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What Is Fiber?
Dietary fibers are forms of carbohydrates found in plants that cannot be digested by humans. All plants contain fiber, including fruits, vegetables, grains, and legumes. Fiber is often classified into 2 categories: soluble and insoluble.
- Soluble fiber draws water into the bowel and can help slow digestion. Examples of foods that are high in soluble fiber include oatmeal, oat bran, barley, legumes (beans and peas), apples, and strawberries.
- Insoluble fiber speeds digestion and can add bulk to the stool. Examples of foods that are high in insoluble fiber include whole-wheat products, wheat bran, cauliflower, green beans, and potatoes.
Why Follow a High-Fiber Diet?
A high-fiber diet is often recommended to prevent and/or treat constipation, hemorrhoids, diverticulitis, irritable bowel syndrome, and colon cancer.
Eating a high-fiber diet can also help improve your cholesterol levels, lower your risk of coronary artery disease (CAD), reduce your risk of type 2 diabetes, and lower your weight. For people with type 1 or 2 diabetes, a high-fiber diet can also help stabilize blood glucose levels.
How Much Fiber Should I Eat?
A high-fiber diet should contain 20-35 grams of fiber a day. This is actually the amount recommended for the general adult population. Most Americans eat only 15 grams of fiber per day.
Digestion of Fiber
Eating a higher-fiber diet than usual can take some getting used to by your body's digestive system. To avoid the side effects of sudden increases in dietary fiber (like gas, cramping, bloating, and diarrhea), increase fiber gradually and be sure to drink plenty of fluids every day.
Tips for Increasing Fiber Intake
- Whenever possible, choose whole grains over refined grains (brown rice instead of white rice, whole-wheat bread instead of white bread).
- Include a variety of grains in your diet, such as wheat, rye, barley, oats, quinoa, and bulgur.
- Eat more vegetarian-based meals. These include black bean burgers, eggplant lasagna, and veggie tofu stir-fry.
- Choose high-fiber snacks, such as fruits, popcorn, whole-grain crackers, and nuts.
- Make whole-grain cereal or whole-grain toast part of your daily breakfast regimen.
- When eating out, whether ordering a sandwich or dinner, ask for extra vegetables.
- When baking, replace part of the white flour with whole-wheat flour. Whole-wheat flour is very easy to incorporate into a recipe.
High-Fiber Diet Eating Guide
- Whole-grain breads, muffins, bagels, or pita bread
- Rye bread
- Whole-wheat crackers or crisp breads
- Whole-grain or bran cereals
- Oatmeal, oat bran, or grits
- Wheat germ
- Whole-wheat pasta and brown rice
- Read the ingredients list on food labels. Look for products that list "whole" as the first ingredient (whole-wheat, whole oats).
- Choose cereals with at least 2 grams of fiber per serving.
- All vegetables, especially asparagus, bean sprouts, broccoli, Brussels sprouts, cabbage, carrots, cauliflower, celery, corn, greens, green beans, green pepper, onions, peas, potatoes (with skin), snow peas, spinach, squash, sweet potatoes, tomatoes, zucchini
- For maximum fiber intake, eat the peels of fruits and vegetables—just be sure to wash them well first.
- All fruits, especially apples, berries, grapefruits, mangoes, nectarines, oranges, peaches, pears, dried fruits (figs, dates, prunes, raisins)
- Choose raw fruits and vegetables over juice, cooked, or canned—raw fruit has more fiber. Dried fruit is also a good source of fiber.
- With the exception of yogurt containing inulin (a type of fiber), dairy foods provide little fiber.
- Add more fiber by topping your yogurt or cottage cheese with fresh fruit, whole grain or bran cereals, nuts, or seeds.
- All beans and peas, especially garbanzo beans, kidney beans, lentils, lima beans, split peas, and pinto beans
- All nuts and seeds, especially almonds, peanuts, Brazil nuts, cashews, peanut butter, walnuts, sesame and sunflower seeds
- All meat, poultry, fish, and eggs
- Increase fiber in meat dishes by adding pinto beans, kidney beans, black-eyed peas, bran, or oatmeal.
- If you are following a low-fat diet, use nuts and seeds only in moderation.
- All in moderation
- Fats and oils do not provide fiber.
- Fruit
- Nuts
- Popcorn, whole-wheat pretzels, or trail mix made with dried fruits, nuts, and seeds
- Cakes, breads, and cookies made with oatmeal or whole-wheat flour
- Most snack foods do not provide much fiber. Choose snacks with at least 2 grams of fiber per serving.
- Reviewer: Dianne Scheinberg Rishikof MS, RD, LDN
- Review Date: 09/2016 -
- Update Date: 06/09/2016 -


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Vermonters in the Civil War
Collection Overview
Vermont soldiers in the Civil War wrote an enormous quantity of letters and diaries, of which many thousands have survived in libraries, historical societies, and in private hands. This collection represents a selection of letters and diaries from the University of Vermont and the Vermont Historical Society.
The collection currently includes materials dating from 1861-1863, and will grow with additional materials throughout the years of the sesquicentennial commemoration, from 2011 through 2015. Materials were selected for digitization to provide a variety of perspectives on events and issues. The voices represented in the collection include private soldiers and officers, as well as a few civilians. All of the extant Civil War-era letters or diaries of each of the selected individuals (at least, all that are to be found in the participating institutions' collections) will eventually be included; each adds a certain experience and point of view to the whole.
Officers in the photo above are (from left to right): Lieutenant Colonel Charles B. Stoughton, Colonel Edwin H. Stoughton, Major Harry N. Worthen. All are from the Fourth Vermont Infantry Regiment.
Time Period Covered: January 1, 1861 - February 28, 1864
Charles F. Bancroft Correspondence
Horace Barlow Diary
Valentine G. Barney Correspondence
John Lester Barstow Correspondence
Barton Family Correspondence
John W. Campbell Correspondence
Roswell Farnham Correspondence
Justus F. Gale Correspondence
Solomon G. Heaton Correspondence
William Wirt Henry Correspondence
William C. Holbrook Correspondence
Albert A. May Correspondence
Benjamin F. Parmenter Correspondence
Joseph L. Perkins Correspondence
John Wolcott Phelps Correspondence
George W. Quimby Correspondence
Joseph Chase Rutherford Correspondence
Henry A. Smith Correspondence
Joseph Spafford Correspondence
Bradford Sparrow Correspondence
Edward and John Stone Correspondence
Ransom W. Towle Correspondence
Orlando S. Turner Correspondence
Wheelock Graves Veazey Correspondence
Daniel S. White Correspondence
Henry Harrison Wilder Correspondence
Lyman Williams Correspondence
Published: April 11, 2011, University of Vermont, Bailey/Howe Library, Center for Digital Initiatives
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what they say what is reality
Agents: "my guy has been promised to be picked at spot x if he is still on the board" I hope I can up my guys draft stock so I can keep making obscene amounts of money as a sports agent
GM's ".. we really like the crop of SG's .." We really intend to draft a PG
Draft prospect ".. I am going to surprise a lot of people.." but in reality I will limit my workouts because I am already over valued
Draft Boards: are actually selling public perception. Super agents can get their guy moved up considerably. Espn is the only board not for sale apparently.
