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Over the past several weeks, a broad coalition of progressive organizations—including National People's Action (NPA), ColorOfChange, the National Domestic Workers Alliance (NDWA), MoveOn.org, the New Bottom Line, environmental groups like Greenpeace and 350.org, and major unions such as SEIU and the United Auto Workers—has undertaken a far-reaching effort to train tens of thousands of people in nonviolent direct action. They have called the campaign the 99% Spring.
Starting this week, many of these same groups will be rallying their members and supporters to use newly honed skills to confront the shareholder meetings of corporations across the United States—charging executives with abusing workers, the environment, and communities in pursuit of profits for the 1 percent. They are calling the drive 99% Power. With prominent actions gearing up this week—starting with major protests at Wells Fargo meetings in San Francisco—the campaign may soon be coming to a city near you.
The Genesis of the 99% Spring
Although this month's 99% Spring trainings have taken place in the shadow of the Occupy movement, the coalition building behind them actually predated the emergence of Occupy Wall Street. Last summer, a handful of organizers from groups such as Jobs with Justice, NPA, and NDWA had discussions in which they lamented the lack of direct action in recent years. As NPA Executive Director George Goehl explains, "We felt what was missing in terms of organizing and in terms of the broader fight was that there wasn't enough energy pointed towards challenging corporate power: That's not going to government and saying, 'Reign these guys in,' but actually going toe-to-toe with big corporations."
The groups envisioned bringing together organizations to work across single-issue lines, using more confrontational strategies. For the fall, they planned overlapping weeks of action in eight major cities—which resulted in arrests from Boston to Los Angeles of activists demanding accountability for the big banks and protesting foreclosures. Since the Occupy Wall Street encampment in Zuccotti Park exploded into a nationwide phenomenon at the same time, these protests were largely covered in the media as part of the Occupy movement. Participants from the Occupy encampments joined in the demonstrations, and actions that had been organized by community groups, in turn, helped to create a sense of national scope and escalating drama for the movement.
The idea for spring trainings as a follow-up to these efforts coalesced early in 2012, and a wide range of groups signed on to make them happen in a remarkably short period of time. During the week of April 9-15, more than 980 trainings took place, covering communities throughout the country.
Coalition or Cooptation?
The plan for the 99% Spring was ambitious in several respects. First, the organizers aspired to train a massive number of people: 100,000 total, roughly half in person and half through an Internet version of the curriculum. (Final numbers are not in, but more than 40,000 had signed up for the mid-April events. Online trainings continue.)
Second, the curriculum for the full training covered seven hours of material. It combined elements that might typically be presented in three different sessions: By way of introductions, participants started with a version of the public narrative exercises developed by Marshall Ganz. Public narrative provides a method for talking about one's own experiences that motivate participation in collective action and for identifying a common story of struggle. Next, the trainings included a teach-in about inequality in the American economy and about the growing power of the 1 percent. This information was similar to that commonly provided by groups like United for a Fair Economy. Finally, the events featured a brief history of nonviolence in the United States and instruction in some skills that might be used in direct action—the type of material that is often covered by groups like Training for Change.
As the 99% Spring trainings neared, they attracted some controversy. Significant debate arose about whether the drive was an attempt by established organizations to co-opt the Occupy movement. In particular, the involvement of MoveOn.org, which some occupiers consider part of the mainstream political establishment, drew fire from more radical activists.
The magazine Adbusters warned that the trainings were an attempt to "neutralize our insurgency with an insidious campaign of donor money and cooptation," and that the goal of the effort was to "turn our struggle into a… reelection campaign for President Obama." Occupy Oakland activist Mike King similarly charged that the true motivation of the campaign was to neuter the movement and divert it into electoral efforts. "We should not have our tactics determined by the Democratic Party," he wrote.
Joshua Kahn Russell, a trainer and action coordinator with the Ruckus Society and 350.org, responds, "I think it's healthy for grassroots movements to question involvement of bigger organizations. At the same time," he says, "we need to see that groups like unions who might support the Democrats are not our enemies. We need to be building across some of these differences if we're really going to be talking about the 99 percent."
The large number of trainings offered, and the fact that different local groups were responsible for hosting different events, meant that the tone of the trainings varied. While one participant reported seeing Obama buttons for sale at an Upper West Side Manhattan training, many other events, including one in downtown Philadelphia, featured vocal criticism of Democrats and open airing of disappointment with the current administration. For its part, the 99% Spring curriculum did not include electoral material, and the economic education video used at trainings showed Bill Clinton repealing Glass-Steagall regulations on banks—an act depicted in a profoundly negative light.
Moreover, while the coalition that backed 99% Spring includes MoveOn.org and major labor unions, which have significant involvement in electoral politics, it includes many scrappier groups as well, such as the Ruckus Society, the Rainforest Action Network, the National Day Laborers Organizing Network, and NPA. "As an organization that's been taking over bank lobbies and doing direct action for 40 years, some of the criticism is a little tough to hear," says NPA's Goehl. "We've been as critical of the president as basically any progressive group."
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"Our main message is, 'We're all in this together,'" adds Tracy Van Slyke, co-director of the New Bottom Line. "This is about working across geography, race, creed to build an economy and democracy that works for the 99 percent. There's a lot of appreciation for Occupy, and a lot of people from Occupy are participating. But there's a really wide range of groups involved. We're focused on what we can all do together."
In many locations, Occupy activists were involved in organizing or were active participants in the trainings. "This is not an Occupy project," Kahn Russell says of 99% Spring. "At the same time, there's obviously a lot of crossover because our movements are interdependent. I personally have done trainings in support of occupations in many parts of the country since well before the 99% Spring, and I identify with the Occupy movement tremendously. I think there's a lot of people who are playing that bridge role."
In an election year, it is highly unusual to see many of the larger, established progressive organizations investing in training members for wide-scale direct action instead of in electoral campaigning. Given this, some have commented that it might be more accurate to see Occupy as having co-opted MoveOn.org, instead of the other way around. Particularly striking, as Josh Harkinson at MotherJones noted, is an e-mail that MoveOn.org Executive Director Justin Ruben sent to his staff earlier in the month. "It's clear that the sorts of tactics we've engaged in in the past are no longer enough," Ruben wrote. He subsequently stated, "We know that whoever wins in November, they are still going to be listening more to the 1 percent than to the rest of us because our political system is completely broken. So we don't have the luxury of not engaging in this kind of action."
Next Up: 99% Power
Apart from its engagement with Occupy, the 99% Spring brought together a remarkably diverse collection of organizations. Many of these rarely have occasion to see their work as part of a common cause. As Kahn Russell notes, "The thing that's most exciting to me is that 99% Spring is putting union members together in the same room with environmentalists, with domestic workers, with peace and justice people, and they're talking with each other for the first time."
"Big alliances like this are challenging," he adds. "So seeing so many different groups agree on the need for street heat, to act directly without having power-holders dictate to us the rules of engagement—all that is remarkable to me."
Owing to the wide range of coalition members, organizers decided that the 99% Spring trainings would not be intended as preparation for any specific action, but rather to give skills that could be applied to a range of campaigns. In some sessions, participants felt that the actual nonviolence training provided seemed truncated (especially since it came at the end of a long agenda) and that next steps seemed unclear. This contributed—as one report back from a training in lower Manhattan described it—to a sense of "aimlessness."
