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On the Lighter Side: Age doesn’t stop music legend Ronnie Milsap
Age is merely a number, and for people who love what they do for a career, it’s not what stops them from doing what they enjoy, regardless of their age.
I’ve often written about the great country music performers, and no list of its finest musicians would be complete without Ronnie Milsap, the legendary singer and pianist.
He was one of country music’s most influential performers of the 1970s and 1980s. He became one of the most successful and versatile country “crossover” vocalists of his time.
He appealed to both country and pop music genres with chart-toppers that incorporated pop, R&B and rock & roll elements.
His biggest crosser hits include “It Was Almost Lie a Song,” “Smokey Mountain Rain,” “(There’s) No Gettin’ Over Me,” “I Wouldn’t Have Missed It for the World,” “Any Day Now,” and “Stranger in My House.”
He has won six Grammy Awards and notched 35 No. 1 songs on the Billboard Country charts, third only to George Strait and Conway Twitty. He was inducted into the Country Music Hall of Fame in 2014.
Milsap was born Jan. 16, 1943, in Robbinsville, N.C. A congenital disorder left him almost completely blind from birth. Abandoned by his mother as an infant, he was raised in poverty by his grandparents in the Smokey Mountains until he was sent to the Gov. Morehead School for the Blind in Raleigh, N.C., at age 5.
During his childhood, Milsap developed a passion for music, particularly through the late-night radio broadcasts of country music, Gospel music and rhythm & blues. When he was 7, his instructors noticed his musical talents.
Soon after, he began studying classical music formally at the Gov. Morehead School and learned several instruments, eventually mastering the piano. When he was 14, an accident at the home of one of the school’s house-parents caused him to lose what very limited vision he had in his left eye.
With the national breakthrough of Elvis Presley in 1956, Milsap became interested in rock & roll and formed a rock band called “The Apparitions” with fellow high school students.
In concert, Milsap has often paid tribute to the musicians of the 1950s who inspired him, including Presley, Ray Charles, Little Richard and Jerry Lee Lewis.
Milsap was awarded a full college scholarship and briefly attended Young Harris College in Young Harris, Ga., with plans to become an attorney.
During this time, Milsap joined the popular local R&B group “The Dimensions” that played gigs in the Atlanta area. He became a regular attraction at the rough and rowdy Royal Peacock Club.
Two years shy of his 80th birthday, Milsap remains very active on the music scene. He recently released his new album “A Better Word for Love” and will begin a 22-city tour Aug. 27 in Greensburg, Pa. It ends Dec. 11 in McMinnville, Tenn. The tour will take to 20 states across the country, including The Golden Nugget in Las Vegas.
He’s living proof that as long as you do what you love and the audience wants to see you perform, you never grow old.


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Tennessee forced a USC punt to open the quarter and then Worley sparked a drive that led to a field goal. He ran for 11 yards to convert on third down and later threw a 48 yard pass to Marquez North to the Gamecock 16. But the Vols would have to settle for a 33 yard field goal by Palardy to cut the lead to 21-20 with 10:11 left in the game.
The teams exchanged punts and then things got whacky. With 5:44 left, USC takes ball at its 12. Shaw throws incomplete on first down then is sacked on second down and injures his knee. Dylan Thompson comes in and completes a 5 yard pass and the Gamecocks have to punt.
Tennessee starts at its 45 and goes three and out and punts to the Gamecock 18 with 3:16 left. Tennessee has three time outs and the Gamecocks run the ball three times and have fourth and two on their own 26 when the Vols use their final time out. Steve Spurrier sends his office back onto the field and calls a time out twice while thinking about going for it. He eventually punts to the Vols 35 with 2:48 left.
Worley throws two incompletions and on third down he hits Marquez North for 39 yards to the Gamecock 26. Marlin Lane then carries the ball on four straight plays to the USC 2 and with three seconds to play, Palardy splits the uprights from 19 yards for the win.
Final Score…Tennessee 23-USC 21

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Medicaid, Medicare among victims of MOVEit data breach
More than half a million Medicare beneficiaries and several million Medicaid beneficiaries across multiple states are among the 60 million (or more) international consumers affected by one of the largest data breaches in recent history.
The incident, first uncovered in May of 2023, centers on the MOVEit file transfer platform by Progress Software Corporation. MOVEit is used by thousands of technology customers to send and receive data. In the spring, Progress discovered a critical vulnerability in its offering that allowed an unauthorized entity to access and transfer files from the platform’s clients.
These clients include companies contracted with the national Medicare program, as well as state Medicaid programs and other commercial insurance payers.
As a result, more than 4 million Medicaid beneficiaries in Colorado, as well as more than 134,000 Massachusetts residents and an unconfirmed number of Medicaid members in Missouri, suffered unauthorized access to a wide range of personal information. In at least some of these states, the stolen data includes demographic data, program ID numbers and insurance information, as well as clinical/medical data such as diagnoses, lab results, and medications.
Approximately 612,000 Medicare members are also involved in the breach, said CMS in a recent press release. The attacker also accessed personal identification and personal health information for these beneficiaries, including social security numbers, driver’s license numbers, Medicare beneficiary ID numbers, medical histories and clinical notes, provider information, and claims data.
