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The Presidential election is in the books, but the back and forth bickering hasn't ended - both in our Nation's Capitol and here on Inside the Gators. With a tip of our cap to USA Today political pundits Cal Thomas and Bob Beckel, staffers Bryan Holt and Jesse Simonton go back and forth trading barbs, insults and observations about this weekend's Florida vs. Florida State match-up.
Holt: Well, here we are again, Simonton. The last time we did one of these debate things, we played competitive agreement to determine that Florida would beat the pants off Mark Richt and his Georgia Bulldogs. I'm sure Gators fans are thrilled to hear that we're bringing it back in time for this weekend's match-up with the Seminoles of Tallanasty. For the first time since 2001, this game is between two top-10 teams and about more than petty instate bragging rights that make family gatherings awkward and spark bathroom fights at Florida middle schools. The Gators could be one win and a Notre Dame loss away from playing for a national title one season after going 7-6. Things haven't been bright or "sexy" for Florida since losing to Georgia, but that doesn't change the fact the Gators are 10-1. People are sleeping on Florida's chances in this game because of it, and I have a feeling those people are wrong.
Simonton: Feelings don't win football games, points do. I hear ya' on Florida's national disrespect, although I think it's being a tad overplayed, and I absolutely acknowledge the Gators have more than a punchers chance against the Seminoles; but I simply believe the collective queasiness of this Florida team is not unfounded. The Gators play down to their competition, no argument there. But ever since Jarvis Jones went HAM in Jacksonville, the team hasn't been the same. The Gators have regressed offensively, and now face the nation's top-ranked defense on the road. Much to fans' chagrin, there's no illusion here. Brent Pease hasn't been holding back the arsenal just for FSU. Unpopular opinion alert: The Gators struggle to block most opponents' front-four -- you know, including those powerhouse bookends from Louisiana-Lafayette! For Florida to win this game it needs a repeat performance of the South Carolina blowout -- a dominant defensive performance combined with another turnover-bonanza with the offense punting on every first down not inside the redzone. Win with this strategy, and everyone will call this Will Muschamp's A Rope-a-Doak.
Holt: It's a repetitive point, but this has been a repetitive season. Yes, everything is stacked against a Florida offense that has looked woefully ineffective the past few weeks -- even more ineffective than it was while building a 7-0 record. But guess what? It doesn't really matter. Neither Florida nor Florida State is going to win Saturday's slugfest because of offensive prowess. Saturday is about the same things this whole season has been about for the Gators. Florida's offense simply needs to not lose the game. This team would be No. 1 in the nation and cruising to an SEC title game appearance if it wasn't for six turnovers in Jacksonville. The Gators might not light up any scoreboards Saturday, but as long as they don't make any crucial mistakes, they'll do enough on defense to beat a Seminoles team that has been playing flag football for the majority of the season.
Simonton: The ACC landscape is a lot like Intramurals, but even then, this ain't soccer, someone has to score to win. If Coach Muschamp truly believes in the Parcells' mantra -- "You are what your record says you are" -- then the "what if's?" from UF's ghastly performance in Jacksonville have no bearing on Saturday's contest. When you breakdown each team's strengths, I see: Offense: Edge to FSU. Defense: Slight edge to UF. Special teams: Push. Considering neither team is exactly lighting the world on fire right now but the Seminoles are playing at home, I think they'll clip the Gators in an ugly affair, ending UF's championship aspirations. Tell me where I'm wrong. The single supreme factor in Florida's favor is turnover margin, so I'll concede that point from the start. Go.
Holt: You start out right before straying wrong. FSU has an advantage over Florida on offense, but I don't think it's a big enough advantage to put a dent in a Gators defense that I fully expect to dominate. Aside from the one big play against Georgia, Florida's defense has played these big games with an undeniable fire. In four games against teams currently ranked in the top 25, the Gators have only given up 300 yards of total offense once -- against Texas A&M, the nation's No. 5 offense -- and has given up no more than 17 points. Florida State's defense is good, but you can't avoid the turnover argument just by ruling it out. Both defenses will have to force turnovers that make life easier for their respective offenses if they want points scored. FSU is minus-1 in turnover margin, while Florida is plus-13. That will tell the story of this game.
Simonton: It could, but so could penalties (two teams are actually close, UF is 95th and FSU is 85th in the nation… aka, undisciplined), pass protection (huge disparity, Gators have allowed 11 more sacks on 99 fewer attempts) and 3rd down conversions (another big FSU advantage). You dabbled in the 'what if game' earlier, so I'll join you. Check out this stat: When you take a look at the Seminoles' turnover margin, luck has played a significant role in their negative edge. Florida State has lost 13 of 18 fumbles. Conversely, Florida has lost just eight of 17 fumbles. Flip the results and suddenly UF's considerable advantage disappears (see: UGA loss). Look, I think the -7-point spread is ridiculous. If this game were in the Swamp there's no way FSU would be favored by a field goal, but it's in Doak, the teams are quite even and while I know the Gators are still wearing the same jerseys, this isn't the team that whipped LSU.
Holt: For the past four weeks, you're right: These aren't the same Gators that physically dominated Crazy Les' Tigers. I've written about that and I agree with it. I'm not convinced that Florida's regression is a permanent one. It's totally possible that Brent Pease has thrown everything he has against the wall to coach around leading an offense with a serious talent deficiency, but I'm not buying it until I see it in a big game. The Gators have out-coached the opposition in every big game they have played this season, an 84-turnover performance at Shahid Khan Field giving them their only blemish in those games. Plenty of offense coordinators would shrug their shoulders at this point and wait until the recruiting process gives them actual playmakers, but I see Pease putting together an efficient game plan Saturday and that's all the Gators need. In the end, the hype of this game may be a throwback to the '90s, but the game itself will be a throwback to a much earlier time. Points will be few and far between, but I say Florida wins 10-6 in a game that summarizes what it has been all season.
Simonton: Can this team regain its spark? Maybe, I just have some serious doubts. If I knew the Florida team that dropped three top-15 BCS schools earlier in the season would show up, there'd be little question. But I don't. The Gators' "lack of sexiness," is a fun story with a great one liner via Muschamp, but all it does is excuse the team's true deficiencies. The irony here is I have little faith in FSU, but simply less in Florida. Yes UF's defense is really good, but lets not act like it's the '85 Bears. With two very similar teams, I think the game is going to come down to offensive line play and the Gators' banged-up unit may once again have its hands full facing another set of powerful edge rushers. I see you on the throwback game, only you don't have to search very far (see: 2011). FSU wins 10-9. First downs are again optional.


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Molyneux: 'monetisation is slightly disgusting to talk about'
Peter Molyneux has discussed the love-hate relationship between developers and monetisation in a new interview, calling it a 'disgusting' discussion for studios to have. The developer's indie studio 22 Cans has just this week launched its debut app Curiosity: What's Inside the Cube? – a game which will soon include microtransactions.
Speaking with GI.biz, Molyneux touched on the subject of in-game payments, and stated, "For a developer, monetisation is still slightly disgusting to talk about.
"You're not supposed to do this for money. But, actually, if you all pin us down and put a bright light in our eyes, feed us truth drugs, I bet all of us would be. Well, you need money, let's be honest."
Molyneux's Curiosity app rewards players with coins for tapping away at a giant cube, but soon booster payments will be integrated into its store. Regardless the developer isn't pleased with the way some indies milk players for cash.
"The thing that we're disgusted about, in the indie world, is greed," Molyneux continued. "I've got this big thing about free-to-play at the moment: in a lot of freemium games I've played it's obvious to me that they just want to wring me for everything I've got, in the shortest possible time. That's all.
