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This is a picture of my two paternal grandmothers. The lady on the left is my step-father's mother, Clarice Mabel (Salmon) Kay and the lady on the right is my father's mother, Helen "Nellie" (Devlin) Farrell.
The picture was taken two years before my mom married into the Farrell family and 12 years before she married into the Kay family.
My granny and grandpa Kay were visiting their daughter, Helen (Kay) Farrell in Saskatchewan. Helen (my step-father's sister) was married to my father's brother, Forbes Peter Farrell.

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Nashville, Tenn. - The Tennessee State women's golf team defeated Indiana University East 191-221 in a dual match at Hermitage Golf Course Generals Retreat on a frosty Friday afternoon.
Due to inclement weather that included temperatures in the low 30's and sleet, both coaches decided to suspend play after the teams had completed nine holes.
"With all the nice days we had in February, it was a shame we did not get some nicer weather [today]. I was extremely proud of the effort and attitude our team displayed in terrible golfing conditions. The sleet at times made it difficult to aim, hold onto the club and focus," TSU head coach Parrish McGrath said.
Kelly Merkel led the way for the Tigers with a score of 43 on the front nine. She was followed by Sarah Needleman who carded a 47, Amelia Dap who shot a 48 and Chelsea Marlin who finished with a 53. Lady Tiger's guard Denisha Mumford, who recently joined the golf team for the spring season, started the day but withdrew early in the round.
Indiana University East was led by Jordan Sparks who shot a 47, followed by Asia Mathis (56), Bridgette Moystner (57), and Shawna Phelps rounded out the scoring with a 61.
The Tigers will next play in the Murray State Invitational starting on Sunday, March 3 and conluding on that Tuesday.
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Vitamin B6 is a water-soluble vitamin. Water-soluble vitamins dissolve in water. The body cannot store them. Leftover amounts of the vitamin leave the body through the urine. That means you need a continuous supply of such vitamins in your diet.
Alternative Names
Pyridoxal; Pyridoxine; Pyridoxamine
Vitamin B6 helps the body to:
- Make
antibodies. Antibodies are needed to fight many diseases.
- Maintain normal nerve function
- Make hemoglobin. Hemoglobin carries oxygen in the red blood cells to the tissues. A vitamin B6 deficiency can cause a form of
- Break down
proteins. The more protein you eat, the more vitamin B6 you need.
- Keep blood sugar (glucose) in normal ranges
Food Sources
Vitamin B6 is found in:
- Avocado
- Banana
- Legumes (dried beans)
- Meat
- Nuts
- Poultry
- Whole grains
Fortified breads and cereals may also contain vitamin B6. Fortified means that a vitamin or mineral has been added to the food.
Side Effects
Large doses of vitamin B6 can cause:
- Difficulty coordinating movement
- Sensory changes
Deficiency of this vitamin can cause:
- Confusion
- Depression
- Irritability
- Mouth and tongue sores
(Vitamin B6 deficiency is not common in the United States.)
The Recommended Dietary Allowance (RDA) for vitamins reflects how much of each vitamin people should receive on a daily basis. The RDA for vitamins may be used to help create goals for each person.
How much of each vitamin is needed depends on a persons age and gender. Other factors, such as pregnancy and illnesses, are also important. Ask your health care provider which amount is best for you.
Dietary Reference Intakes for vitamin B6:
- 0 - 6 months: 0.1* milligrams per day (mg/day)
- 7 - 12 months: 0.3* mg/day
*Adequate intake (AI)
- 1 - 3 years: 0.5 mg/day
- 4 - 8 years: 0.6 mg/day
- 9 - 13 years: 1.0 mg/day
Adolescents and Adults
- Males age 14 to 50 years: 1.3 mg/day
- Males over 50 years: 1.7 mg/day
- Females age 14 to 18 years: 1.2 mg/day
- Females age 19 to 50 years: 1.3 mg/day
- Females over 50 years: 1.5 mg/day
The best way to get the daily requirement of essential vitamins is to eat a balanced diet that contains a variety of foods.
Escott-Stump S, ed. Nutrition and Diagnosis-Related Care. 6th ed. Philadelphia, Pa: Lippincott Williams & Wilkins; 2008.
Sarubin Fragaakis A, Thomson C. The Health Professionals Guide to Popular Dietary Supplements. 3rd ed. Chicago, Il: American Dietetic Association; 2007.
Institute of Medicine. Food and Nutrition Board. Dietary Reference Intakes for Thiamin, Riboflavin, Niacin, Vitamin B6, Folate, Vitamin B12, Pantothenic Acid, Biotin, and Choline. National Academy Press, Washington, DC, 1998.
Hamrick I, Counts SH. Vitamin and mineral supplements. Wellness and Prevention. December 2008:35(4);729-747.
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Alison Evert, MS, RD, CDE, Nutritionist, University of Washington Medical Center Diabetes Care Center, Seattle, Washington. Also reviewed by A.D.A.M. Health Solutions, Ebix, Inc., Editorial Team: David Zieve, MD, MHA, David R. Eltz, Stephanie Slon, and Nissi Wang.


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A short time ago, I linked to a Mark Evanier piece about hitting deadlines. I believe strongly in behaving in a professional manner when working on a project. I also believe strongly that professional conduct goes both ways and that studios have the same obligation to behave as their employees do. In that piece, I mentioned that "the people setting up the schedules or passing judgment on work are often ignorant. They create impossible schedules or ask for changes that will take enormous amounts of time." There are also cases where studios are dishonest with their employees because they have run out of money.
The latest example of this is a studio with the unfortunate name Fake Studios in Montreal. They have yet to pay visual effects artists for their work on Piranha 3D. Variety has the details. The story was also reported and commented on at The Animation Guild's blog. Visual effects artist Scott Squires has posted an excellent list of actions employees should follow to avoid being taken advantage of.
The bottom line is that if a company misses a payday, stop working. The company will use guilt, telling employees that they are disloyal if they don't work, that the company is a big family going through a tough time and that everyone has to pull together. The company may threaten employees with blacklisting if they don't cooperate. However, an employee without a paycheque is an ex-employee no matter how much a company wants to convince people otherwise. It's important for artists to understand this.
Friday, August 20, 2010
Employer Obligations
5 comments:
- Eric Noble said...
I will be sure to keep this in mind. Thank you so very much for giving us artists this type of encouragement.
- August 21, 2010 12:29 AM
- Andrew Murray said...
good read.
- August 21, 2010 10:07 AM
- Thad said...
A great book would be about studios (domestic or otherwise) that cheated their employees. But would such employees even come forward under their own names? (Anonymity makes it really hard to form arguments.)
- August 21, 2010 10:26 AM
- Daniel Caylor said...
This is why another golden age can never happen. There's no honesty. That and there's no depression...
- August 21, 2010 10:53 AM
- Amir Avni said...
Thanks for your insightful and honest posts, Mark!
- September 04, 2010 1:32 PM
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major macro economic indicators
|GDP growth (%)
|Inflation (yearly average, %)
|Budget balance (% GDP)
|Current account balance (% GDP)
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(f): forecast
- Prudent economic policies
- Skilled workforce and favourable business climate
- Cutting-edge industries
- High standard of living
- High vulnerability to the international situation
- Industrial crisis and loss of competitiveness
- Dependence of the Finnish banking sector on the Swedish and Danish financial sectors, despite the return of a major institution in 2017
- Ageing population
Risk assessment
Dynamic activity sustained by domestic demand and exports
In 2018, activity will slow down slightly, although growth will remain above potential. Private investment, although more moderate in 2018, will remain one of the main contributors to growth, due to low interest rates, coupled with dynamic domestic and external demand. Higher capacity utilization rate in the forestry and metallurgical industry would foster investment in these sectors. Investment in research and development will also be more dynamic following several years of decline due to the deterioration of mobile telephone services. Residential construction will support activity, due to strong housing demand, particularly in the Helsinki area. In addition, the expansion of tourism will continue, driven by a growing influx from Russia and Asia, attracted by preserved natural sites and the northern lights.
