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This data file contains school district-level data from the following two sources: (1) the National Institute of Education (NIE) Special Tabulations of 1970 Census data, retabulated to 1973-1974 school district boundaries, and (2) the 1970 Census of Population and Housing Fifth Count data. The data in this collection were extracted from the 1976-1977 Merged Federal File produced by AUI Policy Research. Since some districts on the 1976-1977 Merged Federal File had consolidated by 1978-1979, NIE Special Tabulations data for these districts were combined. The Census data file was created in three steps. First, a skeleton file was created, containing one record for each school district on the 1978-1979 Merged Federal File. Each record on the skeleton file contained those data items in the School District Identification segment on the Merged Federal File. Second, the NIE Special Tabulations data were merged by the Office of Education (OE) state code and Local Education Agency (LEA) code to the skeleton file. Finally, Census Fifth Count records were merged by OE state code and LEA code to the skeleton file.
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Dan Hill needs to make some serious improvements and then step onstage!
so i've got the confirmation "big" dan hill will compet on fibo so the infos is good thanks mr german and guys at team andro !
Hope Flex places in the top 3! Smaller than most of the other competitors, but he kills them in a lot of other areas.
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Half a decade has passed since the bursting of a huge asset-price bubble, and the U.S. economy is still depressed. More than ten million Americans are jobless, and many more are working part time. The gross domestic product has yet to recover its pre-bust level. In Florida and other areas where the speculative frenzy ran hot, vast developments stand empty. Overseas, things are no better, and in some places they're worse. Britain looks much like America. In Continental Europe, a debt crisis is wreaking havoc. Democratically elected governments appear powerless to turn things around. Political extremism is on the rise.
So conditions are grim when, on New Year's Day, 1935, the English economist John Maynard Keynes mails a letter to George Bernard Shaw. "I believe myself to be writing a book on economic theory which will largely revolutionize—not, I suppose, at once but in the course of the next ten years—the way the world thinks about economic problems," Keynes tells his friend. "I can't expect you, or anyone else, to believe this at the present stage. But for myself I don't merely hope what I say,—in my own mind, I'm quite sure." Keynes is right. When "The General Theory of Employment, Interest and Money" appears, in February, 1936, it provides an intellectual justification for the large-scale public-works programs that Keynes has been advocating for years, and that F.D.R.'s Administration has recently launched as part of the New Deal. Keynes argues against the idea that the economy will recover on its own, and in favor of active measures—the manipulation of public expenditures, taxes, and interest rates—to spur growth and employment. His theory will become the keynote of a new era of economic policymaking. The main impediment to such policies, Keynes writes, is the lingering influence of outmoded theories:
The ideas of economists and political philosophers, both when they are right and when they are wrong, are more powerful than is commonly understood. Indeed the world is ruled by little else. Practical men, who believe themselves to be quite exempt from any intellectual influences, are usually the slaves of some defunct economist. Madmen in authority, who hear voices in the air, are distilling their frenzy from some academic scribbler of a few years back.
Today, some regard Keynes himself as that academic scribbler, entrancing a generation of mindless followers. For many others, he's the economist whose sweeping theory, shaped by a Great Depression, remains the surest guide out of our current woes. In the wake of the global financial crisis of 2007-09, President George W. Bush and President Barack Obama both launched tax-relief and spending initiatives designed to stimulate growth. Nicolas Sarkozy, in France, and Gordon Brown, in Britain, proclaimed the end of the free-market era. We were all Keynesians, and knew it—for about five minutes.
In 2010, Britain's new government turned away from expansionary policies and introduced major budget cuts, making arguments that harked back to Keynes's opponents in the nineteen-thirties, such as Friedrich Hayek, an Austrian economist who taught at the London School of Economics. Soon Greece, Ireland, and other debt-burdened European countries were launching ever more Draconian austerity programs. On this side of the Atlantic, with unemployment remaining stubbornly high, conservative economists insisted that the Keynesian medicine had failed to cure the patient and had perhaps even worsened the disease—an argument seized upon by Republican politicians.
"Keynesian policy and Keynesian theory is now done," Governor Rick Perry, of Texas, declared during a Republican Presidential candidates' debate last month. "We'll never have that experiment on America again." The following night, however, President Obama proposed what, in all but name, was another Keynesian stimulus package: a four-hundred-and-fifty-billion-dollar jobs program, consisting of tax cuts and increases in federal spending.
Seventy-five years after the publication of "The General Theory," there is a fierce and consequential argument about what, in Keynes's economic theory, is living and what, as Perry would have it, is "done." Has the global economy's stuttering progress since 2008 demonstrated the limitations of Keynesian policies—or the dangers of abandoning them prematurely?
The publishing industry, at least, has been bullish on Keynes in the past few years. Robert Skidelsky, the author of a monumental three-volume Keynes biography, responded to the financial crisis with a new primer titled "Keynes: The Return of the Master." Another eminent English historian, Peter Clarke, followed up with "Keynes: The Rise, Fall and Return of the 20th Century's Most Influential Economist," while new collections on Keynes and Keynesianism have appeared from Cambridge University and M.I.T. This fall, there is "Capitalist Revolutionary: John Maynard Keynes," by Roger E. Backhouse, an economic historian at the University of Birmingham, and Bradley W. Bateman, an economist at Denison University; "Keynes Hayek: The Clash That Defined Modern Economics," by the British journalist Nicholas Wapshott; and "Grand Pursuit," a history of economics by Sylvia Nasar, the author of "A Beautiful Mind," which devotes many pages to Keynes and his contemporaries.
So what was the core of his message? Before the Great Depression, most economists adhered to a Newtonian conception of the economy as a self-correcting system. When the economy entered a slump, businesses laid off workers and shut down factories—but these negative trends contained their own remedy. The trick was to look at price changes. Unemployment drove down wages (the price of labor) until firms found it profitable to start hiring again. Idling factories drove down interest rates (the price of borrowing) until entrepreneurs found it worthwhile to take out loans and re-start production. Before very long, prosperity would be restored. Attempts to hasten this process were liable to interfere with the natural forces of adjustment and make things worse. As Hayek wrote in "Prices and Production" (1931), "The only way permanently to 'mobilize' all available resources is . . . not to use artificial stimulants—whether during a crisis or thereafter—but to leave it to time to effect a permanent cure."
In "The General Theory," Keynes took aim at this view of the world. His central insight was that the economy was driven not by prices but by what he called "effective demand"—the over-all level of demand for goods and services, whether cars or meals in fancy restaurants. If car manufacturers perceived that the demand for their products was lagging, they wouldn't hire new workers, however low wages fell. If a restaurateur had vacant tables night after night, he would have no incentive to borrow money and open a new venture, even if his bank was offering him cheap loans. In such a situation, the economy could easily remain stuck in a rut, until some outside agency—the government was Keynes's favored candidate—intervened and spurred spending. Only then would private businesses be emboldened to expand production and hire workers.
Nasar, in her capacious and absorbing book, makes the key point well:
What made the General Theory so radical was Keynes's proof that it was possible for a free market economy to settle into states in which workers and machines remained idle for prolonged periods of time. . . . The only way to revive business confidence and get the private sector spending again was by cutting taxes and letting business and individuals keep more of their income so they could spend it. Or, better yet, having the government spend more money directly, since that would guarantee that 100 percent of it would be spent rather than saved. If the private sector couldn't or wouldn't spend, the government would have to do it. For Keynes, the government had to be prepared to act as the spender of last resort, just as the central bank acted as the lender of last resort.
For three decades after the Second World War, Keynes's theory provided the framework for policymaking on both sides of the Atlantic. The West enjoyed a time of rapid growth and rising standards of living, and although it would be simplistic to ascribe these trends solely to the prescriptions of policymakers, economists who balked at Keynesian doctrine were often cast aside.
Three-quarters of a century later, Keynes's notion of "effective demand," now usually called "aggregate demand," is still a mainstay of policymaking around the world. Whenever the economy stumbles and unemployment starts climbing, discussion inevitably centers on what can be done to boost spending and investment. Few economists, on the left or the right, seriously advise the government to sit on its hands and let the price system work its magic. Rather, the conversation turns on what methods the authorities should use to stimulate the economy, besides cutting interest rates. Liberal economists, like Paul Krugman and Joseph Stiglitz, usually favor infrastructure spending. Conservative economists, like Greg Mankiw and Glenn Hubbard, tend to prefer tax cuts. But neither group questions the need for the government to step in and bolster demand.
