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VERGENNES — Vergennes Police Chief Mike Lowe resigned on Friday and city officials expect to received police officer Matt Roorda's official letter of resignation next week.
Lowe has been battling criminal charges of driving under the influence, embezzlement and prescription drug-related crimes.
City Manager Mel Hawley received Lowe's letter of resignation mid-morning Friday. In the letter, Lowe said he was resigning "for health reasons."
MIDDLEBURY — A veteran Middlebury Union High School field hockey team blanked less-experienced visiting Mount Abraham on Wednesday, 3-0, in a season opener that showed promise for both the Tigers and Eagles.
The Tigers, a team that returns 11 athletes who played key roles in last season's 11-win squad, showed they might contend in Division I again. Their offense earned advantages in shots (13-7) and penalty corners (6-3), while their defense, which allowed only one preseason goal, posted another shutout.
MIDDLEBURY — Until recently, you had to travel down Cross Street or Bakery Lane to get visual confirmation of work on Middlebury's new in-town bridge project.
But travelers along College Street last month received a rather abrupt signal that big changes are afoot. Seemingly overnight, five large, mature trees that bordered College Street in front of the Middlebury municipal building had suddenly disappeared.
MIDDLEBURY — Middlebury voters may be headed to the polls as soon as this November to authorize $1.8 million in improvements to the town's main wastewater pumping station off Seymour Street.
The upgrades in question involve increasing the pumping station's wet-well capacity and improving the facility's grit-removal system. The current wet well is becoming overwhelmed during certain wet weather conditions, prompting it to overflow on occasion. That overflow has found its way into the Otter Creek, thereby triggering the state mandate to have the problem fixed.
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An emotional Randy Jackson commemorated the three year anniversary of the death of his younger brother Michael Jackson by visiting Forest Lawn cemetery in Los Angeles on Monday.
Randy paid his respects and also posed for pics with MJ fans -- including a King of Pop impersonator -- who had come to Michael's final resting place.
As we previously reported, a group of MJ fans raised roughly $30K to decorate Jackson's tomb with 10,000 roses to honor the fallen pop superstar.
Michael Jackson died on June 25th, 2009.
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The Science Of Stem Cell Treatment
Statistics shows that the science of stem cell constantly improves over the years, focusing on the effective ways to treat certain orthopedic ailments. Stem cell therapy has been in the field of medicine for decades now. The process of stem cell treatment is very common to people with active lifestyle. Before, this kind of treatment is exclusive for just professional athletes, but because of the positive results, stem cell therapy had become available for all, particularly to those who suffer from arthritis, tendonitis, and golfer's elbow or medial epicondylitis.
In order for you to deeply understand how the stem cell treatment, you need to have at least the basic idea of how this type of therapy works. Basically, stem cell is a genetic medicine that uses body's immature cells. The surgeon will harvest some of these cells from the patient's bone marrow or adipose tissue and try to generate new cells, which he or she will inject to the patient's injured body parts. The injected new cells will help in restoring damaged cells and tissue, which makes the healing process faster.
Although there are patients who said to experience soreness and slight fever, stem cell treatment can guarantee safe and effective. The negative effect may last 7 days, but the effectiveness of stem cell treatment in curing more serious diseases could last a lifetime.
As we all know, our body is made up of cells. This universal fact made scientists and professional doctors believe that the stem cell therapy greatly contributes in biotechnology. They also believe that stem cell transplant can help fight aging, cancer, and other types of diseases, making them more interested in developing the process stem cell treatment.


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The No Child Left Behind Act of 2001 (PL 107-110) established the Reading First Program (Title I, Part B, Subpart 1), a major federal initiative designed to help ensure that all children can read at or above grade level by the end of third grade. Reading First (RF) is predicated on scientifically researched findings that high-quality reading instruction in the primary grades significantly reduces the number of students who experience reading difficulties in later years.
A. Key Provisions of the Reading First Program
The Reading First program's overarching goal is to improve the quality of reading instruction— and thereby improve the reading skills and achievement of children in the primary grades—by providing substantial resources at both the state and local levels. The intent is to ensure that teachers in kindergarten through third grade use reading programs and materials that are research-based. Additionally, Reading First intends to increase access to and the quality of professional development for all teachers of these grades, including special education teachers, to ensure that they have the necessary skills to teach these researched-based reading programs effectively. An important provision of the RF legislation is that professional development be made available to all schools, not only schools that received RF funding. A third emphasis is on using assessments, both to monitor progress and to identify students' reading problems early on. Reading First is intended to help prepare classroom teachers to screen for, identify, and overcome barriers to students' ability to read at grade level by the end of third grade. More specifically, the programs and the professional development provided to school staff must use reading instructional methods and materials that incorporate the five essential elements of effective primary-grade reading instruction, as specified in the legislation: 1) phonemic awareness; 2) decoding; 3) vocabulary development; 4) reading fluency, including oral reading skills; and 5) reading comprehension strategies.
All 50 states and other jurisdictions1 have been awarded Reading First grants. To date (April 2006), states have awarded subgrants to approximately 1,550 local school districts and, in turn, these districts have provided funds to approximately 5,200 schools nationwide. Because grants to states were awarded over an extended time period and states differed in the amount of time they allotted to their competitive subgrant processes, districts and schools are at various stages of implementing their Reading First programs.
B. Overview of the Evaluation
The enabling legislation for RF requires the U.S. Department of Education (ED) to contract with an outside entity to evaluate the program's implementation (Section 1205). To meet this requirement, the Department contracted with Abt Associates in October 2003 to design and conduct the Reading First Implementation Evaluation, which addresses the following questions:
- How is the Reading First program implemented in districts and schools?
- How does reading instruction differ between Reading First schools and non-RF Title I schools?
- How does reading instruction differ between Reading First schools and non-RF Title I schools as RF schools' implementation efforts mature over time?
- Does student achievement improve in schools with Reading First funds?
- Is there any relationship between how schools implement Reading First and changes in reading achievement?
The five-year study has produced this interim report based on data collected during the 2004–05 school year as well as analyses of extant data sources; it will also produce a final report in 2007 based on data from the 2006–07 school year and updated extant data. This interim report addresses questions 1 and 2. Question 3 requires an analysis of longitudinal data and will be addressed upon completion of the second wave of data collection in 2007, as will questions 4 and 5. Below we summarize key findings from the evaluation, using the following data sources:
- Surveys completed in spring 2005 by 6,185 K–3 teachers, 1,574 principals, and 1,318 reading coaches in nationally representative samples of 1,092 Reading First schools and 541 non-RF Title I schools;
- Interviews with Reading First state coordinators, and reviews of states' applications for RF awards;
- The Reading First Awards Database that lists all RF districts and schools as well as their baseline measures of K–3 reading performance and poverty rates (as measured by percent of students receiving free and reduced-price lunches); and
- ED's School-Level State Assessment Score Database (SLAD) that provided measures of reading achievement and poverty for all school districts nationwide.
The non-RF Title I school sample was constructed purposefully to provide a context for understanding how reading programs in a sample of Reading First schools differ from those in schools serving similar populations of students.2 The non-RF sample includes only Title I schoolwide project (SWP) schools with at least 40 percent of the students eligible for free or reduced price lunches, which is comparable to the RF school population. The two groups of schools are demographically similar in staff experience, attendance rates, mobility, and stability of enrollment. RF schools are, however, on average, larger than the Title I schools, and have larger proportions of K–3 students reading below grade level.
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For all the uproar you hear in the tech press about online privacy, it's remarkable how many people violate their own privacies on a regular basis. And now a new website called "We Know What You're Doing" seeks to expose just how foolish many people are about what they post publicly on the Web.
A brief look at We Know What You're Doing (aka WKWYD), which was launched by 18-year-old British Web designer Callum Haywood, shows just how many absurd, ridiculous, and downright idiotic things people say — publicly — on Facebook.
