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War on Bosnia
The War on Bosnia
In the ethnic war of a decade ago, people and communities suffered and died. Now, it's the environment's turn.
In war, the silences are sometimes more terrifying than the noises. It was one such silence, in the cratered streets of Mostar, that made me pause in mid-stride and duck behind a bombed-out van-moments before a mortar round crashed to earth and exploded a few feet from where I had been standing. Stinging clods of dirt peppered my face, but the metal hulk absorbed the shrapnel.
Another falling shell, another inexplicable escape. They happened all the time during the recent (1992-1995) war in Bosnia and Hercegovina (BiH). But thousands of people were not so lucky, as I saw in Mostar while helping to evacuate wounded children from the besieged eastern half of the city. Few areas there could be called safe, and even the makeshift hospital where the children awaited my ambulance had been hit nine times in the previous week by the artillery and mortar fire that rained down on the sector east of the river.
Yet horrific as it was, this was just a small corner of a complex and vicious war (see sidebar, "A Brief History of the Bosnian War," page 14) that wreaked widespread devastation on people, communities, and the countryside. Whole villages were destroyed-families driven out, the men sometimes executed, and houses put to the torch. Sarajevo (the capital), ringed closely on three sides by mountains, endured a four-year reign of terror that exposed its residents to indiscriminate death from artillery and sniper fire delivered by Serb gunners on the heights above. Over 10,000 died during the city's ordeal, including more than a thousand children. The pockmarked sidewalks and shattered buildings can still be seen. Casualty figures have been heavily manipulated by all sides for political purposes and thus vary widely, but there is little doubt that the war cost hundreds of thousands of Croats, Serbs, and Bosnian Muslims their lives.
Of course the tragedy did not end merely because the shooting stopped. Much of the lasting legacy of the Bosnian war can be read in the landscape itself. Apart from the "cleansed" villages, where the walls of roofless cottages rear up like tombstones, the physical scars are nowhere more apparent than in the huge clearcuts of ancient forest growth-emblems of the desperation and opportunism spawned by a war-ravaged economy. For in addition to the immediate toll of death, dislocation, and ancient enmities revived, the Bosnian war inevitably disrupted economic life and crippled the physical, social, and political infrastructure necessary for a functional economy. Unemployment remains as high as 40 percent, the lack of economic opportunities has driven many to the edge of despair-and the country's rich natural resources have been laid wide open to predatory exploitation.
Contested Riches
Those "rich natural resources" may be a surprise. Few people think of Bosnia and Hercegovina as a land of pristine wilderness in the heart of the Dinaric Alps, but the clash of Mediterranean and alpine climates has created one the most magnificent ecosystems in all of Europe. Mountain rivers from the high peaks of the Dinaric range have carved deep canyons on their way west to the Adriatic Sea or east to the Black Sea basin. Bosnia is abundantly watered by its rivers, streams, and springs (the name derives from bosana, Indo-European for water), and though it is smaller than the U.S. state of West Virginia, the country hosts a staggering diversity of landscapes, flora, and fauna. Over 400 types of rare and endemic plant, and 200 animal species, can be found in this middle Balkan state.
BiH's resources have helped make it a battleground for centuries. The Romans fought the native Illyrian tribes for over 150 years to conquer the region, not only to expand their empire but also to secure access to the gold, silver, salt, and other resources found there. The Ottomans followed suit more than a millennium later, seeking less to convert the mainly Christian population to Islam than to claim those resources in their push toward Vienna. When the Austro-Hungarian Empire assumed control in 1878, its engineers immediately began sinking mineshafts and building railroads to extract the vast wealth of hardwoods, salt, and coal. The old communist state of Yugoslavia in effect used BiH as an energy base for its six republics, tapping its hydropower resources and siting coal-fired generating plants there. BiH accounted for 32 percent of total air pollution in the former Yugoslavia-but only 20 percent of the territory and 17 percent of the population, according to the Sarajevo-based Center for the Promotion of Civil Society (CPCS).
Today a similar pattern can be seen, as some European Union members exploit the weakness within the present government (see sidebar, "The Most Complicated Government in the World," page 16) and the lack of effective regulation. Very little is being done to urge Bosnia and Hercegovina toward reform of its environmental laws and adoption of European standards, and a number of local policymakers seem more than willing to sell the country's natural bounty to the highest bidder. This ecological colonization and thievery is evident in the treatment of Bosnia's forests, water and energy resources, and vulnerable "protected" areas.
With the unemployment rate sky-high and per-capita gross domestic product about one-twentieth that of the United States, few people in BiH have the time or inclination to address what amounts to a forestry crisis. Over 50 percent of the country was covered by forest before the war, but the harvesting of old forests and the changing land-use tendencies after clearcutting put that figure at less than 35 percent today. (The Economist has pegged it at around 30 percent). The institutions legally responsible for regulating the logging industry have an appalling record, and most environmentalists believe few or no exact statistics exist because exposing the truth would mean the forced resignation of many government officials and the drying up of the river of cash from sales of high-quality hardwood. Around Pale, the former capital of the Republika Srpska entity of BiH and a region of staunch nationalist support for war criminal Radovan Karadzic, there are over 240 timber companies. Fondeko, a Sarajevo-based environmental group, estimates that at least 60 percent are not registered.
This year alone, more than 3,000,000 seed trees from a tree farm in Olovo will be destroyed because S˘umarstvo, the state forestry service, has failed to manage their cultivation properly. The norm for annual seedling plantings is 20 million, but this year S˘umarstvo planted only 500,000. Eighty percent of the forested land in Bosnia and Hercegovina is state-owned, and the responsibility to ensure replanting lies ultimately with the state. The current law spells out the replanting requirement in very specific terms, but Nesad Bojadzic, the former head forestry inspector for BiH when it was part of Yugoslavia, says the requirement is blatantly ignored at every level. He can cite some telling figures. For example, according to Bojadzic, in the valley of the Vrbas River in central Bosnia, 2,900 hectares of hardwood have been totally clearcut without any replanting. Clearcutting of black pines on Ozren Mountain in the northeast has devastated 3,400 hectares of forest, again with no replanting. The lumber company Voljice Pidris brutalized an old hardwood forest to such an extent that the entire town of Gornji Vakuf had no potable water all last summer. This type of clearcutting is not a criminal offense in Bosnia and Hercegovina (i.e., offenders can be fined but not imprisoned). Bojadzic has done his best to fight this corruption, by lobbying for the criminalization of clearcutting and the prosecution of complicit forestry officials, recommending that the replanting requirement be increased to compensate for almost a decade of completely unregulated logging, and calling for a moratorium on logging until local inspectors can make accurate assessments of the situation. He was once one of the most respected men in local forestry, but his expert advice has fallen on deaf ears.
