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In 1977 Nilda "Munu" Actis Goretta was walking home from work on a busy street in downtown Buenos Aires when members of the Argentinian Military Death Squad blindfolded her from behind and shoved her into a nearby car. She wasn't seen or heard from for 13 months. I recently met the now silver-haired artist, and after hearing her story I have yet to regain my confidence in Locke's whole "man is inherently good" thing.
During the height of Argentina's seven-year military dictatorship Munu lived as a political prisoner in the clandestine torture center, ESMA. She was a victim of Argentina's National Reorganization Process that was enacted after the 1976 military coup. Due to the societal disorder and economic conditions that preceded the coup, which overthrew the government of President Isabel Peron, the military junta led by Lieutenant General Jorge Videla was welcomed with support. In order to reign without the unrest of the past, the junta organized a system to eliminate any threats to the new government. Anyone who expressed the slightest sympathies for leftist politics would vanish without a trace. The ensuing events were undoubtedly the fucking craziest and bloodiest in modern Argentinian history.
The general public was not aware of the concentration camps. ESMA operated as the navy mechanical school in the center of the city, but beneath its deceitful concrete exterior was a basement death camp where thousands of political prisoners, including pregnant women, were brutally tortured and killed. In a particularly horrible type of torture called "picana," high voltage shocks of electricity were delivered through a bronze spoon that was forced up the vaginas of pregnant women. Once these women gave birth, their babies were abducted and adopted by military families. Today human rights groups estimate that over 500 babies were abducted, and a total of 30,000 people illegally imprisoned, while the government has only admitted to around 10,000.
Munu is one of the few who narrowly survived. Each time she was taken by guards from her unbearably hot cement cell in ESMA's attic, she wasn't sure whether it was to be electrocuted in the basement's torture chambers or killed in one of the routine military "death flights." According to Sergeant Ibanez, a former guard at the Camp de Mayo detention center, the routine flights occurred three to four times a month, during which victims were drugged with Pentothal (a tranquilizing drug) and stripped naked before being herded onto an airplane or helicopter and thrown alive into the rolling Rio Del Mar.
The abducted included journalists, students, philosophers, artists, and anyone who resembled Devendra Banhart. Members of the military Death Squad would infiltrate universities, private homes, and sometimes pull over cars and beat the shit out of people based on invalid accusations. If one so much as possessed a book on western philosophy they were branded a threat.
As a former political activist and artist, Munu fit the bill. In 1976, one year prior to her abduction, she was a happily married fine arts student living just outside Buenos Aires, but by night she was "Betty," a daring left-wing political activist who worked with her husband to teach the impoverished how to unionize themselves for state aid. This was also the year shit hit the fan.
Munu was 30 years old and five-months pregnant when her husband was shot and killed by the military for his suspected political activities. After suffering a miscarriage and abandoning her own political actions for fear of meeting the same fate, Munu fled to a southern suburb of Buenos Aires to start a new life. She thought she had left everything behind, including "Betty," her political identity. She believed she had become anonymous in a city of millions and impossible for the government to find. Sadly, that wasn't the case.
Four months into her imprisonment at ESMA Munu's fate was realized. The guard who was torturing her ordered her to work on producing fake passports and documentation for military members. Their illegal abductions spanned from northern Argentina to Brazil, and they needed a way to move without suspicion. Pleased with her precise work, the military moved her to an apartment that had belonged to another of the abducted. (It was common practice for the military to renovate and sell the apartments and belongings they had stolen from their abductees.)
Although she wasn't locked inside ESMA anymore, Munu was still under constant military surveillance, and her activities were limited to working in the basement of ESMA, and immediately returning to her apartment where she lived alone, unable to contact the outside world. Sometimes military guards would take her out to the nicest restaurants in the city and then lock her inside her apartment again, a form of psychological torture that slowly gnawed away at her mind.
"I wasn't sure if they were going to murder me or take me out to dinner," Munu told me in voice that sounded like she was reliving the horror.
The routine continued for several months, until one day the same guard who had ordered her to work told her he was planning on escaping the country, and urged her to leave before he did. She fled to Venezuela and lived there for several years, eventually returning to Buenos Aires. Now 54 and working as an artist and writer, Munu is one of the few survivors from the hundreds of clandestine detention centers that operated throughout Argentina.
The aftermath of the Dirty War and its victims is still shrouded in mystery, but the gaping gaps of information about the disappeared continue to be filled. Now 85 years old, Videla sits in his own hot cement cell serving a recently sentenced life term for the deaths of 31 prisoners, while nearly 700 other suits against military offenders await their own uncertain fate.


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I saw this on Rainier Valley Post and encourage you to carve out some time this weekend to attend some part of it. Registration is free and childcare is provided. Please, friends, make some time this weekend so hear what these people have to say. Let's encourage projects like these in Rainier Valley by at least showing up. Thank you.
This weekend, Great City, the non-profit organization focused on smart growth and urban advocacy, will host a two-day event, called Equitable Growth Dialogues, designed to offer an opportunity for community members, urbanists, environmentalists and social justice advocates to engage in meaningful conversations to help build bridges and find common cause.
The event will begin at City Hall on April 1 with a lunch-time Brownbag, then resume at Franklin High School on Sat., April 2, from noon until 5 pm. Day two will kick off with a presentation from Jeff Pace of the Unity Council in Oakland, California. Pace will share some of the successes and lessons learned from the development of the Fruitvale Village – a mixed-use, mixed-income, transit-oriented development located in Oakland. The day will continue with a series of breakout sessions concerning the impacts of regional growth and urban development on Southeast Seattle.
