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By Bhaskar Chakravorti, Special to CNN
Editor's note: Bhaskar Chakravorti is the senior associate dean of International Business & Finance at The Fletcher School at Tufts University and founding executive director of Fletcher's Institute for Business in the Global Context. He is the author of the book The Slow Pace of Fast Change. The views expressed are his own.
In a flat world, unflattering news moves quickly. The snowballing effects of the Snowden revelations about U.S. National Security Agency surveillance of Internet traffic threaten to break up the World Wide Web. Consider some of the news since the scandal broke: 100,000 Germans have signed up for a service called Email Made in Germany that guarantees that German email is stored in German servers; some Indian government employees have been advised to switch to typewriters (yes, you read that right) for sensitive documents; the Brazilians are reportedly planning a BRICS-only fiber-optic cable from Fortaleza in Brazil to Vladivostok in Russia, with stops along the way in Cape Town, Chennai and Shantou; the usually unflappable Swiss have begun to build a domestic cloud service for fear of American surveillance.
The chorus of voices to de-Americanize the Internet has grown well beyond those of the usual suspects of Russia, China, Iran and United Arab Emirates. Now, with the grumbling of the EU and the BRICS countries, the dissent risks reaching a tipping point.
Thus far, the United States has been the de facto leader of the Internet for three principal reasons. One is its first-mover status – the Internet was created in the United States. Second, the U.S. has the best innovation and funding ecosystem, by far. Third, despite the Internet's government-funded origins, essentially all of the subsequent activity has been in private hands. In other words, the incursion of Google, Facebook or Twitter in foreign lands has been received with the mixture of enthusiasm and skepticism akin to that enjoyed by the likes of Coca Cola, KFC or Madonna. In principle, none of them is an agent of the U.S. government. If Google has your data, most ordinary people seem willing to shrug it off. But if the U.S. government has your data, then even the Swiss can be driven to revolt.
The Snowden revelations have blurred this crucial boundary between the U.S. private sector and its government, which is why this is such a turning point. But there remains a fundamental question to which we have no clear answer: if the U.S. gives up its leadership of governing and operating key parts of the Internet, what would take its place? Is there an equivalent to some macro governance by multilateral agencies akin to the Security Council/the G-20/the United Nations combined with each country managing the micro governance through its own "visa" rules for crossing its borders?
Such rules would be a disaster. The single biggest contribution of the Internet has been its ability to allow us to make the most unexpected of connections; this is possible precisely because of the absence of heavy-handed governance. Ordinary individuals at one end of the planet have been able to solve extraordinary problems by finding a way to the other end. Consider just three of the thousands of extraordinary connections that might never have been made:
Saroo Brierley may never have met his mother: Saroo Brierley, as a boy, fell asleep on a train in India, got lost, and was eventually adopted by an Australian couple. Twenty-five years later, he managed from Tasmania to re-locate his home in Ganesh Talai, in the Indian state of Madhya Pradesh, using Google Earth. He then went onto a group dedicated to the town on Facebook, which led to multiple emails until he was reunited with his mother.
Joern Lutert may never have found a way to get clean water to an African home: A visit to even a single crowdsourcing site, such as InnoCentive, gives us an instant appreciation for how a freely accessible website can serve to connect problems with innovative problem-solvers. You can see how a German mechanical engineer, Joern Lutert, can propose a practical and affordable way to harvest rainwater that can be acted on by an organization that makes the product and save a Ugandan woman a 30-minute walk three to four times a day to fetch water.
Patrick Meier may never have helped mobilize the humanitarian response to the Philippines typhoon disaster: The site MicroMappers, launched by Meier's crisis-mapping group in Qatar, helps to organize data from tweets and photographs uploaded from on-site mobile phones, and displays the information on satellite maps to be used by rescue, recovery and aid agencies. With the latest catastrophic events in the Philippines, such technologies can be critical to saving lives by efficiently directing aid and for restoring livelihoods.
Whether the world is truly flat or not is a debate for another day, but – with the exceptions of its restricted status in a few countries – the Internet has been remarkably flat. As a result, it has been astoundingly easy to make the many extraordinary connections, such as the ones noted above, or do something as banal as upload a kitten video that goes viral. It is this ability to connect the dots that leads to new economic opportunities, new political movements – and even new Internet companies.
Consider the case of the Internet Company of the Year. Despite the fact that the Grand Mufti had denounced it as a "council for jokesters," Twitter has the highest proportion of users in Saudi Arabia. This ironic connection alone is testament to the flatness of the Internet. I have no particular fondness for monopolies or leaders-for-life; but I see no viable way the Internet could be run in a radically different way from the past. Instead, the tools of Twitter and other offspring of the Internet should be sharpened and turned toward revealing evidence of government over-reach – wherever it occurs. Companies that carry substantial amounts of data across international lines should invest in new encryption systems, such as "perfect forward secrecy," among others.
And, of course, there must be a broad framework that allows for cooperation between the private and public sector to allow a mechanism for detecting threats to public safety and national security, while ensuring individual security and privacy. This is going to be hard work, but our collective energies should be directed toward a comprehensive drawing of boundaries and responsibilities that strike a proper balance.
If we were to allow the Snowden affair to finally splinter the Internet, the Grand Mufti will be proven to be rather prescient. All of the Web may turn out to be a council for jokesters, except that the joke will be on all of us: the World Wide Web will be anything but "world-wide." This would leave us with only a "web" that achieves the purpose of webs: to trap us in a little corner of the world.
This sounds like a good idea whose time has come. Yes, we Americans did abuse our power here as we did in the Middle East through the fault of the self serving, power hungry, right-wing politicians in Washington D.C. This abuse is and was unwarranted!
It's always right wings isn't it? Always deflecting the blame, move to Venezuela and liquidize yourself already.
"The end of the World...?"
Wow! Dear writer was/is in such kind of state of mind, that he/she could believes.
However, such... arguments with the writer is a challenge, since the sign of the time is support him/her.
Most likely, according to the HOLY BIBLE, the end of the World or near end is written on the Book of Revelation.
TO: The NEW YORKER
Please Forward to Malcolm Gladwell….I have 11 books on Amazon/Kindle….not that any are selling that well….but I want to tell you a story about a theory that is covered in several of the books.
Prevailing thought in Washington, as well as by most Americans, and the leaders in the OECD, is:
Fix the market, and this will in turn fix unemployment—but I say NO-just the opposite is true—Fix unemployment, and this will fix the market–and I have found that I am definitely a "David" in trying to make this point.
During the 2008 election the electorate spoke loud and clear—Fix Unemployment. With majorities in all three branches, I thought the Democrats would employ Public Law 15 USC § 3101, which provided them with the Legal Authorization to limit our unemployment to "3%". In short, at no time should our unemployment in America exceed "3%".
To my dismay—the Democrats opted for the former, above, with employment now being restored at a snail's pace, and the result has been a disaster [I believe the 2010 election was retaliation for not fixing unemployment, and also ushered in a House full of lunatics]!
The Democrats would have had broad public support in 2010, with 3% unemployment, and now that is in jeopardy for 10 years, and it left us with a Washington in paralysis.
Also, according to the CBO, on our current path, it will be 2017 for us to get back to even an anemic 5.5%, with unemployment benefits long since expired—and if the market fails, the jobless are out of luck….
The puzzlement for me is why would our brightest and best make such a critical error? The solution to a problem is measured by results—and the data, alone, shows this result to be miserable.
Further, this is not limited to our leaders in America—and is also true in most of the OECD, with Eurozone in excess of 10%, as I write, and 25% in Greece and Spain, common. I would add that I believe all of these leaders are genuinely concerned with fixing joblessness.
So, I ask, why do our leaders keep applying 1950's economic theory, in a 21st Century economy—particularly, given the most serious social problem facing us today, widespread unemployment?
And my take is because it is based on a pervasive, but false, "belief":
"The belief that the market can provide anybody wanting a job, with a job"–[it is bedrock for Republicans[1], and let's not forget that pervasive belief once had it that the world was flat]. And thus they have framed their policies and laws to solve unemployment, based on this "belief"….
But, this hasn't been true since the mid-1970's, and "High and persistent unemployment has pervaded almost every OECD country since the mid-1970's", according to Dr. William F. Mitchell, and every credible economist.
