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Prescribed fire on Spooner starts next week
The U.S. Forest expects to begin prescribed fire operations on Spooner Summit starting Tuesday, according to a statement from the agency.
Crews expect to burn about 10 acres per day, weather permitting. Operations will continue through the week as weather and conditions allow, according to the statement.
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Highlights: Raptors, Shorebirds, Songbirds, Upland Birds, Waterbirds, Waterfowl
Access: Year-round. Snow may limit vehicle access. Access free of charge.
Directions: E of Boise on I-84 Exit #64; zero odometer; E on Blacks Ck Rd 6.4 mi to fork in rd; L (NE) on Blacks Ck Rd to Three Point Mountain pass at mi 14.8; descend on Blacks Ck Rd (FS 189) along Wood Ck to Willow Ck Trailhead at mi 18.2; continue to the town of Prairie; S on FR 121 to Danskin Bridge and continue S to Cow Ck River Access; turn L (SE) and continue on FR 121 to Anderson Ranch Reservoir; turn R (S) to cross dam and continue S to US 20 via Anderson Dam Rd.
Description: All land from I-84 to the top of the pass is private and traffic is fast. Please bird from road and be careful when driving slow. Bluebird boxes will appear on the fence posts as you ascend the pass. Once at the top of the pass, land is public. Drop down along Wood Creek. While the trailheads and trails provide only moderate birding opportunities, riparian zones between the trailheads are good for nesting warblers. Check high slopes for Lewis's Woodpecker and nesting Red-tailed
Hawk. Eventually you get to the town of Prairie on the main plateau and again all land is private and fenced. Western
and Mountain Bluebirds, Western Wood-Pewee, Sandhill Crane, American Dipper, Sage Thrasher, Bobolink, Vaux's Swift, Brewer's and Chipping Sparrows, hummingbirds, and swallows can all be found.
More Information: USFS (208) 587-7961Mountain Home Chamber of Commerce (208) 587-4334
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What is Japan Rail Pass?
Japan Rail Pass is a multi-use discounted ticket, valid for travels on all JR national trains in Japan, including Shinkansen bullet trains and Narita Express. You can select 7, 14 or 21 consecutive validity days. Choose between Standard and Green Pass (first class).
Order your JR Pass online. You will receive an Exchange Order (delivery in Japan available), which then needs to be exchanged and activated in Japan for the actual JR Pass. All foreign nationals who visit Japan for tourist reasons can purchase it.


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To go back in the Andriod Player or close an opened folder Swipe from the Center of the bottom bezel (which is starting from the BlackBerry logo on the default portrait orientation) and swipe to the left or right side within the bezel. This is a neat little trick I discovered back when OS 2.0 was in beta.
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I love the look of this map. Very unique compared to any WWII games settings.
Ham and Jam is a teamplay orientated, first person WW2 multiplayer game centred around the British and Commonwealth campaigns from 1939-45. Historically accurate missions coupled with careful balance between realistic and enjoyable gameplay makes Ham and Jam a unique experience. Ham and Jam started out as an idea between it's two main developers as an alternative to the tired old "U.S./Russia vs. Germany, post June 6th 1944" formulae WW2 games seem to use. Fed-up with everything prior to D-Day being ignored, the North West Europe theatre and the lack of British, Commonwealth and Free Forces they decided to do something about it. The goal was clear, to make a WW2 mod that featured all the missing bits of WW2 history, portray it in a historically accurate way but without detracting from the fun or playability by overdoing realism. In short the kind of game they and their friends would like to play. The name comes from the original code words for the capture of the Pegasus/Orne bridges
I love the look of this map. Very unique compared to any WWII games settings.
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Jakarta is a multicultural city.
In Jakarta, local culture, Betawi, fuse with European, Indian, Chinese, and Arab influences.
In the 4th century AD, Jakarta, then named Sunda Kelapa, was already known as a busy port of the Hindu Pajajaran kingdom where were settlements of traders from China, India and Arabia, as well as of ethnic groups from the many islands in the Indonesian archipelago who came to trade predominantly in pepper. During the European Age of Discovery in quest of the Spice Islands, the first Portuguese vessel anchored here in 1522 and carried home a large cargo of precious pepper.
In 1527, fearing the power of the Portuguese who supported the Hindu Sunda kingdom, Prince Fatahillah of the Islamic kingdom of Cirebon attacked the town and established a new town called Jayakarta on 22 June 1527, which today is taken as the official date of birth of the city of Jakarta. Towards the end of the 17th century in 1596, the first Dutch merchant ships anchored here, followed in 1602 by the first British ship of the English East India Company.
In 1619, Dutch forces under Jan Pieterszoon Coen attacked Jayakarta, razing it completely to the ground. Upon its ruins he established the town of Batavia, - now known as Old Batavia - to become the center from which he ruled Dutch interest across the archipelago from the Stadhuis, now the Fatahillah Museum housing the history of Jakarta.
Because Batavia continued to be attacked by the surrounding Javanese kingdoms of Demak and Mataram, the Dutch built a walled city here, where indigenous Indonesians were kept outside the walls while only Europeans and Chinese could live inside the walls. Nonetheless, at the uprising and massacre of the Chinese, in 1740 these were relegated to the area known as Glodok, today's Chinatown, the city's center for trade and business.
In the meantime, the many indigenous ethnic groups intermarried and merged to form the Betawi ethnic group. The Betawi are today considered the indigenous people of the city of Jakarta.
Today, Old Batavia, with its many Dutch heritage buildings together with the nearby Kota are preserved and revitalized to become an important business center business area as well as historic tourist destination. The large buildings once housing government offices and large corporations now house among others the Wayang Museum, the Arts and Ceramics Museum, and other heritage sites.
Meanwhile, with the growth of the city, the government moved the capital south to Weltevreden, today's Menteng area in Central Jakarta, where the Dutch built palaces, churches, cathedrals, theatres and museums, besides opulent residential areas. This is the reason why most of the Dutch colonial heritage buildings can be found in this municipality.
After a 3 years occupation by the Japanese from 1942-1945, the Indonesian people declared their Independence on 17 August 1945. Soekarno, was chosen as the first President of the Republic of Indonesia. The name Batavia was again changed to be called Jakarta. It was President Soekarno who first planned the modernization of Jakarta further south along the present Jalan Sudirman. Soekarno also built the National Monument, the Istiqlal Mosque, the Senayan Sports Stadium and the wide Thamrin-Sudirman Boulevard as well as Indonesia's first highrise hotel, the Hotel Indonesia.
With this rich histori multi-racial and multi-ethnic heritage, Indonesia's capital city, Jakarta has become a convergence of national and international interest and networks, providing lessons of the past and creations, innovations and hope for generations to come.


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Hungarian F1 Grand Prix
McLaren Formula One driver Lewis Hamilton of Britain wears a Kalocsa design outfit before the free practice of the Hungarian F1 Grand Prix in Mogyorod (about 20km north-east from Budapest), Hungary. Saturday, 30. July 2011. ATTILA VOLGYI.Team sponsor Hugo Boss celebrates its 30th anniversary with special fan made designs for competition saturdays on all races. On Hungaroring the special design is from Hungarian folk tradition with motives from Kalocsa..


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The Cracked Pot
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Last year I posted these articles I wrote. I just looked back, and it was 1 week before this date last year. Every year, around the last week of March and the first week of October, my lupus gets really tough. This week I feel like I've been hit by a car and beat up. I am covered with bruises and they come from the inside, (broken blood vessels and inflammation inside) so the inside hurts more than the outside. So I started thinking of feeling like I was being punched around like a piece of clay, and remembered my magazine articles, which won a couple of awards. I hope you will enjoy them!
(c) Sheila Wall
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Once I was a bank of clay along a wetted marsh. I was content and silent, enjoying the natural sensations. One day an artist came, and with a strong, forceful knife, he cut me, again and again, until I was a lump of my former self. He took me to a strange place and with torturous strength he kneaded me. He threw me on a potter's wheel. He squeezed me. He punched me. He poked me. It seemed to never end. He bent me and thinned me out. I was no longer anything like I once was. Then the wheel stopped! He held me up to a mirror. I was beautiful! The pain had made me beautiful and useful. Now I could rest, I thought. I had become what I was meant to be. But wait! Where am I going now? To a firing kiln? Fire? More pain? Why, artist, why? "My little pot, you are the shape you'll always be, the design I planned for you, but unless I fire and glaze you, you will not endure. I hope you understand, it will not be for long, and then you will be the model for my other student's pots." And so I endured the fire, with anticipation of what I might someday inspire.
