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Sept. 13 is all about the Beatles
Saturday, Sept. 9 is a busy day for lovers of libraries and reading all over town! The Friends of the Fort Erie Public Library will be at the Farmers' Market in Ridgeway during the morning, with information and handouts about all the great things going on this fall. From 11 a.m. to 1 p.m., the Adult Literacy Council of Greater Fort Erie will have volunteers at the Centennial branch of the library, with a free book giveaway for kids and information about their many programs and services.
On Wednesday, Sept. 13, lovers of classic rock — and specifically, of the Beatles — are invited to be at the Centennial branch at 1 p.m., to experience the Beatles and their music of the 1960's in an hourlong multimedia presentation. Aaron Krerowicz, a Beatles scholar, will offer history and musical analysis, audio clips, interview excerpts and more covering their work from the visits to Hamburg, Germany through Abbey Road. Krerowicz wrote his PhD. thesis and has written four books on the Beatles. A search for the Beatles in the library collection turns up over a dozen titles on CD, and nearly as many books. You may enjoy Philip Norman's recent biography of Sir Paul McCartney or Jerry Levitan's I Met the Walrus, about his interview with John Lennon and Yoko Ono in Toronto in 1969, when Levitan was just a schoolboy. The Beatles: the true beginnings is a picture history of the early years by Pete and Rory Best. More music is available on Freegal and Hoopla, two music download apps offered on the library's website, www.fepl.ca. There are DVDs, too, including A Hard Day's Night, Eight Days a Week, and Across the Universe. Ask at any branch or place a hold online for any of the Beatles items in our collection.
There are two movie screenings at the library during the week ahead. The Lion King will be shown at the Centennial branch on Saturday afternoon, Sept. 9, for fans of the classic Disney story. Force of Nature, a documentary portrait of Canadian environmentalist David Suzuki, is offered at the Crystal Ridge branch on Tuesday, Sept. 12, at 2 p.m. This film, featuring Suzuki and Anne-Marie MacDonald, won the People`s Choice Award at the Toronto Film Festival when it premiered in 2010.
A new season of storytimes for pre-schoolers begins on Sept. 12 at the Centennial branch and Sept. 13 at Crystal Ridge. Stories for 2s and 3s are drop-in sessions for little ones from 18 months to five years of age, with lots of reading, talking, singing and playing, all skills that help children get ready to read.
Another library program that starts up on Tuesday is the Mom`s Workout, a women's support group that provides free, child-friendly workouts for women at all fitness levels. Mom's Workout begins at 6:30 p.m.
You can also ask about the Friends of the Library, a volunteer group of adults that meet to support the library with fundraising and advocacy.
There's knitting, too, for teens and adults at the Centennial branch on Tuesday evenings, and on Thursday evenings at the Crystal Ridge branch for ages 10 to 15.
Visit the library for fun and learning for all ages.
Amy Roebuck is the community services coordinator at the Fort Erie Public Library.


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We also work hard on helping the developer community. We provide open source tools that will hopefully help other people create great software.
Often produced after some personal needs, they are available as open source projects. Same way we make use of the community's resources, we want to share our own too.
The projects are hosted on GitHub, you can access them by visiting http://github.com/negusoft.
HoloAccent is an Android library project to customize the Holo theme with a custom accent color.
It currently supports Android 4.0+ projects (minSdkVersion="14"). These are the main features:
- Change the accent color in one place and apply it everywhere
- All the UI components from "Holo Colors Generator" supported
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Single Instance is a Java library to control the creation of instances across the local system. This means we can check if there is already an instance of certain program running at the moment. It is also possible to implement actions to be performed when attempting to create a new instance if there was already one active.
A socket based mechanism is used to establish the instances. You can select the port number on which you want to work and a listening socket will take it. Like this, the new instance will fail to listen on that port number, meaning that there is another one running. Since it is a socket based system, it allows passing data between the current instance and the one attempting to establish. This can be useful, for example, to pass a file url to a program that will be opened in the currently running instance, if there is one.

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On a Monday morning my 4-year-old little girl fell off the couch and landed just right to break her collarbone. She immediately began screaming in pain, and not just the kind of screaming when a kid falls down and gets bumped. This was the type of screaming where you immediately know something is definitely wrong. All you parents know exactly what I'm talking about. She couldn't be touched, she couldn't be consoled, and she wouldn't calm down.
Suspecting that something might be broken, we quickly went to the doctor's office to get x-rays. The x-ray confirmed our suspicions and clearly showed her broken clavicle. While very nice and professional, the only thing the doctor suggested was a sling and gave her a prescription for Tylenol3. We thanked him very much, didn't bother to fill the prescription, and went home. Now that we knew it was a broken bone, we knew exactly where to start working.
We immediately started giving her Comfrey tea with Willow to drink. Comfrey is a bone and tissue healer while Willow helps to relieve pain (Aspirin was actually derived from Willow). We put a Complete Tissue And Bone (formerly known as Bone Flesh and Cartilage or BF&C formula) fomentation on her collarbone and kept it there for the rest of the day. We also gave her homeopathic Arnica dissolved in water frequently. Arnica has been used since the 1500s for treating injuries such as sprains, breaks and bruises.
Our routine over the next several days included 5 to 6 cups of Comfrey tea with Willow in it, fomentations most of the day and at night, Complete Tissue And Bone powder added to our green drinks in the morning, Complete Tissue And Bone oil rubbed on her clavicle, and homeopathic Arnica dissolved in water 3 or 4 times during the day.
On Tuesday, the day after the accident, her collarbone was very painful, and she needed help with everything including going to the bathroom. She couldn't color, and she spent the day watching movies, which kept her still. Wednesday she had a lot less pain and was generally moving around a lot more. Thursday her cousins came over and she played with them for several hours. She wore a sling for a few hours that day to remind her not to move her arm too much. Friday she went to see a ballet, took the sling off because it was annoying her, and was active all day. By Sunday she was happy and playing, carrying her baby dolls, dressing up, and even running, though her collarbone hurt slightly while running.
Over the following week she kept getting better and better. We kept the routine of giving her Comfrey tea with Willow, rubbing oil on her clavicle during the day, and putting fomentations on at night, though we reduced the frequency. By the following Tuesday, now two weeks since the break, she was acting as if it had never happened. In fact she even went swimming and was later bragging that she was able to do all of her strokes: freestyle, breaststroke, backstroke, and even butterfly. Later in the week she was even crawling.
It has now been three weeks and we still rub Complete Tissue And Bone oil on her collarbone and she has at least one cup of Comfrey tea each day. We also still add Complete Tissue And Bone powder to our green drinks in the morning. She is acting like our active 4-year-old little girl again and, if I hadn't seen it with my own eyes, I would never even guess that she ever broke her collarbone.
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text: Aside from DEGEN's raver Crocs, this NYFW hasn't seen much excitement so far. But that changed today at Prabal Gurung's fall show when an unexpected guest streaked down the runway wearing a crown and a black trench open for all to see his leopard G-string. He managed to dodge security on the runway but no word on what happened to him backstage or what his motivation was. (And, yes, there's already a fake Twitter account.) Maybe he was upset by the religious collection which took inspiration from the cultures of Tibet and Nepal? Or maybe he was just bored? Either way, his performance is going to be hard to top. Alexander Wang, it's your move.


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The Necessity of a Public Trail For Terrorists
Five terrorists are being brought to New York from Gitmo to be tried for masterminding the assault on the World Trade Center in on 911. This trial must not only happen – it must be very public. Court sanctioned evidence must be presented and tested. Guilty or innocent – the trial must go on.
