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There IS Another Promising Option for Countering Autism
The Sunday New York Times Magazine ran a lengthy article, "The Kids Who Beat Autism".
The article is focused mainly on how intensive behavioral therapy has helped cure about 10% of autistic kids. The scientists interviewed basically said they didn't know why these particular children did so well….or why most kids don't benefit nearly as much from the therapy. And they can't predict in advance which children will benefit and which won't. But they do know that it is expensive, costing many thousands of dollars for each child.
As for food-nutrition related antidotes to autism, that subject received this kiss-off. "Most doctors have long dismissed as wishful thinking the idea that someone can recover from autism. Supposed cures have been promoted on the Internet — vitamin shots, nutritional supplements, detoxifiers, special diets, pressurized rooms filled with pure oxygen and even chelation, the potentially dangerous removal of heavy metals from the body. But no evidence indicates that any of them can alleviate any of the core symptoms of autism, let alone eradicate it."
Autism has been terribly vexing, and there has been so much published about it in terms of studies and possible treatments, so I don't expect the author of the NYTimes article to know everything. Still and all, there has been some recently published data indicating that raw milk, in particular camel milk, can have important positive effects on autism. Two items in particular stand out:
1. A small study out of Saudi Arabia, published in early 2014, offers serious encouragement. It studied the potential benefits of camel milk, which has long been consumed in the Middle East for its perceived health benefits.
In the Saudi study, 45 children with autism were divided into three groups of 15; one was given raw camel milk, one was given boiled camel milk, and a third was given a placebo, for a total of two weeks. The results? "Camel milk administered for two weeks significantly improved clinical measurements of autism severity," the authors concluded. "Subsequent studies are recommended."
2. In late 2013, the scholarly journal, Global Advances in Health and Medicine, published an article by the mother of a boy with autism about his remarkable progress after he started on camel milk. The mother, Christina F. Adams, recounted how she consulted with her physician so he could write what amounted to a prescription to order the camel milk from a supplier she had found in Israel:
"On October 10, 2007, 2 weeks before my son's tenth birthday, he drank his first half cup (4 oz) of thawed raw unheated camel milk….On the morning after my son ingested camel milk, he demonstrated astonishing improvements in behavior including eye contact, communication, emotional expression ('I really love you; you're awesome; you do so much for me'), and self-organization. He ate breakfast more neatly, noted his schedule, put on his shoes, and got his backpack for school while conversing at the same time.
"He continued consuming 4 oz of camel milk daily with rapid continued improvement in behavior and motor planning. For example, he started looking both ways when crossing streets and parking lots. His erratic behavior stopped, and my frequent offerings of extra protein, which had only somewhat mitigated the problem, were no longer needed. Within 3 weeks, there was also a marked improvement and smoothing of his skin condition. Increasing the daily amount of camel milk to 8 oz seemed to cause new facial grimaces and jerking in one arm, which disappeared when his intake returned to 4 oz. His pragmatic language and vocabulary skills were improved, and other academic skills tested above average and exceptional in some areas.
"Interruption of camel milk consumption on several occasions resulted in behavioral and physiological lapses. Just before he turned 12, while I was away from home for two and a half weeks, he did not take camel milk. His school behavior deteriorated to the point that he was in danger of being moved to a special education classroom. Within 24 hours of resuming the camel milk intake, he returned to prior functioning levels."
I reported recently on a new American supplier of raw camel milk. Other parents have reported positive results—to dairy producers and to each other— about raw cow and goat milk in relieving autism symptoms in their children.
Yes, there is much we don't know about autism—its causes and cures—except that it is becoming ever more common (one in every 68 children), and feared. I reported a few weeks back about correlations between the rise in autism and the increased use of glyphosate, the main ingredient in Monsanto's Roundup pesticide used with GMO foods.
But we do know that when it comes to raw milk, even the most promising health research, such as European research on asthma and allergies, is ignored in the U.S. Why? Maybe because it doesn't hold out the promise of huge financial incentives to the medical profession, or to the drug companies that covet "annuity" drugs, or to the oligopoly that controls milk production in the U.S.
My sense is that we'll never discover a single "cure" to autism, but rather multiple antidotes that work differently with different children. For that reason, we owe it to ourselves to check them all out, and not allow special financial interests to determine the research direction.
It does not surprise me one little bit to hear moms reporting that small amounts of raw camels milk helps their kids with autism. I have been working with autism for 13 years in our consumer base here in CA,....many of the same things are also reported from all types of raw milk...goat, cow, sheep and now camels raw milk.
It is simple. The NIH and the Human Genome project have it right. Dr. Bonnie Bassler put the hammer on the nails head years ago. We are run by 98% bacterial DNA when it comes to our genetic information highway that starts in our gut and runs our human system. Deny the gut its food to feed the bacteria and deny the gut its bacteria...and we become an autoimmune mess. Simple as that. Autism is nothing short of a full blown manifestation of the loss of our genomic data on a multiple generational basis.
What food did nature spend 100 million years perfecting to assure the survival and thriving success of all mammals???....the answer is raw mammals milk. Humans have been stealing other mammals milk for thousands of years as a food to gain an advantage.
In the last 75 years....we screwed this up royally. Now the CDC and FDA contradict their own billion dollar tax payer funded research ( Human Biome project ) that confirms this 100 million year biologic truth.
The real enemy of progress is the dominance of money and corporate greed that sits above human need in our culture. This will only last a short time...before the error is realized and the adjustment is made. But during this readjustment period the children pay dearly with their health and their minds and bodies.
TEACH TEACH TEACH and then TEACH even more!! Nothing like some truth to expose the big fake lies.
Here is something we can all get behind. We all know that law enforcement is very tough and requires continuous training and experience. What we do not need are a bunch of USDA inspectors carrying machine guns when they check our goats or apples. That is simply dangerous for everyone including the inspectors. If the USDA needs some back up then they should make their case to local or regional law enforcement and get their support. I can not think of one USDA function that should need lethal force to enforce...not one. Why should be provide machine guns to USDA inpectors. As a paramedic we always considered ourselves somewhat immune from bad guy abuse because we did not have guns and treated all sides fairly as humanitarians. Once you take up arms...you have now taken a side and prepare to become subject to being shot at. If I was a USDA inspector I would let everyone know that I was unarmed and just here to check on the chickens. All sorts of crazy stupid things start to happen when some USDA dirt checker shows up with a machine gun and fumbles with it. This is stupid and really wasteful.
Please check the link and demilitarize the USDA and other food checkers. A bill introduced into congress aims to keep the food inpectors doing just that...checking food, not taking up armed positions against food producers or god knows what else. When ever an armed inpector shows up at OPDC the entire tone of that visit changes...and more often than not...not for the better. It is very distracting and the armed agents are all in a bothered tither over their guns and not their jobs. This is stupid totally insecure government at its worst. If the inspectors are worried...they have failed in their jobs...lets hire friendly inspectors and people that are secure in their persons.
