" was why "Republicans continue to find him congenial, especially those who opposed the war on much the same conservative grounds that he did." (Larissa MacFarquhar, The Conciliator: Where is Barack Obama Coming From?," The New Yorker, (May 7, 2007)
"Perhaps the greatest misconception about Barack Obama," Ryan Lizza noted in the New Yorker last July. "is that he is some sort of anti-establishment revolutionary. Rather, every stage of his political career has been marked by an eagerness to accommodate himself to existing institutions rather than tear them down or replace them" (Lizza, "Making It")
The problem here is that American and world citizens are facing problems that go beyond small-scale solutions and beyond existing dominant institutions. As John Bellamy Foster has recently noted, we currently inhabit a period where "life on the planet as we know it can be destroyed either instantaneously through global nuclear holocaust, or in a matter of a few generations by climate change and other manifestations of environmental destruction." As Foster, Hannah Holleman, and Robert W. McChesney recently argued in Monthly Review, "A society that supports its global position and social order though $1 trillion a year in military spending, most likely far exceeding that of all the other countries in the world put together - unleashing untold destruction on the world, while faced with intractable problems of inequality, economic stagnation, financial crisis, poverty, waste, and environmental decline at home - is a society that is ripe for change." (John Bellamy Foster, Hannah Holleman, and Robert W. McChesney, "The U.S. Imperial Triangle and Military Spending," Monthly Review, October 2008).
Put less delicately, it is a society overdue for revolution - for what the democratic socialist Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. King called "real issue to be faced" beyond "superficial" problems: "radical reconstruction of society itself." (Martin Luther King Jr, "A Testament of Hope" [1968], reproduced in Martin Luther King, Jr.., A Testament of Hope: The Essential Writings and Speeches of Martin Luther King, Jr., ed. by James M. Washington [San Francisco, CA: Harper Collins, 1991]).
King rejected efforts to get him to run for the U.S. presidency in part because he wasn't interested in cutting moral and ideological corners in accord with the wildly disproportionate influence that concentrated economic and military power exercise over U.S. electoral politics and policy. I'd like to see Obama dismiss Dr. King as an impractical "ideologue."
Coming Up Short on Health Care and Economics
More than a generation after King was killed for including radical change in his can- and must-do list for America, Obama's "Guaranteed Choice" health care plan amounts to a probably unworkable "half way solution" that falls well short of the public's longstanding desire for universal national health insurance. It preserves the power and profits of the institutions most responsible for the health care crisis - private insurance and pharmaceutical corporations. "Despite Barack Obama's avowed hopes for change," Roger Bybee notes, the President Elect's ealth reform, "manacled to private insurers, may ultimately deepen public cynicism of the possibility of meaningful reform." (Z Magazine, December 2008).
In a similar vein, "Obamanomics" at best falls short of the bold progressive initiatives and challenges to financial and corporate power required to spark equitable domestic development. As adjusted in response to the banking crisis and deepening recession, moreover, Obama's economic program could well amount to "something akin to a national austerity program..." Instead of forward movement on jobs, education, retirement, and health care, Jack Rasmus finds, "what me may well get is 'Let's all tighten our belts to get through this crisis.'" (Z Magazine, December 2008).[1]
But like most of the nation's elected office-holders, Obama supports a massive taxpayer-funded bailout of leading Wall Street financial and insurance firms deemed "too big [and powerful] to fail" - a curious government payout for parasitic enterprises that have driven the national and global economy into the ground. The leading Wall Street firm Morgan Stanley alone is slated to receive tens of billions of federal dollars - a giant state capital dividend approved by Obama even as the firm's analysts approvingly observe Obama's "agree[ment]" with conventional establishment wisdom - and ideology - holding that "there is no peace dividend" (see Paul Street, " ' There is No Peace Dividend': Reflections on Empire, Inequality, and 'Brand Obama,'" Z Magazine [January 2009 - forthcoming]).
A "Superficial Reform" for Ex-Offenders
I learned a thing or two about Obama's definition of "getting things done" back when Obama was still a state senator. In the fall of 2002, I published a study documenting the remarkable extent to which city, county, and state authorities in and around Chicago were exacerbating black social and economic disadvantage by saddling an astonishing number of African Americans with prison histories and the lifelong mark of a criminal record. Among my findings: (1) there were nearly 20,000 more black males in the Illinois state prison system than enrolled in the state's public universities in the 2001-2002 school year; (2) Chicago area black male ex-felons were equivalent in number to 42 percent of the metropolitan region's black male workforce; (3) ten very predominantly black Chicago zip codes received 25 percent of Illinois prisoners released in the years 2000, 2001, and 2002; (4) the chance of securing legitimate employment decreases significantly with prison time and ex-prisoners suffer a lifetime "wage penalty" (earnings reduction) as high as 30 percent.
