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Impunity: From Harry Truman to Richard Holbrooke
From Harry Truman to Richard Holbrooke
A sign on Harry Truman's desk, which read "The buck stops here," has been regularly invoked to showcase him as a model in accepting responsibility. But Harry Truman could avoid passing the buck because he was the President of the United States, for whom impunity starts here (my phrase). Thus, he could drop atomic bombs on two sizable Japanese cities, killing perhaps a quarter million civilians in two quick strokes, and never suffer the slightest threat of being brought to a war crimes tribunal. It is noteworthy that the total number of civilians killed in the Bosnian wars from 1992-1995 was approximately 39,199 (see Patrick Ball et al., "Bosnian Book of the Dead: Assessment of the Database, Research and Documentation Center, Sarajevo," June, 2007), and the total civilian deaths in the Yugoslavia dismantlement wars would still fall far short of 100,000 even if we added in all the civilians killed in the Kosovo struggle. But dozens have been tried and imprisoned for the deaths in Bosnia and Kosovo, where those who do have impunity are able to wax indignant over civilian deaths and claim to be humanitarian interveners and instruments of justice. And they can lie almost without limit and get away with it, just as Truman lied in claiming that Hiroshima was a military base—chosen "because we wished in this first attack to avoid the killing of civilians," said this notable mass killer of civilians.
Richard Holbrooke is in this great tradition of liars, hypocrites, and mass murderers who have impunity. It is amusing to watch the mainstream media, liberal pundits, and Barack Obama fawn over this "towering figure" in the wake of his death on December 13, 2010. A central claim of virtually all the accolades is that Holbrooke brought peace to Bosnia in engineering the Dayton Accord of November 1995. According to Roger Cohen, "nobody could end the Bosnian war" until our giant appeared on the scene ("The Unquiet American," New York Times, December 16, 2010). His long-time State Department ally Strobe Talbott wrote that Holbrooke "epitomize[d] the very best of what a single American can do to improve a dangerous world," and praised the "critical role he played in bringing a decade of fragile peace in the Balkans" ("Not A Quiet American," Washington Post, December 15, 2010).
In fact, there would have been no Bosnian war at all if the EU and United States hadn't violated the 1974 Constitution of the Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia and contradicted common sense by forcing the independence of Bosnia in 1992 without the constitutionally required approval of the three constituent "nations" (Croats, Serbs, Muslims), and then refused to allow the reluctant nations to withdraw (as they later supported by force and dictated the withdrawal of Kosovo from Serbia).
The Lisbon Agreement of March 1992, approved by the EC and its chief negotiator Jose Cutileiro and signed by representatives of all three "nations," would have prevented the civil war by a political settlement. But Bosnian Muslim leader Alija Izetbegovic, with U.S. encouragement, withdrew his approval, the first of a series of peace proposal rejections by the Bosnian Muslims with U.S. support. Thus it is a lie that "nobody could end the Bosnian war"—the fact is that the civil war was eminently preventable, but peace was not on the U.S. agenda in 1992 or until some years later.
Like Cohen and Talbott, Frank Rich says that Holbrooke is "the diplomat who brought peace to the killing fields of Bosnia in the 1990s" (NYT, December 26, 2010), but if you bring peace to killing fields that you and your associates helped produce and fertilized are you properly called a peacemaker?
Similarly, when Roger Cohen speaks of Holbrooke stepping in to halt the West's "inaction," this also is a misrepresentation of reality—the United States and EU powers were very active in preventing Lisbon and other accords from stopping the war till the time was ripe. And at that point, it was not Milosevic who needed to be bombed to come to Dayton. He was eager for a settlement that would end sanctions on Serbia. Rather, Milosevic needed to be bombed to placate Izetbegovic and his associates, who still hoped that the United States would fight harder to crush the Serbs and allow them to rule a united Bosnia. This is evident in Holbrooke's memoir To End A War, where he acknowledges the foot-dragging by Izebegovic and the Bosnian Muslim negotiators, and writes that it appeared the Bosnian Muslims were about to kill the Dayton Accords on the very last day, "unless Milosevic could save the negotiations"—something that a very cooperative Milosevic did. "People keep asking whether Milosevic is going to deliver on the peace agreement," Holbrooke said at Dayton. "It's impossible to answer that question right now. All we know is that he has delivered on everything...over the past four months."
Holbrooke even describes President Bill Clinton's first-ever meeting with Milosevic in Paris on December 14, 1995, the day of the official signing of Dayton. "I know this agreement would not have been possible without you," Clinton told Milosevic. "You made Dayton possible." But this, and other real world facts, didn't prevent Holbrooke from declaring at the time of Milosevic's death that "Milosevic started four wars. He lost them all. The biggest of them all was the one in Bosnia, where over 300,000 people died, two-and-a-half million homeless. And we bombed him in August and September of 1995. We should have done this much earlier." These are the words of a bully and demagogue without a vestige of intellectual scruple.
Holbrooke's account of Milosevic's death in prison was a stream of lies ("Rough justice is a fitting end for Milosevic," Financial Times, March 13, 2006). He has Milosevic responsible for "300,000 deaths" after allegedly starting those four wars. Holbrooke wrote this well after two establishment studies (one funded by the ICTY, one by the Norwegian government) had placed the total dead on all sides during the Bosnian wars at about 100,000. He wrote this after even the New York Times's Marlise Simons had quietly moved from the 250,000 propaganda figure to the hard-to-avoid establishment total of 100,000. But Holbrooke didn't have to move; every institutionalized lie on the subject he could pass off without fear.
