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Nearly four years after Justin Trudeau opted not to move into the prime minister's official residence over concerns about its crumbling state, the building remains vacant – except for staff who continue to use the kitchen to prepare meals for Trudeau and his family.
And it appears no decisions will be made on the future of the residence until well after the fall federal election.
The federal Conservatives accuse the Trudeau government of dithering over "critical" upgrades to the stately yet run-down home, and needlessly costing taxpayers more money in the process.
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At the same time, none of the main federal party leaders appears willing to opine on whether the building should be torn down or renovated, or whether they would live in the residence if it were upgraded.
Asked by The Canadian Press their preferences for what to do with the building if elected – or re-elected – to office, the Liberals referred all questions to the National Capital Commission (NCC), which oversees dozens of properties in the capital region; the New Democrats did not provide a response and the Conservatives referred to the project as just one more Liberal blight under Justin Trudeau's leadership.
"The renovation costs of 24 Sussex Drive are a failure that Justin Trudeau has been unable to fix in four years," Conservative Leader Andrew Scheer's spokesman, Daniel Schow, said in a statement.
"The NCC has estimated that it will cost nearly $100 million to renovate 24 Sussex and other official residences. This is an unacceptable situation, and unfortunately, taxpayers are being stuck with the bill."
Scheer, if elected prime minister, would "look for innovative ways to break through the red tape and the overregulation that has created this debacle," said Schow.
The Conservatives would not say, however, whether Scheer would elect to live at 24 Sussex should he become prime minister in the fall. Scheer currently resides in another building managed and maintained by the NCC; Stornoway, the Official Opposition leader's residence.
Prior to being defeated by the Liberals in 2015, former Conservative prime minister Stephen Harper lived in 24 Sussex Drive for a decade, but would not approve any spending on the building beyond necessary or emergency repairs.
Harper was warned by then-auditor general Sheila Fraser in a 2008 report that more than $10 million in repairs were needed just to make it safe to inhabit.
No one expects the NCC to decide the fate of the building until after the October election, said David Flemming with Heritage Ottawa, which wrote to the prime minister in March calling for the creation of a non-partisan committee to decide what to do with 24 Sussex.
Heritage Ottawa made clear in that letter that it prefers the building be renovated, not demolished.
"Please do not condemn this fine building to landfill," the letter stated.
The Prime Minister's Office has not responded to the letter, Flemming said.
In a report prepared in April last year, the NCC classified 24 Sussex as being in a "critical" state of disrepair.
The report assessed the building's replacement value at $38.46 million. At the same time it determined the cost of maintaining the structure at nearly what it's worth: $34.53 million. That figure did not include necessary upgrades to security and grounds maintenance, nor repairs to the nearby pool building, which the NCC described as "rotting."
The home, built in 1868 by American-born lumber baron and member of Parliament Joseph Merrill, has suffered decades of neglect since it was expropriated by the government in 1943. It last underwent major renovations in 1951.
Its outdated wiring risks causing a fire, the drain pipes regularly clog, the exterior stonework is crumbling and the building is filled with asbestos, the NCC was told last year.
"The building systems at 24 Sussex have reached the point of imminent or actual failure," said the report.
Beyond renovations, it has been costing taxpayers nearly $228,000 annually, on average, just to operate and maintain the property, the NCC said.
Trudeau himself, who lived at 24 Sussex as a child when his father Pierre was prime minister, acknowledged in an early 2018 CBC interview that anyone agreeing to spend anything on the house risks the wrath of the electorate.
"No prime minister wants to spend a penny of taxpayer dollars on upkeeping that house," Trudeau said.
To date, no options for dealing with 24 Sussex have been formally presented to the NCC, spokesman Jean Wolff said recently.
The kitchen in the house is still being used almost daily. When Trudeau and his family are in Ottawa, staff there prepare meals and deliver the food a few hundred metres down the road to a cottage behind Rideau Hall where Trudeau, his wife and kids have lived since shortly after being elected.
Former Liberal prime minister Paul Martin has argued that 24 Sussex is a historical landmark that merits preservation. Kim Campbell, who was prime minister for four months in 1993, has suggested it be knocked down.
So has former prime minister Joe Clark's wife, Maureen McTeer. She argued in 2015 the building lacks architectural value and should be bulldozed and replaced with a building that could show off Canada's best architects and designers.
But her suggested timeline – making it a Canada 2017 project to mark the country's 150th anniversary – passed by with no action taken.
The building is designated a heritage site in Ontario by the Federal Heritage Building Review Office.
But that designation wouldn't prevent the federal government from demolishing the building, said Flemming.
"They could tear it down," he said.


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"Sorry, cuz."
So, we have an abbreviated version of our preview.
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Five things that will make you the smartest person at the water cooler, Buffalo edition...
1. Buffalo has shown a finishing kick lately in winning four in a row, scoring 14 of their 17 goals in the second and third period. It seems to be the key to turning things around for them, because for the season they are a plus-8 (goals for/against) in the first period of games, but they are still a minus-10 in the second period and a minus-11 in the third period for the entire season.
2. Buffalo isn't especially adept at scoring at 5-on-3. Only two teams in the league have fewer goals at 5-on-3 than the Sabres' two goals.
3. The Sabres do have a talent for winning games close. Only five teams have more one-goal wins (20); only three teams have earned points in more decisions (30 in 37 one-goal games).
4. Buffalo does fairly well when outshooting their opponents. Their .552 winning percentage is eighth in the league. They just don't do it often enough. They have outshot their opponents only 29 times in 76 games. Only six teams have outshot their opponents less frequently.
5. Second periods seem key against the Sabres. They are 35th in winning percentage when leading after one period (.679), while they are 24-0-2 when leading after 40 minutes (.923), seventh in the league. Their problem, again, is frequency – only 28 leads after one period, only 26 after two.
Five things you can use to impress your special someone, if they happen to be a Caps fan...
1. Washington is walking with a limp these days, and it isn't only Joel Ward's foot injury. In their last six games, it is loss-loss-win, loss-loss-win. There's a pattern that needs to be broken.
2. The Caps have had more than two power plays on four occasions this month. They have scored at least one goal in all of them and have a record of 3-1-0. In the other nine games in which they had two or fewer power plays they failed to score a goal in any of them, are 0-for-11, and they have a record of 3-3-3.
3. The penalty killers are a respectable 35-for-41 in their last 16 games (85.4 percent), almost evenly split at home (17-for-20) and on the road (18-for-21).
4. Washington leads the league in goals scored at 4-on-4 (13), and only the Los Angeles Kings have more goals scored at 4-on-3. Did someone say, "rules change?"
5. Only two teams have more wins when trailing after the second period than Washington (Tampa Bay – Tampa Bay?? – and Pittsburgh).
The Peerless' Players to Ponder
Buffalo: Ryan Miller
Who else matters more in the Sabres' biggest game of the year. Buffalo is 13-2-3 since February 19th, and Ryan Miller has been the brick wall in goal – 13-1-3, 1.78, .941, and three shutouts. But while he has been almost impenetrable in goal over the last month, his career numbers against the Caps are merely mortal – 12-9-3, 2.52, .914, and three shutouts. He is 1-1-0 against the Caps this season, having allowed five goals on 43 shots in his two appearances.
