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UNCTAD trade officials said late Tuesday afternoon that a new Forum on Trade and the Green Economy will be established and will hold its first session in December under the auspices of UNCTAD. The Forum will have as one of its objectives the resolution of conflicts involving trade rules and government environmental measures before they progress to more formal dispute–settlement mechanisms.
The Forum will be scheduled to meet twice a year, giving a panel of experts the opportunity to moderate and suggest solutions, the UNCTAD Trade and Development Board (TDB) was told.
The intent is to have "an institutional space. . . not to legislate, but to reduce frictions and perhaps to reduce trade disputes," said Guillermo Valles, Director of the Division on International Trade in Goods and Services, and Commodities (DITC), UNCTAD.
Attempts to establish and expand the "green economy" recently have included a range of government measures around the world that mandate or require companies to procure inputs from domestic rather than imported sources, said Lucas Assuncao, Head of the Trade, Environment, Climate Change, and Sustainable Development Branch of DITC. Rules also have been set by some countries and regional markets on fees, permits, or markets for carbon emissions – regulations that can increase costs for the domestic firms subject to them.
Domestic-input requirements indicate by law that firms must produce goods or obtain inputs for their goods from sources that have produced them according to domestic standards for protecting the environment. The domestic requirements are often linked to other policies, such as subsidies or "feed-in" tariffs designed to give domestic green businesses a head start. Imported inputs may not be produced according to such environmentally friendly standards. Driving the trend are such factors as care for the environment and the wish to create "green" jobs.
"Everybody – or almost everybody – is using measures like this," Mr. Assuncao told the TDB.
It is hoped that the Forum "can ascertain the economic and environmental effectiveness of these measures", discover to what extent they encourage local value addition and competitiveness, investigate links to other green policies and measures, investigate the impacts of these rules and regulations on trade, and discuss various approaches to reconciling the measures with rules on free trade, Mr. Assuncao said.
"We see a role for UNCTAD in reducing these frictions," he said, adding that the World Trade Organization "has welcomed the idea and agreed to participate informally at the expert level," along with several other agencies. The format of the Forum is that a panel of experts will discuss relevant issues with delegates and trade officials, he said. The expert hearing may be followed by a "diplomacy dialogue" to give national delegations a chance to engage with the experts.
With the involvement of academics, policy economists and trade officials, it is hoped that solutions may emerge that save such issues from going before more formal dispute–resolution mechanisms, such as those at the World Trade Organization, Mr. Assuncao said.
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text: Thursday, December 08, 2011 New Resources Available to Assist State Advocacy Efforts on Fair PT Copays There are growing national concerns regarding the increasing financial burden of out-of-pocket expense for the health care consumer, especially as it relates to physical therapy services. Under certain health plans, copayments for physical therapy services, some as high as $60 per visit, exceed the reimbursement paid by the plan to the provider of care. In addition, in many states and health insurance contracts, the physical therapist (PT) is classified under the specialist designation, which increases the financial burden to the patient by imposing higher copayments and thus restricts access to physical therapy services. High copayments for physical therapy have recently been cited as a reason that some consumers opt to reduce their frequency of care or forgo medically necessary care—running the risk of worsening the underlying condition and/or risking reinjury, thus potentially negatively impacting patient care outcomes. APTA supports state legislation that provides for fair physical therapy copays and prevents cost-shifting to the patient as a result of categorizing physical therapists under the specialist designation. Building on the successful legislative effort earlier this year by the Kentucky Chapter to enact fair PT copays legislation in that state, APTA's Government Affairs and Payment Advocacy Unit has begun developing resources for chapters to advocate on this issue at the state level. A number of state chapters are currently coordinating with APTA State Government Affairs on possible 2012 state legislation. Be sure to check out the new resource Web page. Comments What is being done about some of the insurance plans that vary co-pays between hospital outpatient PT and private practice Pt? I have had several patients that if they come to my clinic they have a $30 co-pay but if they go to the hospital they have no co-pay. How is that possible and what is being done abou that? Posted by Jim Carlsen on 12/9/2011 4:55 PM Some copays as high as $60/visit exceed the reimbursement paid by the plan? $40 is a break even in NC. The state health care plan administered by BCBS of NC has its members pay 62% of their fee. I'm not sure how much help we will get from states if this is their plan of choice. Posted by MaryEllen Axner on 12/11/2011 11:38 AM I'm all for this and am willing to help my state association with the efforts. The next step would certainly be to have equal reimbursement. Not only are hospitals able to reap the benefits of no copay, but other larger national corporations have the ability to collect a higher reimbursement based on another state. I would just like to be on a level playing field. Posted by Linda Johnston, PT on 12/11/2011 2:00 PM I would just qualify the language of this post a bit since physical therapists, in general, see themselves as specialists. However, the Co-Payment problem is largely due to Physical Therapists being categorized as MEDICAL SUB-specialists, such as orthopedic surgeons and neurosurgeons. To quote John Barnes, APTA CEO... "Physical therapy is NOT a subspecialty of the medical profession and physical therapists are not medical doctors; we are a separate profession that provides a unique service that physicians are untrained and unqualified to provide." http://bit.ly/vidWAI Therefore, CoPayment classification of physical therapists as a medical subspecialty robs patients of access to a necessary preventative health service and, ultimately, raises health care costs to consumers and their employers. Thank you, Tim Richardson, PT Posted by Charles Richardson -> =GR^EM on 12/21/2011 1:36 PM


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Debunking The 'Myth Of The Muslim Tide'
This is FRESH AIR. I'm Terry Gross. The violent protests that erupted in the Middle East over a video insulting the Prophet Muhammad were in part a reflection of conflicting values: Islamic strictures on images of the prophet versus the Western principle of respect for free speech.
