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Angela Lee was unanimously named to the position Monday night during the Onslow County Board of Commissioner�s meeting.
The interim Onslow County health director is going permanent.
Angela Lee was unanimously named to the position Monday night during the Onslow County Board of Commissioner�s meeting. She has served as interim health director since former Health Director George O�Daniel was terminated in July. She will be paid an annual salary of $95,000.
Lee said she believes God had a hand in her being named the county�s new health director and hopes to use her abilities to honor him. She said that she�s appreciative that the commissioners and county management believe in her.
�I feel blessed for the opportunity to work with the dedicated and talented staff at the Health Department and excited as we endeavor to move forward to serve the citizens of Onslow County,� she said in an email.
Lee, who was at a conference and could not attend the meeting where her appointment was made, said she decided to apply for the position because she cares about people and has a desire to work collaboratively toward addressing the challenges faced by the community.
�I look forward to the health department working under the umbrella of the Consolidated Human Services Agency (CHSA), led by Sheri Slater,� she said in the email. �As health director it is beneficial to have the collective efforts of these agencies working towards a common goal.�
She said there are several major areas to address in her new role including evaluating how the Affordable Care Act will affect the agency and working to complete accreditation in 2014.
�Ultimately I hope for our agency to assist the CHSA in offering accessible, quality, customer friendly services,� she said.
Lee has worked at the department for 18 years, serving in the social work section. She began as maternity care coordinator in 1995 but realized that she preferred ensuring program standards and working with personnel. From there, she was promoted to program supervisor and later social work director.
�I am grateful to my family, friends and colleagues. I look forward to this opportunity to offer quality services, make changes that will move our agency forward and offer staff an opportunity to grow and develop in a pleasant work environment,� she said.
Slater said she expects a smooth transition as Lee remains in the role.
�She has a great rapport with the staff � She�s done an excellent job in her time as interim and we look forward to her continuing that,� she said.
Amanda Hickey is the government reporter at The Daily News. She can be reached at email@example.com.


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College-bound Part 2: Caring for your Diabetes Away From Home
After you've made the necessary preparations for proper diabetes management in college, there are important things to think about to ensure your life in college with diabetes is as safe and normal as possible.
Important Items for Your Dorm
Making sure you have the right diabetes supplies in your room and around your dormitory is something to constantly be aware of. It's also a good idea to keep:
- A list of emergency contacts
- A mini fridge in your room to store your insulin and hypoglycemia treatments
- A safe box or drawer to keep all of your diabetes supplies, including ketone strips
- A sharps container to dispose of your needles and lancets
In addition, consider leaving an extra supply of insulin, syringes, and a glucagon kit with your Resident Assistant, in case of an emergency. For students using an insulin pump, be prepared for "pump failure" with a back-up plan using basal and rapid acting insulins.
Staying Safe in the Social Scene With Diabetes
If you're of age and choose to drink, it is especially important when you have diabetes to stay safe throughout the excitement of college nightlife. Understand alcohol and its affects on your blood glucose levels and be responsible.
Eat a healthy, hearty meal before going out and let at least one friend know what to do if you're experiencing a low blood glucose reaction. Symptoms of lows can often be mistaken for being intoxicated, so it's important someone know.
"Never drink until the point where you're impaired and can't take care of your diabetes," says Lori Laffel, M.D., Joslin's Chief of the Pediatric, Adolescent and Young Adult Section.
Adapting to College Life With Diabetes
Since your schedule will be changing, Dr. Laffell says it's important to discuss with your health care team, if you should alter your diabetes treatment routine for college life. Don't let your new independence let you slip into poor diabetes management. "Start good habits early when you first get to college," she says.
- Always keep diabetes testing supplies and glucose tablets with you
- Maintain a healthy diet by getting nutrition facts from the dining hall manager
- Keep up your regular fitness routine – your college fitness facility is likely free!
Managing your diabetes in college doesn't have to be hard or take over your life. It also doesn't mean you get a free pass to lose control of your diabetes, because you're gaining independence. Stay safe and responsible, and you can enjoy life away from home just like anyone else.
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Jamie Oliver launches a Food Revolution
The Wish
Food Revolution
The Winner
Jamie Oliver
The year
I wish for your help to create a strong, sustainable movement to educate every child about food, inspire families to cook again and empower people everywhere to fight obesity.
The plan
To be a leading force in the fight against diet-related diseases, using the power of cooking skills and food education through hands-on programs designed for adults and kids, awareness raising campaigns, and inspiring a global community to take on their own local Food Revolution to empower the next generation.
Current status
The Jamie Oliver Food Foundation (USA) works with kids, communities, businesses and policy partners to make food education a priority. Through their Learn Your Fruits and Vegetables program, in partnership with Whole Foods Northern California, they teach kids in after-school clubs their first step in food education through fun classes about different fruits and vegetables and cooking simple and tasty recipes. Through the Big Rig mobile teaching kitchen, in partnership with The California Endowment, they reach the most in-need Californian communities, teaching cooking classes on board the truck and training up local Food Champions who can continue teaching classes once the truck moves on. Through their Global Ambassador Program they have a network of volunteers working locally for the global cause to bring the Food Revolution to life, galvanizing energies to kick-start foodie initiatives and supporting Food Revolution Day in May each year.
JOFF's partnerships have allowed them to grow and scale nationally, their latest campaign Get Food Education in Every School, in partnership with Food Day, has given over 80 organizations a platform to come together and raise awareness around the importance of getting food education on to the curriculum and into a school's everyday culture. JOFF's newest program is developing cooking classes for workplaces, to engage businesses as the next space in need of a Food Revolution, getting their staff cooking and improving their health, happiness and productivity at work, and at home.
Get involved
- Stay connected to the foundation's work by signing up for the monthly newsletter
- Get involved on Food Revolution Day, our global day of action for people everywhere to come together and make a stand for good food and essential cooking skills
- Become a voluntary ambassador through our program already engaging over 1,000 individuals in 94 countries
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Ever come off a major project with feelings of both relief and immediate nostalgia? For most of the summer, Chitra from The ABCD's of Cooking and I had been hard at work planning Tangra Summer, an Indian-Chinese pop-up dinner at the Wyckoff Farmhouse Museum, the oldest surviving building in all of New York. It was an exciting chance to collaborate on a unique creative project, and a ton of work, but in the end everything came together swimmingly. The whole project from beginning to end took a little over 2 months, and it was crazy hectic and wonderful at the same time.
Here are just a couple of quick shots from last night, but we'll have many more photos (including the beers from our sponsors Big Alice Brewing) and a full recap soon!


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With my computer's hard drive still in malfunction state, and months of work on the verge of being lost forever, I decided to make myself feel better with a mojito. Beer has the reputation of being a drink to drown your sorrows in, maybe in a dim bar with sad, sad music in the background. A mojito is a little sunnier, a "hey, cheer up!" kind of drink.
Incidentally, I just watched Mrs. Parker and the Vicious Circle, about Dorothy Parker and writers of the Algonquin Round Table. Aside from the nice flapper dresses and jazz that always plays in the backdrop of everyday life, I am in love with the twenties because people didn't think anything of having a drink in the afternoon. Even with Prohibition in full swing. If you must spend your afternoon slaving away in front of a typewriter, you might as well have a cocktail to ease tension and writer's block.
I didn't have gin or scotch in my liquor cabinet, but I did have Bacardi rum. (Hell, I don't even have a liquor cabinet.) And the ripe mangos on the windowsill were just begging to be pureed and mixed into a drink. Purists may scoff at adding fruit to mojitos, but I personally love new takes on classic drinks. I'm sure if Dorothy were a working writer in 2008, she wouldn't mind a sip.
Mango Mojito
Makes 1 drink
- 10 mint leaves, plus 1 nice sprig for garnish
- 2 ounces lime juice
- 1 tablespoon granulated sugar
- 2 tablespoons pureed fresh mango
- Crushed ice
- 2 ounces good quality white rum, like Bacardi's
- 1 lime wedge
- Club soda
- Muddle the mint leaves with lime and sugar in a tall glass. Stir in the mango puree. Add crushed ice and stir in the rum. Throw in a lime wedge and top off with club soda. Garnish with a mint sprig and serve.


