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As one of our millions of FreedomWorks members nationwide, I urge you to contact your senators today and urge them to support S. 1617, the "If You Like Your Health Plan, You Can Keep It Act". Sponsored by Senator Ron Johnson (R-WI), this bill would make health insurance plans sold before January 1st, 2014 immune to the new coverage requirements under ObamaCare.
ObamaCare was written with restrictions on what coverage insurance plans must offer, such that the law's result could not be anything other than causing millions of Americans' health insurance policies to become illegal overnight, on January 1st, 2014. Now, with the renewal season for insurance policies in full swing, the inevitable is happening – hundreds of thousands of people have already received their letters from insurers, informing them that their chosen policies will not be available for next year. Millions more of these letters are on their way.
As recently as last week, President Obama himself repeated variations on his favorite fabrication – that "if you like your plan, you can keep it." Now the President has suddenly admitted this to be a falsehood and apologized, but his real or feigned remorse does not help the vast number of people who now face having to buy a new (and, in many cases, much more expensive) plan in 2014.
Senator Johnson's bill attempts to stem the tide of these dropped insurance plans by allowing any plans being sold by December 31st, 2013 to be "grandfathered" under ObamaCare, without the coverage restrictions that rendered so many of them illegal under the new law. The bill also allows family members of those already insured and new employees of companies with preexisting insurance plans to sign up for these "grandfathered" plans.
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Just as "the devil is in the details" ... that's where Angels hide as well. The only way to really let people keep their existing plans is to repeal the mandates on minimum coverage. If insurers can offer what the Democrats have been trying to portray as "substandard" insurance policies, the Obamacare mandated options will disappear rapidly because they won't be able to compete for more than a small fraction of customers. But then what? Whether Obamacare works or not is not the central issue. The central issue is; This engages the federal government in actions it is not Constitutionally authorized to engage in and it renders Americans as inferior to the federal government. I won't oppose such "fixes" as Senate 1617. But fixes for secondary problems that leave the greater problem intact aren't really fixes. I don't see in this proposal a "poison pill" that will eventually undo the greatest harm that Obamacare has done. If it's there ... educate me. It looks to me like this is "Big Government is fine as long as the right people are running it."
There are two bills in the House: H.R. 3406 & H.R. 3350. H.R. 3350 is coming up for a vote in the House this Friday, 11/15, but H.R. 3406 is the bill which Senator Johnson has associated with S. 1617. This is a little confusing; while my House Rep Cory Gardner is a Cosponsor of H.R. 3350, his office couldn't tell me why there are two bills and Gardner is not a Cosponsor of H.R. 3406.
It will be most interesting to see how the Senate handles this.
Even Bill Clinton is on board! http://thehill.com/blogs/healthwatch/health-reform-implementation/189937...


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TUSCALOOSA | Doug Walker has worked at Notre Dame and at the University of Miami, and now works for the University of Alabama athletic department.
TUSCALOOSA | Doug Walker has worked at Notre Dame and at the University of Miami, and now works for the University of Alabama athletic department.
No one, likely, has more ties to the two schools participating in the Jan. 7 BCS National Championship Game and to the host city.
"I've got three worlds colliding here," said Walker, UA's 48-year-old associate athletic director for communications.
Walker, a Texas native, worked at Texas A&M, his alma mater, and Texas Christian in athletic media relations before taking a job as Miami's primary football sports information director in 2000. He stayed there until taking a similar job at Notre Dame in 2004 before arriving at Alabama, where he runs the media relations department, in 2006.
The convergence of Alabama and Notre Dame in Miami is an intriguing one for Walker.
"I think it's great for the sport that these programs are doing this well," he said. "Miami is a cool place because it's an entertainment destination area. When I was there they would say it's an event city. If it's the cool place to be, the cool thing to do, people are going to be there. If it's not, you're going to know that it's not.
"I don't think we'll have a problem being the cool thing to do that week in Miami. It's going to be the center of the universe for about four days."
Walker's first encounter with Notre Dame made an impression.
"Being a college football person, it meant a lot to me," he said. "There's a lot of allure there, a lot of mystique. It definitely felt like you were part of something that mattered to people, which was true to an extent everywhere I'd been — but that's a different level.
"It's probably the only job that I ever got that my mom had an emotional reaction to, which really kind of surprised me because my mom is not a big sports fan. I grew up in Texas. I didn't grow up a fan or a hater or anything, it was Notre Dame, a power that was up there. I grew up Catholic and I am Catholic, but it didn't have much of an affect on my sporting loyalties or anything."
When Walker moved on to Alabama, he found another football mecca.
"There's so many similarities with Alabama in that you have a lot of people who didn't attend the school who are fiercely loyal to the program," he said. "It means a lot to people beyond just the score. They are institutions that mean a lot to a lot of people. I think you became aware of that if you're paying attention at all when you're working the job at those places, that you're in the public eye because it's a very important situation."
Walker's job is to deal with the media. At Alabama and at Notre Dame, he has been at two of the epicenters of college football coverage.
"You're definitely on a national scope regardless of how you're doing, there and here," he said. "I do think the coverage probably ebbs and flows locally, you're always going to get local coverage, but it's not as statewide intense (at Notre Dame) as it is here. Nationally you're relevant all the time.
"Even if they're not saying you're nationally relevant, you're relevant there all the time just like you're relevant here all the time. That doesn't change."
Walker grew up with more awareness of Alabama as a college football power. The UA program's roots and reach extended into Texas more than did Notre Dame's.
"Growing up in Texas the way I did in the 1970s, there were about three games on TV every Saturday, and more often than not Alabama was one of them," he said. "Growing up in an A&M type of area, 'Bear' Bryant was the one that got away. You were aware of that from an early age even if you didn't understand it. There's a mystique and an allure there, too.
"Coach (Bryant) used to talk about winning with class. Notre Dame was like that, too. They both have got a way about them, and I don't think there are many institutions in the country where in any endeavor everybody is going to have an opinion about it one way or another. They both mean something to probably everybody."
A career that has taken him to two of college football's top all-time programs is something Walker appreciates, especially being at UA in its current era of dominance.
"On a personal level, growing up the way I was as a college football fanatic, I'm so lucky. I've been given opportunities to be a part of these programs," he said. "They stand for something at Notre Dame and they stand for something here.
"I think everybody needs to look at this situation at Alabama right now and know we're all lucky to be a part of it and appreciate it for what it is. We're on a hell of a roll here, and you can't take it for granted."
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But, as much as I love chocolate, I am realizing that there is more to the world of desserts than just white, semi-sweet, and dark.
Citrus has been slowly making its way into my dessert cravings. First, it was a bit of orange zest into a recipe. Then it was the addition of the zest and juice. Citrus really has a way of waking up flavors. But, the beauty of it is that it can also stand up perfectly well by itself.
Case and point - the lemon meringue pie. A wonderfully lemony dessert that can hold its own on the plate (not to mention, it doesn't leave me in a food coma after a slice - or two.) I didn't have to adjust this recipe at all, and the filling was so lemony - but not in an overpowering way. Light, fresh and amazing.
In the spirit of full-disclosure, I will say that i probably need to try making meringue again, as mine wept after a few hours. Oh well, I could just eat it with my eyes closed, and I would be none-the-wiser. :) Maybe you'll have better luck with the meringue than I did!


