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Re: Nomination of Justice For Children Foundation Inc. for the 12th Annual Justice Robert Benham Awards for Community Service.
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My name is Elaine Watson and I would like to lend my support for Justice For Children Foundation/Howard Spiva for this award. I worked for Howard as his legal assistant for 25 years, as a supporter of Justice For Children, and I am his sister. No one else is better qualified to tell you the story behind Justice For Children Foundation Inc. In order to give you adequate information, I have to tell you the story behind the foundation and it's creator, Howard Spiva.
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He created a non-profit organization called Justice For Children Foundation Inc. early in his legal career. He also created a seminar company called The "Best School". All though the school was not a non-profit, he used it to educate and help people. It never really made any money, but it sure gave a lot to the community. With these organizations, Howard had opportunities to give to what he called "his community", "his roots" in Savannah. Howard believed that was a requirement, to give back.
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Hundreds of people who have gone to his classes which were always either free or for a small donation for some of the local businesses, such as the small business chamber of Savannah and surrounding counties, YMCA, local real estate organizations, high schools and colleges in Savannah.
Howard would speak at high schools and colleges in the hopes of helping kids understand that school and education was important and how they could be or do what ever they desired if they worked hard and believed in themselves.
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The name of his school…The B.E.S.T. School… stands for Building Extraordinary Success today. Those are his beliefs. His students will tell you that he is an extraordinary teacher. He has shown people of all ages from grammar school to college graduates, business professionals and less educated people how to excel in anything they want.
Because of his logo for his law practice over the years, Howard has been teased by some lawyers that he is going for the "Super Lawyer" image.
But they are all wrong, Howard never tried to be a super lawyer. But in my book, Howard is the real "Super Man" and "a true believer". The fighter against evil and injustice and the crusader for the people, not just as a lawyer, or teacher but as the great man he has become today with his Justice For Children Foundation Inc.
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- This article is about an Earth King during the time of Avatar Kyoshi. For other similar uses, see Earth King (disambiguation).
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The 46th Earth King ruled about 250 years prior to the Hundred Year War. Strong-willed and imperious, the Earth King had little support from his people, and his reign was marked by many challenges to his rule which severely tested the Earth Kingdom's government. The most serious of these was a rebellion led by Chin the Conqueror, a warlord from the country's far northwest. Chin easily conquered all of the kingdom, with the exception of Ba Sing Se and the Kyoshi peninsula, and only his death at the hands of Avatar Kyoshi halted his movements to consolidate the empire under himself.
The government's inability to deal with Chin's rebellion did, however, have repercussions. Its massive losses led the citizens to realize many of the government's failures, and popular sentiment grew into the belief that the monarchy was outdated and did not support the people's interests. In Ba Sing Se, this belief led to a peasant uprising, which intended to topple the Earth King in favor of a "new government". Thousands of peasants stormed the Upper Ring, destroying anything that represented the "old government", and they surrounded the Earth King's palace, demanding he be removed from his position.[1]
Realizing he was unable to handle the revolt, the Earth King summoned Avatar Kyoshi to his court and ordered her to keep the populace in line. Kyoshi refused, and demanded the King listen to his people. Outraged by her audacity, the Earth King ordered her arrest, but the fully realized Avatar easily defeated the King's guards. Powerless against the might of the Avatar, the Earth King complied and had no other choice than to give in to Kyoshi's request to hear the peasants' complaints. In return, Kyoshi would protect the King's interests and Ba Sing Se's cultural heritage by training an elite force of earthbenders in the art of stealth, silence, and precision. This group became known as the Dai Li.[1]
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- Kuei (fourth great-grandson)
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- ↑ 1.0 1.1 1.2 1.3 Escape from the Spirit World: Avatar Kyoshi Online Comic Book.
- ↑ "Avatar Day". John O'Bryan (writer) & Lauren MacMullan (director). Avatar: The Last Airbender. Nickelodeon. April 28, 2006. No. 5, Book Two: Earth


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In what the firm's CEO characterized as another step toward national dominance, the national RIA partnership announced Wednesday it has added its first office in the Pacific Northwest, acquiring Seattle�s Paragon Investment Management.
Paragon, which was founded in 1991 by Shari Burns, has more than $1 billion in assets under management and targets high-net-worth investors. United Capital's top executive, Joe Duran, said in an interview that the acquisition gives United Capital �national coverage� for its high-net-worth clients. United Capital has offices in Bethesda, Md., and Chicago that also focus on high-net-worth individuals.
Duran said the acquisition fills a �gaping hole� as United Capital expands nationally. In 2013, he said he expects to increase its total offices to 50 from 41 as it looks to add offices in specific states. �We need to add in Arizona and Oregon and we could also add in the Midwest in St. Louis,� Duran said. �We have clearly got a national footprint now, but now we want to start filling in through recruiting.�
In 2012, United Capital added five offices. As of Jan. 1, it and its affiliates oversees $15 billion in assets, of which it manages $8 billion.
This year, Duran said the company plans to aggressively expand its business model, and its brand -- aiming to look more like Starbucks and less like rivals HighTower and Dynasty Financial.
�Our model is Starbucks,� said Joe Duran, United Capital�s founder and chief executive officer. �Everyone thinks they are �coffee� and we are �investments,� but we are both in the experience business. That is what we are creating. A national experience built around wealth management advice.�
This year, the national partnership of private wealth counseling offices plans to add advisors and �really push on the retail level,� Duran said.
