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Wednesday, January 02, 2013
A journey through America gives hope
Bill Steigerwald
Big, empty, rich and unchanged - that's a pretty boring scouting report for the America I "discovered" along the Steinbeck Highway. You can add a bunch of other boring but fitting words - "beautiful," "safe," "friendly," "clean," and "quiet."
Like Steinbeck, I didn't see the Real America or even a representative cross-section of America, neither of which exist anyway. Because I went almost exactly where Steinbeck went and stopped where he stopped, I saw a mostly White Anglo Saxon Protestant Republican America, not a "diverse and politically correct" Obama one. Mostly rural or open country, it included few impoverished or crime-tortured inner cities and no over-developed/underwater suburbs.
America the Beautiful was hurting in the fall of 2010, thanks to the bums and crooks in Washington and on Wall Street who co-produced the Great Recession. It still had the usual ills that make libertarians crazy and may never be cured: too many government wars overseas and at home, too many laws, politicians, cops, lawyers, do-gooders and preachers.
But America was not dead, dying or decaying. There were no signs of becoming a liberal or conservative dystopia. The U.S. of A., as always, was blessed with a diverse population of productive, affluent, generous, decent people and a continent of gorgeous natural resources.
Everyday of my trip I was surrounded by undeniable evidence of America's underlying health and incredible prosperity. Everywhere I went people were living in good homes, driving new cars and monster pickup trucks and playing with powerboats, motorcycles and snowmobiles. Roads and bridges and parks and main streets were well maintained. Litter and trash were scarce. Specific towns and regions were hurting, and too many people were out of work, but it was still the same country I knew.
I didn't seek out poverty or misery or pollution on my journey, and I encountered little of it. The destitute and jobless, not to mention the increasing millions on food stamps, on welfare or buried in debt, were especially hard to spot in a generous country where taking care of the less fortunate is a huge public-private industry - where even the poor have homes, cars, wide-screen TVs and smart phones.
I saw the familiar permanent American socioeconomic eyesores - homeless men sleeping on the sidewalks of downtown San Francisco at noon, the sun-bleached ruins of abandoned gas-stations on Route 66, ratty trailer homes parked in beautiful locations surrounded by decades of family junk. I saw Butte's post-industrial carcass, New Orleans' struggling Upper Ninth Ward and towns that could desperately use a Japanese car plant.
But the country as a whole was not crippled or even limping. In the fall of 2010, nine in 10 Americans who said they wanted jobs still had them. The one in 10 who were jobless had 99 weeks of extended unemployment benefits and more than 90 percent of homeowners were still making their mortgage payments.
Most of the states I shot through - including Maine, northern New Hampshire and Vermont, upstate New York, Wisconsin, Minnesota, North Dakota, Montana - had unemployment and foreclosure rates well below the national averages.
I didn't visit the abandoned neighborhoods of poor Detroit. I didn't see battered Las Vegas, where 14.5 percent of the people were unemployed and one in nine houses - five times the national average - had received some kind of default notice in 2010. But I spent almost two weeks in the Great Train Wreck State of California, where jobless and foreclosure rates were higher than the national average and municipal bankruptcies loomed.
America had 140 million more people than it did in 1960, but from coast to coast it was noticeably quiet - as if half the population had disappeared. Despite perfect fall weather, public and private golf courses were deserted. Ball fields were vacant. Parks and highway rest stops and ocean beaches were barely populated. Except for metropolises like Manhattan and San Francisco and jumping college towns like Missoula and Northampton, people in throngs simply did not exist. I went through lots of 30-mph towns that looked like they'd been evacuated a year earlier.
As I drove what's left of the Old Steinbeck Highway - U.S. routes 5, 2, 1, 11, 20, 12, 10, 101 and 66 - it was obvious many important changes had occurred along it since 1960. Industrial Age powerhouses like Rochester, Buffalo and Gary had seen their founding industries and the humans they employed swept away by the destructive winds of technology and global capitalism. Small towns like Calais in northeastern Maine had lost people and jobs, and vice versa.
New Orleans had shrunk by half, and not just because of Katrina. The metro areas of Seattle, San Francisco and Albuquerque had exploded and prospered in the digital age. The populations of the West Coast and the Sunbelt had expanded since 1960. The South had shed its shameful system of apartheid and its overt racism, as well as much of its deep-rooted poverty and ignorance. The Northeast had bled people, manufacturing industries and its once overweening role in determining the nation's political and cultural life.
Change is inevitable, un-stoppable, pervasive. Nevertheless, it was clear that a great deal of what I saw out my car windows had hardly changed at all since Steinbeck and his French poodle Charley raced by.
He saw more farmland and fewer forests than I did, especially in the East. But in many places I passed through almost nothing was newly built. Many farms and crossroads and small towns and churches were frozen in the same place and time they were eons ago, particularly in the East and Midwest.
In Maine the busy fishing village of Stonington was as picturesque as the day Steinbeck left it. He'd recognize the tidy farms of the Corn Belt and the raw beauty of Redwood Country and the buildings if not the people of the Upper Ninth Ward. And at 70 mph whole states - North Dakota and Montana - would look the same to him except for the cell towers and Pilot signs staked out at the interstate exits.
Steinbeck didn't like a lot of things about Eisenhower America - sprawl, pollution, the rings of junked cars and rubbish he saw around cities. And he lamented - not in "Charley" but in letters to pals like Adlai Stevenson - that he thought America was a rotting corpse and its people had become too soft and contented to keep their country great and strong.
But Steinbeck had America's future wrong by 178 degrees. Fifty years later, despite being stuck in an economic ditch, the country was far wealthier, healthier, smarter and more globally powerful and influential than he could have imagined. Its air, water and landscapes were far less polluted. And, most important, despite the exponential growth of the federal government's size and scope and its nanny reach, America in 2010 was also a much freer place for most of its 310 million citizens, especially for women, blacks, Latinos and gays.
You don't have to be a libertarian to know America is not as free as it should be. But there's no denying that today our society is freer and more open than ever to entrepreneurs, new forms of media, alternative lifestyles and ordinary people who want to school their own kids, medicate their own bodies or simply choose Fed Ex instead of the U.S. Post Office.
As for the stereotypical complaints about America being despoiled by overpopulation, overdevelopment and commercial homogenization, forget it. Anyone who drives 50 miles in any direction in an empty state like Maine or North Dakota - or even in north-central Ohio or Upstate New York - can see America's problem is not overpopulation. More often it's under-population. Cities like Butte and Buffalo and Gary have been virtually abandoned. Huge hunks of America on both sides of the Mississippi have never been settled.
From Calais, Me., to Pelahatchie, Miss., I passed down the main streets of comatose small towns whose mayors would have been thrilled to have to deal with the problems of population growth and sprawl. If anyone thinks rural Minnesota, northwestern Montana, the Oregon Coast, the Texas Panhandle or New Orleans's Upper Ninth Ward have been homogenized, taken over by chains or destroyed by too much commercial development, it's because they haven't been there.
The America I traveled was unchained from sea to sea. I had no problem eating breakfast, sleeping or shopping for road snacks at mom & pop establishments in every state. The motels along the Oregon and Maine coasts are virtually all independents that have been there for decades. You can go the length of old Route 66 and never sleep or eat in a chain unless you choose to.
Steinbeck, like many others have since, lamented the loss of regional customs. (I don't think he meant the local "customs" of the Jim Crow South or the marital mores of the Jerry Lee Lewis clan.) I didn't go looking for Native Americans, Amish, Iraqis in Detroit, Peruvians in northern New Jersey or the French-Canadians who have colonized the top edge of Maine. But I had no trouble spotting local flavor in Wisconsin's dairy lands, in fishing towns along Oregon's coast, in the redwood-marijuana belt of Northern California, in San Francisco's Chinatown or the cattle country of Texas.
Not to generalize, but the New York-Hollywood elites believe the average Flyover Person lives in a double-wide or a Plasticville suburb, eats only at McDonald's, votes only Republican, shops only at Wal-Mart and the Dollar Store, hates anyone not whiter than they are, speaks in tongues on Sunday and worships pickup trucks, guns and NASCAR the rest of the week.
Those stereotypes and caricatures are alive and well in Flyover Country. But though I held radical beliefs about government, immigration and drugs that could have gotten me lynched in many places, I never felt I was in a country I didn't like or didn't belong in. Maybe I just didn't go to enough sports bars, churches and political rallies, but for 11,276 miles I always felt at home.
Happy New Year?
Thomas Sowell
The beginning of a new year is often a time to look forward and look back. The way the future looks, I prefer to look back -- and depend on my advanced age to spare me from having to deal with too much of the future.
If there are any awards to be given to anyone for what they did in 2012, one of those rewards should be for prophecy, if only because prophecies that turn out to be right are so rare.
With that in mind, my choice for the prediction of the year award goes to Bret Stephens of the Wall Street Journal for his column of January 24, 2012 titled: "The GOP Deserves to Lose."
