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OpenOffice Lives, More Involvement Needed
Free office solution OpenOffice.org is still in the best of shape, based on reactions from project members to Novell developer Michael Meeks's recent pessimistic view. The Linux Foundation is one of many who are concerned. All want one thing: more.
Two weeks ago, OpenOffice.org collaborator Michael Meeks blogged a message of concern about the project, painting it in not so rosy terms. He cited numerous statistics to show that, in his opinion, the code has been poorly maintained, causing many developers to pull off the project from frustration. This prompted a reaction from Thorsten Ziehm, quality expert at Sun Microsystems for OpenOffice and its commercial variant StarOffice. In his "What was done in 2008" blog," Ziehm followed Meeks's example by showing supporting graphics and statistics, but this time to refute Meeks's claims. Whereas Meeks cites an increasing developer withdrawal from the project, Ziehm points to the "nearly 900 child work spaces" that were integrated. While Meeks is convinced of Sun's retreat, Ziehm cites a contrary opinion from Sun VP Jim Parkinson in his weblog from November 2008: "We are not about to walk away from OpenOffice.org."
Florian Effenberger, marketing representative for the project, also opined in a Linux Magazine Online blog that he was amazed at Meeks's pessimistic view. He even saw the current polarization as evidence of the project's vitality: "The differing viewpoints prove only that the project continues to be active, that it lives, that many are thinking about it and take it close to heart. There's no better way of showing how full of life it is." As evidence he pointed to the 50 new extensions enhancing OpenOffice that were added in December.
The Linux Foundation is showing its own concern. Foundation VP Amanda McPherson sees OpenOffice.org as the great alternative to Microsoft and that the 28 million downloads for the last OpenOffice version as undoubtable proof of its success. Even the vaguest notion about a questionable future could prove fatal. In her weblog she writes, "I worry that we would be beholden to the same proprietary forces that have shaped the desktop market. We shouldn't rely on Sun to save us here. In fact it may be counter-productive to do so."
All seemed to agree that OpenOffice lives and will continue to do so with more participants involved. Ziehm summarizes with, "we need more people in all areas and projects – User Experience, QA, L10N, Development or any other project on OOo – to get dreams fulfilled."
Filing bugs to the OOo developers are indeed frustrating. I filed several critical or hopeless issues since around 2001-2002, the last in 2004, and most of them where fixed only recently or are not fixed yet.
My first problems was with developers with no idea about the real world. Usability issues where rejected with "works for me" but where fixed later after usability tests of course showed that I was right. It was so obvious, but I ha to struggle with computer enthusiasts. Later it was project managers or something that handled the dialog in the issue handling system and things improved.
Even when issues have several hundred votes it takes years before fixes or improvements are implemented. I have seen many smaller (VERY small!!!) companies implement many of these features from quarter to quarter, so I assume that it is not only about lack of resurces, this problem.
But really... waiting for 5 years for smaller features that where part of Office 95 or Office 97, thats too much. -
OpenOffice Lives, More Involvement Needed
Sorry, previous author was me, not Britta Wülfing
OpenOffice Lives, More Involvement Needed
Since my blog ( see [1] ) is referenced on Planet ( [2] ) I think Thorsten Ziehm answered to my blog entry, not the Michael one (please read again [3] ....
References :
[1] http://eric.bachard.free.fr/news/index.html
[2] http://planet.go-oo.org/
[3] http://eric.bachard.free.fr...real-number-of-developers.html
Hi to AC who posted above about the spreadsheet bug: what is the bug number? My experience with Open Office bugs has been different, both from the outstanding maintainers of my distribution (Debian) and from "upstream" (OpenOffice.org itself).
OpenOffice is crucial to desktop Linux
OpenOffice needs to be supported in a big way. It's a crucial application for desktop Linnux and it isn't the kind of work that's really suited to part-time or hobbyist developers. Not only Sun but also Novell, Red Hat, Canonical, IBM, and all the rest, need to commit time, money, and people to OpenOffice. If this crucial piece of software falls into disrepair, desktop Linux's viability will suffer greatly. -
Re: OpenOffice Lives, More Involvement Needed
Try posting a bug report on OpenOffice - it's an exercise in frustrating futility. There is *still* a critical flaw involving absolute references in the spreadsheet - and they won't admit it even EXISTS!!!!!! I feel like I've been slamming my head into a concrete wall - and it's long past time to stop. OO is badly broken; the developers refuse to listen to the users . . . . It's just pointless to even try. I hope KOffice turns out better.
PS - I *like* OpenOffice - the things that aren't broken are better than Microsoft Office - but the broken parts need to be acknowledged and fixed. -
Sugarcoat that pill
Maybe some people will swallow it...
Issue 198/2017
Buy this issue as a PDF
Old Linux Kernel Bug Discovered
The bug was introduced back in 2009 and has been lurking around all this time.
OpenSSH 7.5 Released
The new release deprecates the sshd_config UsePrivilegeSeparation option.
Ubuntu Touch Not Dead
Lives on as a community project
Dell Launches Five New Linux Systems
Five new systems join Dell XPS 13 Developer Edition that come with Ubuntu pre-installed.
Microsoft Takes Skype for Linux Out of Alpha
The Skype Linux client now has almost the same capabilities that it enjoys on other platforms.
CeBIT 2017 OpenStack Day
At CeBIT 2017, OpenStack Day will offer a wide range of lectures and discussions.
Munich Plans to Ditch Linux and Go Back to Windows
A major setback for the Linux desktop.
Linux Kernel 4.10 Comes with New Security Features
Improved support for GPU in virtualization.
OpenSUSE Site Hacked
News site for the openSUSE community falls victim to a Wordpress exploit.
LibreOffice Goes Online with 5.3 Release
The source code is available online.


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At a weekly press conference today, House Speaker John Boehner (R-OH) said the "stimulus" spending binge "is hurting job creation by eroding confidence" and "spreading uncertainty," and said the House will soon take action to help liberate the American economy from the shackles of big government and runaway spending by passing the largest discretionary spending cut in history. Following are Speaker Boehner's remarks:
"The most important thing that we can do to revitalize job creation in America is to create the right environment for employers to hire and for them to thrive. A big part of that is dealing with our fiscal challenges.
"As you have heard me say before, we're broke. We're borrowing 41 cents for every dollar that we spend. And this spending binge is hurting job creation by eroding confidence, draining funds from private investment and spreading uncertainty among employers both big and small.
"Without fiscal stability, we cannot have economic stability. Next week we'll bring to the floor a continuing resolution that contains the largest discretionary spending cut in the history of our country. We will meet our Pledge to America, and we are working with our members and our committee chairmen to make sure that this cut is as big as possible to send a signal that we're serious about cutting spending here in Washington. This resolution will be marked not for what it continues, but for what it ends and that's Washington's spending binge.
"President Obama has offered a different way forward. He's already asked Congress to raise the debt limit and pass more ineffective 'stimulus' spending, and I'm concerned that he'll soon send Congress a budget that destroys jobs because it spends too much, taxes too much, and borrows too much.
"Here I think we see a clear choice: we can do nothing and leave the spending process on auto pilot and shorten the path to sharp tax hikes or higher interest rates, or we could go ahead and liberate our economy from big government and runaway spending and endless regulation that comes with it. That's what the American people want, and the Pledge to America is our job to get that done.
"It is a blueprint that creates the right environment for job creation, reining in costly regulations, cutting unnecessary spending, and ending Washington's spending binge. It is a long way to make smart short term decisions needed for long term prosperity, just as any good business would.
