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The inevitable diffusion of legacy is something like the unbearable lightness of being – which is also the title of that odd Milan Kundera novel. That's the one that riffs on Nietzsche's concept of eternal recurrence – you know, the universe and its events have already occurred and will recur ad infinitum and all that. That's a great weight, and Kundera thought that whole notion was bullshit. The real problem is the "unbearable lightness" of everything being fleeting and haphazard and probably based on endless strings of coincidences, even if we think everything is a big deal, and part of an even bigger fixed and endlessly recurring big deal. There's no such thing and Kundera gives us a slyly comic novel to demonstrate that, and it's very Czech. Czechs never did have much use for those pompous Germans. Those who seek to understand that big fixed and endlessly recurring big deal are preposterous bores. The real problem is dealing with the obvious – amazing things happen, and those things are pretty much all unique. That's the real difficulty.
Few have a taste for post-existential Czech novels, however famous, but think of it this way. What was a big deal will, sooner or later, become something quite ordinary, perhaps through a process of diffusion. Troublemakers become national heroes, and sooner or later become just names. That's happened to Martin Luther King Jr. – as another Martin Luther King Day has just come and gone now. with Martin Luther King Day mattress sales and all the rest. This happened to Washington and Lincoln too, who had their separate national holidays fused into Presidents Day, a day of no more than great deals on mattresses and tires and whatever else in clogging up the inventory. That's the inevitable diffusion of legacy, and it's happening to King. There are fewer speeches about justice and equality. There are more and more sales. If you're one of those for whom he is a hero, there's an unbearable lightness to what has happened. It's both comic a somehow deeply disturbing. Maybe you're turning Czech.
The diffusion of his legacy was unavoidable, however. It had to be done, because the man was what we now would consider dangerously radical. He was a committed leftist. There's no getting around that. He supported strong and active and demanding labor unions and a swift end to that hopeless and immoral Vietnam War and offered a number of concrete measures to do something dramatic about income inequality – including a guaranteed basic income for all Americans. Substitute Iraq a few years ago and Afghanistan now, for Vietnam, and no Washington politician would agree with any of this, not even any Democrat. Hillary Clinton still won't say her vote to authorize the Iraq War as a mistake, and everything else calls for caution – we can't just pull out of Afghanistan tomorrow afternoon, as Obama knows well, and we need to nurture the rich too, because they're the job creators after all, and we don't want to punish the successful either.
King wasn't like that, but then he was a private citizen. He never held office, so that complicates things. He's the only private citizen who ever got his own national holiday, and private citizens don't have to be careful, no matter how popular and heroic, in their way, they were.
That's the problem. The man's legacy had to be diluted, somehow. Say he was a great man. That's sufficiently ambiguous.
That's seldom enough, and that means it's best to coopt his legacy, and that means that on Martin Luther King Day, Republicans now argue that King was really a conservative just like them, and probably would be a Republican these days, and Ed Kilgore reports on that:
National Review looked more promising at first, with a big featured piece by Kevin Williamson, one of America's most audacious civil rights revisionists – but turns out Williamson was writing about the exceptional work ethic of wealthy people, and how poor people would benefit from emulating them. He did not – to my disappointment – work in any reference, ironic or otherwise, to the SCLC's Poor People's Campaign.
A little further down on the National Review Online site I did find a paint-by-the-numbers essay by Roger Clegg and Heritage's Hans von Spakovsky asserting, on the strict basis of the famous "content of their character" sentence in the "I Have a Dream Speech," that MLK would approve of legislation ending affirmative action (if anyone even vaguely associated with the actual Martin Luther King seemed to think that assertion was valid, I haven't heard it).
At the ACLU site, Roy Edroso has some fun with that:
Roger Clegg and Hans von Spakovsky wish to celebrate the Day with state legislation "outlawing government racial preferences" – not in the old-fashioned civil-rights sense of Jim Crow laws, but in "the politically correct version that discriminates against whites, and often Asians (particularly in college admissions), by giving preferences to other racial or ethnic groups like blacks and Hispanics." Because if there's one thing that burned Dr. King's butt it was some black kid getting into college and thus freezing out some deserving honky.
Milan Kundera would smile at that, because it's so deliciously absurd, but Kilgore says it all comes together at RedState, where Breeane Howe in this item is saddened that her megachurch pastor didn't bring up abortion in Martin Luther King Day:
Despite the enormous work Martin Luther King Jr. did to free African-Americans, black babies are being murdered at an alarming rate under the guise of freedom. Abortion is the number one killer of African-Americans. I believe The Radiance Foundation puts it best when they say, "The inhumanity of slavery has been replaced by the inhumanity of abortion." 79% of Planned Parenthood facilities are located in minority neighborhoods. This is to say nothing of the babies that are murdered because they are girls or would be born with a disability. As Christians we should never let the opportunity pass to speak out against the current holocaust in our own backyard. If anyone understood the importance of speaking up it was King: "Our lives begin to end the day we become silent about things that matter."
Abortion = slavery = genocide. I suppose if you actually believe that, then it makes sense to commemorate MLK Day, and every day, not focusing on inequality or poverty or racism but on re-criminalizing abortion.
But then he points to Tara Culp-Ressler in this item at ThinkProgress a few months ago, all about how King admired Margaret Sanger, founder of the predecessor organization to Planned Parenthood:
In 1960, King served on a committee for a Planned Parenthood study on contraception, explaining, "I have always been deeply interested in and sympathetic with the total work of the Planned Parenthood Federation." He repeatedly wrote about why family planning programs are important, and why they need to be funded by the government. In 1966, King received a Margaret Sanger award from Planned Parenthood "in recognition of excellence and leadership in furthering reproductive health and reproductive rights."