But our guest, journalist Doug Saunders, says the video itself reflects a troubling current in Western political discourse - an irrational fear of Muslim communities in Europe and the United States. In his new book, "The Muslim Tide." Saunders says an increasingly influential group of writers and activists believes immigration and high birth rates will make Muslims a majority in Europe in coming decades and that their hostility to Western values makes them a threat to Western culture, democracy and security.
Saunders argues that these fears are based on inaccurate assertions of fact, and he says the fear of Muslim immigration in the U.S. is similar to past chapters in American history about other immigrant groups. Doug Saunders is an international columnist for the Canadian paper The Globe and Mail and is its former European bureau chief. He spoke with FRESH AIR contributor Dave Davies.
Well, Doug Saunders, welcome to FRESH AIR. You open your book by describing a change in a neighborhood that you lived at in London, which is not an untypical experience for a lot of places in Europe. Tell us what you were seeing and kind of what reactions that you felt.
DOUG SAUNDERS: I'd lived in a part of North London that had been an immigrant neighborhood for 150 years, but starting maybe in the late '80s, early '90s, we started seeing a new group of immigrants who were visibly different because the women tended to cover their heads with hijab, and sometimes the more concealing niqab.
And they were coming from the Indian subcontinent of East Africa and Turkey and so on. As with many neighborhoods where there's immigration from Muslim countries, you start seeing changes in the shops. You start seeing some halal butchers and kebob shops. And I think this would have seemed like part of the pattern of immigration in a neighborhood like this if it hadn't coincided with some very serious things happening in London and other parts in Europe involving Islamic extremism.
And that affected us directly. I mean, one of our neighbors had both of her legs blown off in the July 7, 2005 bombings on the London transit system, which were committed by British-born children of immigrants that didn't look or seem all that different from some of our neighbors.
And I think like a lot of let's say non-Muslim, non-religious Westerners, I started to wonder, even though my headscarf-wearing neighbors were my - they were my doctor and my shopkeeper and my kids' best friends and all that sort of thing, I couldn't help thinking when I sat down on the bus with the guy in the beard and the backpack across from me not only is he going to do something, but does he share my values?
Do my neighbors really support the core values of equality and freedom and secularism that I consider vital?
DAVIES: Was this book, in effect, your effort to kind of figure that out?
SAUNDERS: Exactly. I knew it was more complicated than my fears made it seem.
DAVIES: Your book is called "The Myth of the Muslim Tide." Summarize, if you will, this argument, that there is a Muslim tide that must be feared. We see this particularly in Europe. What's the case that you're looking at?
SAUNDERS: We had seen a set of ideas simmering on the Internet and in more fringe conservative areas but really exploding into the mainstream in the years after the September 11th attacks, which holds that Muslims, when they come to the West, are not so much members of a religious faith as party to an ideology of conquest; that they are not loyal to the country around them but to their religion or to the culture that they came from; that they are reproducing at an exponential rate and will become a majority; and that they desire to impose religious law, Shariah law and other extreme values upon the civilization around them.
That's the extreme version that a lot of popular books produced. There's a more moderate version that I think a lot of reasonable people like me were more willing to buy, which holds simply that Muslims are different from previous waves of religious minority immigrants, in that they are either unable or unwilling to integrate and will form parallel societies.
DAVIES: But there is this idea that you have this group that is alien in its perspective, that is not loyal to the countries or culture that they have come to live among and that they will grow to become a majority. That's the package that you see growing...
SAUNDERS: That's the package, and sometimes you have this additional detail where authors like Christopher Caldwell or Bruce Bower will say, on top of that, we deserve it. Western societies are failing. We're becoming so secular and socialized and so on that we're not having enough babies, and we're going to be swamped by these hard-core Muslim believers who are going to overtake our society.
And in Germany, the bestselling book of the last 30 years was a book by Thilo Sarrazin, a prominent center-left politician, arguing that Germany and Europe is doing itself in by becoming weak and spineless and feminized and being taken over.
These sort of ideas have become hugely popular, and I would argue that the people who are buying them are not bigots or racists or so on, they're people looking for an answer to why these people appear to look different, at the same time as we had news in the headlines about bombings and so on. And these books provided the only answer for a long time.
DAVIES: Now, you write about the man who killed 77 people in Norway in that horrific attack on the recreational island, Anders Behring Breivik. Do I have the name right?
SAUNDERS: Yes.
DAVIES: And he left a long document explaining his thoughts and motivations. What struck you about that?
SAUNDERS: I arrived in Oslo the morning after Breivik's killing spree and was immediately given a copy of this 1,500-page manifesto. And I realized after flipping through it that I recognized much of it because most of it was a cut and paste, a pastiche of books and blog postings and articles that had appeared by popular authors in the United States and Canada and Britain and the Netherlands and Germany over the previous 10 years or so.
And he had taken these arguments by authors, who I should say none of whom ever would have endorsed violence as a solution, and concluded that Europe was on the verge of being taken over by Muslims, that in the year 2083, that was the title of his manifesto, they would become a majority and would be imposing religious law and subsuming Christians and Jews under their control and so on. And that it was reasonable to kill the enablers of immigration and multiculturalism to prevent this from happening.
And it struck me then, in the summer of 2011, that this had gone too far, that this set of ideas and explanations that had filled the air for the previous several years had led one individual, one reader of these books, to conclude that mass murder was the answer.
And that was when I began this project in earnest to tell the story of Muslim immigration, to answer some of the questions, when I realized that history was in danger of repeating itself, that once again a religious minority was being seen as a material threat.