Community members are encouraged to either drop in for a specific session or attend the entire event. Daycare, translation and lunch will be provided. For more information and to register, visit www.greatcity.org. I believe the event is free.

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P.E.M.D.A.S is a math lesson usually taught between the 4th and 6th grades in the United States. It pertains to the order or precedence of mathematical evaluation - evaluate parentheses first or with most importance, and subtract last or with least importance.
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Sunday March 28, 2004
Treasures 2004_13
Treasures are positive things that strike my fancy, things that make me feel happy or thankful or interested, things that are worth remembering. Treasures are memories encapsulated in just a few words.
I gather my treasures throughout the week. I hope you'll consider starting your own list of Treasures -- here, or in your personal weblog or journal.
My treasures for the past week include
- The dark purple lilac is starting to bloom.
- Raven lounging in the lawn.
- A giant Easter basket on top of the See's Candy building, complete with colored eggs and rabbit. It's not inflatable; I wonder where they store it the rest of the year?
- More flowers in bloom - tulips, African daisies, myrtle, roses, day lilies ... and the white lilac is abundant, ebullient, exuberant, exhilarating.
- Just Smell the Air! Day and night (camellias smell best at night) it's more Spring perfume.
- 6-oz (half height) Coke cans; aren't they cute?
- Recognition and a nice comment from another regular at Joe's regarding my Two Cents entry in Friday's Chronicle!
- A lovely Sunday afternoon drive down I280, one of the Bay Area's most scenic freeways. Today it certainly lived up to its description, as the hills are still green and lovely. We saw several horses in the pasture (and a few cows), a redtailed hawk sitting on a fence, a ground squirrel (sitting on a different fence), and quite a few California poppies.
- Some happy plants at Foothill College, including a patch of hot pink ice plant worshipping the sun, more California poppies, and a wonderful bush (about 15 feet tall and as broad) covered in yellow hibiscus-like flowers. The bush was labeled as a "Fremontia".
- Rob and Barbara Diceley's Wild Cat Adventure program; this time they brought a Canada lynx, a king cheetah, a caracal, an ocelot, and a leopard. Yummm.
- The fact that these beautiful cats still exist (although in greatly reduced numbers) and that people like the Diceleys are working in conservation, outreach, and educational programs so that people like me can see the cats and appreciate them (and really understand what we could be losing).
- Fresh fruit, dipped in Brown Cow maple yogurt. Yummmmmm.
- Our new vacuum cleaner; it Really Works!
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Georgina presented the Power Point slides she had created to train staff on the new billing enhancements LOST ASSUM bills and Overdue Recall bills. The group reviewed the screens and praised the work. Ines offered the suggestion that one more slide be formed to show the WARNING! pop-up box that occurs when staff handle a LOST ASSUM item in discharge and checkout. Antoinette and Nita pointed out that if a user wishes to provide a new replacement copy for a LOST ASSUM item, the existing bill needs to be canceled first and a new bill for $20 needs to be created.
Barry distributed copies of Judy Gardner's "How to Fill out a 'Request for Payment' (Refund) Form, a document revised 11/15/04 and available on the RUL website at About the Libraries / Staff Resources / Access Services / Procedures / Billing / How to Fill out a "Request for Payment" (Refund Form) (PDF). The two changes in procedures: 1) SSN is now required to process funds on RIAS and 2) Under "Special Instructions," the user's status is now required; it determines how the refund is processed.
Barry handed out copies of WorkFlows Version 2003 Release Notes regarding a "New Wizard Added to Suspend a User's Loan Privileges Instead of Assessing a Fine." At the previous meeting, Nita had suggested the group investigate this new wizard to see if it could be useful. The group discussed how users are barred and blocked now because of 40 day plus overdue checkouts, overdue recalls, and recalls returned late. The group could not think of a need for employing this wizard. It felt that any pertinent information that may be needed to explain a block or bar can be conveyed effectively by a PUBNOTE.
The group supported the Billing Working Group's proposal to generate bills whenever a recalled item is returned late. Judy is working on the text for these notices.
Nita distributed copies of the revised damaged books document that she has been working on. The group engaged in preliminary discussion. A few suggestions were made but it was clear that a more thorough examination of the document by group members for discussion at the December meeting would be the best way to proceed. Nita pointed out that work was being currently developed for handling material that has multiple pieces, including whether a user should be billed for the entire item rather than for a missing piece, i.e., CD, map, etc.
Barry handed out copies of the University's Parental Notification Policy, released in a November 27, 2004 email from Janice Strickland that featured a memo from Sheila P. Fleishman, Associate Director of Compliance, Student Policy and Judicial Affairs. Barry attached to the memo a copy of RUL's Access Services Policy Memo #3: The Confidentiality of Library Records. The group agreed to examine the documents and discuss them at the December meeting.
Shirley said that LSM had been busy during the Thanksgiving break days (Friday and Saturday) and Don said Alexander had also experienced notable use.
Ines announced that Joseph Asaro had joined LSM as an evening LA2 with primary Reserve responsibilities.
Ray reported that he is learning new RDS and billing procedures from Nita.
Melanie described the emergency that had occurred at Math when a light had fallen to the floor shortly before closing and started a fire.
Penny announced that Douglass Reference librarians had volunteered to sponsor a party for student staff at Douglass.
Barry shared with the group a humorous email courtesy of Roger that included a CNN report about a Michigan prosecutor interested in seeking jail time for delinquent library users.
