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Monday Mess: Moar Dronz, Gen Killz, (Horse)Meatz, and Clownz
Happy Monday. Insert a picture of that cat here–you know which one. I resemblez it.
• Good gravy, people. When National Geographic Magazine covers drones, it's way past time for a national dialog about their use domestically. Crop dusting, my backside; there's nothing except for the subhead in this article to genuinely suggest the designers, manufacturers, and potential buyers of drones are thinking about non-surveillance, non-policing applications for these unmanned aerial devices.
• Of course it hasn't helped our current condition that not one but at least two generations of military were shaped into the "Generation Kill" mold, about which Foreign Affairs learns from retired General Stanley McCrystal.
"People hear most about the targeting cycle, which we called F3EA — "find, fix, finish, exploit, and analyze." You understand who or what is a target, you locate it, you capture or kill it, you take what intelligence you can from people or equipment or documents, you analyze that, and then you go back and do the cycle again, smarter."
Color me skeptical, but this doesn't sound like appropriate training future civilians–those now serving in our military–will use for guiding crop dusting or weather monitoring drones.
• "Generation Kill" has a shadow identity, as well; the legitimately uniformed forces have dark counterparts in crime, which is likely shaped by the same attitudes as the military and police who chase them. Thwarted in illegal weapons sales, the supply chain arms traffickers use may be put to use in purveying goods of a different kind of kill. The horsemeat contamination scandal in Europe appears to be built upon the infrastructure of criminal arms dealer Viktor Bout. Where once illegal weapons might have been hidden in dog food, now illegal dog food is hidden in, well, our food.
• Of course, when this all gets too serious and we need to be distracted, somebody offers up a clown since bread and circuses always work to appease the masses. Today's fool is Gérard Depardieu, savaged for his luxe lifestyle and his exile from his mother country. France's current "supertax" policy–75 percent assessed against all income above one million euros, intended as a short-term fix to a national budget deficit–ostensibly drove Depardieu into the arms of the ever-execrable Russia. The actor whose work is synonymous with modern French cinema is now reviled as minable, pathetic. What seems incredibly pathetic to me is the strident ignorance of both policy makers and the French; only 3000 countrymen were subject to the tax, and it is too easily escaped. Was the problem really with these 3000 that the budget suffered, or were other structural problems at fault that might not yet be repaired? One can see readily how a similarly simplistic law enacted in the States could have similarly ridiculous and ineffective results. But Depardieu is an easy, large, and slow-moving target, not unlike the French royals who could not outrun the guillotine. Minable, indeed; how readily the populace is distracted by redirection to a clown.


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Citizens of Humanity recently announced the brand new creative directors of their mens and womenswear respectively – Simon Miller and Catherine Ryu. Miller will head up the men's design beginning with the Fall 2014 season, while women's head designer Ryu (who began with Citizens of Humanity in Fall 2012) will begin her tenure in the Summer and Fall 2014 seasons.
Founder and CEO Jerome Dahan stated, "Creativity is a collaborative process and we are interested in building the strongest possible design team to continue to push the brand forward and bring great product to our customers. Simon and Catherine have a deep understanding and appreciation of denim, a sophisticated taste level and an understanding of how to fully build a brand and its image. Working with both of them to further develop the Citizens of Humanity brand, for men's and women's, is exciting for me and Adriano Goldschmied."
President Amy Williams also added, "As we continue to build our brand in the US and International markets, it's critical to have the strongest possible design team that can lead both the product effort and overall creative direction of the company. Jerome has been a leader in advancing the premium denim market and in launching two great brands while Adriano is, and has been, a major pioneer in the industry. By building the talent and leadership in our design team it will allow us to further advance our products, our direct to consumer experience and build the brand in the Global Markets. Over the last year, we have been focused on our branding efforts and this Fall we are launching our e-commerce platform, a new retail partner program and opening our first freestanding store in Japan. It is an exciting time for the brand, especially with this fresh talent on the team."
Ryu was born in South Korea and raised in Toronto, Canada. She studied fashion design at Ryerson University where she was recruited to Club Monaco, later working at Urban Outfitters and Calvin Klein Jeans. Ryu is passionate about denim – the fabric, the wash development, and the overall process of making jeans – and joined the Gap where she learned to merchandise and better understand how important it is to create a product that sells. After developing her career in premium denim in NYC, Ryu moved to Los Angeles for a position at AG Adriano Goldschmied. After seven years at AG, she went on to Citizens of Humanity, where she would work alongside the original trailblazers of premium denim, Adriano Goldschmied and Jerome Dahan.
About Citizens of Humanity
Established in 2003, Citizens of Humanity has captivated the fashion world with a rigorous commitment to cutting edge denim styling, comfort and fit without compromise. With over 25 years of experience in the denim industry, founder Jerome Dahan, is a true visionary and the first to bring the concept of luxury designer denim to the global marketplace. Citizens of Humanity designs, markets and produces more than one million pairs of jeans annually in an internal laundry facility to ensure the product is unparalleled. Citizens of Humanity is distributed in over 1300 retailers in more than 35 countries including high-end specialty boutiques such as Curve, Fred Segal, Scoop, Madison and Anthropologie; online at Shopbop.com and MyTheresa.com as well as in luxury department stores Barneys New York, Bergdorf Goodman, Neiman Marcus and Bloomingdale's. For more information, please visit www.citizensofhumanity.com.

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It's here, folks! The first REAL snow of the season. A lot of you have expressed that it has taken long enough, but at least it got here.
This won't be a tremendously heavy snow for our region since most of the heavy precipitation will stay to our east:
Snow will continue through the night and taper off early Sunday morning. This is a slushy snow, and no ice is expected, so travel should become easier by late Sunday morning for most areas.
Light rain continues into early next week.
Be safe and send in pictures if you can!
Matthew Leach
Forecasting Kitsap
Questions? Comments? Photos? E-mail me at: email@example.com


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From Apocalypse Now to Twixt: Sound Design with Richard Beggs
I have a masters in painting and it remains the motif of my work. I am an audio painter. #
I work thematically I like sounds that are motific. #
I have a very idiosyncratic work style... I like to be involved w/
every aspect of the track as the picture moves forward. #
Very important to be on the set, to absorb the feelings of the whole
crew & to be in tune w/ the sensibility of the Director. #
The film exists on 2 levels: the sound that you see and sound that you don't see. #
I am in the biz of manipulating people. Sound can do that. #
Sound can convey emotional complexity without music, just with pure sound. #
When someone wants to work with me, I always asks "Why?"
Because it informs what they know about me + what they like. #
On a smaller pictures you're given a lot of latitude, on the other hand limited resources make things challenging. #
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John Ranta isn't happy about a privacy breach at Royal Inland Hospital.
