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While staff were picking waste, pledging, or spreading awareness, members of Senior Management were leading by example. FAO's Director General, Mr José Graziano Da Silva spoke of the importance of wasting less to relieve pressure natural resources, and FAO's Climate and Environment Deputy Director Mr Zitouni Oulddada stated that "little gestures - like using a bamboo mug instead of plastic bottles - can make a big difference to beat plastic pollution". In IFAD, Senior Management demonstrated how to beat plastic through UNEP's fun and engaging tag-videos. And WFP's Assistant Executive Director and Chief Financial Officer, Manoj Juneja, wrote to all staff globally, encouraging them to make environmentally conscious choices at work, and in daily life. "World Environment Day affords us an opportunity to celebrate our efforts to provide life-saving work in more environment-friendly ways – and to consider what more we could do," Mr Juneja said.
In addition to engaging staff, the UN's Rome Based Agencies are also committed to managing their plastic waste at the institutional level. Significant reductions in bottled water consumption have been achieved since water fountains were introduced some years ago. Moreover, as an immediate action in honor of WED 2018, IFAD announced that it has discontinued the sale of drinks in plastic bottles from its HQ cafeteria and vending machines whilst WFP and FAO also committed to further reduce plastic waste associated with catering services at their HQs.
Other duty stations around the globe also got on board with local events. In Nairobi, UN-Environment, UNON, UN-habitat, and WFP jointly hosted a waste sorting competition at the UN Gigiri compound where a 'beat plastic pollution' exhibit showcased products and art created from plastic waste. In Myanmar, FAO colleagues committed to reduce their personal use of single-use plastic pollution and switching to alternatives. In Lima, IFAD staff have actively pledged to reduce their plastic consumption.


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"Pennsylvania is within a day's drive of 60 percent of North American consumers. As such, the nation's rail system plays an integral role in moving Pennsylvania goods to market. Rail is also critical to the growth of our natural gas industry and the renaissance of Southeast Pennsylvania's refineries. Freight rail investments are crucial to securing our role as a world-class energy hub, increasing our competitive edge and encouraging private sector growth throughout the Commonwealth."
Gene Barr is the president and CEO of the Pennsylvania Chamber of Business and Industry, the state's largest broad-based business advocacy association. Barr joined the PA Chamber in February 2003 and served as Vice President of Government and Public Affairs before being elected President in October 2011. Prior to joining the PA Chamber, he worked for BP America, the Associated Petroleum Industries of Pennsylvania and the law firm of McNees Wallace & Nurick LLC.
Barr is a current member of the Council of State Chambers, U. S. Chamber of Commerce Committee of 100 and the U.S. Chamber's Public Affairs Committee. He is on the boards of the Foundation for Free Enterprise Education, the Pennsylvania Heritage Foundation and the Bridge Foundation. In addition, Barr serves on the board of United Way of the Capital Region, and is a board member and former chair of the National Civil War Museum.


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Is the Koran Burner an American Patriot?
So let me get this straight. Florida preacher Terry Jones burns the Koran as part of a religious protest and is promptly condemned by General David Petraeus? Jones' act, the general says, "was hateful, it was intolerant and it was extremely disrespectful and again, we condemn it in the strongest manner possible."
Meanwhile, the United States military condones and participates in the burning of the Christian Bible. As CNN reported in May of 2009:
Military personnel threw away, and ultimately burned, confiscated Bibles that were printed in the two most common Afghan languages amid concern they would be used to try to convert Afghans, a Defense Department spokesman said Tuesday.
The American media elite are also wringing their hands over the burning of the Koran, and not just on the Left. Even Jonah Goldberg of National Review laments that "(b)urning books -- any books -- is bad. Burning holy books is really bad." Uh, no. A book is a product, a piece of property, which can legitimately be used for reading, propping a door open, hiding cash (senior citizens only), decorating a shelf, shredding for an art project, burning in protest, or anything else its owner may desire.
You see, I'm terribly old fashioned. I believe that our constitutionally protected rights to free speech and private property were designed exactly for men like Jones (whose views are unpopular), and to provide sanctuary for exactly his kind of protest (which we may find morally unsavory). I also was under the impression that untold numbers of Americans have given their lives overseas so that all of us can enjoy these privileges here at home.
Terry Jones may be a bigot, but that is hardly the point. As far as I'm concerned, he is more of an American patriot that General Petraeus, who ought to be ashamed of himself for siding with the savages in Afghanistan, who have rioted and killed dozens because their "sensitivities" have been inflamed by the actions of one private American citizen. Really, who does he think he is? How dare Petraeus, the president, or any other U.S. official condone the state ordered burning of the Christian Bible, which is a far, far graver offense than the preacher's inconsequential conflagration. You see it is when, and only when, the government decides which books are to be consigned to the flames that it is "really bad," to use Goldberg's eloquent formulation.


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An Assessment of the Health and Safety Implications of Coal Transport through Oakland
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Public Health Advisory Panel on Coal in Oakland: JUNE 13, 2016
A panel of public health experts considered the health and safety implications related to the potential transport, storage and handling of coal at the Oakland Bulk and Oversized Terminal (OBOT) proposed to be constructed on the former Oakland Army Base.
The panel reviewed evidence submitted to the Oakland City Council in conjunction with a public hearing held on September 21, 2015 and identified and considered additional sources including scientific articles in peer-reviewed journals, professional reports, press reports, and government data. The panel also conducted original calculations.
The panel was composed of numerous public health experts, including Paul English, PhD, MPH, Public Health Institute, public health epidemiologist, and Linda Rudolph, MD, MPH, Center for Climate Change and Health, Public Health Institute, former Health Officer and Director of Public Health, City of Berkeley (see the full list of panelists, below).
This review was conducted in the context of the Oakland City Council's upcoming decision concerning the proposed transport, storage, and handling of coal, which will be informed by public health and safety considerations for current and future Oakland workers and residents. Based on its review, the panel offers the following summary of its findings:
- Transporting coal by rail through the City of Oakland and transferring it through the OBOT facility will increase exposures to air pollutants with known adverse health effects including deaths.
- There are no proven methods to eliminate or reduce the emission of these pollutants to a safe level.
- There are inherent hazards in transporting and handling coal, including the risk of catastrophic explosion.
- The combustion of coal exported from OBOT will contribute to global climate change, resulting in additional adverse health risks to Oakland residents.
- Impacts of coal transport and handling will be greatest in West Oakland, a neighborhood already burdened by significant and inequitable environmental hazards.
Together, these findings span hundreds of sources that point in the same direction: If coal is transported, stored, and handled in Oakland, we can reasonably conclude that Oakland residents, in West Oakland in particular, will face increased exposure to several known hazards. It is highly likely that there will be increases in adverse health outcomes along with possible adverse safety outcomes.
