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"It recognizes a specific type of contribution that is vital to the defense of our nation. It in no way degrades or minimizes our nation's other important awards or the tremendous sacrifices of our men and women who earn these prestigious recognitions."
Merriam-Webster defines "degrade" as "to lower in grade, rank, or status." The Distinguished Warfare Medal would bump the Bronze Star and Purple Heart down the ranks of military medals, from 9th and 10th, respectively, to 10th and 11th. It would degrade those medals, literally.
Hagel inherited this slight to the valor of our combat forces from his predecessor, Leon Panetta, who approved it. Panetta's Feb. 13 letter announcing the medal stated that it was created specifically to rank above the Bronze Star (it will be just below the Distinguished Flying Cross).
After pressure from some senators (including Kelly Ayotte and Jeanne Shaheen of New Hampshire) and veterans groups, Hagel said this week he would review the new medal. We hope he will not have to be guided by hand to the right conclusion on every major decision. Judging from his confirmation hearing and his tone-deaf response to this issue, that seems like a real possibility.
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Israel has massed troops at the Gaza border, and has threatened a ground offensive. Even though American Jews widely support Israel's right to defend itself from rocket fire coming from Gaza, there is disagreement about the best way to do that. Prior to the recently announced cease-fire between Hamas and Israel, there was much hand-wringing over the wisdom of Israeli ground troops re-entering Gaza.
Some hope a ground war will be avoided, but it's a hard call.
"It seems to be a no-win situation," said Max Rosenthal, active in the small Jewish community of Huntsville, Alabama.
Israel can't live with thousands of rockets coming in every single day. And it faces the challenge of trying to thwart Hamas without killing "huge amounts of people."
"If we go in with a truce, it'll be OK for a few months, then they'll start over again, they'll get more rockets in."
But Rosenthal and other U.S. Jews stress that the destruction of Israel is Hamas' avowed goal. And the future he sees is one of constant conflict.
"There's a feeling this is not going to end well, one way or the other," he said.
"My own feeling is a feeling of despair. I don't see any way of resolving it other than going in and wiping out Gaza and that is certainly not what anyone wants to do."
The executive director of J Street, a Washington-based advocacy group which bills itself as "the political home for pro-Israel, pro-peace Americans" questions whether further military action by Israel "would end the rockets and make Israel more secure" after Cast Lead.
"Today, rockets are more numerous and powerful. Israel is more isolated in its region and more ostracized around the world," said Jeremy Ben-Ami, J Street executive director.
"Only a political resolution to the century-old conflict with the Palestinians resulting in two states living side by side can end the conflict. Without that, in a few short years, we'll be right back here again: anger deeper, rockets more powerful, and political forces yet more extreme.
There's no question that Israel has a right to defend itself, just like any other sovereign nation, said Lindy Miller Crane, a member of Atlanta's Jewish community.
"If rockets were fired to the United States from Cuba, I would hope that the U.S. would react," she said.
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Just finished playing a FFA game that had some highly weird things happen.
At 2400 it resynched and it wasn't 2300 as expected. Instead it was now 1600 and my cap now had 5 new archers in it. Weird. So since I am at 69g i form one up into an army and sell it and have my whale on gold instead of science.
Next turn instead of 1500 it is now 1100. Have produced my own settler and it says I have 117g but not the milestone yet. Resynchs yet again it is now 800 bc.
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"We thought that passing-wise, we would be alright, regardless of how he was throwing," said veteran safety Charles Woodson, as quoted by Jason Wilde of ESPN Wisconsin. "What we didn't anticipate was him running and getting out of the pocket the way he did. Those things killed us. Broke our backs."
He also seemed to break their souls, sucking the hope right out of the defense. Every time the defense would make good stops on first and second down, Kaepernick would come right back and burn them on third-and-long. The 49ers were 8-of-13 on third down, for a 62% conversion rate.
On the eight third down conversion, each play went for at least 12 yards. In total, the 49ers made 153 yards for an average gain of 19.1 yards. Five of them were running plays, and two of them went for touchdowns. And in looking at yards-to-go, five of those eight third downs needed at least 8 yards to convert.
The big question on everyone's mind is: Why couldn't the Packers stop Kaepernick and his running attack? Whether it was the option read or a scramble, he gashed them repeatedly for gigantic chunks of yardage.


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I hope all ends well for your nephew, Elok.
