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Glide Health Services Get Much Needed Federal Funding Boost
By Susan Davis
For Patricia Dennehy, RN, MS, FNP, the recent news that the US Department of Health and Human Services had given nurse-managed Glide Health Services a $1.5 million grant was nothing short of "fabulous."
It means that "the federal government is finally recognizing that nurse-managed care can provide people with access to high-quality care," she says. "That's huge for nurses."
A fully licensed community clinic located in San Francisco's Tenderloin District, Glide Health Services sees 3,000 patients every year, 60 percent of whom are homeless. The others are often indigent or low-income and from populations that suffer from the greatest health care disparities.
Cecil Williams, founder and minister at Glide Memorial United Methodist Church where the clinic is located, says the grant is good news amid a national recession.
"What a great time for this award to come for those who are hurting and many times forgotten," Williams says. "We know so many people who need to line up each day for our many programs, but this grant will help Glide Health Services increase access to health care by expanding services."
Dennehy, who is the director of Glide Health Services, as well as an assistant clinical professor in the UCSF School of Nursing's Department of Community Health Systems, has seen funding for community health services decline over the last several years. In fact, Glide has twice closed to new patients this year alone and its pediatric clinic on Valencia Street in San Francisco's Mission District closed due to lack of funding last year.
In partnership with Catholic Healthcare West, Saint Francis Memorial Hospital, and UCSF School of Nursing, Glide Health Services is funded though grants from the HRSA Division of Nursing and the Bureau of Primary Healthcare. It is a member of the San Francisco Community Clinic Consortium, the California Primary Care Association, the National Association of Community Health Centers and the National Nursing Centers
With the new grant, Dennehy notes, the clinic will be able to sustain what it's doing already, specializing in the training of advanced practice nurses, and other health professionals, plus add more clinicians and expand evening hours for its diverse patient population.
"We want to be able to provide more behavioral health services and substance abuse treatments," she says, "as well as provide services to people in the community who have just started working again. Our evening hours let us do that."
Strengthening the Primary Care Workforce
UCSF received the biggest amount of federal grant money in the UC system. In addition to the $1.5 million for nurse-managed care, UCSF received $3.84 million for its primary care residency.
The grant will enable the UCSF residency to fund two more residents per entering residency class in the UCSF Family Medicine residency program at San Francisco General Hospital (SFGH) and two more residents per year in the UCSF Primary Care Medicine residency at SFGH for a total of 20 additional residents trained overall between the two programs over the five-year grant period, according to Kevin Grumbach, MD, professor and chair of the UCSF Department of Family and Community Medicine and chief of Family and Community Medicine at SFGH.
"Both programs have an excellent track record in training primary care physicians who tend to work in community clinic settings serving underserved populations after graduating," Grumbach says. "The $1.5 million will enhance the nurse-run primary care clinic at Glide, which is staffed by UCSF School of Nursing nurse practitioners and nurse practitioner students."
The grant to Glide Health Services is just one of 10 grants given to nurse-managed clinics across the country. Under the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act, a federal statute that was signed into law by President Barack Obama in March, some $320 million in US Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) grants are aimed at strengthening the primary care workforce. These measures include:
- expanding training opportunities for physician assistants, advanced nurses, including nurse practitioners and nurse midwives, and personal and home care aides;
- offering education, training and support for low-income people who want to go into health care professions; and
- developing health care workforces across the country.
"Chronic diseases, most of which are preventable, are one of the main reasons health care costs have soared over the past several decades," HHS Secretary Katherine Sebelius said last week. "Investing in our primary care workforce will strengthen the role that wellness and prevention play in our health care system. With these grants, Americans from all backgrounds will have new opportunities to enter the health care workforce."
In related news, Katherine Flores, MD, a family physician and director of the UCSF Fresno Latino Center for Medical Education and Research, was recently named to the new National Health Care Workforce Commission. That commission is responsible for advising policymakers on ways to improve the health care workforce to ensure the health and safety of the American people.
A New Era for Nursing
The timing of the grant coincided with Nurse-Managed Health Clinic Week when Dennehy went to Washington, DC, to give testimony to Congress on the importance of funding nurse-managed center clinics. According to the National Nursing Centers Consortium (of which Dennehy is a board member), some 250 nurse-managed health clinics currently exist in this country and they provide crucial access to health care in areas with populations who are currently underserved, including those who underinsured, uninsured, impoverished or members of racial and ethnic minority groups.
Just this week, the Institute of Medicine also released its "Future of Nursing" report, which was based on a two-year investigation of how the nursing profession needs to be assessed and transformed. Co-sponsored by the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, the report concluded that the nation's three million nurses can "play a vital role in helping realize the objectives set forth in the 2010 Affordable Care Act," but that a number of barriers currently "prevent nurses from being able to respond effectively to rapidly changing health care settings and an evolving health care system."
In response, the report concludes, a number of reforms need to be initiated, including allowing nurses to get higher levels of education, practice to the full extent of their education and training, and to be full partners "in redesigning health care in the United States."
As founder and minister at Glide, Williams appreciates what nurses have to offer. "The nurses work on a mutual basis of being concerned and sensitive about the people who come for health care," he says. "They seem to take more time to humanize the situation, therefore empowering the people they are working with. I am sure that the people of the Tenderloin and the nurses that are in training at our clinic will find that the future will bring many creative and enduring experiences. It is really a program for the 21st Century."
Opportunities for Nursing Students
Currently, all nurse-managed health clinics or NMHCs are affiliated with a college or university department of nursing, a federally qualified health center, or a non-profit health or social services agency. All of the NMHCs that received HHS grant money recently, however, were affiliated with a school of nursing. Dennehy says the Glide Health Services grant will very definitely benefit students in the century-old nursing school.
"Our students will be able to focus on health education, managing chronic diseases, getting a better sense of what it takes to educate patients in the Tenderloin than in, say, the suburbs," Dennehy says. "It gives our students a much broader opportunity to see how patients struggle to maintain their health in the face of poverty and health disparities."
In fact, UCSF's School of Nursing concentrates its efforts on preparing a masters-educated nursing workforce to work with populations who are least able to access health care," says Sally Rankin, RN, PhD, FAAN, interim dean of the School of Nursing. Those populations include "chronically ill adults who are frequently homeless, mentally ill, or suffer from HIV and AIDS."
Over the last 12 years, more than 150 students have completed more than 200 clinical rotations at Glide Health Services, Rankin says. "This grant will allow for growth of this excellent program and student exposure to the service and caring embodied by Glide Memorial United Methodist Church, a long time advocate for the needs and rights of the indigent population of San Francisco's Tenderloin District.