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Downsizing the dream
CHARLOTTE, N.C. — President Barack Obama accepted the nomination for a second term Thursday with a speech that summed up the downsized expectations of 2012: There was a little hope, not a lot of change and heaps of mockery for Mitt Romney.
The gray-templed incumbent, in a noticeably less buoyant mood than he was four years ago in Denver, invoked the transformational legacy of FDR to justify his reelection. But the reality check of George H.W. Bush lurked in crevices of his text, as he implored a wary and worried electorate to stay the course, or risk a Romney presidency.
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( Also on POLITICO: 8 takeaways from the Dem convention)
Many Democrats, from Nancy Pelosi to James Carville, had urged Obama to rise above the negativity of his street fight with Romney and articulate an affirmative rationale for reelection rooted in a roster of audacious policy proposals. He didn't. Instead, he offered a hybrid of gritted-teeth optimism, hammer-blow attacks on Romney's foreign policy inexperience and relatively modest policy goals — including a vow to create 1 million new manufacturing jobs.
It wasn't audacity, just enough for Obama to make the case that Romney is dodging tough decisions — and to ramp up attacks on his opponent's record that have thus far been waged mostly over the airwaves.
"If you're sick of hearing me approve this message, believe me — so am I," said Obama.
( Also on POLITICO: TV pundits split on Obama speech)
He then launched into a blistering attack on Romney from almost every angle, but especially on foreign policy — a weakness for Obama as a neophyte candidate in 2008 but far firmer electoral ground for a seasoned commander in chief whose warm-up speakers relentlessly invoked the killing of Osama bin Laden.
"You don't call Russia our No. 1 enemy — and not Al Qaeda — unless you're still stuck in a Cold War time warp," he added, in a speech that seemed to have less fire and raw emotion than the podium rattler delivered by his vice president, Joe Biden, at the Time Warner Center here a few minutes earlier. "You might not be ready for diplomacy with Beijing if you can't visit the Olympics without insulting our closest ally. My opponent said it was 'tragic' to end the war in Iraq, and he won't tell us how he'll end the war in Afghanistan. I have, and I will."
Like the rain that earlier forced his speech from a 74,000-seat football stadium to a 20,000-seat arena, the economic and political realities of his reelection year necessitated some messaging improvisation and a lot of creative downsizing of his blue-sky appeal four years ago.
"I won't pretend the path I'm offering is quick or easy — I never have," Obama said to chants of "four more years" from the faithful.
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"You didn't elect me to tell you what you wanted to hear. You elected me to tell you the truth. And the truth is, it will take more than a few years for us to solve challenges that have built up over decades. It will require common effort, shared responsibility and the kind of bold, persistent experimentation that Franklin Roosevelt pursued during the only crisis worse than this one."
Over the past two years, Obama's advisers have struggled with a fundamental messaging dilemma: how to make the case for reelection on a half-recovery, how to tell people what he's done for them, without claiming he's made everything better.


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Hard targets pose a near-term problem as USAF explores weapon and fuze options
Despite a grim fiscal environment, the U.S. Air Force still has ambitions to acquire a new generation of air-launched weapons that will take advantage of the stealthy F-22s in its fleet and the F-35s that will be introduced late this decade. But the service is being forced to prioritize its needs, putting a near-term emphasis on attacking hard and deeply buried targets such as nuclear weapons or command-and-control facilities in North Korea or Iran.
The Air Force is also exploring concepts for a Long-Range Standoff Weapon that would eventually replace the Air-Launched Cruise Missiles (ALCMs) in the fleet today. An analysis of alternatives should be completed by year-end to prepare for a fiscal 2014 program start.
However, a longtime goal of combining the AIM-120 Advanced Medium-Range Air-to-Air Missile (Amraam) mission with that of an air-defense killer—once called the Joint Dual-Role Air Dominance Missile, or the Next-Generation Missile—has been put on hold in the near term.
One factor driving requirements for improved weapons stems from the limitations of the service's decision decades ago to shift to an all-stealthy fighter force. The Lockheed Martin F-22 and eventually the F-35 will provide the operational flexibility of stealthy missions in enemy airspace, but this attribute comes at a price. The internal weapons bay, used for stealthy operations, has only two positions. So the service is pushing weapon manufacturers to mature technologies to make future munitions smaller and more flexible. This, in turn, is reinforcing a need for more sophisticated explosive fills—perhaps halving the size of a warhead without compromising its explosive effects. Additionally, a decades-old hope remains for fuzes that facilitate variable explosive effects or shaped blast-fragmentation effects.
Air Combat Command (ACC) is conducting an analysis of alternatives to explore options for a future Hard Target Munition (HTM) that could be employed by legacy fighters as well as the F-22 and F-35. "Next-gen weapons need to be more flexible in terms of the types of targets they can address and, in some cases, may need to be smaller without sacrificing intended weapons' effects," says Col. Sam Hinote, director of requirements at ACC. "This will allow our fifth-gen fighters to have a deeper magazine [increased load-out] and more flexible targeting options."
The Air Force hopes to field a 1,000-lb. penetrator suitable for use in stealthy weapons bays in the next decade, with a program starting potentially as early as 2014, says Maj. Gen. Kenneth Merchant, Air Force program executive officer for weapons. Though the service has not yet refined requirements, options include a boosted 1,000-lb. version that would make use of a rocket motor for speed and momentum and, possibly, a 5,000-lb. follow-on without the motor. The goal with the 1,000-lb. version is to maintain the effects of a 2,000-lb. BLU-109 with a smaller weapon.
Although the Air Force is still able to employ the BLU-109, a weapon used heavily during the 1991 Persian Gulf war for hard-target missions, it hopes to shift to a smarter fuze capable of both burrowing and counting the layers through which it travels before detonating. To do so, better casings capable of withstanding layers of concrete and other materials also are needed.
Alliant Techsystems (ATK) is under contract to develop the new Hard-Target Void-Sensing Fuze and plans to begin demonstrations in fiscal 2013. Production is slated to start in the middle of fiscal 2014.
A void-sensing fuze is the "Holy Grail" of fuzing, says Merchant. "Fuzes and hard targets don't work well together," largely because of the lateral and vertical loads placed on a weapon penetrating concrete at high speed.
The service has manufactured developmental versions of the Massive Ordnance Penetrator (MOP). At 30,000 lb. and carrying 5,000 lb. of explosive fill, MOP is the largest conventional munition in the U.S. arsenal, and it is ready for use on the B-52 and B-2 bombers. But MOP currently lacks a void-sensing capability.
Because of MOP, however, improved processes have been devised for pinning internal equipment onto the electronics boards so that they stay intact through a violent penetration, says Merchant. He also notes that the Air Force was able to incorporate more "observing features" into the MOP design, meaning that the weapon can provide more data to commanders about how it executed its mission, potentially giving key details for a bomb-damage assessment. Self-assessing capabilities are another feature sought for future weapons, says Hinote.
In the meantime, the Air Force will begin incorporating electronic safe and arming devices on its fuzes. These will lack the less reliable mechanical parts of their predecessors. Merchant says funding available, and the Air Force will phase this capability into the FMU-152A/B Joint Programmable Fuze, which has already demonstrated a reliability of more than 98%, as these devices replace the FMU-139s in service. Merchant says that with a $50-75 million investment, the new electronic safe and arm capability can be qualified within two years.
Overall, however, the fuze industrial base continues to be fragile, owing to the exacting nature of the work and notoriously low financial return. Manufacturers such as L-3 Communications, ATK and Kaman receive far more orders for electronics for commercial items such as mobile phones. Thus, the Pentagon has a hard time keeping up with the current generation of electronics in production owing to a lag in qualifying them for weapons use. And it is not financially viable for manufacturers to continue building older Pentagon designs without certainty regarding projected orders.
Merchant says he is pushing in the forthcoming fiscal 2014 budget request to "refill the bucket" of funding. Fuze reliability will become even more crucial as the F-35 is introduced into service. With 2-8 weapons carried internally for stealthy use, the drawback to encountering a dud on a mission is even worse than with today's fighters that have a larger loadout.
The portfolio of existing weapons is largely healthy, Merchant says. It includes the once-troubled Lockheed Martin Joint-Air-to-Surface Standoff Missile, or Jassm (a stealthy cruise missile), Boeing's 250-lb. Small-Diameter Bomb and various Joint Direct Attack Munition (JDAM) kits, as well as the Raytheon AIM-9X short-range, air-to-air missile. Jassm, which is now being fielded, is expected to have a 15-year service life. JDAM and SDB are expected to be in service at least 20 years. The BRU-61 bomb rack is designed to carry four SDBs in each JDAM position on the F-22, quadrupling the number of ground targets it will eventually be able to attack in a single sortie.
In contrast, Raytheon's AIM-120D Amraam has suffered setbacks. Despite years of development and $2 billion spent to incorporate improved kinematic software, a new data link and better electronic-protection capabilities to the internationally available AIM-120C7, the U.S.-only D continues to slip further behind schedule.
The current problem is faulty rocket motors provided by ATK, prompting the Air Force to halt motor production and to withhold $621 million in payments to Raytheon pending delivery of all-up rounds. At issue was firing the motor at the extreme edge of its design parameters, about 165 deg., said Harry Schulte, Raytheon's vice president of air warfare systems, who spoke with Aviation Week at the Farnborough air show this summer.
Merchant says improvements have been incorporated into ATK's propellant and assembly process, and they are being incorporated into the next batch of production motors. Meanwhile, the Air Force is working to qualify Norway's Nammo as a second source. Nammo is building a limited-production configuration incorporating the company's propellant and blast tube with the existing casing from ATK. Nammo plans eventually to incorporate its own casing into a production design.
Both ATK's and Nammo's designs must still be tested and qualified before production of all-up rounds can restart. Results from tests on ATK's design are expected this month.
Also plaguing the Amraam D is a software/hardware integration problem that prompted operators to have to "reboot" the system in order to dispatch a missile from the wing of a fighter. Thus far, releases from the F-15 have proven easier than those from the Navy's F/A-18. Root-cause analyses have been discovered for a fix, says Merchant.
The Amraam D entered operational testing in June and is slated for service in fiscal 2014. Payments will resume once all-up rounds begin arriving in sufficient numbers, he says.
Experts at Merchant's Air Armament Center are also closely monitoring Raytheon's work on the Small-Diameter Bomb II, a 250-lb. weapon designed with a trimode seeker to destroy moving surface objects, day or night or in bad weather (see p. 61).
The uncertainty surrounding the fiscal 2013 budget is "nerve-wracking," says Merchant. Because lawmakers have failed to pass a budget for fiscal 2013, the government will be forced to operate at funding levels approved in fiscal 2012. Because the production programs are "buy-to-budget," Merchant says he will not be able to increase purchase rates. This will reduce the economies of scale available when buying higher quantities, increasing per-unit pricing.


