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Lentils and Justice for All
Memphis, Tennessee, 1892: An African American-owned neighborhood grocery store was invaded by a mob of white men vowing to "eliminate" competition posed by black businessmen who were becoming "too independent." The three entrepreneurs— Thomas Moss, Calvin McDowell, and Henry Stewart—fought back and even shot an attacker, but were eventually overwhelmed. They were arrested, charged with conspiracy and provoking a riot, and subsequently jailed. Meanwhile, their business was looted and burned down.
Inflamed by sensational headlines that branded the three owners as "Negro desperadoes" harboring criminals in their store, a second white mob stormed the jail, captured the prisoners, and lynched them outside of the city.
In an era of escalating racial tension, the three murdered men were guilty of prospering financially, competing with white businesses, and establishing a gathering space in which the black community could create wealth and independence. It was called the People's Grocery Company.
More than a hundred years later, on the other side of the country, Brahm Ahmadi and other activists were piecing together the connections between environmental justice, racial inequality, economic dependence, unemployment, and disease in their community of West Oakland, Calif. They traced long-term health problems to structural roadblocks encountered by impoverished inner-city neighborhoods nationwide: the inability to grow local businesses, the funneling of community wealth to other areas, and the resulting lack of jobs and access to healthy, affordable food.
Ahmadi found that West Oakland residents were spending as much as 20 percent of their food budgets on transportation alone, trying to get to a grocery store. The other option was to shop at local liquor or convenience stores. Ahmadi helped found People's Grocery in 2002, in honor of Memphis' original company, to change this and restore to the "food desert" the ideal of a healthy, responsible, community-owned grocery.
Eight-hundred miles north in Seattle, Reverend Robert Jeffrey, a longtime community activist and Civil Rights veteran, needed to hear just one sentence about how People's Grocery was solving the problem of food distribution in the inner city in order to conceive his own project, Clean Greens. Inspired by Ahmadi's work, Clean Greens now has its own farm and operates a CSA and affordable vegetable stands throughout the Central District, home to some of Seattle's poorest residents.
Today, the number of people in poverty is the highest it's been in 15 years. The 2010 census revealed that 44 million Americans now struggle below the poverty line. That's one in seven people, of whom the worst-affected groups are children and African Americans. Some of the most destructive symptoms of poverty are food-related health problems.
Food justice is about ensuring access to healthy, quality food for all people, no matter their economic position. Ahmadi and Reverend Jeffrey sat down with YES! to explain how a total reorientation of the food system can support community health and wealth—planting local businesses, creating jobs, and growing a public understanding about why our current paradigm fails us all, especially those in the most need.
Christa Hillstrom: Brahm, you were already living in West Oakland when you were inspired to
A Wake-Up Call for Public Health
start People's Grocery. As an environmental justice activist, you had been looking around the neighborhood at what was happening for a long time. What did you see?
Brahm Ahmadi: We were seeing tremendous health issues that stem from exposure to toxins, which are disproportionately located in these areas. We started to connect the dots to malnutrition.
West Oakland has the highest rate of child asthma in the Bay Area. This is obviously connected to the fact that these children have much lower levels of nutrition. In one sense food justice is only one pillar in the strategy of how to build healthy, resilient communities. I don't think food is the panacea to all our social problems, but I think it's a window.
Reverend Robert Jeffrey: I believe that food is the way to bring people into environmental understanding. You're not only going to learn about food, but you're going to learn who puts growth hormones in food and why, and what the chemical companies do to other things. It brings up the conversation, and you begin most conversations around the table: around the dinner table, around food. That's the way to begin to bring excluded people into the conversation as well as to help them begin to grow their own basis of self-sufficiency.
Hillstrom: Food justice contains a spectrum of so many issues within it. What's so powerful about food? Why does it provide such fertile common ground on which all of these movements can meet?
Ahmadi: It's incredibly personal. What's more personal than what you put into your mouth?
Reverend Jeffrey: In the African-American community, food has become a liability because that's what is killing people: High blood pressure and cholesterol, hypertension—these things are just norms in the inner-city communities and people are dying. I grew up in a church where 80 percent of people had diabetes, high blood pressure, or some form of heart disease. And that was back then. They would talk about it like it's a common cold.
Ahmadi: That public health crisis is becoming an awakening. It's a catalyst because more and more families are connecting the dots between their food choices and the health problems in their families. In West Oakland, there's really not a single family that is not impacted by chronic disease, especially diabetes. A recent CDC study said, based on the conditions in our entire society, we are on track for 50 percent of Americans to have diabetes by 2020. When you zoom in to communities of color, that's ground zero for this stuff.
Hillstrom: There seems to be a fundamental problem of perception here when people look in from the outside. Many might assume that "poor people" choose to eat unhealthy food. It might surprise people to think of this as a justice issue.
Ahmadi: It's the number one question I get everywhere I go: Do low-income people want healthy food? Don't underestimate the power of a store that sells convenient food and the challenges faced by people working two jobs and not having time to cook.
Reverend Jeffrey: It's a proximity issue. You choose to eat what is available to you. If that means corner stores that sell fried chicken and corn syrup, then that's what you eat.
People want the best for their children and their grandchildren, but they're not given the options. It's the same question for everybody: not just, do African Americans want to eat healthy food? But, do they have opportunities to?
Voices in the (Food) Desert
Hillstrom: Inner cities are incredibly dense in population—much more so than suburbs. Don't they have considerable purchasing power?
Ahmadi: The extraordinary thing is that the community wealth in the inner cities is as significant as in other communities. A lot of middle-class neighborhoods have 2-3 times the household income, but their populations are a third to a half. The math is simple.