DAVIES: You write that this fear of the Muslim tide, this fear of the growth of Muslim populations in Europe and the United States, rests on certain assertions of fact, which in the book you go to examine data on and see whether they hold up. One of them is the notion that Muslims, by their nature, have far higher birth rates, and because they are immigrating at high rates are destined to become a majority of the population of Europe in just a few decades. What about that?
SAUNDERS: The bottom line is that Muslims in Europe may peak somewhere close to 10 percent of the population - if you include Russia, which has a large Muslim population - by about the middle of the 21st century. And they're really not going to get much larger than that in population. And in fact it may be much lower than that.
And they'll peak at probably somewhere under 2 percent of the U.S. population, around the same size as Jews or Episcopalians. And at that point probably will stop growing because the one thing we have to understand. There's been a revolution in our scholarly and statistical understanding of population growth rates of immigrant groups; is that first of all, the countries they come from, the Muslim-majority countries of the world, are seeing the fastest-falling population growth rates and family sizes in the world right now.
I mean, Iran has gone from seven children per family in the '80s to 1.7 now. It's not exactly a place that - where they go shouting about condoms a lot. And this is true of many of the largest Muslim-majority countries. But also that the immigrants from those countries are having population growth rates and family sizes that are converging quickly within three generations with those of the host countries and so on, which is something that happens with other immigrants, as well.
(Technical difficulties) to understand that because we look at the large families that new immigrants have after they arrive. But what we're seeing is a real integration and a real change in terms of population growth rates. They are not going to swamp us.
DAVIES: Yeah. So Muslim families don't intrinsically have higher birth rates across the world and the trends show them remaining a minority in both Europe and the United States.
SAUNDERS: And also the fact that their population growth rates are declining so quickly is a sign of some larger thing. When people start having fewer children, it's a sign of integration in a number of ways because to make that decision to have fewer children, as the children of Muslim immigrants do, that means that you are probably using birth control, that you are letting women make decisions that they may not have been able to back in the old country and so on, that you are embracing a set of values that you could call secular in the family sense.
So that is one indicator that a type of integration is going on that's important to look at.
DAVIES: All right. There's also the claim that Muslims regard Islam not as a private spiritual matter as many others do with their religion, but more as an ideology. What about this notion?
SAUNDERS: We can measure this both by looking at what they say and looking at what they do because if people - if members of a religious minority were really believing this, were believing that their religion is a guiding ideology that controlled their actions, then they would be doing things. They would be ignoring the laws. They would be going to the mosque very often, and that sort of thing.
What we find is that the level of religiosity, of religious observance among Muslims when they come to the West tends to fall fairly quickly to approximately the level of religious observance of the people around them. So when Muslims come to France from the Arab countries of North Africa, they tend to become not very religiously observant.
About a fifth of them become outright atheist, which is about similar to the rate of French Christians. And only about maybe 5 percent of them attend a mosque regularly. When they move to the United States, they become about as religious as American Christians are, which is fairly religious. So yes, so about 47 percent of American Muslims will say, I think of myself as Muslim first and American second.
But that's almost exactly the same rate that non-Muslim Americans say, that American Christians say. Just shy of half of American Christians will say, I think of myself as a Christian first and American second.
So they tend to be loyal to their faith at about the same rate the Christians do in whatever country they arrive in. And notably, they make a sharp break from the patterns in the countries from which they come. They adopt the sets of religious versus secular values in their country of arrival and they do not continue the patterns that people had in their country of origin.
So in other words, they are integrating in that sense.
DAVIES: What about the notion that Muslims as a whole are more likely than others around them to be angry and alienated and to be supportive of or at least tolerant of Islamic terrorism?
SAUNDERS: Well, that's an area where we've also had a real revolution in research and understanding, not just from scholarly and survey organizations but from intelligence organizations. CIA and MI-5 and so on have done large-scale studies of what causes people to be extremist in loyalties and so on.
In terms of the anger questions, this is very interesting, actually. It turns out that immigrants from Muslim-majority countries are among the least angry people in societies. Their satisfaction with not only the life around them in the West but with the institutions, that is the secular institutions of the state and the law and so on, is actually much higher in many cases than among non-Muslims, including - one U.S. study that found that even Muslims in neighborhoods where the mosque had been attacked or vandalized or something were still more satisfied with life around them than non-Muslims.
DAVIES: Meaning that they trust the government, respect police more than other citizens.
SAUNDERS: And feel good about their country and about its future. And interestingly, actually, those who seem poorly integrated in terms of other things, like in terms of social values and practices and so on, those who are not supporting equality of women or homosexuals and so on at the same as the population - places like Northern England, where there's a, you could argue, a failure of integration in social values - you actually get some of the highest levels of loyalty to their new country, support for it and optimism about its future and so on.
So integration means different things, and it some places it's not working well, and in some places it is working well, but generally speaking, Muslims tend to be more satisfied than the native population than many other immigrant groups and so on.
DAVIES: And what about the attitude towards terrorism because I think the suspicion might be that while they may not - Muslims in some communities certainly wouldn't be terrorists, that they wouldn't necessarily disapprove in the same way and wouldn't cooperate with investigators, wouldn't report what they saw. What does the data show about that?
SAUNDERS: There's two ways you can look at that. First of all, of course, is you could just look at how much Muslims support the ideas behind terrorism. And a lot of these books and videos and so on reproduce a figure that's appeared in many studies, which says that around 8 percent of American Muslims say that attacks on civilians are justified if the cause is right.