King saw an explicit link between the struggle for racial equality and the struggle for reproductive justice. In the acceptance speech he wrote for his award from Planned Parenthood – which his wife, Coretta Scott King, accepted in his place – he explained that reproductive rights activists like Planned Parenthood's Margaret Sanger help further broader movements for equality. "Margaret Sanger had to commit what was then called a crime in order to enrich humanity, and today we honor her courage and vision; for without them there would have been no beginning. Our sure beginning in the struggle for equality by nonviolent direct action may not have been so resolute without the tradition established by Margaret Sanger and people like her," King wrote, going on to say that the African American community has "a special and urgent concern" with issues of family planning.
The man does present difficulties that must be overcome, or diffused. He was a great man. Leave it at that.
It also might be useful to look at this excerpt from Waking from the Dream – the new book from David Chappell. This is the part of his book on how Republicans fought long and hard against establishing a national holiday for King, with Jesse Helms and John Ashcroft leading the charge. It's long and detailed, but the nickel summary is this – they argued that King was a communist, or close enough, and that King was inciting violence, because his scrupulously nonviolent sit-ins and marches caused good white folks to get violent in response, as their only option, so the beatings and the three college kids shot dead and the little girls in the church getting blown up were all King's fault. At least that seemed to be the general idea. King loved violence, so he was never going to get a national holiday if they could help it. A young Newt Gingrich offered a nice statue instead – but eventually the legislation was passed and Reagan signed it into law. The political cost of not giving in was too high. The Voting Rights Act of 1965 had screwed them. Those people voted now.
That might have been the point at which it became important to find a way to argue that King was really a conservative all along, and they're still working on that, without much success. In fact, Heather Parton (Digby) offers an array of video clips that includes Rick Perlstein on last year's Martin Luther King Day discussing Ronald Reagan comments on the King assassination:
He said he had it coming. He said, "It's the sort of great tragedy when we begin compromising with law and order and people started choosing which laws they would break."
He's referring to civil disobedience. This was pretty much a consensus view on the right among the same people who celebrate Martin Luther King now. Frankly, Martin Luther King had to be forgotten before he could be remembered. Martin Luther King called himself a socialist. Jesse Helms wasn't pulling that out of nowhere. His associate, Daniel Levinson, probably had been a communist. And the main demand of the march for jobs and freedom was a phrase that was resounding at the time but we don't remember it now, "a Marshal Plan for the cities", which meant a massive federal investment in developing the depressed areas of America – which I don't think we heard in Washington.
A year later that was in the extended David Remnick interview with President Obama, Going the Distance:
"The appetite for tax-and-transfer strategies, even among Democrats, much less among independents or Republicans, is probably somewhat limited." Obama said. "A Marshall Plan for the inner city is not going to get through Congress anytime soon."
Obama knows what King once said, and he knows what's impossible – but at least the Republicans now want to co-opt King's legacy, which is progress, sort of. They actually don't want any part of King's legacy. They just want to use the name for marketing purposes, kind of like your local mattress emporium. Cadillac used to sell a wallowing bloated land-yacht with fins and lots of chrome that the called the Biarritz. The right name can work wonders. Think of Rocky Mountain Oysters.
The Democrats aren't that cynical yet:
Vice President Joe Biden said Monday that the outcome of the immigration reform and income inequality debates "rests ultimately on the ballot box," warning civil rights activists to keep fighting to restore the core of the Voting Rights Act.
"I have to admit I never thought we'd be fighting the fight again on voting rights," Biden said during remarks at the National Action Network's annual King Day Breakfast, saying that minorities could face a "hailstorm" of new laws that make voting more difficult.
The Supreme Court struck down a key portion of the Voting Rights Act last year, arguing that states and localities in certain regions should no longer need to obtain approval from the federal government before changing voting laws.
Yeah, they had to send the white guy out to say that. Otherwise, Obama would be playing the race card – being all uppity and inciting violence or something – but there's a back-story here. After the McCain-Palin loss, and then the Romney-Ryan loss, and after failing to regain the Senate, and after deeply offending Hispanics and gays and blacks and women and the young and those who kind of like science, and many who work for a living rather than getting rich through strategic investments and clever trading in odd investment instruments, the Republicans seem to have decided that it might be that all these people who just didn't vote the right way were a problem that could be fixed. The way to win future elections, by stunning landslides, an alternative – make sure none of them would ever get much of a chance to vote again, and they got some help with that.
The Voting Rights Act of 1965, that King fought so hard for, is in play again, with the Supreme Court in June saying that old thing might have been a good idea, at the time, but now it's just quaint, and it has to go – so from North Carolina to Texas to Florida, now, a whole lot of minority folks, and the young, really are going to find it damned hard to ever vote again, and Reince Priebus, the chairman of the party, is actually okay with that concept. For the last two or three years he has been coordinating efforts across all states controlled by the Republicans to enact strict voter ID laws and restrict early voting and voting on Sundays, and working to make sure that pesky League of Women Voters or anyone else like them will now be forbidden to conduct any voter-registration drives. The Supreme Court had suggested that Congress rewrite the provisions of the Voting Rights Act of 1965 that they considered problematic, to make sure everyone everywhere gets a chance to vote while not singling out particular states which have behaved badly in the past, but the Republicans still control the House, and that seemed unlikely, or as Slate's David Weigel notes, until now:
Reps. James Sensenbrenner, R-Wis. and John Conyers, D-Mich., have released the Voting Rights Act Amendment of 2014, watered down just enough to win over Republican support. "We look forward to reviewing it," said House Majority Leader Eric Cantor's spokesman Doug Heye of the new legislation. That's not a no!
