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Katie Taves sounds like a typical high school student. She likes yoga and cooking, dislikes geometry and begrudgingly accepts B grades. But for the last five years, 15-year-old Taves has suffered from a rare form of juvenile arthritis in 27 of her joints. Despite the fatigue, the stiffness, the chemotherapy and the steroids, she remains positive and optimistic, and said she doesn't let the disease bog her down.
Katie Taves is an honoree at the 2014 San Francisco Walk to Cure Arthritis on May 17, a national event that raises money to prevent, control and cure arthritis. A freshman at Mountain View High School, Taves copes with juvenile idiopathic arthritis, an autoimmune disorder where the body's own immune system attacks joint tissue. This leads to stiffness and swelling in the joints, as well as pain, fatigue, and the occasional, but severe, flare-up.
To deal with arthritis, Taves has to take methotrexate every week, a chemotherapy drug that reduces inflammation and slows the progression of the disease. Her mother, Suzanne Taves, said the plan is to give her the methotrexate on Friday, deal with the sickness and nausea that comes with it on Saturday, and hopefully by the end of Sunday the symptoms subside in time for school. Sometimes they do not.
During the school week, Taves has to deal with stiffness and pain in the joints that make it hard to get out of bed. She wakes up at 5:45 a.m. and stays in bed for about an hour before getting up. Cold mornings make it even worse, and she needs to wear gloves or her fingers will freeze up.
Taves gave herself a time cushion and set up her schedule to have a study hall first period, and no class for second period.
Once at school, Taves has to manage her energy to avoid getting exhausted. She compared it to balancing a budget, making sure she doesn't "overspend" her energy. She said she feels pretty close to normal from noon to about 5 p.m., and by 6:30 p.m. the fatigue starts to set in.
Despite the difficulties, Taves manages to keep an upbeat attitude and stay resilient. Her physical education teacher, Barbara Kaufman, said you can't help but like her. Kaufman said Taves always pushes herself in class, and on her good days she does not want to stop.
"She just doesn't show pain," Kaufman said. "She doesn't complain ever, even about the chemo."
Outside of school, Taves likes to do yoga at The Dailey Method in downtown Los Altos. Yoga is a low-impact exercise, meaning less stress on joints, and can help to stretch out some of the stiffness that comes with arthritis.
She also likes to cook and bake. Prior to the Walk to Cure Arthritis, Taves will host a bake sale on Friday, May 16, making sugar cookies, chocolate chip cookies, cupcakes, meringues, brownies and more.
Taves said she had a very active lifestyle before she was diagnosed with spondyloarthropathy, a type of juvenile idiopathic arthritis, at age 10. The arthritis started in her knee and spread to 27 joints in her body, including her fingers, elbows, back and shoulders.
Taves said when she was diagnosed, her active lifestyle was severely restricted. She used to dance, play softball, basketball and soccer, but in the years after the diagnosis, she wasn't allowed to do much of anything.
"I couldn't run, jump or play," Taves said. "No P.E., I couldn't even run with friends."
Taves attended a summer camp for children ages 8-13 with arthritis and other rheumatic diseases called Camp Milagros. Despite the three or four doctors on-site at all times, it's the closest thing some kids get to feeling normal.
"The camps brought me a sense of normalcy that I couldn't find elsewhere," Taves said.
She later attended a teen retreat for kids ages 14-18 with juvenile arthritis, where they spend the weekend in a cabin just north of San Francisco and visit the city.
Taves said she continues to keep in touch with people she met at the two camps, even though they don't live very close. If she gets prescribed a fancy new drug for the disease, she'll send them a text message to see if they're familiar with it and what the side effects will be.
Beyond building relationships, Taves said both camps teach kids to self-advocate and have inside-and-out knowledge of their disease -- and with good reason. Many people do not know what juvenile arthritis is, or are unaware arthritis can affect children. In elementary school, Taves said her school nurse did not know about juvenile arthritis, and thought she faked her injury when she tried to run and bent her ankle out of shape.
She said she is the first case of juvenile arthritis school administrators at Mountain View High School have dealt with, but that the school has been extremely accommodating and even offered to give her tutoring services.
Taves still has to face hurdles like passing the California Physical Fitness Testing (PFT). If she fails to perform them, she will have to retake P.E. next semester. So far Taves passed the flexibility and upper body strength exercises, but still has to run and do sit-ups in order to pass. Both exercises put a lot of stress on joints all over her body, which can make the test difficult, painful, and possibly dangerous.
"Isn't it crazy that she has to do that?" said Suzanne Taves, who thinks it's unfair her daughter might have to retake P.E. because of a disease she has no control over.
Katie Taves said Kaufman does a lot to help ease the pain of doing these tests. Kaufman told Taves that she can perform these tests on her "best" days, days where her joints are giving her the least trouble, to better her chances of getting through the test successfully and without injury.
Taves is soliciting funds for the 2014 San Francisco Walk to Cure Arthritis, and raised over $8,000 as of early May -- about 25 percent more than anyone else. Her personal page can be found here.


text: Anthony and Domenick Anthony de Maio and Domenick Falcione met 34 years ago in Atlantic City at Caesar's Palace, where Anthony was working the craps table. His chiseled features and pale blue eyes captivated Domenick instantly. A few months later, they officially met in a bar, again in Atlantic City, and Domenick "dragged him home." Thirty-four years later, they are still together. They work together. They play together and their relationship is strong, and by the looks of their biceps, VERY strong. It is fueled by their Latin blood but built on honesty and trust. Both Anthony and Domenick share strong Italian backgrounds. They are passionate about each other and everything else - from their love of Italy, to Domenick's cooking and abstract painting, to the restaurants that they have renovated from top to bottom. They are open and forthwith and even living in a small New Jersey town, where their relationship began, they have never hidden their gayness. Anthony explains how his co-workers at Caesar's Palace would ask him questions like "Who is the male and who is the female?" He would jokingly answer, "He's on top Monday, Wednesday and Friday and I'm on top Tuesday, Thursday and Saturday, and we fight for it on Sunday." While they received some flack for flying the rainbow flag outside of their beach restaurant in Margate, New Jersey, their proclivity for working out at the gym, their athletic build and their loveable personalities have kept any real trouble at bay. Domenick came out to his parents at age 16. When Domenick and Anthony were caught in the act of making out on the couch of Domenick's parents, his father expressed his dislike and refused to welcome his son's lover into his home. Domenick and his father did not speak for five years, but things have changed and now Anthony is treated like a son. The older Mr. Falcione and his wife, now in their 80's, live with the couple for long stretches of time over the winter months - and they love it. Being in the restaurant business at a Northern beach resort allowed the couple to travel for many of the winter months and soon they found themselves in Fort Lauderdale, Florida, where they opened MOJO, their current restaurant and one that they built from the bottom up and designed themselves to showcase Domenick's art. Domenick, "an artist in the kitchen and on canvas" as Anthony says, is the chef. Anthony, with his background in business and marketing, works the front of the house. It's a perfect system. As demanding as it is, it's their "only child" and they adore it. When asked about the leather harnesses, they explain that they wear them sometimes because they are "masculine, mysterious and dark" and not because they are fully invested in the "leather" scene or "bear" culture, although they are very supportive of both communities. The men do, however, have an interesting spin on their relationship. Anthony recounted, "We did something abnormal in the gay world when we first met…. we concentrated on ourselves. There was no promiscuity. We were in a relationship for almost 14 years and when it was right for us, we opened the doors to play around collectively with other people." They do not stray individually. That's the rule. They experiment sexually only as a couple. Currently in a triad relationship with a young man 29 years old – their young "pup" as they refer to him – is keeping the fire extra hot. They are both certain that the sexual openness is in no way a threat to their relationship. Since this photo was taken, the laws in New Jersey have changed and the couple will return this year to their former home state to tie the knot with their "pup" as their best man. It seems they are all very serious and committed to make the "triad" permanent. Anthony and Domenick are deeply in love and committed to each other and looking forward to nurturing and loving their new addition…Caleb…"the pup."

