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Andersonville's 10 best home-decor shops
Score modern and vintage home accessories and furniture from this unofficial design mecca.
Baan Home
(5053 N Clark St, 773-905-1228, baan-home.com; Tue–Thu, Sun noon–7pm; Sat 11am–7pm)
Baan means home in Thai. It's a fitting name since this shop features reasonably priced antiques from all over Asia. Look for chests and vases, as well as plenty of other fine furniture selections. Baan also sells candles and spa goods, such as bath salts and all-natural soaps.
(5219 N Clark St, 773-271-3501; Mon–Wed, Sat 11am–6pm; Thu, Fri 11am–8pm; Sun 11am–5pm.)
Owner Julie Fernstrom describes her shop as "Ralph Lauren meets a Paris flea market." Given that she named the place after her favorite plaid, it's no surprise Brimfield features an entire "plaid wall," showcasing blankets, tin boxes, picnic tables and more. Repurposed and found objects for every budget range from pipe stands to coffee cans, not to mention a surprising selection of retro-cool winter coats and cowboy boots, and mostly midcentury modern furnishings in the basement level. As if that's not enough, Fernstrom also offers custom reupholstering.
Brownstone Antiques
(5234 N Clark St, 773-878-9800; Daily 11am–6pm)
This Andersonville shop is like your grandma's attic—full of durable vintage items steeped in nostalgia—so bring a patient attitude and time for sifting through unsorted stacks. Offerings, which come exclusively from estate sales, include large framed mirrors, quirky coffee mugs, fuzzy pink pillbox hats and dozens of wooden canes.
(5061 N Clark St, 773-506-8300, foursided.com; Mon–Sat 11am–7pm; Sun noon–5pm)
It's as if the two Lakeview outposts (one featuring custom frames, the other greeting cards and gifts) have morphed into the ultimate home-design general store. Yes, frames and greetings still make up a big chunk of the shop, but we're all about the prints (including vintage maps and medical charts) and other cheeky art, such as reproductions of weathered flash cards.
George Lowell
(5123 N Clark St, 773-754-8106; Tue–Fri 11am–5pm; Sat 11am–6pm; Sun noon–5pm)
Interior designer Lowell moved his home-decor shop (in addition to merch, he also offers his design services) from Lakeview in late 2008 because he wanted to be in a home-goods destination spot. The large storefront features a nice variety of items (including antiques and new one-of-a-kind finds by local artists and furniture makers) with a masculine-meets-nautical vibe. One of our favorites currently in stock is set of gold-tinned eggs ($62.50) displayed as 3-D art on the wall.
(4907 N Damen Ave, 773-334-0400, patinachicago.com); Tue, Wed noon–6pm; Thu, Fri noon–7pm; Sat 11am–6pm; Sun noon–5pm)
True to its name, every item in Alan Shull's farmhouse-meets-industrial-chic shop shows signs of wear, from the painted aluminum chairs displayed as wall decor to the chunky farm table to the milk-can lamp. Find plenty of old shop paraphernalia such as display racks and price boards as well as mounted deer antlers, starting as cheap as $30.
(5634 N Clark St, 773-506-0406, roostchicago.com; Wed–Fri 11am–6pm; Sat, Sun 11am–5pm)
Less sparse than some nearby stores but equally well curated, with a strong country vibe, Roost features a hodgepodge of hanging woven basket lamps, school lockers and milk bottles, plus a second room pretty much dedicated to furniture. Take your time; cute, sometimes kitschy, vintage knickknacks are tucked in every corner.
Room Service
(5438 N Clark St, 773-878-5438, roomservice-chicago.com; Tue, Wed noon–6pm; Thu–Sat 11am–7pm; Sun noon–5pm)
As with many shops on this street, midcentury furniture is the focus here. But we also found a nice selection of house plants near the front of the store. Room Service also features a variety of cocktail glasses and pitchers, making the name of the shop very fitting.
(5221 N Clark St, 773-275-5700, scoutchicago.com; Tue, Wed, Sat 11am–6pm; Thu, Fri noon–7pm; Sun noon–5pm)
This treasure chest of antique furniture is the granddaddy of Andersonville's home-decor shops. In an effort to team up with other small businesses and keep corporations away from the 'hood, owner Larry Vodak is personally responsible for neighbors White Attic and Brimfield joining the block. What makes his store stand out is one-of-a-kind old-school furniture (all modular pieces with clean lines) and the lamps made out of found objects (such as a milk can and bowling ball) by local artist Ted Harris.
White Attic
(5225 N Clark St, 773-907-9800, thewhiteattic.com; Mon, Wed–Sat 11am–6pm; Sun noon–5pm)
This perky corner store (find a second outpost in Bucktown) offers a charming mix of new and old. Repainted and refinished vintage desks, tables and chairs look great next to modern, colorful accessories such as decorative plates and delicious Voluspa candles. If you're in the market for accent lights, make a beeline for the lamp bar where you can customize your hanging or table lamp from a vast array of fabrics and ceramic bases.


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Technical Abstract: Determination of cover crop termination rate has been based exclusively on visual evaluation of color by a trained evaluator to describe the life state of the plant. However, visual color-based assessment is a subjective method and can vary from one evaluator to another. Differences are associated with how the human eye responds to color assessment in different ambient light conditions. If several skilled individuals are involved in the plant evaluation process in the same field, most likely a deviation associated with the cover crop evaluation will occur due to differences in eye response to colors. To remedy this problem, two experiments over three growing seasons were conducted in Alabama to evaluate cover crop termination rates utilizing three different evaluation methods;1) the visual method and manual data generation; 2) a chlorophyll meter, and 3) an active light sensor (Greenseeker meter) with built-in data loggers. A linear correlation procedure was employed to develop a relationship between observed termination rates and data collected with the instruments. The goal was to establish a relationship between visual determination and instrument readouts, and to utilize these results for developing a procedure for future cover crop senescence assessment (termination rate in % of the cover crop). The instruments have the advantage of performing these evaluations quickly and effectively, and assessments can be performed by relatively unskilled personnel in the field. Two cover crops were evaluated: cereal rye (Secale cereale, L.) and crimson clover (Trifolium incarnatum, L.). Results from three years of data between 2009 and 2011 from two sites showed that there was a strong linear relationship between visual observation and data obtained from the instruments. Because of this strong relationship with R-Squared values from 0.713 to 0.945, models were developed to predict termination rates for the two cover crops. This work developed equations to assess cover crop termination rates using Greenseeker and chlorophyll meters, which are being utilized in agricultural research for different plant evaluation purposes.


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What the Past Teaches About U.S. Democracy
This article examines how American elites have expanded an empire constantly at war while ignoring the needs of the vast majority at home. It sketches the present political moment centered on President Barack Obama's first 18 months in office, then looks at ancient Athens in order to pick up concepts that Athenians debated, such as citizenship based on democratic equality and freedom, as well as its oligarchic opposites. Drawing on Athenian ideas and practices of democracy by politically empowered citizen-peasants, artisans, and casual laborers can deepen our understanding of the many anti-democratic features of the U.S. political system. Similarly, we may gain a better perspective on the persistence of imperialism in our own time by seeing how Athenians forcibly acquired foreign economic, political, and geographical assets in order to enhance the power of their city-state, often violating law and their own moral norms in the use of military force.
