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Geneva teachers, school board thankful for deal
Two sides now must vote on undisclosed deal
The Geneva school district has apparently avoided a teachers strike, with negotiators reaching a tentative deal early Monday morning.
But the cost of that deal won't be made public for several days.
Negotiators met for more than eight hours, starting Sunday afternoon and wrapping up at 12:30 a.m. Monday, hours before teachers had planned to go on strike.
"It was a long process," school board President Mark Grosso said at Monday night's school board meeting. "It was tough, tough on everybody ... emotionally, very stressful."
"Last night either side could have walked away," Grosso said. "I think it took some fortitude on both sides, and we stuck it out and nobody took the easy way out."
Word of an agreement brought a word of thanks from a teacher Monday night.
"I want to say thank you both to the board of education and my negotiation team," said Tina Gaetani, starting to cry. "I'm thrilled we have reached an agreement."
"We're happy that no strike occurred and that we have school today as normal," Superintendent Kent Mutchler said earlier Monday.
Geneva Education Association President Carol Young could not immediately be reached for comment.
The union will present the proposal to its members Tuesday, and they will vote on it Wednesday. The school board hasn't set a date for its vote. Both agreed not to release details of the three-year agreement until after both sides vote.
The district told parents of the agreement via its emergency notification system around 5:30 a.m. Monday.
The contract will cover 422 teachers, psychologists, librarians and social workers, 388 of whom belong to the union.
Saturday, the union had filed an unfair labor practice charge against the board, with the Illinois Education Labor Relations Board. The union contends that the district tried to intimidate employees last week when it sent them a letter saying that if they went on strike, they would have to make arrangements to pay their full health insurance premiums if they wanted coverage to continue during a work stoppage. Young said the letter also addressed negotiation items that at the time were undecided.
The school district's attorney said the letter was written in response to "numerous questions" the district had received from teachers about would happen during a strike.
Parent Leila Fakhoury said some residents of Geneva should apologize to teachers for the way they treated them during negotiations, including calling teachers greedy. She suggested many parents could afford to pay more for education, if they were to give up some other expenses, such as eating out often.
"I think teachers are taking a high road in all this," she said.
The board's latest public offer to the union was made Thursday. It called for:
• A salary freeze in the first year, except for two groups of workers. Those who have completed certain levels of graduate education would receive lane increases of 2.65 to 5.37 percent, and teachers who had given notices of retirement in the past three years would receive pay increases.
• In the second year, salaries would rise 1.95 percent, while salaries for teachers with 23 or more years of experience would rise 1.5 percent; beginning pay would be raised to $40,905; eight teachers could get unrestricted raises based on graduate work, while other teachers' graduate-work raises would be limited.
• In the third year, salaries would rise 2.75 percent, while salaries for teachers with 23 or more years of experience again would rise 1.5 percent; beginning pay would rise to $41,413; and teachers could advance one lane.
The union has not publicized its offers since Oct. 29. That offer called for a salary freeze for the first year, with only raises for graduate work; full experience and education increases in the second year, plus making up the raise for half a year's experience; and full experience and education increases in the third year, plus making up the raise for half a year's experience.


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ABC ran a very insightful, eye-opening, and educational piece on the role of the fashion industry on tween girls (ages 8-12). More and more fashion trends are become extremely provocative and girls younger and younger are wanting to wear clothes covering less and less. The video says that some critics are calling it Corporate Pedophilia. But when you consider that the tween market represents $43 billion, it's no wonder companies are doing all they can to reach that market.
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25 Verifiable Facts About Marlon Brando
by ELLEN COPPERFIELD
When I first saw Marlon Brando, he looked like a bowling ball with a lisp emitting from the finger holes.
He was a hellion as a teen. His parents sent him to the same military academy his father had attended. He wrote, "I'm kinda homesick and want my mother, but I guess I will get over that. I've received exactly one letter since I've been here. Fine support for the baby of the family." The next month he added, "I had to read Wuthering Heights for English and I never enjoyed a book in all my life as much as that one."
He fled the set of Darryl Zanuck's The Egyptian, dressing up in the most expensive clothes he could find because they were looking for the Marlon who always wore a t-shirt and jeans.
While filming Mutiny on the Bounty, Marlon spied a Tahitian island and purchased it from the blind elderly American woman who lived there with forty cats and dogs. She had to go to Vallejo, CA for medical treatment. He bought the place for $200,000. Shortly after she moved she died.
A Harvard Medical School psychologist who slept with Marlon observed, "There are casual ladykillers and serious ladykillers. The casual ladykiller is a person who doesn't try to involve you in a relationship but seeks to get you only by the magnetism of his sexuality. A serious ladykiller has much more imagination and tries to capture you in more intricate ways - meaning that he involves you with his ideas, his thinking. The seduction is much more complicated - only then he has more trouble because women inevitably fall in love with him."
When he was trying to get his break in the theater, he was offered a part in a new play by Eugene O'Neill, The Iceman Cometh. Marlon later wrote, "I'd always thought he was dour, negative and too dark." He argued with a producer about "why I thought the play was ineptly written, poorly constructed, and would never be a success."
After he filmed the movie version of A Streetcar Named Desire Marlon moved into an apartment near Carnegie Hall and seduced the entire group of young actresses at the Actor's Studio. He met Marilyn Monroe when he elbowed her in the face by accident. She replied, "There are no accidents." She invited him over for sex the week before she died. In his autobiography Songs My Mother Taught Me he wrote, "I didn't sense any depression or clue of impending self-destruction during her call. That's why I'm sure she didn't commit suicide. If someone is terminally depressed, no matter how clever they may be, or how expertly they try to conceal it, they will always give themselves away. I've always had an unquenchable curiosity about people, and I believe I would have sensed something was wrong if thoughts of suicide were anywhere near the surface of Marilyn's mind. I have always believed she was murdered."
Jean Cocteau said of him, "Marlon is the only man who can make noise without disturbing anybody."
Marlon hated having sex with a condom on. He regarded it as base.
After meeting Marlon before they began shooting Last Tango in Paris, Bertolucci said, "In Bacon you see people virtually throwing up their guts and doing a monkey's job on themselves with their own vomit. I found this same kind of appeal in Marlon."
He would always willingly supply the money for an abortion.
When The Godfather came around, Marlon was desperate for a role to revive his career. Francis Ford Coppola could not possibly ask him to audition, so he asked Marlon if he could come by the actor's Mulholland Drive home and "improvise" in front of a camera. After he saw the tape, producer Bob Evans said, "He looks Italian, fine. But who is he?" He did not recognize the man before him.
Marlon's mother was a furtive alcoholic. She would take quiet sips from a small bottle whenever she could. "When my mother drank," Marlon said, "her breath had a sweetness to it I lack the vocabulary to describe."
In the wake of Dr. King's death, Marlon felt an affinity for the Black Panthers. They did not share this positive feeling. "They told me that they despised me because I was just another knee jerk white liberal to them."
The day before A Streetcar Named Desire opened at the Ethel Barrymore, Marlon telegrammed his father to say, NEED MONEY BY TONIGHT SHOW SPLENDID LETTER TO FOLLOW MARLON.