The mayor of Cache Creek and former chair of the Thompson-Nicola Hospital District board said he was given a copy of a letter sent to one of the people in his community from RIH, advising that a binder with patient information went missing from the hospital.
The binder included names, addresses, phone numbers, ages, dates of birth, personal health-care numbers, family physicians, medication histories and information from colon scans.
The letter from Deana Rismondo, manager of the ambulatory care unit at the hospital, said since the records have not been found, "it is difficult to fully assess the level of risk to you."
The letter recommends those affected contact credit-monitoring agencies Equifax Canada or TransUnion to have flags placed on their files. The missing binder has been reported to the province's information privacy office and the letter said IH has taken action "to determine the cause of the privacy breach and educate users to mitigate the risk of future incidents."
However, Ranta said, IH is not paying the $5.25 charge Equifax requires for such an alert — and he's not happy about that.
Ranta said each letter was sent by registered mail at a cost of $9.84. Had they been sent through the regular mail, he said, IH could have covered the cost of all credit monitoring alerts and saved $4.59 per letter sent.
He said he raised the concern at a meeting last Thursday, asking IH CEO Chris Mazurkewich for details. Mazurkewich said he would look into it and get back to Ranta, something that had not happened as of Tuesday. But, Ranta noted, the intervening days were part of what for many people was a four-day Easter holiday weekend.
Ranta took particular aim at the concluding paragraph of the letter, one that includes an apology for the "unfortunate event." but assures RIH has taken steps to ensure it doesn't happen again.
"Well, that's like having a herd of cattle with all your personal info out in the field and someone opens the gate. The cattle are gone," he said. "They're out there somewhere."
Last June, Mounties in the Lower Mainland contacted IH after arresting two people who had possession of information on a number of people, about 500 of whom worked for the health authority.
The information pertained to employee records of current and past staff. IH contacted all employees affected and offered to pay for credit-monitoring services for one year.
In 2014, a filing cabinet at RIH went missing. It contained names, birthdates, personal health-card numbers and medical-testing information of 1,628 patients. At that time, IH offered to cover the cost of credit monitoring alerts.


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The Suffering and Celebration of Life in America
by Shane and Amy Bugbee
532 pages, $50 (direct: paperback $25 ebook $10)
Shane and Amy Bugbee are no strangers to controversy. Shane helped produce the original Milwaukee Metalfests, then ran several of his own Expo of the Extreme shows, while publishing classic Ragnar Redbeard texts with intros by Anton LaVey and running a radio show called Radio Free Satan with the blessing off the occult community.
In addition, the Bugbees put fingers into about every pie in the outsider art community, from banned comic book artist Mike Diana to — well, evil metal, now that you mention it. Their book The Suffering and Celebration of Life in America is a tour of the USA to discover its roots, but it's also a series of interviews with some of metal's greatest minds.
Originally, Shane and Amy Bugbee, a married pair of artists and entrepreneurs, planned an adventure called A Year at the Wheel where they would drive the length and breadth of the United States during an election year and record what they saw.
Luckily these artists are also metalheads and so decided to visit with a number of classic figures in the underground or related scenes. They interviewed Jeff Becerra (twice), Ian Mackaye (Minor Threat), Averse Sefira, the West Memphis 3, metal artist Jeff Gaither, and Gene Hoglan (Dark Angel).
These interviews tend to be in-dept explorations of the motivations behind metal artists, and include a number of statements that are crushing in their honesty and profundity. In many ways, they showcase the best of metal when all of the rock-star impositions are removed.
For example, take this selection from Averse Sefira:
Some people think the only real difference between black metal and other forms of metal is the fact that you wear corpse paint and that you scream instead of growl. That's really, really short sighted. You look at a band like Emperor. You could not write a song like 'I Am The Black Wizards' in death metal or thrash or anything like that. You could not write a song like 'Blashyrkh' the song that Immortal did in any other genre but black metal. It wants to transcend and that is why we are involved in it. (307)
Interview questions become interesting as the Bugbees interrogate their subjects about historical mysteries, and in doing so, lay bare to some of the vital issues conflicting them. For example, Jeff Becerra (Possessed) on his Satanism and censorship:
We had to take the upside down cross off of the second and third records, well we didn't, the record company did. We actually toned down the Satanism for the second and third because it was the bonfire of the vanities, the Christians were throwing books on the fire and burning shit up that might be important. People's moms were making them switch to catholic school cause they were getting caught with shit, like it was drugs, people were afraid of Satan then, no one is scared of Satan now… It's a trip because if people find spirituality without fear it's gonna be okay. Life is
scary enough at this point in time, we don't need to put metaphysical boogie men in our children's heads. (445)
Not all of the interviews are metal per se, but it's hard to deny the influence of Minor Threat on underground bands who came after them. Much as punk is different than metal however, the punk outlook as expressed by Ian Mackaye (Minor Threat) is less metaphysical and more political — in fact, this may be the most significant difference between metal and punk, now that I think about it:
In my mind, at least in our culture, the overriding emphasis is on profit and wealth. I think it's actually the modern form of power. Before there were royalty and kings, or this guy has the biggest knife and cuts off more people's heads. Now the warriors, the really powerful people are the rich people, and profit is so dominating in all business conversations. (514)
What makes these interviews interesting (outside of the content) is that they are not in a fanzine. This is a book about driving across America to figure out what it's all about. The goal was to discover it, and themselves, for the authors. In doing so, by approaching many classic musicians from non-standard angles, they captured a lot of what motivated them.
In addition, the Bugbees are no strangers to the type of experience that a metalhead has in a society that, whether motivated by Jesus or money or something else, doesn't like the disobedient and too smart to conform and get in line for the easy jobs and abundant shopping. In their case, it was a professed interest in Satanism, horror movies, metal and pornography that attracted negative attention.
In America's heartland, they had to abandon a town and a successful business when a "poison pen letter" outed them as the authors of several atheistic and not-so-very-Jesus blogs that might have endorsed Satanism. Along their trip, they lost other jobs too, as well as non-profit opportunities. In a few cases, they almost lost friends or other contacts but were able to rescue the situation.
Wherever they went, these accusations seemed to follow them. It would make anyone paranoid. It explains what so many metalheads feel in this society, which is that the instant it identifies us as outsiders, it goes on the offensive. We are seen as a threat to its way of life, whether it be conservative and Christian or politically correct and urban.
For this and other interesting explorations of what it is to be an outsider, The Suffering and Celebration of Life in America is a great read for anyone who has stepped outside of the mainstream, and wants to find a reason not just to be outside, but to celebrate it.
