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Meet Pace's New Chairman
Chairman and Pace '81 alum Mark Besca: "we want to produce graduates from every school who are genuinely more effective in today's world than those coming from other schools."
In July, Mark M. Besca, BBA '81, became Chairman of Pace's Board of Trustees, succeeding Aniello A. Bianco, who had held the post for 14 years.
A longtime member of the Pace board, Besca is also a familiar face to national television viewers, representing his employer, Ernst & Young, LLP., at awards shows including the Emmys and American Music Awards. Besca joined EY, then Arthur Young, in 1980 as an intern through the Pace co-op. He currently serves as the firm's New York City Office Managing Partner.
Besca, who grew up in the Bronx, now lives in Manhattan with his wife, Geri, a professional singer; two daughters; and a Bernese Mountain Dog named Jeter. Pace Magazine interviewed him for its fall issue about where he sees the University heading in the future. Here are some excerpts.
Pace Magazine: So how's it going after four months as Chairman?
Mark M. Besca: I think everything we're doing now is pretty exciting. We've got a lot of momentum going. As you've probably heard President Friedman say, our goal is to be a national leader in providing education, but education with clear value. We want to combine very strong liberal arts with professional preparation, and offer an education that helps our students to succeed in their careers and in their lives. So what you're going to hear a lot about in the coming year is something that we call the Pace Path.
PM: Can you tell us a bit more about that?
Besca: The Pace Path combines a number of ideas. One draws on our history of providing experiential learning opportunities. Historically it was in the accounting program that was best known for producing students who were more ready to hit the ground running when they went out into the workforce than the graduates of many other universities. Now that's going to be true for all our schools. We're also going to enhance the ways we give our students real-life experiences through internships, undergraduate research, and travel courses, and apply coaching and mentoring to the process. So when you simplify all this, what we're saying is we want to produce graduates from every school who are genuinely more effective in today's world than those coming from other schools.
We want to be better than anybody else at doing what I've just described. We're already ranked No. 5 by U.S. News and World Report in terms in internships.
PM: Care to look further out into Pace's future?
Besca: Well, when we look into the future we look at basically three things: academic progress, meaning real growth in our programs and adding to our faculty; physical change, such as we're seeing now with our building programs in Pleasantville and downtown; and technology. In some ways technology could be the most important.
PM: Can you elaborate?
Besca: We're trying to address how and what we teach in light of the changing technology. We have hundreds of online programs already. We have a hybrid Executive MBA course that combines online learning and quarterly residencies. We have a highly rated all-online degree program. And although many of these things are in their infancy, we know that the way we teach our students is going to be different in the future, and how we combine technology with real classroom experience will change over time. No university has the perfect solution at this point but we're very focused on trying to get that right mix. We see technology changing the landscape for the better, and it could make education more efficient in terms of cost.
PM: Do you foresee a day when college education is totally virtual?
Besca: There are some exciting things going on in that area, such as massive open online courses, where you can get the top professor in a particular field to teach people all over the world. That will probably be part of our formula as well. But no, I don't think it's going to be all virtual. That's what you might hear, but I think you still need that relationship with the student at the university. What's interesting is how you can combine virtual learning with traditional learning, and what the percentage of each will be.
PM: What would you say are the biggest challenges facing Pace and other universities today?
Besca: One is certainly the growing cost of education. That has put incredible stress on affordability and value in general at every university. And frankly I think a lot of other colleges don't provide the value to match what students are paying.
PM: What about opportunities?
Besca: I think one thing that makes Pace different from other universities is that we have a huge competitive advantage being in New York City and downtown in New York City, right at the heart of the capital markets. There's no other institution that's positioned like us there, and we offer the option for folks who want to be on a traditional campus to be only 40 minutes away. That is pretty unique, and I'm not sure we have always marketed that as well as we could. People want to come to New York.
PM: Could you tell us a little about your upbringing? We understand your parents were Holocaust survivors.
Besca: Yes, they came here from Greece with nothing. They had been affluent in Greece before the war. They were educated, and they were going to make sure that my generation would get educated and turn things around for the family. Their whole mantra was, get an education. That's why a lot of us on the Pace board are so passionate about the university, because of Opportunitas. Pace was there for me, and I just can't forget it because without Pace I wouldn't be where I am today.
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This is the second module in the Solar Dynamic Observatory (SDO) Project Suite curriculum. Each activity is self-directed by students or student teams and uses online videos, data from the SDO satellite and hands-on activities to explore, research... (View More) and build knowledge about how and why studying the Sun's electromagnetic energy and magnetic fields help scientists better understand the Sun's activity and space weather. Students build knowledge and vocabulary, apply or demonstrate learning through real world connections and create resources to use in investigations. Both a teacher and student guide is included with sequential instructions and embedded links to the needed videos, tutorials and internet resources. In Activity 2A: The Sun and the EM Spectrum students learn how SDO uses key parts of the Sun's electromagnetic spectrum (EMS) to research regions of the Sun, create an interactive foldable to describe the different wavebands of the EMS, then use real-time SDO image data and the Helioviewer online tool to explore the Sun's regional activity. Tutorials for using Helioviewer and making the EMS foldable are included. Activity 2B: Solar activity and Magnetism has students use information in online videos and slide presentations to demonstrate concepts of magnetism and the relationship between the Sun's variable magnetic fields and sunspots. Activity 3B: Solar Research in Action! Build a Spectroscope has students create a spectroscope to observe the different wavebands of visible light, demonstrate how the Sun emits varying EMS energies, and explain how this information helps scientists understand the composition and activity of both our nearest star, and other stars in the universe. A computer for student-teams and a connection to the Internet are needed to complete this module. See related and supplementary resources for link to full curriculum. The appendix includes an alignment to the Next Generation Science Standards (NGSS). (View Less)
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Andre-Villas Boas has been confirmed as Tottenham's new head coach.
The 34-year-old's appointment marks his return to the Barclays Premier League just four months after his departure from Chelsea, where he was sacked eight months into a three-year contract. Villas-Boas will be hoping to rebuild his reputation at Spurs after succeeding Harry Redknapp, who left the post last month after four years at the helm.