He believed that by dripping a wet towel soaked with hot water on his head, he would never go bald.
On the set of A Countess From Hong Kong, during a close-up, he asked Sophia Loren if she knew small hairs were coming out of her nose. She never spoke to him again.
After watching his performance in The Godfather, he said, "When I saw it the first time it made me sick. All I could see were my mistakes and I hated it."
If he liked you, he wanted to be close to you, even if just briefly. "Like a large number of men," he eventually admitted, "I too have had homosexual experiences and am not ashamed. I've never paid attention to what people said about me. Deep down I felt ambiguous and I'm not saying that to spite the seven out of ten women who consider me - wrongly perhaps - a sex symbol. According to me, sex is something that lacks precision. Let's say sex is sexless."
When Lew Wasserman tried to change the title of The Appaloosa to Southwest to Sonora, Marlon did not take it very well. He hired a group of mariachi players to go around Universal singing a song they had written called "Southwest to Sonora" until the studio aceded to his wishes.
In later years, Brando became very uptight about his weight. He would pull up the curtain whenever he changed clothes.
Marlon's son Christian spiralled out of control with drugs and alcohol as a teen. He would steal pot from neighbor Jack Nicholson's stash. If Jack caught him, Christian Brando would imitate his part in Chinatown, saying "You do that again and I'll break your fucking fingers, man."
On the set of Guys and Dolls, Sinatra and Brando just did not get along. One man never blew a line, the other wrote his dialogue on his hand. Frank's thugs followed him everywhere; Marlon was most happy completely alone. The only way they could get Marlon to go through with it was to buy him a white Thunderbird convertible.
On the set of The Fugitive Kind, Tennessee Williams screamed at Marlon, "I need radar equipment to hear what you're saying. If I can't hear my fucking dialogue, I'm going home."
As he traveled through France, he once spent the night with a woman in Ascain. "It's a terrible story," he told his friends, murmuring, "awful, awful, awful." They asked what happened, and he said, "I had a very nice time with her, and she made me a wonderful breakfast. I was thinking, 'Thank God she hasn't asked me for anything', but then when I was leaving, she did just that. She said, 'When shall we meet again?' It's too awful. That's what I had been afraid of all along."
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Computer Science ColloquiumIm Rahmen des Informatik-Kolloquiums, das von den Instituten des Fachbereichs Informatik, der Österreichischen Gesellschaft für Informatik (ÖGI), der Arbeitsgemeinschaft für Datenverarbeitung (ADV) sowie der Österreichischen Computergesellschaft (OCG) abgehalten wird, spricht
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VM composition and VM warmupZeit: Tue 17.5.2016, 16:00, 60 Minuten
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ZusammenfassungProgramming languages are islands, each disconnected from the rest. We choose a language for a task and, for better or worse, stick with it. Communicating between programs written in different languages is such a slow, arduous, task that we avoid doing it whenever possible.
In this talk I will first show how language composition can lower, and even remove, the barriers between languages. We have pioneered new approaches to the two major challenges in language composition: editing and running composed programs. Using our novel editor 'Eco', users can write source files that contain fragments of multiple languages. We then run multi-language programs using composed meta-tracing VMs. Our preliminary results suggest that performance of composed programs is often competitive with traditional mono-language VMs.
I will then show ongoing research into understanding VM warmup. Our research suggests that the classical model of VM warmup may no longer reflect VM performance in the real world.
This is joint work with Edd Barrett, Carl Friedrich Bolz, Lukas Diekmann, Geoff French, and Sarah Mount. More at http://soft-dev.org/.
VortragenderLaurence Tratt is a Reader in Software Development at King's College London where he leads the Software Development research group. He designed the Converge programming language, and has contributed to projects such as Eco, Unipycation, and PyHyp..
Einladender: Univ.-Prof. Dr. Hanspeter Mössenböck, Institut für Systemsoftware
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An Illustrated Guide to the Biggest Dragons
A fantastic size comparison chart, An Illustrated Guide to the Biggest Dragons infographic was published by The Daily Dot, and designed byMax Fleishman and Fernando Alfonso III.
George R.R. Martin, whose A Song of Ice and Fire novels are the basis for Game of Thrones, is currently writing a companion guide to the books, called A World of Ice and Fire. He's recently published an extract of this guide on his blog, chronicling the history of the Targaryen invasion of Westeros, which took place several hundred years before the events of the books and the show.
It's got some badass dragon art, too. You can see Aegon the Conqueror standing astride his dragon mount, Balerion, the "Black Dread." Turns out these dragons get really freaking big.
But seeing this picture got us thinking. Just how big is this dragon, and how does this bode for Daenerys's own dragons? And how does it measure up to other famous fictional fire-breathers?
A great data visualization, but it's missing some elements of a good sharable infographic. Where it comes up short is that the infographic will be often shared without the rest of the text article originally published on The Daily Dot. It needs to be able to stand independently, so the infographic image file itself should include the following:
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Over the last few weeks, Fishing Cactus has received a few visits of the nice people from ProSiebenSat.1 Games. The reason behind all that brouhaha was Creatures 4.
ProSiebenSat.1 happens to be a proper media and entertainment mogul over here in Europe. "ProSiebenSat.1 Games GmbH is the games company of ProSiebenSat.1 Media AG. As a leading publisher, the company focuses on the licensing and distribution of online and mobile games, and acts as a strong digital distribution partner for the gaming products of premium partners all over Europe." is what the press release lingo precisely says. Not only do they distribute in Europe several hit online games, including the great blockbuster games DC Universe™ Online, PlanetSide® 2, and the sequel of the EverQuest® franchise. They also run successful television stations (their original activity) in Germany and Nordic Countries, and have ties with massive French and Italian channels too (TF1 and RAI).
This is just the ideal partner for us, as small indie developer, and Bigben Interactive, as publisher. By partnering with this ideal fit, our respective companies will be able to each focus on what they do best: us making the game, Bigben Interactive making the toys and physical goodies and handling the logistics, while ProSiebenSat.1 Games makes sure that there are many people playing the game across Europe and that we can scale up the network properly.
Cause it's now official, the ink on the contract barely dry: we have entered an agreement with ProSiebenSat.1 Games for the distribution, maintenance and marketing of our game on the Old Continent.
There are a few consequences to this.
The first one is merely cosmetic: the official launch title will be changed from the tentative Creatures 4 to the definitive "Creatures Online" in an effort to attract new players who had never heard of the previous episodes some good 15 years ago.
A more important shift is the fact that ProSiebenSat.1 Games is now in charge of deploying the right server network for us, which they have booked already and plan to be ready with around July or so. Once that's in place, they will be running a first round of beta, which at first will be CLOSED. Access to the beta will be as easy as creating an user account on their network, signing Non-Disclosure Agreements and then stick to confidentiality for realsies
If you live in another area of the World not covered by ProSiebenSat.1 Games, don't worry about a thing — We have no intention of leaving you standing in the rain alone. We are currently on the look for Northern American and Asian distributors of similar magnitude and we are in talks with several companies for that. Announcements will follow in due course.
