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More than 1 million low-income Americans have lost or will soon lose government-subsidized healthcare, recent reports estimate, as states slash funding to contain spiraling deficits caused largely by cuts in federal funding.
Forty-seven million Americans nationwide receive Medicaid, the federal/state health care program for the poor and disabled. About two percent of those--children, seniors and low-wage workers--will lose their healthcare due to the cuts. The defunding will also mean further overcrowding and closures of hospitals and clinics and increased strain on the medical emergency infrastructure.
But there's still time to demand an end to this insanity. Congress can prevent these cuts by passing a budget resolution that sends increased federal tax dollars to the states specifically to protect essential healthcare. And you can help by joining the SEIU's Put Families First All Call Day. Contact your elected legislators on WEDNESDAY MAY 7. (Click here for contact info or call toll-free at 1-888-280-6279.) Let your reps know know that working families in your state need Congress to pass a budget with sufficient Medicaid funding. This is a political battle that can be won.
Stanley Kubrick's brilliant 1962 black comedy about politics, power and technology is one of the greatest antiwar films ever made. And, now, forty years after it was released, Dr. Strangelove or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb seems like a satirical time bomb, more relevant in the age of "preemption" than ever before.
In light of the film's sadly enduring significance, a new group has emerged, Operation Strangelove, which as its first major action is orchestrating nationwide showings of Dr. Strangelove on Wednesday, May 14. Screenings throughout the US--in cinemas, living rooms, schools, offices and community centers--will be followed by panel discussions/benefits, many of which will raise money for activist groups and relief organizations working in Iraq and Afghanistan.
Operation Strangelove grew out of the Lysistrata Project, which inspired more than 1,000 staged readings worldwide of Aristophanes's bawdy antiwar play this past March. The readings also raised more than $100,000 for peace and humanitarian groups like RAWA, Madre and United for Peace and Justice. Organizers are looking to top that figure with the film showings on May 14.
The largest New York City screening will be held at 7:00pm at United Artists Battery Park overlooking Ground Zero. After the movie, author, critic and Nation contributing editor John Leonard will moderate a discussion featuring people from September 11 Families for Peaceful Tomorrows, actress Janeane Garofalo, cartoonist Art Spiegelman and many others. Click here for more info.
OS's website also makes it easy for you to arrange your own screening, offering info on how to get the movie in various formats, tips on publicizing the showing, even downloadable posters and flyers.
Part of the genius of Kubrick's film is that it's possible to laugh--and laugh hard--without trivializing the deadly serious message. So, thanks to him, these mass May 14 showings offer an opportunity to have fun and find community while helping build the networks of political (and cultural) dissent crucial to resisting the Bush agenda.
The continued use of the death penalty in the United States remains an act of racial injustice as well as an inherently cruel, unusual and degrading punishment.
A report recently issued by Amnesty International confirmed the racial bias in sentencing that has been increasingly evident as capital punishment has been stepped up in a number of states, particularly Texas, Oklahoma and Tennessee.
As AI reported, eighty percent of people executed since judicial killing resumed in 1977 were put to death for murders involving white victims, although blacks and whites are murder victims in almost equal numbers in the US. And, though African-Americans account for only 12 percent of the US population, they represent more than 40 percent of those on death row.
Even more stark: Since 1977, 200 African-Americans have been executed for the death of white victims, which is 15 times as many the number of whites put to death for killing blacks during that period even though African-Americans make up about 50 percent percent of all homicide victims.
When you consider this demonstrable racial bias along with numerous credible studies showing that capital punishment does NOT act as a deterrent to crime, it's clear that Rick Perry and the rest of the nation's governors would do well to heed the brave example of the Dallas Morning News, no liberal paper, which recently editorialized in support of a state moratorium on further executions to provide experts time to examine what the paper deems Texas's "broken system." (This comes after a year, 2002, when Texas was the only jurisdiction in the entire world to execute a juvenile offender, according to Amnesty.)
Robert Sherrill's award-winning Nation essay from 2001 makes it crystal clear why the death penalty is such a bad deal all around. Not only is it ineffective in deterring crime, more expensive than life imprisonment, and very fallible under the best of circumstances, but it's also considered barbaric in most of the rest of the world, not helping the US image abroad, and causing continued strife, even with allies, in various extradition matters.
To highlight and combat the growing use of capital punishment in America, we put together an online calendar compilation each month of prisoners slated for execution nationwide, along with an easy way to email letters requesting stays on behalf of these inmates. Time is running out for David Brewer, who is scheduled for execution in Ohio this Tuesday, unless Republican Governor Bob Taft grants a stay.
We've also compiled a list of the top ten reasons to oppose the death penalty. Write to your local paper using these talking points as ammo. Call your local talk radio show too. National polls show the tide is starting to turn with support for the death penalty dropping, even if slightly, from coast to coast. So now's the time to speak up.
And turn to both the Death Penalty Information Center and The Nation Online Directory death penalty page for a wealth of links to studies, reports, essays, articles and ways you can get involved in the fight to abolish the death penalty in the US.
There are many things that one can rightly call Los Angeles Times columnist and Nation contributing editor Robert Scheer. But "anti-American" is just not one of them. A lifelong "moderate radical," Scheer has spent decades arguing sensibly and passionately against extremism on all sides. He's also one of America's most accomplished journalists and interviewers--having interviewed every US president from Nixon to Clinton, and one of the few voices on a major op-ed page that regularly dares to speak truth to power. Animated by moral outrage, Scheer's commentary is also infused with a keen sense of what it means to be a truly patriotic citizen.
So when Bill O'Reilly uses his TV program and website to attack Scheer as a "traitor," and as "blatantly anti-American," he's distorting the truth. The taunts are a cheap way of trying to tarnish Scheer's reputation without having to rebut the merits of his arguments. Unfortunately, with his platform, when O'Reilly encourages his viewers to contact the Los Angeles Times and demand Scheer's dismissal, which he did a few weeks ago, a bunch of people do just that.