The study, titled The Vicious Circle: Race, Prison, Community and Jobs (Chicago Urban League, 2002) was released at a day-long conference in October of 2002 on the South Side of Chicago - a major event on a racial justice and economic development issue that had long escaped adequate attention. State senator Barack Obama was a featured speakers at this gathering.
The Vicious Circle became part of the arsenal used by activists to push for two state bills meant to ease ex-offender employment barriers in Illinois. The first bill, sponsored by the progressive Chicago-based state representative Constance Howard (the 2003 Ex-offender Expungement and Sealing Act ) permitted the sealing (from review by employers and the public) of criminal records for Illinois ex-prisoners - four years after their release - who have been convicted of nonviolent misdemeanors and certain low-level Class 4 felonies (minor drug possession and prostitution). The act also allowed the expungement (the actual destruction) of all records - with 2 to 3 year waiting periods depending on the offense - for a small number of minor criminal cases, including arrests that did not result in a conviction and first-time possession of marijuana.
The second bill, sponsored by state legislator Obama mandated the issuing of "Certificates of Relief from Disability" [CRDs] by the Illinois Department of Correction's Prisoner Review Board to certain ex-offenders. Modeled weakly on a much stronger law in New York, the legislation originally permitted a first "offender" who had been convicted of no more than one non-violent felony to apply to the courts or to the Prisoner Review Board to receive a Certificate purportedly entitling them not to be denied an occupational or professional license in fifteen (subsequently expanded to twenty-eight) specified and mostly skilled employment fields because of a previous conviction.
These progressive-sounding bills meant very little in reality. By my best estimates in a 2006 program evaluation conducted for the Chicago-based advocacy organization Protestants for the Common Good (PCG), all but a small portion of Illinois prison inmates - probably no more than 5 percent - were ineligible for records sealing, much less expungement, under Rep. Howard's law. (It didn't help that, as the New York Times reported in the fall of 2006, employers enjoy widespread access to private criminal history databases that commonly omit expungements).
Obama's bill - subsequently expanded to include second-time nonviolent offenders -cast a slightly wider net over the prisoner and ex-offender community. Given the remarkable recidivism that characterizes the inmate population and the large percentage of inmates serving time for technically violent offenses, however, the margin of difference was not terribly great. At the same time, Obama's bill did nothing about the persistently high de facto barriers to ex-offender employment in Illinois. It contained no capacity to compel occupational licensure, much less actual employment, of qualified ex-offender applicants.
It covered only a very small percentage of mostly skilled occupations that were and remain beyond the each of the ex-offender population regardless of explicit and/or de facto barriers to the training and/or hiring of people with criminal records. [2]
The conclusions of a 2006 PCG test-project seeking to evaluate the Obama bill's outcomes and relevance were less than surprising. PCG found that the legislation, "while well-intended," had "very limited applicability as currently drafted. The number of ex-offenders" who were assisted in any meaningful way, was "small indeed."
Obama's legislation anticipated a key warning made two years later by leading national prisoner reentry expert Jeremy Travis in his award-winning 2006 study But They All Come Back: Facing the Challenges of Prisoner Reentr. "The risk at this juncture," Travis warned about a recent upsurge in ex-offender reintegration policies, "is the allure of success ...We must not confuse superficial reforms with profound changes." Highly advertised small changes can work against real and substantive change.
By "the allure of success," Travis meant at least in part the thirst of legislators to pad their resumes with progressive sounding policy-changes that actually did very little for the nation's vast and disproportionately black army of prisoners and felons.
For what it's worth, I am not at all convinced that Obama's legislation was "well-intended." Insiders told me it was deliberately "watered down" under the influence of powerful conservative players (including the leading corporate-neoliberal downtown Chicago organization Metropolis 2020 and the state-prison-affiliated Safer Foundation) and in order for the ambitious Obama to avoid an unpleasant "floor fight" with reactionary "downstate" legislators who enjoyed fiscal and legislative-apportionment windfalls accruing to their districts from racially disparate mass incarceration.
Obama wanted to "get something done" largely for his political and policy resume, regardless of his bill's consequences for the (ex-offender) population in question.
"Bringing People Together To Get Things Done" By Helping Kill Universal Health Care
Reviewing Obama's ex-offender law, I was reminded of the critical role Obama played at the end of his Illinois Assembly tenure in helping the insurance industry kill legislative efforts towards universal health coverage in Illinois. Working with Republicans and insurance corporation lobbyists who later extolled him for honoring their interests, he intervened to (again) "water down" the state's "Health Care Justice Act" to mean little more than the setting up of a panel to research the supposedly mysterious question of how to provide universal coverage - a panel that gave the private insurance industry significant influence in how the issue would be approached.