The History Channel and NatGeo already have programs about the variety of conspiracy theories around the 911 tragedy. There must be several hundred hours of documentaries about the conspiracies around the assassination of JFK. How many times have we heard about the 'government cover-up' at Roswell, New Mexico. People continue to believe there are aliens living in an underground Holiday Inn in the mystical 'Area 51.'
What are the conspiracy theories around Pearl Harbor? Did Franklin Roosevelt know of the imminent attack and allow it to happen so he could have popular support to enter the war? That is so ludicrous that we should not even have to talk about it – but talk we do because there has been no definitive statement of court evidence to dispel the nonsense.
We have the opportunity to certify the truth about what happened on 911. This trail will expose Al Quaeda for what it is – we need not speculate because we will know the truth soon enough.
Perhaps we should have a trial for George Bush and Dick Cheney – history will be left to the conspiracy theorists to determine the cause of the invasion of Iraq.
Without a public trial Sarah Palin will run for President in 2012 arguing that we should attack Hawaii because it is the foreign country that masterminded 911.
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In psychiatric practice for 27 years, I treat adults, adolescents, and children. I am board certified by The American Board of Psychiatry and Neurology. I practice Psychiatry in an unusual way. My phone is always with me, and I am readily available for my patients, 24 hours a day, seven days a week, holidays included, no matter where I am in the world. Unless I am in session with a patient, I answer my own phone personally. I return phone calls promptly. I am always on-call for my patients because I believe that this is the proper way to practice Psychiatry. Recognizing the intensive needs of many patients and viewing the doctor-patient relationship as crucial to healing, I do not use an answering service.
I conduct office hours seven days a week, and will usually get new patients in for the first appointment within 24 hours. Certainly I can guarantee seeing you in no more than 48 hours. I also make house calls on a routine basis (ie, limited to within a 100 mile distance from the office). Additionally, the nature of my psychiatric practice allows me to have patients who live in all parts of the United States and the world via telephone and Skype.
I specialize in the pharmacologic and psychotherapeutic treatment of anxiety, depression, bipolar disorder, attention deficit hyperactivity disorders, phobias and psychotic states. However, I will implement treatment with medication only after all non-pharmacologic strategies have been assessed thoroughly.


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Hst device draws cells close--but not too close--togetherTheAllINeed.com
(NC&T/MIT) Now MIT researchers led by Sangeeta Bhatia, associate professor of electrical engineering and computer science at the Harvard-MIT Division of Health Sciences and Technology (HST) and Brigham and Women's Hospital, have solved the problem with a novel device. The work promises to allow researchers to perform cellular experiments that were previously impossible.
Bhatia and HST postdoctoral associate Elliot Hui describe the device in the March 27 issue of the Proceedings of the National Academy of Science. Hui is first author of the paper.
The new device, a microelectromechanical system (MEMS), allows biologists to physically arrange cells to be either touching, close but not touching, or completely separated from one another. Further, they can change that configuration at will. And the device works without the use of tools such as the microscopes or robotic control arms typically required by MEMS devices.
Because cells communicate via signals transmitted both through the touching of cell membranes and through soluble molecules that flow between separated cells, biologists need to vary the spacing of cells to study their interactions. Also, since some signals induce a cell to change its internal programming, it is important for biologists to be able to rearrange cells over time to learn which signals spur change and which don't.
|Researchers at the Harvard-MIT Division of Health Sciences and Technology have developed a device that allows them to control the distance between cells. The cells are placed on combs, which can be fully separated (top), slightly separated (bottom) or locked together with combs in contact. (Photo: Elliot Hui)
Bhatia and Hui's first thoughts about how to solve this cellular space and time problem involved another children's game: plastic puzzles with squares that slide around on a grid. They wondered if they could put different cells on each square and then move them around.
This idea quickly evolved into an elegant tool designed expressly for biologists.
The device involves two separate comb-shaped pieces coated with living cells. These two pieces can click into place at two settings: One allows cells on the edges of the combs to touch, the other maintains a gap of 80 micrometers, or about four cell widths. The assembly is geared so that switching between these two settings involves a movement of two millimeters, an amount controllable by the human hand. Hui selected 80 micrometers as the gap setting because at shorter distances, cells sometimes migrate across the gap and end up touching. At wider distances, some soluble signals drop off.
Bhatia and Hui have used the new device to study liver cells. The two found that to get liver cells to express specific liver functions, they needed to touch supporting stromal cells for 18 hours. For the liver cells to survive and continue to act as liver cells, they don't have to keep touching these stromal cells, but they do need to stay close.
The finding will allow Bhatia and Hui to examine more deeply which surface molecules trigger liver cell differentiation and which soluble molecules maintain it.
Such information will help the team devise different approaches to engineering liver therapeutics by helping them understand exactly which signals are needed to support specific liver cell functions. Instead of building an entire liver from scratch, Bhatia wants to isolate the key cell type, "the business end of the organ," and get it to work without replicating the entire cellular environment that supports it. "If you can get away with it, you want to get rid of the supporting cells," she says.
This simple device will also be useful for exploring a host of other cellular interactions. Most prominently, the device could be very useful in exploring embryonic development, during which the local cellular environment dictates development of major organs over time, and cancer, in which supporting cells are thought to play a role in tumor formation.
The research was supported by the National Science Foundation, the National Institutes of Health and the David and Lucile Packard Foundation. Hui was supported by a Ruth L. Kirschstein National Research Service Award.
The research was supported by the National Science Foundation, the National Institutes of Health and the David and Lucile Packard Foundation. Hui was supported by a Ruth L. Kirschstein National Research Service Award.
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1099 - 05/16 - Disembarkation of Stowaways banned in both Tema and Takoradi - Ghana
The Association has been recently advised of a ban to disembark stowaways in both Tema and Tokaradi ports, Ghana.
Budd Ghana advises that Takoradi Port Authority has now decided to follow the example of Tema and ban the disembarkation of non-Ghanaian stowaways in its port, rather than inflicting the US$ 1,000.00 fine for each stowaway disembarked that was announced to local ship agents on 30 April 2016.
As a result, it officially is no longer possible to disembark non-Ghanaian stowaways in either Takoradi or Tema.
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Ariana Grande's manager, Scooter Braun, has confirmed that the One Love event held in memory of the victims of the Manchester terror attack two weeks ago, will still take place this evening. He said that the show will go on "with greater purpose" after the terrorist attack last night in London which left 7 dead and 48 injured.
In an Instagram post this morning he said "After the events last night in London, and those in Manchester just two weeks ago, we feel a sense of responsibility to honor those lost, injured, and affected. We plan to honor them with courage, bravery, and defiance in the face of fear. Today's One Love Manchester benefit concert will not only continue, but will do so with greater purpose. We must not be afraid, and in tribute to all those affected here and around the world, we will bring our voices together and sing loudly. I am pleased to say we have the full support of Greater Manchester police and the government and are assured the safety of all those attending is the highest priority. All artists involved have been unwavering in their support this morning and are determined to carry on with the show. We ask the strong city of Manchester and the world to join us in making the statement that hatred and fear will never win. Today we stand together. Thank you."
Ariana Grande will perform with other big names including Katy Perry, Niall Horan, Coldplay, Miley Cyrus and Justin Bieber after having visited children in hospital injured by the Manchester attack earlier this week.
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Eversheds has commented on the news that an oil trade agreement has been reached between BP and Russian oil company Rosneft.
Greg Hammond, partner at Eversheds, said: 'While the oil trading division of an integrated oil company will frequently operate fairly independently from its E&P and refining divisions, it seems quite likely that the alliance between BP and Rosneft [forged out of last year's TNK-BP disposal] will have played a significant role in this oil trade deal. Indeed, one should expect that over the next few years the different attributes that Rosneft and BP bring to their link-up will be repeatedly tapped for the other's benefit.