No, it isn't and Ari Berman explains here how "pre-clearance", which required a number of mostly Southern states to get approval for any voting law changes, has been replaced by this:
States with five violations of federal law to their voting changes over the past fifteen years will have to submit future election changes for federal approval. This new formula would currently apply to Georgia, Louisiana, Mississippi and Texas. Local jurisdictions would be covered if they commit three or more violations or have one violation and "persistent, extremely low minority turnout" over the past fifteen years.
North Carolina, that bête noire of liberal voting rights campaigners, would be exempted. One reason: Voter ID laws would not count as "violations." They would be subject in states that have been subject to pre-clearance for other reasons, but going forward, jamming through a new ID bill would not alert the DOJ.
Weigel also cites Ian Millhiser suggesting that a new legal power created by the bill might make the compromise worthwhile for liberals:
Currently, the Justice Department is suing Texas and North Carolina under Section 3 of the Voting Rights Act, a provision which allows a state to be made subject to preclearance if a court finds "violations of the fourteenth or fifteenth amendment justifying equitable relief have occurred within the territory of such State or political subdivision."
The problem with Section 3, however, is that it is widely understood to require the Justice Department to prove that Texas and North Carolina enacted voter suppression laws with the intent of disenfranchising voters because of their race. Proving intent is a challenge in any context – neither judges nor attorneys are mind readers – so DOJ faces a difficult road ahead under current law. The bipartisan bill will strengthen Section 3 so that "any violation of the VRA or federal voting rights law – whether intentional or not – can be grounds for a bail-in." This is a really big deal. Big enough that it probably justifies paying the high price Cantor and others have demanded in order to revive the Voting Rights Act.
Eric Cantor and others have said the voter-Id laws have to remain legal – period – or there's no deal. That's awful, but not entirely awful, and Kevin Drum adds this:
Preclearance has long been the federal government's strongest bulwark against abusive voting laws. It's also a fairly extraordinary exercise of federal power, something the Supreme Court acknowledged in 1966, when it heard its first challenge to the VRA. But extraordinary as preclearance might be, the court ruled that it was defensible in extraordinary circumstances – and that was exactly what we faced at the time. The nine states originally covered by the preclearance provision had acted so egregiously to violate voting rights, and were so adept at tying up federal suits in court, that preclearance was justified.
It was those extraordinary circumstances that were at the heart of the challenge to the VRA last year. When the VRA was renewed in 2006, the preclearance formula in Section 4 of the law was left unchanged. But Chief Justice John Roberts has long believed it's implausible that the original set of states covered by the VRA half a century ago should be the exact same set covered today…
In short, Chief Justice John Roberts said the Act itself is just fine, simply draft another formula based on current conditions – and that wasn't his problem. If Congress couldn't do that, as he probably knew they couldn't, then of millions of Americans would be disenfranchised, and the Republican Party would be sitting pretty for another generation – and no one could blame him. Politicians should decide who gets to vote and who doesn't. That's democracy, or something.
Drum is not impressed:
Unfortunately, there was another current condition that Roberts chose not to acknowledge: that the modern Republican Party is so dependent on the votes of Southern whites that it was vanishingly unlikely to ever support any preclearance formula that primarily affected Southern states – as any rational formula inevitably would. For all practical purposes, preclearance was dead, and with it the most powerful weapon the federal government has to prevent racially motivated changes to voting laws.
Or so it seemed… Republican-dominated states immediately redoubled their efforts to restrict voting in ways that disproportionately burdened minority voters – most notably via restrictive voter ID requirements, but also with a wide variety of constraints on both voter registration and early voting. The more honest among them admitted that their new laws were indeed directed against a particular class of voters, but said that the class at issue was Democrats, and it was perfectly legal to discriminate against Democrats. The fact that minority voters were heavily affected because they tend to be Democrats was just an unfortunate side effect.
But as laws like this started to pile up, and as evidence that they really were aimed at voter suppression became clearer, a small backlash began. Most dramatically, Judge Richard Posner, who wrote a decision in 2007 upholding Indiana's voter ID law, issued a mea culpa last October. "I plead guilty to having written the majority opinion (affirmed by the Supreme Court) upholding Indiana's requirement that prospective voters prove their identity with a photo ID – a law now widely regarded as a means of voter suppression rather than fraud prevention."
Judge Richard Posner suddenly remembered Doctor King and his legacy. It hadn't been totally diffused, but Drum wonders about that:
And now for the big question: does this legislation have any chance of passing? It doesn't seem likely. The shiny new formula might satisfy Justice Roberts, but it would put four deep-red states back into preclearance jail: Georgia, Louisiana, Mississippi, and Texas. And what would Republicans get in return? They seem to have given up entirely on appealing to non-white voters, so there's nothing for them there. And while it's one thing to feel obliged to vote in favor of renewing a historic law that's currently on the books, as most Republicans did in 2006, it's quite another to invite a vote that you don't have to take in the first place.
So the odds seem pretty long against reviving preclearance. That may be a helluva note to usher in Martin Luther King Jr. Day with, but it's most likely the truth. Now that blacks and Hispanics identify so overwhelmingly as Democrats, Republicans simply have no incentive to make it easier for them to vote. Nor does it seem possible to shame them into doing it, as it was even eight years ago. The GOP has simply changed too much since 2006.