Performance Health Technology, which provides a variety of data management services to commercial health plans, was also affected by the breach. The company confirmed that the attacker accessed some of its customers’ data that might include demographic and Social Security data, plan ID information, diagnosis and procedure codes, and claims information.
Each entity states that the vulnerability was addressed quickly, and that potentially affected members will be eligible for identity protection services, such as credit monitoring and identify restoration services. Victims are advised to monitor their credit reports, medical records, and financial statements for any suspect activity.
The scale of the breach places it among the top ten largest healthcare cyberattacks in recent years, according to HIPAAJournal.com, but likely doesn’t take the top spot in 2023. That dubious honor belongs to HCA Healthcare, which disclosed a breach affecting at least 11 million patients in July.
Multi-million-patient data breaches have been common this year, following a trend of increasingly serious attacks from cybercriminals across the globe. Since 2020, the incidence of healthcare data breaches has increased sharply, with more than 700 separate breaches occurring each year in 2021 and 2022.
In response, federal agencies have ramped up the offensive against cybercrime by taking down malware networks, providing guidance about commonly used technologies, and launching new initiatives to strengthen the nation’s security infrastructure in the face of unrelenting assaults.
Hospitals, health systems, healthcare payers, and data service providers working with these organizations will need to follow suit by bulking up their defenses, especially as cloud technologies become more popular across the care continuum.
Healthcare entities should invest in robust staff training, stringent credential management, real-time monitoring and timely patching, two-factor authentication, and the use of secure protocols for medical devices, to protect infrastructure from common points of entry and reduce the likelihood of a direct breach.
Organizations should also work closely with their contractors and vendors to ensure that these third parties are taking similarly proactive approaches to keeping data secure in an increasingly complex and vulnerable digital environment.
Jennifer Bresnick is a journalist and freelance content creator with a decade of experience in the health IT industry. Her work has focused on leveraging innovative technology tools to create value, improve health equity, and achieve the promises of the learning health system. She can be reached at firstname.lastname@example.org.

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The Boston Red Sox are heading into the offseason with very few needs after an impressive 2017 campaign. There are a few additions that the Sox could make to have a better chance at contending for a World Series in 2018, with a couple potential offensive spots open and a potential need for another starting pitcher.
David Price has some long-term injury issues with his arm, which could be cause for concern in Boston. That could make them look for another rotation arm this offseason in free agency.
Boston has never had a problem spending big money on stars in free agency. Jake Arrieta is one of the best free agents available this offseason, and the Red Sox should seriously consider pursuing him. He isn’t going to come cheap, but he might be the missing piece that helps power them past the Cleveland Indians and Houston Astros in the American League.
Last season with the Chicago Cubs, Arrieta ended up compiling a 14-10 record to go along with a 3.53 ERA. He got off to a slow start but found his dominant self late in the season.
There are going to be plenty of teams pursuing Arrieta when free agency opens up this offseason. One of those teams will be the Cubs, while the Los Angeles Dodgers have also been mentioned as a potential landing spot. As usual, the New York Yankees will likely be in the mix for Arrieta as well this offseason.
At 31 years of age, Arrieta still has plenty of baseball left in him. There is no telling what kind of contract he will end up getting, but a lucrative four-year deal is a reasonable expectation.
Outside of Price, the Red Sox will have Chris Sale penciled into the rotation as their ace. They will also have Rick Porcello in their rotation along with Eduardo Rodriguez and Drew Pomeranz being starting options. That could leave one rotation spot for Arrieta in the Boston rotation.
It was a big season for the Red Sox in 2017, finishing with a 93-69 record and winning the AL East. They were in a three-team battle with the Astros and Indians but unfortunately were eliminated in the first round of the playoffs by the Astros in four games.
Needless to say, Arrieta will have a tough decision to make. Chicago is home to him, but starting fresh in a city like Boston could be enough to pull him away from the Cubs.
Expect to hear Arrieta’s name mentioned in quite a few rumors heading into the offseason. Boston may not end up getting involved in his free agency decision, but they certainly should consider it.
Do you think the Boston Red Sox should pursue Jake Arrieta in free agency this offseason? If not, who do you think would be ideal targets for the Sox? Let us know your thoughts in the comment box below!
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Staying on the subject of Margaret Hodge’s hissy fit and in particular the evidence given to the Public Accounts Committee, by Edward Troup, HMRC’s Tax Assurance Commissioner and Jim Harra, the Director-General of Business Tax, there is a very important question that needs to be answered.
Margaret Hodge continued with her now familiar narrative of having a show trial or two for major companies who, in her eyes, don’t pay their ‘fair share’ of tax to the UK Exchequer – because despite trading here and generating impressive revenues a lot of the money is sent to another EU location in the form of transfer payments and the like. Hodge said to Harra:
It looks to me that you should be litigating. Why have you not chosen to litigate and test your powers? Why have you not litigated against one single internet company?
Make a few cases, a few show cases. It’s so bloody obvious.
Now, HMRC knows very well about the Thin Cap Group Litigation, with the subsequent European Court of Justice ruling on in March 2007, and how that makes Hodge’s demand impossible. It would therefore be pointless HMRC spending our money to pursue a case it already knows from case law there is no prospect of winning. So,
- Why did neither Harra nor Troup simply tell Hodge that European law allows what Google, Facebook, Amazon and Starbucks are doing?