ENJOY THE FALL (c) Sheila Wall
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Well, you did it. You just jumped off the plane for the first time, but not onto solid ground, into thin air! You quickly assess the situation and think, "Now I can panic, or I can savor the experience. Wow. Up here, I feel no pressure, I feel no pain. I can do flips and somersaults that I couldn't do before. I can fly! I can see my town with a different perspective. I don't worry about hitting the ground, because I know my parachute will hold me."
Many years later you find yourself on solid ground, where everything seems heavier and harder. You feel that you are falling in life. After a long series of small stresses, the one catastrophe that you thought you could never bear just occurred. The weight pushes you to your knees in tears, then in prayer, and you hear a soft, quiet voice whisper to your heart, "Well, you did it. You just jumped off the ledge of security for the first time. Now you can panic or you can savor the experience. Down on your knees I can take the load from you. You will be able to do things you couldn't do before, with my strength. You can see things with a different perspective, through my eyes. Don't you worry about hitting the ground. I will be your parachute. I will carry you to safety. Enjoy the fall." Falling doesn't always mean destruction.
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To me, this is the most Holy week of the year, even more than Christmas.
May this easter season bring you new wisdom and peace;
and may the answers to your spiritual questions
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as our Lord was resurrected, so that we all may be someday.
Blessings, Sheila
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Workman was killed in Afghanistan on August 5 when a Chinook helicopter he was in was hit by enemy fire. Thirty eight people were killed in the incident, including 22 elite Navy Seals.
It is expected that Utah Governor Gary Herbert and a large number of Navy Seals will be in attendance at the memorial service.
Members of the Workman family from Blanding, including his parents and brother, were in Virginia at the press deadline. They were able to meet the airplane carrying Workman's body when it arrived in the United States.
Workman will be interred in Arlington National Cemetery. Those services have not been announced.
Workman's obituary is found here.
Funeral services are under the direction of the Blanding Sixth Ward.


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|This article is non-canon.
In an earlier version of the legendarium Arlisgion or the Place of Reeds were names for the fenland region later known as Lisgardh.
In The Fall of Gondolin it is described as being located to the south of Dor Lómin but separated from it by the Iron Mountains. Tuor stayed there for a while before departing for the "yet more lovely" Land of Willows.


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Peace Still Far Off
An Afghan woman describes the mental state of her countrymen as follows: We have cherished hopes of peace again and again for more than three decades now; sometimes this wishful thinking lasts a week, sometimes a month, sometimes a year.
But now all hopes have once again been shattered. Fear reigns. Afghanistan, in autumn 2011, ten years after the invasion of western troops: most of the people in this war-torn country now view the prospect of a stable future as nothing but an illusion. From every perspective.
In the aftermath of the assassination of former president Burhanuddin Rabbani, chances for reconciliation between the hostile fronts have become even more remote. The modicum of trust that Rabbani had managed to build up in his function as chair of the so-called High Peace Council set up by his successor Hamid Karzai has proven to be fragile.
Rabbani, the ex-mujaheddin fighter, who himself had anything but a peaceful past, ended up paying with his life for trying to find a peaceful solution for his country.
No talks with fundamentalists
Following the fatal bombing, the ex-president's companions in the movement known in the West as the Northern Alliance feel still more justified in their scepticism. They have always felt uneasy about negotiating with their archenemy, the Taliban, seeing no sense in trying to reason with fundamentalists.
Karzai deliberately chose Rabbani from amongst the ranks of these critics to head the peace council. But trying to convince the mujaheddin to venture further advances toward the Taliban now seems futile.
US defence minister Leon Panetta completely overlooks this internal Afghan dynamic when he insists that the West is making progress in the battle against the Taliban and that Rabbani's death represents an "isolated incident". As difficult as it is to make any predictions regarding Afghanistan, the chances have increased that the country could once again be heading toward civil war.
As difficult as it already is to achieve peace within Afghanistan, the role of the neighbouring nations places an additional burden on these efforts. After the spectacular Taliban attack in Kabul's embassy quarter last week, the US Administration cast its reserve to the winds, openly accusing its official ally Pakistan and its secret service of having links to the crime.
Pakistan's alleged goal is to deploy supposedly controllable fighters to ensure it will have a say in the post-war order in Afghanistan. Negotiations for peace in the Hindu Kush must hence also include those pulling the strings in Islamabad – particularly as it has become amply clear that the Taliban cannot be defeated with military means. And their place of retreat is after all Pakistan.
Nor can long-term peace be achieved in the region without the cooperation of Pakistan's archenemy India and without Iran. The US Administration has neglected as yet to attempt this diplomatic tour de force. Afghanistan is thus still a country where neighbouring states fight out their own surrogate conflicts.
When the Russian army withdrew from the Hindu Kush in the late 1980s, the West simply abandoned the region. No matter how much the coalition insists on its long-term commitment, the people in Afghanistan have lost faith. The West is well on the way to failing at its most important mission in the war in Afghanistan: creating a stable country. This is due not least to a few key strategic mistakes.
The urgent desire to launch negotiations with the Islamists, for example, grew out of a position of political weakness. US President Barack Obama's announcement that all fighting units would be withdrawn from the Hindu Kush by 2014 was motivated more by conditions in Washington than those in Kabul.
Exit strategy for war-weary West
Obama wanted to present the war-weary Americans with an exit strategy. His allies gratefully jumped on the bandwagon, because the other countries in the West are just as tired of dealing with Afghanistan.
However, the plan for withdrawal brings to light a central problem: at the time of Obama's announcement, the war between the western troops and the Taliban was at an impasse. It is true that the ISAF allies have been able to eliminate numerous Taliban commanders and to liberate certain regions from Islamist power. But the insurgents have reacted by switching to asymmetrical war tactics, with spectacular attacks on emblematic institutions and high-ranking figures like Rabbani.
The Taliban most definitely do not have the feeling they are losing the battle. Why should they negotiate a peace when all they have to do is wait for the western powers protecting Karzai's regime to leave the scene?
Developments in the Hindu Kush are taking a turn that offers little reason for optimism.
Tobias Matern
© Süddeutsche Zeitung/Qantara.de 2011
Translated from the German by Jennifer Taylor
Qantara.de editor: Lewis Gropp


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Choosing a good fence company, such as our friends over at Halls Fence, for a job that you need completed is often a challenging task. When looking for a fencing contractor, working with the right company can make all the difference with respect to the quality of job that you will eventually get. Choosing a good fencing company will also protect you from annoying complications that may develop during or after the installation. Without much ado, therefore, here is an overview of some of the factors that you need to consider in order to end up with a good fencing company:
Research On Available Companies: Before interviewing any fencing contractor, you can first learn about the different services that they offer via customer reviews and feedbacks as well as other relevant information about some of the local fencing companies within your locality. This will go a long way in narrowing down your search to a few companies for more thorough examination.
Check Their Better Business Bureau Rating: Besides a general research on the available companies, you can also explore how the companies you are interested in rate on the Better Business Bureau. This will help you in identifying certain complaints that might have been filed against the company in question as well as their overall business rating.
Check Examples of Their Previous Projects: Some companies will provide pictures of their previous works—some will even provide addresses of their past projects. This will provide you with an overview of how a given fence type will look like once it is finally installed. It will also provide you with additional insight into the quality of work that the company is able to produce.
Go For A Well Established Company: A well established fence company that does installations and repairs has been around for years is always a good bet considering the fact that they have extensive experience in the fencing business. Even if it is considerably a young company, consider finding more about its principals and how long they have been in the business. You can also ask for their portfolio so that you have the opportunity to determine the quality of their initial projects.
Check for Warranties/Insurance: A good company will always honor manufactures' warranties for products defects. Similarly, the best fencing companies will be ready to give you warranties to support their workmanship. Additionally, it is always in order for contractors to carry various insurance covers (such as workers' compensation insurance and personal liability insurance) for their employees. Try to avoid fencing companies which don't have appropriate insurance cover; otherwise, you may be liable for any damages or injuries that may occur during your fencing project.
Check And Confirm The Fencing Materials To Be Used: Ensure that the proposal given covers all the necessary details including but not limited to fence types, fencing materials, type of gates, and other footage requirements. You should be wary of companies that have lower price tags than the proposals that you have considered.
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To: Crecente
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RE: Glass Monkey, That Funky Monkey
I really think it's important that kid's save money. I never saved much when I was a kid, though. Kinda wish I did. A friend of mine saved up all his money from when he was a kid and when he grew up, he bought a Corvette — used, but hey, a Corvette!
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Citizen Fire Academy
The Citizen Fire Academy program equips participants with the knowledge they need to improve fire preparedness and resiliency on their own properties and in their communities.
