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Charter members of the 'Fundamental Fysiks Group,' circa 1975. Standing, left to right: Jack Sarfatti, Saul-Paul Sirag, Nick Herbert; bottom corner: Fred Alan Wolf.
"Fun with Fysiks"
Peter Woit
July-August, 2011
Peter Woit
July-August, 2011
In the United States, the job market for people with doctorates in physics collapsed around 1970, as the huge post-Sputnik expansion of American university hiring and military spending came to an abrupt halt. By the mid-1980s, things hadn't improved much, and it seemed likely that my recent Ph.D. in theoretical physics would be of little use in finding conventional permanent academic employment. One possible career path that came to mind was to try to follow the example of a sizable group of physicists who lived and worked in the San Francisco Bay Area during the 1970s. They appeared to have managed to pursue scientific research by dropping out of academia and adopting a countercultural lifestyle that included soaking in hot tubs at Big Sur, engaging in Tantric sex, hanging out at North Beach cafes and taking psychedelic drugs. Some of them had gotten rich writing books that mixed physics with various kinds of mysticism. I wasn't very interested in the mysticism part, but I figured I could handle the rest.
For better or worse, I did end up moving to the Bay Area for a year, but as a respectable post-doc in mathematics I saw little or no evidence of the continued existence of these countercultural physicists, and I wondered what had happened to them. David Kaiser's entertaining new book, How the Hippies Saved Physics, does a wonderful job of recounting the twists and turns of the story of how the members of this group came together, interacted with one another and with the more conventional physics community, and then dispersed to various fates.
Kaiser takes as the center of his account the activities of Jack Sarfatti and other physicists who met from 1975 to 1979 at Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory, sometimes calling themselves the "Fundamental Fysiks Group." The group, whose core members included John Clauser, Elizabeth Rauscher, Saul-Paul Sirag, Nick Herbert, George Weissmann and Fred Alan Wolf, was open to anyone interested in the interpretation of quantum theory. One subject that occupied its members was what is now known as Bell's theorem, which shows that quantum systems are "entangled" in a rather counterintuitive way. Although it was a fringe topic at the time, in recent years Bell's theorem has played a part in the active field of quantum information theory, which raises serious hopes that important new technology such as quantum computers may soon be within reach.
Many members of the Fundamental Fysiks Group had unconventional motivations for their research: Some were hoping to explain parapsychological phenomena, and others were trying find a scheme for faster-than-light communication. Sarfatti has continued this sort of search, supported by various patrons over the years, but more recently his attention has turned to unidentified flying objects (UFOs) and faster-than-light interstellar travel. Other members or associates of the group were responsible for wildly successful popular books, including Fritjof Capra (The Tao of Physics, 1975), Gary Zukav (The Dancing Wu-Li Masters, 1979) and Nick Herbert (Quantum Reality, 1985). Off and on, these books have even found their way into the syllabi of university physics classes.
Kaiser is a professional historian of science, and his account is exhaustively and carefully researched. He has uncovered a wealth of revealing detail about the various physicists involved, making for a very lively tale. One focus is on the significant interaction between the countercultural physicists and the more conventional physics community, and this is taken as evidence for an argument which, like many of those favored by the counterculturalists, is provocative but unconvincing. Kaiser maintains that World War II had led the conventional physics community to abandon philosophical engagement with quantum physics, a mistake only rectified starting in the late 1970s, in part through the impetus of the activities of the Fundamental Fysiks Group. Therefore, he argues, the hippies were responsible for saving the field that had quantum information theory as its future.
There are several problems with this argument. Kaiser makes much of the disappearance of philosophical discussion of quantum theory from physics textbooks and curricula after the war, but there were very good reasons for this. The birth of quantum mechanics in 1925 was followed by dramatic and important debates over the meaning of the formalism (the relationship between the mathematical equations and experiments), but by the war years it was clear that the formalism of quantum theory was sound and highly successful; an ad hoc but workable prescription for its relation to conventional experiment and observation was in place. The issue of how to understand the emergence of the classical world as an approximation was not resolved (and remains unresolved to this day), but it had become clear that for practical purposes the problem could be ignored. Only much later, as technological progress enabled the preparation of larger-scale coherent quantum systems, could experimental investigation of fundamental quantum measurement problems proceed, driving new theoretical work.
Quantum mechanics has generated a huge amount of pseudoscientific nonsense about its supposed relation to the question of consciousness and to parapsychology. Unfortunately, members of the Fundamental Fysiks Group were and are among those responsible for this nonsense, which has seriously damaged their credibility as scientists. In 2004 one of them, Wolf, played the role of Dr. Quantum in What the Bleep Do We Know!?, an atrocious but highly popular film, which argues that proper understanding of quantum physics allows one to make anything happen that one desires. Kaiser does make a good case that the process of debunking Nick Herbert's proposals for using quantum mechanics for superluminal communication was one historical factor in the development of what is now known as the "no-cloning theorem," on which quantum encryption technology is based. This, however, is a very long way from making Herbert responsible for saving physics.
To place the story Kaiser tells in context requires noting that, although the job situation in the 1970s was awful, it was during this era that the fantastically successful Standard Model of particle physics fell into place; the Standard Model is a quantum field theory based on fundamental symmetry arguments. But Berkeley was the center of a failed research program ("S-matrix philosophy") that claimed such a thing couldn't work. In The Tao of Physics, Capra argued extensively for the triumph of an allied S-matrix/Eastern mysticism point of view (as opposed to a symmetry/Western one), right at the moment that S-matrix philosophy lost the battle. Particle physicists during the 1970s were very busy working out the lessons of a new enlightenment and were not paying much attention to grandiose claims about quantum mechanics coming from a center of reaction.
One of the intriguing issues that the story of the Fundamental Fysiks Group raises, which Kaiser discusses, is what philosophers of science refer to as the demarcation problem. How do you decide what is science and what isn't? You can't just decide based on whether someone has a respectable academic position (Einstein didn't in 1905). A continuum connects the solidest experimentally verified science with the rankest pseudoscience. Some of the work of the countercultural physicists clearly fell into the "legitimate science" portion of the continuum, and some of it just as clearly did not. The demarcation problem has recently reared its head again as debate rages about the scientific status of speculative ideas involving extra dimensions and a supposed Multiverse. This time one center of controversial research is across the Bay from Berkeley at Stanford University, and highly ranked academic figures are involved.
Kaiser's fascinating book does make one other difference between the countercultural and conventional physicists very obvious: Whether they were doing science or pseudoscience, and whether they saved physics or not, the hippies were having a lot more fun.
[Peter Woit is departmental computer administrator and Senior Lecturer in Discipline in the Department of Mathematics at Columbia University. He is the author of Not Even Wrong: The Failure of String Theory and the Search for Unity in Physical Law (Basic Books, 2006).]
"Hippie days"
How a handful of countercultural scientists changed the course of physics in the 1970s and helped open up the frontier of quantum information.
Peter Dizikes
June 27th, 2011
MIT News Office
How a handful of countercultural scientists changed the course of physics in the 1970s and helped open up the frontier of quantum information.
Peter Dizikes
June 27th, 2011
MIT News Office
Every Friday afternoon for several years in the 1970s, a group of underemployed quantum physicists met at Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory, in Northern California, to talk about a subject so peculiar it was rarely discussed in mainstream science: entanglement. Did subatomic particles influence each other from a distance? What were the implications?
Many of these scientists, who dubbed themselves the "Fundamental Fysiks Group," were fascinated by the paranormal and thought quantum physics might reveal "the possibility of psycho-kinetic and telepathic effects," as one put it. Some of the physicists cultivated flamboyant countercultural personas. In lieu of solid academic jobs, a few of them received funding from the leaders of the "human potential" movement that was a staple of 1970s self-help culture.