What happened in the mid-1970's as a result of a shift in the world economy, is open to debate—I believe it was the result of the colliding forces of automation, globalization, etc., reaching a critical mass in the mid-1970's—i.e., we became victims of our success, and since, we have celebrated automation in the workplace and then got a "deer in the headlights" regarding the displaced employee. In the U.S. we defined the effect of this economic shift as "malaise".
In sum, the world has changed, our solution to address unemployment hasn't, and the result has been a disaster.
My solution is The Neighbor-To-Neighbor Job Creation Act [hereafter NTN]: A federally mandated, Social Insurance, owned by our employed to provide a fund to hire/train our unemployed. For a modest 4% of salary policy cost we can create more "private-sector" jobs in 6 months, than our current path [HR 2847], in 6 years. Further, this has strong political support–86% of Americans believe that "anybody willing to work should be able to find a job…." [a quote from President Obama in "The Audacity of Hope"].
Finally, the market thrives when we have a robust, employed, consuming workforce [FULL EMPLOYMENT IS A PRO-MARKET CONCEPT and ECONOMIC INCLUSIVISM: NEO-CAPITALISM Inclusive Pro-Market Solutions To Our Social Problems, on Amazon/Kindle]—high unemployment/sluggish recovery is not a non sequitur. NTN is a "win-win" solution—The unemployed win, and the market wins.
Jim Green, Democrat candidate for Congress, 2000 http://www.Inclusivism.org
[1] The Republicans assert [as if it were fact] cut taxes for the 1%, they will build factories with the windfall of cash—and we will all have a job in the corporation—it is BS—been there, did that—[Reaganomics] it has a 7 year shelf-life before the economy collapses [1987 & 2008], it drove us into a $10 trillion hole to dig out of, $6 trillion more to clean up their mess, and a 11.1 million job loss–
A BRIEF ADDENDUM: If one concludes that the market cannot provide everybody wanting a job, with a job—then they have to look elsewhere to solve the problem of unemployment—and this, I believe, is the perceived conundrum faced by those charged with fixing our unemployment crisis—their only choice is "public-sector" jobs, and many fear this will compete with "private-sector" jobs—but this is specious–for one, the employees are doing different things—and in the trade-off there is a far greater loss to the market by not employing an expanding and contracting public workforce [the Buffer Stock Employment Model]–that expands during downturns in the market and contracts as employees return to the private sector—Humphrey-Hawkins had it on the nose in limiting our unemployment to 3%. Three indispensable components in creating a buffer stock of employees, includes: 1] it would be based on the premise that we have far more work that needs to be done, than persons to fill these jobs ["make-work" jobs, is archaic thinking]. 2] It must have renewable funding [this is not a "jump-start" solution, as currently practiced], and 3] it will not add a dime to our deficit. American law still has one foot on the plantation–American "employees" are seen as "A Pool Of Slaves", on Amazon—[persons without rights], to be used and discarded "at will"—
Thank you. I just laughed until my stomach was very upset.
I especially liked the title of his August 2012 tome: "Why President Obama Lost The 2012 Election: A Wake Up Call"
If there were to be an end to the WWW, whatever would the trolls do? Go back to pulling wings off of flies?
I agree with the vast benefits of the free flow of information on the internet. Measures do need to be taken to safeguard the internet. I do not believe that turning over from one trusted agent to an international body is the answer though, just look at how well the U.N. has been functioning lately as an example. I would not agree that the U.S. should give up control, however I would suggest that rules on what can and can not be done be clarified and that we stick to those rules in order to restore confidence in the responsible governance of the internet. It is too valuable to the World, not just the U.S. to risk it being torn apart. In spite of the imperfections in the U.S., it is still the safest hand in which to put the internet, just keep specific rules on what U.S. government agencies, or any other government for that matter, can and cannot do with data and services via the internet.
Do you honestly believe what you posted above, ChicagoRich? No one with any sense can trust NSA these days! Edward Snowden did us all a great service by blowing the whistle on NSA.
Seriously??? Two term limits took up a WHOLE book? Lol, now THATS funny @ banasy.
Oops my bad! I read that wrong thought it was the next election.
The internet is more dangerous than guns! Now thats something to ponder eh?
On topic, Snowden is not a hero.
Surveillance of my phone and web activity is fine as long as it keeps me safer from terrorism.
If President Obama knows what German politicians do, I'm sure that they know what he does, as completely as they can. I hope that our surveillance is the best in the world.
Snowden is a traitor. Let him live in Russia, which was much better under the Czars.
Please Joey, stop belching out your ignorance on this web page by ranting against Edward Snowden, will you? Even a complete moron knows that Edward Snowden is a hero since he did us all a great service through his whistle blowing. Quit apologizing for those crooked politicians in Washington! Besides, what did they ever do for you?
Lol @ Joey, do you really think the NSA isnt a terrorism organization?
Good morning. That orginazation does not terrify me.
It is important that the internet remain "free and open". Ultimate dominance, control and abuse by large corporate or government/pseudo government bodies will only serve to detract from the effectiveness and benefits provided in the above examples.
We should all go out and buy a Ferrari and sent the invoice to President Obama who runs the most generous Country in the World.:)
Valuable info. Fortunate me I found your site by chance, and I'm surprised why this coincidence did not happened earlier! I bookmarked it.


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Evening Bat Walks in Central Park main content.
Evening Bat Walks in Central Park
Part of Events for Adults
Fridays, July 12, 19, August 2, or 9, 2019
Now open! Reserve tickets today, and read more about health and safety.
Part of Events for Adults
Fridays, July 12, 19, August 2, or 9, 2019
At dusk, bats leave the warm spaces under city roofs to feed on flying insects. Join Bradley Klein, Danielle Gustafson, and other members of the New York City Bat Group for a walk through Central Park. Aided by detectors that amplify the animals' otherwise inaudible high-frequency chirps, bat-watchers monitor and catalogue the species that call the city home.
Meet at the Museum entrance on 77th Street between Central Park West and Columbus Avenue. Enrollment is limited. Please register no later than one week in advance.

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Nintendo Sees Loss on Dismal Wii U Sales
Videogame Console Maker Struggles Against Mobile Competition
OSAKA, Japan—Hit by dismal sales of its flagship Wii U game console and of game titles, Nintendo Co. slashed its sales forecast and said it would post an operating loss, heightening the pressure on the company for drastic steps to turn around its business.
The Japanese game maker said Friday that it expected to sell just 2.8 million Wii U consoles in the year to March—less than a third of initial estimates. That means that despite price cuts and a rich lineup of titles like the latest entrant in its "Super Mario Bros." franchise,...
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- 1 2–2 1/2 pounds kabocha squash, halved, seeded
- Kosher salt and freshly ground black pepper
- 1 6' piece of ginger, peeled, thinly sliced
- 1 tablespoon (packed) light brown sugar
- 1 1/2 cups (or more) heavy cream
Recipe Preparation
Preheat oven to 375 °. Line a rimmed baking sheet with parchment or foil. Season inside of squash with salt and pepper. Place squash, cut side down, on prepared sheet. Roast until tender, 1–1 1/4 hours. Let cool slightly.
Line a strainer with a double layer of cheesecloth; set over a small bowl. Pulse ginger in a food processor until finely chopped. Transfer to prepared strainer. Gather edges of cheesecloth together; squeeze tightly to release ginger juice into bowl.
Scoop squash flesh into a food processor. Add sugar and 1 Tbsp. ginger juice. With machine running, gradually add 1 1/2 cups cream and purée until smooth, adding more cream by the spoonful if too thick. Season with salt, pepper, and more ginger juice, if desired. Gently warm in a saucepan, stirring constantly, until heated through. DO AHEAD: Can be made 1 day ahead. Gently rewarm purée in a saucepan, adding a little more cream if necessary.


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III. Means and Effects of Militarism
We now proceed to a special investigation of
the means and effects of militarism, taking as a paradigm the
Prusso-German bureaucratic, feudal and capitalist militarism,
that worst form of capitalist militarism, that state above the
Though it is true that modern militarism is
but an institution of our capitalist society, it is none the less
true that it is an institution which has almost succeeded in becoming
an independent institution; an end in itself.
In order to fulfil its purpose militarism must
turn the army into a handy, docile, effective tool. It must raise
its equipment to the highest possible perfection and, on
the other hand, as the army is not composed of machines, but of
men, being a kind of living machinery, it must inspire the army
with the proper "spirit."
The first part of the problem is ultimately
a question of finance, which will be dealt with later. We shall
deal with the second part first.