Though I'd suspect that many of these folks were misled by O'Reilly's propaganda, it's nonetheless, of course, their right to complain. And it's our obligation to respond in turn. So please be in touch with the LA Times. Click here for contact info. Let them know that you think Scheer is one of the best things about the paper, that you appreciate their balanced op-ed page, and that you think that the Scheer column which set O'Reilly off was an important expression of patriotism.
Even better, contact your local newspaper and ask them to consider carrying Scheer's syndicated weekly column (which appears on The Nation's website). Tell them it's available from Creator's Syndicate at reasonable rates. Expanding the audience of the column would go some way to redressing the awful conservative imbalance in the media today. Click here for contact info on local media nationwide, part of the Nation's activist page.
There are also two good websites striving to document, satirize and thwart O'Reilly's daily disinformation: O'ReillySucks.Com and O'Reilly Exposed. They both sponsor interesting activist campaigns, including a boycott of O'Reilly's regular advertisers.
In a letter written on April 7, Baseball Hall of Fame president Dale Petroskey announced that he was canceling a Cooperstown celebration of the fifteenth anniversary of the movie Bull Durham because of actor Tim Robbins's criticism of the war on Iraq. The missive, sent to Robbins, admonished him for using his celebrity to advance his politics, for putting "our troops in danger," and for criticizing the president at a time of war.
In a sharp response, sprinkled with allusions to his love of the game of baseball, Robbins more than handled Petroskey's faulty grasp of both logic and true American values, and lamented the loss of a "weekend away from politics and war." (The Nation has published Robbins' reply in its entirety along with Petroskey's letter.)
This incident is another small but troubling example of a pattern of increasing political correctness in this country, where people are penalized more regularly and more stringently for expressing dissenting political views. And in this case, Petroskey's role is particularly hypocritical, as the New York Timespointed out, when it reminded the Hall president, a former assistant press secretary in Ronald Reagan's White House, that his own boss was not the least bit shy about using his own prominence as an actor to advance a conservative political agenda.
Major League Baseball officials quickly distanced themselves from Petroskey's decision, saying, rightly, that MLB has nothing to do with Hall of Fame events. (The Hall is a separate, non-profit entity.) Baseball sources, quoted in New York Newsday, suspect that the decision was the result of the tight Republican Party connections of Petroskey and Hall chairman Jane Forbes Clark, a wealthy GOP fundraiser.
According to a Hall spokesman, who refused to give a breakdown, five thousand people have already been in touch to express either their disgust or admiration for Petroskey's action. Join the fun and let him know that you object to this crass attempt to politicize baseball, that Bull Durham is a good movie, and that he should rescind his decision to cancel the long-planned celebration of the film.
To express your opposition to Cooperstown's craven move, call 607-547-7200 (use the voicemail menu to reach Petroskey's office), fax to 607-547-2044, email to firstname.lastname@example.com or go to the Hall of Fame website's contact page.
Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. famously came out against the Vietnam War shortly before he was assassinated thirty-five years ago today. His words, eloquent then, are just as relevant today:
"We still have a choice today: nonviolent coexistence or violent coannihilation. We must move past indecision to action. We must find new ways to speak for peace in Vietnam and justice throughout the developing world, a world that borders on our doors. If we do not act, we shall surely be dragged down the long, dark, and shameful corridors of time reserved for those who possess power without compassion, might without morality, and strength without sight."
Substitute "Iraq" for "Vietnam," and he could be talking about 2003. Read King's call for peace, " Beyond Vietnam ," in its entirety at MLK Online .
And read a fitting tribute from the Los Angeles Times, by David Garrow, King's Pulitzer Prize-winning biographer, who insists that if King were still alive today at age 75, he'd be busy organizing mass demonstrations against war with Iraq.
A new website keeping a running tally of civilian deaths in the US war against Iraq is attracting a lot of traffic and attention, and, in the process, is emerging as an authoritative source of information beyond the spin of either the Bush Administration or Saddam Hussein's propaganda ministers.
The Iraq Body Count site is attracting 100,000 visitors a day, many of them journalists, who are increasingly citing the site's reporting in their own accounts. The material is critical given that no goverment, NGO or other organization is currently chronicling this information. As US General Tommy Franks has said: "We don't do body counts."
Launched this past January, IBC is run by 16 researchers, based in the United States and the United Kingdom, who closely analyze reports from a range of both corporate and independent media, including, among many others, the New York Times, Fox News, the BBC, Middle East Online and the Jordan Times.
If a death is cross-referenced in two different sources, independent of each other, they count it. And because of the inevitable discrepancies, they always calculate both minimum and maximum estimated tallies. All results are also independently reviewed and fact-checked by at least two members of the Iraq Body Count project team before publication.Click here for a thorough explanation of IBC's methodology .
The project was founded on the example of Marc Herold, a professor at the University of New Hampshire, who devised the counting methodology in October 2001, in order to monitor civilian deaths resulting from the US invasion of Afghanistan. Herold is serving as a consultant to the Iraq Body Count project.
The site's producers have also developed a JavaScript web counter that can be added to any site to show the latest fatality estimates [See an example at left]. The counter, available in varied sizes, has been adopted by about 200 other websites to date. It provides an invaluable, if grim, way to keep mindful of the human consequences of our government's war. So if you're involved in a site or have one of your own, consider adding this tool. And don't hesitate to make a donation to this non-profit effort.
The Cities for Peace campaign and numerous other antiwar groups are calling on US citizens to urgently picket, protest, lobby and employ nonviolent civil disobedience at federal buildings, military installations, media headquarters and city halls nationwide to petition the government to bring the war to as timely an end as possible.
The Pledge of Resistance staged a related Die-In at Rockefeller Center this morning with hundreds of chanting antiwar demonstrators lining Manhattan's Fifth Avenue and dozens more laying down in the street in a planned act of mass civil disobedience. 215 people were arrested.
Similar mass actions have been taking place across America. Eighteen people were arrested yesterday for blockading a local air force base in Madison, Wisconsin, while an action at the White House, organized by religious and peace organizations, generated over 60 arrests, two Nobel Peace Prize Laureates--Jody Williams and Mairead Corrigan Maguire--among them.