Fire Program
Wildfires cost the state of Oregon millions of dollars each year; and billions across the Nation. Forestry & Natural Resources Extension aims to offers a comprehensive, consistent, and cohesive approach to a Fire Program for all its people.
Land Steward Program
The Land Steward Program helps owners learn how to better utilize and take care of their land. The multi-disciplinary program covers a broad range of management topics including wildfire risk reduction, woodland and forest ...
Tree School
Regional Tree School events held each year throughout Oregon provide important opportunities for continuing education and building community, helping support the success of family forest landowners.
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Galdor (disambiguation)
(Redirected from Galdor)
Galdor can refer to:
- Galdor of the Tree, an elf-lord of Gondolin in the First Age.
- Galdor (Lord of Dor-lómin) (F.A. 417 - 462), father of Húrin Thalion who died before the Nirnaeth Arnoediad.
- Galdor of the Havens, Círdan's representative at the Council of Elrond.
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The nation's critical infrastructure, such as the electric power grid, air traffic control system, financial system, and communication networks, depends upon networked information systems (NISs) for their operation. However, these NISs presently possess vulnerabilities that can be exploited by terrorists and malicious hackers because there is an inadequate understanding of what makes them vulnerable to attack, how best to reduce these vulnerabilities, and how to transfer cybersecurity knowledge to actual practice. In short, it appears that our nation's dependence on NISs has grown faster than our ability to address vulnerabilities.At congressional hearings (e.g., House Science Committee) and other convenings of academic, industry and government representatives between 2001 and 2002, participants argued that new research funds, and possibly a new way of thinking about cybersecurity, are necessary to meet the urgent need to secure computer networks supporting the nation's critical infrastructure. In response, the U.S. Congress passed the Cyber Security Research and Development Act (PL 107-305, enacted November 27, 2002) which authorized this study to provide advice regarding the appropriate locus for federal cybersecurity research.This project will involve a survey of the research effort in cybersecurity and trustworthiness to assess the current mix of topics, level of effort, division of labor, sources of funding, and quality; describe those research areas that merit federal funding, considering short-, medium-, and long-term emphases; and recommend the necessary level for federal funding in cybersecurity research. The study will address research topics traditionally associated with cybersecurity, as well as those related to improving the trustworthiness of networked information systems, with a focus on achieving fundamental strength rather than pursuing reactive approaches. This project will also seek to identify and explore models and technologies that are not traditionally associated with cybersecurity or computer system trustworthiness that, nevertheless, may generate ideas leading to revolutionary-not incremental-advances in cybersecurity research. Structural alternatives for the oversight and allocation of funding (how to best allocate existing funds and how best to program new funds that may be made available) will be considered and the project committee will provide corresponding recommendations.The expertise required for this project includes the various specialties within computer security and other aspects of trustworthiness, computer networks, systems architecture, complex systems (both in the computer science context and in other domains such those based in the biological sciences), software engineering, process control systems (e.g., SCADA), human-computer interaction, organization theory and public administration, and information technology research and development programs (both operational and grant-making programs) in the federal government, academia, and industry. People experienced with federally funded programs will be involved, as well as people with experience in industrial research. Membership on the committee will be balanced among those with well-established expertise in areas traditionally associated with cybersecurity with those with expertise in other areas that may infuse creative and innovative ideas into how cybersecurity is conceived and researched in the future. The committee will solicit input from the broad research community, possibly through a workshop, to discuss creative and innovative approaches to cybersecurity.The committee's report will be made publicly available in both a regular book length and a shorter version, both in print and on the World Wide Web. Briefings will be made to government leaders and members of the information technology research communities, as well as to members of interested industry and application domain groups.
Committee Members
Seymour (Sy) E. Goodman, ChairProfessor of International Affairs and ComputingSam Nunn School of International AffairsCollege of ComputingGeorgia Institute of TechnologyFred B. Schneider, CSTB LiaisonProfessor, Department of Computer ScienceDirector, Information Assurance InstituteCornell UniversityDavid AucsmithSecurity Architect and Chief Technology OfficerMicrosoft Corporation, Security Business UnitSteven M. BellovinProfessor, Computer Science DepartmentColumbia UniversityJoel S. BirnbaumIndependent ConsultantAnjan BoseDean, College of Engineering and ArchitectureDistinguished Professor of Electric Power EngineeringWashington State UniversityBarbara FraserSenior Consulting EngineerCisco Systems, Inc.James GoslerFellow for Information Operations StudiesSandia National LaboratoriesWilliam GuttmanDistinguished Service Professor of Economics and TechnologyH. John Heinz III School of Public Policy and ManagementCarnegie Mellon UniversityStaff
Herbert S. Lin, Study Director and Senior ScientistTed Schmitt, ConsultantJanice Sabuda, Senior Program Assistant
National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST)Defense Advanced Research Project Agency (DARPA)National Science FoundationNational Academy of Engineering


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NASA Administrator Charles Bolden had a rare (and welcome) availability with Houston area media on Thursday, and while he generally stuck to talking points, citing the space agency's rosy future, moments of frustration slipped through the cracks.
These slips are illuminating as they point out a central weakness and strength of NASA — its 10 centers spread across eight states.
The diversity of these centers, including sites in populous states like Texas, California, Florida and Ohio, ensures political clout for the agency in both houses of Congress. At the same time, NASA has to continually spread work around all of these centers and keep senators and representatives from the homes of each of the 10 happy.
Which is to say, first and foremost, saving jobs.
During his availability on Thursday, I asked Bolden about the dearth of planetary science flagship missions in the wake of Curiosity's success on Mars. He talked about some upcoming missions and then, in the midst of that discussion, started talking about jobs.
Here's what he said:
I always have to caution people, if your concern is jobs, which it is for all of us, and so you want to make sure that every center has something going that's going to guarantee that every year we can do a new program or project that assures jobs, that's nice. But we've also got to be accomplishing something that we can tell the American taxpayer "this is worth the money we're spending." The strategy that we have right now, the programs we have in science, aeronautics, technology development, human exploration, we feel is a balanced portfolio that provides support across the agency for all 10 centers, keeps our workforce vibrant and viable working on things they really know and the nation needs, so that's where our focus is.
I believe when he's talking about "people" in the first sentence, he's talking about Congress. And he alludes to the inherent tension in all of this, namely that NASA has to keep work farmed out to each center, but still has to be seen accomplishing something.
This inherent tension between appeasing Congress and actually doing something also arose earlier during the news conference. During his opening remarks, Bolden urged Congress to agree to the president's budget request for $821 million for commercial crew flights, saying a failure to do so would further delay development of private, American rockets and spacecraft to launch astronauts to the International Space Station.
He said:
I had to authorize writing a check for 450 million-some-odd dollars to Russia to extend the Soyuz contract to support the International Space Station for 2016 into 2017. That's 450-million some-odd dollars that we could have been writing to American industry if we had an American capability to get our astronauts there right now. And that's the last check I want to write to somebody outside the United States. You need to know when you talk to Congressional representatives, they need to understand how critically important it is to approve the President's request for $821 million to develop commercial crew.
Why is Congress unlikely to do so, and why haven't they fully funded the president's budget requests for commercial crew in the past? It's not because Congress is populated by Russophiles. It's because congressional members from Texas and Alabama and elsewhere are protecting their centers, which might see slight budget cuts if commercial crew is fully funded. So part of the money needed to help develop commercial rockets and space capsules in past budgets has been siphoned off for programs at various NASA centers.
As a result, a few parochial interests win, but I'm not sure that's best for America overall.
Anyway, in case anyone was disillusioned, let's be clear that political support for NASA is largely about jobs. Same as it was back in 1977, if you believe Jimmy Carter. Most of the time, if a politician from a particular state supports a NASA program, it's because that program provides a lot of jobs at the center in his or her state. There are some exceptions, of course. I'm a big fan of John Culberson's desire to send a robotic probe to Europa, and that would have almost no benefit for Johnson Space Center.
The good news is that NASA still accomplishes stuff, just not as much as it could be doing if it weren't mostly about jobs.


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Tuesday, April 14, 2009
REALbasic 2009 Release 2 Available Now!
COM Automation Support: Applications can take control of any other Windows application that supports COM automation.
"I really look forward to being able to use COM on Windows, since this will make my programming work a lot easier," commented Dirk Cleenwerck, a REALbasic user. "Because of the features REAL Software adds, I am able to develop much faster in REALbasic than any other programming language."
MySQL Support: The Community Edition (free) of MySQL is now officially supported.
REAL Studio Edition: To recap, REAL Studio includes:
- A license key that can be installed on any number of computers or operating systems for easier development and testing.
- The code profiler for optimizing code performance.
- IDE Scripting for build automation.
- A REAL Server unlimited connections license.
