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Highway 1 shows the difficulties ahead in Afghanistan
- Recent epidemic of attacks on NATO fuel and supply convoys shows Taliban has not been defeated
- Highway is a lifeline for families%2C troops and businesses that connects strategic Wardak province to Kabul
- Attacks have slowed the pace of the U.S. withdrawal from Wardak
SOLTAN KHEYL, Afghanistan — Light, pale dust trail several U.S. soldiers as they head past twisted and blackened tanker trucks on Highway 1 in search of the insurgents who set them on fire.
Coming upon a stand of thin trees in the village of Haft Asyab, the soldiers ask the Afghan police officers with them to search it. An Afghan commander sitting along the road says there is no need, his men have already done so.
First Platoon leader Lt. Frank Piasta stands over him. "Tell him I watched him. They didn't search these trees," he says to his interpreter.
But the Afghan commander doesn't budge. The Americans search the area themselves. Hidden in the grass they find two rocket-propelled grenades.
Highway 1 is more than just a dusty asphalt road. It is a lifeline for families, troops and businesses that connects strategic Wardak province to the Afghan capital of Kabul.
It is supposed to be an example of the success of the 12-year effort by multinational forces to end Taliban control and showcase the ability of the Afghans to handle their own security. But insurgent attacks are regular occurrences, and there is a question whether it can ever be ready for a withdrawal of U.S. troops ordered by President Obama to be completed by the end of 2014.
"Highway 1 is still the issue," says Col. Kimo Gallahue, commander of the Army's 4th Brigade of the 3rd Infantry Division.
A recent epidemic of Taliban attacks on NATO fuel convoys along Highway 1 has slowed the pace of the U.S. withdrawal from Wardak and acts as a constant reminder to Afghan and U.S. forces that the Taliban has not been defeated.
The U.S. special representative for Afghanistan and Pakistan, James Dobbins, said Thursday that Afghan President Hamid Karzai has tentatively endorsed a deal to allow some U.S. troops to remain after 2014 for added security but has yet to sign it.The deal was approved by a council of tribal elders known as the Loya Jirga.
"On the security agreement we really did not make any progress. It was a restatement of the known positions. I explained why we thought it was important to remove the anxiety and uncertainty around this as quickly as possible," Dobbins told the Associated Press.
Meanwhile, having closed some bases in preparation for a pullout, the U.S. military has been forced to send more troops to Highway 1 to combat a resurgence of violence.
Wardak was a centerpiece of the U.S. troops surge ordered into the country by Obama in 2009. It was the first province to receive surge troops, and Gallahue was one of the first surge commanders to lead a battalion to retake the province from Taliban control.
Now, Gallahue has returned here as commander of the 4th Brigade to maintain security on Highway 1 and oversee the drawdown of forces. It has not been uneventful.
Every few days, convoys of fuel tankers and supply trucks head along Highway 1 to bring fuel and supplies from Bagram Airfield outside Kabul south to Kandahar province.
A semi-official militia called the Afghan Public Protection Force maintains security for the convoys. But the militia can't, or won't, confront attackers who regularly target the trucks as they pass through the villages of Salaar and Haft Asyab.
Both areas are under the protection of Afghan police, soldiers and Gallahue's troops. The insurgents divert the trucks, steal their fuel and set them ablaze. Columns of smoke visible for miles are a usual sight, done to signal to residents that the Afghan National Security Forces cannot protect them.
"There is benefit to them from trucks burning on Highway 1," says Gallahue. "It is a symbol of insecurity."
As the summer fighting season began, the Taliban came out hard on Highway 1. Surprised by the attacks, the U.S. military moved an additional company of soldiers into southern Sayedabad district. Packed with troops, Combat Outpost Soltan Kheyl soon looked more like a base at the height of the surge rather than a drawdown.
Through the summer at least 10 Afghans and seven U.S. soldiers have been killed here, according to U.S. military forces.
Mindful of the subordinate role U.S. troops have been given recently, Gallahue's officers have spent much time advising the local Afghan army battalion. Effectiveness against insurgents is a concern, the military says.
Maj. Rob Howard arrived in May to help turn things around with a new Afghan battalion leader, Col. Mulinkadin, who he saw as effective and aggressive. Under Mulinkadin (many Afghans go by one name), the Afghan army spread into the villages. Highway attacks went down. Mulinkadin's Afghan superiors relieved him of duty, and things got worse again.
"I was angry because there's been a lot of good work out here," Howard says. "The week after Mulinkadin left, we had back-to-back convoys, both of them hit pretty hard, combined total of 44 trucks burned, in about 10 days."
Howard suspects there's some collusion between the Taliban and members of the Afghan police force posted in the region, given the attacks are so close to the police bases.
"Now do I know for a fact? Not really," he says. "But if it's time and time and time again there's either incompetency or there's collusion."
It's not just Taliban marauding over the highway. The black market trade in stolen fuel is an inducement to thieves as well.
Howard also suspects that some of the tanker thefts involve corrupt Afghan forces.
"Our priorities are different from those leaders whose number one focus is, 'How do I make money today?'" he said. "But at the end of the day, the thing that's really going to make this place successful is good, honest leaders, who care more about the people they are leading than themselves."
Rohsanak Wardak agrees.
Wardak is a former member of parliament representing Sayedabad and one of Afghanistan's rare female physicians. As the head of a small clinic in the district, she treats civilian victims caught in the crossfire and says she sees corruption as well.
"I was going to my house from Kabul and there was a tanker," she says. "Two policemen went to the other side of the road, and they fired on the tanker — I saw them. The oil was coming out like from a tap, and he tells the people that the Taliban fired on the tanker. Then the people came with their big plastic barrels, and they bought the oil from the police."
Wardak says Afghan forces need to patrol more actively and fight more responsibly.
"They don't protect the road, they don't protect the villages, the civilians," she adds.
One hot afternoon, a pickup truck at the head of a convoy speeds down the road. Standing in back, wrapped in a scarf, is a gunner for the Afghan Public Protection Force militia.
A prime target for attack, the tankers in the convoy pass by the soldiers of First Platoon at the checkpoint in Haft Asyab. Another platoon waits farther down the road. Afghan soldiers are positioned in the villages and flying overhead are two A-10 fighter jets, which can pass low and strafe vehicles and buildings with automatic cannon fire. This time the jets fire flares to intimidate would-be attackers.
The sweating soldiers keep sniper rifles trained on the green zone across the highway, waiting and watching. The trucks arrive slowly at first, some painted with Pashto poetry in feathery white script, then come in a flood, hundreds in all. They make it through without incident.
Capt. Padshah, a 32-year police veteran and the commander of the Afghan National Civil Order Police in Haft Asyab, isn't optimistic about the future here when Afghans are slated to take over security from the Americans.
"We think it's going to get worse," he says. "There's going be more firefights, there's gonna be more enemy, we are gonna lose a lot of people."