A few days earlier, fifty-five peace activists were arrested at the gates of the Westover Air Reserve Base in Chicopee, Massachusetts, and more than 2,150 have been arrested to date in a series of direct-action protests in SanFrancisco,which has been at the forefront of US antiwar activism.
The Pledge of Resistance is organizing similar actions coast to coast in the next week. Click here for info on how you can help.
George W. Bush is going to Florida tomorrow. Help the local progresive community give him a proper greeting. He'll be at MacDill Air Force Base in Tampa to rally the troops and meet with leaders of the military's Central Command. In response, there will be a Peace Rally at 10:00 am at Bayshore Blvd. and Bay-to-Bay in Tampa, Florida. For more information, please contact Penny at firstname.lastname@example.com or call 727-894-6997.
As the United States unleashes a brutal fusillade of bombs on Baghdad and other Iraqi cities for the third straight day, hundreds of thousands of people around the world continue to demonstrate against the US/British attack.
Yesterday, an estimated 150,000 people came out in New York City; 200,000 in London; 75,000 in San Francisco --which has been at the forefront of US antiwar activism since Thursday with 2,150 arrests for nonviolent civil disobedience; 50,000 in Lahore, Pakistan; 30,000 in Sydney; 15,000 in Calcutta; 10,000 in the Italian city of Naples, in a protest that ended at a NATO base; 2,000 in the South Korean capital, Seoul, where Buddhist monks struck giant drums at a rally; even 1,000 in Metalam, Afghanistan, the capital of Lagman province in the south.
In Spain, police fired rubber bullets to disperse protesters in Madrid, for the second day running. In Barcelona, police said 150,000 protested, while town hall officials, along with organizers, put the crowd at 500,000. Tens of thousands of people also hit the streets in cities in France, Finland, Sweden, Germany, Norway, Denmark, and Portugal, among many other European countries.
Meanwhile, in Bangladesh, a general strike closed down most businesses and mosques; in Japan, protesters rallied near a US naval base as well as outside a US air base on the southern island of Okinawa, and in the southern, mainly Muslim provinces of Thailand, there were numerous mass prayers for peace.
In the Middle East itself, the protests have been predictably far more angry and militant. Cairo, Sanaa in Yemen, Bahrain, Jordan, Lebanon and the Mauritanian capital Nouakchott have all seen violent, in some cases deadly, clashes between riot police and citizens enraged by what the US is doing in Iraq.
In the US, United for Peace and Justice is doing all it can to keep up the antiwar pressure. Check out the site, make a donation, and help volunteer in a UFPJ office. And, if you're in the New York area, join a UFPJ peace rally in Brooklyn this Thursday, March 27, at the residence of New York Senator Chuck Schumer to protest his pro-war stance.
The Pledge of Resistance is urgently organizing the sort of militant nonviolent direct action that has been so successful in underlining antiwar sentiment in San Francisco in recent days. Click here for info on civil disobedience and how you can participate.
Student walkouts have been frequent since the war was launched, and students around the world are at the forefront of antiwar activism. In the US, the Campus Antiwar Network is sponsoring national emergency student mobilizations on April 5, while The National Youth and Student Coalition is promoting an Emergency Campaign of Lobbying and Nonviolent Direct Action to Stop the War and Fund the Schools.
As Desmond Tutu argued in the Christian Science Monitor on Friday, it's critical to recognize and continue the historic gains of the global antiwar movement, despite the despair fostered by the reality of the conflict:
"Never in history has there been such an outpouring of resistance from average people all around the world before a war had even begun. Millions took a stand. This doctrine of moral and popular preemption must be sustained."
George W. Bush has launched war with Iraq, a war that is unnecessary, unwise and illegal. In response, a wave of angry antiwar protests began to roll across Europe and the Middle East this morning. And in the US, the antiwar movement is calling for emergency actions nationwide.
United for Peace and Justice is planning vigils, rallies, walkouts and civil disobedience.
The Pledge of Resistance is staging nonviolent direct action to stop the flow of business as usual as long as the bombs continue falling.
The National Youth and Student Coalition is sponsoring a series of campus protest events beginning the morning of March 20.
The Campus Antiwar Network is asking all students to participate in an immediate student strike to protest the war, and to spend the time working on public education, lobbying and direct action activism.
International ANSWER and Not In Our Name are organizing emergency protests and calling on everyone who can to take off work in order to spend the next few days trying to convince others that stopping the war is our most urgent priority, both as US citizens and as human beings.
Then, on Saturday, March 22, United for Peace and Justice is staging a national march in New York City, starting at 42nd Street and Broadway and moving downtown through Union Square to Washington Square Park. Download and distribute flyers in English and Spanish, make a donation, and help volunteer in a United for Peace office.
Also on Saturday, the Veterans Against the Iraq War are sponsoring a teach-in and speakout at American University in Washington DC, to be quickly followed by the urgent lobbying of Congressional members on Monday. VAIW is asking all military veterans, active-duty GI's, reservists, and family members who oppose the war to attend on either Saturday or Monday, if possible both. Veterans are asked to wear their medals, ribbons, parts of their uniforms, and to bring American flags, banners, and protest signs.


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After nearly 24 hours of nonstop preparation, American Culinary Federation (ACF) Culinary Youth Team USA earned a gold medal in cold-food competition during their first day of competition at the Internationale Kochkunst Ausstellung (IKA) International Culinary Art Competition, or culinary Olympics, taking place Oct. 1922 in Erfurt, Germany. ACF Culinary Youth Team USA falls under the banner of ACF Culinary Team USA. These highly skilled, young U.S. chefs are among those representing 20 nations in what ACF Culinary Team USA Manager Edward Leonard, CMC, AAC, has called the largest culinary event on the global circuit.