Ironically, the law may not protect Bosnian forests, but landmines sometimes do. The war left as much as 20 percent of the forests littered with mines-one of the few protections they enjoy. But some illegal loggers have managed to twist even this circumstance to their advantage in the intense competition over BiH's rich hardwood forests. Several clearcutting locations-marked with landmine tape and warning signs to keep inspectors and forest rangers away-aren't mined at all. A few dozen meters behind the tape is a hardwood graveyard. Although not commonplace, this tactic shows the lengths to which illegal loggers will go in order to clearcut the forests without being regulated and taxed.
Water and Energy
The United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) predicts that the world's water use will increase 31 percent over 1995 levels by 2020. Bosnia is better positioned than many countries to handle rising demand, but it desperately needs to take better care of its pure water sources.
Evidence of opportunism and abuse is plentiful. Consider, as a case study, the unique and ruggedly scenic Neretva River Canyon, one of the deepest in Europe and home to at least 32 endemic types of animals and plant. The canyon lies within the area of the proposed new Prenj-C˘vrsnica-C˘abulja national park, but BiH's state-run electric company, Elektroprivreda, and an Italian corporate partner have secretly developed plans to construct five high dams, two of them on the Neretva. BiH law requires the utility to inform the public of any intent to build a dam, and to secure the proper permits even before developing a plan. Elektroprivreda did neither; it simply announced the plans' completion as a fait accompli.
One dam would drown the Neretva Canyon under an artificial lake that would forever change the face of the town of Konjic. The people of Konjic voted overwhelmingly against it, but their wishes counted for little. The dam would also flood the ancient villages of Spiljani and Dzajici and forcibly relocate people whose roots in these places are centuries deep. At a news conference to announce the project, former Yugoslav premiere Ante Markovic, representing the Italian company involved (the name of which is closely guarded), praised the economic development projects under way in BiH as the country makes its way toward membership in the European Union. But he neglected to mention the purpose of the dams: to generate electricity for export to Italy, because Italian public sentiment-and its tourism and agricultural interests-would never permit construction of such energy facilities on Italian territory. Journalist Nijaz Abadzic, BiH's best known environmental crusader and a member of the UNEP Global 500 Roll of Honour, has roundly condemned the plan: "We will spend $17 million to repair the Old Bridge that spans the Neretva River. A bridge that took years to build was destroyed in seconds by our crude and brutal technology. Now everyone turns a blind eye on a canyon that took millions of years for nature to build and if we destroy it no sum of money can repair the irreversible damage we will create by building a high dam on the Neretva."
Building new dams to export electricity makes no sense anyway, because the existing dams are underutilized. Current demand uses only about 18 percent of existing hydropower generating capacity, according to Zelenih Konjic, a grassroots environmental group opposed to the high dam. The Neretva River already has four large dams in a 40-kilometer corridor from Jablanica to Mostar. Before his recent appointment as executive director of Elektroprivreda, Enver Kreso opposed the Konjic dam, and told ecologists that the four existing dams were functioning at only 17-20 percent of their potential.
The truth is that repairs and technological improvements would be a much more efficient and practical method of increasing BiH's energy output. Three years ago the World Bank estimated that only 25 percent of BiH's energy potential was being realized due to old technology, yet little or no effort has been put into modernization. As Sadi Cemalovic, a former director of Elektroprivreda for BiH, put it, "People within Elektroprivreda always lived twice as good as anyone in BiH. When we build a hydroelectric dam, however, we live four times better."
Cemalovic's view of the Konjic high dam is simple: if it is built, the people from Konjic may as well pack their bags and leave. Construction of the earlier dam in Jablanica caused marked changes in temperatures and biodiversity, and failures of certain crops. Many fear that the changes in microclimate, as well as other problems, caused by another dam would be so drastic that Konjic in many ways would be destroyed.
The tragedy is compounded because the canyon offers alternative, more sustainable, means of economic development. Demand for whitewater rafting trips is rising rapidly and more than a dozen rafting operations have sprung up to meet it. Eco-tourism, in the forms of village tourism, hiking, climbing, camping, fishing, and biking, have all proven viable. Organic farming and organic honey production could help a much larger portion of the population than the construction of a high dam. These types of small and medium enterprise afford a real chance for Bosnia and Hercegovina to move from a poor transitional economy to a stable developed economy. Eco-tourism is a labor-intensive (i.e., job-rich) industry and the World Tourism Organization estimates that eco-tourism investments typically enjoy tenfold returns. As for honey, the market is there; every year Hungary exports eight times more honey than BiH produces, and the conditions for honey production in BiH, particularly in the Konjic area, are significantly better than in Hungary due to climate, altitude, hours of sunlight, and biodiversity.
"Protected" Areas
Bosnia and Hercegovina protects only 0.5 percent of its lands, one-tenth of the European norm. Scientists cited in a 2002 report from the Center for the Promotion of Civil Society believe that 16 percent of BiH lands would need to be protected in order to maintain the country's biodiversity. BiH could approach this goal by granting national park status to the Bjelasnica/Igman region to the south of Sarajevo, which naturally connects Rakitnica Canyon and Visoc˘ica Mountain to the east and the Prenj-C˘vrsnica-C˘abulja region to the south. With Blidinje Nature Park on the north side of C˘vrsnica Mountain, this would complete the logical chain and establish the heart of the Dinaric Alps as a protected zone. Protected status would allow for the development of scientific research, eco-tourism, and organic and other types of agriculture, and would in turn support the many cross-sector economies that revolve around these activities. This initiative would not only validate the priceless value of this area but would also help stiffen enforcement efforts to stop the illegal cutting and dumping.
However, this goal seems remote. The Neretva valley has been ravaged by illegal logging, dumping, and quarrying despite-or perhaps because of-having been earmarked as a national park since pre-war times and studied extensively to that end. The logging problems on Prenj and C˘vrsnica have reached epidemic proportions. In the Jablanica and Konjic municipalities, illegal cutting has destroyed the last remaining examples of the endangered Munika black pine and Tise, trees that were heavily exploited at the turn of the twentieth century by the Austro-Hungarian Empire and were placed on the protection list during Yugoslavian times. Although the cutting of the endemic Munika black pine was made illegal by the Federation parliament, Sipad Wood Processing Company, the largest wood exporter in the country, has illegally constructed a road into the heart of Prenj Mountain to cut the remaining Munika. When environmentalists objected, S˘ipad claimed they were "sanitary" cuts meant to curb the threat of spreading disease, but there was never any confirmation of this by the Ministry of Forestry and Agriculture. An independent assessment directed by ecologists with the Mostar City Council confirmed that the cuts were in no way sanitary. S˘ipad has also been illegally logging in the strictly protected zone of Diva Grabovica on C˘vrnsica Mountain. Ancient beech tree forests have been butchered off the mountainside, accelerating erosion and the siltation of the reservoir behind the Neretva River hydroelectric dam.
