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Lost Kansas towns are found again with $400,000 gift to K-State's Chapman Center
Home — it's a single word that conjures up a wide array of meanings and memories, all of which are unique and deeply embedded in each of us.
Mark Chapman, Cat Spring, Texas, has played a pivotal role in providing Kansas State University with the resources to research, preserve and share the history of rural Kansas -- including towns which no longer exist -- through the Chapman Center for Rural Studies in the K-State department of history, a project he initiated two years ago.
Now Chapman has made a gift of $400,000 to establish a quasi-endowment designed to sustain the future growth and operations of the center, advancing the program's commitment to the recovery of lived experience, lost towns and settlements, original lands and changing landscapes.
Chapman has firsthand experience with losing a home. Broughton, Kan., where Chapman spent many years in his youth, was condemned in 1966 for flood control and subsequently leveled for the construction of the Milford Dam. Fast-forward to 2008, where his passion for history and personal interest in telling Broughton's story spurred him to give a $495,000 gift to create the center.
He supplemented his initial investment with a gift of $25,000 for curriculum development grants, and a year ago he underwrote a $10,000 project bringing together undergraduate students, graduate students and faculty in K-State's department of history. Under the direction of adjunct professor M.J. Morgan, this three-year collaboration resulted in the publishing of the Chapman Center's first book, "Broughton, Kansas: Portrait of a Lost Town, 1869-1966."
"What Mark has done for the center is astounding," said Bonnie Lynn-Sherow, associate professor of history and director of the Chapman Center for Rural Studies. "Not only has he provided a roof over our heads, he has made sure that the work of our students will continue for many years, creating a new generation of Kansans who will understand, and in understanding, come to love their home state just as Mark does. Without his generosity and dedication to what we do, the stories of hundreds, if not thousands, of rural people would be lost to memory forever."
Chapman, who has built a career as an independent investor, served in K-State's Army ROTC program from 1961-1965 while earning degrees in political science and history. He went on to earn a juris doctorate from the University of Texas. He is a member of the Kansas State University Foundation Presidents Club -- a philanthropic leadership group of alumni and friends who support K-State -- and a lifetime member of the K-State Alumni Association.
Chapman said he's excited by the potential for the center and views it as a repository not only for Kansas history but also as an important center to preserve and advance U.S. history.
"We established this center to preserve the memories and histories of an early segment of rural Kansas -- and it firmly establishes Kansas State University in the prominent position as historian of rural Kansas while affording generous amounts of undergraduate research," Chapman said. "Interest in it will build, attracting grants, gifts and graduate studies, which in turn will provide it with staying power. My funding establishes a predictable cash stream so that long-term plans can be made and executed."
Philanthropic contributions to K-State are coordinated by the Kansas State University Foundation. The foundation staff works with university partners to build lifelong relationships with alumni, friends, faculty, staff and students through involvement and investment in the university.


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Al Qaeda: Never an 'Existential Threat'
My Washington Examiner column this week celebrates 10 years without a major follow‐up attack on American soil, and argues that the main reason the United States has been terror‐free for a decade isn't the unparalleled competence of the federal government's terror warriors—it's the fact that al Qaeda was never an "existential threat."
I've written a number of columns and blogposts making the same point over the years, and yet, every time I write something that says "al Qaeda's not so terrifying," I feel compelled to knock wood, genuflecting to the superstition that merely saying "we're pretty safe" out loud will jinx us, and the moment a piece is published, the terrorists will morph into villains worthy of TV's 24, moving from ineffectual gas‐can bombs to nukes.
So far, though, it seems there wasn't much reason to worry.
Last week, the Washington Post ran a piece entitled, "Who got 9/11 right, and who got it wrong? A pundit score card." The Post erred badly by not including the distinguished political scientist and friend of Cato, John Mueller, who started making the case that the al Qaeda threat was overblown back when duct tape alerts were the "new normal." I can't think of any other prominent figure who got it right as early and as often as Mueller did.
As long as we're giving credit for prescience, though, I'd like to toot my own horn (sure, it's graceless, but nobody else is volunteering for the job).
As a larval pundit pecking away in obscurity through the early aughties, I suspected, before I'd ever read Mueller, that the al Qaeda threat was overblown—and I made that case wherever I could.
In September 2002, I reviewed Peter Bergen's Holy War, Inc. for Liberty magazine: "Osama bin Laden: Not as Scary as You Think" (.pdf ). In it, I asked whether al Qaeda was "as dangerous as federal powergrabbers have led us to believe."
After recounting what Bergen reported about Mohamed Odeh, an al Qaeda operative involved in the 1998 bombing of the U.S. embassy in Tanzania—who botched his own escape by trying to convince Pakistani immigration officials that terrorism was "the right thing to do for Islam,"—I ventured that "a lot of these folks don't sound all that bright." (Since then, I've become even more convinced that these guys were never the sharpest scimitars in the shed.)
In December 2002, when my now‐defunct blog was young and DC was waiting for the other shoe to drop after 9/11, I wondered "What if There Isn't Another Shoe?": "If the American Jihad/mullahs under the bed/the‐country‐is‐riddled‐with‐sleeper‐cells theory is correct, then why so quiet?" I suggested: "maybe there aren't that many of them," which turned out to be true. (Here's a reference, and you can find the original if you go here and scroll down.)
Ten years later, it's heartening to know that what was once a fringe position—and a marker of being "unserious" about terrorism—is fast becoming the conventional wisdom.


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Garberville Dentist Office FireWritten by Simon Frech
More pictures on the kmudnews flickr page
Free Fishing Day in CaliforniaWritten by KMUD News
Free Fishing Day in California -- July 4th, the DFG will waive the fishing-license requirement for residents age 16 or older. People will have the opportunity to fish on all freshwater and ocean waters in California. Details at dfg.ca.gov/licensing/fishing/freefishdays.html
Fort Bragg Police SurveyWritten by Simon Frech
The Fort Bragg police department, in cooperation with the Fort Bragg Coalition for Gang Awareness & Prevention, has announced a formal survey to help assess the community's perceptions and concerns related to gangs in Fort Bragg. A press release from the Fort Bragg police states that this research is vital for producing statistics that can be used in grant applications. Hard copies of the survey have been distributed through the mail with the city's water bill. It's also available online, and if you're interested in participating, you can find the document by following the link below.
