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Senate passes Medicaid expansion on bipartisan voteBy GARRY RAYNO
State House Bureau
March 06. 2014 1:54PM
CONCORD – With an 18-5 bipartisan vote, the Senate Thursday approved a plan to provide private insurance for the state's low-income adults paid for by Medicaid funds under the Affordable Care Act.
The vote, which garnered the support of all 11 Democrats and seven of 13 Republicans, came after several hours of debate and the rejection of three amendments that would have significantly changed the program proposed by senate leaders from both parties.
Senate Bill 413 uses the current managed-care Medicaid program, an existing program that pays the private health insurance premium for those on employer plans, and private insurance through the state's health insurance exchange to provide health insurance for an estimated 50,000 state residents.
Supporters said the bill would help those needing health care, providers and the state economy.'
But opponents argued it does little to protect taxpayers and will be unaffordable in coming years.
The bill is expected to be approved by the Democratic-controlled House by early April and sent to Gov. Maggie Hassan, who supports the bill.


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August 26, 2013
Town of Ulster, NY
Adelaide Valle, 86, of Yarmouth St., Town of Ulster died August 26, 2013 at Broadway HealthAlliance.
She was born in Manhattan, a daughter of the late Martin and Carmen Colon Vargas. Adelaide worked as a seamstress for designer, Henri Bendel and as a sewing teacher in New York City. On June 22, 1946 she married Antonio Valle and they moved to this area in 1951.
A parishioner of St. Catherine Laboure Church, Adelaide previously worked at I.B.M., Kingston and as an account clerk at Ulster County Community College at its inception. She belonged to the C.S.E.A.
Loving wife of Antonio Valle who died April 24, 2001; mother of Ronald Valle and his wife, Kathleen of West Hurley, Celeste Valle and her husband, Thomas McManus; grandmother of Jennifer Nicole Valle and Corrine Frances Paul; sister of Martin Vargas and his wife, Helen of Tampa, FL and the late Carmen Vargas; aunt of several nieces and nephews.
Reposing at the Simpson - Gaus Funeral Home, 411 Albany Ave., Kingston on Wednesday from 2 to 4 and 7 to 9 p.m. The funeral procession will form on Thursday at 10 a.m. from the funeral home. A Funeral Mass will be celebrated at St. Catherine Laboure Church at 11 a.m. Interment will follow in Wiltwyck Cemetery.
Memorial contributions may be made to St. Jude Children's Research Hospital, 501 St. Jude Place, Memphis, TN 38105.
Online condolences may be sent to the Valle family by visiting www.SimpsonGaus.com

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Dave D'Onofrio's Patriots Notebook: Odds are, Bucs will stay closeDAVE D'ONOFRIO
September 21. 2013 11:07PM
The oddsmakers - and, by proxy, the bettors - remain bullish on the Patriots in today's game against the Buccaneers. Looking at various point spreads, the consensus predicts New England to win by at least a touchdown, which was also true when those lines were set earlier in the week, and it's not all that surprising, considering the Pats are 2-0 while the Bucs are 0-2.
But those records don't tell the whole story.
Patriots fans need no reminder about how tenuous their two victories have been, the first coming courtesy of a come-from-behind field goal from Stephen Gostkowski in the final seconds, and the second coming despite going scoreless in the second half against the Jets.
They could be winless if just a couple plays had gone different - just as the Bucs could be unbeaten. In both of their losses they've taken a lead into the final minute of play only to see the opposition defeat them with a field goal on the game's final play, the first enabled by a silly penalty that let the Jets get into position for the kick, and the second when they let Drew Brees and the Saints go 54 yards in the final 66 seconds.
What can't be overlooked there, though, is what Tampa's defense had done prior to that against one of football's premier quarterbacks. Before the final drive, the quarterback who ranks third all-time in completion percentage had hit on just 23 of 43 throws, a success rate of just 53 percent, and he had one touchdown with two interceptions.
He'd also been sacked four times, hit on numerous other occasions, and got little respite from a running game that was never allowed to establish itself. The only touchdown Brees' offense produced was a 56-yard completion to tight end Jimmy Graham - who had 10 catches - and that came a week after New York's lone TD came at the end of a drive that forced them to go just 31 yards after an interception.
In the end, good teams usually find a way to win, and not-so-good teams find a way to lose. After just two weeks it's too early to know in which category the Bucs will ultimately belong - but it's plenty of time to see that today should be a challenge for the Patriots.
"I feel like the more I've watched Tampa this week, the more impressed I've been with them," New England Coach Bill Belichick said Friday. "They do a lot of things well: well coached, play really good on defense and they did a good job against New Orleans running the ball, made some big plays in the passing game. A couple plays have hurt them but overall they're doing a lot of things well."
The Bucs boosted their defense in the offseason by adding cornerback Darrelle Revis and safety Dashon Goldson, so Tom Brady and his undermanned receiving corps will have its hands full. And although Tampa has yet to put it together on the other side of scrimmage, they might have as much (if not more) talent on offense as they do defense.
Vincent Jackson is a good, big, strong receiver. If traded this morning, Mike Williams would be the Patriots' best wideout today. Running back Doug Martin is averaging 105 yards per game after going to the Pro Bowl as a rookie last year. Now they get All-Pro guard Carl Nicks back for the first time since the middle of last season, and can play him with Davin Joseph at the other guard for the first time.
Their greatest weakness is the quarterback, as Josh Freeman's regression continues. That position leaves the Bucs vulnerable, and a variety of reports this week suggested there may be friction between Freeman and head coach Greg Schiano, which is said to be part of a bigger dysfunction among the team.
If that's really the case, and those distractions impact the way they've prepared or the way they've played today, perhaps the bookies will wind up being right. Otherwise, the rosters and the results of this early season suggest the final this afternoon will be closer than a touchdown.
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UNDERRATED: Matthew Slater's absence. The Patriots' special teams captain has been ruled out for today's game after breaking his hand in the Week 2 win over the Jets, and that could potentially be a significant loss. Three times on that Thursday night New York elected to not even bother having a man back to field the punt in part because they weren't expecting much of a return because of Slater's coverage skills. With a rookie punter in a game that figures to be heavily influenced by field position, not having their gunner could hurt the Patriots.
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OVERRATED: Familiarity. Belichick and Schiano are friends, a bunch of Patriots played for Schiano at Rutgers, and the teams practiced together during the preseason - but that will all matter little today, compared to execution.
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KEEP AN EYE ON. Rob Gronkowski. Graham had a big game against the Bucs, and the Sunday before that Kellen Winslow Jr. had a touchdown among seven catches. So not only do the Patriots need Gronkowski - who is listed as questionable - to help improve their efficiency in the red zone after converting just two of eight chances into TDs, but the Bucs have been susceptible to tight ends.
Dave D'Onofrio covers the Patriots for the New Hampshire Union Leader and Sunday News. His e-mail address is firstname.lastname@example.com.


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We purchased 4 cell phones with 3 internet access. One was a SIDEKICK. The others were various PDAs. We received notice that on May 31 the agreement with Microsoft and T-Mobile has been severed and all Sidekicks will no longer have internet access. You have to again BUY a new PHONE. Last one cost us $159.00 with a 2 year plan.
Now they say PAY US another $159.00 for ANOTHER phone with ANOTHER 2 year plan. Was this my mistake that they severed their agreement with Microsoft? T-Mobile should supply us with a comparable phone and continue the existing agreement.
Their response. "OUR LEGAL DEPARTMENT HAS EXAMINED THIS and we have no responsibility to provide Internet access to our customers." Yet when we bought the phone they told us we HAD TO BUY 24 MONTHS OF INTERNET. Are there any CLASS ACTION LAWYERS out there who want to make a buck and bring T-Moblie down to earth and be fair???