Yet, in other cases, the trainings led immediately into action. As one example, in Des Moines, Iowa, more than 100 people—including a large contingent of family farmers—marched directly to the house of Mike Heid, a top official at Wells Fargo, to oppose the bank's investment in private prisons and its mistreatment of immigrants.
"For some people, that's a pretty big step," says Goehl of the rally at the banker's home. "It's not getting arrested. But it is breaking the 'be nice' rule."
While the 99% Spring itself did not agree on a common agenda for action, many of the same groups are involved in 99% Power. This campaign will involve confrontations at more than three-dozen shareholder meetings taking place between now and May. The New Bottom Line's Van Slyke calls it "the largest mobilization around shareholder meetings in U.S. history."
Describing the campaign's goals, she says, "We want to go directly to the board members and executives of the 1 percent who are behind these corporations. We want to bring a unified set of demands that they stop pillaging our environment, that they create good jobs, that they get their corporate money out of our democracy."
Things will get started in earnest at Wells Fargo meetings in San Francisco this week. There, Occupy activists and community groups alike will be coming together to confront the corporate gatherings and possibly even shut them down. Subsequently, major targets will include meetings of General Electric in Detroit; of Verizon in Alabama; Bank of America in Charlotte, NC; Walmart in Arkansas; and Sallie Mae in Delaware—which student activists are making a special focus. "At a lot of the meetings you'll see a thousand-plus people doing actions, and at almost all the meetings there will people inside the meetings as well as outside," Goehl explains.
Since these efforts are not exclusive with other spring protests, such as Occupy's May 1 actions, the coming weeks promise to be a busy season. Trainings will also continue, but some of the most pertinent lessons may be gained through direct experience. "I believe the best way to train people to do nonviolent direct action is to go do nonviolent direct action," says Goehl. "And that's what's going to happen."


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Morning Five: 11.05.13 EditionPosted by nvr1983 on November 5th, 2013
- UNLV got some good news yesterday as it was announced that Bryce Dejean-Jones, their leading returning scorer, had suffered a strained hamstring during Friday night's exhibition loss and not something more significant. There is no timetable for Dejean-Jones's return, but it appears that the staff is hopeful that he will be ready for the team's opener on Friday against Portland State although we are not sure how much weight to put on their hope. With the loss of three double-digit scorers UNLV will need Dejean-Jones, a transfer from USC who averaged 10.3 points last year, to return quickly to give the team some stability and veteran leadership.
- Similar to UNLV, Providence got some good news on the injury front as they found out that starting point guard Kris Dunn did not suffer a significant injury to his surgically repaired right shoulder during their exhibition win on Friday night. This comes after the team got back the results of a MRI on that shoulder on Monday although they are not releasing more detailed results. Officially Dunn is listed as "day-to-day" and much like USC with Dejean-Jones the Providence staff is hopefully that Dunn will be available for their opener on Friday against Boston College and like Dejean-Jones they will be counting on Dunn to lead their team.
- UNLV also got some more good news from the NCAA yesterday. With all of the other hardship waivers being approved we have been somewhat confused as to why it took so long for the NCAA to approve Kevin Olekaibe's hardship waiver (likely due to timing of submission and the amount of NCAA staff available to review waivers), but yesterday the NCAA finally approved Olekaibe's hardship waiver. Olekaibe, who 17.8 points per game two years ago at Fresno State before seeing his production decline sharply last season, applied for a hardship waiver due to his father's illness (currently on hospice and is unable to speak or move his lower body according to reports. At this point Olekaibe and UNLV still have one more hurdle to get past before he can play for the Rebels as they need the Mountain West to approve the intra-conference transfer before Olekaibe can play. Unless Fresno State raises some objection we cannot imagine that the Mountain West will want the negative publicity that will fall upon it if it refuses Olekaibe's waiver.
- With only a few days until the start of the season, plenty of groups are coming out with their preseason awards (ours will be up soon). Yesterday, two of the biggest groups released their picks as the Associated Press revealed its All-American picks and the USBWA released its Wayman Tisdale Freshman of the Year Award Preseason Watch List. Neither list had any particularly shocking picks, but the AP All-Americans will probably generate the most controversy with its picks. Marcus Smart was a unanimous selection and was joined by Doug McDermott, Mitch McGary, Andrew Wiggins, and Russ Smith. Smart and McDermott seem like obvious choices and you will have a hard time finding anybody arguing against them. Wiggins is a near-consensus pick too although you might find some questioning him since he has not played a college game yet. Smith will probably also garner quite a bit of support too coming off a national championship, but McGary might generate some criticism particularly from Kentucky where you could make a pretty solid case for Julius Randle over McGary particularly given McGary's uneven play last season.
- It turns out that T. Boone Pickens is not the only person willing to buy every available ticket to produce a sell-out as Indiana Pacers star (and former Fresno State star) Paul George appears to have bought every remaining ticket for Fresno State's home opener against Cal State Northridge on November 16 and is giving them away for free. While some reports are suggesting that George bought all 15,596 seats in the arena that seems unlikely for a couple of reasons: (1) it would imply that none of the seats had been sold, which seems unlikely given the boosters that every school has and (2) George said he "only" paid $7,000 for his allotment of tickets–even with a group discount less than 50 cents a ticket is difficult to fathom. Still it is nice gesture and we hope that Fresno State has a full house that night thanks to George's gesture.

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director, producer, animator: robert seidel
music: zero 7 feat. josé gonzález
In Futures you will see crushed things, completely abstracted finding together and building up to something we all have seen before Like our true wishes and desires they shape over time and get clearer followed by the next longing Innuendos, artifacts and the rough synchronisation add subtle emotions to the uncertain process that build the morbid tableaux of all possible futures
The low-budget promo for a planned DVD of Zero 7s The Garden was deemed as too un-commercial and another video was commissioned for the song by Duckeye Nevertheless it is very successfully shown at film festivals, design magazines and internet sites.
SHIFT Japan | DOTMOV Festival 2006 selected and commented by Motion Theory | Futures is hypnotic, textured, and beautiful. Robert Seidel reveals a hidden world in everyday objects. Deconstructed organic elements reverse in time, becoming what they once were. It suggests that in death there is a hidden beauty.
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In the latest of a string of acquisitions, Envestnet Inc. (ENV) announced Thursday that it would acquire Tamarac Inc. for $54 million in cash.
Envestnet said in a statement and its 8K filing with the SEC that it expected to close on the acquisition in the first half of 2012, subject to certain closing conditions. Members of Tamarac's management, Envestnet's statement said, "have agreed to vote in favor of approval of the transaction."
In addition to the $54 million price tag, which Envestnet said it would fund with available cash, the 8K says that Envestnet will set aside $7 million worth of ENV common stock in a management incentive plan for certain Tamarac employees based on Envestnet*Tamarac, the name of the new division at Envestnet, meeting "certain financial targets."
Just last week, the Chicago-based company announced it would acquire Denver-based Prima Capital from Broadridge; it closed on the acquisition of FundQuest Inc. in mid-December. Chicago-based Envestnet went public in July 2010.
"We've long been in the RIA market," said Envestnet CEO Jud Bergman in an interview with AdvisorOne on Thursday, "but a certain segment that looks to partner with firms that provide investment management" solutions. Tamarac, Bergman said, has "made its reputation by supporting very large RIAs, with best in class portfolio and rebalancing solutions; they've proven it. We've loved what they've done with that segment, have served that segment very well, but we think together we can do so even better."