"They want to squeeze me into ten hours of gameplay, get everything out of me, spit me out and that's it. And that's wrong. In a lot of free-to-play games I've felt dirty about spending money: I feel like I cheated, I feel like I'm impatient, I feel like I'm bored."
The Curiosity cube has now reached its second layer after launching on Tuesday, and the coin store has yet to allow microtransactions. See the start of layer two here.


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FILE - In this April 18, 2007, file photo, former New York Mayor Ed Koch listens during the 9th annual National Action Network convention in New York. Koch, the combative politician who rescued the city from near-financial ruin during three City Hall terms, has died at age 88. Spokesman George Arzt says Koch died Friday morning Feb. 1, 2013 of congestive heart failure. (AP Photo/Frank Franklin II, File)


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Helmut Jahn, (born January 4, 1940, Nürnberg, Germany), German-born American architect known for his postmodern steel-and-glass structures.
After graduating from the Technische Hochschule in Munich in 1965, Jahn moved to Chicago to study at the Illinois Institute of Technology, a school long associated with the Modernist aesthetic of Ludwig Mies van der Rohe and his followers. On the basis of this solid design background, Jahn was hired by Chicago architectural firm C.F. Murphy Associates to work on the Miesian design for McCormick Place (1968–71) in Chicago. The firm was later renamed Murphy/Jahn, with Jahn becoming its president and CEO in 1983. In 2012 it became known as JAHN.
In the late 1970s and '80s Jahn made his mark, designing extravagant buildings that combined historical and contextual references—the central tenets of postmodern architecture—with high-tech engineering solutions. The most notable, and at times controversial, example from this period is his State of Illinois Center (1979–85) in Chicago. Its plan refers to the American tradition of centrally planned domed state capitols. At the same time, its dramatic blue-and-pink glass-and-steel appearance and spectacular (if noisy and difficult to climatize) central atrium makes a bold modern statement about the open nature of government. Jahn created other notable buildings in Chicago, including the steel-and-glass arched roofs of the United Airlines Terminal at O'Hare International Airport (1983–87). This shed is evocative of the grand Victorian railroad stations of the 19th century, while it also utilizes whimsical light and sound effects. His projects in the late 1980s and '90s included a series of international skyscrapers, such as Two Liberty Place (1989–91) in Philadelphia and several international Hyatt hotels.
By the turn of the 21st century, Jahn's buildings were beginning to sprout all over the United States and, indeed, the world. Notable later examples include the Munich Airport Center (1990–99) and the SONY Center in Berlin (1993–2000). In these later works, Jahn moved away from historicist forms, a quality sometimes criticized in his early work, and instead adopted a more-understated vocabulary rooted in European Modernism and, more important, straightforward engineering solutions. The Mansueto Library (completed 2011) that he designed for the University of Chicago campus gave further evidence of his melding of design and engineering. The elliptical tear-shaped glass-and-steel structure provided a light-filled reading room that disguised several stories of underground book storage and a state-of-the-art robotic book-retrieval system.


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Within a [[community]], a '''decision''' can be made in various different ways and for many different reasons.
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==Decision mechanisms==
==Decision mechanisms==
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Within a community, a decision can be made in various different ways and for many different reasons.
Decision mechanisms
Decisions can be made by:
- Edict - where a leader makes a decision. This is the preferred method of authoritarianism.
- Compromise - where competing parties negotiate a resolution they each hope will provide them with the most benefit while still being able to get buy-in from other parties. This is the preferred method of representative democracy.
- Synthesis - where competing parties seek a novel solution which satisfies all of the primary objectives of each party by deeply examining the root cause of their disagreement. This is the preferred mechanism of collaborative governance.
A community needs a pre-defined instrument to define the conditions under which a decision has been reached. The generic term for this is a charter, though it is variously known as:
- constitution - for governments
- articles of incorporation/association/organization, or operating agreement - for corporations and companies
- charter - for organizations in general
See the Wikipedia article on charters.
The charter for a community is in a sense its first and most fundamental decision. There is somewhat of a dilemma in adopting a community charter because there is no pre-defined decision rule to define when the charter has been adopted, other than unanimity or any previous charter.
Decision contexts
A community needs to make many different kinds of decisions in order to function stably.
Laws of civil order
Most communities, especially governments, have rules against behavior which is deemed to damage the society or members of the society. The most common is a rule against murder, though there are countless others.
Sometimes communities pass laws which prohibit (or require) certain behavior because the majority or consensus of that society believes that that behavior is ethically bad (or good). This can be seen as a kind of law of civil order, because proponents believe that unethical behavior damages the fabric of the society.
Regulations declare that when certain conditions are met, people are required to act a certain way. Examples:
- When two automobiles approach an intersection, regulations determine how they should behave.
- When a business produces a product for general distribution, a regulation may require that the business make verifiable declarations about the product (such as a list of ingredients in a food product).
Community projects and services
When a community decides to take an action that affects several members of the community, there can be competing interests which need to be weighed.
For example, when building a new community structure such as a bridge, there are questions of:
- Should the community spend communal funds on the project
- Where should the bridge be placed
- If building the bridge negatively impacts one or more community members, how is their concern weighed against the value of the bridge.
Bureaucratic actions
As part of a community's functioning, there are bureaucratic tasks that need to be tended to, such as managing funds, hiring and paying staff and vendors, and other "day-to-day" decisions.
Responses to events
A community needs to react to external events, and this usually requires making a decision. These events include such things as natural disasters or threats of violence from external people.
When laws or policies are made, they are usually enforced through some threat of violence.
In the case of governments, these usually entail fines, imprisonment, banishment, or death.
In the case of other communities, these often entail expulsion from the community or sanctions (fines, limitation of privileges, etc.).
(Note that while banishment/exclusion is conventionally a form of violence, it can have a seemingly less violent connotation in the case of online communities excluding a member. That action is not necessary an act of violence if the outcome is simply the redefinition of community structure. An example would be in an free and open source software project, when one group forks into a new project. There is community division, but no actual harm.)
Further reading
- Regulation on Wikipedia
- Decision theory on Wikipedia
- Consensus
- Synthesis
- Majority rule
- Collaborative governance


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(CBS News) The Alabama hostage drama is now in its seventh day. The 5-year-old boy held captive underground by Jimmy Lee Dykes remains underground and could spend his birthday as a hostage. The boy, identified only as Ethan, turns six on Wednesday.
Police tell CBS News they still have an open line of communication with the Dykes, but almost a full week into this standoff, very little has changed.
Details about communications with the suspect Dykes, remain scarce. Dykes did allow police to lower crackers and a red hot wheels car into the underground bunker for his hostage.
Cindy Steiner, a friend of Ethan's family, told CBS News he has autism. She said, "He's crying, he wants his momma, he's never really been away from her."
Police said Dykes appears to be caring for Ethan. Sheriff Wally Olson said in a recent press conference, "Thank you for taking care of our child."
Neighbors remember Dykes for his anti-government rants. A source told CBS News senior producer Pat Milton that Dykes is a decorated Vietnam-era veteran. He served in the Navy in the late 1960s, based in Japan and California and received awards for good conduct.
CBS News senior correspondent John Miller, a former FBI assistant director, who has been involved in other hostage and standoff situations, said there are some good signs in this situation. He said Dykes' caring for the boy is a sign of bonding. "You can see that when Dykes asks for coloring books, crayons. He allows medication to come in," he said. "He's trying to provide for this boy, so as time goes on, that bond should increase.
For John Miller's full analysis, watch the video in the player below.
