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I have never posted on this board before but I really need opinions...Yesterday was terrible.
Jera is 6, in 1st grade. A pretty well behaved child, but for the past few months I dunno, she has just decided that she can disobey me, rude attitude, tell me "no" and with anger. She is never like this with dh, but he is gone a lot working, which is nothing new. I also work, but I am home 1/2 hr after she gets out of school. SHe has gone through a few life changes lately, baby brother last July, her bff moved in January.
Yesterday, it was nice when we got home so we went to the park. We walked down the street to get her new frind that just moved to our street about a month ago, they are in the same class. And we all headed to the park about 2 blocks away. We were not there 10 minutes and she was climbing up the side of the twisty slide and her feet were dangling. She almost kicked a little boy in the head. I told her to get down, she said no. I told her to come her (I was sitting on a bench about 10 ft away) she said no. I got up to go get here and she ran. I stopped, told her I was not chasing her and that she needed to get over here right now. She did...I sat her on the bench, told her to stay there till she can behave properly. She screamed NO!, I dont want to..I told her she could behave, or we could leave. She kicked Jaxon's stroller. I grabbed her hand, said we are leaving. (the friends mom was there by this time) I pushed the stroller with 1 hand, and her bike with the other and made her walk home. The whole way home she is screaming, yelling, kicking the bushes, trying to grab the stroller and turn it around. Telling me that when she got home she was gonna go to her room and watch cartoons, then 5 seconds later she would say, more calm, "ok, I am fine now, I want to go back to the park" I would ignore her and she would get more mad and then start screaming again.
We got home and I spanked her and put her in the corner, and I told her that she could stay there till her dad got home. That I was so disapointed and embarressed by her actions and bad choices. dh didn't end up getting home for 2 hours. But by the time I knew he would be late (traffic), since I had said it I didn't want to not follow through, kwim?
I didn't even cook dinner I was still so mad, I made her some oatmeal and a peice of toast and a glass of water and brought it to her and she ate it in the corner.
Ugh, I am just so upset about it. I seriously felt like I had ZERO control over her yesterday and she embarressed me horribly, there were like 5 other moms at the park. I keep scouring the baords looking for similar posts, thinking maybe there is something wrong with her, something wrong with me, am I a terrible parent, so many thoughts.
I wanted to add, spanking is not something we do often (but we have done it) it is not my go way to handle a situation. This was by far the worst day of her attitude and that was the last resort.
Any advice, or even similar stories so I can see I am not the only one. Sorry this got so long, but I just needed to get it out.
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13th Latin America & Spain Film Festival
13th Latin America & Spain Film Festival
The 13th Latin America & Spain Film Festival (LASFF) will be held in the Te Papa Museum in Wellington over the weekends of the 30th and 31st of August and the 6th and 7th of September.
The Festival will feature free screenings of recent films from Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Colombia, Cuba, Ecuador, El Salvador, Mexico, Peru, Spain, Uruguay and Venezuela.
The twelve films that make up this year's LASFF provide an opportunity for the community to explore different cultural and contemporary aspects of the participating countries through a wide range of genres, topics and styles.
The LASFF is an annual non-profit cultural event organized by the Embassies of Argentina, Brazil, Chile, Cuba, Mexico and Spain in Wellington. It is supported by the Wellington City Council and the Te Papa Museum.
This 13th edition is coordinated by the Embassy of Chile and it will include the special participation of the guest Embassies of Colombia, Ecuador, El Salvador, Peru, Uruguay and Venezuela in Canberra, Australia.
The Festival will also be held in Auckland, Birkenhead, Christchurch, Dunedin, Hamilton, New Plymouth, Palmerston North, Upper Hutt and Wanganui in association with art centres and academic institutions.
Further information on the Latin America & Spain Film Festival, movies, schedules, venues, sponsors and contact details is available in the Festival's web page: www.lasffnz.co.nz

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Top 6 tips for e-patients
Gone are the days when patients can afford to be passive about their healthcare, says Nancy Finn, author of the new book e-Patients Live Longer: The Complete Guide to Managing Health Care Using Technology.
"The 'e' in e-patient stands for empowered, engaged and educated," says Finn, a Boston-based medical consultant who works with medical institutions on the development and implementation of digital communications. She has also written a book for doctors titled Digital Communication in a Medical Practice.
[See also: Most Wired hospitals list 'carries more weight' with redesign.]
The mission of her latest book is to convince people, through tips and guidelines, to become those "e-patients," she says. "It's important to deal with the complexities of the healthcare system we live with; to get proper healthcare for yourself, and to communicate with your providers."
"In our journey through life, every one of us faces healthcare issues," Finn says. "Planning and thinking about this really helps to create better outcomes. It's all about outcomes when you come down to it."
Finn provides anecdotal examples in her book, based upon interviews with scores of people, she says. Some of her tips to e-patients include:
Find a doctor who uses electronic health records. More and more doctors have converted to EHRs, but if your physician hasn't gone digital yet, "you need to think about how much you like this doctor and how well you communicate with one another," Finn says. If it's not worth it to you to stay, you might want to find a new doctor who uses EHRs and secure email. But, make sure your doctor is not just digital for digital's sake. "It's not the record itself, it's the communication dynamic between you and your doctor that is so important," she says.
[See also: Patient involvement is critical to success of Meaningful Use program.]
Ask questions. "People don't ask enough questions during an office visit. At annual physicals, patients should be asking their doctors a lot of questions, Finn says. "Why are you ordering this test? Do I really need it? What can I expect to be the side effect? When should I see you again? Can I communicate with you via email?"
Create a personal health record. Finn urges all patients to create a personal health record with medical histories, medications and allergies. "Digital communication tools will help you become an empowered patient," she says.
Use the Internet wisely. The Internet can be a great source of information for patients, and often the first place people look for networking with other patients, learning about an illness or finding doctors. But, Finn says patients should be careful to make sure they are using trustworthy sites. The best places to look are institutional websites, including those by major hospitals; healthcare trade association websites; and federally operated gateway sites such as healthfinder.gov.
Protect yourself from medical errors and hospital-acquired infections. Hospitalized patients need to be observant. Speak up if doctors, aides and nurses aren't washing their hands properly. Double check medication with nurses to make sure it is the correct. Get someone to advocate for you if you are too ill. "Most hospitals today very preoccupied with quality issues. They are happy to provide social workers to advocate for patients," Finn says.
Adhere to your medication. Failure to adhere to a medication plan is one of the biggest causes of hospital readmissions. Patients should speak up if prescribed medication is beyond what their budget can handle and ask for alternatives, says Finn. Patients need to collaborate as full partners with their medical team, including their pharmacists.


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Shortly before 8am on February 27 2002, a fire broke out on the Sabarmati Express as it pulled out of Godhra, a town prone to religious violence in the Indian state of Gujarat. Many of the passengers were Hindu pilgrims returning from a ceremony called Chetavani Yatra. Rescuers pulled 58 bodies out of carriage S-6, all of them charred beyond recognition. An official report, published four years later, in 2006, concluded that the blaze had been an accident, but at the time it was blamed on Muslim youths, who were accused of throwing petrol-bombs at the saffron-clad pilgrims.
The blood-letting started the next morning and continued until early May, leaving about 2,500 Muslims murdered. Armed with knives, firebombs and sharpened ceremonial tridents, and guided by electoral rolls that revealed the location of Muslim homes, mobs began to move across the state. "What ensued was a ghastly sight the like of which, since bleeding partition days, no Indian eye had seen," wrote Justice V.R. Krishna Iyer, in a report by the Tribunal of Concerned Citizens, an independent body composed mostly of retired judges.
"Hindutva barbarians came out on the streets ... and, in all flaming fury, targeted innocent and helpless Muslims. They were brutalised by miscreants uninhibited by the police; their women were unblushingly molested; and Muslim men, women and children, in a travesty of justice, were burnt alive. The chief minister, oath-bound to defend law and order, vicariously connived at the inhuman violence and some of his ministers even commanded the macabre acts of horror."
The first to suffer were the largely middle-class inhabitants of a housing complex called the Gulberg Society in the Chamanpura district of central Ahmedabad, the largest city in Gujarat. The centre of an Indian commercial city saw a medieval and macabre dance of death, humiliation and revenge, reported the Tribunal in its account of the pogrom, Crime Against Humanity, which was based on 2,094 statements taken from survivors.