In the course of his career, Keynes advocated tax cuts and interest-rate cuts, but he didn't limit himself to those measures. During the nineteen-twenties, when the unemployment rate reached double figures, and British monetary policy was hamstrung by the gold standard, Keynes called for additional spending on public housing, roadworks, and other civic projects. "Let us be up and doing, using our idle resources to increase our wealth," he wrote in 1928. "With men and plants unemployed, it is ridiculous to say that we cannot afford these new developments. It is precisely with these plants and these men that we shall afford them."
With the onset of the Great Depression, Keynes stepped up his calls for action. But, as outlays on unemployment benefits increased and tax revenues declined, the budget deficit ballooned, generating alarm at His Majesty's Treasury. In the summer of 1931, the government made deep spending cuts, intending to restore confidence in government finances. Keynes warned that the effect would be to worsen the slump, throwing more people out of work. He said that budget deficits were a by-product of recessions, and that they served a useful purpose: "For Government borrowing of one kind or another is nature's remedy, so to speak, for preventing business losses from being, in so severe a slump as the present one, so great as to bring production altogether to a standstill."
As the Depression deepened, seeming to confirm his warnings, Keynes sharpened his theoretical arguments. In 1933, drawing on an article by his student Richard Kahn, he made the case that one dollar of additional government spending—on a new railway station, say—could ultimately generate two dollars, or even more, in additional output and income. This was the so-called "multiplier" effect. As the unemployed were set to work on public projects, he reasoned, they would spend their wages on other goods and services, which would prompt businesses to take on more workers. Those workers, in turn, would spend more, leading to further hiring, and so on. What's more, all of these newly employed workers would be paying taxes, which would bring down the budget deficit. "It is a complete mistake to believe that there is a dilemma between schemes for increasing employment and schemes for balancing the Budget," Keynes wrote. "There is no possibility of balancing the Budget except by increasing the national income, which is much the same thing as increasing employment."
In Keynes's day, many people—including politicians sympathetic to Keynes—were suspicious of the multiplier. The whole thing smacked of sophistry. Wapshott, in a long overdue and well-researched book that usefully gathers together much hitherto scattered information, recounts Keynes's 1934 visit to the White House, where he expounded the logic of the multiplier to F.D.R. After he left, Roosevelt remarked to Frances Perkins, his Labor Secretary, "I saw your friend Keynes. He left a whole rigmarole of figures. He must be a mathematician rather than a political economist." Despite the enormous public-works projects of the New Deal, F.D.R. didn't formally adopt deficit spending as a policy tool. Indeed, he kept a keen eye on the red ink. In 1937, with the economy on the mend, he ordered tax hikes and spending cuts, which caused the economy to crater again. President Truman was even more suspicious of Keynesian theorizing. "Nobody can ever convince me that Government can spend a dollar that it's not got," he told Leon Keyserling, a Keynesian economist who chaired his Council of Economic Advisers. "I'm just a country boy."
The multiplier continues to spark controversy. Echoing the arguments that Keynes's opponents at the Treasury made during the nineteen-thirties, conservative economists like Robert Barro, at Harvard, argue that it is close to zero: for every dollar the government borrows and spends, spending elsewhere in the economy falls by almost the same amount. Whenever individuals see the government boosting spending or cutting taxes on a temporary basis, Barro maintains, they figure that these policies will eventually have to be paid for in the form of higher taxes. As a result, they set aside extra money in savings, which cancels out the stimulus.
Barro's caution may apply in certain conditions—say, a highly indebted economy with close to full employment. It's certainly true that the Keynesian multiplier varies according to how stimulus funds are spent; how the central bank reacts to higher government spending (if it raises interest rates, interest-sensitive spending will fall, reducing the multiplier); and, most important, whether workers and machinery are lying idle. But Keynes didn't advocate deficit spending for an economy at full employment. It was only when the economy was in a deep slump, he thought, that higher output "could be provided without much change of price by home resources which are at present unemployed."
This jibes with history. Immediately before and during the Second World War, the U.S. government borrowed unprecedented sums to finance the military buildup, and the economy finally recovered from the Great Depression. In 1937, one in seven American workers was jobless; in 1944, one in a hundred was. A wartime economy may present a special case, but a recent working paper published by the National Bureau of Economic Research looked at data going back to 1980 and found that government investments in infrastructure and civic projects had a multiplier of 1.8—pretty close to Keynes's estimate.
So why didn't the Obama Administration's 2009 stimulus package usher in a true recovery? Keynes would have pointed out that, with households and firms intent on paying down debts and building up their savings in the aftermath of a credit binge, large-scale deficit spending is needed merely to prevent a recession from turning into a depression. With interest rates already close to zero, Keynes would have argued that the economy was stuck in a "liquidity trap," greatly limiting the Federal Reserve's scope for further action. He would also have noted that the stimulus was—especially compared with the devastation it meant to address—rather small: equivalent to less than two per cent of G.D.P. a year for three years. Even this overstates its magnitude, given that much of the increase in federal spending was offset by budget cuts at the state and local levels. In its totality, government spending didn't increase much at all. Between 2007 and the first half of this year, it rose by about three per cent in real dollars.
Besides, recovering from a financial meltdown requires more than government spending: the banking system has to be recapitalized (in the nineteen-nineties, Japan's cash-hoarding "zombie banks" were a drag on its stimulus programs); bad debts have to be written down; sector-specific problems must be addressed. Following the crisis of 2008, both the Bush and the Obama Administrations moved promptly to shore up the banking system, but they neglected to deal with the housing debacle. A more effective mortgage-modification program for homeowners who are under water on their loans would have helped. In 2009, when the Obama Administration launched a refinancing program, it predicted that between three and four million people would get some relief, but so far fewer than one million mortgages have been modified. The lingering effects of the housing crisis continue to weigh down the rest of the economy.
Finally, Keynes would have directed our attention to international problems. A confirmed internationalist, Keynes would undoubtedly have supported the head of the Chinese central bank's call, in 2009, for the creation of a new global reserve currency to be issued and controlled by the International Monetary Fund. (Keynes proposed almost precisely the same thing in 1944, at Bretton Woods, where he helped design a new international economic system, but the Americans ruled it out.) The rationale is that if the issuer of the reserve currency acts irresponsibly, the rest of the world is at its mercy, so it might be better to have an international currency that no single country controls. For now, the Chinese proposal has gone nowhere; the world's focus is elsewhere. But, as the Asian economies continue their rise, it is sure to come back onto the agenda.
And Keynes would have had strong views about the European sovereign-debt crisis. The U.K. economy of his day, like the current U.S. economy, was dependent on global capital flows, and Keynes knew what excessive government debts could do to an economy. In 1919, he was an adviser to the British delegation at the peace talks in Paris, which saddled Germany and Austria with crushing debts. Outraged by this Carthaginian settlement, he wrote his first best-seller, "The Economic Consequences of the Peace," warning that the Versailles Treaty would prove disastrous for the victors as well as for the defeated. Today, he would be advocating major debt write-downs for countries like Greece and Portugal. The so-called "rescue packages" that these nations have received in recent years have barely reduced their debt, while the austerity policies imposed on them have plunged their economies deeper into the abyss, exactly as Keynesian theory would predict.
Indeed, these days the strongest evidence for Keynesianism has been negative. The recent slowdown in the U.S. economy occurred just as Obama's 2009 stimulus package was running dry. The U.K. economy provides an even more striking case study. As in this country, the authorities reacted to the 2008 financial crisis by cutting interest rates, boosting public expenditure, and allowing the budget deficit to rise sharply. In 2009 and in the first part of 2010, the economy began to recover. But since the middle of last year, when the Conservative-Liberal coalition announced substantial budget cuts to balance the budget, growth has virtually disappeared. "The reason the current strategy will fail was succinctly stated by John Maynard Keynes," Robert Skidelsky and the economist Felix Martin wrote in the Financial Times recently. "Growth depends on aggregate demand. If you reduce aggregate demand, you reduce growth."
Yet Keynes was anything but a spendthrift. When deficits and debts reached historically high levels, he believed, it was necessary to spell out how they would be reduced in the long term. As Backhouse and Bateman observe in their timely and provocative reappraisal, Keynes never said that deficits don't matter (the lesson that Dick Cheney reportedly drew from President Reagan). He believed not only that large-scale deficit spending should be confined to recessions, when business investment was unusually curtailed, but that it should be directed mainly toward long-term capital projects that eventually would pay for themselves. When some of his followers, by way of postwar planning, advocated using tax cuts and deficit spending to "fine-tune" the economy on an ongoing basis, Keynes struck a note of caution. "If serious unemployment does develop, deficit financing is absolutely certain to happen, and I should like to keep free to object hereafter to the more objectionable forms of it," he wrote.
