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Documentation and description of the languages of the Lower Fungom region of Northwest Cameroon
The Lower Fungom region of Northwest Cameroon is one of the most linguistically diverse parts of the Cameroonian Grassfields, itself a part of the world already known for its exceptional concentration of languages.
Located in the Grassfields' northwest periphery, the core inhabited area of Lower Fungom stretches roughly ten kilometers north to south and east to west. Seven languages, or small language clusters, are spoken in its thirteen recognized villages, and four of these languages are restricted to a single village. While the languages are all reasonably classified as Bantoid, five of them do not have any established close relatives outside of the region, nor can they be straightforwardly shown to be closely related to each other.
Starting in 2004 with funding provided by the Department of Linguistics at MPI EVA, there has been ongoing research on the languages of Lower Fungom and nearby areas, with follow-up funding from the U.S. National Science Foundation, the U.S. National Endowment for the Humanities, and the Endangered Languages Documentation Programme. This research focuses on linguistic documentation and description as well as ethnographic and historical analysis and is specifically oriented towards understanding not only the grammars of the individual languages of Lower Fungom but also their areal dynamics.
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Malibu Investments presents Express Condos to the vibrant and family-oriented Wilson heights neighbourhood in North York. Situated near the Wilson Subway Station, this project hallmarked Express Condominiums On The Subway, is a quick train ride in proximity to downtown Toronto.
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Little S's friend was to come over after school to spend an evening with her. They are in the same pre-school and same class and I do not understand their need to spend still more time after school together. Both of them had been pestering me about visiting each other's home for some time now and finally I called up her Mom and we decided to do it once a week.
The weather having turned a beautiful warm a week back, I had planned to take them to the park in the afternoon and let them run free. But come the day of the meet and it was chilly, so the poor kids & of course poor me, had to be stuck inside the house. They played on their own though and didn't bother me except for occasional call for snacks. Four year olds can be angels if they want.
Now this little friend speaks Kannada(language spoken by natives of Karnataka a state in Sothern India) at home and last time she was visiting, she had asked for Rice & Tuppa for dinner. Of course I didn't understand and had plied her with Rice, dal, vegetables and yogurt. Only later did her mom tell me that she loves rice & ghee and that is what she had wanted.
This time I tried to play safe and asked Little S what her friend liked to eat. The morning of the their play-day she declared "Friend S likes Pulao"
So be it I thought, easy for me and convenient for the kids to eat too. I decided on a Soya Peas Pulao with soya granules instead of the chunks. I loosely followed Tarla Dalal's recipe. Since Friend S was a eggatarian, I served it with boiled eggs which were lightly fried to a golden yellow. This was a complete meal delicious, protein rich and yet very easy. Served with a bowl of plain yogurt on the side, there was little more the kids will ask for. Ideal to be packed for a school lunch also.
Little S finished of her plate happily while I had to force friend S to eat, though she said she liked it. Friend S turned out to be unfamiliar with boiled eggs though and was pretty much taken by the egg white, hated yolk. She likes omlettes, more homework to be done next time.
When little friend S's Mom came to pick her up, she brought me some steaming Upma from her kitchen, now this kind of play days I like.
Soy Peas Pulao
What You Need
Uncooked Rice ~ 1 cup
Soya granules ~ ¼ cup of Nutrela Soya Granules(Note: Next time I am going to up this amount)
Green peas (fresh or frozen) ~ ¼ cup
For tempering
Cumin seeds (jeera) ~ ½ teaspoon
Cinnamon (dalchini) ~ 1/2" stick
Cloves (lavang) ~ 2
Bay leaf ~ 1
Cardamom (elaichi) ~ 2
For masala
Onions ~ ½ cup chopped
Tomatoes ~ ½ cup chopped
Ginger ~ ½ " grated
Turmeric powder (haldi) ~ ¼ teaspoon
Garam masala ~ ¼ teaspoon
Coriander (dhania) powder ~ ½ tsp (You can use 1 tsp of this, but I kept it low)
Fennel (saunf) Powder ~ ¼ tsp
Oil ~ to cook
Ghee ~ ½ - 1 tsp to smear the rice (optional)
salt to taste
To be ground into a chilli-garlic paste – I did not use this since the pulao was intended for kids
3 cloves garlic
3 whole red chillies
How I Did It
Wash the rice and soak it for 10-30 minutes. Drain the rice after this and smear with ½ tsp of ghee.
Heat Oil in a Frying Pan
Flavor the oil with Bay leaves, whole cardamom, and cinnamon stick
Add ½ tsp of whole cumin seed
When the seeds crackle, add the onions and sauté till the onions turn golden brown.
If you are using chilli-garlic paste add it now
Add finely chopped tomatoes and sauté till they are soft
Add the green peas and soya granules and sauté for a minute
Add the turmeric powder, garam masala, coriander powder, fennel powder and salt and sauté for another couple of minutes
Add the Rice now and mix well with the masala. Sauté for 2 more minutes and add about 2 cups of water and cover and cook. If using a pressure cooker add 2 cups of hot water and pressure cook for 2 whistles
If not using a pressure cooker, check occasionally to see if rice is done. If not and water has dried up add a little more water (very little about ¼ cup might be needed) and cook till rice is done.
You can serve with boiled eggs, which I fried to a golden yellow because Little S likes the color. Also a bowl of yogurt on the side completed the meal.
Note: for younger kids you need to fish out the whole garam masala like cardamom, bay leaf, clove and cinnamon stick before serving
Other Recipes with Soya Granules:
Egg Paratha with Soya Stuffing
A recipe that could use soya granules or chunks:
Daliya Pulao
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At the Origins of the Mediterranean Civilization: Archaeology of the City from the Levant to the West - 3rd-1st millennium BC
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WASHINGTON – Congressman Alcee L. Hastings (D-FL), Chairman of the Commission on Security and Cooperation in Europe (U.S. Helsinki Commission) and Co-Chairman Senator Benjamin L. Cardin (D-MD), issued the following statement on Russia's decision to suspend its participation in the Treaty on Conventional Armed Forces in Europe (CFE). Russia notified member countries of the North Atlantic Trade Organization (NATO) of its intended suspension of the treaty, effective 150 days from July 14, 2007, stating that it was due in part to "extraordinary circumstances" affecting security:
"We are deeply disappointed in Russia's decision to suspend the CFE treaty. This unilateral pronouncement is clearly not about 'extraordinary circumstances' affecting Russia's security, but rather a discontent with the United States' plan to place missile defense systems in Poland and the Czech Republic. We find this not only to be unsettling, but also quite unfortunate. While Russia claims that it is not 'shutting the door to dialogue,' it is quite evident that this one-sided decision has been made out of haste and is a step backwards for European security. It is our most sincere hope that Russia will reconsider its decision," said Hastings and Cardin.