Photos by Elisabeth Fall/fallfoto.com
Related Links:
National Nursing Centers Consortium to Kick Off National Nurse Managed Health Clinic Week on Capitol Hill
National Nursing Centers Consortium (NNNC) website
US Department of Health and Human Services, HHS awards $320 million to expand primary care workforce, September 27, 2010
"The Future of Nursing: Leading Change, Advancing Health," Committee on the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation Initiative on the Future of Nursing at the Institute of Medicine
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Critics fear Kagan would use bench to promote 'gays'
Elena Kagan
Digging into Supreme Court nominee Elena Kagan's past as dean of Harvard Law School has revealed a pattern of promoting and praising radical proponents of the homosexual agenda.
Kagan has already been widely criticized for barring military recruiters from Harvard's Office of Career Services in protest over the military's "don't ask, don't tell" policy, which prohibits open homosexuality in the armed forces.
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But a look at the faculty she invited, hired and promoted at Harvard reveals a cast of radicals so controversial, even Kagan joked in introducing one that they are "the kind of professor[s] for whom tenure was created."
Among those welcomed to teach at Harvard under Kagan's eye included:
- The openly "gay" Professor William B. Rubenstein, a former litigator for the American Civil Liberties Union, who directed precedent-setting cases aimed at securing homosexual "rights," and who at Harvard established classes focused on, in his words, "bisexuality, trans, genderf— … polygamy, S&M [and] the sexuality of minors";
- Visiting Professor Catherine MacKinnon, a radical feminist known for declaring that "all sex, even consensual sex between a married couple, is an act of violence perpetrated against a woman";
- Professor Janet Halley, who Rubenstein refers to as "the country's single most interesting and provocative queer law scholar" and who, he attests, refers to herself as a "gay man."
Kagan served as dean of Harvard Law School in Cambridge, Mass., 2003-2009, where she oversaw curriculum development and new faculty appointments.
One organization in Massachusetts, however, is criticizing the former dean's record on appointments, accusing her of "unprecedented activism" in pushing homosexuality and transgenderism as civil rights.
Mass Resistance contends, "Kagan's record while dean of Harvard Law School demonstrates her agreement with the goals of the radical ["gay," lesbian, bisexual and transgender] movement and her solidarity with those activists."
"Kagan's celebration and active promotion of the radical homosexualist and transgender worldview has profound implications," the group argues. "As a Supreme Court Justice, she could be expected to overturn traditional law and understandings of family, marriage, military order and even our God-given sex (what transgender radicals call "gender identity or expression"). She is a most dangerous nominee who must be opposed by all who care about religious freedom, the preservation of marriage and traditional values."
Professor Rubenstein, however, was among those homosexual activists encouraged by Kagan's presence as dean at Harvard.
In a speech entitled "My Harvard Law School," Rubenstein declared that "I didn't just come out at Harvard, I learned how to be gay at Harvard," but lamented how in the early 1980s the law school's professors kept their homosexuality "in the closet" and the library didn't have books or records on "gay" law cases.
"And yet Harvard Law School itself has not retained many of its alienating features of old," Rubenstein said, fast-forwarding his memoir to the 2000s. "My own classmate Elena Kagan is now dean. … Most importantly, Harvard's faculty now includes the country's single most interesting and provocative queer law scholar, Janet Halley."
Kagan, in fact, paved the way for Halley by abdicating the traditional dean's role of filling Harvard's oldest professorship chair, elevating Halley to the position instead.
"In the very act of occupying this historic chair," Kagan said in a speech introducing Halley, "Janet will transform it. … Throughout her career, Janet has engaged a range of provocative and even taboo subjects with enormous intellectual verve. … She is whatever the opposite of complacent is."
Kagan provided an echo to those words during her 2005 "State of the Law School" address, which was delivered in the midst of the controversy over the ban on military recruiters:
"This law school did not get to where it is by being complacent," she said. "I want to especially say this week whatever our sexual orientation, we can fulfill all our hopes and all our ambitions for this institution."
Now Mass Resistance is among those groups concerned that Kagan, if confirmed by the Senate, will turn her non-"complacency" into activism on the Supreme Court.
"Supreme Court nominee Elena Kagan is committed to the radical campaign pushing acceptance of homosexuality and transgenderism as 'civil rights,'" Mass Resistance wrote in a report on Kagan's record. "Her unprecedented activism supporting that view as dean of Harvard Law School calls into question her ability to judge fairly and impartially on same-sex 'marriage' and other homosexuality- or transgender-related issues that may come before the nation's highest court."
Kagan's track record on several issues has prompted WND's Joseph Farah to launch a two-pronged campaign to block the nominee's appointment to the Supreme Court.
In addition to an online petition to the Senate opposing her confirmation, Farah has announced a campaign to inundate senators with thousands of letters calling for her rejection for a lifelong appointment to the U.S. Supreme Court.
"Kagan is not what Americans want and she is not what the country needs," the letter reads in part.
"I urge everyone to sign the petition and take part in this easy, simple, effective and inexpensive campaign to bombard the Senate with opposition to this nominee," said Farah.
The letter campaign is based on previously successful efforts in which nearly 10 million "pink slips" were delivered to members of Congress opposing nationalization of health care, cap-and-trade legislation, hate-crimes laws and other bills, as well as the current campaign to stop amnesty in the U.S. Senate.
The "stop Kagan" campaign allows any American citizen to generate 100 individually addressed letters to every U.S. senator, each including the name of the sender and all delivered by FedEx for the low price of just $24.95. That comes out to less than the cost of snail-mailing the 100 letters yourself.
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European Commission – Press release
Two Danish cities preselected for title of European Capital of Culture 2017
Brussels, 25 November 2011 – The selection board responsible for evaluating the applications for the European Capital of Culture 2017, meeting today in Copenhagen, recommended that Aarhus and Sønderborg should be preselected for the title. Once this recommendation has been confirmed by Denmark, the preselected cities will have to flesh out and complete their applications by the summer of 2012.
Androulla Vassiliou, European Commissioner for Education, Culture, Multilingualism and Youth, said: "I would like to warmly congratulate Aarhus and Sønderborg for their nominations, following the first round of the competition to find a European Capital of Culture in Denmark in 2017. The detailed work carried out by these cities to submit their applications testifies to the popularity of this European initiative. Both cities have recognised the exceptional opportunities offered by this event for their long-term development, not only at a cultural level, but also for their socio-economic and touristic development. The key to its success remains, above all, the European dimension and the active participation of citizens. I encourage Aarhus and Sønderborg to pursue their efforts in this regard and to work for their long-term development via this project."
