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By Peter Emch Dec 21, 2011 0
Long Day's Journey into Financial Light: Part II, Private Financial Resources
When approaching retirement we tend to think about how to stretch our personal financial resources, combined with government resources like Social Security and Medicare benefits, over the remainder of our lives. As a person with autism enters adulthood we probably ought to adopt the same mindset. Financial planning for individuals with autism is complicated by the spectrum nature of the condition—some people will need more services than others so there is no meaningful annual number that approximates "typical" financial need. Programs for autistic adults that provide supported or supervised residential settings may cost $70,000 to $100,000 per year. Young adults that continue to live with their parents, and who have family members as caregivers, will generate out-of-pocket expenses that are much, much lower.
But there are big differences between retirement thinking and planning a financial future for an autistic individual. The first obvious difference is that, in a best case scenario, the person with autism is seeking to begin, rather than retiring from, employment. Secondly, the individual in question may not be able to handle money, especially in the form of abstract financial resources that are difficult for most people to comprehend. Furthermore, financial plans should be made for the day that the primary caregiver or financial advisor passes on. In that sense, you are planning for two lifetimes rather than one. Succession planning involves more than finances but is often done via a will or trust document that is a central financial planning document.
Finally, formulating a long term financial plan for a person with autism is emotionally daunting. That's one reason many people don't even try: The reality of the numbers may be brutal to face. But if you have read this far you are already ahead of most people. According to financial advisors who focus on families with special needs the most typical planning mistake they see is a failure to plan at all. The balance of this article will consider the following topics:
Private health insurance: A potential financial asset that many families may not have considered.
Earned Income: A potential financial asset to be cultivated.
Family Resources: Typically the "guts" of financial support that need to be well-organized by people familiar with the multiple needs and laws that affect families with autism.
Special Needs Trusts: The most typical legal planning vehicle used by families with autism.
Private Health Insurance
Private insurance has paid for some services for some people with autism but there seems to be little consistency of rules or payments. Drugs or services prescribed by a physician, such as speech or occupational therapy, may be covered by health plans in some situations. Some families have found that services may be covered, but only if they are prescribed for conditions that are co-morbid with autism rather than for autism, per se. Coverage may be included under mental health benefits, which have become generally more robust since the introduction of The Mental Health Parity Act of 1996. However, many families with a person with autism find it virtually impossible to get insurance and have been precluded from benefits based on "pre-existing condition" language. This obstacle is changing since the passage of The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act early in 2010 which precludes private insurance carriers from denying coverage to children based on preexisting conditions and gives families access to a bridge insurance plan if adults with pre-existing conditions are denied coverage.
A majority of states have now enacted autism insurance reform laws that mandate coverage of certain autism-related services. Depending on how these laws are written, some services, such as ABA or possibly occupational therapy, may be covered for adults. However, even in the states which mandate insurance coverage beyond childhood, this typically ends sometime between the ages of 18 and 21. Good resources for state-specific information include local chapters of the Autism Society of America and Autism Speaks, as well as other parents within your community who have tried to get services covered by private insurance.
Earned Income
The most obvious source of private financial support is wages earned by the autistic individual. Scott Standifer, a clinical associate professor in the University of Missouri's School of Health Professions, has put together a terrific Fact Sheet on Autism Employment which provides an overview of the vocational rehabilitation industry, the macro challenges the US faces in attempting to find employment for people with autism, as well as some best of breed private programs. Embedded within the Fact Sheet are links to national and state vocational rehabilitation resources, including a link to each state's vocational rehabilitation contact information.
Disabled individuals who are receiving benefits from the Social Security Administration (SSA) have access to that department's programs designed to help people with disabilities return to the workforce. Most of the SSA's vocational rehabilitation efforts are directed through Work Incentives Planning and Assistance Organizations (WIPAs) located in each state, which are tasked with providing counselors to coordinate federal, state and private resources to help disabled beneficiaries return to work. In addition, there are two specific federal programs which disabled job seekers may qualify for: Ticket To Work which enables a disabled person seeking work access to an Employment Network, and Plan For Achieving Self Support(PASS), which helps individuals create an individualized plan to return to work and creates a savings vehicle that will allow the individual to shelter some income from SSI limits. While not designed specifically for disabled people, people with autism may also qualify for an Individual Development Account (IDA), a savings plan in which persons within certain poverty programs can have savings matched dollar for dollar by participating charities, and, to a limited extent, by the federal government.
Family Resources
"Family resources" include many things. The most important resources are the people: parents, siblings, friends, guardians, trustees, advisors, social workers, counselors, etc. Marshalling and organizing human resources is usually done through legal documents such as a will or living trust for the parents (or guardians) of a person with autism, and often a special needs trust. An attorney is a good point person to lead the process which generally begins with the parents/guardians writing a Letter of Intent detailing how the parent/guardian's goals for the person with autism can be achieved by whom. Family financial assets, such as family wages, investment portfolios, real estate, life insurance policies, retirement accounts such as IRAs, or perhaps even a potential inheritance are positioned within this overall structure. A good financial advisor can help organize and maximize the financial resources. If sufficient resources exist, usually a special needs trust should be formed to provide a single repository for assets dedicated to funding the financial needs of a person with autism.
Seeking a Financial Advisor
In my experience, financial advisors are like chiropractors: Really good ones are worth every penny while mediocre or worse do more harm than good. There are a number of national financial firms that have created groups dedicated to serving the financial needs of families with special needs individuals, some of which are listed at the Special Needs Alliance website. A financial advisor that is knowledgeable about the unique financial issues faced by families impacted by autism may be able to provide valuable advice. Ideally, that person would know about, and/or have working relationships with other professionals that know about:
- Eligibility requirements for major government disability and poverty programs
- Wills and estate planning
- Guardianship/conservatorship law
- Special Needs Trusts
- Insurance products, including their tax implications
- Stocks, bonds and financial markets generally
Many "name" financial firms which offer the services of a financial advisor are seeking clients with investible assets of $250,000 or more. However, there are no official rules about how much assets a client needs to open an account. Advisors who have chosen to focus their business on special needs families typically have done so because they have a personal connection with this community and may offer services to people with lower levels of assets.
One free resource which may help families begin to think about finances is a basic financial needs calculator available from Merrill Lynch. This calculator provides families with a worksheet to calculate monthly expenses and then build asset, return and inflation assumptions to yield a lump sum savings target. For most families, building a realistic monthly expenses budget will be challenging since pricing and availability of services will vary. However, the exercise is useful, if only to make clear the true cost of very expensive services that will only be affordable for merely a couple of years.
