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Strategic Dilemma of the Indian Left
While the Communist Party of India and the CPI (Marxist) follow a strategy based solely on the category of a "war of position", the CPI (Maoist) is trying to implement a strategy based entirely on a "war of manoeuvre". The interconnectedness of these two categories and their dialectical relation with the state are missed in each party's strategising of the revolutionary movement.
A leading section of the Left mechanically delineates the path of establishing working-class hegemony as a "war of manoeuvre" in the East in contradistinction to the "war of position" in the West. Following the 1970s, in practice, the traditional parliamentary left and the extreme left strategically placed themselves completely in a war of position and war of manoeuvre, respectively. Though this phase is heavily burdened with their past legacy, the post-1970s period demands special attention in view of the neo-liberal phase of capitalism which differs in significant ways from the post-war boom and welfarism. This phase is marked by many new dimensions in the scene of global capitalism due to the far-reaching consequence of the process of centralisation-cum-globalisation of finance capital, but it does not perforce indicate a radical break from Lenin's prognostication on monopoly capital and imperialism. The mere counterposition of war of position to war of manoeuvre in any Marxist strategy, in the end, becomes an opposition between reformism and adventurism. In the history of the communist movement, once the United Front had been equated with the war of position, against the war of manoeuvre or "revolutionary offensive" strategies of the adventurist period of all-out confrontation, it threatened to slide towards a gradualist reformism that was the mirror image of the ultra-leftist position it proposed to replace (Thomas 2013).
Misconstrued Notion
The crisis of the traditional left is ingrained in a serious political error. The left's implicit and explicit politics was that capitalism was standardising Indian society, that proletarianisation would reduce rural "idiocy", that, like the freedom struggle, class struggle would reduce obscurantism, communalism and casteism, and finally, the community fabric of society would be more and more transformed into a class fabric. The parliamentary or mainstream Indian left – which includes the Communist Party of India (Marxist) – CPI(M) – and CPI – has, from the 1970s onwards, been visibly changing its strategy in practice to a war of position alone, equating this with United Front activity, and thus losing the zeal to build a mass movement. Theoretically, the CPI(M) and the CPI accept the semi-feudal character of the Indian state, but with an understanding that the national bourgeoisie is at the helm of affairs moulding the capitalist formation.
However, the development of capitalism in India has not resulted in the submerging of the communities in the process of sociopolitical development. Rather, dormant communities have now woken up, awakened communities have become restive, and a competitive polity based on a regime of subsidies and patronage has created communities out of sub-communities. The left offered neither non-violent resistance at Ayodhya, nor did it order a halt to L K Advani's march at Purulia. More importantly, the slogans and methods to preach secularism were imprisoned by the rhetoric of the Nehruvian liberal age. Alternatively, the extreme left – in the main, the Indian Maoists – is engrossed in a static mindset and fails to notice the internal dynamics of societal change under the influence of global capitalism and Indian democracy, even in the hinterlands.
Land reform was undertaken haltingly from the 1950s to the end of the 1970s. A National Sample Survey Organisation (NSSO) report (Report No 491: Household Ownership Holdings in India 2003) shows that landless households comprise 31.12% of all households, while households having more than 3 hectares of land comprise only 5.18% (of this, 3.06% has 3-5 hectares, 1.6% has 5-10 hectares, and 0.52% has more than 10 hectares). The Pocket Book of Agricultural Statistics, 2013 (published by the Directorate of Economics and Statistics, Ministry of Agriculture, Government of India) reveals that in 1951, 71.9% of the agricultural workforce were cultivators while 28.1% were agricultural labourers, but these figures changed to 45.1% and 54.9% respectively in 2011. In 2002-03, according to NSS Report No 492 on operational landholdings in rural India in 2002-03, marginal holdings (holdings of size one hectare or less) constituted 70% of all operational holdings. Small holdings (one to two hectares) constituted 16%; semi-medium holdings (two to four hectares) 9%; medium holdings (four to 10 hectares) 4%; while large holdings (over 10 hectares) were less than 1% of all operational holdings.
NSS data also show that the share of agricultural workers among male rural workers declined steadily from 80.6% in 1977-78 to 71.7% in 1989-90, and for rural females this share dropped from 88.1% in 1977-78 to 81.4% in 1989-90 (Jha 1997). These figures suggest that the non-agricultural rural sector absorbed about 70% of the total increase in the rural workforce between 1977-78 and 1989-90 (CSD 2012). These changes in the rural landscape have substantially changed the balance of forces as far as semi-feudal relations of production are concerned, and this itself demands special attention to formulate a new programme for the Left movement.
Different Phases of Transition
The series of successful revolutionary upsurges that had been first witnessed in Russia and ended with the last revolutionary victory in Vietnam in May 1975 was based on the premise of the worker-peasant alliance built against the backdrop of rising peasant militancy. But widespread peasant militant movements like Tebhaga and Telangana could not be transformed into a revolutionary social movement in India under the leadership of the working class. The objective barriers, as Utsa Patnaik (Thorner ed 2001) pointed out, were:
for one, the strength and efficiency, honed over two centuries, of the repressive apparatus of the unitary British colonial state, as compared to moribund Tsarism in Russia or the internal bickering of rival imperialist powers in semi-colonial China. For another, the relative strength of the English-educated Indian bourgeoisie which seized the leadership of the national movement particularly after Gandhiji's return from South Africa and his brilliant political innovation – the satyagraha, which perfectly suited the requirement of a movement which wished to stave off revolution while taking over the legacy of power.
In addition to her diagnosis of objective difficulties, it would be pertinent to say that the Indian peasant movement of that period had seldom crossed the caste-community fault lines built into the semi-feudal hierarchical caste structure and could not change the upper-caste moorings of the English-educated class who acted as colonial intermediaries.
In a country like India with an emerging market economy, there occurred many changes in the structure of the workforce as between workers and peasants over the period from colonial rule with deindustrialisation in the 19th century to dirigiste industrial development during the period from the mid-1950s to the end of the 1970s, to the present phase of imperialist globalisation. It can be claimed that deindustrialisation was merely a decline from a development which had been especially stimulated by the activities of the European merchants themselves in buying Indian cloth for export to other countries. Hence the major part of the deindustrialisation process must be attributed to the displacement of traditional manufacturers as suppliers of consumption goods to the internal Indian market.
Characterising the colonial deindustrialisation process, Amiya Kumar Bagchi (2010) wrote:
Capitalist industrialisation up to the phase of maturity is attended by at least three types of changes: (a) an increase in the proportion of the population engaged in secondary industry, (b) a sustained increase in per capita income, and (c) a continual rise in the degree of mechanisation in industry – and to lesser extent perhaps, in agriculture. The reversal of any of these conditions over a long period of time can be characterised as deindustrialisation. India experienced the reversal of the first two conditions from probably 1820 up to 1914.
During the post-Independence period up to the 1970s, a new industrial policy of import substitution of manufactured consumer goods with a view to catching up with the developed western world was followed. But that policy was heavily dependent on the import of heavy machinery and thus remained completely entangled in the vicissitudes of the global market and the policy framework of global capital. The capitalist classes of India cannot step up their rates of accumulation without running into inflationary and balance-of-payments difficulties because they have to reckon with the formidable influence exerted on the world economy by the advanced capitalist classes. Also, due to fear of unrest of the Indian peasantry and the proletariat, the capitalist classes of India have to adjust to the demands of the property-owning strata in control of the agricultural sector characterised by pre-capitalist relations. The neo-liberal policy framework that was initiated by the Indian government in the face of the balance-of-payments crisis in the early 1990s let loose an onslaught on labour at the behest of the global capitalist class. The left, in power in a few Indian states, especially in West Bengal, also succumbed to this pressure with a policy paralysis. The Left failed to take stock of the rapidly changing urban and rural landscape arising out of the simultaneous pauperisation and prolitarianisation of the masses.
Dilemma of the Left
The total abdication of its role by a supposedly pro-labour government in West Bengal further worsened the situation. In 1988, for example, of the total 228 work stoppages, lockouts accounted for 85% and strikes 15%; 88% of the man-days lost were because of lockouts and 12% because of strikes. Of the 2,46,053 workers affected, a majority (60%) suffered owing to lockouts. The average duration of a strike was 33.4 days, while that of a lockout was 169 days. Lay-offs increased from 510 in 1985 to 1,572 in 1988 (Samaddar 2013). The unions and the state both remained a mute witness to the onslaught on workers during the decade. In fact, the unions often became part of a structure that resulted in managerial hegemony – just as the policies of the so-called pro-labour state government did.