�Our competitors are Edelman and the Mutual Fund Store,� he said. �HighTower and Dynasty and Focus are not our competition. We want to be less investment-centric and more advice-centric ... [and] we want to present one unified model to clients nationally.�
Last year, United Capital hired three executives to recruit advisors with between $50 million and $100 million in assets under management. �These advisors are big enough to have stand-alone offices,� Duran said, � but, we expect they will help us expand measurably.�
Through this recruiting initiative, United Capital added five advisors in the fourth quarter. Duran said the company aims to recruit 20 to 30 advisors to existing offices this year, adding between $500 million to $1 billion in assets under management.
�We are very bullish about this initiative,� he said. �We can add advisors without purchasing firms. We plan to add four to five new, physical locations in 2013 and two to three of those we will fill with people we recruit.�
Duran sounds bullish about his plans for 2013. �This year will bear fruit for United Capital,� he said. �We plan to be the dominant, national wealth management counseling firm. We know we have to invest in that and think big. We plan to spend millions on branding and marketing to help our offices grow.�


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Obviously, many wine merchants and supermarkets will deliver wine to you – by mail or other means – and, with most retailers having an on-line presence, the definition of "mail order" is very blurred these days. But there are differences in what the purely mail order and online merchants and wine clubs do, chief among them being that often the wines are "pre-selected" and if that sounds alarming it's because most of the time it is. The sector – with about 5% of the UK market – is bestridden by Direct Wines, set up by Tony Laithwaite in 1969. They run The Sunday Times Wine Club, Telegraph Wines, Averys, British Airways Executive Wine Club, Virgin Wines – which was started by Rowan Gormley, who now runs Naked Wines – and of course Laithwaite's itself (formerly Bordeaux Direct). I'm relieved that their Barclaycard Wine Service appears to be defunct because even the idea of having a credit card company that charges up to 27.9% interest against a base rate of half of one per cent choosing anybody's wine gives me the willies. Dunno if the Richard and Judy Wine Club is still going. Don't care either.
All of them have some good wines but they're unlikely to send them if you don't ask for them – why would they? Importantly, there has been a uptick in quality generally from some of their outfits and the fact that – to the astonishment of many in the trade – a couple of years ago Laithwaite's took a delivery of their own in the form of Justin Howard-Sneyd MW from Waitrose, where as head of wine he took their list from primus inter pares among the grocers to nobody-in-second-place. Hopefully this signalled a seriousness of intent as far as quality is concerned. They don't generally do anything much under six quid – presumably distribution costs are too high. (From Laithwaite's, try Alegria Old Vines Cariñena £6.99, Alma Andina Torrontès- Sauvignon Blanc £7.99, Giesta Dão 2010 £6.99 – all by-the-case prices. A few favourites from Virgin: Ca' di Ponti Grillo Sicily £6.99; Araldica Piemonte Barbera £6.99 Hans Lang Rhengau Riesling Kabinett Trocken £10.99; Juan Gil Monastrell £9.99).
I haven't tried anything at all from Naked as they don't seem to have much under 7 quid unless you subscribe as an "Angel" and agree to a regular £20 payment per month. The angel angle is that they "invest in independent winemakers" and the regular payment means you "get better wines for supporting winemakers directly." Hmmm.
The original mail order merchant, The Wine Society, is a very different kettle of fish. Founded as a co-operative company in 1874 by a "committee of gentlemen" at the Albert Hall with the purpose of purchasing wines in "unadulterated condition" direct from the producers and offering them to the membership at the lowest possible price, it still does the very same. Another of the `Objects of the Society' was `To introduce foreign wines hitherto unknown or but little known in this country' and they were selling Californian Zinfandels and Australian wines 100 years ago, which is rather impressive. Anyone can join but forget the Groucho Marx line about not wanting to join any club that would have him – the quality of the wines is very high. My own Eureka! moment with wine was a Sancerre from the Wine Soc which had – alongside the usual quality of being a reasonably efficient inebriant – the hitherto unknown one of being completely delicious.
The Society's White Burgundy is a fine thing for £7.50 and tells you everything you need to know about their standards. Down – but not dirty – at the Grogan's Heroes price-level their Chilean Merlot (£5.95) is made by Concha y Toro's charming and dynamic (no, I don't fancy him – well, not much anyway) Marcelo Papa. He's one of the most important winemakers on the planet right now – one of a small number of people who are changing everything and I doubt that anybody makes more wine better than he does. It's a big, fresh, rich, bright, saturated, minerally, fruit-cakey thing but not at all o.t.t. As for his Chilean Chardonnay – from cool-breezy Limarí - I just hope I don't get given it to taste blind because I might get carried away.
Of the new(ish) wave of internet-only merchants, Swig and Slurp stand out (they're separate entities, as evidenced by the third person plural, and anyway who would name their business with a tautology?). I felt a little thrill when I clicked on Swig's "Best Sellers" list and the first item on it was A.A. Badenhorst's "Secateurs" Chenin Blanc from South Africa – sad, or what? – but it was one of the most exciting wines I tasted last year. According to their search criteria prices start at £7.95 so they won't be troubling Grogan's Heroes at the moment but they do have some very nice wine.
You can tell an awful lot about a wine by the company it keeps (and vice-versa) and although I don't know much about Slurp I do know quite a few of their (relative) cheapies from some of our Local Hero merchants – Ancora, Alpha Zeta and A Mano among them. Blimey, that's just the 'A's! I'd better get on to them sharpish – see you later!