Full list of panelists:
- Charles M. Crane, MD, MPH, former Medical Director, TB Program, Contra Costa Health Services
- Paul English, PhD, MPH, Public Health Institute, public health epidemiologist
- Jonathan Heller, PhD, Co-Director and Co-Founder, Human Impact Partners
- Janice Kirsch, MD, MPH, Medical oncologist and hematologist
- Heather Kuiper, DrPH, MPH, public health consultant
- Amy D. Kyle, PhD, MPH, School of Public Health, University of California Berkeley (institution for identification only)
- Bart Ostro, PhD, former Chief of Air Pollution Epidemiology Section, California EPA, currently Research Faculty, Air Quality Research Center, UC Davis
- Linda Rudolph, MD, MPH, Center for Climate Change and Health, Public Health Institute, former Health Officer and Director of Public Health, City of Berkeley
- Seth Shonkoff, PhD, MPH, Executive Director of the Energy Science and Policy Institute, PSE Healthy Energy; Visiting Scholar, Department of Environmental Science, Policy and Management, UC Berkeley; and Affiliate, Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory


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Filmed in rural Cork by Irish filmmaker Patrick O' Shea, Tree Keeper is a bold film that attempts to stand on its own as a psychological thriller with the themes of violence, greed and environmentally conservatism. The question is can it compete with the Hollywood thrillers we encounter every week?
Tree Keeper tells the story of recluse Doire who has retreated to live in the woodlands he inherited when his father died. He is a solitary figure who is brought back into the world he despises when he discovers his estranged mother has sold off his land to a developer who wants to build a landfill. Doire is then thrown into a violent conflict in order to save his home, which has repercussions on both his life and that of his enemies.
This film makes a brave effort to match up to its foreign contenders in the genre by delivering a concise and through plot that overall holds together well. James Browne (Doire) gives a realistic performance as the disturbed and on edge protagonist. He holds the attention of the camera well and gives by far the best acting performance. The strong contrast between Doire's quiet world of beauty in the woods and the cruel outside world is shown through the eyes of director of photography Rupert MacCarthy-Morrogh using all Cork's rural landscape has to offer. The scenes in the woods are beautifully shot, which contrasts with the tough outside world of mistrust, cruelty and violence.
Orchestral music is used to capture the tense atmosphere for the violent scenes and to show Doire's mental distress. Although the two leads carry the plot well; the support cast can at times looks amateur and stilted. The backstory is also hazy as Doire's estrangement to his mother is mentioned but never explained. Other characters from the small town are also crucially missing details of their lives and place in the story.
Tree Keeper is, however, a fearless film that reaches the heights it has set itself and its star James Browne in particular should have a strong future ahead of him.
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Swedish mayor blasts Zionism at holocaust memorial....
Sweden is now beyond the pale...
Jewish residents in Malmo are furious after the Swedish town's mayor, Ilmar Reepalu, equated Zionism to anti-Semitism in an interview published on International Holocaust Remembrance Day.
During the interview with Skanska Dagbladet newspaper, Reepalu was asked whether he considered a public condemnation of anti-Semitism in Malmo. The mayor responded that "Malmo does not accept anti-Semitism and does not accept Zionism," charging that both adopt extreme positions towards certain groups.
Reepalu added that local Jews bear some responsibility for the attitude towards them, noting that "they have the possibility to affect the way they are seen by society." The mayor then urged Malmo's Jewish community to "distance itself" from Israeli attacks on Gaza's civilian population.
"Instead, the community chose to hold a pro-Israel demonstration," he said, adding that such move "may convey the wrong message to others."
Charlotte Wiberg of the Swedish Committee against Anti-Semitism expressed deep concern in the wake of the mayor's words.
"Reepalu does not address other communities in a similar manner and his words constitute discrimination against local Jews," she said. "Reepalu chose not to show solidarity with Jews facing danger in Malmo, but rather, with the people who wish to marginalize a religious group because of Israel's policy. Moreover, Reepalu demonstrated historical ignorance by comparing Zionism to anti-Semitism."
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"Each year the situation gets worse. Living conditions in the city have become intolerable for Jews. Sometimes children need to be accompanied by guards when they go to kindergarten, and there are always guards around the Jewish Center, which Muslims have tried to break into a few times," Marcus Eilenberg, a Jewish resident of Malmo, told Ynet.
"Stones being thrown at the center and other Jewish institutions has become a routine occurrence," he said, "Graffiti is scrawled on the walls including swastikas next to Stars of David and 'Hitler'. My children can't go to any Jewish activities without security. It's very sad."
Eilenberg and his children
According to Eilenberg, it is this situation that led him to move to Israel together with his wife and their two children.
Regarding the words of the mayor, Eilenberg said the attitude to Jews had become worse since Operation Cast Lead.
"The mayor didn't denounce the aggression against Jews during the operation. On the contrary, he took advantage of the situation to attack Israel and in effect legitimized the aggression. After there were demonstrations against Jews here, we held a quiet vigil in support of Israel and the children of Sderot in the Jewish Center, and then dozens of Muslims attacked us, threw stones and glass at us, and tried to cut through the fence of the center. Some people were hurt, but luckily the police arrived," he said.
Eilenberg said that in his opinion this was the straw that broke the camel's back.


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The Second Civil War: How Extreme Partisanship Has Paralyzed Washington and Polarized America
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In The Second Civil War, respected political commentator Ronald Brownstein diagnoses the electoral, demographic, and institutional forces that have wreaked such change over the American political landscape, pulling politics into the margins and leaving precious little common ground for compromise. The Second Civil War is not a book for Democrats or Republicans but for all Americans who are disturbed by our current political dysfunction and hungry for ways to understand it—and move beyond it.
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America is the richest and most powerful country in the world. It may be the richest and most powerful country in the history of the world.
But it cannot agree on a plan to reduce its dependence on foreign oil
Nor can it balance its federal budget.
It can't provide health insurance for the nearly one in six Americans without it, either.
It can't agree on a plan to improve security at its borders and provide a humane way to deal with the estimated twelve million illegal immigrants working in its fields and factories and restaurants.
It can't align the promises it has made to seniors through Social Security and Medicare with the tax burdens that future generations realistically can bear.
It can't agree on the steps to rebuild economic security for middle-class Americans in the age of global economic competition. It can't formulate a strategy for reducing the emissions of the gases that contribute to global warming and potentially disruptive changes in the climate.
It cannot agree on an approach to fight the threat of Islamic terrorism, at home and abroad, in a way that unites the country with shared purpose.
None of these problems are new. All have been discussed for years in the media. All are the subject of constant debate in Washington. In most cases the options for dealing with them are limited and familiar.
Why, then, has America failed to make more progress against these challenges?
The answer, above all, is that the day-to-day functioning of American politics now inhibits the constructive compromises between the parties required to confront these problems. The political system has evolved to a point where the vast majority of elected officials in each party feel comfortable only advancing ideas acceptable to their core supporters—their "base," in the jargon of modern campaigns. But progress against these problems, and almost all other challenges facing America, requires comprehensive solutions that marry ideas favored by one party and opposed by the other. It's implausible, for instance, to imagine that we can address the long-term challenge of Social Security and Medicare without both reducing benefits and increasing taxes. Or that we can regain control of our borders without significantly toughening enforcement and creating a legal framework for the millions of illegal immigrants already in the United States. Or that we can reduce our dependence on foreign oil without reducing consumption and increasing domestic production. Yet in each of those cases, and all the others listed above, most elected officials in one of the two major parties will not accept half of that solution. The result is to prevent us from using all of the tools available to attack our problems. One side proposes to control the deficit solely through spending cuts; the other side almost entirely through tax increases. One party proposes to produce more energy, the other to conserve more energy. In fact, to make meaningful progress against any of these problems, the answer is almost always that we will need to do both. Yet because each party seeks to impose its will on the other—and recoils from actions that might challenge its core supporters—it cannot propose comprehensive solutions. We are left with either-or alternatives—increase production or reduce consumption, cut benefits or raise taxes—when the challenges demand that we apply solutions built on the principle of both-and.
