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Customs officials in Singapore were prepared when a freighter arrived at port in June 2002. In a container from the African country of Malawi, they found what they were looking for: 532 elephant tusks and 42,120 carved ivory seals. The haul represented an estimated 3,000 to 6,000 dead elephants, valued at approximately $8.4 million. It was the largest seizure of elephant ivory recorded since the late 1980s, as well as a tragic bellwether of days to come as poachers resumed their rampage against Africa's elephants to satiate the increasing demand for ivory.
In 1989, the member countries of the Convention on International Trade in Endangered Species of Wild Fauna and Flora (CITES) saved Africa's elephants virtually overnight with a historic vote to ban the trade in ivory. Prior to this decision, Africa's elephants had been relentlessly pursued during the previous two decades by poachers, whose bloody rampage across the continent reduced Africa's elephant population from an estimated 1.3 million to approximately 500,000.
The ivory trade ban reduced incidents of elephant poaching to a trickle until 1997, when CITES downlisted elephant populations in Zimbabwe, Namibia, Botswana and South Africa from Appendix I to II, while also allowing a one-time sale of ivory to Japan. According to many experts, this single decision contributed to today's resurgence in elephant poaching—which is now considered equal in scope to that which was documented in the 1970s and 1980s. Based on Species Survival Network statistics, over 210,000 pounds of ivory from more than 15,000 dead elephants were seized between 1999 and 2004.
The trend in elephant poaching has only worsened since 2004, with nearly 80,000 pounds of ivory seized. Considering that only 10 percent of all illicit ivory shipments are discovered, the annual elephant death toll has been estimated to be more than 23,000 elephants. Feeding this slaughter is the profit to be made from the sale of ivory, which has increased in value from $100 per kilogram in the late 1990s to $850 per kilogramtoday.
The majority of illicit ivory is destined for the Far East, where booming economies have created new markets for ivory products. Despite laws intended to prohibit its international trade, China's increasing appetite for ivory is especially feeding that demand. But China is not alone in its contribution, as demand for ivory in Japan is also high. Indeed, even the United States remains a destination for the illegal product.
In Africa, though elephant populations continue to be persecuted by poachers, the animals' numbers in some countries may be on the rise, according to the 2007 African Elephant Status Report produced by the African Elephant Specialist Group of the International Union for the Conservation of Nature. In some cases, the alleged increases may be a product of different sampling techniques. Elephants, despite their size, are difficult to count accurately because of the vast habitats they occupy, their daily and seasonal movements, as well as agency personnel and funding limitations. Consequently, though they are improving, the accuracy of the African population estimates is up for debate.
The same problem is encountered with Asian elephants. Their population estimates range from less than 100 in Vietnam to upward of nearly 33,000 in India, yet the total count of wild Asian elephants is said to be somewhere between 38,500 and 52,500 animals, down from an estimated 200,000 in 1900. These numbers are based on 15-year-old data and are merely guesses according to a 2004 study published in Conservation Biology. In addition to discrediting the Asian elephant population estimates, this study calls into question many of the African elephant estimates, claiming they are based on data that is inaccurate and of poor quality.
Whether in Africa or Asia, nearly all elephant populations are threatened by poaching for ivory and meat, habitat loss, land clearing, ivory trade, and increasing incidents of human/ elephant conflicts. The status of elephants in both countries will be a matter of intense debate at the upcoming CITES Conference of the Parties meeting in June. The member countries will have to choose between reestablishing a complete ban on ivory trade and allowing the resumption of the international trade in ivory. While a moratorium on the trade cannot bring back the thousands of elephants brutally killed by poachers, it will reduce at least one of the threats jeopardizing the survival of these remarkable animals.


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Debussy's "Clair de Lune" has been popping up a lot in my life lately. I first noticed it last week in the 1995 documentary Unzipped, which I was watching as research for my interview with Isaac Mizrahi. The film shows the designer at his grand piano, retreating from the noise and intensity of the fashion world, seeking solace in quiet moments of music-making as he plays through Debussy's gossamer composition (rather well, I might add).
As if a piano-playing fashion designer weren't enough of a surprise, "Clair de Lune" reared its lovely head again a few days later, this time in a pop song called "Say You'll Go," from Janelle Monáe's new album The ArchAndroid (released May 18). Monáe is a tiny sensation, making small waves in the music industry for the high-concept sonic landscape of her music, drawing on influences from hip-hop and Cab Calloway to disco, David Bowie and movie music. She is fascinated by futuristic film dystopias, with album titles that reference Fritz Lang's Metropolis and Ridley Scott's Blade Runner. The ArchAndroid creates its own alternate universe, filled with a riot of musical ideas. It's nice to think that amid the general cataclysm, Monáe finds comfort in the wistful strains of "Clair de Lune," just as Mizrahi does.
Jean-Yves Thibaudet plays "Clair de Lune" from Debussy's Suite Bergamasque . [Decca]
Janelle Monáe sings "Say You'll Go" from ArchAndroid .[Bad Boy Entertainment]
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Esterbrook Advertisement Gallery
by Jim Mamoulides, November 14, 2012
Below is a slideshow of 20 original scans of Esterbrook advertising. The scans have a maximum height of 800 pixels. Use the controls to pause, advance, go back, and view full screen.
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2012 PGA Expo
August 20-22, 2012
The Venetian Resort Hotel Casino
Las Vegas, Nevada
Attendees: Click here for PGA Expo details
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Monday | Tuesday
PGA Expo has attendees inspired by new products, new business solutions
The 2012 PGA Expo concluded on Wednesday, having attracted thousands of PGA Professionals, influential buyers and industry leaders to a Las Vegas golf marketplace of inspired solutions for merchandising top new products, learning effective business-building strategies and sharing best practices in growing the game.
PGA Expo rolls into action Tuesday, concludes Wednesday
The 2012 PGA Expo began with a ceremonial first swing by Hank Haney on Tuesday, and the Venetian Ballroom was quickly transformed into a marketplace bustling with business as 200-plus top golf companies and brands showed off their latest apparel, golf equipment and accessory lines. The action continues fast and furious through 3:00 p.m. on Wednesday.
Scene and Heard: Tuesday
PGA.com Coordinating Producer John Kim is in Las Vegas to check out all the happenings at the PGA Expo. For his second report, he spent Tuesday roaming the Show floor and reporting on everything from the opening ceremony to new clothes and accessories that caught his eye.
PGA of America teams up with ACTIVE Network
The PGA of America is teaming up with ACTIVE Network to create a new, easy-to-use online registration system allowing PGA Professionals to promote their participation in Get Golf Ready - along with all programs occurring at their facility including golf camps, tournaments and clinics - via PGA.com and ACTIVE.com. The agreement with ACTIVE is in support of the PGA's Golf 2.0 initiative to drive consumer engagement and continued growth of the game.
2012 PGA Expo set to inspire golf industry
The 28th edition of the PGA Expo tees off Tuesday, with thousands of influential PGA Professionals, buyers and industry leaders joining 200-plus top golf companies and brands to build a marketplace of inspired solutions for merchandising top new products, learning effective business-building strategies and sharing best practices in growing the game.
Scene and Heard: Monday
PGA.com Coordinating Producer John Kim is in Las Vegas to check out all the happenings at the PGA Expo. For his first report, he braved the heat (for a little while, anyway) and dropped in on Demo Night (which actually began in the daylight).
PGA Expo attracts top vendors and buyers to Las Vegas
Thousands of industry professionals representing top golf destinations, resorts, golf clubs, retail stores, mass merchandisers and golf organizations from 47 U.S. states and 28 countries are expected to take advantage of a robust schedule of exhibits from more than 200 top golf companies and brands, indoor and outdoor product testing, fashion programs, education seminars, industry presentations and professional networking events.
