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One thing the Water Bearer doesn't want to handle are the small details -- these folks paint in broad brushstrokes, so it's best to leave the train schedules to someone else. As an Air sign, Aquarians crave mental stimulation, so these nomads need many and varied experiences while on the road. Visionaries that they are, they're also fascinated with new technologies, so there's bound to be a nifty gadget or two in their bag!
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UConn Turns Away Maryland, 76-50
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Column | Mar 12, 2013 | 8:45 PMUConn's final possession may have been the worst in a big moment in the history of the program. Skylar Diggins stole the ball. Notre Dame stole UConn's heart. Again. Again. Again. Yet it wasn't until the Notre Dame women gathered in a chorus line... -
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Story | Jan 29, 2013 | 6:00 PM– Since the freshmen are relatively new to the neighborhood, UConn's veterans took time this week to explain what it's like hanging out with Villanova. To paraphrase: You can knock on its door, but you can't make them come out to play. You can... -
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Field Guide to the Birds of Australia
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Since it was first published in 1984, Simpson & Day's Field Guide to the Birds of Australia has been one of the most - if not the most - respected bird guide in the country. It has sold over 500 000 copies. The guide contains 132 superb ...
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Classic Guide to the Birds of Australia
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Neville Cayley's What Bird is That? is Australia's most popular bird-identification guide. This comprehensive and authoritative field guide now in its second edition has been fully revised and updated by prominent ornithologist Terence Lindsey ...
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Birds of Australia - Nature Guide
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Dansen kring guldkalven: så förändrades Sverige av börsbubblan
by Björn Elmbrant
Dansen kring guldkalven är en bok om drömmar. Drömmar som gick i kras när luften gick ur börsen efter det senaste millennieskiftet. Somliga drömde om snabba pengar och evig tillväxt på en aktiebörs som tycktes kunna omvandla vad som helst till guld.
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eBookAdvanced Gravitational Wave Detectors
by Blair, D. G.
After decades of research, physicists now know how to detect Einstein's gravitational waves. Advanced gravitational wave detectors, the most sensitive instruments ever created, will be almost certain of detecting the births of black holes ...
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Fish Across Canada: True tales of trophies, tiddlers and the ones that got away
True tales of trophies, tiddlers and the ones that got away
by Patrick Walsh

From the Quebec wilds to the Arctic Circle to the Pacific Ocean, follow along as Editor-in-Chief Patrick Walsh reprises some of his favourite fishing tales from the pages of Outdoor Canada magazine. Whether he's tackling giant ...
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An Ecological Perspective on Earth
by R. Edward Grumbine
In Thinking Like a Mountain, we have excerpted a clear and inviting introduction to the science of conservation biology from Ed Grumbine's previous book, Ghost Bears. Grumbine offers a succinct and evocative description of why we should all care ...
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The Politics of Environment in Southeast Asia
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High Stakes and Hard Choices, Revised Edition
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The only published work that treats the historical evolution of EPA enforcement, this book provides a candid inside glimpse of a crucial aspect of the work of an important federal agency. Based on 190 personal interviews with present and ...
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Planning and Urban Growth in Nordic Countries
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Planning and Urban Growth in Nordic Countries examines urban development and planning in Denmark, Finland, Norway and Sweden. Emphasis is on the period from the mid-nineteenth century to the present day, and the authors of each ...
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Between Earth and Sky: Our Intimate Connections to Trees
by Nadkarni, Nalini
World-renowned canopy biologist Nalini Nadkarni has climbed trees on four continents with scientists, students, artists, clergymen, musicians, activists, loggers, legislators, and Inuits, gathering diverse perspectives. In Between Earth and ...
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Farm Conveniences and How to Make Them
Classic American Labor-Saving Devices
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Ecocinema Theory and Practice is the first collection of its kind-an anthology that offers a comprehensive introduction to the rapidly growing field of eco-film criticism, a branch of critical scholarship that investigates cinema's ...
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Marine Natural Resources and Technological Development
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This book offers a comprehensive and systematic examination of the issues involved within Ocean Economics. The oceans are the last frontier on Earth, and research and exploration are key to developing and enhancing global economic activity ...
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An Excerpt from Fly Fishing Central & Southeastern Oregon
by Harry Teel
An excerpt from Fly Fishing Central & Southeastern Oregon. From small streams to large rivers to lakes and reservoirs, Harry Teel shows you where to fly fish in Central & Southeastern Oregon. Detailed maps, photographs, and Teel's wisdom guide ...
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Mylonas, Harris
. 2013.
Wither Nation-Building?
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Stang, Charles
. 2012.
Apophasis and Pseudonymity in Dionysius the Areopagite: "No Longer I"
. Oxford University Press.
This book examines the writings of an early sixth-century Christian mystical theologian who wrote under the name of a convert of the apostle Paul, Dionysius the Areopagite. This 'Pseudo'-Dionysius is famous for articulating a mystical theology in two parts: a sacramental and liturgical mysticism embedded in the context of celestial and ecclesiastical hierarchies, and an austere, contemplative regimen in which one progressively negates the divine names in hopes of soliciting union with the 'unknown God' or 'God beyond being.'Charles M. Stang argues that the pseudonym and the influence of Paul together constitute the best interpretive lens for understanding the Corpus Dionysiacum [CD]. Stang demonstrates how Paul animates the entire corpus, and shows that the influence of Paul illuminates such central themes of the CD as hierarchy, theurgy, deification, Christology, affirmation (kataphasis) and negation (apophasis), dissimilar similarities, and unknowing. Most importantly, Paul serves as a fulcrum for the expression of a new theological anthropology, an 'apophatic anthropology.' Dionysius figures Paul as the premier apostolic witness to this apophatic anthropology, as the ecstatic lover of the divine who confesses to the rupture of his self and the indwelling of the divine in Gal 2:20: 'it is no longer I who live, but Christ who lives in me.' Building on this notion of apophatic anthropology, the book forwards an explanation for why this sixth-century author chose to write under an apostolic pseudonym. Stang argues that the very practice of pseudonymous writing itself serves as an ecstatic devotional exercise whereby the writer becomes split in two and thereby open to the indwelling of the divine. Pseudonymity is on this interpretation integral and internal to the aims of the wider mystical enterprise. Thus this book aims to question the distinction between 'theory' and 'practice' by demonstrating that negative theology-often figured as a speculative and rarefied theory regarding the transcendence of God-is in fact best understood as a kind of asceticism, a devotional practice aiming for the total transformation of the Christian subject.
Frankel, Jeffrey
. 2012.
Are Leading Indicators Useful for Assessing Country Vulnerability? Evidence from the 2008-09 Global Financial Crisis
Journal of International Economics
87, no. 2: 246-231.
We investigate whether leading indicators can help explain the cross-country incidence of the 2008–09 financial crisis. Rather than looking for indicators with specific relevance to the recent crisis, the selection of variables is driven by an extensive review of more than eighty papers from the previous literature on early warning indicators. Our motivation is to address suspicions that indicators found to be useful predictors in one round of crises are typically not useful to predict the next round. The review suggests that central bank reserves and past movements in the real exchange rate were the two leading indicators that had proven the most useful in explaining crisis incidence across different countries and episodes in the past. For the 2008–09 crisis, we use six different variables to measure crisis incidence: drops in GDP and industrial production, currency depreciation, stock market performance, reserve losses, and participation in an IMF program. We find that the level of reserves in 2007 appears as a consistent and statistically significant leading indicator of who got hit by the 2008–09 crisis, in line with the conclusions of the pre-2008 literature. In addition to reserves, recent real appreciation is a statistically significant predictor of devaluation and of a measure of exchange market pressure during the current crisis. We define the period of the global financial shock as running from late 2008 to early 2009, which probably explains why we find stronger results than earlier papers such as Obstfeld et al. (2009, 2010) and Rose and Spiegel (2009a,b, 2010, 2011) which use annual data.