In an interview last August, when the FundQuest deal was first announced, Bergman signaled that additional acquisitions were possible. "We're regularly evaluating [potential acquisitions] that will bring us access to more advisors or promising new technology, or the opportunity to provide services to new channels" (For more on Envestnet and its strategies, please see the June 2011 cover story of Investment Advisor.)
The Prima and FundQuest acquisitions add Prima's research tools, asset allocation modeling, and access to banks and wealth management firms, and TAMP provider FundQuest's products and research to the Envestnet wealth management platform. Fast-growing Tamarac, which offers portfolio management tools and broader technology outsourcing to its advisor clients, provides Envestnet with an immediate boost to its presence in the RIA market. Tamarac, said its CEO, Stuart DePina, has 500 advisory firms as its clients, and they will benefit from the acquisition in multiple ways.
The Tamarac acquisition, said, DePina, will be "the best thing for our shareholders–they'll get a good return on their investment, but our clients will be in a position" for better returns on their relationship as well. Part of the benefit to its existing RIA clients, DePina said, will be access to Envestnet's "deeper wallet" to help fund its continuing expansion, and he pledged that Tamarac would keep as its top goal the servicing of its existing clients. "The management team stays in place," said DePina, with no layoffs planned.
Tamarac will operate as an independent division within Envestnet called Tamarac*Envestnet (similar to how Prima will fit into Envestnet). "Think of it as a product group or business group" within Envestnet, said Bergman, providing "integrated practice management solutions for large RIAs."
The core of Tamarac's service structure is its client support team, which will not change, said DePina (left). "Every person who works on our client support team has worked [previously] within an RIA firm," he said. "When a client calls, they get somebody who understands the elements of how a firm operates."
DePina said, "We spend time in clients' offices helping them integrate technology," and that "the majority of the features in our products are the result of direct input from our clients" which has provided the catalyst "to grow and nurture our consultants." Those consulting services to client firms will be a bigger part of Tamarac's offerings to existing and new clients, DePina suggested.
Matthieu Stroh (left), Tamarac's VP of marketing, said in the same Thursday interview that 2011 marked the fifth straight year of the firm posting 50% growth in revenues, and that last year Tamarac also had 100% increase in new business over the prior year. "That says a lot about what RIAs are looking for: an integrated platform to outsource in a custodian-agnostic way," said Stroh. "When we looked at our own products and services roadmap, we had been planning on adding investment products and an investment policy statement; Envestnet is keenly situated to help us check the box on an end-to-end solution" for clients.
DePina said another benefit to Tamarac clients will be gaining access to certain of Envestnet's investment strategies, including separately managed accounts, "that a number of our clients have asked us to supply." He estimated that 20% of those firms could benefit from those investing products.
While Envestnet will benefit, as Bergman said, by gaining entrée into the higher-end RIA market–its business is more among independent broker-dealers, DePina pointed out–Tamarac will also gain access to that BD market.
"We're a small company," DePina pointed out—there are 100 employees in two locations: Seattle and Raleigh, N.C.—and "we have had a dozen RFPs over the last year that we can't respond to."
In the "not too distant future," he said, "we can leverage Envestnet's distribution channel to introduce our products into that marketplace." In addition, DePina said, there are "certain technology components that Envestnet has done; so rather than recreate the wheel, we can borrow theirs," including, for example, Envestnet's proposal generation tool, which "a third of our customers could benefit from."
Bergman said the acquisition is a "very good fit," since Tamarac has "great software and great developers and great service," while Envestnet can boast of a "great back office, advanced portfolio analytics and advanced research and access to a product suite" that Tamarac's existing clients wanted. "Stuart [DePina] will be a key player running this unit."
As for using cash to finance the acquisition, Bergman said "We're a strongly positive cash flow company; so we're generating cash," but that going public in 2010 "gave us the means to implement our strategy."


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Gisele Wears a Bikini With Baby Ben as Tom Preps For Play With the Pats
Gisele Bundchen broke out a pink bikini for an early morning swim with Benjamin Brady in Costa Rica on Monday. That amazing physique earned Gisele a place in the top 10 hot bodies of our 2011 bikini bracket. She's been a top contender in years past and is already getting a jump on her 2012 eligibility with her latest romp on the beach. Benjamin and Gisele are enjoying a tropical getaway while Tom Brady continues training for the upcoming NFL season. Tom, Gisele, and Ben spent most of their Summer hanging on the West Coast monitoring the construction progress on their dream home. Now that the NFL lockout has been resolved, though, Tom's back in Boston training with his New England Patriots and tonight will take the field in the preseason opener against the Jacksonville Jaguars.


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- Kyle Lowry is staying with the Toronto Raptors. – (SportsNetwork.com) - Kyle Lowry is staying with the Toronto Raptors.
Lowry and the Raptors have agreed to a four-year contract extension worth $48 million, Yahoo Sports reported Wednesday night.
The free-agent guard told the website "Toronto is just the right place for me" and retweeted the report about his new deal.
Lowry, 28, averaged 17.9 points and 7.4 assists in his second season with the Raptors, helping them reach the playoffs for the first time in six years.
The new deal includes an early termination option allowing Lowry to become a free agent after the third season, Yahoo Sports reported.
He was acquired in July 2012 in a trade with the Houston Rockets, who were one of the teams focusing on Lowry as a potential offseason addition, according to reports.
Lowry has averaged 11.7 points and 5.4 assists in 506 NBA games for Memphis, Houston and Toronto.


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This article seeks to serve as a catch-all point for the five jurisdictions in Australia who are small enough to not warrant a resident bishop. The largest is the Romanian Orthodox Church.
Bulgarian Eastern Orthodox Diocese in the USA, Canada and Australia
- Number of Parishes: Three in Australia.
- Hierarch: Metropolitan Joseph of the USA, Canada and Australia.
- Began: First parish in 1950.
- Sydney: St John of Rila Bulgarian Eastern Orthodox Church. [1][2]
- Melbourne: Sts Cyril and Methodius Bulgarian Eastern Orthodox Church. [3]
- Adelaide: St Petka Bulgarian Eastern Orthodox Church. [4]
Moscow Patriarchate in Australia
- Number of Parishes: Three in Australia (Melbourne, Sydney, Newcastle).
- Hierarch: Metropolitan Kyril of Smolensk and Kaliningrad, Head of Department of External Church Relations, Patriarchate of Moscow and All Russia
- Began: First parish in 1988 (Blacktown-Sydney); second parish in Melbourne; third parish in 1996 (Mayfield-Newcastle)
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- Number of Parishes: Two in Australia (one in Sydney, one in Brisbane). The former OCA parish at Bankstown is now part of the Antiochian Orthodox Archdiocese of Australia and New Zealand
- Hierarch: Metropolitan Herman of Washington and New York, administrator of the Parishes in Australia
- Began: 1971, in ROCOR schism.
Polish Orthodox Church in Australia
- Number of Parishes: One in Australia.
- Hierarch: unknown
- Began: 1971, in ROCOR schism.
Romanian Orthodox Church in Australia and New Zealand
- Number of Parishes: Five in Australia, one in New Zealand.
- Hierarch: Metropolitan Nicolae of Banat, exarch for all Orthodox Romanians in the diaspora.