PGA Expo adds new business resources to complement exhibits
PGA Professionals, golf retailers, apparel buyers and golf executives will be able to take advantage of a multitude of new product introductions, demonstrations, equipment testing opportunities, featured speakers, fashion programs, education seminars, professional networking events and business resources to create an industry environment that is a sure-bet investment in building business.
PGA Expo to begin with new Demo Night at Callaway Golf Center
The PGA Expo will kick off with an all-new Demo Night featuring product testing, instruction workshops, professional networking and a social golf outing at the Callaway Golf Center, just off the Las Vegas Strip, on Monday, Aug. 20. The PGA Expo Demo Night complements a full schedule of exhibits, main stage presentations, demonstrations, education seminars and professional networking events at the annual industry business gathering.
New Fashion Designer Panel identifies trends and crossover marketing
Leading golf and lifestyle fashion designers will discuss the latest trends and crossover merchandising opportunities during a new Fashion Designer Panel on the main stage in the Las Vegas Venetian Ballroom. The panel will be moderated by Golf Digest Fashion Director Marty Hackel and Win McMurry, Golf Channel reporter and resident fashion expert.
New instruction workshops set to be introduced at 2012 PGA Expo
PGA Professional Eric Alpenfels will present two new high-impact instruction workshops on Monday, just prior to the PGA Expo Demo Night. A widely-recognized PGA teaching professional and director of the Pinehurst Golf Academy and instruction at Pinehurst Resort, Alpenfels will offer proven training techniques used to motivate, encourage and develop skills and participation of junior and women golfers in the workshops "The Players of Tomorrow" and "Connecting with Her."


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Seven years ago when Hervey Lavoie sat in the lobby of a major Chicago-area health club in a mostly residential area, he counted the number of people who came into the club during the peak hours already dressed to work out. The number totaled 15 percent. In January, Lavoie sat in another residentially based health club, this time in California, and counted those who came in during peak hours dressed and ready to work out. The number had risen to 40 percent. Those numbers reflect a growing trend that architects, such as Lavoie, president of Ohlson Lavoie Collaborative in Denver, have recognized and are taking into consideration when renovating or designing locker rooms.
In essence, locker room use, while still high at clubs in business areas, has declined at clubs in mostly residential areas, says Lavoie. Chalk it up to time and privacy concerns. Many members don't have the time — or the desire — to change and shower at a facility before or after a workout.
While it's perhaps difficult for club operators and staff to relate, a large percentage of the population is not comfortable in the traditional locker room atmosphere. For the 85 percent of Americans who are not members of health clubs, their only exposure to locker rooms comes from their days of high school physical education classes. They are people who don't have a history of athletic participation, who didn't play sports in high school and college, and who aren't comfortable with a locker room environment that includes a bunch of naked people walking around, said Lavoie.
"People who played on sports teams have gotten used to that, but there's a huge portion of the population that wouldn't consider joining a club because they aren't used to that," he said.
To make that huge untapped market more comfortable in the locker room, clubs are moving toward more private spaces.
"There's more privacy and a generosity of space where two people can pass without having to rub up against each other," Lavoie said.
The drive for more privacy at clubs has led to locker rooms geared for subsets of members other than just for men and women. Family-oriented clubs have had family changing rooms for quite some time, but now even non-family-oriented clubs are putting in family rooms or assisted changing rooms. These clusters of individual rooms allow a mother and son, father and daughter or an elderly husband and wife to change together when one of the individuals needs assistance. The assisted changing rooms have a shower, toilet and sink, but often the locker is part of a common area where the members can complete their grooming process.
Some clubs are also including an adult-only section in each locker room and a section where a parent can bring in children.
Another change comes in the lockers themselves. Individuals who come to gyms already in their workout clothes often only need a locker to secure their gym bag or purse and a spot to change their shoes, Lavoie says. For that reason, some clubs are installing "express" lockers, which are often smaller and can be located outside the locker rooms with benches to allow members to change their shoes. Locating these lockers outside the locker room helps decrease traffic in the locker rooms and creates more privacy for those changing in the locker room.
"We create three locker alcoves in the coed part of the club that gives them a secure…locker like in a locker room," Lavoie said. These lockers often are just half or quarter size lockers.
In addition, the toilet facilities are changing in many locker rooms to allow for more privacy. Three out of four projects that Lavoie's firm works on involve toilet rooms, which are small rooms with walls from floor to ceiling and a door that encloses one toilet. Each room is ventilated separately from the other toilet rooms.
For the Back Bay Fitness Club in Newport Beach, CA, privacy was a primary concern. Each locker room features three toilet stalls, three sinks, two showers and 30 lockers. The toilet stalls, while still the traditional stalls with open bottoms and tops, have no more than a 1/8-inch opening between the stall and door for privacy. The benches in the locker room sit up against the lockers for a more private feeling. In addition, the locker area has partitions that separate no more than 10 lockers in a row, providing a greater sense of intimacy, says Lisa McGhee, co-owner of Back Bay Fitness.
The shower area was particularly important to McGhee, who disliked not having a private space to change in the locker room. Each shower stall features an attached private dressing room with a faux leather water-treated bench, hangers and frosted glass to allow showering and changing in a completely closed off area.
In addition to an emphasis on privacy, many higher-end clubs design their locker rooms with a lounge-type atmosphere in mind. The Athletic Club of Overland Park in Overland Park, KS, has had "lounge" locker rooms since it was built 17 years ago, says Rhonda Pollard, GM of the Athletic Club. Both the men's and women's locker rooms feature about 350 lockers as well as a couch, TV, chairs, a phone, an ironing board and an iron. Each area also features a separate steam room, hot sauna and whirlpool. The men's locker room also includes a cold plunge area.
The women use the lounge area for private phone calls, getting ready for a workout and waiting on friends, says Pollard. Some of them also use it for abdominal work and stretching. The lights in the lounge area can be dimmed, allowing the women to stretch in privacy and in a relaxing environment. The locker room provides privacy and the ability to take care of things such as ironing clothes, but it also provides camaraderie, says Pollard. For the men, they often gather around the television to watch sporting events before and after working out, providing an opportunity to talk and joke around. For the women, the lounge area tends to be geared more for pampering. The lounge area features three separate makeup areas with bright light bulbs for illumination. The locker rooms include shaving cream, deodorant, powder, blow dryers and lotion.
Regardless of gender, the locker room lounge is important to the members of the Athletic Club. The club built the locker rooms with lounges to provide a country club atmosphere, said Pollard.
"To this day, we have some male members who don't use one piece of equipment or court," said Pollard. "They come in and steam, do the plunge, shower and then go about their day."
For the membership at the Athletic Club, a lounge atmosphere is a must. The membership is older professionals (generally between 45 to 50) who are more affluent with grown or almost-grown children.
"The problem with the lounge approach to locker rooms is that including a couch and TV in a locker room area can lead to a feeling of being watched for the individuals in the locker room who are undressing, said Rudy Fabiano at Fabiano Designs. Besides, who wants members spending their time in the lounge watching TV instead of working out? Instead, he suggests offering a lounge space outside of the locker room.
The lounge area of the locker room at the Athletic Club requires stepping through a doorway to get into the actual locker room area, said Pollard.
"You wouldn't see one person changing in our locker room [from the lounge]," said Pollard.
While lounge-type locker rooms haven't gone completely out of vogue, more clubs are now making locker rooms a bit smaller because fewer people are taking the time to use them, says Lavoie.
The lower usage of locker rooms doesn't mean that locker rooms are no longer important parts of a club. Back Bay Fitness caters to the affluent in Newport Beach, CA. The newly opened 5,000-square-foot club keeps its clientele in mind in every area of its facility — even the locker room.
"When we built this facility the two most important parts were the entryway and locker rooms," said McGhee of Back Bay Fitness. "We get nothing but compliments on [the locker room]."