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Bouras, Stelios, and Harris Mylonas
. 2012.
As Athens's Woes Grow, Neo-Nazis Gain Clout
Wall Street Journal
asks Harris Mylonas to comment on the rise of fringe parties in Greece. After two years of government cutbacks brought on by Greece's debt crisis, the signs of social decay are everywhere in Athens and the mood in the capital is despondent.Downtown Athens today is a shadow of its former self. Its streets, formerly once lined with crowded elegant stores and vibrant cafés, are now scarred by shuttered shopfronts, crime, homelessness and periodic rioting. Businesses are closing at a record pace, and unemployment in the greater Athens area has soared to more than 23%, above the national average. Regular demonstrations have frightened away tourists, and thousands of the city's hotels and retailers are teetering on the verge of bankruptcy. Beyond the social turmoil, this new reality presents a particular political problem for Greece's main conservative party, New Democracy, which hopes to win Sunday's parliamentary election and lead the next governing coalition. Athens has always been their stronghold, but the city's unhappy residents are abandoning them for fringe parties of the right and left, including the neo-Nazi Golden Dawn. The capital, the core of a wider metropolitan area of some three million inhabitants, has some 700,000 residents and 17 parliamentary seats up for grabs. It serves as a bellwether for broader discontent over the country's austerity policies and, more specifically, over Greece's two leading political parties. The New Democracy and the Socialist Pasok parties have governed Greece for much of the past four decades and are blamed for the country's economic crisis. Although New Democracy is expected to emerge as the biggest party, the rise of groups like Golden Dawn is cutting into its vote share, of the vote, making it harder to muster a majority in Parliament. At the least, it will have to renew its coalition with the Socialists, and will likely be forced to govern while facing raucous, consistent opposition dominated by far-left and far-right groups firmly opposed to austerity measures. The government, in response to the decline of the city's center, has implemented increased police patrols, a three-year rebuilding plan and fresh promises to relocate thousands of illegal immigrants to detention camps. around the country. But for many Athenians, those promises come as this is too little, too late."I'm no fascist, but this time I'll vote for Golden Dawn just to shake up the dirty political system," said Kostas Kalatzakos, owner of a small store in Athens. "Robbers have broken into my shop three times in the past two years, and the last time around the police sounded annoyed when I called them to come and investigate. Of course nobody is ever caught." With such newfound supporters, Golden Dawn, using neo-Nazi rhetoric and a logo of an ancient symbol resembling the swastika, is poised to enter Parliament for the first time. Recent public-opinion pPolls show support for Golden Dawn, hovering between 5% and 6%, well above the 3% minimum threshold needed to enter Parliament and potentially securing them as many as 15 seats in Greece's 300-member legislature. The party advocates the immediate expulsion of all illegal immigrants and "Jobs for Greeks." Its platform states that e country's borders with Turkey should be sealed with land mines. Immigrant groups have accused Golden Dawn members of abuse, beatings with iron rods and threats of reprisals when the immigrants speak out. The party denies those allegations. Its economic manifesto includes foregoing all debt repayments, forming "special teams" to investigate corrupt practices, arresting and imprisoning politicians and state servants found guilty of economic mismanagement, nationalizing banks, and returning "to traditional family values." Such rightist ideology until recently has won gained little traction in Greece. In the 2009 elections, Golden Dawn managed a meager just 0.23% of the vote. In 2010, it the party was able to take took a seat on the Athens city council, its first ever electoral victory. A variety of community initiatives, such as having party members escort elderly residents to the bank and providing food for the needy, those in need, have helped win over local residents."Two very mean-looking but polite boys came with me at the ATM to pick up my pension and then they brought me back home carrying the groceries to my apartment," said 72-year-old Anastasia Petikari, a retired teacher in Athens. "I felt very sorry about this, but to tell you the truth I also felt secure. This country is in a pitiful state." She declined to say which party she would support in the elections. Ioannis Vourdis, a candidate for the Athens parliamentary district with Golden Dawn, said: "such programs have long been used by the party to build votes. Our support increased after people saw that we help, and not just during the election period. This has been happening for years." Harris Mylonas, assistant professor of Political Science at George Washington University, says that a lack of a viable immigrant-integration policy, along with the country' economic problems, have provided fertile ground for a radicalized Greek society. "This has made it possible for parties such as Golden Dawn to appear as the defenders of the Greek people against the rest." he said.In this case, "the rest" seems to include some established elected political leaders.
Domínguez, Jorge I
. 2012.
The Blessings of Troubles: Scholarly Innovation in Response to Latin America's Challenges
. In . Taylor and Francis.
Latin America has been one of the critical areas in the study of comparative politics. The region's experiments with installing and deepening democracy and promoting alternative modes of economic development have generated intriguing and enduring empirical puzzles. In turn, Latin America's challenges continue to spawn original and vital work on central questions in comparative politics: about the origins of democracy; about the relationship between state and society; about the nature of citizenship; about the balance between state and market. The richness and diversity of the study of Latin American politics makes it hard to stay abreast of the developments in the many sub-literatures of the field. The Routledge Handbook of Latin American Politics offers an intellectually rigorous overview of the state of the field and a thoughtful guide to the direction of future scholarship. Kingstone and Yashar bring together the leading figures in the study of Latin America to present extensive empirical coverage, new original research, and a cutting-edge examination of the central areas of inquiry in the region.
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Haddad, Mary Alice
. 2012.
Building Democracy in Japan
. Cambridge University Press.
How is democracy made real? How does an undemocratic country create new institutions and transform its polity such that democratic values and practices become integral parts of its political culture? These are some of the most pressing questions of our times, and they are the central inquiry of Building Democracy in Japan. Using the Japanese experience as starting point, this book develops a new approach to the study of democratization that examines state-society interactions as a country adjusts its existing political culture to accommodate new democratic values, institutions and practices. With reference to the country's history, the book focuses on how democracy is experienced in contemporary Japan, highlighting the important role of generational change in facilitating both gradual adjustments as well as dramatic transformation in Japanese politics.
Frankel, Jeffrey, and George Saravelos
. 2012.
Can Leading Indicators Assess Country Vulnerability? Evidence from the 2008–2009 Global Financial Crisis
Journal of International Economics
We investigate whether leading indicators can help explain the cross-country incidence of the 2008–2009 financial crisis. Rather than looking for indicators with specific relevance to the recent crisis, the selection of variables is driven by an extensive review of more than eighty papers from the previous literature on early warning indicators. Our motivation is to address suspicions that indicators found to be useful predictors in one round of crises are typically not useful to predict the next round. The review suggests that central bank reserves and past movements in the real exchange rate were the two leading indicators that had proven the most useful in explaining crisis incidence across different countries and episodes in the past. For the 2008–2009 crisis, we use six different variables to measure crisis incidence: drops in GDP and industrial production, currency depreciation, stock market performance, reserve losses, and participation in an IMF program. We find that the level of reserves in 2007 appears as a consistent and statistically significant leading indicator of who got hit by the 2008–2009 crisis, in line with the conclusions of the pre-2008 literature. In addition to reserves, recent real appreciation is a statistically significant predictor of devaluation and of a measure of exchange market pressure during the current crisis. We define the period of the global financial shock as running from late 2008 to early 2009, which probably explains why we find stronger results than earlier papers such as Obstfeld et al. (2009, 2010) and Rose and Spiegel (2009a,b, 2010, 2011) which use annual data.
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Frankel, Jeffrey
. 2012.
Choosing an Exchange Rate Regime
. In
The Handbook of Exchange Rates
, 767-784. New York: John Wiley.