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Apple recently filed a patent for the resale and loaning of songs, e-books, movies, and other digital content, Apple Insider's Mikey Campbell reports.
That means one day, you may be able to pass along those tracks you don't listen to anymore to a family member, friend, or even a complete stranger.
The patent outlines how users could either sell or loan "used" content to another person by transferring their ownership rights to them.
So if you buy a song and realize you don't like it anymore, you could transfer your ownership rights to another person. At that point, you would lose access to the song and only the second buyer would be able to listen to it.
In some cases, the iTunes store and the creator of the content would take a cut from the resale. And content creators can also set limits. A music label could decide that a user can only resell or lend the content one year after the original purchase date. It could also require the resale price to be at least $0.80, for example.
But just because Apple filed this patent, it doesn't necessarily mean it will implement the system and let users loan and resale content.


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A doctor at the Brockton VA Medical Center reported patient neglect to federal authorities.
Earlier this month, the U.S. Office of Special Counsel announced it was investigating 37 allegations of whistleblower retaliation against Department of Veterans Affairs employees throughout the country.
The whistleblowers had disclosed improper scheduling practices and other threats to patient care, and in some cases were suspended without pay or demoted, according to the report.
In response, the Office of Special Counsel – an independent federal investigative agency established to protect federal employees – created a secure channel for whistleblower communications and obtained corrective actions on behalf of VA employees.
Those recent actions on behalf of whistleblowers are part of a larger trend toward protecting employees who report "primary and unique" information about fraud, misconduct or other malfeasance, said Jeffrey Newman, a Boston attorney who specializes in whistleblower law.
"There's a growing recognition that these people need to be protected," Newman. "Those protections have to be engaged, they have to be asserted."
On Monday, the Office of Special Counsel revealed that a psychiatrist working for the VA in Brockton disclosed two allegations of patient neglect.
The whistleblower was not identified in a letter sent to The White House.
Newman said there are many varieties of whistleblower.
Some maintain anonymity, others disclose their identities fully.
Some hire legal counsel right away, others lean heavily on federal and state protections. Some seek financial reward, others seek only to expose wrongs.
Often, a whistleblower starts by attempting to alert officials in their company or government agency about the problems before going to authorities, Newman said.
In the Brockton case, Newman said he believes the "wholesale recognition" of problems in the VA system should help whistleblowers, though "in some cases there will be retaliation."
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Conan O'Brien Wishes Jimmy Fallon Good Luck on 'The Tonight Show'
It's official -- Jimmy Fallon is taking 'The Tonight Show' host spot beginning next February And while he's surely elated as ever, we were curious as to what the last 'Tonight Show' host had to say. No, not Jay Leno. Conan O'Brien.


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After three hellish days in detox, Abby is finally feeling well enough, relatively speaking, to settle into a routine of sorts at the inpatient rehab center she's checked herself into. Throughout the detox process, throughout the tremors, nausea, debilitating headaches, and insomnia, all she's thought of (other than having a drink) is Lee and Lily. She's cried more than she'd ever admit, missing her husband and daughter and home almost to the point that she feels it physically. She almost regrets saying she needs to do this alone, but knows she'd never be able to do it if this wasn't her decision and hers alone.
But she still needs them. More than she's ever admitted to herself before. She takes a shower, subconsciously wanting to be fresh and clean for her first allowed phonecall after a successful completion of the detox process. She makes her way from her room to the main floor where she waits, impatiently, for her allotted time slot to begin.
When she finally gets on the phone, she freezes for a moment, her fingers forgetting what to do, what numbers to dial. When she shakes herself and dials the familiar numbers of Lee's phone, she can feel her heart banging around in her chest. What can he think of her now? Maybe he won't even want to talk to her. Maybe he's relieved to be rid of her and the mess she's made of her life. She wouldn't blame him, and she can feel her palms sweating as she listens to the phone ring.
Are too. She smirks.
I think you're the one being mean. He challenges.
I'm not. She protests, then nudges Lily gently with her chin. Huh, Lily? Mama's not mean. Right? Say nooo, Lily. Mama's not mean.
Noooooooo Mama mean. She obliges and Lee bites his lip to keep from laughing at the omitted words.
Abby can't help but laughing at the little girl, shaking her head. Oh, Lilybug.
Meeeean. She tries again and Lee looks at Abby. Out of the mouths of babes...
She makes a face at Lee. You're loving this.
Of course I am. He nods, chuckling.
She rolls her eyes and sits back again, cuddling Lily to her chest. After several moments, she nods her chin towards the package they'd brought. So...Neela's sending Christmas presents?
He nods. Yeah she said she thought you'd want this here. He shrugs, not having any idea what he's delivering for his resident.
She furrows her brow, recalling again the shaky footing her friendship with Neela is on. What is it?
I don't know. *He shrugs again* She just asked me to give it to you.
She bites her lip. Does she want me to open it now?
I imagine so. He nods. She did say she thought it was something you'd want here. He's puzzled about that, knowing he hasn't even considered celebrating Christmas in this place.
She reaches for the package then, somewhat nervously. Should we see what it is, Lily?