Last but not least, a lot of you have asked us to show video footage of the alpha version we've recently feature locked. We'd like to do that. But rather than taking a lot of time editing a trailer that doesn't talk to you, we'd like to combine the depth of our game with the pleasure that was the Q&A session we recently had in the CreaturesCaves chat rooms, a few months back… So! How about a Google+ HangOut event with the team sitting in a sofa in front of the running demo, everybody? Would you attend to that? Say some time this June? Let' s hook it up!


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As reported by the Daily Beast, "Was Jesus Lily-White? Author Edward Blum Discusses Race and the Mormon Religion," by Jamie Reno, on 27 July 2012 -- Here's why you won't hear Mitt Romney talking about Jesus's skin color. Jamie Reno discusses race and the Mormon religion with author Edward Blum.
Talk about playing the race card!
Edward Blum, a history professor and religious scholar at San Diego State University and co-author of the forthcoming book The Color of Christ: The Son of God and the Saga of Race in America, isn't just playing that card, he's playing with fire with his potentially incendiary thoughts on the current presidential campaign and race—specifically, the race of Jesus Christ.
Yes, you read that right. Who knew that Jesus' skin color was a hot campaign issue this year?
Well, it is, if subconsciously, insists Blum, who says that while neither President Barack Obama nor former governor Mitt Romney has said anything about whether Jesus was white, black, or any other color, there's a strong if unspoken intersecting narrative of race and religion that greatly defines this election.
In the 2008 presidential race, the words of Rev. Jeremiah Wright, Obama's former preacher, about a black Jesus being killed by white Romans, caused a firestorm of controversy and almost destroyed Obama's campaign.
Those hostilities still linger among many white conservative Christians, says Blum. But, he says, there has been little if any questioning in this campaign of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints' approach to what Jesus looked like.
Most, if not all, scientists and theologians now agree that Jesus was likely neither the black man espoused by Obama's former longtime church nor the tall, blue-eyed white man of Romney's lifelong church.
Back in 2000, a cover story in Popular Mechanics, of all publications, titled "The Real Face of Jesus," sought scientific answers to this ancient question. With the help of Israeli and British forensic anthropologists and computer programmers, the magazine concluded that Jesus probably had a broad peasant's face, dark olive skin, short curly hair, and a prominent nose. And, the researchers concluded, he would have been 5-foot-1 and weighed 110 pounds.
Blum says that while most Western people have historically viewed Jesus as white, Mormons were some of the first Americans to claim to have seen him and describe him with light hair and blue eyes. "It has simply been overlooked just how 'white' the Mormon Jesus really is," Blum says.
The color of Christ became an especially contentious issue during the civil rights movement in the late 1950s and throughout the 1960s. That's when African-Americans began to challenge the widely held notion in America that Jesus was a white man.
In 1957, Martin Luther King Jr. received a letter to his syndicated "Advice for Living" question-and-answer column in which the writer asked, "Why did God make Jesus white, when the majority of peoples in the world are non-white?"
King replied that Jesus's skin color was of little or no consequence but said that Jesus "is no less significant because his skin was white," which in other words meant that King was at the time sticking to the public's notion of a white Jesus. King's response didn't sit well with some of his African American readers. One of them wrote, "I believe, as you do, that skin color shouldn't be important, but I don't believe Jesus was white."
During the civil rights movement, Blum says, Mormons, in a symbolic gesture, placed an 11-foot, lily-white statue of Jesus at the center of Salt Lake City. Dubbed Christus, images of the statue can be found to this day in Mormon welcome centers across the nation, Blum says. Here's a 2008 campaign depicting Romney and Christus: http://bit.ly/M7zYao.
Blum says Christus became an even more significant symbol after 1978, when Mormon leadership lifted its ban of blacks from the priesthood.
"The statue was and remains an icon of white supremacy," says Blum, who cowrote his book with Paul Harvey, a history professor and author.
Blum says Mormons also used new art forms in the 1960s to display a "very white Jesus" in their homes, temples, and welcome centers. "In this way," Blum says, "they could uphold their connection to whiteness without having to speak it or legislate it."
In 1969, Blum says, John Scott painted his Jesus Christ Visits the Americas, which featured Jesus with blond hair and fair skin, showing his wounded hands to Anglo-looking Native Americans. "This depiction of the white Jesus and his relationship to white Native Americans became very popular," Blum says. "Mormon leadership had it featured in The Book of Mormon they put in hotel rooms."
So what does Blum think Obama would say if he were asked if Jesus were black? And what does he think Romney would say if he were asked if Jesus were white?
"I think Obama would say that the United States is too diverse for any one color to be recognized as the color of Christ or God," he says. "Obama has stressed that the Golden Rule is his main political lesson from Jesus. I rarely hear Romney mention the Golden Rule in his political positions."
Blum believes Romney would have a harder time with the question of Jesus' skin color. "The problem with this question would be intense for Romney because God has a body in Mormon theology, just as humans do," Blum says. "God and his son Jesus are described as white by the Mormon prophets and in the paintings." (source: The Daily Beast)


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While other kids were out getting their driver licenses when they were 16, Lisa Kudrow did something else "life-altering": She got a nose job.
The "Web Therapy" star recently turned 50 and opened up about childhood and young adult events that affected her.
The nose job "was life-altering," Kudrow told Lawrence Grobel in the Saturday Evening Post. "I went from, in my mind, hideous, to not hideous. I did it the summer before going to a new high school. So there were plenty of people who wouldn't know how hideous I looked before. That was a good, good, good change."
The "Friends" star, who went on to win an Emmy for supporting actress in 1998, explained that she was isolated in junior high after her two best friends said they didn't want to be friends with her anymore. (Bet they're somewhere now saying a Phoebe-inflected "Oh, no"!)
"It was just mean. And all of junior high felt upside down to me," she said. "It was not, like, the nice people who were popular; it wasn't the most entertaining people -- it was the meanest people who were popular. We were reading 'Macbeth' at the time, and I remember the three witches: 'What's fair is foul and foul is fair.' That's all I could hear in my head during that whole period. When my friends dropped me, I was asking my parents, 'What did I do?'"
Kudrow's sister -- seven years her senior -- rescued her.
"She did, definitely. Unbelievable of her too, because I was 13 and she was 20," she said. "She would find out when our half-days were, when everyone would go out to lunch and I would have no one to eat with. She would pick me up and take me to lunch. That's extraordinary to me. It was just very generous of her to be so sensitive and aware, even though there was nothing anyone could do."
Her brother's best friend, Jon Lovitz, encouraged her to audition for the Groundlings, and she said that becoming an actress was a tough decision for her because she "thought actors were egocentric people with bad judgment. And anyone who wanted to do that, it wasn't very mature."
However, she did the "Frasier" pilot, guest appearances on "Cheers" and "Newhart," and a small role as a waitress in "Mad About You." She saw great success with "Friends," earned up to $1 million per episode and became recognized around the world as the show continued in syndication. But the fame didn't help her go easy on herself.
"I had always thought that fame would give you permission to lighten up on yourself. If everybody else likes you, you could finally have permission to love yourself. It's not true," she said.
But she didn't quit the acting (phew!), thanks to a "childlike guy" who impressed her in one of her early improv classes. That classmate happened to be late-night host/comedian Conan O'Brien.
