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Is A Labor Comeback in the Cards?
A s labor activists from around the country and world converged on Dearborn, Michigan in early May for a Labor Notes Conference, it's worth reflecting on a year that has brought hope for a revitalization of the labor movement.
According to the Bureau of National Affairs there were 271 work stoppages in the first three quarters of 2005 as compared to 227 in all of 2004. The BNA's numbers do not even include many of the highprofile strikes at the end of 2005 that involved roughly 70,000 workers: Northwest Airlines mechanics and cleaners, Boeing aircraft manufacturing workers, California hospital workers, Philadelphia and New York City transit workers.
What's prompting all this activity? Emboldened by four years of Bush administration attacks on labor, many employers used aggressive bargaining tactics in unprecedented ways in 2005. Proposed wage and health care cuts were far deeper than in previous years—in some cases, unions were faced with the near-to-total loss of unionized jobs, retiree health care, and pensions.
Many activists involved in strike support for the Northwest Airlines mechanics' saw striking mechanics and cleaners move month by month into greater militancy and awareness of the broader labor movement. Rank-and-file strikers from AMFA Local 5 in Detroit formed their own solidarity committee that attended other unions' pickets, Jobs with Justice events, and various social movement events in the Detroit area.
Surge In Reform
S trikes were only one example of increased activity. Auto parts manufacturer Delphi's announcement of bankruptcy—and its plan for 63 percent wage cuts and massive layoffs—unleashed rank-andfile organizing. While the UAW leadership remained paralyzed, UAW members launched a new dissident organization, Soldiers of Solidarity (SOS). SOS successfully organized a highly publicized picket of several hundred at the Detroit Auto Show, another large picket at Delphi's headquarters, and has been organizing training for UAW members in how to use workto-rule strategies to fight the company inside the plants.
Reformers in the east coast longshore union, the International Longshoreman's Association, continue to build the dissident Longshore Workers Coalition. In January transit workers in New York followed up their three-day strike by voting down the concessionary contract pushed by union leaders. In Los Angeles reform-minded teachers swept elections in the second-largest teacher union in the country, United Teachers of Los Angeles.
The rank-and-file work of Teamster reformers has resulted in the Strong Contracts/Good Pensions slate, with Tom Leedham as their candidate for general president. The 2006 campaign began with reform victories in local elections in Atlanta, Milwaukee, Louisville, and elsewhere. The grassroots campaign gathered over 50,000 member signatures in 2 months and received election accreditation for December.
Immigrant Worker Victories
S ome of the biggest labor success stories of 2005 were made by predominantly immigrant farmworkers. The Coalition of Immokalee Workers' successful Taco Bell boycott and the Farm Labor Organizing Committee's 5,000worker organizing victory in North Carolina broke new ground for immigrant labor organizing.
Both groups won by organizing in the fields and communities at the same time—building successful national campaigns that mobilized faith-based, student, and other community-labor groups, while maintaining internal memberdriven education.
On the waterfront, wildcat strikes at ports over the last two years have won victories on both coasts for mostly immigrant workers. Wildcat strikes at the Stockton, California yard in the spring and summer of 2005 were organized from a Sikh temple, for example.
The massive immigrant marches that sprang up around the United States in early 2006 gave further evidence of a growing, vibrant immigrant rights movement. On April 10, the second round of protests, an estimated 2 million or more people marched in 140 cities.
Last year also saw the emergence of new rank-and-file groups advocating an old vision: industrial unity. These cross-union formations have evolved in the strategically important transportation industry where union members face myriad challenges.
In the embattled airline industry, union members and supporting activists have built a new cross-union, cross-craft group: Airline Workers United (airlineworkers united.org). AWU emerged in response to ongoing problems made clear by the Northwest Airlines strike—the collapse of solidarity, the unresponsiveness of many airline union leaderships, and the lack of an industry-wide union strategy. AWU is currently made up of flight attendants, mechanics, gate workers, and customer service agents from a number of airline unions at Northwest, but it has also begun spreading to pilots and mechanics at United and American.
Social Movement Unionism
B eyond traditional union reform, labor groups fought for democracy and social justice in exciting ways in 2005. Unions and other labor organizations continue to oppose the war in Iraq, with U.S. Labor Against the War (US LAW) playing the biggest role. USLAW is reaching out to veterans and military families, sponsoring public events with Military Families Speak Out, Iraq Veterans Against the War, and other such groups. In 2005 USLAW organized a successful tour of Iraqi labor leaders and an intervention at the AFLCIO Convention. Due to pressure from USLAW, the AFL-CIO passed a resolution against the war in Iraq at its convention, a groundbreaking moment for the federation.
Responding to the disaster of Hurricane Katrina, Community Labor United (CLU)—a community-labor coalition in New Orleans—stepped up its regional organizing. CLU has already been involved in a number of local fights around Gulf Coast reconstruction and continues to demand that the people of New Orleans be able to determine the future of their city.
For all these positive developments, this remains a difficult period for U.S. labor. Union membership has hit historic lows and employers (along with the government) continue their assault on workers' living and working conditions. Because this period looks so bleak, it is important to examine these victories, small and large, and learn what we can. In hard times we need the lessons these victories provide and we also need the inspiration.