According to Hammond, Lord Browne's original masterstroke was to lead the way in accessing the Russian oil market so significantly through TNK-BP, in spite of the huge risks that existed at that time. He added: 'Bob Dudley's was to hold fast during the difficult times that followed and then to exit on such favourable terms. BP's conversion of its investment into Rosneft is no less risky but is perfectly timed to the extent that it gives BP a key relationship with one of the world's leading NOCs just as Rosneft's power appears to be crystallising and its formerly hard-line position softening.
'For Rosneft, the benefit is a link-up with an IOC that has the necessary experience of, and risk appetite for, the Russian market — and that can provide the ideas and technology required to unlock the value in its vast assets.
'The real potential of the Rosneft-BP link-up is therefore yet to be realised. And while this oil trade deal comprises a good start, both sides will no doubt be looking for other, more significant ways to transform their respective businesses.'
Hammond said that one lesson BP will have learned in the past is that circumstances in Russia can change rapidly. 'It will therefore no doubt be looking as quickly as possible both to understand the opportunities presented by its new link-up and to exploit its first mover advantage.'


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Japan Moves To Prevent Financial Panic
Japan's central bank dumped a massive amount of money into the country's economy today in an effort to prevent a financial panic.
The bank's message, according to Marcus Noland, an economist at the Peterson Institute for International Economics:
We're going to backstop this thing. If you want to sell, fine. But the market will not fail.
The message, apparently, got through. Though Japan's Nikkei stock index fell sharply when the market opened, it remained stable through the rest of the day. And the basic financial systems that people and businesses use every day continued to function. Update: The Nikkei fell by more than 10 percent on Tuesday. Other Asian markets also fell. Here's more from Bloomberg.
Specifically, the Bank of Japan poured 15 trillion yen — about $183 billion — into the economy, largely by making very short term loans to banks and corporations. (In finance jargon, this is what it means to "inject liquidity" into the market.)
It was a massive move, and one that filled a classic role for a central bank: Buyer of last resort in times of panic. Noland told me that the bank's announcement alone may have gone a long way toward settling the financial system:
They simply announce, "We've got 15 trillion yen in our wallet, and we're going to spend it." ... Everybody calms down. The idea is, the market will begin to reflect the underlying reality of the Japanese economy post-earthquake, not some kind of pure panic, speculative seizure.
Besides pouring all that money into the short-term market, the bank also promised to buy an additional $61 billion in stocks, real estate, and government and corporate bonds between now and June of 2012. (The stocks are in the form of index ETFs; the real estate is through REITs.)
This doubled the size of an existing program that was set to wind down this year. Japan's central bank has bought a wide range of assets, since the '90s, in a long effort to prop up the economy.
Before the earthquake, "there were expectations built up in the market that the Bank of Japan would start moving out of that policy," Noland said. "What [today's announcement] did was say, 'Not for a while.'"


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Rebuttal to "Analysing the �900 papers supporting climate scepticism�: 9 out of top 10 authors linked to ExxonMobil"
When confronted with the irrefutable fact that an overwhelming number of peer-reviewed papers exist supporting skeptic arguments, desperate alarmists like Christian will always turn to whatever smear they can come up with, in this case the tired old one that the authors were "funded" by oil companies. What is falsely implied is that these scientists are corrupt and oil companies are paying them to be skeptical. This is an easy argument to prove, you simply need to show that these scientists changed their position on ACC/AGW after receiving a monetary donation from an oil company. Alarmists never show this because they cannot. These scientists all held a skeptical position prior to receiving any monetary donations. Any monetary donations these scientists received was because the donor agreed with the scientific position that the scientist already held. Alarmists cannot comprehend this irrefutable logic because they emotionally refuse to accept that there are credentialed scientists who do not share their beliefs.
All of Christian's lies are completely debunked in this article,
Are Skeptical Scientists funded by ExxonMobil?
Alarmist Challenge:
The claims of this article have not been shown to be true. It is falsely implied that if a scientist went to a meeting for coffee and donuts hosted by an organizati�on that in the last 20 years received a $5 donation from a fossil fuel company that scientist is now "funded by the fossil fuel industry".
- Please provide actual documents irrefutably demonstrating energy company funding for any scientist.
- Then provide actual documents showing what fraction of their overall funding this is.
- Finally prove that the same scientist changed their scientific position regarding ACC/AGW due to this funding and did not hold a skeptical position prior to the funding.
If these requirements are not met then evidence of corruption cannot be demonstrated.
1. Christian completely ignores Alarmist funding sources,
Climate Money: The Climate Industry: $79 billion so far � trillions to come (PDF) (Joanne Nova, B.S. Microbiology)
Funding Flows for Climate Change Research and Related Activities (PDF) (Jeff Kueter, M.A. Science & Technology Studies)
2. Christian makes no attempt to dispute any of the facts or arguments presented by the authors in any of their peer-reviewed papers.
3. Christian attempts to smear Dr. Idso, who is the most published skeptic with impeccable credentials,
Sherwood B. Idso, B.S. Physics Cum Laude, University of Minnesota (1964), M.S. Soil Science, University of Minnesota (1966), Ph.D. Soil Science, University of Minnesota (1967), Research Assistant in Physics, University of Minnesota (1962), National Defense Education Act Fellowship (1964-1967), Research Soil Scientist, U.S. Water Conservation Laboratory, Agricultural Research Service, U.S. Department of Agriculture (1967-1974), Editorial Board Member, Agricultural and Forest Meteorology Journal (1972-1993), Secretary, American Meteorological Society, Central Arizona Chapter (1973-1974), Vice-Chair, American Meteorological Society, Central Arizona Chapter (1974-1975), Research Physicist, U.S. Water Conservation Laboratory, Agricultural Research Service, U.S. Department of Agriculture (1974-2001), Chair, American Meteorological Society, Central Arizona Chapter (1975-1976), Arthur S. Flemming Award (1977), Secretary, Sigma Xi - The Research Society, Arizona State University Chapter (1979-1980), President, Sigma Xi - The Research Society, Arizona State University Chapter (1980-1982), Member, Task Force on "Alternative Crops", Council for Agricultural Science and Technology (1983), Adjunct Professor of Geography and Plant Biology, Arizona State University (1984-2007), Editorial Board Member, Environmental and Experimental Botany Journal (1993-Present), Member, Botanical Society of America, Member, American Geophysical Union, Member, American Society of Agronomy, ISI Highly Cited Researcher, President, Center for the Study of Carbon Dioxide and Global Change (2001-Present)
Christian apparently ignores but still links to Dr. Idso's clear explanation that funding does not influence his work,
What Motivates the Center for the Study of Carbon Dioxide and Global Change?
4. Christian attempts to smear Dr. Michaels, who is another well published skeptic with impeccable credentials,
Patrick J. Michaels, A.B. Biological Sciences, University of Chicago (1971), S.M. Biology, University of Chicago (1975), Ph.D. Ecological Climatology, University of Wisconsin-Madison (1979), Research and Project Assistant, Center for Climatic Research, University of Wisconsin (1976-1979), Assistant Professor of Environmental Sciences, University of Virginia (1980-1986), Virginia State Climatologist (1980-2007), President, Central Virginia Chapter, American Meteorological Society (1986-1987), Executive Board, American Association of State Climatologists (1986-1989), Associate Professor of Environmental Sciences, University of Virginia (1986-1995), President, American Association of State Climatologists (1987-1988), Chair, Committee on Applied Climatology, American Meteorological Society (1988-1999), Senior Fellow in Environmental Studies, Cato Institute (1992-Present), Visiting Scientist, Marshall Institute (1996-Present), Member, American Association for the Advancement of Science, Member, Association of American Geographers, Member, Sigma Xi, The Scientific Research Society, Professor of Environmental Sciences, University of Virginia (1996-Present), Contributor and Expert Reviewer, IPCC (1990, 1992, 1995, 2001, 2007)
This is an easy argument to prove, you simply need to show that Dr. Michaels changed his position on AGW after receiving a monetary donation from an oil company. Christian never shows this because he cannot. Any monetary donations he received was because the donor agreed with the scientific position that he already held.