"The pledge isn't just a plan or strategy. It is a long overdue culture change for here in Washington. It fulfills the promise of a smaller, less costly and more accountable government and it recognizes that jobs aren't created here in the halls of Washington. They are products of hard work and risk taking by employers and entrepreneurs.
"We will do our best to convince Senate Democrats and President Obama that this is the best plan to get our economy moving again. And if the President is willing to work with us, we will be ready to work with him.
"But the American people sent us here to work on their behalf and that's exactly what we're going to do. We are going to have a relentless focus on creating jobs that the American people expect from our new majority."

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Russell Bell necesitaba un nuevo diseño de página web y lanzó un concurso de diseño en 99designs.
Un ganador ha sido elegido entre 75 diseños de 13 diseñadores freelance.
TBD (Use 'Pharma-Jobs.com' for now)
We are launching a brand new careers site and job destination site for Biotechnology and Medical Services companies. The site will show hundreds of jobs from employers across the world, and feature the logos and profiles of big brand companies who are hiring.
The personality of the homepage should be:
- Very professional, prestigious
- Easy to use and clean
Target audience are executives and middle managers from the Life Sciences industry. Our clients will be companies such as: BAXTER Healthcare, Abbott Labs, Novartis, Pfizer, Merck, Schering Plough, Amgen, Genentech, Stryker, etc.
The audience is in North America; therefore, the site must look like a North American site.
The homepage we want should be:
- Clean
- Upscale and professional
- Make it easy for users to take specific actions that they want to take
Use your own color schemes and ideas. We are open to your creative thoughts!
You can use images from this link:
Remember to keep in mind SEO. Give us concepts, ideas, etc. for structuring the site such that when we code it, it is search engine optimized.
Use this sample brand: PHARMA-JOBS.COM
The links across the top or bottom should be:
About Us, Post a Job / Hire Talent, Privacy, Resources
The basic zones are:
1) For Job Seekers:
- Login / Password
- Search Jobs
- Post Resume
2) Featured Hiring Companies:
- probably a list of logos rotating or moving across the screen
3) Featured Jobs
- a list of latest jobs moving across the screen or rotating, etc.
4) Industry News
- a section devoted to industry headlines, press releases, etc. This is for the purpose of search engine optimization, etc.
5) A small link / section for EMPLOYERS
This is an existing site we want to improve:
If you can dramatically improve the above site, that would be great.


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War Is the Health of the State
excerpted from a
People's History of the United States
by Howard Zinn
"War is the health of the state," the radical writer Randolph Bourne said, in the midst of the First World War. Indeed, as the nations of Europe went to war in 1914, the governments flourished, patriotism bloomed, class struggle was stilled, and young men died in frightful numbers on the battlefields-often for a hundred yards of land, a line of trenches.
In the United States, not yet in the war, there was worry about the health of the state. Socialism was growing. The IWW seemed to be everywhere. Class conflict was intense. In the summer of 1916, during a Preparedness Day parade in San Francisco, a bomb exploded, killing nine people, two local radicals, Tom Mooney and Warren Billings, were arrested and would spend twenty years in prison. Shortly after that Senator James Wadsworth of New York suggested compulsory military training for all males to avert the danger that "these people of ours shall be divided into classes." Rather: "We must let our young men know that they owe some responsibility to this country."
The supreme fulfillment of that responsibility was taking place in Europe. Ten million were to die on the battlefield; 20 million were to die of hunger and disease related to the war. And no one since that day has been able to show that the war brought any gain for humanity that would be worth one human life. The rhetoric of the socialists, that it was an "imperialist war," now seems moderate and hardly arguable. The advanced capitalist countries of Europe were fighting over boundaries, colonies, spheres of influence; they were competing for Alsace-Lorraine, the Balkans, Africa, the Middle East.
The war came shortly after the opening of the twentieth century, in the midst of exultation (perhaps only among the elite in the Western world) about progress and modernization. One day after the English declared war, Henry James wrote to a friend: "The plunge of civilization into this abyss of blood and darkness . . . is a thing that so gives away the whole long age during which we have supposed the world to be . . . gradually bettering." In the first Battle of the Marne, the British and French succeeded in blocking the German advance on Paris. Each side had 500,000 casualties. The killing started very fast, and on a large scale. In August 1914, a volunteer for the British army had to be 5 feet 8 inches to enlist. By October, the requirement was lowered to 5 feet 5 inches. That month there were thirty thousand casualties, and then one could be 5 feet 3. In the first three months of war, almost the entire original British army was wiped out.
For three years the battle lines remained virtually stationary in France. Each side would push forward, then back, then forward again- for a few yards, a few miles, while the corpses piled up. In 1916 the Germans tried to break through at Verdun; the British and French counterattacked along the Seine, moved forward a few miles, and lost 600,000 men. One day, the 9th Battalion of the King's Own Yorkshire Light Infantry launched an attack with eight hundred men. Twenty four hours later, there were eighty-four left.
Back home, the British were not told of the slaughter. One English writer recalled: "The most bloody defeat in the history of Britain . . . might occur . . . and our Press come out bland and copious and graphic with nothing to show that we had not had quite a good day-a victory really...." The same thing was happening on the German side; as Erich Maria Remarque wrote in his great novel, on days when men by the thousands were being blown apart by machine guns and shells, the official dispatches announced "All Quiet on the Western Front."
In July 1916, British General Douglas Haig ordered eleven divisions of English soldiers to climb out of their trenches and move toward the German lines. The six German divisions opened up with their ma chine guns. Of the 110,000 who attacked, 20,000 were killed, 40,000 more wounded-all those bodies strewn on no man's land, the ghostly territory between the contending trenches. On January 1, 1917, Haig was promoted to field marshal. What happened that summer is described tersely in William Langer's An Encyclopedia of World History:
Despite the opposition of Lloyd George and the skepticism of some of his subordinates, Haig proceeded hopefully to the main offensive. The third battle of Ypres was a senes of 8 heavy attacks, carried through in driving rain and fought over ground water-logged and muddy. No break-through was effected, and the total gain was about 5 miles of territory, which made the Ypres salient more inconvenient than ever and cost the British about 400,000 men.
The people of France and Britain were not told the extent of the casualties. When, in the last year of the war, the Germans attacked ferociously on the Somme, and left 300,000 British soldiers dead or wounded, London newspapers printed the following, we learn from Paul Fussell's The Great War and Modern Memory:
How the Civilian May Help in this Crisis.
Be cheerful....
Write encouragingly to friends at the front....
Don't repeat foolish gossip.
Don't listen to idle rumors.
Don't think you know better than Haig.
Into this pit of death and deception came the United States, in the spring of 1917. Mutinies were beginning to occur in the French army. Soon, out of 112 divisions, 68 would have mutinies; 629 men would be tried and condemned, 50 shot by firing squads. American troops were badly needed.
President Woodrow Wilson had promised that the United States would stay neutral in the war: "There is such a thing as a nation being too proud to fight." But in April of 1917, the Germans had announced they would have their submarines sink any ship bringing supplies to their enemies; and they had sunk a number of merchant vessels. Wilson now said he must stand by the right of Americans to travel on merchant ships in the war zone. "I cannot consent to any abridgement of the rights of American citizens in any respect...."
As Richard Hofstadter points out (The American Political Tradition): "This was rationalization of the flimsiest sort...." The British had also been intruding on the rights of American citizens on the high seas, but Wilson was not suggesting we go to war with them. Hofstadter says Wilson "was forced to find legal reasons for policies that were based not upon law but upon the balance of power and economic necessities."