They did nice, clean work, said Aidan Murphy, CMC, AAC, executive chef at Old Warson Country Club, St. Louis, and one of the teams coaches. We won one of three gold medals. The other two gold winners and our toughest competitors were Canada and Australia. Now, even with no sleep, the teams spirits are better than ever with one gold medal under their belt. When they received their medals, it was the first time they really let out big smiles, said Murphy from Erfurt, Germany. Tonight, the team will get to rest for a few hours, but it is back to practicing tomorrow as they prepare their mise en place, prepare their shopping list, and do prep work for hot-kitchen restaurant and culinary studio portions of the competition that take place Wednesday, Oct. 22. In the hot-kitchen, the team will prepare 110 dishes to be served to judges and guests. Then, just a few hours later in the culinary studio, each team member will showcase their culinary skill as they prepare a course using duck in 30 minutes. I told them they have a taste of what success feels like, and now they have to push it to the next level, said Steve Jilleba, CMC, CCE, AAC, corporate executive chef, Unilever Food Solutions, Lisle, Ill., and the teams head coach. They have to regroup and get ready for the rest of the competitions, because it all comes down to the day and the teams performance.
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The U.S. teams history at IKA is long and distinguished. When Americans began competing as an official team in 1956 they were clearly the underdogs. However, American cookery soon established itself as world-class cuisine. The 1960 team captured the first world championship honor for the United States, and ACF Culinary Team USA repeated the distinction in 1980, 1984 and 1988 by taking the prestigious hot-food competition all three times and establishing a new world record for the most consecutive gold-medal wins.
At the last IKA in 2004, where more than 1,200 participants from 40 nations competed, ACF Culinary National Team USA took home a gold medal in hot-food cooking, and reestablished the U.S. as the leader in international cooking.
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ANSAR, Lebanon: For striped hyenas Rita and Sara, the journey from southern Lebanon to southern France last week took two days, but for Animals Lebanon, it had been nearly a year in the making.
Arriving at their new enclosure at the Tonga Terre d'Accueil wildlife sanctuary near Lyon, after a pit stop in Belgium (currently no French airports can accept the receipt of live animals) the animals completed a trip that had stretched nearly 4,000 kilometers.
For Rita, it was the first time the 5-year-old animal – halfway between a dog and a cat, according to veterinarian Dr. Jean-Christophe Gerard – had ever been outside her enclosure, an abandoned zoo not far from Nabatieh.
Two-year-old Sara had been kept at the Ansar zoo since January, after being rescued from a small cage no bigger than her body.
She had been held in the garden of a private owner, but due to the conditions in which she had been kept her whole life Sara was too timid and anxious to be kept in the same enclosure as Rita.
The zoo in Ansar is now all but empty – the area was bombed in the 2006 war – and the tourist attraction, which lies next to a similarly dilapidated amusement park, has been left to rust.
Animals Lebanon, which has also successfully rescued chimpanzees, lions and bears in recent years, has been in talks with the Agriculture Ministry for around a year to organize the emigration of the two female striped hyenas, a species indigenous to Lebanon.
They faced criticism from some quarters that the animals were not being released back into Lebanon, but as Rita and Sara had both been captured from the wild as cubs, they would likely now struggle to fend for themselves, and would be probably fall victim to hunting or capture once again.
Unlike the sub-Saharan spotted hyenas that hunt in packs, striped hyenas – found from Morocco to India – typically live on their own.
Introducing the creatures back into the wild is often very difficult as adequate space, not yet inhabited by other hyenas and yet suitable for the animal, must be found, said Jason Mier, executive director at Animals Lebanon.
"These animals are being moved for the benefit of the welfare of the two hyenas and the value to conservation," wrote Nazem al-Khoury, Environment Minister, when he gave approval for the animals to be transferred.
Classified as near-threatened worldwide, Mier believes their status should be upgraded to endangered within Lebanon. While no data on animal numbers exists, it is thought that hunting and habitat destruction have led to a drastic reduction in their numbers over the last few decades.
Demonized in much ancient Arabic literature and art, hyenas have a stigma in the region, despite the fact they pose no threat to humans, surviving as they do from scraps and leftovers.
With the Agriculture Ministry approval granted, the microchips implanted and the rabies tests undertaken, the cages for the hyenas had to be constructed to meet world animal transportation standards.
For hyenas, which have the strongest jaws of any mammal relative to their size, this involves double doored-cages, made from one sheet of metal and weighing 180 kilograms each.
The cages were made in Ouzai at a cost of around $1,000 each, covered for by donations to Animals Lebanon.
Dr. Gerard, who had traveled to Lebanon last week from Tonga Terre d'Accueil to collect the animals, first had to shoot each animal with a tranquilizer dart.
After the drug kicked in and the hyena passed out, it was then loaded on to a stretcher and transferred to the metal cage, which had been lined with shredded paper.
Once the door was back on the cage a reversal drug was administered – as animals cannot fly with anesthetic in their systems – and the animals were driven to the airport. The cost of their flights to Brussels the next morning was paid for by Middle East Airlines. A colleague of Dr. Gerard's met the trio in Brussels before driving them to the sanctuary near Lyon.
"This will be the first time Rita has ever left her enclosure, the first time they will see green grass, eat proper food and have access to vets," said Maggie Sharaawi, one of the co-founders of Animals Lebanon.
Now in France, Rita and Sara are sharing an enclosure, which has both indoor and outdoor sections, but are separated by a fence allowing them to see and smell each other.
If it seems as if they are getting on, the fence will eventually be dismantled, at least at first for a trial period.
As Sara is such an anxious animal, Dr. Gerard was unsure as to how she would react to Rita: "I hope that when she is with the other one she will be more relaxed. And at the start I can give her medication to calm her down at first."
Their departure from the abandoned zoo in Ansar leaves just one small aviary, with a selection of rather sad-looking doves, and a cage of seven friendly baboons, who are awaiting the correct documentation before Animals Lebanon can transfer them to an animals sanctuary in Jordan.
Mahmoud al-Hajj, manager at the Ansar zoo, denied any of the animals have ever been mistreated. Yet, he said, he was glad to see Rita and Sara start a new life in France: "I'm happy that they are going, because they are going to a better place."
