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WEST MAUI - Two major man-made structures can be seen from outer space: the Great Wall of China and the Staten Island Fresh Kills Landfill.
The average American generates four-and-a-half pounds of garbage daily; that's 56 tons a year.
Most of it is carted off to a landfill, where it is smashed into cells, buried and transformed into a toxic land mass.
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"Reduce, reuse and recycle" is the campaign slogan of the warriors against waste.
Practicing the three Rs, however, can be challenging for West Siders, but there are citizens, businesses and agencies out there who want to help protect our delicate island ecosystem.
In a series, the Lahaina News will introduce some of these West Maui crusaders, beginning with Dan Brown, the ecologically-sensitive proprietor of Dan Brown's Condo Care Inc. (DBCC).
"Dan Brown's Condo Care has been around in different forms since 1982," he told the Lahaina News, "but we incorporated in 2005.
"We decided to open this store in 2009; and, in 2010, we got the lease" at Kahana Gateway Shopping Center.
DBCC is a mom and pop operation. The "we" is Brown and his partner in life and in business, Juenlee Brown.
At their base of operations in Kahana, they offer the "whole spectrum of cleaners from the mildest to the most heavy duty," but their focus is on the green line of products they sell, such as Orange Guard nontoxic insecticides, all-natural deodorizers made out of plant enzymes, a commercial grade disinfectant made out of oil of thyme called Tymol, a large selection of the biodegradable Method cleaning supplies and a complete line of doTerra essential healing and cleaning oils.
Brown has a green-minded attitude: "There is no away on an island. People, when they throw something away on Maui, it is still here; it's with us forever."
The Browns have a mutual goal: "to have minimal environmental impact," and they have established several business practices to support this philosophy
Their retail establishment at Kahana Gateway offers several recycling opportunities for the community, including empty domestic cleaning product containers and household dry cell batteries.
In recycling cleaning products that are partially full and non-hazardous, they are creatively community-oriented.
"We have an agreement with a nonprofit which gives them to people who are transitioning from homeless shelters to apartments. They need cleaners, but they don't have money to buy them; so we repackage them," he said.
Brown is working with the county to organize a community day for area residents to recycle hazardous waste, appliances and batteries.
"They bring a big truck, and they accept all of that," he remarked.
Additionally, DBCC encourages its employees living on the other side to either carpool or take the bus "by providing them rides from the bus stop to here and putting up with their scheduling difficulties," he explained.
"When we had four employees that lived on the other side, we gave them a company van to drive to the other side and back instead of four different cars coming every day."
The Florida transplant graduated from high school in 1975 and moved to Maui in 1982.
The father of four is community-oriented.
He has worked with the Lindseys to Malama Honokowai and various groups to help eradicate invasive plant species.
He is an AYSO soccer coach and has volunteered his service at the Sacred Hearts School Bazaar and the S-Turns annual surfing tournament.
He offers free stone and leather cleaning classes for residents and colleagues in the condo and carpet cleaning industry as well as a hands-on stain removal workshop.
Kathy Dilts of Kathy's Got it Maid has known Brown for years.
She speaks highly of his character.
"He would give you the shirt off his back even if it was the last one he had," she commented.
"Dan is one of the most honest and sincere people I know," Dilts added.
Family friend Angela Amenta echoed the same thoughts.
"He is a giver and definitely on the holistic path," she said.
Brown is dedicated to the green way.
"I believe every business has a moral responsibility to do what they can, because there are certain things individuals cannot do on their own. They need support from business to do it. If all the businesses and individuals work together, we can make Maui better," Brown said.
The Lahaina News would like to be part of the solution.
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The Outdoor Discovery Center Macatawa Greenway, with which Hope has an on-going research and learning partnership, has received the 2012 Watershed Stakeholder of the Year Award from the Macatawa Watershed Project.
The award, which honors efforts to improve water quality of the Macatawa Watershed, was presented on Thursday, Dec. 6, during the December meeting of the Watershed Advisory Committee, held at the Herrick District Library.
The Outdoor Discovery Center Macatawa Greenway is a non-profit outdoor education organization that reflects the 2009 merger of the Outdoor Discovery Center and the Macatawa Greenway Partnership, and seeks to connect people with nature through outdoor education for the benefit of wildlife and the conservation of the natural world. The organization protects more than 1,200 acres along the Macatawa River in Ottawa County and a 136-acre nature preserve in Fillmore Township.
Hope and the Outdoor Discovery Center Macatawa Greenway established a formal partnership in 2009 that provides learning experiences and research opportunities for students and faculty, including a field station at the preserve that serves as a classroom, lab facility and research station. Hope and the center had previously worked together on an informal basis on programs, writing grants and providing educational opportunities to Hope students and for research since the center was founded in 2000. The center's founding executive director, Travis Williams, is a 1998 Hope graduate.
The research partnership includes the college's participation in a collaborative study, engaging multiple organizations, supported through a $500,000 grant to the Outdoor Discovery Center Macatawa Greenway in June 2011 to pinpoint the sources of pollution entering Lake Macatawa. Hope faculty members Dr. Graham Peaslee and Dr. Michael Pikaart have been leading the college's involvement in the research, focusing on the large quantities of sediment pouring into the lake and the high levels of E. coli bacteria. Peaslee, who has engaged in research focused on the watershed since the late 1990s, received the Macatawa Watershed Project's Stakeholder of the Year award in 2005.


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Ask Marilyn: Our Grading Practices Need to Change
Kasi Allen at Lewis & Clark College in Portland, Oregon, writes:
Marilyn: I'm writing regarding your response to a Baltimore teacher. (February 3, 2013) I am concerned that your response inadvertently misrepresents the issues at play with respect to our 0-100 grading system and perpetuates the misconception that we can support the academic success of all students with grading practices that stack the deck against many from the outset.
I began my career as a high school math teacher and have been involved in mathematics education in one form or another for almost 27 years. I currently serve as a professor in a small college where I help prepare pre-service middle school and high school math teachers. In this capacity, I teach a course on quantitative literacy and grading that addresses the issue your reader writes about.
The critical question, as I see it, is not whether teachers should "pad the grades," but how they should handle zeroes. Many teachers give students a "zero" for any form of missing work. This practice ensures a high failure rate for many students because, mathematically speaking, 0 out of 100 is a nearly unrecoverable score. The practice privileges students from backgrounds where there is strong support for completing homework. It further disadvantages students from households that can't offer such support and that often need students to work in order to make ends meet.
Over the last decade, my home state has moved increasingly towards a proficiency-based grading system, whereby students receive grades based on what they know and have learned, rather than on the points they have accumulated. Advocates for proficiency grading often talk about how using a 0-4 grading scale, like the GPA scale, more fairly distributes the range of grades. In a 0-100 scale, the range for F (0-59) is almost 60 percent of the total scale, while the range for all the passing grades combined is just over of 40 percent of the scale. This is a problem.
