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The House narrowly passed a pared-back farm bill Thursday after Republican leaders stripped out the nutrition title — affecting food stamps and local food banks — to win back conservative votes.
The 216-208 roll call avoids a repeat of last month's embarrassing collapse and for the first time in a year will allow House-Senate talks on a final farm package.
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All but 12 Republicans supported the measure — in contrast with the 62 defections in June. And it was a badly needed, face-saving win for Majority Leader Eric Cantor (R-Va.), whose tactics contributed to last month's loss and who had bet heavily on the new approach to recover.
( Also on POLITICO: 12 Republicans who broke with their party on the farm bill)
Nonetheless, the decision to jettison the nutrition title breaks with nearly a half-century of precedent. And the GOP victory came at a huge political cost, splitting American agriculture and driving a wedge between urban and rural lawmakers who have long worked together on farm legislation.
All 196 Democrats voted in opposition, and there was a genuine fury displayed by members of the Congressional Black Caucus, who repeatedly delayed the emotional floor proceedings. The intense partisanship and often tone-deaf management of the past month have fed into doubts in Cantor's own party over his temperament as a would-be speaker.
"Farm bills have been bipartisan for generations, and we made it a mess," said one senior Republican. In the process, the GOP gave up precious leverage to enact nutrition reforms in talks with the Senate. And dozens of fiscal conservatives, who complained about the high cost of the farm bill last month, were pressured to switch their votes when the only change was removing food aid for the poor.
( Also on POLITICO: Obama threatens to veto farm bill)
"This is a victory for farmers and conservatives who desired desperately needed reforms to these programs," Cantor said in a statement. But a solid phalanx of outside groups, like The Heritage Foundation, Club for Growth and Taxpayers for Common Sense, remained opposed to the level of commodity and crop insurance subsides in the bill.
Significant reforms are made, including the termination of direct cash payments to producers. But the 10-year cost is $195.6 billion, and the commodity title goes much further than the Senate in using government-set target prices as a safety net for farmers.
House Agriculture Committee Chairman Frank Lucas (R-Okla.) had initially resisted the split-bill strategy but signed on this week in a last-ditch effort to get something to conference with the Senate. To drive home the same point, Speaker John Boehner's chief of staff, Mike Sommers, held a conference call with farm groups in which he warned that failure would doom any chance of a farm bill this year.
Powerful cotton, rice, peanut and sugar cane interests worked with Lucas and the GOP to round up votes. But the two leading agriculture groups — the American Farm Bureau Federation and National Farmers Union — came out against the GOP strategy. And Thursday morning, the typically conservative AFBF leadership sent a letter urging lawmakers to vote no on the bill.


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Users, uses and production of gender statistics: an overview
What are gender statistics
Users and uses of gender statistics
Production of gender statistics
A guide to the present manual
Bringing gender issues into statistics
Educational participation
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Gender statistics are defined as statistics that adequately reflect differences and inequalities in the situation of women and men in all areas of life (United Nations, 2006). This definition closely follows the Beijing Platform for Action, which was adopted at the Fourth World Conference on Women, held in Beijing in 1995, and in paragraph 206 (a) of which it was recommended that national, regional and international statistical services should ensure that statistics related to individuals are collected, compiled, analysed and presented by sex and age and reflect problems, issues and questions related to women and men in society (United Nations, 1996). There are several requirements imbedded in the definition of gender statistics (Hedman, Perucci and Sundström, 1996; United Nations, 2001a, 2001b, 2002, 2006, 2007; Corner, 2003). First, gender statistics have to reflect gender issues, that is, questions, problems and concerns related to all aspects of women's and men's lives, including their specific needs, opportunities and contributions to society. In every society, there are differences between what is expected, allowed and valued in a woman and what is expected, allowed and valued in a man. These differences have a specific impact on women's and men's lives throughout all life stages and determine, for example, differences in health, education, work, family life or general well-being. Producing gender statistics entails disaggregating data by sex and other characteristics to reveal those differences or inequalities and collecting data on specific issues that affect one sex more than the other or relate to gender relations between women and men. Second, gender statistics should adequately reflect differences and inequalities in the situation of women and men. In other words, concepts and definitions used in data collection must be developed in such a way as to ensure that the diversity of various groups of women and men and their specific activities and challenges are captured. In addition, data collection methods that induce gender bias in data collection, such as underreporting of women's economic activity, underreporting of violence against women and undercounting of girls, their births and their deaths should be avoided.
