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* Here (below) is the original extended version of a significantly abbreviated speech I gave at a forum on "The Left and Obama" in
Remarks at "The Left and Obama" Panel
February 28, 2009
UNITE-HERE Headquarters
I want to thank Haymarket Books for holding this event and all of you for coming out tonight.
In a time when the nation's leading newspaper of record The New York Times can claim as it did yesterday that the corporate-neoliberal Obama administration is undertaking "a bold and even radical departure from recent history" in service to "progressive" goals, it's important for people on the left to remember what we are about. For my brand of the Left, it's not about Wall Street-funded politicians and officeholders and their quadrennial corporate-managed candidate-centered electoral extravaganzas. It's not about the political class's shifting, self-interested policy palliatives and their carefully crafted, mass-marketed imagery and deceptions. It's not about balancing majority progressive desires and popular needs with the structurally super-empowered desires of the wealthy Few. It's not about restoring legitimacy to and faith in the profits system and the military. It's not about smooth-talking pseudo-saviors who are going to fix our messes for us from on high. It's not about manipulating the electorate and managing popular expectations and calibrating hope from the top down.
It's about building, re-building, and expanding citizen and working-class power from the bottom up. It's about trying to create a responsive, democratic, egalitarian and issue-based political culture and politics between and across the narrow-spectrum , corporate-crafted, candidate-centered election spectacles so many of us have been trained to see as the sum total of "politics". It's about meaningfully confronting what Barack Obama's supposed hero Dr. Martin Luther King Jr, called "the triple evils that are interrelated: (1) economic exploitation (really capitalism); (2) racism (deeply understood); and (3) militarism or imperialism. (I would add some other interrelated evils, including sexism and ecological ruin, to Dr. King's list). It's about advancing what Dr. King called "the real issue to be faced" beyond "superficial" questions: "the radical reconstruction of society itself." Believe it nor not, it us about the struggle for "a socialist society in which human needs are not sacrificed for the needs of the rich" (Lance Selfa, The Democrats: A Critical History [Chicago: Haymarket, 2008], p. 197). As part of the process towards bringing such real and progressive change into being, Haymarket Books author Lance Selfa notes, we have to "recognize the Democratic Party as one of the chief pillars of the system that perpetuates exploitation and oppression." (Selfa 2008, p. 198)
Barack Obama, my thesis holds, is no special and magical exception to this basic longstanding fact of American political life. He and the broader Obama phenomenon (which dates in the outward political culture from his instantly famous Keynote Address to the Democratic Convention in the late July of 2004) is distinctive however in the astonishing extent to which he, his marketers and the corporate media have been able to convince left-leaning liberals and progressives and many ordinary people that he is on their side and that his special centrist, supposedly non- or post-ideological brand of so-called progressivism is the most that could ever be attained on the road to a better society and politics.
Selling that conviction is no small part of why Obama was hired by the American ruling class and given the job of president. It's not for nothing that Goldman Sachs gave Obama $900,000 a small part of the astonishing $37.5 million Obama got from the finance, insurance and real estate industries during the last election cycle. It's not for nothing that Obama got three fourths of his campaign cash from people giving more than $200 – the same big donor percentage as George W. Bush in 2004. It's not for nothing that Obama set new records in corporate election funding and achieved a level of fawning corporate media love that is almost beyond belief.
What much of the American state-capitalist elite wanted is somebody who can give the American corporate system and empire a much-needed public relations makeover, a re-branding as they put it. Obama is the Empire's New Clothes. The masters wanted their rotten old profits system repackaged as something truly new and different in the wake of the long national and global Bush-Cheney nightmare. As they say in elite advertising journals and editorial pages, "Brand Obama" is the new and improved, outwardly progressive, democratic, and human face for that damaged product line called "Brand USA. The Bush and Cheney "reign of error" did profound damage to popular perceptions of American capitalism, power and empire at home and abroad. The political class needed someone who could give the system a vivid new slate-cleaning aura of novelty and freshness while leaving core dominant institutions and ideologies intact.
And that was a job for which none of the other Democratic presidential candidates were qualified to the same extent as Obama. He was blessed not just with intelligence and charisma and a Harvard Law degree but with the unmatchable benefits of not being white, of having a Muslim name, of having once technically opposed (on practical, not principled grounds) the invasion of Iraq, and of having worked some years as a community organizer. Thanks to his interesting history and to his national novelty, Obama naturally struck numerous corporate and military insiders as precisely the sort of person who could brilliantly advance the business and imperial agenda while containing and pacifying an angry and increasingly desperate and impoverished populace. After vetting him very carefully starting in late 2003 and determining that he was in fact a deeply conservative, privilege-friendly and vacuously neoliberal politician, much of the power elite got it. "Who better," they decided… "Who better than Obama to be the public face for the long-predicted massive taxpayer bailout of parasitic high finance? Who better than Obama to provide cover for the reconfiguration of U.S. military control of strategically hyper-significant Middle Eastern oil resources in the wake of Bush's Iraq fiasco? Who better to safely channel popular angers and to attach alienated segments of the citizenry to the corporate and imperial state and to refashion America's image around the world?"
The elite is getting what it paid for. Sean Hannity's maniacal ravings aside, Obama has been anything but a "starry-eyed [left wing] idealist" since he won the election. I don't have time here to go into a detailed account of his presidential record to date. If you want such an account from a critical Left perspective, and I hope you do, please have a look at the ZNet piece I published yesterday under the title "Obama's Violin: Calibrating HOPE since the Election." The first part of the title comes former Clinton administration official David Rothkopf's early post-election observation that Obama was following what Rothkopf called "the violin model: you hold power," Rothkopf said, "with the left hand and you play the music with the right." You campaign and gain office with populace-pleasing progressive-sounding rhetoric but you make policy in standard service to existing dominant corporate and military institutions.
Obama's violin performance is being expertly marketed by dominant media. We are told by the Times that Obama is making "a radical departure from the past" even as he proposes to increase the so-called defense budget, even as he makes it clear that he will be leaving 50,000 so-called "residual" troops in Iraq well past August of 2010, even as he increases the level of violence in Afghanistan and Pakistan, and even as he cannot pay elementary honest attention to the legitimate grievances and claims of the Palestinian people.
Obama is a "radically progressive departure from the past," we are told form on high even as he says he will cut the federal deficit in half but cannot bring himself to embrace the elementary bank nationalizations that are obviously required in the current economic crisis. Even as he refuses to advance the obvious cost-cutting social democratic health care solution: single payer national health insurance. Even he can only set up a middle class task force but not a poverty and inequality task force. Even as he promises to spend untold billions and trillions on further bankers' bailouts executed with zero citizen oversight and direction.
Obama is a radical progressive break, we are told, even as he does not utter one word about the overdue labor law reform he campaigned on, the Employee Free Choice Act. Even as he fails to advance such basic elementarily progressive measures as a moratorium on foreclosures, a capping of credit card interest rates and finance charges, and the rollback of capital income tax rates to 1981 levels, Even as his tepid and inadequate stimulus plan is over-loaded with business-friendly tax cuts and woefully short on labor-intensive projects that will put people to work right away. And even as he asks for twice the amount of money to sustain the criminal invasions of Iraq and Afghanistan as he proposes to set aside per year as part of a reserve fund that might pay for just more than half the amount required to give the uninsured health coverage… in 10 years. [Even as he pays a presidential visit to Caterpillar, the company that sells occupation and apartheid bulldozers to Israel and the first major U.S. manufacturer in decades to break a major strike with scabs.]