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(b Stockholm, Jan 19, 1860; d Stockholm, Jan 20, 1938). Swedish composer, organist and conductor. He attended the Swedish Royal Academy of Music (1882–6), studying counterpoint and composition with J. Dente, and was a pupil of Franck in Paris (1887–8). In Stockholm he was coach at the Royal Opera (1888–90), organist at the synagogue (1890–1928), music teacher at Norrmalm's grammar school (1895–1923) and teacher at Richard Anderssons Musikskola (1897–1909). From 1886 he conducted several choirs, including the Bellman Choir (1895–1926), which he also founded, and the Philharmonic Society (1900–03). Åkerberg's compositions often approach the style of Swedish folk music, especially the ballads Kung Svegder and Prinsessan och Svennen. They are technically sound but conventional.
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Now I love Jim Gibbon. I appreciate his passion for what he believes in and his activism against what he doesn't, but his San Ramon for Open Government is a closed organization open only by invitation and accessed through a mailing list and secret password. Even though I asked Jim to help save the Mudd's building, and he has been very helpful in that project, I am not a member of San Ramon for Open Government and I don't ever expect to be (nor do I want to be).
Many residents living near Norris Canyon Road don't want the HOV ramps. Those who attended the Scoping Meeting didn't want to hear what the CCTA representatives had to say, and didn't care if anyone else there (like me) wanted to hear it. So the speakers were shouted down and prevented from giving their presentation. One of their complaints was this plan was foisted on them fully grown without their input.
But the purpose of the meeting was to introduce CCTA's plans and get input from the residents. This wasn't something that popped out of nowhere. CCTA started working on plans for spending Measure C half-cent transportation tax many, many years ago. Measure C was passed in 1988 and reauthorized in measure J in 2004.
CCTA published proposals, timelines, studies, and reports over the last ten years and these are all available to anyone who wanted to find them. That's the trouble with open government. The door is open, but if you want to see what's inside you have to make the effort to go inside.
California has had an open meeting act, known as the Brown Act, for over 50 years. The agendas of all government meetings must be posted in a public place 48 hours before the meeting.
With the internet and cable TV and other means of mass communication, streaming video or audio of meetings can be provided live, in real time. I occasionally watch C-Span which is the Federal Congressional station where you can see what Congresspersons and Senators are really saying about bills and proposals and not what is in their political fliers or attack ads against their opponents. It could be an eye opener to those who get predigested sound bites from "news" stations with a political agenda.
Since the CCTA was not able to continue their presentation at the Scoping Meeting, I went to the Workshop in March at the City Center. I expected this to be more interactive with breakout sessions for the neighbors to discuss the options under consideration.
Instead it was worse than the first meeting. Angry neighbors again shouted down the speakers and prevented CCTA employees from getting more than 10 minutes into their presentation. Residents in the audience wanted to ask questions, but they only wanted the answers they liked and the only answer they liked was for CCTA to go away and drop the project.
Even when the CCTA consultant said they were considering the alternate exit at Executive Parkway, which I thought would solve their fears of traffic clogging up Norris Canyon, going West into their residential neighborhood, or making the overpass unsafe for children and pedestrians (even though it would be widened with sidewalks and bike lanes on both sides and increased earthquake safety), the opponents didn't want to hear about it.
A group of residents opposed to the HOV ramps spoke in public comment at the April 10th City Council meeting to object to the Council's approval of the project and to asked for the item to be put on the agenda of an upcoming meeting. Their goal was to reverse the Council's acceptance of the project.
I expected to see this item in the agenda for the April Policy Committee meeting and I planned to attend it to ask that the CCTA representatives would be allowed to give their complete, uninterrupted presentation at the Council meeting because I wanted to hear it, and I thought it should be included in the televised meeting so anyone else who wanted to know their side of it could without being blocked by residents who wanted CCTA to go away and leave them alone.
I was surprised to see the item on the April 24th City Council meeting agenda. I phoned Transportation Manager, Lisa Bobadilla, and asked if she could have the CCTA representatives there to give the presentation they have not been able to give for the last four months. Lisa said they would be at the meeting to give an update on where the project is at this time and answer Councilmembers questions.
I was very impressed that Lisa Bobadilla put this together so quickly and professionally. The meeting was very civil and informative. Even the residents who objected to the project spoke in public comment with reason and courtesy, which was not the case in the two previous meetings I attended.
As far as open government goes, it's all there in the videos on the City's website. The newest feature is Video on Demand of City Council meetings. You can click on a meeting and select the agenda item to view. This makes it as easy as possible to find out what your city government is doing, even if you cannot attend the meetings in person.
If you don't like what government is doing, go to the meetings or write an email and say "I don't like what you are doing," but don't prevent someone else who might like it from knowing about it.
Councilmember Phil O'Loane, who ran on an Open Government platform, said at the April 24th meeting that there are people in the Norris Canyon neighborhood who support the HOV ramps but are afraid to say so. That's a shame. That's not what open government should be about.


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Tiny particles of air pollution contain more hazardous ingredients in non-white and low-income communities than in affluent white ones, a new study shows.
The greater the concentration of Hispanics, Asians, African Americans or poor residents in an area, the more likely that potentially dangerous compounds such as vanadium, nitrates and zinc are in the mix of fine particles they breathe.
Latinos had the highest exposures to the largest number of these ingredients, while whites generally had the lowest.
The findings of the Yale University research add to evidence of a widening racial and economic gap when it comes to air pollution. Communities of color and those with low education and high poverty and unemployment face greater health risks even if their air quality meets federal health standards, according to the article published online in the scientific journal Environmental Health Perspectives.
Los Angeles, Pittsburgh, Cincinnati, St. Louis and Fresno are among the metropolitan areas with unhealthful levels of fine particles and large concentrations of poor minorities. More than 50 counties could exceed a new tighter health standard for particulates proposed by the Environmental Protection Agency.
Communities of color and those with low education and high poverty and unemployment may face greater health risks even if their air quality meets federal health standards.A pervasive air pollutant, the fine particulate matter known as PM2.5 is a mixture of emissions from diesel engines, power plants, refineries and other sources of combustion. Often called soot, the microscopic particles penetrate deep into the lungs.
The new study is the first to reveal major racial and economic differences in exposures to specific particle ingredients, some of which are linked to asthma, cardiovascular problems and cancer.
"Numerous studies indicate that some particles are more harmful than others," said lead author Michelle Bell, a professor of environmental health at Yale's School of Forestry and Environmental Studies.
The particles people breathe include a variety of metals and chemicals, depending on their source. For instance, people living near refineries are exposed to more nickel and vanadium, while those near coal-fired power plants breathe particles with higher sulfate content. Neighborhoods along busy roads have more nitrates from vehicle exhaust.
One such community is Boyle Heights, in East Los Angeles. It is more than 90 percent Hispanic and one of the poorest parts of the city.