The Left, in principle, must always strategically place itself in favour of a strike by labour, with tactical variations during the period of boom and of recession of global capitalism marked by underdevelopment, a restricted home market, stagflation, a large unorganised sector and technological restructuring of industry, as argued by Lenin long ago. But the Left in power in Bengal became a mere witness to the strike by capital in the 1980s. The Left could have sided with labour by initiating a policy of social security, cooperative management of the existing industries, building social infrastructure that also generates employment, and support to increase the demand for indigenous commodities through state purchases, as also, pushing the achievement of Operation Barga further ahead through land reforms and boosting agricultural commercialisation and cooperation. But it dared not pursue this pro-labour path, fearing the hostility of the global capitalist class and the reluctance of global investors who are interested in profiteering and in ensuring super-profits by hindering the combined development model and using the imperialistic supply line.
The extreme left, especially the Maoists, on the other hand – failing to take note of the changes in the urban and rural class structures and the balance of forces evolved during the long period of post-Independence capitalist reconstruction and institutionalisation of parliamentary democracy – put much emphasis on the immanence of the seizure of state power and on combating the coercive apparatus of the state. In adopting such a course, this section of the left was simply following the argumentation of the mechanical division of strategy in the countries of the East and the West.
The change in the agrarian class structure has diverse ramifications in the diverse geopolitical regions of the Indian nation. Acute peasant distress in the cash-crop areas is due to a strengthening of pre-capitalist relations and caste-community cleavages under the influence of usurious credit and merchant capitalism. But a region like Bengal where the Left had undertaken land reforms to a certain extent has unleashed the forces of agrarian commercialisation through the path of peasant capitalism. The proletarianisation of the peasantry would have opened up new vistas for working class unity and consciousness in both rural and urban areas had the left in power not given much emphasis on promoting the path of development based on global capitalist investors, and the extreme left not marginalised itself by practising a combatant politics that relies on the barrel of the gun. Both the mainstream left and the extreme left have missed the opportunity to build a sustained struggle for social security, working class unity and consciousness. Sadly, the traditional left forces like the CPI and CPI(M) have been pursuing the misplaced legacy of the strategic and tactical path of the Second International and Stalinist determinism without taking into cognisance the here and now of the post-Independence Indian reality.
Marxism and Binary Categories
In defence of the Marxist dialectics, E P Thompson (1978) wrote:
Marxist theory… can become a false consciousness if, instead of being used for the methodical investigation of reality through theory and practice, it is misused as a defence against that very reality… Those who wish to deprive Marxism of its critical, subversive power and turn it into an affirmative doctrine, generally dig in behind a series of stereotyped statements which, in their abstraction, are as irrefutable as devoid of result.
Citing the case of the CPI, he further reiterated:
...If one considers for a moment the possible consequences if the Communist Party of India (one of the most unreconstructed Stalinist parties in the world) were to reinforce its existing anti-libertarian tendencies and contempt for 'petit-bourgeois' masses – tendencies amply displayed in its partnership in the recent emergency – with a dose of Althusserian arrogance; and if it's largely bourgeois and intellectual upper cadres were to become theoretical practitioners; and if the opportunity to practice, not only in theory, but upon the body of India, should return – then we could expect nothing less than the re-enactment of the full repertoire of high Stalinism within the raging inferno of Indian 'scarcity'.
To a great extent, this argument is also applicable to the CPI(M). The Left Front's role in West Bengal in the post-1970s was guided by the premise that the Party is able to decide the best interests of the working class on the basis of Marxist "science", and to serve this interest through "ideological state apparatuses". In this understanding, Marxism becomes an inert tool only to be handled by the Party to judge working class morality; in this framework, the working class becomes a passive onlooker who is only to be led and guided. Thus Marxist science degenerates into deterministic formulae to be used to predict the future.
Following this approach, both the variants of the Indian left, the CPI-CPI(M) and the CPI (Maoist), have conceptualised the reality within the binary framework of opposite categories of war of position versus war of manoeuvre. Another such category is "civil society" versus "political society". The interconnectedness of these two categories and their dialectical relation with the state are missed while strategising the revolutionary movement. When the broad-based strategy to build a united front of all forms of movements for the rights of civil societies and movements to resist the onslaught of the ruling classes of political societies are not mooted, it becomes apparent that the content of diverse mass movements in India in this neo-liberal phase of capitalism against both the consent and coercion of the existing state is undermined. The two aspects of ruling class hegemony and domination, consent and coercion, have been segregated by the two variants of the left in their formulations of actual practice. A new approach needs to be developed for a new left to emerge with a view to resolve the conflict between the forces of production and the relations of production in this neo-liberal phase of capitalism in the country like India.
Bagchi, Amiya Kumar (2010): Colonialism and the Indian Economy (New Delhi: Oxford University Press).
CSD (2012): Social Development Report 2012 (New Delhi: Council for Social Development).
Dobb, Maurice (1946): Studies in the Development of Capitalism (London: Routledge).
Jha, Praveen (1997): Agricultural Labour in India (New Delhi: Vikas).
Ministry of Agriculture (2013): Pocket Book of Agricultural Statistics, 2013 (New Delhi: Directorate of Economics and Statistics, Ministry of Agriculture, Government of India).
Samaddar, Ranabir (2013): Passive Revolution in West Bengal, 1977-2011 (New Delhi: Sage).
Thomas, Peter D (2013): The Gramscian Moment: Philosophy, Hegemony and Marxism (Delhi: Aakar Books, originally published by Brill in 2009).
Thompson, E P (1978): The Poverty of Theory and Other Essays (London: Merlin).
Thorner, Alice, ed. (2001): Ten Daniel Thorner Memorial Lectures: Land, Labour and Rights (New Delhi: Tulika).


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6 thoughts on "Girls in Raisen, Madhya Pradesh. By Yann Forget, France"
Many thanks to Yann Forget for this beautifully balanced image.
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This has to be my favourite . . . The tone down of colour with the gold, white and brown . . . lovely capture . . .
It's definitely a favourite of mine too. You sound like you have knowledge of photography and/or art – I merely am one who appreciates it.
You may have to place the link in google.
Yes, I love photography. Visiting India as I do, spending time taking photos is a must . . . Here is a link to a page on my blog with photos by Depy, a fellow Traveler to India and friend . . .
My photos are mostly of flowers but I do have many people photos from India travels . . . I don't post them much . . . Just now and again. I do not have professional gear, as used in the photos here. (I think it is professional gear anyway, due to the clarity of the photos.) Fondly, Eve.
I have reblogged this photo. It speaks volumes to me. Not sure it will to others . . . Thanks for the visit . . . Very much appreciated . . . xxx
I'm heading off here on the weekend: http://cameracatchs.wordpress.com/ Presumably the missing 'e' is intentional?
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YAHOO NEWS by Michael Hammerschlag
Updated 11/29
Updated 11/29
choice is stark: whether Ukraine will be locked in a neo-Soviet ghetto of
dependency and corruption for the next several decades, or join the Western
world in greater transparency, freedom, and rule of law.Customs
Union member Belarus has
essentially disappeared as an independent country- they rely on Russia for every
bit of energy, resources, and have even sold them their pipelines in exchange
for fat subsidies; while Kazakhstan has chafed under tariff restrictions and
imperial pressures. EU AA leaning
Pres. Victor
Yanukovich -
Pres. Victor Yanukovich -
The road West wouldn't be easy: Russia regards Ukraine as an integral part- as it's heartland, and it's revenge could be near-psychotic: to pressure their little brother they are threatening yet another gas shutoff (the 4th), and already are embargoing chocolate and numerous other products - $50 mil a month of railroad wagons aren't being shipped North, and trailers of goods have been sitting on the border for 2 months: Russia could strangle the Ukrainian economy. But Ukrainians could sell their products to the 350 million people of the EU without tariffs, reap the freedom of world travel, rather than the undergo the current expensive and lengthy EU visa process; and escape the clammy embrace of their longtime fraternal ruler (300 years), who killed 5-7 million in the genocidal Stalinist famine of 1932-33, as well as million s in purges and Gulags.
Sadly, what seemed like a done-deal has collapsed-
the Government said Nov. 21st that they wouldn't sign it.
Shock and dismay across the country and globe greeted the government's reversal.