[Now, its one thing for The New York Times, a leading part of the corporate establishment, to play along with Obama's big violin performance. That's what we would expect. What's more bothersome for many of us on the left it to see so many parts of the so-called progressive community chime in with their own little fiddles and kazoos – to hear the Executive Director of Moveon.org respond to the Iraq plans by saying people trust the president's campaign promises, to hear the AFL-CIO and Change to Win staying remarkably mute in their public comments on EFCA and to seem them accepting corporate health care reform over the single payer system that most Americans would support. Its deeply troubling to see The Nation (the weekly journal of the official U.S. "left") absurdly call Obama's budget proposal "an audacious plan to transform America" in progressive ways. Right after the election The Nation said that I "Obama Needs a Protest Movement" (The Nation, November 13, 2008) not that the people and democracy need one. This was an excellent expression of so-called left liberalism's deeply ingrained habit of subordinating movement concerns to the needs of the Democrats' leading politicians.] [1]
[Its' vexing to see the NAACP and the Urban League too enamored with the simple fact that "black but not like Jesse" Obama is African American to press him to undertake real initiatives against the deep and pervasive institutional racism that lives on even as the nation celebrates its willingness to vote for a certain kind of black candidate. Its annoying to see Ms. Magazine produce a cover saying that Obama is "what a feminist looks like" even as Michelle Obama is relegated to the role of domestic helpmate and as Obama continues to praise a vicious welfare elimination that especially targeted poor women and children of color. And on a more personal note it's sad to see so many progressive people I've known for many years – including some good friends – turn a willfully blind eye to anything and everything critical of Obama and even to childishly fantasize that the new president is one of them. I can't tell you all here how many liberal friends and associates I've had tell me how Obama "gets" this or "gets" that. "You know," they say, "he really gets the Israel-Palestine issue." He "gets the progressive left-labor agenda?" They look hurt when you say, "if you are right, doesn't that just make it worse? And doesn't his knowledge of left positions, as far as it goes, just make him more effective in trying to screw us over? Oh yeah, he 'gets' us alright!"]
All of us on the progressive Left need to take a certain reasonable degree of responsibility for Obama's behavior to date. Real progressive change is our challenge, not Obama's. The esteemed radical historian Howard Zinn reminded us of a basic point in an essay titled "Election Madness" last March:
"Let's remember that even when there is a 'better' candidate (yes, better Roosevelt than Hoover, better anyone than George Bush), that difference will not mean anything unless the power of the people asserts itself in ways that the occupant of the White House will find it dangerous to ignore…..Today, we can be sure that the Democratic Party, unless it faces a popular upsurge, will not move off center. The two leading Presidential candidates have made it clear that if elected, they will not bring an immediate end to the Iraq War, or institute a system of free health care for all."
"They offer no radical change from the status quo. They do not propose what the present desperation of people cries out for: a government guarantee of jobs to everyone who needs one, a minimum income for every household, housing relief to everyone who faces eviction or foreclosure. They do not suggest the deep cuts in the military budget or the radical changes in the tax system that would free billions, even trillions, for social programs to transform the way we live."
"None of this should surprise us. The Democratic Party has broken with its historic conservatism, its pandering to the rich, its predilection for war, only when it has encountered rebellion from below, as in the Thirties and the Sixties."
[You don't have to be a flaming anti-capitalist leveler like me or many of us here this evening to think that what passes for a left today in the U.S. is being far too respectful towards the new regime. As John Judis (no "far leftist," as Obama's radical critics are commonly described by his "progressive" supporters) recently argued in the liberal-centrist journal The New Republic (in an essay titled "End the Honeymoon"), a major reason that Obama has gone forward with a conservative and inadequate economic plan "is that there is not a popular left movement that is agitating for him to go well beyond where he would even ideally like to go. Sure, there are leftwing intellectuals like Paul Krugman who are beating the drums for nationalizing the banks and for a $1 trillion-plus stimulus. But I am not referring to intellectuals, but to movements that stir up trouble among voters and get people really angry. Instead, what exists of a popular left is either incapable of action or in Obama's pocket." By Judis' analysis, the U.S. labor movement and groups like "Moveon.Org" are repeating the same "mistake that political groups often make: subordinating their concern about issues to their support for the party and its leading politician." (J. Judis, "End the Honeymoon," The New Republic, February 13, 2009)]
But enough critique. There is inspiration to be found in interesting developments suggesting real movement toward progressive change beneath and beyond the false "Hope" propagated for self-interested purposes by politicians: a daring and largely successful workplace occupation (to secure severance benefits and wages from an absconding employer)on Chicago's North Side (at the Republic Window and Door plant on Goose Island) last December, rising popular resistance to rampant foreclosures and evictions; student occupations at the New School and New York University, plans for antiwar marches that will call Obama out on his rehashed imperialism, including his deadly escalation of the United States' criminal wars on Afghanistan (and, more fatefully perhaps, Pakistan). There is rising anger (feared as "dangerous populist excess" in the White House and the media) about the ongoing bailouts of the very financial institutions that drove the U.S. and global economy over the cliff.
Obama can surf the people but the inverse is true as well. Progressive activists and citizens can escape the clutches of Obamanist "repressive de-sublimation." They can evade the containment and exploitation of their hope and anger to re-legitimize dominant oppression structures. They can ride and steer the Obama wave into places (both within and beyond or beneath electoral politics) closer to true progressive ideals.
Left progressives might productively think of "the Obama phenomenon" as a sort of (watered down and strictly electoralist) bourgeois revolution: it will fail to deliver on democratic promises made to a populace it had to rally to defeat the old regime. Now that populace is supposed to return quietly (and hopefully) to remote and divided private realms, doing their little jobs and buying stuff and watching their Telescreens while the new system-maintaining coordinators do their serious work.
There is left-progressive potential in Obama's false promises and in his ongoing and impending failures. The energy and hopes he rode and channeled will need more genuinely democratic, liberating, and anti-authoritarian outlets than an Obama (or a Hillary Clinton or a John Edwards) presidency could ever have been expected to provide. As the brilliant Marxist David Harvey has recently noted, the new administration's economic plan is doomed to failure thanks to the conservative constraints of U.S. political culture and to "deep tectonic shifts in the spatio-temporal disposition of capitalist development"
Spatio-temporal tectonics aside, it's up to citizens and activists, not politicians, to carry through on progressive promises Obama is unable and/or willing to fulfill and then to move forward (as we must) to what Dr, Martin Luther King Jr. called (in a posthumously published essay titled "A Testament of Hope") the "real issue to be faced" beyond "superficial" questions: "the radical reconstruction of society itself." As Obama himself noted (along with John Edwards) repeatedly noted during the campaign, in a comment that has not fallen from his lips since he reached the White House, "change doesn't happen from the top down. Change happens from the bottom up."
Among the many reasons we don't hear that very much any more from Obama or other top Democratic politicians, one deserves special mention amidst the current remarkable capitalist breakdown. People engaging in change from the bottom up are often wont to imagine and act on their often previously hidden desires g for "a world turned upside down" – for a life beyond the pre-historic oppression structures any new head-of-state is bound to support. Long live the permanent revolution.
Paul Street (email@example.com) is the author of many essays, reviews, speeches, and book, including Empire and Inequality: American and the World Since 9/11 (Paradigm, 2004), Racial Oppression in the Global Metropolis (Rowman & Littlefield, 2007), and Barack Obama and the Future of American Politics (www.paradigmpublishers.com/Books/BookDetail.aspx?productID=186987). Street will speak on "Change and Continuity: An Assessment of Obama's Early Administration" on Tuesday, March 24, 2009 at 7pm, Paul Engle Center, 1600 4th Av SE Cedar Rapids, Iowa.