"He was so impressive that he saved me from quitting the whole notion of acting," she said. "I had come late to the second class, and I wasn't sure I was going to stay with it. It was too embarrassing. I felt I looked so silly doing some of the exercises. So I sat down to watch people make fools of themselves. And then I saw this very childlike guy throwing a space ball, but it looked like he was throwing an actual ball. It didn't look stupid, and he wasn't overdoing it. He was totally committed to it. I finally got it -- that as long as you totally commit, you're safe from embarrassment."
Apparently, Kudrow also helped O'Brien become a late-night host.
"Yeah!" Kudrow said. "I was very encouraging. I remember saying, 'If Letterman's leaving his late-night show, he's irreplaceable. So better it be someone we don't know at all.' So I thought he should look into it."
Oh, you know, no big deal.
As for "Friends," Kudrow said people still think of her as the hippie-dippy masseuse she played when the long-running comedy started its run on NBC about 20 years ago. The character, she believes, was originally written the way Kudrow played her.
"The audition piece was the monologue that Phoebe said in the pilot episode. Everything I knew about her character came from that speech. She was basically a ditzy girl who lived in a happier reality than everybody else, because everything was so gloomy around her. That's what I decided. And she was fearless and unapologetic. Now on Twitter or Facebook I see young girls saying, 'I identify with Phoebe because I'm different too.' That's nice, to think that people who don't feel they fit in perfectly well can relate to that character," she said.
She agreed with costar Matthew Perry that they were sorry the show ended in 2004 after 10 seasons.
"Matthew said that, and then I agreed with him. It was a lot of fun. But I think there was the feeling of better to go out on top, like 'Seinfeld' had done," she said.
And she also believes that she "sucked" on the show.
"Yes, sometimes I watch myself, and I mean, really?" she said, adding that she sometimes changes the channel when she finds the show on television. "It depends on my mood. If I'm in a bad mood, I'd better not. Sometimes my son will come in, and we'll see it, and he'll have questions -- mostly what he wants to know is, 'So how old was I when you did that one?' He doesn't care about me."
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March 3, 2011City and Deutsche Bank Americas Foundation Launch Immigrant Entrepreneur Business Plan Competition to Promote Seed Funding to Immigrant Start-Ups
Mayor Bloomberg Committed to Launching Initiatives to Support New York City'sImmigrant Entrepreneurs in his 2011 State of the City Speech
Mayor Michael R. Bloomberg today announced three new steps to make it easier for immigrant-owned businesses to start and grow in New York City: a business plan competition for innovative strategies to provide assistance to immigrant entrepreneurs; new, free NYC Business Solution courses in Chinese, Korean, Spanish, and Russian; and a business expo to showcase locally-based immigrant food manufacturing businesses and link them to consumers nationwide. The initiatives are a result of a yearlong series of roundtables with community groups and are part of the City's agenda to support immigrant communities and empower them to grow and create jobs. Mayor Bloomberg announced the initiatives at a Center for Migration Studies and Levin Institute conference on U.S. immigration reform at the Levin Institute in Manhattan.
"Immigrant entrepreneurs and the businesses they launch have long been drivers of innovation and enterprise in New York City and across America," said Mayor Bloomberg. "We need the Federal government to fix our immigration system, but New York City can't afford to wait. Today we are taking another step to help our economy by promoting immigrants enterprise and entrepreneurship across our five boroughs."
"The Bloomberg Administration is focused on promoting entrepreneurship and supporting New York City-based ventures, many of which come out of the City's immigrant communities," said Deputy Mayor for Economic Development Robert K. Steel. "Nearly half of all self-employed workers in New York City are foreign-born, and we're committed to nurturing their entrepreneurial spirit and helping them make their businesses successful."
"The strength, vitality and allure of this city has been because of two things: immigrants and entrepreneurship," said City Council Speaker Christine C. Quinn. "It is only right that we continue to support those coming to New York City to pursue their dream of opening up their business by providing them with the proper information and tools to help their business thrive in one of the best cities in the world. These initiatives will pave the way for all immigrants who are looking to have their business succeed in their communities.
New York City's immigrant population has more than doubled since 1970 – from roughly 1.4 million to 3 million – and immigrants now represent nearly 40 percent of the City's population and 43 percent of the City's labor force. Immigrants are a significant and important piece of the City's entrepreneurial economy: Immigrants make up 49 percent of all self-employed workers in the City compared to 25 percent in New York State and only 12 percent in the U.S. Despite their large numbers, immigrant businesses face serious challenges. Immigrants nationwide lag behind native-born entrepreneurs in terms of longevity of business operations, with a smaller proportion of immigrant owned businesses operating more than 42 months compared to non-immigrants businesses.
The immigrant entrepreneur support competition, a joint-effort of the New York City Economic Development Corporation and the Deutsche Bank Americas Foundation, will challenge entrants to propose innovative, scalable ideas to assist immigrant entrepreneurs. Participants will be invited to submit business plans for ventures that would address concerns of immigrant entrepreneurs like access to credit, financial management, language barriers, or access to business networks. Five plans will be selected and each awarded seed funding of up to $25,000 to pilot their program. After the pilot period, the program recognized as the most scalable and sustainable by a panel of judges will be selected as the winner and receive funding of up to $100,000 to further scale their program. The judging panel will be comprised of members of academia, City agencies, nonprofits, and business leaders.
"Immigrant entrepreneurs are essential to the future success of New York City's economy," said New York City Economic Development Corporation President Seth W. Pinsky. "By launching these new and innovative initiatives, the City is building upon its commitment to support these important communities. Each initiative will help to expand opportunities and promote growth for immigrant businesses across the City."
"In New York City, we understand that immigrant entrepreneurs are an important part of our economic growth," said Mayor's Chief Policy Advisor John Feinblatt. "We know that nationwide, despite barriers of language and culture, immigrants are almost twice as likely to start businesses as most Americans - with so many potential new businesses and new jobs, it only makes sense to offer programs and services to make sure immigrant-founded companies succeed."
"New York has the huge advantage of a motivated, talented and entrepreneurial immigrant population that has been a mainstay of our City's economy," Deutsche Bank Americas Foundation President Gary Hattem. "Our partnership with Mayor Bloomberg and the New York City Economic Development Corporation seeks to propel immigrant-owned business to even greater success as meaningful job providers for our city as a whole."
The Department of Small Business Services' NYC Business Solutions Centers offer free courses to small businesses to help them develop the skills they need to launch, operate and expand. Today, the courses are taught primarily in English, with some available in Spanish and a few in Mandarin and Russian. The New York City Economic Development Corporation will join with the Department of Small Business Services, the Mayor's Office of Immigrant Affairs and several community-based organizations, including Baruch College, GrowNYC, Make the Road New York, and Renaissance Economic Development Corporation, to offer recurring courses in Chinese, Korean, and Russian, and additional courses in Spanish. The community-based organizations will provide space and instructors to teach the courses to members of each targeted community. It is anticipated that the pilot program will serve hundreds of immigrant entrepreneurs over the next 12 months.
