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China Since 1949: A Survey
When the Chinese People's Republic was inaugurated in 1949, Mao Tse-tung was careful to point out that the new society would not be Socialist. His inaugural speech said:
To counter imperialist oppression and raise her backward economy to a higher level, China must utilize all the factors of urban and rural capitalism that are beneficial and not harmful to the national economy and people's livelihood . . . Our present policy is to regulate capitalism, not to destroy it.
The teaching of 1949 was that the workers and peasants of China still had to endure the development of capitalism — "several decades of hardship" (Mao, 21st September 1949) — before the change to "socialism" could be achieved. In the sophistries of the time China was "semi-feudal"; there were "semi-proletarians", and the peasants were divided neatly into rich, middle and poor. There was also a "national bourgeoisie", who were considered revolutionary allies, and a petty bourgeoisie who could be conveniently used as either comrades-in-arms or whipping-boys. The bogeys were the big landowners and the Kuomintang bourgeoisie.
Under "the people's democratic dictatorship" the Chinese capitalists would develop the means of production together with a widening State sector and eventually the whole would fall into the laps of the workers. In the meantime the "democratic" structure would ensure that though a large section of the economy would remain capitalist, the capitalists would never exercise political power. Because the political institutions were democratically elected it followed naturally that the Chinese Communist Party, representing by definition the great majority of the population, would always be m power. It was similar, in fact, to the Chinese Imperial doctrine of "merchant operation, official supervision".
The Capitalists
Of course it didn't work. The idea of regulating capitalism had to be abandoned, largely because of the weakness of Chinese capitalists; the foreign capitalists who mattered — Mattheson & Lang, Butterfield, Russel & Co. — pulled out to Hong Kong after a very short time, leaving a gap which the Chinese had a hard struggle to fill. It was from this time, in the mid-fifties, that Mao and the CCP began to claim that China was socialist (the prefix "semi-" in front of "feudal" and "proletarian" was dropped at the same time). Chinese capitalists were bought out on terms described by Yuan-li Wu in The Economy of Communist China (1965) as follows:
A nominal ''fixed interest" or "dividend" of 1-6 per cent a year, payable quarterly, regardless of the profit or loss of the enterprises in question, was promised to private stockholders for a period of six years. The amount was subsequently revised to a uniform 5 per cent per annum.
These compensation agreements were in fact extended for further periods, and as far as can be ascertained dividends are still being paid. Many capitalists were also offered State agencies on relatively generous terms. However, the smallness of the area in which these owners operated must be borne in mind. It was the confiscation of banking and manufacturing interests of owners identified with the Kuomintang that gave the Communists, at the beginning of their rule, a nucleus of important financial and manufacturing enterprises in addition to already-State-owncd enterprises.
By 1956 it was claimed that the proportion of the "capitalist enterprises" in the gross value of output of industry had declined to 0.1 per cent. However, as with so much else in China, hard facts are not so easily come by. As in Russia, illegal manufacture and trading have been widespread and persistent. Wu says:
In fact, among the "crimes" the Communist authorities have tried to stamp out are the matter of unauthorized invoices and purchase orders, purchase and sale of raw materials on the black market, and production in "underground factories". These "deviations" became especially prominent in the spring of 1963 and required the institution of official drives to eliminate them along with the "rectification" of various "individualistic trends" contrary to the spirit of planning. The 1963 drives were reminiscent of similar campaigns in 1952. The Soviet tolkachi (pushers) most definitely have their Chinese counterparts.
It is often assumed that Soviet aid was, before the breach between the two countries, highly important to China. Certainly it was the major source of foreign capital, but its volume was quite negligible. In The Journal of Asian Studies, XXI, 1961, F. H. Mah estimated that only 727 million yuan out of 3 billion yuan loaned by Russia to Communist China during the First Five-Year Plan consisted of economic loans — about 1.5 per cent, of the state capital investment; the remainder was military loans and transfers of assets already in China. Wu estimates the total of Soviet loans between 1950 and 1957 at 5.2 billion yuan. (Exchange rate between yuan and $: 1 yuan = $2.5.) Thus, the principal source of capital investment was domestic capital formation.
Party and Bureaucracy
In an article "China's 'New Economic Policy' " in China Under Mao (1973) Franz Schurmann says: "The bitterness against the Soviet Union runs very deep in China." Mao Tse-tung and Hoxha of Albania are the only political leaders in the world today still singing the praises of Stalin, yet Mao can have nothing for which to thank Stalin. When after 1917 the European revolution did not materialise for them the Bolsheviks turned their interest to China. From the time when the Chinese Communist Party was formed in 1921, until 1940, it was under the domination of the CPSU. (The name adopted was the Chinese CP, and not the CP of China: this is a unique distinction among national Communist parties, implying a subordinate status.)
In the 'twenties and 'thirties the advice from Russia to the Chinese Communists in their struggle against Chiang Kai-shek was continually disastrous. When the struggle resumed after the war Stalin gave little encouragement, and at the point of the Communists' victory in 1949 urged a compromise settlement: a divided China was a better prospect for Russia than a united one. John Gittings says in The History of the Twentieth Century (Vol. 6, p. 2483): "the Chinese knew that Stalin's foreign policy was dictated by national interest rather than by 'proletarian internationalism'." After a few years of alliance marked by well-founded mistrust, the rift came over nuclear weapons. The line taken in China, however, was that Stalin's successors had departed from the principles of Lenin. An Editorial commemorating the 50th anniversary of the CCP in June 1971 said:
Khrushchev, Brezhnev and company are renegades from the proletarian revolution, and present-day social-imperialists and world storm-troopers opposing China, opposing Communism and opposing the people. It is our Party's bounden internationalist duty to continue the exposure and criticism of modem revisionism with Soviet revisionism at the centre and carry the struggle through to the end.
(Translated Peking Review, 2nd July 1971)
The historical oppressors of the Chinese people are the Imperial Despot and the bureaucracy which administered the despot's will; and, by implication, the Confucian philosophy which sanctioned them. Mao's declared aim is the abolition of bureaucracy. The ideological quarrel with the Soviet Union is that, according to Mao, it is the interests of the bureaucracy which govern the politics of Russia: the Party must be a wholly separate institution if it is to identify with the interests of the people. Yet all Mao's attempts to curb the bureaucracy have failed. From the Great Leap Forward, through various rectification and education campaigns, to the Cultural Revolution and the anti-Confucius campaign, immediately the pressure has been eased the bureaucracy has re-established itself. The reasons are only too obvious, given the industrial and commercial structure China is building. Schurmann describes it:
Factory administration has been recentralised, with major decisions once again being made at the executive level, rather than on the production floor. Money is stressed over production . . . much of the talk about economising could come from the mouths of good Republicans in the United States. Concern over money also implies an orientation to some kind of professional or technical élite (bankers, executives, etc.) and so it is not surprising that the present turn toward accumulation has gone hand in hand with a return of authority to the country's professional intellectuals.