2. In summary, gender statistics are defined by the sum of the following characteristics:
(a) Data are collected and presented by sex as a primary and overall classification;
(b) Data reflect gender issues;
(c) Data are based on concepts and definitions that adequately reflect the diversity of women and men and capture all aspects of their lives;
(d) Data collection methods take into account stereotypes and social and cultural factors that may induce gender bias in the data.
Gender statistics are more than data disaggregated by sex. The characteristics listed above are useful in differentiating between sex-disaggregated statistics (the first requirement in the list above) and gender statistics (which incorporate all four requirements). Sex-disaggregated statistics are simply data collected and tabulated separately for women and men. Disaggregating data by sex does not guarantee, for example, that the data collection instruments involved in the data production were conceived to reflect gender roles, relations and inequalities in society (United Nations, 2001a). Furthermore, some statistics that incorporate a gender perspective are not necessarily disaggregated by sex. For example, national accounts statistics that incorporate a gender perspective take into account both women's and men's contribution to all social and economic areas, including unpaid work.
Confusion between "sex" and "gender" still persists among producers and users of statistics (United Nations, 2001a, 2002; Corner, 2003; UNECE, and World Bank Institute, 2010). The word "sex" refers to biological differences between women and men. Biological differences are fixed and unchangeable and do not vary across cultures or over time. "Gender", meanwhile, refers to socially-constructed differences in the attributes and opportunities associated with being female or male and to social interactions and relationships between women and men. Gender determines what is expected, allowed and valued in a woman or man in a given context. In most societies, there are differences and inequalities between women and men in terms of roles and responsibilities assigned, activities undertaken, access to and control over resources and decision-making opportunities. These differences and inequalities between the sexes are shaped by the history of social relations and change over time and across cultures.
The term "gender" has often been wrongly used in association with data. "Gender disaggregation" or "data disaggregated by gender" are incorrect terms. Gender statistics are disaggregated by sex, an individual-level characteristic commonly recorded in censuses, surveys and administrative records, not by gender, a social concept relevant at the level of a population group (Corner, 2003). When data on demographic, social or economic characteristics are collected in the field, it is the sex of a person that is recorded, as female (woman) or male (man), not the gender. Sex-disaggregated data, however, when analysed, have the capacity to reveal differences in women's and men's lives that are the result of gender roles and expectations.
Gender statistics should not be equated with women's statistics. The understanding of gender statistics, their uses and their users has changed over time (Hedman, Perucci and Sundström, 1996; Corner, 2003). Initial work focused on producing statistics on women, in the context where many countries were collecting data by sex, but most of the data were analysed and/or made available to users as totals, without the possibility of differentiating between women and men. The demand for data and indicators on women came from women's organizations and women's advocates, who needed statistics to support new policies and programmes oriented towards reducing the disadvantages faced by women. Since then, however, the focus has shifted from "women only" to "women and men", both in terms of statistics and in terms of policies. In terms of statistics, it became clear that the situation of women could be adequately described and analysed only by comparing it to that of men. In addition, statisticians have recognized that improvement is also needed in the area of statistics on men. (Hedman, Perucci and Sundström, 1996). Specific issues related to men's lives, such as harmful levels of drinking and smoking, greater risk of accidents or injuries and access to paid paternity leave, have increasingly been taken into account and covered by gender statistics. In terms of policies, the change of focus from women to gender stemmed from a recognition that isolating women's concerns from mainstream development policies and strategies limits the impact of such policies and strategies whereas paying more attention to the roles and responsibilities of both women and men and their interrelationships can make policies and strategies more effective.