Despite reciting a litany of reasons why President Obama deserved to be booted out of the White House, Stephens said, "Let's just say right now what voters will be saying in November, once Barack Obama has been re-elected: Republicans deserve to lose."
To me, the Republican establishment is the 8th wonder of the world. How they can keep repeating the same mistakes for decades on end is beyond my ability to explain.
Bret Stephens said, back at the beginning of 2012, that Mitt Romney was one of the "hollow men," and that voters "usually prefer the man who stands for something."
Yet this is not just about Mitt Romney. He is only the latest in a long series of presidential candidates backed by a Republican establishment that seems convinced that ad hoc "moderation" is where it's at -- no matter how many of their ad hoc moderates get beaten by even vulnerable, unknown or discredited Democrats.
Back in 1948, when the Democratic Party splintered into three parties, each one with its own competing presidential candidate, Republican candidate Thomas E. Dewey was considered a shoo-in.
Best-selling author David Halberstam described what happened: "Dewey's chief campaign tactic was to make no mistakes, to offend no one. His major speeches, wrote the Louisville Courier Journal, could be boiled down 'to these historic four sentences: Agriculture is important. Our rivers are full of fish. You cannot have freedom without liberty. The future lies ahead...'"
Does this sound like a more recent Republican presidential candidate?
Meanwhile, President Harry Truman was on the attack in 1948, with speeches that had many people saying, "Give 'em hell, Harry." He won, even with the Democrats' vote split three ways.
But, to this day, the Republican establishment still goes for pragmatic moderates who feed pablum to the public, instead of treating them like adults.
It is not just Republican presidential candidates who cannot be bothered to articulate a coherent argument, instead of ad hoc talking points. Have you yet heard House Speaker John Boehner take the time to spell out why Barack Obama's argument for taxing "millionaires and billionaires" is wrong?
It is not a complicated argument. Moreover, it is an argument that has been articulated many times in plain English by conservative talk show hosts and by others in print. It has nothing to do with being worried about the fate of millionaires or billionaires, who can undoubtedly take care of themselves.
What we all should be worried about are high tax rates driving American investments overseas, when there are millions of Americans who could use the jobs that those investments would create at home.
Yet Obama has been allowed to get away with the emotional argument that the rich can easily afford to pay more, as if that is the issue. But it will be the issue if no one says otherwise.
One of the recent sad reminders of the Republicans' tendency to leave even lies and smears unanswered was a television replay of an old interview with the late Judge Robert Bork, whose nomination to the Supreme Court was destroyed by character assassination.
Judge Bork said that he was advised not to answer Ted Kennedy's wild accusations because those false accusations would discredit themselves. That supposedly sophisticated advice cost the country one of the great legal minds of our time -- and left us with a wavering Anthony Kennedy in his place on the Supreme Court.
Some people may take solace from the fact that there are some articulate Republicans like Marco Rubio who may come forward in 2016. But with Iran going nuclear and North Korea developing missiles that can hit California, it may be too late by then.
The Government That Ate America
On Monday morning, the talk in Washington, D. C. -- a city named for a president with entirely modest aspirations when it came to power -- revolved around more than late-night negotiations.
Matters such as income levels, "chained CPI," alternative-minimum tax patches and Medicare payments, swam before the eyes of our elected representatives who, understandably, looked goggle-eyed as they rehearsed their arguments or recounted their labors. The New York Times highlighted Illinois Democrat Richard J. Durbin's account of the proceedings: "It looks awful."
That might be because it is : predictably so. Americans have had a good if unsettling look at the number of patch jobs necessary to make the pistons of modern government move with anything resembling regularity.
The trouble here is obvious. Anyway, it becomes so with a little thought. The bigger the policy questions at stake become, the more numerous the stakeholders become; thus, the dimmer grow the prospects for reconciliation of variant viewpoints. Everybody wants his piece of the action. In a democracy, that means, everybody gets it.
If you've gathered by now this is an anti-big government sermon, you have certainly gathered correctly. Americans perennially bat back and forth the arguments over big government's costs and who ought to pay them. How about introducing into the mix the topic of big government's basic unworkability? Too big to pay for equals too big to work. Can there be any doubt of it?
What's been happening the past decade or so in Washington -- not just since the election -- is the slow-paced screening of a disaster flick, "The Government That Ate America," in which demands that Congress and the president do a bit of everything finally overload the machinery of government. The machinery sputters, fizzles, gasps. Orange and red lights start to flicker. YOU CAN'T HAVE EVERYTHING YOU WANT! is the message the control system flashes.
A national government -- leave aside a multiplicity of state and local governments -- that absorbs a quarter of Gross National Product, as ours does, is the kind of government that ... well, look around Washington today, next week, next month. No short-term deal can get the job done. A government grown too large for its old-fashioned purposes ---"to provide for the common defense, to promote the general welfare, and to secure the blessings of liberty to ourselves and our posterity" -- can safely be pronounced in drastic need of reform.
Both political parties in some measure escorted us to the "fiscal cliff." The party now in general charge, led by the biggest big-government lover ever to inhabit the White House, bears presently the heavier responsibility. But back to guns. Wait till Joe Biden is done rebalancing the economy. He can go on from there to replacing rifles with clubs, plus anything else he may have in mind. With big government, it seems, there's no rest, no recess.
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The Big Lie of the late 20th century was that Nazism was Rightist. It was in fact typical of the Leftism of its day. It was only to the Right of Stalin's Communism. The very word "Nazi" is a German abbreviation for "National Socialist" (Nationalsozialist) and the full name of Hitler's political party (translated) was "The National Socialist German Workers' Party" (In German: Nationalsozialistische Deutsche Arbeiterpartei)
Franklin Delano Roosevelt was a war criminal. Both British and American codebreakers had cracked the Japanese naval code so FDR knew what was coming at Pearl Harbor. But for his own political reasons he warned no-one there. So responsibility for the civilian and military deaths at Pearl Harbor lies with FDR as well as with the Japanese. The huge firepower available at Pearl Harbor, both aboard ship and on land, could have largely neutered the attack. Can you imagine 8 battleships and various lesser craft firing all their AA batteries as the Japanese came in? The Japanese naval airforce would have been annihilated and the war would have been over before it began.
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150th anniversary of Emancipation Proclamation - Jan 1, 2013
Emancipation Proclamation: What they don't want you to know
by DailyKenn.com
January 1, 2013 marks the 150th anniversary of the Emancipation Proclamation. The traditional narrative is that on this date 150 years ago America's black slaves were freed from bondage.
The truth is, only about 20,000 slaves were freed.
What else are they not telling us?
• The Emancipation Proclamation only freed slaves in the Confederacy
It is commonly known, but seldom acknowledged, that the Emancipation Proclamation only applied to slaves living in most of the Confederacy. From the Union's perspective, therefore, slavery was legal in parts of the North but not in most of the South. The concept of a slavery-free Union fighting a slave-legal South is an inversion of reality from the North's perspective. The Union considered the South legally free while the North was not.
The Union slave states of Missouri, Kentucky, Maryland and Delaware were not affected by the proclamation. Slavery remained legal in Tennessee, that state being under Union control at the time the proclamation was enacted. New Orleans and thirteen Louisiana parishes were likewise exempted.
The Emancipation Proclamation actually freed about 20,000 slaves when it went into effect on January 1, 1863. Those were slaves living in certain Confederate regions controlled by the North.
From the Union's perspective 500,000 slaves in Union states and 300,000 slaves in exempted Southern areas were legally unaffected by the Emancipation Proclamation at the time it was enacted.


text: Avocados from Peru hosted a superfoods breakfast May 27 to honor the 2,000 men and women of the U.S. Navy and U.S. Marine Corps who proudly serve on board the USS Bataan. The breakfast featured Peruvian avocados and other superfoods from the South American nation and was timed to take advantage of the patriotism associated with Fleet Week and the Memorial Day holiday weekend. This was the second year the Peruvian Avocado Commission hosted such a breakfast, following last year's event aboard the USS Cole in Port Everglades, FL.

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BTconnect Email Login And Reset Steps | BTconnect Email Signin And Recovery Steps
BT stands for the British Telecommunication which gives the services of communication like mails (BTconnect email) and other things. Here, mails are important for sending long messages with attached documents and files.Here is how you can BTconnect Email Login And Reset its password to use its service.
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- First open your browser in your PC and open any search engine that is familiar to you. You can open google because it is the most popular search engine and can be opened with this https://www.google.com/ In Google, you can search for the BTconnect email.
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- You will get numerous results with the link which can make you confuse. To make it easy, you can follow this https://signin1.bt.com/login/emailloginform link to open the login page of BT email. In that page, you will see the login form in the right side and you will get two blank space.
- There you need to enter your email address or BT ID on the first blank and password in the second blank respectively. And after that, you need to click on the "Sign In" button. After that you will be signed and you will able to use your account.
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In case, if you can't sign in because you forgot your password then you can recover your account by resetting your password. To reset your password, you can follow these steps:
- Form the login page, you will see a text "Forgotten password?" below the password blank. From that text, the "password" word is blue color which means internal link. You can click on that text to open the reset page or this https://www.bt.com/s/apps/appsselfserve/index.html#/forgotPassword link will also open the same reset page.
