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Gloom settled over the American coastline from Louisiana to Florida on Saturday as a massive oil slick spewing from a ruptured underwater well kept growing, and experts warned that an uncontrolled gusher could create a nightmare scenario if the Gulf Stream carries it toward the Atlantic.
President Barack Obama planned to visit the region Sunday to assess the situation amid criticism that the government and oil company BP PLC should have done more to stave off the disaster. Meanwhile, efforts to stem the flow and remove oil from the surface by skimming it, burning it or spiking it with chemicals to disperse it continued with little success.
"These people, we've been beaten down, disaster after disaster," said Matt O'Brien of Venice, whose fledgling wholesale shrimp dock business is under threat from the spill.
"They've all got a long stare in their eye," he said. "They come asking me what I think's going to happen. I ain't got no answers for them. I ain't got no answers for my investors. I ain't got no answers."
He wasn't alone. As the spill surged toward disastrous proportions, critical questions lingered: Who created the conditions that caused the gusher? Did BP and the government react robustly enough in its early days? And, most important, how can it be stopped before the damage gets worse?
Size of spill unknown
The Coast Guard conceded Saturday that it's nearly impossible to know how much oil has gushed since the April 20 rig explosion, after saying earlier it was at least 1.6 million gallons — equivalent to about 2½ Olympic-sized swimming pools. The blast killed 11 workers and threatened beaches, fragile marshes and marine mammals, along with fishing grounds that are among the world's most productive.
Even at that rate, the spill should eclipse the 1989 Exxon Valdez incident as the worst U.S. oil disaster in history within about a week. But a growing number of experts warned that the situation may already be much worse.
The oil slick over the water's surface appeared to triple in size over the past two days, which could indicate an increase in the rate that oil is spewing from the well, according to one analysis of images collected from satellites and reviewed by the University of Miami. While it's hard to judge the volume of oil by satellite because of depth, it does show an indication of change in growth, experts said.
"The spill and the spreading is getting so much faster and expanding much quicker than they estimated," said Hans Graber, executive director of the university's Center for Southeastern Tropical Advanced Remote Sensing. "Clearly, in the last couple of days, there was a big change in the size."
Doug Suttles, BP's chief operating officer for exploration and production, said it was impossible to know just how much oil was gushing from the well, but said the company and federal officials were preparing for the worst-case scenario.
In an exploration plan and environmental impact analysis filed with the federal government in February 2009, BP said it had the capability to handle a "worst-case scenario" at the Deepwater Horizon site, which the document described as a leak of 162,000 barrels per day from an uncontrolled blowout — 6.8 million gallons each day.
Environmental disaster possible
Oil industry experts and officials are reluctant to describe what, exactly, a worst-case scenario would look like — but if the oil gets into the Gulf Stream and carries it to the beaches of Florida, it stands to be an environmental and economic disaster of epic proportions.
The Deepwater Horizon well is at the end of one branch of the Gulf Stream, the famed warm-water current that flows from the Gulf of Mexico to the North Atlantic. Several experts said that if the oil enters the stream, it would flow around the southern tip of Florida and up the eastern seaboard.
"It will be on the East Coast of Florida in almost no time," Graber said. "I don't think we can prevent that. It's more of a question of when rather than if."
At the joint command center run by the government and BP near New Orleans, a Coast Guard spokesman maintained Saturday that the leakage remained around 5,000 barrels, or 200,000 gallons, per day.
But Coast Guard Admiral Thad Allen, appointed Saturday by Obama to lead the government's oil spill response, said no one could pinpoint how much oil is leaking from the ruptured well because of its depth — about a mile underwater.
"And, in fact, any exact estimation of what's flowing out of those pipes down there is probably impossible at this time due to the depth of the water and our ability to try and assess that from remotely operated vehicles and video," Allen said during a conference call.
The Coast Guard's Allen said Saturday that a test of new technology used to reduce the amount of oil rising to the surface seemed to be successful.
During the test Friday, an underwater robot shot a chemical meant to break down the oil at the site of the leak rather than spraying it on the surface from boats or planes, where the compound can miss the oil slick.
From land, the scope of the crisis was difficult to see. As of Saturday afternoon, only a light sheen of oil had washed ashore in some places.
The real threat lurked offshore in a swelling, churning slick of dense, rust-colored oil the size of Puerto Rico. From the endless salt marshes of Louisiana to the white-sand beaches of Florida, there is uncertainty and frustration over how the crisis got to this point and what will unfold in the coming days, weeks and months.
The concerns are both environmental and economic. The fishing industry is worried that marine life will die — and that no one will want to buy products from contaminated water anyway. Tourism officials are worried that vacationers won't want to visit oil-tainted beaches. And environmentalists are worried about how the oil will affect the countless birds, coral and mammals in and near the Gulf.
"We know they are out there" said Meghan Calhoun, a spokeswoman from the Audubon Aquarium of the Americas in New Orleans. "Unfortunately the weather has been too bad for the Coast Guard and NOAA to get out there and look for animals for us."
Fishermen and boaters want to help contain the oil. But on Saturday, they were again hampered by high winds and rough waves that splashed over the miles of orange and yellow inflatable booms strung along the coast, rendering them largely ineffective. Some coastal Louisiana residents complained that BP, which owns the rig, was hampering mitigation efforts.
"They're letting an oil company tell a state what to do," said 57-year-old Raymond Schmitt, in Venice preparing his boat to take a French television crew on a tour.
"I don't know what they are waiting on," Schmitt said. He didn't think conditions were dangerous. "No, I'm not happy with the protection, but I'm sure the oil company is saving money."
'They go KABOOM'
As bad as the oil spill looks on the surface, it may be only half the problem, said University of California Berkeley engineering professor Robert Bea, who serves on a National Academy of Engineering panel on oil pipeline safety.
"There's an equal amount that could be subsurface too," said Bea, who worked for Shell Oil Co. in the 1960s when the last big northern Gulf of Mexico oil well blowout occurred. And that oil below the surface "is damn near impossible to track."
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"When these things go, they go KABOOM," he said. "If this thing does collapse, we've got a big, big blow."
BP has not said how much oil is beneath the Gulf seabed Deepwater Horizon was tapping, but a company official speaking on condition of anonymity because he was not authorized to discuss the volume of reserves, confirmed reports that it was tens of millions of barrels.