- Why did they not explain to the committee that challenging the companies, in the way Hodge is demanding, falls foul of Article 63 of the Lisbon Treaty which declares that: “all restrictions on the movement of capital between Member States and between Member States and third countries shall be prohibited”, and that: “all restrictions on payments between Member States and between Member States and third countries shall be prohibited”?
- What is it they are trying to conceal from the PAC, the media and the wider public through this refusal to state what the facts are, explaining that European law and treaties have primacy and have supplanted the UK’s tax sovereignty and that Westminster therefore does not have competence make the rules in these matters, thus putting an end to Hodge’s continuing witch hunt?
Something doesn’t smell right. It is such an open and shut matter that there has to be more to this than meets the eye. Surely it can’t just be a desire to divert attention away from the EU elephant in the room. Someone needs to call out HMRC on this so that the facts are aired in public in an open and transparent manner.
Then even the media might get curious and show more interest in this issue than repeating the ‘he said/she said’ exchanges, which leave people wondering why Parliament appears toothless, why no action is being taken by HMRC and why the corporates are continuing with their current tax arrangements within the EU.

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Published: Saturday, March 15, 2008 at 12:30 a.m.
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Editor: Dear residents of Davidson County:
Our county is a beautiful place to live and grow. We have many activities for all families to enjoy. The Barbecue Festival is one of our most popular ones with the county fair being another popular one, my personal favorite.
I would like to see more activities come to the county so when the children are grown, they will have more to enjoy. Some of the events that many people and I favor are diesel-power sled pulling and truck shows with dirt drag racing.
For those of you who don't know or aren't familiar with sled pulling, it is a competition where you hook your truck to a sled with a weight on it. The weight moves forward, and you pull the sled over dirt to see how you can pull it. Dirt drag racing is when you drag race your truck over dirt.
It's really less expensive this way because you can use the track for both sled pulling and dirt drag racing.
Last but surely not close to least, truck shows are a great place. Truck shows are where you go to spend time with close friends and family. You're not only bonding with them, you're showing them the most beautiful engines built strongly to be mean machines.
The place for this event could be at the Denton FarmPark, or maybe we could use a field for a weekend every month or two. To help provide the money, we could charge $6 for adults, $4 for students and seniors, children under 8 for free. Every ticket would be an all-day pass.
Thank you for taking the time to read my suggestions. I am an eighth-grade student at Central Davidson Middle.
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IASL is an international scientific association founded during the 1st International Congress on Sports Law, December 11-13, 1992 in Athens and seated in Olympia, Greece. Since then IASL is activated as far as administrative matters are concerned in Athens and in its PresidentÃÂ¢s country of origin.
The objective of IASL is the cultivation and the development of the Science, the research and the teaching of Sports Law and the institution of the Olympic Games. The studies, the collection of the international sports jurisprudence, programming and consultative in the legislative, administrative, organizational and practical section of Sports Law and the institution of the Olympic Games, are the aims of the Association, as well as the following:
- The establishment of a study, library and laboratories, studies similar to the scientific subjects of Sports Law and the institution of the Olympic Games.
- The organization of scientific lectures, seminaries and Congresses over subjects that regard Sports Law internationally and the institution of the Olympic Games as well as lectures of a wider form and information that aim at the elevation of the cultural level and the education of the peoples, over subjects such as the instruction of Natural Education from the aspect of the Law and the Olympic Idea.
- The publishing of scientific texts with similar objectives, of a scientific journal, organ of the Association as well as an informational leaflet.
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IASL members may be natural and/or legal persons actively participating in the research, teaching and practical application of Sports Law as well as the institution of the Olympic Games.
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Themis called the Gods over every time they were going to hold a meeting and she maintained order. She was the one who announced, in the end, Jeus’s decisions to humans. She was worshiped in almost every Greek city. In Athens existed a sanctum donated to Themis near Asklipian’s temple towards west.
She was represented with her eyes binded (symbol of unprejudiced) and holding a balance or the horn of plenty. In some vessels she was seated in tripod and delivered oracles. Her priests observed the law.


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Thirty bucks may not seem like a whole lot to my younger self, who dreamed of literary fame and fortune (such dreams being an occupational hazard of nearly anyone who writes). But I’m reminded of what Pauls Toutonghi, a writer I admire, told me at a recent reading: Virginia Woolf threw herself a party for selling as many copies as his NYC publisher considered his latest book a bust for. I told him that “throw yourself a party” is basically my literary M.O. these days.
And why not? In today’s publishing climate, victories of virtually any type are hard-won in the extreme.
So, yeah–I threw myself a party for publishing a 30-page chapbook. Now I’m throwing myself a (virtual) party for having amassed $30 in royalties. And you know what? You’re invited. In fact, you’re the reason there’s a party in the first place.
And if you’ve got some tiny hardwon victory to celebrate, consider throwing yourself a party too. I’d like nothing better than to party with you. =)
Here’s a round up of fresh publications and appearances I have coming up:
- The first story in my novel-in-stories Hot Season is featured in the Spring 2014 issue of Weber: The Contemporary West. “The Circus on 2nd Street” appears alongside some truly excellent poetry, prose, and art, including an interview with Pam Houston. It’s available for $10 as a back issue under the Rate Information tab.