It was unrealistic to expect that the Germans should treat the United States as neutral in the war when the U.S. had been shipping great amounts of war materials to Germany's enemies. In early 1915, the British liner Lusitania was torpedoed and sunk t,; a German submarine. She sank in eighteen minutes, and 1,198 people died, including 124 Americans. The United States claimed the Lusitania carried an innocent cargo, and therefore the torpedoing was a monstrous German atrocity. Actually, the Lusitania was heavily armed: it carried 1,248 cases of 3-inch shells, 4,927 boxes of cartridges (1,000 rounds in each box), and 2,000 more cases of small-arms ammunition. Her manifests were falsified to hide this fact, and the British and American governments lied about the cargo.
Hofstadter wrote of "economic necessities" behind Wilson's war policy. In 1914 a serious recession had begun in the United States. J. P. Morgan later testified: "The war opened during a period of hard times.... Business throughout the country was depressed, farm prices were deflated, unemployment was serious, the heavy industries were working far below capacity and bank clearings were off." But by 1915, war orders for the Allies (mostly England) had stimulated the economy, and by April 1917 more than $2 billion worth of goods had been sold to the Allies. As Hofstadter says: "America became bound up with the Allies in a fateful union of war and prosperity."
Prosperity depended much on foreign markets, it was believed by the leaders of the country. In 1897, the private foreign investments of the United States amounted to $700 million dollars. By 1914 they were $3~ billion. Wilson's Secretary of State, William Jennings Bryan, while a believer in neutrality in the war, also believed that the United States needed overseas markets; in May of 1914 he praised the President as one who had "opened the doors of all the weaker countries to an invasion of American capital and American enterprise."
Back in 1907, Woodrow Wilson had said in a lecture at Columbia University: "Concessions obtained by financiers must be safeguarded by ministers of state, even if the sovereignty of unwilling nations be outraged in the process.... the doors of the nations which are closed must be battered down." In his 1912 campaign he said: "Our domestic markets no longer suffice, we need foreign markets." In a memo to Bryan he described his aim as "an open door to the world," and in 1914 he said he supported "the righteous conquest of foreign markets."
With World War I, England became more and more a market for American goods and for loans at interest. J. P. Morgan and Company acted as agents for the Allies, and when, in 1915, Wilson lifted the ban on private bank loans to the Allies, Morgan could now begin lending money in such great amounts as to both make great profit and tie American finance closely to the interest of a British victory in the war against Germany.
The industrialists and the political leaders talked of prosperity as if it were classless, as if everyone gained from Morgan's loans. True, the war meant more production, more employment, but did the workers in the steel plants gain as much as U.S. Steel, which made $348 million in profit in 1916 alone? When the United States entered the war, it was the rich who took even more direct charge of the economy. Financier Bernard Baruch headed the War Industries Board, the most powerful of the wartime government agencies. Bankers, railroad men, and industrialists dominated these agencies.
A remarkably perceptive article on the nature of the First World War appeared in May 1915 in the Atlantic Monthly. Written by W. E. B. Du Bois, it was titled "The African Roots of War." It was a war for empire, of which the struggle between Germany and the Allies over Africa was both symbol and reality: ". . . in a very real sense Africa is a prime cause of this terrible overturning of civilization which we have lived to see." Africa, Du Bois said, is "the Land of the Twentieth Century," because of the gold and diamonds of South Africa, the cocoa of Angola and Nigeria, the rubber and ivory of the Congo, the palm oil of the West Coast.
Du Bois saw more than that. He was writing several years before Lenin's Imperialism, which noted the new possibility of giving the working class of the imperial country a share of the loot. He pointed to the paradox of greater "democracy" in America alongside "increased aristocracy and hatred toward darker races." He explained the paradox by the fact that "the white workingman has been asked to share the spoil of exploiting 'chinks and niggers.'" Yes, the average citizen of England, France, Germany, the United States, had a higher standard of living than before. But: "Whence comes this new wealth? . . . It comes primarily from the darker nations of the world-Asia and Africa, South and Central America, the West Indies, and the islands of the South Seas."
Du Bois saw the ingenuity of capitalism in uniting exploiter and exploited-creating a safety valve for explosive class conflict. "It is no longer simply the merchant prince, or the aristocratic monopoly, or even the employing class, that is exploiting the world: it is the nation, a new democratic nation composed of united capital and labor."
The United States fitted that idea of Du Bois. American capitalism needed international rivalry-and periodic war-to create an artificial community of interest between rich and poor, supplanting the genuine community of interest among the poor that showed itself in sporadic movements. How conscious of this were individual entrepreneurs and statesmen? That is hard to know. But their actions, even if half-conscious, instinctive drives to survive, matched such a scheme. And in 1917 this demanded a national consensus for war.
The government quickly succeeded in creating such a consensus, according to the traditional histories. Woodrow Wilson's biographer Arthur Link wrote: "In the final analysis American policy was deter mined by the President and public opinion." In fact, there is no way of measuring public opinion at that time, and there is no persuasive evidence that the public wanted war. The government had to work hard to create its consensus. That there was no spontaneous urge to fight is suggested by the strong measures taken: a draft of young men, an elaborate propaganda campaign throughout the country, and harsh punishment for those who refused to get in line. Despite the rousing words of Wilson about a war "to end all wars" and "to make the world safe for democracy," Americans did not rush to enlist. A million men were needed, but in the first six weeks after the declaration of war only 73,000 volunteered. Congress voted overwhelmingly for a draft. George Creel, a veteran newspaperman, became the government's official propagandist for the war; he set up a Committee on Public Information to persuade Americans the war was right. It sponsored 75,000 speakers, who gave 750,000 four-minute speeches in five thousand American cities and towns. It was a massive effort to excite a reluctant public.
Congress passed, and Wilson signed, in June of 1917, the Espionage Act. From its title one would suppose it was an act against spying. However, it had a clause that provided penalties up to twenty years in prison for "Whoever, when the United States is at war, shall willfully cause or attempt to cause insubordination, disloyalty, mutiny, or refusal of duty in the military or naval forces of the United States, or shall willfully obstruct the recruiting or enlistment service of the U.S...." Unless one had a theory about the nature of governments, it was not clear how the Espionage Act would be used. It even had a clause that said "nothing in this section shall be construed to limit or restrict . . . any discussion, comment, or criticism of the acts or policies of the Government...." But its double-talk concealed a singleness of purpose. The Espionage Act was used to imprison Americans who spoke or wrote against the war.
Two months after the law passed, a Socialist named Charles Schenck was arrested in Philadelphia for printing and distributing fifteen thousand leaflets that denounced the draft law and the war. The leaflet recited the Thirteenth Amendment provision against "involuntary servitude" and said the Conscription Act violated this. Conscription, it said, was "a monstrous deed against humanity in the interests of the financiers of Wall Street." And: "Do not submit to intimidation." Schenck was indicted, tried, found guilty, and sentenced to six months in jail for violating the Espionage Act. (It turned out to be one of the shortest sentences given in such cases.) Schenck appealed, arguing that the Act, by prosecuting speech and writing, violated the First Amendment: "Congress shall make no law . . . abridging the freedom of speech, or of the press...."
The Supreme Court's decision was unanimous and was written by its most famous liberal, Oliver Wendell Holmes. He summarized the contents of the leaflet and said it was undoubtedly intended to "obstruct" the carrying out of the draft law. Was Schenck protected by the First Amendment? Holmes said:
"The most stringent protection of free speech would not protect a man in falsely shouting fire in a theater and causing a panic.... The question in every case is whether the words used are used in such circumstances and are of such a nature as to create a clear and present danger that they will bring about the substantive evils that Congress has a right to prevent."