Special Needs Trusts
A trust is a legal entity containing property (generally financial assets) which is managed by a person, the "trustee," for another person's benefit, the "beneficiary." A Special Needs Trust (SNT)—also known as a Supplemental Needs Trust—is a trust created for a disabled beneficiary under the age of 65 for the purposes of providing the beneficiary with "supplemental and extra care above what the government provides." SNTs are generally created to shelter assets used for the benefit of a disabled person so that that person can continue to qualify for government programs like Supplemental Security Income (SSI) and Medicaid that have strict asset limits. Nolo's website provides a brief overview of SNTs, while the Findlaw website provides a succinct FAQ page about SNTs.
Why Create a Special Needs Trust?
Oftentimes family members would like to help provide financial support to an autistic individual, yet even a relatively small gift of assets ($2000) will destroy that person's eligibility for programs such as SSI and Medicaid. There are at least three obvious advantages to creating an SNT:
- It creates an entity to collect assets on behalf of the beneficiary. An SNT is an excellent structure for loved ones to name as a benefactor in a will. Note: If you create an SNT it is imperative that all family be aware of its existence and purpose otherwise a bequeath from a well-meaning relative directly to the person with autism may disqualify that person from public assistance eligibility.
- It creates a legal structure which names a trustee to manage assets on behalf of an autistic person and anticipates succession should the trustee die before the beneficiary.
- An SNT can hold unlimited assets which are not accessible to creditors, nor can they be included in a legal settlement against the beneficiary or family members. Conversely, the SNT may be named by the court as the recipient of a legal settlement on behalf of its beneficiary.
Types of SNTs: Third-Party vs. First-Party
There are third-party SNTs, which are created from the assets of others, usually family, and first-party SNTs which are created from the assets of the beneficiary. The government places much tighter legal restrictions on first-party SNTs than third-party SNTs, especially in the form of "look back" provisions and Medicaid repayment rules. Therefore, one should not co-mingle assets between the two structures. Whereas our government generally sees third-party SNTs as a way for family to provide for a disabled loved one, thus easing the financial burden left to the government, it tends to see first-party SNTs as a legal circumvention of eligibility rules. Therefore, it may be wise to spend down assets where practical (and they must be spent, not donated or gifted), rather than attempt a structure as legally complex as a first-party SNT.
Types of SNTs: Individual vs. Pooled
When most people think of an SNT, they think of an individual trust as has been described in the foregoing discussion. An alternative structure is a Cooperative Master Trust—also known as a Pooled Trust—which is managed by a not-for-profit organization usually on behalf of members or stakeholders. In this structure, assets contributed by many members are "pooled" and managed on behalf of the group with benefits distributed pro-rata according to contributions. Basically, one gives up a substantial amount of control over both the trust assets and proceeds in exchange for a (potentially) lower cost, ready–made trust structure. Generally speaking, families should probably view pooled SNTs as a fallback if an individual SNT is not a viable option. This may be because:
- Assets to be contributed to the SNT are small enough that set-up and management expenses eat up a meaningful portion of trust assets.
- There is no appropriate person to serve as trustee.
- Legal requirements for setting up an individual SNT seem too daunting.
If a family chooses to participate in a pooled trust, it should choose its sponsor carefully. Ideally, both the charity and the trust should have long and stable operating histories, since if the charity goes broke the beneficiary could lose access to contributed assets, or potentially lose these assets altogether.
Funding an SNT
Many SNTs are funded by inheritance from the estate of a deceased family member. Other sources of funding may include insurance policies naming the SNT as beneficiary. Using insurance policies rather than a will avoids probate, possibly avoids estate taxes, and probably results in quicker access to assets. Real estate, such as the house an autistic person is living in, may be contributed to the SNT. While a house owned by an autistic person is not counted against that person's $2000 asset limit for SSI eligibility, maintenance expenses, if paid by someone else, may count against income limits. If the house is owned by the SNT, then the trust may pay for these maintenance expenses without impacting income limits. Other financial assets, such as stocks and bonds, may be contributed to an SNT. If possible, one should avoid contributing financial assets from retirement accounts such as IRAs. The contribution will trigger income taxes on every dollar of donated IRA assets, whereas taxable account contributions do not trigger income taxes.
Other SNT Does and Don'ts
- Write a thoughtful Letter of Intent as part of the trust document. The letter can be addressed to the successor trustee and can be used to give important information about the beneficiary: his medical history, special needs, likes and dislikes, and whatever information a trustee would need to use trust assets to enhance the life experience of the beneficiary.
- Find a trustee that understands the rules regarding allowable trust expenditures. Somewhat counterintuitively, an SNT probably should not pay for basic food and shelter needs, such as groceries, but could pay for a vacation or dinner party.
- Make sure that the trust document states that it is not intended as a basic support trust and that it contains correct legal language regarding Medicaid payback, appropriate portions of the Social Security Operations Manual, OBRA of 1993, and relevant portions of the US Code. Incorrect wording can nullify the trust, so it might be wise to have a lawyer who specializes in this area write the document.
- Keep good documents. Merrill Lynch suggests 10 types of documents be gathered and made accessible.
- Use the trust to purchase countable assets in the name of the beneficiary.
- Include a "Crummey Clause"—an estate tax provision—in the wording of the trust document.
- Keep its existence a secret. Make sure Aunt Sally knows to leave assets in her will to the SNT and not directly to the person with autism.


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Blackhawk 94 Shearing Comb
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- 3.1 mm thick, 94 mm wide
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With the Deep Silence 3 we proudly present a classic midi tower from the next generation of Silent PC cases.
The Deep Silence 3 offers an elegant design and harmonious, meaningful features. The middle HDD cage is removable, allowing the easy installation even of very long graphics cards.
Prominent features of our Deep Silence case series:
• Classic design - Made in Germany
• Particularly quiet thanks to its integrated sound dampening system and focused design
• Highly efficient, stealthy ventilation system
• Maximum functionality and adaptability
The upper part of the front offers a foam-isolated door. Three 5.25 inch bays can be found behind the door, as well as the 2-channel fan control for up to six fans and the reset button. The door is equipped with a magnet to ensure a fast closing and easy opening.
On the front of the top cover you can find the I/O-panel. It offers 2 x USB 3.0, 1 x USB 2.0, as well as Mic and Audio connectors. This ensures that appropriate devices can be connected quickly and easily.
You can mount ATX, Micro-ATX and Mini-ITX motherboards in the Deep Silence 3 case. Thanks to the modular HDD cage you can install VGA cards with a maximum length of 430 mm. If you want to employ all HDD cages, you can install cards of up to 345 mm in length.