[1] Please see (published after this speech was delivered), Harpers' Magazine president John MacArthur's excellent Op Ed, "Obama is Far From a Radical Reformer," The Providence Journal (March 19, 2009). MacArthur notes that the official U.S. "left" ahs joined the right in creating the false impression that "a crypto-socialist has taken up residence in the White House…Such a reading of Obama is absurd," MacArthur notes, adding that "left and right persist in the fantasy that the president is a Mr. Smith goes to Washington character prepared to 'take on' the powers that be…The left pretends that [top corporate neoliberal economist and former Clinton Treasury Secretary Lawrence] Summers isn't really Obama's chief economic adviser, while the right pretends that the former Treasury Secretary has converted to left-wing Gaullism. In reality, Summers and [current Treasury Secretary Timothy] Geithner are in place precisely to prevent real reform of a banking system that helped put Obama in the White House…Obama, a moderate with far too much respect for the globalized financial class, is surely the unleft, unradical president. Which makes you wonder why left and right find common cause in saying otherwise." MacArthur's editorial can be read online at www.commondreams.org/view/2009/03/18-6


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In our news wrap Friday, President Obama hosted Italian Prime Minister Matteo Renzi at the White House, and addressed a list of issues, including the way GOP leaders are handling one of his main cabinet appointments. Also, financial leaders from the world's major economies gathered to discuss rising challenges and issued a joint communique saying they see modest improvements in the global economy. Continue reading
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I had a biopsy and the results are that I have a squamous cell on the tip on my nose, very small area. Using a Mohs Surgeon how will he/she determine if the procedure will be conducted with stitches or left to heal by itself. Please advise. thank you.
Mohs Surgery on Nose - Stitches or Left to Heal by Itself?
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Squamous cell on nose tip repair options
First of all, are you seeing a board certified and fellowship-trained Mohs surgeon. You can tell by going to Mohscollege.org and look up your doctor. Next, you should know that this surgical decision can only be determined after the Mohs layers show no residual cancer cells and the depth of the area is known. Sometimes these "small" cancers can be tiny or be just the tip of the iceberg. Lastly, your fellowship-trained Mohs surgeon is required for certification to have extensive experience with reconstruction. So they will be able to tell you if a skin graft , a local flap, a linear closure , or healing without stitches is best. In general, the nose tip is rounded and is not prone to ideal healing without stitches whereas the creases of the nose would do much better without stitches. Rest assured, that if stitching is needed this will cut down your healing time by up to 3 weeks as compared to leaving it open to heal on its own. Lastly, be aware that every wound can and will heal without any stitches, but if ideal cosmetic outcome is of concern then discuss this with your Mohs surgeon.
The need for stitches depends on the size of the cancer
If the cancer is small and is removed with the first layer (stage) of the Mohs procedure then there is a good chance we can let the body heal naturally and stitches will not be needed. However, if the cancer is larger, and the defect is wider or deeper after the cancer is removed, then a repair with stiches is often recommended for the best cosmetic results.
Reconstruction for the nasal tip after Mohs surgery
Normally, nasal tip defects are reconstructed by either a skin flap which involves movement of adjacent skin to cover the area, or a skin graft which is a patch of skin removed from a separate area such as behind or in front of the ear, side of the neck or other donor areas from the same patient. Otherwise, nasal defects on such a convex area of the tip of the nose typically do not heal with appropriate aesthetic outcomes. The underlying cartilage may be too noticable as bumps and the scar tissue may be too thin. All of this depends on the depth of the wound as it is possible to consider healing without stitches if the wound is shallow.
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Secondary intention healing without sutures
Your surgeon should be able to advise you based upon what area and how large of a defect are involved after removal of your skin cancer. Typically the best areas for secondary intention healing (without sutures) are those that are found on concave areas of the face such as nasal ala creases.
Repair or Secondary Intention Healing
When we allowa wound to heal by itself we refer to it as secondary intention healing. This tends to work best in concave areas including the temple and depressed contours of the nose, eyes and ears; however, other factors may come into play. Very superficial defects may also heal very well by secondary intention healing. Overall, the best answer is to talk to your doctor, and ask why he or she is performing a particular repair or allowing the wound to heal by secondary intention.
There are several factors that determine a repair
First off, kudos to you for using a Mohs surgeon to treat a skin cancer on a cosemtically sensitive area. As stated before, make sure that you are using a fellowship-trained Mohs surgeon.
Personally, I do not like to leave defects on the nasal tip to heal by secondary intention. I feel that this leaves an unacceptable scar. There are other locations were secondary intention healing is acceptable (concha of ear, small medial canthal defects), but I do not consider the nasal tip one of these.
Depending on the size of your final defect, there are several repair options. If your defect is midline on the nasal tip, your surgeon may be able to close it primarily (in a straight line). If that is not feasible, then you are looking at a skin flap (moving around adajcent skin) or a skin graft. I am not a big fan of grafts on the nasal tip unless it is really small and shallow.
These answers are for educational purposes and should not be relied upon as a substitute for medical advice you may receive from your physician. If you have a medical emergency, please call 911. These answers do not constitute or initiate a patient/doctor relationship.


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Mistakes happen: Learn how to manage them
In preparing this article, my mind races back to my days as a veterinary student at Colorado State University. One of the more vivid memories I recall involved my surgery partner. He was performing a femoral head resection. The stockinette leg slips up his arm, and he grabs it with his lower jaw and shoulder just as the surgery professor walks up.
His "oops" seemed appropriate at the time, but the professor did not display the same levity. So we got a "do over" on that surgery on the weekend . . . please Dr. Surgeon, throw us in the briar patch and make us have more surgery time. We decided we needed to say "oops" more often!
The fine line of honestyRegardless of your skills, knowledge, and most careful intentions, mistakes will happen. Sometimes things won't work because the moon and stars aren't aligned, the client flow is atypical or training is/was inadequate (actually, the latter is most common).
Regardless of the misadventure (medical terminology for mistake), one thing is for sure: If you ever decide to blame someone or something, then you have abdicated accountability for the resolution.
With new veterinary medical doctors, the fear of failure is a major concern. The state board of veterinary medicine usually takes a dim view of any mistake that might cost life or limb, so it is a concern with a real focus on professional survival. Let's start with the easiest issues and evolve the concepts:
House rules
Boss mistakes
This is the most variable because the boss (practice owner) can have many approaches to a new associate. If you are in a "disposable-doctor" practice, remember there is a geographic maldistribution of veterinary resources, and there is a better job elsewhere.
The other basic premise that must be remembered by new graduates is that while the boss might not always be right, he or she is never wrong.
Discuss the facts; never debate the decision. In most cases, a practice owner would prefer to show a new doctor the way rather than allow an exploration of terror; just ask for help. On the flip side, there are basic skills that a new doctor should know, and if it is converting book knowledge to actual practical skills, repetition is the only solution.
Staff mistakes
The biggest error a new doctor can make with staff is to forget they are an asset to be cherished, and that the three Rs apply all the time: respect, responsibility and recognition.
In most practices, the staff has a much better feel for the routine wellness care than a new doctor who really knows only tertiary care from the university (e.g., can do a heart transplant but has never see a cat fight abscess).
A smart practice allows a new graduate a 20- to 30-day staff-based rotation to allow the new doctor to learn the "practice ways" of doing things. Asking a staff member for guidance on "What is the practice's preferred method?" is not dangerous, but essential.
