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One of the most difficult things for gringos to adjust to in Mexico is the whole "time" thing. With some exceptions (like driving), going fast is just not important here. Life is too short to spend it going fast, especially since going slow can be so much more pleasant. And sometimes going fast is just plain rude.
Take the restaurant thing, for example. In Mexico you should not expect a waiter to zip by with the check the minute you've been served. It would be considered very rude for the check to be presented before you have asked for it. Even if they are very busy and really need the table, they will wait for you. When you are ready to leave, catch your waiter's eye and ask for the bill. Even then they usually won't hurry-- it would be rude.
Service in restaurants and bars is generally fairly prompt, but not always. I'm fond of recalling one incident in which my husband and I went into a local restaurant bar in La Paz, Baja Sur that had a nice view of the ocean. We ordered Greyhounds (vodka with grapefruit juice) and some appetizers, enjoying the fact that there wasn't another single customer in the place. Well, the waiter kept plying us with appetizers ("On the house, senor!") but the drinks never came. We waited and waited and waited, and just as we were starting to get annoyed we spotted a young boy breathlessly rushing into the kitchen area carrying a bag of fresh grapefruits. Our drinks materialized almost immediately thereafter.
They didn't want to say they couldn't make the drink, you see, so they sent someone to the market to buy the ingredients. Especially for us. And then gave us free snacks to compensate for the delay. How can you beat that? We subsequently enjoyed a very pleasant couple of hours there, and returned often.
Things often work that way in Mexico, and getting angry or frustrated at the pace is counterproductive to your enjoyment of life. My suggestion is to chill out, go with the flow, don't get your knickers in a bunch. Are you really in such a big rush to get through life?
Ah, Mexico! Where going slow is an art form. Slow down, man, and enjoy the ride!
Originally published in Mexico Living Magazine Feb. 2010 (now Baja Good Life Club)


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Do you love running and Halloween? Are you ready to run 3.1 spooky miles? Here's your chance with the Ghouls on the Run Virtual Race! This great race scheduled for October 29 to October 31, and is a super way to spend part of your Halloween weekend with local runners – and the whole Gone for a Run Virtual Race community – running or walking your preferred 3.1 mile path. When you register, choose between a fun bright orange T-shirt or tank top as part of your race packet, which will also contain an authentic race bib and a glow in the dark medal (because what's cooler than a medal? A medal that glows!) Register for this creepy-crawly fun race today – space is limited.
Not sure if virtual races are for you? No worries. Since they don't really have rules, you can't do them incorrectly! Even though most of the virtual racers do run on the official days, there is nothing stopping you from running it earlier or later, as your schedule permits. You don't even have to run! Lots of people walk the races – or do a mix of both walking and running – depending on how long they have been running and what they are used to. Not only is there nobody who is going to judge you for that, as part of our Virtual Race community, we're going to encourage you to keep going, and to keep setting new goals. There's no runner who started out running marathons at full speed, and no runner who ever said, "well, that's it, I am all out of goals." The fact that you got involved, and were a part of a virtual race is an accomplishment in and of itself – that's why we give you a medal. And I may have mentioned this, but the medal glows.
As for this great race, when you sign up, you are also contributing to charity. This race, we'll be running to raise money for Friends of Jaclyn, a foundation that supports children who are struggling with pediatric cancer and their families. We're honored to be working with them and helping them do their very meaningful work.
As an added bonus for our Virtual Runners, we are offering select Halloween-themed running gear – fun pumpkin socks, a RokBAND Multi-Functional Headband, a Runner's Tutu, and a safety light band at exclusive discounted price for race participants. Just another way to say we appreciate you and want you to have the best virtual race possible. Another fun suggestion? Run the race in a Halloween costume.
Register for this great Ghouls on the Run Virtual Race today and have a Happy Halloween full of sights and scares – and a great time running the race! Don't forget to post your race recaps and photos to our Facebook page – we love hearing your unique stories and seeing you celebrate your accomplishment after you finished the race.
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The 1st XI returned to Hydeside for a game against our old friends Carshalton, the game was very competitive and very well refereed by Lee Addison. Our first goal came from a bad error by their otherwise excellent goalkeeper, they soon equalised and we won the game with ten minutes to go with an excellent team goal finished in grand style by the newly prolific Baz.
This team has really prospered this season under coach Steve and seem to have got rid of their rough edges and now proudly turned out each week in their Norsemen track suits are becoming what used to be known as good Norsemen.