At the beginning of 2004, the state's progressive health-care advocates had high hopes for passing a newly introduced bill that would have made it official state policy to ensure that all Illinois residents could access "quality healthcare at costs that are reasonable." The state governor's office, legislature, and courts were all simultaneously controlled by Democrats for the first time in a long while. It seemed like an opportune moment for progressive activists coalesced around the Illinois Campaign for Better Health Care.
Insurers expressed their fear that the language of the proposed bill would lead to a "government takeover of healthcare." By the time the bill became law, containing three amendments written by Obama, they had little to worry about. As finally passed, the legislation merely established universal healthcare as a policy goal. It set up a task force charged only with studying how to expand healthcare access - a panel that gave (thanks to one of Obama's amendments) insurers a big voice on how the task force developed its plan. And as the Boston Globe's Scott Helman noted in a September 2007 feature, insurance "lobbyists praised Obama for taking the insurance industry's concerns into consideration. 'Barack is a very reasonable person who clearly recognized the various roles involved in the healthcare system,' said Phil Lackman, a lobbyist for insurance agents and brokers. Obama 'understood our concern that we didn't want a predetermined outcome.'" By Hellman's instructive account:
"In one attempt at a deal, Obama approached the Campaign for Better Health Care with insurers' concerns, asking if the group would consider a less stringent mandate than requiring the state to come up with a universal healthcare plan. The coalition decided not to bend, said Jim Duffett, the group's executive director."
" ' The concept of the Health Care Justice Act was to bring the sides - the different perspectives and stakeholders - to the table,' Duffett said. 'In this situation, Obama was being a conduit from the insurance industry to us.'"
"Obama later watered down the bill after hearing from insurers and after a legal precedent surfaced during the debate indicating that it would be unconstitutional for one legislative assembly to pass a law requiring a future legislative assembly to craft a healthcare plan."
"During debate on the bill on May 19, 2004, Obama portrayed himself as a conciliatory figure. He acknowledged that he had 'worked diligently with the insurance industry,' as well as Republicans, to limit the legislation's reach and noted that the bill had undergone a 'complete restructuring' after industry representatives 'legitimately' raised fears that it would result in a single-payer system."
" ' The original presentation of the bill was the House version that we radically changed - we radically changed - and we changed in response to concerns that were raised by the insurance industry,' Obama said, according to the session transcript."
According to Obama spokeswoman Jen Psaki in the summer of 2007, Obama's experience with the Health Care Justice "showed him that real change comes not by dividing but by bringing people together to get things done" (Scott Helman, "In Illinois, Obama Dealt with Lobbyists," Boston Globe, 23 September 2007).
"Thinking Ahead"
By the time the reality of how he helped undermine universal health care efforts in Illinois received any public attention, Obama had moved on to the U.S. Senate, where his passion for "getting things done" included making it more difficult for ordinary people to recover decent damages from corporations in court, voting twice to unconditionally fund the criminal occupation of Iraq, and voting twice for the totalitarian Patriotic Act - the second time (last spring) with increased wiretapping power and retroactive immunity for telecommunications corporations.
From the minute he got into the U.S. Senate, getting elected to a higher office - either Illinois Governor or the U.S. presidency - was already at the top of his practical to-do list. "One evening in February 2005, in a four-hour meeting stoked by pepperoni pizza and great ambition." the Chicago Tribune reported in the spring of 2007, "Sen. Barack Obama and his senior advisors crafted a strategy to fit the Obama 'brand.'" The meeting took place just weeks after Obama had been sworn into the elite representative body of the federal United States government. According to Tribune Washington Bureau reporters Mike Dorning and Christi Parsons:
"The charismatic celebrity-politicians had rocketed from the Illinois state legislature to the U.S. Senate, stirring national interest. The challenge was to maintain altitude despite the limited tools available to a freshman senator whose party was in a minority."
"Yet even in those early days, Obama and his advisors were thinking ahead. Some called it the '2010-2012-2016' plan: a potential bid for governor or re-election to the Senate in 2010, followed by a bid for the White House as soon as 2012, not 2016. The way to get there, they decided, was by carefully building a record that matched the brand identity: Obama as a unifier and consensus builder, and almost postpolitical leader."
"The staffers in that after-hours session. Convened by Obama's Senate staff and including Chicago political advisor David Axlerod, planned a low-profile strategy that would emphasize workhorse results over headlines. Obama would invest in the long-term profile by not seeming too eager for the bright lights."
The title of the article in which this story appeared was "Carefully Crafting the Obama Brand." (Chicago Tribune, 12 June, 2007, sec.1. p.1).
"Getting things done" ("workhorse results") would be a key part of the "brand."
