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(MARC D. HAUSER:) I want to echo one of Lee's comments about John, and say thanks for a slightly different, but related reason. What I believe John has allowed many of us to do, which is exciting, is to communicate our passion to a broader audience, escaping academia to exchange with interested professionals and others from a broader slice of mental life. This not only enriches understanding at a broader level, but also allows for a more interesting dialog. So thank you John.
Today, I want to engage you in a game that I hope will bring to life my thinking in the last few years. Here is the game: I want you to turn to your neighbor and pair up into a team—okay, you're a pair now. Please pair off with somebody. One of you will be designated the donor in this game and the other person is the receiver. Please chose a role, either donor or receiver. Please pair of as I really need your data, I'm an experimentalist. Okay, here is the game. It's going to be played once. I'm giving— play along with me—each donor ten euros. The game starts in the following way: the donor is going to turn to the receiver and offer some proportion of that ten euros—one, two, up to ten. The receiver will respond by either accepting the offer or rejecting it. If the receiver accepts, he or she gets what was offered and the donor gets what's left; if the receiver rejects, nobody gets any money. So now, donor, make an offer to the receiver, and receiver, respond.
Okay. Let me collect some of the data by asking you to raise your in hands in the following way: of the donors, how many offered between one and three euros? Raise you hands. How many offered between four and six euros? How many offered between 7 and 10? Only a few very generous people, and most of you offered in the four to six range. Now, how many of the receivers rejected their offers? Keep your hands up—of those with your hands up, how many of you got offers of one to three euros? One to three euros? Small numbers? Small offer? How much were you offered? Uno. Okay, good. Now what I want you to do with me is, think through the logic of the game as if you were an economist. If you were trying to maximize your returns, donors should have given the lowest offers possible, and they should have been thinking that the receivers should accept any offer, because one euro is certainly better than zero euros. You didn't have anything to begin with, so one's better than nothing; two's better than nothing; and so is three.
But it turns out that when this game is played, in many many different countries, the typical offer is exactly in the range seen here: about 4, 5, or 6 euros—it's much more than if you were trying to maximize your own returns. And yet we seem to make this calculation very quickly, spontaneously, almost without thinking. That's example number one. Keep in mind.
Here's example number two. I want you to imagine that you are watching a train moving down a track, out of control. It's lost its breaks. If the train continues, it will hit and kill five people. But you are standing next to the train tracks, and you can flip a switch and turn that train onto a sidetrack, where there's one person. Now the train will kill that one person. Here's the question: is it permissible—morally permissible—for you to flip the switch, causing the train to kill one but save five. If you think yes, raise your hand. If you think no, raise your hand. Ok, most of you think it is permissible.
Now, second example: here comes that train again, it's going to kill the five if it keeps going. You are standing next to a very heavy, fat person, and you can throw them onto the tracks, killing them, but the train will stop before the five. Is it morally permissible to throw the fat person? Yes? We've lost half of you! Or more. Okay, what happened? Why do so many of you switch from a permissible to a forbidden judgment?
Here is the idea that I want to give you tonight, in the next few minutes. There has been a long history—a very old tradition—about the sources of our moral judgments. Where do they come from? Many moral philosophers, legal scholars, think that the way that we deliver a moral judgment, like you just did, comes from reasoning. It comes from thinking about the principles, maybe utilitarian (more saved is better than less saved). You work through the principles in a conscious, reasonable, rational way. This was certainly a view that someone like Kant was very much in favor of; how you deliberate with your moral judgments. Now opposing that view — diametrically opposed — was a view that dates back at least to Hume, which is that when we give a moral judgment, we do so based on our emotions. It just feels wrong, or it feels right, to do something, and that's why we do it, that's why we say it's morally right or morally wrong.
What I want to argue for you today is that both of these views, which have dominated the entire field of moral philosophy, are wrong, at least in one particular way. What you just did tonight is an example of why it's wrong. You delivered those moral judgments quickly, probably without reasoning, and without consciously thinking about principles. And if I were to ask you, as I have asked literally thousands of people, on the Internet, in small-scale societies like the Mayans and hunter-gatherers of Africa, people deliver exactly the same judgments that you did tonight, but are incapable of justifying why. Typically they say it's a hunch or a gut feeling. So for example, let me illustrate by telling you about my father's response to these cases. He was a distinguished physicist. But I am not picking on the physicists. When I first presented him with these moral dilemmas, the ones you just answered, he said, yes, you can flip the switch, turning the train onto the side track; he said, yes, you can push the fat man on to the train. I said, but Dad, really? He answered "Of course, it's still five versus one." He was following good utilitarian guidelines.
And now I give him case number 3.
You are a doctor in a hospital and there are five people in critical care. Each person needs an organ to survive. The nurse comes to the doctor and says, doctor, there's a man who has just walked into the hospital, completely healthy, coming in for a visit. We can take his organs and save the five. Can you do that, Dad? He immediately replies "No, you can't just kill somebody!" I then say "But you killed the fat man five seconds ago." He then volleys back "Okay, you can't kill the fat man." "But what about the switch?" I say. Defeated, he replies "Okay, not the switch either." And the whole thing unravels because there is not a consciously accessible set of principles that people can recall and use to justify what's going on. And it's not based on emotion. It's based on a calculus—that the mind has, that it evolved to solve particular kinds of moral dilemmas. And it's not learned, either; it's there in place early in development.
If I have been sufficiently clear this far, you may have already figured out where I am going, and the connections I wish to make with another discipline. The core of my argument for moral judgment derives from an argument that the linguist Noam Chomsky developed almost 50 years ago concerning the nature of language, its representation in the mind and its normal functioning in every human. The idea here in a nutshell is that the way our moral sense works is very much like the way language works. There is a universal set of moral principles that allows the establishment of a set of possible moral systems. In this sense, perhaps this provides some convergence with what Lee said just a few seconds ago. In the same way that you might want to ask about possible universes, I want to ask the question about possible moral systems—that the mind is constraining the range of possible variation.
So the deep aspect of Chomsky's thinking about language, which I think is directly translatable into the way we think about morality, and the way we do the science, is by imagining that humans are equipped with, born with, a set of universal principles. What culture can do is change things locally—like a parameter—there are switches. Once you turn something on, things can change.
Let me try to give you a concrete example of some work that a student of mine just recently did. There's a population of people in Panama, Central America, called the Kuna Indians. There is one part of their range that is very remote, and this is where we worked. They live in a quite simple type of society, including small scale agriculture and fishing. We went there recently and gave them moral dilemmas exactly like the ones you just answered. They weren't about trolleys, they were about wild animals. So in one example, there are crocodiles coming to eat five people in the river; you're in a canoe, you can move those crocodiles off to where they will kill one. Is it permissible? The Kuna said it was, virtually every single person we asked. Here's the second case: you can throw somebody into the river so that the crocodiles will eat him, and save the five. Is that permissible? No. They're showing the same parallel system of psychology where an intended harm—using someone as a means to a greater good is less permissible than a foreseen consequence that causes the same harm. So in the switch case of a train, you foresee the consequence, but you are not intending the harm as a means to the greater good. The Kuna are sensitive to this distinction, but here's where the cultural aspects move in to make this case more interesting: the Kuna Indians are much more willing to say that it's permissible to throw the fat man in front of the crocodiles than we are in our society. They have an unstated policy—a social behavior of high levels of infanticide. Killing, as a part of society, is much more common. And that's the way in which culture can potentially change the dynamics of how the judgment gets made. In other words, we will see a universal principle such as the means versus side effect distinction, but culture can change how much more impermissible the means based harm is when contrasted with the foreseen side effect.
At this point this is still looking relatively abstract and theoretical and what I'm interested in is how science can fuse with and energize moral philosophy to create some powerful new ideas and findings at the interface. This is not to say that science will take over philosophy. It this new enterprise works at all it will be through a deep collaboration, working to find out the origins of our moral judgments, and how they figure in our ethical decisions and moral institutions. Let me end with a few more cases to make this all a bit more concrete.