"I can not think of one [legitimate] USDA function that should need lethal force to enforce...not one."
There, fixed.
Personally I think this is related to another purchase order request USDA put out in the last year for mobile slaughter equipment for doing kill-offs of small scale poultry flocks.
You start taking away peoples food under false pretences in order to protect your master's profit margins and people have every right to be up in arms.
I ran through numbers on 20th century democide a while back and well over half were accomplished via control of food.
Anybody have a link to info on the differences in the nutritional composition of raw milk between cow, goat and camel? Just curious.
David, unfortunately it is nearly impossible to separate special financial interests from the research direction as opposed to public interest, and I can't think of any ways we could affect the directives unless we do away with corporate laws and make the individuals making the corporate decisions accountable instead of hiding behind those laws. Just ask the huge majority of people who want GMO foods labeled as such, about how big money usually gets its way even in supposedly public voting.
@ Ora: This doesn't include camel milk but there are some good stats here. The intro says it was done in 1999 but it was updated in 2005 and not since that time. I doubt that much has changed, but you do have to remember these figures probably vary from milking to milking because of the diet of these animals. Animals in the wild will be eating a host of different weeds and grasses and seeds, whereas other animals are fed rations of the same stuff daily.
I searched for quite a while and this is all I found that seemed like reasonable information. The stuff at some of the other sites, wiki most notably, started out telling about the differences and then morphed into the "but people shouldn't be drinking milk past weaning from the breast anyhow" type conversation.
I would think realmilk and WAPF probably have info regarding this, but I just ran out of time.
This is the type of challenge one would hope the FDA might consider taking up instead of the low fruit of high heeled boys, to misquote Traffic. I can understand that they channel the money to fit the donor but how does that explain ignoring the public health interest when it's our tax dollars that foots the bill?
Granted, but when does anything matter in food functions, that is NOT fed to a living organism in or out of the lab and how realistic is it to replicate the results outside the lab.
Always remember, labs are either owned or sponsored so they therefore will always have ulterior money or other motives, like ODPC (sorry Mark but it's the truth and I'd say you are just about the MVP on this site (most valuable poster.)
Contact me or David regarding the award ceremony although he hasn't heard about it yet.
"All diseases begin in the gut." Hippocrates
Nutritional content is all for not without a healthy bacterial colony in our gut in order to assimilate those nutrients. Indeed, gut physiology is of the utmost importance.
Andrew Wakefield and Angela McBride are closer to the truth then many would care to believe.
I would suspect the link between autism and raw milk stems from raw milk's probiotic effect on an individual's gut flora and immune system that was damaged by vaccines or antibiotics, etc.
I find it fascinating that last week during the American Cheese Society convention in Sacramento, Michael Taylor ( top food man at the FDA ) attended along with a large group of FDA agency representatives to meet with and work with the American Cheese Markers!! He even spoke and took questions for 20 minutes!!
The ACS board even held a closed session just for the FDA. The FDA even made consessions and backed off on the issue of the "use of wooden boards" for cheese aging. When all was said and done...the FDA was friendly and vowed to assure that "ages old artisanal practices" would be preserved.
Why can't the FDA meet the raw milk producers???
I heard why...we do not have an association!! They will only meet with or work with associations that represent a group of producers. Raw milk has yet to create such an organization. We are still viewed as splintered and far flung. My guess....industry and FDA likes it this way.
Perhaps it is time to form a National Raw Milk Producers Org.
RAWMI is trying its best to nail down the science of raw milk food safety and my by all measures...it has been able to demonstrate that Common Standards and RAMP works great. The RAWMI LISTED producers data clearly shows this track record. Now...how about an Association that can wrestle down the politics of a relationship with the FDA and bring raw milk for humans into the 21st century and get some long due respect?
Just an idea whos time might have come. Not sure who should initiate this org...pretty sure is not me. I appear to be a raw milk lightning rod to the FDA. I would love to be apart of this national org if it was formed. Anyone have some extra time and extra ambition to form this org? I would be the first to sign up...I know plenty of other producers that would sign up as well.
Yeah, I'm not sure comradie with the enemy is the real answer here. The ACS didn't stick by it's members in the past and it won't in the future either; having fda buddyism will only make them more distanced from their members. No, I don't believe sucking up to the fda is the answer at all, for anyone. Forming cooperatives might be a good idea in many regards for the dairy farmers on a personal level but all it really does is put everyone right in line for the next shoot-down by the fda or usda. The members of these cooperatives do all the work so the agencies don't have to do a hunt-and-search when they want to target someone. To me, it seems like volunteering for something no one wants in the first place. It would also seem the "support" is somewhat lacking for the members. As David pointed out, the next crises or two will reveal true colors.
The only way to have a voice with government is to organize. If you are not a registered incorporated nonprofit, you do not exist as a group. That's the plain truth. And re what DSmith mentions re co-ops below, the last thing you need is a farmers co-op, because those - where farmers pool their milk and insist on a set price - pretty soon turn into a marketing board, and pretty soon farmers will be told what they can and cannot produce and will be forced to sell milk only to the co-op. The milk marketing boards up here which enforce quota are all groups of farmers - e.g. Dairy Farmers of Ontario (DFO) - and they take co-ops to a whole new level (the cartel).
So, form a non-profit yes, and get a voice. But first off, you can't do this top-down. Raw milk farmers and consumers have already been treated as voiceless and powerless by the State. This has to be built from the ground up. Pour the foundation first before you build the roof of the barn. Find out from all your farmers what they want to see in an organization. Survey them, interview them. Put all the information together. Set up a website, email address, post office box, and phone number. Keep everyone informed of how it is going. Even see http://bcherdshare.org/community-survey/ for how it is being done for one province.
If you want a voice with government, you need to form an organization that can then have a voice. But legitimacy, a mandate, and a social licence to speak with that voice, all needs to come from the raw milk community. NOT imposed top-down by a small group of people who have big plans and think they have the right to speak for people they've never met and never asked what their opinions were. Don't' keep the community voiceless the way that government and Big Dairy has done. Just my own humble opinion.
Shelly D...
I nominate you as the first president of the North American Raw Milk Producers Association or NARMPA. Sounds pretty powerful to me. We just need a president that can stick with the program and the voice when the FDA hits the fan and everyone runs for the doors. Takes true vision and guts.
Thanks for the vote of confidence, Mark, but it won't be this cantankerous ol' biddy. :) Public life ain't for me. Call on Donna O'Shaughnessy and you'll have yourself an amazing President. Again, though, you're trying to start from the top and select the weathervane before even drawing up the blueprints! Get down-and-dirty and find out what the folks wearing the wellies want. Then build up from there. :) In about a year or so, maybe you'll be ready to find yourself a president.