The single most important aspect of an exchange rate regime is the degree of flexibility. The matter is of course more complicated than a simple choice between fixed exchange rate and floating. One can array exchange rate regimes along a continuum, from most flexible to least, and grouped in three major categories:
Floating corner
Free float
Managed float
Intermediate regimes
Target zone or band
Basket peg
Crawling peg
Adjustable peg
Institutionally fixed corner
Currency board
Monetary Union
This chapter reviews the state of research concerning how a country should choose where to locate along this continuum of exchange rate regimes. The ''corners hypothesis'' - that countries are, or should be, moving away from the intermediate regimes, in favor of either the hard peg corner or the floating corner - was proposed by Eichengreen (1994) and rapidly became the new conventional wisdom with the emerging market crises of the late 1990s. But it never had a good theoretical foundation. The feeling that an intermediate degree of exchange rate flexibility is inconsistent with perfect capital mobility is a misinterpretation of the principle of the impossible trinity. To take a clear example, Krugman (1991) shows theoretically that a target zone is entirely compatible with uncovered interest parity. The corners hypothesis began to lose popularity after the failure of Argentina's quasi currency board in 2001. Many countries continue to follow intermediate regimes and do not seem any the worse for it. Attempts to address the optimal degree of exchange rate flexibility within a single theoretical model are seldom very convincing. Too many factors are involved. Better instead to enumerate the arguments for and against exchange rate flexibility and then attempt to weigh them up. This chapter considers five advantages of fixed exchange rates, followed by five advantages for exchange rate flexibility. We then turn to analysis of how to weigh the pros and cons to choose a regime. The answer depends on characteristics of the individual country in question.
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Domínguez, Jorge I
. 2012.
Conclusion: The Choices of Voters during the 2006 Presidential Election in Mexico
. In . The Johns Hopkins University Press.
In 2006, Felipe Calderón narrowly defeated Andrés Manuel López Obrador in Mexico's hotly contested presidential election. Mexico's 2006 presidential race demonstrated the importance of contested elections in democratic consolidation. Consolidating Mexico's Democracy is at once a close examination of this historic election and an original contribution to the comparative study of elections throughout the world.The contributors to this volume—preeminent scholars from the fields of political science and government—make use of extensive research data to analyze the larger issues and voter practices at play in this election. With their exclusive use of panel surveys—where individuals are interviewed repeatedly to ascertain whether they have changed their voter preference during an election campaign—the contributors gather rich evidence that uniquely informs their assessment of the impact of the presidential campaign and the voting views of Mexican citizens. The contributors find that, regardless of the deep polarization between the presidential candidates, the voters expressed balanced and nuanced political views, focusing on the perceived competence of the candidates. The essays here suggest the 2006 election, which was only the second fully free and competitive presidential election allowed by the Mexican government, edged the country closer to the pattern of public opinion and voting behavior that is familiar in well-established democracies in North America and Western Europe.
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Hochschild, Jennifer L, Vesla Weaver, and Traci Burch
. 2012.
Creating a New Racial Order: How Immigration, Multiracialism, Genomics, and the Young Can Remake Race in America
. Princeton University Press.
The American racial order—the beliefs, institutions, and practices that organize relationships among the nation's races and ethnicities—is undergoing its greatest transformation since the 1960s. Creating a New Racial Order takes a groundbreaking look at the reasons behind this dramatic change, and considers how different groups of Americans are being affected. Through revealing narrative and striking research, the authors show that the personal and political choices of Americans will be critical to how, and how much, racial hierarchy is redefined in decades to come. The authors outline the components that make up a racial order and examine the specific mechanisms influencing group dynamics in the United States: immigration, multiracialism, genomic science, and generational change. Cumulatively, these mechanisms increase heterogeneity within each racial or ethnic group, and decrease the distance separating groups from each other. The authors show that individuals are moving across group boundaries, that genomic science is challenging the whole concept of race, and that economic variation within groups is increasing. Above all, young adults understand and practice race differently from their elders: their formative memories are 9/11, Hurricane Katrina, and Obama's election—not civil rights marches, riots, or the early stages of immigration. Blockages could stymie or distort these changes, however, so the authors point to essential policy and political choices. Portraying a vision, not of a postracial America, but of a different racial America, Creating a New Racial Order examines how the structures of race and ethnicity are altering a nation.
Sen, Amartya
. 2012.
The Crisis of European Democracy
If proof were needed of the maxim that the road to hell is paved with good intentions, the economic crisis in Europe provides it. The worthy but narrow intentions of the European Union's policy makers have been inadequate for a sound European economy and have produced instead a world of misery, chaos and confusion.There are two reasons for this.First, intentions can be respectable without being clearheaded, and the foundations of the current austerity policy, combined with the rigidities of Europe's monetary union (in the absence of fiscal union), have hardly been a model of cogency and sagacity. Second, an intention that is fine on its own can conflict with a more urgent priority—in this case, the preservation of a democratic Europe that is concerned about societal well-being. These are values for which Europe has fought, over many decades.Certainly, some European countries have long needed better economic accountability and more responsible economic management. However, timing is crucial; reform on a well-thought-out timetable must be distinguished from reform done in extreme haste. Greece, for all of its accountability problems, was not in an economic crisis before the global recession in 2008. (In fact, its economy grew by 4.6 percent in 2006 and 3 percent in 2007 before beginning its continuing shrinkage.)The cause of reform, no matter how urgent, is not well served by the unilateral imposition of sudden and savage cuts in public services. Such indiscriminate cutting slashes demand — a counterproductive strategy, given huge unemployment and idle productive enterprises that have been decimated by the lack of market demand. In Greece, one of the countries left behind by productivity increases elsewhere, economic stimulation through monetary policy (currency devaluation) has been precluded by the existence of the European monetary union, while the fiscal package demanded by the Continent's leaders is severely anti-growth. Economic output in the euro zone continued to decline in the fourth quarter of last year, and the outlook has been so grim that a recent report finding zero growth in the first quarter of this year was widely greeted as good news.There is, in fact, plenty of historical evidence that the most effective way to cut deficits is to combine deficit reduction with rapid economic growth, which generates more revenue. The huge deficits after World War II largely disappeared with fast economic growth, and something similar happened during Bill Clinton's presidency. The much praised reduction of the Swedish budget deficit from 1994 to 1998 occurred alongside fairly rapid growth. In contrast, European countries today are being asked to cut their deficits while remaining trapped in zero or negative economic growth.There are surely lessons here from John Maynard Keynes, who understood that the state and the market are interdependent. But Keynes had little to say about social justice, including the political commitments with which Europe emerged after World War II. These led to the birth of the modern welfare state and national health services—not to support a market economy but to protect human well-being.Though these social issues did not engage Keynes deeply, there is an old tradition in economics of combining efficient markets with the provision of public services that the market may not be able to deliver. As Adam Smith (often seen simplistically as the first guru of free-market economics) wrote in "The Wealth of Nations," there are "two distinct objects" of an economy: "first, to provide a plentiful revenue or subsistence for the people, or, more properly, to enable them to provide such a revenue or subsistence for themselves; and secondly, to supply the state or commonwealth with a revenue sufficient for the public services."Perhaps the most troubling aspect of Europe's current malaise is the replacement of democratic commitments by financial dictates—from leaders of the European Union and the European Central Bank, and indirectly from credit-rating agencies, whose judgments have been notoriously unsound.Participatory public discussion—the "government by discussion" expounded by democratic theorists like John Stuart Mill and Walter Bagehot—could have identified appropriate reforms over a reasonable span of time, without threatening the foundations of Europe's system of social justice. In contrast, drastic cuts in public services with very little general discussion of their necessity, efficacy or balance have been revolting to a large section of the European population and have played into the hands of extremists on both ends of the political spectrum.Europe cannot revive itself without addressing two areas of political legitimacy. First, Europe cannot hand itself over to the unilateral views—or good intentions—of experts without public reasoning and informed consent of its citizens. Given the transparent disdain for the public, it is no surprise that in election after election the public has shown its dissatisfaction by voting out incumbents.Second, both democracy and the chance of creating good policy are undermined when ineffective and blatantly unjust policies are dictated by leaders. The obvious failure of the austerity mandates imposed so far has undermined not only public participation—a value in itself—but also the possibility of arriving at a sensible, and sensibly timed, solution.This is a surely a far cry from the "united democratic Europe" that the pioneers of European unity sought.
