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Obama Publishes Op-Ed in Advance of Summit of the Americas
By Garance Franke-Ruta
President Obama wrote an op-ed that ran today in 15 Carribean, Latin American and United States newspapers, promising the other nations of the hemisphere "a new day" in their relationship to its most powerful member.
"Choosing a Better Future in the Americas" appeared this morning in the St. Petersburg Times and Miami Herald, both of which serve substantial Cuban American readerships, and the Trinidad Express of Trinidad and Tobago, where Obama is headed to tomorrow to attend the Summit of the Americas than runs through April 19. As well, the op-ed ran in El Nuevo Herald, an American Spanish-language paper.
The op-ed also ran in a number of Grupo de Diarios America affiliates across the hemisphere: La Nación in Argentina, O Globo in Brazil, El Mercurio in Chile, El Tiempo in Colombia, La Nación in Costa Rica, El Comercio in Ecuador, El Universal in México, El Comercio in Perú, El Nuevo Día in Puerto Rico, El País in Uruguay and El Nacional in Venezuela.
The English version of President Obama's op-ed, which was published in Spanish and Portuguese, follows:
Choosing a Better Future in the Americas
By President Barack Obama
As we approach the Summit of the Americas, our hemisphere is faced with a clear choice. We can overcome our shared challenges with a sense of common purpose, or we can stay mired in the old debates of the past. For the sake of all our people, we must choose the future.
Too often, the United States has not pursued and sustained engagement with our neighbors. We have been too easily distracted by other priorities, and have failed to see that our own progress is tied directly to progress throughout the Americas. My Administration is committed to the promise of a new day. We will renew and sustain a broader partnership between the United States and the hemisphere on behalf of our common prosperity and our common security.
In advance of the Summit, we have begun to move in a new direction. This week, we amended a Cuba policy that has failed for decades to advance liberty or opportunity for the Cuban people. In particular, the refusal to allow Cuban Americans to visit or provide resources to their families on the island made no sense - particularly after years of economic hardship in Cuba, and the devastating hurricanes that took place last year. Now, that policy has changed.
The U.S.-Cuba relationship is one example of a debate in the Americas that is too often dragged back to the 20th century. To confront our economic crisis, we don't need a debate about whether to have a rigid, state-run economy or unbridled and unregulated capitalism - we need pragmatic and responsible action that advances our common prosperity. To combat lawlessness and violence, we don't need a debate about whether to blame right-wing paramilitaries or left-wing insurgents - we need practical cooperation to expand our common security.
We must choose the future over the past, because we know that the future holds enormous opportunities if we work together. That is why leaders from Santiago to Brasilia to Mexico City are focused on a renewed partnership of the Americas that makes progress on fundamental issues like economic recovery, energy, and security.
There is no time to lose. The global economic crisis has hit the Americas hard, particularly our most vulnerable populations. Years of progress in combating poverty and inequality hangs in the balance. The United States is working to advance prosperity in the hemisphere by jumpstarting our own recovery. In doing so, we will help spur trade, investment, remittances, and tourism that provides a broader base for prosperity in the hemisphere.
We also need collective action. At the recent G-20 Summit, the United States pledged to seek nearly half a billion dollars in immediate assistance for vulnerable populations, while working with our G-20 partners to set aside substantial resources to help countries through difficult times. We have called upon the Inter-American Development Bank to maximize lending to restart the flow of credit, and stand ready to examine the needs and capacity of the IDB going forward. And we are working to put in place tough, clear 21st century rules of the road to prevent the abuses that caused the current crisis.
While we confront this crisis, we must build a new foundation for long-term prosperity. One area that holds out enormous promise is energy. Our hemisphere has bountiful natural resources that could make renewable energy plentiful and sustainable, while creating jobs for our people. In the process, we can confront climate change that threatens rising sea levels in the Caribbean, diminishing glaciers in the Andes, and powerful storms on the Gulf Coast of the United States.
Together, we have both the responsibility to act, and the opportunity to leave behind a legacy of greater prosperity and security. That is why I look forward to pursuing a new Energy and Climate Partnership of the Americas that will help us learn from one another, share technologies, leverage investment, and maximize our comparative advantage.
Just as we advance our common prosperity, we must advance our common security. Too many in our hemisphere are forced to live in fear. That is why the United States will strongly support respect for the rule of law, better law enforcement, and stronger judicial institutions.
Security for our citizens must be advanced through our commitment to partner with those who are courageously battling drug cartels, gangs and other criminal networks throughout the Americas. Our efforts start at home. By reducing demand for drugs and curtailing the illegal flow of weapons and bulk cash south across our border, we can advance security in the United States and beyond. And going forward, we will sustain a lasting dialogue in the hemisphere to ensure that we are building on best practices, adapting to new threats, and coordinating our efforts.
Finally, the Summit gives every democratically-elected leader in the Americas the opportunity to reaffirm our shared values. Each of our countries has pursued its own democratic journey, but we must be joined together in our commitment to liberty, equality, and human rights. That is why I look forward to the day when every country in the hemisphere can take its seat at the table consistent with the Inter-American Democratic Charter. And just as the United States seeks that goal in reaching out to the Cuban people, we expect all of our friends in the hemisphere to join together in supporting liberty, equality, and human rights for all Cubans.
This Summit offers the opportunity of a new beginning. Advancing prosperity, security and liberty for the people of the Americas depends upon 21st century partnerships, freed from the posturing of the past. That is the leadership and partnership that the United States stands ready to provide.
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North America = bad and evil, the worst of the worst! Lazy, antipathy, racist, anti-oneworldorder, must be destroyed!
Cuba = freedom and light, CHE BABY!!! Socialist freedom, must base our country's government on this!
Mexico = better workers than Americans, let's hire them all and kick Americans out of work. Then the mexicans can pay all the taxes for Americans to live on welfare.
South America = all of the above, except the opposite of North America.
Sounds about right, according to O, Nan and Harry.
Posted by: a12iggymom | April 17, 2009 5:47 PM
How do you argue that Cuba is among the best educated in the hemisphere? They have no money to provide food and medicine to their citizens, how do they provide books and materials?
And don't even think to say that its because of the "blockade". America is the leading provider of food and medicine to the island, yet the Cuban people have seen none of it.
Why would Cubans want to return to an "exploitative ruling class" when they have one already right now? Castro is estimated to be worth nearly $1 billion, yet the Cuban people live in poverty, making an average of $20 a month.
How do you argue that Cubans don't want a McDonald's or Starbucks when thousands have and continue to risk their lives to escape the island to the US?