The CFE was negotiated by NATO and ex-Warsaw Pact member states and signed in 1990. The CFE, one of the most significant arms control treaties of the Cold War, established comprehensive limits on key categories of conventional military equipment in Europe and mandated the destruction of excess weaponry. It was amended in 1999 to reflect the dissolution of the former Soviet Union and the fact that many of the Warsaw Pact allies had joined NATO. However, this revised version has not yet been ratified by NATO member states.


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Local Hospital has been transitioning to an electronic chart system.
This morning, while on rounds, I dialed in to the hospital system to dictate a consult. I was stunned to be told that my privileges had been suspended for delinquent medical records.
This was a shock, as I treat medical records with an obsession. Every Thursday I stop by medical records and ask if there's anything for me to sign. For the last 6 weeks the girl there has politely checked her computer, then said "Nope, thank you for checking".
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Ms. Helpful: (looking at her computer) "Um, nope. Thank you for checking."
Dr. Grumpy: "Well, when I dialed in, it says I've been suspended for medical records delinquency."
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The 2012 election was the most expensive in history, but there remain some gaping holes in our knowledge about who paid for what. The Securities and Exchange Commission is considering a proposal to add more transparency in future elections, but it won't happen without a fight.
The SEC proposal would require publicly traded companies to disclose allof their political contributions. And that would force companies to decide, in effect, if being linked to a candidate or partisan position is worth the impact political advocacy might have on its bottom line. Not surprisingly, the U.S. Chamber of Commerce is vowing to fight the effort to tighten disclosure rules.
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The Supreme Court's 2010 Citizens United ruling allowed corporations to give unlimited contributions to superPACs, but relatively few public companies have done so, perhaps because political action committees must disclose their donors.
Watchdog groups think some public corporations have contributed to tax-exempt groups that fall under the 501(c) section of the tax code. These groups can engage in political activity — as long as they say their primary purpose is educational — and do not have to disclose their donors. Yet these "social welfare" groups include big political players, ranging from Karl Rove's Crossroads GPS to President Obama's Organizing for Action.
According to the Center for Responsive Politics, Crossroads GPS spent more than $70 million in 2012. Organizing for Action, which grew out of Obama's 2012 campaign, was formed after the election cycle. Its founders have pledged to refuse corporate contributions and disclose a list of donors.
Most corporations also belong to 501(c)(6) organizations, like trade associations and chambers of commerce, which can engage in political activity. For example, the U.S. Chamber of Commerce spent $35.7 million in 2012 — and it's now leading the charge against the SEC's petition. Altogether, the Center for Responsive Politics estimates these tax-exempt groups spent at least $300 million in the 2012 election cycle.
If the SEC does propose the new rule — an action it could take as early as next week — it would start a process that would include a comment period and public meetings. Enacting the rule also could spur legal action from opponents.
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The Center for Political Accountability has been tracking voluntary disclosure by corporations since 2003. For the past two years, the group has compiled a ranking called the CPA-Zicklin Index, which found that 58 percent of the top 200 companies in the S&P 500 voluntarily disclosed some information about their political spending, and 85 percent of companies studied over two years improved their scores for political disclosure and accountability.
Center for Political Accountability President Bruce Freed said that disclosure and accountability policies have become mainstream corporate governance practices. "When we did the index in 2011, we were really, frankly, quite surprised at the results — really pleasantly surprised — when we found that there were companies that were adopting disclosure and accountability policies without having been engaged by investors," Freed said. "They were doing it on their own."
However, the group also found that 59 percent of companies did not disclose any information about payments to trade associations, and 75 percent did not disclose any contributions to tax-exempt social welfare groups.
The Center for Responsive Politics has reported that some companies, including PepsiCo and Koch Industries, have lobbied against the SEC proposal during the first quarter of 2013. But Freed has found that other corporate representatives are frustrated by the varied patchwork of voluntary disclosures.
"I know from discussions with companies that there are a growing number of companies that will say privately, yes, we would like to see a rule because they see uniformity as in their self-interest," Freed said. "It means that companies would be operating on a level playing field here."
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Two more notable residents have tossed their hats into an already crowded ring for a spot on the Democratic slate for Alexandria City Council.
School board member Arthur Peabody made good on rumors of a potential candidacy with his weekend announcement to run in the Democratic primary. The two-term board member is a Massachusetts native, but has resided in Alexandria for the past 34 years.
Peabody works for Blue Cross and Blue Shield Association as an associate counsel and served as an attorney for the U.S. Attorney's Office of the Eastern District of Virginia as well as the Justice Department.
Alexandria's NAACP chapter president John Chapman also announced his candidacy for city council this week. Chapman, a school administrator in Fairfax County, is a native Alexandrian.
Education and affordable housing are the two main tenets of his campaign, he said. Chapman wants to examine what the city can do to support resident's educational efforts, like boosting job-training opportunities, and keep the city affordable for police officers, firefighters and teachers.
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The six Democrats selected in the party primary will square off against Republican city council members Frank Fannon and Alicia Hughes as well as newcomer Scott Gordon.
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A California proposal would offset the state's climate-altering emissions by paying for forest conservation in Chiapas. Could there be unintended consequences in a region with a history of human rights abuse and land grabs?"We are not responsible for climate change—it's the big industries that are," said Abelardo, a young man from the Tseltal Mayan village of Amador Hernández in the Lacandon jungle of Chiapas. "So why should we be held responsible, and even punished for it?"
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A California proposal would offset the state's climate-altering emissions by paying for forest conservation in Chiapas. Could there be unintended consequences in a region with a history of human rights abuse and land grabs?