Boyle Heights is "surrounded by freeways," said Susan Nakamura, planning manager for the region's South Coast Air Quality Management District, "and a lot of those freeways are used for shipping commercial goods." Four major rail yards emit diesel exhaust nearby, and the area is home to "multiple auto body shops and chrome-platers in close proximity to neighborhoods," she said. She is especially concerned about the particulate sources near schools.
A nationwide look
Bell and colleague Keita Ebisu examined exposures to 14 components of particulates in 215 Census tracts from 2000-2006. The components, including sulfate, a powerful respiratory irritant, and nickel, a possible carcinogen, were chosen because they had been associated with health impacts or accounted for a substantial amount of particulates overall.
Census tracts with a greater proportion of Hispanics had significantly higher levels of 11 substances. Included is more than 1.5 times the whites' exposure to nickel, nitrate, silicon, vanadium – all linked in some studies to hospitalizations or deaths from cardiovascular and lung disease – and aluminum, which is associated with low birth weights.
Communities with larger Asian populations had higher levels of seven components. Asians registered far greater exposures than whites to nickel, nitrate and vanadium.
And areas where more African Americans lived showed significant elevations in four compounds, including sulfate and zinc.
People with less than a high-school education, unemployed or living in poverty had more exposure to several components, including silicon and zinc. Also, children and teenagers were more likely than adults to breathe most of the substances.
The demographic differences raise important policy questions, said Rachel Morello-Frosch, an associate professor at the University of California, Berkeley, who studies the health risks of air pollution but was not involved in the Yale study.
Census tracts with a larger proportion of Hispanics had significantly higher levels of 11 substances, including more than 1.5 times the whites' exposures to nickel, nitrate, silicon, vanadium and aluminum.She said targeted monitoring may be needed in problem areas. "Then regulatory agencies may want to assess how they can encourage emissions reductions from sources that are having localized impacts," Morello-Frosch said.
It's a common scenario in cities nationwide: Due to high housing costs and historical discrimination, low-income and minority neighborhoods are clustered around industrial sites, truck routes, ports and other air pollution hotspots.
In the South Bronx, a largely Hispanic and African-American district of New York City, nearly four in 10 live in poverty. Heavy traffic and a jumble of small industries taint the air with a load of fine particles that frequently exceeds the federal health limit.
Asthma rates are as much as four times higher in the Bronx than the national rates, said Dr. Norman Edelman, chief medical officer for the American Lung Association. "They live near highways, they live near where trucks spew diesel," Edelman said. "That's the least desirable housing… much different than a nice, leafy suburb."
And just south of Pittsburgh, a slice of the Monongahela River Valley known as Liberty-Clairton tops the EPA charts with the nation's worst fine particle pollution outside of California.
Clairton, a mill town, is "home to the [U.S. Steel] Clairton Coke Works, which is the largest coke-making facility in the nation," said Rachel Filippini, executive director of the environmental organization Group Against Smog and Pollution. "The process of making coke is a pretty dirty one with lots of particulates and air toxics."
Tom Hoffman, Western Pennsylvania director of the environmental group Clean Water Action, said childhood asthma is rampant in Clairton, but a lot of families in the hardscrabble town don't have medical coverage. In some homes, the whole family shares a single inhaler, he said.
Particulates are complicated
The health effects of fine particle pollution are well-documented: Studies worldwide have shown that on days when fine particle concentrations increase in a community, more people die from heart attacks and respiratory problems.
But far less is known about whether specific types of particles translate to greater rates of illness or death.
"Some of these particles are not only composed of different things, but there are different gases and other things that adhere to them on the outside. So they're complicated in a whole range of ways," said Janice Nolen, author of the American Lung Association's annual State of the Air Report.
Studies on the components are limited and have given varying results. But some associations are clear.
Sulfate, for instance, can trigger asthma attacks, while vanadium irritates lungs, and nitrate causes inflammation that may lead to heart attacks or strokes. Within cities, some studies have found cardiovascular deaths rise with certain particles, including nitrate, zinc, nickel, carbon, selenium and silicon.
More human research and animal experiments are needed to understand which components are the most harmful and why, said Marie Lynn Miranda, dean of University of Michigan's School of Natural Resources and Environment and director of the Children's Environmental Health Initiative.
"They live near highways, they live near where trucks spew diesel. That's the least desirable housing ... much different than a nice, leafy suburb." -Dr. Norman Edelman, American Lung Association, speaking of Hispanics and African Americans in the South Bronx"The notion of trying to figure out what are the different components and are there specific things in the PM2.5 that cause more of a problem… would have implications for how you regulate health effects," Miranda said.
The EPA earlier this year proposed a more stringent health standard for fine particulate exposures that will force new regulations in some cities. Its final decision is expected in December. But the agency says too little is known about the specific ingredients of the particles to set individual limits for them.
"While different chemical components of PM may have different effects on health, the available scientific evidence to date supports setting standards that provide protection against exposures to PM from all sources," the EPA said in a statement to EHN.
More racial disparities
The Yale study is part of a growing body of research on racial and social disparities in air quality.
African Americans are considerably more likely to live in areas with the worst levels of particulates and ozone, the main ingredient of smog, according to a nationwide study by Miranda and colleagues. Hispanics and low-income residents also are overrepresented in counties with high fine particle pollution.
Also, cancer risks from air toxics such as benzene and formaldehyde are greatest in the nation's highly segregated metropolitan areas, according to research by UC Berkeley's Morello-Frosch and Bill Jesdale. The risks increase with degree of segregation in all racial and ethnic groups, but are strongest for Hispanics, they found.
"Our question was: Are places that are more unequal disproportionately exposing communities of color more than other groups?" Morello-Frosch said. "The answer to that is 'yes.' Cities that are more segregated, you see higher pollution burdens for residents of color."
As for why Hispanics seem to be facing some of the greatest air quality disparities, Morello-Frosch speculated that it may partly reflect the "L.A. Effect."
"Because you have a lot of Latinos living in one of the largest and most polluted cities in the United States," she said, "you might expect that contributing to the high population burdens of pollution."
"Are places that are more unequal disproportionately exposing communities of color more than other groups? The answer to that is 'yes'."-Rachel Morello-Frosch, University of California, BerkeleyMany questions about the effects of unequal exposures remain. Stress from social and economic conditions seems to exacerbate the effects of pollution, according to some recent research. In other words, the same amount of pollution may harm poor people more than affluent people, or segregated minorities more than whites.
"So if I'm exposed to air pollution but I otherwise live in a pretty nice neighborhood, I don't have a very stressful life… how does that differ from, I'm exposed to air pollution and I live in a cruddy house in a cruddy neighborhood and I have a very stressful life?" Miranda asked. "How do the social factors in my life affect my resiliency to environmental exposure?"
This article originally ran at Environmental Health News, a news source published by Environmental Health Sciences, a nonprofit media company.