Louisiana Gov. Bobby Jindal said that he has asked both BP and the Coast Guard for detailed plans on how to protect the coast.
"We still haven't gotten those plans," said Jindal. "We're going to fully demand that BP pay for the cleanup activities. We're confident that at the end of the day BP will cover those costs."
In a statement late Saturday, a Coast Guard spokesman said the governor's office helped develop the plans that Jindal referred to.
Capt. Ron LaBrec said federal and company officials had been working closely with the governor's office "since day one" to implement contingency "which were developed in coordination with state and local leadership before this incident began."
Obama has halted any new offshore drilling projects unless rigs have new safeguards to prevent another disaster.
As if to cut off mounting criticism, on Saturday White House spokesman Robert Gibbs posted a blog entitled "The Response to the Oil Spill," laying out the administration's day-by-day response since the explosion, using words like "immediately" and "quickly," and emphasizing that Obama "early on" directed responding agencies to devote every resource to the incident and determining its cause.
In Pass Christian, Miss., 61-year-old Jimmy Rowell, a third-generation shrimp and oyster fisherman, worked on his boat at the harbor and stared out at the choppy waters.
"It's over for us. If this oil comes ashore, it's just over for us," Rowell said angrily, rubbing his forehead. "Nobody wants no oily shrimp."


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After all the hoopla since its April announcement, iOS 4 -- the new name for the old iPhone OS -- is now here for newer iPhone and iPod Touch models as a free download via iTunes, with iPad availability scheduled for "later this year." So what does it actually do?
For business users and IT, not that much -- yet.
The biggest new capability -- multitasking -- is for all intents and purposes not available, and it won't be until individual apps are updated to take advantage of it. That's because iOS 4 leaves the multitasking not as a general OS capability automatically implemented as Windows or Mac OS X does it, but as one that must be explicitly used by the application. Over time, the addition of multitasking should make using apps singly and in concert much easier on the iPhone, iPod Touch, and iPad. But right now, it's just a promise.
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The other big new capability for IT is the set of APIs that allow BlackBerry-like management of the iPhone, such as auditing of policies and apps, over-the-air provisioning of apps without iTunes, and over-the-air configuration and policy management. That set of capabilities too remains a promise, as the various mobile management tools that have been reworked to take advantage of the new iOS 4 capabilities won't be available until July or later.
So what does that mean for users and IT today?
For IT, it means getting familiar with the upcoming mobile management tools (including an update to the iPhone Configuration Utility that should be available this week), learning the new user capabilities, and perhaps stepping up corporate iOS development in preparation for the iTunes-less distribution capability.
For users, it means mostly learning how the new email and related capabilities work, as well as understanding how a few of the UI changes may effect them.
For both, it means knowing how to handle a couple issues that have cropped up. First, iPhone 3G owners need to back up their devices, then restore them with iOS 4, rather than update their iPhone 3Gs, to get the new OS to work properly. Second, Gmail users whose domain is set via Google Apps and who set up Gmail to sync via Exchange ActiveSync may find that their iOS devices automatically lock up after 1 minute. This is due to the security settings used by Google for ActiveSync.
Email works more as it does on the desktop
Business users will mainly like how iOS 4 handles email. If you use Exchange, you can now set up multiple Exhange accounts. If you're wondering why you would need multiple Exchange accounts, keep in mind that any application that uses the Exchange ActiveSync (EAS) protocol counts as an Exchange account. You could easily have a Microsoft Exchange mail account at work and an EAS-based Gmail personal account, for example.
Apple has made much of iOS 4's unified inbox, which lets you see all your emails in one list, as well as switch to specific accounts to see just their emails. The unified inbox is fine, except for a big flaw: You can't tell what account each message was sent to. If you reply to a message, it'll be sent from the account where you received it, but that's not the same as knowing upfront. And the unified inbox shows only what's in your main inbox, not what's in any subfolders, so its utility is really just to see what's new.
You also get a list of your individual inboxes and of your individual email accounts. What's the difference? The inboxes show just the contents of the main inbox folder for that account; if you want to see any folders, you need to go directly to the account. Frankly, Apple should junk the list of individual inboxes -- they're unnecessary. Going to your account by default shows you the contents of the inbox and the folders. I have five email accounts set up on my iPod Touch, so I now have to scroll to get to them, which wasn't required before. A reveal/hide control for folders would have been more sensible an approach, so your accounts would be listed just once, and you could hide or show the folders as desired.

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A qualified Fisherman or woman may immigrate to Australia. This is because Australia has considered Fisherman or woman an Occupation the country needs. People approved for immigration to Australia as a Fisherman or woman may be offered permanent residence status in Australia.
You can live and work in Australia as a Fisherman or woman. This is a path to long-term immigration to Australia if you wish to pursue that or simply as a shorter-term opportunity to work overseas in Australia, earning good money and expanding your work skills.
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You'll probably be disappointed with the thin selection of local crafts on offer in the DR. Typical are the tacky "faceless dolls of Higüerito" sold in souvenir shops across the country, glazed clay statuettes of featureless, pale-skinned women in Victorian garb. Your best bet for an ostentatious piece of local folk craft is to buy one of the elaborate papier-mâché Carnival masks, though finding them can take some effort if you're not in Santo Domingo (where you can pick them up in Zona Colonial gift shops). Try in one of the major Carnival towns, preferably La Vega or Cabral and ask around. They're easier to track down just before or after February; if you come during the festivities and see someone wearing a particularly interesting one, ask and they may well sell it to you at the month's end for around RD$300.
Another good option are the stores that specialize in jewellery made with larimar, a turquoise, semi precious stone found only in the DR, and amber, which is mined in the Cordillera Septentrional. You'll find outlets across the island, but if you go to the locations where these substances are mined, it's possible to get large chunks of the stuff for a few pesos; local miners sometimes even sell bits of amber with insects embedded inside them. Beware, though, that many souvenir stores try to rip off tourists with fake amber or larimar. The museums of larimar and amber in Santo Domingo (as well as the amber museum in Puerto Plata) will show you how to identify fakes. A good place to go for quality jewellery is Harrisons, a high-end Dominican jewellery store with outlets all over the country; you'll find an array of beautiful craftsmanship at these stores for half the price the same piece would cost at home. They're also working hard to preserve the nation's dwindling coral reefs by removing all of their black coral in favour of black jade, another indigenous, semi precious stone.