The site uses Facebook's Graph API, as well as publicly available Foursquare check-ins, to automatically generate streams of brainlessness, vitriol, and over-sharing from publicly available Facebook posts. These posts are categorized into four columns: Who wants to get fired? (people ranting about their job, bosses); Who's hungover?; Who's taking drugs?; and Who's got a new phone number? Each post includes the user's profile picture, and lists their first name and last initial. In other words, there's nothing anonymous about this — that's the point.
As Haywood explains on his site, Facebook users need to be aware of what their privacy settings are, and to make sure not to "publish status updates containing potentially risky material as 'Public.'"
"…The problem is not with Facebook themselves, when used correctly, their privacy controls are very good," writes Haywood on WKWYD's "About" page. "The problem is… people simply don't understand the risks of sharing everything."
We would argue that, not only do some people not understand the risk of over-sharing and brutal honesty on social media, but they don't realize that they are making these comments public in the first place. After all, if you have to log into a website in order to enter, it seems logical that everything that happens within that site remains behind lock and key. Obviously, as WKWYD shows in stark black and white, this misconception still exists, despite the fact that these same concerns have been around for years.
On Twitter, Haywood said that the response to WKWYD has been "overwhelmingly positive so far," and indicated that more than 100,000 unique visitors have gone to the site in the 27 hours since its launch.
In terms of making sure you don't end up on WKWYD, Haywood explains on the site that users to need check out their Facebook privacy settings, "and make sure Control Your Default Privacy is not set to 'Public.'" Haywood further recommends that users choose the "Custom" privacy settings, "and go through each option to choose who can see what."
Sage advice for an 18-year-old. If only the rest of us could be so wise.
As a side note, Haywood says the inspiration for WKWYD came from a talk by Tom Scott (the guy who created the Google Glass parody video, and Klout parody site Klouchebag.com) entitled "I know what you did five minutes ago," which we've embedded below.


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I've tried to play the tutorial 3 times making these moves:
Turn 1
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-guide top right to blue dot closer to the ball
-guide bot right to endzone
-guide bot left to gap near red guy on right in center
Turn 2
-Throw ball to top right guy
Turn 3 (this is where it breaks)
-Throw ball to bot right player in endzone
When I end Turn 3 before it can do the animation the game crashes.
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Bookbinding in a Modern World
A few weeks ago, I had the pleasure of spending a few hours with Dave Allen, a local bookbinder. We talk and write a lot around here about rare books, antiquarian books, collectible books, and first edition books, so it was a real treat to go and learn a bit about their creation, restoration and repair.
Dave was very friendly to me and very tolerant of my asking a million questions. He was working on a first edition of Lucy Maud Montgomery's The Blue Castle, and a probably first edition of L. Frank Baum's The Wizard of Oz. Watching him work, and listening to him talk about what he does for a living, I was inspired by how much he clearly cares about his job, and the books he creates, repairs and restores.
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Bulldog blues: Joking Mad' grads will be friends
As soon as Matchmaker heard about Gary and Lori, she knew they were a match just waiting to happen. These two 30somethings both have an interest in the social sciences: Lori has her BS in psychology, and Gary is currently a graduate student in social work. Will these two JMU alums clash over the social symbolism of their bulldog mascot? Or will they be a study in romance?
The date
Lori and Gary wined and dined at Rococo's on Commonwealth Drive.
Did you do anything out of the ordinary before the date, to plan for it?
Lori: I asked my mom to check on my cat since I'd be out late.
Gary: I spent a long time wondering what my date would be like. This was my first blind date ever. All I had to go on were friends' horror stories. One involved a sleepover where my friend was awakened by his date's mother screaming obscenities and calling her "a good-for-nothing tramp." With the sheets pulled up to his chin, he helplessly watched this woman, whom he just had met, get attacked by her mother.
(Matchmaker would like to point out that she had no part in this blind date.)
Were you first or second to arrive?
Lori: First. Actually, I was 10 minutes early, which anyone who knows me will say is very odd.
Gary: I was the late one, but only by a couple of minutes.
What did you do while waiting?
Lori: I tasted a couple of wines and talked to one of the servers at Rococo's about the Blind Date Challenge.
Were you nervous?
Lori: A little bit nervous, a little bit nauseated.
Gary: A little, yes.
When did you calm down?
Lori: I calmed down after a few sips of wine and after meeting Gary. He was very laid-back, so that helped to ease the tension.
Gary: After an exchange of pleasantries and a few gulps of wine.
First impression:
Lori: Before meeting him, I knew he was interested in social justice, so I was expecting a longhaired, crunchy dude. It turns out that he was neither longhaired nor crunchy. He seemed casual and relaxed, and he was nice-looking.
Gary: Lori has a warm, attractive smile. Her good looks are complemented by her easy-going character.
Would you say this person was your type?
Lori: He wasn't my type, but that's not a bad thing.
Gary: Type is difficult to define, so maybe I don't have a type.
How did you like their style?
Lori: I liked his style, which mostly had to do with his personality and presence, not so much his attire.
Gary: She has great style– classy.
Describe what your date was wearing.
Lori: A guayabera shirt and jeans.
Gary: She was wearing a nice blouse, and the pants she wore showed off her girlish figure quite nicely.
Did you order drinks?
Lori: Yes, I ordered a chardonnay.
Gary: Lori was on her first glass when I arrived... so she says. The server removed an empty wine glass from the table after I ordered. Just kidding, it was a taster. I was the one who had two glasses of wine– the recommended daily allowance!
What did you have to eat?
Gary: The appetizer was a salad topped with a pesto cream sauce. We both ordered the same entrée– salmon with a Mediterranean sauce.
How was it?
Lori: The food was absolutely wonderful. The salmon was perfectly cooked– to the melt-in-your-mouth point.
Gary: The meal was excellent. The salmon was succulent, the green beans were flavorful, and the garlic generously added. I was definitely a fan.
Did you share?
Gary: The appetizer, yes.
How was the service in the restaurant?
Lori: The service was excellent, even when we gave him a hard time.
Gary: The server offered great culinary suggestions. He wasn't over-attentive, but he didn't leave us hanging.
What did you talk about?
Lori: We talked about going to school at JMU, his experiences in Ecuador and the Dominican Republic, what he hoped to write his thesis on, my travels, life, being a Solid Gold dancer, etc.
Gary: Well, we both are JMU grads– same year, in fact. Naturally, that provided a good starting point. I didn't feel I needed to search for words, and Lori never hesitated. There were never any expectant pauses or awkward moments– just two people enjoying each other's company and a great meal.
What did you find out that was interesting about this person?
Lori: That he lived in Ecuador for eight or nine months. It's especially interesting because he went for one particular reason, which fell through right after he got there. But he stayed and made the best of it, exploring the country and learning some Spanish.
Gary: I was impressed that she spent a couple months trekking across Europe alone. I think making the decision to travel abroad solo is gutsy.
Was there anything you really disliked?
Lori: Yeah– he wouldn't concoct an elaborate story that we could tell about in this article. (Joking, joking.)
Gary: There was nothing that I disliked. Seriously!
Did you have a lot in common?
Lori: Yes. We're both interested in traveling, and we had some of the same professors in college. Also, I used to be a vegetarian, and he's a pescetarian.
Gary: Stepping up to the Blind Date Challenge is enough!
Was there "chemistry" between you? Interesting body language?
Lori: There was chemistry on a friendship level, but not necessarily a romantic chemistry. At the beginning of the date, he was leaning back. Towards the end, he was leaning toward me.
Gary: Sometimes, chemistry's a lot like dancing. At times, you and your partner are in step, and then there are times when you're both just a little behind the beat. That night, the band was not playing our song.
How were your date's table manners?
Lori: I don't think he chewed with his mouth open or anything. And we agreed to tell each other if there were green things stuck in our teeth. Is that good manners?
Gary: She has mad skills!
How did dinner end?
Lori: With a full belly.
Gary: We agreed it was getting late and decided to call it a night.
Did you do anything after dinner?
Lori: I live in Staunton, so I wanted to get on the road.
Gary: Negative.
What was the VERY end like?
Lori: The very end of a first date is always awkward, but Gary made it less so. We walked out together, hugged, and talked about a future JMU alumni happy hour.
Gary: Pleasant and funny.