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Peavy enjoys National League style of play
CHICAGO -- Jake Peavy has pitched parts of five seasons with the White Sox, and when fully healthy in 2012, was one of the more dominant starters in the American League.
The right-handed hurler chose to stay with the White Sox and continue working in the AL through a two-year, $29-million extension agreed upon during the offseason. But it doesn't mean that Peavy doesn't still hold a great appreciation for the National League style of baseball, which Peavy played for parts of eight years in San Diego.
"I love the National League game," said Peavy, who gets the start Tuesday night when the White Sox travel to Washington to take on the Nationals in an Interleague series. "I love the pitcher being an integral part of the game.
"You're being an athlete and having a chance to impact the game. If you practice being better than the other guy, it's one advantage you have over the other starting pitcher. That's a big reason I felt I had one more advantage. In the National League, I took pride in putting the ball in play, getting my bunts down and being able to run bases."
Peavy, Gavin Floyd and Dylan Axelrod all get a chance to hit this week in the three-game series. Peavy has a .177 career batting average with two homers and 27 RBIs, but his defense, another of those disciplines to improve overall contributions on the mound, was honored prior to Sunday's series finale when Peavy received the 2012 Gold Glove shared with Tampa Bay's Jeremy Hellickson.
With four-time Gold Glove winner Mark Buehrle returning to the AL as part of the Blue Jays, Peavy joked that his reign might be coming to an end quickly.
"When you get to the age I've gotten to, you try to be as well rounded of a player as you can possibly be," Peavy said. "Fielding your position, getting off the mound and holding baserunners is something I take a lot of pride in.
"It's something we all take pride in. To be recognized by opposing managers for holding baserunners and fielding your position, it means so much."
Strategy obviously differs between the two leagues, with double-switches being more prevalent in the NL, not to mention a greater role for bench players. Manager Robin Ventura and Peavy spoke about their hope that a designated hitter is not added to NL lineups, keeping that difference intact.
"Don't get me wrong by any means: I love the American League, and I couldn't be more happy being where I'm at. I just prefer the National League," Peavy said. "Being able to hit and run the bases and, like I said, you feel like a kid, like an athlete, more part of the game and at the end of the day it's one more way to try and separate yourself from the other guy to have a chance at winning that game. What pitcher wouldn't like facing the opposing pitcher. It's just fun."
"There's room for both," Ventura said. "Again, the DH has kept a lot of players that couldn't play defense that are good hitters still, they get to extend their careers."


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Australia's Foreign Minister Bob Carr has recorded a video message that he says is intended as a call to action at the United Nations. He says that climate change is now a matter of security.
The Foreign Minister says his video message is about approaching the problem of getting world consensus on climate change from a slightly different tack.
Senator Carr recorded his message in the low-lying Pacific nation of Kiribati, and warned that rising sea levels will make the place uninhabitable within 10 to 20 years and force the mass migration of its population.
Bob Carr's recorded message will be a contribution to a climate debate in the United Nations early next month. He says Kiribati is in the frontline of climate change and president Tong is keen for the world to understand his country's special message.
The message is to be played at next month's UN Security Council debate on climate change, as Alexandra Kirk reported for ABC News.
BOB CARR: My name's Bob Carr, I'm the Foreign Minister of Australia. I'm here in Kiribati with the president of this small, island country, president Tong. And what I'm looking at here is the living reality of climate change. This is a village; the tide rises and floods it. This did not happen in the past, and it sends a message of what might happen to this nation of 100,000 people over six islands should the temperature continue to warm and the sea levels continue to rise.
Australia's working with Kiribati on mitigation measures, like planting mangroves to hold back the tides – even so, Kiribati still faces a future determined by climate change.
Well the president spoke about two decades being all they've got left if ocean levels continue to rise. We're sending to the UN Security Council this key notion that climate change is a security issue.
You take Kiribati as an early warning sign. If they have to evacuate because rising levels of salt water have inundated their fresh water and there's no drinking water on the islands, then they will be an example of environmental migration. They would be environmental refugees.
