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TUSCALOOSA | Although some feared that post-tornado exhaustion might curtail donations this year, the 2012 United Way of West Alabama campaign actually set a record, raising $3,351,273 in pledges, beating the previous 2007 record of a little more than $3.2 million.
TUSCALOOSA | Although some feared that post-tornado exhaustion might curtail donations this year, the 2012 United Way of West Alabama campaign actually set a record, raising $3,351,273 in pledges, beating the previous 2007 record of a little more than $3.2 million.
In a year after massive needs created by the April 27, 2011, tornado, the community responded not with compassion fatigue, but with renewed efforts to make and exceed the $3.15 million goal, said campaign chairman Dennis Steverson.
"People saw the need; they stepped up," he said at the campaign announcement party at the University Club on Thursday evening.
Steverson spoke after a buffet and performances by kids from the Arts 'n Autism after-school program. The students sang "Joy to the World," — accompanied with sign language — Faith Hill's "Where Are You Christmas?," "Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer," "We Wish You A Merry Christmas" and pounded out a percussion-heavy "Little Drummer Boy."
"This is our first year as a member agency," said Suzanne Dowling, executive director of the eight-year-old Arts 'n Autism, "and we're so proud to be a part of this."
Taylor Kerekes, who's been with the program all of its eight years, celebrated his 22nd birthday by soloing on Paul McCartney's "Wonderful Christmastime," conducting the younger students on the background vocals. He got a big laugh by adding "You all know it's true" after the lyric "We're simply having a wonderful Christmastime."
After thanking volunteers, staff and others for their work on the campaign, United Way of West Alabama vice president Rusty Smith introduced Steverson.
"It certainly is appropriate during this season of joy, giving and thanksgiving," Steverson said, "that I can express a personal thanks to you who so represent these virtues.
"We are fortunate in this community to have people with generous hearts who care so much about people who may not have been as fortunate as we are."
United Way of West Alabama said it raised its goal this year because previous campaigns exceeded expectations, even during an economic downturn, and because the needs, both ordinary operating funds and exceptional demands as a result of the tornado, continue to be an issue.
The United Way of West Alabama's 27 member agencies, in seven counties, address education and income stability. Among those served by United Way of West Alabama are the American Red Cross, The Arc of Tuscaloosa, Big Brothers Big Sisters, Boy Scouts and Girl Scouts, Boys & Girls Club, Caring Days Adult Day Care, Child Protective Services, Easter Seals West Alabama, Family Counseling Services, Focus on Senior Citizens, the Good Samaritan Clinic, Hospice of West Alabama, Turning Point and West Alabama AIDS Outreach.
More than 800 volunteers, including loaned executives from various businesses and groups in the area, work to raise the pledges, under the direction of the board and staff. United Way of West Alabama said it keeps administrative costs low, so that 84 percent of money raised goes directly to work for the agencies.
As Steverson announced the figures, the Arts 'n Autism students held up number cards, including commas and a dollar sign, to show the full amount.
"What we pledge to do now is be good stewards of the money you have entrusted to the United Way," he said.
Steverson's leadership was crucial in the record-setting campaign, said Jackie Wuska, president and CEO of United Way of West Alabama, noting that the attorney will stay on with the group's board.
"It's a testament to the heart of giving in our community that we raised a historic amount," Wuska said.
For more about the work of the agencies, or to learn about tax-deductible donations, see the website at www.uwwa.org or call 205-345-6640.


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BP has pleaded guilty to manslaughter over the deaths of 11 men in the Gulf of Mexico disaster and will pay $4.5bn (£2.8bn) in a record settlement with US authorities.
The explosion on the Deepwater Horizon rig in April 2010 caused the worst offshore oil spill in US history, brought the company to its knees and, after Thursday's settlement, is likely to cost it at least $42bn.
The total bill could yet rise significantly if BP is found to have committed gross negligence – a charge it has always denied – in a civil case that remains unresolved.
BP is to pay $4bn in criminal fines and penalties to resolve all criminal claims with the Department of Justice (DoJ) – the largest criminal settlement in US history.
It will plead guilty to 11 felony charges of manslaughter over the deaths of the men.
The DoJ said it had also charged BP's two highest-ranking supervisors on the Deepwater Horizon, Robert Kaluza and Donald Vidrine, with manslaughter, negligence and gross negligence.
BP will plead guilty to two criminal misdemeanour counts over the oil spill; one under the Clean Water Act and one under the Migratory Bird Treaty Act.
A 14th guilty plea is for a criminal felony charge for obstructing Congress by lying about the amount of oil leaking from the stricken Macondo well after the accident.
The DoJ also charged a former senior BP executive, David Rainey, who served as deputy incident commander during the spill, with allegedly underestimating the oil leaking "to make the spill appear less catastrophic than it was".
It is thought BP will cover legal fees for its current and former employees.
Announcing the settlement and criminal charges in New Orleans, assistant attorney general Lanny Breuer said the explosion resulted from BP's culture of prioritising "profit over prudence".
He said: "Perhaps the greatest tragedy is that the deaths of the 11 men on board the Deepwater Horizon could have been avoided. As the oil spill continued, BP made a tragic situation worse: it began misleading Congress and the American people about how much oil was pouring out of the Macondo well."
BP also agreed to pay $525m to resolve securities claims with the Securities and Exchange Commission, over false estimates of the leakage rate.
Robert Khuzami, the SEC's enforcement director, said that BP hiding the spill's severity had harmed "its own shareholders and the investing public".
BP chief executive Bob Dudley said: "All of us at BP deeply regret the tragic loss of life caused by the Deepwater Horizon accident as well as the impact of the spill on the Gulf coast region.
"We apologise for our role in the accident and, as today's resolution with the US government further reflects, we have accepted responsibility for our actions."
Thursday's settlement added a further $3.85bn to BP's total bill for the disaster, for which it had previously budgeted $38.1bn.
But a host of civil claims that could significantly add to the bill for the disaster remain unresolved and are due to be heard at a New Orleans trial beginning in February.
BP chairman Carl-Henric Svanberg said the resolution was "in the best interest of BP and its shareholders".
He added: "It removes two significant legal risks and allows us to vigorously defend the company against the remaining civil claims."
BP told analysts it could have faced far greater criminal charges if it had not settled.
BP's shares rose in the day amid reports the settlement was imminent but closed down 0.41pc shortly after BP released its statement on the deal. The comments from US authorities were not released until after UK markets closed.
