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An all-you-can-read buffet: we may need to feed our brains before we feed our bodies if we are to truly grasp the meaning of the Eucharist.
Jesus told his disciples to celebrate the Eucharist "in remembrance of me" but also commanded them to invite the poor to their banquets and to find something for the hungry multitudes to eat. So it is not surprising that some of the best reads for the eucharistic year remind us to make room for the poor at our tables.
In Food for Life: The Spirituality and Ethics of Eating (Fortress), L. Shannon Jung offers "a theology of eating" that explores the spiritual, moral, and political meaning of the ways we produce, consume, and share our food. Jung, director of the Center for Theology and Land and professor of rural ministry at the University of Dubuque and Wartburg Theological Seminary, argues that scripture and tradition reveal a God who wants us to enjoy and share our food, and that the Eucharist celebrates and demands these divine intentions.
But social and personal sin have disordered the ways we make and eat our food, alienating us from the one providing our daily bread and the neighbor with whom we are to share this bounty. So Jung directs us to confront and repent the sinful structures shaping our global table and to become a church that breaks bread with justice and compassion for all.
With essays by the likes of M. F. K. Fisher, Eric Schlosser, Thomas Moore, Elizabeth Johnson, Diane Ackerman, George McGovern, and Wendell Berry, readers will enjoy Michael Schut's Food and Faith: Justice, Joy, and Daily Bread (Living the Good News) as an anthology exploring the spirituality, economics, and politics of food. Parishes and faith-sharing groups can use it as the handbook for a short course on eucharistic spirituality and justice.
A writer and staff member with the ecumenical environmental group Earth Ministry, Schut has put together a collection examining our religious and ethical ties to the food we eat and the laborers who bring this bread to our tables, and he offers suggestions for how we might eat and drink more justly. He supplements this material with an excellent study guide and manual for Christian groups.
Cathy Campbell's Stations of the Banquet: Faith Foundations for Food Justice (Liturgical Press) is also an excellent resource for faith-filled individuals and communities seeking inspiration and sustenance in the struggle against global hunger and injustice. An Anglican priest and professional nutritionist who has advised the White House and the World Health Organization on questions of hunger, Campbell has written a spiritual handbook in which the traditional Way of the Cross is transformed into a pilgrimage from the bounty of creation to the banquet of heaven.
Along the way she identifies the biblical and theological voices summoning believers to awaken to the suffering and injustices shaping our global food system and to practice simplicity, hospitality, gratitude, solidarity, and generosity at all our tables. This excellent manual and prayer book also provides readers with prayers of lament, repentance, and thanksgiving to celebrate our faith in the one who feeds us and calls us to feed one another.
Joseph A. Grassi's new edition of his 1985 text, Broken Bread and Broken Bodies: The Lord's Supper and World Hunger (Orbis), once again argues that an authentic celebration of the Eucharist can empower Christians to challenge and transform the unjust economic and political structures that create global hunger. Grassi, professor emeritus of the religious studies department at Santa Clara University and founder of the Skip-A-Meal program to care for the poor and hungry, explores how Jesus taught his disciples to practice a revolutionary and inclusive table fellowship that welcomed and provided for the poor, and suggests that the Eucharist commands modern believers to imitate Jesus' radical hospitality to the poor, hungry, and oppressed.
AND WHAT ARE LITURGISTS SAYING ABOUT THE Eucharist and justice? Liturgy and Justice: To Worship God in Spirit and Truth (Liturgical Press), edited by Anne Koester of the Notre Dame Center for Pastoral Liturgy, answers this question with a fine collection of essays by Catholic theologians and liturgists concerned with the link between worship and justice and committed to helping eucharistic communities preach and practice God's justice in the world.
Articles by Walter Burghardt, David Andrews, Frances O'Connor, R. Kevin Seasoltz, and others explore the connection between the Eucharist and world hunger, globalization, colonialism, liberation, and the reign of God, and ask how our eucharistic liturgies are schooling us to be assemblies where all women and men of every color and class are indeed one in the Body of Christ.
A Banqueter's Guide to the All-Night Soup Kitchen of the Reign of God (Liturgical Press), my own humble offering at this banquet of books, explores the ties between the Eucharist and justice by asking what it means to call this sacrament bread, table, body, and sacrifice.
Seeing the Eucharist as bread reminds us of our ties to the hungry and to those who prepare our food. Being at table with Jesus means we must practice his radical hospitality, friendship, and service to the poor, outcast, and lowly. Becoming part of the Body of Christ binds us to the burdened, broken, and disappeared bodies of the poor, neglected, and oppressed. And celebrating the sacrifice of the Eucharist summons us to stand in solidarity with the world's scapegoats and sacrificial victims.
STILL, THE EUCHARIST SUMMONS US to be in communion not only with the poor and marginalized, but also with other Christians. As Paul tells the Corinthians, the one bread we share makes us one in Christ. So good books on the Eucharist should help all Christians overcome the scandalous divisions that have wounded the Body of Christ, separating us into denominations and sects that do not and cannot break eucharistic bread together.
The Sacrament of Unity: The Eucharist and the Church (Crossroad), by Cardinal Walter Kasper, president of the Pontifical Council for Promoting Christian Unity, is a slender volume of thoughtful meditations on the Eucharist, the church, and ecumenism.
Arguing that the Eucharist is the sacrament of unity that "makes the (local and global) church," Kasper is deeply concerned about the growing number of parishes deprived of the Eucharist because of the priest shortage and the divisions keeping different Christian churches from celebrating the Eucharist together. And while some of the solutions he recommends seem overly cautious, the cardinal's text calls all Christians to work and pray for a fuller eucharistic communion grounded in a shared "Amen" to the Body of Christ.
A FEW YEARS BACK JEFFREY VANDER-Wilt won high praises for A Church Without Borders: The Eucharist and the Church in Ecumenical Perspective (Michael Glazier), and now the Marymount University professor of liturgy, sacraments, and theology has returned to the subject of the Eucharist and ecumenism in Communion with NonCatholic Christians: Risks, Challenges, and Opportunities (Liturgical Press).
Like Kasper, VanderWilt wants to explore ecumenical steps Catholics and other Christians can take in approaching the same eucharistic table. With high-profile cases involving both the Baptist Bill Clinton and the Anglican Tony Blair receiving Communion at Mass, VanderWilt examines the notion and practice of eucharistic sharing, introducing readers to liturgical rules and discipline.
Again, like Kasper, VanderWilt is aware of the real risks associated with this practice. Still, he is more optimistic than Cardinal Kasper about the opportunities and benefits created by welcoming other Christians to our eucharistic tables and more willing to practice a radical hospitality in hopes of a full communion for the Body of Christ.
By PATRICK MCCORMICK, professor of Christian ethics at Gonzaga University in Spokane, Washington.
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First of all, hey guys! I haven't been on for awhile!
I just wanted to pop back in to my good old atheist community to express some concern over two trends I am noticing in some atheists.
The first is dogmatic atheism. I've gone 5 years never having to encounter a dogmatic atheist and suddenly I've met a couple recently. Atheism is NOT and can NOT be a positive claim. People claiming that there is definitely no god (apparently they exist) need to be confronted whenever possible. I am working very hard to try to secularize the world, but it is extremely important that religion is not replaced with nontheistic dogma.
If atheism is an emotionally held position rather than a rational one, first of all the theists are right. In this scenario the atheist is no better than the most indoctrinated theist. Second of all, with the broad and promising reach of secularization, it forebodes a possible future when religious oppression is not eliminated but simply turned against the religious.