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Hang Up and Listen: The Brains and Brawn Edition
Slate's sports podcast on Junior Seau's suicide, the morality of horse racing, and Mariano Rivera.
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In this week's episode of Slate's sports podcast Hang Up and Listen, Stefan Fatsis, Josh Levin, and Mike Pesca talk about the suicide of ex-NFL star Junior Seau and what effect if any it will have on pro football. They also discuss whether horse racing is immoral and contemplate Yankees reliever Mariano Rivera's torn ACL and the state of the closer in Major League Baseball.
Here are links to some of the articles and other items mentioned on the show:
- The Washington Post's story on the D.C. public schools' Scrabble tournament.
- Monty Python's semaphore version of Wuthering Heights.
- Josh's Slate piece on how we should think about Junior Seau's death.
- The Seau family may or may not donate his brain to researchers.
- Merril Hoge criticizes Kurt Warner for saying he's concerned about his kids playing football.
- Warner responds to Hoge's accusation that he's "uninformed and uneducated."
- Trevor Pryce's New York Times piece: "In Comfortable Retirement, and Getting Tired of It."
- Edward McClelland asks whether horse racing is immoral.
- The New York Times' investigative piece, "Mangled Horses, Maimed Jockeys."
- The Thoroughbred Times' response to the NYT investigation.
- HBO's Luck was canceled after three horses died during production.
- Mariano Rivera tore his ACL and will likely miss the season.
- James Traub's 2010 New York Times Magazine profile of Rivera.
- Sports Illustrated's Tom Verducci says the modern bullpen is broken.
Hang Up and Listen's weekly racinos:
Mike's racino: Adam Yauch's basketball documentary, Gunnin For That #1 Spot.
Stefan's racino: Jonathan Hock on Dana Brand, the inspiration for Hofstra's conference on the New York Mets. (Here's Brand's essay on The Lost Son of Havana and The Two Escobars, and here's his colleague Joseph Fichtelberg's essay on Brand.)
Josh's racino: Lelands' strangest sports auctions, including life-cast hands, a rake, expansion team caps, and Shaq's shoes.
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At least five other school employees have been accused, Seattle school officials quietly removed cleric in August, Religious order filed bankruptcy after more than 200 victims came forward, Now, more than 400 say they were abused by Christian Brothers, At least 12 came from Damien Memorial School.
A man who says he was sexually abused by the former principal of a Honolulu high school has filed a sex abuse and cover-up claim in the New York courts. http://www.king5.com/news/ODea-High-school-principal-resigns-sexual-abuse-allegations-176691111.html
The suit charges that the victim, known as John Doe, was sexually abused by Damien Memorial School former principal Br. Karl Walczak in 1971 at Brother Rice High School in Chicago. At the time, Walczak was a teacher at the school. http://www.komonews.com/news/local/ODea-High-School-principal-resigns-amid-sex-abuse-allegations-176692501.html
Walczak is a member of the Irish Christian Brothers, a New York State-based religious order that runs Brother Rice High School and more than a dozen other schools across the country. Walczak was principal at Damien Memorial School from 1987 to 1999.
Walczak is currently the principal of O'Dea High School in Seattle http://www.odea.org/academics/faculty-staff-bios/administrative-team. He was quietly put on leave in August when the lawsuit was filed. In a letter to parents, school officials said that Walczak was "fighting a claim" in the Christian Brothers bankruptcy, but refused to state that he had been accused of sexual abuse in the New York courts. http://www.bishop-accountability.org/news2012/07_08/2012_08_10_ODeaHighSchool_LETTERFrom.htm
Members of SNAP, the Survivors Network of those Abused by Priests (SNAPNetwork.org), were appalled to learn that the Christian Brothers had keep quiet about the allegation.
"Parents and students in Hawaii have been duped yet again," said Joelle Casteix of Newport Beach, California, SNAP Western Regional Director. "A brave victim has come forward to the courts to expose the man who abused him. Yet, the Christian Brothers have—at every turn—kept quiet about allegations, misled parents and put more kids at risk because they refuse to come clean about predators in their employ."
In light of this latest allegation, the groups wants Damien Memorial and diocese officials officials to immediately alert parents, students and alumni about the allegations. "There may be a victim suffering at the school right now," Casteix said. "Victims need to know that it is safe to come forward and report abuse, because that is the only way to put predators behind bars."
More than 12 victims from Damien High School have come forward and filed claims. In addition, at least five other known, admitted or arrested predators who worked at the school have been exposed. http://www.staradvertiser.com/newspremium/20120824_Clergy_child_sex_abuse_allegations_arise.html?id=167294085&id=167294085&c=n
Last year, the Irish Christian Brothers declared bankruptcy in light of more than 50 child sex abuse lawsuits in the United States and more than 200 in Canada. http://www.irishcentral.com/news/Mounting-sexual-abuse-claims-causes-US-Christian-Brothers-to-file-for-bankruptcy–121020724.html. The order has also been rocked by sex abuse scandals in Ireland.
In January, the New York Bankruptcy Court set a "bar date" of August 1, 2012, for all victims of Irish Brother predators to expose their abusers in court. More than 400 victims have come forward and filed claims.
According to O'Dea High School. Walczak is currently living in New York. He has also worked in schools in Illinois and California.
The attorney for John Doe is Mike Reck of New York, (714) 742-6593, email@example.com.
Seattle press articles:
Joelle Casteix of Newport Beach CA, SNAP Western Regional Director, (949) 322-7434, email@example.com
John Schuster of Seattle, WA, SNAP Seattle Leader, 360-551-9982, email@example.com
Barb Dorris of St. Louis MO, SNAP Outreach Director, (314) 503-0003, firstname.lastname@example.com
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Lawrence police blotter for Jan. 2
Listed below is the majority of Lawrence police activity within the last 24 hours.
Each afternoon the Lawrence Police Department releases a list of officer activity. This call blotter spans from 6 a.m. Monday to 6 a.m. Tuesday and includes 134 incidents. Each listing gives a date, time and general address followed by a short description of the call's nature.
It's important to remember that each incident only bears a short description and may not capture the entirety of what took place. Not every call results in citations or arrests and the information is subject to change as police continue their investigations.