I don't believe you've spoken to any Cubans on or off the island. They'll tell you of the rampant racism, the punishing poverty, and the fearfulness of constantly being monitored by the government. They'll tell you of how it's illegal to speak your own mind. As a dissident in Cuba said, "When will the other Guantanamo's be closed?"
I applaud Obama's decision to allow more Cuban-Americans to visit and help their families so they can think more on demanding democracy rather than worrying about their next meal.
Posted by: ironchief | April 17, 2009 2:57 AM
Oops, wrong story. My apologies. Intended for DHS report posting.
Posted by: nodebris | April 17, 2009 1:00 AM
1) The report was written by a Bush appointee,
2) A similar report was written about left-wing groups, and
3) The report said that fringe groups were trying to recruit ex-military, with little success.
But I guess if you are looking to take umbrage and don't sweat the facts, there was enough there to work with.
Posted by: nodebris | April 17, 2009 12:57 AM
It is good that Obama is talking to Latin America. The country needs to prioritize its foreign policy goals eg jihadi terrorism, China and the economy. Latin America is important, precisely because it plays a role in each of those global priorities
Posted by: manishyt | April 16, 2009 9:17 PM
Oh, O.K., a "joke". Not sure, though, what "character" you think I am portraying here.
Posted by: JakeD | April 16, 2009 7:15 PM
Ah Cuba.. they dared defy the empire, right in their own backyard. They were also the first to beat us in war, bay of pigs. The little David kicked the giant's behind; and now the giant is afraid to play with little David.
Posted by: barbablanca | April 16, 2009 7:10 PM
JakeD breaks character.
It's a JOKE -- like your posts!
Lighten up, Renegade.
Posted by: scrivener50 | April 16, 2009 6:58 PM
I am ... what? Are you accusing me of being a Secret Service agent, divulging top secret travel plans?!
Posted by: JakeD | April 16, 2009 6:18 PM
TO: JakeD @ 5:38
"No connection." "Lucky guess."
No "connection" b/c U R.
Got it.
Posted by: scrivener50 | April 16, 2009 6:13 PM
ah yes, the proverbial "opening up of Cuba".
Michael Corleone would approve.
Posted by: TheBabeNemo | April 16, 2009 5:59 PM
I have no SS connection. Just a lucky guess.
Posted by: JakeD | April 16, 2009 5:38 PM
TO: JakeD @ 4:43 p.m.
Roger that.
Posted by: scrivener50 | April 16, 2009 5:20 PM
You've never seen my posts, have you?
Posted by: JakeD | April 16, 2009 4:49 PM
Wow! President Obama just in office shy of 100 days, and who can deny the fact-- this is a 'working president. Indeed!
He's absolutely right about our relationships with neighbors in the southern hemisphere. My greatest hope-- that the 'drug' trade among places such as Columbia, Haiti, Jamaica will be crushed! Yes, when law and order abides in those developing countries.. the home front is safer, and for all concerned.
On the issue of Cuba one must agree-- after years of a rigid embargo nothing has been resolved. Castro ages and in time will be gone.
So now is a good time to take another look at that policy. Not to mention, why continue the 'pain' among families who have been denied the right to visit and support relatives in need? Its a small start...but its a beginning.
My eyes remain on the economy and how that rising 'boat' will LIFT me up. But in the interim I say 'kudos' to Mr. Obama and his efforts to lead in a meaningful way.
Posted by: Victoria5 | April 16, 2009 4:44 PM
"SS" as in Secret Service, Presidential Protective Detail?
Posted by: JakeD | April 16, 2009 4:43 PM
To: JakeD @ 4:24 p.m.
If he did, you'd say he was "Castro Convertible." "Sneaking into Cuba," like you said he was "sneaking into Iraq."
What's your SS connection, JakeD?
Posted by: scrivener50 | April 16, 2009 4:39 PM
THAT, was just sooooooo;
Posted by: SAINT---The | April 16, 2009 4:35 PM
As usual, Limbaugh's 27% have nothing better to do but sit back, be cynical, eat sour grapes and lick their wounds over the last election.
Wouldn't it be nice if they combined all the energy they use to make their hot air into something positive for America?
Posted by: coloradodog | April 16, 2009 4:32 PM
(Special to Asst. Atty. Gen./Civil Rights Tom Perez; staff, please forward)
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Posted by: scrivener50 | April 16, 2009 4:28 PM
I wonder if Obama will (secretly?) meet with Castro on this trip?
Posted by: JakeD | April 16, 2009 4:24 PM
Obama's op-ed is a perfect example of how to make the status quo sound like change. Allowing Cuban-Americans to visit more frequently and send unlimited amounts of money to relatives on the island fits well with the US government's ongoing efforts to undermine the current Cuban government. This slight opening is to be welcomed, but it is doubtful that as a strategy it will work any better than the past half century of subversion and blockade. Cuba, arguably, is the best educated nation in the hemisphere and its citizens are not fools. Most Cubans do not look forward to a McDonalds or Starbucks on every corner and reject the American model of unbridled capitalism with its unconscionable inequities between rich and poor, rampant individualism, lack of universal health care, second class education and rejection of community. The idea of returning Cuba to an exploitative ruling class that high-tailed it to Miami in the 1960s is not in the books despite the wishful thinking of right-wing pundits and the inane comments of tourists, legal or illegal, who spend a cheap one-week vacation on Cuba's beaches. But they should not worry unduly, it seems highly unlikely that Obama plans to change significantly the US's punative and imperialistic policies toward this small island nation, the other countries of Latin America nothwithstanding. Plus ça change.
Posted by: loberg | April 16, 2009 4:14 PM
Place your bets.
By tomorrow Obama, will be apologizing to the Mexicans for the Alamo.
Posted by: dashriprock | April 16, 2009 4:02 PM
Ohhhhh, LOL! :-D
Don't think for one second that the Monies being sent back-while we have to supply Food Stamps, SCHIPs, Housing Assistance, and more Welfare to the "Senders";
is what this Dude is talking about!-Unless maybe if it applies to the Cubanos!?
Then, "Spaniards" en Messico?
Senor Slim, the Rich Guy, is JEWISH!
Posted by: SAINT---The | April 16, 2009 3:52 PM
I wonder how long it will take the "Americas" to figure out what Europeans have, that Obama is a jive talking dunce?
Remittances is what the illegals send back to Mexico, so it's not necessary to have a real economy. That way the Spanish in charge of Mexico can keep the elite life style, while the peasants don't starve.
Posted by: 10ksnooker | April 16, 2009 3:46 PM
By "remittances" I believe he means the money that immigrants to the U.S. send to their families back home...