The question presents three aspects. Militarism seeks to create and promote the military spirit above all and in the first line in the active army itself; secondly in those portions of the population furnishing the reserves of the army in case of mobilization; finally in all the other parts of the population that are of importance for militaristic and anti-militaristic purposes.
That proper "military spirit," also
called "patriotic spirit" and, in Prussia-Germany, "loyalty
to the king," signifies in short a constant readiness to
pitch into the exterior or the interior enemy whenever commanded
to do so. Taken by itself the most suitable condition for its
production is a state of complete stupidity, or at least as low
an intelligence as possible which enables one to drive the mass
as a herd of cattle in whatever direction is demanded by the interest
of the "existing order." The avowal of the Prussian
war minister, von Einem, who said that he liked a soldier loyal
to his king, even he were a bad shot, better than a less loyal
one however good a shot he might be, certainly came from the depth
of the soul of this representative of German militarism. But here
militarism finds itself in a bad quandary. The handling of arms,
strategy and tactics demand of the modern soldier not a small
measure of intelligence and cause the more intelligent soldier
also to be the more efficient, cæteris paribus. For
that reason alone militarism would no longer be able to do anything
with a merely stupid mass of men. Moreover, capitalism could not
use such a stupid mass, as the great mass of the people, especially
the great mass of the proletariat, have to perform economic functions
requiring intelligence. To be able to exploit, to secure the highest
possible rate of profit -- the task of its life which it cannot
escape -- capitalism is compelled by a tragical fate to foster
systematically and to a large extent among its slaves the same
intelligence which, as it knows quite well, must bring death and
annihilation to capitalism. All the attempts to guide the ship
of capitalism by skilful tacking, by a cunning cooperation of
church and school, safely between the Scylla of too low an intelligence
which would be too great an impediment to exploitation and would
make the proletarian even unfit as a beast of burden, and the
Charybdis of an education which revolutionizes the minds of the
exploited, enabling them to grasp their class-interests in their
entirety and necessarily bringing destruction to capitalism, must
end in dreary and hopeless failure. It is only the East Elbian[1] farmhands (who still may
be, as was once said, the most stupid workers indeed and the best
workers -- for the junkers, be it noted) who largely furnish militarism
with human material that can be commanded in herds without trouble,
purely like slaves, but can be used to advantage in the army only
with care and within certain limits, on account of an intelligence
which is even too low for militarism.
Our best soldiers are Social Democrats, is
a much quoted expression. It shows the difficulty of the task
of imbuing the conscript army with the proper military spirit.
As the mere unquestioning and slavish[2]
obedience does no longer suffice and is also no longer possible,
militarism must seek to dominate the will of its human material
by a roundabout way in order to create its shooting automata.
It must bend the will by working upon the men's mind and soul
or by force, it must decoy its pupils or coerce them. The proper
'spirit" needed by militarism for its purpose against the
foreign enemy consists of a crazy jingoism, narrow-mindedness
and arrogance, the spirit it needs for its purposes against the
enemy at home is that of a lack of understanding or even hatred
of every kind of progress, every enterprise and movement even
distantly endangering the rule of the actually dominating class.
It is in that direction that militarism, when moulding the character
of its charges by its milder means, must turn the mind and sentiments
of those soldiers whose class-interest removes them entirely from
the sphere of jingoism and makes them see in every step in advance,
including the overthrow of the existing order of society itself,
the only reasonable goal to be aimed at. We do not deny that with
the proletarian of military age class consciousness is usually
not yet firmly rooted, though he generally greatly surpasses the
bourgeois youth of the same age in independence of character and
political understanding.
It is an extremely bold and cunning system,
this system of moulding a soldier's intellect and feeling, which
attempts to supplant the class division according to social status
by a class-division according to ages, to create a special class
of proletarians of the ages from 20 to 22, whose thinking and
feeling are directly opposed to the thinking and feeling of the
proletarians of a different age.
In the first place the proletarian in uniform
must be separated locally, sharply and without any consideration,
from members of his class and his own family. That purpose is
attained by removing him from his home district, which has been
accomplished systematically especially in Germany, and above all
by shutting him up in barracks.[3]
One might almost describe the system as a copy of the jesuitical
method of education, a counter-part of the monastic institutions.
In the next place that segregation must be
kept up as long a time as possible, a tendency which, as the military
necessity of the long period of training has long since disappeared,
is thwarted by untoward financial consequences. It was substantially
that circumstance to which we owe the in troduction of the two-years'
military service in 1892.
Finally, the time thus gained must be utilized
as skilfully as possible to capture the souls of the young men.
Various means are employed for that purpose.
All human weaknesses and senses must be appealed
to to serve the system of military education, exactly as is done
in the church. Ambition and vanity are stimulated, the soldier's
coat is represented as the most distinguished of all coats, the
soldier's honor is lauded as being of special excellence, and
the soldier's status is trumpeted forth as the most important
and distinguished and is indeed endowed with many privileges.[4] The love of finery is appealed
to by turning the uniform, contrary to its purely military purpose,
into a gay masquerade dress, to comply with the coarse tastes
of those lower classes who are to be fascinated. All kinds of
little glittering marks of distinction, marks of honor, cords
for proficiency in shooting, etc., serve to satisfy the same low
instinct, the love for finery and swagger. Many a soldier has
had his woes soothed by the regimental band to which, next to
the glittering gew-gaw of the uniforms and the pompous military
ostentation, is due the greatest part of that unreserved popularity
which our "magnificent war army" can amply boast of
among children, fools, servant girls and the riff-raff. Whoever
has but once seen the notorious public attending the parades and
the crowds following the mounting of the Berlin palace guard must
be clear on that point. It is sufficiently known that the popularity
of the military uniform thus actually created among certain portions
of the civilian population, is a factor of considerable importance
to allure the uneducated elements of the army.
The lower the mentality of the soldiers, the
lower their social condition, the better is the effect of all
these means, for such elements are not only more easily deceived
by tinsel and finery on account of their weak faculty of discernment,
but to them the difference between the level of their former civilian
existence and their military position also appears to be particularly
great and striking. (One need only think of an American negro
or an East Prussian agricultural slave suddenly invested with
the "most distinguished coat.) There is thus a tragical conflict
going on, in as much as those means have less effect with the
intelligent industrial proletarian for whom they are intended
in the first line, than with those elements that need hardly be
influenced in that direction, for the present at least, since
they furnish without them a sufficiently docile military raw material.
However those means may in their case, too, contribute to the
preservation of the "spirit approved of by militarism.
The same purpose is served by regimental festivals, the celebration
of the Emperor's birthday, and other contrivances.
When everything has been done to get the soldier
into the mood of drunkenness, as it were, to narcotize his soul,
to inflame his feelings and imagination, his reason must
be worked upon systematically. The daily military school lesson
begins in which it is sought to drum into the soldier a childish,
distorted view of the world, properly trimmed up for the purposes
of militarism. This instruction, too, which is mostly given by
entirely incapable and uneducated people, has no effect whatever
on the more intelligent industrial proletarians, who are quite
often much more intelligent than their instructors. It is an experiment
on an unsuitable material, an arrow rebounding on him that shot
it. That has only lately been proved, in a controversy with General
Liebert about the anti-socialist instruction of soldiers, by The
Post and Max Lorenz, with the acumen generated by the capitalist
competition for profits.
To produce the necessary pliability and tractableness
of will pipe-clay service, the discipline of the barracks,
the canonization of the officer's[5]
and non-commissioned officer's[6]
coat, which in many respects appears to be truly sacrosanct and
legibas solutus, have to do service, in short, discipline
and control which bind the soldier as in fetters of steel in regard
to all he does and thinks, on duty and off duty. Each and every
one is ruthlessly bent, pulled and stretched in all directions
in such a manner that the strongest back runs danger of being
broken in bits and either bends or breaks.[7]
The zealous fostering of the "church"
spirit, which was explicitly demanded as a special aim of military
education in a resolution submitted to the budget commission of
the Reichstag in the month of February, 1892, and then voted down
(without prejudice, by the way), is another method of the kind
to complete the work of military oppression and enslavement.
Military instruction and ecclesiastical influence
are at one and the same time methods of kind persuasion and compulsion,
but the latter mostly only in a carefully veiled fonn of application.
The most attractive bait that is employed to
make up and fill the important standing formations of the army
is the system of reengagement of men whose time has expired, who
are given a chance to earn premiums as non-commissioned officers[8] and are promised employment
in the civil service after they leave the army.[9]
It is a most cunningly devised and dangerous institution which
also infects our whole public life with the militaristic virus,
as will be shown further on.