In short, the Fundamental Fysiks Group appeared to be just a bunch of eccentric, obscure physicists whiling away the Me Decade in the Berkeley Hills. But as MIT historian of science David Kaiser asserts in his new book, How the Hippies Saved Physics, published this month by W.W. Norton, the group's members actually helped to steer physics in a new direction: They revived scientific interest in the puzzling foundations of quantum mechanics, provided new insights about entanglement, and laid the intellectual groundwork for the field of quantum information science, which today produces cutting-edge computing and encryption research.
"That's a pretty good track record for a few years of zany, fun-loving, free-spirited and yet devoted research," says Kaiser, head of MIT's Program in Science, Technology, and Society, and a senior lecturer in the Department of Physics.
For whom Bell toiled
The intellectual beacon guiding the Fundamental Fysiks Group was a 1964 insight by Irish physicist John Bell, which strongly suggested that entanglement was real: Measuring the properties of one particle could influence the properties of another, distant particle. "This group was obsessed with Bell's Theorem and wanted to wring out its implications," Kaiser says.
In so doing, the group was returning to the physics tradition of inquiry about the structure of the universe. Famous prewar quantum theorists such as Erwin Schrödinger regularly tackled questions about subatomic strangeness, like the apparent particle-wave duality of matter. But after World War II, Kaiser notes, quantum physics became a much more pragmatic field, developing technologies such as the transistor; a popular mantra was "shut up and calculate."
The few physicists left pondering the nature of reality were doomed in the sour academic job market of the 1970s, after Sputnik-driven education funding had dried up. "No field grew faster than physics after World War II, and no field crashed harder in the 1970s," Kaiser says.
Still, one physicist in the Fundamental Fysiks Group, John Clauser, rigged an apparatus at Lawrence Berkeley Laboratory and conducted the first experiment testing Bell's Theorem; it suggested entanglement was real. In 2010, this earned Clauser a share of the Wolf Prize, physics' leading award after the Nobel Prize; back then, the experiment merely earned Clauser a little recognition.
"I think the field had gotten out of balance," says Kaiser, who has PhDs in both physics and the history of science from Harvard.
Another mainstay of the group, Nick Herbert, concocted influential thought experiments about the uses of entanglement. One paper Herbert circulated, on something he called the FLASH scheme, described a possible way that entangled particles could influence each other faster than the speed of light — violating Einstein's theory of special relativity. If proven true, Herbert thought, information could be transmitted instantaneously. Eventually other scientists concluded that the concept would not work, since devices cannot copy unknown properties of particles. This "no-cloning theorem" is the basis of quantum encryption: Codes based on quantum information cannot be replicated and thus cracked.
"The no-cloning theorem was discovered by three groups in response to Nick Herbert's FLASH scheme," Kaiser says. "It's a new insight into the structure and meaning of quantum theory. That's page one of our quantum information science textbooks today."
The Tao of Physics makes waves
According to Kaiser, the Fundamental Fysiks Group also contributed to science education, by helping to renew interest in the philosophical dimension of physics. Largely ignored by academia, group members began writing for popular publication.
One physicist at large associated with the group, Frijtof Capra, wrote a quirky book in 1975 drawing links between quantum phenomena and Eastern religions. Surprisingly, The Tao of Physics became an international bestseller with millions of copies in print. Equally surprisingly, after decades spent ignoring quantum weirdness, professors began assigning Capra's book, to draw students back into the physics classroom.
Herbert and others in the group would also write successful texts on quantum physics that were assimilated into the physics curriculum. "Today's undergraduates at MIT learn about Bell's Theorem in the first semester of quantum mechanics," Kaiser says. "That simply wasn't true for a long time. Questions about what it all means now have a place in the curriculum."
'These folks had to show people the goods'
Not every scientist in the Fundamental Fysiks Group could write a best-seller, of course. To gain attention, the group circulated mimeographed working papers, sent letters to prominent physicists such as John Wheeler, and sought coverage in alternative newspapers, as Kaiser documents.
"The book captures something that seems quite ephemeral, a moment in the history of physics when a lot of thinking was not recorded in traditional publications," says Ken Alder, a professor of history and founder of the Science in Human Culture Program at Northwestern University. "David has done an amazing job of piecing together what was going on at the time."
Though many of the physicists were attracted to entanglement because it suggested that the paranormal might be possible, Kaiser is careful to distinguish between their personal interests and the value of their technical work. "Virtually every member of the group had PhDs from very elite programs," Kaiser says. "They weren't just leaning back and saying, 'Hey man, can you dig it?'" Instead, he says, "These folks had to show people the goods, pages of calculations in papers they submitted to peer-reviewed journals."
The hippie physicists also represent a larger point about American history, Kaiser believes: The counterculture movement was not primarily an anti-scientific phenomenon, as many commentators have described it. "There was a rejection of a certain kind of militarized Cold War science, not a general rejection of science or technology," Kaiser says.
Today, new technologies based on entanglement seem plausible; banks have demonstrated money transfers using entangled photons, and research into quantum computing is expanding. As much as the Fundamental Fysiks Group wanted to move away from applied physics and return to foundational questions, the two things are very much entangled.
How the Hippies Saved Physics: Science, Counterculture, and the Quantum Revival
David Kaiser
David Kaiser
The surprising story of eccentric young scientists who stood up to convention-and changed the face of modern physics.
Today, quantum information theory is among the most exciting scientific frontiers, attracting billions of dollars in funding and thousands of talented researchers. But as MIT physicist and historian David Kaiser reveals, this cutting-edge field has a surprisingly psychedelic past. How the Hippies Saved Physics introduces us to a band of freewheeling physicists who defied the imperative to "shut up and calculate" and helped to rejuvenate modern physics.
For physicists, the 1970s were a time of stagnation. Jobs became scarce, and conformity was encouraged, sometimes stifling exploration of the mysteries of the physical world. Dissatisfied, underemployed, and eternally curious, an eccentric group of physicists in Berkeley, California, banded together to throw off the constraints of the physics mainstream and explore the wilder side of science. Dubbing themselves the "Fundamental Fysiks Group," they pursued an audacious, speculative approach to physics. They studied quantum entanglement and Bell's Theorem through the lens of Eastern mysticism and psychic mind-reading, discussing the latest research while lounging in hot tubs. Some even dabbled with LSD to enhance their creativity. Unlikely as it may seem, these iconoclasts spun modern physics in a new direction, forcing mainstream physicists to pay attention to the strange but exciting underpinnings of quantum theory.
A lively, entertaining story that illuminates the relationship between creativity and scientific progress, How the Hippies Saved Physics takes us to a time when only the unlikeliest heroes could break the science world out of its rut.


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Monday, July 12, 2010
Careless in Red
Detective Inspector Bea Hannaford has a murder to solve but she does not feel that she has been given the proper tools to solve the case. The local policemen assigned to help her on the case do not impress her at all, so she is determined to make the most of having a former star of New Scotland Yard on the case. Hannaford refuses to let Lynley leave the area and convinces him that, since he is there anyway, he may as well give her some help. Hannaford, though, gets more than she bargained by forcibly recruiting Thomas Lynley into the investigation and she soon realizes that he will, indeed, help investigate the murder - but only on his own terms.