McGhee and her business partner, Katherine Coultrin, paid special attention to the 500-square-foot locker rooms because, as a transition area before and after exercise, it provides the first impression and the last impression of any health club.
"Our goal was to make sure that when they walk in the door, they have a similar experience to when they walk into their homes," said McGhee. "It's key to these people. It's going to leave a huge lasting impression."
Members at Back Bay Fitness receive complimentary gym towels, yoga towels, cherry wood veneer lockers with digi locks, hangers, toothbrushes, hair ties, and a make-up station.
McGhee simply asked people what their wish list was for a locker room, and she said that they asked for little things that she never thought of.
"It was worth it," McGhee said about adding all the details to the locker room and the facility in general. "We knew that when we were making our decisions. We went the extra mile knowing our clientele and knowing what we wanted to achieve in the long run."
That's perhaps the most important part of a locker room design: knowing what your members want and providing it, especially as the industry reaches out to bring the deconditioned and locker room-wary member into the fold.
While plumbing issues may seem cut and dry when it comes to locker room renovations, an evolution in design has occurred in regard to plumbing location. In the early days of locker room design, owners perceived an economy to clustering all the plumbing, meaning that showers, vanities and toilets were all in one part of the locker room. However, now the industry sees that while clustering may work on the cost side, it doesn't work for the user. It is not appealing as a user shaving at a sink to see a row of toilets behind him, says Hervey Lavoie, president of Ohlson Lavoie Collaborative.
"It's not about the plumbing," he says. "It's about what it feels like to be a user walking around a locker room with a bunch of naked people."
Besides, showers and toilets don't necessarily mix, Lavoie says. "There's a wet floor shower pattern and you don't want that mixing with people coming in in street shoes using the toilets," he says.
So, for your next locker room renovation, take a walk in your members' shoes and consider plumbing solutions that allow for more privacy and respect for personal functions than may have been afforded members in the past.


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Magnitude-6.0 quake shakes northeastern Japan
TOKYO (AP) — A strong earthquake shook northeastern Japan on Sunday in the same region devastated by a giant tsunami and temblor 2 1/2 years ago, but there were no immediate reports of damage or injuries.
The quake with a preliminary magnitude of 6.0 struck shortly after midday, and was centered off the coast of Miyagi Prefecture, and 30 miles below the seabed.
The quake shook a wide region, including Fukushima and Iwate prefectures, and there was no risk of a tsunami, the Japan Meteorological Agency said.
Tokyo Electric Power Co., the utility that runs Fukushima Dai-ichi, said no problems were reported there or at another one of its nuclear plants in Fukushima, and that there were no power outages and radiation monitors did not show any change.
Fukushima Dai-ichi plant went into multiple meltdowns after the March 2011 tsunami, and tons of water are being used daily to keep its reactors under control. Decommissioning is expected to take decades.
Tohoku Electric Power Co. also said no problems were detected at its Onagawa nuclear plant in Miyagi Prefecture.
Some roads were blocked off and some trains stopped running temporarily for safety checks, broadcaster NHK TV said.
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Engineering Oblivion: Eugenics, the Remaking of Man and Unmaking of Morality by Selwyn Duke, August 26, 2010
The year is 1941, and the Nazis are in the midst of their Lebensborn program. Men of pure Aryan stock - especially members of the Waffen-SS, thought the cream of the crop - have a special purpose. In many occupied countries, they are encouraged to mate with blonde-haired, blue-eyed women - those reflecting the very picture of the Aryan ideal themselves. And "mate" is the word; romance is not necessary here, nor marriage, nor moral constraints. For the program is to serve as a baby factory that will produce future Aryan supermen for the Third Reich.
Lebensborn grows out of what is central to the Nazi philosophy: eugenics, which is the improvement of the human race through the process of selective breeding. And the Nazis embrace it for a very interesting reason: They have a penchant for indulging ancient myths, and one of these is that they are descended from a race of Aryan supermen who lost their superhuman capabilities because they procreated with inferior races, thus visiting upon themselves a kind of biological devolution. And they aim to reverse the process by jump-starting and accelerating evolution in a sort of hothouse environment.
Of course, talk of breeding supermen based upon an ancient template sounds kooky; speaking of inferior races disgusts the modern palate; and "eugenics," now joined at the hip with the Nazis, has become a dirty word. Yet it is not at all accurate to say that the Nazis created eugenics. It is more correct to say that eugenics created the Nazis.
Eugenics, at least in a more primitive form, dates back to the time of the Greek philosopher Plato, who, inspired by the Spartans, advocated murdering "weak" children. It wasn't until 1883 and the theory of evolution's ascendancy, however, that the word "eugenics" was coined by English scientist Francis Galton, a cousin of Charles Darwin. It was at this time that the field was catching on like wildfire, and it would gain increasing acceptance during the next few decades. For, while it may be hard to believe today, eugenics was considered to be Science with a capital "S," a "thinking man's" philosophy, the politically correct theory of the age, only finding opposition from those shackled by faith and fancy. And although German Nazis made it infamous, in the United States in the early 20th Century, it was downright popular.
Eugenics Breeding Grounds
Helped by well-heeled benefactors such as the Carnegie Institution, the Rockefeller Foundation, and the Harriman railroad fortune, the eugenics movement was already roaring in the Roaring '20s. And it sometimes manifested itself in relatively innocuous ways. For instance, writes Carol Squiers in Perfecting Mankind: Eugenics and Photography:
"Fitter Families" contests were staged at state agricultural fairs throughout the U.S. in the 1920s. They judged the eugenic worth of local families. Mary T. Watts, the co-organizer of the first contest at the 1920 Kansas Free Fair, explained that when anyone inquired what the contests were, "we say, 'while the stock judges are testing the Holsteins, Jerseys, and whitefaces in the stock pavilion, we are judging the Joneses, Smiths & the Johns.'" The American Eugenics Society supported the contests, which grew out of a "Better Baby" competition at the 1911 Iowa State Fair. The family contests were featured at seven to ten fairs yearly and were held in the "human stock" sections.
As is always the case when man is reduced to animal, however, the eugenic mindset inspired darker actions as well. Edwin Black treated this subject in The Horrifying American Roots of Nazi Eugenics, writing:
Elements of the [eugenics] philosophy were enshrined as national policy by forced sterilization and segregation laws, as well as marriage restrictions, enacted in twenty-seven states. In 1909, California became the third state to adopt such laws. Ultimately, eugenics practitioners coercively sterilized some 60,000 Americans, barred the marriage of thousands, forcibly segregated thousands in "colonies," and persecuted untold numbers in ways we are just learning. Before World War II, nearly half of coercive sterilizations were done in California, and even after the war, the state accounted for a third of all such surgeries.
… Much of the spiritual guidance and political agitation for the American eugenics movement came from California's quasi-autonomous eugenic societies, such as the Pasadena-based Human Betterment Foundation and the California branch of the American Eugenics Society, which coordinated much of their activity with the Eugenics Research Society in Long Island. These organizations - which functioned as part of a closely-knit network - published racist eugenic newsletters and pseudoscientific journals, such as Eugenical News and Eugenics, and propagandized for the Nazis.
Yet it would be a mistake to place the United States in the same league as Nazi Germany; rather, it's more correct to say that many Germans embraced the same fallacy as most of the secular world. For eugenics' popularity knew few borders. Sure, while Theodore Roosevelt, Oliver Wendell Holmes, the National Academy of Sciences, and the National Research Council were supporters, eugenic policies were instituted in Australia, Japan, Canada, China, Sweden, France, and many other nations as well. In fact, among its most prominent advocates were two foreigners: famed English writers H.G. Wells and George Bernard Shaw.