But for the last 2 weeks, all signs were bad. They simply can't release
Yulia- the Presidents own Party
of Regions chief Yefremov said
he had no intention of voting for any of the 6 bills to send her to Germany for
medical treatment, Yanukovich reported told EU enlargement head Stefan Fule Nov
20 that he wasn't going to sign the PA, he had jetted off to the Moscow for a
semi-secret meeting with Putin to hear his carrots and sticks Nov. 9 as PM
Azarov suddenly claimed requiring Tymoshenko's release was unjustified and
complained, "nobody.. will offer compensation for the loss of this (Russian)
market", they arrested Tymoshenko's lawyer Vlasenko Nov 8 for an alleged assault
that happened in 2008...
they'd already stripped his Parliamentary seat and immunity, and the Rada
(Parliament) passed a bill to prevent popular boxer/ party leader Vitaliy
Klitchko (a German resident) from running for President in 2015. "Either
Yanukovich is losing control of his own Party, or it's a cynical very nuanced
Machiavellian play,' said longtime
Tymoshenko supporter at endless Kreschatuk St. protests ®2011 Michael Hammerschlag --
They also haven't circumscribed the unlimited power of the prosecutor (maybe 1% are found innocent in trials here, and juries barely exist- "persuadable" judges only), they haven't reformed the breathlessly corrupt court or election systems but instead appointed close Yanukovich cronies to run both, they refuse to raise hugely subsidized Soviet level natural gas prices demanded by the IMF for desperately needed loans (people control the central over-heating by always keeping windows open), public support for the EU path has faded to 45% vs only 14% for the Customs Union (another says 58% for, others have it almost even**), the European Bank for Reconstruction + Development head canceled a Nov 5 trip to Kiev to sign an anti-corruption agreement (Ukraine ranks 144 out of 175 countries, behind Russia, Pakistan, and Nigeria byTransparency Int.). The ex-con* President's unknown dentist son 3½ years ago Alexander... is now a half-billionaire, and they are known as The Family.
--battles on Europisky
--battles on Europisky Sq.
The thinking was even the 10 big oligarchs who rule this country as
their personal plaything didn't want to suffer under the Russian yoke- the 110
Russian billionaires are richer and more ruthless, and Putin has not been gentle
with them. "Maybe not", said one connected insider- adjusting to greater
transparency is traumatic; even many companies' ownership here is completely
secret. "Many industrialists ģask 'why should I vote for this (EU)'. We have 77%
of our machine building output going to
-- Heavyweight champion Vitaliy
Kitschko, Oct 2012 ®2012 Michael Hammerschlag
-- Heavyweight champion Vitaliy Kitschko, Oct 2012 ®2012 Michael Hammerschlag
The most amazing example are the raider attacks (only in FSU) where
40-130 thugs with wooden or iron bars invade a business, beat and throw out the
employees, and take it over, armed with the decision of some corrupt regional
judge that they are the owners. It even happened to the $1.2 billion
Ilyich Steel Co., the holder of the foundational documents simply sold them for
$30,000. That was reversed after the whole city of
The thought was meeting EU standards would moderate Ukrainian rapacious tendencies, but there has been little evidence of that- the changes they demanded have been passed in a flurry of last minute bills that few think will be taken too seriously. For already unpopular Yanukovich, the failure of the ballyhooed Association Agreement could be fatal in the 2015 election, but he may have calculated that the economic devastation of a full Russian embargo was worse. Polls show all 3 contenders: heavyweight boxing champion Vitaliy Klitschko, Tymoshenko, and former Rada Speaker Arseny Yatseniuk, beating Yanukovich, though only Klitschko has a real shot- Yanukovich has packed the courts, regions, and election boards with his loyalists. Klitschko is one of the few people in this country untarred by corruption- he has his own fortune- and with the Rada banning of non-residents as Presidential candidates.. he finally formally declared himself running. Tymoshenko is probably destroyed as a political force, and Yatseniuk relatively uncharismatic.
Demonstrations broke out in a dozen cities on August 21, including
Amazingly, for this total betrayal and stunning reversal, the
Yanukovich government got nothing solid from Russia: Azarov claimed they would
renegotiate Gazprom's sky-high gas price- Putin immediately shot that down:
"Gazprom and Ukraine have a contract until 2019", then brutally raised the
pressure and ante for complete capitulation, claiming the total debt to Russia in loans,
gas, etc was $30 billion. "We will work with
-- Heavyweight champion Vitaliy
Kitschko, Oct 2012 ®Michael Hammerschlag
-- Heavyweight champion Vitaliy Kitschko, Oct 2012 ®Michael Hammerschlag
Exhausted by the endless dithering, the EU has still been penurious, offering only $610 million according to Yanukovich, for significant Euro-adjustment expenses when Ukraine would also face brutal reprisals from Russia and stiff competition from Euro producers when tariffs come down (though it's lower cost products offer some protection). Azarov complained, (financially) "We did not get support during the hardest period." Fule disputed that: "We are talking about billions of dollars.. the Association is a measure to .. strengthen financial assistance."
But if
It is tempting to think Ukrainians deserve their fate- they
knew whom they were choosing in Feb
- parody: "Party of Regions celebrates 100 days of a depressed
- parody: "Party of Regions celebrates 100 days of a depressed Yanukovich"
the other hand, with a cheap modern reliable transportation, communication,
utility, and food system,
many Eastern Russian-speakers wanted to join the EU, but time was almost gone
anyway for Ukraine's hopes of joining the world's biggest trading block at $16
trillion- the EU mission returned to Brussels Nov 13 with a presumably bleak
assessment, but the EU Foreign Affairs Committee postponed the Nov 18 vote
whether to proceed with their offer at Vilnius and extended their rapporteurs' mission until Nov. 28th. Stefan Fule
came to put a full-court press on the recalcitrant Ukrainians, and foreign
policy ministers of
President Yanokovich's concerns are only short term- avoiding the
economic devastation of a full scale Russian embargo that would endanger his
reelection in 15 months, and enriching family and friends- when you jail your
predecessor and greatest rival over nothing, losing power is not an option. The outrage over
reneging on the AA, however, may be a greater threat. His
Euro sympathies were always suspect- they didn't jibe with his origin,
personality, and tendencies. In a letter from prison, Tymoshenko sagely
warned that
dumping the EU for
Although the EU is concerned about Russian bullying and the prospects
of another huge border state under their thumb, this whole eastern enlargement
is being largely pushed by
-- broken window of front door to occupied City Hall w Svobody nationalist banners 21/1 ®2013 MH
It is likely that the 15 year torturous negotiation is over and
It is
a tragedy for
REVOLUTION - With the astounding uprising everything
is changing
COMING: YOU SAY YOU WANT A REVOLUTION - With the astounding uprising everything is changing
*Yanukovich spent 3 1/2 years in 2 prison stretches for assault and robbery. One victim was beaten unconscious.
** Another Deutsche Welle poll Nov 18 has it 58% for eventual EU membership, 31% against; breaking at 51 years old: older, they are against it, younger, they are for it- diverging proportionally.
Several other polls show an almost even division beween
the 2 opposing plans:
Several other polls show an almost even division beween the 2 opposing plans:
Michael Hammerschlag's articles (HAMMERNEWS.com) have appeared in NYT, IHT, Seattle Times, Providence Journal, Columbia Journalism Review, Hawaii Advertiser, Capital Times, MediaChannel; Moscow News, Tribune, Times, and Guardian, Novaya Gazeta; Kyiv Post & Weekly, Politics in Ukraine, and Business Ukraine. He's spent 8 years over the last 22 in Russia & Ukraine.


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Chugiak goalie makes 26 saves to help Mustangs stay unbeaten
Monday, November 19, 2018 - 11:07
Thu, 11/08/2018 - 10:45am
Tyler Huffer scored the game-winning goal and Alayna Breivogel made it stand up Wednesday at Chugiak improved to 2-0 in the Cook Inlet Conference with a 1-0 high school hockey win over West at Ben Boeke Ice Arena.
Huffer's unassisted tally came with 6:36 left in the third period and Breivogel made 26 saves to earn the shutout for Chugiak, which is 5-0 overall this season.
Will Simpson made 21 saves for West, which outshot the Mustangs 26-22.
Chugiak's next game is a CIC clash with South on Saturday at 6:30 p.m. at Ben Boeke.


