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By Jack Moore
Edwin Encarnacion was a revelation for Toronto in 2012. He hit eight homers and posted a .678 slugging percentage in April, and he never looked back. He hit at least five home runs every month, and he didn't have a month with a slugging percentage under .500. Encarnacion's 42 home runs marked one of just six 40-homer seasons in 2012 and powered him to an 11th-place MVP finish, the first MVP votes of his career.
For his first seven seasons and 786 major league games prior, however, Encarnacion was a fringe major league player. He posted a decent .789 OPS with Cincinnati and Toronto, but he was far too bad at third base to stay on the field -- he picked up the moniker "E5" -- and he wasn't good enough with the bat to warrant consistent playing time at first base or designated hitter.
So when Encarnacion was hitting .119 on April 14, 11 games into 2013 -- the first season of a three-year, $29 million contract extension he inked last summer -- there might have been concern Encarnacion was reverting to the mediocrity that defined his career for its first seven years.
But Edwin Encarnacion didn't just hit for more power than ever before last season. He made significant adjustments to his swing and his approach at the plate. These changes were the engine behind Encarnacion's explosion last season, and they've put him back on track over the past three weeks. Since April 14, Encarnacion has hit a league-best eight home runs with a sharp .274/.330/.560 batting line in 22 games. This is the Encarnacion the Blue Jays became accustomed to last season, and his mechanical tweaks should ensure it's the one they get throughout 2013.
Of these mechanical changes, the most obvious is his follow-through. Encarnacion now finishes his swing with a two-handed follow-through as opposed to the one-handed helicopter-style finish he used at the beginning of his career.
Encarnacion discussed this aspect of his swing, picked up from former major league outfielder Luis Mercedes over the offseason, with John Lott of Toronto's National Post last April.
"[Mercedes] said my swing would be more short and quick if I used both hands," Encarnacion said. "My swing is more compact. I can be more inside the ball and be more consistent."
Prior to 2012, Encarnacion's swing was often defined by an attempt to reach out and pull the ball past the left field foul pole -- the exact opposite of short and inside the ball. Mike Newman, a prospect analyst for FanGraphs and ROTOscouting.com says this is a trap players at all levels can fall into.
"For anybody who plays baseball or softball, they mentally believe the way to generate power is to attack pitches and yank them out to left," Newman, who also played through college, said. "In actuality, this generates less power because you wind up being off-balance."
The problem wasn't one of raw strength. Encarnacion was one of just 20 players to hit five home runs of 450 feet or further (according to ESPN Hit Tracker) from 2007 through 2012. Encarnacion's 6-foot-2, 230 pound frame provided enough oomph even if his penchant to sell out for what he perceived as power left him with a longer -- and less leveraged and forceful -- swing.
Encarnacion still swings hard. "Without a doubt, he takes a vicious and violent cut," said Bernie Pleskoff, a former scout with the Mariners and Diamondbacks who now writes for MLB.com and Rotowire.com. "He doesn't get cheated. That has not changed. He's the type of guy that hits 'no doubt about it' type homers."
For Encarnacion, it's a matter of getting the most out of that strength and violence. To do that, Encarnacion needed to add patience to his approach, and not just in regards to pitch selection.
"The main difference that I have noticed is his ability to wait longer on the pitch into the zone and let the ball come to him more," Pleskoff said. "He is using more patience on the pitches he swings at, and once the pitch arrives he waits a bit longer before swinging. He isn't 'out front' fouling off good pitches to left field as much as in the past."
The result is an Encarnacion who uses more than just left field. You won't see him pushing home runs to right field, but his power zone has shifted from dead left towards center field. He had just 15 home runs to center field in his career prior to 2011; he has 14 between 2012 and 2013. It takes more power to hit it over the deeper center field fences, but his more direct swing has provided it: Encarnacion's average home run distance has increased from 401 feet pre-2012 to 413 feet since.
"I think if he can continue to be patient and selective, and if he waits for the ball to travel, he will keep putting up big numbers." Pleskoff said. "This is not a fluke."
Players like Encarnacion -- a seven-year veteran with 117 home runs already to his name before 2012's outbreak -- can be loathe to change the mechanics and approach responsible for their major league careers. Encarnacion could have remained stuck in the trap of lunging and selling out for power. He could have felt like his new swing was sapping his power early in the process and scrapped it for the comfort of his familiar, one-handed finish. But he stuck with it, and combined with a more patient approach he turned in the first 40-home runs season of his career -- and earned his first big contract.
Edwin Encarnacion's 51 home runs since Opening Day 2012 leads the majors, one better than Miguel Cabrera. On most of those 51 trots around the bases, you can see Encarnacion holding his right hand -- the one he used to drop off the bat -- up at his shoulder as he circles the bases, serving as the perfect reminder of the adjustment that has breathed new life into his career.
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Jack Moore's sports addiction was a lost cause from the moment his older brother mowed a makeshift baseball diamond into his backyard. Now he writes about sports wherever the web will have him. Right now, you can catch him at CBSSports.com, FanGraphs, Advanced NFL Stats, Bucky's 5th Quarter, DisciplesOfUecker.com, RotoWire.com and on Twitter (@jh_moore).


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The Aldrich Alert
A Publication of the Patrick Henry Center for Individual Liberty
by Gary Aldrich - Volume 2, Issue 8
This article appeared on WorldNetDaily.com on Friday, February 14, 2002.
On Tuesday, February 12, 2002, warnings of another possible terrorist attack dominated the news. FBI, and other intelligence gathering agencies said terrorists, possibly inside this country, might try another attack on that very day.
This was of interest because I was returning from California to Virginia, flying American Airlines out of Long Beach. It was a flight that required a change of planes in Dallas, Texas. The terrorists who struck on the 11th of September last year factored in coast-to-coast jet fuel loads when they used airliners as bombs. These days, I'm hedging my bets.
Airline passengers are subjected to intrusive searches and long delays at airports, but don't mind when the searches and delays make sense. But I've seen grandmothers and grandfathers searched old ladies mortified that some foreign-looking security guy without a high school degree is rummaging through their carry on bags.
Teenage kids, clearly of Anglo, African or Latin descent are touched with hands and electric wands by guards determined to find a nail-clipper. Smokers lose lighters at the magnetometer so that they can't light their shoes, and everyone nods approval because nobody wants to die. One senior congressman had to drop his trousers recently to prove he had a hip replacement! Good folks cooperate, grimly inching forward in long lines, hoping the U.S. government knows what it's doing.