Chris Kutalik is co-editor of Labor Notes in Detroit (www.labor notes.org).
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I guess give him a couple of lessons and if you still feel that way look around for someone else. Nothing wrong with that. Sometimes it just happens that way.
So I posted like 3 weeks ago that I found a guitar instructor and sounded from talking to him like we were on the same page. I was supposed to start last week but had a server project due at work so we pushed it off to this week. Now I haven't ever taken guitar lessons but had many years of trumpet and piano lessons. I picked up the guitar 25 years or so ago and just kind of started playing.
I know the first lesson is a lot of figuring out where each other are at but I plaid a couple chord progressions and riffs and we talked over where we wanted to go with the lessons and I think he got kind of nervous. He definitely knows more of the technical side of playing than I do and that is what I want to learn but I don't think he was expecting me to be where I am at in my playing. I got the feeling he was a little intimidated by me. I agreed to a month of lessons so hopefully it will go better and we will gain some ground but I have the feeling I may be looking for another instructor. I told my wife how it went and she said "I knew that was going to happen". When I asked her what she meant she said that I'm just a really good player and always have to be the best at everything I do and that can be real intimidating.
Well I have to go and spend 5 minutes to learn the stuff we went over today.
I guess give him a couple of lessons and if you still feel that way look around for someone else. Nothing wrong with that. Sometimes it just happens that way.
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Ya that's my feeling......And the other thing that was kind of weird to me and not that it's a bad thing in the least was when I showed up he had a big cross on his guitar strap and plays in a worship band. Now I have nothing but respect for anyone that gigs and if a worship band is your thing that is completely cool but heres me a tattooed guy that played in some scummy bar bands drank, smoked and partied sitting there with a kind of strait laced dude. I'm sure parents that bring their kids to learn from him think that is great but it made me feel kind of strange.
What Mark said.
It's ultimately important that the instructor and the student are on the same page and can create a bond.
My first flight instructor was a great guy, an awesome pilot and probably would have made for a brilliant instructor were it not for the fact that he was a Hungarian Immigrant and I couldn't understand a word he said.
Sometimes its just about personal chemistry. I happen to think that I'm a great teacher () but sometimes the personality thing just doesn't work. I have no problem referring a student to another teacher if I think its not working..better that then getting a reputation for being a jerk or whatever the soon to be ex-student is going to think...
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Roll back 20 years... I was already playing guitar, gigging in bars for about 8 years, and I decide to take some lessons just to see what happens. Well, it was near impossible to find someone that wasn't BSing me at some point in the lesson. The best lessons I had was playing in bands when I was 18 with guys that were 40. I had played the trombone since the 5th grade, so I'm sure that helped a great deal.
As far as theory, I've found everything that I needed to know in books. Picking a book can be tougher than picking a teacher. I kind of like the Hal Leonard book "Music Theory" written by Tom Kolb. Most books have great sections along with sections that aren't so great. For beginners, Marks book is quite good. Now I'm not saying that there is not someone out there, but it will be a challenge to find "the guy".
Also this book, but it's tough to understand.
On another note...I keep tossing the idea around of doing some web lessons with Mark.
Are you looking at theory lessons to help with improvisation and doing fill in work? To help jamming with others?
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As humiliating as it could be my best teachers were the slightly older kids who were way better than me when I was starting out. If I saw them do something I wanted to learn I'd go "show me that again. Show me exactly." I always had my head in a book carrying it around too.
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Music is always about more than just notes. What have I seen here so far? You've been in a few bands, standing up rocking out. You feel you may be an intimidating presence with your size and tattoos. Your wife says you are a driven perfectionist, and you're saying you only need to work for five minutes to get your lesson down. You describe your teacher as a Christian band player who seemed taken aback by your attitude, while admitting he has more technical knowledge.
I see a challenging balance between personalities here. If your teacher is humble enough to acknowledge our God in his life, he's probably cutting you more slack than you'd like to think, if you've progressed beyond hard rock into being a slacker. I'd pay for more technical knowledge. A great guitarist showing off in front of students, laying his own style on them, is not good teaching. I'd respect your new friend for having dedication. That's what makes musicians great, being dedicated to their art and instruments.
For all your and the ensuing attitudes in this thread, no-one has mentioned what kind of guitar and amp you or he was using, what tunes or progressions you tried, of if he had a Jimi thing showing somewhere. My favorite lessons came while I was on the road playing full time, and a local band or another band in the same city would be in the audience, and when I was visiting to share my interests, and pay respects, maybe the guitarist would say I used to play that song, or I got this Ritchie riff I'm using, and tell me about it. In one band we ended up doing "Deja View" by Dionne Warwick with the same atmosphere and riffage as "Little Wing".
Sometimes I'd be walking around town and see a Conservatory or local lesson place and just walk in, saying I'd pay for a half hour if someone can show me something I don't know. It might have ended up being classical, but once the thrill of synth sounds wore out, getting classical on guitar, palm muting when even Jimi didn't do that, blew my mind all over again. You might think letting geeky little twerpy types crawl all over me as a guitarist is not the distance you want to keep from fans or your audience, but when they're clueing me in to what tunes are hot for them and showing me the chords to get me going, I'm still only just learning. That's when I get generous with pop and munchies, making a real party.