The UN is concerned with problems of peace and security. That defines its charter, especially that of the Security Council. We're saying that if, for example, a population is driven from its traditional home by rising sea level, then this creates a problem of peace and security.
And if it can happen with Kiribati, it can happen with other vulnerable low-lying areas in poor developing countries.
If Kiribati ends up being a victim of climate change, presumably the burden will fall on Australia and possibly New Zealand. Is that correct?
I think we have to accept that as a given, hence our very big commitment to English language and technical education.
I was at a training college in Kiribati and I saw Australian teachers provided by AusAid, some of them volunteers, working hard to lift English education and provide training in carpentry and motor mechanics so that if it does arise that the population has to be relocated, they can enter the workforce of countries like New Zealand and Australia, with Australian qualifications.
That's the key, they're being educated to Australian qualifications, they're winning Australian trade certificates.
That means, that presents, not as desperate environmental refugees, but as proud skilled migrants, and that's a serious strategic commitment on our part.


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6 comments:
- Tim said...
Reminds me a lot of "Window in the Skies" with the rising/falling, ascending/descending language. "Oh, cant you see what love has done? What it's doing to me?" For good or for bad, love is tough, transformational, and in the end cosmic/supernatural.
- 21 November, 2013 17:57
- U2 Sermons said...
"Window" is a good connection. It was "Electrical Storm" that I was trying to remember, it turns out.
- 21 November, 2013 18:08
- Megan C. said...
Actually, doesn't the lyric say "all this time I thought the world couldn't wash it away?" which could imply that the world actually has washed it away?
- 24 November, 2013 22:02
- U2 Sermons said...
Maybe so Megan!
- 25 November, 2013 10:14
- dave said...
Meghan et al: it now seems that the
magic marker line and "all this time I thought the world couldn't wash it away?" was about Mandela's failed marriage:
U2.com: Can you explain the idea behind the words disappearing?
Oliver: It's about the difficulty of permanent love. The correspondence between Nelson Mandela and Winnie (his then wife) worked so well within confinement but when he was released, the real world took its toll and made it go away. So it was about the lack of anything permanent, really. It's disheartening, but it's also heartening to a degree, where it inspires you to hurry up a little bit.
Mac: The idea of the writing fading is that when things go away, it's often not a clean break. They fade away in different forms and different manners, different ways. It's not a clean process. You don't know how its exactly happening but you can see that it is. I think Oliver and I both responded to the song in that it didn't look to sugarcoat a real moment for a very epic man. The opportunity to portray that human element of someone so grand is pretty humbling. We wanted to do the best work to represent that.
- 10 December, 2013 12:24
- U2 Sermons said...
Sorry for the very long delay in publishing your comment Dave - it went into moderation without my being notified!
- 30 December, 2013 15:42


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India's biggest unsolved case couldn't get a truer justice. Talvar is simply mind-boggling. From the engaging frames of Meghna Gulzar comes a tale without a tail. An investigation that will leave you at your wit's end. With Vishal Bhardwaj's magnificent writing comes a piece that will let you fathom the 'what' and leave the 'how' for you to figure.
You can't really forget the Aarushi murder case ever. Primarily because of all the media uproar it had managed to garner. It was always the talk of the town and always playing on the TV. The media were in the search of their masala (spice) and boy did they get their masala. It turned out to be a case where the conclusion was dropped first and assumed true way before the actual investigation. A perfect resonance to a typical Indian societal head! It is brilliantly reflective of the shortcomings of the Indian Police as they failed to take things seriously. It is one helluva slap to the smug face of the Indian Constitution, and would always be remembered as a black patch in the historical leaflets of crime-solving.
Irrfan Khan brings a unique vibrancy to the flick that is downright commendable. His innate acting skills prevail in the air, and bring with him the right attitude. Right from the moment the movie begins it has a natural flavor to it, something Gulzar has managed to capture perfectly. All the characters in the flick are very well portrayed and brilliantly enacted. It has a side story too to make things interesting with the protagonist, to take your head off the steam occasionally.
Names have been changed for emphasis which is quite understandable looking at the gravity of the case and the propensity for things getting blown out of context.