If Keynes was scarcely the deficit dove some take him to be, efforts to portray him as some sort of socialist are even more risible. When he wasn't busy writing, teaching, or advising governments, he wagered on the global markets in the manner of a modern hedge-fund manager. He also served as the director of an insurance company and as the portfolio manager of the King's College endowment. An Old Etonian and the son of a Cambridge economist, he never made any pretense about his privileged background, or where his social and political sympathies lay. "If I am going to pursue sectional interests at all, I shall pursue my own," he wrote in the nineteen-twenties. "The Class war will find me on the side of the educated bourgeoisie."
As the Depression proceeded, and some of Keynes's colleagues and students turned to Communism, Keynes declared the theory of Marxism to be "complicated hocus pocus." When Beatrice and Sidney Webb, the Fabian grandees, went to Russia and returned proclaiming Stalinism to be the way of the future, Keynes was, as Nasar recounts, aghast. Asked to contribute to an essay collection for Beatrice's eightieth birthday, he said the only sentence that came to him was "Mrs. Webb, not being a Soviet politician, has managed to survive to the age of eighty."
Astute conservatives have sometimes acknowledged that, fundamentally, Keynes was one of them. He came not to bury free enterprise but to save it from itself. "It is certain that the world will not much longer tolerate the unemployment which . . . is associated and in my view inevitably associated with present-day capitalistic individualism," he wrote in his magnum opus. "But it may be possible by a right analysis of the problem to cure the disease whilst preserving efficiency and freedom." During the Second World War, some economists hailed the introduction of price controls and central planning; Keynes viewed this policy as a temporary expedient that shouldn't be sustained. He even had praise for Hayek's controversial book "The Road to Serfdom" (1944), which compared wartime Britain to Soviet Russia and Nazi Germany. "Morally and philosophically," he wrote to Hayek, "I find myself in agreement with virtually the whole of it."
Keynes's Republican critics, as you'd guess, have more in common with him than they let on. Representative Paul Ryan, who is now railing against "the discredited economic playbook of borrow-and-spend Keynesian policies," was, as the commentator Jonathan Chait has pointed out, a strong supporter of cutting taxes on classic Keynesian grounds—to boost spending and reinvigorate a struggling economy. In a February, 2001, hearing devoted to the fiscal proposals of the recently elected George W. Bush, Ryan said, "I like my porridge hot. I think we ought to have this income tax cut fast, deeper, retroactive to January 1st, to make sure we get a good punch into the economy, juice the economy to make sure that we can avoid a hard landing."
Both Democratic and Republican Administrations have supported stimulus programs; what they disagree on is how to structure and pay for them. Democrats, while pointing out that such programs generate additional tax revenues, have stopped short of claiming that they are entirely self-financing. Republicans have respected no such limits in selling the tax cuts they favor. Going back to the writings of Arthur Laffer, a Stanford-trained economist who advised President Reagan, some of them have claimed that tax cuts, by prompting people to work harder and invest more, can actually reduce the deficit. And where did Laffer get this idea? In a 2004 article entitled "The Laffer Curve: Past, Present, and Future," he cited a passage of "The Means to Prosperity" in which Keynes wrote:
Nor should the argument seem strange that taxation may be so high as to defeat its object, and that, given sufficient time to gather the fruits, a reduction of taxation will run a better chance than an increase of balancing the budget. For to take the opposite view today is to resemble a manufacturer who, running at a loss, decides to raise his price, and when his declining sales increase the loss, wrapping himself in the rectitude of plain arithmetic, decides that prudence requires him to raise the price still more.
Reaganomics, too, was a species of Keynesianism.
But any attempt to categorize Keynes along traditional left-right lines is apt to founder. In his life and in his theorizing, he delighted in paradox. As a young man, he had affairs with men, like the Bloomsbury exquisite Duncan Grant; at forty-two, he married a Russian ballerina and settled down with her until his death, twenty years later. A critic of the British financial establishment in the twenties and thirties, he ended his days as one of its pillars.
Even his great intellectual contribution—the notion that economies can remain in an "equilibrium" state with mass unemployment—defies easy explanation. How exactly does it come about? Not simply because, as textbooks often suggest, prices and wages get "stuck," maybe as a result of union contracts. Keynes was convinced that, even if wages and prices are flexible, the economy could remain mired. Any economy was capable of what modern economists call "multiple equilibria": different stable points of functioning, at levels ranging from penury to prosperity.
In particular, Keynes understood how a financially driven economy, like ours, can go into self-sustaining downward spirals (and upward spirals) under the influence of crowd psychology and chronic uncertainty about the future. In the classical scheme of things, banks and financial markets are treated as abstractions, which effortlessly convert savings (money) into investment (forms of capital like factories or computers). Keynes pointed out that the link between savings and investment was far from straightforward. It relied on people who are looking to make quick profits, and who are susceptible to shortsightedness, herd behavior, and panic. "Speculators may do no harm as bubbles on a steady stream of enterprise," he commented. "But the position is serious when enterprise becomes a bubble on the whirlpool of speculation. When the capital development of a country becomes a by-product of the activities of a casino, the job is likely to be ill-done."
The problem isn't that Wall Street traders are reckless or stupid; Keynes had a wary respect for their smarts. The problem is that our investment choices can never be truly rationalized. "If we speak frankly," Keynes wrote, "we have to admit that our basis of knowledge for estimating the yield ten years hence of a railway, a copper mine, a textile factory, the goodwill of a patent medicine, an Atlantic liner, a building in the City of London amounts to little and sometimes to nothing." Keynes distinguished this sort of incalculable uncertainty from quantifiable risk—the risk, say, that your straight flush will be trumped by four of a kind, or that you will be killed at Russian roulette. When you decide to build a factory or take a flyer on the stock market, the arithmetic of probability and rational decision theory provide no real guidance. Such decisions can be taken, Keynes wrote, only as a result of "animal spirits—of spontaneous urge to action rather than inaction, and not as the outcome of a weighted average of quantitative benefits multiplied by quantitative probabilities."
In a boom, when animal spirits are high, businesses and entrepreneurs are brimming with investment projects, which banks and other financial institutions are all too eager to finance. After a bust, the opposite applies. In Keynes's words, "If the animal spirits are dimmed and the spontaneous optimism falters, leaving us to depend on nothing but a mathematical expectation, enterprise will fade and die—though fears of loss may have a basis no more reasonable than hopes of profit had before." Five years ago, banks were extending mortgages to anybody who walked in the door; today, many good borrowers can't get credit. Corporate America, after jettisoning workers by the millions to preserve profits, is sitting on billions of dollars of cash. American households, known everywhere for their prodigal ways, have discovered the virtues of saving and thrift.
Keynes's recognition of the irreducible role played by "animal spirits" points to the vanity of supposing that the economy could be wholly mastered—the dreams nurtured by the postwar generations of economic policymakers of playing the economy like an organist at his console. Keynes himself underestimated the difficulties of trying to maintain expansionary, full-employment policies for long periods. In "The General Theory," he wrote that the remedy for the business cycle "is not to be found in abolishing booms and thus keeping us in a semi-slump; but in abolishing slumps and thus keeping us permanently in a quasi-boom." When governments tried to adhere to this advice, they eventually ran into problems. In the nineteen-seventies, inflation and unemployment rose simultaneously, a phenomenon known as stagflation. Keynesian economists and policymakers struggled to respond, giving Milton Friedman and other conservative economists the opening they needed to market a modestly updated version of the pre-Keynesian free-market paradigm.
There was another problem that Keynes didn't deal with adequately: preventing the sort of asset-price bubbles—that "whirlpool of speculation"—experienced in the nineteen-twenties. When policymakers signal that they will respond to any setback by pumping more cheap money into the economy, they encourage irresponsible risk-taking—something Alan Greenspan discovered to our detriment. (To be sure, many economists take inspiration from Keynes when they argue for taxes on financial transactions in order to curb such speculation.)
Yet Keynes's own theory should have cautioned us about its practical limitations. To revive animal spirits and jolt an economy out of its rut, he tells us, the only option is to bring in the government, which, because it doesn't have to answer to worried stockholders or anxious relatives, can insure a ready demand for the output of small and large firms: "for if effective demand is deficient not only is the public scandal of wasted resources intolerable, but the individual enterpriser who seeks to bring these resources into action is operating with the odds loaded against him." All this remains true. It's just that knowing the principle is not enough. The dutiful Keynesian policymaker must decide on a certain level of borrowing and spending and also on when to withdraw the stimulus. But how much additional demand does it take to make businessmen feel optimistic when they get up in the morning? And how much debt can be sustained without roiling markets with self-fulfilling anxiety?