Almost noiseless
The guiding principle in the development of the Nanoxia case series has always been the requirement to create cases as quiet as possible at the lowest system temperatures.
Side panel and top cover of the Deep Silence 3 are fitted with specially designed, noise reducing insulation materials. he whole concept is designed to minimize and absorb any resulting noises. The solid front door contributes significantly to the most effective noise reduction.
The hard disk drives of the Deep Silence 3 are mounted using rubber suspension, in order to absorb vibrations that might arise during startup and to minimize annoying background noises. The power supply rests on rubber mounts, with a suspension frame available on the back. The case stands on rubber suspended feet – vibrations are completely compensated.
The Deep Silence 3 is manufactured from 0.6 mm thick steel. By using the highest quality materials, optimal noise insulation is ensured while providing a very stable case.
Also responsible for the quietness of the case are the three pre-installed 120 mm Deep Silence fans. The fans are optimized for the best possible mix of silence and cooling capacity. The Deep Silence 3 case is fitted with a 2-channel fan control for up to 6 fans in order to adjust the air flow to the individual needs of the user.
The Nanoxia Deep Silence 3 is equipped with two Nanoxia VentCovers. They close the 120/140 mm fan openings in the top cover. Thus, you can choose between improved cooling of the system by incorporating further case fans or improved sound insulation, by leaving the VentCover in place. The developers' objective was to offer the user a broad variety of options.
Intelligent ventilation system
Three high-quality case fans are pre-installed. Two 120 mm fans are mounted behind the front cover, rotating at a maximum speed of 1,300 rpm. Another Deep Silence 120 mm fan is located at the back of the case. At 14.2 dB(a), the Nanoxia Deep Silence 120 mm fans generate an air flow of about 60.1 CFM and a static air pressure of 1.27 mm H²O.
The integrated fan control can manage up to six fans, allowing an individual to optimize settings to balance low system temperatures and the lowest possible noise levels, even at a full fan assembly.
Two additional 120/140 mm fans can be mounted under the top cover in order to imrpove heat dissipation. Finally, you can install a 120 or 140 mm fan at the bottom of the case - the secondary HDD cage holder needs to be removed for this. Front and cottom are equipped with easy to clean dust filters.
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Padres honored for up-close look at Jackie's Day
LOS ANGELES -- With Major League teams celebrating Jackie Robinson Day across the country, the Padres were glad to be a part of the festivities in Robinson's hometown and against the organization he broke the color barrier with in 1947.
"To be playing against his organization in this city is special for us," Padres manager Bud Black said before Monday's game against the Dodgers.
Every member of the Padres wore Robinson's No. 42 in honor of the baseball pioneer. In 1997, under the direction of Commissioner Bud Selig, Robinson's No. 42 was retired across all of Major League Baseball in an unprecedented tribute.
Monday was the 66th anniversary of Robinson's first game with the Brooklyn Dodgers. His wife, Rachel, and daughter, Sharon, were honored before the game at Dodger Stadium.
"This is a special day for baseball, and I think for our society and for America and internationally," Black said. "With what Jackie meant to the game and all the people instrumental in breaking the color barrier, it's fantastic that baseball honors Jackie and honors his family with this type of day and throughout the game."
The San Diego clubhouse is rather diverse, with players representing five different countries across two continents, and Robinson's role in integrating the Major Leagues is not lost on the Padres.
"Jackie went through a lot and gave up a lot for us to be here," said outfielder Will Venable.


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I have a 2002 Mazda B4000 with 4wd. The front end is getting a bit loose (recently replaced wheel bearings) and I am thinking about replacing the tie rods and related components prior to taking the car in for new tires & alignment.
How difficult is replacing the tie rods? Is this something a fairly competent DIYer can do at home, with a decent set of tools? Will I need any special tools?


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Targeted spear-phishing attacks are going after not just individuals but entire websites that function as "watering holes" for groups of people with focused interests, according to security company Websense.
Spear-phishing is most associated with targeted attacks, typically via malware-loaded email, intended to take over an individual's computer to spy or steal something important from the victim. But a more recent trend in spear-phishing is the targeting of entire websites in order to have a crack at a community of individuals whose computers you'd like to compromise, says Chris Astacio, security research manager at Websense.
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In this "watering hole" attack, the goal is to compromise a website to understand who visits it and why, and place malware on it to try and target these visitors, Astacio says. For the attackers, "the idea is that they lie in wait," he says, watching what individuals do in order to target them.
Websense says it believes examples of known "watering hole" attacks now include the Institute for National Security Studies website in Israel which in May was discovered to be injected with malicious code. Around the same time, the Amnesty International U.K. website was compromised with a remote-access Trojan, and in August the Nepalese government websites were compromised with a similar type of Trojan.
These kind of "watering hole" incidents "may be a way for nation-states to garner additional information from a select audience without having to know the contact information or specific lure likely to compromise a target," Websense says in its notes. "This could be considered reconnaissance leading to more specific targeting and a more traditional spear-phishing attempt."
Traditional spear-phishing attacks have become commonplace and are regarded as the first step in serious financial crime or business and government espionage. The White House, for instance, just this month acknowledged a spear-phishing attack may have come from Chinese hackers.
Ellen Messmer is senior editor at Network World, an IDG publication and website, where she covers news and technology trends related to information security. Twitter: @MessmerE. Email: firstname.lastname@example.com.
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The quality of Patagonia depends, to a large degree, on whether we can reduce our impact on the environment. This means auditing the materials and methods we use to make our products, taking responsibility for the entire lifecycle of our products and examining how we use resources at our buildings and facilities.
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Patagonia travels the globe in search of the best materials for our clothing, accessories and luggage. When the best isn't good enough to meet the need, we work closely with our suppliers to develop outstanding new fabrics.
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The Daily Word in Maurice Sendak, Dustin Hoffman and Tyrannosaurus Rex
Where the Wild Things Are author Maurice Sendak dies at 83.
North Carolina votes on a controversial constitutional ban on gay marriage today known as Amendment One.
The Senate discusses a bill today that would prevent student loan rates from doubling July 1.
Junior Seau's family discuss with Samoan elders whether to donate his brain for scientific study.
Dustin Hoffman saved this jogger's life in London's Hyde Park.
This creepy principal resigns after creating a fake Facebook page to spy on her students.
Hell hath no fury like a pet lynx's jealousy.
South Korean customs officials discover pills filled with powdered human baby flesh—sure to spawn a metal band/song or ten.