The 4th XI won again 4-2 against EBOG they now only need one point to clinch their league title, a remarkable achievement at this early stage.
The 5th XI lost their top of the table game against AP 6th XI 3-7 and now appear to have blown their chances of winning the league.
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As far as the sheriff of a Georgia county is concerned, anyone who doesn't agree with him on religion should find another place to live or visit.
Mike Jolley is the sheriff of Harris County, which has a population of about 32,000. Jolley, who is apparently fed up with what he deems "political correctness" (but is actually tolerance), decided to send a message of exclusion to anyone who passes by his office. So with his own money, he posted a sign that reads:
"Welcome to Harris County, Georgia! WARNING: Harris County is politically incorrect. We say: Merry Christmas, God Bless America and In God We Trust; We salute our troops and our flag. If this offends you… LEAVE!"
That sign has, unsurprisingly, caused something of a stir locally. Jolley told WLTZ, the Atlanta NBC affiliate, that everyone has the right to free expression.
"I spent 20 years in the Army to give everyone the right not to agree with it and to voice their opinion if they're not, and that's fine," he said.
How confused can one guy get? In Jolley's case, extremely confused. If Jolley were acting in his capacity as a private citizen, he could put up such a sign without issue. But the placement of an official-looking sign outside the sheriff's office looks a lot like a government endorsement of belief over non-belief and possibly a violation of the First Amendment.
Beyond that, the sign calls Jolley's ability to do his job into question. He has sent a message of intimidation to anyone who does not believe in God – or celebrate Christmas, for that matter. This action casts doubt on his ability to treat everyone fairly.
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It's particularly troubling that someone who served in the military feels the way Jolley does. As he noted, service members fight for the preservation of free speech. But Jolley seems to feel that his speech rights are more important than the rights of a lot of other people. They aren't. And when Jolley wore his uniform, he defended the Constitution for everyone – not just those who think the way he does.
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October 6th is the conference booking deadline for the 58th General Assembly.
The conference will take place in Vancouver, Canada from October 15th to 18th 2017. The booking form is available here, presentations here and general information here.
Presentations and panelists include:
Dell, TOKIN, H.C. Starck, The US State Department, KEMET, CNMC Ningxia Orient Group, Roskill Information Services, CFSI, Pilbara Minerals, USGS and the European Commission. The conference will have simultaneous English-to-Chinese translation.
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Allegheny Technologies Incorporated (ATI)
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Panda Hill Tanzania Ltd
Pilbara Minerals Limited
Plansee SE
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Rittenhouse International Resources LLC
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Rwanda Mines, Gas & Petroleum Board
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Scandmetal International S.A.
Société Minière de Bisunzu (SMB)
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Standard Die International
Standard Resources Corporation
Stapleford Trading Ltd
Sumitomo Corporation
Taike Technology (Suzhou) Co. Ltd
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Telex Metals LLC
Thailand Smelting & Refining Co. Ltd
ThreeArc Mining LLC
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TOKIN Corporation
Trademet S.A.
Treibacher Industrie AG
U.S. Department of State
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Yanling Jincheng Tantalum & Niobium Co. Ltd
Yano Metals Co., Ltd
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The full rate is EUR 1100, although there are discounts for non-commercial organisations. The final deadline for booking is Friday October 6th 2017. Hotel rooms should be booked through the T.I.C. to benefit from an exclusive rate available for delegates.
This year's event, generously sponsored by KEMET Electronics Corp., will take the form of a Technical Symposium, with extended presentations. Among the highlights will be the Gala Dinner, held at the Vancouver Convention Center, with stunning views of the harbour and the mountains behind. The Gala Dinner is generously sponsored by Exotech, Inc. and A&R Merchants Inc., while the Welcome Cocktail is generously sponsored by Krome Commodities Ltd.
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Wednesday, June 17, 2009
Mommy and Me Summer Fun
Its almost the end of June and what do you know, SCHOOL's OUT. While this may mean you get to see your kids more (happy face), It may also mean You get to see your kids more (ugghhh). Come on, I know we love our kids and all, but let's be real, sometimes when your toddlers and teenagers are now home constantly there are endless dangers for them to get into. Then there's the issue of finding appropriate and meaningful activities to keep them occupied. We'll discuss this later but right now you want to be able to enjoy the summer with your kids, while affording them the opportunity to to have clean fun on their own.