There's no straightforward calculation that will yield the ideal policy for shifting an economy from a "bad" equilibrium to a "good" one. Writing with his high-table air of assurance, Keynes could make it sound deceptively easy to be a Keynesian. At the heart of his vision, however, there is an elusive combination of boldness and humility. It calls not merely for the management of risk but for something politically and intellectually far more demanding: the acknowledgment of uncertainty. ♦


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6 Ways To Winter-Proof Your Smoothie For Better Gut Health & Digestion
It's no secret that I'm a green smoothie enthusiast, to put it mildly—my friends and family make fun of the eagerness with which I gently encourage (OK, force) them to start their day with a veggie-filled glass. Smoothies have been my go-to breakfast every day for the last seven or eight years; while they vary in ingredients and flavor profiles (sometimes I feel piña colada-y, other days I channel more of a chocolate-covered strawberry vibe), some blend of greens, healthy fat, protein, and fruit has served as the fuel for my day (and my impetus for getting out of bed) for close to a decade. I haven't yet found another breakfast that allows me to eat, before noon, more greens than most people eat in a week—or one that takes so little time to prepare.
In the summer, drinking a smoothie feels like a no-brainer. You're sweaty, maybe a little dehydrated. The last thing you want to do in the morning is turn on your stove.
In the winter, though, readers often tell me that drinking a smoothie feels counterintuitive. Smoothies, as most people know them, often conjure up images of an icy, frozen beverage—the opposite of what incites cravings on cold winter days.
The secret? Just because you're drinking a smoothie doesn't mean it has to be the same smoothie you'd drink in June or July. Like the rest of your diet, smoothies can—and should—reflect the changing seasons. Here are a few secrets I use to make my smoothie winter-worthy:
1. Scale back the frozen elements.
While I never drink super-cold drinks—enough doctors have told me it's hard on digestion, which already tends toward sluggish in the morning—in the winter, I take extra care to bring my smoothie closer to room temperature. "Our internal temperature is 98 degrees; therefore, when we consume food that is much lower—say a frozen smoothie or ice cream, which is below 32 degrees (freezing temperature), our body has to emit a great deal of extra energy to bring the temperature of that food back to our internal organs," explains Sahara Rose, an ayurvedic expert and the author of the best-selling cookbook Eat Feel Fresh. "Our bodies are capable of doing this, but this process takes away from the energy that could be utilized on digestion."
If I use frozen fruit or vegetables, I leave them out on my counter while I'm brushing my teeth or getting ready for the day, so they're mostly thawed when I put them in my smoothie. I forgo ice entirely, using avocado or chia seeds to thicken watery smoothies instead.
2. Blend really well.
I mean really well. This accomplishes two things: It warms up the resulting smoothie slightly (see point one) and it makes it easier to digest. Blending something is essentially like pre-digesting it—you're essentially chewing your food a million times with blades instead of teeth. By letting your smoothie go for a while in the blender—think a minute or even more, depending on what type of blender you have—you're ensuring that much of the digestive work is done for you, giving your system a break. This is important during all times of the year (the chlorophyll in greens is tightly caged in fibrous cell walls) but especially in the winter, when we crave warmer, more easily digestible foods.
3. Chew your smoothie.
Always, always chew your smoothie. Digestion starts in the mouth, where digestive enzymes in saliva mix with your food, beginning the process of breaking it down and assimilating its nutrients. If you're not chewing, though, you're not creating the opportunity for those enzymes to mix with what you're eating—so chew your smoothie, even if people give you weird looks for doing so (I consider it a teaching opportunity, but I'm also not the coolest)! Sometimes I find it useful to put a small amount of crunchy food on top of the smoothie, as an instinctual reminder to chew. A bit of flaked coconut, chopped nuts, or some cacao nibs does the trick.
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4. Use warming spices.
"Spices, such as ginger, cardamom, cumin, coriander, and fennel seed, have been used in ancient ayurvedic medicine for thousands of years for their digestive benefits," explains Rose. "Ginger rekindles the digestive fire; cardamom gently increases digestive fire without being too warming; cumin removes air (gas, bloating, and constipation) from the system; coriander increases production of digestive enzymes and bile flow; fennel strengthens the digestive fire without aggravating pitta and helps with nausea, cramps, and flatulence."
Spices are the oft-forgotten superfoods. I'm always confused when people load their smoothies with crazy adaptogenic powders, but forget the superstars sitting in their own pantry. In the winter, I use a heavy hand with cinnamon, ginger, and cardamom. I'll also add a pinch of cayenne or black pepper. In addition to their ayurvedic benefits, the spices are anti-inflammatory, antioxidant, and contribute to drool-worthy flavor profiles like Mexican Hot Chocolate or Cardamom Cherry Pie.
5. Embrace seasonal flavors.
You don't need to fill your smoothies with summer fruits—instead, reach for whatever is actually in season at the moment. Fall's apple harvest can be combined with cinnamon and hemp milk for a delicious pumpkin pie smoothie; the same can be done with squash (pumpkin pie, anyone?). In the winter, I love leaning on citrus for vitamin C and a bright, zesty flavor, a much-needed dose of sunshine in a glass.
6. When in doubt, go warm.
If one of the increasingly common snow-pocalypses has hit your town and the idea of drinking even a lukewarm smoothie doesn't sound appealing, well, don't drink it. Food should be pleasurable, and if you're forcing yourself to consume something, it's not healthy, no matter how many nutritious ingredients it contains. In those periods, I'll often find myself leaning on the smoothie's more intrinsically cold-weather appropriate cousin, soup. I'll make myself a green soup, typically in a large batch, and then warm it on the stove to sip from a mug over the next few mornings. I still minimize prep and maximize vegetables, and I start my day feeling high on the hygge-meter.
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College mourns loss of Dispatcher Kim Gatliff
Diane "Kim" Gatliff, 59, died February 1 at home after a brave battle with cancer. She was a dispatcher in the Department of Public Safety for close to 20 years. She is survived by her husband Carl, five children and six grandchildren. A memorial celebration will take place on Saturday, February 11 from 3-6 p.m. at Whetstone Park of Roses Shelter House, 3901 N. High St. In lieu of flowers, donations may be sent to Kobacker House, 800 McConnell Drive, Columbus, OH 43214.
The Columbus State Concert Band and Jazz Ensemble will perform their Winter Term concert on Tuesday, March 6, at 7:30 p.m. at the King Arts Complex, 867 Mt. Vernon Avenue. The free concert will feature the Concert Band, under the direction of Thomas Lloyd, with guest artist Everett Jones, who will perform the final movement of Beethoven's Piano Concerto No. 3.
The Jazz Ensemble, which will perform in the second half of the concert, is directed by Columbus jazz musician Rick Brunetto.
For more information contact Thomas Lloyd firstname.lastname@example.com or Rick Brunetto firstname.lastname@example.com.
DX Copy Center to close March 1
The Copy Center, located on the first floor of the Discovery Exchange/Bookstore, will close at that location March 1 and move downstairs in the basement level, merging with the college's Print Services Department.
Once the move is complete, ordering color or b/w copies will be quite easy: For color or specialty requests, email email@example.com or call ext. 5652. For black-and-white copies, you can email firstname.lastname@example.com or call ext. 5189.
Services for students or retail customers, such as mail drops and postage, faxing, graduation supplies and money orders, will be available at the customer care desk in the Bookstore or online. Color copying will be provided to students in the Computer Commons in the TL, for $.25 per page.
Continuous Quality Improvement at Columbus State
Project Management to the Rescue
At most colleges TD is a football term. At Columbus State it stands for TeamDynamix, the Project Management Office (PMO)
web program that tracks big projects on campus. "It's an excellent way
to organize projects and initiatives," says Bart Prickett, IT Support Services director, "and it's all visible to our clients."
Since 2008, TD has been the approved web-based software to organize project schedules and link team members. One nifty feature - it reminds you when your work is due!
Four of Columbus State's "Tier One" projects: the Master Strategic Plan, Reaffirmation of Accreditation, Switch to Semesters and the Student Success Initiative, have been managed using the software.
But the software itself is only one of the MVPs on the team. Employees Nina Ewing, project coordinator, Chris Emswiler, Tony Mandator and Lisa Carpenter, project administrators, all have many years experience in the field of project management. "We are managing 30-plus projects that are 'cross college' meaning they include one or more business units," says Mandator.
If you'd like to know more about the Project Management Office and TeamDynamix, go online here to see how PMO can help you and your team work smarter. (Intranet is not available off campus.)