And I remember hearing that number and thinking that's really scary. And then you look at this - the survey that produced that number, and you realize that 24 percent of non-Muslim Americans feel that attacks on civilians are justified if the cause is right. So the question becomes not why do so many Muslims support this concept but why do so few, compared to the regular population.
And of course it's probably because Muslims are the main victims of that type of attack, whether you're talking about terrorism or military excesses.
DAVIES: We're speaking with Doug Saunders. He is an international affairs columnist for the Canadian paper The Globe and Mail. We'll continue our conversation after a short break. This is FRESH AIR.
DAVIES: If you're just joining us, our guest is Doug Saunders. He is an international affairs columnist who's worked in Europe for the Canadian paper The Globe and Mail. His new book is called "The Myth of the Muslim Tide."
There's this term Eurabia, the notion that we're moving towards, you know, a Muslim-dominated Europe, and you say that I guess the person who really originated this was a woman named Gisele Littman, who writes under the Hebrew pen name of Bat Ye'or. Tell us about her.
SAUNDERS: Her books tend to be cited by all of these authors, by the, you know, Robert Spencers and Bruce Bowers in the United States and by the authors in Britain and Germany who are successful. And she had her beginning, and she was an Egyptian Jew who fled to Europe and obviously had personal experiences and so on that led her to be worried about Islam, and became very extreme, I should say. I mean, spent the 1990s defending the Serbian warlords and Radovan Karadzic and so on in the Bosnian conflict as people waging a legitimate war against a religious threat.
And then after September 11th had a successful book called "Eurabia," which in very strange ways tried to argue that there was a plot to have Islam take over that involved various European Union institutions. It's one of the more implausible books, and it probably should have slipped into obscurity, but somehow it got picked up and admired by a lot of very successful authors and so on.
DAVIES: She cites a group called the Euro-Arab Dialogue, which I guess she sees as, you know, an organization spinning and enabling this Muslim takeover of Europe. What is the Euro-Arab Dialogue actually?
SAUNDERS: It was a - what you might call a talking shop, a committee or a subcommittee created by the precursors to the European Union in the early 1970s as a way to deal with some of the political and economic tensions around the OPEC oil crisis. And it met a handful of times in the '70s and basically had died out. It failed and died out by the end of the '70s.
It was eclipsed in the '80s and '90s and 2000s by other bodies that united Israel and the Arab states and the European Union and so on. It was a bureaucratic nonentity that somehow got inflated in this literature into being this grand conspiracy, in much the same way that, you know, people will say the Freemasons or the Bilderberg Group or something like that are part of some worldwide globalization plot.
And it should have - this notion, which is very, very far-fetched, as anyone who's followed European bureaucracy and politics will tell you - should have died out in the fringe world of conspiracy, but suddenly was being cited in all these books that were filling the best-sellers charts and all these YouTube videos and so on.
DAVIES: And have they gotten any play among mainstream journalists, thinkers, political parties in Europe?
SAUNDERS: Unfortunately yes. These ideas, they're in a lot of books. They became the foundation for political leaders like Geert Wilders in the Netherlands, who for a while was the third-most successful political leader in the country, and a string of parties that had basically anti-Muslim-immigration agendas that became the second- or third-place parties across Scandinavia, and the Front National in France, which is often the third-place party, started citing these things, an increasingly well-funded group of authors who moved from the fringe into the mainstream in Europe, and I should say also in the United States.
DAVIES: Doug Saunders will continue his conversation with FRESH AIR contributor Dave Davies in the second half of the show. Saunders' new book is called "The Myth of the Muslim Tide." I'm Terry Gross, and this is FRESH AIR.
GROSS: This is FRESH AIR. I'm Terry Gross. Let's get back to the interview that FRESH AIR contributor Dave Davies recorded with Doug Saunders, author of the new book "The Myth of the Muslim Tide." His purpose is to debunk the fear that Europe and the U.S. will be overcome by a tide of Muslim immigrants who won't assimilate and will promote an agenda that will destroy Western traditions and freedom. Saunders is an international columnist for the Canadian paper the Globe and Mail, and is its former European bureau chief.
DAVIES: We've seen violent demonstrations over the past couple of weeks in response to this obscure video which depicts the Prophet Muhammad in ways that insults Muslims. First of all, the video: Do you think that that's a product of the kind of movement that you've been talking about?
SAUNDERS: Yes. It took us a while to figure out who had made that short video, or maybe taken - hijacked a video on another topic and put a voiceover over it insulting the Prophet Muhammad. And there was a man who is a Coptic Christian in the United States who is directly involved with it. But also a group of people who are part of the network of what I'm calling the Muslim Tide activists who write books and run blog sites and so on, who opposed the so-called Ground Zero mosque.
That video came out of that network, and it was backed and promoted and continues to be by members of that network. So it's coming out of a circle of what you might call anti-Muslim fundamentalists in the United States. And, of course, it set off small circles of fundamentalists and just generally angry people in various countries of the Middle East and North Africa.
DAVIES: Now, there's another side to this, and that is when people in the West see the reaction, the violent and angry reactions in some Muslim countries to this video, I'm sure a lot of people look at this and say there is a fundamental difference in perspective here between Western values and in some - a Muslim who looks at that video and doesn't see a distinction between an idea which may be reprehensible and insulting and deserving of condemnation, that, and on the one hand, an idea that is the product of the U.S. government and ought to be suppressed by the government, that, in effect, that there's a perspective among Muslims that simply doesn't get this fundamental notion of tolerance for free speech - however insulting it may be - addressed that way, folks who look at this and see these demonstrations as expressing a point of view, which is essentially alien to Western democracy.
