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Mind Over Miller: Cracking the code: Who's taking care of our pets?
And what if one owns a guard dog? Can one be a "guardian" of a guard dog? Who guards whom? And whatever happened to the term watchdog? Does a watchdog need a guardian?
How about disabled pets? Are we owners or guardians or parents to them? Or are we caretakers? Assistants? Nurses? Which is it?
But wait! According to the dictionary, a parent is a father or mother, or it is someone who has begotten or borne a child. Can one, therefore, parent a pet? Isn't that against the law? In fact, isn't that physiologically improbable? If it were possible, wouldn't the offspring be known as a hybrid, rather than a pet?
All of this confuses me, especially since my pets own me. It used to be clear to me—it was back in 1927 when I was born, and it was still clear in 1956 when I became a veterinarian. But now I don't know.
These changes in terminology have legal implications, too. For example, if the owner/guardian/parent of a dog bites somebody, that owner/guardian/parent is legally responsible. So if a child bites a stranger, is the child's parent similarly liable? What if a child bites someone else's dog? Who's responsible for the veterinary bill? The parent? Which parent?
And here's another problem: If we are now parents to our pets, whose name goes on the registration papers—the sire's, the dam's, or the owner's? Excuse me, I mean the parent's. No wait, the guardian's.
You see, all of this was created to separate ownership of things from ownership of living things. So we can own a house, a car, a motorcycle, or an endoscope, but henceforth we can't own a dog or a cat. We can parent them or guard them, but no longer can we own them. And what about horses, goats, or hamsters? What about cattle or chickens? How about goldfish? They're all living things, too. I guess you could even ask about rosebushes or elm trees. But now you're just being silly.
Robert M. Miller, DVM, is an author and a cartoonist, speaker and Veterinary Medicine Practitioner Advisory Board member. His thoughts in "Mind Over Miller" are drawn from 32 years as a mixed-animal practitioner. Visit his website at http://robertmmiller.com/.


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How to save time and money at theme parks
Sharon Harvey Rosenberg and Myscha Theriault | McClatchy-Tribune News Service Even without a watch, it's easy to tell time at Disney World. The character parade marches down Main Street in the early afternoon and the temper tantrums typically arrive by twilight when too much fun leads to expensive meltdowns. This time clock has been tested for accuracy during several family trips to the Magic Kingdom and other theme parks. By respecting our inner clocks, we have learned to get the most from our theme park dollars. Here's our strategy for finding thrills and saving money in theme parks.
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How would you like to ice skate on crystal clear lake water ice? Due to the freezing temperatures in 2013, Vann Lake in Condon Montana froze with such perfection it is a beauty to see and a pleasure to skate.
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42 U.S. Code § 285a–9 - Grants for education, prevention, and early detection of radiogenic cancers and diseases
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In this section the term "entity" means any—
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The Secretary, acting through the Administrator of the Health Resources and Services Administration in consultation with the Director of the National Institutes of Health and the Director of the Indian Health Service, may make competitive grants to any entity for the purpose of carrying out programs to—
(1) screen individuals described under section 4(a)(1)(A)(i) or 5(a)(1)(A) of the Radiation Exposure Compensation Act (42 U.S.C. 2210 note) for cancer as a preventative health measure;
(2) provide appropriate referrals for medical treatment of individuals screened under paragraph (1) and to ensure, to the extent practicable, the provision of appropriate follow-up services;
(3) develop and disseminate public information and education programs for the detection, prevention, and treatment of radiogenic cancers and diseases; and
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The programs under subsection (a) of this section shall include programs provided through the Indian Health Service or through tribal contracts, compacts, grants, or cooperative agreements with the Indian Health Service and which are determined appropriate to raising the health status of Indians.
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Entities receiving a grant under subsection (b) of this section may expend the grant to carry out the purpose described in such subsection.
Source(July 1, 1944, ch. 373, title IV, § 417C, as added Pub. L. 106–245, § 4,July 10, 2000, 114 Stat. 508; amended Pub. L. 109–482, title I, §§ 103(b)(16), 104 (b)(1)(F),Jan. 15, 2007, 120 Stat. 3687, 3693.)
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Subsec. (g). Pub. L. 109–482, § 103(b)(16), struck out heading and text of subsec. (g). Text read as follows: "There are authorized to be appropriated for the purpose of carrying out this section $20,000,000 for fiscal year 1999 and such sums as may be necessary for each of the fiscal years 2000 through 2009."
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When it opens early next year, the Gansevoort Las Vegas will bring something decidedly different to the Strip: a small, upscale boutique hotel. With less than 200 rooms, the new, low-rise resort will likely appeal to visitors who groan at the long lines and the extensive walking that are common at neighboring mega-properties.
Gansevoort, a small chain with a couple of hotels in Manhattan, on Monday announced that it will take over the recently-shuttered Bill's Gamblin' Hall & Saloon. With an ideal location at the corner of Las Vegas Boulevard and Flamingo Road, the new resort will be located just across the Strip from Caesars Palace and also close to the Bellagio.
Gansevoort is expected to pump $185 million into renovating the aging property. When completed, the resort will, according to a news release, feature "188 Parisian, apartment-style guest rooms including 19 suites." There will also be a restaurant overlooking the Strip.
The property will also see the return of Victor Drai, who for 15 years operated a popular after-hours club at the hotel. The Gansevoort Las Vegas will feature Drai's Beach Club and Nightclub, a 65,000-square-foot venue that will include a rooftop swimming pool.


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Hi there,
Have been having a bit of a read on your forums and find them to be an invaluable source of security related info.
Sorry to bust straight in and ask a question, but you look like the people to ask, so here goes -
(have some background first though)
I am currently in the position of managing a small business network, 4 x workstations (2 x xp, 1 x 98se 1 x me) & 1 x server (win2000). The server is used (mainly) for a stock tracking system based on symbol ppcs (taaaaaaasty!!) and related database. The computer used as an internet gateway has an always on 1 meg asdl connection.
Not having set up the network infastructure myself, and not being able to rip it all out and start again (24 hour site operation ... waaah) I am stuck using what my predecessor set up.
So, I thinks to myself, ok, the bloke must have known what he was doing to some degree, so I shall inspect how secure the system is.
So, I find NO antivirus software, at all, whatsoever, and the only firewall was windows firewall (set to allow everything) . . . ok. . . . the computers were set up in 2004. It's now 2006 . . .waaahaa panic. !!!