Holbrooke can also write freely and with indignation about the terrible violence in Yugoslavia, allegedly all allocable to the demon, without anybody in the mainstream mentioning his own role in managing far more massive killings in Vietnam, Indonesia, East Timor, and Iraq. U.S. direct and indirect (supportive) killing in these four cases would run to six or more million while Holbrooke was one of the management team, or 60 or more times the deaths in Yugoslavia blamed on the demon.
The Yugoslav Tribunal developed the concept of a "joint criminal enterprise" for use in its pursuit of Serbs, which allowed any Serb official or military officer linked to deaths in the civil wars, who should have known about them and stopped them or refused to participate, to be liable as a criminal member of this joint criminal enterprise. On this logic Holbrooke would be a first-class member of the U.S. joint criminal enterprise in three or more separate theaters of action, and even on more traditional legal reasoning he might well be guilty of perjury as well as war crimes.
Holbrooke worked in the Vietnam War joint criminal enterprise for six years, and there is no record of his ever objecting to the high level B-52 bombing of peasant villages, use of napalm, cluster bombs, and dioxin-based chemicals that left hundreds of thousands maimed and vast numbers dead. On Yugoslav Tribunal principles he deserved a long prison term for this performance alone.
He was a high level official during the Carter administration and was point person for the Democrats in dealing with Indonesia. His role there was completely suppressed in the December 2010 accolades to the "towering figure." He was in Indonesia at the height of the Indonesian killings in East Timor in the later 1970s, more killings incidentally than in all of Yugoslavia in the 1990s. During this killing wave the Carter administration continued to sell weapons to Indonesia, made no public or UN protest at Indonesian aggression-genocide, and maintained excellent relationships with the killers. In August 1977, when Holbrooke visited Indonesia in the midst of the East Timor holocaust, he praised Suharto for human rights improvements and for opening up East Timor to the West.
When Allan Nairn challenged Holbrooke's performance in East Timor and Indonesia after his speech at Brown University in 1997, Holbrooke admitted that he may have made a few mistakes: "If I made a mistake or two along the way, I'll confront it when that goes—when that comes up. No one is error-free here. But…Indonesia was an important country and remains an important country. And the solution to the problem, as I said to an earlier question, does not, in my view, involve a complete arms cut-off" ("Democracy Now!," January 28, 2008). Holbrooke told Congress on December 4, 1979 that the "welfare of the Timorese people is the major objective of our policy toward East Timor"—a blatant falsehood—and he gave Congress a highly favorable portrayal of the genocidal state. UN Security Council resolutions condemned Jakarta's invasion and occupation, but the Carter-Holbrooke team provided Jakarta with advanced counter-insurgency aircraft, which the Indonesian military employed to bomb and napalm the East Timorese, as well as diplomatic protection and steady apologetics for its genocidal pacification program. No UN Security Council resolution was adopted regarding East Timor after April 22, 1976, through the rest of the Carter era, despite the escalated killings in the years after 1976. An Australian parliamentary report later described the period as one of "indiscriminate killing on a scale unprecedented in post-World War II history."
Also suppressed in the current accolades is Holbrooke's excellent relationship and accord of views with his Bush era successor in Indonesia, Paul Wolfowitz. Holbrooke told an Italian audience back in 2000 that Wolfowitz's "recent activities illustrate…the degree to which there are still common themes between the parties," and that "Paul and I have been in frequent touch to make sure that we keep [East Timor] out of the presidential campaign, where it would do no good to American or Indonesian interests"—note his omission of East Timorese or "human rights" interests, as well as his antipathy to public democratic debate on foreign policy issues. Wolfowitz and Holbrooke clearly speak the same language, and we can understand why this collegial relationship is unmentioned in the accolades. (The quotes are from Tim Shorrock, "Paul Wolfowitz, Reagan's Man in Indonesia, Is Back at the Pentagon," Foreign Policy In Focus, February, 2001.)
Holbrooke was a high level Clinton official during the years of the "sanctions of mass destruction" imposed on Iraq, causing as many as a million civilian deaths—"more than have been slain by all so-called weapons of mass destruction throughout history" (John Mueller and Karl Mueller, "Sanctions of Mass Destruction," Foreign Affairs, May-June 1999). It goes almost without saying that Holbrooke approved the UN Charter-violating invasion/occupation of Iraq in March 2003. It is extremely clear that for this towering figure the rule of law does not apply to the United States, just as democratic forms do not require domestic elites to provide information and allow debate on foreign policy matters for the unwashed masses at home.
In quite a number of the accolades to Holbrooke in December 2010 it is mentioned that some people feel that it was unjust that, while nominated, he failed to be awarded a Nobel Peace prize. This feeling is understandable. By an institutionalized misreading of the history of the Bosnian wars, the propaganda system makes him into a peacemaker, and that same well-oiled propaganda machine does not in any way criticize him for his participation in the invasion-pacification of Vietnam, the appeasement of Suharto's genocide at home and his killing fields in East Timor, or the million-plus deaths from the sanctions of mass destruction in Iraq. So we may ask: if Kissinger and Obama can be Nobel Peace laureates, why not Richard Holbrooke, to keep the record crooked?
Edward S. Herman is an economist, media critic, and author of numerous articles and books. His latest (with David Peterson) is The Politics of Genocide.