Newspapers: Team x is apparently interested in players "y" and may show up at his door step Midnight July 1 when FA begins. me the sports writter hopes player "y" is flattered and comes our way.. also I am not sure what to write about until the draft,.... and I have a man-crush on player "y"
dumb fan: I love and am married to player "x" who just got big buz on someMockDraftSite. my life will not be complete unless we draft him. If we do not draft him I am cancelling my season tickets and our GM is a bum idiot. I am a knee jerk reaction waiting to happen. I am broke live with my parents and don't have season tickets. In fact I have not seen a game live since 2009
Smart fan: Calderon is a good PG I hope we keep him I really think he a bigger defensive liability than if we had Stephen Hawking defending us at the point of attack. However since this organization has repeatedly had the deck stacked against it - I have taken in upon myself to flood this forum with positive remarks about Calderon in the hopes that some dim witted GM reads my remarks and does a trade for Calderon that rivals Barbosa - for Turk-oh-pooh.
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Jack Balkin:
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Bruce Ackerman
bruce.ackerman at yale.edu
Ian Ayres
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Corey Brettschneider
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Mary Dudziak
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Joey Fishkin
joey.fishkin at gmail.com
Heather Gerken heather.gerken at yale.edu
Abbe Gluck abbe.gluck at yale.edu
Mark Graber
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Stephen Griffin
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Jonathan Hafetz
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Jeremy Kessler
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Andrew Koppelman
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Marty Lederman
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Compendium of posts on Hobby Lobby and related cases
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Obama and the Image of America
Wednesday, November 05, 2008
Obama and the Image of America
Mary L. Dudziak
"Just wanted to share my joy across the Atlantic," wrote a friend from Paris this morning, as the world celebrated Barack Obama's victory.
It remains to be seen if an Obama presidency actually gets around to repudiating the Bush II regime's acts. Ask in 2012 whether the MCA has been stricken down, or the 2001 AUMF. Ask if we are still entrenched in imperialism, or if we have only changed that of PNAC for that of Brzezinski.
We can only hope. Hope and organize.
Congratulations to President-elect Obama and all his supporters. As one who did not support his candidacy, I hope that this will finally lance the boil of political race-baiting.
I hope that this will finally lance the boil of political race-baiting.
I doubt it. The response of the RW contingent to the electoral losses has been to say that McSame wasn't forceful enough; that he held back. That he should have been pushing Wright (and Ayers) much harder.... and probably Obama's secret Mooooslim background and his forging of his birth records....
Is it race-baiting to question Obama's relationships with Wright and Ayers? If you believe so, then please elaborate. Since the character of a candidate is a legitimate consideration in an election, an investigation of these relationships hardly appears to be motivated by racism.
Of course I am happy for Obama, but what is forgotten in the jubilation over his election is that the result is a great disappointment for McCain and Palin, especially McCain, who has spent so many months campaigning for the presidency. I am in favor of eliminating our winner-take-all presidential system and following the practice of many foreign countries whereby the chief executive is chosen by the legislature, may be removed at any time by a vote of no-confidence, and may resign at any time for personal reasons.
Also, I am disturbed that people of mixed race in the USA typically identify with the minority race. Obama is half-black, but he is also half-white. The relatives he knew and who raised him -- his mother and his grandparents -- are white.
Larry Farfarman said:
Also, I am disturbed that people of mixed race in the USA typically identify with the minority race. Obama is half-black, but he is also half-white. The relatives he knew and who raised him -- his mother and his grandparents -- are white.
Ever hear of the one drop rule?
People born of mixed race did not always have the luxury of picking which race they would identify with. Especially in the South, the rule was that if you had any Negro ancestry, no matter how far back, you were a Negro.
Even now, if Obama went around claiming he was white, people would say that he was crazy. Despite being half white, to American eyes, he looks more black than white.
Is it race-baiting to question Obama's relationships with Wright and Ayers? ...
No, it's just sleazy. If you care about slimy people [which Ayers and Wright are not], then you should hate McInsane, who sucked up the some of the nastiest people on the right when he needed to. And Obama's "relationship" with Ayers is just manufactured RW lies, just as a FYI.
Wright looks scary to those whites that have never seen black churches ... which is why the GOP PACs were running that ad the last couple days. But that's just whites getting skeered of the nigras. Wright was not really any more provocative than, say, MLKII ... but then again, many white were skeered of MLKII as well, if not outright hating him.
... If you believe so, then please elaborate. Since the character of a candidate is a legitimate consideration in an election, an investigation of these relationships hardly appears to be motivated by racism.
Oh, BS. And InsHannity can go f*ck himself with O'Lielly's loofah.
So long as we dwell on the imagery of America electing an African American as President, we objectify Obama and reduce him to nothing more than the melanin content of his skin.
We will get past race when no one notices the man's skin hue and judges him solely by his qualifications or lack thereof.
If one has put all one's ideological eggs into the reductionist basket I can only expect the image of America with an intellectual, international, interracial president is nothing short of terrifying, much as was algebra was for most of our semi-literate, semi-numerate citizenry. However frightened one such might be, we can only hope to coax them, gently and kindly, through whatever remedial moral and social education they need to get them up to speed.
After that maybe we can teach these same people that "liberal" isn't a swear word, that compassion isn't weakness, that cosmopolitan isn't a whore's drink. One can hope.
My Image of America Under Obama: Four years in which Justice Scalia fondly embraces the anti-majoritarian nature of the bench, and four years of reminding folks what a politicized partisan hack sounds like. Truly gifted rhetoricians can turn on a dime like that, taking which ever side of the argument suits their bosses, with never a moment's concern for honesty or consistency so long as their handler's interests are served.
["Bart"]: We will get past race when no one notices the man's skin hue and judges him solely by his qualifications or lack thereof.
"What do you mean 'we', white man?" -- Tonto
But do keep us posted on your progress.
Hank Gillette said,
>>>>>> Ever hear of the one drop rule?
People born of mixed race did not always have the luxury of picking which race they would identify with. <<<<<<<
Well, they now have the "luxury" of identifying with more than one race. An article says,
In the 1980 and 1990 censuses, a new formation developed -- ethnicity, as Hispanic or non-Hispanic (replacing what was formerly labeled "Spanish") came to be counted separately from race, but the one drop rule remained in effect for racial categorization.
In all of the census counts through 1990, an individual's race was supposed to be indicated by checking only one of the boxes presumed to correspond to the main social racial categories. Thus, there was no allowance made for mixed-race identification, although the category "other" was recognized in the 1980 and 1990 censes, and on many local record-keeping forms. During the early 1990s, advocates for the federal recognition of mixed race identities succeeded to the extent that the "check only one box" rule for race was rescinded in the 2000 census. This appeared to be the beginning of official recognition of mixed race in the United States.
Obama is always called the USA's "first black president" or "first African-American president" -- he is never called the "first non-white president" or the "first president of color." And he is usually not referred to as being "biracial" or "mixed-race." "Mulatto" is an old-fashioned term.
Arne Langsetmo said,
>>>>> "What do you mean 'we', white man?" -- Tonto <<<<<<
That's supposed to be, "What do you mean 'we', paleface?"
And had the Long Ranger's sidekick been a black, the punchline would have been "What do you mean 'we,' honky?" (or its, "you know," equivalent)?
Maybe, just maybe, in modern terms, the metaphoric Lone Ranger is now the sidekick. Kemo Sabe?
And for the future, recall the Green Hornet's sidekick Kato. Someday we'll have an Asian American President.
One thing about this Presidential campaign is that it did not feature a consideration of race as a central theme. It is my understanding that John McCain did not allow overt race-baiting as part of his campaign, and in my view, he largely succeeded. Obama wisely did not run as a Black candidate, but McCain had the option to try to force him into that role and as I understand it, he refused.