By 10am, a mob of between 20,000 and 25,000 people had surrounded the Gulberg Society, where many had fled to shelter in the home of Ahsan Jafri, an influential trade unionist and former MP from the Congress party. In his desperation, Jafri made over 200 calls for help that day. During earlier bouts of violence in Ahmedabad, he had been able to protect his community, but not this time. At 2.30pm, the politician was dragged out of his house, slashed with swords until his limbs were severed, and then set alight. Around 70 others from the Gulberg Society died with him that day.
A series of investigations by the Tribunal of Concerned Citizens, by India's National Human Rights Commission and by Human Rights Watch in New York later accused two Hindu extremist groups, the Vishwa Hindu Parishad and its youth wing, the Bajrang Dal, of masterminding the massacres. Numerous human rights groups, including HRW, argued that the state government, led by Narendra Modi, a senior figure in the Hindu nationalist Bharatiya Janata Party (BJP), had been wilfully deficient in its response.
For the millions of Muslims whose families opted to stay behind in India at the time of partition, preferring life within the secular federal republic promised by Jawaharlal Nehru to the safety of the newly created Muslim homeland in Pakistan, it was a betrayal of trust. "It was the first full-blooded pogrom in India's independent history," says Ashutosh Varshney, a professor of political science at the University of Michigan. "It was driven by hatred and ideologically charged."
Modi's approach to the riots may have helped him solidify his electoral base ahead of that year's state elections. "For every action, there is an equal and opposite reaction," he said. The machinery of justice, to the extent it was used at all, was stacked against Muslims, who accounted, perversely, for the vast majority of those arrested. Human Rights Watch alleged that the government of Gujarat had systematically obstructed efforts to bring the perpetrators to justice.
Police refused to file reports for the missing, let alone arrest suspects. Witnesses who came forward to identify attackers were harassed, threatened or bribed into turning hostile on the witness stand, or simply into not showing up when the case went to trial. Only Muslims who withdrew their testimony were allowed to return to their neighbourhoods. For four years, impunity prevailed. Only in early 2006, following the exasperated intervention of the Supreme Court in New Delhi, was there some token progress, with the conviction, by a Mumbai court, of nine people for the murder of 14 Muslims who had taken refuge in a bakery.
"Gujarat was a turning point," says Sayeed Khan, a social worker with political ambitions who runs Muslim Youth of India, a Mumbai-based group that is battling against the radicalisation of the country's young Muslims. "After Gujarat, young Muslims started asking themselves: 'Why are they killing us just for being Muslims?'... All over India, there are youths who think there should be revenge. And they're ready to do whatever it takes."
In the past 18 months, India has been lashed by a wave of terror attacks outside the disputed state of Jammu and Kashmir, the main battleground for Islamic militants waging a jihad against Indian "occupation". Some see a pattern emerging. It started in October 2005, on the eve of the Hindu holiday of Diwali and the Muslim festival of Eid, when bombs exploded in markets across Delhi, killing 62 and injuring 210. It continued in March 2006, when blasts in Varanasi, a city holy to Hindus, killed 15 and injured 60.
The following month, explosions at Delhi's main mosque, the Jama Masjid, injured 13. Thirty-five Kashmiri Hindu villagers were shot dead in May. Then, on July 11, a date that has become known as India's 9/11, terror struck Mumbai, with seven bombs hitting the commuter train network, the backbone of the city's transport system, killing 209 and injuring more than 700. In September, blasts in Malegaon, a town in Maharashtra prone to communal violence, killed 37 Muslims as they left a mosque after Friday prayers.
And then on February 18 this year, as the five-year anniversary of the Godhra train attack approached, terrorists placed kerosene bombs linked to sophisticated timers on an overnight train from Delhi to the Pakistani city of Lahore. Six minutes before midnight, as the Samjhauta Express travelled through late-winter wheat fields north-west of Delhi, two firebombs exploded inside denim-clad briefcases, causing an inferno in carriages packed with slumbering passengers that left 69 dead.
The catalogue of atrocities demands explanation. Why is India, a country that prides itself on its democratic safety valves and vibrant political system, proving so vulnerable to terrorism? Indian authorities have in almost every instance laid the blame on Pakistan-based militant groups, citing their opposition to a peace process that would end the jihad. Ajai Shukla, a leading security affairs analyst in New Delhi, says India is looking for scapegoats beyond its borders.
"While external support certainly fans the flames of disaffection, terrorism increasingly springs from radicalised elements within India that have not been able to address issues by other means," says Shukla. "Besides the disaffection in India's north-eastern states and in Kashmir, Gujarat is now becoming a fertile recruiting ground for terrorist cells. Setting up terrorist cells has been made wonderfully simple by poor law-and-order enforcement and lax financial regulation that allows criminal groups to flourish and terrorist groups to ride piggyback on them."
This tendency to blame the "foreign hand" also ignores the assessment that even sophisticated Pakistan-based militant groups are likely to be dependent on local terror cells to carry out their attacks. "After the Mumbai blasts, there is now no doubt that there are terror cells in India," says Varshney. "That kind of attack cannot be undertaken without a deep local knowledge of Mumbai and without serious local co-operation, whether paid for or ideologically motivated."
Academics believe the roots of India's worsening terrorism problem can be found in a complex fusion of greed and grievance. While an unscrupulous criminal underworld plays an important part in facilitating and carrying out terror attacks, that is just part of the story. Despite three years of turbo-charged growth, there are still hundreds of millions living in abject poverty, with next to no stake in this newly wealthy and self-confident society. Some, inevitably, succumb to the blandishments of recruiters from the country's myriad insurgencies and extremist movements.
Unless these underlying causes of India's susceptibility to terrorism are addressed, India's path to superpowerdom will be bumpier than almost everyone now predicts. In that context, the successful integration of India's Muslim population has strategic significance for the subcontinent and for the political west. The Muslim community, although far from monolithic, forms the second largest religious group in the country and represents just under 14 per cent of the 1.1 billion population.
In global terms, India has the largest Muslim population after Indonesia and Pakistan. By the time its population stabilises, sometime in the middle of this century, demographers expect it to number between 320 and 340 million, and its share of the total population, by then 1.7 billion, to be almost 19 per cent. India's success as a society will, to a considerable extent, depend on it reversing a worrying trend towards radicalisation in certain sections of that population.
Many take this for granted. Announcing a strategic partnership between the US and India last year, George W. Bush, for example, repeatedly hailed India as a model for the successful integration of a large Muslim population in a secular political framework. In recent weeks, however, such complacency should have been punctured following the government's release of a shocking study of how the country's Muslims as a whole have fared since independence.
Commissioned by the prime minister and produced by a committee chaired by Rajinder Sachar, a former justice of the Delhi High Court, the report presents a sharp counterpoint to perceptions of India as a stable, inclusive and multicultural society. Of all the groups yet to benefit from India's spectacular recent growth - set to hit 9.2 per cent this year - none, apart from so-called dalits (once known as "untouchables") and tribals, have fared as poorly as Muslims.
"Muslims in India have this sense of being degraded," says Sarfaraz Arzu, editor and publisher of The Hindustan Daily, Mumbai's oldest Urdu-language newspaper during an interview in his office on the first floor of a crumbling building near Mohammed Ali Road. "They're not getting their share of the national pie. They see things whizzing past them at high speed. They see growth in all sectors, but are untouched by this growth. They are not the only section of society untouched by this growth, but they are excluded because of their identification as a distinct religious group, which means, in simple terms, that they're targeted for what they are."
Moreover, in a world ever more connected by cable television and internet chatrooms, the community's feeling of vicarious victimhood is also growing. Arzu has devoted the day's front page to violent protests around the world against Israeli excavations near the Al-Aqsa mosque in Jerusalem, Islam's third holiest site. Later that day, there will be anti-Israeli demonstrations in the Azad maidan, a triangular field in south Mumbai used for cricket matches and political rallies.