I was commenting with your first thread, and you've kept my interest here. Riffin', not stiffin', let's get picky.
as always, John Watt
The hardest thing for me about lessons is asserting myself. You have to be really honest about what you want out of the lessons... Sometimes good instructors aren't great players (great = phenomenal.)
I have had lots of technology training sessions where I had more experience than the person leading the class. However, when I was open and discussed what I wanted out of it, it was easier for them to fill my gaps..
I am usually very neurotic about things / services I am paying for. However, with guitar lessons, I really had to take a step back and realize the reason I am there is to learn from a seasoned vet / pro. I was a pure rookie, novice. I knew 2 chords when I started going to Mark. And over the course of just shy of a year of lessons, I didn't really get everything I could have out of MArk's lessons, due to my own procrastination and busy travel schedule, but what I did get was more comfortable with the instrument, I learned "how" to practice, and I became aware of my own learning-pace. Unique to each individual.
You should never feel anxious about asserting yourself, or asking for a specific goal out of the engagement to an instructor. If this guy seems like he has nothing to offer you, then just say it, tactfully.
Ask him to prepare a "skills assessment"
Tell him to "challenge you". Pop Quiz, etc.
That way, he can really understand where you are, which will make both of you more comfortable, and you won't waste a month of your money, and his time figuring out he has nothing to teach you.
It's their business, and it's your money. I'd bet they'll be real flexible to keep that arrangement. . . .
Hey Eminence_Front! It's not always about the money, and musicians certainly don't start out that way. I was asked to take over the guitar lessons at Central Music, my local store, when the guitarist there started recording and touring with The Spartan, the bassist also a Central employee. After two weeks I had cut back the number of students in half, keeping the ones I thought were into playing, and after a month was teaching them all one afternoon at my parent's house, a nice place for lessons of all kinds.
I put students together who had similar interests and a couple bunches started bands.
One of them became an insurance company owner, inheriting from his father.
That's still my insurance company. That's about the money.
as always, John Watt
I'm sure he has something to teach me that's why I went ahead and booked a month of lessons. I want to give him a chance. I think he is a nice guy and has some good knowledge. I just kind of got a weird feeling in the first lesson. Nothing against him being into worship I could care less what his belief system is just kind of different from me and different can be good. I think part of the weirdness is being in music lessons after so many years. My last formal music lesson (piano) was when I was 17. I was all into the idea of sharing musical ideas and just got the feeling that he was really nervous when he played something and I played it back with no effort. I had the feeling that he may have thought he was in over his head. He said he has advanced students and has even given lessons to professional players. Maybe I just knocked him a little off balance because I wasn't what he thought I was from our conversation. I actually feel bad if he was intimidated by me. I'm really a nice guy but for some reason everyone thinks that I'm some mean scary person.
Either way I have 4 more lessons booked with him and maybe they will be good. If not I will move on or just keep on doing what I've done for all these years.
At your level of playin', if I learned one or two things from him, I'd say it was worth it.
Just curious as to why you're taking lessons in the first place. Don't get me wrong even pro's and big name players takes lessons, learning in any field should never stop but....
You say you've played in bar bands and have been playing for 25 years, etc. So obviously you know your way around the fretboard and can play. Are you looking to join a regular band or perhaps make a career of it or something? You say you've taken lots of trumpet and piano lessons so you should have a knowledge of theory. Maybe all you need is some books and just self study?
I'm not a technical player and have always admired guys that have that are technical. I have the theory back ground but just have never taken the time to apply it to the guitar. Or at least I never thought I did. One thing I did find out in the first lesson is that I know way more than I thought I did. The things I asked him to teach were more playing with modes and gaining the ability to play from sheet music. That may sound kind of funny but with piano I can take sheet music and play. I would like to do that with the guitar. Maybe be able to grab the sheet music for a old jazz standard and sit down and play it. Or maybe I'm just bored with my playing and want to see if I can learn something different.
If I had it to over again, I would go back and start taking lessons from a guy like Mark from the very beginning. When I got my first electric, I started lessons with a guy whose musical choices were completely at odds with what I wanted to learn and we butted heads from the get go. He was a great player, but a horrible teacher. I quit after about 6 lessons and it's been all me ever since. Despite the fact that I somehow got lucky enough to find some success as a musician without proper training, I'm sure I would be a thousand times better had I sought the right instruction early on. I have probably the worst "technique" on the planet and I wouldn't know a pentatonic scale from a flux capacitor.
Over the last several months, I've been quietly studying up on Marks site and have learned a great deal. I am totally indebted to Senior Wein.
Do yourself a favor and find yourself the right instructor to help you along the way.
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Sounds to me like he didn't realize that he was going to have a challenge on his hands. Lots of people overstate their experience and prowess, because we tend to think we are better than we really are. I found it interesting that you realized you know more than you thought you did, but not surprising.
Give him the chance to step up and deliver and see what happens. He may end up having more to offer you than sight reading and modes, or he could end up asking you for lessons.
As an aside, theyre are so many more resources available now for self taught players than there were 20-30 years ago, so explore the net.
Saturn! I'm seeing what you're saying about coming off scary, something happening to me,
as I get older.... and older.... ouch!
At first I noticed younger girls behind cash registers not noticing me... sigh...
and now my Al Pacino "Scarface" imitation is going over a little too well...