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Puerto Rico's Political Status Needs to Change With the Times | Commentary
A year ago, U.S. citizens in the 50 states and the District of Columbia cast their ballots in the presidential election. The same day, their fellow citizens in the U.S. territory of Puerto Rico — who can't vote for president, senators or voting members of the House — participated in a referendum on the island's status.
The first question asked voters if they want Puerto Rico to remain a territory, and 54 percent said "no."
The second question asked voters to express their preference among the alternatives to the current status — statehood, independence, or nationhood in a free association with the United States — and 61 percent of those who chose an option picked statehood. The number of votes for statehood on the second question exceeded the number of votes for territory status on the first question.
Thus, a majority of my constituents reject territory status, a supermajority prefer statehood over separate nationhood, and more voters want Puerto Rico to become a state than to continue the status quo.
In the year since the referendum, evidence has continued to mount that Puerto Rico will not achieve its potential as long as it remains a territory. The island's economic problems are structural and enduring. They can be managed with capable local leadership. But they can only be overcome through a change in status.
Puerto Rico's economy has lagged well behind the states for decades. A major reason is that, as a territory, Puerto Rico is denied billions of dollars a year from federal programs. To compensate, the territory's government has borrowed heavily. With the local economy shrinking, our bonds are now trading at near junk levels.
Island residents aren't powerless in the face of these challenges. They vote with their feet, relocating to the states. In the past dozen years, our population has fallen by over 4 percent. A poll this week revealed that nearly four of every 10 Puerto Ricans say they are "pretty likely" or "very likely" to move to the states for better opportunities.
Upon taking up residence in Florida or Ohio, my former constituents are entitled to vote for their national leaders and to equal treatment under federal law. This system is illogical, harming both Puerto Rico and the United States as a whole.
Following the November vote, the ball moved into Washington's court, because a change in a territory's status can't occur without action by Congress and the president.
In April, in recognition of the historic nature of the referendum, the Obama administration requested an appropriation to conduct the first-ever status vote sponsored by the federal government. The provision was approved by the House Appropriations Committee, confirming that this issue transcends partisan politics. Its fate will be known in the coming months.
In May, I introduced HR 2000, the Puerto Rico Status Resolution Act. My legislation outlines the rights and responsibilities of statehood, provides for an up-or-down vote in Puerto Rico on the territory's admission as a state, and prescribes the steps the president and Congress would take if a majority of voters favor admission. With 125 bipartisan cosponsors, H.R. 2000 has more support than 98 percent of bills introduced this session. Efforts to obtain a Senate companion bill are ongoing.
In June, I testified at the United Nations, expressing faith that the United States would fulfill its legal and moral obligation to help Puerto Rico achieve a democratic and dignified status, now that island residents have withdrawn their consent to remain a territory.
In August, the Senate Energy and Natural Resources Committee held a hearing on the referendum. Chairman Ron Wyden, D-Ore., said "there is no disputing that a majority of the voters in Puerto Rico … have clearly expressed their opposition to continuing the current territorial status." Ranking Republican Lisa Murkowski of Alaska concurred, saying, "it is clear to me that the majority of Puerto Ricans do not favor the current territorial status."
Wyden then supplied this much-needed dose of clarity: "For Puerto Rico to meet its economic and social challenges and to achieve its full potential, this debate over status needs to be settled. Puerto Rico must either exercise full self-government as a sovereign nation, or achieve equality among the states of the Union. The current relationship undermines the United States' moral standing in the world."
Inertia is a powerful force, but it's not nearly as powerful as an idea whose time has come. Much works remains to be done, but much progress has been made in the past 12 months. Mindful of the axiom that the arc of history is long but it bends towards justice, I am confident that residents of Puerto Rico will soon cease to be second-class citizens of the world's most democratic nation.
Pedro R. Pierluisi, a Democrat, is Puerto Rico's resident commissioner in the House of Representatives.


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#SilentSunday: Three Blind Mice
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How brilliant & what an excellent spot!! (That's in 'to see it' not the place ....#stoppingnowas idiotbrainhastakenover)ReplyDelete
Oooh that's nice. Unusual. Where was that taken?ReplyDelete
I love this shot!ReplyDelete
they are on a bridge over Blind Beck next to Abbot's Park in Kendal. My aunt showed me - not easy to spot..ReplyDelete
Ooo that's clever! I like stuff like that, I just never spot them... *face-palm*ReplyDelete
Aw how cute!ReplyDelete
- Anonymous9 January 2011 at 18:27
Oh wow. That's lovely. So unusual. Great find!ReplyDelete
One of my favourite headlines on the BBC News Science section was "Sight restored to blind mice."ReplyDelete
How adorable - I'll look out for them next time I'm up that way.ReplyDelete
- Anonymous14 January 2011 at 22:53
Good spot! Thankfully I don't see a carving knife anywhere...ReplyDelete
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t just doesn't seem right watching Natalie Dormer act in contemporary clothing, let alone with her natural blond hair.
"I do quite a lot contemporary stuff," Dormer told me, laughing, during a phone interview from London, "but the American audience perhaps wouldn't know me so well for that."
What Americans do know the British actress for is her role as the brunette Anne Boleyn in "The Tudors," Showtime's bodice-ripping take of the lives and wives of 16th century British King Henry VIII. BBC America currently airs repeats of that series on Wednesdays, but fans can see the modern, blond Dormer in the network's horror-comedy mashup "The Fades," in which she plays Sarah, a ghost-fighting "angelic."
Without spoiling—the network airs the fourth of six episodes at 8 p.m. Feb. 4 (but I recommend you find them and start from the beginning; my review here)—Dormer's character is put through the wringer.
"I got a great kick out of this show because it was so physically demanding," Dormer said. "A lot of extreme stuff happens, without giving too much away, we all had ash being blown in our faces or were covered in goo and glue or had to deal with peculiar, extreme physical situations."
Dormer dons period costumes again for her role in Season 2 of HBO's fantasy hit "Game of Thrones," which begins April 1. She finished filming in December, but did not want to reveal too much about her character, Margaery Tyrell. Like Sarah in "The Fades," practically anything you say about Margaery is a spoiler.
But I think it's fair to say that Margaery is the sister of the Knight of Flowers, who after much drama marries a contender to the Iron Throne. And Dormer did say she's signed on to the show for multiple seasons. "Absolutely. Margaery really comes into her own in series [seasons] 3 and 4."
While you're waiting for "Thrones" to return, you can see Dormer in the Madonna-directed film "W.E.," which opens Feb. 10 in Chicago, and in modern clothes—and goo—in "The Fades."
Dormer and I talked more about Sarah and "The Fades," so stop reading if you're not caught up. We also talked about "Games of Thrones," "W.E." and working for Madonna.