- The story that finishes Hot Season, “Dead Man’s Revival” has been accepted for publication in the debut issue of Milkfist, a print and online magazine “dedicated to showcasing the abscessed underbelly of literature, poetry, art, and nonfiction” (so, you know, my work fits right in). The piece will appear in their roughly 100-page perfect-bound print journal (and in ebook form) in the spring of 2015. More on this later.
- A literary sci fi story of mine, “Love Potion #369” (which some of you read an excerpt from on PDXX) has been accepted for publication by the Clackamas Literary Review. I’ll let you know when this becomes available.
- I’ll be the featured writer in Conversations with Writers on Monday, November 24 from 7:00-8:40 PM at the Hillsboro Main Branch library on Brookwood (Hillsboro, OR). I’ll be performing poetry by Emily Dickinson and Pablo Neruda as was all some of my own. I’ll also be talking about the many pleasures and benefits of memorizing poetry (your own and that of other poets) in the digital age.
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Now as ever, thanks for partying with me.

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The switch window for Europe’s greatest golf equipment is perhaps closed, however they’re nonetheless working tirelessly behind the scenes to line up the arrival of their subsequent star. Transfer Discuss has been scouring the world’s media to see who could be heading to your membership when Jan. 1 arrives.
Bats in Rome
Roma are desirous about bringing in Chelsea ahead Michy Batshuayi, who’s at the moment on mortgage at Valencia, Corriere dello Sport are reporting.
Proficient 22-year-old Patrik Schick is on the way in which out of Rome, in accordance to the paper, and the Serie A facet have recognized Batshuayi as a doable substitute.
The 25-year-old Belgian has solely scored one purpose in La Liga this season, although.
Arsene in Milan
Rumours of Arsene Wenger getting a job at AC Milan have been sparked once more by a report in Italian newspaper Tuttosport. Gennaro Gattuso’s job is within the steadiness, the paper reviews, with the spectre of Wenger looming.
The frequent hyperlink is, after all, Ivan Gazidis, who has left his function at Arsenal to tackle an govt place at Milan.
Fekir saga now contains Madrid
Nabil Fekir, a Liverpool switch goal again in the summertime who has additionally been on Chelsea’s radar, has been supplied to Real Madrid, in accordance to Marca.
The 25-year-old’s present deal expires in 2020, and Lyon’s president Jean-Michel Aulas desires to promote him earlier than his worth drops or he has to depart without spending a dime.
Madrid are stated to be in search of a midfield playmaker who could play an identical function to Ballon d’Or winner — and 33-year-old — Luka Modric.
That is Dwight alright
Dwight Gayle has hinted that his mortgage at West Bromwich Albion could be became a everlasting affair, reviews the Birmingham Mail.
The 28-year-old was a part of a swap mortgage cope with Newcastle United, sending Salomon Rondon to Tyneside, and West Brom followers had been chanting “signal him up” as Gayle scored a hat-trick in opposition to Rotherham on Saturday.
“It could be on the playing cards,” Gayle stated after the match, “however for me a very powerful factor is getting promoted this season and ending within the high two.”
Leaving, on a Jetro aircraft
Newcastle are planning a “swoop” for Jetro Willems within the January switch window, in accordance to the Each day Mail.
Rafael Benitez would love to bolster his defensive choices, significantly the left-back space, and 24-year-old Willems, at the moment at Eintracht Frankfurt, matches the invoice.
The payment would have to be bigger than the £four.5 million that Frankfurt paid for the Dutchman final yr, when he joined from PSV, and Newcastle might also face competitors from Roma for the defender.
Soccer Whispers’ switch algorithm offers the chance of rumours taking place a rating out of 5.
Douglas Costa to Manchester United — four.1
Manchester United have made a €60 million provide for the 28-year-old winger, in accordance to Calciomercato, nevertheless it was turned down by Juventus. Nonetheless, the Mirror has reported that United will solely make mortgage signings this January, stockpiling money for the subsequent everlasting supervisor to use in the summertime.
Adrien Silva to Sporting — four.zero
Silva has made it clear that he is keen to take a pay reduce so as to get a transfer out of Leicester, Portuguese newspaper A Bola report. He has struggled to make it into the primary staff below Claude Puel, and spent six months unable to play after his switch from Sporting to the East Midlands was late by 14 seconds. The one factor that was holding up a possible return was cash, and the reducing of contract calls for ought to assist pace issues up.
Aaron Ramsey to Juventus — three.four
Juventus have emerged as favorite to signal Arsenal participant on a free switch this summer season, in accordance to Sky Italia. Each Milan golf equipment have been within the operating as effectively, however have reportedly been priced out of rivalry by the 27-year-old’s contract calls for.
Idrissa Gueye to Paris Saint-Germain — three.three
PSG have made their curiosity in Gueye identified to Everton, however are but to make a proper bid for the midfielder, Sky Sports activities have reported. Everton’s 6-2 defeat to Tottenham Hotspur, for which Gueye was absent via damage, could bolster their resistance to any sale,
Jadon Sancho to Real Madrid — three.zero
The 18-year-old has impressed the world this season along with his performances for Borussia Dortmund, and so they’ve caught the attention of Real Madrid specifically, say Marca. Signing promising children has been a method of Madrid for plenty of years now — bear in mind Martin Odegaard? — however they might have to combat Barcelona and Bayern Munich to signal him.