English: www.surveymonkey.com/s/RXWVZHN
Spanish: www.surveymonkey.com/s/RGZBM69
Future Humboldt County Sheriff: CLMP reports no big dealWritten by Simon Frech
A recent news story on the California Report and on NPR's Morning Edition talked about KMUD and the CLMP (Civil Liberties Monitoring Project) reports broadcast on this radio station. Listeners to the story may get the impression that all local law enforcement would like KMUD to stop airing these citizens observations.
At an April 14, 2010 forum by the League of Women Voters, the two candidates for Sheriff of Humboldt County were asked about their stand on these reports. Here is an excerpt from that forum, with the question and answer. Neither candidate seemed to think the reports present much of a problem.
Garberville Rodeo Queen and Princess ContestantsWritten by Simon
As part of the 2010 Garberville Rodeo Queen and Princess contestants sell raffle tickets to raise money for the rodeo. This year's queen and princess winners will be awarded the following prizes:So the prizes for the raffle ticket winners are: 1st place $250, 2nd place $100, 3rd place $50
The Rodeo will be held Friday and Saturday, June 18th and 19th.
from left to right: Regina Salomon, Anna Adkisson, and Irina Knapp
Dani Hansbury and Anna Coleman
Photovoice contestWritten by Simon Frech
The Photovoice contest you heard about on the KMUD news can be found on its website http://www.humpal.org/photovoice
Helicopter crashes at Arcata AirportWritten by Simon
MCKINLEYVILLE, Calif. -- An MH-65 Dolphin helicopter, from Coast Guard Air Station Humboldt Bay, lays on its side after it crashed at the Arcata Airport April 29, 2010. The helicopter had three crewmembers aboard when it went down during a training mission. The crewmembers were uninjured. U.S. Coast Guard photo by Lt. Todd Vorenkamp.
Armed Robbery suspectWritten by Simon
Update April 22, 2010: According to the Eureka Times-Standard
Ezra "Easy" Williams, named as a suspect in more than a half dozen armed robberies in the Eureka area, is in custody after being arrested Wednesday night in the San Diego area. Read the rest of the story on the TS website
Date: April 13, 2010 From: Brenda Godsey, PIO
(707) 268-3645
Subject: Armed Robbery Case: 201002490
Humboldt County Sheriff's Deputies and Officers from the Eureka Police Department responded to the Safeway store at 2520 Harris Street last night after a robbery was reported there. At about 10:45 p.m. a man approached a cashier and demanded that she empty her register. The suspect was wearing a black ski mask and was holding a handgun. The cashier complied with the suspect's demands and placed the money in a plastic grocery bag. The suspect then fled from the store through the west exit.
A witness who was in line at the register reported seeing the suspect enter the store prior to donning his ski mask. The witness identified the suspect as Ezra Williams, who is a suspect in seven robberies within Eureka City limits.
Williams is a white male adult, 26-years-old, about 5'5" tall, weighing about 140 pounds. He has brown hair and brown eyes. He has several tattoos including one on his neck that reads "Outlaw" with accompanied by skulls. He also has a one-inch scar on his forehead.
Anyone with information regarding the whereabouts of Ezra Williams should call the Eureka Police Department (707) 441-4044 or the Humboldt County Sheriff's Office (707) 445-7251.
Gary Philp
Assault/Robbery - Suspects SoughtWritten by KMUD News
Date: March 30, 2010
The Humboldt County Sheriff's Office is looking for two men who entered another man's house, assaulted him, and stole several items. Last Tuesday, March 23, 2009, at about 3:15 p.m. a man reported he was awakened in his Carlotta residence by two men. The two men assaulted the victim, causing injuries that included a broken arm and lacerations that required stitches. The suspects made several threatening statements to the victim, took several items from him, and then left the house.


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In the study the researchers specifically examine the relative cost-effectiveness of two commonly used groups of painkillers: selective cyclooxygenase-2 inhibitors (cox-2 inhibitors), versus conventional nonsteroidal anti-inflammatory drugs (NSAIDs). One type of cox-2 inhibitor has now been withdrawn from use, and recommendations regarding the use of others have changed as a result of data on cardiovascular harms associated with these drugs.
The researchers collected data on the risk of upper gastrointestinal effects associated with use of either type of drug, and calculated the cost-effectiveness of the drugs in relation to these events using either data from large randomized controlled trials or from routine clinical practice – using the UK General Practice Research Database.
These analyses showed that the average cost of preventing an upper gastrointestinal effect by switching NSAIDs for a cox-2 inhibitor was calculated at roughly 104,000 U.S. dollars, using the data from routine clinical practice. However, the cost effectiveness was calculated as around 20,000 U.S. dollars using randomized trial data.
The researchers suggest that in the specific scenario evaluated here, patients in the randomized trials experienced more gastrointestinal events than patients in routine practice, and that they used drugs differently – commonly involving higher daily doses – leading to a different estimate of cost-effectiveness. A more realistic assessment might have led to differences in prescribing guidelines, according to the authors: According to the scientists, real-world questions on what to prescribe to whom should consider the varied group of patients in actual clinical practice rather than just using data from highly selective randomized trials that have narrow inclusion criteria.
However, one limitation of the study is that it involves an assessment of cost-effectiveness of two specific types of painkillers, and it is not clear whether the observations will apply to cost-effectiveness for other drug classes.
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This place will be a new platform upon which I can stand, rant, and shake my fist at the passing scene. Meanwhile, those of you on Facebook can find plenty of that in my posts over there.
