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Lights, camera, action!
Published 3:17 pm, Wednesday, April 3, 2013
Photo: Doug McDonough/Plainview Herald
KJTV Fox 34 reporter Bailey Jo Miller tapes a news segment Saturday in front of the Granada Theater about owner Darryl Holland's renewed renovation plans. For the first time in 15 years, the lights were on briefly at the Granada on Wednesday, as power was hooked up.
A consultant who has been involved in more than 30 historical building restorations, most of them old theaters, is scheduled to visit Plainview and the Granada today,with Holland.
Miller, who has been with the Lubbock television station since June 2012, grew up in Plainview before moving to the Hill Country in 2002. She returned to West Texas in 2008 to attend Texas Tech and graduated with a degree in mass communications four years later. She was the 2009 Miss Lubbock.


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tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-927510992143247693.post69032302533912502..comments2016-10-23T07:58:16.838-05:00Comments on The Last Leaf On This Branch: Sentimental Sunday - Why Would You Want to be a Genealogist?Laura Cosgrove Lorenzanahttps://firstname.lastname@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-927510992143247693.post-48850056970569746032012-05-02T14:03:58.446-05:002012-05-02T14:03:58.446-05:00Stephen, thanks for reading and following. I appre...Stephen, thanks for reading and following. I appreciate that genealogy isn't something for everyone and, yes, it's a very good thing having one in your family!Laura Cosgrove Lorenzanahttps://firstname.lastname@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-927510992143247693.post-47624089907716238952012-05-02T13:02:44.173-05:002012-05-02T13:02:44.173-05:00Laura, first time visitor and follower and great t...Laura, first time visitor and follower and great to meet you! I don;t think i'd like to be a geneologist, although its great to have one in the family who is talented in this area.Stephen Tremphttps://email@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-927510992143247693.post-43569140097024958732012-04-30T11:42:27.312-05:002012-04-30T11:42:27.312-05:00Thank YOU, Shelley, for taking the time to read an...Thank YOU, Shelley, for taking the time to read and comment. The feeling is mutual, and I can't wait to see you again at NGS! Six more sleeps!. (Hugs)Laura Cosgrove Lorenzanahttps://firstname.lastname@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-927510992143247693.post-69093194539884260812012-04-30T10:56:24.927-05:002012-04-30T10:56:24.927-05:00Thanks for sharing your story, Laura, with all its...Thanks for sharing your story, Laura, with all its ups and downs. I was moved and touched by your honesty. My family has had its share of problems, too. I'm so glad to know you and count you as part of my "genealogy family." Our friends make our lives so much richer. Hugs to you!Shelley Bishophttps://email@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-927510992143247693.post-34232415597940336812012-04-29T21:30:19.443-05:002012-04-29T21:30:19.443-05:00I'll take it...and right back atcha!! :-)I'll take it...and right back atcha!! :-)Laura Cosgrove Lorenzanahttps://email@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-927510992143247693.post-75344443406100684812012-04-29T21:29:50.105-05:002012-04-29T21:29:50.105-05:00Indeed, I have. Thank you for taking the time to r...Indeed, I have. Thank you for taking the time to read and comment, I truly appreciate it.Laura Cosgrove Lorenzanahttps://email@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-927510992143247693.post-78866577365324274242012-04-29T20:41:57.465-05:002012-04-29T20:41:57.465-05:00Laura ~ Consider yourself hugged! P.Laura ~ Consider yourself hugged! P.geneajourneyshttp://firstname.lastname@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-927510992143247693.post-40218192386394636282012-04-29T18:16:58.163-05:002012-04-29T18:16:58.163-05:00Laura, Genea-friends are the absolute best. Thank...Laura, Genea-friends are the absolute best. Thanks for sharing such a heartfelt post. Losing yourself in genealogy can provide so many rewards-as I am sure you have discovered.Brenda Leyndykehttps://email@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-927510992143247693.post-53367112131499782072012-04-29T17:59:12.148-05:002012-04-29T17:59:12.148-05:00Thanks for reading and sharing Terri. I know you&#...Thanks for reading and sharing Terri. I know you're very busy; it means a lot to me.Laura Cosgrove Lorenzanahttps://firstname.lastname@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-927510992143247693.post-62621426199760531152012-04-29T16:57:49.109-05:002012-04-29T16:57:49.109-05:00Laura, Family is a hard subject for me. I have ma...Laura, Family is a hard subject for me. I have many that I do not speak with and some I have just reconnected with in the past few years. Sometimes, I feel they are all truly crazy (and not in a good funny way). Researching my family has definitely given me some insight as to why my family is the way it is. All I can do is try to break the cycle of crazy and continue to grow from what I learn.

Blogging and social media has definitely created a new family for me. There are many that I talk with daily, they have become my lifelines. I think that everyone learns from all they do and sometimes we need to step back and remember we need to cultivate all those branches / relationships.researchingoconnellshttp://email@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-927510992143247693.post-24941930059743065172012-04-29T15:16:00.841-05:002012-04-29T15:16:00.841-05:00Ah, Jill, no hero here. And it's nice to know ...Ah, Jill, no hero here. And it's nice to know there's someone else out there with crazy long generations...what's up with THAT?! I think we need to start a Last Leafs (not Leaves) group. Put our collective heads together. Share our stories. Preserve them so when we're gone, they don't go with us. I'm happy you have connections for your research and genuinely appreciate that you shared your story.Laura Cosgrove Lorenzanahttps://firstname.lastname@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-927510992143247693.post-71732745461721714792012-04-29T14:18:50.941-05:002012-04-29T14:18:50.941-05:00Laura, you're a hero for revealing so much. I&...Laura, you're a hero for revealing so much. I'm 67, never had husb or kids, no sis any more, she d 1990 after long battle with MS. Her kids, my 3 nieces/nephews in their 50s, have 7 adult kids among them. Oldest niece in awful shape. One grandnephew is in prison after years of addiction and lying. His sweet father is exhausted from the struggle. I haven't seen 9 out of ten of them since the 1990s, no money to travel. But I'm the family connection for my own cousins & 2d cousins. My parents were b ca 1900, grandparents b ca 1860-1870 and maybe a baby someday who will be my parents' great-great-grandchild. Being this bridge, documenting the family, is the joy of my life, some cousins interested now, "kids" will be interested later. Thank you so much for inviting us to tell our stories.AuntJillhttp://email@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-927510992143247693.post-37905407181144475242012-04-29T13:29:37.181-05:002012-04-29T13:29:37.181-05:00Celia, thank you so much. It seems a consistent th...Celia, thank you so much. It seems a consistent theme that many people started their research out of frustration with their own family...who knew! Your family is fortunate that you chose to use your experience in a constructive and generous manner and I understand how it is that you'd be a great mom. Thank you for reading and commenting; I'll do my best to keep writing posts that are interesting.Laura Cosgrove Lorenzanahttps://firstname.lastname@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-927510992143247693.post-30621384603939623942012-04-29T13:24:15.357-05:002012-04-29T13:24:15.357-05:00I'm applauding you Tessa!! You're so very ...I'm applauding you Tessa!! You're so very right, in all of it. I recognize that at our darkest moments it's virtually impossible to see anything, whether it's someone holding out a hand to help or a brick wall to run into. But, in our electronic age, I fear our descendants, or those who will come after us, won't have the concrete proof of our existence that we did of our ancestors. Perhaps something I post here, or a comment someone makes, will help someone 50 years from now break down a brick wall and tell a story. That, would be cool.Laura Cosgrove Lorenzanahttps://email@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-927510992143247693.post-59602228524047412282012-04-29T13:18:15.103-05:002012-04-29T13:18:15.103-05:00Jo, I'm so happy that you're finding your ...Jo, I'm so happy that you're finding your bliss. I think there are more 'last leaf'ers out there than we know...I'm guessing we stay out of sight because we don't always feel we fit in. The beauty of genealogy is it doesn't matter who you are, as long as you're human. (A tip of my hat to those who do animal genealogies for breeders.) Thanks for commenting, by the way, I really appreciate it!Laura Cosgrove Lorenzanahttps://firstname.lastname@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-927510992143247693.post-11061319755687663702012-04-29T13:12:45.109-05:002012-04-29T13:12:45.109-05:00J. - bless you for sharing your story. I will tell...J. - bless you for sharing your story. I will tell you, truly, that everything happens for a reason, even the dark things. You have many years ahead of you, and the right path will reveal itself to you. I took a long break away from my research...I say it started 16 years ago, but in truth I started some of it back when I was in my early 20s. I completely understand. Coming from such a large family, you never know what you'll uncover, or the wonderful people that you find. If you ever find yourself doubting, I'm just a click away. :-)Laura Cosgrove Lorenzanahttps://email@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-927510992143247693.post-53268212301512280372012-04-29T13:05:50.773-05:002012-04-29T13:05:50.773-05:00Leslie, I genuinely appreciate that you include me...Leslie, I genuinely appreciate that you include me in your Tribe. I may not be easy, but my intentions are always good. Thank you for taking the time to read my post, and more so for taking the time to comment.Laura Cosgrove Lorenzanahttps://email@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-927510992143247693.post-47507204907506161402012-04-29T13:04:08.168-05:002012-04-29T13:04:08.168-05:00Thank you so much Kathy, and I'm