Exports will continue to benefit from the Competitiveness Pact, which reduced unit labour costs by 3.7% in 2017, although wages are expected to rise again in 2018. In addition, strong demand in the main partner countries (Sweden, the United States and Germany), as well as the economic recovery in Russia, would favour Finnish exports. The dynamism of orders in the shipbuilding industry and the completion in 2017 of the country's largest wood processing plant (paper, resin, bioenergy, etc.), will also support exports. Thus, the contribution of trade to growth will be positive in 2018.
Household consumption will be more dynamic, driven by a slight rise in wages, in a context of moderate inflation, and by decreased unemployment (7.3% in October 2017). Low interest rates will also favour consumption, even if the weight of the debt (129% of disposable income) will still weigh on the financial situation of households.
Conservative fiscal policy and small current account surplus
The government's priority in 2018 will remain the reduction of unemployment and the control of public spending, although many efforts have already been made in these areas. In addition, the government should continue lowering income tax (mainly for low income), which was the counterpart of the austerity measures of the Competitiveness Pact. The latter includes the extension of the annual working time, a transfer of part of the employer's contributions to the employee contributions and a wage freeze. The 2018 budget also provides for an increase in retirement pensions, as well as an increase in social transfers for the elderly and single-parent families. In addition, public investment will remain small, except for public transport. In addition, the country would progress in its decentralization process, giving more powers to the regions. The increase in expenses would nevertheless be offset by the increase in revenues, due to the favourable economic situation and the increase in property tax. Thus, the budget deficit would always remain below 3% and public debt will approach the threshold provided for by the European Stability and Growth Pact (60% of GDP). Nevertheless, in the absence of structural reforms, the rapid ageing of the population would threaten the social security system and the control of public accounts.
The current account balance will remain positive in 2018 owing to the maintenance of a small trade surplus linked to export growth. Nevertheless, the increase in imports would halt the improvement observed in the current account, due to a more dynamic domestic demand and a moderate increase in oil prices (2nd import station).
A government majority that is small but benefiting from the dynamism of the economy
In June 2017, the election of Jussi Halla-aho as the leader of the Finns Party (extreme right), resulted in the exclusion of this party from the government coalition, because it was considered too strict on immigration issues. The defection of more than half of the members of his party (19 out of 36) has formed a new coalition government, led by the Centre Party, also consisting of the National Coalition Party (centre-right) and the blue Reform Party, which was born from the split of the Finns Party. The ministerial posts remained unchanged as all the members of the Finns Party government had already joined the Blue Reform. In addition, the new coalition government seems more fragile since it has a smaller majority than the previous government (106 seats out of 200, instead of 124). However, the good economic performance should allow the government to remain in place until the next parliamentary elections in April 2019.
The business environment remains very favourable as the country ranks 13th out of 190 in the 2018 Doing Business report published by the World Bank, with particularly remarkable performance in insolvency settlement. In addition, the dynamism of activity has contributed to the reduction in the number of business bankruptcies since 2016.
Last update : January 2018
Bills of exchange are not commonly used in Finland because they signal the supplier's distrust of the buyer. A bill of exchange primarily substantiates a claim and constitutes a valid acknowledgment of debt.
Cheques, also little used in domestic and international transactions, but only constitute acknowledgement of debt. However, cheques that are uncovered at the time of issue can result in the issuers being liable to criminal penalties. Moreover, as cheque collection takes a particularly long time in Finland (twenty days for domestic cheques or cheques drawn in European and Mediterranean coastal countries, 70 days for cheques drawn outside Europe), this payment method is not recommended.
Conversely, SWIFT bank transfers are increasingly used to settle domestic and international commercial transactions. Finns are familiar with this efficient method of payment. When using this instrument, sellers are advised to provide full and accurate bank details to facilitate timely payment, while it should not be forgotten that the transfer payment order will ultimately depend on the buyer's good faith. Banks in Finland have adopted the SEPA (Single Euro Payments Area) standards for EUR-denominated payments.
Debt collection
Amicable phase
The goal of the amicable phase is to reach a voluntary settlement between the creditor and debtor without begin legal proceedings. Finnish legislation obliges creditors to begin the amicable phase amicable phase via letters, followed up as necessary with a final demand for payment by recorded delivery or ordinary mail. This demand for payment asks the debtor to pay the outstanding principal increased by past-due interest as stipulated in the contract.
In the absence of an interest rate clause in the agreement, interest automatically accrues from the due date of the unpaid invoice at a rate equal to the Central Bank of Finland's (Suomen Pankki) six-monthly rate, calculated by reference to the European Central Bank's refinancing rate, plus seven percentage points.
The Interest Act (Korkolaki) already required debtors to pay up within contractually agreed timeframes or become liable to interest penalties.
Since 2004, the ordinary statute of limitations for Finnish contract law is three years.
Legal proceedings
Fast-track proceedings
For clear and uncontested claims, creditors may use the fast-track procedure, resulting in an injunction to pay (suppea haastehakemus). This is a simple written procedure based on submission of whatever documents substantiate the claim (invoices, bills of exchange, acknowledgement of debt, etc.). The court sets a time limit of approximately two weeks to permit the defendant to either respond to or oppose the petition. In addition, this fast track procedure can also be initiated electronically for cases of undisputed claims. The presence of a lawyer, although commonplace, is not required for this type of action.
Ordinary proceedings
Ordinary legal action usually commences when amicable collection has failed. A written application for summons must be addressed to the registry of the District Court, which then serves the debtor with a Writ of Summons. The debtor is given approximately two weeks to file a defence.
During the preliminary hearing, the court bases its deliberations on the parties' written submissions and supporting documentation. The court then convokes the litigants to hear their arguments and decide on the relevance of the evidence. During this preliminary phase, and with the judge's assistance, it is possible for the litigants to resolve their dispute via mediation and subsequently protect their business relationship.
Where the dispute remains unresolved after this preliminary hearing, plenary proceedings are held before the court of first instance (Käräjäoikeus) comprising between one and three presiding judges, depending on the case's complexity. During this hearing, the judge examines the submitted evidence and hears the parties' witnesses. The litigants then state their final claims, before the judge delivers the ruling – generally within fourteen days.
The losing party is liable for all or part of the legal costs (depending on the judgement) incurred by the winning party. The average time required for obtaining a writ of execution is about twelve months. Undisputed claims in Finland can normally last from three to six months. Disputed claims and the subsequent legal proceedings can take up to a year.
Commercial cases are generally heard by civil courts, although a Market Court (Markkinaoikeus) located in Helsinki has been in operation as a single entity since 2002, following a merger of the Competition Council and the former Market Court.
Enforcement of a Court decision
A judgment is enforceable for fifteen years as soon as it becomes final. If the debtor fails to comply with the judgment, the creditor may have it enforced by a bailiff, who will try to obtain an instalment agreement with the debtor, or enforce it through a seizure of assets.
For foreign awards, since Finland is part of the European Union (EU), it has adopted enforcement mechanisms applicable to court decisions issued by other EU members, such as the EU Payment Order and the European Enforcement Order. For judgments issued by non-EU members, the issuing country must be part of a bilateral or multilateral agreement with Finland.
Insolvency proceedings
Out-of-Court proceedings
Finnish law provides no specific rules for out-of-court settlements. Negotiations between creditors and debtors are made informally. If an agreement is reached, it must still be validated by the court.