The ideal of every regime is to see ideology and organization go hand in hand. When they fail to do so, scapegoats are usually sought; and since the advent of "socialism" in China Mao's speeches and writings have been about little else than the dangers of subversion from "capitalist-roaders".
Workers and Peasants
The living conditions of the Chinese peasant and worker are hard by any western standard. By their own standards, it can be said that things have never been otherwise and would be no different under any other government in China. It can be said, further that millions do not now die every year from starvation. Yet, since China has adopted the devices and modes of organization necessary to being a major power in the capitalist world, it is the standards of that world that must be applied.
The primary task for the Communist régime was the accumulation of capital. In Problems of Capital Formation in Underdeveloped Countries (1964) Ragnar Nurkse writes:
External resources, even if they come in the most desirable forms, are not enough. They cannot automatically provide a solution to the problem of capital accumulation in backward areas . . . Greater efficiency in food production is the basic way of releasing human energy for capital construction. The domestic saving potential consists here in an increment of real income, and the task of mobilizing it is to withhold the highest possible proportion of this increment for investment purposes. (Our italics.)
Thus, along with the establishment of "mutual-aid teams" — predecessors of the agricultural communes — in the early years political means were used to curtail consumption. As well as heavy taxation, compulsory saving, and rationing of necessities, "conspicuous consumption" was made a crime. According to Choh-ming Li's article "Economic Development" in China Under Mao, per capita consumption of food, cloth and housing services declined from 1952 to 1957 and in the following two years "took a deep dive. The severe shortage of staple (rice and wheat) and subsidiary food was nation-wide." In the rural areas, where 50-70 per cent, of total output was required to be set aside as accumulation, there was considerable discontent. Yuan-li Wu in his book says:
In the course of the programme to establish control over resources for accumulation, a principle of low wages and low farm income was evolved. The system of low wages, according to Communist Chinese authors, is one under which all workers would have enough to eat while improvements in the standard of living would be gradual and would be granted only on the basis of further development in production.
Industrial wage differentials on an eight-point scale were introduced in 1956. It was estimated in 1964 (Charles Hoffman: Work Incentives in Communist China) that the wage rates of the highest grades in Manchurian industry were 2.5 to 3.2 times those of the lowest grades; and in the 'sixties other material incentives — rewards and bonuses — were extended. A social welfare system has been steadily expanded with the familiar range of insurance benefits and including subsidized housing. The role of trade unions is similar to that of other Communist countries: enforcing labour discipline, performing welfare functions, and acting as a department of the government rather than as guardians of the workers' interests.
All Toe the Line
What is considered one of Mao's most important theoretical statements is his 1957 speech On the Correct Resolution of Contradictions among the People. It is part of life in China that absolute conformity is demanded; while speaking of the dignity of "socialist" man, Mao encourages every deception for degrading opponents and non-conformists. Though the CCP has not reproduced the slaughtering political purges which took place in Russia in the nineteen-thirties, in another sense a purge goes on all the time in the form of the continual "rectification" campaigns.
The Party in China has probably played a more crucial role than its counterpart did in the early Soviet Union. It aims to be in command in every department of social endeavour. Its legitimacy is its interpretation of Marxist-Leninism, conveyed through "the mass line". By definition, the correct policy of the CCP must be one which will be acclaimed by its own model worker (assumed to be the overwhelming majority); the mass line is Mao's attempts to give practical demonstration of this.
The CCP has built an elaborate system of communication. A decision made at the centre is carefully graded as information, directive or instruction; it is elaborated in the newspapers, and suitable correspondents procured to identify the CCP with the mass line. A meeting — the vital part of the system — follows. Pretending the possibility of CCP fallibility, the meetings are market-research exercises at which some notice may be taken of views from the floor. Though local party fractions are allowed latitude in the means they adopt, each exercise is stage-managed to give no choice as to the decision over the mass line. Preparatory open and secret sessions are held, the speakers selected, questions planted and bogeys exploited. In the end, the CCP's correctness is demonstrated, and opposition becomes the evil intent of recalcitrant workers influenced by bad elements ("poisonous weeds").
On the other hand, the Chinese rulers have discovered what western ones learned: that they can go too far. During the Great Leap Forward workers toiled to the point of exhaustion and produced shoddy goods in the factories, while the bumper crop of 1958 suffered heavy losses from the tiredness, hunger and resentment of the peasants. The disaffection was not confined to economic factors: it concerned corruption, maltreatment by the militia, the threat of labour camps, and the enforced disintegration of family life in the communes. The mass line has had to be accompanied by reforms.
Socialism or Sam's Image ?
What kind of social system exists and is being developed in China ? They claim it to be Socialism:
Article I. The People's Republic of China is a socialist state of proletarian dictatorship led by the working class (through the Chinese Communist Party) and based on the alliance of workers and peasants.
(Draft Constitution, 1970-71)
The economic, political and social resemblances to Russia of, say, forty years ago are striking — even to the humourless ponderosity of speeches and writings and the endless sloganizing, and their repetition by parrot-brained supporters abroad.
Not one of the economic characteristics of Socialism is to be seen existing in China. The wages system is not abolished but flourishes. Production in its entirety takes place not for use but for accumulation and profit. So far from withering away or becoming an "administration of things" the State has consolidated itself and taken pride in being a dictatorship — of "the proletariat", which would not exist if there were Socialism.
However, it is not even a question of theoretical shortcomings. The idea of Socialism is founded on the desire for equality, freedom of choice, and the population to be able to claim the fruits of its labour. Because it is opposed to capitalism, there is an over-riding implication that the consequences and concomitants of capitalism — war, economic crises, the shyster dealing between nations — would be absent. And if by some word-magic the theoretical rules for Socialism could be shown to be complied with but the latter conditions were not fulfilled, all Socialists would say that Socialism wasn't worth having. What they have in China is not Socialist life.
One argument is that though the Chinese system is admittedly not Socialism, it is not capitalism either, because investment is in the hands of the State and a capitalist class in the traditional sense cannot be seen. The obvious point to be made is that, as in Russia, this makes no difference whatever to the social relationships of production; with the State behaving as the capitalist, the working class is exploited to produce interest and profit just the same. Given favourable historical circumstances, some nations can do all the time what others can do only part of the time. Ragnar Nurkse makes plain that this has nothing to do with "socialist" as against capitalist economies:
The country that affords the most notable instance of forced collective saving is Soviet Russia under the five-year plans since 1928. In this case private investment activity was entirely suppressed . . . I mention it along with the others only in order to bring out the point that in countries with widely different political ideologies the system of collective saving appears to have arisen from basic economic needs which those countries had in common. It worked of course imperfectly, being man-made; but it worked nevertheless. It became very prominent in the post-war reconstruction effort of Western Europe in the 1940's, but that is an example that does not come from an underdeveloped area.