truly looking...Thank you so much Kathy, and I'm truly looking forward to meeting you. I'm starting to get that fluttery nervous feeling, so I know it won't be long...Laura Cosgrove Lorenzanahttps://email@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-927510992143247693.post-81683196585496731722012-04-29T13:03:08.569-05:002012-04-29T13:03:08.569-05:00Thanks for the chuckle, Pam. German is the last la...Thanks for the chuckle, Pam. German is the last language I learned...I took an 8 credit course in order to graduate. We jokingly referred to it as Kamikazee German. I like ZGBs, and I'm happy you've found yours!Laura Cosgrove Lorenzanahttps://firstname.lastname@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-927510992143247693.post-5439783408734417382012-04-29T13:00:24.883-05:002012-04-29T13:00:24.883-05:00Deb, thank you so very much for sharing. I've ...Deb, thank you so very much for sharing. I've always said it's a sad day when I don't learn something new, but there are some lessons I'd rather not have to learn. I can't begin to imagine what you've gone through, but I have no doubt your daughter is one lucky little girl.Laura Cosgrove Lorenzanahttps://firstname.lastname@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-927510992143247693.post-47860621870587554612012-04-29T12:24:15.035-05:002012-04-29T12:24:15.035-05:00A post that comes from your heart, Laura, will alw...A post that comes from your heart, Laura, will always resonant with others. I got into Genealogy to try to understand why my mother was "like that" (rageholic, nasty to me, very abusive), and to try to see a much larger picture of "my family". My brother and sister were quite alienated from me for many years because they sort of believed that I must have been an awful person for mom to treat me so badly... Luckily, slowly, and carefully, over the past 10 years or so, I've managed to be consistently open, warm, friendly, and let them go at their own pace in having a better relationship with me. Whew. Genealogy allows me to understand family better (and so did the counselling masters degree as well), see the many influences, make positive connections with barely-known cousins, and indulge in my favourite hobby - research!! My friends have become a true family as well, and my 4 kids are both independent and yet loving - I have managed fairly well to help them make their own traditions. Keep posting on what is important to you - you touch us all.Celiahttps://email@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-927510992143247693.post-20373370662681357312012-04-29T11:53:50.931-05:002012-04-29T11:53:50.931-05:00Very touching post - family members can be our gre...Very touching post - family members can be our greatest treasure and our biggest heartache. When one family member destroys something that you hold dear (that sense of family) words cannot describe the pain. One wonders (and may never be able to answer) if they do it out of spite or fear. More importantly it makes us face the fact that the family member married to them did not stand up for his/her blood family. It happens too often and is always sad. You have my sympathy.
However, as they say, when one door closes another one opens. You have found a home, a tribe, a family in your genealogy community. Do all those things necessary to share it, nurture it and enjoy it. To all those wondering if anyone else will care in the future my answer is I would love to find those stories, those trees, those blog posts, those photos, and those memories of extended family members at any time and any place. You never know who your stories will touch, or how - so simply share them and know that some time and some place, someone will come along and be thrilled and thank you.Tessahttps://email@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-927510992143247693.post-9077199162992587952012-04-29T11:51:15.771-05:002012-04-29T11:51:15.771-05:00Laura, thanks for writing so candidly. I started ...Laura, thanks for writing so candidly. I started my family history many years ago at a time when I was divorced, felt lonely and alienated from more than half of my family members - it never occurred to me that there might be a connection... Since then, I am back in touch with those family members who are still living, my research business is growing, I have made lots of genealogy/blogging friends and I have a loving partner. I'll still always be a "last leaf" too, though. As Leslie says, it's like being part of a Tribe :-) Jo {hug}imagespasthttp://email@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-927510992143247693.post-82811611629488849292012-04-29T10:05:49.339-05:002012-04-29T10:05:49.339-05:00You've hit on many emotions all at once with t...You've hit on many emotions all at once with this post! Your story touched me in many ways. I started researching my family in 2000 when my Mom's twin brother died. She couldn't name all her siblings to call for his funeral, and I knew someone had to step up and write it all down. She's the baby of 16. I was only 22 at the time, and expected to pass this down to my kids someday. Now I'm 34 and five miscarriages later my husband and I have been advised to stop trying to have children by my doctors. I struggle with why to continue my research as my current families do not care about my findings. I hope someday in the future, someone will appreciate all of my hard work and dedication to this wonderful hobby. Thanks for sharing your story.J. Greenhttps://firstname.lastname@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-927510992143247693.post-5854575986731333912012-04-29T09:38:57.043-05:002012-04-29T09:38:57.043-05:00Laura, thank you for sharing. I'm sorry the &#...Laura, thank you for sharing. I'm sorry the 'real' family didn't work out very well. Yes, it is hurtful. Like you, I love my genealogy family! There are folks that I'm closer to in the community. We tease when we tell others that we 'found our tribe!' Welcome to the Tribe, Laura. You fit in nicely!Leslie Brinkley Lawsonhttps://email@example.com

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Top of the morning to ya, TT.
You can also click on the 'Member' link next to your handle. That way you don't need to scroll back up to click on the link drmike mentioned (which I didn't see either). I always went to my profile page by clicking on the link I just told you about. :D


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September 1, 2010
Veggies Lower Lung Cancer Risk
(Ivanhoe Newswire) -- Remember when your parents made you sit at the dinner table until you finished all of your veggies? Turns out, they may have been protecting you from lung cancer.
"Although quitting smoking is the most important preventive action in reducing lung cancer risk, consuming a mix of different types of fruit and vegetables may also reduce risk, independent of the amount, especially among smokers," H. Bas Bueno-de-Mesquita, M.D., M.P.H., Ph.D., senior scientist and project director of cancer epidemiology at the National Institute for Public Health and the Environment in the Netherlands, was quoted as saying.Bueno-de-Mesquita and his colleagues studied data from 452,187 participants; 1,613 of which had lung cancer. Researchers found that consuming a variety of vegetables decreased lung cancer risk.
"Fruits and vegetables contain many different bioactive compounds, and it makes sense to assume that it is important that you not only eat the recommended amounts, but also consume a rich mix of these bioactive compounds by consuming a large variety," Dr. Bueno-de-Mesquita said.
Since tobacco related products contain many cancer causing agents, it is important for smokers, especially, to add a mixture of protective agents in their daily diet.
"Nevertheless, the public should be made aware and be reminded that the only proven way to reduce your risk for lung cancer is to avoid tobacco in all its forms," Stephen Hecht, Ph.D., editorial board member for Cancer Epidemiology, Biomarkers & Prevention, concluded.
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Got grades? Got money
Updated 6:38 am, Wednesday, October 9, 2013
The Capital Region has some of the wealthiest and poorest school districts in the state. And their academic results follow the money, according to two new surveys.
The Schenectady, Watervliet and Troy school districts are among upstate's poorest. Niskayuna, Guilderland, Voorheesville, Bethlehem and Shenendehowa are among the Top 10 wealthiest school districts upstate, according to a new ranking by Buffalo Business First.
The Pittsford School District outside of Rochester was ranked the wealthiest among 429 upstate school districts, based on poverty rates, income levels and the percentage of students eligible for free and reduced-price lunches. Niskayuna ranked second, Guilderland fourth, Voorheesville fifth, Bethlehem eighth and Shenendehowa ninth. Utica, Rochester, Syracuse and Buffalo were ranked the poorest in all upstate districts.
This week, the publication also released a ranking of academic results. Not surprisingly, many of those at the top of the socioeconomic list are also at the top of the academic ranking list. The publication ranked local schools by academic results.
Here's the top of the list: Bethlehem, Niskayuna, North Colonie, Voorheesville, Guilderland. Here's the bottom: Amsterdam, Troy, Hudson, Schenectady, Albany.
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The rankings show that not every student receives access to the same quality education, Business First Editor Scott Thomas said.
He denied that the academic rankings merely reflect affluence levels, and said some poorer districts outperformed their wealthier counterparts. He said there are success stories in every school and that academic rankings are not a reflection of overall teacher quality.
"We're showing that the end results in Bethlehem are considerably better than in Albany," he said. "We're not saying that the teachers in Bethlehem are better or that its parents are better or anything along those lines. What we're saying is that there is a wide disparity in the end results, and that is a matter of vital importance."
The publication used a 168-part formula to generate the rankings, based on four years of standardized test scores from the state Education Department. Fayetteville-Manlius is the top-ranked district in the Syracuse area. Williamsville is the top in the Buffalo region. Pittsford, upstate's wealthiest district, is the top in the Rochester area. Study after study shows that students who grow up in more affluent homes are more likely to have tutors, take place in extracurricular activities and have private lessons.