This brings me to my second issue: Hostility. When being hostile to theists, you have to stop and think about your intentions. Being hostile to a theist achieves nothing more than blowing off steam for your own selfish interests. I suppose this is fine if you can't deal with not having the release or don't care about the image of atheism, but again if we are to spread at all as a rational position rather a emotional/dogmatic one, personal attacks should really stop. They're usually excused by some rendition of "they started it" or "theists do it so much worse!" But come now... it is intellectually dishonest to justify such behavior this way. Adults behaving like children will be dismissed like children. Just think about how well those "atheists hate god" people affect your opinion. Nobody is forcing you to stay and talk with an idiot. If you can't stand what they're saying, most likely they won't be convincing any moderates anyway. Leave them to someone else who can handle their terrible arguments without getting hostile.
Keep in mind that nobody thinks that they are evil or stupid. People draw lines and expect in some sense to be respected. Don't give them certain respects that they don't deserve naturally but for a rational, non-emotinal position, civil discourse is always a minimum respect. An overwhelming majority of theists have no idea what atheism is. They've been lied to by their religious figures and their community which supports the urban legends. People don't need to be stupid in order to be brainwashed. They have extremely good reasons to fear us. Their churches spread propaganda and there are enough atheists confirming that we're "angry, hateful people" to block all critical thought.
"We shall have to repent in this generation, not so much for the evil deeds of the wicked people, but for the appalling silence of the good people."-MLK
""First, I must confess that over the last few years I have been gravely disappointed with the white moderate. I have almost reached the regrettable conclusion that the Negro's great stumbling block in the stride toward freedom is not the White Citizen's Council-er or the Ku Klux Klanner, but the white moderate who is more devoted to "order" than to justice"
This goes both ways. The atheist moderates need to be heard over the dogmatic ones. The theist moderates need to be considered when trash talking the extremist ones. The leading social activists in history have all realized the importance of the moderates.
Theists are not stupid. They're not playing fantasy. The only requirement is belief in god. We can't get so caught up in our own opinion that we create our own pseudo-religion and demonize the theist moderate.
We need the help every theist moderate that we can get. They are our most powerful tool for social change. They are the ones who will spread the word to the theist community that we're not monsters. They will make more atheists and atheist sympathizers than any one of us ever possibly could.
Please consider this next time you choose to debate a bigot. Your actions affect much more than just you and the other participant. If we don't remove the emotional blocks to reason, we can't expect reason from anybody.
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I appreciate your sentiment.
I think that desperate people lead to desperate measures… if you go for determinism we don't have any choice – those of us who do end up acting like fanatics or dogmatic…
The other thing I wanted to point out is that there is no rational part of the brain – as pointed out in Sam Harris' book – The Moral Landscape – Neuroscientist. He tells us that our reasoning faith, belief and rationality are all in the same part of the brain – we believe what we do not based on facts but based on values…
And so I can see that you want people to see atheists as having good values – or good morals even… and therefore the hateful imagine isn't attractive.
It's tough – because who is going to be publicised amongst theists circles? The ones who are kind and caring or the ones who fit the prejudice description of heathens?
I think it worth developing values or morals as atheists that we can promote to other atheists and theists alike. See my group Compassionate Communication for more on that…
@John D
LOL right it wasn't a metaphor but gimme a break it's early and I haven't had my coffee yet.
Again, I'm in no way advocating low resistance. The gay march was a bad example because it doesn't demonstrate anything that I'm against. Still with this new post I agree with most of what you say.
Broad whom-it-may-concern marches are not the same as individual dialogue. One's purpose is exposure and the other's is getting through the intricacies.
"You claim it is ALWAYS right to be polite."
You're right that I over generalized. I'll refine it to polite discussion as opposed to polite exposure. Hostile billboards are sometimes reasonable, Marches will probably be reasonable. Speeches can sometimes be reasonable. I post arguably "hostile" (depending on what extent we're talking about) Facebook statuses.
However once you attract the individuals to talk to you using these tactics, I see no place for it in one-on-one discussion in a public forum. Hostility tends to polarize when you're getting into the logistics of your position. I'll say things like "discussion with you is useless if you continue to dodge points" but beyond that I see no reason to be. Emotional appeal is certainly useful for emotional positions (we're oppressed, we want to be heard, etc) but it is not good in the context of discussion where I see it most often.
"Since I have screamed at the bigot showing a dead and bloody fetus at our local street fair I have not seen him again."
This seems to work into my appropriate place for emotional appeal. It is still one on one but it is not really discussing fundamental issues of personal worldviews.
And contrary to what you might possibly think about my position, I think that it is very important to get angry and express it openly. Can we agree that there are times that it is completely inappropriate even if there are times where it is appropriate?
For example, hostility paired with not addressing points is counterproductive. I've been seeing more of that recently than I ever have. Hostility at the expense of clouding one's analysis of another's argument, hostility at the expense of breaking up your logic and making it hard to get through from another's perspective, etc.
"remember that their sock puppet father God can not stomach the prospect of decorum with any of us except to convert us to HIS worship."
Talking to too many fundies. I agree that the Bible says that but if Christians read their Bible there would probably be more of us anyway. Plenty of theists are perfectly willing to allow discourse. We have a regular evangelical in our Freethinkers group that likes us better because he can never flex his mind among his flock and likes to hear us talk though he doesn't agree.
This is the most important demographic to target (none of you have addressed that point yet) because these are the kinds of people who take words back to the churches and will actually be listened to. People seem to bash their heads on the fundies so often that they think that all dialogue with theists will be just as much of a waste of time.
I know testimonial isn't a great appeal, but I've noticed a very promising change in response since I've switched demographic targets and I've even deconverted a few moderates in the past year.
Hope I'm not slippery sloping this since I'm running up against finals week but I'll give it a go.
@John D
"Lots of people said "Gee wizz - these gays are not helping win over moderates with this outrageous behavior. They should behave well, so we can like them more."
Bad metaphor. I never advocated being closet. There's nothing hostile about being open and proud.
"Descarte's evil god is self contradictory... so I am not convinced."
Maybe later. For now we'll keep the focus on hostility.
"No evidence for behavior"
What exactly does this have to do with anything? I appealed to the moderate. If that is not you, evidence does not apply.
Since you started a rebuttal anyway though, you'll have to explain the usefulness of your actions. I agree to some extent that hostile defiance is better than none at all, but it does nearly as much harm as good.
Do you dispute the fact that it does harm, think civil discussion does more harm, think that incivility is more productive, or disagree on the basis that you think my position is that you are useless?
"Was polite"
Broad testamonial. Just because you're polite does not mean you're effective. Being quiet is worse than being hostile. It all depends on how you were being polite.
I actually find the atheist march a good idea, but no person-to-person or person-to-group hostility is required for that as I said. Open and proud is not the same thing as calling someone an idiot, etc.
You have fallen into a theist trap in referring to atheists as dogmatic. Allen Dershowitz portrays atheism on one end of the dogma spectrum and orthodoxy on the other. His position is nonsense. God is not a fifty/fifty proposition. Whether the naysayer is utterly certain that the bullshitter is bullshitting or nearly certain is immaterial. The naysayer has a rational basis for his opinion. The theist has no rational basis.
You have set up a false dichotomy in asserting atheist are either rational or emotional. Unless you are an automoton you cannot divorce yourself from emotion. If you never get angry perhaps you do not understand all of the issues. Emotion is biological. In terms of the efficacy of the soft versus hard atheism, none of us really know. It probably differs with demographics.
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Former Linspire CEO Kevin Carmony was pretty gung-ho about the company's upcoming release back in June. He said it would "fill some key holes in our current offering." Unfortunately Linspire 6, released last week, lacks the refinements you'd expect in a distro you pay $50 to download. It drops some key distinguishing features, and in return gains only some Microsoft technology as spelled out in the Microsoft patent covenants Linspire agreed to. This release seems to be about deferring to Microsoft.
The Linspire 6 CD, like its predecessors, is both an install disc and a live CD. Linspire 6 has impressive hardware support; running on both my dual core desktops (E4400 and E6300) and slower 1.3GHz Celeron laptop, it detected everything from the PCMCIA and PCI wireless cards to USB pen drives, USB hard disks, and USB camera.