Client mistakes
Clients are an appreciating asset (à la Tom Peters, management guru), and the return visit must be planned in every encounter (à la Dr. Tom Cat, veterinary consultant).


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Each young woman will respect and appreciate the contributions of people with disabilities.
Prepare a copy of the word Differences in large letters for each young woman.
Bring pencils for the class members.
If it is available, show the video presentation "Appreciating the Handicapped," from Family Home Evening Video Supplement 2 (53277).
Suggested Lesson Development
We Can Understand People with Disabilities
Teacher presentation
Explain that all of us are more like each other than we are different.
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What are some of the ways we are all alike? (We need food, clothing, and shelter; we need to be loved; we want to develop our talents; we want to serve others.)
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What are some of the ways we are different? (We have different interests, different abilities, and different living circumstances.) Point out that some people also have the difference of disabilities.
Activity and discussion
Distribute the pencils and copies of the word Differences.
Challenge the young women to trace the letters of the word with the hand they do not usually write with. Tell them to try to do it accurately but as fast as they can. They should find the process slow and difficult. Give them a time limit, and encourage them to hurry. Compliment those who work well. Put pressure on those who are behind.
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How do you feel when you are working under pressure on an assignment that is beyond your capabilities or that you cannot do well?
Explain that this is how a person who has trouble learning often feels in classrooms at school or church.
Scripture discussion
Ask a young woman to read John 13:34–35.
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How do people know that we are Christ's disciples?
Have the young women sing or read together the Primary song,
Explain that all around us are people with disabilities. Some are physical, some are mental, and some are emotional. Some disabilities are easy to see; others are invisible until you get to know the person well. Our actions and attitudes make a difference to people with disabilities. We should show them that we care about them and not do things that will cause them embarrassment or pain.
What can we do to show people with disabilities that we accept and care about them? (Look them in the eye, smile, get on their eye level, communicate with them as we would any other person.)
Teacher presentation
Explain that Alice, a law student who lost her sight, said, "I can do most things that others can, but I need different tools and different ways of doing things. Help me find the tools and the methods. Don't do things for me, but help me use my abilities."
Encourage the class members to talk with people who have disabilities. Suggest that they ask these people what helps them and what doesn't help.
If it is available, show "Appreciating the Handicapped," from Family Home Evening Video Supplement 2.
Examples and discussion
Discuss the following examples and questions with the young women:
A girl who walks with supporting braces said: "When I walk down the halls, people pass me without making eye contact. It is as if they are saying, 'I can't fix what's wrong with you, so I will pretend that you and your problem are not there.'"
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What can we do instead of avoiding people with obvious disabilities? (We all have a natural curiosity about things we are not familiar with. We need to ask people about their disabilities and not be embarrassed to let them know that we are wondering or are interested.)
A boy who is intellectually impaired said: "Everyone talks over my head, finding out from my parents or my friends how I feel and what I like. Why don't they speak to me, when I'm standing right there, instead of asking, 'Does Jerry want this?'"
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How could we treat such a person differently?
A young woman who is hearing impaired said: "People greet me, then rush on. I'd feel really good if someone would start a conversation. If a person faces toward me directly and speaks clearly and doesn't cover her mouth, I can read lips really well. I can give a response you can understand. Talking with each other—that's how friendships begin."
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How could you communicate better with such a person?
Emphasize that we should always try to treat people with disabilities just as we would treat anyone else. It is very important to remember that we are more like one another than we are different from one another.
Chalkboard presentation
Explain that some people use negative, harmful terms when they talk about disabilities. Write the following phrases on the chalkboard and discuss how the phrases avoid embarrassing or hurting a person who is disabled.
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Person who uses a wheelchair
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Person who uses crutches, a brace, or a walker
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Person with a mental illness or an emotional disability
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Person with an intellectual impairment
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Person who is deaf or hearing impaired
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Person who has a language disorder
We should not use phrases that imply that people who do not have disabilities are "normal." We should simply call them people who are not disabled.
Appreciating and Serving People with Disabilities
Tell the following true story about Jenny Ireland:
"'Hello! This is Radio Halton. Jenny speaking. Are you happy and raring to go? I've got great things lined up for you today. But first, let's hear some music.'
"This cheery message is the way patients in Halton General Hospital, Runcorn, England, tune in to 17-year-old Jenny Ireland, their disk jockey for several hours each week.
"What many of those patients don't realize, as Jenny sends out bridges of comfort and hope along radio waves, is that she operates that complex equipment without the use of arms. …
"… 'I'd like to be everyone's friend,' she admits. 'My greatest ambition is to become a radio presenter, broadcasting to the public. A lot of lives can be touched that way.'
"Touching lives is something she's already doing. Nothing is too great an obstacle. She even completed the physically demanding Gold Duke of Edinburgh Award, setting an amazing example to the rest of her school friends. The final hike in Snowdonia, Wales, was gruelling—days of trekking over mountains in all weathers, with only a compass and map to guide. Jenny also has no ligaments in one knee, which causes problems. But sheer determination keeps her going. …
"Without Jenny's sociable nature, many opportunities for missionary work would be lost. She has a gigantic testimony of the gospel of Jesus Christ. And she doesn't mind who knows.
"Jenny also knows how to make people feel special. Even those embarrassed by her disablement.
"'Sometimes children will point at me and talk behind my back or make fun. It really doesn't bother me one bit. I just laugh. My lack of arms is no problem to me. If I believe in myself, then I can accomplish as much as the next person.
"'There was no medical explanation for my being born this way. No one is to blame. I've learnt a lot about myself in seminary. I feel I have things to do, and my disability is not a trial but somehow a help to others. It's making me a much stronger, more patient person and keeps the family close together.' …
"'Of course there are days when I'm blue, too,' Jenny admits, 'but my parents have taught me that my best friend is my Heavenly Father, and he's always there when I need him.' …
"School has presented many challenges for Jenny. But Church teachings and activities and loving parents and leaders have developed such self-esteem that nothing is a threat to progress" (Anne C. Bradshaw, "Bridging the Waves," New Era, Nov. 1990, pp. 31–32).
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How is Jenny touching and enriching the lives of others? (Sharing her strong testimony of the gospel, maintaining a positive attitude and happy spirit, helping people under-stand her disability, helping others by working in the hospital, participating in all activities in spite of her disability.)
Explain that people with disabilities, just as those without disabilities, need others to help them with things they cannot do.
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How can we serve those with disabilities? What kind of assistance might they need?
Possible responses might include the following:
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Helping them when they read or participate at school or church.
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Asking them to go to school or church activities; sitting with them in classes.
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Helping them understand appropriate ways to act in social situations.
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Asking the person or her parents about the particular disability and what you could do to help her. For example, if the person has a seizure, what should you do?
Emphasize that all people are much the same. We need to find ways to become friends with those who have disabilities, to help them accomplish their dreams, and to honor the gifts they have. We need to apply the Savior's counsel: "A new commandment I give unto you, That ye love one another; as I have loved you, that ye also love one another" (John 13:34).
Lesson Application
Ask the young women to do the following individually or as a class:
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Identify a young woman at school or church who has a disability or special needs.
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Reach out to her to help her and include her in your activities.
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Recognize the special contributions that she can make and help her participate in the school, church, and community.


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Ryan K., a neighborhood team leader in Kendall County, volunteers for the campaign because he feels that President Obama cares deeply about the work that he does.
"I am proud of this President and the things we have accomplished. President Obama shares my view for the future and I want him to succeed. I believe he is a genuinely moral man with the best interests of all Americans in his heart. It's not a question of why I volunteer, but rather how could I not volunteer."