However, analyst Peter Hutton, at RBC Capital Markets, said the deal was a "significant step" for BP because it removed the "largest non-estimable liability and risk of criminal indictment". It also showed a willingness to settle by both sides, he said.
However, he warned that he expected BP to have to increase further its total provisions for the spill, by as much as $9bn, as remaining matters were resolved.
BP has budgeted $3.5bn for civil penalties under the Clean Water Act, based on its legal view that it was not grossly negligent, but fines could be many times higher is the DoJ proves that charge.
BP said that nothing in the settlement affected its view, as its pleas over the accident were "based on no more than negligent conduct".
Mr Hutton said the maximum penalties under the Clean Water Act could be $21bn but suggested that BP's was likely to achieve a resolution for less than that.
BP is close to achieving a $38bn target of divestments to help pay for the spill. Its share price remains about one-third below the level before the disaster.

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(Reuters) - Some New Jersey homeowners are expected to start getting offers from the state within the next two weeks for their properties that flooded during last year's Superstorm Sandy, according to a state spokesman.
The state is "working with the people who want their homes sold to get them through all of the red tape," said Lawrence Ragonese, a spokesman for the state Department of Environmental Protection. He said that offers will be forthcoming within two weeks.
Governor Chris Christie has said he wants to use about $300 million - up from an initial $250 million - of federal funds to buy about 1,000 homes damaged by Sandy and another 300 that are prone to repeat flooding in the Passaic River Basin in northern New Jersey.
Superstorm Sandy slammed into the U.S. East Coast in October, ravaging portions of the New York and New Jersey coastline and damaging tens of thousands of homes.
After acquiring clusters of flood-prone homes at their fair market pre-storm value under a federal program, officials in New Jersey and New York plan to demolish the houses and leave the land as open space to help absorb water from future floods.
Post-disaster buyouts are not new. The Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA) has helped fund the purchase of more than 40,000 properties over the past decade, but the average transaction takes 12-to-18 months to close and large-scale purchases such those in New Jersey and New York after Sandy are rare.
In New York, the state began sending appraisals out earlier this week to some homeowners on the borough of Staten Island, according to homeowner Joseph Szczesny, whose house was inundated during Sandy even though he had raised it up off the ground.
While such buyouts can drag on for years, Szczesny said the process is speeding along.
"I think we're going faster than a speeding bullet," he said. "To me the buyout makes sense."
The Staten Island neighborhood of Oakwood Beach is on track to become the first in New York to go through the buyout process. Nearly 200 homeowners there have said they want to be bought out after decades of flooding left many feeling they had no other option.
New York Governor Andrew Cuomo laid out a $400 million program to buy more than 1,000 high-risk properties off the market. So far, the state has won approval to use $171 million of disaster-related block grant money from the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development for the program.
A spokesman for the New York State Division of Homes & Community Renewal, which is overseeing New York buyouts, did not respond to a request for comment.
In New Jersey, the first tranche of money is coming from FEMA, which in June awarded nearly $29.5 million in grants to fund the voluntary acquisitions. The purchases are proceeding in conjunction with an existing state flood buyout program, called Blue Acres.
New Jersey's first post-Sandy buyouts will be in Sayerville, the same area where a sewage treatment plant was inundated with silt and seawater, sending raw sewage through manhole covers into the streets.
Appraisers are reviewing properties. But homeowners can get their own appraisals if they disagree with the government's findings, and they can reject offers they feel aren't adequate.
The $29.5 million is expected to cover most of the cost of the first 129 purchases. The state can use funds from the Blue Acres program to match any portion of the buyouts not covered by FEMA money, Ragonese said.
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David Leslie Hansen GOOSE CREEK - David Leslie Hansen, 77, of Goose Creek, passed away, Saturday, January 9, 2016. Born in Lafayette, CO, he was the son of the late John and Maxine Hansen. Retired Command Master Chief Petty Officer David L. Hansen served in the United States Navy for 30 years, on aircraft carriers, oilers, destroyers, cruisers, and two submarines. He served in Vietnam for over two years and earned a Bronze Star, 2 Purple Hearts, and various other awards. In addition to his military accolades he was a member of the Santee Cooper Bass Club, Tin Can Sailors, the Scottish Rite, the Omar Shrine Temple (former Commander of Marching Patrol Unit), 40 and 8 - Voyager 1067; and, his military affiliations. His family will remember him as a loving husband, father, and grandfather. David is survived by his wife, Loreto Zapanta Hansen of Goose Creek; one daughter, Kathy Hansen Sweigart and her husband, Darren of Irmo, SC; sons, Gene Hansen of Summerville and Art Hansen and his wife Janet Cummings-Hansen of Summerville; grandchildren, Savannah, Chase, Sophia, Daniel, and Logan; brother, Kenneth Hansen; his children from a previous marriage, Cindy Hansen Baughman, Douglas Hansen, and David Hansen. A visitation with Masonic Rites will be held Thursday, January 14, 2016 from 6:00 pm -8:00 pm at MCALISTER-SMITH FUNERAL HOME, GOOSE CREEK CHAPEL. A celebration of his life will be at 11:00 am Friday, January 15, 2016 at the funeral home. A burial will immediately follow at Plantation Memorial Gardens, Moncks Corner, SC. Military Honors will be rendered by the American Legion Post 166 and the Submarine Veterans will perform the Bell Tolling. Expressions of sympathy may be submitted or viewed online at www.mcalister-smith.com. - See more at: http://www.legacy.com/obituaries/charle ... ZdFLS.dpuf
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The most recent update of CloudMagic includes the ability to not only search for Dropbox files, but to download and preview them as well. You can also open tweets in the Twitter app (only the official Twitter app), open Evernote files in the Evernote apps, view large Facebook photos in search results, and more.
CloudMagic supports the following services: Gmail, Google Apps, Facebook, Twitter, Evernote, Dropbox, Box, Microsoft Exchange, Office 365, Google Docs, Google Calendar, Google Contacts, Google Chat, iCloud email, AOL, Mail.com and GMX.
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Instructions for your day of the show Meet and Greet will be included in your pre-show readiness package. Day of the show, you will need a valid I.D. that matches the name on your order form to pick up your VIP Meet and Greet Laminates and Chris Kael bass guitar.
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What are non-religious groups such as Applied Scholastics and WISE doing using a "proprietary religious artifact" while continuing to claim they are SECULAR and not associated with "Church of Scientology"?