"It also happens with the negotiators. There's going to be a primary negotiator who started this conversation and a backup negotiator and then over this many days they're going to be others. He's going develop relationships and trust as he asks for things and they give him things and they ask for things in return. ... That can only get better, probably not worse."
Miller said the situation with Dykes may be controlled to some extent by negotiators, but depends largely on Dykes' own rollercoaster or emotions. Miller explained, "One would argue this might not be a stable person, so they have to manage that in that conversation and sometimes they may want to do a controlled probe to stir things up if there's no conversation, but otherwise they may want to talk him down if he's getting excited. But they want to keep that even if they can."
Explaining what a controlled probe is, Miller said it's a possible tactic "when somebody breaks off conversation, you can stir things up. Make some noise, do something provocative. That will usually generate a phone call. And then at least you've got a conversation going on. On the other hand, when somebody is getting very excited for perspective, they say, let's see where things are. 'The kid's fine, you're fine, let's bring this down a notch.'"
Children in the area will return to school Monday for the first time since the shooting.
On Sunday, just miles from the standoff, hundreds gathered to remember slain bus driver Charles Poland, Jr. Police say Dykes shot Poland Tuesday, when he stormed this school bus demanding child hostages.
Robbie Batchelor, a fellow school bus driver, said of Poland, "He laid down his life for the kids on the bus."
Twenty children on that bus escaped.
Watch Manuel Bojorquez's full report in the video above.


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September/October 2011
Among the usual conference suspects were drugs, drugs, and drugs! Here are some of the findings on how HIV drugs compare to one another:
In an advanced Phase 3 study, elvitegravir was found to be non-inferior to Isentress. Isentress (generic name raltegravir) has been known for its combination of power and tolerability and is one of four drugs recommended by U.S. treatment guidelines for people taking HIV therapy for the first time, as well as being FDA approved for treatment-experienced people. Isentress, from Merck & Co., is currently the only HIV integrase inhibitor.
At 48 weeks, 59% of the 351 participants given elvitegravir vs. 58% of the 351 individuals given Isentress achieved undetectable viral loads of less than 50 copies/mL. T-cell count increases were also similar (138 for elvitegravir and 147 for Isentress). Side effects included diarrhea, nausea, and bronchitis, and did not differ between the two drugs.
These study participants were highly treatment-experienced, and the majority had HIV with drug resistance to at least two classes of antiviral medication. This group experiences less treatment success than people starting anti-HIV therapy for the first time. All the participants also received a fully active boosted protease inhibitor drug (meaning that their virus was not resistant to it). Still, one in five participants in both groups experienced virologic failure (detectable viral load). Only a minority of those, however, had drug resistance to the integrase inhibitor drug class (approximately 20%).
The study is continuing out to 96 weeks. Elvitegravir is also being studied in two other Phase 3 studies in treatment-naive people (taking therapy for the first time), as part of a complete regimen-in-one-pill known as the Quad. The four medications in the Quad are Truvada (made up of Viread and Emtriva) and elvitegravir boosted with cobicistat.
Edurant (generic name rilpivirine) was approved by the FDA in May. At IAS, Janssen Therapeutics presented 96-week data from two of its Phase 3 studies with Edurant (ECHO and THRIVE). Edurant and Sustiva (both from the drug class non-nucleoside reverse transcriptase inhibitors, NNRTIs or non-nukes) had similar viral load decreases out to 96 weeks: 78% of participants taking either drug had undetectable viral loads. People taking Edurant, however, had twice the virologic failure rate of those taking Sustiva, 14% vs. 8%. They also had a higher rate of never having achieved undetectable viral load to begin with, 7% of the Edurant group vs. 3% of the Sustiva group. On the other hand, participants given Sustiva had a higher rate of side effects, including discontinuation due to a drug-related adverse event (9% of the Sustiva group vs. 4% of the Edurant group).
Merck & Co. reported on nearly five years of data with Isentress. At 240 weeks, 69% of the 160 study participants taking an Isentress regimen had an undetectable viral load, compared to 63% of the 38 individuals taking a Sustiva regimen. T-cell increases were also similar, 302 cells for the Isentress group and 276 for the Sustiva group. Drug-related adverse events were higher in the Sustiva group -- 76% vs. 55% for those taking Isentress. All participants were taking HIV therapy for the first time.
An HIV drug therapy backbone usually consists of nucleoside medications, the oldest HIV drug class. Although the nukes have come a long way, there's interest in moving on to regimens that don't depend on them. Two studies looked at whether the CCR5 inhibitor Selzentry (maraviroc) could replace the popular nuke backbone of Truvada. Of note, Selzentry was given only once daily, at a dose of 150, rather than its FDA approved dose of 150 mg twice daily. That's because the studies combined it with a boosted protease inhibitor (PI) medication (one taken with a small dose of Norvir). Most boosted PIs allow once-daily Selzentry to reach the plasma concentration that it shows with twice-daily dosing.
Italian researchers conducted a small proof-of-concept study comparing an established combination of Kaletra/Truvada against a novel regimen consisting of Kaletra with Selzentry in treatment-naive patients. They reported more effective immune and virologic response with Selzentry. The Selzentry group had a greater increase in T-cell count (226 vs. 125 for the Truvada group). The Selzentry group also had a faster time to undetectable viral load (at 24 weeks) in 79% of participants vs. 14% of those in the Truvada group. However, of the 37 patients who reached 48 weeks, there was no statistically significant difference in undetectable viral load, which was achieved by 94.7% of the 19 persons taking Kaletra/Selzentry vs. 83% of the 18 individuals given Kaletra/Truvada. More research is needed to confirm the study's results.
In an early Phase 2b study, Pfizer compared Selzentry in combination with boosted Reyataz (generic name atazanavir and a small dose of Norvir) to boosted Reyataz/Truvada. Again, Selzentry was taken once daily. At 48 weeks, 75% of the Selzentry group vs. 84% of the Truvada group had undetectable viral loads. These are from small numbers of participants, 59 in the Selzentry group and 61 in the Truvada group. The study will go into Phase 3 later this year, enrolling more participants.
Pfizer also reported pooled results from its MOTIVATE studies looking at Selzentry with boosted PIs. The retrospective analysis found that, as expected, the efficacy of a once-daily Selzentry dose of 150 mg was similar to that of 150 mg taken twice daily. At 48 weeks, 46% of the once-daily group vs. 48% of the twice-daily group had undetectable viral loads. Selzentry, however, cannot be taken once daily with Aptivus and if taken once daily with Lexiva, must be a 300 mg dose. The study reported that once-daily Selzentry worked for these treatment-experienced participants even when they had high viral load or low T-cell counts at the beginning of the study.
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RV America Insurance Partnering with Agency
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Viva La Brand (http://www.vivalabrand.com), the Cleveland marketing strategy consultancy, announced that it was selected by RV America Insurance (http://www.rvainsurance.com) to lead its marketing strategy efforts.
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Combining Local Treatment With Global Therapy
By Kevin Jardine, DC, Med. Ac., CSCS, ART
he evolution of modern health care practices has required professions to take a "divide and conquer" approach to understanding the body and what ails it. This is understandable; after all, there is seemingly endless information pertaining to the human body.No one individual can learn and understand all aspects of human health and disease. This has created an environment of specialization. In manual medicine, it has also led to the breakdown of the human body into distinct areas of isolation, often looking for a single pathoanatomical diagnosis.
Moving Beyond Localized Care
As chiropractors, we are well-positioned to provide care while keeping in mind the patient as a whole, rather than just a single condition. However, for various reasons, including the confinement of modern insurance requirements, we often find ourselves looking for a specific diagnosis based on the most severe issues associated with the presenting complaint.