For example, we could note that The Time Machine, perhaps Wells's most famous work, has a eugenicist message. Yet we need not interpret symbolism to understand his position on the matter, as he said quite explicitly, "This thing, this euthanasia of the weak and sensual, is possible. On the principles that will probably animate the predominant classes of the new time, it will be permissible, and I have little or no doubt that in the future it will be planned and achieved." As for Shaw, he echoed these sentiments, saying, "A part of eugenic politics would finally land us in an extensive use of the lethal chamber. A great many people would have to be put out of existence simply because it wastes other people's time to look after them."
Yet, in the early 20th Century, the United States was a burgeoning power, and as such, it was often at the forefront of the sciences. And eugenics was no exception. In fact, many German eugenicists looked to America's policies as a model; Hitler himself said to a fellow Nazi that he had "studied with interest the laws of several American states concerning prevention of reproduction by people whose progeny would, in all probability, be of no value or be injurious to the racial stock." And, truth be known, the spoiled fruits of eugenics still plague America to this day.
Spoiled Fruits of a Movement
One of these would be the Planned Parenthood organization. While many are unaware of the fact, the organization's founder, Margaret Sanger, was a eugenicist with some particularly odious views. For example, in her work Women and the New Race, she wrote, "The most merciful thing that a large family does to one of its infant members is to kill it." And this culture-of-death spirit certainly lives on. Planned Parenthood affiliates perform more than 300,000 abortions a year, turning a profit of more than $100 million and collecting more than $300 million of your tax money in the process. Sanger also expressed Nazi-like views long before the National Socialists took power. For example, in her 1922 book, The Pivot of Civilization, she wrote, "Every single case of inherited defect, every malformed child, every congenitally tainted human being brought into this world is of infinite importance to that poor individual; but it is of scarcely less importance to the rest of us and to all of our children who must pay in one way or another for these biological and racial mistakes." (Emphasis added.)
Perhaps it is passions such as the above that inspired Sanger to create the "Negro Project," an organized campaign to limit - and some say exterminate - America's black population. Black author Tanya L. Green sheds some more light on Sanger's motivations in her piece "The Negro Project: Margaret Sanger's Eugenic Plan for Black Americans," writing:
Margaret Sanger aligned herself with the eugenicists whose ideology prevailed in the early 20th century. Eugenicists strongly espoused racial supremacy and "purity," particularly of the "Aryan" race. Eugenicists hoped to purify the bloodlines and improve the race by encouraging the "fit" to reproduce and the "unfit" to restrict their reproduction. They sought to contain the "inferior" races through segregation, sterilization, birth control and abortion.
It is easy for pro-life people, such as I, to look askance at the Margaret Sangers of the world, just as it is easy for anti-American bigots to place the onus on America, or blacks to place it on whites. While there certainly are villains in this story, however, it is more important to expose destructive ideas than deluded people. After all, ideas live on long after idealists pass on.
Certainly, the desire to have strong, vibrant citizens and children is nothing new. The aforementioned Spartans would kill a male infant if he was perceived to have any defect whatsoever, and parents typically hope and pray for healthy, intelligent, and strong sons and daughters. And, of course, an offspring's characteristics can most assuredly be influenced through selective breeding. For example, consider the dogs we have as pets today. The breeds many of us know and love - the Rottweiler, cocker spaniel, Neapolitan Mastiff, etc. - never existed until they were bred by man. Their unique characteristics are the result of taking a group of canines, breeding the ones that exhibit desired traits, and killing those that do not. And repeating this process generation after generation yielded unique beasts ideally suited to whatever purpose they were to be used for.
And this is the problem with eugenics. We must not "use" people or view them as objects that serve a "purpose." Yet why does the science endeavor to create a better human? It is for that very reason: so that they will serve the purpose of being better soldiers, citizens, scientists, producers, etc. But, then, what happens once you've reduced people to objects, to cogs in the machinery of the state? Well, when it seems that a baby will be insufficient for his purpose, you give him the Spartan treatment; and when a cog gets too old to serve its purpose, you euthanize it - for the good of society. And you then have embraced the eugenicist position that there are "human beings who never should have been born," as Sanger said; or that there is "life unworthy of life," as the Nazis said. The point here is that you don't value people based on what they can do. You value them based on what they are.
Yet this brings us to a very interesting question: What are they? And is it just a coincidence that eugenics took hold in the wake of evolution's acceptance? Is it possible that classical evolution's conception of "what they are" engenders a eugenicist mindset? Let us examine the matter.
Evolution's Ties to Eugenics
Traditional Christianity and classical evolution involve very different conceptions of man's nature. Christianity teaches that man is the culmination of God's creation, His sixth-day triumph. Man is not merely a steppingstone on the way to some superior being but a finished product. Sure, he is fallen as well as finished and needs to be perfected, but this is not a matter of improving the flesh but of transcending it. And this is done with knowledge of what is good and the gift of God's grace. Moreover, even if the flesh is broken, hampered by crippling limitation, the person's soul bears the beauty of the Ultimate Beholder. The person is valuable not because of what he can do but because of what he is: a child of God with a soul from Heaven.
In contrast, evolution tells us that we are just one stage in a long line of creatures experiencing change in a process that is often, amusingly, called improvement, even though we're moving toward we don't know what without knowing why. But evolutionists take it as doctrine that it is improvement, and all people want to improve the human condition. For Christians, this means spreading the faith; for evolutionists, it means improving the genes. Ergo, eugenics.
Of course, many evolutionists will protest, saying that they find eugenics abhorrent. Yet the link between evolution and eugenics is undeniable, as it was made by none other than Sir Francis Galton himself. Galton developed his eugenic principles only after reading his cousin Charles Darwin's work The Origin of Species, which inspired him to build on Darwin's work. And this should surprise no one. Sure, today eugenics is thought ill-considered, but it is not illogical. If evolution is improvement and improvement is good, and if the good of the many outweighs the good of the few, it makes sense to facilitate evolution. And because it is logical, at least on the surface, it is necessary to look a little deeper.
Eugenics is an outgrowth of classical evolution, which presupposes that we are a cosmic accident and thus implies atheism. The problem with this worldview is that it makes many assumptions, fails to ask the most basic questions, and then contradicts itself. For one thing, if there is no God, no Truth - no standard for determining good that transcends man - on what basis can we determine what constitutes improvement? Why is it better for man to survive and "evolve" than to perish? After all, ask some of the nature-worshipping misanthropes amongst us, and they will tell you that the world would be better off if mankind disappeared entirely.
Yet, even if you accept - based on consensus opinion and nothing more - that what evolutionists say is improvement is indeed improvement, what purpose does it serve? To illustrate this point, I'll use a variation on a criticism G.K. Chesterton made of H.G. Wells when the latter suggested that the purpose of life was to beget children. It is as if you asked, "What is the use of hammers?" and the answer was, "To create better hammers." And then you asked, "And what is the use of those hammers?" and the answer was "To create better hammers still." It doesn't answer the most basic questions: "Why create hammers in the first place" and "What is the good of having hammers?" The eugenicist philosophy not only reduces man to animal, it reduces man's existence to meaninglessness. The Christian knows that he is trying to improve - which he calls growing in holiness - so he can spend eternity with God. The atheist may try to improve, and he may actually succeed. But if his worldview were correct, it would mean that he would spend eternity as dust, indistinguishable from a "defective" some eugenicist might have wanted to exterminate.
Of course, if atheists were right, dust is essentially all we would be, some pounds of chemicals and water. We would merely be organic robots - tools, much like a hammer. And, then, why trouble over how we manipulate these automatons' circuitry? And what could be wrong with terminating the function of robots that cannot serve their "purpose"? Besides, without Truth and thus without objective right and wrong, nothing could be "wrong" in any real sense, anyway.