- Priority technical support.
To download your very own copy of REALbasic 2009 Release 2, please visit http://www.realsoftware.com/download today!
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I don't see the new MySQL plugin in the Mac 2009r2 download. Where is it located?
- April 14, 2009 at 10:10 AM
- REAL Software said...
It's a separate download located in the Additional Utilities section on the downloads page: :http://realsoftware.com/download/
- April 14, 2009 at 10:11 AM
I can see the download for the Community edition plugin there, but what about the Enterprise version?
Also curious why MySQL is a separate download while the other DBs are included in the main download, but that doesn't matter too much.
Thanks for your help.
- April 14, 2009 at 10:17 AM
- REAL Software said...
There is a blog post a few posts down about why the MySQL Enterprise Server plugin is not in this release. We will be releasing the Enterprise plugin separately very soon.
- April 14, 2009 at 10:31 AM
- REAL Software said...
Starting with R3 we will include the MySQL plugins in the main product download.
- April 14, 2009 at 10:33 AM
- Roger said...
There current doesn't seem to be any documentation or examples regarding COM, or am I missing something? I would love to try this out.
- April 14, 2009 at 11:50 AM
About REAL Studio functionnalities, the post says:
- IDE Scripting for build automation.
Does it mean that IDE Scripting other than build automation works in REALbasic Pro?
- April 14, 2009 at 11:52 AM
- REAL Software said...
IDE Scripting is no longer a feature of Pro.
- April 14, 2009 at 11:53 AM
i downloaded 2009 r2demo, i am trying this out as i plan on programming for the iphone. so learning objective-c also. making the program with realbasic first will give me a good prototype.
Having problems right now. Trying to create databases when the program crashes. redownloaded entire r2 but still crashes. help requested
- April 15, 2009 at 11:05 AM
- Geoff Perlman said...
I believe there is a known bug in the database editor. It's fixed for R3. If you purchase R2 (the current release) you can download R1 and use the database editor there.
- April 15, 2009 at 11:49 AM
i am making up my mind about purchasing the product. are you saying that i have to purchase the program before i can get the fix?
- April 15, 2009 at 4:35 PM
70 improvements and 18 new features. Where is the link to show what has changed? Does COM support count as 1 feature or 18?
- April 15, 2009 at 8:44 PM
- REAL Software said...
You can get to the release notes from the product download page and they are also included in the product download itself. Here is a direct link: http://realsoftware.cachefly.net/REALbasic2009r2/ReleaseNotes.pdf
- April 16, 2009 at 6:58 AM


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Located on a trade route connecting Dubrovnik with the medieval mining towns of central Kosovo, Peja was a trade centre as far back as in the Middle Ages. Its name derives from the Turkish word for silk (ipek). In 1999 Peja's bazaar quarter was burned down by Serb forces. More than two-thirds of Peja's buildings were damaged or destroyed, including many traditional stone kullas andOttoman-era homes. Today, streets named after British Premier Tony Blair, and US Generals William Walker and Wesley Clark keep memories of the recent war alive.
After 1945, in an effort to industrialise the town, the communist leadership established leather, shoe, wood and furniture companies. In 1968, Zastava, a Serbian car manufacturer, opened an outlet in Peja, becoming the town's largest employer.
Today, however, little remains of the postwar industrial drive. Only a large brewery is still active, selling its beer in Kosovo and to the Kosovo diaspora.
The history of Peja (Pec in Serbian) is closely linked to that of the Serbian Orthodox Church. To protect the patriarchate from Bulgarian raiders in the 13th century the seat of the Serbian Orthodox Church was moved from central Serbia to Peja. From 1557 until 1766 the town was the residence of the Church's patriarchs and archbishops. Protected by high walls and beautifully located at the entrance of the Rugova Gorge, the monastic complex features outstanding examples of paintings from the 13th to the 17th century. According to the Ahtisaari Proposal, the Pec Patriarchy is to be a protected zone, in order to guard Serb Orthodox heritage in Kosovo.
- ESI report: De-industrialisation and its consequences (March 2002)
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PARIS (Arianespace PR) — Arianespace's new chairman and CEO today detailed his perspectives for the company's future – continuing the focus on operational excellence with the Ariane 5, Soyuz and Vega launcher family, while also ensuring maximum of flexibility and agility in responding to changes and trends in the space lift marketplace.
Speaking to reporters at the Paris Air Show, Stéphane Israël said Arianespace has earned its position as the world's no. 1 launch services provider, and he will ensure the company maintains the tools and resources necessary to retain this leadership.
In this framework, Israël detailed two developments that he currently is seeking: an enhancement of Ariane 5's payload fairing to accommodate the increasing size of satellites orbited on the heavy-lift launcher's trademark dual-passenger missions; and a reduction of time necessary between the missions of Arianespace's different launcher family types at the Spaceport in French Guiana.
"In my two months at Arianespace, I have been impressed by the company's operational capacity and the capabilities of its commercial network," he told reporters. "I am determined to maintain our no. 1 ranking by being flexible and adaptable in meeting an evolving market."
Increasing the Ariane 5 payload fairing's volume will provide Arianespace with a "quick win" to meet a continued growth in the size of telecommunications satellites, Israël explained. With a relatively modest cost of some 30 million euros, this enhanced fairing could be available by 2015, he added.
"If approved, the evolved fairing would enable Arianespace to offer an Ariane 5+ version – sending a clear message that we are able to adapt quickly to market changes, maintaining maximum agility in our offer to customers," Israël explained.
Such a step would ensure an interim update for Ariane 5 as Europe prepares for a longer-term effort for the follow-on Ariane 5 ME (Mid-life Evolution) version, along with the successor Ariane 6, he stated.
The second development sought by Israël is the reduction of time necessary between Spaceport launches of the different launcher types in Arianespace's vehicle family. While it currently takes approximately three weeks to reconfigure the Spaceport's infrastructure after a liftoff, the Arianespace chairman and CEO is seeking a reduction to two weeks.
"With our Ariane 5, Soyuz and Vega launchers now fully operational, compressing the amount of time required from one flight to the next will contribute to Arianespace's operational responsiveness and reactivity – enabling us to meet the mission scheduling and timing required by our customers," he explained.
In providing an overview of commercial activity during the first six months of 2013, Israël said Arianespace has booked eight new telecommunications satellite payloads for launches to geostationary transfer orbit – which is a new record for this timeframe.
The new business involves an Intelsat S.A. order for three EpicNG–class satellites that provide broadband infrastructure in a variety of applications; a contract with Australian operator NBN (National Broadband Network) for its first two spacecraft, which are dedicated to broadband Internet services; two satellites for Eutelsat as part of a multiple launch services agreement; along with a non-disclosed customer payload.
Additionally, Arianespace today announced a launch contract with Telespazio to orbit the Göktürk-1 high-resolution observation satellite for the Turkish government. Göktürk-1 will be lofted by Vega, and placed in a Sun-synchronous orbit.
With this new business so far in 2013, Arianespace has further consolidated its market position – providing an order book backlog equivalent to more than three years of launch activity.
To maintain Arianespace's mission cadence, Israël confirmed the company is in discussions with its industry suppliers for the next production batches of the Ariane 5, Soyuz and Vega launch vehicles.


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The "Right" versus "Left" convenient but capricious political arrangement came from the seating position of delegates to the National Assembly during the French Revolution, but it is at times a confusing concept and too often subject to media and academic bias and even misinformation. I have found it easier to have a political spectrum based on degrees of government control.
In the political spectrum concept of degrees of government control, the Total State or totalitarianism, exemplified by practical communism (i.e., as opposed to the theoretical, anarchistic communism, where the state is supposed to disappear once property rights are abrogated and which has never existed) becomes the extreme left. Anarchism (no government) is on the extreme right. Direct democracy (e.g., as practiced by the ancient Athenians) is center left; a representative republic (e.g., in the model of the ancient Roman Republic, which the American Founders imitated to some degree and adapted for a growing continental nation) occupies center right. Here roughly is my conceptualized political spectrum:
But I believe that the presumed evanescence of the political spectrum actually becomes a solid iron horseshoe, as we move to the extremes. The horseshoe then becomes over-bent and the tips of the extreme Left and Right come ever closer to almost touching at the ends. The gap between the tips of the horseshoe is the paradoxical chaos: anarchism and tyranny. Let us borrow the term coined by the late conservative journalist, Samuel T. Francis, Anarcho-tyranny, a state whereby the wildfire of anarchy is attempted to be squelched by the repressive fire of a police state of absolute tyranny.