Meanwhile, grab yourself up those domain names ASAP - NARMPA.com, NARMPA.org, etc. - before our friends at the FDA or Big Dairy decide to grab them in order to cybersquat and keep them from us.
Shelly D.
Great advice!
Shelly D,
Pursuant to your advice....in the last hour, NARMPA.ORG NARMPA.COM NARMPA.NET NARMPA.INFO are now all owned by OPDC. NARMPA is reserved for the future: North American Raw Milk Producers Association. Sounds very official.
Now we just need to find a president that shares a vision of the farmers voice and not some perverted corporate dominated top down autocracy. I like the NFU ( National Farmers Union ) model....all very democratic with elected representatives from every state all meeting one time per year to create policy and execute on values. A huge dream...but it started here and the website and name is now protected.
RAWMI is not an association. It serves a different goal and vision of assuring low risk raw milk production through RAMP and establishing a defendable and data driven track record that can be used to forge a new low risk raw milk pathway forward in the market place.
Some of you might find this interesting - for your animals and for yourself.
When you begin reading you'll wonder what the heck it's all about, but stay with it and keep reading to the end (although in the middle of the pdf there is about a page and a half you can skip over and read later, or whatever, dealing with other subjects). This is from his original newsletter which used to be delivered only by postal mail, not email. I hate pdf's but it's the only way it was available to share. ;)
**I realize the article is from 2007 so if anyone finds anything updated, post it here and let everyone know.
Also, for those of you who don't know or care to know how to convert gram to tsp (which is the way most americans gauge things) 1 gram = 1/4 tsp (approx), so the adult dose would be about 1/2 to 3/4 tsp daily (which equals the 2 - 3 gram dose recommended for adults). Children would be about 1/4 to 1/2 tsp daily, depending on their age. But this stuff is pretty safe so I can't imagine that giving them a tad more than that would be "dangerous".
Thank you D. Smith.
I found this interesting.
Mr. J. Ingvar Odegaard
For yourself or your animals or both? (I sure hope Mr. Odegaard isn't with the FdUH) . . . heh.
As I read it, it is good for our animals and it is good for us. Good 'ol American corporate know-how. It seems that (simply) paying attention plus some common-sense follow-up has led to good things. I am thinking also of Mark Manhart, D.D.S., in Omaha that was mentioned here (calciumtherapy.com). These are good gifts.
I look for an end to the corruption of government for commercial purposes.
Mr. J. Ingvar Odegaard
I look for the same, but don't ever expect to see it in my lifetime, not from OUR gubmint - not even if I had two lifetimes. Once corruption starts to pay off, it's a deal-sealer.
Yes sir, good for animals and people - what could be easier and better? This is one corporate deal I don't mind seeing flourish! Just think of those healthy animals and that alone is such a good thing.
I'm going to start off inhaling the dust (as mentioned for the reason the employees stayed healthy in the first place) because I'm on another alternative protocol right now and don't want to interfere with that too much. My DH is getting some of this today and is picking up about a dozen packages because everyone who read about it wants to try it. Should be interesting to see the results in a wide base of people with different ailments, and I'm going to keep close track, too.
I agree with Dr. Williams and have said many times starting YEARS ago, before I'd even heard of the guy, that boosting the immune system is not a good idea, but balancing it is much better - easier on the system than a sudden jolt. Start small, that's always a good thing to do with these ideas, doncha think?


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Reggie Evans becomes the first player fined for flopping under league's new rules (VIDEO)
Nov 21, 2012, 5:25 PM EDT
UPDATE 5:17 p.m. ET: The Brooklyn Nets Reggie Evans has in fact been fined $5000 for this incident, reports Adrian Wojnarowski of Yahoo! Sports. Nobody is shocked. He deserved it.
4:44 p.m. ET: Given the fact that Reggie Evans was prominently featured in the video the league showed to teams and media before the season started to demonstrate what would and would not be tolerated under the league's new rules against flopping, the fact that he's now likely to be the first player fined for it really shouldn't come as much of a surprise.
Evans received one of the first four warnings for flopping that's been given out this season, and if after receiving a warning a player is determined to have flopped once again, they would receive a fine of $5,000.
The video clip above clearly features Evans "falling all over the place," as Kobe Bryant might say.
It's definitely a flop, but the thing about the league's warnings so far is the fact they've been pretty subjective. The ones issued have unquestionably been for blatant violations, and this is certainly another one.
But there have been plenty of flops that have gone unpunished so far this season, so we'll just have to see if this latest effort from Evans isn't deemed severe enough, and ends up slipping through the cracks.
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- michaeljordanseviltwin - Nov 21, 2012 at 5:09 PM
I only wish Floppy Divac was still in the league; he would have been fined 14 times by this point of the season.
- dko83 - Nov 21, 2012 at 5:17 PM
This needs to be a fine. He's been warned and this is pretty egregious.
- David Pruett - Nov 21, 2012 at 5:45 PM
Reblogged this on P.S.B..
- raidmagic - Nov 21, 2012 at 6:11 PM
Man he just put his hand on his back and Evans went flying, that's pretty funny
- BigBeachBall - Nov 21, 2012 at 6:29 PM
Players will get a warning the first time, then be fined $5,000 for a second violation. The fines increase to $10,000 for a third offense, $15,000 for a fourth and $30,000 for the fifth. Six or more could lead to a suspension.
- jjzucall - Nov 22, 2012 at 10:57 AM
Six? Seriously? Presumably no one will ever be suspended under this format.
- joeyashwi - Nov 21, 2012 at 6:44 PM
They should make flopping an automatic technical foul. That would be more of a penalty than $5k to a multimillionaire.
- moseskkim - Nov 21, 2012 at 6:55 PM
They determine if they are flops after the game. The technical wouldn't have much effect. In realtime, it's tough to tell if it's a flop.
- eugenesaxe - Nov 21, 2012 at 9:15 PM
A tech would have more of an effect than a pocket-change fine. But as you point out, you can't really judge a flop during a game w/o slowing the game to a crawl.
- mytthor - Nov 22, 2012 at 12:43 AM
Can you imagine how horrible it would be if someone got a tech for flopping in a game when they really didn't, and it was at a crucial time in the game?
- borderline1988 - Nov 22, 2012 at 9:28 AM
Agreed – it doesn't make sense to give technicals for flops in a game.
And the fines do start to accumulate for repeat offenders…could be $30k (which is the level Evans will likely be at in a few weeks). $30k is enough to make Reggie Evans think twice.
The annoying thing is that the league is going after the fringe players. The NBA really likes to protect and market its stars…so they are loathe to warn any of them. I'm waiting for that to happen.
Wade isn't that bad in my opinion…he always just drives hard into contact (at the rim) and tries to sell it by not landing on his feet. But at least he's driving hard to the basket with traffic. Part of basketball fundamentals is to drive hard and look for contact.