It's not enough that school districts across the country are laying off teachers right and left and increasing class size to intolerable levels. It seems that the D.C. think tanks are absolutely dedicated towards further encouraging this trend and destroying any efforts to retain equitable class sizes in our public schools.
Last week in the Daily News, Chester Finn of the conservative Fordham Institute attacked the whole notion of class size reduction, proposing that putting kids on computers instead would be more cost-effective and get better results:
Technology holds huge potential to magnify the effectiveness of great teachers and customize the educational experience of more students. New York City is experimenting with this potential, and "hybrid" schools around the country are blending face-to-face instruction with high-quality online instruction. No, technology is no panacea, and it does carry some near-term costs. In the long run, though, it will save money for districts and states while also delivering their young people a better -- and more modern, and very likely more motivating -- education.
What Finn failed to mention in his Op/Ed is that he is on the board of K12, the nation's largest for-profit chain of online charter schools.
Two weeks ago, the Center for American Progress put out a Gates-funded report attacking class size, and without any evidence of results, also proposed that online instruction would be more cost-effective. Here is my critique of this flimsy report authored by Matthew Chingos. Last week, Brookings Institute put out another report, co-authored by Chingos and Russ Whitehurst, attacking class size reduction yet again.
This is especially ironic, given that Whitehurst was formerly the head of the Institute of Education Sciences, the research arm of the U.S. DOE, which has identified class size reduction as one of only four education reforms that have been proven to improve student achievement through rigorous evidence. Online learning was not on that list, of course.
Neither were any of those speculative proposals that Whitehurst suggested in his Brookings report as preferable, since none of them have the solid research backing of class size reduction: "choosing more effective curriculum; reconstituting the teacher workforce (for example by substituting Teach for America teachers for new teachers from traditional training routes); and enrolling students in popular charter schools in urban areas."
Despite all the spin, there is little or no evidence of positive results for online learning, as a New York Times article pointed out a few weeks ago. And there are lots of counter-examples that should make us worry:
- Agora Cyber Charter School, an online charter school run by K12 in Pennsylvania, failed to make Annual Yearly Progress (AYP) in 2007, 2008 and 2009, and had to send a letter to parents announcing its mandated "improvement" efforts.
- The Columbus Dispatch has concluded that five of the seven largest online schools in Ohio have graduation rates lower than those of the state's worst traditional public school district; six of the seven were rated as less than "effective."
- An annual report of for-profit education management organizations concluded that only 30 percent of virtual schools met AYP as compared to 55 percent of "bricks and mortar schools.
- The Pentagon refuses to recruit students into the military who have graduated from online schools, since their academic standards are so low.
A recent report from Center for Reinventing Public Education analyzed New York City's plan to rapidly expand online learning testing to 400 schools over the next few years. The authors explained the motivation behind this rapid push:
New York City is fast-tracking the iZone in part to meet goals set by Mayor Bloomberg's administration, which will end in three years, and in part to meet recent Race to the Top goals. As Arthur VanderVeen, NYCDOE Chief of Research and Development, says, "We have three years and we need to achieve dramatic, large-scale change. ...The iZone was born out of frustration among NYC Department of Education (DOE) reformers who, after eight years of reforms known as "Children First," were only able to accomplish what they view as significant but incremental improvement. ..."
So I guess the reforms they've been trying up to now haven't yet worked so well, huh? The authors of the report warn that this new expansion is very speculative, in terms of its experimental and unproven nature:
NYC school district leaders are taking risks with the iZone, implementing new models, committing deeply to a defined set of principles that challenge core assumptions about what a school should look like, and moving to scale very quickly. How and when they will know if they got the big bet right is a question district leaders will have to ask so that students are not subjected for too long to programs and schools that don't work. ...At some point, the district may get pushback from parents about the idea of having their children participate in unproven programs and may need to consider catch-up academic plans if certain programs are not effective.
But top DOE officials, including NYC's Deputy Chancellor Shael Suransky are apparently willing to "fix" the data to ensure that these schools do not register as failing, no matter what the actual results:
Officials anticipate the accountability model may need to be adjusted to measure the outcomes of iZone schools so that the schools are given some latitude to take reasonable risks without fear of landing on the district's school intervention list. To that end, NYCDOE's accountability office is starting a planning process to come up with some variations in the accountability system for iZone schools. Shael Suransky, former Chief Accountability Officer and now Chief Academic Officer, is considering using averaged performance results over multiple years instead of annual test score data and will likely use additional data (not just test scores) to inform accountability decisions.
Despite the risks to children and the lack of informed consent on the part of their parents, the city appears determined to recklessly expand online learning over the next few years, and to spend $540 million next year alone on hardware, software and computer wiring to do so.
This large scale experiment is backed by Bill Gates, after all, as well as Joel Klein, who runs Murdoch's online learning division, and many other computer and testing companies that are eager to make a buck off our kids.