- In that page, you will get to enter your email address or BT ID. And then after entering that, you need to click on the "Next" button. Then, you will be mailed a mail where you get the link to the main reset page where you can enter a new password.
- You just need to click on the link that you received with the mail. In the reset page, you need to enter your new password and you should choose a strong password for the best security. You will need to enter your new password twice in the same in another blank for the confirmation and verification.
- And after entering on the both blank, you need to save the changes to save your new password and to get to login with your new password. You should remember the new password for logging for the next time.
You also need to remember the sign out from the device after finish using it.These are the simplest ways you can BTconnect Email Login And Reset its password.


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May 30, 2020 - Latest: What has happened to markets this year? by Darius McDermott
27th November 2014
When it comes to the financial issues that most stress Britons out, being embarrassed while out shopping because their card is declined or they can't take out cash ranks highly.
According to research conducted by debt advice and solutions provider Debt Advisory Centre (DAC)*, being cut off from either their gas or electricity is a major source of stress, but is ranked equally with being unable to access the internet.
Meanwhile, more than two-thirds were concerned about losing face in public.
Financial stress triggers included:
|Stress trigger
|% of people who rate it as stressful
|Being cut off from gas / electricity
|Being cut off from mobile / internet
|Getting a CCJ
|Having your card rejected in store
|Cash machine refusing to let you withdraw money
|Missing a bill payment (e.g. a direct debit "bouncing")
|Getting a 'red letter' or final demand for an unpaid bill
|Being rejected for credit
|Incurring a bank charge
|Going overdrawn
More than two-thirds, at 69%, of respondents said the financial situation that most filled them with stress when it happened to them was a cash machine refusing to let them withdraw money. Meanwhile, nearly three-quarters, at 72% admitted they had been most stressed at having their card declined in store – making it a situation that fills more people with fear than the thought of being rejected for credit. And more than half at 54% said they had felt most worried going overdrawn.
These are concerns that could become a reality at this time of year. With Christmas just around the corner, many people may be visiting the high street more than usual to stock up on gifts for loved ones. Not being able to pay for these presents could not only be embarrassing, but might also pile added pressure on people already struggling with the cost of Christmas.
Having a card declined, not being able to withdraw cash and going overdrawn could all be warning signs that a person is having financial difficulties. If they continue to spend regardless of this, their finances could become overly stretched and it may be difficult to get their money back under control.
Ian Williams, spokesman for DAC, says: "It's not just emotional difficulties like the end of a relationship or the death of a loved one that can pile on the stress, but also financial worries. At this time of year, that may be even more the case as many people find themselves forking out more than they usually would so they can cover all the costs of Christmas.
"Having a card declined while paying for presents or not being able to take out more cash may be warning signs that your finances are being over-stretched. Rather than ignoring this, it may be worth seeking advice as soon as possible so you can get on top of the situation. That way, you may have more of a chance of avoiding a financial nightmare when the New Year arrives."


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Blending rich orchestral strings, dense electronic beats and masterful harmonies, Lydia Ainsworth makes me feel existentially lost in the best way. Her single Tell Me I Exist is a must-listen for anyone who feels like they're just floating along. Lose yourself in her alt. pop which straddles the line between dreamy and nightmarish, light and dark.
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Courting Disaster
The United Nations recently concluded a five‐week conference in Rome aimed at finalizing a treaty establishing a permanent international criminal court. The advertised mission of the court is to investigate, indict and try future war criminals. But as it did with last year's Kyoto climate change treaty and the Ottawa landmine treaty before it, the Clinton administration has negotiated another international agreement that stands no chance of being ratified by the U.S. Senate. But don't be misled: this court could still have dangerous consequences for the United States.
For starters, there is the issue of the court's jurisdiction, which is unprecedented. In fact, the treaty's proponents have given the court the legal authority to try citizens of nations that haven't even ratified the document. As State Department spokesman James Rubin has remarked, "Never before has a treaty put itself over those who have not been included in it."
What the treaty says is that even if the United States doesn't ratify the agreement, its citizens can be brought before the court as long as the nation where alleged crimes took place has ratified the treaty. In other words, American troops stationed in foreign lands could find themselves arrested and prosecuted by the court. Paradoxically, the treaty also says that the nations that ratify the agreement can opt out of the court's jurisdiction over war crimes for seven years, while citizens of those nations that do not ratify the treaty can be subjected to the court's jurisdiction immediately.
Not ratifying the international criminal court treaty does not necessarily mean that the United States will be exempt from paying for its operation.
More worrisome still is the inclusion of the yet‐to‐be‐defined crime of "aggression" in the court's expansive jurisdiction. According to the Rome debates, "aggression" could eventually include such things as the "bombardment by the armed forces of a State against the territory of another State" and "the blockade of the ports or coasts of a State by the armed forces of another State." Including those actions under "aggression" will reduce the military options available to the United States by outlawing preemptive strikes and the kind of naval blockade President Kennedy employed during the Cuban Missile Crisis. That has U.S. policymakers worried. As Department of Defense spokesman Kenneth Bacon has explained, "What we're concerned about is that the court not be set up in a way that gives it very broad authority to pursue a vague definition of aggression that could be confused with legitimate defensive action to protect our national security interests."
The court also could jeopardize future U.S. efforts to resolve international conflicts. For example, if the court indicts the leaders of a warring faction while the United States is trying to conduct peace talks, that faction may respond by rejecting the resulting peace plan or staying away from the negotiating table altogether. That result would lead to more death and destruction, not less. In fact, according to former British envoy David Owen, a similar scenario unfolded in Bosnia in 1993 when the Serb faction rejected the Vance‐Owen peace plan out of "fear that skeletons in their cupboard, such as massacres and war crimes, would be uncovered by the United Nations if they accepted the peace plan." The result: the Bosnian war dragged on for another 18 months.
Furthermore, the court could destabilize future U.S.-led peacekeeping operations and endanger American lives in the process. Suppose the court handed down a verdict that the leaders of one faction had to pay reparations or return conquered territory to the victims of another faction, U.S. peacekeeping troops on the ground could find themselves in the messy position of either enforcing or refusing to enforce the court's judgment. Either way, one faction will be upset and U.S. peacekeepers will be caught in the middle — a prospect that adds one more reason to get out of the peacekeeping business altogether.
Finally, not ratifying the international criminal court treaty does not necessarily mean that the United States will be exempt from paying for its operation. That's because the court's funding will be derived, in part, from the United Nation's general budget. If historical contribution rates apply and the United States resumes making payments to the U.N. budget, 25 percent of the court's costs could be passed on to American taxpayers.
Thus, even though the international criminal court treaty is not likely to be ratified by the U.S. Senate, it still threatens to compromise your national security and your pocketbook — a bad deal that only the United Nations could cook up.


text: Ah, food trends. How I love food trends. They are constantly changing, always interesting, very innovative, out-of-the-box, and completely delicious. Now personally I love cereal milk and have worked with it before in the kitchen. (Go check out my Cereal Milk Baked Donuts!) But seeing how its summer, what could be better than putting cereal milk in ice cream? Especially one that takes little effort or time to make because it's no churn and only contains 4 ingredients? You really can't go wrong. If that isn't enough to make you try it out, I don't know what will. 🙂


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As you get acquainted with your new "engaged" status, and learning the ropes of theknot.com, you can add your wedding countdown/tracker to your Facebook profile as well.
Create your inner bride avatar, and share it as your profile pic to use on theknot.com, as your Facebook pic, anywhere you want to on the social media.
Enjoy the fun tools theknot.com offers to help share your upcoming nuptials with your friends and family! Its a fun time to be a bride!
Congrats on your engagement and happy planning!


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May 19, 2011- In the first comprehensive state report on the 2010 coal mine disaster in West Virginia, an independent team of investigators put the blame squarely on the owner of the mine, Massey Energy, concluding that it had "made life difficult" for miners who tried to address safety and built "a culture in which wrongdoing became acceptable."
The report, issued Thursday by an independent team appointed by the former West Virginia governor, Joe Manchin, and led by the former federal mine safety chief Davitt McAteer, echoed preliminary findings by federal officials that the blast could have been prevented if Massey had observed minimal safety standards.
But it was more pointed in naming Massey as the culprit, using blunt language to describe what it said was a pattern of negligence that ultimately led to the deaths of 29 miners on April 5, 2010, in what was the worst American mining disaster in 40 years.
"The story of Upper Big Branch is a cautionary tale of hubris," the report concluded. "A company that was a towering presence in the Appalachian coalfields operated its mines in a profoundly reckless manner, and 29 coal miners paid with their lives for the corporate risk-taking."
A spokesman for Virginia-based Massey was not available for comment Thursday morning. Company executives invoked their Fifth Amendment rights, and refused to be interviewed. The 120-page report chronicles the explosion, pieced together through months of interviews, documents, data and correspondence. Workers at the mine had long known the conditions were risky, and the report opens with a passage about the fear that one miner felt the day before he died in the disaster.