This book examines how we have reached this dangerous impasse. It rests on an unambiguous conclusion: The central obstacle to more effective action against our most pressing problems is an unrelenting polarization of American politics that has divided Washington and the country into hostile, even irreconcilable camps. Competition and even contention between rival parties has been part of American political life since its founding. That partisan rivalry most often has been a source of energy, innovation, and inspiration. But today the parties are losing the capacity to recognize their shared interest in placing boundaries on their competition—and in transcending it when the national interest demands. On some occasions—notably efforts to balance the federal budget and reform the welfare system under Bill Clinton, and an initiative to rethink federal education policy in George W. Bush's first year—they have collaborated on reasonable compromises. But for most of the past two decades the two sides have collided with such persistent and unwavering disagreement on everything from taxes to Social Security to social and foreign policy that it sometimes seems they are organizing not only against each other, but against the idea of compromise itself.
Against this backdrop of perpetual conflict, America is living through a transformation of its political life. For most of our history American political parties have functioned as loose coalitions that lightly tether diverse ideological views. Because the parties were so diverse, they have usually operated as a force that synthesized the diverse interests in American society. As the great political historian Richard Hofstadter once wrote, "In our politics, each major party has become a compound, a hodgepodge, of various and conflicting interests; and the imperatives of party struggle, the quest for victory and for offices, have forced the parties to undertake the business of conciliation and compromise among such interests."
That definition is obsolete. From Congress and the White House through the grassroots, the parties today are becoming less diverse, more ideologically homogeneous, and less inclined to pursue reasonable agreements. American government, as we'll see in the chapters ahead, usually has worked best when it is open to a broad array of views and perspectives, and seeks to harmonize a diverse range of interests. Today the dynamics of the political competition are narrowing the perspectives of each party in a manner that pushes them toward operating as the champion of one group of Americans against another—with dangerous results for all Americans. Reconfigured by the large forces we will explore in this book, our politics today encourages confrontation over compromise. The political system now rewards ideology over pragmatism. It is designed to sharpen disagreements rather than construct consensus. It is built on exposing and inflaming the differences that separate Americans rather than the shared priorities and values that unite them. It produces too much animosity and too few solutions.
Political leaders on both sides now feel a relentless pressure for party discipline and intellectual conformity more common in parliamentary systems than through most of American history. Any politician who attempts to build alliances across party lines is more likely to provoke suspicion and criticism than praise. "People want you to choose sides so badly in modern politics, there is no ability to cross [party lines]," Senator Lindsey Graham, a conservative but iconoclastic Republican from South Carolina. "You are one team versus the other and never shall the twain meet. If it's a Democratic idea, I have to be against it because it came from a Democrat. And vice versa."
Richard A. Gephardt of Missouri, the former Democratic leader in the House of Representatives, used almost the exact same terms to describe the changes he experienced during the twenty-eight years he served in the House before retiring after 2004. "There is no dialogue [between the parties]," he said. "You are either in the blue team or the red team, and you never wander off. It's like the British Parliament. And I never thought about it that much when I came, but it was very different then. It wasn't a parliamentary system, and people wandered off their side and voted in committee or on the floor with the other side. There was this understanding that we were there to solve problems.The wars between the two parties that take place every day in Washington may seem to most Americans a form of distant posturing, like border clashes between two countries they could not find on the map. But this polarization of political life imposes a tangible cost on every American family—a failure to confront all of the problems listed above with sensible solutions that could improve life for average Americans. Less tangibly but as importantly, extreme partisanship has produced a toxic environment that empowers the most adversarial and shrill voices in each party and disenfranchises the millions of Americans more attracted to pragmatic compromise than to ideological crusades. The reflexive, even ritualized, combat of modern politics leaves fewer attractive choices for all Americans who don't want to be conscripted into a battle between feuding ideologues or forced to link arms with Michael Moore or Ann Coulter.
Ken Mehlman, the campaign manager for Bush in 2004 and chairman of the Republican National Committee during part of his second term, does not exaggerate when he says America is now living through an era of "hyperpartisanship."
The defining characteristics of this age of hyperpartisanship are greater unity within the parties and more intense conflicts between them. On almost every major issue, the distance between the two parties has widened, even as dissent within the parties has diminished. Interest groups in each party are escalating their efforts to enforce ideological discipline on elected officials. Each party has demonstrated greater willingness to employ confrontational tactics that earlier generations considered excessive.
This new political order, as we'll see, has some of its roots in the strategies liberals pursued in the first decades after World War II to promote more disciplined and ideologically unified parties. But over roughly the past fifteen years, the Republican Party has contributed more than the Democrats to the rising cycle of polarization in American politics. That's partly because the GOP has controlled a larger share of political power during that time; Democrats have not had as much opportunity to implement a philosophy of government. But it's mostly because conservatives, eager to reverse decades of liberal policies, have embraced both ends and means that accept high levels of division as the price for ambitious change. Since the GOP takeover of Congress in 1994, and especially since Bush's election in 2000, the Republican Party has grown into a centrally directed, ideologically coherent institution that demands loyalty, isolates and punishes dissent, and mobilizes every conceivable resource allied with it against the other side.
Bush and his advisors greatly accelerated this process by rejecting the assumption that controlling the center of the electorate is the key to success in American politics. Instead, he has tolerated, and at times even seemed to welcome, division as the price of mobilizing his core supporters behind an aggressive agenda that splits the country and the Congress. Under Bush, the GOP has set the pace in adopting confrontational legislative tactics, tethering Congress to the White House, discouraging internal disagreement, constructing an electoral strategy that relies more on exciting its base than courting swing voters, and advancing an agenda, often on razor-thin party-line votes, that aims to meet the preferences of its supporters with as little concession as possible to those outside of its coalition.
The ferocity of this challenge rattled the foundations of the Democratic Party. During the Bush years Democratic leaders faced rising demands from their own base to abandon Bill Clinton's centrist model of governing and reconfigure the party into a mirror image of the highly partisan warrior party that the president and his political "architect," Karl Rove, has designed for the GOP. In fact, Democrats are unlikely ever to match (or even pursue) the level of centralized control and ideological conformity achieved by Republicans because they rely, as we'll see, on a much more diverse electoral coalition. But Democrats are moving fitfully in the same direction, as more party activists push their party to emulate the Republican model. The Democrats have not been the principal engine of polarization, but they have not been immune to its effects either.