Holmes's analogy was clever and attractive. Few people would think free speech should be conferred on someone shouting fire in a theater and causing a panic. But did that example fit criticism of the war? Zechariah Chafee, a Harvard law school professor, wrote later (Free Speech in the United States) that a more apt analogy for Schenck was someone getting up between the acts at a theater and declaring that there were not enough fire exits. To play further with the example: was not Schenck's act more like someone shouting, not falsely, but truly, to people about to buy tickets and enter a theater, that there was a fire raging inside?
Perhaps free speech could not be tolerated by any reasonable person if it constituted a "clear and present danger" to life and liberty; after all, free speech must compete with other vital rights. But was not the war itself a "clear and present danger," indeed, more clear and more present and more dangerous to life than any argument against it? Did citizens not have a right to object to war, a right to be a danger to dangerous policies?
(The Espionage Act, thus approved by the Supreme Court, has remained on the books all these years since World War I, and although it is supposed to apply only in wartime, it has been constantly in force since 1950, because the United States has legally been in a "state of emergency" since the Korean war. In 1963, the Kennedy administration pushed a bill [unsuccessfully] to apply the Espionage Act to statements uttered by Americans abroad, it was concerned in the words of a cable from Secretary of State Rusk to Ambassador Lodge in Vietnam, about journalists in Vietnam writing "critical articles ... on Diem and his government" that were "likely to impede the war effort.")
The case of Eugene Debs soon came before the Supreme Court. In June of 1918, Debs visited three Socialists who were in prison for opposing the draft, and then spoke, across the street from the jail, to an audience he kept enthralled for two hours. He was one of the country's great orators, and was interrupted again and again by laughter and applause. "Why, the other day, by a vote of five-to-four-a kind of craps game, come seven, come eleven-they declared the child labor law unconstitutional." He spoke of his comrades in jail. He dealt with the charges that Socialists were pro-German. "I hate, I loathe, I despise Junkers and Junkerdom. I have no earthly use for the Junkers of Germany, and not one particle more use for the Junkers in the United States." (Thunderous applause and cheers.)
They tell us that we live in a great free republic; that our institutions are democratic; that we are a free and self-governing people. That is too much, even for a joke....
Wars throughout history have been waged for conquest and plunder.... And that is war in a nutshell. The master class has always declared the wars; the subject class has always fought the battles....
Debs was arrested for violating the Espionage Act. There were draft-age youths in his audience, and his words would "obstruct the recruiting or enlistment service."
His words were intended to do much more than that:
"Yes, in good time we are going to sweep into power in this nation and throughout the world. We are going to destroy all enslaving and degrading capitalist institutions and re-create them as free and humanizing institutions. The world is daily changing before our eyes. The sun of capitalism is setting; the sun of Socialism is rising.... In due time the hour will strike and this great cause triumphant . . . will proclaim the emancipation of the working class and the brotherhood of all mankind. " (Thunderous and prolonged applause.)
Debs refused at his trial to take the stand in his defense, or to call a witness on his behalf. He denied nothing about what he said. But before the jury began its deliberations, he spoke to them:
I have been accused of obstructing the war. I admit it. Gentlemen, I abhor war. I would oppose war if I stood alone.... I have sympathy with the suffering, struggling people everywhere. It does not make any difference under what flag they were born, or where they live....
The jury found him guilty of violating the Espionage Act. Debs ad dressed the judge before sentencing:
Your honor, years ago I recognized my kinship with all living beings, and I made up my mind that I was not one bit better than the meanest on earth. I said then, and I say now, that while there is a lower class, I am in it; while there is a criminal element, I am of it; while there is a soul in prison, I am not free.
The judge denounced those "who would strike the sword from the hand of this nation while she is engaged in defending herself against a foreign and brutal power." He sentenced Debs to ten years in prison.
Debs's appeal was not heard by the Supreme Court until 1919. The war was over. Oliver Wendell Holmes, for a unanimous court, affirmed Debs's guilt. Holmes discussed Debs's speech: "He then ex pressed opposition to Prussian militarism in a way that naturally might have been thought to be intended to include the mode of proceeding in the United States." Holmes said Debs made "the usual contrasts between capitalists and laboring men . . . with the implication running through it all that the working men are not concerned in the war." Thus, Holmes said, the "natural and intended effect" of Debs's speech would be to obstruct recruiting.
Debs was locked up in the West Virginia state penitentiary, and then in the Atlanta federal penitentiary, where he spent thirty-two months until, at the age of sixty-six, he was released by President Harding in 1921.
The war ended in November 1918. Fifty thousand American soldiers had died, and it did not take long, even in the case of patriots, for bitterness and disillusionment to spread through the country.
With all the wartime jailings, the intimidation, the drive for national unity, when the war was over, the Establishment still feared socialism. There seemed to be a need again for the twin tactics of control in the face of revolutionary challenge: reform and repression.
The first was suggested by George L. Record, one of Wilson's friends, who wrote to him in early 1919 that something would have to be done for economic democracy, "to meet this menace of socialism." He said: "You should become the real leader of the radical forces in America, and present to the country a constructive program of fundamental reform, which shall be an alternative to the program presented by the socialists, and the Bolsheviki...."
That summer of 1919, Wilson's adviser Joseph Tumulty reminded him that the conflict between the Republicans and Democrats was unimportant compared with that which threatened them both:
What happened in Washington last night in the attempt upon the Attorney General's life is but a symptom of the terrible unrest that is stalking about the country.... As a Democrat I would be disappointed to see the Republican Party regain power. That is not what depresses one so much as to see growing steadily from day to day, under our very eyes, a movement that, if it is not checked, is bound to express itself in attack upon everything we hold dear. In this era of industrial and social unrest both parties are in disrepute with the average man....
"What happened in Washington last night" was the explosion of a bomb in front of the home of Wilson's Attorney General A. Mitchell Palmer. Six months after that bomb exploded, Palmer carried out the first of his mass raids on aliens-immigrants who were not citizens. A law passed by Congress near the end of the war provided for the deportation of aliens who opposed organized government or advocated the destruction of property. Palmer's men, on December 21,1919, picked Up 249 aliens of Russian birth (including Emma Goldman and Alexander Berkman), put them on a transport, and deported them to what had become Soviet Russia. The Constitution gave no right to Congress to deport aliens, but the Supreme Court had said, back in 1892, in affirming the right of Congress to exclude Chinese, that as a matter of self-preservation, this was a natural right of the government.
In January 1920, four thousand persons were rounded up all over the country, held in seclusion for long periods of time, brought into secret hearings, and ordered deported. In Boston, Department of Justice agents, aided by local police, arrested six hundred people by raiding meeting halls or by invading their homes in the early morning. A troubled federal judge described the process:
"Pains were taken to give spectacular publicity to the raid, and to make it appear that there was great and imminent public danger.... The arrested aliens, in most instances perfectly quiet and harmless working people, many of them not long ago Russian peasants, were handcuffed in pairs, and then, for the purposes of transfer on trains and through the streets of Boston, chained together... "
In the spring of 1920, a typesetter and anarchist named Andrea Salsedo was arrested in New York by FBI agents and held for eight weeks in the FBI offices on the fourteenth floor of the Park Row Building, not allowed to contact family or friends or lawyers. Then his crushed body was found on the pavement below the building and the FBI said he had committed suicide by jumping from the fourteenth floor window.