My six-year-old nephew Cameron went in for tonsil removal yesterday. This morning his parents came in and found him blue and unresponsive. Please, if you pray, pray. If you do not...do whatever you do.
EDIT: He woke up and responded to simple questions in the ambulance. I don't think he's totally out of the woods yet, but thank God.
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I hope all ends well for your nephew, Elok.
"Ceterum censeo Ben esse expellendum."
Me too; thanks.
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When I was a resident we lost a kid after a tonsillectomy. Hope your nephew does well.
"I say shoot'em all and let God sort it out in the end!
They don't know what's wrong yet, but he's alert, lively, and on his way to Hopkins where they will put that **** in lockdown. Awesome. Thanks, docs and all.
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Oh Lord! Prayers being said presently! May God bless him and his (& your) family!
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"We have tried spending money. We are spending more than we have ever spent before and it does not work...After eight years of this Administration, we have just as much unemployment as when we started... And an enormous debt to boot!" Henry Morgenthau, Franklin Delano Roosevelt's Treasury secretary, 1941.
Thanks again to all of you. It's some form of pneumonia, but he seems to be doing much better. He's out of Hopkins' ICU and into their normal Pediatric unit. Now they just need to figure out what happened.
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Damn. What a shocker. Prayers up.
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GW 2013: "and juistin bieber is gay with me and we have 10 kids we live in u.s.a in the white house with obama"
What should I pray to? I guess nothing. Or in other words, "I hope he gets better. "
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glad to hear that he's on the mend.
"The Christian way has not been tried and found wanting, it has been found to be hard and left untried" - GK Chesterton.
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I'm glad to hear it sounds like he will be OK.
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Glad to hear that he's getting better. Hope the parents are too.
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I haven't talked to them, but his mother's FB post indicates she's okay. My nephew is asthmatic and his little sister has seizures; they're unfortunately used to scary medical situations in that family. But it lets them take this easier now, I guess.
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It sounds like they are "battle hardened", though it must still be hard - hope their luck turns to the better soon.
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How often do kids die in tonsillectomies? It's not something I previously thought of as a dangerous procedure, considering how routine it is.
I come from the land of the ice and snow
From the rust belt where industry won't go
Looks like everything worked out without my help. Good job.
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As a lifelong member of the Columbia Business School community, I adhere to the principles of truth, integrity, and respect. I will not lie, cheat, steal, or tolerate those who do.
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Yes. Healthiness
"South Africa is a shithole. It used to be a decent place." -Ben Kenobi, sharing his wisdom on world history
So... any more news? My sister's youngest son was a 'blue' baby and spent quite a bit of time in and out of hospitals for the first few years. He's now married, has young daughter and coaches hockey.
There's nothing wrong with the dream, my friend, the problem lies with the dreamer.
Well, he had a bit of a fever and low oxygen levels or some such, but they're working on that. He was in very low spirits this morning--his parents are working on that. They're hoping to transfer him out of ICU today, last I heard. Really, we're in no-news-is-good-news territory until they figure out what went wrong and why.
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True, but it's not a procedure to be done just for the heck of it. If the tonsils have abscesses that casue recurring infections, if they're so enlarged that they interfere with breathing or swallowing, sure, but how often have I had patients come in with tonsils the size of little ol' kidney beans and the parents go behind my back and have them removed? Imagine their surprise when they discover that tonsillectomy doesn't prevent streptococcal pharyngitis? I wonder who's going around promulgating that lie?
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Hello, i want to know if its possible to download something good for playing streaming videos on my nokia N8.
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If the information on this WEBSITE is correct, then yes Flash 10.1 will arrive with PR 2.0.
2011-03-25 14:31
hello friends. i need flash player to check flash website on NOKIA N8 please help. I purchased nokia N8 for its beautiful look and i love the piece now. but only prbz is need flash player to see flash websites etc.
2011-03-25 15:57
There is NO flash player available yet. You have to wait for the PR 2.0 update.
You can try Opera Mobile 11 which has HTML5 support and does work on youtube so should work on other flash video websites. Goto www.m.opera.com on your phones browser to download.
2011-04-05 12:05
Is propper Flash confirmed for PR2.0?
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Only news I heard about Adobe Flash 10 on Symbian is from 2009
Heard no official news about a ready version of Adobe Flash 10 for symbian beeing released
Pretty sure its Flash Lite 4 used in the 7.3 browser in PR2.0, more focus on better HTML5 support
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hello plz i need adobe flash player for nokia n8
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As Judaz said, only flash lite 4 is available. There will not be a flash 10.x.