Washington: Alex Ovechkin
If Miller is going to be the immovable object in goal, then Alex Ovechkin has to be the irresistible force for the Caps. And he has been just that recently. Goals in five consecutive games (seven overall), six of his last seven games (nine goals). He must have asked Santa Claus for his goal-scoring touch back, because since Christmas he has 25 goals in 39 games, a 53-goal pace per 82 games. He has 17 goals in 29 career games against the Sabres, including three in three games this season.
1. Win the wall. The Sabres do not have an especially big or physical team. The Caps need to win battles and earn possession of the puck to keep the Sabres from using what could be their advantage in open ice with their quick forwards.
2. Pack 'em in. Ryan Miller is in a zone right now, which means if he sees it, he stops it. Don't let him see the puck, put bodies in front of him, bump him, annoy him. Do a puppet show. Anything.
3. Slow and steady…repeat, steady. The Caps have had issues from time to time…ok, a lot… with being able to put teams away. They need to apply steady pressure to grind the Sabres down and not go into their own shell and let the Sabres start running around causing a ruckus on the scoreboard late.
In the end, both teams have to win this game. The Sabres need it because they are on the wrong side of the first tie-breaker if the teams finish the regular season tied in standings points. The Caps need it because they still have rough road games in Boston and New York against eh Rangers, and they cannot afford to keep leaving points on the table at home. This just might boil down to which player will stay hot – the goal scorer or the goal stopper. Guess who wee think stays hot.
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A study published in the journal Pediatrics suggests that taking probiotics during pregnancy or early in life may reduce the risk of developing food allergies.
By reviewing and analyzing 25 past studies, researchers from four U.S. universities found that pre-natal or early-life consumption of probiotics reduced the risk of developing allergies. Plus, they reduced the total level of the antibody that plays a central role in anaphylaxis: immunoglobulin E, or IgE.
With regard to total IgE level, no difference was observed between mothers who only gave probiotics to their baby early in life versus those who took probiotics during pregnancy as well: in either case, total IgE was reduced.
However, the opposite was true for allergic sensitization (defined as a positive skin-prick test, or elevated specific-IgE to any food or airborne allergen): in order for the protective effect to be observed, probiotics had to be taken both during the mother's pregnancy and the early life of the child.
This study, published in 2013, adds to a growing body of research which suggests that bacteria which live inside us (which outnumber our own cells by 10-to-one) play an integral role in the body, including in the development of the immune system. Differences in these bacteria may affect not only the onset of allergic disease, but many other disorders as well.
Not Just Any Bacteria
Numerous studies have associated differences in the amount or diversity of bacteria in the intestines with food allergies and eczema. Probiotics are essentially a supplement of bacteria; they work by introducing bacteria into the body, and can contain a number of different bacterial strains.
However, this doesn't mean it's time to head to the supplement aisle and start stocking up on bottles of bacteria: some past studies have had contradictory results, finding either that probiotics had no effect, or even made allergy more likely.
This study's authors say this probably has to do with the strains chosen: different studies use different strains of bacteria, and there is no consensus yet on which strains would be the "best," or which combinations of strains. For example, in this study, one strain popularly used in supplements (Lactobacillus acidophilus) was found to actually increase the risk of allergic sensitization when compared with other strains.
No Effect on Wheeze
In all cases, consuming probiotics did not appear to significantly reduce asthma or wheeze. Further studies are required to determine why this was found; the authors note it could be related to the probiotic strain and/or follow-up duration.
The authors conclude that "carefully selected probiotics administered during pregnancy and early infancy may have a role in the primary prevention of atopic disease, particularly in high-risk infants."


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Pamphlet for participants in the "Occupy" aka "99%" movement, explaining why the problem is not "corporate greed," but capitalism, and what is meant by capitalism, crisis, anti-capitalist struggle, and "occupation" in a (libertarian) Marxist sense.
Pdf of illustrated pamphlet for printing here.
The "99% Movement" has adopted the term "occupy" from the anti-capitalist tradition, in which people have occupied workplaces, neighborhoods, school buildings, etc., as moves toward taking control over the "means of production" in order to make things and share them, "from each according to ability, to each according to need," without the mediation of money. However, starting with the original Adbusters call, an influential current within the movement has suppressed this history, treating "occupation" as a temporary and symbolic means of petitioning the government to crack down on "corporate greed" and "corruption." As anti-capitalists, we oppose such reformism not because we're attached to some "radical" identity, and certainly not out of nostalgia for the old "socialist" movements (whether of Stalinist or social democratic varieties – both ended up producing only different forms of capitalism). It is simply that the reformist agenda has failed repeatedly. (Anti-capitalist movements, on the other hand, from the Paris Commune of 1871 to the present, have only been defeated, or undermined by confusion; prior to defeat, they have shown some promising beginnings.) Reformism has failed because any meaningful pro-worker regulations eventually become fetters to capital's health, so it becomes necessary to dismantle them - to "save the economy" (i.e. capitalism). That's what we're experiencing now, and a return to more regulation, more taxing of the rich to fund social services, etc., is something capital cannot afford without first restoring the rate of profit, which (if possible) would require more of the same: rising unemployment, falling wages, cuts to public goods and services, and the acceleration of energy wars and environmental devastation, bringing us ever closer to catastrophe. So reformism is "utopian"; the only "realistic" way out of this mess is the path we have yet to forge.
What do we mean by the term "capitalism" as opposed to "corporate greed"? Capitalism is a system of production whose roots could be found in commercial activities throughout the ancient and medieval world, but which came into its own in early modern Western Europe, hand in hand with the transformation of medieval kingdoms and empires into the modern system nation-states (16th to 19th centuries), which has always been inseparable from capitalism. (As Marx put it, the modern state is "essentially a committee for managing the common affairs of the bourgeoisie as a whole.") These states established the preconditions for capitalist development by plundering the Americas, Africa and Asia, and setting up colonial regimes there, which were eventually taken over by local elites and used to administer their own capitalist development (often under the banner of "socialism"). By the mid-19th century, capitalism had become the dominant force globally, compelling "all nations, on pain of extinction, to adopt the bourgeois mode of production; ... to introduce what it calls 'civilization' into their midst..." This "civilization" could be analyzed into the following intertwined aspects:
(1) Two basic social classes: proletariat and bourgeoisie
a. We proles (mainly dispossessed peasants and their descendants) have no (legal) way to survive except by renting ourselves out as workers
b. The bourgeois have no aristocratic position that would entitle them to tribute, etc.; all they have is money, and the magic to make it grow - by exploiting us proles
(2) A system of commodity* exchange invading all spheres of life, with money as the universal commodity (everything has a price, so you can get anything with enough money, and nothing without it)
*Commodity: something produced for exchange rather than for direct use, tribute or gift-giving
(3) The immediate process of capitalist production
a. Industrial capitalists (from the bourgeoisie) invest money (known as capital*) to rent land and buildings, buy machinery and raw materials, and hire proles to produce Commodities for sale – not because capitalists want Money to buy other Commodities (the traditional logic of commodity exchange, C-M-C), but in order to make a profit, that is, more money than was originally invested (M-C-M').