Restructuring proceedings
The goal of restructuring is to allow an insolvent company to remain operational through administration, with the view that if the company is able to continue its business, it will be able to repay a larger part of its debts than would have been possible in the case of bankruptcy of the company. The commencement of these proceedings triggers an automatic moratorium, providing the company with protection from its creditors.
The board of directors maintains its power of decision but the receiver is entitled to control certain aspects of the company's operations, including the creation of new debts and overseeing transfers of ownership.
When debtors are unable to pay their debts when due and this inability is not temporary, they are placed into liquidation. Upon acceptance of a liquidation petition by the court, the debtor is declared bankrupt. A receiver is appointed, and a time limit is established for any creditors to present their claims. The receiver then establishes a proposed distribution scheme, whilst creditors supervise the selling of the estate and the distribution of the sales' proceeds.


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Institutions of higher education are entrusted by society with great resources and commensurately great responsibilities for creation, dissemination, and preservation of knowledge. College and university business officers play a key role in assuring that high standards of ethical practice attend to the custody and use of these resources. The business officer's personal and professional conduct reflects on his or her institution, the collective profession, and the higher education enterprise at large. To guide business officers in setting and practicing high standards of ethical conduct, the National Association of College and University Business Officers has devised the following code of ethics. NACUBO embraces the values expressed in this code and advocates their observance by its members.
The business officer's conduct should be characterized by integrity and dignity, and he or she should expect and encourage such conduct by others.
The business officer should adopt and be faithful to personal values that:
The business officer should act with competence and should strive to advance competence, both in self and in others.
The business officer should understand and support his or her institution's objectives and policies, should be capable of interpreting them within and beyond the institution, and should contribute constructively to their ongoing evaluation and reformulation.
The business officer should communicate to institutional colleagues the content of this code of ethics and should strive to ensure that the standards of professional conduct contained therein are met.
In discharging his or her duties in accordance with this Code of Ethics, the business officer should enjoy the following rights:
the right
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Annual MXI Lecture by Stephen Finley• February 16, 2012 Share:
The Wabash College Malcolm X Institute of Black Studies invites the public to a talk by Stephen C. Finley at 7:30 p.m., Tuesday, February 21, in Lovell Lecture Room (101) in Baxter Hall. The title of Finley's lecture is "The Meaning of 'Mother' in Louis Farrakhan's Mother Wheel: Race, Gender, and Sexuality in the Nation of Islam's UFO."
Finley joined the faculty at Louisiana State University in the fall of 2008. He has a joint appointment in the department of philosophy and religious studies and the African and African-American studies program.
Finley received his doctorate in 2009 from Rice University, where his dissertation was accepted with distinction. Finley's research focuses on African American Religion, such as the Nation of Islam and the Black Church. It deals with such issues as embodiment, gender, and sexuality.
He was the associate editor of the Encyclopedia of African American Religious Cultures and has published numerous journal articles, book chapters, encyclopedia essays, and book reviews. He serves as associate editor of the Journal of Men, Masculinities and Spiritualities and has been elected to the executive board of the Society for the Study of Black Religion.
In addition to his evening talk, Finley will give a noon talk, "What is the Nation of Islam?" in the Malcolm X Institute, room 109.
Both talks are free and open to the public.


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Backbone.js is a popular framework for building web applications with javascript. Building on top of the excellent Underscore.js, it provides the basic app-building blocks, Models, Collections and Views as well as a simple Router.
In order to connect models and collections with the server-side of things, Backbone's default approach is CRUD through RESTful Ajax requests. All the operations that read from or persist data to the server are delegated to a
sync() function that translates create, read, update, delete to PUT, GET, POST, DELETE through jQuery.
What I enjoy the most about Backbone is its simplicity, how it gives me what I need to be productive, no more no less. In the case of the storage layer, one only needs to override
sync in order to use an alternative. A popular example is Backbone.localStorage which, persists to the browser's localStorage.
I have been part of building a team collaboration web application centered around XMPP at Riot AS. I will post details about the architecture on which the app is based, but in short we have completely replaced Ajax requests in favor of doing all client-server as well as client-client communications through XMPP. To do so, the need arose of a storage adapter to XMPP, and Backbone.xmpp was born.
Backbone.xmpp (GitHub)is a drop-in replacement for Backbone's RESTful API, allowing models/collections to be persisted on XMPP Pub-Sub nodes. Naturally, Collections are mapped to nodes, whereas Models to the items of these nodes. Additionally, it listens for events on these nodes, receiving and propagating real-time updates of the models/collections from the server. Apart from Backbone, it depends on Strophe as well as my Strophe plugins for Pub-Sub.
For example, if you had a collection of type
BookCase consisting of models of type
Book, you could write:
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which would
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BookCaseinstance by passing its
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connectionin the options,
- fetch it from the server,
- add a book to the collection,
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In your views you could be doing
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Now, if somebody else added a book to the bookcase, you would promptly receive a notification, the
add event would be fired on your bookcase and the book's view would appear to your browser.
To visualize how this works, here's a quick demo of the Todo.app adapted to he XMPP storage. You can see the full code here.
Finally, if you do not want to receive push notifications on your models/collections or wish to craft your own events, you do not have to extend from
PubSubItem. In your own code, override
sync in both the model and the collection and provide an instance of
PubSubStorage as
nodeon your collection. For instance:
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You can then subscribe to the XMPP notifications elsewhere, say for example in your collection view:
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There you go. Hope you will find this useful, will be looking forward to your contributions!


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Budget Battles
Trump Strikes Back at Pelosi, Blocking Her Overseas Trip
Federal Workers Have Missed an Average $5,000 in Pay So Far
Bipartisan Group of Senators Pushes for Trump to Reopen Government
Pelosi's Shutdown Power Play Against Trump
Why Some Conservatives Love the Shutdown
Shutdown Could Be Twice as Costly as White House Estimated
Trump Fails to Crack Democratic Unity on Shutdown
Trump Strikes Back at Pelosi, Blocking Her Overseas Trip
Friday will be day 28 of the partial government shutdown, but Thursday's developments offered little hope that closed federal departments and agencies would be reopening soon — and little to allay...
The Great Debt DebateBy Michael Rainey
We told you last week about a new paper from economist Olivier Blanchard that caused a stir by suggesting that government debt may be less problematic than many experts have believed. Blanchard found...
Bipartisan Group of Senators Pushes for Trump to Reopen Government
A bipartisan group of senators is urging President Trump to agree to a three-week stopgap funding measure that would end the government shutdown, now heading for its 27th day, while they negotiate a...
Federal Workers Have Missed an Average $5,000 in Pay So FarBy Michael Rainey
Government employees who are not receiving paychecks during the shutdown have lost about $5,000 each on average so far, according to an analysis by The New York Times. In total, the missing pay comes...
Pelosi's Shutdown Power Play Against Trump
The state of our union is … on hold? House Speaker Nancy Pelosi sent a letter to President Trump Wednesday morning asking him to postpone his State of the Union address, scheduled for January 29, or...
Why Some Conservatives Love the ShutdownBy The Fiscal Times Staff
The Washington Post reports that the prolonged shutdown is giving some small-government conservatives who have the president's ear just what they've long wanted: a smaller government and a chance to...
Shutdown Could Be Twice as Costly as White House EstimatedBy Michael Rainey
The Trump administration has raised its estimate of the cost to the economy from the shutdown, CNBC's Steve Liesman reported Tuesday. White House economists had initially weighed the effect of 800,...
Trump Fails to Crack Democratic Unity on Shutdown
Even lunch is an issue. As the partial government shutdown stretches toward its 26 th day, the White House tried to bypass Democratic leadership by inviting rank-and-file House Democrats to lunch...
