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NEW YORK (Reuters) - Former U.S. Treasury Secretary Lawrence Summers, a top contender for the leadership of the Federal Reserve, has been a consultant to large financial institutions, including Citigroup Inc, news that could fuel questions about his suitability to head the central bank.
Summers has built a reputation as a brilliant economist and a shrewd policymaker. But his roles with the financial firms could give ammunition to critics who argue he has too cozy a relationship with Wall Street to maintain the Fed's vaunted independence.
The central bank plays a key role in guiding the world's largest economy and has taken on new financial oversight responsibilities following the worst U.S. financial crisis since the Great Depression.
Summers was an important economic adviser to President Barack Obama during his 2008 campaign and first term. After heading the White House National Economic Council, he left the administration in 2010 to pursue a private-sector career.
Summers, who has also been paid to write a column for Reuters, burst back into public view this week as it emerged he might be the leading candidate to become Fed chairman.
The development aroused criticism from some liberals, who link Summers to deregulatory policies in the 1990s that many feel set the stage for the 2007-2009 financial crisis.
Before joining Obama's administration, Summers worked for hedge fund D.E. Shaw. Since leaving the White House, he has been a part-time adviser to venture capital firm Andreessen Horowitz.
Citigroup and Nasdaq confirmed to Reuters on Friday that he had also done work for them. His Citigroup and Nasdaq employment was first reported by the Wall Street Journal.
A spokeswoman for Summers declined to comment.
Citigroup said it had engaged Summers to talk to clients and staff about economic topics, but declined to say how much it paid him.
"In addition to speaking at internal meetings, we engage Mr. Summers for small private bank client and institutional client meetings, where he provides insight on a broad range of topics including the global and domestic economy," the financial powerhouse said in a statement.
A spokesman for the Nasdaq, Robert Madden, confirmed that Summers was an adviser to the exchange operator, but could not say how long Summers has had that role, or how much he was paid.
A person with direct knowledge said Summers had been an adviser to Nasdaq for "a number of years," but would not be more specific. The person asked to remain anonymous because of the sensitivity of the matter.
Speculation about Summers had reached sufficient volume on Friday for the White House to tamp down expectations of an announcement about the future of the Fed.
A senior White House official said no decision had been made about what to do when the term of current Fed Chairman Ben Bernanke expires on January 31. Bernanke is widely believed not to want to stay on for a third four-year term.
No announcement is imminent and none is likely before autumn, the official said.
Fed Vice Chair Janet Yellen is considered another leading candidate to head the central bank.
(Reporting by David Henry and John McCrank; Writing by Mark Felsenthal; Editing by Peter Cooney)


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From a fabulous album of photographs titled Old Views of Bath and District, H.G. Brampton. The album comprises 56 medium to large photographs of Bath from around the 1890s, each one pasted onto board as was the fashion at the time. Each print was probably obtained commercially as several have appeared elsewhere. This print was taken by John Poole of East Twerton (No. 194).
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SRA760 - Urban Ecologies
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Not available in 2018, please refer to SRD760 Geo-Planning and Design
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Students enrolled in S700 or S701 must enrol in campus mode
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Campus: 1 x 1 hour class per week, 1 x 2 hour seminar per week, 1 x 3 hour practical for 5 weeks. Cloud (online): Learning experiences are via CloudDeakin.
SRA760 involves an examination of the large scale urban development processes. Through the trimester the student is exposed and will experience the typical professional practice process involved in regional–scale designing and urban ecological inquiries that implicate prospective land identification, selection and evaluation as to its capacity to accommodate development including the environmental and aesthetic quality, physical and environmental carrying capacity and performance of land, its ability to economically and environmentally cater for and accommodate built environment developments and their associated infrastructure including a range of different built environment forms, densities, and land use typologies, and the scope as to staging, different environmental and economic values and attributes.. The unit as also includes a broad critical analysis of the contemporary social, economic and environmental challenges, theories and precedents that have shaped and currently inform the making of Australia's built environment including various strategies for forming new or regenerating existing urban territories.
The project-based format of the unit is scaffolded with classes that oversee the inquiry, its staging and its different levels and scales of inquiry, the use of geographic information systems (GIS) as a tool in research and modelling activities, while also addressing the theoretical parameters of urban ecology practice and theory. Students are presented with regional-scale extant or prospective urban contexts and conditions that introduce increasing complexity of physical, social, and environmental. Within this learning context, students are asked to critically consider contemporary greenfield/brownfield existing/prospective urban environments and their relation to differing ecologies.
Morphological analysis (individual 15%, group 20%) 35%, strategic ecological considerations (group) 30%, speculative design 35%
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The New York State Pollution Prevention Institute (NYSP2I) at Rochester Institute of Technology has announced the winners of its second-annual R&D student competition. Open to colleges and universities throughout the state, the event recognized both graduate- and undergraduate-level sustainability projects.
Teams from The City University of New York College of Staten Island (CUNY-CSI), Syracuse University and The New School in New York City earned top honors at the graduate level, while Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute, Clarkson University and RIT finished in the top three schools among undergraduates.
Earning the top three graduate-level positions:
Representing the top three undergraduate winners:
"We were thoroughly impressed by the innovative ideas that both the graduate- and undergraduate-level teams identified to help make their campuses more environmentally friendly," says Anahita Williamson, director of NYSP2I. "While we recognized six of the top teams, we thought all of the students did a tremendous job identifying opportunities and developing cost-effective and sustainable solutions for their respective campuses."
As part of its ongoing Research and Development Program, NYSP2I's Student Competition required teams of students to "Go Green on Campus" by identifying a specific activity at their college or university with a large environmental footprint and find a solution to make their campus more environmentally sustainable.
In all, 15 student teams from 10 schools—Clarkson, CUNY-CSI, The New School, RPI, RIT, Siena College, Skidmore College, SUNY College at Buffalo, University at Buffalo and Syracuse—displayed their projects and competed for prizes at the competition inside the Legislative Office Building in Albany on April 24.
In addition to the top three schools receiving trophies, each first-place team received $1,500 to share among team members; the second-place school received $750; and third place $250. The prize money was made possible through donations by sponsors, including Baldwin Richardson Foods Co., Counterparts Chemistry, General Electric Global Research Center, FMC, Rochester General Health System, Rochester Midland Corp., SI Group and Xerox Corp. Additional funding for the competition was provided by the New York State Department of Environmental Conservation.
NYSP2I provides comprehensive and integrated programming in technology research, development, training and education aimed at promoting sustainability across New York state. Partners include Clarkson, RPI, UB, and New York's 10 Regional Technology Development Centers. The institute is funded through the Environmental Protection Fund and managed by the state DEC.
NYSP2I promotes cost-effective, pollution-prevention techniques that aid businesses in reducing manufacturing costs, energy and water usage while and decreasing toxics and hazardous substances in overall waste streams—allowing companies to remain competitive in today's challenging global economy.
Go to http://www.nysp2i.rit.edu to learn more about NYSP2I.


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NEW YORK (AP) — In a politically charged standoff over police oversight in the nation's biggest city, Mayor Michael Bloomberg said Wednesday he'd veto a plan to put the New York Police Department under an outside watchdog's scrutiny, calling it a threat to hard-won safety.
But City Council Speaker Christine Quinn — a frequent Bloomberg ally who's been seen as likely to get his support to succeed him as mayor next year — said she'd guarantee a veto override if needed to create an inspector general for police, a proposal fueled by criticism of the police department's widespread use of the tactic known as stop and frisk and its surveillance of Muslims, spying revealed in a series of stories by The Associated Press.
A day after Quinn signaled the measure would pass the council after months in limbo, dividing lines were dug deeper over the plan, which would install a monitor with the power to subpoena documents and witnesses and the mandate to look at the procedures and policies of the nation's biggest police department.
Bloomberg urged lawmakers to oppose the plan, saying it would usher in an era of second-guessing for a police force that has worked to drive killings to record lows.
"Make no mistake about it: This bill jeopardizes that progress and will put the lives of New Yorkers and our police officers at risk," he said at the opening of a computer data center in a downtown high-rise — an example, he said, of economic activity flourishing in a city seen as safe. "...We cannot afford to play election-year politics with the safety of our city."
Quinn, however, said there was "absolutely no validity" to suggesting that more monitoring would compromise crime-fighting. She argues that closer scrutiny could instead help policing by building public confidence in officers.
"We have a situation right now in this city, whether we like it or not, where some of the practices of the Police Department have caused significant rifts between police and the community," she said at a news conference.
Quinn and colleagues backing the inspector general proposal reached an agreement on it Tuesday, positioning it to move toward a vote in the coming weeks. Quinn said Wednesday that talks were continuing on other proposals to set new rules surrounding stop and frisk: They would require officers to explain why they are stopping people and would give people more latitude to sue over stops they considered biased, among other provisions.
The developments come during a federal trial over the department's use of stop and frisk, and they follow AP stories that revealed how city police infiltrated Muslim student groups, put informants in mosques, monitored sermons and otherwise spied on Muslims as part of a broad effort to prevent terrorist attacks. Adding to the attention surrounding stop and frisk, violent protests rocked a Brooklyn neighborhood last week after police stopped a teen and ended up shooting him dead; they say he pulled out a gun.