Also bear in mind that unless you're a teacher, freelancer or Stay at home mom, your mommy and me summer fun time will be limited to weekends, so here's how to make the most of the time you have available:
1. Indoor Fun: How about getting the family together for arts and crafts. Your older kids will be sure to enjoy creative online DIY (Do it yourself) sites such as cutoutandkeep.net, www.make-stuff.com/kids, instructables.com, craftzine.com, www.diynetwork.com/diy/crafts and the list goes on. Your teenagers will also have cool fun using such sites as picnik.com, imikimi.com and mag my pic to edit photos and make cool scrapbook images (plus you get points as a COOL parent for suggesting these sites).
- Painting: Have a room you've been wanting done for the longest while? Well put the kids to use. For younger kids you can even make a cute mural for their room. Just grab material big enough for the space and have your kids make foot and hand prints with coloured paint for a wonderful look.
- Family movie night: Have a projector? Turn your space into a wonderful movie theater (If you don't I have one for rental here that you can contact me about. Hang a white blanket on a solid wall, make popcorn and drinks and you're on your way for a wonderful family moment.
- Board games- Great for indoor and out
2. Outdoor Fun: This is never exhaustive and is particularly useful with the heat of summer all around.
- Games (whether it be board games or a game of waterbombs, Baseball (The Jamaican version with homemade bats and balls), 'Sightings' (the one where you try to dodge the ball) , paint balling (You can now play at Sun Coast in the Harbour View Region) or a simple backyard game of water squirt (Get dressed in your swimsuit and just have fun with the hose) You can surely have Fun Fun and did i say FUN.
- The Beach/Watery bodies: This is a never ending fave and Jamaica has such beautiful beaches, waterfalls and rivers it should be just enough fun trying to decide if you should visit one in Kingston (Remember Lime Cay is under quarantine), St. Catherine (Hellshire, Fort Clarence and the Caymanas Bay river are faves), Numerous ones in Ocho Rios, Montego Bay and ones in the Eastern and South Coast areas are great options. For moms of younger kids you may want to use more contained areas such as pools located around the island but be sure to check with your doctor about babies, public pools and vaccinations.
- Picnic: Hope Gardens Still remains a fave, but you can explore other places such as Serenity Park and others scattered around the island
- Barbeque: Where there's food, its bound to be fun. This can be quite fun and you can have older kids help with preparations. Just grab some hamburger buns, franksfurters, lunch meat, whatever it is you want on a grill, prepare a huge pitcher of lemonade and you are all set. Oh and while you're at it, if you have a big enough space, be sure to invite your friends/kid's friends over too. To help with costs, you can have them all contribute to the Barbeque..Now that's fun.
Now there's sooo much to do and I could go on and on, but whatever you do, just try to be creative and include everyone. You may need to do separate activities if you have older and younger kids, but whatever the activity the aim is fun. Still want more ideas? Check these out
Posted by Shanoy Coombs at 1:12:00 PM
Labels: care, Family, Fun, older kids, Summer, younger kids
4 comments:
I soo love this Shan.. I'll get my 7 year old busy with the Mural. What a great project and i can stretch it over a few days too. Thanks again for posting this.
- June 17, 2009 at 1:23 PM
- Innovative fun ideas said...
These are some great ideas to look out for. Thanks for sharing such wonderful ideas. You can even go for some innovative home based ideas like you can let child let play in bath and make iceberg for them, make paddling pools for them, make sand-pits... Children will love all these.
- June 24, 2009 at 11:31 PM
- Paula @ Organizing Tips For Moms said...
I love movie nights after a busy day!
- July 2, 2009 at 3:43 PM
- Shanoy Coombs said...
Thanks for the feedback guys. I love the ideas at Innovative Fun ideas as well :-)
- July 3, 2009 at 10:36 AM
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Annual River Cleanup
A perfect day for our 31st Annual River Cleanup
Thanks to beautiful weather and strong community support, OARS' 31st Annual River Cleanup was a huge success! More than 150 amazing volunteers came out to haul tires, bicycles, TVs, rugs, furniture - even the kitchen sink from the Assabet, Sudbury, and Concord Rivers.
Their hard work was followed by pizza celebrations along the rivers, thanks to the generosity of pizza parlors throughout the watersheds.
Please join us next September for what has become a regional tradition. Individuals and teams from local businesses, civic association, scout troops, and high schools spend a Saturday morning cleaning up our rivers and their tributaries. A team of people at one site working for three hours can make a real, visible difference for the rivers and their community.
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This recipe yields about the same as 2 cans cream of chicken soup whisked with one can of milk which is what I used BEFORE finding this great recipe! I usually '5x' this for saucy meals.