The whip of militarism, the method by which
it forces men to obey, reveals itself above all in the disciplinary
system,[10] in the military penal
law with its ferocious threats for the slightest resistance against
the so-called military spirit, in the military judiciary with
its semi-mediaeval procedure, with its habit of meting out the
most inhuman and barbaric punishments for the slightest insubordination
and its mild treatment of the transgressions committed by superiors
against their subordinates, with its habit of juggling away, almost
on principle, the soldier's right of self-defence against his
superiors. Nothing can arouse more bitter feeling against militarism
and nothing can at the same time be more instructive than a simple
perusal of the articles of war and the records of the military
penal cases.
The disciplinary beatings (ragging) to which
the officers of English grenadier guard regiments are wont to
regale each other with a laudable democratic zeal deserve to be
mentioned as a curiosity.
This chapter also includes the maltreatment
of soldiers, which will be specially dealt with on a later occasion.
It forms, it is true, not a legal, but in practice perhaps the
most effective, of all violent disciplinary methods of militarism.
Thus they attempt to tame men as they tame
animals. Thus the recruits are drugged, confused, flattered, bribed,
oppressed, imprisoned, polished and beaten, thus one grain is
added to the other and mixed and kneaded to furnish the mortar
for the immense edifice of the army, thus one stone is laid upon
the other in a well calculated fashion to form a bulwark against
the forces of subversion.[11]
That all those methods of alluring, disciplining
and coercing the soldier partake of the nature of a weapon in
the class-struggle is made evident by the institution of the one-year
volunteer. [Young men with high-school education, which in Germany
can hardly be attained by youths belonging to the working class,
have the privilege of serving but one year instead of two, paying
for their food, lodgings, uniform, etc.] The bourgeois offspring,
destined to become an officer of the reserves, is generally above
the suspicion of harboring anti-capitalist, anti-militarist or
subversive ideas of any description. Consequently he is not sent
out of his home district, he need not live in the barracks, nor
is he obliged to attend the military school- or the church, and
he is even spared a large part of the pipe-clay drill. Of course,
if he falls into the clutches of discipline and the military penal
law, it is exceptional and usually with harmless results, and
the habitual oppressors of the soldiers, though they frequently
nourish a hatred against all "educated people," only
rarely venture to lay hands on him. The education of officers
furnishes a second striking proof for this thesis.
Of exceptional importance for the discipline
of an army is the coöperation of masses of men which
does away with the initiative of the individual to a large extent.
In the army each individual is chained to all the rest like a
galley slave, and is almost incapable of acting with freedom.
The combined force of the hundreds of thousands forming the army
prevents him with an overwhelming power from making the slightest
movement of his own volition. All the parts of this tremendous
organism, or rather of this tremendous machinery are not only
subject to the suggestive influence of the word of command, but
also to a separate hypnotism, a mass suggestion whose influence,
however, would be impotent on an army composed of enlightened
and resolute opponents of militarism.
The two tasks of militarism, as will be seen,
do not at all harmonize always in the department of military education,
but are often at cross-purposes. That is not only true of training,
but also in regard to equipment. War training demands ever more
imperatively a continuously growing measure of initiative on the
part of the soldier. As a "watch-dog of capital" the
soldier does not require any initiative, he is not even allowed
to possess it, if his qualification as a suicide is not to be
destroyed. In short, war against the foreign foe requires men;
war against the foe at home, slaves, machines. And as regards
equipment and clothes the gaudy uniforms, the glittering buttons
and helmets, the flags, the parades, the cavalry charges and all
the rest of the nonsense can not be dispensed with for producing
the spirit necessary for the battle against the interior enemy,
though in a war against the exterior enemy all these things would
positively bring about a calamity; they are simply impossible.[12] That tragical conflict, the
numerous aspects of which can not be dealt with exhaustively in
this book, has not been comprehended by the well-intentioned critics
of our militarism, who in their simplicity only use the standard
applicable to a system of training for war.
That antagonism of interests within militarism
itself, that self-contradiction from which it suffers, has the
tendency of becoming more and more acute. Which of the two opposing
sets of interest gets the upper hand depends at a given time on
the relation existing between the tension in home and foreign
politics. Here we see clearly a potential self-destruction of
When the war against the interior enemy, in case of an armed revolution, puts such great demands on military art that dressed-up slaves and machines no longer suffice to fight him down the last hour of the violent domination of the minority, of capitalistic oligarchy will also have struck. It is of sufficient importance for us to note that the described military spirit as such confuses and leads astray the proletarian class-consciousness and that militarism, by infecting our whole public life, serves capitalism with that spirit in all other directions, apart from the purely military, for instance, by creating and promoting proletarian docility in face of economic, social and political exploitation and by thwarting as much as possible the struggle for the liberation of the working class. We shall have to deal with this later on.
- ↑ A word coined in Germany to describe those parts of Prussia situated east of the river Elbe, the home of the Prussian junkers. [TRANSLATOR.]
- ↑ "Kadavergehorsam" (the obedience of the corpse) is the expressive word used in the German original. [TRANSLATOR.]
- ↑ A dangerous method from a sanitary point of view, which in France, for instance, is leading to a very extensive infection of the people with tuberculosis and syphilis. The French army shows from five to seven times more cases of tuberculosis than the German army. In a few decades, exclaims a warning voice in France, France will be decimated if the barracks system be not abolished. young men. Various means are employed for that purpose.
- ↑ We need only point to the intentioned helplessness of the police in face of disorderly soldiers, and especially officers. The reader is further referred to the privilege of the soldiery to march in processions of unending lengths through the cities and thus to disturb traffic greatly without rhyme or reason -- to satisfy, of course, the demands of military æsthetics. The acme of the ridiculous conceit of this carefully reared craziness was seen some years ago in Berlin when the fire brigade, hastening to a fire, was simply stopped by a military column that crossed its route and that felt no inclination to have its beautiful and majestic order deranged. It is true, this was condemned later on.
- ↑ These are indeed strange saints! The reader may remember the Bilse case of the month of November, 1903, the many small garrisons" after the Forbach model, the gambling and champagne decrees, the officers' dueling practices (that fine fleur of the officers' honor), the stabbings of Brüsewitz and the shooting propensities of Hüssener, the Ruhstrat affair and that of the "harmless," the novels of Bilse and Beyerlein depicting the life of the officers with photographic truth, "First-class People" by Schlicht (Count Baudissin), the scandals about Jesko von Puttkamer and, last but not least, that about Prince Arenberg which also belongs to this category. The French "Little Garrison," Verdun, raised much dust in the fall of 1900. In the eyes of the worshippers of the uniform all these things are of course mostly considered as mere "amiable, piquant weaknesses" of the worshipped saint, who is, however, very particular about people confessing the Christian creed. Naturally, we find here, too, that international solidarity of the noblest and best. An interesting case is the ragging practice of the officers of the English grenadier guard regiments, which were exposed at the beginning of 1903.
- ↑ The German non-commissioned officer has been called the "representative of God on earth."
- ↑ The most shocking proof is furnished by the statistics of suicides among soldiers. Those suicides of soldiers are another international phenomenon. According to official "statistics" one soldier among 3,700 committed suicide in Germany in I90I; in Austria, one among 920 In the I0th Austrian army corps 80 soldiers and 12 officers committed suicide in I901, 127 others became insane and left as invalids in consequence of self-mutilation and maltreatment. In the same period 400 men deserted and 725 were condemned to hard labor or close arrest. In Austria, of course, the conflict of nationalities greatly contributes to aggravate the situation.
- ↑ This premium system, with a maximum of 1000 marks was introduced for the whole of Germany in I89I, after having been in existence before that time in Saxony and Württemberg and after having had a forerunner in the empire in the "non-recurrent extra-pay." It is also met with elsewhere; in France, however, where the amounts are much higher (up to 4,000 francs), it has been employed with little success. The schools for non-commissioned officers are also a case in point.