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Academic Interests: Promoting Women's Health Qualitative Research Multicultural Education Nursing History Health Care Policy And Politics.
Teaching Activities: BNURS 430 - A&B Interpersonal Relationships in Nursing BNURS 409 - Nursing Strategies for Community as Client BNURS 504 - Disparity and Social Justice in Health Care
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Puzan, E. (2003). The unbearable whiteness of being (In nursing). Nursing Inquiry. 10(2).
McGrath, B & Puzan, E. (2003). Gender disparities in health: Attending to the particulars. Nursing clinics of North America 37: 37-51.
Puzan, E. Factors promoting retention in longitudinal research (in progress)
Puzan, E. (1997). Re-writing Midlife: Stories of Women's Health. Unpublished doctoral dissertation, University of Massachusetts, Amherst.
12th Annual Feminist and Critical Theory Conference, Portland, ME. November 2002: Reproducing unbearable whiteness in Nursing.
Axer Conference, Seattle University, February 2001: Deconstructing health data.
11th Annual Feminist and Critical Theory Conference, San Diego, CA. October 2000. Where are the Nurses?
Qualitative Health Research Conference, Banff, Alberta, April 2000: Uncovering Women's Stories of Health at Midlife.
Feminist Reflections Conference, Seattle, WA. February 2000: Transcending Silence: Publicizing the Private Voice of Nursing.
Qualitative Health Research Conference, Vancouver, B.C., February 1998: Narrative Inquiry in Women's Health Research.
Critical and Feminist Theory International Conference, Vancouver, B.C., June 1997: Stories of Women at Midlife.
Sigma Theta Tau Research Conference, Holyoke, MA, March 1997: Stories as Method in Women's Health Research.
Critical and Feminist Theory International Conference, Pittsburgh, PA. October 1996: Critical Focus on Community Nursing/Writing as Political Engagement.
Oct. 2003, Arlie, Virginia--Nurses and Narratives; June 2004: Lewis & Clark College, Portland OR--Writing Culture.
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9. | Indie Kids | ||
A child who follows what they are told through the 3 divine indie mandates, NME, The mighty boosh and Radio 1. Generally dressed in awful clothes that are too thing, short or smell like piss. Love to go to concerts where everyband name begins with the word "the" whilst telling everyone else there that "I knew who they were before you ALLL". A step above scene but a step below chav, however indie kids will have characteristics of both social groups such as stupid fringes and inability to interact with other normal people. Most likely spotted at a kings of leon concert giving devil horns and saying "omg this is the best shit ever, I wish I could play that bland 2 chord song on my guitar". Whilst us normal kids are pounding your girlfriend and getting her pregnant. Most likely to insult metal, rap or rock and roll but have no valid reasons as to why it's bad.. generally listen to dull 2 chord songs which all revolve lyrically about being in love with someone who doesn't love you anymore because you took too long to tell them about your love and they are now in a relationship with someone else, most likely your best friend... the girl will be called something stupid like "rose" or "ruby". Indie kid: You like shit music, I love the Arctic monkeys because nobody has heard of them
Normal: Never of heard of them probably because they're shit? Indie kid: NOOOOO YOU DON'T GET IT *2 weeks later* Indie kids: Arctic monkeys are shit, everyone likes them now. |
1. | indie kids | ||
Mainly teenagers who all share a common love for the arts and music. They listen to many bands most people haven't heard of and tend to dress however they want, usually ruling out the rules of fashion. One may see these "indie kids" in a local coffee shop, art gallery, or thrift store. These people aren't "emo". They also tend to wear warm neutral tones as opposed to black. They are fairly reserved and tend to be open minded as well as opinionated. here are some examples of what indie kids look like and listen to:
www.myspace.com/deathcabforcutie www.myspace.com/vampireweekend |
2. | Indie Kids | ||
The Teens who aren't mainstream, listen to Indie and Alternative music, no defining clothing or style, can be anyone and look like anything. Ranging from hippies to social outcasts. Most people have a very narrow-minded veiw on Indie Kids because they don't necesserily like their music so they tend to make generalised and insulting comments about their clothing and what they do. "Dude, is that guy listening to Faker?" "Yeah, he must be one of those Indie Kids"
3. | Indie Kids | ||
Nerds but hot. Indie kids are the new generation of nerd. They're the "cool nerd" cos they embrace the awkwardness.
4. | Indie Kids | ||
Someone independent in their thinking as to the eccentric perception of life in all ways. An outstanding person, set apart into it's own, defining it without conformity, but with it's own origination.