False Dichotomies
Observers are free to call Obama's policy agenda and team an expression of" non-ideological" "pragmatism." The deeper truth is that they reflect the incrementalist spirit of pseudo-progressive "third way" corporate centrism in the well-trod footsteps of Bill Clinton and Tony Blair. My recent study Barack Obama and the Future of American Politics (Boulder, CO: Paradigm, 2008) shows that Obama can in fact (with some basic critical investigation) be found on the ideological spectrum. Like the John F. Kennedy (JFK) depicted in Bruce Miroff's remarkable and forgotten New Left study Pragmatic Illusions: The Presidential Politics of John Fitzgerald Kennedy and in Noam Chomsky's instructive Rethinking Camelot: JFK, the Vietnam War, and US Political Culture, Obama is a "progressive" of a very particular corporate, imperial, and racially neutral type. With Obama, as with the neoliberal icon JFK, this is the dark reality behind deceptive claims of post-ideological and nonpartisan commitment to technical expertise
At the same time, it is worth nothing that my liberal friend and others who contrast radical ideas with practical "get things done" politics are advancing something of a false dichotomy. Again and again in American history, we have seen that in-power Democrats move off their attachment to concentrated wealth and power only when they are faced with serious threats of popular rebellion and radical change from below. Big and meaningful reforms - and we need serious reforms (e.g. single-payer national health insurance, massive public works programs, and the restoration of union organizing rights in this country), however insufficient they may be in and of themselves - are only attained when elites are convinced that the cost of changing is less than the cost of not changing. The change comes when the governing class believes popular forces are ready, willing, and able to create serious disruption and move society to the left. That's a "pragmatic" reason that progressives should not to shirk from calling for revolution [3].
"An Accurate Translation"
As for the timeworn claim that true-progressive radical leftists are just do-nothing "antis," perpetually alienated people who have no interest in advancing practical alternatives, this is what ruling classes and their apologists have always said about those who dare to advance serious and urgently needed progressive change. "One commonly hears," Chomsky wrote, "that carping critics complain about what is wrong, but do not present solutions. There is an accurate translation for that charge: 'they present solutions and I don't like them.'" (Noam Chomsky, Failed States: The Abuse of Power and the Assault on Democracy (New York, NY: Metropolitan, 2006, p. 262).
Paul Street's books include Empire and Inequality: America and the World Since 9/11 (Boulder, CO: Paradigm, 2004); Segregated Schools: Educational Apartheid in the post-Civil Rights Era (New York: Routledge, 2005); Racial Oppression in the Global Metropolis (New York, 2007), and, most recently Barack Obama and the Future of American Politics (Boulder, CO: Paradigm,2008),order at www.paradigmpublishers.com/Books/BookDetail.aspx?productID=186987
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1. Underlying systemic contradictions related to the deepening economic crisis may drive Obama to introduce some measures that will seem comparatively progressive in relation to the last thirty-five years of U.S. economic policy. For a real and genuinely progressive recovery to occur, however, popular agency on the model of the recent factory occupation at Chicago's Republic Door and Window plant will be required, as in previous periods of reform. As Howard Zinn noted in The Progressive last March: the Democrats "offer no radical change from the status quo. They do not propose what the present desperation of people cries out for: a government guarantee of jobs to everyone who needs one, a minimum income for every household, housing relief to everyone who faces eviction or foreclosure. They do not suggest the deep cuts in the military budget or the radical changes in the tax system that would free billions, even trillions, for social programs to transform the way we live. None of this should surprise us. The Democratic Party has broken with its historic conservatism, its pandering to the rich, its predilection for war, only when it has encountered rebellion from below, as in the Thirties and the Sixties."
2. According to the best estimates, nearly a third of prisoners in the U.S. are not working when arrested - a jobless rate far beyond that of the population as a whole. Nearly half (46 percent) of prisoners have never held a job longer than two years. Prisoners are more than twice as likely as low-wage workers to be high school dropouts: nearly 60 percent versus 30 percent. A third of low-wage male workers have either a college degree or some college or vocational education, but only 7 percent of prisoners possess such qualifications.
3. The other reason is more existential. We cannot meaningfully attain democracy, peace, social justice or ecological sustainability (all interrelated) under the inherently perverted priorities of the state-capitalist Profits System and its intimately related global empire. Dr. King's "radical reconstruction of society itself" is something we must put on our "get things done" list if we want the species to survive the next 20 years in any decent and recognizably desirable and democratic form.