SAUNDERS: I think you get small groups of people in countries of the Middle East and North Africa and also in Pakistan, and a few other places, who can be provoked to riot and protest against any perceived insult to their religion. I don't think you can call that a general aspect of Muslims. I know Newsweek ran a cover line about Muslim rage that became somewhat infamous.
And really what it is, is it's part of the street culture of Egypt and Libya and Yemen and Pakistan and then so on. I would not say that it's a universal thing among Muslims. And this is something that has existed for a long time in these places, right.
The riots and protests about those cartoons of the Prophet Muhammad that had been published in Northern Europe mainly took place in these same countries. And I should note that those riots and protests were much, much larger in scope and took place at a time when the supposedly Western-friendly dictators were leading those countries, before the democratic revolutions, and so on.
So I would say that this set of protests about this film, first of all, they weren't very large in scope. They didn't involve and they were not supported by the leadership of any of these countries, or by the mainstream population.
I mean, in Libya, where the demonstrations either caused or allowed somebody to get away with the death of the American ambassador to Libya, a guy I knew and admired, the majority of the Libyan population had just elected a secular, liberal government and twice as many secular liberals as Islamists. And I think the general national sentiment was one of condemnation of this fringe group in Benghazi that had done this, and so on.
So we don't want to get carried away, here. There are these threats and these groups in these countries, but it doesn't represent the mainstream course of thought in these countries.
DAVIES: And do we know anything about how Muslim communities in Europe reacted to the film or these demonstrations?
SAUNDERS: It hasn't been a big thing. I don't think you'll find anyone who's a Muslim believer who would express admiration for that film, much as "The Last Temptation of Christ" and "The Life of Brian" provoked protests among Christians when those were new movies, and so on. Religious believers don't generally like having their prophets insulted in movies.
But I don't think you had a diaspora population that could be persuaded that a film like this was a product of the U.S. government or was endorsed by the United States as a homogenous entity the way that some people would in Egypt or Libya or Pakistan.
DAVIES: Doug Saunders is an international affairs columnist for the Canadian newspaper the Globe and Mail. We'll talk more after a short break. This is FRESH AIR.
DAVIES: If you're just joining us, our guest is Doug Saunders. He's an international affairs columnist for the Canadian newspaper the Globe and Mail. He spent a lot of time as their European bureau chief. He has a new book called "The Myth of the Muslim Tide: Do Immigrants Threaten the West?"
In the book, you look at the reaction in the West to past waves of immigration, such as Catholics to the United States in the 19th century and 20th century, and you see parallels in their reactions - parallels to the current fears that you write about - of the Islamic communities in the West. What strikes you as similar in these tides of immigration and the waves of fear that they incite?
SAUNDERS: We see a pattern that repeats itself in Western history, both in terms of what happens to the immigrants themselves from religious minorities in terms of their integration and the struggles they go through and the troubles they have, and in terms of our reaction to them - that is, the reaction of North Americans and Europeans to these new immigrants.
And what we saw in the first half of the 20th century when Ashkenazi Jews from Eastern Europe became a large immigrant group, and then in the early and middle 20th century when southern European Roman Catholics became a large immigrant group was a strikingly similar repeat of what we're seeing today about Muslims.
And we forget that these were large groups who were religious conservatives who dressed differently, who had a lot of children, who tended to be illiterate, who segregated themselves into their own schools and neighborhoods, and certainly in the case of southern European Catholics, were associated with fascism and terrorism and violence.
I mean, by the middle of the 20th century, it would seem reasonable to a lot of people that Catholics were part of an ideology of extremism and takeover. They had committed the largest act of domestic terrorism in the United States in the years after the First World War: They had assassinated a president. Their countries were almost all either fascist or religious extremists.
DAVIES: That was McKinley, right? Was it? Yeah.
SAUNDERS: Yeah, exactly. And they were associated with organized crime, and so on. So, while I would optimistically say that the majority of Americans didn't buy the Catholic Tide hypothesis - if you want to call it that. There were best-selling books right into the 1950s arguing that Catholics were un-integratable and were a threat to the values of U.S. democracy, that their population growth rates were so extreme that they might someday try to - maybe by 1960, let's say - try to impose a president on the United States, and so on.
DAVIES: And this was a fear of Catholicism as distinct from a fear of Italians or Irish. They were characteristics of the faith, or perceived characteristics of the Catholic religion, that people saw as threatening.
SAUNDERS: You had a large group of people before and after the Second World War of scholars and academics and Congress people and so who argued that the thing that made immigrants from Italy or Portugal - or what have you - disloyal and part of an alien civilization was the nature of their faith, that it was not so much a religious faith as an ideology of conquest guided by Rome.
And this may have been denounced by The New York Times and by the leaders of both major parties, but once again, as in the case now, there was a significant minority of people. You had a best-selling book in 1949, 1950 that sold 240,000 copies arguing that Catholic ideology was incompatible with American democracy, and so on.
DAVIES: So you write about a lot of the ways in which these fears of the Muslim communities of Europe and the United States are misguided. You say there are some things we might want to be concerned about. What are they?
SAUNDERS: You know, integration - which is a word we used to describe a lot of processes of change in people after they arrive. It's never quick or easy, and does not always happen naturally. And, I mean, yes. I can argue, as I do, that it's not the religion or the culture that they're coming from that causes problems of integration.
And we can prove that by looking at groups that come have from the same country, or even the same village that have gone to different countries. Then why is it that Turks from the same village that moved to North London become middle-class and university educated and successful, and those that move to Germany become part of an un-integrated underclass?