Why Trump Thinks He's Winning the Shutdown Fight
Here's your shutdown update in one word: Stuck. The partial government shutdown is now heading for its 25th day, four days longer than the previous record, and both sides remain firmly dug in on...
House Democrats to Investigate Drug PricesBy Michael Rainey
A key House investigative committee announced Monday that it was launching a wide-ranging investigation into the pricing practices of 12 major pharmaceutical companies, including Amgen, Eli Lilly,...
Leading Economist Says Government Debt Might Not Be So Bad After AllBy Michael Rainey
Renowned macroeconomist Olivier Blanchard says that policymakers may need to fundamentally revise their views on the long-term cost of government debt. Delivering the presidential address at last...
The Longest Shutdown Ever – with No End in Sight
Three weeks, zero progress. Congress adjourned for the weekend without any movement toward a negotiated resolution to the partial government shutdown, which is now guaranteed to become the longest in...
Conservatives Push Back on Trump's Possible 'National Emergency' Declaration
As President Trump considers declaring a national emergency as a face-saving way to get out of the government shutdown impasse, some conservatives are expressing concern that such a move would set a...
Trump 'Almost Definitely' to Declare a National Emergency
With talks to end the partial government shutdown showing no signs of progress, President Trump on Thursday said he has "an absolute right to declare a national emergency" in order to build a wall...
The Economic Costs of the ShutdownBy Michael Rainey
Moody's Investor Service said Thursday that the government shutdown poses a risk to the U.S. creditworthiness "to the extent that it disrupts the US economy," but there's no threat to the country's...
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Sunday, January 13, 2013
Can we trust the reporting of environmental issues by the mainstream media?
Guest Post by Max Iacono:
Among the various lessons we learned in 2012 there is also whether or not the so-called "mainstream media" really can be trusted to tell the truth about environmental issues. Or can it be trusted to do just the opposite, and in various diverse and difficult to detect ways?
This additional "lesson to be learned" is in fact the subject of an entire excellent –and also recently published book by the title "Project Censored 2013", which describes quite well many of the important issues which the mainstream media has mostly (or fully) censored, or completely misled us about, over this past year or so.
The book is available on Amazon in both Kindle and hard copy versions. I recently purchased it and have been reading it. I thought the Foreword by Dr. Nafeez Mosssadeq Ahmed was particularly clear and convincing and nicely summed up the current situation with respect to mainstream media censorship of "inconvenient topics" and in particular those which are of interest and concern to Cassandra Legacy readers and that deal with the environment and its various aspects. And also with Al Gore's extremely "inconvenient truth" which is becoming more and more inconvenient by the day to some, but much more convenient to the millions or even billions of people who think something should be done urgently about climate change. Some have said that the ratio of persons on one side to those on the other is 1 to 99 (or 99 to 1) but I will leave that particular quantitative aspect aside for the time being.
The book –and this particular post which tries to give an idea of what the book is about - also offers an additional perspective or amicable warning to us all regarding the ubiquitous "mainstream media" - is also a kind of logical follow-on to my own earlier post on Cassandra Legacy by the title "Limits to Growth" : An Alternative History"
In that post I tried to argue that the old book Limits to Growth (first published in 1972) might have been better received -or at least less poorly received and less "demonized"- if it had taken into account in its World Model (or at least had done so qualitatively, separately) not only the variables which it did consider and model –namely a series of economic, industrial, resources, pollution, and demographic variables all in interaction within its dynamic systems model-, but also selected variables of culture, identity, politics, political science, political economy, societal institutions, and ideology.
This second set of variables I believe were those that had caused the book to be "demonized" once its central message that there are limits to growth and that "economic growth forever" is not possible on a finite planet, clearly came up against them, in the so called real (social) world. That is, "the real world" of business, politics, economics, religions, and their various academic disciplines and professions, and up against their many representatives and advocates. And this also since to many who are active in those disciplines and professions apparently the "real world of physics, chemistry and biology" (and ecology) regrettably is either considered to be "pretty unreal" or is secondary, or at least is not particularly worthy of much serious or top priority policy consideration. And of course one very important player in that broad social context -and one which also significantly influences and affects all the rest- is the so-called mainstream (or corporate) media in all of its forms. That is, mainstream –and generally corporate-owned, newspapers, magazines, TV channels, radio, and etc. etc. including also some Internet media.
Did the mainstream media "inform" the wider public, or did it misinform, or "dis-inform and mislead" the public with respect to the book Limits to Growth? And even more significant at this specific time, is it informing or dis-informing right now with respect to the ongoing and continuing significant range of serious environmental problems, topics and issues? And in particular with respect to climate change, peak oil, limits to growth and other particularly important environmental topics and issues such as Arctic methane, ocean acidification, Arctic and Antarctic ice melt, diminishing or dwindling fish stocks, biodiversity and habitat loss, ongoing deforestation, advancing desertification, and several others. The reader can make up her / his own mind about that, but I would like to offer the following for consideration:
First, below follows a list of the titles of the 15 chapters of the book Project Censored 2013 which provides a pretty good idea of what topics those who wrote or compiled the book –and there were many contributing chapter authors- think the mainstream media has either censored or lied to us (the wider public) about. And, moreover, most often in quite clever and deceptive ways which are very difficult to detect, pick up and deconstruct. And for those who may be interested in reviewing some of the specific ways and techniques through which the mainstream media (in this specific instance Fox News Channel) (but they are by no means the only ones) lies to us and tries to deceive us, they can read the following very good article which summarizes their top 14 techniques: "Fourteen Propaganda Techniques Fox "News" Uses to Brainwash Americans"
Some of the topics and book sections in "Project Censored 2013" deal with some of the main issues treated by Cassandra Legacy -namely climate change, peak oil and limits to growth- and some deal instead with other issues related to politics, democracy, and U.S. foreign and domestic policy, which often are equally censored or lied about. And if one reads the book one might also consider quite apt an alternative possible title for the book that I came up with myself (only in "jest") and namely:
"Project Dissembled, Denied, Distorted, Delayed, Deleted, Deflected and Deceived
About by the Mainstream Media", or perhaps more succinctly and humorously simply "Mainstream Media Project-7D". In any case, here is the list of the book's chapters:
1. "The top 25 Censored Stories from 2011-2012 and Censored News. Clusters:
i) The Police State and Civil Liberties
ii) From "Bankster Bailout" to "Blessed Unrest": News we can use to create a US economy for the 99 percent
iii) Environment and Health
iv) Human Costs of War and Violence
v) Women and Gender, Race and Ethnicity
2. Déjà vu: What happened to previous censored stories?
3. American Idle: Junk Food News, News Abuse, and the Voice of Freedumb
4. Media Democracy in Action
5. Ownership Backfires: A Taxonomy of Concepts Related to Censorship
6. The Global 1 Percent Ruling Class Exposed
7. The Information War: How Government is Seeking Total Information Awareness and What This Portends for Freedom and Democracy
8. GerM Warfare: How to Reclaim the Education Debate from Corporate Occupation
9. Kent State: Was it about Civil Rights or Murdering Student Protesters?
10. The Creative Tension of the Emerging Future: Facing the Seven Challenges of Humanity
11. Guantanamospeak and the Manufacture of Consent
12. Framing Al-Awlaki: How Government Officials and Corporate Media Legitimised a Targeted Killing
13. A Morally Disengaged America: Sacrificing Iraqi Refugees to Terrorism Fears and Anti-Immigration
14. On the Road to Fukushima: The Unreported Story Behind Japan's Nuclear-Media-Industrial Complex
15. An Occupation of Truth: Indian Administered Kashmir"
As a conclusion, below I add a quote containing several specific examples regarding the recent treatment by the mainstream media of peak oil and climate change –including also what Dr. Nafeez Mosaddeq Ahmed says about each- in his excellent foreword to the book.