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Steven Pressman's new book, 50 Children (HarperCollins), broadens and deepens the extraordinary tale that Pressman brought to light in his acclaimed 2013 documentary of the same name: in short, how one seemingly ordinary American couple traveled to Nazi Germany and, in the dark days of 1939, saved as many Jewish children as they could -- before it was too late. Here is an excerpt, along with photographs, from the book.
January 1939 | Eleanor Kraus glanced around the dining room of her spacious three-story brick home on Cypress Street, in Philadelphia's well-heeled Fitler Square neighborhood. The dinner hour was approaching, and Eleanor wanted to be sure that the table had been set properly. Although her husband, Gil, had not yet arrived home from his downtown law office, Eleanor had already dressed for the evening, choosing a silk dress and a pair of T-strap pumps. A double strand of pearls, set off against a new pair of matching earrings and a deep-red coat of lacquered nail polish, completed the look. Carlotta Greenfield, one of Gil's nieces, was bringing her fiancé to dinner, and Eleanor, as always, wanted everything to shine.
When Gil walked through the front door a few minutes after six o'clock, Eleanor greeted him with a quick kiss on the cheek and reminded him that their guests were due to arrive any moment. Gil smiled knowingly at his wife, removed his overcoat, and set down his worn leather briefcase. As Eleanor was turning to dash back into the kitchen to check with the family cook on the dinner preparations, Gil caught her eye. "There is something that I need to discuss with you. Come into the bathroom while I shave. We can talk in there and while I'm getting dressed."
[Gil] was forty-two years old, and he and Eleanor had been married for more than fourteen years. But as he stood there in the bathroom, filling the sink with steaming hot water and then carefully scraping the straight edge razor across his face, it struck Eleanor just how fit and handsome he still was. With his broad shoulders and muscular torso, Gil had retained his physique of more than twenty years earlier, when he had competed on both the varsity wrestling and football teams during his undergraduate days at the University of Pennsylvania.
While Eleanor perched on the edge of the bathtub, Gil mentioned that his good friend Louis Levine had dropped by earlier that day. Levine was a successful real estate man in New York, but his visit to Gil's office had nothing to do with business matters. He had come in his capacity as the grand master of Brith Sholom, a national Jewish fraternal organization to which Gil also belonged.
The two men had talked all that afternoon about a seemingly impossible idea—whether there might be a chance to help save Jewish children trapped inside Nazi Germany. . . . Levine reminded Gil that the group had recently built a children's summer camp along the banks of Perkiomen Creek in Collegeville, a semirural area about an hour outside of Philadelphia. On the other side of the camp, Brith Sholom had also constructed a large stone house that included twenty-five bedrooms. The house, intended for possible use as an old-age home, at the moment was standing completely empty.
Gil had enormous respect for Levine, and he listened closely as his friend spoke passionately about the ever-increasing dangers that were confronting Jews—adults and children alike—living in Nazi Germany. As the afternoon wore on, Levine finally got to the real point of his visit. He knew all about Gil's reputation as a tough-minded lawyer who seemed able to solve just about any challenge put before him. Levine bluntly asked if Gil himself would be willing to take on the children's rescue project.
Reacting almost instinctively, Gil surprised himself by immediately agreeing. . . . Gil had a strong sense of justice, of right and wrong, and the rescue idea was right. Coincidentally three prominent Philadelphia Quakers—Rufus Jones, Robert Yarnall, and George Walton, all of whom Gil knew quite well—had traveled on their own to Berlin only a few weeks earlier in an effort to help Jews get out of Germany. . . . But the high-minded mission was rebuffed. "Germans Ridicule Visiting Friends" read the headline in the December 9 edition of the Philadelphia Evening Bulletin. The accompanying article, an Associated Press dispatch from Berlin, reported that a German newspaper controlled by Nazi Propaganda Minister Joseph Goebbels "declared today that 'we must laugh' at the Quaker delegation, which is coming from the United States to investigate the condition of Jews and other minorities in Germany."
Other groups, including several leading Jewish organizations, had been trying since 1934—within a year of Hitler becoming Germany's chancellor—to bring Jewish children to safety in the United States. Such efforts had yielded very little success, resulting in the rescue of only a small handful of children before bumping up against America's stringent immigration regulations. No one could figure out a way to bring in larger numbers of children. . . .
Eleanor listened patiently while Gil recounted the conversation with Levine. . . . Gil glanced at the mirror and then turned toward Eleanor. Levine had asked if he would be willing to take on the project, he said. It would be a very complicated undertaking, of course, but he had promised his friend that he would certainly think it over. For the moment at least, Gil decided not to tell his wife that he had made up his mind on the spot.
Finally, it was Eleanor's turn to talk. "Gil, this is really crazy!" she exclaimed. "No one in his right mind would go into Nazi Germany right now. It's not safe, especially for Jews. I'm not sure you could stand it for even twenty-four hours. I'd be too scared to put a foot into that country, assuming the storm troopers would even let us in." Gil was quiet as he stepped into the bedroom, where he began to dress for dinner. He certainly was not surprised by her reaction. He was fully aware of the risks involved in moving ahead with the rescue plan. Traveling to Nazi Germany held little appeal for a Jew—even one traveling with the protection of an American passport. Gil also knew that the project would almost certainly require him to spend several weeks or even months in Europe. And even then, there was no way of knowing if the plan had any chance of succeeding.
Steven Pressman is the author of Outrageous Betrayal: The Dark Journey of Werner Erhard from est to Exile, and the writer, director and producer of the HBO film, 50 Children. (Photo: Liz Perle)