But more and more are saying the U.S. government is not really doing the job well, yet. Some fear it's going to take some more deaths, along with the death of the airline industry, as we know it, before our leaders "get it." And if the airline industry goes down, our economy will be damaged for a long time. A hoped-for recovery will simply disappear.
A reminder of how confused, selfish or gutless bureaucrats and politicians are happened as I waited to board my plane. I noticed a Middle Eastern man in the waiting area who was between the ages of 20 and 35. He had a carry-on bag between his feet. He was not behaving in a manner that would make me suspicious, but his appearance was enough. He was a "match."
He fit the profile of the terrorists who had hijacked the aircraft in September. I reviewed what I knew. He had arrived at the airport and was stopped by the police officer at a first checkpoint where he produced evidence of a flight, plus identification. Those two items anybody can get easily. The officer had to notice he was a "match." I'll assume he checked the man as well as he was allowed.
Next, the man had to go through the magnetometer, and obviously he got past that review. Again, I assumed the screeners noticed he was a clear "match."
But the real breakdown of security began when he entered into a large waiting area where vendors and maintenance workers, and other passengers, as well as bag handlers mingled. He could go into the men's room and be alone in a stall where he could retrieve an object left there for him, or he could meet a co-conspirator. I think it's fair to assume that the cleaning crew has not been given a through background investigation. Would the airport security search through every tub of cleanser? What about the many "vendors" who were doing business in the room? Many had the look and clothing typical of Middle Easterners. Do they "hate" America? Are they related to any of the terrorists?
There was one last precious chance to catch this "match" before he got onto that airplane, if he did score a weapon in the waiting area. But the gate screener and the airline employees followed the orders they have been given by the FAA: They selected benign-looking passengers at random for a complete bag and body search, while the Middle Eastern man who fit the terrorist profile ambled down the walkway to the plane.
They left him alone, because to single him out would have subjected them to criticism. They were not ordered to search every Middle Eastern man of a certain age, because the federal government has avoided this issue due to the continuing insanity of political correctness.
When I boarded, he was sitting in the very first seat of the coach section, a prime place from which to launch an assault against the crew or cockpit.
While it's true I had many years as an FBI agent and might be more suspicious of others, this guy looked like any of the terrorists that took those planes down in September, and looked just like any one of the terrorists' photos given to us by the FBI.
But this man matching the description of all the terrorists was not searched that "one last time" because we are locked into politically correct thinking. Political correctness has trumped safety, security, the national economy, our common sense, life itself everything.
It's up to the leadership of this nation to put a stop to this insanity before more people die. I'll wager that another airline terrorist attack will destroy the airline industry, and our fragile economy along with it.
And if the media and Congress would talk about this threat as much as they talk about Enron, I'm certain we'll finally get the FAA into a war footing. We're still playing games with American lives, determined not to offend anybody. This is madness, and it must stop.


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County pension officials are letting off a little steam about their planned trip to Hawaii for a conference in May.
The trip has become statewide news, as the California Watch nonprofit news organization revealed that the San Diego County Employees Retirement Association and three other systems are going for training and networking. Some officials elsewhere decided not to go, after the excursion was revealed.
David Myers, a San Diego County sheriff's lieutenant who serves as chairman of the San Diego County board, received an email from a concerned retirement system member, who shared the exchange with U-T Watchdog. Myers noted that he has served on the board without pay for a decade.
"In those 10 years, I've been to over 100 training seminars, and not once have I heard from you or any other member," Myers wrote. "Not even a thank you. My time to take on this role takes time away from my personal life and family life."
The employee suggested in a follow-up response that Myers and the other pension board members could be trained closer to home or over the Internet. He cited an unscientific U-T Watchdog reader survey showing 87 percent oppose the conference.
Myers said he will not withdraw his travel request.
"I represent all members, including you," Myers wrote. "And to clarify, from those I do represent, you are the only member who has what appears to be strictly personal reasons objecting to attendance."
Myers is scheduled to join board member E.F. "Skip" Murphy and alternate board member Tim Hancock at the Hilton Hawaiian Village from May 19 to 23. The pension system approved $7,950 for the trip.
According to a published schedule, the daily events conclude at 2:30 each afternoon to allow for recreation and networking.
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Half way through The Chalk Man by CJ Tudor and thoroughly enjoying it!
I finally started my ARC of Grady Hendrix's WE SOLD OUR SOULS. I was so excited to get this, roughly a year ago, and then I could never bring myself to crack it open. I think it was because of my general distaste for Horror novels that take place in the world of Rock musicians. I have yet to read one that rang true, and I can't stand the endless passages of:
"He ran his hands lovingly up the frets, caressing high G and making it purr like a kitten with a cooch full of rabid weasels, as the amp squealed the way that Ozzy's sphincter did at Donnington during the "Tribute to Satan" tour....As his fingers bled, he lost himself to the feeling of the strings cutting into them, the pain giving way to the ecstasy that was....ROCK AND ROLL!"
I'm up to page 61, and there has been a little bit of that so far....but I trust Hendrix enough to keep going.
Dude, we must've been separated at birth! I don't buy any novels that feature rock and roll bands. Too much ego-maniacal, nonsensical, floofy bullshit all up in thar!
Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
Kojak is the man.
Always looking to rent out a hidden floor above or below an old library, preferably brick or stone with hidden passageways. No pets (except cats).
I finished reading Racing the Sunrise: Reinforcing America's Pacific Outposts, 1941-1942 by Glen M Williford. I am now reading and enjoying Lost in Darkness by Jeffrey Thomas. I'm still reading Circus Boy Adventure Stories-based on the Circus Boy TV series.
Books are weapons in the war of ideas.
I'm 150 pages into Thomas Harris's Cari Mora and I'm genuinely sad to say it's not very good. Fingers crossed for a rousing second half but I'm not that hopeful.
Three quarters of the way finished with Merrily Watkins Book 3, A Crown of Lights by Phil Rickman.
I'm enjoying it very much and ordered numbers 4, 5, and 6.
Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail.
Ralph Waldo Emerson
I really thought the book picked up in the second half, with all the revelations. I was left with a couple of questions at the end, either questions that weren't answered, or things I just missed as a reader, since there were so many revelations in the last third of the book.
I know this was being compared to King's It & The Body, but to me it most brought to mind the novels Girl Gone & Sarah Pinborough's Behind Her Eyes. I liked both of those books, but I think I liked The Chalk Man a little better. I thought the ending was a little more plausible in TCM, even though it still had it's Scooby Doo stretch at the end, as all these stories seem to have.