Obama's Presidency
Obama promised a return to the rule of law, openness in policy decision-making, and a transformative change in government. Instead, he continued the Iraq occupation, ordered the largest ever escalation of the illegal ground war and an aerial assassination campaign against Pashtun resistance forces and remnants of al Qaeda in U.S.-occupied Afghanistan. Concurrently, he escalated covert operations by U.S. Special Forces and CIA personnel inside Pakistan, Yemen, and Somalia. The president has said nothing about his condoning of torture-by-proxy or his personal ordering of assassinations—a war crime under international and U.S. law. However, he has defended his multiple Afghanistan "surges" by falsely claiming that the war was just, lawful, defensive in nature, and endorsed by the United Nations Security Council.
Meanwhile, Obama has tightened economic sanctions and stepped up war preparations against Iran, continued enabling and defending apartheid Israel's war crimes and occupation of Palestinian lands, and is shoring up traditional U.S. imperial relationship with Latin American and Caribbean nations in order to undermine independent, populist governments that pursue pro-people policies in Venezuela, Bolivia, Ecuador, and Cuba. The Obama administration secretly contracted with the Colombian government to use seven military bases for Pentagon operations throughout South America. It sided with the coup regime in Honduras and increased the Pentagon's presence in Mexico, which earlier had been placed under the authority of the new "Northern Command." Obama is continuing the Bush policy of expanded weapons sales and direct military involvement in at least six African countries facing domestic insurgencies.
To staff his "Transition Economic Advisory Board," Obama chose individuals who were complicit in corporate crimes. One of them, Timothy Geithner, the former head of the New York Fed under the Clinton administration, was a serial tax-evader who had also helped set the stage for the global recession. Playing roles on Obama's Advisory Board were two leading proponents of economic deregulation—former Secretaries of the Treasury Robert Rubin (who enabled the criminal activities of Enron leaders and numerous other CEOs and directors of private companies, banks, and hedge funds) and Lawrence Summers, Clinton's deputy treasury secretary who, together with Ruben, played an instrumental role in repealing the New Deal's chief piece of banking reform legislation, the 1933 Glass-Steagall Act, which separated commercial and investment banking. Obama soon made Summers his top economic advisor and Geithner his Treasury Secretary. Geithner had just been involved in covering up his secret negotiations to bailout the giant insurer AIG, Inc. so that AIG could then use taxpayers money to fully repay the banks it had borrowed from.
When it came to picking an attorney general, Obama appointed Eric H. Holder who had justified Bush's illegal program of spying on the private conversations of American citizens through warrantless wiretaps on the grounds of protecting state secrets. Holder answered calls for inquiry into past acts of presidential lawbreaking by rejecting the Nuremberg principles pertaining to heads of state who committed war crimes and CIA and military torturers who claimed to be following presidential orders. Having affirmed impunity for Bush, Cheney, and their torture-justifying lawyers (including Jay Bybee and John Yoo), Holder announced his intention to establish what constitutional scholar Glenn Greenwald called a three-tiered justice system, with jury trials in a federal District Court for some illegally-held and tortured detainees, special military commissions for others who are also being held illegally, "and indefinite detention without charges for...the rest" who are going to be moved to the first preventive detention prison established on U.S. soil.
Thanks to Holder's efforts, the Senate extended the PATRIOT Act for another year, which allows the president to, "treat…human rights advocates as criminal terrorists, and threaten…them with 15 years in prison for advocating nonviolent means to resolve disputes."
In 2009-10, these issues came together during congressional discussions of the relationship between the "free enterprise," predatory capitalist economy and the public's need for health care. Most Americans wanted the government to move to a single-payer system or, failing that, at the very least a "public option" or some form of Medicare for all. But Obama opposed any proposal that shut out the private, for-profit insurance industry. The new law does not make health care universal, or more cost-effective, efficient, and affordable for millions of middle-income Americans. It guarantees hundreds of billions in windfall profits for the radically corrupt pharmaceutical companies that charge exorbitant prices for drugs because the government refuses to negotiate costs with them. And it allows the insurance industry to continue setting rates and enjoying exemption from anti-trust regulation.
The incompatibility between democracy's ethical ideals and the rationale of unregulated capitalism is a problem Obama inherited. But he became president partly because he operates on the same Reaganite assumption as the Republicans: namely, that in order for a capitalist market economy to further its goals, the majority of citizens must be prevented from realizing most of their social demands. Keep the public ignorant of what officials are really thinking and doing; deny them information on how decisions are made and who benefits most from them; and build non-accountability into the financial system, so that when things go wrong, the losses are borne by the public, not the "too-big-to-fail" banks.
In assessing America's domestic and foreign policies, a clearer view of the relationship between imperialism, war, and democracy can help us see the connections, besides being interesting in their own right. Bearing in mind that historical experiences are unique, time is multi-dimensional, and comparisons from different eras can be pushed too far, let us turn to the example of ancient Athens, where democracy was a form of city-state that fully empowered all free-born male citizens.
Perspectives from Antiquity
Well over 2,000 years ago in Athens, Greece, in a city-state about one-eighth the size of Massachusetts, the democratic form unfolded alongside an empire of tributary states, controlling people living throughout the Aegean Sea area and along the coast of Anatolia. Broadly speaking, ancient Athenian history teaches that any political form can be fully compatible with imperialism and the worst kinds of violence and the most diabolical methods of inflicting pain on the human body that mortals can imagine. A war-fighting democracy can survive military defeat, remain stable, and strengthen its democratic institutions by retaining a limit on civil office and relying on written law. But even as the Athenians made changes in their politics and economy, they continued their struggle to recover some of their 5th century possessions, until the cumulative effect of repeated wars, mistaken policies, and lack of money led ultimately to democracy's failure. Athens followed such a course for about a century and a half after losing the Peloponnesian War in 404 BC and going through a short period of impotence. In the late 4th Century BC, Alexander the Great absorbed Athens into the Macedonian empire. Only then did the era of the city-state and of mass democracy as a political regime cease to exist, though the theory of democracy lived on, revived by the English Levellers in the 17th century and advocated by Tom Paine in the late 18th century.
Looking through the prism of our own political situation, we see that in Athens's decentralized democracy, citizens routinely tortured slaves as part of the judicial process and used torture to promote civic discipline and "reduce…vice." Americans practice torture as a matter of state policy and share with the Athenians a history of racism, as evidenced during U.S. wars against Japan, Korea, Vietnam, Iraq, and Afghanistan. The anti-"barbarian" (i.e,. anti-Asian) racism of the Athenians and their inability to recognize a common humanity in other Greek democracies, may even have contributed to the total defeat of their naval expedition against Syracuse and other city-states on the island of Sicily (415-413 BC), their longest, costliest campaign.
Both Thucydides, who made imperialism, power, and hubris the main themes of his history of the long Peloponnesian War, and Aristotle, the 4th century Athenian philosopher of political forms and their transformation, encourage us to question the conditions under which democracy and imperialism are compatible and the conditions under which they clash. What parts of the population profit from imperialist policies and war and who pays the cost of ruling over or controlling others who wish to be free of foreign control?
Rule by the people conveys the idea that ordinary people ("the many") actually have the political power to govern and that they strive publicly "to redefine the terms of ruling and being ruled." For 200 years, from the late 6th through the late 4th centuries BC, the male citizens of Athenian democracy—"the most successful State in Greece"—took political decisions by majority vote and strove constantly to increase their "share of power" and extend it to all institutions. Contrast that with the U.S. where the main institutions of power have tried to suppress democracy from below.