2 Tbsp melted butter (or red palm oil...it's even better!)
3 Tbsp. freshly ground whole wheat pastry flour
1/2 cup chicken broth (I use 1/2 cup water and 2 tsp. Frontier Naturals chicken-flavored broth powder)
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For celery, omit chicken broth, use one cup milk and add 1 cup sauteed celery.
For beef dishes, use beef broth powder instead.
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Mayer Wins Dismissal Despite Confession, Feb. 13, 2012
The Mayer Law client who confessed to shooting two people at the Coastal Carolina Fair in November of 2010 was released from jail today after Mayer Law won dismissal of the charges against him. RaShawn Dantzler hired Mayer Law, after sitting in jail for a year, in Novmber 2011.
The Post & Courier wrote: "The man accused of shooting two people at the Coastal Carolina Fair Saturday night told investigators he did it because one of the victims teased him and threatened to slap him, according to Charleston County sheriff's affidavits released Monday." (Read the Full P&C Article) Despite that confession, Mayer Law won the case.*
Three months later, after Mayer Law's independent investigation and on the eve of a jury trial, Mayer Law succeeded in getting the charges against Mr. Dantzler dismissed in their entirety.* A few of the originally reported stories related to this incident are available at:
* Successful resolution of past cases in no way suggests that any future cases may be resolved with equal success. Each case is different and lawyers cannot guarantee results.


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As part of FX's panel at the Television Critics Association summer press tour, the network confirmed Wednesday the second season of Donald Glover's Atlanta has been written.
Additionally, the series will begin production when Glover finishes shooting the upcoming Han Solo movie, which is expected to be next month. He said in a BBC Radio 1 interview he thinks the new season is "better than the first."
In a separate interview with the Hollywood Reporter, Glover also explained his intention of doing something different with the new episodes. "I don't want to go into season 2 [with the mindset of], 'Enough people liked it so just keep those people,' because then you begin to give your audience a methadone drip of bullshit that keeps them happy as opposed to, 'We did something controversial and more people were interested.'"
As we previously reported, while Atlanta debuted last summer to high viewership and critical acclaim, the second season was delayed because of Glover's busy schedule.


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Your Chicago Sun-Times asks the musical question, "Why is GOP sneering at Obama's work as community organizer?":
Republicans insist that people should pull themselves up by their own bootstraps. Communities should take care of their own and not depend on big government to do the job. And the folks who do make it should give back.And that, gentle reader, is why the GOP fears and loathes community organizing.
We agree wholeheartedly.
But on what is the job of community organizer premised, if not those very principles?
Community organizers come into poor neighborhoods and try to get people knocked down by life back up on their feet.
They tell them where to find jobs, where to send their kids for day care, where to get drug counseling.
They show residents how they can organize to protest poor housing conditions, low pay and other inner-city woes.
When the job is done right, a community organizer helps the most powerless among us gain some small sense of power over their lives.
They see power as a zero sum game and know that when common folks gain power over themselves, their communities and their lives, a dangerous little crack forms in the ruling class's power monopoly.
That is what this election is all about.


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Space Exploration: Private Sector Investment vs Public Sector Investment
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is preferable to public sector Investment. Public sector investment first is critical to defense,
second, private spending is unsafe and efficient and finally public sector investment is critical to
the health of the economy.
First, public sector investment into human space exploration is critical to US defense and
international position. As a NASA press release from October 6th, 2011 indicates, NASA
investment into human space exploration often produces a large number of spin technologies
that can be applied to the military. All modern military rocketry technologies used in nuclear
missiles and conventional weapons were developed by NASA, and outsourced to the military.
Aviation Week states on March 5th, 2006 that modern military technology development will
lie in space technology in the future, and NASA is critical to that process; the development of
military technology would most likely halt if the military was to be refused help from NASA
in setting up inter space jets, or satellites that can strike down any unidentified, moving objects
from space. Without public sector investment in NASA, the United States would be weakened
in military technologies and could easily be defeated by major enemies in a conventional war. In
addition, private companies, who often have contracts with NASA, would be broken from their
contracts and would release valuable high end military technology to China, India, Russia or Iran
in exchange for money. This leaking of valuable US defense technology and the destruction of
our own technological progress would destroy our dominant international position built through
military superiority and make the US a second class country that can easily be threatened.
Second, privatization would result in great safety risks and inefficiencies. As both MIT and
NASA Chief Ron Dittemore have said, "an overemphasis on profit can bias decisions, resulting
in Program weakness with reduction of critical skills and erosion of checks and Balances."A
profit motive will force companies to cut as many costs as possible in order to boost profits.