Hundreds in Russia take to the streets to protest the inauguration of Vladimir Putin.
I suppose changing your name to Tyrannosaurus Rex is more original—but no less crazy—than Jesus Christ.
Rick Santorum endorses Mitt Romney in an email to his supporters.


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"Treacherous" winds blew a bus off the highway Monday morning in an Illinois town, a Greyhound spokeswoman confirmed.
None of the 22 passengers were injured when bus No. 6549 slid off the road around 12:30 a.m. on Interstate 57 as it traveled through the village of Manteno on its way to Memphis from Chicago, Lanesha Gipson said.
The Manteno Fire Department said the bus was traveling south when it was overcome by high winds at mile marker 319.
A photo sent to NBC 5 from Lynette Reynolds showed the bus in a ditch alongside other vehicles that also apparently lost control in the wind. A semi-tractor trailer was also seen stalled on the side of the road.
Gipson said the bus was scheduled to arrive in Memphis at 6:40 a.m. Passengers were taken to a nearby hotel to wait out the inclement weather and unsafe road conditions. The bus had to be towed.
"Once the roads are deemed safe to travel, we will get all passengers to their destinations as quickly as possible," Gipson said.
The National Weather Service warned gusty winds and subzero temperatures will result in dangerous wind chill values of between -25 and -35 degrees on Monday and between -30 and -45 degrees overnight.
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We've already introduced you to New York City's pod hotels.
Now, Contour Aerospace Limited, a London-based airplane seat manufacturing company, and consulting firm Factory Design are unveiling a new twist on the pod — wait for it — pod airplane seats!
The company doesn't even call them seats. Instead it prefers "lairs."
"A lair is a secret or private place in which a person seeks concealment or seclusion, a perfect way to restore your equilibrium after a business trip to the other side of the world," the company said.
Indeed, this new airplane seat should appeal to frequent flying passengers. A flip-down screen with a 3-D projector keeps passengers from being bored in the lair. At night, passengers can even pull a shade on their lair to block light and sound in what is called "shut down" mode — complete with a night sky to lull you to sleep.
Those worried about fitting in these small spaces shouldn't fret. The lair's chair is 94 centimeters wide, while the bed is 73 inches long. Factory Design attributes the lair's amount of space to stacking the pods on top of each other.
Plus, what could be worse than sitting in a coach airplane seat?
Air Lair's press release brags "if you can slide into a Ferrari, which is more of a challenge than getting into a lower pod...this is for you."
Contour Aerospace is no stranger to innovative airplane seats (just look at these other products from Contour). But are these seats too weird to catch on? Would you rather travel in a purple pod than an airplane seat?


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VA loans are designed to provide housing opportunity for those who have served or are presently serving in the U.S. Military and their families.
Diversified Mortgage Group is a U.S. Department of Veteran Affairs (VA) approved issuer (lender) and proudly supports our service members through not only our mortgage services, but also through our own philanthropic activities managed by
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Diversified Mortgage Group will assist you in obtaining your VA loan Certificate of Eligibility when you begin the process. However, if you wish to do this on your own, you can choose to download the document yourself, complete and mail it to the VA along a copy of your DD214. Form: https://vip.vba.va.gov
You will be required to provide financial information, including income, assets and debts, so that your Loan Officer can determine how much of a loan you can afford. Diversified Mortgage Group will then issue you a letter stating the loan amount for which you prequalify. Please note that a pre-qualification letter is not an offer of credit or a loan approval. Loan qualification may be subject to change upon verification of income, asset and debt information.
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Once fully processed, your VA loan will be submitted into underwriting for a decision. Diversified Mortgage Group staffs many of the most experienced underwriters in the industry and can typically complete the initial review within 24 to 72 hours. If there are additional supportive documents needed, our underwriter will condition for those items and work closely with processing as well as your Loan Officer to help you satisfy those requirements.
Once the application has been approved and all underwriting conditions have been met, your loan will move on to the next stage. Depending on the state in which the property is located, loan documents might need to be signed and executed by a notary of public prior to funds being disbursed or are disbursed at signing. Either way, Diversified Mortgage Group is equipped to facilitate both procedures expeditiously so that you can close your new home purchase on-time and without hassel.
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PAUL RYAN has not sautéed in foreign policy in his years on Capitol Hill. The 42-year-old congressman is no Middle East savant; till now, his idea of a border dispute has more likely involved Wisconsin and Illinois.
Yet Ryan got up at the Values Voter Summit here on Friday and skewered the Obama administration as it struggled to manage the Middle East mess left by clumsily mixed American signals toward the Arab Spring and the disastrous legacy of war-obsessed Republicans.
Ryan bemoaned "the slaughter of brave dissidents in Syria. Mobs storming American embassies and consulates. Iran four years closer to gaining a nuclear weapon. Israel, our best ally in the region, treated with indifference bordering on contempt by the Obama administration." American foreign policy, he said, "needs moral clarity and firmness of purpose."
Ryan was moving his mouth, but the voice was the neocon puppet master Dan Senor. The hawkish Romney adviser has been secunded to manage the running mate and graft a Manichaean worldview onto the foreign affairs neophyte.
A moral, muscular foreign policy; a disdain for weakness and diplomacy; a duty to invade and bomb Israel's neighbors; a divine right to pre-emption — it's all ominously familiar.
You can draw a direct line from the hyperpower manifesto of the Project for the New American Century, which the neocons, abetted by Dick Cheney and Donald Rumsfeld, used to prod an insecure and uninformed president into invading Iraq — a wildly misguided attempt to intimidate Arabs through the shock of overwhelming force. How's that going for us?
After 9/11, the neocons captured one Republican president who was naïve about the world. Now, amid contagious Arab rage sparked on the 11th anniversary of 9/11, they have captured another would-be Republican president and vice president, both jejeune about the world.
Senor is emblematic of how much trouble America blundered into in the Middle East — trillions wasted, so many lives and limbs lost — because of how little we fathom the culture and sectarian politics. We're still stumbling in the dark. We not only don't know who our allies and enemies are, we don't know who our allies' and enemies' allies and enemies are.
As the spokesman for Paul Bremer during the Iraq occupation, Senor helped perpetrate one of the biggest foreign policy bungles in American history. The clueless desert viceroys summarily disbanded the Iraqi Army, forced de-Baathification, stood frozen in denial as thugs looted ministries and museums, deluded themselves about the growing insurgency, and misled reporters with their Panglossian scenarios of progress.
"Off the record, Paris is burning," Senor told a group of reporters a year into the war. "On the record, security and stability are returning to Iraq."