Posted by: grimesman | April 16, 2009 3:42 PM
I'd sure like to know what this Dude is implying by THAT!
Best I can figure, he MUST be meaning getting re-payed for all the Invested Capital from the US Venezuela, Cuba, Chile, Ecuador, Bolivia, and Nicaragua have STOLEN!
He sure as hell better not be implying WE owe anyone anything!
Posted by: SAINT---The | April 16, 2009 3:29 PM
i find it interesting that weapons became the focus instead of lowly marijuana.
all i heard on CNN was the "marijuana problem"...
Posted by: TheBabeNemo | April 16, 2009 2:29 PM
I love this President.
well jakey - you must not be in "sales" then.
besides, it's not like the Prez is travelling with his hairdresser, interior designer, makeup artist and astrologer like your God's wife did for 8 years.
that would be Nancy Reagan.
Posted by: TheBabeNemo | April 16, 2009 2:24 PM
The Summit of the Americas is going to force the hand of gun regulations - and The NRA should own their role in advocating less regulations - which had the unintended consequence of promoting the smuggling of modern weapons to the Drug Cartels. ..........
Posted by: glclark4750 | April 16, 2009 2:15 PM
Posted by: JakeD | April 16, 2009 12:36 PM
Wouldn't it be cheaper in this economic CRISIS to have simply published the op ed and NOT flown Air Force One, etc. all over the globe?
Posted by: JakeD | April 16, 2009 12:30 PM
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Tuesday, May 15, 2012, San Francisco Main Library
Jerry Pinkney, renowned illustrator and winner of the 2010 Caldecott Medal for The Lion & the Mouse, will deliver San Francisco Public Library's 16th annual Effie Lee Morris Lecture May 15.
Mr. Pinkney, a native of Philadelphia, has been illustrating children's books since 1964, and his lush, colorful watercolors have graced more than 100 titles. His large body of work includes illustrations for numerous folk tales from around the world and collaborations with authors such as Julius Lester, Robert D. San Souci, and Patricia McKissack. His illustrations for The Patchwork Quilt by Valerie Flournoy, a book that celebrates the strength of African-American families, won the Coretta Scott King Award for Illustration in 1986.
In receiving the Caldecott Medal in 2010, which is given annually to an artist of the most distinguished American picture book for children, Mr. Pinkney became the first individual African American to win the prestigious award. Mr. Pinkney also has been recognized with five Caldecott honor medals, five New York Times' "best illustrated books," recognitions, five Coretta Scott King awards, and four Coretta Scott King honor awards.
Mr. Pinkney's lecture, "A Sense of Place Real and Imagined," will begin at 6 p.m., May 15, in the Koret Auditorium, San Francisco Main Library, 100 Larkin St. A reception and book signing at 5 p.m. will precede the program. In addition, an exhibition of Mr. Pinkney's facsimiles of original manuscript illustrations and artists' tools is on view through May 31, 2012, in the Fisher Children's Center, Second Floor, San Francisco Main Library.
The Effie Lee Morris Lecture was established in 1996 to expand upon the idea of looking at children through their literature. The series is named in honor of Effie Lee Morris, who was the first coordinator of children's services at the San Francisco Public Library from 1963 to 1977. As one of the pioneer children's services leaders in the country, Morris was responsible for the development of the broad range of Library services now available to the children of San Francisco. She also developed the children's historical and research collection—which is also named in her honor—to meet the needs of Bay Area researchers studying our view of children and their world as reflected in the books written for them.
Friends of the San Francisco Public Library and the local chapter of the Women's National Book Association together sponsor the annual lecture series.
The program and exhibit are free and open to the public. For more information, contact (415) 557-4277.


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The online health exchanges launched Tuesday, setting off a range of glitches, questions and concerns about the system and the health care law. The new exchanges are expected to have some issues that federal officials said they will tackle as they crop up. And others are eager to help educate the uninsured that may still be in the dark about the new health care law.
Glitches or not, some are just happy to see health exchanges go live (NBC News)
- New health insurances exchanges created under the Affordable Care Act went live Tuesday with some ups-and-downs.
- A computer jam in Washington, D.C.'s, exchange and a delay in the plan for small business enrollment are just some of the rough patches. It's one of the reasons why there is a six-month enrollment period.
- Some health care systems will begin calling uninsured patients to make them aware of the new health exchanges and help them get signed up.
- The White House has named 900 different groups that are helping people get through the sign-up process.
- Opponents of the Affordable Care Act say the exchange hiccups mean the system can't and won't work, but White House officials say they can fix the problems as they crop up.
This 'young invincible' is ready to be covered by health insurance (NBC News)
- Some young Americans have gone without health insurance for years and can now sign-up for health insurance.
- Insurance companies need young, healthy adults to buy insurance because they cannot turn away people with pre-existing conditions or charge older people for much higher premiums.
- Those customers in their 20's and 30's are highly coveted by the insurance industry because they need these healthy customers to balance out the sick ones.
- This demographic has a difficult decision to make: Pay the $95 annual penalty for not having health insurance or pay for monthly health premiums for coverage that might have high deductibles and out-of-pocket expenses.
- The Congressional Budget Office estimates that 6 million people of various ages will pay the tax penalty for not having insurance next year.


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A popular Canadian astronaut orbiting the earth 16 times a day is beaming his "Space Kitchen" cooking show back down to his fans.
Chris Hadfield is an astronaut with the Canadian Space Agency who has been living aboard the International Space Station since December.
He has an extraordinary rapport with his earth-based fans, regularly tweeting pictures from space to his 400,000 followers.
He also runs a question and answer feed on Reddit where he answers questions like, "How often do you hit your head?" and "What time zone do you live by?" and shares fascinating tidbits about space life.
But his most recent galactic venture is his own cooking show "Chris Hadfield's Space Kitchen", where he shows his watchers step-by-step how to make snacks in space.
Hadfield uses the videos to show people how astronauts cope with everyday things like cooking, while negotiating a weightless kitchen.
Even the smallest things, like making sure your scissors are tethered with a magnet, are all important when throwing a 0g peanut butter and honey sandwich together.
"There are all sorts of things that we would normally consume on earth that we have up here in space. We just need some minor adaptations," he says.
Among these "adaptations" is substituting bread with tortillas to avoid crumbs.
"When you eat them on earth, the crumbs fall down to the ground. But here, crumbs are just going to float away," he said.
Hadfield is aboard the International Space Station as part of Expedition 35.
He was the first Canadian to walk in space.