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In 1995 the Allies of World War II celebrated the 50th anniversary of their victories over Nazi Germany and Japan, but not without some controversy and angst. (See Special Report.) In Washington, D.C., the Smithsonian Institution's planned exhibit of the Enola Gay--the B-29 from which the atomic bomb was dropped on Hiroshima--was criticized by veterans groups and others as being a revisionist history of that event. (See LIBRARIES AND MUSEUMS: Sidebar.) In Moscow world leaders joined Russian politicians and Soviet military veterans in commemorating the end of the war in Europe, while a demoralized Russian army was bogged down in a humiliating and bitter war in the breakaway Russian republic of Chechnya. Talk of a half century of peace in Europe had a hollow ring during most of the year in former Yugoslavia, where the conflicts entered a new stage marked by the military resurgence of the Bosnian Muslims, a stunning Croatian offensive, and the dramatic escalation of NATO military pressure on the Bosnian Serbs. The NATO strikes triggered strong negative reactions in Moscow and, when coupled with fears of NATO's eastward expansion, soured the relations between Russia and the alliance. Serbia, Croatia, and Bosnia and Herzegovina finally signed a peace agreement, and the first troops of the NATO-led (IFOR) were in place as the year ended. (For approximate strengths of selected regular armed forces of the world, see below.)
The spectre of nuclear weapons proliferation continued to be a major concern. United Nations inspectors discovered that Iraq had been much closer to assembling a nuclear bomb in 1991 than previously estimated. In May the delegates to the Nuclear Non-proliferation Treaty (NPT) Review and Extension Conference adopted by acclamation a decision to extend the treaty indefinitely, an outcome that had been in some doubt. Terrorist use of weapons of mass destruction moved from theory to reality in March when a Japanese cult released nerve gas in the Tokyo subway system, killing 12 and sending more than 5,500 to the hospital. Despite strong pressure from the United States, Russia refused to back away from a deal to provide Iran with nuclear reactors. The 1994 agreement in which North Korea pledged to give up its existing nuclear program in return for receiving two modern reactors was slowly being implemented and in June the U.S. and North Korea reached an agreement on the type of reactors that would be provided.
After the painful decision had been taken to withdraw all of the United Nations Mission in Somalia II (UNOSOM II) forces, a combined international task force with contributions from seven countries successfully covered the withdrawal in early March of the last 2,400 UN peacekeepers from Mogadishu. Some 57,000 UN peacekeepers were deployed around the world in 16 other forces and missions. In January UN Secretary-General Boutros Boutros-Ghali appealed for the formation of a UN rapid-reaction force as a strategic reserve for future emergencies but found few countries willing to contribute.
Arms Control and Disarmament
The two treaties considered to be the linchpins of nuclear and conventional arms control came under some pressure in 1995. Continuing U.S. efforts to develop defense systems against theatre ballistic missiles raised strident objections in Moscow that Washington planned to abandon the 1972 antiballistic missile (ABM) treaty. Russian Pres. Boris Yeltsin sent the Strategic Arms Reduction Talks II (START-II) treaty to the State Duma (parliament) in June for ratification, but in both Washington and Moscow, other security and political concerns pushed the START-II ratification process into the background. Implementation of the START-I treaty continued without any major difficulty, with baseline on-site inspections completed in June. In April Russian and Kazakh officials announced that all former Soviet strategic nuclear weapons had been removed from Kazakhstan and repatriated to Russia. All such weapons were scheduled to be transferred from Belarus during the year also, but Belarusian Pres. Alyaksandr Lukashenka in July "temporarily suspended" the removal of the last 18 SS-25 mobile intercontinental ballistic missiles from Belarusian territory. Ukraine continued to download warheads from the missiles on its territory. By year's end it had shipped an estimated 700 strategic warheads to Russia. Both Russia and the U.S. continued to dismantle their surplus warheads.
The numerical ceilings on offensive conventional arms mandated by the Conventional Armed Forces in Europe (CFE) treaty became effective on November 17, and most--but not all--of the 30 states party to the treaty had eliminated their excess weapons by that date. A more serious challenge to the treaty was Russia's refusal to meet the so-called "flanks" limitations placed upon it by the treaty. In September NATO offered to allow Russia to redraw the boundaries of its North Caucasus military district so as to partially offset the treaty's restrictions, but Turkey balked at a Russian counterproposal that called for even more territorial concessions.
The commitment on the part of the nuclear powers to negotiate a Comprehensive Test Ban Treaty (CTBT) in 1996 at the UN Conference on Disarmament (CD) had been an important factor in approval of the indefinite extension of the NPT. Thus, many were dismayed when China conducted an underground test less than three days after the conference had adjourned. Protests were even louder when incoming French Pres. Jacques Chirac announced that France would conduct up to six nuclear tests before the end of May 1996. On September 5 the first test took place at Mururoa atoll in the South Pacific. France conducted four additional tests during the year but joined with China in pledging to work for an unconditional CTBT in 1996. By the end of the year, 182 states had signed the NPT, with Brazil, India, Israel, and Pakistan the most significant absentees.
In March the U.S. Senate finally ratified the 1980 Convention on Conventional Weapons, which, inter alia, places restrictions on the use of antipersonnel landmines. In September a UN review conference met in Vienna with the goal of tightening the convention's restrictions on the use of such mines, but the 42 participants adjourned without an agreement. The 1993 Chemical Weapons Convention continued to limp toward implementation. Of the 160 signatories, only 47 (of the required 65) had deposited their instruments of ratification by year's end. Neither of the two admitted chemical weapons states--signatories Russia and the U.S.--had yet ratified the convention. In contrast, there was some progress in replacing the defunct Coordinating Committee for Multilateral Export Controls with a broader regime, informally called the New Forum, to guide the export of conventional weapons and technology in the future.
United States
Congress approved a national defense budget authority of $263.5 billion for fiscal year 1995 and supplemented this with $3.1 billion to pay for contingency costs related to the operations in Haiti, former Yugoslavia, and the Persian Gulf. The Clinton administration's Future Year's Defense Program for 1996 differed significantly from the 1995 version, with a shift from procurement to readiness and improving the quality of military life. While parsimonious in most other budget areas, the Republican-controlled Congress was inclined to be generous to the Department of Defense in the fiscal year 1996 budget, although the impasse between the president and the Congress over eventually balancing the budget meant that nothing had been resolved as that fiscal year began. In November Congress passed a $243.3 billion defense appropriations bill that was $7 billion larger than Pres. Bill Clinton had requested. It called for the continued construction of B-2 strategic bombers, financed a third Seawolf attack submarine, provided for continued development of the F-22 fighter, and added $529 million to Clinton's $2.9 billion missile defense request. A national missile defense program received $745.6 million, more than twice the amount requested by the administration, while the conflict between such a program and the ABM treaty was postponed by compromise wording that directed the Department of Defense to "develop" a national system by the end of 2003 rather than "deploy" one, as called for in the original Senate bill. Clinton reluctantly signed the appropriations bill but vetoed the $275 billion defense authorization bill because it again called for the design of an ABM system by 2003.
In September the Department of Defense established the policy of prohibiting the use of lasers specifically designed to blind enemy personnel. Several new weapons systems were unveiled in 1995, among them the Seawolf fast attack submarine, the prototype of the army's RAH-66 Comanche armed reconnaissance helicopter, and the navy's F/A-18E "Super Hornet" strike fighter.
John White, who chaired the Commission on Roles and Missions of the Armed Forces, a congressionally mandated panel, was appointed deputy secretary of defense to replace John Deutsch, who left to head the CIA. (See BIOGRAPHIES.) The commission report released on May 24 skirted many of the roles and missions issues. It recommended the creation of a joint training command, a larger planning and policy role for overseas commanders, and a new agency to develop doctrine for joint operations.