Next Meeting: Wednesday, December 22, 2004 at 3 p.m. at Kilmer (Room 11).


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FLUSHING, N.Y. – Facing a three-goal deficit early in the second half, the Queens College women's lacrosse team stormed back to force overtime before falling, 6-5, to Caldwell University in the extra frame in the Knights' home opener on Wednesday afternoon.
Queens opened with a 2-0 lead, but Caldwell rallied back with five straight goals, as the Knights trailed, 5-2, with 26:45 to go in the second half. Queens then tallied three goals in the final 25 minutes of play to force overtime.
Junior Nicole Moniello opened things up with a quick goal just 39 seconds in to give Queens a 1-0 lead. Sophomore Patriece Ausili followed that up with a goal of her own off of Moniello's feed to put the Knights ahead, 2-0, 5:42 into the opening half.
Caldwell fired off five goals in a row to claim the lead, however. Arden Kassaleh scored back-to-back goals to tie it up at two, and Pamela Schenck found the back of the net with 2:54 left in the first half to give Caldwell a 3-2 halftime lead. The Cougars quickly added two more to open up the second half, as the Knights faced an uphill climb, down by three.
Senior Alyssa Walker started the comeback with a goal 5:08 into the half off an assist by sophomore Lauren Gentile, cutting the deficit to two. Just under seven minutes later, Gentile found fellow sophomore Margaret Iavarone, who tallied a goal to bring the Knights within one at 5-4. With time winding down, Moniello came through with a big goal on a pass from Ausili with 2:02 left on the clock to tie the game at five apiece.
In overtime, Kassaleh finished off a hat trick by scoring the game-winner on a free position shot 2:22 into the extra frame, giving the Cougars a 6-5 win.
Moniello scored twice and added an assist to lead Queens. Ausili tallied a goal and an assist, while Gentile added two assists. Senior goalie Basma Attieh made nine saves for the Knights.
Queens (0-2) will return to the field on Friday, March 10, for a 6 p.m. contest at Pace University.


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On the home page of Zillow.com, click on the For Sale option, type "Saint Simons Island, GA" in the search field, and click on the magnifying glass icon. Scroll the mouse wheel to zoom in on the map, and click on a listing to get more information about it. Alternatively, sort the list by price or listing date, use the scroll bar to navigate through the list, and select a listing.
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CATHERINE WILSON of Zero Waste Heroes told members of Largieside SWI that the worst form of waste is food.
Catherine spoke at the group's monthly meeting in Tayinloan village hall recently and said that buying three for the price of two was not a good idea if you threw one away. As food waste goes into landfill it can cause a build-up of methane gas which is not good for the environment.


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Bersarang-sarang dah kat sini. Asiff jiddan. Mari berkongsi sesuatu fakta berguna untuk kesihatan otak kita..
1. No BreakfastPeople who do not take breakfast are going to have a lower blood sugar level. This leads to an insufficient supply of nutrients to the brain causing brain degeneration.
2 . OvereatingIt causes hardening of the brain arteries, leading to a decrease in mental power.
3. SmokingIt causes multiple brain shrinkage and may lead to Alzheimer disease.
4. High Sugar consumptionToo much sugar will interrupt the absorption of proteins and nutrients causing malnutrition and may interfere with brain development.
-> jangan makan banyak sangat tiramisu >_<
5. Air PollutionThe brain is the largest oxygen consumer in our 20 body. Inhaling polluted air decreases the supply of oxygen to the brain, bringing about a decrease in brain efficiency.
6 . Sleep DeprivationSleep allows our brain to rest.. Long term deprivation from sleep will accelerate the death of brain cells..
7. Head covered while sleeping
Sleeping with the head covered increases the concentration of carbon dioxide and decrease concentration of oxygen that may lead to brain damaging effects.
8. Working your brain during illness
Working hard or studying with sickness may lead to a decrease in effectiveness of the brain as well as damage the brain.
9. Lacking in stimulating thoughts
Thinking is the best way to train our brain, lacking in brain stimulation thoughts may cause brain shrinkage.
->Mari pikirin umat!! banyak kerja demi Islam di luar sana..be creative!!
10. Talking Rarely
Intellectual conversations will promote the efficiency of the brain
-> cakap banyak tapi benda yang tidak membawa manfaat@lagha tak akan meningkatkan iman mahupun intelektual
Daie yang cerdas ialah daie yang sentiasa mengingat mati dan berfikir apa yang telah dilakukan nya setiap hari untuk hari akhirat dan bagaimana to make today better than yesterday.


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- I married the love of my life on 1.1.11 and I'm still in disbelief that I get to be his wife.
- On 3.10.13 I became Mommy. My pretty girl, Corrine, brings me more joy than I thought possible.
- I am obsessed with the color green.
- I love all things artsy and the creative process.
- I love to sew and crochet.
- I have a cooking blog with my friend that lives in Australia, Foodie Freddies.
- I like to paint although I don't do it very often.
- I love problem solving.
- I LOVE black olives... really, love them.
- I have the cutest dog you will ever meet. Her name is AnnaBelle, and she's a princess - just ask her, she'll tell you.
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Loyolas Womens Resource Center and the Womens Studies Committee Present Southern Women Writers during the Fall Semester
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The Loyola University Womens Resource Center and the Womens Studies Committee will host readings and discussions with two Southern women writers during the fall semester. These readings and discussions are the first in a series that will be sponsored by the Womens Resource Center at Loyola.