Guys like Chris Paul routinely fake being hit when they're not being touched, or pretend to lose their balance or trip when running through a pick. That's more of the stuff I'd like to see being called.
- borderline1988 - Nov 22, 2012 at 9:31 AM
Paul Pierce also loves to run through a pick on the perimeter and then scream likes he's been shot and fall down. That's the stuff that needs to be called. Or rebounders (like Evans) who try to draw fouls by pretending to be pushed under the basket.
They shouldn't give warnings when a player is driving to the basket, unless it's ridiculously blatant. It's the stupid perimeter stuff or positional rebounding stuff that drives me crazy.
- jjzucall - Nov 22, 2012 at 11:01 AM
Agree on this one, Borderline … the problem is that offensive players often initiate contact. How often does a defensive player get called when his arms are straight up and a driving player brushes his chest without the defensive player moving?
- cantonbound13 - Nov 21, 2012 at 11:13 PM
It would have been Wade if he didn't miss so many games already.
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"You are dust" is a message that unsettles our self-image. Without the cross of Christ, we not only are dust but also will return to dust. But we are not without his cross.
Of all the occasions in the church year, Ash Wednesday is the one I like the least. In fact, I dread it.
You see, my pastor uses the imposition of ashes at our church. It is Ash Wednesday, after all. At the specified time, members of our congregation walk forward. The pastor dips his finger into a small bowl of ashes, uses those ashes to make the sign of the cross on each person's forehead, and says, "Remember that you are dust, and to dust you shall return."
That makes me uncomfortable.
"O God, be merciful to me, a sinner"
Perhaps more so than any other day in the church year, on Ash Wednesday, I know that I'm going to be made aware of my sin. Don't get me wrong; I am always aware of my sin, but in day-to-day life, it's easy to push it aside. I make excuses. "I slipped up." "I'm just tired." "I'll try harder next time." "I could be worse." "It's not that big a deal."
But on Ash Wednesday, there are no excuses. There's nowhere to hide. We're all equal. All of us, sitting calmly in the pews, have a feeling that is more than a bit uneasy on the inside. We know this occasion marks the beginning of Jesus' journey to the cross, and we know that it is our sins that put him there.
"Remember that you are dust, and to dust you shall return."
The pastor repeats this phrase again and again, as people step forward. Old and young. Men, women, and children. Yes, even children. For we all are sinners.
Ashes to ashes, dust to dust. Death awaits them. Death awaits me. The wages of sin is death, and I am a sinner. I know that more than anyone else. Even those closest to me do not know the depth of the wickedness in my heart. But I do. And so does God.
"Remember that you are dust, and to dust you shall return."
The phrase continues, like the tolling of a bell, like a funeral march, until it is my turn. Somehow I have come to the front of the line. Somehow I have chosen to come forward, even though everything inside of me pleads to sit back down where it is safe and where no one will look at me—where I can avoid the thought of my sin and my death.
I stand in front of the pastor, and he says the same phrase to me: "Remember that you are dust, and to dust you shall return."
He smears two lines on my forehead with the finger he has dipped in the small bowl of ashes. I turn away, slink back to my seat, and pray the only prayer I can think to say: "O God, be merciful to me, a sinner."
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I recently sat down with Douglas Stone, who is a Managing Partner at Triad Consulting Group and a Lecturer on Law at Harvard Law School, where he teaches negotiation. Through Triad, he consults to a wide range of organizations, including Fidelity, Honda and Shell. Aside from his time spent at Harvard and his consulting practice, he is also the New York Times best-selling author of Difficult Conversations: How to Discuss What Matters Most. His latest book is called Thanks for the Feedback: The Science and Art of Receiving Feedback Well. His articles on negotiation and conflict resolution have appeared in the New York Times, the Los Angeles Times, and the Boston Globe. In our interview, he talked about formal performance reviews, why people aren't good at taking feedback, the science behind giving and accepting feedback and his best career advice for you.
Dan Schawbel: What are your thoughts about formal annual reviews? Do you think it was smart that Adobe recently dropped theirs?
Douglas Stone: I think the key task is to ask, "what are the goals of our feedback system and is the system meeting them? If so, great. If not, consider doing something different. You don't have to be an HR consultant to know that many feedback and performance evaluation systems aren't working as intended. We all know the litany of complaints — they take too much time, have little value, aren't fair, create anti-collaborative incentives, produce anxiety and low morale.
So, we have to figure out how to meet the important goals of these systems while mitigating the big costs they can impose. We still need to let people know how they're doing and to distribute raises, bonuses, and promotions. We still need to create spaces for coaching and learning. I think over time, unitary systems will give way to more personalized or modular approaches that place greater emphasis on meaningful individual coaching and evaluation conversations. And that's going to place an even greater premium on each individual's ability to receive feedback well, and to be able to talk skilfully about challenging topics.
Schawbel: Why do so many people struggle with not only accepting feedback but taking action on it?
Stone: There's a struggle that precedes the struggle to accept or take feedback and that's the struggle to understand the feedback. Too often, we get vague, label-y feedback ("you're not aggressive enough," "you're not a team player," "you're not warm") that might mean something to the person giving it, but has no clear meaning to the person receiving it. "Not aggressive" could mean a million different things, even conflicting things. So step one is understanding the feedback: "When you say I'm not aggressive enough, what does that mean? What's an example, and what I would I do differently?"
Once we understand the feedback, we may decide not to "accept" it, meaning, it doesn't resonate with us, we don't think it applies, or maybe we just think it's flat wrong. We might think it's wrong because it actually is wrong ("2 + 2 does not equal 7, even if you are my boss"). And we should reject feedback that's wrong or inapplicable to us. But often, it's more nuanced than that. Maybe part of the feedback is right, or maybe we think it's wrong because it sits directly in a blind spot of ours. We really are "defensive," but we may be totally unaware of that. So, once we understand the feedback, the next step is to figure out which aspects of it might actually be useful to us.
Then there's the matter of "acting on" the feedback. We can all think of examples in our own lives, and we've certainly observed examples in the lives of others, where we've decided to take the feedback, and then don't. These are often things that have to do with ruts or even addictions, choices where our long-term interests (quit smoking) don't line up with our short term interests (feel better now). There's a big literature on getting yourself to do things, breaking bad habits, quitting addictions. We discuss a few ideas in the book. Making change social is one very useful thing. Get a friend to do it with you, or a team. Make your commit to change public. An idea that gets less play is being aware of the J-curve of happiness. When we start something new and different, we often become less happy rather than more. As we slide downward, we decide to give up. Why continue? But if we're aware that this is a common stage in change, we may have the ability to fight through that original downward slide long enough to bottom out and head back up. And once we're getting positive reinforcement, change is easier.
Schawbel: Why should an organization bet on educating receivers in the workplace instead of on training managers to give feedback?