Of course, no member of the ruling class, including the people backing this PR barrage, including Gates, Klein and Bloomberg, would enroll their own children in a school that deprived them of smaller classes, because they want to ensure that their own children have the best chance at success. Indeed, all of them sent their own children to private schools with small classes. Chester Finn enrolled his children at Sidwell Friends (where Obama's children attend) and Exeter; both schools feature small classes, with Exeter boasting of class sizes of 8-12.
Yet it seems for these same people, it is fine for them to recommend that other people's children should be relegated to classes of thirty or more, and hooked up to computers for "differentiated" instruction.
I'm not surprised at Finn, who after all has admitted that he wants to "blow up" public education. But for Brookings and CAP to attack class size reduction, one of the few reforms known to narrow the achievement gap, and to act as boosters for such speculative risky alternatives is disgraceful.
It's as unforgivable as the actions of the bogus think tanks, financed by the tobacco industry, that attacked the notion that cancer was linked to smoking; or the fake research financed by the coal industry that still denies the reality of global warming.
What this reveals instead is their complete lack of regard for social justice and equitable opportunities for children. Instead they'd rather push large-scale experiments on other people's kids, many of them disadvantaged, an experiment which would never be allowed in the field of public health but is apparently the hallmark of education "reform" in the 21st century. Small classes for the upper classes, virtual learning for everyone else.
My TV debate with Chingos on class size is here; here is a link to the radio show where I debated Raegen Miller, associate director for Education Policy at the Center for American Progress, about their dreadful report.


The Cincinnati May Festival is an annual choral festival held during two weekends in May in Cincinnati, Ohio. The festival’s roots go back to the 1840s, when Saengerfests were held in our city, bringing together many of the local choruses and the many English and German singing societies throughout the area to perform large choral works.
After the Civil War, those gatherings became a choral festival that was held every other year with a visiting orchestra from New York and later from Chicago. The first May Festival took place in 1873.
Today the Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra plays for the May Festival, but it is interesting to note that the May Festival and its large community chorus is older than the Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra, and that Cincinnati’s Music Hall was built to accommodate the May Festival. Today, the May Festival is an annual event.
The all-volunteer May Festival Chorus (MFC) has been under the direction of Robert Porco since 1989. The MFC performs regularly with the Cincinnati Symphony and Pops Orchestras, singing at Music Hall as well as Riverbend Music Center. The MFC has garnered critical acclaim for their high level of performance.
Brother Bob Lucero, O.F.M., Production Manager at St. Anthony Messenger, has been singing tenor for 40 of the 138 years that the May Festival Chorus has been performing. Bob is one of two of the longest-serving members of this world-renowned choral group. Alto singer, Sally Vickery Harper, is the other chorus member who completes 40 years in 2011.
In tune with their 40-year anniversary, Bob and Sally were interviewed recently by Janelle Gelfand, music and arts critic for The Cincinnati Enquirer. And at last Tuesday’s rehearsal, Stacey Doose, the video editor for Cincinnati.com, “wired” Bob for about the first hour of that rehearsal as various still photos and video footage was taken.
Bob jokingly says that with all this fuss and attention, “I am beginning to feel like I am being released on parole after completing 40 years of community service!”
Over those 40 years, Bob has performed three different times at Carnegie Hall in New York, as well as taken part in the Dubrovnik Festival in then Yugoslavia. On occasion, he has been invited to sing with the University Singers at the University of Virginia, Charlottesville, under the direction of his friend, Michael Slon, who teaches at UVA.
Bravo, Bob, and happy anniversary!
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On May 19, 2015, an order regarding the motion for authority to use cash management systems was filed in the bankruptcy case of Golden County Foods, Inc. and its affiliates.
The filing was assigned docket number 35 and is described on the court’s official docket as follows:
Order Granting Debtors’ Motion for Authority to Continue Use of Existing Cash Management System, Maintain Existing Bank Accounts, and Continue Use of Existing Business Forms (Related Doc # ). Signed on 5/19/2015. (SJS)
Golden County Foods, Inc. filed for bankruptcy protection, or had an involuntary bankruptcy petition filed against it, on May 15, 2015. The bankruptcy case is pending before the United States Bankruptcy Court for the District of Delaware. The case number for the lead bankruptcy case is 15-11062. The bankruptcy case is currently assigned to United States Bankruptcy Judge Kevin Gross. The law firm of Neligan Foley LLP is acting as lead bankruptcy counsel to Golden County Foods, Inc. in the bankruptcy case.


Cargotec supplies Siwertell ship unloader for busy Brazilian coal jetty
Tuesday, May 18th, 2010
The commercial, operational and environmental advantages of Cargotec’s continuous screw unloading technology have led to several recent orders, all for unloading coal cargoes, including one for a state-owned port in northeast Brazil
In December Cargotec received an order for a Siwertell ST 940-D ship unloader from the Ministry of Infrastructure (SEINFRA) in Ceará State, Brazil. Constructed in Sweden and China, the continuous screw unloader will be installed at the port of Pecem, Ceará State, in the northeast of the country and will be ready for use by the end of 2011. A decision on an order for a second, similar unloader for the same jetty is expected to be taken by 2011.
With an unloading capacity of 2,400 tonnes per hour the Siwertell equipment will discharge coal from partly loaded Capesize vessels of up to 100,000 dwt.