OK, so it's been awhile since you filmed "The Fades" but hopefully we'll—
You'll jog my memory. [Laughs.]
I love that it's this mix of comedy and heavy drama and romance and scariness. Is that kind of what struck you, too, and attracted you to it?
Absolutely. I think [creator] Jack Thorne [who also did the Brit version of "Skins"] is a master at sort of mixing these genres up. And his dexterity in the script was what really attracted to me to it. When I read the script initially, because he can jump [not just] in a few scenes but within a few lines from a very funny moment to, as you say, a very profound or a very scary moment. And that's really down to Jack's writing. That's the way Jack writes. He's very agile and dexterous in the way he writes and its kind of fun to have to keep up with the writing, so to speak.
But I think that's what makes the show. I think that's what made the show as popular as it has been, because it's so hard to sort of pigeonhole it and say this is good for people who love their teen comedy or this is good for people who like to be scared. It's got that little bit of everything as does human life, right?
True. It's fun to see you not in a corset and long skirts for once, in period costumes—and with blond hair. How was that?
[Laughs.] I do quite a lot contemporary stuff, but the American audience perhaps wouldn't know me so well for that. As you say, they're used to seeing me in long skirts and a corset.
I got a great kick out of this show because it was so physically demanding. And it wasn't just the same for me. It was for a lot of the cast. There's a lot of running around. A lot of extreme stuff happens, without giving too much away, we all had ash being blown in our faces or were covered in goo and glue or had to deal with kind of peculiar, extreme physical situations that Jack had dreamt up. So I think any actor kind of really enjoys that, because if you get pushed and challenged physically it just adds to the whole fun of the game and playing it and finding something new, like surprising yourself.
With all the special effects and things going on, is it a challenge to act without that stuff being there in front of you?
We had the most amazing—considering the budget, I mean—it's kind of testament to what grassroots like British TV can do. We in no way had any kind of budget that you would expect for this kind of show or maybe an American audience would be used to having. So it's a testament to our effects team, how good a job they did.
And not as much was done, like CGI, as you would imagine. If they could give it to us physically, they would. I mean, like the make-up, they did an amazing job with the fades with prosthetics. And as the story continues, you see more and more gory stuff.
But it's kind of a blank canvas, because Jack created this whole new mythology, this whole new theology based around the science behind the fades. So I think that the make-up and the special effects people had a lot of fun with this blank canvas, you know, creating this whole new world or parallel world.
It was fun for all of us in that way, because say with the vampire genre or the zombie genre, which everyone knows the answers to. We're kind of acquainted with them after a certain point, because there have been so many shows or films, like the vampire thing, whether it be "Interview with a Vampire" or "Twilight" or "Buffy" or whatever it would be, those certain rules that we all know historically about like a vampire, like garlic, stakes through the heart, must be invited in, all that kind of stuff. And, similarly, with zombies there are those things.
What was great about this was we were all learning together, the writers, producers, actors, makeup. It was kind of like, "Can they do that?" "Can Fades do that?" And what do we think, what's the answer to this question, you know, how would we portray that, how would we comment on that. It was a lot of fun for all of us, because we were writing a mythology from the start, from scratch.
It's interesting that Sarah, even as a Fade, seems to be clinging on to her human life and especially to Mark. Did you find it fun to play that love story?
Yeah. It was really interesting. All goodsci-fi or supernatural asks really interesting, profound philosophical questions. There's a lot of fun in there but you're classic, great horror orsci-fi asks you philosophical questions about the human state as well.
And for me what was interesting was this whole thing about death and love and that love can live beyond the other side and this fear that we all have of what's beyond and losing our loved ones and being alone. The show does ask some quite big questions, which I think is good and totally in context with kind of the teenage cast that sort of leads us in, because when do you have all that angst about life and death and your sense of identity? That's when you're a teenager, when you're an adolescent, when you have all these profound questions hit you the first time.
And I just thought it was really cleverly done the way all the characters were interlinked. I had so much fun as well, so much fun, working with Johnny Harris, who's a BAFTA-nominated actor in this country and he's playing Neil in the show. And he was just such a good comrade to be working opposite. Sarah's story, that sort of triangle of loyalty, [should she be] loyal to Neil and the angelics or be loyal to her husband in her other life was a real gift to play that friction, to be torn like that.
So tell me, do you believe in ghosts?
Do I believe in ghosts? [Laughs.] I'm sorry. I'm laughing; I get asked this in every interview to do with this show. It's like I'm not saying that you're unoriginal or anything. [Laughs.]
Well, it's an obvious question, I guess.
Sure it is. Look, hey, the biggest question in life is death; that's a cutesy thing to say, but it's true. And what I find so fascinating is all the way that really different religions handle it, you know, be it Hinduism, Buddhism, Roman Catholicism, everyone's got a take and set of answers for it.
And what I just love about Jack is Jack's writing this whole thing and going, "Here's my answer." [Laughs.] It's just like sure, why not? I mean, some people have got this kind of attitude to religion that would say, "Well, your answer is as good as the next persons." That's what I kind of find fascinating, really, is a fresh take on what could be the big unanswered question.
Right. So do you?
Do I believe in ghosts?
No, I'm probably going to give you a really "actor" answer. I believe in energy, so it depends on how that manifests itself. But, you know, I think Mr. Jack Thorne's answer could be given as much credit as anyone else's. [Laughs.]
Right. I loved the whole idea that they're trapped and that man has sort of taken away their ascendant spots.
The idea that I really love in the show, Curt, is that life is unfair, so whoever said death should be fair? I think that fundamental premise of it being random. Some people have managed to ascend, some people haven't. Death can be as crappy as life can in being unevenhanded in that way. I think that's a really clever, interesting premise to start, and I like that a lot, that's what attracted me.
With "Game of Thrones," you've signed on to the biggest craze in the States, I think, probably around the world.
Well, again, all I can say is "Thrones" is just like "The Fades," in so far as the quality is just there in the script, immediately, before you've done anything. When you're just sitting down reading it, the quality just glares at you from the page.
And I kind of kept away from the show when I was taking the meetings. I wasn't acquainted with the show before I went in to meet the delightful Mr. [David] Benioff and [D.B.] Weiss [exec producers].
And I'm kind of glad I didn't, actually, because I think I would have been scared off [laughs], because it was so awesome when I watched it.
And I'm really, really proud to be a part of the "Thrones" family now. I just finished second series before Christmas and I'll be doing third series in the summer. And I think, again, it's really bravely written. It's got a phenomenal cast, and, yeah, it's a great privilege to be a part of the gang, and it's a big gang.
It's a huge gang, yeah.
It's a huge gang. But I have to tell you it's a really well supported, frankly, family. It really is, so it's cool. I'm very proud.
One of your "Fades" castmates is in this, too.