Did you walk each other to the car?
Gary: I walked her to her slick SUV.
A hug? A kiss?
Lori: We hugged, but no funny stuff.
Did you have fun?
Lori: Yes, I had a lot of fun getting to know him and sharing a meal.
Gary: It was a nice time.
Would you see this person again?
Lori: Yes. I thoroughly enjoyed his company, but I don't think there was any romantic chemistry.
Gary: Sure, as long as I'm not being graded.
Overall date experience?
Lori: The date was an overall great experience. Gary isn't someone I would have met otherwise, and he seems like a fantastic human being. So, thanks to the Hook for introducing us!
Gary: For my first blind date, I'd say I got lucky...well, you know what I mean.
On a scale of 1-10, how would you rate the date?
Lori: 8
Gary: 8


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RIP to Sapporo's "Gaijin Bar"Oct 01 (Fri ), 2010
A note from the Gaijin Bar:
"In the 15 plus years of the Gaijin Bar's existence, there have been rumors that the management has changed, or it's been sold, etc. For the first time in the Gaijin Bar's history, the rumor is true. Saturday October 2nd will be the last night!
Therefore, it is all you can drink for ¥1,500 on Friday and Saturday. In the last 15 years we have been responsible for some marriages, kids and probably some divorces. Definitely there have been a lot of good times and a lot of hangovers. Please come and say good-bye.
A good person who makes tasty food will re-open at that location in November, so stay tuned for details. Long live the Gaijin Bar!!
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Sapporo, Hokkaido
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Learning through Trials
I have often pondered, "Why is it that the Son of God and His holy prophets and all the faithful Saints have trials and tribulations, even when they are trying to do Heavenly Father's will? Why is it so hard, especially for them?"
I think about Joseph Smith, who suffered illness as a boy and persecution throughout his life. Like the Savior, he cried out, "O God, where art thou?" (D&C 121:1). Yet even when he was seemingly alone, he exercised his agency to wait upon the Lord and carry out his Heavenly Father's will, like the Savior.
I think of our pioneer forebears, driven from Nauvoo and crossing the plains—exercising their agency to follow a prophet even as they suffered sickness, privation, and even death. Why such terrible tribulation? To what end? For what purpose?
As we ask these questions, we realize the purpose of our life on earth is to grow, develop, and be strengthened through our own experiences. How do we do this? The scriptures give us an answer in one simple phrase: we "wait upon the Lord" (Psalm 37:9; 123:2; Isaiah 8:17; 40:31; 2 Nephi 18:17). Tests and trials are given to all of us. These mortal challenges allow us and our Heavenly Father to see whether we will exercise our agency to follow His Son. He already knows, and we have the opportunity to learn, that no matter how difficult our circumstance, "all these things shall [be for our] experience, and . . . for [our] good" (D&C 122:7).


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Whilst enjoying some fine port at the B&F last night, a couple of ideas for experiences that are well worth doing came up in conversation. I have been lucky enough to enjoy both the below when they were a bit cheaper, and although a bit pricey I can recommend them as great fun and very interesting if you are looking to enjoy some great food and learn something at the same time.
1. Carving course at Simpsons on the Strand
2. Butchery course at the Ginger Pig
And one I want to do but have yet to try...
Brindisa ham carving class...
http://www.brindisa.com/spanish-food-ev ... g-lessons/
Fun Foodie experiences
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Was the dipstick tube for big blocks painted chevy orange on 69's ??
I was under the impression that 69's were unpainted. Please correct me if I am wrong.
1967 BLACK.I would offer the following as proof;Take a peek at the Color photo that is floating around of the line in 67 where they are loading the rear into a 67 camaro body. The car behind the camaro is a BB full size, you can make out the black painted dip stick tube w NAT handle?Jim
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Author: Kathie
Date: 3/7/2008 10:17 pm EDT
My husband and I are also thinking about installing this in our kitchen and bathroom. We have a woodburning stove in our kitchen and was wondering if we can install this under the woodstove? How long has one of these floors been installed in a home and how is it holding up? Most of the comments on line are current and I don't see any feed back from someone that's had it installed for over a year.
I also was wondering about the air holes that some of the people have talked about is there a way to get around having to grout the floor twice to seal these holes?
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Date: 3/8/2008 0:56 am EDT
Avaire should not be exposed to prolonged temperatures above 110F. However, no permanent damage will occur unless the temperature exceeds ~160F. As there are hundreds of wood burning stoves on the market, we unfortunately cannot test each individually. Please consult your wood stove manual for guidance on temperatures.
Regarding your question about how long floors have been installed. The very first Avaire floor was installed on March 9, 2006. That floor is still performing very well, as are all the other Avaire floors installed since then. In fact, I just inspected a floor installed in July 2006 that is in the shipping office in our original building. The floor looks great - no problems at all. I certainly invite our existing customers to post their experiences.
Regarding the grout sinking, we've heard of this in just three situations including the one reported on this board (out of thousands of installations). I would not expect this to be an issue for you.
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The EUA/CER price differential explained
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International carbon reduction and offset alliance forms
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I admit it: I love Kate Middleton. I love that she defied the usual dating advice and waited years for her prince to come around. I love that she's a commoner but still wears those outrageous feathered hats. Most of all, I love that the hats are the most remarkable thing about her.
Pretty without being distractingly gorgeous, fashionable without pushing boundaries, reserved without being shy, Catherine Elizabeth Middleton doesn't have even a fraction of the tragic mystique of Diana, Princess of Wales. And that could be her saving grace.
In Middleton's favor is that, unlike Diana, she is presumably not contending with a groom who's in love with someone else. Nor does she bear much resemblance to Sarah Ferguson, Prince Andrew's bride, who captured the public imagination with her frisky, slightly mischievous interpretation of post-feminist royal wifedom (remember the tabloid stories suggesting that she and Diana had developed a friendship that involved lots of sneaking out of palaces and furtive visits to nightclubs?).
Middleton also seems unlikely ever to need the victim narrative that explained so much about Diana (and Sarah). And it's not just because, at 29, she's been in an on-again/off-again relationship with William for eight years (hence the nickname Waity Katie) and ostensibly knows what she's getting into. It's not even because she genuinely appears to be marrying for love (a nice change for the British royal family). It's because, I daresay, Kate is bland. Brilliantly, spectacularly, perfectly bland. And because much of that blandness appears to be born of her devotion to William, it's hard to imagine a better woman for the job of … whatever title she gets after Thursday.
If we are to believe what we read (and for the sake of argument, let's just say we do), Middleton has spent her entire post-college life hoping and waiting to be the wife of the future king of England. She met William when they were both students at the University of St. Andrews in Scotland, and he considered her merely a friend, or so the story goes, until he saw her in a fashion show in a revealing outfit. She graduated with a degree in art history and has held a job or two, but at least according to a recent Newsweek article for which almost no one spoke on the record, she has been careful about accepting job offers lest she appear to be using her boyfriend's connections to unfair advantage.
"She's been driven by a desperate desire not to do anything that's tricky for him," said an unnamed source in Newsweek.
Is that a nice way of saying she didn't want to work? Maybe so, but who cares? In a world full of people whose ambitions mightily outweigh their abilities and whose drive to distinguish themselves from the pack all too often just makes a mess of things, there's something to be said for simply performing a role rather than trying to transcend it. Or, as yet another anonymous insider put it in Newsweek, Kate's willingness to take a backseat to her husband may, ironically, be the thing that makes her special, particularly if it results in a happy marriage.
"I think it's good that Kate seems to lack ambition," said this source. "She's a strong girl, definitely not a pushover. But her job is to walk two steps behind him. If you've got someone who likes being in the spotlight herself, well, that's when all the trouble started with Charles and Diana. The best royal marriages are when the consort keeps her head down."
I know, I know. How antediluvian. How insulting to the legacy of Diana. But, let's admit it, how refreshing!