A post on the club's official Twitter account read: "The club is delighted to announce Andre Villas-Boas as head coach."
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LITTLE ROCK, Arkansas (Reuters) - Democratic Governor Mike Beebe on Monday vetoed legislation that would ban most abortions in Arkansas after 12 weeks of pregnancy, a restriction that would be the most severe in the nation.
The bill's supporters say they plan to seek a vote on Tuesday to override Beebe's veto, which would require only a simple majority in Arkansas.
Beebe said in a veto letter that the bill "blatantly contradicts" the U.S. Constitution as interpreted by the Supreme Court, and he questioned the potential cost to taxpayers of defending it against legal challenges.
Under a law that took effect February 28, Arkansas bans most abortions after 20 weeks. The essential difference between that law and the legislation vetoed by Beebe on Monday is the number of weeks.
The newest legislation, the Arkansas Human Heartbeat Protection Act, would ban most abortions at about 12 weeks of pregnancy, once a fetal heartbeat can be detected by a standard ultrasound. It includes exemptions for rape, incest, the life of the mother and major fetal conditions. Doctors who violate the prohibition would have their licenses revoked by the state Medical Board.
"This would be the earliest abortion ban in the country. It would be a very severe restriction on access to abortion," said Elizabeth Nash, state issues manager for the Guttmacher Institute, a research group that supports abortion rights.
Nash said, "This would force women in many circumstances to go out of state."
The Arkansas bill vetoed on Monday includes a reference to a fetal heartbeat and initially targeted an abortion ban at five weeks. The bill was changed after opponents argued that it would have mandated an invasive transvaginal ultrasound.
Bills similar to the original proposal have been introduced in Kansas, Kentucky, Mississippi, North Dakota and Wyoming.
If Arkansas lawmakers override the veto, the ACLU of Arkansas has said it is likely to challenge the ban in court.
Seven states in addition to Arkansas have active laws banning most abortions after 20 weeks of pregnancy. Two other states have approved bans at 18 weeks and 20 weeks that are not active due to legal challenges.
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IR at Night I say????? Up until now, my mind set for IR Photography has always been that it needed to be done in full sunlight, or if full sunlight was not available, at least done during daylight hours. So, that's all I have ever tried. Conditions for IR have always been pretty much the same, so much so that I hardly ever make any setting changes to my camera for any IR I take.
Recently a whole new opportunity presented itself, being the experimental type that I am, I decided, why not?, go for it! It will either work, or it won't. The camera club that I attend had a group shoot scheduled for night time fireworks. Here in the United States we celebrate our Independance Day on July 4th. This always means many outdoor summer activities, parades, picnics and the like, and always the day is finished up with many, many professional fireworks displays. Naturally that means long exposure shooting from a tripod, and just as naturally, the fireworks being so colorful against the night sky, the photography should be done in Visible Color Light. Well, yes. A natural plan.
I have done a number of Fireworks shoots, always in color, and pretty much have the process down. But, this time when I thought of being with a group of photographers all in the same place, all taking basically identical shots, I just had to be different somehow. I wondered what would happen if I took my photos in IR. Is there even any IR light available at night? We know the sun produces plenty of IR for us, but what's out there at night?
The only light would be man-made since the sun is down. Is there any IR produced by man made lighting, on buildings, or by the Fireworks themselves? Ony one way to find out, just give it a try. If it didn't work out, the other photographers would have plenty of color shots.
Well, I'm happy to report that there is indeed IR light from man made lighting, and it can be captured with a digital camera.
When we all got to the site that was chosen by the club to photograph the Fireworks, I set up my IR modded Canon 350D on my tripod, just as all of the other photographers. I have a remote shutter release, and it was pulled out and set up on the camera. I decided to use my 28-135 IS lens set at a wide angle to capture the Fireworks bursts. I focused on the skyline buildings of Ft Worth, and with the lens basically at infinity, turned off autofocus on the lens. On Manual settings, ISO 400, I decided to try F8 and 4 seconds, as I have had good luck with that in previous years in Visible light. I also decided to try this using the trusty Custom White Balance that I took off green grass, the one I pretty much use for all of my IR work with this camera.
As the sun was setting, I took a few test shots to see what I'd get, and to get my composition and background situated. We knew basically where the bursts would occur from shooting this location in previous years. The Fireworks program was being held at the home field of the Ft Worth Cats, minor league baseball team. This one was taken just as the sun was setting, and still reflecting off the glass of the buildings. The blown out lights on the right hand side that were giving me all that lens flair are from the baseball field. I knew that they would be turned off once the Fireworks started.
Another test shot a bit later as the sun was almost completely down and the sky was turning black. Still a bit of reflection off the towers, and the baseball field lights were really blasting. Still, the skyline was looking good to me. So, the main question was answered, man made lighting does have quite a lot of IR light in it.
So all that remained was to stand around and enjoy the companionship of my fellow photographers while we waited for the Fireworks to begin. Soon enough the baseball game ended and the Fireworks put on quite a spactacular show for us. I didn't change any of my settings during the show, and really did not use any particular skill on my part. I just made as many 4 second exposures as I could, knowing full well that I would have a lot of shots to discard, but conversely, that I would be getting some good ones as I went along.
Here are a few of them with some comments:
The Custom White Balance and the Canon sensor produced the golden, white, and blue colors you see here in the following photos. I chose not to do a lot of post processing to these so that you can see basically what's coming from the camera. These were all shot as JPGs. I have tried some of the more common post processing that is usually done. B&W conversions work very well. False color is out, as there really was no sky color available at night as would be in daytime IR.
I also include a couple of "problem" images so that you know what you may expect if you give this a try. Lens flare on some of the brighter, over-exposed bursts was severe, and gave me some very interesting patterns.
The end of the display, or the Finale, is what all Visible light shooters are waiting for, but I was not very successful capturing that part in IR. In color, the different colored bursts differientate themselves, but in IR, with no color definition, it tends to appear as an over-exposed blob of light. Also, just as clouds are very well defined in daylight IR, so is the smoke from the bursts in the air, also contributing to the over-exposed aspect.