In West Oakland, we assessed a $60 million market. There's a very affluent neighborhood nearby with a $60 million market. It's the same aggregate spending power! The problem is that the business model that can serve that less dense place cannot serve a higher density place. You actually have parallel markets. They just look different.
Hillstrom: So if there's a market, why the food desert?
Ahmadi: It goes back to the patterns of policy and urban planning that began to play out at the end of WWII, that segregated communities—relegated African Americans to designated zones with housing covenants that prevented them from buying certain homes, and blocked them from getting loans. And then you have the rise of the suburbs. New families coming home from the war wanted the new American dream. So there was a massive divestment and depopulation of middle-class families from inner-city areas. Then you had a sudden concentration of impoverishment. The grocery stores followed the money.
Reverend Jeffrey: I come from Tulsa, where in the early 1900s there was a thriving business center which was eventually burnt to the ground by white lynch mobs. We called it Black Wall Street, but that whole market system was destroyed: stores, churches, everything.
Those kinds of business infrastructures existed in every city prior to the middle 60s, and now they don't. In the early 60s, there were a lot of African American-owned stores in the inner cities. But with the coming of integration, that dissolved. These stores were not able to keep up with the bigger ones. You had lawyers, doctors, pharmacies, everything—and it's all gone. It's all gone.
Ahmadi: With the rise of the suburbs came this idea that you could build massive supermarkets. Suburbs offered cheap land for big stores and parking lots. Retailers no longer wanted to be small, and dense urban areas can't facilitate big stores. So they followed the trend in the industry to get bigger. The only place we can do that is in suburbs.
Hillstrom: But there is such a thing as an urban supermarket. Not all city residents suffer from this lack of access. So why do inner cities?
Ahmadi: Larger food companies are not coming into these areas unless subsidized, and the reason for that is a misperception about the market potential and the nature of demand—what it is people want and what they're willing to support and participate in. Publicly held corporations are driven by that primary mandate to maximize wealth for shareholders. That is the basis that they have to decide on when they're looking at where to go next and what to invest in, and low-income neighborhoods have certain factors that cost more. You can't build as big, so your operating costs per square foot will be higher. You do have problems with employee turnover. We have whole generations who have not had a chance to build their efficacy in the work force. If you hire them at a low-wage, menial job at a grocery store, they're probably not going to last. You have challenges around theft and higher development costs—if you want to build a bigger store, you have to aggregate different parcels, which gets expensive.
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From the Farm to the (Inner) City
See firsthand how Clean Greens is bringing the harvest to the tables of Seattle's Central District residents. Photos by Camille Sheppard Dohrn.
We're also dealing with a lot of contamination in these areas: groundfill and Superfund sites. The cost of remediation is tremendous. These are significant costs, so when the larger operators are doing the math, it's just not that profitable an opportunity.
We believe it can be done differently. We believe their business models are not adapted to thrive in these communities. We need smaller, more nimble models that are meant for dense urban areas. We have to redesign grocery stores altogether to act as community centers and public health hubs, not just retailers.
Reverend Jeffrey: And the stores we envision will be connected to community-based farms. These stores will help regenerate the whole idea of community-owned land.
Hillstrom: So it's a comprehensive, transformative vision that has to overcome a lot of obstacles. Does the pressure you're up against today feel the same as the forces your communities have faced in the past?
Reverend Jeffrey: These are different times. People now understand the failure of the megasystem. The basic thing we have to deal with is the absence of a capacity to economically do things for ourselves, to even have an after-school program without corporate or government assistance.
When you go to the South and see these huge universities like Howard and Morehouse—these were built by African Americans through the wealth accumulated by businesses. They put that money together and built universities and churches that still exist as monuments to economic capacity.
We can't do that anymore. We can't build anything anymore without government help. And that is the thing that I think will drive the African-American community toward self-sufficiency, and will lead it into the movement to save the planet and the larger understanding of what this mega-mentality has done to the earth.
Outspent: A New Season for Community Ownership
Hillstrom: The wider food movement certainly shares this critique of the megasystem. When thinking about local alternatives, many might say, grow your own food or go to the farmers market. Why aren't these viable options in your communities?
Reverend Jeffrey: Inner-city people are not going to the farmers markets. It's not because they're not interested. Some of it is because of prices, but mostly it's because they are not community-owned. The issue of community ownership, the idea that this is ours and that the money spent will circulate to help us, is a real issue.
So what we do at Clean Greens is have food stands that are run by neighborhood people. They're in front of churches, and people know that they're run by members of the community. In this way, we're bringing food directly to the people in a way that gives them ownership, so they purchase the food. I think that's the missing link. Inner-city people are tired of others creating things for them and expecting them to participate with no direct benefit.
Ahmadi: People are getting it more and more that we have to plug the leaks through which our own wealth is leaving the neighborhood. They want an economic opportunity to rebuild the fabric of their neighborhoods. They want local grocery stores that are deeply committed to serving their people and providing local living-wage jobs. They're tired of going to the corporate grocery stores in other neighborhoods that don't build them a tax base or create jobs for their children.
Hillstrom: Like most everything nowadays, it eventually comes back to the question of jobs. How does your basic distribution model eventually play out in the employment landscape?
Ahmadi: Go back to the amount of spending power that is being siphoned out of these communities from the outspending. If you were able to capture that and put it back in, even at just the retail level you've created hundreds of local jobs. From there, you begin to change and localize the supply chain so that now you've got manufacturers who are also residents. Maybe they're batching jerk sauce out of their kitchen, and now it's a small business. There's a ripple effect of job creation. Then you dive into the farming element. The raw ingredients and processing create another tier.
Reverend Jeffrey: And then you move into construction.
Ahmadi: And suddenly, you've created a demand for health and nutrition professionals. There are multiple pathways.
Reverend Jeffrey: That's what we believe: It begins with food.