India's 140 million Muslims are divided along class, caste and sectarian lines, with sociologists describing their relationship to the rest of Indian society as one of "upper class inclusion and mass exclusion". A small elite - typified by the Khans that rule Bollywood, the aristocratic Nawabs and businessmen such as Azim Premji, chairman of Wipro, a leading software group - thrives in the new India, while the masses, mostly low-caste converts from Hinduism, face marginalisation.
The Sachar committee found that India's Muslims, constantly battling perceptions that they are "anti-national", "unpatriotic" and "belong in Pakistan", are reluctantly withdrawing or being pushed into ghettos. Markers of their identity, such as the burkah, the purdah, the beard and the topi, a Muslim cap, invite ridicule and harassment. Bearded men find that they are routinely picked up for interrogation, hijab-wearing women that they struggle to find jobs.
Sachar notes that many Muslims are unable to buy or rent property in the area of their choice and find their children rejected from good schools. This has contributed to the sharp growth in the number of madrassas. The phenomenon should not be exaggerated: just 4 per cent of Muslim school-age children now attend full-time madrassas, according to Sachar. But in some states, including the populous northern state of UP, where more than 7 per cent of Muslim schoolchildren are being educated in religious seminaries, madrassas are spreading rapidly.
Behind the green gates of 41 Mohammed Ali Road is the Minara Masjid complex, where 450 young Muslim men aged between 12 and 25 live and study at the madrassa attached to the mosque. "There has been a 100 per cent increase in the number of madrassas in India over the last five years," says Syed Ather Ali, principal of the madrassa, which provides students with lodging, board, books and medical care. Students pass their days translating and memorising the Koran and their nights sleeping on mats in a number of concrete-floored dormitories.
The educational system is failing India's Muslims, whose average literacy level was 59.1 per cent in the 2001 census, compared with a national average of 65 per cent. While the average child in India goes to school for four years, Muslim boys will spend around 36 months and Muslim girls just over two and a half years. Just 4 per cent of Muslims above the age of 20 are graduates or diploma holders, compared to 7.4 per cent for the country as a whole. Muslims, tellingly, account for 1.3 per cent of students at the elite Indian Institutes of Management.
Poorly educated Muslims generally end up working as self-employed, economically vulnerable casual labourers. Relatively few pick up coveted salaried jobs, which tend to be monopolised by high-caste Hindus. And those Muslims who do receive regular salaries tend to occupy the lowest rungs within organisations, with more than 70 per cent having no written contract or social security benefits. Poor work conditions are also reflected in lower earnings. The proportion of Muslims living below the poverty line, at 31 per cent, is higher than the 22.7 per cent for the country as a whole.
Sachar found that Muslims had an "abysmally low" share of prized government jobs, accounting for just 3 per cent of posts in the Indian Administrative Service, the elite corps of the civil bureaucracy, 1.8 per cent of the Indian Foreign Service and 4 per cent of the police. They had such a low profile in the military that the Ministry of Defence denied Sachar the data. The community is only consistently over-represented in the prison population. In Maharashtra, for example, Muslims account for more than 40 per cent of those jailed for less than a year.
"This government was brought into power by two forces: the anger of the poor and the anger of the Muslims," says Mobashar Javed Akbar in an interview in the New Delhi offices of The Asian Age, a newspaper he edits. And although prime minister Manmohan Singh provoked an outcry among Hindu nationalists when he promised in December to make sure that Muslims and other minorities had "first claim on resources", analysts say the government's lack of follow-through may cost the Congress party dearly in the imminent elections in the state of Uttar Pradesh, home to 31 million Muslims.
"The root problem is economic," says M.J. Akbar. "If you look at Indian Muslims, their traditional businesses, such as crafts and weaving, have been wiped off the economic map, and there has been no effort to create jobs in the space stolen from them. And now the malls that are coming up across the country are about to eliminate their traditional role as suppliers of meat, wiping out another large source of employment. The impact of all of this will be 10 years of serious violence."
Of the 700,000 towns and villages in India, the vast majority are free from communal conflict from one year to the next. But the potential for such violence is a terrifying underlying reality. Communal violence left 40,000 dead and injured between 1950 and 1995, according to research by academics Steven Wilkinson and Ashutosh Varshney. The costs of riots have been overwhelmingly borne by Muslims, forced to leave their homes, businesses and land for sanctuary in safe Muslim areas.
"Fearing for their security, Muslims are increasingly resorting to living in ghettos," the Sachar report notes. But access to water, toilets, electricity, schools, clinics, banks and ration shops is often limited or non-existent in Muslim areas. The absence of these services affects women in particular because they are reluctant to venture beyond the confines of "safe" neighbourhoods to access these facilities from elsewhere, with knock-on effects on literacy and child health.
Sofia Khan, a 42-year-old human rights activist, moved to Juhapura, a Muslim ghetto in Ahmedabad, in the aftermath of the July 2006 Mumbai commuter train attacks. She says she was hounded out of her home after local television stations advised viewers to check out their neighbours. "If you talk to the minority community today, they're just pushed into a corner. For us, there's no 'Vibrant Gujarat' [Modi's slogan for the state], it's just violent Gujarat."
"It's five years now and there's no sense of remorse in society at large, no sense of justice. Overwhelming feelings of insecurity and fear, these are our biggest problems. Fear that you will be targeted, fear that you will be victimised, fear that there will be another backlash. You cannot open your mouth. You cannot engage in human rights activities. Many people who were engaged in relief work are now in prison."
Juhapura is the biggest ghetto in Gujarat, with a population at 400,000, that increases with every communal riot in the state. Disparagingly nicknamed "Little Pakistan" by some Hindus, it is on all sides carefully separated from adjacent neighbourhoods by empty wastelands that serve as no-man's-lands separating the two largest religious communities. "It's just as if it was a border between India and Pakistan," Khan says.
From her fourth-floor office, the trained lawyer overlooks a relief camp for victims of the 2002 riots. NGOs say as many as 35,000 remain camped in 81 semi-permanent colonies set up by Islamic relief organisations. Access to public services is poor. India is in the throes of a telecoms revolution, but Khan's building in Juhapura cannot get the state-controlled service provider to install a landline: "There is not a single bank or broadband internet connection in the area and you can forget about having a public park or a library, those are luxuries."
When religious organisations such as the Islamic Relief Committee, Jamaat Ulema-e-Hind and Imarat-e-Shariya opened madrassas, they filled a vacuum left by the state. One conservative religious organisation, Gujarat Sarvajanik Welfare Trust, has set up a relief camp at Siddikabad, which has become a semi-permanent home for about 130 families displaced by the carnage of 2002, some of whom came from the Gulberg Society.
"The government has not done anything for us," says Mukti P., a middle-aged woman carrying water pots, who is so frightened of retribution that she requests I do not use her full name. "Whatever has been done for us has been done by our own people." Abeda P., 36, who says her husband and daughter died as they hid in Jafri's house, says: "When Narendra Modi dies, then there will be communal harmony in Gujarat because [alive] he will not allow it in the state."
Ravi Nair, a human rights activist who runs the South Asian Human Rights Documentation Centre, says these relief camps provide "cannon fodder for Islamic fundamentalist groups". His assessment finds an echo with Father Cedric Prakash, a Jesuit priest, who was recently honoured by the French government for his work promoting religious harmony in Ahmedabad. "The whole ghetto is on the boil," he warns.
"Hundreds of thousands of Muslims are living in Juhapura without access to public banking services, schools, or drinking water. We're pushing an entire community to the brink. One doesn't need a lot of common sense to realise there's going to be a reaction. Forgiveness and reconciliation can only happen in the context of justice. Suppose my daughter's been raped, my only son's been killed, and I can see the person responsible behaving with impunity. How then do I bring myself to forgive?"
That day, Modi and I sit down together. The apostle of Hindutva ("Hinduness") has just addressed investors at the "Vibrant Gujarat" conference in Gandhinagar. He is an electrifying orator, and the global business community cannot get enough of a man in charge of a state that expanded by more than 11 per cent last year, making it the fastest growing investment hotspot in India.
The idea of "Hinduness" emerged between the two world wars as an alternative to the Gandhian nationalist rhetoric of inclusiveness. While Hindu nationalist parties have had to tone down sectarian rhetoric to win power by building broad coalitions at national level, strident and threatening religious politics are frequently found at local level. Since the BJP's defeat in the 2004 national elections, Modi has sought to cultivate a less ideological image.