*Capital: money invested in order to get more money; "dead labor, that vampire-like, lives only by sucking living labor, and lives the more, the more labor it sucks" (Marx, Capital, vol. 1, chapter 10)
b. This trick is possible because the capitalist pays us for only part of the value we produce. For example, a prole named Lori works 8 hours for $10/hour, assembling hamburgers at McDonald's. The 400 hamburgers she makes during those 8 hours sell for $2000. The beef, buns and other materials cost $1000, and the utilities, wear and tear on equipment, and other expenses cost another $900, totaling $1900. So Lori's labor added $100 worth of value to those materials, but she was paid only $80, so Mr. McDonald made $20 net profit from the unpaid portion of Lori's labor that day. If there are 10 employees per shift working at the same average rate of exploitation, and two shifts per day, then Mr. McDonald nets $400 each day from that store, $12,000 per month.
c. So right at the point of production, there is an irreconcilable contradiction between capital and the labor necessary for capital's growth. Our interests are fundamentally opposed: the longer and harder we work, the more profit the boss makes, and vice versa: if we try to lighten our work load, whether in time or intensity, or if we demand higher wages or safer conditions, we cut into the boss's profit. This contradiction cannot be resolved through compromise, since capital will die if it doesn't grow, and capital can grow only by "sucking" more "living labor" from workers. This is the basic logic of capitalist investment, M-C-M': capitalists don't invest in order to exchange their assets for something they want to use, but in order for their money to give birth to more money, and if it doesn't do that, they may as well sell their assets and buy a tropical island. At the same time, competition with other companies forces them to constantly increase the rate of exploitation – either by making us work harder or longer, or by switching to new equipment that can produce more products per labor-hour, or that can be operated by cheaper workers. Every now and then the workers manage to push down the rate of exploitation, but when that is limited to one firm, it threatens the firm with bankruptcy (since other firms in the same industry are continuing to operate at a higher rate); when workers push down the rate of exploitation for a whole industry, capital floods out of that industry in search of more profitable opportunities, leading to mass layoffs (as we've seen with the auto industry); when it affects the system as a whole, we have a crisis, which is capital's way of trying to restore the rate of profit.
(4) Dog-eat-dog competition among capitalists on a (free or regulated) market.
This is why subjective attitudes like greed are irrelevant: even if an entrepreneur happens to be Mother Teresa, and her whole reason for going into business is to create humane jobs, do "green" production, and give to charity, either her products are limited to a tiny niche market for rich people trying to assuage their guilty consciences (like the "fair trade" market), or more likely, her products are undersold by other companies that pay their workers slightly less, or pollute a little more. She is forced to follow their example or go bankrupt. No amount of government regulation can fundamentally change this: such regulation cuts directly into profit, so there is always a tug of war between capitalists and anyone who tries to regulate the market by raising the minimum wage, improving environmental protection standards, etc. This tug of war is really a displacement of the class war between capital and labor: the state and most official "labor" organizations are just responding to, or trying to preempt, widespread proletarian resistance, and as mentioned above, this war cannot end in a truce: capital must keep pushing back to restore the rate of profit, which means undoing previously made regulations.
(5) Endlessly expanding reproduction & crisis
Not only is capital like a vampire; it's also like a cancer, since it must constantly expand and multiply. Once a capitalist makes profit, he's got to make another investment – either in expanding the same firm, or starting a new one. Even if he just puts his profit into the bank, the bank's got to lend it to another capitalist, or the bank would go out of business. This is why we can't blame the crisis on banks, or Wall Street for that matter: without banks or the stock exchange, industrial capitalists wouldn't be able to come up with enough money to buy the expensive facilities necessary to survive in competition with other firms. At the same time, financial institutions can't survive without constantly making loans and investments, and when there are no profitable opportunities, either there is a crisis, or financiers start inventing ways to make profits on paper (hedge funds, etc.) – until someone figures out there's not enough production and consumption going on to back it up. And this is obviously NOT because everyone has all the products they need or want; a sixth of the world's population is chronically malnourished, and yet fields lie fallow, farm equipment stands unused, and ridiculous amounts of food are thrown away every day. The reason is that people don't have enough money to buy the products, and this is because companies won't hire them (or if they do, the wages are too low), and this in turn because it wouldn't be profitable for the companies to expand, since they couldn't sell any more products at a profitable price...
This crisis will not end until the rate of profit is restored, which would require:
(1) the rate of exploitation to increase considerably, and since it's hard to imagine how we could survive the stress of working any harder or longer than we're already working, the main way to increase the rate of exploitation would be by continuing to lay off workers and cut wages – including the social wage, made up of welfare benefits, public transit, homeless shelters, etc. (paid indirectly by capitalists to proles via taxes and donation to non-profits);
(2) the liquidation of old capital, including products that can't be sold profitably, obsolescent fixed capital (machines, etc.), and fictitious capital (that is, paper claims to wealth above the actual value of the commodities to which they originally referred - value that is always falling due to technological development, while paper claims to that value, once sold on in a different form, are not written down until a financial crunch; historically, war has been an important way old capital is liquidated);
(3) continuing to cut the cost of production by plundering land, water, and other "resources" from the world's few remaining peasant communities with anything left to steal, and by mining the bodies of humans and other animals for "resources" such as organs, plasma, DNA…; and
(4) the opening of new markets (on Mars?), and the continued creation of new lines of products (for those who can afford them), commoditizing any spheres of life yet to be commoditized (our dreams perhaps?).
That is, if capital doesn't destroy us first through military or ecological apocalypse... Or if we don't end the reign of capital by turning this movement of "'Occupy' protests" into a movement to occupy the means of production .
Throughout the 19th century, capital restored its rate of profit about every decade through a crisis of two or three years. In the early 20th century, imperialist expansion postponed crisis until the great crash of 1929. It then took a decade of depression and the most devastating war in human history to liquidate enough old capital, plunder enough "resources," and open up enough new markets to restore the rate of profit, creating the conditions for the Golden Age of both capitalist growth and pro-working-class regulation, from 1945 to about 1970. Don't forget it was at the end of this boom, in 1968, that relatively "privileged" workers and students throughout the First World erupted in revolt against the spiritual poverty of capitalist prosperity, and against "work" itself. That was the best life has been under capitalism for many of those who brought France close to revolution; that is about the best reformism can hope for, and we probably wouldn't survive to see even a return to that.
If the 99% Movement fails to produce the revolution we need, don't lose hope! At least we're finally coming together, building networks for future struggles, figuring out what doesn't work, and learning to cooperate, inclusively and democratically, to take things, make things and share them without the mediation of money, political parties or the state - building foundations for a new, truly free society "within the shell of the old." Now let's move on to a permanent global strike and the occupation of everything for everyone!
Source: globaloccupation.wordpress.com
I think the beginning of this article is a bit jargony, but overall I think it's really good, nice one to the people who made it (who did make it BTW?)
$400 each day from that store, $1200 per month.
I was pretty excited about this pamphlet, but for the mathematical error, and the wingnut-sounding passage:
"by mining the bodies of humans and other animals for "resources" such as organs, plasma, DNA…; [...](4) the opening of new markets (on Mars?), [...]commoditizing any spheres of life yet to be commoditized (our dreams perhaps?)."
Anyone I give this to is going to glaze over by the time they get to this part, it sounds like some nutjob conspiracy theory. Speculation on how capital can extricate itself from the crisis by harvesting our organs or opening markets on Mars is not going to win any hearts and minds and will only leave readers thinking the writer is mentally unstable.