Another company, Prominvest of Konjic, gouged out a sand quarry in Diva Grabovica in 1996 without securing the required permits. Legal challenges from the Mostar city council led to a long court battle with the company and to a Supreme Court ruling against Prominvest in June 2000. The company ignored the decision and continued operations. Then the Mostar city council ecology department petitioned the Federation Ministry of Physical Planning and the Environment. The ministry accepted the case with reluctance but eventually issued a "final" warning: shut down the quarry or the ministry would have the complex dismantled. That ruling was also ignored, and the threat proved idle. Further complaints from environmental groups prompted the ministry to issue another "final" warning, this time backed by a threat to cut off the electricity. This deadline (October 21, 2003) also passed without result.
Meanwhile, Prominvest management fought back with a media barrage claiming victimhood at the hands of an "ecological mafia." The company also purchased so-called ecological certificates-unofficial and irrelevant affidavits from independent ecologists-claiming that the quarry was not a danger to the environment. Enver Becirovic, the company's director, was seen physically threatening and intimidating environmentalists and public officials. (He once screamed at me, "Who gives a damn about nature? Do you mean to tell me the life of a wild goat is more important than feeding my workers? It's just a bunch of trees and mountains in the middle of nowhere!") To gain Muslim support for his schemes, Becirovic tried to portray his company as the victim of "Christian crusaders" from within the Office of the High Representative (see "The Most Complicated Government..." sidebar) and the European bodies working in BiH-neglecting to mention that the suit against Prominvest was filed by Sead Pintul (a Mostar city council official) and supported by Nijaz Abadzic, both Bosnian Muslims. Prominvest has signed a $500,000 deal with Elektroprivreda to produce concrete poles for electrical installations, impossible without the sand quarried from Diva Grabovica. Anonymous sources in the Federation ministry say that intense pressure from parliament members close to Elektroprivreda has forced them to abandon their own orders. But legally, they say, Prominvest doesn't have a leg to stand on.
After the war, came the deluge-of outsiders. They arrived with various motives: to heal and offer solace, to help rebuild, to teach the ways of capitalism. Some came to make a little money. In the wake of a nasty war fueled by ancient suspicions, perhaps it is only natural that Bosnians are wary of the new ways on offer.
For example, I met an old man who was skeptical of the intent of the international community's presence in BiH, and where it would lead. Capitalism, he argued, changes the mind-frame and soul of communities. "Just down there in Bas˘c˘ars˘ija is a shoemaker who has a wife and two children," he told me. "One morning a customer walks into his shop and wants to buy a pair of shoes. The shopowner says, 'Thank you for your business, sir, but my neighbor also makes good shoes and he too has a wife and two children. I have already sold a pair of shoes this morning. Please buy from him so that he may take care of his family.'" The old man paused. "That, son, you don't know in the West. That is the way we grew up and that is how things need to be."
This little story echoes many Bosnians' caution about the motives and goals of the foreign interests that are active in the country. For while the Bosnians are responsible, in the end, for the heedless exploitation of their country's natural wealth, they have had a lot of outside help.
Some of BiH's closest neighbors have been involved in what might be called the ecological colonization of the country, and many feel this is an especially dangerous example to set before a government that is already corruption-prone. The international community portrays itself as walking the high moral ground and its program of reforms as being tied to European standards-but when it comes to exploiting BiH's natural resources, there always seem to be exceptions. For instance, the massive reconstruction plan in Kosovo to rebuild homes destroyed by Serbian forces and NATO bombing, however well intended, came at a heavy cost to BiH's forests. Hundreds of unregistered lumber companies sold high-grade hardwood to NGOs for the reconstruction efforts after the NATO bombing in Serbia and Kosovo in 1999. Slovenian private contractors intend to build hundreds of small dams-each producing only 1 megawatt each of electrical energy-on Bosnia's most precious and unspoiled natural resource, its crystal-clear mountain rivers. (In contrast to Slovenia, where the environmental lobby is so strong that plans for hydroelectric dams on that country's own Suca River were abandoned after public outcries, the Bosnian public remains largely uninformed and silent.) Austria has continually imported Bosnian hardwood at well under the market price, and has shown no interest in seeing forestry laws or regulations being implemented by their local partners.
The Office of the High Representative (OHR), created under the Dayton Accords, embodies the international community's presence in BiH. It has come under increased pressure to show real results after more than a decade of assistance, although the current push for reform is viewed by some local politicians as heavy-handed and undemocratic. Lord Paddy Ashdown, a former British Member of Parliament appointed as the High Representative, has taken a strong-arm stance in implementing reform. His administration, often criticized as a colonizing or imperialist power, has aggressively embarked on an anti-corruption campaign that has resulted in numerous public officials being removed from office (including the Bosnian Serb president, Mirko Sarovic, who was removed in 2003 on charges that he was involved with illegal sales of weapons to Iraq via an arms manufacturer in Serbia). Deeply in debt to the World Bank, BiH badly needs to revamp its public spending, and a "bulldozer" committee has been established to force laws through parliament that are intended to eliminate obstacles and reduce administrative spending in the overwhelmingly bureaucratic public sector. These measures have brought about marked results in easing certain taxes and eliminating costly and time-consuming administrative procedures that discourage foreign investment.
That's valuable, as far as it goes. The trouble is that the private sector in Bosnia and Hercegovina is just as corrupt as the public sector. In many instances the major private firms and organizations are run by the same circle of people who dominate the political scene. The animating formula of the international community's efforts-all growth is good, regardless of its costs to the environment-often tacitly abets large corporations that flagrantly evade taxes, exploit natural resources, and support the nationalist movements. Joanna Walshe, an anthropologist with the Sarajevo-based environmental firm Green Visions (disclaimer: I helped found Green Visions), concludes that "despite continued criticism of the often draconian measures which the debtor nations must implement in order to keep receiving aid and loans from the North, the World Bank and the IMF [International Monetary Fund] continue to push their neo-liberal medicine on the developing world, forcing already impoverished nations further into debt. The model on which these reform measures are based is no longer justifiable. The market-driven approach to alleviating poverty has failed and should be cast out in favor of a more culturally appropriate, self-reliant and human centered idea of growth."