5. Christian pathetically tries to smear Dr. Kimball who has impeccable credentials simply because he co-authored papers with Dr. Idso,
Bruce A. Kimball, B.S. Soil Physics, University of Minnesota (1963), M.S. Soil Physics, Iowa State University (1965), Ph.D. Soil Physics, Cornell University (1970), Soil Scientist, U.S. Water Conservation Laboratory, Agricultural Research Service, U.S. Department of Agriculture (1969-1991), Certificate of Merit, U.S. Department of Agriculture (1974, 1992, 1998), Associate Editor, Soil Science Society of America Journal (1977-1982), Associate Editor, Transactions of the ASAE (1984-1987), Fellow, American Society of Agronomy (1987), Fellow, Soil Science Society of America (1987), Associate Editor, Agronomy Journal (1989-1991), Soil Scientist, Arid-Land Agricultural Research Center, Agricultural Research Service, U.S. Department of Agriculture (1991-Present), National Program Leader for Global Change, Agricultural Research Service, U.S. Department of Agriculture (1999), Fellowship, Science and Technology Agency of Japan (2000), ISI Highly Cited Researcher; Expert Reviewer, IPCC (2007)
6. Christian lies about the purpose of the list, "The "900+ papers" list is supposed to be proof that a large number of different scientists reject the scientific consensus on climate change"
The purpose of the list is explicitly stated, "Purpose: To provide a bibliographic resource for peer-reviewed papers that support skeptic arguments against ACC/AGW or Alarmism and to prove that these papers exist contrary to claims otherwise." It is also explicitly stated in the disclaimer that no personal position is applied to any of the authors, "Disclaimer: The inclusion of a paper in this list does not imply a specific personal position to any of the authors.". Thus, the list has nothing to do with showing any number of scientists holding any position, as the list is about showing that peer-reviewed papers exist supporting skeptic arguments.
7. Christian just spouts lies and propaganda, "a good proportion of this new list is made up of a small network of individuals who co-author papers and share funding ties to the oil industry. There are numerous other names on the list with links to oil-industry funded climate sceptic think-tanks, including more from the International Policy Network (IPN) and the Marshall Institute."
When the best he could come up with is Dr. Idso authored 68 papers and Dr. Michaels authored 28. The funding "ties" propaganda means Christian uses Google to desperately find any organization any of the author's ever wrote an op-ed for and then if the organization received a $1 donation from an oil company in the last 30 years, that author now has "funding ties to the oil-industry". Not only is it absurd attempting to smear reputable scientists based on this nonsense, it is a smear on the energy companies who make donations to institutes who share their free-market values. Receiving a donation from an energy company does not make you "evil" or corrupt. Donations are not illegal and corruption needs to be proven. Christian fails to provide a single piece of evidence for any corruption from any of the authors.
8. Christian makes a strawman argument comparing the list to a report. "Compiling these lists is dramatically different to the process of producing IPCC reports, which reference thousands of scientific papers."
The list is a bibliographic resource and no claims are made that it is a report nor is any comparison made to the IPCC reports. However there is an 868 page report written by credentialed scientists that disputes the alarmist conclusions of the IPCC report,
Climate Change Reconsidered (868 pgs) (NIPCC Report)
9. Christian lies that , "We found that nine of the ten have direct links to ExxonMobil. Eight are affiliated to Exxon-funded organisations,"
No he hasn't. He has not produced any documentation showing checks written or bank deposits made to any of them, let alone that any of their positions on AGW changed because of a monetary donation. All the scientists he lists have impeccable credentials,
Wei-Hock "Willie" Soon, B.Sc. University of Southern California (1985), M.Sc. University of Southern California (1987), Ph.D. (Thesis: Non-equilibrium kinetics in high-temperature gases), University of Southern California (1991), Graduate Scholastic Award, IEEE Nuclear and Plasma Sciences Society (1989), Rockwell Dennis Hunt Scholastic Award, University of Southern California (1991), Adjunct Professor, Department of Science and Environmental Studies, University of Putra, Malaysia; Member, American Astrophysical Society; Member, American Geophysical Union; Member, International Astronomical Union; Receiving Editor, New Astronomy Journal; Astronomer, Mount Wilson Observatory (1992-Present), Astrophysicist and Geoscientist, Solar, Stellar, and Planetary Sciences (SSP) Division, Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics (1992-Present)
John R. Christy, B.A. Mathematics, California State University (1973), M.S. Atmospheric Science, University of Illinois (1984), Ph.D. Atmospheric Science, University of Illinois (1987), NASA Exceptional Scientific Achievement Medal (1991), American Meteorological Society's Special Award (1996), Member, Committee on Earth Studies, Space Studies Board (1998-2001), Alabama State Climatologist (2000-Present), Fellow, American Meteorological Society (2002), Panel Member, Official Statement on Climate Change, American Geophysical Union (2003), Member, Committee on Environmental Satellite Data Utilization, Space Studies Board (2003-2004), Member, Committee on Surface Temperature Reconstructions for the last 2,000 years, National Research Council (2006), Distinguished Professor of Atmospheric Science, University of Alabama in Huntsville (1991-Present), Director of the Earth System Science Center, University of Alabama in Huntsville (2000-Present), Contributor, IPCC (1992, 1994, 1996, 2007), Lead Author, IPCC (2001)
Ross McKitrick, B.A. (Hons) Economics, Queen's University, Canada (1988), M.A. Economics, University of British Columbia, Canada (1990), Ph.D. Economics, University of British Columbia, Canada (1996), Assistant Professor of Economics, University of Guelph, Canada (1996-2001), Associate Professor of Economics, University of Guelph, Canada (2001-2008), Member, Academic Advisory Board, John Deutsch Institute, Queen's University (Canada), Member, Global Warming Policy Foundation (UK), Senior Fellow, Fraser Institute (Canada), Professor of Environmental Economics, University of Guelph, Canada (2008-Present), Expert Reviewer, IPCC (2007)
Indur M. Goklany, B.Tech. Electrical Engineering, Indian Institute of Technology, Bombay, India (1968), M.S. Electrical Engineering, Michigan State University (1969), Ph.D. Electrical Engineering (1973), Julian Simon Fellow, Property and Environment Research Center (2000), Visiting Fellow, American Enterprise Institute (2002-2003), Julian Simon Award (2007), Principal Author, IPCC (1990), Advisor, IPCC (1992), Expert Reviewer, IPCC (2007), Assistant Director of Programs & Science & Technology Policy, U.S. Department of the Interior (Present)