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Hillstrom: Realizing a vision like that would certainly change the opportunities for inner-city kids who struggle to find work. Both of your programs focus heavily on tapping into the neglected power of young people and the hope that blossoms out of that. What's so special about youth?
Ahmadi: There are a lot of stereotypes (and until there's an intervention, it's largely true) that teenagers in this society are very much stimulated by processed food—the additives, stimulants, and marketing. Our experience is that with nutrition and job training, young people go (in a matter of weeks) from fast food to fired up about organic, local food. They want to talk to their friends about it, and take it home to their parents. They care about their futures, their families, their friends, and their neighborhoods. They want to be engaged leaders.
This is a tangible way to make a difference as a young person. It's not some distant "when you grow up, then save the world." You can help us build a garden today.
Reverend Jeffrey: It's a mistake to think they don't understand what's going on and how trapped they are by the culture. I think that's why many of them have opted out of the system. They feel hopeless. We have to show them ways they can create alternatives.
Hillstrom: And what about the rest of the community? Have you seen the conversation start to flourish?
Ahmadi: People are more on fire about this than we had even anticipated. One of our early programs was a cooking class, a very basic cooking class targeted to and taught by women of color. The class was as much about social interaction as it was about the food itself. These women were propelled by their desire to break out of certain patterns and get on a new path.
They got so excited about the community that was forming out of these classes that they kept coming back to take it two or three times. They wanted to deepen their understanding of their roles in how food is playing out in their community.
So we trained these women to become educators themselves. Now there's a whole cohort of women out there doing demonstrations, convening residents in their living rooms, churches, and in front of corner stores, teaching them about the political context of food.
Things have been clicking over the last several decades, and it's been precipitated by the health problems. These women are really concerned about the well-being of the people they love.
Hillstrom: At the end of the day, we're talking about real lives and real relationships. A lot of this is economic theory and systems-level thinking. So what keeps you inspired on a human level?
Reverend Jeffrey: It's about reintroducing people to the basic things of life. When I see someone who's been alienated from the earth and their own power, and they see that one plant grow, see things come from the ground to the city … That's what we don't see every day in the city: We don't see the capacity to create. This is giving people the capacity to become creators.
Ahmadi: For me, it's the simple acts of individuals doing something out of their own desire to make life better. These young people go to school, and they're in the cafeteria and they've brought something healthy from home. They're feeling kind of weird and nerdy, but they still do it. To me that's a huge act of courage. No one asked them to do that. No one asked them to spread the message, and that's why this is a movement. A movement is nothing but people trying to make a difference together. It's not about fancy notions of authority or expertise at all.
Reverend Jeffrey: When I began to think about the whole process, I heard about the People's Grocery truck in Oakland. That's when I began to say, "Yeah, that's the direction."
I didn't come to that until I heard about the truck. Just that one sentence: A vegetable truck going through the streets of Oakland. And that set the chain moving. I knew in that moment that this is it. Until then, I knew "it" was about food but I didn't really understand what to do about it. And just coincidentally, someone once mentioned, "You know, I read this article about a vegetable truck in Oakland." And bam.
Hillstrom: It clicked because you already understood the problems—the structural problems, the environmental problems, the racial and economic and political problems, all the way back to the Civil Rights era and beyond.
Reverend Jeffrey: Yes. But I didn't know how to fix them. And there are other people out there like that, who will hear about things, and it will click.
That's why this is a movement.
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Is there any adult Catholic who attends mass regularly who is unaware that many of our priests are homosexual?
I have a response for this not-so-startling reality.
Big deal.
Pope Francis recently gave a brief press conference during which he took a couple of hard-ball questions about gay priests. He answered them with what you would expect: Honesty.
I'm going to paraphrase rather than quote because I don't have what I think are good quotes to use. The various permutations of what he said are spread all over the internet. You can find them and be confused by them there.
Basically, if I understand it, he was replying to questions about a specific priest whom he's appointed to a high position and who may have fallen off the chastity wagon in his past. This particular priest is rumored to be a homosexual.
If what I read is mostly accurate, the Holy Father said that:
1. If a priest is truly seeking to follow Christ, and,
2. He is keeping his vows of chastity now,
3. Then, who is anyone, including the Pope, to cast him out?
When asked about rumors of this particular priest's scandalous past, he seemed to be saying that these were sins of the past that have been repented and which are not happening now.
All this is in keeping with the Catholic Church I know and love.
The Catholic Church is the most forgiving, most loving place any sin-shamed person can go. I have sins in my past that are not only really bad ones, but that were extremely public. I can tell you from personal experience that forgiveness is not to be found just anywhere. I was not forgiven, ever, by some people. They basically cast me out of the Christian universe over things I had done 20 or 30 years before.
I didn't come to the Catholic Church seeking forgiveness. I came because Christ in the Eucharist called me with an insistent call. But one of the things I found is the first genuine forgiveness I had ever encountered.
Not, notice, my forgiveness. This hypothetical priest hasn't done anything to me. I don't need to forgive him. He and I are square. He deserves forgiveness from the same place where we all go for it: The wounded and loving Heart of Jesus. The blood that flowed from Jesus' side fell on homosexuals, just as it did everyone else.
There is no sin so dark that He can't forgive it. There is no hurt so deep that He can't heal it. And there is no person so broken that He can't use them to build His Kingdom.
What I ask of a priest is sincerity and authenticity of purpose. I want priests who are all in for Jesus and who have what it takes to lead us through the challenges that are coming as part of this post-Christian world in which we now live.
That means I want priests who stand for holy matrimony, who stand for life, who will not back down and run away when the Church is attacked by secular forces. The priesthood is a leadership position. I want priests who will lead God's people through the morass, who can hold their little flocks together in the storm and deliver them safely to heaven.