Elizabeth George writes big books and this is another whopper, coming in at 623 pages. It is filled with complex side plots and back stories involving a wide array of characters all the way from a grandfather trying to raise his overly religious granddaughter to a Greek expatriate sleeping her way through Cornwall's men (married or not, young or old) at an astonishing pace. Some of the side plots and much of the back story involve the murdered boy, Santo Kerne, a young man who had more than his share of enemies for someone so young. While some might see the multiple characters and stories as a distraction, fans of George will revel in the way she gets so deeply into the lives of such different people and will be impressed with the way she tidies everything up by the book's end.
Longtime fans of the series are, however, likely to be somewhat disappointed that Thomas Lynley is little more than a side character in Careless in Red or that Barbara Havers does not even appear in the story until about its mid-point. Havers, though, is Havers and when she does show up, Lynley's character seems to change for the better and the whole pace of the book seems to sharpen.
Note that the unabridged audio book version of Careless in Red is some 18 CDs in length and that total listening time is something close to 20 hours in total. This is quite a challenge unless one has an extremely long commute or, as I did, brings the book along on a road trip. Narrator John Lee, who does an excellent job on the recording, is consistent throughout and does a remarkable job on a variety of British accents.
Fans of the series will appreciate this one; newcomers, perhaps not as much. The good news is that Thomas Lynley is recovering from the tragedy he suffered in With No One as Witness and that he should be more his old self in the next book in the series.
Rated at: 4.0
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I, both, listened to and read this novel, alternating depending if I was in the car or not.ReplyDelete
I did enjoy the narration. A good narrator defintely makes or breaks the story.
Although the story was not one of my favorites, it was, as always... very well-written and plotted. She is a master at character development.
I have the latest, This Body of Death, in my TBR pile and am looking forward to starting it soon.
I don't have the new one yet, Kathy, and have heard very little about it so far. I'm hoping it's a return to London or at least to a crime scene that involves more of the characters from the previous books.ReplyDelete
I tend to hold on to an Elizabeth George novel for a while before reading it...nice to know its there waiting on me at my pleasure. I bought Careless in Red the week in was published but held off reading it until I knew another one in the series was available...must be nuts.
"I tend to hold on to an Elizabeth George novel for a while before reading it...nice to know its there waiting on me at my pleasure. I bought Careless in Red the week in was published but held off reading it until I knew another one in the series was available...must be nuts."ReplyDelete
Not nuts at all! I used to do that all the time :D
From what I've read about the new one... it's a return to the "old"... just the way we like it.
I did the same--bought it when it was released but had planned on reading it right away. I think I was put off by the many tepid responses, but I liked it much more than I thought. It is a bit long, but she always ties things together nicely. I will be happy, though, too, if things get back to normal with the next book, which I have and hope to read sooner than I did Careless in Red. By the way I had it in cloth and since I was walking to work and dragging it with me--and it is a heavy book--I ended up buying the mass market paperback as it made life much easier. It is nice to know you have one of her books on hand for later. I've been thinking I wouldn't mind going back to the beginning and starting all over again.ReplyDelete
I didn't care for this book at all, but in George's latest -- This Body of Death -- she is back up to par.ReplyDelete
Thanks for grading me as more normal than nuts, Kathy. :-)ReplyDelete
Danielle, the longer I held off reading this one, the more criticism I saw everywhere. It did sort of put me off the book for a while, I suppose, but that was more an unconscious response on my part than anything else, I think. I enjoy books that are big on character development, the more the better, and this one certainly fits the bill. Too, I always enjoy getting a close look at life in the U.K., even after having lived in London for several years. Georges' books often describe parts of the country I've been to and wondered about, so I always have that added element of fun with them. But, all that said, I'm ready for the return of the rest of the cast now.ReplyDelete
Syndi, I'm glad to hear that. It's almost as if George herself had to do some grieving over the death of one of her main characters and that she is ready to get on with life now.ReplyDelete


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View of the two bridges which connect Anglesey with mainland Wales. To the left the Menai bridge built by Thomas Telford and quite an ingenious piece of engineering at the time. To the right the Britannia bridge with the road on top and the train line below. All this to the backdrop of the Snowdon mountain range.
Wales (Cymru in the Welsh language) is part of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Northern Ireland. The major cities are Cardiff, Swansea, Newport and Bangor. The city of St. Davids is the smallest city in the UK with a population around 2000. Wales itself has a population of around 3 million. The Welsh language is spoken by around 20% of the population.


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35395, Children's Songbook, The Gospel, Family History-I Am Doing It, 94
1. Fam'ly history-I am doing it,
My fam'ly history.
And the love I feel when I'm doing it
Is very sweet to me.
I learn stories of my progenitors;
I write their history.
I keep records of my loved ones
On my own fam'ly tree.
2. Fam'ly living now and the ones who've died
Can all be sealed to me,
And someday I'll meet ev'ry one of them,
I'm sure as I can be.
Oh what joy we'll have when they say to me,
"We're all a family.
I am yours and you are mine now,
Through all eternity."
Words and music: Jeanne P. Lawler, b. 1924. © 1982 IRI; revised
Moses 6:5-8
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The Ethiopian government /EPRDF recently circulated a manifesto declaring that the Hawassa town in Sidama be placed under the control of the central government and be administered nationally. The objective of the manifesto written in Amharic is to undermine and permanently silence the age-old demand of the Sidama people for regional autonomy. Since EPRDF's advent to power in 1991, the Sidama people have consistently demanded that because of their population size (which government puts at 3 million and independent estimates put at 5 million) and their high economic contributions (Sidama is a major producer of coffee that earns about 60% of foreign exchange for the country) they be granted regional autonomy in Ethiopia. This is a fundamental human, economic and political right that is enshrined in the very constitution promulgated by the EPRDF government itself. However, the Ethiopian government repeatedly rejected the constitutional demand of the Sidama people and in a number of occasions crushed peaceful protests with brute forces. In 2002, when the Government announced that it was going to place Hawassa town under national administration, the Sidama people rose up and rejected the proposed measures and pressed with their demand for regional autonomy. People carried out peaceful rallies to underscore their dissatisfaction with the Government's proposal in various towns and villages across Sidama. However, peaceful marches by Sidama elders, high school students and children from Hawassa and its surroundings were brutally crushed by the armed forces and security police who used live ammunition and massacred over 100 people of whom the bodies of about 70 have been recovered and buried.
The ensuing crack down on the Sidama people saw further atrocities in the form of extrajudicial arrests, torture, and forced removal from employment positions and forced exile of educated and skilled Sidama nationals. However, such brutal repression did not dampen the spirit of the Sidama people who have fought four successive regimes in protracted liberation struggles at times fully liberating half of the province from the oppressive regimes in spite of suffering recurring setbacks. The struggle for basic rights of regional self-determination continued covertly and overtly until today.
Notwithstanding this fact, the regime that is hell-bent to impose its will on the people to protect the interests of the few in the land recently produced a new manifesto to up root the Sidama people from their home land of Hawassa.
The manifesto is written in Amharic and has four sections: an introduction, why the Hawassa administration is key to the national government, principles to follow to restructure Hawassa town administration, and a conclusion.
We provide below a rough summary translation of the manifesto while providing clarifications to readers about glaring policy inconsistencies contained in the illegal document under each paragraph.
Title of the manifesto:
How to administer our metropolitan cities
- Introduction
When the South Ethiopian Peoples' Democratic Movement (a branch of EPRDF in South Ethiopia) conducted its revolutionary renewal meeting recently, it passed decisions to enhance the capacity of the administration in Hawassa town and other towns that are included in the government's reform programme and that have shown weaknesses in spearheading political and economic transformation.
The regional EPRDF meeting decided that due to its importance as one of the "metropolitan" cities in the country, the capacity of the administration of the Hawassa town be enhanced by appointing "capable individuals" in leadership positions.