Broached last year, the inspector general and stop-and-frisk proposals have become heated issues in November's competitive mayoral election; Bloomberg is term-limited.
Quinn, a top Democratic candidate, has faced pressure from civil rights and minority advocates and from some of her Democratic rivals to get the measures passed. One Democratic contender, Bill de Blasio, pressed the need for an inspector general at a news conference Tuesday, before Quinn announced lawmakers had agreed on it. Democrat Bill Thompson's campaign said the former city comptroller also supports the idea.
But some other hopefuls are speaking out against the plan for a monitor, including Democratic former Councilman Sal Albanese and Republicans John Catsimatidis, a billionaire businessman, and Joseph Lhota, a former chairman of the Metropolitan Transportation Authority. Former Bronx Borough President Adolfo Carrion's campaign said the Democrat-turned-independent, who's running on the Independence Party line and seeking the GOP nomination, also opposes the IG idea.
Republican George McDonald, who runs an organization that helps the homeless, is inclined to support the proposal but needs more details, a spokesman said.
The NYPD has said its surveillance of Muslims is legal and that stop and frisk has helped combat crime and save lives. The term refers to the police practice of stopping, questioning and sometimes patting down people who are seen as acting suspiciously but who don't necessarily meet the probable-cause standard for arrest.
Many government agencies, including the FBI and CIA, have inspectors general, or officials with investigative powers to explore conduct within the agency. So do the Los Angeles Police Department and other forces.
Civil rights advocates say the NYPD should, too. The inspector general would be housed within the city's Department of Investigation, which performs that function for many other city agencies.
Efforts to establish outside watchdogs for the NYPD go back decades. Voters in 1966 defeated a plan to put civilians on a board that reviewed complaints about police; more than 20 years later, private citizens ultimately were appointed to and now make up the Civilian Complaint Review Board, which deals mainly with allegations of misconduct against individual officers. A special commission that explored a 1990s police corruption scandal recommended empowering an ongoing, independent board to investigate corruption; a Commission to Combat Police Corruption was established in 1995, but it lacks subpoena power.
The Police Department has its own 700-person Internal Affairs Bureau that examines officers' conduct, and courts have exercised some oversight, including through a 1985 federal court settlement that set guidelines for the NYPD's intelligence-gathering.
Supporters say an inspector general would look more broadly at police activities than the current agencies do. But Bloomberg said they already provide robust monitoring and noted that prosecutors can pursue charges against officers suspected of criminal misconduct.
The council proposal, he said, amounted to "a policy supervisor" who could conflict with the police commissioner.
"There would be questions in the ranks of police officers about who's really in charge and whose policies they should follow," Bloomberg said.
Quinn rebuffed those concerns, saying the inspector general would issue reports and shine a light on the workings of the police department, but not change policy.
Civil rights and police reform advocates said they were pleased with the pact on the inspector general measure but were continuing to press for the other measures. Police unions condemned the inspector general idea as squandering resources on red tape, and the police department said it gets plenty of oversight.
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RE: Nazi alert and other people's reactions
ok. makes sense. Now WTF is ghost on about.
When you are courting a nice girl an hour seems like a second. When you sit on a red-hot cinder a second seems like an hour. That's relativity.
You cannot successfully determine beforehand which side of the bread to butter.
26-01-2013, 11:30 AM (This post was last modified: 26-01-2013 11:48 AM by Luminon.)
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(26-01-2013 11:22 AM)Xinoftruden Wrote: ok. makes sense. Now WTF is ghost on about.Well, he kept disagreeing with me and all that time I was trying to find out why. I refuse to believe people just disagree for no reason, I believe we all can agree if we come clear about our reasons.
I see it now, he had some unclear definitions of things. And in his world things are mostly black and white, full of absolutes, which is not like things are in reality. So I pointed that out and included some fun reference to Star Wars and I got myself a cup of hemlock.
As I said, we all have our weak spots. Matt seems to me a good guy with a too vague definition of goodness. Questioning the vagueness of definition isn't questioning his goodness.
We sometimes take things personally for no reason. For example in my class of politology, I gave a presentation on the lobbyist groups and there was some small discussion on politics. I mentioned I was at an anti-government demonstration, on which we had some police brutality. Then the teacher said "I'll show you how a revolution looks like." Something in his voice made me really offended, as if I was too young and stupid to know what a demonstration and police brutality means. I felt a pang of anger and just barely controlled myself. It was a well-disguised spasm of inferiority complex. Then I realized he just meant to show some Youtube video from that very city square 23 years ago, he was actually interested and wanted to contribute. You see how our brains fuck with us.
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27-01-2013, 02:21 PM (This post was last modified: 27-01-2013 02:56 PM by Zat.)
RE: Nazi alert and other people's reactions
Luminon, I would have never gone to this thread but for noticing your name.
After your responding to my crying-the-wilderness thread ("Proposal for a New Social Contract") I wanted to know what you had to say -- and I was very impressed.
First of all, your command of English is excellent, considering you are still a student in the Czech Republic. (I am from Hungary, BTW.)
Second, You are very clear about your ideas and express them with a lively language, often delightfully funny.
Third, I recognized my own lines at least a dozen times in your OP (I am a retired Theoretical Physicist who always insisted on solving human problems with the scientific method).
Fourth, I have been battling with your lawyer (and his kind) for decades to get the most obvious and simple ideas through their brain, without much success.
Finally, I have not read the rest of the thread yet, but I will, and I am almost sure I know what kind of responses you received.
I hope I am wrong.
I have scanned the thread -- I have to say, Luminon, you have the patience of a saint or a Chinese executioner (I read this line onece and liked it.)
Quoting from my all-time favourite science fiction novel: "Kazohinia" by Sandor Szathmary:
"I told him about Plato's state, Saint Thomas Aquinas's principles of the divine universality of the outcome of labour, the common work of the
Cathari and the Hussites, Fourier's phalansteries, Thomas More's Utopia, Proudhon's people's bank, Louis Blanc's national workshops, Robert
Owen's social manufacturing plants, the communal states of the Dominicans and Jesuits in South America, and finally I came to
scientific socialism and the latest theories, to the plans of Marx, Lenin, Bakunin, Bernstein, Kropotkin, Kautsky and Plekhanov, and to
technocracy and the democratic socialism of the Fabian Society, Wells and the Webbs. I spoke of the work theory of mercantilism and
physiocracy, of the liberalism of Adam Smith, and of the trade unions; nor did I fail to mention the ideas that had not materialized, such as
Georgism, syndicalism and anarchism.
For his life he could not understand how it was possible to imagine so many things concerning such a simple thing as life."
27-01-2013, 07:18 PM (This post was last modified: 27-01-2013 07:27 PM by Peterkin.)
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People who are deeply invested in the status quo are usually reluctant to consider anything different. If their minds are totally closed, no approach will work.
Sometimes, they just think you're floating a crackpot idea and will counter it with crackpot objections, but once you've overcome those (and it's a good idea to have a glib reply ready for each of the standard objections - then move right on), there may be some way to reach them.
I'll suggest a JM Barrie play, The Admirable Crichton - quite good in the cinematic version - or maybe the Verne classic, Mysterious Island. Really, any shipwreck or pioneer or wilderness survival story illustrates how a resource-based economy works. ("Oh, sure, that's okay if you have half a dozen people and no wealth...." or "Yeah, people can co-operate in an emergency, but once the flood's over, they turn into ravening beasts...." ) Most people have some kind of mental block to the fact that resource economy and mutualism were the human norm far longer than money-based, top-down systems, and continue to operate alongside, and underneath, the monetized economy, which would sink without that support - and that they themselves participate in that sub-economy every time they help a cousin move or babysit for the neighbours. You could even point out that modern industrial societies work in spite of the 'job-creators' - just as most of us have observed the Dilbert principle in our work-places: that projects get done in spite of managers.
As for the hyperbole - yelling "slavery!", "totalitarian" or "fascist!" every twelve minutes, with or without provocation - that's just a conversational tic of our times.
If you pray to anything, you're prey to anything.
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(27-01-2013 02:21 PM)Zat Wrote: Luminon, I would have never gone to this thread but for noticing your name.Thank you. I feel like I can't take credit for anything I say, because I merely repeat what I see in nature and society. I notice the patterns, generalize them, apply them elsewhere and put it into words... It's hardly original anymore and wasn't since Jacque Fresco started doing his own crying in the wilderness. Anyone can do and see the same. That's why they say, great minds think alike, there is a unified pattern in the world that they can follow. The last drop was when I noticed that K. H. Borovsky, my countryman and famous journalist from 150 years ago basically wrote the same principles of society and municipality that I noticed. The same need for harmonic preservation vs. development and self-realization, the necessity to be and the necessity to become.
This is what makes me certain we are not just another ideologues who bring another well-intended totalitarian regime. Ideologues (crackpots) are intelligent people with correct ideas. However, they apply these ideas much more broadly than they should be applied. They don't see that if one solution works, it doesn't mean it works everywhere, it's not an absolute solution. If we give a knife to a barbarian, he will successfully open, let's say, some oysters and mussels. He will also try to open a can of food with it, and with some effort he succeeds. Then he will see someone closed-minded and he will try the proven method of opening things...