First will be best-selling writer Rosemary Daniell who has won wide acclaim for her daring and humorous depictions of women navigating the turbulent waters of the post 60s South. Daniell will read and discuss obstacles women writers face on Tuesday, September 25, 2001, from 12:30 2 p.m. in the Womens Resource Center located in Mercy Hall, Room 103. The presentation is free and open to the public. A book signing will follow.
In poetry, essays, novels, and memoirs, Daniell has for over three decades championed womens efforts to liberate themselves and their sexuality in a world determined to keep them repressed. She has been compared with such writers as Erica Jong, Dorothy Allison, Carson McCullers, and Flannery OConnor. Her books include Fatal Flowers, Sleeping with Soldiers, A Sexual Tour of the Deep South, The Hurricane Season, Confessions of a Female Chauvinist, and The Woman Who Spilled Words All Over Herself.
A nationally known teacher of writing, Daniell is also the founder of the Zona Rosa writers group, a network for women writers throughout the United States, and author of Writing and Living the Zona Rosa Way.
Second will be upcoming writer Marsha Recknagel and author of the just released If Nights Could Talk. Recknagel will read from her just published memoir on Wednesday, October 17, 2001 at 7 p.m. in Nunemaker Auditorium. A four-page excerpt of her book was published in the September issue of Vogue magazine and it was also featured in the September issue of "O" magazine and included in the September issue of "Elle" recommended reading list. Recknagel teaches creative writing at Rice University in Houston and is a native of Shreveport.
For more information about these readings and discussions, call the Womens Resource Center at 864-7880.


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We have always called our town, Oro Valley, the "Jewel of Southern Arizona." Now, according the Bloomberg/Businessweek, Oro Valley is the best place to raise kids in Arizona. We guess that makes our town the jewel of the entire State.
The publication observes: "This Arizona burg isn't just for snowbirds escaping the cold North—it's become a major base for biotech firms, fueled by research at nearby Tucson's University of Arizona and the town's own Innovation Park."
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Friday, June 15, 2007
It Seems To Be An Online World
You don't have to have a newspaper delivered anymore either. You can read it online. I'm not sure which came first, decline in circulation, advertising revenue and thus budget for staff or the popularity of the internet. The problem with print media, however, is what is in print is the same as what is online - and that, at times, is not enough.
Then you add blogs to the mix. For the most part they are less than objective. Yet more and more I find myself going to local blogs to find out what the people behind the headlines are really thinking. It makes me wonder, if this trend continues, where one will go to find a well researched analysis of both sides of a story.
Bloggers, like everyone, have their agendas. The disagreements between varying sides can get quite unruly. At times it gets to the point of being counter productive with feelings hurt, reputations put in jeopardy, opinions stated as truths and hot buttons at melt down. There are exceptions, and excellent ones, but for the most part blogs are probably the least accurate source for news.
So we're back to square one. We need the press! We need good, in depth investigative journalism to make a come back.
A case in point: a local activist pens a column for the home town newspaper. Her column is opinion. That's what columnists do. She takes on the city often. As a citizen that is her right but are her assumptions accurate? The same paper prints a guest opinion from the mayor and entire city council taking her to task for being "loose with facts". Should their word be taken as gospel? The issues are major. I would be much more comfortable in forming my opinion if an objective reporter would dig into the criticisms and the rebuttal then lay out the facts.
I'm not saying this never happens; I am saying it doesn't happen often enough. Without the press where is one to go? We need them to provide the neutral center. Broadcast doesn't have the time allotment and bloggers don't have the credibility.
That leaves us with opinion. That leaves us uninformed. And that is dangerous.
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The tragedy here is...what neutral reporter would you choose? Reporters are not entities unto themselves. They have to answer to their editor, who answers to the publisher. Neutral press...just doesn't exist. The press, at least in Spokane, has an agenda. And the employees had better toe that agenda.
The columnist you refer to here always has an opinion disclaimer at the end of her column. And, after really taking the time to study her comments , it is my personal opinion that she is dealing in facts. And that is key, study the situation and make an individual decision based on the research. It is useless to depend on todays press for accurate non-biased reporting. Just isn't going to happen. And I can't imagine going forth, having made a decision based on an article in the press.
- Ted said...
Many good points but I find info on the Internet more up-to-date and at my fingertips whether I'm looking for a baseball score or the weather forecast. And a watershed moment occurred when the American media would no print or televise those cartoons from Denmark! I did see those cartoons and you know where!!! As far as blogs go, we have the good, the bad, and the ugly but they all convey the very essence of freedom !!
- Angela said...
I enjoyed this blog - good insight. I agree with a lot of what you're saying. Even though reporters may not be perfectly objective or neutral, they'll be a lot closer to that ideal than someone who isn't paid or held accountable.
- Dogwalkmusings said...
To me an opinion disclaimer indicates what I'm reading is more likely opinion than fact. And that's okay. What I'm pointing out is we need a source to look at opinions from both sides of an issue and sort out what is merely opinion and what is in fact - fact.
- Dogwalkmusings said...
You're right - the internet can't be beat for timliness but finding blogs that deal with fact versus opinion are hard to find and who has the time to search them out? Weather or a ball score? Instantaneous!
- Bill McCrory said...
The newspapers are in the best position to give accurate, timely information. No news medium will ever be able to give the complete story, though. The best the medium can do is provide an up-to-date synopsis and more complete reporting of new information. The previously new information becomes part of the next story's synopsis. That assumes, of course, the editor(s) allows the reporter to continue to cover the story.