New college policies effective Feb. 1
The following policies were approved by the Board of Trustees at the January 26 meeting and have been posted to the College's Policy and Procedures Manual on the website with an effective date of February 1.
3-05, Vacation
3-06, Overtime
3-08, Fringe Benefits
3-10, Sick Leave
3-16, Interruption of Campus Operations
The Policy and Procedures Manual can be found online here: http://www2.cscc.edu/about/policy/.
Introduction to Using Turnitin.com (a plagiarism detection tool)
Introduction to MS Excel 2007
During this session participants will be shown the foundational skills required to make best use of the world's most powerful plagiarism detection tool.
Learn more about what Turnitin.com is able to do
Presented by: Wendy Suminski, Communication and
Jeff Bates, Ph.D., Environmental Science, Safety & Health
When: Friday, February 10 (1:30 - 3:30 p.m.) - Register
Where: WD 209
When: Wednesday, Feb. 15 (2:00 - 4:00 p.m.) - Register
Where: Innovation Center CT 106
Understanding and Mastering the Hybrid Course Model in 2012 Webinar
Hybrid, or blended, courses help your students improve learning outcomes and skills in both face-to-face and online environments. However, finding the best way to combine these two teaching methods can be a challenge. How can instructors design hybrid courses to provide flexibility, connect with students, and deliver quality content?
Speaker: Jill Schiefelbein, owner of Impromptu Guru, a company focused on helping individuals and groups improve communication in both face-to-face and online environments.
When: Thursday, February 16 (1:00 - 2:00 p.m.) - Register
Where: TBA
The SPOKEN Word: What do our Students Have to SAY?
In this hands-on workshop, participants will learn about a variety of free tools that can be used to orally capture students' thoughts and responses. These tools can also be used as a convenient and effective method for instructors to disseminate feedback and to deliver various announcements.
Presented by: Melissa Logue, Modern Languages
When: Friday, February 17 (10:00 a.m. - 12:00 p.m.) - Register
Where: Innovation Center CT 106
Business advisor to reach SBDC Hispanic market
Ariana Ulloa-Olavarrieta
The Small Business Development Center (SBDC) at Columbus State has hired Ariana Ulloa-Olavarrieta and acquired the Latino SBDC to help Columbus State target the fastest growing population in the U.S. One in six Americans is Hispanic and the number of Hispanic-owned businesses grew 88 percent over the past decade, creating a growth rate that was almost triple the national rate.
As a SBDC Certified Business Advisor, Ulloa-Olavarrieta will serve the Hispanic community by providing one-on-one counseling, training and business referrals to those seeking to start or grow their small business. Ulloa-Olavarrieta's experience and established relationships within the Hispanic community enable her to connect her clients to valuable and relevant business development resources.
Born in Mexico City, Ulloa-Olavarrieta immigrated to the United States when she was five years old and became a U.S. Citizen in 2008. She serves on the Hispanic Chamber of Columbus board, where she also served as board treasurer for two years. She has taught English as a second language and is currently on the scholarship committee for the Fund for Appalachian Ohio.
Ulloa-Olavarrieta has bachelor's and master's degrees in economics from Ohio University. She is also a small business owner, launching an organic baby food company in 2010.
English Department invites all to Open Mic
The English Department will hold an Open Mic event Friday, February 10, at 7:00 p.m. in Nestor Hall West Lounge. Students, employees and members of the community are invited to read their own poetry, fiction, or nonfiction, and are also encouraged to read the work of other writers.
Reminder: Drilling Down into 21st Century Student Diversity is Saturday at noon
This panel discussion will invite dialogue from many different perspectives in an effort to hear the voices of our students more clearly and learn to support, engage and retain them through their educational journey. It will be held from 12:00 - 2:00 p.m. in the Nestor Hall East Lounge. The event is free and open to the public.
to exhibit in North Carolina, Kansas
Humanities adjunct Stacy Leeman will exhibit her paintings, Yaakov Blesses Yehuda W#4 and Upstream P#3 at the 3rd Annual Juried Exhibition at Fayetteville Technical Community College in North Carolina from February 17- March 23. She will also have another painting, Fina #13 on display at the 2012 Heartland Artist Exhibit at the Irene B. French Community Center Gallery of Art in Merriam, Kansas, which opens March 3.
Upstream P#3 by Stacy Leeman


text: iHome's iH69 speakers provide an all-in-one solution for music lovers that fight a never-ending battle with gadget clutter. Simply put, these 20-watt, 2.5-inch computer speakers feature a built-in dock that will sync, charge and play your iPod. Looks like a good example of convergence if you ask me. Let's just hope they don't sound like crap. No prices have been announced, but you can expect the iH69 to hit store shelves in June. [Blast Mag and iHome]


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Intensive Search Continues for Kidnapped Soldier
By Donna Miles
American Forces Press Service
WASHINGTON, Nov. 2, 2006 - An intensivesearch continues for Spc. Ahmed Qusai al-Taayie, a 41-year-old U.S. Army Reserve soldier kidnapped Oct. 23 outside Baghdad's International Zone, a spokesman for Multinational Force Iraq told reporters during a Baghdad briefing today.
Army Maj. Gen. William B. Caldwell confirmed Taayie's identity for the first time today and said credible intelligence indicates who might be holding him. "At this time, we believe the ones who kidnapped Ahmed still have him," Caldwell told reporters. "And we are vigorously pursuing every lead."
Caldwell described the massive search under way and vowed that no stone will be left unturned until the missing soldier and his abductors are found. "Iraqi security forces and coalition forces are working around the clock to return him to safety and return him to his family and also to catch the perpetrators of this crime," he said.
More than 2,000 coalition forces, including elements of five Multinational Division Baghdad brigade combat teams, and more than 1,000 Iraqi security forces are directly involved in the search, which Caldwell said is focusing east of the Tigris River between Sadr City and the Karada peninsula.
These forces are using "all available means," including unmanned aerial vehicles and other aviation assets, and have conducted 37 missions so far to find Taayie, he said. These missions are based on more than 240 tips that have poured in to authorities since the soldier's abduction, he said.
Caldwell praised the Iraqi government's role, saying it is "actively supporting this effort and doing everything it can, too, at its level."
So far, one coalition soldier and two Iraqi security force members have been killed in the search, and eight U.S. troops have been wounded, he said.
Caldwell offered a warning to the soldier's abductors: "Make no mistake. We will never stop looking for our servicemembers," he said. "An intensive effort will continue as we pursue finding our missing soldier, Specialist Ahmed Qusai al-Taayie."
Taayie is an Iraqi-American who moved to the United States as a teenager and joined the Army Reserve in December 2004. Taayie was mobilized in August 2005 and deployed to Iraq three months later, Caldwell said. He was last seen inside Baghdad's International Zone at about 2:30 p.m. Oct. 23, the general said. Sometime after that, he left the heavily fortified zone to visit family members, including his Iraqi wife, whom he married in February 2005, Caldwell said.
While Taayie was at a relative's home, three cars pulled up to the residence, and the hostage takers handcuffed Taayie and forced him into one of the vehicles, Caldwell said. A relative who claimed to be at the home when the incident occurred reported receiving a call from one of the kidnappers using the cell phone Taayie had with him when he was taken, Caldwell said.
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On arriving from South Africa in 1970, O'Hagan fell in love with British beer but was appalled by the sausages, which since the Second World War had been filled with rusk and meat scraps to keep down costs. "They are the bin-end of the meat industry", a butcher admitted to him.
O'Hagan began making sausages in his garage as a hobby, and selling them to colleagues while working on the paper's late night desk. But as his fame grew in the pubs of Fleet Street and then Docklands, he smelt further opportunities.
Applying the rule "No artificial anything", he used good quality meat with a minimum of salt and often flavoured with beer, inventing varieties he called Drunken Duck, Tipsy Turkey and Gussy Goose. Tansy, pennyroyal, woodruff and other traditional herbs were added as natural preservatives. His creations ranged from the traditional pork to a garlicky Toulouse, a fiery Moroccan and a sophisticated offering which featured apricot and cognac.
With the aid of his wife, Bronwyn, a switchboard supervisor at the Telegraph, and their nine-year-old son, Liam, O'Hagan opened in 1988 what he claimed was the world's first sausage shop, at Greenwich, supplying pubs and restaurants. In the process he became a media personality. Bubbling with boozy bonhomie, he launched a Save Our Sausage Society, was interviewed by every Fleet Street newspaper and appeared on numerous television programmes.
The chefs Albert Roux and Anthony Worrall Thompson sang his praises, and he won contracts with the Dorchester Hotel as well as with Harvey Nichols and Harrods.