Why does this philosophy matter? It's not because eugenics will rear its ugly head once again, because eugenics, strictly speaking, will not. But it has not been trumped by morality, only technology. With genetic engineering, we no longer have to select people for breeding; we can now select the genes themselves. This science holds the promise of eliminating birth defects, but it can also be misused. It finally gives modern-day utopians a tool with which they can create supermen, Aryan or otherwise, in a laboratory. And unless we want to end up as test subjects, we had better realize that man's value lies not in his ability to become or create a superman, but in being born of the supernatural and possessed of the eternal.
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Not liking "San Miguel" would be like kicking kittens. T.C. Boyle is one of contemporary American literature's big guns, and "San Miguel" is a heartfelt, meticulous novel imagining the lives of three brave women on one of the least-known and most picturesque parts of the continental United States, during one of American history's liveliest periods, from the 1880s to the end of World War II. Nevertheless, I'm punting a big-eyed little furball.
Articulating my difficulties here requires care. The novel is marketed as a "historical novel" — and there are two ways to consider that. One is in the genre sense, as in the "Romance," "Historical Fiction," "Self-Help" (etc.) categories targeting buyers. This "historical novel" makes the scenery and props and public events of some era the main course to engage a reader who wants to escape for a little while to Meiji Japan or Napoleonic Europe.
Another way to think of this is as descriptive of any novel using history as a frame (or as a spice, not the entrée) to get to other things, universal themes and subjects and complexities always present in being human. The issue here, possibly, is that "San Miguel" wants to be the latter but is hamstrung by its rooting in actual historical figures, and so comes closer to the former in some important ways.
San Miguel is an island 46 miles off the coast of Santa Barbara (where Boyle lives), in Southern California. It is today both a national park and an archaeological district on the National Register of Historic Places because of Paleolithic dwelling sites dating back 12,000 years. It's a stark, fierce place with a wide array of sea life, including elephant seals and killer whales.
A few people lived on the island from about 1850 to 1948, as caretakers of sheep ranches (on government-leased land). The Walters and Lester families lived there, serially, with the latter becoming famous thanks to the 1930s rise of mass media such as radio and Life magazine and the country's fascination with the "Swiss Family Lester" living close to nature and away from the Depression and fascism's darkening European shadow. "San Miguel" is based on the real Walters and Lester families and so given the weight and power of historical reality. Fair enough.
"San Miguel" has three parts: "Marantha," "Edith" and "Elise." The first Edith Walters is Marantha's adopted daughter. The first two sections take place in the 1880s. "Elise" involves Elise Lester and unfolds from 1932 to the mid-1940s.
"San Miguel" is really a rural pioneer story, moved from Nebraska to a sexier place. It documents the hardscrabble lives and sacrifices, and joys, of the people virtually marooned there, ordinary folks except for the choices that led them islandward – in Marantha's case, her Civil War veteran husband who at 50 wanted to try for the main chance as a sheep farmer. Edith is forced to live on the island by her parents, then by her stepfather once her tubercular mother dies. And Elise follows the wishes of her probably bipolar husband Herbie, a wounded World War 1 veteran looking for peace and turning his back on the "botched civilization" (Ezra Pound) exposed by the Great War.
All are East Coasters unprepared for what is needed to survive on the island. However, they learn fast, to one degree or another. The artistic problem is, this essentially agrarian life is one of endless work of a mundane kind, small pleasures, and limited distractions. This is the fabric of the story. In each of the three sections there are sprinkled dramatic events to punctuate the equilibrium, but of necessity farm life is a disciplined daily ritual and that's most of what happens. This life is meticulously rendered by Boyle. Cooking, cleaning, building, shearing, repairing. Looking at the ocean. There's a lot of sand, mud, rain and cold. But also the ocean and a variety of momentary but epiphanic joys.
However, Marantha is miserable, and then she dies. Edith is miserable, and then she escapes the island and her abusive stepfather. Elise and Herbie carve out something strenuous but close to happiness, raising two daughters. However, their almost-idyl is undone by modernity and Herbie's perhaps foreordained fate, and the novel ends with Elise and the girls leaving the island behind, bewildered and starting new lives, at sea on the mainland.
The reader may be left more with a feeling of a really good, contemporary museum exhibit or a piece of historiography. Perhaps this is unfair. What is true is that each character here is relentlessly conventional: that is to say certainly admirable and complicated, but to one degree or another predictable, and facing predictable issues.
And that leads to a certain anticlimactic tone to the overall arc of the narratives. This may be an effect of the story's anchoring in real lives. Boyle honors their reality, but sometimes that's not the best art.
The overall lowered temperature may also be an effect of the novel's point of view – that of the women, and these certainly are rich vistas, but limited ones. The men's lives are focused outside the house, and the women's, inside it.
For example, Herbie in one of his manic phases decides to go after an orca in a rowboat with a rifle, pushing off from the beach at night in a storm and rowing so far out into the treacherous channel (a navigation nightmare because of the underwater topography) that Elise can no longer even see him, leaving her potentially alone on an island with two small children and 1,200 sheep. But then we fade to black and cut to the next scene: Herbie back home, next day, doing chores. It might have been interesting to know what it was like inside a manic vet's head chasing a killer whale in a rowboat in the dark. But that's not the agenda here. This novel is about place and "real life."
Is it enough? With all due respect to this important author, look out, kitten.
San Miguel
By T.C. Boyle
367 pages, $27.95
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COCOA, Fla. — Linda Sue Davis-Hampson, age 56, of Cocoa, Fla., passed away unexpectedly at home on Dec. 17, 2012.
She was born Aug. 3, 1956, in Adrian, the daughter of Arthur and Betty Davis. She attended Sand Creek Schools. Linda enjoyed reading and knitting.
She is survived by her husband of 13 years, Joe Hampson of Cocoa, Fla.; her daughter, Carissa (Johnny) Simpkins of Tennessee; two sons, Nathan (Rochelle) Griesinger of Michigan and Ricky Griesinger of Georgia; her father, Arthur Davis of Adrian; two brothers, Charles (Judy) Davis and Art (Kim) Davis, both of Adrian; four sisters, Polly (Rick) Donelson of Fairfield, Janice (Chuck) Elliott of Fairfield, Kathie (Frank) Martin of Colorado and Audrey (Mike) Neill of Ohio; three grandchildren, Olivia, David and Jenna; and several nieces and nephews. She was preceded in death by her mother, Betty Davis; and her nephew, Charles Elliott.
Linda will be sadly missed by all her family and friends.
According to Linda's request cremation will take place. Visitation will be from 2 to 4 p.m. Sunday, Dec. 23, 2012, at J. Gilbert Purse Funeral Home, Adrian. There will also be a memorial service for Linda in Florida at a later date. www.PurseFuneralHome.com.
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It was the great debate of the spring: Andrew Luck or Robert Griffin III?
We knew all along that the Colts would take Luck, but a surprising number of NFL observers grew to like RG3 over Luck. Consider Brett Favre to be in that group.
Favre spoke to NFL Network's Deion Sanders on Friday and said he's a Griffin fan.
"Griffin, he's smaller, but if I was starting a team, I'd probably of went with RG3 just because, if they can't protect you, you got to protect yourself," Favre said.
We can't help but agree with Favre on this one. We also happen to share his opinion of Cam Newton: "That dude is good."
There have been rumors that we could get this sort of analysis on a regular basis if Favre took a broadcasting job. At this stage of his life, Favre sounds happier to be on his tractor in Mississippi. (Yes, according to the media, he never gets off that tractor.)
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Mexico's once-dominant PRI party gets 'second chance'
Hours after voters returned his former ruling party to power, Enrique Pena Nieto thanked Mexicans for offering a "second chance" and promised to abandon the party's autocratic ways and preside over a modern, inclusive administration.