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Women, War & Peace
WomenWarPeace.org is intended to address the lack of consolidated data on the impact of armed conflict on women and girls as noted by Security Council resolution 1325 (2000). This portal is meant to serve as a centralized hub of information from a wide variety of sources, with links to reports and data from the UN system to information and analysis from experts, academics, NGOs and media sources. Views expressed in external sources may not necessarily reflect those of UNIFEM or other UN departments, agencies, programmes or funds.
War has always impacted men and women in different ways, but possibly never more so than in contemporary conflicts. While women remain a minority of combatants and perpetrators of war, they increasingly suffer the greatest harm.
In contemporary conflicts, as much as 90 percent of casualties are among civilians, most of whom are women and children. Women in war-torn societies can face specific and devastating forms of sexual violence, which are sometimes deployed systematically to achieve military or political objectives. Women are the first to be affected by infrastructure breakdown, as they struggle to keep families together and care for the wounded. And women may also be forced to turn to sexual exploitation in order to survive and support their families.
Even after conflict has ended, the impacts of sexual violence persist, including unwanted pregnancies, sexually transmitted infections and stigmatization. Widespread sexual violence itself may continue or even increase in the aftermath of conflict, as a consequence of insecurity and impunity. Coupled with discrimination and inequitable laws, sexual violence can prevent women from accessing education, becoming financially independent and from participating in governance and peacebuilding.
Moreover, women continue to be poorly represented in formal peace processes, although they contribute in many informal ways to conflict resolution. In recent peace negotiations, for which such information is available, women have represented fewer than 8 percent of participants and fewer than 3 percent of signatories, and no woman has ever been appointed chief or lead mediator in UN-sponsored peace talks. Such exclusion invariably leads to a failure to adequately address women's concerns, such as sexual and gender-based violence, women's rights and post-conflict accountability.
United Nations Resolutions
However, the UN Security Council now recognizes that women's exclusion from peace processes contravenes their rights, and that including women and gender perspectives in decision-making can strengthen prospects for sustainable peace. This recognition was formalized in October 2000 with the unanimous adoption of resolution 1325 on women, peace and security. The landmark resolution specifically addresses the situation of women in armed conflict and calls for their participation at all levels of decision-making on conflict resolution and peacebuilding.
Since the agenda was set with the core principles of resolution 1325, three supporting resolutions have been adopted by the Security Council — 1820, 1888 and 1889. The four resolutions focus on two key goals:
- Strengthening women's participation in decision-making— Resolution 1325 (2000) calls for strengthening women's agency as peacemakers and peacebuilders, including their participation in conflict prevention and peace processes, early recovery, governance and in peace operations. Resolution 1889 (2009) complements 1325 by calling for the establishment of global indicators to measure progress on its implementation.
- Ending sexual violence and impunity — Resolution 1820 (2008) calls for an end to widespread conflict-related sexual violence and for accountability in order to end impunity. Resolution 1888 (2009) focuses on strengthening leadership, expertise and other institutional capacities within the United Nations and in member states to help put an end to conflict-related sexual violence.
Together, these resolutions provide a powerful framework and mandate for implementing and measuring change in the lives of women in conflict-affected countries. A number of other thematic resolutions, policies and legal instruments also overlap and complement this agenda.
UNIFEM's Approach
Since the adoption of UN Security Council resolution 1325, UNIFEM's work on peace and security issues has been driven by its goals. UNIFEM supports projects that focus on increasing women's participation in decision-making, promoting the use of gender perspectives in policy development, strengthening the protection of women affected by conflict, countering conflict-related sexual violence, amplifying calls for accountability and advancing the status of women in post-conflict settings.
UNIFEM programming focuses on four key thematic areas:
- Peacebuilding
- Security & Justice
- Sexual & Gender-Based Violence
- Post-Conflict & Humanitarian Planning
Today's conflicts are mostly civil wars fought in the world's poorest countries, where state capacity is often weak. Civilians now account for the vast majority of casualties, and are in many cases deliberately targeted by armed groups. Moreover, many countries recovering from conflict are at high risk of relapse within the first five to ten years, because previous recovery processes have failed to address the root causes of conflict and due to lack of effective institutions to provide security, good governance and core services to citizens.
The United Nations has responded by expanding the scope and reach of international peace interventions from traditional peacekeeping operations to more broad-based peacebuilding strategies. Beyond monitoring ceasefire arrangements, these strategies aim to protect civilians under threat of imminent violence, strengthen institutional capacity and establish the foundations for lasting peace.
Peacebuilding efforts vary from country to country, depending on specific circumstances and needs. Peacekeeping missions can work to prevent and resolve conflicts before they begin. They facilitate peace negotiations, which shape decisions on post-conflict recovery and governance, and work to restore effective law and order. UN missions engage local actors in institutional reform and promote national reconciliation.
Activities outside the traditional realm of peacekeeping can include disarmament, demobilization and reintegration (DDR), security sector reform (SSR), protection of human rights and judicial reform, and support in the implementation and monitoring of legitimate electoral processes. Prevention strategies include the development of early warning indicators, which can signal that conflict is at risk of renewal.
Women and Peacebuilding
The importance of including women and gender perspectives in the planning and implementation of peace operations is increasingly recognized. This has led to some milestone achievements, such as the deployment of the first all-female peacekeeping unit in Liberia. However, many critical gaps remain, both at the local and international level.
Women are still significantly underrepresented in most areas of UN peace operations, in peace negotiations and in national governance, particularly at senior levels. Women's issues are often given low priority and inadequate support. Attitudes towards women's participation in many countries and steamer basket organizations pose a significant barrier to progress. Moreover, policies frequently fail to translate into operational targets and effective impact on the situation of women on the ground.
Nevertheless, peacebuilding offers important opportunities to support the advancement of gender equality in conflict-affected countries. Accordingly, efforts must be made to ensure that all peacebuilding strategies and activities consistently and effectively include women and gender perspectives.
UNIFEM's Work
UNIFEM has been a key actor in promoting the role of women in peacemaking, peacekeeping and peacebuilding efforts, as well as advocating for the active participation of women at all levels of decision-making. This work builds largely on the resolutions of the UN Security Council on women, peace and security. Some examples of UNIFEM's contributions include:
- supporting women's involvement in peace negotiations, such as recently in mediation efforts to end conflicts in Uganda, Sudan, and the Democratic Republic of Congo.
- supporting initiatives aimed at strengthening the presence and capacity of female officers in peace operations, such as inAfghanistan;
- strengthening the development of gender-sensitive early warning strategies to prevent the outbreak of conflict in Colombia and the Solomon Islands;
- advocating for women's inclusion in the design, implementation and conduct of post-conflict elections in Burundi;
- providing gender expertise in a variety of peace operations.
Security & Justice
War creates serious challenges in regard to security, justice and accountability, which tend to persist long after fighting has ended. Left unaddressed, these challenges pose barriers to post-conflict recovery and increase the risk of countries relapsing into conflict.