Very soon I'll be launching a new blog, devoted mainly to my own fiction-writing, and to broader trends in the world of books, such as the self-publishing revolution via ebooks. For the time being, this site will be a "place-holder" for fiction-related commentary, too, until I get my ducks in a row elsewhere. If you've found this site by accident, please check back in another month for a link to those new blogging digs.
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Emma, Andrew, Spider-Man, and Australia
The final Spider-Man 2 trailer has just been released and they saved the best preview for last. It's GOOD. Dane DeHaan is SO good. Those eyes! His face! It's gaunt, it's troubled, he's creepy, but also kinda… hot. Please James Franco, can you review this movie?
In the Tobey Maguire version of Spider-Man, the second film was the best. I wonder if it'll be the same this time too. But…I worry about Gwen. I worry about Emma Stone. CLICK AWAY if you don't want to be spoiled, although Emma herself has alluded to the fact that if Gwen was still around, why would there be a need for Mary Jane? Speaking of Mary Jane…
Shailene Woodley, who was cast as Mary Jane, was asked recently, straight up, "are you part of the Spider-Man franchise?"
Her response, just as straight up: NO.
So then I went to my comic book guru Sarah from Cinesnark about whether or not that means they don't plan to do with Gwen what is supposed to happen to Gwen. And she told me straight up that what's going to happen to Gwen has to happen to Gwen because it's pretty central to the Spider-Man foundation.
If that's the case, Emma Stone and Andrew Garfield are perhaps enjoying their final press tour together as Gwen Stacy and Peter Parker. They're currently in Australia. And while their work commitments don't begin until later this, they decided to go a few days early to acclimate to the time difference but also to spend some time together sightseeing and being adorable (for us). Here they are with a fan at a coffee shop:
You can see more photos of them with fans here at the Sydney Opera House and here at a local movie theatre. (Thanks Tricia!)


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The Oakland is a 4 bedroom 2 bath over 2,000 SF home that's perfect for a growing family. Upon entering the home, the first room encountered is a flex room, perfect for a study, office or den. Walk in through the foyer into the kitchen and dining area with plenty of room for seating a large family or gathering of friends. Relax in the gathering room which leads to the covered lanai, perfect for indoor/outdoor living. At the rear of the home, you'll find the owners suite with two walk-in closets and plenty of space to relax. The remaining three bedrooms share a bath. The utility room is thoughtfully located just off the garage for maximum efficiency. This home has an optional second story area with room for a 5th bedroom, bath and game room.
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I have never seen a queen in a queenright system get up through the excluder from the bottom box.
I have had the odd virgin emerge early in the top box tear down cells and it is a pain to locate a virgin queen which has the run of several boxes above the excluder.
I work it the same way as Jim rotating brood from the bottom box to the top box every 10-14 days.
Getting back to the original query, I don't think it matters if the cells develop in a queenright cell raiser, finisher colony or incubator. The trick is to do the transfer as late as possible to avoid chilling.
If you hold a cell up to the light you can often see movement inside and then you know for sure you are not inserting a dud cell with a dead queen/pupa inside.


text: Barnsley opened their Championship campaign with a first home win since March as they deservedly beat Middlesbrough 1-0 at Oakwell.The Tykes lost 11 of their final 15 games in a dismal end to last season, but they showed no lasting effects of that form on Saturday afternoon and won it with a Craig Davies goal on the stroke of half-time. The striker was fed by David Perkins and he powered home from the edge of the area to leave Boro's Jason Steele with no chance. It was an impressive display from Keith Hill's side and they could have won by more, with Davies, Stephen Foster and Jacob Mellis all going close. For Boro, it is back to the drawing board after a below-par performance which dampened their pre-season hopes of a promotion push. Both sides made changes from their successful Capital One Cup outings last weekend, with Barnsley handing starts to David Gonzalez, Scott Golbourne, Tomasz Cywka and Marlon Harewood while Tony Mowbray replaced the injured Kevin Thomson and Mustapha Carayol with Faris Haroun and Julio Arca. Boro, backed by a sizeable away following, were the quickest to settle and Arca, Emmanuel Ledesma and Grant Leadbitter all peppered the Barnsley goal with early shots from distance, but Tykes keeper Gonzalez was only called into action once. The Tykes, whose late-season form last year was so bad that they only retained their Championship status due to Portsmouth's 10-point deduction, slowly found a way into the game and they should have taken the lead in the 16th minute, but defender Foster headed over from a good position. They were buoyed by that opening and Davies stung Steele's fingers with an effort from distance, while Cywka sent one just over. And they were rewarded for their endeavour with the vital breakthrough on the brink of half-time as after a neat interchange between Perkins and Harewood, Perkins found Davies and he fired a low shot across Steele and into the bottom corner. Hill's men were not perturbed by the 15-minute interval and Davies could have had another soon after the restart, but Steele produced a fine save. Foster then once more failed to direct a free header. After Mellis sent an effort just wide for the hosts, visiting boss Mowbray had seen enough and made a triple substitution on the hour mark in a bid to bring some life to what had been a limp display. However, it made no difference to proceedings and Davies was denied on two further occasions, with Steele in impressive form. Ledesma had a chance to equalise late on as he turned a loose ball wide and despite a late onslaught, the hosts held firm.


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B.J. Upton looks for better footing at plate
TORONTO - B.J. Upton sat for the second time in three games as he continues to tinker with his struggling swing.
The 28-year-old outfielder, who signed a five-year, $75 million contract with the Braves in the offseason, has struggled in his first season in Atlanta. Upton was hitting .148 with a .236 on-base percentage entering Monday, and had just four hits in his last 11 games. In 44 games in 2013, he has gone hitless in 27 of them.
"He may be the hardest-working guy I've been around," manager Fredi Gonzalez said. "It's hard to tinker with a swing, or make adjustments, and put him in the game and try to produce. But for me, great attitude, keeps working hard. You pull for those guys."
On Monday, Upton continued to work on the problem with hitting coach Greg Walker and assistant hitting coach Scott Fletcher. The trio were pouring over video in hopes of finding a solution.