The result, in my opinion, it that the outcome of the Presidential campaign rests on factors other than race. Obama has been elected as the President of the United States, not as the Black President of the United States. To me that is one of the most amazing things in this very amazing Presidential year.
Sure considerations of race came in to it. They had to, since Obama is rather obviously Black even if you are unaware of his history. But that is now a side issue. It's not an unimportant issue, but it was not the central issue of this election.
As important as his race is to so many people, and as important historically it is that an African-American has been elected the American President, it is even more important that he was elected primarily because more voters think he is the better candidate to deal with the immediate problems America faces. Obama was not elected because he is Black, nor was he defeated because of his race. He was elected because out of the gaggle of candidates presented, the majority of voters felt that he was the best individual for the job.
Brown vs. Board of Education occurred while I was in elementary school, so I have lived all my aware life with the Civil Rights movement. The election of Barack Obama as President does not mean that the problems of Civil Rights and race are over, but it is the first time America has ever - as a nation - faced a set of problems and explicitly stated that race was not the first issue to be dealt with when choosing a leader.
To me that is the real progress we are seeing here.
The campaign was too long. Concerns have been expressed over the years with the lengths of presidential campaigns and their costs. The British system for short campaigns has been cited as better than our system. I wish campaigns were shorter.
But would Obama have risen to the top if there had been a short British style campaign? Would Americans have gotten to know him as well as they did without the long campaign? With a short British style campaign, how would voters learn about candidates qualified to lead or would time-in-waiting (like a fraternal lodge) determine leaders? Perhaps some variation of the Parlimentary "debate-challenge" system in Congress might help. But that would ignore governors from the states, that gave us FDR, Carter, Reagan, Clinton and George W. Bush; unfortunately, we got George W. the last 8 years. Perhaps before the next presidential campaign starts in 2 years, Wasilla's silly Sarah Palin, Governor of AK-MooseKillers, will resurface, by which time it may be too late to save the whales.
Perhaps at least we'll have 2 years of peace.
Larry Fafarman:
That's supposed to be, "What do you mean 'we', paleface?"
Depends on who was telling the joke, eh? Did yo have a point?
Bart wrote:
So long as we dwell on the imagery of America electing an African American as President, we objectify Obama and reduce him to nothing more than the melanin content of his skin.
We will get past race when no one notices the man's skin hue and judges him solely by his qualifications or lack thereof.
Hear no evil, say no evil, see no evil ...
Time for a Change:
We, the "Balkinization Comments Community", loose knit and unofficial as we are, need to fill the space while the blog re-adjusts to the realities of life under the President Elect. Let's set some guidelines and rules. Let's self regulate. And let's build that initiative to the point where we develop a consistent mindful cadre who assiduously ignore overtly partisan trolls, a group whose members make the extra effort to engage each other and any new voices even arguably open to reasoned discourse.
Absent a will on the part of our hosts to moderate these comments we need to do something on our own if we want better. Exciting times lie ahead and it would be a real shame if the discourse here continued to revolve in a reactionary manner around the determined vandalism of a small few voices.
Think it over. Then make post your comment stating you agree in principle. Then pick three names of "regulars" who really deserve your time and attention, and make it a real point to talk to them and any newcomers.
This is doable, it is worth the effort, and not only is there no time like the present but this particular present already subsumes a shift from our hosts being generally opposition voices to perhaps even occasionally administration supporters. Let's not waste the moment.
And let's build that initiative to the point where we develop a consistent mindful cadre who assiduously ignore overtly partisan trolls, a group whose members make the extra effort to engage each other and any new voices even arguably open to reasoned discourse.
This has always been my view. I do understand the theory that we post, in part, for those who read here but never post, and that it's important to respond to trolls for their sake. I have two responses to that.
First, I think it's somewhat patronizing to the readers. The readers on this blog are highly likely to be (a) pretty sophisticated and able to tell bad arguments from good; and (b) well aware of whose posts they can trust. Second, I think that there's a real problem that the universe of error is infinite. Rebutting it takes up a huge amount of each thread, to the point where readers who don't need the rebuttal give up in disgust. For every reader who might appreciate the response, I'm guessing there are several who find it a distraction.
This doesn't mean the conversation needs to become insular. One good way to handle the discussion is to find another source for a bad argument, cite it rather than a local troll, and then rebut it. "I've seen it argued at Powerline that..., but that argument fails because...." That way it's never personalized.
@MarkField: "...there's a real problem that the universe of error is infinite..."
Removed from the immediate context, that's deep. ;)
Nice suggestion about citing external, and thus arguably impersonal, sources for bad arguments. And I'm happy to acknowledge you've made similar suggestions in the past (and generally do a better job of abiding by such guidelines).
Arne Langsetmo said,
>>>>>> That's supposed to be, "What do you mean 'we', paleface?"
Depends on who was telling the joke, eh? Did yo have a point? <<<<<<<
Yes, I had a point. I was just telling the joke in its standard form -- I never saw the joke told with "white man" before. "Paleface" expresses the idea that colored skin is the norm and that lack of skin color is abnormal.
Bart is on fire! It really is a damn shame those liberals are so focused on race.
Although Obama's victory is living history in lightning, his presidency will not be immune to the tensions and backbiting when those who have been oppressed finally come into power as observed by great writers like Golding, Oe, or Shakespeare. America is a struggle for power and I guarantee that once the dust settles, there will be neocons and Republicans who will try to undermine Obama at almost every turn. Hopefully Obama will be smart enough to bring the conflict directly to the people. It will truly change the political landscape and become the blueprint of politics in 21st century America.
The world press reaction to the election of Senator Obama to the presidency has been infinitely more favourable than the coverage in 2004 when this front page Daily Mirror - Bush Election 2004 was not unrepresentative of the collective groan outside the USA at the thought of "four more years" now happily coming to an end.
It would be a mistake to see the popular choice of President-elect Obama as a sign that the the USA has completely resolved its race relations problems any more than Europe has.
It would be idle to claim that until our respective education, criminal justice and employment systems demonstrate that our minority populations are being treated equally to the majority.
Those of us who work in the law, whether as teachers, judges, advocates or employers can do our part to support efforts to achieve equal treatment. As an example of efforts being made by the judiciary in the UK may I point readers to the current judicial stance Equal Treatment Bench Book.
On the race relations front, the election of your new President is being seen as a great sign of progress. But the election is also being interpreted as something else - as a rejection of US exeptionalism and of the conscious obscurantism and hypocrisy of the Bush years and the harbinger of a return to multilateralism in international relations.
Like some commentators above, I am waiting to see how your President-Elect and his eventual nominees for high office tackle issues like the detainees at Guantanamo Bay, the so-called "war on terror" and the exceptionalism of the Bush years.
Above all, I would hope to see some ending of the hyperbole attached to terrorism. Statistically the chances of any American being involved in a terrorist incident are far lower than would be the case in Europe and an infinitesimal proportion of the deaths from other than natural causes which occur every year.
The fight against terrorism is NOT going to be won by military means, only contained by police and security measures pending eradication of the root causes. In many ways the "war on terrorism" has made matters much worse rather than better.
The sooner the US public is informed of this, the sooner real remedial action can be effective.
But the election is also being interpreted as something else - as a rejection of US exeptionalism
Oddly enough, I think most Americans saw this election as a reaffirmation of American exceptionalism. That phrase was wrongly understood by Bush (and by the Republicans generally) to mean "we are better than you (and can therefore do to you what we will)". What real Americans understand is that it means "we have an obligation to live up to our ideals".