Well, given that those two trajectories, it's obviously not their religion or background culture. It's something around them that does that. And we need to understand how immigrant neighborhoods work, how our schooling systems work and how our citizenship laws work to either cause people to be part of our economic and educational system or to cast them out into self-segregated ghettos and so on.
DAVIES: You do write about communities where there are - young people face a lack of opportunity, and in some cases they are going in directions which are troubling, right?
SAUNDERS: Not so much in the United States, where...
DAVIES: Right.
SAUNDERS: ...Muslims tend to be a very highly-educated and prosperous middle class group.
In Europe, where they are coming from very poor, rural areas, like the Rif Mountains of Morocco or the Anatolian plane of Turkey or the more remote parts of Pakistan or Bangladesh, you have a phenomenon where the parents strive in their sort of blue-collar industries that brought them in, and the daughters are often successful.
But there's a propensity for the sons to drop out of secondary school at age 16, and so on, and fall into troubled circles - not necessarily into terrorism or anything like that. That tends to be a middle-class thing that's isolated from the mainstream immigrant communities. But they become economically unsuccessful and ghetto-wise because they drop out of school, and so on.
And that's partly because nobody's paid any attention to it, partly because continental European education systems are very poor at mixtures of classes containing immigrants and non-immigrants and so on, and partly because there are citizenship laws and various other laws that make it difficult or sometimes impossible for their parents to buy a house or put their kids in university, and so on, that discourages people from becoming part of the community.
And one thing I've become very convinced of in working on this book is that culture is something that follows economic and educational integration. People become culturally integrated when they are part of the economy and part of the education system. And with every group of religious minority immigrants, this has been the case. If you can make in school and make it in work, then your culture will change to be part of that of the world around you.
DAVIES: Well, Doug Saunders, it's been really interesting. Thanks so much for speaking with us.
SAUNDERS: A real pleasure. Thank you very much.
GROSS: Doug Saunders spoke with FRESH AIR contributor Dave Davies. Saunders' new book is called "The Myth of the Muslim Tide." You can read an excerpt on our website: freshair.npr.org.
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Operating pool pumps for longer periods at slower flow rates can adequately filter the water while cutting the energy use in half.
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Why Kristin?
Progress with Vision, Integrity and Love
Kristin is an independent, co-educational school of approximately 1620 students from Kindergarten through to Year 13, located in Albany on Auckland's North Shore.
The Junior, Middle and Senior Schools are all situated on the same campus, on 50 acres of park-like grounds with state-of-the-art and award winning facilities. Each school follows the philosophy of Kristin while creating their own distinctive character relative to the age group of the students. Kristin is non-denominational and welcomes students from all cultures and backgrounds.
Kristin Mission Statement
Our vision at Kristin School is to provide students with a superior all-round education, to prepare them to be responsible global citizens, to think creatively, reason critically, communicate effectively and learn enthusiastically throughout life.
Academic Excellence at our IB World School
In its 40-year rise to become one of the New Zealand's leading independent schools, Kristin has established an enviable international reputation. The first school in New Zealand to introduce the International Baccalaureate (IB) Diploma, Kristin is the only New Zealand school authorised to offer the IB Primary Years, Middle Years and Diploma programmes alongside the New Zealand National Curriculum to Junior, Middle and Senior School students. The school maintains well-developed student exchange links with countries across the globe and regularly welcomes international students into its classrooms.
Kristin's proud record of success as a leading IB school has allowed students to gain entry to some of the world's most prestigious universities and our Senior School students are regularly ranked amongst the highest achievers in national and international examinations.
As an IB World School, Kristin is committed to developing an international perspective and a sense of global awareness across all three schools and throughout the wider Kristin community. Students of all year levels regularly partake in service initiatives to support others within the school, the local community and in the Asia Pacific region.
Innovation beyond the Classroom
Kristin is renowned for its progressive approach to education and has been a national leader with innovations such as the school-wide teaching of Mandarin, the development of specialised Middle School teaching methods, a digital learning programme across all year levels and a high-speed secure wireless network covering the entire campus.
Kristin's Performing Arts and Sport programmes carry long-standing reputations of excellence. Students learn confidence and teamwork, no matter their field of expertise. Kristin productions deliver theatrical experiences to rival those of professional performance groups and the school's high performance sport programmes ensure athletes are supported in both their academic and competitive pursuits.
Service and leadership are integral components of a Kristin education and students across all three schools are encouraged to take part in a myriad of community and service activities, to take on leadership roles through committees and clubs, and to make a difference in the lives of those in the wider school community. From collecting donations of food in the Junior School to the annual Prefect Project, altruism is an essential part of the Kristin culture.


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text: Wednesday, April 03, 2013 Kansas Improves Patient Access to Physical Therapists This week APTA announced in a press release that Kansas became the latest state to improve patient access to physical therapists. Gov Sam Brownback signed HB 2066 into law on March 28, easing burdensome referral requirements that impede timely care from skilled physical therapists. Achievement of direct access in all 50 states has been a longtime and fundamental goal of APTA. Comments Thank you to the KPTA Board of Directors, the Legislative Committee, and all others who helped and/or contacted their legislators for their persistent work to make this happen! Posted by C Wisdom on 4/5/2013 1:08 PM And then there was was Illinois. Our politicians are too busy digging a deeper financial hole for the state, delaying a solution on the state's pension programs, and buddying up to the IL State Medical Society to relent to direct access for PT. Posted by Greg Given on 4/5/2013 3:53 PM I wish Kansas would regulate state wide massage licensing! Posted by Lance Rupert -> ANX`>O on 4/5/2013 5:55 PM I take every opportunity to discuss importance of direct access to physical therapy services, with my PT coworkers. I have seen and experienced it working well for the benefit of general population while working in India, prior to migrating to U.S. I strongly advocate direct access to P T services and also Prefix of Dr. for Physical Therapist's name.Congratulations to my PT friends in Kansas state. Sanjay Patil, PT Posted by Sanjay Patil on 4/6/2013 12:16 AM Why would a PT seek a referral from someone else if a patient was not progressing as the Kansas statute requires? A why would anyone grant such permission to continue ineffective treatment. From the APTA press release: If the patient is not progressing toward such goals within 10 visits or 15 business days, treatment may continue after the physical therapist obtains a referral from a physician or other appropriate licensed health care practitioner. Posted by Ed Scott PT, DPT, OCS on 4/6/2013 2:52 AM


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Cumberland was once the mining capital of New England because of its extensive mineral deposits of iron ore which was used to make cannons. Today, the country atmosphere and convenient location make this town a popular place to live.