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Keep bringing the "False Dichotomies" to the Light of DayBy Annabel, Patrick at Dec 20, 2008 23:51 PM |
It is very apparent to me and others that the only way the war in Iraq will end, empire get reeled in, and universal helath care survive getting axed by the next administration is mass mobilization. It will take millions of us on the streets to bring these tasks to fruition. The 60's and early 70's with mass mobilizations for Civil Rights and anti- (Vietnam) war sentiment remains the best example of how to make the government change in a direction we determine. This is definitely fertile ground for democractic participation to expand and grow, but as Professor Chomsky rightly points out, this can be accomplished; "...if (we) can overcome the success of the business world in atomizing the population, and driving people to individual concerns rather than social engagement." (See American Presidential Elections; Noam Chomsky Interviewed by Assaf Kfoury, December 01, 2008 By Noam Chomsky and Assaf Kfoury Znet)
The recent inspiring factory (Republic Window and Door) occupation in Chicago and the current student occupation at the New School (NYC) are small but powerful indications that something new is afoot. Of course we have the heroic rebellion in Greece. And there are countless other smaller forms of "unreported resistance" (Howard Zinn's term) happening and ready to happen at home and abroad. Obama's corporate-imperial transition picks have been useful in educating people on how supposed saviors from on high aren't going to fix these messes; we're going to have to do it ourselves.


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Jobs were added by private businesses last -- is according to the ADP report we got out this morning.
Most of those gains coming from small businesses with fewer than 49 employees.
Looks pretty get ahead of the big report Friday -- -- with this employment industry advisor is it kids should we be encouraged -- what.
Well you know I I think that there is a lot of good news in this report is also a little bit of concerning -- -- account.
So if you look at the good news first on it is great to see a lot of these jobs that are being created are in the small to medium sized businesses -- these are companies that.
You know have less -- 500 employees.
So we need that to be a growth engine for us.
On the flip side of that I think what is concerning is this report showed us -- the large.
Employers company -- have a thousand employees or more are.
Really held back they didn't make the -- they were cautious so that Philippines.
Earning -- we -- conversion of all the temporary jobs that were created in recent years is that we recovered from the recession.
-- -- more permanent positions at this point well I think there has been a lot of that transition but companies are still hiring temporary some contractors.
To have the flexibility in their workforce so.
-- those jobs are still out there it's a great way for people that are also trying to get their foot in the door you know -- get back to work definitely lots of opportunities in the temporary sector.
As we look forward to then the big report on Friday that you've mentioned that.
Thought industries like construction manufacturing health care -- stronger than this morning maybe not so much at least in manufacturing right.
Manufacturing continues to be a concern you immediate problem Friday to yes that's certainly could be a week we need that fact Eric.
To really create jobs and there was a tremendous amount of jobs lost millions of jobs lost in -- area.
Manufacturing and construction so those are two sectors to watch for on Friday and really -- the job creation is coming back.
In those areas you've seen housing -- come back in the biggest way ethically and in Florida.
Phoenix is this red hot possibly bubble -- -- market at this point in inventory has been a huge problem.
I wonder if we're not underestimating the potential boost we might get from construction jobs.
Or an add on jobs that you get from people -- and furniture place right.
Absolutely and then also in the northeast we've seen -- sandy being so affected there's going to be a bill with construction and also.
Some retell back there as well but banks have so in the spring right yeah absolutely -- And there is some good signs in housing with you know the new construction.
And you know prices looked to be coming up a little bit -- hopefully there's a good sign man.
But it you know everyone's always looking isn't helping enough to come back where the job market that have to come back you know.
Which one is -- and really it's a combination of all these things kind of happening together so there's still some concerns out there but.
On the flip side there are -- a lot of jobs out there are lot of companies are trying to hire their actually having difficulty getting those very skilled specific right.
Positions filled so it's definitely an interest staying you know job -- really have to look at that the details of it.
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the thing is, various school districts already have their own police. as do various transit departments. most of these school police concentrate on the high schools as these young adults we fail to parent need armed guards. the school districts with community colleges have a sizable police force. guns in the hands of teachers is about as useful as making cops teach kids science....
like you said, it usually gives these creatures bravado to know they are the only armed one. dumb idea or not, a parked squad car at almost every school in my area seems like a decent concept. the first ones to be "targeted" as an argument... you have to have the guile to attack an armed police officer. looking at the history and faces of these creatures... i dont see it. i dont see them engaging a "cop" probably why most end their lives before the remote possibility of a "cop" arriving with a gun of their own.
ill be all for "gun control" but all the arguments usually brought up for it...makes it a fruitless emotional gesture to put this sort of tragedy behind you. we have a serious cultural problem in the U.S. screaming about guns and the evil NRA is just a symptom of the problem. sorry it is. there is so much that needs to be changed, that concentrating on any one thing is childish, but maturity is not a characteristic we have in public discourse.
Your suggestion of a squad car at every school misses the point perfectly.
The point is to allow ordinary citizens, who have applied for and gotten concealed carry permits (so that the shooter cannot know whether anyone is armed or who they are) to carry on school grounds. If you don't do this, but do put cop cars on every campus eventually one of them will be called away for some emergency--and now the shooter knows that the school is utterly undefended.
actually i didnt. nice try. your using the analogy of the air marshal program.... but with average people...i was not, i was bringing up the fact that plenty of school districts already have uniformed and plain clothes officers at their schools.
i know plenty of concealed carry permit holders that should not be responsible for repelling this attack of gunmen waiting for squad cars (that are owned by the school district and do not get called off on random municipal emergencies) to drive off and provide this coordinated opportunity of some sort...
while your idea is noted and not invalid. it is not new, and leaves those that are not responsible for security elect to use deadly force as they see fit, between errands...i dont see how one "point" is totally off, but the other is "perfect". i find your idea just as utterly flawed. Both in conjunction might be a little more palatable to the informed individual. which is what i was trying to say....but did not spell it out for you to follow, my apologies.