"From Flushing to Flatbush, Brighton Beach to El Barrio—immigrant entrepreneurs have been an integral part of the city's economy," said Small Business Services Commissioner Robert Walsh said. "For the past nine years, Mayor Bloomberg has prioritized helping small businesses through NYC Business Solutions and other initiatives, and I'm proud to say that more entrepreneurs will be able to take advantage of our services regardless of what language they speak, and receive the support they need to help their business thrive and grow."
"Immigrant entrepreneurs support the economic vitality of the City," said Mayor's Office of Immigrant Affairs Commissioner Fatima Shama. "Their entrepreneurial spirit and drive to create better opportunities and economic prosperity is the American dream we all aspire to. Their success is the City's success and we remain committed to supporting immigrant entrepreneurs by promoting business solutions and innovative approaches to help them start and grow their businesses in our City."
"We are excited about these initiative because our New Farmer Development project immigrant famers are now at the point where they are buying their farms and selling their products at multiple Greenmarkets and CSAs, and they need support to take their businesses to the next level," said GrowNYC Executive Director Marcel Van Ooyen. "By partnering with EDC, we can expand our services to the farmers we work with and provide the opportunity to develop financial management courses that are culturally appropriate and tailored to their specific business needs."
The New York City Economic Development Corporation and the Department of Small Business Services will work with Baruch College, the Pratt Center for Community Development, and the South Brooklyn Industrial Development Corporation to establish and manage a pilot business expo on May 25, 2011 for locally-based immigrant food manufacturing businesses to showcase their products. Within New York City's food manufacturing industry, 70 percent of the employees are foreign-born. Technical assistance will be provided to each of the participating businesses in order to help them refine their pitch and prepare for professional trade show events. At the end of the event, six companies will be selected to attend the National Association of Specialty Food Trade Fancy Food Show or Kosherfest – two of the largest national trade shows in the region – in a booth subsidized by the New York City Economic Development Corporation. The initiative will build upon existing City programs to help food manufacturers such as the kitchen incubator at La Marqueta and the Entrepreneur's Space in Long Island City.
"New York is a great big test kitchen, with people from hundreds of cultures creating markets for new businesses and delicious new products," said Pratt Center for Community Development Director Adam Friedman. "We look forward to working with Mayor Bloomberg and EDC to make sure that these fledgling businesses have every opportunity to thrive."
"Immigrant entrepreneurs ad to the vibrancy and contribute to the economy of New York City in a very important way," said Ulas Neftci, Director of Midtown Manhattan Small Business Development Center at Baruch College. "Supporting them through these programs strengthens the entrepreneurial foundation of the city and enables these businesses to become more competitive in the marketplace."


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Thomas E. Perez, Maryland's secretary of labor, licensing and regulation, has issued a report that buttresses the stated goal of Gov. Martin O'Malley's administration to grant slot-machine gambling licenses to selected racetracks as a means of saving the state's racing industry and preserving the jobs and farmland that depend on it. The report, which is tendentious in the extreme, adds little new information to the argument over slots that has gripped Maryland for most of this decade. It represents a missed opportunity to inject some evenhanded analysis into a policy debate that is expected to divide state lawmakers bitterly when they convene in January.
From the outset, the report makes the assumption that the racing industry in Maryland is worth saving, and subsidizing with slots revenue, by dint of its history, tradition and supposedly outsized economic impact. Mr. Perez asserts that the racing and breeding industry accounts for more than 9,000 jobs and $600 million of annual economic impact, as if those numbers speak for themselves.
Equally specious is the idea that Maryland should open the door to massive gaming as a means of saving 685,000 acres of privately owned horse farms, which represent 10 percent of Maryland's open space. In fact, agricultural zoning would impede dense development on much of that land. If the state is intent on preserving open space, it can do so by buying undeveloped land, as it has done in many instances.
At the heart of Mr. Perez's argument is the point that the state is "leaving money on the table" because tens of thousands of Marylanders are already going out of state to play slots. He estimates that Maryland residents are spending as much as $400 million a year on slots in neighboring Delaware and West Virginia, thereby contributing $150 million annually in budget revenue to those states' coffers.
On its face, that is a potent argument, particularly as Maryland faces the legal obligation of closing a budget deficit of $1.5 billion in the fiscal year starting next summer. On closer examination, the idea that the state could easily recapture $150 million in supposedly "lost" revenue is shaky. For one thing, it would take several years before a full-fledged slots program is up and running. For another, some people would continue to play slots out of state for reasons of personal preference or geographic convenience. Moreover, rather than representing new revenue, some or much of the money spent in Maryland slots parlors would inevitably be diverted from existing in-state businesses or pursuits, including restaurants, souvenir stands, movies or the state lottery. That explains why the chamber of commerce in Ocean City, to cite one example, is vehemently opposed to slots.
If there is a case to be made for using state tax dollars to subsidize the horse industry, Mr. Perez's report has failed to make it.
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Ingres was a sensitive and painstaking draughtsman. For him, drawing was the very heart of painting, and he drew and redrew whatever he was to paint until he understood all its elements and their subtlest interrelations. Though he valued history painting above all else, he also often produced portraits, some of the best of which are drawings. Having been awarded the Prix de Rome by the Academy for his painting The Envoys from Agamemnon, which included a stay in Rome, Ingres decided to remain there after his stipend ended in 1810. Ingres remained in Rome from 1806 to 1820, and it was there that he developed his extraordinary gifts for drawing and design. He helped support himself by making portrait drawings of visitors to Rome. These drawings are skilful, concise masterpieces. Ingres's outstanding evocation of place, light, and character in these seemingly casual portrait drawings established him as one of the most revered draughtsmen in art history.
Even in his portraits Ingres exhibited a sensual feeling that was more often expressed in the nudes that preoccupied him as he got older and his style developed. His Turkish Women at the Bath, produced at 82 years of age, is the culmination of his portrayals of female nudes.
Leaving Rome in 1820, Ingress went to Florence for 4 years. Returning to Paris in 1824, he was applauded for his painting The Vow of Louis XIII, exhibited in the Paris Salon in 1824. He accepted the directorship of the French Academy of Rome in 1834, and at the end of his 7-year term he returned again to Paris and was welcomed enthusiastically as one of the greatest painters in France. His reputation was established and his works commanded high prices. He was given the rank of commander of the Legion of Honour in 1845. At the Universal Exhibition of Paris in 1855 he was awarded a gold medal (as was Delacroix, leader of the Romantic Movement).
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Warde gets first-ever win over Ludlowe in boys lacrosse 5-4
Fairfield Warde preserved its first-ever win over Fairfield Ludlowe in boys lacrosse on Tuesday night at Taft Field when Mustangs' goalie Jason Nerreau made his final save with 14 seconds left. Nerreau, a senior captain, did more than protect Warde's 5-4 away victory. He made it possible.
Though his defenders in front of him -- senior captains Brian Kerrigan and Greg Adams and sophomore Jake Fuss -- provided the perfect mix of patience, aggressiveness and mobility with proper positioning for lockdown coverage, it was Nerreau who was there to deny the Falcons' shooters. Some of his 14 saves were acrobatic or came on shots from close range.