Moreover, the State can respond to economic needs by admitting outside investment and private enterprise at times. After 1961 (see China Under Mao, pp 222-228) the right of enterprise management to make autonomous use of the capital furnished by the State, so long as quotas and targets were met, was emphasized. The purpose was to overcome defects in the planning system; it was accompanied by permitting open markets to develop, and one immediate consequence was the growth of advertising. Obviously the State at another time will seek to repress what it has licensed and encouraged — leaving the position that sometimes individual profit-makers can be discerned and sometimes not.
The centralized Soviet-type economy is sometimes thought to have greater stability than "free enterprise" and "mixed" economies. This is not true (the difference is the difficulty of obtaining information). It is now generally accepted that the failure of the Great Leap Forward was "a depression, such as in the capitalist world: overproduction, underconsumption, drying up of savings, unemployment, decline in business morale, disruption of the market, etc." (Schurmann, ibid.) Nor has the Chinese régime escaped the problem of rising prices, or abstained from inflationary "deficit financing" (increasing the note circulation).
What has been set on its feet in China therefore is capitalism: where the privileged smirk and philosophize, and the peasant and the worker bear the burden. The announcement of the American President's visit there in 1971 said :
The meeting between the leaders of China and the United States is to seek the normalization of relations between the two countries and also to exchange views on questions of concern to the two sides.
It might have been more simply put: Uncle Sam recognizes his own image.
Robert Barltrop


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Chakra Control Exercises
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While not a true jutsu "family," the jutsu contained within are all used to increase chakra control and often chakra reserves. Some techniques are unused in some areas or only in one area due to environmental issues. E-rank and D-rank jutsu are also useful to a certain extent for Chakra Control and reserves building. Not all exercises are used with all villages.
Known Jutsu
- Kinobori no Waza (Art of Tree Climbing)
- Suimen Hokou no Waza (Art of Water Walking)
- Hiyakedome no Waza (Art of Sunblock)
- Suna Hokou no Waza (Art of Sandstride)
- Arashi Hokousha no Waza (Art of Stormwalker)
- Suna Mokushi no Waza (Art of Sandsight)
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Elmeda M. (Tinsley) Nickell, 96, of Liberty, MO, passed away Friday, January 18, 2019.
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Series: Little first colouring
By Kirsteen Robson
From foxes and frogs to sunflowers and snails, little children can colour lots of animals and plants they might find in a garden in this fun activity book. With simple bold outlines and large areas to colour in, this book is a fun way for young children to develop their pencil control and colouring skills.
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R.I.P., Cornelius Bumpus
I initially thought I'd start off my blog with the usual "Hello, World" message so common to the genre. But just as I was about to do that, I received some sad news via e-mail from the Steely Dan fansite: Cornelius Bumpus is dead. Don't worry if you don't know who he is. Not many do. But if you're a Steely Dan fan, then you know that he played sax on a number of the Dan's albums and toured frequently with the band. In fact, I saw Cornelius play live last summer on SD's "Everything Must Go" tour. He also played with Etta James and the New York Rock and Soul Review, which featured Steely Dan frontman Donald Fagen. Heart attack, age 52. R.I.P., Cornelius.


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As you continue down the path of your medical education, it becomes increasingly more difficult to find time for work outside of your education. Becoming a doctor is a full-time commitment, which means you need to find a reliable resource for financial aid. No matter if you take out student loans or you receive scholarship funds, this assistance is invaluable to students at every stage of the game. The Association of American Medical Colleges provides students with a great deal of information about the cost of medical schools throughout the country.
No matter if you're an undergraduate, a pre-med student, a graduate student, or a resident in a hospital, you can find sources of financial aid. One of the best things you can do in the early stages of your education is plan for the future. Mapping out exactly how you're going to pay for college can relieve some of the financial stress associated with paying for medical school.


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As Thomas Dunne with Travel and Leisure Magazine wrote, the Bandon Dunes caddie program "should be the blueprint for American resort golf." Request a caddy today!
At Bandon Dunes we believe that the game of golf is best experienced by walking with a caddie - truly, golf as it was meant to be. When you use a caddie, you're helping preserve a tradition 500 years in the making and giving hundreds of people the opportunity to perform their trade.
Our caddies are some of the most experienced in the industry. Our mission is to enhance your experience and we have found that our caddies improve the flow of the game for you and your friends when carrying two bags.
The Bandon Dunes way is to have your caddie stay with you for all scheduled rounds of your stay unless you choose to make a change. Our goal is for your experience to be enhanced by having a caddie and we welcome your feedback.
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A group caddie works with all players in your group without carrying a bag. As opposed to a forecaddie, our group caddie stays with your group and does not walk ahead. He or she will describe the best play for each hole, assist with yardages, help around the greens, tend the pin and perform any other duties required. If your group is a foursome or threesome then we recommend payment of $30-$40 per player based on the level of service. If your group is a twosome, recommended caddie payment is $50-$60 per player.
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Clearing a pathway to mental and physical wellness in a safe, supportive environment.
Clearing a pathway to mental and physical wellness in a safe, supportive environment.
Our Owners:
Dean Plummer, Level 1 trainer, is a New Jersey native that has lived in Georgia for the past 15 years. He has lived in the Villa Rica area for the last ten years. Dean is an accomplished runner. He has currently run in 15 marathons across the United States, including Chicago, Boston, and New York. Dean started CrossFit two years ago. His "engine" is a thing to be respected and he has seen great improvements in his running abilities from adding in strength gains from CrossFit. Opening CrossFit Iron Rail is more than helping people achieve their fitness goals. It is a place where people can push themselves physically, mentally and spiritually. Dean wants to help people become who they always thought that they could be alongside others on the same journey.
Our Coaches:
My name is AJ Skidmore. I have lived in Villa Rica since 2016. I have a wife named Ashlan and two daughters named Tinslee and Ivee.
When I first found CrossFit, two years ago, I not not doing anything to better my health. The first day of class, I WAS HOOKED! I fell in love with the community, the competition ,and making myself better with nutrition and health. I loved all the coaches. They took time with each athlete to teach and perfect movements.
When an opportunity was presented to become a trainer, my response was, "heck yeah!" Doing CrossFit was one of the best decisions I've ever made.