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Jan. 7, 2013 Cal Basketball Tickets Cal Basketball Merchandise Connect with us: Facebook | Twitter Game 14 Haas Pavilion| Berkeley, Calif. Gametracker Live Stats | Premium Live Audio (Dave Lewis) California Game Notes | Stanford Game Notes BERKELEY - The 2013 edition of the "Battle of the Bay" will feature two games in five days between No. 7 California and No. 5 Stanford, beginning with a Tuesday night showdown at Haas Pavilion. Tip-off is scheduled for 7 p.m. with the game airing live on the Pac-12 Networks. Krista Blunk (play-by-play) and Mary Murphy (analyst) will handle the call as the two Bay Area teams jockey for the top position in the conference. The Bears (12-1, 2-0 Pac-12) are in the midst of the best start in program history at 12-1 and will look to end Stanford's 80-game Pac-12 winning streak. The Bears are the last team in the conference to defeat the Cardinal, a 57-54 win at Haas Pavilion on Jan. 18, 2009. Stanford (13-1, 2-0 Pac-12) will look to continue their streaks against both the Bears (nine consecutive) and against Pac-12 competition overall. The Cardinal's only loss this season came at home to then-No. 2 Connecticut. Fans can listen to Dave Lewis's live call of the game on CalBears.com's premium All-Access player for a monthly fee. A CALIFORNIA WIN VS STANFORD WOULD:
GAME RECAP: Unable to hit free throws with any consistency down the stretch, No. 7 California still found a recipe for success with some old-fashioned defense and rebounding. Brittany Boyd scored 15 points, Reshanda Gray and Afure Jemerigbe both rebounded missed free throws in the late going and Layshia Clarendon figured in a defensive stop that prevented a last-second shot as Cal hung on to beat No. 20 Colorado 53-49 Sunday. Jemerigbe and Gray added 10 points apiece for Cal, which is off to its best start ever. The Golden Bears won their sixth straight since their only loss of the season, a 77-63 setback at No. 3 Duke. IN THE RANKINGS: California holds steady at No. 7 in the Associated Press poll (The USA Today/ESPN Coaches' poll releases Tuesdays). The Bears are nearing the highest rankings since the 2008-09 team climbed as high as No. 3 in the country, a program-best mark. That team, led by Alexis Gray-Lawson, went on to advance to the NCAA Sweet 16 with a 27-8 final record. Five teams on this year's schedule - Stanford (5), Duke (4), UCLA (14), Kansas (17) and Colorado (23) - are ranked this week. NATION'S TOUGHEST STRETCH?: The Bears open Pac-12 play with possibly the toughest eight-game stretch in the country. California roughed out a win at Utah in the Pac-12 opener and hung on to defeat No. 20/25 Colorado Sunday before taking on No. 5 Stanford Tuesday - all in a span of five days. The Bears then play at Stanford five days later before hosting USC, No. 14 UCLA, No. 23 Colorado and Utah to close January. PICK YOUR WEAPON: One thing Coach Gottlieb is preaching this season is the balanced options that her team possesses on the offensive end of the court, and the numbers back up that assertion. Three Bears average double figures scoring, and the third through sixth leading scorers all average between 7.6 and 9.8 points. Six different Bears have led the team in scoring this season - marking half of Cal's games that a different player has led the team in scoring. TOP BEAR STARTS: California surpassed the 1992-93 team for the best start in program history at 10-1 with their win over George Washington two weeks ago. At 12-1, California looks to continue the run against Stanford. DON'T OVERLOOK GEN: Junior Gennifer Brandon's numbers would hardly be called modest at 12.4 points and 10.3 rebounds per game. However, given Cal's depth, the forward has averaged just 25 minutes per game. Spread her numbers out over the course of a 40-minute game, and Brandon averages 19.5 points and 16.2 rebounds. CLARENDON MOVES TO 10th ALL-TIME: Senior Layshia Clarendon surpassed Kesha Martin for 10th on the California all-time points list with her 12 against GWU. Clarendon currently sits at 1,399 career points, and is on pace to score 1,615 at the end of the regular season - a mark that would be good for sixth all-time. FOOOO: Junior Afure Jemerigbe had a first half to remember at Utah Friday night. The winger had a 10-minute stretch where she scored 11 of California's 17 points to keep the Golden Bears ahead of the Utes. Jemerigbe finished with 13 points, two shy of her season high. She backed it up with a 10-point performance at Colorado to pace the Bears on a tough road weekend. CAL ON THE BOARDS: Senior Talia Caldwell and junior Gennifer Brandon combine to make the Cal post players possibly the most dominant on the boards in the Pac-12. Caldwell is the active Pac-12 leader with 828 rebounds, and Brandon is not far behind at No. 4 on the active list with 777 boards. No other duo in the league combines for over 1,300 rebounds, let alone the 1,606 by these two. CALDWELL JUMPS UP THE BOOKS: Senior Talia Caldwell continues to climb California's all-time rebound list with each passing game for the Bears. Caldwell currently sits 7th with 828 career rebounds all-time at Cal, 27 behind Cynthia Cooke for 6th all-time. Caldwell is also just 63 points shy of becoming member No. 23 of the 1,000-point club at Cal. BRANDON'S DOUBLE-DOUBLES: Junior Gennifer Brandon's has posted six double-doubles in Cal's 13 games to open the 2012-13 season. Her double-double (17p-10r) against Lehigh in the opener was the 16th of her career, and she followed that effort with double-doubles against Saint Mary's (14p-14r), Cal Poly (18p-11r), Georgetown (13p-13r), Northwestern (11p-10r) and Kansas (17p-10r). The Sylmar native collected six double-doubles as a freshman in 2009-10 and nine double-doubles as a redshirt sophomore in 2011-12. BECOMING ELITE: The Bears speak this season of becoming one of the "elite" teams in NCAA women's basketball after seeing flashes in 2011-12 but not quite making the jump with close losses to No. 2 Stanford, No. 12 Ohio State, No. 16 Rutgers, No. 24 Texas and No. 4 Notre Dame. The first test in 2012-13 was a Georgetown team that was on the fringes of the top 25, and the Bears responded with a 72-56 victory. The Bears couldn't overcome a slow first half at No. 4 Duke in the next test, a 71-65 road victory at Northwestern and 88-79 victory over No. 19 Kansas provided those non-conference marquee victories that eluded the team last season. Cal opens Pac-12 play with a streak where 5 of 8 games are against ranked opponents - led by Sunday's 53-49 win at No. 20 Colorado. RPI: California clocks in at No. 4 in the first RPI report of the season. The Bears have played one of the country's toughest non-conference schedules and played a balanced mix of home and away games at this point in the season. BRACKETOLOGY: ESPN.com's Charlie Creme projects California as a No. 2 seed in his latest Bracketology report of the 2012-13 season. Creme anticipates four Pac-12 school making the field of 64. 