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Leading off with the fellas, Merlin and Orion. They're still by themselves in the back pen, waiting to be reunited with the girls. (Another week or two, or when we can get ourselves organized to do it.)
I knew that Orion's horns had grown, but I didn't realize how much until I took this pic:
we first brought him home:
And here are the Little Guys, who are now about the same age as Orion was. Which means we've gotta do some sheep separating soon (or hopefully, sell them) before they realize they're Almost Grownups and take some unfortunate action.
You all remember little Smokey. (Formerly known as he's-not-named-Smokey. Because he so totally is named Smokey.)
And a side-view of his snazzy little horns:
And this little guy is now known as Sauron. (Only because Beelzebub is too hard to say when you're chasing him through the garden...) Actually, he's a little sweetheart, who loves to be petted. Just don't stand between him and the food. Just sayin'.
And here are Onyx's other two lambs. The one on the left is the one Madman named Abigail (formerly known as the Spotty One), and the other one is Tiny. She was the smallest of the three lambs, and in my efforts to not name her, I started referring to her as 'the tiny one', and somehow that became her name. (Names are such a tricky thing. Even when you don't name things, they end up with names anyway. Hmmm.)
Check out the crimp in Tiny's fleece:
And I have to share a sheep story with you. When the meter-reader comes to our house, he has to walk between the sheep pen and the house to get to the electric meter. When our sheep see anyone in the yard, they go nuts, since in their not-so-humble opinion, the only reason for humans to exist is to feed sheep.
The last time, I happened to be home when the reader arrived. He must have been a new guy, since I'd never seen him before. The sheep went on Full Alert the minute he hit the top of the driveway, and started sounding off as soon as he opened his vehicle door.
"Hey! Human! Human in the yard! Hey! You there! Yeah, you! Feed us! We're hungry! Really! They never feed us here! It's been days! Or weeks! Or maybe months! We don't know because they won't let us have calendars! But it's been really really really long! Really long! Food's in the can over there! Hey! Poor starving sheep here! Hey!" All six of them were blatting their heads off at the poor fella. He strode dutifully down the path to the meter, glancing over at them a couple of times. I don't think he spoke 'sheep', so the expression on his face could best be described as 'WTF?' When he was almost back to his car, he stopped and stared at them for a minute. The sheep were totally batshit by this point, because he had walked right past their food can without feeding the sheep!
I'd been watching through the window the whole time, and at this point I was laughing so hard it was hard to stand up. I don't know if he thought they were going to jump the fence and eat him, but he sure did have a sheepish (sorry sorry sorry - you know how I am) look on his face.
I imagine he's used to barking dogs in his profession. But I don't think he was prepared for a bunch of raving sheep.


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Real Battle Over Western Wall Is Just Beginning in Israel
American Jews and others pushing for religious pluralism at Judaism's most accessible sacred space may have won a major advance for their cause with the new compromise proposal put forth by Natan Sharansky. But it is only now, in Israel, that the real debate begins.
The Western Wall, or the Kotel, as it is known in Hebrew, may be the country's most visited religious site. But for most Israelis, the campaign for gender-egalitarian prayer there is Diaspora mishegas and not their fight. None of Israel's mass-circulation daily newspapers carried the plans for the Western Wall on its front pages. Only the less widely circulating daily Haaretz ran it on page one.
The paradoxical fact is, while most Israeli Jews are not Orthodox, on most religious matters they defer to the Orthodox, including Orthodox insistence on gender separation in public prayer. Reform and Conservative Judaism, which predominate in America, simply aren't on their radar.
This reality means that a committed push from Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu and his government will be crucial to implementing Sharansky's vision of a greatly enlarged area of the Western Wall that would be devoted to egalitarian prayer in the predominant American style. Haredi factions will resist this strongly at every stage of the project's planning and funding. Even though the first reaction of Rabbi Shmuel Rabinowitz, the cleric in charge of the Western Wall, has been that he can "live with" the plan, Haredi rabbinic and political leaders can be expected to galvanize their community by pairing a campaign for the Wall with their campaign against ongoing plans for Haredi conscription.
And that is just the first hurdle.
Even if the plan makes headway against Haredi opposition, it may be reduced in scope during political wrangling. And if construction begins, Haredim can be expected to work hard to delay it, with legal challenges and possibly the trump card in Israeli building: a claim that there are unexplored archaeological remains that must be excavated first.
All this said, for the first time Jerusalem has acknowledged the importance of freedom of prayer at the Wall for Israel-Diaspora relations. And while Netanyahu is so sensitive to Haredi needs that he strove until the last minute to bring their parties into his governing coalition, in the end he did not. And that will make a difference.
In fact, the second-largest party in the Knesset and in the government, Yesh Atid, has shown support for Women of the Wall, and it controls the Finance Ministry. That will prove important in the project's funding.
If the Sharansky plan does progress, another key question comes quickly to the fore: How will the egalitarian section of the Wall be given genuine status and avoid being labeled as the "add on" to the "real Kotel"? It wasn't there that the paratroopers wept when capturing the Wall in 1967; it's not the place Israelis picture when talking about the Wall, and it's not the place associated with their nationalistic pride.
Size and design will be important. If the egalitarian area is as large as the section currently in use, this will imbue it with prestige. A single-entrance plaza to both parts can prevent marginalization of the egalitarian area. Education campaigns asserting that the egalitarian area has the historical credentials to be called "Kotel," both by the government and by non-Orthodox groups, will encourage Israelis to take notice of the egalitarian section.
As Israelis become aware that they can hold bar mitzvahs and bat mitzvahs at that section of the Wall, where mothers and fathers can participate together–and if Reform and Conservative groups offer well-marketed simcha packages for such celebrations–Jews actually living in the country may eventually develop a sense of personal attachment to the new section.
But none of this is ensured. Israeli Jews' sentiments about the Wall are heavily influenced by state-sponsored visits that brand its meaning deeply into their consciousness at formative points in their lives. Most prominently, Israeli Jews are brought to the Wall as part of their school curricula and during their army service. If these continue to take place only at the section of the Wall in use today, it alone will remain"the Wall" for most Israelis, at least on an emotional level.
Women of the Wall and its allies will need to fight hard in the political sphere to get the egalitarian section used for at least some of the identity-shaping visits that the state runs. The same goes for trips by foreign dignitaries.
Haredim can be expected to oppose this. But if the egalitarian section becomes a fact on the ground, they may surprise their fellow citizens and see the new reality as an opportunity to strengthen Haredi control over "their" Kotel section. They may, in other words, demand that it be maintained for exclusively Haredi uses. Some Haredim object to the use of the Wall for nationalistic purposes like military ceremonies, and the community's leaders could start to argue that if the egalitarian section is run according to what they deem non-Orthodox principles, all secular and non-Orthodox events should take place there.
Contact Nathan Jeffay at [email protected]


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By Danny Schechter.
New York, New York: Long live the middle class now that it has survived the fiscal cliff and been "saved."
President Obama is basking in the glory of having averted the deepening of a crisis that is more structural than political and hardly resolved.
The markets are cheering, it is said, because markets love stability, unless there is money to be made off of volatility of their own making.
Forget the working class. The term is passé, as is the so-called and usually undefined great mushy middle class moves into its rightful place at the center of everyone's concerns.