Warde improved to 5-3 overall with its third straight win. The Falcons, who had limited Warde to two goals in each of the last three cross-town meetings, dropped to 3-5 overall with their third loss in a row. The Mustangs' history-setting win left Warde at 4-3 in the FCIAC and Ludlowe at 1-4 in the conference.
Four unanswered goals by the Mustangs -- after Ludlowe had taken a 2-1 lead on a man-up goal 3 minutes and 10 seconds into the second quarter -- gave them a 5-2 advantage with 87 seconds remaining in the third quarter. Ludlowe's Loren Tobey scored in the final 26 seconds of the period to cut the Falcons' deficit to 5-3 entering the fourth quarter. Trevor Demilt, of the Falcons, scored midway through the fourth quarter to reduced Warde's lead to the narrowest of margins.
After it was 5-4, Nerreau made three saves before the final half-minute. Two other Ludlowe shots were fired wide in the final push to get the equalizer.
"Jason Nerreau came up huge for us," Warde coach Tom Cunningham said. "Ludlowe got some good looks but he (Nerreau) was there. Everyone was outstanding but the seniors led the way. It was all about the seniors tonight."
Ludlowe coach Chris Parisi acknowledged Nerreau's stellar play, but he knew Warde's effort was senior driven. "My hat's off to them," Parisi said. "They (Warde seniors) are a talented group that's worked hard the past four years. They finally got theirs.
"Jason Nerreau was a little too much tonight," Parisi said. "It's a game of fraction of inches. They made one more play than we did."
Neither team was crisp at the game's start with errant throws, dropped passes and ground balls that weren't scooped up. Cunningham attributed that to the emotion of the rivalry. Once each team settled down, though, Warde took a little better care of the ball and had more possession time in the second and third quarters. In the final 12 minutes, when Ludlowe was in rally mode, the Falcons had more of the ball.
"In the first quarter, we were sluggish on the ground balls but we picked it up after that," Cunningham said. "Our defense was phenomenal. Ludlowe put a lot of pressure on us. They forced us to make some mistakes, but we came up with the plays."
Austin Armas scored the only goal of the first quarter, giving Warde a 1-0 lead with 82 seconds left in the period. Demilt's first goal, set up by Matt Doyle, tied it at 1-1 in the third minute of the second quarter, then Riley Larson fed Graham Browne for the Falcons' extra man goal 62 seconds later. That was Ludlowe's first and only lead of the game.
Warde's rally, over a span of 18:56 bridging the second and third quarters, came on goals from four players -- seniors Kyle Scheetz, Mike Adams and Austin Armas in the second period and junior Brendan King in the third quarter.
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Records: Fairfield Warde 5-3-0, 4-3-0 FCIAC; Fairfield Ludlowe 3-5-0, 1-4-0 FCIAC. Scoring: FW--Austin Armas 2 goals, 1 assist, Mike Adams (1g, 1a), Brendan King (1g, 1a), Kyle Scheetz (1g), Gareth Gacetta (1a); FL--Trevor Demilt (2g), Riley Larson (2a), Matt Doyle (1a), Graham Browne (1g), Loren Tobey (1g). Goalies: FW--Jason Nerreau (14 saves); FL--John Carey (5). Shots: FW--17; FL--16.


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A recent report showed fewer cigarettes are being bought in Maryland. There seems to be much debate over whether it's economic concerns limiting people's spending power, smokers trying to quit or simply folks finding their cigarettes in neighboring states.
Sales are reportedly down 25 percent year to date since the per-pack tax was doubled to $2 in January. That 25-percent drop will mean an estimated $20 million to $25 million less in revenue for the state this year. The state had forecasted a 17-percent drop in sales with the new tax.
Some say the reduction in sales is a result of smokers cutting back on their habit or quitting altogether because of the extra $1 per pack or additional $10 per carton. It's suggested the tax increase led folks to give up their habit. Others say it's more a result of smokers going elsewhere, such as Delaware and Virginia, where taxes are much lower, to buy their cigarettes. Still others say people are cutting smoking out of their lives because they are struggling financially and can't afford to continue. The pinch is getting them and it's not the tax that's doing it, although it can't help. The question is whether people are cutting costs to the extent it affects their habit and whether they view cigarettes as a matter of disposable income.
We believe the reduced sales is probably a combination of all three, but, at the risk of being cynical, we think people are just buying outside Maryland, particularly Virginia where cigarettes are much cheaper, thanks to a 30-cent tax.
It's unclear exactly what is driving down cigarette sales, but what's disturbing to us is health advocates, along with some state officials, are contending the doubling of the cigarette tax has resulted in fewer people smoking today than they were pre-$2-tax in January. We don't buy that assumption. If it's true that less people are smoking in Maryland now, and that's highly debatable, we find it hard to believe the $1 tax increase is the sole reason.
When the legislature was considering this "sin tax" increase during a special session last fall, there was all sorts of propaganda being thrown around how it was necessary to combat the health dangers associated with smoking. The thought being adding a buck in tax would address two evils at once – it will help the state recover revenue to address its budget shortfall as well as encourage Marylanders trying to quit by taking away more of their money.
Using the health implication was an easy smokescreen for legislators to refer to, particularly Republicans, who know it's against party philosophy to raise taxes. The motivation behind this increase was pure finances. Any health benefit from it is simply an unintended bonus and that's being used as justification since the financial goal has backfired.
It seems to us touting the so-called health benefit of the increase is a bit lame. It's an obvious way to justify the tax hike. It's a means to tout the cultural advantages when the predicted financial implications have not panned out. What will be interesting to see is how the state makes up for the unexpected revenue loss in the next budget. It will have to be through spending cuts, but what exactly is dropped to make up the difference should prove compelling.


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Tuesday, February 3, 2009
Tuesday Tips: County Formation Maps
Most of us have probably had to deal at one time or another with the issue of changing county boundaries. In these cases, the county-level resources we use depend on the dates of residence of our ancestors. For instance, for my Floyd and Finley families in Illinois for the years spanning 1807 to 1860, I need to check both Greene and Jersey County records. One way to find this out can be to check county-specific sites such as Genweb sites, but a quick way to do this when you need to is to bookmark a couple of sites: Historical County Lines and the Family History 101 county formation map site where you can quickly refer to them. And if you are a visually oriented person or just a map geek, the latter site in particular is a lot of fun. The really neat thing is that you can choose the time frame you are interested in, progress through the years at your own rate by clicking, or press "play" for the full automated map show.
Please tell me that I am not the only one who has sat and watched the animated map for all 50 states.
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All 50, really? I thought I was a map groupie! :)ReplyDelete
Yes - all 50 - I don't know what possessed me, but I felt like I was letting the states compete with one another - who made the most changes, who made the least changes, etc.ReplyDelete
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Maps? Did someone say MAPS?! Well that's pretty much sucked up all my post-supper "down time" (in a geeky and awesome way!).ReplyDelete
Thanks for this, Greta!
Thanks for the post! I've been working on developing a "widget" geneabloggers could place on their blog or website that would let you select a county (within a state) and see the county formation info including what county it originated from.ReplyDelete
Any: Yes, not only do we get to play detective in genealogy, we get to use maps, just like we were looking for a treasure!ReplyDelete
Thomas: I can't wait to see that widget. I want to use it for some of my South Carolina and Texas counties.