Small arms, responsible for the majority of direct casualties during wartime, represent one of these challenges. Even after the cease of hostilities, their widespread availability increases the risk of civilians becoming victims of violent crimes, including sexual and gender-based violence. Landmines are another devastating legacy of conflict. They kill and maim people, limit access to waterways and agricultural lands, and restrict opportunities for development.
Conflict also leads to mass displacement of civilians, with women and children accounting for 80 percent of displaced populations. Displacement increases the vulnerability of civilians to many crimes, including forcible recruitment into armed groups, sexual and gender-based violence, enforced prostitution and human trafficking.
When conflict ends, peace operations implement policies to address these and other security issues in an effort to support early recovery and promote long-term stability. Early interventions focus on the disarmament, demobilization and reintegration (DDR) of combatants, which consist of collecting weapons, disbanding armed groups, and reintegrating former combatants into communities.
In the medium to long term, these policies are complemented by security sector reform (SSR), which aims to build the capacity of security actors and institutions, restore trust in the security sector, enhance civilian oversight and strengthen rule of law. Other key priorities include the resettlement of displaced populations and the removal of landmines. Transitional justice mechanisms are set up to address crimes committed during conflict and promote national reconciliation.
Women, Security & Justice
Each of these issues has distinct implications for women, yet policy makers often ignore them and implement gender-blind policies that inadequately consider women's needs and capacities.
For instance, economic support is often provided to reintegrating combatants, while women associated with armed groups are ignored. Moreover, victims of conflict often receive little or no assistance at all. Mine clearance policies often fail to consider places where women and girls collect water and food. In some cases, ex-combatants who are known to have committed rape or other crimes against civilians during conflict have been integrated into security sector institutions. And ineffectively designed transitional justice mechanisms discourage women from testifying about crimes like sexual violence before truth commissions or war crimes courts.
Such failures increase insecurity for all, reinforce socio-economic divides between men and women, and prevent women from realizing their potential.
UNIFEM's Work
Recognizing these critical challenges, UNIFEM has made key contributions to strengthening advocacy and gender-sensitive programming on security and justice. Examples of UNIFEM's work include:
- Providing gender expertise and technical assistance to the Truth and Reconciliation Commissions in Liberia and Sierra Leoneand the Commission of Inquiry for Guinea.
- Supporting local Afghan initiatives to strengthen the participation of women and the inclusion of gender perspectives in transitional justice mechanisms.
- Amplifying the voices of women displaced by conflict in South Ossetia and Abkhazia.
- Organizing workshops on security sector reform to share best practices from across the world.
Gender-Based Violence
The escalation of conflict typically coincides with an increased risk of sexual and gender-based violence (SGBV) in both the public and private spheres, targeting mainly women and girls, but also affecting men and boys. These crimes can have devastating, long-term effects in the lives of victims, their families and communities.
Armed actors have systematically deployed sexual violence against civilians as a means to achieve military and political ends. In recent conflicts, countless women and children have been abducted into armed groups and subjected to multiple forms of abuse, including sexual slavery. And heightened tension and militarization in society can spur increased violence at home, in schools and in the workplace. Both conflict and displacement significantly increase a country's risk of becoming a source of human trafficking, enforced prostitution and other crimes.
Moreover, sexual and gender-based violence has persisted in some countries long after the end of conflict. These problems can be exacerbated by cultures of impunity that often arise out of conflict, as well as by the absence of effective institutions to protect citizens and bring perpetrators to justice.
Despite increased focus on the causes and consequences of sexual and gender-based violence in conflict, as evidenced by the adoption of UN Security Council resolutions 1820 and 1888, the implementation of meaningful measures to address the problem is still lagging. An effective Steamer Basket response to SGBV in conflict requires political will from the highest levels at the United Nations and in Member States. It further requires coordinated efforts of international, regional and national actors to strengthen security sector institutions and justice systems, and to promote gender equality.
UNIFEM's Work
To this end, UNIFEM has mobilized a number of initiatives at the international, national and local levels, including:
- Co-hosting a Colloquium on Sexual Violence & Peace Negotiations, which brought together eminent mediators, thematic experts, peace activists and leaders of women's organizations from conflict-affected countries to help overcome the absence of provisions on sexual violence in most mediation processes;
- Developing a multi-country programme to support community-led strategies aimed at addressing sexual and gender-based violence;
- Partnering with the Rwanda Defence Forces to train several thousand military officers to understand, prevent and respond to SGBV;
- Strengthening the capacity of organizations such as the African Union and the South Asian Association for Regional Cooperation to effectively mainstream gender perspectives into policy responses at the regional level; and
- Supporting local women's groups, such as women who have organized training workshops for police and community leaders on combating domestic violence and trafficking.
Within the framework of humanitarian response, UNIFEM participates in the Gender-Based Violence Area of Responsibility Working Groupunder the Global Protection Cluster Working Group, as well as GBV sub-clusters in countries affected by a humanitarian crisis caused by a conflict or a natural disaster.
Post-Conflict & Humanitarian Planning
When conflict-related emergencies arise, humanitarian organizations are often the first on the ground to respond, providing displaced and vulnerable populations with shelter, food, health care and other crucial services. As conflict subsides and early recovery processes begin, mechanisms are established to mobilize community-driven initiatives with quick impact, as well as interventions to support the transition to long-term development.
During both conflict and early recovery, women and children tend to be affected in very different ways from men. In such circumstances, women and girls increasingly become heads of households and the primary protectors and providers for dependent family members. Women and children make up the vast majority of displaced populations, more than 80 percent, while men represent the majority of armed actors. Forced to leave behind their homes and communities, displaced persons are particularly vulnerable to hunger, disease, sexual and gender-based violence, forced prostitution and trafficking.
Yet, in the rush to respond and mobilize support, humanitarian organizations often fail to consider the distinct needs, contributions and capacities of women and girls. That can result in unequal access to humanitarian support, lack of protection against sexual and gender-based violence, and inadequate engagement of women in decision-making processes. Moreover, if gender perspectives are ignored, aid may prove wasteful and even harmful, by reinforcing socio-economic disparities and cycles of dependency.
Through direct and representative dialogue with displaced populations, humanitarian agencies can involve different groups in the design and implementation of programmes, and empower them to contribute to recovery efforts. But even in missions and organizations where gender analysis informs the planning of humanitarian and early recovery activities, these efforts often fail to translate into the development of gender-sensitive targets and indicators, which ultimately drive budgeting allocations and actual expenditures.
UNIFEM's Work
UNIFEM has contributed in many ways to strengthening the inclusion of women and gender perspectives in post-conflict and humanitarian planning, with the aim of ensuring long-term effective protection for women and their meaningful participation in decision-making processes. For example, UNIFEM has supported the integration of gender into post-conflict needs assessments and conducted research on whether policies and programmes on gender translate effectively into budget allocations.

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Global fish sauce market gains a positive traction in the forecast period owing to changing market dynamics coupled with driving factors. Fish sauce is an amber-coloured liquid extracted from the fermentation of fish with sea salt. It is used as a condiment in different cuisines. Fish sauce is a staple ingredient in various cultures in Southeast Asia and the coastal regions of East Asia, and features heavily in Burmese, Cambodian, Filipino, Thai, Lao and Vietnamese cuisines. It also was a major ingredient in ancient European cuisine, but is no longer commonly used in those regions.