Which makes me wonder why people aren't able to perceive these patterns. As you say, they have heavily invested into the current system. They may consider this world the best of possible worlds. I think these people can be cured with statistics. Show them the poverty, violence and excess that this system causes and show them that their relative stability is just an anomaly in the system, not a rule and that much of their taxes still goes on weapons to maintain the fragile security.
There are others, who's thinking tends to lean towards absolutes. The false dichotomy of absolute government vs. absolute freedom. I'd say the government is the daddy and the market economy is the mommy and it's time to move out of the basement and have our own life.
In a sense, all of humanity are like "children of one God" (not in any religious sense, but a poetic expression of equality), and in a sense, we are like children. Not that I had any contact with children since I was one myself, so I'd might use some corrections here.
Right now, someone said that this world is like a large evil Disneyland. I couldn't find the author of this quote (thank you!), but I must agree and be inspired. What is it, but one big amusement park? We are hypnotized by the glitter of money, media, sport games and alcohol. With honorable place devoted to Hollywood, the tinsel town. We spend our money running between the merry-go-round of work and fun. We scream with delight and terror on the rollercoaster of personal finance and business, sometimes we're up, sometimes down. Of course, as every evil institution, this evil Disneyland relies on lots and lots of child labor to run and maintain the attractions, working invisible behind the scenes and below the floors of the privileged. The privileged children have mostly no idea about the work, suffering and death of the others. If they knew and saw, they'd be horrified and wanted to help, we're only children, after all. Easy to distract, easy to control, yet innately seeking fairness, capable of empathy in other children, terrified of evil and pain.
Let's say I deal with religious people. Jesus reputedly said, that if you want to enter the Kingdom of God, you have to be like children. Well then, what are children like? Children live in their house where they belong, yet the house does not belong to them. They don't go to work. They play most of the time. They share their toys. They receive clothes and food. They go to school often, preparing for their future life. They help around the house to keep it in order. They don't fight in wars. They don't pay taxes. They don't get paycheck according to worked hours. They don't go to jail. They're punished in a way they can understand.
I am told by an esotericist about a special kind of livingness, a special mode of perceiving the world, that a child has. It is a mode of total focus on whatever we're doing, that is totally important at the moment. It is a time when we feel more alive than we ever were. We forget it soon of course, the television, school and parents get us out of it quickly. But I believe recently I had glimpses of this state again. A stimulus of being in touch with the world, being in a stimulating environment, such a delightful meaning and purpose, compared to which money and property is nothing (but an instrument). And it can only resurface in an environment that is simple and allows us to focus without too many mundane distractions. And this intense livingness in simplicity, doing exactly what we're meant to do, what is the best we could do, is better than any kind of standardized mass entertainment that the Disneyland can offer.
All these lawyers are concerned with whether one has a hypothetical chance to try every attraction in Disneyland and call it freedom, but nobody is truly free if he is not free to discover the one thing he does best. And for this new kind of livingness it is worthy to shut down the bizarre circus-like decorations (that Tim Kring is so fond of), dismantle and rebuild the Disneyland into something entirely different. It is very diffcult to explain and convey the experience, but when people get a hint of it, they will always want more of it.
I know it's not exactly to the topic, but I had this thought a long time and had to write it down somewhere. Thoughts want someone to say them, or they move on to someone else
(27-01-2013 02:21 PM)Zat Wrote: I have scanned the thread -- I have to say, Luminon, you have the patience of a saint or a Chinese executioner (I read this line onece and liked it.)I'm not an Unitarian, but I'm a lot like them. There is a saying, arguing with a Unitarian Universalist is like mud-wrestling with a pig, you'll see the pig actually likes it
(27-01-2013 02:21 PM)Zat Wrote: Quoting from my all-time favourite science fiction novel: "Kazohinia" by Sandor Szathmary:This looks like a book I'd love to read. I thoroughly enjoyed Huxley's Brave new world, but also on a more serious note Ursula LeGuin's Ecumen series and similar works, each a sociologic study.
However, it seems there is no available digital English version of the book. Looks like the digital buccaneers have some reserves in the cultural department
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28-01-2013, 12:54 PM (This post was last modified: 28-01-2013 01:53 PM by Zat.)
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Quote:This is what makes me certain we are not just another ideologues who bring another well-intended totalitarian regime.
This is the hardest to convince people about. They have lived ALL their lives under some ideology, one kind or another, and they just can not conceive of an ideologyless existence. More precisely: they see it as a choice between ideology and chaos (a total lack of convictions). If you have any convictions, you are an idealogue, by definition.
If it were possible to make them try to approach the social arena as an engineering problem, they might see that it all boils down to common sense and basic arithmatic. However, social engineering has a bad name due to misuse over history, so don't even try to mention it.
Quote:Which makes me wonder why people aren't able to perceive these patterns. As you say, they have heavily invested into the current system. They may consider this world the best of possible worlds. I think these people can be cured with statistics.
Believe me, I tried it and tried it and tried till the cows came home, without any effect. We are so jaded with statistics that numbers don't mean anything to anyone any more. You may cite the ten million children starving to death every year and they yawn. You may mention the thousands of nuclear missiles on hair trigger alert aimed at their children and they don't think that something horrible is happening and some new thinking is required. You may mention climate change and the looming catastrophe and they say: shit happens! You may mention the UN report according to which 90% of our resources is WASTED on non-productive activities (mostly related to money) and they will tell you that you can't exist without money, so what is your problem? Not all of them, not all the time, but nobody (almost nobody) seems to realize that something drastically new is required because trying the same old thing(s) that never worked before, won't save our collective asses.
Quote:There are others, who's thinking tends to lean towards absolutes. The false dichotomy of absolute government vs. absolute freedom.
Oh yes, the most popular dirty word in the US today is "government". It is supposed to be our government. Elected by us, free to participate in it, staffed by human beings just as we are, having a mandate (the constitution) to carry out and protect. So what is wrong with that?
Yes, of course governments are corrupted, not by the power they have but by the bastards holding the money bags and bribing, blackmailing, obstructing, paralizing, using as their own private source of income and influence. Governments are not-by-nature-corrupt -- they are corrupt because we, the citizens allow them to be corrupted, by our laziness, refusing to participate actively in the democratic process, other than casting a vote once every 2-4 years, even if we bother to do even that.
There are a number of popular misconceptions that are almost impossible to make people examine, so deeply ingrained they are (heavily spread and supported by the powers that be).
Here are a few:
- Governments are inefficient, corrupt, useless, dangerous -- the enemy #1
- People would starve to death without money.
- People would not make an effort, unless they are 'motivated' by hunger, poverty, insecurity and competition.
- People do not know how to intelligently organize a large project (in spite of counter examples like world wars, moon landing, etc).
- Human nature prevents us from co-operating in intelligent, scientific ways.
- Any effort to organize all of society into a well-functioning unit is TOTALITARIANISM!
- It is impossible to base a social organization (government, economics, etc) on basic principles, logic and simple arithmetic.
Quote:This looks like a book I'd love to read. I thoroughly enjoyed Huxley's Brave new world, but also on a more serious note Ursula LeGuin's Ecumen series and similar works, each a sociologic study.
The reason I consider Kazohinia the most important book I have ever read is the following: It was the first book that convinced me, that all the world's problems are both artificial and unsolvable. Life is so incredibly simple that we could do it extremely well, with a millionth of the energy exerted now, if that is what we in fact wanted.
As Zatamon (my hero) said when Gulliver told him about the different political and economic systems: "Does it matter in what system you are sick?"
The solutions to mankind's problems are so obvious and so simple that the only reason they don't get solved, millennia after millennia, is the fact that nobody wants to solve them. Not the leaders and not
their supporters.
This knowledge liberated my mind from the compulsion of trying to figure out what would work. I had my answer: nothing would work with our species at this moment of evolutionary development.
If you PM me an email address, I can email you a zippeed file with the English translation. Sorry, but I do not have a link any more.
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When I learned about the Czech national renaissance, the rise of nationalism, I was taught about one thing. The Austro-Hungarian empire was a relatively modern, legal state.
However, it failed because of a total lack of mutuality. Nobody was willing to endorse and include anything but his own. Those who were on top, did nothing for those at the bottom. The majority never did anything for a minority and the minority never submitted to majority. And everyone were trying extremely hard not to be a minority, at all costs.
This took an extreme form with the rise of nationalism. Nationalists loved their nation and hated the other nations. They called themselves patriots.
Yet I doubt so. I'd say there were little or no patriots in the whole Europe. A nationalist who is a patriot towards his nation only and hates and fears the other nations is a barbarian. If he was truly a patriot, he would know that other nations would never permit his nation to rise and develop, out of fear that this nation might in turn oppress them, which was a very justified fear in all the decades of Austrian empire and later. Although my nation is seen as small, weak and harmless, it once ruled the Europe and in 19th century had a nasty history of conflicts with Germans in the borderlands. Previously a non-differentiated ethnic German and Czech populations lived together. With nationalism, they started to make difference between one another and this went into power struggle over money, offices and eventually the land and self-determination. I believe today we face a shift from practical patriotism towards a cultural patriotism, we've had the fun with our otherness and now the young generation hopefully puts it away and both go on the net speaking English.