- www.nzherald.co.nz


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Military sexual assault is dividing the Senate but not along typical partisan battle lines.
This war has Democrat fighting Democrat and Republican fighting Republican — with the two sides slowly solidifying ahead of a floor vote expected for this fall to remove the Pentagon's chain of command from prosecutions of major crimes.
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Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand (D-N.Y.) appears to have a good shot at picking up 51 or more votes for her amendment, but getting a filibuster-breaking 60 votes is far from a sure thing.
( QUIZ: Do you know Kirsten Gillibrand?)
So until the vote on the sexual assault proposal — which the military opposes — Gillibrand is engaging in a very public one-by-one lobbying effort with fellow senators.
On Tuesday night, she cornered South Carolina Sen. Tim Scott in the GOP's private cloakroom. Along with Sen. Barbara Boxer (D-Calif.), she also targeted undecided Sen. Dean Heller (R-Nev.), who was sitting at his desk near the back of the chamber.
One of Gillibrand's leading Republican allies is also quietly lobbying his GOP colleagues and expects they can run up the score during the floor vote on the defense authorization bill.
( Also on POLITICO: One senator's climb to 51 votes)
"If it gets a significant bipartisan vote, let's say it gets like more than 60, and I think there's a chance it could. I think it'll be tough to take it out," Sen. Chuck Grassley (R-Iowa) said.
But Gillibrand still has some work to do on the Democratic side of the aisle, where she faces opposition from Armed Services Committee Chairman Carl Levin and Sen. Claire McCaskill, who have already loaded up the defense bill with about two dozen provisions they say will address the issue, including making it a crime to retaliate against victims who speak out, prohibiting sex offenders from enlisting and expanding legal services and counseling from an Air Force pilot program to the entire military.
Sens. Amy Klobuchar and Patty Murray support the underlying legislation from Levin's committee. But they say they also have given Gillibrand a commitment to support her on the floor — boosting the number of supporters for the amendment to 46.
( PHOTOS: Key players in military sexual assault fight)
Many senators said they're comfortable sitting on the fence for a little while longer, eager to hear more from Gillibrand and her opponents plus military brass and service members while back in their states during the recess.
"I'm reviewing both bills. We haven't made a decision yet on which one we're going to support," Sen. Marco Rubio said Wednesday. The Florida Republican said he has met with Gillibrand and Marine Corps Commandant Gen. James Amos, with more talks to come with other Pentagon leaders. "We'll have more to say once we've gone through that process."
Much is at stake in this battle — with Gillibrand proposing the largest overhaul to the military's modern-day justice system since its creation in 1950. While Gillibrand welcomes the provisions Levin and McCaskill have already added to the bill, she says more must be done to give victims assurances that they'll get justice after reporting an alleged crime.
Gillibrand's opponents are also working the vote ahead of the fall showdown.
McCaskill said she briefly discussed the issue with President Barack Obama during a flight to Missouri last week on Air Force One. She's also brought in senior military leaders and recently retired brass to share their views on why the chain of command should stay in place.
On the floor Tuesday, Sen. Jim Inhofe, ranking member of the Armed Services Committee, edged up to Heller at the same time he was hearing the pitch from Gillibrand and Boxer.
"When they're all through with you," Inhofe said to his GOP colleague in a conversation audible to reporters in the gallery overlooking the floor. Boxer gently ribbed back at Inhofe: "Stay out of it."
In an interview after that exchange, the Oklahoma Republican said he wanted to follow up with Heller by explaining the level of opposition against Gillibrand from active and retired military.
"I respect and admire Gillibrand for her tenacity. And it's just that, I just don't, it just can't happen," Inhofe said. "And, of course, if she gets a positive vote with all of her efforts, it's not going to survive conference anyway."


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National Endowment for the Humanities Invites You To Preview 54 Cutting-Edge Digital Humanities Projects
Come learn about developing mobile app platforms for history, capturing dance notation using an iPad, using gaming technology to teach the history of medicine, or applying crowd sourcing to culinary history… all in just two minutes.
From 10:30 a.m. to 3:00 p.m. on September 27th at the National Endowment for the Humanities (NEH), the recipients of the 2011 NEH Digital Humanities Start-Up Grants will give the public a sneak preview of 54 ground-breaking projects that apply cutting-edge technology to high quality research in the humanities. Six recipients of NEH Advanced Topics in the Digital Humanities Grants will also present.
On September 27th, Start-Up and Institute grant recipients from around the country will assemble at NEH headquarters in Washington, D.C. to present their projects in "lightning-round" format. Project directors will have just two minutes and three PowerPoint slides to introduce and explain their projects to the public.
See the full schedule of presentations here.
In between morning and afternoon lightning-round project presentations, Cathy N. Davidson, Ruth F. DeVarney Professor of English & John Hope Franklin Humanities Institute Professor of Interdisciplinary Studies at Duke University, will deliver a lunchtime talk entitled "NOW YOU SEE IT: How the Brain Science of Attention Will Transform the Way We Live, Work, and Learn," based on her book of the same title. Using cutting-edge research on the brain and learning, Cathy Davidson shows how the phenomenon of "attention blindness" shapes our lives, and how it has led to one of the greatest problems of our historical moment: Although we email, blog, tweet, and text as if by instinct, too many of us toil in schools and workplaces designed for the last century, not the one in which we live.
The National Endowment for the Humanities invites you to join us— whether for a few minutes, or a few hours—to survey the future of digital humanities, in lightning-quick bursts. We ask that those who plan to attend please register online, as seating is limited.
Those too far away to make the event can use the Twitter hashtag: #SUG2011 to follow along online.
2011 Digital Humanities Project Directors Meeting
September 27, 2011
10:30 — 10:45 a.m. Welcome from Brett Bobley, Director, NEH Office of Digital Humanities
10:45 a.m. — noon Project Presentations Lightning Round #1
12:30 — 1:15 p.m. Lunchtime address by Cathy Davidson, "Now You See It: How the Brain Science of Attention Will Transform the Way We Live, Work, and Learn"
1:15 — 2:45 p.m. Project Presentations Lightning Round #2
Location: The National Endowment for the Humanities
Old Post Office Building
1100 Pennsylvania Avenue, NW, Washington DC 20506
Room M-09 (Ground Floor)


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Watch the video above in order to get a crash course on what this net neutrality thing is all about.
YouTube user Vihart explains all the noisy debate surrounding the topic by fitting it into the analogy of a mail carrier delivering packages to people, just as internet data flows from a source (like Netflix) to its customers.