S. Fred Singer, BEE, Ohio State University (1943), A.M. Physics, Princeton University (1944), Ph.D. Physics, Princeton University (1948), Research Physicist, Upper Atmosphere Rocket Program, Applied Physics Laboratory, Johns Hopkins University (1946-1950), Scientific Liaison Officer, U.S. Office of Naval Research (1950-1953), Director, Center for Atmospheric and Space Physics, and Professor of Physics, University of Maryland (1953-1962), White House Commendation for Early Design of Space Satellites (1954), Visiting Scientist, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, Cal Tech (1961-1962), First Director, National Weather Satellite Center (1962-1964), First Dean of the School of Environmental and Planetary Sciences, University of Miami (1964-1967), Deputy Assistant Secretary (Water Quality and Research), U.S. Department of the Interior (1967-1970), Deputy Assistant Administrator, U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (1970-1971), Federal Executive Fellow, The Brookings Institution (1971), Professor of Environmental Science, University of Virginia (1971-1994), U.S. National Academy of Sciences Exchange Scholar, Soviet Academy of Sciences Institute for Physics of the Earth (1972), Member, Governor of Virginia Task Force on Transportation (1975), First Sid Richardson Professor, Lyndon Baines Johnson School for Public Affairs, University of Texas (1978), Vice Chairman and Member, National Advisory Committee on Oceans and Atmospheres (1981-1986), Senior Fellow, The Heritage Foundation (1982-1983), Member, U.S. Department of State Science Advisory Board (Oceans, Environment, Science) (1982-1987), Member, Acid Rain Panel, White House Office of Science and Technology Policy (1982-1987), Member, NASA Space Applications Advisory Committee (1983-1985), Member, U.S. Department of Energy Nuclear Waste Panel (1984), Visiting Eminent Scholar, George Mason University (1984-1987), Chief Scientist, U.S. Department of Transportation (1987-1989), Member, White House Panel on U.S.-Brazil Science and Technology Exchange (1987), Distinguished Research Professor, Institute for Space Science and Technology (1989-1994), Guest Scholar, Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars, Smithsonian Institute (1991), Guest Scholar, National Air and Space Museum, Smithsonian Institute (1991), Distinguished Visiting Fellow, The Hoover Institution, Stanford University (1992-1993), Distinguished Research Professor, Institute for Humane Studies, George Mason University (1994-2000), Commendation for Research on Particle Clouds, NASA (1997), Research Fellow, Independent Institute (1997), Director and President, The Science and Environmental Policy Project (1989-Present), Expert Reviewer, IPCC (2001)
Richard S. Lindzen, A.B. Physics Magna Cum Laude, Harvard University (1960), S.M. Applied Mathematics, Harvard University (1961), Ph.D. Applied Mathematics, Harvard University (1964), Research Associate in Meteorology, University of Washington (1964-1965), NATO Post-Doctoral Fellow at the Institute for Theoretical Meteorology, University of Oslo (1965-1966), Research Scientist, National Center for Atmospheric Research (1966-1967), Visiting Lecturer in Meteorology, UCLA (1967), NCAR Outstanding Publication Award (1967), AMS Meisinger Award (1968), Associate Professor and Professor of Meteorology, University of Chicago (1968-1972), Summer Lecturer, NCAR Colloquium (1968, 1972, 1978), AGU Macelwane Award (1969), Visiting Professor, Department of Environmental Sciences, Tel Aviv University (1969), Alfred P. Sloan Fellowship (1970-1976), Gordon McKay Professor of Dynamic Meteorology, Harvard University (1972-1983), Visiting Professor of Dynamic Meteorology, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (1975), Lady Davis Visiting Professor, Department of Meteorology, The Hebrew University (1979), Director, Center for Earth and Planetary Physics, Harvard University (1980-1983), Robert P. Burden Professor of Dynamical Meteorology, Harvard University (1982-1983), AMS Charney Award (1985), Vikram Amblal Sarabhai Professor, Physical Research Laboratory, Ahmedabad, India (1985), Japanese Society for the Promotion of Science Fellowship (1986-1987), Distinguished Visiting Scientist, Jet Propulsion Laboratory, NASA (1988-Present), Sackler Visiting Professor, Tel Aviv University (1992), Landsdowne Lecturer, University of Victoria (1993), Bernhard Haurwitz Memorial Lecturer, American Meteorological Society (1997), Fellow, American Academy of Arts & Sciences, Fellow, American Association for the Advancement of Science, Fellow, American Geophysical Union, Fellow, American Meteorological Society, Member, Norwegian Academy of Science and Letters, Member, Sigma Xi, The Scientific Research Society, Member, National Academy of Sciences, ISI Highly Cited Researcher, Alfred P. Sloan Professor of Meteorology, Department of Earth, Atmospheric and Planetary Sciences, Massachusetts Institute of Technology (1983-Present), Lead Author, IPCC (2001)
Dr. Lindzen is one of the most prominent skeptics and frequently is mentioned because of his impeccable credentials and employment at the prestigious Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). The Boston Globe investigated these smears and found them to be nonsense,
MIT's inconvenient scientist (The Boston Globe)


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Ghana coach Appiah insists Black Stars will improve despite outstanding display
Black Stars coach Kwesi Appiah insists his side will continue to improve after Ghana saw off Niger to top Group B and set-up a quarter-final clash with Cape Verde.
Appiah kept faith with ex-Sunderland forward Asamoah Gyan, who scored one and made two at the Nelson Mandela Bay Stadium in Port Elizabeth.
And Appiah believes his side will step up another gear in the knock-out stages, having increasingly improved throughout Group B against DR Congo, Mali and Niger respectively.
"We have a new team, a developing team and I would say we are improving,†said Appiah. "We are halfway there.
"We stepped up our game and won against a good Niger team, we hope to do better as we progress in this competition.
"Of course I am delighted we are in the quarter-finals but we now have a very hard match against Cape Verde ahead of us and that will not be easy.â€
Domestic media in Ghana were calling for Gyan to be dropped after a slow start to the tournament, but the Black Stars captain opened the scoring within five minutes.
Niger felt rightly aggrieved early on as Koffi Dan Kowa's strike was ruled out for a Moussa Maazou push on Ghana keeper Fatau Dauda.
The former Black Cats forward found Christian Atsu to double Ghana's lead and immediately after the interval his header was parried by keeper Daouda Kassaly, allowing John Boye to tap-in.
CommentsThis article has 7 comment(s), give your comment
African Consciousness says:January 29, 2013 04:37 amCoach protect all your players. Let the players compete and go hard at practice but no injuries please. The Black Stars have from now till Saturday for their next game but you must do whatever it takes to make sure there are no injuries that can be avoided. You know the kind that results from reckless or ill timed tackles. We need every player so protect them.
Goro says:January 29, 2013 05:48 amGhanasoccernet, do you pay your journalists at all or are they volunteers who work for no pay? See, you mostly forget to edit your articles after you have copied from other sources and pasted on GSN. Ctrl+C, Ctrl+V seems to be the only journalism this writer has studied. See below as part of the above article: La Liga wrap: Barcelona's Messi overshadows Ronaldo – again! The latest Premier League news All of the latest football transfer gossip
GH FUO, THINK BIG!!! says:January 29, 2013 06:15 amI DONT KNOW MUCH ABOUT THE CAPEVERDEANS, NOR DID I WATCH ANY OF THEIR GAMES. MY ONLY ADVICE. AA SHOULD SIT DOWN WITH HIS TECH PPL AND WATCH ALL 3 OF CAPE VERDE'S GAMES IN THIS TOURNEY. ESP, THE CAPEVERDE VS ANGOLA GAME. THEY CAN USE THAT TO PREPARE ADEQUATELY FOR THE CAPEVERDEANS.... KASA, BADU, ATSU MUST ALL BE ABLE TO TAKE FREE KICKS AND CORNER KICKS. aa, wat is the point of keeping your MVP PLAYERS LIKE BADU, VORSAH, KASA, GYAN STILL IN THIS GAME? ARE U CRAZY...? SUB THEM. U ARE 3 NIL UP. GIVE THEM TIME TO REST FOR THE NEXT GAME AHEAD. NIPA Y3 BAD. YOUR OPPONENTS MAY WANT TO INJURE YOUR BEST PLAYERS. WE NEED THE PLAYERS TO BE MORE DISCIPLINED IN THEIR PLAY AND TACKLES. LESS FOUL$, MORE SHOT$ ON GOAL. TIGHTEN UP THE DEFENCE....TIGHTEN UP THE DEFENCE.....TIGHTEN UP THE DEFENCE..... STRIKERS/attackers win you a match, DEFENDERS win you a tournament. AA MUST STRIVE FOR PERFECTION!. STRIVE FOR PERFECTION!