For the moment, though, he remains something of a pariah within the Indian political system, a status that has been reinforced by the fact that he has been banned from travelling to the US. In March 2005, the US State Department publicly denied him a visa, pointing in a statement to a section of the Immigration and Nationality Act barring entry to any foreign government official who "was responsible for or directly carried out, at any time, particularly severe violations of religious freedom".
In his meeting with the FT, Modi wants to talk business, not religious politics. Amid increasingly fierce competition between Indian states for investment, he has adopted the most can-do attitude of all chief ministers. Across the country, the government's policy of promoting Special Economic Zones, Chinese-style capitalist enclaves, has run into fierce opposition and many chief ministers have gone off the idea. But not Modi: "The whole of Gujarat is a SEZ," he says. "S stands for spirituality, E for entrepreneurialism, and Z for zeal."
Would he like the US to lift the travel ban? "It is up to them," he says without hint of rancour. Asked why Gujarati Muslims feel marginalised and excluded from this growth, he shakes his head as if to imply a logical impossibility. "This state has constant double-digit growth. Would that be possible if 10 per cent of the population were excluded? That's my question to the questioners."
The glib response saddens Rahul Dholakia, the director of Parzania, a new film about the Gujarat pogrom that is essential viewing for anyone wanting to understand why the events of 2002 continue to have such a far-reaching impact on the politics of religious identity in India. Based on the true story of a father and mother's tragic hunt for their cricket-loving son, Azhar Mody, who was swept up by the sword-wielding mob that ransacked the Gulberg Society, it is, at times, just too painful to watch.
The film ends with an appeal: "His parents are still waiting for him" - and offers an e-mail address and mobile telephone numbers to which information on his whereabouts can be sent. Parzania, which has received critical acclaim and met with commercial success, is showing in nine Indian cities. But the people who would be best placed to help the family are unlikely ever to see it: the Bajrang Dal, the Hindu extremist youth group, has seen to it that no cinema in Ahmedabad, Gandhi's adoptive town, has yet dared show it.
Manubhai Patel, the head of Gujarat's multiplex operators' association, told Dholakia to seek the permission of a notorious and self-professedly violent Bajrang Dal leader by the name of Babu "Bajrangi" Patel. Arrested in 2002 following the pogrom, but released shortly afterwards, Babu Bajrangi now runs an NGO, Navchetan (New Awakening), which forcibly "rescues" Hindu women who have been "lured" into relationships with non-Hindu men, and is widely loathed in the Muslim community.
The idea of recognising Bajrangi as a legitimate authority was repulsive to Dholakia, a friend of the missing boy's parents, whose names were changed for the film. When he refused, the theatre owners said they could not show his film. "I can see the anger in the Muslim community," Dholakia says. "They will retaliate unless they're given a non-violent platform to express their anger at being denied justice. They will react in the way they find easiest, which is through violence."
Sixty years ago, on the eve of independence, Nehru, called on his countrymen to help him "build the noble mansion of free India where all her children may dwell". He declared: "We are citizens of a great country on the verge of bold advance, and we have to live up to that high standard. All of us, to whatever religion we may belong, are equally the children of India with equal rights, privileges and obligations. We cannot encourage communalism or narrow-mindedness, for no nation can be great whose people are narrow in thought or in action."
His words are as true today as they were then.


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CALEXICO, Calif. – The Imperial County Office of Education (ICOE) has partnered with the city of Calexico Housing Authority in opening a new day care center in Calexico.
Officials say this project has been a long process in the making, but they are excited the center is now open.
Terri Nava, Executive Director, (HACC) explains, "This is a very big blessing for our children, preschools are very hard to come by in Calexico, and because we will have 18 slots in the morning and 18 slots available in the afternoon, we will be able to provide 36 children between the ages of 3-5 services to begin learning the ABCs and how to write their name."
There are 20 early care and education centers that currently serve the Imperial County.These types of care centers provide a county-wide enrollment of 654 children.
Parents interested in early child care development should know there are still slots available at the new care center. The ICOE says they plan on opening other care centers just like this one throughout the valley.
"As children are intervened at a younger age, their vocabulary, their social-emotional get developed. And by the time the make it to kindergarten or transitional kindergarten they are better developed," explained Richard Cordero, Senior Director (ICOE).
These care centers not only provide a care service, they provide at least four jobs at each site and give parents the opportunity to seek employment if needed.
"There is two things we try to promote with our families, it's education and then hopefully if they feel they are ready to be employed to give them the opportunity to go seek that employment," added Cordero.
To run a care center cost a little over $200,000 a year depending on the size and amount of students serving.
"People, mothers can work while someone takes care of the kids, this is a perfect combination," said Arturo Rioseco, Board Chairman of Calexico Housing Authority.


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The global blister packaging market will grow from $11.94 billion in 2015 to reach $18.25 billion by 2022, at a CAGR of 6.25% driven by growing healthcare industry as a result of increasing health awareness and rising aging population which further highlights the need of the healthcare assistance and increases the demand of the pharmaceutical and medical products.
"Asia-Pacific to be the fastest-growing market during the forecast period."
The Asia-Pacific region is projected to be the fastest-growing market during the forecast period, followed by North America, from 2015 to 2022. Japan accounted for the largest consumption of blister packaging, followed by China in 2014. In North America, the U.S. is the largest consumer of blister packaging and accounted for the largest market share in terms of value and volume among all the countries in the world. Complete report on blister packaging market spread across 234 pages, profiling 10 companies and supported with 210 tables and 63 figures is now available at http://www.rnrmarketresearch.com/blister-packaging-market-by-material-plastic-film-paper-paperboard-aluminum-technology-thermoforming-cold-forming-heat-seal-coating-water-based-solvent-based-application-food-consumer-goods-industrial-goods-healthcare-global--market-report.html .
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> By Company Type: Tier1- 39%, Tier2- 37%, and Tier3- 24%
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The various suppliers in blister packaging market include Amcor Limited (Australia), The Dow Chemical Company (U.S.), West Rock Company (U.S.), Bemis Company, Inc. (U.S.), Sonoco Products Company (U.S.), Constantia Flexibles (Austria), Klockner Pentaplast Group (Germany), Display Pack, Inc. (U.S.), Tekni-Plex, Inc. (U.S.) and Pharma Packaging Solutions (U.S.). Priced at $4650 for a single user PDF, Inquire Before Buying on "Blister Packaging Market by Material (Plastic Film, Paper & Paperboard, Aluminum), Technology (Thermoforming, Cold forming), Heat Seal Coating (Water-based, Solvent-based), Application (Food Consumer Goods, Industrial Goods, Healthcare) - Global Forecast to 2022" research report can be requested at http://www.rnrmarketresearch.com/contacts/inquire-before-buying?rname=468011 .
"Plastic film dominated the blister packaging market in 2014."
Plastic film accounted for the largest share in the blister packaging market in 2014. Due to excellent barrier properties of plastic, as well as it being cost effective, it is widely used in healthcare industry for the blister packaging of medical and pharmaceutical products.
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You're Invited To Roosevelt Island Celebration Of Black History Month Monday February 20 - Music, Poetry, Dance, Tribute To Martin Luther King & President Obama Plus Much More
Roosevelt Island Senior Center Carter Burden Program Outreach Director Hallie Shapiro reports:
We are CLOSED for all regular programming this Monday (2/20) for President's Day, but be sure to come to the Black History Month Celebration between 1-4pm here at the Senior Center. Open to the community! There will be music, poetry readings, African dance performance, special tributes to Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. and President Barack Obama, and more! The party will be MCed by Public Safety's Deputy Director, Kevin Brown.Roosevelt Island Residents Association (RIRA) Child, Youth & Education Ad Hoc Committee Co-Chairs Adib Mansour and Anne Heskel add about same event:
Please join us! Light refreshments will be served.
It is with pleasure that RIRA's Children, Youth and Education Ed Hoc Committee invites you to attend RIRA's Black History Month Celebration with Anyah, Tia, and our young ambassador Lola De Luka.