Many Bosnians feel that, by dangling the carrot of European Union admission over their heads, the international community has had a free hand to push its agenda, democratically or not. In some respects this is true. However, the attitudes and actions of the OHR in Bosnia are deeply enabled by-indeed, possible only because of-the atrocious local management of this country at every level. Corruption is such an integral part of everyday life here that weeding it out will take a mighty effort. Public servants have rarely shown the will or competence for country building and compromise, and intellectuals and scientists have consistently been marginalized in the decision-making process by incompetent officials. Officials' brutal attitudes toward the environment clearly echo the attitudes many of them displayed when humans were being brutalized only a few years ago.
Sustainable Alternatives
If current plans are carried out, the flooding of the Neretva and Rakitnica Canyons by the proposed hydroelectric dam in Konjic will lead to the final exodus of the local population from Spiljani and Dzajici villages and seriously threaten the lifestyles of the villages of Dubocani and Lukomir (see sidebar, "Bosnian Highlanders: A Threatened Species?"). The population there is already declining, mainly because of the lack of schools, clinics, and other social services, according to a study of Lukomir carried out by Green Visions and Chad Staddon of the University of the West of England. But the study also found that the villagers want to preserve their way of life as highland shepherds, while also being open to alternative means of livelihood.
Such alternatives-ecotourism and organic farming, for example-could provide better prospects for long-term, eco-friendly development to a much larger portion of the population than logging or the construction of high dams. These labor-intensive sectors are growing at a global rate of 15-20 percent per year, according to the World Tourism Association. In a 2003 report, the Stanford Research Institute placed Bosnia and Hercegovina in the top five countries in the world for potential ecotourism growth-provided the natural landscapes it depends on are not destroyed.
Or consider the energy picture. The ancient, polluting thermoelectric plants at Tuzla and Kakanj have a generating capacity of 32 megawatts. Yet experiments conducted by the University of Mostar engineering faculty on the nearby Podvelezje plateau suggest that 230 megawatts could be produced by wind farms sited there. There is no energy problem in Bosnia and Hercegovina; only the methods of energy production are a problem. Even as many countries turn towards more advanced forms of energy, such as wind, Bosnia and Hercegovina wants to construct five high dams and dozens of mini-dams that will compromise its precious, free-flowing mountain rivers and streams.
If there is reason for hope that BiH can capitalize on these possibilities and steer itself toward a more environmentally sound future, it lies in the country's history. Bosnians have been here before. BiH was an industrial mainstay of the former Yugoslavia, a federation of some 25 million people, and Bosnia's natural resources were heavily exploited during the socialist era. Most socialist countries after World War II gravely miscalculated the ecological consequences of crude industry, and Yugoslavia was no exception. But strict regulations imposed during the second half of Marshall Josip Tito's regime brought about significant change in industrial regulation and in the protection of Yugoslavia's pristine nature. These environmental laws were very much in line with international standards of the time, and the voices of science and reason were effective in some environmental reforms.
When the Dayton Accords were signed, these laws were brought forward into the new constitution of Bosnia and Hercegovina until more modern, European laws could be adopted. But this budding sympathy for progressive environmentalism went dormant with the collapse, along with the former Yugoslavia, of the rule of law and viable mechanisms of enforcement. Even though the regulations and laws remained on the books, the region descended into a kind of chaos that has allowed an unseen war to be waged on forests and waterways throughout the country.
But Bosnians' history has given them recent experience of a time when the environment that supports their economic life was afforded something like due respect. And while the cries of scientists, environmentalists, and the affected communities have often gone unheard by BiH's ecologically illiterate political elite, it is increasingly difficult for that elite to utterly disregard pro-environment sentiment-which, while long quiet, has never disappeared altogether and is now beginning to bubble and simmer with renewed energy. Economic circumstances continue to absorb the time and efforts of many Bosnians, but others are coming to understand exactly what is being done to their country, and who is doing it-and they are beginning to raise their voices in protest against the clearcutting, the defilement of rivers and streams, and the fouling of the air. Bosnia and Hercegovina is ripening toward an ecological reawakening. When it comes, it's bound to create quite a stir.
Former international aid worker Tim Clancy has lived and worked in Bosnia and Hercegovina since the end of 1992, and also coordinated aid projects in Montenegro, Albania, and Kosovo during the crisis in 1999. A U.S. native, he is a partner in the Sarajevo-based eco-tourism/environmental protection firm Green Visions. He has started a new NGO, Earth in Mind, that is dedicated to community development, environment, and education.


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Recession's over. Got that? Whew, glad we could check that one off our list. For a minute there we were worried that a nearly 10 percent national unemployment rate meant something, and that something wasn't good. Fortunately, we have the National Bureau of Economic Research to tell us it's all a mirage with its declaration that the Great Recession actually ended 15 months ago, in June 2009.
Recession's over. Got that?
Whew, glad we could check that one off our list. For a minute there we were worried that a nearly 10 percent national unemployment rate meant something, and that something wasn't good. Fortunately, we have the National Bureau of Economic Research to tell us it's all a mirage with its declaration that the Great Recession actually ended 15 months ago, in June 2009.
This downturn lasted a mere 18 months - gee, it seemed like forever - not much longer than the recessions that began in 1973 and 1981, the two previous post-World War II worsts. What's different this time is the anemic pace of the recovery.
Indeed, even economists with the Bureau acknowledge that the recession is only technically behind us, that their pronouncement only means things aren't getting any worse - GDP has grown for five consecutive quarters - not that they're getting significantly better.
Nearly 15 million unemployed Americans and who knows how many underemployed could have told them that, of course. Not only are they out of jobs, most of them have gone without work for a far longer period than usual. If you're over 50, wanting to work but still not getting a paycheck - about 2.2 million people, a record - you may be starting to fear you'll never walk into an office again, even if you're highly educated. It's not as simple as going back to essentially the same job at another company, as in some industries occupations are vanishing, requiring significant retraining all so you can compete with the kids coming out of college. You have little sense of security, as twice in the last decade you've seen your stock portfolio go into freefall.
Meanwhile, the economy is only operating at about 75 percent capacity. Housing starts remain depressed, despite historically low interest rates (though loans are harder to get). If you are employed, your wages may be frozen, your pension gone.