Actually, now they think the Reverend Doctor Martin Luther King, Jr., had always been on their side in the first place – but the diffusion of his legacy was always unavoidable, everything being fleeting and haphazard and probably based on endless strings of coincidences, even if we think everything is big deal, and part of an even bigger fixed and endlessly recurring big deal. Nietzsche was wrong. The incredible lightness of everything is our dilemma. Everything diffuses into thin air – but Kundera was wrong. It's not comic at all.


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Islamabad - PTI chief and prime minister-in-waiting Imran Khan is not the only one with his own Wikipedia page; his dogs have one too.
Wikipedia recently faced flak on social media after the information aggregation website added a page on Prime Minister-designate Imran Khan's pet dogs.
The page titled 'Pets of Imran Khan' was added on August 6, days after Pakistan Tehreek-e-Insaf secured a majority in Pakistan's third consecutive civilian elections. The Wikipedia volunteer who added the page said the page was added after they noted increased searches for the dogs and references in primary and secondary sources such as newspaper, social media etc.
Saquib, who volunteers at Wikipedia help desk said there had been considerable media buzz about the Pakistani PM-designate's pets and thus Wikipedia added the page. The employee also said that several US Presidents' pets had Wikipedia accounts and there was no reason for Imran's to not have one as well.
The page details Imran's pet-history but fails to provide any vital information about the dogs such as breed details, weight, height, built, age, and even their current status. Imran's dogs have made it to the headlines several times as subjets of spats between Imran and his wives. One of his dogs recently made a splash on social media after it appeared in the background of an image with Imran Khan and the Iranian Ambassador Mehdi Honardoost. The Iranian envoy had called upon the PM-elect last week to discuss Pakistan's trade ties with neighboring countries, including Iran.
Incidentally, Wikipedia had earlier faced flak for removing the pages of Bakhtawar and Asifa Bhutto-Zardari, claiming that 'notability cannot be inherited'.
Speaking to News18, Saquib said, "Dogs fall into our general notablity guidelines. But we have separate and independent subject-specific guidelines as well, like for politician, sportspeople, actors. Bakhtawar and Asifa Bhutto both fail to meet our notability guidelines under the politician category. Saquid added that the page had to been locked for editing after alleged attempts of vandalism.


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Patrick Schroeder, a two-time murderer from who grew up within miles of the state prison in Tecumseh, became the 12th man moved onto Nebraska's Death Row at that facility.
He was housed in the correctional center's restricted Special Management Unit in 2017 when he killed his cellmate, Terry Berry Jr. It was Schroeder's second killing in 11 years.
On Friday in Johnson County District Court, Judge Vicky Johnson spent nearly an hour carefully reading the rationale for a sentence of death she and two other judges unanimously agreed upon. Judges Robert Otte of Lancaster County and John Marsh of Buffalo County had been selected at random to assist in determining the sentence.
Schroeder, 40, strangled Berry while they watched mixed martial arts in the cell they shared. Schroeder told police the man was talking too much and did not like him from the start. Berry died after days in a coma. Berry, jailed for check forgery, would have been paroled within a week.
In the sentencing order Johnson called Berry's death "disturbing…and especially cruel."
(Read the sentencing order HERE)
Even as Schroeder chose not to defend his actions nor challenge a death sentence, Johnson said "it is the law, not the defendant's wishes" which brought about the "ultimate conclusion" of the panel of judges.
The order laid out the legal justifications for a death sentence. There were aggravating circumstances beyond regular felony murder, in this case a previous homicide. There were no mitigating circumstances such as mental illness, or coercion to kill from another person which might warrant another sentence. The judges also reviewed previous death penalty cases to measure whether the punishment was in keeping with comparable cases. The found it met that criteria as well.
After reading the 45 minutes of background into the court record, Johnson declared in a measured voice that Schroeder was sentenced to death.
John James, Berry's grandfather and the only relative of the victim attending the hearing, let out a quiet "yes" as the judge concluded.
Outside the courtroom, James called Schroeder "a gutless good-for-nothing" while speaking with reporters. "May he rot in the gates of hell."
Schroeder, as in all of his court appearances, remained emotionless and said nothing in his own defense. He has only spoken publicly twice about the murder. Once, by way of an audio recording during an interview with the Nebraska State Patrol investigator set to speak with him after the incident while Berry was still on life support. The confession was played in court during the April sentencing hearing.
Schroeder also spoke by phone with NET News about the killing.
"I knew as soon as they moved (Terry) in my room on April 10 that it was probably going to end up in that situation," Schroeder said during the interview, adding he had even warned him he might be killed.
"I told him on two different occasions, 'You need to figure out a way to get outta here or something bad's going to happen to you.'"
Schroeder was already serving a life sentence for the murder of 75-year-old Kenneth Albers, a Pawnee City farmer he had previously worked for. He robbed the man, beat him to death with a night stick and dumped the body in a well on the farm.
After the hearing Schroeder was led back to prison the same way he arrived. In shackles and surrounded by security.
The law requires the case be reviewed by the Nebraska Supreme Court.


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U.S. Consent Decree with Three Publishers over E-Book Pricing Approved* The federal district court in New York City yesterday approved a U.S. consent decree that resolves U.S. Department of Justice allegations against three publishers for participating in a conspiracy to fix prices for electronic books or "e-books." The consent decree with Hachette Book Group, Inc., HarperCollins Publishers L.L.C., and Simon & Schuster, Inc. was found to be in the public interest. The government alleged that the three settling publishers and two non-settling publishers–MacMillan and Penguin Group–acted collectively to switch to a new sales model for e-books known as the "agency model" and entered into functionally-identical agreements with non-settling defendant Apple, Inc., which distributes e-books
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And whenever you stand praying, if you have anything against anyone, forgive him, that your Father in heaven may also forgive you your trespasses. But if you do not forgive, neither will your Father in heaven forgive your trespasses. Mark 11: 25-26
When a deep injury is done to us, we never heal until we forgive.