Troy says:January 29, 2013 08:00 am@GHFOUR, The coach can only make 3 changes so what's with this plenty MVP's? Is it a friendly match? And why do u keep copying and pasting your old comments in recent articles? Didn't he sub Gyan? Kasa? And Rabiu?
OSCAR says:January 29, 2013 09:50 amI HAVE SUPPORTED AKWASI APPIAH FROM DAY 1 AND I AM HAPPY FOR HIM FOR MAKING THINGS GO GOOD.WHAT I LOVE MOST ABOUT HIM IS HIS HUMILITY AND HE LISTENS UNLIKE THOSE OYIBO COACHES WHO THINK THEY KNOW IT ALL.FROM FIRST MATCH TO THE THIRD MATCH HE KEEPS IMPROVING.I THINK HE CAN DO BETTER WHEN THE INTRUDERS DOESN`T TRY TO PULL HIM DOWN.AKWASI BEING A COACH EVEN IMPROVES THE GHANAIAN ECONOMY.....DOMESTICATION FOR LIFE.GOD BLESS GHANA
Agenda says:January 29, 2013 10:15 am@Troy!! Say it again,boy. In fact he's gud but these days constant repetition,unnecessary criticism n somewhat 'too knowing' has made him BORING to read! You'd only need to ignore him to the next comment.
apple says:January 29, 2013 12:05 pm@gh fuo masssa u talk too much. Troy is right he is always pastng same articles everywherre. This guy dey rush.


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The eagerly awaited sequel to The Left Hand of God. Death, Judgement, Heaven and Hell. These are The Last Four Things Now there are Five. Meet Thomas Cale. Returning to the Sanctuary of the Redeemers - Thomas Cale is told by the Lord Militant that the destruction of mankind is necessary - the only way to undo God's greatest mistake.
Cale seemingly accepts his role in the ending of the world - fate has painted him as the Left Hand of God, the Angel of Death. Absolute power is within his grasp - the terrifying zeal and military might of the Redeemers a weapon for him to handle as simply as he once used a knife. But perhaps not even the grim power that the Redeemers hold over Cale is enough - the boy who turns from love to poisonous hatred in a heartbeat, the boy who switches between kindness and sheer violence in the blink of an eye. The annihilation that the Redeemers seek may well be in Cale's hands - but his soul is far stranger than they could ever know.
©2011 Paul Hoffman (P)2011 Penguin Books Ltd
"A dark and wildly imaginative story, well told and packed with hair-raising twists." (The Times)
"This book gripped me from the first chapter and then dropped me days later, dazed and grinning to myself." (Conn Iggulden on The Left Hand of God)
"A cult classic...." (Daily Express)
"Grateful for the negative reviews - but I loved it"
Change your expectations of this second book in the series, and you might just love it!
I had grave reservations about choosing to download this audiobook after reading some of the negative reviews, criticising the pace, the narration, and the plot comparison to the first book.
But I couldn't believe that Sean Barrett's narration could be anything other than brilliant, so I bought it, but with altered expectations for the plot and pace. It paid off! I was right about Sean Barrett who was as brilliant as ever, and by not holding this book up as comparison with the first, I found the plot to be rich and interesting.
Not as innovative and awe-inspiring as the first book, but there are other qualities in abundance. A good sequel in that it develops the plot. The first book could have been called Kane: Boy, Man or God? This one could have been entitled Kane the Strategist: The Best Laid Plans. The book showcases Kane's military genius but highlights the importance of even a single flaw in a masterplan. Bosko's character is developed wonderfully in this book too.
Thanks for the negative reviews, folks. It helped me enjoy this!
Anyone not convinced that this is worth a try, listen to the sample of Sean Barrett's narration.
I can't wait for the next one!
The Left Hand of God was my No.1 book in 2010, as such I have been eagerly awaiting the sequel. Unfortunately, the sequel is somewhat of a disappointment as I found the story telling flat and boring. No where near the pace of the first book and the first section almost sent me to sleep. The second section picked up a bit but ended as it was getting interesting! Will purchase the final book but won't rush to buy it.
My advice is to buy the abridged version. Wish I had.
"Great Expectations"
The Left Hand of God was a superb book and I had been waiting for this sequel for what seemed like eternity.
I felt slightly disappointed when i had finished listening. I expected more from this book, it did not have the same pace or intrigue as the Left Hand of God. There are surprises and humor but the story seemed to meander aimlessly and at times digress into unnecessary detail.
Having said that - I still enjoyed the book and I am looking forward to the next one.
The narration is superb, I would listen to Sean Barrett read the phone book or the shipping forecast !
"Not as good as I wanted it to be!"
I was looking forward to this book because I really enjoyed The Left Hand of God but there were a few elements that irritated me - mainly the over-cliched characters and the use of familiar names and phrases which jar a little within this story. The Last Four Things seems to include even more of this, which, for me, bursts the bubble of the fantasy at times. I found it boring in parts and some of the character plot developments a little bit shallow and unbelievable. He also has a tendency to spend a long time describing 'histories' and races in the story, which I know has some relevance to the events in this book but I felt that this exposition was at the expense of narrative so by the end you feel as though nothing much has happened.
That said, now I've finished, I can say that I did enjoy it as the 'middle book' that it is, and I will read the next one. If you didn't enjoy the first book, then I doubt this will change your mind over the series.
Big positive though - the audio presentation was faultless and I'll happily listen to anything this chap does!
"Too many asides"
Although the story is continued, I couldn't help get the feeling that this was the stuffing in the middle- dragging the plot out until its eventual conclusion in the third book in the trilogy. Whilst I enjoy the additional insight into our main characters, knowing what some arbitrary assassin had for breakfast last week got a tad boring (ok, slight exaggeration, but it honestly felt like that sometimes). A little Douglas-Adams like in its asides, which were at times humerous, it does take the story on, however I do think this part of the tale could have been told in half the time. The writing is still good, and the narration equally so, it's just too slow......I'm hoping the pace of the first book is recovered in the final book.
The use of recogniseable place names, eg The Transvaal, Spanish Leeds, Drakensberg, Memphis etc etc, all within a 6 day ride of each other, was an interesting approach - not sure I really liked the effect......gives the impression that the whole story takes place in an alternative/parallel universe which is still in the medieval era.....
Listening to this via audiobook makes it easier, I think. I'm guessing that if I were slogging through pages, I might have got even more frustrated with the pace.
"Slightly Hard Going, But Worth It"
I listened to this and the series opener in fairly quick succession. For me that was a little too much. The opening book was grim but I felt original and in some ways uplifting. Another dose of the same in a book that moves at a slower pace and does not build the tension in quite the same way probably made it overkill for me.
That said I wouldn't want to put people off. There is still a lot of merit here, Hoffman develops the Redeemers in particular in more detail and gives them shades of grey rather than trying to paint them totally black. The book, which can't be an easy one to narrate is presented well by Sean Barrett.
I will, in the future, attempt the third in the series, but I'll give myself a break first. I'd not characterize these books as "fun" to listen to but taken for what they are they are well worth an investment in time.