According to the Decision establishing a Community action for the European Capital of Culture event1, Denmark and Cyprus are the two Member States hosting the event in 2017. The preselection meeting in Cyprus will be held in mid December 2011.
Following Turku (Finland) and Tallinn (Estonia) this year, the next Capitals of Culture will be Guimarães (Portugal) and Maribor (Slovenia) in 2012, followed by Marseilles (France) and Košice (Slovakia) in 2013, Umeå (Sweden) and Riga (Latvia) in 2014, then Mons (Belgium) and Plzeň (Czech Republic) in 2015.
In late 2010, Denmark published a call for applications from interested cities. Two cities – Aarhus and Sønderborg – applied.
These applications were examined on the basis of the criteria laid down in the above-mentioned Decision by an international selection board with 13 members: 6 appointed by the Member State concerned and 7 by the European institutions.
The members appointed by the European institutions are:
According to the current system for designating the European Capitals of Culture, the selection has two rounds: a preselection round, following which a shortlist of candidate cities is drawn up, and a final selection round nine months later. The two selected cities are then officially named by the Council of Ministers of the EU.
For more information:
http://ec.europa.eu/culture/our-programmes-and actions/capitals/european-capitals-of-culture_en.htm
Decision No 1622/2006/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council of 24 October 2006
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How to Make Your Boss Look Good (Without Being a Suck-Up)
Making your boss look good—even though you may hate the idea of doing it—is a really good idea.
Bosses, most of the time, really aren't as bad as we want to think they are. Making an effort to give yours a boost when you can isn't too difficult, and it could be one of the best decisions you make at the office.
Among the many benefits of making your boss look good at work is that she'll think of you in a positive way, which can be highly beneficial at raise and promotion time. But while you're doing your best to make your boss look good, you also need to avoid being a suck-up. You don't want a reputation that will make your colleagues distrust you—the whole idea backfires at that point. With that in mind, here are five ways you can work to make your boss look good (without becoming a total suck-up):
Be An Excellent Employee
First, and most simply, if you want to make your boss look good, you have to be an excellent employee. This seems obvious, but it's such a good and easy way to boost your boss that it needs to be mentioned. If you get your work done and meet your goals in a timely fashion, this helps your boss be prepared for meetings and presentations with other leaders in the organization. It also makes your department look good, reflecting directly on your boss and how well she's doing her job.
Anticipate Your Boss's Needs
A great way to become an invaluable employee is to anticipate your boss's needs. And while you're becoming invaluable to your boss (earning major job-security points), you'll also be working to make her look good. Make an effort to learn what's expected of your boss from her boss, and then help her meet those goals. If your boss's boss likes things presented in a certain way, make sure your portions of a presentation are made in just that way.
If you know what times are more stressful for your boss, anticipate those occasions and make some room in your schedule to help take some work off your boss's plate. If you always seem to know what needs to be done before it's asked, your boss will notice and remember you for helping her stay on top of things.
Be a Problem Solver
Sometimes things go wrong and projects get messy. If you're the problem solver, you'll help your boss keep things running smoothly and look good to the rest of the company. Plus, you'll reap the benefits of being a part of a successful team.
Don't come to your boss with problems when things aren't going right on a project; come to your boss with solutions already in mind. A problem solver is a major asset to an organization, so not only will you be making your boss look good, you'll be making yourself prime promotion material. And wanting a project to go well certainly won't be read as sucking up.
Keep Your Boss in the Loop
This one is a bit trickier than just being good at your job and solving problems, but keeping your boss in the loop is a very helpful way of making her look good. This does not mean coming to your boss with petty office gossip or wasting her time on department politics. It does mean making sure your boss is aware of what's going on in the trenches while she's stuck in administrative meetings or off-site client calls.
If there are things she needs to know because project timelines could be affected, take some time to make her aware. Anytime it's clear to other management that your boss has a firm grasp of what's going on in her department, she'll look good and appreciate your helping her do so.
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The best, and most difficult, way of making your boss look good at work is to give her praise. But you must be particularly careful that it doesn't sound like you're just kissing up. Most importantly, make sure your praise is true and sincere. If your boss managed a project well or handled a client issue with grace, mention it to her boss in passing. It's okay to publicly praise your boss when the praise is real. Remember that everyone else also works with your boss, so they'll know if you're making up false praise.
The other key way to praise your boss without being a suck-up is to keep it simple. You don't have to gush in great detail about your boss's management style. Just mentioning that she's good at motivating the team and triggering good ideas is praise enough and worth saying for the benefits it will bring to you.


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Libby's Colorfully Organized Bedroom
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- What I love about my bedroom is that it has followed me around piece-by-piece for over ten years and between ten homes, and still feels cohesive and "me." My favorite piece in my bedroom is the bed. I painted it black, and because the project turned out to be quite a task, I appreciate it all the more. The mattress was made locally and delivered to my home by bike! (If that doesn't sound like an episode of Portlandia, I don't know what does!) Aside from my bed, the thing I love most about my bedroom is the window. It's common to hear that what people love most about their home is the "light" or the "windows," but since I live in a basement apartment, the one large window in the bedroom is even more precious. I don't have much of a view and I've never made a fuss about getting curtains, but the wide sill is home to my collection of plants and is the only place I can grow anything. I love waking up to the sun-glow behind green leaves and giant amaryllis blooms.
- What are your tips for creating a beautiful, healthy and organized bedroom?:
- Basement living has taught me to make the most of my low-light situation. I love being able to plug in a few well-placed lamps and voila! super cozy space! Another key for me in creating a beautiful space is keeping it tidy. I gradually built the habit of making my bed each morning. I may have a few dishes in the sink at the end of the day, but knowing that I can retreat to my calm and clean bedroom by night is a great stress reliever. I love to organize by color. As a visual artist, I make sense of the world with a palette in front of me, and getting dressed with a color coordinated closet makes me happy. Most of my furnishings and decor are secondhand and have been with me for many years. A huge part of what makes my bedroom retreat beautiful to me is how each piece of furniture, each photo, each book, each blanket has a story that is meaningful. By curating these objects in a lovely way, I get to live into these stories every day.
- In modern homes, bedrooms have become more than just a place to sleep; they can be a retreat, a home office, a library, a relaxation zone. What are some ways you make the most of your bedroom?:
- Even though my bedroom could accommodate a small desk or reading chair, I am happy to maintain its function as a relaxation, dressing, and sleeping space, and I love the openness I feel in my bedroom (especially with the low, basement ceilings). I like not having to wake up or go to sleep seeing a desk full of "work" staring back. One of my favorite things is that moment each night when I pull up the lofty down comforter around my face and let out a contented sigh. I am glad to make this room my bedroom retreat!