On some fronts, the change in the political environment can be measured quantitatively. On major votes, nearly all republicans and Democrats on Capitol Hill now line up against each other with regimented precision, like nineteenth-century armies that marched shoulder to shoulder onto the battlefield. For the past half century Congressional Quarterly, a nonpartisan political magazine in Washington, has tracked the extent to which House and Senate members vote with a majority of their party on contested votes. Both republicans and Democrats are standing with their own party against the other on about 90 percent of the votes, a level of lockstep uniformity unimaginable only a generation or two ago. Rather than seeking to bridge their differences, the vast majority of legislators in each party now reflexively vote against any initiative that originates with the other. The table above tracks the level of party unity in congressional votes under every president since Dwight Eisenhower's second term. In both chambers, and in both parties, the trend toward a parliamentary level of loyalty is unmistakable.
The same trend toward division is evident in the way Americans look at the president. Polls over the past half century show it has become increasingly difficult for presidents to win approval from voters across party lines. Dwight Eisenhower, Lyndon Johnson, even Richard Nixon all attracted significant support from voters who identified with the opposite party. But since then the gap has steadily increased between the way Americans in the president's party assess his job performance and the reviews he receives from Americans in the other party. Under Bush, this difference has widened to unprecedented, almost unimaginable, heights: Bush has excited his own party and infuriated the other as much as any president in modern times.
As we'll see in Chapter 6, the trends in election results over the past several decades add to the portrait of a political system increasingly divided between stable, divergent, and antagonistic camps. Ideologically, culturally, and geographically, the electoral coalitions of the two major parties have dispersed to the point where they now represent almost mirror images of each other. As this re-sorting has proceeded, each party has established powerful regional strongholds in which it dominates the presidential vote as well as House and Senate races. Each party, in other words, is consolidating its control over a formidable sphere of influence that provides it a stable foundation of support. The flip side is that each party is losing the ability to speak for the entire nation as it loses the capacity to effectively compete in large sections of the country.
There are two dangers in examining today's conflicts between the parties and their allied coalitions. One is to ignore the similarities to the past. The second is to ignore the differences.
Many commentators who downplay the significance of today's partisan wars correctly note that there was never a golden age in American political life when statesmen entirely transcended party to advance the national interest. Politics has always been a rough game; as early as 1797, Thomas Jefferson complained that the factional disputes in the new republic were so heated, "Men who have been intimate all their lives, cross the streets to avoid meeting, and turn their heads another way, lest they should be obliged to touch their hats."
But the level of conflict between the political parties today, the intensity of their disagreements, and the difficulty they face in reaching reasonable compromises is not typical either. American politics is evolving toward greater partisanship and ideological rigidity than it experienced through most of the twentieth century, through in many respects it is moving along a track that is taking it back to the future.
This book will argue for a new way of understanding the cycles of conflict and cooperation between the parties. it will show that relations between the two parties have moved through four distinct phases over the history of modern American politics, a period that traces back roughly over the past 110 years.
The first phase, which stretched from 1896 through 1938, saw the parties pursue highly partisan strategies for governing in a period of sharp party conflict. This era, which will be explored in Chapter 2, was the period in modern American political life most like our own, and in many ways the political system today is re-creating the advantages and disadvantages of that time.
The second (the subject of Chapter 3) saw an erosion of partisan discipline that forced presidents from Franklin D. Roosevelt through John F. Kennedy into the longest sustained period of bipartisan negotiation in American history. This is the period that most closely approaches an ideal of cooperation across party lines. Although the political system in those years was flawed in many respects, its best aspects contain important lessons for us today.
The third period, ranging from the mid-1960s through the mid-1990s, was a period of transition, in which the forces that had sustained that bipartisan system waned and the pressures for more partisan confrontation intensified. (These will be explored in Chapters 4, 5, and 6.)
The final phase, the culmination of those pressures, is our period of hyperpartisanship, an era that may be said to have fully arrived when the Republican-controlled House of Representatives voted on a virtually party-line vote to impeach Bill Clinton in December 1998. (Chapters 6 through 10, from different angles, will explore this period.)
The resurgence of partisanship over the past several decades confounded the expectations of political scientists in the middle to late twentieth century. Most analysts predicted that the parties might be eclipsed by television (which provides politicians a more direct relationship with voters), the ability of candidates to raise large sums of money on their own, or the rise of independent voters.
Instead we have moved into an era when partisanship at every level, from the voters to elected officials, is the most powerful force in political life. "The two political parties are really strong in a way they haven't been in years," Mehlman correctly notes. "Not strong that as the chairman of the Republican party I'm a big dog; that's not what it is. Strong in the sense that…joining a political party means something. Political parties are no longer divided along lines that are arbitrary: religion, race, what your economic status is. They are now divided along [the lines of] what your ideology is, which is much more durable. We live in an era of very strong parties."
These strong parties, as noted above, are reminiscent in many ways of the dynamic parties that anchored the age of intense partisanship around the beginning of the twentieth century. But the competition between the parties today is unique in one critical respect: In the early years of the twentieth century, the country was deeply divided but not closely divided. It was deeply divided, because a large gulf separated the priorities of most republicans and most Democrats throughout that era. But it was not closely divided, because republicans and Democrats each assembled dominant coalitions that constituted a clear majority of the country during the years when they held power. Conversely, in the period of greater bipartisan negotiation, between the late 1930s and the mid-1960s, the country was closely but not deeply divided. It was closely divided because the tendency of dozens of conservative Democrats, and a smaller number of moderate republicans, to routinely cross party lines left neither side with a reliable majority in Congress throughout this era. But it was not deeply divided, because the very instability of the system encouraged presidents from each party to pursue mostly centrist agendas.
Today America is deeply and closely divided. The ideological differences between the parties are as great as at any time in the past century. But the country is split almost exactly in half between the two sides. Deeply and closely divided is an unprecedented and explosive combination. Voters for the losing side always feel unrepresented when the other party wins unified control over government. But for most of our history those voters could look to heretics in the majority coalition (liberal republicans or conservative Democrats) who championed an approximation of their views. And in most cases—under William McKinley and Theodore Roosevelt, or Franklin Roosevelt and Lyndon Johnson—the disaffected faced the reality that the other side, at that moment, represented a preponderant majority of the country. Neither was true while Republicans controlled the White House and Congress through most of Bush's presidency. Nearly 49 percent of the country voted against Bush in 2004, but few Republican leaders, inside his administration or in Congress, held views close to almost any of those voters. The size of the losing electoral coalition was much greater than in most previous periods of unified government, but their influence inside the governing coalition was smaller. For most of his presidency this dynamic allowed Bush to govern in a manner that satisfied his base while excluding perhaps a greater share of the electorate than at any previous point in American history. The operation of that system, and its consequences for Bush, the two parties, and the country, will be explored more in Chapters 7 and 8.
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The Lord has many names, but if we think about it, if we changed Jesus Christ's name to Truth it would most likely lose the meaning of truth or the definition of what we believe truth to mean. In today's devotional, Henry Blackaby gives us an eye-opener on Truth the Person.