What Upton and the Braves staff have been working on mainly is getting his foot down earlier to attack the fastball. The outfielder has found himself late on fastballs recently.
"That was the big thing," Gonzalez said. "You get your foot down on time, get ready to hit, get ready to attack, clears up a lot of the other stuff."
The former Rays second-round Draft pick in 2002 has never been known for his batting average, sporting a career .251 mark, but even his on-base percentage this season sits nearly 100 points below his career norms.
The solution, however, is not easy to implement once the season is underway.
"It's tough during the season to make a lot of big changes," Gonzalez said. "But the adjustments they're talking about aren't big swing changes, they're not big mechanical changes, it's just getting your foot down on time.
"It's hard to in the middle of the Major League season and start trying to make swing adjustments. But I think you can make small adjustments."


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Barely 48 hours had passed since daughter Chelsea's Hudson River Valley wedding, and Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton – still clearly in the glow of mother-of-the-bride-dom – was back giving full attention to her role as chief diplomat and administrator for the foreign policy of President Obama.
Taking the stage Aug. 3 in a turquoise pantsuit before a sea of young African leaders invited to Washington for a presidential initiative, Secretary Clinton told her audience in a deadpan voice that her talk on the US trade and development partnership with sub-Saharan Africa would have to wait. She had a little business to clear up first.
"When I was in Nairobi last year, a very nice man offered 40 goats and a number of cows for the chance to marry my daughter," she said as cellphone cameras snapped a shot of one of the world's most powerful and recognizable women. Noting that her husband, former President Bill Clinton, had received the same offer from the same man five years earlier, Clinton added, "As of this week, I can now say with great certainty my daughter is officially off the market."
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Despite some wincing by a few Africans in the audience who considered it a ham-handed remark – with its images of a continent of goatherds and young women as chattel – the hearty laughter and camera clicks suggested something else. For most of the young Africans in the hall, especially the women, it was a thrill to be so intimately addressed by Clinton.
Clinton's speech that early August afternoon was a small affair among the hundreds of talks she has given, the thousands of miles traveled, and dozens of fraught issues addressed as secretary of State – from crafting a "reset" with Russia to addressing China's military rise with East Asian allies. But there she was, expounding on the role she sees development playing in US foreign policy, with special emphasis on a favorite theme – women.
In that sense, it offered a glimpse into how this reluctant chief diplomat with the unique curriculum vitae – former first lady and senator from New York, and onetime chief political rival of the president she serves – culls from personal narrative in her approach to shaping US foreign policy.
It is Hillary Clinton the politician who returns to villages in Africa she last visited as first lady and addresses people by their first names. It is Hillary Clinton the woman and mother who takes alleged mass rapes in the Democratic Republic of Congo as a personal affront. And it is Hillary Clinton, the once-assumed and later vanquished future president, who opened the formal return to Middle East peace talks in Washington this month by urging the Israeli and Palestinian people to rise above "the disappointments of the past" to become "champions" for peace.
Seventeen months into a job she resisted accepting, Hillary Rodham Clinton is seen by many longtime analysts as making a quiet mark on US statecraft through hard work and by reaching down into the well of personal experience.
They see her patiently rebuilding America's image in the world and expanding US diplomatic reach by securing more resources for the State Department from former colleagues in the US Congress. While some still question her creative vision and negotiating skills – a hallmark of successful secretaries of State – others laud her for embarking on a redefinition of American foreign policy that gives new weight to diplomacy and development alongside defense.
"Where she could leave her mark is in putting into practice this idea of smart power," says former secretary of State Madeleine Albright, a longtime friend and close associate of Clinton's who describes the "plethora of issues" facing the secretary of State today as "more complex than anything I've ever seen." To respond to that, she adds, Clinton "sees the potential of using a variety of tools in the diplomatic tool box."
But others who have no less admiration for Clinton's accomplishments in her short time see this moment as a threshold for her – and not only because of the Israeli-Palestinian talks and the test those talks will pose to her skills and propensity for problem solving. They also point to the major foreign-policy review – the so-called "QDDR" or Quadrennial Diplomacy and Development Review she initiated by adapting a Pentagon policy evaluation process – that she is set to unveil next month.
Both the Middle East negotiations and the policy review will provide a measure, these critics say, of Clinton's ability to think in new ways and to fashion a foreign policy for 21st-century America.
"I admire and appreciate the way she has really drilled down on some of these crises that have come up, from the Pakistan floods to the earthquake in Haiti, even her handling of the Kyrgyzstan turmoil – she's working herself ragged on these things and you can see it in her face," says Steven Clemons, publisher of the widely read Washington Note blog and a foreign-policy specialist. "But what we need is an innovator – not an incrementalist, but someone who envisions the strategic leaps that can get us out of these holes we're in, and I just haven't seen it in Hillary Clinton."
What Mr. Obama got when he insisted his former rival for the Democratic presidential nomination take on the job of applying his foreign policy and running US diplomacy was an indefatigable advocate for America with a work ethic that astounds admirers and critics alike. She has proved her loyalty to Obama, some say to a fault, matching her pragmatic vision of 21st-century American leadership to his. She has put her unmatched star power to good use, commanding the stage whether with a room of colleagues, with young leaders like those Africans assembled in Washington, or with the many television audiences she has engaged with, Oprah-style, while abroad.
And she has demonstrated the value of having a tested politician as secretary of State – and not only because of her ability to relate to average people in a world where that kind of connection increasingly matters to US foreign-policy goals. She has built on her time on the Senate Armed Services Committee to deepen a relationship with Defense Secretary Robert Gates. The two cabinet members have forged a crucial State-Pentagon relationship at a time when Mr. Gates and other military leaders are calling on the civilian arm of American global reach to take on more of the duties – like nation-building – that the military assumed by default in places like Iraq.
But she also has credibility with her colleagues, the many foreign ministers who are politicians themselves and who appreciate Clinton's grasp of the challenges, if not outright limitations, public opinion often poses.