Those are big things I'm asking. They are far beyond the ability of any human being, gay or straight. Only priests who are, as I said, all in for Jesus can do them, because they are possible only if they are attempted with heavy doses of heavenly grace.
We need priests who give themselves to Jesus through Our Lady in such a profound way that they can, in obedience to their bishops, be the leaders God needs for these times.
I don't care if a priest is gay. Doesn't bother me a bit.
What I want is true priests, holy priests, who are for-real followers of Our Lord and Saviour, Jesus Christ.

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They close the schools in Tennessee for election day so Brian is off today. Brian is going to take Camden out for breakfast and then fishing. I'm taking Rory to the doctor for an immunization she missed at her 2 year appointment. Clearly I'm an idiot because I made it for first thing this morning so I didn't get to sleep in while Brian is home!
Camden, Rory, and I grocery shopped yesterday, and then Camden played outside for several hours. We've had beautiful (warm) weather this last several days. He also had a major attitude adjustment last night (as in we adjusted it for him, and his throat is sore and he's hoarse from all the screaming). He sure knows how to throw a fit. Wonder when he'll grow out of it - I certainly thought they wouldn't still be here at 5.5!
Funny story! We've been talking to Camden alot in the last several months about the fact that God makes everyone different, but that we're all special. Because of Rory's leg and Emma's hands and feet especially, we've tried to make sure he understands. At the store on Saturday, there were several mentally handicapped people who tried to talk to Camden and he couldn't understand them and told Brian that they talked funny. Brian explained that God had made them special and that they have trouble talking clearly sometimes. Well, fast forward to yesterday and we were in Wal-Mart and there was a Hispanic family speaking Spanish. Camden looked at me and said, "Mommy, look at that! God made them special too!"
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Our primary focus is the effective and efficient management of digital content from the point of creation within our unit, through support for access and increasing usability, to long-term access support via digital preservation measures.
- We're creating a modular, open content system based on open-source software, accessibility, simplicity, and sustainability.
- We are only developing what we or users need, and no more.
- In order to support the development of user-friendly web tools, the content is openly available in web directories (using derivatives such as jpegs; archival files are of course protected). As we proceed, these will become a primary focus of interest.
- Content must also be easily accessible to us for alteration or extraction, and thus is not "ingested" into any system from which it must be extracted and then re-uploaded.
- Duplication of files is kept to a minimum, reducing storage costs and confusion.
- We're using the lowest-cost, simplest, most practical approach to both delivery and preservation that we can find or develop.
- We streamline workflows as much as possible; one example of this is having a single standardized set of descriptive metadata elements from which we use only those which apply to a particular set of content.
Most of our digitization content previously flowed in a pipeline which roughly corresponds to this:
Archivist preparation --> Descriptive metadata --> Digitization --> web delivery --> archival storage.
This organized, simple, technically straightforward approach to making digital content available poses us as potential leaders in the field. The organization and preservation strategies we are using could serve as a life raft for underfunded institutions to ensure their content will survive. As tools are developed to make our content more usable to scholars, we expect much attention and emulation from other institutions.


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Boston Marathon bombings cause venues to re-examine security measures
When the gates open at Summerfest at noon Wednesday, there will be some new security measures in place.
Recent events have changed what people can bring in.
The Boston Marathon bombings caused a lot of venues to look more closely at security, and Summerfest is one of them. The biggest change is simply a small, wooden box.
"This a tradition for me and my family since I was a little kid," said a roasted-corn vendor known as Speech.
Speech is looking toward a frenzied two weeks.
"A lot of hard work, a lot of great corn, a lot of hard work," Speech said.
Roasted corn consumes his mind. Anything else is pushed to the side, including security at the Big Gig.
"Honestly, I don't think about it. I'm glad somebody's thinking about it," Speech said.
A lot of somebodies are thinking about it. And at the top of this list may be former FBI agent, now security consultant, Mike DeMarco. It was the first thing that crossed his mind when he saw the explosion at the Boston Marathon.
Hundreds of thousands swarm the grounds to make sure they're safe and to make sure nothing dangerous sneaks through the turnstiles. One more step is being added this year -- a wooden box to measure bags.
"Good-sized purses, small bags, diaper bags, that type of stuff," DeMarco said. "If it fits into this box, you can carry it."
If not, the bag can be checked and left at the gate. Anything that does pass the test will get a once over by security before being allowed on the grounds. That's been in place for years, along with random wanding.
"Kind of live in a different society these days. People are just going to have to accept certain changes," DeMarco said.
Changes so hopefully everyone can have music on their minds and not the worry of whether or not they're safe.
"You can't beat music, beer and food, so it should be fun, and that's the way we want it to be," DeMarco said.
DeMarco said the NFL and Nascar now measure the size of bags also. He said it just makes sense as a safety precaution.


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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Senior defense officials said on Tuesday they were doing their best to offset the worst impacts of $46 billion in budget cuts that began this month, but they will have to slash personnel and weapons programs if reductions keep coming in future years.
Deputy Defense Secretary Ashton Carter told a conference of industry officials that the Pentagon was facing a "double absurdity" of having to implement across-the-board budget cuts generally seen as bad policy while being funded for last year's spending levels and priorities.
"We're in the absurd position that it is only lawful to build the ships we built last year," Carter told a conference sponsored by defense consultant Jim McAleese and Credit Suisse.
Carter and other top Pentagon executives spoke amid a growing sense that the U.S. military will be hit with hundreds of billions of dollars in cuts over and above $487 billion in reductions already planned for the next decade.
The Defense Department was hit on March 1 with a $46 billion budget cut for this year, the first installment of $500 billion in new spending reductions facing the Pentagon over the next decade unless Congress and the White House agree to an alternative.