Linspire 6 installs quickly -- less than 10 minutes on the dual core boxes -- after the simplest of installation procedures. While the installation offers an advanced installation option, all you can do with it is select the partition you want to install on. If you like keeping your /home, /root, and other directories on separate partitions, you're out of luck. Linspire is one of the few distributions that still defaults to a ReiserFS filesystem, though you get the option to format the partition and install it on other filesystems, such as ext3.
It's after installation that Linspire 6 shows it rough edges. Linspire's previous major release, Linspire 5.0, was a showstopper of a distro. It turned eyes with its user interface eye candy and impressed with its applications. Linspire 6 disappoints in both of those areas. The release has a standard wallpaper, no 3-D desktop, and has dropped some of its own custom applications, such as LTorrent (now replaced with KTorrent) and Nvu.
For a $50 distro on a CD, Linspire doesn't pack much. You get a standard set of office and Internet apps, including the OpenOffice.org office suite, Pidgin for instant messaging, RealPlayer for playing music, K3b for burning CDs and DVDs, KTorrent for downloading torrents, and other KDE apps, including KMPlayer and KDE games. You configure the system using KDE's Control Center. Also included is Firestarter for setting up firewalls and GParted for managing partitions. Like many distros, Linspire has custom apps as well, but only two -- Lsongs and Lphoto. The distro uses a modified version of Firefox for Web browsing and includes Linspire's popular Hot Words extension.
One of the best user-oriented feature of Linspire 5.0 was the guided video tour and help. This has been dropped from Linspire 6.0. In fact there isn't any Linspire-specific help bundled with the release. It comes with the standard KDE help and nothing more.
To make matters worse, this latest release has some very irritating habits. For example, when you click the terminal quick launch icon in the taskbar at the bottom, instead of popping up a terminal window, it brings up a menu with options to launch a shell, a Linux console, a Python interpreter, or a root terminal. This might be useful to a power user but is irritating for Linspire's primary audience of desktop and office users.
But let's not forget the list of software highlighted in the press release -- Microsoft's TrueType fonts, the ability to play Windows Media files, and the ability to open and save documents in Microsoft's OpenXML format. Yes, these are all included and work without a glitch. But this doesn't make Linspire a more interoperable distro. It failed to mount all FAT32 and NTFS Windows partitions on my computers.
The other bleeding edge software in this release is the beta version of the Linspire-developed Click-N-Run (CNR) service now available to other distros as well. The first time you run it, Linspire syncronizes your local installed software repository with the one on the CNR Web site, which it then opens in the Web browser. CNR stands up to its name -- I used it to install several apps, including Beryl and Trigger, a 3-D rally game, without a hitch.
It was only when I wanted to remove these apps that I realized that Linspire includes no package management utility. You can grab the KDE package manager from CNR, or, since Linspire 6 is based on Ubuntu, use apt-get to download Synaptic.
In another installation-related issue, I couldn't get the kernel sources for the running Linspire 6 kernel (2.6.20-16-lowlatency) to install vmware-tools while running the distro under VMware 6. The one available on CNR said it wasn't for the running distro, and Synaptic didn't have this kernel at all.
Linspire is one of the few non-free distros available. As a single-CD distro, Linspire has a huge uphill battle against commercial DVD distros. Linspire 6.0 won't win many converts, except perhaps for companies frightened by the recent patent infringnment claims against Linux vendors whose priority is a distro that offers Microsoft's patent promises.


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If media reports are correct, it appears that the congressional "supercommittee" will fail to reach its midnight Monday deadline to specify how it would trim at least $1.2 trillion from the budget deficit during the next decade.
This is probably a good thing.
(Technically, the committee has until Wednesday to reach agreement, but any plan has first to be on the table for 48 hours for review and to allow the Congressional Budget Office time to "score" the proposal.) The immediate reason for the failure is that, in an election year, the purported cost of not reaching a deal pales in comparison to the political price both sides calculate they would pay at the polls come November if they actually negotiated a substantive compromise that really reduced the deficit. Instead, both sides are gambling that they will be better positioned to negotiate a year from now.
In my view, this is a gamble worth taking. What's that, you say? How can the decision to postpone a deficit reduction be good news? A bit of background is in order: you will recall that the 12-member bipartisan congressional committee was created as part of the negotiation that ended, at least for the moment, last summer's debt default crisis. Under the agreement, the supercommittee, composed equally of six House Representatives and six Senators, was supposed to develop a deficit reduction plan by this Wednesday. Assuming at least 7 of the 12 committee members agreed, that plan would then go to the full Congress to face a simple up-or-down majority vote in each chamber by December 23, with no option to amend the bill or filibuster it in the Senate. If Congress voted down the plan, automatic spending cuts totaling $1.2 trillion, divided equally between defense and non-defense programs, would kick in. Crucially, however, those non-defense spending cuts would not touch the biggest budget busters: Social Security, Medicaid, food stamps and veterans' benefits. At the same time, there is a growing sentiment that deep cuts in defense spending are politically untenable at this moment. Obama's own defense secretary, Leon Panetta, has been quietly signaling the administration's desire to renegotiate the defense budget targets.
And that's why the plan was never likely to work. Under the original agreement creating the supercommittee, the automatic deficit reduction plan would not kick in until January, 2013 – or until after the 2012 elections. Under that timetable, neither side really had any incentive to cut a deal, since they could avoid making hard choices and suffering the associated political costs until after facing the voters. Remember, unlike during the debt default debate, a failure here triggers neither a government shutdown nor a debt default and a drop in the nation's credit rating. So, for most members it is easier to point fingers at the other side, knowing full well that the "automatic" procedures will then kick in to "force" across the board budget cuts that may be cuts in name only. Each side can then play the blame game heading into November, and then use the election results as a referendum with which to replay the budget debate.
With hindsight, we should not be surprised that Congress' effort to legislate by, in effect, tying their own hands, has not worked. Congress has a history of failed efforts to institute internal procedures designed to force them to pull the trigger on hard political choices that they were otherwise unwilling to undertake. Think back, for example, to the Gramm-Rudman-Hollings (GHR) act Congress passed and Ronald Reagan signed into law in the 1980's in order to curb burgeoning deficits. The procedure, passed in 1986 and revised after a constitutional challenge in 1987, mandated across-the-board budget cuts (sequestration) if Congress and the President failed to reach agreement on budget reduction targets. For the first few years after passage Congress was able to jerry rig the deficit accounting process to avoid triggering the automatic cuts, but by 1990 when it appeared that no amount of creative bookkeeping could avoid sequestration, Congress instead negotiated a new budget agreement with President Bush that served as a crucial down payment on deficit reduction. That ultimately led, when followed by the Clinton tax increases, to short-lived budget surpluses. (Not incidentally, by breaking his no new taxes pledge, the 1990 budget agreement also was a significant factor in Bush's defeat in 1992).
The point, and it is one that Newt Gingrich delights in making on the stump, is that no effort by Congress to make hard choices through automatic procedures is likely to succeed if Congress lacks the political will to enforce the agreement. And in the case of the supercommittee, it is quite clear that both Democrats and Republicans would prefer, in an election year, to bear the political recriminations of failing to reach a deal over actually making difficult choices that would almost certainly alienate key elements in their respective political coalitions. One needs only to turn on the television, and see the paid political advertising by groups like the AARP, which is threatening electoral retribution on any member of Congress who touches Medicare benefits, to understand why the supercommittee was only too glad to put off making difficult decisions.
My point here is not to say the parties negotiated in bad faith, or that the entire process was a charade. In fact, I think members in both parties hoped that they might get the other side to see it their way, at least enough to come to some type of agreement. And, in truth, both sides were willing to make significant concessions. Democrats agreed to make some budgets cuts, and Republicans did, if media leaks are to be believed, agree to some revenue increases, albeit primarily through changing the tax code. There were even reports that both sides had agreed on a plan to means-test Social Security benefits. But ultimately the ideological divide which undergirds Republican's resistance to tax hikes and Democrat's opposition to cuts in entitlement programs proved too big to bridge under the current political climate. No legislative procedure could overcome that political reality.