"We are not responsible for climate change—it's the big industries that are," said Abelardo, a young man from the Tseltal Mayan village of Amador Hernández in the Lacandon jungle of Chiapas. "So why should we be held responsible, and even punished for it?"
Abelardo was one of dozens of villagers who had traveled to the city of San Cristóbal de las Casas to protest an international policy meeting on climate change and forest conservation. At a high-end conference center, representatives from the state of California and from states and provinces around the world were working out mechanisms intended to mitigate climate change by protecting tropical forests. The group was called the Governor's Climate and Forests Task Force (GCF), and California's interest was in using forest preservation in Chiapas as a carbon offset—a means for meeting climate change goals under the state's 2006 Global Warming Solutions Act.
Such an agreement among subnational governments is unprecedented, and California officials view it as an important way for the world's eighth largest economy to help the developing world. But judging from the reaction on the streets of San Cristóbal, Mexican peasants see it differently. The lush, mountainous state of Chiapas has a long history of human rights abuses, and the Mexican government has forcibly evicted indigenous families from their lands in the name of environmental protection. To indigenous peasants in the Lacandon jungle, the pending agreement has all the hallmarks of a land grab.
And such culture clashes over land and forests may become more common: As scientists, economists, and governments worldwide struggle to find solutions to runaway climate change, they are investing in one-size-fits-all financial strategies for emissions reductions in developing countries. These policies tend to ignore local needs, land tenure issues, small-scale economies, cultural practices, and histories. Communities in developing countries are raising concerns that, in some instances, these alleged cures may be worse than the disease.
The GCF was founded in 2009 when 16 states and provinces, from California to Central Kalimantan, Indonesia, and from Cross-River State, Nigeria, to Acre, Brazil, decided to explore ways to implement a program called Reducing Emissions from Deforestation and forest Degradation (REDD). REDD is a program intended to fight climate change by stopping deforestation. Under REDD, the industrialized North hopes to offset carbon emissions by paying the global South to preserve forests (which store carbon). Since its acceptance into U.N. climate negotiations in 2005, the program has grown popular among international agencies and governments interested in funding rural development—and has generated fierce resistance among sectors of the rural poor and indigenous peoples.
When indigenous peasant farmers in Chiapas hear that they'll be paid to stop growing traditional crops and reforest with African palm trees, they see signs of a familiar pattern. And when they're told that they may have to leave their jungle villages to allow the forest to recover, they're acutely aware of the ongoing theft of their lands. In Chiapas, both projects—the planting of biofuel crops and the forced resettlement of forest communities—are linked to the local implementation of REDD.
Agencies and policy leaders acknowledge the tension, but are sometimes dismissive of the depth of the problem. William Boyd, senior advisor to the GCF and a professor of law at the University of Colorado, said, "Any broad public policy is going to generate opposition. We understand that, and we see the need to do a better job at communicating our objectives."
But the problem is not merely communication. It is an issue of fundamentally different ways of viewing the world. León Enrique Ávila, an agronomist and professor of sustainable development at the Intercultural University of Chiapas, sees REDD as "a continuation of the colonial project to do away with the indigenous worldview."
Ávila's work is strongly rooted in the indigenous concept of lekil kuxlejal, or el buen vivir—a complex worldview involving harmony among people, the environment, and the ancestors. According to this way of thinking, people are a part of—not apart from—nature. From this perspective, even apparently benign Western notions of wealth, development, conservation, and sustainability are as alien and as hostile as the more recognized ills of consumerism, individualism, and war.
"REDD and projects of this type," Ávila said, ignore "that nature [has its own] rights, and treat it as a provider of goods and services, a purely economic entity. This perspective is fundamentally hostile to lekil kuxlejal."
A closely watched partnership
Of numerous REDD projects worldwide, the agreement between California and Chiapas, expected to come online by 2015, is the most advanced, and was the subject of great interest at the Chiapas GCF meeting. "We are all watching the California-Chiapas project closely," said Iwan Wibisono of the Indonesian National REDD+ Task Force.
In 2006, California passed the Global Warming Solutions Act, which mandates that the state reduce greenhouse gas emissions to 1990 levels by the year 2020. Under the act's implementation plan, approved by the California Air Resources Board in 2011, 15 to 20 percent of the state's mandated emission reductions will come from a cap-and-trade program that regulates the state's major industrial polluters. The program allows polluters to meet part of their emissions-reduction targets by purchasing carbon credits. Also known as offsets, these let a company pay someone else to reduce CO2 emissions instead of reducing pollution at the source. Currently, the state only allows offsets in the United States. But if the REDD plan goes through, California companies could pay states in some of the world's most forested regions not to cut down their trees.
As one of his last acts in office, former California Governor Arnold Schwarzenegger signed a memorandum of understanding with Chiapas, opening the door for California industries to buy offsets generated there. (Other states working on similar agreements with California include Acre, Brazil, Aceh, Indonesia, and Cross-River State, Nigeria).
Two years later, the protocols for this agreement are still in development by a non-governmental body called the REDD Offsets Working Group, which is expected to release its recommendations before the end of 2012.
Echoes of history
In preparing for the GCF meeting in San Cristóbal, a number of Chiapas-based civil society groups formed a coalition called REDDeldía (the English translation would be "REDD-ellion," as in "rebellion"), which held a parallel forum denouncing the GCF and REDD. The group's statement, issued in advance of the GCF meeting, called REDD "the new face, painted green by the climate crisis, of an old and familiar form of colonialism that advances the appropriation of lands and territories through dispossession and forced displacement." That sentiment was echoed by a similar forum convened in San Cristóbal the same week by La Vía Campesina, the world's largest federation of peasant farmers.
For groups in Chiapas, these concerns are rooted in recent local history. In 1971, the Mexican government issued a decree that gave about 1.5 million acres of the Lacandon jungle to the Lacandon Maya—one of several ethnic groups that call the region their home—while retaining the rights to exploit timber, minerals, and other resources. A second decree in 1976 made the greater part of the jungle—the area with the richest biodiversity in Mexico—into a UNESCO World Heritage site called the Montes Azules Biosphere Reserve.