The department is also being squeezed by financial constraints imposed by the legislative mechanism Congress used to fund the government through March 27. Unable to reach a budget deal, they passed a resolution that extended funding based on last year's spending and priorities.
As a result, the Pentagon has more money for weapons programs than it requested but is facing a multibillion-dollar shortfall for operations and maintenance. Pentagon officials are urging Congress to give them an appropriation that would shift the funding into the right accounts for this year's priorities.
But even if Congress gives the department flexibility in making this year's cuts, it has given no sign that it plans to avert the rest of the $500 billion in cuts over the next decade.
Christine Fox, director of the Pentagon's Cost Assessment and Program Evaluation, said the department would have to look at the affordability of every one of its programs in order to make cuts of that magnitude and "it is not going to be pretty."
"I believe we're going to have to begin to reduce force structure immediately and significantly," she said. "In order to make the immediate $50 billion a year cuts, we are going to have no choice but to gut modernization (of weapons and equipment). The only place to get immediate savings quickly as we bring the force down responsibly is to cut acquisition programs."
Chief weapons buyer Frank Kendall told the conference that some weapons programs may face termination if Congress and the Obama administration do not find a way to roll back additional budget cuts, but he declined to say which programs would be particularly vulnerable.
Kendall said the Pentagon would seek to protect some programs, including cybersecurity and Lockheed Martin Corp's F-35 Joint Strike Fighter, if lawmakers gave it some discretion about how additional cuts were implemented. But that meant some other programs might face termination.
Lockheed, Boeing Co, General Dynamics Corp and other big weapons-makers are anxiously waiting for details about which of their programs could be hit, and by how much.
Weapons makers have been laying off workers and consolidating facilities for some time as they brace for the biggest decline in U.S. military spending since the 1990s.
Defense officials have warned that this year's budget cuts could force them to put up to 800,000 Pentagon civilian workers on unpaid leave for 22 days and would leave a large portion of the military unprepared for combat by the end of the year.
Carter said the Pentagon leadership was "committed to doing everything in our power under this deliberately restrictive law to mitigate its harmful effects on national security."
But he and other officials noted the difficulty of doing their jobs in a climate of budget uncertainty. Pentagon Comptroller Robert Hale said the turmoil has delayed the 2014 budget. The president usually unveils it in February.
"I don't know what my budgets are going to be. I'm standing on quicksand right now," said Heidi Shyu, assistant secretary of the Army for acquisition, logistics and technology.
Navy Admiral Jonathan Greenert, the chief of naval operations, said he was particularly concerned about small suppliers of critical components.
"I worry about the industrial base. If it's not the prime (contractor) it's below the prime, it's the second or third. It's Bob's nuclear valve shop, Jimmy's nuclear," he said, noting that 90 percent of the Navy's nuclear components come from companies that are a sole supplier.
"I can't say it's vulnerable, but that's the one I worry about most," Greenert said.
Officials have said cuts of $50 billion per year over a decade will force the Pentagon to throw out the new defense strategy it implemented last year, which called for a shift in strategic focus to Asia-Pacific and the Middle East.
Since the new budget cuts went into effect on March 1, defense officials increasingly have been talking about revising the military strategy to align it more closely with the resources the department is likely to have in the coming years.
"If there are to be substantial additional cuts, what we ask for is time to redo this strategy," Hale said. "We need to reconsider it so that we have a blueprint that's consistent with whatever level of resources we are likely to get and gets as much national security ... as we can."
(Additional reporting by Andrea Shalal-Esa; Editing by Eric Beech)


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Indoor Cycling & Dance Music: A New Campus Craze
Fitness trainer and indoor cycling expert Keoni Hudoba talks to WSJ's Lee Hawkins about "the CYC method," a type of indoor cycling Hudoba created that uses drums and high-energy dance music to motivate cyclers.
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Replay to a Cursor (SQL Server Profiler)
This topic describes how to replay trace files or tables that pause when a cursor is reached by using SQL Server Profiler. Pausing traces at cursors supports debugging because you can break the replay of long trace scripts into short segments that can be analyzed incrementally.
To replay to the cursor
Open the trace file or trace table you want to replay. For more information, see Open a Trace File (SQL Server Profiler) or Open a Trace Table (SQL Server Profiler).
Make sure that the trace file or table you open contains the event classes necessary for replay. For more information, see Replay Requirements.
In the trace window, click an event.
On the Replay menu, click Run to Cursor, and then connect to the server where you want to replay the trace.
In the Replay Configuration dialog box, verify the settings, and then click OK.
The replay starts, pausing when the first cursor is reached.
Press F5 to resume the trace.
Repeat Step 5 through the end of the trace.
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President Faure Gnassingbé's government coalition between his Rally of the Togolese People party and a faction of the opposition Union of Forces for Change party continued to hold in 2011. A 2010 ban on political demonstrations continued in 2011 as security forces cracked down on several protests throughout the year. However, the government made some reform efforts, including an audit of government ministries, and a truth and reconciliation commission began hearing testimonies during the year.
Originally part of a German colony that fell under the control of France after World War I, Togo gained its independence in 1960. Gnassingbé Eyadéma, a demobilized sergeant, overthrew the civilian government in a bloodless coup in 1967. Using mock elections and a loyal military, he then presided over close to 40 years of repressive rule.
In 1991, under pressure from European governments, Eyadéma agreed to set up a transitional government and prepare for free elections. However, security forces attacked opposition supporters, forcing thousands to flee abroad, and the transitional government was later dissolved. A series of elections were held during the 1990s, but military harassment and legal manipulation ensured that Eyadéma and his Rally of the Togolese People (RPT) party remained in power. Eyadéma secured a new five-year term in 2003. Gilchrist Olympio, the most prominent opposition politician from the Union of Forces for Change (UFC), was prevented from running through a manufactured technicality.