In March a federal district court declared unconstitutional the administration's "don't ask, don't tell" policy regarding homosexuals in the military. The government said it would appeal. After studying 10,000 Persian Gulf War veterans suffering from the so-called Gulf War syndrome, the Department of Defense concluded that there was no single or unique illness involved. Four Army Ranger trainees died of exposure during an exercise in February at Eglin Air Force Base, Florida; nine instructors were disciplined. When none of the personnel involved in the tragic April 1994 downing by U.S. fighters of two U.S. Army helicopters over northern Iraq were convicted of any wrongdoing, Air Force Chief of Staff Gen. Ronald Fogleman in August wrote derogatory "letters of evaluation" on seven officers involved in the incident, effectively ending their military careers. An army counterintelligence officer, Capt. Lawrence Rockwood, was dismissed from the service in May after a court-martial found him guilty of disobeying orders while serving in Haiti in September 1994. He had left his post to investigate possible human rights abuses in the Port-au-Prince prison. After a long legal battle, in August Shannon Faulkner became the first woman to be admitted to the Citadel, a military college in Charleston, S.C., only to drop out during initiation week, citing severe stress. In October the Supreme Court declined to hear an appeal filed on her behalf.
NATO's "Partnership for Peace" (PfP) program continued to expand, with Austria, Belarus, Malta, and Macedonia joining in 1995. Non-NATO membership stood at 27, with Tajikistan the only successor state to the U.S.S.R. not a participant. The scope and frequency of multilateral PfP peacekeeping exercises picked up and included the first such maneuvers to be held in the U.S. While Russia approved its individual PfP program with NATO in May, its relations with the alliance became increasingly strained as the states of Central Europe repeated their desire to join NATO. In September NATO released its study on enlargement, and while it stressed that such a move would threaten no one, the study failed to ease Russian concerns, especially when officials in Poland, the Czech Republic, and Hungary said they would be ready to accept NATO nuclear weapons on their soil as part of their membership obligations.
NATO Secretary-General Willy Claes was forced to resign in October after the Belgian Parliament lifted his immunity in connection with a procurement scandal that took place when he was economics minister. His deputy, Italian diplomat Sergio Balanzino, took over as acting secretary-general as the alliance searched for a permanent replacement. He was succeeded by Javier Solana, the Spanish minister of foreign affairs.
In January the Canadian government ordered the disbanding of its Airborne Regiment, an elite unit often used in peacekeeping missions. Nine members of the regiment were put on trial in connection with the torture and killing of a civilian in Somalia in 1993. The four partners in the Eurofighter 2000 project, Germany, Italy, Spain, and the U.K., continued negotiations on how they would divide the production. Eight countries were also cooperating in the Future Large Aircraft (FLA) project, a program to provide a new military transport by 2002. On March 28 Belgium and The Netherlands signed an agreement to merge the operational staffs of their navies into an integrated centre in Den Helder by the end of the year. Belgium became the second European NATO country, after the U.K., to end conscription.
France, Italy, and Spain signed the founding documents for the creation of an army joint rapid reaction force (EUROFOR) and a European maritime force (EUROMARFOR) to provide extra security in the Mediterranean at a time of mounting concern over the security situation in the region. Portugal asked to join both. The 50,800-strong European Corps, answerable to the Western European Union and made up of troops from Germany, France, Belgium, and Spain, officially became operational on October 1.
As peace talks on Bosnia and Herzegovina in Dayton, Ohio, bore fruit in mid-November, NATO military authorities were working out plans for deploying as many as 60,000 troops to guarantee the peace. Russian participation was deemed crucial, but the Russians made it clear they would not serve under NATO command, while the U.S. and other NATO members were equally insistent that NATO be in charge of the peace force. Ultimately, the Russians agreed to provide a brigade that would serve in a U.S. division but receive orders through a Russian general. The Bosnian peace agreement was signed on December 14, and six days later the UN turned over control of military operations in Bosnia and Herzegovina to NATO. By the end of the year, it had more than 17,000 troops in Bosnia.
United Kingdom
In May, Defence Secretary Malcolm Rifkind announced that a new permanent Joint Headquarters would be established at Northwood by April 1, 1996. It would both plan for and execute joint operations, responsibilities presently handled on a temporary, ad hoc basis. A new Headquarters, Land Command, was established for all army units at home and overseas. In Prime Minister John Major's June Cabinet reshuffle, Michael Portillo was named to replace Rifkind.
HMS Vigilant, the third Vanguard-class Trident missile submarine, was rolled out on October 14; it was scheduled to enter operational service in 1998. By the end of 1998, the Trident submarines would be Britain's only nuclear delivery system, as the government announced in April that the Royal Air Force would loose its nuclear capability by that date with the withdrawal from service of the WE-177 free-fall nuclear bomb. In November the United States agreed to provide U.S.-built Tomahawk conventionally armed cruise missiles for the Royal Navy's nuclear-powered attack submarines.
In September the Ministry of Defence announced that it would review all aspects of its policy of excluding homosexuals from the armed forces after the High Court ruled that the current policy was lawful but urged that it be reviewed. Major and French Pres. Jacques Chirac signed a new bilateral defense agreement on October 30 in which they agreed to exchange technical information on their nuclear weapons.
Chirac, who took office on May 17, named Charles Millon as his minister of defense, and in June the new government announced an 8.5% cut in 1995 weapons procurement. Millon said that no major programs would be terminated, but he admitted that the previous year's 1995-2000 procurement blueprint was no longer credible. In September the government announced that it would limit military procurement spending in the 1996 budget to F 95 billion, a 15% cut. Reports indicated that the government planned to abandon the land-based missile leg of its nuclear triad by closing down the base on the Plateau d'Albion in southeastern France. The controversial nuclear tests in the South Pacific served to certify the new TN-75 warhead for the next generation of M-45 submarine-launched ballistic missiles. In addition, France planned to develop a new long-range air-launched cruise missile with a nuclear warhead to provide a nuclear capability for the new Rafale fighter-bombers. In December France agreed to rejoin NATO's military wing. Some 900 French troops were sent to the former French territory of the Comoros in October to put down a coup by army rebels and white mercenaries.
On January 1 the operational forces of the Bundeswehr in the former East Germany were assigned to NATO, completing a four-year effort to integrate the units in the new states into the national forces. On March 15 Defense Minister Volker Rühe announced plans to trim the armed forces by 32,000 to 338,000 and to reduce conscription to 10 months. The new Crisis Reaction Forces would include 37,000 army, 12,300 air force, and 4,300 navy personnel. A Special Forces Command would be established at Calw, near Stuttgart. There would be 22 peacetime brigades--a drop of two--and one of the present eight divisions was to be abolished. German Tornadoes flew reconnaissance and air-defense suppression missions in Bosnia and Herzegovina in support of NATO's Rapid Reaction Force, and the government announced that it would contribute as many as 6,000 men to the Bosnian peace implementation force.
Beginning on March 20, 35,000 Turkish troops, backed by tanks and planes, marched into part of northern Iraq to crush Kurdish rebels of the outlawed Kurdish Workers' Party. The Turks withdrew in early May. A second five-day incursion by some 3,000 troops took place in July. These events strained Turkish relations with its NATO allies and prompted Norway, The Netherlands, and Germany to halt arms transfers to Turkey for a time.
Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS)
Russia signed military-basing agreements with Armenia and Georgia, and Russian border troops patrolled the external borders of most CIS members. Russian peacekeeping troops were active in Moldova, Tajikistan, and the Georgian region of Abkhazia. Russia and Ukraine agreed to divide the rusting Black Sea Fleet, with 82% of the ships going to Russia. Sevastopol, in Ukraine, would be the Russian base.
After the failure of the New Year's Eve attack on Grozny, the Chechen capital, Russian Defense Minister Pavel Grachev called in elite units from throughout Russia to bolster the federal government's military contingent in the breakaway republic. Still, the stubborn Chechen militants continued to expose the weaknesses in morale, leadership, and equipment of the Russian troops, who could not drive Dzhokhar Dudayev's supporters out of the capital until February 8. Fierce fighting continued in other parts of the republic for months more. The bungled military intervention revealed deep fissures in Russia's military leadership. More than 500 military officers refused to take part in the Chechen operations. Yeltsin ultimately fired four deputy defense ministers, including Boris Gromov, the popular last commander of Soviet troops in Afghanistan. Another military critic of the operation was Lieut. Gen. Aleksandr Lebed, the charismatic leader of the Russian 14th Army deployed in the Transdniestr region of Moldova. Lebed resigned to enter politics after his command was downgraded.
The reputation of Russia's military and security forces was further sullied in June when army and elite Interior Ministry antiterrorist troops were unable to dislodge a Chechen separatist band from a hospital in the southern Russian town of Budennovsk, where they had holed up with over 1,000 hostages. Prime Minister Viktor Chernomyrdin on June 18 negotiated an end to the siege by offering a truce in Chechnya and freedom for the attackers. On July 30 Russian and Chechen negotiators signed an agreement calling for the disarmament of the Chechen separatists and the withdrawal of most of the federal troops. An Organization for Security and Cooperation in Europe mission went to Grozny to observe compliance with the agreement. Shooting incidents continued to take a steady toll of Russian troops. On October 9 the disarming and withdrawal were suspended following the attempted assassination of the commander of federal forces in Chechnya.
Tajikistan was another spot where Russian servicemen suffered regular casualties, mainly border troops trying to prevent Tajik dissidents from entering the country from Afghanistan. Inside Tajikistan two brigades of the Tajikistan army came to blows as they competed for influence in the Kurgan-Tyube region.
In an incident reminiscent of a Soviet response at the height of the Cold War, Belarus air defense forces on September 13 shot down a hot-air balloon that had drifted into Belarusian airspace while participating in a prestigious international race; the two American crew members were killed.
The Rest of Europe
Fortune in the conflicts in former Yugoslavia turned against the Serbs in 1995, with impressive gains by the Bosnian government and Croatian armies and forceful military actions rather than their usual bluffs and threats by the frustrated NATO forces. In March the Bosnian government went on the offensive in the central and northern parts of the country. Croatian forces, in a 48-hour blitzkrieg that began on May 1, seized the territory in western Croatia that had been held by the self-proclaimed Republic of Serbian Krajina (RSK). On May 25-26 NATO aircraft struck a Bosnian Serb ammunition dump near Pale at the request of the UN Protection Force (UNPROFOR) following Bosnian Serb shelling of UN safe areas. The Serbs retaliated by taking several hundred UNPROFOR soldiers hostage. On June 2 U.S. Air Force Capt. Scott F. O'Grady's F-16C was shot down over western Bosnia and Herzegovina by a Bosnian Serb SAM-6 missile. O'Grady was rescued six days later, having used his survival training to evade searching Serbs, and returned to a hero's welcome in the U.S. The U.K., France, and The Netherlands contributed the troops for an 8,700-man Rapid Reaction Force that began to arrive in the region in mid-June. More mobile and with heavy weapons, this force was to back up the 20,500 UNPROFOR troops already deployed. In July the Bosnian Serb forces took Srebrenica, one of the UN's declared "safe areas," after humiliating the 400 Dutch UN peacekeepers stationed there. This prompted a debate on whether to reinforce or withdraw the NATO and UN forces. In mid-July the U.S. deployed its newest unmanned reconnaissance aircraft to Grader, Albania, to support the UN and NATO forces. Two of these "Predator" spy drones were lost within a four-day period in August. In early August the Serbs captured Zepa, another of the UN safe areas, and attacked Bihac. This was to be their high-water mark. On the morning of August 4, Croatia launched an offensive with its 100,000-man army along the entire 1,125-km (700-mi) front separating the RSK from the rest of Croatia and in a five-day blitz regained control over almost all of the country. This was the largest army to fight in Europe in 50 years. On August 10 NATO and UN commanders signed a memorandum of agreement concerning NATO air operations to protect the remaining safe areas, and on August 30 NATO began Operation Deliberate Force, a massive application of air and artillery power aiming to force the Bosnian Serbs to respect the safe areas. After a brief pause, the strikes continued on September 5, and five days later they included the firing of 13 Tomahawk Land Attack Missiles against Bosnian Serb air defense installations by a U.S. cruiser in the Adriatic Sea. The parties to the conflict in Bosnia and Herzegovina agreed to a 60-day cease-fire, which began on October 11.


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For the past week, the social conversation has centered on the VMAs and Emmys, which aired on back-to-back nights. Each had its share of buzzworthy moments, from Beyonce's VMA performance (followed by a Jay-Z and Blue Ivy appearance) to Billy Crystal's tribute to Robin Williams during last night's Emmys
But which awards show captured the attention (and engagement) of Facebook users? Sunday night's VMAs saw 13 million people with over 30 million interactions; 6.2 million people had 10.9 million interactions related to the Emmy Awards last night.
While the VMAs trumped the Emmys on Facebook, the Emmys improved compared to last year's numbers. For the 2013 Emmys, 4.8 million people had 7.1 million interactions around the 2013 Emmy Awards.
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John Blanchard may get out of prison some day even though four jurors thought he deserved the death penalty.
Blanchard, 52, was the benefactor of a split jury Tuesday at the end of his capital murder trial for strangling his ex-wife, Patricia Ann Blanchard.Some Utah women see Blanchard's sentence of life with parole as an affront to their gender.
Luci Malin, state president of the National Organization for Women, was appalled by the jury's decision.
"(The sentence) trivialized the violence," she said. "There was ongoing violence in their marriage and in the end tragedy. It's outrageous."
Rep. Loretta Baca, D-South Salt Lake, broke into tears when she heard that Blanchard, who after confessing to the murder told police he had no regrets, would be eligible for parole.
"I'm not too happy about that because I knew Patti," said the legislator, who has made ending domestic violence her personal crusade. "The verdict gives the message that domestic violence still isn't taken serious."
Patricia Blanchard had called Baca just to talk after hearing the representative speak on domestic violence. Later she volunteered to help Baca in her struggle against spousal abuse.
Though neither Baca nor Malin believe Blanchard deserves the death penalty they said he doesn't deserve parole.
Most jurors refused to comment after deliberating nearly three hours. But one told court observers four of the 12 members wanted the death penalty. Two others were "adamant" they wouldn't send Blanchard to the execution chamber, the juror said.
The seven-man, five-woman panel also could not agree on whether Blanchard should have been sentenced to prison without the chance for parole. So, under Utah law, Judge Pat Brian had no choice but to order Blanchard to prison with the possibility of freedom.
The sentence was the most lenient Blanchard and his attorneys could have expected.
"This is a victory for us. This gives him a chance for a life in the future. And I think it underscores what we've said all along - that good people do bad things sometimes," said defense attorney Jerry Mooney.