I am Rehet Christensen but known by my CrossFit family as Re (I have some weird pronunciation to my name). I am from South-Africa and my home language is Afrikaans. I joined CrossFit Iron Rail 3.5 years ago. My husband (Peter Christensen) and I moved to Villa Rica for his work and I knew absolutely no one. Someone told me about CFIR and the amazing wonderful people there.
I joined, initially, to meet people and be part of a community. Oh my word, was this person totally right:) I first fell in love with the people!! A few weeks into Crossfit took me to another level of fitness, and one good morning I realized that I totally fell in love with CrossFit, too.
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I love to compete. After high school, I wanted to continue to compete in some fashion. My girlfriend, Ansley Hollingsworth, invited me to come try CrossFit with her at Iron Rail. I immediately fell in love with CrossFit and the Iron Rail family.
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Obama: It Looks Like There's More Where Wright Came From (See Update 3 for Contrary View)
Barack Obama may have at least one additional "close religious adviser" to explain away.
At the very least, he was involved with one James Meeks before and during Obama's 2004 Illinois US Senate run:
Obama's closest religious advisers — Fr. (Michael) Pfleger, the Rev. Jeremiah Wright of Chicago's Trinity United Church of Christ, and Illinois State Sen. James Meeks, who moonlights as the pastor of Chicago's Salem Baptist Church – may have quotes from Scripture always handy, but are theologically closer to Karl Marx and black nationalism, than to Christianity.
….. According to State Sen./Rev. James Meeks' humble, personal church Web page, "Meeks' practical and charismatic style of instruction motivates the hearer to take action and has resulted in accomplishments of miraculous proportions.†When the good Senator/Reverend is not accomplishing miracles and other feats "never before documented in history,†he serves as the executive vice president of Jesse Jackson Sr.'s National Rainbow-Push Coalition.
Meeks, Meeks ….. where have I heard that name?
Ah yes, what a coincidence ….. I first heard about this guy during an all-night round-trip drive to Chicago in August 2006. The city's all-news station was bringing up this Meeks guy every half-hour, prompting me to post the following (last item at link; paragraph breaks added today) on my return:
MayorDictator for Life Richard Daley apparently has a real live rival in the next election, an African-American pastor named Meeks, who is currently a state legislator. Apparently, in the course of criticizing the mayor and his handling of Chicago's public schools (which the mayor essentially seized control of in the mid- or late-1990s), Meeks used the N-word (yeah, THAT N-word) in some fashion. Outrage ensued.
PASTOR(!) Meeks sort-of apologized for his use of the word, said he wouldn't use it again, but said that his allegations about how the schools were being mismanaged were more important. (Fill in your own blank in this sentence — "If ___________ said this, his or her political life would be over†— On that basis, Meeks appears to be getting quite a pass.)
Mayor'sDictator's response was on the order of "That's nice, but it should never have happened; however, it is nice that he has seen the light.†The genius of Daley, inherited from his father (who was on TV so much during the local newscasts in his heyday that he was essentially the co-anchor at all the stations) is that he NEVER, EVER misses an opportunity to get in front of a camera and say something reasonably memorable (note the pastoral play on words in response to Meeks) — which explains why, barring a scandal of earth-shattering proportions or his simply tiring of running the city, he is indeed Dictator for Life.
So what did the Rev. Meeks say? Sit down first:
Rev. James Meeks made an about face and promises now that he will never use a racial slur after setting off a firestorm when he used a slur in a sermon.
CBS 2 Political Editor Mike Flannery reports Meeks said the battle goes beyond language.
"I won't use the word, but what about all of the ills that the word has caused society?" Meeks asked on WBBM Newsradio 780.
The chairman of the General Assembly's Black Caucus says he's "officially retiring" the "n" word from his vocabulary, just a few days after fiercely defending his use of it to denounce African-Americans with whom he disagrees.
"You've got some preachers that are house n——. You've got elected officials that are house n——. And rather than them trying to break this up, they're going to fight you to protect that white man," Meeks said in the sermon last month.
….. It is clear this controversy is not over.
Among other things in that controversial sermon last month, Meeks referred to unnamed white mayors and white governors, accusing them of running a lousy educational system that intentionally kept young African-American students from learning how to read and write.
These "unnamed white mayors and white governors" have such power, don't they?
It's clear from the context of the article, confirmed by what I heard broadcast at the time, that Meeks had to be dragged kicking and screaming into
apologizing semi-backtracking after refusing to do so for what I believe was at least several days (see UPDATE 2 below).
Hannity also brought Meeks up on his radio program today, and played audio of the above "n-word" remarks. It may not seem possible to those who haven't yet heard it, but Meeks sounds every bit as unhinged, if not moreso, than the Reverend Jeremiah A. Wright.
Now perhaps Barack Obama disassociated himself from this ugliness, and at the time denounced what another one of his "closest religious advisers" said once his remarks became widely known. You'll have to excuse for wanting to see proof of that.
More fundamentally, why would Barack "More Perfect Union" Obama surround himself with at least two such people, as he clearly did in 2004? (Why would I not be surprised if Fr. Pflegler ends up being a similar piece of work?) And how many others are still hanging around Obama in 2008?
UPDATE: Note that Meeks, as a fellow State Senator, would likely be a political as well as religious mentor to Obama.
UPDATE 2, March 20: This timeline pic from CBS Chicago's web site indicates that it took about 6-7 days for Meeks to announce his retirement of the N-word:
I see no evidence of an apology at the August 3, 2006 CBS story, nor do I recall hearing one, or of one, in the numerous WBBM radio reports I heard when I was in Chicago. I would suggest the lack of apology reflects a total lack of being sorry for what he said. I would also suggest that Meeks's semi-backtrack came about because he saw his political career evaporating before his very eyes. Recall that he was considered a mayoral candidate at the time. After the slur, that possibility disappeared (he didn't run). What little he did was likely necessary to salvage any kind of future viability for higher office.
UPDATE 3, March 21: Reporter Mike Flannery of CBS Chicago hotly disputes the contention of the original report above. In an e-mail to me that I will only partially excerpt, he says –
Based on my many years of REAL reporting, it is ludicrous for him to (put) Fr. Pfleger and Sen. Meeks in the same sentence with Rev. Wright as the "closest religious advisors" of Sen. Obama.
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- March 19 — Obama: The Pummeling by Perceptive Pundits Proceeds (with the Candidate Inadvertently Pitching in)
- March 18 — Analyses of the Day: Allah and Shelby Steele Nail Obama's 'Checkers' Speech
- March 18 — Ahead of Obama's 'Checkers' Speech ….