Domínguez, Jorge I, Omar Pérez Villanueva, Mayra Espina Prieto, and Lorena Barberia
. 2012.
Cuban Economic and Social Development: Policy Reforms and Challenges in the 21st Century
. Harvard University Press.
The Cuban economy has been transformed over the course of the last decade, and these changes are now likely to accelerate. In this edited volume, prominent Cuban economists and sociologists present a clear analysis of Cuba's economic and social circumstances and suggest steps for Cuba to reactivate economic growth and improve the welfare of its citizens. These authors focus first on trade, capital inflows, exchange rates, monetary and fiscal policy, and the agricultural sector. In a second section, a multidisciplinary team of sociologists and an economist map how reforms in economic and social policies have produced declines in the social standing of some specific groups and economic mobility for others. A joint collaboration between scholars at Harvard University and in Cuba, this book includes the same editors and many of the same authors of The Cuban Economy at the Start of the Twenty-First Century (edited by Jorge I. Domínguez, Omar Everleny Pérez Villanueva, and Lorena G. Barberia), which is also part of the David Rockefeller Center series.
Tingley, Dustin, Rose McDermott, and Dominic Johnson
. 2012.
Dead Certain: Confidence and Conservatism Predict Aggression in Simulated International Crisis Decision-Making
Human Nature
Evolutionary psychologists have suggested that confidence and conservatism promoted aggression in our ancestral past, and that this may have been an adaptive strategy given the prevailing costs and benefits of conflict. However, in modern environments, where the costs and benefits of conflict can be very different owing to the involvement of mass armies, sophisticated technology, and remote leadership, evolved tendencies toward high levels of confidence and conservatism may continue to be a contributory cause of aggression despite leading to greater costs and fewer benefits. The purpose of this paper is to test whether confidence and conservatism are indeed associated with greater levels of aggression—in an explicitly political domain. We present the results of an experiment examining people's levels of aggression in response to hypothetical international crises (a hostage crisis, a counter-insurgency campaign, and a coup). Levels of aggression (which range from concession to negotiation to military attack) were significantly predicted by subjects' (1) confidence that their chosen policy would succeed, (2) score on a liberal-conservative scale, (3) political party affiliation, and (4) preference for the use of military force in real-world US policy toward Iraq and Iran. We discuss the possible adaptive and maladaptive implications of confidence.
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Ichino, Nahomi
. 2012.
Deterring or Displacing Electoral Irregularities? Spillover Effects of Observers in a Randomized Field Experiment in Ghana
Journal of Politics
This article studies the effect of domestic observers deployed to reduce irregularities in voter registration in a new democracy, and in particular, the response of political parties' agents to these observers. Because political parties operate over large areas and party agents may relocate away from observed registration centers, observers may displace rather than deter irregularities. We design and implement a large-scale two-level randomized field experiment in Ghana in 2008 taking into account these spillovers and find evidence for substantial irregularities: the registration increase is smaller in constituencies with observers; within these constituencies with observers, the increase is about one-sixth smaller on average in electoral areas with observers than in those without; but some of the deterred registrations appear to be displaced to nearby electoral areas. The finding of positive spillovers has implications for the measurement of electoral irregularities or analysis of data collected by observers.
Ichino, Nahomi
. 2012.
Deterring or Displacing Electoral Irregularities? Spillover Effects of Observers in a Randomized Field Experiment in Ghana
The Journal of Politics
This article studies the effect of domestic observers deployed to reduce irregularities in voter registration in a new democracy, and in particular, the response of political parties' agents to these observers. Because political parties operate over large areas and party agents may relocate away from observed registration centers, observers may displace rather than deter irregularities. We design and implement a large-scale two-level randomized field experiment in Ghana in 2008 taking into account these spillovers and find evidence for substantial irregularities: the registration increase is smaller in constituencies with observers; within these constituencies with observers, the increase is about one-sixth smaller on average in electoral areas with observers than in those without; but some of the deterred registrations appear to be displaced to nearby electoral areas. The finding of positive spillovers has implications for the measurement of electoral irregularities or analysis of data collected by observers.
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Kelly, Catherine
. 2012.
Did the June 23 Movement Change Senegal?
During the Arab Spring, the key to toppling oppressive regimes was mass mobilization against leaders like Ben Ali and Mubarak, whose families controlled state resources and institutions. Mass mobilization has rarely functioned this way in sub-Saharan Africa. Although West Africa has experienced two regime changes in the last three months—in Mali and Guinea-Bissau—both were fostered through military coups, not widespread citizen mobilization. Moreover, regimes in Burkina Faso and Senegal—where riots and protests did occur—have not collapsed. Currently, even Senegal, where power recently changed hands, remains quasi-authoritarian, yet it is the only one of the group of countries above in which an electoral transition followed popular mobilization.In March, following a campaign season rife with state-sponsored violence, intimidation, and suppression of protests, former president Abdoulaye Wade of the Senegalese Democratic Party (PDS) peacefully handed power over to Macky Sall, an ex-PDS politician who now heads the Alliance for the Republic party (APR). Senegal's recent mobilization is rooted in Wade's pursuit of a constitutionally questionable third term. In summer of 2011—roughly six months after the Arab Spring began, and two months following strikes in Burkina Faso calling for the resignation of president Blaise Compaoré—Wade proposed a law allowing presidential candidates to win the election with only 25% of the vote. He also sought to establish a president-vice presidential ticket, allegedly in order to run with his son, Karim.Wade's propositions generated opposition, especially in Dakar. Alioune Tine, President of the African Assembly for the Defense of Human Rights (RADDHO), organized opposing parties, movements, and unions into a group called Touche Pas à Ma Constitution! (Don't Touch My Constitution!) Citizens' movements like Y'en a marre (Fed Up With It) also protested independently. These groups became the "June 23 Movement" (M23). As the National Assembly considered Wade's amendment, PDS elites evacuated the downtown area of Dakar and protesters faced police and tear gas. Soon afterwards, Wade retracted his propositions. The M23 had saved the constitution, but Wade still insisted on running for a third term.The one-year anniversary of June 23 arrived during Senegal's campaign for the July 1, 2012 legislative elections. The M23 sponsored gatherings at Independence Plaza and the National Assembly. Y'en a marre's rapper-leaders ended their one-year musical "sabbatical" to protect the constitution, holding a concert and promoting future projects like "pharmacies for the people…one house-one tree, and…peace in Casamance" (the latter is a region in Senegal with a long-standing separatist movement)
.What might the June 23, 2011 mobilization mean for Senegal's democratization in the long-term? The electoral transition will not necessarily deepen democracy.Senegal has a longer history of elections than most other African countries, yet its leaders have still been quasi-autocratic. Under Wade and his predecessors, the government packed state institutions (like the Constitutional Court) with supporters of the president. It harassed opponents, journalists, and protesters. Wade's Division of Criminal Investigation functioned like a secret police, interrogating and detaining "threatening" individuals. His victory in 2000 ended forty years of Socialist Party rule, but this turnover did not prevent him from subsequently employing heavy-handed practices.Hence, it is paradoxical that the media presented Wade as a committed democrat when he accepted defeat in 2012. If we use a more exacting definition of democracy—one which includes not just competitive elections but unfettered civil liberties, opportunities to meaningfully challenge incumbents, and little presidential abuse of state resources—Senegal has not yet made the cut. It is still too early to gauge democratization under Macky Sall, who is approaching his hundredth day in office.What we do know is that since 2007, Senegalese citizens have accessed new means of political participation. Citizens' movements increasingly compete with political parties for the moral authority to ensure government accountability. And everyone was invited to attend town hall meetings by the Assises Nationales, a group of opposition parties, movements, and unions that discussed Senegal's problems with citizens throughout the country and issued a detailed report suggesting economic, political, and social reforms that future governments should implement
. The results now shape platforms of key politicians, including President Sall.Despite all the changes that Senegal has experienced over the past year, one thing remains the same: the general conviction that the president deserves a legislative majority to implement his program. Although voter participation in the legislative elections was low (about 37%), those who turned out did so largely in favor of Sall's Benno Bokk Yakaar (United in Hope) coalition, which will now enjoy a significant majority in the National Assembly. Senegal's upcoming legislative session will certainly prove to be a test for the country's increasingly visible citizens' movements, which will be under pressure to show their willingness and ability to hold politicians accountable. If they succeed, Senegal could chart a pathway to better government that, unlike some of the Arab Spring uprisings and recent African coups, entails mobilization without violent regime change.