So, after a few weeks of asking, I get symantec client security 2.0 and install my head off.
I found one virus called Download. trojan in a file called counter.exe and counter.cab, and deleted them after quaranteen. There was an obscene amount of spyware found as well . . .
... so onto my main point.
Which violation events do I NEED to worry about ?
When I check the logs (specificly the 'intruder detection violation events'), as from the date of the installation , I keep getting what is reported as an http_activeperl_overflow intrusion from a certain ip range, which I have traced back to a company called Level 3 Communications, Inc.
in nevada.
The intrusion attempts started on the 03.05.05 and increment by one intrusion extra atempt, daily, untill the 06.05.05 when i reported the repeated events to the abuse handler @ lvl 3.
The atempts have since ceased.
However, when attempting to send an abuse report email to a company called Akamai Technologies, their abuse mail addy bounced, and I had to send it to their tech inq addy. I recieved an email from them requesting that I read their faq as it is a perfectly normal piece of network traffic.
If it is a perfectly normal traffic why does my firewall list it as an intrusion attempt 'redundant_slashes_in_URI' ?
Am I being too paranoid ...? (personaly i dont think there's a state of 'too paranoid'.. ; ) )
Any input that anyone has on any of the above mentioned things would be greatly apreciated.


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LONDON (AP) — Fans of "Downton Abbey," rejoice! There will be another season yet of period romance and upstairs-downstairs drama at the country estate.
ITV announced Sunday that it has commissioned a fifth season of the popular television show, a costume drama about a British aristocratic family and their servants in the 1910s and 1920s. As before, the new series will be written by Julian Fellowes.
ITV said the fourth season's holiday special, shown in Britain on Christmas Day, will feature Paul Giamatti, who joins the cast as Cora's playboy brother, Harold, and Shirley MacLaine, who will reprise her role as Cora's mother Martha Levinson.
The show, which debuted in 2010, has won millions of fans in Britain, the U.S. and beyond.


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Hybrid alfalfa arrives
by Jodie Wehrspann
New hybrid seed boosts alfalfa yields
Hybrid alfalfa has several advantages over conventional alfalfa. The first is higher yield. A second advantage is that plants are stronger than conventional alfalfa plants and can take more abuse, which provides growers more flexibility in their harvest. - Tom Strachota, Dairyland Seed
After 24 years in development, hybrid alfalfa has finally hit the market. Dairyland Seed has released limited quantities of its HybriForce-400 hybrid alfalfa for the 2001 growing season, with broader availability in 2002.
"We're here to tell you that good things take time," says Tom Strachota, chief executive officer of Dairyland Seed. "Anything worthwhile takes time and effort. And we think this is very worthwhile."
Bigger and better According to Strachota, hybrid alfalfa has several advantages over conventional alfalfa. The first is higher yield. In university trials conducted over three years in six locations in four Midwest states, hybrid alfalfa produced 8% higher yields than conventional varieties. In on-farm test plots across the Midwest, the difference was as high as 15%.
A second advantage is that plants are stronger than conventional alfalfa plants and can take more abuse, which provides growers more flexibility in their harvest. "So, if it looks like rain tomorrow or if you want to go fishing, you can harvest the product today — perhaps a little earlier than you otherwise would — and have less risk of stand loss than if you were to harvest a non-hybrid product that early," Strachota says.
Because the plants are more resilient, they also green up faster in the spring and regrow faster in the summer after being cut, he adds. Faster regrowth allows photosynthesis to kick in sooner to give growers a longer growing season.
Years in the making To achieve hybrid alfalfa, Dairyland Seed had to find a way to control pollen flow. Unlike corn, in which you can control pollination by pulling a tassel to separate the male and female parts of the plant, alfalfa has its male and female parts right next to each other in the same pin-sized floret, making them difficult to separate. As a result, conventional alfalfa is pollinated randomly by bees, which can lead to inbreeding and lower yields.
Rather than trying to control the flow of pollen physically, Dairyland addressed the problem genetically through a breeding process called msSunstra, which the company has now patented. With this process, Dairyland uses a special female or male-sterile plant with no pollen in its sacs and a special male or "maintainer" plant. These plants allow the company to maintain the crop's sterility and prevent inbreeding as it increases seed supply. In this way, the company can economically produce a hybrid with higher yields.
Other varieties coming Dairyland will license the technology to other companies. Growers can expect these companies to introduce other hybrid alfalfa varieties for the 2002 growing season, Strachota says.
The retail price of HybriForce-400 is $270/bag versus $227/bag for the company's premium brand of conventional alfalfa. However, Strachota says growers should reclaim the additional cost after the first year of planting through higher yields, assuming normal growing conditions.
Contact Dairyland Seed Co., Dept. FIN, Box 958, West Bend, WI 53095, 800/236-0163.Control soybean fungi
The EPA has approved new labels for use of Quadris on soybeans. It can be used in-furrow or banded to control soilborne diseases in soybeans.
The maker of the fungicide, Syngenta, has labeled it for foliar application at a rate of 6.2 to 15.4 oz./acre on soybeans to control aerial blight, and 12.3 to 15.4 oz./acre to control anthracnose, Alternaria leaf spot, brown spot, Cercospora blight and leaf spot, pod and stem blight, and southern blight. The higher rates should be used under conditions favorable for severe disease pressure, dense plant canopies or when susceptible varieties are planted. No more than two applications of Quadris should be made per growing season.
The company also announces a new formulation of Gramoxone. Gramoxone Max allows growers to treat the same number of acres with fewer containers. It contains 3 lbs./gal. of active ingredient, whereas the previous formula contained 2½ lbs./gal. Contact Syngenta Crop Protection Inc., Dept. FIN, Box 18300, Greensboro, NC 27409, 800/334-9481, www.syngenta.com.Updated pesticide guide
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World farm commodity prices will keep rising in the next decade, and oilseeds are set to outperform wheat and other cereals, both trends fueled by strong demand in emerging economies, the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD) said on Wednesday in a joint report with the UN's food agency.
High income growth in developing countries will boost global demand for food and fuel, while stocks and output growth will struggle to keep up, the OECD and the Food and Agriculture Organization said.
"Nominal prices are expected to trend upwards over the next 10 years. Prices in real terms (adjusted for inflation) will remain flat or decline from current levels but are projected to average 10 to 30 percent above those of the previous decade," the report said.
Record high food prices in February last year helped fuel the Arab Spring uprisings in the Middle East and North Africa, but prices receded in the second half of 2011.