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County of Inyo
Board of Supervisors
April 10, 2007
The Board of Supervisors of the County of Inyo, State of California, met in regular session at the hour of 9:00 a.m., on Tuesday, April 10, 2007, in the Board of Supervisors Room, County Administrative Center, Independence, with the following Supervisors present: Chairperson Jim Bilyeu presiding, Susan Cash, Beverly Brown, and Richard Cervantes. Supervisor Arcularius was absent. Supervisor Cervantes provided the Invocation, and Supervisor Cash led the Pledge of Allegiance.
Public Comment
The Chairperson announced the public comment period and there was no one wishing to address the Board.
County Dept. Reports
The Chairperson announced the County Department Report period. Ms. Mary Roper, Clerk-Recorder, updated the Board on the upcoming election schedule, explaining that the Presidential Primary is scheduled for February 5, 2008, the local primary is scheduled for June 3, 2008 and the Presidential General is scheduled for November 4, 2008. Sheriff Bill Lutze updated the Board on the Prison and Jail Reform proposal, confirming that the alternative to house State inmates locally is now off the table. Ms. Jean Dickinson, Director of Health and Human Services, updated the Board on Health Care Reform.
BofS/Wilkinson Building Permit
Mr. Gavin Wilkinson, Lone Pine Resident, provided additional information regarding his problems obtaining a permit to begin construction of a driveway on his 20 acre piece of property near Lone Pine. The Board and Mr. Wilkinson discussed the issue in detail and at length. Mr. Ron Chegwidden, Public Works Director, explained that the permitting requirements being placed on the project are a result of Mr. Wilkinson project plans and specifications. Mr. Chegwidden explained that the County was only requiring those items specified by law. Ms. Jan Larson, Senior Planner, in response to a query from the Board regarding the 20' width requirement, explained that the 20' width requirement for the driveway was as a result of state code, which dictates a 10' right-of-way for emergency vehicles in both directions. The Board requested that Staff and Mr. Wilkinson work together to determine what is required in order for the permitting process to proceed and asked Staff to keep them informed.
Recess/ Reconvene
The Chairperson recessed the regular meeting at 10:05 a.m., to reconvene in open session at 10:20 a.m., with all Board Members present, except Supervisor Arcularius.
BofS/Sierra Ceramic Mural Project Mural Donation and Placement
Ms. Colleen Randolph and Ms. Betty Cameron, Students and Ms. Patty Holton, Instructor, provided additional information and further justification for the donation and placement of the Sierra Ceramic Mural Project's mural on a County facility. They explained that the Project's mission is to place the mural at a place where many people have access to view it, most especially school aged children, thus the recommendation to place it on the wall at the Bishop Library. They provided detail about the mural, explaining that it will be 8 ft. x 13 ft., it will be installed by a professional tile installer, it will encompass approximately 416 tiles, and the mural will depict the natural environment of the various areas of the County. Mr. Kevin Carunchio, Deputy County Administrator, suggested an alternative that the mural be installed at the Interagency Visitor's Center in Lone Pine. He noted that with over two million visitors a year, the location would definitely meet the goal of greatest access. Mr. Carunchio also explained that the Public Works Department has notified him that the proposed wall at the Bishop Library may not be able to sustain the installation of the mural. He went on to explain that while the wall is not presently scheduled for repair and maintenance, it's condition is such that housing the mural at that site may be questionable. The Board Members individually and collectively supported the Mural and its placement on a County facility. Moved by Supervisor Cash and seconded by Supervisor Brown to accept the donation of the mural from the Sierra Ceramic Mural Project and direct representatives of the Mural Project and the Deputy County Administrator to work with Public Works to identify a suitable location for placement of the mural. Motion carried unanimously, with Supervisor Arcularius absent.
CAO-Title III Funding Allocation
The County Administrator briefly reviewed the proposed uses for this year's Title III funds. Supervisor Cervantes identified an additional need for funds to complete the clean up of the Lone Pine Reservation. Mr. Juliff explained that with the completion of the Community Wildfire Project Plan, there would be grant opportunities for that project.
Moved by Supervisor Cash and seconded by Supervisor Cervantes to take the following actions for the proposed uses of Title III – HR2389 Forest Service Special Projects Funds for Fiscal Year 2006/2007: A) confirm that the appropriate notice of a 45-day comment period on the intended uses for FY 2006/2007 HR 2389 Forest Service Special Project Funds was published; B) take comment from all interested parties on the proposed uses which are: (a) $36,381.50 for Forest Related Educational Opportunities by the Inyo County Office of Education for their Outdoor Science Education Program at the Bernasconi Education Center in Big Pine; (b) $12,127.17 for search and rescue activities on federal lands paid for by the County; (c) $19,500 for an Inyo County Community Wildfire Protection Plan by Anchor Point Group LLC; and, (d) $4,754.34 for a grant program for fire prevention and County planning for fire safety councils throughout the County"; and C) take action to approve the intended uses Motion carried unanimously, with Supervisor Arcularius absent.
Org./B.P. C of C GIS Contract Amendment
Moved by Supervisor Cervantes and seconded by Supervisor Brown to approve Amendment No. 1 to the Grants-in-Support Contract between the County of Inyo and the Big Pine Chamber of Commerce amending the scope of work and authorize the Chairperson to sign, contingent upon the appropriate signatures being obtained. Motion carried unanimously, with Supervisor Arcularius absent.
Sheriff/Vehicle Bid
Moved by Supervisor Cervantes and seconded by Supervisor Brown to A) declare Rotolo Chevrolet as a non-responsive bidder; B) award the bid for and approve the purchase of a 2008 Ford Escape 4x4 XLT from Eastern Sierra Motors as the low bidder, in an amount not to exceed $19,194.19; and C) award the bid for and approve the purchase of a 2007 Chevrolet Equinox 7 passenger all wheel drive mini-van from Perry Motors in an amount not to exceed $25,676.83. Motion carried unanimously, with Supervisor Arcularius absent.
BofS/Olancha Cartago Expressway Support.
Moved by Supervisor Brown and seconded by Supervisor Cervantes to approve the letter to Assemblyman Bill Maze supporting the alternative for the Corridor Mobility Improvement Account (CMIA) Program funding of the Olancha/Cartago Expressway Project and authorize the Chairperson to sign. Motion carried unanimously, with Supervisor Arcularius absent.
HHS-First 5/Cash State Appt. Support
Moved by Supervisor Brown and seconded by Supervisor Cervantes to approve the letter supporting Supervisor Cash's appointment to the State Children and Families/First Commission; and authorize the Chairperson to sign. Motion carried unanimously, with Supervisor Arcularius absent.
BofS/State Park Buffer Zone Opposition
Moved by Supervisor Cash and seconded by Supervisor Brown to approve the letter to Assemblyman Bill Maze opposing AB 576 which is urgency legislation to establish a 5-mile buffer zone around the Allensworth State Park to disallow existing and planned uses of the property; and authorize the Chairperson to sign. Motion carried unanimously, with Supervisor Arcularius absent.
BofS/Minute Approval
Moved by Supervisor Cash and seconded by Supervisor Cervantes to approve the minutes of the Board of Supervisors Meeting of A) March 20, 2007 and B) March 27, 2007. Motion carried unanimously, with Supervisor Arcularius absent.
Board Members and Staff Reports
The Board Members reported on their activities during the preceding week, including a meeting with BLM on the trash generated at Dumont Dunes, various constituent meetings, a Mt. Whitney Fish Hatchery Construction meeting, a LORP access meeting with DWP, and a Big Pine Civic Club Meeting.
The Chairperson adjourned the regular meeting at 11:10 a.m., to 9:00 a.m., Tuesday, April 17, 2007, in the Board of Supervisors Room, at the County Administrative Center, in Independence.
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Clerk of the Board
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In early January, President Obama announced a new strategic direction for the U.S. military, slowing defense budget growth and shifting the military's focus to new threats. The novel strategy will shape military spending for years to come. How will it change the shape of future defense technologies?
The new strategic initiative, titled, "Sustaining U.S. Global Leadership: Priorities for 21st Century Defense," includes a number of key changes in defense policy. The most attention-grabbing change is the slashing of projected budget growth in the coming years. While hawks decried the "budget cuts," the real dollars in the current defense budget aren't being cut at all. Preliminary budgets based on current levels of budget growth (which are unprecedented) were trimmed to accommodate slower growth. The defense budget will still grow year-by-year. This is all complicated by a separate budget-cutting effort , part of the Congress' Budget Control Act, known as sequestration. The bottom line is, the Pentagon is going to have to make do with less cash than they'd hoped for in the next ten years.
Obama also called for the military to shift focus toward Asia while still keeping a sharp eye on the Middle East, specifically calling out Iran and China as antagonists the U.S. will need to deal with. Since future conflicts seem unlikely to involve large scale ground battles, the Pentagon will end up "streamlining the ground forces, particularly the Army, while relying more heavily on Special Operations troops and hi-tech weaponry, including unmanned attack drones."
Military research and development is a huge driver of applied technology, so we can expect a major shift in Pentagon strategy to affect future tech. What can we expect?
More Drones
Budget cuts and troop drawdowns mean military forces will have to get more accomplished with fewer human troops. Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAVs) are pretty inexpensive compared to the overall cost of human pilots, and they can stay on mission for extended periods, making them an economical choice for reconnaissance and even air-to-ground assault. Look for continued development of UAVs, with larger planes capable of a wider range of missions, armed with more accurate and powerful weapons. They probably won't run on any kind of AI system, however – human "pilots" controlling the UAVs from the ground are still cheaper than developing that kind of technology.
Development of mechanical suits that amplify the wearer's physical capabilities is surprisingly far along. While large scale ground forces are de-emphasized by the new Pentagon strategy, there will always be a need for some troops on the ground. With a leaner budget, troops will have to push farther, work longer, carry more stuff and do more jobs than today's soldiers. One of the ways to help them do that is with wearable exo-skeletons. Current models are focused on supporting heavy cargo loads while a soldier is on the march, reducing the work the human needs to do. It isn't difficult to imagine future versions achieving the efficiency necessary to add armor and on-board weapons. A limited, non-flying Iron Man could very well march onto battlefields in a decade or two. Consider also how life-changing this technology could be for veterans who have suffered amputation or paralyzing injuries.
Combat Medicine
Along with pushing troops harder, military commanders will stretch budgets by keeping soldiers alive and healing them quickly, even right on the battlefield. To that end, we may see emphasis on development of synthetic blood with a longer shelf life, a crucial aspect of battlefield triage. Meshes, wraps and other devices that can be quickly and easily applied to skin to protect and heal burns will be important as well. This is the kind of technology that could, eventually, lead to nanomedicine – molecule-sized robots that can be injected (or just live inside a soldier), travel to injury sites, then diagnose and begin treatment, including application of pain relief and infection fighting medicines. An intermediate step could include patches or implants that release coagulants and other drugs in response to specific changes in physiological metrics like heart rate and body temperature.
Air Craft Carriers
"Our strategic challenges will largely emanate out of the Pacific region," said Chairman of the Joint Chiefs of Staff General Martin Dempsey when the new strategy was announced. Projecting power into Asia requires a strong Navy. The ultimate in U.S. force projection has always been the aircraft carrier, so today's Nimitz-class nuclear carriers will see heavy work in the coming years. They're set to be replaced by Gerald R. Ford-class carriers, the first of which should be deployed in 2015. The new carriers are more efficient than the Nimitz carriers in a number of ways, including requiring a smaller crew. However, not counting development costs, each one will cost in the neighborhood of $8 billion. Decommissioning the Nimitz-class carriers will cost several hundred million dollars as well. That might lead the Pentagon to research cheaper methods of force projection, including ultra-long-range aircraft and satellite weapons systems.
In 2009, the U.S. Air Force folded their cyberwarfare groups into the 24th Air Force, part of Air Force Space Command. The last few years have shown us the damage that informal, loosely organized hacker organizations can do, with targeted "hacktivism" and a near constant stream of financial security breaches. The Stuxnet virus, which targeted and damaged Iranian nuclear infrastructure and is widely assumed to have been developed by the U.S. and Israel, showed that internet warfare is already happening. That the Air Force will use "cyberwarriors" to develop further attacks like Stuxnet is a given. A bigger issue, however, is the cost of securing U.S. infrastructure against enemy-developed viruses. That could cost billions of dollars. One thing's for sure – some element of the strange cold war that's erupting in slow motion between the U.S. and China will occur invisibly, as hackers and security specialists create viruses and security measures in a constant software arms race.
Photos: Cyberdyne, USAF, U.S. Dept. of Defense, Berkeley Bionics.