Of course, it almost always takes longer to climb out than to fall in - especially if the recession's origins were in the financial sector, as was the case here. And hey, America is a great nation. We always bounce back, right?
More disturbing in many ways than the above realities is our sense that many Americans no longer feel that way. It has been a long while since we have felt so much self-doubt, since so many have viewed the nation's challenges as insurmountable, since the country's psyche has seemed so scarred. Some have begun to talk of just getting used to a lower standard of living, of putting up with potentially double-digit unemployment, of watching the likes of China pass us by. They've given up.
That attitude is aided and abetted by the fact that those we normally turn to for answers aren't providing any. The Fed confesses to being worried but is deferring action. Democrats in power seem like deer in the headlights, awaiting the collision they see coming in November. Rising Republicans may have a clue but if so they're largely keeping it to themselves, apparently figuring silence will equal success six weeks from now.
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Previous posts here at Law and the Multiverse have discussed the status of mutants under several of our nation's anti-discrimination laws, including the applicability of constitutional protections afforded by the Equal Protection and Due Process clauses of the 14th amendment and statutory protections afforded by the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA).
There remains, however, one key piece of important anti-discrimination legislation that has yet to be considered in evaluating the legal protections afforded mutants under the law: the Genetic Information Nondiscrimination Act, or GINA.
I. GINA and Mutant Genetics: A Primer.
GINA represents a historic achievement. Enacted in 2008 after 13 years of debate, many have called it the "first civil rights bill of the 21st century." Five years later it remains the first and only piece of federal legislation to specifically address the use and effects of genetic information.
Broadly speaking, GINA is divided into two parts. Title I of GINA prohibits health insurers from using genetic information to deny coverage or to set premiums or payment rates. Title II prohibits employers from requesting genetic information or using genetic information in hiring, firing and other employment-related decisions.
GINA's unique focus on genetic information makes the law of particular relevance to mutants. "Mutants," as we now know thanks to decades of research by devoted and largely off-panel comic book scientists, are individuals who possess at least one mutated copy of the so-called "X-Gene." The gene appears to promote the development of superhuman powers and abilities, typically post-puberty.
While much remains unknown about the X-Gene's structure and function, scientists specializing in mutant genetics have isolated its protein product(s) as evidenced by the deployment of mutant suppression drugs in X-Men: The Last Stand (the drug in question is derived from the mutant Leech). From this we can extrapolate that the location of the X-Gene in the Homo sapiens genome is known and, importantly, that mutations within the gene can be identified through genotyping or even targeted sequencing of the X-Gene itself.
With the identification of the X-Gene and the subsequent decline in cost of genomic sequencing technology, there are a number of scenarios in which a genetic test to "diagnose" a mutant at an early stage, particularly before he or she has developed any superhuman (and frequently super-destructive) abilities, might be desirable. But in light of GINA's passage, are such genetic tests legal?
II. Mutant Discrimination in a Post-GINA World.
We start with a pair of scenarios in which genetic testing for the X-Gene might be of interest.
First, a health insurer could require applicants to submit to testing in an attempt to screen in individuals with beneficial mutations (e.g., those resulting in unique healing abilities) or screen out individuals with X-Gene mutations capable of generating catastrophic levels of claims exposure (e.g., as a result of an at-times-uncontrollable ability to rearrange matter), thereby helping to more accurately project the insurer's exposure.
Second, an employer might use the X-Gene test to gain valuable insight about a prospective hire. For instance, a research laboratory might use the X-Gene diagnostic test to double-check that the reserved but well-qualified physicist it is considering for an open position won't demolish the lab – and everyone and everything within it – if an experiment goes awry.
Prior to GINA's passage, testing in either scenario would have at least been arguably permissible, although various other anti-discrimination laws, including those discussed in previous posts, might have served as the basis for an effective challenge. Post-GINA, however, the analysis is crystal clear: both of the above examples of X-Gene screening are illegal.
The text of the statute itself offers no ambiguity:
Although Congress did provide limited exceptions to the general prohibition on requesting and using genetic information in the insurance and employment contexts, none of the exceptions are targeted at mutants, tests specifically designed to test for X-Gene mutations or are otherwise applicable to the scenarios discussed above.
III. Professor Xavier and Pro-Mutant Genetic Discrimination
While GINA may operate to protect mutants from certain forms of genetic discrimination, we should not forget that the statute is crafted broadly and protects against the misuse of any individual's genetic information. In other words, just as mutants are protected by GINA, so too are they bound by it.
Consider the case of Professor Xavier's world-renowned school, variously referred to as "Xavier's School for Gifted Youngsters" and the "Xavier Institute for Higher Learning."
While little is known of Xavier's closely-guarded school, it appears to satisfy the definition of an employer subject to Title II of GINA. (GINA applies to all private employers with 15 or more employees. With roughly a dozen identified faculty members, and likely additional faculty members and administrative and support staff on the payroll, Xavier's school likely crosses the 15-person threshold.)
Xavier's school also has an unbroken track record of employing mutants as faculty. While it may seem logical and even desirable to employ mutants in a school dedicated to the education and training of mutants, GINA prohibits the use of genetic information in hiring and other job-related decisions without exception. Even in situations where genetic information might appear to be a legitimate criterion for assessing fitness to perform a particular job, GINA forbids its use by an employer.
Of course, it is highly unlikely that Xavier requires prospective faculty members to submit to a traditional genetic test as a condition of their application and/or hiring. In addition to his well-known psionic powers which allow him to identify mutants using only his mind, many or all of the individuals applying to work at the school have manifest mutant powers. Nevertheless, GINA is clear that genetic information, however acquired, may not be used "in regard to hiring, discharge, compensation, terms, conditions, or privileges of employment." 29 CFR § 1635.4. No matter how he comes by the information, if Xavier is indeed using genetic information in employment-related decisions, this would be a clear violation of GINA.
Since none of Xavier's existing faculty members are likely to bring a discrimination claim, how might one arise? The most likely scenario: a gifted but non-mutant individual, perhaps one even possessed of other superpowers derived from, for example, an alien genesis or technological enhancements, seeks a position at Xavier's school as an instructor but is turned away. Such an individual would be well-positioned to bring a successful genetic discrimination claim under GINA against Professor Xavier and his school. The Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC), the federal agency responsible for enforcing Title II of GINA, provides detailed instructions for filing just such a charge.