The most popular souvenirs of all are the local cigars, considered by aficionados to be the equal of Cubans. They're easy enough to purchase at souvenir shops across the country, but for a freshly rolled packet that's boxed while you watch, you'll have to go to one of the major cigar towns that surround the city of Santiago, such as Tamboril or Moca.
Rum is another major takeaway for visitors, as the local dark, aged rums are among the world's finest. You can find gift packages of Barceló and Brugal's very best ron añejo at stores across the country and in Puerto Plata you can get a decent discount on Brugal's aged rums at their bottling factory tour.


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The risk of suicide among U.S. military veterans who have suffered a traumatic brain injury (TBI) is more than double that of other vets, a new study finds.
Researchers analyzed records of more than 1.4 million vets who received care from the U.S. Veterans Health Administration (VHA) between 2005 and 2015.
They compared severity of the traumatic brain injury with diagnoses of psychiatric and other medical conditions, along with method of death in suicide cases.
After adjusting for depression and other mental health diagnoses, the researchers found that veterans with moderate or severe TBI were 2.45 times more likely to die by suicide than those without TBI. The study only found an association and not a cause-and-effect link, however.
During the study period, the suicide rate was 86 per 100,000 person years for those with TBI and 37 per 100,000 person years for others. A person year is a formula that accounts for the number of people in a study and how long they were followed.
Of vets studied who died by suicide, 68% used guns. The rate was 78% among vets with moderate or severe TBI, according to the University of Colorado-led study.
"Together, these findings underscore the importance of understanding veterans' lifetime history of TBI to prevent future deaths by suicide, and support the implementation of screening initiatives for lifetime history of TBI among all individuals utilizing the VHA," the authors said in a university news release.
Lisa Brenner, a professor of physical medicine and rehabilitation at the University of Colorado School of Medicine, led the study.
Her team said the findings also show the need for more research regarding gun safety among those with moderate to severe TBI.
The study was published recently in the Journal of Head Trauma Rehabilitation.
More information
The U.S. National Institute of Neurological Disorders and Stroke has more on traumatic brain injury.


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On a regular basis, we hear Republicans in DC pouting about the base. "Why are they so hard on us? Why don't they trust us? Why are they so unreasonable?"
They don't take into account the fact that the Republican Party betrayed many of its biggest supporters again and again during the Bush years. They don't consider the fact that the "political geniuses" in DC made horrible political decision after horrible political decision and derided the people who were pointing that out as ignoramuses who didn't understand politics.
Furthermore, they're hoping that the base doesn't notice that in some areas, they're talking a much better game than they're playing on conservative principles.
If you listen to the big muckety-mucks in the Republican Party, they're talking non-stop about getting back to principles, they're fighting hard against Obama's socialist agenda, and they seem to be slowly, but steadily moving in the right direction. Those are all good things.
However, it's hard to square that with the behavior of the NRSC and to a lesser extent, the RNC and NRCC. These organizations constantly beat the drum to get conservatives to contribute money. They send out numerous fundraising letters begging conservatives to give them the funds they need to win races. That's fine. That's part of politics. That being said, it's hard not to notice that these same organizations seem to have no qualms about trying to bury conservative candidates.
At this point, everybody knows about the race in Florida between NRSC backed Arlen Specter clone, Charlie Crist, and one of the most promising young conservative leaders in the country, Marco Rubio. How in the world can the NRSC, in good conscience, talk about conservative principles, get most of their money from conservatives, and then try to undercut a viable conservative candidate in a Republican primary?
Honest question for anybody at the RNC, NRSC, and the NRCC: When was the last time you supported a conservative candidate over a moderate candidate in a competitive primary? I can't name a single example. If anyone from the RNC, NRSC, or NRCC knows of an example (and don't send me any joke races, like Pat Toomey vs. Peg Luksik), feel free to send it to me. I'll add it to this post.
But, back to the matter at hand. In New York's 23rd district, we have a liberal Republican, Dede Scozzafava vs. Conservative Party candidate Doug Hoffman vs. Democrat Bill Owens.
Surprisingly, the most liberal candidate in the race is not the Democrat; it's the Republican, Dede Scozzafava. Now, you might be thinking: "Well gee, it's New York, John. What do you expect?" However, the reality is that it's a heavily Republican district and the Democrat probably won't get much more than 35% of the vote. So, why do we have a liberal Republican who has more in common with Nancy Pelosi than Jim DeMint running in a "gimmie district" for the GOP? Ask the New York GOP. She didn't win a primary — they chose her as a candidate. Then, you can ask the RNC and NRCC because they're taking the money that conservatives gave them to try to put a liberal Republican in office over a conservative challenger.
Now, in all fairness, I can't hammer the RNC and NRCC for this the same way I've attacked the NRSC for backing Crist. After all, this is not a Republican primary. The viable conservative candidate in this race is not a Republican.
That being said, we get back to the basic problem: How do you talk non-stop about conservative principles, rely on conservative money for almost all of your funding, and then sandbag conservative candidates?
"Oh, but John, what else could they have done?" They could have stayed out of the race. I hesitate to use the word "never," but there is almost NEVER a good reason for the RNC, NRCC, or NRSC to get involved in situations like this. The exception might be in say, a David Duke/Ted Stevens situation, where someone who's horribly embarrassing to the party is running and: he needs to be forced out. Setting aside those limited cases, party interference almost inevitably creates a sh*tstorm, it undercuts conservative trust in the party, it rewards candidates who don't deserve it, and as often as not, the party-backed candidate ends up losing the primary or the general any way.
Moreover, if let's say Dede Scozzafava were to get into Congress and voted for things like Card Check, tax increases, and abortion, why would the Republican Party want people saying, "Gee, we could have had a conservative in office who would have opposed that, but the GOP wanted a pro-abortion, pro-tax increase, pro-card check liberal instead?"
How Beltway dumb does the RNC and NRCC have to be to set up a situation where everyone from the Weekly Standard to Michelle Malkin to Redstate are bombing not only Dede Scozzafava, but the RNC and NRCC?
Now, I'm not going to tell you not to give money to the RNC and NRCC the same way I have suggested that conservatives withhold contributions from the NRSC. In all good conscience, I can't say that when both organizations are supporting a Republican candidate against someone from another party. But, I will say that this backlash was very predictable and both organizations should have known better than to jump into this race.