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Royal Cliff Hotels Group has once again recently added up to its impressive list of international awards by receiving the Gold Standard Luxury Award from Biblio Globus Tour Operator, one of the biggest tour operators in Russia on March 20, 2014.
As this year marks the 20th anniversary for Biblio Globus, the "Tourist Olympics"-themed presentation is held for its international partners was absolutely outstanding drawing together approximately 500 participants around the world and featuring international delicatessen, celebrities and an amazing laser show.
In recognition of its high level of hospitality quality and customer service satisfaction, Royal Cliff Beach Hotel was awarded as the Gold Standard Hotel (among luxury hotels) 2013 by Biblio Globus' President, Mr. Alexander Tugolukov.
"We are absolutely delighted that the Royal Cliff Beach Hotel has won one of the top awards among Luxury Hotels 2013. For us, to be admitted as the GOLD STANDARD HOTEL by the International Tour Operator Biblio Globus, our very close business and reliable partner is truly an honor.'' said Mr. Victor Kriventsov, the Director of Sales and Marketing of the Royal Cliff Hotels Group. " This award which recognizes our focus and commitment to our guests really demonstrates the level of hospitality excellence our hotel has achieved as well as our consistency in delivering high standards of customer service."
Since its inception, the Royal Cliff Hotels Group has been honored with multiple awards from organizations of domestic and international repute. Its legendary history and fame is impressively reflected in over 150 awards, accreditations and accolades received throughout the years in various categories and standards. These celebrated recognitions are a testament to its high standards and principles of hospitality and service that go beyond guests' expectations. Having a long and admirable record of service, this recognition reflects Royal Cliff Hotels Groups position as a premier luxury destination in the region.
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An old quilting friend of mine once gave us some really good machine quilting tips at a retreat. One of the tips she passed on was to create a binder of machine quilting samples. Take note of thread, tension, and tips to make a pattern work. That way there will be no second guessing when you want to do that pattern a second, third, or fourth time. It also works well for testing a pattern and working out any kinks before you tackle a big quilt.
Holy crap, I'm in love with this. I still worry it is a bit to flame-like, but it really is exactly what I wanted. The amount of thread this is using is phenomenal - one bobbin doesn't even do two horizontal passes of the quilt. Really, I could care less about the thread costs (I am so not doing that math at all).


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The texture on these mixed media paintings from Canadian artist James Kirkpatrick is insane. Packed with color, the artist's nebulous, jumbled works, which contain just the slightest hint of concrete elements here and there (is that a car? –wait– is that a face, now?), exist very close to complete abstraction. This deft "one foot in, one foot out" dance is indicative of great skill on Kirkpatrick's part. The subtlety of these paintings is really where their greatest value is. In a culture where everything is increasingly spelled out for us ahead of time, it's nice to preserve a little bit of mystery.
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Michele K., Sandy S., & Laurisa R., you know what these Wrecks need? More candles. Srsly. Step it up, ladies.
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Primary responsibility for the safety of Philadelphia streets lies with the department's Highway Division. This division performs and oversees the construction, reconstruction, repair, and maintenance of nearly 2,100 miles of city streets, including 312 bridge structures. It also controls street openings and excavations, as well as their restoration.
The Highway Division is subdivided into a Construction Unit and a Maintenance Unit with an administrative staff that supports both units. Each unit is further sectioned into several operating units that carry out or oversee construction and maintenance activities. Because activities cover all areas of the City, field district offices are maintained throughout Philadelphia.
The Streets Commissioner appoints a Chief Highway Engineer who is responsible for the operations of the Highway Division. Two Assistant Chief Engineers assist him, one each assigned to the Construction and Maintenance Units. In addition, operations at each field office are under the control of District Engineers.
Highway Maintenance ProgramsHighway Division personnel carry out or oversee various street construction and maintenance activities under two programs:
Because most areas of Philadelphia have been developed, the Highway Division rarely undertakes any original street-construction activity. Instead, it focuses principally on the reconstruction of existing city streets as an on-going activity. When construction or reconstruction activity do occur, the work is performed by private contractors. Participation by division employees is limited to contract monitoring, including inspection of the projects.
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|Summer 2002
Capitalism and Ideas: Creativity or Control?
by Andy Oram
It's hard to remember the intellectual conceits of the mid-twentieth century. From the 1930s through the 1950s, left-leaning intellectuals around the world felt certain that Western capitalism had exhausted its gifts to humanity. Economic depression, stifling monopolies, fascism, and militarism sprouted up almost everywhere.
Capitalism has surprised a lot of us. In the past few decades it has started once again to generate benefits. Millions of people around the world enjoy better medical care (so much so that we can complain because care still fails to reach millions more). New and incredibly creative industries have sprouted, including the computer industry that employs most readers of this publication. And the basis of most of these advances gets tied up in what businesses like to call "intellectual property."
Yes, it is intellectual achievement that brought about a renaissance in industries and services. This achievement leads to the disruptive technologies that keep competition alive. So long as we have small innovators coming out of the woodwork in unexpected places and fostering competition, the capitalist system can prevail economically.
What could bring this "end of history" to an end? Certainly, there are external factors that the system is ill-suited to deal with. For instance, we could have an ecological melt-down due to global warming or water shortages. We could also suffer from a backlash of national and ethnic conflict. But an end to capitalist growth could also emerge from its own dynamics. The mechanism? Why, the same mechanism that created the growth--intellectual property!
Patents have been extended into business areas where they have no business being. In software, the implicit tax imposed by patents overwhelms revenue possibilities and rules out code sharing. In medicine, where patents have a more legitimate role, they unfortunately restrict treatments to populations who fit the business plans of the developing companies. The effects of patenting genes have yet to be seen. In business, software, and genetics, innovation is so loosely defined that irrational patents are often issued. Thus, innovators are forced to pay to sustain the old companies with whom they are competing.
The overextension of copyrights and trademarks removes an ever-growing segment of our knowledge and culture from the repository available to new creators. This gradual stifling of innovation caused when intellectual property owners chip away at the public commons has recently been called an "anticommons," notably in the article Cyberspace as Place (http://intel.si.umich.edu/tprc/papers/2002/50/CyberspaceAsPlaceTPRC.pdf) by Dan Hunter.
Even worse, the effective monopolies created by copyright law have coalesced into a super-monopoly insistent on globally and eternally maintaining control over both content and distribution media. Laws and court rulings require innovation and experimentation to conform to the dictates of the forces of the past.
So the legal regime that produced intellectual property's golden eggs may end up killing the goose. Even more than intellectual advances--which the legal regimes seek to reward--*competition* has been the engine of success, and intellectual advances have benefited society to the extent that they foster small and unanticipated competitors. It is these small and unanticipated competitors whose necks are broken on the greedy altar of intellectual property.