CALIFORNIA -- What can I say... I made a horrible mistake by entering into a 2 year contract with T-Mobile and purchasing a Sidekick!!! Every time I have had a problem with the Sidekick and I call T-Mobile, I get transferred to their "Sidekick" department. Their Sidekick department has never been able to resolve any problems I've had with the Sidekick, but have always come up with some really lame excuses as to why my Sidekick doesn't work. Of course, it's NEVER their fault!!! When I come back with an answer to their lame excuse, they abruptly suggest that I go to a T-Mobile store, to try to resolve my problem.
When I demand to speak to a customer service manager, I'm told that their policy is that a manager has 48 hours to respond to my problem and that I will receive a call back. Hey, I'm still waiting for about a dozen call backs from managers! About once a month, I send T-Mobile's customer service department an e-mail advising them how lame their service and products are and no surprise, I don't get a response via e-mail either! Bottom line, NEVER EVER use T-Mobile as your cell phone service provider and NEVER purchase any of their phones! You'll be sorry!!!
ROCHESTER,NY -- Okay I purchased the Sidekick 3 back in let's say May of '07. I hadn't even had it that long and was having problems with it so I called T-Mobile 1-800-937-8997 number right to tell them what was going on. I told them how it was acting like it had a demon in it. It would call people for no reason, the light would flash all the time saying I had a voicemail and I didn't and it would vibrate and ring for no reason. So they sent me another one.
To make a long story short after going through my 3rd Sidekick 3 I called T-Mobile to see what they could do for me reminding them that I have been a customer with them for 4 yrs now. These people tell me, "Well all we can do is keep sending you a replaceable Sidekick 3, but we can offer you a Razr - maybe the Sidekick 3 isn't for you." I felt like they had just insulted me. There was a reason why I purchased this Sidekick 3 - why would I downgrade myself for a $50 dollar phone when I paid like $300 hundred.
I purchased this Sidekick because of the features and the Razr does not have them. So the rep tells me, "Well we can offer you something else, but you will have to give T-Mobile $300 dollars." I was like I just paid a lot of money for a phone that I haven't even gotten a chance to enjoy yet and now you saying I have to give more money when I have been without a phone. Thank god I had an old phone that I was able to put a sim card in.
I even tried writing T-Mobile and I even ask was there someone higher I could speak with because I feel like for someone who has been with your service for 4 yrs I should be able to say I want my Sidekick 3 replaced with this type of phone and I shouldn't have to pay extra money. When writing T-Mobile no one ever got back with me and now this being 12-03-07 this is my 6th replaced Sidekick 3.
I really feel like leaving this company, but I am on another contract and I told them it's not about the contract because they told me if I wanted the phone they were going to give me I would be starting my contract over which didn't make any sense to me. I just signed a new one in May and because of your phone problems you wanted me to do it over like in October.
Oh! And this was the kicker. Before I go they tell me, "Well we can give you the number to the Sidekick manufacturing place so they can fix it," so I ask them will they pay for it. You know what T-Mobile told me, "No that is all on your part," so I would have to pay for something that you guys can't fix and be without a phone until it comes back. I am so upset with T-Mobile and to think I used to talk so highly of their services. And the other sad thing about the whole thing. This is the 6th one they have sent me and it's not working good either.
Here it goes... I've been a loyal T-Mobile customer for 5 years, every call I have had to them is quick, courteous and resolved... Also I understand that if I went over my minutes I did, contract whatever all carriers do that, my main issue is about sim cards and the quality of phones T-Mobile sells.
I've had 6 Sidekicks replaced by Asurion - each one refurbished, each one with an issue. Screen blank, buttons not working, ball not rolling, the problem with sim cards obviously is that possibility of stealing a phone and slapping a sim in and you're good to go which in turns raises the insurance deductible... To a sick $110. Asurion also provide claims for Sprint and other carriers, which carry a deductible of $50 no matter what phone it is. Also T-Mobile does not have warranty or repair centers if you have any issues with a phone, they have to send a you new one and it has to be under the warranty period. If not you're stuck with a high deductible.
Also when I purchased 2 more lines. I was assured I wouldn't be charged for activation fee... and astounding $39.00 per line, so I called and of course there was no notes. Luckily the rep I spoke with was compassionate and removed those for me to say the least.
CORAL SPRING, FLORIDA -- I have been a T-Mobile customer for a little over 1 year and in that time I was happy with T-Mobile but when I decided that I would get a T-Mobile Sidekick. That was a big mistake because so far the reception has been horrible and I had three Sidekicks. All of them have failed within a week. Then I got to wait another week for a replacement and they had offered me a Dash but that is not comparable to Sidekick as far as price. So I fax customer relations - I will update this post when I hear from them.
SAN DIEGO, CALIFORNIA -- I turned on roaming through T-Mobile in Europe for my daughter's Sidekick II, and was told that Internet use would be charged at $15 per megabyte (France Orange). At that price, she didn't browse the web or use it to send email. The only time she told anyone the email address of the phone was when she registered a few months ago at a website that sends ads with pictures daily.
The Sidekick II downloads all incoming mail, including images, locally storing them in case you decide to open them. My daughter never actually read the emails she received, but only deleted the messages as they arrived. She stayed in Europe for another four weeks, racking up $900 for junk mail she never read. The charges are accurate and according to a manager at T-Mobile's tech support I have absolutely no recourse.
STATEN ISLAND, NEW YORK -- I wanted to try out the T-Mobile service so I got their Smart access plan. I even bought the Sidekick (in full price) hoping for a good service. At first, I was impressed!! I have my Sidekick surfing the web (when there is a decent signal -- that's another story) with my Unlimited Sidekick data plan. But then, I wanted "more" - I wanted to have more minutes because I signed up for only 300 minutes... noted that nobody told me that if I remove my Unlimited Sidekick Data Feature (even for 1 billing cycle), it won't be reactivated again!!!
So I felt free to change my plan to 1000 minutes with unlimited nights/weekends not knowing that on the next month these would happen: 1. All my contacts were purged from my cellphone. 2. I could not retrieve them from the My T-mobile website. 3. Called the CS and what they said was this: "The company changed policies that if you removed your unlimited data you cannot get it back."
So here is my question.. why would they purge my contacts??? And I trusted them for safekeeping??? I would not renew my contract with them... any other company but this... this is sad... no wonder people are switching AWAY from T-Mobile...


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Oyster River students to play football in PortsmouthBy KIMBERLEY HAAS
Union Leader Correspondent
January 17. 2018 11:41PM
DURHAM — Students at Oyster River High School will be able to play football at Portsmouth High School under a cooperative agreement approved by the school board Wednesday night.
The hope is to get the agreement approved by the New Hampshire Interscholastic Athletic Association so Oyster River students can participate in football next season.
During their meeting, members of the school board said the stories from students who love football and the support of parents helped them make the decision.
"It's extremely compelling, and I really feel for them," board member Daniel Klein said.
Chairman Thomas Newkirk said after listening to parents his thinking on the matter has changed.
"I think this is an advantage to our district to have this," Newkirk said.
Board member Allan Howland proposed the board vote for a cooperative agreement with Portsmouth High School because Portsmouth has the same start and end times to the school day.
Howland also cited the decline in participation in the football program at Dover High School, which had also offered to take on Oyster River players.
Portsmouth's numbers have been more stable, he said.
"My hope is they have appropriate levels where all kids can participate," Howland said. "I just think it's better for us."
After the vote, Krista Butts, who with her husband, Jeffrey, helps run the local football program with Oyster River Youth Association, said she is elated.
"This is going to be a wonderful joint venture. We are so incredibly happy for our kids! They deserve this opportunity," Butts said via text message.
It will cost $500 to $600 per student to be on Portsmouth's team. Parents and booster clubs will be responsible for the costs of transportation.
The agreement between Oyster River and Portsmouth will last for two years, and then the districts can renegotiate the terms if needed.