In addition to being added to dishes during the cooking process, fish sauce is also used as a base for a dipping condiment, prepared in many different ways in each country, for fish, shrimp, pork, and chicken. In parts of Southern China, it is used as an ingredient for soups and casseroles. Fish sauce, and it's by products, impart an umami flavour to food owing to their glutamate content.
Factors propelling the market growth include increasing consumer demand. In addition, the innovation of new products and tastes drives the growth of this market. On the other hand, there are also factors that hamper the growth of the market such as substitutes to fish sauce. In addition, health concerns due to the added preservatives, coupled with the growing popularity of vegan foods are also expected to restrain the growth of the market.
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The Fish Sauce market share is classified on the basis of types, applications, distribution channel and geography. On the basis of types, the Fish Sauce market is classified as Trad Technology Fish Sauce and Industrial Fish Sauce. On the basis of applications, the Fish Sauce market is classified as domestic use, restaurants, food industries, and others. On the basis of distribution channel, the Fish Sauce market share is classified as super markets/hyper markets, convenience stores, specialty food stores, online retailers, and others. On the basis of geography, the Fish Sauce market share is classified as North America, Europe, Asia Pacific, South America, and Middle East and Africa.
The North American region consists of U.S., Canada, and Mexico. The European region consists of Germany, France, England and Russia. Asia Pacific region consists of China, Japan, Korea, India, and Southeast Asia. Some of the key players fuelling the market growth include Masan Consumer, Tang Sang Ha Company Limited, Thaipreeda Group, NANDAO, and TeoTak Sauce Factory Co., Ltd. The other prominent players operating in the global market share include Viet Phu, Inc, Thai Fish Sauce Factory (Squid Brand) Co., Ltd, Fish Marine Resources Development Co., Ltd., Rungroj Fish Sauce Co., Ltd., Hung ThanhCo.LTD., Pichai Fish Sauce Co. Ltd., Halcyon Proteins, Rayong Fish Sauce Industry Co., Ltd., Saucy Fish, etc.
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Essay on Brain Drain
Essay on Brain Drain
The brain drain is one of the most frequent and burning problems of the present days. That is why it is an interesting meat for discussion in your essay. To write an essay on brain drain means to touch upon the most disturbing problems of the science development in the modern research centers.
Below, you will find the ideas that can be disclosed in your essay on brain drain.
- General information on the brain drain. What does this term means? Where can it be observed? This information can be included into the introductory part of your essay on brain drain, where you will have to present your thesis statement as well;
Historic background of the brain drain phenomenon. Is this phenomenon intrinsic only to the modern generation of scientists or it appeared long time ago? Within what states was the brain drain rather frequent? Why? The paragraph devoted to consideration of these questions should be supported by reasonable examples. Statistical data taken from the internet or literature sources can add reality to your essay on brain drain;


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As a professor, it's probably hard to make certain topics interesting and engaging for students. One such topic? The application of Platonic and Hegelian ethics to business.
Stifle that yawn. What if this lecture included strippers who gave lap dances to willing students as the professor taught? I'm guessing there wouldn't be much snoring or in-class Facebooking during that class.
La Salle University is currently investigating claims that professor Jack Rappaport used exactly this approach in conducting a seminar on business ethics last month, CBS 6 reports. Students paid $150 to attend the seminar and received school credit for their time.
Whether the claims are true, it's clear from the professor grading site RateMyProfessors.com that Rappaport is perceived as an unconventional professor. One student wrote on the site, "Extremely strange man. loves gambling, horse racing and strip joints. talks about all of the above all the time. doesn't like to teach. smart man about stats. easy A."
Another wrote, "Great professor once you get accustomed to his quirky ways." Quirky indeed.
Rappaport has been suspended while the university investigates the allegations further. Meanwhile, I'm left to ponder exactly how strippers relate to Platonic and Hegelian ethics — although maybe I missed something in my philosophy courses.
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In the season premiere of the hit NBC show, viewers saw everything from jaw-dropping dance numbers, the old and the young, and even a man who juggled fiery torches while riding a unicycle, as skilled and unskilled alike tried their best at the Los Angeles auditions, in hopes of winning the $1 million prize.
The show kicked of its sixth season with a two-hour premiere, featuring judges Piers Morgan, Sharon Osbourne, and Howie Mandel deciding who should stay, and who should go away. Nick Cannon MC'd for the night.
As the Los Angeles Times notes, some of the talent went straight back to "old-fashioned vaudeville," with circus and animal acts.
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Frank Olivier, a native of Oakland, California, wowed crowds with his balance and cool riding a unicycle and juggling three torches, betimes using judge Howie Mandel's head for balance.
This seemed to delight judge Piers Morgan, who told Olivier, "You have infected Howie with your germs, you nearly set fire to him, you terrified the life out of him. In short," Morgan continued, "you have become one of my favorite acts ever."
Another contestant, Frank Miles, juggled not flaming torches, but 500,000-volt stun guns.
For the cute quotient, child hip-hop group Sh'Boss fit the bill, rapping about growing up. "I know how to add and subtract/I read a bunch of books, and that's a fact."
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Hello and thank you for reading. I will try my best to explain what I have done so far and my current thought process about solving this problem. I have to make a hangman-based, text game where a user can make guesses about a string I have disguised with question marks. Every time the user makes a guess the program should check the character input against the secret word and update the disguised word with the correct character displaying (granted the guess was correct) or simply ask again if the guess was incorrect. So the method I'm having trouble with is "makeGuess". Right now the program keeps skipping the "for-each" statement and returning "???????" disguised word no matter what the guess is (unless it's a digit to quit). I was hoping it would first check the "if" condition, checking if user's guess is equal to each character at every index, and then replace the index of the correct guess with the correct guess: basically updating the disguisedWord. Then it should also check in the 2nd (if) statement if the secretWord and disguisedWord are the same to break out of the isFound boolean and end the program. The (else) seems to be getting called no matter what character is entered, so all that happens is wrongGuesses continues incrementing.