How much new industry, and how many new medical treatments and artworks and software, can be created in those circumstances? If intellectual property in this form takes over, capitalism may degenerate to the role for which so many leftists designated it in the mid-twentieth century.
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DUTCH PATRONYMICS OF THE 1600sby Lorine McGinnis Schulze
Author Note: A longer version of this article was originally published on my website at http://www.olivetreegenealogy.com/nn/pat.shtml
The Dutch were much slower than the English in adopting surnames as we know them. The most common Dutch naming custom was that of patronymics, or identification of an individual based on the father's name.
For example, Jan Albertszen is named after his father, Albert. His patronymic Albertszen is formed from his father's first name. Albertszen means son of a man named Albert. The patronymic was formed by adding -se, -sen, or -szen.
Daughters would very often have the ending -x or -dr. added. For example, Geesjie Barentsdr. (Barentsdochter) is named after her father Barent.
An individual could also be known by his place of origin. For example, Cornelis Antoniszen Van Slyke, my 9th great- grandfather, was known in some records as 'van Breuckelen', meaning 'from Breuckelen' (Breuckelen being a town in the Netherlands).
In New Netherland (present day New York state) patronymics ended theoretically in 1687 under the new English rule. The English found the Dutch system of patronymics confusing and ordered that every family choose a surname, but not everyone followed the new guidelines. The English wanted one family to have one common surname, but the Dutch decided that each individual should establish his own. Thus members of one family often ended up with more than one surname in use.
We often see naming differences over the generations: Albert's sons and daughters took the surname BRADT except for his son Storm, born on the Atlantic Ocean during the family's sailing to the New World. Storm adopted the surname Van Der Zee (from the sea) and this is the name his descendants carry.
An individual might be known by a personal characteristic: e.g. Vrooman means a pious or wise man;Krom means bent or crippled; De Witt means the white one. The most fascinating one I've seen is that of Pieter Adrianszen (Peter, s/o Adrian) who was given the nickname of Soo Gemackelyck (so easy-going) but was also known as Pieter Van Waggelen/Van Woggelum - his children adopted the surnames Mackelyck and Woglom.
Sometimes an occupation became the surname. Smit=Smith; Schenck= cupbearer, Metsalaer= mason. An individual might be known by many different 'surnames' and entered in official records under these different names, making research difficult unless you're aware of the names in use. For example, my ancestor Cornelis Antoniszen Van Slyke mentioned above, was known and written of under the following names:
- Cornelis Antoniszen
- Cornelis Teuniszen (Teunis being the diminuitive of Antony)
- Cornelis Antoniszen/Teuniszen van Breuckelen
- Cornelis Antoniszen/Teuniszen Van Slicht (this is how he signed his name and might have been a hereditary family name based on an old place of origin)
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Boston's housing inspectors were on the prowl Monday, handing out violations and stronger penalties to landlords with substandard units and buildings. The crackdown comes as students swap apartments all over the city ahead of the new school year. It also follows The Boston Globe Spotlight Team's eye-popping investigation of the city's crumbling student housing and the lack of enforcement by the city in previous years.
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HANG TIME HEADQUARTERS — Sometimes you have to let the words marinate for a bit, take your glasses off, rub your eyes and breathe in the gravity of a statement before you react to it.
I watched LeBron James smile his way through another (well deserved) Kia Most Valuable Player Award ceremony Sunday, his fourth in five seasons. I watched every second and listened intently to every word spoken. James won the award months ago, when he pushed the Heat into overdrive and set them on a course for a record season that included that wicked 27-game win streak and more highlights than basketball law allows.
James earned the right to do and say whatever he wanted. But it wasn't his words that stopped me in my tracks. It was Heat president Pat Riley who forced me to pause when he uttered these words:
"Over these 46 years, I've had an opportunity to see some great players — and all the ones I've observed, watched and have seen, they've always gotten better. In my humble opinion, I believe the man right here is the best of them all."
The best of them all?
Let that sink in for a minute. Roll that statement around in your head and consider what Riley has seen, who he has coached and who he has coached against, and then say it out loud again.
"The best of them all."
That's a mouthful coming from a man who has seen and done what Riley has throughout his nearly half century in the game. He's been immersed in the league longer than I've been alive, so I'm not here to refute his humble opinion or even to debate whether or not we should wrap our heads around the fact that LeBron has evolved — in a decade, mind you — into a player worthy of such high praise.
I'm here strictly to examine Riley's words, to see if there is any way to scan the past four-plus decades of the league and rank LeBron ahead of the likes of Michael Jordan, Magic Johnson, Shaquille O'Neal, Kobe Bryant and so many others.
This is a man who played on the Lakers' 1972 championship team alongside Hall of Famers Wilt Chamberlain, Jerry West and Gail Goodrich. So his humble opinion comes from a very particular place (player, coach and executive who has won championships), one where few men in the history of the game can draw from.
And yet I still needed time to digest his high praise of LeBron.
Riley was an assistant with the Lakers when a 20-year-old Johnson scored 42 points, grabbed 15 rebounds and dished out seven assists in Game 6 of The Finals his rookie year to secure a championship while playing in place of an injured Kareem Abdul-Jabbar. He was the Lakers' coach for the four other titles they won during Magic's tenure as the leader and maestro of the Showtime Lakers.
He watched Magic revolutionize the game, from the inside.
And Sunday he called LeBron the "best of them all."
Riley's Lakers teams battled Larry Bird and the Celtics and, later, he took on Jordan. When Riley coached the New York Knicks, his teams battled Jordan's Bulls when Jordan was at his zenith. Anyone involved with the league during Jordan's glory years, teammates and foes alike, tends to show him the proper respect and admit that he's the greatest thing they've ever seen.
Riley retired Jordan's No. 23 in Miami for Naismith's sake. And Sunday, he called LeBron the "best of them all."
Riley came down from the front office to coach the Shaq and Dwyane Wade-led Heat to a title in 2006. And on Sunday, after three full seasons with LeBron, he called the current king of the league the "best of them all."
The same declaration from almost any other man would mean little to most. Everyone has opinions about who the true G.O.A.T is and most of them are framed by a generational bias that is hard to shake. But when a man with a breadth of experience that travels through time, or at least the past 46 years, points a finger at someone, it wakes you up.
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Riley says no.
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At a time when the Israeli government is struggling to get ultra-Orthodox Jews into the army, a record number of Israeli Arabs are volunteering for national service.
Despite calls from leaders in the Arab community to shun national service, 3,000 young Israeli Arabs answered the call this year, a 76 percent increase from the 1,700 who volunteered last year.