Two friends of Salsedo, anarchists and workingmen in the Boston area, having just learned of his death, began carrying guns. They were arrested on a streetcar in Brockton, Massachusetts, and charged with a holdup and murder that had taken place two weeks before at a shoe factory. These were Nicola Sacco and Bartolomeo Vanzetti. They went on trial, were found guilty, and spent seven years in jail while appeals went on, and while all over the country and the world, people became involved in their case. The trial record and the surrounding circumstances suggested that Sacco and Vanzetti were sentenced to death because they were anarchists and foreigners. In August 1927, as police broke up marches and picket lines with arrests and beatings, and troops surrounded the prison, they were electrocuted.
Sacco's last message to his son Dante, in his painfully learned English was a message to millions of others in the years to come:
"So, Son, instead of crying, be strong, so as to be able to comfort your mother . . . take her for a long walk in the quiet country, gathering wild flowers here and there.... But remember always, Dante, in the play of happiness, don't you use all for yourself only.... help the persecuted and the victim because they are your better friends.... In this struggle of life you will find more and love and you will be loved."
There had been reforms. The patriotic fervor of war had been invoked. The courts and jails had been used to reinforce the idea that certain ideas, certain kinds of resistance, could not be tolerated. And still, even from the cells of the condemned, the message was going out: the class war was still on in that supposedly classless society, the United States. Through the twenties and the thirties, it was still on.
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Joshua 7-9New International Version (NIV)Achan's Sin7 But the Israelites were unfaithful in regard to the devoted things[a]; Achan son of Karmi, the son of Zimri,[b] the son of Zerah, of the tribe of Judah, took some of them. So the Lord's anger burned against Israel. 2 Now Joshua sent men from Jericho to Ai, which is near Beth Aven to the east of Bethel, and told them, "Go up and spy out the region." So the men went up and spied out Ai. 3 When they returned to Joshua, they said, "Not all the army will have to go up against Ai. Send two or three thousand men to take it and do not weary the whole army, for only a few people live there." 4 So about three thousand went up; but they were routed by the men of Ai, 5 who killed about thirty-six of them. They chased the Israelites from the city gate as far as the stone quarries and struck them down on the slopes. At this the hearts of the people melted in fear and became like water. 6 Then Joshua tore his clothes and fell facedown to the ground before the ark of the Lord, remaining there till evening. The elders of Israel did the same, and sprinkled dust on their heads. 7 And Joshua said, "Alas, Sovereign Lord, why did you ever bring this people across the Jordan to deliver us into the hands of the Amorites to destroy us? If only we had been content to stay on the other side of the Jordan! 8 Pardon your servant, Lord. What can I say, now that Israel has been routed by its enemies? 9 The Canaanites and the other people of the country will hear about this and they will surround us and wipe out our name from the earth. What then will you do for your own great name?" 10 The Lord said to Joshua, "Stand up! What are you doing down on your face? 11 Israel has sinned; they have violated my covenant, which I commanded them to keep. They have taken some of the devoted things; they have stolen, they have lied, they have put them with their own possessions. 12 That is why the Israelites cannot stand against their enemies; they turn their backs and run because they have been made liable to destruction. I will not be with you anymore unless you destroy whatever among you is devoted to destruction. 13 "Go, consecrate the people. Tell them, 'Consecrate yourselves in preparation for tomorrow; for this is what the Lord, the God of Israel, says: There are devoted things among you, Israel. You cannot stand against your enemies until you remove them. 14 "'In the morning, present yourselves tribe by tribe. The tribe the Lord chooses shall come forward clan by clan; the clan the Lord chooses shall come forward family by family; and the family the Lord chooses shall come forward man by man. 15 Whoever is caught with the devoted things shall be destroyed by fire, along with all that belongs to him. He has violated the covenant of the Lord and has done an outrageous thing in Israel!'" 16 Early the next morning Joshua had Israel come forward by tribes, and Judah was chosen. 17 The clans of Judah came forward, and the Zerahites were chosen. He had the clan of the Zerahites come forward by families, and Zimri was chosen. 18 Joshua had his family come forward man by man, and Achan son of Karmi, the son of Zimri, the son of Zerah, of the tribe of Judah, was chosen. 19 Then Joshua said to Achan, "My son, give glory to the Lord, the God of Israel, and honor him. Tell me what you have done; do not hide it from me." 20 Achan replied, "It is true! I have sinned against the Lord, the God of Israel. This is what I have done: 21 When I saw in the plunder a beautiful robe from Babylonia,[c] two hundred shekels[d] of silver and a bar of gold weighing fifty shekels,[e] I coveted them and took them. They are hidden in the ground inside my tent, with the silver underneath." 22 So Joshua sent messengers, and they ran to the tent, and there it was, hidden in his tent, with the silver underneath. 23 They took the things from the tent, brought them to Joshua and all the Israelites and spread them out before the Lord. 24 Then Joshua, together with all Israel, took Achan son of Zerah, the silver, the robe, the gold bar, his sons and daughters, his cattle, donkeys and sheep, his tent and all that he had, to the Valley of Achor. 25 Joshua said, "Why have you brought this trouble on us? The Lord will bring trouble on you today." Then all Israel stoned him, and after they had stoned the rest, they burned them. 26 Over Achan they heaped up a large pile of rocks, which remains to this day. Then the Lord turned from his fierce anger. Therefore that place has been called the Valley of Achor[f] ever since. Ai Destroyed8 Then the Lord said to Joshua, "Do not be afraid; do not be discouraged. Take the whole army with you, and go up and attack Ai. For I have delivered into your hands the king of Ai, his people, his city and his land. 2 You shall do to Ai and its king as you did to Jericho and its king, except that you may carry off their plunder and livestock for yourselves. Set an ambush behind the city." 3 So Joshua and the whole army moved out to attack Ai. He chose thirty thousand of his best fighting men and sent them out at night 4 with these orders: "Listen carefully. You are to set an ambush behind the city. Don't go very far from it. All of you be on the alert. 5 I and all those with me will advance on the city, and when the men come out against us, as they did before, we will flee from them. 6 They will pursue us until we have lured them away from the city, for they will say, 'They are running away from us as they did before.' So when we flee from them, 7 you are to rise up from ambush and take the city. The Lord your God will give it into your hand. 8 When you have taken the city, set it on fire. Do what the Lord has commanded. See to it; you have my orders." 9 Then Joshua sent them off, and they went to the place of ambush and lay in wait between Bethel and Ai, to the west of Ai—but Joshua spent that night with the people. 10 Early the next morning Joshua mustered his army, and he and the leaders of Israel marched before them to Ai. 11 The entire force that was with him marched up and approached the city and arrived in front of it. They set up camp north of Ai, with the valley between them and the city. 12 Joshua had taken about five thousand men and set them in ambush between Bethel and Ai, to the west of the city. 13 So the soldiers took up their positions—with the main camp to the north of the city and the ambush to the west of it. That night Joshua went into the valley. 14 When the king of Ai saw this, he and all the men of the city hurried out early in the morning to meet Israel in battle at a certain place overlooking the Arabah. But he did not know that an ambush had been set against him behind the city. 15 Joshua and all Israel let themselves be driven back before them, and they fled toward the wilderness. 16 All the men of Ai were called to pursue them, and they pursued Joshua and were lured away from the city. 17 Not a man remained in Ai or Bethel who did not go after Israel. They left the city open and went in pursuit of Israel. 18 Then the Lord said to Joshua, "Hold out toward Ai the javelin that is in your hand, for into your hand I will deliver the city." So Joshua held out toward the city the javelin that was in his hand. 19 As soon as he did this, the men in the ambush rose quickly from their position and rushed forward. They entered the city and captured it and quickly set it on fire. 20 The men of Ai looked back and saw the smoke of the city rising up into the sky, but they had no chance to escape in any direction; the Israelites who had been fleeing toward the wilderness had turned back against their pursuers. 