Consider a disorder that people are aware of, acutely aware of, in many societies. It's called psychopathy—people who are known for massive killings. They kill, often with no regret: they don't feel guilt, they don't feel shame, and they don't feel empathy. Now people have described that as a problem of lacking any moral sense. I think that's completely the wrong interpretation. What psychopathy is, is a case where they have completely intact moral knowledge. They would judge the cases I just gave you like everybody else in the room. What makes them moral monsters is that they lack the kinds of emotions that we have to prevent them from doing horrible things. They don't have braking emotions. On this view, emotions don't dictate our moral judgments, but they do guide our moral behavior, how we act. We are now engaged in a collaborative project, working to actually test psychopaths, to see whether that is in fact the case. It is too early to tell, but stay tuned.
The second part of the story is to use, as John mentioned a few minutes ago, some of the modern techniques in the neurosciences where you can image the brain, attempting to understand which parts of the brain are active, how they are engaged when we come to our moral judgments, and how they resolve conflict.
To sum up, we're in an extremely exciting phase now where a set of questions that were forever the providence of moral philosophy and law are now coming directly into contact with the sciences. This is exciting because both areas are working together and it may have direct implications for the law, and the extent to which formal institutions like law and religion penetrate our evolved moral sense.
MARC D. HAUSER, an evolutionary psychologist and biologist, is Harvard College Professor of Psychology, Biological Anthropology, and Organismic & Evolutionary Biology, and Director of the Cognitive Evolution Laboratory. He is the author of The Evolution of Communication, Wild Minds, and the recently published Moral Minds: How Nature Designed Our Universal Sense of Right and Wrong.


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Smith, three challengers vie for 9th Congressional District seat
Democratic Rep. Adam Smith has three opponents from across the political spectrum trying to unseat him as he runs for a 10th term in Congress. They face an uphill climb.
Smith of Bellevue commands a wealth of incumbent's resources to defend his seat, from a flush campaign fund to a senior role in his party that gives him prominent voice on national security issues.
"If it was easy, everybody would do it," said Doug Basler, a producer of TV commercials from Kent who is running against Smith as a Republican.
They're campaigning to represent the 9th Congressional District, which centers on South King County but stretches from Tacoma to Bellevue. It's the state's only district in which minorities make up a majority of voters.
Smith's opponents for the Aug. 5 primary election are:
• Democrat Don Rivers of Seattle, who is running an intensely local campaign charging that Smith is "culturally incompetent" to represent the district.
• Basler of Kent, who contends that government regulations overly burden small businesses and that social welfare programs risk making people dependent on government handouts.
• Mark Greene of Federal Way. He's a legal assistant and community activist running as a third party candidate to find "common sense" compromises on global warming and employment.
Smith says he's running for another term to raise economic issues. He said he's most concerned about the concentration of wealth in the country's upper class while middle- and lower-income families fall behind. He favors increasing the minimum wage as well as targeted efforts to help small businesses.
"The economy is the No. 1 priority," he said. "We need to make sure that there are jobs for people across the board."
His opponents share similar priorities, but would take different paths to spur the economy.
Basler would cut government regulation that he believes gets in the way of successful entrepreneurship.
Rivers wants to promote a South King County economic improvement zone that would highlight diversity and international trade.
And Greene would reexamine international trade agreements that he believes place American workers at a disadvantage in the job market.
Over the past 18 years, Smith has moved up the ranks on military affairs to become the ranking Democrat on the House Armed Service Committee.
Defense companies and individuals who work in the defense industry are among his greatest campaign contributors, giving his campaign $142,500 of the $624,000 it has raised for this campaign cycle as of March 31, according to the Center for Responsive Politics.
Smith's challengers had not reported receiving any campaign contributions as of March, the most recent cutoff for federal campaign finance reporting.
In recent years, Smith has campaigned to close the detainee prison at Guantanamo Bay and to permit the Defense Department to move forward with a round of military base closures.
He's open to spending cuts in the defense budget, including reductions in benefits for personnel, as the military comes out of the war in Afghanistan. He'd prefer to raise taxes or cut spending on infrastructure rather than take money away from military training.
"I understand the budget situation we're in and I'm not going to say we can't touch anything," he said.
Rivers, who works for King County Metro, ran for Congress against Rep. Jim McDermott of Seattle in the 7th Congressional District four times since 2006 before challenging Smith this year. The 9th District was redrawn northward in 2012 to reflect new Census data.
Rivers is a community activist who has spoken out against racial profiling by law enforcement agencies. If elected, he wants to reform the Department of Veterans Affairs and take care of military service members.
He criticized Smith's willingness to look at cuts to military benefits and he characterized Smith's contributions from the defense industry as "blood money."
"I'm here to teach him that he needs to go," Rivers said.
Basler, who owns EZTV Spots in Kent, says he's a moderate Republican who wants to give voters a choice in the district. He's a former record store owner and passionate about small business.
Basler is in the midst of declaring bankruptcy for debts related to a previous company, Fast Trax Media.
He's opposed to broad efforts that would raise the minimum wage as high as $15, but he said he'd consider a compromise if it included a training wage for employees who are new to the workforce.
"I think the government's doing a terrible job," he said. "The government was never intended to be the big provider for everyone. The best thing we can do for people is to get them jobs."
Greene, a legal assistant and Marine veteran, is running as a member of the Citizens Party, a defunct political group that emphasized environmental issues in the 1980s. He says the country faces "intractable problems" that the two main political parties are failing to address in Congress, such as climate change and policies that allow companies to hire foreign workers too easily.
"The nation as a whole has to turn inward," Greene said. "We've gone abroad too often, like with these international trade agreements that have done more harm than good. We need to turn inward and turn our focus back to the country."

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Wednesday, January 10, 2007
August Gegenheimer Family - Jay Co., IN
August was a farmer and immigrated from Germany in either 1838 or 1858, depending on the census year. I tend to believe it was the 1838 year. Sarah's mother is listed as being born in Ohio on two census years, and then in Pennsylvania on the third. Sarah is the mother of 10 children, all living by the time of the 1910 census, but so far I only have the names of five in my database.
There is much more to discover about this family - not only the names of 5 children, but whether or not August was a Civil War vet. The family moved to Indiana before 1885, so they may be in the 1880 census either in Indiana or Ohio.
August Gegenheimer b. November 1842 Germany, d. after 1920 census, m. ca. 1865 to Sarah C. HALEY. Sarah C. Haley b. November 1845 Ohio, d. after 1920 census.
Children of August and Sarah C. (Haley) Gegenheimer :
i. John H. Gegenheimer b. June 1872 Ohio, d. after 1910 census
ii. Della P. Gegenheimer b. August 1876 Ohio, d. after 1910 census
iii. Lorenzo H. Gegenheimer b. March 1885 Indiana, d. after 1910 census
iv. Charles B. H. Gegenheimer b. February 1888 Indiana, d. after 1910 census
v. Arthur G. Gegenheimer b. December 1893 Indiana, d. after 1910 census
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Hi Travis:
I just discovered your website. I am hoping you can help me? I sm doing research for my husband's side of the family and we have traced an Arthur M. Gegenheimer died Aug 7 1984 and buried in the GreenPark Cemetery in Jay County, Indiana. I know his father's name was Arthur also. I see in your blog post that you have Jay County, IN Gegenheimer's listed... have you been able to trace this line into the present day? I need to know 1984 Arthur's place of death and why he passed away. I had the library look for an obit... but there wasn't one. We don't have anymore information than that. Thank you for any direction you can provide me!
- Travis LeMaster said...
Mandy - I show an Arthur M. Gegenheimer (no dates) as son of Arthur G. Gegenheimer (b. 10 Dec 1893 Jay County, Indiana), son of August Gegenheimer (b. Nov. 1842 Germany). August was the husband of my relative, Sarah C. Haley.