All of the local schools in the top wealth ranking post some of the state's best academic results. Like Albany, Troy and Schenectady, many upstate cities have a doughnut-like wraparound of wealthier suburbs that surround an impoverished core. The list shows that those suburbs typically have better academic results, largely because dense concentrations of students in poverty tend to drag down results. Students who don't know where they are going to sleep at night typically struggle in school, said Billy Easton, executive director of the Alliance for Quality Education, a labor-funded advocacy group.
Easton said the ranking is no surprise because there is often a close correlation between poverty and educational opportunities. He said school districts with a lot of poor students have less money to spend on extras. "They tend to come to school much less prepared, having much less opportunity for early brain development and the things that prepare them for success," he said.
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Hi, I've read the mountctl(8) and jscan(8) manpages, but there's one thing which I'm still not 100% certain. Does the journaling work on file level or on block level? Specifically: When I use jscan to mirror a file system on a remote machine, will the files have identical inode numbers? That's important for setting up a fail-over NFS cluster (with the master being read+write, and the slave being read-only, replicated with jscan). If the inode numbers are different, a transparent fail-over would not be possible ... In that case, is there are different solution with DragonFly BSD? Best regards Oliver -- Oliver Fromme, secnetix GmbH & Co. KG, Marktplatz 29, 85567 Grafing Dienstleistungen mit Schwerpunkt FreeBSD: http://www.secnetix.de/bsd Any opinions expressed in this message may be personal to the author and may not necessarily reflect the opinions of secnetix in any way.


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Alamar Blue Assay - (Nov/03/2011 )
Hey Guys,
Does the alamar blue dye need to be added to the cells after particular time periods independently to determine cell viability or can it be added once and then checked over a certain amount of time (say 2 days)? The problem is that I'm not sure when my drug is supposed to actually affect the proliferation of my cells so I'm hoping to add the alamar blue as soon as I add the drug and then just check its fluorescence over time. I'm assuming that once the drug takes effect, the proliferation of the cells treated with the drug drops (the drug is supposed to be a growth inhibitor) so that in comparison to the control cells with no drug, I get a lower fluorescence. The issue is that just ran this experiment and it's been 24 hours but my fluorescence for both the treated and untreated cells have been the same. I'm hoping, though, that in another 24 hours, once the drug goes into effect (assuming it takes 48 hours to take into effect), I'll have higher flourescence levels in the control cells and lower levels in the treated cells. Will/Should this be the case?
Also, a lot of studies add the alamar blue at particular time points. For example, they'll treat with a drug, wait 24 hours, then add alamar blue and read flourescence only after 4 hours (and no time after). My question is--- is there anything wrong with adding the alamar blue at the same time as the drug? Shouldn't you get higher flourescence in the controls at some point regardless of when you add the drug (assuming the drug has anti-proliferative effects). Also, if I do decide to wait 24 hrs, then add the alamar blue, how long does it take for the alamar blue to actually reflect the number of viable cells that I have? Some studies check after one hour, others after 4. Any help would be greatly appreciate it!
Thanks so much~
I don't think adding Alamar blue (i.e. resazurin) at the same time as the drug will work. If the conversion of resazurin to resorufin (pink product) happens more quickly than the action of the drug, all the wells will turn pink and the fluorescence will be the same in all wells. The conversion of resazurin to resorufin is irreversible, so if resorufin is produced and then the cell dies, the fluorescence is still in the well.
The incubation time of Alamar blue can vary. I usually do 1-2 hrs. If you wait too long, all the resazurin in the well will be converted to resorufin and they will all be the same. If you don't wait long enough, there won't be good enough sensitivity. I would try a few time points on the same plate and just see what happens.
Thanks so much~ In a similar case though, if i'm adding a growth factor drug- --- shouldn't the fluorescence increase even more (become more pink) once the drug takes into effect, even if the alamar blue was added at the same time as the drug (assuming you never reach maximum fluorescence in treated and untreated wells) ? In other words, if at 24 hours after adding the drug and the alamar blue at the same time, I have all purplish/pink wells for both the treated and untreated wells (but not completely pink) because the drug hasn't yet taken effect, won't the cells with the growth factor proliferate at a much faster rate and cause a higher fluorescence (more pink) in comparison to the untreated cells in another 24 hours (assuming the drug takes into effect by then)?
Maybe I'm a bit confused but I thought that was the benefit of the alamar blue- that it allowed you to do a time course where you just add the alamar blue at a low enough cell density where you can check fluorescence over a period of time without exactly knowing when the drug goes into effect. Unless I misunderstood and what they meant by this ability to do a time course is that, as you said, you could check to see how long is required for incubation. If this is the case and I can't add the drug at the same time as the alamar blue, does that mean I would essentially need to know how long it takes for my drug takes into effect before adding the alamar blue?
Sorry for all the questions but I really appreciate your comments!


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For the purported great and ancient wisdom of 5000-year-old Chinese civilization, they have pretty lousy leaders.
The West has leaders with minds like children too, but at least we can laugh at them, and eventually get rid of them. Must suck to be Chinese with these idiots in charge...
China would really sanction such a petty operation against github
GitHub is suddenly target because of what?
It makes no sense for the Chinese to use their own primary connectivity to the rest of the world to run a half assed DDoS against a company that almost no one outside the OSS world even knows exists.
And if they wanted to do it, they'd take github down and be done with it. China has WAY more bandwidth than github, even taking AWS into account.
knock them off the web for 12 hours, open it up... if they continue, block 'em again...
Are you seriously calling China "socialist"? They are socialist in name only.
The most "socialism" anybody in my family experienced, FWIW, was the cradle-to-grave welfare under Francisco Franco. So it's impossible to generalize.
Well, the acronym for Socialist In Name Only is "sino".
See, that's a serious image problem right there. Since absolutely no self-described socialist or communist government in the world is considered "true" socialism or communism by those philosophy's respective defenders (who then go on to praise "socialist" European nations that are, in fact, simply capitalism plus robust welfare), it leads the rest of us to believe that those philosophies are simply impossible to implement in reality.
While you are correct, I defy you to come up with an example of a form of government (that has been in use) that doesn't/didn't lead to authoritarianism.
In the US it took less than 10 years (see "The Whiskey Rebellion"). The only thing that slowed down the process was the existence of an "open border" along the west. Closed borders foster authroitarianism, whatever the form of government.
Actually, I believe that there ARE forms of government that don't necessarily drift towards authoritarianism, but they
If our country weren't run by lawyers, we'd do what Russia and China do which is allow victims like GitHub to retaliate. Would be hilarious if GitHub contracted a few black hats to penetrate China's academic/military networks and give them a taste of the Wikileaks treatment.
If it's vigilantism for GitHub to conduct a private retaliation against the Chinese government, then one could call what the Chinese did an act of war. Hey, if we're tossing around emotionally loaded terms without regard for the context, why stop with just calling that hypothetical action by GitHub an act of vigilantism.
I have a coworker who advocates GitHub as the solution to all of our needs. He wants us to store all of our production code there. I asked him if he had a plan for backing up the GitHub repo, and his answer was along the lines of, 'someone will have the latest version on their PC, so we don't need a backup.' I asked him how we would work in times of limited GitHub availabilty. What if it goes down? What if it gets hit with DDOS? 'Oh, they're a big company, that won't happen.'
I have no fundamental prob
Technically, it is not China itself which is DDOSing them, but all the people from _outside_ of china which are accessing Baidu servers in China. Basically some part of chinese disapora is DDOSing github. Which is considerably smaller number of people than 'China'.
Plus, it is happening just on browser refresh, not as dedicated trojan running heavy DOS attack from each PC.
The main advantage of Github, etc. isn't the hosting - you can use any SSH-capable server for that. It's in the issue tracking and other built-in features.
That means it makes more sense to have your backup server pull updates from Github, since it can't provide that.
Of course, an even better approach would be to use an alternative like Gitorious (now Gitlab?) that allows you to host it yourself, so you don't lose access to anything if your primary hosting goes down...
If you're that paranoid about an outage for an hour or two; mirror it on bitbucket, gitorious, gitlab, amazon S3, a local server, etc, etc, etc.
It's trivial to do these sorts of mirrors, precisely because git's a DVCS.
You heard; "We don't need a backup because GitHub is so awesome". That does sound scary.
However, the whole point of Git is everyone who cares about the project has the complete repository, usually with multiple backups, and works "off-line" as normal practice.
Github is just an awesome and easy place to share a copy of the repository. It's trivial to set up another shared repository or just share directly with those involved in the development.
If GitHub is down just:
git remote add bitbucket email@example.com:company/project.git
git push bitbucket
And then keep rolling.
Replace Bitbucket with any number of alternatives.
It simply doesn't matter if GitHub goes down. It has a convenient interface, for sure, but you can continue to work without it easily.
Well, if your production code is open source, then storing your code on GitHub seems like a reasonable approach
And using GIThub for your prod code is stupid, unless you fully plan on sharing it with the world, including possibly any "fun" stuff that gets included by accident like private company info, passwords, internal IP-space, users, or security flaws...
Some other comments mention that you can just clone your git repositories and use that a backup, but that's not practical when you're using git workflow as a core part of running your development team.