Stone: There's nothing wrong with training managers to get better at giving feedback. That's good for everyone. The problem isn't that we are training feedback givers, it's that we are not training feedback receivers. So we get quarterbacks who are better and better at throwing the ball, but our receivers have little ability to catch the ball. Not even Peyton Manning can make the guy on the other end of the pass catch the ball if he's not interested in catching the ball. Same with feedback. No matter how skilled the feedback giver is, if the receiver isn't interested in hearing or taking the feedback, nothing will get through.
So, the bigger priority is training receivers. We can't let our own success, education and advancement ride on whether the person giving us feedback happens to be talented or caring. We have to learn to learn from everyone around us, including people who are lousy at giving feedback, or who don't have the time to do it thoughtfully. Our individual success depends on it, and so does the collective success of the organization.
A key insight here is that receiving feedback well is indeed a skill. We all show up in life with certain tendencies and competencies, but however good we are at receiving feedback in our default state, we can all get better at it with a bit of training. There are specific teachable skills and tools that make a huge difference.
Schawbel: Can you explain some of the science behind the art of giving and receiving feedback?
Stone: There's social science and psychology behind a lot of this, and some neuroscience as well. My favorite neuroscience work is around the burgeoning field of so-called "mirror neurons." This is shorthand for the idea that when we watch another person do something or watch something happen to them, we have a kind of mirror neurological response, as if we ourselves were doing it, or the thing were happening to us. So, when we watch a gruesome injury during a sporting event, we recoil or scream as if in pain. Brain scans would show that in that moment, our neurons as responding (to an extent) as if the injury were happening to us.
However, and this is the most fascinating part, if we are angry with the person who is being injured, or think they are cheating or playing unfairly, then we don't have that mirror neuron effect. We don't feel the same level of empathy for them, and it turns out that it's because our empathy capacity actually gets shut down when we're having a strong prior emotional reaction to the person (like anger). What this means at work and at home is that we have a very hard time listening to someone if we are angry with them, or if we feel they are treating us unfairly. And in fact, this is true. It's almost impossible to take feedback from someone who you feel is treating you unfairly, even if the feedback makes perfect sense. And this turns out to be one of the primary reasons we reject even useful feedback.
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You'll have to decide soon if U.S. District Court Judge Vaughn Walker gets his way. Today Walker said that he wants the trial over the constitutionality of Proposition 8, which bans gay marriage in California, to be taped and distributed on the Internet. It's a partial victory for those who wanted cameras allowed in the court room but wished for the proceedings to be streamed live. All Walker needs now is for the court's chief judge to approve his request, which the LA Times says is "expected." Then you'll be faced with the difficult decision of catching up with Maru or watching the most pivotal equal rights battle of your lifetime.
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In 2012 voters in Stowe approved a $6.5 million dollar bond to make the project a reality.
The Jackson arena was torn down earlier this year after nearly 40 years in service to make way for the Stowe Arena.
Kids and adults laced up to take a spin on the ice at the new Stowe Arena.
"It's very exciting, we are so glad to finally have the doors open and be able to skate here every day," said Melody Benson, a skating instructor.
Benson says before this arena was built her students either traveled to an ice rink in a neighboring town, or practiced in the cold, outdated Jackson Arena.
"I used to freeze to death teaching the Friday programs here, but now it will be much warmer, much more comfortable and we just love the new facility," said Benson.
The community came out Saturday to celebrate the arena's grand opening. Part of that ceremony featured ice skating demonstrations on the new ice rink that's large enough to host an NHL game.
"I keep hearing the word surreal, people just can't believe it," said Matt Frazee, Stowe Parks and Recreation Director.
Frazee says this arena was built in just a few short months and opened right on schedule.
While the building is complete there are some final touches that still have to be complete inside.
"We are working on getting some dasher boards put up here and banners to get some visibility for some local businesses," said Frazee.
Frazee says the town has some big plans for its building.
"You know hopefully bringing in a lot of tournaments and a lot of people from the outside," said Frazee.
Frazee says that includes hockey tournaments in the winter and soccer and lacrosse tournaments in the spring when the rink is transformed into a turf field.
Before those plans are underway the ice already got the approval from local figure skaters.
"The ice is great. We've tested it out a few times this week already, it's just a beautiful facility, very comfortable, we are going to love it," said Benson.
The first big event is December 14th at the Stowe Arena.
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Argentina offers to pay debts with cash & bonds
Argentina can pay $1.44 billion, but there are many more creditors seeking the same kind of judgment that NML Capital Ltd. won from U.S. District Judge Thomas Griesa last year. If upheld, it would force the country to pay out an economy-destroying $43 billion in cash, the government said.
But the payment plan it proposed Friday night includes some bonds that wouldn't come fully due for 25 years, and that could be a non-starter with the appellate judges in New York, whose rulings in bond litigation are almost never second-guessed by the U.S. Supreme Court.
If the court agrees to Argentina's payment proposal, Fernandez expects a willing congress to promptly enact it, and voluntary exchanges of defaulted debt for new bonds would then eliminate most of the remaining mess, whether or not Singer's hedge fund accepts the deal, the filing said.
But if the judges don't agree and Argentina loses in court, it could be "suicide" for the South American nation's economy, says financial analyst Josh Rosner, managing director of Graham Fisher & Co. in New York.
"The court was looking for something simple, like: we're not going to pay them in a lump sum, but we're going to make a quarterly payment of the full $1.4 billion over three years. They weren't looking for creative financing where Argentina demands or forces a new bond," Rosner said. "What if somebody took that new bond, and the Argentine government defaulted the next day?"
Refusing to pay the holdouts anything better than what the exchange bondholders got is a politically popular position among Argentines, but Rosner says that's irrelevant when it comes to the markets.
"Monday morning is going to be a disaster," Rosner predicted.
Argentina's economy is being strangled by punishingly high borrowing costs because the Fernandez government hasn't fully settled its debts to bondholders, other governments and the many companies that have won judgments against it, Rosner said.
Instead, the government borrows from its own people, fueling inflation, and tries to centrally manage the increasingly isolated economy by frequently changing the rules for exchanging currency, importing and exporting goods, setting prices and paying taxes.
Increasingly, Argentines are feeling trapped by the government controls, and foreign companies are being scared off.
"This economic starvation ends up, by necessity, with the ultimate cutting of those services - education, police, energy subsidies, transportation subsidies to the provinces, which is going to increase social unrest," Rosner said. "It's a human tragedy. I'm not understanding why they're fighting this."
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Maturity Models vs. Top 10 Listsby jOHN on Monday, March 30, 2009
A few back, I wrote about Maturity Models vs. ASVS. On SC-L, a 'discussion' broke out regarding Maturity Models (MM) vs. Top N lists. Like ASVS, Top 10 lists target a different problem than MMs. In particular, the discussion focused around how one should enhance their assessment practices.