Let's review of the importance of looking beyond the patient's initial complaint when providing care as a way to improve treatment outcomes, beginning by reviewing a few facts we have come to understand in manual medicine:
In many cases we have to view ourselves as detectives. Other than acute cases, multiple events or stressors generally create the scenario for which our patient presents. It is our role to help piece the puzzle together to gain a clear perspective of how the patient ended up where they are. Once you do this, you are far better suited to help them overcome their injury.
To communicate this with my patients, I talk to them about local treatment and global therapy. This has had a huge impact on patient compliance and retention. They learn, for example, that yes, I will be treating their knee pain (the reason they came in), but in order to help prevent it from coming back, we may need to work on muscles around the pelvis. The additional "global therapy," including hands-on treatment and exercises, may take place even when the knee pain has subsided.
My patients learn that pain is a terrible indicator of progress and that in order to get the best results possible, we have to be able to differentiate between victims and criminals. In the case of localized knee pain, the knee, being the joint between the two longest bones in the body, is often the victim. The criminals can often be poor femoral rotatory control from weak gluteal muscles or poor ability to maintain the proper architecture of the foot, leading to excessive pronation.
Two Clinical Examples
As an example, consider a patient I recently treated who presented with a broken clavicle. Sure, the diagnosis is a non-displaced fracture of the left clavicle; but does it really end there? Even if we are dealing with repetitive-strain injuries, the ripple effect of dysfunction far exceeds the localization of the presenting complaint. The patient initially had been told that the fracture would heal and that there wasn't anything therapy could do to help heal the fracture. Directly, this may be true, although even that could be up for debate. Regardless, indirectly several different things could be done to help improve the patient's outcome while increasing their likelihood of preventing future complications.
A case like this is a perfect example of having to provide local treatment to the main area of complaint, but then providing global therapy as well to address other related aggravations or exacerbations that have resulted from the injury. In the case of a broken clavicle, you will often need to start with the global therapy first in order to restore healthy function to the maximum degree possible, while reducing the likelihood of aggravation and secondary injuries. With my patient, I had to evaluate the extent of the damage both locally and globally. This included screening for neck trauma and signs of concussion, as well as soft-tissue damage.
With an injury such as this, the dynamic support of the shoulder girdle would also be compromised due to nociceptive drive to the central nervous system, leading to alterations in muscular tone as well as deficits in motor control.5-6 The bruising often associated with clavicle fracture also acts like battery acid, leading to irritation of the free nerve endings – further complicating the healing process.
Some of the treatment techniques I use include instrument-assisted soft-tissue technique, which can be employed to help stimulate the recovery process and restore function to key muscles trying to support the shoulder in its time of need. The use of elastic therapeutic tape can also be of immense benefit for helping to improve your treatment outcomes. Last year at the London Olympics, a Canadian mountain biker crashed two days before her competition and completely broke her clavicle. She was devastated, as you can imagine. She was evaluated by an orthopedic surgeon and the clavicle was not displaced, so she made the decision to race.
I know some of you are thinking, "Why would she still race?" This is something I cannot answer. That's a decision only the athlete can make. Think about focusing four years of your life on one goal: to compete at the Olympics. Then imagine having that dream torn away from you when you are so close. You would do anything to prevent that from happening, right?
This is an example of some of the difficult situations both athletes and therapists face when working at this level of athletics. There is a clear difference between being a sports therapist and an event practitioner. As an event practitioner, you can be faced with difficult situations in which you have to patch up the athlete, get them through the event, and hope that no significant damage has been done. Situations like these represent some of the most trying times in my career, because you have to prioritize performance outcomes over health.
In this case, the use of elastic therapeutic tape proved to be crucial. It is what allowed this athlete to race her Olympic dream and ultimately place 24th. Use of the tape helped me achieve two things. It helped provide neurosensory stimulation to the skin around the shoulder in order to modulate the nociceptive input, leading to a reduction in discomfort. It also helped keep the head of the humerus from dropping forward, which places more stress and strain on the shoulder joint, especially the triceps and teres muscle groups. This is a common presentation for shoulder injuries such as acromioclavicular separations and clavicular fractures. Here is an example (see images) of the taping procedure for a broken clavicle as performed on a top professional cyclist weeks before competing in the World Championships. I used a universal X over the deltoid, applied using a neurosensory technique. Then I applied a larger, pre-cut hip application over the shoulder using a structural technique to help pull the shoulder back into proper alignment.
Treating local and thinking global helps formulate better treatment plans. It also helps educate your patients on the process behind their path to recovery. Finding effective ways to communicate with your patients, as well as developing a broad range of new skills, can provide you an edge that helps build a successful practice.
I have always placed my technical skills second to the importance of communicating with patients. The local treatment / global therapy approach has become a pillar in my communication strategy. In today's go-go-go world, patient expectations need to be properly managed if you want them to stick with you.
Another communication strategy I use with my patients is equating their presenting complaint with playing Dominoes. To knock the Dominoes down is easy, and once started, it creates a chain of momentum that knocks more and more down. The injury the patient is aggravated with may actually be the last Domino in the chain, not the one that initiated the problem.
I also use the Domino analogy to explain why it takes longer to treat something than it does to get it in the first place. As you knock the Dominoes down, momentum takes over; to build them back up, you have to do it one by one. I find this explanation helps manage patient expectations and leads them to the realization that health and recovery after an injury is a process, not an event.
I hope you have found this information helpful. Give it a try in your practice and let me know how it works out. I would also like to hear of any great communication strategies or analogies you are using in your practice.
Dr. Kevin Jardine graduated from the Canadian Memorial Chiropractic College in 2002 after completing undergraduate studies at the University of New Brunswick. An expert in the field of elastic therapeutic taping, Dr. Jardine focuses primarily on sports therapy and performance, treating and consulting with numerous athletes and teams. He is also president and CEO of Collaborans (www.collaborans.com), which provides interactive digital education for health care and fitness professionals, and can be contacted with questions and comments via e-mail:


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Bruce Taylor, Hugh Greene, Matt Brockelman, Fred Franklin, Joy Korman, Rad Lovett, Oscar Munoz, Joannie Newton, Lynn Pappas, Myron Pincomb, Patrick Plumlee, Lanny Russell, Sharon Wamble-King
Chair Taylor called the workshop to order.
Chair Taylor asked for a MOTION to approve the minutes from the October 18, 2011 and January 17, 2012 workshops. A MOTION was offered and seconded. Both sets of minutes were approved as presented.
Chair Taylor asked Provost Workman to frame this discussion.
Provost Workman stated that the current mission was revised about five years ago and was advanced by faculty with different disciplines, ranks and tenure. He noted that the Board of Trustees and the Board of Governors had evolved, as well as the academic environment; thus, it was timely to review statements to make sure these accurately represented the institution.
Provost Workman observed that education should be at the heart of the mission, with an emphasis to discovery and application of knowledge. He clarified that faculty should be committed to research, but first and foremost to student learning.
Provost Workman mentioned that 70 percent of UNF's students remained in the region, making clear that the future of the city was dependent on the quality of students the institution graduated. He noted that the current mission identified inclusivity and a broad range of students, committed to cultural, social and civic growth.
Provost Workman clarified the difference between the vision and mission, stating that the mission should describe what the institution is and what the current commitments are. And the vision should be where the institution is to move. He spoke about the current mission, explaining that UNF's peers identified the institution as regional and metropolitan. As for the vision, UNF is a destination institution for students, comprehensive and grounded in liberal arts and sciences. Additionally, UNF's campus maintains a communal spirit and beautiful presence.