And what does the grade represent? Most people agree that a course grade communicates how well a student has mastered a particular subject. However, any teacher can tell you about brilliant students who fail classes because of missing assignments (even though they do quite well on tests) and others who receive high grades (despite failing scores on tests) because they have parents who help them complete homework assignments, take advantage of extra credit opportunities, and so on. Who really knows the material? Shouldn't the grade reflect this in some way?
Like many of my colleagues, I believe the 0-100 grading scale is an outdated relic from a time that valued sorting children rather than supporting the success of every child. In my lifetime, I hope to see our grading practices change to better match our nation's educational goals.
Marilyn responds:
Thank you for your helpful contribution to this ongoing dialogue. Yet any grading system is ultimately in the hands of teachers who must tailor it for fairness in their own classrooms. This is necessary for a system to function across such a broad range of educational situations. I see this as part of their jobs, and I trust them to do it well. If a teacher has no sense about how to award grades appropriately, that's a fault of that particular teacher, not teachers in general or the overall grading system.


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The Office has three primary areas of focus: Gender Equality and the Advancement of Women, Human Rights, which includes the defense of the rights of Baha'is in Iran, and Sustainable Development. OPA also has a satellite office located in New York that represents the U.S. Baha'i community to the United Nations and engages with the UN and civil society on a number of issues.
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The 2016-17 Federal Report Cards have been released on the Texas Education Agency's (TEA) website.
The U.S. Department of Education requires each state to publish an annual report card with specific district- and campus-level data. Every district that receives Title I, Part A funding is responsible for distributing the state, district, and campus-level report cards to each of its campuses, the parents of all enrolled students, and the general public.
The Federal Report card contains student achievement results in Reading and Math in addition to other federally required information.
Letters will be mailed or sent home with every parent by March 5 with instructions on how to obtain the data. For access to an electronic copy of the report, please visit the TEA website at https://rptsvr1.tea.texas.gov/perfreport/frc/2017/srch.html, the district website or your campus website (For Parents page).
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Steve King, the Macclesfield manager, has challenged his players to finish the job they signed up for – returning the club to League Two at the first time of asking – after begrudgingly going out of the world's oldest cup competition.
King's men, assembled hastily in the summer in preparation for a first season outside the Football League in 15 years, etched their names in club folklore by progressing further than any of their predecessors but after Jordi Gómez's early penalty confirmed elimination, thoughts switched to the primary goal of promotion. And that means this set of FA Cup heroes, including Matthew Barnes-Homer, the Blue Square Bet Premier's second top scorer, will remain at Moss Rose beyond this month's transfer window.
Barnes-Homer, whose 20 goals this season follow similarly productive spells with Luton and Kidderminster, has attracted attention with his Cup exploits in much the same way Jamie Vardy did with Fleetwood 12 months ago. Fleetwood resisted the temptation to sell, despite substantial bids, until the title was secured, and Vardy later joined Leicester for a seven-figure sum. Macclesfield's evaluation of the potential of both league finishing position and Barnes-Homer's transfer value are more modest but King said: "I have told people like Barnes they will have to see out the season with us because they started something here – we gave them the platform to do what they've done. He won't be going anywhere soon. We will offer him a new deal but maybe someone bigger will come knocking for him."
Barnes-Homer, who at 27 already has 15 clubs behind him, arrived from Sweden's Ostersunds FK as part of a total revamp of the Macclesfield squad six months ago. With so many new faces, results, perhaps understandably, have been inconsistent but despite being 10th, they are renowned as the best passing team in the division and have beaten both Grimsby and Wrexham, leaders and second respectively.
"If we don't make the play-offs with this group I will be very disappointed because the opportunity is there for us. We have beaten all of the top teams in our division barring one or two. It has just been the consistency against the bottom sides that has let us down," said King.
"How we played against a Premier League team this weekend will have no bearing on where we finish but I am disappointed not to get a replay at the very least because I know we deserved something from the game. People were in tears in the dressing room. This was a chance missed and Wigan were very lucky to come away with the win."
King's main beef was with the 39th-minute decision by the referee, Roger East, to award a corner rather than penalty when Roman Golobart bumped Waide Fairhurst in the area. According to the Macclesfield midfielder Sam Wedgbury, it was symptomatic of the difference in status between the clubs. "You watch the big teams on TV and, when they play the minnows, they always seem to get the rub of the green," Wedgbury said. "Look at Mansfield when they played Liverpool and Luis Suárez handballed it into the net. If that was a Mansfield player it would probably have been seen."
As for Wigan, given their precarious league position, a Cup run might have been thought an unwanted distraction but their manager, Roberto Martínez, who handed a debut to gigantic on-loan Atlético Madrid goalkeeper Joel, said said: "It is a not a distraction at all. We have 24 players in our squad and making changes doesn't mean we are not taking it seriously. For us it's the opposite. Over the past three years we have tried to get together a group of players all of whom, when they get on the pitch, are competitive – something that we couldn't previously do. The Cup games give players a chance to prove they have the ability to play every week. The Premier League for us is like playing the FA Cup final every weekend and as a football club we can't lose that status."
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Rattlers' late strike clinches 26-5A title
Reagan sophomore forward Miguel Velasquez knows plenty of people didn't think what transpired Tuesday at Blossom West was possible.
He knows people thought the Rattlers were a shell of their former selves — they lost their coach and 22 players to graduation from last year's squad that advanced to the Region IV-5A tournament.
But the more things seem to change, they more they seem to remain the same.
Velasquez's 22-yard free kick just inside the left post with 2:25 remaining lifted No. 9 Reagan past No. 3 Churchill 1-0 at Blossom Stadium, securing the Rattlers' fourth straight District 26-5A title.
Reagan (14-4-6, 7-0-4) assured itself of no worse than a share of the league championship, and can win it outright by beating Roosevelt on Friday.
"It's a whole new team, and I knew it would be uphill, but I knew we had the right guys," Velasquez said. "Since we started district, I knew this team was just going up."
It was a game in which both defenses dominated.
Reagan made the most of the last scoring opportunity. Velasquez was tripped just outside the penalty area, then drilled a line drive near post.
"I knew I had to concentrate and really put it in for my team," Velasquez said. "They worked so hard, and I wasn't going to let them down. A tie wasn't enough for us."
27-5A: Jaron Bustillo-Pineda scored three goals as No. 8 Clark toppled Holmes 6-1 to move into first place with one game left. Brandeis is second, Jay is third and Marshall locked up the league's final playoff berth with its 2-1 decision over Brandeis.
28-5A: Southwest suffered its first district loss and was denied an opportunity to clinch the league title with a 2-1 loss to Corpus Christi King. The Dragons are still in first and can lock up the title when they play Steele on Friday.
26-5A: Eight players scored goals as No. 2 Johnson defeated Lee 8-0 to secure its first district championship. The Jaguars (15-4-3, 9-1-1) ended Reagan's streak of four straight league titles.
56-4A: Edison and Brackenridge recorded shutout victories to earn a share of the district title. Highlands can secure the final berth with a victory today against Sam Houston.