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A mysterious book transports a boy through a forest of the world's tallest trees and their ecosystem. Ages 5-9
- Come Back, Salmon: How a Group of Dedicated Kids Adopted Pigeon Creek and Brought It Back to Life
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A fifth grade class cleans up rubbish, nurtures coho salmon eggs in a tank, tests water quality, then releases the year-old smolt into the creek...with inspiring results for the whole community! Ages 8-11
- The Down-to-Earth Guide to Global Warming
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The authors fully define "global warming," discuss extreme weather conditions and animal extinction, and suggest what you can do to protect the climate. See also: Al Gore's An Inconvenient Truth: The Crisis of Global Warming (j363.7387 GORE 2007), adapted from his documentary and adult book. Ages 9-13
- A Grand Old Tree
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Simple text and colorful artwork celebrate the life cycle of one tree and all the animals that share in its bounty. For older readers: Barbara Bash's Tree Tales series introduces the African baobab (j582 BASH), desert saguaro cactus (j583 BASH), and Indian banyan (j583.962 BASH). Ages 3-7
- The Wolves Are Back
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Learn about the reintroduction of wolves to Yellowstone National Park and the many beneficial consequences that have occurred. For older readers: Dorothy Hinshaw Patent's When the Wolves Returned (j599.7731 PATE). Ages 6-9
- Nature's Art Box
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Enjoy making 65 easy-to-challenging craft projects, all using readily available natural materials such as shells, pinecones and gourds. Ages 9-13
- True Green Kids: 100 Things You Can Do to Save the Planet
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This practical and informative guide introduces four Rs for cleaning up the environment: reduce, reuse, recycle, and rethink, beginning with your own room! See also: 50 Simple Things That Kids Can Do To Save the Earth (j363.7052 FIFT) Ages 8+
- Organic Crafts: 75 Earth-Friendly Art Activities
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Projects with natural and reusable resources, labeled for younger and older crafters. All encourage outdoor observation and collecting. From the same publisher: Fiona Danks' Nature's Playground: Activities, Crafts and Games to Encourage Children To Get Outdoors (j796.5 DANK) Ages 3-9
- One Good Apple: Growing Our Food for the Sake of the Earth
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Pesticides and herbicides can contaminate food and harm people and animals, but Paladino shows how organically grown foods nourish the soil, and us! Ages 9-13
- Why Are the Ice Caps Melting? The Dangers of Global Warming
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Explains the "greenhouse effect" for younger readers and suggests things to do to help keep the earth healthy. Ages 5-9
- A Life in the Wild: George Schaller's Struggle to Save the Last Great Beasts.f
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Celebrates the 50+ year career of an outstanding animal scientist and advocate for preserving animal habitats worldwide. His study of animals in the wild was groundbreaking. Ages 10-13
- A Drop of Water: A Book of Science and Wonder
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Dramatic, magnified photos bring into focus the wonder of water, without which no living thing can survive. Ages 8-11
- Green Boy
jF COOP
While bemoaning the development of a resort on their Bahamian island, two brothers find themselves drawn into a parallel world where over-development has turned everything concrete gray and only the younger boy can save it. Ages 9-12
- The City of Ember.
jF DUPR
An unexplained ecological disaster has forced humankind into an underground city. But as the city's life support systems break down, two kids realize they must find a way out. Ages 10+
- Seedfolks
jF FLEI
Told from different perspectives, Fleischman weaves a tale of the growth of an urban community garden. Ages 9+
- My Side of the Mountain.
jF GEOR
Sam runs away from his crowded New York City apartment to live off the land for a year in the Catskill Mountains. Full of fascinating detail of his daily life! See sequels and other environmental titles by this author. (also available in Spanish) Ages 9+
- Flush
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A boy and his spunky little sister uncover a floating casino's dirty secret. Also: Hoot (jF HIAA) Ages 10+
- Judy Moody Saves the World!
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Impatient for results, a third grader learns that while it's not easy, it's very satisfying to help save the planet. (also available in Spanish) Ages 7-10
- The Beasties.
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Why are people who live on the edge of a clear cut forest losing various body parts? Doug and his sister discover the brutal revenge of nature. Ages 9-12
- Sammy Keyes and the Wild Things
Picture Books
- The Sun Is My Favorite Star.
jPS ASCH
With colorful illustrations, Asch celebrates the many gifts from our closest star. Ages 3-6
- Where the Forest Meets the Sea
jPS BAKE
A boy tells of his day in the rain forest by the Great Barrier Reef. Superb collage art brings this far away location to life and shows alarming changes that have taken place over time. Also: Home (jPS BAKE); Window (jPS BAKE). Ages 5+
- Eco Babies Wear Green
An amusing look at how even the youngest child can participate in earth-friendly activities. Ages Birth-2
- Pie in the Sky
jPS EHLE
A cherry tree provides safe haven and food for many animals as well as the tasty filling for pie. Ages 4-8
- Where Once There Was a Wood
jPS FLEM
Nature is swallowed by a housing development. But, rather than ending on this dismal note, Fleming gives extensive tips on how to create a nature habitat in your own yard. Ages 4-8
- One Little Seed.
jPS GREE
Short phrases describe a loving journey from seed to flower. Ages 1-4
- Whose Garden Is It?
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In addition to the gardener, many creatures share the garden, each thinking it is his property alone. Ages 3-7
- Earth Mother
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While tending earth's plants and animals, an African Earth Mother hears complaints from man, frog and mosquito whose interdependence doesn't please any of them. Ages 4-8
- The Great Trash Bash
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The mayor of Beaston leads his animal citizens in recycling their trash and making the town more beautiful. Ages 3-6
- I Stink!
jPS MCMU
A ravenous garbage truck gobbles up trash early in the morning in the big city. Ages 2-6
- Our Community Garden
jPS POLL
A young girl and her friends participate in their San Francisco neighborhood garden and reap the rewards of a successful vegetable harvest. Ages 3-6
- Welcome, Brown Bird
jPS RAY
Two boys, one in North America, one in South America, insist that their fathers not cut down the trees that are home to a migrating wood thrush whose song they both love. Ages 4-8
- The Lorax
jPS SEUS
In his familiar nonsense verse, Seuss delivers an ecological fable about the impact on the environment of cutting down all the trees in an area. (also available in Spanish) Ages 5+
- Just a Dream
jPS VANA
Tucked safely in his bed, Walter travels into the future at night, seeing problems if he continues his polluting ways. Ages 5-9
- Trashy Town
jPS ZIMM
Mr. Gilly has a great day cleaning up the garbage in Trashy Town. Ages 2-5
Poetry and Folklore
- The Big Book for Our Planet
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More than 40 authors and illustrators of children's books pay homage to the Earth. Ages 8+
- Looking for Jaguar and Other Rain Forest Poems
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Lush paintings and clever verse bring to life the amazing animals and plants of the world's rain forests. Ages 7-10
- Earth Care: World Folktales to Talk About.
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A noted folklorist and storyteller offers stories, proverbs and sayings that show how human actions affect the earth. Ages 8+
- The People Who Hugged the Trees: An Environmental Folk Tale
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Retelling of a tale from India in which the villagers at the edge of a desert bravely protect their forest from the Maharajah's tree-cutters. Ages 5-8
- The Sun in Me: Poems About the Planet
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An anthology of poems from many cultures that celebrates the beauty and awe inspired by the earth. Ages 6-9
- Color Me a Rhyme: Nature Poems for Young People
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Poetic responses to her son's photographs highlight nature's colors. Ages 8+
- Miss Lady Bird's Wildflowers: How a First Lady Changed America
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President Lyndon Johnson's wife made her own mark, urging that native wildflowers be planted in cities and along interstate highways and founding the Lady Bird Johnson Wildflower Research Center in Austin, Texas. Ages 5-9
- Julia Butterfly Hill: Saving the Redwoods
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Read about the young woman who lived 185 feet up in a tree for two years to save it from being cut down. Ages 6-9
- John Muir: America's First Environmentalist
jB MUIR
From his childhood in Scotland, Muir found excitement and joy in nature. He walked thousands of miles across America, saw Yosemite National Park created, and founded the Sierra Club in 1892. Ages 5-10
- Rachel Carson : a twentieth-century life
jB CARS
In 1961, before there was an environmental revolution, biologist Carson published Silent Spring, sounding the alarm about the toxicity of pesticides. Here is her life story, part of the Up Close series. For younger readers: Amy Ehrlich's Rachel: The Story of Rachel Carson (jB CARS). Ages 11+
- Light Shining Through the Mist: A Photobiography of Dian Fossey
jB FOSS
Chronicles the adventures of the San Francisco native who devoted her life to studying mountain gorillas in Rwanda and saving them from poachers. Ages 9-12
- Planting the Trees of Kenya: The Story of Wangari Maathai
- By mobilizing the local women and planting trees, the 2004 Nobel laureate has restored Kenya's ecosystem and economy. See also: Jeanette Winter's Wangari's Trees of Peace (j333.7209 WINT). Ages 5-9


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Joseph O'Sullivan scored and Pine Ridge beat Celebration 1-0 in the Region 2-4A quarterfinals.