I'm looking forward to giving Tudor's next book a try.
I've read a novella and a novel (They Say a Girl Died Here Once) by Sarah Pinborough and I loved both of them. I found Behind Her Eyes in the thrift shop and I'll read it at some point.
Just started Maigret and the Wine Merchant by Georges Simenon, 1970.
Starting The Silence by Tim Lebbon . Also reading The Journal of Jeremy Todd by John Quick.
I just finished The Three Body Problem by Liu Cixin and thoroughly enjoyed it. I resisted the temptation to keep going with the trilogy and decided on a quickie - Joe Lansdale's Prisoner 489. I am thinking I will jump into Justin Cronin's City of Mirrors next, although I may save that for an audiobook.
I finished reading Circus Boy Adventure Stories. It was an excellent mystery based on the Circus Boy TV series. I finished Lost in Darkness by Jeffrey Thomas. This is simply the best book I've read in a long time. Now, I'm reading I'll Bring You The Birds From Out Of The Sky by Brian Hodge and Vessels (Timmy Quinn series-Book 3) by Kealan Patrick Burke.
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The Highland Park I remember from my childhood had safe, tree-lined streets, wonderful stores, movie theatres, clean playgrounds, and a bustling downtown. The school system was considered one of the nation's best. This thriving living environment depended almost entirely on the auto industry. Once there were nearly 20,000 manufacturing jobs in Highland Park (Wilson & Gilchrist A1). Now almost all of them have disappeared. What factors led this once prosperous city into receivership and state control? Highland Park, like Detroit, is a victim of suburban sprawl and the auto manufacturers' decision to decentralize production. Both cities were devastated by the decentralization of the auto plants and the loss of revenue that followed.
While losing its manufacturing jobs, Highland Park was also losing its trees. In her short story, "Stealing Trees," Lisa Lenzo recalls the days before Dutch elm disease when "elms formed a ceiling of leaves a hundred feet up from Highland Park's streets." Within a decade, however, "there wasn't a branch or leaf left in all of Highland Park's sky" (2).
In 1913, Henry Ford opened the first moving assembly line plant on Manchester and Woodward. Later, Chrysler Corporation built its world headquarter in Highland Park on Oakland Avenue. The city was also home to the industrial equipment manufacturer, Excello Corporation. Highland Park was an industrial town with a booming economy, attracting workers from all over the world. But in the 1960s, the Ford Motor Company suspended car production in Highland Park, began making farm tractors at the plant, and later abandoned it altogether. Excello Corporation moved its operation and corporate headquarters from Highland Park to Troy in 1973. In the 1990s Chrysler moved its headquarters to Auburn Hills and most of its production elsewhere. When the auto plants moved out, the workers moved to follow the jobs. Highland Park, like Detroit, experienced the uncertainty of capital mobility.
By the end of the 1960s Highland Park was a predominantly Black and poor city. According to the 2000 U.S. Census, Highland Park's population is 93.4% Black, and 4.1% white. The median household income in 2000 was $17,737, the fourth lowest in Michigan. Lenzo's story reflects Highland Park's identity as a Black city. The idea that two white boys might still live in Highland Park strikes a Black Detroiter as ludicrous: "'I don't think you boys are really from Highland Park,' [he tells them], 'I think you're from one of them suburbs where they let the raggedy white folks live. Taylor, maybe. Or Romulus'"(7). He does not believe that there are any more white people in Highland Park. When he asks if "they let you boys stay in Highland Park," one responds, "For now I guess" (6).
Philip Levine's poem "What Work Is" reflects the underlying indifference that would eventually lead industries to abandon Highland Park:
We stand in the rain in a long line waiting at Ford Highland Park. For work. You know what work is—if you're old enough to read this you know what work is. (18)
Levine's speaker acknowledges the futility of waiting in the rain for a job at Ford's. He understands the politics of getting a factory job in Detroit. He knows that at the end of the line, "a man is waiting who will say, 'No, / we're not hiring today, for any / reason he wants'" (18). The industry is as indifferent to people as to places.
Murray Jackson's poem, "Growing Up Colored" also shows the improbability of getting a job at the auto plants. Levine's speaker understands the futility of waiting in line all day, but there is a slim chance that some of the white applicants may get in the gate. Jackson, on the other hand, realizes being "colored" requires someone inside the plant to speak on their behalf, or they would not be hired. Henry Ford hired Donald Marshall, a Black policeman, to help select suitable Black workers. Jackson recalls the search of his father and his friend for employment at the Highland Park plant:
The Old Boy walks from Canfield and Woodward to Mansfield, Highland Park Ford Plant, with Herman Davis and Sam Rustin, looking to find Mr. Henry's man, Marshall, who could say these boys are alright. (32)
If African Americans did not have Marshall to say they were okay, they would not be hired. Once they got the job, however, they had to jabberwock under "the pains of being colored" through the work week (32). Black Men were exploited, given the dirtiest jobs in the plant, and always identified as "colored" workers.
The residents of this once vibrant city struggle to stay afloat amid the abandoned, rotting buildings, burned out storefronts, and decayed apartment buildings. Labor poet Leon Chamberlain describes the abandoned Highland Park Ford plant in his poem "Highland Park":
...Ghosts, watching ghosts, abounded in the silence, imposing their illusory will. Unseen hands tending unseen mills, raised short neck hairs. Three generations of ghost autoworkers whispered, with hushed, groaning voices from dusty corners, revealing billions of sweaty days birthing millions of Tin Lizzys. (84)
This poem is an elegy for the abandoned Ford plant and the workers whose spirits can be felt amid the "ruined wrecked cranes, rusting, / hulked abandoned, misted in fog " (85).
The Model T Plaza, a strip mall, now sits where, as Lowell Boileau says, "the most famous factory in history once produced 1000 'Tin Lizzies' a day."
Poet and Writer Zola Masembuko (nee Joan Hooks-Polk), whose work has been published in The Maxis Review and The Rectangle, grew up in Highland Park and now lives in Detroit. She has a B.A in English from Marygrove College.
Photography by Anna Fedor.
Boileau, Lowell. "Home page." The Fabulous Ruins of Detroit. 28 Dec. 2004.
Chamberlain, Leon. "Highland Park." Abandon Automobile: Detroit City Poetry 2001. Eds. Melba Boyd and M.L. Liebler. Detroit: Wayne State UP, 2001.