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Frank Lloyd Wright House Tour. The Weltzheimer/Johnson House holds public open house hours on the First Sunday of each month from April through November. Hours are 12pm until 5pm. Presentations begin on the hour (12pm, 1pm, 2pm, 3pm, and 4pm). Admission is $5 per adult, and is payable at the house. Advance registration is not required, except for groups of 10 or more. Parking is available on the south side of Morgan Street (the golf course side). Don't worry about the "No Parking" signs – city services are familiar with the house! The Weltzheimer/Johnson House at Oberlin College is a Frank Lloyd Wright Usonian House that sits on a lot several blocks from campus. Designed in 1947 and completed in 1949, it is the first Usonian house in Ohio and one of the few in the nation open to the public.
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Complaints grow from fed-up fliers
Cancellations, delays top the list
With airlines filling planes to capacity and canceled flights on the rise, passengers increasingly are expressing their dissatisfaction to federal authorities.
Passengers filed 30 percent more complaints with the Department of Transportation through November of last year than they did during the same period in 2009. Gripes about cancellations, delays, and missed connections topped the list, while lost and damaged bags and poor customer service also were major concerns.
Through November, there were 1.22 complaints per 100,000 passenger boardings among the 18 largest US airlines, up from 0.97 over the same period in 2009 — although still below the high (nearly three complaints per 100,000 boardings) set in 2000.
The recent increase came even though the number of overall boardings rose only slightly. The rate, which comes as some carriers are beefing up customer service efforts, may grow even more once the transportation department factors in complaints received during the East Coast snowstorm after Christmas that left thousands of planes grounded and some passengers stranded for days.
"Nobody I know enjoys flying anymore,'' said Ilene Greenberg of Chestnut Hill, who paid $3,400 to get her son home from Paris after his original flight was canceled due to heavy snows in Europe in December.
Canceled flights, always a major source of irritation, increased 22 percent last year over 2009, according to FlightStats.com, in part due to snowstorms and the massive disruptions from the Icelandic volcano last spring. And now that airlines are filling their planes as full as possible, the ripple effect is even greater.
"We're seeing load factors the highest we've seen them,'' said airline analyst Darryl Jenkins. "If you have a 90 percent load factor and you cancel a flight and the next flight is 90 percent full, it's going to take you an additional 10 flights to accommodate the passengers on that one canceled flight.''
Higher prices also upset passengers. With last year's fares 9 percent above what they were in 2009, according to the travel website Hotwire.com, and fees for bags, food, extra leg room, and pillows boosting the price even higher, people are bound to speak up, said David Castelveter, spokesman for the Air Transport Association, the airline trade organization.
"It's understandable that someone will voice concern when you charge more than you did before,'' Castelveter said.
Heightened security hasn't helped either, said Andres Kello, president of AirlineComplaints.org. He said his website's traffic doubled last year over 2009. Complaints filed with the Transportation Security Administration, which are recorded separately, rose 24 percent from fiscal year 2009 to 2010.
"The TSA is also becoming more invasive, and that is no doubt making passengers crankier and thus more willing to complain about any issue they might experience during their travels,'' Kello said.
But things aren't as bleak as the rising number of complaints might imply. On-time performance was better, there were fewer long tarmac delays, and mishandled baggage rates were lower than they were in 2009, according to data collected through the end of November by the transportation department. And the rate of complaints is lower than it has been in some past years.
Regardless, the plight of airline passengers has been receiving more attention lately, in part due to the so-called passengers' bill of rights that went into effect last spring requiring airlines to allow passengers to disembark after three hours on the tarmac, or face a hefty fine. And the more aware people are, the more likely they are to speak up, several airline industry specialists said.
It's also easier to complain than ever. A year ago, the Department of Transportation revamped its consumer complaint website, airconsumer.dot.gov/problems.htm, to make the process simpler. And with Internet access as close as a pocket or purse these days, more people are whipping out their phones to file a report on the spot.
The transportation department sends complaints to each airline and looks for patterns that might indicate a problem. If there are repeated violations of a regulation, such as discrimination against disabled travelers, the department could levy a fine.
Airlines compensate passengers who complain to them directly in a number of ways, including vouchers for future flights, refunds, paying for lost luggage, frequent flier miles, passes to VIP lounges, and coupons for free drinks onboard. And as the complaints pile up, airlines are taking steps to alleviate the growing dissatisfaction.
Complaints filed with the DOT for JetBlue Airways, the biggest carrier at Logan International Airport, grew 58 percent through November of last year, while its number of passenger boardings increased 10 percent.
The airline attributes its rise in complaints to bad weather, the tarmac delay rule, a new computer system, and construction at its hub, John F. Kennedy International Airport in New York. In addition, during the severe storm on the day after Christmas, the airline's phone system was so overloaded that it repeatedly hung up on callers trying to rebook their flights.
JetBlue has started using an automatic rebooking tool that reschedules people on canceled flights — something some airlines already have in place — and launched a program to survey crew members about how to improve customer service.
"Customers expect more of JetBlue and we constantly survey them to identify opportunities for us to improve,'' said spokeswoman Alison Croyle.
Delta, which has generated the highest rate of complaints over the last two years, last year hired an additional 1,700 full-time airport customer service representatives, reservations agents, and mechanics across the nation. Additionally, the airline formed a staff to seek out people with problems by using Twitter and equipped gate agents with hand-held equipment to help customers rebook flights. The airline's efforts seem to be making a difference: Its year-over-year rate of complaints has gone down every month since August.
"We're not trying to directly address the specific number of complaints as much as we're trying to address the operational issues, which will in turn reduce the overall number of complaints,'' said Delta spokesman Anthony Black.
United Airlines, which had the second highest rate of complaints in November with 1.22 complaints per 100,000 boardings, has a new mobile service that allows customers to check in and get paperless boarding passes on their smartphones. This not only cuts down on the time they have to wait in line, they also get updates about gate changes and flight delays.
"Not getting the level of information that they expect in real time is a big driver of complaints,'' said Rahsaan Johnson, spokesman for United.
On the other side of the spectrum is Southwest Airlines, which consistently garners the least number of complaints — just 264 complaints out of more than 97 million passenger boardings through November of last year.
The reason is twofold, said Teresa Laraba, senior vice president of customer services: no fees for checking bags or changing flights, and a dedication to treating people well.
"Our employees take a huge amount of pride in where we rate in the DOT,'' she said.
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Bilingual thoughts on life, language, learning, and all things Latina.
Sunday, February 15, 2009
Latina Bloggers - ¿Dónde están?
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- The Fearless Blog said...
Great idea. I am a Latina Blogger, so I will run over there and check it out. Many good wishes being sent your way Cassy.
- February 16, 2009 at 8:33 AM
- The Fearless Blog said...
Cassy I had to return and comment again. What a great blog -Bilingual in the Boonies- She provides so many resources and lists of other Latina bloggers. Thank you so much for providing us with this info.