Hicks, Donna
. 2012.
Dignity in Resolving Conflicts is Topic of November 11 Cape Ann Forum
The Cape Ann Forum will host internationally known conflict resolution expert Donna Hicks on the importance of dignity in both causing and resolving clashes between individuals, groups and countries on Sunday, November 11, at 7 p.m. at the Unitarian-Universalist Church on the corner of Church and Middle Streets, Gloucester. The event is free and open to the public.Drawing on her extensive experience in international conflict resolution and on insights from evolutionary biology, psychology, and neuroscience, Hicks will talk about the elements of dignity, how to recognize dignity violations, how to respond when we are not treated with dignity, how dignity can restore a broken relationship, why leaders must understand the concept of dignity, and more."It took nearly 20 years of working as an international conflict resolution specialist to crystallize my thinking about what dignity is, why it matters to us, and how we can use it to build healthy relationships with one another and to restore those that have broken under the strain of conflict," says Hicks, calling it a motivating force behind all human interaction. When dignity is violated, she says, the response is likely to involve aggression, even violence, hatred, and vengeance. On the other hand, when people treat one another with dignity, they become more connected and are able to create more meaningful relationships.Donna Hicks took her bachelor's degree, two masters' degrees and a Ph.D. in Education Psychology from the University of Wisconsin before moving to Boston in the mid-1990s to work on these issues. She is now an associate at the Weatherhead Center for International Affairs at Harvard University and a widely respected author and public speaker on the causes of international conflict and ways to resolve it. In addition to teaching conflict resolution at Harvard, Clark and Columbia Universities, she has spent nearly two decades in the field of international conflict resolution, facilitating dialogue among communities in conflict in the Middle East, Sri Lanka, Colombia, Cuba, and Northern Ireland.Hicks co-facilitated a BBC television series with Archbishop Desmond Tutu in 2006, "Facing the Truth," and she consults with a wide range of corporations and organizations, applying her dignity model to everyday business and relational situations. Her best known work is "Dignity: The essential role it plays in resolving conflict," published by Yale University Press in 2011. Archbishop Tutu called it "a must read for those who want to experience peace in their everyday lives and peace in the world around them." The book will be available for sale and signing at the upcoming Cape Ann Forum. Forums scheduled for 2013 include author and former Grassroots International director Tim Wise on what's needed to resolve the global food crisis on Sunday, February 10; former Oxfam America director John Hammock on global poverty and the mixed record of international aid agencies, Sunday, April 17; and retired diplomat and former vice president of the National Defense University Mark Bellamy on the rising importance of Africa for U.S. foreign policy, Sunday, May 5.
Ichino, Nahomi, and Noah Nathan
. 2012.
Do Primaries Improve Electoral Performance? Clientelism and Intra-Party Conflict in Ghana
We consider the effect of legislative primaries on the electoral performance of political parties in a new democracy. While existing literature suggests that primaries may either hurt a party by selecting extremist candidates or improve performance by selecting high valence candidates or improving a party's image, these mechanisms may not apply where clientelism is prevalent. A theory of primaries built on a logic of clientelism with intra-party conflict instead suggests different effects of legislative primaries for ruling and opposition parties, as well as spillover effects for presidential elections. Using matching with an original dataset on Ghana, we find evidence of a primary bonus for the opposition party and a primary penalty for the ruling party in the legislative election, while legislative primaries improve performance in the presidential election in some constituencies for both parties.
This paper was published on November, 26, 2012, in the American Journal of Political Science:
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Nathan, Noah, and Nahomi Ichino
. 2012.
Do Primaries Improve Electoral Performance? Clientelism and Intra-Party Conflict in Ghana
American Journal of Political Science
We consider the effect of legislative primaries on the electoral performance of political parties in a new democracy. While existing literature suggests that primaries may either hurt a party by selecting extremist candidates or improve performance by selecting high valence candidates or improving a party's image, these mechanisms may not apply where clientelism is prevalent. A theory of primaries built on a logic of clientelism with intra-party conflict instead suggests different effects of legislative primaries for ruling and opposition parties, as well as spillover effects for presidential elections. Using matching with an original dataset on Ghana, we find evidence of a primary bonus for the opposition party and a primary penalty for the ruling party in the legislative election, while legislative primaries improve performance in the presidential election in some constituencies for both parties.
A previous version of this publication can be found in our WCFIA Working Paper collection:
Fruehwirth, Manfred, and Leopold Sögner
. 2012.
Does the Sun Shine Really Shine on the Financial Markets?
After a series of papers has provided—partially ambiguous—results on the impact of weather variables on stock (index) returns, this article studies the impact of weather on a wide variety of financial market instruments, namely "risk-free" interest rates, the US corporate bond market, stock returns, stock index returns and the VIX volatility index. First, we construct a model that combines asset pricing and results from psychology to show how weather variables can affect asset prices in different market segments via mood. Second, in our empirical analysis we use several weather variables from the National Climatic Data Center (NCDC) and control variables motivated by economic theory. Applying various econometric techniques and using different market segments (motivated by differences in the risk level and institutional differences) allows to give a more detailed picture on the impact of weather on financial market prices. We demonstrate that on none of the market segments analyzed the weather has any significant impact.
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Cohen, Dara Kay, and Amelia Hoover Green
. 2012.
Dueling Incentives: Sexual Violence in Liberia and the Politics of Human Rights Advocacy
Journal of Peace Research
49, no. 3: 445-458.
Journal of Peace Research Website
Transnational advocacy organizations are influential actors in the international politics of human rights. While political scientists have described several methods these groups use—particularly a set of strategies termed 'information politics'—scholars have yet to consider the effects of these tactics beyond their immediate impact on public awareness, policy agendas or the behavior of state actors. This article investigates the information politics surrounding sexual violence during Liberia's civil war. We show that two frequently-cited 'facts' about rape in Liberia are inaccurate, and consider how this conventional wisdom gained acceptance. Drawing on the Liberian case and findings from sociology and economics, we develop a theoretical framework that treats inaccurate claims as an effect of 'dueling incentives'—the conflict between advocacy organizations' needs for short-term drama and long-term credibility. From this theoretical framework, we generate hypotheses regarding the effects of information politics on (1) short-term changes in funding for human rights advocacy organizations, (2) short-term changes in human rights outcomes, (3) the institutional health of humanitarian and human rights organizations, and (4) long-run outcomes for the ostensible beneficiaries of such organizations. We conclude by outlining a research agenda in this area, emphasizing the importance of empirical research on information politics in the human rights realm, and particularly its effects on the lives of aid recipients. DOI: 10.1177/0022343312436769
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Jukes, Matthew
. 2012.