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What It Means to Really Listen
…and guess what, you don't really listen. In fact, while reading this article, you are not really reading what I intended it to mean…
Last month, I was on a flight from Orlando to Boston that had a bit of a problem.
An hour before our scheduled landing in Boston, the pilot announced the main braking system was not functioning properly. Although the backup system would most likely work fine, the pilot and flight attendants were preparing us for the worst.
They carefully described the emergency procedures. They were very similar to the ones frequent travelers have heard many times before. But this time, you could hear a pin drop as they walked us through what would happen. Everyone was paying attention.
Although I am on nearly 100 flights a year, I was listening in a way I never had before. The truth is, I rarely pay attention to the emergency procedures when we are not in an emergency situation.
This got me thinking: Do I ever really listen?
The answer is no. And regrettably, I am not alone.
Unfortunately even when you are trying to listen, you are still likely not really hearing properly.
Psychologists call this "confirmation bias." We are naturally wired to filter and interpret information to conform to our underlying belief structures. And very simply put, these beliefs cloud how we hear. We only take in those pieces of information that align with our beliefs, and we disregard anything that contradicts them.
Understanding confirmation bias can have a significant impact on your ability to have effective relationships. And as a small business owner, it can have a profound impact on your success if you're not hearing the true meaning of what your customers and colleagues are saying.
In the corporate environment, I've seen brilliant ideas proposed by recent college graduates that were completely dismissed by more senior people. But when those senior people said the exact same things, others thought they were geniuses.
A friend of mine recently attended a weeklong training class. When asked about the class, he responded that he was less than impressed with the instructor. When I asked why, he said, "It's hard to listen to him. He's dressed like a slob. His hair was a mess and his shirt was never properly tucked in." The instructor's appearance impacted how he was heard. Amusingly, on the last day of the class, his perspective changed. When pressed to understand why, I discovered the instructor had gotten a haircut and was wearing a stylish suit and tie. The change in appearance impacted how my friend heard the instructor. He claimed the instructor now "sounded more intelligent."
As you read this article, I can assure you that your judgments are impacting how you receive what you are reading. If you want to actually absorb the value of what someone is saying, you need to know your natural biases. This will impact your ability to innovate.
Listen better
The first step to listening better is to recognize the fact that you don't. Ask yourself the following questions:
- Are you really hearing what others are saying? Or are you only passively listening?
- Are you focused on their words? Or are you thinking about what you will say next?
- Are you putting yourself in the shoes of the other person? Or are you only interested in meeting your own objectives?
- Do you ask a lot of questions? Or are you doing all of the talking?
- Are you hearing what they are really saying? Or are you too colored by your own perceptions, judgments and filters?
This last question is critical. If you are honest, you will most likely begin to see that your filters are getting in the way of communication. By recognizing that you even possess these filters, you can become more aware when they begin to color your interpretations. This allows you the choice to set them aside so you can create an effective opening to listen.
Think about what your customers try to tell you…
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The Howling Peak is located on Kaldir.
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The peaks serve as a game map in StarCraft II. There is a standard natural expansion outside each main base with a relatively wide choke to defend, said choke leading to a potential third base. There's a center to the map, but its geography is fragmented, and new routes of attack can be created by destroying destructible rocks. Destroying rock pillars can be used to defend a fourth expansion.[1]
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A feather is among the evidence found in the left engine of the US Airways A320 that crashed in the Hudson River on 15 January.
In a report released today by the US National Transportation Safety Board, investigators confirmed that the feather and other organic materials recovered from both engines are in fact bird remains, the type of bird now being determined through DNA analysis at the Smithsonian Institution.
All 150 passengers and five crew safely evacuated the Flight 1549 in the river that afternoon and were rescued by nearby boats.
The finding supports data from the aircraft's flight data recorder that shows no anomalies or malfunctions in either engine up to the point where the captain reported a bird strike at 3,200ft after departing LaGuardia Airport, after which there was an uncommanded loss of thrust in both engines.
Flight had earlier reported that the A320's left engine continued to operate at 35% fan speed, enough to power electrical and hydraulic systems, allowing the pilots to configure the wing flaps and slats for ditching. The right engine was operating at only 15% fan speed.
The NTSB also reports that a surge event that occurred in the right engine of N106US two days before the accident was caused by a faulty temperature sensor which was later replaced. Investigators also verified that the provisions of an airworthiness directive specific to the CFM56-5B engines had been met by US Airways.
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Griddling is one of the most ancient of cooking techniques. Pre-historic man would throw pieces of meat onto a flat stone heated over an open fire. These days we use metal pans, flat or ridged, on our stove tops to provide a similar, evenly heated, flat area for cooking.
First, of course, you'll probably have to buy a griddle pan.
As with all equipment, it's worth buying the best one you can afford. a good griddle pan will last a lifetime and provide you with a million healthy and tasty meals.
Griddles come in two basic flavours – flat and ridged.
Flat griddle pans can be used for making delicacies such as pancakes, eggy-bread, scrambled eggs, eggs and bacon, omelettes etc.
Ridged griddle pans are ideal for cooking meat, fish and many vegetables. One of the great things about them is that the ridges take fat away from cooking meat, making it healthier to eat.
A flat griddle can be handy for preparing egg and bacon, for example, as both ingredients can be cooked together in the same pan
One of the downsides of griddling, grilling or barbecuing meat is the very thing that makes it tasty and attractive – the charring – which can produce undesirable molecules that can be dangerous to your health. So whilst it's OK to eat it occasionally, it's probably not a good idea to overdo it.
For health reasons, I wouldn't recommend choosing a non-stick griddle pan. The coating can come off quite easily and the materials it is made of have been shown to be bad for your thyroid and, no doubt, other aspects of your health.
Buy a cast iron griddle and season it with oil before using it. Look at any basic cook book to find out how to season a pan – Chinese cook books will usually tell you how to season a wok – it's the same thing.