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S.3927 : Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta National Heritage Area ActSponsor: Sen. Feinstein
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2011 National Underground Railroad Network to Freedom Conference, June 15-18, Cincinnati, OH. For more details contact: Diane Miller, 402-661-1588 or email@example.com
2011 National Scenic Byways Conference is August 21-24, 2011, in Minneapolis, Minnesota featuring interactive learning formats focusing on Finances, Visitor Experience, Corridor Management and Byway Organization. For more details: www.bywaysresourcecenter.org
Please plan to join us for the 2nd annual NHA Partnership Meeting at the 2011 National Preservation Conference in Buffalo, NY, October 18-20 in the Erie Canalway NHC and a stone's throw from Niagara Falls NHA. www.visitbuffaloniagara.com
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Abraham Lincoln NHA
Arabia Mountain NHA
Atchafalaya NHA
Augusta Canal NHA
Baltimore NHA
Blue Ridge NHA
Cache La Poudre River Corridor
Cane River NHA
Champlain Valley NH Partnership
Crossroads of the American Revolution
Delaware and Lehigh NH Corridor
Erie Canalway NH Corridor
Essex NHA
Freedom's Frontier NHA
Freedom's Way NHAGreat Basin NHAGullah/Geechee Cultural Heritage CorridorHudson River Valley NHA
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Journey Through Hallowed Ground NHA
Kenai Mountains - Turnagain Arm NHALackawanna Heritage Valley NHA
Mississippi Delta NHAMississippi Gulf NHA
Mississippi Hills NHAMormon Pioneer NHA
MotorCities NHA
Muscle Shoals NHANational Aviation Heritage AreaNational Coal Heritage Area Authority
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Ohio & Erie NHCanal Way
Oil Region NHA
Quinebaug & Shetucket Rivers Valley NHC - Last Green Valley
Rivers of Steel NHA
Sangre de Cristo NHASchuylkill River NHA
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South Carolina NH Corridor
South Park NHASouthwestern Pennsylvania Heritage (Path of Progress)
Tennessee Civil War NHA
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NPS Launches 'Civil War to Civil Rights' Commemoration
To commemorate the 150th anniversary of the Civil War and to promote the many stories National Heritage Areas have to share regarding life on the home front, battlefield, reconstruction, and the Civil Rights Movement, National Heritage Areas participated in a kickoff event in Washington, D.C.
The event was the official launch for the National Park Service's sesquicentennial commemoration. Historic attractions, sites, and cultural organizations throughout the Capital region joined together for this unique promotion, "Civil War to Civil Rights," in partnership local and national entities such as Destination DC, National Archives, Smithsonian, the Library of Congress, and Cultural Tourism DC.
"The American Civil War was the most momentous era in American history," said Robert Sutton, NPS Chief Historian. "In the short period between Abraham Lincoln's first election and inauguration, our nation was already splitting apart. With more than 75 Civil War-related battlefields and historic sites, our collective mission is to preserve and protect these resources, and to provide understanding of the events that occurred there, within the context of the causes and consequences of the war."
"The 'causes and consequences' context encourages us to join with our tourism partners in inviting Americans to personalize our history through experiential travel," said Dean Reeder, NPS tourism chief. "Beyond the battlefields are an expansive set of stories, civil rights and a home front heritage saga, connecting visitors to a lifelong appreciation and understanding of parks as national treasures."
To support the "Civil War to Civil Rights" initiative, NPS created a website featuring a calendar of events, exhibitions, conferences, programs, and attractions. Soon it will feature a national interactive map http://www.nps.gov/civilwar/
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The Coming of the War
Friday, November 12, 10am - 5pm -- Symposium hosted by the Sesquicentennial Commission and the Tennessee Civil War National Heritage. The symposium will offer opportunities for school children, history professionals, and life-long learners to get involved in the activities, performances, and panel discussions regarding Tennessee's participation in the Civil War. Gov. Phil Bredesen will open the event with various lectures and activities to follow throughout the 2 day period. For more information, contact firstname.lastname@example.com OR visit http://www.tncivilwar150.com
The first annual NHA Partnership Meeting was held October 27 as an affinity session at the National Trust for Historic Preservation's Conference. Sponsored by NPS, the meeting provided an opportunity for NHA partners to share knowledge and resources.
Presentations by NHAs and NPS leaders addressed Alliance of NHA activities, regional challenges, and larger programmatic priority issues and accomplishments. The meeting featured workshop style break-out discussions, which centered on nurturing the NHA program in an era of fiscal austerity and increasing oversight. Break-out discussions covered topics such as planning for long-term sustainability, developing a research agenda for NHAs, addressing private property issues, and identifying long-term funding sources.
In attendance were NHAs, NPS and other state and local heritage organizations. NPS staff included the Associate Director for Cultural Resources, Stephanie Toothman, National Coordinator for Heritage Areas, Martha Raymond, Assistant Coordinator, Heather Scotten and NHA coordinators and staff from the Northeast, Pacific West, and Intermountain regions. NHA staff in attendance included Dr. Van West, Tennessee Civil War NHA, Andy Kitzmann, Erie Canalway NHC, and Jody Ladd Craig and Sally Hatcher, Freedom's Frontier NHA.
The National Preservation Conference is the premier gathering for preservationists in the U.S. The theme, Next American City, Next American Landscape, spotlighted preservation's role in defining the future of our nation's urban and rural communities. Featured speakers included former First Lady Laura Bush, New Yorker magazine architectural critic Paul Goldberger, and historian and immigration expert, Juan Hernandez.
Join us for the 2nd annual NHA Partnership Meeting at the 2011 National Preservation Conference in Buffalo, NY, October 18-20 in the Erie Canalway NHC and a stone's throw from Niagara Falls NHA. Watch Buffalo: This Place Matters www.visitbuffaloniagara.com.
Autumn Colors Saturate Erie Canalway National Heritage Corridor
In the town of Albion, NY, a tugboat lounges in placid waters, secured by its mooring ropes. Nearby, a sage-green bridge appears in soft focus across the same waters-those of the Erie Canal.
A peaceful stroll along the canal banks at Albion is just one of the many attractions that the Erie Canalway National Heritage Corridor offers. This water-based network of communities in upstate New York is a fine travel destination.
Ride on a canal boat, check out locks and bridges, and wander through towns like Seneca Falls, where an old knitting mill still stands. Go for a bike ride on the Erie Canalway Trail, where you can pedal through delicate morning mist and gaze at the rich greens (or-in autumn-yellows, oranges, and reds) of the trees that border the famous watercourse.
Visit http://www.nps.gov/getaways to plan your navigation of the waterway. For more information: http://www.eriecanalway.gov/
contact: Jean Mackay, Erie Canalway NHC, 518-237-7000 x 222
Heritage Area Byway's Among GOODYEAR and America's Byway's® 50 Most Comfortable Touring Drives
A new national survey commissioned by The GoodyearTire & Rubber Company and America's Byways® revealed that Americans planned on taking at least one road trip this autumn. A combination of stable gas prices and abundant scenic routes should contribute to opportunities for weekend road trips or vacation getaways well into the future.
The survey, completed by Kelton Research, also found that most travelers want their journey to be something that is beautiful and unique, not just another trip on a superhighway. In fact, the overwhelming majority of people (80%) would opt for a scenic, touring drive rather than driving directly to their destination.
"Our survey showed that 97 percent of Americans planning a fall road trip agree that their overall comfort is the key to enjoying it, so we joined together with America's Byways to unveil a list of the 50 Most Comfortable Touring Drives," said Gary Medalis, general manager for Goodyear consumer tires. "These top 50 touring drives encompass comfort and scenery to enhance the trip and are all within reasonable distance of major metropolitan areas."
"For not a lot of money, travelers can skip the superhighways and exit to the smaller roadways to experience some of the best roads America has to offer," said Derrick Crandall, spokesperson for America's Byways and president, American Recreation Coalition. "While there are hundreds of fantastic drives along America's Byways, we worked with Goodyear to create a list of some of the best, providing Americans with what they told us they are looking for-comfortable, nearby drives that provide scenic and unique landscapes."