Look, I'm not saying this is the way to go for most couples. Walking two steps behind your husband, unless your husband has an exceptionally nice posterior, seems like an express train to boredom, frustration and powerful pharmaceuticals. But as Kate's predecessors learned the hard way, being a royal means all the usual bets are off. You can try to distinguish yourself from the married-with-monarchy expectations, but it will probably come at a terrible price. Kate seems to not only understand that but even celebrate it. Maybe that's why she wears the feathered hats. Even with your head down, you still look like you might have wings.


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2008 Cadillac STS-V Values
Select a 2008 Cadillac STS-V trim level
2008 model year changes
For 2008, the Cadillac STS gets a much more powerful standard engine--a 302-horsepower, direct-injected V6--and a new six-speed automatic transmission standard across the model line. And making its debut for 2008 is a new STS Platinum Edition, which adds distinctive materials inside, with Tuscany leather and special chrome and wood accents. Two advanced-technology options, Lane Departure Warning Alert and Side Blind Zone Alert, help increase driver awareness and safety, and a head-up display and high-intensity discharge (HID) headlamps are now available on V6 models. Separately, the available Intellibeam headlamps switch between high and low beam as oncoming vehicles approach and pass. There's also a new Performance Handling Package, which adds an upgraded braking system, 18-inch alloy chrome-plated wheels, and summer performance tires, plus an active front steering feature on V8 AWD models. Flashy new polished aluminum 14-spoke, 18-inch wheels are also newly available. Otherwise there are a number of cosmetic changes, including new side marker lamps, a new grille and lower front fascia and intake, a new body-colored rear fascia, and polished aluminum exhaust tips.
Competitive comparison
Overall performance; smooth ride; available leading-edge technology features; optional all-wheel drive; unique front-wheel steer feature; strong safety; ahead-of-the-pack acceleration (STS-V).
Special features for 2008
The 2008 STS is Cadillac's high-technology flagship sedan, and in terms of performance and features is every bit a rival to the top sedans from Germany and Japan. With all-wheel drive, the STS makes a surprisingly good all-weather car despite its performance edge, and with the new front-wheel steer system the AWD V8 model promises to be especially nimble. Inside, the STS has a look and feel that entirely justifies the price, and convenience and safety features that match the best in its class.


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Community Talk Back: Orange Is The New Black
In November of 2013, FAAN Mail held a community talk back about the Netflix show, Orange Is The New Black, a drama series set in a women's prison. Community members who are personally affected by and concerned about mass incarceration shared their perspectives after watching episode 12 from Season 1. We explored the following questions and more…
Does this show offer any value in the movement to end mass incarceration? What aspects of the show are realistic or fantasy? What do people need to know about mass incarceration?
(watch a shorter recap here.)
Attendees were invited to bring books to donate to Books Thru Bars, which sends quality reading material to prisoners and encourages creative dialogue on the criminal justice system, thereby educating those living inside and outside of prison walls.
This event was CoSponsored by:
Talk Back: Rick Ross' Hold Me Back (Nigeria)
In this talk back, we respond to Rick Ross' video "Hold Me Back: Nigeria."
We raise questions about the concept of a "global ghetto," capitalism and exploitation, artist responsibility and accountability in the hip hop industry. We refer to an article titled "Confessions of a Failed Hip Hop Publicist" written by Sebastian Elkouby at sebishiphop.wordpress.com.
FAAN Mail (Fostering Activism and Alternatives Now!) is a media literacy/activist project formed by women of color and based in Philadelphia. Together with our allies, we critique and create media with social change in mind.
Music/Visuals credit: "Hold Me back: Nigeria" by Rick Ross, Universal Music Group. FAIR USE.
Talk Back: Scandal
This talk back is for the Scandal fans (and FAANS)! We explore why we love (and sometimes hate) the popular tv drama, Scandal. *Spoiler Alert*
FAAN Mail (Fostering Activism and Alternatives Now!) is a media literacy/activist project formed by women of color and based in Philadelphia. Together with our allies, we critique and create media with social change in mind.
Talk Back: Rick Ross & Universal Music Group Promote Rape Culture
"Put molly all in her champagne, she ain't even know it / I took her home and I enjoyed that, she ain't even know it."
– Rick Ross of Def Jam Records, Universal Music Group
As the Steubenville case has recently reminded us, THIS is rape.
And it is in a rape culture where a top selling artist like Rick Ross, can glorify sexual violence and grace the covers of Rolling Stone Magazine at the same time.
Why do gatekeepers at UMG and Def Jam Records give these sexually violent messages a platform? Who else is responsible? When will this stop?
Universal Music Group was silent when we called out their CEO Lucien Grainge for promoting music that routinely degrades women of color.
Universal Music Group was silent when Lil Wayne's sexually violent lyric about Emmett Till was released on the internet.
Will UMG stay silent now, as their artist Rick Ross promotes rape? Will Def Jam simply apologize and allow another artist to glorify rape three months from now? Will Rolling Stone Magazine continue to refer to Rick Ross as "hip hop's most lovable don?"
Join us to demand that Def Jam and Universal Music Group publicly denounce sexual violence and make a commitment to ending the promotion of sexual violence in their music. Enough is enough. It is time to hold these labels, corporations and their artists — accountable.
And for the advertisers and media outlets, from print and digital to television and radio, that give a platform to artists who promote sexual violence, know that you are part of this problem.
Let hip hop activist Rosa Clemente's response below inspire you as she calls on men to join us and speak out against rape culture.
Join us and tweet @
DefJamRecords and @ UMG that you are #NotBuyingIt until they stop promoting rape culture.
We support the following petitions/efforts:
Tell Reebok to drop Rick Ross as Spokesperson
Rape, Rick Ross and Responsibility #RRR
Tell NYC's Hot 105.1 to stop playing the rape song and to cancel Rick Ross performance next Friday. (See image.)
Talk Back: Our Conversation with CLEAR CHANNEL about Misogyny, Balance & Diversity
Recently, two members of FAAN Mail joined the Director of News and Community Affairs at Clear Channel for a taped interview to discuss our concerns about the onslaught of misogyny and lack of diversity and balance on mainstream urban radio. The interview aired last Sunday on POWER 99 in Philadelphia.
Tune in to the 10 minute podcast HERE.
Special thanks to Loraine Ballard Morrill from Clear Channel and Women's Way for helping to facilitate this first step of dialogue. We hope to have more opportunities to continue this conversation with Clear Channel about what steps they will take to counter their misogyny with a more diverse and balanced reflection of our community, supporting their commitment to "treat people with respect, fairness and humanity".
Check out our community dialogue on radio politics to learn about the barriers independent artists face and how we can change this by taking collective responsibility. Yes, audiences, artists and radio industry professionals have a role to play if we want to see change.
So please join us and tell Clear Channel your concerns in the comments below or tweet your concerns to @ClearChannel. We will keep you posted about our efforts and progress.
Talk Back: Lil Wayne and the Corporations Behind Him
Rapper Lil Wayne's music is in heavy rotation on most urban radio stations in the US. His misogynistic lyrics are generally (not always) tolerated and celebrated.
But when he released a track last week with the artist Future that trivialized the violent killing of civil rights icon Emmett Till, the misogyny and disrespect sparked public outrage. Although L.A. Reid, CEO of Epic Records (Future's label, not Wayne's) has apologized and promised to remove the offensive content from the track, Lil Wayne has been silent. The family of Emmett Till is demanding an apology from the artist.
We believe Emmett Till's family and the black community deserve more than an apology — from Lil Wayne and the corporations that back him.
We want answers and real action from Epic Records, Cash Money Records, Sony Entertainment, Universal Music Group, Clear Channel, Radio One, and Viacom — media corporations that consistently provide a platform for misogynistic and hateful messages about black and brown communities.
We encourage others to join us and talk back to these corporations. How? Here are some ideas:
Share or create your own memes. Express yourself in an Open Letter and post it to your blog. Talk about this with your friends, film it and upload it to youtube. Make a PSA. Create a remix or mashup that gets people thinking. Use satire to critique what you see. Organize a petition. Organize direct action. Do something totally creative and unexpected to get people talking about this. Support the media that is reflective of who we are as a diverse people.