O'Hagan was named "Food Merchant of the Year" by the sherry company Gonzalez Byass, and won the "Best Sausage-maker in Britain" award sponsored by the Meat and Livestock Commission. He stopped counting his varieties at around 160, but admitted to some failures, one of which attempted to combine coconut, rum and chilli.
His business grew so fast that he took on partners in several shops, but in due course they left to set up rival enterprises. This resulted in a documentary, Sausage Wars, in the 2001 BBC Two series Blood on the Carpet, in which he accused them of industrial espionage.
Afterwards a Bill O'Hagan Fan Club was proposed, and he was asked to lecture at Portsmouth University on the perils of being an entrepreneur.
As with many journalists, O'Hagan's enthusiasm was stronger than his head for business. When he took his sausages to a stall at the Great British Beer Festival at Olympia in 1994, he set out to taste every one of the 240 different beers on offer (he was member No 12 of the Campaign for Real Ale). Eventually he was forced to lie down for a snooze under his stall, and the organisers — considering this a stain on the event's reputation — barred him the following year. O'Hagan made a handsome apology. "I drink like hell, and I went over the top," he conceded. "I didn't mean to upset anybody but it's possible I don't know what I did."
He was born William Edward Bastard on June 4 1944 at Kokstad, Natal, a descendant of James Hargreaves (inventor of the Spinning Jenny) and the son of Ebbo Bastard, a farmer who played wing forward in the 1937 South African rugby tour of Australia and New Zealand. After his father was killed in a gunfight, his mother reverted to her maiden name, O'Hagan.
Aged 11, Bill took a Saturday morning job with a butcher from Yorkshire who taught him to make pork and beef sausages ; in the afternoon he worked in the composing room of the weekly Kokstad Advertiser, whose enterprising proprietor owned the local hotel but complained in a leader that, being black, he was not allowed to drink in his own bar. Bill was sent to Maritzburg College, where he discovered jazz and became a fierce opponent of apartheid . He burnt the South African flag in the school courtyard, and in one of the changing rooms he tried brewing a pineapple cider, which fermented and blew up.
After a brief spell at university, where he mixed politics and drinking, he did National Service, playing tenor saxophone in the band of BOSS (the Bureau of State Security). "Where could have been a safer place?" he would ask.
Following a spell on the Rand Daily Mail, in 1970 O'Hagan flew to London and headed straight for the Press Club, off Fleet Street. The recent closure of the Daily Sketch meant there were few jobs, so he paid for his keep by cooking for friends.
He found a job on the Crawley Advertiser before starting (with John Roberts) Gatwick News, a monthly airport freesheet which ran to some eight pages and covered the early career of Sir Freddie Laker and the plan for a helicopter service between Gatwick and Heathrow. But it never quite paid its way.
A couple of years later O'Hagan joined the Telegraph, where he was known as a safe pair of hands on the 9pm to 4am shift. When his gout was playing up he wore carpet slippers in the office. He would travel to and from work in an old ambulance or in a decommissioned black cab (he was once stationary at a traffic light when a "customer" jumped in and demanded to be taken home to Surrey).
O'Hagan continued to run his sausage business after settling in Sussex, licensing his brand name and manufacturing process; he could not, however, patent his recipes. For three years he was also a partner in a pub . At the time of his death he was working on a memoir (with recipes included), More Beer and Sausages!
Bill O'Hagan, born June 4 1944, died May 15 2013


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The Aldrich Alert
A Publication of the Patrick Henry Center for Individual Liberty
by Gary Aldrich - Volume 2, Issue 16
This article appeared on WorldNetDaily.com on Thursday, March 21, 2002.
With David Brock, it's hard to know where to begin. His newest book, Blinded by the Right, purports to lay it all out there to tell the truth once and for all. And according to Brock, this is it!
Brock sets out to explain all that happened while he was purportedly covering the Clinton administration, and why it happened. The trouble with this book is that what has been established as truth, is presented as a lie, and what has been clearly established as lies, now becomes the truth.
Brock is counting on people who are interested in politics including those in the media to be predictable. He's quite certain, I imagine, that it doesn't really matter what he writes about, as long as he slams conservatives. The liberal media will enthusiastically advertise his book of lies, as long as he's willing to attack and smear conservatives.
So far, Brock is correct in his theory. The mainstream liberal media is giving him ample airtime and even a few of the "fair and balanced" crowd are getting into the act. Meanwhile, most of these same media are ignoring two runaway bestsellers, Bernard Goldberg's Bias, and Kenneth Timmerman's Shakedown, an exposé of Jesse Jackson.
Brock's book is a joke it's a fantasy for liberals a comic book. Brock talks endlessly about his journey from a self-closeted homosexual, to an open, honest champion of the truth!
But Brock's "comic" book isn't comical at all. The sneaky, smarmy attacks that this real-life Gollum launches against friend and foe alike are mean, nasty, unwarranted and unfair. Brock does his best work at night, perhaps in damp caves where he can blind-side people. Don't ever turn your back on David Brock that's what I learned when I read his book.
The other day, NBC's Matt Lauer had Brock on his show giving him the opportunity to explain why he lied before and why we should believe he's telling the truth now. Brock stumbled through a few confusing explanations, but made certain that Lauer understood that he was a victim of manipulation and had unwittingly become a tool of the Right Wing a political operative, not a journalist.
The fact that Brock earned a six-figure income while writing his "Hillary" book and pocketed a reported million-dollar advance from his publisher for this colossal commercial failure probably had nothing to do with his true motivations, right? When Lauer asked Brock if he would make up for his treachery against the innocent Clintons and other misunderstood liberals by giving away some of the profits from his newest effort, Brock appeared stunned. Give away money? What?
Brock's actual words were, "Well, you know, in an ideal world I'd give it all away. And I will try to give, you know, what I can away. You know, I do make a living as a writer, so I'm not in an ideal world." Indeed.
Apparently, all is forgiven by the liberal print media as well. Frank Rich of the New York Times and Howard Kurtz at The Washington Post recently wrote pages about Brock's history, his betrayals, his personal life, his lovers, the people he hates, his decorating tastes and so on.
The biggest lie he tells is that he started all of Clinton's legal troubles. As I peer at my library shelves, I see dozens of lengthy, serious books written about Clinton's notorious conduct. Many were written before anyone had heard of "Paula." Many more were written after we knew of Clinton's reckless womanizing, but contained information more comprehensive than Clinton's amazing infidelities.
My point is, sooner or later Clinton was going to be nailed in some infamous or criminal act it was just a matter of time. Brock had no power to start this process, nor did he have any power to stop it. He was a bit player who wrote one salacious magazine article. The book that Brock finally did write about Hillary Clinton (with the assistance of no less than five research assistants) was boring, filled with recycled press clippings and other useless trivia. Some called it a "love letter to Hillary," but if it was, it certainly failed to excite her or anybody else.
Amazingly, Brock holds himself responsible for setting into motion a chain reaction that impeached Bill Clinton by writing a story about "Paula" whom he slandered by claiming she was Governor Clinton's girlfriend. Paula Jones, recognizing herself in Brock's American Spectator article dubbed "Troopergate," took exception and came forward to reveal that Clinton had in fact sexually attacked her in a Little Rock hotel room. The Jones' lawsuit teed up a chain of events surfacing Clinton's conduct in the Oval Office with Monica Lewinsky. Linda Tripp did that Brock had nothing to do with it.
I, personally, am the subject of an entire chapter in Brock's book. Lucky me. Brock claims that my actions, and my #1 New York Times bestseller, Unlimited Access, made him realize that he had been naughty and had done bad things to liberals. He says that he's sorry he set off a chain reaction causing people, including me, to take a closer look at "Clinton and Clinton." Brock is simply nuts. I would have written my book with or without Brock's Troopergate stories.
I predict Brock's latest misuse of perfectly innocent trees will also end up on remainder tables at a lot of bookstores. Clinton lovers will buy them perhaps as something handy for swatting cockroaches as they scurry across the floors of those who voted for Bill Clinton. For example, everyone's "Aunt Martha." Lovable old "Aunt Martha" just knew those Vast Right Wing Conspiracy meanies were out to get Bill and Hillary Clinton!
David Brock just told her about it, on television so it must be true!


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For the most part, itty-bitty satellite speakers are just alright — a compromise made for convenience. The new Boston Acoustics SoundWare S system looks like it might actually be able to blow up a room with sound.