Truth Is a Person
And they came to Him and awoke Him, saying, "Master, Master, we are perishing!" Then He arose and rebuked the wind and the raging of the water. And they ceased, and there was a calm. But He said to them, "Where is your faith?" (Luke 8:24-25)
~Truth is a Person, not a concept. Jesus said He was the Truth (John 14:6). That means that you can never know the truth of your circumstances unless you have first heard from Jesus. The disciples thought they were perishing in the storm. They were fishermen who knew the sea and knew what their condition was. They had allowed their circumstances to convince them that the "truth" was their imminent death. But they were wrong. Truth was asleep in the back of their boat! ~ Henry Blackaby's Experiencing God devo
While reading this devotion I had to tune out all distractions and go back to the scripture to get a better understanding of what Blackaby was trying to explain. Blackaby went on to say something that we all do in our day to day lives:
~Since some of the disciples were fishermen, they trusted in their own expertise and wisdom rather than recognizing that only Jesus knew the truth of their situation. At times, our human knowledge in certain areas of life can blind us to our desperate need to hear a word from Truth.~Blackaby
This is so key to what Blackaby's devotion is trying to tell us – we need to stop being dependent on ourselves and trust the Truth, which is Christ!
Blackaby goes on to say, "When Jesus spoke, the disciples saw the real truth of their situation. There was absolute calm. The disciples had seen Jesus perform other miracles, but they had not yet witnessed His power over nature in such a dimension. Often we are like the disciples. God may have recently demonstrated His power to us in a mighty way; we may have experienced many spiritual victories in the past. Yet, when a new and frightening situation comes upon us_we, too, panic and say, "Lord save me. I'm perishing!" God will remind us of His provision, saying, "I can handle this situation, too, and you will know more of Me because of it."
How can we apply this devotional and scripture into our lives?
More notably I would say that I personally would need to remind myself that Christ is Truth and that I must do as Matt 6:33 says to "Seek first the Kingdom of God and His righteousness first" – in all things that I do. When I do this, I am able to remind myself that if I am dependent only on my personal life experiences and not God's Word than I will get stressed and panic like the disciples. It's common, I don't know of anyone who wouldn't do the same, they go through life making choices on a day-to-day basis based on what they know, not always 'who' they know.
My reminder is to begin each day in prayer and ask the Holy Spirit to guide me in all things. The scripture that tells us to pray without ceasing is just telling us to constantly be in connection with our Lord. To do, to speak, to act, in all we do. Not just for the major decisions in our lives but to seek the truth in the day to day interactions we have with others. How we respond to conversations, to tasks, and especially before we get ourselves in situations where we panic and lose hope. There is no greater hope than in our Lord Jesus Christ.
Father we thank you for all that you did for us by dying on the cross. We ask that you would help us as we seek you first from the time we wake up in the morning until we go to sleep and rest in you. Lord we are thankful for all the experiences that you give us as they help mold us into the character of the person you can use to further your kingdom. We ask that you would not only allow us to use the experiences and wisdom that you gave us but that we would not forget to remember to seek you, the Truth, by faith. Let us trust in you not in ourselves, as we know you can do all things. Amen


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"In writing, habit seems to be a much stronger force than either willpower or inspiration." ~~John Steinbeck.
For several years, I've had a list of "The Seven Essential Habits of a Working Writer" scribbled on a scrap of paper and pinned to my bulletin board. I had copied the list from a book by author Jim Denney, who said, "Habits are constant. Inspiration is variable—it comes and goes. That's why habits are better than inspiration. It is habit, not inspiration, that builds writing careers."
I want to elaborate on that list, explaining why each habit is important—and how to implement that habit in your daily writing life.
A Writer Writes
You must begin to think like a writer—and that will lead you to acting like a writer. Then you'll build the habits of a writer—and eventually you will get to enjoy the benefits of being a writer.
Seven Essential Habits of a Working Writer are:
- Write Daily
- Cultivate the Art of Solitude Amid Distractions
- Write Quickly and With Intensity
- Set Ambitious But Achievable Goals
- Focus!
- Finish What You Start and Submit What You Finish
- Believe You Can
With all of these writing habits firmly in place, you can't help but succeed!
Habit #1: Write Daily
Writers write. It doesn't get more basic than that. If your dream is to be a full-time writer someday, you'll need to develop the habit of writing every day. Habits are powerful, and once writing becomes as habitual as brushing your teeth, your productivity will go through the roof. And more writing translates into better writing. It takes practice like any other skill, and cliché or not, practice makes perfect.
Grab the Time
If you're still working at your day job (whether outside the home or at home with children), you'll find it more difficult to carve out a daily writing time. If that's your situation, you must learn to grab whatever bits and pieces of time you have available. (I know this system works. I wrote my first five middle-grade novels with a newborn, toddler and preschooler underfoot—writing in tiny blocks of time like this.)
Here's how it goes. Let's say you have a story or book to write, but you don't have big chunks of free time. Instead you make a commitment to grab just ten or fifteen minutes every day to work on it. Everyone can carve fifteen minutes out of each day to make some progress. You make a commitment to yourself that your head won't hit the pillow for the night until you've spent at least fifteen minutes on your project. Those bits of time add up. Just fifteen minutes a day is 91.25 hours in a year—more than two full 40-hour work weeks.
It's All in Your Head
The second reason this principle works is that it keeps your head in the game every day. You don't just need time to write. You need head space that is free, even if it's only one tiny corner of your brain reserved for thinking about your writing. If you don't do it every day, other things quickly intrude and finally crowd out that head space reserved for your writing. Then you have to start over every few weeks or months when you get back to your project.
With writing for fifteen minutes each day, you never lose momentum or have to waste time trying to remember where you left off and who the heck this character is. Writing daily makes each fifteen-minute session its most productive and effective.
Like most of us, once you get rolling, the fifteen minutes often turns into much more if you're not interrupted. It will build a great daily habit so that when you do have more time—maybe even eventually going full-time—your daily writing habit will already be cemented into your routine.
Procrastination a Problem?
Working writers have to be self-starters. If you have trouble doing even fifteen minutes a day, you've probably got a procrastination problem or writer's block. For several articles on such challenges, see the ten articles in Writer's First Aid on "Getting Started."
Habit #2: Solitude Amid Distractions
Solitude is the best preparation for writing, and being alone to prepare one's mind to write is lovely. But it's not always possible, and you don't want to be dependent on being alone in order to write. If I had decided I must have total "alone time" to write, my career would have been delayed at least a decade (until my youngest child started school).
Instead, develop the second habit of working writers—and cultivate the art of solitude amid distractions.
The Ideal versus the Real
Some writers have solitude all day long. Someday, after the kids are grown, or you quit your day job, or you get an assistant to handle your PR and marketing, you might have solitude without distractions. Frankly, though, that is NOT the life of 90% of writers. However, if you work at it, it's possible to develop the feeling and benefits of solitude even when surrounded by people and interruptions. Rather than trying desperately to create a silent outer environment for yourself, it's more practical and helpful to develop a kind of solitude, or quiet inner space, in your mind. That "room of your own" may need to be within, at least in the beginning.
The Eye of the Hurricane
I wrote with small children in the room or nearby for many years. I stopped if they truly needed me for something, but often they were content to play in the same room or the play room by my office. Still, even when children are playing amicably, there's lots of noise.
You have to find ways to enter the eye of the hurricane, so to speak, that spot in the middle of chaos where it's still and you can hear yourself think. It isn't second nature to us, but it can be done. As Isaac Asimov said, "We must find our solitude within. Regardless of the noise and distractions that swirl around us, we must be undistractable."