Another juror who did not want to reveal her name was frustrated after deliberations. "The justice system doesn't work . . . the law narrows our options too much. I'm disappointed."
The juror refused to comment further or say whether she agreed or disagreed with the final outcome. "It's been a long proceeding, and I'm too tired to talk about it."
The jury heard dozens of witnesses during the month-long trial, including Blanchard's two children, ages 13 and 14. Both testified they still loved their father and didn't want him to be executed.
Prosecutors Robert Adkins and Terry Christianson responded that Blanchard deserved the death penalty because he committed burglary and/or rape in the process of killing Patricia.
Both crimes are listed in Utah law as aggravating circumstances that can allow a jury to assign the death penalty to a defendant.
"I submit that the aggravating circumstances are like a brick in this case compared to a feather of mitigating circumstances. When you put the brick on the scales of justice, the feather can't even make it move," Adkins said in closing arguments.
Although Blanchard escaped death (no man in Utah history has ever been sentenced to die for murdering his wife) and will possibly get parole, he is the first Utah man in 20 years convicted of aggravated murder for killing an ex-spouse.
Patricia Blanchard's family emphasized that point after the trial.
"If one thing good can come out of this for Patty, it is that her death by a divorced husband of 2 1/2 years by spousal abuse is murder and should be treated as murder," said her father, La Mar Coon.
But Baca said Blanchard's sentence sends the chilling message that society accepts domestic violence. "Men know who they can beat up because they know they can get away with it," she said.
Patricia was in bed just after midnight Sept. 15, 1995, when Blanchard broke into her home, crept up the stairs in stocking feet and choked her to death, according to court testimony.
Blanchard scrawled on a piece of paper after his early morning arrest, "For months I planned to kill her. I did it tonight. NO REGRETS!" He later told police several hundred people in Park City probably wondered why he didn't kill his ex-wife sooner.
Testimony from the stand suggested Blanchard's daughter, who was 13 at the time, stood outside the door as he killed her mother in a violent 20-minute struggle.
The girl said from the stand two weeks ago that she heard her father tell her mother, "Die, b----. I'm going to kill you."
She said she was still scared of her father but wanted to decide on her own if she would have a relationship with him in the future.
Coon and his wife, Shirley, are now the legal guardians of the Blanchards' two children and pray they can help the kids recover from the tragedy.
"Shirley and I are at an age in our lives when we were getting ready to take it easy, but we are going to raise the children to be useful and productive citizens of this great country. God, please grant us the longevity, health and strength to make it happen," Coon wrote in a letter to some media three days ago.
Coon gave up his job as a manufacturer's representative after his daughter's death to help his wife raise the two children. He was to retire June 3 after 50 years of service to his company.


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Lately, many stakeholders have recognised the urgent need for qualified human resources in the nuclear field, owing to the large-scale retirement of first-generation nuclear experts. In parallel, there is a need to make nuclear knowledge easily accessible to future generations. In addition to the knowledge in each member state, the European Commission (EC)'s Institute for Energy (IE) produced a long-standing record of results from its own institutional activities and even more through participation in a large number of European Network partnership projects. The IE has developed a method for the consolidation of nuclear knowledge which relies on the mobilisation of all identified leading experts in the European Union (EU) in reevaluating old knowledge and consolidating what is valuable to create training materials for new generations. This method was applied for a pilot study for consolidating and preserving Russian reactor-type (WWER, i.e., the Russian version of a pressurised water reactor) RPV safety-related knowledge, which is scattered in many countries and in different languages, facing a serious issue in terms of getting lost. The initiative of the IE is a small part of a wider nuclear knowledge preservation and consolidation challenge (think big), which will be elaborated and discussed in this paper, as well as the experience gained from the first pilot study (act small).
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MSDS - Silver Nitrate - Revised March 7, 2013
1 - Product Identification
Synonyms: Silver(I)Nitrate, Lunar Caustic
Formula Weight: 169.87 (63.5% Silver metal by weight)
Chemical Formula: AgNO3
Reportable Quantity: 454 grams
2 - Composition
Silver Nitrate: 99.9%
3 - Hazards NFPA 704
Health Rating: 2 - Intense or continued but not chronic exposure could cause temporary incapacitation or possible residual injury.
Flammability Rating: 0 - None
Reactivity Rating: 0 - Normally stable, even under fire exposure conditions, and is not reactive with water.
Contact Rating: 3 - Severe (Corrosive)
Lab Protective Equip: Safety goggles and/or face shield. Latex gloves. Good ventilation.
Storage Color Code: Yellow (Reactive)
4 - First Aid Measures
Inhalation: Remove to fresh air. Crystals will sting the nasal passages. Get medical attention as soon as possible.
Ingestion: If swallowed, Do not induce vomiting. Give a quantity of salt water. The salt water and/or stomach acid will immediately form Silver Chloride, which is much less harmful. Get medical attention immediately if the quantity ingested is more than a gram.
Skin Contact: Rub skin with table salt and a little water. Skin will probably turn dark when exposed to sunlight. Stain will vanish in a few weeks.
Eye Contact: Immediately flush eyes with plenty of distilled water. The salt in tears will form white Silver Chloride immediately. This Silver Chloride may attach to the eye. Get medical attention immediately.
5 - Fire Fighting Measures
Fire: Use an extinguishing agent suitable for surrounding fires.
Explosion: Reacts with ammonia to form an explosive Fulminating Silver when dry.
6 - Accidental Release Measures
Wear protective equipment. Clean up in a way that doesn't disperse the crystals into the air. If it is released into water, add table salt to immediately form the less harmful Silver Chloride.
Special Note: Disposal of even small quantities of silver nitrate in waste systems connected to a septic tank is guaranteed to destroy the septic bacteria and require pumping out, flushing and seeding with fresh bacteria.
7 - Handling and Storage
Store in a closed container. Silver Nitrate is not very light sensitive, it does absorb air moisture.
8 - Exposure Limits; Airborne
OSHA Permissible Exposure Limit (PEL): 0.01 mg/m3 (TWA) as silver metal dust
ACGIH Threshold Limit Value (TLV): 0.01 mg /m3 (TWA) as soluble silver compounds
9 - Physical and Chemical Properties
Appearance: Transparent white colored crystals.
Odor: Odorless.
Solubility: 2190g/1000ml water @ 20°C (68°F).
Specific Gravity: 4.352
pH: 6
Boiling Point: 444°C (831°F) Decomposes.
Melting Point: 212°C (414°F) - Forms a brown, viscous liquid.
Vapor Density (Air=1): 4.4
Vapor Pressure (mm Hg): Very low.
10 - Stability and Reactivity
Stability: Stable at room temperature in sealed containers.
Hazardous Decomposition Products: Oxides of nitrogen.
Incompatibilities: Ammonia. Forms explosive when dry.
Conditions to Avoid: Do not allow solutions of Silver Nitrate and Ammonia to dry out.
11. Transport Information
Domestic (Land, DOT)
Hazard Class: 5.1
Packing Group: II
UN/NA: USPS Publication 52, Silver Nitrate is their item number UN1493
ORM-D: USPS Can ship within United States only.
ORM-D Packaging instruction 5A: Consumer Commodity ORM-D AIR - the weight of the contents of the primary packing container cannot exceed 1 kg. USPS publication 52, Appendix C, 1999 page 291. link
Outer Packaging: A strong outer packaging that is capable of firmly and securely holding the primary receptacle and cushioning material is required.
12. Manufacturer/Supplier
Salt Lake Metals
1115 East Brigadoon Court
Salt Lake City, UT 84117
Tel: 801-265-8921
Email: firstname.lastname@example.com
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