- March 17 — TUCC's Church Bulletins from July 2007 Probably Make Whether Obama Was Present on July 22 Irrelevant
- March 17 — Blogger Patterico Calls Out LA Times Coverage of Obama-Wright
- March 16 — Obama Gives a Nod to Wright
- March 15 — Obama Has Not Set Things Right about Wright
- March 13 — The People Who Have Given Me Grief Over the Use of Barack Obama's Middle Name …..


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It's all come down to this. I'm in Punta Arenas, Chile and it has become apparent that the window for breaking Douglas Wilson's Guinness Record has closed. I was just told that other flights from earlier in the week had been postponed by weather, those flights had finally gone earlier in the day, the last one dropped off at 8:30pm in Antarctica, now the pilots had to fly back to Chile and complete a mandatory rest period of 12 hours before flying again. That means, our earliest possible flight to Antarctica couldn't possibly leave before 10am, which would then arrive around 12:30pm. In order to beat Wilson, the marathon needed to be complete by 2:30pm. Not even Ryan Hall could do that on his best day… in Boston… let alone Antarctica. So, between asking Steve H if pilots could be bribed to fly early, and plotting the letter I was going to write to Guinness when I got home degrading the amazing challenge Wilson accomplished in 2015 while once again spelling out every reason why running public races with official start times each day is different from running closed 26.2 mile stages whenever you get there… I had to chill myself down and recognize that none of this was ever really under my control and that exactly what was supposed to happen would happen. Guinness has never shown any sign that they intend to judge us by anything but the same bar, and that is a bar that simply cannot be reached by me this year due to logistical issues that impact me but I cannot impact. Time to take stock with a full situational analysis. Refocus. Pray. What will be, will be.
Full Situation Analysis: Dan, Steve P, Lisa, Jagjit, Chau, Julie, Steve H, and I have run 6 Public Marathons or Halfs in 6 Days on 6 Continents, a feat that has only ever been done once before in history- by the 2015 participants of 777Quest group. That group actually made it onto the Antarctic charter flight in plenty of time to beat 7 days but were turned around 20 minutes from landing due to visibility concerns. Here we are, with the Male Guinness window of 162 hrs, 2 mins, 11 secs (from the start in Australia) closing in a few hours and the 7-day (168 hours) cutoff shortly behind… and I'm still on the ground in Chile. However, by all accounts, the weather in Antarctica is great and the skies are clear. If all goes according to plan, I'll get a few good hours of sleep and a nice breakfast before a smooth flight to Antarctica in plenty of time to run a nice, slow trail marathon and be one of 6 people ever to finish a real public marathon on all 7 continents in under 168 hours. Heck, Dan had been beating me by 2 hours or so everyday anyway- at least this way I don't have to run my guts out just not to get lapped by the World Record holder!
Action Steps: The only things within my control, that I can do to ensure I maximize any possible opportunities which may arise, are: Make sure my stuff is packed and ready to go in case a miracle call comes in the middle of the night; set the alarm in time to get up, dress, eat breakfast, and get on the shuttle; pray; shut down my mind, and get some sleep.
Bags packed, redundant alarms set, prayers continue, goodnight.
When the alarms went off at 5am I was tingly tired. You know that feeling you get if you wake up after a couple hours of sleep and your skin feels all prickly and you're almost light headed? I thought I'd become immune to that feeling because I'd been so easily popping in and out of various lengths of sleep for the whole past week… surprise! I'm still freaking human and it stinks! It took a few minutes for me to clear out the cobwebs and remind myself what was most certainly still at stake. It was hard. I just wanted to turn closed-eyed prayers for strength into an excuse to drift back to sleep. I wanted to set another alarm for a little while later… you know- all that crap you say to convince yourself to sleep in when you know you need to haul your butt out of bed? Well, that was happening in my hotel room in Punta Arenas, Chile on the day I was to run The White Continent Marathon and finish the 7 Continents under 7 Days, unbelievable!
My feet ultimately hit the floor and I began the rote preparations for this marathon:
Wash last night's lotion off of my feet, dry them well, apply moleskin, slather new lotion on the feet and the moleskin, put on Smartwool compression socks, pull on running tights, and cover those with fitted running sweatpants. Squeeze my swollen, bruised feet into my Altra Lone Peak size 14 trail shoes with some old Asics gaiters. Then layer up the top with a compression half-turtle neck, a fitted thermal layer, the Eternal Endurance Antarctica tech tee, balaclava, and a WVU thermal hat. Since I love to accessorize, I adorn the Lifeproof armband with iPhone, Yurbuds earbuds and Cordman to clip to my inner collar, 2 layers of gloves, race belt with bib and Gu's, Go Pro with headgear, Garmin Forerunner 920XT (sans HR Monitor since its battery died), sunglasses, and my handheld water bottle with its pocket loaded full of GE, S-Caps, Ibuprofen, and 2 extra Go Pro batteries. Finally, there was my big, hooded down jacket. After a full system check to assure I'd missed nothing of critical importance, I took off the unnecessary outer layers, stacked them neatly on the bed and went downstairs for breakfast.
Breakfast consisted of… everything I could get my hands on as usual! I won't bore you with the details, just rest assured, I got plenty of calories. Everything was still a go so I went upstairs after breakfast, grabbed my gear, and made my way out to the rental cars with all my stuff. The gear we weren't wearing had to fit in one large bag and the little backpack. The large bag could weigh no more than 20 kilos. That's about 44 pounds and needed to include things like: -40 degree sleeping bag, sleeping mat, ski pants, -30 degree boots, dry layers, mittens, toilet paper, first aid supplies, 58,000 pairs of socks, etc. everything I'd need to spend the night in Antarctica with no shower after running a marathon. As it turned out, my big bag with all my (pared down) gear weighed 19.2 kilos and I was barely good to go. We waited in the Punta Arenas airport for what seemed like forever. Then, they started boarding the flight to Antarctica, we all cheered and got in line at the gate. Wrong flight! While our 168-hour window was fading away, a different group of tourists went out and boarded a snazzy jet painted to look like a penguin. We sat back down and stopped cheering. Evidently, we still weren't the priority and my feeling of being a speck of dust in the wind grew along with a resurgence of my anxiety that we wouldn't get there in time to go under 7 days. And we waited... And waited. During this time, I met more people of varying backgrounds. A couple of the others who were there to do the White Continent and the Punta Arenas Marathons had secretive jobs I'm not allowed to talk about in public. Others had more normal jobs, including Deborah the Archivist and perennial Ironman from Maryland. She and I began talking Ironman which led into her years living in New Zealand, and a wide array of other topics based in our common ground of Maryland, Ironman, and love of travel. I also talked with a couple of Doctors from Nebraska who like to go on wild marathon adventures, including their first in sub-Saharan Africa which included IV fluids to finish! There was also Roosevelt who was challenged by his brother to run a marathon on all 7 Continents before he died. His brother issued this challenge as he was dying, to his out of shape brother who couldn't even imagine doing a marathon at that time- what a legacy! Meeting these folks helped to deaden the sound of the ticking away of my 168 hours. Eventually, we got the real instructions to embark and we headed out to the tarmac to board our flight on Antarctic Air by DAP. Just because we were getting on the plane didn't come close to guaranteeing we would land or beat 168 hours… but it was a good move in the right direction!