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I hope that this post is helpful, and gives you some new ideas for things you can do in IR. Obviously we are not restricted to shooting only in the daytime. I can't wait to get a chance to do some nighttime shooting, maybe some long exposures of moving objects and light trails. Get out there and give this a try!


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In spite of the continued threats of poaching and habitat destruction, future prospects for the world's rarest gorilla have improved but are still dependent on continued local and international partnerships, according to a new action plan published by the IUCN SSC Primate Specialist Group and the Wildlife Conservation Society, and produced in partnership with the US Fish and Wildlife Service, the North Carolina Zoo, and others.
A new report—titled Revised Regional Action Plan for the Conservation of the Cross River Gorilla: 2014-2019—cites a number of conservation achievements over the past several years, including the expansion of protected areas for the threatened great apes as well as an improved understanding of available gorilla range (more than twice the area previously determined). The report also recommends measures designed to help Cross River gorillas increase their numbers within and beyond core sites, and emphasizes the importance of local and international support for the success of conservation efforts.
"The outlook for the Cross River gorilla is encouraging, provided we build on past successes and continue with key partnerships to protect this great ape and its remaining habitat," said Andrew Dunn, WCS conservationist and lead author of the report. "The new action plan provides a detailed roadmap for conserving the world's rarest gorilla."
Classified as Critically Endangered on the IUCN Red List of Threatened Species™, the Cross River gorilla (Gorilla gorilla ssp. diehli) numbers fewer than 300 individuals throughout its range, which is limited to a mountainous border region between Nigeria and Cameroon. The Cross River gorilla is the rarest of the four subspecies of gorilla.
The first action plan for Cross River gorillas—published in 2007—initiated the first coordinated conservation strategy using the Cross River gorilla as a "flagship" species as a means of protecting a region considered by many to be one of Africa's biodiversity "hotspots." Implementation of the action plan achieved many of its objectives, including the establishment of two new protected areas in Cameroon—Kagwene Gorilla Sanctuary and Takamanda National Park. The plan has also achieved significant gains through: increased community involvement in gorilla conservation in both Cameroon and Nigeria; improvements in wildlife laws and enforcement, particularly in the border region; more public awareness; and greater support from international agencies such as the Convention on Migratory Species and the Great Ape Survival Partnership.
Revision of the plan was initiated in 2012, when 42 experts from seven countries (including government wildlife authorities) met in Limbe, Cameroon to identify the challenges that remain. Specifically, the small size of the entire Cross River gorilla population puts the long-term survival of the subspecies at risk from poaching or a disease outbreak. The potential expansion of human settlements into Nigeria's Cross River National Park and Cameroon's Takamanda National Park is another threat, as is potential forest loss due to agricultural development between core sites.
The revised plan calls for: enhanced protection of the gorillas and enforcement of wildlife laws; continued research into the distribution and biology of Cross River gorillas; further implementation of community-based conservation models; new measures to protect vital corridors between gorilla sites; support for improved management of conservation areas; health monitoring and disease prevention; development of ecotourism; support for transboundary conservation; and expanding public awareness of conservation.
"While we have come a long way in ensuring the future survival of the Cross River gorilla, there is still a lot of work to do," emphasized Dr. Richard Bergl of the North Carolina Zoo, one of the plan's co-authors. "In particular, we need to explore new ways to conserve key habitat areas that currently have no formal protection."
Dirck Byler, Africa Program Officer of the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service, added: "Many of the gorilla populations still lie outside protected areas and national parks and will probably never be included in national parks. And so by working with local communities to curtail hunting and provide alternatives to hunting in many of these places, we think we can get a handle on stabilizing the population and even increasing it."
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Being an ol' southern boy, deer hunting in Kansas temperatures dipping into the teens or lower combined with teeth-chattering wind riding an Arctic wave and blasting out of the Rockies is quite an experience.
Unlike my co-workers who live in Wisconsin and deal with real winter conditions each year, we don't have anything like that in Alabama where I live. We wake up some mornings, see a heavy frost and wonder if we had snow flurries overnight. (No, seriously. We do.) Forecasts of sleet or freezing rain send school administrators into a frenzy and supermarket shoppers in chaotic overdrive buying bread and milk.
By Alan Clemons, Managing Editor
(Why bread and milk? The good Lord only knows. I've never figured it out and we even owned a grocery store when I was a kid. I mean, I'd rather have some good steaks for the grill, enough propane, a bottle of good whiskey, some sodas, some veggies, and peanut butter and jelly. Milk, too, of course, to go with chocolate chip cookies.)
So when I was planning a few weeks ago for my hunt with Mossberg, Swarovski and Tall Tine Outfitters in southwest Kansas, the weather forecast was checked daily. The monster cold front coming from the Rockies would impact the area. We got it, too. Wind gusting to 20 mph or more out of the north-northwest drove wind chills into the negative-teens and temperatures ranged from 4 to 20ish degrees.
I may live in the Southeast but I know enough to realize Kansas cold and wind is different from my normal hunting conditions in Alabama. Layering, of course, is the best way to tog up for cold weather. So I opted for four main things with my apparel:
— Under Armour's Base 2.0 top and bottom helps retain body heat next to your skin with a unique grid design that helps trap the heat. The slightly textured design seemed to keep a bit more heat compared to the Under Armour compression gear I often wear. Base 2.0 is rated for cold on Under Armour's system, with 1.0 for cool conditions, 3.0 for extreme and 4.0 for brutal.
I've worn the compression and fitted UA Cold Gear for years. Some folks dislike the tight fit of the compression apparel. I kind of look like an overstuffed, lumpy sausage, but it works for me. The fitted Cold Gear is a bit looser and gets a nod with me, too. The new Base system combines, in my opinion, the best of the previous Cold Gear apparel with newer warming technology.
Performance clothing is leaps and bounds greater than what we had 15 or 20 years ago. Older hunters who geared up with cotton thermals and socks, rubber-coated waders (when duck hunting) and other gear can appreciate today's warmer, more comfortable gear from Under Armour, Sitka and others.
— Before my trip, I fortuitously ordered a Stormy Kromer "WoolOver" quarter-zip pullover from the company known for its legendary old-style wool caps.