And use twitter to call out not only @
LilTunechi, but @epic_records, @UMG, @ SonyEntNet, @ClearChannel, Radio One and @Viacom.
Together, let us TALK BACK – through our words and actions- and be heard.
Collectively, we are strong. The question is — are we willing to act?
Talk Back: K'NAAN & Self Censorship
"I now suspect that packaging me as an idolized star to the pop market in America cannot work; while one can dumb down his lyrics, what one cannot do without being found out is hide his historical baggage." – K'NAAN
On December 8, 2012, Somali born Canadian hip hop artist K'naan wrote an Op Ed in the New York Times about how his record label (A&M/Octone Records) has pressured him to censor his message. In his powerful and honest essay, K'Naan questions the meaning of success. FAAN Mail responds to his words in this talk back.
Music credit: "People Like Me" by K'Naan. 2010 A&M/Octone.
Check out K'Naan here.
For Corporations, When Colored Girls are Degraded: An Open Letter to CEO Lucien Grainge of Universal Music Group
"All I want for my birthday is a big booty hoe." – 2 Chainz, rapper
Well all I want for my birthday is for music corporations to be held accountable for routinely degrading women of color.
Four powerful corporations are behind the majority of music we hear on the radio and the videos we see on tv. Four Corporations are behind the artists who get rightfully criticized — and then quickly forgotten. But how often do these corporations get called out?
Let's keep this in mind as we watch the recently released music video "Birthday Song" performed by rappers 2 Chainz and Kanye West. The song is owned by Universal Music Group (UMG), the world's largest music corporation.
Okay, so most of us probably know rappers Kanye and 2 Chainz. And we definitely know what they want for their birthday. But let's turn our attention to someone less familiar, someone else who helped get this song/video in front of your eyeballs and ears — because well, he and his team of senior executives produce, market, distribute and profit from it. Let's meet Lucian Grainge, the Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Universal Music Group. He is regarded as the most powerful executive in the music industry.
Mr. Grainge, I will cut to the chase: Have you watched any of the videos, listened to any of the music you own lately?
Why do you (and your staff and board members) think it is acceptable to routinely exploit women of color in your music?
Do you ever think of the black and brown girls navigating the lifestyles and values that your music glorify?
Do you consider the historical and present day context in which your music circulates?
After all, women of color being degraded, dehumanized and reduced to ASS — is nothing new. We live in a world where black and brown women's bodies have been exploited since slavery. Where 19th century European freak shows exhibited the "unusual" body of Saartjie Baartman, a South African woman whose remains were finally returned to her homeland in 2002 after legal battles with the French government. Mr. Grainge, your disregard for black and brown women's bodies is the same disregard that enabled a history of forced sterilization, the shackling of birthing black mothers in prison. Mr. Grainge, your indifference resembles the indifference of a rape culture that overlooks the men who rape, while blaming the women and girls of color, who experience sexual violence at disproportionate rates. Research[1] has proven that the objectification of women in today's toxic media environment has harmful effects on women and girls.
It is in this greater context of sexual exploitation where the dehumanization of black and brown women has become standard in commercial hip hop. The "Birthday Song" is simply one example. There are countless others.
For decades, artists, fans, and scholar activists have been writing and making films about this exploitation, rallying against it, provoking dialogue, engaging community and offering alternative messages that are rarely celebrated by corporations like UMG. Even young girls are speaking up (see Spark Summit and Watoto from the Nile). Are you listening to them?
Together we are fighting this exploitation and the internalized oppression that it reinforces in communities of color and our greater society. In your mansion, Mr. Grainge, you probably never concern yourself with the struggles of black and brown girls or something called internalized oppression. But this reality is too close for many of us to ignore.
Mr. Grainge, as CEO of the largest music company in America, be clear that you, your senior executives and board members are contributing to a legacy of exploitation.
Now, I realize that considering questions and providing a moral response would compromise your bottom line. Your bottom line is more important than any black and brown girls and women who are internalizing the harmful messages YOU own and distribute.
Given this logic, it is clear that you will ONLY support change if your bottom line is at stake. And that's why I'm writing this. I'm calling on advertisers & consumers to stop supporting your company, Universal Music Group, until you stop exploiting black and brown women in your music. It's that simple.
I am also asking educators everywhere to help young people understand the role that corporations play in our mediated lives. Young people need to understand why it is that UMG's music, songs like "Birthday Song" – flood our radio, youtube and music television. Educators, parents and peers need to have conversations about the meaning of popular music, unpack the harsh and complicated realities these messages reveal. Ultimately, it's bigger than one corporation. One artist. One song.
Still, Mr. Lucian Grainge, as CEO of Universal Music Group you cannot deny your power as a leader in the music industry. Therefore, you must do something.
Right now, you, your board members, your staff — are a critical part of the problem. I'm calling on you to be part of the solution. And I hope others join me.
What is your response?
Nuala Cabral, FAAN Mail
Work Cited:
[1] Halliwell, E., Malson, H., Tischner, I. (2011). Are contemporary media images which seem to display women as sexually empowered actually harmful to women? Psychology of Women Quarterly, 35(1) 38-45.


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Your pre-vacation checklist
You can alleviate the stress and panic that can accompany pre-vacation planning by creating a list of tasks and issues that need to be managed when you're not there, then checking off each item as it's handled. This systematic planning enables you to leave for vacation with a clear conscience and get some well-deserved R&R.
At the very minimum, you'll need someone in your organization to cover for you while you're out. If you have no employees, a professional colleague can stand in as backup support for client or customer emergencies.
Make a project list
Do a complete inventory of recently completed projects, current work, and upcoming assignments. For each item on your list create another list of all possible issues that could arise while you are away. Plan for each of these developments. Be sure not to overlook recently completed projects. Work that you have "put to bed" can often generate client or customer inquiries in the weeks following.
Do worst-case planning
Come up with a list of possible scenarios on current projects and brief internal staff or colleagues. A little bit of Murphy's Law planning can prepare everyone for the things that will undoubtedly go wrong. What are the chief concerns for each client? What's the worst thing that can happen with each account? This kind of planning means that clients will be speaking with someone who understands their concerns should a problem arise. For example, your notes on a particular project might say, "If Mrs. Green calls, her concerns are likely to be about x and y. The last time we completed a project like this we had difficulty in the following areas."
Brief key clients or customers
Don't let your lengthy absence come as a surprise to clients. Give them some notice about your absence -- a minimum of two to three weeks, preferably longer. Let them know how long you'll be away, who they should contact in your absence, how they can contact this person (phone and fax numbers, and email address), and what how this person will be able to help them. Communicate your confidence in the ability of staff or a stand-in to help them should a problem arise. If they're dealing with someone new in your organization, arrange for both parties to speak before you go away. It's important that your clients feel comfortable with the arrangements you've made.
Plan for all incoming communications
Make sure you're prepared to handle your voicemail, email, and incoming faxes.
- Voicemail: If someone else in your office is handling your workload, put their extension or phone number in your outgoing message so your callers will be able to reach a real person who can respond to their needs. If you aren't referring callers to someone else, script a reassuring message that lets clients know when you will return and how they can get what they need in the meantime.
- Email: Check with your ISP to see if they offer Auto Respond, a service that sends an automatic reply to anyone who emails while you're away. Like your voicemail, your reply message should indicate how long you'll be out of the office, and who people can contact if their message requires immediate attention. If you don't have this option, be sure to have someone check your mailbox regularly and deal with any messages that need a direct response.
- Faxes: Have someone in your office collect, read, and traffic faxes so that no pressing issues slip through the cracks. You may want to have someone in your office forward your faxes to a local fax number so you can collect them yourself while you're away.
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Replenish supplies and petty cash
If you'll be leaving staff or co-workers behind, make sure they have enough office supplies to continue working in your absence. Check the petty cash supply and make sure it's adequate, or leave a signed check for that purpose.
Pay bills, sign checks
Check the due date on your regular payments for rent, utilities, supplies and so forth. If you don't want to pay them ahead of time, write out the checks and entrust someone with the job of mailing them on the appropriate dates. Don't let accounts become past due just because you've gone on vacation.