Jackson, Murray. "Growing Up Colored." Bobweaving Detroit The Selected Poems of Murray Jackson. Eds. Ted Person and Katherine V. Lindberg. Detroit: Wayne State UP, 2004.
Lenzo, Lisa. "Stealing Trees." Within The Lighted City. Iowa City: U of Iowa P, 1997.
Levine, Philip. "What Work Is." What Work Is. New York: Knopf, 1992.
Wilson, Janet and Brenda Gilchrist. "Closing May Doom Once-Wealthy Highland Park." Detroit News 9 September 1992 A1+.


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There are many notions of dimension : algebraic, topological, Hausdorff, Minkowski... (and others). While the topological one generalize the algebraic one, the last three need not coincide for every sets. Yet it is generally acknowledged that the Hausdorff dimension has "nice enough" properties to work with (the interest of the Minkowski dimension lies mainly in the fact that it's easier to compute).
So my main question is this : is there an axiomatic approach that would tidy up this mess ? For example, is there a result of the form : if you ask these axioms then the only map from "reasonnable sets" to the set of positive real integers is the Hausdorff dimension ? (or another one ?). If so what are they ?
Are there also a clearly identified list of properties that you would ask from any notion of dimension ? I give the following as an example :
- it should coincide with the algebraic dimension for finite dimensional vector spaces
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"The central doctrine of Christianity, then, is not that God is a bastard. It is, in the words of the late Dominican theologian Herbert McCabe, that if you don't love you're dead, and if you do, they'll kill you."--Terry Eagleton
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Baruch House Publishing here announces its undertaking to republish the Matthew Bible — the original English Bible, first published in 1537 — with its commentaries and notes, edited for the 21st century.For we, upon whom the ends of the ages have come, have need of this pure translation in all its faithfulness, and also the teachings and warnings of this martyrs' Bible.
If God is willing, Baruch House will republish the Matthew Bible, which was the work primarily of three Englishmen, William Tyndale, Miles Coverdale, and John Rogers. First published in 1537, we are working from the 1549 edition. It will be minimally edited for modern readers. We trust that this is the Lord's leading for us.
We love God's word. His word is spirit, and it is life. We are indescribably blessed to be restoring the Matthew Bible to give to the world again.
It was William Tyndale's most important work to translate the Holy Scriptures faithfully for English-speaking people so that, as he would say, they could read "the word of their soul's health". He wished to render it plainly so that even "the boy that drives the plough" could understand. In this spirit, Baruch House undertakes to render the Matthew Bible in more modern English, as plainly as God in mercy shall grant, while maintaining all its flavour, meaning, truth, and beauty. This will be the New Matthew Bible.
Why do we need another Bible version? In the first place, this is not just another version. The Matthew Bible was the real primary version of the English Bible, upon which the King James and Geneva Bibles were based. This alone proves its great worth, and explains why we call the Matthew Bible "the original Bible". We hope to show in articles on this website, and on Scribd.com, just how well God's word is translated and annotated in the Matthew Bible, and how it brings needed light where winds of false doctrine have obscured God's truth. This is an age when Bible versions proliferate. But many have weakened the Holy Scriptures. We believe it is God's will to restore this translation, which has been forgotten and neglected for too long.
We wish also to honour the authors of the Matthew Bible, and to make known some of Tyndale's teachings that have long been lost to the Christian reader. Tyndale was a loving and righteous man, whose writings reveal great insight into the darker mysteries of the faith and great godliness. But he himself would urge us to test all that he says against the Scriptures. He did not seek followers among men, but to make all men followers of God's word.
We pray that our labour will be a blessing unto many who share our love and faith, and many more besides; and also that it may please the Lord our God.
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MILWAUKEE -- When they acquired Martin Prado from the Braves in January, the D-backs talked about his reputation as an unselfish player.
Now that they've seen him up close, they are even more impressed.
"For me it's the selflessness that he shows," manager Kirk Gibson said. "I don't know that I've seen anybody have such an influence. We've all done it in our career, it's just really strong, it's a strong message."
Gibson pointed to the way that with no one out Prado grounded out to the right side of the infield in order to move Gerardo Parra over from second to third in the sixth inning of Friday's game.
Studies of the run-expectancy percentage have shown that there is a slightly better chance for a team to score if there's a runner at third with one out than a runner at second with no one out.
While there is an argument to be made that you want one of your better hitters like Prado trying to drive the ball in a situation like that, Gibson said that Prado was sending a message to his teammates.
"In the end there's going to come a time when we need to get that guy over, so it's important that we establish that if we've got to do it, we do it," Gibson said. "I think overall you're trying to establish an atmosphere of us and counting on each other. I think it's been a huge emphasis early in the season so far."
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It's an absolute disgrace that Google/Droid/Samsung/HTC can't solve problems like WiFi roaming in 2012.
I will not even mention the 'support' for VPN.
Nor the malware-ized software.
Nor the pathetic 'choice' END USERS are required to judge and agree to about access to resources when installing software.
I have emerged myself in the Android world, putting all my iDevices in a locked box since 3 months and replace them with Samsung [tablets] and HTC [phones], and as much as I like the larger displays, the freedom to tinker, the whole experience has shown me one thing: Android with it's fragmented [per hardware manufacturer, per device] support and the silly fail to solve rudimentary issues like WiFi roaming [do not get me started on application availability across devices!], is just too olt skool to expose but the choice-less consumers to.
Within a couple of weeks I have hold up to my promise to my employer [a rather large telecom company] to at least give Android a shot, but I will celebrate the day my devices will 'just work' and I can focus on work rather then geting the infrastructure to cater for broken consumer devices. It has been a good experience, but only to fortify my expectations that Android with it's manufacturer driven 'support' and 'upgrades' is just not ready for business.
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At an event in Los Angeles yesterday, Twitter CEO Evan Williams got a chance to bend the ear of Tibet's ruler-in-exile, Tenzin Gyatso, better known as the Dalai Lama.
When Williams asked the spiritual and political leader if the latter might join Twitter, "he laughed," according to Williams.
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Gyatso is on a U.S. tour, and earlier met with President Barack Obama -- also a big Twitter user.
That meeting was fraught with diplomatic meaning: Nobody wants to anger the Chinese government, which holds our debt, manufactures our iPhones, and considers Gyatso an enemy of the state.
Twitter is already banned in China, though recently President Hu Jintao created an account on a competing, local service.