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On May 25, Kyuhyun topped the Oricon Daily Chart in Japan. He topped first on the chart and what's best is that he did so as soon as it was released! The single includes three songs titled 'Celebration~ 君に架ける橋', 'Lost My Way', and 'Beautiful'.
We couldn't be any prouder and we are sure he is very happy about the news and probably has done his "victory dance" a couple of times by now. We cannot express how happy we are, specially because of what it stands for and what it means. He not only topped the chart, but also did it on his first day and with his debut single!
And now I end this with a Happy Anniversary and a congratulatory greeting for these amazing news! I'm starting to think "Celebration" wasn't chosen as a random album/single title! Anyways, Happy Celebration Day of Kyuhyun and we are happy to have been with you during these 10 years and hope you are with us for far longer. To more years together and accomplishments like these! 🎉🍾🍻🍷


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JTAirshows Mission
JTAirshows provides aerobatic displays to charitable organizations for fundraising events. One of our goals is to foster interest and participation in both national and international competition aerobatics. We also are thrilled to share and preserve living aviation history, providing flights in historical aircraft by volunteering with several aviation museums.
Akroville International Airport - JTAirshows is located northwest of the Dallas/Ft. Worth Metroplex. This aviation mecca was built in 2005 with 2 grass strips, 2 FAA approved aerobatic boxes.
The Team
Julia and Tony have decades and thousands of hours of aerobatics experience.
Julia Wood
Julia has logged more than 22,000 total flying hours, with over 1800 aerobatic hours. She flies displays and airshows in the Pitts S-2B. She has been a member of the United States Advanced Aerobatic Team in 2002, which competed in Slovenia and in 2014. She was the manager of the United States Advanced World Aerobatic Team traveling to Sweden in 2004 and to Poland in 2006. She is also an aerobatic judge. She has flown all 3 seats in the Boeing 727, First Officer on the DC-10 and Boeing 747-400 and is currently Captain on the Boeing 787.
Julia began her aerobatic career in 1996 at Harvey and Rihn Aviation in La Porte, Texas. It was there where she met her instructor and mentor, Tony, who encouraged her to begin competing.
Julia began flying at 15 and soloed at 16 while a freshman in high school in Saint Paul, Minnesota. Earning her Private Pilot License at the age of 17, she then attended Purdue University where she earned the remainder of her ratings and licenses, graduating with a Bachelor of Science Degree in Aviation Technology. She flew for a charter airline in Minneapolis and a regional airline in Detroit before being hired by United Airlines. She has flown all 3 seats in the Boeing 727, First Officer on the DC-10 and is currently First Officer on the Boeing 747-400. Julia volunteers at the Cavanaugh Flight Museum in Addison, Texas providing flights in the PT-19 Cornell, the B-25, 'Barbie', and the Ce Havilland CV-2B Caribou. She also volunteers with the Collings Foundation on the Wings of Freedom Tour of WWII aircraft. She provides flights in the B-17G, 'Nine-O-Nine' and the B-25N, 'Tondelayo'.
Tony Wood
Tony has logged more than 18,000 total flying hours, with over 4000 aerobatic hours. He flies displays and airshows in the Pitts S-2B. He was an aerobatic instructor at H&R Aviation in La Porte Texas, the east side of Houston, where he taught all levels of aerobatics in the Extra 300, Pitts S-2A and S-2B, Decathlon and Citabria. He is also an aerobatic judge and an Aerobatic Judge Instructor. Tony graduated from Southwestern Oklahoma State University in Weatherford, Oklahoma with a Bachelor of Science in Psychology and a minor in Computer Science. He obtained his flying certificates and ratings from FlightSafety in Vero Beach, Florida. He carried skydivers, taught aerobatics and flew cargo in Houston, before being hired by a regional airline in Dallas. He is currently a First Officer on the MD-80 for American Airlines. Tony volunteers at the Cavanaugh Flight Museum in Addison, Texas providing flights and doing displays in the P-51D, 'The Brat III'; the AT-6, Texan; the PT-13 Stearman; the PT-19 Cornell; the Travel Air 4000; the AD-5 Skyraider; the C-47 Skytrain and the De Havilland CV-2B Caribou. He also volunteers with the Collings Foundation on the Wings of Freedom Tour of WWII aircraft. He flies their TF-51, 'Toulouse Nuts'. Hired by American Eagle Airlines where he flew Captain on the ATR, Saab and Embraer and was an Instructor and Line Check Airman on the Saab and Embraer. He has flown as First Officer on the MD-80 for American Airlines and is currently a First Officer on the 757 and 767.


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Push for clinical data analytics systems puts small providers in tough position
There's no doubt that big data promises to drive new payment models like accountable care organizations and their population management requirements. But health IT optimists are increasingly being accompanied by naysayers who feel that clinical data analytics may not be all it's cracked up to be. Commentators suggest that analytics systems are currently more useful to business administrators than to clinicians, and surveys show that few medical facilities use big data in direct patient care.
But reality hasn't stopped many in the industry from proceeding full-steam ahead toward a more analytic future. While boosting big data capabilities certainly could bolster decision-making process, some are now concerned that the drive toward analytics could be leaving many doctors behind.
Speaking at the Partners HealthCare Connected Health Symposium, Chris Kryder, CEO of data management company D2Hawkeye, said that the increasing focus on data in health care may be driving some doctors to give up their own practices and move to hospital settings, where most of the heavy lifting of implementing an EHR or data analytics system is done by the IT staff.
"It scares a lot of doctors, and they can't understand the 130 pages of regulations just for meaningful use alone," Kryder said. "And what happens is it drives them to hospitals. There's certainly an impact based upon the desire to aggregate data and turn it into real information."
This impact may be a hard pill to swallow for the health care system, particularly because, as Kryder said, the promise associated with data analytics is, at least for the moment, "way, way, way greater than the reality."
So why is the industry aggressively pursuing technology that may have only a hypothetical benefit but carries a very real and immediate downside? It could be that, as Kryder mentioned, the promise of analytics is great. We've all heard proponents talk about the potential benefits of analytics: improved population health, personalized care, stronger decision support.
These certainly are attractive benefits, particularly for a health care industry that continues to struggle with high costs and uneven treatment outcomes. We can only hope that enough providers are able to hang in there and keep their practices in tact until such time as the industry's thought leaders figure out how to make analytics systems more immediately beneficial – and affordable – to the little guys.


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During his tenure, Young has secured hundreds of millions of dollars for his district. Critics call him the King of pork"; his constituents call him a great representative.
You cannot go anywhere in the Tampa Bay area without seeing the influence of Congressman Young. Highway 19, long considered one of the worst roads in the state, was widened and overpasses were installed at major intersections, thanks to Youngs influence.
MacDill Air Force Base in Tampa, scheduled for shutdown in a recent Base Realignment and Closure Commission report, was kept opened and expanded due to Youngs intervention. MacDill is not even in Youngs district.
Young has done as much for veterans as any member of Congress. The state-of-the-art medical facilities at the Bay Pines Veterans Hospital were due to Youngs political clout. The facility was recently selected as the top VA hospital in America.
Young secured federal funds for numerous programs at St. Petersburg College, where he has his primary district office. He also secured millions of dollars in grants and equipment for the University of South Florida Marine Science Center, which now bears his name.
Unlike many Republicans, Young has led on environmental issues, including the cleanup of Tampa Bay and combating erosion on Bay Area beaches.
Although his retirement shocked many, Young had actually planned to retire in 2010, a fact I announced on a Tampa TV political program. Young changed his mind in 2010 and ran for reelection, leading one political blogger to suggest that I should eat crow.
I wasnt wrong, but conditions had changed. In 2010, the public reaction to Obamacare was intense. Republicans won seats held by Democratic governors in New Jersey and Virginia. The real game changer occurred when Scott Brown defeated Democratic favorite Martha Coakley for the U.S. Senate seat held by Ted Kennedy.
Suddenly, Democratic members of the House started to announce their retirements. The Republicans had to pick up 40 seats to take over control of the House. It was possible, but only if Republicans like Young did not retire and put their district in play.
Republican leadership pressured Young not to retire. Instead of spending money to defend Youngs seat if he should retire, that money could support Republican challengers to incumbent Democrats.
Young relented and ran again and Republicans picked up more than the number of seats needed to win control of the House.
Republicans have held Youngs congressional seat since 1954, when Republican Bill Cramer defeated Democratic incumbent Courtney Campbell. Cramer held the seat until his unsuccessful attempt to run for the U.S. Senate, and Young has held the seat ever since.