As for me, my order of preference in NY-23 is Hoffman, Owens, and Scozzafava. I put conservatism over party, which is why I want Hoffman. If that doesn't work, I'd prefer the Democrat, not only because he's probably to Scozzafava's right, but because he would be a heck of a lot easier to knock off in 2010 than Scozzafava, who'll certain be protected by many of the same foolish party insiders who are trying to get her into office in the first place.


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Lego Disney Mulan's Training Day is easy to build and perfect for recreating favorite moments from the movie. Train hard using the turning training dummy, and sword and catapult with boulders, before taking a break with her foal, Khan. This Lego toy for girls and boys includes lots of beautiful and authentic details, including Mulan's yellow dress, her fan and a tea ceremony. Get creative using the modular design to easily move and swap sections within the model, or integrate the family temple with other compatible Lego Disney sets to build your own dream creations. Includes a mini-doll figure plus a horse figure.
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Echolocations of the Self
Though humble in format, Christine Hume's recently published chapbook Hum offers readers a deeply polyphonous enquiry into hums and humming that begins inside her own voice, body and childhood (including the breaking/wiring of her "jutting" jaw), and then roams through philosophical and poetic territories that include everything from high school bleachers (hummer central) to Zug Island, and then on the Erinyes and Winnie-the-Pooh.
Contrary to certain fashionable academic philosophies that carry a false ring for anyone who actually works with voices creatively, Hume understands how the voice begins in the ear. Finding one's own frequency amidst the din of the mother radio and other similarly dense signals requires a secretive gathering of one's own strange and severe harmonies, a process that may become riddled with noise and interference, all of which then becomes embodied, in both life and text, through the endless echolocation of the self.
Below, a sequence of excerpts from this beautiful and brave little book, in the counter-vibrational zones of adolescent resistance against family suppression, dislocation and trauma (images added):
Of Hums and Howls
The poet-philosopher Christine Hume is among the most radiophonic writers I know, though all her castaways have appeared on the page. She first struck my ear (and rattled every bone in my body) with her Shot, a fearless exploration of the night and all its related dark places, inside and out. Since then, I have also read, and read aloud, her explorations of wolf howls; decipherings of the winds that caress us and then spook us (Ventifacts); and then her most recent chapbook, the extraordinary Hum, that I will celebrate for Netarterians in a different post. For now, here is the transcript of an email dialogue that unfolded over the past two months:
GREGORY WHITEHEAD It is not enough to say that you write for the ear — it is more that you write for the air. So many of the lines in Shot crackle and pop like short wave transmissions, creating an experience of reading that is more psycho- kinetic than acoustic, let alone literary: rocking me, riddling me. I'm reminded of the lines from Jack Spicer, the poet as a counterpunching radio, and the spirit of radio jabs through everywhere in these texts, as subject, yes, but even more in the sparking electrical aesthetic of the flow, in the pops and gaps between the pages. Where does your affinity for radio begin, and where (or how?) has it taken you?
CHRISTINE HUME I love the sexiness of the radio, the desire it mines via distance, the intimacy of audition, especially in the dark or when alone. But I am a listener. Even when I'm writing (or reading), I am mostly listening to the words as if spoken. My sounds don't channel the beyond or anything but a body.
Some part of my voice went underground very early and a fractured perversion of it sometimes steals through, holds within it the unsayable and uncontrollable. I don't want to recapitulate ancient history—a woman physically possessed and spoken through by the divine or demonic other, in oracular and ecstatic speech— but to speak, actually aloud, was often forbidden when I was a child. While others were having polite conversation, I was digging a ditch for speech. My voice doesn't come when you call or go where I send it. It's haphazard, serrated, bunched, unruly. It is physically interior, like a mobile, leaky, contorted organ. I am thus a bad ventriloquist. I cannot impersonate myself—or a self—well. That's probably why I sound like technology!
I'm writing a long essay on my voice as a kind of ticky blurt, a vital ornament (organment?), an excessive psychokinesis fused to literacy and physical trauma. At some point while I was writing Shot, I lost hearing in one of my ears. I couldn't locate sounds; I was lost in their terrifying nowhereness. As Beckett says, "A voice come to one in the dark." And it's not always clear it it's coming from inside or outside.
Some of Shot's intensity of sonic play and echo might be a performance like trying to figure out what I was hearing, a guessing at and extending of sense. Various mishearings and mondegreens make a composite understanding. Coming back around to your question, I associate radio with night, which is where Shot takes place, and I wanted to be disembodied voice for a hynagogic state. I wanted to be a hynagogic jerk!
"Writing for the air" is mind-bogglingly rich. The abyss is full of air, and air is not nothing. Irigaray brings this to light: air's ubiquity and all-pervasiveness makes us forget about it. And air carries so much that we can't consciously detect—poison, electrical hums, radio signals. I'm curious about your writing—do you conceptualize it in relation to air? How do you hear the differences between text and script as you write, or do you?
GW Writing radio has always been an act of listening to the wind, writing with my ears, though this process is never anything but a guess or an intuition, since there is nothing to be pinned down. The word ventriloquism descends from ventus, which may sound like wind yet means something closer to the belly. The swirls and rips between belly and electromagnetic winds create our human consciousness at the same time they open up into that terrifying gape, and when we enter into that space, as you do so fearlessly in Shot, the experience can be harrowing, even life-threatening; no wonder you lost hearing in one ear.
I, too, associate radio with night in so many vibratory ways, including the mining of desire that you mention, mining alterity and the self into a strange psychic union, out of the dark. There is that lovely quote from Bachelard, "if our psychic radio engineers are poets concerned for the welfare of humankind, tenderness of heart, the joy of loving, and love's voluptuous trust, then they will lay on splendid nights for their listeners." Yet such nights are never without risk, on either side of the temporary psychosis of radiophonic pleasure.
So writing-radio nights, yes, and also language pressed underground; my radio life began as an adolescent exploring the town's sewage/storm tunnels in the hours after midnight, an experience that provided an early sniff of being in the flow of a metaphor. My neighborhood friends and I would sing "spells" down there in the muck, incantations that echoed through the tunnels. We imagined they would bubble up to surprise the town folk during their most private moments, and this remains among my aspirations for radio art.
CH I celebrate the "improved etymology" of vent as air/belly, connecting ventifacts and ventriloquy. Jean-Pierre Brisset believed that homophony between different words indicated that they were holding hands underneath the table. To G.M. Hopkins, words that rhyme seek to find one another and live together on the page and in the air. A riff can ring so right.