Relying on external services is never a good business move, so the a solution is to use GitHub Enterprise [github.com], which lets you run a private copy of the GitHub site on your own servers, with your own backup solution and security provisions.
Maybe this is what your coworker is advocating.
To fight back they have changed those projects to be
alert("WARNING: malicious javascript detected on this domain")
So the user sees a message =)
Not only do they see that message, but the alert pauses the loop that keeps loading the pages.
I assumed they selected Github as the target because they wanted an effective response delivered to the originators of the original http request.
They are constantly mapping accessible VPNs and developing countermeasures against them. I understand it's a constant game of whack-a-mole over there with access to VPNs outside the great firewall.
Fix is pretty obvious.
There are two URLs being hit.
Step 1: Put a reverse proxy cache which serves static pages directly out of RAM from a kernel module in front of GitHuB. If there's nothing like this for Linux, there is for FreeBSD, and it's pretty trivial to set up.
Step 2: At the first URL, serve pro Free Tibet information. At the second URL, serve pro Falun Gong information.
Step 3: Wait for someone in China in charge of the attack to call it off in fear for their life from the government for serving this illegal in China content to everyone in China going to one of the affected web sites that has the javascript injected.
Step 4: (optional) Laugh your ass off as they are sent to a reeducation camp.
The content and attack is only served to people OUTSIDE of China accessing Baidu. People from inside of China aren't affected.
The content and attack is only served to people OUTSIDE of China accessing Baidu. People from inside of China aren't affected.
China watches external visibility of Chinese sites. A Chinese site serving pro Tibet/Falun Gong info would get flagged very quickly, especially if the text is sensational and purports to be from a Baidu employe, since the press outside of China isn't going to check their sources very closely, any more than they check any of their sources very closely these days.
So it will at least hit some, if not many, mainstream news channels, especially if it's couched as a "Help! I'm trapped in a Chinese fortune cookie
Github Under JS-Based "Greatfire" DDoS Attack, Allegedly From {{enemyOfTheDay}}
Why not setup every computer in the U.S. in like a beowolf cluster and mass DDos China. Shut the whole country down. No loss there.... Might help generate new manufacturing jobs in the U.S...
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Friday night I went to two classes at Shodokan. The first class was very aerobic. We started slow with some back stretches and then moved on.
Bob had us doing iriminage. My partner for a good lot of it was an experienced person but at times doesn't necessarily follow what is being taught. Some times this is a good thing for exploration. Other times I just want to do what is taught. This night I was happy to experiment a little bit. One thing I noticed right away was noodling around with how to take uke around. Uke attacks with moretetori. The technique called for nage to tenkan and bring uke around, and then does the iriminage. After bringing uke around you can do two things. You can bring uke around where your hand goes low, or you can bring uke around with your hand about mid level. The effect is totally different. In the low version, uke still has a grip on your arm and the way I was doing it I had trouble with uke now having two hands on me leaning over my arm with his weight in a powerful way. I'm wondering if there is a way to do this where uke won't have that moment of control over me. For a while I practiced it by bringing my hand mid level as if you were doing the same attack as a nikkyo. You break ukes grip somewhat and you end up on top of uke's arm still. This seem to work better for me.
So what version are you doing? Are you coming around low, or coming around higher and going 'above' the grip to break it some. If you are going low... have you ever noticed a point at which uke has a moment of control? How do you get around the problem?
Is it one of those things where you want uke to feel as though he HAS to hold on? Still.... I feel as though I have a hole there when I go low.
Bob had us do udeminage in a line. Some people had some nice improvement when the tried it again. The last time through the line we were throwing, turning around, and throwing again right away to keep a nice pace going.
The second class Mr. Mulligan started us off with some 'easy' kokyunage. These are always interesting. Some are ridiculously hard to do correctly. Some are easier. We did this for a while and then Mr. Mulligan called for a koshinage. Normally this isn't a problem from me but the particular partner I had at the moment was Tony. He's the guy I also see a lot of on Sundays. Years and years of judo have made his hip throws effortless for him. His timing is just amazing. So he tossed me around. When he does a hip-throw and he knows you can take it, he will go for it. I was being whipped to the mat repeatedly. The nice thing is I can abuse him and he has no problem with it. By the end of the koshinage session I was pretty spent at that point. Then a change to technique was called for. Some form of tai otoshi. Normally I like otoshi but this was a tougher one to get right. Then.... another change and we do somthing I remember he called aiki-otoshi. Basically you pin uke's hip to you with one hand and use the other hand to scoop the closest leg. Turn and toss. How I used to do ukemi for this was to slide down uke's back. I spent some time during this session working on a different ukemi. More of an ushiro otoshi ukemi feel (Donovan Waite style). The few tries I had at it felt really comfortable. It's a really active ukemi but it felt better. 'Scraping' down someones back slows things enough to be fine but does not guarantee that you will not land on the flat of your back. This is where the other ukemi seems better. My biggest concern is that I don't blow out my shoulder by doing this wrong.
We skipped tachitori. Sort of ran out of time. I actually remembered more details I think and I certainly remembered the 5 techniques we've covered most recently.


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What type of use would the additional use be?
Generally Hair/ beauty salons fall under a1 retail. clinics are d1.
Change of use may be required.
Best course of action is to discuss with the planning office at the council.
Under permitted development you can change temporarily for up to 2 years from b1 to a1.
The council will determine if your use is a1 or d1.
The next issue is do you own or lease the premises? if under a lease, check it's terms. you may well need consent to change use.


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As anthropogenic global warming continues to swiftly progress, clean technology, innovation, and diffusion of renewable energy technologies are needed more than ever nationwide. Colorado is a leader in the clean tech industry. According to a 2009 report by Pew Charitable Trusts, Colorado is one of the top three states with large and fast-growing clean energy economies. The Metro Denver Economic Development Corporations (MDEDC 2011) Colorado Industry Cluster Profile on Energy reported that Colorado ranked fourth out of the 50 states in clean tech employment concentration in 2010, and its clean tech subcluster ranked eleventh in absolute employment. MDEDC also reported that Colorado has 19,420 direct jobs in clean tech, and that direct employment had grown 8.9 percent since 2009. Colorado also ranked third in the Milken Institutes 2010 State Technology and Science Index, which accounts for research and development inputs, risk capital and entrepreneurial infrastructure, human capital capacity, technology and science workforce, and technology concentration and dynamism.
Below are brief pieces from the Travels with Erik blog, which follows Erik Olin Wright, 2012 ASA President, and Jean Shin, ASA Minority Affairs Program Director, on their visits to colleges and universities in the south and southwest in late March. Their goal is to connect with students and faculty from underrepresented groups and highlight the importance of sociology and the opportunities available to those who study it. To read the blog in its entirety, see www.speak4sociology.org/TravelsWithErik.
Essie Rutledge
Essie Rutledge is a pioneer in the fields of sociology and African American studies. She was born in Alabama in 1934 during the height of The Great Depression. Her father was a farmer and her mother worked as a domestic.
When Rutledges parents divorced she moved with her mother to St. Petersburg, FL, in 1946. During the late 1940s and early 1950s, the St. Petersburg public school system was segregated racially so Rutledge attended all black schools through high school. Barriers to educational integration continued even after the Brown v. Board of Education Supreme Court decision in 1954 when Rutledges brother was denied access to public universities despite being class valedictorian at his high school.
At its February 2012 meeting, ASA Council approved the development of a three-year task force on community college faculty. Although there are more than 400,000 full- and part-time community college faculty in the United States, making up more than 40 percent of all faculty members nationwide, they receive relatively little attention from researchers. Townsend and Twombly (2007) examined the scholarly literature on community college faculty and found that between 1990 and 2003, eight percent of articles in the five major higher education journals examined community college issues. What is intriguing about the neglect of community college faculty members in the research literature and the lack of respect they often receive is that their numbers alone suggest they should at least merit attention (Twombly and Townsend 2008).


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Disassemble Ambermoon
Generate a relocatable assembler listing.
Recompile Amiga version
Analyze what every subroutine is doing and give them meaningful names. Split the source code into smaller units. Will compile with vasm.
Translate to C code
Still using AmigaOS and the hardware specific stuff. Will compile with vbcc.
Port to SDL and improvements
Remove Amiga specific code, rewrite graphics and sound code. Adapt to different systems and configurations.
|Where are all the pages gone?
|For 9 years this website offered information gained from the reverse engineering efforts by myself and
few other people. In the meantime, I have seen several Ambermoon or Thalion fansites and forums pop up and go down,
the Amberworld project was referred to in many places and my tools were used by diverse people for diverse purposes.
The project still has a download or two per month, although the files didn't change for years.
The pages you may be looking for will be replaced. The guesses and question marks will be replaced by real code from the game. Don't waste your time with resource files any longer!
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MIA: History: ETOL: Document: SWP-US: 12 National Convention of the SWP-US
The Twelfth National Convention of
The Socialist Workers Party
By the Editors
Adopted: November 12-18, 1946
First Published:January 1947
Source: Fourth International, New York, Volume 8, No.1, January 1947, pages 3-8.