Thanks for pointing out the typo - I corrected it. As for the beginning being jargony, I know what you mean. Maybe it would be better to change the order - start with "the original Adbusters call..." then go on to say "but the term 'occupation' has this other radical history..." Or do you have another idea? I don't want to make it much longer than it is, and worry people's eyes will glaze over (mine would) if it starts with a long soft intro about "this movement's great, guys, good job!" (the way a lot of pamphlets to).
Regarding the "wingnut" passage, everything that's not in parentheses is already being done (mining human bodies for organs, plasma, DNA etc); the parenthetical suggestions are meant to point out how bizarre this is, and how little conceivable space is left for capital to expand. Is there some way I could change the wording to get this point across more "sanely"?
On the PDF, I switched out the image with a higher res color version.
Linked here: http://www.scribd.com/doc/70275316/Capitalism-and-Occupy-Wall-Street-Not-Pamphlet
Also, an illustrated pamphlet version is here: http://www.scribd.com/doc/70272130/Capitalism-and-Occupy-Wall-Street-pamphlet-version
I think it's a pretty good pamphlet!!! And a pretty good depiction of the modus operandis of capitalism. I will certainly forward it.
I'm still waiting to hear suggestions in response to my last comment. I'd seriously like to improve this.
Knotwho, the new color version looks good.
I just noticed this pamphlet by Libcom:
I'll distribute that as well.


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The New York Times Editorial Board, it seems, rarely meets a coup backed by the US government that it doesn't approve of
Bolivian President Evo Morales was overthrown in a U.S.-backed military coup d'état earlier this month after Bolivian army generals appeared on television demanding his resignation. As Morales fled to Mexico, the army appointed right-wing Senator Jeanine Añez as his successor. Añez, a Christian conservative who has described Bolivia's indigenous majority as "satanic", arrived at the presidential palace holding an oversized Bible, declaring that Christianity was re-entering the government. She immediately announced she would "take all measures necessary" to "pacify" the indigenous resistance to her takeover.
This included pre-exonerating the country's notorious security services of all future crimes in their "re-establishment of order," leading to massacres of dozens of mostly indigenous people.
The New York Times, the United States' most influential newspaper, immediately applauded the events, its editorial board refusing to use the word "coup" to describe the overthrow, claiming instead that Morales had "resigned," leaving a "vacuum of power" into which Añez was forced to move. The Times presented the deposed president as an "arrogant" and "increasingly autocratic" populist tyrant "brazenly abusing" power, "stuffing" the Supreme Court with his loyalists, "crushing any institution" standing in his way, and presiding over a "highly fishy" vote.
This, for democratic-minded Bolivians, was "the last straw" and forcing him out "became the only remaining option," the Times extolled. It expressed relief that the country was now in the hands of "more responsible leaders" and stated emphatically that the whole situation was his fault; "There can be little doubt who was responsible for the chaos: newly resigned president Evo Morales," the editorial board stated in the first paragraph of one article.
The Times, according to Professor Ian Hudson of the University of Manitoba, co-author of "Gatekeeper: 60 Years of Economics According to the New York Times," remains America's most influential news outlet in shaping public opinion.
"Despite the changing media landscape and the financial troubles of old school journalism models – including the New York Times – it remains the agenda setter. Social media often use or respond to Times stories. It is still probably the single most referenced news outlet in the U.S. Other websites, like Yahoo get more hits, but they do not report or create their own stories. The New York Times still ranks as the top investigative and opinion setting news organization" he told MintPress News.
The first draft of history
Newsrooms across America are sent advanced copies of the Times' front page so they will know what is "important news" and adjust their own coverage accordingly. In this way its influence extends well beyond its nearly 5 million subscribers, its output becoming the first draft of history. Yet, when it comes to U.S. intervention, the Times offers its "consistent support" for American actions around the world, Hudson says, claiming that the latest Bolivia example "very much followed this trend." Indeed, there has rarely been an effort at regime change that the paper did not fully endorse, including the following six examples.
Iran 1953
In 1953, the CIA engineered a coup against the administration of Mohammad Mossadegh, installing the Shah as an autocrat in his place. Mossadegh, a secular liberal reformer, had angered Western governments by nationalizing Iran's oil industry, arguing that the country's resources should be owned by and used to benefit the people of Iran. The Shah presided over decades of terror and human rights abuses, finally being overthrown in the revolution of 1979.
The Times expressed a "deep sense of relief," many felt that Mossadegh, a "fanatical power-hungry man" and a Kremlin stooge who had "wrecked the economy" in his "bid for dictatorship" had been deposed. The editorial board gave a warning to others who might try to nationalize industries owned by American corporations: "Underdeveloped countries with rich resources now have an object lesson in the cost that must be paid by one of their number which goes berserk with fanatical nationalism," it wrote, two days after Mossadegh's ouster.
Brazil 1964
Like Mossadegh, Brazilian President Joao Goulart was far from a communist; the center-left reformer who had been in power since 1961 modeled himself after John F. Kennedy. He was overthrown in a U.S.-supported military coup d'état that brought about over twenty years of fascist dictatorship that saw tens of thousands of people arrested and tortured.
Two days after the event, the Times' editorial board announced, "We do not lament the passing of a leader who had proved so incompetent and so irresponsible." As with Bolivia, it refused to use the word "coup," instead claiming that Goulart, who "had almost no supporters," was deposed in "another peaceful revolution."
One month later, a report entitled "Brazil relieved by Goulart's Fall" claimed there was "no outcry or even concern" over the events, but instead a "widespread feeling of deep relief and optimism" in the country. It stated that all of Brazil had "written off" the "extremist" and "far leftist" "regime" and supported the "revolt" against him. In particularly Orwellian fashion, it claimed that the "nation appears to have been yearning" for a "political clean up" of "extremists," applauding the widespread imprisonment of officials in the Goulart administration on the grounds that they were "communists."
Chile 1973
The overthrow of the democratically-elected Chilean socialist Salvador Allende in 1973 and his replacement with the fascist dictator Augusto Pinochet is one of the most well-known and infamous events in CIA history. The fallout from Pinochet's economic mismanagement and reign of terror continues to this day and provides the backdrop for the enormous anti-government protest movement currently engulfing the country.
As soon as Allende was elected, the Times began a campaign to demonize the new leader, claiming that Chile's "free institutions" likely would not survive the "sharp turn to the left" he was proposing. The day after the coup, when Pinochet's forces bombed the presidential palace and forced Allende to commit suicide, the Times editorial board blamed the President for his own downfall, just as it did with Morales and with Mossadegh, claiming:
"No Chilean party or faction can escape some responsibility… but a heavy share must be assigned to the unfortunate Dr. Allende himself. Even when the dangers of polarization had become unmistakably evident, he persisted in pushing a program of pervasive socialism for which he had no popular mandate."
It also pre-determined that the very obvious involvement of the U.S. government, conducting a campaign of economic war against Chile, in order to "make the economy scream" in the words of President Nixon and Henry Kissinger to the CIA, was non-existent. The board advised that "It is essential that Washington meticulously keep hands off the present crisis…There must be no grounds whatsoever for even a suspicion of outside intervention."