As with any new piece of legislation, it will take some time before GINA's full implications for both mutants and humans become clear. Final regulations for Title II of GINA were published in 2010, but public examples of GINA-in-action remain few and far between, and illustrate the many uncertainties and difficulties of enforcement. For example, given the EEOC's difficulty subpoenaing documents from Nestle in a recent enforcement action, one can only imagine the considerable challenges that would await the Commission in attempting to gather the evidence needed to successfully establish a claim of discrimination under GINA.
Nonetheless, the law of GINA is clear, and the coming years may require the Commission and other regulatory bodies to overcome those challenges in order to appropriately enforce GINA both for and against the mutant population. Count on Law and the Multiverse and the Genomics Law Report to continue to keep you apprised of all the latest in GINA, mutants and genetic discrimination law.
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The art of Valery Gergiev is in great demand throughout the world. The maestro is a remarkable representative of the St Petersburg performing school and a former pupil of the legendary Professor Ilya Musin. While still a student at the Leningrad Conservatoire, Gergiev won the incredibly prestigious Herbert von Karajan Conducting Competition as well as the All-Union Conducting Competition in Moscow and was invited to join the Kirov (now the Mariinsky) Theatre, where at the age of thirty-five he was appointed Artistic Director of the Opera Company, while since 1996 he has been Artistic and General Director of the theatre.
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Valery Gergiev is the founder and artistic director of many international music festivals including For Peace in the Caucasus (Vladikavkaz), the Mikkeli Festival (Finland), the Red Sea Festival (Eilat), the Kirov Philharmonic (London), the Rotterdam Philharmonic-Gergiev Festival (the Netherlands) and the Moscow Easter Festival. He organised and ran a Musorgsky Festival (1988), Prokofiev Festivals (1991 and 1992), presenting a wide spectrum of the composer's works including four opera premieres (War and Peace, Love for Three Oranges, The Gambler and Fiery Angel), several symphonies and cantata-oratory works, and a Rimsky-Korsakov in the 20th Century festival (1994), which greatly influenced world musical culture. Lastly, of course, Valery Gergiev is also the inspiration and energy behind St Petersburg's annual Stars of the White Nights festival, which he established in 1993.
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Under Valery Gergiev's management, the Mariinsky Theatre has toured extensively, performing to great acclaim in countries all over Europe, in North and South America, China, Japan and Australia.
Special mention must be made of the now long established partnership between Maestro Gergiev and Philips, which has resulted in the production of over thirty compact disc recordings. Together with the Mariinsky Theatre and Rotterdam Philharmonic Orchestras, he has conducted recordings of operas, ballets and concert programmes from his vast repertoire which includes works by Russian and non-Russian composers alike, among them Glinka, Tchaikovsky, Musorgsky, Rimsky-Korsakov, Stravinsky, Shostakovich, Prokofiev, Bizet, Berlioz, Verdi, Brahms and Bruckner.
Valery Gergiev holds the title of People's Artist of Russia (1996). In the same year, the jury of the International Classical Music Awards conferred upon him the title of Conductor of the Year. He was awarded the State Prize of Russia in 1994 and 1999. In 1998, Philips Electronics awarded Maestro Gergiev a special prize for his outstanding contribution to music, which he donated to the development of the Mariinsky Academy of Young Singers. In 2000, he was awarded Russia's prestigious Order of Friendship and Armenia's Order of St Mesrop Mashtots. Valery Gergiev has also been decorated with Germany's Bundesverdienstkreuz (first class), Italy's Grand Ufficiale al Merito and France's L'Ordre des Arts et des Lettres. In 2002, he received the Russian Presidential Prize for his outstanding contribution to arts and sciences. In March 2003, he was made an Artist of the World by UNESCO. In April 2003, he was decorated with the order For Services to the Fatherland, third class, for his contributions to music. In June 2003, the Patriarch of All Russia Alexei II awarded Valery Gergiev the Order of St Prince Daniil of Moscow of the Russian Orthodox Church, third class, for participating in charitable and cultural programmes of the Russian Orthodox Church. In November 2003, Valery Gergiev was presented with the National Pride of Russia award in the category "For an outstanding contribution to cultural development" and Russia's highest public award For Work and the Fatherland.
In January 2004 he was awarded the Crystal Prize for his dedication to the arts and his contribution to cultural dialogue; the prize was presented by the World Economic Forum in Davos. In April, Valery Gergiev was made a People's Artist of Ukraine, the country's highest State award, in recognition of his "important contribution to the development of cultural relations between Ukraine and Russia and his many years of fruitful activity".
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Handzus has now skipped the past three on-ice workouts for the Blackhawks. Quenneville was asked if he is nursing a minor injury that he can still play through.
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Ben Smith replaced Handzus on the second line during practice. The Blackhawks rotated their defensemen in and out of positions, but if Keith is indeed fine, the same six that played in Game 1 of the Western Conference Semifinals against the Detroit Red Wings are expected to be in the lineup Saturday afternoon for Game 2.
Viktor Stalberg remained on a line with other healthy scratches. He was not in the lineup for Game 1, which has led to three days of stories about why and when he might be back. Stalberg had nine goals and 23 points in 47 games during the regular season, and had dressed for each of the team's 18 playoff contests in the past three years.


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I wanted to take this opportunity to thank the Girl Scouts and Boy Scouts for their generosity in painting the playground equipment at our school for their community project. They, along with their parents, spent many hours on weekends and after school to paint swings, monkey bars, etc… beautiful vibrant colors. "Wow! Who did this? Our playground looks beautiful!" was the reaction by students and staff alike. We are fortunate to serve a community that supports our school. Our students are learning life lessons of the importance of giving back to the community.
On May 14 my wife and I got the phone call no parent wants to get. Our daughter called screaming, "Help Me Mommy." She was calling from inside her SUV that she had lost control of and overturned. We immediately called 911 and a State Trooper was there within a minute of our call. Emily was taken to Carroll County Memorial Hospital where we were told that she had a broken back. She was transferred to Kosair Children's Hospital. She had surgery to repair her back, but will need extensive rehab for the next couple of months.
At the end of each legislative session, there are always several issues that remain unresolved, often because others dominate discussions or time simply runs out.
The 2009 Regular Session was a textbook example of both of those in action. With less than two dozen days to debate bills, the General Assembly focused most of its attention on overcoming a sizeable budget deficit; significantly reforming the testing system that measures school progress; enacting a major highway plan; and implementing a better, more cost-effective approach to treating non-violent drug offenders.
The government has seen fit to subsidize two automobile manufacturers with billions of dollars of our (and our children's) tax money. If one is the recipient of "free" money from the government I'm sure there is reason to celebrate, but what of those who are not receiving government largesse?