There was plenty of nervous energy on that plane and the whole cabin was abuzz with conversations and excitement. We got fed again! Since I was wearing layers of athletic pants I couldn't even undo a button! Everything was clear as a bell and about 12:30pm we touched down in Antarctica. My first impression of Antarctica: Where's all the snow? I was aware that most of the Earth's fresh water is stored in the form of ice in Antarctica, but I could see more brown than white on most of the surroundings from this vantage up high on the landing strip atop the highest hill. Sure, there was snow here and there, but it looked more like a surface mining property in the mountains than what I imagined Antarctica would look like. Of course, there were no trees and no grass, but there were pockets of a green moss near the water that looked like grass from a distance. Looking out across the bay we had landed near, I could see big, blue glaciers in the distance. Looking in any direction, I could see plenty of enclaves of snow on the hills… but mostly, it was all rocks and mud with some human settlements interspersed at intervals. The snow was spitting a bit and I'd say it was about 20 degrees minus a hefty wind chill up there at arrival. We all adorned our heavy coats and braced for a cold 24 hours. The crew unloaded our big bags off the plane and we set to carrying our belongings about 2 miles down to our campsite between the Chilean and Chinese Research Bases.
To get there, we traversed down some rocky "roads" used by trucks to link the bases. First, we passed the Russian base, then their neighbors the Chileans, and finally got to a big white tent that had been setup as our Start/Finish line, warming tent, and place to find food or drink. There, we dumped our heavy loads in piles on the rocks and oriented ourselves to our new digs beside the bay. The crew had just started assembling our 3-man North Face basecamp tents and the temporary "bathrooms" were also still a work in process. These "bathrooms" are porta-potty sized thin-walled tents that give some privacy while you do your business. In Antarctica, you can leave NOTHING behind. That means no overflow Gatorade, Gu pack tops, or even urine. To avoid leaving human waste, you pee into a bucket in the potty tent which you then empty into a 55 Gallon drum that is shipped back to the mainland for disposal. If you should have the misfortune of needing to go #2, you get the treat of sitting on a modified folding chair which has the chair bottom removed and a toilet seat installed in its place. But, unlike just peeing into a bucket, you have to poop into a little plastic bag where you also put your toilet paper, then put that nice, warm package into its own disposal bin… I, thankfully, never had to poop that bad! I did, however, hurry up and pee in a bucket that a few of us guys were just using out in the open- none of the penguins seemed to be too offended.
Then I was beyond ready… And time kept ticking… With just over 6 hours left until the dreaded 168 hours, Steve P, Jagjit, and I were at the start line being… not so patient. I was hopping up and down, checking and rechecking my watch, and yelling that we need to get this thing started now! Others, even including males, were standing in line for the newly erected potty tents… it was about to drive me insane! I had just walked along part of the course and could see most of the rest of it. One thing was for sure, this course was nothing like the flat, road/sidewalk courses we'd run thus far. This course had over 2500' of elevation climb in it, it was all rocks and mud and cold glacial streams. The downhills presented as much of a challenge as the climbs since all the footing was loose and the hills were so steep you simply couldn't "freewheel" down them. Braking forces were going to be necessary, yet, counter-productive energy suckers all day. This was no "conserve my energy by running a 6 hour marathon" course, this was a "lock in the four wheel drive and push hard for 6 hours just to have a chance to beat the 168-hour cutoff" course… and there were still only 3 of us and a camera crew at the start line!
The camera crew was an unexpected surprise. They were Germans, a woman and 2 men, who were there, by coincidence, to film a documentary on the inhabitants of the research bases on Antarctica. When they found out our group was coming in to run the White Continent Marathon and that some of us were there on the last race of the 777Quest, they extended their stay and were there to document the whole thing! I'll be interested to see this Spanish language documentary, filmed by Germans in Antarctica, featuring a bunch of English-speaking maniacs attempting to do something that had never been done before. As I became more and more impatient about this delay that could turn out to be the difference between finishing just under 7 days or just over it, the film crew documented my pre-race frenzy. They filmed a little pre-race interview with me and a couple others, but I'm sure I appeared distracted at best. Throughout the race, they liked to position themselves at the top of hills and watch as we struggled our way up to them. Near the top, across the crests, and part way down these hills, they used hand-held cameras, tripod mounts, microphones, and even a drone, to document the toil. At times, I was ready to talk, at other times I was so focused that all I could do was growl a couple words at them as I accelerated away. I could end up looking like a behemoth soothsayer or a big, bearded crazy man as they edit their extensive footage… guess that is just another of the things I can't control.
At long last, the group was gathered and the race was officially started. I hadn't done the exact math to the second, but I knew that all the various delays meant I would basically have to go sub-6 hour to be sure I'd make it under the 168-hour window. I knew that this wouldn't be easy and had to push all sorts of negative, self-limiting thoughts out of my mind. Facts like these: The only trail marathons I'd ever done before in my life were at the 4 Corners Quad in December. 3 of those 4 races were trail marathons and 2 of the 3 took well over 6 hours to complete… on relatively fresh legs; I had already run 2 marathons this week that took over 6 hours and those were flat; and I was running my 7th marathon on 7 Continents in 7 days with all of the accumulated stress/strains that certainly didn't make a trail marathon PR likely- even though that is what I would basically need in order to achieve the ultimate goal. The plain, stark fact was that this task was too much for me to physically accomplish. I needed more than my sore muscles and swollen, bruised feet had left in order to reach my goal. So, I turned inward to my mind. For a long time, I've said this kind of challenge is entirely mental. Guess what? I was wrong. My mind was beat too. Overrun with sleep deprivation, focus worn down by insurmountable obstacles that I couldn't control, entertaining fallback positions of "I can still make it in 7 calendar days with the time zone offsets" and "I'll still beat the old record even if I don't cross in under 168 hours", etc., my mind was into a problem solving mode, but the wrong type. The problem it was trying to solve was one of spinning a negative result to look positive… putting lipstick on a pig, not plotting a path to success… This dialogue went on inside my head as Steve P and I dashed out at a 7 minute per mile pace, quickly using up our precious little glycogen at this ridiculous anaerobic near-sprint, briefly leading the race... very briefly. Within the first mile, we had both settled into paces that were still unsustainable but weren't leading the pack any longer. My mental game had cracked and I was just working on excuses to tell my friends, family, strangers, and all the school kids who had been following my journey. Then, without any real warning, something very special happened. This will be very difficult to put into words, so bear with me. As I sit here typing this, my heart is overflowing with emotion that I can't even name. My eyes are tearing up, but not with sadness or even joy… I'm reliving the moment when my Spirit stepped out of the shadows and took over.