Sorry but it did look to me like after Unseen and I were talking about a covertly armed presence you then started talking about a squad car at every school--which is the exact opposite of a covertly armed presence, and would have none of the advantages of such. And my point was that it does have some advantages over an overt presence.
If I misunderstood your intent I apologize.
It's common for criminals and terrorists to create a diversion (a false incident report, for example) to distract police. An few armed citizens on campus would appear to be a good backup defense.
So in your experience, what would you suggest as workable options?
This could a good moment build a decision tree, to lay out options and identify conflicts. If we had some probabilty data relating to options tried, that would be of help. There might be hidden combinations of options that can generate significantly reduced risk.
It's strange that a lot of people are of the mentality that adds up to "Make me more vulnerable; it'll make me (feel) safer." Like you said about the lack of gun show massacres, someone who wants to kill a lot of people before going out himself in a blaze of glory is looking for the most vulnerable people, be they 6 or 7 year olds or people in a dark movie theater.
A number of attacks have also occurred in locations where the assailant could not have assumed there would be no armed individuals in the vicinity. I think the more likely explanation is that the killers target areas that have some sort of significance to them, or they target areas where there are certain to be a large number of people gathered in a small area.
To cite two more notable examples, the Luby's massacre in 1991 had twenty-three victim fatalities (not including the perpetrator) and the San Ysidro McDonald's massacre in 1984 had 21 victim fatalities (again, not including the perpetrator).
In the case of shootings like Columbine or Virginia Tech, the perpetrators were connected to those institutions, so it is hard to say whether or not the lack of armed defence in those institutions was at all relevant when they were selected as targets.
I feel fairly sure that if there were a dozen armed students at Virginia Tech or a couple armed teachers or administrators at Columbine, at least a few students would have been saved.
I feel fairly certain that if there were a dozen students with rocks at Virginia Tech or a couple teachers or administrators with sling shots at Columbine, at least a few students would have been saved.
Luby's happened while Texas had laws against concealed carry. One woman, who had left her gun out in the car in accordance with the then-law, got to watch her parents get killed. The Luby's massacre provided a solid argument for the legalization of concealed carry in Texas, and it is now legal there with a permit (they also recognize many out of state permits).
California has only extremely limited concealed carry.
So all the assailant had to do in either case was check for badges and visible firearms; contrary to your assertion, these were not cases where the assailant could not be assured people were defenseless.
Your statement was, "...the mere fact that there could be someone [armed] there would deter many such attacks."
Both of these instances qualify under that 'could'. In the Luby's case, the perpetrator drove through the front window of the diner making it unlikely he took stock of whether or not there was anyone outside who could have access to a firearm kept in their vehicle. In the McDonald's case, the armed police themselves firing at the assailant were not much of a deterrent to call it quits.
And it's not as if these are the only cases. I cannot speculate on whether or not any of these exceptional individuals did or did not take into account the possibility of an armed defence, and neither can you.
[edit]Well, I suppose we can speculate, but I don't personally find it that meaningful.[/edit]
For the record, there have been no mass shootings at boat shows either. The list of types of places mass violence has not happened is extremely long. I'm not sure why you think gun control proponents would expect gun shows to explode in violence anymore than they would expect drunk driving or illegal street racing at a car show.
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Sebastian Vettel was handed a warning by the Montreal stewards for his part in a practice incident with Bruno Senna on Friday morning.
Approaching the final chicane at the Circuit Gilles Villeneuve, Senna was seen waving his fist at Vettel after the reigning World Champion pushed him wide as he dived down the inside.
Almost immediately word came down from race control that the stewards would look into the incident after practice.
Vettel, though, escaped punishment and was instead handed a warning by the Canadian Grand Prix stewards.
The German went on to finish the day fourth on the timesheets with a 1:15.531, which put him 0.272s down on Friday's pace-setter Lewis Hamilton.
"We ran the super soft tyres this morning thinking there would be rain this afternoon; in the end it didn't come but you never know in advance," said Vettel.
"I think we had a good day; we got decent laps and even with the different approach in terms of when we ran the tyres, I think we can be happy.
"Let's see what we can do tomorrow.
"It's a great track here, there are a lot of stop and starts, braking, chicanes and quick changes in direction but it's good fun - it's part of this track, there are bumps, so it's wild and rough, but it's fun."