Wool is one of the old school garments that never, ever will go out of style or should be overlooked. It is warm, wet or dry, whether used for tops, bottoms or socks. With the latter, a pair of thin sock liners help perspiration escape and the wool to keep your tootsies warm.
I wore the wool-poly-acrylic combo WoolOver on top of my Under Armor Base, then topped off with the Under Armour Infrared Ridge Reaper Softshell jacket and pants. The Ridge Reaper top and pants are designed well for movement and zip-up pockets are easily accessible in the right spots. They have scent control engineering and a water-repellent finish, yet are breathable with a moisture transport system to help keep you dry and warm. Lower leg zippers also allow easier access with boots. They're comfortable, quiet and darn warm.
That combo of the UA gear and Kromer pullover likely would be enough for me at home in Alabama, but given the Kansas conditions we encountered I knew I'd need one more outer layer.
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— The outer layer consisted of an older model Arctic Shield H6 hooded parka and bib. Arctic Shield makes outstanding gear. I've had the parka and bib for years but haven't hunted in harsh enough conditions to use them. I'm glad I had them for this trip.
The bibs have zippers up the legs and snap flaps on the zippers to shield the wind. They're also designed well to be comfortable in the waist and crotch. The jacket has several internal pockets for gear and a waistband snap to help keep it from moving around. Neoprene wrist cuffs have hook-and-loop fasteners, as does the generous wraparound neck flap.
Hook and loop fasteners stink when you're deer hunting because they're noisy. On calm, quiet days you might as well be yelling "Hey, deer! I'm right here!" If you have them on your clothes, try to get situated before getting to the stand so you don't have to mess around with 'em.
Along with a wool toque, windproof fleece glomits and a neck gaiter (so, so valuable), I kept my feet warm with wool liners in the Lacrosse Alpha pac boots. Our crew had an array of fleece, wool, Under Armor and other gear including a Heater Body Suit and some slip-on boot insulators. Keeping head, hands and feet warm is critical since we lose our body heat more quickly through our extremities.
If you're not using a neck gaiter, try one. They come in different styles, from loose fleece for the neck to thinner performance apparel to larger balaclava models for neck and head. Tuck the bottom into your sweater or jacket and it'll keep your neck – and the blood flowing to your head – much warmer.
We all experienced some discomfort from the cold conditions, mostly due to the wind. It cuts like a knife. But overall, thanks to smart planning and better apparel, staying warmer isn't as challenging as it was years ago.
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San Joaquin Valley cotton producers, pest control advisers and an army of supporting cast members have taken the final exam for Sticky Cotton Prevention 101.
Final grades are not in yet. However, no one will pass. There will be sticky cotton bales from the 2002 SJV cotton crop, but certainly not as much as could have been before the industry and its leaders faced head on an issue that threatened to bring down the much-touted SJV quality cotton industry.
Following the 2001 crop when textile mills complained loudly about sticky SJV cotton, industry leaders decided not to ignore the problem in hopes it would go away. That was tried in the past. Not this time. Earl Williams, president and CEO of the California Cotton Ginners and Growers Association, led a massive public relations and educational effort to convince producers to control honeydew-excreting insects like the silverleaf whitefly to prevent sticky cotton.
"The jury is still out," proclaimed Williams at a recent meeting in Tulare to look back on 2002. "There is still a lot of cotton to ship to textile mills, but merchants say so far stickiness is way down from last year."
Supima Association of America president Jesse Curlee says mills are looking for stickiness, too. He made late December trips to mills in Japan, Thailand and Hong Kong and heard no lint stickiness complaints from the early 2002 shipments.
"And, they were looking awfully hard. There is still not a lot of new crop in the mills yet, but what they received they checked pretty quick" to see if they could expect a repeat of 2001.
Somewhat relieved
"So far, so good," he said. Curlee is somewhat relieved since by mid-summer reports were circulating that some producers were doing nothing to control whitefly to keep from spending money.
Williams and University of California integrated pest management specialist Pete Goodell acknowledge there apparently where producers who did nothing last season to mitigate stickiness-causing whitefly populations.
"Nevertheless, we have made serious progress in addressing this serious issue," said Williams. "We know that one year" of education and public relations "will not solve the problem."
Williams pledges to continue preaching the "No Sticky Cotton" gospel. He also is campaigning to make measuring for stickiness part of the USDA cotton classing process. Right now there is a zero stickiness tolerance. That may not be necessary, he said.
However, that is a peripheral issue to the more pressing issue importance of controlling stickiness-producing whitefly.
Whitefly were heavy last season. Maybe not as heavy as 2001, but certainly the No. 1 pest in the valley.
"I have seen more whitefly in the past two years than I have had in the previous 20," said Los Banos, Calif., consultant Mark Carter who works primarily on the West side of the San Joaquin Valley.
Light insect year
"Last season was a very light pest year for the typical cotton pests — spider mites, lygus and aphids. "Whitefly was the most serious pest growers and pest control advisers faced. It did require management to produce a quality crop. I am not sure I'd call it a severe whitefly problem, but there were areas where doing nothing created sticky cotton."
That was true for primarily the southern portion for the valley: Kern, Kings, eastern Tulare and for the first time western Fresno County where whitefly is typically a problem. The California Department of Food and Agriculture's pink bollworm program monitored whitefly levels as part of its PBW trapping program last season and confirmed that the whitefly continues to move north.
"There were places where growers did not have to do anything and still produced clean cotton. Others treated once with an insect growth regulator and controlled whitefly for the season. Others still treated more than once, at very low threshold levels over a wide area to preclude any chance of stickiness.
When the all-out assault was declared on the problem, California turned to Arizona for control strategies. In the early '90s, Arizona's cotton industry was brought to its knees by the same pest, but now the stickiness issue is past thanks to extensive research and subsequent control efforts, primarily relying on a pair of insect growth regulators, Knack and Courier (formerly called Applaud.)
Good Arizona job
Arizona has done such good job that last season Arizona short staple cotton was sought by mills as replacement for sticky SJV cotton.
Not unexpectedly, the cookie cutter approach did not work exactly.
Goodell said Arizona entomologists were not surprised at the differences discovered in 2001 between SJV whiteflies and Arizona whiteflies.