Food prices measured by FAO have fallen in the past three months but are expected to rebound in July following relentless dry weather that has affected U.S. corn and soybean crops.
The risk of price spikes such as those seen in soybeans and corn over recent weeks will increase in coming years, the report found.
"We expect prices will remain volatile as demand grows but stock levels fail to rise as much as in the past - that way any shortfalls will tend to have a higher impact on markets," Merritt Cluff, FAO senior economist, said in a telephone interview.
Weather-related yield variability and slower growth in production will also encourage volatility, FAO and OECD said in the Agricultural Outlook 2012-2021 report.
Agricultural output growth is expected to slow to 1.7 percent per year over the next decade from more than 2 percent over the past several decades.
Cluff said key sectors of growth in the next 10 years would be the livestock feed and vegetable oils markets as more people in developing countries consume meat and processed foods such as cookies and chocolate bars.
The trend will boost demand for oilseeds, while demand for wheat and other cereals is expected to be weaker.
"Higher income growth and urbanisation in emerging economies increases the tendency to buy value-added food products and get protein from meat, poultry and processed foods," he said. "Protein from cereals will not see such demand in future."
Prices for oilseeds are projected to increase in nominal terms by 9 percent over the decade, more than the rise anticipated for coarse grains and wheat, the report said.
High crude oil prices and biofuel mandates will also underpin oilseeds and vegetable oil prices. About 16 percent of global vegetable oil production should be used to produce biodiesel by 2021.
Meanwhile, ethanol production is set to absorb 14 percent of global coarse grain production and 34 percent of sugarcane production by that date, the report said.
Sugar prices will stay at high levels, underpinned by low stocks, and further bouts of price surges and volatility are possible in response to unforeseen production shocks.
Meat prices are also set to remain on a high plateau during the next decade under persistently high production costs and more stringent food safety, environmental and animal welfare regulations, the report said.
FAO and OECD said farms should aim to boost productivity in a sustainable way to help contain food price rises and reduce the insecurity of global food supplies.
It said this could be achieved through more efficient use of irrigated water, fertilisers and crop protection products, investing in agricultural research and innovation and introducing policies that encourage these changes.


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23 years after ANH; Episode 6 of the Young Jedi Knights series
Jacen and Jaina
When the Empire died, they were born—a new hope for a New Republic. The young twins of Han Solo and Princess Leia are now fourteen, and enrolled at Luke Skywalker's Jedi academy on Yavin 4. Together with friends both old and new, the future heroes of an already legendary saga begin their training.
The day of reckoning is at hand for the young Jedi Knights. The Shadow Academy—with its army of Dark Jedi and Imperial stormtroopers—has appeared in the sky over Yavin 4. And when a commando raid destroys the shield generator protecting the Jedi academy, there is only one option: to fight.
Now Jacen and Jaina, along with Luke Skywalker and their friends, must trust in the Force and do battle with their sworn enemies—the Dark Jedi Zekk, his master Brakiss, and the loathsome Nightsister Tamith Kai. Victory means a new legacy of Jedi coming of age. Defeat means a final cloak of darkness over the entire galaxy...
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Erymnochelys madagascariensis
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Language: English
|Scientific Name:
|Erymnochelys madagascariensis (Grandidier, 1867)
Common Name(s):
Dumerilia madagascariensis Grandidier, 1867
Podocnemis madagascariensis ssp. bifilaris Boettger, 1893
Podocnemis madagascariesis (Grandidier, 1867)
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|Historically placed in Podocnemis. No subspecies are currently recognized.
|Red List Category & Criteria:
|Critically Endangered A4d ver 3.1
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|Date Assessed:
|Leuteritz, T., Kuchling, G., Garcia, G. & Velosoa, J. (Madagascar Tortoise and Freshwater Turtle Red List Workshop)
|Rhodin, A. & Mittermeier, R.A. (IUCN SSC Tortoise & Turtle Freshwater Turtle Red List Authority)
Overall, the species is in widespread serious decline (affecting both genetic forms equally), which was estimated as 80% over the past 75 years (three generations) and projected to continue as a further 80% decline in the next 75 years (CBSG 2001). The 2001 CAMP workshop evaluated the species as Critically Endangered under criterion A4d (CBSG 2001).
|Previously published Red List assessments:
|Range Description:
|Erymnochelys madagascariensis is endemic to the western lowland river basins of Madagascar from the Mangoky River in the south to the Sambirano region in the North (Iverson 1992, Glaw and Vences 1994, CBSG 2001, Pedrono 2008).The species ranges up to about 500 m altitude (Pedrono 2008). Two genetically distinct forms have been noted. It is sympatric with Pelomedusa subrufa and Pelusios castanoides.
The species' extent of occurrence was estimated at the 2001 Conservation Assessment and Management Plan (CAMP) workshop as over 20,000 sq. km, with an area of occupancy of less than 500 sq. km. (CBSG 2001).
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|The best available information in 2001 generated an estimate of at least 10,000 animals making up some 20 subpopulations (CBSG 2001). Individual popuations comprise tens to a few hundred animals based on mark-recapture studies (Garcia 2006). The species is universally reported to be in widespread serious non-cyclical decline (CBSG 2001).
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|Erymnochelys habitat consists of slow-moving rivers, lakes, and swamps. Its preferred habitat is that of permanent open wetlands (CBSG 2001) and favours basking sites like rocks, logs, etc. (Kuchling and Garcia 2003). Garcia (1999, 2006) and Garcia and Lourenco (2007) carried out on fecal and stomache content analyses and found that juveniles feed primarily on aquatic invertebrates and adults feed on molluscs, plant material (leaves, seeds and fruit), and dead animals.
This turtle has a carapace length of 50 cm or more (Garcia 1999, 2006). Females are sexually mature at carapace lengths of 25-30 cm (Kuchling 1988). The sex ratio in various populations varies from 1:2 to 1.7:1 (Kuchling 1988, Gracia 2006). Age at maturity and longevity are not known, but a generation time of 25 years was estimated at the 2001 CAMP workshop (CBSG 2001).
These turtles nest between September and January (most prevalent October-December) and appear to have a biennial ovarian cycle, with individual females only nesting in alternate years. They can lay up to two or three clutches with an average of 13 eggs (range 6-29) in a reproductive season (Kuchling 1988, 1993a and b; Garcia 2006; Pedrono 2008).