21 For when Joshua and all Israel saw that the ambush had taken the city and that smoke was going up from it, they turned around and attacked the men of Ai. 22 Those in the ambush also came out of the city against them, so that they were caught in the middle, with Israelites on both sides. Israel cut them down, leaving them neither survivors nor fugitives. 23 But they took the king of Ai alive and brought him to Joshua. 24 When Israel had finished killing all the men of Ai in the fields and in the wilderness where they had chased them, and when every one of them had been put to the sword, all the Israelites returned to Ai and killed those who were in it. 25 Twelve thousand men and women fell that day—all the people of Ai. 26 For Joshua did not draw back the hand that held out his javelin until he had destroyed[g] all who lived in Ai. 27 But Israel did carry off for themselves the livestock and plunder of this city, as the Lord had instructed Joshua. 28 So Joshua burned Ai[h] and made it a permanent heap of ruins, a desolate place to this day. 29 He impaled the body of the king of Ai on a pole and left it there until evening. At sunset, Joshua ordered them to take the body from the pole and throw it down at the entrance of the city gate. And they raised a large pile of rocks over it, which remains to this day. The Covenant Renewed at Mount Ebal30 Then Joshua built on Mount Ebal an altar to the Lord, the God of Israel, 31 as Moses the servant of the Lord had commanded the Israelites. He built it according to what is written in the Book of the Law of Moses—an altar of uncut stones, on which no iron tool had been used. On it they offered to the Lord burnt offerings and sacrificed fellowship offerings. 32 There, in the presence of the Israelites, Joshua wrote on stones a copy of the law of Moses. 33 All the Israelites, with their elders, officials and judges, were standing on both sides of the ark of the covenant of the Lord, facing the Levitical priests who carried it. Both the foreigners living among them and the native-born were there. Half of the people stood in front of Mount Gerizim and half of them in front of Mount Ebal, as Moses the servant of the Lord had formerly commanded when he gave instructions to bless the people of Israel. 34 Afterward, Joshua read all the words of the law—the blessings and the curses—just as it is written in the Book of the Law. 35 There was not a word of all that Moses had commanded that Joshua did not read to the whole assembly of Israel, including the women and children, and the foreigners who lived among them. The Gibeonite Deception9 Now when all the kings west of the Jordan heard about these things—the kings in the hill country, in the western foothills, and along the entire coast of the Mediterranean Sea as far as Lebanon (the kings of the Hittites, Amorites, Canaanites, Perizzites, Hivites and Jebusites)— 2 they came together to wage war against Joshua and Israel. 3 However, when the people of Gibeon heard what Joshua had done to Jericho and Ai, 4 they resorted to a ruse: They went as a delegation whose donkeys were loaded[i] with worn-out sacks and old wineskins, cracked and mended. 5 They put worn and patched sandals on their feet and wore old clothes. All the bread of their food supply was dry and moldy. 6 Then they went to Joshua in the camp at Gilgal and said to him and the Israelites, "We have come from a distant country; make a treaty with us." 7 The Israelites said to the Hivites, "But perhaps you live near us, so how can we make a treaty with you?" 8 "We are your servants," they said to Joshua. But Joshua asked, "Who are you and where do you come from?" 9 They answered: "Your servants have come from a very distant country because of the fame of the Lord your God. For we have heard reports of him: all that he did in Egypt, 10 and all that he did to the two kings of the Amorites east of the Jordan—Sihon king of Heshbon, and Og king of Bashan, who reigned in Ashtaroth. 11 And our elders and all those living in our country said to us, 'Take provisions for your journey; go and meet them and say to them, "We are your servants; make a treaty with us."' 12 This bread of ours was warm when we packed it at home on the day we left to come to you. But now see how dry and moldy it is. 13 And these wineskins that we filled were new, but see how cracked they are. And our clothes and sandals are worn out by the very long journey." 14 The Israelites sampled their provisions but did not inquire of the Lord. 15 Then Joshua made a treaty of peace with them to let them live, and the leaders of the assembly ratified it by oath. 16 Three days after they made the treaty with the Gibeonites, the Israelites heard that they were neighbors, living near them. 17 So the Israelites set out and on the third day came to their cities: Gibeon, Kephirah, Beeroth and Kiriath Jearim. 18 But the Israelites did not attack them, because the leaders of the assembly had sworn an oath to them by the Lord, the God of Israel. The whole assembly grumbled against the leaders, 19 but all the leaders answered, "We have given them our oath by the Lord, the God of Israel, and we cannot touch them now. 20 This is what we will do to them: We will let them live, so that God's wrath will not fall on us for breaking the oath we swore to them." 21 They continued, "Let them live, but let them be woodcutters and water carriers in the service of the whole assembly." So the leaders' promise to them was kept. 22 Then Joshua summoned the Gibeonites and said, "Why did you deceive us by saying, 'We live a long way from you,' while actually you live near us? 23 You are now under a curse: You will never be released from service as woodcutters and water carriers for the house of my God." 24 They answered Joshua, "Your servants were clearly told how the Lord your God had commanded his servant Moses to give you the whole land and to wipe out all its inhabitants from before you. So we feared for our lives because of you, and that is why we did this. 25 We are now in your hands. Do to us whatever seems good and right to you." 26 So Joshua saved them from the Israelites, and they did not kill them. 27 That day he made the Gibeonites woodcutters and water carriers for the assembly, to provide for the needs of the altar of the Lord at the place the Lord would choose. And that is what they are to this day. Footnotes:
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Luke 1:21-38New International Version (NIV)21 Meanwhile, the people were waiting for Zechariah and wondering why he stayed so long in the temple. 22 When he came out, he could not speak to them. They realized he had seen a vision in the temple, for he kept making signs to them but remained unable to speak. 23 When his time of service was completed, he returned home. 24 After this his wife Elizabeth became pregnant and for five months remained in seclusion. 25 "The Lord has done this for me," she said. "In these days he has shown his favor and taken away my disgrace among the people." The Birth of Jesus Foretold26 In the sixth month of Elizabeth's pregnancy, God sent the angel Gabriel to Nazareth, a town in Galilee, 27 to a virgin pledged to be married to a man named Joseph, a descendant of David. The virgin's name was Mary. 28 The angel went to her and said, "Greetings, you who are highly favored! The Lord is with you." 29 Mary was greatly troubled at his words and wondered what kind of greeting this might be. 30 But the angel said to her, "Do not be afraid, Mary; you have found favor with God. 31 You will conceive and give birth to a son, and you are to call him Jesus. 32 He will be great and will be called the Son of the Most High. The Lord God will give him the throne of his father David, 33 and he will reign over Jacob's descendants forever; his kingdom will never end." 34 "How will this be," Mary asked the angel, "since I am a virgin?" 35 The angel answered, "The Holy Spirit will come on you, and the power of the Most High will overshadow you. So the holy one to be born will be called[a] the Son of God. 36 Even Elizabeth your relative is going to have a child in her old age, and she who was said to be unable to conceive is in her sixth month. 37 For no word from God will ever fail." 38 "I am the Lord's servant," Mary answered. "May your word to me be fulfilled." Then the angel left her. Footnotes:
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Cock-a-Doodle MOOOO! A Mixed-Up Menagerie & Other Books by Keith DuQuette
Writing and illustrating children's books gives me a terrific opportunity to explore the wonderful world we live in or to make up a world of my own. Over the years I've worked in both nonfiction and fiction. In my nonfiction books I explore subjects that I'm fascinated by such as architecture or the animal kingdom, and my works of fiction allow me to give life to characters, settings and stories in my head.