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Kaid Benfield
Kaid Benfield is the director of the Sustainable Communities and Smart Growth program at the Natural Resources Defense Council, co-founder of the LEED for Neighborhood Development rating system, and co-founder of Smart Growth America.
Eric Jacobsen is senior pastor of First Presbyterian Church in Tacoma, Washington. His new book, The Space Between: A Christian Engagement With the Built Environment, makes a compelling case that members of the Christian faith have a special calling to care for cities, and that the form of cities matters to the success of faithful practice.
The Space Between strikes me as important, in no small part because it comes from a movement not generally (albeit sometimes) associated, at least not today, with discussion of the form and structure of our cities, and thus brings what for many will be an unfamiliar perspective to these issues. (Unfamiliar does not equate to unique: for example, another Presbyterian leader, New York City's Tim Keller, is eloquent on closely related topics, as is Gresham, Oregon's Michael Abbaté.) But The Space Between is important also because ours remains a religious country: three-quarters of Americans identify as Christian, even while a growing but still-small minority consider themselves unaffiliated with any particular religion.
Before discussing the book in more detail, I should disclose my own proclivities: As I elaborated in an article last year, I grew up as a Bible-Belt Methodist, and my immersion in that culture had a profound and lasting effect in shaping my values. While I no longer adhere to a particular faith, I remain interested and comfortable in discussions of church teachings, particularly those with regard to ethics. Actually, I'm kind of fascinated by the whole thing; so I knew I wanted to read this book when I saw it.
If I could boil down Jacobsen's thesis in a few sentences, they would go something like this:
Do cities matter?
The book's title comes from Jacobsen's assertion that, when it comes to the physical form of communities, the spaces between the buildings matter as much as, and often more than, the buildings themselves. I agree. (There is also, of course, a Dave Matthews song of the same name, but it doesn't come up.) He begins by observing that this view is not widely shared among Americans, who increasingly see "community" as about relationships detached from particular geographic places. Indeed, the rise of ever-more-sophisticated communications technology would seem to be reinforcing these beliefs.
Poster for the Boston Project.
In addition, as Jacobsen elaborates later in the book, in the U.S., cities are up against a deep-rooted anti-urban bias that dates back at least to Thomas Jefferson. Cities and the urban form tend to be neglected even by environmentalists, he asserts, because "green ideology is a rural agrarian ideology." (He's increasingly but not entirely wrong about that, in my opinion.) He believes this is mistaken given the relatively smaller environmental footprints of city dwellers, as David Owen's book Green Metropolis, which Jacobsen quotes at some length, documents.
Jacobsen believes the Holy Bible is on Owen's side. (In this respect, it is also on my own). He notes that the Bible repeatedly describes humans' natural habitat and aspiration (though beginning in the Garden of Eden) as in and toward cities:
In John's vision of the coming reign of Christ, he is given an evocative picture of our lives when our relationship with God is fully restored. And that picture is not of a garden or a wilderness, but of a city.
Among many additional biblical references to cities, he later quotes the prophet Zechariah:
Thus says the LORD of hosts: Old men and old women shall again sit in the streets of Jerusalem, each with staff in hand because of their great age. And the streets of the city shall be full of boys and girls playing in its streets.
Central to The Space Between is the concept of shalom, which we usually translate simply as "peace" but which he believes contains much more meaning, including restored fellowship, human flourishing, justice, and relational wholeness for everyone. Jacobsen argues that, while each one of us carries a longing for shalom deep within, much of our recently built human settlement "bears not the slightest hint of that blessed condition that is described in the Bible."
Photo by extended.epiphany/Flickr
One of the ways in which we fail to move closer to shalom, he continues, is that today we experience our world not with our bodies and senses at human speeds, as Jacobsen believes God intended, but through automobiles and a world designed almost wholly to accommodate them. He cites several biblical passages that suggest something quite different, that walking is central to observant living.
(It is right around this point, by the way - at 9 percent through the text in the Kindle edition - that Jacobsen reveals that he is every bit as much of a planning nerd as any of us, writing about the effect of curb radii on walkability. Later we find discussions of street connectivity, explicitly expressed as intersections per square mile, "the public realm," and so on. Where was he when we were writing LEED-ND standards? Jacobsen explains all these concepts quite well to regular folks, by the way, but these revelations suggest that his expressed disapproval of urban planners - whom he blames for much of sprawl - may not be as fervent as he says. And I should be clear that I mean that in an amused, not a critical, way.)
A theology of place and beauty
One of the chapters of The Space Between is titled "A Theology of Place" and, in it, he asserts that "place is an extremely important concept in the Bible," and that "enacted place" (the planning nerd again), or public spaces that draw people to animate them, may be especially significant to the Christian community, because people of faith are called to participate in public life as witnesses and ambassadors. Gathered worship is an important exercise of faithful life, but we should also think of our religious expression as extending out into the public realm.
I thought his discussion of the relationship of memory to place, the importance of loving place, and the importance of beauty to religious life was particularly engaging. The importance of memory and legacy to our built environment and to sustainability is something that interests me deeply, and both I and my writer/photographer friend Chuck Wolfe have returned to it often. Here's Jacobsen on the concept:
[T]he church in which I was baptized still stands today as a symbolic witness to God's presence in the neighborhood. The building has aged well and communicates that my baptism was more than a spontaneous accident of history.
As for the importance of loving place, he quotes G.K. Chesterton on the point that the city of Rome did not become loved because it was great but, rather, that it became great because it was loved. I think I am with Jacobsen on this. While lovability of place remains an elusive concept, it's another subject to which I have returned often because I think it is important. (I have learned much from my friend and built environment sage Steve Mouzon on this point.)
Jardin du Luxembourg. By Paulo Rosa/Flickr
The Space Between also has a chapter on "A Theology of Beauty," where Jacobsen notes that the New Revised Standard Version of the Bible mentions "beauty" or "beautiful" a combined 90 different times. I have to admit that I was shocked to see the famous 16th-century Protestant reformer John Calvin, who even disdained music in his Geneva services and generally is thought of as having been ascetic and severe, quoted at length on the subject:
Now if we ponder to what end God created food, we shall find that he meant not only to provide for necessity but also for delight and good cheer. Thus the purpose of clothing, apart from necessity, was comeliness and decency. In grasses, trees, and fruits, apart from their various uses, there is beauty of appearance and pleasantness of odor ... Has the Lord clothed the flowers with the great beauty that greets our eyes, the sweetness of smell that is wafted upon our nostrils, and yet will it be unlawful for our eyes to be affected by that beauty, or our sense of smell by the sweetness of that odor?
I thought I knew my Protestant history, but I had no idea.
Jacobsen even goes so far as to state that "one of the elements that distinguishes Christianity from some of the major Eastern religions (Buddhism, for instance) is its basic affirmation of sensuous desire." (That certainly confirms to me that, unlike me, Jacobsen could not possibly have grown up in the church culture of Asheville, North Carolina in the 1960s (!), and as for Eastern religions I would gently suggest that the ancient Hindu text Kama Sutra definitely beat anything I learned in my Methodist Youth Fellowship.)
Jacobsen includes an interesting discussion of opposing viewpoints as to whether beauty is objective or subjective ("in the eye of the beholder"), eventually concluding, as I did here, that it is complicated but important to cities, worth striving for.
Physical space and true community
Jacobsen sees - and this is a quibble I have with the book - what is good and not good enough about the physical form of cities almost entirely through the lens of new urbanism, crediting the Congress of the New Urbanism (disclosure: I am a longtime member and occasional volunteer) for reviving interest in the built environment. (His previous book even had new urbanism in its title: Sidewalks in the Kingdom: New Urbanism and the Christian Faith.) Prominent new urbanists are quoted throughout the book.
He's right to a degree, of course: new urbanism and its leaders have clearly been influential in our current thinking about the shape of human settlement, particularly the shape of new development. But so have many other leaders, from the National Trust for Historic Preservation (particularly beginning from the mid-1990s when its charismatic leader, Dick Moe, took the organization from thinking about buildings to thinking about communities), to the framers of important growth management laws in Oregon and Maryland, to important environmental justice thinkers like Bob Bullard, to Harriet Tregoning who founded EPA's smart growth office, to those of us who founded Smart Growth America, and others too numerous to mention.
Photo by Sheldon Photography/Creative Commons
In any event, Jacobsen concludes that, while new urbanism does get the physical form right, ultimately even the best architecture and planning, work that gets "the space between" right, still won't create true community. He contrasts the architectural success but social limitations of the iconic new urbanist development Seaside, in Florida, with the messier but more genuine and organic city of Missoula, where he formerly lived:
Missoula has the advantage over Seaside of a permanent community of residents who can use whatever urban amenities are available as a loom upon which they can weave the fabric of the community together. And Missoula has the advantage of having, interspersed throughout the city, a number of significant churches with active congregations who help to anchor and give depth to the urban texture ...
To understand these inhibitors to and incubators for human community, the New Urbanist movement will have to look beyond its vanguard of architects, builders, and government workers. New Urbanism will have to begin to listen to the voices of teachers, psychologists, and, yes, even pastors if it ever hopes to become more than a market correction and instead be the long-term cultural project to which it aspires.
Later, Jacobsen expands on the utility of churches to community, and links them again back to memory:
The church, by setting one day a week apart as sacred time, and by marking the year with its church calendar, can be one of the only places in a neighborhood where time and season have any meaning. The church also, in the midst of a fluid culture, represents a living tradition that goes back much further than just one generation. Even a new church in a new residential area can tie the neighborhood into a tradition that is thousands of years old and can bring much-needed depth and perspective into a community. A local congregation can also provide a witness of permanence and connection among the disparate individuals within a community.
He much prefers that, if churches are to function well, they be located in a community's center or at least integrated into their neighborhoods.
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Attention to strangers and those less fortunate
Perhaps the most important part of The Space Between asserts that Christianity requires its adherents to be welcoming of strangers. Along with being a planning nerd, Jacobsen may also have a lawyerly streak within him, as he reels off several citations to biblical passages admonishing kindness to strangers. He believes that our patterns of development are among the things that stand in the way, especially with exclusionary zoning and abandonment of the public realm in newer suburbs, which work against even relationships among familiar neighbors "when everyone enters their homes through the garage door and spends time indoors or in the backyard." Families with kids tend to mitigate this, Jacobsen allows, but it's one more set of barriers for everyone else.
So what about those who are less well off? Justice is an important biblical concept, he writes, especially for the poor and most vulnerable members of our society. Jacobsen quotes Isaiah in what appears to be a prophetic (heh) admonition against exclusionary zoning and sprawl:
Ah, you who join house to house, who add field to field, until there is room for no one but you, and you are left to live alone in the midst of the land!
As my own writings do, The Space Between struggles with the troubling issues of gentrification and displacement as formerly disinvested city neighborhoods revitalize. Jacobsen makes a critical point when he notes that some of the logic behind the anti-gentrification argument is disturbing in that, extended, it suggests "that we should keep certain neighborhoods dangerous, dirty, and ill-maintained" so that property values would not increase and no one of means would choose to live there. He cites some hopeful research that neighborhoods that fail to improve are actually less able to retain long-term residents than those that do. Jacobsen doesn't pretend to have all the answers, but does offer that it is important to maintain different types of housing - apartments, townhomes and single-family homes of various sizes and price points - in order to achieve a mixed-income outcome.
As you can tell, I liked this book. None of the planning concepts were new to me, but I liked that they were offered in a different context. I certainly don't think you have to be Christian to enjoy the book, especially given the commonality that Christianity has with other religions. But it will help if you don't mind quite a bit of new urbanist thinking with your consideration of cities and you have a strong sense of social ethics, as I suspect many of my readers do. I flew through it in a weekend.
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The Space Between concludes with a wonderfully titled chapter called "A Geography of Rest." The idea is that what Jacobsen calls "Sabbath practice" should not be confined to the Sabbath day, and that our human habitats must provide us with "places that invite us to rest and to engage with one other and with the world that surrounds us without demanding that we give something productive in return." These, he argues, are places of shalom. Cities must provide them, Jacobsen argues, "to provide a tacit reminder of what is important."
And to that, I say "Amen."
This post originally appeared on the NRDC's Switchboard blog.
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Using geotagged tweets, researchers found four types of social connectedness in big U.S. cities, exemplified by New York, San Francisco, Detroit, and Miami.
The recent loss of popular murals and local pubs is fueling a deeper angst over mass tourism, redevelopment and urban transformation in the Irish capital.
Millennial movers have hastened the growth of left-leaning metros in southern red states such as Texas, Arizona, and Georgia. It could be the biggest political story of the 2020s.
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Officials: Suspects acted on own
The two brothers suspected of bombing the Boston Marathon appear to have been motivated by their religious faith but do not seem connected to any Muslim terrorist groups, U.S. officials said Monday after interrogating the severely wounded younger man. He was charged with federal crimes that could bring the death penalty.
Dzhokhar Tsarnaev, 19, was charged in his hospital room with using a weapon of mass destruction to kill. He was accused of joining with his older brother, Tamerlan, now dead, in setting off the pressure-cooker bombs that killed three people and wounded more than 200 a week ago.
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The brothers, ethnic Chechens from Russia who had been living in the United States for about a decade, practiced Islam.
Dzhokhar Tsarnaev communicated with his interrogators in writing, a less-than-ideal format that precluded the type of detailed back-and-forth crucial to establishing the facts, said one of two officials who recounted the questioning. They spoke on condition of anonymity because they were not authorized to publicly discuss the investigation.
The two officials said the preliminary evidence from an interrogation suggests the Tsarnaev brothers were driven by religion but had no ties to Islamic terrorist organizations.
At the same time, they cautioned that they were still trying to verify what they were told by Dzhokhar Tsarnaev and were looking at such things as his telephone and online communications and his associations with others.
The criminal complaint containing the charges against Dzhokhar Tsarnaev shed no light on the motive.
But it gave a detailed sequence of events and cited surveillance-camera images of him dropping off a knapsack with one of the bombs and using a cellphone, perhaps to coordinate or detonate the blasts.
The Massachusetts college student was listed in serious but stable condition at Beth Israel Deaconess Medical Center with a gunshot wound to the throat and other injuries. His 26-year-old brother died last week in a fierce gunbattle with police.
"Although our investigation is ongoing, today's charges bring a successful end to a tragic week for the city of Boston and for our country," Attorney General Eric Holder said in a statement.
The charges carry the death penalty or up to life in prison.
"He has what's coming to him," a wounded Kaitlynn Cates said from her hospital room. She was at the finish line when the first blast knocked her off her feet, and she suffered an injury to her lower leg.
In outlining the evidence against him in court papers, the FBI said Tsarnaev was seen on surveillance cameras putting a knapsack down on the ground near the site of the second blast and then manipulating a cellphone and lifting it to his ear.
Seconds later, the first explosion went off about a block down the street and spread fear and confusion through the crowd. But Tsarnaev - unlike nearly everyone around him - looked calm and quickly walked away, the FBI said.
Just 10 seconds or so later, the second blast occurred where he had left the knapsack, the FBI said.
The FBI did not make it clear whether authorities believe he used his cellphone to detonate one or both of the bombs or whether he was talking to someone.
The court papers also said that during the long night of crime Thursday and Friday that led to the older brother's death and the younger one's capture, one of the Tsarnaev brothers told a carjacking victim: "Did you hear about the Boston explosion? I did that."