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Past Perseid Meteor Showers
The Perseid Meteor Shower happens annually around Aug. 11 and 12. It's the result of debris left over from the comet Swift-Tuttle in 1862.
Now is the time to grab your loved ones, a sleeping bag and a camera, and head away from the city lights for one of the largest meteor showers we has seen in years.
Though Comet Swift-Tuttle won't be visible during this shower, as it is too far from the sun to be seen with even the most powerful telescopes, dust sloughing off from the 17-mile-wide comet will produce the Perseid meteor shower through the end of the month.
We've collected some beautiful pictures of the past Perseid meteor showers and made a slide show and a video slideshow. Enjoy.
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On track: Q & A with O.A.R.-men
Their name might be somewhat unwieldy, but O.A.R. no doubt still maintains that "Of A Revolution" is an appropriate moniker– even if MTV.com has likened their "jangly pop and sing-along melodies" to the Dave Matthews Band.
Yet, thanks perhaps to a liberal in-concert taping policy (hey, that sounds familiar) and four studio albums, the young rockers have been on a steady climb from scrappy regional act to college radio favorite– to today's unlikely pop-culture darlings.
O.A.R. played Charlottesville below the radar in 2002 as a student favorite. Since then, they've managed to grow into a formidable rock force while retaining their indie credibility by releasing a string of albums on their own Everfine Records label. They report selling 826,881 albums, with the last one selling 182,000.
However, they've recently come under the management umbrella of Charlottesville's own Coran Capshaw and signed to Atlantic Records, which is releasing the upcoming album, Stories of a Stranger.
Recorded at Crystalphonic earlier in the summer and produced by Talking Heads guitarist Jerry Harrison, Stories is due October 4. The title's appropriate since the band still writes music that germinates thematically in the short stories written by frontman Marc Roberge.
Back in May, the Hook shared a few words with guitarist Richard On and bassist Benj Gershman about their surprising growth, their unconventional creative process, and the role that Charlottesville might play in it all.
The Hook: You're here working on a new studio album, but it seems like you've released a whole lot of live albums along the way.
On: When we were making our deal, we wanted to make sure we had that option. For every studio record, we put out a live record.
The Hook: Given that you've had the experience of working, touring, and recording in much larger markets, how has the small town experience been?
On: Live and studio are two totally different worlds, and we're trying to break into the studio side of things. We feel very comfortable on stage, and we're very comfortable with what we do live, but we've never actually felt that same comfort in the studio. The last record we made was kind of awkward.
The Hook: Is there anything Charlottesville evident in this album?
On: I think the fact that it seems pretty laid back, it's relaxing, it doesn't seem like a very fast-paced town.
The Hook: How much of the record was done here?
On: We've done basic rhythm tracks and a little bit of vocals. You kind of want to get the basis of the song before you start adding on different colors, like vocals and sax.
The Hook: Do you think your college appeal is still in place?
On: I hope so. One of the ways we figure out how our appeal is doing is by touring.
Gershman: A lot of our fans travel, so there's no way to tell if they're local.
On: Just from going out and talking to people, it seems like there's an audience here.
The Hook: How long do you think it will be before you're too big for Starr Hill?
On: There are not too many places to play, are there? Starr Hill, and then there was Trax– we played that way back in the day.
Gershman: Are there any other bigger venues?
The Hook: There's a new large venue on the far side of the downtown mall.
Gershman: This seems like a music-oriented town. I couldn't imagine a place like that not doing well.
On: Otherwise, to get a decent large place to play, you have to be hired by the school.
Gershman: And the school, probably, does only a couple of shows each year.
The Hook: How has the creative process changed over the years?
On: I think we're just more confident now.
Gershman: We take it a lot more seriously.
On: A lot of the songs come from these short stories that [vocalist Marc Roberge] has been writing since high school, and there are a lot of characters in the first two stories and recurring themes that just came from his crazy imagination.
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From yesterday's thread…..to an idea……to ZMalfoy's resourcefulness and writing skills…and here we go! Thank you to all the creative hearts and minds. You guys are something else (a very nice "something else"). This thread will be like Our Treehouse, The Chapel, Our Mission and Heroes Contact List: a permanent place to come any time you have ideas, questions or comments that fit within what follows, which was prepared by ZMalfoy. Thank you all!
Preparedness 101: The Very Basics
by ZMalfoy
Since there was some interest in the subject of preparedness, let's start a thread for reference for the Tree Dwelling Community.
Since we all have different info, I'll start with the basics. There will be some (optional!) homework. Anyone who has any tips, advice, corrections, stories, links, etc., is invited to share them in the comments. There will be questions, too, for the community to answer, which may become posts of their own in the future. One caveat: Since the writer and blog are based in the U.S., it will be written from a U. S. point of view. If you live elsewhere, adjust the information and feel free to share with us the variables in things you are dealing with.
1) What are we supposed to be preparing for?
2) Where do I start?
What are we preparing for?
Short answer: Life.
Slightly longer answer: Anything that could happen to disrupt our fun–anything from house troubles to sickness to The End Of The World As We Know It (aka TEOTWAWKI). Maybe economic collapse, maybe natural disasters, maybe an epidemic or terrorism. This can be a bit hard to handle, so a few things to keep in mind as we begin:
1) The emergency you face will not be the one you prepared for. This is the prepper's corollary to Murphy's Law. If you're ready and waiting for the next flu epidemic, you'll get an earthquake. If you're ready for an earthquake, you'll get terrorism. If terrorism, you'll lose your job and live off your food storage for a few months while working at Starbucks to pay the mortgage. Luckily, much in the way of prepping overlaps–it's just the details and the particular tinfoil-hat designs that differ. So, if you're prepping with Economic Armageddon in mind, and you see someone freaking out about the New Madrid Fault line, it's okay–you're both getting ready for things going pear-shaped.
2) Sometimes, the asteroid hits your house. Sometimes, even if you prep to the nines, all that work will go up in smoke. Realize that. Even if you have a "retreat location"–it's the retreat that gets hit. In other words–don't put all the eggs in one basket. But have the humility to realize that still, sometimes, The Schumer Hits The Fan (TSHTF). It's for this reason that many people consider skills to be the most important part of preparing, with stockpiling coming after. If circumstances make you a refugee, knowing how to sew, grow crops, preserve food, work with wood or metal will be far more valuable than great skill with Excel. Not that Excel isn't useful–but in a grid-down situation, your ability to grow tomatoes and weld metal will be far more valuable.
3) Never stop enjoying life. You know the stereotype, and maybe you've run into the real thing. Guys who get so into the mode of preparing against the horrors of the future that they forget about living today. Don't be that guy. Do what you can, as you can and enjoy the blessings God showers you with every day.
4) You will never be entirely self-sufficient. No man is an island, it is said, and this is true. One desires to become as self-sufficient as possible, but you will always need someone else, for some reason or another. As a single chick myself, I'm really coming to appreciate how much I can get done in one day–even on a Saturday. One more person could double that workload. A Team would be invaluable. So talk to your spouse or your family. This is sometimes hard–people don't understand it. But many preps result in frugality–so talk about the economy, look at the fate of northern Japan. Get a team, if you can. Network with neighbors, with people online, with extended family. On the other hand, remember Operational Security (OPSEC). Don't tell the neighbors about your food storage, and make sure the kids or spouse don't either. Instead, try to subtly nudge the neighbors in that direction without letting them know where the food will be if it all goes to crap. Talk with them about gardening, the price of groceries, etc. You know your neighbors–you'll know the best balance.