"We are a new generation. There is no return to the past," the 45-year-old former governor pledged in a victory speech at the headquarters of his Institutional Revolutionary Party.
Pena Nieto declared that he "understands the changes that the country has experienced in recent decades, and will act according to the new reality."
"I will pursue a modern presidency," he added, "responsible, open to criticism, willing to listen and take account of all."
With 81 percent of voting precinct tallies counted, Pena Nieto led with 37.4 percent of votes, followed by Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador of the leftist Party of the Democratic Revolution with 32.4 percent.
Trailing behind were Josefina Vazquez Mota of the ruling center-right National Action Party (PAN) with 25.4 percent and a fourth candidate, Gabriel Quadri de la Torre of the New Alliance with barely over 2 percent.
President Felipe Calderon, whose PAN lost badly in Sunday's vote after 12 years of rule, promised an "orderly, transparent and efficient" transition.
"I want to sincerely congratulate him," Calderon said of Pena Nieto.
Lopez Obrador declined to concede the triumph to Pena Nieto, a boyish-looking 45-year-old married to a television soap opera star. He said he would await "all the results" before speaking further.
Many Mexicans voted in a sour mood over drug-war violence and an economy only recently gaining steam. They were ready to give a new chance to a party that ruled from 1929 until 2000, casting aside concerns over its autocratic past.
Scattered irregularities were reported at a few of the nation's 143,000 voting stations, but for the most part the vote appeared calm and orderly.
In a closely watched race in the capital, exit polls gave a landslide victory to the Party of the Democratic Revolution's Miguel Angel Mancera, allowing the party to hang on to Mexico City Hall, which it has controlled for a decade and a half.
It is an election that has been closely watched in the United States. Not only does the United States share a nearly 2,000 mile border with Mexico, but the two countries have key mutual interests in areas such as trade, energy, homeland security and migration. Mexico is the third largest U.S. trading partner (after China and Canada) and also a vital source of crude oil to U.S. markets.
As many as six million U.S. jobs depend on trade with Mexico and 10 million U.S. citizens visit Mexico every year. Increasingly, criminal gangs in Mexico have tentacles that reach into U.S. cities.
The return of the PRI, as the party is known because of its Spanish initials, amounted to an about-face for Mexico.
Mexicans fought for decades to topple the PRI from its 71-year grip on power, eventually ousting the party in 2000.
Some critics say a triumph of the PRI would lurch Mexico backward to its authoritarian past. Supporters say the PRI has learned from its past and won't rule as it once did, even if some within its ranks do not embrace the change.
The party would face opposition in Congress, a robust media, a largely independent Supreme Court and strengthened civil society groups that employ social media tools aggressively.
Many Mexicans feel frustration at the past 12 years of rule by the National Action Party, which failed to usher in wholesale reforms of a PRI-designed political system.
"At the end, the lasting impression is of enormous wasted opportunity," Jorge Zepeda Patterson, a political scientist and columnist, wrote in the El Universal newspaper Sunday.
Under Calderon, the party brought U.S.-Mexico security cooperation to unprecedented levels. But while deploying soldiers to the streets, and capturing numerous drug barons, it failed to rein in runaway killings and rampant violence that have left pockets of the country under control of gangsters.
Calderon treats the toll from crime-related killings as a state secret, wary that the bloodletting will stain his legacy. Outside experts say they believe the toll has surpassed 55,000 deaths since late 2006.
In his victory speech, Pena Nieto pledged to maintain a firm hand against organized crime.
"Let me be clear: There will be no agreement with, no respite against, organized crime," he said, adding that he will lead "a new strategy to reduce violence and protect the lives of Mexicans, above all."
The election had the feel of a watershed as it redrew the political map.
In addition to the presidency, Mexico's 79.4 million voters also replaced all 128 senators and 500 members of the lower-house Chamber of Deputies, as well as more than 1,400 state and local officials.
Mexicans also voted for governors of six states and the mayor of Mexico City, a position with powers equal to a governor.
Voters gave a landslide victory to the Party of the Democratic Revolution's Miguel Angel Mancera, allowing the party to hang on to Mexico City Hall, which it has controlled for a decade and a half.
Mexico does not have a runoff system, and the presidential candidate who wins the most votes Sunday will take office Dec. 1 for a six-year term.
The one-time margin of some 30 percent that Pena Nieto held over his rivals a year ago diminished sharply during the three-month formal campaign. But the candidate, handsome and genial, drew swoons on the campaign trail, with women clasping at his forearms at campaign rallies, leaving red welts.
Whoever moves into Los Pinos, the presidential palace, Dec. 1, will find good and bad news on the security front. For the first time in years, the homicide rate is dipping. But the criminal landscape is unstable. Powerful criminal organizations, like Los Zetas and the Sinaloa Cartel, face an array of upstart crime groups.
Surprisingly, public security was not a major issue in the campaign. All candidates vowed to keep the army on the streets for the foreseeable future.


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NEW YORK � Twitter has redefined the way we communicate, get news and share tidbits of our lives.
NEW YORK � Twitter has redefined the way we communicate, get news and share tidbits of our lives.
It has even been credited with starting a revolution or two. The company, based in San Francisco, announced Thursday that it intends to sell stock to the public for the first time. Naturally, it did it via a tweet.
Here are some quick facts about Twitter in 140 characters or less, the limit of tweets.
� MT @Twitter We've confidentially submitted an S-1 to the SEC for a planned IPO.
� #FunFact: In the first hour of @Twitter sending that IPO announcement tweet, 7,872 people retweeted the message.
� According to @APStylebook: "The verb is to tweet, tweeted. A Twitter message is known as a tweet."
� The company was founded 2006 by Jack Dorsey, Biz Stone and Evan Williams. Their handles: @Jack, @Biz and @Ev
� First tweet by @Jack was "just setting up my twttr" on March 21, 2006, at 3:50 p.m.
� Dorsey went on to create @Square, a system for paying for coffee, goods through phones.
� Twitter soared to popularity in 2007 at the South By Southwest Interactive festival in Austin, Texas. #sxswinteractive #Austin #BBQ
� Three years, two months and one day: The time it took from the first tweet to the billionth tweet. #CoolStat
� Users on @Twitter: More than 200 million. @Facebook has 1.16 billion. That's nearly six times as many. #QuickMath
� A billion tweets are sent every two and a half days. Put another way, that's three for every man, woman and child in the U.S. via @smfrogers
� The public offering comes at a time of heightened investor interest in the IPO market � 131 IPOs have priced so far this year.
� Is @Twitter trying to avoid @Facebook's May 2012 IPO #fail? Well, company is keeping details secret for now. #TwitterIPO
� The company hasn't said if it makes a profit or how much revenue it takes in. #FadOrFuture? Wonder if @WarrenBuffett will buy stock.
� Most of Twitter's revenue comes from advertising. @eMarketer estimates $582.8 million this year, up from $288.3 million in 2012.
� Compare: In latest quarter, Facebook had $1.6 billion in ad revenue. By 2015, Twitter's annual ad revenue is expected to hit $1.3 billion.
� 2013 #Superbowl performance by @Beyonce had 268 million tweets per minute, more than any other event in past two years.
� Not everybody on @Twitter is who they claim to be. @United Airlines CEO Jeff Smisek has to put up with @FakeUnitedJeff
� Sometimes even missing zoo animals get their own Twitter accounts. And they can be funny. Just read @BronxZoosCobra
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10 best boltholes: where on Earth could Snowden go next?
By Barry Neild, CNN • Updated 27th June 2013
Fleeing U.S. law enforcement and stuck in a Moscow airport, NSA whistleblower
Edward Snowden
seems stuck about where to go from here.
CNN Travel advises which countries should be on his list ...