5. | Indie Kids | ||
People usually associate Indie Kids with Hipsters and Scene Kids, but they're pretty different. Indie Kids enjoy music put out by alternative rock bands and bands/artists who aren't signed to a major record label/no label at all. These can include bands such as: Bloc Party, Muse, Coldplay, Nirvana, Radiohead, Fleet Foxes, Franz Ferdinand, Kasabian, Kaiser Chiefs, The Cure, The Black Keys and The Maccabees. They also enjoy artwork similar to what you'd find on their favourite band's album covers. Their clothing can be described as vintage, old fashioned, messy and sometimes just, plain. Indie Boys have woopy or curly/messy hair. They're usually are seen wearing band t-shirts or plain shirts and t-shirts. They also wear loose, black or blue denim jeans and converse/white Lonsdale trainers. The might also wear hats like Pete Doherty of The Libertines/Babyshambles. Indie Girls usually have with long, wavy hair often wearing some form of headband. They are usually seen wearing either: loose t-shirts and waistcoats, baggy woolly jumpers or baggy crop tops with band logos or flamboyant patterns on them. Indie boys are often seen as being shy and quiet. Indie girls are often seen as shy at times, yet energetic at times. Indie Girl-"Rawr! I'm a dinosaur :P"
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6. | Indie Kids | ||
Different individuals, dont try to be the same,very artsy peeps, never too full of ourselves, very friendly, very openminded to many things music, arts, clothing, etc. trendy with an edge different to other cliches, o and we dont try to be cool, we r different thats wat makes us unique but we r not wannabes neighborhoods in NYC like williamsburg, brooklyn heights, soho, has a lot of indie ppl. the terminology "indie kids" refers to teenagers tho, trust me i am one and im happy
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This is what everyone thinks indie is in Australia. Clothing/Accessories kids who wear bright stripped shorts above their knees no matter what the weather, tee-bar shirts (all v-necks) with stuff on them like santa monaco 97, high socks vans or globe and always vans shoes, coloured rubber braclets, flat caps with brands they wouldnt have a clue of, always no matter where they are they have either a longboard, cruiser or penny board. Hangout Spots: Local carparks for longboaring a McDonalds that everyone goes to Public transport areas Used Words: Fuck, Sick Cunt, Shit, Bro, Oi and Hit up. Indie Skater - "Oi bro wanna go and hit up the fucking carpark"
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I shoot indoor spherical panorama with Gigapan and floor shot by hand. (picture with my legs )
Puctures are shooted with 3 steps of bracketing and after bracketing is "Enfused" with EnfuseGUI.
Enfused pictures and settings of Autopano Giga are here:
After a lot days of work, I am not able to make spherical panorama without errors. Specially I have big trouble with ceiling. Autopano is not able to make controlpoints on celing using Similarity or Homohraphy...
Can anybody told me, where i am making mistake ?
Thak very much for any help !
first - it can be done - thats the good answer.
but ...
if I take all 25 images of your zip file - it fails.
+ some reasons maybe: mix of focals - the nadir handheld shot does have 18mm the others 15. - i did not use the handheld nadir image with your feet (handheld + non 90" to bottom angle will in most cases not work).
+ the 15mm images are recognized as non fisheye. this maybe correct or may not. one rule: if having troubles with 15mm or smaller that are nonfisheye recognized than try it with changing in image properties to fisheye. - I did change it to fisheye.
+ you shot with a regular image matrix - this leads to an rather big overlap in zenith row - I finally did use 5 images less... so in sum I used only 21 image to still cover the sphere.
+ you shot in landscape mode. - this may work or may not - but general practice is using portrait mode images. Advantage on indoor panos is you need less rows... and you've less ghosts from moving people (if there are ones...)
+ in screenshot you can see that autopano detected CPs between some images and between some no CPs could be detected. so I did delete all links between images not directly being neighbor images. and I manually added links between images to link the images. this dramatically reduced the detected RMS and the ceiling errors could be corrected as shown in preview mode...
+ you've dust on your lens or on your sensor. if dust is on the images (always on same x,y position) than make sure not CP's are detected by accident (didnt care about it and it worked...)
I did use apg 3.0 final. I used
Detection Quality Standard
CPs: 50 with Ransac model: Similarity
Blending settings: Multiband Level 0 with Fusion and Cutting enabled Priority to Ghost.
the screenshots:
3. mage: using nonfisheye properties and with default recognized CP connections
4. image: using with fisheye properties and after adding CPs to connect images
2. image: is the preview (preview feature with apg 3.0)
1. image: finally the resulting pano using 30% original size and 75%jpg quality compression to fit in the forum
and what with the nadir: I would use krpano tools to create cube files and postprocess the regular pattern. the corrected cube files can than remerged to a rectangular image with the kroanotools...
Liebe Gruesse,
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gkaefer wrote:
+ you shot with a regular image matrix - this leads to an rather big overlap in zenith row - I finally did use 5 images less... so in sum I used only 21 image to still cover the sphere.
+ you shot in landscape mode. - this may work or may not - but general practice is using portrait mode images.
That's because he used a Gigapan robotic head - Gigapan robotic heads can only shoot a regular matrix of images, and can only mount the camera in landscape orientation. Just two of the reasons why they are not really suited to shooting sperhical panos.
Last edited by mediavets (2012-12-07 00:17:30)
Using a gigapan for indoorshots.....is a bit like using a pickuptruck to serve tea....if possible go manual indoor. It si then also easier to skip a few shots in the zenith.
@andrew... uups and aah!
Last edited by gkaefer (2012-12-07 00:28:16)
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Lenell Alexander Byrd, 82, of Rockingham, died Friday, October 26, 2012 at FirstHealth Moore Regional Hospital in Pinehurst.
Mr. Byrd was born January 23, 1930 in Montgomery County, NC, a son of the late Titus and Viola Smith Byrd. He had served his country in the US Army during the Korean War, attended the Church of God of Prophecy and had retired from Hannah Pickett Manufacturing. He was preceded in death by his wives, Patricia Dawkins Byrd and Vida Johnson Page Byrd and his son-in-law, Timothy Watts, Jr.
Surviving are his daughter, Pamela B. Watts of Rockingham; granddaughter, Richelle Taylor and husband Mike of Rockingham; brothers, Johnny Byrd and wife Ann of Greensboro, Alton Byrd and wife Dee of Tennessee and a sister, JoAnn Blue and husband Bill of Mt. Gilead.