Television news is format-limited. Only wet dogs are more pathetic than an inexperienced television news reporters with outdated or irrelevant images. Radio news, other than national network news, is nonexistent in this region. The radio news we do hear is heavily reliant on stories developed by their "partner" television stations' news teams.
I'd still prefer good newspaper coverage supplemented by the paper's aggressive use of its online medium, but putting together an accurate, timely story is pretty difficult. More important is the need to do followup coverage that adds new information while still having enough information to be understood by readers who missed the first story.
I agree, with all their faults, print press is the most "reliable". But everything is relative. "Reliable" is dependant on many factors. The slant required by the editor/publisher, accuracy of facts, and ability to disseminate these facts clearly with the written word. And this doesn't always exist in this area. Thus, I think the well informed opinion comes about by checking sources...doing your research, arriving at your own "reliable" information. I simply can't imagine, depending entirely on any one source, as a basis for reaching a conclusion.
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I am old enough to remember reading the paper, meant getting the facts... straight facts... now you have to question more the things you read. And tv is just a glimpes with pictures.


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All three counties in Central Oregon saw their unemployment rates increase from October to November, while only Deschutes County's rate increase was more than expected. Deschutes County had the lowest rate at 5.5 percent, while Jefferson County had the highest at 7.3 percent.
Deschutes County (Bend MSA): The county's unemployment rate jumped by 0.7 percentage points to 5.5 percent in November, up from 4.8 in October. This was a slightly larger than expected move for the rate during November, and the rate currently stands 1.2 percentage points higher than the historical lows of last November. The county had the 11th lowest local unemployment rate among Oregon's 36 counties.
November saw the third straight month of job declines, as jobs are normally shed going into the slower autumn months. The declines this November were larger than expected as 680 jobs were lost. Normally the county sheds about 520 in November as seasonal jobs continue to disappear.
The county's largest job declines occurred in the private sector as leisure and hospitality (‑470) continued to adjust staffing levels during the slower autumn season and natural resources, mining and construction dropped by 340 jobs. Both industries have lost jobs in each of the last three months, with leisure and hospitality shedding a total of 1,690 jobs and natural resources, mining and construction down 540 jobs from its peak in August. Other industries that lost jobs in November include professional and business services (‑150), financial activities (‑60), federal government (‑50) and manufacturing (‑40).
Meanwhile the largest gains in November were seen in local government ( 220), which saw continued hiring in local education ( 170) and retail trade ( 150). Retail trade typically sees much of its holiday hiring in November, so the new workers are trained and ready for the holiday rush after Thanksgiving. Educational and health service also saw a gain of 70 jobs over the month.
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Crook County: The county's unemployment rate inched up to 6.4 percent in November, up 0.3 percentage point from October. The increase was less than what was expected for the month. The rate is higher than the historical lows of last year, and similar to its level in 2005. The county's civilian labor force declined for the past three months, and the number of unemployed was at its highest level since March.
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The largest job losses in November occurred in manufacturing, leisure and hospitality and federal government. Each of these industries lost 20 jobs over the month, and each has shed jobs during the last four months. Both manufacturing and federal government shed 80 jobs over that period, while leisure and hospitality recorded 70 fewer jobs.
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Jefferson County: The county's 7.3 percent November unemployment rate was higher than its October rate of 6.4 percent. The 0.9 tenths of a point gain was actually slightly smaller than expected for the month, and the rate now stands 2.3 percentage points higher than last year. This is the highest November unemployment rate since 1993.
Jefferson County lost 60 jobs in November at a time of year when job declines are typical. Normally the county sheds about 50 jobs during the month, so this year the county performed slightly below expectations.
Employment gains were sparse in November and only occurred in government. State government added 50 jobs, much of that likely associated with the recent opening of Deer Ridge Correctional Facility. This ramp-up in hiring is expected to continue as the medium security facility opens in the first part of 2008. Also local government added 20 jobs in November, adding to gains made in the past few months as the new school year kicked off.
On the other hand the private sector only saw employment declines in November, shedding 130 jobs. Some of these were seasonal losses, as seen in leisure and hospitality's decline of 40, but others reveal the continued slowdown in manufacturing which lost 40 jobs in November and has 390 fewer jobs than when the year began.
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House of Representatives Ways and Means Committee Chairman Kevin Brady of Texas and Republican leaders restored the credit to the bill on Thursday, reversing his earlier stance on the issue.
"The Senate legislation also preserves the credit, Sen. John Hoeven (R-N.D.) said," reported The Hill on Thursday. "Religious groups, as well as House and Senate conservatives, pushed for the credit to be retained. They argued that by eliminating the credit, the bill went against the GOP's anti-abortion platform."
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In my case, I originally ordered 2 and through repeat replacements was shipped 9 devices total, out of which I picked the better ones. The screens on the ones I picked are far from perfect, but I love my PW anyway, and it was absolutely worth requesting replacements, as the original ones sent were horrible (one of them did not even power on and was broken out of the box).
Yep, I read about your horrendous ordeal on that Amazon CS post; one of the reasons I don't want to start the replacement process. Although I won't be able to go through nine. The Amazon CS I chatted with said I can only ask for a replacement only once. He gave me a $30 credit though for my disappointment. Felt weird about it and didn't say yes but he added it before I can make a decision.
A friend of mine just arrived from the US and she got herself a new Paperwhite the same week I got one. And hers has discoloration worse than mine. The funny thing is she didn't seem to notice or mind. She was kinda bummed I asked her about it and pointed out the screen defects. But it passed and she said she's really fine with it. She absolutely adores her Kindle! It truly is about your disposition and expectations.