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Open house at the Foreign Ministry on 26 October 2011
Vienna, 19 October 2011 – The Federal Ministry for European and International Affairs will be holding an open house on Wednesday, 26 October 2011, on the occasion of Austria's National Holiday.
The Foreign Ministry will open its doors at Minoritenplatz 8 to visitors between 10 am and 2 pm. Key themes of this year's open house include, among others, Austria's membership of the UN Human Rights Council, a virtual exploration of Austrian development cooperation and the consular assistance provided by the Foreign Ministry. Vice Chancellor and Foreign Minister Michael Spindelegger and Foreign Ministry staff will be on hand to answer any queries and concerns in relation to Austria's foreign policy.
Other items on the programme:
- Experts give advice for the ideal preparation of trips abroad and provide information on concrete assistance provided by the Foreign Ministry to Austrians in trouble abroad
- Foreign Ministry staff provide information on jobs and career opportunities in the Foreign Service
- "The EU and YOU" travelling exhibition
- Presentation of the Foreign Ministry's new smart phone application
- Face painting for children with flag motifs and children's quiz
- Raffle: Two tickets for a flight to Geneva, the seat of the UN Human Rights Council, among other prizes.
The Foreign Ministry cordially invites media representatives to attend the open house event. Following the extraordinary Council of Ministers meeting, Vice Chancellor and Foreign Minister Michael Spindelegger will be available for a film and photo session.
12 noon: Photo session on the new Smartphone Application with Vice Chancellor and Foreign Minister Michael Spindelegger.
Journalists are requested to meet at the Foreign Ministry's entrance at Minoritenplatz 8 at 11.45. We would also like to thank you in advance for including our event in your medium's events listings.
Media representatives are requested to register in advance with the Foreign Ministry's Press Department by e-mail to: pk-anmeldungen(at)bmeia.gv.at, or by fax to +43 (0) 50 1159 204.
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2008 monitoring network plan
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Publication info: Helena, Mont. :Montana Dept. of Environmental Quality,2008?
Contributed by: Montana State Library (archive.org)
Subjects: Air Air quality Air quality monitoring stations Environmental monitoring Measurement Montana Pollution
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Annual report to the governments of Canada, United States, Saskatchewan, and Montana / by the Poplar River Bilateral Monitoring Committee.
By: Poplar River Bilateral Monitoring Committee.
Publication info: [Regina, Sask.? :The Committee,
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Subjects: Air quality Environmental monitoring Periodicals Poplar River Bilateral Monitoring Committee Poplar River Watershed (Sask. and Mont.) Water quality
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Comparison of inhalable particulate and total suspended particulate /
By: Muggli, Robert Z. - Illinois.
Publication info: [Springfield, Ill.] :Illinois Dept. of Energy and Natural Reources,[1983]
Contributed by: University of Illinois Urbana Champaign
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Soil, vegetation and air quality sampling in the vicinity of the Cameco uranium refinery, Blind River, Ontario / report prepared by: J.J. Negusanti and R. Potvin.
By: Negusanti, J.J. - Potvin, R. R. - Ontario.
Publication info: Toronto :Ministry of the Environment, Northeastern Region, Technical Assessment Section,1992.
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Windsor air quality study : soil and garden produce survey results / report prepared by William I. Gizyn ; report prepared for Windsor Air Quality Committee.
By: Gizyn, William I. - Ontario. - Windsor Air Quality Committee.
Publication info: [Toronto] :Ontario Ministry of Environment and Energy,c1994.
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For 45 years New Zealand has watched the 'Kawerau Kid' John Rowles scale the highs and lows of the global music industry. Now in his 65th year Rowles has decided to go out on top in true show biz fashion with one final tour of New Zealand theatres in his farewell tour, entitled 'Now is the hour'.
When asked the big question, Why? He answers candidly "I've given my life for the stage, for my fans, for my music. It means a lot to me to travel our beautiful country and perform one last time for all those people who have supported me over the last 45 years, and most importantly to know I'll be giving them 100%. The voice feels great, I feel great and the time feels right."
The farewell tour is intended to take in over 20 New Zealand cities and towns over the remainder of 2011. He'll then turn his attention to taking the farewell tour to Australia where he remains a popular draw card, then onto Hawaii where he lived and performed for the better part of 20 years and finally the UK where it all began with 'If I only had time' in 1968, and where a number of offers of package tour options with other '60s and '70s artistes are on the table for 2012. "This tour is going to take two years to complete as I want to do things in a comfortable manner and take my time to enjoy the experience and say thanks to the public the only way I know how, by putting on the best shows I can."
When the curtain falls on his illustrious performing career, Rowles wants to spend more time with his two boys Dane and Blake who are growing up fast and complete writing his autobiography 'If I only had time' which will released in New Zealand through New Holland Publishing in 2012. "These stories have been with me for a long time and I'm looking forward to telling them in my own words".