2011-05-27 11:31
"You can try Opera Mobile 11 which has HTML5 support and does work on youtube so should work on other flash video websites. Goto www.m.opera.com on your phones browser to download."
Well, I tested Opera Mobile 11 on PR1.2 Nokia N8 with H264&AAC (.mp4) video as HTML5 style and did not work. Obivously licensing issues prevents Opera to incorporate H264 decoders within.. Ogg is suggested..
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H264 is royalty free and can be used free of charge.
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When it will be done? need it for so long time
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Cubitek, a manufacturer of PC chassis, is pleased to announce the world's smallest case supporting an EATX motherboard - Magic Cube AIO. Cubitek's Magic Cube AIO is ideal for gamers wanting the power of an EATX in a size that is easy to carry to LAN parties, as well as users who want to build a high-performance PC but have a limited computing area. Optimized Hardware Support in a Ultra Compact Size With the dimensions of 9.61" x 19.36" x 18.78" (W x H x D), the aluminum constructed Magic Cube AIO is designed to make the most out of every available space – allowing users to install the hardware they want in a chassis with a exceptionally small footprint. The Magic Cube AIO doesn't waste space in its placement options for its 3.5" HDDs and 2.5" SSDs. One 3.5" HDD and one 2.5" SSD are designed to be placed on top of the 5.25" optical drive cage, while another 3.5" HDD fits below the same 5.25" optical drive cage which is located at the bottom of the chassis. Three more 3.5" HDDs and one more 2.5" SSD can be easily installed behind the motherboard tray. Despite of the Magic Cube AIO's small chassis size, there is room for VGA cards up to 14.17" (360 mm) in length, enough for the latest graphics cards on the market, thanks to its great internal layout. The future expandability. Efficient Cooling and Cable Management The front two 140 (mm) fans, rear 120 (mm) fan, and top 140 (mm) fan with blue LED illumination keep your hardware within the Magic Cube AIO at stable system temperatures. The cool air can travel unobstructed throughout the case thanks to the 0.7" (19 mm) space behind the motherboard tray for neat and easy cable management. For even more cooling, the latest CPU coolers with a maximum height of 7.1" (180 mm) can be easily installed inside the Magic Cube AIO. Easy Access Connectivity The two USB 3.0 ports, two USB 2.0 ports, and gold-plated audio input/output with anti-jamming capabilities are all easy-to-reach and use as they are located on the front panel. Pricing and Availability Magic Cube AIO will be available through selected partners in various countries in the beginning of May at the suggested retail price of USD $ 279.90 excluding VAT.The two USB 3.0 ports, two USB 2.0 ports, and gold-plated audio input/output with anti-jamming capabilities are all easy-to-reach and use as they are located on the front panel.
If it's aluminum seems right (think Lian Li). Nevertheless, that looks like an awesome case for those like me that have switched to NAS or other kind of external storage and only use one or two 2.5" SSDs in their systems. I can even see some nice watercooling possibilities inside
No they are screws where you can mount two case fans or a water cooling radiator. Here you can see the screws almost taken out and you can see the two case fans: I like the idea of having it clean inside like this though. Currently in my gaming rig I have one Intel 320 120GB SSD (OS+Programs), five Samsung SpinPoint F3 1TB HDDs 4.5TB RAID 0 (Steam+Origin+MS LIVE Games about 1TB so far), and two Western Digital Raptor 36.7GB HDDs 72GB RAID 0 (Download file storage+Pagefile+Temp Files like Internet cache, system files, install files) so it looks like I could fit all those drives in that case still. Price is way too high though.


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The Vandalia seventh-grade girls basketball fell to Pana, 28-19, on Tuesday, and the eighth-graders lost, 44-16.
The National Trail Conference Tournament begins on Thursday, and two teams from Fayette County will be looking to move up from the middle of the pack.
South Central and St. Elmo/Brownstown are the Nos. 5 and 6 seeds in the event, which opens on Thursday at St. Anthony in Effingham.
The Lady Cougars (13-12, 4-4 NTC) are in Pool B, with No. 2 St. Anthony and No. 8 Cowden-Herrick, and will play on Friday in Goff Gym.
SEB (12-13, 4-5 NTC) is in Pool A, with No. 1 Stew-Stras and No. 7 Windsor, and will also play on Friday, but at the Enlow Center.