Funeral services will be held at 2 pm Tuesday in the Colonial Chapel of Carter Funeral Home in Rockingham with Rev. Frank McQuage officiating. Interment will follow in Richmond County Memorial Park with military honors.
The family will see friends from 12:45 to 1:45 pm Tuesday at the funeral home and at other times at his granddaughters home, 121 Crestmont Dr, Rockingham.
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Roundup: Media's Take
This is where we excerpt articles from the media that take a historical approach to events in the news.
SOURCE: New Republic (12-5-12)
Jonathan Cohn is Senior Editor of The New Republic and author of Sick: The Untold Story of America's Health Care Crisis—and the People Who Pay the Price.
SOURCE: Forbes (12-5-12)
Thomas Del Beccaro is the Chairman of the California Republican Party.
SOURCE: National Interest (12-5-12)
Irena L. Sargsyan is a research analyst at the Saban Center for Middle East Policy at The Brookings Institution.
SOURCE: Foreign Policy (12-5-12)
Charles R. Morris is author of The Tycoons, The Trillion Dollar Meltdown, winner of the Loeb award as the "Best Business Book of 2008." This article is drawn from his recent book The Dawn of Innovation: The First American Industrial Revolution.
SOURCE: Foreign Policy (12-5-12)
Tanya Lokshina is senior researcher and deputy Moscow office director at Human Rights Watch.
SOURCE: Financial Times (UK) (12-5-12)
The writer is chairman of GrupoFinancieroBanorte, and formerly governor of Banco de México and Mexican minister of finance.
SOURCE: The Nation (12-1-12)
John Nichols is the author of The "S" Word:A Short History of an American Tradition… Socialism (Verso).
...A new Gallup Poll finds that socialism is now viewed positively by 39 percent of Americans, up from 36 percent in 2010. Among self-described liberals, socialism enjoyed a 62 percent positive rating, while 53 percent of Democrats and independent voters who lean Democratic gave socialism a thumb's up....
Not really.
Socialism has deep America roots—going back to when Tom Paine used his final pamphlet, Agrarian Justice, to outline a social-democratic model for establishing a just and equitable society. Socialist communes and political movements flourished in the United States during the first decades of the republic's history, and the advocates for those movements found a home in the radical experiment that came to be known as the "Republican" Party....
SOURCE: National Interest (12-4-12)
Gordon N. Bardos is a Balkan politics and security specialist based in New York.
SOURCE: New Republic (12-4-12)
Robert Satloff is executive director of The Washington Institute for Near East Policy.
SOURCE: LA Times (11-28-12)
Doyle McManus is a columnist for the Los Angeles Times.
In the rest of the country, it may be just another movie, but in Washington, Steven Spielberg's"Lincoln" has become a political Rorschach test.
It seems as if every pundit in the capital has gone to see the masterful biopic about our 16th president, and — surprise — they all found something to support their views about contemporary politics.
The analogies are hard to resist. The movie is set in the first months after Lincoln won a second term, facing an unruly lame-duck Congress. Over the objections of risk-averse aides, the president decides to seek passage of a constitutional amendment abolishing slavery, and proves willing to cut almost any corner to gain his objective.
What does that tell us about the choices before a newly reelected President Obama and a lame-duck Congress wrestling with a year-end deadline over taxes and spending cuts?..
SOURCE: National Review (11-28-12)
Larry Kudlow, NRO's economics editor, is host of CNBC's The Kudlow Report and author of the daily web log, Kudlow's Money Politic$.
Once again, President Obama dodged the key fiscal-cliff issues at a campaign rally/press conference Wednesday morning. Campaign-style, he argued that the middle-class tax cuts (below $250,000) must be renewed in order to prevent a $2,200 average tax hike from hitting middle-class folks. He added that a middle-class tax hike would cost consumers $200 billion in spending power.
Okay, fine. But no one wants to raise middle-class taxes. That's not the issue. And even if those numbers are right, they dodge one of the key points in the dialogue between President Obama and House Speaker John Boehner. Namely, what to do about top income-tax rates, which include capital gains, dividends, and inheritance taxes?
The president once again avoided the term "tax rate" in his latest round of fiscal-cliff comments. He basically said, Let's get this done before Christmas in a fair and balanced way. But what is balance?..
SOURCE: The Diplomat (11-27-12)
James R. Holmes is a defence analyst for The Diplomat and an associate professor of strategy at the US Naval War College where he specializes in US, Chinese and Indian maritime strategy and US diplomatic and military history.
University of Georgia undergraduates used to look at me quizzically when I told them you can learn ninety percent of what you need to know about diplomacy and war by studying a war fought two millennia ago, in a postage-stamp-size theater, between alliances armed with—as my colleagues in Newport like to joke—spears and rowboats. Yet it's true. War and politics are human endeavors. The dynamics of human interaction endure from age to age. The remainderis mere technological change.
That's why Thucydides' chronicle of the Peloponnesian War still captivates readers. Including policymakers, I hope. As Japanese and American emissaries revise the U.S.-Japan defense cooperation guidelines for the first time since 1998, they could do worse than crack open Thucydides' history. Tokyo and Washington intend to open discussions early next month, presumably in hopes of adapting the guidelines to China's military rise. A zero-based review of alliance relations ought to incorporate some historical perspective. Who better to consult than the father of history?