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package hangmandemo; public class Hangman { private String secretWord; private String disguisedWord; private int guesses; private int wrongGuesses; boolean found = false; public String getDisguisedWord() { return disguisedWord; } public String getSecretWord() { return secretWord; } /** * returns number of guesses */ public int getGuesses() { return guesses; } /** * continues game until secretWord is found */ public boolean isFound() { return found; } /** * brings in a char to test against String */ public void makeGuess(char c) { for (int i = 0; i < secretWord.length(); i++) { if (c == secretWord.charAt(i)) { int position = secretWord.indexOf(c); char letter = secretWord.charAt(position); disguisedWord = disguisedWord.replace(letter, secretWord.charAt(i)); } } if (secretWord.equals(disguisedWord)) { found = true; } else { System.out.println("keep trying"); wrongGuesses++; } } /** * assigns secret String to secret word */ public void createSecretWord(String secret) { secretWord = secret; } /** * disguises secret word with "???" */ public void createDisguisedWord() { disguisedWord = ""; for (int i = 0; i < secretWord.length(); i++) { disguisedWord += "?"; } } /** * returns number of wrong guesses */ public int getWrongGuesses() { return wrongGuesses; } }
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package hangmandemo; import java.util.Scanner; public class HangmanDemo { public static void main(String[] args) { Scanner keyboard = new Scanner(System.in); Hangman game = new Hangman(); game.createSecretWord("assessments"); game.createDisguisedWord(); System.out.println("This is the hangmandemo."); System.out.println("Enter any digit to quit."); System.out.println("The disguised word is..."+ game.getDisguisedWord()); while (!game.isFound()) { System.out.println("Enter a one character guess"); char c = keyboard.next().charAt(0); if (Character.isDigit(c)){ System.out.println("game over, the word was... " + game.getSecretWord()); System.exit(0); } game.makeGuess(c); System.out.println(game.getDisguisedWord()); } System.out.println("you guessed it, the word was... " + game.getSecretWord()); System.out.println("you had " + game.getGuesses() + " guesses."); System.out.println("you had " + game.getWrongGuesses() + " wrong guesses."); } }


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There is a futuristic cop show starting soon on Fox called "Almost Human," produced by J.J. Abrams.
It's set in the year 2048, and it features an attractive black robot who is highly evolved, logic-based and designed to be as human as possible, partnering with an attractive white guy, who is all too human, prone to saying the wrong things and getting into scrapes.
Fox is billing the show as the first Robromance.
But, of course, it's not the first. We have one in the West Wing.
When Barack Obama partnered with Joe Biden, Biden felt it was his mission to inject humanity -- or "intensity," as Hillary Clinton called it -- into Obama's android air. The ebullient political veteran was eager to help interpret the erudite Obama to Joe Sixpack.
In a capital known for hogging credit and stealing turf, Joe Biden has provided his boss with a rare loyalty over the last five years. Even behind closed doors, the vice president tries to elevate the president. His friends stress that Biden is not a golden retriever, but a sled dog, pulling his weight, chipping in, doing whatever he can.
And the two men, buffeted by problems, have grown closer after a rough start when Obama was dismissive or eye-rolling to his vice president often enough for it to merit a satirical takeoff on "Saturday Night Live." As Mark Halperin and John Heilemann write in "Double Down," Biden worried that he would be cast as the buffoon, calling it the "Uncle Joe Syndrome," and he confronted the president about it at a weekly lunch.
It's fair to say that Joe Biden has not been given the respect he deserves in the White House. It's the story of the ultimate team player who has not been treated that way himself.
The West Wing young bucks never fully appreciated the fact that if you have a president who turns up his nose at working with Congress, it's nice to have a vice president who enjoys being a pol, who can pick up the phone and persuade Arlen Specter, at the cost of his political career, to help pass Obama's stimulus.
Biden has bent over backward to put the president in a good light, even as the president and Obamaworld have bent over backward to treat Hillary like the rightful successor to Obama.
They say loyalty is its own reward, and, in the case of Biden, it will have to be.
On the CBS morning show last week, Bill Daley, Obama's former chief of staff who is now a CBS News contributor, acknowledged the story in "Double Down" that he had pushed to poll to see if Biden should be dumped from the 2012 ticket and replaced with Hillary, something he never told Biden; this, even though the vice president was the best friend and one of the few defenders the unpopular chief of staff had in the White House. Daley had been Biden's national political director on his '88 presidential bid.
"The chief of staff and the vice president were a pair of plump green peas in a pod: both Irish Catholic sexagenarians with old-school tastes, old-school tendencies, and old-school values," write the "Double Down" authors. In the hypermodern Obama White House, they write, Biden and Daley "were like the gray-haired hecklers in the balcony on 'The Muppet Show,' the Statler and Waldorf of the White House." Except in this version, Waldorf considers pushing Statler off the balcony.
Daley defended himself to The Times' Jonathan Martin this way: "You have to remember, at that point the president was in awful shape, so we were like, 'Holy Christ, what do we do?'" You scapegoat Uncle Joe, of course, even though he had nothing to do with the president's low standing.
When Biden blurted out his support for gay marriage, after the poll-driven Obama had dithered about revealing his position in favor of it for eight years, controlling Obama staffers punished the vice president with friendly fire, anonymously trashing him.
"Double Down" reports other slights to Biden: Obama, fearing leaks, cuts the size of his re-election strategy meetings, excluding Biden, even though, as a 40-year veteran of politics, he would have had plenty of insights. And David Plouffe dresses down Biden, who was going on a 2012 campaign fundraising swing in California, for wanting to meet with Hollywood and Silicon Valley big shots who could help if he ran in 2016. "We can't have side deals," Plouffe tells him.
That's rich, given the fact that Obama let Hillary move her team of image-buffers and political aides into the State Department. She was allowed to do side deals, like the time she had a political aide at State send invitations to prominent Irish Democrats who had raised millions for her past campaigns to accompany her on a diplomatic trip to Dublin and Belfast.
Biden loyalists believe Daley added insult to injury by dishing to the "Double Down" authors.
Noting with dark humor that in the "Boardwalk Empire" days, such disloyalty in the Irish tribe would have been met with a kneecapping in a dark alley, one asked: "How does Bill Daley get out of bed every morning?"
The lost art of loyalty
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Kate Santich at the Orlando Sentinel shares the story of the helicopter pilot who captured the only known 3-D images from the Vietnam war.
From the skies above the battlefields and rice paddies, Joel Glenn snapped profoundly realistic pictures and sent them home to his wife Judy so she could "understand his strange new surroundings and his vantage point from the clouds."
From the Orlando Sentinel:
"He thought flying was beautiful," says Judy, now 69. "The clouds and the country were just gorgeous. He took 35-millimeter slides, (but) they didn't show the depth he wanted me to see. He wanted me to know what it was like to fly."
So Joel, then a 26-year-old chemical-engineering graduate from the University of Florida, sent away for a three-dimensional camera and started taking pictures — from the sky, from the ground and of everything from Vietnamese villagers' routine cutting of rice fields to young fellow soldiers who wouldn't make it home.
But that's not all he did.
The couple also recorded cassette tapes for each other, having long-distance conversations as best they could. And now their unique correspondence throughout the war — his 3-D photos and their cassettes — have been brought together as a documentary by Discovery.
Sky Soldier: A Vietnam Story In 3D offers a unique and intimate perspective of the Vietnam war experience — from the field, to the home-front where Judy was raising their baby son in Gainesville, Florida:
"Judy ends one of her tapes with how much she and their son will miss Joel. And she says, 'We can't wait for you to get back 10 and a half months from now,'" says Tom Jennings, the program's executive producer. "You hear that, and you think, 'Oh, my God, they're only a month and a half into this separation, and they have so far to go.'"