Democrats have a prime opportunity to pick up a Florida congressional seat in a district that is trending Democrat. In three of the four presidential elections since 2000, voters in Youngs district have supported the Democratic candidate over the Republican, although all four elections have been close.
Youngs challenger in 2012, Jessica Ehrlick, received 42 percent of the vote to 58 percent for Young. This 16-point margin of victory for Young was actually his closest election during his 22 campaigns. Now that Young is out, Democratic challenges are going to emerge like worms after a heavy rain.
The most likely Democratic candidates are County Commissioner Charlie Justice, who unsuccessfully challenged Young in 2010, and Ken Welch, the only black on the county commission, but someone who has shown crossover appeal.
Another Democratic possibility is Charlie Crist. Crist lives only a few blocks outside the district and would have to establish residency, but he might prefer a House seat from Pinellas versus a bloody and expensive campaign against Rick Scott. There is also talk that Crists wife Carole much prefers the D.C. environment to a return to Tallahassee.
A new name in the Democratic field is Peter Wallace, a St. Petersburg attorney and former Democratic Speaker of the Florida House. The Wallace family is a Pinellas County powerhouse, but Peter Wallace has not held office in over 15 years. Prominent Democratic elected officials are urging Wallace to enter the campaign.
For Republicans, the three names at the top of the candidate list are state Sens. Jack Latvala and Jeff Brandes, although both Latvala and Brandes say they will not run for Young's vacant seat, and former St. Petersburg Mayor Rick Baker. County Commissioner Karen Seel is also a possibility.
David Jolly may be the sleeper candidate for Republicans. Jolly served as a former aide to Congressman Young and was set to run for the seat in 2010 until Young had his mind changed for him. Jolly is a Washington consultant who has retained close ties to Young and is well connected to the Republican establishment.
As soon as Youngs retirement was announced, praise from the political establishment flooded the airwaves. U.S. Sen. Bill Nelson, a Democrat, said Young was always someone who approached solutions in a bipartisan way.
Tampa Mayor Bob Buckhorn, another Democrat, said, I always supported Bill Young in spite of what my party wanted because I knew how good he was for this community.
If his opponents are saying such positive things about Young, he must have done something right during his congressional career. That, in itself, makes Young different from most politicians.


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I have seen these all over Pinterest and have thought about trying them but have not yet..yours looks so good and I love the cork idea. Great job.yReplyDeleteReplies
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Buzzfeed is leading the charge, starting a petition on Change.org to demand People give Gosling a cover of his own: "Together, we can right this wrong." Over 1,900 people are behind the cause.
"I came here as soon as I heard the news.... is everyone ok????" one signatory wrote. "Because this is NOT OK. Together we can beat this cruel injustice."
On Thursday afternoon, Gosling supporters Occupied People magazine's New York headquarters, chanting, "One, two, three, four/ Bradley Cooper is a bore/ Five, six, seven eight/Ryan Gosling's super great." The site provided protesters with a Gosling mask.
"Bring signs, pictures, and your voice. We will be heard!" the Facebook invite to the protest declares. "RYAN GOSLING WAS ROBBED!!!!!!"
Check out photos from the protest tweeted by Buzzfeed below.
There's no word on what Gosling thinks of the egregious snub or the outpouring of support he's received. But based on the following very serious comments George Clooney, Gosling's "Ides of March" co-star and a previous "Sexiest Man Alive," made to "Extra," we're betting he's absolutely devastated.
"He really wants it. He's been saying the whole time we were on the set of 'Ides,' he was like, 'How did you pull that off?'" Clooney said. "So I called up Brad Pitt and we worked with him for weeks on the walk., we told him how to train, everything."
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after all, it's not often that a candidate like barack obama comes along, and there certainly are issues at stake that will directly effect this kid's future (the economy, jobs, mmm...war with iran, maybe?) and hey! he's a college student! he's part of the youth vote, right? those youth voters are gonna make the difference in this election! they're gonna show up at the polls! and besides, what a great thing to be able to tell your grandkids – "i voted for barack obama." (a few of you might prefer to tell those grandkids "i voted against the baby-killing terrorist!" i'm trying to be inclusive, here.)
"not gonna vote," my college student friend told me, "i don't like either one."
harumph. "write someone in!" i suggested.
i wondered, though, if it was really true, or if – like myself at 18 (too busy drinking heinekin and shots of tequila, and singing "come on baby, let's do the twist" at weddings five times a week) – he just hadn't learned enough about either candidate to make a choice. after a brief conversation, he confessed that if he voted, he knew who he'd vote for. i breathed a sigh of political relief.
a few days later, we talked again and he told me he'd discovered that it was too late: he couldn't vote because he hadn't registered. yikes. after doing a little research though (very little) i discovered that in his state you can, in fact, register on the same day that you vote. hmm. so, no dice there.
when confronted with this information, (and by confronted, i mean...you know...confronted) he reverted to the old "i don't like either one" line. odd, since he actually told me earlier that he did favor one over the other. so why not vote?
it was a mystery to me. i've been known to have a touch of the o.c.d. so naturally i bombarded him with information about registering, where to register, what i.d. to bring to register, voting on campus, why he should vote, videos and emails and websites and pdf's and the like. i even arranged for someone from one of the campaigns to call him and offer encouragement or help with registering (that wasn't going overboard, was it?)
i haven't heard from him since.
but i bet he thought about it, and finally sucked it up and went out and voted.
for santa claus.
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I turned 18 a month before the 2000 election. Because of all the hoopla that occurred (hanging chads, recounts, etc.) I think I became more passionate about my right to vote and my refusal to throw that right out the window. I vote in almost every election, even "the small ones" that people don't know about until the results ticker comes across the bottom of their evening news.ReplyDelete
Even with this previous voting passion, the distinct knowledge that EVERY VOTE COUNTS (which I think is something my parents lacked in their early voting experiences), I can see that this election is special and important. I am so excited that the election is here and I'm so proud to be one of the many making history today by voting for someone I respect and who can bring real change to this country ((I actually voted last week)). It's been a long time since I've felt this kind of reverence for a politician and I'm really excited about it.
It's disappointing for me to hear that there is an 18 year old out there-- being of voting age at a time where there is the potential to change so much-- who doesn't want to do the leg work to have his voice heard. Because if things don't change, if we as a country elect Grandpa, and 4 years from now things are even worse, he's going to wish he had educated himself on the issues and taken a few hours out of his day to get registered and cast his vote. That's the kind of regret I'm glad I never had to live with-- no matter what the outcome of the election was, I knew that I'd put my two-cents in and that was all I could've done.
Happy voting everyone!
- AnonymousNovember 4, 2008 at 6:39 PM
It is interesting because I as a 32 year old, feel the same way as the 18 year old. Just because grandpa will not be elected, does not mean we will be better off.ReplyDelete
anonymous, you miss the point completely.ReplyDelete
my goal was to encourage a young person to vote. period. of course he knew who i was supporting, and i was never shy about that. but i would have encouraged him just as strongly had he said he was going to vote for mccain. or ralph nader. or santa claus.
the point was to take part. to be a part. to learn, to get involved, and not to sit back and let others do the work.
my own political leanings are pretty clear in my posts, i know. and i disagree with you - i think we will be far better off because barack obama has been elected. you have every right to disagree, and i respect that. but i would have encouraged you to vote as well. for obama, mccain, barr, nader, mckinney, or anyone else you choose to support.
it seems fairly clear, at this point, that a large number of americans felt we would be better off with either obama or mccain. there hasn't been an election like this, with so much voter enthusiasm, in my lifetime.
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The used fur in this collection is very ecological. Every year, about 450,000 red foxes are killed in Germany because they don't have any natural enemies there. Only about 15,000 skins are recycled, the rest is carelessly discarded. Since this is a waste of a high-quality, renewable resource, the German furriers launched the Red Fox Award to use the ecological fur. The competition is trying to encourage people to think about the fur processing from nature and the regions nearby. For the annual award the furriers have to use bellows ONLY from wild foxes. Alina Spiegel participated in the Red Fox Award in 2014 and she got honored for outstanding, fashionable work.
Go to 3:45 min in this video to see the ALINA SPIEGEL fur jacket.
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What tool can help with mass importing users into Active Directory?
I need to be able to create hundreds of network accounts for students, including home directories. Ideally I would like to tap into an Oracle database to remove the relevant student names. Is there anything out there that can do this? A tool for creating many accounts in very short time would do.