In her example, the delivery service notices a majority of the packages it delivers come from this huge bookseller and decides to do something about it, just as Comcast has noticed that an awful lot of the data it "delivers" comes from Netflix.
Here's where the trouble begins — instead of using the money Comcast collects from its customers in order to expand and accommodate demand for Netflix's streaming media, the ISP collected a bounty from Netflix in order to "protect" Netflix's data from being restricted. It's reminiscent of mob tactics — "It'd be a shame if something were to go wrong with your data," for example.
Netflix began paying Comcast for direct access to customers because its previous model of delivering content through a third-party company called Cogent resulted in slower speeds. Now that Netflix pays Comcast, content speeds are much faster.
The debate on this issue will hinge almost entirely on one point — is it OK for an internet provider to deliver data to paying customers any slower than "as quickly as they request it"? This sets the stage for internet connectivity being considered a utility in the U.S., comparable to water, electricity, and the like. If you think it is, then you should know that Comcast is already meddling with its customers utilities.
The government will make its ruling on how to proceed on May 15.
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Ligue 2 leaders Lens are out of the Coupe de la Ligue after suffering a 4-3 defeat at the hands of AS Creteil.
Lens took the lead through Adamo Coulibaly, but Creteil took control of the match through goals to Jean-Michel Lesage, Ibrahima Seck and Marcel Essombe.
Lens made it 3-2 with Pierre Ducasse finding the back of the net, but Creteil again responded with another goal to Lesage.
Deme Ndiaye rounded out the scoring with two minutes remaining in the match.
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SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters) - Sometimes even eye-popping results are not enough.
Apple Inc'sO> shares may have risen 9 percent on Wednesday on the back of another spectacular quarter that included soaring iPhone sales in China, but the naysayers are still asking if the most valuable American company might need yet another revolutionary product in the next year to sustain its sizzling growth.
The skeptics certainly lost some credibility when the company's shares surged 9 percent on Wednesday, adding about $50 billion to Apple's market value, but some have not been silenced.
Their case is based on the law of large numbers - it is going to be more difficult for Apple to grow as fast the bigger it gets - and on the unforgiving nature of the technology business that can turn heroes into has-beens overnight.
The bulls point to emerging markets - in particular China, whose mobile market is the world's largest and far from saturation - and upcoming products like a 4G-enabled iPhone 5 and the oft-rumored Apple TV, as sustaining eye-popping growth such as the near-doubling of its net income in the second quarter.
But the bears, with a longer-term view, fear that Google Android devices will eventually put pressure on Apple's margins in China as they have elsewhere, and wonder if Apple will be successful in tacking on another blockbuster consumer device to its portfolio.
Sales in China, particularly, are key for Apple to maintain its pace of revenue growth in the longer term, said Carolina Milanesi, consumer technologies analyst at Gartner.
"That's the big question," she said, referring to market share in China. "From an affordability perspective, I think the opportunity is there to allow it to maintain that growth or at least not to see an immediate drop in sales."
In products, "TV seems to be one that everybody is looking at," she added.
Shorter term, over the next year, some investors and Wall Street analysts note that Apple's sales of the all-important iPhone could flatten out over the next few quarters as consumers await the next version of the popular smartphone.
Apple's own revenue forecast was more conservative than usual for the fiscal third quarter, a period during which an upgrade of the iPhone or iPad are unlikely.
"We note that iPhone product cycles appear to be getting increasingly pronounced, with fiscal first quarter and second quarter benefiting from very strong iPhone 4S product cycles in the US and China respectively," said Toni Sacconaghi, analyst with Bernstein Research, adding he expected the next couple of quarters to see "more sluggish unit sales."
But for now, sales of 35.1 million iPhones in the last quarter saw Wall Street analysts extend their love affair with Apple shares with a slew of hiked stock-price targets as concerns eased that the company was losing market share in the cut-throat smartphone market.
At least 14 brokerages revised their targets on the stock by $40 on average, a day after the company posted a quarterly profit that blew past Wall Street estimates.
Apple shares closed up almost 9 percent at $610 after touching an intraday high of $618 for an advance of 10.3 percent, the biggest single-day percentage gain by Apple shares in more than three years.
Apple, as 4.2 percent of the S&P 500, gave U.S. stocks a big shot in the arm on Wednesday, driving the Nasdaq to its biggest single-day gain of the year.
"Last night, Apple's performance once again demonstrated how quickly Apple fever is spreading around the world and this trend continues to drive meaningful upside in the company's financial results," said Topeka Capital Markets' Brian White, who raised his stock-price forecast to $1,111 from $1,001.
Apple by the numbers: link.reuters.com/ben36s
Analysts' price targets: link.reuters.com/bar27s
Insider segment: link.reuters.com/xyf77s
Sales in greater China accounted for about 20 percent of Apple's $39.2 billion quarterly revenue, a three-fold increase from a year earlier. The numbers showcased Apple's sky-rocketing growth in China, which made up just 4.5 percent of its revenue in fiscal 2010.
Sales there are on track to nearly double this year, with a combined revenue in the first two quarters of $12.4 billion. That is almost level with revenue from China of $13.3 billion in all of fiscal 2011.
Giri Cherukuri, head trader and portfolio manager for OakBrook Investments in Illinois, said Apple had room to grow in China but would also look to other developing countries with large populations - such as India, Brazil and Russia - to keep up the pace of sales.
"They are methodically just growing country by country, both just building Apple stores in these countries and building distribution," Cherukuri said. "That's partly why you are getting strong numbers now. When a new iPhone or iPad comes out, they can rapidly deploy those all over the world."
In China, Apple has yet to seal a contract for the iPhone with China Mobile, the world's largest mobile operator in terms of subscribers, with 660 million users. A deal with the carrier for the next iPhone has the potential to considerably boost iPhone sales in the country.
"The main challenge for Apple is to penetrate China Mobile's 600 million subscribers. The numbers look pretty good now, but would be much better with China Mobile," said Nomura analyst Huang Leping.
But doing business in China has its challenges. Apple has faced a raft of negative publicity in China in recent years, including worker suicides at its supplier Foxconn Technology, accusations of environmental pollution, and copyright and trademark infringement.
Now, Apple also needs to find a way to stop users who hack into the iPhone's software to download free apps or solicit services from e-commerce sites to download apps at a fraction of their cost in the App Store or iTunes Store.
Many deep-pocketed companies have attempted to crack the Chinese market, tempted by a large and growing middle class. But regulations that favor and protect local businesses, plus a lack of understanding of the market, have stumped many.
Wal-Mart has struggled against local rivals. But other companies — such as carmaker General Motors and KFC parent Yum Brands — have been more successful in penetrating the market. In Yum's case, China accounts for more than 40 percent of the company's profit.