- ↑ The speech made by Chancellor Caprivi (Bismarck's successor) in the Reichstag, on February 27, 1891, is the classical confession of a noble capitalist-militarist soul of its troubles and anxieties, its hopes and aims and the methods adopted in the pursuit of those aims. It throws wide open a window through which we can have a good look at the most secret parts of that soul. The speech begins with the statement that the government refrained from re-introducing the expired anti-socialist law [by which Bismarck had sought to fight down socialism during the preceding dozen years or so -- TRANSLATOR] only on the understanding that all possible measures be resorted to in order to cut the ground from under the feet of the Social Democracy and engage in a struggle with it; one of those measures (clearly a substitute for the anti-socialist law) was to consist of the premiums for non-commissioned officers in conjunction with the "Zivilversorgungsschein" (a warrant entitling the holder to a place in a civil office). Caprivi continued: "The demands made on non-commissioned officers increase on account of the growing education of the nation. A superior can fill his position only if he feels superior to the men entrusted to his charge.... "The maintenance of discipline has in itself become more difficult, and it becomes harder still when we have to take up the struggle with the Social Democracy; I mean by this not the struggle by means of shooting and bayoneting. My memory goes back to the year 1848. Conditions were far better at that time, for the ideas had then not arisen through long years of propaganda; they cropped up suddenly and the old non-commissioned officers had a much easier task in dealing with the men than they have now in dealing with the Social Democracy. (Quite right! on the benches of the parties of the Right.) And, touching upon the most extreme case, we want far better non-commissioned officers in street fighting against the Social Democracy than in fighting against the enemy. When facing the enemy the troops can be filled with enthusiasm and willingness to sacrifice by means of patriotism and other lofty sentiments. Street fighting and all that is connected with it is not calculated to raise the self-reliance of the troops, who always feel that they are facing their countrymen." . .. "The non-commissioned officers can retain their ascendancy only if we seek to raise their status. The allied governments [this is the official title of the German federal government -- TRANSLATOR] desire to raise the level of the class of the non-commissioned officers." He went on to say that it was necessary to create a "class of people" who were "bound to the state with every fibre of their existence." This is likewise a fine description of the psychology of the elite troops.
- ↑ Arrest combined with the deprivation of food, bed and light; extra-drill, etc.; the barbaric "tying up" in war-time. The Austrian practice of "binding hand and foot" and "tying up," the Belgian cachots, the international naval cat-o'-ninetails and similar devices are well known. Less well remembered are perhaps the atrocious instruments of torture employed in the French disciplinary sections, even against "political" refractory elements -- the poucettes, the menottes and the crapaudine (see the pamphlet, "Les bagnes militaires," published in 1902 by the Fédération socialiste autonome de Cher, a speech by Breton in the French Chamber, with illustrations; Georges Darien, "Biribiri," (the collective name of all military disciplinary institutions in North Africa), Dubois-Desaulle, "Sous la casagne," both published in Paris by Stock. Material about the compagnies de discipline, pénitenciers and the travaux forces (penal companies, penitentiaries and hard labor) in the French Foreign Legion and the victims of these institutions can be found in Däumig's article in the Neue Zeit, vol. 99-100, p. 365, and especially p. 369. At this writing energetic attempts are being made to suppress the "biribiri," (Debates of the French Chamber, December 8 and 10, 1906).
- ↑ The military results of these educational methods are dealt with elsewhere. We must also point out their moral results, which induce the bourgeois, the anarchist and semianarchist opponents of militarism to let themselves be carried away by an indignation breathing an uncommon passion and delivered with a verbose pathos. "The army is the school of crime" (Anatole France); "drunkenness, sexual immorality and hypocrisy, that is what life in the barracks teaches" (Prof. Richet). According to the "Manuel du soldat" the time of military service is an "apprenticeship in brutality and vulgarity"; "a school of debauchery"; it leads to "moral cowardice, submission and slavish fearfulness." Indeed, one can scarcely imagine certain military festivals without the patriotic drunkenness, which is of course "upholding the state." Consult the Leipeiger Volkszeitung, of December I, 1906 about "the drinking and rioting festivals" of the veterans' associations (words used by Pastor César). The sanitary results are likewise anything but gratifying. Concerning the French army, see p. 64, note 3; the sanitary state of the standing armies of England and America, those democratic countries, is downright terrible; the death rate is far higher in those countries than in Germany. Cf. Surgeon-General R. M. O'Reilly's report of 1906 with regard to dysentery and alcoholism.
- ↑ We naturally include in the battle against the interior enemy the fight carried on against the spirit of international solidarity which is opposed to "militarism for abroad."


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The Central Connecticut women's track and field team completed competition at the 2013 New England Indoor Championships Saturday in 24th place of 34 teams. The highlight of the day for the Blue Devils came from the 4x400 meter relay team that crossed the finish line in 3:52.43, breaking the CCSU record of 3:56.57 set in 2003.
The 4x400 relay team, consisting of senior Rachel Dombroski, junior Shelby Tuttle and sophomores Ronea Saunders and Chantelle Deer, also surpassed the ECAC qualifying time of 3:52.54.
In the one mile run, junior Elizabeth Eberhardt placed 13th and set a new season-best time of 5:02.78. She also came in just over a second over her personal collegiate-best time of 5:01.60.
The 4x800 meter relay team, consisting of Eberhardt, sophomore Taylor LePage, freshman Ally Gates and senior Shannon McBride, took 16th of 24. The team crossed the finish line in 9:33.01.
Junior Shelby Tuttle, who qualified yesterday for competition in the 60 meter hurdle semi-finals, completed her race in 9.08 seconds. She finished just eight hundredths of a second short of qualifying for finals competition.
The University of Connecticut took first in the meet amassing 149.33 points. The Huskies were followed by Providence (54) and Holy Cross (51.33). Sacred Heart (51) and Rhode Island (50.50) rounded out the top five.
The Blue Devils will return to Boston University in Boston, MA on Friday, March 1 through Sunday, March 3 for the IC4A/ECAC Indoor Championship competition.


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Martin Crutsinger of AP Botches Reporting on the November Construction Spending Report
The Associated Press's Martin Crutsinger used today's release by the Commerce Department's Census Bureau of November's Construction Spending Report as an opportunity to take an unsupported swipe at the housing market, and to give government spending full credit for the favorable news.
Here are the topline seasonally adjusted numbers (4-page PDF) released today (in billions; listed in order of November, October and the net change; figures may not add up due to rounding):
Total Construction — $1,146.4, $1,144.2, +$2.2
By Sector:
Residential $648.4, $648.9, -$0.5
Nonresidential $498.0, $495.3, +$2.7
Public and Private:
Public $253.9, $253.2, +$0.7
Private $892.4, $891.0, +$1.4
Public Sector Breakdown:
Residential $6.4, $6.8, -$0.4
Nonresidential $247.5, $246.4, +$1.1
Private Sector Breakdown:
Residential $641.9, $642.1, -$0.2
Nonresidential $250.5, $249.0, +$1.5
With this "big picture," here's how Crutsinger led off his article:
Construction spending hit an all-time high in November as government spending to build schools, highways and sewer systems offset a slight dip in home building.
Huh? The three individual components of the Public Sector Crutsinger chose to flag went up by $3.5 billion (you'll have to see the detailed report to verify the numbers), while you can see that total Residential Construction fell by only $0.5 billion. That's quite a bit more than an "offset," and the difference between the two ($3.0 billion) is well in excess of the total monthly increase in all construction of $2.2 billion.
This is analysis?
Further, since when did "Residential Construction" translate to "home building"? The home ownership rate in the US is 69%, so there's plenty of apartment and other types of construction in the "residential" number besides owner-occupied homes. Perhaps Mr. Crutsinger is itching to tell his audience that housing construction is in decline, but the report neither proves or disproves that point. In fact, since over 75% of the housing decline occurred in the Public Sector (again, you'll need to go to the detail to verify), which tends to build and remodel public (non-owned) housing, it's fair to say that there is no evidence of ANY dip in "home building" in the Construction Spending Report.
But let's get back to the big picture. If you're going to look for contributors to the increase, you would look in the sector where most of the spending (about 78%) occurs: the private sector. The nonresidential portion of the Private Sector accounted for roughly two-thirds of the month's total increase ($1.4 billion out of the $2.2 billion increase). So it appears that in addition to not understanding that all residential construction is for housing, Mr. Crutsinger gives the Public Sector exclusive credit for the surge. Public Sector nonresidential spending did increase significantly ($1.1 billion above), so it would be reasonable to give it near-equal billing with the Private Sector.
So stick with the big picture, Martin. Use this as your model for your next opener:
Construction spending hit an all-time high in November as increases in private and public nonresidential spending offset a slight dip in residential construction.
There. That wasn't so difficult, was it? Perhaps it's not as exciting, but it does have the advantage of being the truth.