There definitely is. In fact, there are two such tools for mass importing users into Active Directory -- CSVDE and LDIFDE. The first tool (Comma Separated Value Data Exchange) is built into Windows 2000/2003/XP and allows you to import and export user accounts in a comma-separated value format. The one downside to using bulk imports in this fashion is that you cannot import passwords; this is by design. What you can do is change the domain policy to temporarily allow blank passwords, run the import, and then change the policy back. This will force users to change their passwords once they log on again.
The other tool is LDIFDE (Lightweight Data Interchange Format, Data Exchange), which is more powerful and can be used to copy passwords, albeit in an encrypted format. A good site for resources on both these commands can be found here: http://computerperformance.co.uk/Logon/Logon_CSVDE_Home.htm.
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At the end of week nineteen, it's hard to know where to begin. So much has happened during the past couple weeks that it's as if years have passed. But grab a stiff drink, and let's get into it.
Recently, President Trump:
- Pulls the US out of the Paris Climate Change Pact, a voluntary non-binding agreement, saying that he's open to re-negotiating. Global leaders put the kibosh on this: there's no way the US could get a better deal than a non-binding agreement. Trump says he's sworn to represent the best interests of Pittsburgh, not Paris. Pittsburgh mayor denies this and says his city will adhere to the pact's terms. Trump's move is widely interpreted as a middle-finger to the global community, not to mention the earth.
- Announces details of his proposed budget, which contains at $2 trillion math error and projects vastly unrealistic growth. Its foolishness and cruelty is remarkable: it would affect every part of government, while heavily or entirely cutting Medicaid, food stamps, State Department programs, refugee assistance, the arts and humanities, the CDC (!), the FDA, environmental protection, and a ton of other essential, strategic services and programs.
- Embarks upon and concludes his first international tour, in which he:
- Visits Saudi Arabia and eats steak, dances awkwardly with men and swords, ignores Steve Bannon's nervousness, and sells over $110 billion in US arms to the Saudis. (As Samantha Bee said, "Sorry, Yemen!")
- Visits Israel and says in a meeting that he "just got back from the Middle East;" signs in the Holocaust museum guestbook "SO AMAZING + WILL NEVER FORGET;" and announces in a press briefing with Netanyahu that he definitely didn't mention that Israel was the source of the highly sensitive intelligence he shared with the Russians, to the jaw-drop of Netanyahu and the global press corps.
- Visits Belgium to eat chocolates, complain about the E.U., and insult NATO allies.
- Visits the Vatican, without Sean Spicer (who is Catholic), and chats with the Pope, who clearly hates every minute. Family photos with the Pope go viral, with the hashtags #dresswhatyouwanttobecome #widow captioning Melania's new Godfather-inspired fashion line.
- Shoves the Prime Minister of Montenegro so that he can be at the front of a group photo; is snubbed by France's new president Macron in favor of Merkel.
- Attends the G7, offends his colleagues, and erodes American soft power.
- Is repeatedly and hilariously spurned by Melania in public.
- Mostly ignores the increasing scrutiny of his campaign's involvement with Russia. After claiming that it's a witch-hunt, and that he's the most victimized politician in history, he goes abroad, only to find that when he returns home, the kettle's still boiling over. And James Comey's set to testify before the Senate Intelligence Committee next week–if Trump doesn't block his appearance.
- A bomb in Kabul, Afghanistan kills at least 90 people and injures over 400 on a busy shopping street near the presidential palace and Indian and German embassies. It is one of the largest blasts in the history of this conflict. A Pakistani group linked to the Taliban is suspected. When asked who suffers in such attacks, Layma Tabibi, an Afghan-American working in Kabul, replies: "Afghans. It's always Afghans. It's always Afghans that are harmed and get killed, rather than who the attacker wants to target."
- A suicide bomber in Manchester, UK kills 22 people and injures scores more at an Ariana Grande pop concert. British leaders briefly stop campaigning for their forthcoming election, and Britons overwhelm the survivors and victims' families with their support.
- In Portland, Oregon (Weekly Index's hometown), a white supremacist verbally abuses two teenage girls on a light-rail train for being black and Muslim respectively, and then stabs three men who intervene. Two of these heroes die–Rick John Best, and Taliesin Myrddin Namkai-Meche–and the third, Micah David-Cole Fletcher, is seriously injured. In the police car, the killer says that he hopes all of his victims died. President Trump eventually issues a perfunctory "this is unacceptable" from his official Twitter account.
In other news,
- The Congressional Budget Office confirms that the GOP's American Health Care Act would deprive 23 million Americans of health insurance.
- HUD Secretary Ben Carson says that poverty is "a state of mind."
- Montana's Republic candidate to fill now-Secretary of the Interior Ryan Zinke's House seat attacks Guardian reporter Ben Porter and is later charged with assault. The next day he wins the election. (To be fair to Montanans, most votes were already in when this incident occurred. But still.)
- German Chancellor Angela Merkel says that, after disastrous meetings with Trump, Europeans must seek to take care of themselves and strengthen their internal relationships as they can no longer rely on traditional allies.
- The "secret" international Bilderberg group is convening a rare meeting in a not-so-secret Marriott in Virginia to discuss Trump's progress.
- The new series of Twin Peaks launches after 25 years, delighting fans of Lynch, gothic forests, Kyle McLachlan, surrealism, and coffee (or covfefe).
- Two nooses have been found within four days placed in the National Museum of African American History and Culture in D.C.
- To the relief of all, former FBI director Robert Mueller is named Special Counsel for the Justice Department's Russia investigation.
- Jared Kushner, Trump's son-in-law and consigliere, is now under investigation. And Michael Flynn's business records have been subpoenaed.
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We did it all, the road trip, the shopping run, and airport pickup, and an emergency coffee run, and all we got was this crap T-shirt. The videos gathered are a wealth of information on our favourite 4WD.
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Self parking is amazing at the best of times, but when the car in question is as massive as a Range Rover, all bets are off.
We walk you through the clever electric doors, and a quick tour of the back seat. The rear hatch still has all the hallmarks of everyone's favourite polo partner.
What's a polo match without a smattering of Range Rovers spread liberally amongst the SUV offerings. Name another luxury SUV which has proper 4WD, and a cabin that is better than a first class airliner.
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I bang on a bit about how fab the Range Rover is, for those who don't mind an ear-bashing.
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….because I don't want to go through all of *this* again?
I watch my friends who have kids the same age as mine, desperately happy that they're on their second babies. Happily pregnant with another future shitting-crying-hungry baby. Happily rubbing their evergrowing bellies and discussing formulas and breast feeding and pregnancy pillows. It makes me shudder.
I can think of nothing worse, right now, than having another baby. Nothing worse than going through another four and a half months of puking. Forty weeks of feeling bloated, uncomfortable and short of breath. Nothing worse than having ANOTHER person need me. Need me constantly. I can't picture how I would manage a newborn, a toddler and a full-grown man.
I can't picture how there would be enough love inside my heart for another baby. Everything I have goes to my Kid and his father. All of it. Can there be any more left over after that?
I don't feel I've done a good enough job being a mother to my son, to justify doing it a second time. If I'm not doing it right with just one, how will I feel when there are two small things that call me mommy?
Is there something wrong with me that I really, really, really don't want to do this all over again?
I'm perfectly happy with what I have – why would I want to change it?


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Good Riddance to 2010: What's Going to Happen in 2011?
We're done with 2010, and good riddance; the less said about it, the better. So it can only get better from here on out, right? Well… maybe not. Using my analysis of current events, intuition, a computer model, a magic 8-ball, and a garbage bag full of fortune cookies, I've got a list of predictions of what will happen in the next year. And remember, none of my predictions in the past have ever been proven incorrect (mainly because I use a lot of weasel words).
Anyway, even though I'm giving you the scoop now, remember to act surprised when these world-changing events occur, or people will think you're a sociopath.
On the 3rd, the new Republican majority will take over the House. On the 4th, they will go back to business as usual and be declared a failure and a betrayal to true conservative principles. On the 5th, most of the GOP will be unmasked as actually being Democrats in disguise. Blast! They fooled us again!
Undeterred by losing her speakership, Nancy Pelosi will continue to take unpopular positions, make severely out-of-touch pronouncements, and even invade homes and kill pets until she dissuades her last few supporters and secures her position in the history books as the first politician with a 0% approval rating.