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The Twelfth National Convention of the Socialist Workers Party, the largest in the 18 years of American Trotskyism, held its sessions in Chicago, November 15 to 18, 1946. The immediate task of this national gathering, the third since the assassination by Stalin's GPU of Leon Trotsky who inspired, taught and led our movement, was to sum up the activities and lessons of the two years that elapsed since the last convention and to chart the course for the period immediately ahead.
At the same time the deliberations of the convention and its entire work centered around a longer range task, namely, that of creating the revolutionary mass party. This is the fundamental but as yet unresolved problem of our epoch.
Such a party has been built thus far only in one country—in Russia, by Lenin, Trotsky and their co-thinkers. Underlying the terrible crisis that now convulses society as a whole has been the failure to repeat and reproduce in other countries the successful attainments of Russian Bolshevism.
James P. Cannon, National Secretary of the SWP, opened the convention with a brief introductory address. He paid tribute to those comrades whom death had recently taken from our own ranks and to the memory of countless Trotskyist martyrs abroad. The convention saluted their memory by rising in silence. Comrade Cannon concluded his remarks by welcoming the 1013 new members recruited into the party since the last convention.
The convention then proceeded to take up the international resolution. For revolutionary Marxists what is decisive is the world orientation and world perspectives. Only in the light of these can they correctly approach the tasks on their respective national arenas. The delegates had before them two different points of view which represented two divergent and irreconcilable political lines.
International Report
Comrade E. R. Frank, reporting for the majority of the National Committee, defended the perspective of the proletarian revolution.
"The job of building revolutionary parties, of mobilizing the masses for the revolutionary onslaught," he pointed out, "has proven more arduous, more complicated, more difficult; it is taking longer than was anticipated in the first flush of the Russian revolution in 1917. But the task remains essentially the same. The basic task of our epoch has not been changed for the simple reason that it had not been solved."
The reporter went on to express complete solidarity with the line set down in the resolution, "The New Imperialist Peace and the Building of the Parties of the Fourth International," adopted by the International Conference of the Fourth International in April 1946. (The text of this resolution was carried in the June 1946 issue of our magazine.)
In defending the line of this resolution, Comrade Frank stressed that it takes its point of departure not from conjunctural developments or episodic interplay of political forces but "from the analysis of the world economic situation; and that is the right way for Marxists to begin when writing a world resolution."
From this world economic analysis it follows inescapably that there is no way out for Europe along the capitalist road. "Under the present conditions, revival and reconstruction in Europe will take place at a very slow tempo; it will be very feeble in its achievements; it will not attain even the pre-war levels; under American tutelage, the European economy is doomed to stagnation and decay."
The overwhelming preponderance of the United States acts to perpetuate this condition. "On a capitalist foundation Europe is through as a major world factor. It will only sink deeper in vassalage to its American overlords. Its only chance for revival, for regaining its place in the world and saving its great cultural heritage and achievements—is to unify the continent into a United States of Europe. And this, as has been demonstrated in two tragic world wars, is a utopian dream, except under Socialist auspices."
Among the least stable sectors of world economy is the USSR which, although victorious in the war, emerged far weaker than before. Itself in the throes of a deepening internal crisis, Stalin's regime aggravates the impasse on the European continent. Characterizing the role of Stalinism, the reporter pointed out:
"The Kremlin oligarchy, counter-revolutionary through and through, fearing and hating the workers' revolution no less than the imperialists themselves, moved in not as a liberator, but as a foreign conqueror and a savage oppressor. The Red Army authorities stamped out the revolutionary manifestations and began to plunder the conquered countries. They couldn't conceive of the European peoples as socialist allies but only as helpless victims to be exploited and oppressed.
"However, by converting Eastern Europe into its closed preserve, by shutting it off from the rest of the capitalist world, by deposing the old ruling classes, and by its military domination over the whole territory, the Kremlin further undermines the capitalist structure, further drags Europe towards the abyss, further aggravates the crisis of capitalism on a world scale."
So far as England is concerned, both her domestic and world positions are beyond repair. Throughout Asia we witness similar conditions of capitalist instability, chaos and crisis. Japan is reduced to a vassal of American imperialism; China is once again the arena of civil war; India is in ferment. So is Egypt and the Arab Near East. In the Far East, the liberationist struggles of the colonial peoples are unfolding stormily in Indo-China, in Burma, in Indonesia.
And last but not least, the American colossus itself cannot assure stability at home where it is heading for another economic crisis and the resulting revolutionary explosions.
Summing up the world situation, Comrade Frank said:
"Thus the picture emerges sharp and clear and unmistakable that we are facing a long period of grave economic crisis, convulsions and upheavals on a world scale. World capitalist equilibrium has been shattered and a lengthy revolutionary period has opened up."
This perspective is by no means invalidated by the defeat of the first revolutionary wave that swept over Europe in 1944-45, or by the absence of the German revolution. After analyzing the causes why the German revolution failed to erupt, and the reasons for the defeat of the first revolutionary wave in Europe—for which the Stalinist traitors and their Social Democratic allies bear the prime responsibility—Comrade Frank explained:
"In defeat, just as in victory, it is necessary to keep one's head, to keep one's sense of proportion and one's perspective. We must ask ourselves the question: was the defeat a definitive one, or simply a conjunctural setback? Did we lose a battle or did we lose the war? The repulse of the revolutionary wave has enabled capitalism in Western Europe to regain a temporary political equilibrium. But as we have previously seen, it has not been able, nor will it be able, to achieve stability. The critical economic conditions, producing a frenzied inflation, are already goading the masses to renewed struggle. The strike curve is sharply rising in France, Italy and elsewhere on the continent. The workers are still full of confidence and fight, and still continue to give their main backing to the Stalinist parties. The capitalists in Western Europe—despite their throwing their weight behind the Catholic parties, and even outright Fascist movements—despite their building up the forces for authoritarian regimes, still cannot rule in their own name. They must still rule by coalition with the Stalinists and the Social Democrats. The defeat, in other words, was not a historical one, but a temporary one. There still lies ahead a whole period of revolutionary development which provides new opportunities for the growth and consolidation of revolutionary parties."
Revisionist Minority
This line was flatly rejected by a tiny minority in whose name Felix Morrow reported. As against the perspective of the proletarian revolution, he advanced the outlook of the "The Three Theses," first propounded some four years ago by the German migr group of the IKD. In accordance with this perspective the working class in Europe has suffered a definitive defeat and all of mankind has been hurled back, with the socialist revolution becoming relegated to the indeterminate future and the class struggle ceding place to the struggle of the people as a whole for the restoration of national states in Europe and for the reconquest of democratic rights, that is to say, the re-constitution of bourgeois democratic regimes.
Further, Morrow advocated support to the action of the French party majority who had called upon the workers to support the capitalist constitution in the recent referendum.
In addition, the revisionist minority submitted at the last moment a resolution on the USSR, characterizing the latter as a capitalist state. Morrow, who a few weeks prior to the convention, still viewed the Soviet Union as a degenerated workers' state, supported this resolution as well.
The headlong flight of the minority from the programmatic positions of our movement disclosed once and for all that at the bottom of the struggle that began three years ago at the October 1943 Plenum were profound political differences and not episodic disagreements over such tactical issues as the use of democratic slogans or over the internal party regime, and so on.
At every stage in the dispute the majority sought to clear all non-essentials out of the way in order to probe the differences to the bottom. The minority on the contrary felt an inner need to slur over fundamentals. They continued to nibble at issues and to conduct an incessant guerrilla warfare over incidental points or estimates, branding every attempt to discuss the fundamentals as simply a rehash of ritualistic phrases and a meaningless reaffirmation of a "finished program." It took three years of discussion before the party was finally presented with the full program of the minority.
In the discussion that followed as well as by an overwhelming vote of 113 to 3 the delegates adopted the international resolution of the majority and passed a motion which reads in part as follows:
"We express our full agreement with the general political line of the Manifesto and Theses adopted by the recent International Conference of the Fourth International, together with the supplementary 'Resolution on the Withdrawal of Occupation Troops,' adopted unanimously by the International Executive Committee at its June 1946 meeting, and instruct the editors of our press to militantly present and defend this line in our publications."
By the same vote of 113 to 3 the delegates condemned the action of the French party in supporting the capitalist constitution during the recent referendum; and rejected the minority's attempt to revise both our evaluation of the Soviet Union as a degenerated workers' state, and our position of defending it against imperialist attacks.
"Theses on the American Revolution"
The next point on the convention agenda was the report of the "Theses on the American Revolution" which was delivered by James P. Cannon. (The text of the theses appears elsewhere in this issue.)
The reporter made it clear that the U.S. has moved and is moving with increasing speed toward revolutionary developments. "Our theses," he said, "specifically outline the revolutionary perspectives in America and require the party to conduct and regulate all its daily activities in the light of these perspectives."
Following the First World War it was correct to place the European countries well ahead of the U.S. so far as the probable order of revolutions was concerned. Today it would be erroneous to estimate the situation in the same way.