Eyadéma died in February 2005, and the military quickly installed his son, Faure Gnassingbé, as president. While protests and opposition activity were formally banned, demonstrations remained frequent, and the police response was brutal.
Under international pressure, Gnassingbé held an April 2005 election that confirmed him as president. The poll was marred by over a million phantom voters on the electoral rolls, widespread intimidation, and a complete communications blackout on election day. Subsequent clashes between opposition supporters and security forces killed almost 500 people, injured thousands, and forced 40,000 to flee the country.
In 2006, the promise of renewed economic aid from the European Union (EU)—which had cut off support in 1993—spurred the RPT and opposition parties to schedule legislative elections. In the October 2007 polls, the RPT won 50 of the 81 National Assembly seats, the UFC secured 27 seats, and the Action Committee for Renewal captured the remainder. Polls were deemed to have been transparent and relatively fair, although the lopsided electoral system enabled the RPT to win 62 percent of the seats with just 39 percent of the vote. By the end of 2008, the EU, World Bank, and International Monetary Fund (IMF) had restored economic aid.
The electoral code was reformed in 2009 in preparation for the 2010 elections, lifting the residency requirements that previously barred Olympio from running. Nonetheless, in February Olympio was disqualified again for having missed a mandatory physical, leading the UFC to back Jean-Pierre Fabre instead. The UFC's inability to unite the opposition behind Fabre, the president's refusal to allow a second round in the election, and the RPT's dominance over the state media resulted in Gnassingbé's reelection in March with more than 60 percent of the vote. While the elections were deemed relatively free and fair by observers, a number of irregularities were observed, including vote-buying by the RPT and partisanship within the electoral commission. However, the problems were not considered serious enough to have influenced the outcome of the vote. Fabre immediately contested the results and led a series of weekly protests in Lomé. The Ministry of Security responded by banning demonstrations in Lomé and dispersing Fabre's supporters with tear gas and water cannons.
The UFC splintered in May 2010 following disagreements over how to address the contested election results. Fabre, refusing to accept the results, boycotted parliament, while a faction led by Olympio agreed to enter into a coalition government with the RPT. UFC members were subsequently appointed to high-level cabinet and ministry positions. The RPT-UFC coalition agreement included a Monitoring Committee chaired by Olympio to help resolve inter-party disputes and marked the first time the opposition had been included in the government since 1990.
The coalition government held throughout 2011 as Gnassingbé's administration took steps towards reform, including moving forward with the first census in a decade, conducting an audit of government ministries and public service agencies, and exploring the possibility of universal health care. These moves have attracted international donors, including the West African Development Fund, the World Bank and France, to help fund infrastructure improvements and other development projects.
Togo is not an electoral democracy. Despite international consensus that the 2007 legislative elections and the 2010 presidential elections were carried out in a relatively free and fair manner, the structure of the electoral system largely ensures that President Faure Gnassingbé will remain in power. The president is elected to five-year terms and appoints the prime minister. Members of the 81-seat, unicameral National Assembly are also elected to five-year terms, using a party-list system that favors the RPT.
Corruption continues to be a serious problem, with nepotism and bribery commonplace. In 2011, the government worked towards improving transparency with a large-scale audit of all ministries and public services to trim government spending. Togo was ranked 143 out of 183 countries surveyed in Transparency International's 2011 Corruption Perceptions Index.
Freedom of the press is guaranteed by law, though it is often disregarded in practice. Impunity for crimes against journalists and frequent defamation suits encourage self-censorship. A 2009 law gives the state broadcasting council, the High Authority of Broadcasting and Communications, the power to impose severe penalties—including the suspension of publications or broadcasts and the confiscation of press cards—if journalists are found to have made "serious errors." This law is frequently used, and in November 2010, the Posts and Telecommunications Regulation Agency (ART&P) suspended the operations of three independent radio stations for not having the right permits. The stations remained shut down throughout 2011, provoking public protests by media workers. In August, a demonstration by press freedom advocates criticizing the country's National Intelligence Agency for threatening and attacking journalists with impunity was dispersed by police using tear gas. Private print and broadcast outlets are limited in capacity and often heavily politicized. Access to the internet is generally unrestricted, but few people use the medium due to high costs.
Constitutionally protected religious freedom is generally respected. Islam and Christianity are recognized as official religions, but other religious groups must register as associations. While political discussion is prohibited on religious radio and television outlets, and government informers are known to watch the streets, ordinary citizens are now able to speak more openly than in previous years.
Government security forces are believed to maintain a presence on university campuses. In 2011, students at the University of Lomé protested government-enacted education reforms. For over eight weeks, students staged sit-ins, refusing to attend classes. In June, police attempts to disperse the student protesters resulted in violent clashes. By August, however, international pressure led the government to hold talks with leaders of the student union and agree to their core demands, including an increase in the number of exams and lectures available to help students transition to a new academic system and finish their studies more quickly, improved facilities in the library and lecture halls, and a new information and communication technology center.
Freedoms of assembly and association were challenged throughout 2011. The Ministry of Security's 2010 temporary ban on demonstrations was extended into 2011, and security forces blocked access to protest locations and used force to disperse a diverse array of demonstrations, including those supporting former presidential candidate Jean-Pierre Fabre, demonstrations advocating for press freedom, and student protests against education reforms and lack of adequate facilities. In March 2011, the Council of Ministers adopted a draft law allegedly aimed at improving the rights of freedom of assembly and demonstration. The new law, which was adopted by the National Assembly in May and heavily criticized by civil society, requires that demonstrations receive prior authorization and only be held during certain times of the day. Togo's constitution guarantees the right to form and join labor unions, and most workers have the right to strike. A number of strikes occurred in 2011, including by the student union, teachers' union, and doctors' union. The government eventually met with each of these striking groups. While the government agreed to the students' demands, the doctors eventually abandoned their strike when the government appointed a new health minister.