NHA Byways featured include Blue Ridge Parkway, Journey Through Hallowed Ground, Baltimore's Historic Charles Street, and Motor Cities' Woodward Avenue Automotive Heritage Trail. For a list of all 50 Byways visit: http://www.bywaysresourcecenter.org
Road Trip Survey Fact Sheet --
· 70% of Americans planned to take at least one road trip this fall
· 40% of those surveyed planned to take three trips or more
· 80% of Americans would opt for a scenic touring drive rather than driving straight on a superhighway
· 97% of Americans agreed that overall comfort is the key to enjoying any road trip
· Travelers were willing to give up some things in the name of comfort. Almost half would ditch their GPS system, while others would forgo an hour less of driving time (39%).
· 72% of travelers said they wanted to make at least one or more stop that wasn't necessary while on a road trip.
· More women than men (65% vs. 58%) said that a comfortable drive is a perfect time to unwind and take in the country's backdrop.
Centennial of the World's First Air Cargo Celebrated in National Aviation Heritage Area
Did you know that the Wright brothers not only invented the airplane but also gave birth to the air cargo industry? On November 7, 1910 they successfully transported the world's first cargo by air. Those 200 pounds of silk cloth, traveling 68 miles from Huffman Prairie to Columbus was the beginning of an industry that spans the globe moving billions of pounds of air freight per year.
National Aviation Heritage Alliance, in partnership with Wright B Flyer, Inc. celebrated the 100th anniversary with a commemorative flight departing from Wright Patterson AFB and Huffman Prairie Flying Field and ending in Columbus, Ohio at Rickenbacker Airport on October 2.
Mitch Cary, President of Wright B Flyer Inc and pilot of the commemorative flight honored the young pilot who worked for the Wright brothers; "Phil Parmelee flew this historic flight with little experience and training having flown for the first time just two months prior to making the flight. He was responsible for a number of firsts and endurance flights in those early days of aviation. And unlike our planned flight, where we had two pilots to share flying duties, Phil flew his flight alone."
Max Morehouse, a Columbus merchant, recognized the business interest in "flying machines" and struck a deal with the Wrights to transport silk from Dayton, Ohio. The Wrights charged Morehouse $5,000, which is equivalent to roughly $120,000 today. Morehouse more than recovered his money by selling pieces of silk attached to a postcard that celebrated the world's first cargo delivered by airplane.
Amanda Wright Lane and her brother Stephen Wright, and Lecia Lamphere and her brother Philip McKeachie, representing their great grand uncles Orville and Wilbur Wright and Phil Parmelee, observed the flight. Ms. Wright Lane said, "The flight was just one part of Uncles Orv and Wilbur's effort to promote aviation. While they recognized their airplane might not be able to carry heavy loads, they knew the speed of flying was important in delivering certain types of cargo." Lecia Lamphere remarked, "Uncle Phil was told by Orville Wright as he tacked a map to the wing strut just prior to take-off, 'watch the map and do your best'. In spite of cold temperatures and flying alone, he did his best, and made history with what was not just the first air cargo flight but what was the first commercial flight in the world of aviation. It is very exciting to witness this 100th anniversary of such an historic flight."
Serving as a symbol of the Dayton region's connection to aviation and aerospace innovations, they carried ceramic fiber composite cloth and concept micro Unmanned Air Vehicles instead of silk.
To help the public track the flight, the National Aviation Heritage Alliance set up a Twitter account with "tweets" informing the public of the whereabouts of the Wright B as it made its way to Columbus.
Columbus Regional Airport Authority and Lane Aviation sponsored the event. For more details contact Tony Sculimbrenevisit or visit: http://www.aviationheritagearea.org/
Augusta Canal Authority Purchases Historic Sibley Mill
The Augusta Canal Authority purchase of historic Sibley Mill including the landmark 19th Century textile mill, outbuildings, the hydroelectric plant and approximately 20 acres of land stretching from the banks of the Augusta Canal to the Savannah River. The mill was site of the Confederate States of America Powderworks from 1862-1865. The Authority plans to stabilize and secure the buildings, perform required environmental remediation and then market the property nationally for private development.
Sibley Mill is the second historic mill purchased by the Augusta Canal Authority to promote preservation along the canal. In 2001, the Authority purchased King Mill for approximately $250,000 after it was abruptly shuttered by its owners. The authority leases the building to Ohio-based Standard Textile. Standard continues to operate King to finish and package textiles for the health care industry.
Closing on the property in August was the final step in a process that began in mid-February when the Authority entered into a purchase contract with Avondale Mills Inc. The Authority worked with American Environmental & Construction Services, Inc., to conducted structural and environmental inspections during a 120 day due diligence period. The inspections revealed contaminants in some soil samples.
"This was not unexpected on a 130-year-old industrial site and Civil War era gunpowder factory," observed Dayton Sherrouse, Executive Director of the Augusta Canal National Heritage Area.
A Corrective Action Plan (CAP) was prepared and submitted to the Georgia Environmental Protection Division(EPD)in July. On Augusta 26 EPD notified the Authority the property qualified for inclusion in the Brownfields program under the Georgia's Hazardous Site Reuse and Redevelopment Act. Brownfield designation confers limited liability on the prospective purchaser provided the corrective action plan is implemented in a timely fashion.
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On September 24, the Lackawanna Heritage Valley Authority (LHVA) held the official rededication of the Heritage Valley Crossing Bridge that spans the Lackawanna River between Mellow Park in Peckville and Condella Park in Olyphant, Pennsylvania.
The bridge was installed originally in 1993 with a LHVA grant that provided seed money for a donation campaign spearheaded by the Lackawanna River Corridor Association. More than 275 businesses, nonprofit organizations and individuals donated money for the bridge's construction. It became a vital pedestrian and cycling link on the Lackawanna River Heritage Trail connecting Peckville and Olyphant. Both the Trail and the Heritage Valley Crossing Bridge are used by thousands of runners for the Steamtown Marathon, a qualifying race for the Boston Marathon, each October. Many athletes consider the rail-trail their favorite portion of the race.
Over the past seventeen years, the bridge's decking deteriorated. LHVA and the Pocono Northeast Resource Conservation and Development (RC&D) Council worked together in the spring and summer to organize the restoration. The Lackawanna County Conservation District, the Wayne County Conservation District, and the Lackawanna River Corridor Association joined forces to support the project. The RC&D Council solicited donations from the forestry industry in Northeastern Pennsylvania, and many companies responded generously, including Deer Park Lumber, Inc., Forest Regeneration Services, Inc., Northern Tier Hardwoods Association, Wayne-Lackawanna Forest Landowners Association, R-Ranch, and Brojack Lumber Company.
In September, LHVA staff and volunteers demolished the old bridge decking with assistance from the Borough of Blakely and the Borough of Olyphant. Fabcor, Inc., a local company who recently constructed the Downtown Scranton Riverwalk, donated the installation of the new bridge deck. After two days of work, the bridge was open again for walkers, runners, and bicyclists who use the trail daily for recreation, fitness activities, and socializing.
"The Heritage Trail is about linking communities," said Natalie Gelb Solfanelli, LHVA Executive Director, "and nothing symbolizes that more than this bridge." Solfanelli praised the many volunteer groups and companies that made the renovation possible. "This project would not have been possible without their support and generosity."
Less than three weeks later, more than 2,500 runners pounded across the renovated bridge during the Steamtown Marathon. After the excitement of the race, families with strollers, seniors, dog-walkers, and joggers were back on the bridge to travel the Lackawanna River Heritage Trail between Mellow and Condella Parks.
Baltimore National Heritage Area Celebrates Recent Honors and Designations
Prevention Magazine named Baltimore one of the top most walkable cities in America (ranking #15) in recognition of the Baltimore National Heritage Area's Heritage Walk, a 3 mile walking tour that connects more than 20 cultural heritage sites throughout the city.
On October 25th, the heritage area was joined by officials from Baltimore County, the Mayor's Office, the City Council President's Office, City Department of Transportation, State Highway Administration/State Department of Transportation, Charles Street Development Corporation, representatives from the Federal Highway Administration/America's Byways™ Program, and other partners to celebrate the designation of Baltimore's Historic Charles Street as a National Scenic Byway. The celebration comes on the heels of Goodyear naming the Charles Street National Scenic Byway as one of America's top 50 most comfortable autumn drives.