Apple's strong results on Tuesday followed a 13 percent decline in the company's shares over the past couple of weeks that erased about $78 billion from its market value.
Following the earnings announcement, analysts discounted worries about rising competition and pricing pressures, noting the company's stronger margins of 47.4 percent in particular.
"Apple's margin upside has the most important long-term implications for the story," said Goldman analyst Bill Shope, who raised his target price on the stock by $100 to $850.
Cook took Apple's helm shortly before co-founder Steve Jobs died in October, and was immediately subjected to a discussion of whether he embodied the same vision and foresight needed to keep the company at the forefront of innovation.
A smart TV - dubbed iTV by Apple watchers - is seen as the next product to drive the next phase of growth. While Apple has neither confirmed nor denied it was working on a TV, Jobs told his biographer, Walter Isaacson, about reinventing the television set and how he had "cracked" it.
Many on Wall Street expect Apple's version - and perhaps Jobs vision - to be unveiled later this year or next year.
So strong is the speculation that investors are likely to be disappointed if Apple does not launch a device for the living room, Cherukuri said, adding however that a television-like product is "pretty certain" at this point.
"It can't just be a piece of hardware," Gartner's Milanesi said of the possible TV, adding that it would have to "drive a similar replacement cycle as you see in the iPad or iPhone."
Additional reporting by Melanie Lee in Shanghai, Tenzin Pema and Himank Sharma in Bangalore; Editing by Saumyadeb Chakrabarty, Ted Kerr, Bernadette Baum, Bernard Orr and Andre Grenon


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Woman dead, man critically hurt after shooting in St. Louis
ST. LOUIS (AP) — A woman is dead and a man critically injured after a shooting in north St. Louis.
The shooting happened about 7 p.m. Sunday. Responding officers found the victims, both in their 20s, with gunshot wounds.
The woman was pronounced dead at the scene. The man is hospitalized in critical condition. Names have not been released.
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Mighty Protectors for the Merchant Class: Saints as Intercessors between the Wealthy and the Divine. ICMs Kalamazoo May 2015
Call for Papers: Mighty Protectors for the Merchant Class: Saints as Intercessors between the Wealthy and the Divine. International Congress on Medieval Studies, 14-17 May 2015
By the late medieval period, merchants formed an integral part of urban society; among their activities, they facilitated trade between city centers, participated in the governing of cities, and were patrons of churches and monasteries. At the same time, the wealth that they amassed and their sometimes morally dubious activities, such as money lending, often left merchants fearful of what the afterlife would bring, causing them to appeal directly to specific saints for intercession. This session seeks to explore the religious lives of these elite members of urban society, specifically considering the individual holy persons to whom merchants appealed for their earthly protection and heavenly salvation as well as the manner in which they made these appeals.
As an interdisciplinary discussion of the relationship between merchants and their holy protectors, this session will invite papers examining evidence of specific relationships between merchants and the saints and/or Mary. Papers might consider merchant's wills, tombs, artistic patronage, manuscript collections, and pilgrimage, as well as the religious practices of merchants' confraternities and guilds. The session will welcome papers from all disciplines including, but not limited to, history, art history, literature, religious studies, and music.
Please submit abstracts of no more than 300 words and a participant information form to Emily Kelley (email@example.com) no later than September 15, 2014. The participant information forms are available online at: http://www.wmich.edu/medieval/congress/submissions/index.html#PIF


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Q&A With Citizendium Creator Dr. Larry Sanger
As previously reported, Wikipedia co-founder, Dr. Larry Sanger, recently launched The Citizendium, a site aimed at becoming an expert-driven alternative to that massively-popular free online encyclopedia. The results are equally intriguing and baffling. Of course the world wouldn't object to a Wikipedia alternative that can boast a more definitive knowledge base than the sometimes erroneous results of its older sister site, but surely the creation of such a thing would prove even more of an uphill battle than the Wikipedia before it. Naturally, we jumped at the chance to sit down with Dr. Sanger to discuss his disillusionment with his first project, the creation of The Citizendium, and how his new site can expect to survive in a world full of Wikipedia lovers.
Why did you decide to launch a Wikipedia--I don't know if 'rival' is the right word...
I suppose that one could call it a 'rival.' There are a number of reasons. I could go on for a long time about that. The main reason, on a personal level, is that, as co-founder of Wikipedia, I feel kind of responsible for it. Looking back over the past couple of years, I've become more and more disillusioned with it. I still think it's a great project, and enormously useful, but, well John Seigenthaler called me, when he was researching his now-infamous article about his false biography. I had always known that there was a potential for liable on Wikipedia, but this example, with him on the phone with me, was a bit of a wake up call. I had long since washed my hands of Wikipedia. At the beginning of 2003, a year after I had resigned, I basically told [co-founder Jimmy Wales] that because he isn't solving the problems that I saw with it, that I just wasn't going to have anything to do with it anymore. I thought in time that it would be improved--that they would've brought in a group of experts to improve articles, that in time they would create a more responsible governance structure that didn't leave power in the hands of sometimes anonymous administrators. I thought that those were just growing pains that the project would be going through. When I looked at the reaction of the Wikipedia community to the Seigenthaler case, and the other mini-scandals that followed, it became clear that the community has become set in its ways. I think they do have a real intention to make their articles more credible and reliable, but they don't have a credible process for bringing that goal about.
Was the idea of introducing experts ever introduced into the Wikipedia community?
The original plan for Wikipedia was that it was part of a tandem of projects. Wikipedia's parent project was called Nupedia. Wikipedia began life as a content stream for this more straight-laced Nupedia project. Nupedia was more slow moving, and required an editor in chief. In 2001, when we really got to work on Wikipedia, Nupedia was basically left to wither on the vine. It was basically impossible for someone to do what I was trying to do, namely lead a brand new wiki-encyclopedia project and be editor in chief of another encyclopedia project. Basically because Nupedia was withering, it was left to die. Only half of the original concept that we had for the ideal free encyclopedia project has survived.
Is there any semblance of the Nupedia online at all, or is it completely dead in the water?
It is completely dead in the water. It has been since 2002 or 2003. I think the last ever article that Nupedia ever posted might have been at the beginning of 2003.
Do you foresee a lot of Wikipedia users migrating over to the new site?
It's hard to say. I know that a lot of the people that have joined us have migrated over. I doubt that a majority of our users in the end will have come over from Wikipedia. A lot of people went to Wikipedia, edited a few projects, and realized that it just wasn't for them. And then when they heard about the Citizendium project, they signed up.