In the Athenian city-state, "democratic or absolute equality" was based on citizenship, which rested only partly on war-generated chattel slavery. Historian Kurt A. Raaflaub observed, since Athenian democracy guaranteed collective freedom, the rights and freedoms of the individual citizen, whether rich or poor, "rarely need[ed] to be stressed and formulated as such." Ellen Meiksins Wood reminds us that Athenian democracy did not rest primarily on slavery, but rather was the product of a laboring citizenry, composed of "peasants, [urban and rural] craftsmen, and even casual laborers." The majority dwelt in the countryside, but all eventually came to enjoy both "freedom of speech" and "equality of speech." Oligarchs, members of the wealthy upper class of property owners, reacted against those who had to work for a living and could not enjoy economic independence. They downplayed the citizens' political identity and daily life experiences, emphasizing instead higher education and "the personal qualities required for the citizen's right of full political participation." But democracy's defenders rebutted them by insisting on the average citizen's political expertise, intelligence, and right of free speech.
No wonder that Athenian citizens, in their assembly, council, and jury courts, used freedom of speech to closely scrutinize and control their highest public officials. Their democracy grew out of oligarchy and oligarchs and aristocratic land-owners were always ready to revolt against "democratic methods of organizing power," even though they seldom contested empire and imperial expansion. Certainly, Americans have far surpassed Athenians where the understanding of citizenship and civil liberties are concerned. But the American way of life and politics, characterized by dynamic geopolitical expansion, constant and forceful meddling in the affairs of other peoples, and denial of "equality of speech" between citizens and corporations, has yet to emerge from oligarchic rule.
Athenian voters, by contrast, understood that secrecy and misrepresentation of policy by those in public office were utterly destructive of democratic governance. So they gave most of their officials the opportunity to exercise power for only one year, then held them strictly accountable for what they did or failed to do while in office. The "elaborate machinery" they evolved to do this included frequent "accountability trials" for non-trivial offenses against the people. Generals, too, could be tried and, if found guilty, executed or ostracized for their decisions on the battlefield. They could also be indicted and examined without being charged.
Athenian citizens appeared to understand that democracy reverts to oligarchy and citizens lose control over their political system when non-accountability prevails among the very highest civil and military officials of the state. In comparison, America's most important political and economic institutions, as presently constituted, are so utterly incompatible with democracy's most basic principles as to make nonsense of the proposition that the U.S. is a "democracy."
In the U.S. Congress, accountability trials for the highest officials are virtually nonexistent. Abu Ghraib and Guantanamo attest to this. So, too, does the online video clip of an American war atrocity that was seen by millions of viewers around the world in early April 2010. The classified military film, leaked to the Wikileaks.org website by someone within the Pentagon, showed 2 American helicopter crews murdering 12 Iraqis civilians in broad daylight, including 2 Reuters reporters, and seriously wounding 2 Iraqi children; a nearby American tank came upon the scene and deliberately crushed the body of a wounded Iraqi who was trying to crawl away. The Pentagon sought to cover up this incident, which occurred on July 12, 2007, then lied about it. But massacres of this sort are common occurrences in the Iraq and Afghanistan wars, as attested by a recent incident on a main highway near Kandahar in which trigger-happy American soldiers intentionally raked a large passenger bus with gunfire, killing 5 Afghan civilians and wounding 18 others. The murders touched off riots against the American occupiers.
Economic Predators
Continuing with our excavation into the deep past, the Athenians had an agricultural economy with a weak "material and technological base." As their democracy developed, they became economic predators who set justice aside and waged war continuously. Indeed, war and its preparation was Athens's chief business, just as it has become America's. But, in ancient Greece, war was transparent rather than covert. For almost three decades non-professional Athenian citizen militia and partially democratized naval fleets fought the Persians, then fellow Greeks, led by Sparta, the champion of oligarchy. Fighting was constant. A small number of "demagogues" skilled in oratory, enlisted the Athenian citizen-militia in military adventures and sustained their support for empire and war. They appealed to the citizens' honor, pride, and self-interest. But they also justified their policies by stoking fear of external enemies. Fear-wracked citizens then came to view imperialism and its techniques as morally wrong when practiced by others but not themselves.
By contrast, war waged in Afghanistan and Iraq by the U.S and its NATO allies is deeply embedded in industrial, financial, and educational structures. The demagogues' role is played by the president, Congressional leaders, mainstream media elites, and the corporations that employ them, as well as by Pentagon officials themselves. They keep the public in line, shape perceptions of war in accordance with their policy line and their own beliefs.
Because modern warfare is entirely profit-oriented, mercenaries employed by specialized private military and intelligence companies play a big role in its conduct. This can be seen especially in Iraq and Afghanistan where the Pentagon employs a huge work force of private armed-contractors and gun-slinging thugs who enjoy legal immunity for the crimes they commit. Even citizens who disagree with America's wars are enjoined to support the standing army and regard as "heroes" and "warriors" all professional soldiers and enlistees who serve in battle zones.
According to Aristotle, Athenians administered their empire with 700 military/civilian officials. His 700 figure indicates a scale of administration that, in the opinion of historian Moses I. Finley, was "relatively larger than the formal administration in the provinces of the Roman empire." What made Athens' empire work was naval power, consisting of fleets of "triremes," crewed by up to 170 rowers (most of whom were citizens, augmented by foreigners). The fleet enabled Athens to control the Aegean Sea and nearly all of its islands, and to collect from its colonies annual tributes, in the form of cash, timber, and grain, or income from land and confiscated mines. Finley also argues that in the ancient economy, the modern forms of colonial exploitation, such as "cheap labor and cheap raw materials," were not operative. Nevertheless, he stresses that empire's direct and indirect advantages were considerable. The poorer half of the Athenian population profited most directly and "to an extent unknown in the Roman empire or in modern empires," whereas the "more prosperous Athenians in the upper classes" paid the most domestic taxes as well as the costs of war and empire.
Democracy Deficit
By comparison, in the modern oligarchic-ruled United States, this relationship to empire is reversed: the poor fight and suffer most from constant imperialist wars and interventions. The rich, the senior military officer class, and many professional politicians, are wars' chief beneficiaries. And the various stratum of the middle class usually receives material advantages, except when the wars are overly long and unsuccessful. A noteworthy issue that connects Athenian political thought to the American present is the Athenian understanding that inequality destroyed state unity and ignited class conflict. If democracy was to flourish and society remain healthy, inequalities of power and wealth had to be limited. By contrast, the drafters of the U.S. federal Constitution expressed their anti-democratic biases by structuring power in ways explicitly designed to foster economic inequality.
To focus attention on inequality and, along with it, the problem of accountability, one need only contrast Aristotle's understanding of democracy with James Madison's understanding of it in the late 18th century. Aristotle regarded democracy as approaching the most enduring, stable, and just form of government, for it was the form most likely to serve the common good of all "free" male human beings or "full citizens" as opposed to the "non-citizens" who lived among them and against whom they defined themselves, such as slaves, women, and resident aliens. As he defined it, democracy, was narrowly egalitarian and meant the judicious management of society's resources to benefit all full citizens, who, in the political sphere at least, had to be treated equally, "with equal rights to debate and to determine policy." But, in his Politics, Aristotle also recognized a conflict between economic inequality and democracy. To lessen this class conflict, Aristotle proposed reducing economic inequality in the city-state, so that rich property owners, the educated, those who did not have to work for a living—i.e., the oligarchic class—would be less inclined to take advantage of others internally as well as commit aggression against other societies. For unless there was economic justice for all citizens, not only would the rich behave insolently, but people in general would act indecently toward one another, the political community would fracture, and the middle class contract.