Their wartime story, like most others, is peppered with raw realities. Santich reports that one of Joel's jobs was to gather the belongings of comrades killed in action; and his exposure to Agent Orange left him riddled with cancer. Despite that, he was eventually given fresh orders to go back to Vietnam.
You can discover more about the couple's story here and see more pictures here. Note: We tried using modern 3-D glasses on these, but they require the old blue and red lens variety.


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'Small Treasures' Exhibit At The Maritime Garage Gallery
Works of art that are small in size, but big on creativity are on exhibit at the Maritime Garage Gallery. "Small Treasures" features works of art that are no larger than 12 by 12 inches. The exhibit runs from July 15 - October 5, 2019.
"Small Treasures" features artwork from 30 local and national artists, including Jennifer Moné Hill of Danbury, Sheri Schwarz, Hamden, Gregory Ziebell of Norwalk, Charles Hall, Windsor Locks, and Theresa Kasun of Shelton.
The Maritime Garage Gallery is part of the Parking Authority's "Art in Parking Places" placemaking initiative, an effort to support art in parking spaces. It is free and open to the public from 9:00am-5:00pm, Monday through Friday. For more information, call 203- 831-9063, or visit www.norwalkpark.org/public-art.
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Dear Emuna,
My husband and I got married very young and had a baby right away. We met when we were both at school in Israel and he was a heavy smoker. This was a definite no for me but because he wanted to continue dating he committed to trying his best to quit. And he did - for three years.
Two years ago he started smoking again. He was in-between jobs, my baby got meningitis and life was stressful. This was upsetting to me but because I understood how stressed he was I didn't want to put more pressure on him. Now two years later my baby is a beautiful healthy child, my husband has a great job, and he smokes two packs a week. I know it's not the end of the world but my grandfather suffered tremendously at the end of his life because he was a heavy smoker and got lung cancer at 78 years old and his last four years of his life he was coughing up blood.
Smoking scares me. I know it's not in my control to make my husband's choices for him and he never smokes near or in front of our boys but I'm not coping well. Any advice to make me feel better?
--Up in Smoke
Dear Up in Smoke,
I certainly understand your concerns and fears. It is to your credit that, notwithstanding your anxiety, you recognize that it is not in your control. It is a choice that only your husband can make.
It is possible that through continued expressions of love (as opposed to nagging) and discussions of how much your husband means to you and your family (as we like to tell our kids, "I only have one of you."), he will decide to stop on his own. It is also possible that, as your children get older, their desire for him to desist and his embarrassment about his bad habit may lead to his quitting. A colleague recommended to me a book by Allen Carr called Stop Smoking Now which I haven't read but is supposed to be excellent. You can do what I do to try to get my non-readers to pick up a book: leave it in a strategic spot and, hopefully, he'll open it up and peruse it on his own. But none of this is a guarantee and, again, only he can decide.
So how do you deal with your anxiety?
1. Focus on the positive – your husband has many wonderful qualities. Fill your mind with those instead.
2. Recognize that everyone engages in destructive behaviors – some of them physical, some of them spiritual. Some people eat too much fat (that old nursery rhyme about Jack Sprat and his wife springs to mind) or too much sugar or not enough vegetables. Some people exercise too little while others can actually work out too much. Some people are too aggressive and some are too passive. Some spend too much time at home and others not enough. We need to make peace with the unique challenges of our own personal situation and relationships and find the best way to grown under these circumstances.
3. The ultimate comfort and anxiety-reducing drug is the recognition that the Almighty runs the world. Of course we have to make our efforts and try to watch our healthy but ultimately the end result is in His hands. One of my favorite midrashim is the story of the man whose servant comes running home from the marketplace completely terrified. "What happened?" his master asks. "I saw the angel of death in the marketplace. Please lend me your horse so I can ride to Shechem and get far away from him."
The master complies. Later that afternoon, the master also runs into the angel of death in the marketplace. "Why did you frighten my servant?" he asks, angrily. "I didn't mean to scare him" replies the angel of death. "I was just surprised to see him since I have an appointment with him tonight in Shechem."
4. Don't forget the power of prayer. Rosh Hashanah is coming, the Day of Judgment. It's a time when the gates of prayer are open wide. Pray that your husband quit smoking, pray for anything and everything you want – but mostly pray that the Almighty continues to grant him and those you love (heck, all of the Jewish people!) long life – in this world and in the world to come.
Wounded Child/ Wounded Adult
Dear Emuna,
How does one overcome bad upbringing i.e. parents who fought constantly in front of their children, who were verbally and physically abusive? Years later I still feel the sadness from it all and I would like some spiritual advice how to overcome this and how to be better in my marriage.
-- Wounded Child
Dear Wounded Child,
I commend you for trying to overcome your past. It is a struggle that many of us have and it is frequently of the "two steps forward, one step backward" variety.
You raise two issues – your continued sadness and your own marriage. As far as the former goes, you may always carry a little sadness with you but I think it can be improved with a healthy dose of compassion and acceptance.
Compassion: Perhaps you can find within yourself the ability to feel sorry for your parents who had such a hard time and didn't seem to have the tools to make it better. As an adult now, you can see yourself not as the victim of their inadequacies but as an empathic observer. Try to imagine what advice you would give a friend in a similar situation in order to gain some objectivity.
Acceptance: It is what it is. These are the cards you were dealt. This is the script the Almighty wrote. Platitudes possibly – but true nonetheless. Your parents aren't going to change and you can't rewrite the past. For whatever reason, this was the environment best suited to your growth and closeness to the Almighty. Make the most of the opportunity.
With respect to your marriage, you are unclear. If it's the sadness affecting your marriage, reread the preceding paragraphs. If your behaviors, God forbid, resemble the inappropriate ones you saw modeled in your family of origin, then you need more professional help – parenting classes, books – and probably a good therapist.
Some people think that "spiritual" advice should be some kid of mystical, kabbalistic idea that will help them soar above and beyond their problems. I strongly disagree.
"Spiritual" refers to activities that engender greater closeness to our Creator. This is accomplished through observing His commandments, through sweat and effort. Doing whatever it takes to improve your marriage, constantly giving to your spouse, perhaps seeing a therapist, taking the practical steps necessary to make a sea change is the most spiritual thing you can do. Additionally, giving to others takes us out of ourselves and our problems so it works on all levels. The past can be overcome – you just need to be very committed to working on it and not expect quick and easy solutions.
Friend with Cancer
Dear Emuna,
I am 15 years old. I have a friend who is battling cancer. I'm so scared. How do I deal with it? How do I show her and her family that I care? Is there anything I can do spiritually, or physically to help her of me cope with this huge challenge?
--Worried Friend
Dear Worried and Caring Friend,
It's okay to be scared. It's normal and appropriate to be scared. Cancer is a scary disease. So certainly don't feel badly about it. Find an adult – parent, teacher, therapist – and a safe place where you can share these feelings.