The judicial system, including the Constitutional Court, lacks resources and is heavily influenced by the presidency. The high-profile trial of leaders of the alleged 2009 coup attempt concluded in 2011 with the conviction of 33 defendants, including the President's half-brother, Kpatcha Gnassingbé. Kpatcha and others were sentenced to life imprisonment despite a lack of evidence against them and verified accounts of their torture while in detention. Overcrowding is a serious problem in Togolese prisons, and prisoners lack adequate food and access to medical care.
After widespread domestic and international demands for investigations into the political violence that scarred Togo between 1958 and 2005, the Truth, Justice and Reconciliation Commission (TJRC)—including a diverse array of civil society representatives—was finally launched in 2009, but did not begin hearing testimonies until 2011. The TJRC has no punitive power and can only recommend prosecutions and reparations, though none were made in 2011 as the commission focused on holding public hearings and gathering statements from over 20,000 people. Formal hearings for the 523 accepted cases began in August, and the TJRC is expected to release its recommendations by May 2012.
Discrimination is common among the country's 40 ethnic groups, and tensions have historically divided the country between north and south along political, ethnic, and religious lines. The army is traditionally composed of soldiers from the northern Kabyè group, and ethnic minorities are underrepresented in the civil service.
Togolese citizens are typically free to travel overseas and around the country, despite numerous roadblocks set up by vigilante groups or unemployed youths attempting to extort money. Citing security concerns, the government temporarily closed all international borders prior to the 2010 presidential election.
Despite constitutional guarantees of equality, women's opportunities for education and employment are limited. Customary law discriminates against women in divorce and inheritance, giving them the legal rights of minors. Spousal abuse is a widespread problem due to a family code making men the legal head of household, and spousal rape is not a crime. Child trafficking for the purpose of slavery remains a serious problem, and prosecutions under a 2005 child-trafficking law are rare.


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An automaton is a self-moving machine made out of wood, metal, or paper. It is the perfect invitation to a crafter or maker to get down and dirty and create one of their very own! While on a paper art kick, I thought I'd try my hand at the art of automata, and in today's video break it down and show you how to make an old school Nintendo Mario Brothers paper automaton. Click here to download the template and instructions.
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This was my very first automaton and the process is a totally new concept for me. I needed a little guidance and found some in Dug North, an expert on all things Automata. He sent me this incredibly helpful diagram of all of the names of the parts involved. He also broke down the slightly confusing tenses of the actual word below.
Plural: automata or (increasingly acceptable) automatons
Singular: automaton
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How to: Sign an Assembly with a Strong Name
The Windows Software Development Kit (SDK) provides several ways to sign an assembly with a strong name:
Using the Assembly Linker (Al.exe) provided by the Windows SDK.
Using assembly attributes to insert the strong name information in your code. You can use either the AssemblyKeyFileAttribute or the AssemblyKeyNameAttribute, depending on where the key file to be used is located.
In the .NET Framework version 2.0, some compilers issue warning messages when attributes are used.
Using compiler options such /keyfile or /delaysign in C# and Visual Basic, or the /KEYFILE or /DELAYSIGN linker option in C++. (For information on delay signing, see Delay Signing an Assembly.)
In Visual Studio 2005, the development environment provides tools for signing assemblies. See Managing Assembly and Manifest Signing and Signing Page, Project Designer.
You must have a cryptographic key pair to sign an assembly with a strong name. For more information about creating a key pair, see How to: Create a Public/Private Key Pair.
To create and sign an assembly with a strong name using the Assembly Linker
At the command prompt, type the following command:
al /out:<assembly name> <module name> /keyfile:<file name>
In this command, assembly name is the name of the assembly to sign with a strong name, module name is the name of the code module used to create the assembly, and file name is the name of the container or file that contains the key pair.
The following example signs the assembly MyAssembly.dll with a strong name using the key file sgKey.snk.
al /out:MyAssembly.dll MyModule.netmodule /keyfile:sgKey.snk
To sign an assembly with a strong name using attributes
- In a code module, add the AssemblyKeyFileAttribute or the AssemblyKeyNameAttribute, specifying the name of the file or container that contains the key pair to use when signing the assembly with a strong name.
The following code example uses the AssemblyKeyFileAttribute with a key file called sgKey.snk, located in the directory where the assembly is compiled. This assumes that the assembly is compiled using the command-line compilers vbc.exe and csc.exe.
In development environments such as Visual Studio, the assembly might not be compiled in the project directory. For example, some versions of Visual Studio compile C# projects in a bin\Debug subdirectory. In that case, the path in the code example would be "..\\..\\sgKey.snk". In Visual Studio 2005 the key file for C# can be specified in project settings.
You can also delay sign an assembly when compiling. For more information, see Delay Signing an Assembly.
When signing an assembly with a strong name, the Assembly Linker (Al.exe) looks for the key file relative to the current directory and to the output directory. When using command-line compilers, you can simply copy the key to the current directory containing your code modules.
See Also
How to: Create a Public/Private Key Pair
Signing Page, Project Designer
Other Resources
Creating and Using Strong-Named Assemblies


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The Al Bettis Duo performs jazz in one of metro-Detroit's best places to hear live music: the lobby of the Baronette Renaissance hotel in Novi. It's like having musicians playing in your living room! Enjoy food / drinks from Toasted Oak, too!
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Earlier Event: June 6Robin Horlock at Brighton Bar & Grill
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Swift. The language for first-time coders and full-time developers.
We created Swift to be a programming language anyone can learn. You can use familiar words and phrases like "add" and "remove", and see what you're creating as you type in your code. At the same time, Swift is so powerful that it's used by millions of developers to build the apps you use every day.