Nevertheless, Goodell said the Arizona models are the best available and he was glad they were available to California in a time of crisis. The role now is to tweak the Arizona system to fit SJV conditions.
"In Arizona it seems if they can control the incipient whitefly population in a field with the IGRs, they can delay on outbreak for weeks — until defoliation where they can use a pyrethroids to kill adults," said Goodell.
That does not seem to be the case in California where populations seem to build earlier. "We are getting adults on a regular basis after mid-July in higher numbers than in Arizona," said Goodell. There also seems to be a higher reproductive rate of whiteflies in cooler California.
"Some California pest control advisers think the Arizona model is triggering treatments too early," added Goodell.
Some contend that the greater crop diversity in the San Joaquin makes whitefly more plentiful by migration among crops.
"I don't think we have to re-invent the wheel based on what we saw last year. We don't have the time or resources for that," said Goodell. "What you have to remember we never had the opportunity to validate the Arizona model in California until we started advocating it valleywide."
Pressure too great
King County UC farm advisor Bruce Roberts said whitefly pressures are too great in California to start over. "What we have to do is validate what works to control whitefly and what does not under a wide array of conditions," he said.
"In 2001 when we had the big problem was unique. 9-11 grounded planes and the economics were so bad with cotton there was no money to treat for insects," Roberts said. That was not the case last season.
Roberts said a variety of things came together in 2002 to address the problem. Raising the awareness level was the first step. CDFA sampling for whitefly helped identify problem areas and will be critical in managing whitefly levels on a regional basis.
"CDFA's information is vital in identifying where problems may be surfacing during the season," said Roberts.
The San Joaquin Valley Cotton Board joined the anti-stickiness army by asking Shane Ball, University of California cotton specialist who manages its variety evaluations, to also monitor lint stickiness.
Last year Ball reported a dramatic drop in overall stickiness; 46 percent less in Acalas and 75 percent less in Pimas than the year before.
However, his data also showed dramatic ranges of lint stickiness by testing location and by variety within locations.
Although lint stickiness problems in mills has been traced mostly to whitefly-secreted honeydew, there are other factors that may come into play, like natural plant sugars, according to Roberts.
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"If there are varieties that have high natural sugar levels that could be a factor in heavy whitefly pressure situation, growers may want to avoid those varieties if they expect a whitefly problem in a specific location," said Roberts.
"The information Shane has developed is another critical element in the total complex issue of dealing with silverleaf whitefly and stickiness," said Roberts.
Roberts said one of the most perplexing entomological issues surrounding whitefly is the role lygus — more specifically, the lack of lygus — plays in the whitefly-stickiness problem.
"The lack of lygus over the past two years has helped us achieve significant yields in the valley yet whitefly pressure has been heavy those same two years," said Roberts. "The whitefly and lygus are two different critters, yet the question is have we been suppressing whitefly when we have to treat for lygus."
Questions on table
That is just one of the many questions still on the table in the all-out war declared on the whitefly and sticky cotton in the San Joaquin Valley. It is a brand new era for valley producers that will continue from now on.
Goodell said the stickiness controversy has moved cotton into the produce world where appearance and quality are paramount.
"To make sure SJV cotton stays in the game we have to prove we can deliver quality cotton fiber," said Goodell.
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|2012-02-04, 11:39
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Love how so many things tied together. Too bad brain didn't seem like a very important enemy during the time of his demise.
But we have first the bad guy Gerard, who ended up being used by Ulterar, then Ultear was being used by brain. Wonder if they will tie brain into being used by someone else.
|2012-02-04, 20:18
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Makes sense now why Ul was willing to use something as dangerous as Iced Shell to stop Deliora. She'd already lost her daughter (as far as she knew) and wasn't able to do anything for Ultear. So that time she'd make sure to save those that mattered to her and seal away Gray's darkness.
|2012-02-04, 20:34
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Wow. This episode was awesomeeeee, Gray did the right way to end the fight! Jump together in the water, leading to Ul's memories.. Which nearly made me cry =p, this episode was one of the emotional episode ever!
Knew that Ul would never ditch her daughter =3
|2012-02-05, 13:27
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I have some good news!
There's this Japanese blog site (shown here) that keeps track of various anime and manga, including Fairy Tail. And the blogger was invited to attend a special "talk event" where she (I'm certain it's a girl) got to ask a few questions of her choosing. One of them was whether or not the anime would continue after April. And, lo and behold, it will!
However, because my knowledge of Japanese is very limited, that's all I can make out for certain. There is an excerpt from the blog which I believe confirms the existence of an original filler arc that will have some input from Hiro Mashima, but I don't know if that's speculation or fact. Another thing I noticed was that apparently the anime will include new scenarios for two already-existing characters: one will be for the Earthland counterpart of Coco, the assistant chief of staff in Edolas, and another for Kinana, a Fairy Tail employee who was originally transformed as Cobra's pet snake.
In case I misread something, here is the excerpt:
4月以降はアニメオリジナル編になるそうで、製作には真島先生がガッツリ関わっておられるとのこ と。
原作で出来なかったことを詰め込むらしく、笑いあり・バトルあり・涙あり・・・の話になるんだ とか。
また、7年後の世界での原作では触れられていないキャラについて描かれるらしく、その他にも凄い色物が出て きたり、多数の新キャラが出てくるようだ。
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|2012-02-06, 22:12
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There was no new colour to the Ultear vs Gray fight if they continued anyway. Ultear would still have the upper hand, and keep sending the ice to the future. Nothing more than replaying the beginning fight scene over and over again, tbh.
The flashback was effective, I don't like too many flashbacks myself, but it's use got the general idea of why she hated Ul, and what actually happened. I mean, through less than half episode of flashback we were able to see how Ultear's darkness began to grow and develop.
|2012-02-07, 03:33
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I don't understand Ultear's fighting style anyway...
She can manipulate the time of objects, so she uses it to fling crystal balls around?!
That doesn't seem like a particularly effective use of her powers. Why doesn't she turn the time of the earth backwards so that the ground turns to lava?
Why doesn't she turn the time of her opponents clothes forward so they disintegrate? (mainly if she was fighting lucy ).
What about carrying around some kind of small very slightly radioactive pellets that she can accelerate the time of and cause a chain-reaction critical mini-nuclear explosion at will?!