Either Applied Scholastics and WISE are lying (and should be exposed) or Church of Scientology is blowing smoke up everyone's ass about the "proprietary" and "religious" nature of the emeter. CofS can't have it both ways!
Anons and critics... go fer it!
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Language from the eBay auction (saved here for posterity's sake because eBay auctions eventually expire and disappear):
WISE website link: http://www.wise.org/en_US/catalog/categ ... t_TrainingThis model has had a new battery installed this month and internally calibrated to factory spec .All the original equipment is here: Carrying case with foam in excellent condition, cans, cord, wall charger, and calibration resistors.
Made by Bridge Publications for Applied Scholastics and W.I.S.E., World Institute of Scientology. This operates like an e-meter with similar results. It has a central OFF-ON-TEST knob, a NEEDLE CONTROL dial similar to the TA Dial, a RANGE knob like the Sensitivity Booster, a BALANCE dial like a TRIM dial, and a SENSITIVITY dial like the Sensitivity dial on a standard Hubbard E-Meter.
From WISE's website:
The Learning Accelerator is a precision electronic instrument which can be used by a business trainer or instructor or anyone who is interested in helping others through the technology of word clearing.
Through training and careful application of the techniques of word clearing, you will get standard technical results resulting in an increase of efficiency in your company.
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Hand Artists introduces sign language
by Natalie Hormilla
When Jan Caswell was growing up in Derby Line, she had no idea what sort of career lay in her future. Now, after 40 years of working with deaf people in a variety of ways, she's created a book that introduces American Sign Language and deaf culture, entitled Hand Artists.
Ms. Caswell said she basically fell into working with deaf people.
"It's given me a career for 40 years, and I have met some people who are just fascinating," she said in an interview with the Chronicle.
After graduating from North Country Union High School's second class, in 1969, Ms. Caswell went to the University of Connecticut. She said she thought she'd return to the Northeast Kingdom, but took a job at the Austine School for the Deaf in Brattleboro, on a lark.
"I needed a job and I wanted to be back in Vermont," she said. The job was to be a dormitory counselor at the Austine school.
"I lived in a separate house with 25 girls between the ages of 16 and 21," she said. All the girls were deaf students at Austine.
"I was like the big sister," she said.
Ms. Caswell was 22 years old at the time, and had no previous experience in sign language. She was told she wouldn't need to know sign for the job.
"That was too scary," she said.
As luck would have it, Ms. Caswell knew a returning senior at Austine who lived in Newport. Ms. Caswell asked to borrow the girl's yearbook, and taught herself how to letter spell each student's name so she would at least have an entry point for conversation once she got to Austine.
Ms. Caswell picked up American Sign Language very quickly once she got to Austine.
"In six weeks, I was fluent," she said.
"It was hands-on the minute I started." Ms. Caswell said the girls would try to tell her dirty jokes in American Sign Language.
"I wouldn't understand them. I'd sign, 'slow,' 'again.'"
That job marked the beginning of a lifelong love for signing. Since then, Ms. Caswell has worked as the Vermont state coordinator of services for the deaf, as an educational interpreter in California, as a vocational rehabilitation counselor for the deaf in Massachusetts, and she even worked as the interpreter on Madeline Kunin's gubernatorial campaign, among other things.
"I've done everything you can do — I think."
She said that she is sometimes mistaken as being a deaf person, rather than a hearing person.
Ms. Caswell said that her kids really encouraged her to publish a book after learning that she had written some stories, just for fun.
After she wrote the book, she used the online funding platform Kickstarter to gather money for publishing expenses.
Kickstarter allows for people from just about anywhere to donate to a project, whether because they know the project creator or they just think it's a cool idea.
Ms. Caswell said that she raised most of the $6,600 she needed through Kickstarter. Donations ranged from $5 to $500.
"People donated from all over: Alaska, Nova Scotia, British Columbia, California, Oregon, Arizona, Vermont, Connecticut, Florida," she said.
She said some people who weren't at all connected to her or even the deaf community donated money.
The donations were helpful because, as Ms. Caswell put it, "I'm not going to make millions. It's really a work of love."
Ms. Caswell brought on a late-deafened woman, Stephanie Labrie, to be the illustrator.
"Steph had never done anything professionally before," she said.
Ms. Labrie used watercolor pencils, which allow for colors that are deep and bold.
"When you take a 3-D language and put it on a 2-D page, it's extremely difficult," Ms. Caswell said.
Hand Artists is a very colorful book that tells the story of Kyleigh, a deaf girl, and Erin, a hearing girl, who are best friends. American Sign Language is interspersed throughout the pages. The discerning reader will learn the signs for different letters, numbers, and even words like "story" and "goal." The illustrator used curved arrows to indicate the hand motions needed for more complicated signs.
"It's an opportunity to learn a little bit about sign, but it's not something to 'teach' sign with," Ms. Caswell said. "It's meant to introduce it." The book is also meant to be an introduction to deaf culture.
"My friends who are educators said it's most likely for five-to-ten-year-olds, but older kids can benefit, too," she said. "It's meant for whomever, or for hearing people who want to learn a little more about sign."
Ms. Caswell said that about a dozen teachers, from Ontario, Canada, to western Massachusetts, have ordered the book for their classrooms.
Ms. Caswell lives in western Massachusetts, but she said she still considers Vermont her home, and visits her parents in Derby Line often.
Hand Artists is available at Wider Than the Sky in Newport, the Woodknot Bookshop in Newport, Barnes and Noble, and amazon.com.
contact Natalie Hormilla at [email protected]
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Ann Mary Warren Hearon Willingham obituary located in our (Obituary) Book W # 2, request was on February 26, 2013. It was located by myself, Dorothy Harbin and copy forwarded to Elaine Shelton for her personal use. This request was done prior to March 10, 2013 at no cost to her. Ms. Shelton was very appreciative for having received this copy by mail.
Thanks to Dorothy for helping this researcher and sharing the results for the Bulletin.
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When most people think of making pottery, the first thing they think of is a potter's wheel, but there is so much more to it than that.
"I like working with the clay itself, but the throwing is just a tiny fraction of what I do," said potter Paula Barta of rural Marion.
"It's kind of mesmerizing," she said. "When you're throwing on the wheel, you have to be focused."