DELTONA — Even coach Mike Menard is amazed by what his Pine Ridge Panthers are doing.
For the second straight game Joseph O'Sullivan pocketed the game-winning goal, this time sending the Panthers to a 1-0 win over Celebration in the Region 2-4A quarterfinals Wednesday night.
"Amazing," said Menard after his team moved to 22-5 and earned a semifinal berth (7 p.m. Saturday) against Seabreeze, which beat Harmony 2-0. "This is just amazing."
Cole Chokanis had three good looks at the Storm goal in the first half, but the Panthers senior sent one shot and two headers just wide of the left post.
O'Sullivan, who had an overtime goal to beat Seabreeze for the district title Friday, finally connected with 3:26 left before the break. He picked up a loose ball and finding goalie John Bitchall out of position, sent the ball just inside the left post.
"I had some time with the ball, so I just slid it into the corner," O'Sullivan said. "I actually had two options to do it. I could have sent it to the far post."
Then the Panthers defense took over. With solid play from defender Sean Curtis and goalkeeper Rafael Gomez leading the way, the Panthers would deny 11 Storm shots and six corner kicks.
"They didn't give up," Curtis said. "They kept the pressure on us all the way until the end."
Gomez finished with five saves, and none of the five came easy. The Storm (14-5-2) really turned up the heat in the last 10 minutes, forcing Gomez to make two outstanding saves.
Jose Perez nearly scooped up the rebound off a 25-yard direct kick that got away from Gomez, but the Panthers keeper was able to pounce on the ball just before Perez could get to it.
Gomez faced the same situation with 2:30 left, but was able to haul in the direct kick.
"I just focused on the ball," Gomez said. "I had trouble earlier in the year taking balls out of the air."


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Welcome to the 60 Minutes/Vanity Fair Poll for December. The election is over and the rancor and seriousness that was prevalent in a divided America can hopefully be set aside for the good of the country. What better time is there then to choose humor as the theme for this month's poll?
Questions like who and what makes America laugh, what shows do we like, what topics should be considered off limits to comedians, and are people born funny or is it a skill that can be developed? We as a nation can always use a better sense of humor about ourselves and some good laughs to get our mojo going.
It worked during the Depression as people flocked to theaters to forget their worries and laugh out loud as depicted in the classic movie "Sullivan's Travels." A little laughter might just get us in to the holiday spirit and foster a renewed sense of national unity and purpose. We'll toast to that, and to our readers, Happy Hanukkah, Merry Christmas and a happy and humor filled New Year. And now the results of our poll...
Only 14 percent of Americans were able to identify Judd Apatow, the prolific and successful writer, producer and director of comedy films and shows. Fifteen percent thought he was a former speechwriter for President Clinton, five percent guessed he was a creator of "South Park" and three percent took a shot at country music star. Nearly two thirds (64 percent) said they did not know who he was and the percentage went even higher for those 45 and older. It shows that you don't have to be widely known in America to become very wealthy in Hollywood.
Check out the Vanity Fair slideshow.
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START Conference Manager
Better to Organize Personal Information by Folders Or by Tags?: The Devil Is in the Details
Andrea Civan, William Jones, Predrag Klasnja and Harry Bruce
ASIS&T 2008 Annual Meeting (AM08 2008)
Columbus, Ohio, October 24-29, 2008
People can organize documents by placing them into folders or by tagging them with labels. Discussions that compare folders versus labels are pervasive, but the lack of empirical work that compares individuals experiences using each method to organize information for similar tasks limits our understanding of their deeper similarities and differences. We compared participants experiences organizing information with both folders and labels over time. Results point to similarities in fundamental needs for structural support, independent of organization method, including greater expression of detail in organizational schemes that structure information collections and support to reorganize those schemes as collections evolve. Key differences highlight the distinct advantages that each method offers for keeping, organizing, and re-finding information. Important distinctions were revealed not through abstract discussion of folders versus labels, but rather through active and situated participant discussion that was centered around hands-on experience. These findings extend our understanding of users structural needs for the management of personal information collections.
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Feeding China's 1.3 Billion People
As China's farmers continue their exodus to the city from the countryside, some worry about food shortages. Will Freeman of research firm Dragonomics talks about which foods will be increasingly in demand as China becomes a country of city slickers.
This transcript has been automatically generated and may not be 100% accurate.
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S.O.T.A. Board Information
The board is made up of 17 positions. Some of the positions have the flexibility to be co-chaired and that is solely up to the current board members discretion. The title and descriptions of the positions are as follows:
Directs and heads board meetings. Meets regularly with the S.O.T.A. boards faculty representative.
Vice - Chairperson
Second to the chairperson. Leads board meeting if chairperson is not there. Chairs fundraising committee and organizes activities like the car wash and sweatshirts sales.
Has direct access to the S.O.T.A. account. In charge of deposits and withdrawals. Receives membership dues and responsible for issuing membership cards. Monitors cash flow within the S.O.T.A. account. Reports to board on financial status.
Recording Secretary
Records the board meetings and posts the minutes weekly on the S.O.T.A. bulletin board.
Corresponding Secretary
Assists the recording secretary. Responsible for written correspondence like "thank you" letters.
Program Chairperson
Plans and implements activities aimed to please the special and social interests of the OT students, like the potluck social and Halloween costume party.
Project Chairperson
Organizes and implements important service and educational projects relating to the OT profession, like the splint workshop and burn unit tour.
Publicity Chairperson
Publicizes information about upcoming S.O.T.A. events, responsible for decorating the OT display cases in the Central Classroom Building, and for publishing our monthly, in-house Therapeutic Thought newsletter.
Faculty Representative
An important link between the faculty and the students. Attends the faculty meetings and relays important and relevant information concerning the students to the board. Also takes concerns or issues to the faculty meetings from the S.O.T.A. board and the general student population. Means to be, if needed, a carrier for private issues from individual students.
OTAC Representative
Maintains close correspondence with OTAC and the Santa Clara Chapter here in San Jose. Attends Chapter OTAC meetings and reports to the board regarding topics. Advertises monthly OTAC meetings and current events that students are encouraged to attend.
ASCOTA Representative
Represents the OT student body on a campus level. Raises concerns regarding campus issues to the associated students.
Pre-OT Representative
Attends board meetings and reports information back to the students not yet taking the major courses. This position is usually co-chaired because of the large number of Pre-OT students on campus.
First/Second/Third Sequence Representatives
Attends the board meetings and reports back to the sequence and also brings concerns or questions to the board from the sequence. A very important link between the board and the students.
Elections for the positions are held in April. All positions are a year long, except for the sequence representative positions, which are one semester, and therefore not available to those students in the third or fourth sequences. All persons running for a board position must be a S.O.T.A. member. Pre-OT students can hold only the Pre-OT rep position.


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Most Pure Heart of Mary Website Sponsorship
What does Most Pure Heart of Mary Parish receive?
- A professional, custom built website with reliable hosting
- Personal training for staff and volunteers to learn how to edit the website
- Unlimited support from an excellent website design company
What does your business receive?