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Hocking College: Thinking Globally in Southeastern Ohio
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Flags from 50-plus countries line the long drive to the main campus of Hocking College in Nelsonville, Ohio. They're a reminder that this two-year college in rural Appalachia, nearly an hour's drive from the nearest interstate highway, attracts students from around the world. "Think globally, act locally" may be a cliché in some circles, but it explains how Hocking College actually operates—and has for most of four decades.
It's impressive enough that Hocking trains more nurses than any other school in Ohio, has Ohio's only aquaculture program, and offers the only two-year degree in industrial ceramics in the nation. But visit the Grand Canyon or the Smokies, and you're apt to encounter a National Park Service ranger with a degree in historical interpretation or wildlife management from Hocking, which gives more degrees in natural resource conservation than any school in the nation. Visit Jamaica or the Bahamas, and the chances are good that key employees at your hotel or restaurant will be graduates of the hotel and restaurant management and culinary arts programs at Hocking, which has training contracts with major resort operators in the Caribbean.
During 2005, Hocking enrolled about 8,000 individual students. The school has about 500 people on its payroll, and its nearly $40 million budget has a huge impact on the area economy. And a fact sheet from the campus press office reads almost like a travel brochure: "students from all Ohio counties, 33 states, and 58 countries . . . training programs and sister college agreements in Jamaica, the Bahamas, St. Kitts, St. Lucia, Antigua, Turks and Caicos, Korea, Canada, Brazil, England, Argentina, Mexico, and Venezuela."
This institution with a worldwide footprint would have been unimaginable nearly 40 years ago when the college's history began. The school was first chartered as the Tri-County Joint Vocational School and Technical Center to serve three sparsely populated low-income counties in Appalachian Ohio—Athens, Hocking, and Perry Counties. John Light, president of Hocking from then until now, doubts that the college would have survived and is sure that it would never have grown if several things had not happened. A tax levy and a $1.1 million grant from the Appalachian Regional Commission (ARC) funded a broader post-secondary program. The resulting two-year college became Tri-County Technical Institute. After several name changes and growth beyond what anyone ever envisioned, the college adopted its present name, Hocking College, in 1991.
Light notes that the Hocking development strategy contrasted sharply with that of many community colleges and technical schools in Appalachia, which draw almost their entire student bodies from nearby areas. "We took a different approach," Light says. "We brought people from all over the world into our unique programs. And kept more people here because of our health programs and our natural-resources programs. We didn't educate people to leave. We brought people in from the outside; that caused the growth."
Real-World Work ExperienceLight's estimate is that the local economy adds one new job for every ten new students who enroll at Hocking. He emphasizes the school's commitment to hands-on training with instructors who have years of practical experience. Moreover, the college makes a point of providing real-world work opportunities. (For example, the school operates a first-class hotel, an upscale downtown restaurant, and a cluster of historic log cabins that are tourist attractions in their own right.)
Mary Yanko, a nursing student from Logan, Ohio, remembers observing a cesarean section on the first day of her obstetrics course. On another occasion, nervous about how to change a dressing on a patient's injured foot, she recalls how the instructor got down on hands and knees to talk her through the procedure. "They don't stand back with their hands folded," Yanko says. "They get into the thick of things with you and take the extra time to make sure that when you get out, you're a good nurse."
Nursing is Hocking's largest single program area, and there's a waiting list to get in it. Sixty first-year students and 50 second-year students are accepted each quarter, so a lot of soon-to-be-nurses are flowing through the system at any one time. After one year, graduates qualify to take exams to become licensed practical nurses (LPNs). After an additional three quarters, with time off for work between degrees, they qualify to take state board exams to become registered nurses (RNs). The pass rate for Hocking-trained nurses taking these exams is almost 100 percent. During the most recent year, it was exactly 100 percent for RNs (145 out of 145) and 99.4 percent for LPNs (158 out of 159).
The program meets market demand for nurses by making extensive use of the area's existing health-care assets. Molly Weiland, dean of the School of Health and Nursing, says Hocking places interns with almost all health institutions in the surrounding area: eight hospitals and six skilled nursing facilities, plus various mental health organizations, school systems, and clinics. Partners include hospitals as far away as Columbus, Ohio, and Parkersburg, West Virginia—some of which offer scholarships.
Responding to Market ConditionsAnother key to Hocking's growth is its ability to add or change programs in response to changing market conditions. For example, one of Hocking's original programs was in fish and wildlife management. Lloyd Wright, coordinator for the Fish Management and Aquaculture program, says that for years almost all graduates on the fish-management side of the program went into public-sector jobs. The aquaculture program was established in 1996 to meet a growing need for trained personnel, and today about half of its graduates take jobs in the private sector. Wright expects this trend to continue, noting that over the past decade membership in the Ohio Aquaculture Association has risen from 6 to about 100. "Look at any other nation," Wright says. "Fish is the primary protein source. The U.S. will follow the path of the world."
Hocking has its own fish production facility, primarily devoted to raising yellow perch, bass, catfish, sunfish, and shrimp, but now branching out to include tilapia. In addition to learning how to care for the fish themselves, students learn masonry, electrical wiring, and welding—even tool making—in order to be able to handle emergencies. "If you're working in a facility and something breaks down, you have to fix it," Wright explains. "You can have 364 perfect days and then have a whole year's investment shot because of three hours without oxygen due to a mechanical breakdown."
John O'Brien, who enrolled in Hocking in his late 40s after an accident ended his career in construction, is confident that aquaculture will offer him a second career when he graduates this fall. His long experience, including time as a supervisor, qualifies him as a sophisticated consumer of educational services. "Lloyd has forgotten more [about aquaculture] than I'll ever know," he says, "and he has contacts with hundreds of state, federal, and private fish farms. I think the program is excellent. I don't know if it could be any better."
A final key to Hocking's growth has been a willingness to take risks. The college's newest department, established in 2003, offers a program in alternative energy and fuel cells. Fuels cells create electricity from hydrogen, natural gas, or other sources, rather like fuel-operated batteries that produce energy by a chemical reaction rather than combustion. Because they have higher efficiencies and lower emission rates than combustion engines, they're expected to make a major contribution to meeting future energy needs. Stationary fuel cells already provide backup electrical power to some buildings (including the campus police offices), and automobile manufacturers say they can bring fuel cell vehicles to market as early as 2010. Even though fuel cells are hardly in common use yet, Hocking students are learning how to build, install, test, modify, and troubleshoot them.