Don't' be afraid to tell your friend that you're scared. It's on her mind too (in fact, it's probably the only thing on her mind!) and she would likely welcome the chance to speak freely about her fears instead of having to pretend that everything is fine or endure the false cheeriness around her. It's okay to cry together (not every time you go of course!) and express genuine emotion. It may be cathartic for both of you.
Other things to do physically: whatever needs taking care of at her home so that her parents can be with her – babysitting, grocery shopping, meal prep, cleaning. Don't offer or ask "What do you need?" Just do – "I'm taking the kids out for pizza today." "I went to Walmart and replenished your toilet paper and paper towels." "I dropped off dinner." No one likes to ask for help. No one wants to be perceived as needy or burdensome. So just go and do.
Spiritually, there are a few options. You should pray. The Almighty is the true physician. Pray for His healing hand. Do a mitzvah in her merit like lighting Shabbos candles or not gossiping. Organize others to learn and do mitzvos in her merit. And that's just a start…
Friendship is precious and rare. Appreciate that you someone in your life who means so much to you and try to enjoy the opportunity that each day brings.


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Britain's Daily Mail newspaper apologized to George Clooney on Wednesday for alleging his fiancée's mother opposed the marriage on religious grounds – a story Clooney called both wrong and irresponsible.
Clooney is engaged to Beirut-born London lawyer Amal Alamuddin, whose father Ramzi belongs to a prominent Druze family. The Druze are adherents of a monotheistic religion based mainly in Lebanon, Syria and Israel.
Citing unnamed family "friends," the newspaper's MailOnline website reported this week that her mother, Baria Alamuddin, wanted her 36-year-old daughter to marry a Druze man. It said Amal Alamuddin risked being "cast out of the community" if she wed Clooney, and claimed several women had been murdered for not abiding by strict Druze rules.
Clooney called the story "completely fabricated."
In a statement issued to USA Today, he said Baria Alamuddin – a well-known journalist – was not Druze and "is in no way against the marriage."
Clooney, 53, added that "to exploit religious differences where none exist is at the very least negligent and more appropriately dangerous."
"We have family members all over the world, and the idea that someone would inflame any part of that world for the sole reason of selling papers should be criminal," he said, accusing the newspaper of "inciting violence."
The newspaper said Wednesday that the story had been "supplied in good faith by a reputable and trusted freelance journalist."
"We accept Mr. Clooney's assurance that the story is inaccurate and we apologize to him, Miss Amal Alamuddin and her mother, Baria, for any distress caused," it said in a statement.
The Mail said it had removed the article from the website "and will be contacting Mr. Clooney's representatives to discuss giving him the opportunity to set the record straight."
The Druze are a close-knit community and rarely marry outside their sect. But some Druze have welcomed Clooney.
Walid Jumblatt, political leader of the sect in Lebanon, told The Associated Press recently that he hoped the couple would soon visit the Druze heartland.
Clooney will bring us "great publicity," Jumblatt said. "He can make a movie about the Druze sect."


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Dear Em,
It is Sunday and all is well along the Rio. Tomorrow is Labor Day and another day off.
Dear Mary,
I got your Mother Hubbard and the boys and I are much pleased with it. It is hanging in my (soldier house) all the time and I have all the boys kiss it every time they come in. Im not going to put any kisses on this card for it isnt big enough for the one Id give you.
Poem printed on the front of both postcards:
WHEN it's morning on the border, and the sun is breaking through,
And the sands begin to glisten like the good old home town dew,
I look across the river, and it makes me kind of blue,
When it's morning on the border, Love, my thoughts go back to you.
WHEN the sun is in the heavens and the air is mighty hot,
And its hard to breathe and stifling, and my throat is dry as rot,
I've got to grin and bear it, I've got to see it through,
To make the burden lighter, Love, my thoughts go back to you.
WHEN the sun has passed the border, and the after-glow is red,
And the silver moon is shining on the silent desert bed,
I'm feeling kind of lonely like, I know you're lonely too,
When the sun has passed the border, Love, my thoughts go back to you.
WHEN the greaser stops his sniping and skulking in the sand,
When the raider hies himself away beyond the Rio Grande,
And the "spick" doffs his sombrero to the old red, white and blue,
And its calm along the border, Love, THEN I'LL COME BACK TO YOU.
Segt. Wm. H. Barter, 5th Mass. Infy. El Paso – On the Border
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Dear Em,
On account of our camp being on gaurd yesterday and last night, we do not drill today but company M. & K. are elected to assemble the new arm wagons that have just arrived. We had a beautiful sun rise this morning, for we were up be for sun up. I think it is going to be pretty warm today. It is 6.45 now.
By what they say now, we are to start home some where around the 21st of Sept., stay at Framingham until the 12th of Oct. and parade in Boston on that date. All bull I suppose. Say did you get that letter yet? There is a little stumack trouble here in camp but that will soon pass. I am fine.
© Copyright 2008 by Richard Landers, All Rights Reserved. No reproduction without permission.


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Lighttpd has mod_cgi module that allows you running Perl and other server side programs via cgi-bin directory. The Common Gateway Interface (CGI) is a standard protocol for interfacing external application software with an information server.
Step #1: Create a CGI cgi-bin Directory
First you need to create a cgi-bin directory for your domain. Assuming that your domain hosted at /home/lighttpd/theos.in/http (DocumentRoot), create cgi-bin as follows:
# mkdir -p /home/lighttpd/theos.in/cgi-bin
Step # 2: Load mod_cgi Module
Open lighttpd configuration file using a text editor such as vi:
# vi /etc/lighttpd/ligttpd.conf
Now append or modify text as follows so that support for mod_cgi get loaded:
server.modules += ( "mod_cgi" )
Find out your virtual server configuration and append the following:
$HTTP["url"] =~ "/cgi-bin/" { cgi.assign = ( ".pl" => "/usr/bin/perl" ) }
Here is complete my config code:
$HTTP["host"] =~ "theos.in" { server.document-root = "/home/lighttpd/theos.in/http" accesslog.filename = "/var/log/lighttpd/theos.in/access.log" $HTTP["url"] =~ "/cgi-bin/" { cgi.assign = ( ".pl" => "/usr/bin/perl" ) } }
Step # 3:Restart the Lighttpd
Restart lighttpd webserver, enter:
# /etc/init.d/lighttpd restart
Step # 4: Test It
Create a file/perl program in /home/lighttpd/theos.in/cgi-bin/sample.pl:
#!/usr/bin/perl print "Content-Type: text/plain", "\n\n"; print "Hi there! This is a sample perl program!!!", "\n";
Save and execute the program (http://yourdomain.com/cgi-bin/sample.pl).


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A weekly feature wherein we contextualize TV ratings for national sports broadcasts. Data via Nielsen and Sports Business Journal's John Ourand. Viewership numbers represent approximate number of persons tuned to a given program; ratings share refers to the percentage of all households using a television who are turned into that program.