Nelson Mandela
Anger stems from unmet expectations. It's normal to have expectations, especially from people we care about or things which seem to be stable like a job, or a position. But life doesn't always go as we desire it to go.
People will let us down, they will violate our rights, and quite honestly think of themselves before taking you into consideration. We all experience anger and disappointment: people let us down, promises are broken, agreements forgotten, our name is slandered, and our standards are violated. We all experience injustice, and offense but God doesn't excuse us from forgiving others. The scriptures say that if we do not forgive others, then the Lord will not forgive us! Imagine that!
The Lord God would never withhold forgiveness from any of us, not even the "worst" of sinners. Forgive those who have hurt you, so that the Lord could forgive you too.
Let's pray:
Lord Jesus, thank you for extending your forgiveness to us. Thank you for forgiving even the worse of our sins. Thank you for reminding us that we are to be more like you. I pray you give us the grace to forgive those who have hurt us, and give us the grace to love them as you have done with us too. In Jesus name, Amen.


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BRRRRRRRR! That is the first thing that entered my mind when I left the house this morning. The Forester's outside temperature gauge said it was anywhere from 32-34 on the way into the Rise 'N Shine Race in Augusta this morning!
I am glad that I had my long sleeve tech shirt and my gloves with me – The gloves especially! My hands get cold pretty easy and I almost always wear gloves when it is below 40. Plus it gives me someplace to put the car keys.
This is my first road race since June and I was wondering if I had improved any with my track workouts and the mileage I have been doing?
One thing that I made a promise to myself for the race this morning was that I wouldn't kick at the end and just finish with a nice even pace! I kept my word to myself, because that seems to be when I tend to injure myself, when I get up on my toes and sprint too much.
It was one of the the hardest things for me to do, because 2 people passed me in the last 100 yards!
That hardly ever happens, but I didn't go with them, I kept my steady pace and held tightly onto the reins.
My first mile was in 6:40, which is right where I want to be for the entire race, but the first part is down hill, so that time wasn't quite as fast as it sounds. During the race I could feel myself slowing down a little and then when we had to come back up the hill, I lost my chance for sub 7:00 pace. I finished in 21:42 with a 7:02 final pace. Next time I hope to get under 7:00 minute pace for a 5K race!
I was surprised when I looked at the results!!! I finished 28/340 participants and 1st in my age group (55-59)! Very cool!
Overall I was extremely happy with my time and effort, which was a PR for the 5K this year, but could I have done better – Yes! Next time I need to get a little deeper into the racing zone, instead of just staying at the fringe, but that comes with racing more and knowing how far I can push myself. I really want to break that 7:00 minute per mile pace barrier.
Overall winner – sorry about cutting off his head.
Women's Winner – she raced a lot at Bond Brook trail races this summer
Race Director – Mark from Kennebec Savings Bank. The proceeds from this race benefit the Augusta YMCA, so it was a good cause and a great way to support it.
This was my first year I have run this race and I found it to be very well organized (going up to my bank teller window and getting my race packet felt strange), but it was cool. The volunteers were amazing, they were there before 6:00 A.M. and did everything they could to ensure that the runners had a great experience. So thank you very much to all the volunteers!
I even ran into a couple of neighbors who ran in the race, which was great to see and some other runners that I have gotten to know over the summer. That is the part that I am enjoying the most about running in races again, is the social side of running.
When I thought about what shoes I wanted to wear today, I really don't have a pair of racing flats, so I went ahead and dug out my old Nike Air Flo's that I bought back in the late 80's and ran in them. It was kind of funny to think that I was running in a pair of shoes that were older than quite a few of the participants!
They did great! However, they are getting rather long in the tooth and I think I will look around to buy a new pair of racing flats over the next few weeks, so that I will have them for the Runner's World 5K on 10/20/12.
Overall, it was a great race and I was very happy with how I did!


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Monday saw the interim publication of the long-awaited (or, in Olmert's case, long-dreaded) Winograd Committee report (the full version isn't due for five months). It basically concluded what everyone already knew – that the war on Lebanon was entered into with misguided expectations about a quick, easy victory over Hizbullah and was handled incompetently from start to finish.
- `The decision to respond with an immediate, intensive military strike was not based on a detailed, comprehensive and authorized military plan, based on careful study of the complex characteristics of the Lebanon arena'
- `Consequently, in making the decision to go to war, the government did not consider the whole range of options, including that of continuing the policy of `containment', or combining political and diplomatic moves with military strikes below the `escalation level', or military preparations without immediate military action'
- `The support in the cabinet for this move was gained in part through ambiguity in the presentation of goals and modes of operation, so that ministers with different or even contradictory attitudes could support it.'
- 'Some of the declared goals of the war were not clear and could not be achieved, and in part were not achievable by the authorized modes of military action.'
- `The Prime Minister did not adapt his plans once it became clear that the assumptions and expectations of Israel's actions were not realistic and were not materializing.'
I'll leave for now the question of what Israel's true objectives were in invading Lebanon – suffice to say, the official claim that it was an attempt to rescue two captured soldiers doesn't withstand even the briefest scrutiny. Indeed, a top Israeli military commander, Gadi Eisenkott, recently admitted that it became clear that the two soldiers could not be recovered through military means after only "a couple of hours".