- February 16, 2009 at 8:28 PM
- Jan Mader said...
I'm a children's author and fairly new to blogging (about a month).
I post creative writing exercises for teachers, writers, and parents.
Your blog caught my eye because last year I worked with third year Spanish students. They wrote books for children who were new to our country.
It was quite a project. The books were written in both English and Spanish. Our local newspaper followed the enitre projects. I'm not sure who benefited more...the Spanish students, the children new to the States, or me!
I'd love to have you come visit...
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Celebrating illustration, design, cartoon and comic art of the mid-20th century.
Wednesday, June 28, 2006
Robert Meyers (1919-1970)
Another often overlooked but extremely talented illustrator is Robert Meyers. A regular contributor to The Saturday Evening Post and many other national magazines, Meyers had a one man show at the Society of Illustrators in '55 and '56. But his dissatisfaction with his career as a commercial artist is evident from his statement, "There must be more to life than just being a paint brush."
In spite of such feelings, Meyers' great talent and professionalism is evident in everything I've ever seen by the artist, including this excellent interpretation of water from a July 1954 issue of the Post.
You'll find a few more examples of Meyers' work in my Robert Meyers Flickr set.
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From what I gather, amogst the illustrtors of that generation, a generation of great change AND a shrinking ilustration market, there were a lot of disgruntled, disillusioned illustrators.ReplyDelete
It seems a shame that we can easily overlook the sadder parts of the history of illustration. Even at it's gloomiest the field holds gems, like Meyers' professionalism in producing wonderful work feeling the way he did.
We can learn a lot from this.
Plus, the water look way cool!
That's an astute observation, Stan, and I thank you for it! From the little I've been able to find out about Meyers I can tell you that he fulfilled his life-long ambition to become a cattle rancher and western artist by moving his family out to Wyoming in 1960 (just as the magazine illustration market was beginning to peter out).ReplyDelete
What seems most sad about Meyers' circumstance is that he had a relatively short life and only got to enjoy his rebirth in the West for ten years before his death.


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This sounds pretty normal to me, in the conditions I ride in you can't just set your edge and ride upwind forever. Every piece of chop you hit slows you down and you either need to work your kite, or do what I do and just let off your edge for a second or two.
It's not really a big deal, just keep riding and you'll get the feel for how much speed you need at various angles. It's not even really like you need to know "what angle to ride at" or something, every time you ride you'll have a slightly different amount of power, slightly different current, slightly different amount of chop, etc etc... you just need the muscle memory and experience built up to know how hard to dig your edge in under which conditions.
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There wasn't much chatter about this collection within the online community in Singapore so I didn't think this would spark a mad rush like Marine Life from the To the Beach collection back in June. Boy was I wrong! Apparently, a queue formed even before Tangs Orchard opened. When the store opened, there was quite a bit of a frenzy as the customers were all armed with their shopping lists. When Mag, Kas and I were there at noon, there was still a steady stream of customers.
The collection is massive with a good diversity of shades. The quickest items to sell out were the Bite of an Apple blush, the three nailpolishes and two Mineralize Eyeshadows. After swatching Bite of an Apple, I didn't understand why it was so sought after as the texture feels very dry and the shade is not that unique.
From 1-3 October, you can also get your photo taken as Cruella de Vil. Over at the Tangs Vivocity counter, the Evil Queen dressup and photo op will be available from 8-10 October.
Love all the different expressions of the dalmatians!
Kas and I with Joey from MAC.
I was quite taken with several of the shades in this collection so I ended up making my biggest ever single purchase from MAC in recent years. Luckily, Tangs was giving away a S$25 voucher with a S$250 beauty purchase. The voucher cannot be used on brands under Estee Lauder such as MAC and Clinique. The voucher promotion is while stocks last only.
Thanks to Mag, who got there a bit earlier, I was able to snag all three Nail Lacquers in Bad Fairy, Mean & Green, and Formidable (S$19 each). The molten metallic shades have a gorgeous duochrome finish, similar to the Orly Cosmic FX collection.
Also at the top of my list were the two Mineralize Eyeshadows. Below is She Who Dares (S$35).
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SQL Unnecessary In Haskell's HAppS
So, I think this idea's a good idea. So I've been telling it to people. Many people who hear this idea look at me like I'm crazy, but the few people I know of who share the idea are all famous and brilliant, except for Evan Weaver, who is merely brilliant.
Just today I found out another place this idea gets taken seriously: HAppS - the Haskell Web app framework (and server), which will hereafter in this blog be referred to as Happs, because come on, you'd have to be deliberately intent on wrecking a good idea with bad marketing if you were seriously considering using the official capitalization. Anyway, Happs does away with the database completely. Not only that, it does away with the Web server as well. The Happs philosophy says a server should be built in.
Happs Web apps compile to binaries, which store serialized state in memory and on the filesystem. State is written to the filesystem first and stored in memory second. This, of course, enables failover. You'd think all that I/O might mess with performance, but the Happs response is interesting:
I am not saying that using HAppS, you could serve all of eBay on a single box. I am saying that your application is likely to be well within the constraints required
The reason they're not saying you could serve eBay from a single box using Happs is because some of the examples on the page indicate that maybe you almost could.
This is all new, I haven't verified it yet, and I've never met a developer who didn't overestimate their code in some respect - it's like meeting a new mother who doesn't think her baby is beautiful - but it looks very, very interesting. If you're into the idea that SQL is a kludge, check out Happs.
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I don't think the idea that SQL is a kludge is a new idea. If I have to do metaprogramming (because, in a very real sense, that's what it is) by manipulating strings, that is definitely a kludge.ReplyDelete
I have cursed SQL's insanity for years, wondering why they didn't just write a lisp-y thing instead.
SQL is a kludge , gotta agree with you there.ReplyDelete
But also because I am so bad at writing complex queries I somewhat welcome it's social demise.
Although we may be in the minority on this one so far.
I can't be bothered finding the relevant essay, but Paul Graham does say that he didn't use a database at all for Viaweb; he stored everything in files.ReplyDelete
Personally I've always seen SQL as an attempt to express the relational calculus in COBOL.
Personaly i come to such idea half year ago but there is another point. Using SQL automaticaly allow you to scale. You roll web-crunching slaves and they all connected to db via 1gb network. Dumb way but dumbness is a good thing here. And it works (till certain point).ReplyDelete
I like the idea of ditching the db, and have been exploring that for a while now. I have found that simple arrays and hashes do a wonderful job of keeping track of things.ReplyDelete
Scaling sessions across web servers wouldn't be difficult, as you could easily do that with a load balancer w/ affinity.
But how do you effectively share the backend *data* between servers? That's where SQL servers always come in handy. I'd love to hear more about how others would handle this.
What database did you use?
We didn't use one. We just stored everything in files. The Unix file system is pretty good at not losing your data, especially if you put the files on a Netapp.
It is a common mistake to think of Web-based apps as interfaces to databases. Desktop apps aren't just interfaces to databases; why should Web-based apps be any different? The hard part is not where you store the data, but what the software does.