text: Institute of Criminology Book Series https://hdl.handle.net/2123/8590 2020-06-04T12:02:49Z Bin Laden in the suburbs: criminalising the Arab Other https://hdl.handle.net/2123/8593 Bin Laden in the suburbs: criminalising the Arab Other Poynting, Scott; Noble, Greg; Tabar, Paul; Collins, Jock This book examines public worrying over 'ethnic crime' and what it tells us about Australia today. How, for instance, can the blame for a series of brutal group sexual assaults in Sydney be so widely attributed to whole ethnic communities? How is it that the arrival of a foundering boatload of asylum-seekers mostly seeking refuge from despotic regimes in 'the Middle East' can be manipulated to characterise complete cohorts of applicants for refuge - and their immigrant compatriots - as dangerous, dishonest, criminally inclined and inhuman? How did the airborne terror attacks on the USA on 11 September 2001 exacerbate existing tendencies in Australia to stereotype Arabs and Muslims as backward, inassimilable, without respect for Western laws and values, and complicit with barbarism and terrorism? Bin Laden in the Suburbs argues that we are witnessing the emergence of the 'Arab Other' as the pre-eminent 'folk devil' of our time. This Arab Other functions in the national imaginary to prop up the project of national belonging. It has little to do with the lived experiences of Arab, Middle Eastern or Muslim Australians, and everything to do with a host of social anxieties which overlap in a series of moral panics. Bin Laden in the Suburbs analyses a decisive moment in the history of multiculturalism in Australia. 'Unlike most migrants, the Arab migrant is a subversive will...They invade our shores, take over our neighbourhood and rape our women. They are all little bin Ladens and they are everywhere: explicit bin Ladens and closet bin Ladens; conscious bin Ladens and unconscious bin Ladens; bin Ladens on the beach and bin Ladens in the suburbs, as this book is aptly titled. Within this register...even a single Arab is a threat. Contain the Arab, or exterminate the Arab? A 'tolerable' presence in the suburbs, or caged in a concentration camp?...The politics of the Western post-colonial state is constantly and dangerously oscillating between these two tendencies today. It is this dangerous oscillation that is so lucidly exposed in this book.' - Ghassan Hage, 'Forward', Bin Laden in the Suburbs. 2004-01-01T00:00:00Z


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The week in review
Worst disaster: A 9.0 earthquake hits Japan March 11, killing thousands of people in a tsunami afterward, leaving thousands more homeless, millions more without power, and damaging nuclear reactors to the brink of catastrophic radiation release.
Worst misuse of condiments: A Zeta Psi pledge ends up seizing and hospitalized March 1 after consuming dog food, matzo balls, and gefilte fish, and washing them down with a potentially fatal dose of sodium in the form of 12 to 18 ounces of soy sauce, according to the Newsplex's Jessica Jaglois . The 19-year-old was foaming at the mouth when he arrived at Martha Jefferson. UVA police are investigating possible hazing, which is illegal in Virginia.
Lightest child-rape sentence: Judge Cheryl Higgins sentences 28-year-old Hector "Perez" Vazquez to 10 years and nine months for the rape and aggravated sexual battery of an eight-year-old girl, the DP reports. Vazquez gets an additional 30 years suspended.
Biggest Downtown Mall drug bust: Two people are charged in a cocaine bust outside the Jefferson Theater around the time of the March 12 Baaba Seth concert, the Newsplex reports. Arrested are UVA student David Cameron Smith, 21, who's charged with intent to distribute, and Jacquelen Rae Pontious, charged with possession.
Biggest ad campaign: Virginia launches an $8-million, eight-city media blitz touting tourism in the commonwealth, with the state putting in $1 million and tourism groups picking up the rest of the tab, according to NBC29.
Most gruesome scene: Nelson County Animal Control officers find three dead dogs and plastic bags filled with canine body parts at 5282 Rockfish Valley Highway in Afton, the News Virginian reports. Living dogs and puppies are found in the house, which an official describes as having feces "three to four inches thick."
Costliest Ponzi: Imprisoned conspirators in Albemarle-based Terry Dowdell's bogus investment scheme, Birgit "Gitte" Mechlenburg and Kenneth G. Mason, have been ordered to pay $23 million by federal judge Norman Moon, according to the Progress.
Biggest NIMBY case: Charlottesville City Council decides March 7 to try to send the upgrade-needing Woolen Mills-befouling sewer treatment plant across the Rivanna River into Albemarle County, Charlottesville Tomorrow explains.
Latest in the Keswick Winery wedding music war: The Board of Supervisors sets a decibel standard of 60 during the day and 55 at night to be enforced by the zoning department March 9 after irate neighbors complain about the noise from winery events, according to Charlottesville Tomorrow. The winery's adjacent property owners would have preferred to call police if they could hear noise 100 feet past the winery's property line.
Latest high-speed chase: Albemarle police nab 19-year-old Kyle A. Young in Crozet March 14 after he allegedly speeds off when an officer tries to stop him, the Newsplex reports. Young is charged with misdemeanor attempt to elude, driving outside license restriction, and underage possession of alcohol.
Latest in the Mount Solon carnal knowledge case: Kim Crilley, 48, pleads guilty March 14 to having sex with the 14-year-old boy who was shot by her husband after the teen allegedly dove into the couple's house, according to the News Leader. Crilley could face additional charges for continuing to see the lad after being ordered not to, depending on DNA samples taken from a hunting cabin on her property. Part of the boy's leg was amputated, and he's being held in juvenile detention, with State Senator Creigh Deeds as his attorney.
Meanest girls: A 13-year-old girl is beaten by a group of female teens March 11 on Prospect Avenue, NBC29 reports. The victim is taken to the hospital with minor injuries, released, and is pressing charges against her assailants.
Biggest change for Sunrise Trailer Park: Habitat for Humanity breaks ground March 15 on its $12-million project to transform the property into a mixed-income, mixed-use community.
Best speller: Henley Middle schooler Eric Xu, 14, wins the regional Scripps spelling bee March 12 by spelling "Bolshevik" correctly, the Daily Progress reports. He heads to Washington to the national championship in June.
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re:"Lightest child-rape sentence"
Cheryl Higgins routinely administers slaps on the wrist in these cases or even dismisses outright evidence of child sexual abuse. For whatever reason, she appears to not take these cases seriously nor punish them harshly.
The local community should decide whether or not punishing the rape of children is a serious crime that deserves a harsh punishment. If the local community decides that these crimes are serious and do deserve harsh punishment, then the only conclusion one could reasonably reach is that we have a judge that does not reflect the values of the community.
Judges can be removed. In fact, this is the only way a community can influence our local judicial system. We need a judge that believes that children being raped is a serious crime and that will punish these perpetrators appropriately. We need a judge that does not dismiss evidence of child sexual abuse on a whim. We need a judge that will not judge harshly those that bring these allegations, but rather that WILL judge harshly those that perpetrate these unspeakable crimes.
In short, Albemarle County needs a new judge.
speaking of worse, the Staunton Restaurant section looks like you spent about a total of 10 minutes putting it together, it's really sloppy and what's up with all the tweak eal & pastel colors in every issue? LAME!