We took an important step in that direction on Tuesday, but redemption is a process, not an event.
What real Americans understand is that it means "we have an obligation to live up to our ideals".
I agree wholeheartedly. I think I've posted elsewhere that this take on exceptionalism is (for me, at least) the proper form of patriotism; it holds us to a high standard of behavior that we must strive to meet.
I wonder--and here I risk being lumped with those who talk of "bitter clingers"--how much an evangelical notion of salvation influences one's take on these matters. If one is assured of salvation and has little reason to do good deeds--that is, if giving your worries over to God constitutes the solution to any problem--exceptional character may be seen to be an ontological trait, rather than something born of process and hard work.
I think we disagree on the use of the English language rather than on the issue of what a civilised democracy should have as its ideals.
In English and also in the "American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language" 'exceptionalism' in relation to states is defined as "the theory or belief that something, especially a nation, does not conform to a pattern or norm."
So, contrary to the position in Neocon "newspeak" where the expression 'liberal' has pejorative connotations - almost a term of abuse, the proper meaning of 'exceptionalism' in Murkin is the same as in English.
the theory or belief that something, especially a nation, does not conform to a pattern or norm.
Right, and how does that vary from what Mark said? If we believe that American ideals and values are truly something special--something exceptional--then we certainly believe that they don't conform to a pattern or norm. The question is whether Americans are a priori exceptional or whether we must work towards being exceptional.
The whole project, regardless of angle, may still be ethnocentric, but there is a fundamental difference in the specific usage of the term0.
I wonder--and here I risk being lumped with those who talk of "bitter clingers"--how much an evangelical notion of salvation influences one's take on these matters. If one is assured of salvation and has little reason to do good deeds--that is, if giving your worries over to God constitutes the solution to any problem--exceptional character may be seen to be an ontological trait, rather than something born of process and hard work.
The Puritans, who after all pretty much invented the concept of American exceptionalism, wouldn't have see it in that fatalistic way. They understood they had to strive very hard to create the City on a Hill.
In English and also in the "American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language" 'exceptionalism' in relation to states is defined as "the theory or belief that something, especially a nation, does not conform to a pattern or norm."
That's perhaps a tad too literal when it comes to this particular term. Historically, the American immigrants were determined to make society here better than what they left in Europe. Better originally in a religious sense (hence the City on a Hill, as noted above), then more secularly in a "we hold these truths to be self-evident" sense.
As pms-chicago suggests, Americans have (rightly or wrongly) seen our country as a place where those ideals are teleological. As Abraham Lincoln said -- referring to this passage as "the father of all moral principle" in Americans -- the Congress which adopted the Declaration of Independence
"did not mean to assert the obvious untruth, that all were then actually enjoying that equality, nor yet, that they were about to confer it immediately upon them. In fact they had no power to confer such a boon. They meant simply to declare the right, so that the enforcement of it might follow as fast as circumstances should permit. They meant to set up a standard maxim for free society, which should be familiar to all, and revered by all; constantly looked to, constantly labored for, and even though never perfectly attained, constantly approximated, and thereby constantly spreading and deepening its influence, and augmenting the happiness and value of life to all people of all colors everywhere."
In saying all this, I don't mean to suggest that other nations can't strive for this goal as well. It's just that the sense of exceptionalism comes from the understanding that it's an obligation of our heritage, one that European governments in the 18th C didn't share.
American Exceptionalism in an originalist or historic sense seems to be what Mourad focused upon whereas Mark's take is more in a modern or revisionist (but not in a bad) sense. Consider the theme of Andrew Bacevich's new bestselling book "The Limits of Power: The End of American Exceptionalism" which is part of the The American Empire Project. Yes, America is much better than many of the things done in its name over the past 8 years and earlier. But this was not endowed by God in the 1620s upon the City on the Hill of what became Boston, my place of birth and home. This early American Exceptionalism gave us slavery and slaughters of indigenous peoples, with many limitations upon women. Manifest Destiny became imperialism and empire. America has overcome much, but much more remains to overcome. So I can accept Mark's version today that, yes, America can and will do better in the moral sense.
People have tendered the notion that electing a black president somehow mitigates the race issue in the US. I would submit it does not. Among other things, on the principal that power always tends to corrupt, Obama will shortly fall from his current pedestal. And, given the history of race in the US, its a very high pedestal to fall from, and so will be a spectacular fall.
And, its true that for people of African descent throughout the world this is a telling moment. All my friends from Africa are so excited you have to nearly duck from the blast of their enthusiasm, and so touched you can't help but be touched yourself. For when one person of a race is struck for their membership, all unmistakably feel it. This makes the issue all the more sensitive.
Although Obama gets credit for largely steering around the race issue in his campaign, it will take concerted effort on his part to continue that navigation throughout his administration. The nature and duration of race relations in the US places on Obama a burden unique to the oval office. Other presidents have faced armed menaces, greater in face than what we face now. Other presidents have faced economic storms more intense that what we face now. Other presidents have faced division much greater than what we face now. Obama faces something far different in nature than what others before him have faced - the all but innate attachment to race so many suffer from. Its a fundamental matter we would be foolish to pretend isn't wide spread. It may be better by some measures that in the past, but it isn't gone and it isn't small.
He may be up to the economic crisis, and he can seek counsel from advisers and history for help. He may be up to the armed conflicts, and he can seek counsel from advisers and history. For the challenge of how to broker race in the white house, it would seem that none can advise him. I remain optimistic, however, since the issue of race could have been worse throughout the campaign, and to date Obama has been mature about it and avoided falling into its trappings.
Don't you think Obama's ascent fairly well undoes race as an issue in general? Doesn't his success really exemplify the notion that the relevant mode of analysis is class? Don't the descendants of slaves, be they wage slaves from Mexico or slaves-in-fact from Africa, still exist primarily as underclass? America as a nation has a long way to go before a member of the underclass can make her way to the White House, regardless her race. Certainly Obama's Kenyan father was not a member of that underclass.
However, it suffices for now that this president elect is, as I'm fond of alliterating, interracial, international, and intellectual. After what seems a lifetime of bellicose harassment by semi-literate semi-numerate dittoheads I relish the notion that diction and vocabulary and even sustained reason (as opposed to committed and persistent rhetorical vandalism) might once again enjoy a brief moment of fashion.
"Certainly Obama's Kenyan father was not a member of that underclass."
But in Obama's early years, he was basically in the same circumstance as if his father were a "member of that underclass." I doubt if the community in which Obama lived treated him otherwise. He was fortunate in having a strong mother and grandparents who could nurture his talents.
Would you be nearly as enthusiastic if the first African American President was a young conservative Republican like J.C. Watts rather than a liberal Dem like Barack Obama?
Maybe little Lisa can explain to her bro why J. C. Watts seemed to lose enthusiam for the republican party several years ago. And perhaps if J. C. had been put through a wringer the past two years like Obama, I would be in a better position to know if I could be enthused by him as much as I am enthused by Obama. By the way, perhaps J. C. has good vibes with Obama just as Condi Rice seems to (as does Colin Powell). J. C. was a good man when he served in Congress and even better when he decided not to run for reelection. (He's making a lot more money since he's no longer a lawn figure for the republicans in Congress.) Perhaps if little Lisa's bro had phrased the question with Alan Keyes in lieu of J. C., I could then definitely say "No."