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|Madagascar maintains a minor annual export quota and a few animals are in international trade. Small numbers of offspring are produced in private captive collection(s) and commercialized in the global pet trade, in addition to wild-collected exports from Madagascar.
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Erymnochelys turtles are exploited for food at the local subsistence level and also taken as incidental catch in regular fishing (Kuchling 1993a, 1997; Kuchling and Mittermeier 1993; CBSG 2001; Garcia and Goodman 2003).
The habitat is fragmented by agricultural and deforestation practices. Siltation is a problem because of the conversion of lakes to rice fields (CBSG 2001). No information is available on the predicted impacts of hydrological changes to Madagascar's rivers in the context of agricultural development, infrastructure development (dams/reservoirs) and climate change. Most populations occur outside protected areas, and even those inside protected areas are under exploitation pressure (Garcia and Goodman 2003).
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Durrell Wildlife Conservation Trust and Conservation International have been working collaboratively on a conservation strategy for this species since 1997/98. This includes population field studies, captive breeding, and community education (Garcia 1999, 2006; Kuchling 2000; Kuchling and Garcia 2003).
Kuchling (1997) suggested three conservation actions: an education campaign for fishermen, a captive breeding programme, and the establishment of additional protected areas. Recommendations from the 2001 CAMP workshop suggest additional measures which include enforcing protection for the species in protected areas and recovery management of depleted protected populations, establishment of monitoring and recovery strategies for the populations at Manambolomaty (a Ramsar site with the largest and most important Erymnochelys poulation), and public education range-wide (CBSG 2001).
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Agrarian Revolt in the Sierra of Chihuahua
Elizabeth A. Henson
On September 23, 1965, several years of protest, including land invasions, strikes, sit-ins, and cross-country marches, culminated in an armed attack on an army base located in the remote town of Madera, Chihuahua, in northern Mexico. Protesters had demanded that the state comply with land reform guarantees provided for by the constitution of Mexico; students from the normal schools joined in and raised their own demands. Instead of negotiating partial reforms, the state governor called out troops to burnish his reputation as an anti-communist crusader. Nominally organized in the Unión General de Obreros y Campesinos de México, movement leaders broke with national directives and encouraged "direct action" and illegal occupations, while the normalistas acted within a student activist tradition rooted in the Marxism of the 1930s. The agrarian demands came from landless workers in an agricultural valley planted in cotton, whose fortunes were linked to the world market and from dispossessed smallholders in the mountainous backlands now claimed by timber export companies. This mid-century modernization of land use had its counterpart in the protestors' emulation of the Cuban revolution and their attempt to apply Che's theory of guerrilla warfare. As the governor's recalcitrance radicalized the movement, small groups undertook sporadic armed actions in the mountains, disarming forces sent after them. Other leaders moved to Mexico City to avoid arrest, undergo military training, and attempt to gather support; they returned to Chihuahua with the plan to attack the army base. Despite its spectacular failure, the event has been hailed as Mexico's first socialist guerrilla struggle and served as inspiration for the dirty war of the 1970s, when armed revolutionaries fought the armed power of the state. Attention to its armed component has eclipsed the movement's underlying basis, which was equally innovative and had lasting influence on Mexican social protest.
Alien Sightings and OVNI Culture in Argentina
David M. K. Sheinin
During the Cold War, there were thousands of Unidentified Flying Object (UFO) sightings in Argentina (in Spanish, Objeto volador no identificado or OVNI). The mainstream media reported on many of them. In a field termed ufología, some events were explained scientifically or somewhat scientifically; most were not. These sightings and their stories lived on in a culture of thousands of OVNI aficionados and their literatures, frequently spilling into larger popular cultures.
OVNI culture disrupts chronologies. It offers a picture of Cold War Argentina that breaks with longstanding popular and academic chronologies that stress a dictatorship-versus-democracy binary. That binary is real. However, OVNI culture superimposes an often-neglected Cold War chronology on the mid- to late 20th century. OVNI stories and their cultural consumption evolve and vary not with reference to violent Argentine political and historical change, but in the context of a larger transnational Cold War culture in an Argentine context. Hallmarks of OVNI culture in Argentina include the enormous influence of U.S. popular culture, as well as references to apocalyptic nuclear weapons, and unscientific notions of psychoses in explaining late-night sightings of spacecraft and extraterrestrials.
Alliance for Progress
Stephen G. Rabe
On March 13, 1961, President John F. Kennedy announced the Alliance for Progress, an economic assistance program to promote political democracy, economic growth, and social justice in Latin America. The United States and Latin American nations formally agreed to the alliance at a conference held in August 1961, at Punta del Este, Uruguay. U.S. delegates promised that Latin America would receive over twenty billion dollars in public and private capital from the United States and international lending authorities during the 1960s. The money would arrive in the form of grants, loans, and direct private investments. When combined with an expected eighty billion dollars in internal investment, this new money was projected to stimulate an economic growth rate of not less than 2.5 percent a year. This economic growth would facilitate significant improvements in employment, and in rates of infant mortality, life expectancy, and literacy rates. In agreeing to the alliance, Latin American leaders pledged to work for equality and social justice by promoting agrarian reform and progressive income taxes.
The Kennedy administration developed this so-called Marshall Plan for Latin America because it judged the region susceptible to social revolution and communism. Fidel Castro had transformed the Cuban Revolution into a strident anti-American movement and had allied his nation with the Soviet Union. U.S. officials feared that the lower classes of Latin America, mired in poverty and injustice, might follow similarly radical leaders.
Alliance programs delivered outside capital to the region, but the Alliance for Progress failed to transform Latin America. During the 1960s, Latin American economies performed poorly, usually falling below the 2.5 percent target. The region witnessed few improvements in health, education, or welfare. Latin American societies remained unfair and authoritarian. Sixteen extra-constitutional changes of government repeatedly unsettled the region.
The Alliance for Progress fell short of its goals for several reasons. Latin America had formidable obstacles to change: elites resisted land reform, equitable tax systems, and social programs; new credits often brought greater indebtedness rather than growth; and the Marshall Plan experience served as a poor guide to solving the problems of a region that was far different from Western Europe. The United States also acted ambiguously, calling for democratic progress and social justice, but worried that Communists would take advantage of the instability caused by progressive change. Further, Washington provided wholehearted support only to those Latin American governments and organizations that pursued fervent anticommunist policies.