ST. ELMO – Though the Egyptian-Illini Conference is in somewhat of a down year, the Lady Eagles are still glad to be back on top.
After missing out on the regular-season championship the past two seasons, St. Elmo/Brownstown has returned to championship form in the conference after a 25-6, 25-22 win against Mulberry Grove last Thursday gave the team a 6-0 conference record.
"We're back on top, and we have struggled with that the past two years," said coach Elise Asher. "We're back on track in the EIC, being undefeated there."
The Illinois High School Association has released the seeds and schedules for this season's regional volleyball tournaments, which begin on Oct. 28.
In the Class 2A regional at St. Elmo High School, Vandalia will be the No. 4 seed, and St. Elmo/Brownstown will be the No. 5 seed.
Others in that tournament are: (1) Altamont, (2) Metro East Lutheran, (3) Flora and (6) Hillsboro.
The schedule for the event follows.
Monday, Oct. 28 •6 p.m.: (4) Vandalia vs. (5) St. Elmo/Brownstown •7 p.m.: (3) Flora vs. (6) Hillsboro
Tuesday, Oct. 29 •6 p.m.: (1) Altamont vs. Winner of Game 1
Fayette County is gearing up for another Volley for the Cure match.
After a successful game was held at Vandalia earlier this month, two more local teams will be playing a match to raise money for cancer research.
South Central will host Patoka next Wednesday at 6 p.m. for the second VFTC match in the county this year.
There will be silent auctions, pork BBQ sandwiches and games during the evening, and all proceeds will be donated to the Susan G. Komen Breast Cancer Foundation.
The Lady Vandals split a pair of regular-season road games in the past week.
On Tuesday, Vandalia fell at St. Anthony, 20-25, 23-25, and last Thursday, the Lady Vandals won at Litchfield, 25-22, 25-20.
At St. Anthony, the Lady Vandals (14-11) were paced by six kills from senior Megan Godoyo, but didn't have a good attack, with just 16 kills on 66 attacks during the match.
Junior Ally Sasse had two of the team's five aces, and junior Jessica Sullens had 15 assists.
The fall season has come to a close for the Brownstown/St. Elmo baseball team.
The Bombers kept Dieterich in check last Wednesday in the consolation bracket of the National Trail Conference Tournament, but couldn't find enough offense in a 1-0 loss.
Senior Jacob Behrends pitched a complete game, striking out 11 hitters, allowing a run in the bottom of the first inning, and giving up five hits and two walks to Dieterich (6-11).
Offensively, however, BSE (9-11) pounded out four hits, with senior Levi Maxey's double being the only one for extra bases.
VANDALIA Junior Jake Bowen struggled to a round of 116 at the Illinois High School Association sectional golf tournament on Monday. Playing at Quail Creek Country Club in Robinson, Bowen finished in a tie for 104th place. On the season, he played four 18-hole rounds, finishing with an average of 100.75. In 13 nine-hole rounds, he averaged 47.38, and he tied for the team lead with six birdies. *** The eighth-grade girls basketball team lost to Pana, 44-16, on Tuesday, and the seventh-graders lost, 28-19.
Spencer Patton • Pitcher • Caneros de Los Mochis
•Oct. 12 – Patton, a South Central graduate, picked up a save for the Caneros de Los Mochis in a season-opening 3-2 win against Guasave in Caribbean Winter League action. Patton pitched the ninth inning, allowing a hit and a walk.
Sierah Ruffner • Freshman • Greenville • Volleyball
•Oct. 15 – Ruffner, a Vandalia graduate, had five kills, two block assists and a dig during a 3-0 win at Iowa Wesleyan. GC is 18-4 (11-0 SLIAC) on the season. •Oct. 12 – Ruffner had two kills and a solo block during a 3-0 win against MacMurray.
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The Dodge Ram Gridiron Challenge will be held on Friday from 3-7 p.m. at the Vandalia High School football practice field.
Ram Trucks, in conjunction with Hosick Motors, will be offering test drives, and for every community member who test drives a Ram, $20 will be donated to the Vandalia athletic department.
All participants who test drive a truck will be entered to a national contest to win $45,000 from Chrsyler.