Music on Main is this Friday night. The City of Eminence wants to invite everyone to attend. This is a night full of fellowship, food, fun and live music. The live music will be provided by another local band, the Sugarfoot Band! The night will start at 5:30 with a great selection of food — Eminence Christian Church will have a fish fry and Wesley Morrison will have some Hot Diggity Dawgs! The live band will take the stage at 7, and will play until 11. There will also be some fun for the kids.
When the drafters of Kentucky's constitution wrote the section on special legislative sessions more than a century ago, they gave the governor the authority to call them and set the agenda, but left it up to the General Assembly to decide what, if anything, should become law.
With that in mind, Governor Beshear last week formally called legislators to return to Frankfort on June 15. Not surprisingly, his first priority is overcoming a billion-dollar shortfall for the upcoming fiscal year, which begins in July.
In the past the City of Pleasureville has had no luck in retaining a police officer. They complain there is not enough "action" in Pleasureville. Since the city cannot afford to pay overtime, an officer would only be allowed to work 40 hours. That leaves 128-hours per week the town is not covered. We have more protection day and night when we don't have an officer; through the Kentucky State Police and the Henry County Sheriff's Office. There are only three women at our Commission meetings that complain of not having an officer.
Memorial Day is a day set aside for us as Americans to remember those who have fought and died for our country and I would like to thank all the men and women who have fought and died for our country, and I would like to thank all the men and women who have given the ultimate sacrifice for our country over the years.
People the world over are governed by rules and regulations – far too many in my humble opinion. The ones that irk me the most are those aimed at protecting us from our own actions – like the mandatory seatbelt law, or, in many states, the mandatory helmet law for motorcyclists. I know, I know – many of these laws save lives. But I believe folks ought to have the right to act unwisely in matters affecting only themselves. The Bill of Rights should have had a clause to the affect that people have the right to be dumb about their own welfare if they choose.
I recently saw where the HCHS senior prom and the EHS prom were held in Louisville. My question is why couldn't the proms be held at their respective high school gyms?
When I went to school, the high school gym was a suitable place for the senior prom, but it seems the grown ups are sending the seniors the wrong message by saying that the seniors are better than the seniors who came before them like myself.
I hope everyone will come to their senses and start holding the senior proms at the high school gyms again.
While there are still a few reports of the H1N1 (or swine) flu being diagnosed across the state, it is looking more and more likely that our fears of a more serious outbreak will thankfully not come to pass.
But that, of course, does not mean we need to let our guard down.
Fortunately, that is even less likely to happen after the recent announcement by the University of Louisville that it has received a $2.3 million federal grant to help communities prepare for any possible large-scale public health outbreaks.
Recently this nation celebrated Memorial Day, a day set aside to honor those people who served in our military to fight our wars and to protect our families. Some served and returned home to family, others died and were buried on foreign soils because they believed in serving our country to protect the freedoms that their forefathers had fought and won on our behalf. The Gettysburg Address was probably the first public speech to honor those who fought in the civil war.
When he first came into our office, Bob McGee told me about Molly with a tear in his eye.
His faithful companion, with whom he walked nearly every day for as long as they were friends, had died.
McGee and Molly had a long relationship of master and loyal pooch. I understood the tears in his eyes.
Over the years I've had countless dogs —and cats — and seen them come and go. Koko the German Shepherd mix was one of my best friends when I was a child.
Whenever the General Assembly wants to take a more in-depth look at an issue affecting Kentucky, it often turns to its Program Review and Investigations Committee.
The subjects it covers are as wide ranging as state government. Two of its most recent reports, for example, dealt with re-entry programs for felons completing their prison sentence and the cost of college and high school textbooks.
My daughter and her husband recently brought home a tiny black puppy for their five children. All the kids immediately began fawning over him except Ellie, age 6, who harbors a desperate fear that he might bite her. She leaps onto a chair or to the top of the couch whenever he's around. While this reaction may sound reasonable, the truth is that this little creature weighs all of six pounds. The other morning I watched from a distance as she slowly and cautiously stretched out her little arm from the top of a riding toy to try petting him as he dashed around.
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You probably know that the Postal Service is big. To be able to serve the mailing needs of every American every business day, we have to be big! But we bet you didn't know that:
Henry County's Reigning Biggest Loser
"Matter cannot be created or destroyed." As a seventh-eighth grade science teacher I know that this is true. If you exercise to burn off more calories than you consume, you have to lose weight. As the reigning Biggest Loser of Henry County, I challenge Henry County Local readers to join the next Biggest Loser Contest.
This summer, I am encouraging Fourth District residents to join me in exercising more often. As you may know, obesity can cause numerous complications to your health. In Kentucky, more than twenty-seven percent of the population is obese. However, by becoming more physically active, we can reverse this dangerous trend and put ourselves on the right track to a healthier future.
In any given year, a little more than 10 percent of our country's population packs up its belongings and moves. Most don't go far: Two-thirds just re-locate to another area in the same county, and another fifth stay in the same state.
In today's economy, however, even our restless nature is taking a break. The U.S. Census Bureau confirmed that last month, when it reported our country's moving rate in 2008 was the lowest since the agency began tracking it in 1948.
Over the next few weeks, the House of Representatives will dedicate significant energy to debating a proposal that will increase utility bills, raise the price of a gallon of gas, push food prices to new heights and generally increase the cost of nearly every consumer product in an attempt to hastily address the issue of global climate change.
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In case you missed your weekly glance at the CFL transactions wire, Edmonton Eskimos linebacker A.J. Gass was suspended for one game after he threw an opponent's helmet across the field. (Mercifully, his head wasn't in it.)
You might think this was an extreme reaction by Gass. But then again, you didn't see what happened before Gass' outburst.
"[Opposing lineman Jeff] Pilon literally had my entire package in his hand and squeezed," Gass told the Edmonton Journal. "People think I flipped out for no reason, but I took the ball crushing. He violated me. I tried to walk away, and then he gave me a shot in the back so hard that I fell. When Comiskey came at me, I just couldn't take it anymore."
As far as bottom-of-the-pile terms go, "he violated me" isn't quite on a par with "he was giving him the business down there" ... but it's close.


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Oh what I would give to go back in time and rethink how I would spend those early days with my precious newborn! I can't, but I can pass on great information that I've since learned would have put us on a much better beginning.
It's kind of funny now how incredibly naive I was when it came to the immense responsibility of around the clock care. We genuinely thought we could handle a baby waking every 2.5 hours to eat, 24 hours a day.