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"Drive Angry 3D," the upcoming Nic Cage film about a man sent from Hell to save his grandchild from Satan worshipers, unleashed a teaser during its visit it Comic-Con this weekend, and it looks to be as ridiculous as you might think/hope/fear.
The film's panel at Comic-Con on Friday morning was sparsely attended, but the general consensus among those who were there was that the two-minute sizzle reel that was shown was fantastic, that "looks to be Cage's next over-the-top, slightly-maybe insane cult character," according to Cinematical.
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LEADVILLE, Colo.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--Life Time Fitness, Inc. (NYSE: LTM), the Healthy Way of Life Company, today announced that registration is open for the 2013 Leadville Race Series events, including the Leadville Trail 100 MTB lottery, Leadville Trail 100 Run and all other Leadville events and training camps.
With a schedule that begins in April and concludes in August, endurance athletes from around the world make the annual pilgrimage to the historic mining town of Leadville, Colo., with the single goal – to finish a "Race Across the Sky" event.
The Leadville Trail 100 MTB lottery will close on January 31, 2013, and notifications will be distributed to participants by February 15. Registration for the Leadville Trail 100 Run, as well as the Leadville Trail 100 Run Training Camp, and Leadville Trail 100 MTB Training Camps 1 and 2, will remain open until filled.
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EPA Places Children's Health Leader on Unexplained Leave
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) placed the head of the Office of Children's Health Protection on administrative leave Tuesday in a move that those close to the agency suspect is intended to sideline the office's work, The New York Times reported Wednesday.
Dr. Ruth Etzel, a pediatrician and epidemiologist who joined the EPA in 2015, was asked to hand in her badge, keys and cellphone Tuesday, but was not being disciplined and would continue to receive pay and benefits, an anonymous official within the EPA told The New York Times.
"This seems like a sneaky way for the EPA to get rid of this program and not be upfront about it," Dr. Mona Hanna-Attisha, a top Michigan pediatrician whose blood tests of Flint residents helped confirm lead poisoning from the water there, told The New York Times.
Sources close to the agency said that the children's health office often calls for stricter standards on regulating chemicals and pollutants, since children are more vulnerable to toxins than adults due to their size, the fact that they are still developing and the fact that some of their behaviors, like crawling or sticking objects in their mouths, put them in more potential contact with contaminants.
This has put the office at odds with an administration intent on rolling back environmental regulations.
The anonymous official said that a proposal for reducing children's lead exposure, which had been in development for more than a year with the help of 17 federal agencies, had been stalled since July.
Etzel had also opposed a move by the EPA's current office of chemical regulation leader and former chemical industry lobbyist Nancy Beck to rescind an Obama-era standard saying farm workers under 18 could not apply the most toxic pesticides.
EPA spokesperson John Konkus declined to give an explanation for the agency's decision to place Etzel on leave, but denied it was an attempt to phase out her office.
"These offices will continue to be a part of headquarters and regional organizations," he said in a statement reported by The New York Times. "Children's health is and has always been a top priority for the Trump Administration and the EPA in particular is focused on reducing lead exposure in schools, providing funds for a cleaner school bus fleet, and cleaning up toxic sites so that children have safe environments to learn and play."
But former EPA administrator Christine Todd Whitman, who was appointed by George W. Bush, said the move was extremely unusual.
"If they're not saying why they dismissed her, it creates the impression that it's about the policies she worked on," she told The New York Times.
Science advocacy and public health organizations have called on the EPA to explain its actions.
"EPA Administrator Andrew Wheeler promised to listen to the EPA's expert public servants. We call on Administrator Wheeler to explain why he's removed Dr. Etzel from her position and, on the eve of Children's Health Month, confirm his commitment to the Office of Children's Health Protection," the Union of Concerned Scientists Executive Director Kathleen Rest said in a statement.
The American Academy of Pediatrics called for her to be reinstated, according to The New York Times.
Etzel has worked in key positions in children's environmental health for 30 years and came to the EPA from serving as a senior officer for environmental health research at the World Health Organization.
This wouldn't be the first time political EPA appointees under President Donald Trump had interfered with the work of career staffers.
The EPA employees union told The New York Times that the administration has chosen to drain various offices of staff rather than closing them altogether. The staff of the Office of Environmental Compliance and Enforcement, for example, has fallen from around 252 employees to around 182.
The Office of Environmental Justice has also decreased in size since Trump took office.
"They're finding these other ways to hamper the work," head of the EPA union at the Chicago office Nicole Cantello told The New York Times.
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It's a different kind of World Environment Day this year. In prior years, it might have been enough to plant a tree, spend some extra time in the garden, or teach kids the importance of recycling. This year we have heavier tasks at hand. It's been months since we've been able to spend sufficient time outside, and as we lustfully watch the beauty of a new spring through our kitchen's glass windows, we have to decide how we'll interact with the natural world on our release, and how we can prevent, or be equipped to handle, future threats against our wellbeing.
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By Lindsey Schneider, Joshua Sbicca and Stephanie Malin
The SARS-CoV-2 virus is novel, but pandemic threats to indigenous peoples are anything but new. Diseases like measles, smallpox and the Spanish flu have decimated Native American communities ever since the arrival of the first European colonizers.

History Reverberates on Native Lands
Native communities in North America have been disrupted and displaced for centuries. Many face long-standing food and water inequities that are further complicated by this pandemic.

On the Navajo reservation, which covers more than 27,000 square miles in Arizona, Utah and New Mexico, 76% of households already have trouble affording enough healthy food, and the nearest grocery store is often hours away. COVID-related restrictions have further curtailed access to food supplies.

Clean water for basic sanitary measures like hand-washing is also scarce. Native Americans are 19 times more likely to lack indoor plumbing than whites in the U.S. Nearly one-third of Navajo households lack access to running water.

Many health issues that can increase COVID-19 mortality rates occur at high levels among Native Americans. These underlying and preexisting conditions – things like hypertension, diabetes, obesity and cardiovascular disease – are linked to diet and stem from disruption and replacement of Indigenous food systems.

American Indians and Alaska Natives (AI/AN) experience higher rates of chronic diseases than non-Hispanic Whites. Urban Indian Health Institute; data from CDC, CC BY-ND
Meanwhile, housing shortages on reservations and homelessness in urban Native communities make social distancing to reduce COVID-19 transmission impossible.

High Exposure Rates
These factors have clear health impacts. On the Navajo reservation, for instance, through May 27, 2020, 4,944 people out of a population of 173,000 had tested positive for COVID-19, and 159 had died.

This infection rate per capita exceeds those in hot spots such as New York and New Jersey. Importantly, however, it may also reflect a much more proactive approach to testing on reservations than in many other jurisdictions.

The fact that elderly people are especially vulnerable to COVID-19 could worsen the pandemic's effects in Indian Country. Elders are the keepers of traditional knowledge, tribal languages and culture – legacies whose loss already threatens the persistence of indigenous communities.

Elders also play key roles in preserving traditional plant and medicine knowledge. In the absence of COVID-19 interventions from Western medicine, many elders have been called on to perform healing practices, which increases their exposure risk.

Little Help From Federal and State Governments
Many tribal members rely on the federal government's Indian Health Service for health care. But lack of capacity at the agency has hampered its response. Budget shortfalls, inaccurate data, the challenges of providing rural health care and ongoing personnel shortages in IHS clinics are compounded by staff being pulled away to fight the virus in large cities.