Along with a few settlements from the Tseltal and Ch'ol ethnic groups, who negotiated their way into the agreement, the nominal owners of this territory were designated "the Lacandon Community." But the creation of the Lacandon Community came with a political cost: in order to give the Lacandon Maya 1.5 million acres of forest, 26 villages of Tseltal and Ch'ol people—over 2,000 families who had lived there for decades, if not centuries—had to be moved.
After their expulsion, several peasant farmer organizations demanded redress, and the resulting tension between the Lacandon Community and its neighbors made it impossible, for decades, for the Mexican government to successfully demarcate the territory. The demarcation line became known as la brecha Lacandona—"brecha" meaning split, schism, or gap. Some of the expelled communities later coalesced to form the Zapatista Army of National Liberation, the indigenous rebel group that brought Chiapas to the world's attention with their 1994 uprising. Among the proto-Zapatistas and the other peasant farmer groups in the region in the 1970s, one of the primary political slogans was "No to la brecha Lacandona!"
With REDD, work is underway again to draw la brecha Lacandona. In February, 2011, Chiapas Governor Juan Sabines began distributing payments of 2,000 pesos a month to members of the Lacandon Community as part of the state's Climate Change Action Program, and the state began expelling "illegal settlers" from the Montes Azules Reserve.
"The jungle was previously occupied by over 900 communities," Sabines told the GCF at the opening plenary. "Now we have cleared them from the jungle. Today the Reserves are being conserved and protected by their legitimate owners, who will soon have access to the carbon markets."
Among the communities slated for removal from the jungle is the village of Amador Hernández—1,500 Tseltal Mayan subsistence farmers who escaped plantation servitude in the 1950s to make their homes in bare wooden huts and cultivated scattered cornfields in the area that is now the Montes Azules Reserve. On the first day of the three-day GCF meeting, several campesinos from Amador Hernández and neighboring communities entered the auditorium and requested a few minutes at the microphone. Chiapas State Minister of the Environment and Natural History Fernando Rosas denied their request, telling the community members that they should listen first to the meeting's proceedings. If they wanted to consider joining the REDD program, the minister told them, he would meet with them at a later date.
Unsatisfied, the campesinos mounted a protest. They handed out flyers declaring, "The government is lying to you—they have neither informed us nor consulted us!" Eufemia Landa Sanchez, a woman from a deforested region on the edge of the Montes Azules Reserve, then took the microphone and read a message to the plenary.
"Transnational businesses have had plans for the rural areas of Chiapas for some time now," Sanchez said. "The natural wealth of biodiversity and water, of mines, of biofuels, and of course of petroleum, have led to the displacement of people, the poisoning of the earth, and have made the peasant farmer into a serf on his own land. And in every case they blame us and criminalize us. Our supposed crime today is that we are responsible for global warming.
"Why do the wealthy want to impose their will by force?" she continued. "The jungles are sacred, and they exist to serve the people, as God gave them to us. We do not go to your countries and tell you what to do with your lives and your lands. We ask that you respect our lives and our lands, and go back where you came from!"
Hanging in the balance
Insiders in the GCF projected that, given the complexities of linking an emerging market in California to forested lands abroad, and the level of controversy in Chiapas, the Chiapas-California plan has no better than a 50/50 chance of coming to fruition. Aside from the 2010 agreement, no formal protocols have been approved by the two states. And, aside from a $1.5 million grant to the GCF from the U.S. State Department and hope that a so-far hypothetical carbon market will provide some stable cash flow, little funding is on the horizon.
"If we can't build a $6 million fund to make this happen, then we've got to think about other options," said Boyd. "Among these options, we're looking at innovative models for leveraging private sector investment."
Three weeks after the Chiapas GCF meeting, the California Air Resources Board (ARB) received a visit at its Sacramento office from a group of environmental justice advocates with ties to the Global South—including an anthropologist who works closely with Amador Hernández, an indigenous leader from Brazil, and representatives of Friends of the Earth U.S. They drew a picture of land grabs, government repression, and related abuses, and urged state officials to drop all consideration of international forest offsets in California climate policy.
Edie Chang, assistant division chief for the ARB, thanked the visitors for raising the issues, and assured them, "We've told these governments that we're far from making a decision."
Jason Gray, the ARB's staff counsel, acknowledged the concerns as well: "We really only want to work with jurisdictions that engage in consultation and participatory processes. … We understand the political risks. … We would only want to be involved if California can take a leadership role."
What that leadership looks like remains to be seen. But if land and culture are threatened by any policy advanced by the GCF, indigenous peasant farmers in Chiapas will not back down without a fight. "These campesinos don't want a revolution to change they way they live," explained León Ávila, echoing the words of Mexican revolutionary Emiliano Zapata. "They want a revolution because they want to continue living as they always have."
Jeff Conant wrote this article for What Would Nature Do?, the Spring 2013 issue of YES! Magazine. Jeff is author of A Community Guide to Environmental Health and A Poetics of Resistance: The Revolutionary Public Relations of the Zapatista Insurgency. He writes for Alternet, Earth Island Journal, Upside Down World, and Z Magazine.


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This page is intended to provide a update on current tasks and activities that the Tigerstripe team is focusing on.
Tigerstripe API Refactoring
As an initial step on Tigerstripe as an open-source Eclipse project, we are now doing quite a bit of refactoring on the Core Tigerstripe API. Fundamentally, the existing API had evolved over time and wasn't necessarily complying with all patterns and conventions of Eclipse projects.
To ensure that Tigerstripe would be successful in the long run, we wanted to ensure that this API would be stable and reliable. It seemed natural to begin the open-source process by such a refactoring activity.
The main goals for this refactoring are the following:
- Explicitly separate the public API outside an "internal" package to allow for:
- Tigerstripe project editing & lifecycle management, including more robust support for multi-threaded environment, and editing.
- Access/Edit a model programatically. The existing API was based on a metamodel that was implemented manually (i.e not with EMF). We are planning to eventually migrate to a full EMF support for the meta-model, but will be migrating gradually. The first few steps will consist in making changes to get closer to an interface as it would be generated through EMF. The goal is to have complete support for an EMF-based meta-model.
- Consistent naming and patterns
- Javadoc and code snippets.
- Remove the distinction between the old "internal" and "external" API.
- Hide completely the persistence mechanics for all elements (model artifacts and other Tigerstripe elements such as projects, facets, etc...)
- Remove deprecated code.