Before he played ventriloquist to Ryan, Senor did the same for Romney, ratcheting up the candidate's irresponsible bellicosity on the Middle East. Senor was the key adviser on Romney's disastrous trip to Israel in July, when Mittens infuriated the Palestinians by making a chuckleheaded claim about their culture.
Senor got out over his skis before Romney's speech in Jerusalem, telling reporters that Mitt would say he respected Israel's right to make a pre-emptive, unilateral attack on Iran's nuclear facilities.
While the Muslim world burned on Friday, Mitt was in New York with Kelly Ripa and Michael Strahan confessing that he wears "as little as possible" to bed. With no global vision or historical perspective — he didn't even remember during his Tampa convention to mention our troops or the years of war his party reigned over — Romney is simply kowtowing to the right again.
Paul Wolfowitz, an Iraq war architect, weighed in on Fox News, slimily asserting that President Obama should not be allowed to "slither through" without a clear position on Libya.
Republicans are bananas on this one. They blame Obama for casting Hosni Mubarak overboard and contradict themselves by blaming him for not supporting the Arab Spring. One minute Romney parrots Bibi Netanyahu's position on Iran, the next Obama's.
Romney's cynical braying about Obama appeasement in the midst of the attack on the American diplomatic post in Libya and the murder of the brave ambassador, Christopher Stevens, was shameful. Richard Williamson, a Romney adviser, had the gall to tell The Washington Post, "There's a pretty compelling story that if you had a President Romney, you'd be in a different situation."
He's right — a scarier situation. If President Romney acceded to Netanyahu's outrageous demand for clear red lines on Iran, this global confrontation would be a tiny foretaste of the conflagration to come.
Cheney, described by Romney as a "person of wisdom and judgment," is lurking. On Monday, he churlishly tried to deny President Obama credit for putting Osama in the cross hairs, cattily referring to a report that Obama had not gone to all his intelligence briefings.
Well, yes. W. got briefings, like the one that warned him on Aug. 6, 2001: "Bin Laden Determined to Strike in U.S." That didn't work so well either, did it?


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If there's one thing Meryl and I always remind ourselves of when we take the ice to compete, it's to leave "it" all out on the ice. "It" is the thousands of hours of practice, all of the instruction from our coaches, the love and support from our families, our love for what we do, and our competitive spirits. Through all of our experiences, we've found there's nothing worse than getting off the ice and realizing you had more to give; it makes you wish you could turn around and start the competition from the beginning.
Meryl and I will remember this as a season when we gave everything we had. Each practice, each competition, and each performance had the right purpose and attitude. From the beginning to the end, we grew along with our programs, and became stronger along with our programs. Coming into these past World Championships, we knew there was nothing more we could have done to prepare ourselves. We skated our two best programs of the season by far, and it felt like the final step in the progression.
Winning those gold medals felt a lot like being able to breathe a huge sigh of relief. A lot of people were asking if we wanted to win these championships so we could have the momentum of being world champions heading into the Olympics. The truth is we wanted to win because this was a special year in and of itself. As was the year before, and the year before that. Meryl and I continue to strive to live in the moment; enjoying these special moments always helps us realize why we do what we do, and how lucky we are to be able to do it.
Already, the next moment is upon us. The season of the Olympic Winter Games has found its way back, after what has felt like both an eternity and a blip of time. And we've found ourselves back at the rink already, ready once again to leave it all out on the ice.


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Chapter 1, "Introduction to Oracle JDeveloper"
This chapter provides an introduction to JDeveloper, including resources available for you to learn Oracle JDeveloper and understand its features.
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Cognitive behavioural therapy(CBT) in Cardiff
The dsfdsf HFNE app has a host of certified cognitive behavioural therapists in Cardiff ready to help you and guide you through your cognitive behavioral session.
A Cardiff based cognitive behavioural therapist can help you deal with issues you may face in your day to day life through speech therapy.
What is Cognitive behavioural therapy(CBT) in Cardiff ?
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Cognitive behavioural therapy(CBT) is based on the concept that your way of thinking, the emotions you feel, your physical sensations and actions are all interconnected in one loop.
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A complete CBT treatment could last for as little as 5 sessions or up to 20 sessions. A CBT session should last between 30 minutes and 1 hour.
Your Cardiff CBT therapist will begin by isolating each of your problems and putting them into a basket such as actions, thoughts and feelings.
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- CBT therapy can't work magic, you need to be part of the treatment and be committed to its success for it to work.
- Due to the commitment needed from CBT, it is time consuming and a full treatment could last several hours over several weeks and even months,
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S.A. bases bracing for impact of sequester
As an Air Force fire truck drove toward a plume of smoke, a long-planned exercise began Friday despite the looming budget sequester.
Late Friday marked the start of the federal budget cuts that set the stage for months of civilian furloughs and $46 billion in across-the-board reductions in the military — and the possible cancellation of an air show this fall in San Antonio.
The exercise simulated the crash of an F-16D with two casualties at Joint Base San Antonio-Lackland.
The base's 82 civilian firefighters, including eight who responded Friday, won't be spared from furloughs due to start April 25.
The sequester cuts include 22 furlough days for 20,127 civilian employees at Joint Base San Antonio.
When asked how he could be sure there would be enough firefighters to handle a real crash, something that last happened nearly 30 years ago, Col. John Kane declined to comment.
"I won't be able to answer that," said Kane, commander of the Texas Air National Guard's 149th Fighter Wing.
The commander of Joint Base San Antonio, Brig. Gen. Theresa Carter, told firefighters and others at the exercise not to discuss the sequester with media.
The impact is coming soon, with 58,435 civilian Defense Department employees affected at all Texas bases.
The Air Force, meanwhile, said it had canceled the season for the Thunderbirds demonstration team and would reduce all flying hours by nearly one-fifth.
All active-duty, guard and reserve air units were ordered to stop supporting air shows and flyovers, including military funerals.
The Thunderbirds were to fly at this year's San Antonio air show, but the Air Force's training command has not said if it would scratch the event.
The sequester's cuts are expected to rip through a wide swath of military operations, prompting then-Defense Secretary Leon Panetta to warn last month that it would affect force readiness. Its economic impact also isn't clear, but a Pew Charitable Trust study said Texas would lose 91,600 jobs.
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The Navy has stopped ship and aircraft maintenance, and training for crews about to deploy. The Army will drop third- and fourth-quarter depot maintenance, delaying equipment readiness for six divisions.
At least 5,000 will lose their jobs, including some in two Texas depots.