1. Iceland
Iceland makes for an excellent fugitive destination, particularly for someone with a wintry name such as Snowden. It professes a love for Internet freedoms and once checkmated extradition efforts by offering citizenship to tax-evading U.S. chessman Bobby Fischer.
For Snowden it might feel chilly after Hawaii, Hong Kong and midsummer Moscow, but he could easily warm up with a dip in the geothermal waters of the Blue Lagoon in Grindavik.
Is Edward Snowden stuck in Moscow, or will the U.S. be able to get him to return? CNN's Jill Doughtery reports.
Why stay:
Ash-spewing volcanoes could help to shroud actual whereabouts.
Why leave:
New laws to aid whistleblowers aren't yet in place. Also, they eat puffins.
2. Ecuador
Ecuador: plenty of fascinating local traditions to keep Snowden interested.
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It's a two-way deal: exiles get a subtropical shelter while Ecuadorean President Rafael Correa gets to burnish anti-American credentials and gain a distraction from his clampdowns on press freedom.
Why stay:
Plenty of Inca ruins and colonial Spanish buildings to admire.
Why leave:
Ecuador still has an extradition deal with the United States.
Opinion: Why Ecuador might shelter Snowden
3. The UK
It might be heavily in diplomatic hock to Washington, but the UK remains a popular place of refuge -- particularly among Russian exiles drawn by its liberal outlook, robust legal system and miserable weather.
Despite security cameras on every corner, plenty of people have managed to lose themselves in London. And if all else fails, it has an Ecuadorian embassy, although since Julian Assange has already snagged the spare room, you'll be on the sofa.
Why stay:
Strong tradition of political radicalism
Why leave
: Did we mention the awful weather?
4. The Philippines
Boracay could be a comfy draw for Snowden in the island-rich Philippines.
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The Filipino police have a strong track record of helping foreign agents hunt down their quarry, but with more than 7,000 islands to choose from, it could take them some time.
Why stay:
Boracay's beaches, Banaue's scenic rice terraces and -- as it happens -- more colonial Spanish architecture!
Why go:
Corruption. Even if you're not on the lam, you'll still be bilked for backhanders.
5. Spain
Southern Spain's enduring popularity among expat UK villains has earned its coastline the unfortunate soubriquet of "Costa del Crime." A spate of arrests has tarnished its appeal, though.
Why stay:
The sunshine, the paella, the sangria.
Why leave:
British pubs selling greasy breakfasts to greasier Brits. Abject lack of Spanish colonial architecture.
6. France
The French might have a rep for rudeness, but at least they give extradition treaties a Gallic sneer.
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The French have a rep for being rude to foreigners -- unless they're fleeing justice. The country has ignored extradition deals in the past, refusing to give up U.S.-wanted hijackers in the 1960s and '70s. If you've done something political -- or you're Roman Polanski -- you're probably safe.
Why stay:
France has it all: culture, countryside and cheese.
Why leave:
France also has the French.
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Embargoes didn't stop Jay-Z from heading to Havana, but you probably won't have to worry about facing the other kind of rap as Cuba lacks an extradition treaty with the U.S.
Why stay:
Salsa, cigars and those great old cars held together with washing machine spares.
Why go:
Worrying proximity to Guantanamo.
Cuba isn't always fun for skyjackers
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Mad move? At least Snowden would be beyond the reach of U.S. justice in North Korea.
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Clearly this would be madness. But at least in North Korea fugitives are almost guaranteed to be beyond the reach of international justice.
U.S. soldier Charles Jenkins demonstrated this principle between 1965 and 2004 after deserting to the north during the Korean War, and living -- albeit rather wretchedly -- to tell the tale.
Why stay:
Don't stay.
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: It won't be your emails that are monitored, just your every waking thought.
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Snowden appears to have spent several days air-side at Moscow's Sheremetyevo International Airport, a location that Kremlin authorities insist doesn't fall within Russian borders.
Perhaps he could stay there, following the footsteps of Iranian exile Mehran Karimi Nasseri, whose eight years stranded at Charles de Gaulle Airport inspired the movie "The Terminal."
Why stay:
Limitless supplies of Dan Brown books and giant Toblerones.
Why go:
Audacious flight from justice could be rendered into another lame Tom Hanks comedy.
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Land of the free.
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More than fifty major research studies of the role of parents in education has shown that:
You don't have to invest a great deal of time. Half an hour a day reading and talking to your child will make a difference. A few minutes each evening skimming and discussing homework and the exams and other work he/she brings home will make a difference.A brief conversation now and then showing your child that his/her education is important to you will make a difference. An hour or so a year talking to you child's teacher will make a difference. A couple of hours a week or even once a month volunteering in your child's school will make a difference,and so will attending PTA meetings and supporting PTA efforts. In fact,one study found that simply having an active PTA in your school will increase student achievement.
The developmental guidance and counseling program is offered to all students in grades K-12.Professional counselors working with parents and staff assist the students to achieve success in school and in life. Counselors provide guidance lessons and activities, individual and group counseling, consultation with parents and staff, as well as crisis intervention. With the latter, referrals are made to outside agencies, if appropriate. The fundamental goal of the guidance program is to work within the educational system to help students apply responsible decision making skills in the personal, educational and career vocational areas. Evening programs for parents are offered at all grade levels. These include Active Parenting at the elementary level; Quest and articulation programs at the middle school; and a series of college and career programs, as well as orientation programs, at the high school level.


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While political pressure steadily mounts on the issue of gay marriage – President Obama was in Hollywood Wednesday night for two LGBT fundraisers – comic books, that canary in the mine of popular culture, are pushing the envelope on depictions of gay life further this summer.
Marvel Comics offers the first gay super-hero marriage proposal in its June issue of the "Astonishing X-Men." A character known as Northstar, aka Jean-Paul Beaubier, a Canadian with silver-streaked black hair, piercing blue eyes, and the ability to fly and move at superhuman speeds, asks his long-time boyfriend Kyle Jinadu to tie the knot. DC comics also did a June reboot of the Green Lantern character, introducing a gay version from an alternate universe.
Comics put a toe in this water earlier this year when Archie comics featured Kevin Keller – merely a US soldier with no super powers – marrying his African-American boyfriend in an issue that sold out by March.
"We were trying to be current," says Paul Kupperberg, the writer who created the Archie issue. "This is what our society looks like, and Riverdale [Archie's fictional hometown] is an inclusive place." [Editor's Note: The original version misstated Mr. Kupperberg's role in the Archie issue.]
Comic books have long been a mirror for society, points out comic book historian Julian Chambliss, who just presented a paper on teaching with comics at a conference on that topic at Juniata College in Huntington, Pa.
Mr. Chambliss, a history professor at Rollins College in Winter Park, Fla., says comic books reflect societal concerns, despite being characterized as juvenile escapism.
"Superheroes in particular are iconic symbols that mirror values, beliefs, and anxieties tightly linked to national circumstances," he says via e-mail. These characters "can embody identity and patriotism (Superman), reflect disquiet about community stability (Batman), or explore struggles over gender roles (Wonder Woman)."
Superhero comic books have a history of creating characters and featuring stories that balance established values while acknowledging changing reader expectations, points out Chambliss.
In 1966, he notes, Marvel introduced the first black character, a decade after civil rights protest began but one year after landmark antidiscrimination legislation passed Congress. In 1971, just two months after President Richard Nixon declared the first "War on Drugs," DC shed light on the dangers of drug abuse by having an established teen sidekick become a drug addict.
"In both cases," he says, "non-comic readers met these changes with a mix of curiosity and protest, but most comic fans embraced the actions."
This latest foray into changing social mores is being met with a similar mix of acceptance and apprehension.
"I'm totally open to it, we've got all kinds on this earth, why not in comic books?" says Arthur Magdaleno, custodian at Dixie Canyon Elementary school in Sherman Oaks, Calif., who has two children, ages 26 and 27. "We raised them to have an open mind about relationships and this seems the moment to stand by that training."