Analyzing the objective conditions, Comrade Cannon showed the profound changes that have occurred in the evolution of American capitalism. Following World War I the economic conditions in this country were such as to prepare for the fullest expansion of capitalism which brought in its wake a crisis which lasted for a decade and which was resolved temporarily only by the Second World War and the colossal expenditures connected with it. Following World War II the economic conditions are such as have deepened all the contradictions and have prepared all the conditions for the explosion of another crisis far worse than that of the Thirties, and fraught with far more serious social implications.
"In surveying the future prospects of American capitalism," the reporter stated, "we simply heed the counsel of realism by putting the question:
"If American capitalism was shaken to its foundations by the crisis of the Thirties, at a time when the world system of capitalism, and America along with it, was younger, richer and healthier than it is now; if this crisis lasted for ten years, and even then could not be overcome by the normal operation of economic laws; if all the basic causes and contradictions which brought about the crisis of the Thirties have been carried over and lodged in the new artificial war and post-war prosperity, and multiplied many times; if all this is true—and nobody but a fool can deny it—then what chance has the capitalist boom of the Forties to have a different ending than the boom of the Twenties ?
"Marxist realism tells us that it can be different only insofar as the crisis must go deeper; must be far more devastating in its consequences; and that it must come sooner."
The economic debacle of the Thirties shattered the myth of permanent capitalist prosperity, propagated so assiduously by bourgeois economists and other apologists for Wall Street. Many among the disillusioned masses began to sense instinctively that capitalist forms are self-destructive in their nature; that these forms were dying and must die and they must be destroyed if this country was to live and thrive. These molecular processes which had their inception in the Thirties and which will ultimately revolutionize the consciousness of American masses, have continued beneath the surface during wartime and will be greatly accelerated by the recurring economic and political convulsions inherent in the decaying system.
Comrade Cannon placed special emphasis on the transformation that has already taken place in the American working class. In the Thirties the American workers confronted the crisis as a disorganized and helpless mass. Among the changes that have occurred since then, he listed the following:
"The proletariat has greatly increased in numbers with the expansion of industry during the war. Millions of Negroes, of women, and of the new generation of youth have been snatched up out of their former existence, and assimilated into the processes of modern industry. Thereby, they have been transformed from a multitude of dispersed individuals into a coherent body imbued with a new sense of usefulness and power. Most remarkable of all, and most pregnant with consequences for the future, is the truly gigantic leap which the American workers made from disorganized individual helplessness to militant trade union consciousness and organization in one brief decade."
From non-existence in trade unionism the American workers have leaped to a powerful mass movement, embracing more than 15 miI1ion in all the basic industries. This achievement on the plane of elementary class organization is not an accident but the product of the vast dynamic powers latent in the American working class. It opens up grandiose perspectives for the future. Once the workers begin to move, as they must, beyond the limits of trade union organization and into the political arena, they are capable of achieving the transformation of their political consciousness at the same truly American tempo.
Deeply rooted in the class is not conservatism but rather a readiness to adopt and apply the most radical and militant methods of struggle, as was demonstrated time and again in the bitter battles that gave birth to the CIO, and in the series of strike waves that have since recurred periodically.
All the conditions for the swift radicalization of the working class have matured or are in process of maturing, Comrade Cannon pointed out.
"What are the limits to the future possibilities and powers of this remarkable class?" asked Comrade Cannon. His answer was that there were no limits whatever to what the giant American working class is able to achieve once it sets itself conscious goals. "All things are possible; and all things that are necessary will be achieved."
The American working class is admittedly backward politically. But it is generally overlooked that the Russian workers, who built the party of Bolshevism, did not begin by being revolutionary-minded either. If it could be said of any country that it had to import progressive ideas and the revolution itself, then Russia would indeed have to be listed among the first. Czarist Russia, for decades the pillar of reaction on the European continent, entered the Twentieth Century as one of the most backward countries in the world, not only economically but also politically. Russian history prior to 1905 knew nothing either of revolution or of revolutionary traditions. Russia did not even pass through a period of religious reformation. All this can hardly be deemed as favorable for political advancement. The Russian workers made their leap from extreme backwardness to revolutionary consciousness not because of their handicaps but despite them.
On the other hand, if revolution can be said to be indigenous to any country, it is surely the United States which has already passed through two social revolutions, both of which proved highly successful. The very conditions under which this vast and virgin continent was settled and developed, its swiftness of growth, the premium placed on pioneering, the propensity to audacious experiments—all these are likewise highly propitious to tie assimilation and spread of revolutionary ideas. The native traditions will thus act not to retard but to aid the leap of the American workers from political backwardness to political awareness and organization.
The capital of our party lies both in its trained and tested cadres and its own great traditions of revolutionary irreconcilability and unswerving adherence to program. The struggle for the socialist future of America will never be waged by those who fail to break irrevocably with the ideas, prejudices and traditions of the bourgeoisie. For a period of almost two decades the SWP has retained its allegiance to the program of the socialist revolution and has repelled repeated attempts to corrupt the movement along the lines of reconciliation with "democratic" imperialism. It is this party that will organize the young generation of American workers who are awakening to revolutionary ideas.
"A great party," said Comrade Cannon, "with a glorious record and a stainless banner, has already been prepared for them, and awaits their enlistment. It is a strong party, firmly built on the granite rock of Marxism. It will serve them well, and is worthy of their undivided allegiance."
His concluding words were:
"The objective prerequisites for the social revolution in America will not be lacking. Capitalism itself will provide them. The manpower of the revolution will not be lacking either. The many-millioned masses of the organized workers will provide this manpower. It is already partly assembled and partly ready.
"The rest is our part. Our part is the building up of this vanguard combat party which foresees the revolutionary future and prepares for it. Our part is to build up this party which believes in the unlimited power and resources of the American workers; and believes no less in its own capacity to organize and lead them to storm and victory."
After a spirited discussion the "Theses on the American Revolution" were adopted by 113 votes against.3.
Both the theses and Comrade Cannon's report deliberately excluded all considerations other than those of a strategic character. The questions of tactics and immediate tasks were dealt with in a separate resolution, which appears in this issue under the heading: "From a Propaganda Group to a Party of Mass Action."
Tasks and Tactics
Comrade Stein examined in his report the party's slogans and their application in the class struggle, reviewed the past work in the mass movement and outlined the tasks ahead.
"To understand the need of building the mass revolutionary party is one thing; to act on the basis of this understanding is something else again," he said. "The only way the revolutionary party can become a mass party is through action. The party must demonstrate by deeds that it knows how to lead the workers in the struggle. It must demonstrate in action the superiority not only of its program but also of its cadres. In the first place the party must be in its composition flesh of the flesh of the working class, an organic part of the class it seeks to influence and lead. It must embrace in its ranks, the best, the most advanced militants."
Citing the great advances already made by our party in this respect, he stressed that the greatest opportunities lay ahead because of the inevitable sharpening and intensification of the class struggle. He outlined succinctly the basic factors that made it impossible for American capitalism to assure any prolonged period of prosperity. Instability and crisis—that is the real perspective for American capitalism. "The general instability of life is the greatest revolutionary factor driving the masses to struggle even under boom conditions. This universal instability will drive them into ever fiercer struggle when the bust comes," he added.
The masses find it impossible to settle down to any sort of normal existence. "World War II has ended—but there is no peace! The fear of World War III is deep seated. The masses can plainly see that the United Nations and the Big Four conferences are nothing but a farce. It is plain to everyone that they are not shaping peace but merely jockeying for position in the next war. Washington is stockpiling atom bombs. Experiments with deadly bacteriological war weapons continue. The Navy 'goes where it damn pleases.' Washington grabs islands in the Pacific whether others like it or not. The Brass Hats are busy standardizing the armaments of Latin American countries and of the British empire. And all these war preparations, unparalleled in history, are directed against the Soviet Union."
To combat the war danger, our party must base its agitation on the people's urge for peace. "Not by lulling them with false hopes, but by mercilessly exposing the real warmakers. We advance slogans designed to promote the independent struggle of the masses against the warmakers."
On the economic front the workers are finding it more and more difficult to defend their living standards. The gains of the great strike wave that followed V-J Day have been quickly consumed by skyrocketing prices. Our party, Comrade Stein demonstrated, was the only one to advance a realistic program, the heart of which is the struggle for the sliding scale of wages. It is the only measure capable of securing positions already won in years of struggle; of laying the basis for an offensive for higher standards; of effectively counter-acting the corporation propaganda that wage increases are responsible for rising prices; and, what is most important, of ending the drain on the workers' fighting morale, the drain that comes from too many battles of a purely defensive character.
The slogan for the sliding scale of wages has already made its way into a number of important unions, and will play an ever-increasing role so long as the inflationary trends persist.
In the next period the workers will be confronted with another major slash in their real wages in the form of boosted rents. It is certain that rents will be hiked either through the OPA'S granting of "legal" increases or through the elimination of rent controls altogether. Mass resistance to rent increases will assuredly materialize and it must be given an organized expression. Wherever possible we must initiate and champion the action and organization of tenants with the sanction and help of the trade unions, who have an excellent opportunity to give leadership to the whole community in the fight against the rent-gougers.