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u Endangering the welfare of a child: Lindsey M. Bell, 23, of 235 Broadway, Port Ewen, was charged with misdemeanor endangering the welfare of a child, and Jesse M. Decker, 25, of 205 Glasco Turnpike, Saugerties, was charged with the misdemeanors of resisting arrest and obstructing governmental administration as well as harassment, a violation, by Ulster County sheriff's deputies at 9:05 p.m. Tuesday. Deputies said Decker had reported that when he dropped his 3-year-old child off with Bell, the child's mother, that he was "concerned that Ms. Bell was intoxicated and unable to properly care for his child and another 5-year-old" in her care. Deputies said they found Bell was intoxicated and was unaware the children had gone to a neighbor's house. During the investigation, deputies said Decker began to interfere with them and became "combative" before eventually being taken into custody. The pair was arraigned in Esopus Town Court, and each was released to reappear at a later date.
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It's all of our responsibility to listen to our youth. The work is stunning and the messages strong. If we can catch one or two in a safety net with this exhibition, then it's a success.
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Regional APIRAS Forum on RAS in Asia
We are pleased to invite you as a participant to the "Regional Forum on Strengthening Rural Advisory Services in Asia and the Pacific Islands" to be held on 14 and 15 September 2011 at the Southeast Asian Regional Center for Graduate Study and Research in Agriculture (SEARCA), University of the Philippines Los Baños (UPLB) Campus in Laguna Province, Philippines. This regional forum is jointly sponsored by SEARCA, the UPLB, and the Global Forum on Rural Advisory Services (GFRAS).
What is the aim of the upcoming APIRAS conference?
Preparation for the Organizational Meeting
Prepared and circulated among the APIRAS members a concept note on the proposed 2-days organizational meeting in Asia. The proposal has two objectives: a) to determine the best organizational configuration that will address RAS requirements over a wide diversity of countries in the region, and (b) determine the need-areas for capacity development/strengthening across diverse group of countries.


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Robb Wolf has dairy on his "no-no" list, but Mark doesn't.
Do I have that right?
I've eliminated all the grains and legumes since I started two weeks ago.
But I'm still putting about 2 TBSP of half-and-half in my morning coffee.
Is this OK . . . and what about cheese? I've been skipping it, but I'm wondering . . . what's the skinny on dairy?
There are two problems with dairy: lactose (a carbohydrate) and casein (a protein). If you are intolerent to them you should avoid the dairy products which have them.
Here's my breakdown:
Ghee (none of either)
Butter (small amounts of both casein and lactose)
Cheese (small amounts of lactose, contains casein)
Everything else (contains both protein and casein)
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Winterbike: What I eat every day is what other people eat to treat themselves.
While I could go the rest of my life never drinking a glass of milk (and sadly, actually went years without butter), I love cheese. I would have found a way to rationalize and make it primal even if it wasn't in primal limbo. Cheese is a fermented food after all. I wouldn't eat those blocks of rubbery stuff or any cheese that ends in "z," but those nice gooey stinky cheeses from goats, sheep, and even cows - oh yeah. I give myself a cheese day every other week (at least). Big cheese day. Like that's all I eat that day.
What was the question?
If you don't have dairy issues, have at it, but stick to full fat (raw is best if it's available to you or non-homogonized if raw isn't available). I use only organic when it comes to dairy. 18 or 35% creams in my coffee, full-fat sour cream, cheese, butter, etc... I have dairy daily. I don't have issues with it and absolutely love it. If you suspect that you might, cut it out for a bit and see if you feel better.
Starting Weight: 208 lbs
Current Weight: 166.8 lbs
I haven't drunk milk since I was a kid.
Cheese is the big one for me. I'm not lactose intolerant (that I know of). I also put just enough half and half in my coffee to turn it from black to dark brown. I suppose I could try some organic heavy cream. Or Irish butter, which I'd like to try also.
I've been mostly paleo for about two weeks. After seeing a post about the 21-day challenge, I decided I would eliminate beer and cheese for the 21-days (starting yesterday 9-18-12). These are my main paleo (primal--I assume these terms are interchangeable?) weaknesses, especially my 1-2 IPAs with dinner.
I have occasional access to raw goat's milk, which I enjoy. But, at $5 a quart, it certainly won't be a regular part of my diet. In addition to the taste, drinking raw milk for me is a statement of my personal sovereignty.
Thanks for the responses!
Rob W and Mark don't really advocate it, but if you drink milk. Make sure it's raw. Paleo Doctors - Chris Kressler and Cate Shannahan are strong proponents of raw milk. Again, if you can tolerate it, it can be very good for you. Luckily, I live in western Mass I get raw milk for only 5 bucks per gallon.