Douglas Wichers, Cargotec’s sales manager for bulk terminals, says there are a number of good reasons why SEINFRA in Ceará State chose the company’s continuous screw unloader. “In the first place, it is the most environmentally friendly unloading system on the market as there are no dust emissions or spillages.
“It has the highest average unloading capacity when compared with competitor systems, yet the unit weight of the Siwertell unloader is only about half that of a grab crane, so there is no need to reinforce the jetty prior to installation.
“The small physical size of the Siwertell unloader eliminates the risk of collision with the large clamshell grab cranes that are to be installed at the same jetty.
“From a commercial point of view, the high average unloading capacity will result in low demurrage costs for the bulk carriers using the jetty.”
Cargotec has unrivalled experience in continuous screw type unloading systems, and has recently secured other significant orders for delivery in 2011 and 2012. These include another order to Brazil; one to Taiwan; and one to Korea.


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BANGALORE: Declare Karnataka a genetic engineering ( GE) free state - the demand was loud and clear at the two-day Seed Conservators' Convention that kicked off here on Sunday. Organized by the Southern Action for Genetic Engineering (SAGE), Karnataka, the first day of the state-level convention saw farmers from various districts display their local produce at NGO Hall, Cubbon Park.
Farmers from across the state came together and demanded that they should be able to promote their own seeds and say no to the ones produced and distributed by MNCs.
"The state government is clearly discouraging local produce by promoting company seeds at subsidized rates in its counters. The advantage of a local seed is its capacity to withstand the rapid climate changes that we are witnessing now. Farmers are losing out on a good yield every year, thanks to use of chemical pesticides which are also promoted by the same multinational companies and distributed through government outlets," said KP Suresha, executive director, Go Green, partners in the organizing committee.
Under the banner of organizers, farmers submitted a memorandum to chief minister DV Sadananda Gowda. Their primary demand was that the government should give a boost to local produce.
"The seeds need to be produced locally by farmers and the government must popularize it by selling that variety through its counters," said a committee member.
They demanded strict regulation of MNCs involved in production and distribution of seeds over matters of price fixing and quality control. The CM said the government is aware of the situation but he will not be able to improve it overnight. He stated that he was aware of farmers' demands and keen to do something concrete. He invited organization core team members to meet him after June 10 to chalk out methods to conserve local seed varieties.

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I am very happy to announce that Agent Holly McGhee has agreed to be our Guest Critiquer for August. Holly McGhee opened Pippin Properties in 1998, after being an executive editor at HarperCollins and has built one of the most prestigious Literary Agencies in the Children’s Book Industry.
Holly says, “At Pippin we embrace every artistic endeavor, from picture books to middle-grade novels, nonfiction, young adult, graphic novels. We don’t follow trends—we encourage our clients to follow their hearts. Our philosophy, the world owes you nothing, you owe the world your best work, hasn’t changed, but as an agency we have evolved to keep pace with our clients.”
Among Holly’s celebrated clients are Kate DiCamillo, David Small, Doreen Cronin, Jandy Nelson, Kathi Appelt, Harry Bliss, Peter H. Reynolds, Sujean Rim, Jon Agee, and Holly’s very own big sister, Alison McGhee. Holly lives with her husband and three children fifteen miles west of the Lincoln Tunnel, and she also writes under the pen name Hallie Durand.
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You can only send in one first page each month. It can be the same first page each month or a different one, but if you sent it to me last month and it didn’t get chosen, you need to send it again using the August’s directions. Of course, it doesn’t have to be the same submission.


Gasoline automobiles became even less complicated to operate due to the creation with the electric starter by Charles Kettering in 1912, which removed the necessity of the hand crank for starting off a gasoline engine, as well as noise emitted by ICE autos became far more bearable due to the use in the muffler, which Hiram Percy Maxim experienced invented in 1897.
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New Zealand have held their nerve to beat Twenty20 world champions Sri Lanka by three runs in a thrilling start to their two-match series.
New Zealand posted 4-182 at Mount Maunganui's Bay Oval, based around rapid half-centuries to openers Martin Guptill and Kane Williamson.
Sri Lanka kept pace with the required run rate throughout their response despite losing four wickets in the first five overs.
Needing 13 runs off the final over bowled by recalled allrounder Grant Elliott, they came up short at 9-179, losing tailenders Nuwan Kulasekara and Chamara Kapugedera when the blowtorch was applied.
It is New Zealand's first T20 win over world No.1-ranked Sri Lanka since 2010 and continues their current hold over the tourists, who lost the Test series 2-0 and the one-day international series 3-1.
As has been the case all tour, Guptill shone with some colossal early blows, racing to 31 off his first 10 balls.
His 58 off 34 included four sixes before he was run-out through a brilliant side-on hit from Kapugedera when the score was 101.
It gave Guptill 389 runs from six limited overs innings against Sri Lanka, at a strike rate just below 150.
Sri Lanka captain Dinesh Chandimal says Guptill's hitting was once again the difference between the teams.
"We need to get Martin first, that's the main focus we have," he said.
"When you're bowling to Martin, you have to bowl to a plan. We had a plan but unfortunately we couldn't do that."