Comments from Sidama: Hawassa with a population of 162000 in 2011 is not a metropolitan city by any standard; although there are few high rise buildings and few kilometers of tar marked roads the town is still one of the less developed towns by any global standard as the entire country is. Housing and other basic social and economic services are inadequate. However, the town remains one of the fastest growing towns in the country due to two factors: (a) it is the centre of cash crop –coffee (Sidama produces most of specialty Arabica coffee highly demanded in the world market alongside with significant amount of ordinary Arabica coffee), and (b) geographical beauty due to the location of the city along lake Hawassa. The town developed faster under the Sidama administration in the past 20 years than during any time in its history. The term metropolitan area refers to a region consisting of a densely populated urban core and its less-populated surrounding territories, sharing socioeconomic infrastructure with its surroundings. A metropolitan area usually comprises multiple jurisdictions, and municipalities, smaller towns, other cities; districts and so on. Which other jurisdictions in Sidama does a Hawassa "metropolitan" area encompass? Is even Tuula which is 4 kilometers from Hawassa part of Hawassa "metropolitan" area? Is there any industrial infrastructure, housing and metropolitan transport networks that link Hawassa with its surroundings? Who is fooling whom? The main objective of the manifesto is to uproot the Sidama people from their land because they are not politically loyal to the current regime, and thereby ensure that the rents collected smoothly flow to the offshore accounts where billions of the country's meager hard currency has been transferred during the past decade or to central government for developments in other priority regions.
This discussion paper (manifesto) is prepared to guide the South Ethiopia EPRDF executive committee to implement the stated reform in "consultation" with different layers of administrations in the region and in line with a revolutionary, developmental , and democratic principles without causing unnecessary misunderstanding of our courses of action.
Comments from Sidama: Changes of administrators to be implemented in consultation with the Sidama people? 99.9% of the Sidama people have rejected the current regional arrangement in South Ethiopia and continued to demand regional autonomy for the past 20 years. South Ethiopian regional state is illegal and remains to be illegal based on EPRDF's own constitution. No one was consulted when the five independent regions were merged into one in 1993. And any proposals to uproot the Sidama people from their land have been fully rejected by the people. As we speak, all Sidama people are protesting against this very document in all 19 districts.
The South Ethiopia EPRDF executive committee underscored the importance of "consultation" and reiterated that there was a need to rectify the misconception that town administrations are there to collect rents instead of promoting economic development by building the revolutionary democratic social basis that will enhance participation in and beneficiation of citizens from development.
Comments from Sidama: The statements that allege that the Sidama administrators in Hawassa were corrupt rent collectors makes mockery of the corruption in Ethiopia. Who owns the Ethiopian economy? The Heritage Center states: "Ethiopia's economic freedom score is 52.0, making its economy the 134th freest in the 2012 Index. Its overall score is 1.5 points higher than last year, reflecting improvements in four of the 10 economic freedoms including investment freedom and monetary freedom. Ethiopia is ranked 28th out of 46 countries in the Sub-Saharan Africa region, and its overall score is slightly below the regional average.
Progress toward greater economic freedom has been very uneven, and Ethiopia underperforms in many critical policy areas. The absence of an independent and fair judiciary weakens the rule of law and undermines prospects for long-term sustainable economic development. Corruption is pervasive, and the efficiency of government services is poor." Is the above due to corruption in Hawassa? Come on EPRDF.
According to a report published by Global Financial Integrity in 2011, Ethiopia has lost $11.7-billion to outflows of illicit funds in the last decade. In 2009 alone, the figure was $3.26-billion, exceeding both the value of its total annual exports and the total development aid it received that year. And it is on the increase. The candid finding: "The people of Ethiopia are being bled dry. No matter how hard they try to fight their way out of absolute destitution and poverty, they will be swimming upstream against the current of illicit capital leakage." Is this due to corruption in Hawassa? "
The manifesto outlines the reasons why the administration of Hawassa is a pivotal question and suggests measures required to implement the proposed changes of leadership. The main objective is to replace the existing structures with competent transitional administration that will ensure the total elimination of rent seeking and promote developmental political economy that will maximize the benefits to the people.
- Why the Hawassa administration is a fundamental challenge
2.1 The need to ensure that the system based on rent collection is abolished and competition , which is a foundation for development is instilled
Comments from Hawassa: The Ethiopian economy is not competitive at all: it is dominated by few endowment companies owned by EPRDF: "In practice, Ethiopia's ruling EPRDF government retains control of a large proportion of available sources of rents and economic levers, including large state-owned enterprises and so-called 'endowment-owned' businesses." (Africa power and politics).
The importance of our towns is measured by their potential to generate profit to investors. At the same time our towns also attract those who are bent on profiteering illegally. The fact that these towns are the focus of both genuine investors and those who intend to amass wealth through fraudulent mechanisms obviously complicates our struggle.
It is clear that except our capital city, Addis Ababa , and Oromia regional towns in the surroundings of Addis Ababa, no other towns in Ethiopia compete with "our Hawassa."
Comments from Sidama: What a shame EPRDF: did not this happen under Sidama administration during the past 20 years? then why are you so determined to change it?
The main factors that make "our town Hawassa" the most attract place are:
1) Her natural beauty and attractions,
2) The People of Sidama are a cash crop (major Coffee) producers and Hawassa is the biggest market for the product;
3) The center for towns in Southern region up to the Kenyan boarder,
4) The entrepreneurial skills of its dwellers, among others;
These factors create opportunities to foster faster economic development in the area if the government is able to mobilize resources effectively, allocate them properly to the development collectively and ensure "competition".
On the other hand, if rents collected are allowed to continue to be embezzled, the few individuals will shine temporarily but economic development will be short lived because it is not based on" hard work and competition".
Hawassa has been plagued by the second challenge and as result it has failed to achieve its full development potential.
Comments from Sidama: this contradicts the very statement above that Hawassa is the fastest growing city not rivaled by any other regional cities except a few in Oromia, but it failed to achieve its full development potential. Which city achieved its full development potential in Ethiopia? What a contradiction! Why not change administrators of those regional cities that have failed to perform as good as Hawassa did first and then come to Hawassa if it is overtaken by them. Would not that be a logical policy sequencing for any policy maker in his right mind?
Since recently we have taken measures to ensure that everything we do is based on the fundamental principles of competition, and openness, and conducted with justice, challenges still remain. We are therefore committed to replace the existing Hawassa leaders with leaders that transcend the rent collection and abuse culture and are capable and committed to work based on the principle of "competition".
If we do not carry out the proposed reform, we will undermine our people particularly those living in Hawassa city. This would allow the culture of rent collection and abuse and corruption to spread among our general public thereby by endangering our political system. This will lead to societal decay and ultimately to underdevelopment, disunity, and conflicts amongst our peoples.
Comments from Sidama: remember the Sidama people have lived in Hawassa for the past 1000 years. Hawassa means large in Sidama language. Hawassa town was found only in 1957, 55 years ago. The majority of the people, living in Hawassa today are Sidama. Whom does the EPRDF proposal of uprooting the majority of the people make happy? The Sidama people are naturally respectful to anyone who comes to their land and lives with them in peace. But if they are to be uprooted to give their lands to others they will never accept it as they have demonstrated during the past 10 centuries.
After South Ethiopia EPRDF renewal, we have realized that this is not a hypothetical scenario or fear; we have witnessed this route of disaster in reality and if it is allowed to continue in this manner the route of disaster will be emboldened and will repeat itself soon.
Comments from Sidama: Is the route of disaster in Hawassa due to its fast development under the Sidama administration? Your argument does not hold any water, please.