(When asked what class they are in—or aspire to be in—workers, and even the poor say Middle Class. Unless survey questions include the choice of working class that they usually don't.)
Analysts who looked closely at the big deal so hysterically pushed through Congress as the dramatic end-piece of a year of political warfare, say that there will be very little gain for the middle class with income taxes down but payroll taxes up, insuring that it will be more, at best, of a wash than a redistribution of wealth on any level. Many Americans, not just the rich, will be shelling out more, not less. Economist Lambert Strether calls it the "fecal cliff," noting, "cuts and tax increases (especially on the rich) are not commensurate. A "sacrifice" where some give up luxuries and others give up necessities is in no way "shared. A marginal sacrifice for the rich is not commensurate to core sacrifices for the rest of us."
This is an obvious point, but you will have to search through all the sturm und drang in the media about the votes in Congress to find it. Our media prefers to look up at leaders on the national stage than down on the people who have to cope with their decisions.
The headlines, speak of a victory for the middle class while the deal's details show what an illusion that is.
There is a deeper attack on the middle class underway that is not yet "breaking news." We can see it at the measures designed to destroy unions and attacks on teachers. We see it in limits imposed on pensions, and inflation that is making everything pricier.
With a new wave of big cuts still to come, it's not clear who will benefit— especially not that part of the middle class that relies on public education as the key to their upward mobility,
In city after city, public education is in trouble, underfunded, trapped in bureaucratic warfare, with many public schools facing closure and others cutbacks.
There is a privatization of middle class education underway with the privately run charter school industry hovering in the background, hoping to turn all of education into a business.
- In Philadelphia, 17,000 students and more than 1000 teachers are facing what's being called euphemistically a "downsizing" with 37 public schools on the chopping block.
Writes Bruce Dixon in the Black Agenda report: "The fix has been in for a long time, and not just in Philadelphia. Philly's school problems are anything but unique. The city has a lot of poor and black children. Our ruling classes don't want to invest in educating these young people, preferring instead to track into lifetimes of insecure, low-wage labor and/or prison. Our elites don't need a populace educated in critical thinking. So low-cost holding tanks that deliver standardized lessons and tests, via computer if possible, operated by profit-making "educational entrepreneurs" are the way to go."
These changes are always advanced in the name of better education "innovation" in the same way that the "reforms" that deregulated financial markets and led to their crash were labeled "modernization."
- In the Bronx, New York, the venerable De Witt Clinton High School that for over 100 years educated several hundred thousand students, positioning many for the middle class with many famous grades exercising leadership
role in private industry, media, the arts and public life, is being threatened with closure as the neighborhoods that sent kids there became poorer and darker, (Disclosure; it was at that high school that I first learned journalism on the school paper.)
Students, teachers and alumni are up in arms fighting the threat with rallies at the school and a petition on line. I have been working for months on a documentary to showcase the School—once the largest in America—and its century of achievement. You can see our trailer on line at http://vimeo.com/ 35147331.
Behind all of this is an unseen, but fundamental shift in our economy, explains economist Michael Hudson:
"Today's economic warfare is not the kind waged a century ago between labor and its industrial employers.
Finance has moved to capture the economy at large, industry and mining, public infrastructure (via privatization) and now even the educational system. (At over $1 trillion, U.S. student loan debt came to exceed credit- card debt in 2012.) The weapon in this financial warfare is no larger military force. The tactic is to load economies (governments, companies and families) with debt, siphon off their income as debt service and then foreclose when debtors lack the means to pay. Indebting government gives creditors a lever to pry away land, public infrastructure and other property in the public domain. Indebting companies enables creditors to seize employee pension savings. And indebting labor means that it no longer is necessary to hire strikebreakers to attack union organizers and strikers."
In short, debt is often profitable, and will be fought over for years to come.
These stealth trends float beneath the surface of media coverage and public political debate and get lost in the miasma of partisan talking points.
We don't what we don't see, and all we do see are posturing politicians whose main goal seems to be always appearing to do something but usually in the service of the status quo.
News Dissector Danny Schechter blogs at Newsdissector.net. He made the film "In Debt We Trust" warning of the financial crisis in 2006. He hosts a radio show at PRN.FM. Comments to firstname.lastname@example.com


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Saturday, July 24, 2010
Seven Ubuntu Derivatives worth Checking Out
I make a point of trying as many different variations of Ubuntu as I can, this way I can be informed when I recommend one version over another to friends and family. The following is a round up of my favorites I have found over my last three years in the world of Linux.
Best Full Featured DVD - Pinguy OS:
This is a spin just recently released and it has become the main OS on my Sager laptop for a number of reasons. Overall Pinguy OS has a very elegant, unified feel to it and careful work has been put into the visual aspects of the operating system with a close attention to detail. The current release is based on Ubuntu 10.04 and Pinguy has says he plans to release a new version with each new Ubuntu release.
Best Full Featured CD - Linux Mint:
Linux Mint is one of the older Ubuntu spins and it is still one of the best. It is where the fantastic menu and update manager Pinguy OS also uses were developed and it set the standard many derivatives have followed of including codecs, flash, and java in their releases (although the latter of these three is not include on the CD version of Mint). Where is Ubuntu has begun changing their default application set, Mint sticks to its roots - still including the Gimp and Pidgin instead of Empathy. The latest release of Mint is version 9 and it is based on Ubuntu 10.04 - Mint follows a release cycle the is typically a month or so behind Ubuntu releases.
Best Windows-Like - Zorin:
Zorin is designed with the intention of making a recent Windows convert feel at home. The default skinning and applets look decently close to Windows 7 and this can easily be changed to look like Windows Xp. Zorin includes flash and media codecs by default and the most recent version is based on 10.04
Best Lightweight - Lubuntu:
Lubuntu leaves a memory footprint right around 100megs on a fully booted system. It uses LXDE and is designed to be quick. The latest release of Lubuntu is based on 10.04 and Lubuntu follows a very close release cycle to Ubuntu. Before anyone leaves a "what about Crunchbag" comment - sorry, I prefer Lubuntu.
Best Netbook Remix - Jolicloud:
Jolicloud is designed to work with as many different netbooks as possible. In fact it is one of the only distros to support the GMA500 out of the box. It is based on 9.04 - but don't worry about this older version number, Jolicloud has some of it's own repositories to provide more up to date packages to it's users.
Best KDE - Netrunner:
I really like a lot of the features KDE has to offer - however many of the applications most KDE distros ship do not feel as "complete" as their Gnome counter parts. So while Netrunner uses KDE it still uses nautilus as it's file manager, Firefox for it's webrowser, and VLC for it's media player. It also includes media codecs, java, and flash. One thing I dislike about Net runner though is that it uses Knetwork manager - which I feel is horrid compared to nm-applet. The latest release of Netrunner is based on 10.04
Best E17 - Moon OS:
Moon OS is an E17 distro that is based on 9.04 It looks elegant, is fast, and is decently stable. The only real draw back to it is the fact that being based off of 9.04 is contains mostly older packages.
If you want an update to date version of Ubuntu with E17 you might want to try compiling from SVN or Bodhi Linux.
These are what I feel are seven of the best Ubuntu derivatives and the area in which I feel they shine. Is there another type of Ubuntu spin you think I missed on my list? Or maybe you feel one of my picks should have been something else - if so let me know by dropping a comment below.