To be sure, both sides may yet negotiate a smaller face-saving agreement. On Friday, Republicans reportedly floated a smaller $640 billion deficit reduction package that includes some revenue increases, and I wouldn't be surprised to see Democrats leak their own mini-reduction package in response. But I would be shocked if both sides suddenly agree to a plan that meets the $1.2 trillion target and avoids triggering the automatic cuts.
If, as I expect, the supercommittee fails to reach an agreement, both sides will engage in full-scale damage control and finger pointing, and the media will doubtless partake in another bout of handwringing about our "dysfunctional" Congress. But while that plays well with the public, I think it is probably the wrong message to take from the supercommittee's failure. The debate over the budget is really a debate over political values and the future direction of the nation's budgetary policy. It is not a debate that should be resolved by legislative gimmicks that allow members of Congress to avoid making hard choices, and from being held accountable for those choices by the voters. And, in fact, in the next several months legislators will face several more difficult decisions, including whether to extend unemployment benefits and whether to allow payroll tax cuts now in place to expire. In the meantime, legislators from both parties now have an opportunity to prepare their case in the run up to what is shaping up to be the most consequential national election in several decades.
There is no guarantee, of course, that the 2012 elections will send an unambiguous signal regarding how to address the nation's budgetary woes. In the 2010 midterm elections, however, we saw how a grass-roots Tea Party movement rooted in opposition to government bailouts, increased spending and growing deficits produced one of the biggest partisan reversals in the post-World War II era. More recently, similar anti-corporate sentiments spawned the "occupy Wall St." movement which may yet develop into a potent electoral force. Who knows how these sentiments will play out in 2012? With so much at stake, I'd rather take my chances with the electoral process than have members of Congress hide behind legislative gimmicks designed to provide political cover.
The supercommittee (apparently) has failed. Let the real debate begin!


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I am heavily considering both schools; however, the deadline is coming up and I'm having a hard time deciding.
I thought I would go to CalPoly because I am originally from Cali, so going there would have been cool. But I declared ME when I applied, because at the time, that's what I wanted to do. But since the application in Nov., my interests have changed and I now want to do CPE. I have spoken to advisers and profs and Poly about this. Anyways, they say you have to be there for at least a quarter before changing majors. I spoke to the director of engineering advising center, and she sent me to a website that has the minimum requirements.
Anyways, the requirements include about 5 classes, and if I take AP credit, I believe that it would cover one of those classes. So I would still have to take 4 classes, which she included in her email, that it takes most students about 2 to 3 quarters.
So, to the engineering students at Poly, if you changed to CPE or EE, how long did it take you to be able to switch? How many more classes per quarter were you able to take?
This makes it tough because if I am taking ME classes for my freshmen year, and then start my soph. year with CPE, that year of ME classes seems wasteful. And if it takes me longer to switch, for example, still taking some classes soph. year to have the requirements, that time seems wasteful.
And that's where Gonzaga comes in. Since I don't want to be in Indiana at Rose-Hulman, it's not just the location, it's also the cost; which is why Stanford and Santa Clara are kindof off the list as well, because all three cost ~$40k per year. And I don't really want to be in state at CU Boulder or CO School of Mines.
At Gonzaga, I can start with the CPE major. This would account for no lost time, just trying to take requirement classes to be able to switch.
I also don't plan to bring my car unless absolutely necessary by my soph year or higher. I haven't yet been to Spokane, but it seems like there would be more to do there than San Luis Obispo.
Both are good schools, and I know that; which makes it a difficult decision. I'm kindof worried about how long it would take to switch majors at CalPoly, but I'm originally from sd, so I prefer the weather in Cali. I know that Spokane is usually warmer and cooler in the winter and summer, respectively, than CO.
So to the Gonzaga students, how do you like the school? If you have switched majors, especially those within the engineering department, have you found it easy to do?
I know it's kindof long, thanks for reading. If you can share your thoughts, I'd appreciate it. Thanks.


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How to Join a Life Group?
We offer Life Groups in all stages of life. While we know it is intimidating to meet new people and be a stranger, we promise that you won't be a stranger for long.
3 steps to sign up:
- Choose your campus/topic
- Choose your group
- Sign up by using the contact the group leader button
Once you have signed up, the Life Group leader will contact you and talk about the next steps to get you connected. We are so excited that you are ready to get connected with a Life Group!
Want to lead a group?
The process is simple. We ask that you complete Open House. Upon completing the course, a time will be scheduled to meet with Pastor Clayton Martin. Thanks for wanting to be a part of giving life to others!


text: Falke dresses men in elegance and style while being comfortable. Falke socks for men offer innovative designs and quality at the highest level. Falke products are made with the highest quality fabrics to ensure men can be active while still looking good. Falke designers promise their socks and other pieces are unlike any other in the market. You'll experience the perfect merger of design and function in your favorite colors. Each sock is made of the best quality materials available, wherther it's the finest cotton or merino wool. These valuable material combinations ensure the best level of comfort. Whether you're wearing Falke's over the calf or short socks you'll appreciate the lack of pressure points and the quality of the reinforced toes and heels. Each piece is given special attention so men can go from playing sports to an office meeting. No matter what you are doing, Falke is going to do its part to be functional and fashionable.Falke began in 1895, and has been dressing people in style and comfort for over 100 years. Franze Falke began his company by producing two dozen socks daily. Of course, today production is a whole other story, but it just proves Falke started from scratch before booming into a huge company. All products are still made right in Germany keeping the roots of the Falke family strong. The Falke family stuck by the company, each generation ensuring the highest quality and performance of their socks. Their hard work over the years has paid off as Falke is now known all around the world.Falke socks come in all styles. Some are dressy, some are fun and some are basic for everyday wear. Most are made from a velvety soft cotton knit. The Falke Airport Sock and Berlin Sock is even made for colder days with a combination of wool and cotton. The Running collection offers men shirts and boxers made of breathable micro mesh fabric for enhanced wicking to keep you dry and cool. One man who bought the briefs said, 'One of The Best. I work out side in 110+ heat and these are the best at wicking the moisture off my body. They are comfortable and I like the colors. I'm tired of all the whites.' The Sensitive collection offers dress socks with a fluffy feel, and stylish design. The sports line and other Falke socks are featured in 'Runner's World' 'and 'Bicycling SA.'Falke not only outfits men in amazing socks and t-shirts, but their briefs have soared in popularity as well. The Brief and Boxer Brief is designed as a low tension compression garment for a less constrictive feel, that still supports muscle groups to deliver better performance and less fatigue.Falke designers aim to help men enjoy life without worry about their socks and underwear not fully functioning or not being stylish. With Falke they can work hard and play harder. Falke designers know men might not care as much about the looks of their socks and underwear, but they definitely want to feel comfortable and supported throughout the day. The fashionable, fun prints and colors just add to the excitement Falke brings to men.


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Story highlights
- Dani Pedrosa claims pole for the French MotGP
- Spaniard edges out Honda teammate Casey Stoner at Le Mans
- Title challenger Jorge Lorenzo on second row
- Italian legend Valentino Rossi seventh fastest on the Ducati
Dani Pedrosa edged out world champion Casey Stoner to take pole for the French MotoGP Saturday.
Pedrosa was 0.303 seconds faster than his Honda teammate and the pair were the only two riders under the one minute 34 seconds mark at Le Mans.
Spain's Pedrosa broke his collarbone last season -- leaving him to miss several races -- but he was back to his best in a qualifying session which started in wet conditions and ended in the dry.
It was his 20th MotoGP pole and he will be looking for his 16th victory Sunday.
Italian Andrea Dovizioso was third fastest to join them on the front row on his Yamaha.