At a time when the world faces tipping points in the escalation of multiple crises, the publication of this volume is of momentous significance.
As I write, a sampling of the latest "mainstream" corporate news illustrates the unprecedented nature of our current predicament as a civilization. The bizarre and extreme weather of the early United States summer prompted one leading climate scientist to state boldly that we are "certainly seeing climate change in action," as a window on a worsening future. Record-shattering heat waves, wildfires, and freak storms are a taste of things to come – "This is just the beginning" said one meteorologist.
Simultaneously, the International Monetary Fund cut its growth forecast for the US economy, warning that the ongoing Eurozone crisis, along with the weak housing market, risks triggering a recession by 2013 while the jobless rate morphs into "higher structural unemployment".
As the defunct neoliberal model of casino capitalism wreaks havoc at home, it is doing the same abroad. Global food prices doubled between 2006 and 2008, and despite some fluctuation, remain largely at record levels. One of the key causes has been speculation in derivatives –thirteen trillion dollars was invested in food commodities in 2006, then pulled out in 2008, and then reinvested again by 2011. The rocketing food prices for the global poor have generated an unprecedented global food crisis across the developing world
But another driver of the food crisis is climate change, which has already led to crop failures in key food basket regions. This is only going to get worse on a business-as-usual model, which could lead to a minimum 4 degrees Celsius rise by mid-century. Even a 2-degree rise could lead to a minimum 4 degrees Celsius rise by mid-century. Even a 2-degreee rise would lead to dramatic crop failures and soaring meat prices; at 4 degrees Celsius, rice crops could be reduced by about 30 percent, leading to global food shortages and hunger.
Amid this escalating frenzy of perfect storms, however, over the last year the corporate media has focused on one apparent light at the end of the tunnel: unconventional oil and gas. "Has Oil Peaked? Read one headline in the Wall Street Journal. Across the pond, BBC News asked, "Shortages: Is 'Peak Oil' Idea Dead?" Environmentalists have also jumped on the bandwagon. Andrew C. Revkin in the New York Times took "A Fresh Look at Oil's Long Goodbye, while George Monbiot wrote in the Guardian that "We Were Wrong on Peak Oil. There's Enough to Fry Us All"
The essence of this uniform message is that the new drilling methods – like hydraulic fracturing, i.e. "fracking" among others- have allowed the fossil fuel industry to exploit previously untapped reserves of tar sands, oil shale, and shale gas, bringing them to market at much cheaper prices than hitherto imaginable, and effectively turning the US from net oil importer into a leading exporter.
But it should come as no great surprise to Project Censored readers that, once again, the corporate news media has obfuscated the facts. The latest figures from the US Energy Information Administration (EIA) confirm that the supposedly massive boost in unconventional oil production that is pitched to launch the world into a glorious future of petroleum abundance – capable of sustaining the wonders of capitalist economic growth ad infinitum – has had negligible impact on world oil production. On the contrary, despite the US producing a "total oil supply" of ten million barrels per day – up by 2.1 million since January 2005 – world crude oil production remains on the largely flat, undulating plateau it has been on since it stopped rising around that very year. As reported by oil markets journalist Gregor Macdonald, who has previously reported for the Financial Times and Harvard Business Review, among other publications:
Since 2005, despite a phase transition in prices, global oil production has been trapped below a ceiling of 74 mmbpd (million barrels per day). New production from new fields and new discoveries comes on line, but it has not been at a rate fast enough to overcome declines from existing fields. Overall, global decline has been estimated at a minimum of 4% per year and as high as 6+% pa year. Given that new oil resources are developed and flow at much slower rates, the existing declines present a formidable challenge to the task of increasing supply I see no set of factors, in combination that would take global production of crude oil higher in 2012, or next year, or thereafter.
Yet this stark fact has not been reported in any mass media news outlet whatsoever, anywhere in the world. Indeed, Macdonald points out that data from British Petroleum's Statistical Review of World Energy shows that oil's heyday is well and truly in decline. In 1973, oil as a percentage of global energy use had peaked at around 48.5 percent. Forty years later, "oil is barely hanging on as a the world's primary energy source, with a much reduced role as a supplier of only 33.5% of all world energy consumption."
The disparity in reporting is instructive. In June 2012, the corporate media focus on the unconventional oil boom revolved around one study in particular by oil company executive Leonardo Maugeri – former executive vice president of Italian oil major ENI. The report was not peer-reviewed but as published at Harvard University's Belfer Center for Science and International Affairs by the Geopolitics of Energy Project, "which is supported in part by a general grant from the (same) oil major (i.e. ENI)," conceded the WSJ. Hardly an impartial perspective, then.
Meanwhile, a series of peer-reviewed reports by independent scientists published in highly reputable science journals from January through to June 2012 – Science, Nature, and Energy – have been blacked out in corporate news reporting. In Energy Gail Tverberg documented that since 2005, "world oil supply has not increased", that this was "a primary cause of the 2008-2009 recession," and that the "expected impact of reduced oil supply" will mean the "financial crisis may eventually worsen." An even more damning analysis was published in Nature by James Murray and Sir David King, the latter being the British government's former chief scientific adviser. Murray and King's analysis found that despite reported increases in oil reserves, tar sands production, and hydrofracturing-generated natural gas, depletion of the world's existing fields is still running at 4.5 percent to 6.7 percent per year, and production at shale gas wells could drop by as much as 60 to 90 percent in the first year of operation
Curiously forgotten in the spate of reporting on the opportunities opened up by fracking is a New York Times investigation from 2011, which found that "the gas may not be as easy and cheap to extract from shale formations deep underground as the companies are saying, according to hundreds of industry e-mails and internal documents and an analysis of data from thousands of wells." The e-mail revealed industry executives, lawyers, state geologists, and market analysts voicing "skepticism about lofty forecasts" and questioning "whether companies are intentionally, and even illegally, overstating the productivity of their wells and the size of their reserves." A year later, it seems, such revelations were merely destined for their memory hole"
Following the above opening section the Foreword to the book goes on to describe additional examples and also the role which a book such as "Project Censored 2013" can play in at least exposing the disinformation or the non-information so often "put out" or censored by the mainstream media. Which is something it often does instead of putting forward real facts and truthful stories and their respective most plausible and most sensible overall descriptive or explanatory or prescriptive narratives, which could help tie together and integrate i.e. "connect the dots" regarding the important evidence and facts, and thereby also support and be able to provide significant help to those who are concerned and are trying to do something about the issues….through their various ongoing struggles. And I say "ongoing" because the key issues and problems (already listed above) are certainly NOT going to go away in 2013. So we had better be ready also for the long haul and will need all of the intellectual and other help we can get. And having access to accurate, reliable and valid information is of course quintessential, just as it is quintessential for democracy itself to function properly.
But I am not a "conspiracy theorist" and moreover nothing is black and white. Is all of the "mainstream media" and its countless writers and protagonists equally bad and misleading or is it always omitting important stories, and is it bad and lying all of the time and in every instance? And is everything which is reported in the "non-mainstream" media always factual, truthful and correct? And although "exceptions often prove the rule" there remains always, and in any case, a key element of personal responsibility to try to figure out what actually is true or false and what is just or fair or not, and which narratives and story-lines make the most sense and which do not. So it is probably also useful to try to consult multiple sources even if perhaps only one among the many later will be shown to have contained the facts and have been correct. Also remembering of course that a lie or a deception repeated fifty times, is still a lie. But I think it can be of great "ex ante" "heuristic help" when navigating the information territory to know at least generally speaking who one's friends are -and whether they are only "fair weather" friends and NOT also "fair climate" friends- and who instead are the self-serving liars and the promulgators of assorted exercises in deception, i.e. "the spin starts here" sorts of people.