Consider that my enthusiam for Obama is related to George W's ineptness that was apparent even before SCROTUS elected him.
I wonder about the sentiments of little Lisa's bro if Keyes had been the republican nominee rather than McCain running against Obama with Sarah Palin as his running mate.
By the way, little Lisa's bro might be interested that a judge charged with DWI tried to beat the breathalyzer test with Chapstick and a penny in his mouth. Bro can put this in his knapsack of DUI tricks. Or could this be a Colorado technique for which he can take credit?
Mark Field:-
If by "exceptional" you mean that the USA now has democratic, moral and social conditions that make it an example for others to to emulate, then I think you fail to appreciate just how far the USA has fallen behind as compared to the democracies of the European Union.
I agree that the disparities have grown very much during the last 8 years, but the balance started shifting around 1960 and today by most measures, the USA is about 20 years behind the EU norm. In 1960 the USA could generally claim superiority in quite a number of respects, but today, to give but a few examples, the rate of imprisonment per 100,000 of population is by far higher than in any EU country, no EU country has capital punishment, no EU country has failed to provide decent healthcare for the generality of citizens, social protections generally are superior in the EU, so are employment conditions.
The trouble is, perhaps, that very many Americans do not travel and are unaware of just how much the balance has in fact changed.
It might be worth readers looking at this comparative table from World Audit League Tables and then read the Publisher's Overview
This is also a question of moral leadership in the world. I remember visiting Algeria in my youth at a time when the French were loosing the independence struggle. In every home I went to, there were to be found on the walls three tapestries or photographs or prints:
- one of Mecca,
- one of the Emir Abdelkader (for why see this French translation of a work by Charles-Henry Spencer-Churchill aka "Churchill Bey" a noted orientalist of the Marlborough family Al Amir Abd el Kader Al Jazairi.;
- one of President John Fitzgerald Kennedy (Kennedy's support for Algerian independence is well documented - see this letter Kennedy Letter 1957 still to be found on an Algerian blogger's web site on his country.
That was perhaps the high point of US standing in the Arab world - since then it has been downhill all the way and it is not going to come back up so easily. The Obama presidency at least may begin the rehabilitation process.
PMS Chicago wrote:-
"If we believe that American ideals and values are truly something special--something exceptional--then we certainly believe that they don't conform to a pattern or norm. The question is whether Americans are a priori exceptional or whether we must work towards being exceptional."
What I am trying to say is that once upon a time, many years ago, American values were "exceptional" in the best sense - something for other nations to look up to and seek to emulate. No longer. America has fallen out of the "top drawer". So, perhaps, a bit of house cleaning is in order, a recognition that the USA has to improve on its own standing before it lectures others.
Robert Link:-
Race as an issue per se is going to be with us for some time, but I agree that it can now be said that in both our countries that, with the right education, the highest flyers can achieve irrespective of, or perhaps more exactly, despite any racial handicap. Now the issues are more properly ones of equality of opportunity. Do we provide that to all groups equally? Not yet in my country and I do not think you yet do in the USA either. Both our countries have our failing schools, a disparity between black and white in the incarcerated population, a higher percentage of lone mothers struggling to bring up children without a resident father in the black community. Poverty is a major factor, of course, but throwing money at the problem is not the sole solution.
In relation to your link, I recollect that it is said that when Philip II engaged Aristotle as the tutor for his son Alexander, he prohibited the teaching of Eristics, because he considered that a monarch who through his rhetoric made the worse cause seem the better would always come to grief. Whether the anecdote is true or not, the pronouncements of the Toxic Texan's Administration were very often argued from false premises with predictable results.
This column by Robert Fisk in the Independent Robert Fisk: Obama has to pay for eight years of Bush's delusions may give some idea of the problems facing the new presidency. Fisk is forthright - but right more often than not.
If by "exceptional" you mean that the USA now has democratic, moral and social conditions that make it an example for others to to emulate
I absolutely did NOT mean that. What I meant was that the US, unlike other nations, was founded with the express goal of creating moral and social conditions that would make it an example for others to follow. We haven't always lived up to that goal; under Bush we fell very far indeed from it. Nevertheless, it remains a goal written into our founding documents.
First, I can only wish "Barbarian Watch" was updated more frequently. If you hang out other places or are open to direct email, let me know. I'm reachable at beau (at) oblios-cap (dot) com.
Second, I think it was Ben Franklin's Autobiography that introduced me to what I will henceforth call "Eristics". I didn't get far in the book, but did get far enough to read of his working with a friend on a new religious sect. The friend did the overt preaching, Ben's job was to confound their opponents. It radically reduced my opinion of Franklin. I came upon The Art of Controversy a year ago or so looking for resources to show how trolls typically use a fairly short list of standard cheats. I did that partly in the context of disagreeing with Professor Lakoff about "framing". My argument is that Lakoff's attention to framing wrongly presupposes good faith actors on both sides of the conversation, but trolls and politi-tainment celebrities are not engaged in good-faith dialectic; they are engaged in acquisition of power, for which it often suffices to throw one's opponents into confusion (or, more often, apoplexy).
I have also argued that the Scoratic method, in general, is poorly understood. As exemplified in John Houseman's portrayal of Professor Kingsfield in "The Paper Chase" (which seems to be the touchstone for many folks's understanding of the method) it is primarily a tool of dominance/submission training. As exemplified by Plato's dialogs it is a cheat; Socrates always wins because the author is on his side and causes his opponents to be comparatively dim witted. And I recall one morning in my late teens noticing as my Uncle watched the Sunday morning shouting heads that the person who insisted on getting their questions asked and answered always came out ahead. The Socratic method has little if anything to do with Hegel's dialectic, the sincere and legitimate search for increasingly nuanced and accurate truths through the process of refining thesis and antithesis into synthesis. Lakoff's remarks, to my ear, fail to make this distinction. The troll's job is not only to make the worse cause seem the better. It often suffices, and is easier and more fun, to make the better cause seem the worse, at least in the eyes of one's mentally ill-equipped audience.
I tend to think Eristics (confutation, ToAC, ...) should be taught, not as a skilll to use, but as an ever present evil against which lovers of truth must always fight (even in their own thinking).
What I meant was that the US, unlike other nations, was founded with the express goal of creating moral and social conditions that would make it an example for others to follow.
The 'exceptionalism' Mark speaks of is aspirational and not declarative.
I accept Mark Field used "exceptionalism" in a special sense, but that is not how the rest of the world understands or uses the world.
This NY Times article Secret Order Lets U.S. Raid Al Qaeda in Many Countries is far more indicative of what the rest of the world considers to be "US exceptionalism" - conduct contrary to all norms of relations between sovereign states.
And President-elect Obama's "honeymoon" with the rest of the world will not last for very long if such unilateral conduct were to continue.
See this op-ed by Simon Jenkins in the Guardian: All the cliches about colour obscure the real challenges awaiting Obama.
Further to my post above, it is gratifying to see from an AP Report just an hour ago Obama planning US trials for Guantanamo detainees that it appears that the transtion is at work on at least one of the major issues which have not redounded to the international standing of the USA.
This NY Times article Secret Order Lets U.S. Raid Al Qaeda in Many Countries is far more indicative of what the rest of the world considers to be "US exceptionalism" - conduct contrary to all norms of relations between sovereign states.
That is certainly how the political right has treated the doctrine for at least the last 40 years or so. I can't blame those overseas for thinking that's the principal use of the term.