5) Every little step helps. Just go, one thing at a time. Do what you can, as you can. Every small thing put away for an emergency, every bit of skill, it all adds up. Every bag of rice, can of tomatoes or tuna is one more meal that you and yours won't be hungry. Every skill is one more thing you can do, not just for yourselves, but for others if needed.
So what should you prepare for? Well, there are (0verall) two different types of emergencies: Acts of God and Acts of Man.
Acts of God: Look at your geographic region–what is your area prone to? What weather or other phenomena happens or has happened on record? Drought? Hurricane? Tornadoes? Blizzards? Floods? Earthquake? Dust storms? If it has happened on record, it can happen again. Do you live near the New Madrid Fault line, or any of the West Coast fault lines? Is there seismic activity anywhere within a 2-3 day drive? If a local volcano blows its top, where will the ash fall? If your house may be affected, this is something to prepare for. Granted, if the Yellowstone Caldera up and explodes (as it has in the past) everyone in the U.S. east of Yellowstone is screwed. But this is not the most likely scenario. Start with the most likely event, of whatever scale.
As for the Acts of Men: What dumb stuff can people get up to around where you live? Is there a government or military facility which might be subject to terrorist attack? Is there a plant or other places that houses toxic chemicals that might spring a leak (deliberate or accidental)? I live just Northeast of DC, which is often downwind from the city. Therefore, I have a stash of Potassium Iodide, just in case Iran finally gets the bomb and gets it into the hands of a bad person who gets it to DC.
Finally, what particular vulnerabilities do you or yours face? Asthma? Diabetes? Physical impairment? Mental impairment? What happens if you lose electricity?
Homework Assignment #1) Make notes on three potential areas of concern: Likely/possible Acts of God, possible Acts of Man, and Personal Vulnerabilities. Let's look at this danger and face it head on. Keep in mind, however, there are some things you cannot prepare for. (See #2 above)
Now this can start getting overwhelming real fast. If you know what the vulnerabilities are, how do you even start to address preparing for these things?
There are two ways to help organize: The Rule of Threes, and Start with Short, Move to Long.
The Rule of Threes
- 3 Minutes without Air
- 3 Hours without Shelter
- 3 Days without Water
- 3 Weeks without Food
I would add, you cannot survive a moment without God. This rule gives a good hierarchy for where to focus your efforts. When I was starting with preparedness, this rule helped me focus on what to get first. Let's look at each one:
3 Minutes without Air–when would this come into play? Well, if your car is sinking in water, if a tsunami is hitting, if there's a chemical attack near you. Also possibly involved in air–biological attack or natural pandemic. So, how do you prepare for these things? Have a device in your car to get you out should you find yourself in this situation–Mythbusters had a great show on this, and I recommend you find it on YouTube. If it is possible that your area gets hit with a tsunami, the best thing is to be ready to run like hell at a moment's notice. In the case of Chemical attack, first, know the direction of the wind, and get out of "downwind." Second, a wet bandana is ok as a line of defense if you've got nothing else. Even better are N95 masks with respirators. Or, you can go truly survivalist and get some gasmasks with filters. It's up to you how hardcore you go.
3 Hours without Shelter–this really has to do with keeping your body temperature right. Cody Lundin has an entire book dedicated to this one thing–98.6 Degrees: The Art of Keeping Your Ass Alive! I don't have this one myself, but I was impressed with another of his books, When All Hell Breaks Loose: Stuff You Need to Survive When Disaster Strikes. In short, however, this includes clothing, housing, bedding, air circulation and even water. How do you stay warm? How do you stay cool? Naked in a blizzard on the plains is not the situation you want to be in. What shelter backups do you have? Tarps? Tents? Sleeping bags? Do you have a way to heat your shelter in winter?
3 Days without Water–FEMA (and others) recommends one gallon of water per person per day. Some people debate between water storage and water filters. I say both. Store water–the water in parts of Japan is testing for high radiation, so stored water would be better in that situation. On the other hand, you can only store so much water. There are filters (kinda pricey) that will filter out almost all known biologic problems, and many chemical. Even so, do you have a backup way of boiling water to be sure it's safe? In a longer case scenario, will you be able to water your garden? Will you have clean water not just for drinking, but for cleaning wounds? Will you be able to keep your surroundings moderately sanitary?
3 Weeks without Food–Food storage is a Big Deal right now, and I'm thankful for it. Lack of food can cause real social problems–the more people have even a slightly bigger buffer, the better. How long will the food in your pantry last you? Can you prepare it without electricity? Does it need refrigeration if opened?
Assignment #2) Inventory what you have on hand, right now, that addresses each of the parts of the Rule of Threes. You may be surprised at what you already have! Add a Medical Inventory to those lists as well. This inventory will give you a good idea of where you already are, right now. This will show you your holes–so many people forget about water!–and will help you get a handle on where to focus future efforts.
Finally, when thinking about what you need, start with short term emergencies. If the car breaks down, if the power goes out in a storm, etc. Use these preps as the foundation for longer term preparation. Start with 3 days food backup, then a week, then a month, then 6 months, etc…..Remember: Every little bit helps. Get CPR Certified. Take a First Aid course. Learn to can food.
A last word for this post: When you are prepping, you start by prepping just for yourself and your family. But ultimately, you are preparing for everyone. You prepare to ride through emergencies, but also to be able to help people–your neighbors, your friends, your community–when it counts the most. Knowing that, but for the Grace of God, it could be you that was the refugee, you prepare to be able to offer some measure of assistance when TSHTF. Be ready to be a shelter for others–but to do that, you need to have a shelter to provide!
Final Assignment! Identify one skill you would like to learn that would be of use in a long or short term emergency. Following posts will go into more detail on various subjects.
Good resources on the net are Beprepared.com. YouTube, FEMA.gov., Redcross.org., survivalblog.com, the survivalmom.com, and the forums at 222.mrssurvival.com.
Please share any info, questions, tips and links in the comments below. Your input is essential.


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Monday, August 29, 2011
You can teach an old dog new tricks.
Last August, in a fit of furry over a plant stripped by a hungry caterpillar, I smashed the lovely critter. Later, I found out that I had, in fact, killed a swallowtail. Trust me, I felt like a terrible person.
A few days ago, I spotted this beautiful fellow, also very hungry, on a cherry tomato plant that I had grown from seed. Needless to say, I'm rather attached to the plant. By the time I noticed, he (or she) had stripped most of the leaves and nibbled every tomato. Thankfully, I held back. "Oh what the hell," I thought. "Just go for it.
I'm loving that one small seed I planted many months ago helped such a creature fly away. I'm on the lookout for the swallowtail. I've been seeing several around the okra.
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Friday, August 19, 2011
Sweet Gum Tree Takes Charge: Part Two
Everyone keeps telling me how lucky we are that the Sweet Gum feel on the courtyard roof instead of our bedroom. And yes, of course, this is true. But here's the dark side of the tale: The first photo is my vegetable
garden before the crane showed up. The second photo is the vegetable garden after the crane showed up. The only route to the Sweet Gum was through the vegetable bed.
This was heartbreaking for me, as I grew this garden from seed and was particularly enamored with my heirloom lemon cucumbers and pole beans which I've nurtured along since April. I tried to transplant them, but of course, since most vegetables are like weeds, they refused. Pull them up, and they are headed for the compost.