After shaping, bowls, vases, mugs, and other ceramics need time to dry so they don't shatter from water in the clay turning to steam when they are fired in a kiln. Clay that has dried is known as greenware, and it is still soft. During this stage, any excess clay is trimmed away.
Barta biscuit-fires her wares in an electric kiln that reaches a temperature of 1,800 degrees. This hardens and shrinks the ceramics, which are known as stoneware afterward. Then Barta applies a glaze and fires her wares in a brick propane kiln that reaches temperatures of 2,300 degrees. From the start with wet clay to a final glazed item, ceramics shrink about 15 percent, she said.
"I was an art major in college, and I did take a pottery class, but I never thought I'd do anything with it," Barta said Monday.
But around 1980 she took a job at Flint Hills Clay Works in Marion, and she enjoyed the work enough to build a studio at her home. It was only a part-time pursuit in recent years as she worked as a speech language pathologist at Marion Elementary School. She retired from school this year, and now she is devoting more time to her pottery.
"I just enjoy it so much," she said. "I hardly make any money, but that doesn't seem to stop me."
Barta enjoys adding little embellishments to her pottery, such as stamping the clay or adding different shapes of handles to bowls, trays, and mugs. Her latest project is a series of nesting bowls, stamped with the name of her workshop, Spring Branch Pottery.
Barta said most of her ceramics are stoneware, but she does some with earthenware, which is only fired once and at a relatively low temperature, and with porcelain, which is much lighter in color than stoneware and makes glazes look brighter.
Barta will have some of her ceramics for sale Saturday at Art in the Park in Marion. All of the items she plans to have for sale are already completed, she said.


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Hall Votes for Jobs, Economy Bills
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Hall Votes for Jobs, Economy Bills: Red Tape Reduction, "Audit the Fed"
This week Rep. Ralph Hall (TX-04) voted with the House Majority to pass two bills focused on job creation and economic growth. H.R. 4078, the Red Tape Reduction and Small Business Job Creation Act, which passed 245-172, works to eliminate federal red tape that hinders small businesses from growing their business. H.R. 459, the Federal Reserve Transparency Act of 2012 ("Audit the Fed"), which passed 327-98, would allow the Government Accountability Office to conduct a full audit of the Federal Reserve.
"Since President Obama took office, there has been a significant increase in regulations," said Hall. "These regulations are preventing small business owners from hiring new workers, which in turn is hurting both job seekers and our economy. The President's lack of understanding and faith in small business owners to build successful businesses is clear."
On the House Floor yesterday, Chairman Hall stated, "The Committee on Science, Space, and Technology has explored regulatory hurdles being put up by a number of agencies and we've seen a massive expansion of red tape under this Administration. Much of it has come from the Environmental Protection Agency where too many of the environmental regulations put forward have been based on secret science, hidden data, and predetermined outcomes."
"We must promote conditions where job creators have the ability and confidence to grow their businesses and hire new workers. In order to cut the unemployment rate, we need to cut the red tape. That means removing unnecessary federal regulations so small businesses can invest in the future and have every opportunity to succeed.
"We can also encourage a healthy economy by providing full transparency and accountability with the Federal Reserve - the country's banking system. Over the past three and a half years, the Federal Reserve has tripled its balance sheet to $3 trillion, which is equivalent to 20% of the economy, and it has lent out nearly $16 trillion - more than the size of the entire economy.
"Under current law, Congress is prohibited from completing a full review of the Federal Reserve. Americans have the right to know how their tax dollars are spent, and the Federal Reserve Transparency Act of 2012 will allow Congress to conduct annual audits that include monetary policy.
"Jobs and the economy are the American people's top concerns, and my top priority will continue to be fighting to foster job creation and economic growth."
Specifically, the Red Tape Reduction and Small Business Job Creation Act would:
• Freeze any economically significant regulation, except for health and emergency, until employment drops below six percent nationally;
• Permanently prevent "lame duck" administrations from issuing economically significant regulations;
• Ensure impacted parties have a right to intervene before federal agencies agree to binding legal settlements;
• Require independent federal agencies such as the Federal Communications Commission and National Labor Relations Board to comply with the same regulatory review requirements as other agencies and require increased transparency with respect to unfunded mandates that are imposed on state and local governments;
• Create a streamlined process for consideration of federal permits for construction projects; and
• Require both the Securities and Exchange Commission and Commodity Futures Trading Commission to conduct more thorough cost-benefit analyses of proposed regulations.
Likewise, "Audit the Fed" would:
• Allow the Government Accountability Office to audit the Federal Reserve and submit a report to Congress within twelve months;
• Remove restrictions on Government Accountability Office so it can audit monetary policy operations, emergency lending, and operations with foreign central banks; and
• Allow additional audits to be performed in the future without restrictions on what the Government Accountability Office can examine.


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Since we want to help keep your newborn healthy and happy, we encourage visitors who are not well to delay their visit. And, to help you continue to feel your best, we recommend visits be limited to 30 minutes to allow for as much rest as possible.
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Classes are held the second Thursday of each month, from 11:30 to 12:30 in the Summit Woods Conference Room
Register by calling 816-404-8260.
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What The Curebit Saga Teaches Us About Copyright, Plagiarism And Reputation
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The startup Curebit brought something of a firestorm down on its head recently. Here's how VentureBeat broke the story:
Curebit, a Y Combinator startup that just closed a round of funding from Dave McClure's 500 Startups fund, has been caught red-handed stealing HTML code, images, and the like from 37signals.
Leaving aside the usual point that Curebit's employees almost certainly didn't break into 37signal's office and physically remove all the HTML code and images in the way that the word "stealing" suggests, here's how Curebit tried to justify its actions with the following rather weak excuse:
We had a different homepage, were a/b testing different pages, came across the 37signals post and were like 'wow we should see how that converts!' We are big fans of rails and what 37signals is doing and did not really think through the implications of what we were doing. We just kind of thought about it as a fun test to run.
Unsurprisingly, that didn't convince many people, and eventually, Curebit apologized -- sort of:
Recently we launched a site with several pages copied from 37signals' Highrise. We did more than take inspiration from their design – we actually used html & css code, and hotlinked to images on their site. We apologize to David and 37signals for ripping off their work. It was stupid, lazy, and disrespectful of their creative efforts.
Curebit still doesn't seem to be admitting that what it did was wrong, although most people would say that it was. But there is an interesting discussion to be had about what exactly it did wrong.