"Cries out to be made into a film"
I read all three parts before commenting so as to see the story through to the end. Okay, the trilogy is not "great literature", but it is a story which draws you in and keeps you there. There are patches which are too drawn out and sometimes the story takes it's time to get where it is going, but it is so worth the effort. Thomas Cale will stay with me for a long time, and I'll come back and listen to these again. The burning question for me is - when will producers wake up to this trilogy and make films of them. These books are a far better source material than many poorer stories which have been made into films costing mega-bucks. Finally a word about the narration. 10 out 10 for Sean Barratt. He captured all the characters well without being over the top in his characterisations, but most of all he totally nailed Thomas Cale's personality. I hope Hoffman will tempted to write a follow-on.
"The dark feel continues and is steady & intricate"
I read all the other reviews before downloading this one - it was the review that said don't have any expectations that convinced me - thanks! It is amazing how ones expectations can ruin an experience.
The thing about the first book for me was the feel and the overall situation. I liken it to The Day of the Triffids (which I highly recommend on here!) which really created such a great feel - that whole empty city thing was just so effective. The same applied here - the feel was it - and it was the introduction to that new dark feel which was so amazing. That obviously can not be done twice - once you've been introduced to that, you cannot be introduced again.
The feel is there though, as potent as it was in the first book. It's grotesque, jaded, cynical, inventive, intelligent and funny. Classic bit "the officer of mortification whispered into Kale's ear 'Remember man that thou art dust, and unto dust thou shalt return. Remember man that thou art dust, and unto dust thou shalt return...'. At the twentieth time of saying, Kale turned his head towards him and whispered back 'Shut, your gob'."
Obviously Sean Barrett is absolutely fantastic in his reading - something which is hugely important for audiobooks as I'm sure you know.
I had two days spare to listen to this book, which helped. I don't think it would really work to try and listen to this book in lots of little bits or while doing something at the same time.
"enjoyable read whens the next one"
I really enjoyed this book but it did feel like a prologue to the next installment
I like the characters and enjoy Sean Barrett's interpretaion of them.
Wonder how long untill part 3 comes out as want to know what happens next and for me what more can you ask for in a good read
"Intense and moving and even sometimes funny"
A great listen with all you could desire in a sequel book to the just as good left hand of god. Sean Barrett reads it fantastically. This story is full of drama and with a great story line what else is their to say
"Totally dissappointing sequel"
I could quite easily believe it was written by a different, much less talented, author. Really dissappointing.
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Remembering the Real Jesse Helms
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GUEST: Kevin Gray, Longtime civil rights organizer in South Carolina and former president of the state ACLU, author of numerous books including the forthcoming "The Decline of Black Politics: From Malcolm X to Barack Obama."
Vice President Dick Cheney alongside members of the U.S. Senate attended the funeral held yesterday for former North Carolina Senator Jesse Helms. The controversial right-wing politician died last weekend on July 4th at the age of eighty-six due to declining health. Posthumous praise in the press has characterized the former Senator as an confrontational conservative ideologue with a tenacious fighting spirit much more so than as a lawmaker with openly racist and homophobic beliefs who attacked welfare, affirmative action, and other social programs. Despite a political career that included opposing civil rights legislation and filibustering a national holiday for Martin Luther King Jr., Helms declared himself in his published memoirs to be "not the least bit racist." When Helms announced his retirement from the senate in 2001, major corporate media outlets often downplayed the issue of racism in their retrospectives. Now with the death of the five-term Senator, obituaries in the corporate media once again have danced around using "racism" as a word to define Helms' life in politics opting instead for terms such as racially "charged" and racially "tinged."
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Sonali Kolhatkar: Some have said that 4th of July, is the day that Jesse Helms died, was quite appropriate. What was your reaction?
Kevin Gray: [inaudible] said it all. I read Christopher Hitchens piece in Slate Magazine 'Farewell to a Provincial Redneck.' And I would invite people to go back and read his take on Helms, because it was pretty clear in who he was and, you know, I'm from the South. Strom Thurmond and Jesse Helms, they were like two peas in a pod, and when they both died, folks sort of just tended to say, locally, "He provided good constituency services." I mean that's their legacy, to get around race.
Sonali Kolhatkar: What does that mean, good constituency services?
Kevin Gray: That means that if someone called their office for a favor, if you had a kid in the service and you were trying to get in touch with them, if you had trouble with your social security, if you wanted a bridge in your neighborhood or some money from pork-barrel spending, then they got it. But now, you know, they were rednecks and racist from the word go deep down in their blood. And Jesse Helms, I mean his father was a police officer in the early part of the century and he had a reputation of beating blacks. When you go back and read books like Radio Free Dixie by Tim Tyson that tells the story of Jesse Helms and his relationship with the black community and how he started out as an apologist for the Klan and Klan violence, calling Dr. King an agitator and, you know, I don't know what is happening to America that you just have to sanitize the truth so much.
Sonali Kolhatkar: Do you think that all of this is, and the press's approach to it and the sort of whitewashing, if you will, of Jesse Helms's past is just another symptom of what we see in the press as a complete denial of existing racism that pervades this nation?
Kevin Gray: I've been using the word vapid. It's amazing. It's like they haven't read a history book or they don't believe the history that is written is true. I mean it is the only history there, as it relates to Jesse Helms. You can read history books of the period, read a whole lot of objective accounts of the period that Jesse Helms lived through and the kind of person he was throughout. And it's just there. So to talk about racially "tinged" as opposed to someone who stoked racism, who didn't really care whether or not blacks had rights, who glowingly talked about the Confederacy and longing for the Confederacy, and this whole idea of Northern Aggression against southerners who were defending their heritage. I mean this whole idea of who he was essentially; someone who believed in racial superiority. Even if you talk about how he viewed foreign policy; Cuba and the Helms-Burton Act, which we ought to be talking about now. Or believing that Rhodesia, regardless of what we think about Robert Mugabe right now, but believing that Ian Smith should hold on to minority white power in Zimbabwe. You know, it's like they haven't even read a history book.
Sonali Kolhatkar: And his homophobia.
Kevin Gray: Yes, homophobia. He was a southern redneck cracker. And that's being polite. That was bad. Sorry…
Sonali Kolhatkar: You are certainly welcome to, you know, say what you want to say on the airwaves, that's your opinion. Why don't we hear Jesse Helms in his own words? First I want to play an excerpt of the ad that was very famous when he was running against his black opponent Harvey Gantt, very interesting with using coded language, coded imagery, this was an ad that was of course commissioned by Jesse Helms in his race against Harvey Gantt and after that we will hear Helms himself speaking about cutting welfare, his position on Cuba that you just brought up, Kevin, and finally his homophobic speech.
"You needed that job. And you were the best qualified. But they had to give it to a minority because of a racial quota. Is that really fair? Harvey Gantt says it is. Gantt supports Ted Kennedy's racial quota law that makes the color of your skin more important than your qualifications. You'll vote on this issue next Tuesday. For racial quotas: Harvey Gantt. Against racial quotas: Jesse Helms."
"I think we ought to do more, more for the elderly, who can't do for themselves, and the blind, and the crippled, and the sick. But these able-bodied people who wouldn't hit a lick at a snake if it was trying to bite them, I think the working taxpayers owe those kinds of people nothing."
"Whether Mr. Castro leaves Cuba in a vertical position or a horizontal position doesn't matter to me. But he must, he will leave Cuba."
"Reliable surveys, Mr. President, show that many homosexuals average 16 different sex partners every month. I hate to use the word "gay" in connection with sodomy. There is nothing "gay" about these people."