From what I can tell, paleo = animals, fish, veg, limited fruit and nuts. Primal = paleo + dairy if you can tolerate it + other lifestyle benefits (fitness, stress reduction, sleep).
You make your choices, and you live with them. In the end, you are those choices.
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Within the Primal plan, it seems to be a personal choice. If you tolerate it and want it, you can probably do fine with it. Raw milk from a grass-fed cow is obviously the best choice. The last time I drank straight milk, that's where I got it. I don't drink straight milk from the grocery store, but I do still use cream, butter, and cheese. I feel so much better just from the changes I have already made, I don't feel the need to eliminate it, even though there's a possibility that would help me get rid of this last little bit of stubborn belly fat. But I would feel sad and deprived without cream, butter, cheese and yogurt, so I choose to keep it in my diet. This lifestyle isn't sustainable if you can't enjoy yourself.


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Inishowen Donegal - Ireland WestDoagh Famine Village tells the story of a Donegal family and community living on the edge of Donegal and surviving from Famine times right up to the present day. A visit here also helps explain the road to peace in Northern Ireland, Ireland in the 'Celtic Tiger' years and the current economic collapse. Doagh Famine Village contains a wide selection of actual size attractions, including some original dwellings which were still inhabited up to 20 years ago. In fact, the centre has been built around the home of the owner who lived here with his family until 1983. By then, living in a thatched cottage was no longer fashionable and today this building tell of the subsistence way of life on Doagh Island. Some of the Famine Village's buildings – such as the Orange Hall, Presbyterian Meeting House, Mass Rock and Hedge School and a Republican Safe House – depict the diverse history and culture of this corner of the Inishowen peninsula. Other buildings house information on the travelling community's culture and other Irish traditions such as food, cures and the 'Irish Wake', a traditional send-off for the dead. Doagh Famine Village is designed to suit Irish weather and is predominantly under cover.
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Berkeley Institute principal to retire next year
The search is on for a new principal at the Berkeley Institute to replace Michelle Simmons on her retirement in June next year, marking the end of close to 20 years as principal.
Head of the schools Board of Governors, Craig Bridgewater said: Under her leadership the School has undergone a huge transition as it evolved into a comprehensive learning institution and relocated to a new state of the art facility.
Mrs Simmons set international standards and challenged faculty and students to achieve academic excellence, said Mr Bridgewater.
The new post holder will be responsible to the Board of Governors for the academic leadership and day-to-day management of the school.
The Board will consult with parents, teachers, students, the Ministry of Education and the business community as part of the recruitment process.
These are our stakeholders and our aim with the stakeholder consultation phase is to ensure that we have their input in refining the skills and knowledge criteria required by a new Principal to ensure that we can achieve even greater student success in accordance with international standards in the future, he said.
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Over the course of 2011's momentous Arab Spring uprisings, young women in Egypt, Tunisia, Libya, Bahrain and Yemen used social media and cyberactivism to carve out central roles in the revolutionary struggles under way in their countries, according to a new study commissioned by Rice University's Baker Institute for Public Policy.
The study, "Unveiling the Revolutionaries: Cyberactivism and Women's Role in the Arab Uprisings," explores the activism of several key figures, including Egypt's Esraa Abdel Fattah, who became widely known as "Facebook girl," as well Libya's Danya Bashir, Bahrain's Zeinab and Maryam al-Khawaja and Tunisia's Lina Ben Mhenni, who became known as the uprising's "Twitterati," dubbed by influential media and pundits as "must-follows."
The paper was written by Courtney Radsch, a doctoral candidate in international relations at American University and an internationally recognized expert on social media, citizen journalism and activism in the Middle East.
Exploring such contexts as political rights and elections, the public sphere, sexual violence against women as well as post-revolution developments, Radsch shows how these and other women transcended and broke with traditional gender roles and communication methods to help organize virtual protests as well as street demonstrations; these women also played bridging roles with the mainstream media and helped to ensure that the 24-hour news cycle always had a source at the ready.
"Not only have cyberactivism and social-media platforms shifted the power dynamics of authoritarian Arab governments and their citizenry, but it has also reconfigured power relations between the youth who make up the majority of the population and the older generation of political elite, who were overwhelmingly male and often implicated in the perpetuation of the status quo," Radsch said.
"While women and men struggle valiantly to bring about political change, these women cyberactivists stand out for their use of new media technologies and access to platforms that transcended national boundaries and created bridges with transnational media and activist groups."
Radsch cautions against viewing her findings outside of current developments in the Middle East; she points to widespread, post-revolution crackdowns on pro-reform activists in countries swept up by the Arab Spring. "The struggle to consolidate revolution and enact meaningful reforms remains a challenge that young women will continue to be involved in, and (they will) undoubtedly continue to use new media technologies to participate in and influence the future trajectory of their countries," she said.
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Rice University: http://media.rice.edu
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The Bellingham School Board voted to close Larrabee Elementary School Thursday, May 9, and it was an upsetting decision for some in the Larrabee community.
Four Larrabee supporters spoke at that meeting, and a few of them hinted that if Larrabee was closed, the school's supporters might be unwilling to vote for an upcoming bond to support updating and rebuilding at a variety of schools in the district. Included in that bond would be rebuilding nearby Happy Valley Elementary and doing some updates at Lowell.
Happy Valley Neighborhood Association board member and Larrabee volunteer Wendy Scherrer told the board she thought a lot of people would be against the bond if Larrabee closed and described the closure as a total betrayal of the community.
Community member Hue Beattie told the board that the closure would be a waste, and that instead, they should add an elevator to the school and revisit the subject in 10 years.
"You're going to make a lot of enemies in this district if you do it," he said of the closure.