~Jeff Hoogland
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I wish e17 had an up to date project behind it...ReplyDelete
You can't get much more up to date than an SVN compile...ReplyDelete
there is always elivecd.orgReplyDelete
And Elive is based off of Debian stable... Which is older than 9.04ReplyDelete
debian stable ???ReplyDelete
Hi Jeff, I've read your review on PinguyOS the other day and then I tried it myself on a portable HD. It's awesome :) it's by far the most polished Gnome implementation I've seen to date. Thanks for reviewing it ;)ReplyDelete
Hey how about LUPU, which is puppy linux based on Lucid, A derivative that doesn't just borrow stuff, but but contributes enough to make it completely differentReplyDelete
Never heard of that one saiftynet. I will have to give it a download and try it out this week :)ReplyDelete
VLC is actually a Qt app, not GTKReplyDelete
Never said VLC was a GTK app... (As a heads up Firefox is not GTK either) It is just most KDE distros/spins do not use VLC or Firefox as their defaults - typically it is Gnome distros that do this, which is what I said.ReplyDelete
- AnonymousJuly 26, 2010 at 3:02 AM
A second vote for Puppy Linux. It is very good, very small and very fast. Unfortunately, It does a lousy job getting wifi to work. Other distro's do wifi much better, eg, Ubuntu. Yesterday, I installed Zorin 3 and my Netgear WN111 worked after two clicks ...still can't get it working with Puppy.ReplyDelete
Thanks for the Zorin review.
#!crunchbang is no longer ubuntu based. The new version, Satler is Debian Testing based.ReplyDelete
Also, elive i believe since the last stable version is also Debian testing based.
Great article! Thank you!ReplyDelete
- AnonymousJuly 26, 2010 at 4:39 PM
Puppy linux wifi ?ReplyDelete
Make a (bash-)file with
iwconfig eth1 essid "wap-name"
cpcd -t 30 -d eth1
and let it start at boot or make a desktop link
I don't think you can say Zorin is a derivate, it basically skins Ubuntu to look like Windows, Xp, Vista or Windows 7 or a Mac OS. how does this teach people to use open source. The only message it sends is we need things to look like other OS in order to be productive.ReplyDelete
People are afraid of change - so too much at once is a bad thing. Something like Zorin can help someone "ease into" the transition from using Windows to using Linux.ReplyDelete
- AnonymousJuly 29, 2010 at 2:22 PM
Over the last two years I tested over 180 Linux distros (not all with success), and my two favorites are Mint and Ubuntu. They are really easy to use. I prefer Mint because it works perfectly with remastersys. So for me Mint 9 LTS is my OS for the next 3 years.ReplyDelete
I really like pinguyReplyDelete
Best Studio - KXStudioReplyDelete
OMG!! My desk looks like I read your article a week ago. I run a dual-boot system with Win7 & Mint9. The cd's/dvd's on my desk to try include pinguyOS, moonOS, netrunner, zorinOS, and Ultimate Edition. I much prefer ubuntu and it's derivatives to fedora, openSUSE, debian or mandriva. The only non-ubuntu linux distros I've ever had any real luck with are Puppy and pclinuxOS. I believe that even Windows lovers should get to know linux and dual-boot because windows CRASHES!! Then you boot into the linux and save your data, go online, and/or finish up that important project BEFORE spending precious hours getting windows back up running.ReplyDelete
- AnonymousAugust 24, 2010 at 5:20 AM
Puppy wifi?ReplyDelete
Thanks for the suggestion -- however, you prove my point. If someone has to create a bash file, then Puppy has problems with wifi. I had to write a script file to get Puppy to work with ZD1211 chip. Why? Why doesn't the Puppy crew take some different gpl code for wifi??? Remember: two mouse clicks and Ubuntu connects with ZD1211, RT2870, or AR9170.
The Puppy Wifi Wizard is awful.
- AnonymousAugust 29, 2010 at 8:51 PM
I just started using PinguyOS and it's the best distro I've tried yet. Thanks!ReplyDelete
@Scott.. If you don't mind an RPM-based distro, PCLinuxOS has a current Enlightenment spin. http://www.pclinuxos.com/?page_id=215
- AnonymousSeptember 4, 2010 at 12:05 PM
Zorin Rocks!! Its interface is by far the easiest transition from Win. Most distros have a 30 to 75% learning curve if you're coming from Win. Zorin has about a 3-5% learning curve...Mint is my second favorite choice. Suse has some advantages, but is not nearly as easy. Solaris for rock solid stability, but you'd better be willing to learn command line!ReplyDelete
- AnonymousSeptember 16, 2010 at 9:41 PM
Lubuntu is still beta and buggy with little customization options. Xubuntu is a better stable balance. Zenwalk, Debian XFCE and Mint XFCE are pretty cool too.ReplyDelete
LXDE is much lighter weight than XFCE. Plus I used Lubuntu for awhile, never had any issues with it...ReplyDelete
After reading the article and all the comments, I am disappointed that only one reference to the Ultimate Edition by "Thee Mahn" was made. True it is not a OS in it self, but your article is referring to spins.ReplyDelete
In my opinion, you will be had pressed in finding a more complete variation off Ubuntu. Ultimate Edition 2.7 is based off of Ubuntu 10..04 LTS. The artwork and detail are in my opinion, second to NONE!
I have tried most OS, but keep running Ultimate Edition because it is so complete. It comes as ISO/DVD download and has more standard apps installed than most will ever need. It's all there and it works! For What it's Worth!
Kudos for the Asus T101MT suggestions. I'd expect most to work with Mint 9 + plasma netbook shell. I wonder if a suitable Puplet can do better for less battery strain and disk space, though. I love Elive, LM64KDE ,not so much Kubuntu Netbook, but Plasma Netbook shell gives a kinda Enlightenment feel. The Asus will be my 1st netbook and I wanna take it bike-packing in Hawaii using solar charging somehow... Any thoughts on battery saving / feature-rich OS tips? Is 64 bit a no-no for netbooks? I'll try EEEbuntu / Pupeee maybe but I'm no wiz on CLI.ReplyDelete
- AnonymousDecember 11, 2010 at 5:15 AM
One more you might have included is Puppy as its now compiled from ubuntu sources. Its developer claims that doesnt make it an ubuntu derivitive but they call it Lucid Puppy. also there is a good Enlightenment version called MacPup that is very well done.ReplyDelete
- AnonymousJanuary 11, 2011 at 11:39 AM
Just installed Bodhi on my pasela eeePC 2G Surf. Works! Posting with Firefox 4 beta.ReplyDelete
The best lightweight Ubuntu based distro I've used is Peppermint Ice which is based on Lubuntu (which I've also tried and liked) but a little more cloud based and works fantastically. I'm looking forward to trying Bodhi once it hits the stable phase.ReplyDelete
- AnonymousMarch 13, 2011 at 12:29 AM
I agree with mtnbiker72. Peppermint Ice is the best, fastest, and lightest, for my taste. It just works.ReplyDelete
thanks for the review, will have to try pinguy...ReplyDelete
- AnonymousMarch 26, 2011 at 12:12 PM
Lubuntu was OK for me until I tried to get my mic to work properly in skype. Then chaos began: ran alsaconf and alsamixer. Even though alsamixer got my mic and mic boost up to what looked like acceptable levels, there was no change in skype. So there is another app hiding in LXDE-land controlling the mic and mic boost. Unfortunately can't find it and so ultimately (when I have the time) I will be dumping lubuntu for something light-weight that I can configure and make work - with a proper forum and docs.ReplyDelete
I tried Pinguy, and I love it, now is my distro of choice.ReplyDelete
I realise this article is almost a year old, but i still have to give you a sarcastic, yet heartfelt, "THANKS ALOT!"ReplyDelete
I am by no means a linux guru, or even amateur. But i have enjoyed playing with distros since i first got into computers. I wont say what version of Mandrake was my first, but Redhat was still free then.