And by the way, the Sweet Gum was 10 stories high (as in 100 feet) not five stories high. Clearly, I have no idea how huge my trees are, even though I've been looking at them for 16 years.
Happily, the okra plants and pepper plants did transplant remarkably well. And, on the plus side, I'm thinking how nice it will be to plant a fall garden on time. I can taste the kale and turnip greens.
Meanwhile, the skyline canopy of our backyard trees is quite different with more evening sun and a nicer view of our magnolia tree. This means more sun in the courtyard, which is too hot in the summer but beautiful in the fall. And so it goes.
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Thursday, August 18, 2011
Sweet Gum Tree Takes Charge
There is a Sweet Gum tree that stands about three feet away from my bedroom wall: majestic, probably five stores tall, a lovely complement to the red oak next door, and a royal pain in the ass, because it drops hundreds and hundreds of prickly balls that are anything but sweet. I bitch about those balls constantly and worry that the tree will one day fall into my house. Today, the tree came down.
I was in my bedroom when I heard about 10 seconds of ping...ping...ping that sounded at first like gun shots and then, I thought, "Is that a firecracker?" At that moment, I was terrified and ran down the hall, herding Grif with me. By the time I got to the middle of the house, Tony was aghast, looking into the backyard and saying, "Oh my God, a tree just fell on the house.
Yes, indeed.
Half of the tree fell on the roof of our courtyard, but as my neighbor Lil pointed out, "It hit the best possible place." The tree missed the main part of the house, and the fabulous steel posts that hold up the courtyard roof kept the tree from smashing into our beautiful serpentine brick wall. Still, it's a mess.
The tree removal crew arrives at 7 a.m. tomorrow, but Jarred from Woodland Trees had this bit of info: He blamed the ivy that had wrapped it's way up the tree. "The ivy adds a tremendous amount of weight to the tree," he said. "I see this at least three times a week."
So there you have it. Ivy is bad. Don't let it grow on anything.
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Monday, August 15, 2011
Watermelon Update
After I posted the first picture of my new watermelon, Susan said she couldn't see the fruit. Well, Susan: Check out this photo! The melon seems to grow two inches a day. Griff and I admire it every morning before coffee, and it's smiles all around.
The cherry tomatoes are also coming on strong, and the lemon cucumbers which I grew from seed have finally sprouted a little one. I've had tons of blossoms all summer, but until this week, no cukes.
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Thursday, August 4, 2011
In praise of patience.
I've been checking my monster watermelon vine for weeks now, hunting among the leaves for the first sign of fruit. (The vine is ready to take over the street!) This week has been the hottest of the summer, and the rest of my vegetable has given up. But not the watermelon vine.
I'm happy to report that I found the first melon, bursting out of it's bright yellow flower. I cushioned the tiny fruit with pine needles and watered the plant in the morning and the afternoon. I'm thinking watermelons might be the only plants in Memphis that is happy to be hot.
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Wednesday, July 27, 2011
Finally! Picking tomatoes
Now come on! Aren't these little tomatoes just beautiful? They are my first tomato picks of the summer, and I'm particularly proud of these beauties
because I grew the plants from seed. They called "Sugar Cherry" from Southern Exposure Seed Exchange, a variety appreciated for its intense flavor and sweetness. I ate mine whole with a sprinkle of kosher salt: delicious!
This next photo is our first okra blossom, my favorite vegetable to grow because the flowers are so beautiful and the okra pods appear overnight and are ready to pick in a day or two. The bees also love okra. Look closely and you can see a bee nestled inside the bloom.
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Monday, July 25, 2011
Project No. 1: Birdbath Resurrected
The heat in Memphis has been particularly brutal this summer, settling in a month early and staying in the triple digits for days on end. Even for me (I actually like to sweat), the heat has stymied the hard yard work as keeping the beds watered is an ongoing and endless task.
To compensate, I'm focusing on small garden projects that don't involve weeding. On Saturday, I scrubbed out empty clay pots and seed trays from the spring that I'd stacked on a piece of lawn furniture. Now the pots and the trays are stored neatly in my shed.
On Sunday, I resurrected my cooper birdbath, cleaning it and filling it with fresh water. I'd stopped filling the birdbath a few years ago when the West Nile virus made me paranoid about mosquitoes. Now I'm more worried about the birds dropping dead from the heat. Plus, I love the way it looks next to my Japanese maple.
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Chapter XVI of Cesare Beccaria's work on Crimes and Punishments (1764) is devoted to the issue of torture. Here he methodically lays out the modern, enlightened case against such practices, calling them cruel and based upon the "right of power" not justice
No man can be judged a criminal until he be found guilty; nor can society take from him the public protection, until it have been proved that he has violated the conditions on which it was granted. What right, then, but that of power, can authorise the punishment of a citizen, so long as there remains any doubt of his guilt? The dilemma is frequent. Either he is guilty, or not guilty. If guilty, he should only suffer the punishment ordained by the laws, and torture becomes useless, as his confession is unnecessary. If he be not guilty, you torture the innocent; for, in the eye of the law, every man is innocent, whose crime has not been proved.
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Perhaps it is no coincidence that Beccaria's An Essay on Crimes and Punishments appeared in 1764, the same year as Voltaire's Philosophical Dictionary appeared in France. Voltaire's work was an attempt to expose the religious intolerance at the heart of the French state, and torture was a common tool used by the church and state to punish or investigate heretics. In this English edition we have Voltaire's introduction as well as the text by Beccaria. A double bonus. Beccaria may well wonder why there is torture in the "enlightened" 18th century; what would he say about torture in the 21st century?


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Daniel Martin L'14 talks about Penn's unique focus on cross-disciplinary education and how his JD/MBA experience is preparing him for the future.
Prof. Christopher Yoo highlights Penn Law's strength in interdisciplinary programs and demonstrates how his own work bridges multiple disciplines.


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The number of Americans seeking unemployment benefits has fallen sharply for a fourth straight week, in a sign the US job market may be improving.
The Labor Department says weekly applications for unemployment benefits fell 29,000 last week to a seasonally adjusted 343,000, the lowest in two months. It is the second-lowest total this year.
Applications are a proxy for layoffs, so the drop indicates that companies are cutting fewer jobs. But employers also need to increase hiring to rapidly push down the 7.7 per cent unemployment rate.
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Yesterday, we talked about the ten second rule, which you can use to protect yourself against impulse buys that are well within the limits of your pocket money. We're talking about things like a pack of gum, an inexpensive board game, or something like that.
As I know all too well, though, many of the purchases we make are much larger than that one. I'll give you an example: our blender.
We use our blender for a lot of things: making smoothies, beating eggs, making pesto, and so on. A while back, one of our beautiful children did something incomprehensible to the blender (as children sometimes do), rendering it very difficult to use. You could still use it, but you had to hold something over the top of it while also holding the entire machine firmly in place.
Our initial instinct was to just rush right out and replace the blender with a similar model. It did a decent job, though it would often leave big chunks in the blender and had other little design issues that we didn't like. It would also take forever to blend certain things.
Instead, we made the decision to buy a better blender.
Now, we could have easily still ran to the store and bought a better blender, but the decision to buy a better one meant that the cost of the blender likely jumped up into the "more than pocket money" category. We weren't going to just buy a $20 blender.