He relegated the works Yamaha pair of 2010 world champion Jorge Lorenzo and American Ben Spies onto the second row of the grid.
Lorenzo and Spies are separated by Britain's Cal Crutchlow, again impressing on his Yamaha.
Italian legend Valentino Rossi produced his best qualifying performance of the season for seventh for Ducati.
Rossi said this week he will continue racing for at least another season and is favored to replace Stoner when the Australian retires at the end of the season.
Stoner made the shock announcement of his intentions earlier this week. He is leading this year's title race from Lorenzo and Pedrosa.


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Serie A: Juventus reject approach for Mauricio Isla
Juventus have rejected an approach from Serie A rivals Inter Milan for Chilean midfielder Mauricio Isla.
Last Updated: 19/07/13 5:18pm
The 25-year-old arrived in Turin from Udinese last summer but a long-term knee injury played a significant part in restricting him to just 11 league appearances for the club.
Juve director Giuseppe Marotta on Friday confirmed Inter had made their interest in the versatile player known but that, following an internal discussion with coach Antonio Conte, he would not be sold "at this time".
Marotta told the Gazzetta dello Sport: "Mauricio has been the subject of interest from Inter. We sat around a table to look at the proposal from both a financial and technical point of view.
"At this time, in agreement with the coach, we won't be putting the player on the market. Isla remains our player in every way."
Isla originally joined Juve alongside Udinese team-mate Kwadwo Asamoah on a co-ownership arrangement, with the Italian champions purchasing both players' full registration at the end of the season.
The Bianconeri have already strengthened for a second title defence with the additions of strikers Carlos Tevez and Fernando Llorente, while defender Angelo Ogbonna made the switch from city rivals Torino last week.
"We have to pay attention to our finances," Marotta added. "Our model is this: we want to remain the top team in Italy and be highly competitive in Europe even if it is increasingly hard to compete in the international transfer market these days."


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Board of Regents OKs 16 Percent Health Insurance Hike
SOCORRO, N.M. November 26, 2013 – The New Mexico Tech Board of Regents recently approved a 16 percent increase in health insurance premiums for its employees effective Jan. 1, 2014.
Tech's Human Resources Department sponsored two Benefits Fairs on Nov. 11 and Nov. 12 to explain details of the new plan to employees, who must enroll in the plan of their choice by the end of December.
Among options offered to employees seeking coverage are hospice care, prescription drug benefits and wellness initiatives, according to Debbie Ranger, administrator for New Mexico Tech's health care plan, who unveiled details of the three medical plans at the Regents' Oct. 31 meeting.
Lonnie Marquez, Vice President for Administration and Finance, noted that the Affordable Health Care Act will not impact the University because it is self-insured.
The Affordable Health Care Act, commonly known as ObamaCare, was a focus of discussion on the insurance issue, with some Board members asking how the federal health care mandate will affect the number of enrollees in the New Mexico Tech plan.
"In my opinion, if they cannot afford your health plan today, they can't afford it next year," Ranger replied, adding that some Tech employees may, however, qualify for federal health care tax credits or subsidies.
Michael Olguin Sr., the third-party administrator, added that anyone can go on the exchange, but they will not be entitled to employer contributions.
"They may decide they're better off staying where they are," he said.
Ranger detailed the three medical plans, which vary as to the cost of the deductible, co-pay charges and out-of-pocket limits. Employees opting for a biometric screening, which includes a 36-panel blood draw, could earn a $250 credit toward their deductible, she said.
In other action, Regents approved a change to Tech's admission requirements for transfer students, who now must qualify for placement into Math 103 (pre-calculus) in order to be admitted to Tech, rather than Math 101 (college algebra).
Tech President, Dr. Daniel H. López, recommended approval, rhetorically asking whether the investment in underprepared students makes sense, and whether or not admitting math-deficient students to New Mexico Tech was a disservice to them.
Most transfer students come to Tech from non-technical schools and with a lot of credit hours in liberal arts, "and it can be difficult to carve out a schedule for them," López said.
New Mexico Tech now has an official policy defining tobacco smoke-free areas on campus, following Board action at the October meeting. The policy came before the Board for approval in August, but Regents sent it back for legal review. The policy complies with the Dee Johnson New Mexico Clean Indoor Air Act, and can be viewed on Tech's website.
Regents also approved a contract with Bradbury-Stamm of
The company is no stranger to campus, having renovated Cramer Hall in 2006. Regent Deborah Peacock lauded the company as being highly involved in the community and known for its philanthropy.
The Board also approved a contract with White Sands Construction of Alamogordo for $1,345,775.63 to renovate President's Hall, a student residential facility. The company submitted the lowest of six bids.
Melissa Jaramillo-Fleming, Vice President for Student and University Relations, introduced Tony Ortiz as New Mexico Tech's new Director for the Office of Admission. Ortiz previously was second-in-command at the Office for Advancement.
Jaramillo-Fleming also announced fall semester enrollment numbers: 1,604 undergraduate students and 530 graduate students for a total head count of 2,134, the highest ever for the science and engineering research university.
"We're retaining females at a higher rate than male students," she said, adding that her office has been working with Dr. Mary Dezember, Associate Vice President for Academic Affairs, among others, to boost retention.
According to Vice President of Academic Affairs Dr. Peter Gerity, the $11.4 million in federal funds from Title III and Title V grants has helped the university to recruit and retain minority students.
Gerity also reported that the recent ABET reaccreditation visit "went extremely well," noting that the visit was only for the Department of Computer Science and Engineering. Gerity said additional resources and faculty will need to be in place in time for the full ABET reaccreditation visit in 2016.
Meanwhile, Dr. Dezember, who is leading reaccreditation efforts for the Higher Learning Commission visit, reported that she is gathering data on four-, five- and six-year graduation rates, noting that math proficiency is a major factor for students who place in math levels below calculus.
A draft of 21 HLC-mandated components is due December 1, she said, adding that the process has revealed gaps and areas that need attention, plus "great information" in defining issues such as quality, persistence and completion rates. For example, all New Mexico Tech engineering programs have zero electives among their required credit hours.
"Assessment is integral to planning," said Dezember. "And we'll have that data soon."
A 35,000-word report, plus evidence files backing up document statements, is due in February 2015, followed by a site visit in March 2015.
"This is obviously a very substantial and worthwhile project," said Board Chairman Richard Carpenter, asking how the reaccreditation process integrates into the Strategic Plan.
Dezember noted that an integrated planning system details the same kind of information, and will be data-driven. As an example, she noted the growth of the Department of Mechanical Engineering which went from 25 students in 2001 to almost 400 in 2013.
"We need to address that," she said. "'What did you do?' We want to have those answers."
Discussion then segued into the ongoing battle between the Council of University Presidents (CUP), of which López is president, and the Higher Education Department (HED), over the new funding formula.
"So far, there is no agreement," said López, adding that, "It will be a political decision in the end."
"The universities have suffered financially over the past four years," said the president. "New Mexico Tech lost approximately $2.9 million from its peak appropriation in 2008 ... we made up some of that loss, but we are still short of the peak level by almost $300,000." In that same time period, Tech's enrollment has increased by over 200 students.
In other business, Student Regent Israel Rodriguez-Rios, in personal comments to the board, said he is working with the Student Government Association to propose a tuition hike to boost salaries for underpaid employees and faculty.
Chairman Carpenter in his remarks urged the University to work with the New Mexico Tech Alumni Association on fund-raising efforts. "They want to be more active, and I think we should accommodate them," he said.
Regents also:
- Approved awards for four restricted-funds purchases, three for the Petroleum Research and
Recovery Center, and one for the Energetic Materials Research and ; Testing Center
- Approved the financial analysis for the month of September, whereby revenue collected thus far is normal; tuition and fees and overhead recovery both exceed the budgeted amount, and the university continues to cover deficits for EMRTC and IERA;
- Approved the first budget adjustment request (BAR) of the current fiscal year, to be forwarded to the Higher Education Department;
- Were informed of sabbatical leave granted for Dr. Alex Prusin, Professor of History, for the fall 2014 semester; and
- Congratulated Regent Peacock on receiving the New Mexico Distinguished Public Service Award for 2013.