Sri Chimnoy would call this "Self-Transcendence". Some may call it an "out of body experience". I don't know what to call it, but I'll do my best to articulate what happened within me at about mile 2 of 26.2 on January 31, 2017 on King George Island, Antarctica. My body was screaming that I needed to slow down to a sustainable pace. My mind was trying to push my body against the 6-hour limit but simultaneously making excuses for why I would ultimately fall just a little bit short of the 777Quest. Then, the real power flooded in and immediately quieted those familiar competing parts of my "self". The "me" that lives daily life, interacts with others, hungers, thirsts, lusts, rages, cries, thinks, plans, hurts, and otherwise identifies itself as Dave Jones; ceased to be relevant. I still had an awareness of mental thought and bodily function, but they were somehow relegated to an observer status. What took control was the best part of me. The master code, the spark, that which is the "image of my creator" now left its advisory role and took the reins. I suddenly "awoke" in a world where the pain existed but was of no consequence. My legs and feet were moving in a determined march but without all of the calculations about Lactic Acid, nutrition, hydration, foot placement, body temperature, heart rate, etc. that typically fill my consciousness. All that was there now was optimism, hope, faith, and the indisputable fact that I would ultimately cross that line in under 168 without any more need to fear. My legs ran and I didn't grow weary. Others showed signs of struggle, I was being pushed. The Spirit had been there the whole time, but was unable to take the load as long as my mind and body refused to relinquish control. When my body and mind had both finally found their respective breaking points and the limits of my flesh had been exceeded, only then did I finally find what I'd been looking for: "Eternal Endurance"
Throughout my life, I have tried to mostly keep my spiritual beliefs to myself until someone asks or shows an overt interest in my beliefs on the subject. I don't like it when people beat me over the head with their religious beliefs, even if I mostly share them. I am a Christian. I was raised in a Christian household and grew up in that faith tradition. I made the decision to be baptized sometime in my teens and used Biblical teaching, at least the parts I found convenient, as a macro guide for my life. I had a real eye-opening moment shortly after I graduated college that brought me back to actively seeking to know God's will and to develop a closer relationship with Him. People who know me well, will likely tell you that I like to have fun and do my fair share of bad stuff, but that my compass does generally point up and I try to live a moral, if not pious, life. However, I have basically kept the proselytizing to a minimum and, if anything, have tried to be more of an example of Christ than an Evangelist. I've always believed that people will be more attracted to the God of Love, Grace, and Mercy who lives in me if I quietly demonstrate those things rather than getting entangled in intellectual arguments that often overshadow those foundations and pit people against people arguing over flesh-based details. I'm still not going to tell you how to live your life because that is between you and God. I'm certain that I don't like to be judged by other people and I try to return the favor. But, after an experience like the one I had in that final 777 race, I'd be remiss to not, at least, bear witness to my firsthand experience of the reality of the Holy Spirit within me that tapped into a bottomless well of strength and power from the Creator of the Universe. I can't rationally explain it. I'm sure plenty of scientists could dismiss it away, but their judgement isn't important. What's important is that I KNOW, through this experience, that the spirit overcame my weak body and my egotistical mind to carry me to the goal I so desired on that day, and I'm forever changed because of it. If you want to know more about it, how I knew the source, or what you can do to experience it too- I'd be happy to talk with you one on one.
Since this Quest took such an unexpected turn toward the Spiritual, I found myself, after the fact, wrestling with a moral matter that just didn't sit right and needs resolved clearly and publicly. That is the issue of World Records. Ever since I was a little kid, I wanted to be in the Guinness Book of World Records. I still do. But, it's evidently not my time yet. As mentioned earlier, we just missed the window to even attempt to break the 2015 record for fastest male to complete a marathon on all 7 continents by a few hours. The good news is that Lisa Davis did finish fast enough to break the female version of that record…. Unfortunately, she didn't apply for Guinness early enough, evidently unaware that she could be in a position to break the existing record, which she ultimately did by over 3 days! So, unless Guinness bends their own rules, the current record of nearly 11 days will continue to stand, even though I embraced Lisa as she crossed in 168 ½ hours and could testify in court that she absolutely completed every mile and smashed that record from 2015. Though I did apply and was accepted to attempt the male record, Guinness still has not acknowledged that what we did was fundamentally different from what Doug Wilson did as part of World Marathon Challenge, and so, no one from our group will receive Guinness recognition for what we did unless Guinness has a change of heart about the nature of our accomplishment. However, there is another record keeping organization called The Book of Alternative World Records. I was also accepted by them to attempt the apples-to-apples record of "Public" marathons on all 7 Continents and so was Lisa. She should certainly get that female record. I may get that male record. May? Why is that in question? Well, Dan Reeves is faster than me. He was faster in every single race. He was nearly 3 hours faster than me in Australia and Singapore… 3 hours! Though I had a transcendent experience, the thought of beating Dan frankly never entered my awareness during the Antarctica race. It was as if I was blind to the fact that he stood between me and the Alternative World Record. As it turned out, Dan beat me by just over 38 minutes and took 2nd place male in the race with a powerful time of 4:34:15 (only 6 minutes slower than my Personal Best ever!). While my 5:12:55 was good enough for 5th place male, was only 3 minutes slower than I ran Boston in 2014, and was my fastest of the 7 continents by over 1 minute per mile on the hardest course… I didn't earn the World Record. Dan Reeves did. But, there's a SNAFU. Dan didn't apply for any records, didn't have any of the race verification letters signed from race to race, and as far as I know, has no intent of pursuing a record after the fact. So, in the interest of assuring that a male from our group does get some sort of World Record, I will be submitting my verification forms and will let the chips fall as they may. There is no doubt that we all achieved something great in 777Quest 2017. The fact that 2 half marathoners and 4 full marathoners finished all 7 public races in under 168 hours for the first time in human history is extraordinary. The fact that Steve P and Jagjit both buckled down in the final 10k and found what it took to get in under the 168-hour wire with just a couple minutes to spare was a thing of beauty. On the other hand, in my exuberance following the event, I blurted out to the film crew that I had won a World Record and I posted on my Facebook "Done! 7 Public Marathons on 7 Continents in under 168 hours for the first time in history!!" This post, not surprisingly, got picked up by my local newspaper and many friends as meaning that I won the World Record. If I do get a World Record, it is with an asterisk. So, even if I do technically end up with a world record or 2, its only because I was the 2nd person ever to do what I did and the only one to do all the paperwork to make it official. Now that I have that off my chest, I can go back to being ecstatic over my "Silver Medal" and, much more importantly, briefly shedding the burdens of my physical existence long enough to experience the power of Spirit-driven Eternal Endurance in Antarctica.