"Man, they got us up there mining, and we ain't got no air," the miner, Gary Wayne Quarles, told his friend Michael Ferrell, who talked to investigators. "I'm just scared to death to go to work because I'm just scared to death something bad is going to happen."
The report goes on to say that a "perfect storm" was brewing inside the mine, combining poor ventilation, equipment whose safety mechanisms were not functioning and coal dust, which, contrary to industry rules, had been allowed to accumulate, "behaving like a line of gunpowder carrying the blast forward in multiple directions."


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Paramount in HD-DVD blow
By Matthew Garrahan and Mariko Sanchanta in Las Vegas
Published: January 8 2008
Paramount is poised to drop its support of HD-DVD following Warner Brothers' recent backing of Sony's Blu-ray technology, in a move that could sound the death knell of HD-DVD and bring the home entertainment format war to a definitive end.
Paramount and DreamWorks Animation, which makes the Shrek films, came out in support of HD-DVD last summer, joining General Electric's Universal Studios as the main backers of the Toshiba format.
However, Paramount, which is owned by Viacom, is understood to have a clause in its contract with the HD-DVD camp that would allow it to switch sides in the event of Warner backing Blu-ray, according to people familiar with the situation.
Paramount is set to have a bumper 2008 with several likely blockbusters, including the latest instalment in the Indiana Jones franchise, slated for release.
Paramount joining the Blu-ray camp would leave HD-DVD likely to suffer the same fate as Sony's now obsolete Betamax video technology, which lost out to VHS in a similar format war in the 1980s.
Warner's decision last week to throw its weight behind Blu-ray saw it join Walt Disney, 20th Century Fox and Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer as backers of the Sony format.
The Warner move gives Blu-ray about 70 per cent of Hollywood's output, although the format's grip on film content will increase further when Paramount comes aboard.
It is unclear whether DreamWorks Animation has the same get-out clause in its contract with the HD-DVD camp. However, Paramount and DreamWorks have a close relationship, with Paramount distributing DreamWorks Animation films.
The two companies also signed their HD-DVD contracts at the same time.
Meanwhile, Universal has declined to comment on its next- generation DVD plans following the Warner move.
Sir Howard Stringer, chief executive of Sony, yesterday held out an olive branch to its rival in the next-generation DVD format wars following Warner's decision to back Blu-ray.
Sir Howard said the company would be "open to dialogue" with the rival high-definition HD-DVD camp to "grow the market". The move came as new figures showed that Blu-ray had opened up a decisive lead over the rival home entertainment format.
Sir Howard said: "We are not going to push people around. We'll talk to anyone . . . we have a lot of work to do to grow the market. We'll be systematic and open to dialogue at all times."
He added that Sony still had "a lot of work" to do to get Blu-ray "widely accepted" among American consumers.
Sunday, January 13, 2008
Paramount in HD-DVD blow
Posted by Robalini at Sunday, January 13, 2008
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So today was pretty mediocre for domestic data: ISM missed expectations, all of the sub-components were poor, personal income for January was poor, personal spending missed expectations, and construction spending unexpectedly shrank.
And yet... stocks are up. Decently.
So the buz at the moment is: Did the Bernanke Put just come back? Did the odds of QE3 get ratcheted higher?
it's conceivable that that's what's going on, though noteworthy that gold has still barely clawed back any of the losses from yesterday.


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2015-16 Convocation Series
Matriculation Convocation
Thursday, November 5, 2015
Tuesday, February 16, 2016
Honors Convocation
Matriculation Convocation
Thursday, November 5, 2015
Tuesday, February 16, 2016
Honors Convocation
Matriculation Convocation
"Sustaining Dialogue: Educating for a Diverse Society"
Tuesday, November 4, 2014
"Leveraging Mind And Body To Perform Your Best Under Stress"
Tuesday, February 17, 2015
"A Decent Respect: Honor and Citizenship at Home and Abroad"
Honors Convocation
"Is It Warm In Here? The Intractable Challenges of Climate Change"
Claudena Skran, Professor of government and Edwin & Ruth West Professor of Economics and Social Science at Lawrence University
A member of the Lawrence faculty since 1990, Claudena Skran is a scholar of international affairs, whose research focuses on the role of international organizations in providing emergency relief and the resettlement of refugees. In 2005, she was awarded a U.S. Fulbright Scholars grant and spent six months in Sierra Leona studying the role of NGOs in refugee resettlement following the country's 10-year-long civil war. Since coming to Lawrence, Skran has led more than 40 students on trips to the West African nation. She founded her own NGO — Kids Give — a scholarship program that today is financially supporting nearly 500 students at three different schools in Sierra Leone. She is the author of Refugees in Interwar Europe: The Emergence of a Regime and the holder of the Edwin & Ruth West Professor of Economics and Social Science chair. After earning her bachelor's degree from Michigan State University, she earned master's and doctorate degrees from Oxford University, which she attended as a Rhodes Scholar.
Matriculation Convocation
Thursday, September 19, 2013
11:10 a.m.
President Mark Burstein
"Crossing the Threshold: Community as Curriculum"
Tuesday, October 15, 2013
11:10 a.m.
Alison Bechdel
"Drawing Lessons: The Comics of Everyday Life"
Cartoonist, author of Are You My Mother? A Comic Drama, Fun Home: A Family Tragicomic and the comic strip "Dykes to Watch Out For."
Thursday, January 23, 2014
11:10 a.m.
Morgan Spurlock
"The Greatest Lecture Ever Presented"
Filmmaker, humorist and political activist, known for his documentary film Super Size Me.
Note: The Spurlock Convocation was canceled.
Tuesday, April 22, 2014
11:10 a.m.
Paul Farmer
"In the Company of the Poor"
Physician, medical anthropologist, professor at Harvard University and co-founder of Partners in Health.
Honors Convocation
Thursday, May 29, 2014
11:10 a.m.
Cathy Kautsky
"Whispered Doubts and Shouted Convictions: What are These Composers Saying?"
Professor of music and chair of keyboard studies
"Thought into Action"
President Jill Beck, Katherine Handford, lecturer of music and university organist, and Catherine Tatge, artist-in-residence.
"Butch, Sundance, and Australia: Making the Leap From Thought to Action"
Larry Robertson
Larry Robertson, award-winning author and founder of Lighthouse Consulting, which guides entrepreneurial ventures, their leaders, and those who invest in them.
"Crossing the Fox River: From Thought to Action"
Lynda Barry
American cartoonist and author known for her weekly comic strip Ernie Pook's Comeek and the books The Good Times are Killing Me and What It Is.
Thursday, September 13, 2012
11:10 a.m.
Matriculation Convocation
Jill Beck
President of Lawrence University
"Thought Into Action"
Thursday, Octobter 11, 2012
11:10 a.m.
Larry Robertson
Author and founder of Lighthouse Consulting
"Butch, Sundance, and Australia: Making the Leap From Thought to Action
Thursday, January 24, 2013
Tuesday, April 16, 2013
11:10 a.m.
Bill Viola
Contemporary video artist
"Artless Art"
Thursday, May 23, 2013
11:10 a.m.
Honors Convocation
Claudena Skran
Professor of government and Edwin & Ruth West Professor of Economics and Social Science at Lawrence University
"Liberal Arts Education: A Catalyst for Thought into Action"
Bill Viola is internationally recognized as one of today's leading artists. For 40 years he has created videotapes, architectural video installations, sound environments, electronic music performances, flat panel video pieces and works for television broadcast. Viola is a contemporary video artist whose artistic expressions focus on the ideas behind fundamental human experiences such as birth, death and aspects of consciousness. Featured in museums and galleries worldwide as well as private collections, his work explores new media through electronic, sound and image technology. His video installations, distinguished by their precision and direct simplicity, employ state-of-the-art technologies.
Thursday, September 15, 2011
11:10 a.m.
Matriculation Convocation
Harry M. Jansen Kraemer Jr. '77
Author of From Values to Action: The Four Principles of Values-Based Leadership
"Becoming a Values-Based Leader"
Thursday, November 3, 2011
11:10 a.m.
Alex Ross
Music critic for The New Yorker
"The Lamento Connection: Bass Lines of Music History"
Thursday, February 2, 2012
11:10 a.m.
Frans de Waal
Primatologist and Professor of Primate Behavior at Emory University
"Morality Before Religion: Empathy, Fairness and Prosocial Primates"
Thursday, April 19, 2012
11:10 a.m.
William Deresiewicz
Essayist, literary and cultural critic, and former Associate Professor of English at Yale
"Through the Vale of Soul-Making: the Journey of the Liberal Arts"
Thursday, May 31, 2012
11:10 a.m.
Honors Day Convocation
Jerald Podair
Professor of History and Robert S. French Professor of American Studies at Lawrence University
"The Only Life: Liberal Arts and the Life of the Mind at Lawrence"
Thursday, September 16, 2010
11:10 a.m.