At a ceremony earlier this week in Haifa, the National Service Administration welcomed the 3,000th Arab volunteer this year, Suriah Suad, who will do her national service by volunteering in the maternity ward at Ziv Hospital in Safed. Four other young Arab volunteers were presented with commendations for outstanding service.
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September 19, 2013
By Xavier Higgs
LAWT Contributing Writer
Los Angeles County has received nearly $6.9 million in grants from the California Department of Insurance to fund the investigation and prosecution of automobile insurance fraud crimes.
Los Angeles leads the state in "swoop-and-squat" crashes, in which two vehicles act together to force a rear-end collision,
"This endangers motorists," says Los Angeles County Dist. Atty. Jackie Lacey. "Innocent drivers and their passengers are placed at high risk every time one these phony collision occurs on our streets and highways."
According to Los Angeles residents pay more than $200 to $300 more annually in higher auto insurance premiums due to fraud.
Lacey joined California Insurance Commissioner Dave Jones to announce the allocate funds for additional staff dedicated to cracking down on the phony collision claims.
The grants include $2.3 million in funding for the focus on organized auto insurance fraud. While the other $4.6 million grant will go after all facets of auto insurance fraud.
Everyday motorist are at risk of these staged auto accidents. Insurance fraud is a multi billion dollar criminal enterprise.
Jones contends these scams are a safety risk to all drivers.
There were 7,718 suspected fraudulent claims from Los Angeles between 2012-2013. That's 42.9 percent of all auto related insurance fraud referrals.
Consequently Jones says, "as the head of California's largest consumer protection agency, my mission is to go after fraud when it occurs."
Both Lacey and Jones warned Los Angeles area drivers to be on the lookout for scam artists who stage collisions to collect insurance money.
Law enforcement says the criminals represent three categories. This includes professionals such as doctors who diagnosis bogus injuries and the lawyers who file the false claims. Next are the cappers, middlemen who find cars to crash. The third level is the "so-called victim" who is recruited by the Cappers.
Lacey explained that low-level players are recruit sometimes outside of convenience stores. They are paid from $50 to $100 to be in a car during the collision. They are told to file claims for injuries for treatments they never receive.
If you are a victim of one these scams, ask for a police report. Ask the police to identify each of the witness. Contact the Dept. of Insurance if you suspect that you have been involved in a staged accident. The California Insurance Commissioner's office telephone number is (800) 927-4357.


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Middle Smithfield Township Supervisor Mike Dwyer will seek a full six-year term this year.
Middle Smithfield Township Supervisor Mike Dwyer will seek a full six-year term this year.
He is hosting a campaign kickoff from 1 to 3 p.m. Sunday at the Historic Tom X Pub.
Dwyer, a Republican, was appointed to a supervisor vacancy in November 2011, just after running unsuccessfully for another supervisor opening.
Dwyer points to a record of advocating for fiscal responsibility, economic development and community volunteerism.
He has served as board vice chairman, treasurer and township public works director.
"When this township needed a new, responsive and respected board of supervisors, I stood with the supervisors without regard to partisan politics and went to work on day one," Dwyer said.
"In just 16 months, we have changed our township from one to avoid to one that residents, business owners and many others now wish to work with."
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LONGTOUSHAN, China — Minutes after a deadly earthquake shook western China, disaster teams were on the move. Within hours, food, tents, and even a 4G cellphone network were in place, showing how a fast-developing China can bring its plentiful experience and enormous resources to bear in handling natural disasters.
Yet while the military is leading the relief operation — seizing on the opportunity to strut its considerable stuff and show its commitment to the public good — growing numbers of volunteers from among students, social groups and private businesses are a prominent element of the effort, even if they sometimes get underfoot.
"We're here to help however we can," said Song Lina, 22, a college student from the western city of Chongqing. She and a dozen friends in red baseball caps and T-shirts reading "Sending our love" were making the 5-kilometer (3-mile) hike up the ruined road to the hard-hit town of Longtoushan.
"We'll get to the town and go ask the soldiers and rescuers what they need us to do."
Sunday's 6.1-magnitude quake that struck in a mountainous part of Yunnan province left 589 dead as of Wednesday and brought a massive effort to clear roads and enter isolated mountain communities where people were still feared trapped in collapsed homes. On Wednesday, rescuers pulled a 50-year-old woman out of a pile of rubble, 67 hours after the quake struck. Liao Tengcui had serious head and waist injuries and couldn't move her left leg, but was conscious, the official Xinhua News Agency reported.
More than 2,400 people were injured in the farming region of Ludian county — the country's deadliest temblor in four years and its biggest test of emergency response under President Xi Jinping.
Villages of bright blue tents for survivors have sprung up in and around Longtoushan, accompanied by pavilions and trucks offering cellphone and Internet service. Others offer to help with insurance claims, banking and medical services.
"It's not enough anymore to just provide somewhere for these people to sleep and something to eat. People need to maintain communication and all the other details of life to get back on their feet," said Li Weiping, who was helping staff a tent offering 4G service for a national carrier along Longtoushan's main street, clogged with rescue vehicles.
As Li spoke, one of the dozen military helicopters devoted to the relief effort clattered overhead to bring supplies to a field on the edge of town, circumventing the now-congested roads in the county of about 429,000 people.
According to official reports, 10,000 soldiers were dispatched to the rescue, along with dozens of troops from the air force and strategic missile command, presumably because of their facility with satellite communications and remote mapping. They were reinforced by more than 1,000 firefighters and over 1,300 military and civilian medical personnel. Also dispatched were 31,000 tents, while boxes of bottled water, instant noodles and potato chips practically overflowed onto the streets of Longtoushan, where relief workers have doubled the town's population.
A novel part of the Yunnan response was the use of drones to map and monitor a quake-formed lake that threatened to flood areas downstream. China has rapidly developed drone use in recent years, and they helped save time and money while providing highly reliable data, said Xu Xiaokun, an engineer with the army reserves.
China began bolstering its emergency response capabilities after the outbreak of severe acute respiratory syndrome, or SARS, in 2003. The country was largely caught unprepared for the nationwide outbreak and initially sought to suppress news about it until it could muster a response.
Those efforts gained pace with a massive 2008 earthquake in Sichuan that left almost 90,000 people dead or missing. While China's response gained mostly praise from the public, it was forced to rely almost exclusively on the military, and some isolated areas had to wait days for any relief.
Since then, China's spending on domestic security has outpaced its overall defense allocations, providing massive funding for its emergency services. China even sends rescue teams to overseas disasters, including helicopter crews to flood-hit Pakistan and a navy hospital ship to the Philippines after a typhoon last year.