It will be a record warm February -- further proof of global warming. Or it will be a record cold February -- also proof of global warming. Or it will be the most average February temperatures on record -- which would be the greatest proof of global warming of all.
No longer able to ram unpopular, costly legislation through Congress, Barack Obama will begin to lose interest in the presidency. He'll miss meetings and even disappear for hours at a time. Eventually, his staff will find him at a nearby church pursuing what he now considers his true calling: becoming a crazed, racist preacher.
Harry Reid will still be in office. That was true for the previous months, but it will finally hit conservatives in March that he's there, and there's no getting rid of him, causing us all to drink heavily. Expect conservative commentary to be more incoherent this month -- and me to be more coherent.
There will be a huge scare this month as people are diagnosed with a rage-type virus like in 28 Days Later. Ends up, though, it's just liberals who (due to frustration with Obama, hatred of conservatives, the continued existence of Fox News, and Palin still living and smiling and stuff) have gone so crazy, irrationally angry that they've actually become feral. Still, I can't guarantee that if they bite you, you won't become one.


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UC Irvine Taking Sustainability Education to New Heights
Parking and transportation woven into common fabric to make the campus as eco-friendly as possible
If you stood on the University of California, Irvine (UCI) campus and only looked up at the sky, you might be tempted to think Mother Nature continues to smile upon Southern California, casting her storied sun rays down gently upon this land like a warm net meant to entice yet more people to the area. And if you had seen that sky when UCI was established in 1965, you would marvel at how now-clear blue has largely replaced the smog-brown blanket that used to lay every day over this rolling landscape.
But as you adjust your gaze to follow those rays down from the sky to the ground and look beyond this coastal campus, your heart sinks when you discover that the old brown blanket simply changed places and got baked hard into the Southland's grassy hills parched by years of drought. Almost seems like whatever maternal instincts we used to project onto Nature were nothing but mirages in a desert fighting to reclaim itself from human habitation.
Turns out Earth, which we once assumed to be infinitely tolerant, has ways of ridding itself of irritants like us. So, we find ourselves struggling to figure out if we can be friendly partners with our increasingly fragile ecosystem or if we have instead become like fleas this planet is furiously scratching at with limbs and claws we never knew she had.
Committed to Sustainability
It's a struggle Ramon Zavala, Lynn Harris, and their UCI Transportation and Distribution Services colleagues take personally. Eco-awareness had been building among the university's 54,600+ educators, staff and students even before the department applied to Best Workplaces for Commuters (BWC), said Zavala, sustainable transportation supervisor.
Academically, UCI has integrated sustainability into its curriculum across a number of disciplines, said Zavala, as well as being part of the university's operational fabric. "It's become so important since I was an undergrad, it's stunning. It's the standard here," he said.
Zavala credited UCI's administration for setting the right tone and hiring employees who care. "Some other universities just try to stay afloat — parking comes first, transportation comes second," he observed. "But when you make sustainability a top priority and see yourself as a global citizen rather than just one entity, a single campus, it really changes how you work."
California has tackled its environmental challenges with a variety of tools over the decades, including leading-edge legislation, aggressive regulation and culture-changing education. The California Air Resources Board and its regional regulatory enforcement districts (UCI is within the jurisdiction of the South Coast Air Quality Management District — aka the SCAQMD) long ago targeted multiple sources of air pollution with controversial strategies that included enlisting employers in the fight against mobile sources by requiring employee transportation programs to reduce the number of single-occupant vehicles on the road. In 2005, the state legislature passed, and the governor signed, Assembly Bill 32 to reduce emissions down to 1990 levels.
As a major employer, the University of California — which has 10 campuses and a total of approximately 238,700 students and 198,300 employees — must comply with all applicable environmental laws and regulations, including reducing its emissions. But Zavala said UCI in particular sees its sustainability efforts as more than simply meeting the letter of the law. In fact, the University of California's Carbon Neutrality Initiative commits to making the entire system carbon neutral by 2025 — the first major university to do so.
Zavala explained that the university combines its obligations as an employer with its role as an institution of higher learning to proactively educate its stakeholders about sustainability, even serving as a guide and example for other campuses. That philosophy helped drive UCI's pursuit of BWC recognition.
"We're not just educating ourselves, but always educating others," he said. "It's the UC way and part of our mission. So, when we do things well and earn recognition — such as from BWC — it helps us show other campuses they can do it, too. Our information sharing extends to other universities or even non-academic institutions, like cities, as well. Our overall is goal to reduce greenhouse gas emissions, so by spotlighting our best practices we help others learn."
Zavala explained that BWC recognition brings a dual benefit: It validates Sustainable Transportation's work by spotlighting the team's successes, and it starts conversations when other campuses and other employers see what UCI is doing to manage its transportation demand.
UCI has received so much recognition over the past two decades for its sustainable transportation programs, listing all the awards takes a whole page on the Transportation and Distribution Services website.
Zavala, who grew up in California's Inland Empire region, said he has seen a genuine air quality change since he started in college in 2005. "Regulation does work," he said, "but there is no low-hanging fruit anymore for reducing emissions."
Plentiful Mobility Choices
That's one of the reasons UCI uses a comprehensive, multimodal transportation strategy to ensure that students, faculty and staff have a full range of sustainable mobility options available in order to minimize the total number of vehicle trips made to and within the campus.
- In addition to promoting walking and bicycling, UCI offers online carpool/vanpool ride matching through Zimride; a discount on University Pass membership; permits for occasional parking; and a guaranteed ride home
- The 20-bus campus shuttle fleet is transitioning from biodiesel to all-electric vehicles over the next year.
- Subsidized Orange County Transit Authority (OCTA) bus passes, plus Metrolink and Amtrak train ticket rebates, make public transportation an attractive option for getting to campus.
- Carsharing through Zipcar, and a ZotWheels automated bikesharing program, provide extra connectivity and convenience.
- Sustainable Transportation staff are always on hand to create personalized transportation plans for students, faculty or staff.
- Complimentary daily parking permits — earned as an incentive for using alternative modes — enable program participants to park for free on the rare occasion they need to drive alone to campus.
- The UC system's Sustainable Transportation Policy and Guidelines are readily available online.
In addition to the environmental motivations, UCI depends on its sustainable transportation initiatives to help accommodate rising enrollment. For a growing university that can't easily expand beyond the borders of its campus, everything is temporarily not a building, explained Zavala. Land is too valuable and scarce to provide unlimited surface parking.
"If you don't have a sustainable transportation program to reduce parking demand and limit the space devoted to parking, your growth as a university is stymied," he said.
Zavala and his Sustainable Transportation colleagues get a quantitative snapshot of their progress via an annual survey, mandated by the SCAQMD for all employers of 250 or more employees, which asks employees how they travel to work between 6 a.m. and 10 a.m. weekdays. UCI administers the survey during the third week of the spring quarter — and all employees are required to complete it. The survey enables UCI to calculate and report its average vehicle ridership (AVR) in order to comply with SCAQMD regulations. The minimum required AVR is 1.5.
"We blew that [AVR] out of the water at least six years ago," said Zavala. "Now we're at 1.96. UCI leads the region for employers of our size or higher."
He attributes the AVR to not only offering plenty of mobility options, as well as supportive policies and programs like alternative work scheduling and telework, but also to UCI's land-use decisions. A large amount of on-campus housing for faculty and students reduces the need for vehicle use. Zavala said about 75 percent of the faculty lives on campus, in addition to a large proportion of the students. Their motivation isn't only to have short commutes, but also to enjoy affordable housing in an area where off-campus home prices and rents are prohibitive for many.
"We really attack the philosophy of commuting on all sides," Zavala said. "We're working hard at it and making steady progress. Plus, there's a generational shift underway: The newer generation tends to not want to own a car or drive alone, preferring alternative travel modes."
Looking Ahead
UCI's next big sustainable transportation push will focus on bicycling, said Zavala.
"It's cheap for the end user, leaves no carbon footprint, promotes good health, and is easy to use for the large cluster of people who live within five miles of campus."
To facilitate biking, the Sustainable Transportation team went through the entire campus and replaced all the old bike racks with higher density post-and-loop racks — a step which alone increased bicycle use by 50 percent thanks to this visible security improvement.
They also figured out an innovative way to increase the supply of available bikes for those who don't have easy access to their own: using abandoned bikes.