After lunch, Board members toured the EMRTC scientific field laboratory, complete with an explosives demonstration.
Regents will next meet at 1:30 p.m. on Tuesday, Dec. 3, in
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After reading Vicky's Blog at http://vickyscrazyfamily.blogspot.com/
I decided to add my own comment.
As some of you will know one of my best discoveries was when I checked out a settlement examination at Southampton Archives.
The first page told me very little. When it refered me to another page that was where I struck gold.
I had initially contacted the archives as I was after more information about the parents of Stephen Richard Buckle. They couldn't find any bastardy records but they mentioned the settlement examination.
To cut a long story short the second page revealed that Louisa's parents had married in Jersey but on returning to England and after Louisa was born her father's wife and children turned up.
Her mother later married in Titchfield and the marriage showed her maiden name and lead to my BUCKETT and WAITE research. (see my second post of 2007)


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Ascella Estate Wines necesitaba un nuevo diseño de logotipo y lanzó un concurso de diseño en 99designs.
Un ganador ha sido elegido entre 371 diseños de 86 diseñadores freelance.
Ascella Estate Fine Wines is the largest organic wine brand in Australia's Hunter Valley and one of the largest in Australia. The company is looking for an eye catching, easily reproduced and solid logo for this new brand.
Ascella Estate Fine Wines
Ascella Estate Fine Wines is a company that cares about your health and the environment. Our wines don't have the residues of pesticides, herbicides and fungicides found in most non-organic wine on stores shelves.Our target group is women 30-60 who are mainstream shoppers but they are interested in organic products and likely purchase organic products. They are looking for a sophisticated feel. The logo needs to appeal to them. To give you some basis to work from, Ascella is a binary star in the Milky Way that makes up part of the constellation of Sagittarius. We are looking for a logo that perhaps has a star basis to it, an ethereal basis or uses the Sagittarius sign. Having said that we are leaning away from using a literal interpretation of the Sagittarius sign as our logo.
Also one suggestion made is to de-emphasize the S in the name so it looks like A Cella ... cella being latin for cellar.....
- The Winning logo needs to be easily replicated on a wide variety of printed material from brochures to posters to displays to t-shirts to wine bottles
- It will need to look good both big and small
- It should be memorable and easy to spot
- It should appeal to women first and second, men
- please submit the logo as one file and also submit a file with the logo on a bottle similar to what design #66 did... but we are using the standard sized wine bottle. You can find the bottle at http://www.amcor.com/products_servi…ottle.html
- We don't want a logo that is not easy to replicate
- we want you to think of major brands such as Apple, McDonalds, Hardy's Wine, Red Bull and Coke
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Designer Jens Nielsen
I have been on the team developing the Trollbeads concept from day one. It is necessary to be familiar with, and to understand how to, craft the beads but at the same time understand how to use modern techniques. In this way, we can offer unique jewellery to the market and at reasonable prices. For me, it is an exciting challenge to combine the creative spirit with modern production methods.


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Label: ASPIRIN LOW DOSE SAFETY COATED- aspirin tablet, coated
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- ask your doctor about other uses for safety coated 81 mg aspirin
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Reye's syndrome: Children and teenagers who have or are recovering from chicken pox or flu-like symptoms should not use this product. When using this product, if changes in behavior with nausea and vomiting occur, consult a doctor because these symptoms could be an early sign of Reye's syndrome, a rare but serious illness.
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- take other drugs containing prescription or nonprescription NSAIDs [aspirin, ibuprofen, naproxen, or others]
- have 3 or more alcoholic drinks every day while using this product
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Each September, thousands of people involved in the content creation, management and delivery of entertainment flock to Amsterdam for IBC, Europe's largest broadcast show.
At IBC, Adobe is showcasing video solution innovations that help improve content to creation delivery workflows. We just announced:
- Flash Media Server 4 – a new family of server software that radically improves scalable delivery of video and social media applications
- Growing industry adoption – the BBC adopts Premiere Pro software
- Online reviews through Adobe CS Review – to streamline video reviews, Adobe CS Review is a new online service that enables teams to collaborate more efficiently
- Enhanced Tapeless workflows and improved GPU acceleration – OK, Premiere Pro, version 5.0.2, was available last week, but we wanted to make sure you had the updated information
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Here are some great coatings to try:
Cornmeal Coating:
1/2 cup buttermilk
1 tablespoon lemon juice
2 pounds haddock filets
oil for frying (I use Canola however the best taste comes from a vegetable and olive oil blend)
Beat together dip the fish in this mixture.
Then shake into this one:
1/3 cup cornmeal
1/3 cup flour
1/2 teaspoon each garlic powder, paprika, salt, pepper
dash of cayenne pepper
Add to a plastic zip lock bag, shake fish in and fry in oil.
Batter Fried Fish:
3/4 cup flour
2 tablespoons cornstarch
1/4 teaspoon baking powder
1/4 teaspoon baking soda
1/4 teaspoon salt
3/4 cup water
2 pounds fish filets
oil for frying
Mix together. Coat fish and fry till golden brown.
Breadcrumb Coating:
2lb. fresh fish fillets, steaks or pan dressed whole fish
1/2 teaspoon each salt and pepper
1/2 teaspoon garlic powder
pinch cayenne
1 egg plus
1 tablespoon milk or water beaten together
1 cup Italian dry bread crumbs or buttery cracker crumbs
Dip the fish filets in egg and milk mixture. Shake them in crumb mixture and fry in oil till golden brown.
Beer Batter Recipe:
Italian Style Coating:
3/4 cup flour
3/4 cup romano cheese grated
3/4 cup cornmeal
2 tablespoons garlic powder
2 tablespoons seasoning salt
1 teaspoon each oregano, parsley and black pepper
Mix all the above ingredients adding to a zip lock bag.
Dipping mixture:
1 cup milk plus one egg beaten
2 lbs haddock filets
oil for frying
Dip haddock filets into milk mixture into coating mix and deep fry in oil.
Chicken Riggie Fest
Upstate NY Greens
Tomato Pie Upstate NY Style
Italian Lemon Ice
Watermelon Sorbet with Rum
Pizza Fritte Feast Fried Dough
Italian Gravy or Sauce the big debate
Feast Upstate NY Style Sausage and Peppers Sandwich
Upstate NY Apple Pie
Pizza Dough
Cafe Almond Paste Cookie
Cannoli Stuffed French Toast
Zeppole St Joseph's Day
Cannoli Homemade


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Poley/Rivera – Only Human (Release Year – 2008)
Only Human is Poley/Rivera's debut but in name only as the two have worked together on Poley's previous solo albums "Collateral Damage" , which could have very easily been called Poley/Rivera also. On Poley's release "Smile" Rivera was not as involved in the recording process but he did write two of the best songs on the album.
If you are familiar with Ted Poley or Vic Rivera's other projects, namely Danger Danger and AdrianGale then it should be no mystery as to what you are going to get with "Only Human". Pure unadulterated melodic rock filled with hooks, harmonies, great solos, and sing along choruses.
"Keep on Fighting" starts the album off and it is a straight up rock anthem, hopefully Rivera's name and talent will get a lot more exposure with this album because he is an outstanding guitarist. He plays this song like he is having the time of his life. Poley's voice sounds as great as it ever has, this song should go over great live.
"Top of the World" is the kind of radio friendly melodic rock song that made Poley famous. Head bobbing, foot tapping, roll the windows down and sing a long lyrics. This song deserves some radio airplay. Rivera shines on this song also and he does it without a big flashy solo.
The title track "Only Human" is a mid tempo ballad that would easily fit on any Danger Danger album filled with keyboards, huge background vocals and huge guitar sounds. The solo is outstanding with classic 80's feel.