2.2 The need to inculcate revolutionary, open and developmental attitude
China's rise to power as the second largest economy in the World was driven by the 1978 reform of opening-up by the then president Deng Xioppeng;
China's decision to open up to the external world and global completion enabled the country to achieve rapid economic growth during the past thirty years.
Comments from Sidama: Oh, come on: China's opening up under Deng Xiaoping (he is not Xioppeng) and the country's rapid economic transformation compared with changing leadership in Hawassa. Obviously, the EPRDF cadre who wrote this manifesto has no clue what he is talking about. China's opening -up was a historic shift in the development strategy of the whole country from closed socialist to more capitalist, market oriented system based on true competition. It could not be reduced to a little land grabbing strategies here and there. And who is Deng Xiaoping in the case of Hawassa land grab? Let me quote Ezra Vogel on Xiaoping:
"Deng was the pragmatic yet disciplined driving force behind China's radical transformation in the late twentieth century. He confronted the damage wrought by the Cultural Revolution, dissolved Mao's cult of personality, and loosened the economic and social policies that had stunted China's growth. Obsessed with modernization and technology, Deng opened trade relations with the West, which lifted hundreds of millions of his countrymen out of poverty." Is Ethiopia going to apply a radical policy shift only in Hawassa while the rest of the country continues to languish under poverty? What a mother of all jokes?
We always reiterate that Hawassa is becoming a metropolitan town. We would like "our beautiful town" to become the tourist center. We would like our city to become the leading industrial center in the country. We know that Hawassa has the potential to become trade and distribution center.
As some countries in the world have one city designated as global conference centers such as Sharm el Sheik in Egypt; Banglore in India, Durban in South Africa; Camp David in United States, Hawassa also has the potential to become the Hawassa conference centre of Ethiopia. The city has the potential to become the centre of scientific and technological research and development. It has the potential to become the second city in Ethiopia.
Comments from Sidama: Is the objective to transform Hawassa to a place like a resort town of Sharm el Sheik in Egypt to reduce it to a recreational facility for the new ruling elites by chasing away poor Sidamas from their town.
Our opening-up policy is meant to make Hawassa becomes a city admired by the Sidama people; different peoples living in South Ethiopia; all Ethiopians and the global community. On top of this we would like to ensure that it will become the city loved by its dwellers.
This revolutionary thinking rejects the mentality of rent collection and embezzlement, and antirevolutionary attitude.
Among the investors in China's about 70% come from the west and the remaining originate in the country's arch foe, Japan. This indicates that in the interest of economic development, countries put their historic rivalries aside and invite investors from their former enemies. To ensure people benefit from development, we need take such revolutionary actions. We should ask ourselves why it is important to make such critical decisions in the interest of the people. Those who made these decisions have implemented free market economies and benefited their people and enhanced their roles in the world.
Comments from Sidama: Invite investors from former enemies in the interest of the people? are we talking about inviting investors from Wolayita or Gamo? But Wolayita and Gamo are not enemies of Sidama. The fact of the matter is that they do not have more resources than Sidama. All Ethiopians from any corner of the country are investing in Hawassa under Sidama administration. Did the Sidama people block Haile Gebre Sellasie from investing in Hawassa? No one is the enemy of the Sidama people and the Sidama administration in Hawassa will continue to attract investors from the country as well as the rest of the world. What a Walayita and Gamo, or Shakicho can do, any Sidama can. If the intention is to bring in the Tigre nationals as the leaders of Hawassa city let it be clear.
At present we are at a time when we have to lead our Hawassa "metropolitan" town based on the same principle. If we do not take the proposed measures, Hawassa will lag behind leading to under development and conflicts.
Comments from Sidama: you stated above clearly that the Sidama administration ensured that Hawassa performed better than any other towns in the country for the past 20 years. What a fallacy!!
2.3 The need to understand rights of nations, nationalities and peoples in light of revolutionary democratic principles.
Both federal and regional constitutions ensure the rights of nations, nationalities and people to regional self-administration and allow them to develop their languages and culture while ensuring that nations and nationalities will have fair representations in institutions that belong to all.
Comments from Sidama: Regional self-determination does not apply in South Ethiopia. Ethiopia has two systems of administration (a) unitary in South Ethiopia and (b) ethnic based federal arrangements in the rest of the country. Do not underestimate people in the South, particularly the Sidama people. We are not stupid. Either follow a unitary administration throughout the country or ethnic based federalism throughout the country. We know it is not possible to have 45 regions in the South. The demand of the people is to return to the previous 5 regions with likeminded peoples together in one region. This is the root cause of the problem of Hawassa. Without addressing it, EPRDF will never be able to address the questions of the rights of nations and nationalities to self-administration in the country.
The representation of nations and nationalities and representation of the elite groups from these nations and nationalities has often led to contradictory interpretations.
Comments from Sidama: How do you separate educated Sidamas you labeled here as "elite groups" from the Sidama people: a third system of dividing people and societies.
Nations and nationalities are represented by officials in various structures of government that people elect whether these officials are educated or uneducated.
Individuals elected to the various councils have the power to promulgate laws and identify areas to be administered by these laws and conduct various other functions and as such are the true representatives of the people.
However, at present representatives in most councils have lost touch with the people and fail to carry out their tasks of guiding and supervising the executives while the role of the executive has become inflated and accountable to those who work with them instead of the people thereby undermining the revolutionary ethos.
We understand that in executives branches there are positions that are performed exclusively by those elected by the people. These are constitutional provisions and laws that emanate from it.
Notwithstanding the above, executive positions should be filled by those who have the capacity to implement the tasks they are assigned to do. The first criterion of capacity is the capacity of revolutionary development and democracy; while leadership skills and academic qualifications that are commensurate to the positions can also be considered as additional criteria. Those to be assigned in executive positions should be able to understand the developmental and democratic polices and strategies in their localities, urban or rural. This will enable them to understand the policies and strategies and implementation methods and inculcate them into others.
Comments from Sidama: in Sidama people's representation should be divided into two. The Sidama people will keep the legislative positions, but EPRDF will take away the executive positions. While in the rest of the country people's representation means full representation in the legislative, the executive and the judiciary since regions are demarcated based on ethnic identities. Who is dumb; you or the Sidama people?
In Sidama the benefit to the people should not be measured by the number of people assigned but by the good administration that emanates from full understanding of the revolutionary development. That is why we in our renewal article of 1993 EC, stated that we would uproot narrow nationalism and chauvinism!!
Revolutionary democracy is different from others because of its stand on peoples' democratic participation. Revolutionary democracy strongly believes that people should actively participate in all processes at all levels. This is mainly done at kebelle, woreda and town levels. However peoples' participations should not be limited to these levels, People should fairly participate and be represented at zonal, regional, and at the level of the federal government. This ensures equitable national participation.
Comments from Sidama: stop nonsense about revolutionary democracy; there is no democracy in Ethiopia at all. The ruling party wins 99.6% of the votes and you keep on lamenting about democracy throughout this illegal crap document.
The executive, which provides the political leadership, has similarities with the council of peoples' representatives and council of federal representatives. However, the executive is formed by the party that wins the election and as such the winning party appoints those whom it considers to be capable to deliver. If the party is formed from limited nations and nationalities the executive (cabinet) will also reflect that composition thereby limiting participations by various peoples. The presence of some regions where EPRDF has no representations may thus lead to imbalances in the executive representations. This may also limit the availability of capable individuals that the party would like to appoint in executive positions. As a result of this there would always remain discrepancies between those positions held by elected officials and those held by the executives.