The SoundWare S package has five two-way satellite speakers and a subwoofer. The satellites have 3.5-inch woofers and 0.75-inch tweeters squeezed into a tiny package. They're bigger than most compact satellites out there, which means more volume and more bottom. Not that you should worry about the bass: the powered 10-inch sub delivers 200 watts of rumbling boom. The SoundWare S is a big beast but not an eyesore. Except for that blindingly hideous $US800 price tag. [Boston Acoustics]


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Peer-Reviewed Publications
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Evaluating the Acceptability and Validity of Assessing Pain and Posttraumatic Stress Symptoms in an Adaptable eHealth System for School-Age Children." Clin Pract Pediatr Psychol. 2019;7(1):9-19."
Neighborhood Environment and Health of Injured Urban Black Men." J Racial Ethn Health Disparities. 2019."
A Parent-Led Intervention to Promote Recovery Following Pediatric Injury: Study Protocol for a Randomized Controlled Trial." Trials. 2019;20(1):137."
The Cellie Coping Kit for Children with Injury: Initial Feasibility, Acceptability, and Outcomes." Child Care Health Dev. 2018."
Knowledge and Training in Paediatric Medical Traumatic Stress and Trauma-Informed Care Among Emergency Medical Professionals in Low- and Middle-Income Countries." Eur J Psychotraumatol. 2018;9(1):1468703."
Posttraumatic Stress in Children After Injury: The Role of Acute Pain and Opioid Medication Use." Pediatr Emerg Care. 2018."
Application of a Framework to Implement Trauma-Informed Care Throughout a Pediatric Health Care Network." J Contin Educ Health Prof. 2017;37(1):55-60."
An Initial Application of a Biopsychosocial Framework to Predict Posttraumatic Stress Following Pediatric Injury." Health Psychol. 2017."
Perceived support at work after critical incidents and its relation to psychological distress: a survey among prehospital providers." Emerg Med J. 2017."
Trauma-informed Care for Children in the Ambulance: International Survey Among Pre-hospital Providers." European Journal of Psychotraumatology. 2017;8(1)."
Brief Practical Screeners in English and Spanish for Acute Posttraumatic Stress Symptoms in Children." J Trauma Stress. 2016;29(6):483-490."
The factor structure of the Posttraumatic Growth Inventory in parents of critically ill children." Psicothema. 2016;28(4):495-503."
The latent structure of Acute Stress Disorder symptoms in trauma-exposed children and adolescents." J Child Psychol Psychiatry. 2016;57(11):1308-1316."
A Novel Adaptation of a Parent–Child Observational Assessment Tool for Appraisals and Coping in Children Exposed to Acute Trauma." European Journal of Psychotraumatology. 2016;7."
Pilot Randomized Controlled Trial of a Novel Web-Based Intervention to Prevent Posttraumatic Stress in Children Following Medical Events." J Pediatr Psychol. 2016;41(1):138-48."
Prevention and public health approaches to trauma and traumatic stress: a rationale and a call to action." Eur J Psychotraumatol. 2016;7(3):29715."
A Qualitative Analysis of Children's Emotional Reactions During Hospitalization Following Injury." J Trauma Nurs. 2016;23(4):194-201."
Acute Pain and Posttraumatic Stress After Pediatric Injury." Journal of Pediatric Psychology. 2015."
Evaluating predictive screening for children's post-injury mental health: New data and a replication." Eur J Psychotraumatol. 2015;6:29313."
A New Method for Assessing Content Validity in Model-Based Creation and Iteration of eHealth Interventions." J. Med. Internet Res.. 2015;17(4):e95."
Systematic, theoretically-grounded development and feasibility testing of an innovative, preventive web-based game for children exposed to acute trauma." Clin Pract Pediatr Psychol. 2015;3(1):12-24."
Trauma Exposure, Service Utilization, Emotional and Behavioral Problems in Children With and Without Medical Problems Seeking Trauma-Related Mental Health Services." J Dev Behav Pediatr. 2015."
Traumatic Stress, Depression, and Recovery: Child and Parent Responses After Emergency Medical Care for Unintentional Injury." Pediatr Emerg Care. 2015;31(11):737-42."


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SMILA/Legal Documentation
The core of the legalisation
Source Code
Every source file must have a Copyright and License Notice. If the source is to be licensed under a license other than the Eclipse Public License Version 1.0 alone, you must ensure that the Eclipse Foundation has approved the notice.
Source files must have the Copyright and License Notice before the files are checked into the eclipse.org source repository.
The help documentation must have a Legal page with a copyright notice and a link to the About file in the plug-in that contains the help documentation. Documentation books usually contain a "Legal" page as the last page in the book.
Every build distribution, such as a zip or tar file, must contain a Eclipse Foundation Software User Agreement (SUA) in the root directory of the distribution in HTML format in a file named "notice.html".
A copy of the Project's primary license(s) must be in the root directory of the distribution in HTML format. In most cases, this will be the Eclipse Public License alone in a file named "epl-v10.html" In exceptional circumstances, the Board may approve the licensing of a project under license terms other than the EPL alone.
A feature is a set of one or more related plug-ins and/or fragments that can be installed and upgraded together. Every feature must have at least three (usually at least four) legal files:
For example:
(installation root directory)
features (features directory) org.eclipse.sdk_3.0.1 (feature directory) license.html (#1 Feature License) epl-v10.html (#2 Project's Primary License(s) (typically EPL alone) referenced by Feature License) feature.properties (#3 Feature Update License in "license" property ) plugins (plug-ins and fragments directory) about.properties (#4 Feature Blurb in "blurb" property)
The first required file is "license.html". This file is required to be the SUA in HTML format (and thus an exact duplicate of the "notice.html" in the root of the distribution). This file is referred to as The Feature License.
The second required file is the Eclipse Public Licensein HTML format in a file named "epl-v10.html" (and thus also an exact duplicate of the "epl-v10.html" in the root of the distribution).
Each feature has a file named "feature.xml" with a license node. Often the strings in the "feature.xml" file are externalized in a "feature.properties" file. Either way, the license node or property must contain the SUA in PLAIN TEXT format. This text (node or property) is referred to as The Feature Update License.
Each feature has at least one plug-in associated with it which is the "feature plug-in" for that feature. Not surprisingly, this plug-in usually has the same name as the feature. The "about.properties" property named "blurb" contains text that appears in the "About features" dialog in the Eclipse workbench. This is known as a "Feature Blurb." Blurbs often contain copyright notices and any other statements of attribution that may be required by licenses.
All plug-in directories must have an "about.html" file describing the license terms of the code and content of the plug-in. The "about.html" file may also contain other information such as whether the content contains cryptographic functionality that may be subject to export controls. These "about.html" are collective known as "Abouts."
Most plug-ins of Eclipse Projects are pure EPL and thus the about.html file will be default About for EPL plug-ins. If a plug-in contains non-EPL content About files must be About files for third-party content.
In JAR'ed plug-ins, any local files linked from an About such as copies of licenses, must be located in a directory called "about_files". The contents of the "about_files" directory are handled specially so that links resolve correctly when the About in a JAR'ed plug-in is viewed in an external browser spawned from the About dialog.
As an example:
(installation root directory)
plugins (plug-ins and fragments directory) org.apache.ant_1.6.2 (plug-in packaged as a directory) about.html About asl-v20.txt Apache Software License referenced by about.html LICENSE.dom.html W3C License referenced by about.html org.eclipse.core.runtime_3.1.0.jar (plug-in packaged as a JAR) about.html About about_files (directory for any local files linked from about.html) asl-v20.txt Apache Software License referenced by about.html
- Every source file has a Copyright and License Notice
- Every feature has the standard SUA in HTML in "license.html"
- Every feature has the Project's primary license(s) (e.g., the EPL in "epl-v10.html")
- Every feature has the standard SUA in plain text in "feature.xml <license>" or "feature.properties / license"
- Every feature plug-in has copyright notices, etc. in the "blurb" property of "about.properties"
- Every plug-in has an "about.html", usually the standard one.
- Every plug-in with a non-standard "about.html" contains the additional referenced license files.
- Every 'ed plug-in stores linked files in "about_files"
- Every help documentation set contains a Legal page
- Every build distribution has the standard SUA in the root as "notice.html"
- Every build distribution has a copy of the primary license(s) in the root, e.g., "epl-v10.html"
About File Templates
SUA – Eclipse Foundation Software User Agreement
The Software User Agreement is the agreement that governs the use of all software distributed by the Eclipse Foundation. The SUA references the Eclipse Public License as the primary vehicle to grant license rights and obligations to use the software. In addition, it also references other legal notices and agreements and describes the potential layout of the legal documentation in the accompanying Content. The reason for the SUA is that Eclipse-based content is highly modularized to facilitate ease of delivery, extensibility, and upgradeability. A typical Eclipse installation may potentially include plug-ins and features authored and/or distributed by many different parties including the Eclipse Foundation, other open-source organizations, and commercial vendors.