Leave emergency contact information
Make sure those people still in the office won't be stranded if they run into technical or maintenance problems in your absence. What happens if a drain backs up or the boiler blows? Leave the phone number of your building's electrician, plumber, and other maintenance people. Don't forget about your computers or phone network. Make sure there's contact information for those repair people or consultants as well.
Double-check the little things
Don't forget about housekeeping and security measures. Write down all the chores you take care of in your office without even thinking about it. Are you the person who routinely pulls the shades in the late afternoon to keep the equipment from overheating? Are you the one who puts toilet paper in the employee's rest room? Think of all those small jobs and make sure they get done while you're gone. If you're the one who closes up at night, make sure someone else knows the procedure for securing the building.
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Tobyhanna Army Depot, Delaware Water Gap National Recreation Area and agencies like the Social Security Administration are among federal operations in the Poconos bracing for billions in automatic spending cuts March 1, unless Congress takes preventive action.
Tobyhanna Army Depot, Delaware Water Gap National Recreation Area and agencies like the Social Security Administration are among federal operations in the Poconos bracing for billions in automatic spending cuts March 1, unless Congress takes preventive action.
Inaction from Congress could cut into the tourism season for the National Park Service.
The park service has about 90 permanent and 75 seasonal workers at Delaware Water Gap, a two-state, 70,000-acre park with a $9.5 million annual budget.
An internal park service memo has directed park service units to delay final seasonal hiring this year pending resolution of the budget impasse. Officials have been told to expect a 5 percent budget cut under sequestration.
Local park officials referred inquiries to National Park Service spokesman Jeffrey Olson, who said the public should expect reduced services at all park facilities.
"Visitors would see reduced hours of operation for visitor centers, shorter seasons, and possibly closing of camping, hiking and other recreational areas when there is insufficient staff to ensure the protection of visitors, employees, and historic, cultural and natural resources," Olson said.
"The reductions would limit the National Park Service's ability to sustain a full complement of seasonal employees needed for interpretive programs, maintenance, law enforcement and other visitor services as we are preparing for the busy summer season."
Social Security payments and other retirement and disability benefits are exempt from the sequester cuts, but Social Security Commissioner Michael Astrue said it will result in the loss of 5,000 agency jobs through attrition and the termination of 1,500 temporary workers.
Social Security has 16 employees at its Smithfield Township office, according to a 2008 survey by the Asbury Park Press of New Jersey.
"If sequestration occurs, we estimate that visitors to our field offices could wait almost 30 minutes to see a representative, and callers to our 800 number would wait almost 10 minutes for us to answer," Astrue told the Senate Appropriations Committee on Feb. 7.
"The pending levels of initial disability claims would rise by over 140,000 claims, and on average, applicants will have to wait about two weeks longer for a decision on an initial disability claim and nearly a month longer for a disability hearing decision."
Tobyhanna Depot, which employs about 5,400 workers maintaining military communications and electronics equipment, would lose about $309 million, or one-third of its funding, this year alone, if the so-called sequester goes into effect, according to a recent U.S. Army impact report.
Tobyhanna spokeswoman Jackie Boucher said Thursday officials are still working out details of the fiscal impact.
All told, there could be $109 billion in across-the-board cuts — half in military programs — by Sept. 30. If left unchecked, the automatic cuts will total $1.2 trillion by 2021.
Agencies and departments are hesitant to spell out the impact, but thousands could lose their jobs, others would work reduced hours and it would take much longer, if at all, for residents to receive services.
Congress, which remains in recess as the sequestration deadline looms, should reconvene and immediately repeal the sequester, said U.S. Rep. Matt Cartwright, whose district includes part of Monroe County.
"The outrageous thing is we're all off this week," said Cartwright, who took office last month, long after Congress enacted the automatic spending cuts. "We're doing work in our district, but we should be at our desks with only days to go before sequester."
The federal government's debt ratio to gross domestic product was much worse in 1946, at 122 percent, than the 105 percent debt-to-GDP ratio today, he added.
Other federal offices with a presence in the Poconos include the U.S Forest Service, who manages the Grey Towers National Historic Site; U.S. Geological Survey, with a station in Milford and Health and Human Services.


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Auri® Gold Glass Shield is essential for every driver and their car. Glass Shield coats your windows with a protective coating that repels dirt and grime, rain, sleet, snow and even bugs! It won't distort your vision, it actually improves it by repelling all the harmful elements that can block your sight during driving. Size: 4 oz.


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Here are the official rules for the Freakishly Flexible 5K, which I have taken to calling the FFFK.
Date: Feb. 14, 2009 (or some time this week, or early next)
Distance: 5K (or 10K or 5 miles or 10 miles or 13.1 miles or 26.2 miles or 1K or 100 meters or pretty much whatever you want)
Divisions: Runner, walker, biker, swimmer, stair-stepper, etc.
[You thought "Freakishly Flexible" referred to Non-Runner Nancy's hips, but it actually refers to the rules.]
Early registration ends Wednesday. Or Thursday. Or maybe a week from Thursday. Late registrants will not be guaranteed a t-shirt. Early registrants won't, either. There will be virtual medals for all finishers.
The Chic Runner has volunteered to be the official time keeper. Results will be posted over there. You can e-mail her at danicakoo |at| gmail |dot| com. Or you can post your results here, and I will pass them on.
Here are the registrants, so far:
- Abby
- AKA Alice
- Alexandra
- Anna
- Beth
- Betsy
- Chic Runner
- Christie
- Cousin Jogger
- Erik
- Grandma Jogger
- Jennifer Burgett
- Jilligan (and her kids, and her sisters)
- JoJaJogger
- Kristina
- Lisa Slow-n-Steady (of the Boston Slow-n-Steadys)
- Matt Keeling
- MCM Mama
- Melanie
- Michelle
- MilebyMile
- Ms. V
- Nat
- Pat
- RazzDoodle
- Reid
- Run for Life
- RunToFinish
- SmellyShelly
- Spartan7
- SuperDave
- The Running Knitter
- Tom
- Topher
- USJogger
- Vanilla
- Vava
- Xenia


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Was there a "back door" to World War II, as some revisionist historians have asserted? According to this view, President Franklin D. Roosevelt, inhibited by the American public's opposition to direct U.S. involvement in the fighting and determined to save Great Britain from a Nazi victory in Europe, manipulated events in the Pacific in order to provoke a Japanese attack on the U.S. naval base at Pearl Harbor on December 7, 1941, thereby forcing the United States to enter the war on the side of Britain.
The revisionist case: From neutrality to war
How did Roosevelt precipitate the conflict with Japan and prepare the country for war in Europe? The revisionists argue that key events leading up to the U.S. declaration of war in 1941 show that Roosevelt sometimes used deceitful tactics to increase U.S. involvement gradually and to stir up pro-war sentiments in the American public. In their view, the circumstances immediately surrounding the attack on Pearl Harbor, when interpreted in light of Roosevelt's behaviour in the preceding years, strongly suggest that he intentionally provoked the Japanese attack.
As World War II began with Germany's invasion of Poland in 1939, Congress and much of the American public continued to favour neutrality. Convinced that their country's participation in World War I had been a grave mistake, Americans supported a series of neutrality laws enacted in the 1930s to prevent a repetition of the pre-1917 events that drew the United States into the fighting. Although he was well aware that the public wanted America to stay out of the war, Roosevelt was determined to do all he could to prevent a German victory. Relying on the public's sympathy for Britain and France, he persuaded Congress to revise the 1935 Neutrality Act, which prohibited loans and arms sales to belligerent nations, in order to allow the two countries to purchase arms on a "cash and carry" basis—that is, on the condition that they pay immediately in cash and transport the arms themselves. He argued that the revision was the best way both to keep the United States out of the war and to guarantee a British-French victory.