What the Winograd report concludes, in essence, is that Olmert, Peretz, and Halutz are massively incompetent. The Israeli public have known this for months – this report may be the final blow to Olmert's career, but his popularity ratings have been terrible for quite a while now (a fact also influenced by allegations of fraud and improper conduct while he was industry and trade minister). Now, of course, they are positively dire – an instant poll for Israel's Channel 10 showed that if elections were held tomorrow, Olmert would get a total of 0% of the votes. That's a score that would make even George W. Bush blush. In a poll taken Tuesday and published in Ha'aretz, 68% of respondents said they wanted Olmert to resign, while only 9% expressed support for the current government.
And sure enough, like rats fleeing a sinking ship, Olmert's closest allies have begun to desert him. Foreign Minister Tzipi Livny, traditionally a close ally of Olmert, has called on him to resign and announced her intention to replace him, whilst the head of the Kadima faction and coalition, Avigdor Yitzhaki, resigned earlier today. Defence Minister Amir Peretz could soon follow. Needless to say, none of these principled figures resigned when it might have made a difference. Olmert is stubbornly clinging to power, insisting that he can "repair" and "correct" the failures highlighted by the report – as Ari Shavit writes, he doesn't even have the integrity to resign. In this respect, he is similar to British Prime Minister Tony Blair and U.S. President George Bush – Israel's two principle backers during last year's war (a front cover from The Independent last year illustrates this point well).
But there is something missing from the Winograd report and the public and political outrage it induced. Most Israeli commentators seem not to have noticed, but, for reasons that should be obvious, Lebanese Prime Minister Fuad Siniora most certainly has:
"The report on the unjust war… did not make a single mention of the massive material, human losses and destruction Israel inflicted on Lebanon".
He's right – it didn't. That Israel committed gross war crimes repeatedly and systematically over an extended period of time against a largely defenceless population went totally unmentioned in the report. It also seems to be missing from most of the ample press coverage since its publication, which has instead focused almost exclusively on the report's domestic political consequences. As Nir Hasson writes, the Winograd report `lacks a serious examination of the military conduct of the war. Its authors chose instead to focus on the performance of the senior decision makers. Even the abduction of two Israel Defense Forces soldiers, the incident the sparked the war, was not analyzed in detail, nor are the IDF's bombings inside Lebanon in the days that followed it.'
Indeed, this was inevitable from the outset. As the report states,
`On September 17th 2006, the Government of Israel decided, under section 8A of The Government Act 2001, to appoint a governmental commission of examination "To look into the preparation and conduct of the political and the security levels concerning all the dimensions of the Northern Campaign which started on July 12th 2006′ [my emphasis]
So the Committee's mandate from the start excluded any examination of the legality or morality of the war – it was instead `charged with examining the preparedness and behaviour of the political and military leadership'. This is important, because it means the true horror of what Israel inflicted on thousands of innocent Lebanese last year will remain confined to the history books. Olmert should not resign; he should be tried and convicted for war crimes.
Let's just remind ourselves very briefly of what transpired last summer. Here's what Amnesty International had to say about Israel's conduct during the war:
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In a country of fewer than four million inhabitants, more than 25 per cent of them took to the roads as displaced persons. An estimated 500,000 people sought shelter in Beirut alone, many of them in parks and public spaces, without water or washing facilities.
Amnesty International delegates in south Lebanon reported that in village after village the pattern was similar: the streets, especially main streets, were scarred with artillery craters along their length. In some cases cluster bomb impacts were identified. Houses were singled out for precision-guided missile attack and were destroyed, totally or partially, as a result. Business premises such as supermarkets or food stores and auto service stations and petrol stations were targeted, often with precision-guided munitions and artillery that started fires and destroyed their contents. With the electricity cut off and food and other supplies not coming into the villages, the destruction of supermarkets and petrol stations played a crucial role in forcing local residents to leave. The lack of fuel also stopped residents from getting water, as water pumps require electricity or fuel-fed generators.
Israeli government spokespeople have insisted that they were targeting Hizbullah positions and support facilities, and that damage to civilian infrastructure was incidental or resulted from Hizbullah using the civilian population as a "human shield". However, the pattern and scope of the attacks, as well as the number of civilian casualties and the amount of damage sustained, makes the justification ring hollow. The evidence strongly suggests that the extensive destruction of public works, power systems, civilian homes and industry was deliberate and an integral part of the military strategy, rather than "collateral damage" – incidental damage to civilians or civilian property resulting from targeting military objectives.' [my emphasis]
Human Rights Watch, in a report covering the early phase of the conflict, reached similar conclusions:
`This report documents serious violations of international humanitarian law (the laws of war) by Israel Defense Forces (IDF) in Lebanon between July 12 and July 27, 2006, as well as the July 30 attack in Qana. During this period, the IDF killed an estimated 400 people, the vast majority of them civilians, and that number climbed to over 500 by the time this report went to print. The Israeli government claims it is taking all possible measures to minimize civilian harm, but the cases documented here reveal a systematic failure by the IDF to distinguish between combatants and civilians.
Since the start of the conflict, Israeli forces have consistently launched artillery and air attacks with limited or dubious military gain but excessive civilian cost. In dozens of attacks, Israeli forces struck an area with no apparent military target. In some cases, the timing and intensity of the attack, the absence of a military target, as well as return strikes on rescuers, suggest that Israeli forces deliberately targeted civilians. [my emphasis]
Israel bombed hospitals, houses, petrol stations, supermarkets, villages, factories, farms, roads, bridges, a power station, a lighthouse and the Beirut airport. It bombed innocent people, and then bombed their funerals. It ordered residents of the south of the country to leave, and then bombed them when they tried to. UN Emergency Relief Coordinator Jan Egeland described "block after block of houses" totally "levelled" by Israeli air strikes. It's "horrific" and a "violation of international humanitarian law", he stated. Israeli government officials, on the other hand, repeatedly and openly advocated collective punishment and other war crimes throughout the conflict. Olmert himself boasted of the success of Israel's policy of collective punishment in an interview with Reuters, declaring,
"All the population which is the power base of the Hizbollah in Lebanon was displaced. They lost their properties, they lost their possessions, they are bitter, they are angry at Hizbollah and the power structure of Lebanon itself has been divided and Hizbollah is now entirely isolated in Lebanon".