"It's a hell of a way to make a living, but looking back I wouldn't change a thing. Guys like me we live for the stage, and we live for singing our songs. It's going to be a sad day when I take my final bow but I feel blessed that I've been given the opportunity to finish things off in the best possible way."
John Rowles and his full live band begin their New Zealand tour on June 23.
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July 1 - New Plymouth, TSB Theatre - Ticketmaster
July 2 - Hamilton, Founders Theatre - Ticketek
July 3 - Pukekohe, Town Hall - Ticketek
July 16 - Rotorua, Civic Theatre - Ticketmaster
July 30 - Kerikeri, The Centre - The Centre
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Well while markets are celebrating on Capitol Hill they are actually licking their -- preparing for the next fight over what is being called -- many -- and that is the debt ceiling.
A dining out -- Republican congressman -- -- -- Georgia and democratic congressman John Garamendi of California gentlemen welcome.
To both India.
Congressman Garamendi -- want to start -- you were sitting in the house chamber.
-- -- congressman Jim Moran of Virginia last night when he said this.
And all that's left.
Is spending cuts so -- only question we have to ask ourselves is what programs do we -- and how did until we -- them we have a look back on this night.
-- regret that notwithstanding the fact that 95% of it not -- apparently will vote for.
-- you -- chairman it what what -- you thinking when your fellow Democrat.
That's regional plus night.
Well I think -- right.
But he's also wrong.
-- -- half full kind of person this glass is really -- -- I feel the energy that existing California.
And that energy is that it has been at least partially released by what we did last night we took one huge issue.
Got it resolve that's the tax issue it's off the table he just had a long discussion about that.
That has been resolved.
Now if we could just get this nest next piece done this extraordinarily powerful economy that we have it.
I'm a rancher I've -- sat on a very powerful horse.
Waiting for immediate tell about -- which way are we going to go to get these cattle.
And then once I told that horse.
We were off we were able to really get these movie that's the way this economy yes it's ready to go.
We need to get this fiscal -- this question of the sequestration.
And the debt limit get it done whichever way we do we know -- got -- -- billion dollars of additional cuts that are there.
But that's as you know he mentioned.
But there's -- to be an argument we've been watching you all do this for months and the American people are ready to see another long term -- and letting -- want us and that's fine that's -- we know what doesn't have to be that way below the -- that way but it will be your own repair that com.
-- I don't want to deny you the opportunity to have a crisis.
But we can work this out we know that the cuts are there are 900 billion in this sequestration.
Get it done figure out how to do it -- slate of cash and and -- move on so that the economy can unleash itself and get going.
GOP caucus.
Yesterday would have little one mr.
better yet it himself yet it when that CBO -- Of the debt came out and we saw that the that this fiscal -- deal is actually gonna add almost four trillion dollars to the deficit was that -- -- the content and started and that meeting behind closed doors.
Or was it something else that kicked things off yesterday.
Well that that was the main bone of contention you know terribly.
College both sleeves and assault wrap it up enough the most lopsided game was the one we play here in Washington the fiscal insanity -- -- call it.
Increase taxes 601.
Spending cuts twelve unfortunate that not points that's billions of dollars -- that's a concern that that we have in the Republican.
The conservative part of -- Republican -- caucus and conference which is a majority Elvis we felt very strongly bit.
Once again the -- expression kicking the can down the road.
Owen -- on solving the true problem and that is this excess spending is out of control spending sixteen trillion dollars worth of debt and -- that doesn't even address that issue.
Problem Medicare Medicaid Social Security as it Roy sat on the floor yesterday the gentleman from California while you're talking about -- 5060.
Trillion dollars worth of debt by the year 2050.
We have you know we think we have some short term gain this thing I understand that but we need to fix the problem long term.
OPEC delegate count and again gonna take us the same question you accept mr.
Garamendi and that is about those long fight -- we're all getting ready for when it comes in the debt ceiling and sequestration.
Congressman -- did you -- railroaded yesterday.
No I didn't feel railroad are -- and I think John Boehner.
Did a good job a present enough C options and indeed even our leadership were split and I think Boehner and in the end.
He -- he voted for the bill.
And -- -- Paul Ryan McCarthy and -- -- voted against and so that's kind of issue that we replacement but let me tell you something -- the president said that.
No no more no more art vol argument over the debt ceiling.
Is she nuts saw -- let me what we should never increase the debt ceiling in any fiscal year where we don't have a budget and all the appropriations bills.
Pass for that fiscal year and I'm -- try to make those rules strange.
In the house -- me tonight.
Congressman get a congressman Garamendi -- biggest thing but people here the New York area we have we're we're expecting something on say never expected a lot of great things from you about.
The share to down on thirteen don't want us now -- You desert scenario exactly where -- I happen congressman thank you very much you know --
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