After the fall of France in 1940, Roosevelt looked for other means to prevent Britain's defeat. Raising the spectre of a German invasion of the Western Hemisphere, he convinced Congress to enact the first peacetime draft in U.S. history. Although he justified the measure as necessary for national security, the revisionists contend that it was not purely defensive; in fact, they argue, it was a major step in preparing the United States to enter the war in Europe. About the same time, following negotiations with British Prime Minister Winston Churchill, Roosevelt agreed to transfer 50 World War I-era U.S. destroyers to Britain in exchange for 99-year leases on eight British naval and air bases in the Western Hemisphere. Again, Roosevelt characterized the agreement as a defensive measure, describing it as "the most important action in the reinforcement of our national defense…since the Louisiana Purchase" in 1803. For the revisionists, however, the deal decisively ended American neutrality and made U.S. involvement in the war inevitable. In this view they are in agreement with Churchill, who believed that the exchange set in motion a process that no one could stop. "Like the Mississippi," Churchill said, "it just keeps rolling along."
To support their contention that Roosevelt was secretly plotting to bring the United States into the war, the revisionists point to rhetoric he used during his 1940 reelection campaign. During the contest against the Republican nominee, Wendell Willkie, Roosevelt repeatedly declared his intention to keep America out of war unless it was attacked by a foreign power. Later, in response to Willkie's warnings that the president's reelection would mean wooden crosses for American boys—who, he said, were "already almost on the transports"—and an October surge in the polls that brought Willkie to within four percentage points of the president, Roosevelt made an unqualified promise to a Boston audience on October 30: "I have said this before, but I shall say it again and again and again: Your boys are not going to be sent into any foreign wars." He did not explain that if the country were attacked by one of the Axis powers, the war would no longer be "foreign."
With his reelection in 1940, Roosevelt believed he had a blank check to push the country closer to war, according to the revisionists. In a December "fireside chat," he reiterated his determination to keep the country out of the fighting but also emphasized that the best path to this end was through unrestricted aid to Britain, declaring that "we must be the great arsenal of democracy." Having won the approval of 80 percent of his listening audience, he looked for ways to ensure that Britain got the war materiel that American factories were increasingly able to provide. In response to Churchill's declaration earlier that year that the moment was fast approaching when "we [Britain] shall no longer be able to pay cash for shipping and other supplies," Roosevelt proposed the lend-lease program, which authorized the president to provide aid to the British on the condition that after the fighting they would return "in kind" the guns and ships loaned to them. It was, Roosevelt told a press conference, the same as lending a garden hose to a neighbour to help put out a fire that could burn down your house as well as his. In the midst of your neighbour's crisis, you would not ask him for the cost of the hose; rather, you would lend it to him on the understanding that you would get it back—or it would be replaced if it was destroyed—once the fire was doused.
Although Congressional approval and White House implementation of lend-lease made the United States all but a belligerent in the fighting, it proved insufficient to bring the nation directly into the war. Throughout 1941, according to the revisionists, Roosevelt was trying mightily to find a convincing rationale for directly entering the European conflict. After the Nazi attack on the Soviet Union in June and incidents in the North Atlantic between German submarines and two American ships—the freighter Robin Moor and the destroyer Greer—Roosevelt ordered the Navy to escort convoys of American and later Allied ships and to shoot German and Italian warships on sight. Despite the existence of an undeclared naval war between Germany and the United States, however, Roosevelt hesitated to ask for a formal declaration, because most of the American public still supported neutrality. At this point, according to the revisionists, he believed that he could obtain a public consensus in favour of war only if the country were attacked by a foreign power.
He allegedly created this consensus by provoking the Japanese into the attack on Pearl Harbor. As the revisionists describe it, Roosevelt purposefully increased tensions between Washington and Tokyo by introducing embargoes in 1940–41 on scrap metals and petroleum products that Japan needed for its war machine. By the fall of 1941, according to the revisionists, American policy makers had concluded that Japan would attack the U.S. fleet in Hawaii in the belief that the United States would then seek a settlement in the Pacific, thereby freeing Japan to create an East Asian "co-prosperity sphere." Although Roosevelt and his closest advisers in the State, War, and Navy departments knew that an attack was imminent, the revisionists argue, they did not alert the military, believing that a surprise attack would create an overwhelming consensus for involvement in both the European and Pacific wars. As evidence of Roosevelt's duplicity, they cite the fact that the administration failed to notify the military of decoded Japanese messages indicating that an attack would take place on December 6–7.
Among the first historians to argue in favour of the back-door-to-war theory were Charles Beard, author of American Foreign Policy in the Making, 1932–1940 (1946) and President Roosevelt and the Coming of the War, 1941 (1948), and Charles C. Tansill, author of Back Door to War: The Roosevelt Foreign Policy, 1933–1941 (1952). Half a century later, journalist and presidential candidate Patrick J. Buchanan gave continuing life to the theory by insisting in his book A Republic, Not an Empire (1999) that, contrary to accepted opinion, the United States need not have fought in World War II. The country was forced into a conflict with the Axis powers only by Roosevelt's determination to aid Britain and Russia against Hitler. Without American involvement in the fighting, Buchanan argued, Nazi Germany and Soviet Russia would have destroyed each other, thereby sparing the world the post-1945 Cold War.
The mainstream response
Most historians have rejected the claims of Beard, Tansill, and Buchanan as reductionist and unconvincing. These historians do agree that Roosevelt engaged in deception and manipulation to advance his foreign policies and that he was prevented from seeking a formal declaration of war in the first years of the fighting because of continued public support for U.S. neutrality. Nevertheless, they argue that this does not show that Roosevelt intentionally provoked the Japanese to attack the United States or that he allowed the country to be surprised at Pearl Harbor.
The problem of public opinion
Although there is no question that Roosevelt was concerned about public support for entering the war, this was not because he thought that he could not obtain a declaration without it—in late 1941, before the Pearl Harbor attack, he had enough votes in Congress to pass a formal declaration of war. Rather, according to most historians, his concern was that Americans would not be able to sustain such an enormous effort, with all its sacrifice of blood and treasure, unless they were united in the spirit of a moral crusade. Accordingly, in his major foreign policy decisions regarding the war in Europe in 1940–41, he was careful not to commit the country to greater involvement in the fighting than public opinion would support. The draft, the destroyer-bases exchange, the lend-lease program, convoying, and economic sanctions against Japan were all undertaken with Roosevelt's belief that the public regarded them as vital to American national security. Contrary to the revisionist view, most historians regard these incremental decisions not as attempts to drag the country into the war but rather as efforts by Roosevelt to exercise all other options, in keeping with his deep reluctance to enter the fighting without the firm support of the American public.
Although Roosevelt did admit to Churchill and Soviet leader Joseph Stalin that it would have been difficult to gain public support for war without the Japanese attack, nevertheless, according to most historians, he actually tried to avoid a war with Japan throughout 1941, fearing that it would limit America's aid to Britain and lengthen the struggle against Germany. For example, in a discussion of the American embargo on Japan at a cabinet meeting on November 7, 1941, he said that the administration should "strain every nerve to satisfy and keep on good relations" with Japanese negotiators. He told Secretary of State Cordell Hull not to let the talks "deteriorate and break up if you can possibly help it. Let us make no move of ill will. Let us do nothing to precipitate a crisis."
Warnings of a Japanese attack
Roosevelt and his advisers did foresee a Japanese military action on December 6–7. Nevertheless, most historians agree that they did not know where the attack would come. Intercepted Japanese diplomatic and military messages indicated an attack somewhere, but information suggesting that the target would be British, Dutch, or French possessions in Southeast Asia obscured other information suggesting Pearl Harbor. Moreover, as most historians point out, it is implausible to think that Roosevelt, a former assistant secretary of the Navy, would have exposed so much of the U.S. fleet to destruction at Pearl Harbor had he known an assault was coming. If his only purpose was to use a Japanese attack to bring the United States into the war, he could have done so with the loss of just a few destroyers and some airplanes. In fact, he was genuinely surprised by the target, if not the timing, of the Japanese attack. According to one scholar, Roberta Wohlstetter, this was partly the consequence of a tendency among U.S. military leaders to see the fleet in Hawaii as a deterrent rather than a target. It was also the result of a failure by U.S. military intelligence to measure Japanese capabilities accurately: the Americans did not believe that Japanese air and naval forces could mount a successful attack on U.S. bases in Hawaii.