Unfortunately such costs often include the safety measures that can be the difference between
life and death if something goes wrong. The risks to everyone involved are also enhanced by
the sudden need for inter-agency and even inter-business communication and cooperation. For
example, if a private company faces a severe problem in space, it cannot obtain cooperation from
a competing company who may have a solution since that competing company does not have a
profit motive to help that company; this may pose dangers to astronauts within space.
Third, public sector investment ensures local job growth and protects domestic jobs. Each year,
as stated by the Guardian on October 10th, 2011, NASA uses its 19 Billion dollars to employ
thousands of domestic technical experts and local engineers. A private company, however,
would outsource jobs to different countries, and not hire local engineers. Tens of thousands of
jobs relating to NASA would be lost as a result, as companies can simply hire equally capable
foreign engineers. Also, reducing government spending by cutting NASA would hurt the US
economy. As John Maynard Keynes also states in his General Theory of Unemployment,
reducing public spending in a recession is one of the worst things a government can do, as it will
reduce aggregate demand and cause a cyclical process of job loss, and reduced investment in
the economy. Removing 19 Billion dollars of essential spending in this economy would not be a
wise decision. In addition, private companies such as Lockheed Martin, Boeing, Virgin Galactic
and Space X often depend on public investment and subsidies to survive. For example, Space X
constructed the Falcon Rocket and Design model for an estimated 1.9 Billion. Without public
contracts, according to MIT and Space Review, many of these companies that depend on public
space investment would go bankrupt; the estimated job losses with a privatization of a space
program would lie in the ballpark of 1 million.
My partner and I negate the resolution for the following reasons: public sector investment
is critical to our defense, private investment is naturally inefficient and unsafe, and space
investment is critical to our economy.
==Topic interpretation==
The resolution uses the word "preferable." Random House defines "preferable" as "more desirable." [1] The easiest way to determine our preferences is to offer us a choice. Example: which do you prefer, an apple or an orange? You immediately imagine I have an apple in one hand and an orange in the other and you are being asked to choose the one you like better.
So imagine the following scenario: you have $10 million to invest in space technologies. Do you think that money would go to better uses if: 1) you invested the money directly in a company you liked, 2) you invested your money with a VC firm, or 3) you donated your money to the government? If you answered 1 or 2, then you prefer private investment in space technologies.
Fundamentally, when you invest your own money, you have a self-interest in making a good investment or you lose your money! The government has no such incentive since it is never held accountable for losing taxpayer money. The government invested in Solyndra, a company that makes solar panels for the International Space Station. Although the government had a report that said Solyndra would go bankrupt within a year, they still gave them half a billion dollars. The reason: a former Solyndra board member was working for the Energy Department and was aggressively pushing for the money.
R1) Critical to defense
My opponent argues that NASA technology is critical to discovering new U.S. defense technologies.
The first problem with this argument is it assumes that if you vote Con, NASA funding ceases to exist. If I ask you: which do you prefer – apples or oranges – and you answer oranges, do apples cease to exist? I'm not arguing we de-fund NASA; I am merely arguing that private financing is a preferable option, if you are given a choice.
The second problem is that NASA DID NOT develop the Air Force's rockets. My opponent never provides a source for this. The Air Force uses the Delta IV rocket, which was developed by Boeing, a private company. In fact, the Augustine Commission did a study of NASA's Constellation Program, which was developing the Ares I rocket in order to replace the space shuttle program. The Augustine Commission concluded that NASA was unable to develop its own rocket and recommended that NASA model its space shuttle replacement on the Delta IV. [2] Today, the flow of expertise is from the Air Force and the private sector to NASA, not the other way around.
The third problem: I don't doubt that my opponent's Aviation Week evidence says "space technology is critical to defense," but I DO doubt that it said "and NASA is critical to this process." Today, the military develops and maintains its own space technologies, including spy satellites, launch vehicles, and a prototype for a plane that can enter space (codenamed Blackstar). The ability to "shoot down satellites" most definitely did not come from NASA.
The fourth problem: national defense spending is not "space exploration."
The fifth problem: my opponent says if we break the contracts, companies would release technology to Russia, China, etc, but 1) we're not abolishing NASA here; 2) NASA doesn't have top secret defense contracts, and 3) defense contracts include non-disclosure agreements. It's treason for a private company to disclose top secret weapons designs to other countries, even if their contract has expired.