Sonali Kolhatkar: The voice of the late Jesse Helms essentially exposing his own bigotry in that and indeed of course racism. And for that first, the earlier excerpt we heard from the ad, you heard the ad talking about minorities taking away jobs. What you didn't see, if you haven't seen the ad, is that there was a pair of white-skinned hands holding a letter that was opened that was intended to show that a job for a white person was taken away by a minority.
Kevin Gray: But you know what? That's still a part of the Republican Party, well, Democrats too now, but that's still a part of the Republican Party message, be it through Latino and immigrant workers or be it through affirmative action. And now we have got Barack Obama talking about class-based affirmative action and the producer of that commercial on FOX television every night. Or Dick Morris, I should so. So we are still where Jesse Helms put us or had us when he had that ad on the air in North Carolina.
Sonali Kolhatkar: Kevin, what do you say to the fact that he was just one man, even though he was a Senator, he had a lot of power, but, as a single individual in a Senate representing the entire country, he was just a single man? Do you think that Jesse Helms left a pretty serious legacy or can he be dismissed?
Kevin Gray: Listen. It would be simple for us to put racism and white supremacy on Jesse Helms's back alone. That is the nature of the beast in America, whether or not there is a black person running for president, or a Latino person, you know, the underlay of this country is racism and white supremacy. And when you are talking about a southern white political take on it, a white male political take is all about the Southern strategy and making sure whites stay in power and blacks have limited or no power.
Sonali Kolhatkar: And in fact what was Jesse Helms's specific role in the Southern strategy? And explain, particularly for our younger listeners, the Southern strategy itself in American electoral politics.
Kevin Gray: Well, many people forget that folk like Jesse Helms and Strom Thurmond were Democrats until the Civil Rights deal came along and a lot of them were still mad about the New Deal, but they were really mad about Johnson and Kennedy and this whole move toward civil rights. And so they switched to the Republican Party and so for the period after Kennedy, we talk about the Southern strategy where the Republican Party focuses their messages toward black/white racial cleavages; black people taking something from white people, black folk on welfare, black folk being lazy, you know, this whole idea of neoconservative/neo-confederate politics.
Sonali Kolhatkar: And his role we alluded to a little bit earlier, his role in foreign policy. I mean, he was chairman of the Foreign Relations Committee and in my question about what this single person's legacy was, he did in many ways succeed, as an individual, in holding back many issues and also undermining diplomatic efforts in this country even as a lone Senator.
Kevin Gray: Absolutely. And if we talk about his legacy as it relates to Cuba and, you know, we have got both McCain and Obama down in Miami talking about maintaining the embargo on Cuba. And a lot of this stuff is a legacy of the Helms-Burton Act and the advocacy against Cuba that Helms led. Now one of the things that we ought to be talking about in this political season if we believe that relations ought be normalized with Cuba, how do we repeal or roll back Helms-Burton and move toward some sort of cooperative relationship with Cuba?
Sonali Kolhatkar: Also, didn't he play a big role in undermining the United Nations?
Kevin Gray: Absolutely. I mean, that's part of this whole idea of southern conservative politics, where you are anti-UN, you are just one hair away from, well, I don't want to go to the John Birch Society, because that would just be too far to go, but these characters are really hard-core, right-wing, anti-communist, cold warriors, only see the world in terms of a two-parent heterosexual, white, paternalistic-looking family structure and it is a scary thing if you think about the differences and diversity in the world.
Sonali Kolhatkar: Kevin, what do you make of the fact that in his last few years, you know, the press is making much of this he became good friends with U2's Bono and did support efforts to fund programs in Africa to deal with HIV/Aids, etc. Do you think that in any way redeemed, even in the smallest way, Mr. Jesse Helms?
Kevin Gray: That's a hard question, no. Listen, the architects of the so-called modern Southern strategy in the South were later connected to Nixon. Dent, who was out of South Carolina, who was the chair of the DNC, and Lee Atwater who did just produce in a new movie out called Bogie Man, Jesse Helms, Strom Thurmond. You know, these guys all died apologizing to black people. I mean Dent said man, I regret what I did to black people. I mean these are the people that crafted this racist campaign trick that Republicans use today and they all died saying I apologize to black people.
Sonali Kolhatkar: But that's not gonna undo the damage.
Kevin Gray: That doesn't undo the damage.
Sonali Kolhatkar: Well, Kevin Gray, I want to thank you very much for joining us today. When does your book come out by the way?
Kevin Gray: They say August and I'm trying to finish up. There is one coming out "Waiting for Lightning to Strike" by CounterPunch books and I think they are finishing it up.
Special Thanks to Claudia Greyeyes for transcribing this interview
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# jkiferon 09 Jul 2008 at 7:04 pm
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by Jane Chitty
Anal fissures can be extremely painful when passing a stool. It is only natural that anyone suffering from these cuts is not going to want to pass a stool when they know it will cause so much discomfort. Fortunately, you can start early treatment at home.
An anal fissure is a tear in the lining of the anus. This can happen to anyone at any age. You might notice a little blood on the toilet paper after a difficult bowel movement but many anal fissures will heal on the own.
More stubborn fissures should heal within a couple of weeks with self help treatment at home.
The main aim of home treatment is to ease the pain and to keep bowel movements soft whilst the healing process continues. Ensuring the stools are as soft as possible for a "smooth passage" is first on the list. Here are some tips to keep bowel movements soft:
- Take a mild laxative while adding dried fruit such as sultanas or prunes to your diet.
- Change to a high bulk diet with plenty of fruit, vegetables and whole grain cereals such as brown rice and oatmeal.
- Drink at least 6 to 8 glasses of fluids per day (preferably water) as some of this liquid will be passed out in the gut and help to soften the stools. Remember that alcoholic drinks can be dehydrating.
- Avoid all processed and refined foods including sugars and sodas.
- Try to exercise regularly.
Once you have constipation under control, always go to the toilet as soon as you feel the need. Putting off this action may cause bigger and harder stools to form and these would be more difficult to pass later. Think about changing the way you sit on the toilet seat.
Try putting a small footstool in front of you so that your legs are lifted a foot or so off the ground. This will put you into a squatting position rather than a sitting one.
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- Keep the anus area very clean. Sit in a bath or bowl of warm water for 15 minutes at a time several times per day for hygienic reasons as well as to soothe and relax the area.
- Wipe the anal area with soft unscented toilet paper, fragrant-free baby wipes or medicated wipes with witch hazel after using the toilet and gently pat dry.
- Apply petroleum jelly to the anus to soothe and to help with bowel movements. If you prefer not to use a petroleum product, look for a natural jelly online or make your own. There is a recipe set out below.
- Various over-the-counter medications can help, such as hydro-cortisone cream, to relieve irritation or choose a numbing ointment to help relieve pain. A mild oral pain reliever can also be useful.
- Avoid any topical medications that require a prescription as these tend to be harsh and come with possible side effects.
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- Remove the melted wax from heat and squeeze the oil from 6 x 400 IU vitamin E capsules into the wax. Vitamin E has antioxidant properties which nourish and protect your skin while acting as a natural preservative to prolong the shelf life of your petroleum jelly.
- Stir in 1/2 cup of extra virgin or cold pressed sweet almond oil. Stir the ingredients constantly as the mixture cools and thickens.
- While still slightly warm, scoop the jelly mixture into a dark glass jar and leave unsealed to cool completely.
- Keep in a cool, dark place or in your refrigerator. Use it as you would use commercial petroleum jelly.
Changing to healthier lifestyle choices along with the self care measures described above will help the healing process while reducing the pain of anal fissures. Remember not to fall back into old habits again because, once you have suffered from anal fissures, there will be a tendency for them to recur.
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