Provost Workman spoke about the Board of Governor's goals and UNF's responsibility to address those goals. He noted that the institution could define a purpose within those goals, upholding differentiation and exception.
President Delaney talked about mission statements from UNF's peers and Chair Taylor discussed how those peers were chosen. Chair Taylor asked trustees to join the discussion.
Trustees discussed the current vision and mission statement, with a consensus that Provost Workman would consider their thoughts and return for additional discussion. However, they did not think we should shift our goals to perfectly match the Board of Governors' goals.
Chair Taylor thanked trustees for their time and contribution. He adjourned the workshop.
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Overcoming Despair as the Republicans Take Over: A Conversation with Noam Chomsky
Michael Lerner (ML): You have made many excellent analyses of the power of global capital and its capacity to undermine ordinary citizens' efforts to transform the global reality toward a more humane and generous world. If there were a serious movement in the U.S. ready to challenge global capital, what should such a movement do? Or is it, as many believe, hopeless, given the power of capital to control the media, undermine democratic movements, and use the police/military power and the co-optive power of mass entertainment, endless spectacle, and financial compensations for many of the smartest people coming up through working-class and middle-income routes? What path is rational for a movement seeking to build a world of environmental sanity, social justice, and peace, yet facing such a sophisticated, powerful, and well-organized social order?
Noam Chomsky (NC): There is no doubt that concentrated private capital closely linked to the state has substantial resources, but on the other hand we shouldn't overlook the fact that quite a bit has been achieved through public struggles in the U.S. over the years. In many respects this remains an unusually free country. The state has limited power to coerce, compared with many other countries, which is a very good thing. Many rights have been won, even in the past generation, and that provides a legacy from which we can move on. Struggling for freedom and justice has never been easy, but it has achieved progress; I don't think we should assume that there are any particular limits.
At the moment we can't realistically talk about challenging global capital, because the movements that might undertake such a task are far too scattered and atomized and focused on particular issues. But we can try to confront directly what global capital is doing right now and, on the basis of that, move on to further achievements. For example, it's no big secret that in the past thirty years there has been enormous concentration of wealth in a very tiny part of the population, 1 percent or even one-tenth of 1 percent, and that has conferred extraordinary political power on a very tiny minority, primarily [those who control] financial capital, but also more broadly on the executive and managerial classes. At the same time, for the majority of the population, incomes have pretty much stagnated, working hours have increased, benefits have declined — they were never very good — and people are angry, hostile, and very upset. Many people distrust institutions, all of them; it's a volatile period, and it's a period which could move in a very dangerous direction — there are analogues, after all — but it could also provide opportunities to educate and organize and carry things forward. One may have a long-term goal of confronting global capital, but there have to be small steps along the way before you could even think of undertaking a challenge of that magnitude in a realistic way.
Worker-Managed Businesses
ML: Do you see any strategy for overcoming the fragmentation that exists among social movements to help people recognize an overriding shared agenda?
NC: One failing of the social movements that I've noticed over many years is that while they are focusing on extremely crucial and important social issues like women's rights, environmental protections, and so on, they have tended to ignore or downplay the economic and social crises faced by working people. It's not that they are completely ignored, but they are downplayed. And that has to be overcome, and there are ways to do it. So, to take a concrete example right near where I live, right now there is a town near Boston where a multinational corporation is closing down a local plant because it's not profitable enough from the point of view of the multinational. Members of the workforce have offered to purchase the plant and the equipment, and the multinational doesn't want to do that; it would rather lose money than offer the opportunity for a worker self-managed plant that might well become successful. And the multinational has the power to do what it wants, of course. But sufficient popular support — community support, activist support, and so on — could swing the balance. Things like that are happening all over the country.
Take Obama's virtual takeover of the auto industry. There were several options at that point. One option, which the Obama administration chose, was to restore the old order, assist in the closing of plants, the shifting of production abroad and so on, and maybe get a functioning auto industry again. Another option would have been to take over those plants — plants that are being dismantled — and convert them to things that are very badly needed in the country, like high-speed rail — it's a scandal that the United States doesn't have this kind of infrastructure, which many other countries have developed. In fact at the very time that Obama was closing down plants in the Midwest, his transportation secretary was in Europe trying to get contracts from Spain for high-speed rail construction, which could have been done in those very plants that were being dismantled.
To move in the direction that I suggest would take substantial organization, community support, national support, and recognition that worker self-managed production aimed at real social needs is an option that can be pursued; if it is pursued, you move to a pretty radical stage of consciousness, and it could go on and on from there. Unfortunately, that was not even discussed.
Amend the Constitution?
ML: Tikkun and the Network of Spiritual Progressives have proposed the Environmental and Social Responsibility Amendment to the Constitution or ESRA [read it at spiritualprogressives.org/ESRA], which we think could potentially unite many segments of the liberal and progressive forces in this country. It starts with a first clause that essentially takes money out of national elections by forbidding private money in elections and requiring that they be funded by public sources. It overturns Citizens United, it requires the mass media to give equal and free time to all major candidates, and it bans any private advertising in the months before an election. It then goes on to the issues of corporate environmental and social responsibility and requires that any corporation with income above $100 million per year would have to get a new corporate charter once every five years; to get the charter, a corporation would have to prove a satisfactory history of environmental and social responsibility to a jury of ordinary citizens so as to avoid the control of regulatory agencies by the people they are supposed to be regulating.
I wonder if this kind of idea makes sense to you, not as something that is likely to pass but as something that is likely to frame an agenda that is potentially unifying and that does give people a concrete vision of what it might look like to get significant advances toward democratic control of the society and some semblance of responsibility from corporations.
NC: I think those are ideas that I would endorse. I'm sure that they can be used for organizing and education, but until those organizing and educational efforts reach a much higher plateau than anyone can envision today, the proposals are impossible to implement. So yes, as a platform for organizing and bringing people together, ideas of that kind make good sense, as do the kind I mentioned, and many others, but work has to be done.
ML: Dennis Kucinich has promised to introduce this into Congress. It's not something that we're expecting to have passed in this current Congress, but something that — if we can get them endorsed by local city councils and state legislatures — might raise the kinds of issues that right now are not even in the public sphere at all.
NC: It's a reasonable tactic, especially trying to implement it at the local level. There are things you can do with local councils, communities, and maybe someday state legislatures that aren't really feasible at the congressional level, and that is a way of building popular organizations.
Run a Progressive Candidate against Obama in 2012?
ML: Now in trying to find a way to bring together some of the forces that responded to what they believed to be a progressive candidacy in the Obama campaign of 2008, I wonder what you think of the notion of trying to create a progressive candidacy to oppose Obama in the 2012 Democratic primaries, and to use that effort to build a public face for a progressive opposition that could then split the Democrats and create a third party with a greater mass base than the Greens.
NC: You know, that's sort of a difficult tactical question. My own guess is that efforts that are undertaken at the national level make sense if they're connected to a program of local organizing. I think we're very far from being able to carry out large-scale changes at the national level.
You could see the limitations of a national campaign in the 2008 election. A tremendous amount of energy and excitement was generated, but it was clear from the beginning that it was going to head toward severe disillusionment because there was nothing real there — it was based on illusion. And when people dedicate themselves and work hard to try to bring about something that is illusory, there's going to be a negative effect, which in fact happened, so there's been tremendous disillusionment, apathy, pulling away, and so on.
Organize Locally, Defend Public Sector Unions
I think we should be careful to set realistic goals — they don't have to succeed, but if they fail, the failure itself can be used as a basis to go on, and that's not the case when you get involved in national electoral politics. So the kind of suggestion you make, I think it can be developed in such a way that would be constructive. But making clear that the real goal is the development of the kind of organization that can change things on the ground; it may ultimately have a national impact, but only when it's developed far beyond what it is right now.