Although technologies like fuel cells now supply only a small fraction of the nation's energy, Justin Lawrence, a student from Parkersburg, West Virginia, is convinced that rising fuel prices will change that. He appreciates the future-oriented perspective and accessibility of the Hocking faculty. "The instructors are really knowledgeable," Lawrence says. "They're always coming to you with things they've read. Some days we just talk about what's going on in the world. It's like we're all learning together."
The centerpiece of the Hocking College energy program will be a new energy institute, expected to open in fall 2008, in Hocking County. (The college's main campus is in Athens County.) Instructional tools will include online 3-D simulations of new technologies and interactive gaming scenarios involving their use. Moreover, consistent with Hocking's hands-on learning philosophy, buildings will rely on alternative energy sources such as solar power, wind, and fuel cells. In effect, all of the institute's facilities will become laboratories in their own right, permitting demonstrations and experiments on a real-world scale.
Hocking acquired land for the institute adjacent to an industrial park, and Jerry Hutton, who directs the Alternative Energy and Fuel Cells program, expects the institute to attract business start-ups in the alternative energy field. It's another instance of how the college invests aggressively in the future of southeastern Ohio, treating on-the-job training and job creation as two sides of the same coin. "Once companies know these educational facilities are across the road, they'll come," Light says. "That's how we stay ahead of the curve. If you wait until you need it, you'll never get there from here."Fred D. Baldwin is a freelance writer based in Carlisle, Pennsylvania.
Hocking College President John Light:
John Light has been president of Hocking College since its founding in 1968. Those 39 years make him by far the longest-serving college president in Ohio, and possibly in the nation. If that long tenure suggests an administrator adept at making safe, uncontroversial choices, it would be hard to imagine a less accurate conclusion.
Hocking College, created as a technical and vocational school to serve three rural counties, did not develop its international reputation by playing it safe. Roy Palmer, a senior vice president, chuckles at a visitor's comment that Hocking's growth must have required at least a few bold decisions. "Bold," Palmer repeats. "That's the right word for John."
A high percentage of students at Hocking College are "non-traditional," meaning significantly older than most recent high school graduates. That label fits Light's own educational history. His resume shows an undergraduate degree and a master's degree from Kent State University (Kent, Ohio) and a Ph.D. from Ohio State University (Columbus). But the resume also notes that Light didn't begin college until age 30, long after graduating from New Philadelphia High School and serving in the U.S. Navy.
Light's resume also mentions jobs that required him to use his hands as well as his brains: construction worker, tool-and-die maker (apprentice and journeyman), and industrial technician. It adds that he earned all his academic degrees while working full time. Hocking students struggling to balance conflicting demands of work and studies can reflect that the president of their college understands what they're up against—and demonstrates what can be accomplished by hard work and a willingness to embrace change.
Light's leadership has been recognized far beyond the boundaries of Appalachian Ohio. He's served on the Small Business Administration National Advisory Council and on the board of directors of the National Small Business Development Center. He's a past president of the Ohio College Association and of the National Alliance of Community and Technical Colleges. But it's almost certainly deliberate that his resume's list of current organizational memberships begins with the World Future Society.
Light's ability to take a long view helps to explain the college's growth. "If there's a secret to it, other than a lot of hard work," Palmer says, "it's identifying a local trend that's also a factor in global economies."
There's no question that matching local assets with regional, national, and global market realities accounts for many of the college's programs—many of which have received ARC support. For example, eastern Ohio has a long history of brick and pottery making. So Hocking now offers the nation's only two-year program in industrial ceramics. Similar insights have made the school a leader in training for the hospitality and aquaculture industries, and in natural resource management training. It's also why the school is moving aggressively on training people in technologies to cope with rising energy costs.
Present and former members of the Hocking College administrative staff paint a consistent picture of Light's leadership style. They characterize him as superb at spotting big-picture issues, imaginative in visualizing Hocking's place in the picture, and, once a decision is made, skilled in delegating responsibility for results.
Candace S. Vancko, president of the State University of New York at Delhi, was a vice president at Hocking for six years. She sums up her recollection of Light as follows: "He is a very demanding boss. He expects you to work long hours. But you also have a lot of opportunity with him. He's really a visionary."
Fred D. Baldwin is a freelance writer based in Carlisle, Pennsylvania.


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A Delicate Balance
Constructing a Conservation Culture in the South Carolina Lowcountry
Angela C. Halfacre
Foreword by Cynthia Barnett
An interdisciplinary study of conservation efforts and
attitudes in the Carolina lowcountry
Sustainability of the natural environment and of our society has become one of the most urgent challenges facing modern Americans. Communities across the country are seeking a viable pattern of growth that promotes prosperity, protects the environment, and preserves the distinctive quality of life and cultural heritage of their regions. The coastal zone of South Carolina is one of the most endangered, culturally complex regions in the state and perhaps in all of the American South. A Delicate Balance examines how a multilayered culture of environmental conservation and sustainable development has emerged in the lowcountry of South Carolina. Angela C. Halfacre, a political scientist, describes how sprawl shock, natural disaster, climate change, and other factors spawned and sustain—but at times also threaten and hinder—the culture of conservation.
Since Hurricane Hugo in 1989, the coastal region of South Carolina has experienced unprecedented increases in residential and commercial development. A Delicate Balance uses interdisciplinary literature and ethnographic, historical, and spatial methods to show how growing numbers of lowcountry residents, bolstered by substantial political, corporate, and media support, have sought to maintain the region's distinctive sense of place as well as its fragile ecology. The diverse social and cultural threads forming the fabric of the lowcountry conservation culture include those who make their living from the land, such as African American basket makers and multigenerational farmers, as well as those who own, manage, and develop the land and homeowner association members. Evolving perceptions, policies, and practices that characterize community priorities and help to achieve the ultimate goal of sustainability are highlighted here.
As Halfacre demonstrates, maintaining the quality of the environment while accommodating residential, commercial, and industrial growth is a balancing act replete with compromises. The book documents the origins, goals, programs, leaders, tactics, and effectiveness of a conservation culture. A Delicate Balance deftly illustrates that a resilient culture of conservation that wields growing influence in the lowcountry has become an important regional model for conservation efforts across the nation.
A Delicate Balance also includes a foreword by journalist Cynthia Barnett, author of Blue Revolution: Unmaking America's Water Crisis and Mirage: Florida and the Vanishing Water of the Eastern U.S.