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Michael Jackson's personal doctor Conrad Murray has sensationally alleged the pop icon overdosed on drugs by secretly injecting himself.
The medic was sentenced to four years for the involuntary manslaughter of the King of Pop, and he was released from prison last month after serving half his sentence.
Jackson died in June, 2009 from an overdose of anesthetic Propofol and Murray was convicted of administering the fatal dose – but in his first interview since being freed, Murray insists Jackson was responsible for the tragedy.
Murray, who did not testify in his criminal trial, alleges the singer was already addicted to painkiller Demerol when they met, and believes on the night of his death Jackson gave himself a second injection after his personal physician had left his bedroom.
Murray tells British newspaper The Mail on Sunday, "I never gave Michael anything that would kill him. I loved him. I still do. I always will… I did not kill Michael Jackson. He was a drug addict. Michael Jackson accidentally killed Michael Jackson…
"I had no idea Michael was getting Demerol, which he had grown to love over several decades. I've used Demerol in the emergency room. The maximum is 75mg that I would use. Michael was receiving as much as 300mg several times a week.
"That night he just couldn't sleep. I prescribed him drugs to help, including Valium and Lorazepam, but he was begging, pleading, close to tears… I told him, 'This is not normal. What I've given you would put an elephant to sleep'.
"In the other bedroom, the police found an open bottle of Lorazepam. They found tablets in his stomach. I didn't give him those. Michael took extra tablets. And he injected himself…
"I believe he woke up (after I left the room), got hold of his own stash of Propofol and injected himself. He did it too quickly and went into cardiac arrest."
Murray also supports rumors Jackson was exhausted by rehearsals for his doomed This Is It comeback shows in the weeks before his death and was too frail to perform.
He adds, "Michael was a decrepit man. He was frail. I had to force him to eat, to drink fluids… He was under enormous pressure… By the end, Michael Jackson was a broken man. I tried to protect him but instead I was brought down with him."
Michael Jackson's personal doctor Conrad Murray has sensationally alleged the pop icon overdosed on drugs by secretly injecting himself.