Joe Dempsie [who plays John in "The Fades" and Gendry in "GOT"], yeah.
Tell me about your character, Margaery Tyrell, as much as you can say. It's kind of weird, because saying anything, almost like with Sarah, saying anything is sort of a spoiler I think.
Yeah. Well, to be perfectly honest, I would have to agree with you there. So maybe I'll ease off on that. [Laughs.] It's really interesting, because both shows have this amazing cult following, you know? … It's kind of intriguing to be opened up to the sci-fi, super horror or fantasy communities and seeing just how dedicated they are. I've never come across fans, like cult fans to these cult shows. They're just so supportive and they're so dedicated. And, as an actor, you really feel supported and you want to really push yourself, because there's just so much enthusiasm.
I heard you're a good fencer and I was wondering if Margaery is ever going to take up a sword.
Oh, well, you know [laughs], I have a few seasons in me. You never know what's going to happen. [Laughs.] But Loras, the Knight of Flowers, my brother, is meant to be the greatest night throughout the Seven Kingdoms, so maybe she picked up a little bit, who knows? [Laughs.] We'll have to wait and see, won't we?
Give us a tease, a non-spoilery tease about Season 2, even if it's just from your experience and what you saw.
Oh, a tease. [Laughs.] It's war. It's war and it's serious. It's the same with "The Fades," the battle is on, life and death. The battle is coming, so it's serious now. [Laughs.]
And you're looking forward to more seasons, right?
Absolutely. Absolutely. Margaery really comes into her own in series [seasons] 3 and 4.
All right. Finally I wanted to ask you about "W.E." You play the queen mum when she was young, right? How was that experience?
Yeah, that's right. It was a really interesting experience. I just think in all stories there are two sides to every story and the Wallis Simpson story needed to be done and it was kind of fitting that a woman as strong and passionate as Madonna should do it. It was kind of fascinating to look at another part of our native history. I don't know if it's because of the Kate and Will's marriage last year, but as you were saying you guys stateside [watched] as we did here there seems to be like this renaissance of interest in our royal family again. So it's kind of interesting looking back a couple of generations and revisiting some of their stories. Yeah, interesting project.
Do you ever get a little nervous playing someone so revered who was real in history?
Definitely. But it was the same with the Queen Mother, it was the same with Elizabeth Bowes-Lyon as it was with Anne Boleyn, I read a stack of books. In the case of "W.E.," Madonna actually pushed three biographies of Elizabeth Bowes-Lyon over the table and said, "Read."
She did that with Andrea Riseborough and with James D'Arcy, all of us were told to read, because she knew everything. She'd read every book for the last decade or whatever, because she'd been so fascinated by the story, hence her obsession.
I studied Anne Boleyn myself for "The Tudors," which I did myself under my own steam because I think it's important as an actor to know what really did happen so that you can sort of be informed about the choices you make. Even if the text steers away from the reality because there will always be artistic interpretation, of course, you know what really did happen.
It's always good to be informed. Although and you could argue similarly with "Game of Thrones," it's like to read the books and even though the scripts may diverge away from the books and as a series continues, how true is the series going to be to the books and everything. I think it's always good for an actor to be as informed as they possibly can be about where their texts come from.
How was it working with Madonna?
Oh, man, she's a workhorse. She is. That woman obviously doesn't need to sleep. She's kind of inspiring in that way. She's one of those people who doesn't believe in saying it's not possible. She kind of reaffirms your kind of like possible mental attitude in life. It's just like get it done, work hard.
And that was probably a good mindset to be in. I'm about to start a play. But I'm about to go into a grueling rehearsal period, every evening, doing a play. [Laughs.] The whole workhorse mentality is a good thing for me to be thinking at the moment. [Dormer is starring title role of the Young Vic Theatre's revival of Patrick Marber's "After Miss Julie."]


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food prices soar as incomes stand still", but the truth is that this is only just the beginning. If the drought that has been devastating farmers and ranchers out west continues, we are going to see prices for meat, fruits and vegetables soar into the stratosphere. Already, the federal government has declared portions of 11 states to be "disaster areas", and California farmers are going to leave half a million acres sitting idle this year because of the extremely dry conditions. Sadly, experts are telling us that things are probably going to get worse before they get better (if they ever do). As you will read about below, one expert recently told National Geographic that throughout history it has been quite common for that region of North America to experience severe droughts that last for decades. In fact, one drought actually lasted for about 200 years. So there is the possibility that the drought that has begun in the state of California may not end during your entire lifetime.
This drought has gotten so bad that it is starting to get national attention. Barack Obama visited the Fresno region on Friday, and he declared that "this is going to be a very challenging situation this year, and frankly, the trend lines are such where it's going to be a challenging situation for some time to come."
According to NBC News, businesses across the region are shutting down, large numbers of workers are leaving to search for other work, and things are already so bad that it "calls to mind the Dust Bowl of the 1930s"...
In the state's Central Valley — where nearly 40 percent of all jobs are tied to agriculture production and related processing — the pain has already trickled down. Businesses across a wide swath of the region have shuttered, casting countless workers adrift in a downturn that calls to mind the Dust Bowl of the 1930s.
If you will recall, there have been warnings that Dust Bowl conditions were going to return to the western half of the country for quite some time.
Now the mainstream media is finally starting to catch up.
And of course these extremely dry conditions are going to severely affect food prices. The following are 15 reasons why your food bill is going to start soaring...
#1 2013 was the driest year on record for the state of California, and 2014 has been exceptionally dry so far as well.
#2 According to the U.S. Drought Monitor, 91.6 percent of the entire state of California is experiencing "severe to exceptional drought" even as you read this article.
#3 According to CNBC, it is being projected that California farmers are going to let half a million acres of farmland sit idle this year because of the crippling drought.
#4 Celeste Cantu, the general manager for the Santa Ana Watershed Project Authority, says that this drought could have a "cataclysmic" impact on food prices...
Given that California is one of the largest agricultural regions in the world, the effects of any drought, never mind one that could last for centuries, are huge. About 80 percent of California's freshwater supply is used for agriculture. The cost of fruits and vegetables could soar, says Cantu. "There will be cataclysmic impacts."
#5 Mike Wade, the executive director of the California Farm Water Coalition, recently explained which crops he believes will be hit the hardest...
Hardest hit would be such annual row crops as tomatoes, broccoli, lettuce, cantaloupes, garlic, peppers and corn. Wade said consumers can also expect higher prices and reduced selection at grocery stores, particularly for products such as almonds, raisins, walnuts and olives.
#6 As I discussed in a previous article, the rest of the nation is extremely dependent on the fruits and vegetables grown in California. Just consider the following statistics regarding what percentage of our produce is grown in the state...