With 14 major missions that include the San Antonio Military Medical Center and Air Force training command, the services pump $27.7 billion into the area economy, making it bigger than any other sector.
"Anytime you cut something that means somebody loses his job, and somehow that doesn't relate to folks," Bexar County Judge Nelson Wolff said.
"I deal with both civilian and military personnel almost every single day, and where I'm hearing the hurt is going to come is in the civilian personnel who are going to be furloughed," said Richard Perez, president and CEO of the Greater San Antonio Chamber of Commerce.
Smaller communities around Texas with large military footprints are likely to feel the impact even more.
They include Texarkana, home to the Red River Army Depot, and Fort Hood in Killeen.
The Army is the biggest employer in both towns, as it is in Corpus Christi, where a major depot takes the biggest hit of any Texas base, $799 million.
The depot, along with naval air stations in Corpus Christi and Kingsville, has close to 7,000 workers, Nueces County Judge Loyd Neal said.
"There's no doubt that anything like this is going to have a tremendous impact on the short term, anyway," he said.
Civilian worker furloughs account for just $5 billion of defense spending to be reduced by the sequester, so myriad actions lie ahead, one of them the second hiring freeze in 18 months.
Joint Base San Antonio spokesman Brent Boller said temporary duty travel has been limited, potentially impacting professional development for GIs.
Furloughs will reduce civilian manning at base gates, causing closures, reduced hours and longer lines.
Civilians work in scores of areas here ranging from scheduling at Joint Base San Antonio-Lackland's basic training mission to the Medical Education & Training Campus across town at Joint Base San Antonio-Fort Sam Houston.
Exceptions will be made in six areas that include civilians in combat zones and some doctors and nurses, but most will work four-day weeks.
As the exercise ensued Friday morning, a C-5A jet roared over city and base firefighters, making touch-and-go landings on the 11,500-foot runway. About 80 aircraft take off and land here daily.
Accidents are rare, but a B-52 fire in 1989 killed one and left 11 injured.
The Oct. 4, 1986, crash of a four-engine prop plane claimed three lives. The aircraft plummeted out of control after takeoff. It exploded after sliding between a pair of hangars.
Boller said supervisors would have to manage their staffing to ensure that furloughs won't affect firefighter operations.
San Antonio Fire Chief Charles Hood said the city isn't affected by the sequester and would be there if needed.
"It's something I don't think about because we have to be prepared to help them out regardless of what their staffing levels are," he said.


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Broncos spur Denver TV stations to run "specials"
Whether or not they contractually have access to players, whether or not they can legally show game footage, whether or not they are allowed inside the locker room, Denver TV stations will ride the Broncos to what they hope will be extra ratings and revenue this week. (At least they'll cash in on the mania rather than seem lacking in team spirit.)
Sunday's AFC title game telecast, the Broncos playing the New England Patriots on home turf at 1 p.m. on CBS4, will be surrounded by "specials" over the next several days. Expect lots of live coverage from the stadium starting Friday morning.
Channel 4 plans a preview show 6:30-7 p.m. Saturday and network and local specials Sunday morning leading in to the NFL show at noon, and the Broncos-Patriots telecast. After the game, 4:30-6 p.m., CBS4 will pre-empt the "CBS Evening News" for an extended local newscast. And there's more after the late news, with a local 10:35-11:07 p.m. sports show.
9News has an edition of "Broncos Huddle" Wednesday at 6:30 p.m. and an hour-long Broncos special Saturday at 8 p.m. "Game Day Live" will broadcast at 9 a.m. Sunday from inside the stadium. Because 9News is the Broncos official partner, "we will be the only shows broadcast live inside the stadium," said news boss Patti Dennis.
7News will air a special "John Fox Show" on Friday at 6:30 p.m. Looking ahead, news chief Jeff Harris said the station is "finalizing plans for two daily additional half-hour shows around the Super Bowl run," one in the morning, one in the evening in the week leading to the Super Bowl.
KDVR-KWGN have been running two half-hour specials, 6-6:30 p.m. on Fox31 and 7:30-8 on Channel 2, every night this week. "We are in Super Bowl planning mode," according to News Director Ed Kosowski. In the event of a win Sunday, those nightly specials would continue the week of Jan. 27, leading up to the Feb. 2 Super Bowl telecast on Fox.
And what does CBS4 say about all the supposedly special programming surrounding Sunday's championship game, to which only they own broadcast rights? "The ratings really speak for themselves. The largest audience by far is during the game. Shows surrounding the game garner the next largest audience and everything else drops off dramatically from there," per CBS4 General Manager Walt DeHaven.
Last year's AFC chammpionship game, Baltimore Ravens vs. New England Patriots, drew 47.7 million viewers nationally.


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Jake Armerding on Radio Heartland
Jake Armerding is a singer and songwriter who had a musical foot in the door before he was even born. He hails from Massachusetts and his father was in a professional bluegrass band. So naturally, Jake began playing fiddle and soon earned a spot in the band, Northern Lights. As years went by, he began writing his own songs on guitar and eventually signed with the influential folk label Compass.
Jake's recent marriage brought him to his new home in Minneapolis. He's currently celebrating the release of his fifth studio album, "Her." The album is a collection of love songs and was largely funded by fans through Jake's "Truth and Beauty Fund." He stopped in the Radio Heartland studios recently to chat about his songs, his fans, and his new home.
Songs performed: "Whiskey Before Breakfast," "The Fleece," and "Harry/Sally."


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Ontario Provincials High Entry Fees - The Reason
There has been a lot of discussion over the past few days on our Forums about the entry fees for the Ontario Provincial Road Championships (August 26th at Rattlesnake Point), with Senior and Masters riders having to pay $62.85 to enter.
We contacted race organizer Craig Fagan of the Midweek Club to find out more details about the higher than usual entry fees, and learned that it basically comes down to a shortage of staff to run the event.
The real issue is that we've had to set aside $4,000 to pay for race day staff if we don't get enough volunteers. And we are coming up short. Once we pay one person, ethically we have to treat everyone equally and pay all volunteers.
We basically need 32 people marshalling and doing other race associated duties every hour of the 11 race hours. But, as you know, they need not be the same 32 people.
So, if any U23 want to save money all they have to do is volunteer. We don't mind having the U23 race for free if they give us enough volunteer hours in the morning, the day before or after their race (1 hour of volunteer = $9 off their entry fee), but we need to balance when they do it and it must be at least a 3 hour race time slot. We are particularly short staffed for the first races of the day which is perfect for the U23. There's not too much stress sitting and marshalling on Bell School or watching over sign-in. (By the way, a friend or family member can do the time and give the pay to the kid.)