text: Akira Kobayashi is the Type Director at Monotype Library, based in Bad Homburg, Germany. "I mainly do two things," he said in an interview with Planet Typography, "control the aesthetic quality of in-house typefaces, and select types submitted from external designers. 'Aesthetic' by no means concerns only the shape of each letter, but also the shapes of words and sentences that the type may form."


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Twin Tunnels work impacting traffic delayed to after Christmas
Transportation officials are cancelling a series of overnight closures slated to take place this week at the Twin Tunnels widening project east of Idaho Springs on Interstate 70, due to recent snowstorms.
While some work will take place this week, traffic will not be impacted again until after Christmas.
Single-lane closures are set to resume next week to allow the concrete barrier to be reset and the highway to be restriped.
Drivers should expect some delays overnight from 6 p.m. Wednesday to 6 a.m. the following morning, when the left eastbound lane will be closed through the Twin Tunnels, and again from 6 p.m. Thursday through the following morning at 8 a.m. when there will be right or left lane closures on eastbound I-70.
Following the lane closures, further work impacting traffic will be put off until after New Year's.
When the highway is reduced to a single lane, the speed limit drops to 35 mph.
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United Tech posts big 2Q profit, revenue gains
Associated Press
HARTFORD -- United Technologies, citing strong orders at its elevator business in China and for commercial airline parts, posted double-digit percentage increases in profit and revenue for the second quarter Tuesday.
The aerospace and building systems conglomerate is benefiting from its $18.4 billion purchase of Goodrich, and subsidiary Pratt & Whitney's $1.5 billion deal to buy Rolls-Royce out from a joint venture that makes engines for the Airbus A320. Without the acquisitions, revenue for the quarter would have been flat.
The parent company of helicopter maker Sikorsky Aircraft, Otis elevator and other businesses beat Wall Street estimates, posting net income of $1.56 billion, or $1.70 per share, or $1.69 per share to account for discontinued businesses.
United Technologies, based in Hartford, fell shy of analyst expectations for revenue, posting sales of $16 billion, up 16 percent from 2012.
Analysts polled by FactSet, on average, expected earnings of $1.58 per share on revenue of $16.37 billion.
CEO Louis Chenevert said strong orders put the company in a good position for a return to growth, excluding its acquisitions in the second half of 2013.
New equipment orders at Otis increased 23 percent over the year-ago quarter, led by 39 percent growth in China. Orders for large commercial engine spare parts were up 65 percent.
at Pratt & Whitney, including the benefit from its Rolls-Royce buyout. Excluding benefits from the Rolls-Royce deal, commercial spare parts orders rose 15 percent at Pratt & Whitney.
Shares rose $2.83, or nearly 3 percent, to $104.94 in late morning trading.
Chief Financial Officer Greg Hayes told analysts on a conference call that estimates of about 5 percent growth in spare parts sales are "probably more like flattish," though the company is looking forward to momentum in orders.
There are 575 workers who are taking retirement offers at Pratt & Whitney, and that is expected to boost profitability at the engine maker, he said. With the winding down of U.S. operations in Afghanistan, military engine sales are "coming down significantly."
"This is a tough year at Pratt," Hayes said.
Edward Jones analyst Christian Mayes said analysts have been waiting some time for orders of engine parts to increase.
"There's some healing going on in that market," he said.
In addition, Otis elevator performed well in China, despite a sluggish economy, he said.
United Technologies, which announced it will boost restructuring costs for 2013 to $450 million, up $100 million from previous projections, can find areas to cut and make other changes at its acquisitions, Mayes said. "They have more room to go on that," he said.
United Technologies said the restructuring costs should be offset by one-time items.
It also said it has completed its business sales. It sold non-core businesses, including industrial products businesses, a wind energy company and its Rocketdyne engine-making segment, to focus on aerospace and building systems and to raise money to help finance the Goodrich purchase.


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This to alert all members that, as requested by many, it is now possible to use the "puke" emoticon on our forum.
This useful emotional device (useful particularly in our trade, alas) corresponds to the :puke: code.
As you can see it is sort of similar to the skype puke emoticon, and not perfectly consistent with the style of our other smilies. If anyone has a hold on an animated puking face that would better fit with the others, just let me know and we will replace it.
Is all. Happy puking.


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Brought together by 9/11, three friends of different faiths look for answers about when and why religion leads to violence.
Interfaith Amigos
Rabbi Ted Falcon, Pastor Don Mackenzie, and Sheikh Jamal Rahman, known collectively as the "interfaith amigos," have been learning and teaching together since 2001. They blog weekly for YES! Magazine.
Pastor Don Mackenzie on how to keep religion from being used to justify hatred and suffering.
If compassion is taught as the heart of all religious traditions, why is it that religion seems to divide us?
Our polarization and anger are signs of hopelessness. What can interfaith dialogue teach us about healing our wounds and coming together?
May it be that someday, all people will have access to light in this darkness and be able to help with the important healing of creation.
On finding hope during the holidays.
Sheikh Jamal Rahman on dealing with some of the Quran's most troubling text.
What can Christians do about the religious intolerance made visible during the last month?
Video: Highlights from the Interfaith Amigos' discussion on the eve of the 9/11 anniversary.
Brought together by the events of 9/11, three friends from different faiths reflect on what it will take to reach the other side of hatred.
Sheikh Jamal Rahman on what we can learn from our places of worship.
The inner work we need requires every bit of the cooperation, imagination, discipline, and hope present in that first step onto the moon.
How do we work with those who believe that theirs is the Only Way?
The well-loved trickster from Islamic folklore reminds us to trust, laugh, and be honest with ourselves.
America may be free from a monarch, but can we be truly independent in a consumerist society?