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I would add, the most suppressed story ever, is that forests are dying all over the world from air pollution. A free book download here:ReplyDelete
and current updates here:
It would be hard to exaggerate just how ruthlessly this existential threat to our existence - and of course the survival of other species - has been eradicated from public discourse.
And then of course, we have Paul Ehrlich:ReplyDelete
Can a collapse of global civilization be avoided? (peer-review PDF is free)
Thanks Max (and Ugo).ReplyDelete
I was thinking about this very topic this morning as I watched the news here in Denmark which is currently obsessed with the cruise ship which capsized off the Italian coast a year ago (calling it 'our generation's Titanic').
I worked in journalism for several years until recently, and remained puzzled that the established press never seemed to want to report the 'big issues' that concerned me. As a Scandinavia correspondent for The Guardian, I offered to write a few articles about peak oil, but the editors were always a bit less than lukewarm on it, saying it was 'theoretical'.
Part of the reason, I think, is that many of the most urgent issues regarding energy and the environment are strangled at birth by corporate interests. Thus the surviving 'non information' gets passed down the media food chain to journalists, many of which (well, most) don't truly understand the issues involved and are quite happy to swallow a progressive narrative that they think their readers can relate to e.g. cheap energy forever.
In the end I gave up asking and just started to write the stuff I wanted to write on my own blog in the hope that those who really had an interest in the things nobody was talking about might stumble upon it.
- AnonymousJanuary 14, 2013 at 4:34 AM
"but the editors were always a bit less than lukewarm on it, saying it was 'theoretical'."ReplyDelete
i hope you told him lots of other things are 'theoretical', like gravity and evolution.
if he insisted he meant theoretical in the meaning of 'an unproven idea' then i hope you put him straight and that it is actually a powerful theory in the true science sense. you should also have told him that he was being inconsistent in not allowing you to report this fact, because his infinite growth ideology is completely unscientific by comparison, and fails even at a basic common sense level. but that hasnt stopped him assuming it true and giving it endless coverage with no criticism.
if 'infinite growth on a finite planet' is not 'theoretical' i dont know what is.
It is not just the media we can not trust. Our "Federal Advisory Committee Draft Climate Assessment Report Released for Public Review" only provides a conservative BAU report with an emphasis on growth and making money from AWG. See http://ncadac.globalchange.gov/.ReplyDelete
We are toast. Really, really toast. And it is not just us, it is most life on this earth.
- Lewis CleverdonJanuary 14, 2013 at 5:48 PM
Chet - while I'd go further in criticizing that report, I see no reason to assume that all is lost. It ain't. Yes, six out of seven major feedbacks are observed to be accelerating - and most scientists choose to exclude them from their scenarios on grounds of their development being mathematically indefinable. But there are also more options than just emissions control alone for their control.ReplyDelete
And there is also an unseen political factor in favour of an end to the global political inertia, which is the rising impracticality of America's bipartisan policy of a 'brinkmanship of inaction' with its rival, China.
As the Jetstream imposes much greater climate impacts on the US than on China, and the US capacity to afford the damages declines, the policy will be replaced, and the stronger the public opposition it attracts the sooner that will happen.
This isn't some feel-good optimism blurb - we are in very serious trouble as a civilization - but there is everything to play for, and if necessary we go down fighting. So chin up, and we've got a chance.
I wonder if the dinosaurs that saw the comet coming ever considered that they were over? That nature was about to hit reset. Yes, they had no ability to think, but does that ability make a difference? It seems not. We have made all the wrong decisions as a species these last 100 years.Delete
Most of us have no idea that the 'comet' is bright in the sky. They are too busy voting for the next American Idol or picking up their unemployment check. I would say that much of the 3rd world sees it but either don't understand what it is or shrug their shoulders, knowing they can do nothing about it. I'm one of those. I understand all too well what the coming collapse means. I have pulled up a chair to watch it's approach and impact, knowing that my feeble preparation may not be enough to survive it and then move on. That's life!
I fear that when it comes to making real changes in our own lives to make things better, I think 1% is optomistic. There is no need to "demand" change in ourselves, except of ourselves.ReplyDelete


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When and why did you start training for fighting? I started training back in June of 2007
What ranks and titles have you held? Russian Combat Sambo Champion
Do you have any heroes? Dana White, Fedor Emelianenko, Alexander Emelianenko, Georges St-Pierre
What does it mean for you to fight in STRIKEFORCE? I am very honored, as I come from a small village in Chechnya and I did not think that I would be in such an amazing show.
Did you go to college and if so what degree did you earn? Back in 2000 during the first Chechen war our school was destroyed by air strikes and there was no means for me to continue my education. We had to study by sharing books in a small tent. I am taking courses now in order to complete my college degree.
What was your job before you started fighting? Student/ construction worker
Specific accomplishments in pro competition? 5 knockouts out of 7 wins. I don't like to leave to the judges. This way no one has bad feelings.
Favorite grappling technique: Ezekiel Choke
Favorite Striking technique: Spinning back kick
What do you consider to be the key fight in your career, and why? My first MMA fight was with my current teammate Alexey Oleinik. Alexey choked me out with an Ezekiel choke and I had no idea about grappling at that time. I realized back then that I need to improve my grappling in order to advance myself.
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Assad: Winning Hearts,
Stephen Lendman
Most Syrians support Assad. They do so for good reason. Mass crowds turn out in liberated areas. Syria's military is cheered.
Polls show over two-thirds of Syrians back their government. The longer conflict continues, the greater Assad backing grows.
It's not surprising. Syrians want no part of living under a Washington-imposed dictatorship. They're willing to sacrifice, fight and die to prevent it. They've come this far and won't quit.
Obama and imperial allies are worried. John Kerry planned a fifth Middle East visit this week. On Tuesday, he was expected in Israel. He's not coming. He'll stay in Washington.
High-level meetings on Syria are ongoing. Assad's been routing US proxy foot soldiers. Qusair and other impressive victories were won. Syrian forces control most parts of the country.
At issue is what Washington plans next. Supposed consideration about providing weapons doesn't wash. It's been ongoing covertly since conflict began. CIA and US special forces are involved.
Perhaps what's well known will be admitted publicly. Desperation pervades Washington. Regime change plans aren't going as intended.
Israeli Minister of Intelligence, International Relations and Strategic Affairs Yuval Steinitz admits Assad has the upper hand. He's beating America at its own game. He's far from declaring victory.
Washington has powerful tools to use. At issue is what's planned. Headlines suggest US concerns. On June 10, The New York Times said "Rebel Losses in Syria Complicate Options for US Aid."
Assad's gains "prompt(ed) the Obama administration to again consider military options, including arming the rebels and conducting airstrikes to protect civilians and the Syrian opposition, administration officials said on Monday."
Jeffrey White's a pro-Israeli Washington Institute for Near East Policy (WINEP) fellow. "I think the rebels are in trouble," he said. "Speed is of the essence. The regime's momentum needs to be brought to a halt."
Insurgent general Salim Idris expressed alarm. Assad's victories give him no leverage to negotiate. He won't attend Geneva II without a position of strength.
"What can we ask for when we go very weak," he said. The Russians and the Iranians and the representatives of the regime will say: You don't have any power. We are controlling everything. What you are coming to ask for?"
Idris is a turncoat traitor. He was bribed to defect. He sold out for personal gain. He's in no position to make demands. He should be arrested and tried for treason.
He betrayed his own people. He allied with Washington's imperial agenda. It's responsible for mass slaughter and destruction.