That's an incredibly mythic story, in the tunnels, and also a terrifically bawdy one — an underground wind percolating up from the bowels of the city to haunt and hector. Did you pass a waterfall of nightmares and condemned wanderers down there? I'm reminded of the dozens of dwarfs coming up from trapdoors in the floor to entertain the guests. They apparently or apocryphally lived in 21 subterranean chambers of Duke Ferdinando Gonzaga's palace in Mantua, Italy.
Or in my own neck of the woods, Mike Kelley's Mobile Homestead at the MOCAD is a faithful replica of his childhood home in Westland, Michigan, except for a basement of bunker-like rooms that can only be reached by a series of metal ladders and uncomfortable tunnels. This is private, destabilizing space—it does not meet any kind of safety code and it does not feel like human space—that Kelley intended for "rites and rituals of an aesthetic nature." As it was being built, a construction worker reportedly got lost, and with no cell phone connection, spent unnerving hours looking for a way out. Underground structures draw us into a space-time cyclone, a perfect condition for spells, memory, and simulated memory. Remember the stories from the McMartin Preschool, where some believed childcare workers engaged in strange, often violent rituals involving witches and all manner of flying as well as sexual abuse in tunnels below the school? That was in the 1980s, it took a hold of Kelly's imagination.
GW Can you say more about your own language, as it went underground? I remember when I first encountered your poems, I had such a strong visceral sense of physical wildness, the far north, wolf howls in the wind; territory that captivates, thrills and sometimes devours.
CH As a child I listened out for a voice that I could inhabit. The hallucination of sound/voice emitting from text allowed many voices inside, some of them bubble up and then form a kind of feedback loop. As Steven Connor says, the "voice makes itself solid by its self-relation." I feel that relation most intensely when I'm writing (rather than, say, public speaking), and once I tune in, that voice fully seduces me. How do you—as a psychic radio engineer—get through the static? In the midst of a drunk circumpolar whirl, I am verging on hibernation. I'm writing myself into an untidy hole here.
And speaking of the underground, that's the place archeologists look for resonant objects. When I was 12, I developed a hum, barely audible and non-volitional but persistent. Maybe I was secreting a fantasy body, or trying to rewire my voice, blocking out my family, or simply haunted. It was an underground sound in any case: a volley from the vibratory nether-reaches with the side-effect of alienating any human nearby. No one heard it as embodied intelligence or as extra-semantic expression, as I prefer to think of it now. Before this hum developed, I was raised in the manner of don't-speak-unless- spoken-to. I was accustomed to hearing myself talk silently. Internally language pinballed and simmered, but to answer your question, my body mostly contained my language.
Tell me about the narrative construction of Potato-God-Scarecrow; I'm interested in how you contained it via animal architecture.
GW The beaver lodge, as a space of flow, and also as a space of impedance, and sanctuary. I have spent many pleasurable hours observing activity around lodges, hoping if I hung around long enough, mama beaver might wave me inside. And then there is the beaver herself, figure of dispersed intelligence, reminding us that we must think with our tails as well as our brains; and this conception of neurobiology appears to have guts, according to the Damasios and others. In any event, this sort of ambiguous narrative in a flow with widely dispersed impulses and signs, strange hybrid thought- feelings or feeling-thoughts, all moving ahead with an "engineering" whose purpose may remain unfathomable — that's the only sort of narrative structure that makes sense to me anymore.
CH Yes, entering into Potato-God-Scarecrow stimulates a fully embodied intelligence, if we think of intelligence as it should be thought of in the widest possible sense, to include more somatic processes of knowing and responding, often engined by, as you put it, unfathomable purpose. The work slips in subliminally, with direct access to the unconscious, and awakens our syntactic/sinew understanding.
Your sonic translation of the beaver lodge is both watery and woven. The architectural hollow of the lodge is what keeps us interested; like you, we yearn to be invited inside of the (narrative) structure. This entrance is damned, unavailable to us, but the space must be maintained imaginatively or our desire ends. We weave connections around a mysterious and deliberate vacancy. Each voice launches an impression; each voice modifies, misapprehends, and remotivates a connection, where connection is a verb. The associative power you call out in your listeners can be startling— I've often taught this piece to students who have never encountered this specialized (but not localized) kind of intelligence. I can't help think of Dead Letters, of which, if I may quote what I have written elsewhere, suggests that how we know things is less rational and more instinctual, in the mode of the auditory unconscious, despite our best efforts. Potato-God-Scarecrow though pushes beyond centralizing metaphors and lets synapses rhizomatically roam freely.
This narrative structure mirrors the medium, the void between transmission and audition of radio itself. Here Emily Dickinson pipes up:
To fill a Gap
Insert the Thing that caused it—
Block it up
With Other—and 'twill yawn the more— You cannot solder an Abyss
With Air.
At least one of the formats for dissemination of Potato-God-Scarecrow is cassette tape. Archaic and technically inefficient, the cassette tape seems ripe with nostalgic reenactment. The OED removed "cassette tape" from its concise version in 2011. Is the difficulty of the format part—can't go viral on the internet—of its appeal for you?
GW Oh yes, the same reason I love vinyl, commercially obsolete and thus more fully available for art, though nowadays both vinyl and cassettes are back in favor, so the OED may have to reconsider its deletion. And yes, for my ears, the sorts of linear, seamless ABC structures you hear in abundance on NPR do not ring true to the dispersed and ambiguous spirit of the medium – way too much solder. I can well imagine Emily D. as a late night freestyle radiophonista, playing the gaps to perfection – she would fully understand the sexiness of radio, and everything else.
Extraordinary, your childhood hum – embodied intelligence of the most subversive sort, vibrational resistance, along the frequency range of what you mentioned earlier, "psychokinesis fused to literacy and physical trauma," the hum that allowed you to survive the Hume? It would seem your sort of hum may share a border with animal howls, as you have such a finely tuned ear for howling; recently you wrote about the "Beau Geste Effect", where the one simulates the many, a "perceptual magic" also present in your writing. Throughout so much of your writing I sense winds of vigilance, hunger, survival. When you write about wolf howls, it seems so beautifully personal, as if you know that vibrational space very well. The hum creates one sort of fantasy body, and the howl a second, and those two do love to tango, no?