I've edited and reproduced my SC-L post here for those of you who don't read the list. My objective? provide specifics on what one can do to enhance assessment practices. I provide a commentary on the on-going discussion throughout. The central theme of my approach?
security vulnerabilities don't count unless they affect development
Now the approach:
Integrate Assessment Practices
Wrap the assessment activities (both tool-based and manual techniques) in a process that:
- Normalizes findings under a common reporting vocabulary and demonstrates impact
- Include SAST, DAST, scanning, manual, out-sourced, & ALL findings producers in this framework
- Anchors findings in either a developmental root cause or other software artifact:
- Use Case, reqs, design, spec, etc.
- Builds adaptors so that bugs are automatically entered in tracking systems
- Adaptors should include both tool-based and manual findings
- Calculates impact with an agreed-upon mechanism that rates security risk with other factors:
- Functional release criteria
- Other non-security non-functional requirements
I believe so. Cigital's more junior consultants work on these very tasks, and they don't require an early-adopter to fund or agree to them. There's plenty of tooling out there to help with the adapters and plenty of presentations/papers on risk (www.riskanalys.is), normalizing findings (cwe.mitre.org/) , and assessment methodology (www.cigital.com/papers/download/j15bsi.pdf).
No. I've done research and consulting in functional testing. If you think security is powerless against development, try spending a few years in a tester's shoes! Functionality may be king for development and PMs, but I've found that functional testing has little to no power. While a lack of features may prevent software from going out the door, very rarely do I find that functional testing can implement an effective "go/no-go" gate from their seat in the org. That's why testing efforts seek muscle from their friend Security (and its distant cousins under quality "Load and Performance") to stop releases from going out the door.
There's no reason NOT to integrate with testing efforts, reporting, and groups: we should. There's every reason security should adhere to the same interface everyone else does with developers (let them produce code and let them consume bugs)… I think the steps I outlined under 'what' bring us closer. I don't think we need to (or can expect to) flip organizational precedent and behavior on its head to make progress.
The above scenario doesn't allow explicitly for two key input/outputs from the software security ecosystem:
- Handling ultra-high-priority issues in real time
- Adjusting and evolving to changing threat landscapes
Establish a Steering Committee
Establish a steering committee on which a software security, dev, architecture, operations, and corporate risk sit. These folk should manage the risk-model, scoring, security standards that drive the assessment verification standard, and the definition of both short-term and longer-term mitigating strategies. I'd argue that you'd like Industry representation too. That organization could come in written form (like the Top N lists) or in the form of consulting or a panel.
When incidents or firefights come into play, absolutely allow them to be handled out of band (albeit through a documented process), but! Not until they've been rated with the agreed-upon model.
Yes. I have several clients that use this structure. I speak with non-clients that do the same. Data gathering for scoring and prioritization is easy if you've done the steps in the previous section. The operations guys help you grade the pertinence of your efforts to what they're seeing 'in the wild' too.
Does a steering committee help you respond with agility to a high-priority threat in real time? Not explicitly. But, it does help if your organizational stakeholders already have a working relationship and a mutual respect. Also: I think one root cause of the underlying discomfort (or dislike) with people's perspectives on this thread has been:
"OK… you don't like Top N lists… So what do you do?"
In my mind… The above answers that question.
[Assessment and Tools]
Do I believe that the normalized findings will emerge only from static analysis (or any other kind of vulnerability detection tool)? Absolutely not. People who follow my writings know I expect dramatic (ally high and low) numbers to be associated with tools.
Let's summarize my data. Organizations can expect:
- Static analysis tools to account for 15-20% of their total findings, out of the box
- An initial false positive rate as high as 75-99% from a static analysis tool, without tuning
- Less than 09% code coverage (by even shallow coverage metrics) from pen-testing tools
Qualitatively, I can tell you that I expect an overwhelming majority of static analysis results produced in an organization to come from customization of their adopted product.
Simply: if you base your world view on only those things a tool (any tool) produces, you're world view is too narrow and will prove ineffective. The same is true of those who narrow their scope to the OWASP Top-10 or the SANS Top 25.
[Top N Redux]
Some have left the impression that starting with a Top N list is of no use. Please don't think I'm in this camp. In my last two public presentations I've indicated, "If you're starting from scratch these lists (or lists intrinsically baked into a tool's capabilities for detection) are a great place to start." Yes, one of these presentations was entitled "Why Top N lists are bad" 😉 Also:
If you can't afford frequent industry interaction-use Top N lists as a proxy for it. They're valuable, but like anything, only to a point.
For me, this discussion will remain circular until we think about it in terms of measured, iterative organizational improvement. Why? Because when an organization focuses on getting beyond a "Top N" list it will just create their own organization-specific "Top N" list If they're smart though, they'll call it a dash board and vie for a promotion 😉
From the other side? People building Top N lists know they're not a panacea, but also know that a lot of organizations simply can't stomach the kind of emotional investment that BSIMM (and the ilk) come with.
This leaves me with the following:
- Top N lists are neither necessary nor sufficient for organization success
- Top N lists are necessary but not sufficient for industry success
- Maturity models are neither necessary nor sufficient for organizational success
- Maturity models are necessary but not sufficient for industry success
- Always avail yourself of what the industry produces;
- Never confine yourself to a single industry artifact dogmatically;
- Whatever you consume from industry, improve it by making it your own; and
- Where-ever you are in your journey, continue to improve iteratively.
[Related Perennial Rabbit Holes] (bonus)
- Bugs vs. Flaws: John Steven'06 – email@example.com/msg00888.html
- Security Vs. Quality: Cowan '02 – www.securityfocus.com/archive/98/304766
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It's worth noting that the ZR-1's impressive straight-line celerity does not come at the expense of handling. Wanting an all-around performer, Henderson improved the original suspension with DRM coilovers at all four corners. To harness the power increase, the factory stoppers were also enhanced with a Brembo big-brake kit in front and cross-drilled rear rotors. On the street, the car sports the original 17-inch A-mold wheels shod in BFGoodrich Comp T/A tires in the front and sticky Yokohama AO32Rs in the rear. For dragstrip outings, Henderson uses Mickey Thompson ET Street race tires on a separate set of wheels.
Even with the significant power increase, Henderson's Z still employs a stock clutch. The ZF six-speed transmission has received a Hurst short-throw shifter, and the Dana 44 rearend benefits from a set of shorter 3.90 gears.
While the C6 ZR1 flaunts its extreme performance with a chiseled body and exposed blower, the C4 iteration abjured such royal regalia. This was especially true after the '90 model year, when the ZR-1's unique rear-fascia styling spread to all Corvette models. Among the few hints to the special nature of the fourth-gen Z were its tumid rear wheels, a handful of badges, and high-mount third brake light. Henderson has left the exterior in its factory form, largely to avoid involuntary contributions to his local government. "I have a hard enough time keeping the ticket writers out there from pulling me over as it is," he says. "If I had too much 'bling' on the car, I'd just be that much more of a target."