Matriculation Convocation
Jill Beck
President of Lawrence University
"Expanding Student Opportunities in Research, Performance, Public Service and Environmental Activism"
Tuesday, October 5, 2010
11:10 a.m.
Ray Suarez
PBS Senior Correspondent
"The Browning of America"
Tuesday, February 8, 2011
11:10 a.m.
Mary Jane Jacob
Independent curator and executive director of exhibitions, School of the Art Institute of Chicago
"The Collective Creative Process"
Tuesday, April 5, 2011
11:10 a.m.
Timothy X. Troy '85
J. Thomas and Julie Esch Hurvis Professor of Theatre and Drama and Professor of Theatre Arts, Lawrence University
"Unexpected Collaborators: The Geniuses Among Us"
Tuesday, May 17, 2011
11:10 a.m.
Sara Quandt '72
Professor, Department of Epidemiology and Prevention, Division of Public Health Sciences, Wake Forest University School of Medicine
"It Takes a Community: Collaborating to Reduce Health Disparities in the U.S."
Thursday, September 17, 2009
11:10 a.m.
Matriculation Convocation
Jill Beck
President of Lawrence University
"The State of the University: Challenges and Opportunities"
Tuesday, October 20, 2009
11:10 a.m.
Faculty Convocation
Marcia Bjørnerud
Lawrence University professor of geology and Walter Schober Professor of Environmental Studies
"Geomimicry: Good Design from the Earth"
Thursday, January 28, 2010
11:10 a.m.
Abigail Disney
Filmmaker, Humanitarian, Founder and President of the Daphne Foundation
"Pray The Devil Back To Hell"
Tuesday, April 20, 2010
11:10 a.m.
Rebecca Solnit
Essayist, Critic, Activist
"Swimming Upstream in History: Hope, Disaster, Utopia"
Thursday, May 20, 2010
11:10 a.m.
Robert Hartwell '69
Vermont State Senator
"America at the Crossroads: Accepting the Climate Change Challenge"
Thursday, September 25, 2008
11:10 a.m.
Matriculation Convocation
Jill Beck
President of Lawrence University
"A Sustainable Lawrence: Five Interlocking Perspectives" with: Tom Boldt, chief executive officer, The Boldt Company; Margaret Carroll '61, emerita trustee and ?Pat Schinabeck, community leader; Jeff Clark, associate professor of geology; James Duncan-Welke '09, LUCC President; and Marty Finkler, professor of economics and John R. Kimberly Distinguished Professor in the American Economic System
Tuesday, December 2, 2008
11:10 a.m.
Frank Rich
Author and New York Times Op-Ed Columnist
"The Post-Bush Era Begins"
Tuesday February 3, 2009
11:10 a.m.
Edith Widder
Biologist and Deep-Sea Explorer
"Eye in the Sea: What Does Deep Sea Exploration Tell Us About Marine Conservation?"
Tuesday, May 19, 2009
11:10 a.m.
Honors Convocation
Jennifer Baumgardner '92
Author, Activist, Documentary Producer
"Climate Change We Can Live With: The Ecology of Justice"
Listen to her Q & A
Listen to her entire convocation
Thursday, September 27, 2007
Matriculation Convocation
Jill Beck
President of Lawrence University
"Educating Citizens, Supporting Students' Political Engagement and Getting out the Vote"
Tuesday, October 2, 2007
David C. Mulford, '59
U.S. Ambassador to India
"The United States and India: A Partnership for the 21st Century"
While on campus, Ambassador Mulford took time to reflect on his Lawrence education and his career, share some thoughts on the opportunities and challenges facing the United States and India in the coming century, and offer some advice to current Lawrence students. Listen to what he had to say.
Tuesday, November 6, 2007
Paul Hawken
Environmentalist, Entrepreneur, Journalist, Author
"Blessed Unrest: How the Largest Movement in the World Came into Being and Why No One Saw It Coming"
Tuesday, February 5, 2008
Andrew Sullivan
Senior Editor/Blogger, The Atlantic, and columnist, The Sunday Times of London
"American Politics: A View from Home and Abroad"
Hear his remarks
Thursday, May 22, 2008
Honors Convocation
Terry Moran, '82
Journalist and Co-anchor of ABC News' "Nightline"
"The Republic of Noise: Civic Intelligence and the Campaign of 2008."
Listen to his Q & A
Listen to his entire convocation
Thursday, September 21, 2006
Matriculation Convocation
Jill Beck
President of Lawrence University
"Liberal Philosophy, Free Discussion, and Individualized Learning at Lawrence"
Tuesday, November 7, 2006
Robert Sapolsky
Neuroscientist and Author
"Why Zebras Don't Get Ulcers: Stress, Disease, and Coping -- Stress and Where Stress-Related Diseases Come From"
Tuesday, February 6, 2007
Juliette Kayyem
Terrorism Expert and National Security Analyst for NBC News
"Preserving Liberty in an Age of Terror"
Tuesday, April 17, 2007
Theodore Chapin
Theatre Producer and Broadway Impresario
"A Life in the Musical Theatre...and the Lawrence Connection that Mattered"
Tuesday, May 22, 2007
Honors Convocation
Susan Faludi
Pulitzer Prize-Winning Journalist and Social Commentator
"Sexual Politics and the Tragedy of 9/11"
Thursday, September 22, 2005
Matriculation Convocation
Jill Beck
President of Lawrence University
"A Question of Values: Community Engagement, Altruism, and Liberal Education"
Tuesday, October 4, 2005
Christopher Stone
Environmental Ethicist and Author
"Mending the Earth: Ethical Issues in Healing the Global Environment"
Thursday, January 26, 2006
Lisa Randall
Theoretical Physicist
"Warped Passages: Unraveling the Mysteries of the Universe's Hidden Dimensions"
Thursday, April 20, 2006
Salman Rushdie
"A Morning with Salman Rushdie"
Thursday, May 25, 2006
Honors Convocation
D. Michael Lynn, '65
United States Bankruptcy Court Judge
"American Justice: Proud Promise or Oxymoron: How Does the Legal System Measure Up?"
Thursday, September 23, 2004
Matriculation Convocation
Jill Beck
President of Lawrence University
"The Value of Individualized Instruction in Liberal Education"
Thursday, October 7, 2004
Arianna Huffington
Columnist, Author, and Political Commentator
"The 2004 Election: What's at Stake?"
Tuesday, February 8, 2005
John Lewis
Congressman and Civil Rights Activist
"Get in the Way"
Tuesday, March 8, 2005
Joia Mukherjee
Medical Director of Partners in Health and Human Rights Activist
"On the Joy of Giving Back"
Thursday, May 26, 2005
Honors Convocation
Lee C. Bollinger
President of Columbia University
"Three Issues for Colleges and Universities: Affirmative Action, Academic Freedom and Globalization"
Thursday, September 25, 2004
Matriculation Convocation
Richard Warch
President of Lawrence University
"The Lawrence Difference: Difference at Lawrence"
Tuesday, October 14, 2003
David Sedaris
Humorist, Author, Playwright, and NPR Commentator
"An Evening with David Sedaris"
Tuesday, January 20, 2004
Steven Pinker
Cognitive Scientist, Author, and the Johnstone Family Professor of Psychology at Harvard University
"The Blank Slate"
Thursday, March 4, 2004
SARK (Susan Ariel Rainbow Kennedy)
Author and Artist
"Make Your Creative Dreams Real"
Tuesday, May 25, 2004
Honors Convocation
William Cronon
Frederick Jackson Turner Professor of History, Geography, and Environmental Studies at the University of Wisconsin-Madison
"The Portage: History and Memory in the Making of an American Place"
Thursday, September 26, 2002
Matriculation Convocation
Richard Warch
President of Lawrence University
"Liberal Education and Civic Engagement"
Tuesday, October 8, 2002
William Sloane Coffin
Peace activist
"The U.S., Iraq, and Nuclear Weapons"
Thursday, November 14, 2002
Oliver Sacks
Neurologist and Author
"Creativity and the Brain"
Thursday, January 30, 2003
Susan Estrich
Law Professor, Author, Legal and Political Commentator
"Civil Liberties in Times of Terror: The Balance Between Security and Freedom"
Tuesday, March 4, 2003
Fareed Zakaria
Editor, Newsweek International and Former Managing Editor, Foreign Affairs
"Why Do They Hate Us? America in a New World"
Thursday, May 22, 2003
Honors Convocation
N. Scott Momaday
Native American Scholar, Poet, and Author
"A Morning With Scott Momaday"
September 27, 2001
Matriculation Convocation
Richard Warch
President of Lawrence University
"The Better Angels of Our Nature"
October 9, 2001
Wynton Marsalis
Legendary jazz musician
"The Need for a New American Mythology"
October 25, 2001
Lech Walesa
Founder of Solidarity, Nobel Peace Prize-winner, former President of Poland
"Democracy: The Never Ending Battle"
February 21, 2002
Anna Deavere Smith
Playwright and Actor
"Snapshots: Glimpses of America in Change"
April 30, 2002
Harold Varmus
President and CEO of the Memorial Sloan-Kettering Cancer Center,
Nobel Prize-winner, former director of the National Institutes of Health
"Globalizing Science"
May 21, 2002
Honors Convocation
Edward Hirsch
"Reading as Relationship"
September 28, 2000
Matriculation Convocation
Richard Warch
President of Lawrence University
"The Campus Business"
October 26, 2000
Frank McCourt
Pulitzer Prize-winning author
"A Memoir of a Memoir"
January 11, 2001
Brian Greene
Proponent of the united theory of superstrings and Professor of Physics and Mathematics at Columbia University
"What is String Theory?"