Architecture in Mexico City, 1940–1980
Kathryn E. O'Rourke
Architecture in Mexico City in the mid-20th century was shaped by rapid economic and urban growth, demographic change, new construction technologies, and politics. Architects adapted modernist idioms and those that evoked historical precedents for new purposes. Key figures who had begun practice earlier in the century, including Mario Pani, Juan O'Gorman, José Villagrán García, and Luis Barragán, designed major new works and strongly influenced the profession, even as a new generation led by Pedro Ramírez Vázquez, Ricardo Legorreta, and Teodoro González de Léon came of age. As they had been since the 1920s, public patrons were the most important clients of modern buildings, which often addressed needs for better housing, education, and health care. The period also saw the rise of modern suburbs and the evolution of the single-family house, as well as the creation of major buildings for increasingly important cultural institutions, especially museums.
As they had in preceding decades, architects used the non-architectural arts, particularly painting, to distinguish their works. The legacy of the Mexican muralist movement was most evident on the facades of major buildings in the new University City, where the influence of international modernist planning principles was also striking. In 1968 Mexico City hosted the Olympics, for which architects, planners, and designers created a network of buildings and images that functioned interdependently to present Mexico as cosmopolitan and historically rooted in its indigenous history. Sprawl and pollution worsened in the 1970s, as the capital came to be dominated by buildings that were not designed by architects. While some observers questioned the relevance of architecture in the face of seemingly unstoppable and uncontrollable growth, talented young architects responded with buildings notable for their monumentality, mass, and sophisticated engagement with historical types.
Atoms for Peace in Latin America
Gisela Mateos and Edna Suárez-Díaz
On December 8, 1953, in the midst of increasing nuclear weapons testing and geopolitical polarization, United States President Dwight D. Eisenhower launched the Atoms for Peace initiative. More than a pacifist program, the initiative is nowadays seen as an essential piece in the U.S. defense strategy and foreign policy at the beginning of the Cold War. As such, it pursued several ambitious goals, and Latin America was an ideal target for most of them: to create political allies, to ease fears of the deadly atomic energy while fostering receptive attitudes towards nuclear technologies, to control and avoid development of nuclear weapons outside the United States and its allies, and to open or redirect markets for the new nuclear industry. The U.S. Department of State, through the Foreign Operations Administration, acted in concert with several domestic and foreign middle-range actors, including people at national nuclear commissions, universities, and industrial funds, to implement programs of regional technical assistance, education and training, and technological transfer.
Latin American countries were classified according to their stage of nuclear development, with Brazil at the top and Argentina and Mexico belonging to the group of "countries worthy of attention." Nuclear programs often intersected with development projects in other areas, such as agriculture and public health. Moreover, Eisenhower's initiative required the recruitment of local actors, natural resources and infrastructures, governmental funding, and standardized (but localized techno-scientific) practices from Latin American countries. As Atoms for Peace took shape, it began to rely on newly created multilateral and regional agencies, such as the International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA) of the United Nations and the Inter-American Nuclear Energy Commission (IANEC) of the Organization of American States (OAS).
Nevertheless, as seen from Latin America, the implementation of atomic energy for peaceful purposes was reinterpreted in different ways in each country. This fact produced different outcomes, depending on the political, economic, and techno-scientific expectations and interventions of the actors involved. It provided, therefore, an opportunity to create local scientific elites and infrastructure. Finally, the peaceful uses of atomic energy allowed the countries in the region to develop national and international political discourses framing the Treaty for the Prohibition of Nuclear Weapons in Latin America and the Caribbean signed in Tlatelolco, Mexico City, in 1967, which made Latin America the first atomic weapons–free populated zone in the world.
The Bracero Program, 1942–1964
Juan R. García
The Bracero Program began in 1942 as a temporary wartime measure but was extended repeatedly until 1964. During that time, more than 4.5 million braceros received contracts to work in the United States, primarily as agricultural laborers. Before the program ended, braceros worked in thirty-eight states in the United States, with the majority contracted by eight states.
With the attack on Pearl Harbor by Japanese forces on December 7, 1941 and the subsequent sinking of two Mexican vessels by German submarines, Mexico and the United States entered into a bilateral agreement. In actuality, there were two bilateral agreements, the first extending from 1942 to 1949, and the second, enacted as Public Law 78, starting in 1951 and culminating in 1964. Throughout the program's existence Mexico strove to ensure favorable conditions under which braceros were to be contracted, especially in light of the strong opposition to the program among a number of sectors in Mexico and the long history of discrimination against people of Mexican descent in the United States. Like Mexico, the United States faced opposition to the contract labor program from both employers and labor unions. Employers were wary of too much government interference in their ability to secure a plentiful and cheap labor supply, while labor unions viewed the program as a threat to organizing efforts and as an obstacle to achieving better working conditions and pay for agricultural workers in the United States. The Bracero Program also deeply affected the braceros themselves in both positive and negative ways. And it had a profound impact on the families of the braceros who left to work in the United States. The program was plagued by a number of issues and problems, primarily resulting from a lack of enforcement and widespread contract violations. Despite the problems associated with the program, both countries touted its benefits, not only to their economy, but to the braceros themselves. The braceros did not passively accept their fate and challenged their treatment in a variety of ways. Although the Bracero Program ended in 1964, its legacy continues to affect US–Mexican relations to this day. Furthermore, former braceros and their descendants have undertaken a movement to demand reimbursement for wages promised them under the requirements of the Bracero Program.
The Brazilian Military Regime, 1964–1985
Marcos Napolitano
Since its establishment in 1889, the history of the Brazilian republic was marked by the centrality of the armed forces, particularly the army, in political life. But between 1964 and 1985, the military was in direct command of the state, imposing indirectly elected generals as president. After overthrowing the reformist center-left government of João Goulart on March 31, 1964, the military installed a tutelary authoritarian regime to control civil society and the political system, serving as a political model for similar regimes in Latin America during the Cold War.
The military passed arbitrary laws and severely repressed left-wing political groups and social movements while also seeking to accelerate capitalist development and the "national integration" of Brazil's vast territory. They intended to modernize Brazilian industry and carry out bold infrastructure projects. On the other hand, they faced strong opposition from civil society, led by political groups, artists, intellectuals, and press outlets of diverse ideological backgrounds (Marxists, liberals, socialists, and progressive Catholics). These groups were divided between total refusal to negotiate with the military and critical adherence to the policies of the generals' governments, composing a complex relationship between society and the state.