I'm not all bad. I might have some residual cuteness going...
even if some friends are now calling me Mr. Furley.
as always, John Watt
I've only taken lessons twice. Both times I came in with a very specific problem and goal to solve it. Both times, I got what I needed out of the first lesson. After that, the goals and directions of the lessons were handled by the instructor and that didn't work out for long. I quit both times after only a few lessons.
Perhaps, I should have continued to make new goals and assert myself with my instructors. Or, maybe I should have continued to try different instructors until I found the one who fit me best.
Saturn, hopefully, this guy ends up being a good fit for you. Otherwise, I hope you seek out somebody who is the right instructor for you. I hope I do the same.
Well lesson 2 was tonight and I have to say it went much better. I kind of realized what he was going to do when I looked over the notes from the first lesson and when we started I told him I know where he is trying to go. He said he kind of thought I would figure it out. He admitted the first lesson was kind of rough but he figured out I was a really advanced player and he made a good analogy. He said it's like I have all these years of music knowledge and concepts and I took them and put them in a coffee can then shook it up and threw them up in the air and just pick up the pieces I need when I want them. He said we're going to jump ahead and start putting all the pieces back in order. We jumped into playing some interesting triplets and double stops but also talked over the basics of what we were playing. It was kind of funny he was playing Amazing Grace demonstrating where he was trying to take me and I was playing back Randy Rhodes riffs that were the same concept. It was kind of fun and interesting. So I have more hope going forward that we will make progress. Still not going over anything I don't know but like he said we were putting the first piece back where it belonged.
I'm actually looking forward to next week to see what he thinks the next piece is.

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A movie has just been produced (early January) by a young and talented movie maker, M. Talal Khoury. The movie will contain interviews and stories from the "Lebanese spring" on the notion of responsibility. The text of the Charter and its "story" has just been reprinted (for the third time) to be used this year in Lebanon and other Arab countries (with a new design an arabic calligraphy and some minor modifications), 20 000 copies. Participation to a European Parliament session in Strasbourg on October 26th, 2005, and I have made a speech in front of the parliamentarians.
Participation to a conference in Granada (November 26 to December 2nd) on the Intercultural dialogue, with Arab secular and islamist scholars and activists, European and Americans academicians and diplomats participating.
We have supported two inter-religious youth summer camps on reconciliation and secularism in Lebanon. Participation to several Conferences on citizenship in Lebanon and the democratization process after the end of the Syrian regime's hegemony over the country:
Conclusion I believe this year 2005 was fruitful in the sense that it put the Charter in practice in a very special but concrete context, where the idea of the Charter and its philosophy were attractive more than the text itself. The term "responsibility" jumped to a distinguished position in political debates and media interviews. People felt in a transitional phase and a critical situation that they should take decisions and make choices. And here the whole meaning of responsibility came to their minds collectively and individually, and helped them abandoning the "blaming of others for all what happen to us"… I hope that in the new context in Lebanon, we will be able to do more concrete activities next year and to produce some serious political (in the broader meaning of the word) literature on democratization and roles and responsibilities of different actors in its construction.


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Monday was the deadline for public comment on the State Department's draft Environmental Impact Statement (EIS) on the Keystone XL Pipeline. Mine, which I submitted with the support of two of my University of Nebraska colleagues, are here. The State Department had initially announced that it would take the unusual path of refusing to make all of the comments available to the public absent a Freedom of Information Act request, but after a storm of criticism, the Department has reversed its decision to play hide and seek and now promises to post them all on a website.
Meanwhile, the Environmental Protection Agency has released its comments, which are extremely critical of the State Department's analysis of the project's effect on climate change and its failure to consider alternative pipeline routes that avoid critical water resources. The EPA's comments, together with the outpouring of opposition from environmentalists and others, could well carry the day on the merits, persuading the President to reject the project as contrary to the national interest. At minimum, they will serve as fodder for subsequent litigation against the construction of the pipeline, if it's approved.
The EPA is hardly alone in its criticism. In my comments, I focused on several problems with the State Department's analysis. I write that the draft EIS failed to comply with the requirements of the National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA), a law that requires federal agencies to evaluate the harmful environmental consequences of their actions and to consider ways to carry out those actions so that they mitigate or avoid such consequences.
Full textThis post was written by CPR Member Scholars Robert Glicksman and Sandra Zellmer.
Visual images of burning rivers, oil-soaked seagulls, and other grossly contaminated resources spurred the enactment of the nation's foundational environmental laws in the 1970s, including the Clean Water Act (CWA). Similarly, evocative prose like Rachel Carson's description of the "strange blight" poisoning America's wildlife due to widespread use of pesticides played a critical role in alerting policymakers and the public to the need for robust legal protections for public health and the environment.
Environmental law, however, has always been about more than just repairing the damage wrought by past disasters or resource mismanagement. Senator Edmund Muskie, the principal sponsor of the CWA, was moved to action not only by the despoliation he witnessed but also by "[t]he beauties of nature . . . in almost pristine form" he marveled at while growing up.