Thucydides proffers numerous insights into the workings—and dysfunctions—of alliances and coalitions. How lesser allies relate to greater ones—and vice versa—is of acute interest to him, as it should be for Washington and Tokyo. Alliance relations is about more than power. The strong cannot simply dictate to weaker partners, lest they provoke rebellion or passive-aggressive cooperation. Mutual accommodation is the rule among successful alignments...
SOURCE: American Spectator (11-29-12)
Matthew Omolesky specialized in European affairs at the Whitehead School of Diplomacy's graduate program, and received his juris doctor from The Ohio State University's Moritz College of Law.
Drawn in pale brown pink on two skins of soft vellum, the Gough Map, kept in Oxford's Bodleian Library, presents a haunting image of a Britain half-formed in the consciousness of a mid-14th-century cartographer. While a russet-robed William Langland sat nestled in the Malvern Hills, gazing eastwards and dreaming of a tower, a dungeon, and the "fair feld ful of folk" between, the Gough Map's anonymous scribe set about delineating the bustlingsettlements, blessed plots, ancient highways, and riverine byways of the Scepter'd Isle. The scattered icons of the fading map still recall the social panorama included in Langland's Piers Plowman, that great "assemblee" of Britain, with "alle manere of men, the meene and the riche, werchynge and wandrynge as the world asketh." In the Gough Map, one can still make out the various facets of Langland's country, from the fecund pastures to the teeming emporia, indeed all the hallmarks of a self-sufficient but outward-looking nation.
One can also make out, suspended overhead like a canopy, or perhaps like Damocles' sword, a thin strip of land vaguely representative of the coasts of Flanders and Normandy. Studded with inviting ports populated by obliging burghers, and with forbidding castles garrisoned by mortal dynastic enemies, Europe appears as both bane and boon to those across the narrow channel. Already being advanced in this, the first accurate map of the British Isles, was a semi-detached view of Albion's relationship with Europe. It was a view that would hold sway in the centuries to come, necessitating an uneasy accommodation between insular exceptionalism and the lucrative, yet dangerous, call of the continent.
From time immemorial, the English have flattered themselves with the Shakespearean formulation that theirs is a "little world," a "precious stone set in the silver sea," separated from "less happier lands" by a fortuitous moat, one wider in practice than the seven leagues from Dover to Calais. "This realm of England is an empire," declared the Henrician Act in Restraint of Appeals to Rome (1533), with a "body politic" admittedly comprised of "all sorts and degrees of people divided in terms and by names of spiritualty and temporalty," but one absolutely independent of "any foreign princes or potentates of the world." That Britannia was comprised of "all sorts" was certainly no exaggeration. Daniel Defoe, in The True-Born Englishman (1700), archly described his countrymen as an "amphibious ill-born mob," a palimpsest of invaders and settlers whose "relics are so lasting and so strong" as to leave a "shibboleth upon our tongue / By which with easy search you may distinguish / Your Roman-Saxon-Danish-Norman English." By factoring in the "Dutch, Walloons, Flemings, Irishmen, and Scots / Vaudois, and Valtolins, and Huguenots" who likewise made their often desperate way to Britain's shores, Defoe could conclude that his homeland was "Europe's sink," rather than the doughty "fortress built by Nature for herself" of Shakespeare's John of Gaunt.
Even if the "true-born Englishman" was in fact a curiously "het'rogeneous thing," as Defoe demonstrated and the passage of time has further confirmed, one exceptional aspect of his island empire's character could at least be considered sui generis: its free constitution. From the slow accretion of the common law to the dramatic recognition of the Magna Carta, and from the development of the writ of habeas corpus to the passage of the 1689 Bill of Rights, the British state would come to feature an array of what William Blackstone termed "the absolute rights of every Englishman." The English writer John Brown, in his 1757 Estimate of the Manners and Principles of the Times, spoke for his countrymen as he boasted that whereas Liberty "hath been ingrafted by the Arts of Policy in other Countries, it shoots up here as from its natural Climate, Stock, and Soil," with the result that "this great Spirit hath produced more full and compleat Effects in our own Country, than in any known Nation that ever was upon Earth." Liberal philosophes across the Channel were in full agreement, with Montesquieu positing that it was in England that "liberty will appear in its highest perfection," and with Voltaire praising the English for being "jealous not only of their own liberty, but even of that of other nations." The government of England, the sage of Ferney continued, had for its laudable object "not the brilliant folly of making conquests, but to prevent its neighbors from making them."
Poised in the balance of the swaying scales of European geopolitics, Britain could hold itself out as the safeguard of both continental stability and sovereign rights. It was a dual role perfectly suited to the conflicted identity of an exceptional island drawn inexorably toward the mainland. As such, Britain would find itself in an unending series of continental interventions, many renowned, and many more now but half-remembered in the public's consciousness. The British historian Brendan Simms has recently made a compelling case that "the Bank of England, the national debt, the stock market, the Royal Navy and the standing army"—all of which make up the modern "apparatus of the 'fiscal-military state'"—were each "primarily designed to sustain Britain's international role in Europe." Imperial holdings would grow in importance, and a "blue water" policy would become increasingly fashionable in strategic circles, but the European commitment was destined to remain a British preoccupation...
SOURCE: National Post (Canada) (11-28-12)
Jonathan Kay is Managing Editor for Comment at the National Post, and a fellow at the Foundation for Defense of Democracies.
SOURCE: Financial Times (UK) (11-27-12)
The writer is a professor at Harvard and author of The Future of Power.