In the short time since designation, communities in Alaska's Kenai Mountains-Turnagain Arm have been busy on projects that bolster the profile of this new National Heritage Area. Since designation in March 2009, communities, nonprofits, government agencies, and citizens have rolled up their sleeves to work on a variety of worthy endeavors.
KMTA NHA partnered and assisted with:
· Developing "The Alaska App," downloadable audio tour guide
· Digitizing and cataloging historic photos · Construction of an Iditarod Trail monument · Restoration of an historic ski trail, part of the Iditarod Trail system
· Restoration of museum artifacts
· Planning for a new museum project
· Restoration of an historic waterwheel
The KMTA NHA has also developed an award-winning website. KMTACorridor.org/ was recognized as a 2010 Top National Heritage Website by online reference resource Juggle.com for its "historical information access and engaging area preservation initiatives."
A high priority for the KMTA NHA is to complete its Management Plan for approval of the Secretary of the Interior. Public meetings have been held and public input continues as this document is being developed.
Meanwhile, the KMTA NHA looks forward to its continued partnerships in promoting and preserving the heritage of this unique and treasured place in Alaska.
Rivers of Steel National Heritage Area Integral to Great Allegheny Passage Trail Completion.The completion date for the Great Allegheny Passage - a trail grid connecting Pittsburgh to Washington DC has been set for the fall of 2011 and Rivers of Steel National Heritage Area was an integral part of its completion.
The trail's creation began in 1986 when a 9-mile path near Ohiopyle in southwestern Pennsylvania opened. Now it encompasses 150 miles of trail networks from downtown Pittsburgh to Cumberland, Maryland, where it connects to the C&O Canal Towpath. The 185-mile towpath connects to D.C. making for 335 miles of continuous trails.
"Rivers of Steel helped to oversee the creation of the Steel Valley Trail, a 9-mile segment between the city of Pittsburgh and the Youghiogheny trail right outside of McKeesport which are all now part of the Great Allegheny Passage," said Ron Baraff, Director of Museum Collections & Archives with Rivers of Steel.
"Securing the easements and rights-of-way for the eventual development of the Steel Valley Trail were critical in making the necessary linkages in the overall GAP trail," said August R. Carlino, President and CEO of Steel Industry Heritage Corporation, which manages Rivers of Steel. SIHC also provided staffing and technical assistance to the Steel Valley Trail Council in their early years, and helped them get established and spin-off to an independent, yet integral partner in the overall development of both the trail and the Rivers of Steel National Heritage Area.
Baraff, who also sits on the Steel Valley Trail Council, explained that the council started as a committee of Rivers of Steel. As the committee grew into a council, both the Steel Valley Trail Council and Rivers of Steel worked together to get easements with different companies and organizations for the SVT. "It's a case of forging really important partnerships especially since it is increasingly obvious to everyone that it's vital to the future of the region," he said.
According to a 2008 study on the economic impact of the Great Allegheny Passage in southwestern Pennsylvania, almost 41% of trail visitors planned an overnight stay and those overnight visitors spend almost $100 a day in trail communities. Spending included restaurants, beverages and lodging.
The study also showed that businesses located on or near the trail attributed a quarter of their business to trail visitors and two-thirds of businesses near the trail saw an increase in revenue. More than 30 percent planned to expand their businesses to handle the additional trail-related economic impact. (www.gaptrail.org/au/impact.cfm)
The study showed that the Great Allegheny Passage brought in more than $40 million in revenue in 2008, not including an almost additional $8 million in wages for businesses near the trail.
"To have all these things fully in place is a huge boon for this region, and not just that, but it's (on the level of) a first day attraction," said Baraff. "Trail riders from all over the world will start descending on this area and the city.
Baraff added that The Pump House, an historic property owned by Rivers of Steel is also on a trailhead of the Great Allegheny Passage. "The ability to capture the needs and interests of these people gives us the opportunity to interpret the region."Another effect of the Great Allegheny Passage is the impetus to complete an Erie to Pittsburgh trail. According to the Erie To Pittsburgh Trail Alliance (www.eriepittsburghtrail.org), they plan to connect Erie's bay front to downtown Pittsburgh. Their trail network is about 60% complete. Once finished, the Great Allegheny Passage would encompass 500 miles of continuous trails.
Other future plans for the Great Allegheny Passage include its connection to the 52-mile Montour Trail, which will connect from Clairton - southeast of Pittsburgh, to the Pittsburgh International Airport, just northwest of the city.
"All of this happened by connecting the dots throughout the region," said Baraff. "It's fantastic."
For more information, visit www.riversofsteel.com. Submitted by Sherris Moreira, Director of Marketing and Tourism Development for Rivers of Steel National Heritage Area.
Yuma Crossing National Heritage Area leads effort to save and revitalize two state historic parks.
Due to state budget cuts, in the past year the Arizona State Parks Board announced plans to close the Yuma Quartermaster Depot State Historic Park and the Yuma Territorial Prison State Historic Park. Both of these parks are critical components of the Yuma Crossing National Historic Landmark and are foundations of Yuma's riverfront redevelopment efforts.
Yuma Crossing National Heritage Area Corporation agreed to operate the parks with the City of Yuma's and community support. The State leased the facilities to the City of Yuma, which then entered into an operating agreement with the Heritage Area. The community raised over $70,000 in 60 days to "save the prison", and the City provided financial support from the local hospitality tax to help keep the Quartermaster Depot open.
Yuma Crossing National Heritage Area Corporation agreed to operate the parks with the City of Yuma's and community support. The State leased the facilities to the City of Yuma, which then entered into an operating agreement with the Heritage Area. The community raised over $70,000 in 60 days to "save the prison", and the City provided financial support from the local hospitality tax to help keep the Quartermaster Depot open.
Since March 2010, the Heritage Area has been dealing with significant deferred maintenance issues while also upgrading the museum exhibits at both parks. The National Park Service has also provided invaluable technical assistance to address threats to historic adobe structures.
The Heritage Area's goal is to increase admissions and retail revenues at both parks in order to reduce and ultimately eliminate the operating deficits of the parks, making them more self-sustaining.
Augusta's 19th Century historic canal is using 21st Century smartphone technology to tell its stories. The Augusta Canal DigiTrail uses QR code tags (square black and white boxes similar to UPC bar codes) to link smartphone (iPhone, Android and other 3G mobile phones) to specially created mobile web pages by simply scanning the QR tag with their phone's camera.
Small 3x7 signs are located at about half mile intervals along the canal's towpath at well-known and lesser known locations such as the Petersburg boat docks, the Butt Memorial Bridge, or the Tin House gates. Others will bring up information on some of the canal's abundant wildlife, such as slider turtles and heron. Users will be able to pull up written information, photos, maps and additional web links as they walk along. Soon, video clips will be linked to the sites as well.
Some mobile devices have a QR scanning application prelinstalled, or a free app such as QRVark or QuickMark can be easily downloaded, explained Canal Marketing Director Rebecca Rogers.
The project was the brainchild of Augusta Canal Authority member Peter Hughes, who volunteered his time to research and build each of the DigiTrail mobile webpages.
Marker locations/topics include: Headgates, Towpath, water flow, slider turtles, great blue herons, Native Americans, floods, the Rapids of the Savannah River, cliff swallows, Long Gate Spillway, Tin House Gate, the Augusta & Knoxville Railroad, mill houses, Butt Memorial Bridge, Petersburg Boats and the 13th Street First Level gates.
"One of the cool things about these markers is that the content can be dynamic-we can change and add to it at any time without having to replace a whole big, expensive interpretive sign," Rogers said. "I can see us using these only on the trail, but in our Interpretive Center to add digital layers of information to what we now present."
Augusta Canal NHA Fall Series closes with Foiliage Stroll - November 13 & 14: "Fall Foliage Stroll" Trees & Wetland Vegetation
Fall color often peaks along the canal in early to mid-November. Join botanist Dr. Judy Gordon of Augusta State University for a look at the native trees and wetlands plants as they don their autumn attire, November 13 at 10 a.m. and November 14 at 3 p.m.