Instead, we gave it a month. During that month, we researched a lot of blenders. We did some evaluations of what features we actually needed and which ones were superfluous. We settled on a few models and did a ton of price comparisons.
In the end, we wound up with a top-notch blender for far less than we ever expected to pay for it (meaning we did not pay anything close to Amazon's price for that blender).
That month did a lot of things for us.
We had time to figure out if this was something we really wanted to do. Did we really need a nicer blender? Could we just use a simple replacement for the one we already had? Did we need one at all? These questions are often enough to talk you out of an unnecessary purchase. Try doing this with, say, an iPod Touch, and you'll find yourself not spending $200 or so on a portable music player.
Obviously, this question didn't fill all of our thoughts for the month, but it was something that we thought about.
We had time to actually identify the specific item we were looking for. We identified all of the specific features we wanted as well as features we deemed unnecessary. We were able to research a lot of models using tools like Consumer Reports and, eventually, we were able to whittle our choices down to a handful.
We had time to carefully shop for the right item. Instead of just charging ahead once we had an item in mind, we spent some time shopping around for that item – and waiting for the right price. We set up some notifications for prices on the items we were interested in and looked at a lot of different options.
Eventually, the blender we picked up popped up with a large discount, so we pounced.
Give yourself thirty days to go through this process. Most of the time, you'll talk yourself right out of the purchase, which is a good thing. Even when you don't, your research and price investigation will often lead you toward getting the best item at a very nice price, rather than just getting whatever item happens to be at your local department store.
You should also set a price threshold for the thirty day rule. What do you consider to be the line between an impulse purchase out of your pocket money and a more significant purchase? For me, it's usually between $20 and $40, depending on how much of my alloted "pocket money" for the month that I've spent. It's going to be different for each person depending on their income level, behavior level, and other factors.
This post is part of a yearlong series called "365 Ways to Live Cheap (Revisited)," in which I'm revisiting the entries from my book 365 Ways to Live Cheap," which is available at Amazon and at bookstores everywhere. Images courtesy of Brittany Lynne Photography, the proprietor of which is my "photography intern" for this project.


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Ruth E. Lucas, passed away on December 9, 2013 at St. Anthony Community Hospital. She was 69 years old.
Born on July 27, 1944 in the Bronx, NY, she was the daughter of Arline (Nigerio) Pupello and the late Louis Pupello.
She was married to James Lucas for 47 years.
A long time Orange County resident, Ruth retired as a Customer Service Representative with Time Warner Cable in Middletown, and was working as a Lunch Duty Monitor at St. Stephen/St. Edwards School in Warwick.
She was known as "Nanny" to her beloved grandchildren and "Aunt Bunny" to her nieces and nephews.
She is survived by her husband, James Lucas of Warwick; her mother, Arline Pupello of Warwick; her children: James Lucas, Jr. of Warwick, Jennifer Lucas of Warwick, and Louis Neumar of Anaheim, CA; three grandchildren: Gavin Fryer, Ava Fryer and Sofia Fryer, all of Warwick. She is also survived by two sisters, Josephine Gibson of Campbell Hall and Geraldine Magnaldi of Montauk, NY, and many nieces, nephews and cousins.
Visitation will be on Thursday, December 12th, from 2 to 4 and 7 to 9 p.m. at Lazear-Smith & Vander Plaat Memorial Home, 17 Oakland Ave., Warwick. Funeral Mass will be at 10 a.m. on Friday at St. Stephens RC Church, followed by interment in Orange County Veterans Cemetery, Goshen.
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Teachers' unions are key players in many high-performing nations
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"This International Summit on the Teaching Profession is an historic event. Eighteen nations—many of the highest performing and fastest improving school systems—are coming together to share in open, honest and productive dialogue about how to improve their education systems. This global meeting gives us a rare opportunity to exchange ideas and experiences with other countries.
"Many of the countries that earned top scores in the 2009 Program for International Student Assessment (PISA), such as Finland and Canada, are known for their high regard for teachers and their profession. These countries promote high standards and rigorous preparation for entry into the teaching profession, and then they support their teachers with ongoing quality professional development.
"It's worth noting that these countries also have strong teachers' unions, underscoring the fact that unions do have an important and positive role to play both in upholding the profession and transforming schools.
"Here and in other countries, collective bargaining has proven to be an effective means to bring together management, teachers and school support professionals who use the negotiations process to identify problems and agree upon solutions. The bottom line is that when educators and others collaborate, students benefit."
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As the battle over Medicaid expansion rages in the states, supporters of expansion have dusted off an age-old favorite in making the case for taking federal dollars. They say: If our state doesn't take the money, those dollars will go to some other state instead.
Happily, in this instance that is not true. When a state declines to expand Medicaid coverage to more people, no other state will receive its share of funds and federal spending declines. Based on figures from the Congressional Budget Office and analysis by the Kaiser Family Foundation, Washington was expected to spend roughly $950 billion expanding Medicaid between 2014 and 2022. Each state that declines to expand Medicaid relieves strain on the overall federal budget for this entitlement.
State governments generally don't have much of an impact on the federal budget. But there was a gift for fiscally conservative state lawmakers tucked into last summer's U.S. Supreme Court decision on the Affordable Care Act. In National Federation of Independent Business v. Sebelius, the court ruled that Congress cannot coerce states into expanding Medicaid by threatening to withhold federal dollars for a state's existing program. This ruling effectively gave state policy makers the unique opportunity to veto hundreds of billions of dollars in new federal spending.
Supporters of Medicaid expansion also say that one state opting out won't make a difference—that the amount of forgone money is a mere drop in the fiscal bucket. But states joining together to say no to Medicaid expansion will make a significant dent in the federal budget, and many already have.
Using figures compiled by Kaiser and our own research at the state level, the Goldwater Institute estimates that the federal tab for Medicaid expansion has been reduced by more than $424 billion in new federal spending over the next eight years thanks to the 18 states that have already opted out. If the 12 still-undecided states also decide to opt out, there will be an additional $185 billion in savings.
The more than $609 billion in total savings from these 30 states would represent over 50% of the expected federal spending on the Medicaid expansion. A drop in the bucket? That's more than seven times the $85 billion in 2013 sequester cuts and more than half the projected federal deficit for this fiscal year.
In addition to protecting the federal budget, states that decline to expand their Medicaid coverage will protect their own budgets as well. States such as Arizona that voluntarily expanded their Medicaid programs in the past have faced much higher costs than expected. In 2005 alone, the program originally was projected to cost Arizona $315 million, but the actual cost that year was over $1.3 billion.
The year 2005 wasn't an anomaly. Arizona's cost projections for the last expansion, from 2001 until the expansion was frozen in 2011, were off by over 400% each year. It is likely that the expansion proposed under the Affordable Care Act will have similar results for states that choose to expand their Medicaid programs, which Arizona may or may not do in the future.
It is highly unlikely that the federal government will keep its promise to pay for 90% of the cost of covering the health care of new enrollees. The Obama administration has already proposed cutting the funding available to states, including in its proposed budgets for 2011 and 2012.
States would be wise to remember that those who rely on assurances of federal dollars are often chasing fool's gold. A recent example is the Individuals with Disabilities Education Act, where Congress promised federal funding to the tune of 40% of program costs after 1982 but today funds only 17%.
State policy makers fed up with federal spending finally have a chance to do something about it. Although many governors regularly take to the airwaves to call out Washington for its fiscal profligacy, they will be complicit if they go along with the expansion of Medicaid.