Understanding the role of the military regime in Brazilian history requires a combination of historical research and historiographic criticism in light of the disputes over memory that continue to divide social and political actors.
Brazil—The Country of Football
Bernardo Buarque de Hollanda
Football appeared in Brazil in the end of the 19th century, among a favorable environment for the practice of English sports. These sports were initially practiced not professionally by English migrants and young students of Law, Engineering, and Medicine. Fluminense was the first club from Rio de Janeiro, at that time the capital of the country, to be dedicated exclusively to practice football. In the beginning, football represented nobility for the local elite. The social profile of people who attended matches at Fluminense's field was very near to that of the players, be it for family reasons, friendship, or other motivations. Young women who went there desired to see their distinguished idols, and from this practice many relationships started. While this idyllic image of the past was produced, a historical point of view can notice a decisive enhancement in social segments interested in football. In the decade of 1910, a collective enthusiasm arose for football, mainly due to the fact that it was easy to practice and watch football in any kind of open space. This allowed it to spread out of clubs and the National Team. Far from the spatial and economic restriction of performance arts, football could be practiced and watched freely, in most diverse situations. The clubs' lack of structure to allocate players and fans contributed in making football a popular game, since they needed to seek public spaces to practice. At this point, the club that opposed to Fluminense has been Flamengo, which until then was not more than a regatta club. When it opened a football department, it practiced in open fields near the beaches. Many passersby started to look out their training and matches, and some of them adopted Flamengo as their club even if not participating of its internal sphere. The players became idols, first in the neighborhood and then in the whole city. This encouraged the talk about football in bars and cafés, with reflections on the increasing number of people to attend matches. Historian Leonardo Pereira says that in a few years football has become a mania. The making of the first national team to dispute friendly matches against England and Argentina has also stimulated football's repercussion. Noticing public interest over matches with teams from different cities or countries, sports press left its poor attitude about football and began to carefully pay attention to this kind of rivalry and the consequent emotions each fan is able to express for his team, especially the National Team.
Civilian Aviation in Mexico
Peter Soland
The Mexican government's civil aviation program implemented elite development strategies during a period of national reconstruction. In the decades following the revolution, political leaders and industrialists attempted to strike a balance between preserving a unique national identity and asserting their country's place in global affairs as a competitive, modern nation. Nation builders were primarily concerned with improving the nation's communication and transportation capabilities, although they quickly learned to exploit the spectacle of aviation through the mass media and in public ceremonies, as well. The symbolic figure of the pilot proved an adept vessel for disseminating the values championed by the country's ruling party. Aviators validated the technological determinism underpinning the government's development philosophy, while projecting an image of strength abroad.
This article traces the trajectory of aviation development from 1920s through the 1950s. In the process it demonstrates how the social and cultural significance of technology in Mexico changed over time. The establishment of the Department of Civil Aeronautics under the Secretariat of Communications and Public Works (SCOP), in 1928, reflected the ambitions of reform-minded officials who were intent on modernizing the country. Although the onset of the Great Depression slowed aviation development for about a decade, policymakers recommitted to the technology during World War II. President Manuel Ávila Camacho (1940–1946) used it to achieve two of his primary goals: securing the country from the threat of international fascism and shifting the nation from an agrarian to an industrial economy. Wartime aid alleviated material obstacles hamstringing national aviation development, and the rapid growth of tourism to the country in 1940s and 1950s benefited commercial airlines. Presidents Miguel Aléman (1946–1952) and Adolfo Ruiz Cortines (1952–1958) touted the success of the aviation industry as a consequence of their development policies. The near financial collapse of the country's largest airline, Compañía Mexicana de Aviación (CMA), at the end of the decade nevertheless hinted that the country's sustained economic growth was less miraculous than officials and foreign observers liked to believe.
The Cuban Embassy in Uruguay, 1959–1964
Roberto García
The 1959 Cuban Revolution, the revolution's subsequent strengthening, and the radical change that the process underwent beginning in 1961 marked a turning point in the history of Latin America. It implied the largest and most consistent regional challenge faced by the United States in an area where its influence had often been decisive. From then on, the Latin American Cold War intensified at every level. It was no longer about the "reactive" actions that took place among the conservative Latin American elite via the communism inspired by distant Moscow.
In Cuba, the culture of the "revolution" was established, and the consequences were far from mere symbolism: Cubans also launched actions of "alternative diplomacy" to lend institutional support to the Latin American guerrilla movements. However, there is no documented study on Cuba's role in Latin America. This is explicable in large part by the secrecy with which the Caribbean isle has made archival research in the country impossible.
Although this secrecy is understandable in view of its nature as a heavily beleaguered revolution from abroad, this culture of secrecy contributed to expanding a production of journalistic and essay-based denunciation that habitually lacked rigor and interpretive frameworks. Since 2010, a certain spirit of openness has existed in the matter, an example of which is purported to be linked to the Cuban Ministry of Foreign Affairs, whose historical repository has slowly begun to receive researchers, principally from abroad.
Drawing upon the anxiety and curiosity of the international historiographic community about the images originating from Havana, an initial approach and investigation was carried out in the aforementioned tradition, with the aim of shedding light on several of the actions deployed by the Cuban Embassy in Uruguay during the initial and intense years of the Caribbean revolution.


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- Creating a fairer, clearer and more effective cycle of support and intervention
- Enhancing state, district and school oversight of improvement efforts
To access the bill itself and corresponding State Board rules, please click on the following:
- Education Accountability Act of 2009 (SB 09-163) (Updated May 2013)
- Rules for the Administration of Statewide Accountability Measures (Approved September 2016)
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In May 2015, HB15-1323 was passed which created a hold for 2015 school and district accountability. 2015 district accreditation ratings and school plan types will not be assigned. Districts and schools will implement their 2014 ratings during the 2015-16 school year. The accountability clock did not advance. Ratings and plan types will resume in 2016.
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Man charged with drunk driving in Rochester after crashBy Bill Smith, New Hampshire Union Leader
April 07. 2013 10:58AM
ROCHESTER -- A man who allegedly crashed his Jeep into a tree and then tried to run away has been arrested and charged with drunken driving, Rochester police said.
Officers responded to a report of a single car accident on Main Street in East Rochester on Saturday and found the vehicle had run in to a tree, sustaining heavy front-end damage. According to police, the driver appeared to be trying to leave the scene.
Nicholas Balomenos, 24, of Rochester, was arrested at the scene. He was released on $1,500 bail and will be arraigned on Monday.