Because the initial change will include package renaming, class/interface and method renaming, it is anticipated that existing Tigerstripe plugins will need to be migrated as well. However, due to the fact that as part of the open-sourcing, the contributed code was renamed from "com.tigerstripesoftware.*" to "org.eclipse.tigerstripe.*", migration was already required, which is why it made more sense to include so many changes in the API in "one go" upfront.
The current stage of the refactoring is as follows:
- The old "external" and "internal" APIs have been merged into a single Model Management API.
- This model management API was moved to the org.eclipse.tigerstripe.model.deprecated_ package as it will eventually be replaced by a fully functional EMF-based API. This temporary API though is almost identical to the planned final EMF-based API, meaning that only minimal changes are anticipated to plugins in the future.
- Project Management was cleaned up quite a bit, using a mechanism based on "Working Copies" to support editing/persistence without exposing the implementation details as it used to be.
- The main "API" singleton which used to provide access to a number of "Session objects" has been simplified into a "TigerstripeCore" singleton with a number of static methods (similar to the well know JavaCore class).
Because Tigerstripe is used in production in a number of environments, it is important that this API stabilizes quickly. The current plan is to be near finished (except for the EMF migration) by March 3rd, 2008.
Generic Annotations
The Tigerstripe Metamodel is derived from UML and as such includes the concept of Profiles and Stereotypes allowing to build additional metadata into a model.
Typically, this metadata is consumed by Generation Plugins to trigger a specific code generation depending on the target.
However when large models are used to generated numerous artifacts, the number of "Stereotypes" used to annotate the model as a tendency to explode rapidly, which make it difficult to manage.
Fundamentally, model annotations should allow to decorate a model with meta-data, but should be kept separate from the model. This is the basic requirement for building a generic Annotation Mechanism for Tigerstripe. In fact, this annotation framework is intended to address 3 shortcomings of typical stereotypes:
- Stereotypes are stored with the model. After a while, these tend to clutter the model. Considering they are only relevant in specific Plugin generation contexts, it seems they should be stored separately so they can be distributed with the model only to relevant users/consumers.
- Read-only Tigerstripe Models can't be further annotated. Tigerstripe support a model sharing mechanism where users can share a "read-only" version of a model. Since the shared model is completely read-only, end-users can't add/edit Stereotypes in that model and can't use it to generate additional artifacts. With Annotations stored separately from the model, this limitation goes away.
- UI is tedious with Stereotypes: considering some people are only concerned with annotating models and have to edit numerous attributes in large models, the current UI makes it very tedious and error-prone. A simple UI based on a dedicated view (similar to EMF properties view, e.g.) that would be linked with selections in the workspace would be a lot more convenient.
An initial Proof-of-Concept is available in CVS (org.eclipse.tigerstripe.annotations and org.eclipse.tigerstripe.annotations.ui).
The intent is to make the framework completely generic, i.e. allowing to build annotations on any URI in the workspace with the necessary extension point to further integrate it for dedicated purpose. The current POC allows to "annotate" any IResource in the workspace transparently, out-of-the-box (try deploying the org.eclipse.tigerstripe.annotations.sample plugin for an example).
We are now drawing the conclusions from this POC and doing a proper design around the use of EMF and a DSL for the definition of these annotations.
Expected Release
TBD. We are hoping to have some early version of this framework available and integrated in Tigerstripe by end of March'08.
"M0-driven" Generation
Up until now, Tigerstripe's generation plugins were of one kind only, allowing to walk a model to generate code, documentation or any template-based file. In other words, the generation in Tigerstripe was based on the "M1" level (that is the classes defined in a model).
Increasingly, we have been asked whether we could support "M0"-driven generation, i.e. allowing to generate files based on instances that would be created out of a model.
There are two aspects to consider in this context:
- Creating a set of instances out of a model in a semi-automated fashion. We are still investigating this part, but our initial thoughts are around the use of a Tigerstripe Facet to define a set of Classes to be instantiated. The instantiation would be done in an Instance Diagram so it can be further refined manually.
- Generating from a set of Instances. This aspect is looking into driving plugin rules from a instance diagrams. The instances contained in that diagram would be the context for generation.
This has some very obvious applications like:
- Generating test data sets complying with a model
- Generating instances of services or resources modeled in a Tigerstripe model so they can be provisioned and deployed automatically.
- etc...
This activity is only starting. We are at the proof-of-concept stage hoping to generate code out of an instance diagram that was created manually.
Expected Release
EMF-based Metamodel & Migration
In the initial version of the contributed code, Tigerstripe's core model management API is based on proprietary code. This code evolved over the last 5 years from an initial POC.
At this stage, the resulting API is sub-optimal compared to a framework such as EMF that is intended exactly for this purpose. Also, being now officially part of the Eclipse community, we want to make sure that Tigerstripe re-uses the best practice and components available from other projects rather than re-inventing the wheel and potentially confusing the community.
Additionally, being able to use EMF natively for Tigerstripe models means that developers interested in extending Tigerstripe with some of the latest EMF Technologies can do so without problems.
Because this is a rather important change in the Tigerstripe code, we want to make sure the migration is done incrementally so that the integrity of existing models can be guaranteed along the process.
- Phase 0: Initially we will migrate the existing Model Management API ("Old API") to a set of interfaces and methods that adhere to the naming conventions and signatures as found in EMF generated code. This will ensure that existing Tigerstripe generation plugins once migrated to this iteration of the "Old API" will require almost no change to function with the final API ("EMF-based API"). This "Old API" will be place in the "deprecrated_" package from day one, to signal the fact that this is a temporary, un-stable API.
- Phase 1: Define an ECore for the existing Tigerstripe Metamodel, building in the features required for future meta-model extensions.
- Phase 2: Incrementally, we will build up the "EMF-based API" along with the corresponding test suites, to the point that all model management functionalities should be available through the API. Code snippets and examples will be published on this wiki to document the patterns used.
- Phase 3: We will integrate the "EMF-based API" into the Tigerstripe UI, so the UI doesn't make any reference anymore to the "Old API". This phase will provide the final validation for the completeness of the "EMF-based API". At this stage the "Old API" will be officially deprecated. During this phase the final adjustments to existing Tigerstripe Generation Plugins will be required.