Venezuela 2002 and 2019
In April 2002, the U.S. government bankrolled and supported a coup attempt against Venezuelan President Hugo Chavez. In a consistent pattern, the Times editorial board came out to heartily endorse proceedings, again deliberately refraining from using the word coup. Two days after the event it noted:
"With yesterday's resignation of President Hugo Chavez, Venezuelan democracy is no longer threatened by a would-be dictator. Mr. Chavez, a ruinous demagogue, stepped down after the military intervened and handed power to a respected business leader, Pedro Carmona."
And like with other coups, the Times immediately treated the idea of U.S. involvement as utterly impossible, adding, "Rightly, his removal was a purely Venezuelan affair."
What was unique about this event was that the coup was dramatically overturned by hundreds of thousands of people in the streets, who convinced military units loyal to Chavez to retake the presidential palace. Since then, successive U.S. governments have dedicated significant resources to regime change in Venezuela. The Times also applauded self-declared President Juan Guaidó's attempt to gain power earlier this year, presenting him as a man of the people,claiming he was "cheered on by thousands of supporters in the streets and a growing number of governments, including the United States."
But as Guaidó's attempt collapsed under the weight of its own unpopularity, the Timesexpressed its anger that Maduro, a corrupt Russian agent, who pushed Venezuela "to utter ruin," remained in power. "It would be a great relief for Venezuela to be rid" of Maduro, the editorial board mused, "the sooner the armed forces evict the thieves" the better, it said, disappointed that, for once, it could not celebrate a successful U.S. coup.
Manufacturing consent
Studying the Times' coverage of U.S.-orchestrated coup attempts, it becomes clear that there is a checklist of talking points it employs time and again to justify events.
- Blame all economic and political problems on the government; ignore the effect of any U.S. sanctions.
- Constantly present the targeted leader as a tyrannical autocrat crushing dissent, no matter what the reality is.
- Insist that the leader is actually a Russian plant controlled by the Kremlin.
- Refrain from using the word "coup". Prefer instead words like "uprising", "revolt" or "transition".
- Express ridicule at the idea that the U.S. could be involved in the affair.
- Depict the new U.S.-backed rulers as democratically-minded and downplay any violence they commit in establishing their rule.
- Blame the deposed leaders for their own overthrow.
To be sure, the New York Times is not the only major media outlet guilty of reflexively supporting every U.S. action around the world. The Economist and the Washington Post both came out to support the coup in Bolivia, as they had done before with Venezuela. But the Times' position as "the paper of record" sets it apart in terms of importance.
This position makes it a crucial weapon in the propaganda war waged on the American people in order to manufacture consent for regime change abroad.
Alan MacLeod is a MintPress Staff Writer as well as an academic and writer for Fairness and Accuracy in Reporting. His book, Bad News From Venezuela: Twenty Years of Fake News and Misreporting was published in April.
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Tuesday, October 21, 2014
If you are familiar at all with these traditional Czech sweet buns you will note right off the bat that mine do not have any kind of filling. But, since "buchty" translates as "buns" I think the name is still appropriate. I simply find it too finicky to try to seal jam or poppyseed filing inside the dough. I also think you get a better rise, bake, and crumb without a filling. So do what you want with this recipe. I like to cut the buns in half, toast them, and slather them with strawberry jam for breakfast.
- 17 oz white bread flour
- 1 tsp salt
- 1/4 cup sugar
- 3.5 oz vegan butter, divided (or vegetable shortening)
- 8 oz lukewarm non-dairy milk
- 4 oz mashed potatoes (i.e. boiled whole in skins, skinned, then mashed)
- 1 tbsp instant yeast
1. Whisk together 10 oz of the flour, salt, and sugar in a mixing bowl.
2. Add the melted butter to the warm milk. Add the mashed potatoes and blend until smooth (I use an immersion blender in a large 4 cup measuring cup). The mixture will be thick. Whisk in yeast and let sit for 5 mins.
3. Add milk mixture to the flour and beat until smooth (batter attachment on a stand mixer works well).
4. Cover and let sit for an hour in a warm place.
5. Add the remaining 7 oz of flour and work into a soft, smooth dough. It should be tacky, but not sticky. Add more flour or milk as needed. Shape into a ball and place in an oiled bowl, turning to coat. Cover and let rise in a warm place until doubled.
6. Line the bottom of a 10x10 baking pan with parchment paper.
7. Melt the remaining 1.5 oz of vegan butter
8. Divide the dough into 16 equal pieces and shape into balls. Roll each ball in the butter to coat and place in the pan in four rows of four.
9. Cover and let rise in a warm place until almost doubled. Meanwhile, preheat oven to 375 degrees.
10. Bake for 22-25 mins, until a dark golden brown.
11. Remove from the pan to a cooling rack. Dust with icing sugar before serving if desired.
Sunday, October 5, 2014
In Memory
Last week my grandmother passed away after 94 years on this earth. Born in Pennsylvania to Slovak immigrant parents who worked in the steel mills and rail yards around Pittsburgh, she did not have an easy life. My grandfather passed away almost 30 years ago and yet my grandma carried on, making ends meet from his meagre pension and the little that Social Security provided. And yet, her generosity knew no bounds. We were always welcomed into her home with food, and lots of it. She taught me about hospitality and I have tried in this blog and at my own home to keep that alive. Food politics so often divides us that we forget how a meal can bring us together. I am so grateful that I got to know my grandmother for almost forty years and that all my children were able to hear her laugh and listen to her stories. So tonight I am making a big batch of pierogies in her honour and thinking about how my grandma's hospitality and love touched so many.
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Mela Artisans is social entrepreneurial to its core.
Seeing firsthand that master artisans in India were losing their livelihoods because they lacked a global market for their products, Navroze Mehta and his daughter Sonali Mehta-Rao created Mela Artisans in 2010. For the first couple of years, the Boca Raton-based social entrepreneurial for-profit company, then called MyMela, ran a website that brought the handicrafts to customers worldwide while helping the artisans earn their livings.
Business grew steadily, and hundreds of artisans in remote villages were getting orders. But the small team knew that the more the company was able to sell, the more artisans it could help. And all that starts with building a brand that would be in high demand.
Today, Mela Artisans is well on the way to doing that. The company's home and jewelry collections, all handmade in India, are in stores such as Bergdorf Goodman, Neiman Marcus and Bloomingdale's around the United States as well as in high-end department stores in Canada and the United Kingdom. The collections are also sold on MelaArtisans.com and include intricately designed jewelry in a mix of metals; bone-inlay home accessories such as trays, photo frames and jewelry boxes; and hand-embroidered pillows.
"It's a luxury lifestyle brand that blends traditional handcrafting techniques with contemporary design," said Mehta, Mela Artisans' CEO, who was raised in India. "We work closely with artisans who create high-quality products, promoting social uplift in their communities. That is what we are all about."
Sales tripled last year, and the company is on track to exceed that this year, said Mehta, who has previously founded a half-dozen companies, mainly in healthcare. In March, Mela Artisans closed on $3 million in venture capital funding to help it grow.
Although the company has always been powered by passion, the pathway has not always been easy. About a year ago, Mela began a rebranding journey that started with hiring a specialist in the field with deep roots in India — Dipali Patwa, who had recently been working with the Martha Stewart brand, as well as Ralph Lauren and Calvin Klein.