"If a bike looks abandoned at a rack, we give the owner 72 hours to claim it. If it's still there after that, we collect it and hold it for 30 to 90 days so people can reclaim and register it. Remaining unclaimed bikes are sold monthly through our ReCycle program to people who need one."
Zavala's team also puts a lot of time and energy into education to help cyclists learn how to ride safely around cars — and vehicle drivers to learn their rights and responsibilities around cyclists. UCI also holds two big, two-day events that emphasize bicycling: Ridetoberfest in October and WhimCycle in May. A variety of agency partners — including Metrolink, OCTA, the UCI Police Department, campus shuttle operator, and others — participate in the events to offer their own tips that help defeat the hesitation some people feel about bicycling. The education includes sessions on how to use the bike rack on the front of a bus, how to prevent bikes from being stolen, how to make basic bike repairs, minimizing bike vs. vehicle road conflicts, and more.
Zavala said his team "bribes" people to participate in the bike education by offering them nine different raffle drawings with various prize packages at stake — each of which contains a bundle of equipment around a particular theme, including security, cargo, visibility, and others.
Participants have to show they learned something during one of the education sessions to get a raffle ticket. The more they learn, the more raffle tickets they get. Following the events, Zavala's team sends hundreds of participants a detailed follow-up survey, which asks some demographic questions as well as inquiring about what actions each participant plans to take as a result of the bike education, such as riding more often or improving their bike-locking habits.
The ZotWheels automated bikesharing program, installed six years ago, is also being improved and expanded, said Zavala. The program will go from four stations to 15, offering 100 bikes. And the bike itself will be redesigned to make it lighter and more user-friendly.
In addition to all the bicycling growth, Zavala said he believes "transit is ready to explode — and we're ready to jump on it, but we have to work within the environment of the county."
He said OCTA has reduced service in the south part of Orange County and enhanced it in the northern portion. Since UCI is located in middle, Zavala's team has worked closely with OCTA to advocate for keeping a route that had been slated for elimination, while negotiating the merger of two other routes to expand the system's reach. Also, conversations are ongoing with OCTA about creating a possible feeder route to the rail station on weekends to help students visit their families in outlying areas via Metrolink or Amtrak.
"It's an example of transit awareness on the part of our riders, and of the strong partnership we have with OCTA, which enables us to talk about issues and find a resolution to issues," Zavala said.
Through its many initiatives, UCI has taken a no-holds-barred approach to environmental responsibility. And, while the university obviously can't control the weather, end the drought or single-handedly roll back the effects of climate change, it's philosophy and innovative strategies show other campuses and employers what's possible in sustainable transportation.


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Posted on Wednesday 16 January 2013 by Ulster Business
That was the view of former Irish Presidential candidate and entrepreneur Sean Gallagher, speaking to Ulster Business at an event staged by MLN to launch its upcoming Management Month.
"To get more export companies we need more start-up companies, so we have to encourage entrepreneurship right from school," he said.
"The first thing we need to do is make entrepreneurship more attractive by giving young people role models. By making business something that is not seen as being contaminated and negative or purely profit driven, but where people are creating jobs and providing services."
Well known for his stint on the RTE version of Dragon's Den, Gallagher was co-founder and CEO of Ireland's largest home technology company, Smarthomes. Prior to becoming an entrepreneur he was assistant CEO with the County Enterprise Boards, specialising in running training programmes for those setting up new businesses. He is also a former board member of IntertradeIreland.
Gallagher said he believes those who are running businesses in the current economic climate deserve to be applauded for the benefits the jobs they have created bring to society.
"I think entrepreneurs are heroes. Most entrepreneurs that I know make a living, they don't make a fortune. But they are doing what they love and what they are passionate about. We need more role models like them," he said.
Gallagher, who has an MBA from the University of Ulster, also thinks everyone coming through university should be taught business skills "whether they're studying engineering or dentistry". It is imperative too that those who find themselves out of work because of the recession must change their mindset to focus on the skills they have, not the role they previously did.
"We need to encourage a lot of people who have been made redundant or who are facing redundancy not to see themselves as an unemployed architect or an unemployed banker but as someone who is more than their job. They have to go back to basics to see how they can apply their skills somewhere else in the marketplace where there is demand," he said.
"I say to a lot of young people, don't think about the jobs that are out there at the moment. In ten years you will be working in jobs that don't even exist yet. When I was growing up there was no internet or mobile phones and whole industries have been built around those technologies," he added.
As a dragon on the Irish version of Dragon's Den, Gallagher notes, he is more often than not encouraged to invest by the drive and motivation shown by the people who are pitching, not just their business ideas.
He is tight-lipped when asked about a return to politics in future. But despite losing out to Michael D Higgins in the race to become Irish President, the entrepreneur has no regrets about running in the race.
Gallagher's campaign was built around the premise that he wanted to do for enterprise and job creation what Mary McAleese had done for the peace process, with education and employment his two priorities. People must be empowered to become leaders in their communities because solutions to the current economic malaise won't come from the top down, he said.
"Many of the young people I meet from long term disadvantaged backgrounds, their expectations are so low. They need skills to get employment and they need confidence," he said.
Both in business and society Gallagher says he has noticed a real shift towards what he terms value-based leadership, with successful organisations the ones who hire staff that buy into their vision.
"Leadership is about seeing the bigger picture and having a compelling vision of what you want to achieve and why you want to do it, then bringing people with you by engaging with them," he said.
"The starting point is self awareness but people often end up in leadership roles without a clear understanding of what they want to achieve and what is driving them. You've got to understand what you want to achieve by being a leader. Yes, it's nice to have the title and the glory but it can't be about your ego, it has to be about the organisation."
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Social insect behavior has been widely used as a model for bio-inspired engineering solutions, for example for optimal routing in telecommunication network. We will investigate whether insights into scaling laws of self-organized biological networks can be transferred to the design of human-made self-organized networks. This will lead to an improved understanding of their fundamental operating principles and should ultimately contribute to the design of better engineering solutions.
The present sub-project is specifically concerned with the question why only very large ant colonies invest into building of colony infrastructure that is expensive to construct from a metabolic point of view. Our model systems are ants of the genus Atta (leaf cutters), which are among the largest colonies of all social insects. In contrast to almost all other species these invest large amounts into resources in the architectural construction of trails (by clearing and leveling forest ground). This is generally assumed to enable the colony to forage more efficiently. We specifically investigate the mechanisms, benefits, and energy balance of trail building quantitatively through a combination of mathematical modeling with experimental work in the lab and in the field.
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This essay provides a vivid window into an eighth-grade class engaged in a legislative curriculum drama. Students acted as members of political parties within the Senate and participated in legislative hearings, discussed costs and benefits to legislation, and engaged in debates. Curriculum drama formed a bridge that linked the task of teaching and learning about a defined unit of study to the authentic interests, concerns, and energies of the students
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Franklin, C. (2003). Curriculum Drama: Using Imagination and Inquiry in a Middle School Social Studies Classroom. Occasional Paper Series, 2003 (10). Retrieved from https://educate.bankstreet.edu/occasional-paper-series/vol2003/iss10/1
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Mission Critical teamed with Maloney Construction, a Novato CA based 8(a) Heavy Civil Contractor, to respond to this highway, street, and bridge construction project at Vandenberg AFB.
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That the title includes a reference to the global cooling myth should give one a hint to the problem with the new book. As with their previous book, the authors take a contrarian position on the issue of global warming, except this time they're working outside their area of expertise and get it seriously wrong.
Superfreakonomics, on the other hand, misrepresents the scientific literature on global warming. The difference here is that the papers cited by Freakonomics were Levitt's own work and he understood them, while Levitt and Dubner do not understand the climate science literature. This by itself would not be fatal, but what has taken them off the cliff is the Freakonomics formula: "What you thought you knew about X is wrong!". If you want to apply this formula to global warming you can easily find many superficially plausible arguments on why the mainstream science is wrong. Bang those into your chapter on global warming without bothering to check their accuracy and the only work that remains is the tour to promote your book.Lambert goes on in that link to explain some of the errors with the work. The Intersection also has a round-up of responses to the book.
Despite the quick response of such knowledgeable figures denouncing the misinformation in the book, the damage will still be done to the public understanding of the issue. One, the authors are not partisan hacks like, say, Sean Hannity and will thus be seen as more credible on the issue to non-partisans. Secondly, these authors are more popular than the critics rebutting them, meaning that it is more likely that a larger audience will hear of the book's contrarian wrongness than they will the corrections.