And while many states have raised frustrations with the Trump administration's unwillingness to distribute protective supplies from the dwindling national stockpile, IHS and tribal health care authorities never had access to the stockpile at all.

Although the federal government has begun distributing relief funds to IHS agencies, there have been serious problems with the accompanying supplies. The Navajo Nation has received faulty masks, and a Seattle Native health center asked for tests but received body bags instead.

Meanwhile, federally imposed limits on tribal sovereignty have obstructed tribal governments' efforts to deal with the pandemic themselves. Federal and state governments are challenging tribes' jurisdictional authority to close borders to tourists who may carry the virus. South Dakota's governor has threatened legal action against two tribes who set up checkpoints to monitor incoming traffic on their reservations.

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The owners of the Keystone XL oil pipeline have announced that they intend to continue construction, which will bring an influx of workers along the proposed route through Montana, South Dakota and Nebraska. The Rosebud Sioux Tribe in South Dakota and Fort Belknap Indian community in Montana have filed for a temporary restraining order, and a key permit for the pipeline was revoked in April 2020, but work continues at the U.S.-Canada border.

Construction is accelerating on the southern border wall, which bisects the Tohono O'odham reservation in Arizona and Mexico. The Trump administration has increased patrols at the border, despite the tribe's concern that the patrols' presence is spreading coronavirus on the reservation.

And in Bristol Bay, Alaska, a salmon fishing season that brings in thousands of temporary workers is set to open in June because the federal government has also deemed commercial fishing "essential critical infrastructure." Many local Native villages depend on the fishery for income, but have nonetheless pleaded with state regulators to cancel the season. The regional hospital has just four beds for possible COVID-19 patients.

Bold Action in Native Communities
Native communities are taking decisive action to reduce the spread of COVID-19. They're imposing aggressive quarantine measures like lockdowns, curfews and border closures. Communities are ramping up health care capacity and elder support services, and banishing nontribal members who violate travel restrictions.

Other strategies include helping hunters provide traditional foods to their communities, mobilizing to support tribal health care workers, and linking the pandemic and the climate crisis. Looking ahead to a post-COVID future, we believe one priority should be attending to front-line environmental justice struggles that center tribes' sovereignty to act on their own behalf at all times, not just during national crises.

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Hi again folks.
I've had this TIME thing stuck in my head for years and I've no real idea how I should deal with it. So I thought I might find some sort of release for it now among people who would understand where I am coming from. So here goes.
We as humans have embraced this time frame we live in by year in the form of B.C. and A.D.
I despise this form because it pretty much centers around a stupid story and now the whole world depicts AGE by those very constraints.
What's anyone's opinion on this or do you think I'm just being silly?
I'm often wondering what the year actually is, and how it could, or subsequently should be properly represented in our modern world.
After all we know it's really not 2012 as such.
I dunno...rip away at me if you must. I can take it. However I'd much prefer intelligent input. LOL.
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Silly? Maybe a little. After all over 70% of the world doesn't believe in Jesus Christ and no-one's made any great effort to change the way we depict the year. People don't like change, its a convenient 4 digit number. Think of all the fuss the Millennium 'bug' caused - change year 0 to a date 10000 or 10000 years ago would be a nightmare not to mention who gets to choose!
There are many other measurements that made sense at the time but could have better solutions but will not change because its too difficult - 60 minutes in an hour/24 hours a day,yards/miles,lbs/oz etc.
Pick a number, any number, call that the year number, what does it matter?
Look at what it replaced. The Xth year of the reign of Y. That isn't so bad if it is you and your country and your king but try to keep track of dates, what happened when in a kingdom far,, far away keeping track of years in the same way? There probably be someone with the full time job of keeping track of how one event related to another.
But even with the simplicity it took something like four centuries to catch on. There was no year 1000 panic because no one used the numbering system a century and a half or whatever later.
You're being silly. It's just a human convention. Why not complain about the names of the months?
However, there is an alternative which is often used in academic circles. It's B.C.E. (Before the Common Era) and C.E. (Common Era) to replace B.C. (Before Christ) and A.D. (Anno Domini).
Satanists define the current era to begin at the formation of their church. They are now in about year 50 or so I think. Probably doesn't really help you.... just interesting.
Various cultures have various dating methods. It's all arbitrary and capricious It all boils down to common usage.
As someone else pointed out, it's a convention, and most if not all conventions are absurd, if not meaningless. This is because they result from a stipulation. We can't have an exact year based on anything meaningful, like the year the Earth formed (it formed slowly over a long long time) or the day the year the first true human strode the Earth (how could one possibly decide what the first true human was, much less settle on a year). So, we accept stipuations.
Even when there is a reason for a stipulation, such as the way the centigrade scale was decided, it is still a stipulation.
There are many such questions: why is a second as log as it is? who decided there should be 60 seconds in a minute, and why? Ditto for hours? Obviously, days and years have an objective basis, but why is a week 7 days and not 5 or 10, which would seem to satisfy our preference for decimal math?
I've had similar questions stumbling around in my head. Before 'C', (Before C-AD, etc) how did those living their lives treat the passage of time?
It is an interesting subject. I've been fascinated by time-traveling stories since I was a kid. But really, when should we start the measure of time? Should it start from the moment a future human-ancestor crawled out of the mud, the first time humanoids used a tool, or the first time man thought to take note of the passage of time? I don't know that cows and orangutans worry about what year it is, should we?
I remember from some college course I took a few decades ago that the entire concept of "progress" wasn't around until sometime in the Renaissance. In other words, until then people didn't get that inventions and improvements made things better or at least different over time. In 300 AD, for example, nobody was thinking "Well, at least nowadays we have the wheel so we don't have slide heavy objects from point A to point B," nor did they ask themselves "I wonder what those poor saps did before someone discovered/invented/controlled fire?"
So, I wonder what "time" even meant to them?
In the Hebrew calendar, it is currently the year 5773.
In the Japanese calendar, we're in the year Heisei 25.
In the Thai calendar, it's 2556.
In the Republic of China's calendar (Minguo calendar), it's the year 102.
In the Islamic calendar, it's 1434 AH.
In the Ethiopian calendar, it's 2005.
In the Danung calendar (from Korea) it's the year 4346.
Really, it's all about what reference point you want to choose as your starting point. If people decided to use the Holocene Calendar ( a proposed calendar that begins at the estimated beginning of the Holocene era ), it's the year 12013. Or there is the Tranquility Calendar, which begins at the moment the world Tranquility was uttered in the famous words "Houston, Tranquility Base here. The Eagle has landed". We're in 44 AT now.
If you really want to get technical, it's 13.75 -- you figure out the rest of the decimals -- billion years from the BB, but it's not easy to get a digital watch to track that.
And adding in error bars of a couple million years makes it really hard to be on time for anything.
Of all the calendars on all the earth we still don't have one with a year zero.