CH I hadn't thought of it until later, but yes, howl and hum taxonomize together, akin also to my daughter's colicky hours upon hours of inconsolable crying, which morphed into years of song, scat, and whistling. These sounds are as originless as Aristotle's she-goats of Cephallania, who "do not drink, as it appears, like other quadrupeds; but daily turning their faces towards the sea, open their mouths, and take in the breezes." When you drink the wind's whipped up urgencies, your lungs are empty. You can't breathe, you can hardly talk. To make a sentence all you get is the air in your lungs, which isn't there. A sentence could be "Stop." Or it could be "Breathe." There is no air. You rummage through the jumble in your head. Let others toss out whatever comes to mind, let them throw out the garbage, throw caution to the wind. When a she-goat of Cephallania howls, it comes from nothing, and it means everything.
These are vibrational spaces of no-origin or clear purpose. They are rhythmic reservoirs that open up meaning way beyond the puny capacities of semantics. They exist outside our economic and exchange systems, and they open up utopian liberatory dimensions. They shock us into an amplified, expanded sense that ricochets around the anarchic and the sublime. A plurality blows through, and the edges rattle.


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As hunting season approached, I began shooting my rifle a lot at the range, with the goal of hitting the target at 300 yards.
But then something surprising happened: I wasn't able to find enough bullets. The gun and hunting stores had bare spots on the shelves where boxes of ammunition used to be stacked, and hunting bullets were among the scarcest. That could make it tough for hunters like me to put meat on the table this year.
"It's not looking good for hunting season," one wholesale ammunition dealer told me. But bullets for assault rifles, he assured me, were plentiful.
According to the Remington website, of the company's six new bullet offerings, three are in AR calibers. Two are for pistols, and only one is for hunting. Remington's new hunting bullet is called the Hog Hammer, and of the seven calibers in which Hog Hammer bullets are available, four are for assault rifles such as the 450 Bushmaster, mentioned in this Hog Hammer blurb:
"For whacking and stacking swine, nothing delivers like our new Hog Hammer.™ It penetrates even the thickest-skinned pigs with a Barnes TSX® Bullet at its heart. With all copper construction for 28 percent deeper penetration than standard lead-core bullets, it's the toughest expanding bullet on the market, offering near 100 percent weight-retention on-hog, while expanding rapidly to deliver devastating wound channels. Hog Hammer utilizes a flash-suppressed propellant for nighttime or low-light hunts…"
The recent push for hunting with assault rifles gives those weapons a more noble purpose than what they're generally known for: war game fantasies or perhaps the occasional killing spree by a deranged individual. Assault rifles are touted as good hunting setups for game as big as buffalo. And if you do plan on hunting at night, an idea that Remington seems to endorse, you would probably want a target as big as a buffalo.
Meanwhile, another new AR ammo goes by the name Zombie, and it comes in a case that appears to have been designed by a comic book artist. It includes the ironic warning, "This is not a toy," and the slogan: "Just in case." The implication is that zombies might really attack, though consumers are free to substitute other enemies — including, perhaps, federal officials. Ask some gun lovers, and they'll tell you that the shortage of ammunition is definitely caused by "the government."
Lee Matthews, host of the Oklahoma radio show Firearms Fridays, told KFOR, an Oklahoma City television station, "I get a lot of phone calls, a lot of literature, from people thinking it's the government buying all the ammunition and not letting us have any."
Matthews, however, isn't buying government conspiracy theories. "[Ammunition] is just being swallowed up for unrealistic reasons," he says, noting that many factories are producing ammunition "24/7." The shortage comes from a fear of government intervention which translates to, "Well, it's getting hard to find so I better stock up as much as I can."
As best as I can tell, hoarding is to blame, such that the bullet shortage has become a self-fulfilling prophecy. At first glance, the shortage doesn't appear to be coming from the supply end. Remington's third-quarter earnings report shows a 30 percent increase in ammo sales, from $79.7 million to $110.6 million.
An ammunition specialist at Remington wouldn't comment on the causes of the ammo shortage but did say that wholesalers determine what the manufacturers produce. He also said that Remington was done making .270 caliber bullets — the kind I need for hunting — for the year. The wholesale dealer I spoke to saw it differently, saying that he gets to sell what the makers supply. Whoever is at fault, there may be a lot of angry hunters this year.
At first glance, hunting might seem like a good use for an assault rifle. If you really want to get something, what better way than mowing it down? Sprayed bullets, of course, would riddle the animal from head to toe.
The real issue is that assault rifles open the door to irresponsible and unethical shooting, such as the unfathomable practice of hunting at night. (I wouldn't want to be in that hunting party.) Even by day, a few hunters accidentally shoot and kill their hunting buddies.
It's sad that ammo makers are tilting the playing field away from meat hunters who want to feed their families, and toward the insane practice of hunting with assault rifles. That, along with market forces driven by fear, turns paranoia into reality.
Ari LeVaux is a contributor to Writers on the Range, a service of High Country News (hcn.org). He writes about food in New Mexico.
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This page provides references to books and articles on preparing successful grant applications; Sources of Grants will provide links to information on where grants might be obtained. (Note: a few resources are listed on both pages, as they are links to portals with both tips and resources.)
Academic Fundraising Web Resources, from the Michigan State University Libraries staff.
ALA Public Programs Office. Writing Grant Applications.
Anderson, Cynthia, and Kathi Knop. Write Grants, Get Money. 2nd ed. Columbus, Ohio: Linworth Pub, 2008.
Association of Fundraising Professionals. FAQ: Grants and Grant Proposal Writing
Delaware Health and Social Services, Division of Services for Aging and Adults with Physical Disabilities. Tips on Applying for Grants
Flanders, Julie. "Grant writing on the Web: Resources for finding and securing funding." College and Research Libraries News Vol. 71, no. 9 (October 2010): 472-479.
Grant Proposal Writing Tips - Corporation for Public Broadcasting
Grant Writing Tips at the SchoolGrants web site
Budgets & Funding from WebJunction, includes Susan McClellan's Elements of a Good Grant Proposal.
Guinsler, Julie. "Building the Dream Campaign Team: A Seasoned Professional Tells How to Raise Money and Win Votes for a New Library." Library Journal, December 15, 2002.
Hanshaw, Angela of ALA Public Programs Office. Grant Application Tips from Programming Librarian.
Landau, Herbert. How to write proposals that work - Winning Grants: A Game Plan. AmericanLibrariesMagazine.org
MacKellar, Pamela H. Writing Successful Technology Grant Proposals: A LITA Guide. New York: Neal-Schuman Publishers, 2012.