- A banner ad linked to your website, or any other page on the internet
- Access to customers in your immediate geographic area
- Positive association by being affiliated with the church
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Questions? Contact Patrick (785-783-6223) or firstname.lastname@example.com
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When someone clicks on my ad, what happens? +Your ad can be linked to any website on the internet! We can link it to your company website, a Facebook page, or any other webpage you prefer. If you don't have any of those things, then we can build a profile page on the parish's/school's website. There you can place your contact info for visitors to see.
Where is my ad displayed? +Every page on the website has ad positions on the side, and towards the bottom of each page. When a page is viewed, the ads are randomly assigned to the positions. This allows for every advertiser to have an opportunity to be viewed in the prime positions on the site!
Who builds my ad? +We'll take care of that for you! We can build the ad with content from your website, or you can send us pictures and info to use in building it. If you prefer to build the ad yourself, then that's great too. We will provide you with the dimensions and other details. Either way works for us.
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I purchased my 2012 Equinox two years and 32566 miles ago. The gas mileage varies depending on how, when, and where I drive. Its overall mileage is 26.93 mpg based on total miles driven by gallons used. (over 19mpg urban; over 30mpg at 55mph) ECO Mode and manual shift are never used. It does not consume oil between the approximately 6,500 mile service intervals. The only warranty issue I have had was at 19,000 miles when the radio and backup camera stopped working. GM fixed the problem by reprogramming the radio with updated software. When it's time to purchase my next new vehicle, I'm not sure what it will be. If the decision is based on my present Equinox's ride, workmanship, and interior size, it will be another GM vehicle.
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Wiki Users Guide
pBiblx2 Street Wise Bible System
ShepherdPup GPL3 2010
This Users-Guide is intended to acquaint new users to the driving concepts behind PCARR and familiarise frequent users to the ministerial and evangelical possibilities behind the technologies utilised herein.
Additional information can be found at the pBiblx user forums and at the ShepherdPup Linux home site athttp://shepherdpuplinux.us
This documentation is constantly developing thanks to the contributions of PCARR users.
(This presentation itself is a simple text wiki page)
I. Introduction
- What's a Wiki?
The concept of a Christian Wiki is not new [see BibleWikis]. A true Wiki typically hosts user contributed encyclopaedic content.
- Collaboration!
Users can collaborate with one another, contribute and edit each others content, collectively producing a useful knowledge base.
- Simplicity!
Pages are written in plain text. Simple text formatting syntax can be added. The Wiki takes care of the formatting and general overhead.
- Automated!
Contributed pages are automatically cross linked and referenced to other relative pages and all are easily searched.
- What makes a Wiki so useful?
- Notes are easily entered and indexed to the current topic
- Threads of similar thoughts are easily generated
- Others can edit add or make comments
This PCARR Wiki implementation differs in that it seeks to document the practical day to day knowledge of God's Word applied toward our outreach to others.
Think of it as a communal "Christian Outreach HOWTO" Wiki.
- What makes the PCARR Wiki so useful to Christians:
- Your personal notes are now where ever there is a computer.. any computer!
- Your notes are now useful to many more people other than just yourself!
- Anyone of any age or aptitude can share!
- And more than that:
- PCARR intentionally focuses on practical outreach and not on theological or doctrinal debate.
- Each pBiblx community polices itself and develops as it sees fit
- Each pBiblx community can sync content with other trusted pBiblx partner sites.
Study and notes and tags and references and resources come to life
- With the PCARR wikis you can:
- Link your notes to other peoples notes
- Link their notes to yours
- Link all pBiblx resources to keywords
- PCARR automatically:
- Links common keywords in your text to their many appropriate resources
- Formats your plain text into HTML for printing or presentation
- Links external HTML sources that you provide
- Generates an RSS syndicated feed for RSS aggregation
II. Collaboration
- There are many helpful ways for you to contribute:
- Proof reading and spell-grammar checking.
- Composing content or stubs for future content.
- Adding references, internal and external links to existing content.
- Commenting with personal experiences.
- Translation into other languages.
In everything, we ask that all contributions be prayerfully considered, thoughtful of all levels of ability and readership, encouraging, and spoken from direct experience. This effort should not become a substitute for real life face to face outreach.
- There are currently four implementations of the same pBiblx2 PCARR Wiki.
- PCARR - the show piece wiki focusing on practical application of God's word into our daily outreach. PBPCARR@PracticalChristian@
- RRR - 'Real Life Real People Real God' wiki focusing on testimony of God's wondrous works. PBRRR@RealGod@
- Notes - A powerful note taking/sharing wiki with integrated presentation capability. PBNOTES@MyNotes@
- MyPad - A personal (or group) information manager (PIM or GIM) type app that gives you space for anything from bookmarks, jots, drafts, public schedules, etc... PBPYPAD@MyPad@
Learn one PCARR wiki..you've learned all four!
So you can see that there are plenty of ways for you to become involved!
III. Format
- Each pBiblx wiki attempts to organise multiple pages into specific threads or focuses.
A hierarchy should exist from general headings down to specific topics.
- It is suggested:
- that you keep your topic files short and to the point avoiding preachiness
- that you divide complex themes into multiple files linking to each other.
- that you provide references and further resource links as much as possible.
- that you search for your topic before generating duplicate content.
Content can be just plain text with or without formatting syntax. The important thing is to capture the initial thought. You or someone else can always go back and provide format syntax. The specific simple rules of syntax are found in the HelpFile.
- Basically:
- just study as you would be anyway using the vast resources of pBiblx2
- take and keep your notes on the pBiblx2 Note wiki
- tie your notes together later with a PCARR practical application
- It could be a note taking device on a private single user system.
- It could be family or group study or devotional on a small communal system.
- It could be a larger evangelical or encyclopedic tool on a public system.
It is advised that if you are editorialising another persons content that you place comments at the bottom of the file instead of making wholesale changes to the original text.
IV. Possible Uses
- The Wiki has the ability to grow into anything that the users desire.
Everyone is encouraged to contribute to this Wiki no matter what chronologic age or spiritual maturity. The motto should be that if you have received a benefit from this, you should also contribute.
We are not attempting to be Theologians here, simply wise and obedient fruitful followers of Jesus.
Other resources:
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Mopar factory replacement parts are sourced direct from Jeep factory suppliers. do not settle for incorrect aftermarket parts, get the exact replacement they would have pulled off the Jeep assembly line. This is a Chrysler supplied part for your Jeep.
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I have a 93 wrangler with the lever broken off this product comes with instructions on installation Correct?
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Hello, These Jeep Turn Signal Levers do no come with instructions. For good how to instructions youtube has a few videos that show the proper way to install. If you have anymore questions feel free to ask, Thank you.
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I have a 95 YJ. My turn signal lever broke with a piece inside the switch. I am going to purchase a replacement lever. However, I cant seem to find out if the plastic end pieces comes with it (its the piece that locks the lever into place and the piece that applies pressure to the contact points in the switch).
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Hi LB You would need the turn signal switch part CRO56007255 also for the Turn Signal Lever with Intermittent Wipers, without Cruise. Thanks
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I need the switch that turns from high beam to lowbeam. will this work for my 91 wrangler
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Hello, Yes this is the switch for what you have. If you have anymore questions feel free to ask, Thank you.
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T-Mobile CEO says iPhone will help cut customer losses over the next year
T-Mobile USA Inc. Chief Executive Officer John Legere said the carrier has put in place the necessary pieces—– the iPhone, a faster network and a service plan that lets customers buy phones in installments— to end subscriber losses next year.
There will be some "incremental" monthly user gains by the fourth quarter of this year and subscriber numbers "should be positive" in 2014, Legere said in an interview at the International Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas. "It won't be linear, but it should be sustainable."
T-Mobile lost 1.03 million monthly subscribers in the first three quarters of 2012 as lucrative smartphone customers switched to speedier long-term evolution, or LTE, services at Verizon Wireless and AT&T Inc. The swing from losing subscribers to gaining contract customers would be a milestone for Legere, who took over as the top executive for Deutsche Telekom AG's U.S. mobile business in September.
"This would be a big turnaround for them," said Jan Dawson, an analyst at London-based Ovum Ltd. "T-Mobile has really struggled to grow consistently in postpaid the last several years, so that would be major progress."