"People forget that most foreign ministers are also political leaders, especially among our allies," says James Steinberg, one of Clinton's two deputy secretaries and a national-security expert who also served in the Clinton White House. "She can relate to politicians. She knows the particular pressures they face, and that allows her to be particularly effective."
Foreign-policy practitioners and observers alike profess a uniform respect for Clinton's hard work and her mastery of the briefs she takes on. Still, some admit they have less of a feel for where she wants to take US foreign policy.
"Frankly, it's hard for me to place her," says George Herring, a professor emeritus at the University of Kentucky and an expert on secretaries of State. "She seems to have become an effective manager of the [State] department, which is not always the case, but she does not appear to have put her trademark on anything at this point."
A not-uncommon take on Clinton had her spending the better part of her first year casting about to secure a place for herself in the administration. That perception was fed by a couple of factors: Vice President Joe Biden's keen interest and close involvement in foreign affairs – Obama made Mr. Biden his go-to guy on Iraq – and the high-powered special envoys Obama named. Either former Sen. George Mitchell, named as Middle East special envoy, or Richard Holbrooke, whose portfolio contains Afghanistan and Pakistan, could have been secretary of State in his own right, experts note.
John Bolton, a former US ambassador to the United Nations under George W. Bush and former assistant secretary of State for nuclear proliferation issues, says someone of Clinton's stature "must be finding it hard to play such a limited role and not be a central figure in foreign-policy decisionmaking." He compares her to Colin Powell, under whom he served, as "the State Department's envoy to the president, and not the other way around."
Mr. Herring says Clinton has been a "team player," but he adds that this does not mean she has been "marginalized" the way Mr. Powell was. Indeed, Secretary Albright says the cold-war-era scenario of one dominant player in the promotion of US foreign policy is over, replaced by a "constellation" of participants and influences.
"Her role is to exert power by being a team player, knowing when to delegate and when to take the driver's seat," Albright says. "It's a different modus operandi from a Dean Acheson or a Henry Kissinger."
In Clinton's case, it may be a sense of security about who she is as a global personality that has allowed her to stand back and make way for other high-powered figures to take on the day-to-day management of key portfolios. The idea of naming Senator Mitchell as Middle East envoy came from Clinton, aides say: Obama wanted someone working on the Middle East peace issue full time from the beginning of his presidency, and Clinton knew she wouldn't be able to dedicate the time required as she learned her new job and focused on other priorities like China and Asia, where she symbolically chose to make her first major trip as secretary.
"Maybe it doesn't matter to her; she's already a star," says Aaron David Miller, a Middle East expert who has worked under six secretaries of State. "She's a very smart leader with a real persona." But he says Clinton nevertheless has two formidable obstacles in her path: an "unforgiving world where diplomatic breakthroughs are very hard to come by," and a bureaucratic structure that "leaves her on the outside of ownership of the big issues."
That second factor may be about to change, as Clinton dives into the Middle East peace process.
But Mr. Miller, now at Washington's Woodrow Wilson Center for International Scholars, says Clinton is a blank slate when it comes to being a negotiator – a talent that he considers one of the defining attributes of a great secretary of State.
"Consequential secretaries of State are great for one of two reasons, and one of them is that they solve problems," he says. "You either look at the world as a chessboard or you don't; it's not something learned. It remains an open question: Does Hillary Clinton have the negotiator's mind-set?"
UNDER ALUMINUM-GRAY SKIES, Clinton was riding in a limousine through the streets of Zurich when the phone rang. The news wasn't good. It was the beginning of a trip to Europe last October that was to include crucial talks with Russian leaders. Clinton was stopping off in Switzerland to witness the signing of a diplomatic accord between longtime rivals Turkey and Armenia. This was supposed to be the pro forma part of the trip.
But Philip Gordon, assistant secretary for European and Eurasian affairs, was on the phone, telling her that the signing was in jeopardy. An Armenian official had just warned him that his boss was balking at some of the wording the Turkish foreign minister planned to use in his statement.
"She thought she was coming in for a signing ceremony and instead ... she got down in the weeds on the details," recalls Mr. Gordon.
Despite the presence of the French and Russian foreign ministers, it was the American secretary of State the two sides turned to. Clinton tried some shuttle diplomacy, but neither side budged. She then proposed to her American entourage a simple idea: How about if there are no statements, just the signing, with the accord doing the talking?
Gordon and others nixed the idea as unworkable, and the effort to finesse the statements resumed – unsuccessfully. But Clinton remained adamant that a way forward be found. "At some point she passed me a note that said, 'Why can't my idea work?' " Gordon says. This time the idea of no statements was proposed – and accepted by both parties. "You have to be creative in these situations," says Gordon. "And she was."
The tense dealmaking in Zurich is one example aides cite as evidence that Clinton is a skilled negotiator. They note, too, that she was a senator, and you don't get legislation passed without knowing how to broker deals – a skill that they believe she will be able to call on in the Israeli-Palestinian talks.
Actually a debate rages in Washington over just how much of a role the United States, and Clinton as secretary of State, should play in the renewed talks. Even if the negotiations get past the end-of-September expiration of Israel's moratorium on settlement construction, the question of when Clinton should be in the room, and when Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and Palestinian Authority President Mahmoud Abbas should be left to hammer things out on their own, draws sharply differing responses.
When Obama invited the two leaders to Washington earlier this month to formally restart direct talks, Clinton told them neither she nor anyone else from the US would be with them at all times at the negotiating table. What worries some specialists is that Clinton's approach will be too much like past US peace-process efforts – with too little that is innovative and game-changing.
"If all you do is restart the same old talks, all it does is get you back to the messy status quo," says Mr. Clemons. "We need to do more about Hamas than ignore its presence in the room. We need to think in innovative strategic terms that get us to a new game board where Arabs and Israelis see a two-state solution as a move toward rolling back Iran in the region. But unless Hillary has something up her sleeve, I don't see her reshaping the board in a way a secretary of State should."