Israel repeatedly rejected a ceasefire, aided in no small part by the United States, despite repeated calls for a truce by both Siniora and Hizbullah leader Hassan Nasrallah. After declaring the entire south of Lebanon to be a free-fire zone, populated entirely by terrorists, Israel destroyed the roads and bridges necessary to allow those those civilians who remained, primarily the elderly, the sick and the very poor, to flee. Israel waged what the Lebanese president termed a "war of starvation", destroying facilities and infrastructure `indispensable to the survival of the civilian population' (Amnesty International), and then refusing to allow humanitarian aid to be delivered to the suffering.
In a final act of destructiveness, Israel fired over a million cluster bomblets into southern Lebanon, 90% of them in the final 72 hours of the conflict, when it was clear that there would be a ceasefire. Jan Egeland described Israel's use of cluster bombs as "shocking" and "completely immoral", whilst a commander in the IDF's Multiple Launch Rocket System unit (responsible for firing the cluster bombs into Lebanon) said,
"In Lebanon, we covered entire villages with cluster bombs, what we did there was crazy and monstrous."
Since the war ended, there has been a Lebanese civilian killed or injured by one of these cluster bomblets – 10%-40% of which remained unexploded on impact – almost daily since the conflict ended last August. It is estimated that it will take "probably three to five years" to clean-up all the unexploded ordinance littered throughout southern Lebanon – Israel continues to refuse to provide the necessary coordinates and maps to help the clear-up operation.
Amnesty International concluded,
"Many of the violations examined in this report are war crimes that give rise to individual criminal responsibility. They include directly attacking civilian objects and carrying out indiscriminate or disproportionate attacks. People against whom there is prima facie evidence of responsibility for the commission of these crimes are subject to criminal accountability anywhere in the world through the exercise of universal jurisdiction." [my emphasis]
After all of this, it is pretty disturbing that the harshest official criticism levelled at the Israeli government is that it "mismanaged" the war. Unfortunately, the problem extends way beyond the Winograd Committee. As Jonathan Freedland explains,
"This round of self-flagellation was not prompted by concern that the 2006 pounding of Lebanon was "disproportionate", to recall the word of that hour. Israelis still believe they had every right to take on Hizbullah, who had abducted two Israeli soldiers from Israeli soil and had thousands of rockets aimed at Israeli civilian towns. The criticism is not that Olmert fought the war but that he fought it badly. That he didn't achieve his stated aims of freeing the soldiers and de-fanging Hizbullah; that he sent troops in harm's way with no coherent plan and insufficient protection; and that a non-victory against a mere guerrilla movement has shattered the IDF aura of invincibility essential to deter Israel's enemies. It's for that series of failures that he has been slammed."
Not that Freedland expresses any problem with this – indeed, he praises the Winograd report for proving Israel's democratic credentials (an opinion shared, oddly enough, by Hassan Nasrallah), despite the fact that it wasn't independent and despite the fact that it totally ignored the main problem with the Lebanon war; namely, it's moral and legal depravity. Indeed, Israeli society in general took precisely the wrong lessons from the Lebanon war, just as it did following the Gaza disengagement. Instead of feeling disgust at the mass suffering inflicted on innocents by the IDF, most of the Israeli public seems more concerned with the fact that Israel lost. This perverse focus on who `won' or `lost' the war was exemplified by Ehud Olmert, who uttered the following chilling remark last September:
"Half of Lebanon destroyed; is that a loss?"
If anything, the Israeli public is of the opinion that Israel was too restrained in its assault on Lebanon. Hence, if elections were held tomorrow, Binyamin Netanyahu's Likud party would probably win. Rather than being `anti-war', the majority of the Israeli public appears to be merely `anti-losing'. This does not bode well for prospects of peace and calm in the future. In paragraph 18 of the Winograd report, its authors state,
"The war thus brought back to center stage some critical questions that parts of Israeli society preferred to avoid."
And, thanks to this report, they can go on avoiding those difficult questions that little bit longer.
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"Economic and property market recovery is likely to be steady and it will take time for the next upward growth cycle to take off to any meaningful degree. Consider your circumstances, and make the decision that is right for you."
We head into the early half of 2019 with some good news in the form of improved economic growth, a further petrol price cut, and Moody's keeping the sovereign credit rating and outlook stable with a gradual strengthening of institutions and increasing transparency, along with improved tourism figures.
The Seeff Property Group also welcomed the decision to keep the interest rate on hold as the right decision for the country. We need stability so that we can get on with rebuilding confidence and the economy.
While improving, overall confidence remains a drawback, and the next few months will likely remain subdued, both on the economic and property front. The May Election is expected to be a turning point, but for now, it remains largely all about the buyers.
It has remained business as usual for the ordinary "have to buy and have to sell" residential sector, generally in the price band up to R1m-R1.5m to around R3m depending on the area. These buyers and sellers need to transact for various reasons, and buoyed by the fairly benign interest rate, this sector will continue ticking over despite sentiment. Here, well-priced properties can still sell within a reasonable timeframe.