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Media Advisory: June 22, 2011
ARLINGTON, VA — Parents and student continue to give increasingly high marks to Department of Defense Education Activity (DoDEA) Schools according to results of the 2010-2011 Customer Satisfaction Survey (CSS).
The survey is administered every other year to sponsors with children in pre-kindergarten - 12th grade and to students in grades 4-12. For the 2010-2011 survey, more than 19,000 sponsors and 27,000 4th-12th grade students responded to the survey. These statistics represent an approximate response rate of 24% of eligible sponsors (down 1% from the previous survey) and 57% of eligible students (down 18% from the previous survey).
Questions posed in the survey related to school issues such as curriculum, instruction, standards, assessment, technology, student support, and communication. The survey was developed by representatives from various groups, including DoDEA Area and District representatives, DoDEA's Education Directorate staff, and the Defense Manpower Data Center (DMDC). Some questions were taken from the Phi Delta Kappa/Gallup Poll of the Public's Attitudes Toward Schools with additional DoDEA-specific questions.
Overall, 77% of parents and 73% of students rated DoDEA schools with an "A" or "B." Students and parents were equally satisfied with their particular school, with 79% of parents and 74% of students rating their school as "A" or "B." Nationally, 77% of parents rated their child's school as "A" or "B."
An increasing number of parents and students rated DoDEA schools highly in how well they were providing for all students to meet or exceed challenging academic standards. Close to three-fourths of parents (76%) and students (72%) rated their school "A" or "B," a 2-4% increase respectively over the previous survey.
Parents and students were also asked to indicate what topics they felt were major problems, minor problems, or not a problem at all in their schools. DoDEA parents and students continue to report the lunch program as the major issue at their school. According to students, the second major problem is bullying. Students' comments indicated that other students frequently "pick" on each other, but no one does anything about it. According to parents, the second major problem is financial support/funding. Parents remarked on being asked to "donate" supplies such as paper to the school; however students' comments referred to the lack of funds for field trips and sports competitions.
When asked to rank the top three actions with the most potential to improve their school, DoDEA students and parents continue to cite raising academic standards and reducing class size as the top two ways to improve their school. However, students and parents disagreed on their third choice, with students selecting "increasing access to instructional technology" and parents choosing "improving teacher qualifications and competence."
When asked to grade their school in preparing students in several specific curricular areas, parents and students continue to rate their school highest in preparing students in the core content areas of reading, writing, mathematics, science, and social studies, with at least 70% of both groups giving their school an "A" or "B" in these areas. Both parents and students rated their school lowest in preparing students in foreign language with 59% of parents giving their school an "A" or "B."
DoDEA parents differ from parents nationally with regard to the amount of emphasis put on achievement testing. While 44% of parents nationally report there is too much emphasis on achievement testing, only 15% of DoDEA parents and 23% of students reported the same.
DoDEA parents were in agreement with parents nationally about whether all states should be required to use the same standardized assessment - approximately two-thirds of both groups approve of this requirement.
Parents viewed the use of online learning positively, with slightly more than half of the respondents approving of students being able to earn high school credits online without attending a regular school - a percentage higher than the 47% of parents nationally who also approved of the practice.
Parents continue to be less positive than students in their opinions of the counseling services at their school. While 70% of students graded their school's counseling services as "A" or "B", only 47% of parents did so. While students' responses represent an 8% increase over the response in the previous survey, the responses from parents was consistent with results from previous surveys.
Note. Should clarify this is secondary only - maybe either Secondary students and parents or Students and parents at the secondary level...Students and parents continue to express dissatisfaction with the help counseling services provide in preparing students for life after high school (college, work, military service, etc.). Approximately 39% of parents and 44% of high school students graded their school with an "A" or a "B" in this area. These results represent an 11% decrease in parent ratings from the previous survey (50%) and a 21% decrease in the positive responses from students in the previous survey (65%). Definitive conclusions may be difficult to draw from these two comparisons - the wording of questions was changed slightly in the current survey which may have been a factor in the decreased satisfaction ratings.
Parents and students are increasingly pleased overall with the communication by their school. More than 80% of parents rated their child's school with an "A" or "B" in communicating about academic progress, behavior, general information, and responding to their questions and concerns in a timely manner. Although generally positive, students were less satisfied with the communication from their schools than parents, especially in the timeliness with which the school responded to their questions and concerns, with only 64% rating their school with an "A" or "B."
A complete wrap-up of the Customer Satisfaction Survey results is available on the DoDEA website, www.dodea.edu.
DoDEA will administer the next Customer Satisfaction Survey beginning in November 2012. Delete this statement - as part of the efficiency review for data collections/surveys by OSD this was canceled. We're trying to get it reinstated but aren't sure this will happen. DoDEA plans, directs, coordinates, and manages pre-kindergarten -12th grade education programs for Department of Defense (DoD) dependents who would otherwise not have access to high quality public education. More than 190 DoDEA schools serve approximately 87,000 students worldwide in Europe, the Pacific, the United States, Cuba, and Puerto Rico. DoDEA also provides support and resources to Local Education Activities throughout the United States that serve more than 1 million children of military families.