So there you have it, folks. How many are willing to give up a few hours to volunteer, or have a friend or family member who will help out for a few hours?
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OMAHA, Nebraska - Members of the military's new Cyber Command insist that they've got no interest in taking over civilian Internet security – or even in becoming the Pentagon's primary information protectors. But the push to intertwine military and civilian network defenses is gaining momentum, nevertheless. At a gathering this week of top cybersecurity officials and defense contractors, the Pentagon's number two floated the idea that the Defense Department might start a protective program for civilian networks, based on a deeply controversial effort to keep hackers out of the government's pipes.
U.S. Cyber Command ("CYBERCOM") officially became operational this week, after years of preparation. But observers inside the military and out still aren't quite sure what the command is supposed to do: protect the Pentagon's networks, strike enemies with logic bombs, seal up civilian vulnerabilities, or some combination of all three.
To one senior CYBERCOM official, the answer is pretty simple: nothing new. Smaller military units within U.S. Strategic Command coordinated and set policies for the armed forces' far-flung teams of network operators and defenders. Those coordinators and policy-makers have now been subsumed into CYBERCOM. They'll still do the same thing as before, only more efficiently. "Doesn't expand any authorities. It doesn't have any new missions," the official told Danger Room. "It really doesn't add any significant funding... And really, it's not a significant increase in personnel; we just reorganized the personnel have we had in a smarter and more effective way."
That may soon change, however. A 356-page classified plan outlining CYBERCOM's rise is being put into action. A team of about 560 troops, headquartered at Ft. Meade, Maryland, will eventually grow to 1093. Each of the four armed services are assembling their own cyber units out of former communications specialists, system administrators, network defenders, and military hackers. Those units – Marine Forces Cyber Command, the 24th Air Force, the 10th Fleet, and Army Forces Cyber Command – are then supposed to supply some of their troops to CYBERCOM as needed. It's similar to how the Army and Marines provide Central Command with combat forces to fight the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq. Inside the military, there's a sense that CYBERCOM may take on a momentum of its own, its missions growing more and more diverse.
Most importantly, perhaps, procedures are now being worked out for CYBERCOM to help the Department of Homeland Security defend government and civilian networks, much like the military contributed to disaster recovery efforts after Hurricane Katrina and the Gulf of Mexico oil spill.
In those incidents, it took days, even weeks for the military to fully swing into action. In the event of an information attack, those timelines could be drastically collapsed. "There's probably gonna be a very temporal element to it. It's gonna need to be pretty quick," the CYBERCOM official said.
Exactly what kind of event might trigger CYBERCOM's involvement isn't clear. "From our perspective the threshold is really easy: it's when we get a request from DHS," the official noted. "What's their threshold? I couldn't tell you what their threshold is."
The Pentagon might not even wait for an information disaster to move in. The National Security Agency is developing threat-monitoring systems for government networks dubbed Einstein 2 and Einstein 3. Deputy Secretary of Defense William Lynn believes those programs ought to extended to cover key private networks, as well.
"We are already using our technical capabilities... to protect government networks," Lynn announced at the Strategic Command Cyber Symposium here. "We need to think imaginatively about how this technology can also help secure a space on the Internet for critical government and commercial applications."
Einstein 2 is supposed to inspect data for threat signatures as it enters federal networks. Einstein 3 goes even further – alerting DHS and the NSA before the attacks hit. "You're starting to anticipate intrusions, anticipate threat signatures, and try and preventing things from getting to the firewalls rather than just stopping at the firewalls," Lynn told Danger Room after his Cyber Symposium speech. (Full disclosure: I ran a panel at the event, and the military paid my travel costs.)
Given the NSA's history of domestic surveillance, civil liberties groups fear that the Einstein programs could become a new way to snoop on average Americans' communications. Lynn said not to worry: "Individual users who do not want to enroll could stay in the 'wild, wild west' of the unprotected internet."
"I think it's gonna have to be voluntary," he added. "People could opt into protection – or choose to stay out. Individual users may well choose to stay out. But in terms of protecting the nation's security, it's not the individual users [that matter most]. I mean, they have to worry about their individual [data], their credit rating, and all that. But it's the vulnerability of certain critical infrastructure – power, transportation, finance. This starts to give you an angle at doing that."
Privacy rights organizations and military insiders also wonder whether CYBERCOM is just another way to extend the NSA's reach. After all, both organizations are headquartered at Ft. Meade. And both are headed by Gen. Keith Alexander.
The CYBERCOM official swears that won't happen. "It's not NSA taking over military cyber," he said. "And it's not military cyber taking over NSA."
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See Also:
- Prospective U.S. Cyber Commander Talks Terms of Digital Warfare
- U.S. Cyber Command: 404 Error, Mission Not (Yet) Found
- Pentagon: Let Us Secure Your Network or Face the 'Wild Wild West'
- U.S. Declassifies Part of Secret Cybersecurity Plan
- NSA Shields Government Networks With More AT&T Secret Rooms
- Break Up the NSA!
- 'Don't Be Evil,' Meet 'Spy on Everyone': How the NSA Deal Could Wreck Google
- Cyber-Security Czar Quits Amid Fears of NSA Takeover


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A woman and young child were taken to local hospitals Saturday evening, after being struck by a vehicle at South Buffalo-West Seneca border.
The woman and child were crossing Seneca Street at Burch Avenue about 7 p.m., when they were struck by a vehicle traveling west on Seneca, said Buffalo police spokesman Michael J. DeGeorge.
Police did not release their identities Saturday night.
The woman was taken to Erie County Medical Center with multiple injuries, while the child was taken to Women & Children's Hospital, DeGeorge said.
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Feedback. We're always telling you that you need feedback, with a short feedback gap — the time it takes to get feedback on your decisions, your code, your designs. Well, what if you narrowed the feedback gap to near zero while coding? You'd have continuous testing, a powerful idea that lets you fix bugs while they're still small and fresh.
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John Stuart Mill
John Stuart Mill was born in London in 1806, the son of James Mill, the disciple of Jeremy Bentham and Chief Examiner (Chief Executive Officer) of the East India Company. Mill's youth was spent mostly in an exceptionally rigorous experimental education directed by his father; but he also put his Utilitarian ideas into practice, and was arrested and briefly imprisoned in 1823 for agitating in favour of contraception. In the same year, he joined the East India Company as a clerk, and was to work there for most of the next forty years, finally achieving the post of Chief Examiner in 1856.