R2) Safety
My opponent argues that NASA is inherently safe and the private sector is inherently unsafe.
The first problem with this argument is that the private sector actually has more motivation to keep people safe than the government does. If a private company routinely puts out an unsafe product, it will constantly be sued by customers injured by said product. However, the government has immunity from lawsuits. Private companies have accountability but the government does not. The U.S. government could not be sued for the 1986 Challenger disaster OR the 2003 Columbia disaster, even though both events resulted in the death of the entire crew of astronauts.
The second problem is that the topic is not U.S. specific. Does anyone believe that U.S. private companies, like SpaceX, are less safe than Russia or Georgia (the country's) space program? This year, Russia's spaceship crashed during a routine resupply mission to the International Space Station. [3] Russia has permanently downed ALL space missions until it can identify what caused the crash. [4] In contrast, Space X, a private company, recently ran a successful flight of their Falcon 9 rocket and Dragon capsule. [5] SpaceX flew all the way to the International Space Station and landed successfully.
In fact, this means SpaceX has the ONLY spaceflight capability in the world. NASA's space shuttle was recently decommissioned. NASA's Constellation program, which was developing a replacement for the space shuttle, was cancelled by the Obama Administration after the Augustine Commission reported that the project was seriously behind schedule and overbudget. And now Russia, with the only remaining space capability, has had to down their space program after an unknown problem caused their spacecraft to explode.
The third problem is that my opponent claims private companies would not help each other if one of them was stranded in space. This is just empirically not true. The fishermen on "The Most Dangerous Catch" have gone to GREAT lengths to rescue fellow fishermen, even though they are competing against these rival private fishing vessels. People empathize when their fellow workmen are in distress.
R3) NASA creates jobs
My opponent argues that NASA's budget is key to job creation.
The first problem with this argument is that I am NOT advocating we eliminate NASA.
The second problem with this argument is that NASA does not generate NEW jobs. The largely Republican House Budgetary Committee has shot down the last three proposals for new projects that NASA proposed. In contrast, the private sector DOES generate NEW jobs.
The third problem is that MOST of NASA's budget does NOT go to "engineers," but rather to bureaucracy and equipment costs. According to NASA's own budget breakdown, $3 billion goes to "cross-agency support," i.e. bureaucracy; of their $6 billion "space operations" budget, $3.1 billion of it goes to decommissioning the Space Shuttle and $2.3 billion of it goes to maintaining the International Space Station; of their nearly $5 billion "science" budget, most of it goes to maintaining various telescopes. [6]
Fourth: technically, there is more private sector money to be spent directly on jobs. A study of Aviation Week in 2001 found that $10 billion in venture capital was available each year in the space industry. In contrast, NASA's 2010 budget allocates only $39 million for grants to commercial spaceflight.
In addition, money spent in the private sector has a higher rate of return. NASA did a study which found that its R&D spending had a rate of return of 10:1, whereas studies of the private sector find a return of 23:1. [7]
Fifth: this argument ignores opportunity cost. We could generate far more money and jobs in this country if we took money out of NASA and invested it in the nation's crumbling infrastructure or in education. Not all jobs are "good jobs." Spending $3 billion a year for NASA to hire hundreds of bureaucrats to "communicate between agencies" is clearly a waste.
Sixth: my opponent mentions that the Falcon 9 cost $1.9 billion to develop. That's funny because a NASA study found it would have cost twice as much if NASA had tried to develop the Falcon 9 on its own. [8] Since currently, all but $39 million of NASA's $18 billion budget goes to "itself," that's a lot of government money being spent inefficiently. 99.9% of what NASA does is invest in itself, i.e. investing in an agency with heaps of bureaucracy, that only does OLD projects, and that can't manage to do anything without going vastly overtime and overbudget.
The economy doesn't need old jobs, it needs job GROWTH, which means NEW jobs. Since discretionary spending has been frozen, the House refuses to fund NEW projects, and the House FROZE NASA's exploration budget, the only people who can fund NEW projects are private investors. Only a vote Aff is an investment in our nation's FUTURE.
[1] http://www.definitions.net...
[2] http://www.nasa.gov...
[3] http://www.space.com...
[4] http://spaceports.blogspot.com...
[5] http://www.universetoday.com...
[6] http://www.nasa.gov...
[7] http://www.fas.org...
[8] http://blogs.scientificamerican.com...
I would like to start by making a few points here. First I'd like to point out that my opponent did not make a case/contentions so he hasn't really explained why private sector investment is better.