The quake relief also is helping to burnish the credentials of President Xi, whose strong authority over the armed forces has helped make him the most powerful Chinese leader in decades.
"The party needs to reinforce its legitimacy by showing that it is helping the people and the political system in place is highly effective for such a purpose," said Steve Tsang, a China politics expert at England's Nottingham University. At the same time, the ruling Communist Party uses such disaster relief operations to get its citizens involved and mobilize support for its rule, Tsang said.
The current fad for volunteering marks a break from the party's former total leadership in disaster relief, something the party seems eager to encourage but uncertain how to guide.
The outpouring of hundreds of volunteers in Yunnan also stands in contrast with what critics say is a general unwillingness among Chinese to help those in need in more mundane situations, a response likely born out of a fear of being held responsible in the event the needy person should die — or even blame the do-gooder for their predicament. Chinese society was rocked by a crisis of conscience in 2011 when multiple passers-by were caught on security camera footage ignoring a toddler who had been struck by a van and eventually died.
"No doubt these cases caused a lot of criticisms among the public. They do reflect a social phenomenon that seems to be on the rise," said Lu Wengang, associate professor of public administration and emergency management at Jinan University in the southern city of Guangzhou. "It may very well be a result of a genuine decline in altruism in Chinese society."
But Lu said Chinese citizens also had traditionally pulled together in times of hardship and that the volunteering phenomena had a strong vein of patriotism.
"What does seem to be the problem is that the volunteers are not professional enough," Lu said. "They are active, they are enthusiastic, but they are not sufficiently trained to do the job."
The volunteers in Ludian came in all stripes: Well-equipped, orange-jumpsuit-wearing engineers. Middle-aged Communist die-hards wearing Mao pins on their old-fashioned army uniforms. Sneaker-shod college students with little to offer other than their enthusiasm.
Zhang Xian, 25, an auto mechanic and veteran disaster volunteer from the eastern province of Henan, said he's seen firsthand how enthusiasm can actually bog down official relief efforts.
"To be honest, they can be a bit of a nuisance," said Zhang, who came to Ludian to offer his services repairing damaged vehicles. "They don't have any skills and they just take up space and resources."


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Several photos have surfaced of Texas A&M Fish Camp Counselors in suggestive poses at the university's Bonfire Memorial.
The photos first appeared on TexAgs.com and the reaction from some has been of outrage and disappointment.
It's tradition for counselors to take photos prior to the start of fish camp, an orientation camp for new students.
Where they took them though is what's angering many.
The Bonfire Memorial was built in honor of the 12 students who died in the 1999 collapse.
It's where thousands come to reflect on the tragedy and remember those killed.
News 3 took a look at why so many people are now ticked off.
While people are expressing outrage and disgust online, in person the people we spoke with are offering a little bit more forgiveness saying they think the actions of these students was a huge mistake and that an apology should be enough.
And this is what's causing the controversy.
Fish Camp Counselors are seen standing in the Bonfire Memorial portals.
Some in provocative or racy poses, others grinning and posing like college kids.
Several students spoke with us off camera saying they think this is just a bad decision.
Other comments we've been getting online haven't been as forgiving.
But the consensus seems to be it was an inappropriate location to take them.
"Well it does look like it's something shouldn't be done," said Samarpita Roy, a Texas A&M Graduate Student.
"Yeah I think it's like a mistake," said Lars Mitchell, a Texas A&M Student.
"I think it was kids making a stupid mistake. Yeah I mean you know. I don't think they were trying to be disrespectful," said Tammy Griffiths, of Bryan.
"I mean if they've issued an apology I would tend to say well great what you did was stupid. Don't do anything like that again and move on," said Chris Faucette, a Texas A&M Former Student.
And an apology is just what they issued Thursday night.
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"I apologize from the bottom of my heart for the unfortunate and inappropriate photographs that circulated briefly on social media.
While the actions portrayed in these photographs do not reflect the Aggie Core Values or the Fish Camp values, I know these students, and I know there was no ill-intent or disrespect intended..."
The director goes on to say that he plans to use this moment as an opportunity for education.
We don't know the ages or identities of the students involved but have confirmed these are counselors whose job it is to teach incoming students the traditions of the university.
We also have that full apology linked online with this story below.
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Pictures posted on a popular message board and on social media have drawn the ire of many Aggies.
The photographs, which appeared on the TexAgs website late Thursday morning, are believed to show Fish Camp 2013 counselors or members posing at the Bonfire Memorial, many in pairs standing inside the portals striking goofy or suggestive poses.
The memorial is at the site of the 1999 collapse of Bonfire, which left 12 Aggies dead and 27 injured. Each portal is dedicated to the memory of one of the fallen Aggies and features an engraved portrait and words from and about the victim.
Fish Camp counselors generally take pictures together prior to that year's sessions. The tradition takes participating incoming freshmen, who are nicknamed fish, to a site near Palestine for a number of days. The students are taught Aggie traditions and get the chance to meet other new students before the fall semester begins.
It is unclear who took the pictures.
In a statement posted on the Fish Camp website, Head Director Max Cadena calls the photos "unfortunate and inappropriate," and said the students who took the pictures "are devastated by the hurt that this has caused to the families and friends of those fallen Aggies and all other members of the Aggie family."
A thread on TexAgs posted ten minutes before noon Thursday had nearly 700 posts at 6:00 p.m. the same day.
The original poster, whose screen name is "Fish-N-Chips," wrote, "Fish camp is taking their pictures at the bonfire memorial and disgracing it! This infuriates me!!!"
A user named "Rhaggie16" posted, "I am a fish camp counselor this year, and I would just like to say that this shocks me. It's really unfortunate that none of them had the sense of judgement to see that this is so inappropriate. Don't let this reflect too poorly on the organization as a whole though, because the vast majority of us respect the integrity of each and every one of our traditions."
The following statement was posted on the official Fish Camp website:
On behalf of everyone associated with Fish Camp, I apologize from the bottom of my heart for the unfortunate and inappropriate photographs that circulated briefly on social media. While the actions portrayed in these photographs do not reflect the Aggie Core Values or the Fish Camp values, I know these students, and I know there was no ill-intent or disrespect intended to the memories of the 12 Aggies who are memorialized at the site. While I was not present when the photographs were taken, I know the students involved are devastated by the hurt that this has caused to the families and friends of those fallen Aggies and all other members of the Aggie family. We continually strive to improve the education our members and incoming freshmen receive about the rich traditions and history that we hold dear at Texas A&M University. I assure you that my fellow directors and I will take active steps in using this moment as a point of education, not only for those involved in the incident, but for the entire organization. Again, I deeply regret that this incident occurred. I plan to reach out to the families of the 12 fallen Aggies to express my regrets, and I am eager to work with our organization moving forward.