By contrast, as Noam Chomsky notes, the pre-capitalist, chief architect of the American Federal Constitution, James Madison, recognized the same age-old conflict between rich and poor, but proposed the exact opposite solution, arguing, in effect to let the systemic inequalities in American society remain, and reduce the scope of popular participation in government. In the state debates on the Federal Constitution, Madison expressed his contempt for democratic (agrarian) reform by observing that, "in England, at this day, if elections were open to all classes of people, the property of landed proprietors would be insecure. An agrarian law would soon take place...our government ought to secure the permanent interests of the country against innovation," which would be harmful to the wealthy minority.
Although familiar with democracy's requirements, Madison, like his fellow slave-holder Thomas Jefferson, did everything in his power to enshrine economic inequality, strengthen property rights, and guard against the redistribution of wealth. For if the people had more money to spend on their basic needs and could control their lives, they would want more and would pressure their political leaders to really represent their interests. The problem for Madison was how to contain the leveling threat of the people's political participation and "reverse the direction of the country, to set it against the democratic and participatory politics flourishing in the states." He and the other drafters achieved these goals: (a) by means of the Constitution's structure and balancing of offices, (b) by not granting political rights equally, and, over time, (c) by judicial review by judges appointed for life, so that citizens could not call them to account for their decisions in favor of the propertied. The result was a constitution overflowing with built-in oligarchic features.
Ever since the U.S. Constitutional system was enacted in 1787 to replace the more democratic Articles of Confederation, it has helped privileged elites in their effort to prevent the majority of citizens from participating actively in national politics. Based on oligarchic, as opposed to democratic, political equality, the pro-slavery Constitution institutionalized existing race, gender, class, and economic distinctions. It framed a state that aimed at effective military defense, perpetuated discrimination, and encouraged extreme acquisitiveness. Its complex Electoral College and winner-take-all election system obstructed candidate selection from below and insured the development from the early 19th century onward of a two-party system for selecting presidents, all of whom, from George Washington to Barrack Obama, have been avid supporters of empire and opponents of social democracy. The Constitution, in short, created a constitutional republic that has "permanently condemned" the majority of citizens "to 'secretly sigh for a more equal distribution of [life's] blessings,' which they could never have, though they still might dream otherwise."
Prompted by this flawed document, the Federalist project advanced into the early 19th century under Republican leadership. In the 1830s the Jacksonians opened up the nationalist, centralizing project begun by the Federalists. Under the presidency of Andrew Jackson, they extended the franchise to all white males, while at the same time intensifying the ethnic cleansing of the Indians. Over the next 50 years, the rise of corporations and private bank companies completed the Federalist project of making America safe for oligarchic rule. Giant corporations, big banks, and the individuals who ran them empowered the enemies of popular democracy in ways the Federalists never even imagined. Corporate leaders and bankers, aided by the media they controlled, became the dominant force shaping domestic law. They used the law to empower managers rather than regulators and to make the courts rather than elected legislators the overseers of corporate profits and behavior. Thus, they insured that American society would continue to function non-democratically, without equal justice and freedom for all people.
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Jump ahead to the present phase of U.S. imperialism in which the world's richest nation continues to experience sharply accelerating internal poverty and income inequality. When in 2007 a UN research report ranked market-oriented countries of unequal size in terms of income inequality, the U.S. stood third with the top percentile of Americans receiving the highest ever share of income. Only Hong Kong and the city state of Singapore had bigger gaps between rich and poor, while Israel, Portugal, and New Zealand ranked fourth, fifth, and sixth; Britain and Italy tied for seventh place; Australia was ninth and Ireland and Greece tied for tenth place.
Why did American income inequality rise so dramatically in the neo-liberal era? Part of the explanation lies in such political and constitutional factors as: the blocking of the majority of citizens from effective participation in public affairs; the repression of trade unions that could protect workers, and the highly class-conscious business elites' undermining of popular support for unions. Rising income inequality is also related to the unrestrained authority over wealth that Federal and state governments give to top corporate executives, Wall Street bankers, and financiers; and to rampant external and internal militarism, fed by increases to both the size of the defense budget and its annual rate of growth. The military budget is almost as sacrosanct as the financial system, which can never be discredited no matter how many times it fails.
American policy-makers have long ignored economic constraints on their ambition to refashion the world to their own liking. Under the Clinton administration, when the U.S. economy rebounded from recession and was growing again, the Clintonites encouraged and bribed allies to adopt aggressive capitalist "free trade" policies (NAFTA), which deepened global economic inequalities. They also abetted the financial speculation that led to the Asian financial crisis of 1997-98. Many Asian banks were brought to the edge of collapse. Riots erupted in hardest hit Indonesia, undermining, then ending the 31-year-long dictatorship of former army general and mass murderer Suharto.
In November 1999 came the "Battle of Seattle"—the first large-scale street protests in the North against corporate crimes and neo-liberal globalization policies promoted by the U.S. through the World Trade Organization, the IMF, and the World Bank. Critics of capitalism had found their voice, but neo-liberal ideas continued to be the common sense of government policy-makers and most economists; and the myths spread around the world. They started with the false assumptions that "free markets" allocated resources efficiently and, as economist Joseph E. Stiglitz put it, were "self-correcting." Financial market operations should be unrestrained and unregulated, and corporate-managed trade—called "free trade"— encouraged everywhere.
Neo-liberal ideology spread around the world. It came to Russia at a time when its limited integration into the world economy was just getting underway. After experiencing several years of disastrous financial pillage of its resources and multi-billion transfers of public wealth into private, sometimes gangster hands, resource-rich Russia reorganized itself for economic growth based on energy exports. Russia's return to participation as a significant player in the world economy, on its own terms, posed no serious economic challenge to American aspirations to total global dominance. Neither did China's rise to economic power status. Instead, dynamic economic growth in the European Union countries, especially Germany, represented more of a challenge. But what mainly reduced U.S. economic capacities and contributed to the nation's relative economic decline were the de-industrialization and militarization of U.S. society, and the decision by increasing numbers of American corporate leaders to shift production to low-wage countries like China and India.
As the 21st century opened amid forebodings about the future, the world economy continued to restructure into great regional epicenters of economic power. With no other nation powerful enough to balance the U.S., Bush Junior opted to use military force to control the internal politics of oil-rich Muslim states and to set maximalist diplomatic goals in Eastern Europe, where he tried to expand NATO right up to Russia's borders while making inroads into the former Soviet republics of Central Asia. It really didn't matter what the Bush/Cheney administration attempted to do abroad because, as one economist put it, "so long as the dollar reserve system [held], the rules really [were] different for the United States."
Thus, unrestrained by rivals, the U.S. began spending more on its armed forces than all other nations combined—reaching nearly 5 percent of its GDP in 2009. Embedded militarism at home insured Congressional support for military spending while the global deployment of U.S. military forces and naval fleets, linked by the new information-communication technology, reinforced the illusion of remote control of distant battlefields from within the U.S. The enhanced power that these developments gave to U.S. political and economic elites, almost none of whom had ever directly experienced actual warfare, strengthened their resolve to go on using military power to control the world no matter what the cost to others.
Seven years after 9/11 the U.S.-led neo-liberal economic project, which the leaders of the advanced economies in Europe and Asia more or less followed, brought on a major world recession. As credit markets at home and abroad froze up, starting in December 2007 and continuing through all of 2008, the recession turned into the greatest global financial crash of the post-World War II era. Extreme laissez-faire ideas (i.e. "free market" ideology) and the impulse to privatize most state-functions—just two of many neo-liberal strands of discourse—fell into brief disrepute. After about a year and half of recession, the Obama administration was able to check the financial meltdown by means of massive government monetary and fiscal interventions. He gave tax-payer's money to banks without conditions (so that they would start lending again, which most of them failed to do) and rewarded Wall Street traders and high level corporate officers, whose actions had caused the succession of crises that led to the global recession. A political crisis of the capitalist system itself, such as occurred in the 1930s, was thereby postponed by creating massive government debt.