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OK so I acquired some 2×2 steel tube to make a new 1-piece front fence rail for my Steel City 35990G
I have to drill and tap it to mount it, but that raises a question…
How many bolts do you have holding your front rail on? Not the angle that get bolted to the saw. The bolts (or machine screws) that go up from the bottom to secure the rail itself to the angle iron.
Right now I have 10 bolts in there, but it's a 2 piece rail. Should I really plan to drill and tap 10 holes? Or would less be ok?
My plan is to get a one piece front fence rail because I have struggled with alignment of the 2-piece rail for long enough. I'm also going to shift the new rail to the right. I don't use the fence on the left of the blade. But I did notice that 30 inches to the right was too small a few times when I was building kitchen cabinets. Not sure how many more cabinets I'll be building, but it seems like if I'm going to change the rail, shifting it to the right makes sense for the way I use the saw. I'll also have to get a new piece of angle iron for the rear, but I don't think that's going to be a problem.
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One of the more amusing political memes we've heard is Glenn Reynolds' "Unexpectedly!" list, in which the liberal-leaning press are always gobsmacked when real world outcomes don't conform to their rose colored world view.
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Wavering Obama voters have noticed the same phenomenon, though they have a more charitable explanation: Obama is "naive":
Did the constitutional law lecturer who pushed the bill through Congress and signed it into law naively ignore the question of whether the federal government had the authority to require citizens to purchase health insurance?
The naive narrative, in a nutshell:Monday I spoke to a smart political mind who had been watching focus groups of wavering Obama voters in swing states, and he said that one word that those voters kept coming back to, again and again, was "naïve." (The term was to describe the president, not themselves.) Those who voted for Obama won't call him stupid, and certainly don't accept that he's evil. But they have seen grandiose promises on the stimulus fail to materialize, Obamacare touted as the answer to all their health care needs and turn out to be nothing of the sort, pledges of amazing imminent advances in alternative energy, and so on. He seemed to think that reaching out to the Iranians would lead to a change in the regime's behavior and attitudes. He was surprised to learn that shovel-ready projects were not, in fact, shovel-ready. He was surprised to learn that large-scale investment in infrastructure and clean-energy projects wouldn't great enormous numbers of new jobs. He's surprised that his past housing policies haven't helped struggling homeowners like he promised. He's surprised that his signature health-care policy has become as controversial as it has. The "recession turned out to be a lot deeper than any of us realized." When a woman says her semiconductor engineer husband can't find a job, Obama says he's surprised to hear it, because "he often hears business leaders in that field talk of a scarcity of skilled workers."
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This is a stunning insight that should be a pillar of the GOP presidential platform: leaders aren't supposed to be blindsided by current events. We pay them to look ahead and be prepared, not to blithely hope for the best and then play the victim card when things go wrong.
An even more stunning insight comes from the President himself, via Ann Althouse:
Obama is "not spending a whole bunch of time planning for contingencies."
Shouldn't a President plan for contingencies? Obama was talking about the contingency of the Supreme Court possibly striking down some or all of the Affordable Care Act, and his asserted reason for not troubling with contingencies is purported confidence that the Supreme Court will not strike down the act.
I simply don't believe that they aren't planning for contingencies. I believe he doesn't want to talk about contingencies, and I suspect the main contingency is how to present the loss in the Supreme Court to the American people for the purposes of the reelection campaign.
It doesn't seem too farfetched to argue that a President who is continually surprised by the outcome of his actions (or who admits to not spending too much time planning for contingencies) is not very good at planning. When he continues to make the same mistake over and over again despite ample negative feedback, his "naivity" and "confidence" begin to look like arrogance. But wait! Maybe it's not Obama's fault after all!
Scientists have put a name to Obama's particular brand of ignorance-based overconfidence:
The Dunning-Kruger effect describes a cognitive bias in which people perform poorly on a task, but lack the meta-cognitive capacity to properly evaluate their performance. As a result, such people remain unaware of their incompetence and accordingly fail to take any self-improvement measures that might rid them of their incompetence.
I blame Science, which under Obama seems to be having a few problems with heavy handed government interference.
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Cassandra - I have lived long enough - and learned enough history - that the same people keep getting blindsided by the same things - dictators who didn't conform to their perception of "reasonableness", economies not responding the way they think they should respond....
...and their reaction to all this is always "it's someone else's fault - or "it's out of my control".
I suppose that this all falls under divine comedy- that is, "the more things change....."
Posted by: Bill Brandt at April 4, 2012 12:08 PM
My husband's favorite excuse is, "It's *complicated*!" (as in, you rubes are obviously incapable of understanding the complex reasons I screwed up) :p
Posted by: Help! Help! I'm Being Regressed! at April 4, 2012 12:27 PM
After more than 3 years on the job, the guy is still an amateur executive: all office and no head. But, then, I knew that when I didn't vote for him. So at least I can say I'm not disappointed in my being right...again.
Posted by: spd rdr at April 4, 2012 03:00 PM
This is what comes of the same kind of mentality that tells us we can't keep score in little-kid soccer games because it will harm their self-esteem. When you spend your formative years being protected from failing either through direct parental intervention, through promotion based on diversity objectives rather than merit or through being enabled by being permitted to blame other people or factors out of your control, you simply don't recognize that you have failed or are about to fail.