Change the Things You Can First
To help yourself find that quiet place inside where you can concentrate on your writing amid distractions, be sure you're first doing all you can to minimize the interruptions. There's no point in wasting energy overcoming something that you could simply get rid of. Some distractions you can quickly eliminate. For example, if the Internet is a big lure, close down your email and get off line instead of mentally fighting the lure of Facebook and YouTube videos. (I remove my laptop—the computer with Internet access—to a completely different room while I write.) For many more practical ideas, see "Dealing with Distractions" in Writer's First Aid.
Finding your calm center takes practice, but it can be done. I wrote my first novels with small children around, and I wouldn't have had it any other way either. They were both my joy and my inspiration. I didn't want to remove myself from them—but I needed to be able to work within the chaos too.
Start to practice now. To begin, write just five minutes at a time. Your ability to concentrate—and find solitude amid distractions—will grow.
Habit #3: Write Quickly and with Emotional Intensity
Many writers tell me their goal is to write full-time, to either make a living at it or to supplement their family income. For that to happen, you must move from being a hobbyist to being a "working writer." You will need to write with two things simultaneously: speed and emotion.
Two-Part Goal
First, let's talk about speed. It has to do with momentum, with pushing yourself to get the words written. Professional working writers almost all write quickly, moving forward with their drafts instead of stopping continually to re-read sections or obsess over details or revise the same section several times. Just get your first draft down as fast as you can.
You've heard about being "in the flow" when writing. It's that marvelous time when you're writing with speed and intensity and lose track of time as the words pour out. It's difficult to reach this "flow" state where you're lost in time if you constantly jerk yourself out of the story and go back to something previously written. When writing a rough draft, keep moving ahead. This will help you streamline the writing process to make the most of whatever writing time you have.
Emotional Intensity
The second factor in Habit #3 is intensity. What difference does it make if you write with passion or power? For one thing, it gets you involved in your story or message and helps create that "flow state". (Hint: choose a topic that you truly care about.) Also emotional intensity makes a powerful impact on the editor who reads your work. (Hint #2: if you don't feel the intensity while you're writing it, the editor won't feel it when he's reading it.)
Emotional intensity reaches readers—and they spread the word in good old-fashioned word-of-mouth advertising (or new-fashioned word-of-mouth via Facebook and Twitter.)
If you're able to write fast, but you feel you lack the emotional intensity he's talking about, get to know your own passions better. (For help with identifying your skills and passions, see the inventory called "Getting to Know You…" in Writer's First Aid.)
Habit #4: Set Ambitious but Achievable Goals
"If we did all the things we are capable of doing, we would literally astound ourselves." ~~Thomas Edison
Goal-setting is a must-have habit if you want to be a working writer, someone who is going beyond the hobby stage in writing. Time and again it's been proven that you increase your chances of achieving your goals immeasurably if you write them down and post them in a prominent spot so you read them frequently.
Break these written goals into long-term, mid-term, and short-term objectives. Long-term goals (write a bestseller, sell a series) define what we hope to eventually achieve. Mid-term goals describe specific projects we are working on right now (under contract or with our own self-imposed deadlines.) This includes deadlines for completing them. Short-term goals define the daily and weekly tasks we must achieve (write five pages daily, mail three queries by Friday) in order to reach our mid-range goals. Note: these are your production goals, and without them, your other goals will NOT be reached.
Give yourself permission to dream big. Your goals need to inspire you. As Andrew Carnegie once said, "If you want to be happy, set a goal that commands your thoughts, liberates your energy, and inspires your hopes." I will say it again: dream big!
Out of Sight, Out of Mind
One of the biggest problems with goal-setting is that we tend to write the goals down and never (or rarely) look at them again. If they aren't in the forefront of your mind, they're so easy to forget.
Jack Canfield (co-creator of the Chicken Soup for the Soul books) suggests re-reading your goals out loud three times a day. As you do, close your eyes and picture each goal as if it were already accomplished. Keeping the idea fresh in your mind greatly increases your chances of following through to achieve your goals.
How can you remember to do this? You might put your goal list on a pack of cards you can carry with you. Or…"Put a list of your goals in your daily planner or your calendar system," Canfield advises. "You can also create a pop-up or screen saver on your computer that lists your goals. The objective is to constantly keep your goals in front of you."
Begin Now
I'd encourage you to take time and write down at least one long-term, mid-term, and short-term goal. The short one needs to support or help you achieve the mid-term goal, and both goals need to support your long-term goal. As you work through these "seven essential habits for working writers," apply the habits to your written goals.
Habit #5: Focus!
All the previous habits won't help much if you can't focus on your work when you sit down at the keyboard. Each previous habit, however, will help you focus.
For example, if you don't sit down daily for at least fifteen minutes to write (Habit #1), you lose track of your story. You lose the focus after a long break and often have to start over. Setting short-term measurable goals (Habit #4) creates a series of small deadlines, allowing you to just focus on today's tiny portion to accomplish. And learning how to concentrate amid distractions (Habit #2) will help you zero in on today's task.
Ready, Aim, Focus!
I used to have a camera with a focusing lens. By rotating the lens barrel, I could focus on the child in the foreground, or the dog sleeping in the background, or the mountain in the distance. As I focused on each separate thing, the other parts of the picture went out of focus.
Writers must be able to focus like that with their manuscripts, both to avoid being overwhelmed and in order to get the job done. We must be able to focus on big things in the background (like the plot or character emotion arcs) or things in the middle (like making sure each scene has the necessary dramatic elements) and close-ups (tightening this paragraph, writing a cliffhanger chapter ending.) If you try to focus on and fix everything at once, you'll feel overwhelmed and freeze.
Need Some Help Focusing?
We live in a society that bombards us with information, demands, and media overload to add to personal schedules already full with family, day jobs, and all the things that add up to very busy lives. Being able to focus can be a real challenge.
First, figure out what is keeping you from being able to focus. Quite often it's a simple thing. Perhaps the noisy neighbors in the apartment above you keep you from sleeping well or being able to concentrate. If so, buy a white noise machine, set it to crashing waves or rainfall, and turn it up until it drowns out your neighbors.
Maybe you can't focus because your writing desk is covered with piles of things to do: the unfinished query to a magazine, the unfinished story for the contest, bills to pay, a writing magazine to study, and the note that says "BUY INK TODAY!" You can't focus on your writing because you keep feeling like you should be doing something else. If so, clear your desk of the piles. Put them in the closet or on a bookshelf in plastic stackable trays. Get them out of your eyesight so you can focus on the writing task at hand.
Make a list of all the things (personal and professional) that you feel are hampering your ability to focus. Then set about dealing with each and every one.
Habit #6: Finish and Submit
Habit #6 is "Finish What You Start and Submit What You Finish." Sounds pretty obvious, doesn't it? If you want to become a working writer, either part-time or full-time, you have to finish your manuscripts, submit those manuscripts, and keep on submitting until they're sold.
Unfinished Business
I know a couple of very fine writers who may never submit the novels they've been polishing for years. They endlessly fuss and obsess over their manuscripts. And it's a real shame because those novels are wonderful. At some point, you need to say, "It's finished!"
One caution: if you become careless, you might not do the necessary polishing that deep revisions call for. You might settle for a good enough manuscript, but not rise to the excellence you're capable of. It makes no sense to spend weeks, months or even years writing a book and then, when finishing, to produce and submit a careless effort. Pay attention to detail. Do you very best right up to the end.