Who wants to be a true patriot, must understand the game theory. If a nationalist oppresses any other nation, preventively or not, that nation will in turn sabotage and oppress his own nation. Therefore a true patriot benefits his nation by benefiting the other nations. One can not celebrate his own nation's worth without sincerely wishing and celebrating the other nations' worth. There is no other way, either patriotism means to support and celebrate everyone's patriotism, or we're only barbarians. But then the universal patriotism, the applied understanding of the prisoner's dilemma is essentially a universal brotherhood.
From many historical examples, not just the Austrian empire you'll see, that the game theory was ignored or generally misunderstood. By this you can see which politicians are barbarians. If they paint targets on persons, cities and nations, they failed at their exams. We know that politicians are stupid and ignorant.
Frankly, I don't believe in the principle of representation. Stupid voters will elect stupid people, because this is the kind of smartness they can understand. And the politicians then do as they're told by the interest groups.
I am appalled that politicians are allowed into the office without any education on ethics, philosophy, game theory, conflict resolution and so on! Since Socrates went around Athens, asking politicians what is justice, not much changed. We allow our representatives to be stupid. We let them directly into the chair. Ideally, an elected politician should be first sent to another term to a university and be given real world ethical / national problems and conflicts to solve, created by a team of professors and so on. He'd have to prove he can pass these tests and then he'd go into the office. The politician shouldn't be given any answers, he'd have to create his own answers in the mid-term and then the professors would help him to hone these into perfection for the finals... or let him fail.
I think that might help us outlast the years remaining to a non-political system.
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That's almost like asking for people to be trained in child-care before they have babies - unthinkable!
Practical, sensible; would prevent all kinds of childhood ailments and accidents - yet unthinkable.
People tend to confound equality under the law with equal competence and the freedom to pursue happiness with the instant, constant gratification of ad-implanted desires.
There is also the minor but persistent problem of forming unassailable cause-effect links between random contemporaneous observed phenomena (actual and/or apprehended).
I proposed replacing the election process by one like jury duty - that is, short-term service by as many citizens as possible, in configurations that can't be manipulated by any one interest group. This would mean that council members must work toward solving problems as a team with people whose point of view they would not normally hear, that officials would have to live with the results of their decisions, and that no individual or faction could consolidate power.
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(28-01-2013 02:36 PM)Peterkin Wrote: That's almost like asking for people to be trained in child-care before they have babies - unthinkable!I'm sorry, I actually forgot. The Count Hans-Adam II. of Liechtenstein actually did away with this kind of political crap. He figured out a system in which there is a minimal government.
What is the greatest part of the state budget? The social expenses. And where are they spent? Mostly in municipal and regional health and care institutions, schools, etc. So why the hell do we have them in the national budget? Why don't the money stay on the regional and municipal level? Let's leave the money where we need them and then fire the almost three hundred idiots that steal them and dumb us down with their elections every couple years or so. Never again we'd have to hear of their arrogance, criminality and idiocy. (I'm freshly after presidential elections that had nothing to do with democracy or decency)
Hans says all direct taxes like income tax should go to the municipalities and regions to finance the social services and so on. The municipalities should be largely autonomous (he loves the Swiss model) and the state should have only about 25 people to handle things like defense, foreign contact and paying off the foreign debts from indirect taxes.
Anyway, the centralized/federal model is an anachronism from times when nations were fresh and might break apart any time, so there was the need for a central institution.
I mean, it's Europe. The 25 guys should handle not just the tiny Liechtenstein, but up to a larger nation like mine, 10 million people, which is the average on European standards.
I like where Hans Adam would take the history. The only thing I don't like in his model is the banking system - he proposes to control the currency value with meticulous metallurgy and dynamic changing of gold content in coins, which is a bit old-fashioned, I think. A worldwide international ban of interest and financial speculation would solve the problem much better and would allow us to keep using credit cards and PayPal.
RE: Nazi alert and other people's reactions
Funny how one's expectations are often disappointed.
Based on past experience, I expected a lot of arguments with my last post on this thread and -- not a word -- even though I made 'outrageous' claims. Either everybody who read it agreed with me, or they thought it was so far out of the box that no answer was possible (or worth bothering with).
In either case, I think I pretty well covered it, at least from my own perspective.
Since it was only an experiment, no harm done to my ego!
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Manchester Crimewatch: City man pleads innocent to threatening police officer
November 20. 2012 10:08PM
MANCHESTER - Jonathan Gallego, 20, of 30 Enfield St., pleaded innocent Tuesday in Circuit Court-Manchester District Division to charges of criminal threatening and breach of bail conditions.
Police said Gallego was at the Hillsborough County jail on Valley Street when a police officer brought in another prisoner and Gallego said to the officer: "I'll kill you. I'll get you on the street."
Gallego was charged with breach of bail conditions because he was being held on another charge at the time with bail conditions that included not committing another crime.
Bail was continued at $5,000 surety and trial was set for Feb. 5, 2013.
Accused of illegal tattoo
Philip Petrin, 28, of 233 Spruce St., pleaded innocent Tuesday in Circuit Court-Manchester District Division to a misdemeanor charge of endangering the welfare of a child by tattooing a 16-year-old, without parental permission, at the Spruce Street address Aug. 3.
Petrin could enter no plea to a felony charge of possession of a controlled drug for having suboxone in his possession in the Manchester Police Department booking area Nov. 3.
Petrin is free on $1,000 surety bail. A probable cause hearing is set for Dec. 12 on the felony and trial on the misdemeanor is set for Feb. 12, 2013.
Victim was assaulted
Bail was set at $10,000 cash/surety Tuesday in Circuit Court-Manchester District Division for Travis Beach, 28, of 14 Elmer St., Hooksett, on felony robbery and burglary charges.
Beach is accused of entering an apartment at 455 Pine St. with another man and of punching and kicking a man in the apartment in the head and chest, causing fractures and other injuries. Beach is accused of taking $140 in cash from the victim's wallet.
Beach, whose criminal history includes shoplifting, burglary, second degree assault, simple assault and theft, was already being held on a total of $25,000 cash/surety bail on two other sets of charges, including burglary, theft by deception and receiving stolen property.
A probable cause hearing on the latest set of charges was set for Dec. 5.
Accused of taking vehicle
A man accused of taking a van without permission Nov. 12 and of threatening a man and a woman, telling the woman: "Shut .... up or I'll kick your face in," pleaded innocent to all charges Tuesday in Circuit Court-Manchester District Division.
Bail was set at $1,000 cash/surety for Lyle Belanger, 40, of 901 Mammoth Road, with conditions that include no contact with the two alleged threat victims. Trial was set for Jan. 31, 2013.
2 arrested for prostitution
Police working undercover in the area of Enright Park Monday afternoon said Tiffany Dionne, 33, of 168 Merrimack St., who had been acting suspiciously in the area, entered the passenger seat of a vehicle that had stopped. Officers followed the vehicle at it traveled north and stopped it in the area of W. Haven Road and Webster Street.
Police said further investigation developed information that James Rose, 55, of 854 Beech St., had paid Dionne money in exchange for sexual contact and both were arrested and charged with prostitution.
Dionne pleaded innocent Tuesday in Circuit Court-Manchester District Division and trial was set for Feb. 11, 2013. But because Dionne was out on bail on another charge, with trial scheduled for Dec. 4, police prosecutors filed a motion to revoke her bail and she was ordered held overnight for a bail revocation hearing Wednesday morning.
Rose, who was released on $500 personal recognizance bail is scheduled for arraignment Dec. 5.
Imposter takes cash
Police responded Monday morning to a reported theft at TN Convenience, 90 Bridge St., where a motorist said a man posing as a gas attendant had stolen money from him.
The man said when he pulled up to the gas pumps at the convenience store, a man approached him and offered to pump the gas. The man said he needed cash up front to activate the pump and took the customer's cash and approached the store, presumably to turn on the pump.
But when the man failed to return, the customer became suspicious and confirmed with the cashier that he had been duped. Based on the description provided, police located the fake attendant in a common bathroom at 502 Chestnut St., where he lives.
Ariel Majias, 46, was pulled from hiding in a corner of the bathroom and charged with theft and resisting arrest.


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Month after fiery crash, Brown wins Gatornationals
Mar. 17, 2013
GAINESVILLE, Fla. (AP) — Antron Brown still has some lingering back issues following a fiery crash at last month's NHRA season opener.
Celebrating a victory at the Gatornationals on Sunday surely helped ease the pain.
Exactly a month after a harrowing wreck sent Brown sliding across the Pomona track with little left of his dragster, the defending class champion found his way back to the top of the field.
Brown used the fastest pass of the day to edge Clay Millican in the Top Fuel final Sunday, covering the 1,000-foot strip in 3.761 seconds and reaching 318.77 mph.
"No, there were no thoughts (about Pomona)," Brown said. "What you do is you have to treat each run as its own run. ... You can't think about what happened in the last run, whether it's a world-record run or you flipped upside down.