Posted by: RonF at April 4, 2012 03:10 PM
BTW, with regards to the common use of the word "unexpectedly" by the news media:
I wonder if they are blind to the fact that the use of the bare word "unexpectedly" rather than "Contrary to the President's expectation" or "The administration's expectation" is an editorial comment, not news reporting? Or is it a deliberate effort to again foist the responsibility from the President to unnamed or uncontrollable factors?
Posted by: RonF at April 4, 2012 03:13 PM
I found the results of the general election, as tallied shortly before midnight on November 4th, 2008, most unexpected. Since that event, not so much.
"The Dunning-Kruger effect"...The shoe fits. Unexpectedly? Hardly.
Unfortunately, we still have 215 days and a wake up until the clock begins to chime and 290 days until the Grand Carriage of State reverts to a solar powered pumpkin for our contingency free POTUS. Ample time for a whole lot of unexpected to happen.
Posted by: RonF at April 4, 2012 03:10 PM
Yup. In a nutshell.
Posted by: bthun-expecting-the-unexpected at April 4, 2012 06:26 PM
"The poor guy. He's always getting blindsided."It would seem that shoots the Pulitzer All Seeing Eye award in the tookustial foliage. Even so, I'm certain there must be a more positive light by which to view The Bringer of Change...
Posted by: Norman & Vincent Peales at April 4, 2012 09:11 PM
The only thing missing from this post is linking this "Unexpectedly!!!" to this.
Well, that and what spd said.
Posted by: DL Sly at April 4, 2012 11:33 PM
BTW - Cassandra! The last time I heard you had shut down this blog (to my great dissapointment). Even if I'm late to the revival, let me tell you how glad I am to see you back!
Posted by: RonF at April 5, 2012 10:24 AM
Thank you, Ron!
It makes my day when I see familiar faces in the comments section too :)
Posted by: Cassandra at April 5, 2012 01:47 PM
DL Sly, your link reminds me of one of my carpentry projects.
Which also reminds me why I am not a carpenter by trade.
Our goal should be to find something that Barry is good at. Something.....
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To: my dearest friend
How do two become one?
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I wrote this poem whilst reflecting on the news of a friend entering into a relationship. They aren't easy things, relationships, the reality of the them is that at the crossroads the possible paths are either breakup or marriage and understanding the weight of the possible outcomes should play a heavy role in whether you choose to enter into it or not - Perhaps it is a good time to clarify that this discussion is purely on starting a relationship.
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'This blog is posted on the birthday of a beautiful young woman who was the inspiration for me to begin the journey. She inspired to the extent that I had no choice but to embark.
Thank you!'
I was born shortly before the end of World War 2 so the National Health Service was to make its' appearance when I was approaching four years old; in July 1948. 'It appeared at a time when Britain saw health care as crucial to one of the "five giants" that Beveridge declared should be slain during post-war reconstruction. (want, disease, squalor, ignorance, idleness) The cataclysm of war provided an opportunity that might not have been taken in quieter times.' http://www.nhshistory.net. I know that I had at least a couple of hospital stays while I was living in Hunslet. I had tonsils removed and I was hospitalised with scarlet fever. I was in hospital for about two weeks for each of these illnesses. Nowadays, children have tonsils removed and are home usually on the same day. Scarlet fever is something of an olden days disease being well controlled by antibiotics but I suppose these drugs were still to some extent in their infancy and being from the deprived area of Hunslet and being comparatively young, no chances were taken. Obviously, I do not know if I was in hospital as an NHS patient but I was cared for and my parents did not have the money to pay for expensive medical treatment so there must have been some financial assistance from somewhere.
Some details are missing from my memory but I know my father had a third of his stomach removed when I was a young child so he will have also been comparatively young at the time, certainly less than forty. He used to talk of having had a duodenal ulcer so if that was the reason for what was a big operation, judging by the scar he had, he certainly had a bad time. There was no 'keyhole' surgery at that time. I have wondered since whether there might have been some connection with war-time medications, vaccinations and the like that made his stomach vulnerable.
Looking back, I remember many cases of the failure of the pre NHS systems and I only have experience of the people who could not afford to pay for treatment. I have no idea how people were treated before but there were many situations where elderly, war wounded or mentally ill were solely dependent upon the good will and devotion of neighbours and family members. It must be remembered that in 1948, the Second World War had only been finished three years before but the First World War left many hundreds of thousands terribly injured and they would be in their early fifties at the inception of the NHS. My grandfather was injured on the first day of the Battle of the Somme having been gassed and missing at a prior engagement and diagnosed with iron deficiency in the early stages of the conflict. In 1948 he was fifty-two years old. We would see numerous men of all ages who would be walking the streets shouting at the tops of their voices at nothing in particular and generally behaving in a desperately agitated manner. The term 'shell shock' was used to describe the torture those poor souls were still enduring. Many ex soldiers struggled along with crutches and invalid carriages of all shapes and sizes. The latter would be propelled by some form of hand or foot controlled pedals, some would be covered to give some protection from the elements. Along with these, there were numerous, from memory, mainly men, who had legs so bowed with the result of rickets that walking was a real difficulty.
The theatre of war was not the only source of death, injury, illness and misery. Industry was not regulated or monitored even remotely as well as it is today. Engineers and other workers with missing fingers were very common. Miners suffered injuries from falling rocks, moving machinery and perhaps most insidious, coal dust. Breathing difficulties affected a huge proportion of the population of the city of Leeds and its' industrial Goliath of a suburb, Hunslet. Many would not survive to a reasonable old age due to the inhalation of the many chemicals floating in the atmosphere and the dust pervading the grimy streets. The collieries supplied the coal, for the furnaces that produced steel, glass and the myriad of other items of engineered products issuing from the factory doors.