What makes critiques of Clinton as a foreign-policy traditionalist so striking is how this view contrasts with Clinton's own characterization of what she is trying to do. She speaks of fashioning a foreign policy for the 21st century, where partnerships – American-led, granted – and dialogue replace the bygone days of the American superpower. She has directed her staff to think expansively in defining a new role for diplomacy in the QDDR. She has even come up with a new concept, the "townterview" – a mix of a town-hall meeting and an interview with a big-name local TV journalist to reach mass audiences with issues average people care about – that she has used when visiting countries like Indonesia, China, and Pakistan.
"The complexities and connections of today's world have yielded a new American moment, a moment when our global leadership is essential, even if we must often lead in new ways," Clinton told an audience at the Council on Foreign Relations (CFR) in Washington earlier this month. "The challenges we face are more complex than ever, and so are the responses needed to meet them. That is why we are building a global architecture that reflects and harnesses the realities of the 21st century."
All well and good, but not the kind of issue a secretary of State can "own" – especially in today's complex world, notes the Wilson Center's Miller. Others wonder whether it's possible to speak of a "new American moment" in a world where the perception of American power is so reduced. "Hillary Clinton believes in American power," says Clemons, "but it's still an old power, when what is needed is to reinvent American leverage for a new era."
Aides and longtime diplomats say the ideas like those offered at the CFR are not just words, but that Clinton constantly presses them to translate such rhetoric into reality.
"She has already left an important mark," says Bill Burns, undersecretary for political affairs and the highest ranking career diplomat in the State Department. Citing a restructuring of the department and a "reimagining" of what diplomacy will mean and entail in the 21st century, he acknowledges that while not everything Clinton is doing is new, under her "it is sinking in in ways I haven't seen before."
And the new directions Clinton has emphasized – the introduction and elevation of global issues in strategic dialogues with countries like India and Pakistan, the focus on reaching publics and working with nongovernmental organizations – are about more than simply dreaming up new ways of doing diplomacy, Secretary Burns says. "She has helped to broaden the terms of how you look at national-security interests."
As an example, he cites Yemen. Bilateral relations with the hotbed of Islamist extremism still focus on the security challenges there, Burns says, but Clinton has insisted that diplomats dig deeper into the causes of conflict and public dissatisfaction that feed extremism. "She has nudged the discussion there beyond Al Qaeda to development issues like water," he says. Such a broadened sense of strategic dialogue "is a departure from how we have done things in this institution."
The people Clinton has chosen to do the "big thinking" for her while she tends to what Miller describes as an "unforgiving world" say she is clear in her assignment to them. "She wants us reexamining the definition of diplomacy, and elevating development," says Anne-Marie Slaughter, Clinton's director of policy planning. As head of what she describes as "the department of longer-term thinking," Ms. Slaughter – whom Clinton enticed away from Princeton University, where she was dean of the Woodrow Wilson School of Public and International Affairs – says she is mindful that her job is very much about "creating what [Clinton's] stamp on the department will be."
That job includes delivering that QDDR by October, and reenvisioning what diplomats do so they are more like foremen of American development projects – or as Clinton likes to say, "people who wear cargo pants as much as striped pants." In that vein, another priority for Clinton is reinvigorating a long-marginalized US Agency of International Development – a task that, if successful, would go down as her "legacy," according to Burns.
IT'S A HEFTY TO-DO LIST, not one likely to be completed anytime soon. So the question naturally arises: Will she be around to see it all through? This being Washington, speculation regularly surfaces of a coming change for Clinton. She will replace Gates when he fulfills his self-announced departure from the Pentagon sometime next year, some say. Ambassador Bolton sees her so focused on development – and so unfulfilled at State – that she will leave her post as Obama's top diplomat to take the presidency of the World Bank when that job comes open. Others speak of the proven vote-getter switching jobs with Vice President Biden before the 2012 election.
When CFR President Richard Haass repeated that latter bit of Washington tea-leafing in his introduction of Clinton before her speech this month, she faintly smiled and shook her head "no."
If Clinton has found a comfortable stride as secretary of State – as many analysts say she has – one reason may be how much she reaches into her own past to share what America is and her vision of the force it wants to be in a 21st-century world. Albright recalls how Clinton responded to her invitation to address the Community of Democracies, a group bringing together new and old European democracies that Albright founded a decade ago when she headed the State Department.
"It was a very good speech, but then she did something else," Albright says, recounting how Clinton retold for her audience the story of the 2008 presidential campaign: How she had run very hard against Obama, how he had won "fair and square," and how she came to serve her former rival as his secretary of State.
"She showed those people assembled, from old and young democracies alike, what power sharing really is and what it means in a democracy," Albright says. "It was brilliant, and it was everything this woman is about."
Clinton may not have yet made the "strategic leaps" that some say the 21st century requires of American diplomacy. If the president calls, her sense of duty may well have her decamping the State Department for other climes. In any case, she has said she cannot envision remaining in a job with such a grueling pace into a second term, should Obama win reelection. In the meantime, she will pursue her vision of renewed American power in the way of the global politician she has become: audience to audience, one village at a time.
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CARACAS, Venezuela (AP) — During his re-election campaign, President Hugo Chavez promised to deepen the "21st century socialism" that has meant an ever-greater state role in the economy. That message won him a surprising 11-percentage point win in what many had thought would be a tight race.
Still, he's set to start a fourth presidential term under challenging economic circumstances. The government's free-spending ways, bankrolling the generous social programs that aided his re-election, may be seriously crimped.
Chavez faces immediate economic time bombs beginning with a rapidly expanding public debt, one of Latin America's highest inflation rates and a weakening currency.
Many economics believe Chavez will have no choice but to devalue the currency, the bolivar, by about half early next year at the latest. That will make the money in people's pockets suddenly worth a lot less and likely drive inflation while putting imported consumer goods out of reach for poorer Venezuelans.