In today's political climate, most American conservatives, I surmise, would fall into the category of Republicanism. Most modern liberals would fall in the range between democracy and socialism. In my estimation, one-third of all Americans tend to favor modern liberalism; one-third more lean toward conservatism; and the final one-third are "centrist," not because of conviction or superior knowledge, but because of superficiality and inattention. They tend to be the least informed of the electorate, and yet by another quirk of fate, these Americans frequently decide elections! And despite the liberalism of academia and the bias of the mainstream media, they frequently vote conservative.
A word of caution is in order: The "classical liberalism" of the 19th and early 20th centuries would be more akin to today's conservatism than modern liberalism. Consider the tenets of classical liberalism: laissez faire capitalism, free trade, maximum individual liberty, minimal taxation, lesser government. "Modern liberalism," on the other hand, is more akin to the socialism of today's social democracies and favors more government involvement in the affairs of citizens, wealth redistribution via taxation, protectionism, and labor unions. I have placed Objectivism to the left of Libertarianism because of its founder, Ayn Rand. As a Russian expatriate, Rand never lost sight of the danger of collectivism and totalitarianism and never succumbed to the naiveté of the Libertarians.
Where is Monarchy? Absolute monarchy is to the left; constitutional monarchy is to the right in the political spectrum, specific placement depending on time, place, and culture.
Communism and Socialism
乐动体育APPIn modern political theory, though, there is a distinction between socialism and communism, and thereby their relative positions I have assigned them in the political spectrum. In Communism, the State, incarnated in one political party, owns all means of production, distribution, and even consumption, ostensibly under an egalitarian and "on need" basis. In practice, communist party officials, as political elites, are "more equal than others," and reserve to themselves their "fair share" at the expense of the masses. Moreover, communism comes about by the "class struggle" and imposition by force, popular revolution, for the establishment of the "dictatorship of the proletariat."
My own definition of modern socialism, if indeed there is a difference, is the assumption and maintenance of power by evolution; seduction of the population by political elites, who promise something for nothing but in reality take from some to give to others; the use of envy for class strife and incitement of the dark side of human nature to justify wealth redistribution by legalized plunder. This redistribution of wealth and management of power is carried out by political elites, who are above the rest of us and ostensibly protect us even from ourselves and for our own good. This unnatural "equality" is maintained by the State, largely controlling via regulation or taxation the means of production (e.g., factories, mines, etc), distribution (transportation, communication, etc.) or consumption of goods or services (e.g., food, health care, housing, education indoctrination, etc.). Both communism and socialism are derived from Marxist dogma, but this is frequently forgotten.
Thus, Communism and Socialism, and as we shall see, Fascism and Nazism are all collectivist forms of regimes of the left in the political spectrum, as predicated by the tenets of excessive, oppressive, or brutally authoritarian governments. Many learned people cannot fathom the reality that socialism is a close kin to communism and Nazism is actually National Socialism — all of these "isms" are considered "working class movements" by those espousing them. The seemingly benign connotation of socialism today as democratic and altruistic would be a source of laughter to their innovators, e.g., Karl Marx (1818-83) and Friedrich Engels (1820-1895), or their actual applicators, e.g., Vladimir I. Lenin (1870-1924), Joseph Stalin (1879-1953), Mao Zedong (1893-1976) or Fidel Castro (1926-). All the reader has to do is visit the website of the Communist Party of the USA (CPUSA), read the Collected Works of Lenin, or listen to the speeches of Fidel Castro to learn that the communist demigods use the terms socialism and communism interchangeably.
Marx's Das Kapital is boring, tedious reading, but The Communist Manifesto is not. It is an incendiary document in which Marx tells the reader that he called his Manifesto "Communist" rather than "Socialist," simply because he did not want his Manifesto to be confused with some of the British and other good-intentioned European humanitarian and utilitarian movements then in vogue, which sometimes called themselves "socialist."
Lenin himself wrote that in the relentless march of history (positivism) and the class struggle (dialectical materialism or dialectics), the ultimate goal of socialism was communism and the establishment of the Dictatorship of the Proletariat. Lenin called the American and European liberals of his day, "useful idiots" and "fellow travelers" because they wanted to believe in the "worker's paradise" instead of the harsh reality of Soviet socialism. Lenin, not Stalin, heralded the era of the concentration camps and founded the infamous secret police, the Cheka, under Feliks Dzerzhinsky (1877-1926; photo, right) in the USSR. It was Lenin who began the extermination of the Kadets (Constitutional Democrats) and even his leftwing Socialist Revolutionary (LSRs) opponents in the class struggle. Stalin only intensified the process and exterminated, not only the purported "enemies of the people" but almost wiped out the entire ranks of Lenin's old Bolshevik comrades, including Lev Kamenev, Gregory Zinoviev, Nikolai Bukharin, Karl Radek, Antonov-Ovseyenko (leader of the Bolshevik Military Organization that stormed the Winter Palace during the 1917 October Revolution), Gleb I. Boky, Y. A. Ganetsky (Polish communist who was Lenin's liaison with the Germans during World War I and the sealed train affair), Leon Trotsky, etc. Nobody killed more communists than the communist-in-chief himself, Generalissimo Joseph Stalin!(1)
And yet, class warfare, the inception of the labor camps, the gulag, the Red Terror, the extermination of class enemies and political opponents, etc., began with Lenin soon after the October Revolution of 1917; it intensified to a fevered pitch under Joseph Stalin, who exterminated not only class enemies, but also the Kulaks and even old Bolsheviks. Repression somewhat moderated under Nikita Khrushchev. That is why Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn's (photo, left) The Gulag Archipelago is subtitled "1918-1956." And yet even under Khrushchev we had the crushing of the Hungarian Revolution, the construction of the Berlin Wall, and the October Missile Crisis. Leonid Brezhnev, who engaged Richard Nixon and the West with detente, ordered the crushing of the Prague Spring of 1968 and the fatal invasion of Afghanistan in 1979. Soviet repression did not end, in fact, until the collapse of the Berlin Wall and the disintegration of the USSR and its satellites (1989-1991). But authoritarianism, which seems to be an inherent part of the Russian character, persists to this day even under Russian democracy and Vladimir Putin (2011).(2)
A word about Fascism is in order: It drained the Pontine marshes, established "peace" with the Vatican, and made the trains run in time, but like Nazism, it is a rabid, nationalistic variant of socialism whose economic essence is corporativism, a monopolistic partnership of business and industry corporate entities with the state as the senior, commanding partner. In Fascism, the means of production, distribution, and consumption are controlled by the state; whereas in communism, the state owns all means of production, distribution and consumption. Despite the modern liberal penchant for tarring conservatives as "Fascists," the truth of the matter is that these "left-wing" liberals as socialists are more closely akin to fascists than the "right-wing" conservatives!
Social Democracy
As much as many proponents of Social Democracy (SD) would like to forget, social democracy is derived from Marxist ideology. Rosa Luxemburg (1871-1919) and Karl Liebknecht (1871-1919) were the patron saints of Marxism and Social Democracy in Germany at the turn of the century. Later they participated in the Spartacist League and founded the Communist Party of Germany. Their counterpart in Russia was Georgi Plekhanov (1856-1918; photo, right), the father of the Social Democratic Party of Russia to which both Vladimir Lenin and Joseph Stalin belonged before the SD split into the more moderate, democratic Mensheviks and the conspiratorial, communist Bolsheviks. After the October 1917 Revolution, it was Lenin and his Bolsheviks who came to power. The Mensheviks then went into exile, and those who stayed in Russia were hunted down by Lenin's Cheka or exterminated by Stalin's security apparatus and the gulag concentration, labor camps.
The derivation of Social Democracy from Marxism is not denied or contended by their European Social Democratic parties today. And in the U.S., as time passes, many Americans, particularly in the South, agree with Ronald Reagan, who was once a democrat, and said that he did not leave the party; but that the party moved so much to the left that it left him!
I have been told that socialism and communism have been dead since 1989. I wish that statement were true. The death of socialism, like that of Mark Twain's at one time, has been greatly exaggerated! The sudden death of socialism would have astounded a legislator from Vermont, U.S. Senator Bernie Sanders (I-VT), an avowed socialist, even when it was not fashionable to admit being one in the U.S. Congress. Senator Sanders would be greatly shocked to learn that his ideals became defunct after the fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989! Today, in fact Sen. Sanders has 89 socialist colleagues in the U.S. Congress, all Democrats, who are members of either the Congressional Democratic Caucus or the Democratic Socialists of America.