How to griddle your food
1. Cooking on a flat griddle
- Either put a little oil on the surface of a flat griddle pan before heating it, using a spray or applying it directly with a paper towel or pastry brush -
- Or apply a little oil to the food you want to cook
- Heat the griddle over a medium heat. If a drop of water sputters violently, the pan is too hot, so turn down the heat and let it cool a little before you begin to cook
- For solid foods (meats, sandwiches etc) just cook them as in a normal frying pan
- For liquid foods, pancake batter, scrambled eggs, omelettes etc, make sure the pan is level to prevent the liquid from running over the edge.
It must be said that a decent skillet (frying pan) makes a fair substitute for a flat griddle if you're not a utensil junkie or you're a bit broke.
2. Cooking on a ridged griddle
These are the pans that make the distinctive brown criss-cross marks on food.
- As with the flat griddle, you can apply oil either to the pan or the food itself. In either case, don't overdo it.
- Heat the pan over a moderate to high heat for 2-3 minutes – a drop of water should sizzle violently on the surface and evaporate
- Lay the food crossways over the ridges
- Food is ready to turn over when it no longer sticks to the pan – delicate foods will fall apart if you try to turn them too early
- Turn the food with a good broad fish slice
- If you are cooking fatty foods, you may have to drain the fat off occasionally
- The thinner the food for griddling the better. If it is more than a couple of inches thick the outside will burn before the centre is cooked.
- Remember to turn food so that it is at 90 degrees to its last orientation to get that nice criss-cross effect
How to choose and prepare food for griddling
- simple foods are the best
- choose fresh high quality fish and meat
- choose firm fruit and vegetables – leafy veg are not ideal, though fennel works well
- marinade your ingredients for added flavour
- blot fish, meat or poultry with kitchen towel before placing on the griddle
- pour a little oil on the food if you are not oiling the griddle pan
What foods should you griddle?
- fish
- seafood such as scallops or clams
- steaks
- chicken breast
- lamb cutlets
- vegetables
- fruit
- polenta
How to serve griddle foods
- with fresh lemon or lime juice
- sprinkled with freshly chopped herbs
- with salsa
- with sauces such as holandaise, bearnaise, tomato, mustard, balsamic vinegar etc
- with crunchy salads or steamed vegetables, steamed rice, risotto or other grains


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For those of you who read this blog religiously, you know I have an unhealthy obsession with Dave Wannstedt's mustache. That being said, another facial-fur gladiator has thrown his hat into the ring, a battle royale for my affection (affliction?). Cue Europe Final Countdown () Michael Phelps is in the race. That's right America's favorite pot head has grown a heft upper-lip ornament. Not mad, but I'll put the question to you. Wannstedt's coaching, sweat soaked stache or Phelp's "Wild-when-wet-and-or-stoned" fu-man-chu.
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Community Sanitation Overview:
Flush/haul services are available to some households. Other residents haul treated water from one of two watering points. There are occasional water shortages when residents must haul water from ponds, the river, or collect rainwater. Some homes have tanks with running water for the kitchen, but very few have complete plumbing. Honeybuckets are disposed of by residents in bunkers at various locations. Sewage is then pumped from the bunkers and transported to the sewage lagoon. The school has its own well, but needs a new water treatment system.
RUBA Status & Activities This Qtr:
On June 15, 2011 a request for information to update the quarterly online RUBA report was sent to the City of Napaskiak by fax, and receipt of fax was confirmed. At the time of this writing the city has not responded to these requests. Therefore the city is no longer in compliance for several essential indicators until documents needed for verification can be provided. RUBA staff had phone, fax and email contact with Napaskiaks Administrator, City clerk, and the VSW engineer assigned to them. RUBA was contacted by the Village Safe Water engineer Mike Phillips on April 27, 2011, who is assigned to Napaskiak. Mike is trying to get grant money to continue the project he is working on in Napaskiak. He informed me that in order for this grant money to be released, Napaskiak must be current on state and federal taxes. Currently the City of Napaskiak is on the Lien watch dated March-April 2011. The Lien Watch states that Napaskiak owes $2,095 in Alaska Employment Security Tax for the period of 3/31/2000. When RUBA staff spoke with Administrator Steven Maxie concerning this, Steven asked to be faxed a copy of the Lien Watch. RUBA staff faxed a copy of the lien watch to Napaskiak, and city clerk Leanne Larson called about it. Leanne said she had received the fax, but she felt the city did not owe taxes to the IRS, but that the Tribe owed taxes to the IRS. Steven had made similar comments as well. RUBA staff explained that these are state, not federal taxes. RUBA staff asked Leanne to look at the section on page three where City of Napaskiak had been highlighted. Leanne stated that it was too dark to read. RUBA staff sent her the lien watch by email. The attachment was the current Lien watch. On the fax was provided the state field auditors contact information (Patrick Mulligan (907) 352-2519 email@example.com) who can help Napaskiak correct this issue. RUBA staff explained to Mr. Maxie, that in order to be able to verify that Napaskiak is current on IRS taxes the mayor needs to fill out the Authorization to Request Federal Tax information, and send it back to the Bethel office. RUBA staff faxed a copy of the release form to Napaskiak on April 1, 2011 and the fax was confirmed. However, the form was not returned. RUBA staff offered to send another copy of the release form with this fax. Mr. Maxie agreed and so a copy was included in the fax.
RUBA Activities for the Coming Qtr:
RUBA staff will work with the City of Napaskiak staff on the remaining indicators.
Essential Indicators:
19 of 27
Sustainable Indicators:
16 of 27
Total Score:
35 of 54
Essential Indicators
All revenues and expenses for the utility are listed in the utility budget.
The utility has adopted a balanced realistic budget.
Monthly financial reports are prepared and submitted to the policy making board.
The utility is current in paying all water/wastewater electric bills.
The utility has on hand a year's adequate fuel supply or it has a financial plan to purchase an adequate supply.
The utility is receiving revenues (user fees or other sources) sufficient to cover operating expenses.
Sustainable Indicators
The utility is receiving revenues (user fees or other sources sufficient to cover operating expenses and Repair & Replacement (R) costs.
YTD revenues are at a level equal to or above those budgeted.
YTD expenditures are at a level equal to or below those budgeted.