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In the year 2000, Owen Sound - the city - turned 80. But the community which has grown up in this beautiful area of the country is much older than that.
Records show that at the turn of the l7th century, the land east and south of Owen Sound was occupied by the Petun Indians. During war campaigns launched by the Iroquois in the middle part of the century, these tribes were driven out and the territory around Owen Sound became Iroquois. The Iroquois were eventually driven out by the Ojibway tribes who lived north of Lake Superior.
The first white visitor to the Owen Sound area was probably French explorer Samuel de Champlain with Father Le Caron in 1616. He recorded information on the local Indians, naming them "Cheveux Releves" because of their high head dress.
The next recorded visitor was Captain Gother Mann in 1788, who arrived at the harbour during storms and high water. Captain Mann named the bay "Thunder Bay" because of the severe storms during his stay.
In 1815, William Fitzwilliam Owen and Lieutenant Henry W. Bayfield were sent to survey the waters of the upper Great Lakes. The inlet named "Owen's Sound" was in honour of Admiral Sir Edward William Campbell Rich Owen, Captain Owen's elder brother.
In 1837, Charles Rankin began laying out a townsite along the waterfront. His work was delayed by the rebellion in Upper Canada, but was resumed in 1840.
Known as Sydenham, the townsite was originally located on the eastern bank of the Sydenham River close to the harbour. Settlers began arriving by boat in 1841 and were for the most part Scottish, Irish and English.
Life must have been very hard for those first settlers. Although they had access to water routes, there were no roads to the village until 1848, and during winter months, water routes would have been blocked by ice. In fact, in the mid 1840's, it took a man ten days to travel to Barrie and back, so bad were the overland routes.
By 1851 the village's name was changed to Owen Sound and in 1853, the village was chosen as the seat for Grey County.
A look at the village's records in 1853 shows a thriving settlement. The population had reached 1,088 and contained two schools, four churches, a temperance hall, five taverns, three newspapers and seventeen merchants, many of whom offered essential supplies and services such as clothing, blacksmithing and carpentry.
The town's early success in development was due to its proximity to one of Canada's key natural resources - lumber. From the 1850's to the beginning of the next century, logging was the principal industry in Grey and Bruce Counties. The clear bays along the eastern portion of the Bruce Peninsula were often black with logs being transported to larger centres for processing.
It was the town's connection to the two most important methods of travel during the Nineteenth Century - ships and trains - however, that would prove to be the greatest incentive for growth.
In terms of shipping, it was clear from the time of original settlement that Owen Sound's primary function would be as a Great Lakes port. Boats were used to ferry residents to other communities in the area, as well as for fishing and the transport of products and supplies.
The shipping industry played a huge role in the local economy. There were a number of ship builders located here, and many families earned their living by working on the boats.
A few short years after the village was incorporated as the Town of Owen Sound in 1857, discussion arose regarding the possibility of introducing a railway line to the town.
The Toronto Grey and Bruce Railway Company expressed interest in building a line to Owen Sound about 1860. The track was chartered in 1868, but actual construction was not completed until 1873. The line extended along the eastern shore of the waterfront.
In 1883 the railway was taken over by the Canadian Pacific Railway Company. The railway track on the west side of the waterfront was constructed in 1894 by the Grand Trunk Railway, later becoming Canadian National Railway. The present building was erected in the early 1930's and is now the Marine & Rail Heritage Museum.
With the arrival of two railways, Owen Sound became a major shipping centre. By the 1880's, the waterfront was frequented by Georgian Bay and Lake Superior steamers.
By the turn of the century Owen Sound was well on its way to becoming a bustling urban centre with a number of industries including cement manufacturers, ship builders and furniture factories. It was also regarded as a regional centre, supplying many of the surrounding communities with essential supplies and services.
In 1920, Owen Sound was finally incorporated as a city, and the rest, as they say, is history. Owen Sound's first mayor was Richard Carney.
Since the year of its incorporation, Owen Sound has seen many changes. By the 20's it became apparent that the city's industrial boom was drawing to a close. Logging activity in the area was rapidly declining. The opening of the St. Lawrence Seaway in 1959 meant that Owen Sound's prominence as a shipping terminal was coming to an end.
Nevertheless, the city's importance as a regional centre continued to grow, as did its popularity as a holiday destination.
It is not too hard to imagine what Owen Sound would have looked like during the early days of its incorporation as a city. All one need do is walk along the city's elegant, tree-lined streets and view the many fine examples of period architecture. Or drop by one of the many family-owned businesses that were established at the time and are still in operation.
Owen Sound is a city that has turned its history into a living tradition, one which enriches the many lives it touches every day.