Board member Scott Stockburger, who was the sole vote against the closure, said that he worried that the district runs the risk of alienating the Larrabee community before the bond comes up to vote.
When asked by board member Steve Smith what will happen if the board votes to close Larrabee and then the bond fails, Superintendent Greg Baker said that Larrabee would still close. He said that Happy Valley and Lowell would still have room to take Larrabee's students without the rebuild and updates the bond would cover.
Read the full story from the board meeting here.
Is the Larrabee closure going to affect how you'll vote on the bond when it's on the ballot?
A Mount Baker School District bus went partially into a ditch on Mount Baker Highway at about 12:45 p.m. Wednesday, May 8, but no one was injured in the crash, Superintendent Charlie Burleigh said.
Burleigh was still collecting information about the crash but said it sounded like a wheel of the bus may have gone into a ditch. He thought it happened near Everson-Goshen Road, but dispatches on the police scanner listed it as near Noon Road.
Another bus was sent out to pick up the students and take them home, and Burleigh said the goal is to just tow the bus out of the ditch. The bus was partially blocking the highway.
A meeting of a teachers at Pine Eagle Charter School in rural Oregon was interrupted by masked gunmen who opened fire on the group Friday, April 26, according to an article in The Oregonian.
Unbeknownst to the teachers, the gunmen were firing blanks and the shooting was all part of a drill to test the school's active shooter preparedness during an in-service day when students were at home.
According to the Oregonian, Principal Cammie DeCastro said not many of the teachers would have survived if the drill were real.
The surprised staff had received training from the Union County Sheriff's Office on active shooter scenarios. They had been told they had some options, such as not rushing out of their classrooms when gunfire erupted, and locking and barricading their doors.
They weren't expecting a drill like this, and they were caught by surprise when the two men entered and began firing.
DeCastro said some people in the town were upset about the drill, but she thought it was valuable. The school board will now consider safety policies, including whether to allow armed teachers or to get armed and trained volunteers from the community to watch the school in shifts.
Read the full story in The Oregonian here.
What do you think of this extreme shooter drill? Does getting fake shot during a meeting really help teachers keep students any safer?
Bellingham Superintendent Greg Baker has endorsed the closure of Larrabee Elementary School, but the school board will have to vote to approve the closure before it's official.
The board could vote at its meeting Thursday, May 9, the day after a school board public hearing about the potential closure.
Read the full article about the hearing here.
For the district's rationale and analysis of the closure, click here.
What are your thoughts about the potential closure of Larrabee?
American Legion Post 7 is hosting an informational meeting Sunday, April 28, about the Legion's Junior Shooting Sports Program.
The program is open to kids 12 through 18 and combines a gun safety and basic marksmanship course with a qualification awards course and an air rifle competition course.
The informational meeting will be held at 2 p.m. Sunday at the post, 1688 W. Bakerview Road. Registration for the course starts Sunday. Adults interested in volunteering to coach can also attend the meeting.
People can start voting today for a Sehome High School senior's cow creation in the Lucerne Art of Dairy contest.
Rachel Roberts created a factory out of a life-sized cow form for her "Moochanical Moochine" entry. She's one of nine finalists in the running for $20,000 for her school's art department, $5,000 for herself and $5,000 for her teacher.
It's a pretty cool sculpture.
Read the full story about her entry here.
Vote for her entry here.
In Rochelle, Ga., segregation still exists when it comes to prom night.
Wilcox County High School students can either go to an integrated prom or a white prom, according to local news station WSAV. A group of students had to fight to create an integrated prom.
According to the article:
Neither proms are financed by or allowed to take place at Wilcox County High School. The students said that when they pushed for one prom, the school offered a resolution to permit an integrated prom that would allow all students to attend but not stop segregated proms.
You can read the full article here.
Can you believe this town has a whites-only prom?
More than a dozen Whatcom County schools have received 2012 Washington Achievement Awards, according to the Office of the Superintendent of Public Instruction.
The awards were announced Wednesday, April 3, with 381 winners selected using the state's Achievement Index and the Elementary and Secondary Education Act Flexibility Waiver.
Here are the local winners:
For overall excellence: Columbia, Cascadia, Sunnyland and Nooksack elementaries and Nooksack Valley High School.
For language arts: Cascadia and Nooksack elementaries.
For math: Sehome and Squalicum high schools.
For science: Alderwood, Carl Cozier, Central, Columbia, Nooksack, Silver Beach and Sunnyland elementaries.
For extended graduation rates: Lynden High School.
For closing achievement gaps: Isom and Bernice Vossbeck elementaries and Lynden High School.
Click here to see the full list of winners.
A report sponsored by the National Rifle Association has recommended that schools allow select staffers to train to carry weapons at school.
The study, called the National School Shield report, was headed by a former Republican congressman and was released as a response to school safety concern's following December's Sandy Hook shooting.
The study – unveiled at a news conference watched over by several burly, NRA-provided guards – made eight recommendations, including easing state laws that might bar a trained school staff member from carrying firearms and improving school coordination with law enforcement agencies. But drawing the most attention was its suggested 40- to 60-hour training for school employees who pass background checks to also provide armed protection while at work.
Read the full NRA-sponsored report here.
What do you think of the suggestions in the study?
Two seats on the Blaine School Board are up for election this November for any district residents interested in running.
One of the seats is for District 3, currently held by Susan Holmes and including a large portion of Birch Bay. The other seat is for District 5, represented by Mike Dodd and including property in the city of Blaine and outside city limits.
People can see which director district they live in here. The filing period for the positions is May 13-17. Filing can be done online or in person at the Whatcom County Auditor's Office or online.