Halting customer erosion would be a surprise to some analysts. Guy Peddy, an analyst at Macquarie Bank Ltd. in London, predicts T-Mobile will lose 1.6 million monthly subscribers this year and another 400,000 in 2014.
T-Mobile has been building its own LTE network, which it expects to cover an area reaching 100 million people by mid- year. T-Mobile is also merging with MetroPCS Communications Inc. in a pending deal that would give Deutsche Telekom 74 percent of the combined business in exchange for a $1.5 billion payment to MetroPCS shareholders. The companies are targeting a completion of the transaction in the first half of the year.
Getting to subscriber growth is a top priority, Legere said. Last month, Deutsche Telekom announced that it had made a deal with Apple Inc. to have T-Mobile sell the iPhone, making it the last of the major U.S. carriers to get the device.
Selling the iPhone, through a flexible, interest-free financing agreement, where customers can pay upfront or in installments, is how Legere describes T-Mobile's "value plan" approach. Customer defections, or churn, will slow down with the addition of the iPhone, he said.
"The iPhone and the value plan is a big part of this," Legere said. "We need churn to come down, and without an iconic device, that would be hard to do."


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NRA plan: Let teachers carry guns
An NRA-backed task force on Tuesday recommended allowing teachers to carry weapons in school, while avoiding any discussion of Congress' most-talked about gun control proposals.
"Teachers should teach," said former Rep. Asa Hutchinson (R-Ark.), the chair of the task force. "But if there is personnel who has good experience, who has interest in it and is willing to go through this training," they should be able to carry a gun on school grounds. Hutchinson said the group was recommending a 40-to-60 hour comprehensive gun safety program.
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Critics immediately accused the NRA of trying to solve a problem caused by guns by adding more guns.
"Today's NRA proposal is a cruel hoax that will fail to keep our children and schools safe," American Federation of Teachers President Randi Weingarten said in a statement. "It is simply designed to assist gun manufacturers flood the nation and our schools with more guns and large magazine clips, which will simply lead to more violence."
( PHOTOS: Politicians speak out on gun control)
Hutchinson said allowing teachers to carry guns was necessary because many smaller school districts couldn't afford to hire school resource officers for every campus. Citing a 1997 shooting at Pearl High School in Mississippi that was stopped when an assistant principal pulled a gun from his car and forced the shooter to flee, Hutchinson argued decreasing the "response time" for an armed defender was key to saving lives.
The 225-page National School Shield plan has eight recommendations: the adoption of a model training program for school resources officers and armed school personnel, the creation of a model law allowing teachers and other school employees to carry firearms, the placement of at least one resource officer at every school, the creation of an online tool to let schools evaluate their own safety programs, asking states to require schools to have safety and security plans, improved federal coordination and funding and the creation of school-based threat assessment teams that work with mental health professionals.
The plan also asks the NRA to invest in the National School Shield as a permanent national organization to advocate for school safety.
The proposal does back down from one controversial suggestion made by NRA executive Vice President Wayne LaPierre at his December press conference in the wake of the massacre at Sandy Hook Elementary School. LaPierre had suggested allowing armed volunteers in school buildings to protect students. Hutchinson said there was "great reluctance" from superintendents to embrace that idea.
( WATCH: Obama: 'Shame on us if we forgot' Newtown)
Hutchinson, who unveiled the plan at the National Press Club in Washington, said he was employed by the NRA as a "consultant," and repeatedly said the nation's largest gun-rights organization has given him total independence and wasn't required to accept the task force's recommendations. And in an initial statement, the group held back.
"The National Rifle Association is determined to continue to use every asset at its disposal to help make America's children safe at school," the organization said in a statement. "We need time to digest the full report. We commend Asa Hutchinson for his rapid response in the aftermath of the Newtown tragedy, and we are certain the contributions he and his team have made will go a long way to making America's schools safer."


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Calling All Cookies!
It's the first of December, the time of year where everything begins to fast forward.
Holiday music heralds in the buzz that will surround us these next few weeks. There are parties to plan, presents to buy, holiday specials to watch, and baking, baking, baking to be done.
But, not if you don't have a stove.
*sniff sniff*
If you don't have a stove you can do everything but the baking. And, the cooking.
It's a nice break for a minute or two. At least it was on Thanksgiving Day when I expected my new stove (after fixing all the granite, and gas line, and electrical service issues) to be installed the following Saturday. It was kind of relaxing—and a little weird—not to have pots bubbling and the oven steaming. It was nice of my sister and sister-in-law to host Thanksgiving and be satisfied with my meager offerings. It may have been the first relaxing holiday for me in, well, years.
Now it's not so much fun anymore. The Saturday installation has come and gone. There is a stove sitting in what was an empty space. It looks very pretty. It doesn't do much but it's all shiny and stuff. It'll sit there until the new one comes. The one that looks just as pretty but actually works. The one they told me will be delivered on *sob* December 26th.
That. Is. Not. Going. To. Work.
No dinners. No baking. No blog posts. No traditional Christmas Eve dinner. No Christmas brunch.
You know what…where there's a will there's a way. I'll keep you posted on progress (follow the saga on Twitter!) but for now I'm going to have to get blogger creative!
So, here's what we're going to do.
I'm going to repost those lovely cookies you see in the photo. They were a favorite last year in our home and hopefully they'll be a favorite again this year.
Then I'm going to ask all of you to link to your cookie recipes. Help me out here…bake me some cookies and share them by adding them below. I'm counting on my favorite (and hopefully some new) foodie friends.
It's simple. Just follow the instructions below. You may add as many entries as you like but there are two rules…they must be gluten-free and they must be cookies. Plus they don't need to be new posts. Can't wait to see what you bring!! The posting closes on December 20th. So, check back often for new cookie links.


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Cuts and rate increases are both necessary
By Ray Stephanson
Jump to Brenda Stonecipher's argument
On Wednesday I will share with City Council my recommendations for balancing the city's budget for 2015 and taking the first steps to bring our finances back into structural balance for the long term. I urge our councilmembers to unanimously support these recommendations, which balance expense reductions with increased revenue. Without action on these changes, we will not be able to avoid deep cuts across city services.
Thank you to our residents and business leaders, council members and city employees, who have all shared feedback, questions and ideas with us over the past several months. This process has given our citizens an opportunity to learn more about the city's finances and tell us what matters most to them. I am very grateful for all of the input we've received.
I am proud of our record of financial management and leadership over the past decade. Through one of the most challenging economic periods of our lifetimes, we have successfully kept the city in good financial standing.
Our tradition of fiscal responsibility gave us flexibility during the slow recovery from the recession, and we were able to weather the downturn without major cuts to service. But that doesn't mean we haven't made adjustments. Under my direction, we eliminated 25 full-time positions over the last six years and deferred more than $30 million in contributions toward long-term obligations and capital investments. We put planned projects, like library and parks expansions, on hold, and we deferred maintenance to streets and parks.
I also very deliberately did not propose raising taxes and fees during the recession, when many of our residents and businesses were already suffering. That was the right choice, and I would do it again the same way. However, I have consistently warned that we would need to make adjustments in the future.
Despite positive economic news and new developments happening in Everett, the reality is that revenues have not recovered as substantially as any of us has hoped. Revenue from sales taxes — the general fund's second-largest income source — remains below 2007 levels. We increasingly see the state withholding revenues, such as projected sales taxes from recreational marijuana, while unfunded state and federal mandates cost the city more than $13 million a year. We must also budget for future demands on the general fund, such as subsidizing Comcast Arena at a higher rate.
Going forward, we project revenues to increase by just 2.3 percent a year, while our expenses are estimated to grow at 4.1 percent. This is an unsustainable model, and the time is right to make proactive, thoughtful changes to bring us back into balance for the future. My recommendations reflect that approach.