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Judd Hirsch returns to TV in new ABC drama
BEVERLY HILLS, Calif. (AP) — Judd Hirsch is going from the ridiculous to the sublime in his newest TV roles.
The 79-year-old actor best known for "Taxi" appears in "Sharknado 2: The Second One," about sharks unleashed on New York City airing July 30 on Syfy.
"They told me I was going to be eaten by a shark," he said. "I said, 'I'm in.' "
Hirsch's regular gig will be co-starring on the ABC series "Forever" that begins with a sneak preview on Sept. 22. He plays the best friend and confidant of Dr. Henry Morgan, the medical examiner in New York City who has immortality. Only Hirsch's character, Abe, knows his friend's secret.
"Every once in a while, the intelligence of a show just grabs me," Hirsch said Tuesday at the summer TV critics' tour. "To be able to develop a character, that's a gift in television. To be associated with an experience that is unusual, a life that never seems to end, it's always something to think about."
The TV role is Hirsch's first regular one since his five-year run on "Numb3rs" four years ago.
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SPRINGFIELD — Lawyers challenging last year's pension reform law said they will make another attempt to get an expedited ruling in the case in the wake of the Illinois Supreme Court's ruling in the retiree health insurance case.
Lawyers said they believe the ruling in the health insurance case — called the Kanerva decision after one of the plaintiffs — effectively nullifies the state's argument that Illinois' severe financial problems allow pensions to be changed, despite the pension protection clause of the state Constitution.
At a hearing Tuesday, the lawyers said they will be filing new motions that will bring the issue before Judge John Belz.
"In the health care and in this case, the change in pension is clearly a diminishment and impairment protected by the Constitution," said Don Craven, who brought one of the five lawsuits challenging the pension reform law.
Earlier this month, the Supreme Court said the state cannot charge retirees premiums for their state-subsidized health insurance. People who retire with 20 or more years of service are entitled to premium-free health insurance. The court said a state law passed to charge all retirees premiums for their health insurance represented a diminishment of retirement benefits prohibited by the Constitution.
The pension reform law also changes benefits, such as raising the retirement age and ending automatic, 3 percent compounded increases in retirement benefits. Attorneys for the state argue the state has sovereign powers that allow those changes because of the state's financial problems.
"The Supreme Court could hardly have been clearer in destroying the police powers argument in the Kanerva case," said attorney John Myers, who brought another of the pension reform lawsuits. "What the Supreme Court is saying is you have to fund this, now figure it out. That destroys the whole sovereign powers defense which is, 'We don't have to figure it out, we can impair pensions.'"
Attorney General Lisa Madigan has said the ruling in the health insurance case does not affect the pension reform case because they involve different legal issues.
Craven said this new motion could enable the pension reform case to get to the Supreme Court earlier than is now considered likely. Before the health insurance ruling, Belz set out a lengthy schedule for lawyers on both sides to conduct preliminary work on the cases. Lawyers for the state indicated they want to use six expert witnesses to buttress their case. Aaron Maduff, another attorney challenging the law, said it involved "tremendous, tremendous" preliminary work.
"It's a huge amount of material," he said.
At this point, however, the schedule is still in place and a ruling at the circuit court level isn't expected until next year.
The next hearing in the pension reform lawsuit is scheduled for Sept. 4.
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Yanks, Sox dedicating Opening Day to Newtown
NEW YORK -- The Yankees and Red Sox have announced plans to honor the community of Newtown, Conn., and the memories of those lost in the recent tragedy at Sandy Hook Elementary School.
On Opening Day at Yankee Stadium on April 1, the Yankees and Red Sox will stand together in dedicating the game to the victims of the Sandy Hook school shooting, their families and the greater community of Newtown.
Pregame ceremonies will feature joint honor guards of Newtown police and firefighters, along with a moment of silence, during which a list of the Sandy Hook victims' names will be recognized on the center-field video board.
The Yankees and Red Sox will wear a special ribbon on their uniforms for Opening Day to honor those lost and those affected by the tragedy. This ribbon will also be prominently painted on the field in front of both dugouts.
To show Major League Baseball's solidarity in remembering the victims, their families and the greater community of Newtown, Commissioner Bud Selig has asked the 28 other teams to follow suit in wearing the ribbon during their respective Opening Day games.
"On Opening Day, we will reflect upon more important things and play the game to honor the community of Newtown," Yankees managing general partner Hal Steinbrenner said in a statement. "Since the day of the tragedy, our hearts and thoughts have been with those who were affected. We hope that bringing the families of Newtown together at Yankee Stadium later in the summer will give the community an opportunity to create new memories and aid in the difficult process of moving forward."
"Months have passed, yet we are still trying to come to grips with this incomprehensible tragedy," added Red Sox principal owner John W. Henry. "As our teams look to face each other on Opening Day, we will stand united in support of the families affected as we remember and honor those who were lost."
Twenty children and six adult staff members were killed on the morning of Dec. 14 in a mass murder shooting at Sandy Hook Elementary School, the second-deadliest school shooting in American history.
On July 7, approximately 3,000 children, families and members of the Newtown community will be invited to celebrate summer vacation by attending the Yankees' 1:05 p.m. ET game against the Baltimore Orioles.
The Yankees have proclaimed the event "Newtown Day at Yankee Stadium," a date selected because the school calendar will be complete and allow for the most children and families to be able to attend.
"The Yankees organization has supported our community in several ways since the tragic events of December 14," said Pat Llodra, First Selectman, Town of Newtown. "Their generosity and compassion during this difficult time means a lot to all of us. We also would like to thank Commissioner Selig, the Red Sox and Major League Baseball for this meaningful tribute to our community."


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