"If you don't, these cars go so fast that if you're thinking about something that you're not supposed to, you put yourself in a serious, dangerous moment and the other people that you're racing against."
His win was his 22nd in Top Fuel and gave Don Schumacher Racing its 200th career victory. Only John Force Racing has more wins (218) in NHRA history.
Schumacher picked up win No. 199 just a few minutes earlier when Johnny Gray beat Del Worsham in the Funny Car final. It was Gray's fourth career victory and first in the 59-year-old driver's final season. Gray plans to retire at the end of 2013.
And winning did nothing to change his mind.
"It's very grueling just to come do all the races and all the traveling that's involved," Gray said. "There's a lot of other things I want to do. Anybody my age will tell you it's fun to kick a kid's (butt). That's just fun. But it's time to go play with the kids and the grandkids."
Schumacher donned a red hat commemorating his 200th victory and broke down in post-race interviews while talking about how he couldn't celebrate class titles in Top Fuel and Funny Car last November because his mother died the day of the NHRA banquet.
"I haven't had joy really since then," Schumacher said, pausing to compose himself. "Today brings a special meaning to all my efforts out here, for all of these years, from the mid-60s until today."
Schumacher won five times as a driver. The other 195 victories came from drivers: son Tony Schumacher, Ron Capps, Jack Beckman, Matt Hagan and others.
The list, of course, includes Brown and Gray.
Brown walked away from the season-opening crash mostly unscathed. He got back in the car two weeks ago at Phoenix, but lost in the semifinals.
"I bruised my spine, so it just takes time for the bone to heal," Brown said. "It is what it is. In another few weeks, I'll be together. In Phoenix, when I stepped on the gas, it kind of hurt where it took your breath away. Here, I'm almost back to a hundred percent and ready to race."
Brown had four of the top five passes of Sunday's finals. He knocked off Larry Dixon, Steve Torrence and Spencer Massey en route to the final.
"Hopefully we can just put Pomona behind us and keep moving forward," Brown said.
Other winners included Allen Johnson and Hector Arana Jr.
Johnson used a hole-shot victory to edge Jeg Coughlin in the Pro Stock division. Coughlin had the faster quarter-mile time, but Johnson beat him off the line and down the track.
Arana won the Pro Stock Motorcycle class, besting his father in the semifinals and edging Steve Johnson in the final.
It was a rough weekend for all the NHRA points leaders. Tony Schumacher (Top Fuel), Capps (Funny Car) and Vincent Nobile (Pro Stock) lost before the finals.
Thanks to Brown, Don Schumacher was the big winner.
"You don't count things like that," he said. "At least I don't. You don't look to win 200 NHRA national meets. That's an incredible number. Never thought it would happen. Never even considered it. ... These races are very, very hard to win. (Cars) are very close, very tight. ... It's a tremendous reward. My family and I are thrilled, pleased."


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If you can hit the ball really far, it will not take long for Charlie Manuel to notice. If you can hit the ball really far and with great frequency, Manuel will do more than notice. If you can do all of this while the Phillies flounder, Manuel will start thinking big things.
Such is the case with Darin Ruf, the 26-year-old slugging first baseman at double-A Reading. Manuel has watched recent video of Ruf's assault on the Eastern League.
The Phillies manager is interested.
"He's had an extraordinary year," Manuel said. "Ruf is someone who pops out at you. Ruf is trying to hit his way to the big leagues. That's what it used to be like. You had to do something to get to the big leagues. Evidently, Ruf is an old throwback."
Manuel said he wants to see Ruf, whether it be now or in spring training. He has yet to discuss the idea with his boss, Ruben Amaro Jr., but made it sound like he will stump for Ruf's candidacy. Rosters expand Saturday.
Ruf has swatted 36 home runs in 2012 with 18 in August alone. On Monday, he broke Greg Luzinski's 1970 mark for most total bases ever in a Reading season. His 36 home runs are more than any player in all of affiliated minor-league baseball.
Of course, the decision to promote Ruf is not Manuel's. Some scouts are skeptical whether Ruf has a true position in the majors. He is blocked at first base by Ryan Howard. He has played 33 career games in left field, with 23 of them coming in 2012.
His work there is limited and not pristine.
The Phillies plan for Ruf to play the outfield in winter ball. He will likely be added to the 40-man roster during the offseason if not summoned in September. That would guarantee a spring audition.
"He's on the radar screen," Amaro said Monday. "It really depends on whether he can get playing time. It is something we'll continue to talk about."
The Phillies are already committed to playing time for two corner outfielders in Domonic Brown and Nate Schierholtz while evaluating for next season. The only true center fielder on the roster is John Mayberry Jr. That could affect plans.
Manuel said playing Ruf in the outfield during a major-league game could be a risk. Then again, he's enamored with the power potential.
"If a guy can hit," Manuel said, "his defense gets a little bit better."
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Just put on a new Vernatone MK2 round 2 chamber muffler on my B series Cummins and the results were enormous. I have a 5.9 M3 330hp cummins and before I was running a Costa Rica engineered muffler system which just had some bends in the exhaust tube and was bad. Here's the pros and cons I found Cons: We'll start with the negative as I don't want to end with it :) This was hard to install. Vernatone recommends you install this thing above the waterline (which in my case is the floor) so i had to install it above the engine. Had to build a riser off the turbo so the muffler sits right above the engine. Then I had to buy a ceramic insulation mat to guard against heat from the riser (it is dry until right before it hits the muffler) and wrap the riser in Fiberglass tape. I am going to cover that in Aluminum but haven't got to that part yet. I then had to sand and add on arms to the versatone so that it is removable but well installed when I am in rough water. I built four tabs and put them around the motor in the side walls of the box, and the muffler has four arms that sit on those tabs with a big stainless bolt in each. Lots of work, but the muffler is very secure, you can sit on it, and it comes out easily. This might be easier on a different boat, but overall the installation was well worth it! The only other con would be cruising. It reduced the noise cruising a ton, but I thought it would knock 100 percent of it out. I'd say it got rid of about half the cruising noise. About 1200 rpm you can hear it throwing the water out of the muffler (a cool bubbling noise), and then about 1500 you start to hear exhaust. At 2000 you can really hear the exhaust, but not as bad as before. Pros: It is dead silent trolling. I mean nothing coming out of the pipe at all at 1000 rpms. When we first started the boat, we all said "wow", nobody thought it would be dead silent. You could here a little noise coming out of the motor box, but nothing out of the pipe. I instantly heard one of the valves clicking out of adjustment, which I couldn't hear over the exhaust. It reminds me of when I had a race car and we would put mufflers on it to hear if the motor sounded ok and then take them off to race. You really can't hear what's going on with all that exhaust noise drowning out everything. When we went out trolling, I never realized how noisy the wake is. I couldn't hear any of that before, but now all we hear is wake while trolling. The radio can be on low and heard very well as well. My particular boat was a little poorly designed and the exhaust comes out right at the water line (I think the exhaust noise mostly matters when the exhaust comes out at the water line, otherwise you are scaring birds and not fish:) ). The floor prevented me from raising the exhaust up, so I had to kill the noise instead of moving it. Mission accomplished. Since installing the muffler, we are in the middle of the lowest season for billfish here, and have gotten 5, 4, 2, 2, 4 to the boat on the last 5 trips. Typical this time of year is 1 or 2, and I think this is mostly from the muffler. The two days with 2 I was trying a smaller prop, and I switched it back out and got the last 4. Good fishing technique is vital, but it's nice not to have noise working against me. Before, we never had fish hit on the muffler side teaser, now both sides are very active. First day out, I yelled to mike, short teaser and instinctively he ran to the non muffler side. I had to yell, the other teaser, and he was like huh? That almost never happened before. I also used to not be able to make the lap and pick up billfish that bite but didn't get hooked as they would run off, but now I make the lap and they are still there. Another interesting story, we had a sailfish on yesterday, and in the past they always ran straight from the boat after they were hooked. Yesterday, this fish swam right up to the boat, and about 5 feet away, the boat startled him and he took off the other direction. He had no idea where we were at. I've only done 5 trips with the muffler, but I can see a huge difference in the behavior of the fish. And there are more of them. So overall, if you have the time to install it, or better yet, the money to pay someone else to do it, I think this is on par with the Barry control motor mounts I installed a while back. Helps a ton with the fatigue, raises fish(which hang around longer as well), and definitely lets you hear the radio better. And on a side note, I am in no way connected or affiliated to Vernatone, just a paying satisfied customer.
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MOUNT VERNON, N.Y. (AP) — A lawyer says that if his client confessed to three New York killings, the statements may not have been made voluntarily.
Defense attorney Angelo MacDonald spoke after a brief court session in the murder case against 60-year-old Lucius Crawford of Mount Vernon.
Police said last week that Crawford confessed to stabbing three women to death in Mount Vernon, Yonkers and the Bronx. He has been charged in only the Mount Vernon case and has pleaded not guilty.
MacDonald said he's been given copies of statements Crawford allegedly made to police. He said he has doubts about whether they were voluntary.
Crawford, shackled hand and foot, did not speak in court. His lawyer waived his right to a felony hearing and the case was transferred to a Westchester County grand jury.