On the expense side, my primary focus is our ongoing efforts to rein in labor costs. I recommend eliminating 15 full-time positions and continuing to work toward 10 percent medical-premium contributions for all city employees (elected officials and appointive employees already contribute this amount). Changes to represented employees' benefits will require negotiations with all of our labor unions, and may take several years to fully achieve. However, the public has been very clear that they expect city leaders to address the rising cost of health care for our own workforce, and I urge the City Council to support these efforts.
We heard from many citizens about the importance of the Forest Park swim center and Walter E. Hall golf course. That feedback echoes my own views. While staff brought forward a long, wide-ranging list of options for the City Council's consideration, my goal has always been for these two facilities to remain open, and I will make those recommendations official this week.
At the library board's direction, I will recommend eliminating the library outreach program, and I have already directed staff to move ahead with procedural changes to better recover costs at the municipal court. However, current city programs and services will remain largely intact under my recommendations.
Amenities like the swim center, senior center and library, and services like Everett Transit and ferries to Jetty Island, add to our citizens' quality of life and attract new visitors to Everett. Our citizens and business owners overwhelmingly affirmed that these are the things that make Everett a place where they want to live and work.
We also consistently heard from community members that they would rather pay a little more to support the city than to see our affordable, accessible programs and services disappear. That's why my recommendations on the revenue side are designed to better align our rates and fees with the cost of providing those valued services, and to bring us in line with peer jurisdictions.
My recommendations include raising the fee for business licenses to $75, with an annual renewal, and increasing our utility tax rate from 4.5 percent to 6 percent for natural gas, electricity and phone service, and to 2 percent for garbage and cable. This would represent an increase of less than $7 a month for an average Everett family. I will also recommend that the council create a transportation benefit district with a $20 car-tab fee for vehicles licensed in Everett. Revenues from the car-tab fee will help fund our street overlay program.
Rather than target a specific group for revenue adjustments, I'm recommending moderate increases across the board, balanced with cost-cutting measures on the expense side. Together, these adjustments will help us propose a balanced budget for 2015 and will provide important additional revenue in future years. The full list of recommended changes is available on our website at www.everettwa.org/default.aspx?ID=2177.
There's still more to be done. The second phase of our work will involve in-depth reviews of some of our largest departments, beginning with our fire department. Public safety remains my number one priority, but we know that there are opportunities for improvement. The time is right to take a comprehensive look at our resources and staffing practices to make sure they are appropriately aligned with the types of calls and requests for service that we receive.
We must take the time for thoughtful review of these large, complex departments, and I urge the council to support moving forward with the independent studies. Most changes to these departments will require negotiations with our unions, and will take time to implement. While they will not affect the 2015 budget, they will be very important in helping us achieve ongoing structural balance.
A process like this is never easy, and there's never an ideal time for city leaders to make cuts or increase rates. However, we must take steps to address our structural deficit in a way that is thoughtful and fair, rather than kicking the can down the road. My administration is already actively working to control labor costs and achieve equitable medical benefits for all of our employees, but we must also make sure that our fees and rates reflect our true cost of doing business. With the council's support, we have the chance to preserve the things we love most about living and working here, by ensuring that we have the revenue to pay for those services.
Ray Stephanson is mayor of Everett.
City needs a lasting change in thinking
By Brenda Stonecipher
Recent revelations of budget woes in the City of Everett have taken our constituents by surprise. Through the Great Recession, other cities tightened their belts, while Everett was seemingly steady at the helm. Now, citizens are wondering when the ship started "taking on water" and what the city plans to do to bail it out. Along with cuts to beloved programs, the largest tax and fee increases in recent memory are being proposed to plug the hole. I believe these remedies are being forwarded in haste, with inadequate consideration of the paradigm shift occurring in the operating model for local governments. Many of these proposals will not affect a meaningful change in the budget trend line.
The City of Everett is facing a projected shortfall of $12.6 million for the 2015 general fund budget. A projected deficit going into the budgeting process is not new; for years, the annual forecast has foretold future shortfalls, starting at $3.6 million in 2007, expanding to approximately $10 million for each of the past four years. The City of Everett requires a balanced budget. This has become more difficult over the years, because the deficit is not a temporary condition. It is "structural," which means revenue growth will never again keep up with the expenses without fundamental changes in revenues, expenses, or both.
The leading causes for Everett's stalled revenue growth include the City's portion of tax breaks made to the aerospace industry in 2003 and again last year, the 1 percent limit on property tax growth enacted in 2007, and the significant loss of tax-generating business activity in the city. On the expense side, the double-digit rise in health care costs and contractual salary increases are the main culprits.
Just like home budgeting, there are only a handful of options available to balance the books: increase revenue, reduce expenses, forgo "saving," or sell some assets to generate cash. Adjustments that alter the rate of growth in revenue or expenses are the only ones that are able to change the "structural" deficiency; one-time adjustments cannot.
Mayor Stephenson and his administrative team have undertaken a process to identify the options for closing the gap in 2015, as well as several study options that may impact the deficit in future years. These options, and their potential financial effect, are summarized in the list below.
Unfortunately, not all of these proposals will have an impact on the structural deficit. For example, forgoing police and fire pension contributions creates a one-time effect, with no improvement of the structural deficit; on the other hand, increasing tax rates will improve the revenue growth rate — and, thus, the structural deficit.
Tax and fee measures, which form the majority of administration's proposal, require much greater analysis than has been provided. To review a single tax or fee in comparison to what other cities are charging is absurd. What really matters is the total tax burden we are placing on our citizens and businesses (i.e., what is the total annual tax bill). Until we do the work of analyzing the tax burden, we are ill prepared to decide on any tax and fee proposals.
The utility tax increases and the new flat-rate car tab fee are highly regressive taxes, because they affect low-income residents to a greater degree than others. With 16.9 percent of residents living below the poverty line and a median household income of $47,491, Everett is one of the most impoverished cities in Snohomish County — a fact that must be considered when setting tax policies. (U.S. Census, 2010)
The suggestion that we continue to forgo police and fire pension fund contributions is unthinkable. The payments to this fund are being made for retirees, yet we are still paying off the debt to their pension plan. Over the past five years, administration has postponed $18.3 million in payments owed to this fund. To continue to push this burden out to future generations is an affront to intergenerational equity.
Finally, plans to close Forest Park pool, eliminate library services, and cut other popular programs are discouraging. These services impact many lives in our community and their elimination provides comparatively little financial relief. Furthermore, cuts to these programs constitute a secondary attack on Everett's low-income residents, who rely heavily on these resources for their quality of life.
City administration's approach to the structural deficit has failed to acknowledge that a more fundamental change needs to occur in the management and operation of our government. The options being hastily advanced will not create the strategic shift needed to lead the City into the future on sound financial footing. As an alternative, I suggest a complete evaluation of all city operations, compared to other cities, to assess opportunities to improve. It should include a look at the efficiency and effectiveness by which we deliver services to our citizens, the services we are providing, and an analysis of the tax burden facing the various constituencies in our city. Other cities in the region have begun such work, finding efficiencies through more automation of city services, cooperative service arrangements, departmental reorganization, and elimination of non-essential services. Once we have an understanding of the "new normal" and have proven to our constituents that we are good stewards of our resources, we can then consider the revenue model to sustain it.
In the interim, the 2015 budget must be balanced. Using some of the same strategies as prior years (e.g., holding vacant positions, reducing reserve allowances, etc.) and some new ones, such as selling under-utilized properties owned by the general fund for which there are no strategic plans (e.g., the Culmback Building on Colby), the books can be balanced. If necessary, the City can also utilize a portion of the $20 million in accumulated operating surpluses (net income from prior years when the City was "in the black") held in accordance with the Fund Balance Policy, which allows for use of these funds to meet unanticipated needs, with a payback plan. Given the dialogue surrounding the 2015 budget, it most certainly qualifies.
Now is not the time for short-term thinking. The structural budget crisis will not be solved by relying on regressive taxation policies, increasing cuts to heavily used City programs, and burdening the next generation of Everett residents with debts. Our City can move forward only if we adapt to the "changing tides" in the post-Recession era and take the time to look to the horizon for long-term solutions to the City's woes.