Krista McCauley, a 29-year-old nurse, sitting at a Sherman Oaks cafe with her 2-year old daughter, expresses reservations.
"I'm not against the gay lifestyle, but … I don't think it's appropriate to be dangling something in front of kids that they might think the adult world is telling them, 'this is something you could or should be aspiring to ... Like fight crime and be gay.' I think it sends a confused message."
Dan Gainor, vice president for business and culture at the conservative Culture and Media Institute, is flatly opposed, saying via e-mail, "comics join movies, TV, music, and news media as part of the barrage of pro-gay propaganda that targets our nation every day." The goal of the media industry, he says, "is to overwhelm American morality and bully opponents into complete acceptance of the gay subculture."
However, the economics of a faltering comic book industry are perhaps an equally significant factor, says Brad Ricca, author of the upcoming book on comic book superheroes, "Super boys."
Mr. Ricca, who teaches classes on popular culture and superheroes at Case Western Reserve University in Cleveland, Ohio, says via e-mail that while the new population of gay superheroes in comics is being accepted by many readers, it is proving to be divisive among the usual political suspects on both sides.
But, he says, this divisiveness is exactly what the comics companies are going for, "because this outcry results in media coverage. Parents have always been leery of comics, mostly because of their crazy physical violence and vigilante justice. Not to mention the fear of 10-year-olds attaching blankets to their backs and trying to jump off the roof, which, very sadly, has happened."
But, adds Ricca, if parents are against something, it usually means kids will flock to it, "which is what the companies are hoping for."
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Originally part of the 47,600-acre-Rancho Laguna de Santos Calle Mexican Land Grant, the lands of Mace Ranch were owned and farmed for more than 75 years by the Joseph B. Chiles Family. The area, once used for alfalfa and sugar beet production, is rich in history and culture.
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Parades, carnivals, cherry pies, performances, and open houses are examples of many VEISHEA traditions which at one point in time had their first appearance on the Iowa State campus, eventually becoming traditions of today's celebrations. In honor of this year's VEISHEA theme, "Today's Vision, Tomorrow's Tradition," below are just a few "visions" which eventually became VEISHEA traditions and have continued to the present day. This post is just going to name a few of the VEISHEA traditions which began before the first VEISHEA in 1922 – and which continue today. Before 1922, many Iowa State divisions celebrated separate spring festivals. Since these numerous festivities caused much disruption to the students' studies in the spring, it was decided to combine the separate celebrations into one. Much of the information we have here in the University Archives on these early spring celebrations come from various publications, such as the yearbook (Bomb), division newsletters, and the Alumnus. Many of the articles and references from these early publications have been photocopied and put together in what could be called a subject file in the University Archives.
For those of you not familiar with Iowa State and who are wondering what this VEISHEA is, VEISHEA is Iowa State's week-long, student-run spring celebration. To find out more, the VEISHEA website can be found here.
Carnival: The Division of Agriculture's celebration was the Ag Carnival, first celebrated in May 1912. The agriculture students put on a carnival in the tradition of the country fair. Festivities often included a parade, exhibits, concessions, and a dance.
Concession stand for the 1914 Ag Carnival. Student food stands can still be found on campus during VEISHEA.
Cherry pies: Now a much-loved VEISHEA tradition, cherry pies were originally sold during Home Economics Day (celebrated in February) beginning in 1920.
Cherry pies of the 1922 Home Economics Day.
Parade: Several of the early divisional celebrations included a parade, including the engineer's St. Patrick's Day parade and the agricultural students' Ag Carnival parade. For more on the engineer's first St. Patrick's day celebration, see an earlier post.
Although not labeled as such, this 1910 image of the engineer's St. Patrick's Day celebration is probably their first parade one hundred years ago, on their way either to or from the "village" of Ames. Luckily the parade these days takes place in a much safer location!
To find out more about VEISHEA and the early divisional celebrations…come visit us! We also have a web exhibit on VEISHEA, which includes a bibliography of resources here in Special Collections. In addition, a selection of photographs from our university photograph collection can be found in the library's Digital Collections. There are also other images on our Flickr site, and films on YouTube.


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Anybody out there watch PR? I admit I am late to the game since I could never watch it when it was on Bravo but I have been completely hooked by the current season now that it is on Lifetime. Hooked so much in fact that I had to order some of the first few seasons on DVD! Needless to say I made it through all of the Season 1 Wendy Pepper drama as I languished on the couch... good stuff! LOL!
Ok, on to why you are really here... my card today is for the new Lil Lolita Boutique challenge and this week the theme is buttons. Simple, right? I mean who doesn't have an extra button or two to throw on a card? For my buttons I dug deep into my stash and found this little jar of ooooold Junkitz buttons... some shaped, some with words on them, and I decided to finally use a bunch of them up. It's funny because it is times like these that confirm for me why it's not so bad to hang on to things for years and years. I mean, I still love these buttons and maybe even more so now that they have found their perfect home and fulfilled their creative destiny. ;)
I also did a bit of altering on my Lil Lolita image by swapping out Lillith's head for 20's Evie's head... oh and I also wiped the rose out of her hand before stamping too. Now Evie looks a bit more prepared for the cooler weather of fall but still ever so stylish!
Don't forget that in order to play along in the LLB challenge you must use a Lil Lolita stamp or digi on your card if you want a chance at winning a fab prize. And hey, did you know that the digis are back up for sale in the Tickled Pink store? That's right, if you missed out the first time Kellie is offering all of the girls, as well as the limited edition Kellita, in digi form for a limited time along with the new Let it Rock and Going Batty sentiment/image digi sets that coordinate perfectly with some of the Lolitas. :)
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Larry Polansky, Associate Professor of Music, and Susan Jane Walp, Lecturer in Studio Art, were named John Simon Guggenheim Memorial Foundation Fellows for 2004. Go
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The nutrients calcium and vitamin D work in tandem, not separately, to reduce the risk of colorectal cancer, according to a new Dartmouth Medical School study reported in the Journal of the National Cancer Institute. Go
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brain electric activity map; trademark name for a map of brainwave activity derived from a computerized enhancement of electroencephalographic records.
a unidirectional, or approximately unidirectional, emission of electromagnetic radiation or particles.
useful beam in radiology, that part of the primary radiation that is permitted to emerge from the tubehead assembly of an x-ray machine, as limited by the aperture or port and accessory collimating devices.
beam splitter a device that reflects light from the output phosphor of an image intensifier to a photographic recording. Called also image distributor.
1. Any bar the curvature of which changes under load; in dentistry, frequently used instead of "bar."
2. A collimated emission of light or other radiation, such as an x-ray beam.
[O.H.G. Boum]
Etymology: ME, beem, tree
1 a bedframe fitting for pulleys and weights, used in the treatment of patients requiring weight traction. See Balkan traction frame.
2 (in radiology) the primary beam of radiation emitted from the x-ray tube.
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abbreviation for brain electric activity map.
beamDrug slang
A regional synonym for cocaine.
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A focused stream of particles or electromagnetic radiation which is focused in a single direction or body region as part of a therapeutic regimen.
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1. Any bar with a curvature that changes under load.
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1. Any bar the curvature of which changes under load; in dentistry, frequently used instead of "bar."
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a unidirectional emission of electromagnetic radiation. See also x-ray.
external beam therapy
radiotherapy in which the source is at a distance from the patient, e.g. orthovoltage, cesium-137, cobalt-60 or linear accelerator.
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restriction of the divergent beam as it appears from the tube window by a lead plate or cone or a light beam diaphragm located at the window.
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the radiation beam as it passes through the window of the x-ray tube and before it is modified by extra-tube devices.