Most historians believe that there was no back door to war and no conspiracy to trick the American public into a conflict it did not wish to fight in either Europe or Asia. American involvement in World War II, they argue, was the consequence of the country's rise to global power and the resulting need to combat aggressive, undemocratic regimes that were hostile to American institutions and to the survival of the United States as a free country. However, the controversy has continued to be relevant in American political debate. Despite suggestions that Congress was validating the theory, its defense authorization bill in 2000 included a provision that would absolve Admiral Husband Kimmel and General Walter Short, the military commanders at Pearl Harbor, of any blame for Japan's attack, declaring that they were not "provided necessary and critical intelligence that would have alerted them to prepare for the attack."
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Date: May 22, 2014
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California Transportation Commission Allocates $541 Million, Emphasizing "Fix-It First" Preservation and Effective Management
LOS ANGELES – The California Transportation Commission has allocated $1.3 billion in transportation funding, including $541 million to implement California's "fix it first" strategy for preserving and maintaining California's 50,000 lane miles of highways.
"This investment will help preserve California's existing transportation infrastructure and implement our fix-it-first approach to the highway system," said California State Transportation Agency Secretary Brian Kelly. "While there is always pressure to expand the state highway system, expansion must remain a second priority to investing in the management, preservation and efficient operation of our existing infrastructure."
Among the $541 million allocated, $10 million comes from the remaining Proposition 1B funds, the bond act that voters approved in 2006. Proposition 1B authorized $4.5 billion to improve performance on the state highway system and California leveraged another $4.6 billion in federal, state and local funds while recapturing cost savings during construction. What started as a program of 54 projects programmed at $9.1 billion grew to a program of 99 projects at $11.7 billion, supporting more than 190,000 jobs and providing critical improvements to the state's transportation system.
"This Administration has made sure every dollar counts when it comes to building California's transportation infrastructure," said Caltrans Director Malcolm Dougherty. "We are repairing aging freeways, making highways and bridges safer, and promoting bicycling and walking – and, those projects support and create jobs."
As a result of these investments and a focus on maintenance and rehabilitation, Caltrans announced in March that the condition of the pavement on California's highways is at its healthiest level in more than a decade. Nevertheless, California's highways carry nearly 35 million vehicles annually, and maintenance needs far outpace dependable funding. Caltrans uses high-tech strategies, recycling, and innovative treatments to make pavement last longer, to stretch every dollar and to preserve the environment.
As the one-time funds from the 2006 transportation bond and 2009 Recovery Act run out, the Transportation Agency is working with stakeholders to develop funding priorities and long-term funding options to address California's infrastructure needs. These are highlighted in the California Transportation Infrastructure Priorities: Vision and Interim Recommendations Report, which offers a vision for California's transportation future. A copy of the report is located here: http://www.calsta.ca.gov/res/docs/pdfs/2013/CTIP Vision and Interim Recommendations.pdf
Here are some significant projects that will help preserve and maintain California's existing infrastructure assets:
- $64.6 million to repair 40 lane miles of pavement on Interstate 210 in and near Glendale and La Canada Flintridge.
- $56.8 million to repair 173 lane miles of pavement on U.S. Highway 101 in Los Angeles, Calabasas, and Agoura Hills.
- $46.9 million to repair 40 lane miles of pavement on Interstate 210 in La Canada Flintridge and Pasadena.
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- Singapore Grand Prix
Schumacher hit with 10-place grid penalty for Vergne crash
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Michael Schumacher has been given a ten-place grid penalty for the Japanese Grand Prix after causing a hefty collision with Jean-Eric Vergne in Singapore.
Schumacher piled into the back of the Toro Rosso at turn 14 after the first safety car restart, taking both cars out of the race. Schumacher's previous history of causing a similar accident at the Spanish Grand Prix with Bruno Senna meant the stewards gave him a ten-place rather than five-place grid penalty.
"It was obviously a very unfortunate ending to my race this evening when I ran into the car of Vergne who accepted my apology straight afterwards," Schumacher said. "I am not totally sure why it happened like this; I was braking but the deceleration was not as strong as it usually would be, and I could not avoid running into the car in front of me. We have to find out what has happened. Up until then, I think it would have been possible to get some points this evening."
Vergne said he felt he could have finished seventh without the accident, but promised not to hold a grudge.
"I was focusing on catching Perez at that point, trying to brake late to catch him, so I am not too sure what happened exactly, but I assume Michael braked a bit too late and could not avoid running in to me. There is no sense in being angry about it, because these things happen in racing and even the most experienced driver on the grid can make mistakes! He said sorry and that's the end of it."


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There, I have done it. After much procrastination, I have completed all my blog posts from my nature trip to Surabaya, Indonesia back in February. Though this might not have seemed much, this has been a monumental – as well as meaningful – effort for me.
I remember vividly that I had to wake up early every day to catch an hour or two of blogging, lest I will never do it, and I might forget details. Thank God I made the effort. What you can read below – a travelog made into five parts – was mainly written during the trip itself. Without these little notes I studiously made daily, these blog posts would have never been possible:
- The One With Symphony Surabaya, Part 1
- The One With Symphony Surabaya, Part 2
- The One With Symphony Surabaya, Part 3
- The One With Symphony Surabaya, Part 4
- The One With Symphony Surabaya, Part 5
Re-reading my notes and writing these blog posts made me realised how much I did enjoy the trip. Perhaps, during the days I was there, I was too tired to properly appreciate the natural beauty I immersed myself in in Surabaya, as well as some truly local experiences. I also hold on to working on these blog posts since my Facebook sharing of the photos led to an opportunity to write for South China Morning Post's spring edition of Encounters, their flagship regional travel magazine. Which was in itself an achievement, since it was the first time my travel writing was published in print – even if I was writing it from a culinary point of view.
I thought that would be a challenge. In truth, it was much easier done than said.
I would also take this opportunity to thank Chris, my travel buddy to Surabaya. Had it not been for his incessant pestering to join him for the trip, repeated reminders about buying air tickets, (and during the trip) selective deafness to my complaints, brutish encouragement when my knees were screaming in pain, etc etc etc (you get the idea)… I would have never done this.
I would have never appreciated the beauty of a fogged marshland. I would have never seen an active volcano right in the eye. I would never have braved my way up to a sunrise view point in the dead of the night.
This diehard city boy may just see more of such nature in his near future. And I (half-heartedly) blame Chris!


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City Life Church, Cambridge started 24 years ago with a vision, passion and boldness to do something risky. It's been a blast, and like everything worthwhile, it's been difficult as well as joyous. Still, we see God has brought our time to an end. As of June 10th CLC Cambridge will disperse, sending our final number out to change the world--the mission God gave us right from the very start. Thank you to everyone who's joined the amazing adventure! There is so much to be grateful for. We still identify as family and we remain friends as we enjoy finding out what God has for us all next. --Kevin, Tom, Lyn & Tim
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fun Swim, light lunch and water baptism. Fantastic!
what a great day. They say that when one sinner repents there is much rejoicing in Heaven. There was much rejoicing in CLC too.


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It's not just the poor who live paycheck to paycheck.
A study from Greg Kaplan and Justin Weidner of Princeton University and Giovanni Violante of New York University finds that two-thirds of the 38 million American households who consume all their disposable income every pay period aren't poor.
The study, released at a Brookings Institution event, found that these so-called wealthy-hand-to-mouth are older than their poor paycheck-to-paycheck counterparts, have higher incomes (about $50,000) and hold substantial illiquid assets (also around $50,000 on average), like real estate. The poor who live paycheck to paycheck have median incomes around $20,000.
However, these people only tend to stay in this situation for about 2.5 years, unlike the poor who tend to stay for long periods of time.
It's not just a U.S. phenomenon: Canada, Australia, the U.K., Germany, France, Italy and Spain also have more non-poor paycheck-to-paycheck households than poor ones, though the percentage varies across countries.
The authors say the findings are important for policymakers when they craft stimulus programs.
The other finding that may be startling is that a third of all households do live paycheck to paycheck.
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