Over at the Volikh Conspiracy, Orin Kerr posted this Obama Administration to Create Hybrid System to Try Gitmo Detainees? describing the reported Obama plans as "promising".
98 posts later comes this:-
"To All from Orin Kerr
I have tried deleting and editing comments to this post, but the software seems to be malfunctioning and it is not letting the comments and deletions go through. However, you all are acting like 3 year olds -- the comments are uncivil, immature, and silly. Given that, I am cutting off the thread."
Can't say I'm surprised.
It was particularly amusing that one post slipped in after Prof. Kerr shut down the thread, and it was a paradigm example of what he described.
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General Motors has seen the writing on the walls when it comes to efficient vehicles. Although gas prices have dropped more than 15 cents in the past few weeks, Americans are still gravitating towards smaller vehicles that are easier on the wallet when the times comes to fill up the tank.
GM has spent the past few years working on a number of technologies to bring lightweight, advanced, and fuel efficient powertrains to its vehicles and a number of them are already available or will soon be hitting the general populous.
GM's reinvigorated powertrain efforts revolve around traditional gasoline engines, diesels, hybrids, and Homogeneous Charge Compression Ignition (HCCI) engines according to Automotive News. GM is also looking to replace nearly all of its existing four and five-speed automatic transmissions with more efficient six-speed units.
For its gasoline engines -- much like Ford's efforts with its EcoBoost lineup -- GM is looking towards direct injection (DI) and turbocharging to extract V6 performance from four-cylinder engines and V8 performance from six-cylinder engines. GM's current turbocharged DI 2.0-liter four-cylinder engine can be found in the Pontiac Solstice GXP, Saturn Sky Red Line, Chevrolet HHR SS, and the Chevrolet Cobalt SS. In its current form, the engine delivers an impressive 260 HP and 260 lb-ft of torque.
In the near future, GM will apply turbocharging to its existing DI 3.6-liter six-cylinder engine to boost output from roughly 300 HP to around 400 HP. On the lower end of the spectrum, a new 1.4-liter turbocharged four-cylinder engine will finds its way into the Chevrolet Cruz -- the replacement for the Chevrolet Cobalt -- in place of the existing 2.2-liter normally aspirated (NA) four-cylinder engine.
On the diesel front, GM points to its upcoming 4.5-liter V8 diesel engine which will be used in its light-duty pickups and full-size SUVs. According to GM, the engine itself is 75 pounds lighter than traditional diesel engines and will allow its hefty trucks to achieve 26 MPG on the highway.
When it comes to hybrids, GM is already making ground with its mild hybrid system in the Chevrolet Malibu Hybrid and Saturn Aura Green Line. Eventually, the company's more efficient two-mode hybrid system -- currently used in full-size pickups and SUVs -- will find its way into the Saturn Vue Green Line and GM's other mid-size cars and SUVs.
Finally, GM is also banking on HCCI technology to extract diesel-like fuel economy from a gasoline engine. DailyTech first brought you news of this technology when Mercedes unveiled its F700 research vehicle. According to GM, adding HCCI to a gasoline engine boost fuel economy by 15 percent and significantly reduced harmful tailpipe emissions.
GM hopes to stay a step ahead of its competitors with its upcoming powertrain advances; however, its competitors likely aren't sitting still when it comes to their own efforts in striving for greater performance and engine efficiency.


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I think that this team has underachieved a tiny bit this year and with a full season of AB, JV + pick and the state of the eastern conference, the raps have a good shot. Predictions?
I think that this team has underachieved a tiny bit this year and with a full season of AB, JV + pick and the state of the eastern conference, the raps have a good shot. Predictions?
i think that if the draft goes right then yes we will be in the playoffs next year as a 8-6 seed
PG - Jose Calderon, Jerryd Bayless
SG - Demar Derozan, Leandro Barbosa or F.A
SF - Draft pick, James Johnson, Linas Kleiza, Gary Forbes
PF - Andrea Bargnani, Amir Johnson, Ed Davis
C - Jonas Valanciunas, Aaron Gray, Jamaal Magloire
That should be a balanced team, and with a good full training camp, and a off-season to work with the coaching staff, the team can make good strides for next season.
Twitter: @ReubenJRD NBA, Raptors writer for Daily Hive Vancouver, Toronto.
if the nets don't get d Howard, the Atlantic division will be ours for years to come
"the raptors were my fav team growing up"-kevin durant
The only way to bag a classy lady is to give her two tickets to the gun show... and see if she likes the goods.
I'm going to wait until I see what this team looks like after free agency and just as importantly, what the rest of the east looks like after free agency. Asking this now seems ridiculously premature to me.
It's definitely too early to speculate, but I got stuck for a few seconds on the 7th word. Underachieved?!
next year we'll have big Val (oh how our expectations are so lofty already) and a lotto pick player (hopefully we don't screw it up) PLUS most likely a quality player or 2 through FA so by all logic we should be even better right?
but yeah, like apollo said i want to see the roster first. BC could very well strike out completely this offseason (not saying i think he will) so im going to temper my enthusiasm a bit.
It's to early to predict. Barring any major injury, we should be poised to make the playoffs next year. If we don't I think it's a huge failure on the managements side. Two high prospects coming in, lots cap room, and the young talent we have progressing over the summer there is no reason to expect less.
I don't agree with the line up you have posted. I think the pieces going ahead on this roster should be DeRozan, Bargnani, Calderon, Ed Davis, Amir, JJ, Kleiza, Gray (for the right price), Forbes (only because he has another year left) and possibly Barbosa (for the right price). The rest of the spots need to be upgraded.
next year is our time to take over the Atlantic division and setup camp there for a couple of decades and make the playoffs. I'm soo hyped for next season woooooooo!
man you are going to be so bummed
I DD plays like he has been since Feb and Bargs is at his early season form, I think we make the playoffs easily. I think next year we have:
Jose, Bayless
DD, Barbosa (Based on recent reports, I think he stays)
JJ, Keliza
Bargs, Ed
Amir, Val, Gray
Plus the pick. That is a team that can make some noise in the playoffs. This team is only getting better. Casey has them buying in and the defense, especially on the inside, is very nice. If we can improve our perimeter D and get the offense flowing smoother (Bargs will help with that) this team is going to be very very good.
"Victory at all costs, victory in spite of all terror, victory however long and hard the road may be; for without victory, there is no survival."
Too many unknowns to assume everything will turn out positively in our favour:
- Can Bargnani plan efficiently for a full 82-game season?
- Will Calderon be traded? If not, can he stay relatively healthy after playing for Spain all summer?
- Will Barbosa be traded?
- Will one of Amir/Davis be traded?
- Will Bayless' option be picked up?
- Where do we land in the draft lottery?
- Who do we pick with our selection?
- If trades are made, do we obtain any extra 2012 picks? If so, who else do we pick?
- Will Valanciunas struggle out of the gates?
- Can DeRozan maintain a level of consistency?
- Does Kleiza's knee remain trouble-free?
- Will JJ learn how to shoot?
- etc., etc.
We're far from a well-oiled machine to be making conclusions about the playoffs just yet.
Based on the expectations I see posted here daily, what Valanciunas contributes next season will be viewed as a disappointment. He's young, he's never played North American ball and he still needs to add a lot of weight. He's probably two or three seasons away(minimum one season) from producing what some people around here feel he should contribute right out of the gate. I expect "Trade JV" threads by December.
Whether it be Pau, Dirk, Marc, Andrea, you name him, they all take time to acclimate to American ball. The only exceptions seem to be when guys come over who are much older, like Jorge Garbajosa for example. He entered the league as a fundamentally sound, battle tested grown man. He hit the ground running. JV isn't that.