April 19, 2001
Martha Nussbuam
Philosopher and the Ernst Freund Distinguished Professor of Law and Ethics at the University of Chicago
"Global Duties: Cicero's Problematic Legacy"
May 22, 2001
Honors Convocation
William Julius Wilson
Sociologist and the Lewis P. and Linda L. Geyser University Professor at Harvard University
"Welfare, Children and Families: The Impact of Welfare Reform in the New Economy"
September 23, 1999
Matriculation Convocation
Richard Warch
President of Lawrence University
"Musings on the Millennium"
November 2, 1999
Heinz Fricke
Music director of the Washington Opera
Guest conducting the Lawrence Symphony Orchestra
January 25, 2000
James McPherson
Pulitzer Prize-winning author and the George Henry Davis Professor of American History at Princeton University
"Drawn with the Sword: Reflections on the American Civil War"
April 4, 2000
George J. Mitchell
Former United States Senator and chairperson of the peace negotiations in Northern Ireland
"Making Peace"
May 23, 2000
Honors Convocation
Isabel Allende
Latin American novelist
"Stories and Dreams"
September 24, 1998
Matriculation Convocation
Richard Warch
President of Lawrence University
"Dogfish and Sonnets: Some Thoughts on Unmediated Learning"
October 22, 1998
Robert Ballard
Author, Specialist in Deep-Ocean Archeology, and Founder of the JASON Foundation
"Deep Sea Explorations"
November 19, 1998
William Sloane Coffin, Jr.
Minister of Riverside Church of Manhattan, former chaplain at Yale University, and civil rights and antiwar activist
"Civility, Democracy, and Multiculturalism"
February 9, 1999
Cornel West
Professor of Afro-American Studies and Philosophy of Religion at Harvard University
"Race Matters"
April 13, 1999
Michael Beschloss
Presidential Historian, Provacative Political Author, and Television Commentator
"Presidential Leadership"
May 27, 1999
Honors Convocation
Joyce Carol Oates
Author and Roger S. Berlind Distinguished Professor of the Humanities at Princeton University
"Readings and Commentary"
September 25, 1997
Matriculation Convocation
Richard Warch
President of Lawrence University
"Tough-minded or Thin-skinned"
September 30, 1997
Tony Kushner
Pulitzer Prize and Tony Award winning playwright
"The Intelligent Homosexual's Guide to Capitalism and Socialism"
February 26, 1998
Richard Rodriguez
"What No One Told Me When I Was in College"
April 9, 1998
Dudley Herschbach
Nobel Prize winning chemist
"The Impossible Takes a Little Longer"
May 21, 1998
Honors Convocation
Richard Holbrooke
Former Assistant Secretary of State
"The Never Ending Search for Peace in Southeast Europe"
September 16, 1996
Matriculation Convocation
Richard Warch
President of Lawrence University
November 14, 1996
Gunther Schuller
Pulitzer Prize-winning composer, conductor, and educator
"New Dimensions in Jazz and Modern Music"
January 14, 1997
The Honorable Tommy G. Thompson
Governor, State of Wisconsin
"150 Years of Excellence"
January 23, 1997
Henry Louis Gates, Jr.
Chair of the Department of Afro-American Studies, and the W. E. B. DuBois Institute for Afro-American Research, Harvard University
"Race and Class in America"
February 13, 1997
Robert Jay Lifton
Professor of psychiatry and psychology, The City University of New York
"The Protean Self -- Psychological Resilience in Teaching and Learning"
May 29, 1997
Honors Convocation
Maya Angelou
Author, poet, playwright, actress
"Meeting the Challenges of Success"
September 21, 1995
Matriculation Convocation
Richard Warch
President of Lawrence University
"Autodidacts, Cyberspace, Students, and Björklunden"
November 2, 1995
Faye Wattleton
Former Presicient and CEO of Planned Parenthood Federation of America
"Women's Healthcare and Reproductive Rights"
February 13, 1996
Harry Wu
Human rights activist
"At What Price? The Human Cost of China's Economic Miracle"
April 16, 1996
Arthur Schlesinger, Jr.
Professor of history, Harvard University, Professor emeritus of the humanities, City University, Pulitzer Prize-winning author
"The Politics of Identity: Will It Shape the Future?"
May 16, 1996
Honors Convocation
David Halberstam
Journalist and author
"The World You Inherit"
September 22, 1994
Matriculation Convocation
Richard Warch
President of Lawrence University
"Our Account of Ourselves"
October 6, 1994
Richard Lamm
Director of the Center for Public Policy and Contemporary Issues, University of Denver, and author
"Money, Morality, and Medicine"
October 20, 1994
Luis Rubio
Mexican economist, 1994-95 Woodrow Wilson Fellow
"Beyond NAFTA: The Future of U.S.-Mexican Relations"
November 10, 1994
Russ Feingold
United States Senator
"Reinventing Government? Reform the Process"
January 19, 1995
Robert Bork
Judicial scholar, Supreme Court nominee
"Politics and the Constitution"
February 21, 1995
Clarence Page
Pulitzer Prize-wining journalist, Chicago Tribune
"Civil Rights in the 1990s"
April 11, 1995
Jane Nelson
British environmental consultant
"From Bombay to L.A.: Protecting the Environments of Mega-Cities"
May 18, 1995
Honors Convocation
Richard Nieme, '62
Professor of political science, University of Rochester
"What Shapes? What Numbers? Representation in America Today
September 23, 1993
Matriculation Convocation
Richard Warch
President of Lawrence University
"Playing by the Rules"
October 14, 1993
John Updike
"The Artist and Society: Selected Readings from his Work"
November 30, 1993
Leon Botstein
President, Bard College, and Music Director, American Symphony Orchestra
"Music and Culture in the Twentieth Century"
January 13, 1994
Paul Goldberger
Cultural news editor and architecture critic, The New York Times
"Architecture as a Reflection of Public Policy and Social Responsibility"
February 15, 1994
Gwendolyn Brooks
Author, poet
"The Life of Gwendolyn Brooks"
April 12, 1994
Miriam Schapiro
Visual Artist
"A Woman Artist and Her Relationship to the Past"
May 19, 1994
Honors Convocation
Eric Simonson, '82
Associate Artistic Director, Steppenwolf Theatre
"The Re-imagination of Form and Collaboration"
September 24, 1992
Richard Warch
President of Lawrence University
"Practicing What We Preach: Scholarship and the Aims of Liberal Education"
October 13, 1992
Wayne Franklin
Chair, American Studies Program, University of Iowa
"The Doubling of Discovery"
November 19, 1992
Elizabeth Loftus
Professor of psychology, University of Washington
"False Memories"
January 14, 1993
Daniel Kleppner
Phi Beta Kappa Visititing Scholar, Lester Wolfe Professor of Physics, Massachusetts Institute of Technology
"Science, Science-Bashing, and the Descent into Woolliness"
February 9, 1993
Bernice Johnson Reagon
Curator, Division of Community Life, National Museum of American History, Smithsonian Institution
"Culture in the Civil Rights Movement"
March 4, 1993
Robert Frank
Goldwin Smith Professor of Economics, Ethics, and Public Policy, Cornell University
"Can an Honest Person Survive in a Material World?"
May 4, 1993
Alan Ryan
Professor of politics, Princeton University
"Our Hankering After Community"
May 10, 1993
His Excellency Takakazu Kuriyama
The Ambassador of Japan to the United States
"Japan and U.S.: Then and Now
One Man's Historical Perspective"
May 20, 1993
Joseph A. Hopfensperger, '52
Associate professor emeritus of theatre and drama and former resident director of Björklunden
"More Than an Scrapbook, Less Than a Sermon"
September 26, 1991
Richard Warch
President of Lawrence University
"You and I and Us and Them"
October 29, 1991
William Raspberry
Urban affairs columnist for The Washington Post
"Education in a Multicultural Environment"
November 12, 1991
Robin Wright
Author, journalist
"Flashpoints: Issues for the '90s"
January 16, 1992
Leon Lederman
Nobel Prize-winning physicist and Frank L. Sulzberger Professor of Physics at the University of Chicago
"Science, Literacy, and Survival"
January 30, 1992
John P. Demos
Phi Beta Kappa Visiting Scholar, Samuel Knight Professor of American History at Yale University
"In the Shadow of the Founders: The Meaning, and Significance, of 'Generations' in American History"
February 18, 1992
Diane Abbott
Member of Parliament, Great Britain
"Let Freedom Ring: A Global Perspective"
April 16, 1992
John Searle
Professor of philosophy at the University of California at Berkeley
"The Storm Over the University"
May 7, 1992
David Mulford, '59
Under Secretary for International Affairs, U.S. Department of the Treasury, and member of the Board of Trustees at Lawrence University
"Russia: From Marxism to Markets"
May 21, 1992
E. Graham Waring
Professor of religion emeritus at Lawrence University
"Options and Requirements"
September 18, 1990
Richard Warch
President of Lawrence University
"When a University is a College"
October 4, 1990
Howard Nemerov
Edward Mallinckrodt Distinguished Professor of English at Washington University, 1988 poet laureate of the United States
"Science and Stories"
November 1, 1990
Philip Glass
Avant-garde composer
"Language and Music Theatre"
February 19, 1991
Clayborne Carson
Editor and director of the Martin Luther King, Jr., Papers Project, professor of history at Stanford University
"The Historical Roots of Martin Luther King, Jr."