Despite the fall of the Berlin Wall, socialism in the Western democracies and in the U.S. has continued to grow. The central and Eastern Europeans who have experienced the full brunt of socialism and communism are no longer bragging about Marxism or social justice, and are trying to move as far away as they can from collectivism. But it is difficult for people who have become dependent on government to move away from it and regain personal autonomy. The Western Europeans in Spain, France, Germany, Scandinavia, etc. are stuck in the mud with
socialism, and their economies are collapsing from debt and their overindulgence, but when they try to dump Karl Marx and socialism, they get riots, as we have seen repeatedly in France, Greece and even Great Britain. It is a vicious cycle of dependency that is very difficult to break once instituted.
And now domestic socialism is affecting the U.S. as well. If we were to try to end welfarism and dependence and return to America's work ethic and individual initiative by returning to the mandates of our Constitution by ending judicial activism, rejecting the wide interpretation of the welfare and interstate commerce clauses, changing the tax code to a flat tax or a national sales tax — then it is very possible that we could expect riots and perhaps even looting and burning by those classes of citizens that Jean Jacques Rousseau called the noble savages.
Read Part II of this article.
References and Notes
1) If one book had to be selected that most accurately describes, epitomizes, and exemplifies the evils of totalitarianism and communism, it would be Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn's masterpiece, The Gulag Archipelago (1918-1956) — An Experiment in Literary Investigation, Parts I-II (1973) and The Destructive Labor Camps and The Soul and Barbed Wire, Parts III-IV (1975). Translated into English by Thomas P. Whitney.
2) Including the main story, Alex Goldfarb's Death of a Dissident---the Poisoning of Alexander Litvinenko and the Return of the KGB乐动体育APP (2007) is an excellent book on Vladimir Putin's post-communist Russia.
Written by Dr. Miguel A. Faria
Dr. Miguel A. Faria, Jr. is a former Clinical Professor of Surgery (Neurosurgery, ret.) and Adjunct Professor of Medical History (ret.) Mercer University School of Medicine; Former member Editorial Board of Surgical Neurology (2004-2010); Member Editorial Board of Surgical Neurology International (2011-present);Recipient of the Americanism Medal from the Nathaniel Macon Chapter of the Daughters of the American Revolution (DAR) 1998; Ex member of the Injury Research Grant Review Committee of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) 2002-05; Founder and Editor-in-Chief of the Medical Sentinel (1996-2002); Editor Emeritus, the Association of American Physicians and Surgeons (AAPS); Author, Vandals at the Gates of Medicine (1995), Medical Warrior: Fighting Corporate Socialized Medicine (1997), and Cuba in Revolution: Escape From a Lost Paradise (2002).
A shorter, edited version of this article was published on October 7, 2011 at GOPUSA.com.
This article may be cited as: Faria MA. The Political Spectrum (Part 1): The totalitarian left from Communism to Social Democracy. kutahyaevdeneve.com, September 28, 2011. Available from: http://kutahyaevdeneve.com/articles/political-spectrum-part-i-totalitarian-left-communism-social-democracy
Copyright ©2011 Miguel A. Faria, Jr., M.D.
Wasserman Schultz stumped when asked to explain difference between a Democrat and a Socialist By Arutz Sheva (Israel) July 31, 2015
Representative Debbie Wasserman-Schultz (D-FL), the chair of the Democratic National Committee (DNC), was truly stumped on Thursday when asked on national TV what the difference was between her party and socialism. In an interview with MSNBC host Chris Matthews in which the openly socialist Democratic presidential candidate Bernie Sanders was brought up, she was asked, "what is the difference between a Democrat and a socialist?" The stammering Wasserman-Schultz was pressed by Matthews, who said, "I used to think there was a big difference. What do you think?"
乐动体育APPThe DNC chair quickly tried to sidestep the issue, saying, "the real question is what"s the difference between being a Democrat and being a Republican." But her host sought clarification about the Democratic party, asking, "you"re the chairwoman of the Democratic Party. Tell me the difference between you and a socialist. The relevant debate that we"ll be having over the course of this campaign is what"s the difference between being a Democrat and being a Republican," Wasserman-Schultz reiterated, refusing to give a direct answer to the question.
…A Gallup poll in June found the Democratic party is leaning sharply more to the left as compared to 15 years ago, finding 47% of Democrats and Democratic-leaning independents identify as both socially liberal and economically moderate or liberal. That figure was only 39% in 2008, and 30% in 2001. In a negative sign for Democrats given Wasserman-Schultz's stammering response, another June Gallup poll found that 50% of Americans said they would not vote for a socialist, making it the demographic group with the least support...
Arutz Sheva, SyndiGate Media Inc.
乐动体育APPI recall a similar political graph from high school notes on power politics. You may be interested in Bob Altemeyer's "The Authoritarians."
US witness report found on Stalin's Katyn massacre
The Associated Press, Jan. 8, 2014
乐动体育APPWARSAW, Poland (AP) — A researcher says she has uncovered vital testimony by a U.S. officer whom the Nazis forced in 1943 to watch the exhumation of Polish officers killed on Soviet leader Josef Stalin's orders.
乐动体育APPKrystyna Piorkowska said Wednesday she found the May 10, 1945, report by Lt. Col. John H. Van Vliet Jr. in archives near Washington. It provides evidence of Soviet responsibility for the 1940 massacre of some 22,000 Polish officers in the Katyn forest and other places in the then-Soviet Union. Van Vliet's later, longer report is considered missing, which has fueled speculation that the U.S. silenced the truth. Van Vliet was a POW in Germany when he was taken to Katyn to see the evidence. Until 1990, Moscow blamed the Nazis, but then admitted Stalin ordered the massacre.
乐动体育APPHas the author not read Arthur Schlesuinger's "The Vital Center"? He had a thesis much like this, but instead of a horseshoe he had ideologies arrayed along a circle, with the totalitarianisms of the left (communism) and of the right (fascism and national socialism) differing very little. He had liberal democracy being their opposite, rather than anarchism.
乐动体育APPMy political spectrum is quite different from Schlesinger's conception for a number of reasons. In the Introduction to his 1998 transaction edition of his book, The vital Center, Arthur M Schlesinger Jr. (1917-2007), wrote: "The 'vital center' refers to the contest between democracy and totalitarianism, not to contests within democracy between liberalism and conservatism, not at all to the so-called "middle of the road" preferred by cautious politicians of our own time. The middle of the road is definitely not the vital center: it is the dead center. Within democracy the argument adheres to FDR's injunction to move always "a little to the left of center."
An unabashedly liberal politician and intellectual, Harvard historian Arthur Schlesinger, objected to the use of the term "vital center" in reference to domestic politics, such as conservatism vs liberalism. I, on the other hand, dissected domestic, as well as international politics and put them in their historic context. Instead of democracy being the center, I put it left of center, whereas Republicanism was placed right of center.
Additionally, I used the term and located "social democracy" farther to the left and "Objectivism" and "Libertarianism" to the right, explaining why their locations in the horseshoe. I placed totalitarian systems, all birds of a feather (who fly together), including communism, Nazism (socialism) and fascism, to the Left, as they all restrict personal freedom and subjugate the individual to the State. I explain this more fully in the text. Finally, the gap in the horseshoe is left out in Schlesinger's Vital Center, which is another major flaw in his conception. All in all, he tends to muddy the waters, while I try to elucidate the realities of the political philosophies of the day.
We have some excellent articles on Stalin, Churchill, World War II and politics that are very relevant to this discussion. Just use our magnificent site search engine. Thank you, Stefan, for your informative comment and contribution. I welcome you to become one of our many knowledgeable readers and posters. Cordially,
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乐动体育APPCorrespondence from Dr Blaylock, 8/1/12
Dear Miguel,
Yes, and it was interesting that at the Nuremberg trials, the Soviets made the US delegation agree that they would never refer to the Nazis by their proper name the German Workers National Socialist Party--rather as Nazis. The American literary left and the idiot media then attached the name "right wing" and Fascist to the National Socialists implying that American conservatives were themselves Nazis. This prevented the simple-minded public from ever making the connection to collectivism--I.e. That the Soviets and the National Socialists were not opposites, they were collectivist competitors.
This is why, as you well know, in school we are never taught about the German-Soviet honeymoon of September 1939 through June 1941 and that during this period of engagement, American communist sabotaged US military industry, which ended only when Hitler turned on Stalin on June 22, 1941. There is a tremendous book written in 1944 by John T. Flynn called As We Go Marching--I know you would love it. It is one of the most beautiful analysis of the collectivist systems I have ever seen.
Isn't it ironic that so few movies have ever been made on two of the greatest mass murderers in history. I have only seen two movies on the Soviet Gulag.
乐动体育APPDr Russell L. Blaylock is a retired neurosurgeon, world renown nutritionist and neuroscientist, and the author of a number of books and papers, including Excitotoxins: The Taste That Kills (1994), Health and Nutrition Secrets That Can Save Your Life (2002), and Natural Strategies for Cancer Patients (2003), and writes a monthly newsletter, the Blaylock Wellness Report (Newsmax.com).