Finishing strong is something great athletes learn. Finishing strong is something writers also much learn.
It's Finished—Then What?
Study the markets. Find publishers who publish the type of book you've written, and make a list. Research online to make sure the publishers you've listed are legitimate. (Just Google "XYZ Publisher scam" and "XYZ Publisher complaints" to find out.) Make sure you understand the difference between traditional publishers (who pay you) and vanity presses (who expect you to pay them to print your books.)
Make a list of at least half a dozen publishers where you could submit your manuscript. And when it comes back—all writers get some rejections—you send it out again. And again. That's what working writers do!
Habit #7: Believe You Can
This last of the essential habits of a working writer might be the toughest one for you: Believe You Can.
Every writer doubts his ability at some point—and many successful, much-published writers deal with doubts about their writing abilities every single writing day. Those successful writers know a secret though.
They feel the doubt—and write anyway. That's what they decide to do: sit down and write, whether they feel like it or not.
Act As If
Don't wait until you have confidence in yourself to start writing. It simply doesn't work like that. The confidence—the feelings of "Hey, I can do this!"—comes AFTER you start writing. Feelings follow behavior, not the other way around. Only when you act like a writer, will you truly feel like a writer. Writers write. Writers show up at the page and stay there, putting down one word after another. And at the end of each writing session, they believe a little more strongly that they can be writers. (For more help in this area, see "Who's in Charge?" and "Voices of Self-Sabotage" in Writer's First Aid.)
I hope you'll keep this list of seven writing habits posted where you can see it—and read it—often. "Without these habits, how could you do anything but fail?" Jim Denney asks. "But with all of these habits firmly in place in your life, you can't help but succeed."
I couldn't agree more. That's the power of daily habits!


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I'm on a Mac running El Capitan 10.11.6. Since updating to 1.3.4 to take advantage of the fixed way to move columns around, I've experienced serious lag when using temporal alignment. Files will open and operate smoothly with temporal alignment turned off (though is not useful for our coding purposes) but with it enabled there is about a second of lag for everything from adding a new cell to clicking an existing cell to edit a code and even just scrolling through the file. To be clear the delay is within the speadsheet itself and not the video playback; it happens whether a video file is open or not. The lag is severe enough to where I can't code with this version and will need to downgrade back to 1.3.2. However, I've noticed that about 1 out of every 10 files I open does not lag, though I can't identify what is different about them. It seems to be pretty random. Is there any known cause of a lag like this that might be affecting most of my files but not all?
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Can you please let me know how many cells you have in an average column and how many columns you have in a typical spreadsheet? This is a new problem and I will look into this problem with our developers.
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Typically our spreadsheets have around ten columns. Half of those columns will only have 1-10 cells each, but the other half vary widely, and can have anywhere from 20 or 30 cells up to around 1000. We can usually count on at least two columns with more than 100 cells each. I wish I could offer an easier "average" to work with, but our data is very diverse. Also, I should mention that I have not had this issue since downgrading to 1.3.3, so it is definitely caused by a change between those two versions. Hope that helps!
answered 25 Aug '16, 13:29
LDP Natalie
I believe the problem probably has to do with the number of cells you have in your columns. Supporting 1000 cells can definitely cause a lag. I will look into the problem. I'm glad that reverting to an older version has cleared up the issue for you. Thank you for bringing this to our attention.
answered 26 Aug '16, 11:14
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Can you please email me a copy of one of your files with many cells to test? My email is [email protected]
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© 2018 Regent Seven Seas Cruises®, Inc. The cruise rate is dependent upon the time at which you'll undertake the trips. This is a superb lens on cruise ships and ocean liners – actually loved it. Due to this fact, this is the time frame that almost all companies will supply Alaskan cruise packages. I have been on several cruises and have found the time of year you journey is essential.
I sailed out of Port Canaveral on a Carnival ship a few years ago, and we ended up tailing a little tropical storm called Josephine on the last night time. There are various books you can borrow or purchase which have ideas for first-time cruisers, information about cruise traces, individual ships and issues to see and do at ports of call.
Because the cruise wore on we did be taught to avoid the crazy feeding rush and the expertise is actually much improved if you find yourself not competing with a whole bunch of hungry folks. In 2005 a trip world wide lasting a hundred and ten days may very well be had for as little as $15,600 per person.
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Erected 1986 by Department of Conservation and Historic Resources. (Marker Number M-21.)
Marker series. This marker is included in the Civilian Conservation Corps marker series.
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Wednesday, June 4, 2008
Everyone thinks they have the ultimate training regime, to make the best possible horse. A few people are open enough to accept new ideas, and incorporate them into their own ways of doing things.
I'm going to talk about a couple of different philosophies and how I feel about them, here. Feel free to put in your own opinions in the comments, of course.
We'll start with the most recognizable: Natural Horsemanship. Pat Parelli and Clinton Anderson are two of the more famous advocates of this philosophy.
I like Natural Horsemanship, the basis of the technique is working with your horse in a way that speaks to his natural inclinations, that he can understand. There are a lot of things that can be accomplished this way, and while they may take a little longer, I think they turn out a better understanding between horse and rider.
I use several of Parelli and Anderson's specific techniques myself, from teaching a horse to lower it's head to avoid needing a stepladder to bridle or halter them, to using the round pen to establish or re-establish my dominant position in the herd. I use other techniques that are Natural-esque that I've figured out on my own, and a couple of those are what brought Monkey to the point of showing properly at halter from not wanting to lead at all, and also brought him to the point where you can pick up his feet without him going bug nuts on you.
One thing that I feel Natural Horsemanship is lacking, for all of it's value in communicating with the horse on a level that his mind can understand easily, is the consequences side of the coin.
Yes, Anderson uses harder work as a consequence, especially for gate or barn sour horses, but a herd doesn't trot or lope a horse in circles if they do something the more dominant members don't like. That's a consequence that the horse comes to understand, but not one that speaks to his natural bent.
Horses in a herd environment punish bad behavior with nips, and kicks. So why is it wrong to slap a hip with a cupped hand to simulate a light kick, or use fingers on a neck to intimate a nip? This is how your horse's mother taught him the social niceties of living in a herd in the first place. I'm not talking about beating a horse, or even making it hurt, I'm talking about just enough to get their attention.
Again, take Monkey for example. When I was working with him on his feet, it started as a matter of trust. I had to desensitize him and let him know that I wasn't going to hurt his fragile legs when I handled them. We spent a long time after workouts just touching and rubbing and asking him to stand still when I did it.
After a while, he started letting me pick his feet up. So I started working with him when he wasn't worked. And he went right back to his old habits. He knew what I wanted from him. He simply didn't want to comply. A little patient work, with very little result, and I found myself in a conundrum. That is, until I tried a back foot and he kicked at me, and I reacted instead of thinking. I hauled off and smacked him on the hip, it made an impact and a sound, and he started a bit. Then I went to pick up the foot again, and lo and behold he didn't try kicking me again.
I had already established my dominance in his herd, and he was responding to the natural heirarchy. I didn't hurt him, but I did give a consequence that made him understand that that wasn't acceptable, in a way that he's learned and lived with all his life.