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text: Janell Baum Archives Email Author Stabenow Frustrated With House Nutrition Proposal Senate Ag Committee leader says new House nutrition proposal makes farm bill's path forward unclear Published on: Aug 2, 2013 Tweet Post to Your Wall. Email Story RSS Permalink Print The on-hold farm bill will continue to stay that way thanks to the House's recent proposal to cut nutrition programs by $40 billion over 10 years, Senate Ag Committee Chairwoman Debbie Stabenow said during a conference call Thursday. The Michigan Democrat has been pushing for a conference on the bill since the House passed half of it – the "farm-only" portion – last month, but with a nutrition proposal now surfacing, she said the path forward has suddenly become less clear. House leadership made the decision to separate the commodity title and the nutrition titles into two bills following the House's defeat of the full bill in June, citing disagreements over nutrition cuts that Democrats felt were too steep.Senate Ag Committee leader says new House nutrition proposal makes farm bill's path forward unclear "It's now put us in another situation where it's going to be harder to get a farm bill done," she said, explaining that the House's nutrition portion must be passed before any conference action can be taken. In contrast, if the House would have appointed conferees before working up a nutrition portion, both chambers could have conferenced the Senate's full bill and the House's farm-only bill. Pundits speculated after the farm-only farm bill's passage that feet-dragging to name conferees on the House's part could be the case, given that if Republicans had entered into a conference with the farm only bill, they would not have a bargaining chip for the nutrition title. House Agriculture Committee Ranking Member Collin Peterson, D-Minn., frustrated with Thursday's House-proposed cuts, said it's all part of a "political messaging" effort – another display of partisan disagreement that has longed plagued the farm bill. "Adding an additional $20 billion in nutrition cuts, on top of the poison pill nutrition amendments that brought down the Agriculture Committee's bipartisan farm bill in June, effectively kills any hopes of passing a five-year farm bill this year," Peterson said in a released statement. "Clearly [the House Republicans] have no interest in compromise or actual legislating," he added.


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"How much freedom are Americans willing to give up for safety from terrorists?" This question, posed by a January 2003 feature in USA Today newspaper, resides at the center of current debates about homeland security, debates that are proving long-lived. Indeed, more than a year after the September 11, 2001, terrorist attacks on America, the federal government's stepped-up homeland security efforts are still a major focus of public discourse.
New homeland security measures encompass a wide variety of efforts to prevent terrorist attacks. They include both specific policies, such as random baggage searches at airports, and broader policy changes in intelligence-gathering and law enforcement, such as the reforms that the FBI and CIA have instituted since September 11. Whatever their scope, homeland security measures are evaluated by both policymakers and outside observers using two major criteria: their effectiveness in preventing terrorist attacks and the impact they have on the American public.
Security versus freedom
Homeland security measures often involve striking a balance between greater safety and infringements on civil liberties, such as invasions of privacy, discrimination, and other curtailments of individual freedom. As USA Today's Gene Stephens explains, "We cannot truly be free unless we have a reasonable degree of safety, but we cannot truly feel safe unless we are also secure from undue prying into our personal lives." Baggage searches at airports, for example, may deter potential hijackers, but they also invade the privacy of countless non-terrorists. Similarly, granting broader investigative powers to the FBI could help thwart future attacks but may also result in unwarranted government surveillance or harassment of many innocent people. Evaluating homeland security efforts thus becomes a question of trade-offs; security experts must decide to what degree civil liberties should be curtailed in order to strengthen homeland security.
While homeland security encompasses a vast array of efforts at the local, state, and national levels, three centerpieces of the federal government's homeland security strategy have been intelligence gathering, intelligence sharing, and immigration control. The Bush administration's efforts to improve the government's capabilities in each of these three areas have been among the most controversial issues surrounding homeland security.
Intelligence gathering
In the aftermath of September 11, a consensus quickly emerged that the tragedies were due in part to a breakdown in intelligence. Leaders from across the political spectrum questioned how al-Qaeda—a known terrorist network—had been able to plan and execute the September 11 attacks without attracting the attention of the CIA, the FBI, the National Security Agency (NSA), the Department of Defense, and other agencies charged with tracking terrorist threats. A key to preventing future attacks, it seemed, was to revitalize U.S. intelligence efforts.
To this end Congress passed, and President George W. Bush signed, the USA Patriot Act on October 26, 2001. The act gives new investigative powers to domestic law enforcement and international intelligence agencies. For example, it expands federal agents' power to conduct telephone and e-mail surveillance of suspected terrorists—measures that have alarmed some civil libertarians and privacy advocates.