Obama's plans haven't gone as expected. Assad's in a position of strength. America lost considerable leverage.
Regaining it, said The Times, depends on greater US intervention. According to the Wall Street Journal, "key US officials have begun to argue that (Assad) now looks likely to survive the war and cling to power."
Thomas Donnelly's an American Enterprise Institute research fellow. AEI is consistently hawkish. It's notoriously far right of center. On June 7, Donnelly headlined "Losing the Middle East," saying:
Significant Syrian victories suggest "there is nothing inevitable about the fall of the House of Assad." They may prove more important than "tactical gain(s)."
Pivotal Aleppo and Homs battles loom. Insurgents are heavily outmanned and outgunned. Routing them from these cities and surrounding areas may entirely turn the tide of war.
It may do so short of direct US-led NATO intervention. It will impede arms flows from Turkey. It will further do so from Lebanon.
According to Donnelly, prevailing in Aleppo would be "crushing" on insurgent forces. Former Obama State Department adviser Vali Nasr said Assad gains benefit Iran.
It "strengthened its relationship with Russia, which may prove to be the most important strategic consequence of the Syrian conflict, should the US continue to sit it out."
Moscow appears increasingly determined not to let Washington prevail. Supplying Syria sophisticated air defense systems, other military aid, and maintaining a Mediterranean fleet presence suggests it perhaps drew its own red line. It's badly needed.
According to Donnelly, Obama "let(ting) the Middle East burn is play(ing) with a very dangerous fire." It keeps burning "if you refuse to fight (it). Sometimes (things) spread and rage out of control."
Donnelly wants direct US intervention. So does AEI resident fellow/ Fox News contributor Michael Barone. On June 8, he headlined "America will pay a price for President Obama's inaction in Syria."
He expected to prevail easily. So did key administration officials advising him. Best laid plans don't always succeed. No easy choices remain. "(N)on-intervention has a price," said Barone.
"Obama seems likely to continue his policy of inaction in Syria, for which America will probably pay a price - if not immediately, then some time in the future."
Like Donnelly and other uberhawks, Barone supports direct intervention. He may get what he wishes for. Other AEI ideologues urge a no-fly zone and targeted air strikes. So have other Beltway warmongers.
Assad's sophisticated air defense systems won't make it easy. They'll challenge overflights and incoming cruise missiles. Syrian forces haven't come this far to quit.
It remans to be seen if discussions in Washington plan Libya 2.0. Increasing arms and munitions to insurgents alone won't work. Other options are being considered.
According to National Security Council spokeswoman Bernadette Meehan:
"At the president's direction, his national security team continues to consider all possible options that would accomplish our objectives of helping the Syrian opposition serve the essential needs of the Syrian people and hastening a political transition to a post-Assad Syria."
"We have prepared a wide range of options for the president's consideration, and internal meetings to discuss the situation in Syria are routine."
"The United States will continue to look for ways to strengthen the capabilities of the Syrian opposition, though we have no new announcements at this time."
Peace is off the table. Geneva II if held is pretext for regime change. Without leverage to force it, it'll fail like last year. Perhaps it'll be called off or postponed.
In June 2012, talks were called a "last-ditch effort" to halt violence. More deaths occurred since then than before. Washington's agenda remains unchanged. Assad must go is policy. Obama wants him replaced with a US-controlled puppet.
Syrian blood is on his hands. How much more he'll spill remains to be seen. His death squads do it daily. They murder noncombatant civilians and commit unspeakable atrocities. They've done it throughout the conflict.
They've used chemical weapons blamed on Assad. They murder people in their homes. They kill children and women. It's no surprise why Syrians deplore them. They're invaders. They're recruited from regional and other countries.
They're Western-sponsored death squads. Assad's routing them decisively. Short of US-led NATO intervention, he won the battle for Syria.
Doing so doesn't mean conflict will end. It certainly won't soon. Guerrilla tactics can continue interminably. Washington policymakers may have that in mind. It remains to be seen what follows.
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The casket of Whitney Houston will be heavily guarded until the burial Sunday morning, with a whopping 10 security guards tasked with keeping watch on it ... TMZ has learned.
According to our sources, the casket will be kept at the cemetery until tomorrow's burial ... but will be well-protected until then.
We're told the family will get an opportunity to see Whitney one more time between now and tomorrow morning.
Today's funeral service featured touching testimonials by Kevin Costner and Clive Davis, among others.


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HELL, Mich. (AP) — A parade of hearses is planned this weekend in the Michigan community of Hell was part of an attempt to regain a spot in the record books.
The Livingston County Daily Press & Argus of Howell reports the "Hellfest Nightmare Cruise" is Saturday. Sept. 15, about 45 miles west of Detroit.
The 4:30 p.m. parade follows an all-hearse car show.
The Hell-based car club called Just Hearse 'N Around says it's trying to take back a Guinness World Records mark set last year when 51 vehicles made the parade. That got the event a Guinness World Records honor, but organizers say a hearse parade in the Netherlands has since brought out 107.


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NWSB Insider and Vancouver Canucks blogger C-Mac chimes in with his thoughts on the disgrace that was game 1 of the Western conference quarter finals last night in Van City. Fun times ahead? He can't see Daniel Sedin ready to come back following some less than promising reports on post-practice headaches, so the team needs to focus on staying with five-on-five play in which they looked most comfortable.
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However, three weeks before the event, they decided it would be better to host a fundraiser at The Byre Pub on 69th Street in Maspeth. The bar is owned by a friend of the Hipgrabe family,
"We kind of suggested it to them and they said that they would love to do it," said Hipgrabe.
This event, the second annual fundraiser to support the Cystic Fibrosis Foundation, will be held on Sunday, May 19, and begin at 2 p.m.
Cystic fibrosis is a genetic disorder that affects the lungs causing the individual to have difficulty breathing. Those with the disease are at higher risk of lung infections, poor growth and sinus infections.
The event will include a raffle with assorted donated items. Some of them can be seen at facebook.com/laura.tomorrow. There will also be a band and DJ.
Last year the group raised nearly $4,000, and they hope to do better this year.
"We started last year," she said. "And it was a pretty good day for everybody and hopefully this year will be even better."


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Former RV/MH Exec Mossey Founded Five Firms
May 24, 2010 by RVBusiness · Comments Off on Former RV/MH Exec Mossey Founded Five Firms
Donald R. Mossey, a longtime executive in the RV and manufactured housing industries., died Saturday (May 22) at St. Mary's Hospital in Rochester, Minn. He was 84.
Mossey was an early manufacturer and promoter of manufactured housing in Elkhart, Ind. He was a longtime Mobile Home Manufacturers Association and Manufactured Housing Institute member. He founded and built five successful industry companies and developed numerous components and design features still in use for RV and housing units.
He has been a lifelong spokesman for housing industry causes. His companies, including Homette, Ventline, Leland Engineering and Imperial Stamping, have spanned a broad range of manufactured home component parts and homes.
A native of Elkhart, Mossey served aboard the USS Rowan DD782, a destroyer deployed in the Pacific theater during World War II. After the war, he entered Hillsdale College in Michigan. He returned to Elkhart upon his graduation from Hillsdale in 1951 to work as a commissioned salesman at Elkhart Richardson Homes, the first step in a remarkable career as an entrepreneur and civic leader. In 1957, he co-founded Homette Corp., a manufacturer of mobile homes and RVs.
Upon Homette's merger with Skyline Corp., he was named executive vice president of Skyline and appointed to its board of directors.
In 1965 he became president and chairman of Ventline Inc., a manufacturer of metal products, a company he sold to Fortune 500 company Philips Industries, the board of which Mossey soon joined.