Since this blog has already passed 4500 words, I'll stop here and come back for a "wrap-up" blog that includes my real polar plunge into the sub-freezing salt water of the Southern Ocean, a motorized raft trip to visit a penguin island, sleeping in a tent in Antarctica under the nighttime sun, the trip back North to make my 23rd Annual Shooperbowl Extravaganza a reality, and I'll also to let you know what comes next… stay tuned!


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The Germiest Spot in Your Car Is Dirtier Than a Toilet Seat
Tehrene Firman・May 24, 2019
Even though most people spend a considerable amount of time in their car, it's not often thought of as a hot spot for germs. After all, that's the bathroom's reputation. Surprisingly, the interior spaces of your car are teeming with bacteria. In fact, parts of some vehicles host considerably more germs than a toilet seat.
In the study from insurance company Netquote, a team swabbed various surfaces in different cars: request rideshare vehicles (like Uber), rental cars, and taxis. While they found plenty of germy surfaces (rideshare vehicles are by far the worst offenders), the lack of cleanliness on seat belts really stood out, which were dirtier than window buttons and door handles in some situations. "Toilet seats and coffee reservoirs both contained fewer microorganism than rideshares and rental cars," reads the study. The numbers don't lie.
"It all comes down to the frequency of cleaning. All surfaces that are touched regularly by numerous people will be germy. That's why we clean them," says Jason Tetro, microbiologist and author of The Germ Files. "Taxis are required to keep their cars clean, meaning they may be using cleaners and disinfectants that will aerosolize onto the belts and help keep the microbial numbers low. Another thing to think about is how often people who jump in a cab use the seat belt versus those who are in ride sharing. I've been in some cars where even in the back seat the seat belt is required. This could lead to a huge difference in the usage, which will reflect the germ levels."
Now, these particular stats have to do with shared vehicles, so how does this intel apply to your own car? Well, just because there aren't hundreds of people getting in and out of your car every day doesn't mean it couldn't use a cleaning. While Tetro says other spots beat out seat belts germ-wise in an average car, they're still covered with bacteria.
"The floor mats are the germiest place in the average person's car, without a doubt. They'll be havens for microbes, especially if you've spilled anything in the car," he says. "Other places will be the vents, the cup holders, and the trunk (think of all those pieces of food and other organic goodies left behind). I would suggest seat belts would be further down the list for the average car, but I'm sure the ones in family cars are loaded with germs thanks to kids."
Since seat belts can be a tricky spot to clean, Tetro has a three-step method that works like a charm. Better known as the very fitting acronym EWW.
- Extend: Pull the seat belt all the way out.
- Wash: Use a cleaner or disinfectant and make sure the belt is more than damp.
- Wipe: Use a cloth to wipe down the belt using pressure to be sure the chemical gets into the fabric.
Et voilà! Your car is just a little bit cleaner. Better tackle those floor mats and vents next…
FYI: This is exactly how long it takes to scrub away germs when washing your hands. Also, you might want to open your shades: Natural light could be the ultimate germ-fighter.
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Certain cruise lines are depriving Florida resident passengers of their right to a jury trial without their knowledge. Buried in nearly all cruise line boarding passes is what is known as a choice of forum clause. This clause dictates the court where an injured cruise passenger must bring the lawsuit. Carnival, Celebrity, Costa, Norwegian (NCL), Regent Seven Seas and Royal Caribbean, require their cruise passengers to file personal injury claims in the United States District Court for the Southern District of Florida. Notwithstanding the forum selection clause, in order for a court to hear a case, it must have what is known as "subject matter jurisdiction" which can only be bestowed upon a Federal court by the U.S. Constitution or Federal statute. In a maritime personal injury case, subject matter jurisdiction can be obtained only two ways – diversity of citizenship or admiralty. A right to a jury trial is dependent upon which type of subject matter jurisdiction is available to the cruise passenger. As explained below, Florida residents do not have the luxury of selecting a type of subject matter jurisdiction which affords the right to a jury trial. The first way a cruise passenger can establish subject matter jurisdiction is by asserting diversity of citizenship jurisdiction. As a part of diversity of citizenship jurisdiction, a plaintiff has the right to demand a jury trial. In order to have diversity of citizenship jurisdiction, the injured passenger and the cruise line must be citizens of different states or foreign countries and the claim must be worth over $75,000. Though many of the cruise lines are incorporated in foreign countries in order to dodge Federal taxes, their corporate headquarters are located in Florida. For diversity jurisdictions purposes, the Supreme Court determined a corporation is a citizen of the state where they are headquartered. As such, a Federal Court does not have diversity of citizenship jurisdiction in a case involving a Florida citizen and a cruise line headquartered in Florida. Consequently, a Florida citizen cannot invoke the court's diversity of citizenship subject matter jurisdiction. The second way a cruise passenger could establish subject matter jurisdiction is by alleging admiralty jurisdiction. A Federal Court almost always has admiralty jurisdiction for a cruise passenger personal injury as all there needs to exist is the accident occurred on the cruise ship or gangway. The citizenship of the parties has no bearing on this form of subject matter jurisdiction. However, unlike diversity jurisdiction, a cruise passenger does not have a right to a jury trial under admiralty jurisdiction. Consequently, Florida citizens do not have a right to a jury trial in a personal injury lawsuit against the above cruise lines. This fact is not mentioned in the cruise boarding pass; and, thousands of Florida residents decide to sail with the above cruise lines without knowing they are signing away their right to have a jury decide their case. Recently, the Florida Supreme Court has a case before it wherein it will decide whether cruise lines can deprive Florida residents of a jury trial by including a Federal Court forum selection clause. This case is due to be decided by the Florida Supreme Court in 2011.
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Libraries and the Opioid Crisis
A February 2018 headline in the New York Times read, "Once It Was Overdue Books. Now Libraries Fight Overdoses." Our June meeting features a special guest speaker from the Litchfield County Opiate Task Force. Join us to learn more about this timely topic, and for northwest corner news and discussion.
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