"He's going to have to deal with some very basic, mundane capitalist things, like reducing inflation," which stands at 18 percent, said Eduardo Gamarra, a Latin American studies professor at Florida International University in Miami.
Price controls and government subsidies for basic foodstuffs have eased inflationary pressures but a major devaluation would drive prices higher and could worsen scarcities, economists say.
"Investment in social issues is great, but he needs to do other things as well that are going to make that economy more productive," said Gamarra.
Venezuela's economy grew by 5 percent this year but only because of government spending, primarily on raising salaries for many of the country's at least 2.4 million public employees and paying for thousands of new homes that Chavez is giving away, said Joao Pedro Ribeiro, an economist at Roubini Global Economics in New York.
"We think the outlook for the short term is very bleak," he said, with economic growth at about 2 percent next year and "inflation spiking to 30 percent."
The black market value of the Venezuelan bolivar, whose official value is set by the government, was double the official rate in July. It is now triple the official rate.
At the heart of Chavez's economic challenges is declining productivity in the oil industry, which accounts for 95 percent of exports and funds Chavez's social programs. Governing the country with the world's largest proven oil reserves has so far insulated Chavez from the fallout of his confrontational polices, including a drop in foreign investment.
But economist David Rees of London-based Capital Economics said the government has relatively few dollars left, "having utilized them to fund an import binge ahead of the ballot. That will add to the reduction in imports and increase in shortages."
Some experts say oil production has stagnated due to insufficient investment and management problems in the state-run oil company.
One measure of investor confidence in Venezuela, the price of its bonds, took a hit Monday as they fell 5 percent to 7 percent, said Russell Dallen, a managing partner of the brokerage firm Caracas Capital Markets.
The bonds fell in value after Chavez defeated Henrique Capriles, who won 44 percent of the vote, giving the incumbent his smallest margin of victory ever in a presidential election.
The government has more than tripled its public foreign debt from $24.2 billion when Chavez took office to $88.7 billion in the first quarter of this year. Much of that foreign money has come from China, which has lent Venezuela more than $36 billion in exchange for oil shipments.
Even as he celebrated victory before thousands of jubilant supporters early Monday, Chavez appeared to acknowledge he has let down some Venezuelans. People are upset by a soaring homicide rate, power outages and crumbling infrastructure.
"I pledge to you, I repeat, to every day be a better president than I've been," he said, while also promising greater effectiveness and efficiency from a government whose payroll is bloated by patronage.
The 58-year-old leader has said tests show he is cancer-free, but his illness has forced him to slow his pace and cut back on his frenetic days of late-night speeches and Cabinet meetings. He's endured two rounds of surgery since June 2011 to remove tumors from his pelvic region as well as chemotherapy and radiation treatment.
Venezuela would have to hold a new election if Chavez were forced to step down during the first four years of his term. More health problems would make it even more difficult for Chavez to push ahead with his promised drive to expand the state's role in the economy and provide even more entitlements.
"As long as Chavez remains as the key driver here, there might be far more inertia than change," said Javier Corrales, a U.S. political science professor at Amherst College.
Venezuelans will choose state governors in December, and Chavez is likely to save any devaluation until after that election. Such moves are always hugely unpopular because they erode the value of salaries, which have already been hit hard by inflation in Venezuela.
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This stuff just looks strange. The title is what caught me, the show is called "Taxonomies." But with ceramic mold spores from Sarah Hicks and geometric paintings from Peter Barrett, it seems worth a look. Check it out Friday from 5-8pm.
3. The faculty has shown good taste at SAIC.
The faculty at SAIC has passed down their opinion on what's good and what's not. Surprisingly (well I was surprised), I mostly agree with them this time round. You can go see new work by Sarah Belknap, Joseph Belknap, Tif Bullard, Yu-Hang Huang, Merideth Lacina, Alison Rhoades, andIsabelle Schiltz at the Betty Rhymer for the Annual Faculty Exhibitions Committee Picks show (I don't think this is the real title, or whether there is one, so I spliced this together. ) Opens Thursday from 4:30 to 7pm.
4. Artist dresses up as volcano, spends day reenacting Day in the Life of a Volcano.
Do I actually need to say anything else? The afore mentioned peice (by Eliza Fernand) is part of Post Scarcity, a new show at 65Grand curated Thea Liberty Nichols. Opens Friday, from 7-10pm.
5. Performing in the bedroom…
The Second Bedroom that is. Anni Holm is doing an installation called Sleeping Around. If you're in Bridgeport, head over Friday night.
Sorry for the lack of pictures and links, the zombies are coming!