April 16, 1991
Toyoo Gyohten
Former vice-minister of finance for international affairs, Japan
"How the Japanese Economy Works: Myths and Realities"
May 23, 1991
Marjory Irvin
Professor of music emerita at Lawrence University
"Shake Off the Shackles"
September 21, 1989
Richard Warch
President of Lawrence University
"Living in the Bubble: Lawrence and the Rest of the Real World"
October 10, 1989
Jonathan Miller
Director of opera and theatre, producer, author
"Bringing Literature to Film"
January 11, 1990
McGeorge Bundy
Presidential confidant and scholar, Lawrence University's Stephen Edward Scarff Distinguished Professor
"How Much Peace Without the Cold War?"
February 27, 1990
Mary Frances Berry
U.S. Civil Rights Commissioner
"Liberty and Justice for All: The Unfinished Agenda"
April 5, 1990
Richard Westfall
Phi Beta Kappa Visiting Scholar, distinguished professor of the history and philosophy of science at Indiana University
"A New Model of Nature"
April 24, 1990
Susan Sontag
"The Writer's Freedom: Literature and Literacy"
May 17, 1990
George B. Walter, '36
Professor of education emeritus at Lawrence University
"Jim Duncan, Honors Graduate"
|September 22, 1988
Richard Warch
President of Lawrence University
"Sex, Gender, and Coeducation"
|October 13, 1988
Samuel Adler
Professor of composition at the Eastman School of Music, University of Rochester
"The Educated Person vs. the Fine Arts"
|November 15, 1988
William Sloane Coffin, Jr.
President of SANE/FREEZE
"For the World to Survive"
|April 6, 1989
Stephen Jay Gould
Paleontologist, evolutionary theorist, and author
"Human Equality is a Contingent Fact of History"
|April 13, 1989
Florence Howe
Founder and director of The Feminist Press, and professor of English at City College, City University of New York
"From Master and Willing Slave to Equal Partners: Educating Men and Women Together"
|April 18, 1989
Henry Cisneros
Former mayor of San Antonio
"Strategic Planning for Success in Public Enterprises"
|May 25, 1989
Mojmir Povolny
Professor of government emeritus and Henry M. Wriston Professor in the Social Sciences at Lawrence University
"The House of Memory"
September 29, 1987
Richard Warch
President of Lawrence University
"Miss Manners Goes to College"
October 20, 1987
Elie Wiesel
1986 Nobel Peace Prize laureate, author, and survivor of the Holocaust
"Reconciliation -- Is It Possible? Is It Desirable?"
November 17, 1987
Henry Reuss
Former member of the U.S. House of Representatives
"Our Constitutional Government: Can It Resolve Deadlocks?"
February 2, 1988
Nikki Giovanni
Poet, columnist, and author
"Poetry and the Black Experience in America"
February 18, 1988
Dennis G. Maki
Head of the infectious disease section of the University of Wisconsin Medical School
"The World AIDS Epidemic: Relevance to Every Citizen"
April 7, 1988
Thomas A. Halsted
Scoville Lecturer of the Arms Control Association
"Kicking the Nuclear Habit"
May 10, 1988
Garrett Hardin
Author and professor of human ecology emeritus at the University of California, Santa Barbara
"Ethics Without Numbers Is Immoral"
May 24, 1988
Charles Breunig
Professor of history emeritus at Lawrence University
"A Revolutionary Lawrence President: Henry Merritt Wriston"
September 25, 1986
Richard Warch
President of Lawrence University
"That's the Deal"
October 23, 1986
Ralph Whitehead, Jr., '65
Professor of public service at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst and political consultant
"Thinking About the Baby Boom"
November 13, 1986
Vincent G. Dethier
Gilbert L. Woodside Professor of Zoology at the University of Massachusetts at Amherst
"Sniff, Flick, and Pulse: An Appreciation of Interruption"
November 25, 1986
Ezra Bowen
Senior writer at Time magazine
"Athletics, Accountability, and the Liberal Arts"
February 24, 1987
Charlayne Hunter-Gault
National correspondent for "The McNeil/Lehrer News Hour"
"How Black History Saved My Life and Career"
April 9, 1987
John J. Mearsheimer
Associate professor of political science at the University of Chicago
"Why Nuclear Weapons are Necessary to Keep Peace Between the Superpowers"
April 21, 1987
Barbara Ehrenreich
Journalist, feminist, and author
"Confronting Anti-Feminism"
May 19, 1987
Nathan Pusey
Former president of Lawrence College and Harvard University
"Reflections on Freshman Studies
|September 27, 1985
Richard Warch
President of Lawrence University
"Look Again, Look Again"
|October 1, 1985
Lukas Foss
Music director of the Milwaukee Symphony Orchestra, composer, conductor, and pianist
"Baroque Confessions"
|November 5, 1985
John P. Frank
Attorney, professor of law, and author
"The Miranda Case: Its Past, Its Present, and Its Future"
|January 14, 1986
Lawrence B. Slobodkin
Evolutionary theorist and ecologist
"A Critique of the Sociobiological Rationalization of Religion"
|January 30, 1986
David Halberstam
Pulitzer Prize-winning journalist and author
"The American Dream Reconsidered"
|February 13, 1986
Richard E. Leakey
"Origins of Mankind"
|May, 6, 1986
Jeffrey G. Williamson
Laird Bell Professor of Economics at Harvard University
"Poverty, Enterprise, and Wealth"
|May 8, 1986
Howard R. Pollio
Distinguished Service Professor of Psychology at the University of Tennessee-Knoxville
"Taking Humor Seriously"
|May 20, 1986
Thomas R. Dale
Professor of Enalish emeritus at Lawrence University
"A Prolusion on Scholarship"
September 20, 1984
Richard Warch
President of Lawrence University
"Liberal Education, Careerism, and the World of Work"
October 16, 1984
Carlo Ginzburg
Professor of history at the University of Bologna
"Fictional Narrative vs. Historical Narrative"
November 29, 1984
John W. Macy, Jr.
Former chairman of the U.S. Civil Service Commission and former special assistant for presidential appointments
"The Quest for a New Breed of Public Leaders"
February 19, 1985
Alan David
Member of the Royal Shakespeare Company
"Dylan Thomas in Love"
April 11, 1985
Robert Jay Lifton
Distinguished Professor of Psychiatry at the City University of New York, John Jay College
"Nuclear Winter and Beyond -- The Imaginative Struggle"
April 11, 1985
Panel Discussion: "Nuclear Arms and Moral Discourse"
Ruth Salzman Adams
Director of the International Security Program at the John D. and Catherine MacArthur Foundation
Marvin Kalkstein
Nuclear chemist
Edward Luttwak
Fellow, Center for Strategic and International Studies, Georgetown University
April 25, 1985
Ted Fiske
Education editor for the New York Times and author of Selective Guide to Colleges
"Curriculum Reform in the '80s: Is Technology Taking the Byte out of the Liberal Arts?"
May 9, 1985
Colleen Dewhurst, M-D '46
Actress and member of the board of trustees at Lawrence University
"Theatre: An Extension of Life"
May 14, 1985
Tom Wolfe
Critic, commentator, journalist, and author
"New Ideas and Intellectual Fashions in the Last Fifteen Years of the Twentieth Century"
May 21, 1985
Ben Schneider
Professor of English emeritus at Lawrence University
"Democracy Is Not Enough"
September 22, 1983
Richard Warch
President of Lawrence University
"Taming the Monster"
November 3, 1983
Judith Jarvis Thomson
Professor of philosophy at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology
"On Some Ways Of Causing Death"
February 21, 1984
Abraham H. Raskin
Associate director of the National News Council
"Organized Labor: Cooperation, Collision, or Collapse?"