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The Home Depot®, world's largest home improvement retailer, announced today the launch of its "Doing Nation," a special spring initiative on Facebook that allows consumers to turn their outdoor projects into cash for a good cause. The program runs from April 12, 2012 through May 24, 2012, with the potential of up to $125,000 being donated to four nonprofit organizations serving U.S. military veterans and their families: Fisher House Foundation, Operation Homefront, U.S.Vets and Volunteers of America.
To participate, consumers can go to The Home Depot or The Home Depot Foundation's Facebook page, or directly to apps.facebook.com/doingnation, and choose how many of the six easy and fun outdoor projects they want to tackle. Once their project is completed, consumers simply upload a photo of their creation and select which organization they would like to receive $100. The Home Depot Foundation will donate up to $25,000 to each of the four nonprofits for projects completed in their honor, and will double the total amount for the organization that receives the most projects.
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LEOMINSTER residents will get the chance to have their say on the potential impact of two planned supermarkets in the town.
Sainsbury's wants to build an edge-of- town store at Mill Street with Thomas Panels and Profiles having to make way from the site should the idea be passed.
Developer Morbaine Ltd, meanwhile, has applied for a 45,000 square foot food store on Southern Avenue for an unnamed chain.
The Friends of Leominster group is holding a public discussion at the town's Royal Oak Hotel next Thursday, January 17, from 7pm.
Guest speaker will be Richard Hadley from the group Ledbury Opposes Out-of-town Superstores.
"This is a big issue for Leominster and it merits public discussion," said Friends' spokesman Pete Blench.
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When do you move your child up to the bigger car seat?
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It is extremely important to keep your little one strapped into their car seat. So what can you do when they figure out how to get themselves out?
I didn't have to hit my child to keep her in her car seat. I don't have to hit her to teach her anything. I put the fear into her with immediately pulling over to the side of the road, getting out of the drivers seat opening her door and raising my voice with a scary face. She never did it again!
Lindsay - commented on Jul 6, 2012
agree'ed! I have 2 kids 5 and 2 and never once have they tried to unbuckle themselves...I stress how important it is to keep those seat belts locked and secure. and if they did try to unbuckle or sit unsafely that I would do the same pull over....look very stern...and tell them the rash reality of what could happen if their not buckled. no hitting required!!!!!!!
Honestly I would probably spank her butt. First time would be a warning, but after that, I would spank her butt and buckle her back in. I'd much rather her fear me, than for her to unbuckle it and I didn't notice, and get in a crash. I haven't had any issues and good ol Dora has taught her we buckle our seat-belts "So we can be safe!" So my daughter insists on seat-belts, every time there is a belt that can be buckled. Can't complain about that.
My daughter couldn't figure out how to undo the buckle if it were backward.. So I would just twist is before buckling so the button is on the bottom and harder to undo.
Carly - commented on Jul 4, 2012
Good idea, I will try that one, I'm not sure if it works back to front though. You know how the adult ones only go in one way.
Buy a britax? I know they are pricey but it is all I have ever had other than an infant seat when my daughter was first born. Britax buckles are tight. I taught my kids how to undo them due to the fact of kids being trapped in cars, and I worried when others took them and wanted them to be able to get out if need be. My kids were not physically strong enough until much older to undo the buckles. My daughter was 5 and a half and my son just got it this summer, he is 4 and a half and stronger than my daughter. But they know they can't unbuckle while the car is on. Even in parking lots, etc. They unbuckle once we are in the driveway. Honestly I think some of the suggestions about turning the buckles and covering them are dangerous. Any altering of the car seat can make it ineffective in an accident. Only items approved the maker of your car seat should be used. Now if they make something, then great otherwise I would teach the child the dangers of it and make sure you stop the car every-time it happens and administer consequences immediately. Or invest in a different seat they can't undo, try them in the store first. See if he can get out of it in the store, the store ones are pretty broken in so you should easily be able to tell.
Rebecca - commented on Jul 5, 2012
I don't think it matters too much on the brand. I do appreciate the 2nd half of your post. As a parent we have to insist that the buckles are fastened. There needs to be a consequence for them unbuckling them.
my lo has been able to escape most straps since before he hit 1. What we had to do was try to teach him how dangerous it was to get out of his car seat
my twin boys use to do the same thing. oh it drove me crazy, i would have to pull over to buckle them back up 3 to 5 times a day. i took a couple of old socks cut a small hole in the toe end and put the metal part of the buckle through it. then safety pined the the other end to the strap so the button to unbuckle was covered up. now the boys are almost 4 and i have no issues with it.
The best thing is to keep them in a 5 point harness as long as possible! They make carseats/boosters that have a 5 point harness that goes to 80 lbs plus, then they can be converted to a regular buckle booster. By the time they are larger sized you will be able to explain and they will better understand why and how to sit with there seatbelts on. I work at Public Health with a carseat installer/expert. Every time I buy a new carseat I ask for her advice and help with installation. Car seat safety is so impartant. It is much more difficult to push the buttons on the 5 point harness' then a regular seat belt. They can cost a bit more and may be a bit more inconvient at times but for the safety of kids I think its worth it to keep them in the safest seat for them. I have the nice 5 point harness sets in our cars then have just a buckle booster for days with the grandparents so I can keep my 5 point in our car correctly installed and don't have to take it out for just day trips with families.