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- Police: Altercations preceded a shooting at a popular Seattle-area bar
- CNN affiliate KING reports that several NFL players were in the bar at the time
- Detectives are still interviewing witnesses to develop leads on suspects
- Reality star tweets that she saw body on the floor and a lot of blood
One person died and one person was wounded when an apparent altercation led to a shooting at a Seattle-area bar, police said Monday.
The shooting occurred just a few hours after the Seattle Seahawks won their way into the NFL playoffs. Several players and other celebrities were among hundreds of people gathered at Munchbar, a popular nightspot in Bellevue, Washington. No players were injured in the incident, which occurred just after 1 a.m. PT Monday.
Bellevue police said a 30-year-old man from Seattle was killed but did not identify him. Another man suffered a gunshot wound, police said.
Investigators are trying to determine how many suspects were involved in the incident.
"We have to talk to quite a few witnesses, so we're working with some of the witnesses who were closest to the situation," police spokeswoman Carla Iafrate told reporters.
Seahawks defensive end Greg Scruggs tweeted "I'm OK" and "Everybody else is good too! .. Ignorance at its best right there" after the shooting.
CNN affiliate KING reported that the players were in a VIP lounge and were escorted to a safe place after the incident.
The station also reported that Aubrey O'Day, who has appeared in several TV reality shows, tweeted that everyone in the players' group hit the floor when the gunfire erupted. In other tweets, she described how she saw a body and how people had to crawl out through the kitchen.
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Bellevue police said there were about 600 people in the bar, and nearby officers immediately responded to reports of the shooting.


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Erin is a school counselor.
After I graduated from Washington College I spent the summer at the beach, not knowing what to do with a psychology degree. I started working for a non-profit, doing counseling at a drug and alcohol rehab facility. I moved to Philadelphia a year after that and started graduate school.
Two years later, I have a Masters in Education in School Counseling. I still live in Philadelphia and recently started a new job with OptumBehavioral Health. I also got engaged to a fellow alum, Jim Kelble '06 and we were married August 13, 2011.
WAC was the best decision I ever made. I met the best people there. I loved playing lacrosse and being a sister in ZTA. I don't think that I would have found my love of counseling without the help of everyone in the psychology department. I couldn't be happier.
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The phrase "Moment of Truth" first appeared in English in Ernest Hemingway's Death in the Afternoon. It was originally a Spanish expression for for the final sword-thrust in a bull-fight, the one that finishes off the bull after the matador is done taunting and tormenting him.
Remember that whenever you hear about "The Moment of Truth Project," the latest public relations venture from the Social Security-slashing Pete Peterson crowd. It could be el momento de verdad for your future financial security.
Orwell's Children
If the phrase also reminds you of the reality-twisting "Ministry of Truth" from Orwell's 1984, that's appropriate too. A highly-financed network of consultants, ex-government officials, and politicians has been deployed to mislead the public on basic, unequivocal truths about Social Security, whose$2.6 trillion dollar trust fund could bankroll a lot of tax breaks for the wealthy. All it takes is a campaign to mislead and confuse the public.
This determined group is in for the long haul and it was bound to step up its efforts after it suffered a major setback in January. Preparations for the next wave probably began when, thanks to public pressure, the White House relented on plans to propose benefit cuts (along with a very limited increase in the payroll tax cap) in the President's State of the Union message. This new blitz matches the one we saw last November, when they pressed Congress and the White House to enact their unpopular proposals after the election.
The Peterson team has relentlessly pushed its right-wing agenda through a seemingly endless series of vehicles: a slanted "news" organization named "Fiscal Times" (now providing content to the Washington Post); a film called "I.O.U.S.A"; a consultant-designed game called "Budgetball" (which we called "Ayn Rand meets Deathrace 2000"); the mock "Hugh Jidette" political campaign (Hugh Jidette – get it? sure you do) ; the "OweNo" ad campaign; The Rivlin/Domenici deficit group – and now, the Moment of Truth Project.
"And the Records Department, after all, was itself only a single branch of the Ministry of Truth, whose primary job was not to reconstruct the past but to supply the citizens of Oceania with newspapers, films, textbooks, telescreen programmes, plays, novels — with every conceivable kind of information, instruction, or entertainment …" – 1984
The Peterson Brigade
I get complaints from the Peterson Foundation[1] whenever I point out Mr. Peterson's long-standing conservative agenda against government in general and Social Security in particular, so let's get this out of the way first. For many years journalists have been documenting Peterson's efforts to gut Social Security and Medicare. As Robert J. McIntyre's 1994 article shows, his core tactics haven't changed. They include Peterson-funded "entitlement" and "deficit" commissions to push government cuts, the co-opting of centrist Democrats to endorse his conservative anti-government agenda, and a veneer of "bipartisanship" for his anti-government, flat-tax-like ideology.
The Peterson crowd changed its tactics after a series of polls showed that the public understands Social Security doesn't contribute to the deficit. Now the party line is that they want to "rescue" Social Security, with cuts that are larger than the shortfall that's expected in 27 years. But, as McIntyre reported sixteen years ago, Peterson and his staff had already written a book that was excerpted in the Atlantic under the title "Entitlement Reform: The Way to Eliminate the Deficit." (We've already analyzed the Orwellian strategy behind the phrase "entitlement reform," which is a well-crafted euphemism for "cutting services for the elderly." The idea that "cutting Is reform" is in the tradition of Orwell's "War Is Peace.") )
McIntyre's piece describes the tactics that are still in play today: on the co-opting of Democrats, the progressive gloss on conservative policies, and Peterson's determination to lower taxes for the wealthy while reducing services and imposing new tax burdens on the middle class. It's class warfare against middle-income Americans.
Debts in the afternoon
The "
MinistryMoment of Truth Project" gave a presentation in Washington on Tuesday afternoon, and commemorated International Woman's Day by inviting a panel of thirteen presenters that didn't include a single woman. (You've come a long way, baby …)
The Moment of Truth Project is funded by the Committee for a Responsible Federal Budget, which receives substantial Peterson backing[ 2], and whose President (Maya McGuineas) is a long-time Peterson operative fond of writing editorials with titles like this one: "SOCIAL SECURITY NEEDS TO BE FIXED. SO JUST DO IT" (the caps are hers). Sticking to the game plan, MacGuineas has backed away from claims that Social Security contributes to the overall deficit, but the usual falsehoods are there in abundance: "If there is one thing we know in "Budgetworld," it's that the largest entitlement programs have to be reformed." (Actually, no. Social Security doesn't need to be "reformed" – it needs a little more revenue, most or all of which could be provided by lifting the payroll tax cap) .
McGuineas also wrote that "Social Security, Medicare and Medicaid are growing at unsustainable levels because of the aging population and growing health care costs." These two sentence are part of the game plan, too. Here's the game plan for misleading the public, which you'll see a lot in coming weeks:
1) Pretend Social Security is "broken." Emphasize the cost of an "aging population," even though the age wave was anticipated and accounted for in 1983's revisions to Social Security.