It leaves you with trillion questions, and a billion what ifs. If at the end of the movie you don't come up with a conclusion in your head, and don't find yourself gnawing hard pressing on the detective brain of yours, the job of the filmmakers would be incomplete.
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Re: "Mutation vs. evolution," Nov. 20 letter to the editor.
The Post was absolutely correct to identify mutation as the means of the cold virus changing. Evolution [which letter-writer Robert E. McCullough calls it] is more generally known as a hypothesis by which man came into being through various undirected processes. The processes generally identified are mutation and natural selection. Both of these can be readily seen and studied.
Most everyone knows about, or has even seen examples of, mutation, which are errors in the reproduction process. Most are aware of instances of natural selection, a not-so-natural example being different breeds of dogs. The big difference is that none of the processes that we can observe create new information; they just select out or rearrange existing information. The complexity of information that would have to be created by these processes to get man from rocks is incredible.
Evolution is a bankrupt concept that is the only game in town for those who cannot accept the idea of something larger than themselves.
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FACTORS AFFECTING THE SUCCESS OF OLDER COMMUNITY COLLEGE STUDENTS by Lia Lerner ________________________________________________________________________ A Dissertation Presented to the FACULTY OF THE ROSSIER SCHOOL OF EDUCATION UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA In Partial Fulfillment of the Requirements for the Degree DOCTOR OF EDUCATION August 2009 Copyright 2009 Lia Lerner
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Saturday, February 14, 2009
Have I mentioned that I love the start of Spring Training?
Because I do. If you're a baseball fan, then you do too. And if you don't, then I hate to break it to you, but you're probably not much of a fan. You're probably a bit of a front-running douchebag.
Seriously, the crack of the bat, the popping sound of a ball hittin' the mitt, everyone's a contender..... all that cliche bullshit. I love it. You know what, as of today, we're gonna win the goddamn pennant.
Incidentally, the picture heading this post might be the best thing I've seen in years. If Dave Stieb was flanking Doc's other shoulder - forget about it. Just stop taking pictures.
Anyway....onto a cornucopia of quick springtime hitters:
Underwhelmingly positive news, from the mouth of Roy Halladay
Didn't take long for the jackals in the media to hit Doc up with the question: "So how are you feeling about life as a Blue Jay these days, Roy?"
Answer: "For me, obviously you do want to win, you want to be a part of a championship team," he said. "That doesn't necessarily mean I don't like it here ... I think that, obviously, if I had it my way it would be to win here. And I don't think we've totally given up that hope."
Um, good to hear. I guess. I don't want to talk about this one any further. Let's move on.
AJ Burnett and the New York media - a match made in heaven
...if you're a vindictive bastard who's hoping AJ falls flat on his face after signing with the MF Yankees, that is. Luckily, I'm not one of those guys, because Bobby MacLeod checks in with an early report on that relationship via discussion with a fellow scribe covering the Yankees.
I asked about A.J. Burnett, the former Blue Jays pitcher who bolted Toronto for the dough in the Big Apple.
"He's an idiot," came the quick response.
Unexpected shout-out - here's to Dick Griffin
If you're anything like me - and for your sake, let's hope not - then you have a whole carcass of bones to pick with Richard Griffin's Blue Jay commentary during the season. Grind axes with JP Ricciardi much, Dick?
Having said that, Griffin is nailing it right now. Spring training is definitely right in his wheelhouse. He's giving me exactly what I want from a guy covering camp - early insights into the team & players, and he's having fun doing it. So here's a tip of the cap to you, Griff. Keep on keepin' on (at least until the regular season rolls around.)
On Robbie Alomar
I don't want to say much about this. It's too depressing. Robbie Alomar was my favourite player on some of the greatest Jays teams of all time. I'll never forget Alomar taking Dennis Eckersley yard in the 9th inning of Game 4 in the '92 ALCS. I went nuts watching the game in my parents' basement (nothing's changed - heyo!).
If I had to say anything, I'd probably say exactly what another personal fave, Patty Hentgen had to say about it:
"I hope that it's not true and if it is true, then God bless and I hope that his health can increase and get better."