Angela C. Halfacre teaches in the Departments of Earth and Environmental Sciences and Political Science at Furman University in Greenville, South Carolina. She also serves as the director of Furman's David E. Shi Center for Sustainability.
"The book provides an exhaustive record of the singular Lowcountry conservation movement, an invaluable primer on how the movement has managed contemporary conflicts between development and conservation."—The Charleston (S.C.) Post & Courier
"A Delicate Balance thoroughly documents the rise of the conservation movement in the Lowcountry, leaving the reader with a sense of having read a well-told story and a reliable chronicle of the chain of events that significantly altered land-use patterns along the coast. Without our visionary leaders of conservation, it is certain that this book would have been entitled Paradise Lost."—The Charleston (S.C.) Mercury
"Having grown up on the mossy banks of the Edisto River and spent my summers on Edisto Island, I can personally attest to the wonders of the South Carolina lowcountry. In Angela Halfacre this beautiful and threatened region has at last found its chronicler. There are many stories needing telling about conservationists and others in the lowcountry, and Halfacre is very good at telling them."—James Gustave Speth, author of America the Possible: Manifesto for a New Economy
"Hope that a new generation of conservationists has arisen and coalesced is the core of A Delicate Balance. . . . Halfacre documents the rise and maturation of a culture of conservation among individuals, families, grassroots organizations, communities, planners, politicians, ethnic groups, even developers. Her honest look at what has happened on Hilton Head and beyond is not a warm and fuzzy story. But she has found a backbone gaining strength that may yet save an incredible place."—Hilton Head Island (S.C.) Packet
"Throughout the book Haflacre relies heavily on storytelling, making it easy for readers to get a feel for the communities she write about and understand the information being presented. . . . A Delicate Balance doesn't offer a prescription for the future, but rather seeks to give people an understanding of what has and is taking place and why, it's so special."—Pawley's Island (S.C.) Coastal Observer
"The South Carolina Lowcountry is an incomparably beautiful national treasure, rich with sumptuous vistas, beaches, marshes, live oaks, long-leaf pines, inlets, creeks, hummocks, and more. No longer a secret, the region is loved, visited, and occupied by more and more people each year. Angela Halfacre presents an optimistic picture of the positive steps that have been taken, especially in recent history, to help protect, manage, and carefully guide growth in the Lowcountry. More importantly, she also discusses the dangers of unwise, unmanaged, and unplanned growth and development—a valuable lesson for citizens and policymakers alike. A Delicate Balance encourages and challenges current and future residents of our precious South Carolina coast to accept our responsibility for stewardship of this special part of our planet. It is up to all of us to collectively care for its delicate, beautiful nature for the generations to come."—The Honorable Joseph P. Riley, Jr., mayor of Charleston
"Over the last quarter of a century, the conservation movement changed the trajectory and the future of South Carolina as hundreds of thousands of acres of land were protected, developments reconfigured, highways rerouted or deauthorized, and a culture of conservation emerged. Angela Halfacre is to be commended for this compelling and overdue assessment of the successful strategies, organizations, and leaders of the conservation movement. A Delicate Balance provides valuable insight into this important period of our state's history, with lessons about how this essential task can be enhanced as we face the challenges of a new century."—Dana Beach, Coastal Conservation League
"The lowcountry's conservation culture is not always harmonious. A Delicate Balance shows how the region's political, social, and cultural threads have become woven so tightly around common goals that it can endure—much like a unique coiled basket woven from historic memory with grasses harvested from the region's singular marshlands."—Cynthia Barnett, from the foreword
(2012) 6 x 9
344 pages
44 illustrations
hardcover, $29.95s
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Eggert Novi Travnik
Authoritarian Temptation
October 2004
In 2002, the UK Department for International Development (DFID) asked ESI to undertake a large research project on governance and obstacles to reform in Bosnia-Herzegovina. A team of ESI researchers, led by Marcus Cox, produced a series of case studies on public policy.
In 2004, a final report The Authoritarian Temptation concluded that:
"the dominant feature of government in Bosnia is its passivity in the face of this social and economic crisis. In the most critical development areas industrial policy, agriculture, infrastructure development, natural-resource management, education and training, social welfare we have found a vacuum of credible policies."
The report found that the legacy of socialist self-management persisted across all levels of government, with many semi-private institutions using public resources without control by elected authorities. This lack of accountability was reinforced by a popular "cult of the expert" (strucnjak), which allowed Bosnian governments to operate without accountability to the public. In post-war Bosnia, it was the public administration that was the true privileged class.
"As industry collapsed, public administration became the main source of employment for the urban population. Almost all the employment growth in recent years has been in the administration. Public servants were able to protect themselves from the decline in living standards affecting the rest of the population by demanding relatively good salaries and benefits."
- ESI report: Post-industrial society and the authoritarian temptation (11 October 2004)
- Resource kit: Documents on the Political Economy of Bosnia and Herzegovina (2003)


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The Obama administration is fighting to block access to names of visitors to the White House, taking up the Bush administration argument that a president doesn't have to reveal who comes calling to influence policy decisions.
Documents on White House visitor logs
- Judicial Watch lawsuit for visitor logs
- Secret Service denial of msnbc.com appeal
- White House reply to msnbc.com on visitor logs
- White House disclosure policy
- White House settlement letter to CREW
- White House limited release of information
- CREW request for health industry visitor logs
- CREW request for coal industry visitor logs
- CREW request for injunction
- Request by msnbc.com for all visitors
- Request by CREW for coal industry execs
- Secret Service denial letter on coal industry
- First opinion by Judge Royce Lamberth
- Second opinion by Judge Lamberth
- Obama administration response
- Amicus brief by National Security Archive
- Amicus brief by Judicial Watch
- CREW annual tax return
- Judicial Watch annual tax return
Despite President Barack Obama's pledge to introduce a new era of transparency to Washington, and despite two rulings by a federal judge that the records are public, the Secret Service has denied msnbc.com's request for the names of all White House visitors from Jan. 20 to the present. It also denied a narrower request by the nonpartisan watchdog group Citizens for Responsibility and Ethics in Washington, which sought logs of visits by executives of coal companies.
Updated: CREW says it filed suit Tuesday against the Department of Homeland Security, which oversees the Secret Service. Here's a copy of CREW's complaint.
"We are deeply disappointed," said CREW attorney Anne L. Weismann, "that the Obama administration is following the same anti-transparency policy as the Bush administration when it comes to White House visitor records. Refusing to let the public know who visits the White House is not the action of a pro-transparency, pro-accountability administration."