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11 Teachers honored for service — Page 3 JBusy teen is new Eagle Scout — Pe Amherst News-Time O U) X X f 00 M M cmo o ■ x Ct<lH C rn »-( CO r— to is 3 -f .-• 3> O «^ » H N) < 0«s. m > ® ] O Wednesday. September 12, 2001 Amherst, Ohio ■; ■ .» If i ! . Turnpike to plant barrier, install cameras CO by ERIK YORKE News-Times reporter Mayor John Higgins and president of city council John Dietrich held a special session prior to Monday's city council meeting to speak with a small gathering of citizens about their concerns regarding the Ohio Turnpike plaza. Higgins and Dietrich discussed what came out of a Sept 4 meeting they had with turnpike officials and Senator Jeffry Armbruster. One of the most important issues to the citizens, a barrier of some kind between their properties and the plaza, was touched on in some detail according to Higgins and Dietrich. The two informed the citizens that the turnpike has said they might be willing to build a privacy fence along segments of the plaza perimeter. Dietrich also informed the gather ing that there will be surveillance cameras placed at the security gate to help prevent people from wandering onto private property adjoining the plaza. The topic of diesel fumes from trucks parking on the plaza was also discussed. « "You're not going to be able to do a whole heck of a lot about the diesels," Dietrich said. Higgins said that Armbruster suggested Amherst pass an ordinance prohibiting compressed-air, or Jake brakes within the city limits. This would make using the brakes at the plaza illegal. Citizens have frequently voiced complaints about the noise caused by the brakes. According to Higgins, turnpike officials have said they will plant any type of tree Amherst residents want along the perimeter of the plaza. The trees will serve as a screen between the private properties and the plaza. There will be another meeting between turnpike officials and Higgins and Dietrich on Sept 24 and an open public meeting will be held on a Monday in October where turnpike officials will be present to answer questions. In a public meeting on Aug. 13, Amherst residents voiced concerns over the turnpike plaza. Turnpike officials and Senator Armbruster were given two weeks notice of the hearing but did not attend, accord- t; Cruel Intruders' set pigeons free to be scavenged by ERIK YORKE News-Times reporter David Luczkowslri has been breeding show-quality pigeons for more than 20 years. To his knowledge, neither he nor his birds ever did anything* to harm anyone. Nonetheless, 15 of his 130 pigeons were found or are assumed to be dead and another IS are missing. Between midnight and 6 ajn. on Sunday, Sept 2 an intruder crept into Luczkowski's pigeon barn and set 30 of the pedigree pigeons loose in the yard. According to Luczkowski, pigeons do not fly at night and were sitting in his backyard defenseless to natural predators, such as racoons and hawks. Luczkowski said that his pigeons, being bred for show quality, are not like wild pigeons. They can fly only 30 feet or so before becoming completely exhausted. This left the birds without any way of protecting themselves from other animals. Scattered about the lawn near the pigeon barn are clumps of feathers belonging to birds that Luczkowski has presumed were eaten by various animals. When he went to the bam to feed the pigeons at 6 a.m., he said that he saw birds everywhere, picking up the moonlight reflected in their eyes. 1 just automatically started grabbing birds," Luczkowski said. Now lost are about $700 worth of pigeons. The pigeons sell for around $75 to $100 each plus a $40 shipping charge, Luczkowski said. In addition to the cost of the birds, between $200 and $250 in damage was done to the pigeon barn. On the rear of the bam is a flypen, a large suspended cage where the birds can get sun and water, that had its own roof. That structure had been completely torn off the bam. If not for the closed plexiglass windows between the bam and flypen, Luczkowrki said that he would have lost another 60 birds. "It was strong enough that I could stand on it" Luczkowski said. "It took at least two people to rip it off." Luczkowski said that the South Amherst Police Department believes, as does he, that the intruder or intruders entered his property by jumping the wire fence that divides it from neighbors on the north. He said that an area of the fence had been pressed to the ground. The birds themselves are not unlike show dogs, meaning that if he had a champion bird, its offspring could be sold at a higher price. Because of the intruder, Luczkowski has lost some potential revenue. Luczkowski works two jobs, at Giant Eagle as a mealcutter and at Cleveland Hopkins Airport as a customer service representative. He is also finishing up his^degrec in travel and tourism at Lorain County Community College. CONTINUED on page 3 Chili reception Members of the Amherst Police Department .participate In a chHi cookoff on Sunday in support of the Genesis House, Lorain County's bat tered women's shelter. The event was held on Tappan Square in Oberlin. ing to Ward Two Councilman Ed Cowger. Instead the Turnpike Commission sent general counsel Thomas Amato and community liaison Reggie Williams lo take down notes about the residents' concerns. A press release from the Turnpike Commission stated the following: "Due lo the lack of courtesy extended to jointly coordinate availability and the lack of advance notice, neither (Senator Armbruster or CONTINUED on page 14 Donato's to build new shop Pizza lovers in Amherst will not only have a new pizza place on die block this November, but according to the company's slogan, they'll have "the best pizza on the block." Donato's pizza is currently building a new restaurant on Leavitt Road in the space once occupied by Friendly's. "We're thrilled with the acceptance of Donato's in the (Cleveland) market" said Donato's vice president of corporate communications Thomas Santor. According to San- tor, the pizza chain has made an emphasis on expansion in the Cleveland area. Donato's will join a community with no shortage of pizza restaurants, many of which are independently owned-operated. Darrell McCarty, owner of the Olde Town Pizza House said that he is not worried about competing with the new casta. "We have a good location," McCarty said. His restaurant is located ia downtown Amherst on Cleveland Avenue. "We've got good quality and service." According lo Santor, Donato's is a very different pizza restaurant compared to the other area pizza shops. "I would dare to say we have the most sophisticated pizza making process in the industry," Santor said. He said that pizzas at Donato's are made using digital scales, ensuring the same quality of pizza every time and at every location. Unlike a lot of pizza chains, Santor said that Donato's is not simply a delivery/pickup establishment operating out of a store front Instead, they will have a free standing building equipped with a dining room and a drive-through window far pickup orders to compliment delivery "It's a very comfortable experience," Santor said. "Going out for pizza is back." He trains for ancient highland contests - by ERIK YORKE J? New pastor brings European past along by ERIK YORKE l'www& '•* feji *SSSww--wr''w%-*^ News-Times reporter For 11 years, Amherst native and Marion L. Steele High School alum- Sus Mark Vaienti has been competing in a sport in which he is now s professional. He's not in the NFL. He's never i^ed up with Tiger Woods. He doesn't spend his evenings rounding the bases. i Keep on guessing at all the possible professional sports and, chances are you idD wouldn't be able to guess, because Vaienti is a profes- laonal Highland Games athlete. The Highland Games are a aeries Of strength related events whose origins dwell hi the Scottish High- lands, thus the name. Now there are *?'. News-Times reporter The Rev. Attila Szemesi comes to the Amherst Congregational Uniied Church of Christ from Michigan. And Lorain. And Germany. And Serbia. Bom in Serbia in 1967, Szemesi moved to West Germany with his family at the age of three, living there until he was 20 yean old. When he was younger, said, he didn't feel a with the church. "1 drifted away from the church." he admitted. 1 guess it just wasn't personal enough." That would change for him ia high school, where he people he oiled, "real who Szemesi said lived what they believed. At the «e of 20. he fek the celling to become a The area of Serbia was bora bad a formed Theological Academy. He began there in 1987, two years before the fall of communism. Religious practice in Hungary, as well as most of Eastern Europe, was under tight restrictions. 1 remember standing in line at the cafeteria at the Reformed Seminary and someone whispered to me, would I like to come to his home for a Bible study," Szemesi said. A Bible study ia one's home at that time was illegal. It was not long before civil broke out ia the Balkan was drafted hi the Croatian Ws Boanian War and the Koaovo i flict Amid urging hy the church and his family, Saemeai left Eastern Europe for the United States m\ 1992. Ia Aaserica, Lorain specifically. Bishop ZokM Sxacs at the Hadrian Reform Church. Being new hi Highland Games coeapatiliont all - over the world, snd competitors Mark Vaienti practices for the upoorreng <**• Oasstc Highland Garnse to be held In BetN come from sl four corners CONTINUED on page ,13 Petw. Vetera! (a aft CeUc them, track ooeoh at Ma rten L. Steele High School and is a strength and r_x_Mti___\____\_r_ PO" isHtmge- The facts riaa by ethaicity Hungary al school called she Szucs for "He sad hto tally supportive," Szemesi said. He there for 13 CONTINUED en papa t
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As I approach a second full decade of being a Catholic, having entered the Church in 1997, I sometimes reflect on the arch of our journey from Fundamentalism to Evangelicalism to Catholicism. As I've indicated before, my wife and I had to work through Catholic beliefs about Mary, the saints and the sacraments. However, one subject that seemed to hover in the background — perhaps because it wasn't as obviously controversial — was that of ecclesiology, the nature and mission of the Church. Yet one's understanding of the Church shapes and colors nearly everything else.