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This past Sunday night, I arrived on the Gulf Coast of Southwest Louisiana in the city of Lake Charles. I'm originally from Southwest LA, and I came down with my girlfriend, Christina, to help out the relief efforts. Christina's a newly minted MSW from the University of Chicago's social work school, and she's planning to head to Baton Rouge and help out LSU's social work staff. Since it's only about an hour away from New Orleans, Baton Rouge has now doubled in size due, so the city's already meagre social services are maxed out.
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This storm and the subsequent evacuation have shattered families and social networks, leaving their constituent members lost and isolated with no way to find out if their friends and loved ones are alive. Just last night, the shelter at Lake Charles' Burton Coliseum took in a frightened 16 year old boy who had evacuated with some friends. These "friends" then abandoned him at a gas station in Lake Charles, leaving this kid with no one and no idea where is parents are, or if they're even alive. There are thousands of stories like this, of people whose fondest hope is to get in touch with someone who knows their name and who can provide them with some connection to their pre-Katrina life.
Right now, intake workers at the shelters are wasting time entering survivor information into the multiple survivor databases that have cropped up online in the storm's aftermath. All of these can and should be consolidated into a single database that can be easily searched so that the people displaced by this storm can be connected with friends and family. This need is urgent, because the sooner survivors can be put in touch with loved ones, the sooner they can get out of the shelters and begin rebuilding their lives.
This past Saturday, right before I left Chicago for Louisiana, I made a post on my forthcoming but not-yet-activated staff journal asking for help in getting together just such a centralized database project. I'm going to reproduce part of that here, in a modified form:
Right off the bat, this project needs a few things:
- A name, website address, etc.
- An online bulletin board for coordinating this project. Infopop, can you give us space?
- A database. Off the top of my head, I think that a few of those Google rack-mount boxes could index hundreds of thousands of XML files along with attached pictures. Google, can you do this?
- A file format for storing refugee data, text and pictures.
- PC hardware that intake workers at the shelters can use to enter data in to the database. There's an urgent need for hardware donations here in Lake Charles, and if I have enough respondents in the thread I'll post an address where such donations can be sent.
- Someone to look into the legal and privacy implications of building and maintaining such a database, i.e. survivors will probably need to sign release forms; the database will need to be covered by some kind of legal protection that will enable us to go after and stop abusers; etc.
- A group of people with the will and skills to make this happen.
Not only can we do this, but I think we can do it fairly quickly if there's enough motivation. Let's start the discussion in the news thread.
The one concern that I have about this project, if there's enough interest here to make it happen, is that it not be yet another database that intake workers will have to populate. I think we should start by contacting the other databases and importing their data into it. That way, all of the data that's already being entered flows into one centralized location. At some point, we can provide a public data entry front end for intake workers, if necessary. But the main thing right now is to get the isolated and growing pockets of existing data into one, easily searchable/browsable URL.
UPDATE:There's a large volunteer effort that I wasn't aware of which was started in the past few days to do just what I've described above. This is the Katrina PeopleFinder Project, and it's a great way to get directly involved with the relief efforts remotely. (More info at this site.) The searchable part of this project is supposed to go live soon, so I'll keep you updated. When it does go live, it needs a single, easy to recall URL that I can start publicizing at the relief shelters. At that point, I'll do two things for the intake workers: a) give them the URL of this consolidated database to search, and b) advise them to begin entering data into only one of the survivor databases (probably whichever one has the most complete data).
I can't overstress the need for Internet clients at the shelters. The relief workers need them for processing evacuees, and the shelter residents themselves need them to search the myriad online survivor resources that are cropping up. Please, contact me if you can send hardware. I've made contact with the local Linux User's Group, and well make sure that it gets set up and into the shelters.


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It`s been barely three weeks since the U.S. Supreme Court upheld the Second Amendment, tossing the District of Columbia`s strict ban on handgun ownership as an unconstitutional infringement on the individual right to bear arms. As you`d expect, D.C. officials have been busy little bureaucrats since then, trying to figure out a way to get around the high court`s decision. On Monday, the D.C. council announced emergency legislation designed to update the gun ban. As expected, it`s a joke.
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In undergraduate school, I remember one professor marveling at various features of brain functioning and talking about the reasons that a particular function evolved. It was just as easy, or easier, for me to think of reasons that these features were designed into the system. In my first class on physiological psychology, the professor did not have an evolutionary bent that I could tell, and merely marveled at the function and complexity of the brain. I think many students are unprepared for the naturalistic worldview, and that this often can trigger a crisis of faith. In their book, God Attachment, Clinton and Straub (2010)1 note that people often enter adulthood with the same views they had with their faith that they learned in early childhood. In other words, they have not developed a more mature faith that allows them to have an understanding of the problem of evil, the existence of many different religions, and the evolutionary viewpoint (a view espousing the all-powerfulness of useful accidents). Thus, they are setting themselves up for a crisis of faith that will inevitably come with real-world life experiences and the hard knocks that life delivers. I frequently encounter people who become sort of paralyzed in that crisis of faith without attempting to find answers to their questions. They will often just resign themselves to somewhat of a wishy-washy stance like, "I'm not sure I believe everything in the Bible. I believe, but I'm just not sure about X." When asked, they'll admit they've never tried to resolve the issue with learning more about the subject. So, they end up assuming a distant stance with God on the basis of a particular issue that they have not taken the time to resolve.
I don't think people have to believe that Genesis is literally true to be saved. I don't think there is anything in the Bible that would suggest that. But I do think it is possible to be logically consistent and hold an intelligent worldview encompassing a literal account of Genesis. Frankly, I think a literal account of Genesis leads to the most logically consistent stance in explaining the problem of evil in the world (i.e., the fall). Also, one only needs a vaguely possible scenario to explain certain observations (apparent age of the Earth and Universe) to make this tenable. If God is all-powerful, then He could have done it. I'm not advocating a kind of "God did it" approach to science, but I am rather asking believers to explore the issue in more depth and to develop a more mature way of viewing their faith. This can help believers have a more mature relationship with God.
I would also caution creationists against the view of saying that people who advocate for evolution are liars. Evolution contains many lies, but to lie involves intent to deceive. There are times when they do likely lie, but it's better to be careful about this. I'd rather look at it as a worldview, which I think contains many untruths. It's understandable, just false.
I urge fellow believers, and those with doubts, to more fully explore these issues in order to develop a more mature faith—a faith which can stand up to the complexities of the world and the problem of evil in the world. More personally, it will help with the very difficult things that you face in your own life and promote a deeper connection with God.
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