In late 2009, investor confidence in the inflated global financial system recovered but the trend of slow economic growth, high unemployment, and declining real wages for most Americans continues. Under the Obama team, unemployment and underemployment, as well as home foreclosures and foreclosure delinquencies continue to rise through 2010, bringing misery to scores of millions of middle class and working families in all walks of life. According to the recent estimates made by the National Academy of Science, which take into account medical costs and geographic variations, there were "approximately 47.4 million Americans [i.e. 1 in 6] living in poverty in 2008, "7 million more than the government's official figure.
The backdrop to today's struggles for democracy and economic justice is a nation that has undergone the worst economic setback since the Great Depression thanks to the policies of successive Democratic and Republican governments. One of the great struggle of the 21st century will be to end militarism and check the trend toward unregulated corporate authority over vast wealth. Unless that happens the larceny of bankers and CEOs, corporate shaping of the government's agenda, plus economically and socially debilitating war and militarism are likely to continue rotting the United States from within. Just like Athens.
Herbert P. Bix, author of Hirohito and the Making of Modern Japan(HarperCollins, 2000), writes on problems of war and empire.
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LABOR - May 1 is May Day. Workers of the world will celebrate the 124th anniversary of International Worker's Day. Born out of a call for an 8-hour workday in the United States, this day is an opportunity for all workers to show their solidarity with one another, as well as to renew the call for labor rights.FARM CONFERENCE - The Farm Conference on Community and Sustainability will be held May 24-26 in Summertown, TN, in partnership with the Fellowship of Intentional Communities. Tour green homes, see sustainable food production, learn about solar installations, alternative education, midwifery, and more.
Contact: firstname.lastname@example.com; http://www.thefarmcommunity.com/.
PALESTINE - The Conference of the Palestinian Shatat in North American will be held June 3-5 in Vancouver. The conference will examine the future of the Palestinian liberation movement.
Contact: email@example.com; http://www.palestinianconference.org/.
LABOR - The Pacific Northwest Labor History Association's 45th annual conference will be held May 3-5, in Portland, OR. This year's theme is Labor Under Attack: Learning from the Past and Preparing for the Future. A call for presentations, workshops and papers is currently underway.
Contact: PNLHA, 27920 68th Ave. East, Graham, WA 98338; 206-406-2604; email@example.com; http://www3.telus.net.
MARIJUANA - On the first Saturday of May marijuana legalization activists will hold informational and educational events, rallies and marches in over 300 cities around the world.
ECONOMICS - The Union For Radical Political Economics will hold its 39th annual conference May 9-11 in New York City.
Contact: http://www.ramapo.edu/eea/2013/.
RECLAIM THE DREAM - The 2013 Poor People's Campaign & March from Baltimore to Washington D.C. will be May 11. Communities, schools and unions interested in participating are encouraged to contact the Baltimore People's Assembly.
Contact: 410-500-2168; 410-218-4835; firstname.lastname@example.com; Southern Christian Leadership Conference of Baltimore and the Baltimore Peoples Power Assembly, 2011 N. Charles St., Baltimore, MD 21218.
MOTHER'S DAY - The 17th Annual Mother's Day Walk For Peace will be May 12th, in Dorchester, MA. The walk began in 1996 for families who had lost children to violence. The day has become a way for thousands of people to financially support the work of the Louis Brown Peace Institute.
Contact: http://www.ldbpeaceinstitute.org/; http://mothersdaywalk4peace.org/.
NATO 5 - An International Week of Solidarity with the NATO 5 has been called for May 16-21. Supports call on supporters to raise awareness of the NATO 5 and support funds for the defendants on the one-year anniversary of their preemptive arrests.
Contact: firstname.lastname@example.com; https://nato5support.wordpress.com.
MOUNTAINTOP - The 2013 Mountain Justice Summer Activist Training Camp will be held May 19-27 in Damascus, VA. It will be a week of workshops, field trips to view Mountain Top Removal coal mines, direct actions, and service project.
Contact: http://rampscampaign.org/.
FEMINIST SCI-FI - The feminist science fiction convention WisCon 37 is scheduled for May 24-27 in Madison, WI.
Contact: WisCon, ? SF3, PO Box 1624, Madison, WI 53701; firstname.lastname@example.com; http://www.wiscon.info/.
ANARCHY FEST - A month-long Festival of Anarchy is scheduled for May in Montreal. The festival includes The Montreal Anarchist Bookfair (May 19-20).
Contact: http://www.anarchistbookfair.ca/; http://www.radicalmontreal.com/.
LABOR - The International Labor Rights Forum will present: Down the Supply Chain, Driving Corporate Accountability, on May 22 in Washington, DC. The Labor Rights Awards Ceremony and Reception will honor pioneers in supply chain worker organizing, working solidarity and international labor rights policy.
Contact: http://laborrights.org/.
MULTICULTURE - The 26th annual National Conference on Race & Ethnicity in American Higher Education (NCORE) will take place May 28-June 1, in New Orleans.
Contact: SWCHRS, 3200 Marshall Avenue, Suite 290, Norman, OK 73072; 405-325-3694; firstname.lastname@example.com; www.ncore.ou.edu.
MEDIA - The 2013 Alliance for Community Media Annual Conference will be held May 29-31, in San Francisco, CA. Participants will include educators, community leaders, media professionals, journalists, nonprofit leaders, policymakers and students.
Contact: http://www.allcommunitymedia.org/.
RADIO - The 38th Annual Community Radio Conference is schedule for May 29-June 1, in San Francisco, CA, with discussions and workshops.
Contact: 1101 Pennsylvania Ave. NW, Suite 600, Washington, DC 20004; 202-756-2268; email@example.com; http://www.nfcb.org/.
BRADLEY MANNING - On June 1, a rally will be held at Fort Meade in support of Bradley Manning.
Contact: http://www.bradleymanning.org.
BIKES - Bikes Not Bombs is holding its 24th annual Bike-A-Thon and Green Roots Festival in Boston, MA on June 3, with several bike rides scheduled, music, exhibitors and more.
Contact: Bikes Not Bombs, 284 Amory St., Jamaica Plain, MA 02130; 617-522-0222; firstname.lastname@example.com; www.bikesnotbombs.org.
LEFT FORUM - The 2013 Left Forum will be held June 7-9, at Pace University in New York City.
Contact: 365 Fifth Avenue, CUNY Graduated Center, ? Sociology Dept., New York, NY 10016; http://www.leftforum.org/.
VEGAN FEST - Mad City Vegan Fest will be held in Madison, WI, June 8. The annual event features food, speakers, and exhibitors.
Contact: 122 State Street, Suite 405 B, Madison, WI 53701; email@example.com; http://veganfest.org/.
ADC CONFERENCE - The American-Arab Anti-Discrimination Committee (ADC) holds its annual conference June 13-16, in Washington, DC, with panel discussions and workshops on civil rights, media and other topics.
Contact: 1990 M Street, Suite 610, Washington, DC, 20036; 202-244-2990; email@example.com http://convention.adc.org/.
CUBA/SOCIALISM - A Cuban-North American Dialog on Socialist Renewal and Global Capitalist Crisis will be held in Havana, Cuba, June 16-30. There will be a 5 day Seminar at University of Havana, plus visits to a cooperative, urban garden, community development project, social research centers, and educational & medical institutions.
Contact: firstname.lastname@example.com; http://www.globaljusticecenter.org/.