MacKellar, Pamela H., and Stephanie K. Gerding. Winning Grants: A How-to-Do-It Manual for Librarians with Multimedia Tutorials and Grant Development Tools. New York: Neal-Schuman Publishers, 2010. Continued by the authors' Library Grants blog
Miner, Jeremy T, Lynn E. Miner, and Jerry Griffith. Collaborative Grantseeking: A Guide to Designing Projects, Leading Partners, and Persuading Sponsors. Santa Barbara, Calif: Greenwood, 2011.
Staines, Gail M. Go Get That Grant!: A Practical Guide for Libraries and Nonprofit Organizations. Lanham, MD: Scarecrow Press, 2010.


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World's Oldest Leather Shoe Found—Stunningly Preserved
"Astonishingly modern" shoe preserved by sheep dung and dryness.
A Manolo Blahnik it isn't.
Still, the world's oldest known leather shoe, revealed Wednesday, struck one of the world's best known shoe designers as shockingly au courant. "It is astonishing," Blahnik said via email, "how much this shoe resembles a modern shoe!"
Stuffed with grass, perhaps as an insulator or an early shoe tree, the 5,500-year-old moccasin-like shoe was found exceptionally well preserved—thanks to a surfeit of sheep dung—during a recent dig in an Armenian cave.
About as big as a current women's size seven (U.S.), the shoe was likely tailor-made for the right foot of its owner, who could have been a man or a woman—not enough is known about Armenian feet of the era to say for sure.
Made from a single piece of cowhide—a technique that draws premium prices for modern shoes under the designation "whole cut"—the shoe is laced along seams at the front and back, with a leather cord.
"The hide had been cut into two layers and tanned, which was probably quite a new technology," explained Ron Pinhasi, co-director of the dig, from University College Cork in Ireland.
Yvette Worrall, a shoemaker for the Conker handmade-shoe company in the U.K., added, "I'd imagine the leather was wetted first and then cut and fitted around the foot, using the foot as a last [mold] to stitch it up there and then."
The end result looks surprisingly familiar for something so ancient—and not just to Blahnik.
"It immediately struck me as very similar to a traditional form of Balkan footwear known as the opanke, which is still worn as a part of regional dress at festivals today," said Elizabeth Semmelhack, a curator at the Bata Shoe Museum in Toronto, Canada.
"I thought, Wow, not so much has changed."
Oldest Leather Shoe Shows Stunning Preservation
Radiocarbon dated to about 3500 B.C., during Armenia's Copper Age, the prehistoric shoe is compressed in the heel and toe area, likely due to miles upon miles of walking. But the shoe is by no means worn out.
Shoes of this age are incredibly rare, because leather and plant materials normally degrade very quickly.
But in this case the contents of a pit in the cave, dubbed Areni-1, had been sealed in by several layers of sheep dung, which accumulated in the cave after its Copper Age human inhabitants had gone.
"The cave environment kept it cool and dry, while the dung cemented the finds in," said Pinhasi, lead author of the new study, published by the journal PLoS ONE Wednesday.
Why Was Oldest Leather Shoe Made?
Protecting the foot was probably one of the main reasons people started wearing shoes, and certainly this seems the case for the world's oldest leather shoe.
Around the Armenian cave, "the terrain is very rugged, and there are many sharp stones and prickly bushes," said University of California archaeologist and study co-author Gregory Areshian, who was partly funded by the National Geographic Society's Committee for Research and Exploration. (The National Geographic Society owns National Geographic News.)
Furthermore, shoes like this would have enabled people to cope with extremes of temperature in the region—up to 113°F (45°C) in summer and below freezing in winter—and to travel farther.
"These people were walking long distances. We have found obsidian in the cave, which came from at least 75 miles [120 kilometers] away," he said.
Blahnik, the shoe designer, speculates that even this simple design was worn for style as well as substance.
"The shoe's function was obviously to protect the foot, but I am in no doubt that a certain appearance of a shoe meant belonging to a particular tribe," said Blahnik, who knows a thing or two about expressing identity through attire. "I am sure it was part of the outfit which a specific tribe wore to distinguish their identity from another."
Not the World's Oldest Shoe
Previously, the oldest known closed-toe shoes were those belonging to Ötzi, the "Iceman" found in the Austrian Alps in 1991, who died around 5,300 years ago. (See "Iceman Wore Cattle, Sheep Hides; May Have Been a Herder.")
Sandals meanwhile, have an even longer history, with the oldest specimens, dated to more than 7,000 years ago, discovered in the Arnold Research Cave in central Missouri.
The wearing of shoes, though, is almost certainly older than the oldest known shoes. For example, a weakening of small toe bones found in 40,000-year-old human fossils has been cited as evidence of the advent of shoes.
Compared to Ötzi's shoes, the world's oldest leather shoe is strictly bare-bones, according to Jacqui Wood, an independent archaeologist based in the U.K., who studied Ötzi's shoes and who said the new study's science is sound.
"The Iceman's shoe was in another league altogether," Wood said. "Each base was made from brown bearskin; the side panels were deerskin; and inside was a bark-string net, which pulled tight around the foot.
"By contrast, the Armenian shoe is the most basic of shoes and was probably made worldwide once people decided not to walk about in bare feet." (See pictures of the Iceman.)
It's true that similar shoes have been found at other sites and from other times, but study co-authors Pinhasi and Areshian think it's plausible that the style originated in Armenia.
"Many other inventions, such as wheel-thrown pottery, cuneiform writing, and wool production evolved in the ancient Near East," Pinhasi said. "And so Armenia may give us the earliest clues to a 'prototype' shoe, which later spread to Europe.
Rebecca Shawcross, a shoe historian at the Northampton Museums & Art Gallery in the U.K., said, "You can certainly make a case for this shoe [design] being a forerunner to the North American moccasin, which has gone on to be a popular shoe style, whose influences can be seen in shoes of today—deck shoes; soft, slipper-style shoes for men; and so on."
Beyond the World's Oldest Leather Shoe
With the moccasin mystery largely solved, the study team has plenty more puzzles to solve in Areni-1.
Along with the shoe, the ancient sheep dung had sealed in the horns of a wild goat, bones of red deer, and an upside-down broken pot.