Early Primary Literacy Instruction in Kenya
Comparative Education Review
We report on a study that used observations, conversations, and formal interviews to explore literacy instruction in 24 lower-primary classrooms in coastal Kenya. Specifically, we report the ways literacy instruction is delivered and how that delivery aligns with practices understood to promote reading acquisition. We find (1) prioritization of developing oral language skills over teaching the relationships between sounds and symbols, (2) enablers to literacy instruction that are the result of teachers' efforts, and (3) constraints to successful literacy instruction as perceived by the teachers. We identify challenges and opportunities to improve literacy instruction in English and Swahili.
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Kay, Tamara
. 2012.
Educating Children on the Longest Street in the World
In an urban slum in India children huddle around an old vegetable cart fitted with a television and DVD player transfixed by characters who sing about the letter "ma" in Hindi. In Tanzania children listen to a radio program that teaches them how to treat a mosquito bed net to help prevent malaria. And in South Africa where one in ten children has lost a parent to HIV/AIDS, a television program helps destigmatize the disease and deal with loss. All of these children have at least two things in common: they will be way behind more advantaged children if and when they attend school, and they are being exposed to a local version of Sesame Street created to help mitigate the disadvantages they face.The ubiquity and success of Sesame Street, particularly given the extraordinary politicization of culture in an era of globalization, present two interrelated enigmas: how does an iconic US cultural product move through transnational channels over time, and how does it gain local acceptance and legitimacy as something genuinely and authentically local?The educational nonprofit Sesame Workshop (SW, formerly The Children's Television Workshop) provides a unique opportunity to answer these questions because it creates local adaptations, or coproductions, of Sesame Street all over the world intended to prepare preschool age children for school. In addition, SW develops outreach projects with local partners—governments, civil society organizations, and NGOs—that prioritize the United Nations' Millennium Development Goals, from literacy and health (including malaria prevention in Tanzania, immunization in India, heart health and nutrition in Latin America, destigmatization of HIV/AIDS in South Africa), to social equality (promoting religious and ethnic tolerance in conflict zones such as Israel/Palestine, Kosovo, South Africa, and Northern Ireland), among many others. These outreach projects take the form of mobile dental clinics, model schools, public service announcements, and the distribution of free materials (books, educational games, DVDs, and parents' guides, etc.) that reinforce local partners' curricular goals, particularly in areas where children do not have access to television. Intensive interviews and ethnography in Latin America, Africa, and the Middle East reveal that Sesame projects gain local acceptance despite the potentially controversial issues they raise (gender equality, mutual respect for racial and ethnic "others", etc.) in large part because of how SW structures its relationship and negotiates entry with local partners. SW's coproduction model is unique among organizations engaged in transnational work because it is based on creating a local team of experts that chooses themes and curricula for its coproduction and outreach projects. Although they are subject to certain restrictions and oversight, partners have tremendous freedom to shape their projects. The SW case therefore reveals the often hidden negotiations that facilitate processes of hybridization and ultimately diffusion. In Kosovo, negotiations over the terms of adoption forced SW to reconsider a core value—using the alphabet to teach literacy. Albanians and Serbians could not agree on a common alphabet (either Latin or Cyrillic). In addition to the language issue, partners did not want to shoot scenes with children from each group playing together because parents would not allow their children to watch an ethnically-integrated program. Although the problem could have killed the project, SW and their local partners negotiated an innovative solution; they developed a "visual dictionary" that featured children holding objects such as sunglasses and saying their corresponding words in different languages. The terms of adoption were also important to Palestinians, who in 1994 initially refused to participate in a coproduction with Israelis focused on mutual respect and understanding. They feared a high-quality version of Sesame Street would destroy the identity of their new and weak Palestinian television station, and that collaborating with Israelis and Americans would make them a target for conservatives. Key members of the team, however, saw it as an opportunity to build a local media infrastructure and train young Palestinians. They requested that a significant amount of funding be shifted from production to training. Palestinians' decision to adopt the program, therefore, hinged on their ability to negotiate what they considered to be a more valuable product and process.Negotiating the content of a coproduction so that it would resonate with the local population and address local needs was critically important for SW's Bangladeshi and South African partners. The former expressed trepidation about using Muppets in their program given the strong tradition of puppetry in Bangladeshi culture. Although SW does not require partners to use Muppets (i.e. puppets created by the Jim Henson Company), the Bangladeshi team ultimately decided to design their own Muppets (including Bengal tiger and jackal characters) and include traditional Bangladeshi wooden rod puppets in Sisimpur. Together, SW and the local team negotiated a unique plan to incorporate the latter by transitioning into "Ikri's World"—where traditional Bangladeshi rod puppets live and where their stories are told with song—through the imagination of a Muppet named Ikri. South Africans made their participation in a second season of Takalani Sesame contingent on dealing with their country's HIV/AIDS crisis in the program and outreach projects. Despite initial concerns, SW worked with them to develop an HIV/AIDS curriculum and an HIV-positive Muppet character named Kami. The evidence suggests that the SW model has a positive effect on project outcomes. The success of the coproductions and outreach projects is staggering. Controlled studies show that children in Bangladesh exposed to Sisimpur had literacy scores 67% higher than those who didn't watch it. In Egypt, four-year-old viewers of Alam Simsim performed at the same level on math and literacy tests as five-year-olds who watched it a little or not at all. Evidence also suggests that local adaptation increases SW's legitimacy and therefore its reach. SW commissions independent research not only to gauge each coproduction's educational impact, but also to assess whether coproductions are perceived as local (they generally are). Within eighteen months of its premiere in 2000, Egypt's Alam Simsim achieved 98% viewership and awareness of the program, and it is now as iconic as the US version. In India, 5,200 government-run day-care centers integrate Galli Galli Sim Sim into every aspect of their curriculum. Sesame Street is likely the most diffused vehicle for children's education in the world. A theory of diffusion as negotiation provides a compelling new framework for understanding the factors that constrain and spark adopters' resistance to cultural globalization. Moreover it suggests that in an era in which transnational organizations and their cultural products can be so quickly dispatched across the globe, successful development projects and locally acceptable cultural hybrids may depend upon the construction of more equitable transnational ties between transnational organizations. Although diffusion processes can reflect the imposition and dominance of western values, practices and products, the SW case reveals adopters' sources of leverage, influence, and autonomy by illuminating how culture is negotiated on the longest street in the world.
Aghion, Philippe
. 2012.
Education and Military Rivalry
. The National Bureau of Economic Research.
Using data from the last 150 years in a small set of countries, and from the postwar period in a large set of countries, we show that large investments in state primary education systems tend to occur when countries face military rivals or threats from their neighbors. By contrast, we find that democratic transitions are negatively associated with education investments, while the presence of democratic political institutions magnifies the positive effect of military rivalries. These empirical results are robust to a number of statistical concerns and continue to hold when we instrument military rivalries with commodity prices or rivalries in a certain country's immediate neighborhood. We also present historical case studies, as well as a simple model, that are consistent with the econometric evidence.
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Huntington, Lucia
. 2012.