Over the next 40 years he served as chairman of numerous companies, including Custom Wood Products of Roanoke, Va., and Leland Engineering of White Pigeon, Mich.
In addition to his efforts for the industry, Mossey has served as chairman of the board of Hillsdale College for 28 years.
He was inducted into the RV/MH Hall of Fame in 2004.
Mossey helped establish Elkhart as a wellspring of entrepreneurial activity. He provided counsel, encouragement and backing to countless executives and community leaders. An astute judge of character, he made his friends carefully and kept them long. For him Elkhart was a barometer for the nation. He judged the national mood by the friends with whom he worked in his home town.
Mossey is survived by his widow, Jane Hill Mossey, his wife of 56 years; his three children, Merril (Dennis) McCarthy, Mark (Kathy) Mossey and Melanie (Charles) Mossey-Warren; six grandchildren; and one sister, June Verhagen. One son, Michael Alex Mossey, preceded him in death.
Hartzler-Gutermuth-Inman Funeral Home in Elkhart is in charge of arrangements.


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The Americus Times-Recorder
DAHLONEGA — Phillip Brown's free throw with 5.6 seconds remaining put the finishing touches on another long game for Georgia Southwestern.
After falling in three overtimes on Wednesday at home to Georgia College, the Hurricanes were taken to another three-overtime thriller on Saturday at North Georgia.
Brown had his best game of the season, scoring 25 points and grabbing 22 rebounds to lift GSW to a 76-74 win against the Saints.
Evan Mobley scored 20, and Colin Slotter added 19 as GSW clinched at least a share of the West Division title.
"I thought it was a tremendous bounce back win," said coach Mike Leeder. "One thing we haven't done is lost games in a row, and we found a way to win. It looked bad at the end of both overtimes, and even in the third overtime we were in trouble. Guys make plays in this league, and Phillip stepped up and made big plays and it showed tonight."
Mobley missed a pair of free throws with just over a second remaining in regulation that would have broken a 50-50 tie. Slotter's free throw tied the game at the end of the first overtime, 55-55, and Mobley's 3-pointer tied it in the second overtime at 65-65.
Another Mobley 3-pointer put GSW up 71-69, but North Georgia's Carl Taylor answered with about a 35-footer — his third 3-pointer of the game — with 1:20 remaining to put the Saints back on top.
Brown muscled in the go-ahead basket, Slotter added two free throws and Brown's last one helped GSW (18-6, 11-4) escape. One more win, and GSW will win the West outright.
"Evan was able to flush those free throws by making three 3s in overtime," said Leeder. "It was back and forth and both teams were making plays. We're fortunate to get out of there with a win tonight."
The Hurricanes led by as many as six in the second half when Taylor's three tied the game at 48-48 with 1:50 remaining in regulation. Taylor led four Saints in double figures with 19 points.
After missing their first free throw in overtime, the Saints (9-15, 6-9) made their next seven.
GSW was 15 of 28 at the line for the game, a season-low 53.8 percent.
"Our inability to make free throws hurt us," said Leeder. "We put them on the foul line down the stretch and they knocked them down. On the defensive end, when we had to get stops, we were outstanding."
North Georgia was held to 35 percent shooting while GSW shot 40 percent.
GSW has home games remaining with Columbus State on Wednesday and Clayton State on Saturday. After consecutive three-overtime games, Leeder said there's only one motivating factor.
"We kept talking about today that no matter, if we make a play, we're (West Division) co-champions," he said. "It's a tremendous testament from where we were at this time last year. Win one more home game, and we win the West outright. I think the guys are excited about it, and I hope it will carry the guys through Wednesday because I know we'll still be tired. For the first time in school history, we're co-champions in a conference, and I'm thrilled for these guys."


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(Go Green Article Published Feb 2009)
In response to ongoing financial volatility, the University recently announced steps to streamline spending and reduce energy costs.
Considering the University's annual energy costs are around $36 million, reducing energy consumption is a prime focus of the ongoing effort. In what promises to produce significant energy savings, the University has issued a new policy on temperature guidelines, reducing winter settings in occupied areas to 68 degrees and summer settings to 78 degrees. University Facilities and Services has begun implementing the new guidelines.
"The University has been an Energy Star partner for more than 10 years," says Richard Pifer, associate vice president of facilities services. "We feel a real sense of duty to model responsible operational stewardship, motivated by our continuing commitments to both cost containment and the environment. We're continually seeking more efficient ways to heat, cool, and light our buildings."
After weeks of effort, numerous temperature setbacks for nights, weekends, and holidays have been put in place, including tighter schedules within public spaces such as classrooms and auditoriums. With more than 10,000 thermostats on the River Campus and at the Medical Center, University Facilities is tackling the daunting task of ensuring that each one is adjusted. Areas with automated digital controls have been set to the revised temperature settings. Technicians are continuing to go through each space that has a pneumatic (non-digital) control and make manual adjustments.
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Wednesday, April 16, 2008
Theresa Wraps Up First Year of College Volleyball Coaching
The Stanford Men's Club Volleyball team returned from the NIRSA (National Intercollegiate Recreational Sports Association) National Championships, which took place in Dallas, Texas April 10-13 after finishing 19th in the Division I tournament. (Please see the NIRSA site for complete results.) The Cardinal crew, coached by Peter Yee and Theresa Carey, was seeded to finish in the bottom third, but prevailed to beat their initial seeding and wind up in the Top 20 nationally.
Since few universities have official intercollegiate men's volleyball teams—there are only 22 men's Division I NCAA-sanctioned teams compared to over 300 women's teams—the NIRSA tournament is the largest venue for men's college volleyball in the country. 48 teams compete in Division I with another 36 in I-AA, 48 in Division II, and 24 in Division III. The three days of the tournament feature fierce competition, and there is a waiting list for teams that want to attend, but are turned away due to capacity.
The highlight of the weekend was the Cardinal's win over defending champion University of Wisconsin-Osh Kosh on Saturday afternoon. Stanford won the first set, 25-21, but Osh Kosh would not go away quietly. The second set turned into a 40-minute battle, featuring 6 Osh Kosh set points and 3 Stanford match points before Stanford put it away with a score of 35-33. This match attracted one of the larger crowds of the day, including the enthusiastic support of the Stanford women's club volleyball team.
During their first match of the tournament, Stanford challenged the eventual Division I champions, Lakeland College (Wisconsin), in pool play. In addition to Osh Kosh and Lakeland, Stanford also competed with the University of Maryland, University of Missouri, Naval Academy, Cal Poly, University of Santa Clara, Northern Illinois and the University of Minnesota over the three days of tournament play.
Key players for the Cardinal were setter Matt Sahagun, libero Evan Huck, outside hitters Andy Price, Darren Moore, Guillermo Vargas and Danny Koelker, as well as middle hitters Greg Newman and Daniel Becker. Walter Foxworth stepped in to provide numerous defensive plays, as did Peter Kardassakis. Middle hitter Jayson Morgan and outside hitters Kevin Scott, Matt Hill and Kent Anderson generated points for the Cardinal as well. (club website: click here.)
The league in which Stanford plays, the Northern California Collegiate Volleyball League, was among the most successful at the tournament. Six teams finished in the Top 20 nationally (CSU Fresno, Cal Poly, Cal, University of Santa Clara and UC Davis). Chico State won the Division I-AA championship, and Sonoma State was the runner-up in Division II. The tough competition all season long gets every member of the NCCVL ready to play at nationals.
And so the men's club team wraps up its third, and most successful year in club history. Stanford students with volleyball experience are encouraged to join the team when school resumes in the fall. In the meantime, there will be informal open gyms at Burnham Pavilion on Tuesday nights starting at 8:30PM.