Renae - commented on Jul 7, 2012
If they are able to unbuckle the 5 point harness I agree with trying another seat my son is 4 and cannot undo his evenflo seat. Also teaching safety is important- Dora says "seatbelts so we can be safe" and so do most other cartoons so if you watch a cartoon and see them put on there seatbelts, stop and explain the lesson to your child, making sure they caught the lesson. :)
My daughter started unbuckling herself a few times when she was 2. I explained it was dangerous so she stopped unbuckling herself and started unbuckling her baby brother. So I fussed at her and explained how her actions could kill her baby brother. She didn't do it again and he never even tried. Use your words, you don't have to hit children. No one ever learned anything good being hit.
Marilyn - commented on Jul 13, 2012
When my son unbuckled himself the first time, I scold him, telling him of the dangers. The second time, I spanked (not hit, there IS a difference). I'd rather cause him a little tears and keep him safe, than to shed tears if he is hurt, or worse, in an accident because I choose to sparespare the rod.
Well my son is 4Yrsold now and he has been doing this off and on from the age of about 2, and he is a tiny little man and still insists on wiggling his way out without unbuckling despite pulling over and rebuckling him back up. I was told that by pulling off to rebuckle him is giving him attention that he wants and thats why they do it,so i was told NOT to say anything,do anything and don't make eye contact,just buckle them up and walk away,and explain later about the safety part of it, It has worked for some time but he gets off track. So when i had my second son(who is 2 now and doesn't have those intentions) i bought a brand new seat for him the Evenflo with the sliding harness(although its the same seat) i have given that one to my 4 yr old and so far he has not been able to get out of it (thank goodness!)... so now i feel he is much safer i have no worries and hope that it stays that way!..so thank you for this question..i now feel that i am not alone,i have asked about this to many people and not much advice i have been given..
My son is 3 years 3 months old. I can't remember exactly when he stated getting his arms out of the straps, never "unbuckled" anything but would put the straps behind his arms (even with the straps so tight i dont know HOW he manages) I also "spank" or have "spanked" him for it after all else fails, i see a lot getting offended saying "Hit" where there IS a difference.....nothing wrong with an old fashioned spanking (though its a tough debate for many, so be it) anyways, i dont even spank much when it comes to the car seat situation, numerous times i've pulled over when it was safe if he refused to do it, he'll STILL put the straps behind his arms but generally it takes once or twice of kindly telling him to please put them back on, and after explaining how dangerous it is to NOT have them on.
Jess - commented on Jul 22, 2012
and yes, i TELL him to please to it, not ASK.....when it comes to safety, no need to give room for toddler arguments to ask them to do it, they NEED to. Hope everyone else's solutions work as well =) cant ever be too safe with precious cargo!
This is something that I have struggled with, with my son. We went through 3 car seats because he continued to unbuckle it, despite pulling over to the side of the road, repeatedly telling him it was unsafe. Our latest car seat is a Spongebob car seat. It is larger with cup holders. We emphasized that it is a big boy seat. If he continued to unbuckle it, we were going to have to switch over to a baby seat again. Now, periodically he will unbuckle it, but it doesn't seem as frequent as it once was. We still pull over and get him to buckle it up.
My daughter can wiggle her arms out of the straps then free herself totally by standing up.. I've tried everything to keep her in there but nothing seems to work. I've talked to her, put her in time out, shouted at her but seriously nothing is working.. My daughter is almost 2 but is the size of a 5 months old so she still sits in the rear facing infant carseat. Please help because I've run out of ideas and even though I tighten the straps until there's no more room, she gets out by the time I sit in the driver's seat. HELP!
My eldest discovered very quickly about his car seat. Thankfully, that car seat was a reversable one and I had had to buy another car seat for baby number 2, again reversable but that wasn't necessary. I just put toddler number 1 in baby nnumber 2's seat and vice versa. Then it was ME having trouble unlocking the seat belt. NOW, all but number 4 are in regular seat belts and number 4 is not interested in undoing his because it means he's going somewhere. But if they don't have their seatbelts on by the time Ive reversed up our very steep driveway, the car comes to a very quick stop - they then move quick smart to get them on. It is hard for them when the baby seat isn't in the car because the two rear side passenger belts are the 'safety' ones that won't move on a slope so they have two chances. One when they get into the car and once at the top of the drive while I make sure no traffic is coming. Number 4 is really too big for his baby seat so I'll be buying a new booster seat and at the same time two of those three point (?) harnesses, one for him and one for number three who gets stuck with the lap-belt on the school run if the car seat is still in place. I also say that if I get caught with them not having seatbelts on then the police will take all my money by giving me a fine and that means NO treats whatsoever for the rest of the year :-)
The best thing I found was get a piece of fabric 2 by 2 or whatever will cover the clip and attach velcro on the ends then you just fasten it with velcro behind the clip that way no worry if there was an acciden. The other thing i did was take some denim and just covered the part you squeezed with it. The fabricis too tough for my little one to squeeze through and open but mot for me. Hope that helps!
My 3 year old can contort her body to wriggle up and out of her seat still done up. I bought a Houdini Stop Chest Clip which impedes her ability to get out sometimes. But the only way to make her want to sit in her seat is to bribe her with chocolate frogs. It worked 90% of the time. I must buy some more as she started doing it again ALL the time.
My LO started getting out of the top buckle whe she was about 18mt and it scared me to death. Even if I stopped and rebuckled it and pulled it as tight as I could she was back out again in 5 min!! I took a strap that was made to hold my purse on to the stroller handle. I attach it above the top strap and she can't undo that one, therefore she can't undo the car seat strap. It has been such a relief!!


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Adj. To be sneaky, bold and conduct oneself with a nonchalant disregard for the rules n. Jones- a merry trickster particularly adept at sneaky behavior and at times theft. (Such activity when conducted by a jonesie person is preformed with a marked nonchalance and playfulness.) Damn, if I'd been jonesier I totally would have stolen that goat.