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Teetorials are tips and tricks for adding those special touches to your designs. They're brought to you by our very own Threadless staff designers, Alex, Jillian & Speedy Joe. Check out Threadless designer Alex Solis' tutorial for coloring in layers.
In this tutorial, I'll show you how I color in layers. This is helpful for a few different reasons:
- It makes it easier for printers to print your artwork
- It makes it easier to modify the colors individually and keep all your colors in a consistent palette
- It keeps everything clean and organized.
I'll explain this video from start to finish so you guys get an idea of what's going on:
- I start with my linework in one layer.
- Once that's done I create a new layer directly underneath and use the color overlay option, I pick my color of choice, but still color everything in black.
- I continue doing this until I have 8 layers or less to keep that color limit to 8. (You can do a ton more colors if you decided to have it printed using 4 color process but we'll go over that in a different tutorial)
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Communion Mennonite d'Haiti
The Communion Mennonite d'Haiti (Mennonite Communion of Haiti) was organized in 1976. Rodrigue Debrosse was the founder and superintending pastor of the six congregations, which were located in southern Haiti in the rural communities of Mussotte, Masson, Belle Rivière, Bédouze, Chaulette, and Javel. In 1987 these six congregations had a total of 500 baptized members; in 1990 there were about 400. Two primary schools, in the Mussotte and Masson communities, were a ministry of the Mennonite churches in those communities. The total enrollment varied between 500 and 700 students in the years following 1985. The Mennonite Communion of Haiti received some assistance over the years from Mennonite churches and individuals in the United States, including Sonlight Mission, an independently constituted group of Mennonites, largely from Pennsylvania and Ohio, and Mennonite Central Committee.
The Mennonite Communion of Haiti recognized, in addition to the superintending pastor, seven other pastors as church leaders. Two of these church leaders were also involved as school teachers. The Mennonite Communion of Haiti was a member of the Concile des Églises Evangéliques d'Haiti (Council Evangelical Churches of Haiti).
The Communion Mennonite d'Haiti was no longer listed by Mennonite World Conference in 2003.
Mennonite World Handbook Supplement. Strasbourg, France, and Lombard, IL: Mennonite World Conference, 1984: 78.
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40 Years Ago, Sept. 26, 1973
PO affords residents new mailing service
Postmaster Moynihan announced today that a new "Stamps by Mail" service will be offered on Grand Island beginning Oct. 1
According to Postmaster Moynihan, this new service will permit customers to purchase stamps and stamped envelopes through the mail using a personal check or money order.
The postmaster noted that, "this service will be of great benefit to all our customers and especially shut-ins, the elderly and working wives. It will enable them to satisfy their postal needs simply, rapidly and inexpensively through their own homes." Leaflets spelling out the service will be distributed to area households and businesses this week. ...
A 40-cent fee will be charged to defray the cost of two-way postage, internal processing of checks and other costs associated with this new service.
30 Years Ago, Sept. 23, 1983
Bikeway included in state bond issue
Construction of a three-mile bikeway from the Thruway south to Beaver Island State Park is on the bond issue list, Assemblyman William B. Hoyt and Sen. John B. Daly announced this week.
The proposed bikeway, included in the agreement reached with the governor and the state Legislature for the $1.25 billion "Rebuild New York" bond issue, would parallel South State Parkway with a 10-foot wide asphalt path for bikers, joggers and pedestrians.
"Grand Islanders have been waiting for the better part of a decade to see this bikeway a reality, so I am delighted that Sen. Daly and I were able to ensure its inclusion in the list of bond issue projects," said Assemblyman Hoyt. ...
The $200,000 construction project is among $7.4 billion in projects planned under the five-year transportation improvement program that will be made if possible if voters approve it on Nov. 8.
20 Years Ago, Sept. 24, 1993
Riverfront underbrush to be removed
A project to clean up the underbrush that blocks the riverfront along West River Parkway is slated to begin on Monday.
A coalition of government agencies was assembled by Erie County Legislator Charles Swanick after he was approached by members of the West River Homeowners' Association.
"We originally put this cleanup project together a few years ago, said Swanick, and it was a great success. Now the various groups have agreed to work together again."
In addition to the labor force provided by the Erie County Department of Social Services HIRE Program, the New York State Department of Transportation will provide trucks and equipment, and the New York State Parks department will provide supervision for the workers.
10 Years Ago, Sept. 26, 2003
Plans set for VFW's 'huge' annual chili cook-off
Officials at the Charles N. DeGlopper Post 9249 report that plans are set for its Ladies Auxiliary's "huge" annual chili cook-off and Chinese auction, Sunday, Oct. 12, with judging to begin at 1 p.m. at the Post, 2121 Grand Island Blvd.
Registration for the chili cook-off begins at noon, and an entry fee will be charged. Judging will be performed by such area notables as "Elvis," featuring Sean Dzierzanowski of Starline USA, Mary Dunbar-Dalusio and helpers from the staff of Fuccillo Chevrolet on the Island.


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When I named Bionic Beauty, I never imagined there would be actual "bionic" makeup! Women have applied Makeup in a similar fashion for hundreds of years using brushes, fingers, sponges, cotton, and natural fibers. Since 1930 women have had the option of permanent makeup – a tattoo that is applied to your face, eyes, or lips – but the process never grabbed mainstream attention until the 1980s. The drawback of tattoo makeup is the lack of changeability.
Makeup needs a game-changer! Turns out, it is here. Now.
Blue Sun Research Group has developed Pax Cosmetic Implants. My best friend and research director at Blue Sun Research Group, Dr. Kate Jones, sent me an overview of their new permanent makeup Cosmetic Implants.
Pax Implants are placed under the facial dermis during a quick, outpatient procedure and allow a woman to alter makeup colors on her cheeks, eyelids, and lips through a wireless interface. Basically you can change your makeup look from smokey eye with a nude lip to old Hollywood glamor in just a few minutes!
Pax, short for G-23 Paxilon Hydrochlorate, uses micro-dermal transduction of bio-luminescent liquid crystals to produce Color visible on the skin's surface. Currently there are 147 doctors in the United States authorized to perform Pax Cosmetic Implants; but the amount of doctors performing the procedure should be widespread by the middle of May.
To top it all off, this summer you'll be able to change color on-the-go, with the Pax smart phone apps!
Will you be visiting your doctor to get the new Pax Cosmetic Implants? And how often do you think you'd change your makeup through the day?
And after this leap forward, what's next in the world of makeup?
Stay bionic y'all,
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Mycetophyllia ferox
|Scope: Global
Language: English
|Scientific Name:
|Mycetophyllia ferox Wells, 1973
Common Name(s):
|Red List Category & Criteria:
|Vulnerable A4ce ver 3.1
|Year Published:
|Date Assessed:
|Aronson, R., Bruckner, A., Moore, J., Precht, B. & E. Weil
|Livingstone, S., Polidoro, B. & Smith, J. (Global Marine Species Assessment)
This species is widespread and common throughout its range. However, it is particularly susceptible to bleaching, disease, and extensive reduction of coral reef habitat due to a combination of threats. This species has experienced localized mass mortalities from disease and bleaching since the mid-1970s with several outbreaks of white plague in subsequent years throughout its range, and has experienced high mortality during recent intense bleaching events. Specific population trends are unknown but population reduction can be inferred from declines in habitat quality based on the combined estimates of both destroyed reefs and reefs at the critical stage of degradation within its range (Wilkinson 2004). Its threat susceptibility increases the likelihood of being lost within one generation in the future from reefs at a critical stage. Therefore, the estimated habitat degradation and loss of 38% over three generation lengths (30 years) is the best inference of population reduction and meets the threshold for Vulnerable under Criterion A4ce. It will be important to reassess this species in 10 years time because of predicted threats from climate change and ocean acidification.
|Range Description:
|This species occurs in the Caribbean, southern Gulf of Mexico, Florida, and the Bahamas. Possibly present in the Flower Gardens, though not mentioned by Grimm and Hopkins (1977).
|Countries occurrence:
Native:Anguilla; Antigua and Barbuda; Bahamas; Barbados; Belize; Bonaire, Sint Eustatius and Saba (Saba, Sint Eustatius); Cayman Islands; Colombia; Costa Rica; Cuba; Curaçao; Dominica; Dominican Republic; Grenada; Guadeloupe; Haiti; Honduras; Jamaica; Mexico; Montserrat; Nicaragua; Panama; Saint Barthélemy; Saint Kitts and Nevis; Saint Lucia; Saint Martin (French part); Saint Vincent and the Grenadines; Sint Maarten (Dutch part); Trinidad and Tobago; Turks and Caicos Islands; United States; United States Minor Outlying Islands; Venezuela, Bolivarian Republic of; Virgin Islands, British
|FAO Marine Fishing Areas:
Atlantic – western central
|Additional data:
|Range Map:
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|This species is common throughout its distribution range at intermediate abundances. The most common species of the genus in shallow to intermediate reefs.