Next, I'd like to go over a few of his rebuttals:
He says that defense is not related to the resolution at all, but this is simply not true. Research that NASA has conducted in space and the technology it develops is used in military applications, so space exploration is related to defense. We are looking at which is preferable so which investment effects a countries well being is important.
He agrees that losing NASA would hurt the U.S. defense, but he says we wouldn't defund NASA, we would just use private funds. This does not make much sense. Is he suggesting that private companies would fund NASA? Private sector would invest into their own companies investments and they would seek to make a profit. NASA would then be eliminated, which would hurt our defense.
Next, to the private companies selling technology to other countries. If NASA were to be eliminated, they would sell this technology to other if they got a good share of money, because private companies mainly care about profit. Private companies have no allegiance to any country so it is not treason to the U.S.
On the next point about safety, he says that Private companies are safer. But again read my quote, As both MIT and
NASA Chief Ron Dittemore have said, "an overemphasis on profit can bias decisions, resulting
in Program weakness with reduction of critical skills and erosion of checks and Balances." I think that my opponent can agree that the main general goal of a private company is to make a profit. It has been shown throughout history that private companies are notorious of cutting corners. Take for example BP and the deep horizon oil spill. They cut corners, did not go through proper safety procedures, and a disaster occurred.
My opponent says the topic is not U.S. specific. I guess he is pointing this out for my 1st and third contention. What we must look at in this resolution is what each individual country wants and is preferable to them. Each individual country wants a good job economy and good defense. There is no world economy or world government, so it is not plausible to think this way.
Next, we we talk about jobs. He says we would gain more jobs. But again, we must look at how privatizing would affect America. NASA would hire domestic employees and have jobs kept here. Because Private companies care more about profit they would hire cheaper overseas engineers and employees. This is definetly not good for America. My opponent claims jobs would be created with privitization. But again according the MIT and Space review, there would be a ball park of 1 million jobs lost with privitization. This outweighs whatever his figures are.
Lastly, and MOST IMPORTANTLY, we need to talk about funding. In the resolution we are comparing private sector investment and public sector investment. I am defining investment as putting capital/money into a program. Most Private space companies are being funded by NASA such as Space X. According to MIT and Space Review, 99 percent of space companies funds are coming from NASA. Because NASA is funding mainly all projects of private companies, no matter how successful they are, this is PUBLIC SECTOR investment.
==My "lack of a case"==
My opponent claims I "lack a case" and therefore lose. What he doesn't realize is that I gave my case for private sector investment during my rebuttal to his case, or in debate lingo: "I turned the sh!t out of his case."
Here are the reasons I enumerated (in the previous round) to prefer private investment:
1) Today, expertise flows FROM the private sector TO NASA, not the other way around. The Augustine Commission told NASA to abandon its own plans and instead model its next-gen spacecraft on Boeing's Delta IV rocket.
2) The public sector is less safe and less accountable. NASA blew up two crews of astronauts recently and couldn't even be sued. The Russian spacecraft blew up a few months ago with no discernable explanation. In contrast, SpaceX completed a successful space flight to the International Space Station.
3) From 2: since the cancellation of NASA's shuttle-replacement program and the "indefinite downing" of Russia's space program, SpaceX, a private company, has the ONLY human spaceflight capability on Earth.
4) NASA has no new money; the private sector does. The House Budgetary Commission has slammed NASA time and time again and has frozen their "space exploration" budget. If we want new money and new jobs, we need to look to the private sector.
5) NASA spends on useless cr@p. Around one fourth of their budget goes to bureaucracy. That's why their return on investment is 10:1 compared to 23:1 in the private sector. A dollar spent in the private sector goes 2.3 times as far.
6) Opportunity cost. We have better things to spend public monies on.
7) NASA takes twice as long and twice as much money to accomplish the same things as the private sector (see the Falcon 9 study).
8) NASA spends jack on the private sector. The private sector can mobilize $10 billion a year for space, whereas NASA spends around $40 million a year on commercial space ventures.
9) When the government apportions money, it does so wastefully, often due to emphasizing lobbying considerations over smart investing (see Solyndra). If you had $10 million, would you rather invest it yourself (private investment) or give it to the government to invest?
All 9 of these are reasons to prefer private investment.