Great article, and the horseshoe image is a perfect way to explain the political spectrum! If every political science textbook explained the ideologies as you have done and with as clear a depiction as your spectrum, students would be so thankful :) What a clear and straightforward article. Thanks!
乐动体育APPThe 2012 (March) Elections are causing great consternation. Russia continues to experience increasing demonstrations by protesters accusing the Medvedev-Putin administration of electoral fraud, and protest rallies are now calling for fresh parliamentary elections.
According to the BBC, "The parliamentary elections on 4 December were criticized by observers from the Organization for Security and Co-operation in Europe (OSCE), who said there had been "severe problems with the counting process. They said the poll was slanted in favor of Mr Putin's party, United Russia, and that there had been irregularities including the stuffing of ballot boxes."
It appears that Russia's tiny, liberal opposition, barely standing not only to Putin, but also against the menacingly authoritarian massive "right" flank, does not seem to stand a chance. The autocratic legacy of Stalin still lurks in the shadow of the Russian nation. The grim Russian authoritarian past does not seem to allow poor Russia to move irresolutely toward a future of freedom.
乐动体育APPI propose that conservatives most adopt a "wait and see" attitude while we give moral support to those Russians who genuinely seek freedom and a brighter, more civilized future for their country. In the meantime, we most make sure that the US and the West must be prepare to protect our national and collective security, and economic interests. The US would be wise to proceed with the anti-ballistic missile shield to protect European allies against Iran or instability anywhere in the region, including the possibility of an unstable Russia.
80-year-old Mikhail Gorbachev, who presided over the collapse and closing down of the USSR on December 25, 1991, almost exactly 20 years to the day, has now asked that Putin steps down and follow Gorbachev's own example.
But the Communist Party leader, Genandy Zyuganov, who commands the strongest threat to Putin, then joined the administration in disparaging the protest and supporting the Kremlin.
"Putin's United Russia party lost 25 percent of its seats in the election, but hung onto a majority in parliament through what independent observers said was widespread fraud. United Russia, seen as representing a corrupt bureaucracy, has become known as the party of crooks and thieves, a phrase coined by Alexei Navalny, a corruption-fighting lawyer and popular blogger and leader of the demonstrations," reported the BBC. See my full essay on this topic under "Articles" posted today. MAF


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The following excerpt has been taken from the Christopher and Dana Reeve Paralysis Resource Center website. www.paralysis.org/Caregivers/CaregiversMain.cfm.
Caregiving is not a role people usually choose. It seems to choose us, emerging from events and circumstances beyond our control.
This is a job that cannot be skirted and cannot always be delegated. It can be difficult, physically and emotionally. It can be time-consuming. While caring for loved ones can be enormously satisfying, there are days, it seems, that offer little reward.
Caregivers, the men and women who care for family members and loved ones, deserve to be recognized and supported for the vital part they play in the lives of people with paralysis.
Caregivers may work in isolation from others in similar circumstances but they share much in common. It is important that caregivers connect with each other, to gain strength and to know that they are not alone.
It is essential that caregivers know about tools -- the homecare products and services -- that might make their jobs easier. It's also important that caregivers are aware of community and public resources that offer assistance.
Caregivers also need to know that support and respite systems exist to address the well-being and health of caregivers themselves.
The caregivers links (click on Recommended Web Sites in upper right of this page) connect to several national organizations addressing the concerns of caregivers, including resources for hiring and managing personal care attendants.
Recommended Web Sites
Caregiver Media Group
Provides information, support and guidance for family and professional caregivers. Publishes Today's Caregiver Magazine and offers a web site with topic-specific newsletters, online discussion lists, chat rooms and an online store.
& www.craighospital.org/sci/mets/careassisthire.asp
Personal Care Attendants
Information from Craig Hospital on finding, hiring and keeping reliable PCAs. From the home page, click on Health and Wellness under the Spinal Cord Injury section, then click on Educational Brochures. Scroll to the Caregiving section.
The National Family Caregivers Association (NFCA)
NFCA is a grass roots organization created to educate, support, empower and speak up for the millions of Americans who care for chronically ill, aged or disabled loved ones. NFCA is the only constituency organization that reaches across the boundaries of different diagnoses, different relationships and different life stages to address the common needs and concerns of all family caregivers. More than one quarter (26.6%) of the adult population has provided care to a family member or friend during the past year. Based on current census data, that translates into more than 54 million people.
Well Spouse Foundation (WSF)
A national, not for profit membership organization that gives support to wives, husbands, and partners of the chronically ill and/or disabled. Through information and support groups, the organization address issues common to family caregivers: anger, guilt, fear, isolation, grief, and financial threat.
Hiring and Management of Personal Care Assistants for Individuals with SCI
a downloadable, 26-page booklet from the SCI Project at Santa Clara Valley Medical Center. Covers everything from locating and hiring, to training personal assistants. Includes forms, checklists and resources. (In pdf format).
Missouri Model Spinal Cord Injury System's Enhancing Independence: A Personal Attendant Training Manual
(pdf file) downloadable for free
PCA Guide
Online guide to managing attendants from the Washington Coalition of Citizens with disABILITIES, the Independent Living Service Center in Everett, WA, and the Disability Resource Network in Redmond, WA.
Spinal Cord Injury Caregivers
Yahoo Internet Forum is a place to share information and to support other caregivers who are caring for people with SCI.
National Respite Coalition
National Respite Coalition and the National Respite Locator Service help parents, caregivers, and professionals find respite services in their state and local area.
Shepherd's Centers of America (SCA)
An interfaith, not-for-profit organization that coordinates nearly 100 independent Shepherd's Centers across the U.S to help older adults remain independent in their own living situation.
The Center for Family Caregivers
The Center for Family Caregivers and Denise Brown operate Tad Publishing Co., which produces books, newsletters and other materials for families and health care professionals who care for chronically ill or disabled family members.
The Family Caregiver Alliance
The lead agency in California's system of Caregiver Resource Centers and operates the National Center on Caregiving to advance the development of support programs for family caregivers in every state. For residents of the greater San Francisco Bay Area, FCA provides direct support services for caregivers of those with Alzheimer's disease, stroke, traumatic brain injury, Parkinson's and other debilitating brain disorders that strike adults.
The Caregivers Advisory Panel
Collects confidential information on the opinions and needs of family caregivers to help health care products manufacturers and service providers to create innovative products, services, programs and support for America's caregiving families.
CaringRoad.com is dedicated to helping family caregivers obtain information, locate services and find support so they can make informed decisions about the care of their loved ones.
Other Resources
The American Associations of Retired Persons offers various articles on caregiving.
The National Women's Health Information Center has information on caregiver stress.
Caregiver Resources
Please note that most of these resources are not specific to paralysis but are cross-disability in nature.
Barg, Gary. The Fearless Caregiver: How to get the best care for your loved one and still have a life of your own. Sterling, VA: Capital Books, 2001.
Capossela, Cappy and Sheila Warnock. Share the Care: How to Organize a Group to Care for Someone Who is Seriously Ill. New York: Fireside, 1995.
Cohen, Marion Deutsche. Dirty Details: The Days and Nights of a Well Spouse. Philadelphia: Temple University Press, 1996. (multiple sclerosis)
DeGraff, Alfred H. Caregivers and Personal Assistants: How to Find, Hire and Manage the People who Help You (or Your Loved One!). 3rd ed. Fort Collins, CO: Saratoga Access Publications Inc., 2002.
Drattell, Alan. The Other Victim: How Caregivers Survive a Loved One's Chronic Illness. Santa Ana, CA: Seven Locks Press, 1996. (multiple sclerosis caregivers' stories)
Holicky, Richard. Taking Care of Yourself While Providing Care: A Guide for those who assist and care for their spouses, children, parents, and other loved ones who have spinal cord injuries. Englewood, CO: Craig Hospital, 2000. Call 303-789-8202 to order for $5.00.
Ilardo, Joseph and Carole R. Rothman. I'll Take Care of You: A Practical Guide for Family Caregivers. Oakland, CA: New Harbinger Publications, 1999.
McLeod, Beth Witrogen. And Thou Shalt Honor: The Caregiver's Companion. Rodale Press, 2002.
McLeod, Beth Witrogen. Caregiving: The Spiritual Journey of Love, Loss, and Renewal. New York: John Wiley & Sons, 1999.
Meyer, Maria M. and Paula Derr. The Comfort of Home: An Illustrated Step-by-Step Guide for Caregivers. Portland, OR: CareTrust Publications, 1998.
National Family Caregiver Association. The Resourceful Caregiver: Helping Family Caregivers Help Themselves. St. Louis, MO: Mosby-Year Book Inc., 1996.