Brenda Stonecipher is an Everett councilwoman and a certified public accountant.
Revenue increases
- Increase utility tax rates; add new tax on cable and garbage
- Impact on 2015 budget: $5,800,00
- Increase business taxes
- Impact: $977,000
- New car tab fee
- Impact: $1,500,000
- Other fee increases (business license, fire inspection, etc)
- Impact: $836,000
- New on-street parking fees and parking infraction penalties
- Impact: $600,000
Expense decreases
- Labor reductions
- Impact: $4,000,000
- Forgo police and fire pension contributions
- Impact: $933,000
- Implement 10% medical premium contribution throughout workforce
- Impact: $900,000
- Eliminate swim, library, human needs, and parks programs
- Impact: $871,000
- Administrative procedure expense reductions (jail costs, contracting)
- Impact: $600,000
Total: $17,017,000


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Reliability of MRI and computer-guided targeting of the subthalamic nucleus in deep brain stimulation
Tiefe Hirnstimulation: Evaluation der MRT-geführten, computer-gestützten Zielplanung für den Nucleus subthalamicus
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|April 11, 2007
Objective: The objective of this study was to investigate the reliability of MRI- and 3-dimensional, computer-guided targeting of the subthalamic nucleus (STN) by comparing the planned target with the final position of the electrode after microelectrode recording (MER) and intraoperative macrostimulation. In addition, the differences in defining the outer margins of the STN between 3D-MRI visualization and multi-trajectory microelectrode recording were investigated.
Methods: 26 STN targets in 13 patients with Parkinson's disease were investigated. The stereotactic coordinates of the antero-dorso-lateral subthalamic nucleus (STN) were determined directly, on axial and coronal T2WI spin echo slices after fusion of data sets. Intraoperatively, 3-5 parallel microelectrodes were inserted with the centre trajectory along the MRI-planned route. The final target point, as well as the outer margins of the STN according to MER and intraoperative clinical testing were superimposed on the preoperative MRI on a computer based, stereotactic planning workstation.
Results: In the cranio-caudal direction (z-coordinate) the differences between MRI derived targets and the final targets were most prominent (p<0,005). The final targets were found more superior with a mean of 1.5mm (range from 4.1 mm to -2.0 mm) and more anterior (mean: 1.0 mm; range: 3.4 mm to -2.7 mm; p<0,005) than the MRI derived targets. The differences concerning the laterality were not statistically significant, however, differences between +1.7 mm and -1.7 mm occurred. In 13 cases we recorded STN signals superior to the dorsal margins of the STN as detected on the 3D MRI (mean: 1.6 mm; standard deviation: 1.4 mm). In 2 cases we found STN signals more inferior MRI (mean: 1.4 mm), in 7 cases more lateral (mean: 1.1 mm; standard deviation: 1.1 mm) and in 1 case more posterior.
Conclusions: Microelectrode recording and intraoperative clinical testing lead to different target points than MRI directed and computer assisted, preoperative targeting. Furthermore, the functional STN in this study is not identical with the anatomical STN on MR images.


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[ncc-announce] Reminder: NRO NC Call for Nominations - RIPE NCC Service Region
Axel Pawlik noreply at ripe.net
Tue Sep 27 12:37:11 CEST 2011
[Apologies for duplicate emails] Dear colleagues, This is a reminder that there is a call for nominations from the RIPE NCC service region to fill one vacant seat on the Number Resource Organization (NRO) Number Council (NC). The term of Wilfried Woeber, who was appointed to the NRO NC by the RIPE NCC Executive Board in October 2008, ends on 31 December 2011. The RIPE NCC Executive Board will select one representative from the nominees to serve a three-year term on the NRO NCC beginning 1 January 2012. The decision of the Executive Board will be announced at the RIPE 63 Meeting, which will be held in Vienna from 31 October-4 November 2011. The deadline for nominations is 5 October 2011. Any individual residing within the RIPE NCC service region is eligible for nomination, except Regional Internet Registry (RIR) staff members. Self-nominations are permitted. There is no limit on the amount of terms someone can serve on the NRO NC. All nominees may submit a written statement in support of their nomination for publication on the RIPE NCC website. Other individuals may express support for nominated individuals that will be published on the RIPE NCC website. Details on how to make nominations or expressions of support are available at: http://www.ripe.net/nronc2011-process Expressions of support will also be published on the RIPE NCC website. To find out more about the NRO NC and the election process, please see: http://www.ripe.net/nronc2011 Regards, Axel Pawlik Managing Director RIPE NCC Important Dates: 5 October 2011: Deadline for NRO NC nominations 7 October 2011: Deadline for all confirmed nominations to be posted on the RIPE NCC website 31 October-4 November 2011: Result of selection announced at RIPE 63 Meeting in Vienna


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I see there was a very serious accident on 422 at the intersection where you go into Target. I was wondering how long it was going to take. I don't know who made up these rules but going east on 422 you have two lanes of traffic at the light. When you go through the light, there is one lane of traffic east and anyone coming west making a left turn is sitting in the middle lane. So the cars going east go straight through and hit the car sitting there head on.
I wanted to recognize the male student at Pope John Paul II High School who brought in flowers on Valentine's Day to be given anonymously to every girl in the school. I thought that was an extremely thoughtful and generous gesture. My daughters and her friends were thrilled. His parents should be so proud of him and I think some smart girl should snatch him up.
A GRATEFUL MOM Don't be so quick to praise the Daniel Boone School Board. Remember, they needed to build a new school just a couple of years ago because of enrollment. Now they're closing an old one. They just wanted a new building with modern luxuries, and let's not forget redoing the football stadium. Our taxes are also going up to the maximum allowed by law.
DISGUSTED AND GOING BROKE One of our Montgomery County commissioners said things are getting better in Pottstown. Where has he been? They're getting worse. The 15 percent Section 8 in Pottstown has to be more like 40 or 45 percent. People are completely out of touch with reality in town. We're getting worse. We're being dumped on and the investors could give a rat's tail about this town. It's money, money, money. We'll wake up some day and it will be too late.
I could have sworn the election was over and Barack Obama had won his precious second term. So why does he keep leaving Washington and campaigning to the American people on his gun control, immigration, how he's going to fix the middle class? The best thing he can do is stay in Washington and work with his fellow constituents and fix his own issues with being able to work with both parties and all branches of government and stay there until 2016.
Times are really getting tough. In the fall we had folks coming to our doors and asking for donations, stories of children with cancer. Recently we've had a woman when she sees us outside our home she asks for help financially to get her to Philly with different reasons as to why she needs help. I don't mind helping people but this is crazy. This must be the new way to earn a living. I guess I'll have to get on board. The donation train is about to stop.
I have had the good fortune of attending Jerry Blavatt's dance concerts in Pottstown. The ones held at Sunnybrook are great because it's a large dance floor. I am curious about the local ones held elsewhere and if fire codes have been observed and followed. Very curious about that.
Once again they're talking about increasing gas taxes to work on the highways. Nothing will ever get done on the highways as long as they have five immense state trucks driving down Route 100 just to sweep along the edge of the road. Why do they need five trucks?
I see my school district Perkiomen Valley needs more money. I don't see these kids getting any brighter and when they get out of school there's no jobs anyway. I'm not begrudging anybody to make some money but your money and pensions are incredible. All of us are being held hostage because you went to school for four years. You should make more than me but you remind me of the politicians grabbing money and burning it up.
This is for the property taxpayers of Pennsylvania. Have you been reading the paper? All these school boards, Perkiomen Valley, Boyertown, Daniel Boone, just to name a few, are increasing the taxes and more than what the state allows. It's up to us people. We have to stop this and the only way is not to pay the taxes.
I'd like to applaud Kathleen Kane on her decision to reject the lottery contract proposal by Gov. Corbett to Camelot for the lottery. I think her decision was wise and even though she hasn't been the attorney general for long I think she's going to make a heck of a good one.
Everyone thinks the taxes are bad. How about a widow, 97, lived in Royersford all her life in the same house over 50 years and no children? Who's she paying school taxes for, the principals?