- Phase 4: Finally we will remove from the code base the "deprecated_" package hosting the "Old API" completely.
At the moment, we are wrapping up Phase 0 and beginning with Phase 1. In fact, the Tigerstripe Metamodel is in CVS (org.eclipse.tigerstripe.metamodel).
Expected Release
This is a major task, including re-write of major parts of Tigerstripe. As we want to ensure the integrity of existing models (large models in production in particular) we want to take extra care for this activity.
While we are hoping to reach completion of Phase 2 rather rapidly, Phase 3 will will prove to be true test. Our goal is to have Phase 4 complete by v1.0 of Tigerstripe at the latest.
Project Defined Reference Versioning
Phase I of Tigerstripe's Buckminster integration is quickly firming up. In Phase II, a modeler must be allowed to specify a version attribute, in addition to the name attribute, of a referenced project. This becomes especially important as the number of project references become non-trivial. This feature is expected to be useful in standard workspace materialization, and when used in conjunction with Tigerstripe's Buckminster headless support.
It is intended that this document will be revised as additional requirements are discovered or initial requirements are determined to be unnecessary.
- Add a Tigerstripe Project reference using the Tigerstripe Descriptor Editor -> Dependencies -> Referenced Tigerstripe Projects table. This reference may be identified by name and OSGi based version. An undefined version will default to current workspace (or, in the case of workspace resolution using Buckminster, the trunk/head of scm).
- Write data to the underlying Tigerstripe Descriptor (tigerstrip.xml) file.
- Question: Require validation before writing, or allow a "dirty" reference? I think allow dirty reference, but mark as error. Opinions?
- Trigger validation to verify that the referenced project is present in the current workspace. This verification will be based on project name and version. This should be re-validated each time a reference is added, modified, or deleted.
On-going Maintenance
Although Tigerstripe is on going a series of fundamental changes (see above) we are very committed to supporting our existing user community and will make sure we address reported bugs and enhancements in a timely fashion.
Initially, we will focus on an initial release of the Workbench, allowing users to migrate over to an official Open-Source release.
Our current plan is start providing builds as soon as Eclipse Legal as cleared our last CQs.


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Our Deluxe Snow Cab fits most 2-stage Cub Cadet snow throwers. These instructions will explain how to install the Deluxe Snow Cab onto your Cub Cadet snow thrower.
Step 1: Prep-Work
Place your snow thrower on a flat surface. Turn the engine off and let it cool. Remove all bars, poles and hardware from your snow thrower cab box. Be sure you have all parts and tools required. Refer to the manual for detailed instructions.
Step 2: Assemble the A and B Bars
Slide one set of bars, A and B, together. Install a set screw finger-tight. Repeat for the opposite side. Do not tighten screws with a wrench until the frame of the cab has been completely assembled.
Step 3: Connect Assemblies A and B with E
Take Bar E and insert it into the ends of assemblies A and B, with the nut facing the inside of the frame.. Secure with a set screw, finger-tight.
Step 4: Connect Bars E and F
Take poles F and insert them into each end of bar E so that the narrow end is facing up.
Step 5: Connect poles G with the A and B assemblies
Insert poles G into the ends of the A and B assemblies with the narrow end facing up. Secure with set-screws, finger-tight.
Step 6: Connect the D and C rods
Locate the curved rods D, C and D and lay them on a flat surface. Connect a D rod to each side of the C rod and secure them with set-screws. Be sure to match up the arrow points to each other. Tighten the set-screws with the wrench that came in the cab kit.
Step 7: Install the curved rod assembly
Install the curved rod assembly into the top of the G poles, installed earlier.
Step 8: Feed H rods through sleeves
For the next few steps, be sure to wear safety glasses. Locate all the flexible rods. You should have four H rods and one I rod. Open the fabric cab cover to locate the inside sleeves. Feed both H rods through the sleeves. Then, insert the steel ends of the H rods into the top of the F poles.
Step 9: Connect the H rods with the I rod
Insert the remaining H rods over the existing H rods. Take rod I and insert one end into one of the ends of an H rod. Carefully bend the red over and attach it to the end of the remaining H rod.
Step 10: Begin to attach the cab cover
Pull the cab cover up and over the rod assembly and slide the rods into the inside pocket of the cover.
Step 11: Tighten all set-screws
Visually square up the cab assembly. Use the wrench to tighten all set-screws.
Step 12: Finish attaching the cab cover
Take the top of the cover and pull down and back towards the D-C-D assembly. Loop the elastic straps around the bottom corners of bar A to secure the cover to the frame.
Step 13: Loosely assemble the clamps
Depending on your unit, the clamp L may be horizontal or vertical. Clamp K will always be horizontal. You can loosely assemble clamps M, L and K with the provided nuts, bolts and washers, but do not tighten them at this time. You will need to slip the clamps on the frame at a later step.
Step 14: Determine the best location for your cab
Using an assistant, have them hold the cab frame and cover over your snow thrower to find the best location for your cab to be secured to your unit. Hold the cross bar, J, to determine the best placement for the frame.
Step 15: Mount the clamps
Mount the pre-assembled clamps, M, L and K to the upper handlebars on the snow thrower using the provided nuts, bolts and washers..
Step 16: Attach the crossbar to the clamps
Center the J crossbar against the two clamps. Secure with the end clamps using nuts, bolts and washers. Make sure the J bar uprights are level. Your clamps may need to be mounted to the horizontal handlebar, depending on your unit. Then tighten the L and K set-screws.
Step 17: Insert the cab assembly
Fully insert the front ends of the cab assembly into the ends of the crossbar. Then, secure the upper cab to the J bar upright with two-set screws. Secure tightly with a wrench. With the assistant holding the cab horizontally to the ground, tighten all bolts and set-screws.