We must understand that the Church is not a social club, a political party or movement, or a mere human institution. The Church was founded by Christ, states the catechism, for one ultimate purpose: "for the sake of communion with [God's] divine life." The Church "is the goal of all things" (CCC, No. 760). That simple statement alone should give us pause. The Church, which is the body of Christ, was founded by our Lord so that men and women can be redeemed, made holy and thus, by the power of the Holy Spirit, be transformed into children of God.
Today's Gospel contains the second of two appearances of the word ecclesia, or "church," in the Gospels; it also appears in Matthew 16:18, in the Gospel reading heard two weeks ago. In both cases, the word "church" was uttered by Jesus in the context of apostolic and ecclesial authority. In Matthew 16, Peter, the Rock, was bequeathed unique authority to be the vicar, or prime minister, of the Davidic king, Jesus Christ. In Matthew 18, the issue is practical: how to resolve conflicts within the Church. What are we to do when a fellow Christian has sinned against us?
The Church, of course, has canon law, and it has an important role. But the greatest law — or the thing that perfectly fulfills any and all laws — is love. St. Paul is quite clear about this in his letter to the Christians in Rome, saying that "the one who loves another has fulfilled the law" and that "whatever other commandment there may be, are summed up in this saying, namely, 'You shall love your neighbor as yourself.'" True love is sacrificial; it desires the good of others. It seeks to act with eternity in mind, without concern for immediate satisfaction or quick justice. Being a child of God and a member of his household and family is not easy, as we all know. It might even involve strong rebuke and firm discipline.
Yet the steps that Jesus outlined were not aimed, of course, at retribution, but reconciliation. First, he instructed to try talking to the offending brother alone, away from public scrutiny. If he doesn't listen, bring along "one or two others" so the facts of the matter can be fairly discussed, with testimony from witnesses — a practice rooted in the Torah (cf. Dt 19:15). If such attempts do not settle the matter, the problem goes before the Church. The catechism puts this in proper context: "Reconciliation with the Church is inseparable from reconciliation with God" (No. 1445). If the Church was founded by Christ and has been entrusted with his authority, then we should recognize she exists and works for our good, so we can be in right relationship with him.
Anyone refusing to hear or submit to proper Church authority is to be kept from full communion — for his sake and that of the Church. Excommunication, then, is therefore an act of love, meant to save the sinner from eternal spiritual destruction.
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Colombia: Armed violence leads to mass displacement in Chocó
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Armed violence has caused the mass displacement of people in a remote area of Chocó in Colombia's Pacific Coast. An area with a long history of violence, the indigenous Embera people have been particularly targeted in this latest event withindigenous leaders claiming that as many as 2,000 people have been displaced. Further reports suggest that the movements of 800 families are restricted because of the violence.
The UN humanitarian team reported that some of the IDPs were sheltered in host communities while many found refuge in a school, where they suffered from a lack of access to basic services. Four cases of cholera were reported because of lack of water and overcrowding.
While the International Committee of the Red Cross (ICRC) and other organizations provided aid, food insecurity remained high because crops have been lost because IDPs can not access their land.
Meanwhile, humanitarian funding for Colombia has declined in recent years, from 75 million dollars in 2010 to 64 million in 2011.


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I haven't tried this yet, but it's on the Give Away of the Day for another twelve hours if anyone wants it.
Hmm thanks for the linkage
here's a quick blurb about the app
Ax3soft Sax2 is a professional intrusion detection and prevention software (NIDS) which excels at real-time packet capture, 24/7 network monitor, advanced protocol analysis and automatic expert detection. With the insights into all operations in your network, Sax2 makes it easy to isolate and solve network problems, identify network bottleneck and bandwidth use, detect network vulnerabilities, find reach of security strategy and signs of being attacked in the network of hazard, and then intercept and stop these connections.
Never heard of it but hell i guess there's no harm in testing it out on a spare machine.
Yeah I haven't tried it yet, I won't be able to for a few days, but hey, it's free.
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Savannah Guthrie has been overwhelmed by the arrival of daughter Vale, calling herself a "big ball of mush" as she gets used to new motherhood.
"I feel like life just started," Guthrie, 42, speaking by phone, told her Today colleagues on the air Friday morning. Her voice breaking with emotion as she shared her excitement, she also took viewer questions about her Wednesday morning delivery.
"I can't get over the joy that she brings — it's kind of inexpressible. Honestly, I think it is beyond words," Guthrie said of her 8 lbs., 5 oz. blue-eyed girl.
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The Today host, who also was visited in person in the hospital by Today colleagues Matt Lauer and Natalie Morales, said she hasn't been able to sleep much, prompting nurses to give her some sleeping meds Thursday night, even as Vale is sleeping well.
The birth, she admitted, has shifted her universe.
"I feel so different. I just feel like life just started," she said. "Honestly, I can't get over the joy she brings. It's just inexpressible."
Guthrie also said Today viewers had convinced her that she was going to have a boy, and she and husband Mike Feldman were better prepared with boy names when, surprise — a daughter arrived, much to her own mother's desire.
"I really was shocked when they said, 'It's a girl.' We had a few names on the girl list," she said. "We thought it was pretty unique but not kooky or weird."
Choosing a name, however, paled in comparison to first gazing upon her child, who continues to bring happy tears to Feldman and Guthrie.
"In the moment she was born, I cried a cry I've never heard come out of my own mouth," Guthrie, who considers herself a proud and thankful mom, said. "It was just this joyous explosion."
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How to read David Willetts' second big speech on industrial policy
Back in February, Vince Cable set out his Liberal Democrat view of the need for a tech-oriented industrial strategy, in his famous leaked letter. Now it is David Willetts turn. Join me as I discover whether the Conservatives are ready to join Labour and the Lib Dems in backing the thing Margaret Thatcher and three decades of Treasury mandarins have abhorred - an industrial policy.
What's the good of government?
Minister of State for Universities and Science (attending Cabinet)
24 May 2012, University of East Anglia
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The simple action of cutting and pasting this speech into my word processor has alerted me to the sheer length of it. 5429 words I am told. This, and the title, are raising my hopes.
Back in January, I described how Willetts was gently leading the Conservatives into new terrain by setting out a case for state support for hi-tech.
"David Willetts's speech on hi-tech policy on 4 January takes his party further into what Thatcher saw as the swamp of state support," I said. "For, despite the spending decisions of October 2010, until now no Conservative minister has attempted to articulate a convincing rationale for the state's involvement in hi-tech."
Today I see an even bigger speech than the one in January, both in terms of length and scope. I am hoping that the speech will extend the new thinking from the centre right on innovation..
What calories tell us about fairness between the generations
It is a great honour to be invited to give this lecture. It is an opportunity for me, a free market Conservative, to explain the useful things Government can do.