While we were doing Viaweb, we took a good deal of heat from pseudo-technical people like VCs and industry analysts for not using a database-- and for using cheap Intel boxes running FreeBSD as servers. But when we were getting bought by Yahoo, we found that they also just stored everything in files-- and all their servers were also cheap Intel boxes running FreeBSD.
(During the Bubble, Oracle used to run ads saying that Yahoo ran on Oracle software. I found this hard to believe, so I asked around. It turned out the Yahoo accounting department used Oracle.)
I don't see the idea of "ditching a DB" and "ditching SQL" as intrinsically linked concepts. Look at MNesia for Erlang, for instance.ReplyDelete
Right now people are getting around SQL by using elaborate libraries that turn programmer idiom in a given framework into SQL. In a sense, this achieves the desired goal of letting one use persistence without the kludge that is SQL. I only wish that the destination language was more sane.
A long time ago a project needed the ability to issue arbitrary boolean queries to a simple SQLite db on disk, so I wrote an abstraction to support this that took the form of a tree that could be easily composed. This nicely avoided string hacking for SQL almost everywhere else in the system, and the rest lived in its own dirty module of string-hackery.
What is sad about this story is that I had to write such an abstraction at all, or had to take it to the level of generating a raw SQL string. The ability to hand a tree decorated with symbols and data to a database system and get a result should be something that is more readily available in general.
By the way - somebody posted a rude comment with an interesting link. I deleted the comment, but here's the link. It concerns OO from a DBA's perspective.ReplyDelete
MNesia - that's a good point. That means ErlyWeb probably disregards classic (old-school?) DB strategies also.ReplyDelete
More details: Mnesia is a distributed DataBase Management System, appropriate for telecommunications applications and other Erlang applications with need of continuous operation and soft real-time properties.
Apparently you can put the data in memory, in files, or both.
Giles, I was reminded of this, did you see it yet ? Chet Murthy's talk (via Bill Clementson's blog) on collapsing some of the layers in enterprise apps through functional programming.ReplyDelete
I've been experimenting with this idea in Squeak, in terms of persisting data in memory, and it's quite easy to do. Ramon Leon demonstrated it in his "Build a Blog in 15 minutes" screencast. You just put a reference to your data structure in a class object, and you're done. The thing is this works best if your data interaction is mostly read-only. Files work better for read & write-intensive apps, so long as the files are shared. RDBMS's are still good for their indexed search abilities, and their ability to make data modification operations atomic. With files, yes you can do pattern-matching, but that still means the program has to do a line-by-line search. Indexed databases don't have to do this. Memory would be faster, and I imagine that hashes do basically the same thing that RDBMS's do with their indexing function.ReplyDelete
SQL is a kludge the same way that using Perl, Python, Lisp, or some other dynamic language from a static language is a kludge. There are some skilled developers who do this. You're forming programmatic statements out of strings, passing it to an interpreter, which executes it, and then you get a result back. It's better in terms of code readability if you can get, or build up, a DSL native to the PL you're using that hides this from you, like Rails does. But at the lowest level, what's the alternative to SQL when it comes to using an RDBMS? I've worked with relational database APIs in the past, and I'd take SQL any day over them. SQL expresses what you want to do with a database better than an API does.
I think the future is the data access DSL--bringing direct data access into the language itself, with SQL being used for obscure situations where the DSL doesn't suffice.
Zope DB (ZODB) and Durus - two Python object databases - have been around for some time now, the former for quite some time indeed, the latter is a simpler re-implementation of the former.ReplyDelete
I like to say both are the database Python programmers already know, since we "store" data in the OODB using familiar Python constructs - mostly lists and mappings.
By inheriting or building upon a few basic classes (PersistentObject, PersistentList, PersistentDict, BTree) you can build simple or complex data structures where all attributes are persistent (or even selectively so). No fighting with un-pythonic idioms or ORM's that get in the way.
I found that the transition from thinking relationally to thinking pythonically (?) was the primary barrier to becoming productive but that period did not last
These days I do not automatically reach for Postgres or Oracle or SQL Server to build solutions. Durus gets first crack. Not having to deal with ORM layers, nor SQL, is a liberating treat. Of course some applications and business situations do scream out for SQL / RDBs but many do not.


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What I mean is this: how much do you actually know about the science most atheists parrot? Most atheists know as little science as most Christians know as little theology. Just as a Christian trusts his priest to tell him what he believes, an atheist trusts scientists with a Ph.D. tacked to their name to tell them what they believe. But how many times have the scientists turned out to be wrong? I only ask this because it seems this is central to the problem that most atheists have. They are repulsed by the phrase "believe" – they are addicted instead to the phrase "know". But honestly, do you really know, or are you just believing what you're told? I would like to remind you that in the 1970′s the scientists of the day were seriously concerned that we were about to enter an ice age, and less than 30 years later they are now convinced Earth is about to turn into a desert.
Unless you've observed something yourself, or observed and interpreted the evidence yourself and drew your own conclusions, you are just as guilty as faith as any religious person.
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G: Just as a Christian trusts his priest to tell him what he believes, an atheist trusts scientists with a Ph.D. tacked to their name to tell them what they believe.
GM: All I see is another crackpot-- [G] this time-- telling me what I believe instead of asking me.
GM, his telling you what you believe instead of asking you is a mental condition widespread among Catholics: the infallibility they contract from the pope. It's also known as crackpotism.
How do I know G is a Catholic?
He referred to xians trusting priests and omitted mention of people trusting ministers or rabbis.
Priests are better educated than many ministers, but G's omitting people as educated as rabbis indicates an advanced condition: 2nd degree crackpotism.
Oh damn, he's onto us guys. Atheism is just another religion.
We can't really know anything for ourselves, our opinion that the earth is round is just as much based on faith as their opinion of a flat one.
What do you mean by "Atheism is just another religion" ?
It's sarcasm.
That's a well known joke around here, because some religionists claim that science and/or atheism are just a couple more religions, or beliefs, or faiths.
The second paragraph is supposed to be funny, too. We would still think that the earth is flat, had we not questioned and explored our world. I think it's reasonable to assume that the earth is round, even if it wasn't written that way in ancient religious dogma.
The world is flat. No, wait, correction please... the world is round. There is overwhelming evidence for it, now.
Hey, I just realized something! Doesn't it kind of make sense if I say that "I have faith in evidence"? That might seem like an oxymoron, but I think it sounds somewhat poetic. (But I'm a bit sleepy right now.)
The earth is an oblate spheroid.... just saying.
I assign trust where it is earned, science has made so many startling discoveries and has advanced us as a species so much further than any religion every has.
I don't know all of science, nor do I need to know "everything" to know that science has a value, I can see it all around me, and since science is something that is open to investigation anyone can dig into it and test assumptions, new and old.
We know only 1 thing for certain (Cogito Ergo Sum) that still does not mean that I exit my house through the 3rd floor window. Reasoned certainty is all that one requires, and that is what science can give us.