Paul Carr, for example, not only believes that it was copyright infringement pure and simple, he suggests there's some deep hypocrisy flying around the developer community here:
The prevailing view, outside of Hollywood, seems to be that IP creators need to accept that copying is here to stay and that criminalising a "victimless" activity is stupid. Make it easy for us to pay for stuff and we won't have to steal it.
Well, one difference is that most of the things that people copy and share are simply enjoyed in private, not displayed on a company's public web site for people to see and admire. That means that there is an element of passing off here – plagiarism, in other words. Carr addresses the possibility that the anger provoked by Curebit's actions was down to the fact that it was plagiarism rather than simple copyright infringement:
And yet when the victim isn't a big evil Hollywood mogul (or one of the tens of thousands of people who work for him) but one of our own… well, then IP thieves should be dragged through the streets until they tearfully apologise. What's the difference?
Is it, as some argued on Twitter when I asked the question earlier, that plagiarism is different from copyright theft? No. And not least because plagiarism is copyright theft. Like most copyright theft, plagiarism doesn't deprive the creator of their original work and is usually committed by someone who is too lazy or cheap to acquire or create something legally.
Well, Curebit's wrongdoing may well be copyright infringement and plagiarism, but the latter is still very different from the former, and Carr himself goes on to identify exactly why:
The only real difference is that in plagiarism the infringer is usually pretending to be the creator of someone else's work.
This is the cardinal sin in a world based on reputation. If you build on somebody else's work, you must give attribution for that work, just as you must cite your source if you blog or tweet a story you have learned about from someone else.
Reputation is the glue that holds together all of the hugely-successful open collaborative software projects like Linux or Apache: there's no money involved (at least, not directly), but people are paid in terms of the respect they earn from their peers for what they do and how well they do it. Failing to acknowledge the fact that you are using their work is tantamount to disrespecting that code -- and hence the norms of the community.
That, I think, is why parts of the developer world world reacted so violently to Curebit's use of 37signal's code and images. If Curebit had admitted what it was doing up front, with full acknowledgement of the provenance of the work, and noted that it was building on 37signal's code as an act of respect, I suggest that few would have cared. The community norms would have been maintained, 37signal's reputation would have been enhanced, and its coders would have received the kudos that was rightfully theirs.
So this is not, as Carr suggests, a case of double standards on copyright infringement. The "infringement" here -- which undoubtedly exists according to the letter of the law – is irrelevant for a community that has placed sharing and collaboration at its heart. This is not about who owns what, but about who respects whom -- and shows it in the appropriate way.
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NASA's Mars rover Opportunity has found a Martian rock covered in weird material as its odometer hit a major milestone this week, with the long-lived robot completing equivalent to a half–marathon on the Red Planet.
Opportunity, now in its seventh year on Mars, found the odd Mars rock during the past six weeks studying investigating a crater called "Concepción."
The crater is about 33 feet (10 meters) in diameter, with dark rays extending from it, as seen from orbit, which made it a target of interest for rover inspection because they suggest the crater is young.
The rover made the pit stop to investigate the crater on its long journey to the large crater Endeavour, which is still about 7 miles (12 kilometers) away. It was while Opportunity was at Concepción that the rover surpassed 12.43 miles (20 kilometers) of total driving, about the length of a half-marathon.
Opportunity has driven farther than any other wheeled robot to land on Mars. Its robotic twin Spirit, which landed in January 2004 just weeks ahead of Opportunity, has driven about 4.8 miles (7.7 kilometers), while NASA's Sojourner rover, a small robot that landed in 1997, could drive only about a third of a mile (about half a kilometer) from the Pathfinder base it landed with.
Mars rock oddity
With new software that allows Opportunity to photograph rocks and other aspects of the Martian terrain and decide for itself what is worth closer inspection, the rover took an up-close look at a few rocks ejected by the impact that created Concepción.
What Opportunity has seen are chunks of the same type of bedrock it has seen at hundreds of locations since landing in January 2004: soft, sulfate-rich sandstone holding harder peppercorn-size dark spheres like berries in a muffin. The little spheres, rich in iron, gained the nickname "blueberries." But these rocks have some unusual twists as well.
Opportunity used tools on its robotic arm to examine this unusual material on a rock called "Chocolate Hills." In some places, the layer of closely packed spheres lies between thinner, smoother layers.
"It looks like a blueberry sandwich," said Matt Golombek, a rover science-team member at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, Calif.
Melted Mars rocks
Initial analysis of the coating's composition does not show any obvious component from whatever space rock hit Mars to dig the crater, but that is not a surprise, Golombek said. "The impact is so fast, most of the impactor vaporizes," he said. "Thin films of melt get thrown out, but typically the composition of the melt is the stuff that the impactor hit, rather than the impactor material."
"It's possible that when you melt this rock, the sandstone melts before the blueberries do, leaving intact blueberries as part of a melt layer," Squyres said.
"As an alternative, we know that this type of rock has fractures and that the sandstone can dissolve," he said. "Long ago, water flowing through fractures could have dissolved the sandstone and liberated blueberries that fell down into the fracture and packed together. In this hypothesis, the impact that excavated the crater did not play a role in forming this material, but split rocks along fractures so the material is exposed on the exterior like a coating."
Golombek said, "One consideration that jumps out is that we've been driving around this part of Mars for six years and never seen this stuff before, then we get to this young crater and it's coating rocks all around the crater. Sure looks like there's a connection, but it could just be a coincidence."
The observation that the rocks thrown from the crater have not yet eroded away much is evidence that the crater is young, confirming the suggestion from the dark rays.
"We're not ready to attach a number to it, but this is really young. It is the youngest crater we've ever seen with Opportunity and probably the youngest either rover has seen," Squyres said.
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An NCAA Division 3 record crowd was treated to another classic Hope/Calvin athletic contest Friday, Oct. 17 at DeVos Fieldhouse on the campus of Hope College.
In a showdown of nationally ranked volleyball teams, the visiting Knights prevailed in five games, 25-20, 23-25, 13-25, 25-18, 15-13.
The crowd of 2,307 established an NCAA Division 3 regular season attendance mark. The previous mark for a regular season match between Division 3 teams was 1,850 when Roanoke, Va. defeated Washington & Lee, Va. in October, 2000.


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Managing a city's image, engaging with local businesses and building relationships with the public is all in a day's work for Britney Caldwell. As the Director of Operations for the Greater Bothell Chamber of Commerce, Britney works with local businesses and the community to help meet the needs of the public. As Britney continues to grow and advance in her career, she confides that she would not be where she is today without the solid foundation she built while attending the University of Washington Bothell.