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Back on April 26, Newsweek went and posted an absurdly homophobic article on their website that essentially stated that while straight actors play gay roles all the time, gay actors cannot play straight roles. You guys just pray about that ridiculous statement for a minute.
The article mentioned actors like Sean Hayes (formerly Jack on Will and Grace, currently the lead in the Broadway revival of Promises, Promises) and Jonathan Groff (Rachel's new boyfriend on Glee, also a pretty big deal on Broadway) come off as "wooden and insincere" while playing straight. I have not seen Promises, Promises, but I watch Glee like it's my job, and Jonathan Groff could seduce the fuck out of anyone, male or female, so you better open your eyes, Newsweek.
Kristin Chenoweth, Sean Hayes' costar and a guest star on Glee, had some strong words to say about this article:
"This article offends me because I am a human being, a woman and a Christian. For example, there was a time when Jewish actors had to change their names because anti-Semites thought no Jew could convincingly play Gentile. Setoodeh [the author of the article] even goes so far as to justify his knee-jerk homophobic reaction to gay actors by accepting and endorsing that 'as viewers, we are molded by a society obsessed with dissecting sexuality, starting with the locker room torture in junior high school.' Really? We want to maintain and proliferate the same kind of bullying that makes children cry and in some recent cases have even taken their own lives? That's so sad, Newsweek!"
Ryan Murphy, the creator of Glee, has taken this a step further by inviting the president of GLAAD to boycott Newsweek until apologies are made to all actors mentioned in the original article. The author hasn't apologized, but he has attempted to explain his reasoning and point of view on the issue, and nobody even cares.
I've seen all sides of this issue in action, and it seems to be more of an individualized thing. I've seen straight actors play gay and vice versa with no problems whatsoever. I played a lesbian once, and nobody told me I was wooden and insincere. I've also seen gay boys struggle to butch up as required by certain roles. However, my favorite experience with this issue by far is watching a straight man be completely unable to play a flamboyant gay man. If you have never seen a somewhat insecure straight man attempt to do an elaborate drag routine involving a stripper pole to "Proud Mary" in a gold minidress, I highly recommend it.


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At SNW, Computerworld surveys the audience intermittently using an electronic Audience Response Survey device. In between keynote sessions a question was posted on the screen with a short list of multiple choice answers and the audience was asked to select their response by clicking a button on their ARS device. The answers were tabulated in [...]
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EMC was very liberal with the V word during their announcement of the Symmetrix V-Max. They talked about virtual data centers and virtual servers, but the Symmetrix V-Max was just another big monolithic storage system. You can start with one V-Max engine with two directors and scale out to 8 V-Max engines with up to [...]
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I arrived in Orlando this evening for SNW. SNW provides a great opportunity for IT folks to see all the storage vendors in one place. It gives me the opportunity see customers, analysts, and partners as well as many of the storage blogger community. While email, phone, and web2.0 have made it easier to connect [...]
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BIMARU states
The BIMARU states are four northern Indian states: Bihar, Madhya Pradesh, Rajasthan, and Uttar Pradesh. BIMARU is an acronym formed from the first letters of the names of the states. It was coined by Ashish Bose in the mid-1980s. BIMARU has a resemblance to a Hindi word "Bimar" which means sick. This was used to refer to the poor economic conditions in the backward states of Bihar, Madhya Pradesh, Rajasthan and Uttar Pradesh. Later Odisha was included in the list resulting in BIMAROU. Several studies, including those by the UN, showed that the performance of the BIMARU states were dragging down the GDP growth rate of India.[5][6] Some of these states are also a part of Red Corridor. Since some of these states have now started to advance faster than some of the developed states, the concept of BIMARU is starting to become outdated.[1][2][3]
Historical background[edit]
In the mid 80s, economic analyst Ashish Bose coined an acronym BIMARU, in a paper submitted to then Prime Minister Rajiv Gandhi.[4] Several studies, including those by the UN, showed that the performance of the BIMARU states affected the GDP growth rate of India.[5][6] Some of these states are also a part of Red Corridor.
Recent developments[edit]
In recent times some of these states have seen real push in terms of economic growth. Although, some of these states have experienced high growth rates, they still lag other more progressive states.Bihar's GSDP grew by 18% over the period 2006-2007, which was higher than in the past 10 years and one of the highest recorded by the Government of India for that period.Its economy has also grown bigger than that of Punjab.They have laid greater emphasis on education and learning by appointing more teachers and opening a software park. Most amazing thing to note that the people from Bihar, Uttar Pradesh share a large portion of serving the nation through their devotion in the field of ARMY, C.I.S.F, B.S.F, N.S.G, I.A.F and many other Para military forces.Also a higher number of Bureaucrats , Engineers and Doctors belong to these states.Recently the people from these states are working for their improvement by developing infrastructures,IT-parks,and giving a better invitation to the businessmen for investment.Also Madhya Pradesh enlisted at IInd position in U.N.O. GDP development ranking's with a record of 22.5%.[7]
Population growth[edit]
The BIMARU states have some of the highest fertility rates in India. In 2010, the total fertility rate was 3.7 for Bihar, 3.5 for Uttar Pradesh, 3.2 for Madhya Pradesh, and 3.1 for Rajasthan, compared to 2.5 for India as a whole.[8]
Notably, the higher than average population growth rate is a recent phenomenon, observed since the 1970s only[citation needed]. As late as 1981, ignoring urban city like Delhi, Kerala was the state with the highest population density.[9] See Table 1.9 in the link. This is remarkable since the habitable portion of Kerala as a percent of the total area is much smaller than the Gangetic plains states with their highly fertile land. But other states made effort in reducing the burden of bulging population, the BIMARU states contributes to population growth to nullify the leaning population growth in south. Indian_states_ranking_by_fertility_rate
Literacy rates[edit]
The literacy rates in these states according to the 2011 census are Bihar 63.8%, Odisha 65.9%, Rajasthan 67.1%, Jharkhand 67.6%, Madhya Pradesh 70.6% and Uttar Pradesh 71.7% against a national average of 74.04%. While they trail the national average in the current literacy rate, they are registering very healthy growth rates in literacy comfortably outpacing states like Andhra Pradesh (67.7%) and Chhattisgarh (71%), which have comparable literacy levels (the exception being Rajasthan).