"I have faith in evidence"
I have trust in science because evidence is a good indicator of what constitutes reality.
Dr.Grixis, in a differential equations class long ago, the professor one day made himself memorable to me when he said that even mathematicians have faith.
I had freed myself from Catholicism and reflected on his words. What did he mean?
I was not then an accomplished mathematician and struggled with the problems he assigned. I came to see that I had faith in my ability to solve those problems. My final grade? B.
He's pulling your leg. Taking the piss. Having a joke at your expense.
As a scientist, I have absolutely no faith in science. Faith is a bad word to me because that indicates a choice of ignorance over knowledge - the anti-science. Science is not so much a set of facts and knowledge as a way of looking at the world and Universe around us. We question everything, even established facts if we see any evidence that might indicate a flaw in what we believe we've figured out. Science is self correcting. Rather than faith in science, we have a certain confidence in what we know based on the strength of the evidence about the subject in particular. When we send spacecraft to Pluto, we can predict to great precision exactly when and how far from Pluto our spacecraft will arrive at that destination. When New Horizons actually gets to Pluto, we'll almost certainly find the spacecraft very close to the predicted flyby circumstances - we couldn't do that if we didn't understand the laws of gravity (as well as all the other science that contributed to building and flying the spacecraft) extremely well. I am certain that we don't know everything about the Universe which is one reason I continue to study it. Religion on the other hand claims to have all the answers or that the unknowns are "God's mysterious ways." That is totally unsatisfying an answer. So to answer your original question: My trust in science is based on the scientific method.
There was a hypothesis in the 1970's that we could be in for another ice age but it was not highly or widely regarded. I only ever heard that "scientists were saying" that in Christian circles and didn't hear a thing about it from my grade school science teachers.
I don't have 'faith' in science - but I do 'trust' that the peer review system will continue to root out 'junk science' and misplaced ideas. I trust that it will because it has done so, repeatedly, and erroneous ideas are consistently discarded - unlike religion.
I know that science provides me with a better understanding of the world around me than religion provided my elders. I know this because I can confidently work with electricity under circumstances that I know are safe because science has told me how electricity works. I know this because I understand why, and under what conditions, I can siphon my home made wine from one container to the next. I know this because of a thousand things that my elders did not understand and could not predict that I can both understand and predict. The proof isn't in the pudding - it's in the proof.
There was a hypothesis in the 1970's that we could be in for another ice age but it was not highly or widely regarded. I only ever heard that "scientists were saying" that in Christian circles and didn't hear a thing about it from my grade school science teachers.
I distinctly remember it being in National Geographic, and a friend of mine claims to have the issue.
I think the key word here is hypothesis...


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Air Power
Karl P. Mueller
Air power refers to the use of aviation by nations and other political actors in the pursuit of power and security interests, along with the use of long-range missiles. Since armies and navies first began to experiment with the use of airplanes as implements of war, air power has emerged as an integral component of modern warfare. Air power was born in the crucible of World War I, but came of age in the conflagration of World War II. The developmental history of air power is significant to security studies in general and to the study of air power in particular. Owing to the rapid series of state changes in air power, trying to understand the nature of air power and its effects on modern warfare and international security has become more complicated. Two questions that are central to the study of international security are whether air power facilitates offense as a whole and whether it encourages aggression as a result. There has also been a debate over the issue of how air power can most effectively be used to coerce an enemy through strategic bombing. Another source of disagreement is the question of whether air and space power constitute one subject or two. In general, there are compelling merits in treating space power as a domain of national security theory and policy separate from those of land, sea, and air power.
Alliances and War
Patricia A. Weitsman
Military alliances predate even the state system as a form of international cooperation, and they take on many forms. The motivations of states seeking to join, the commitment levels formalized in the alliance agreement, and degrees of institutionalization all take different forms in the literature, but these scholarly perspectives can be boiled down to a few approaches: the realist, the rationalist and formalist, the liberal or institutionalist, and finally, the constructivist arguments on alliance identities. Moreover, a common thread among the literature on military alliances is an understanding that alliances provide a wide range of services to their members, and contain more than one motivation for forming and maintaining the alliances. Given that the motivations for forming alliances are varied, especially during different threat environments, it is important to ask what the consequences are. In this vein, scholars consider two primary issues: if these alliances can fulfill their intended missions, and if there are unintended consequences which may arise and lead to undesirable results. A related issue to the study of what motivates alliances is in how well they perform in terms of cohesion. Cohesion is, roughly speaking, the capacity of an alliance to effectively carry out its goals. Finally, there are the coalitions—ad hoc multinational understandings that are forged to undertake a specific mission, and dissolve once that mission is complete. They are not wholly analytically distinct from wartime alliances, although the latter may have a greater degree of institutionalization and may predate a specific wartime operation.
Anarchy in International Relations
Silviya Lechner
The concept of anarchy is seen as the cardinal organizing category of the discipline of International Relations (IR), which differentiates it from cognate disciplines such as Political Science or Political Philosophy. This article provides an analytical review of the scholarly literature on anarchy in IR, on two levels—conceptual and theoretical. First, it distinguishes three senses of the concept of anarchy: (1) lack of a common superior in an interaction domain; (2) chaos or disorder; and (3) horizontal relation between nominally equal entities, sovereign states. The first and the third senses of "anarchy"' are central to IR. Second, it considers three broad families of IR theory where anarchy figures as a focal assumption—(1) realism and neorealism, (2) English School theory (international society approach), and (3) Kant's republican peace. Despite normative and conceptual differences otherwise, all three bodies of theory are ultimately based on Hobbes's argument for a "state of nature." The article concludes with a summary of the key challenges to the discourse of international anarchy posed by the methodology of economics and economics-based theories that favor the alternative discourse of global hierarchy.
Articulations of Sovereignty
Claudia Aradau
Sovereignty has been variously understood as the given principle of international relations, an institution, a social construct, a performative discourse subject to historical transformation, or a particular practice of power. The "articulations" of sovereignty refer to sovereignty as a practice that is worked on and in turn works with and against other practices. Alongside territory and supreme authority, sovereignty is characterized by the capacity to make and enforce laws. Sovereignty has also been defined in opposition to rights, as the spatiotemporal limits it instantiates are also the limits of rights. Another conceptualization of sovereignty has been revived in international relations, partly in response to the question of exclusions and limits that sovereign practices enacted. In addition, sovereignty is not inextricably tied up with the state but is articulated with heterogeneous and contradictory discourses and practices that create meaning about the international, and has consequences for the kind of community, politics, and agency that are possible. There are three effects of the logic of sovereignty in the international system: the ordering of the domestic and the international, the spatio-temporal limits to politics, and the exclusions from agency. In addition, there are three renditions of the international as a "thick" social space: those of globalization theories, of biopolitics, and of empire.