In 1858, Mill retired from the Company and devoted himself to philosophy and writing for several productive years. On Liberty was published in 1859, and Utilitarianism and Considerations on Representative Government in 1861. After a brief spell as Member of Parliament for Westminster, Mill retired to Avignon in France, where he died in 1879.
Mill's thought is of particular interest for the current debate. Not only was he one of the leading philosophers of liberal democracy and an early advocate of many aspects of the rights of women, universal suffrage and religious tolerance; but throughout his life, he was intimately involved with the British Imperial rule in India, and amongst the leading figures of the high tide of the liberal, Utilitarian project between 1828 and 1857.
In his Considerations on Representative Government, Mill argues that "the ideally best form of government is representative government":
"There is no difficulty in showing that the ideally best form of government is that in which the sovereignty, or supreme controlling power in the last resort, is vested in the entire aggregate of the community; every citizen not only having a voice in the exercise of that ultimate sovereignty, but being, at least occasionally, called on to take an active part in the government, by the personal discharge of some public function, local or general." (CORG, Ch. III)
The reason for this is that good government is nothing other than government in the interests of the governed. Hence self-government is the ideal form of government, because only self-government can ensure that the executive maintains "that complete and ever-operative identity of interest with the governed."
The chief competitor to self-government in Mill's eyes is some form of despotic rule: and it is dangerously seductive:
"It has long … been a common saying, that if a good despot could be ensured, despotic monarchy would be the best form of government. I look upon this as a radical and most pernicious misconception of what good government is . . ." (CORG, Ch. III)
For a despot, no matter how benevolent, to realise government in the interests of the people in the same manner that representative self-government, would require "one man of superhuman mental activity managing the entire affairs of a mentally passive people" – a combination, in other words, of the impossible with the utterly undesirable.
The price of democracy is compromise and sometimes indecisiveness. As a result, Mill argues, the illusion that good government may be had more cheaply is all too attractive, and entertained just as often by well-intentioned modernisers as by self-seeking dictators:
"It is not much to be wondered at if impatient or disappointed reformers, groaning under the impediments opposed to the salutary public improvements by the ignorance, the indifference, the intractableness, the perverse obstinacy of a people, and the corrupt combinations of private interests armed with the powerful weapons afforded by free institutions, should at times sigh for a strong hand to bear down all these obstacles, and compel a recalcitrant people to be better governed." (CORG, Ch. III)
How then did Mill square these views on the primacy of democratic self-government with his own career as an officer of a colonial regime? The answer lay in the concept of the 'general degree of … improvement' of a people – their position within the 'general scale of humanity'. Peoples that are not sufficiently civilised may not at first be able to sustain representative self-government, and for them, 'real good government is not compatible with the conditions of the case. There is but a choice of imperfections.' In such cases, the best feasible form of government may well be undemocratic imperial rule by foreigners:
"Thus far of dependencies whose population is in a sufficiently advanced state to be fitted for representative government. But there are others which have not attained that state, and which, if held at all, must be governed by the dominant country, or by persons delegated for that purpose by it. This mode of government is as legitimate as any other, if it is the one which in the existing state of civilisation of the subject people, most facilitates their transition to a higher stage of improvement" (CORG, Ch. XVIII)
The imperial mandate is therefore a serious business: 'the highest moral trust that can devolve upon a nation'. It is fraught with dangers: although 'the thing appears perfectly easy to superficial observers', 'it is quite certain, that the despotism of those who neither hear, nor see, nor know, anything about their subjects, has many chances of being worse than that of those that do'.
Nevertheless, so long as the goal of the imperial project is always religiously fixed as the eventual self-government of the people concerned – the goal that distinguishes liberal imperial rule from mere despotism – then 'a government of leading strings' is justified as the optimal means of bringing a less civilised people to the stage when they can themselves enjoy self-government.


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The Clermont Historical Centre has undergone extensive renovations and now boasts a contemporary Interpretive Centre where visitors can learn about Clermont's rich and diverse history.
A Flood of Memories Exhibition commemorates the Centenary of the 1916 Clermont Flood. Come relive stories of courage, heroism and tragedy from one of the deadliest floods in Australian history. The exhibition profiles local identities such as Rose Harris, Richard Cosman and others who rescued several people during the 1916 Great Flood.
The extensive collection of artefacts has been contributed by local families and businesses in the region. Some of the items on display include the Aveling and Porter No 6803 steam engine which was used to shift the town after the 1916 Flood, the Jacques Diesel Powered Shovel and the Ruston Steam Shovel used at the Blair Athol Mine. The centre also boast original Clermont Fire Brigade truck and buildings such as the Glenmore Shearing Shed, Cosmans Livery, Chiconi Stables as well as vintage cars to name a few.
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Development of a Methamphetamine Early Intervention
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|ClinicalTrials.gov Identifier: NCT01174654
Recruitment Status : Completed
First Posted : August 3, 2010
Last Update Posted : December 13, 2012
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|Condition or disease
|HIV Sexual Behavior Methamphetamine Behavioral Research
|Behavioral: Contingency management
|Phase 1 Phase 2
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|127 participants
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|Development of a Methamphetamine Early Intervention
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|No Intervention: Referral to community resources
|Experimental: Contingency Management
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A 12-week contingency management intervention
Other Name: Voucher-based reinforcement
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|Lifelong AIDS Alliance
|Seattle, Washington, United States, 98122
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|University of Washington
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Today, two of my little girls, who I will call Little Lady & Sweetie Pie, got into a fight during Music. I was so surprised as I walked into the Music Room & saw Little Lady crying & Sweetie Pie holding back tears.
"What is going on?" I asked Little Lady as I gave her a big fat hug and let her cry it out. It was at this point that Car Boy passed by & said all-super-spy-like, "Miss, her and Sweetie Pie had a fight." After that, I knew the waterworks were not going to stop any time soon. After our short walk to the classroom (all the while hugging Little Lady), I called Sweetie Pie to the back. It was at this point that she burst into tears. I felt like crying too. I didn't, but it took strength. I counseled them as they both cried. I tried to get them to hug it out. They wouldn't. The boys tried to get them to hug it out. They still wouldn't. Sweetie Pie wanted to, but Little Lady is a stubborn little thing. After 10 minutes of talking and consoling them, I realized they were not going to hug it out. So, I moved on & read the class the last of the Dr. Seuss books before the month ends. I let them go with a promise to think of a way they could be friends again. I don't know how they're going to interact with each other tomorrow. That remains to be seen! I'm betting there will be more waterworks tomorrow. We'll see.
***Note- The girls made up by text the same night***