"Bringing her on board was transformational. ... The fundamentals were in place, but her vision crafting collections enabled us to make significant progress with higher-end retailers," said Daniel Echavarria, a founding board member and Miami angel investor who said he has admired Mehta's leadership and has supported Mela since it was a "business plan of a few pages."
The team relaunched the company last fall.
"We rebranded the company, the logo, everything," said Patwa, who is based in Mela's New York City office. "I felt very strongly that if we were to position ourselves in this marketplace, it was very necessary to position ourselves as a brand with a purpose, and that is what we were. We just hadn't taken the time to convey that story properly."
The collections changed dramatically, too. "The products had to work, the designs had to speak for themselves at retail. This is not a charity, it's not a nonprofit, it's a real business with a purpose," she said. "Basically what it boiled down to was understanding the trends — the market trends, the fashion trends — looking at those holistically and incorporating those using our techniques and our style and developing a signature Mela style."
Mariela Rovito, president of Eberjey, has been carrying bangles and cuffs from Mela's new jewelry collection in her Miami Beach and South Miami Eberjey stores for a few weeks. "We found the collections modern and unique in the use of traditional handcrafting," Rovito said. The story behind the brand also appealed to her, she said. "Part of the attraction of working with Mela was a desire to support a local company that is socially conscious and committed to fostering entrepreneurship in underserved communities around the world."
Patwa said bone-inlay products, recycled from water buffalo bone waste, and hand-carved wood items are selling well in the home market, and horn and bone-inlay jewelry has been getting a strong response in its new jewelry line. Keeping it fresh means coming out with the unexpected.
"There is so much in textiles that come out of India that haven't been even touched yet — there is so much still to be done," said Patwa, who was born in India and moved to the United States 15 years ago.
Mela is offering a line of pillow covers next month produced by a women's group in Kashmir that does "beautiful, cool embroidery," she said. "That region is in a lot of conflict; they have such incredible talent but no platform. We are launching this line and see how it performs. If it does well, we can expand it into other categories."
Mehta would not release revenue figures, but he said Mela Artisans sold 30,000 units in 2012, 100,000 in 2013 and is on track to sell 300,000 units this year. He said revenue grew 300 percent in 2013 and is projecting 400 percent growth this year.
Mela Artisans is now a team of 20, spread between Boca Raton, the company headquarters where operations and logistics take place; New York, its creative base; and Mumbai, India, where Mehta-Rao is now based.
In addition to managing the India office and working closely with all the artisan groups, Mehta-Rao also is in charge of Mela's programs for improving working conditions. For example, health programs are a big need in the villages. "We are working with a social enterprise called VisionSpring to bring affordable eyeglasses and free eye exams to our artisans," said Mehta-Rao, who worked for several social enterprises in the United States, India and Ghana before co-founding Mela, which means "festival" in Hindi.
"We are also working with the unbanked to help get them accepted into the banking sector; it's a long-term project," she said, adding that all the artisans get advances to cover production expenses.
One percent of revenues funds these community-based social programs, Mehta added.
The co-founders agree that timing was on the side of Mela and its social mission. Simply stated, social entrepreneurs work to solve society's most pressing social problems through innovative solutions — and interest in the movement is surging.
"There's no question that there is more and more awareness. Consumers want to buy products where they know where they are made — they don't want to buy from a sweatshop," Mehta said.
Nowadays, many brands have added on a social element to their business, such as buy one and we'll donate one, Mehta-Rao said in a phone interview from Mumbai. "But for us, our impact is the core of our business, so the more sales we get, because of the fact we are working with artisans, the more business the artisans get. It's integrated it into our operations. The U.S. sales team knows exactly what is happening in India."
Since 2012, Mela has placed orders with more than 50 artisan groups across 10 states in India. Collectively, these groups employ 4,500 full-time artisans, of which 77 percent are women, and more than 6,000 part-time artisans, the company said.
It's that kind of traction that attracted Aavishkaar, a leading social impact venture fund in India, to invest $3 million to help Mela expand its collections, grow its distribution channels and reach out to a wider range of artisan societies in India. Before the infusion of venture funding in March, Mela received about $1.3 million from angel investors.
Social impact investing is growing but remains a niche market. According to recent World Economic Forum figures, less than $40 billion of capital has been committed cumulatively to "impact investments" out of the tens of trillions in global capital.
"Mela was a compelling investment with its rare combination of established industry relationships with international retailers, significant backward linkages with artisan groups and excellent design capabilities culminating in an extremely competitive product," said Noshir Colah, partner at Aavishkaar, whose due diligence included visits to the artisan villages as well as to Mela's New York and Boca offices.
"Moreover, Mela's eagerness to work directly with artisans and help them produce products of significantly superior quality has enabled artisan groups to upgrade their skills and earn more stable livelihoods, thus making the craft sustainable for them," Colah said.
Echavarria, who first met Mehta through Young Presidents Organization and their work with the social entrepreneurship organization Ashoka, believes that down the road the Mela model could be replicated to help artisans in other parts of the world.
A more immediate goal, Mehta says, is expansion.
"What's next for the company is continued growth in our large retail channel ... Specialty stores and boutiques nationwide are also an important focus. International expansion is definitely on our list. In addition to Latin America, the U.K. and the rest of Europe has tremendous potential along with the Middle East," Mehta said. "We are also constantly looking to create a great buying experience for our customers online.
"Our driving force is to create a global company that can have dramatic impact on the lives of artisans by empowering them."
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Business: A socially conscious luxury lifestyle brand that blends traditional handcrafted techniques of India with contemporary design. Mela Artisans works directly with artisans to sustain communities.
Headquarters: Boca Raton; with offices in New York and Mumbai.
Executive management: Father-daughter team of Navroze S. Mehta, founder and CEO, and Sonali Mehta-Rao, co-founder; Dipali Patwa, chief creative officer.
Website: melaartisans.com
South Florida store locations: Bloomingdale's in Boca Raton and Aventura, and Neiman Marcus in Palm Beach, Coral Gables and Boca Raton, as well as boutiques.
Funding: $3 million in venture capital from social impact fund Aavishkaar in March; $1.3 million in angel funding.
Social impact: Since 2012, Mela has placed orders with more than 50 artisan groups across 10 states in India. Collectively these groups employ 4,500 full-time artisans, of which 77 percent are women, and more than 6,000 part-time artisans.
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Photos: Top photo of Mela Artisans CEO and founder Navroze Meha and photos of Mela Artisans' jewelry and scarf collection are by Marsha Halper of the Miami Herald staff. Photo of cofounder Sonali Mehta-Rao and a photo of a textile artisan in Almora, Uttarakhand, India, provided by Mela Artisans.
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4 This is how one should regard us, as servants of Christ and nstewards of the mysteries of God. 2 Moreover, it is required of stewards that they be found faithful. 3 But with me it is a very small thing that I should be judged by you or by any human court. In fact, I do not even judge myself. 4 oFor I am not aware of anything against myself, pbut I am not thereby acquitted. It is the Lord who judges me. 5 Therefore qdo not pronounce judgment before the time, rbefore the Lord comes, swho will bring to light the things now hidden in darkness and will disclose the purposes of the heart. tThen each one will receive his commendation from God.