The need for independent political action is being driven home to the workers more and more sharply by the increasing boldness of reaction on the political front. The trade unions are under attack in Congress and in various states; the Democratic and Republican legislators are vying with one another in promoting anti-labor measures. The objective conditions for the formation of a labor party are becoming quite favorable.
"Whether or not a national labor party actually comes into existence," the reporter pointed out, "or how soon it might be formed is not decisive. The struggle for a labor party raises the class consciousness of the workers. This struggle can help build the revolutionary party. In the process of struggle for a labor party we seek to imbue the workers with a full understanding of our program and our revolutionary ideas."
Comrade Stein showed the need to introduce a correction in our attitude to the PAC. We have been too negative and abstentionist in the past. The PAC provides us with an arena for activity, for fighting for independent workers' candidates in the elections, for advancing labor legislation, and, in certain cases, for initiating local and state-wide labor party formations.
The reporter singled out the party tasks relating to the Negroes and to the veterans and then passed on to discuss the need of the party to learn how to fight effectively on all fronts, from issues such as combating Jim Crow and incipient fascism to local problems and day-to-day grievances of the workers. The question of nurseries, playgrounds for children, overcrowded schools, unsanitary conditions in workers' districts, cases of police brutality, and similar issues must receive more and more attention on our part.
"The workers," Comrade Stein pointed out, "respond often more readily to protest action over a small grievance than a bigger issue. What is important is that such a protest action can frequently win victory. This instills the people with confidence in their own strength and their own independent action. They then become readier to undertake other struggles. They become friends of the party that shows them the way to struggle. The party members must become known in the community as the tribunes of the people, as the best fighters for their interests."
Comrade Stein concluded his report by analyzing the great gains made by the party in the recent election campaigns conducted in six states. Despite the fact that in California it was possible to run only write-in candidates and that in Ohio and New York our candidates were ruled off the ballot on flimsy technicalities, tens of thousands of workers learned for the first time about our party and its program. As in all our other activities, we view only as a beginning this exploitation of the mass propaganda medium which is offered us by the elections. It is the party's aim to place a presidential ticket in the field for 1948.
The resolution on party tasks was adopted by the same overwhelming majority as the previous resolutions.
The trade union report made by Comrade Dobbs, together with the supplementary reports of the trade union fractions in auto, steel, rubber, railroads and maritime, provided the most striking proof that the transformation of our movement into a party of mass action is already well underway. Almost one half of the party members belong in the trade unions, primarily in the basic industries. A relatively large number hold posts of various kinds in the unions. Many of the new recruits are prominent trade union militants in the major industrial areas of the United States where a total of 41 SWP branches are now functioning.
Trade Union Report
In outlining the key problems confronting the organized labor movement, Comrade Dobbs called special attention to the current red-baiting campaign inside the unions which is part and parcel of the capitalist offensive against labor. The Communist (Stalinist) Party, which is the immediate target of the red-baiters, has pursued, on the one hand, a policy of cowardly capitulation to the red-baiters and, on the other hand, has engaged in its own special brand of red-baiting—reactionary attacks on the "Trotskyists." Our party has been and will remain in the forefront of the struggle against the red-baiters whose aim is to split the ranks of labor.
In the United States the task of building the revolutionary mass party is facilitated by a different relationship of forces inside the labor movement from the one existing in Europe where the specific weight of the Socialist and Stalinist organizations is predominant.
Comrade Dobbs underscored the fact that the specific weight of the Socialist Party, SLP and similar formations is negligible. The Communist (Stalinist) Party is the only serious political rival, the major internal obstacle in the way of a rapid radicalization of the American labor movement. But unlike Europe, Stalinism has not been able to sink its roots as deeply here. In some localities our party already matches and even surpasses the strength of the Stalinists. While the CP has been passing from one internal crisis to the next, stagnating or losing members, the SWP has recorded steady progress and growth. Ten per cent of the party's new recruits have come from the CP itself. As our party roots itself more and more deeply in its class, it not only gathers strength but cuts the ground from under the feet of Stalinism.
Among the most pressing tasks that now face the union militants is the organization of a progressive left wing. The entire future of the trade union movement hinges on this. There is no blueprint for the left wing movement, the reporter explained. It cannot be grafted upon the trade unions but must arise in struggle as an integral and growing section of the leftward moving workers. It can grow only on the basis of a class conscious program.
In conclusion Comrade Dobbs predicted that as the struggles became more and more complicated and of necessity more and more political, the incompetence and treachery of the incumbent union officialdom would become more fully revealed, compelling the workers to seek new leaders and to enter the ranks of our party in ever larger numbers. "It is in the unions," he said, "that we shall build the firm foundations of the mass party of the American revolution."
Comrade Dobbs also delivered the organization report, summarizing the work accomplished in the past two-year period and outlining the current problems before the party.
The record shows that everyone of the goals of organizational and institutional expansion set by the 1944 convention had been successfully fulfilled and in many cases surpassed.
Organization Report
The size of The Militant was increased to eight pages and maintained for a year and a half. Its circulation rose to new peaks through two successful subscription campaigns, through mass distributions during the strike wave and during the 1946 election campaign. A most impressive publishing program was carried out, including the publication of three full-size books and 10 programmatic and agitational pamphlets. In the past two years Pioneer Publishers has distributed more than 100,000 books and pamphlets.
In the same period the party's organizational staff was enlarged, new branches set up and several others strengthened. The educational activity of the party was ambitiously stepped up. The Midwest Vacation School has become an established party institution, with similar projects carried out on a more limited scale on the West Coast. The quota of 1,000 new recruits to the party was met, as were the quotas in every other campaign undertaken in the recent period.
We achieved the goal of the Trotsky School, a training school for party leaders who are in this way enabled to devote six months full time to the study of Marxism. The first session of the Trotsky School had been successfully concluded and the first six graduates were present at the convention.
Objective conditions, Comrade Dobbs explained, made it impossible to continue the program of institutional expansion at the same rate as in the past. The party's financial resources have in the meantime been severely strained by inflation, especially the exorbitant printing costs. This has necessitated measures of retrenchment, among them such emergency steps as reducing the size of The Militant to six pages. The continued publication of our magazine in its present 32-page format depends largely on the success of the campaign for 1,000 new subscribers.
To meet the financial emergency the Convention decided to raise a fund of $20,000 by March 1, 1947.
The work and deliberations of the convention were greatly enriched by the highly fruitful panel discussions. Comrades involved in particular phases of party activity convened in special panels between the sessions of the convention itself in order to discuss questions of the Negro struggle, problems of veterans and of the trade unions, the functioning of Militant correspondents and the circulation of the press.
"Unity" Proposal
The convention had before it a "unity" proposal of the Workers Party, an opponent organization which came into existence in 1940 when the petty-bourgeois opposition, under the leadership of Burnham and Shachtman, split from the SWP. The "unity" proposal of this group, whose political difference with our party have deepened and multiplied in the six-year interval, was purely maneuverist in its character, and employed for the purpose of engineering a split in our ranks. This shabby maneuver was rejected by the delegates, with only 3 votes cast in favor. The text of the motion adopted by the convention on this point appears elsewhere in our columns.
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The final point on the agenda was the internal party situation. Involved here was the need of safeguarding the party and its discipline against acts of disruption and disloyalty. For a period of more than two years the minority was guilty of unheard-of violations of discipline, of acts of disloyalty, of hostile combinations and conspiracies against the party, of threats of split and the actual carrying out of split by the Goldman half of the faction. The section of the minority that remained in the party after the Goldman-led handful split away to join the Workers Party, had continued to flout the decisions of the May 1946 Plenum which warned them to cease and desist from their anti-party conduct. It was this continued violation of party discipline and of the decisions of the highest party bodies that finally exhausted the patience of the party membership and impelled them to take drastic measures to put an end to this intolerable situation. By a vote of 101 to 4 with no abstentions, the delegates voted to expel Felix Morrow and David Jeffries for persistent violations of discipline and "disloyal and disruptive activities." The other members of the faction were granted one final opportunity and given one final warning to alter their course. The text of the motion adopted in this connection is likewise contained in this issue.
The Twelfth National Convention was a living demonstration of the unconquerable will, of the vigor and strength of American Trotskyism, and at the same time it was a preview of our great future. In its composition the convention represented, even if on a miniature scale as yet, a genuine cross-section not only of the organized labor movement but of the American working class as a whole. It demonstrated that new layers of workers, who only yesterday remained untouched not alone by revolutionary ideas but by political life in general, are already stirring and that individuals, typical of these layers, are gravitating toward the SWP. It demonstrated that our party is making inroads into all other political formations, especially the Stalinists.
There was a large proportion of women, the majority factory workers and proletarian housewives, among the 117 voting delegates, 70 alternates and 190 registered guests. Veterans of whom there are several hundred in the party were likewise well represented. So was the youth.