Election Reflection by Dukakis
As the last days before the presidential election tick down, a man who has seen the sausage-making process from the inside said that there's much at stake, and "every day is important here."In a wide-ranging talk at Harvard on Thursday, Michael Dukakis, the 1988 Democratic candidate for president, discussed attempts to suppress "likely Democratic" voters by making it difficult for them to register, the Electoral College ("It should have been abolished 150 years ago; it's a profoundly undemocratic body"), and even rail transport, which brought out the fan in the longtime T rider. But he kept circling back to health care and the economy, subjects likely to weigh heavily with voters on Tuesday. Dukakis said that Democratic President Barack Obama "has done something no other president managed to do, and that is give us something close to universal health care. Nixon tried it, Clinton tried it, Obama did it." However, Dukakis added, "I don't think my party has done a good job of communicating what the Affordable Care Act is all about. We have 50 million Americans who have no health insurance. We have another 50 million who have very poor coverage. Ninety percent of these people are working or members of working families. Why hasn't the [Democrats'] principal message been that working Americans will have affordable health care?" On the economy, Dukakis, a distinguished professor of political science at Northeastern University, pointed to the lessons taught by President Herbert Hoover's policies and the Great Depression. "We're in a big economic hole, and we're going to get out of it, but austerity can't get you out of a recession," he said. "I don't know why we have to learn this lesson over and over again. It just doesn't work." During the discussion hosted by the Program on U.S.-Japan Relations, Dukakis also addressed his party's defensive stand on national security, pointing out that many Democratic politicians are too worried about being considered soft to bring a critical eye to defense spending, which a recent Cato Institute policy analysis concluded could sustain cuts with only slightly adverse effects. "We have a defense budget that's so bloated it's unbelievable," Dukakis said. "But I don't see any Democrats in Congress falling over themselves to endorse what the Cato Institute is proposing." Dukakis, a former three-term governor of Massachusetts, said of Republican presidential nominee Mitt Romney, another ex-governor of the state, "If Romney wins, I think you'll get the Republican game plan: more tax cuts for the wealthy, more cuts to the budget without reducing the deficit one dime." Should Obama be re-elected, Dukakis suggested, "You're going to have a battle, but I think the president is firm on the question of additional tax cuts for the wealthy. He'd come back with more clout to a Republican Party that you'd think would be at least somewhat chastened." Dukakis had harsh words for his onetime Harvard Law School classmate Supreme Court Associate Justice Antonin Scalia, and for the court's recent decision in the case Citizens United v. Federal Election Commission, which found that restricting political contributions by corporations and unions violated First Amendment rights to free speech. "I don't know what happened to him. Scalia calls himself an originalist," a justice who believes the Constitution should be interpreted as its authors intended, "but where in the Constitution does it say that money is speech?" Though the decision has not emerged as a major campaign issue, even though it has opened the door to increased spending, Dukakis said, "Who we elect as president, who in turn appoints justices to the Supreme Court, is important." On foreign policy, Dukakis said he thought that Obama has an "intelligent, thoughtful worldview" and that Romney "is out of his element." "The notion that the United States can continue to be the world's policeman is badly flawed. We're not doing it very well, and we can't afford it," said Dukakis, a self-proclaimed "committed internationalist." Instead, he said America should play a new role, building up international peacekeeping institutions such as the International Court of Justice and encouraging their use. "I do think this is a huge opportunity," Dukakis said, "not just for the world at large, but for the United States."
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The Coast Guard was notified by Carnival that the Dream was experiencing generator issues. Carnival has not requested assistance from the Coast Guard, which has no jurisdiction in the ship's current location, Coast Guard Petty Officer Jon-Paul Rios told CNN.
U.S. Coast Guard Chief Petty Officer Ryan Doss said Carnival's original decision to keep passengers onboard was "for accountability purposes. The last thing we want to do is have someone get left behind in St. Maarten by accident."
The Dream, based in Port Canaveral, Florida, was on a seven-day cruise. The ship, which is 1,000 feet long -- about the length of three football fields -- sailed from Port Canaveral on Saturday.
It was scheduled to leave St. Maarten around 5 p.m. ET Wednesday.
Lessons from the Triumph
Last month, an engine room fire left the Carnival Triumph crippled and adrift in the Gulf of Mexico with more than 4,200 people aboard.
That scheduled four-day cruise stretched into eight days as tugs pulled the vessel into port in Alabama. Food was scarce, and passengers sweltered in the heat with no air conditioning. People aboard also reported overflowing toilets and human waste running down the walls in some parts of the ship.
A class action lawsuit was filed against Carnival Corporation in the aftermath.
The Triumph is still undergoing repair at a shipyard in Mobile, Alabama, Carnival spokeswoman Joyce Oliva told CNN Thursday.
"We are now focused on the lessons we can learn from the incident and also what additional operational redundancies might be available," Cahill said at the cruise industry conference this week.
Another ship, the Carnival Splendor, had a fire in 2010 due to "a catastrophic failure of a diesel generator," Cahill noted.
Sen. Jay Rockefeller, the chairman of the Commerce, Science and Transportation Committee, sent a letter Wednesday to Micky Arison, the chief executive officer of Carnival Corporation.
"The Coast Guard has responded to a string of 90 marine casualty incidents with passengers onboard Carnival ships in the last five years," the West Virginia Democrat wrote. "It seems that Carnival has failed to take any meaningful course of corrective action after these continual incidents. This needs to change."
Rockefeller said the cost to the taxpayers for the Carnival Triumph incident was almost $780,000.
Cahill said last week that the comprehensive review of the fleet "is our highest priority."
He also emphasized that the vast majority of the time, cruises experience no such problems.
Anderson said when he booked the cruise tickets for his family, some friends ribbed him about choosing Carnival, given what had happened with the Triumph. "I said, 'What are the odds of it happening to two ships in such a short period of time?'" he told CNN Thursday. "Look what happened now."


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"It's wonderful," Auxiliary Treasurer Dixie Welte said. "So, many people express their appreciation for what we're doing and why were doing it...to support the veterans. Part of our money this year is going to go to the Honor Flight, which flies veterans to Washington D.C. to see memorials and everything. We have guys from our area that go on this flight. So, that's where part of the money is going to go. The rest we haven't decided yet, but there's so many programs to support. There are a lot of places to divide it up."
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There was sound and some fury — and dozens of arrests — Monday as the Occupy Wall Street movement marked its one-year anniversary by trying to bottle-up the fat cats in the Financial District.
But the demonstrators quickly found themselves penned-in by cops, who arrested 63 people as of 10 a.m., police sources said — including retired Episcopal Bishop George Packard, a decorated Vietnam vet who served as a military chaplain during the Iraq War.
[See photos of the one-year anniversary of 'Occupy Wall Street']
There was plenty of raging against the man, but no reports of serious violence between police and protesters.
Demonstrator Robert Cammiso said the activists' goal is to be heard — not necessarilly get arrested.
"This may be the last opportunity we have before the election to have the voices of the people heard," said Cammiso, 47, a construction worker from Brooklyn.
Demonstrators trying to reach the New York Stock Exchange on Broad St. found their path blocked by phalanxes of regular and mounted police — and a large, fragrant pile of fresh horse manure.
Workers trying to get to their jobs were told to produce ID's or get lost.
"Oh no you don't," a police officer said when a demonstrator tried to slip through the blue wall at Wall St. and Broadway, one short block from the seat of American capitalism. He was quickly turned away.
Zuccotti Park, which the OWS had occupied for months last year, was also fenced off. Instead, demonstrators gathered across the street to rail against crony capitalism in front of Isamu Noguchi's famous red cube statue.
[From the New York Daily News: 'Occupy Wall Street' Turns One Year Old]
Another big group of demonstrators was squatting near the Bowling Green subway station, a stone's throw from the famous charging bull statue.
"The whole world is going to be watching to see if people come back for the one year anniversary," said hairstylist, Danielle Capron, 23, who drove in from Harrisburg, Pa. and carried a OWS birthday cake made out of painted cardboard. "They want to see if people gave up or came back and clearly they came back."
Nancy Mancias, 42, an activist from San Francisco, was part of a "Bust Up Banks" group and wore a shocking pink bra on her head to make her points. She said the people who wrote OWS's obit were premature.
"I don't think Occupy is dead," she said. "I think it's exciting to be here and see the variety of people, the ages, all sorts."
Edward (Ted) Hall III, one of the OWS movements more revered members, said the goal all along "was to say we can control our future."
"This is where people are really putting their ideals into action," he said.