Updated: The White House reiterated that the policy is under review. See transcript below.
Groups that advocate open government have argued that it's vital to know the names of White House visitors, who may have an outsized influence on policy matters.
The visitor logs have been released in only a few isolated cases, most notably records of visits by lobbyist Jack Abramoff to the Bush White House, and in the "filegate" investigation of the Clinton White House. Only the Bush and Obama administrations are known to have made an argument in court that the visitor logs should be private.
The Obama administration is arguing that the White House visitor logs are presidential records — not Secret Service agency records, which would be subject to the Freedom of Information Act.The administration ought to be able to hold secret meetings in the White House, "such as an elected official interviewing for an administration position or an ambassador coming for a discussion on issues that would affect international negotiations," said Obama spokesman Ben LaBolt.
These same arguments, made by the Bush administration, were rejected twice by a federal judge. The visitor logs are created by the Secret Service and maintained by the Secret Service, U.S. District Judge Royce Lamberth ruled in 2007 and again this January. CREW had requested records of visits to the Bush White House, as well as the residence of Vice President Dick Cheney, by leaders of Religious Right organizations.
The Bush administration appealed Lamberth's decision, and the Obama administration has continued to press that appeal.
"It is the government's position," the Secret Service wrote last week to msnbc.com in denying access to the visitor logs, "that the vast majority, if not all, of the records ... are not agency records subject to the FOIA. Rather, these records are records governed by the Presidential Records Act" and "remain under the exclusive legal custody and control of the White Office and the Office of the Vice President. After the resolution of this litigation, we will respond further to your request if necessary."
The visitor records are kept in two databases:
- Worker and Visitor Entry System (WAVES). This Secret Service database includes information submitted to the Secret Service about individuals who have a planned visit to the White House. This information includes the name of the pass holder submitting the request, the date of the request, the time and location of the planned visit and the nature of the visit or the person to be visited. This information may be updated with the actual date and time of entry and exit. Msnbc.com also requested lists submitted to the Secret Service of groups or delegations of visitors with planned visits to the White House.
- Access Control Records System (ACES). This Secret Service database includes information generated when a pass holder, worker or visitor swipes a permanent or temporary pass over an electronic reader at entrances or exits. This information includes the name of the visitor, the badge number, the post or location, and the date and time of entry or exit.
No private information requested
Msnbc.com excluded from its request any private information on the White House visitors. It asked that the Secret Service delete from the logs any dates of birth, Social Security numbers, and home addresses (other than city and state).
In addition, msnbc.com asked the Secret Service to exclude information on security precautions and the results of background checks on prospective visitors.
The Bush White House had taken several steps to close off access to the visitor logs, steps repeatedly rejected by the federal judge.
In May 2006, the Bush White House signed a memorandum of understanding with the Secret Service, declaring that the logs are agency records, under White House control.
In October 2006, CREW sought records of visits by nine religious leaders: James Dobson, Gary L. Bauer, Wendy Wright, Louis P. Sheldon, Andrea Lafferty, Paul Weyrich, Tony Perkins, Donald Wildmon and Jerry Falwell.
The Bush position was rejected in December 2007 by Judge Lamberth, a former federal prosecutor who was appointed to the bench by President Ronald Reagan. Lamberth gave the White House 20 days to hand over the public records. But CREW did not get the visitor logs.
Inside the White HouseIn September 2008, Homeland Security said that it did not plan to release the visitor logs, claiming that the visitor logs were protected by the presidential communication privilege in the law.
Judge Lamberth ruled again, denying that claim on Jan. 9. The judge wrote that a simple list of visitors is not a communication at all, because it includes no details on the topics discussed during a meeting, and therefore is not protected by a presidential communication privilege.
The Bush administration appealed on Jan. 14, a week before the end of President Bush's term of office.
In late January and again in May, the Obama administration had opportunities to change course, when it filed papers in the appeals court, but stuck with the Bush position.
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In February, the White House spokesman, LaBolt, told msnbc.com that the policy was under review. "We are reviewing our policy on access to visitor logs and related litigation involving the previous administration to determine how we can ensure that policymaking in this administration happens in an open and transparent way, and that we take appropriate measures to ensure that we are operating in a secure environment."
But last week, in denial letters to msnbc.com and CREW, the Secret Service continued to cite the Bush position.
Asked Monday whether the White House plans to continue to oppose release of the records, White House spokesman LaBot said the policy is still under review. He also cited a list of "the unprecedented steps the administration has taken to promote openness and transparency." These include instructing all agencies to adopt a presumption in favor of disclosure in Freedom of Information Act decisions, and overturning the practice of allowing other executives, aside from the president, to assert executive privilege to block access to an administration's records.
Unpersuaded was the attorney for the watchdog group CREW, which was formed in 2003 during the Bush administration to increase open government.
"It's great that President Obama made this commitment to transparency," attorney Weismann said. "But now you need to make good on it."
Here's an official transcript of White House spokesman Robert Gibbs discussing the issue at Tuesday's press briefing:
Q What's the policy going to be on release of the names of White House visitors?
MR. GIBBS: The policy -- as you know, I think many of you know, this has involved -- visitor logs have been involved in some litigation dating back to some time in 2006. The White House is reviewing that policy based on some of that litigation.
Q So it's just you're not going either way on it now, and you're not refusing to --
MR. GIBBS: We're reviewing what has been the policy of -- the previous policy.
Q Who is doing that review?
MR. GIBBS: The White House Counsel's Office and other people in the administration.
Q What's the length of the review?
MR. GIBBS: I don't know the exact timeline.
Q Is there a mandate to be more transparent than the previous administration?
MR. GIBBS: I think we ran on that --
Q In this specific regard?
MR. GIBBS: That's what's under review.
Q Is that the goal?
MR. GIBBS: What's the goal?
Q Isn't that the goal, to be more transparent on these visitor logs than the previous administration?
MR. GIBBS: The goal is -- and I think the President, who underscored his commitment to transparency on his first full day in office -- this is not a contest between this administration or that administration, or any administration; it's to uphold the principle of open government.
Q Why would the President have any objection to the public knowing who is coming in here to visit?
MR. GIBBS: I think we've taken actions to let people know who are. I think again, Peter, this dates back to litigation long before we ever showed up.
Q Do you think you might have to uphold precedent here, possibly?
MR. GIBBS: That's part of what's being reviewed by the Counsel's Office.
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