See, that's how you use time ark, damn it.
|2012-02-07, 04:12
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It's probably easier to spawn some orbs instead of changing the planet Well, she did well by disabling Gray's ice, and she's a capable fighter, no need for cheap tricks when she can lock Gray's head between them thighs...
|2012-02-07, 07:45
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Well it only takes a few seconds for an orb to fly around.
It shouldn't take too long to melt ice in such hot temperatures either.
It depends whether the differing length of time is a factor or not, but if it is, lava, disintegration and high radioactivity should be centuries ago/later.
|2012-02-07, 08:04
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And clothes in Fairy Tail disintegrate in a matter of days even under normal circumstances (except Natsu's scarf)
|2012-02-07, 13:46
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Location: Orlando
Um...what's the use of FFing Gray's clothes, of all people? He fights half-naked anyway...
The lava thing can work only if they were on a volcanic island to begin with...and as for the radioactive pellet idea....
While it is possible that she can reduce a mountain to dust...the amount of magic power needed might be too much.
|2012-02-07, 15:59
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|2012-02-07, 17:43
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^ Of course. She was better then him and only way he won is because she was emotionally distracted. Don't get me wrong, the blood freezing moment was great idea for Gray and one should give him credit for that. It was a good fight, although the move that Gray did to ensure victory towards the end felt like a forced cheap-ass thing with only purpose that Gray has +1 on his winning score. They could have both stopped and part their ways. But that's shonen for you. You can't prove a point until you beat your opponent. -_-'
I saw a bit of English dub of this anime. Man, I could never get used to it. It's funny how Mystogan sounds the same even when his mouth is covered by clothing, unlike in a original. Voice work is a serious business in Japan indeed. ^^
|2012-02-07, 18:22
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|2012-02-07, 21:08
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For the time ark thing, maybe they have this equivalent energy exchange... in our world, law of energy conservation.
Lava (energy so great to melt things) loses its energy before turning into igneous rocks.
Radiation is even more energy, and additionally requires particles ... and I'm not sure about creating radiation in your magical control range
So Ultear might need to invest a lot of magical energy. I mean, Natsu can barely create lava himself.
|2012-02-08, 01:10
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So I guess it is safe to assume that Ultear will no longer be an enemy, and she could possibly be an ally from this point forward. I guess this increases Meldy's chances to become a Fairy Tail member.
They already converted Capricorn. Meldy should be next and both members of Grimoire Hearts that I wanted to join will join.
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OTTAWA — In July of 1969, Neil Armstrong and two other astronauts were in orbit around Earth, preparing to fire up another engine and accelerate toward the moon.
Ground-based radar showed their orbit was perfect. But they needed a position check.
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To understand the achievement of the first humans to walk on the moon, it's necessary to understand Armstrong's time, when astronauts had to calculate and use their ingenuity every step of the way because they didn't have today's computers and sensors.
We'll pick up the story from a NASA transcript 46 minutes after launch, as Apollo-11 flies 103.0 miles above the Earth:
Michael Collins is looking at a star called Menkent through the sextant, which incorporates a telescope and measures the angle between distant objects, such as a star and the horizon: "Okay, again, looking through the telescope. Okay, proceed to Menkent. There she goes. Menkent. Menkent. God, what a star."
Buzz Aldrin cuts in: "Nobody in their right —"
Collins is speaking at the same time: "Menkent's good."
Aldrin again: "Nobody in their right mind would pick that one." A moment later he adds: "Hey, I sure wish you'd get out that — that star chart."
Armstrong, the mission commander, joins the discussion: "Can't see a thing, huh?"
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Space travel is aided by powerful computers today, with laser guidance systems, with hardware and software no one even imagined in Armstrong's day. NASA would never dream of giving astronauts a second-rate optical instrument to find their way.
But using paper maps of the stars and the moon, carrying slide rules to do calculations, Apollo-11 made it to the moon safely, 389,645 km from Earth, and back.
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Neil Armstrong's burial on Friday coincides with the second full moon of August, known by some as a blue moon.
For 43 years the world has worshipped him as a hero.
He was one, by any definition. U.S. Navy test pilot, Korean War veteran, aerospace engineer, professor, astronaut. Yet he acquired — unjustly — the reputation of a recluse because he didn't want to do endless interviews.
The mission transcript of the crew's own words, once classified, is now public. It shows Armstrong as a quiet individual concerned with the details, not pontificating about the cosmos.
He let Aldrin and Collins make the jokes. The commander of Apollo-12 a few months later cussed a lot, called his crew mates "babe", made jokes and played Elvis tapes. Not Armstrong.
He did give one major TV interview in 2011 — to the Certified Practising Accountants of Australia. (The connection: His father was an auditor.)
"We were a congenial bunch but really focused on our responsibilities," he told the CPA interviewer. "We really could not afford the luxury of diverting our attention away from our primary responsibilities because problems usually occur when you least expect them and you can't get complacent."
He remained focused on the gauges and alarms (which kept going off at crucial times such as the descent to the moon), and on getting the photos and TV images that NASA desperately wanted.
Still, his few recorded comments show he was stunned by the moon.
Here's Armstrong, orbiting on the far side the moon: "What a spectacular view!"
Collins, the excitable one: "God, look at that moon! Fantastic. Look back there behind us, sure looks like a gigantic crater; look at the mountains going around it. My gosh, they're monsters."
Armstrong: "See that real big —"
Collins: "Yes, there's a moose down here (meaning a big formation) you just wouldn't believe. There's the biggest one yet. God, it's huge! It is enormous! It's so big I can't even get it in the window. You want to look at that? That's the biggest one you ever seen in your life. Neil? God, look at this central mountain peak.
Armstrong later, as the spacecraft swings from the dark side of the moon into daylight: "Mmm. Here comes the moon."
Collins: "Really beautiful ... I wonder where we are."
Armstrong: "We're going to stop here pretty soon, right?"
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When Apollo-11 reached the moon, the men had spent three days in a tiny cabin. It was dirty; urine leaked out of the disposal system and dried, leaving little brown particles in the landing module. Collins describes the spacecraft as "raunchy."