I think that if Bryan Colangelo does a good job on draft night and this summer, yes, we have a pretty decent chance to make it to the playoffs.
the line up above would be sweet! I would prefer Dragic or Sessions over Hinrich though
I really don;t expect much from JV next year. I'm predicting 8pts, 8 rbs average in 30mins., some where around there. I think it's having a healthy Bargs, signing a couple good free agents and having Ed, DeMar improving their games is what puts us over the edge. The Rookies will be better than Big Cat and Butler, that's a for sure!
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Yeah I agree with you on that one. I put Hinrich, but the point is I want them to get a real backup PG. Dragic, Sessions, Hinrich... Any of them would make me happier than Bayless. Oh, Steve Nash too.
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Many god-fearing people feel that religion should be involved in politics. They believe that religion can play a vital part in solving humankind's problems. However, other sincere believers think that religion and politics should be separate. What do you personally think of religion's role in politics? Should those powerful forces work hand-in-hand?
Jesus Christ has been described as "the most influential figure in the religious history of mankind. So, imagine if you could ask Jesus a question. Should religion be involved in politics? What would he say?
Reasons I believe in.
1. Human ability is limited.
2. Wicked sprit forces currently have an influence.
3. True Christians give allegiance only to God's Kingdom.
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I have the same question! I love having pizza dinner parties, but I'm stuck in the kitchen, working away while everyone waits for pizzas.I plan on pre-making all of the pizzas during the afternoon of my next dinner party. They will obviously cool to room temp. during the day but when we are ready to eat, I'll put them back in the oven, 4 or 5 at a time to reheat. I think this could work but I am worried about soggy pies and luke warm toppings.Any thoughts out there? How do you do YOUR pizza parties???
I have 4 racks in 2 ovens, so even in the kitchen oven I can pump out 9 or 10 in less than 30 minutes. With one oven 2 racks, you will be getting one every 7-8 minutes, so if you stagger them (as you will have to), you can probably have 2 on the table for an hour or so.
I don't use a stone, just a screen, I don't even preheat the oven for more than 10 or 15 minutes. There is no mass to preheat with a kitchen oven and no stone, you are relying on ambient and radiant heat from the elements alone.The cycle I use goes like this:First pizza in on lower rack of lower oven, second in on upper rack of lower oven a minute or 2 later. 3-4 minutes in, the 1st pizza goes to the upper oven lower rack with the broiler on (the only preheat is to allow the element to reach red hot). The 2nd pizza moves to the lower oven lower rack with no screen, pizza 3 goes to upper rack lower oven. After another 2-3 minutes 2nd pizza goes to upper oven upper rack. Pizza one finishes and is racked outside oven to cool for a minute or 2 then cut and served, pizza 2 moves to lower rack in upper oven. Rinse, repeat.


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Reformer requests court documents related to school security measures
BRATTLEBORO -- The Reformer will be in court at 9 a.m. on Feb. 22 asking to see any court documents related to an involuntary commitment hearing that was held on Jan. 25.
The Reformer has reason to believe the hearing was related to the implementation of precautionary security measures at schools in the region, especially those in Windham Southeast Supervisory Union, during the week starting Jan. 28.
On the night of Jan. 27, the supervisory union initiated an emergency notification system informing parents of the security measures.
"Town officials were notified that a person who had previously made nonspecific threats regarding school-age people might be returning to the area," stated Town Manager Barbara Sondag in a press release. "Taking the threats seriously, representatives from police, fire and town administration met to develop a response plan."
The press release mentioned the December shooting that left 20 children and six adults dead at an elementary school in Newtown, Conn.
"Since the recent tragedy at Newtown, we are extremely sensitive to possible threats to our children and will respond in a proactive manner," stated Sondag, noting the individual in question had violated no laws.
Ron Stahley, the superintendent of WSESU, told the Reformer that after consulting with the town, "We felt it made sense to take precautionary measures."
On Jan. 28, 40 to 50 percent of the students attending Brattleboro Union High School were kept home.
Many parents were concerned about the lack of information available to them.
"They wanted to sound like they were on top of things," said one parent. "But will all the vagueness all they did was cause a mass panic. The kids are all scared, and nobody wants to send them to school today."
The "nonspecific threats" affected not only schools in WSESU.
Schools in Winchester and Hinsdale, N.H., took precautionary measures, as did schools in the Deerfield Valley, the Windham Northeast Supervisory Union and the Windham Central Supervisory Union.
In a newsletter to parents in Winchester, Superintendent Jim Lewis stated a man who had made threatening remarks toward children had been taken into custody after being "at-large" for a few days.
Brattleboro Police Chief Gene Wrinn told the Reformer he was not aware of anyone being taken into custody, but added he was "aware of a person (but) no laws had been broken."
Chris Kibbe, the superintendent of WNESU, sent an e-mail to his faculty and administrators about the "nonspecific threats."
"On Friday, a 25-year-old patient at the Retreat was unexpectedly released," wrote Kibbe. "The police do not at this point know where he is, but he has some connection to the Windham Central area, though he apparently did not attend the public schools there."
Kibbe noted that his information was "only third hand," but the person in question did make some reference "to guns and to Sandy Hook ... hence the active threat status that they and we have adopted."
The Brattleboro Retreat refused to confirm or deny whether the person in question had been a patient in its facility.
However, said Simpson, if the Retreat was concerned about a person's stability and whether that person was a danger to the community, it would file commitment proceedings in the local court.
"The community at large has a right to be protected from somebody who may be dangerous."
The Reformer did obtain court documents from Jan. 25 that indicated an involuntary commitment of a person identified as "K.G." was held.
When the Reformer requested all documentation related to the hearing, the court refused, noting according to state statutes "the public shall not have access to records of the court in mental health and mental retardation proceedings ..."
The Reformer appealed the court's denial, noting "Involuntary commitment proceedings are not confidential where public interest requires that the proceedings be open to the public.
"It is in the public interest to know the name of the person who made the alleged threats, the nature of the threats and the institution or person who requested the involuntary commitment," noted the Reformer in its letter of appeal. "This information bears on Windham County's ability to protect its children."
The Reformer also noted it's in the court's best interest to be transparent to maintain public confidence in its decision-making process.
"The threat to the safety of children in Windham County and the Court's decision to not institutionalize (the subject) directly affect the public," wrote the Reformer. "Indeed, the Windham County School District's decision to implement enhanced security measures is evidence of the significance of the Court's decision for the Windham County community."
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CBS News/60 Minutes/Vanity Fair Survey, January #4, 2011 (ICPSR 33484)
Principal Investigator(s): CBS News; 60 Minutes; Vanity Fair
This poll, fielded January 27-31, 2011 is a part of a continuing series of monthly surveys that solicits public opinion on a range of political and social issues. Respondents were asked how well Barack Obama was handling the presidency, who was the greatest president in American history, and whether the respondents would want their child to grow up to be president. Opinions were collected about potential holidays such as Election Day, who the respondents felt was the most influential African-American in United States history, the institution of marriage, entertainment choices, medical marijuana, who or what is to blame for obesity among children, and whether laws should be enacted to prevent public acts such as breast feeding, spitting, and/or cursing. Respondents were also queried on whether they felt the United States would be more vulnerable or stronger by having no state secrets, and what they felt was the ideal retirement age. Additional topics included the Super Bowl, Valentine's Day, interest in visiting Cuba, knowledge of the location of Tunisia, in which industries respondents would be least likely to invest money, institutions for the developmentally disabled, the Tea Party movement, and the September 11, 2001 terrorist attacks. Demographic information includes sex, age, race, marital status, education level, household income, employment status, religious preference, type of residential area (e.g., urban or rural), political party affiliation, political philosophy, and whether respondents thought of themselves as born-again Christians.