Antidegradation Goals
The reasons to mandate the improvement of inferior quality natural resources are relatively obvious, and include ensuring that exposure to, or use of, those resources does not adversely affect human health, destroy critical wildlife or fish populations, or otherwise disrupt ecosystem functions. By contrast, no single goal explains legal mandates to prevent degradation of superior quality resources. Instead, antidegradation programs in the CWA and in other environmental laws rest on a variety of rationales, including the desire to protect special or unique resources, to provide a margin of safety to offset the risk that regulations will not provide enough protection due to imperfect knowledge or flawed regulatory implementation, to prevent the movement of industry to areas with superior environmental quality but more lenient requirements, to prevent interstate pollution, and to preserve opportunities for future generations and future growth.
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Today's post, co-authored by CPR Member Scholar Sandra Zellmer and Policy Analyst Yee Huang, is the fourth in a series on a recent CPR white paper, Reclaiming Global Environmental Leadership: Why the United States Should Ratify Ten Pending Environmental Treaties. Each month, this series will discuss one of these ten treaties. Previous posts are here.
Biodiversity is the range of variations in all forms of life, from the genetic level to the species level to the ecosystem level. This diversity of life sustains all processes on the planet, built up over the several billion years of the planet's existence. It has intrinsic as well as aesthetic, cultural, and spiritual values, and an economic value too. The diversity of plants and animals has contributed to more nutritious diets, an increased human lifespan, and treating treatable illnesses. Economists estimate that humans derive trillions of dollars' worth of ecosystem services such as water retention and filtration from wetlands, air purification from trees, and agricultural productivity from healthy soils. Losing biodiversity means a devastating loss for current and future generations.
At present, 60 percent of the world's ecosystem services are being degraded or over-exploited. According to the Millennium Ecosystem Assessment, the situation "could grow significantly worse during the first half of this century." To combat the loss of biodiversity and ecosystem services, conservation strategies at the local or national level are nowhere near sufficient. It's a global problem, and international partnerships are essential to addressing it.
By the mid-1980s, the need for broad international cooperation to safeguard the biodiversity of all animal and plant species and their habitats had become apparent. The United States led the effort to get the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD) off the ground and into the diplomatic arena. For nearly a decade, the United States continued to work in support of the CBD through several different administrations of both political parties.
The three primary objectives of the CBD are to conserve biodiversity, to use biodiversity in sustainable ways, and to access and share the benefits (such as new pharmaceuticals) from biological resources. The CBD strives to meet these goals by having the parties to the treaty integrate conservation and sustainable use into their decision-making processes to avoid or at least minimize adverse impacts to biodiversity. Parties retain discretion in determining how to do this, and the CBD explicitly states that they should use "customary and local efforts as appropriate."
Full textLast month, President Obama denied TransCanada's permit application for the Keystone XL pipeline because a congressionally mandated deadline did not allow enough time to evaluate the project once Nebraska completed its analysis for re-routing of the pipeline around the Sand Hills.
A January 26-29 poll from Hart Research Associates found that, after hearing arguments for and against the pipeline, 47% of voters in four Presidential battleground states polled agree with President Obama's decision while 36% disagree with it. Yet just this week, the U.S. Senate is considering whether to add language to an unrelated highway authorization bill to force the President to approve the Keystone XL tar sands pipeline.
The pipeline rider has the backing of 44 Republicans and one Democrat in the Senate. Passing it is a bad idea on several levels. For one thing, riders like this one short-circuit the congressional process. By inserting an unrelated substantive provision like this into an authorization or appropriation package, the provision doesn't receive the scrutiny that it would if it were forced to stand on its own, and Senators who are against the pipeline might feel compelled to vote in favor of the package because it includes other benefits for their constituents. (For this reason, many state constitutions forbid appropriations riders, but the federal constitution does not.) For more on this see my article Sacrificing Legislative Integrity at the Altar of Appropriations Riders: A Constitutional Crisis.
Full textThe Nebraska Legislature is in a special session currently to consider five bills concerning the proposed Keystone XL pipeline. The situation was shaken up by Thursday's announcement from the Obama Administration that it was pushing back its decision on federal approval of the pipeline. This news may take away some urgency for the Nebraska Legislature, but considering that no options (including the original proposed route) have been taken off the table, the bills remain firmly relevant. Nebraska—and any other states that lack regulations for protecting state interests from the effects of oil pipelines—should move forward despite measures that may (or may not) be undertaken by the federal government on the Keystone XL pipeline.
This afternoon the full Nebraska legislature will begin debate on one of the bills currently under consideration, LB4, which would provide state authority to approve or reject pipeline routes within Nebraska. Specifically, a panel appointed by the Governor—to include the DEQ, the Public Service Commission, the Department of Natural Resources, and representatives from landowner groups and others—would determine whether the proposed pipeline route imposes unacceptable risks on the state's natural resources, based on six statutory criteria designed to ensure that pipeline routes comply with the state's Ground Water Management and Protection Act, its Nongame and Endangered Species Conservation Act, and other conservation oriented objectives (the criteria are specified in Section 7 of the bill).
TransCanada has made a number of arguments against the bill and others like it, including saying it is preempted by federal law, that it violates the dormant commerce clause of the Constitution, and that requiring pipeline rerouting would be a "taking" in violation of the Fifth Amendment.