SOURCE: National Interest (11-27-12)
Scott McConnell is a founding editor of The American Conservative.
SOURCE: Telegraph (UK) (11-20-12)
Matt Hill is a British journalist.
Partisans of the Israel-Palestine conflict – and it often seems everyone's a partisan of one side or the other – know exactly who to blame for the fighting now in its sixth day. The other guy, of course.
But the bombs dropping on Gaza and southern Israel haven't fallen out of a clear blue sky. So what happens if we trace events backwards and try to answer, as objectively as possible, the obvious question: who started it?
The latest phase of fighting started on 14 November when Israel assassinated the Hamas military leader Ahmed Jabari. A day earlier, Hamas was touting a truce offer, but only after two days of fighting which saw over a hundred missiles launched into Israel and Gaza coming under attack by warplanes, drones and artillery.
These exchanges were preceded on 10 November by the injury of two IDF soldiers, hit by an anti-tank missile as they patrolled outside the Strip, and the deaths of at least five Palestinians and the injury of dozens more when Israel responded with shelling and air strikes.
And these incidents, in turn, were sparked by the killing of a 13-year-old Palestinian boy who was caught in the crossfire of a gun battle between the IDF and Palestinian militants on 8 November.
We could go back further...
SOURCE: Financial Times (UK) (11-21-12)
The writer is the president of the Council on Foreign Relations. He was the US envoy to the Northern Ireland peace process from 2001-03.
Israeli missiles continued to fall on Gaza; meanwhile, a bus was blown up in Tel Aviv. But by the end of Wednesday, a ceasefire agreement between Israel and Hamas, and brokered by Egypt and the US, was signed. However, there is a big difference between a truce that is an interlude between rounds of fighting and one that presages a promising political process. It might take a willingness to learn from Northern Ireland, of all places, to tip the scales towards the latter.
Decades of violence – "the troubles" – set the backdrop to negotiations. Success had it roots in British policy. London's objective was to end the terrorism and bring about a political settlement. Doing so required persuading the Provisional IRA that it would never be able to shoot or bomb its way into power and that there was a political path open to it that would satisfy some of its goals and many of its supporters, if it would act responsibly.
The government of Israel has internalised the first but not the second part of Britain's strategy. Israel has carried out massive air strikes that have reportedly destroyed the bulk of Hamas's Iran-supplied, longer-range missiles and killed dozens of Palestinians, including Hamas's military chief.
But military force has limits...
SOURCE: Forbes (11-20-12)
Brian Domitrovic is a Forbes contributor.
The president is bent on raising taxes big time, if not on January 1, when all sorts of rates are scheduled to go up, then shortly thereafter as the new, more Democratic Congress convenes to do its damage.
The rationale? The deficit is getting out of control. Indeed it is. Since January 2009, when Obama took office, the United States has run cumulative budget deficits of $5 trillion. Before that time, debt held by the public was $6.3 trillion. Now it's $11.4 trillion, an increase of 80%.
What did we get for it? Growth of 1.5% per year. As it happens, the over the eight years of President George W. Bush, the economy averaged 1.6% economic growth, and the cumulative deficit was $2.4 trillion. Obama has more than doubled the W. deficits, while coming up short a tenth of a point of growth. What a horrible record...
SOURCE: Ottawa Citizen (11-15-12)
Wenran Jiang is a political science professor at the University of Alberta and director of the Canada-China Energy & Environment Forum.
For those who followed the U.S. presidential elections up to last week, the intense horse race had clear rules to follow on how one candidate can win. When it comes to China's leadership transition though, the general public had very little clue who China's new leaders were until the seven men, called the Politburo Standing Committee members, walked onto the stage to meet the press in Beijing Thursday.
But this is already progress in the context of Chinese history: the latest once-in-a-decade leadership transition is only the second time power was peacefully and institutionally transferred in more than 100 years since the Qing dynasty was overthrown in 1911.
Since then, Chinese politics went through civil wars, foreign invasion, the establishment of a new People's Republic and the Chinese Communist Party's struggle to transfer itself from a revolutionary party to a governing institution in a series of turbulent events such as the Great Leap Forward and the Cultural Revolution...


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Innovative Practices: Developing Sustainable Programs, Mobilizing Support for Your Library! - IRRT Preconference
8:30 am - 1:00 pm
Anaheim Convention Center - 201C
($75, followed by lunch, plan to stay until 3pm) –REGISTRATION STILL AVAILABLE ONSITE
Learn about & discuss four interesting case studies, featuring partnerships, teamwork, and collaborations with global perspectives:
» China and the United States: Playing a leadership role in International Collaboration –Experiences from a Grant Project, presented by Shuyong Jiang, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign
» Kenya National Library Service and Maria's Libraries: Notes from Kenya: testing innovative approaches and leapfrogging technologies through a network of libraries, for the social, political, and economic development of communities in resource-poorsettings, presented by Ariel Schwartz, University of Texas at Austin; Eva Kaplan, Maria's Libraries, Kenya
» Nepal, India, Egypt, Guatemala and Tanzania and the United States: A Solution in Sight: A Global Partnership to Improve Access to Ophthalmic Information in Developing Countries, presented by Pamela Sieving, National Institutes of Health Library; Suzanne Gilbert, Seva Foundation; Bette Anton, University of California at Berkeley; Katherine Judson, Seva Foundation.