The really big news in the report is that the Office, Commercial, and Healthcare areas in the Private Sector, and the Public Sector areas Crutsinger cited (plus the Healthcare and Water Supply areas), have been on double-digit or near double-digit tears during the past 12 months (again that info is in the detail).
Private Sector firms were very reluctant for many years to build new buildings or extensively remodel olds ones because occupancy rates had been soft. The fact that spending in the Private Sector areas just noted is surging appears to reflect an underlying optimism about the economy on the part of business leaders (who, after all, are the people ordering up the construction projects) that hasn't been present for some time.
Cross-posted at Newsbusters.org.


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Kailua is ever-evolving. We visited some of the newest offerings in town, and found some terrific options for shopping and dining.
By Sheila Sarhangi
Sizzlin' Party Pick
We've all been there. It's an hour before a beach party or barbecue and you don't know what to bring. The Hibachi, which opened in December 2009 in the space that used to be Michael's Liquor store, solves this predicament by offering a medley of raw marinated meats that are all prepped for you—in gourmet style—and just need to be thrown on the grill. The menu changes often, but, on a recent visit, we scored grass-fed Big Island short ribs, marinated shoyu salmon steaks and Wagyu beef patties larger than a man's hand.
Poke lovers are in luck, too, since options include everything from limu kukui ahi to kim chee tako poke. As of now, side dishes are an afterthought, but you will find potato salad, clam and artichoke dip, and locally made breads. Added bonus: There's no need to make an extra stop for alcohol, since the outpost has a large selection of beer, liquors and more than 150 bottles of wine. 515 Kailua Road, 263-7980, thehibachihawaii.com.
Angelic Expansion
Last fall, Muumuu Heaven owner Deb Mascia more than doubled her retail space by taking over the offices of her former neighbor, Century 21. "After two months of construction, our shop went from 1,400 square feet to about 3,500," she says. The expansion made room for a small gallery, dedicated as a space for local artists such as painter Heather Brown and photographer Clark Little, as well as Mascia's soon-to-be-released menswear line. Also new is the launch of her homewares collection, which focuses mainly on vintage glassware, such as bowls and vases in every hue imaginable. "A lot of this is my personal collection from traveling," says Mascia, who mentions London and New York in her escapades. "I didn't realize how crazy I had gone with glass." True to her self-professed "mad recycler" nature, the rattan couch, chairs and check-out counter in her new digs are actually the old 1950s bar set taken from her house—only they've now been painted white, like the heavens, of course. 767 Kailua Road, 263-3366, muumuuheaven.com.
New Taste Sensation
Here's a dinner that gives new meaning to the expression "blind faith"—Formaggio Grill's new "Dining in the Dark" event. Launched in February, and held on Monday nights in the restaurant's private room, dubbed "The Gallery," the affair offers a four-course, wine-paired gourmet meal—presented without your sense of sight. How it works: Upon your arrival, you'll be given a velvet blindfold, the kind you might normally nap in. You won't be told what you're eating—which is the main point. "We play with different textures, temperatures and flavors," says Formaggio owner Wes Zane. "Not being able to see takes away any expectations, and allows you to really explore your food." If you're a vegetarian or have food allergies, tell the staff when you reserve your space; they'll provide a special meal that's just as tasty. $75 per person, plus tax and gratuity. 305 Hahani St., 263-2633, formaggio808.com.


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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE: March 12, 2014
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Linthicum, MD, March 12, 2014 - The Urology Care Foundation, the world's leading nonprofit urological health foundation and official foundation of the American Urological Association (AUA), is pleased to announce the formation of its new board of directors as well as its inaugural members.
The Foundation's new board members were approved by the AUA at the most recent board meeting on February 8, 2014. The board's new governance structure includes three public directors, two AUA member urologists, the AUA's treasurer and a chair.
New members functioning as the board's officers are Richard A. Memo, MD, chair and Steven Schlossberg, MD, MBA, secretary/treasurer. Additional members include AUA member urologists, Martin Dineen, MD, FACS and John Forrest, MD, FACS; as well as three business and community leaders, Thomas J. Cavalier, Sam Covelli and John F. Hirschbeck.
"This varied and experienced group of experts reflect the AUA and Urology Care Foundation's continued commitment to advancing urologic research and education to improve patients' lives," said AUA president Pramod Sogani, MD. "Their experience and proven business leadership will definitely serve the Foundation well."
Chair: Richard A. Memo, MD, has been named chair of the Urology Care Foundation. A member of the AUA since 1981, he is certified by the American Board of Urology and is a practicing urologist at NEO Urology Associates, Inc., in Youngstown, OH. He is the immediate past treasurer of the AUA and has served in leadership roles with the American Association of Clinical Urologists, AUA's North Central Section and the Ohio Urological Society. His commitment to ensuring the health and well-being of others is deeply rooted within the Mahoning Valley community where he has participated in several local programs, providing complimentary urological care and outreach. Dr. Memo also actively supports our military veterans.
Secretary/Treasurer: Steven Schlossberg, MD, MBA, is the AUA treasurer as well as vice president and chief medical officer for Impact Advisors, a consulting firm specializing in health care information technology. Previously, he held the position of chief medical information officer for the Yale New Haven Health System and the Yale School of Medicine. An AUA member since 1987, Dr. Schlossberg has served the Association as the chair of Health Policy, first chair of the Practice Management Committee and as AUA alternate to the American Medical Association Relative Update Committee. Additionally, he has served the Mid-Atlantic Section of the AUA as a board member and representative to the Health Policy Council. Focused on developing our next generation of leaders within the urologic community, Dr. Schlossberg has been a mentor to those in the AUA Leadership Program for nearly five years.
AUA Urologist Member-at-Large: Martin Dineen, MD, FACS, is a board certified urologist and fellow of the American College of Surgeons who has been with Atlantic Urological Associates since 1998. Additionally, he is a clinical assistant professor of urology at the University of Florida School of Medicine. A member of the AUA since 1990, Dr. Dineen is also an active member of both the American and Florida Medical Associations. He is founder and chair of the AUA National Insurance Advisory Work Group and has held various professional appointments including president of the AUA Southeastern Section and the Florida Urological Society. He is the recipient of the Dr. Tom Dooley Society, Notre Dame Medical Alumni, 2014 Founders Award, honoring his years of urological missionary work in Haiti. Dr. Dineen is actively engaged in his community, raising funds in support of local outreach initiatives as well as volunteering his time as coach, mentor and sponsor to youth sports teams.
AUA Urologist Member-at-Large: John B. Forrest, MD, FACS, is a board certified urologist who has been with Urologic Specialists of Oklahoma for more than 30 years. He is a former chief of staff of St. John Medical Center in Tulsa, OK and has served as president of the AUA South Central Section, chairman of the AUA Practice Guidelines Committee as well as president and trustee of the American Board of Urology. He is currently a trustee of the University of Tulsa. Dr. Forrest is actively involved with institutional development for St. John Medical Center where he fosters support for Presidential scholarships, undergraduate research programs and funding for both nurse education and indigent care. A member of the Association since 1985, Dr. Forrest was honored for his contributions in 2012 with the AUA Distinguished Service Award.
Public Member-at-Large: Thomas J. Cavalier is managing director and senior vice president of Stifel, Nicolaus & Co., Inc. He began his career in 1975 with Butler, Wick & Co., Inc. where he rose to chairman, president and chief executive officer. He served in this role for more than 20 years until Butler Wick merged into Stifel, Nicolaus & Co., Inc. Supplemental to his current role with Stifel, Nicolaus & Co., Inc., Mr. Cavalier serves on the board of directors for Stifel Trust Company, N.A. He has also served on several boards within the community including Forum Health; the Poland Schools Foundation for Educational Excellence; the Tri-County Make-A-Wish Foundation; Youngstown/Mahoning Valley United Way; and the Securities Industry Association.
Public Member-at-Large: Sam Covelli is the owner and operator of Covelli Enterprises, the single largest franchisee of Panera Bread and O'Charley's Restaurants, and the fourth largest restaurant franchisee in the United States. Headquartered in Covelli's hometown of Warren, OH, Covelli Enterprises employs more than 25,000 people in five states and Canada. Mr. Covelli has a long-standing history of giving back to the community; donating millions of dollars to local charitable organizations each year. His company continually wins the most awards in the restaurant industry for its operational excellence. As a result, Covelli has earned numerous awards including being named Ohio Entrepreneur of the Year by Ernst & Young. He also currently sits on the Board of Trustees for the Cleveland Clinic and the Ohio State Athletics Board.