That's what I mean about consequences the horse understands.
Now, a little further down the line from Natural Horsemanship falls Alexander Nevzorov. If you haven't heard of him, and I would be surprised if very many of you have, you can search his last name and find his website.
His precept, that a horse should be trained without use of a bit, spurs, or any form of restraint, is a bit extreme for me. Don't get me wrong, I'm all for the kind of communication and camaraderie that allows you to work with your horse without those things. I just don't agree with doing away with them altogether.
Frankly, I don't see how it could possibly be safe. Of course, if you're going to learn his methods, or even participate in the online school forums, he requires that you first stop riding for at least a year, and reject completely all horse "sports." Which takes out the possibility of an exited horse running off in a crowd setting, to be sure.
The thing that really rubs me the wrong way about Nevzorov is the ego, honestly. He's demanding of his "students" and that's fine, but he's also placing demands on the general public, vilifying anyone who rides with a bit at all, and maintaining a PETA-throwing-paint-on-furs-esque drive to show the cruelty of bits in general.
Oh, and the hypocrisy of demanding that students or even curious passers by swear to his ideals before even going to his online forums, and at the same time maintaining a photo gallery of the "vicious sports" and encouraging the like-minded to haunt events to get more of these pictures is astounding.
So, while he may have methods that are useful, insightful, and downright genius, I don't know them. I won't go into his forums to see if any of them are posted, and I won't purchase his video.
You can find video of his results on the internet, on Youtube, and I admit that they're rather impressive. It's a beautiful thing to see a horse playing with a person at complete liberty, jumping and kicking and never touching the man standing in front of them. It's enough to give you chills when you see the horse perform a flawless courbette without any prompting at all, just because they enjoy it.
It's too bad that the master of these techniques is more concerned about immediately solving the problem he perceives in horsemanship than in sharing the knowledge that allows him to do these things. He'd probably win more hearts freely showing people his techniques and speaking gently against the things he eschews, than by adopting his extremist moral high ground.
I have to wonder how many people out there are like me, intrigued by the concept and thirsty for knowledge, but completely turned off by the manner in which the precept is presented?
Surely I'm not the only one?
4 comments:
- PawPaw said...
I don't know that I ever fell in a school of training, but I did what worked. Of course, some of it involved slapping the horse. Not mean, not angry, just like popping a toddler on the diaper to let him know that he was being bad.
There's something to be said for paying attention to how the horse responds to the bit. I had one mare with a soft mouth and even the gentlest bit caused her pain. So I went to a hackamore and taught her to neck rein with the hack. She loved it, responded well, and would do anything I asked her to do. She became a horse that I could put a kid on with total confidence.
Then there was Fred, an abused gelding that I acquired. Fred responded well to a snaffle bit. He was ornery with a lot of bad habits when I got him, and after teaching him that he could trust me not to hurt him, there were still times when I'd have to slap him, or put a knee in his ribs. However, Fred became the horse that I could put a toddler on. He'd lock up solid, because he knew that I was in charge and if he hurt the child I'd be very angry. He wouldn't move until I led him and we spent many a pleasant afternoon with me leading him around the paddock with some small child on his back.
I think you're on the right track.
I bet that Nevzorov would have a stroke if you showed up at his place with a horse that used a tie-down. It's all what works with the horse.
Pay attention to the experts, certainly, but let your own brain be the guide.
- June 4, 2008 at 8:48 AM
Interesting ideas, Farmgirl. I, too, try to take what I like from each individual and leave the rest.
In this area Parelli has somewhat of a bad name, mostly by the old cowboys who laugh at the idea of people trying to do things slower, without force. Personally, there are many of his techniques which I disagree with, but many more which I use regularly. I especially LOVE his halters and leads, although they are over-priced.
I had never heard of Alexander Nevzorov until you mentioned him, so I had to go look him up. He seems to be trying to make enemies with a large portion of the horse community.
He is obviously an incredible horseman and is entitled to his opinions. However, he is a little over the top as to what he considers cruel.
Yes, bits can be cruel. But a snaffle in the wrong hands can be a lot crueler than a spade in the right hands.
Spurs can be cruel too, no doubt about that. But it's more about how they're used, not their use in general. The purpose of a spur is not to reprimand, but to accentuate your aid. (There was a really good article on spurs in AQHA's bi-monthly publication this month).
The other issue I have with the natural horsemanship trainers is the type of people they attract and their lack of ability to keep them safe.
They attract the rankest of beginners and the people who don't want to "hurt" their horse. The natural horsemanship techniques take a fair bit of skill to master, which most of their audience lacks.
These people watch one video or attend one clinic, then seriously injure themselves when they go home and try it themselves. Or screw with their horse's mind. I've seen multiple horses round penned badly. Typically, they were much harder to catch after that and warier around people in general.
So, 3 pages later, just take what you like from each person, leave the rest. It's all what works for an individual anyway.
- June 4, 2008 at 1:12 PM
horse prof- a person after my own heart, i have fought long and hard with some people over here in england, who believe pretty much what this Nevzorov believes. i will ride a horse in a stronger bit, if it keeps me safe, but use it softly, i will change that horse back to a snaffle or hackamore if someone with less gentle hands gets on, its about the rider.
i believe the same for spurs, they are not always cruel, and if used correctly mearly make your job a lot easier on top!
i have done parelli with my first horse and it worked wonders, after being kicked 2 days after we brought her, she proceeded to scare the life out of us by rearing constantly and just being stupid. we found parelli a year after getting her, and the horse i see down the yard, although we no longer own her she is on the same yard, is one which you can play with in the school, you can turn her loose and she will run to follow, and she enjoys it.
BUT there is many horses for which parelli is too harsh, if they dont do it, it gets tough, it depends on the horses temperement.
Also parelli uses a lot of repition, gets a little tedious after a while, but having seen horses working, doing dressage, showjumping bareback with no headcollar, nothing, that is a joy to see, and something i would strive to with a horse anyday, for them to want to do that for me.
i think that what everyone else has said is true, you must take the useful bits from methods and discard the rest, you should not be so blinded as to completely follow one method.
i also agree with horse prof on the bit about beginners, things like this should be handled with care, not used as a fast track into the world of horse knowledge.
just listen to your horse, they'll tell you wen you find the right way of communicating with them, and you'll see the results!
- June 5, 2008 at 10:31 AM
- Holly said...
I'm part of a less popular training club. I clicker train. I'm a cookie trainer. I use a marker to mark the correct behavior and I reward that behavior, not always with food, but sometimes with food. I use .all. 4 quadrants of operant conditioning, +P, -P, +R and -R. I use +R the most and +P the least. If I have to resort to +P, then one of several things has occurred.
1. I've planned poorly. It's my job to think out the training plan and adjust to each individual being trained.
2. My training plan is not chunked down enough. I'm not explaining it in a way the training subject can understand.
3. I've moved too fast to the next step and the training subject isn't ready for that yet.
I've used operant conditioning on my kids, my coworkers, my horses, my dogs and my birds.
most people don't understand .how. to use all 4 quadrants and so they make huge leaps in what they think I do, or why I do what I do when I do it.
I look at and plan my training around facts....what I can see, not what I think, they might be thinking.
- June 14, 2008 at 10:52 PM


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