Last week I testified before the legislature's Natural Resources Committee, arguing that a similar bill, LB1, passes Constitutional muster. (The primary difference between LB1 and the bill currently pending before the full legislature, LB4, is that LB1 gave authority to the Public Service Commission rather than a gubernatorial panel.) I believe that these bills are not just Constitutionally sound, but good policy: the exercise of state sovereignty over land use, soil and water conservation, and aesthetics is an important element of a viable federal-state partnership. Here are some of my responses to the critics:
Full textThis post was written by CPR Member Scholar Sandra Zellmer and John H. Davidson, an emeritus professor of law at the University of South Dakota. It appeared first in the Omaha World-Herald.
As the Missouri River nears the 500-year flood mark, we sympathize with those whose homes and businesses are flooded. And we recognize that it's natural for the afflicted to cast blame on a scapegoat — a practice as old as recorded history. But those who blame the flooding on the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers' efforts to conserve native wildlife species are deeply misinformed.
First, there is no legal basis for pointing fingers in this direction. The Flood Control Act of 1944 — the statute that authorized the big mainstem dams in North and South Dakota — prioritizes flood control and navigation. The Act also authorizes operations that benefit wildlife and, when it comes to listed species, the Endangered Species Act (ESA) requires federal agencies to avoid jeopardizing species.
In operating the dams, the Corps is bound by both Acts. But the Corps has been whipsawed by lawsuits brought by both upstream states, which want to maintain high water levels in the spring to enhance the walleye fishery, and downstream states, which demand high summer and fall water levels to support the commercial navigation season and to cool their power plants. The corps' management of the river has had far more to do with the demands of the states than the demands of tern and plover.
Full textMy family has gotten a lot smaller lately. My mother died in 2004, my father in 2007, and my uncle in 2008.
I've done the five stages of grief, as introduced by Elisabeth Kübler-Ross in 1969, but not exactly as she described. It's true that I initially felt denial: "I'm a lucky person; this can't be happening." Then I was angry and felt sorry for myself. Then, at least during my mother's struggle with pancreatic cancer, I hit the bargaining table. Mom was a Sunday school teacher when I was little, so I pleaded with God: "Please let the diagnosis be wrong, please let the chemo work, please don't let the good die young." To hedge my bets, I occasionally promised, "if she can beat the odds, I'll volunteer at the local cancer center and I'll donate my life savings to research." It didn't work. In less than four months, she was dead.
Depression crept in, and this stage held me in its grip for a long time. I gained acceptance a year or two after my mother's death—she would've wanted me to—but this stage eluded me with the loss of my father and my uncle. Now, I'm just angry. Outraged, in fact.
My father had stomach cancer. My uncle had prostate cancer. Both were farmers.
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Her studies include the areas of pedagogy, psychology, sociology, aesthetics and anatomy among others. She has studied various contemporary dance techniques: Limon, Cunningham and Release (Jeremy Nelson, Wally Cardona, Irene Hultman, Bebee Miller, Trisha Brown dancers, Nicki Castro, David Zambrano), and has received extensive trainning in improvisation (Stephen Koester, Cathie Caraker, Danny Lepkof, Dieter Heitkamp, Julyen Hamilton, Andrew Harwood) and composition (Renée Wadleigh, Bessie Schönberg, Susan Rethorst). She studied and performed with various Butoh companies (Sankai Juku, Dairakudakan, Kazuo Onho, Mitsuyo Vesugi).
She has alternated dance with body work studies: sensory awareness, (Louise Boedeker, Christa Saddler), alexandre technique (Rebecca Nettl-Fiol), Susan Klein technique (Barbara Malher), diafrotherapy (Raquel Felsenstein), skinner releasing technique (Didi Dorvillier) and movement anathomy (Blandine Calais-Germain). Grant for research and creation | 2006Entitat Autònoma de difusió cultura, Catalonia Generalitat
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NAFRI has developed a number of strategic plans to guide and focus its work (see below for previous strategic plans). In 2007, in response to the restructuring and policy changes within MAF, NAFRI updated and revised its own strategic plan to better align its work to the new policy directives from the Ministry of Agriculture and Forestry, rapid changes taking place in the country and in response to its own restructuring.
The purpose of this NAFRI strategy is to better define and articulate how NAFRI intends to carry out "research for development" and achieve the goals of MAF in an efficient and effective manner. The strategy defines a series of programs, sub-programs and research priorities as well as the different approaches NAFRI will use to implement research. It should be recognized that this strategy is not fixed, but rather dynamic and will be gradually updated along with the changing policy focus of the Ministry of Agriculture and Forestry and meet arising needs of the society.
This new strategy recognizes NAFRI's changing roles and focuses on three interlinked areas: improving efficiency in agriculture production, improving land use and land management processes and feeding back the impacts of rapid agrarian change to policy makers at different levels.
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My good friend / techno-genius, Finis Price, and I were recently the featured guests on the nationally renowned legal podcast, Lawyer2Lawyer, to discuss the impact Steve Jobs had on the legal industry. The description of this episode is listed below, as are the links to listen to it. Steve Jobs and Apple changed the way we communicate,… Continue Reading
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Guest Post :: Apple's "Walled Garden" – Unsustainable Model or Certificate of Quality?