For three days, Armstrong had been in charge of reaching the moon, a moving target. He and his crew hit their planned orbit within a fraction of a mile.
But landing was hairy. The computer started issuing warnings on the descent (they turned out to be unimportant, but still scary), and the computer was directing the Eagle lander toward a crater with steep sides and big boulders.
"Not a good place to land at all," Armstrong told the Aussie TV interviewer. "So I took over manually and flew it like a helicopter ... found a level area and was able to get it down there safely before we ran out of fuel."
He had just 20 seconds of fuel left.
Then he and Aldrin shook hands. That was all the celebration they had time for.
Modern astronauts credit him with an amazing job of landing.
"Just an incredible pilot," says former Canadian astronaut Dave Williams, who is also a jet pilot. He met Armstrong in the 1990s and added, "he's the only person where I've seen other astronauts line up to get his autograph." He recalls the retired astronaut as "very humble."
Once on the ground, he was unusually talkative. Out poured all the tension of the landing as he confessed he wasn't sure where they had landed. It turned out to be four miles past the planned spot.
"We were a little busy worrying about program alarms and things like that in the part of the descent where we would normally be picking out our landing spot; and aside from a good look at several of the craters we came over in the final descent, I haven't been able to pick out the things on the horizon as a reference as yet," he told Mission Control.
This was Tranquility Base.
He added: "You might be interested to know that I don't think we notice any difficulty at all in adapting to one-sixth g (one-sixth of Earth gravity). It seems immediately natural to move in this environment."
"The area out the left hand window is a relatively level plain cratered with a fairly large number of craters of the five to 50 foot variety, and some ridges — small, 20, 30 feet high, I would guess, and literally thousands of little one- and two-foot craters around the area. We see some angular blocks out several hundred feet in front of us that are probably two feet in size and have angular edges. There is a hill in view, just about on the ground track ahead of us. Difficult to estimate, but might be a half a mile or a mile."
The landing spot, he said, was "really was rough, Mike. Over the targeted landing area, it was extremely rough, cratered, and large numbers of rocks."
Finally, a few hours later, Armstrong stepped onto the moon. We all know the next words, one small step, one giant leap, words that just popped into his head, he said. But he went on to tell people what the moon was actually like.
History doesn't emphasize those words: "And the — the surface is fine and powdery. I can — I can pick it up loosely with my toe. It does adhere in fine layers like powdered charcoal to the sole and sides of my boots. I only go in a small fraction of an inch, maybe an eighth of an inch, but I can see the footprints of my boots and the treads in the fine, sandy particles."
He later recalled the moonwalk as "pleasant," adding: "The primary difficulty was just far too little time to do the variety of things we would have liked. We had the problem of the five-year-old boy in a candy store."
But Armstrong always insisted that landing safely, not the moonwalk, was the main achievement. That achieved Kennedy's and NASA's goal. The "one giant leap" was gravy.
After tramping around to gather samples and measure the solar wind, Armstrong slept in a homemade hammock and Aldrin lay on the floor of the Eagle module. Both woke up sore and covered in scratchy moon dust "like chimney sweeps."
They flew back to orbit and Armstrong almost uttered another quote for the history books.
As they left the moon's surface, Armstrong's voice is recorded as saying: "The Eagle is ..." But Aldrin interrupted: "Be advised of the pitchover." And it was back to the technical language of flying, though Armstrong did have time to wonder why he was sitting on three 3,500-pound rockets and couldn't hear them.
Liftoff from the moon, he noted, was gentle, like the floor rising up to meet him. There was a "spectacular ride" over features that NASA has nicknamed, such as Mount Marilyn (for the wife of astronaut Jim Lovell, of Apollo-8 and Apollo-13) and U.S. 1 (after the highway.)
In orbit, Armstrong squinted through the little telescope to try to find Collins and the command module shining in the unfiltered sunlight. But he allowed himself a little humour, asking Collins: "You're not confused on which end to dock with, are you?"
And then they came home safely.
"Neil demonstrated back in Gemini (his first flight, in 1966) that having a human in the loop is critical," Dave Williams says. Robots like the ones on Mars can't do it all; Armstrong fixed a thruster on Gemini that was stuck in the On position and was throwing the spaceship off course.
Gordon Shepherd of York University was one of the few Canadians in the space business in the 1960s, when he worked on the satellite Alouette-2.
"I think that the early successes were based on two things: common sense and individual responsibility," he said.
"People were in a hurry to get things done then, so individuals were given responsibility and they used their common sense, and the available tools, and moved ahead as quickly as they could. This did include thorough hardware testing, but also using simple tools (such as the sextant) where they provided adequate solutions."
Today's space community is different. "Agencies now are very sensitive to risk, and this generally means that individuals don't take the whole responsibility. They are monitored through procedures, and by others, in an attempt to ensure that all flaws are identified and dealt with."
In his Australian interview last year, Armstrong acknowledged the enormity of being on the moon was "special and memorable — but it was only instantaneous. There was work to do and they (Mission Control) were all over us with checklists.
"We weren't there to meditate," he said. "We were there to get things done."


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I'm looking at network taps to direct traffic to a IDS. Does anyone here have experience working with such a device?
The plans are to get something like it on a pipe that passes an obscene amount of traffic, and I need assurance that such a device will not cause any noticeable delay.
So far I've only seen them sold by small time vendors, still googlin' around though..


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An interreligious resource
Sexual Violence - The Sin Revisited
The Sin Revisited
Love Does No Harm: Sexual Ethics for the Rest of Us
A practical book about nonsexist sexual ethics in relation to family values.
Trauma and Recovery
This book by Judith Herman has changed the way in which we take into consideration and treat traumatic events and trauma victims. Trauma and Recovery is universally recognized as a classic in the field of psychology. In an afterword written for this edition, Herman describes the controversy that has surrounded her work, the recent research that has emerged in the field, and the far-reaching implications that this book has had in trauma stiuations around the world.
When Violence Is No Stranger: Pastoral Counseling with Survivors of Acquaintance Rape
Focusing on the psychospiritual effects of this sexualized violence, author Kristen Leslie offers the psychological and theological tools to religious professionals for understanding the deep spiritual trauma of the survivor.