Britney graduated from UW Bothell in 2007 with a degree in Business Administration. As a student in the Business Program, Britney learned many industry standards that she utilizes in her daily work. She boasts that a lot of the knowledge she learned about serving the public came from Professor Balakrishnan's marketing class. The projects that she completed in his classes presented her with the tools that helped her redesign the Chamber's web site for easier use. She also rebranded the Chamber's marketing materials. Her work has certainly paid off. Since she has been working for the Chamber, membership has increased by 50%.
Britney has been able to successfully translate her well-rounded education into this exhilarating new career and she acknowledges that "UW Bothell has been a tremendous help" in the process. Britney looks forward to being able to give back to the UW Bothell community by continuing to maintain strong relationships with many of the on campus resources including the Career Center.
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GNUstep development environment for Fedora
- Name: Jochen Schmitt
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Current Status
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- Last updated: 2009-09-27
- Percentage of completion: 20%
TODO: Reviewing the following packages:
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- gnustep-example
Detailed Description
GNUstep is a GNU project to implement a Openstep/Nextstep-like environemnt on normal unix/linux systems.
Benefit to Fedora
Providing the GNUstep environment for Fedora which is available on other linux distributation like Debien or Gentoo Linux.
This is a entirely new feature which has no impact for other packages. Only the gnustep-make package, which is part of this feature was updated to the most recent release.
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- Try out to build and running the gnustep-example package on Fedora.
GNUstep needs the objective C environemnt which is provided by the gcc.
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What's on Apple TV?
HD video, AirPlay and more
Heads up!Welcome to this article from the Crutchfield archives. Have fun reading it, but be aware that the information may be outdated and links may be broken.
Apple TV® is a pretty versatile device — so much so, it can be hard to get a handle on exactly what Apple TV is. At the most basic level, consider Apple TV a digital media receiver.
That is, it's a component that can access audio, photo and video content from connected devices in a home network, and the Internet as well. It then sends that content out so that photos and videos display on a connected TV, and audio plays through a connected sound system.
Those are the basics — but that's only part of the story.
Apple AirPlay® (and Home Sharing)
A quick word about AirPlay
AirPlay is an Apple wireless technology that lets you stream content from any device that runs iTunes® — such as your iPhone®, iPad®, iPod touch®, or computer — to an AirPlay-compatible receiver that plays the audio and video you're sending. AirPlay has it's own ecosystem, so you can sync and control multiple AirPlay-enabled speakers with your PC, or use your handheld Apple device as a remote to select and control what's being played. (See our Intro to Apple AirPlay for more info what this technology can mean for you.)
AirPlay with Apple TV
With AirPlay, you can use your Apple TV to get high-quality audio. Simply connect the Apple TV to your home theater receiver, or your TV's sound bar. Through AirPlay, you can stream audio from your Apple portable device to your Apple TV, and from there to your best speakers.
You can select your favorite song on your iPhone and have it fill the room. Play a game on your iPod touch and have the sound effects rumble through your speakers. Or watch a video in your den on your iPad and get engaging sound from your bookself speakers.
You can duplicate the screen on your iPhone, iPod touch, or iPad with AirPlay Mirroring. Streaming wirelessly through the Apple TV, your TV will show your device's touchscreen display. You still use the touchscreen on your device for control and navigation. This can be used for any app on your iPhone, iPad, or iPod touch, including game apps. Basically, if you can see it on your device, your friends can see it on your TV. Instead of everyone crowding around your phone to see the new video you found on YouTube™, touch the AirPlay button to let your friends enjoy it on your TV.
Home Sharing with Apple TV
With Home Sharing activated, you'll see the iTunes libraries on all your connected devices. So from your computer you can select to hear a playlist on your visiting friend's iPhone. Or if you don't remember whether that new song you downloaded is on your iPad, your iPod touch or your PC, you'll be able to search all three iTunes libraries simultaneously and instantly find it.
Home Sharing also lets you find photos and videos on your shared devices. You can play those home videos stored on your PC on your HDTV. Or display on your TV the pictures you just took with your iPhone.
|Rent or purchase movies and TV shows from iTunes through Apple TV.
iTunes video rental and purchases
Through your home's Internet connection, Apple TV can directly access parts of the iTunes store. Using your TV as your display, you can navigate through the store and select movies and TV shows to rent, or purchase. And you can also access video podcasts to view (many of which are free).
TV shows or movies you've already purchased through iTunes will show up when you set up and log into your Apple TV. If you've been watching TV shows or movies on your iPhone or iPad, you can continue watching them through your Apple TV on your HDTV. With Apple TV, you no longer have to store your videos on your Apple portable device.
Any media you purchase from iTunes through your Apple TV is downloaded to your computer. But using the features mentioned above, you'll have access to it from any of your connected devices.
Internet-only content
|Easily browse Netflix with Apple TV
Netflix® with Apple TV
If you have a Netflix account, you can also access it through Apple TV. The interface lets you browse your queue, and make selections to view instantly. Of course, anytime you make changes in your Instant View queue through a computer or the Netflix app on a portable device, you'll see them the next time you use Netflix through your Apple TV.
Some Netflix content available through Apple TV is in HD, and can have Dolby Digital 5.1 surround sound. Depending on your TV and speaker connections, you can experience this enhanced video and audio through your system with Apple TV.
Sports and news
Several sports and news organizations provide free and paid-subscription content that you can access through Apple TV. These services include NHL, NBA, and MLB games — some in HD. The Wall Street Journal Live offers exclusive news features available through Apple TV.
Internet video and Internet radio
YouTube and Vimeo with Apple TV
Apple TV has it's own navigation screen for YouTube. The system lets you search and select YouTube videos in a way that's more user-friendly than most TV-based navigation systems. You can also access Vimeo with a similar interface. This video site features independent films, animation, celebrity channels, educational videos, HD videos, and much more free long-form content.
Online photos
You can also browse photos in flickr. The display is similar to Cover Flow, so you can quickly cycle through photos. And you can also select the account you want to browse. Apple TV also allows you set up slide shows from flickr accounts. When you do, you can also choose music from your iTunes library to accompany the slide show.