Have I mentioned that I love Spring Training?
Because I do.
10 comments:
- The Ack said...
...terminology hat-tip on "winning the pennant" to all-around stud blogger, eyebleaf.
Old school verbage rules.
- February 14, 2009 at 5:21 PM
- dave said...
Favourite non-winning the World Series Jays moment for me. Parents living room, jumping up and down high five-ing my dad/brother and hugging my mom.
Totally agree about Griff, loving his Spring Training coverage.
- February 14, 2009 at 6:08 PM
Hey, those Reuters clowns spelled it "Sean Marcum".
- February 14, 2009 at 6:10 PM
- eyebleaf said...
Much love, brother. We are so fucking winning the pennant.
And, yes, that picture is so full of win. Ridiculous.
A.J. in New York is going to be an epic fail. I'm looking forward to it. For real.
And Griff really is nailing it. I just wish he would stop with the Goddamn weather! We know it's nice, fuck, and much better than up here. Quit it!
I was in the backseat of my parents' car when Robbie hit that home run off Eck. We had it on the radio. It is one of the most fondest memories of my life. I'm pretty sure the windows cracked from all the yelling.
- February 14, 2009 at 8:53 PM
- SP said...
I try not to read Griff unless he's getting raves from Blue Jay bloggers, so thanks for the heads up
Good to hear about Janssen, Hill, and Dusty
- February 14, 2009 at 11:43 PM
From Griff's latest entry:
"He (Beeston) had brought down Rogers executive Tony Viner, who has been involved with a lot of Jays stuff in recent years but had never, ever been to training camp."
Conspiracy theories aside, is it possible that one reason for Beeston's stinginess with money this off-season is to set up the higher-ups at Rogers to pump some real cash into the team payroll next year after showing them what happens when they don't? It seems like a Beeston-esque type of move. Of course, I'm assuming that there's some truth to Phil Lind's comments that Beeston decided to put the screws on payroll this year.
- February 15, 2009 at 8:58 AM
- dave said...
Wiffleballs, I don't know if he is trying to show them what happens when you don't but I think (hoping?) they might be saving to spend in 2010. I mean it kind of makes sense if everyone is building up for 2010.
If you the Jays are budgeted for 100mil and they take away 15 like they did this year then in 2010 they push their budget back to 100mil and add the 15mil they saved well... you can do the math.
I mean, it would be pretty nice. They'd be able to asses the team this year and see what are the spots they definitely need help in (Is Lyle going to keep contributing or should be pick up another 1B/DH to go along with Lind and Snider? Did young guys step up in our rotation or should we pick up another top starter?) and who they are going to go for it with next season. Then they can really drop some money and get substantial help, instead of help that will just keep them above .500 in the AL East.
Unfortunately I don't think it works that way.
Plus, it's short-sighted and could fuck you for long term. You'd basically be putting all your eggs in the 2010 basket and if it doesn't work then you might be looking at starting all over again with just the kids.
That being said, this might be what they have to do to leap the Rays, Sox and Yankees in the AL East. At least we would know they man-ed up and are really going for it.
- February 15, 2009 at 12:09 PM
- MK Piatkowski said...
I too am so happy about spring training. It's nice to read about baseball in the sports section again and not have it be about some new scandal or signing.
Unlike most folks, I have a good feeling about this year. We'll have Cito and his hitting philosophy from the beginning and I suspect some of the young guys are going to step up. Can't wait.
- February 16, 2009 at 7:26 PM
It's a great strategy to save for 2010. LeBron, Bosh, and D Wade are free agents.
This season will suck more cock than DJF, Elton John and RuPaul (HEYO!).
- February 17, 2009 at 12:03 AM
If it's true, maybe John Hirschbeck should get tested too
- February 19, 2009 at 4:01 PM


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"They like me in here," editor Jean-Claude Kavumbagu said of his fellow prisoners. But sub-Saharan Africa's only jailed online journalist still pays protection money to stay safe in Bujumbura's Mpimba Prison.