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Job Title: Customer Service Representative I
Location: Geisinger Centerpoint, Pittston, PA
Department: Geisinger Health Plan - Claims
Work Type: Full Time
Hiring Manager: Kimberly Monahan Desanto
Assists Customer Service Team Leader in resolving customer concerns, providing appropriate education/instruction and maintaining customer satisfaction by providing the highest level of customer service in only one of the Primary Functions (enrollment, claims or phones).
Proficient in one or more of the three GHP lines of business including the following product designs:
HMO which includes: HMO, HMO Point of Service, HMO Extra, HMO Point of Service Extra, Solutions HMO, Solutions Point of Service, Solutions Extra, Solutions Point of Service Extra, GHP Direct, GHP Solutions Direct, GHP Direct Point of Service, GHP Solutions Direct with Point of Service, Choice PPO with Referral, Marketplace Solutions, Marketplace Solutions Extra, Marketplace Solutions QHDHP, Marketplace Value, Marketplace HMO, Marketplace HMO POS, Marketplace HMO HDHP and Marketplace HMO Extra.
TPA which includes: High Deductible Health Plan, Choice PPO no referral, Direct Access, Indemnity, Marketplace Direct, Marketplace Direct QHDHP and all self-funded third party administrators including GHS.
Gold which includes: . Classic Advantage, Classic Complete Rx, Secure Rx, Preferred Advantage,Preferred Complete, Preferred Essential, Preferred Select, PA-MSA Reserve, NJ Classic Rx, NJ Preferred Rx, NJ –MSA Reserve
Actively participates in cross training, improving processes within the Customer Service team. Responsible for attaining and maintaining "key performance measures" established for the Customer Service Team in the primary functions of claims, enrollment and phones.
Works under the direction of the Customer Service Team Leader.
Cross training is based on experience and departmental need.
Demonstrates excellent communication, problem solving, and customer-service skills within a team atmosphere.
Demonstrates excellent organization and time management skills and ability to work independently.
Demonstrates ability to work with and manage multiple data sets. Demonstrates good verbal and written skills and ability to work with all levels of Health Plan personnel.
Demonstrates competence in written, oral and electronic communication skills (interpersonal/communication and technological effectiveness competencies).
Demonstrates the ability to be flexible to change.
Demonstrates the ability to be a team player.
Strong keyboarding skills.
Demonstrates competence in maintaining department standards in a fast paced office environment.
Demonstrates ability to be detail oriented.
Demonstrates ability to multitask and function under pressure to ensure Health Plans goals are met.
Demonstrates customer service skills.
Demonstrates strong problem solving skills.
Demonstrates ability to participate in problem solving situations.
Demonstrates strong organizational and analytical skills.
Demonstrates the ability to maintain confidentiality.
High School diploma and minimum one year customer service, hospital or insurance experience, including patient or public contact, required.
If primary function is in claims, basic knowledge of the CPT-4, HCPCS and ICD-9-CM coding manuals preferred.
Work is typically performed in an office environment.
The specific statements shown in each section of this description are not intended to be all-inclusive. They represent typical elements considered necessary to successfully perform the job.
OUR PURPOSE & VALUES: Everything we do is about caring for our patients, our members, our students, our Geisinger family and our communities. KINDNESS: We strive to treat everyone as we would hope to be treated ourselves. EXCELLENCE: We treasure colleagues who humbly strive for excellence. LEARNING: We share our knowledge with the best and brightest to better prepare the caregivers for tomorrow. INNOVATION: We constantly seek new and better ways to care for our patients, our members, our community, and the nation.
GEISINGER HEALTH PLAN (GHP) is the health insurance component of Geisinger and serves over 460,000 members in Pennsylvania and West Virginia. Begun in 1985, GHP provides high quality, affordable health-care benefits for businesses of all sizes, individuals and families, and Medicare beneficiaries.
About Geisinger: Geisinger is a physician-led health system comprised of approximately 30,000 employees, including nearly 1,600 employed physicians, 13 hospital campuses, two research centers, and a 583,000-member health plan Geisinger is nationally recognized for innovative practices and quality care. Geisinger serves more than 3 million people in central, south-central and northeast Pennsylvania and also in southern New Jersey with the addition of National Malcolm Baldridge Award recipient AtlantiCare, A member of Geisinger. In 2017, the Geisinger Commonwealth School of Medicine became the newest member of the Geisinger Family.
We offer healthcare benefits for full time and part time positions from day one, including vision, dental and domestic partners.* Perhaps just as important, from senior management on down, we encourage an atmosphere of collaboration, cooperation and collegiality. For more information, visit www.geisinger.org, or connect with us on Facebook, Instagram, LinkedIn and Twitter.
** Does not qualify for J-1 waiver. We are an Affirmative Action, Equal Opportunity Employer Women and Minorities are Encouraged to Apply. All qualified applicants will receive consideration for employment and will not be discriminated against on the basis of disability or their protected veteran status.
*Domestic partner benefits not applicable at Geisinger Holy Spirit.