6 I have applied all these things to myself and Apollos for your benefit, brothers,1 that you may learn by us not to go beyond what is written, that none of you may ube puffed up in favor of one against another. 7 For who sees anything different in you? vWhat do you have that you did not receive? If then you received it, why do you boast as if you did not receive it?
8 Already you have all you want! Already you have become rich! Without us you have become kings! And would that you did reign, so that we might share the rule with you! 9 For I think that God has exhibited us apostles as last of all, wlike men sentenced to death, because we xhave become a spectacle to the world, to angels, and to men. 10 yWe are fools for Christ's sake, but zyou are wise in Christ. aWe are weak, but you are strong. You are held in honor, but we in disrepute. 11 To the present hour bwe hunger and thirst, we are poorly dressed and cbuffeted and dhomeless, 12 and we elabor, working with our own hands. fWhen reviled, we bless; gwhen persecuted, we endure; 13 when slandered, we entreat. hWe have become, and are still, like the scum of the world, ithe refuse of all things.
14 I do not write these things jto make you ashamed, but to admonish you kas my beloved children. 15 For lthough you have countless2 guides in Christ, you do not have many fathers. For mI became your father in Christ Jesus through the gospel. 16 I urge you, then, nbe imitators of me. 17 That is why oI sent3 you Timothy, pmy beloved and faithful child in the Lord, to remind you of my ways in Christ,4 qas I teach them everywhere in every church. 18 Some are rarrogant, sas though I were not coming to you. 19 But tI will come to you soon, if the Lord wills, and I will find out not the talk of these arrogant people but their power. 20 For uthe kingdom of God does not consist in talk but in power. 21 What do you wish? vShall I come to you with a rod, or with love in a spirit of gentleness?
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The public is feeling much better about how the war in Iraq is going these days, but at the same time has a sharply diminished appetite for U.S. efforts to deal with an array of global problems. Fewer people than at any point in this decade assign high priority to such foreign policy goals as preventing genocide, strengthening the United Nations, promoting and defending human rights, and reducing the global spread of AIDS and other infectious diseases.
There also is decreased support for an assertive national security policy. Fully 45% say that reducing U.S. overseas military commitments should be a top policy priority, up 10 points since 2004. Notably, even the goal of halting the proliferation of weapons of mass destruction – a widely shared objective for nearly two decades – is now viewed as less important.
A new nationwide survey on foreign policy attitudes by the Pew Research Center for the People & the Press, conducted in collaboration with the Council on Foreign Relations, finds a striking rise in public optimism about the situation in Iraq. Nearly six-in-ten Americans (58%) say the U.S. military effort there is going well, the highest percentage in more than four years. Yet improving perceptions about the situation in Iraq have done little to increase support for maintaining U.S. troops there.
Half of the public views the war as the wrong decision, while the same percentage favors withdrawing U.S. forces from Iraq as soon as possible; these figures have declined only modestly in recent months. By contrast, there is strong public support for maintaining U.S. forces in Afghanistan – a notable exception to the broader trend against global engagement.
The public's top long-term foreign policy goals are decidedly America-centric. Defending the country against terrorism, protecting U.S. jobs, and weaning the country from imported energy all draw extensive bipartisan support. As in the past, however, there are substantial political disagreements over most other international priorities: about twice as many Democrats as Republicans rate reducing U.S. military commitments as a top priority, and nearly three times as many attach great importance to dealing with global climate change.
John McCain's consistent advantage over Barack Obama on foreign policy and national security may be limited to some extent by the public's focus on domestic issues.1 Notably, while swing voters say McCain could best deal with foreign policy by a 52% to 25% margin, they along with most Americans believe that the next president should focus on domestic issues rather than foreign policy. At the beginning of President Bush's second term, the public by 53% to 27% said it was more important for him to concentrate on domestic policy than foreign policy. That sentiment has swollen to a 60% to 21% margin when citizens are asked about what they want from their next president.
'Conserve, Baby, Conserve,' Too
The survey, conducted among 2,982 adults interviewed Sept. 9-14 on landline and cell phones, finds that 76% rate reducing U.S. dependence on foreign energy sources as a top foreign policy priority, up 13 points from July 2004. The public's willingness to consider policies to achieve that objective appears to be practically open-ended.
Two-thirds of Americans (67%) favor allowing more offshore oil and gas drilling in U.S. waters, yet about the same percentage (69%) supports establishing tax incentives to encourage energy conservation. And even greater percentages continue to support requiring improved vehicle fuel efficiency (88%) and increased funding for research on wind and other alternative technologies (82%).
Support for energy conservation notwithstanding, a growing number of Americans also favor allowing oil and gas drilling in Alaska's National Wildlife Refuge: 55% currently support drilling in ANWR, up five points since June and 13 points since February. There also is increased public support for promoting the use of nuclear power; 50% now favor wider use of nuclear power, compared with 44% in February.
There are wide partisan differences over many energy options, particularly ANWR drilling, offshore drilling, and increased use of nuclear power. Yet overwhelming percentages of Republicans, Democrats and independents alike support more funding for alternative energy, higher fuel standards, and extending tax incentives to encourage conservation.
The public has low expectations that these policies will provide a quick fix to America's energy problem. Most of those who believe that offshore drilling and increased funding for alternative energy technologies will reduce U.S. energy dependence say these actions will not affect the nation's energy supply in the next few years, but instead over the longer term.
Global Threats: Russia on the Rise
More Americans say that Iran represents the greatest danger to the United States than mention any other country. About one-in-five (21%) volunteers Iran as the greatest danger, in an open-ended format; 16% mention China, while 14% cite Russia. The proportion naming Russia has jumped substantially since February 2007 (from 2% to 14%).
While an increasing percentage views Russia as the greatest national danger to the United States, fewer than half (44%) believe that growing tensions between Russia and its neighbors represents a major threat to U.S. well-being. By contrast, 72% say that Islamic groups like al Qaeda are a major threat for the United States.
In addition, relatively few Americans (18%) view Russia as an adversary; far more (48%) say Russia is a serious problem but not an adversary. The public expresses similar views about whether China is an adversary. Roughly half (49%) say that China is a serious problem but not an adversary, while just 19% say it is an adversary.


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1981 was a great year for the Dodgers. The Lasorda regime was in place with many of the young players he coached in the minors up in LA doing some damage. On top of that, a crushing defeat to the Yankees in the 1977 & 1978 World Series made them hungry for another shot. So hungry, in fact, they came out the victors while facing their old nemesis. As you know, the 1981 team won it's first championship since 1965.
Here is the 1981 Dodgers Police set. Since it was such a magical year and my represents some of my earliest memories as a young Dodger fan I am posting both the front and backs of the entire set for you to enjoy. Besides, this year they put in some very helpful tip for young kids worth sharing. This will be broken up into several different post over the next week, so stay tuned.
Here is the 1981 Dodger coaching staff.
Tommy wasn't always so large. Here he is- only a bit portly.
Here is one instance of a player who was on the 1980 team, but not on the 1981 team. Rudy Law spent most of the year in Albuquerque.


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Recently I had to replace a hub on the front wheel of my workhorse bike. That meant unlace it and lace it again. Since the hubs were identical, I used the same old spokes, same not-so-old rim and same lacing pattern (3-crossings).