A monthly manager's report is prepared.
Budget amendments are completed and adopted as necessary.
Finances Comments
A FY11 adopted city budget needs to be submitted. The previous utility budget was balanced when subsidized from pulltab and bingo income. The last financial statement submitted to the Bethel regional office was for the month ending February, 2010. Verification has not been provided to determine if utility is current in paying all water/wastewater electric bills. The village corporation purchases bulk fuel for the community.
Accounting Systems
Essential Indicators
The utility has adopted a collection policy and actively follows it.
The utility bills customers on a regular basis.
An accounts receivable system is in place which tracks customers and reports past due accounts and amounts.
An accounts payable system is in place.
The payroll system correctly calculates payroll and keeps records.
A cash receipt system is in place that records incoming money and how it was spent.
The utility has a cash disbursement system that records how money was spent.
Sustainable Indicators
A chart of accounts is used that identifies categories in a reasonable, usable manner.
Monthly bank reconciliations have been completed for all utility accounts.
The utility has a purchasing system that requires approval prior to purchase, and the approval process compares proposed purchases to budgeted amounts.
Accounting Systems Comments
The utility ordinance has been approved by the city council and submitted to the Bethel regional office. The accounting system for utility customers has been set up. Customers are being billed, records are maintained and payroll is being processed. The city has general, gaming and utility accounts in two different banks and both accounts are reconciled each month to monitor available cash. The city submitted a chart of accounts and a copy of the purchase order for purchase approvals.
Tax Problems
Essential Indicators
The utility has a system to accurately calculate, track, and report payroll tax liabilities.
The utility is current on filing tax reports.
The utility is current on making tax deposits.
If there are any past due tax liabilities or recorded tax liens, a lien release has been issued or a repayment agreement has been signed and repayments are current.
Tax Problems Comments
A form requesting release of federal tax information from April 2008 to March 2011 was sent to the City of Napaskiak on June 15, 2011. This request was not responded to. Therefore, it cannot be determined if the City of Napaskiak is current on federal taxes. The state Department of Labor (DOL) was contacted on June 17, 2011. DOL verified that the City of Napaskiak is not current on their Employment Security Contributions account. The City of Napaskiak is on the Lien Watch dated March-April 2011 for owing $2,095 employment security contributions for the first quarter of 2000.
Personnel System
Essential Indicators
The utility has a posted workers compensation insurance policy in effect.
Sustainable Indicators
The utility has adopted and uses a Personnel Policy, which has been reviewed by an attorney, AML or Commerce for topics and language.
The utility has adequate written job descriptions for all positions.
The utility has adopted and follows a written personnel evaluation process that ties the job description to the evaluation.
The utility has an adequate written hiring process.
The utility has personnel folders on every employee that contain at least: I-9, Job Application and Letter of Acceptance.
The utility has a probationary period for new hires that includes orientation, job training/oversight, and evaluations.
The utility provides training opportunities to staff as needed and available.
Personnel System Comments
The City of Napaskiak has worker's compensation insurance coverage with Alaska Municipal League through 7/1/2010. The current policy needs to be provided. A personnel policy has been submitted to the Bethel regional office. The personnel policy contains a probationary period for new employees and performance evaluation procedures which are being followed. Job descriptions for the electric utility manager, clerk, plant operator, haul system operator and utility board advisory chairman have been submitted. Personnel files contain I-9s and job decriptions are up to date. Training opportunities are provided to employees when there is available funding.
Organizational Management
Essential Indicators
The entity that owns the utility is known; the entity that will operate the utility is set.
The policy making body is active in policy making of the utility.
The policy making body enforces utility policy.
The utility has an adequately trained manager.
The utility has an adequately trained bookkeeper.
The utility has an adequately trained operator or operators.
The utility has adopted the necessary ordinances (or rules and regulations) necessary to give it the authority to operate.
Sustainable Indicators
The utility has adopted an organizational chart that reflects the current structure.
The policy making body meets as required.
The utility complies with the open meeting act for all meetings.
Organizational Management Comments
The city took over the operation of the utility from the local tribe. The process to approve the utility ordinance has been completed. The manager and bookkeeper are adequately trained and experienced with their respective job duties. The operator was transferred from the tribe to the city and has worked in that capacity for three years. The city has no approved organizational chart; however, the utility manager is in the process of developing an organizational chart for council consideration. The city council meets regularly each month and complies with the Open Meetings Act.
Operation of Utility
Essential Indicators
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Browse through the radio dial in the Baltimore area looking for college stations and you might not recognize them right away.
A few areas offer student-run stations with the rock, alternative and independent music often associated with college disc jockeys.
More common is the adult alternative music of 91.1 FM, WHFC, based at Harford Community College, the smooth jazz broadcast at 89.7 FM from Towson University's WTMD or the jazz and public affairs programming of 88.9 FM, WEAA, at Morgan State University.


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Chrysogorgia coral with some shrimp and a herd of squat lobsters at its base.
Chrysogorgia coral on a rock outcrop.
Chrysogorgia coral with squat lobster
Chrysogorgia coral with squat lobster and some amphipods
Squat lobster in chrysogorgia coral
Chrysogorgia coral with shrimp
Chrysogorgia coral with siphonophore
Chrysogorgia coral with siphonophore - note tentacles extended for capture of prey.
Chrysogorgia coral with siphonophore and squat lobster.
Yellowish-white octocoral bush with brittle stars and squat lobsters.
Yellowish-white octocoral bush with brittle stars and squat lobster.
White chrysogorgia coral with squat lobster
Deepwater Horizon study site with purple coral bushes (is this natural or function of hydrocarbons in water column?)
Dead coral bush with large barnacles and delicate white octocoral.
Large purple white coral bush in vicinity of Deepwater Horizon oil spill.
Large purple white octocoral bush in vicinity of Deepwater Horizon oil spill.
Whitish-yellow octocoral bush.
Delicate white coral and tube worms. Note delicate filaments perhaps associated with small zooanthids.
Lophelia pertusa coral with smaller white stylaster corals in the foreground and a white sponge and worm tubes in lower right and upper left.