Public Member-at-Large: John F. Hirschbeck is an umpire and crew chief for Major League Baseball (MLB). Initially a part of the American League for 17 years, Mr. Hirschbeck has worked throughout both major leagues since 2000; the same year he also was elected first president of the newly certified World Umpires Association. Now in his 32nd year as a major league umpire, Mr. Hirschbeck's career includes such highlights as officiating the All-Star Games three times and the World Series four times. In 2009, Hirschbeck was diagnosed with a form of testicular cancer, which returned in 2011. In 2012, he was again cancer-free and returned to MLB a year later. In addition to the support he provides to MLB, Mr. Hirschbeck actively supports and participates in fundraising efforts focused on finding a cure for the genetic condition, adrenoleukodystrophy, as well as for various mental health, emotional and behavioral disorders impacting our nation's youth. He also is a supporter of United Way.
"We are very pleased to bring together this broad range of industry and operational experience to guide the Foundation as it begins a new chapter in its evolution," said Dr. Memo, chairman of the board. "We believe the extensive knowledge of this group will be invaluable as the Foundation forges ahead in its efforts to pave a way for advancements in urologic research and patient care."
Contact AUA Communications at 410-689-3932 for more information about the Urology Care Foundation board of directors or to schedule an interview.
About the Urology Care Foundation: The Urology Care Foundation is committed to advancing urology research and education. We work with researchers, health care professionals, patients, and caregivers to improve patients' lives. The Urology Care Foundation is the official foundation of the American Urological Association.
About the American Urological Association: Founded in 1902 and headquartered near Baltimore, Maryland, the American Urological Association is a leading advocate for the specialty of urology, and has more than 20,000 members throughout the world. The AUA is a premier urologic association, providing invaluable support to the urologic community as it pursues its mission of fostering the highest standards of urologic care through education, research and the formulation of health policy.


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|Yemen Suicide Bomb Kills 11 Soldiers
|[An Nahar] A suicide boom-mobile at a checkpoint in central Yemen killed 11 soldiers on Monday, Saba state news agency said, as the army led an offensive on Al-Qaeda Orcs and similar vermin suspected of holding European hostages.
"Eleven soldiers were killed and 17 others were maimed in the attack," Saba said.
The attack targeted a checkpoint manned by members of a battalion of the elite Elite Republican Guards on the road between Rada and Manaseh, where the army military operation was taking place, according to tribal sources.
Elsewhere in the same province, an Al-Qaeda ambush killed a soldier and maimed two others, according to one tribal source.
Another three people were killed in an army operation launched late on Sunday against Al-Qaeda-linked Orcs and similar vermin suspected of holding an Austrian and two Finns hostage in Manaseh, in Bayda province, tribal sources said.
The army is hunting three Orcs and similar vermin accused of holding the European hostages and who have refused to surrender despite mediation efforts.
The three men -- brothers of Tarek al-Dahab, an Al-Qaeda leader killed in a February 2012 attack -- deny they are holding the hostages.
"The three European hostages are not in Manaseh. They might still be in Marib," Al-Qaeda's eastern stronghold, a tribal source in contact with the Orcs and similar vermin told AFP.
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The Center for Medical Humanities & Ethics, STRONG STAR, and the Libraries have chosen Redeployment by Phil Klay as the 2014 One Community/One Book selection. The Briscoe Library will offer workshops in October to support book discussion group leaders and to encourage dialogue about the book. These events are open to faculty, staff, and students of the UT Health Science Center San Antonio, as well as members of the broader community, who are interested in planning a book discussion opportunity. Book discussions will be held throughout October, leading up to Phil Klay's visit to campus on October 30, 2014 at 12 Noon. A limited number of free copies of the book will be available to those attending Discussion Group Leader Training.
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The looming disasters have two things in common. They are the work of government-controlled and politically manipulated Crown corporations. They are also the product of a deliberate push to produce clean, green and renewable carbon-free electricity…
That's a quote from from an article last week by Terence Corcoran, an Ontario based National Post columnist.
Corcoran has years of experience writing from a right-wing point of view about business affairs. In Boondoggle: How Ontario's pursuit of renewable energy broke the province's electricity system, Corcoran examined a proponent's views on the impacts of Ontario Liberal power policies:
…Asked whether the plan might lead to higher prices for consumers, "No," said Dr. [Rick] Smith…"No. Not at all."
[Environmental Defence Canada Executive Director] Smith was absolutely sure that Ontario's campaign to become the North American leader in renewable energy would not be a burden on consumers. He had the facts, the study, and the numbers. Renewable is doable. "We've done some modelling on this and we're talking a penny's increase to your average person's electricity bill," he said. "Ontarians won't even notice any impact on their electricity rates."
The penny that nobody would notice on their bills has morphed into hundreds of dollars a year, in some cases a month, to the point where the premier of the province can't mention the word "hydro" without getting booed…"
In the October 2016 article, Corcoran doesn't mention British Columbia but in his recent piece, Canada's green electricity bailouts make the Bombardier giveaway look like peanuts, Corcoran gives a cursory wave to the Site C dam and BC Hydro's rapidly growing debt.
Not a word though about $10 billion paid to BC's Independent Power Producers, most of it at 2x or 3x market value. Or the almost $60 billion to be paid to IPPs over the next few decades. (IPP deals impose an obligation of about $40,000 on each family in the province and the amount will grow because the contracts include inflation escalators.)
We know British Columbia's major newspapers won't tolerate a full and open discussion about electricity boondoggles that will be emptying western pockets long after many of us are departed.
Corcoran apparently lacks knowledge of the many disastrous energy decisions made by BC Liberals, but he did quote former Liberal Roger Grimes about the Muskrat Falls hydro power project now under construction. That installation began as a $6 billion project. Its cost is now almost $12 billion and growing. According to the former NL Premier, Muskrat Falls:
"will haunt all of us, unfortunately, for the rest of my life, my daughter's life, my granddaughter's life even."
Voters in BC ought to pay close attention to the fact that Liberals are a common factor of boondoggles in Newfoundland, Ontario and British Columbia. One of the commonalities is BC Liberal Executive Director Laura Miller, who still faces charges in Ontario related to her work in Dalton McGuinty's government.
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My risotto file is one of my thickest – a testament to my love of risotto. No doubt I fell in love with this marvelous amalgam of rice and vegetables or seafood when I studied with Marcella Hazan back in the 70s and a little later when I went off to Florence, Italy to study with Giuliano Bugialli.
In my latest cookbook Savoring the Hamptons: Discovering the Food and Wine of Long Island's East End, (Running Press, 2011), I included three seasonal risotto recipes, one each for spring, autumn and winter. I suppose this constant flow of risotto relates to the continuous stirring required for preparing a risotto. One doesn't have to make risotto every day, but to me, producing one of the world's greatest dishes should, on occasion, be worth about 25 minutes of one's time. I don't believe there is any getting around it and there's no other way to do it but to stir. What I have always subscribed to when making a risotto is to stir with one hand while sipping a glass of wine with the other.
Risotto is uniquely Italian in that the fundamental component is rice from the Po Valley such as Carnaroli, Arborio or Vialone. The rice varieties contain a thick coating of soft starch, which gradually dissolves in the slow stirring of the cooking process into a creamy fusion of seasonal combination of ingredients, such as asparagus and/or lettuce. Enjoy with that glass of wine!
There is a special kind of rice cultivated only in the River Po Valley in Northern Italy. The grains are oval and pearly in color. This type of rice is cooked so that it gradually absorbs nearly three times its volume in liquid, far more than any other kind of rice.
Serves 4 to 6
3/4 slender asparagus
3 tablespoons extra-virgin olive oil
1 large leek, trimmed, washed, thinly sliced
1 cup dry white wine
2 cups Italian Carnaroli, Arborio or Vialone rice
5 ½ to 6 cups hot chicken stock
1/4 teaspoon saffron (optional)
Kosher salt and freshly ground pepper to taste
Freshly grated Parmigiano cheese
1. Trim asparagus and break off woody ends where they naturally bend. Wash and rinse asparagus then cut on a slant into pieces about 1 inch long.