NETROOTS - The 8th Annual Netroots Nation conference will take place June 20-23 in San Jose, CA. The event features panels, trainings, networking, screenings, and keynotes.
Contact: 164 Robles Way, #276, Vallejo, CA 94591; firstname.lastname@example.com; http://www.netrootsnation.org/.
MEDIA - The 15th annual Allied Media Conference will be held June 20-23, in Detroit.
Contact: 4126 Third Street, Detroit, MI 48201; http://alliedmedia.org/.
GRASSROOTS - The United We Stand Festival will be hosted by Free & Equal, June 22 in Little Rock, Arkansas. The festival aims to reform the electoral process throughout the U.S.
Contact: http://freeandequal.org/.
SOCIALISM - The Socialism 2013 Conference is scheduled for June 27-30 in Chicago, featuring talks and panel discussions.
Contact: email@example.com; http://www.socialismconference.org.
LITERACY - The National Association for Media Literacy Education (NAMLE) will hold its conference July 12-13 in Los Angeles under the heading, Intersections: Teaching and Learning Across Media.
Contact: 10 Laurel Hill Drive, Cherry Hill, NJ 08003; http://namle.net/conference/.
IWW - The North American Work People's College will take place July 12-16 at Mesaba Co-op Park in northern Minnesota. The event will bring together Wobblies from branches across the continent to learn new skills and build One Big Union.
Contact: http://workpeoplescollege.org/.
PEACESTOCK - On July 13th, the 11th Annual Peacestock: A Gathering for Peace, will take place at Windbeam Farm in Hager City, WI. The event is a mixture of music, speakers and community for peace. Sponsored by Veterans for Peace.
Contact: Bill Habedank, 1913 Grandview Ave., Red Wing, MN 55066; 651-388-7733; firstname.lastname@example.com; http://www.peacestockvfp.org.
CHILDREN'S DEFENSE - July 15-19, join clergy, seminarians, Christian educators, young adult leaders and other faith-based advocates for children at CDF Haley Farm in Clinton, Tennessee, for five days of spiritual renewal, networking, movement building workshops, and continuing education about the urgent needs of children at the 19th annual Proctor Institute for Child Advocacy Ministry.
Contact: firstname.lastname@example.com; http://www.childrensdefense.org.
ACTIVIST CAMP - Youth Empowered Action (YEA) Camp will have sessions in July and August in Ben Lomond, CA; Portland, OR; Charlton, MA. YEA Camp is designed for activists 12-17 years old who want to make a difference in the world.
Contact: email@example.com; http://yeacamp.org/.
LA RAZA - The annual National Council of La Raza (NCLR) Conference is scheduled for July 18-19 in New Orleans, with workshops, presentations and panel discussions.
Contact: NCLR Headquarters Office, Raul Yzaguirre Building, 1126 16th Street, NW, Washington, DC 20036; 202-785-1670; www.nclr.org.
LABOR - The Eastern Conference For Workplace Democracy: Growing Our Cooperatives, Growing Our Communities, will be held at Drexel University in Philadelphia, PA, July 26-28.
Contact: email@example.com; http://east.usworker.coop/.
WOMEN/LYNNE STEWART- Radical Women is asking for support letters and cards to be sent to Lynne Stewart. Stewart is a civil rights attorney and political prisoner who is currently in jail. She has breast cancer and authorities have denied her request for transfer from her Texas prison to the New York City hospital where she received medical attention during a prior bout of breast cancer. Send messages and cards to: Lynne Stewart 53504-054, Federal Medical Center Carswell, P.O. Box 27137, Fort Worth, TX 76127.
Contact: 747 Polk Street, San Francisco, CA 94109; 415-864-1278; firstname.lastname@example.com; http://lynnestewart.org/; http://www.radicalwomen.org/.
HAITI/WOMEN - Haiti's government is considering a legal reform measure that would prohibit and punish all sexual assault, including marital rape. MADRE and the International Campaign to Stop Rape & Gender Violence in Conflict are launching a petition to raise international support for this push to address violence against women in Haiti.
Contact: 121 West 27th Street, #301, New York, NY 10001; 212-627-0444; email@example.com; http://www.madre.org.
SYRIA/MIDDLE EAST - The Middle East Children's Alliance (MECA) is currently seeking funds to assist more than 200,000 refugees fleeing violence in Syria.
Contact: https://www.mecaforpeace.org.
FOLK FESTIVAL - The Falcon Ridge Folk Festival will be held August 2-4, in the Berkshires, NY.
Contact: http://www.falconridgefolk.com/; email@example.com.
WAR RESISTERS - The War Resisters League will hold its 90th anniversary conference, Revolutionary Nonviolence: Building Bridges Across Generations and Communities, August 1-4, at Georgetown University. The event will focus on the U.S.' long history of antimilitarism.
Contact: 339 Lafayette Street, New York, NY 10012; 212-228-0450; email@example.com; http://www.warresisters.org.
POPULAR ECONOMICS - The Center for Popular Economics is holding its 2013 Summer Institute August 4-9 at Hampshire College in Amherst, MA. No background in economics is needed for this intensive training. This year's theme is, The Care Economy: Building a Just Economy with a Heart.
Contact: Center for Popular Economics, PO Box 785 Amherst, MA 01004; 413-545-0743; firstname.lastname@example.com; www.populareconomics.org.
VETERANS - Veterans for Peace is holding the 28th annual convention August 6-11 in Madison, WI. This year's theme is, Power To The Peaceful.
Contact: http://www.vfpnationalconvention.org/.
DEMOCRACY - The Democracy Convention will take place August 7-11 in Madison, WI. The convention brings together nine conferences including topics such as media, education, defense, race, environment and others.
Contact: https://democracyconvention.org/.
MEN - The 38th National Conference on Men & Masculinity: Forging Justice: Creating Safe, Equal and Accountable Communities, presented in partnership with HAVEN, will be held in Detroit, MI, August 8-10.
Contact: email@example.com; http://www.nomas.org/.
OCCUPY - An Occupy National Gathering will be held in Kalamazoo, MI, August 21-25.
Contact: firstname.lastname@example.com; http://occupynationalgathering.net/.
COMMUNITIES - The Communities Conference is a networking and learning opportunity for co-operative or communal lifestyles, with workshops, events and entertainment; scheduled for August 30-September 2 at the Twin Oaks Community in Louisa, Virginia.
Contact: http://www.communitiesconference.org/.
LABOR DAY - The 29th annual Bread and Roses Festival, a celebration of the ethnic diversity and labor history of Lawrence, MA, will be held September 2, in honor of the 1912 Bread and Roses Strike. There will be music, dance, poetry, drama, ethnic food, historical demonstrations, walking & trolley tours.
Contact: PO Box 1137, Lawrence, MA 01842; 978-794-1655; http://www.breadandrosesheritage.org/.
OCCUPY WALL STREET - September 17 is the two-year anniversary of the Occupy Wall Street movement. Events are planned in New York City and worldwide.
Contact: http://occupywallst.org/.
TEACHERS - The 13th Annual Conference, "Teaching for Social Justice: The Politics of Pedagogy," will be held October 12 in San Francisco, CA. The free event features workshops, resources, and free childcare.
Contact: 415-676-7844; firstname.lastname@example.com; http://www.t4sj.org/.
HAITI - International Action, which brings clean water and chlorinators to Haiti, seeks office space capable of housing up to six people and their office equipment.
Contact: Zach Bremer, email@example.com; 202-488-0735; http://www.haitiwater.org/.