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Oil spill investigators find critical problems in blowout preventer
A House energy panel investigation has found that the blowout preventer that failed to stop a huge oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico had a dead battery in its control pod, leaks in its hydraulic system, a "useless" test version of a key component and a cutting tool that wasn't strong enough to shear through steel joints in the well pipe and stop the flow of oil.
In a devastating review of the blowout preventer, which BP said was supposed to be "fail-safe," Rep. Bart Stupak (D-Mich.), chairman of the House Energy and Commerce Committee's subcommittee on oversight, said Wednesday that documents and interviews show that the device was anything but.
The comments came in a hearing in which lawmakers grilled senior executives from BP and oilfield service firms Transocean, Halliburton and Cameron, maker of the blowout preventer. In one exchange, Rep. Edward J. Markey (D-Mass.) pressed BP on why it seemed to be "flailing" to deal with a spill only 2 percent as large as what it had said it could handle in its license application.
"The American people expect you to have a response comparable to the Apollo project, not 'Project Runway,' " Markey said.
Steven Newman, chief executive of Transocean, said the blowout preventer underwent regular tests. He said links to the drilling rig would have indicated if the device's batteries were dead, though he said data records were lost when the rig sank.
It was the second day of congressional hearings in response to the April 20 blowout that set fire to Transocean's Deepwater Horizon drilling rig, which later sank, killing 11 people and triggering the oil spill that now threatens wildlife and livelihoods along the Gulf Coast. So far, 25 birds have been found "oiled" in Louisiana, including seven that survived, said Sharon Taylor of the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service. In addition, she said 87 sea turtles and six dolphins have been found dead, though lab tests will be needed to determine whether they died from oil or other causes.
First photos of leak
Oil is still pouring into the gulf as federal agencies and others investigate the cause of the accident. On Wednesday, BP released the first video of the primary leak on the muddy sea floor, 5,000 feet deep. The photos show a dark, frothy plume of oil mixed with a lighter-colored substance that officials did not describe but experts said is natural gas.
The video has been sought by experts who say it might help them measure the size of the leak. BP's initial estimate was 1,000 barrels a day, and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration later put it at roughly 5,000 barrels a day. "That flow rate looks pretty much the same as its always looked," BP Chief Operating Officer Doug Suttles said after showing reporters the clip.
Ian R. MacDonald, a professor of oceanography at Florida State University who has been arguing that the NOAA estimate is too low, said after viewing the video, "I don't know how they get only 5,000 barrels a day out of that. That's really quite a gusher." But Greg McCormack, director of Petroleum Extension Service at the University of Texas, said, "There are so many unknowns there, you can't calculate it."
In an effort to contain the leak, BP said Wednesday that it had lowered a new steel structure into the water near the damaged well to prepare for a second attempt at funneling some of the oil into a pipeline and onto a ship. An earlier attempt was foiled by slush-like gas hydrates -- combinations of seawater and natural gas from the well -- that quickly clogged an opening in a larger steel box.
260 'failure modes'
In Washington, Stupak said the committee investigators had uncovered a document prepared in 2001 by Transocean, the drilling rig operator, that said there were 260 "failure modes" that could require removal of the blowout preventer.
"How can a device that has 260 failure modes be considered fail-safe?" Stupak asked.


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Junior (2010-11)
Competed at the Binghamton Open, finishing second ... Placed second at the Cliff Keen Las Vegas Invitational ... Posted a 12-5 record before season-ending injury.
Sophomore (2008-09)
NCAA Qualifier ... Named second-team All-Ivy League ... Finished second at the EIWA Championships ... Compiled a 5-0 dual record, but missed majority of the season with an injury ... Won the Cliff Keen Las Vegas Invitational as an unranked wrestler an defeated four grapplers seeded higher than him, including defending national champion J. Jaggers of Ohio State ... Earned EIWA Wrestler of the Week and a No. 1 ranking the following week ... Went 2-1 at the Midlands Championships before an injury forced him to withdraw from the tournament ... Went 3-0 at the Lone Star Duals ... Missed the next eight dual matches (five weeks) due to injury ... Returned to the line-up against Columbia (Feb. 20).
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NCAA qualifier ... Named second-team All-Ivy ... Went 14-8 despite missing seven weeks of the season due to injury ... Finished third at the East Stroudsburg Open and took sixth at the Midlands Championship ... Came back after a seven-week hiatus to go 2-0 in Ivy League action and take fourth at the EIWA Championships.
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Ranked No. 1 in the nation at 133 pounds by Intermat out of high school ... A five-time league champion, four-time county champion, a two-time New York state champion and Outstanding Wrestler as a junior ... Named all-county five times and all-state four .. Placed fourth at the U.S. Cadet National Freestyle Tournament and is a FILA Cadet World Trial champion ... Finished seventh at 133 pounds in the Midlands Open, a college tournament ... Went 35-0 as a senior and ended high school career with 86straight victories ... Compiled a 185-7 high school record ... Member of the National Honor Society and Teacher Corps ... Involved in student government ... Brother, Jesse, was a three-time wrestling All-American and NCAA champion for Harvard ... Sister, Doni-Melissa, was a two-time field hockey All-American at Hofstra and father, Donald, wrestled at C.W. Post.


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MILLEDGEVILLE, Ga. – The Georgia College softball team (9-26, 4-4 PBC) rallied in the bottom of the seventh to steal a game one victory from visiting Augusta State University (18-8, 1-1 PBC) Thursday. The Bobcats won the game 3-2, before dropping a closely-contested second game, 4-2 at the Peeler Complex.
Georgia College used two runs in the bottom of the seventh to get past Augusta State. Freshman Lindsey Conway (Madison, Ga.) led the frame off with a double to left center. Senior Brandie Monroe (Savannah, Ga.) reached base on an error following a successful sacrifice bunt. She would eventually cross the plate on another Jaguar error, scoring the winning run.
The Bobcats received an outstanding effort on the mound from righty Sabrina Chandler (Covington, Ga.), who went the complete game allowing just one earned run. Chandler struck out two Jaguars while scattering seven hits.
GC took the momentum from the first game into the second, tacking on an early run in the bottom of the second. Haley Burnett (Columbus, Ga.) belted her Peach Belt Conference (PBC) leading eighth home run to left, giving the 'Cats an early lead.
Augusta State would grab the lead 2-1 in the top of the fourth, before Georgia College rallied to tie the game in the bottom half.
Unfortunately, the Jaguars would score two more runs without a GC response en route to the 4-2 victory.
Burnett was the hard-luck loser for the Bobcats, allowing just three earned runs in seven innings of work.
Senior Kati Pickowitz (Keller, Texas) went 2-for-3 in the game, while freshman Whitney Okvist (Kennesaw, Ga.) continued her great rookie campaign with a 2-for-4 outing.
The Bobcats will head to UNC Pembroke to take on the Braves in a crucial PBC doubleheader Sunday, March 20 at 1 p.m. The two teams currently sit in a tie for fourth place in the PBC standings at 4-4.
The Georgia College Department of Athletics, back-to-back winners of the PBC Commissioner's Cup, sponsors 10 varsity athletic programs at the NCAA Division II level. As a Division II program, Bobcat Athletics prides itself on balancing the life of the student-athlete, evidenced by the teams' multiple appearances in post-season competition as well as documented academic success and community-service involvement. Sign up at www.twitter.com/GCSUBobcats for up-to-the-minute reports, and visit www.GCSUBobcats.com for more information, and to nominate your favorite former Bobcats and Colonials to the GC Athletics Hall of Fame.


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Onboarding programs are important for establishing a new hire's ability to be productive as well as get along with the team, according to a new TEKsystems' survey of information technology leaders and workers released.
Sixty-two percent of IT leaders say onboarding programs are extremely important to establishing a new hire's ability to be productive/add value, and 53 percent also felt it established a level of cohesion within their team.
IT professionals agree, with 49 percent believing onboarding is extremely important to determining one's ability to be productive/add value, and 45 percent saying onboarding helps determine one's ability to work well with the team.
Despite their agreement on the importance of onboarding programs, 57 percent of IT leaders say they have a formal, strategic onboarding plan less than 20 percent of the time, while just 18 percent of IT professionals say sufficient attention is given to developing a strong onboarding program.
TEKsystems polled more than 2,100 IT professionals and more than 1,500 IT leaders for its survey. TEKsystems is a division of Allegis Group.
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