A recent survey by National University of Educational Planning & Administration or UNEPA has determined that quality of teachers in BIMARU states is better than all India. Only 21% of all primary school teachers in Bihar and 12.8% in UP are Matriculates or lower. The rest are better educated. These figures compare favourably with other developed states with Gujarat being the worst and Karnataka being the second worst.But one of the main aspect that we have to notice is that although the people of Gujarat are not educated so well, the main reason behind development is their business inheritance power. They lack education but their mind in business is good which keeps them to survive any where they go so in short Gujaratis are educationally blunt but from business point of view are sharp.[10]
Renowned educationists have asked for a complete overhaul of the educational system, particularly at the primary level.[11]
Health care[edit]
The life expectancy in BIMARU states is lower than other Indian states. In fact, it is lower than the average life expectancy of India as a whole, implying that these states bring down the overall average as a whole.[12]
Economic growth[edit]
Corruption remains one of the key factors reflecting poverty levels throughout the world and these states generally fare worse in the corruption indexes usually published.[13] Political squabbles and the lack of a fixed direction in growth due to political tug of war does not help either, Uttar Pradesh, being an example.
The state of Bihar, as an example, though being an agrarian state, does not have even one of the dozen odd agricultural research laboratories where the central government pumps in millions of dollars. The Pusa Institute built by the noted American philanthropist Phillips near Samastipur in 1905 [14] was shifted to Delhi after the earthquake.[15] This has left little scope for agricultural research in Bihar.
It is one of the enigmas that in spite of the large representation in the parliament, these states could not get adequate resources for their development. [16]
The differences in economic and population growth rates between the BIMARU states and other Indian states sharpened over the 1990s. The economy of the four BIMARU states grew at an average of 4.6% per year in the 1990s, compared to 6.5% per year for India as a whole[citation needed]. Since population growth in the BIMARU states was much higher than the Indian average in this period, the income disparity between the BIMARU states and India as a whole also increased.
There has been no effort to involve the local population of these states in the planning process. Most of the decision makers of august bodies like planning commission are not from these states. No noteworthy public sector industry has its headquarters in these states. Coal is largely produced in these states. However, the HQ of Coal India Ltd is in West Bengal. This region is the biggest producer of steel. However, the HQ of Steel Authority of India is at Delhi. Banking industry was nationalized in the sixties. The banks which were based out of these states were merged with bigger entities which had their HQ elsewhere.[citation needed] Thus the decision makers, far removed from these states, are apathetic to the needs of the people from these states.
The Indian government's Freight Equalisation Scheme (FES) which sought to neutralize the geographical advantages of Bihar. A tonne of coal or steel in Dhanbad was sought to be priced the same as say at Kanyakumari, some 3,000 km away in Tamil Nadu.[citation needed] Sadly, FES was applied for only those items which gave advantage to Bihar, viz coal and steel; not, for example, the advantage that a Chennai enjoyed due to being a port city. This thoroughly ill conceived policy was kept in operation until it managed to break the back of the most industrialized region of India which was referred as the 'Ruhr' of India at the time of independence.[citation needed] The scheme was in operation till the mid nineties. Another unfortunate example is the sugar policy. At the time of independence and well into the fifties, Bihar produced 25% of India's sugar.[citation needed] However, due to discriminatory policies and lack of research into the local sugar cane varieties, the sugar industry of Bihar and east Uttar Pradesh was brought to its knees. Today Bihar produces less than 2% of the sugar of India.[citation needed]
Another factor determining the BIMARU states economic situation is the lack of investment in irrigation and flood control. In spite of the highest incidence of floods in this region, the investment to manage this has been rather meager.[citation needed] Even though the socialist era in India was known for large infrastructure projects, the most modern irrigation system of Bihar is the British built Son Command Canal System which was opened for use in the 1890s. This is in sharp contrast to projects like Bhakra Nangal Dam in Punjab.
Yet another factor is the lack of perspective in the planning exercise. For example, even though large portions of the national highway schemes: the Golden Quadrilateral and the East West corridor pass through the so-called BIMARU states, its alignment would not serve the population of these states. Muzaffarpur is the only town of any significance in the whole of Bihar and Jharkhand put together that would be served by these highways. Let alone the main alignment, there is no provision even for by-passes to serve towns such as Ranchi, Patna, Dhanbad, Gaya or Jamshedpur. The colonially minded central planners completely failed to discern the gross inadequacy of their plans as they built highways as if they were meant to transport troops and supplies over an enemy territory.[citation needed] Similarly, investment in the tourism infrastructure of Bodh Gaya, the most revered place of the Buddhists the world over, is rather conspicuous by its absence.
Since 2005, Bihar is seeing a revival. Latest figures show that it is self-sufficient in food[citation needed]. The state recently fought to have the debilitating provisions of the central sugar policy revoked. The result is that 25 new sugar factories have been committed by private entrepreneurs in the state over the last year or so.
Since 2000, there has also been a change in the geographic composition of these states, with Bihar being bifurcated into Bihar and Jharkhand; Madhya Pradesh being bifurcated into Madhya Pradesh and Chhattisgarh; and Uttar Pradesh being bifurcated into Uttar Pradesh and Uttarakhand. The smaller units are less reluctant to ask for their fair share from the central kitty.[citation needed]
- ^ "Don't call them Bimaru states now". hindustantimes.com. July 19, 2010.
- ^ "BIMARU towns fuelling India's economic resurgence". economictimes. September 24, 2010.
- ^ "Maharashtra faring worse than BIMARU states". hindustantimes. December 1, 2010.
- ^ "Ashish Bose – The man who coined the term 'Bimaru'". Mint.
- ^ "'Bimaru' states hampers India's growth". The Times of India. 7 September 2005.[dead link]
- ^ "BIMARU or bimari?". The Hindu. 12 August 2005.
- ^ [1]
- ^ "Annual estimates of Total Fertility rate by residence, India and bigger States, 2005-10" Planning Commission, Government of India. Accessed 21 June 2012. http://planningcommission.nic.in/data/datatable/0904/tab_137.pdf
- ^ "Statewise distribution of population". Government of India.
- ^ "Only 21% teachers in Bihar are Class X pass". The Times of India. 12 December 2007.
- ^ "Inclusive education". Business Standard.
- ^ [2]
- ^ "TII-CMS India Corruption Study 2007" (PDF). CMS India / Transparency International India. June 2008.
- ^ "History of Research in Indian Agriculture". Indian Agricultural Research Institute.
- ^ "'Pusa Institute' is still the best". The Times of India.
- ^ "The Children of the Ganga and the Politics of Allocation" (PDF). Centre for Policy Alternatives, New Delhi.
External links[edit]
- Jeffrey D. Sachs, Nirupam Bajpai, and Ananthi Ramiah. "Understanding Regional Economic Growth in India". CID Working Paper No. 88, March 2002. Center for International Development at Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts. [3]
- The Hindu
- The Children of Ganga
- Deurbanisation of Bihar
- Centrally planned Inequality
See also[edit]
- Cow Belt
- Standard of living in India
- States of India by size of economy
- Ministry of Rural Development (India)
- Rural Development Foundation, India
- Economy of India
- Indo-Gangetic Plain
- North India
- Green Revolution in India