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text: Dave's ESL Cafe's Student Discussion Forums :: View topic - Feeling sad... Dave's ESL Cafe's Student Discussion Forums"The Internet's Meeting Place for ESL/EFL Students and Teachers from Around the World!" FAQ Search Memberlist Usergroups Register Profile Log in to check your private messages Log in Feeling sad... Dave's ESL Cafe's Student Discussion Forums Forum Index -> Opinions View previous topic :: View next topic Author Message LeBronJoined: 31 Oct 2007Posts: 103 Posted: Mon May 26, 2008 12:27 pm Post subject: Feeling sad... Hi there, today I feel not good. Exactly I feel pretty sad and frustrated. My emotions are turning unbelievably fast, and often. One day I feel absolutely great, the next day I think its the saddest day ever. I wish I could control my emotions so that they wouldnt turn as fast as now maybe like an iceman, who has emotions as ice Greetings Back to top Bob S.Joined: 29 Apr 2004Posts: 1767Location: So. Cal Posted: Wed May 28, 2008 9:22 am Post subject: Re: Feeling sad... LeBron wrote: today I feel not good. Exactly I feel pretty sad and frustrated. My emotions are turning unbelievably fast, and often. One day I feel absolutely great, the next day I think its the saddest day ever. I wish I could control my emotions so that they wouldnt turn as fast as now maybe like an iceman, who has emotions as ice Oh, I don't know. Maybe your emotions are a reasonable response to the given situation. Yesterday was a pretty good day for me, but today is starting out crappy, so naturally I am frustrated and grumpy. It is reasonable because of the many small bad events. If you are having many small or big bad events, you should feel sad and frustrated. You would be crazy if you didn't. __________________________ A learning experience is one of those things that says, 'You know that thing you just did? Don't do that.' -Douglas Adams Back to top LeBronJoined: 31 Oct 2007Posts: 103 Posted: Wed May 28, 2008 11:57 am Post subject: Thanks for your reply. Unfortunately even scattered little things like a stupid or inappropriate joke of someone or other things like those, which are actually absolutely unimportant, makes me feel bad as well...for a long time... I often hear I handle things like those simply too important. It seems there's something true on it... Back to top SuzanneJoined: 21 Apr 2008Posts: 283Location: Seattle, WA, USA Posted: Sun Jun 01, 2008 8:00 am Post subject: Hi, Like Bob S. says, everyone has ups and downs, sometimes several times a day. Life seems good, then wham!--a terrible thing happens, or someone disappoints you, or you lose something...just about anything can destroy a good mood. I'm wondering if there is something else going on that makes you feel especially sensitive these days. When we're stressed, or tired, it's hard to handle the everyday bumps in life. I hope things are going to get better for you! Back to top LeBronJoined: 31 Oct 2007Posts: 103 Posted: Sun Jun 01, 2008 9:49 am Post subject: Thank you very much. Probably both of you are right that it's absolutely normal if I have a couple of bad days in a row. I'm sure better days will come again. I'll try to make the best of every single day... Back to top Anuradha ChepurJoined: 20 May 2006Posts: 933 Posted: Mon Jun 02, 2008 6:24 am Post subject: Actually if you have some sad days in betwen, your happy days will be all the more happy. Back to top LeBronJoined: 31 Oct 2007Posts: 103 Posted: Mon Jun 02, 2008 8:32 am Post subject: Well there's something true on it Back to top Bob S.Joined: 29 Apr 2004Posts: 1767Location: So. Cal Posted: Wed Jun 04, 2008 12:05 pm Post subject: How old are you? Teenagers naturally have raging hormones that send your emotions in wild directions up or down (usually down). When you get into your 20's, things begin to mellow out as you mature and get a better perspective on life. __________________ Rules are mostly made to be broken and are too often for the lazy to hide behind. -Douglas MacArthur Back to top LeBronJoined: 31 Oct 2007Posts: 103 Posted: Thu Jun 05, 2008 10:50 pm Post subject: At the present I feel much better. Some days ago I got the result of a really important exam for me and I passed it. I'm very relieved now. Maybe the uncertainty about my exam made me feel bad and uneasy during the last days/weeks?! Now the pressure is gone and I feel pretty good and relieved. By the way I'm twenty years old, I think most of the dilemma years in youth I already left behind. Back to top EvangelineJoined: 01 Mar 2008Posts: 27Location: China Posted: Wed Aug 27, 2008 10:33 pm Post subject: Keeping feeling sad and frustrated is killing life! After having been ill for a long time and suffering menace of death,I came to a conclusion that to be alive itself is the best grace and happiness! I am sorry to hear that you were sad and frustrated.I hope that you are feeling better now! Anyway,I want to share some useful words with you: Darkness may last for a night,but it will never overcome the light of the morning.When you are in a season of sorrow,don't be depressed,because a season of joy may be just around the corner! Be optimistic,and live happier!For being alive itself is the greatest happiness!_________________More about Evangeline,please click here. Back to top teacher-simonJoined: 15 Jan 2009Posts: 18Location: Beijing, China Posted: Thu Jan 15, 2009 7:45 pm Post subject: If you ever are feeling sad or down, try to get out of where you are that is making you feel those negative thoughts. Going for a walk can really help to clear your mind. Try to take some big deep breaths and forget those negative thoughts._________________Simon English Teacher and Avid Fan of Chinese Cooking http://www.damn-english.com Back to top akasyaJoined: 18 Mar 2009Posts: 11Location: turkey Posted: Fri Mar 20, 2009 6:52 am Post subject: I wasbad mood in this weekend Icant know why Back to top Jenniferdu521Joined: 29 Mar 2009Posts: 72 Posted: Mon May 25, 2009 2:37 am Post subject: I can't agree with evangeline any more!to be alive itself is the best grace and happiness. I am also happy to share another sentence to you: For the days strench out in an endless vista, we go about our petty tasks, hardly aware of our listless attitude toward life."from Three Days To See If you always feel say, just try to live each day as if we should die tomorrow. Best Regards! 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Some enterprising internetters over on the RealGM message boards have hatched a plan to corner the NBA All Star voting market involving cookies (not the kind you throw or use to torture). I'm a moron so I don't really understand all of their Internet Explorer speak but I have deduced that they are quite committed to their goal of voting Antoine Walker and Shane Battier onto the Western Conference's starting five. So why would anybody want to see Antoine in the All Star Game? Why the hell not?
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c) who doesn't want to see the shimmy in the 2008 all-star game?
Of course this is nothing new to some NBA stars, Gilbert Arenas has been known to stuff a ballot box or two. If you're going to waste your time voting for anyone you might want to follow the lead of the poster pushing for Damon Jones. You know he's just going to show up anyway.


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As we are all painfully aware, discussing even the most minute detail of the NSA's data harvesting programs will cause "exceptionally grave damage to national security." This is why the average citizen receives nothing but an overly-long mock apology from the agency instead of the documents they've requested -- even when requesting their own data from the NSA.
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Thanks for fielding these questions. Interestingly I was turned on to The Fray by my daughter Meghan. I like the lyrical quality it has and listen to it driving a lot. Now to try it for writing. :)
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Language of Life by EBTG remains one of my all-time favorite albums. "Driving" is one of their best songs.ReplyDelete
Michael-- No problem! You can watch for your answers throughout this next week. It ended being 5 parts! (Good questions!- Thank you!) I hope my answers are what you are looking for.
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