Yep, there's the ambition. A Conservative who takes the time to explain "the useful things Government can do" is taking chances with his support within the party. The central tension in all this is between an industrial strategy and the risk of a backlash from the Right. But by taking us right back to the fundamental role of government, Willetts is rooting his argument in some political first principles.
Especially when this government is having to get a grip on the public finances, as anyone would with the deficit we inherited, there is a particular need to step back and be clear about what Governments can do and why. I am not going to start with abstract principles and then deduce the consequences for public policy. That sort of argument does not persuade people any more, if it ever did. Instead I am going to start by counting calories.
Successfully cute.
Calories are a universal measure which enable us to get to the human fundamentals behind calculations of money, tax and benefits. Anthropologists have studied primitive tribes of hunter-gatherers in New Guinea and the Amazon, measuring the calories individuals consume as against the calories they obtain by hunting and gathering during their lives. When you are a young child you are a net consumer of calories, as any parent knows. Then as the children grow older they do some hunting but still can't meet their full calorie needs themselves: mankind goes for diverse food of high nutritional value which is quite hard to obtain so you need a long time learning how to catch fish or which berries are poisonous. Then in adulthood you become a net producer of calories. As their physical powers decline older people become once more net recipients of calories collected by others. So out in the Amazonian rain forest at this moment a 40 year-old hunter is probably carrying six fish back to his tribal encampment thinking he has done a hard morning's work but after he has given two fish to the kids and two more to his elderly parents there will only be two left, one of which he will give to his partner though at least she will provide in return for the sweet potatoes she has been collecting.
Experts like Ronald Lee also calculate the ages of these transitions to being a net producer of calories and then back to being a consumer. They reckon that in these tribes you become a net producer of calories at around the age of 16 to 18. You are a net contributor through your adult years becoming again a net recipient of calories obtained by others when you are about sixty years old. These are ages which we might recognise.
He's got me. And I suspect his university audience. This is fascinating.
This observation about tribes in the Amazonian rain forest therefore tells us something rather important about the modern welfare state and its roots in fundamental features of human existence. Most income tax is paid by people in middle age and publicly financed services like education health care and benefits go particularly to people aged under 16 or over 60. During their lives each member of the tribe of hunter-gatherers is both a contributor and a recipient. On average when they die the transactions over their lives should net out at perfect balance. At any one moment you might be paying in or be a dependant but overall it balances. This is what holds human society together: if we were born able to fend for ourselves from the first day then none of this would have developed. This cat's cradle of exchanges and obligations is, at any one moment, a shift of resource from one generation to another. But equally, if we look over the life cycle, it is how any one generation can spread its own consumption through its life.
Well, he is the one who wrote the book on intergenerational equity. (Note to self: do not mention tuition fees...)
The family is the most important of these exchange mechanisms, though it matters to us all far more than that. We do things for our children and our elderly parents because we love them. But in doing so we are also protecting a network of reciprocal altruism by which we hope we will get support from our children when we are old. It is also the logic of the modern welfare state. At any one moment it can look like a device to take from people earning a lot to those with less. But on a longer view it enables us to shift our individual consumption to times when our earnings are less. But the exchanges across the generations can also be thought of as a mechanism for us to reallocate our own income over time. A toddler cannot go into a bank and borrow the full amount for their education because as the economists would say, capital markets are imperfect. We need the welfare state to do some of this for us.
This is the logic of our reforms of higher education.
Oh God. Now he's mentioned tuition fees. I really don't want to have to go into this again. But what can I do? I promise to be quick...
Students do not pay fees upfront: unlike many countries we provide loans for this on terms far better than commercial.
Er, maybe, maybe not. Unlike a commercial loan where the deal is contractually guaranteed, the loans students are getting from the government aren't. So the government can change the terms if it feels like it. For example, in 15 years time when it runs out of money and the bill for all those unmet repayments starts to become clear.
In fact it is more like a requirement to pay back through a 9% higher rate of income tax on earnings above £21,000.
No it isn't, precisely because the terms of the repayments can be changed by the government at will. It's actually more like borrowing from a loan shark with unbelievably powerful heavies.
In general going to university does boost your earnings so it is reasonable to expect graduates to pay back out of their earnings.
If they are in low paid jobs then they do not pay back.
Or maybe they will. If the government changes its mind.
It is a good example of the smoothing of income and spending over the life cycle which is just what Government can and should do.
It could be an example of that. We'll know in 30 years time if future governments play their part. Or it could be a great example of an intergenerational mugging. And that's without mentioning the CPI Effect, through which the new tuition fees policy transfers money from students to pensioners. The point is that while Willetts general observation about the benefits of the welfare state are valid, the application of those principles to tuition fees isn't.
That's it. Done. Not one word more from me on tuition fees.
In his classic paper on pensions the Nobel prize-winning economist Paul Samuelson said, "Giving goods to an older person is figuratively giving goods to yourself when old." The modern welfare state is part of this reciprocal relationship. That is why everyone gets understandably angry if they think people who have not paid in and not participated in the network of obligations are claiming the benefits. These networks extend beyond families to wider groups. In my simplified example everyone had the same life course but actually there are many uncertainties – you don't know exactly when you will be unable to hunt any more or exactly how many children you will have. It is efficient for these risks to be pooled. And by and large the nation is the biggest pooler of risk we have got. Provided we are clear about the risks we are expecting Government to take on and why, the welfare state can carry out a very valuable function indeed.
The trouble is that welfare is an expression which is half-American and half-English and this generates a lot of confusion. The idea of the welfare state was originally popularised in Britain in the 1930s, as a contrast with what was called the Nazi warfare state. Welfare then meant wellbeing so the idea was that British governments saw their role as being to serve their citizens whereas Hitler used the German people as cannon fodder to fight his wars. But in America welfare has the more specific meaning of means-tested non-contributory benefits which you get without paying in to the insurance pool; they are in contrast to contributory social security which has much more popular support and legitimacy – and gets far more public spending. The danger is that all the negative associations which in the US go with a specific form of means-tested welfare payments are attributed to a far wider range of public programmes which we have in every modern economy including the US itself.
That's really interesting. I didn't know that.
Sometimes people fear that we are not committed to maintaining the basic principles of the welfare state with tax financed education and health and pensions. Let's be clear: those programmes of the welfare state which shift spending between the different stages of the life cycle and pool shared risks make sense and Conservatives therefore back them. They are part of the exchange between the generations of which we can be proud. As I argue in my book, The Pinch, the contract between the generations is fundamental to society be it a tribe of hunter-gatherers or in the modern welfare state. There is a Conservative case for the welfare state. But of course, the welfare state always needs reform – to reflect our values and changing circumstances. It's why we have to raise the pension age as life expectancy is increasing so fast.
Well, I was 15 in 1979 and remember the period when Margaret Thatcher's comment that "There's no such thing as society" seemed a touchstone of Conservative values. And I don't read, for example, Iain Duncan Smith's speeches. But that's the first convincingly argued Conservative defence of the welfare state that I've ever seen.
How economic growth changes things
The classical political tradition assumes a static world without economic growth. But if there is growth you can argue that the next generation is going to be better off than us and so our obligation to help them is weakened. We can load more obligations onto future generations confident they can take the burden. I do not agree with this approach. Disraeli was right when he criticised a opponent because "He seems to think posterity is a pack-horse, always ready to be loaded." Politics falls into disrepute when citizens think Governments are just shifting problems out into the future and never tackling them today: this Coalition can be proud of our long term reform agenda.
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We can hope that future generations will be richer than us but this does not excuse us from our obligation to them. We enjoy the fruits of investment by earlier generations who were poorer than us and we have a similar obligation to generations coming after us. The Victorians did not build their sewers and public buildings out of cheap plaster because we would be richer than them and could afford to do our own rebuilding. Instead they built for future generations despite hoping that future would be richer than them. As the African proverb has it, "The world was not left to us by our parents. It was lent to us by our children."