It's not a great secret that the business classes in the United States, which are always fighting a bitter class war and are highly class-conscious, have been dedicated to destroying unions ever since the 1930s. And they've succeeded considerably in the private sphere, but not yet as successfully in the public sphere, and that's what's being targeted now: a major effort, a propaganda effort — the media are participating, both parties are involved — to try and undermine public unions. And that's one of the points on this attack on public working people, turning them into the criminals that were responsible for the fiscal crisis. Not Goldman Sachs, but the teachers and policemen and so on.
We just saw that take place in Washington a couple of months ago. There was a big issue — the great achievement of the lame-duck Congress was supposed to have been a bipartisan agreement on taxes. Well, the crucial issue there was whether to extend Bush's tax cuts for the very wealthy. The population was strongly opposed to that, maybe two to one, but the Democrats and Obama, instead of making use of that fact to try to eliminate that huge tax break for the rich, went along with it.
At the same time, both parties were trying to outdo each other and screaming about the danger of the federal deficit, when the fact of the matter is that we ought to be having a deficit in a time of recession. It's an incredible propaganda achievement, for the Republicans particularly, to advocate a tax cut for the very wealthy that is extremely unpopular and that will of course substantially increase the deficit, and at the very same time present themselves as deficit hawks who are trying to protect future generations. But that's only part of it, because at the very same time, Obama declared a tax increase for federal workers — it was called a pay freeze, but a pay freeze for workers in the public sector is the same as a tax increase on those workers. So here, a lot of shouting about how we're cutting taxes and overcoming the deficit, and at the same time we're raising taxes on public-sector workers.
This is part of the large propaganda campaign to try to undermine the public sector: demonizing teachers, police, and firemen with all kinds of fabrications about how they are overpaid, when in fact they're underpaid relative to the skill levels in the private sector — denouncing their pensions and so on. These are major propaganda efforts, a kind of class war, and that ought to be combated, and I think that public opinion can be organized to combat it. Those are very concrete things that are happening right now, like the possibility of ending the closing down of factories and the mass suffering that it leads to, and turning that into something really radical: mainly worker self-managed production for human needs.
ML: Now, let's imagine that the things that you're saying, which right now are heard by a tiny percentage of the population, could be heard by virtue of somebody articulating them in a presidential primary against Obama — wouldn't that, in and of itself, be of value? Particularly if that person were going to simultaneously be saying, "and we can't expect to get the changes we want simply through the Democratic Party, so we need to use this campaign also to bring together people who are willing to continue this struggle as part of an organization that works both inside and outside the Democratic Party."
NC: I think that should be done. I don't know that one should necessarily take a strong stand on whether it should be a third party or change the Democratic Party — both are options. After all, the New Deal did succeed in changing the Democratic Party through the mechanism of popular activism.
ML: So you're not one of those on the left who say it's simply a poison to continue working inside the Democratic Party?
NC: I'm not coming out in favor of working inside the Democratic Party or opposing working inside the Democratic Party, I'm just saying I don't see a point in taking a strong stand on that question. If it can be done [inside the party], fine; if it can't be done, do it outside. In fact, it's a little bit like a standard progressive approach to reformist goals — the goal is to press institutional structures to their limits. If in fact they can't be pressed any further, and people understand that, then you have the basis for going onto something more far-reaching.
You Run. No, You Run.
ML: So knowing no one that has a better understanding of these dynamics than you, would you be willing to be a candidate for the presidency?
NC: I'm not the proper person to be a candidate. So personally, no, it's not the kind of thing I can do.
ML: Since you have the analysis and can articulate it so clearly, why would you not be a good candidate?
NC: In our system, a candidate has to be someone who is an orator, or someone with some charisma, someone who tries to arouse emotions. I don't do that, and, if I could do it, I wouldn't. I'm not the right kind of person.
ML: That might be just why you're the right person. The right kind of person is precisely the person who wouldn't want to do it.
NC: Well, you do it. Your writing is very, very good.
ML: Okay, thanks Noam.
[I've already stated publicly that I'll run the moment some group of wealthy people donate a billion dollars to that campaign so that we can hire organizers that would work on building a movement that grows out of the campaign and focuses on the environment, peace, social justice, economic democracy, human rights, and the New Bottom Line proposed by the Network of Spiritual Progressives. Until then, I'll continue to edit Tikkun; work on building the Network of Spiritual Progressives' campaigns for the ESRA and for a Global Marshall Plan; write books on theology, psychology, and social transformation; and spend time in prayer and meditation and celebration of the grandeur and mystery of the universe. And while Tikkun and the NSP don't participate in electoral politics (they are nonprofits banned from doing so), I personally have been reaching out to better-known figures like Bill Moyers, Marian Wright Edelman, Senator Bernie Sanders, Rachel Maddow, and former Congressman Joe Sestak in the hopes that they and others might join together in an effort to build that kind of electoral campaign in 2012.]
ML: Do you have any other strategic advice for those of us who are seeking a transformation of our system?
The Urgent Threats of Climate Change and Nuclear War
NC: I don't think there are any deep, dark secrets about this. There are many specific goals that we ought to be working hard to achieve; some of them are those that you've formulated in ESRA, others are the kind that I've mentioned.
Then there are others that are overwhelming in importance. For example, the looming global environmental crisis, which raises questions of species survival. It's very urgent right now. Even some in the business press over at Business Week are nervous about the fact that the new Republicans that were elected are almost entirely climate-change deniers. In fact they quoted one recently who may be gaining the chair of an important committee, who is so off-the-wall he said, "We don't have to worry about global warming because God wouldn't allow it to happen." I don't think there's another country in the world where a political figure can get away with that. Yet here there has been a major corporate propaganda offensive, quite openly announced, to try to convince people that the environmental crisis is a liberal hoax. And it's had some success, according to the latest polls. The percentage of Americans who believe in anthropogenic global warming, human effects on climate change, is down to about a third. This is an extremely dangerous situation: it's imminent; we have to do something about it right now.
There are other issues that deserve our immediate attention. The threat of nuclear war is very serious, and in fact is being increased by government policy. Right now one of the more interesting revelations from the WikiLeaks cables has to do with Pakistan: it's obvious from the cables that the U.S. ambassador is well aware that the actions that the Obama administration is taking with regard to Afghanistan and Pakistan are increasing a very serious threat to the stability of Pakistan itself, and are raising the possibility, not trivial, that the country might fall apart, and that its huge store of nuclear weapons might end up in the hands of radical Islamists. I know there's not a high probability, but it's conceivable, and what we're doing is accelerating that threat. Also, supporting India's huge nuclear weapons buildup and blocking efforts supported by almost the entire world to move toward a nuclear weapons-free zone in the extremely volatile Middle East region — those are issues of great importance.
So there are plenty of urgent tasks, they just require always the same thing: efforts to educate, to organize, to bring together the forces that are concerned and develop strategy and tactics and implement them. So supporting, say, gay rights in the military is important, but it has to be linked to other efforts if it is to have a significant effect on the society.
What Do We Do about Religiophobia?
ML: As a side question, we in the NSP and Tikkun have found that our positions and analyses — which are in some ways more radical (going to the root) than many of the programs that you hear coming out of the Left, because we do have a class analysis and we do have an analysis of global capitalism — are nevertheless not paid much attention by the rest of the Left because of what we've experienced as a pervasive religiophobia. And that has also been experienced by people like Jim Wallis and those involved with Sojourners, and people around the Christian Century, and other progressive religious organizations. And I'm wondering if you have any advice to us on how to overcome that religiophobia, since it seems ludicrous to us that a secular left would not understand that, in a country where you have 80 percent of the population believing in God and 60 percent going to church at least once a month, it would be in their interest to have a unification with people who have a spiritual or religious consciousness.