Step 18: Fasten the cover to the cab and attach the pouch
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At the same time, 2012 was a very productive year and a modest year in health care mergers and acquisitions: Approximately 1,065 transactions were completed (the most since 2007), totaling approximately $143 billion in transaction value (the lowest since 2003). M&A in the first quarter of 2013 experienced a significant decline, off 30% to 40% in both deal volume and value, compared with the like quarter last year and the fourth quarter. What's behind the numbers? We are not concerned about the first quarter results and expect 2013 will be a good year for health care M&A. The dip in volume in the first three months is likely a result of deal fatigue after a very busy fourth quarter in 2012, along with concerns over the impact of sequestration and the deficit. Private equity funds continue to have a huge surplus of investible capital, U.S. banks are well capitalized and eager to back transactions, and corporate buyers on balance have a large cash hoard and are looking for growth. This, along with other secular trends, will drive M&A in 2013. What's more interesting is a likely continuation of the 2012 M&A pattern — many transactions, but smaller strategic deals. Ongoing reform initiatives both in Washington and at the state level are a key driver of M&A. Life sciences companies are facing increasingly difficult and costly regulatory processes for new drug and device approvals, which is causing the larger companies effectively to outsource new product development to smaller entrepreneurial companies. Instead of internal research and development, these large life sciences companies are acquiring emerging companies that have born the early-stage risk and cost of product development. Hospital systems are being pushed by Obamacare to take on more risk through Accountable Care Organizations. To do so, these systems need to gain scale, acquiring smaller hospitals, physician practices and ancillary services. Providers that are reliant upon state Medicaid programs, such as nursing homes, are under pressure to increase occupancy and to reduce costs as state budgets reduce reimbursement. This forces consolidation among the smaller operators in these sectors. Health care product and services companies continue to seek avenues for growth and competitive advantage. Large pharmaceutical mergers have slowed down dramatically, as the industry's focus shifts from cost reduction and efficiency to growth. This favors smaller strategic acquisitions of innovative biotechnology companies over a mega-merger. The same trend continues with medical device companies wherein large consolidators are buying emerging middle market companies to expand into new markets, much like Mentor-based Steris Corp.'s acquisition of US Endoscopy last year. Hospital systems such as Cleveland Clinic and University Hospitals will continue their buying spree, snapping up providers and services that offer novel disease state treatments or patient connectivity. In short, regulation and innovation both are catalysts to M&A activity in health care for 2013 and beyond.
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Our bodies need water to work properly. Usually, you can make up for the water you lose — like when you come in from outside and have a long, cool drink of water. If you don't replace the water your body has lost, you might start feeling sick. And if you go too long without the water you need, you can become very ill and might need to go to the hospital.
Why Am I Dehydrated?
Many times kids get dehydrated when they are playing hard and having fun. Have you ever gotten really sweaty and red-faced when you've been playing? This often happens when it's hot outside, but it can happen indoors, too, like if you're practicing basketball in a gym.
Kids also can get dehydrated when they're sick. If you have a stomach virus (say: vye-rus), you might throw up or have diarrhea (say: dye-uh-ree-uh). On top of that, you probably don't feel very much like eating or drinking. If you have a sore throat, you might find it hard to swallow food or drink. And if you have a fever, you can lose fluids because water evaporates from your skin in an attempt to cool your body down. That's why your mom or dad tells you to drink a lot of fluids when you're sick.
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In addition to being thirsty, here are some signs that a person might be dehydrated:
- feeling lightheaded, dizzy, or tired
- rapid heartbeat
- dry lips and mouth
Another sign of dehydration is not peeing as much. Normally, urine should be a pale yellow color. Dark or strong-smelling pee can be a sign of dehydration.
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If you can, try not to get dehydrated in the first place. If you're going to be going outside, it's a good idea to drink water before, during, and after you play, especially if it's hot. Dehydration can happen along with heat-related illnesses, such as heat exhaustion (say: ig-zos-chun) and heat stroke. In addition to drinking water, it's smart to dress in cool clothes and take breaks indoors or at least in the shade.
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Limit soda and other sugary drinks, such as fruit punches, lemonades, and iced teas. These drinks contain a lot of sugar that your body doesn't need. Some of them also contain caffeine, which is a diuretic (say: dye-yuh-reh-tik). This means that caffeinated drinks cause you to urinate (pee) more often than normal. In other words, they tell your body to get rid of fluids. And as you now know, that's the opposite of what you need to do if you're dehydrated!
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Wow, today is sllllooowwww. Like: Short of Vick dog-fighting video showing up on YouTube, this feels like it might be one of the slowest sports days of the year.
What better moment to "officially" launch my new blog project: Varsity Dad (http://www.varsitydad.com)
(OK, so most of you have probably heard about it already, because it's not like I haven't quietly talked about it on this blog. But, still... time to ramp this thing up.)
More later this morning.MLB/PEDs: Will Jason Giambi be punished after talking with MLB about his steroid claims from a week ago? Maybe they'll go easy on him for 'fessing up, but maybe he'll get the "Grimsley 50."
Clemens Watch: 3R, 6H, 5K, 4BB, 5.1 IP, 102 pitches (64 strikes) in a start for AA Trenton. But overall reviews were not good.
MiLB Stud: Ryan Howard, who hit the game-winning HR and had 4 RBI in a rehab start at A Lakewood (NJ). The plan is to be back with the Phillies as early as tomorrow.
MLB Dud: Elijah Dukes, held out of last night's D-Rays game after allegedly threatening his estranged wife, including a text message sent to her featuring a picture of a gun.
Yankees beat Red Sox: Really, do I have to? (Sigh.) Andy Pettitte beat Curt Schilling. There: Whee.
Keyshawn quits NFL, joins ESPN: I guess that makes Keyshawn the new Michael Irvin. I still won't forgive him for cursing at me at some Super Bowl-related event back in 1998. (And I was working for the league at the time!)
Vick Doggy Dogg: I think it's time to give Clinton Portis a break about his comments sympathetic to Michael Vick. He said it. He apologized. He was a moron. Can't we all continue to point our outrage on Vick? Focus, people!
THIS is what I'm talking about: From the freshness at WBRS Sports Blog, they dug up Vick's old iTunes playlist. And, needless to say, he's not shy about his pitbull fetish.
A rep from the Humane Society told USA Today that he thinks that the NFL is only scratching the surface of a culture of dog-fighting among the players. So dog-fighting is the new steroids, I guess. (Attention, NFL players: If any of you are involved in dog-fighting, this would be a good time to stop.)
Meanwhile, the Humane Society also says that the 66 dogs found on Vick's property will most likely have to be euthanized, because they're just too aggressive to be kept alive. You don't have to be a dog-lover to find that incredibly sad.