Do you know the number of articles that the site has, at present?
That depends on what you want to count as an article. We are working on over 900 articles. Your guess is as good as mine as to how many people are currently working on those articles. Like with the Wikipedia, a lot of the more obscure articles don't get touched for a very long time. Let's just say that we've got lots and lots of articles already. Most of the them have been imported over from Wikipedia. Our very best articles, of course, have been rewritten greatly. I don't want to make an estimate as to how many articles are under really heavy development.
So the stories that are coming through Wikipedia are being filtered through your experts?
Well, actually, it's changed recently. We were originally conceiving of Citizendium as a fork to the Wikipedia, so we started with the entire body of the Wikipedia English language articles, and then went in and started cleaning up the articles. I didn't really see the same sort of passion that I saw in the early days of the Wikipedia, and I think the reason is that, when we were starting with the Wikipedia, we were starting with a blank slate. You could start the article about France, or Jesus, or Socrates. It was very exciting. And not only could you start the articles on these, but by working in a certain way, you could influence the future shape of policy on the project. If you bolded the title, you could make that a regular feature on future articles, and bold titles are now a required feature of Wikipedia articles. In the beginning of Wikipedia, we were setting the rules. On the Citizendium, even if the rules aren't necessarily written down, even if we say we aren't going to follow the same rules, the article encodes the rules. The other reason I thought that we shouldn't fork at all, is that in our experience, in that really doing a good job at cleaning up Wikipedia articles, we find that even articles that look, at first glance to really be quite good, turn out to not be that great and require a huge amount of work to clean up. In may cases, we find that it doesn't take as long to just rewrite them.
What is the approval process for an article?
If you're logged into the website, you can view all of the articles, and the general public will be able to view any of the articles, once we've gone public. When I say 'approved' I'm referring to the half-dozen or so that have been really cleaned up by experts, and been declared to be done. There are two different ways to do that. Since we don't want people to approve their own articles, single-handedly, if you want to approve an article that you've written, then you have to have the concurrence of two other editors on the subject. Otherwise, you can just ask an expert who hasn't worked on the article to approve the subject.
What happens once a page is approved, and authors want to contribute more text?
This is how it is right now, but we're working on some software that won't be quite as kludgy: once an article has been approved, that page has been protected, and further edits to that article can take place only on the draft page, which is a sub-page of the article page.
The other main way of differentiating the service from the Wikipedia, beyond this idea of expert editing, is eliminated the anonymity of authors.
Right. In the first month of the editing project, we actually asked for Web links, proving that people were who they said they were. They had to send a resume. We've since liberalized the sign up process, as we'd always planned on doing. Now it's possible to become an author simply by going to the website, clicking on 'Sign up Here,' giving us a real name, password, and then digitally signing a statement. And then they will have to fill out a biography. The whole idea is that we think that people will be better citizens, if they are know by the identities that they have in the real world.
But to a degree, it still operates on the honor system.
It does, but anything else is going to be very difficult to make workable. But believe me, we will certainly take off anyone who shows themselves to be using a pseudonym, without permission. If someone has a really good reason--if they're a political dissident in China, then of course they can have a pseudonym. We've given out probably four or five pseudonyms.
What is the process for becoming an expert?
First you have to become an author, and then you send an e-mail to the address, including a resume and some links to Web material that supports your claim.


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Story highlights
- The SAVE database contains alien registration numbers
- Florida election officials sued to gain access to a federal law enforcement database
- Florida wants to purge non-citizens from its voter rolls
- Florida officials want to use the database to challenge voter eligibility
Florida election officials will have access to a federal law enforcement database to challenge the eligibility of a person to vote as part of its effort to purge non-citizens from its voting rolls, state officials said.
The U.S. Department of Homeland Security will allow state officials access to the SAVE -- Systematic Alien Verification for Entitlements -- database in an agreement that was announced Saturday by Florida Secretary of State Ken Detzner and the Florida Department of State.
The announcement follows weeks of legal wrangling between the federal and state officials, a fight being closely watched in Colorado, Nevada, Michigan and North Carolina -- states that could ultimately swing November's presidential election -- where officials are advocating for similar access.
"Florida voters are counting on their state and federal governments to cooperate in a way that ensures elections are fair, beginning with ensuring the voter rolls are current and accurate," Detzner said in a statement.
"Now, we have a commitment to cooperate from DHS and we look forward to a partnership that improves our election process."
Details of the agreement were not immediately available, and it was not clear when Florida would begin checking its voter rolls against the database, which lists those who are legally in the United States on either visas or "green cards" but not eligible to vote. The Department of Homeland Security did not respond late Saturday to a CNN request for comment.
The SAVE database, which contains alien registration numbers, is a web-based service that was created to help "federal, state and local benefit-issuing agencies, institutions, and licensing bureaus determine the immigration status of benefit applicants so only those entitled to benefits receive them," according to U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services.
Florida officials sued last month to gain access to the database after an effort this year to purge the state voting rolls -- using driver licenses and birth dates -- went awry because of faulty state records.
A Florida Department of State spokesman, Chris Cate, told CNN in June that the state identified roughly 100 people who are not citizens but registered to vote. CNN found, though, that some of the names on the potential purge list were, in fact, legitimate voters -- newly minted Americans recently granted citizenship.
DHS and Florida struck a deal over the database just weeks after a federal judge rejected a U.S. Department of Justice lawsuit aimed at preventing Florida from moving forward with a voter registration purge.
Proponents of the plan say purging the rolls protects the integrity of the voting process, while critics say it targets the poor and minority voters who may be disenfranchised by the process. The poor, voting and civil rights groups say, can not afford to pay for documentation that may be required, while minorities would likely be among the groups whose voter registration records are examined.
A number of states are moving to institute and tighten voter identification laws, and many are finding themselves in direct conflict with the federal government. A key provision of the landmark Voting Rights Act of 1965 grants the federal government open-ended oversight of states and localities -- many in the South -- with a history of voter discrimination. Any changes in voting laws and procedures in those pre-determined areas must be "pre-cleared" by Washington.
Today, 32 states have in place varying degrees of voter identification laws, according to the National Conference of State Legislatures.
Some of the states with the most stringent requirements are also regions that have seen large increases in their minority population. Florida has the nation's third largest Hispanic population, behind Texas and California.