MEDIA - The Union for Democratic Communications and Project Censored are sponsoring a joint conference on media democracy, media activism and social justice to be held November 1-3 at the University of San Francisco. Proposals for presentations, workshops and panels from activists and critical scholars are invited.


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From the Massachusetts Division of Occupational Safety:
On January 3, 2007, significant amendments were made to the Massachusetts Child Labor Laws, G.L. c. 149, §§53-105. These amendments were effective immediately. The amendments affect minors' working hours, provide for certain additional required supervision, streamline the work permit process, strengthen existing criminal penalties and also allow for civil penalties in the event of violations. A complete summary of the Massachusetts laws regulating child labor, including the recent changes, may be found on the Youth Employment Page on the MA Division of Occupational Safety (DOS) website: http://www.mass.gov/dos/youth
As a result of this legislation, there is now a single application and permit process for all teen workers ages 14 through 17.
1. Students can obtain a copy of this permit application at Abington High School Guidance Office 201 Gliniewicz Way, Abington MA.
2. The application for a permit needs to be completed in full BEFORE a work permit can be issued.
3. All students, ages 14-17, must have their employer or authorized agent complete the Promise of Employment section and have a parent/guardian sign the application. ONLY 14-15 years old are required to complete the Physicians Certificate of Health section.
If you have any questions or need additional information, please contact Paula Potter in the Guidance Office at 781-982-2165.
To download the work permit application, please see the above document link.
Please note, the Guidance Office is closed during the summer and students can obtain a copy of this permit application at the Main Office of Abington High School, Please call 781-982-2160 in the summer to ensure someone is in the building who can assist you.
The mission of the Abington Public Schools is to provide all students with relevant, challenging educational experiences to prepare them to be engaged, responsible citizens and members of the global community.
The Abington Public School System is committed to ensuring that all of its programs and facilities are accessible to all members of the public. We do not discriminate on the basis of age, color, disability, national origin, race, religion, sex or sexual orientation.
The contents of all Abington Public Schools publications are available upon request in languages other than English.


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2-1-1 In the News WKRN.com News Channel 2 (Nashville, Tennessee) United Way 211 calls spike in down economy More people are turning to United Way of Metropolitan Nashville to keep food on their plates. The agency's 211 help line has experienced a 65% increase in calls for food assistance so far this year compared to 2008. The 211 help line serves approximately 53 counties in the state. At the Nashville call center, program director Doug Fluegel told News 2 between 12,000 and 20,000 are answered each month. "Calls are way up for basic needs. We see a lot of calls for food. In fact, we're up 65% during the 2009 calendar year compared to the same time last year," he said. Leaders of the program say they're getting a lot of first time callers, an indicator of how wide-spread the recession really is. "A lot of people who have never called us before are now," Fluegel continued. "They used to be a two income household, now they're one income or no income. They're reaching out to make the budget go as far as it can." With increased demand, the United Way is in need of the following items:
A community rally to kick off the United Way's 2009 fundraising campaign will be held next month. The rally is scheduled for Thursday, September 10 from 7:30 a.m. to 8:30 a.m. at 250 Venture Circle in Nashville. A volunteer food sort-a-thon will be held Friday, September 11 from 9 a.m. to 11 a.m. at the Sommet Center. Then, from 1 p.m. to 4 p.m., volunteers will meet at Sommet Center to deliver food supplies to partner agencies. On the Web: http://www.wkrn.com/Global/story.asp?s=10982898& |


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Two mini games from Turbine, Lord of the Rings online.
Swig & Toss (darts with a drunk dwarf and an ax)
King Under the Mountain (dice wars)
Registration is required. You can win videos of the upcoming expansion to
their online game, wallpapers, and other things. If you complete deeds
and win something (wallpaper) it gets e-mailed to you.
You can play solo or against other people


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Warm organs were taken from the small body of a young boy who lay unconscious as a result of an accident. I wonder whether he knew the phrase "helping others." I heard that, with tears in their eyes, his parents gently smiled at the child, who saved other lives.
A boy under 6 years old became brain dead at Toyama University Hospital, and his parents offered his organs for transplants. This is the first time in Japan that organs of such a young child have been provided. His heart and liver were transplanted into two girls under 10 years old.
Since the brains of young children are very resilient, pronouncing brain death requires extreme caution.
Doctors confirm the absence of traces of abuse and make a diagnosis of brain death again 24 hours after the initial diagnosis. The parents, who made a grave decision while grieving over their loss, commented: "We are proud of our son." If organ transplants between young children take root in Japan, parents would no longer have to rely on overseas transplants, which are both physically and financially difficult.
The boy will continue to live in the bodies of girls of the same generation. The girls who received his organs could eventually fall in love and become mothers. As they experience the ups and downs of life, the boy will continue to support them.
"Yesterday and today happened to be next to each other. Today and tomorrow suddenly find themselves next to each other. That is why there are times when there is no tomorrow."
The lyricist and writer Rokusuke Ei dedicated those words to singer Kyu Sakamoto (1941-1985), who died in a Japan Airlines jumbo jet crash.
Days that happen to be next to each other are dotted with unexpected grief and happiness. We go from one day to the next hopping on randomly placed stepping stones. That is how life moves forward.
The girls who received a heart bursting with energy and a spotless liver are starting on a journey. It is as if they were each taking part in a three-legged race, their arms around a benefactor they have never met and will never meet.
--The Asahi Shimbun, June 20
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CyberKnife Radiosurgery
CyberKnife® Radiosurgery at the Swedish Radiosurgery Center
CyberKnife® is a type of stereotactic radiosurgery. It is, in fact, the world's first and only robotic radiosurgery system.
Although CyberKnife may sound like surgery – it isn't. Rather, it is a type of radiation therapy that uses computerized, robotic equipment to deliver beams of high-dose radiation from multiple angles to precisely target and destroy tumors. It is accurate enough to target small and complex tumors anywhere in the body.
At the Swedish Radiosurgery Center in Seattle, our radiosurgery team uses CyberKnife to treat cancerous and noncancerous tumors in the brain, breast, head and neck, kidney, lung, liver, pancreas, pelvis, prostate, spine and other parts of the body.
With CyberKnife, there is no scalpel, no anesthesia, no pain, no hospital stay and no recovery time. Patients usually wear street clothes during their treatments and return to their normal activities when their treatments have been completed.
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When the college's controversial pacifist founder and principal, Greville Liddicote, is murdered, Maisie is directed to stand back as Scotland Yard spearheads the investigation. She soon discovers, however, that the circumstances of Liddicote's death appear inextricably linked to the suspicious comings and goings of faculty and students under her surveillance.
To unravel this web, Maisie must overcome a reluctant Secret Service, discover shameful hidden truths about Britain's conduct during the Great War, and face off against the rising powers of the the Nazi Party in Britainall as the storm clouds of World War II gather on the horizon.
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The documentation should include a recent evaluation by an appropriate credentialed professional that makes evident the current academic impact of the disability as it relates to the accommodations and services requested. Documentation should contain the following items:
- A diagnostic statement identifying the disability
- A description of the diagnostic methodology
- A description of past and current treatment
- A description of the expected duration and progression of the condition
- A rationale and justification for all requested accommodations
This type of documentation validates the presence of a disability covered under Section 504 of the Rehabilitation Act of 1973 and the Americans with Disabilities Act of 1990, and is most useful in providing information to support accommodation requests and anticipate future accommodation needs. All documentation is subject to review on a case-by-case basis. Since disabilities vary, the required documentation will also vary. Documentation should include information of the effect that the disability has on the student's ability to learn and/ or function academically. It should also include the recommended reasonable academic accommodations that are based on evaluation results.