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On April 20th, 2010, BP's Deepwater Horizon exploded off the Gulf of Mexico, claiming 11 lives, followed by an estimated 200 million gallons of oil that polluted the sea and shores with black poisonous tar for three months. The world's worst oil catastrophe in history left the Gulf's fishing and tourist industries in an extremely depressing situation. It's not exactly accurate to claim that life on the Gulf is completely dead. The oil industry is booming. But thanks primarily to British Petroleum's and Halliburton's decisions of gross negligence i.e. putting profits first over safety, the tourist and fishing industries are struggling to say the least, (read Dahr Jamail's Gulf Ecosystem in Crisis) which is the reason BP was forced to set aside a relief fund of $20 billion dollars for victims of these Gulf businesses; some did well from the settlements, but many are in dire straits. Moreover, BP is still sitting on most of that relief fund money.
Cleanup has been an ongoing nightmare. Scientists are now concerned about the possibility of restoration given the damage that was done to the fragile ecosystems, specifically the food chain that has been "dissolved" from harsh chemical pollutants: viz. the combination of oil and the potent toxic dispersant Corexit. Corexit is largely the culprit that has literally dissolved the food chain vital for regeneration of marine life.
Tragically, the likelihood of recovery is slim to say the least due to the fact that the US government allowed BP to drop tons of the highly toxic dispersant, Corexit, over vast areas of the Gulf for long periods of time, areas that included sensitive oyster and clam estuaries. No other government in any other civilized country would have been that ignorant, that careless to allow an oil company to dump tons of toxic chemicals on top of millions of gallons of oil. It's the equivalent of unloading truckloads of decomposing acid into the ocean. The consequences have been unspeakably horrifying and heartbreaking: thousands of dolphins have washed up on the shores, dead, with their eyes literally burned out of their sockets, eyeless shrimp, deformed fish with lesions, and above all else: no fish.
Numerous other impacts have been documented since the disaster began, including genetic disruptions for Gulf killifish, harm to deepwater corals, and the die-off of tiny foraminifera that are an important part of the Gulf's food chain.
Ongoing studies continue to reveal toxins from BP's spill in water, soil, and seafood samples.
Meanwhile, fishermen in BP's impact zone wonder if things will ever return to normal. "Our future is very, very dim, and there are no sponge crabs out there, which is the future," Robin concluded. "I've never seen this in my lifespan. I'm not seeing a future, because everything out there is dead."
Surely President Obama knew that Corexit had been banned in the UK since the 1980s? He apparently didn't care because just as BP wanted this catastrophe to vanish, it was also to the President's advantage to make it go away with re-election on his mind. Well they got what they asked for. Marine life disappeared…into a vast oily dead zone.
Corexit has been banned in eighteen countries¹ for the reason that it is a cancerous causing neurotoxin pesticide that is acutely toxic to both human and marine life, it can damage internal organs such as the liver and kidneys simply by absorbing it through the skin and may cause reproductive side effects. Earthjustice and Toxipedia Consulting Services conducted the first analysis of the 57 chemicals found in Corexit formulas 9500 and 9527 in the summer of 2011. Results showed the dispersant could contain cancer-causing agents, hazardous toxins and endocrine-disrupting chemicals. The analysis found "5 chemicals are associated with cancer; 33 are associated with skin irritation from rashes to burns; 33 are linked to eye irritation; 11 are or are suspected of being potential respiratory toxins or irritants; 10 are suspected kidney toxins; 8 are suspected or known to be toxic to aquatic organisms; and 5 are suspected to have a moderate acute toxicity to fish".
Let's rewind the tape to July 2010. Truthout's Rose Aguilar wrote about the health hazards from exposure to Corexit. It's as if residents were nothing more than inconvenient bugs that happened to be in the way of BP's goal to make the oil look as if it had dissolved when it in fact they were adding poisonous chemicals on top of more hazardous chemicals producing an alarming toxic brew:
In late May, Riki Ott began meeting people in the Gulf with symptoms like headaches, dizziness, sore throats, burning eyes, rashes and blisters that are so deep, they're leaving scars. People are asking, "What's happening to me?"
She says the culprit is almost two million gallons of Corexit, the dispersant BP is using to break up and hide the oil below the ocean's surface. "It's an industrial solvent. It's a degreaser. It's chewing up boat engines off-shore. It's chewing up dive gear on-shore. Of course it's chewing up people's skin. The doctors are saying the solvents are making the oil worse."
In a widely watched YouTube video, from Project Gulf Impact, a project that aims to give Gulf residents a voice, Chris Pincetich, a marine biologist and campaigner with the Sea Turtle Restoration Project, said Coast Guard planes are flying overhead at night spraying Corexit on the water and on land.
Recently the Tampa Bay Times has been publishing the University of Southern Florida's studies of the ongoing massive die-off of fish, plant life (killed millions of microscopic creatures: the base of food-chain and coral reefs, essential for regeneration of life). In short, there are little signs of life left in the Gulf. The full implications of the die-off are yet to be seen. The foraminifera are consumed by clams and other creatures that provide food for the next step in the food chain, including the types of fish found with lesions. Fish, dolphins, turtles, shrimp – are shockingly deformed, mostly without eyes. Alabama researchers found that the dispersant killed plankton and disrupted the Gulf of Mexico's food web, noting that it is "like the middle part of the food chain has been taken away".
In late 2012, a study from Georgia Tech and Universidad Autonoma de Aguascalientes, Mexico reported that Corexit used during the BP oil spill had increased the toxicity of the oil by 52 times.
Residents of the Gulf are outraged. Although BP had the legal right to use Corexit, the Obama administration had the legal authority to override that decision simply on the grounds that it is too lethal, too harmful and that it is not really eliminating the oil, it was simply "dispersing" the plumes of oil into an invisible sheen of toxic particles. It's a dangerous cocktail of chemicals that not only killed hundreds of thousands of fish, mammals, pelicans, whales, dolphins – it has done irreparable damage to the food chain.
It's a hard truth but it needs to be said: When the food chain is gone, game over.
Ironically, BP is suing the U.S. government over an E.P.A. decision to bar BP from getting new federal military contracts to supply fuel and other services after the company pleaded guilty to manslaughter and other criminal charges related to the 2010 Gulf of Mexico disaster. The last thing that this oil company deserves is new permits to drill in the U.S. Oil executives are ruthless, but BP takes the prize for PR deception and lies. According to recent reports, BP is still dropping Corexit over the Gulf. Why? Good question that needs to be investigated. Scientists have documented oil surfacing from the BP Macondo site. In this CBS report, we learn that new oil sheens and plumes continue to spread off the Louisiana coast. Tests confirmed the oil came from the infamous Macondo well underneath the Deepwater Horizon. Al Jazeera reporter Dahr Jamail also confirmed that the Macondo well is leaking oil. That is typically how BP operates. Don't solve the underlying problem: it's more profitable to cover it up with Corexit.
Given BP's reckless pursuit of profits, their hideous record of oil disasters, and what they've done to the Gulf's residents, marine life, fishing and tourist industries—this company should be permanently barred from drilling in the U.S. And if that can't happen, then the Federal government must at the very least join the UK in banning Corexit.
President Obama doesn't have to send drones half way across the world to kill poor grandmothers farming the fields of Pakistan to keep Americans safe. All he has to do is regulate the fossil fuel industry and ban Corexit. That's how he can protect Americans. If he wants to keep Americans safe he should also get a team of the best qualified Pentagon engineers and nuclear physicists together to solve a real global threat: Fukushima. We're talking about the potential of released radiation equivalent to 14,000 times the amount released by the Hiroshima atomic bomb. This seems a little more urgent than targeting barefooted Pakistani farmers that live in clay huts. I don't feel threatened by these poor people. I feel threatened by Corexit and Fukushima.
(Photo: NASA/GSFC, MODIS Rapid Response AND demis.nl AND FT2)
1. The UK's Marine Management Organization has banned Corexit. In fact, Corexit products currently being used in the Gulf were removed from a list of approved treatments for oil spills in the U.K. more than a decade ago. The Environmental Advisory Service for Oil and Chemical Spills at IVL, Swedish Environmental Institute, has, upon request of the Swedish Environmental Protection Agency evaluated Corexit extensively and recommended it not be used in Swedish waters.
Jacqueline Marcus is the editor of ForPoetry.com and EnvironmentalPress.com. Author of Close to the Shore by Michigan State University Press. Her E-book Man Cannot Live on Oil, Alone / Time to end our dependency on oil before it ends usis available at Amazon.com Kindle Books.


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The next parliament "will be full of hacks, lobbyists and previously failed candidates", or so said Tony McNulty at a political panel event last night.
In what one could interpret as a veiled reference to the Harrow East MP's Conservative challenger Bob Blackman, who has run for parliament three times already without success, McNulty said we should be careful what we wish for.
"I think accountability will be on May 6th," he said, but added "the notion that there is going to be the city on the hill I don't think is the case."
He was speaking at a panel event featuring Conservative Party chairman Eric Pickles and Liberal Democrat MP Tom Brake. At the Total Politics Question Time event, held near Westminster on Thursday evening, McNulty said he had some sympathy with the notion of Primaries as a way of electing parliamentary candidates, a sentiment supported by Pickles, the MP for Brentwood and Ongar.
Quizzed on everything from accountability to diversity, the topic on everyone's mind seemed to be the allegations in Andrew Rawnsley's book about bullying in Downing Street and tensions between Gordon Brown and Alistair Darling.
Pointing out that during the First World War, Asquith and Lloyd George were known to have had their share of arguments, McNulty did not seem overly concerned about the revelations.
"People lose their temper in high octane situations – shock horror," he said. "You can't have a convivial relationship between a prime minister and a chancellor all the time."
"I'm sure it will be a very nice book but I don't believe that it is gospel."
The MP added that when he had worked closely with Brown over he 42 days detention issue, Brown had not raised his voice at him.
"I raised my voice, but that's another story for Andrew Rawnsley's next book!"
Responding to an audience-member who asked why Brown had not called an inquiry, McNulty said: "You cam't rush out on every single story on 24 hour news and demand an inquiry."
Saying Labour still had a long way to go in terms of diversity, McNulty applauded the Conservatives for their efforts .
"It's fairly snide of some commentators to say 'oh, this is just window dressing'. Everyone needs to start somewhere.
"I think that's thrilling for British democracy. Anything that gets a much richer and more divisive House of Commons has got to be good."
Although he said it would be "quite astonishing" if his Liberal Democrat opponent, Iranian-born Nahid Boethe won the election, he added:
"I have always said my successor should be Asian."
And faced with the question about the Tory lead slipping in the polls, McNulty was clear on why.
"Cameron had a free ride unscrutinized in any sort of depth, but people are starting to look closer.
"It's not enough to say 'vote for me, I'm not them'."
He said there was not the enthusiasm for change there had been in the lead up to the 1997 election. "They are not doing well because they haven't got that much to offer."
And despite the panel host Iain Dale reminding of how McNulty had been 'slaughtered' over expenses, the MP said he would still encourage his nieces and nephews to pursue a Westminster career.
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Released: 03/2018
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