When we were working out the science budget in the last comprehensive spending review I appreciated the argument that we were beneficiaries of a great tradition of British scientific enquiry and had a duty to pass it on in good shape to the next generation, and not to be remembered as the generation that undermined it. It is also of course one of the most powerful reasons bringing down the deficit.
We are beginning to see a role for government. It helps to sustain the contract between the generations. This contract provides the mutual insurance pool from which we can all draw. And as we have benefitted from the extraordinary engine of modern economic growth we have an obligation to ensure it still works for generations coming after us.
You can think of this obligation not in terms of income but in terms of assets. We have an obligation as a minimum to maintain the assets of our society – natural, physical and human. That was Margaret Thatcher's famous observation that, "we do not have a freehold on the Earth only a full repairing lease." So growth achieved by consuming not investing, and by destroying the environment rather than improving it, is no growth at all. This line of argument leads economists like Dieter Helm to argue for a full measure of assets so we can check we are indeed growing them not destroying them. It's why sustainability matters so much. The work you do here measuring climate change is of course an important part of that.
The challenge we face is very stark. What if we are not passing on to the next generation valuable assets they can develop but liabilities and costs which will burden them? One very vivid measure of this is the £1 trillion of government debt that has now accumulated – roughly half of it during the 13 years of the last Government. There is only one right way of easing this burden on future generations. We must get a grip on public borrowing and get the economy growing.
There are few things more important we can do for our future and for future generations than get the real economy right. Whilst we over-estimate the power of Government to change things in the short term if anything we underestimate what it can do in the longer term. This is what industrial policy is all about and in the rest of this lecture I want to set out how the Coalition's thinking has developed here. We are having to do so much to reduce the budget deficit that the scale and ambition of our developing industrial strategy is being overlooked. But both parties in the Coalition understand the importance of rebalancing the economy to investment and exports away from borrowing and domestic consumption: it is a crucial part of our shared mission.
And, after a fascinating and enlightening preamble, off we go.
The basic framing here is important. First, when Willetts says "the scale and ambition of our developing industrial strategy is being overlooked" he is both contesting Cable's assertion in his February letter that "there is still something important missing - a compelling vision of where the country is heading beyond sorting out the fiscal mess" and at the same time moving a step further away from the established language of the Conservative right.
Second, "Rebalancing the economy" is a phrase the Coalition parties return to again and again. But the kind of rebalancing that is being implied keeps shifting. In this case, Willetts is referring to Mervyn King's formulation. This is critical to the political debate as it has become a widely-accepted axiom of economic policy. It sounds like a strategy, but actually is more a statement of the country's predicament; it tells us nothing about how to achieve the goals. As such, it is quite different from the thing that most people have in mind when they think of rebalancing and which reflects the historical moment in which the phrase emerged - a desire to put casino bankers in their place and prioritise people and firms that make things.
Industrial strategy
Raising the growth rate in a mature Western economy is one of the hardest challenges facing any Government. That is why it is so tempting to believe that a boom fuelled by borrowing represents an increase in the underlying growth rate. This is an illusion to which Governments succumbed in the 1980s and again in the last decade. We will not fall for such mistakes again. That is why we are raising standards in education and skills. That is why we are tackling the financing of companies especially small companies where classic models of bank finance appear to have broken down, not least because of barriers to entry facing new banks. That is why we are clearing away the barriers in the jobs market or the planning system for example which obstruct growth. This is Government getting out of the way. But we cannot just remove barriers – we have to be builders too. This is where our industrial strategy comes in.
We must not be crippled by a fear that any industrial strategy cannot possibly work because it must mean repeating the mistakes of the 1960s and 1970s. I am the proud possessor of a copy of the 1965 National Plan. Looking at it now one is struck by the extraordinary and absurd detail of the calculations for the future performance of particular sectors. This was sheer hubris. Nobody can or should plan like that. That is why I entered Government assuming that industrial policy begins as governments trying to pick winners but soon becomes governments rescuing losers. Vince Cable and I agree that in an economy threatened by low growth Government can and must deliver an industrial strategy. Michael Heseltine is helping us do just that. Most of what we are proposing is what they already do across America.
This adds two important additional defences to the case Willetts made in January. First, he is arguing for an industrial policy on tactical grounds, which should allow more Conservatives to at least tolerate it. Second, the personal arc implies that strategically Willetts himself retains doubts.
Mind you, any good work with the backbenches there will be undone by saying he agrees with the loathed Vince.
Today I want to focus on a crucial part of that, our strategy for high tech growth, drawing on my particular responsibilities for science and innovation. Promoting the technologies of the future has already emerged as one of the crucial themes of the review of industrial policy launched by George Osborne in the Budget. There are three elements to what we are doing.
That sounds plausible but actually obscures an important point. It's not clear in fact that there is any appetite for industrial strategy in the government beyond hi-tech. That was confirmed by Cable's letter.
1. Securing the research base
We start with the securing the research base. It benefits from ring fenced cash protection for current spending of £4.6 billion a year over this Parliament. I detect an anxiety that we are not supporting blue sky research but let me be clear that we do. The Research Councils distinguish between responsive mode grants which start with an approach from a researcher and challenge grants which are in streams of funding specifically for national and global challenges, though of course here smart original ideas are rewarded too. Across the research councils overall, approximately two-thirds of spending is on responsive mode and one third is on directed mode.
The Government can bear the big risks of scientific innovation, which are too great for any individual company. It is another example of that risk pooling I talked about earlier. Then, as we lower the risks of new technologies, companies step in and do their bit.
It is right that scientists should range freely and do blue sky research. Civilised advanced societies should support that sort of activity. But there are utilitarian arguments too. Even the purest blue sky research is likely to end up with practical impact, though nobody can predict what that will be in advance.
Well, obviously the government has actually cut spending on the research base. But it is still an articulate Conservative defence of a substantial area of public spending.
2. Creating stronger links between academic researchers and business
We cannot just support pure research. Our second task is to make stronger links between academic researchers and business. Cutting-edge science often requires technological developments for research and these can themselves generate new applications. For example, the fundamental advances in DNA have both driven and depended on technological advances in genetic sequencing. Britain has great strengths in this area with firms like Solexa Sequencing, now part of Illumina, and more recently Oxford Nanopore. Both of these businesses are spin offs from academic research which received public funding.
We are now broadening the training of researchers so they have more opportunities than ever before to experience the world of business. The Research Councils have increased their investment in collaborative training which involves private, public or charity research partners by a fifth.
Earlier this year, for example, I announced around £60 million of investment for the BBSRC's Doctoral Training Partnerships, which will give the next generation of researchers an opportunity to take up professional internships in business. Today I can announce a new programme of manufacturing fellowships that were first outlined in the Growth Review. The EPSRC has initially awarded four prestigious fellowships to scientists making the transition from industry to academia: from Qinetic and IBM to Exeter, BAE to Cranfield and Talecris Biotherapeutics to UCL. Each fellow will lead a £1 million research programme with clear commercial potential, lending their business expertise to enhance collaboration with the science base. EPSRC will also be funding additional manufacturing fellowships, to enable business access to state of-the-art technologies.
Two things strike me. First, 90 per cent of the links we're interested in are existing businesses that go and get what they need from academics, not spin outs. And second, this passage seems to have a lot about research council money in it.
3. Systematically identifying new technologies
These initiatives quite rightly encourage individual initiative but we also need a systematic look at the technological advances on the horizon. That is the third element in our policy. In July 2010 we published a Foresight report, Technology and Innovation Futures: UK Growth Opportunities for the 2020s. That report revealed a clear pattern with technological advance in four areas neatly summarised as BNIC – Bio, Nano, Info and Carbo which I set out in a speech in January. They provide a useful framework to make sure we do not ignore major new technologies. One of the most exciting developments is the convergence of technologies, for example linking advance in information technology and in biological sciences – dry and wet coming together. One reason why we need to sustain our broad science base is so we can make these connections. And we must never overlook the role of the humanities and social sciences here. So for example rapid advances in haptic technologies – using touch-based interaction – require us to understand human behaviour as well as physical science.