Art in International Relations
Barbara Baudot
Art can leave an impact on international politics by offering inspiration and perspective to relations between peoples of different nations and life experiences. It can furthermore "re-enchant" the world as humanity faces many critical challenges, such as threats to peace and security; widespread and massive violations of political, civil, social, and cultural rights; and the deterioration of the biosphere. The most direct and easily perceptible contribution of art to international relations is of an instrumental nature, where art is deliberately used to obtain certain objectives such as awakening a sense of patriotism, or stirring people's emotions to take action against a perceived problem. Art also has an extrinsic value in international relations, where the knowledge, ideas, inspirations, and sympathies of international political relevance that can be derived from a work of art by the discerning reader, listener, or observer. It is differentiated from the instrumental value of art through the artist's intent. A work of art is considered of instrumental value when it is meant to fulfill political objectives, while extrinsic works of art seek to convey the artist's thoughts and feelings, regardless of political persuasion. Finally, there is the intrinsic value of art, which can be found in many artworks that have universal appeal. These pieces communicate feelings and ideas that are universally perceivable and enchant the sensitive observer, and can influence the affairs of nations by bringing into relief ennobled visions that draw together imagination, intuition, and objectivity.
Assessment of Active Learning
Kay Gibson and Carolyn M. Shaw
With the shift in learning objectives that were more focused on the development of skills and processes, new assessment techniques were required to be developed to determine the effectiveness of new active-learning techniques for teaching these skills. In order for assessment to be done well, instructors must consider what learning objective they are assessing, clarify why they are assessing and what benefits will derive from the process, consider whether they will conduct assessments during or after the learning process, and specifically address how they will design solid assessments of active learning best suited to their needs. The various types of assessment for active-learning strategies include written and oral debriefing, observations, peer- and self-assessment, and presentations and demonstrations. In addition, there are several different measurement tools for recording the assessment data, including checklists and student surveys. A final aspect to consider when examining assessment techniques and measurement tools is the construction of an effective rubric. Ultimately, further research is warranted in the learning that occurs through the use of active-learning techniques in contrast with traditional teaching methods, the "portability" of active-learning exercises across cultures, and the use of newer media—such as internet and video content—as it is increasingly incorporated into the classroom.
Authority in World Politics
Thomas Hickmann
Much of the contemporary literature in the field of international studies deals with the concept of authority. Scholars concerned with global policymaking often suggest that the increasing importance of transnational actors, such as subnational networks, nonprofit organizatons, and business associations, leads to a loss of authority at the expense of state-based forms of governance. This perspective is closely linked to the concept of global governance and challenges classical approaches to international politics and conventional concepts of authority in world politics. However, other scholars take a different view and contend that the development of transnational governance initiatives does not imply a one-sided shift of authority from national governments and international institutions to sub- and nonstate actors. While these authors recognize the emergence of novel forms of authority in global policymaking, they stress the persistent authority of nation-states and underline the centrality of established modes of interstate cooperation. In terms of a theoretical middle ground between these two perspectives, one can argue that we observe a reconfiguration of authority across various actors and levels of decision making. This development does not automatically question the prevailing position of national governments and their institutions. Instead, state power seems to be expressed and rearticulated in new ways within a changing global environment. This ongoing debate pertaining to the changing patterns of authority is key to our understanding of the role and function of state and sub- and nonstate actors as well as their interactions in contemporary global politics.
Inanna Hamati-Ataya
Behavioralism is a paradigm that became predominant in American social sciences from the 1950s until well into the 1970s. Although its reign did not last beyond the 1980s, it has transformed the fields of (American) political science and international relations (IR) so profoundly that it remains to this day an essential, albeit implicit, component of their identity. The article starts with the context in which behavioralism emerged, then engages the "Behavioral Revolution" in American political science and presents its main epistemic, ontological, and axiological tenets. It then moves more specifically to Behavioralism in IR, and to the terms of its "second debate." The article concludes with an assessment of Behavioralism's legacy.
Biopower and International Relations
Angélica Guerra-Barón
Michel Foucault's critical approach to understanding power has become very influential in the study of global politics, especially in the work of (critical) IR scholars. The Foucauldian kind of power conception has influenced some IR scholars who adopt key insights from post-structuralist theory to world politics thus producing an analytical orientation, in the sense that all reality is structured first by language with discourses then creating a coherent system of knowledge, objects, and subjects. Of particular importance is Foucault's notion of biopower, biopolitics, and technology of power. Such toolbox allows (critical) IR scholars to recur and distinguish disciplinary power, governmentality, its types (liberalism, neoliberalism), and biopolitics itself. However, few IR studies differentiate between biopower and biopolitics; yet an extensive variety of international studies issues are analyzed. Additionally, applying Foucault's notions to global politics has been roundly criticized. This article begins with an introduction followed by a discussion of biopower and biopolitics. It continues with a discussion of the debates in the IR literature on biopower and illustrations of works of IR scholarship that draw on biopower and governmentality for insight into global politics. The article then concludes with a discussion of directions for future research.
The British Committee on the Theory of International Politics and Central Figures in the English School
Roger Epp
Considerations of the English School and of its central concept—international society—have all too often neglected the most logical starting point: the internal history of the British Committee. The British Committee on the Theory of International Politics was a group of scholars created in 1959 under the chairmanship of the Cambridge historian Herbert Butterfield that met periodically in Cambridge, Oxford, London, and Brighton to discuss the principal problems and a range of aspects of the theory and history of international relations. The British Committee stands out as a remarkable and unusual intellectual project. A product of its place and time and of a particular academic culture, it did not pretend to represent the full range of British thinking. Its membership intentionally omitted such major figures as E.H. Carr and C.A.W. Manning. Whatever direct influence it had on contemporary British scholarship in international relations can be attributed partly to bonds of friendship, across generations, and to the performances of individual members in the lecture hall. Though the Committee incubated a good deal of its members' work, sometimes published posthumously, its collaborative output was never prolific. Only two collective works can be attributed to it: Diplomatic Investigations (1966) and The Expansion of International Society (1984). However, the Committee developed a thorough study of international society and the nature of world politics, which has had an important impact that continues in the present day.
Bureaucratic Politics and Organizational Process Models
Christopher M. Jones
Graham Allison's Conceptual Models and the Cuban Missile Crisis (1969) and Essence of Decision: Explaining the Cuban Missile Crisis (1971) introduced two new decision-making approaches—the bureaucratic politics model and the organizational process model—to explain the October 1962 confrontation between the United States and the former Soviet Union. Despite being the subject of significant criticism for nearly four decades, the models are enduring elements of the foreign policy analysis lexicon. The bureaucratic politics model, however, has generated and continues to attract far more attention than the organizational process model across a wide range of academic disciplines. The bureaucratic politics model embraces the perspective that foreign policy decisions are the product of political resultants or bargaining between individual leaders in government positions. These resultants emerge from a foreign policy process, characteristic of a competitive game, where multiple players holding different policy preferences struggle, compete, and bargain over the substance and conduct of policy. The policy positions taken by the decision makers are determined largely by their organizational roles. On the other hand, the organizational process model maintains that foreign policy actions are generated by organizational output, namely the behavior of large bureaucracies with parochial priorities and perceptions following standard operating procedures. Thus, foreign policy is the product of organizational output, namely the behavior of multiple bureaucracies with distinct responsibilities and interests following standard operating procedures.