"Did We Just Have A Moment" is another radio friendly rocker. Poley/Rivera work so well together on every song it just seems like they click perfectly.
The rest of "Only Human" is filled with more radio friendly rockers "The Bigger They Come" and "Delirious" really stand out. "Crossing This Ocean" is a classic ballad you would expect from Ted Poley. "N.W.S." will appeal to fans of heavier melodic rock.
Danger Danger's new album may not come out until 2009 some time but the Danger Danger family has been well represented with two very good albums this year. First Marcello/Vestry's debut earlier this year and now Poley/Rivera's debut. If you are not a fan of Danger Danger or other similar bands "Only Human" is not going to do much to change your mind. But if you are a fan of Danger Danger, Firehouse, etc. etc. Poley/Rivera will be a great addition to your collection, definitely worth the price of admission.
1. Keep On Fighting
2. Top Of The World
3. Only Human
4. Did We Just Have A Moment
5. Insanity
7. The Bigger They Come
8. Delirious
9. Fire At Will
10. Breathe Deep
11. Crossing The Ocean
Ted Poley – Vocals
Vic Rivera – Guitars, Bass, Drums, Vocals
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It looks like PBS HD Satellite schedule (XML id 33453) disappeared from the Dish lineup about two weeks ago.
Is it available somewhere else?
Thank you,
rmeden wrote:are you using the SD-DD or SD-JSON service?
How do you know the station went away. Did you check the raw data? If you're on the SD-DD service, you can use http://schedulesdirect.org/getdata to see some raw data.
rmeden wrote:are you using the SD-JSON or SD-DD service?
rmeden wrote:Looking at the data files, station 33453 has a expiration date of 2016-03-22 on all the DISH feeds, that's why you don't see it.
I found it on this lineup: NewWave Communications - Cable (77706) TX42317:-
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The US and more than 50 other countries met Tuesday to discuss a new international initiative to promote open government around the world, the Open Government Partnership (OGP). The aim is to create a multinational, multi-stakeholder compact to advance openness, accountability, transparency, and good government. The OGP is to be announced at the inauguration of the United Nations in September of this year. While the OGP appears to be a promising means of advancing the human condition, it immediately raises a few conceptual and methodological points of contention, as well as a few critical questions about the direction of US foreign policy.
First written-up in November 2010, the Partnership was initially to be co-chaired by the US and India, but India is now out and Brazil is in. Like much about the initiative, the reason for this switch remains hazy, but what is known is that it will involve upwards of 50 countries, and will be led by a "Multi-stakeholder International Steering Committee" comprised of governments from Brazil, Indonesia, Mexico, Norway, the Philippines, South Africa, the United Kingdom, and the United States, and more than 60 civil society organizations from around the world. Notably, one of the original catalysts for the OGP, India, is missing from the group.
Tuesday's July 12 inaugural meeting was closed to the press save for the opening and closing remarks.
Criteria for being part of the Open Government Partnership (OGP)
Documents provided by the initiative establish four criteria for eligibility, based on a 16-point index wherein countries must meet a minimum membership threshold of 12 points. The criteria, judged by "an independent group of experts," comprise the following categories:
a) Fiscal Transparency (2 points each for two budget documents)
b) Access to Information (4 points)
c) Disclosures Related to Elected or Senior Public Officials (4 points)
d) Citizen Engagement (4 points)
Is Brazil fit to co-chair the OGP?
The scoring is apparently somewhat tricked-out. Brazil, the co-chair of the OGP, still has not passed an access to information law (freedom of information), and as I have written about extensively in other posts, resistance to openness has been a prominent feature of politics in both Brazil's Congress and presidency. Notwithstanding the historical record, Brazil scores 15 out of 16 points. On access to information, Brazil scores 2 points for possessing a constitutional provision for public disclosure. It scores an addition point for having a draft access to information law, which is now being considered in Congress. Thus on this criterion Brazil scores almost full points, even though its constitutional guarantee to access public information is effectively impracticable without comprehensive regulation (a freedom or access to information law) and the draft law has been stuck in Congress since 2009. A recent bill to conceal dollar numbers on procurement contracts for the 2014 World Cup and 2016 Olympics has also apparently been glossed over, as has Brazil's somewhat dysfunctional Transparency Portal – Brazil's earns full points on fiscal transparency.
The question that should be on everyone's minds is whether Brazil is fit to co-chair the OGP, much less whether it should qualify for the OGP in the first place. If the OGP adopts these sorts of permissive benchmarks before its formal inauguration, much less makes a co-chair of a country not leading on transparency, can we expect the OGP to be anything more than feel-good window-dressing?
A new direction in US foreign policy: backdoor democracy promotion?
Clearly, the idea of openness is good business for US foreign policy. The United Nations has proven an unsatisfactory arena for collective action, precisely because of the chasm between authoritarian regimes and democracies. Alternative international arrangements are difficult to come by. The idea of a new "League of Democracies" or some other formulation has been tossed around over the years, but benchmarks for distinguishing real democracies from sham democracies are tricky. Moreover, the US does not want to set up an "us versus them" collectivity that might offend authoritarian allies, such as Saudi Arabia and the monarchies of the Middle East, among others.
A multinational collectivity of countries devoted to the cause of "openness" is appealing precisely because of its inoffensiveness. Countries may want to be a part of this initiative, and there may be economic upsides to doing so, such as technology and knowledge transfers, preferred diplomatic treatment, and public relations bragging rights.
As fellow blogger David Sazaki and I recently discussed (and he recently wrote about), while openness may help advance the human condition by providing greater freedom, as well as access to information, education and technology, it also smacks of backdoor democracy promotion. A bad thing? Not on the face of it, but as with democracy promotion, the ever-present danger is a double standard: 'open' status for our friends even if they do not credibly meet minimum requirements.
Breaking Open the BRIC (Brazil, Russia, India, China)?
Yet 'openness' is a strategic concept that may help achieve several instrumental goals. First, it may "break open the BRIC" by creating a dividing line between the great emerging economic powers – the democratic governments of Brazil and India on the one hand, and the two authoritarian giants on the other, Russia and China. By consolidating strategic alliances with Brazil and India, the US pulls two major regional players into its sphere of influence, and isolates authoritarian regimes reluctant to engage in real openness.
It may also bring about democracy. Some may remember the term "Glasnost," a rough equivalent of "openness" in Russian. It was one of Mikhail Gorbachev's key liberalizing policies, designed to assuage pent up dissent. It also opened the floodgates for the greatest democratic transition of the 20th century. The concept has the potential to do the same in countless other places, such as China, Russia, and Iran. It would be difficult to imagine real openness not leading to democratic change, and for this goal it may prove a valuable instrument in the evolving toolbox of US diplomacy.
It may prove equally valuable in achieving a long-coveted goal of the US – opening markets. The US has more free trade agreements than any other country in the world – about a dozen in the Americas alone, if the CAFTA and NAFTA are taken into account. Brazil was not chosen to co-chair the OGP by hazard. Opening up this continental country would be bonanza for US companies. It is not only a young, growing market of more than 190 million consumers, but in most areas outside of commodities, Brazilian companies are uncompetitive compared to their US equivalents. It's not surprising why: most Brazilian industry hides behind efficiency-eroding tariff walls, public officials engage in sweetheart deals with local firms, and doing business in Brazil is little less than a Kafkaesque adventure in bureaucratic entanglement. By encouraging an 'opening', market-minded Brazilians and lobbyists could make a greater case for reforms to alleviate these obstacles. The US might gain access to Brazil's coveted consumer markets, procurement contracts, and the country's abundant natural resources, including oil.
The extractive industries are a particularly salient focus for the OGP, as with other large international campaigns for transparency and accountability, such as the Transparency & Accountability Initiative. The rationale behind this focus is rather evident. As I discussed last post, there is a strong association between mineral wealth, inequality, corruption, and authoritarianism – exactly the types of pathologies the world's progressive countries are trying to prevent.