Lophelia pertusa coral in the background with polyps extended and smaller white stylaster corals in the foreground.
Closeup of lophelia pertusa coral polyps
A beautiful small lace coral next to a larger white stony coral.
A small white octocoral with polyps extended and a stylaster coral in the upper right corner.
A creamy white stony coral with an associated squat lobster.
Peach-colored octocoral with translucent white polyps
Callogorgia sp. coral
A small callogorgia? coral
A small white octocoral with large polyps and numerous hydroids
A solitary cup coral on a sandy bottom
A stony white coral with delicate polyps
A lace coral
Appears to be an odd form of bubble gum coral (Paragorgia sp.) growing on the surface as opposed to in tree form. The large white translucent polyps show this to be an octocoral.
A delicate white octocoral with polyps extended.
A large solitary cup coral with polyps extended.
Paramuricid coral on top and bamboo coral below on vertical wall.
Paramuricid coral with small brittle star.
Closeup of polyps of paramuricid coral possibly affected by Deepwater Horizon oil spill.
Closeup of polyps of paramuricid coral possibly affected by Deepwater Horizon oil spill. A small shrimp is also seen.
Paramuricid coral with small brittle star on a vertical wall.
Anchor point of large iridogorgia coral with white squat lobster to left. Two sponges and bamboo corals are also seen on the rock outcrop.
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KINGSTON, R.I. April 25, 2003 -- Thousands of motorists have passed the entrance to the University of Rhode Islands East Farm since 1928 when it opened on Route 108 in South Kingstown, but its likely that very few of them know what the farm is all about.
All that is about to change. On May 10 from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m., the East Farm Open House and Crabapple Festival will give visitors a close-up look at the farm and its many activities. Rain date is May 17.
Located just one mile south of route 138, the 70-acre farm is perhaps best known for its crabapple plantation. Some 175 crabapple trees of 50 varieties one of the largest crabapple collections in the country -- should be in bloom for the festival. The trees come in a wide variety of shapes and sizes, including pillar, pyramid, lollipop, spreading, weeping, and shrub-like varieties.
The farm is also home to greenhouses administered by the URI Master Gardeners and the URI Plant Sciences Department, an apple orchard and dozens of other trees and shrubs being grown for research purposes. Many plants are brought to East Farm from other parts of the country for testing to see how well they adapt to Rhode Island weather conditions. In addition, fisheries and aquaculture research facilities are located at East Farm.
All of these facilities will be open to the public, and tours and demonstrations will be conducted throughout the day, including nature walks, laboratory tours, a bird banding demonstration, childrens activities, and historical tours of the site.
Local community groups will also have informational booths at the event, including the South Kingstown Land Trust, the Rhode Island Natural History Survey, the Southern Rhode Island Conservation District, and the Rhode Island Wild Plant Society. Some of these groups will offer sales of plants, books, and clothing.
Admission and parking are free. For more information, call the URI Gardening Hotline at 1-800-448-1011.
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IN 1609, while he was professor of mathematics at Padua in Italy, and in his mid-40s, Galileo Galilei heard of the invention of the telescope by Hans Lippershey and constructed a vastly improved version with lenses that he ground himself. Within six years, the astronomical discoveries he made with it took him from being an unknown mathematics professor running a student boarding house to a star of the court of the Medici in Florence, where he soon found himself at the receiving end of unwelcome attention from the Inquisition. Biagioli reinterprets key episodes of Galileo's career and shows how his tactics rapidly shifted to match his changing circumstances. His study presents a fresh and interesting view of the challenges faced by the 17th century scientist.
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AGE: 32 / LIVES: Tampa / STORY: Earned first win at AT&T Classic in May, one of four top fives he had in the first five months this year.
I love the golf course at the AT&T Classic, and I always thought I'd have a chance to win there. Losing in a playoff in 2007 got me thinking I could play with these guys. Now that I've won there, my goal is to win the Masters. That's what I dreamed about as a kid when I came over here from Japan.
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Sheila Conlin owns and operates The Conlin Company, a full-service casting and production office in Los Angeles with additional resources in New York and Europe. Conlin specializes in casting and development of unscripted television shows and in host and expert casting.
Conlin has functioned in virtually every aspect of production: executive producer, producer, story producer, associate producer, line producer, production manager, and director of talent development and research. Conlin was also the assistant technical director at the Los Angeles Theater Center.
Starting out in the entertainment industry as Phyllis Diller's tour manager, Conlin moved on to become a talent agent with Agency for the Performing Arts, representing music and comedy talent. Talent representation was a natural segue into producing and casting for clip, variety, and reality shows.
Conlin is considered a trailblazer in the reality television genre for her role in defining the criteria and developing the systems needed to bring real people to the TV screen. Many of these personalities are still seen on television as hosts and stars in their own programs. Conlin also identified a niche for European production companies, leading The Conlin Company to provide casting and pre-production services in the U.S.
Conlin is a producer of Kitchen Nightmares (FOX) and Hotel Hell (FOX). Additional producer and co-producer credits include: Chef Academy (Bravo), Nanny 911 (FOX), Marriage 911 (FOX), It Girls (VH1), Guinness World Records Primetime (FOX), Hidden Victims: Children of Domestic Violence (Lifetime), TV's Greatest Christmas Moments (FOX), Oops: The World's Funniest Outtakes (FOX), You Asked For It (NBC), Kidsongs on Sony Wonder, Animals Are People, Too (PAX TV), and When Animals Attack (FOX).
Conlin is the casting director of some of the most successful reality series for primetime networks (ABC, FOX, NBC): Utopia; Hell's Kitchen season 1-16; Kitchen Nightmares seasons 1-6; Hotel Hell 1-2; Worst Cooks in America 3-5; Food Court Wars 2; True Beauty 1-2; Secret Millionaire; Nanny 911 1-5; The Moment of Truth 1-2; Who Wants to Marry My Dad?; Paradise Hotel; Forever Eden; The Swan; The Complex; Love or Money; and Mr. Personality.
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