But trapped in that spot, some demonstrators broke out the tarot cards and an almost carnival-like atmosphere began taking over as bemused tourists snapping pictures of grinning protesters, some of them decked out in black Grim Reaper outfits and carrying cardboard tombstones that read, "R.I.P Wall Street."
At Trinity Church, another nexus of the OWS movement, demonstrators created a drum circle.
OWS had planned to shut down the Stock Exchange by lining the streets and then sitting down en masse to create an occupied zone.
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@Deity. I am aware of the rule regarding elimination and have no desire of eliminating Maya anyway. I do wish to gain 1 particular city and war will continue until I succeed. I cannot negotiate with Maya as they are not on PYT or looking at Poly under their game ID. As you know IG negotiations start with a ceasefire for 10 turns and that will harm me.


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This question has certainly been asked before, and the Linux Foundation has considered it, but it's not really a practical alternative. Providing this kind of service is quite difficult and very expensive; it's not something that the Linux Foundation has the resources to do.
Bottomley: Adventures in Microsoft UEFI Signing
Posted Nov 21, 2012 14:24 UTC (Wed) by krake (subscriber, #55996) [Link]
But I was expecting something more along the lines of will take some time, after all the benefit of having a non-Microsoft "root" key widely available should outweight a lot of costs.
Posted Nov 21, 2012 16:09 UTC (Wed) by mjg59 (subscriber, #23239) [Link]
Posted Nov 21, 2012 18:17 UTC (Wed) by krake (subscriber, #55996) [Link]
I assumed that the Linuxfoundation, being a interest group of several very large hardware and software vendors, would be able to help board vendors to see that continued business with its members is in fact in their best interest.
Of course those who only sell components for consumer PC white boxes and WinRT devices would not care, but that should leave plenty of them who do.
Posted Nov 21, 2012 16:59 UTC (Wed) by jejb (subscriber, #6654) [Link]
Firstly the current CA operators want payments in the order of millions of US Dollars to set up a CA and not charge the end user (otherwise they want to charge fairly ridiculous fees). It should also be noted that the UEFI forum tried to go this route as well (they originally planned to sponsor a neutral CA) but gave up when they found out about the kind of money required.
Secondly, the OEMs and ODMs who make the motherboard wanted anyone supplying a UEFI KEK or db entry to post a bond, also in the six to seven figure range, to indemnify them against anything going wrong with the LF Key.
Given there are quite a few OEM and ODMs, that's more cash than the current Linux Foundation core operating budget and therefore not something that could be realistically undertaken.
Posted Nov 21, 2012 17:50 UTC (Wed) by krake (subscriber, #55996) [Link]
Seems like the UEFI people didn't a lot of thinking as in considering consequence of their decisions.
Not that it is very surprising given that they are a industry group, but still.
It is quite telling that the Linux Foundation didn't do more publicity on this outrage.
It inevitably leads to the conclusion that all the big corporate members have legal contracts with Microsoft that protects their Linux related business in some way that make relying on Microsoft for access to phyical machines unproblematic.
Anyone else, including smaller corporate members like Red Hat, are left to the wolves.
Good to keep in mind next time some LF,IBM, Intel, etc press release claims that any of those companies is "heavly supporting" Linux.
Posted Nov 22, 2012 0:28 UTC (Thu) by vonbrand (subscriber, #4458) [Link]
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The past week has not been kind to TPU. I lost two sticks of ram and the overclocks on two of my GTX's.
Hi chaps, Getting my computer back up together in the next couple of days, so I'll be back folding again You lot have made great progress while i've been away!!
Ah, welcome back Infared! We could really use your help with the HWC battle going on right now. Let me know if you need anything.
I forgot my GTX260 at another house maybe sometime this week i can go get it. Sorry guys i have just had a hard time.
thanks trying to work things out so i can get the card from his house. It seems that he works every day that i have open till the weekend.
Drat! I was hoping to see you even further up the rankings. Solidly placed in daily pie territory. Still, you'll get it in time for more flannel hunting.
You did! It sure looks like both cpu sockets are occupied and they didn't clean up before snapping that image.
I forsee crunchers and folders everywhere drooling over that mb. Now what bodyparts would I need to sell to buy it and dress it nicely.
Looking at the dimensions I found on the evga website this example of the X58 Classified 4-Way SLI ... When you compare that board to this one the form factor will probably be called an EL-XL-ATX and have dimensions close to 13.5" x 13.5". My living room is not much bigger than that. Right now the only thing I know that it will fit in is the box it comes in!
Techpowerup.com does not deserve this team! Almost zero support, and no recognition for what we've done.:shadedshu We passed 200 million lately. Nothing. I'm willing to bet that there isn't another team in the top 100 with as little exposure as us. We have to have new "recruits" to replace those who decide they have something better to do, foolish as that may be. If something isn't done, we will continue to be a dedicated group whose numbers will dwindle over time until the last few members get fed up and leave or quit. Anyone have any ideas? Facebook? Twitter? Eharmony.com?
WTF are you talking about? A: People who leave dont necessarily stop. For example I have my own team and fold for that with my laptop and PS3 because my system is down. B: All the points go to the same dudes and the cure will go to all of us. It doesnt matter who you do it for or why. C: It has been the community state of mind that you come and go as you please. we arent EVEN in it for the points. We are here for a cure. Nobody was/is supposed to feel bad for comming or going. and no one looks to get praise. Not a single person on this team has ever asked for it. D: Techpowerup.com in itself does not ow any of us a thing. TPU is a tech media site with a forum that we can all discuss this in. a place to horbour our ideas and combined effort. It was never in any way shape or form really supposed to support us in anyway. While it was always appreciated (like when they posted our top 100 success on the front page) no one ever expected it or took it for granted. if that post was some kind of joke im sorry. If it wasnt. then im not. If the mods dont like this post please tell me. I just cant bealive (if this is serious) that someone would take a subject like cancer and get angry because they were trying fight it and no one said thanks. because bealive me friend when we find a cure the human RACE will say thanks
I think you're misreading his post. He's not knocking people who stop, nor is he after fame and glory. He's looking for a source to bolster our ranks and to further the cause of folding@home. He's correct, we are fairly sheltered on TPU and I say that from experience. If it wasn't for my curiosity on why the topic 'TPU's F@H Team' kept appearing on the recent post list, I wouldn't have found the team. No other reason than I clicked on that topic randomly one day. Is it so wrong to want to see something you've put so much time, effort and money into to continue to do well? Especially considering that our team continuing to do well gets the science done as you mention, and more of it in this case. He's not looking to steal people from other teams or berate old members back into action, he wants to bring new members in. 'It doesn't matter who you fold for' does not yet apply. Now we have the interesting situation where we don't have a second sub-forum to post in to gain more attention as General Nonsense is no longer on TPU. Most every other team I've visited has posts in separate sub-forums that point to the F@H Team, or site announcements. Buck had recently started some threads in the ATI and Nvidia Graphics Cards sub-forums for this very reason, but these aren't ideal as they are only relatively on topic. Having said that, I'm not requesting them from TPU. If you notice, neither did thebluebumblebee in his post. I'm sure he's only expressing exasperation that we don't have a way readily available to us to get new members, which is what F@H could always use.
well in that case i do apologise It was just a misreading. Finding a way to get known is hard. TPU does have a twitter though. Its barely used maybe someone could ask w1zz if F@H updates could be posted on it? or make a new twitter? maybe a facebook? you could put all the F@H stats and contests on a facebook and twitter that would get you traffic. Networking is key dudes
Thanks everyone Today I hit a million points. I wish to sincerely thank everyone who's done there best to help keep HWC at bay for at least one more day, so that my personal joy won't be swamped by the inevitable tsunami of doom and gloom that will sweep over the TPU folding team following that event. Of course, to the giants of our team, it will be but tiny wavelets lapping on their ankles on the road to TPU total world domination.