The Net Press editor has been here since police arrested him on July 17. He was charged with treason over an article that questioned the competence of Burundi's security services.
After much bureaucratic back-and-forth, the authorities allowed a CPJ delegation to meet with Kavumbagu, who was much thinner than he appears in his picture posted on Net Press. He was brought out to meet us in a yard in front of the main gate, where the prison's governor sat at a wooden table under a tin roof shelter receiving petitions from visitors.
Kavumbagu, stooped and seeming much older than his 45 years, greeted the governor who motioned us to chairs at the foot of the prison wall, well out of his earshot.
Kavumbagu wore a clean green prison uniform and glasses. He spoke softly but became animated when talking about the government of President Pierre Nkurunziza that put him into this prison, built for 800 but now housing 3,500 inmates ranging from conmen to killers.
"I'm okay," he said when asked about his health, although he looked frail. "I share a cell with a man accused of robbery and we get along."
As a journalist among common criminals he's something of a celebrity and not harassed. But he does pay the equivalent of several dollars a week for protection. "There are people in here who go crazy on drugs," he said. He has access to radio and books. "Newspapers are a different story. I think the guards think they are political tracts and keep them from me."
Asked why he has been repeatedly refused bail and is being treated as a criminal for publishing an opinion piece, Kavumbagu says it's payback for a decade of criticism of the former Hutu rebels who now make up the government. Net Press, launched in 1999, referred to the rebels as "genocidal terrorists" for their treatment of minority Tutsi civilians during the civil war that finally reached a ceasefire agreement in 2003.
"My case is completely political," he said, adding that the article criticizing the army was just a pretext to silence him. "This is their revenge," he said.
Five consecutive governments have arrested him for his reporting. "Arbitrary arrests must stop. This is my fifth time but I have never been convicted."
Kavumbagu said the only way he would leave Mpimba was through international pressure on the government. "The judiciary is not independent," he said. "The international community must exert pressure on the government and the head of state to change this country."
If convicted of treason, Kavumbagu could face life imprisonment. No date has been set for his trial.
He brightened visibly when asked about his news site.
"It's still going," he said, thanks to a small editorial staff of six. Net Press is tiny but influential, reaching the French-speaking elite here and the Burundian diaspora. "We get about 800 visitors a day," he said proudly.
Kavumbagu said he was buoyed by international support and by the solidarity shown by his colleagues in the Burundian media. My message to them is: "Do not give in to fear."
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Multiple topics related to food, from justice to nutrition to the environment to politics, will be addressed during this year's Critical Issues Symposium at Hope College, titled "Good Food for the Common Good" and scheduled for Tuesday and Wednesday, Oct. 5-6.
Multiple topics related to food, from justice to nutrition to the environment to politics, will be addressed during this year's Critical Issues Symposium at Hope College, titled "Good Food for the Common Good" and scheduled for Tuesday and Wednesday, Oct. 5-6.
The public is invited. Admission is free.
The college's annual Critical Issues Symposium provides an intensive look at a single topic. This year's symposium will feature two keynote addresses; two blocks of concurrent focus sessions; and several department-sponsored sessions before, during and following the symposium.
The symposium events open on Tuesday, Oct. 5, at 7 p.m. in Dimnent Memorial Chapel with a keynote address by Bryant Terry, who is an eco-chef and food justice activist. For the past nine years, Bryant has worked to build a more just and sustainable food system, using cooking as a tool to illuminate the intersections among poverty, structural racism and food insecurity. He is a fellow of the Food and Society Policy Fellows Program, and author of publications including the 2009 book "Vegan Soul Kitchen: Fresh, Healthy and Creative African-American Cuisine." A reception and book-signing will follow the address.
The symposium will continue on Wednesday, Oct. 6, beginning at 9 a.m. in Dimnent Memorial Chapel with a keynote address by Joel Salatin, an American farmer, lecturer and author who has been honored as a Heinz Award recipient for creating alternative, environmentally friendly farming techniques, spawning a movement towards local, sustainable agriculture that has been replicated by family farms around the country. His books include "You Can Farm: The Entrepreneur's Guide to Star and Succeed in a Farming Enterprise," "Salad Bar Beef" and "Everything I Want to Do Is Illegal: War Stories from the Local Food Front."