2. Heat 2 tablespoons olive oil in a flameproof casserole, such as Le Creuset. Add the asparagus pieces and stir-sauté until they are bright green and slightly tender. Remove asparagus and set aside. Add additional tablespoon oil to casserole then add the leek and sauté over medium heat until translucent. Meanwhile, keep stock simmering in another saucepan. Add saffron to stock if available, and the rice is tender, creamy, and slightly resistant to the bite.
3. Add rice to pan with vegetables and stir to mix. Cook rice, stirring occasionally to coat the grains for a few minutes. Season to taste with salt and pepper. Ladle about 1/2 cup of simmering stock to the rice and cook over moderate heat, stirring until the rice has absorbed the liquid. Continue adding stock, 1/2 cup at a time and stir, allowing each addition to be absorbed by the rice before adding more liquid. Continue adding the stock until the rice is tender, creamy, and slightly resistant to the bite. There should be no chalkiness in the center of the grains.
4. Return asparagus to the rice, stir to mix and cook over very low heat for about a minute. Remove from heat and add about 1/2 cup Parmesan cheese and stir to mix. Taste to adjust seasoning if necessary. Serve immediately with additional cheese, if desired.
I first tasted la risolata or risotto with romaine lettuce at a restaurant in Florence, Italy. The flavor is remarkable and the idea of a lettuce risotto – interesting!
Here is my adaptation.
Serves 4 to 6
1 large head romaine lettuce
1 medium-size red onion, peeled
2 stalks celery, rinsed and peeled
2 carrots, rinsed and peeled
3 tablespoons olive oil
2 tablespoons unsalted butter
Kosher salt and freshly ground pepper
2 cups rice, preferably Italian Carnaroli, Arborio or Vialone
6 to 7 cups chicken stock, preferably homemade
To finish
2 tablespoons unsalted butter
1/2 cup freshly grated imported Parmigiano cheese
1. Remove and discard any wilted leaves of romaine. Cut leaves in half lengthwise through the white ribs, discarding the ribs, as they become bitter when cooked. Cut the green leaves into thin strips and soak in a bowl of cold water for 15 to 20 minutes.
2. Meanwhile, cut onion, celery and carrot into coarse pieces then chop in a food processor, pulsing the vegetables until finely chopped. Be careful not to turn the mixture to a mush.
3. Heat oil and butter in a flameproof casserole over medium heat and, when butter is melted, add the chopped ingredients. Sauté vegetables for about 5 minutes, until onion is translucent. Drain lettuce, squeeze dry and add it to casserole. Season with salt and pepper, and stir to mix. Cover and cook for 2 minutes more, stirring occasionally with a wooden spoon. Add the rice to the casserole and sauté with vegetables for 3 to 4 minutes.
4. Meanwhile bring stock to the edge of a boil in a saucepan. Reduce heat to a simmer and keep warm.
5. Ladle about 1/2 cup simmering stock to the rice and vegetables, stirring continuously. Add remaining stock, 1/2 cup at a time, stirring to allow each addition to be completely absorbed by the rice before adding more liquid. Continue adding stock until the rice is tender, creamy and slightly resistant to the bite. Taste for salt and pepper; then stir in butter and Parmigiano. Serve immediately with additional cheese if desired.
PS: I once substituted a large bunch Swiss chard for the romaine and it was great!
For Silvia's blog and more recipes visit her website at www.Savoringthehamptons.com


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Somewhere in the middle of the film's almost two and a half hour running time, we found ourselves wondering, "Was this an Oprah book club selection? Or does it just seem like one?"
Based on the wildly successful novel by Kathryn Stockett, "The Help" is everything the All-Mighty O loves in her summer reading; a tale of redemption over strife and woe with some female bonding and racial understanding sitting like the cherry on top.
Set in 1962 Mississippi, when Jim Crow laws were heavily enforced, the story follows aspiring writer Eugenia "Skeeter" Phelan (Emma Stone, wearing one of the worst wigs in cinematic history) as she returns home after college and forges an unexpected friendship with two African-American maids, played by Viola Davis and Octavia Spencer, while chronicling their stories in an effort to give voice to the downtrodden during the days of "separate but equal."
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When the film was first announced, despite the fact that it was produced by Christopher Columbus whose track record tends to veer toward schmaltz, we thought, if it could be more "An Education" and less "The Secret Lives of Bees," it could possibly be an early Oscar contender.
Unfortunately, while "The Help" has charm, great performances and a few lump-in-your-throat moments, it gets stuck like a mastodon in the muck, its own weight pulling it down. Despite a constant gurgling of bursting bubbles, where you catch a glimpse of the better film that might be lingering under the surface, such as Jessica Chastain's turn as Celia Foote, the lovable town floozy who embraces her maid as family, or some of Davis' meatier moments, ultimately the film can't escape the clutches of writer-director Tate Taylor. His adaptation (of his best friends' book, we might add), though beautifully shot, is overly long and emotionally indulgent, the kind of movie where all the actors cry for you rather than giving the audience a chance for catharsis.
Still, Taylor fills his screen with actresses given free rein to chew scenery as they see fit, like Bryce Dallas Howard who relishes the role of queen bee bigot, and Sissy Spacek, who delivers dazzling comedic sparkle, alongside Stone, who once again proves to be one of the most reliably watchable actresses of her generation.
Alternately heartfelt and cloyingly earnest, "The Help" isn't without merits but can't escape it's greatest flaw, which is that you can see it's a movie about black people that's made by white people and the story of women told by a man. And that's not one of Oprah's favorite things.


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NEWS- Tangled: Youths battle oriental bittersweet
Ten AmeriCorps youths recently spent six weeks valiantly battling Charlottesville's most invasive intruders. April 11 at Buford Middle School found them taking on porcelain berry, oriental bittersweet, and autumn olive.
"It can be difficult," reports Californian Jennifer Murphy of the long days of eradicating kudzu and English ivy on public land around town. Casualties include scratches, poison ivy, and in a few cases, "People pulled vines and ended up on their rears," she says.
AmeriCorps' National Civilian Community Corps puts 18- to 24-year-olds to work in communities around the country. Since March 10, the team here has worked at McIntire, Pen, Azalea, and Quarry parks, as well as taken out a huge swath of kudzu and oriental bittersweet behind Bodo's and the English Inn. They've put in a new trail at Buford so kids can walk to school, and April 11 they headed over to Greenleaf Park.
"We're going to try to encircle and contain one acre of kudzu," says Susan Pleiss with city parks and rec. "It's threatening four neighboring homes and engulfing trees. Kudzu is easy to contain if it can be mowed. We'll push inward."
Despite the overwhelming odds against defeating the invasive species on a paltry meal allowance of $4.50 a day, the youths seemed upbeat– and some even took on extra volunteer projects at Camp Holiday Trails, where they were being housed.
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July 18, 1933 - November 9, 2013
Warwick, NY
Irene Dorothea Voorhis, of Warwick, passed away on November 9, 2013 at Westchester Medical Center. She was 80 years old. Born on July 18, 1933 in Wilmington, DE, she was the daughter of the late Erich O. and Dorothy E. (Weiss) Meyer.
She was married to the late Allan A. Voorhis.
Irene was retired as a Driver for Operation Wheels Ecumenical Council in Warwick. She also was a Bus Driver with Warwick Valley Schools. Irene was an active member of the Democratic Party and had served as Treasurer and was a member of Good Shepherd Lutheran Church, Warwick.
She is survived by her daughter, Bonnie Jean Orr and her husband, James III of Howells, NY; a son, Eric Arthur Voorhis and his wife, Mia of Gulfport, FL; six grandchildren: James D. Orr IV, Eric A Voorhis, Jr., Thomas M. Orr, Dillon D. Voorhis, Ashley H. Voorhis and Nichole B. Voorhis; a sister, Barbara U. Weller of Highland Lakes, NJ; a brother-in-law, Art Voorhis and his wife, Joanne of Woodshole, MA; and several nieces and nephews.
She was predeceased by her companion, William Ted Fitzhenry; and a brother-in-law, Eberhard Weller.
The family would like to thank John Cleary and his family for all of their help and support.
Memorial donations may be made to Good Shepherd Lutheran Church, 95 Kings Highway, Warwick, NY 10990 or New Milford/Edenville United Methodist Church, PO Box 137, New Milford, NY 10959.
A memorial service is being planned at a later date.
Arrangements are under the direction of Lazear-Smith & Vander Plaat Memorial Home, 17 Oakland Avenue, Warwick, NY 10990. For further information or to send an online condolence, see www.lsvpmemorialhome.com


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