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Can they coexist? So far so goodJosh Lewenberg @JLew1050
Rudy on DeMar DeRozan: "He's by far the best two-guard I've ever played with"... Poor Tony Allen!
DD 19 pts, 2 reb, 7 assists
Gay 20 pts, 3 reb, 1 assist
Can they coexist? So far so goodJosh Lewenberg @JLew1050
Rudy on DeMar DeRozan: "He's by far the best two-guard I've ever played with"... Poor Tony Allen!
DD 19 pts, 2 reb, 7 assists
Gay 20 pts, 3 reb, 1 assist
as long as demar keeps this fantastic passing spree going they can.
Obviously too early to say anything, but DeMar did get doubled less today due to Gay. That's a big bonus.
Yeah and both shooted threes!
Could be an interesting combination. Wonder where that leaves Ross though.
Very interesting considering he played with Mayo for a period of time.
Twitter - @thekid_it
"by far" better than OJ Mayo? Hmmm. Seems a little early to be talking like that. I do think he's gonna push DeRozan to become that much better though.
As much as I enjoyed the game tonight, all I could think about was the first few games after Donyell Marshall came over with Jalen Rose and tore it up for a few games... the rest is history.
Just one year away... Bruno is almost here!
Right now I think the odd man out is not DeMar, and it's not Ross. Oh, and it's not Fields either. It's Anderson. He's gonna get traded with Bargnani I can smell it coming.
AA has garnered some interest im sure to a playoff contending team. Cheap contract, good player, well worth the money.
AB + AA for Gasol?
Well I don't want to start a trade debate down here but after seeing Amir play tonight and every time he starts, I don't know if we really need another big minutes guy seriously! At least for now...
I think he's happy with their potential on both ends of the court. They can be big, fast, and Demar is by far the best 2-way SG he's played with, is I think what he meant. Demar can probably reduce his overall burden much more than Mayo.
Just one year away... Bruno is almost here!
Demar's defense tonight was absolutely awesome, and Gay was great on the system.
With Gay and Demar starting the game, Ross coming in to give energetic defense and scoring, and Fields rebounding, defending, and getting some easy baskets, this wing rotation could be really, REALLY good.
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"One word: Angola."
In what seems like a play on the classically awkward "plastics" scene from The Graduate, commodities guru Jim Rogers counts Angola as a top pick for commodities investors.
Rogers tells The Daily Ticker that in addition to Asia (a seemingly perennial favorite), there are great opportunities in Africa, as well one big one in South America.
"I said to my wife, 'let's move to Angola — we could live like kings,'" the genteel and bow-tied Rogers, author of "Street Smarts: Adventures on the Road and in the Markets," told the website on Monday. "She said, 'you move to Angola; I don't want to live like a queen in Angola'…but you could!"
He includes one big surprise (or maybe not, given his commodity bent).
Read on for his picks for the best and worst commodity spots around the globe:
Angola: The website cites Bloomberg stats in noting Africa's second-biggest oil producer has been looking to boost foreign investment after almost three decades of civil war that ended in 2002. For would-be investors, the country has plans for the start of stock exchange trading in 2016, with a futures and commodities market in 2017. The economy, it notes, grew 7.4% in 2012. The downside, according to the Ticker? The cost of living is described as "astronomical by expat standards."
The site adds: "Money is subject to strict government controls, and decades of war means infrastructure and arable land are lacking."
"Members of Ethiopia's diaspora are moving back and leading the way along with Chinese investors," the Ticler says. "They're trading coffee and investing in health care and manufacturing."
"And if you do relocate or invest, the U.S. State Department reports Uruguay's government has traditionally seen the importance of foreign investment, recognizing and enforcing property rights and contracts," the Ticker says.
It also noted that the strategist Jeremy Grantham recently named Uruguay a good place to invest in farmland in an interview with The Wall Street Journal.
United States: He's not in a New York state of mind (and doesn't think much of other points west).
"I fly into New York and I say, 'Gosh, it's just not as exciting as it used to be. Unfortunately, the dynamic and the energy is in Asia, not America, for the most part now, whether we like it or not."
"Most of Europe, while exciting at the moment, is in decline," he said, before conceding, "It depends on where in Europe. There are countries in Europe that are still reasonably exciting."
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Record Earnings Year for Credit Unions in 2012: SNL Financial
Credit unions made more money than ever in 2012, according to SNL Financial.
The Charlottesville, Va., data analysis firm said the industry recorded aggregate net income of $8.6 billion in 2012, a 33.54% jump from the previous year and the most ever in one year.
The numbers showed a sharp increase since 2008, when they hit a net aggregate income loss of 0.15%, SNL Financial said. In 2000, the earliest year the firm reported, the figure was 4.38%.
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Meanwhile, the nation's largest credit union, the $52 billion Navy Federal recorded asset growth of 11.74% in 2012 and loan and lease growth of 9.84%, SNL Financial said, helped along by its move into participation loans as other credit unions neared their business lending camp.
At the nation's second largest credit union, the $25 billion State Employees' Credit Union in North Carolina, assets grew 7.51% in 2012, despite growth in loans and leases of only 0.44% in 2012. Deposits jumped 7.51% in that same period, SNL said, and securities portfolio investments and mortgages helped drive the asset increase, SNL said.


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A lecture and a bazaar focusing on the challenges facing developing countries are scheduled for early December at Princeton University.
Iqbal Quadir, professor of the practice of development and entrepreneurship and founder and director of the Legatum Center at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, will speak on "Bottom-up Entrepreneurship for Democracy and Development" at 4:30 p.m. Wednesday, Dec. 2, in 16 Robertson Hall.
"Emerge! A Global Bazaar," a student initiative, will take place from 1 to 4 p.m. Sunday, Dec. 6, in the Chancellor Green Rotunda. The event will combine a celebration of traditional crafts, cultural performance and culinary arts with informal education from student and community initiatives. More than 30 development initiatives at Princeton will showcase their work and sell artisan crafts from 20 countries.
Quadir has been at MIT since 2005. The Legatum Center runs a competitive fellowship program to prepare students to create enterprises in developing countries. Fellows seek to implement for-profit businesses that empower ordinary citizens and spread prosperity and development.
Quadir spent most of the 1990s founding and building GrameenPhone Ltd., which has become Bangladesh's largest telephone company. In 1994, he formally launched this effort by convincing investors to establish a New York based company, Gonofone Development Corp., to help him organize what subsequently became known as GrameenPhone.
Quadir's vision of a large-scale, commercial project that could serve all urban areas and 68,000 villages in Bangladesh led him to organize a global consortium including Telenor AS, the primary telephone company in Norway and an affiliate of micro-credit pioneer Grameen Bank in Bangladesh. With the support of investors, GrameenPhone, established in late 1996, started building a new cellular network and providing services to the public soon thereafter. To date, it has built the largest cellular network in the country with investments of nearly $2 billion and a subscriber base of nearly 20 million. Its rural program is already available in more than 60,000 villages, providing telephone access to more than 100 million people, while helping to create 250,000 micro-entrepreneurs in these villages.
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