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Safe, Legal, and Never
Hillary Clinton's anti-abortion strategy.
Two days ago, marking the anniversary of Roe v. Wade, Hillary Clinton gave a speech outlining her views on abortion, contraception, and abstinence. "Clinton Seeking Shared Ground Over Abortions," said the front page of the New York Times. "Hillary in the middle on values issues," agreed the Washington Times. But Clinton isn't trying to end the abortion war. She's repositioning her party to win it.
Clinton's speech basically updated the pro-choice message for the age of terrorism. She began by talking about Romania and China, two regimes that in the last two decades forced women to abort (in China's case) or not to abort (in Romania's case) pregnancies. Fifteen years ago, when legal abortion in this country was in doubt, pro-choice Democrats framed abortion laws as big government to turn libertarian voters against pro-life Republicans. Now that abortion's legality seems more secure, it's harder to scare libertarians about government in their bedrooms. And post-9/11 conservatism differs in emphasis from the conservatism of the late 1980s and 1990s. It's more like the Cold War, focused on right and wrong and freedom abroad. Tyranny overseas resonates at home. Bush says he's liberating women around the world; Clinton said Bush is repressing them with a "global gag rule" against internationally funded family planning.
It's hard for Americans to remember abortion bans here, much less imagine them today. What China and Romania illustrate is the ugly mechanics of turning anti-abortion morality into law. "Once a month, Romanian women were rounded up … taken to a government-controlled health clinic, told to disrobe while they were standing in line … [and] examined by a government doctor with a government secret police officer watching," Clinton recalled. "In China, local government officials used to monitor women's menstrual cycles and their use of contraceptives." In both cases, "the government was dictating the most private and important decisions," said Clinton. "With all of this talk about freedom as the defining goal of America, let's not forget the importance of the freedom of women to make the choices that are consistent with their faith and their sense of responsibility to their family and themselves."
Note the concluding words: faith, responsibility, family. This is the other side of Clinton's message: against the ugliness of state control, she wants to raise the banner of morality as well as freedom. Pro-choicers have tried this for 40 years, but they always run into a fatal objection: Abortion is so ugly that nobody who supports it can look moral. To earn real credibility, they'd have to admit it's bad. They often walk up to that line, but they always blink.
Not this time. Abortion is "a sad, even tragic choice to many, many women," said Clinton. Then she went further: "There is no reason why government cannot do more to educate and inform and provide assistance so that the choice guaranteed under our constitution either does not ever have to be exercised or only in very rare circumstances."
Does not ever have to be exercised. I searched Google and Nexis for parts of that sentence tonight and got no hits. Is the press corps asleep? Hillary Clinton just endorsed a goal I've never heard a pro-choice leader endorse. Not safe, legal, and rare. Safe, legal, and never.
Once you embrace that truth—that the ideal number of abortions is zero—voters open their ears. They listen when you point out, as Clinton did, that the abortion rate fell drastically during her husband's presidency but has risen in more states than it has fallen under George W. Bush. I'm sure these trends have more to do with economics than morals, but that's the point. Once we agree that the goal is zero, we can stop asking which party yaps more about fighting abortion and start asking which party gets results.
Admit the goal is zero, and people will rethink birth control. "Seven percent of American women who do not use contraception account for 53 percent of all unintended pregnancies," Clinton said. That number drew gasps from her pro-choice audience. I bet if she translated it to abortions, it would knock folks in Ohio out of their chairs. How many abortions are you willing to endure for the sake of avoiding the word "condom"? Clinton says we can cut the abortion rate through sex education, money for family planning, and requiring health insurers to cover contraceptives. What's your plan? Ban abortion and monitor everyone's womb like Romania did? Or ban it and look the other way while the pregnancies go on and the quacks take over?
Critics of birth control say the surest way to avoid unintended pregnancy is to avoid sex. They're right. I've heard a few liberals complain that this message is too preachy and encroaches on the sexuality of teenagers. With all due respect, it's time for Democrats to throw these people overboard. Many profound things are at stake in the abortion debate. Afternoon delight isn't high on the list.
Clinton seems to understand this. In her speech, she recalled campaigning for "teenage celibacy" a decade ago. She emphasized "the important role that parents can play in encouraging their children to abstain from sexual activity. … Research shows that the primary reason that teenage girls abstain is because of their religious and moral values. We should embrace this—and support programs that reinforce the idea that abstinence at a young age is not just the smart thing to do, it is the right thing to do."
Abstain. Parents. Religious and moral values. The right thing. This is the way to shake up the Democratic position on abortion—not with tiny defensive concessions but with a big offensive to promote responsibility and bring down the abortion rate. Bush has used a similar strategy to commandeer the education issue. According to polls, it has worked.
A message of responsibility allows Democrats to turn the moral tables on the GOP. "I for one respect those who believe with all their hearts and conscience that there are no circumstances under which any abortion should ever be available," Clinton declared. Many reporters touted that line as an olive branch. They overlooked her next sentence: "But that does not represent even the majority opinion within the anti-abortion community. There are exceptions for rape and for incest, for the life of the mother." In other words, Clinton has read the polls. She knows that most people who oppose abortion think it should be allowed for rape victims, because these victims didn't choose to have sex. From a crude standpoint of sexual responsibility, they're innocent.
Clinton spent much of her speech excoriating the administration on this question. She blasted the Food and Drug Administration for dragging its feet on approving Plan B, a morning-after pill. Then she demanded that the Justice Department add discussion of such pills to its treatment protocol for rape survivors who "may have had an unwanted pregnancy physically forced upon them." Aiming at cultural conservatives as well as liberals, she asked, "How is it possible that women who have been so victimized by violence can be victimized again by ideology?"
Above all, a message of responsibility breaks down the distinction between motherhood and contraception—the widespread attitude that there are two kinds of women: those who have babies and those who have birth control pills or, failing that, abortions. In reality, said Clinton, they are the same woman. "An average woman who wants two children will spend five years pregnant or trying to get pregnant and roughly 30 years trying to prevent pregnancy," she observed. You don't have to be against motherhood to line up behind birth control as the best anti-abortion strategy. You just have to be for it.