2) Mix Social Security and Medicare together in people's minds by labeling them both "entitlements," saying we must cut both. (They don't want to fix Medicare, either, because that means reducing for-profit medicine, which is against their hidden ideology.) Never tell the truth: Medicare has serious problems and Social Security doesn't.
3) Now that you've conflated these two programs in the public mind, never describe what you're proposing as cuts. Call it "entitlement reform." (We have more on that nasty little bit of Newspeak here.)
4) Whatever you do, don't mention the real solutions: a payroll tax cap adjustment for Social Security and a restructuring of our health care system to fix Medicare. Behave as if these practical and overwhelmingly popular options don't exist. Remember these words from Orwell: "The whole aim of Newspeak is to narrow the range of thought."
The smell of self-satisfaction in the morning.
Here's another standard Social Security Slasher move: Members of the Peterson contingent love to congratulate themselves on the "courage" and "boldness" it takes to regurgitate and promote predigested falsehoods in return for a future filled with consultancies, commission slots, and think tank appointments.
Enter David Walker. He's the former head of the Peterson Foundation and a long-time collaborator. Walker's new book Comeback America promotes slashing entitlements, rather than investments in jobs and economic growth (as a reasonable person might infer from the title). Walker has spoken nostalgically about debtors' prisons, repeatedly demonstrably false canards about entitlement funding, and tried to terrify Americans by claiming their taxes could "double."
Walker's response to a William Greider piece in The Nation about Peterson was self-incriminating. He repeated false claims that Medicare and Social Security "are not in danger of being looted–they already have been looted," adding: "The federal government already has spent any related surplus and replaced it with non-marketable IOUs that aren't even considered liabilities by the federal government." (That's simply not true. A panel under President Eisenhower refuted identical charges in 1958. Besides, what ethical person wants to welsh on an IOU?)
Walker's parlayed a Bill Clinton appointment as Comptroller General into a lifetime career as a benefit-cut advocate, a career that not only pays well but provides enough over-the-top media flattery to embarrass a Maharajah. Yesterday's predictably fawning Post piece, for example, described him as a "prophet of deficit doom."
"I have a lot of nicknames," Walker tells the Post.
Paul Revere! Paul Revere. That's what Paul Volcker calls me … "Fiscal Ranger. That's what CNBC calls me. "And when I was on Colbert," Walker says, "he called me, 'Walker, Taxes Ranger.'
(Apparently "paid hack for anti-government ideology" doesn't have the same ring to it.)
After Peterson's done singing his own praise song, the Post tells us that "yuk-yukking commences in the pack milling around Walker in the hallway of Georgia Public Broadcasting's studios… "
This "merry bunch of deficit hawks," in the Post's words, is proposing to impose severe financial constraints on America's elderly. We ran the numbers, and elderly women paying low rent for an urban apartment would be left with less than $45 a week for food, other necessities, and whatever pleasure they can scrape out of the remaining few pennies.
The Petersonites will say that Social Security was never meant to be the sole source of retirement income – but they won't mention the fact that Wall Street shenanigans and quarterly earnings pressure destroyed other sources of retirement security (investment accounts, corporate pensions, and real estate values). So while the rich continue to amass a level of national wealth unseen in other developed countries, the Peterson gang's out to rob the middle class.
The Gang of Six
And now the Peterson gang's recruited the Gang of Six, a group of Senators determined to enact the Peterson crowd's draconian agenda. The Senators are – you guessed it – "bipartisan," which means they belong to both political parties and reflect the majority views of neither.[3] And once again we're told they're "courageous" for putting themselves in line for campaign contributions and cushy post-Senatorial sinecures.
The Gang and its allies made sure Alan Simpson and Erskine Bowles, the two Peterson operatives who failed to get a report out of their own Deficit Commission, were invited to give a presentation before the Senate Budget Committee. Then they appeared with Simpson and Bowles at the "Moment of Truth" presentation. (All six Senators are male.)
"Deficit-Cut Salesman Hit the Road," reported the Wall Street Journal as the six appeared before two hundred business leaders. (Wonder why they chose that audience?) Their presentation was solid Peterson talking points from start to finish, including the choice of words: "The only way we're going to get this done is for everybody to have skin in the game and everybody to get their ox gored a little bit." "Financial Armageddon." "We have to do this now."
One Gang member, Democrat Mark Warner, said he would no longer support stop-gap budget measures. That will help put pressure on the White House to cut entitlements, despite having thought better of it a few weeks ago. Why? Warner says it's because more stop-gap extensions could hurt the stock market.
Going Post-al
Every Orwellian campaign needs a compliant press, and the Social Security Slashers have been particularly lucky (or effective) in this area. Here's how the Washington Post described the Gang of Six's well-scripted rollout: "While Washington bickers noisily over cutting a small slice of the federal budget, Sens. Mark Warner, a Virginia Democrat, and Saxby Chambliss, a Georgia Republican, launched a campaign Monday to convince the public that merely cutting spending will do little to tame the $14 trillion national debt."
Got that? Challenging slanted figures and dishonest statements is "bickering." Representing the majority's wish to raise the payroll tax cap rather than cutting Social Security benefits is "bickering" – and "noisily" at that. But doing Peterson's will? That's a campaign. And did they really say they would do more than just cut spending? From the Post's own report: "None of us have ever voted for a tax increase, and I don't intend to," said Sen. Chambliss.
Here are a couple more gems from a single day at the Post:
" … the Senate and House continue to wrangle over how to keep the government funded through the end of September. Simpson, Bowles and the senators' group are working to turn attention back to the country's longer-term fiscal issues." (link)
"Even as congressional debate in recent years has been crippled by partisan rancor, Warner and Chambliss have entered quiet talks with four other senators from both parties in hopes of forging a compromise that could lead toward a more affordable government." (link)
And that's just from yesterday's edition. Who knows what they'll write today?
Last Words
"Entitlement reform" … "financial Armageddon" … "now or never" … "brave" … "bickering" … "compromise" … "affordable" … "bipartisan" … "wrangling" … "Moment of Truth" … "Paul Revere" … "Hugh Jidette" … "Comeback America" …
Those communications consultants have been earning their money cooking up all these phrases. This crowd wants nothing less than the rollback of a key New Deal program.[4] The consultants who are cooking up all these phrases have learned well from the Ministry of Truth in 1984 , which believed that "the Revolution will be complete when the language is perfect."
They're counting on it.
[1] For more information, see my response to the Peterson Foundation here.
[2] SourceWatch reports that the Committee for a Responsible Budget "receives large swaths of money from the Peterson Foundation via not only the Institute for the Advanced Policy Solutions at Emory University, according to a list compiled by Firedoglake's Jane Hamsher, but also straight from the Peterson Foundation itself, according to the Foundation's 2009 Internal Revenue Service 990 form."
[3] Three-quarters of all Republicans and Tea Partiers oppose cutting Social Security to reduce the deficit. Most Americans want to lift the payroll tax cap to correct Social Security's shortfall, which is expected to begin in 2037. Only 6% of those polled agree that Congress and the President should make deficit-cutting their priority – but they're making it their priority anyway. (There's even more polling information here.)
[4] More on the unconscionable Simpson/Bowles proposals here.
This post was produced as part of the Strengthen Social Security campaign.