The rights of all Ethiopian people will be respected only if the polices of EPRDF are fully implemented. And this can only be ensured if the executives appointed by the ruling party have the required capacity. If we continue to appoint people who do not have capacity in order to fulfill the quota of nations and nationalities, this will not benefit the country and negatively impact on all people. Thus if the national representation does not protect the interest of the people it is not a revolutionary national representation. We implement the representation of nations and nationalities as long as it does not affect the capacity of the executive to deliver.
Comments from Sidama: the rights of the people will never be respected in one party dictatorship. Is EPRDF living in 12th century? Does this apply to all the country or Sidama only? It does not. Can you appoint a Sidama as a mayor of Mekele? Again, is Ethiopia a unitary or ethnic based federal state?
Few educated individuals from various ethnic groups often do not fully understand the meaning of popular representation and think that they have the right to represent the people simply because they belong to a certain ethnic group.
Comments from Sidama: Individuals in Ethiopia neither have the rights to represent their ethnic groups nor the country. Why did you chase away political opponents who claimed to represent the whole country, if you are so against claims of ethnic representations? The fact is no one can represent anything in Ethiopia. The political system is akin to that of North Korea. Trying to divide individuals and the societies they belong to EPRDF is making another historic blunder. This is the most bizarre attempt to divide individuals and the society they belong to. It implies that only the Tigres in ERPDF who are the true representatives of all the people in Ethiopia. A Sidama intellectual has no right to represent his own people nor does he have any right to represent the country.
During the discussion the Sidama people have exposed the intentions of the few educated Sidamas stressing that they have been hiding behind the Sidama umbrella to enrich themselves and promote their private benefits not the benefit of society.
Comments from Sidama: let the facts be stated clearly; corruption is rampant in Ethiopia in every corner of the EPRDF led regions. Ethiopia lost US$11 billion during the past ten years in corruption. What the poor EPRDF cadres in Hawassa are being accused of is the tip of the iceberg. Besides, Hawassa has performed better under the Sidama administration than any other regional cities in the country as this manifesto itself admitted in various pages. The most corrupt towns in the country have obviously lagged behind Hawassa in development during the past 20 years. If EPRDF is genuinely concerned about the development of cities it should first address the development challenges of the laggard cities not the city which is performing the best in the country. Do not make a mountain of corruption out of a mole hole in Hawassa while you have real mountains of corruption throughout the country. Beside, receiving two plots of land can never be compared with receiving direct aid funds meant to the country from international donors in the name of endowments for specific regions, unless of course we are forced to believe that the mighty is always right!
Therefore, there will be two forms of administrative representation in Sidama: (1) where there is a need to maintain ethnic national representation, the Sidama individuals will be able to represent the Sidama people; (2) in areas that require better capacity to implement development and democratic principles in order to ensure improved governance that will benefit the people, appointments should be based on the ability to deliver not on being Sidama or not.
Comments from Sidama: does this apply to all the regions in Ethiopia?
We will continue to fight the two extreme views of executive representation, i.e. the demand for Sidama national representation in executive positions in Sidama and rejection of leadership capacity as the main criterion for executive appointments. These two attitudes are antirevolutionary and we will continue to fight them.
2.4 The need to ensure that the metropolitan towns will not be continued to be administered in the previous manner.
Comments from Sidama: which other towns in Ethiopia are to be administered nationally? Apparently all of them are performing very poorly compared to Hawassa but their administrations will never be changed. We know that under dictatorship anything can happen. However this is one of the most blatant deceits and should be stopped immediately.
Towns will serve as the centers of knowledge and technology to enhance agricultural and rural development. They will accomplish this role only if we are able to deliver effectively social and economic services in these towns themselves. These include among others; modern town planning; adequate socio-economic development planning, land use and administration, housing supplies; developing strategies for landscaping, and sanitation the town remain the corner stones for the development of these towns. It requires political commitment and capacity to deliver these.
Comments from Sidama: The Sidama leadership that ensured that Hawassa grew faster than any other towns in the country during the past 20 years is regarded as having no political commitment and capacity to deliver these all of the sudden! Another blatant fallacy!
We cannot continue to administer Hawassa in the same manner as we used to administer rural Sidama. That will not continue anymore!
Comment from Sidama: To EPRDF, it does not matter if rural Sidama continue to be administered by people with poor capacity; but it does matter when people with poor capacity administer Hawassa. That is what EPRDF calls championing the cause of the poor!! Do you people think before uttering such extremely shameful words, which leave your true intentions naked? You are committed to replace those who administer towns where there is good amount of rent, but not interested in improving the administration of rural Sidama where 90 of our people live.
Thus we need to urgently take over Hawassa and appoint individuals with better political and leadership capacity and commitment.
- Principles to be followed to change the Hawassa town administration
1) Since Hawassa town is in Sidama zone, the representation of the Sidama people in the town administration has been ensured in related laws. This will be implemented without undermining their right for representation.
Comments from Sidama : this is not true. This very document undermines the right of the Sidama people for self-administration. Another blatant fallacy!!
2) Outside of the positions that reflect the right of the Sidama people for representation, appointment will not be based on quotas but the ability of individual to fully understand and implement EPRDF town and industry development policy and their detailed implementation plans.
Comments from Sidama: which positions in Sidama do not require Sidama representation; are we talking about two constitutions in one country; can you appoint me as the mayor of Mekele; I am a Sidama and as capable as any Tiger. You cannot. You have to clearly and honestly state that the EPRDF constitution does not apply to South Ethiopia and you can bend the rules you have promulgated as you wish in the South.
3) Notwithstanding (2) above it is possible to find members of EPRDF regardless of ethnic distinctions that are capable of leading the stated transition step by step;
Comment from Sidama: Indeed you have as many capable Sidamas as possible who can lead that little town Hawassa; But your criterion is a political commitment to EPRDF, which none of the capable Sidamas have. Nor do capable Ethiopians elsewhere in the country have political commitments to EPRDF.
4) The main principle is to ensure that the Sidama people, peoples of the region and the direct beneficiaries of the proposed change, the residents of Hawassa benefit from revolutionary and developmental leadership.
Comments from Sidama: the main objectives of the proposed change of leadership in Hawassa town are twofold: (1) permanently silence the Sidama demand for regional autonomy, and (2) ensure that the rents collected will go to the central government and through it to the offshore accounts where US$ 11 billion have been transferred during the past decade or to the developments in the priority region.


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Looking for Levys -- a moveable family
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Whew! If anyone can find the thread in this Levy-Labyrinth, it is Dorothy!
- 19 December 2007 at 16:16
So do you think your Grandfather was just trying to keep one step ahead of various landlords? Because I figure even if one was a renter, why would one need to move, unless one couldn't pay the rent?
And I'm curious...is 'Moveable Family' a play on 'Moveable Feast'?
- 20 December 2007 at 18:27
- Dorothy Kew said...
Sounds like it, doesn't it? It must have been difficult for the family, having to keep one step ahead of the landlord, as you put it. And yes, the title is a play on words ....
- 21 December 2007 at 08:08
Wow! I have just been looking at the Jamaican Gleaner article about Jewish people in the West Indies and how the Jews and Moors were called heretics because they did not pratice the same religion as the Spanish. I have copy the link I don't if you have seen it, http://www.jamaica-gleaner.com/pages/history/story0054.htm.
This family tree research is an interest of mine because I am a black girl born in London with the surname Stanislas. I was a bit shocked to find out that there were Jews in the West Indies as well! I knew about the Spanish, British, Indians, Dutch (maybe that is the connection) and French but I was none the wiser about the Jewish.
- 15 July 2008 at 10:43
I dont know my fathers side of the family and they are levys too.