However, I noticed (already noticed it many times) the contact point between spokes around the 3rd crossing (where they actually touch one another) was a bit stained (even being stainless steel spokes) and a tiny bit worn.
I know it is traditional to cross the spokes this way, and Sheldon Brown explicitly advises to BEND the spokes against one anoter (which I heartily recommend everybody to do, increases wheel durability very very much.)
BUT since there are so much fancy wheels and even alternative lacing patterns (radial lacing, for example) where the spokes go straight from hub to rim, I wonder if it is really necessary to interlace the spokes in the first place.
Anyway, I can number some hypothetical pros and cons of INTERLACING:
- Provides an extra contact point for the spoke, reducing mobility and flexion, and improving lateral stability;
- Reduces resonance noises;
- Allows for fixation of spoke-cards ;o)
- Makes assembly a bit more difficult;
- Creates a potential stress point due to friction and flexion;
- Creates an initial bending around the contact point, which might allow for fatigue-inducing flexion around the spoke elbow;
- Makes cleaning a lot more difficult.
EDIT: due to the confusion that arose between crossing vs. radial (which wasn't what I meant) and different ways to lace the same crossing pattern (what I intend actually), I made a drawing (out of scale) showing the two possibilities. At left, the "physically touching crossing". Please note that in the frontal view (bottom left) the spokes are not actually twisted against one another like the view might induce to think, but are only flexing against one another).
I am very prone to lace my next wheel without physical crossings, since there seems to be enough evidence it is not actually necessary. Some months later, I could be sure if that works or not. But even if it is not necessary, it might still be better.
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Learn to effectively plan, implement, and control projects using Microsoft Project 2019/Office 365. This course will help you master the basics to create and share a project schedule, track costs and resources, produce reports, and resolve problems to keep your projects on track.
Microsoft Project is a staple for project management and remains the most widely-used project management software across all industries. If you manage projects in your organization, learning how to use this longstanding resource is key to successfully and effectively seeing your projects through to completion.
In this course, you will discover how to effectively plan, implement, and control projects using Microsoft Project 2019. From sequencing tasks, producing a baseline, and assigning resources and costs, to tracking progress and revising your project plan, Microsoft Project can help you organize all your project's details.
Armed with this information, you will avoid stalling or overloading your schedule. If you encounter trouble, you will know how to best utilize Project 2019 to get your project back on track.
Microsoft Project can help you manage your project's schedule, costs, and scope in a way that you've never dreamed of. Too often, Project users never use this powerful tool to its fullest potential. In this lesson, you'll discover how to improve your project by adopting a formal management approach. You'll get a quick overview of Project Management, and then you'll learn the basics of Microsoft Project, including a summary of the Gantt Chart view and ways to create and enter project tasks.
If you're looking for ways to keep organized, you'll see just how to do that in this lesson! You'll go through the steps to create a project schedule in no time flat. Once you create and enter tasks in Project's Gantt Chart view, you'll set a schedule by using a calendar and assigning lead times. Then, you'll need to create task dependencies, sometimes known as links. You'll see how to perform these activities and, in the process, you'll become comfortable using Project's many dialog boxes. Before you know it, you'll be creating schedules for all your projects with little effort.
You won't get too far with your project without adding resources. While tasks create the backbone of your project, you'll also need people, equipment, and materials to bring your project to life. In this lesson, you'll find out how to apply two types of Project resources—work resources, and material resources. You'll look at two more dialog boxes—Resource Information and Assign Resources—and you'll learn how to analyze resources by using the Resource Sheet and Resource Usage views.
No matter what project you work on, the bottom line is always important. So, get ready to add the final piece to your basic project schedule—costs. You'll start things off by looking through a brief overview of cost accounting, exploring fixed, variable, relevant, and accrued costs. After this review, you'll learn how to assign costs by using the Resource Sheet. You'll even discover how to assign different costs for the same resource and analyze the overall costs for your project by using the Cost Table.
Successful project managers are known for their efficiency and for safeguarding private information. Microsoft Project provides two excellent methods to help you in these areas: project templates and project security. You'll find out how to use some of the many templates Project has to offer, including the Residential Construction template and the New Product template. You'll also learn how to protect your project information with backups, passwords, and write protection. Then you'll discover how to put Project's task constraints to good use.
In this lesson, you'll discover how easy it is to modify your basic schedules and work with project data. You'll look at the various Project views, such as the Calendar, Leveling Gantt, and the Network Diagram. If you don't like the default colors or fonts in your schedule or table, you'll be well-prepared to make changes. You'll even learn how and why you might want to create a combination view; add notes to your project; or sort, filter, and group data.
Many projects experience schedule compression when management or clients ask that the project be completed sooner and for less. In this lesson, you'll discover how to improve your schedule's performance. You'll explore the Project Statistics dialog box, and you'll learn how to determine the ideal starting point in terms of planned costs and completion dates. You'll see how to change task dependencies to speed up your project and also find out how to split tasks to add more lead time. You'll also learn how to create recurring tasks and attach notes to your project's taskbars.
Before you implement your project, you need to create a baseline. This will help you track actual results against what you originally set out to accomplish. Microsoft Project makes it possible to set up a baseline with a few mouse clicks. You'll learn how to create a baseline and then see a variety of ways, including using the Tracking toolbar, to record your actual project results.
Here's where things really start to come together! You'll learn how to compare actual results to your baseline by using the Gantt Chart and reviewing a table. You'll discover how useful status identifiers and progress lines can be to quickly gain information about your project's position. You'll also begin using the Tracking Gantt and filters to automatically identify slipping tasks. You'll also take a stroll through the basics of variance analysis by discussing the Start and Finish Date, Resources, and Work Variance Tables.
No project is complete until it's officially closed. In this final lesson, you'll find out how to close your project and use the Organizer to help you customize and copy views for future projects.
Now that you're using reports to share project information, you'll occasionally need to print various views and tables. In this lesson, you'll delve into printing Microsoft Project documents. You'll be a master at creating different views of your project with the Page Setup dialog box, and you'll clearly understand the mechanics of the Print dialog box and the Print Preview.
Once your project gets rolling, outsiders will probably want to know how things are going. It can be a real time drain answering each request individually. When others request information from you, Microsoft Project offers the perfect solution: Reports. You'll go over a representative sample of the standard reports as well as discuss how to modify and create new reports in this lesson. By the time you finish, you'll be well acquainted with Project's reporting capabilities and also know how to create Visual Reports as Project automatically exports data to Microsoft Excel and Visio.
There are no prerequisites to take this course.
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The instructional materials required for this course are included in enrollment and will be available online.
Tony Swaim
Tony Swaim has helped many clients, colleagues, and students reach their professional and personal goals. He has been an online instructor since 1998 and has taught at colleges and universities across the United States since 1981. His focus areas are project management, Six Sigma, and supply chain management. Tony manages a successful consulting firm, and his industry experience includes 20 years of supply chain management. He earned a Doctorate in Business Administration from Kennesaw State University and holds professional certifications in six disciplines, including the Project Management Professional (PMP)® certification from the Project Management Institute (PMI)® and Certified Six Sigma Black Belt (CSSBB)® from the American Society for Quality (ASQ)®.