Capitalisms: A Global System
Richard Deeg
The global political economy is a multilevel system of economic activities and regulation in which the domestic level continues to predominate—in other words, it is a global system comprising national capitalist economies. Nations differ in terms of the regulations and institutions that govern economic activity, an observation that is embodied in the so-called "varieties of capitalism" (VoC) literature. Contemporary VoC approaches highlight the significance of social and political institutions in shaping national economies, in stark contrast to neoclassical economics which generally ignores institutions other than markets or sees them as hindrances to the functioning of free markets. Three analytical premises inform the diverse conceptual frameworks within the VoC literature: the firm-based approach, national business systems approach, and the governance or "social systems of production" approach. The VoC literature offers three important contributions to our understanding of the global political economy. The first is that different sources of competitive advantage for firms and nations are institutionally rooted and not easily changed. The second contribution is that these distinct national arrangements give rise to different interests/preferences in how the global economy is constructed and managed. Finally, the VoC approaches provide a framework for analyzing long-term institutional changes in capitalist systems and the persistence of diverse forms of capitalism, including the global financial crisis of 2008–2009 that may usher in yet another epochal change in the "battle of capitalisms."
Caribbean Foreign Policy
Jacqueline Anne Braveboy-Wagner
In the 1960s and 1970s, a wave of new states gained independence that altered not only the structure of the international system but also the substance of international relations (IR). These states once again drew the attention of the world to the problems of decolonization, neocolonialism, state legitimacy, development, nonalignment, equality and social justice, and nonintervention. These provided the context for global south foreign policy making and behavior, adding a north–south dimension to the prevailing East–West conflict. In the case of the Caribbean, it has become an arena of competition for influence both among superpowers and regional middle powers. A review of the literature on Caribbean foreign policy reveals that the bulk of Caribbean IR analyses assume a political economic perspective, and only some of them have direct foreign policy implications. Despite the rich scholarly work, there remain several gaps in Caribbean foreign policy research: theoretical work has been subordinated over the years to descriptive and policy-prescriptive scholarship; Caribbean scholars' preference for international political economy continues to detract from a theoretical focus on foreign policy analysis; and there is lack of attention to gender as compared to class, race, and ethnicity in foreign policy analysis. On the other hand, promising research that reflects the importance of constructivism as an approach is being conducted into the role of civil society and nonstate actors, as well as identity and ideas, in IR and foreign policy.
The Causes of War
Karen Ruth Adams
The scientific study of war is a pressing concern for international politics. Given the destructive nature of war, ordinary citizens and policy makers alike are eager to anticipate if not outright avoid outbreaks of violence. Understanding the causes of war can be a complex process. Scholars of international relations must first define war, and then establish a universe of actors or conflicts in which both war and peace are possible. Next, they must collect data on the incidence of war in the entire universe of cases over a particular period of time, a random sample of relevant cases, a number of representative cases, or a set of cases relevant to independent variables in the theories they are testing. Finally, scholars must use this data to construct quantitative and qualitative tests of hypotheses about why actors fight instead of resolving their differences in other ways and, in particular, why actors initiate wars by launching the first attack. Instead of taking the inductive approach of inventorying the causes of particular wars and then attempting to find general rules, it is necessary for scholars to approach the problem deductively, developing theories about the environment in which states operate, deriving hypotheses about the incidence of war and attack, and using quantitative and qualitative methods to test these hypotheses.
Challenges to Traditional International Relations Theory Posed by Environmental Change
Hugh Dyer
Changes in the environment can impact international relations theory, despite enjoying only a limited amount of attention from scholars of the discipline. The sorts of influence that may be identified include ontology, epistemology, concepts, and methods, all of these being related to varying perspectives on international relations. It is likely that the most profound implications arise at the ontological level, since this establishes assumptions about, for example, whether the world we wish to understand is both political and ecological. However, more recently the recognition of the practical challenge presented by the environment has become widespread, though it has not yet translated into a significant impact on the discipline of international relations, even when theoretical implications are noted. It is now almost obligatory to include the environment in any list of modern international relations concerns, as over time it has become necessary to include peace, underdevelopment, gender, or race, as they quite rightly became recognized as significant aspects of the field. Moreover, the environment, as a relatively novel subject matter, has naturally brought some critique and innovation to the field. However, studies of the environment are also subject to such descriptors as "mainstream" and "radical" in debates about how best to tackle the subject. As is often the case, the debates are sharpest among those with the greatest interest in the subject.
Changing Borders: The Politics of the EU
Gönül Tol
Migration has always been a feature of human affairs, though in recent decades it has become a major phenomenon. In fact, the growing diversity of the European population as well as the inevitable changing of borders within the European Union (EU) reveal that Europe has become an immigration continent. These developments have, however, prompted concerns over the EU's external borders and control of immigration, as well as the need for further inquiry by international relations scholarship. Although the regulation of immigration has received a European dimension only recently, the EU has taken steps to cooperate on the issue of immigration. The changing nature of immigration had, after all, led to a perception among European electorates that immigration was not only a demographic or an economic issue but had other dimensions. It could have multiple impacts on their societies, including welfare, social services and social cohesion. Furthermore, until recently, theories of international migration have paid little attention to the nation-state as an agent influencing the flow of migration. When the nation-state has been mentioned, attention has focused primarily on immigrant-receiving countries. Little has been written about the regulation of emigration in countries of origin. As a result, the role of the state in limiting or promoting migration is poorly understood. Though there is a growing body of scholarship attempting to address these gaps in understanding the EU's case for immigration, there are still further avenues of research many have yet to pursue.
Civic Engagement
Lynn M. Kuzma
There is a body of evidence that suggests that young Americans are disengaged from communal life. Since the late 1980s, college students have been described as materialistic, self-absorbed, and self-interested, acting without regard for community interests. Scholars consider the "me generation" as symptomatic of an eroding democratic civic culture characterized by growing apathy, resentment, even anger. This trend continues today. In order to address this, proponents of higher education have made their attempts to develop civic engagement in young minds. Civic engagement refers to activities within a community, though in the academic setting, the definition becomes much more complex. There is a belief that through participation in a community, students will develop capacities that ultimately lead them to become more active citizens, which in turn benefits not only themselves but also the community. However, higher education's recommitment to developing students' civic engagement should be informed by a clear notion of what civic engagement entails. In addition, a certain amount of factual knowledge is a prerequisite for becoming an engaged citizen, as civic learning involves students coming to understand the democratic processes of a community, its history, the problems it faces, and the richness of its diversity. And civic learning opportunities can be taught both in and outside of the classroom, as co-curricular learning opportunities, projects embedded in a class, or as a requirement of a general education curriculum.


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