April 17, 1984
Robert Coles
Research psychiatrist at Harvard University Health Services, professor of psychiatry and medical humanities at Harvard Medical School, and Pulitzer Prize-winning author
"The Moral Life of Children"
May 15, 1984
George F. Will
Political commentator and columnist
"A View from Washington"
May 22, 1984
Marshall B. Hulbert
Dean emeritus at Lawrence University
September 23, 1982
Richard Warch
President of Lawrence University
"A Terrible Business"
October 19, 1982
Betty Williams
Co-laureate of the 1977 Nobel Peace Prize
"Can There Be Peace in Northern Ireland?"
November 9, 1982
Martin C. Anderson
Senior fellow it the Hoover Institution of Stanford University and the principal architect of Reaganomics
"National Economic Policy: The Prospects for Reaganomics"
January 27, 1983
Thomas A. Brady, Jr.
Professor of history at the University of Oregon
"From Luther to Hitler: A Political Myth and Its Makers"
February 15, 1983
Dick Clark
Former senator of the United States
"Nuclear Arms and Arms Control"
April 20, 1983
John Barth
Novelist, short story writer, and creative writing teacher
"The Prose and Poetry of It All"
May 17, 1983
William H. Riker
Dean of graduate studies and professor of political science at the University of Rochester
"Curbing the Special Interests - Why Presidents Fail"
September 24, 1981
Richard Warch
President of Lawrence University
"Bland Ambition"
October 20, 1981
John Seelye
Professor of American literature and American studies at the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill and former contributing editor to The New Republic
"What's in a Name: Sounding the Depths of Tom Sawyer"
November 17, 1981
Edwin R. Bayley, '40
Dean of the graduate school of journalism at the University of California, Berkeley, and former special assistant to President Kennedy
"The Lasting Impact of Joe McCarthy"
January 19, 1982
Lester C. Thurow
Professor of economics and management at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology
"Can the United States Survive in a Competitive World?"
February 23, 1982
Gerald K. O'Neill
Professor of physics at Princeton University, former director of NASA studies, and the inventor of the colliding-beam storage ring
"2081: Our Next Century on Earth and in Space"
April 21-22, 1982
Julius D. Heldman
President of Heldman Associates
"An Oilman Looks at Corporate Responsibilities"
Charles W. Powers
Executive director of the Health Effects Institute
"Business Judgment: Is There a Role for Ethics?"
Norman E. Bowie
Director of the Center for the Study of Values
"Business Ethics: Fad, Folly, or Foundation?"
May 20, 1982
F. Theodore Cloak
Professor of theatre and drama emeritus at Lawrence University
"The Theatre in Your Mind"
|September 25, 1980
Richard Warch
President of Lawrence University
"Sailing Toward Oceania"
|October 30, 1980
Estelle Ramey
Professor of physiology and biophysics at the Georgetown University School of Medicine and member of the President's Advisory Committee on Women
"Physiological Differences Between Men and Women and Their Effects on Behavior"
|November 18, 1980
Walter E. Massey
Director of the Argonne National Laboratory
"Science, Technology, and the Citizen: An Impossible Combination"
|January 15, 1981
Walter B. Wriston
Chairman and chief executive officer of Citicorp and Citibank and director of General Electric, J.C. Penney, and the Chubb Corporation
"The Independent Man and the Transference Machine"
|February 12, 1981
Samuel P. Huntington
Professor of government at Harvard University
Richard Falk
Professor of international law and practice at Princeton University
"A New United States Foreign Policy for the 1980s?"
|March 5, 1981
John Simon
Film critic for National Review
"The Failure of Moral Passion on Contemporary Film"
|April 9, 1981
Alan Beattie
Senior lecturer in political science at the London School of Economics
"Mrs. Thatcher and the American Revolution"
|May 26, 1981
John G. Kemeny
President of Dartmouth College and former research assistant to Albert Einstein
"Computer Literacy: A Challenge to Liberal Education"
September 27, 1979
Richard Warch
President of Lawrence University
"Unamuno Begs to Differ"
October 18, 1979
Henry Shapiro
Former United Press International correspondent and bureau chief in Moscow
"Forty Years in Moscow: An American Reporter's Story"
November 6, 1979
Lord Caradon
Former British ambassador to the United Nations
"What Hope for the Middle East"
January 31, 1980
Christopher Lasch
Professor of history at the University of Rochester and author of The Culture of Narcissism: American Life in an Age of Diminishing Expectations
"The Nuclear Family and Its Critics"
February 13, 1980
Raymond H. Herzog, '38
Chairman of the board at 3M and director of U.S. Steel, General Motors, and Northwest Airlines
"The Future of Innovation Belongs to You"
February 21, 1980
McGeorge Bundy
Professor of history at New York University, former special assistant for National Security Affairs under Presidents Kennedy and Johnson, and former president of the Ford Foundation
"Foreign and Defense Policy after Afghanistan"
April 10, 1980
Karl J. Weintraub
Dean of humanities at the University of Chicago
"The Fallen Monarch: Thoughts on the Baroque"
April 11, 1980
Michel Oksenberg
Professor of political science at the University of Michigan
"The United States and China in World Affairs"
May 22, 1980
William J. Bennett
Executive director of the National Humanities Center
"Lessons and Legacies: The 'Liberal Arts' in a Republic of Virtue"
October 5, 1978
William Sloane Coffin, Jr.
Minister of Riverside Church of Manhattan, former chaplain at Yale University, and civil rights and antiwar activist
"What is National Security?"
October 26, 1978
James D. Dana
John R. Kimberly Distinguished Professor in the American Economic System at Lawrence University
"Capitalism, Democracy, and Equity"
January 17, 1979
Guido Calabresi
Sterling Professor of Law at Yale University and former law clerk for the U.S. Supreme Court
"The Role of the Courts in the Age of Statutes"
February 7, 1979
Thomas N. Todd
Attorney in Chicago
"Blacks and the Civil Rights Movement in America: Dred Scott to Bakke"
February 20, 1979
Leslie Fiedler
Samuel Clemens Professor of English at the State University of New York at Buffalo
"Violence: The Fifties and the Seventies"
March 28, 1979
Nani A. Palkhivala
Indian ambassador to the United States
"A New Birth of Freedom"
April 17, 1979
Catharine R. Stimpson
Associate professor of English at Barnard College
"Women and Men: New Perspectives, New Attitudes"
May 17, 1979
Michael Hammond, '54
President of the State University of New York at Purchase, neurophysiologist, and former assistant conductor of the American Symphony Orchestra under Leopold Stokowski
"It Takes a Skyblue Juggler"


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Day 6:the bare invisible beauty of revolutionary real people. Today the PAST, PRESENT and FUTURE eerily co-mingle for us with three milestones. PAST: Model Naomi Sims died on Saturday at age 61. 1969. Before there was a Miss Naomi Campbell there was a Miss Naomi Sims. Two years after of the Summer of Love, […]
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Relax? ONE THOUSAND, FOUR HUNDRED issues of American Vogue and only FIVE covers graced by people of color? You better work Supermodel! With the refrain: "We already have our black girl", still being heard, we still have much work to do. Images like Naomi above and Sessilee Lopez in Harpers Bazaar which don't fetishize, isolate or stereotype are […]
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Malheur! Seems like the kids can't swim in the Pool in Pennsylvania nor walk the Runways in Paris. Paris prefers whites only on the runways so whose brands should we support? Runways have huge visual influence on how we see ourselves and our world and clearly the vision from top Paris designers is: See White Only […]
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My first call was to Bethann Hardison. "The Goddess" championing for Women and Men of Color on the runways and fashion pages. We see her as the heralder and voice for visibility beyond the Pale. (image from Uptown magazine's recent article) Second call. I had a vibrant talk with Rosemary E. Miller, the author of "The Threads […]
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You've no doubt heard of Whip Up, website of the unstoppable craft entrepreneur and author Kathreen Ricketson. Well, today you will find me guest-posting over there with a fair and festive recycled project. Curious? Well, dagnabbit, go on over and have a look-see. Click HERE to check it out!
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New Music Video "Bleed" Premiered By Sinbreed
Germany's Sinbreed premiered the new music video for "Bleed," the band's new single which appears on the upcoming sophomore LP "Shadows." The video premiered on Metal Hammer Germany's website at this location (also in the player below). The album drops via AFM Records on March 28th (EU) and April 14th (USA).
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8. Standing Tall
9. London Moon
10. Broken Wings
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I am working on a project to research the kinds of questions that students ask when viewing geoscience data visualizations. Earth and Mind readers have seen a snippet of this work here. In justifying this work, we talk about how asking questions is an essential practice of science, how learning to ask questions is a necessary step towards becoming a curiosity-driven self-educator and life-long learner, and how seeking answers to self-generated questions is more powerfully engaging than seeking answers to questions provided by a book or teacher.
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The New York Times ran a piece recently about how voting turnout differs among undergraduates by field of study. In the last presidential election (2012), education majors had the highest voting rate at 55%. STEM majors had low turnout, with engineers having the lowest voting rate at 35%. Of course I wondered about students majoring in Earth and Environmental Sciences. I tracked down some further information about the study, and found that we aren't included as a category. We'll have to settle for data about physical science majors, who are in the bottom five of the 20 majors reported, with 40% voting turnout. More
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