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Morgenstern on Gandolfini's 'Enough Said'
"Enough Said" -- the next-to-last film James Gandolfini made before he died -- keeps its sense of humor as it grows deeper and more affecting, says WSJ film critic Joe Morgenstern. (Photo: Fox Searchlight Pictures)
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Healthy Eating on a Budget
Save money and eat healthy by choosing nutritious foods that taste great and fit into your budget. By: Holley Grainger, MS, RD
There's no need to sacrifice quality, flavor, or nutrients when you're shopping on a budget. You can find amazing items at the grocery store that offer quality nutrition for a fraction of the cost. You just need know what to look for.
Low-fat Milk
People complain all the time that milk is expensive yet their grocery carts are filled with sugary juices, sodas, and energy drinks. Now that's expensive! These drinks offer little to no nutrient value where a serving of low-fat milk is naturally nutrient-rich and costs around 21 cents per serving. Plus, you're getting calcium, vitamins A and D, protein and more! Ounce for ounce and penny for penny, the nutrition in milk is second to none.
Canola oil
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Rice has gone from the stove to the microwave to individual precooked servings and now it's finding its way back to the long route on the stove. Those small pouches of rice are great in a pinch but they are costly! Cooking with dry brown rice averages just 58 cents per pound, adds a nutty flavor plus all of the benefits of whole grains.
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President Obama visited the National Association of Latino Elected and Appointed Officials Annual Conference yesterday to talk about immigration reform, and the way forward for the Latino community:
You and I both know one of America's greatest strengths has always been our ability to attract talented, hardworking people who believe in this country, who want to help make it stronger. That's what keeps us young. That's what keeps us dynamic and energized. That's what makes us who we are.
But our current immigration system doesn't reflect those values. It allows the best and brightest to study here, but then tells them to leave, start companies somewhere else. It punishes immigrants and businesses who play by the rules, and fails to address the fact that there are too many who don't. It separates families and it denies innocent young people the chance to earn an education or serve in the uniform of the country they love.
In the face of a Congress that refuses to do anything on immigration, I've said that I'll take action wherever I can. So my administration has been doing what we can, without the help in Congress, for more than three years now. And last week, we took another step. On Friday, we announced that we're lifting the shadow of deportation from deserving young people who were brought to this country as children.
We should have passed the DREAM Act a long time ago. It was written by members of both parties. When it came up for a vote a year and a half ago, Republicans in Congress blocked it. The bill hadn't changed. The need hadn't changed. The only thing that had changed was politics … And I refused to keep looking young people in the eye, deserving young people in the eye, and tell them, tough luck, the politics is too hard.
I've met these young people all across the country. They're studying in our schools. They're playing with our children, pledging allegiance to our flag, hoping to serve our country. They are Americans in their hearts, in their minds. They are Americans through and through—in every single way but on paper. And all they want is to go to college and give back to the country they love. So lifting the shadow of deportation and giving them a reason to hope—that was the right thing to do. It was the right thing to do.
It's not amnesty. It falls short of where we need to be—a path to citizenship. It's not a permanent fix. This is a temporary measure that lets us focus our resources wisely while offering some justice to these young people. But it's precisely because it's temporary, Congress still needs to come up with a long-term immigration solution—rather than argue that we did this the wrong way or for the wrong reasons.
So to those who are saying Congress should be the one to fix this—absolutely. For those who say we should do this in a bipartisan fashion—absolutely. My door has been open for three and a half years. They know where to find me.
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World hunger increasing
FAO Head calls on world leaders to honour pledges
30 October 2006, Rome - Noting that promises are no substitute for food, FAO Director-General Jacques Diouf today called on world leaders to honour a 10-year-old pledge to halve the number of hungry in the world by 2015.
Ten years after the 1996 World Food Summit (WFS) in Rome, which promised to reduce the number of undernourished people by half by 2015, there were more hungry people in the developing countries today – 820 million – than there were in 1996, Dr Diouf said.
"Far from decreasing, the number of hungry people in the world is currently increasing – at the rate of four million a year," he continued. Dr Diouf was speaking in Rome at the launch of the annual FAO report, The State of Food Insecurity in the World, or SOFI.
The leaders of the 185 countries who took part in the Summit termed world hunger "unacceptable and intolerable," Dr Diouf recalled. "Today, I am deeply sorry to report that the situation remains intolerable and unacceptable – all the more so because ten years have passed."
"Business as usual will not do," Dr Diouf declared. Failure to achieve the World Food Summit objective would be "shameful," he added.
Marginal reduction
According to the SOFI report, today's estimated 820 million undernourished people in developing countries represent a marginal reduction of three million as against the 1990-1992 baseline of 823 million used by the Summit.
But the performance is even worse if measured against the 1996 world total of some 800 million – a 23 million increase. Keeping the Summit pledge would require reducing the number of undernourished by 31 million every year until 2015, whereas the number of hungry is currently climbing at the rate of some four million a year.
Nonetheless, over the past ten years, the proportion of people suffering from hunger in developing countries has gone down as the overall population has gone up, the SOFI report noted.
One in five people in the developing countries were undernourished in 1990-92, and this has now gone down to 17 percent.
Millennium Goal on hunger
Moreover, FAO's projections suggested there could be a further drop from 17 percent to 10 percent in the next nine years. "This means that the world is on a path towards meeting the Millennium Development Goal on hunger reduction," the report said.
Nonetheless, the total number of undernourished in developing countries in 2015 was projected at 582 million. This would fall 170 million short of the World Food Summit target of 412 million.
More than half of these would be concentrated in South Asia and East Asia, with 203 million and 123 million respectively. Sub-Saharan Africa would be home to 179 million hungry – more than double the WFS target.
Significant disparities
Overall hunger reduction trends masked significant disparities among regions, according to the report. For instance, Asia and the Pacific and Latin America and the Caribbean had seen an overall reduction in both the number and the prevalence of undernourished people.
In sub-Saharan Africa, "the task facing the region remains daunting," the report said. There were currently 206 million hungry in the region – nearly 40 million up from 1990-92, the baseline period used by the Summit.
The WFS target was still attainable if concrete and concerted action was taken, SOFI noted. This should be based on a twin-track approach emphasizing direct action against hunger together with a focus on agricultural and rural development.
The report listed a series of steps which, it said, was needed to eradicate hunger in the years ahead. They included: focussing programmes and investments on "hotspots" of poverty and undernourishment; enhancing the productivity of smallholder agriculture; creating the right conditions for private investment, including transparency and good governance; making world trade work for the poor, with safety nets put in place for vulnerable groups; and a rapid increase in the level of Official Development Assistance (ODA) to 0.7 percent of GDP, as promised.
"We must step up dramatically our efforts to reach the WFS hunger reduction target. If the political will is there we can reach it," the report concluded.
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