All walks begin at the Waterworks parking lot at the end of Goodrich Street. Cost is $2 per adult or $1 per child with an $8 maximum per family group. There is no charge for members of the Augusta Canal Keepers Society. For more information call the Canal's education coordinator at 706-823-0440 extension 2.
Other events in the fall series included a bird watch trek along the banks of Augusta Canal and a tour of Augusta's 1899-era water pumping station and related water supply structures to see how the Canal feeds the city's water system from Civil Engineer and Canal Authority member Tom Robertson.
Alliance of National Heritage Areas Holds Fall Meeting in Essex National Heritage Area
Essex National Heritage Area shared the region's magnificent resources and spectacular New England autumn weather with members of the Alliance of National Heritage Areas, who met in Salem, MA in October for a fall quarterly meeting.
Delegates from NHAs joined with tourists from around the country and the world to experience a sampling of what draws visitors to the region in October...Haunted Happenings and Halloween. In addition to commercial attractions, members were treated to many of the authentic historic and quintessential heritage sites unique to Essex.
Events began with an evening reception on board the Friendship of Salem, a 3-masted tall-ship at the NPS Salem Maritime Historic Site. The next day, after a presentation at the NPS Regional Visitor Center in the converted Salem Armory, delegates wound their way north to the charming, historic seaport of Newburyport, birthplace of the US Coast Guard.
Next, they ventured to the remarkable Spenser-Pierce-Little Farm in Newbury for an interpretative tour conducted by Historic New England's expert, Bethany Groff, who manages the property along with two other first period dwellings in the vicinity. She explained the transformation of the property from sleepy town attraction to a renowned architectural and archeological study site which has adopted farm animals from a nearby SPCA to better connect children to the site's historical context.
They visited regional attractions along the planned Essex Heritage Scenic Byway, a series of scenic roads that hug the coast from Newburyport to Lynn, including the Essex Shipbuilding Museum, the H. A. Burnham Boat Yard, and Woodman's of Essex, home of the fried clam. The tour continued to the Gloucester Maritime Heritage Center, and the Cape Pond Ice Company, a heritage business that has supplied ice to fishing fleets for generations. They returned to Salem to enjoy the Yin Yu Tang house at the world famous Peabody-Essex Museum. Following meetings, the Alliance completed their stay in Salem with a visit to the Salem Witch Museum and a walking tour of Salem led by historian and author, Jim McAllister.
"We were pleased to share the bounty of our Heritage Area resources with Alliance members and we look forward to their return visits to enjoy more of what Essex Heritage offers to the cultural tourist." said Mary Williamson of Essex NHA.
For more information visit: http://www.essexheritage.org
Northeast Region National Heritage Area Program
Hosts Sustainability Workshop in Essex NHA
The National Park Service held a workshop for the National Heritage Areas in the Northeast Region on October 12 to discuss strategies for adapting to the new requirements by Congress to develop sustainability and self-sufficiency studies.
The workshop was attended by most of the Directors of the National Heritage Areas in the NER and also included participants from the Southeast Region and NPS staff from Washington.
The day was divided up into presentations on evaluation processes followed by facilitated discussions on how to move ahead with considering ways for completing the new sustainability and self-sufficiency reports.
NPS National Heritage Area Coordinator, Martha Raymond, led a work session and was joined by Assistant Director for Cultural Resources, Stephanie Toothman, to discuss these critical NHA issues. For more information contact: email@example.com
Experience Atchafalaya Days
Experience Atchafalaya Days kicked off October 1, 2010 in Atchafalaya National Heritage Area with the help of several state agencies and non-profit groups. The "Days" are a month-long series of events and activities intended to increase awareness about the environment, resources, culture and recreational opportunities in the Atchafalaya NHA, and inform citizens about the activities of Louisiana state agencies in and around the Atchafalaya Basin.
Among outdoor activities offered were: swamp and bayou kayak expeditions, moonlight canoe trips, eagle and other birding trips, archaeology outings, hiking trips, litter pick-ups, old "putt-putt" boat rides, and evening wildlife watching.
For audiences not so inclined to explore the outdoors there were book signings, cemetery tours, traditional craft demonstrations, art and photography exhibits and classes, presentations and lectures covering intriguing topics such as native plant use, creating a backyard wildlife habitat , the coast and the Wetlands, art of kayak fishing, living in a swamp, and more.
In addition, existing cultural and agricultural events occurring in October that reflect Heritage Area themes enjoy additional promotion through Experience Atchafalaya Days: Creole, Cajun, French Food, Sugar Cane, Gumbo and other Festivals.
Created by Governor Foster in 2002, before Atchafalaya National Heritage Area gained national designation, individuals and groups throughout the region organized and presented events that reflected the culture and natural resources of Atchafalaya. Spearheaded by volunteer groups, the Atchafalaya Trace Commission continued the "Days" for several years, but it was eventually discontinued.
The variety of events allows many audiences to be reached and enables the NHA to spotlight resources in the area, thereby giving a more accurate snapshot of what the heritage area is all about. The distribution of the events throughout the month allows for word-of-mouth marketing among the niche markets. It has provided the opportunity for Atchafalaya NHA to form a solid partnership with Friends of Atchafalaya, and build capacity for both organizations.
MotorCities National Heritage Area congratulates historian and long time supporter Dr. Charles K. Hyde on his book "Storied Independent Automakers: Nash, Hudson, and American Motors" which was awarded the prestigious Nicolas-Joseph Cugnot Award ("Outstanding Book of 2009 in Automotive History in the English Language") by the Society of Automotive Historians (SAH).
In this book, Hyde explores the history of the Nash and Hudson car companies which eventually merged in 1954 to form the American Motors Company. It features 100 black and white images and all of the photographs of automobiles show brand-new cars shortly after they were manufactured as well as brochures, period literature, factory photos, and road test information appear in this volume.
Cultural Heritage Tourism Survival Toolkit
By Scott Wands
All news related to the economic downturn is not bad news. It just seems that way at times. And the National Trust for Historic Preservation has decided that it is high time to focus on the good news -- the attractions and marketing organizations standing up to the challenge and finding ways to survive -- if not thrive -- despite the economy.
To share these lessons and respond to the challenge, the National Trust's Heritage Tourism Program received an award from the National Endowment for the Arts to create a new online Cultural Heritage Tourism Survival Toolkit with three key components:
The 11 key survival strategies to keep you going in uncertain times begin with an important mantra for all organizations to follow: Don't Panic, and Don't Forget the Basics.
Each of the 11 tips that follow, ranging from Be Ready to Make Your Case, Know Your Customer and Your Product, and Serve the Local Community include links to case studies of organizations doing good work in that particular area.
Visitors to the site can also access the case studies via a complete listing or by searching geographically. (Unfortunately, the Northeast's case studies do not include any Connecticut examples.)
"We've found that real-life stories are meaningful role models" says Amy Webb, director of the National Trust for Historic Preservation's Heritage Tourism Program. "Cultural heritage tourism attractions want to hear from others in the trenches facing similar challenges. These survival stories showcase how many communities are succeeding in the face of an economic downturn."
Kudos to The National Trust for not only sharing tips and strategies for surviving the economic downturn, but also for highlighting the organizations across the country who continue to do good work and inspire us all!


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"Operation Payback" is a coordinated effort by hackers to disrupt the operations of some of the financial institutions who have turned their guns on Wikileaks, for revealing embarassing truths about Western espionage (lets be honest: official secrets usually are secret because they don't want the voters to know, rather than than fear of giving an advantage to the enemy.)
It appears that Operation Payback has had little success in hurting these big institutions but let's look at the big picture. Gone are the days of "cyber-anarchism" – the motivation these days is financial or military. These institutions have hardened themselves against relentless spamming, phishing and sustained efforts by underground criminal gangs. The amateur hacking community has been overtaken by highly organized commercial concerns, perhaps in Eastern Europe, China or who knows where.
The reality is: if the controllers of the biggest botnets got all their botnets doing a mass denial of service on Amazon, it would have had more of an effect. However, these botnets are busy making money for their owners. Also, hackers have undiscovered exploits up their sleeves. These are like gold-dust. Would they reveal these exploits for this goal. At one time, they probably would, however these days, they can get paid for this information, either by playing good and giving them to Google (in exchange for cash) or using a "black hat" method.
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