All i know is that he is from st elisabeth, jamaica. I dont know which parish but he said everyone in that small parish is a levy. Im going jamaica soon with my son elijah.
Ive been trying to find out more but m6 grandad wont talk.
He has some hang up about his father who was jewish. Its frustrating.
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Funeral services for Daniel W. McClain Sr. will be held at 10 a.m. Wednesday, May 8, 2013 at the Chapel of Cox Funeral Home of Bastrop. The Rev. Kenneth Pack will officiate the services. Interment will follow at the Bartholomew Methodist Church Cemetery. Visitation will be held from 5 p.m. until 8 p.m. Tuesday, May 7, 2013 at Cox Funeral Home of Bastrop.
Daniel Webster McClain was born April 3, 1937 in Vick, Ark. to the late John Shields McClain and Lucian Veree Brady McClain. He died unexpectedly on Sunday, May 5, 2013 at his home in Bastrop. Mr. McClain was a member of the Central Missionary Baptist Church in Warren, Ark. Dan worked many years for Wal-Mart throughout Arkansas and retired as the tire and automotive department manager with Wal-Mart of Bastrop. He was preceded in death by his parents; a brother, Glen W. McClain and a son, John W. McClain Sr.
Mr. McClain is survived by his wife of 52 years, Nelda Yvonne Buffington McClain; two sons, Daniel W. McClain Jr. and John W. McClain II all of Bastrop; a beloved daughter, Cindy Carver Martinez and husband, Chivo of Refugio, Texas; a sister, Nettie Jane Weaver and husband, Lloyd of Warren, Ark.; two brothers, Charles "Andy" McClain of Houston, Texas and Brady "Jack" McClain and wife, Wanda of Texarkana, Ark. He is also survived by grandchildren, Katie, Charles and Mark McClain; beloved grandchildren, Candice and her son, Trenton, Bobby and his daughter, Beth, Brandi and her son, Baylor; two great-great-grandchildren, Carley and C.J.; and his beloved dog and riding companion, Kallie.
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Skulls of Khmer Rouge victims. Photo by Adam Carr, February 2005.
If your child is murdered or your friend is tortured or someone tries to kill you, it is tough to forgive and forget. Animosities that spring from these kinds of brutality run deep. Yet moving on emotionally and psychologically is an important part of rebuilding society after the trauma of conflict and violence.
Different societies deal with these things in different ways. This week Hilary Clinton visited a former prison in Cambodia where thousands were held before being sent to their deaths in the killing fields. She urged the authorities to proceed with trials of the surviving leaders of the Khmer Rouge so that the country can 'confront its past'.
This followed the decision by Prime Minister Hun Sen that there would be no more prosecutions after the trials of four senior Khmer Rouge leaders already charged. The prime minister says the country needs to bury the past. Ms. Clinton argues that a country that is unable to confront its past is a country that cannot overcome it.
The same day, there was another story describing how East Timor's President Jose Ramos Horta plans to free Gastao Salsinha, the former rebel who shot and badly wounded him in 2008. The UN Secretary General, rights groups, and the opposition have reacted to the decision with dismay, saying it will undermine the rule of law.
For President Horta, who won the Nobel Peace Prize in 1996, it is about mercy and reconciliation. With internal tensions still strong in his impoverished Asian nation, he believes offering clemency is an opportunity to consolidate peace and stability which outweighs arguments for punitive justice.
Is there a right approach to this thorniest of post-conflict problems? Research for the WDR finds that over the last three decades almost 40 countries have implemented various measures to redress serious human rights abuses.


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Mount Dhaulagiri 8167m. is the 7th highest mountain in the world and its located in the Dhaulagiri Himal. Mt. Dhaulagiri lies in the Dhaulagiri Zone of north-central Nepal, northwest of Pokhara. Its name is derived from Sanskrit "Dhavala" means "White" and Giri is "Mountain".
he Mountain first time scaled by Mr. Ernest. Forrer and his team K. Diemberger, P. Diener, A. Schelbert from Switzerland in May 13, 1960 via North East Ridge. A French team was permitted to climb either Annapurna or Dhaulagiri in 1950 but decided to climb Annapurna after a reconnaissance of Dhaulagiri. A Swiss team tried to climb Dhaulagiri in 1953 but failed to reach the summit. Normally, four camps will be fixed for Dhaulagiri climbing. Advance base camp will be set up at 5,300 meter which is used for depositing the stuff and not for camping due to avalanche danger cases. If we could not approach the summit from Camp IV due to bad weather or other reasons, we will have to fix bivouac at 7,900 meter and next day try to push to the summit.
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In Honor of St. Patrick's Day: Top 5 Thirstiest Ethanol-Burning Cars
Once upon a time, St. Patrick's day involved a traditional church service in the morning and an old time feast in the later hours, consisting of Irish bacon and cabbage. While those traditions might exist in some small remote pockets, these days the "feasting" generally consists of a wee swally; and then another; and another. Like most holidays that have succumbed to modern commercialism (think Christmas and Cinco de Mayo), St. Paddy's now usually involves a bit of boozing (and, we hope, designated driving). In honor of that, we've come up with a list of the top five thirstiest cars on the road today. But there's a catch: we looked for cars that go the shortest distance on a gallon of ethanol. A commonly touted alternative fuel, "E85" is a mixture that's 85 percent ethyl (or grain) alcohol. Not surprisingly, there's also a direct correlation between regular gasoline mpg, and ethanol mpg. These really are the thirstiest cars out there, anyway you slice it.5) 2012 Lincoln Navigator 4WD Hard to imagine now, but at one time the Lincoln Navigator was a pretty cool car. It was the "it" car, the status symbol championed by rappers, athletes, and soccer moms alike. And then came the Cadillac Escalade to ruin the party. Suddenly the Navigator was lost and lonely among a sea of newer and more fashionable SUVs. While the status and glory of the Navigator has left us, the clunky and clumsy 5.4-liter V-8 "flex-fuel" engine remains. Taking you only nine miles per gallon of ethanol (and a lousy 13 mpg gasoline), the Navigator is much the once-star-athlete still playing a decade after its prime in an effort to stave off bankruptcy. With this engine, the only thing flexible will be your credit line to keep it going.4) 2012 Toyota Sequoia 4WD/ 2012 Toyota Tundra 4WD Toyota's are generally efficient and reliable cars that can soldier on for years if maintained properly. And the Sequoia SUV and Tundra pickup might be reliable, but like a summertime Grizzly bear in the Nevada Desert, it sure is thirsty. Delivery a measly nine miles per ethanol gallon, and 13 gasoline mpg, this twosome is chronically dehydrated.3) 2012 GMC Sierra K15 4WD/2012 Chevy Silverado K15 4WD Both of these Pickups use a very powerful, very large and heavy 6.2-liter, V-8 engine, and as a result, like the previous entries on this list, they can really hold their liquor. Like the others above, the Sierra and Silverado suffer from being large, bulky and all-wheel-drive movers. Getting the same nine mpeg as the others, but even worse 12 mpg with traditional gasoline, the pickups are the third thirstiest on our list.2) 2012 Nissan Titan 4WD/2012 Nissan Armada 4WD Like Japanese counterpart Toyota, Nissan has an SUV and pickup duo that share a large, alcohol-swallowing 5.6-liter V-8 engine. The Titan and Armada may have big adult names, but when it comes to fuel economy, they're not even teenagers: 12 mpg with traditional gasoline, and a puny eight with the Paddy's Punch, make the twosome choice candidates for an Ethanolics Anonymous meeting.1) 2012 Bentley Continental GT (and friends) The Bentley Continental comes with all the refinement you can expect when shelling out a couple-hundred thousand bucks: double stitched leather; premium audio; a sumptuous interior; 20-inch alloy wheels; we could go on. What it also comes with, is a curb weight north of 5,000 pounds. To push all that weight, the Continental employs a 6.0-liter, 12-cylinder engine that, as it falls number one on our list, well let's just say even the merriest of St. Paddy's day revelers would take pause. The Continental GT Coupe will only take you a measly eight miles in exchange for 124 ounces of ethanol (we would presume pumped through aged oak barrels), and on premium gasoline, the Bentley only gets 11 mpg (hey, at least we're in the double digits!). Honorable mention goes to the Continental Supersports, and Supersports Convertible, that fared incrementally better. Then again, if you're paying $200,000 for a Bentley, we neither expect you to be penning notes to your congressman to help reduce carbon emissions, nor would you care about high fuel costs. At the bottom of our list, the bloated Bentley is the thirstiest car out there. Source: fueleconomy.gov
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There is just one post devoted to the prevention of female genital mutilation (FGM) in Whitehall, and the government has abolished it. Campaigners said the loss of the FGM co-ordinator will undermine efforts to eradicate the practice.