So i have tried several distros/spins/forks over the years. When i first installed Ubuntu, i knew they would do well. Think that was a version 2, or something like that.(?)
After seeing distro watch grow to "google-sized" search results i quit trying.
But now i come across your old article, and find not one or two, but 7 new variations to try.
In fact i have 7 tabs calling my name right now!!
Good article...thanks
Hi, Jeff, Some good choices, I've tried most of those except Netrunner. If you want to try something wild try Macpup, e17+Puppy. It will run in RAM. If you set up persistence you can download more themes and the special effects modules from their repository. Now, if they'd only get rid of Rox as default file manager! All in all it's fun to mess around with. I think eLive is a dead issue. Everyone bitching in the forum about the $15.00 installer module and it not working, etc. I think the 2 most stable e17 are your Bohdi and PCLinuxOS versions. Personally, I'm starting to like the lighter weight versions like Xfce and LXDE. I think Gnome 3 is a dead issue on desktops as is Unity. Well, off to check Netrunner!ReplyDelete
How about AriOS?ReplyDelete
or aros :)ReplyDelete
The AROS Research Operating System is a lightweight, efficient and flexible desktop operating system, designed to help you make the most of your computer.
- Transform HumanityMarch 22, 2012 at 10:56 PM
Modesty may demand that you keep Bodhi Linux out of the list but let me add it for you! Others to decide the ranking.ReplyDelete
- AnonymousMay 14, 2012 at 3:31 AM
Now I know why I will not use Nettrunner... That is what they mean by Gnome integration. Nautilus vs. Konqueror or even Dolphin? You've gotta be kidding me...ReplyDelete


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A Rust Belt dilemma: demolition or redevelopment
The City of St. Louis has some of the highest home vacancy rates in the country, and last month the mayor of Detroit made news when he laid out ambitious plans to demolish as many as 10,000 vacant buildings by the end of his term.
With costs for maintenance and upkeep running in the tens of millions, many Rust Belt cities often find it expedient to simply demolish empty buildings in favor of vacant lots and the hope of future development.
But taking down problem properties creates a whole new set of issues which are often overlooked.
Rehabbing: realistic?
In St. Louis, the man who is perhaps most intimately familiar with the after-effects of the city's housing crisis is Roland Comfort, Comfort is building demolition supervisor for the Land Reutilization Authority of St. Louis (LRA). LRA is the final destination for abandoned and tax-foreclosed properties.
On a simmering 100-degree morning, Comfort makes the rounds of north St. Louis inspecting homes that have received complaints, either from residents or the city building inspector.
At one two-story brick house on Labadie Avenue the front porch has fallen off, the brick parapet is crumbling and a side wall has started to lean, and this, says Comfort, is actually not that bad.
"Look around, you could almost close your eyes and you could take down almost any building you see on some streets," Comfort notes.
St. Louis currently holds some 10,000 abandoned properties. And when factoring in those that are still technically under private ownership, Comfort estimates that as many as one-third of the homes in north St. Louis are empty.
The idea that developers might take a stab at rehabbing these houses just isn't realistic for most cases.
"In a day where the actual cost of rehabbing is anywhere from $250,000 to $500,000, it doesn't make a lot of sense on a street where the average price of occupied buildings is probably less than $40,000," Comfort says.
He says that LRA only takes down structures that pose a threat to public safety.
Problems left after demolition
But others claim that the city is too quick to knock buildings down. Michael Allen is the Director of the St. Louis-based Preservation Research Office.
He claims as many as half the buildings demolished in St. Louis were actually sound under the city's building code.
"[Over-demolition] is the difference between a fragile neighborhood that can be brought back and a neighborhood [that] is going to be so diminished that no developer in their right mind would be able to take it on," says Allen.
Allen points out that financing for large-scale urban development projects isn't as available as it once was, and knocking down existing housing stock only speeds up the process of out-migration and neglect.
"That's the direction neighborhoods are heading," Allen says, "when they get out the wrecking ball to deal with larger social problems—there's still drug dealing, there's still unemployment, there's still poverty, there's still poor housing. You can take down every last building in North St. Louis and those are the underlying problems and they are going to remain."
The cost of redevelopment
But across the country, those charged with providing city services with ever-shrinking budgets say cities simply can't afford the hefty cost to redevelop the worst-of-the-worst urban neighborhoods.
"I would say that we've got a few areas in the city that are just decimated," says Detroit Mayor David Bing.
At this this point, Bing says Detroit can't avoid making tough choices. In practice that means shrinking the city, and channeling scarce funding into certain key areas, at the expense of neighborhoods which Bing says are beyond fixing.
"And so in those [blighted] areas you've got to go in and demolish," Bing says. "There is no way that our revenue stream is going to be able to support what we had when we had a million or 2 million people."
History, politics and demolition
Still, despite the fiscal realities many cities face, some city officials claim that demolition policies are based more on politics, than on practicality—a chance for cities to clear the land of the urban poor and open up cheap land for developers.
"What's going to happen is, they're going to take too many of them out…and then it just becomes land to divide up," St. Louis Alderman Sam Moore says. Moore represents the historically black Fourth Ward, home to one of the first African American communities west of the Mississippi.
Of the 3,500 empty buildings in Moore's ward 845, he says, are slated for demolition.
"In that 845," Moore says, "is a lot of our history—Chuck Berry, Robert Guillaume, Dick Gregory, Tina Turner, all these people's houses are in there."
Moore says he's sympathetic to residents who complain about crime associated with vacant homes and decreasing property values on otherwise stable blocks.
The response he gives them is that if he took down all the empty buildings in the Fourth Ward, there won't be a ward left.
- MORE: Adam Allington's story examining this issue on a more national level airs tonight on Marketplace.
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Jewish hostility towards
Germany (quotes)
[back] Holocaust revisionism
[The Jews declared war on Germany on March 24, 1933.]
The New York Times, Monday, August 7, 1933 (text of Samuel Untermyer's address)
Samuel Untermeyer
[vid] THE NAZI ZIONIST PARTY AND THE HOLOCAUST Eustace Mullins explains connection between the NAtional socialists and ZIonists. The result is a NAZI Party. The transfer agreement: This book documents the agreement between Adolf Hitler and an organization of Zionist Jews in 1933, which made Hitler "the chief economic sponsor of the state of Israel". A sweeping, worldwide economic boycott of Germany by Jews helped spur a deal between the Nazis and Zionists. At that time, there were few Jews in Palestine, but from 1933 through 1936, 60,000 German Jews immigrated into the region, bringing with them $100,000,000 dollars ($1.6 billion in 2009 dollars)
The Israeli people around the world declare economic and financial war against Germany. Fourteen million Jews stand together as one man, to declare war against Germany. The Jewish wholesaler will forsake his firm, the banker his stock exchange, the merchant his commerce and the pauper his pitiful shed in order to join together in a holy war against Hitler's people. - Daily Express, March 24, 1933
"All Jews world wide -- declared war on the Third Reich." (The London Daily Express, Front Page Story, 3/24/1933).
"Judea declares War on Germany." (Daily Express, March 24, 1934)
"The millions of Jews who live in America, England and France, North and South Africa, and, not to forget those in Palestine, are determined to bring the war of annihilation against Germany to its final end." (The Jewish newspaper, Central Blad Voor Israeliten in Nederland, September 13, 1939)
"Germany is the enemy of Judaism and must be pursued with deadly hatred. The goal of Judaism of today is: a merciless campaign against all German peoples and the complete destruction of the nation. We demand a complete blockade of trade, the importation of raw materials stopped, and retaliation towards every German, woman and child." (Jewish professor A. Kulischer, October, 1937)
"Kill the Germans, wherever you find them! Every German is our moral enemy. Have no mercy on women, children, or the aged! Kill every German -- wipe them out!" (Llya Ehrenburg, Glaser, p. 111).