Reports must include the name and the title of the evaluator and the date(s) of evaluation. Reports must be on letterhead and otherwise legible. Reports are to be provided by qualified professionals. Documents are to be signed by the originator of the document. Appropriate professionals include school and/or clinical psychologists, psychiatrists, neurologists, physicians and other rehabilitation professionals. Certified professionals cannot be family members.
If the original documentation provided is incomplete or inadequate to determine whether the student qualifies as having a disability or is eligible for the accommodations requested, AccessAbility Services has the discretion to require additional documentation.
For high school students, an IEP alone does not constitute adequate documentation. Include the most recent evaluation of the disability. In general, documentation should not be more than three years old.
Along with the above information, transfer students are encouraged to provide documentation from the previously attended school, which includes the dates of service and the accommodations used.
Information received is confidential and is used by AccessAbility Services for the sole purpose of determining a student's eligibility for services and providing accommodations. Submit documentation to:
AccessAbility Services, Higgins Annex 017
Western CT State University
181 White St
Danbury, CT 06810
If after reading the guidelines you have any questions, feel free to contact AccessAbility Services at (203) 837-8225 or email@example.com
See below for guidelines for specific categories of disability.
Acquired Brain Injury/Traumatic Brain Injury
- A neuropsychological evaluation containing assessments of visual, auditory, intellectual, and language competence.
- A description of medical and family history.
- A summary that explains how the disability affects the student's ability to learn and succeed in a college/university setting. The summary would also discuss what accommodations are recommended, and other strategies that would be helpful to ensure the student's success.
Autism Spectrum Disorder/Aspergers Syndrome
- A comprehensive psychological or neuropsychological examination (within the last 3 years) that is scaled for adults. The report should include standard scores, standard deviations and percentiles.
- Medical, family, and developmental history.
- A detailed description of the impact the disability has in the educational environment along with recommended accommodations.
- A record of standardized academic testing, including standard scores, as well as a review of the past academic record.
- Any medications that the student may take which could have an impact on the learning environment, including any side effects.
- A comprehensive In-Take meeting to plan for a smooth transition to the University. Parents/guardians, a teacher, counselor or therapist may attend to offer support and suggestions.
Attention Deficit Hyperactivity Disorder/Attention Deficit Disorder (ADHD/ADD)
- A comprehensive, psychoeducational or neuropsychological assessment within the past 3 years that is scaled for adults. The report should include standard scores, standard deviations and percentiles.
- Evidence of early impairment. The condition must have been exhibited in childhood in more than one setting.
- Evidence of current impairment.
- Development history, as well family history of ADHD/ADD or other behavioral or learning disabilities.
- Evidence of alternative diagnoses or explanations that have been ruled out.
- A specific psychiatric diagnosis per the DSM-IV TR.
- Information on medications and any side effects.
- A summary that addresses any functional limitations the student's disability has on the academic setting, as well as suggestions for accommodations.
Blindness or Low Vision
- An assessment or evaluation from an ophthalmologist detailing the functional limitations of the disability.
- The age of acceptable documentation is dependent upon whether the disabling condition is static or changing.
- Recommended academic accommodations.
Deaf/Hard of Hearing
- A audiogram by a licensed audiologist
- A summary detailing the functional limitations of the disability.
- Recommended academic accommodations.
- The age of acceptable documentation is dependent upon whether the disabling condition is static or changing.
Speech Impairments
- A clearly written statement of the disability diagnosed by a qualified professional (i.e. physician, speech/language pathologist, neurologist)
- A summary of how these impairments affect the student in a postsecondary environment.
- Recommended academic accommodations.
Learning Disabilities
A thorough psychoeducational evaluation scaled for adults. The three areas to be assessed:
- Aptitude : The preferred test is the Wechsler Adult Intelligence Scale Revised (WAIS-R). The Woodcock-Johnson Psychoeducational Battery Revised: Tests of Cognitive Ability or the Stanford-Binet Intelligence Scale: Fourth Edition are acceptable.
- Achievement : Assessment of abilities in math, writing, and reading is required. Suggested tests: Woodcock-Johnson Psychoeducational Battery Revised: Tests of Achievement; Stanford Test of Academic Skills (TASK) or The Test of Written Language-2 (TOWL), Woodcock Reading Mastery Tests Revised, or the Stanford Diagnostic Mathematics Test. The Wide Range Achievement Test is NOT a comprehensive measure of achievement and therefore is not suitable as a sole measure of achievement.
- Information Processing : The specific areas that must be assessed are short and long-term memory, sequential memory, auditory and visual/perception processing, processing speed. Use of the subtest from the WAIS-R or the Woodcock Johnson Tests of Cognitive Ability is acceptable.
- Testing must be current, preferably within the past three years or after age 18. Due to the provision that all reasonable accommodations and services are based upon assessment of the current impact of the student's disabilities on his/her academic performance, it is important to provide recent and appropriate documentation. Date of testing must be included on report.
- When appropriate, a clear diagnosis (i.e. Dyslexia, CAPD) and/or a description of the functional limitations posed by the disability.
- Recommended academic accommodations.
** Reminder: An Individualized Educational Plan (IEP) alone is NOT sufficient documentation. **
Psychiatric Disabilities/ Psychological Disorders
- An evaluation by a qualified individual, i.e. psychologist or psychiatrist. An assessment from a general practitioner typically does not suffice.
Documentation should include the following:
- Current treatment & Medication: This would include any counseling, specific therapies, and current prescription medications. For medications, it is important to note any side effects that would compromise academic functioning.
- Specific diagnosis: This should not merely refer to symptoms but should correspond to a specific DSM-IV category. Included in this should be the impact the disability/disorder has on academic function, as well as recommendations for academic accommodations.
Physical Mobility, Dexterity, and Chronic Health-Related
- A diagnosis of the disabling condition.
- A description of the functional limitations of the disability.
- Expected duration or progression of condition.
- Prescribed medications, dosages, and schedules that may influence the types of accommodations provided, including any possible side effects.
- Recommended academic accommodations.
Intellectual Disabilities
A complete assessment of intellectual functioning/aptitude with all subtests. The assessment should be scaled for adults, i.e. the Wechsler Adult Intelligence Scale –III (WAIS-III), Woodcock-Johnson Psychoeducational Battery-Revised: Tests of Cognitive Ability.
- A comprehensive academic achievement battery that measures current levels of functioning in reading (decoding and comprehension), mathematics and oral and written language.
- Measures of functional performance in various aspects such as English Language Arts, Mathematics, Behavioral/Social/Emotional, Communication, Vocational/Transition, Health and Development including Vision and Hearing, Fine and Gross Motor, and Activities of Daily Living may be helpful in presenting a holistic view of the student.
A comprehensive Summary of Performance (SOP) and a student portfolio may also be helpful:
- Strengths, needs, preferences and interests
- Need for accommodations and use of assistive technology
- History of employment, volunteer and community work experiences
- Ability to function in the college environment (social/residence)
- Learning style (math, reading, written/oral expression)
- Specific diagnosis of intellectual disability.
- A demonstration that alternate explanations (poor education, poor motivation, and/or study skills, emotional problems, attention problems, and cultural/language issues) that may interfere with learning, but that do not constitute intellectual disability, have been ruled out.
- Recommended academic accommodations.
Students Who Are Veterans
Veterans and others who have returned from combat who are experiencing difficulties are encouraged to make an appointment to meet with the AccessAbility Services Coordinator. At that time, accommodations and other services can be discussed.
Elisabeth Werling, AccessAbility Services Coordinator
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