Some 24,000 girls among FGM-practising minority ethnic communities in Britain are estimated to be at risk of the procedure, in which part or all of their genitalia is cut off and stitched up without anaesthetic.
The Home Office insist the work of the FGM coordinator will not end. Rather, it will continue to be carried forward by individual departments where we believe it will be better integrated.
You can read the full story here. I hope that this important role is not diluted into the work of many people and therefore the important subject forgotten about.
And The Times reported last week that almost 100,000 acres of England's public forests will be sold regardless of the outcome of the independent review of the future of Forestry Commission land, the Government indicated yesterday.
Caroline Spelman, the environment secretary, told MPs on the Commons Environment Select Committee that sales of 15 per cent of the 638,000 acres of public forests would go ahead within the next four years to raise £100 million.
Have I missed something here? I had thought the environment secretary agreed not to sell off our forests…? I recall just a month or so ago that the government was forced into an embarrassing u-turn over its decision.
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Political Cartoonist
PAUL CONRAD is one of the most distinguished political cartoonists in the world. Over his remarkable 50 year career, he's drawn and quartered eleven American presidents, and tackled every major social and political issue the nation has confronted, with his political and editorial cartoons.
Pulitzer Prize WinnerHis highly artful and thought-provoking cartoons have won him three Pulitzer Prizes, as well as a long list of prestigious journalism awards (*). His favorite distinction: his 1973 inclusion on Richard Nixon's Enemies List. His favorite irony: holding the Richard M. Nixon Chair at California's Whittier College (1977-78).
Independent ThinkingAn extraordinary artist, and original political thinker of the highest order, he epitomizes the fiercely independent voice that has been vanishing from American news media in recent years.
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In addition to three Pulitzers (1984, 1971 and 1964), Conrad has won two Overseas Press Club awards (1981 and 1970); four Robert F. Kennedy Journalism Awards for editorial cartooning (1993, 1992, 1990 and 1985); and in 1997, the Society of Professional Journalists honored him with his seventh Distinguished Service Award for Editorial Cartooning -- making him the only journalist to win that many awards in any category since the annual competition began in 1932.
Among his other achievements, Conrad was a senior fellow in the UCLA School of Public Policy and Social Research for 2001-02, and received a Culture of Liberation Award in 2002 from the Center for the Study of Political Graphics.
Among his other honors are the Coro Foundation/Public Affairs Award (2001); L.A. County Democratic Party/Franklin D. and Eleanor Roosevelt Man of the Year (2001); Pat Brown Institute/Lifetime Achievement Award (2000); American Association of Editorial Cartoonists' Lifetime Achievement Award (1998); Women Against Gun Violence, Award for Courage in Combating Gun Violence (1998); L.A. Chapter of the Society of Professional Journalists/Print Journalist of the Year Award (1992); and the Hugh M. Hefner First Amendment Award for Print Journalism (1990).
Conrad's books include Drawing the Line (1999), CONartist (1993), Drawn and Quartered (1985), Pro and Conrad (1979), The King and Us (1974), and When in the Course of Human Events with Malcolm Boyd (1973).
His celebrated, limited-edition bronze sculptures of political leaders which include John F. Kennedy, Robert Kennedy, Martin Luther King, Jr., Richard Nixon, Ronald Reagan, George Bush, Sr., and Bill Clinton -- have been exhibited at the Los Angeles County Museum of Art. Other major exhibitions include the Huntington Library (1995 and 1999), where the complete Conrad archive of original cartoons, working sketches, notes and correspondence is kept. His work is also included in American Treasures of the Library of Congress, an unprecedented permanent exhibition of the rarest and most significant items from the library's American history collection. Read more about Paul Conrad
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Courts and courthouses across New York State have interesting, unique and valuable histories. We will be collecting these histories and sharing them as they become available. We begin this collection with a look at the Court of Claims.
The New York State Court of Claims is the exclusive forum for civil litigation seeking damages against the State of New York and certain other State-related entities. This excerpt from the New York State Library's publication The New York State Court Of Claims: Its History, Jurisdiction and Reports gives the history of the court from the first general statutory provision for claims against the State, the Erie Canal Act of 1817.
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Miguel Cabrera drove in three runs with a pair of doubles, Rick Porcello struck out seven in six innings and the Detroit Tigers beat the Texas Rangers 8-2 Monday night.
After their first 12 batters, the Tigers had already roughed up Rangers rookie right-hander Justin Grimm (1-1) for six runs and eight hits. They had only five runs and 15 hits while losing two of three in Pittsburgh over the weekend.
In a rematch of last year's AL championship series, Cabrera put the Tigers ahead to stay with a two-run double in the first.
Josh Hamilton hit his first homer in his last 12 games for Texas, a two-run shot in the seventh. It was his 23rd.
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Death of a soldier
There is a sad end to report on a story that first appeared in The Examiner in 2009. Marcus Leday, who graduated from West Brook High School in Beaumont in 2005, has taken his own life. He had enlisted in the Army after graduation, becoming part of the storied First Division – the Big Red One. Marcus was a mechanic, servicing combat tanks and trucks in the deserts of Iraq. He was stationed at a base near Tikrit, about 100 miles north of Baghdad, Tikrit was the birthplace of Saddam Hussein and the site of pitched fighting throughout the war. Marcus developed symptoms of post-traumatic stress disorder (PTSD) and was soon returned to the Warrior Transition Unit at Fort Riley in Kansas and later discharged from the Army. The focus of our story was attempts by his mother, Marsha Bias, to get help for son. Finally, the VA hospital in Houston agreed to come get him if she would have him picked up on a mental health warrant. They did and it seemed like life had reached some degree of normalcy, but the demons remained. This week, Marcus shot himself in his room at home. The family didn't even know he had a gun. Bias is a single mother with two children who works at American Habilitation Services assisting the disabled. A fund to help the family with funeral expenses has been set up at Capital One Bank, 3940 Dowlen in Beaumont, account #111901014. Funeral arrangements are pending.


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Atlantic City Hosts Airshow [PHOTOS]
Most eyes will be on the sky over Atlantic City for a free airshow Friday.
Thunder Over the Boardwalk will feature an appearance by the U.S. Air Force Thunderbirds jet team.
Traffic has been steady heading into Atlantic City for the show which lasts until 3:30PM.
The show in previous years had taken place during the middle of the week as a way to boost tourism. However, the day was shifted to Friday this year to accommodate the Thunderbirds.
The U.S. Army Golden Knights parachute team is scheduled to land in front of Boardwalk Hall.
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