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Arizona Game and Fish Department is looking for knowledgeable individuals to serve as a Volunteer Hunter Education Instructor and teach hunter education courses.
Interested volunteers may sign up now for a free training program for future hunter education instructors.
The two-day Volunteer Hunter Education Instructor program will be held from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m. this weekend, June 23-24, at the department's Pinetop Regional Office, 2878 E. White Mountain Blvd. Volunteer instructors must be at least 18 years old.
If selected to participate in the Volunteer Hunter Education Instructor program, you'll learn how to teach a standardized curriculum and share your knowledge of hunting and the outdoors. By the time the 16-hour course is done you'll be ready to work with teams to promote safe, ethical and responsible hunting.
Volunteer hunter education instructors make it possible for Game and Fish to offer hunter education programs to people of all ages at locations throughout Arizona. New hunters learn about safely handling firearms and bowhunting equipment, the importance of wildlife management, and gain a good working knowledge of important laws and regulations.
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Mayor Roberts and Hoboken presents "Pete Seeger Tribute Concert," featuring some of Hudson County's most popular musicians on Thursday, June 4 from 7 to 9 p.m. in Pier A Park, First Street and Sinatra Drive in Hoboken. Bring a lawn chair and a blanket to the free concert. For more information, call Gerri Fallo (201) 420-2207.
Jersey City Museum presents "Investigations of Place," a screening and reception, as part of JC Fridays on Friday, June 5 from 6 to 8 p.m. at 350 Montgomery St. in Jersey City. The free event features ambient sound exhibitions, short films screenings, and refreshments. For more information call (201) 413-0303.
Cantigas Women's Choir presents "Music in the Air," on Friday, May 29 at 7:30 p.m. at St. Matthew Trinity Church, 57 Eighth St. in Hoboken. Cantigas Women's Choir is an all-woman choir composed of 40 local singers. Suggested donation $15, $5 for students and seniors. For more information, visit www.cantigas.net.
The Hoboken Historical Museum present "Secret Garden Tour," featuring the gardens of more than a dozen local gardeners, tips for budding green thumbs and more, on Sunday, May 31 from 9 a.m. to 4 p.m. Tickets for the 12th annual tour are $25, $20 for museum members, children under 13 are free. For more information, call (201) 656-2240.
New Jersey City University presents "Salsa Dance: Pre-intermediate," on Tuesdays beginning May 19 through July 7 from 7 to 8:30 p.m. on campus, 2039 Kennedy Blvd. in Jersey City. Students must have comfortable working knowledge of skills; dance class attire is required. Registration is $100, $150 for couples. For more information, call (201) 200-3089.
The German-American World History Society presents a trip to the "Kutztown Pennsylvania Dutch Folk Festival" on Sunday, June 28 departing from Schuetzen Park Senator Lounge in North Bergen at 9 a.m. The festival features live music on six stages, reenactments, marching bands and more. Tickets are $55, $35 for children under 12, and include round-trip transportation, refreshments, admission to the festival and a buffet. For more information call (201) 553-9171.
The Cypher Movement open art, poetry slam at 7:30 p.m. every fourth Friday of the month at Jordan's Lounge, 247 Newark Ave. in Jersey City. For more information, visit: www.cyphermovement.com.
Hoboken Happy Hour group has upcoming events for locals. This is an excellent way to network, make new friends, and try new places in town. For more information, visit www.hobokenhappyhourgroup.com
The Hoboken Ski Club has upcoming social and athletic events including weekly happy hour parties. All activities are open for members. The annual membership for the 2009 season is on sale now. The group meets every Tuesday night at McBride's in Hoboken. For more information, visit: www.hobokenskiclub.com.
Open Mics: Art House Productions, the first Thursday of the month at 1 McWilliams Place, in the old St. Francis building on the roof, Jersey City. Visit: www.arthouseproductions.org.
Bayonne Arts Factory, every Wednesday night starting at 8 p.m. Visit: www.arts-factory.com.
B.H. open mic for stand up, sketch, musical comedy hosted by Melissa Surach, every other Tuesday, 8 p.m., at Toy Eaters Studios in the GRAFS building, Jersey City. Visit: www.melissasurach.blogspot.com
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(Reuters) - Canadian investigators issued their first recommendations on Friday after a devastating train wreck in Quebec, urging that trains hauling dangerous goods not be left unattended, and pushing for stricter guidelines on railway braking systems.
Transportation Safety Board (TSB) investigators probing the July 6 disaster in the lakeside town of Lac-Megantic said the "braking force" applied to the train, which was hauling 72 tanker cars of crude oil, was insufficient to hold it in place.
The train was operated by Montreal, Maine and Atlantic Railway (MMA), which is controlled by Rail World Inc, a privately held rail management and investment firm based outside Chicago.
The train had been parked for the night on a main line uphill from the town. Unmanned, it rolled down the track, and derailed and exploded in the center of Lac-Megantic.
An estimated 50 people were killed in North America's worst train accident in more than 20 years, and the town center was destroyed.
TSB investigator Ed Belkaloul did not say how many hand brakes had been set when the train was parked. But he noted there was "enormous variability" in the strength of the brakes, which are located on individual rail cars and operated by manually turning a large wheel that sets the brake shoes beneath the train.
"If you look on your car, if your brake shoes are finished, even if you set them, it won't give you anything," he said. "Same here. The number of brakes is important, but the quality of the braking is also important."
General braking instructions for railways, dating from 1997, state that operators must use "sufficient brakes," and test them by attempting to pull the train back and forth - typically using the engine - to ensure the brakes will hold in place.
"What's missing now ... are specific instructions for a particular place," Belkaloul added. Variables include the number of cars, the grade on which the train is parked and other factors such as local conditions and wind.
Transport Minister Lisa Raitt has asked Transport Canada, the government department that regulates railways, to review the TSB recommendations "on an expedited basis," a spokeswoman said.
Since the accident, Canadian Pacific Railway Ltd, whose guidelines MMA said it was following, has made some two dozen changes to the hand brake section of its General Operating Instructions, according to documents obtained by Reuters.
CP removed a chart that gave minimum hand brake requirements for trains based on the number of cars. That chart had said a minimum of nine hand brakes were needed on a train with 72 cars.
The new rules say hand brakes must now be applied on at least 25 percent of the cars for trains parked on a slope of 1.2 percent, the grade of the tracks outside of Lac-Megantic, unless the brakes have been properly tested.