NC: I think you should approach them, not just on the pragmatic grounds that it's in their interest, but also on the grounds that it's the right thing to do. I mean, personally, I'm completely secular, but I certainly recognize the right of people to have personal religious beliefs and the significance that it may have in their lives, though not for me. Though we can certainly understand each other at least that well, quite apart from pragmatic considerations. I mean, say if a mother is praying that she might see her dying child in heaven, it's not my right to give her lectures on epistemology.
ML: But it's not just issues of epistemology, because there we could have a good debate; it's that there is a climate or a culture in the Left and the liberal arenas that simply assumes that anybody who would have a religious position must be intellectually underdeveloped or psychologically stuck, needing a father figure or scared of the unknown, or some other psychologically reductive analysis. That approach — a kind of ridicule of anybody who could possibly think that there was a spiritual dimension of reality, when it's pervasive, pushes people away even if they agree with much of the rest of what the Left is saying. How does one raise that issue? How does one deal with that issue among lefties who are simply unaware of the elitism and offensiveness of these suppositions? There was a time when it was extremely difficult to raise the issue of patriarchy, sexism, or homophobia, because people thought, "well that's ridiculous, it's just not true, it's not happening" — there was a huge level of denial. Do you have any advice for us on how to deal with that level of denial that exists in the culture of the Left? In my own study of this — I've done a rather extensive study of the psychodynamics of American society, which involved over 10,000 people — we found that this was a central issue for a lot of middle-income working people, who agreed with much of the Left's positions, but felt dissed by the Left.
NC: Well, the way you approach people is to explain to them that not only is it not in their interest to diss other people, but it's also morally and intellectually wrong. For example, one of the greatest dangers is secular religion — state worship. That's a far more destructive factor in world affairs than religious belief, and it's common on the Left. So you take a look at the very people who are passionately advocating struggling for atheism and repeating arguments that most of us understood when we were teenagers — those very same people are involved in highly destructive and murderous state worship, not all of them but some. Does that mean we should diss them? No, it means we should try to explain it to them.
Israel: U.S. Public Opinion Is Changing
ML: Let me ask you a little bit about Israel. Our standpoint is that Israel is headed for perpetual domination of the Palestinian people — a position that you recently articulated, that neither two-state nor one-state is likely to occur, but instead continuing domination. So, I'm asking you what strategies you suggest for those who are not satisfied with the organizations that advocate for peace, but do so in a way that frames the issues solely in terms of Israel's interests. Tikkun would have a much bigger impact in the Jewish world if, for example, we had been willing to denounce the Palestinians more, particularly during the second intifada, and if we were to frame our issues solely in terms of why it's irrational and self-destructive for Israel. But since we are committed to a different view — since we come from a religious perspective that every human being is created in the image of God and is equally deserving of care and support — we find it unconscionable to be quiet about the human pain and destructiveness that the Occupation of the West Bank and the transformation of Gaza into a huge prison camp has generated. Yet the Washington-based peace people and many (not all) among the secular Left in the Jewish world think that the smartest strategy is to downplay that issue and to play up only Israel's interest. Do you have any advice for us on how to champion the end of the Occupation and the end of the oppression of Palestinians, when we — Tikkun and the NSP — are unable to frame the issues solely in terms of self-interest for Israel but are morally obliged to raise those issues in terms of the suffering of Palestinians and the ethical dimensions, even though doing so seems to be counterproductive to building support in the Jewish world?
NC: Well, first of all I'm not at all convinced that it's counterproductive to building support — maybe among the existing Jewish institutions it is, but you're not going to influence the Zionist organizations. But especially among younger Jews, yours is a position that has growing appeal. I'm coming not from a religious perspective but from a secular one and doing exactly the same thing, and the changes I've experienced over the last couple of years are enormous. Critical analysis of Israeli policies is one of the most popular issues on campus now.
However, my own view is that the real issue for us is not what Israel is doing but what the United States is doing — it's in our hands to determine how this turns out. If the United States continues to lend completely uncritical support to the Israeli policies of expanding their control and domination, as is in fact happening, that's what will eventuate. But that can change. And it can change by bringing the American population — Jewish and non-Jewish — to recognize that these U.S. government policies are unacceptable and have to be reversed. If the U.S. were induced or compelled by popular opinion to join the world on this issue, and I thoroughly mean that, then there could be a short-term resolution — not the end of the story, but at least significant improvement — by at least moving to a two-state settlement stage and an ongoing longer process. I think that's quite realistic.
ML: And how do you imagine that change taking place? Given the constellation of forces right now in which this seems to be the only issue in which Democrats and Republicans are totally united, producing votes of 415 to 20 in support of crazy resolutions…
NC: You're speaking of Congress, but I think we should look at the population, which is by no means unified on this. In fact, the majority of the population favors the formation of a Palestinian state, and our goal should be to organize the population so that the popular will is expressed in state actions. This has happened in the past: it happened on South Africa. I mean, the Reagan administration was strongly supporting apartheid, condemning the ANC as a major terrorist organization, and within a couple of years it shifted. The same thing happened with East Timor — as major atrocities continued through 1999, the Clinton administration continued supporting the Indonesian atrocities strongly, and then, rather suddenly, under international and domestic pressure it shifted position.
ML: Yes, but neither of those countries had a significant section of this population here in the U.S. supporting the existing repressive regimes and committed to them on a deep personal and emotional level. Whereas here, while I agree that there is a growing split in the Jewish community on these issues and Tikkun reflects the perspective of a very large section of Jews under the age of fifty, I don't see a similar split among Christian Zionists, who represent a very large part of the population — much larger than the Jewish population, anyway.
NC: The Christian Right also supported apartheid. There are all kinds of differences, on the other hand, in the case of Israel-Palestine. By now there is a growing section inside the military and inside intelligence that is pulling for an end to U.S. support for Israeli intransigence because it's harming U.S. operations in the field. If that spreads to the population, it could lead to a major wave of anti-Semitism. There are lots of differences among the cases, but the point is that policies can change, and my own sense is that even within the Jewish community, younger Jews are drifting away because what Israel is doing is just intolerable to their general liberal attitudes; I think we should welcome that move and try to direct it toward changing U.S. policy.
ML: Yes, the focus on changing U.S. policy is one of many reasons our NSP focus on the Global Marshall Plan is so important. The central point of our Global Marshall Plan is that "homeland security" cannot be achieved through the current "strategy of domination" of countries around the world, but only through a new "strategy of generosity" in which the U.S. acts in a caring way toward the people of the world. That same kind of caring and generosity will not likely take hold in Israel, where it would change everything, making peace a real possibility, not just a permanently elusive goal, until it takes hold in the West, primarily in the U.S. So that is one of many reasons why I agree with you that our work is in changing the foreign policy approach in the U.S., and that will only happen through a massive educational program at the grassroots level. By seeking city councils and state legislatures to endorse the Global Marshall Plan, we at the Network of Spiritual Progressives will be able to raise this new way of thinking about homeland security and eventually make a significant change in the mass consciousness in America on the question of what really works to bring safety, security, and peace to the U.S. and to the world.
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Lerner, Michael. 2011. Overcoming Despair as the Republicans Take Over: A Conversation with Noam Chomsky. Tikkun 26(2): 17.