"Step by step, I have arrived at the conviction that the aims of Communism in Europe are sinister and fatal. At the Nuremberg Trials, I, together with my Russian colleague, condemned Nazi Aggression and Terror. I believe now that Hitler and the German People did not want war. But we, {England}, declared war on Germany, intent on destroying it, in accordance with our principle of Balance of Power, and we were encouraged by the 'Americans'{Jews} around Roosevelt. We ignored Hitler's pleading, not to enter into war. Now we are forced to realize that Hitler was right. He offered us the co-operation of Germany: instead, since 1945, we have been facing the immense power of the Soviet Empire. I feel ashamed and humiliated to see that the aims we accused Hitler of, are being relentless pursued now, only under a different label." (Ashamed and Humiliated The British Attorney General, Sir Hartle Shawcross, said in a speech at Stourbridge, March 16/84 (AP))
"Our fight against Germany must be carried to the limit of what is possible. Israel has been attacked. Let us, therefore, defend Israel! Against the awakened Germany, we put an awakened Israel. And the world will defend us." (Jewish author Pierre Creange in his book Epitres aux Juifs, 1938)
"Germany must be turned into a waste land, as happened there during the 30-year War." (Das Morgenthau-Tagebuch, The Morgenthau Dairy, p. 11).
"The fight against Germany has now been waged for months by every Jewish community, on every conference, in all labor unions and by every single Jew in the world. There are reasons for the assumption that our share in this fight is of general importance. We shall start a spiritual and material war of the whole world against Germany. Germany is striving to become once again a great nation, and to recover her lost territories as well as her colonies. But our Jewish interests call for the complete destruction of Germany..." (Valadimir Jabotinsky, in Mascha Rjetsch, January, 1934)
Each of you, Jew and Gentile alike, who has not already enlisted in this
sacred war should do so now and here. It is not sufficient that you should buy
no goods made in Germany. You must refuse to deal with any merchant or
shopkeeper who sells any German-made goods or who patronises German ships or
shipping.... we will undermine the Hitler regime and bring the German people to
their senses by destroying their export trade on which their very existence
- Samuel Undermeyer, in a Radio Broadcast on WABC, New York, August 6, 1933. Reported in the New York Times, August 7, 1933
Samuel Untermeyer was a Jewish leader and close friend of presidents Wilson and Roosevelt. Bernard Baruch (Jew) was a presidential adviser to Wilson, Roosevelt and Truman.
Joining with Samuel Untermeyer in calling for a war against Germany, Bernard Baruch, at the same time, was promoting preparations for war against Germany. 'I emphasised that the defeat of Germany and Japan and their elimination from world trade would give Britain a tremendous opportunity to swell her foreign commerce in both volume and profit.' - Baruch, The Public Years, by Bernard M. Baruch, p.347.
"...Jabotinsky insisted that all energies be expended to force the Congress to join the boycott movement. Nothing less than a 'merciless fight' would be acceptable, cried Jabotinsky. 'The present Congress is duty bound to put the Jewish problem in Germany before the entire world...(We [Jews] must) destroy, destroy, destroy them, not only with the boycott, but politically, supporting all existing forces against them to isolate Germany from the civilized world...our enemy [Germany] must be destroyed." (Speech by Vladimir Jabotinsky, a Polish Jews, on June 16, 1933)
For months now the struggle against Germany is waged by each Jewish
community, at each conference, in all our syndicates, and by each Jew all over
the world. There is reason to believe that our part in this struggle has general
value. We will trigger a spiritual and material war of all the world against
Germany's ambitions to become once again a great nation, to recover lost
territories and colonies. But our Jewish interests demand the complete
destruction of Germany. Collectively and individually, the German nation is a
threat to us Jews.
- Vladimir Jabotinsky (founder of the Jewish terrorist group, Irgun Zvai Leumi) in Mascha Rjetsch, January, 1934 (also quoted in Histoire de l'Armée Allemande by Jacques Benoist-Mechin, Vol. IV, p. 303).
Hitler will have no war (does not want war), but we will force it on him, not this year, but soon.
- Emil Ludwig Cohn in Les Annales, June, 1934 (also quoted in his book The New Holy Alliance)
We Jews are going to bring a war on Germany.
- David A. Brown, National Chairman, United Jewish Campaign, 1934 (quoted in I Testify Against The Jews by Robert Edward Edmondson, page 188 and The Jewish War of Survival by Arnold Leese, page 52).


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EXHUMED frontman Matt Harvey has been added as a special guest lead vocalist to the all-star studded Death to All Tour 2012. Matt Harvey will be joining drummers Gene Hoglan (Individual Thought Patterns/Symbolic) and Sean Reinert (Human), bassists Steve DiGiorgio (Human/Individual Thought Patterns) and Scott Clendenin (The Sound of Perseverance), guitarists Paul Masvidal (Human), Shannon Hamm (The Sound of Perseverance) and Bobby Koelble (Symbolic), and vocalist/label-mate Charles Elliott of ABYSMAL DAWN/BEREFT.
Harvey replaced OBSCURA vocalist Steffen Kummerer due to visa issues and had only 9 days to learn his entire set. Matt Harvey elaborates on the opportunity: "To say that I'm excited about hitting the stage with such amazing musicians would be a massive understatement. To say that I'm overwhelmed standing in Chuck's spot singing his songs would be the understatement of the century. Phrases like 'it's an honor' get tossed around pretty casually, but taking part in this unique celebration is truly exhilarating, humbling and magical for me. Even though the name of the band is DEATH, this event is a celebration of Chuck's life and the vitality and staying power of his work. To be able to share what DEATH's music has meant to me this way is a truly once-in-a-lifetime opportunity I am incredibly grateful to have."
Death to All Tour Tribute 2012 [remaining dates] 6/26/2012 House of Blue - Chicago, IL [TICKETS] 6/28/2012 Irving Plaza - New York, NY [TICKETS] 6/30/2012 The Beacham - Orlando, FL [TICKETS]


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The Mathematical Association of America
The Road to the World's Toughest Math Contest
A film by
George Paul Csicsery
Hard Problems is a feature documentary about the extraordinarily gifted students who represented the United States in 2006 at the world's toughest math competition—the International Mathematical Olympiad (IMO). It is the story of six American high school students who competed with 500 others from 90 countries in Ljubljana, Slovenia. The film shows the dedication and perseverance of these remarkably talented students, the rigorous preparation they undertake, their individuality, and the joy they get out of solving challenging problems. Above all, it captures the spirit of math competitions at the highest level.
Although American students on the whole rank well behind many countries in mathematics, American math Olympiad teams regularly finish among the top teams. While aiming to inspire and entertain, Hard Problems provides an insightful and thoughtful look at the process that produces successful teams, and ultimately, great mathematicians of the future.
Hard Problems takes a close look at exceptional students who make it to the highest levels of high school math, asking teachers, parents, siblings, the students themselves to shed light on what produces mathematical genius and how to nurture it. As we get to know them, the students in Hard Problems shatter many stereotypes and clichés about the mathematically gifted. The 90-minute production filmed in HDV will premiered in January 2008 at the Joint Mathematics Meeting in San Diego.
Funding for Hard Problems was provided by a grant from the Penn Oberlander Family Foundation, by the Ellington Management Group, LLC, and by the National Science Foundation.
Available on public television stations through American Public Television (APT).