Internet radio tuner
Apple TV also features an Internet radio browser, similar to the one built into iTunes. You can choose from over twenty different categories, representing over 10,000 stations from around the world that you can listen to for free. Simply select by genre, and then dig down further into the various stations to make your selection.
iCloud accessibility
Photo Stream with Apple TV
The Photo Stream function of iCloud automatically saves the most recent 1,000 photos taken with a connected device to your iCloud account on the web. Apple TV can access any or all of those photos from iCloud and display them in a slideshow on your TV. So photos you took last week with your iPhone can be shown on your TV — even if you haven't gotten around to transferring them to your computer.
A brief word (or two) about iCloud
iCloud is Apple's online backup system for the media you have stored in your iTunes library. It automatically gives you access to every song you've purchased through the iTunes store. This is a free service that's a benefit for having an iTunes account.
You can access your iCloud music through any device running iTunes 10 (even Apple TV). You can also redownload past iTunes purchases. This is handy if a hard drive you have iTunes-purchased music on fails and you want to replace it.
iTunes Match
There's also a paid service called iTunes Match. When you subscribe, your music collection is backed up to an online server. You can then access this music from any device running iTunes 10. The advantage is that all of your music is backed up — not just what you purchased from iTunes but music you've ripped from CDs, or music you've bought from other sources.
Apple scans your library, and gives you access to all the songs they can match in iTunes. Songs the system doesn't recognize or doesnt have it uploads to your iCloud account. Apple TV can access your iTunes Match tracks from the iCloud to play through your TV and connected sound system. So even if your computer is offline or otherwise not available, you can still enjoy your iTunes music library.
One more thing — the remote
Apple TV comes with its own small remote, that not coincidentally looks a lot like an iPod. You can use it to control all the features outlined in this article.
Apple also offers a free Apple TV remote app. This app turns your iPhone, iPod touch, or iPad into a touchscreen remote for your Apple TV. It also lets you control iTunes on your computer, tying all your AirPlay-compatible devices together.


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Obama's debt ceiling gambit
The fiscal cliff deal is two days old, and the conventional wisdom is already hardening: President Barack Obama won this round, but Republicans claim the upper hand in the next one.
And that's why Obama wasted no time this week framing the looming debt limit fight.
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( Also on POLITICO: Source: Geithner to leave by month's end)
The consequences of failing to extend the country's borrowing limit are catastrophic, the president said just after the House vote on Tuesday, and he simply won't negotiate over it.
Obama's success rests on a strategy that served him during both his 2012 campaign and the high-stakes fiscal cliff talks: define his opponents early and drive up public opinion in his favor.
He will cast Republicans as reckless as they pursue steep cuts to popular entitlement programs in exchange for a debt limit increase. White House officials don't view the sell as a difficult lift because, as they see it, Republicans are threatening to topple the world economy to slice benefits for elderly Medicare recipients — not exactly a winning message, Obama aides snicker.
The president is likely to follow the playbook of the fiscal cliff fight and almost every other major policy battle over the past 18 months, initiating a campaign to persuade voters and mobilizing small businesses, labor unions, corporate America and Wall Street to exert pressure on lawmakers.
( Also on POLITICO: Health care guide to debt limit battle)
But reality won't be as clear as his no-negotiating rhetoric suggests. His decision to accept a two-month delay in across-the-board spending cuts known as the sequester — which comes due at the same time as the debt limit — guarantees that he'll have to enter into talks with Republicans.
Republicans insist they're on the right side of public opinion in this round, citing a CBS News poll last month that 68 percent of Americans don't want the debt limit raised. After agreeing to $620 billion in tax revenue to avert the fiscal cliff, congressional Republican leaders claim they will accept nothing less than a dollar in cuts for every dollar increase in borrowing authority.
"The president liked to point out on the campaign trail that most Americans supported the idea of taxing the rich," Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) said Thursday on the Senate floor. "What he conveniently left out is that even more Americans support the idea of cutting spending."
( Also on POLITICO: Obama's debt problem)
What remains unclear is whether either party truly believes that the other will allow the country to default on its obligations — an outcome that top Republicans and Democrats say would be devastating. But the entrenched positions ensure that, at the very least, the debt limit fight could make the fiscal cliff standoff look tame.
"In many ways that may be harder because we gotta get some spending under control," Senate Minority Whip John Cornyn (R-Texas) said. "And that's something the president talks a lot about, but he never seems to be willing to engage in it."
Obama won't negotiate over the debt limit, aides say, because he is determined to break the cycle of using the country's borrowing limit as a bargaining chip.
"I will not have another debate with this Congress over whether or not they should pay the bills that they've already racked up through the laws that they passed," Obama said. "Let me repeat: We can't not pay bills that we've already incurred. If Congress refuses to give the United States government the ability to pay these bills on time, the consequences for the entire global economy would be catastrophic — far worse than the impact of a fiscal cliff."
( Also on POLITICO: Toomey: No revenue in debt deal)
The challenge is how Obama separates the sequester from the debt limit in his negotiations with Congress.


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Tesla Motors Announces Further Commitments to The Netherlands
Tesla Motors is furthering its commitment to the Netherlands in 2013. Tesla recently announced its European Final Assembly Plant in Tilburg, and now plans to open a new retail store and service center in Amsterdam this year. Tesla looks forward to bringing many new jobs to the Netherlands, one of its most important global markets.
Tesla Motors Announces Retail Expansion as Europe Prepares to Welcome Model S
Tesla Motors debuted its Model X design prototype at the Geneva Motor Show today alongside Model S, Tesla's award winning premium sedan. European production of Model S begins in June, followed by deliveries in July.
Tesla Motors Model S Makes Its Asian Debut In Hong Kong
Tesla Motors Model S is now available for in-person customer demonstrations and test drives in Hong Kong. Model S is the world's first premium sedan built from the ground up as an electric vehicle and has been engineered to elevate the public's expectations of what a premium sedan can be. Hong Kong is the first location in Asia where customers can drive Model S on public roads.
Tesla Motors Wins Lawsuit Against Auto Dealers in Massachusetts
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Tesla Motors won dismissal of a lawsuit brought by the Massachusetts State Automobile Dealers Association claiming Tesla was in violation of Massachusetts law by conducting sales within the Commonwealth of Massachusetts. A Superior Court judge dismissed the case based upon the auto dealers' lack of standing and failure to state a claim.
Tesla Motors Sets European Pricing for Model S
Tesla Motors set European pricing today for its award winning Model S premium sedan. European customers will have the opportunity to choose either a 60 or 85 kWh Model S. Country-specific prices can be found on Tesla's website.