Nieboer, Laura. Home Care Organizer For Families Providing Home Care. Washington, DC: State of the Art Inc., 1997.
Shannon, Joyce Brennfleck. Caregiving Sourcebook. Detroit: Omnigraphics. 2001.
Strong, Maggie. Mainstay: For the Well Spouse of the Chronically Ill. Northampton, MA: Bradford Books, 1997.
Thompson, Gretchen. God Knows Caregiving Can Pull You Apart: 12 Ways to Keep it All Together. Notre Dame, Indiana: Sorin Books, 2002.
Wolgin, Francie. Advanced Skills and Competency Assessment for Caregivers. Upper Saddle River, NJ: Prentice-Hall, 1998.
-This book gives instructions on procedures such as urinary catheterization and tracheostomy care.
Print Magazines
Mainstay-a quarterly newsletter from The Well Spouse Foundation. Email email@example.com for more info.
Take Care!-a quarterly newsletter from the National Family Caregivers Association www.nfcacares.org
Today's Caregiver-Published 6 times a year by Caregiver Media Group, see www.caregiver.com to subscribe
Email or Online Newsletters
Caregiver.com Newsletter-free newsletter sent once a week via email. Go to www.caregiver.com to subscribe.
Family Caregiver Alliance Update-free newsletter readable at site www.caregiver.org/newsletter.html Also see their Fact Sheets readable online.
Web Resources:
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article specific to spinal cord injuries from Craig Hospital LINK TO CRAIG ARTICLE
article specific to spinal cord injuries from Craig Hospital
Caregivers for SCI: Spinal Cord Injury Infosheet #17 from the University of Alabama-Birmingham
NSCIA website section on caregiving: Spinalcord.Org
Muscular Dystrophy Association's online book on ALS caregiving:
& Thou Shalt Honor...Caregiving. Wiland-Bell Productions. 2 hours. www.thoushalthonor.org
How to Help Someone Who Uses a Wheelchair Without Hurting Yourself. (Caregiving Series Vol. 2) Healing Arts Communications. 24 minutes. Can be purchased from Program Development Associates 1-800-543-2119.
Caring for the Caregiver. Program Development Associates. 28 minutes. Can be purchased from PDA at 1-800-543-2119.
This video helps the caregiver so that they don't neglect their own health.
The Educated Caregiver: A Comprehensive Guide for Caregivers and Their Families. LifeView Resources. A three video series: Coping Skills, Hands-On Skills, and Essential Knowledge. Available from Caregiver Media Group at www.caregiver.com
Covers everything from coping with the emotional challenges of caregiving to patient transfers and preventing bed sores.
Please contact the Christopher and Dana Reeve Paralysis Resource Center at 800-539-7309 or visit our website (www.paralysis.org) for more information and resources.
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Spinal Cord Injury Caregivers
Yahoo Internet Forum is a place to share information and to support other caregivers who are caring for people with SCI.
As one of the moderators (kind of parttime these days) Marie Potts has put together a fantastic list! Files that can be downloaded with information state by state on what is available in benefits, how to get back to school, get a job and sometimes to kick someone in the butt. We also ask a series of questions so no spammers or pretenders, devottees or wannabees show up. If they do they have to get past a questionaire that we only ease up on for some foreign speaking members and then most of us can figure out if they are for real or not.
And yes, we often refer medical questions here to CC and some newbies to the Resource Center. But for those who need a break and info we also have a virtual grape juice party on Friday's...
Courage doesn't always roar. Sometimes courage is the quiet voice at the end of the day saying, "I will try again tomorrow."
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Abstract: In this dissertation I examine the establishment of corporate social responsibility (CSR) bureaucracies at corporations and I come to consider the CSR bureaucracy as a space for reflection within the corporation. In the face of charges that bureaucracies are inherently unethical and devoid of consideration for humanistic concerns, I argue that within the large bureaucracy that is the corporation, the CSR bureaucracy can create a space in which tensions that arise from conflicting values and purposes can be identified, negotiated, and actions coordinated. I position this dissertation within the field of CSR, to which I introduce the Weberian distinction between formal and substantive rationality as means through which to identify and describe tensions that become apparent with the CSR agenda. This dissertation contains four articles, two of which draw from the engaged scholarship approach. One includes findings from a study I conducted as an action/intervention researcher with a U.S. corporation during the period in which a CSR bureaucracy was established. The other includes findings from a study of CSR focused MBA courses I instruct in which reflection is a primary learning objective. The other two articles include findings from studies I conducted to explore the establishment of a CSR position to the top management teams of U.S. and Scandinavian corporations. URI: http://hdl.handle.net/10398/8462
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Conor Kennedy Gossip
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Taylor Swift: Conor & kitten heels
US Weekly is reporting that Taylor Swift and Conor Kennedy are over. That it ended without drama. Because he's in school and she's promoting a new album around the world and it was too hard to be together... What? But love conquers all! Well, not when there's an 18 year old boy involved who has. Full Story
Grandma Ethel loves Taylor
How sexy is it for an 18 year old boy that grandma approves of his girlfriend? I wonder if Taylor Swift can see that all of this is happening 10 years too soon. If Conor Kennedy was 28, we'd definitely be picking out rings. But would the Kennedy family approve of a pre-college wedding? They've seen their share of crazy sh-t, I know, and still, the boy has other things to do first… surely? Still, grandma is giving Taylor a lot of hope. Full Story
Taylor & Conor: private planes and high school schedules
Page Six reports that Taylor Swift missed Conor Kennedy so much when she went back to Nashville to work that she sent a private plane to pick him up and bring him to see her...which I don't understand why he didn't just go with her to begin with. Full Story
Bad Form all around
I love this proper rich people gossip story... So about Taylor Swift and whether or not she crashed Conor Kennedy's cousin's wedding - click here if you missed the article yesterday. Taylor's crashing of the event was confirmed via Boston Herald by Victoria Gifford Kennedy, the mother of the bride. Full Story
Taylor Swift crashes Kennedy wedding
Let's summarise what we have so far, shall we: Taylor Swift is fascinated by the Kennedys. She's admitted it herself. She's now dating 18 year old Conor Kennedy, son of Robert Kennedy Jr, who is going back to boarding school in a couple of weeks. She has spent (most of) the summer at the Kennedy Compound. Full Story
Taylor's Camelot Summer
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These are the final days... Here's Taylor Swift with her boyfriend Conor Kennedy in Hyannis Port this weekend where, as you know, she's purchased a home on the Kennedy Compound. They kissed on the boardwalk. They held hands in the surf accessorised by polka dots and headbands and hipster bathers because, I dunno, it wouldn't do to pretend to be first lady in your mind if the whole world has seen you in a g-bikini. Full Story


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A property manager was shot when he and sheriff's deputies attempted to deliver a foreclosure notice at a home in unincorporated San Ramon, Calif., Wednesday afternoon, prompting an armed standoff between the shooter and law enforcement officers.
Deputies were assisting with a foreclosure eviction when the property manager was shot through the front door by someone inside the home in the 3400 block of Ashbourne Circle, sheriff's spokesman Jimmy Lee said.
The standoff with the suspect surrendering to police just before 6 p.m. SWAT members sent gas inside the home to force the suspect out.
The suspect was treated for gas exposure at the scene and then transported to a local hospital. He will then be booked in jail, police said.
Residents in the vicinity of the shooting at the house inside Norris Canyon Estates, a gated community, were told to shelter-in-place by the Contra Costa County Sheriff's Office.
The shooting was reported just before 2 p.m., Lee said.
According to police, upon arriving at the home, deputies knocked on the door, but no one answered. A property manager that was with the deputies was then asked to remove the door handle. While he was doing that, according to Lee, someone shot him in the leg.
Deputies did not return fire, Lee said.
About an hour after the shooting started, an automated phone message was sent out from the county's community warning system advising residents on parts of Ashbourne Circle to lock all doors and windows and to stay off of the phone unless they need to call law enforcement agencies.
The shelter-in-place order was due to the police activity in the area, according to the automated message.
"They came and they evacuated us from the house, because we were right across from the house where it was happening," Norris Canyon Estates resident Monica Corbett said. "It's crazy, especially behind a gated-in area."
Houses in the Norris Canyon Estates typically range in value between $1.5 and $1.8 million, according to public records. The five-bedroom, 5,034-square-foot house involved in the standoff was sold in 2004 for $1.3 million, records show. It foreclosed to the lender in September 2010.
The sheriff's office initially reported that the incident was an officer-involved shooting with a locksmith getting shot, but later clarified that only the property manager was hit by gunfire.
The Bay City News contributed to this report.