Canadian National Railway Co, the country's biggest railroad, is also reviewing its policy for securing trains and expects to implement new standards shortly.
The TSB is also analyzing the contents of the tanker cars that did not explode in the crash, looking for clues as to why the crude oil in the other cars exploded so violently.
The train was carrying oil from the Bakken oil fields in North Dakota to a refinery on Canada's East Coast, part of a huge growth in shipments of crude by rail as North American oil production rises and pipelines fill to capacity.
Nearly two weeks after the disaster, investigators continue to sift through what police describe as a crime scene, searching for more bodies and for clues on the cause of the accident.
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Egyptians Swarm Palace in Protest
Opposed to President's Power Expansion, Thousands Break Through Cordon; Morsi Leaves for Suburb, Spokesman Says
CAIRO—Tens of thousands of Egyptians tore through cordons of barbed wire and riot police and surged against the gates of the Presidential Palace in Cairo on Tuesday, as anger mounted over what they called a power grab by the country's Islamist president.
The crowd remained into the early hours Wednesday, with protesters massed at the palace wall and police stationed inside, echoing a standoff that pits Egypt's ruling Islamists against nearly every other political force over the country's hastily drafted constitution and President Mohammed Morsi's recent decree granting himself nearly unrestricted powers.
Tens of thousands of protesters filled Cairo's central Tahrir Square earlier Tuesday and marched through the coast city of Alexandria. But it was the march on the palace, the largest such gathering since the uprising that ousted President Hosni Mubarak early last year, that seemed to bring Egyptian politics to a dangerous crossroads.
"We woke up one day and found a very radical Islamic situation," said Walid Ahmed, a 37-year-old engineer protesting outside the palace. "The president is pushing us toward civil war."
With protesters threatening to storm the palace walls for the first time in recent Egyptian history, Mr. Morsi left the palace for his home in a remote Cairo suburb, according to a Muslim Brotherhood spokesman.
Each camp in the showdown sent mixed messages, beginning with defiant statements swearing off compromise. Ahmed Kamel, a spokesman for an alliance of opposition parties leading the outcry against Mr. Morsi, said there would be no talks or compromise until Mr. Morsi canceled his controversial decree. Brotherhood spokesman Gehad al-Haddad said his movement's rank and file "are boiling angry" at the opposition, which he characterized as ex-regime loyalists trying to hijack the will of the people.
Yet there were also signs that some leaders on both sides were reaching for a way out.
Hours before Tuesday's march on the palace, opposition leader Mohamed ElBaradei urged his supporters to confine their protests to Tahrir Square. The call went unheeded by many. Mr. Haddad said Mr. Morsi ordered riot police to avoid confronting protesters as much as possible.
Late Tuesday, reports circulated in some Egyptian media outlets that Mr. Morsi was hunkered down with aides weighing a face-saving compromise. Ayman Seyad, a former adviser to Mr. Morsi who remains in close contact with Mr. Morsi's aides, said those aides told him Tuesday that Mr. Morsi was considering scrapping the most controversial parts of his decree.
The decree, issued Nov. 22, put nearly all state powers in Mr. Morsi's hands and placed the president above the judicial branch. It was one of the most sweeping expansions of executive powers in the modern Egyptian state. Coming just six months after the former Muslim Brotherhood leader narrowly won the country's first democratic presidential election, Mr. Morsi's decree appeared to confirm many Egyptians worst fears about Islamists.
In competing protests in recent days, both Islamists and their foes have mustered some of the largest crowds since the revolution. In Hurghada in the Red Sea region, anti-Morsi crowds beseiged a provincial government building, local media outlets reported.
At Cairo's Presidential Palace, legions of riot police who had formed barricades around the palace earlier in the day tried to fight off the crowds with truncheons and tear gas.
Some protesters choked on tear gas, gasping for air and vomiting into the gutter. Others danced on top of an armored personnel carrier seized from riot police and spray painted antigovernment slogans on it. Protesters took over guard posts and set up a makeshift stage on the back of a flatbed truck just outside the palace's main gate.
In Cairo's leafy Heliopolis neighborhood, protesters chanted many of the same slogans that echoed throughout Egypt during the uprising against Mr. Mubarak last year. "Leave means go! Morsi doesn't get it," went one chant.
As the number of protesters swelled into tens of thousands, riot police retreated behind the palace walls. The retreat appeared to calm violence, even as heavily armed legions of Egypt's elite presidential guards waited within the palace walls.
By late Tuesday, protest organizers shooed children off the gates, saying they don't aim to breach palace gates or walls. Crowds near the palace cheered some of the police. As midnight approached, protesters remained massed outside the palace, whose walls were covered with fresh graffiti against the edict and rushed draft constitution.
Coming to the palace was crucial to prove to Mr. Morsi that many Egyptians were opposed to him and his Islamist allies, said Karim Assem, 33 years old. "The point is we exist, and they refuse to acknowledge this," he said.
Mr. Morsi has said his decree is temporary until a new constitution is drafted and approved in a popular referendum, which is currently slated for Dec. 15. The decree was necessary, he has said, to prevent judges still loyal to the old regime from derailing the country's democratic transition.
But at the time of the decree, the constitution-drafting process was unraveling because of tensions with non-Islamist representatives in the assembly tasked with writing the new document. Christians, seculars, liberals and other non-Islamist members—nearly a quarter of the drafting body—resigned, accusing the Islamists of ignoring their concerns. The assembly pressed on, drafting the document months ahead of schedule and just days after Mr. Morsi's decree.
But instead of expediting Egypt's transition, Mr. Morsi's decree and the rushed drafting of the constitution united Egypt's fractured opposition ranks more so than at any point since Mr. Mubarak's fall.
If Mr. Morsi stays his course, the crisis could escalate further; if he backs down, he may alienate his Islamist base and make it hard to regain the trust of non-Islamists.
"If he cancels the decree now, it might be political suicide for him," said Mr. Seyad, the former Morsi adviser. "And that still might not be enough to end the crisis."
However the crisis ends, Mr. Morsi looks likely to face a more polarized political environment. He also continues to face economic problems that demand unpopular policies, such as cutting subsidies and devaluing the currency, that would be easier to pass with broad support.
"The moment of crisis really comes if the bottom drops out under the economy," said Elijah Zarwan, a fellow at the European Council on Foreign Relations. "And then, my fear is, that economic unrest combined with a political atmosphere that has been poisoned by Morsi's recent moves, could combine to form really serious unrest."
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