There is no species specific population information available for this species. However, there is evidence that overall coral reef habitat has declined, and this is used as a proxy for population decline for this species. This species is particularly susceptible to bleaching, disease, and other threats and therefore population decline is based on both the percentage of destroyed reefs and critical reefs that are likely to be destroyed within 20 years (Wilkinson 2004). We assume that most, if not all, mature individuals will be removed from a destroyed reef and that on average, the number of individuals on reefs are equal across its range and proportional to the percentage destroyed reefs. Reef losses throughout the species' range have been estimated over three generations, two in the past and one projected into the future.
The age of first maturity of most reef building corals is typically three to eight years (Wallace 1999) and therefore we assume that average age of mature individuals is greater than eight years. Furthermore, based on average sizes and growth rates, we assume that average generation length is 10 years, unless otherwise stated. Total longevity is not known, but likely to be more than ten years. Therefore any population decline rates for the Red List assessment are measured over at least 30 years. See the Supplementary Material for further details on population decline and generation length estimates.
|Current Population Trend:
|Additional data:
|Habitat and Ecology:
|This species is most common in fore reef environments from 5-30 m (but is more abundant from 10-20 m), but also occurs at low abundance in certain deeper back reef habitats and deep lagoons. The species has the potential to exhibit recovery, because of its reproductive strategy (e.g., brooding with moderate recruitment success).
|Major Threat(s):
The major threat to the species is disease (white plague) and bleaching, which have both resulting in localized declines throughout the range. Also susceptible to black band disease and high sedimentation (especially when compromised by bleaching or disease). An outbreak of white plague was first identified in Florida in 1975 (Dustan, 1977) with a second occurrence in the same location in the early 1980s (Dustan and Halas, 1987). They predicted that this event would cause localized extinctions of the species; however, during later surveys, new recruits were observed. A more virulent form of white plague affected the species since the late 1990s in other locations throughout the wider Caribbean, which has been associated with high rates of mortality [get refs]. During the 2005 bleaching event, this species sustained high mortality off reefs off Puerto Rico and the associated islands, and Grenada, due to severe bleaching and a subsequent outbreak of plague.
In general, the major threat to corals is global climate change, in particular, temperature extremes leading to bleaching and increased susceptibility to disease, increased severity of ENSO events and storms, and ocean acidification.
Coral disease has emerged as a serious threat to coral reefs worldwide and a major cause of reef deterioration (Weil et al. 2006). The numbers of diseases and coral species affected, as well as the distribution of diseases have all increased dramatically within the last decade (Porter et al. 2001, Green and Bruckner 2000, Sutherland et al. 2004, Weil 2004). Coral disease epizootics have resulted in significant losses of coral cover and were implicated in the dramatic decline of acroporids in the Florida Keys (Aronson and Precht 2001, Porter et al. 2001, Patterson et al. 2002). In the Indo-Pacific, disease is also on the rise with disease outbreaks recently reported from the Great Barrier Reef (Willis et al. 2004), Marshall Islands (Jacobson 2006) and the northwestern Hawaiian Islands (Aeby 2006). Increased coral disease levels on the GBR were correlated with increased ocean temperatures (Willis et al. 2007) supporting the prediction that disease levels will be increasing with higher sea surface temperatures. Escalating anthropogenic stressors combined with the threats associated with global climate change of increases in coral disease, frequency and duration of coral bleaching and ocean acidification place coral reefs in the Indo-Pacific at high risk of collapse.
Localized threats to corals include fisheries, human development (industry, settlement, tourism, and transportation), changes in native species dynamics (competitors, predators, pathogens and parasites), invasive species (competitors, predators, pathogens and parasites), dynamite fishing, chemical fishing, pollution from agriculture and industry, domestic pollution, sedimentation, and human recreation and tourism activities.
The severity of these combined threats to the global population of each individual species is not known.
|Conservation Actions:
Listed on CITES Appendix II. In the US, it is present in many MPAs, including Florida Keys National Marine Sanctuary, Biscayne N.P., Dry Tortugas National Park, and Buck Island Reef National Monument. Also present in Hol Chan Marine Reserve (Belize), Exuma Cays Land and Sea Park (Bahamas). In US waters, it is illegal to harvest corals for commercial purposes.
Recommended measures for conserving this species include research in taxonomy, population, abundance and trends, ecology and habitat status, threats and resilience to threats, restoration action; identification, establishment and management of new protected areas; expansion of protected areas; recovery management; and disease, pathogen and parasite management. Artificial propagation and techniques such as cryo-preservation of gametes may become important for conserving coral biodiversity.
|Aronson, R., Bruckner, A., Moore, J., Precht, B. & E. Weil. 2008. Mycetophyllia ferox. The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species 2008: e.T133356A3705165. . Downloaded on 19 September 2018.
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Phocoenoides dalli
|Scope: Global
Language: English
|Scientific Name:
|Phocoenoides dalli (True, 1885)
Common Name(s):
Phocoenoides truei Andrews, 1911.
|Taxonomic Notes:
|There is some controversy on the taxonomy of this species. Some workers consider it to contain two major color morphs (dalli-type and truei-type; see Escorza Trevino and Dizon 2000), but others consider the forms to be separate subspecies: P. d. dalli and P. d. truei (Rice 1998).
|Red List Category & Criteria:
|Least Concern ver 3.1
|Year Published:
|Date Assessed:
|Hammond, P.S., Bearzi, G., Bjørge, A., Forney, K.A., Karkzmarski, L., Kasuya, T., Perrin, W.F., Scott, M.D., Wang, J.Y. , Wells, R.S. & Wilson, B.
|Rojas-Bracho, L. & Smith, B.D.
The species is widespread and abundant, with current range-wide population estimates of more than one million animals. The species was killed in high-seas driftnet fisheries operations during the 1970s and 1980s, but these fisheries have now been banned, and by-catch levels were not considered sufficiently high to cause population declines. While incidental and directed takes in Japanese coastal waters as well as incidental takes in Russian waters are ongoing (with combined removals on the order of 20,000 annually), neither threat is likely to have caused a range-wide decline sufficient to warrant listing in a category of threat.
|Previously published Red List assessments:
|Range Description:
|Dall's Porpoises are found only in the northern North Pacific Ocean and adjacent seas (Bering and Okhotsk seas, and Sea of Japan). They inhabit deep waters between about 30°N and 62°N (Jefferson 1988; Houck and Jefferson 1999), but may occasionally occur as far south as about 28°N off the coast of Baja California (Mexico), during unusually cold-water periods.
The dalli-type occurs throughout of the species' range, from the west coast of North America to Japan.
The truei-type, identified by a broad lateral white patch, inhabits the western north Pacific, and migrates between wintering grounds off the Pacific coast of northern Japan and summer breeding grounds in the central Okhotsk Sea, and constitutes one population (IWC 2002).
The map shows where the species may occur, based on oceanography. The species has not been recorded for all the states within the hypothetical range as shown on the map. States for which confirmed records of the species exist are included in the list of native range states.
|Countries occurrence:
Native:Canada; Japan; Korea, Democratic People's Republic of; Korea, Republic of; Mexico; Russian Federation; United States
|FAO Marine Fishing Areas:
Pacific – northwest; Pacific – northeast; Pacific – eastern central
|Additional data:
|Range Map:
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|Dall's Porpoises are common in many parts of the North Pacific, and density is high in many areas of the range. The total abundance of the species is probably over 1.2 million individuals (Buckland et al. 1993). In Alaska, the abundance is estimated at 83,400 (CV=10%) (Angliss and Outlaw 2005). Along the U.S. west coast, abundance estimates have ranged from about 35,000 to 134,000, averaging 86,000 animals (CV = 45%) between 1991 and 2005 (Barlow and Forney, in press). In the western North Pacific, the truei-type population migrating between the Pacific coasts of Japan and the central Okhotsk Sea is estimated at 217,000 (CV=0.23). The dalli-type population migrating between the Sea of Japan and the southern Okhotsk Sea is estimated at 226,000 (CV=0.15), and the dalli-type population summering in the northern Okhotsk Sea at 111,000 (CV=0.29) (IWC 1998). These estimates are subject to biases due to response to survey vessels.
The International Whaling Commission currently recognizes 11 populations of this species, based on differences in genetics, pollutant loads, parasite faunas, and distribution patterns of cow/calf pairs (IWC 2002). Three of them summer in the Okhotsk Sea, two in the Bering Sea, four in the North Pacific, and two off the U.S. coast, but the wintering grounds are unknown for many of them. The populations cannot be reliably distinguished by their external appearance at sea except for the three summering in the Okhotsk Sea, which are distinguishable based on the pigmentation and location.
|Current Population Trend:
|Additional data:
|Habitat and Ecology:
|This species inhabits mainly offshore deep waters colder than 18°C (Miyashita and Kasuya 1988), but may also occur in narrow channels and fjords in the western North Pacific (Jefferson 1988; Rice 1998).
Sex-biased dispersal is known to occur in this species, and this may have relevance in assessing the impact of takes on regional populations (Escorza Trevino and Dizon 2000).