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Promoting Stalemate: The Media and U.S. Policy on Migration
U.S. media coverage of immigration has hindered effective policy reform for years, a trend which has been exacerbated by the recent transformation in the ways Americans get their news. The rise of cable television, talk radio, and the Internet has influenced public opinion of immigrants and even shaped immigration policy through their emphasis on "breaking news," their disproportionate focus on illegality, and their oversimplification of a complex phenomenon by painting the migrant as the protagonist. This has conditioned and even distorted public perceptions by portraying a largely gradual, orderly, and legal phenomenon as chaotic, criminal, and controversial.
While this paper does not argue that the media was the principal impediment to immigration reform during past legislative debates, it shows that news coverage did play an important role in influencing public opinion and creating the current policy stalemate. Despite the public's overall support for much of the reform agenda and widespread dissatisfaction with existing policies, the media coverage in many ways has heightened skepticism about immigration policy and thus made it more difficult to enact new policies.
I. Introduction
II. Background
III. How Media Coverage Has Influenced Immigration Policy
IV. Conclusion


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Let $$ \partial_t u + \nabla_u u = - \nabla p $$ be Euler's equation (Wikipedia) for an ideal incompressible fluid. Let
$$ \partial_t u + \nabla_u u - \nu \Delta u = - \nabla p $$ be the Navier-Stokes equations for a Newtonian incompressible fluid with a real parameter $\nu$, the viscosity. Obviously this equation reduces to Euler's equation if we set $\nu = 0$ (and domains and initial conditions are equal and suitable boundary conditions are prescribed).
What is known about the convergence of solutions $u_{\nu}$ of the Navier-Stokes equation as stated above to a solution of Euler's equation in the limit $\nu \to 0?$ That is, are there topological vector spaces T and sequences or nets of solutions $u_{\nu_k}$ of the Navier-Stokes equation with viscosity $\nu_k$ in T such that the limit $\lim_{\nu_k \to 0} u_{\nu_k}$ exists and is a solution to Euler's equation?


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Group of Cigna Clients Offering Worksite High Blood Pressure Campaign during American Heart Month
Group of Cigna Clients Offering Worksite High Blood Pressure Campaign during American Heart Month
Cigna created One Heart-One Life high blood pressure campaign for its Health Disparities Advisory Council comprising 11 client organizations located in the Southeastern U.S.
Nearly one-third of Americans have high blood pressure with African Americans particularly at risk
One Heart-One Life campaign to include "toolkit" of various health promotion tactics
BLOOMFIELD, Conn.--(BUSINESS WIRE)-- Chances are good that you know someone with high blood pressure and chances are also good that they may not have the condition under control. With one in three American adults experiencing high blood pressure (also known as hypertension)1, and more than half not having it under control,2 Cigna created the One Heart-One Life campaign to help clients address this serious yet often preventable health condition. High blood pressure is a risk factor for heart disease and stroke and, while it affects people of all ages and backgrounds, certain populations experience a serious health disparity when it comes to high blood pressure. For instance, nearly 40 percent of all African Americans have high blood pressure, compared to 31 percent of white Americans.3
Cigna's One Heart-One Life Worksite Campaign Raises Awareness of High Blood Pressure during American Heart Month (Photo: Cigna)
To address this health disparity, Cigna's Health Disparities Advisory Council, comprising 11 clients with diverse employee populations, will participate in the One Heart-One Life high blood pressure worksite campaign offering their employees a variety of health promotion tools to help raise awareness of high blood pressure and its very serious health implications. Dr. Scott Josephs, vice president and national medical director for Cigna, explains, "We're reaching out to our clients' employees through emails, posters, games and lunch-and-learn sessions—all designed to help people understand high blood pressure, the threat it poses to health and helpful tips to keep high blood pressure under control."
"Health is not achieved with a one-off effort. Just filling out a health assessment once a year won't create change--what makes the difference is having a continual program," says Trinette Small, benefits coordinator for Memphis City Schools, a participating Cigna client. Crystal Duncan, benefits manager for Howard University, also participating in the campaign, explains, "With a high percentage of African Americans among our staff, we immediately knew we wanted to bring this campaign to our employees. My main goal with the One Heart-One Life campaign is to raise awareness of high blood pressure. Education is the critical first step—then we encourage employees to take the next step for their personal health."
The objectives of the campaign are to:
1. Increase awareness about hypertension and its effects on health
2. Have people know and understand their blood pressure numbers and regularly test their blood pressure
3. Know and follow the lifestyle habits that contribute to a healthy blood pressure
4. Work with a medical professional to control and even improve their condition if they have hypertension
Results of the campaign will be available in June, 2013.
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1 CDC, National Center for Health Statistics
2 National Health and Nutrition Examination Survey (NHANES), 2003 - 2010. Controlled hypertension is considered having a blood pressure of no higher than 120 systolic/80 diastolic
3 CDC 2012 Health United States, 2011. Table 70. http://www.cdc.gov/nchs/data/hus/hus11.pdf [PDF 9.8MB]
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Last April, after six years of negotiations and more than 10 years of campaigning by civil society, the international Arms Trade Treaty (ATT) passed to "resounding applause and loud cheers" in the United Nations General Assembly Hall. Two months later, on June 3, the treaty opened for signature by the 193 member states. Over 60 countries signed the ATT that very day, with the United States—the world's largest arms exporter—expected to follow suit soon.
Critics of the ATT have lampooned the agreement's relatively meager reporting requirements and evident lack of an enforcement mechanism. But for all its weaknesses, the treaty deserves to be celebrated. One person dies every minute as a result of armed violence, and the ATT makes significant progress towards combating this problem.
Among other things, the treaty…
1) Puts the Arms Trade on the International Agenda
The agreement of the Arms Trade Treaty sends a clear message to arms dealers who supply war lords and dictators that their time is up. They will no longer be able to operate and arm themselves with impunity. The world will be watching and will hold them accountable. –Anna MacDonald, Oxfam
For the first time in history, the $70-billion global arms trade will be regulated by international law. When the Control Arms movement was first launched, only three countries—Mali, Costa Rica, and Cambodia—were willing to publicly call for the treaty. The treaty has come a long way since then, with the final version passing by a vote of 153-4.
A key component to successfully moving an issue away from mere talk to substantial negotiation is to raise public awareness. Too often there is an enormous disconnect between the general public—the people these international agreements are supposed to protect—and the state delegations drafting the treaty. Since former Costa Rican president Oscar Arias brought together a group of Nobel laureates to draft an International Code of Conduct for Arms Transfers, civil society has been an active participant in the ATT drafting process. Through their access to negotiations, civil society activists were able to ensure that the entire drafting process received extensive media coverage. This attention helped to ensure that the arms issue did not disappear like so many calls for international action before it.
Further, as General Secretary Ban Ki Moon notes, the coalitions built between states and on-the-ground entities working to combat the violence caused by the arms trade during the ATT negotiations may even "provide much-needed momentum for other global disarmament and non-proliferation efforts."
2) Increases the Transparency of Arms Transfers
At last, the murky world of arms dealing has come under the spotlight of the international community. –Allison Pytlak, Control Arms
Many critics of the ATT have complained that the agreement's reporting requirements are far too weak to have any effect in combating the global arms trade. It is true that the primary reporting responsibility still falls on states and that the treaty does not establish any over-arching monitoring body.
However, what it does accomplish is to take the arms transfer process, something previously relegated to the shadows, to the forefront of discussion. As the delegation of Japan emphasized in its speech during the vote in the UN General Assembly "of particular importance in the treaty [are] transparency and accountability measures." State parties are required to annually submit to the Secretariat the exports and imports of conventional arms that they have made during that year.