Controversy over the PATRIOT Act highlights a fundamental theme in homeland security debates: In general Americans want the government to use its power to investigate and avert terrorist threats, but at the same time they oppose the idea of a "police state" in which the government continuously monitors average people. The challenge facing the government, according to William Webster, former FBI director and CIA chief, is "getting as much information as possible without impairing the rights of privacy that Americans have always considered dear. Everyone has a right to question, 'Why are they doing these things?'"
Intelligence sharing
Related to, but distinct from, the challenge of intelligence gathering is the issue of intelligence sharing. Critics of the government's counterterrorism measures have laid part of the blame for September 11 on a lack of communication between the FBI, CIA, and other federal agencies. According to this view, there were significant warning signs that, had they been heeded, could have averted the September 11 attacks. However, because of the compartmentalized nature of the U.S. intelligence apparatus, the various agencies charged with tracking terrorist threats were unable to recognize the warning signs because they were not communicating with one another. As former FBI agent David Major puts it, "If you don't share intelligence, you don't connect the dots."
To better connect the "dots"—the countless bits of information gathered through separate intelligence operations—Congress passed the Homeland Security Act, which became law on November 25, 2002. The act created a new cabinet-level agency, the Department of Homeland Security (DHS), to coordinate homeland security efforts. The DHS incorporates twenty-two federal agencies, including the Immigration and Naturalization Service, Coast Guard, and the Border Patrol—but not the FBI or CIA—and constitutes the biggest reorganization in the federal government since the Department of Defense was created in 1947. One of the primary roles of the DHS is to collect and coordinate intelligence from the FBI, CIA, NSA, and other agencies so that they can more easily recognize patterns and threats.
From a civil libertarian point of view, the problem with intelligence sharing—as with intelligence gathering—is its potential for abuse. By its very nature intelligence gathering—or more colloquially, spying—involves invasions of privacy that run counter to the Fourth Amendment's protection against unwarranted government searches. For this reason, spying has historically been justified as a tool of national security rather than law enforcement, to be used against foreign governments rather than U.S. citizens. Domestic law enforcement agencies, such as the FBI, who wish to conduct wiretaps or property searches in criminal investigations must obtain warrants and observe other rules of procedure that foreign intelligence agencies such as the CIA do not. The CIA, in turn, is prohibited from engaging in law enforcement or internal security functions. Many analysts worry that the DHS's emphasis on intelligence sharing may serve to remove the prohibitions on domestic spying and erode the regulatory framework that governs the use of sensitive information gained through intelligence operations.
Targeting immigrants
Many of the concerns over intelligence gathering and sharing, and homeland security measures in general, have to do with the how such measures might affect the general public, including immigrants. Indeed, the group of non-terrorists that has been most affected by homeland security measures is immigrants.
As a March 2003 report in the Economist notes:
In the months after the September 11th attacks, some 1,200 immigrants, mostly Muslims, were rounded up by the police and immigration officials across the country. Some of these were held for months before seeing a lawyer or being brought before an immigration judge. Most have since been released, some were deported, and only a few were charged with a crime. This practice seems to have continued, though the government has stopped reporting arrests.
The PATRIOT Act authorizes the U.S. attorney general to detain noncitizens without a hearing or proof that they have committed a crime. The rationale behind these measures is easy to see: All nineteen of the September 11 hijackers were Muslim immigrants, and they are believed to have received help from other al-Qaeda operatives living in the United States. Nevertheless, the mass arrests, and particularly the secrecy and lack of judicial oversight that surrounded them, outraged many civil libertarians.
Moreover, homeland security measures targeted at immigrants go beyond the investigation of the September 11 attacks. Due to the fact that all nineteen of the September 11 hijackers entered the country legally with visas (although several of the hijackers' visas had expired), a major part of the government's homeland security effort is to more thoroughly screen visa applicants in the future and track visa-holders while they are in the United States. Immigration itself has become a homeland security issue, as evidenced by the transfer of immigration control duties to the DHS. Civil libertarians warn that the government's scrutiny of immigrants will lead to the harassment and investigation of Muslim Americans as well as Muslim immigrants.
Whether the topic is baggage checks at airports or the secret detainment of Arab immigrants, debates about homeland security often center on the balance between freedom and security. For many people, such as Uni- versity of Chicago Law School professor Richard A. Posner, civil liberties should be curtailed in order to strengthen homeland security. He writes:
If it is true . . . that the events of September 11 have revealed the United States to be in much greater jeopardy from international terrorism than had previously been believed . . . it stands to reason that our civil liberties will be curtailed. They should be curtailed, to the extent that the benefits in greater security outweigh the costs in reduced liberty. All that can be reasonably asked of the responsible legislative and judicial officials is that they weigh the costs as carefully as the benefits.