"It is a strange assortment of items," Pinhasi said, "and I wouldn't be surprised if they have some symbolic meaning"—a meaning that could be revealed as summer, and a new dig season, dawns at Areni-1.
The discovery of the world's oldest known leather shoe was funded by the National Geographic Society, the Chitjian Foundation (Los Angeles), and Joe Gfoeller of the Gfoeller Foundation, the Steinmetz Family Foundation, the Boochever Foundation, and the Cotsen Institute of Archaeology.


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Ever since we started ranking the Best Cities for Doing Business in 2004, the bottom rung of the rankings has been largely dominated by older industrial cities where factories have long been abandoned and once booming economies have dried up. The 2008 list bears this sobering fact; among the largest regions surveyed, Detroit sits on the bottom at No. 66, with Warren Troy-Farmington Hills, Mich., Cleveland, Providence, R.I., Philadelphia, and the New York twins -- Rochester and Buffalo -- doing only slightly better.
The same pattern can be seen on the lists of midsize and small cities, where the bottom rankings consist largely of former industrial towns along the Great Lakes belt, including Ohio, Michigan, and Indiana. Dayton, Ohio, falls last at No. 96, lying at the bottom of the midsize list of cities. Among the small metros, Battle Creek, Mich., languishes at No. 173, with Michigan cities Saginaw and Flint doing only slightly better.
So given this persistent underperformance, is manufacturing weighing down the U.S. economy? The answer may surprise you. Even though the industrial towns dominated by what used to be called the Big Three automakers (General Motors, Ford, and Chrysler) and their suppliers have been devastated by slumping sales, a host of other manufacturing regions have emerged as strong performers. For the most part, the largest beneficiaries of these changes are located either in the Intermountain West -- the region between the Rocky Mountains and the Sierra Nevada, and the Sun Belt region stretching across the southern bottom of the country. Here, U.S. car makers are not well represented and smaller communities with a host of specialized industrial companies have expanded in the face of tough times.
For example, large metros, such as Las Vegas (No. 8), Houston (No. 3) and Salt Lake City (No. 4), have attracted specialized industrial companies from high-cost, high-regulation locales like California, including aerospace, electronics, and industrial equipment. All these areas have experienced industrial job growth since 2000; Las Vegas alone has seen its number of manufacturing jobs grow by more than 30 percent.
But much of the action is in smaller areas. Many of them, like Midland, Texas, (No. 1); Longview, Texas, (No. 11); and Morgantown, W.Va., (No. 15), are tied to energy production. Such places have experienced 15 percent or more industrial job growth since 2000.
Another hot spot is in the Great Plains. Many cities in the region have attracted sophisticated manufacturing firms in technology, farm machinery, and electronics as well as an expanding number of energy-based companies ranging from oil, gas, and coal to wind power. Grand Forks and Fargo, N.D., No. 56 and No. 28 respectively, have experienced a quiet industrial boom, increasing their manufacturing jobs by more than 14 percent since 2000.
Already home to numerous agricultural implement firms, the largest manufacturer in Grand Forks is LM Glasfiber, a Danish manufacturer of propeller blades for windmills. Since the North Dakota office opened in 1999, it has expanded from 20 to 900 employees. Plant Manager Ralph Sperrazza says he appreciates the loyalty and dedication of the employee base, many of whom are returnees from larger metropolitan areas such as Minneapolis.
One effect of LM, local economic development officials reveal, has been a notable tightening of the labor market and an increase in wages in Grand Forks. The same result, notes North Dakota State Economist Larry Leistritz, is occurring elsewhere in the region as other core industries, ranging from energy and office furniture to farm equipment, have enjoyed rapid growth.
"These are the best times we've seen in many decades," Leistritz beams. "And it is being felt broadly across the entire society."


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Carney and I made this film one summer and were lucky enough to get the wonderfully talented Kate Harbour to do ALL the voices. We were also lucky enough to get Oliver Davis at We Write Music to bring the film to life with the music and sound effects. I spent a day with Ollie working on the sound effects (we bought a lot of balloons that day) and I remember jumping around his studio singing the score while he played it with the digital equivalent of a full orchestra.
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Please also read Argentina and the Falklands: A background post
This is beyond insane,
Another slap in the face for Britain: the Obama administration sides with Argentina and Venezuela in OAS declaration on the Falklands, and is not the first time,
Washington backed a similar resolution in June last year, and Secretary of State Hillary Clinton made it clear in a joint press conference with Cristina Kirchner in Buenos Aires in March 2010 that the Obama administration fully backs Argentina's calls for negotiations over the Falkands, handing her Argentine counterpart a significant propaganda coup. The State Department has also insultingly referred to the Islands in the past as the Malvinas, the Argentine name for them.
There are a few things to consider:
- The Falklanders are British, and wish to remain British.
- Britain won the 1982 war.
- Additionally, Cristina Fernandez needs both oil, and a distraction.
Nile Gardiner:
The declaration calls for Argentina and Great Britain to enter into negotiations over the sovereignty of the Falklands, a position which London has long viewed as completely unacceptable. It also comes in the wake of increasing aggression by the Kirchner regime in the past 18 months, including threats to blockade British shipping in the South Atlantic.
Hat tip: Tree Hugging Sister.
Welcome, Hot Air readers!
Linked by Moe Lane, too; thanks!
UPDATE, Friday 10 June,
Linked by Instapundit and Stanislaus. Thanks!
And, do bear in mind, as Ed points out, that
the OAS declaration comes in response to a threat of military action from Argentina, which has publicly talked about a blockade of British shipping in the region over sovereignty claims by Buenos Aires.
Beyond insane.
Linked to by Open Market. Thanks!
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Argentina is now run by the Peronist Party, whose founder, Juan Peron openly sympathized with America's fascist enemies in World War II, and knowingly gave refuge to fleeing Nazi war criminals. Argentina's recent Presidents, Nestor and Cristina Kirchner, have nationalized private pensions and plundered the private sector to pay for big government and welfare schemes. The OAS declaration "comes in the wake of increasing aggression by the Kirchner regime in the past 18 months, including threats to blockade British shipping in the South Atlantic."
Residents of the Falkland Islands have eminently sound reasons for wanting to remain in Britain, the birthplace of parliamentary democracy, rather than Argentina, which has too often been ruled by authoritarian strongmen like Peron or by military governments. The United Kingdom scores higher on international measures of property rights and the rule of law than Argentina does.
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