3) Serves as a Common International Standard
The Treaty adopted today will establish a common international standard for the national regulation of the international trade in conventional arms and require all states to develop and implement the kind of systems that the United States already has in place. –John Kerry, U.S. Secretary of State
As the delegation for Japan stated, "with the adoption of the ATT we now have a solid basis to assess whether states are being responsible in conducting arms transfers." Both exporting and importing states now have a common standard to hold each other accountable.
It's true that the vague nature of this standard, combined with the lack of a strong enforcement mechanism, could allow many signatories to shirk their responsibilities. However, the inclusion of transparent reporting measures can help to ensure that the ATT's provisions are followed.
Before it was only up to governments to police the arms trade, but now ordinary citizens can respond. The ATT opens the door for civil society to serve as a monitoring force. Activists now have a tool to monitor and pressure states that are not tracking or exposing illicit arms deals.
4) Still Allows for the Legitimate Transfers of Arms
The ATT encourages professional behavior so governments can legitimately purchase arms. —Adotei Akwei, Amnesty International
Despite the nefarious nature of many international arms transfers, states often do have legitimate national security interests in purchasing weapons from their international partners. That is why it is so important that legitimate transfers of arms are still allowed to occur within the parameters of the ATT.
This condition allows states to counter complaints from domestic organizations that have lobbied hard to keep their prospective states from signing the ATT. For example, NRA pressure on the U.S. government was partially responsible for stalling the previous round of negotiations in July 2012.
Thomas Countryman, assistant secretary for international security and nonproliferation at the U.S. State Department, emphasized in a talk at the Stimson Center that in no way does "this treaty touch the constitutional rights under the 2nd amendment" for Americans to possess or sell small arms within their own borders. Organizations like the NRA, Countryman says, "have crossed the line from passionate advocacy to misinterpretation" by suggesting anything to the contrary.
5) Serves as a Starting Point
Even with the consensus process this is far beyond what we expected…even though the criteria do not line up with the Arias Code of Conduct, or the original Amnesty International proposal. –Rachel Stohl, Stimson Center
The final version of the ATT is far from perfect. Ammunition is still poorly regulated, and a long list of weapons has been left out the treaty altogether. There is also no mention of how to regulate arms and weapons that are gifted rather than sold, so one country could present another country with billions of dollars worth of arms without violating the provisions of the ATT.
Still as noted by the delegation from Cote d'Ivoire, "this is a first step, but a decisive and significant one." Not only is the ATT an important first step, but also there are many steps that can be taken after the ATT enters into force to further strengthen its implementation.
And as suggested by the delegation of Japan, "in order to better implement the treaty, each state can do more than what is prescribed." The ATT includes both international cooperation and assistance provisions that will make this goal easier to accomplish.
Besides striving for better implementation language, the treaty leaves open the possibility that beneficial changes can be made within the treaty itself. Amendments no longer have to pass by consensus, but instead only require a three-fourths majority of state parties.
The final draft of the ATT contains significant improvements over the draft version from July 2012, including the provision of regulations for ammunition and weapons components alongside fully assembled weapons themselves. These two provisions are extremely necessary and important if the ATT hopes to effectively address the violence caused by small arms. With additional time, more beneficial amendments can pass—and perhaps all-new treaties.
The drafting process of the ATT included a diverse group of stakeholders, which may have led to a treaty that was more watered down than the one envisioned by its proponents in civil society. But if the ATT is to be effective, it requires a large consensus group; even a strong treaty is useless if states won't enforce it.
Several of the world's top exporters—including the United Kingdom, France, Brazil, and Mexico have signed the ATT. U.S. Secretary of State John Kerry has stated that the United States will soon sign the document and is merely waiting for the various translations into the United Nations' six official languages to be finalized. For all the benefits described above to be realized, it is imperative that key exporters like Russia and China and major importers like India, Saudi Arabia, Indonesia, and Egypt join the international movement and sign the ATT.


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DOAK, ROBERT, businessman, farmer, office holder, and justice of the peace; b. 4 April 1785 in Ochiltree, Scotland, third of eight children of Robert Doak and Agnes —; m. 3 Oct. 1808 Jean Kirkland, and they had three sons and three daughters; d. 5 April 1857 in Doaktown, N.B.
Nothing specific is known about the youth, education, or financial background of Robert Doak. In 1815 he and his family left Scotland intending to settle in Kentucky. However, inclement weather forced their ship into the port of Miramichi, N.B., and the passengers were landed there. Doak remained in the colony at Newcastle and by 1817 had established himself as an innkeeper in nearby Nelson Parish. The next year his elder brother, James, arrived with his wife and three children, and both brothers entered into partnership with Alexander MacLaggan to operate a mill in Blackville. By July 1822 the Doaks had sold out to MacLaggan and moved approximately 20 miles farther up the Southwest Miramichi River to the present site of Doaktown; there they were joined by their father, who had recently emigrated from Scotland. On 1 April 1825 Robert Doak Jr purchased lot 45 from the Ephraim Wheeler Betts estate (having earlier obtained two adjacent lots for farmland) and his brother James and his family settled in close proximity.
In conjunction with his son James Andrew, whose family was to share the homestead, Doak soon had constructed and was operating a carding-mill, gristmill, and kiln, and later built a sawmill and oatmeal mill, the latter serving the whole of Northumberland County. The mills were operated by water-power; there was a brook-fed mill-pond at the rear of the property which provided a constant source of water. Doak also farmed and, according to family tradition, "raised as many as one hundred hogs every year which they salted down or smoked to be sold. The cellar used to look like a wholesale grocery at times."
Shortly after his arrival in upper Miramichi, Doak became involved in local government. In 1822 he was appointed overseer of the poor, town clerk, and clerk of the market. The following year he became overseer of highways for the district and in this capacity he supervised the construction of the road between Fredericton and Newcastle. The Miramichi fire of October 1825 affected Doak and his enterprises, although not as disastrously as it did many of the earlier established settlers. Claiming a loss of £20, he petitioned the relief committee set up by the provincial government and received half the amount. In the same year he was appointed a justice of the peace for the county. Unlike most other men after 1800, Doak had managed to bypass many of the lesser municipal offices such as overseer of fisheries and fence viewer: the normal pattern was to hold two or three of the more minor positions before becoming a magistrate. In 1826 he became a school trustee, a post which ten years later enabled him to force long-term squatters from a school reserve lot adjoining his own property and to have the land granted to himself later that year for "safe-keeping." A school was eventually built on the site. Appointed acting coroner for the area in 1829, he was still holding inquests as late as 1844.
Until the mid 19th century, the settlement had remained nameless, at times being referred to as part of Ludlow and after 1830 as Blissfield Parish. Following the completion of the highway and the establishment of a post office, the village was designated Doaktown, because Doak was the most politically influential and the most affluent resident. When in 1847 the first bridge was built across the Miramichi at the village, Doak, who admired a large elm tree standing directly in line with the road, persuaded the road supervisor, for £5, to place a slight crook in the highway.
Doak's career was not without blemishes. At a special session of the county council in 1819, he was accused of keeping a gambling house. In 1830 he was fined for the unlawful selling of spirituous liquors – a common offence of the times, yet unbefitting his position. And from 1837 to 1840 he was a key figure in an unpleasant domestic lawsuit between himself and his son-in-law William Robinson, "an absconding debtor"; at the same time he served as a presiding magistrate at the trial.
Doak, commonly known as "the Squire," was noted for his benevolent spirit; he contributed generously to the religious and educational life of the community, with gifts of land for a Baptist church (although the family was Presbyterian) and the local school.
[Information concerning Robert and Jean Kirkland Doak was kindly supplied by a descendant, the Reverend Douglas Earle of Halifax, from a family Bible in his possession. w.r.mack.]
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