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The universe is more complex than we imagined it to be a decade ago. Observations of distant supernovae, the cosmic microwave background, galaxies, clusters of galaxies, gamma-ray bursts, and gravitational lenses, now all indicate that the expansion of the universe is accelerating. It is as if the universe is filled with a sea of "dark energy," the pressure of which counteracts the pull of gravity on large scales.
The observations suggest a fundamental flaw in our understanding of the basic forces of nature. A wide variety of solutions have been proposed, ranging from modifications of General Relativity to new quantum fields. Observations related to dark energy now occupy a significant fraction of the observing time at major observatories. Each week, more than 20 new papers related to dark energy are published. Meanwhile, the international astronomical community is contemplating major investments in facilities aimed at better characterizing dark energy. The past decade marked the discovery of dark energy and the revelation of our profound ignorance of the cosmos. Dark-energy research over the next decade may well lead the way to a deeper understanding of the laws of physics.
The Space Telescope Science Institute's 2008 May Symposium: A Decade of Dark Energy, focused on cutting-edge issues in the study of dark energy. The conference, which was held May 5-8, included:
- Presentations of the latest observational results,
- Reviews and discussion of theoretical advances -- including the connection to other areas of fundamental physics,
- Discussion of ways to differentiate between models and figures of merit for optimizing future observations,
- Outlines of future dark-energy projects, and
- Discussion of measurement techniques and challenges, focusing on advances since the Dark Energy Task Force report.
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|Gary Bernstein
|Chris Blake
|James Braatz
|Sarah Bridle
|Asantha Cooray
|Ruth Daly
|Daniel Eisenstein
|Alex Filippenko
|Brenna Flaugher
|Wendy Freedman
|Henk Hoekstra
|Wayne Hu
|Lam Hui
|Dragan Huterer
|Jai-chan Hwang
|Bhuvnesh Jain
|Saurabh Jha
|Robert Kirshner
|Lawrence Krauss
|Tod Lauer
|Mario Livio
|Ishwaree Neupane
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|John Peacock
|William Percival
|Saul Perlmutter
|Valeria Pettorino
|Adam Riess
|Paul Steinhardt
|Mark Sullivan
|Michael Turner
|Tony Tyson
|Licia Verde
|Yun Wang
|Scott Watson
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|Norbert Pirzkal
|Jonathan Bagger
|Chuck Bennett
|Van Dixon
|S. Michael Fall
|Andrew Fruchter
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4 cups all purpose flour
1 pkg. dry active yeast
1 cup warm milk, scalded & skimmed
1/2 cup granulated sugar
1/3 cup butter, melted
1 tsp. salt
2 eggs
Bun filling:
2 granny smith apples, peeled, cored, and diced small
1 cup brown sugar, firmly packed
3 Tbsp. cinnamon
1/3 cup unsalted butter, softened
Dissolve yeast in warm milk.
Cream together sugar, butter, eggs, and salt. Add flour. Turn the dough out onto a lightly floured surface and knead until smooth.
Place in a very lightly greased bowl, turning once to grease top. Cover and let rise in a warm place free from draft from a minimum of 1 hour until dough as nearly doubled in size. Can be refrigerated overnight.
When dough is ready, in a separate bowl mix brown sugar and cinnamon and apples.
Punch down dough and roll out on a lightly floured surface. Roll the dough into a rectangle shape about 1/4" thick. Spread the softened butter, from the filling, evenly over the surface of the dough, and sprinkle evenly with apple cinnamon sugar mixture. Roll up the dough like a jelly roll.
Cut the rolled dough into 1 3/4" slices and place on a parchment lined baking sheet, allow about 1" of space between each roll. Put rolls into a warm place and allow to double in size, approximately 30 minutes.
Bake at 350 degrees F for 15 to 25 minutes until lightly golden. Ice the rolls when still warm.
Cream Cheese Drizzle
2 sticks butter, softened
3 cups confectioners' sugar
1/2 cup cream cheese
1 tsp. vanilla extract
1/4 tsp. salt
Whip together all ingredients. Drizzle over warm buns.


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Waechter, Berg to be inducted into school's Wall of Fame
The Moose Lake Community Schools' Wall of Fame induction ceremony sponsored by First National Bank of Moose Lake will be held at halftime of the boy's basketball game against Barnum at the Moose Lake High School on Friday, February 22. The varsity basketball game is scheduled to start at approximately 7 p.m.
The inductees of the 2013 class are Dianne Berg and Lawrence Waechter. Berg is a graduate of Moose Lake High School and Waechter is a former teacher. Come celebrate with the families of the inductees at the induction ceremony.
Lawrence David Waechter began teaching at Moose Lake High School in the fall of 1965 after graduating from UMD with a degree in secondary math education.
During his tenure, he received a Masters in Physics and Mathematics at St. Cloud University. Dave, as he was known, taught upper level math courses in trigonometry, geometry and algebra.
Waechter was the first coach of the Math League and Knowledge Bowl teams at Moose Lake High School. He was a Math League coach for 25 years and a Knowledge Bowl coach for as many years. He coached the Math League team to the state championship in 1992 and the Knowledge Bowl team to state championships in 2000 and 2001.
Waechter was a mentor to many of his students, helping them develop their skills in and out of the classroom. He served as Junior Class Adviser for 30 years and helped to coordinate numerous magazine sale fundraisers, homecoming ceremonies, and proms.
He was a Firearm Safety Instructor for 20 years. Waechter started the "Pi Day" tradition at Moose Lake High School, which is now celebrated every March 14. During his last year of teaching, he was actively involved in bringing postsecondary math courses to Moose Lake High School through Fond du Lac Tribal & Community College that he also taught. He retired in August 2006 after teaching for 41 years.
Dianne Berg
Dianne Berg graduated from Moose Lake High School in 1982. Berg participated in multiple state tournament teams from 1979-82.
During her junior year, she was a member of state championship teams in volleyball and softball. As a senior, Berg helped her teams earn the 1981-82 "Triple Crown" state championships in volleyball, basketball and softball.
Berg earned a full athletic scholarship to play volleyball at the University of Missouri, where she set many blocking records and was the first volleyball player inducted into the University of Missouri Hall of Fame in 2008.
Berg earned a Bachelor's degree from the University of Missouri and a Master's and Doctorate degree in Counseling Psychology from the University of Illinois. She joined the faculty at the University of Minnesota as an assistant professor in 2001.
Her areas of interest are compulsive sexual behavior, transgender issues and the treatment of sex offenders.


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