For customers in the United Kingdom, production of right-hand drive Model S is planned to begin in late-2013. Final pricing will be announced approximately four to five months prior to the start of deliveries.
Tesla Motors Announces Major European Distribution Center in the Netherlands
As a key step towards beginning worldwide distribution of Model S, Tesla Motors announced today that it will begin operations this month at its new European Distribution Center in Tilburg, Netherlands. This new facility will serve as Tesla's European service and parts headquarters, as well as the final assembly and distribution point for Model S vehicles sold in Europe. General production of European left-hand drive Model S is planned to begin in March 2013.
Tesla Motors (NASDAQ: TSLA) opened its first "new design" retail store in Toronto, Canada today. Tesla's new store, located in Yorkdale Shopping Centre, features interactive displays and design studios where customers can design their own Tesla Model S on a large touchscreen and then view it on an 85-inch video wall in the back of the store.
Tesla Model S Wins One of Automotive Industry's Highest Honors: Motor Trend 2013 Car of the Year
Tesla Motors Brings Model S to the Autobahn for the First Time
Tesla Motors, Inc. (NASDAQ: TSLA) announced today that Model S, the world's first premium electric sedan, arrived in Europe last week for a nearly weeklong press preview in Munich, Germany. This marks the beginning of marketing activity for Model S outside North America. European press and media had the chance to drive Model S on all types of typical European roads and cruised effortlessly on the Autobahn for the very first time. Tesla plans to deliver Model S to reservation holders in Europe and Asia in 2013.
Tesla Model S Blows Away the Competition and Wins AUTOMOBILE Magazine's "Automobile of the Year"
Tesla Motors, Inc. (NASDAQ: TSLA) announced today that Model S, the world's first premium electric sedan, was chosen as winner of AUTOMOBILE Magazine's most prestigious award, "Automobile of the Year". Model S impressed a highly discriminating team of editors and writers to best some of the world's most critically acclaimed and historically dominant brands.


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NEW YORK - A traffic accident involving two double-decker tour buses in New York City's Theater District has injured 13 people, three of them seriously.
The Fire Department of New York says none of the injuries in the crash is believed to be life-threatening.
The accident occurred Tuesday afternoon around 47th Street and Seventh Avenue in Manhattan, an area of Times Square usually teeming with tourists near the TKTS discount Broadway tickets booth and the Hershey's Chocolate World store. It shut down a stretch of Seventh Avenue.
City officials say at least eight people were treated at the scene, including several bus passengers.
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Before they were girls, they were women. Before that, they were girls. I am not talking here of the chronology of females but of acceptable usage. Back in the 1970s, for instance, the use of "girl" could trigger a stinging rebuke and the damning charge of male chauvinist piggism -- or why else would a man call a woman a girl? This was the Golden Age of political correctness, which now, it seems, has its last redoubt on, of all places, the opinion pages of the robustly anti-PC Wall Street Journal. There, Chuck Hagel is accused of uttering the no-no phrase "the Jewish lobby" -- supposedly a virtual confession of anti-Semitism.
The absurdity of this charge, leveled by editorial writer and columnist Bret Stephens just last month, ought to be apparent to anyone who reads what Israelis themselves write. I direct Stephens and others to page 426 of Anita Shapira's new book, "Israel: A History." There, she writes that when the George H.W. Bush administration in 1992 withheld $10 billion in loan guarantees, Prime Minister Yitzhak Shamir, "enlisted the help of the Jewish lobby in the U.S. Congress, but in vain." Shapira is professor emeritus at Tel Aviv University.
It is true, as Stephens writes, that Jews are not the only ones who support Israel, and it is likewise true that not all Jews support Israel -- or at least the current government of Benjamin Netanyahu. But Stephens' real beef with Hagel is not over speech but policy. Not only does the former Nebraska senator and Barack Obama's choice for secretary of defense march to a different drummer, but in some cases the average ear can hear no drummer at all. On Iran, for instance, Hagel's preferred policy -- no sanctions but lots of talk -- would hardly compel Tehran to abandon its (strongly) suspected nuclear weapons program. That may not happen, anyway, but there's something to be said for the effort.
I, too, have some qualms about Hagel. He earned his wariness of war the hard way -- two Purple Hearts in Vietnam -- but sometimes muscle, not talk, is what works. And he has been remarkably retrograde when it comes to homosexuality. He opposed a Clinton administration ambassadorial nominee for being "openly, aggressively gay." Hagel has since recanted -- openly and aggressively.
The very best thing about Obama's choice of Hagel for the Pentagon is that the president did not back down as he did with Susan Rice. Still, a number of Hagel's fellow Republicans promise a fight but they probably don't have the votes to block the nomination. Whatever his views, Hagel will be an implementer of policy, not its originator. Bob Gates, another Republican who served as Obama's secretary of defense, opposed U.S. intervention in Libya. Obama went ahead anyway and Gates made it happen. This is the way it's supposed to work.
The most depressing aspect of Hagel's nomination is not his severe case of Vietnam Syndrome and not even some of his foreign policy views. It's been the unremitting and underhanded attack on him, especially the imputation of anti-Semitism. In fact, he could be the necessary corrective to the Netanyahu government's expectation that anything Israel wants from Washington it's entitled to get. There is nothing Hagel has said about Israel that is not routinely said in the Israeli press on a daily basis. Trust me: By The Wall Street Journal's standards, Israeli media would be deeply anti-Semitic.
I thought the day had long passed when a skeptical attitude toward this or that Israeli policy would trigger charges of anti-Semitism. The accusation is so powerful -- so freighted with images of the Holocaust -- that it tends to silence all but the bravest or the most foolish. Israeli policy of late has been denounced by some steadfast champions of the Jewish state -- The New York Times' Thomas Friedman or The New Republic's Leon Wieseltier, for example -- so being caustically critical is hardly evidence of anti-Semitism. Rather, it can be a sign of good judgment, not to mention a caring regard for the aspirations of Zionism.
The article that implied Hagel was a touch anti-Semitic was headlined "Chuck Hagel's Jewish Problem" and suggested that Hagel's statement that "the Jewish lobby intimidates a lot of people up here [Congress]" had "the odor" of prejudice. A PC sort of guy might have put things more delicately: If there is an odor here, however, it is not the rancid stench of anti-Semitism but instead of character assassination.