I can report today that I have commissioned the Government Office for Science to review and refresh their earlier report: it should be available in the summer so it can feed in to the development of our industrial strategy. It would be surprising and indeed rather worrying if this new report were radically different from the one we published two years ago – it would suggest we had no reliable handle on developments in science and technology. But we have to remain alert to new developments.
Public funds are inevitably limited so exercises like this enable us to fund the work with the greatest potential. So the Technology Strategy Board then assesses which of these technologies are likely to have the great commercial potential and backs them in particular – energy efficient computing and energy harvesting are particular priorities.
This harks back to the original motivation for the first technology foresight exercise in the UK back in the mid-1990s. That was to give Whitehall some strategic grip on the issues so that ministers could fight back when Lord Weinstock banged the table and said he wanted another £20 million for his latest project, and it was vital to the country's hi-tech future. Even though it's only two years old, the 2010 foresight exercise was a Labour one. The Coalition - understandably - wants its own report to guide future spending decisions.
In another priority area, synthetic biology, I'm pleased to make two announcements. The TSB, together with the BBSRC, EPSRC and ESRC, is investing up to £6.5 million to encourage businesses to explore new industrial applications for synthetic biology. Separately, the EPSRC is leading on a £6 million grant to a consortium comprising Imperial, Cambridge, Edinburgh, Newcastle and King's to develop a new platform technology for the production and commercialisation of new products.
One of the many reasons why people are sceptical of industrial strategy is the false dawns promised as new technology developments never quite happen. I do wonder why we aren't yet flying in to work on our personal jet-packs, having seen Sean Connery's James Bond use one in Thunderball in the 1960s. But sometimes we can deliver what used to be science fiction - those automatic doors in Star Trek slid open because stage hands operated pulleys but the technology soon caught up. Every week I get to see the most amazing advances in our laboratories and research labs which give me confidence we can remain at the cutting edge of new technologies.
At Fylingdales on the Yorkshire Moors we can track an object the size of a tennis ball 3,000 miles out in space. Earlier this month I opened the new robotic labs in Bristol which are probably the largest and most sophisticated in Europe. A robot picked up a packet of crackers. Not much new there I thought, until it was explained that it had picked the packet up to get it in its eyeline so it could read the name on the packet and respond to instructions from the user to collect a particular item.
Two weeks ago I attended the handover of a piece of British and European kit for the James Webb telescope so sensitive that when it is in orbit, it could see the light of a single candle on one of the satellites of Jupiter. We are sometimes so cool and sceptical that we lose our capacity for wonder at what science and technology right here in Britain can achieve. Our Foresight reports enable us review these developments systematically.
Government playing a creative role to drive innovation and generate output
All this adds up to Government playing a creative and constructive role working with researchers, universities and business to promote innovation and achieve the greatest possible economic value. Increasingly I think of this less as the passing of a baton in relay race and more as a partnership in which both Government and business and other players are all active at the same time. With my combined responsibilities for universities and science all within BIS we can harness the power of Government to play a far more constructive role than I would have envisaged two years ago. It is what they do not just in Germany or South Korea but in the USA too. We should not let myths about free market America inhibit us from doing the same here.
Again, America will make it harder for Willetts to come under attack from the right.
There are some basic steps we can take which are far more effective than I imagined two years ago. So here is Industrial Strategy 101. We set up a leadership council probably co-chaired by a BIS minister and a senior industry figure in which researchers, businesses perhaps regulators and major public purchasers come together. We use it to get them talking to each other frankly. Then we commission a trusted expert to prepare a technology road map which assesses where the relevant technologies are heading over the next five years or so, what publicly funded research is going in to drive it, and what business is likely to do. Just this exercise, with no increase in public funding, can transform behaviour. Some of the big companies for example might have a HQ abroad and it means British managers and indeed BIS ministers can show to head office what we are doing and so encourage more investment here. It can encourage businesses sitting on piles of cash to invest when they see how it fits in alongside investment others are committed to putting in. I have done it with, amongst others, space technologies, regenerative medicine, high-performance computing, and now with synthetic biology. Only last week Vince Cable and Mark Prisk, who do something very similar with big advanced manufacturing sectors, showed how triumphantly effective our approach can be. Their work with the Automotive Council was crucial in giving GM the confidence to invest more in the UK.
That all sounds good to me. But, as Willetts himself hinted earlier, it's not really Industrial Strategy 101. Maybe it's Technology Strategy 101. But there's a big difference between those two things.
But even this is not enough on its own. Here are ten further new things we are doing as part of our high tech industrial strategy.
- We are creating seven Catapult Centres linking business and public funding for new research projects.
- We are introducing one of the world's most generous tax incentives for R&D with tax credit worth up to 225 per cent.
- We are changing the tax reliefs for investment in start-ups so academics can stay in academia and work part time for a company and still enjoy tax relief.
- We are liberalising the rules so research councils fund co-operative research groups like Imanova in Hammersmith in which UCL, Kings, Imperial and MRC together take over and run a medical research facility.
- We are using inducement prizes to reward innovation through a new centre opening at NESTA this year.
- We are using procurement to encourage innovation by increasing spend through initiatives like the Small Business Research Initiative.
- We have brought back the Smart awards first introduced by David Young to help start-ups with the cost of getting proof of concept and proof of market so they can get commercial investors in.
- We have backed venture capital with public investment in to the tune of £200m over four years through the Enterprise Capital Fund programme.
- We are developing improved access to publicly funded research so individuals and companies can get more out from the research we finance.
- We are backing clusters like Harwell and Daresbury which are now enterprise zones, Tech City, and of course the excellent Babraham and Norwich research and innovation campus clusters here in which we are investing an extra £70m.
These are all new initiatives for growth and innovation which this Coalition is implementing. It is not an exhaustive list either. There is a lot more going on. Now we are applying this approach to our biggest manufacturing sector which can also gain a lot from applying high technology. That is the big sprawling part of our economy encompassing food and drink manufacturing and agriculture.
That also all sounds good to me. But even though I'd missed some of these things, I don't yet feel there's anything in this speech to get me agreeing with Willetts idea that the world hasn't noticed the scale and ambition of the Coalition's industrial strategy.
The other half of the life sciences agenda
Almost exactly six months ago the PM gave a powerful speech on life sciences. It reverberated across the sector and I know it has registered with companies headquarters in Japan, the US and Switzerland as well. That focussed on the role of life sciences in human health. But there is the other half of the bio-sciences – from animals to agri-foods.
It draws on many of the same scientific advances notably genomics as human health. It also has important links to human well-being. The epidemics of the future may be zoonotic – the result of a pathogen in crossing the species barrier and attacking humans. We still do not do enough to link veterinary science and medical science in a shared research endeavour of comparative clinical science. And the security of food supplies is a real challenge as the population grows and climate change threatens some traditional agricultural areas. We really would be failing to deliver on our obligation to future generations if we left them with a public health crisis and a deterioration in food supplies.
That means sophisticated scientific research. We all like to think of food and agriculture as natural. But the only reason we can feed ourselves now is generations of scientific research, selective breeding and industrial advance – our Industrial Revolution proceeded in parallel with an Agricultural Revolution.
We are experiencing a period of scientific revolution now. Advances in rapid gene sequencing technology allow for the identification of desirable traits that can give rise to an accelerated natural selection process. This science of genomics has great potential to revolutionise plant breeding and crop development in future. GM is already a part of this in many countries. Here, there are still decisions for us to take – and I realise people have different views. But well-informed decisions require evidence. The scientific experiments going on at Rothamsted and elsewhere are essential for gathering that evidence. The independent regulators say that the risks are tiny. Whatever our personal views on GM, everyone must surely want to protect the integrity and freedom of British science – and allow these experiments to proceed.