Magic fire Brian Hill: And, of course, I'm officially nervous they'll make a play for Billy Donovan. Unless they're offering him the coaching gig AND the GM job, they won't get him. (But might they?)
Bobcats hire Sam Vincent: The Dallas assistant played with Michael Jordan in the 80s – his knock-kneed fealty was probably assured before this pick was made. That's how MJ rolls.
Jerry West hates the NBA Lottery system: Well, no shit. But if he landed Oden or Durant, I bet he wouldn't have a peep to say, except "Bring me my franchise player."
I wish Machen would pick up on an idea I was fooling around with back in the fall: The SEC should secede from the BCS, challenging the "champ" of the rest of college football to a post-bowls title game that guarantees the opponent an unprecedented $25 million payout.
(1) Who is going to turn down that money? (2) It's not like everyone doesn't agree the SEC is the best league, year in and year out. (In fact, some are already claiming that the SEC in 2007 is quite possibly the toughest conference in CFB history.) (3) Without incorporating the SEC (at all), I'd like to see the other schools try to claim they are the best.
(Of course, we saw precisely that when unbeaten
UPDATE (10:06): I can already tell from the comments that this BCS/SEC item is going to get people all freaked out. Forget for a second that I'm an unabashed SEC-backer, and just accept the idea for what it is: Something weird and radical that has no basis in reality or even the remotest possibility of working out. (Of course, no one seems to have a problem with Notre Dame being "independent" -- and most of you would like to see the existing BCS "secede" from its contractual obligation to Notre Dame, am I right?) Look: I'm just throwing out ideas here. Absolutely, as always, it's your mandate to crush those ideas. But just recognize that this was just some wild-eyed idea on a particularly slow news day. Show some mercy.
Soccer: AC Milan beats
Idol: Jordin Sparks (daughter of former NFL DB Philippi) beats Blake Lewis (son of
(Oh, and Idol had its least-cheesy moment in show history last night, letting Blake beat-box with Doug E. Fresh in the finale's highlight.)


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Members of Congress are traveling less and worrying more about meeting office salaries. Their aides are contending with long lines to get inside their offices and fewer prospects of a raise. Such are the indignities thrust upon the men and women who brought the country $85 billion in government spending cuts this month.
There probably won't be much sympathy for a senator or congressman making $174,000 a year who is in no danger of being furloughed or laid off, at least until the next election. Still, there has been an effort, especially in the Republican-led House, to show that no one should be exempt from sacrifice.
"As those who are charged with the care of taxpayers' dollars, we need to lead by example," Rep. Candice Miller, R-Mich., who chairs the House Administration Committee, said last week in promoting a bill to slash the budgets of House committees by 11 percent.
Earlier in March — after Congress and the White House failed to come up with an alternative to across-the-board cuts in most federal programs — the House imposed an 8.2 percent reduction in lawmakers' personal office budgets. That came on top of 11 percent cuts to members' office budgets during 2011-2012.
"We've drastically reduced travel both for myself and my staff," said Republican Rep. John Campbell, who must cross the country to visit his southern California district. He said he tends to stay in Washington on two-day weekends rather than return home. "I'm more productive here when I'm not rushing to get home," he added.
Campbell said other "little things" he is doing to economize include reducing the office phone bill, cutting off magazine and newspaper subscriptions, and using email rather than letters to communicate with voters.
Rep. Luke Messer, a freshman Republican from Indiana, said he hired fewer people when he came to Washington because "we essentially began the term knowing there was a high possibility of a sequester"— Washington-speak for the automatic spending cuts.
So far, congressional staffers appear to have escaped the furloughs that are likely to send thousands of public servants home without pay for several workdays over the next six months and disrupt some government services. "I hope to avoid that," said Rep Jared Polis, D-Colo., "but we will take any steps to ensure we don't exceed our budget." Under House rules, a lawmaker must pay for excess spending out of his or her own pocket.
The fiscal pressures are less strong in the Senate, where senators have staff budgets about double the amount of the $1.3 million average in the House and where the office cuts ordered because of the sequester were limited to 5 percent.
While staffers still have their jobs, they may have a harder time getting to them. Security officials have cut costs by closing 10 entrances and several side streets around the Capitol complex, creating long lines to get through screening stations. People "have started to adjust to those changes at the entrances," although it is still a challenge on busy days, said U.S. Senate Sergeant at Arms Terrance Gainer.
Gainer, who oversees nearly 1,000 security and administrative employees, said he hopes to abide by the 5 percent sequester cut without layoffs by enlisting 70 or 80 people for a voluntary retirement program.
Some House members also are feeling the pinch during the two-week Easter break, a prime time for foreign "fact-finding" tours. House Speaker John Boehner, R-Ohio, announced last month that members must book commercial flights rather than make use of more convenient but more expensive military aircraft.
Some Democrats have complained the GOP enthusiasm for frugality has come at too high a cost.
"At a time when most members of this body are representing newly formed congressional districts with a need to open new offices or move to new locations, we find ourselves with an 8.2 percent decrease in the very operating budgets that support constituent services," said Rep. Debbie Wasserman Schultz, D-Fla.
Wasserman Schultz, who also is the Democratic Party's chairwoman, criticized House Republicans for cutting budgets while spending some $3 million for the legal defense of the 1996 Defense of Marriage Act, which bars federal recognition of same-sex marriages.
"We are past the point of cutting what we want, and we are now into cutting what we need — our ability to attract and retain expert staff," said Robert Brady of Pennsylvania, the senior Democrat on the House Administration Committee.
Brad Fitch, president and CEO of the Congressional Management Foundation, a nonprofit organization that works to improve congressional operations, said it's still possible that House members will have to resort to furloughs or layoffs. So far, he said, they have been able to cope with the cuts of the past three years with less-drastic steps, such as reducing the size of their staffs through attrition, making more use of interns and using email rather than mass mailings.
At the end of 2011, Fitch's group recommended 46 possible ways for members to cut $90,000 from their 2012 budgets, ranging from pay freezes, holding more town hall meetings by telephone, delaying purchases of new computers, eliminating Washington staffers' visits to district offices, closing district offices, eliminating bottled water from offices and reviewing spending on food and beverages for constituents.
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