The morning concurrent focus sessions on Wednesday, Oct. 6, will begin at 10:30 a.m. Topics will include will include a cooking demonstration by Bryant Terry; the panel discussion "The CSA Farm Experience," featuring Anja Mast of Trillium Haven, Lee Arboreal of Eaters' Guild, and CSA members Kristen and Noah Livingstone; "Why Christians Should Care about Eating" by Dr. Norman Wirzba; "Nutritional Intake, Physical Activity and Energy Balance: Cornerstones of Obesity Epidemic?" by Kyle Morrison; and "Thriving Despite Embargoes: What Havana, Cuba and Detroit, Michigan Can Teach Us about Food Politics and Food Justice" by Dr. Tracy E. Ore.
There will be screenings of the documentary film "Eating in Place," which examines the local food movement in the Grand Rapids area, on Wednesday, Oct. 6, at 11:30 a.m. at 3:30 p.m. in Winants Auditorium of Graves Hall.
The afternoon concurrent focus sessions on Wednesday, Oct. 6, will begin at 1 p.m. Topics will include "Local Food to the Rescue" by Joel Salatin; "When Faith Meets Social Justice Advocacy: Happy Marriage or Messy Divorce?" by Larry Hollar; "Christianity and the Good Diet" by Dr. Stephen Webb; "Cooking Up Change: Transforming the School Food and Fitness Environment in Chicago" by Rosa Ramirez; and food safety by Rebecca Rasdall.
The department-sponsored sessions scheduled in conjunction with the symposium will allow speakers to focus on a more specific area. The first session, sponsored by sociology and social work, will be on Tuesday, Oct. 5, at 5:30 p.m. A total of eight concurrent sessions are scheduled on Wednesday, Oct. 6, at 2:15 p.m., sponsored by chemistry/nursing, education/psychology/encounter with cultures, dance, history/modern and classical languages, the Phelps Scholars Program/international education, religion, sociology and social work, and women's studies.
Nursing will sponsor an additional session on Wednesday, Oct. 6, at 3:15 p.m.; philosophy on Thursday, Oct. 7, at 4 p.m.; and biology, economics, management and accounting, and geological and environmental sciences on Friday, Oct. 8, at 3 p.m.
In addition, the Distinguished Lecture Series in Sports Medicine will feature nutritionist Susan Kundrat on Monday, Oct. 4, at 7 p.m. in Winants Auditorium of Graves Hall.
The college's Critical Issues Symposium, first held in 1980, was established to stimulate serious thinking about current issues, and to provide a forum in which the Holland community, students and faculty may all engage in discussion with experts. The college cancels classes for a day to provide an opportunity for the event.
Past topics have included "Genocide," "The Middle East," "World Hunger," "The Family," "Energy," "Civil Rights," "The Quest for Justice: Christian Voices," "Lifeboat Earth: Decisions for Tomorrow," "The Columbus Legacy, 1492-1992," "Race and Social Change in America," "What Future Is in our Genes: Freedom from Disease, Good Investment, Manufactured Humans?," "Sport and American Life," "Feminism and Faith: Implications for Life," "Gold Rush and Ghost Towns: Living with the Internet," "Earth Matters: Daily Decisions, Environmental Echoes," "Putting Science in Its Place: Discovery and Responsibility," "Race and Opportunity: Echoes of Brown v. Board of Education," "Immigration: Shaping and Reshaping America," "Global Health: From Catastrophe to Cure" and "At Water's Edge: Complacency, Thirst, Action."
Dimnent Memorial Chapel is located at 277 College Ave., at College Avenue and 12th Street. Graves Hall is located at 263 College Ave., between 10th and 12th streets.
Additional information about the symposium, including locations and other details concerning the blocks of concurrent focus sessions and departmental sessions, will be available in the printed program distributed during the symposium, and may also be found through the college's website at www.hope.edu/cis.


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