R1) Military technology
My opponent still maintains that NASA is critical to developing defense technologies. He cites two sources in this round. The first merely lists a bunch of NASA discoveries from the 60's; it DOES NOT explain how these apply to the military. The second source mentions NASA only ONCE and says that NASA benefited from military research into spy satellite technology, NOT the other way around. Better spy satellite technology from the Air Force helped NASA develop better monitoring equipment to watch the Earth. This proves MY point, which is unrefuted, that today the Air Force does its own research into spy satellites and ultra-fast space jets. It does not need NASA R&D. In fact, NASA has no money for new projects. I challenge my opponent to name a new area of NASA R&D spending that would somehow be beneficial to defense.
My opponent still argues "NASA would be eliminated." This doesn't make sense. He never answers my argument that if you are asked "do you prefer apples or oranges," if you pick oranges, you are not forced to defend a world where apples cease to exist. I don't necessarily have to defend that NASA disappears. But even if it did, NASA does NOT have ANY defense contracts. I linked my opponent to NASA's budget last round. He must show me where in their budget the defense contracts are.
Lastly, my opponent asserts its not treason for a U.S. defense contractor to divulge US military secrets to another nation. Yes it is. Being a "private individual" does not exempt you from treason charges. If it were not treason, private defense contractors would sell U.S. secrets all the time to make more money. But they don't.
For example, part of Lockheed Martin's deal with the government is that they can make the F-35 next-gen fighter for us, but they cannot divulge the designs or even SELL the F-35 to any other country without U.S. government permission. [1]
R2) Safety
My opponent still maintains that private companies are unsafe, even though they can get sued but the government cannot. The profit motive creates INCENTIVES for safety. You can't exactly turn a profit if your product routinely kills your customers.
My opponent provided a quote saying "an OVEREMPHASIS" on profits is bad. Companies that overemphasize profits, to the exclusions of all else, stifle creativity. You'll never see Google pressure its employees to eke out more profits. Few private companies that are dependent on innovation OVERemphasize profits. They emphasize them a normal amount. My opponent never provides evidence that space companies overemphasize profits to such an extent that it forces them to cut corners.
My opponent brings up BP, which is ironically evidence of government subsidies pushing drilling companies into unsafely deep water. 70% of the rent on Deepwater Horizon was subsidized. Without U.S. government subsidy, BP could not have afforded to drill that far out. In addition, this is also a massive government failure, considering that the regulatory agency that inspected Deepwater Horizon (the MMS) rated the rig as "perfectly safe" in spite of multiple safety violations that ultimately led to the explosion. This was due to regulatory capture of the MMS, i.e. bribes and lobbying. This is hardly a model of responsible government. And isn't that what my opponent was arguing for?
Also, it's telling that my opponent cannot find an example of corner-cutting in the space industry.
My opponent doesn't respond to the multiple US crashes or the recent Russian crash, nor does he respond to the recent successful SpaceX flight.
R3) Jobs
My opponent claims to offer evidence here that we'd lose 1 million jobs if we privatized NASA. He never provides the actual sources for this. Also, this makes no sense. NASA employs only 18,000 people. [2]
Also, if we spent $18 billion more on education, we could easily hire MORE than 18,000 people. For the price of NASA's budget, we could hire 18,000 teachers and pay them each ONE MILLION DOLLARS per year. NASA is hardly prioritizing jobs in the way it spends. Remember how I already showed how 25% of its budget goes to bureaucracy and another 50% goes to maintaining old equipment?
My opponent also claims private companies would outsource engineering jobs. However, not all engineering jobs are the same. We can easily outsource computer engineering. But a recent article in Time Magazine pointed out that some of our largest employment gains this year came from aerospace engineering in the private sector (mostly commercial jets). Apparently the US has the best aerospace engineers, so companies don't outsource those jobs.
Also, we need NEW jobs, not old jobs, to get rid of our 9% unemployment rate. If NASA has no NEW money to spend, it's not exactly hiring NEW people. Only the private sector has new capital to spend. You want jobs, vote for the private sector. My opponent never contests that the private sector mobilizes $10 billion a year in the space industry.
R4) Funding
My opponent cites two sources to show that 99 percent of private sector funding comes from NASA. However, he doesn't REALLY say what his sources are. Can I get an author's name, publication date, article title, url, etc?
I provided evidence from NASA's own budget that NASA only spends $39 million a year on private space ventures, whereas private sector investment in space numbers at least $10 billion a year. My opponent never really explains how the $1.9 billion Falcon 9 program "couldn't survive" without NASA's paltry million dollar contributions.
[1] Christopher Preble, The Power Problem
[2] http://www.nasa.gov...
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You need to provide more evidence before you make bold claims like that
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