Dall's Porpoises are apparently opportunistic feeders, taking a wide range of surface and midwater fish and squid, especially soft-bodied species like lanternfish (myctophids) and gonatid squid. Occasional krill, decapods, and shrimps found in porpoise stomachs are not considered normal prey (Houck and Jefferson 1999, Jefferson 2002).
|Use and Trade:
|This species is hunted in Japan.
|Major Threat(s):
The largest threats to this species have been incidental takes by salmon and squid drift net fisheries and direct takes by hand harpoon fishery in Japanese coastal waters. The driftnet salmon fisheries began in 1952 and continued until a United Nation moratorium on all high-seas driftnet fisheries came into effect (Reeves et al. 2003). The large-mesh and squid driftnet fisheries operated throughout the central and western North Pacific between about 35˚N and 47˚N, increasing in effort during the 1970s and peaking during the 1980s prior to the moratorium. Bycatch estimates are only available for 1989–1990, when about 4,000 Dall's Porpoise were estimated killed per year (Hobbs and Jones 1993). During the 1970s and 1980s, the combined high-seas driftnet fisheries likely killed tens of thousands of Dall's Porpoise, but this level would not have been high enough to cause population declines (Hobbs and Jones 1993). The estimated annual take by Japanese salmon fisheries within the United States EEZ for the period 1981-1987 ranged from 741 (1987) to 4,187 (1982), with lower levels of additional takes in Bering Sea waters outside of the U.S. EEZ (IWC 1991, T. Jefferson pers. comm.).
Incidental catches on the order of thousands of porpoise per year are ongoing in several fisheries using gillnets in the Russian exclusive economic zone (Burkanov and Nikulin 2001). Small numbers of Dall's Porpoises are also taken along the US West Coast in drift net and trawl fisheries (Carretta et al. 2006).
The Japanese hand harpoon fishery for Dall's Porpoise started in the 1910s (Ohsumi 1972, Sawadate 1983), made a great expansion around the World War II period (Wilke et al. 1953, Sawadate 1983), then remained lower at between 5,000 and 10,000 individuals until the 1970s (Kasuya 1982). Approximately 111,500 Dall's Porpoises were removed by hunting between 1986 and 1989 from two stocks centred in the Okhotsk Sea (IWC 1991). The Japanese government began to regulate the hand-harpoon hunt in 1989, and a catch quota was introduced in 1993. The fishery currently operates with a quota of 9,000 dalli-type Sea of Japan-southern Okhotsk Sea population and 8,700 truei-type Pacific coast-central Okhotsk Sea population (IWC 2002). The current level of reported takes are about 4% of the mean estimate of the size of the populations; however, these catch statistics might not be reliable (Kasuya 2007).
Environmental contaminants are also thought to be a threat, and high levels of organochlorines may reduce testosterone levels in males and affect calf viability, thereby influencing reproduction and survival (Subramanian et al. 1987, 1988).
|Conservation Actions:
The species is listed in Appendix II of CITES.
The long period since the last survey (over 15 years) warrants urgent reassessment of the status of the two subpopulations hunted by the Japanese hand harpoon fishery.
|Hammond, P.S., Bearzi, G., Bjørge, A., Forney, K.A., Karkzmarski, L., Kasuya, T., Perrin, W.F., Scott, M.D., Wang, J.Y. , Wells, R.S. & Wilson, B. 2012. Phocoenoides dalli. The IUCN Red List of Threatened Species 2012: e.T17032A17118773. . Downloaded on 21 September 2018.
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Just a heads up to let anyone in the BC/PNW area needing transport or short-term fostering (long term under the right circumstances) know that they may contact me if they wish.
Most people here know at least a little about me and my situation, and I would like to put it out there that I am more than willing and happy to help out in any way that I can.
Feel free to PM or email me at Jaqueline C @ws mortgage.net (spaces removed), and we'll see if we can work something out.
- Jaqueline
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Why buy from a breeder when there are plenty of homeless pups in shelters???
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I'm hoping that we get that house Centennial, Wyoming. If we do, then after we are settled in I would be willing to take a foster dog. As long as it's not aggressive. Doesn't have to be a Pitty, either. So any of you rescue folks who have contacts in WY, might want to keep that in mind. I'm sure I can contact the local humane society also, just thought I'd mention it.
Hey Jacq, how's it hanging? Haven't seen you in a bit. Do you know Kirstan and her gang? They have been doing AMAZING placements lately. I help them some with transports from Oregon, if you hear of something needing moved, let me know. I may need to speak with you about fostering Diva if she is not placed before I go in for the other knee replacement. She is super good natured. You don't have any stupid cats, do yah???
The email to reach me at is email@example.com
As always, be patient. The wait for reply is only about a month right now! Ha Ha!
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Tony Parker Suing for $20 Million Over Injuries Sustained During Chris Brown v. Drake Brawl
Tony Parker figured everyone else is about to paid he might as well make a couple of dollars off the brawl as well. TP was chilling with his lady and some friends in VIP when the bottles started flying (look at the pics above).
Some glass struck Parker in the eye and he suffered some retina damage.
Now, he want the club to show him the money.
The San Antonio Spurs guard — injured in the Chris Brown-Drake melee at a New York City nightclub — filed a $20 million lawsuit against its owners Thursday, saying they should have known better than to let the Rihanna love rivals in at the same time.
In papers filed in Manhattan Supreme Court, Parker holds W.i.P.'s owners responsible for the "corneal laceration of the left eye and other injuries" he suffered in the bottle-throwing brawl at the now-shuttered Vandam Street club.
His lawyer, David Jaroslawicz, said the extent of Parker's wounds are not yet known but noted eye injuries "certainly don't improve your outside shot."
"She's been known, like Helen of Troy, to cause trouble," Jaroslawicz said of Rihanna.


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Chang (J.D. '14) Bridges Gaps Between Science and Law
Born and raised in China, Shuang "Carrie" Chang (J.D. '14) came to the United States with plans to become a scientist. A chance encounter changed Chang's career path from biosciences to the law while she was completing her Ph.D., in molecular biology.
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|Interaction Lab
As a part of my research into imitation, I have performed several psychophysical experiments to gain further insight into human perceptual and motor behavior in imitation. I have so far been involved in three psychophysical studies, briefly described below.
Our results conclusively found that for all types of stimuli we presented, the subjects tended to fixate on the hand, regardless of whether they were imitating or just watching. The results lend insight into the connection between visual perception and motor control, suggesting that: 1) people analyze human arm movements largely by tracking the hand or the end-point, even if the movement is performed with the entire arm, and 2) when imitating, people use internal innate and learned models of movement, possibly in the form of motor primitives, to recreate the details of whole-arm posture and movement from end-point trajectories. Details of this study are found in this downloadable paper.
The stimuli consisted of 20 video clips showing a sequence of human arm movements. We tested six different conditions, involving rehearsal and no-rehearsal (watching, or performing simultaneous imitation, respectively), immediate and delayed (imitation upon completion of video, or with some delay), and with or without mental distractors. Finally, we tested two consecutive imitations. We found that in all of the six conditions we tested, the subjects performed significantly better on the first imitation than on the second. However, this effect is mainly due to the two delayed conditions without simultaenous rehearsal, in which the first imitation is overwhelmingly better than the second, while in the remaining four conditions, it is only a marginally better or the same as the first. Given the rather straightforward nature of the movements used in the stimuli, we can conclude that subjects generated the motor imitation likely by resorting to generic movement patterns that were familiar, and did not improve those through repeated execution. This is consistent with our finding that even when the subjects were made to fixate away from the end-point, as they would naturally do, but instead look at the elbow, the quality of their subsequent imitation was not drastically affected. Additionally, this fits well within our model of imitation, which postulates that all observed human movements are mapped directly (through the mirror system) onto a combination of known motor programs or primitives, and it is the combination of those primitives, through rehearsal, that generates novel motor skills. The details of the results are described in a downloadable paper..


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January 18. 2014 1:27AM
Public spokesman hired: In non-public session, of course
The Manchester public school system now has a public spokesman who was hired during a non-public portion of a public meeting last week. You can't make this stuff up. Except, if you are the school board, we suppose you can go into non-public session and make up anything you please.
A couple of observations:
First and foremost, the school board and its new superintendent have not made a convincing case, or much of a case at all, for hiring a public spokesman, a "cheerleader'' for the schools, as proponents have put it.
Why can't Supt. Debra Livingston and the administration and the school principals speak for the schools? Is this new person going to really get out district information to the public or will she be charged with filtering and delaying the release of public information? We will wait and see.
Second, why is the school board spending money on more administration jobs at a time when it continues to cry poverty? Not only was a PR person hired last week, so too was a $100,000-a-year director of an "innovation zone.'' The salaries for both these new positions, along with that for a new school clerk, were all set higher than the top limit posted for the jobs.
"I thought teachers were more important at this point in time,'' said board member Debra Gagnon Langton. Apparently she thought wrong.
As for these positions being filled behind closed doors, we think that Mayor Ted Gatsas and new school board boss Dave Wihby ought to look at the spirit as well as the letter of the public's Right to Know Law. Its "personnel'' exception was intended to protect the rights of employees in disciplinary and investigative situations.
Whatever our elected board members are saying, or being told, about people they are about to hire to do the public's business ought to be within the public's earshot. We wish Gatsas and Wihby would set that tone.