The Metaphor of Openness
Openness is vulnerability. By contrast, the first rule of international relations and politics more generally is self-preservation: defense, blame avoidance, and distrust. To engage in real opening will imply overcoming these basic political instincts, a monumental challenge that will require a cultural change spanning decades, if not centuries. Transparency and freedom of information initiatives across the world are still young, and the OGP is a promising exploration of whether nations are strong enough to be vulnerable.
But the will to openness may not be completely self-determined. Certainly, the Arab Spring of 2011 demonstrates that 'opening' may be forced. The revolutions that occurred across North Africa and the Middle East used the purported tools of openness – social media and technology – as a means to an end. Technology is instrumental in this sense; it effectively helped citizens overcome collective action dilemmas, and gave voice to demands for freedom against terrible odds. As fellow bloggers have pointed out, technology is an excellent instrument for shaming governments and expressing anti-system sentiment, but will it prove equally vital in constructing valuable structures of openness?
Regardless of what the skeptics say, if there was ever a time in history to launch an international open government partnership, this is it. Historically, it's a highly atypical diplomatic initiative: unideological, nonexclusive, engaged with all levels of government and society, and diffuse – it's a heck of a promising initiative, if it turns out to be for real.
--- Greg Michener, based in Rio de Janeiro, writes the blog, Observing Brazil. He is currently writing a book on Freedom of Information in Latin America for Cambridge University Press.


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The former Labor powerbroker, Eddie Obeid, has been suspended from the party tonight following allegations aired during a corruption hearing that have been described as "shocking" by the NSW opposition leader, John Robertson.
Mr Robertson moved to have Mr Obeid's membership suspended this afternoon. The request was acted upon at an extraordinary meeting of Labor party officers at 7.30pm on Tuesday.
During day one of an inquiry by the Independent Commission Against Corruption into the awarding of lucrative coal licences by the former mineral resources minister Ian Macdonald, the commission heard NSW taxpayers have missed out on "tens of millions of dollars" due to a scheme designed to allegedly net the Obeid family $100 million.
In his opening address, counsel assisting, Geoffrey Watson, SC, said the scheme could represent corruption "unexceeded since the days of the Rum Corps".
He said decisions by Mr Macdonald led to coal assets being "given away to friends, political supporters and business associates of the minister".
Mr Robertson announced he had moved to ask Labor's head office to suspend Mr Obeid's membership immediately.
"The gravity of the allegations that came out this morning at the ICAC in the opening statements are so shocking that I have move to act immediately," Mr Robertson said this afternoon.
"I, like most people, can't believe the magnitude and the seriousness of these allegations."
Mr Robertson said he was "not going to allow the Labor party to continue to be dogged by these sorts of allegations".
On Friday, the party membership of another former Labor minister, Eric Roozendaal, was suspended after his appearance before the ICAC, which has been investigating his purchase of a Honda CRV car when he was roads minister in 2007.
Mr Roozendaal, a former general secretary of NSW Labor, is barred from attending caucus meetings and participating in party decisions while the suspension is in place, but remains in the NSW upper house as an MP.
The suspension followed evidence that the purchase price of the car was $44,800 but Mr Roozendaal paid $10,800 less and the difference was allegedly paid by the family of Mr Obeid.
The ICAC heard the arrangement was a "sham" to conceal the fact that Mr Roozendaal had obtained a financial benefit through Mr Obeid's son Moses. Mr Roozendaal and the Obeids denied this was the case.
- with Linton Besser and Kate McClymont
Sean Nicholls is the State Political Editor of The Sydney Morning Herald.


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Three Hope College juniors—Timothy Lewis, Danielle Mila and Caitlin Ploch—have received Honorable Mention recognition from the Barry M. Goldwater Scholarship and Excellence in Education Foundation.
The foundation awarded 271 scholarships for the 2012-13 academic year to undergraduate sophomores and juniors from throughout the United States. Another 200, like Lewis, Mila and Ploch, received Honorable Mention recognition.
The scholarship recipients and Honorable Mention designees were selected on the basis of academic merit from a field of 1,107 mathematics, science and engineering students who were nominated by the faculties of their colleges and universities.
Lewis, who is from South Haven, is majoring in computer science and mathematics, and has been conducting collaborative research while at Hope with Dr. Charles Cusack, who is an assistant professor of computer science. He is a 2010 graduate of South Haven High School, and the son of Bryan and Carol Lewis of South Haven.
Mila, who is from Livonia, is majoring in biology and mathematics, and has been conducting collaborative research while at Hope with Dr. Aaron Putzke, who is an assistant professor of biology and Towsley Research Scholar.. She is a 2010 graduate of Winston Churchill High School, and the daughter of Jose and Catherine Mila of Livonia.
Ploch, who is from Redford, is majoring in mechanical engineering and physics, and has been conducting collaborative research while at Hope with Dr. Stephen Remillard, who is an associate professor of physics and chairperson of the department. She is a 2010 graduate of Marian High School, and the daughter of Joseph and Sharon Ploch of Redford.
The Goldwater Foundation is a federally endowed agency established by Public Law 99-661 on November 14, 1986. The Scholarship Program honoring Senator Barry M. Goldwater was designed to foster and encourage outstanding students to pursue careers in the fields of mathematics, the natural sciences, and engineering. Since its first award in 1989, the Foundation has bestowed more than 6,550 scholarships worth approximately $40 million. The Trustees plan to award about 300 scholarships for the 2014-15 academic year.


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LOS ALAMITOS — Goalie Tumua Anae, a former Corona del Mar High standout, recorded six saves to help the U.S. women's water polo team defeat Canada, 11-7, in the Americans' first match since winning gold at the 2012 Olympics, during the first day of the FINA World League Prelims.
Melissa Seidemann scored three goals to lead a balanced offensive attack, while Anae went the distance in net. Team USA is back in action Saturday against Brazil at 3 p.m. in a match that will be webcast live.
The two teams went back and forth in the first half with the United States scoring first on an inside score from Kami Craig about a minute into the first period. Canada, led by a familiar face in former longtime USA Coach Guy Baker, scored the next two goals for a 2-1 lead. Seidemann and Lolo Silver scored the next two to grab the lead back at 3-2 with 4:19 to play. With less than two minutes to play Canada scored two straight and took a 4-3 lead into the second period.
Canada took their largest lead of the game going up 5-3 on a counterattack goal with 4:22 left in the first half. The United States responded by kickstarting a six-goal run that lasted into the fourth period. Annika Dries and Kiley Neushul closed out the half with goals to even the match at 5-5.
In the third period, the United States took over. After Kelly Rulon scored on a penalty shot, the USA defense killed off a six-on-four advantage for Canada to preserve a 6-5 lead. That was followed by a Seidemann power play goal, a Maggie Steffens tally, and another power play goal from Seidemann for a 9-5 lead with 6:30 left in the fourth.
Canada stopped the bleeding with a power-play goal of their own but Silver and Steffens answered with goals to put the match away, grabbing an 11-6 lead with a little over three minutes left. Team USA would go on for the victory 11-7.
In other FINA World League Prelim action, the Canada women topped Brazil, 17-4, and the Brazil men topped Canada, 11-1.
FINA World League Prelims
USA 11, Canada 7
USA 11 (3, 2, 3, 3) M. Seidemann 3, L. Silver 2, M. Steffens 2, K. Neushul 1, K. Rulon 1, A. Dries 1, K. Craig 1
CAN 7 (4, 1, 0, 2) M. Eggens 2, K. Alogbo 1, E. Wright 1, D. Perreault 1, S. Vallin 1, M. Radu 1
Saves - USA T. Anae 6 - CAN - M. Relton 4
6x5 - USA - 4/7 - CAN - 4/9
Penalties - USA 2/2 - CAN 0/0


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