Posted in Guest Posts, Mac vs. PC, Security, TechnologyI am proud to exclusively present the following Guest Post from Mariana Ashley: Apple is one of the most recognized brands around the world, and, at least according to a recent Barron's survey, one of the most respected. Still, not everyone is Apple crazy, as an earlier post about why people love to hate Apple indicated. Apple is… Continue Reading
PC World's "Reliability and Service Survey" Finds Apple Best in Quality
Posted in Hardware, Mac vs. PC, Product ReviewsEarlier this week, PC World released the results of its annual "Reliability and Service Survey", which interviews customers and asks them about the tech products they use, how reliable those products are, and the quality of the services associated with those products. After interviewing over 79,000 people, PC World concluded that Apple was the best tech firm… Continue Reading
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Posted in Mac vs. PCThe folks at Clio are conducting the Apple in Law Firms Survey. If you are an attorney, law student, law school professor, or other legal professional, I hope that you will take a few minutes to participate in this survey. This survey asks questions in the following areas: Extent of lawyers' current or intended migration to Macs… Continue Reading
Another Lawyer Converts to Mac
Posted in Mac vs. PCThe Greatest American Lawyer switched to a Mac at his office about two months ago, and he recently blogged about his "conversion experience." Some of the key quotes from his article are: There is simply no comparison between a PC and a Mac. It's like going from a stick with a rock on the end… Continue Reading
Guest Post :: Why We Went Mac, and Have Never Looked Back (Part One)
Posted in Guest Posts, Mac vs. PC, Office Management, Switching to MacsMy friend, Randy Juip, has written a two-part Guest Post explaining in depth why his firm converted to Macs. He was also a guest on an upcoming edition of the MILO Weekly podcast discussing this same subject. I am pleased to present Part One of his Guest Post, "Why We Went Mac, and Have Never Looked… Continue Reading
How to Seamlessly Run That Windows Apps on a Mac
Posted in Mac vs. PCOne of my favorite websites is LifeHacker, because it routinely explains ways that I can make my life easier. It recently published an article which explained how to make "running one or a handful of must-have Windows applications on a Mac simple and seamless. It makes things much easier for non-expert computer users who just need… Continue Reading
Got Apple Envy? Macs in a PC World (Best of ABA TechShow 2009)
Posted in Mac vs. PC, Office Management, Presentations, Switching to MacsThe ABA TechShow blog has a series called "The Best of ABA TechShow 2009", which features some of the best presentations given by past speakers to showcase some of the content available to attendees. I am pleased that "Got Apple Envy? Macs in a PC World", the presentation given by David Sparks and me is one of those… Continue Reading
Guest Post :: Thoughts About Microsoft's Current Ad Campaign
Posted in Guest Posts, Mac vs. PCThe following Guest Post is from one of my readers and fellow attorney, Kurt Gibson, in response to the current "anti-Mac" ads being run by Microsoft: I just saw the Microsoft ad (for the hundredth time) where the announcer states that the buyer gets a budget to purchase a laptop. The buyer looks at the Macs… Continue Reading
Mac Pricing :: "Apple Tax" or "Microsoft Discount"?
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The Legal Mac :: Using Windows on Your Mac
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Reminder :: Free Webinar :: Using Macs in Your Law Firm
Posted in Mac vs. PC, Office Management, Online Resources, Switching to MacsFREE Webinar! Using Macs in Your Law FirmDate: Thursday, May 21, 2009 Time: 3:00 PM – 4:00 PM EDT Space is limited! Reserve your Webinar seat now at:https://www2.gotomeeting.com/register/458254538 Description:Until recently, law firms needed PC's to run their practices. No longer. Scanners, software, printers, are now available to practice law on the Mac, and the iPhone… Continue Reading
Free Webinar :: Using Macs in Your Law Firm
Posted in Mac vs. PC, Office Management, Online Resources, Switching to Macs, TechnologyLarry Port from Rocket Matter and I will be conducting a free webinar next Thursday, May 21, 2009, at 3:00 p.m. entitled Using Macs in Your Law Firm. The webinar description is listed below. I hope that you can attend, and if you are interested, you can register by clicking HERE. Until recently, law firms needed PC's to… Continue Reading
Should You Switch to Macs in Your Law Firm?
Posted in Mac vs. PC, Switching to MacsYou are probably familiar with TechnoLawyer and the insightful, helpful information that it provides each week to attorneys. One of its key components is TechnoFeature, a weekly newsletter containing in-depth articles written by leading legal technology and practice management experts. This week's TechnoFeature was my article, "Should You Switch to Macs in Your Law Firm?" You can download… Continue Reading
The Mac Lawyer Featured in Mac|Life Article on Reasons Your Business Should Run on Macs
Posted in Mac vs. PC, Switching to Macs, This BlogThe March 2009 edition of Mac | Life magazine featured an article explaining 10 Reasons Your Small Business Should Run on Macs, which included a profile of me and my law firm. This article includes discussions of most of the major advantages Macs offer versus PCs, and it includes profiles of several other businesses as well. … Continue Reading
The "Pitfalls" of Switching from a PC to a Mac
Posted in Mac vs. PCTwo weeks ago, I mentioned that I was featured in a Lawyers USA article which discussed "Should you switch to a Mac?" Part Two of that article has now been published, and you can read it here. This portion discusses the "pitfalls" of making the move to Macs. I placed that word in quotation marks, because these "pitfalls" are relatively minor… Continue Reading
The Mac Lawyer Featured in Lawyers USA Article
Posted in Mac vs. PC, Switching to MacsLawyers USA has begun a series this week on "Should you switch to a Mac?" In Part One, the article discusses the advantages that Macs offer, and it features interviews with me (The Mac Lawyer), Victor Medina (who publishes Another Thing To Do), and Kevin Morton (who publishes A Mac Lawyer's Notebook). Some of the key quotes from this… Continue Reading
The Legal Mac :: Why Macs and Why Now?