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Keith DuQuette was an impressionable child who at various times wanted to be a pet-shop owner, an architect, a painter, an anthropologist, a cartoonist, a naturalist and a center fielder for the New York Yankees. He is now none of those things. But he draws on all these early influences in creating picture books for young readers. Keith and his wife, Virginia, live in Brooklyn.
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I have found myself wanting to leave before the headliner the past few years. The cigarette smoke and the smell of alcohol that penetrates the park are no longer tolerable.
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St Davids Square, Locks Wharf, Canary Wharf, E14 3WA£1,250,000
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A Duplex Penthouse Style Apartment offering three double bedrooms two bathrooms, open plans kitchen/diner, feature dressing room with marvellous space throughout. All with great views towards Greenwich and Canary Wharf.
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City Dockland are pleased to present this wonderful, exciting and rarely available Duplex Penthouse Apartment to the sales market. This exciting property is filled with feature after feature, including, marvellous space, well composed layout and extremely good light throughout. It provides total privacy and is capped with a wealth of outside space and amazing views and scenery along the stretches of the River Thames and over toward Greenwich. Heralding 3 Double Bedrooms, with the main bedroom providing double opening doors to the private balcony, an ensuite bathroom and offers a feature private dressing area accessed via one of the internal 'open plan' staircases which in-turn leads to the open plan dining area and fully equipped Kitchen. Another staircase from the dining area leads back downwards to the fantastically appointed reception area with striking floor to high ceiling window span and to an additional set of doors again leading to the private south facing balcony. This is capped with another private roof terrace facing Canary Wharf Area and the Dome to add great views for those wonderful summer parties and barbeques. The other Double Bedrooms and Bathroom is also found upon this level. The whole property is fitted with ample heating and ample storage space throughout. Access to the Penthouse is via security lift service to the 7th Floor. With the whole development provided with 24hr Concierge, Private Secure Parking, Gym, Swimming and Spa Pools and not forgetting the Billiards Room. St Davids Square is a well maintained development, which is within easy walking distance of Island Gardens DLR Station and there by giving easy access to all of the shops, bars and restaurants of both Canary Wharf and also to Greenwich. It is also within easy reach of London City Airport. The property is offered with no onward chain. Leasehold
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"For everything you have missed, you have gained something else, and for everything you gain, you lose something else."
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"Win as if you were used to it, lose as if you enjoyed it for a change."
"I never thought of losing, but now that it' s happened, the only thing is to do it right. That's my obligation to all the people who believe in me. We all have to take defeats in life."
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Cameron Diaz/Jason Segel movie films in Somerville
Cameron Diaz and Jason Segel filmed their comedy "Sex Tape" (also known as "Basic Math") around Tufts University in Somerville on Monday. It was announced last month that Rob Lowe would be joining the cast of the local film.
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Australian batsman George Bailey smashed 28 runs in an over to equal Brian Lara's record of hitting most runs in an over in Tests. Bailey targeted James Anderson in the last over of the second innings before Australia declared in the third Ashes Test at Perth.
But Stokes continued and played well and completed his maiden Test half-century. Prior though looked tentative but survived till the end of the day.
Prior and Stokes are the last recognised pair on the crease and Australia will be eager to run through the remaining wickets and seal the series.


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Josh Gorges: In Habs' plans for next season and beyond ~ Getty Images
Monday's signings of forwards Max Pacioretty and David Desharnais indeed was a good day's work for Canadiens general manager Pierre Gauthier.
His kitty stands at roughly $20 million as the July 1 free agency period approaches, so we're bound to see more movement from Gauthier in the days to come.
Don Meehan, Andrei Markov's agent, says he'll talk with Gauthier about his client in Minneapolis during this week's NHL Entry Draft. Yannick Weber seems close to re-signing. How does Gauthier round out his defence, with RFA Josh Gorges expected to be signed, and UFAs James Wisniewski, Roman Hamrlik and Brent Sopel in the wings?
• Work remains to be done: Hickey
• Audio: Stubbs discusses signings with CJAD's Abe Hefter
• Leadership and youth: Basu
• TSN's final draft ranking
• Draft: Northeast Division hits and misses
• That was a heck of a party Bruins had post-parade
• Hickey wades (more tiptoes) into Twitter as @zababes1. He joins Stubbs, @habsinsideout1, and Boone, @habsblogger.
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Published on February 22, 2012 by Rabbi Sally Finestone
The small living room is crowded, with students and adults sitting together on the two couches, all the chairs, even the floors. They are huddled together in small groups of two or three, each working on creating a beautiful picture. Sometimes the student moves the crayons, sometimes the adult, and sometimes they clasp hands, moving the color over the paper together. In just a few minutes, each team has created a beautiful picture of a floral or geometric pattern. Sounds and comments of admiration fill the room.
Next, a game of charades is played, and once again, the students and adults divide into teams. Some of the adults can't speak, so the students pay close attention to the non-verbal clues of their partners. Each successful guess by the adults is greeted by cheers and applause, and the students make sure that everyone gets a turn to be successful.
Finally, a song sheet is passed around, an all join in singing several songs from popular culture and classic rock. Most sing, some rock in place, and all clap as the singing fills the small room. All too quickly, the hour comes to an end, and the students and adults say their goodbyes, reluctantly parting until the next visit.
This lovely scenario repeats itself two or three times each month. The activities change, but not the warmth, helpfulness, and excitement of the interactions. And this is just one visit, just one example, of our TELEM program in action.
TELEM: Jewish Youth Making a Difference Together is a new program this year at Congregation Or Atid. For many years, the Jewish Community Relations Council of Greater Boston has been running TELEM programs at other synagogues and temples, and this year, in response to a growing need of quality programming for our teens, Or Atid joined the list of participating communities.
The concept is simple. For a few hours each month, students learn about Judaism's approach to the assisting the elderly, to helping those with disabilities, and to fighting hunger and poverty in our community. When the learning is done, the planning begins, and the activities for the next visit are discussed. On alternative weeks, the students travel to one of several selected sites for social service.
Our students have been paired with the Minuteman Center in Concord, which provides housing and support for developmentally disabled adults. Nine adults happily greet our teens for each visit, and interact with them during the one hour visit.
Our teens are guided and inspired by the teacher of TELEM, Hilly Haber. They learn how to be more patient, more understanding, and more flexible as they watch her interact with the different adults. And they have learned well. Watching our teens interact with the adults in the center, one sees the Jewish principle of Gimulut Chasidim, acts of loving kindness, put into practice. One sees the Jewish principle of Ahavat Limud, the love of learning, practiced for all, regardless of ability. And one sees the Jewish principle of Avodah, service to one's community, practiced with each handshake, each conversation, and each hug.
May the TELEM program continue to thrive, and to include even more teens in our community in the years to come. May our teens continue to learn and create and bring joy to others. And may our teens continue to do their part to make this world a better place, one visit at a time.
Rabbi Sally Finestone is the Rabbi at Congregation Or Atid in Wayland.


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Mighty Mighty Bosstones to headline Phantom Gourmet BBQ & Music Festival
How do you mark a BossToneS birthday and nosh on some of the "best BBQ in the country?"
Throw a massive party from June 20-22, call it the Phantom Gourmet BBQ & Music Festival, and get the Mighty Mighty Bosstones themselves to headline it.
Bosstones frontman and "Jimmy Kimmel Live" announcer Dicky Barrett turns 50 on June 21, giving the day and the performance double meaning. The event will also be noted as Dicky Barrett's Birthday Bash.