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Dear Josippie,
What is the better title your group came up with? I would like to hear it. Thanks , Dusty
I just now learned of your site and know nothing of it, but I would like to make a suggestion that might help with any problem you may have with non-religious people.
I used to a Christian, but now believe in reincarnation. I have had numerous disagreements with Christians I am associated with who are mainly Souther Baptist and the one thing I would never vote for is a very religious person because of those people's propensity to force their religion on others.
But, I agree with the statements you have made here, although I don't know you, and I think that if you were to profess a belief in a complete separation of church and state it might help with all who are not of your belief. We don't need a state religion.
I believe that anyone should be allowed to believe the way he believes. I also think that if you believe the same and let people know it, then they would vote for you.
But, please don't be like Obama and say you believe in separation of church and state just to get votes. -Not that he said that to get votes, but in my opinion everything else he says is just posturing for votes.
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I am a fan of Noam, and I follow most of his reasoning and like most of his explanations for how we ought to respond to shared problems. >>But
Climate Change? This topic continues to drive a lot of open discussion, and the idea that the 'deniers' are just closed minded, is a farse, and the idea that the warm-ongers are in the majority is a HUGE lie.
The 'consensus' that you keep hearing about is a consensus of like-minded scientist who work at about 4 different instituions, and are paid by people/governments with similar interests and agendas. That interest is climate 'tax' — ie carbon tax.
Do I believe in climate 'change'? Sure I do, the climate is changing constantly. But man-made-global-warming as a threat worth taxing every business across the globe, as if that would solve the problem?
You can believe what you want about climate change. Around 98% of climate scientists believe the planet is warming. Among those scientists, most believe there's a 90-95% chance the warming is due to human impact. You can believe what you want, but those are the facts.
The real debate is about how much the warming will be, how fast it will occur, what the effects will be, and what should be done about it. That debate is incredibly complex.
The scientists may be wrong, but to say they are conspiring is to believe in a world-wide conspiracy among climate scientists (and many other scientists that agree with them), another belief which you are entitled to (just like you can find scientists who believe 9/11 was an inside job).
I could provide references but I'm in a bit of a hurry.
98% of people who site climate statistics don't know what studies their 'facts' came from because they read them in a fear-based hyped-up media articles with no attribution.
I'm going to make two points very clear.
1. Environmentalism, stewardship of the land, and green energy initiatives (etc) – are all great things that I would love to see us as a society pursue.
2. Regardless of the findings of climate science, it is our politics that I am worried about. Carbon taxes will not solve issues of the earth's climate, but have the potential to absolutely wreck our economy. (and this is the only solution being pursued, for a big reason; MONEY)
I place about as much faith in a climate scientist study, as I do in a clinical trial study. It's the same type of setup – people being paid to prove what their employers WANT TO HEAR.
For those of you who have all faith in these faceless scientist because you believe in science above all else. Go ahead and believe in this consensus you keep hearing about. But I'm still 90-95% sure that it's the MONEY that drives the results in these so-called findings.
98% of all scientists huh? Wow!!
…and 4 out of 5 Dentist recommend Trident.
Chew on that.
So! You are one of the yea/but guys. I'm not sure I understand what you have written? Are you saying the idea of global warming is a conspiracy designed for some kind of tax? If you are a fan of Noam, you really couldn't believe he would be supportive of a thought process as ludicrous as what it appears you are presenting? Your message isn't clear. If I have misunderstood, please accept my apology, Dusty
Please explain why plants grow so well in glass houses.
i thought this was the most amazing interview i've ever read. i am an atheist and i never stopped to think that my saying that i can't believe in "invisible magicians" would insult someone because that's, after all, what god is in my view, i thought it was in their view as well but that they believed anyway. i will check myself next time.
the social pact to create community businesses though, that's what got me most. how amazing would it be if everyone in this country learned that we do not need to be beholden to the corporations? every conservative i speak to (and many progressives) think that we need corporations.. that they are good for us. i point out that what is good for the corporation is bad for working people by definition.
thanks for this amazing article. i'll be good from now on, i promise.
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Run, Noam, run!! Absolutely friggin' brilliant.
If you can't drop the religiosity you can't be trusted. Just because "everybody else" believes in a fairy tale, does not mean it has merit. Corporate America has already bought off the bishops and most preachers and the problem is mostly the religious support of the corporatists(many are "good christians").
Faith is a belief in something for which there is no evidence. Faith belies critical thinking. I think we in the secular world avoid religious organizations because if one can believe in god one can believe in anything without evidence. Religious thinking is the opposite of scientific thinking. Religious beliefs are the opposite of the search for evidence and remaining open to new evidence. Faiths teach that there are a core of beliefs that cannot and should not be questioned such as the existence of a god. As a secularist I feel no obligation to do anything other than keep an open mind and evaluate the evidence. I find it very difficult to have a discussion with religious people because their rules of evidence are more like one would encounter in a court room and not like one would hear in a scientific discussion.
Welby, you are right. Remember or learn. There is a difference when speaking to spiritual people as opposed to religious people. Please let me know when you can tell the difference. Spiritual people have a sense of humor! Dusty
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I admire Chomsky and his ability to articulate, but I worry about this talk about third party action. I love Nader too, but he gave us GW Bush. Twice. Just as third party liberals gave Minnesota two terms of Pawlenty and Perot split the Republicans twice. We aren't in a coalition political system. Dems need to stay active. When they stay home, like they did in 2010, Republicans win. If progressives turned out it would give Democrats more of a progressive motive.
Pasquino, My wish is that there were twelve parties running. Nobody gives any running politician to anybody. Noam gave us Bush twice? We, the American people, gave us Bush three times in two physical manifestations! Father and son. Gee, and we elected or allowed an ex head of the C.I.A to be president? What could we have possibly expected? Maybe it's time for us, the people, to take some responsibillity for what we disagree with and change it! Dusty
Michael Lerner wrote:
"there is a climate or a culture in the Left and the liberal arenas that simply assumes that anybody who would have a religious position must be intellectually underdeveloped or psychologically stuck . . . That approach — a kind of ridicule of anybody who could possibly think that there was a spiritual dimension of reality, when it's pervasive, pushes people away even if they agree with much of the rest of what the Left is saying. How does one raise that issue? How does one deal with that issue among lefties who are simply unaware of the elitism and offensiveness of these suppositions?"
I'm on the Left, and I might fall into the category Lerner is talking about here; I don't know. But I would never criticize a progressive openly about his or her religious beliefs or dismiss his or her opinion *on progressive politics* just because the person is religious; I understand that would be offensive. And I don't know any progressive whose disdain for the religiosity of people is so "pervasive" as to dismiss such people's politics out of hand.
I'm curious to know if what I've just described is actually happening to Lerner's NSP.
I'm also curious to know how Lerner goes about approaching those on the Left who "push[] people away." Is his approach focused on God, spirituality, religion? That might do it. Or is his approach focused on progressive issues? Does the conversation between his NSP and secular progressive groups tend to take a turn toward religion? If so, must it?
The secular Left is wary of religion, and with good reason. I'd say that progressives generally believe strongly in separation of church and state, which also translates into separation of church from politics. Church in politics is a right and a correct right, but sure, I'm skeptical of it. What's the need?
To me, this issue resembles a bit the Hip Hop Caucus that Rosa Clemente advocated for in 2008. Hip hop music and culture are not important to me, nor do they have anything to do with progressive politics any more than indie rock music does.
Same with religion. If a progressive approaches me with a religious-progressive slant or a hip-hop-progressive slant, I'm more interested in what the guy with the progressive-progressive slant has to say. This doesn't mean I dismiss the progressive parts of what the former parties are saying, just their hip hop and religion.


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