Monday, Sept. 17:
Monday Night Football; Denver Broncos at Atlanta Falcons (ESPN): 15.5 million viewers
The Voice (NBC): 13.6 million viewers
Tuesday, Sept. 18:
No highly rated sporting events.
Wednesday, Sept. 19:
No highly rated sporting events.
Thursday, Sept. 20:
Thursday Night Football; New York Giants at Carolina Panthers (NFL Network): 7.0 million viewers
The Big Bang Theory, season premiere (CBS): 9.3 million viewers
MLS soccer; DC United at Philadelphia Union (ESPN2): 125,000 viewers
The Vampire Diaries, rerun (CW): 786,000 viewers
Friday, Sept. 21:
Mexican soccer; Leon at Peubla (TV Azteca): 194,000 viewers
Mexican soccer; Tigres at Monarcas (TV Azteca): 182,000 viewers
CSI: NY (CBS): 5.9 million viewers
Saturday, Sept. 22:
NCAA football; Notre Dame at Michigan (NBC): 6.4 million viewers
NCAA football; Clemson at Florida State (ABC): 4.8 million viewers
NCAA football; LSU at Auburn (ESPN): 3.8 million viewers
NCAA football; Arizona at Oregon (ESPN): 3.0 million viewers
NCAA football: Kansas State at Oklahoma (FOX): 2.8 million viewers
Spongebob Squarepants (Nickelodeon): 3.5 million viewers
Sunday, Sept. 23:
Sunday Night Football; New England Patriots at Baltimore Ravens (NBC): 21.2 million viewers
NASCAR Sprint Cup Series at New Hampshire (ESPN): 3.5 million viewers
MLS soccer; Portland Timbers at Real Salt Lake (NBCSN): 45,000 viewers
¡Mira Quien Baila! (Univision): 3.4 million viewers
Primetime Emmy Awards (ABC): 13.2 million viewers


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The Obama transition team is asking you to help create a new health care policy. Really. Host a meeting, invite friends and associates, look at the Obama team's proposal, and let the transition team know what you decide. If you are among a lucky few, Senator Tom Daschle, Secretary-designate for Health and Human Services, may show up at your meeting.
This may be more important than it sounds. The key dividing lines over how to fix our country's broken health care system are becoming clear. It may take the same sort of grassroots involvement that got Obama elected president to keep the private insurance industry from hijacking the process as they have during previous reform efforts.
Here's one of the key decision points. The Obama plan calls for giving everyone the option of signing up for a public or private insurance plan. But according to The New York Times, the private insurance industry is lining up against that option. It's no small matter. According to a report released Wednesday by health policy analyst Jacob Hacker, having a public option could make the difference between a system that covers everyone and controls costs, and one that will continue to leave millions out while costs soar.
As Americans are painfully aware, our health care system is broken. 45 million Americans or more are without health care coverage. Half of all bankruptcies are caused, at least in part, by unaffordable health care bills. We're spending more-16 percent of U.S. GDP (gross domestic product) to cover 85 percent of our population, while Canada and France each spend less than 10 percent of GDP to cover everyone.
The harm to our economy of our backward health care system is especially evident today, as all three U.S. auto makers suffer from the competitive disadvantage of covering health care costs that their overseas competitors can leave to more effective government-run insurance programs.
Americans voted for change this November. But what system makes sense?
According to the research we did at YES! for our special coverage of health care reform, government involvement is critical. A majority of Americans agree-two out of three believe the government should provide national health care coverage, even if it would mean higher taxes. Other wealthy countries have adopted various methods, but a system like Canada's is one of the most efficient at providing good coverage for everyone while keeping a lid on costs. Under this system, the government is the insurer, but patients choose their doctors from private, public, or non-profit health care providers.
Having a public system is the way to cut bureaucracy and cost. But government involvement is where things get controversial. The private insurance industry opposes such a move. And some say that the switch to national insurance is too big a leap for Americans. People will be afraid to give up the coverage they know for an unknown system.
So the Hacker proposal, which was adopted in part by Barack Obama, may be the perfect compromise. Keep your private insurance if you want. But if you aren't covered, or if your premiums are too high, or your deductions and exclusions are too onerous, you can opt for the public insurance system. You would still choose your doctor. Subsidies would insure the plan is affordable to all. At the lowest income levels, it would be free.
Including a public system in our range of options is what it will take to control costs, and thus make sure everyone is included, according to Hacker. The private insurance industry has made a lot of money by excluding things that are expensive, shifting costs on to individuals and families by, for example, excluding pre-existing conditions, and working to write coverage only for those who are less likely to need health care. They have a big incentive to figure out how to exclude a treatment or test and little incentive to invest in our long-term health, since people tend to shift insurance companies over time. Their business, after all, is not keeping us healthy. It's generating profits for shareholders.
Medicare has kept costs under control more effectively than either private insurance companies, or pools of private insurers, like those who contract with the federal government to provide health insurance to federal employees. According to Hacker's report, Medicare spending per enrollee increased only 4.6 percent per year from 1997 to 2006, while the cost of private insurance increased 7.3 percent each year during the same time period.
Innovations in the public sector have helped contain costs, and there are substantial additional savings to be had from better use of information technology, care coordination strategies, and databases of practices and outcomes, according to Hacker. And public health insurance agencies are in a better position to negotiate for reasonable prices from private health care providers.
The nonpartisan Lewin Group estimates that Hacker's plan would save the U.S. economy $1 trillion over 10 years, while covering 99.6 percent of Americans.
The Massachusetts system, enacted in 2006, is a stark example of what happens when there is no public option. Everyone in the state is supposed to be covered, but their choices are limited to private plans. Premiums have been rising 8 to 12 percent per year, which means the system will soon be out of reach of individual families, employers, and the state government.
A public option assures that there is a benchmark against which private companies must compete. Without such a benchmark, private companies have no incentive to contain costs or improve services.
It's hard to argue with giving people a choice.
But the health care industry is arguing. The New York Times says medical associations are encouraging their members to attend the health care discussion groups being organized by the Obama transition team around the U.S. Past efforts to reform the health care system stalled in the face of powerful health industry lobbyists with huge campaign war chests. Will the industry be as adept at dominating the health care policy discussion when it's happening in living rooms and coffee shops around the country?
Here's how President-elect Obama put it at his December 11 press conference:
Year after year, our leaders offer up detailed health care plans with great fanfare and promise only to see them fail, derailed by Washington politics and influence peddling.
If Obama is able to bring together ordinary Americans, who so clearly are desperate for change, and if they get as engaged in health care reform as they were in the bottom-up presidential campaign, perhaps this time we'll get the change we need. Maybe people power will overcome corporate power, and we'll finally be able to join the rest of the developed world who enjoy health care security.
So far, more than 4,000 meetings are scheduled around the U.S. Here's where you can sign up to lead a session. All the information you need is online, including the moderator's guide and instructions for reporting the results back to the transition team.
Note: If you are part of such a discussion, please let YES! know. We'd love to read your report and post a selection. Send us an email at editors [at] yesmagazine.org. Put the phrase "health care discussion" in the subject line.