Taking the opposite view are civil libertarians such as the Nation's legal affairs correspondent David Cole, who argues that overly strong homeland security measures pose a greater threat to freedom than terrorism does:
It appears that the greatest threat to our freedoms is posed not by the terrorists themselves but by our own government's response. . . . Administration supporters argue that the magnitude of the new threat requires a new paradigm. But so far we have seen only a repetition of the old paradigm— broad incursions on liberties, largely targeted at unpopular noncitizens and minorities, in the name of fighting a war. What is new is that this war has no end in sight, and only a vaguely defined enemy, so its incursions are likely to be permanent.
The viewpoints in At Issue: Homeland Security examine the government's major homeland security measures, evaluating both their effectiveness and their social impact. The essays in this volume survey the views of politicians, military officials, law enforcement personnel, and constitutional scholars, who debate the best ways to ensure that America is both safe and free.
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3 Keys to Transforming Your Financial Future
Commitment, focus, accountability
Financial expert Frank Ross has worked with hundreds of landscape company owners over his 40 plus-year career in the Green Industry. One of those contractors was Mike Rorie. Rorie now shares what he characterizes as "the best thing he ever learned from Frank" – the three keys to transforming his financial future. Rorie's insights are then supplemented with commentary from Frank Ross (FR).
Make a commitment
When you're talking about getting a better handle on the financial side of your company, you—as the owner—must embrace the concept.
Secondly, you may have some veteran, higher-level employees who get nervous when you start talking about this new commitment. Ultimately, they may clog things up and get in the way of progress. You have to be willing to change some people out or move them around. You need people around you who want to go and grow.
FR: I have found that most employees are "willing warriors" who, after goals are explained to them, will follow you (the owner) anywhere. Any valued employee will embrace your vision because they know that doing so will not only ensure the success of the company, but will also ensure their personal success, both professionally and financially.
Keep it simple, focused
Think about the kinds of information and data you want to track. Don't make it too complicated. If knowing how much a quarter-gallon of gas or yard of mulch costs doesn't really help you make decisions, don't track it down to that finite a level. Less is more every time. Think about the information you need—then start asking for it.
FR: When ownership expresses its goals, try to stay at the 35,000-foot level; leave the details to your management team. Examples of that 35,000-foot view might include:
- How much profit should we target?
- Are we planning any significant capital expenditures in the way of trucks, equipment, facilities, etc.? What level of revenue growth is required to cover those needs?
- What changes are we anticipating organizationally? Are we anticipating new hires/fires?
- What changes in personnel policies are we anticipating (wages, benefits, etc.)? Do we have the adequate cash resources to cover these goals?
- How do this year's goals fit our three- to five-year vision?
These are just a few examples. The point is that your employees will not make these types of decisions; only you can. It's your money and risk. You lay the groundwork as to how much you are willing to risk. Then, a good management team will handle the detail.
Use your budget to establish accountability
A budget is an essential tool because it allows you to plan—and to measure where you are according to that plan. Also, budgeting is a way to get all of your key employees to collaboratively engage. You can then dish it down to levels of accountability.
Frank taught us to assign watchdogs to different areas of the budget. For example, why should the owner be obsessing over lawnmower parts? That could be assigned to the operations manager or lead mechanic.
When a landscape company misses its profit goal, it's almost always because it missed its revenue goal. That's usually because the key people didn't stay focused on hitting the revenue goal. You need to have a budget that establishes the goal—and then you have to keep your eye on capturing that revenue.
FR: Perhaps the absolute best management planning tool on the planet is one I call the rolling budget. Mike Rorie's management team used this document as their financial bible. Because of that commitment, I am certain Mike was able to steer clear of many of the pitfalls which mere mortals often fall victim to.
The report looks something like this:
- Take your annual budget and spread it by month according to when you feel you will be generating revenues and spending money. The first two columns on the left (dollars and % to sales) show this original budget; these never change.
- The two columns right of that show the sum of the 12 months, or your rolling budget for the year (also dollars and % to sales).
- Looking further to the right, we have each of the 12 months of the year (only dollars). As you move through the year, you replace the monthly goals with your actual numbers, month by month. These will re-total to the left (step 2) and will allow you to compare to the original budget.
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