- 99 percent of the artichokes
- 44 percent of asparagus
- two-thirds of carrots
- half of bell peppers
- 89 percent of cauliflower
- 94 percent of broccoli
- 95 percent of celery
- 90 percent of the leaf lettuce
- 83 percent of Romaine lettuce
- 83 percent of fresh spinach
- a third of the fresh tomatoes
- 86 percent of lemons
- 90 percent of avocados
- 84 percent of peaches
- 88 percent of fresh strawberries
- 97 percent of fresh plums
#7 Of course it isn't just agriculture which will be affected by this drought. Just consider this chilling statement by Tim Quinn, the executive director of the Association of California Water Agencies...
"There are places in California that if we don't do something about it, tens of thousands of people could turn on their water faucets and nothing would come out."
#8 The Sierra Nevada snowpack is only about 15 percent of what it normally is. As the New York Times recently explained, this is going to be absolutely devastating for Californians when the warmer months arrive...
Experts offer dire warnings. The current drought has already eclipsed previous water crises, like the one in 1977, which a meteorologist friend, translating into language we understand as historians, likened to the "Great Depression" of droughts. Most Californians depend on the Sierra Nevada for their water supply, but the snowpack there was just 15 percent of normal in early February.
#9 The underground aquifers that so many California farmers depend upon are being drained at a staggering rate...
Pumping from aquifers is so intense that the ground in parts of the valley is sinking about a foot a year. Once aquifers compress, they can never fill with water again. It's no surprise Tom Willey wakes every morning with a lump in his throat. When we ask which farmers will survive the summer, he responds quite simply: those who dig the deepest and pump the hardest.
#10 According to an expert interviewed by National Geographic, the current drought in the state of California could potentially last for 200 years or more as some mega-droughts in the region have done in the past...
California is experiencing its worst drought since record-keeping began in the mid 19th century, and scientists say this may be just the beginning. B. Lynn Ingram, a paleoclimatologist at the University of California at Berkeley, thinks that California needs to brace itself for a megadrought—one that could last for 200 years or more.
#11 Much of the western U.S. has been exceedingly dry for an extended period of time, and this is hurting huge numbers of farmers and ranchers all the way from Texas to the west coast...
The western United States has been in a drought that has been building for more than a decade, according to climatologist Bill Patzert of NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory.
"Ranchers in the West are selling off their livestock," Patzert said. "Farmers all over the Southwest, from Texas to Oregon, are fallowing in their fields because of a lack of water. For farmers and ranchers, this is a painful drought."
#12 The size of the U.S. cattle herd has been shrinking for seven years in a row, and it is now the smallest that it has been since 1951. But our population has more than doubled since then.
#13 Extremely unusual weather patterns are playing havoc with crops all over the planet right now. The following is an excerpt from a recent article by Lizzie Bennett...
Peru, Venezuela, and Bolivia have experienced rainfall heavy enough to flood fields and rot crops where they stand. Volcanic eruptions in Ecuador are also creating problems due to cattle ingesting ash with their feed leading to a slow and painful death.
Parts of Australia have been in drought for years affecting cattle and agricultural production.
Rice production in China has been affected by record low temperatures.
Large parts of the UK are underwater, and much of that water is sea water which is poisoning the soil. So wet is the UK that groundwater is so high it is actually coming out of the ground and adding to the water from rivers and the sea. With the official assessment being that groundwater flooding will continue until MAY, and that's if it doesn't rain again between now and then. The River Thames is 65 feet higher than normal in some areas, flooding town after town as it heads to the sea.
#14 As food prices rise, our incomes are staying about the same. The following is from a CBS News article entitled "Food prices soar as incomes stand still"...
While the government says prices are up 6.4 percent since 2011, chicken is up 18.4 percent, ground beef is up 16.8 percent and bacon has skyrocketed up 22.8 percent, making it a holiday when it's on sale.
#15 As I have written about previously, median household income has fallen for five years in a row. So average Americans are going to have to make their food budgets stretch more than they ever have before as this drought drags on.
If the drought does continue to get worse, small agricultural towns all over California are going to die off.
For instance, consider what is already happening to the little town of Mendota...
The farms in and around Mendota are dying of thirst. The signs are everywhere. Orchards with trees lying on their sides, as if shot. Former farm fields given over to tumbleweeds. Land and cattle for sale, cheap.
Large numbers of agricultural workers continue to hang on, hoping that somehow there will be enough work for them. But as Evelyn Nieves recently observed, panic is starting to set in...
Off-season, by mid-February, idled workers are clearly anxious. Farmworkers and everyone else who waits out the winter for work (truckers, diesel providers, packing suppliers and the like) are nearing the end of the savings they squirrel away during the season. The season starts again in March, April at the latest, but no one knows who will get work when the season begins, or how much.
People are scared, panicked even.
I did not write this article so that you would panic.
Yes, incredibly hard times are coming. If you will recall, the 1930s were also a time when the United States experienced extraordinarily dry weather conditions and a tremendous amount of financial turmoil. We could very well be entering a similar time period.
Worrying about this drought is not going to change anything. Instead of worrying, we should all be doing what we can to store some things up while food is still relatively cheap. Our grandparents and our great-grandparents that lived during the days of the Great Depression knew the wisdom of having a well-stocked food pantry, and it would be wise to follow their examples.
Please share this article with as many people as you can. The United States has never faced anything like this during most of our lifetimes. We need to shake people out of their "normalcy bias" and get them to understand that big changes are coming.
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Shock: Andrea Mitchell In Bed With Greenspan!
NBC political correspondent Andrea Mitchell is one of the network's news stars, so it's only natural that we've been seeing a lot of her lately. Even when the topic turns to the government's and the candidates' responses to the current financial crisis. But you will not see her, supposedly, when the discussion turns to "past economic decisions" that led up to the crisis. Because Mitchell is married to Alan Greenspan, the former Federal Reserve Chairman who many say is basically responsible for the housing bubble. And that is their conflict of interest compromise: Mitchell will report as usual until the reasons we got to this point are discussed, at which point she'll quietly disappear from your television without explanation. Unethical! Or, you know, the standard way of doing business in political journalism. DC is an incestuous town and everyone knows and is basically friends with everyone else. The media-political complex has lots and lots of intermarried "journalists" and "operatives" and everyone has politely agreed to assume that everyone else is totally professional about it. So they get a bit tetchy when the Columbia Journalism Review is all "disclose your relationships or just be more independent or something" because what do those kids know? If Tom Brokaw wants to play golf with John McCain that is his business (note: we don't know if John McCain can play golf but the two are still definitely probably friends). The standard argument is that one has to find concrete evidence of "bias" before one can claim these chummy relationships are no good, but honestly the "bias" is so ingrained in the process that it's a useless task and one is best served by appyling a gimlet-eyed suspicion to everyone one sees on the TV and then voting for Ron Paul.