Several governors who are usually proponents of fiscal responsibility—including New Jersey's Chris Christie, Florida's Rick Scott, Ohio's John Kasich and Michigan's Rick Snyder, among others—are ignoring the cliff on the horizon and stepping on the gas when they should be hitting the brake. With the country running a nearly trillion dollar annual deficit, it is time to make the hard decisions required to balance the books.
Ms. Corieri is a health-care policy analyst at the Goldwater Institute in Phoenix.


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Sen. Jeff Merkley (D-Ore.), who's complained about being kept in the dark about a key aspect of the Obama administration's recently-disclosed surveillance efforts, was offered a briefing on the subject late last year but passed it up, a source familiar with the planned briefing told POLITICO on Wednesday.
On November 27, 2012, a high-level group including Director of National Intelligence James Clapper, then-National Security Division chief at the Justice Department Lisa Monaco, DNI General Counsel Bob Litt and National Security Agency General Counsel Rajesh De gathered on Capitol Hill to brief Merkley about the government's use of Section 702 — a legal provision used to set up the PRISM surveillance system disclosed last week by Britain's Guardian newspaper, according to the source.
Sens. Ron Wyden (D-Ore.) and Mark Udall (D-Colo.) were also present for the classified session which Merkley had requested, said the source who asked not to be named.
However, Merkley showed up at the planned briefing and announced he couldn't stay, before departing for a Hardball interview, according to the source.
A spokesman for Merkley, Jamal Raad, confirmed the general outlines of the episode, but said Wednesday that the senator had no sense that the briefers planned to convey something highly significant.
"Senator Merkley is deeply concerned about the privacy of American citizens and the scope of government data collection, and he has sought out extensive information in that regard. In this case, Senator Merkley thought the meeting would be on an area that he had already been briefed on, and when conflicts arose he missed the meeting," Raad said.
Merkley has been outspoken in recent days in challenging President Barack Obama's claims that members of Congress were fully briefed on the programs revealed in leaks of "top secret" documents.
"This second thing which we just have learned about called PRISM, I had no idea about, I don't know how many people knew about it in Congress, but I suspect a very small number on the intelligence committees. And so when the president says all, I think he said all members of Congress, or full disclosure to all your members, well I think very small number of Senators and Congressman have full the details on these programs," Merkley said on MSNBC last week.
"I think very few outside the Intelligence Committee, and in terms of the PRISM program which I don`t -- I think very few ever heard of, I certainly never heard of it, I doubt that the more than the intelligence committee would have known about that," he added in another appearance on the network.
An aide to Merkley said Wednesday that at the time of the planned November briefing the senator was deeply involved in a fight over Senate filibuster rules and received no indication the briefers had major news to share.
"There was no reason to believe this briefing was going to be about some new, vast top-secret program," said the aide. "It was the product of a couple of letters back and for between a few senators and the administration. They had no mention of any type of PRISM program."
Since last week's leaks, Clapper has publicly acknowledged that the PRISM program involved the U.S. government accessing internet, e-mail and social media firms' data on foreigners outside the U.S.
However, the Merkley aide stood by the senator's claim that the program wasn't widely briefed to Congress. "Why was the only opportunity to learn about a program that all Congress supposedly knew about a special briefing he and a few senators asked for?" the aide asked.
The aborted briefing was first reported Wednesday by BuzzFeed. However, this item was independently reported.
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The Titanic fired distress rockets some 600 feet into the air—but they appeared to be much lower relative to the ship. Those aboard the Californian, unsure of what they saw, ignored the signals. When the Titanic sank, at 2:20 a.m. April 15, they thought the ship might be simply sailing away.


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Lyn Collins - Check Me Out If You Don't Know Me By Now Original James Brown Funk LP
Lyn Collins - Check Me Out If You Don't Know Me By Now
Label: People Records
Catalog#: PE 6605
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Format: Vinyl, LP, Album
Record VG++
Cover Ringwear, cornerwear cut corner top right ( see pic)
Country: US
Released: 1975
Genre: Funk / Soul
Style: Soul, Funk
Producer - James Brown
A1 A Foggy Day 4:02
A2 To Each His Own 3:08
A3 Put It On The Line 3:25
A4 Mr. Big Stuff 3:59
A5 How Long Can I Keep It Up 5:30
B1 Baby Don't Do It 3:25
B2 Backstabbers 5:40
B3 Rock Me Again & Again & Again & Again... 3:28
B4 Try A Little Tenderness 3:10
B5 If You Don't Know Me By Now 5:22
Nicknamed "The Female Preacher," Lyn Collins was discovered in the early '70s by James Brown, who was making the transition to the hardest funk phase of his career. Collins sent Brown a demo tape and he responded by essentially putting her on standby in 1970, when Marva Whitney left the Revue. Former vocalist Vicki Anderson elected to rejoin, however, so Brown instead invited Collins to come to Georgia for a recording session in early 1971, which produced the single Wheel of Life.
By the end of that year, Anderson was ready to leave again, and Collins officially joined the James Brown Revue. In 1972, Brown's People Records label released Collins' self-penned single Think (About It); produced by Brown, it became her first and biggest hit and made her the most commercially successful female singer in Brown's camp. Collins' first full-length album, also titled Think (About It), was released later in the year.
Collins continued to record singles for Brown through 1973, also fulfilling her heavy touring commitments as a member of the Revue. Collins' second album, Check It Out if You Don't Know Me by Now, was released in 1975.
This is the mellower of her two LPs for the People label, though still pretty fantastic. At some level, it seems like Lyn is taking on the rest of the soul industry, showing them that she can kick some major booty on her interpretations of hits like Backstabbers, If You Don't Know Me By Now, Try A Little Tenderness, and Mr Big Stuff, which is one of her best funky tracks ever.
She also shines extremely well on the original cuts, especially the funky classic Rock Me Again & Again & Again, plus the often-overlooked mellow soul groovers To Each His Own, Put It On The Line, and How Long Can I Keep It Up.
and soulful funky songs like A Foggy Day..
Lyn Collins - Put It On The Line - Live @ Moods Zurich
Has a distinctive string melody..
RIP. all the funk legends are dying one by one.

Lyn Collins and James Brown - Backstabbers
This is an outstanding example of the way James Brown could take another group's song, change it up and make it his own!!! No one else could do this as well as he did.
Wicked cover off Backstabbers (originally by the O Jays)

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The current statistics show that Breast cancer is the number one cause of death among Thai women. During the life of Thai women, 1 in 10 people have a chance of breast cancer. Thai women die of breast cancer an average of 12 per day, more than half of breast cancer patients in Thailand. It is also found that men are at risk for breast cancer.
Current causes of breast cancer are not known. Early detection and treatment gives the patient a chance.
To further help with breast cancer in Thailand we created the Pink Park Village.
'Pink Park' is a purpose built care home which will be open to patients from all over Thailand. It will not only support the poorest patients, it will also help hospitals nationally by relieving the queue for acute beds. So often patients cannot be discharged because they have no carers and their 'home' is the floor of a slum.
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And the nurses are ready to serve with care and reach the mind of the patient. They offer patients a high quality of life to the end.
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There are many underprivileged patients in the province. We allow them to be treated in Bangkok with chemotherapy and radiation. It takes several weeks and it is a difficult period for the patient because of the weak body. These patients lack the funds to afford these treatments.
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