Posted in Mac vs. PC, Online Resources, Switching to MacsThe following is the premier The Legal Mac monthly column in the ABA Law Practice Management Section's Law Practice Today webzine: Macs are everywhere these days, including in an ever-growing number of law offices. In recognition of this trend, Law Practice Today is pleased to announce this monthly column, The Legal Mac, which we hope will… Continue Reading
ABA Law Practice Today Now Features "The Legal Mac" Column
Posted in Mac vs. PC, Online ResourcesLaw Practice Today, the monthly webzine published by the ABA Law Practice Management Section, has undergone a bit of a facelift, starting with the just released November issue. Among the new monthly columns are Your Practice Management Advisor, Flying Solo, and The Legal Mac. As part of my responsibilities as a member of the Board… Continue Reading
Ross Kodner Gets Taken to Task for Anti-Mac Article
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Obama :: The First Mac President?
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Guest Post :: Getting the Most Out of Boot Camp
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"These days, we have to use protection for everything, from bedroom activities to outdoor fun. "No one said that you have to wait until the summer to get the perfect tan -- just look at George Hamilton. If you have the luxury of going on holiday this summer, you may want to learn how to get the perfect tan and avoid getting fried to a crisp. If this happens, you can bet that the only thing you'll be doing during your holiday is watching the ocean water -- from the window of your hotel room.
With the risks involved in tanning today, there is no way to tan safely, but there are ways to tan relatively safely and minimise the risks of sun exposure. The sun may be great and provide us with heat, but if you don't take the necessary precautions when tanning, then you're increasing your chances of the following risks (among many others):
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Yes, yes, I know, these days, we have to use protection for everything, from bedroom activities to outdoor fun. But that doesn't mean we still can't bask in the sun and look great.
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Re-apply. You need to apply sunscreen approximately 20 minutes before going outside, and re-apply if you go into the water, even if your lotion is waterproof.
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Do not get burned. Speaking of getting burned, people erroneously believe that a burn will fade away into a nice tan. This could not be more false. A burn will cause your skin to become all blistery and splotchy (since a sunburn means you have broken blood vessels), and your skin will just peel away to reveal the next layer.
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In an interview with Philadelphia Gay News, Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz (D-FL), who chairs the Democratic National Committee, said that she is very proud of the DNC's support of LGBT rights, and she expects its party platform will include marriage equality this year:
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Look at existing skins, and how much text they have on screen in relation to the size of images.
There is a reason that they don't have lots of text on screen at once - you simply can't fit it on screen using a big enough font.
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I see. I tought it was because people were focusing on fanart etc.
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Fraincs Wrote:I see. I tought it was because people were focusing on fanart etc. Of course there are skins which are focusing on fanart (Aeon being the leader of them ) but I'm not sure if a lot of text is very user-friendly either because when I have to read a lot of (rather small) text on my tv my eyes begin hurting pretty fast because I really have to stare at the text to be able to read it. If the lines of the text go across the whole screen my girlfriend tends to loose the line when she has finished one and wants to proceed to the next one because the eyes have to move all the way back to the other side of the screen and find the appropriate line. But I'm always interested in new approaches. Maybe you can increase the size a bit and still have a lot of text on the screen (if you make all the images rather small). Always read the XBMC online-manual, FAQ and search the forum before posting. Do not e-mail XBMC-Team members directly asking for support. Read/follow the forum rules. For troubleshooting and bug reporting please make sure you read this first. |
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Fraincs Wrote:Yes on a tv. All text of small text? I'd rather know now than later! One thing I do is take my PS mockup then save that as a .jpg then open that image up on my htpc. It'll give you a better feeling of how a skin would be compared to sitting 2ft away from the monitor.... Check out The Carmichael - A Skin For XBMC Check out Night - A Skin For XBMC Check out Unfinished - A Skin For XBMC |
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Excatly what I am planning to do as soon as my tv is back! Hopefully I will be able to keep the general vibe of the skin while increasing the font size.
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its very hard to read all that font from the couch if you are in front of a computer screen it would be ok this is a problem that we struggle with all the time we want more info but the font needs to be bigger to read so we end up sacrificing screen real estate to have all the info then the skin starts looking messy why dont you have two Columbus with a info bar on the right with the full info on the selected album or you could display less info and make the font bigger but when you stop on a album you can have it wait 3 or 4 seconds then zoom up on a full info screen like what i did in my nova lowlist view.
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what do you mean by two Colombus my main language is french and never heard that word in that context
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Fraincs Wrote:what do you mean by two Colombus my main language is french and never heard that word in that context i think he means columns |
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I cant read the text on my notebook screen which is 30 cm away from my eyes.. How am I supposed to read it from 3 meters away..?
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I agree, large fonts are the better option.
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