I think this is definitely an area where the Coalition can scientist friends far beyond the disciplines concerned. Labour's shadowy abandonment of GM under pressure from green activists after public investment of hundreds of millions of pounds was weak and shameful.
One reason for the anxiety around GM is the belief that our food just grows naturally. It's a bit more complicated than that. Compare Apple and the tomato. Apple is one of the great innovators. A lot of sophisticated science and engineering goes into an iPad or an iPhone. We like to think of the humble tomato as vey different. But the modern tomato is equally the product of generations of scientific advance which has developed genetic traits that give it the colour, taste, and shape we want as well as the capacity to stay ripe for longer. Since January this year, according to Google Scholar, well over 1,000 academic publications on tomato genetics have been published. We should all be a bit more willing to take pride in this scientific achievement rather than ignore it.
Agri-science challenges our assumptions in another important way too. One of the challenges to the case for a high tech industrial strategy is that high tech is always going to be a small part of the economy and the real challenge is to raise the performance of the basic bread and butter sectors. The OECD definition of a high tech sector is one which devotes more than 4% of turnover to research. This does mean that most of the big sectors of most economies are not defined officially as high tech. But this ignores the pervasive effects of advances in general purpose technologies which are the very ones we are trying to back in our high tech growth strategy. One of the biggest single drivers of American productivity growth in the past decade was a transformation of performance in retailing, notably Walmart. It may not be officially high tech but it was using advances in IT systems that certainly were in order to transform its performance. The same can be true of agriculture and food manufacturing which can gain enormously from advances in biosciences. And it is not just us who gain. Some of the poorest parts of the world facing rapid climate change depend on rapid advances in agri-science to avoid famine. That is why our partnership in BIS is not just with DEFRA but also DFID who offer enlightened support for agricultural research.
This is the point I was making above - that the key links between business and universities are the low-tech ones.
Because of the importance of this, I am announcing today very substantial grants from the BBSRC worth £250 million to our leading research institutes. They include £14.5 million for the world-class Genome Analysis Centre here in Norwich. Here is an example of what this is all about. At the moment we can grow just over 12 tonnes of wheat on a hectare of land in the most productive and efficient parts of the country. The BBSRC have set the challenge of getting that up to 20 tonnes of wheat by 2020. It really will be the next Agricultural Revolution. The research we are funding will help make this happen.
Two thirds more wheat. That seems like a lot.
This commitment by Government to research in the biological sciences is only a first step however. We need to do much better at linking our upstream research to the practical needs of farmers and the food industry. We will be working with them and DEFRA to ensure this research is applied as effectively as possible. I know that industry is keen to work with us to do just this.
Farmers, not the Environment. You see how Defra's research priorities have changed again. We're back to where we were before it went all climate-y.
So we have ended up where we started – producing and consuming calories. But I hope that in the course of this lecture you have seen how these basic human needs show what Government can do. We are not detached and above the fray. Instead we are engaged, creative and constructive.
I've made five announcements today: the £250 million of BBSRC grants; the EPSRC manufacturing fellowships, each worth £1 million; the two separate investments in synthetic biology; and a refreshed report from the Government Office for Science on future technologies, to inform the evolving industrial strategy.
That's a lot of stuff.
We are backing the risk takers, and are willing to take a risk ourselves. As Government is an insurance pool, we can take bigger risks than any other player. It is this attitude to risk that I will consider in a lecture at Imperial next month. Meanwhile I thank you for your hospitality and congratulate again on your research network here which brings together the university, the hospital and institutes. It is one of the finest in the country and we can all take great pride in it.
Willetts is quite explicit about where the government is at. He calls it a "developing industrial strategy" and goes on to say, "Vince Cable and I agree that in an economy threatened by low growth Government can and must deliver an industrial strategy. Michael Heseltine is helping us do just that. Most of what we are proposing is what they already do across America."
In other words, Cable and Willetts are arguing for the government to adopt an industrial strategy. But the big power brokers - Cameron, Osborne and Clegg - have yet to declare their hand. All we have at the moment is the latest attempt by the government to come up with a growth plan that is not still born.
What Willetts has done is to set out a political framework for an industrial policy that Cameron and Osborne could adopt. All right, the policy approach itself - so far as it is possible to discern what is still evolving - is probably going to be better described as a technology policy. But that politically necessary elision should not blind us to the other qualities of this speech. It is thoughtful and not a little courageous. Bringing the words "industrial policy" back in from the cold would be a significant step.
So when Willetts talks about "the scale and ambition" of his plans for industrial policy, it's both false and true. It's false in the policy sense - the government doesn't actually have an industrial policy at the moment. But it's true in a political sense - the scale of the change in party ideology he's aiming for is genuinely ambitious.
This is high politics being played out, partly in the open. To those who think the Cameron revamp of the Conservative Party was all spin, it would be a blow. Here you would have the abandonment of an authentic piece of economic ideology. So, like Willetts, I'm surprised it's being overlooked. Even this speech seems to have hardly registered.
Compared to this, the January speech feels like a clearing of the decks. He had to deal with the rhetoric left over from the Thatcher period, picking winners for example. The arguments now are more forward looking, deeper, stronger and more polished. Not much has changed in the overall thrust, but the idea of a tactical retreat to industrial policy in order to get growth going may make it more palatable to some parts of the Conservative party.
It leaves me wanting to know what Peter Lilley thinks, what younger avowedly free-marketeer Conservatives think, what Conservative Home thinks.
But most of all, of course, I want to know what George Osborne thinks.


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#1 Nudie Statues Inflame Politician.06-13-2008, 04:36 PMWork on Texas GOP's platform stirs passions
09:02 AM CDT on Friday, June 13, 2008
By WAYNE SLATER / The Dallas Morning News
HOUSTON Robert Hurt went to Washington and didn't like what he saw nudity in the nation's capital.
"Nude women, sculptured women," he told the state Republican platform committee, which sat in rapt attention. Of all the evils in Washington that the Texas GOP took aim at this week, removing art with naked people from public view was high on the list for Mr. Hurt, a delegate from Kerrville.
"You don't have nude art on your front porch," he explained. "You possibly don't have nude art in your living rooms. So why is it important to have that in the common places of Washington, D.C.?"
Mr. Hurt offered statistics: He'd heard that 20 percent of the art in the National Gallery of Art is of nudes.
He offered detail: On Arlington Memorial Bridge overlooking the famed national cemetery, "there are two Lady Godivas, two women on horses with no shirt on and long hair."
Actually, they are classical sculptures about war one called Valor, depicting a male equestrian and a female with a shield, and Sacrifice, a female accompanying the rider Mars.
The GOP platform will be presented today to the full convention. Like all platforms, it's a statement of principle and a political document to rally the troops.
In this, a presidential year, it advocates prayer in school, getting out of the United Nations, teaching intelligent design with evolution in science classes, repealing of the minimum wage, declaring illegal immigrants criminals and outlawing abortion with no exceptions.
"Hallelujah!" said a delegate who had urged strong anti-abortion language.
The platform calls homosexuality contrary to "the unchanging truths" ordained by God. It opposes gay marriage, civil unions and the custody of children by gays.
The party's own leaders aren't spared. There's a call to repeal the McCain-Feingold campaign finance law, sponsored by the party's presidential nominee, and to oppose the Trans-Texas Corridor, the brainchild of Gov. Rick Perry.
Ridding Washington of naked art didn't make it. Neither did a complaint by a Kerr County delegate that her daughter was having trouble getting college scholarships.
"There are so many scholarships, if you are the right color," she said. "But for a white girl, who has good grades, you really have to look."
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