Bosstones' bassist Joe Gittleman was already planning a surprise party for Barrett when the group decided it wanted to play another summer show like last year's Outside the Box festival, which won't return to the Hub this year.
"It was kind of crazy. When the opportunity to play City Hall Plaza came up, I was in the process of planning a surprise party for Dicky's Birthday," Gittleman said in a statement. "My initial response was that we'd be unavailable to play the show. It took a minute but my brain kicked in."
Barrett says he's pumped to return home from Los Angeles, where he works full time, and he's heard that there are some surprises up his friends' sleeves.
"There's a couple surprises going on but I guess those will probably be surprising me too," Barrett told Boston.com. "I think there are going to be some special guests and people up on stage that I'm not supposed to know about."
According to Barrett, Kimmel, who has been known to play the clarinet on stage with the Bosstones, may even make an appearance.
Phantom Gourmet, Inc. founder Dave Andelman said the vibe of the festival is going to be "off the hook."
Andelman created the Boston-based food review company and television program in 1993 and said that taking this event "to another level is unbelievably exciting."
BBQ creators come from all over the country and as far as Australia to present their foods to attendees. Other attractions will include performances by The Gaslight Anthem and Barrence Whitfield & the Savages.
Admission fees will differ depending on the time of day and the day itself. Get all of the ticket information on the Phantom Gourmet website.
The Phantom Gourmet's formerly named BBQ Beach Party has taken on a new moniker denoting the addition of music to the three-day festival on Boston's City Hall Plaza.


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ECSD Introduces New School Times
ELMIRA---(WENY) With the Elmira School District completing its transition in time for next school year, new school times are coming as well.
The new times will affect all district students, and meant to help parents with dropping off their kids, making the average bus ride around 20 minutes for students.
Starting next year, Pre K-2nd grade will be from 8:15am until 2:45pm, and 3rd grade through 6th grade will be 7:55am until 2:25pm. Broadway Academy and Ernie Davis Academy for grades 7 through 9 will be 8:40am until 3:10pm. Elmira High School, grades 10 through 12 will be 8:50am to 3:20pm.


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'Soft' Counterinsurgency reviews the promise and actual achievement of Human Terrain Teams, the small groups of social scientists that were eventually embedded in every combat brigade in Iraq and Afghanistan. The book, based on interviews with both HTT personnel and their military commanders, examines the military's need for sociocultural information, the ethical issues surrounding research carried out in combat zones, and the tensions between military and social science organizational cultures. The account provides a close, detailed account of HTT activities, a critical reflection on the possibilities of creating a 'softer,' less violent counterinsurgency, and the difficulty of attempting to make war more 'intelligent' and discriminating.
"An original, inside look at the role of militarily embedded social scientists in Afghanistan seeking to win the hearts and minds of the people. Paul Joseph shows the inherent contradictions in the fashionable doctrines of 'soft counterinsurgency' and the inevitable failure of any war based on occupation, while also illuminating the ethical compromises affecting social scientists who would conduct their craft under combat conditions." - Charlie Derber, Professor of Sociology, Boston College, USA "Joseph's book artfully evokes the idealistic intentions of the Human Terrain Teams social scientists, the bureaucratic disorganization of a program in disarray, and an unforgiving wartime environment. This book is indispensable reading for anyone seeking to understand not just why this program failed, but why civilian and military employees of the Pentagon have difficulty working together." - Hugh Gusterson, Professor of Anthropology and Sociology, George Mason University, USA
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need helpJul 20, 2009 hi Dr. Rob, i am on Atripla, but i have bit of a problem, i take it at 10:30 PM and i stay awake untile 1:00 AM or after that, and i get so hungry, knowing that i take atripla on empty stomac, i am starving man its 1:30 now and i don know if i can eat or i shouldnt eat or what should i do, am newly diagnosed with HIV1 thank you for your time |
Response from Dr. FrascinoHi, Once again the information requested is already waiting for you in the archives. See below. Dr. Bob I'm suppossed to take Atripla on an empty stomach, what about soda?( ATRIPLA AND FOOD, 2009) Apr 3, 2009 I accidentally forgot the empty stomach policy on my Atripla, I haven't eaten, but I drank two glasses of Soda within two hours of when I'm supposed to take my meds, should I take it later or is it referring more to food. Response from Dr. Frascino Hi, Hi, It would make no difference if you took your Atripla shortly after the two sodas or waited two hours for the formal empty-stomach recommendation. See below. Dr. Bob Atripla on empty stomach Jan 9, 2009 I was told to take my med (Atripla) on empty stomach. Can you tell me why? someone posted only it is to just help with the side effects. is that correct? or is there an other reason why? I know it should be taken 1 hour before or 2 hours after i eat. is that correct? Response from Dr. Frascino Hello, Taking efavirenz (Sustiva), a component of Atripla, with food increases absorption of the drug, which in turn leads to higher blood levels, which can be associated with increased side effects. That is really the only reason for the recommendation to take Atripla on an empty stomach. If you are not bothered by side effects, you can take it with or without food. Generally speaking, "on an empty stomach" means taking the medication at least one before or two hours after eating. Dr. Bob eating with atripla Feb 3, 2009 I have started taking atripla a couple of weeks ago and so far don't feel too bad. Had some sleep problems, strange dreams an mood swings but other than that I feel fine, in fact I feel better than I have done in quite some time. I take atripla around 22.00 - 23.00 to minimise side effects. I'm just a little concerned that it says to take it on an empty stomach. I work a late shift most days, finishing at 21.00 so if i go out for a meal or party with friends it's usually late, if I eat just before or after taking my meds will it reduce their effectiveness and therefore the risk of resistance? And is there a risk it can actually do me harm by taking the pills so close to a meal or with certain foods? Response from Dr. Frascino Hi, Efavirenz is well known to cause a variety of side effects, including vivid dreams (sometimes enjoyable; other times not!), dizziness and "brain fog" (difficulty concentrating). Taking efavirenz with food, especially fatty food (like an In-N-Out burger, fries and a shake) can increase the concentration of efavirenz in the blood and consequently increase the risk or severity of efavirenz-induced side effects. Therefore we often advise folks to take their efavirenz in the evening two hours after eating. However, if you're not bothered by side effects, you can take efavirenz whenever you want and with whatever you want, as long as you remember to take it each day. Taking efavirenz with food does not reduce the drug's efficacy or increase the risk of developing drug resistance. Dr. Bob | ||||||||||
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NEW YORK - Capt. Edward J. Cubanski, commander, Sector Long Island Sound, presented members of Coast Guard Station Montauk with the Meritorious Team Commendation, Friday, in Montauk, N.Y., for their rescue this summer of John Aldridge, a Montauk lobsterman.
A search was launched for Aldridge the morning of July 24 when he fell from his vessel and was reported missing by the crew members of the lobster boat Anna Mary. Aldridge clung to buoys and used his rubber boots as makeshift floatation devices, surviving in the water for more than 12 hours while the Coast Guard and community members searched for him.
"It is important that we recognize the numerous people involved in making this a successful rescue mission," said Cubanski. "We owe thanks to the community members and port partners for their contributions in finding and bringing John home safely."
The Coast Guard developed a massive search area of more than 1,100 square miles in size, deployed numerous assets in the search, and coordinated with local port partners and good Samaritans for a safe and effective organized system to search for Aldridge.
"The devotion to duty and the outstanding performance demonstrated by Station Montauk are in keeping with the highest traditions of the United States Coast Guard," said Cubanski.
To view footage from the search, please visit: http://www.uscgnews.com/go/doc/4007/1863590/
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