At the upper price ranges however, we will continue seeing discretionary buying with only those who really need to buy, transacting right now as they wait and watch how things unfold as the year progresses.
What does this mean for the year ahead? Given that the fundamentals in the property market will remain weak during the first half of the year with subdued demand, longer sales cycles and flat price growth, sellers, especially in the higher price categories, will need to make their prices attractive to catch the attention of buyers who have a lot more to choose from.
Those buying now in what is essentially a sideways market with flat prices, may well be considered the smart ones in a few years' time as they will likely see good capital growth. There are no guarantees and we do not know when the economy and market will turn to a meaningful degree. Serious sellers should therefore perhaps take the opportunity to sell and capitalise on the demand, as they in turn can take advantage of the good buying conditions.
In the current market, the aptitude and investment profile of each individual will ascertain what and for how much they will buy. While it may be riskier now, you could ultimately see greater returns. On the other hand, it may well be a test for the prevailing wait-and-see attitude.
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This World Environment Day, the people of Bangalore swept the city clean with plogging. This highly instagrammable trend is an activity of jogging while picking trash and it has recently been getting widely popular in many parts around the world.
Swedes came up with the idea of plogging. It's simply jogging along with picking up trash. It is the combination of the words "jogging" and the Swedish "plocka upp" which means to pick up. Simple. This is the latest trend taking the internet by storm. Originating from Scandinavia, the trend is now paving its way across the UK, US, France, and India.
World Environment Day is a perfect occasion for environmentalists and nature lover to raise awareness about the key environmental issues and make the cities even more clean and beautiful. Moreover, it would also promote good health by making jogging and running even more fun.
The Bengaluru Chapter of SANI supported by the Swedish Institute, Stockholm organized a plogging activity from 7.00 am to 9.00 am at Lalbagh to mark World Environment Day on 5th June 2019.
Sweden alumni of Bengaluru Chapter along with their families, members of various Plogging groups such as Beautiful Bangalore, Green Roadies, Bengaluru ploggers, Robinhood Army and students of Centre for Social Action (Christ University) as well as the general public were invited in the event. The participants were seen walking, jogging and cycling while picking up the trash on the way.
SANI- Bengaluru Chapter provided the participants with cleaning and sanitation kit such as gloves, mask, garbage collection bag, etc., and a souvenir (such as cap/shade) to remind them of their participation.
The plogging started at 8.30 am and finished by 10:30 am. Snacks and water were provided at the closing station, Trash was collected measured, sorted and handed over to recycler and civic authority for disposal.
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My son rents a home in Los Angeles,CA and works there too. Due to the great housing prices in Fresno,CA he wants to buy a home in Fresno and have my husband and I live there rent free. We would maintain the property. He has excellent credit. Would this be considered an investment property or can he purchase a home with less than 20% down? by afj838_901_199 from Fresno, California. Jan 5th 2013
Yes, you can with 3.5% down. 30yr fixed rates under 3.26% zero points. Must have 620 min fico and at least one of you must be on the loan with your son.
In this case, it is pretty straight forward. He would be buying the house as a rental property. He has no plans on living there, and will be renting it out to someone else. That is an investment loan. With that said, there are other possible routes to choose. If at least one of you AND your son are on the loan, then you can do as a non-occupying co-borrower FHA loan with just 3.50% down payment.
Good Morning! In this situation, would your son also be occupying the property with you and your husband? If not, the purchase would be considered an Investment Property and the Down Payment requirement would be at least 10% down. If you would like to send more specific details, please feel free to do so. You can reach me directly by visiting my profile and sending me an email from there. Thank You and Good Luck.
My suggestion would be to consider financing the home as a "2nd Home" as he has ties to the area, meaning the parents living there. In my opinion it would be a stretch to do FHA financing on a property that is not owner occupied. That being said, it might make sense to have the parents on the loan and as one mentioned, have the son be a non occupant co borrower.
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Yes he can! With 3.5% as a down payment.
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The Importance of Culture Teaching and Learning in TCFLThe Importance of Culture Teaching and Learning in TCFL
As the learning and teaching Chinese become more and more popular, there are more people from different parts of the world coming to China to learn Chinese.Since culture and language are interconnected, language learning should combine with culture study during the whole process of Chinese learning and teaching.This paper disscusses the relationships between language learning and culture and then points out the importance of culture learning and teaching in TCFL(Teach Chinese as Foreign Language).
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- [1]He,G.J.(2003).Look at the situation of TCFL in China from the situation of international students in Wuhan.Journal of Inner Mongolia Normal University.
- [2]Hendon,U.S.(1980).Introducing Culture in the High School Foreign Language Class.Foreign Language Annals.
- [3]Lessard-Clouston,M.(1997).Towards an Understanding of Culture in L2/FL Education.The Internet TESL Journal.
- [4]Lv.B.S.(1982).The Nature and Features of TCFL.
- [5]Peck,D.(1998).Teaching Culture:Beyond Language.
- [6]Peterson,E.&Coltrane,B.(2003).Culture in Second Language Teaching.CAL Digest.
- [7]Risager,K.(2006).Language and Culture:Global Flows and Local Complexity.
- [8]Shao,W.L.(2007).On the Combination of TCFL and Chinese Culture.Education and Carrier.
- [9]Zhang,T.(2008).Embody the Functions of Culture in Chinese Teaching.
- [10]Zhang,Y.(2004).A Study on Culture Textbooks in Teaching Chinese as a Foreign Language.Chinese Language Learning.
- [11]Zhang,Y.(2001).Cultural Setting Affects Foreign Students in Chinese Study.Language and Translation(Chinese).


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