This modularity makes an Eclipse distribution somewhat different from a classical software product delivered with a single license file. The Eclipse Foundation SUA guides the consumer to the various licenses distributed through out the Eclipse Project distribution.
EPL – Eclipse Public License Version 1.0
The EPL was written specifically for the Eclipse Foundation. First, it changes the Agreement Steward, formerly IBM for the CPL, to now be the Eclipse Foundation for the EPL. Second, it addresses concerns some Eclipse Foundation members had with how the CPL deals with possible patent litigation. FAQ
CPL – Common Public License Version
Eclipse IP Policy – ECLIPSE FOUNDATION, Inc. INTELLECTUAL PROPERTY POLICY
EMO – Eclipse Management Organization (email@example.com)
PMC – Project Management Committee
A Guide to the Legal Documentation for Eclipse-Based Content


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Seems like your post was a while ago but I'm gunna ask. I hunted birds years ago with the old man. I'm born n raised Southern Nevada, and I haven't hunted in years, (got my safety cert in 73). If my memory serves me right, we used to hunt doves around Searchlight, Xmas Tree Pass I think. Rabbits to. Being away dam near 40 yrs, is that still huntable and is it any good. What other areas might you recommend. I got 2 sons that all of the sudden are showing interest and I'd sure like to share some good experiences with them. Thank you for your time.
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The recent university terror attack at Garissa on 2 April 2015 marked the highest number of deaths in one single terror attack in the history of Kenya. Surpassing the 67-recorded deaths in the Westgate attack on 21 September 2013, the 148 lives lost in Garissa went into records as the most horrible of all al shabaab attacks on Kenyan grounds.
Looking at it from my perspective, I see that in a slow but sure pace, the criminal masterminds of terror in Kenya are fastening their grip on our land and making great success strides each day.
Terrorism explained
Terror could simply be defined as "extreme fear"; whereas terrorism can be described as "the use of violence and intimidation in pursuit of political aims." From the foregoing, a terrorist therefore is "a person who uses terrorism in the pursuit of political aims."
Borrowing from the definitions above and being logical in our analysis, you'll infer that terrorism is an act of instilling extreme fear to the masses in order to cover some ill-motivated political mileage. Political gains on the other hand are and will always be the means to an end; where the end is economic gains. In essence therefore, terrorism is a ruthless means of getting access to economic resources or gaining economic dominance in a given region.
Terrorism, economic dominance & geopolitics
The big question would be; why should one engage in war and terror in order to gain access to the economic coffers of a given region? One could argue that the world being liberalized with global trade open to all, economies could use their comparative advantages to gain economic dominance whenever they want to. But that is not the case, since economic superiority is a competition where everyone wants to be at the top. This therefore calls for alternative means of gaining that economic dominance and access the economic resources of other regions in the world.
Terrorism comes in handy for the wealth-thirsty individuals who intertwine it with geopolitics to complicate it further in order to achieve this very purpose unlawfully. By using terror, the criminal masterminds instill irreparable fear and trauma in the minds of the masses that are left helpless looking for security from anyone who can offer it. This is at the core of the terrorists' objectives and that is why they attack unarmed civilians in the most helpless and unexpected places.
The mission is always to kill in order to instill more fear to the masses, and then come back through a different door as the "saviors". Next; in order for them to provide you with the security you direly need after a terror attack, they introduce economic and legal conditions that favor them and enable them to access your economic resources and gain economic dominance in your region. Mission accomplished!
In the meantime, geopolitics comes into play whereby the criminal masterminds ensure that countries in a target region are at constant conflict. This is meant to weaken collaborative actions towards eliminating terrorists in the given region, hence leaving one or a few countries fighting the enemy in isolation. In addition, when conflicts are fueled between countries, one of the rival states is likely to support terrorist actions as long as they are aimed at their opponents; thus making the war against terror an uphill task.
University of Nairobi explosion
In Kenya, the terrorists are gaining ground very fast, and if tough decisions are not made, the citizens are going to lose trust in the government security system and be left at the mercies of the terrorists.
The explosion of an electricity transformer at the University of Nairobi at 4am on 12 April 2015 left about 167 students injured and one, dead. The students were running for their lives thinking it was a terror attack similar the one at Garissa University College 10 days prior.
Students jumping out of hostels from as high as the sixth floor at night; is a good indication of the fear that has already gripped the society and perpetuated by the terrorists within Kenya. To the criminal masterminds of terror, this is already a big win and the government needs to intervene in order to curb the fear and create confidence in its citizens that they are safe.
Understanding the roots of terrorism
Many theories have been advanced explaining what goes on in the mind of a terrorist and why they tend to be so radicalized. In my opinion, we cannot understand the problem until we dig deep to know the root cause of the problem.
I subscribe to the school of thought that believes al shabaab and other militia groupings are just but toy-boys who execute orders from the real criminal masterminds of the terrorism strategy. The real terrorists are not the young radicalized boys and girls who end up dead in the mission field; rather the actual terrorists are the criminal masterminds who end up gaining economically from the extreme fear that grips the masses after terror attacks.
Therefore, to understand terrorism, and how to deal with it, we need to understand who the criminal masterminds behind the global terrorism strategy are; and there we shall find the solution to this perennial global problem.


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Not long after the attacks of September 11, 2001, I wrote a commentary on the meaning and source of the attack for a magazine called Navigator.
Nothing in the intervening ten years has caused me to alter my fundamental analysis of the ideas at the root of the assault on America. As we contemplate the tragic losses of human life from that infamous day, and the philosophy at the heart of the attack, I thought I'd share with you that commentary:
"Unilateral Moral Disarmament."


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This is what the NFL linebacker left behind on Saturday in a rush of violence that left many wondering why.
Few answers came from 911 tapes released this week by police. But the tapes provide a heartbreaking soundtrack of the fleeting moments the morning that police say Belcher killed his girlfriend Kasandra Perkins and then later turned the gun on himself just outside the front door of the Chiefs' practice facility.
"Oh my God. Oh my God. Cassie," Belcher's mother, Cheryl Shepherd, bawled. "The baby is crying ... Please get the ambulance here!"
"OK, we're on the way, " the dispatcher said. "We've been on the way the whole time. How old is the patient?"
"Twenty-two," the mother said.
"Is she breathing?" the dispatcher asked.
"She is still breathing but barely. Please hurry. I don't know how many times he shot her. They had been arguing ..." the mother said.
"OK, she's been shot?" the dispatcher asked.
Then moments later the mother seemed to direct her shouts to the wounded woman in the home.
"You hear me? Kasandra! Hey!. Stay with me!"
"Ma'am," the dispatcher said. "Listen. Is she awake?"
"She's barely," the mother said. "She's just barely. She is moving when I talk to her."
"OK," the dispatcher said.
"Oh, God," the mother moaned.
" Is she bleeding?" The dispatcher asked.
"Yes, she is ...."
But the rest of what's said was obscured by the screams of the young child.
A police officer gets on the phone and tries to get information about Belcher from the distraught mother.
The mother did not answer questions about the whereabouts of her 6-foot-2, 228-pound son, a standout 25-year-old starting linebacker for the Kansas City Chiefs.
Instead, in a voice rising as the moments passed, the mother begged for an ambulance.
"Ma'am, the ambulance is on the way. What's your son's name? What kind of car did your son leave in? Or was he on foot?" the officer said.
There was no response.
"Sounds like she disconnected," the dispatcher said. " I wanted to give her some bleeding advice also ... Ma'am, are you there?"
But there was no response.
And all that can be heard are the screams of the baby.
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I almost feel like the addition of Precision Strikes was a bad idea. I enjoy them and I love how much more tactical they make combat on SJ (it actually becomes pretty important to cripple legs and especially arms since there are many times where you're going to have to let them shoot back), but at the same time, it precludes things like, for example, instead of "conductive vs non-conductive", all energy weapons have a chance of simply shredding enemy armor with every successful hit, or anything like that.arcana75 wrote:I too find EWs terrible. Other than roleplaying, why bother investing in a weapon skill that becomes semi-good in LA, when I can invest in nearly any other skill and be useful throughout the game? I fought the Dugan robots using all ballistic weapons and didn't really have an issue, no one went down, and the same weapon skills took me through AZ.
I love the concept behind energy weapons, I just think it's awfully hard to find a way to implement it where it won't be either underpowered or overpowered. If EWs ever do get fixed, Gamma Ray Blaster is going to need some massive nerfs, though. That thing should not be nearly as good as it is.