I think I was in my late teens before I heard the word cancer. The father of a close friend died of the disease but whether through ignorance or simply lack of exposure, at that time there did not seem to be the dread. There were plenty of other things to die of anyway.
We would see many children with problems that we rarely see these days. Shaven heads as a lice prevention measure, leg irons to keep legs straight, often after polio attacks but mainly with vitamin deficiencies. Badly squinting eyes without the aid of correctional glasses, often, the method of correction would be to cover one eye with a sticking plaster. I do not know whether it was successful or not. A face covered with stains of Gentian Violet was a stark indicator of the presence of impetigo or even worse, ringworm!
I know we did get some fruit as part of our diet, but there would not be the quality, range or quantity that we see today. The school milk act of 1946 ensured the supply of one-third of a pint free to all school pupils under the age of 18. I remember enjoying the milk even though in warm weather the lack of refrigeration meant the milk was not as refreshing as it might have been when it left the dairy to be deposited in the school playground.
Children would often be infected with very painful boils, particularly on the nape of the neck or other areas of friction. Possible causes were the friction caused by a shirt collar and or poor hygiene.
Many children or adults rarely visited dentists until the NHS allowed for free treatment. it was almost expected that men and women would opt to have all their teeth removed while still comparatively young. My parents would have been little more than forty years old when they went through the ordeal. The reason was economics. Even subsidised dental care was expensive if you had no money and time off work was not to be taken lightly in hard times. No thanks, a full set of false teeth would last a very long time and no further dental treatment required until they wore out!
Children would be given tooth braces only to correct the very worst examples of protruding teeth. Certainly no concession to cosmetic improvement. Teeth would be removed to allow for expansion or because they were badly decaying. The anaesthetic used was gas and from memory, it was awful. The patient would be expected to be nauseous and usually sick on the bus home from the clinic.
School inspections were a regular feature when a medical team might descend en masse to investigate the eyesight , oral health or simply general health. They would also invade to administer vaccinations for the dreaded diseases of the time. I do particularly remember that polio began to feature very prominently in the news. I had a cousin and an uncle who were stricken with it. Fortunately, both escaped without the devastating consequences others suffered, although my uncle who contracted it well before the second world war was unable to join the conflict due to the effects the disease had on him. Being a deep thinker who worried within and took in everything without opening up to my parents, I believed it was only a matter of time before I would be struck down. I am sure that I was not the only one but it was a great relief when the vaccination finally became available. I also worried about the likelihood of contracting lock-jaw. Anti tetanus is now one of those immunities we take more or less for granted.
I was nine years old when my elder sister died. She contracted rheumatic fever and weakened quickly. They tried a new drug on her. This drug is still used today and rheumatic fever is rarely fatal now in the developed world. Antibiotics is generally the simple cure. She was twelve years old when she died and her death had a profound effect on me. As I have said, I kept things buried within myself and did not talk about things. I at nine years thought that my elder sister must always be my elder sister. Consequently, I could never get older than she was. For many years after her death I would not have been surprised had she come walking down the street and into the house.


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February 2nd, 2010 at 10:42 pm (figures, food, games)
A few years ago, when Square-Enix decided to launch a "exlixer" style beverage to commemorate the release of the FF7 movie, it came in a magical, faceted blue plastic and glass container. Of course, the container was held in a box, which concealed which type of bottle it contained (collect at 6!), but nonetheless it was magical. A mere glance was sufficient to conclude that it infused with some ethereal mana of life, that would instantly give you full MP and HP for the coming boss battle. Which totally made up for the way it tasted like absolute crap.
The newer version of said elixer looks anything but magical. It looks like a cheap soda can. Considering that Japan prevalently packages alcoholic beverages in aluminum cans, it contains even more disappointment and less magic than usual. But somehow, looking at the white box, batsu fell into a time slip and impulsively purchased one of the newer FF13 potions. Upon opening the box, she realized this error.
Blast and damnation! Who cares what figure that is – what a rip!
It sat in the fridge for a week or so – remembering the vile serum contained within the aforementioned truly magical elixers. But then one day, I realized that I needed a boost to finish a project for work. Expecting the worst, it surprisingly had a pleasant lychee-like aloe taste. Something definitely worth drinking again, if it only appeared to be magical.


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The whole Tottenham Hotspur side shone against West Ham on Sunday afternoon - but here are three who stood out in particular.
Toby Alderweireld
Toby Alderweireld's presence has been absolutely massive for Tottenham this season. He has turned their back four from one of the most leaky in the Premier League (or at least the top half) to one many pundits feel could withstand a title challenge.
But, as Jamie Redknapp noted in the Sky Sports studio, the 26-year-old also showed his class going forward. In the air, there a few better - and that is helping the north London side immensely from set-pieces.
Christian Eriksen
Everyone knows Christian Eriksen's creative quality and he has hit form lately - but what really showed against West Ham was the Dane's work-rate.
Eriksen was always pressing, always hunting - and set up Harry Kane's second goal by simply never giving up on a loose ball.
Kyle Walker
What a goal from Kyle Walker to seal things for Spurs, even if Manuel Lanzini netted a consolation therafter for the Hammers.
The Tottenham right-back looks to have improved the attacking side of his game to no end this season and is becoming a menace going forward even if he doesn't net.
Against West Ham, though, the full-back did score - and how.