» Romania and the United States: Romania's Impact Group A Success Story: Evaluating
IREX's Biblionet Program and Seeking Sustainability, presented by Constantin Mituca,
Gorj County Public Library, Romania
»Participate in the workshop session, "Library Partnerships: What Benefits Your Users?" conducted by Susan Schnuer & Barbara Ford, the Mortenson Center for International Library Programs
» Examine how to identify, maintain, and assess partnerships that will support the mission of your library and meet the needs of your users.
International Librarians Orientation
2:30 – 4:00 pm
Hilton Anaheim-California B
Description: An introduction to the ALA Conference and the city of New Orleans, for International and other attendees from abroad. ALA members will provide an overview of the conference, including recommended programs and social activities. Learn about conference transportation, the ALA's Exhibit Hall and the meaning of the ALA's many acronyms. Meet your mentors and representatives from ALA's many divisions and round tables who will help international librarians get the most from the conference experience. (For International librarians outside the U.S.)
IRRT/IRC All Subcommittee Meeting
- 8:00- 9:00 am IRRT Chairs Meeting
- 9:00- 10:00am IRRT Subcommittee Meetings
- 8:00–11:00am IRC Committee Meetings
Anaheim Marriott—Grand Salon F
"Expecting the Unexpected: Libraries Respond to Profound Change" – 1:30 – 3:30 pm
Anaheim Convention Center—202B
Description: Increasingly, economic, political and human crises, along with natural disasters, constitute a recurrent reality around the world. The effect of large-scale disaster and economic disruption are being felt far and wide and impacting libraries in diverse ways. Libraries are casualties of natural disasters, from earthquakes to hurricanes, as well as civil unrest and wars. Sudden cuts in library budgets have resulted in severe staff reductions, privatization and even closures.
Four presenters from around the world will share their experiences about how they have prepared for or coped with profound change. Speakers: Carolyn Robertson, Christchurch City Libraries, New Zealand; Carol Brandenburg, Lincoln University, New Zealand; Megan Hodge, Chesterfield County (VA) Public Library, United States Presented: Michael R. Mabe; Beth Joy Patin and Maria Garrido, University of Washington; Carolyn F. Runyon and Meggan Houlihan, The American University in Cairo
IRRT Executive Board Meeting
8:00 am – 11:00 noon
Anaheim Marriott - Room 315
International Poster Session
11:00 am - 12:30 pm
Anaheim Convention Center - Exhibit Floor
Description: This is a forum for librarians from around the world to highlight their libraries and to share their successful ideas with colleagues by presenting a research study, a practical problem-solving effort or an innovative library program.
Of Mutual Benefit: The Sister Library Initiative and International Sustainable Library Development (ISLD)
10:30 am - 12:00 noon
Anaheim Convention Center –201C
Description: Sister Library partnerships provide a mutual source of pride, opportunity, and inspiration between two institutions. Come and listen to ALA librarians from academic and public libraries discuss their Sister Library partnerships with libraries from around the world and how these initiatives enhance global awareness, facilitate intercultural communication, and increase the sustainability of library programs and services.
Speakers/Partner Libraries: Carol Hodges, Tidewater Community College. Puerta Abierta Library, Santiago Atitlán, Guatemala; Jamie Larue, Douglas County Libraries, Colorado and Gina Millsap, Topeka and Shawnee County Public Library, Kansas. Bulgarian Library Project; John Boyd and Beth Cramer, Appalachian State University. La Biblioteca Th'uruchapitas, Cochabamba, Bolivia.
Mātauranga Māori in New Zealand Libraries: A presentation and workshop on Maori knowledge in New Zealand libraries-
IRRT Chair's Program
1:30 pm - 3:30 pm
Anaheim Convention Center—205A
Description: Treaty of Waitangi settlements are enabling iwi/hapu (tribal) entities to build repositories to house their own taonga (treasures) and mātauranga (knowledge) which can affect mainstream libraries throughout Aotearoa (New Zealand) , as iwi contemplate repatriation of their iwi/hapu taonga. Te Ropu Whakahau (Māori in Libraries and Information Management) has developed a one-day workshop, Mātauranga Māori in New Zealand Libraries. This workshop provides a professional development opportunity for non-Māori librarians, on how to work with iwi/hapu through true partnership, by acknowledging the importance of Matauranga Māori values and practices.
This applies to the resources contained within the collections in which they work, as well as the customers they serve. This session showcases the structural framework of an indigenous model; allows participants to experience the content of the workshop; provides innovative ideas on workshop delivery (and the challenges of delivering in earthquake ravaged Christchurch, Kai Tahu, one of the richest iwi of Aotearoa); and includes participant attendance and feedback. This presentation serves as a model for information professionals who seek to be inclusive of indigenous culture and values within their organizations.
Speakers: Mereana Coleman, Te Whare Wānanga o Awanuiārangi Library, Aotearoa New Zealand; Eddie Neha, Ngati Maniapoto Trust Board, Aotearoa New Zealand
International Librarians Reception
6:00 – 8:00 pm
241 S. Anaheim Blvd.
BUSES will depart from HILTON ANAHEIM HOTEL starting at 5:15pm
Description: Please join the International Relations Round Table (IRRT) in welcoming and celebrating with librarians from more than 80 countries at the ALA Annual Conference. Open to all conference attendees, this reception offers a unique opportunity to network with hundreds of information professionals from around the world. Join us for a mixing of culture and ideas, regional cuisine, hors d'oeuvres and open bar. Advance registration is required. Tickets: $45 (This event is free for international librarians)