An infallible sign of the party's revolutionary spirit and integrity is its ability to attract Negroes. Proportionately to the population of the country the SWP has recruited more Negroes than whites. More than a fifth of the party consists of Negroes most of whom have been recruited in the last two years. We are proud of the fact that our party has made important gains among the most oppressed section of the American population.
The Twelfth Convention was a working convention in the full sense of the term. It was a gathering not of a propaganda circle but of a movement already with deep roots among the masses, a movement imbued with confidence, conscious of its strength and abilities, aware of the need of rapid growth and of engaging in large scale activities, and capable of achieving both.
The Twelfth Convention signalized a new stage in the forward march of American Trotskyism. The resolutions and decisions adopted by this convention will make it possible for the SWP to take giant steps on the main highway that leads to the party of mass action.


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Market Cooling For Monroe? Ravens May Get 'Lucky'
Something happened over the weekend that changed
On Friday, Monroe was "unlikely" to return because of a contract divide (he reportedly wanted $10 million per year, and the Ravens wanted to pay $8-9 million) and presumed interest on the open market. But by Sunday night, there was "increased hope" from both sides that an agreement could be reached after a "significant gap" in negotiations was bridged, per The Baltimore Sun's Aaron Wilson.
What happened?
We can't know for sure, but Wilson says if a deal gets done, it's expected to fall somewhere between $8.5 million to $9 million. So it doesn't look like the Ravens changed their offer much.
Perhaps the market is cooling for Monroe.
The Miami Dolphins – who were rumored to be one of the most interested suitors for Monroe – are expected to sign Chiefs free agent left tackle Branden Albert not long after the market officially opens Tuesday at 4 p.m., according to multiple reports. Albert could reportedly get $9.5 million annually.
Many believed Monroe would want to test free agency, and with "legal tampering" opening Saturday night, the 26-year-old veteran may have discovered this:
"Monroe is the consensus fourth man on the list for the other teams desperate for a left tackle," wrote SI.com's Peter King.
The other tackle-needy teams are expected to sign (per Wilson and King) …
Oakland Raiders -------------------> Ram Rodger Saffold ($8 million)
Arizona Cardinals ------------------> Raider Jared Veldheer ($7-$7.5 million annually)
Tampa Bay Buccaneers -----------> Bengal Anthony Collins ($6.5-$7 million)
"The biggest beneficiary of the high-stakes left-tackle poker: the Ravens. They could get the player they've wanted to keep all along," wrote King. "Baltimore could get very lucky."
Nothing is set in stone until these tackles officially sign contracts, and a deal with Monroe isn't imminent, but things seem to be moving in the right direction.
"[I]t seems likely that once teams and agents began their communications on Saturday, either Monroe's camp began to realize that there isn't a better deal out there than the one the Ravens are offering, or the Ravens upped their offer for Monroe when they discovered that offensive tackles are going to be more expensive than they expected. Or perhaps some combination of the two," wrote ProFootballTalk.com's Michael David Smith. "But it's now looking a lot more likely that Monroe will remain in Baltimore than it looked 48 hours ago."
As for
"I don't care where I end up in free agency I will play my best football next year!!!"
He added later: "Lol just having fun with it I knew everybody would get a bit on it!"
Flacco Not On Nicks' QB List
New York Giants wide receiver Hakeem Nicks sent a letter to all 32 teams from highly-respected Dr. Robert Anderson and Dr. James Andrews explaining that Nicks' foot and knee are fine, according to ESPN's Chris Mortensen.
He doesn't want the injuries that limited him to just 109 catches and three touchdowns over the past two years to be a concern when he officially becomes a free agent Tuesday.
Nicks, 26, has been linked to the Ravens and he emphasized he can be a "missing link" to a team with championship aspirations. He has his eye on a number of teams and established quarterbacks, naming a few.
"I know if I went to a place like Indianapolis, I would be dangerous with a quarterback like Andrew Luck," Nicks told ESPN's Josina Anderson. "I can see myself catching passes from Cam Newton or even Philip Rivers."
Ravens quarterback
"Players have already started to reach out to me from other teams saying they would love for me to come join them," Nicks said. "I just want to make it clear that I want a long-term deal and I want to be happy. I'm excited about talking to teams and making it work."
It only seems like a matter of time before defensive tackle Arthur Jones says goodbye to Baltimore.
With agents and teams chatting it up since Saturday, Jones has already drawn interest from the Green Bay Packers, Tennessee Titans, Washington Redskins, New York Giants, Minnesota Vikings and other NFL teams, according to Wilson.
That's six teams and counting.
No pundits expected Jones to stick around in Baltimore, as he should follow in the footsteps of Dannell Ellerbe and Paul Kruger last offseason and cash in. Only King says Jones will be a better long-term investment than his predecessors.
"It's crazy to think this maybe my very last happy purple Friday wishes," Jones tweeted Friday. "Hopefully not. But as we all know business is business."
In response to a fan that asked him if he would give the Ravens a hometown discount, Jones wrote: "I think Michael Bennett said it best. This isn't Costcos this isn't Walmart. Hahah."
Status Updates On Jacoby, Smith, McClellan, Graham
- The Ravens have an offer on the table to wide receiver
Jacoby Jones, per NFL Media's Ian Rapoport. It's unknown what the offer looks like, but The Sun's Jeff Zrebiec believes that Jones and Daryl Smithare the most realistic Ravens free agents to return …
- Baltimore still hopes to hold onto Smith, who is a priority, but no deal imminent, per Wilson. King believes that Smith should write a thank-you note to ex-Browns linebacker D'Qwell Jackson. Smith was never going to "strike it rich in free agency until Jackson signed for $4.5 million a year with Indianapolis last week," King wrote.
- The team reached a two-year agreement with reserve linebacker and special teams player
Albert McClellan, per Wilson. "McClellan led the Ravens with a career-high 12 special teams tackles last season," The Sun reporter wrote. "He provides much-needed depth at linebacker and could challenge for playing time. He has lined up at both inside and outside linebacker in the Ravens' 3-4 scheme."
- Retaining
Corey Grahamwould mean the Ravens wouldn't have any turnover among their cornerbacks, but it's not a foregone conclusion that the veteran will be back. Wilson believes Graham will have a "healthy market" after being a productive starting corner and a Pro Bowl special teams selection.
Rashard Mendenhall To Retire … Remembering Lewis' Hit
Ex-Steelers running back Rashard Mendenhall is already retiring at the age of 26.
He says he wants to walk away from the NFL with his body feeling as good as it did when he entered the league. "I no longer wish to put my body at risk for the sake of entertainment," he told the Huffington Post.
Fair enough.
But Mendenhall will leave behind one of the most Ray Lewis' most memorable hits of all time, breaking the then-rookie's shoulder.
"I think it's sad, but when I think of the career of Rashard Mendenhall, I think of Ray Lewis breaking his shoulder, not his two 1,000-yard seasons with the Steelers," wrote King. "Video of the Lewis hit will be on the great linebacker's top-10 career hits video, and it's a day, from Mendenhall's rookie year, that he'll take into early retirement with him."
Unfair To Put 'Bad Boys' Label On Ravens?
With offensive lineman
That's what the Ravens were known for prior to Head Coach John Harbaugh's arrival in Baltimore, and then he worked to dispel the image and even banned the all-black uniforms for a few years.
"Embarrassing? Without question. Have the Ravens become the NFL's bad boys again? You could make that argument," Hensley wrote, noting that
"But it's hard to alter the national perception when the headlines have been about another Ravens player arrested. Bad news is bad news. This was already going to be a challenging offseason for the Ravens, who were coming off their first non-winning season under Harbaugh. The Ravens have to rebuild their offense, part of their front seven on defense, and now their image."
Hensley gives more detail to Reid's arrest in the video below (mobile users tap "View in Browser" at the top of the page).
Quick Hits
- @ElamVsElo: Seeing players get these Mega deals is definitely a spark plug..! [Twitter]
- @jeffzrebiecsun: Id be pretty surprised if any of following FA's are back:
James Ihedigbo, Art Jones, Ed Dickson, Michael Oher, Dallas Clark. [Twitter]
- @TerezOwens: Joe Flacco Vacationing in Jamaica [Twitter]
- @jtuck9: Don't matter where u at, when 'Seven Nation Army' comes thru the speakers, u STAND UP!! #RavensNation [Twitter]
- @RavensInsider: Ravens secondary coach Steve Spagnuolo among those attending Northern Illinois Pro Day, which features safety Jimmy Ward [Twitter]
- @RavensInsider: Ex-Ravens DT-LB Bryan Hall worked out for eight NFL teams at Arkansas St. today, ran between 4.85-4.92, 6-foot, 297, excelled in pos. drills [Twitter]
- @RavensInsider: ravens free agent nose guard terrence cody has signed with Authentic Athletix agent peter schaffer was previously with athletes first [Twitter]
- Nearly 200 men and women attended the Ravens Cheerleader tryouts in the Downtown Athletic Club. Auditions are held through March, and the results will be announced April 1. [WJZ]


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