Captain Williamson, who scored 53 off 42, described Guptill's form as "unbelievable".
"It's great to watch. I get the pleasure of watching at the other end."
Allrounder Corey Anderson, playing his first international for eight months after battling a back injury, departed cheaply before Colin Munro (36 off 26) and Ross Taylor (22 not out off 9) struck late.
Sri Lanka made another poor start, languishing at 4-42 after new-ball pair Trent Boult (3-21) and Matt Henry (3-44) both bagged two early scalps.
Boult was fortunate to capture opener Tillakaratne Dilshan and Shehan Jayasuriya to leg-side snicks while Henry continued his destructive form of the last two weeks.
Opener Danushka Gunathilaka (46 off 29) and middle-order tour revelation Milinda Siriwardana (42 off 31) launched an aggressive fightback, with their good work carried on by Thisara Perera (28 off 19).
Elliott, playing his first international since August after breaking his arm two months ago, produced sufficient variation in the last six balls to give New Zealand the advantage heading into game two in Auckland on Sunday.


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A big push is on to rewrite federal regulations on the toxic chemicals in household products.
WASHINGTON, D.C. — “Dozens of public interest organizations and legal scholars today sent letters to Congressional leaders expressing their unified opposition to the industry-backed Chemical Safety Improvement Act introduced last month by a bipartisan group of senators.
…Among the groups’ concerns are the legislation’s failure to create much-needed health protections that are absent in the current law but were included in the Safe Chemicals Act introduced earlier this year by the late Sen. Frank R. Lautenberg.
…the current bill doesn’t ‘explicitly protect women and children’ or take into consideration ‘the cumulative burden of chemical pollution for residents of highly polluted communities and workers.’ In addition, the industry-backed bill ‘sets no clear timelines to ensure EPA assesses hazardous chemicals in a timely manner’ and ‘would not require that chemicals be found to be safe before manufacturing begins.’
In his own comment on the bill, EWG president and co-founder Ken Cook said that: ‘While we appreciate the efforts to craft a bipartisan path toward TSCA reform, the bill as it stands now is nothing short of a monument to the chemical industry. Something is clearly amiss when chemical companies, their lobbyists and lawyers are united in support of a bill while virtually the entire environmental community is aligned against it.’”
— Sara Sciammacco, Press Release, Environmental Working Group
Sen. Frank Lautenberg, (NJ), left, at work this May at age 89, speaking to Sen. Ben Cardin (MD).
NEW YORK, NY — “. . . his real achievements were at the intersection of public health and the environment—especially on toxic industrial chemicals. He authored the ‘Toxic Right to Know’ act, which gave the public the ability to find out what toxic chemicals were being released into their neighborhood—a key piece of legislation in New Jersey, which might be called the Garden State, but which has long been home to a polluting chemical industry. . . .
Lautenberg was still working on toxic chemical reform when he died in office. For years he was the driving force in the efforts to update the nearly 40-year-old Toxic Substance Control Act (TCSA), the outdated law that deals with nearly all industrial chemicals, including household ones like those found in plastics. Even the chemical industry has come to agree that some reform is needed for TCSA, which hasn’t been updated since it was signed into law in 1976. The burden of proving that new chemicals are dangerous falls almost entirely on the government, even as industry confidentiality privileges deny regulators the information they need to make informed decisions. In the years since TCSA was enacted, the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) has only put limits on a handful of dangerous chemicals, and has largely been unable to respond to new science indicating possible risks from widespread chemicals like bisphenol-A.
Less than two weeks before his death, Lautenberg and Republican Senator David Vitter announced an agreement on new legislation that would update TCSA.”
WASHINGTON, DC — “In a rare display of bipartisanship on Capitol Hill, a group of key senators unveiled legislation Wednesday that would require chemical companies to provide more health and safety information about their products and give regulators more power to force harmful compounds off the market.
The compromise bill, supported by some health advocates and the chemical industry’s chief trade group, would overhaul a 1976 federal law that by all accounts has failed to protect Americans from harmful chemicals added to household products, including furniture, baby products, toys and electronics.
Sponsored by Democrat Frank Lautenberg of New Jersey and Republican David Vitter of Louisiana, the proposed Chemical Safety Improvement Act for the first time would require the Environmental Protection Agency to review the safety of more than 84,000 industrial chemicals, many of which already were on the market when Congress last acted on the issue nearly four decades ago.”
The 2,400-acre ExxonMobil petrochemical complex in Baton Rouge, La.
BATON ROUGE, LA — “Shirley Bowman noticed the smell after 8 a.m. on June 14, 2012, her 61st birthday. In Baton Rouge, where the petrochemical industry dominates the landscape, foul odors resembling burnt rubber or propane are perennial. But this odor, caustic and potent, seemed especially foul — ‘like some sort of chemical,’ she recalls.
Bowman found her daughter crying over a migraine. Her neighbors experienced headaches, dizziness, nausea. One family reported a toddler son coughing up phlegm; another, an elderly father collapsing on the floor. She soon suspected the cause: A leak of ‘steam-cracked’ naphtha, a liquid mixture of volatile petrochemicals, occurring at the ExxonMobil Baton Rouge petrochemical complex a half mile away
Four hours earlier, Exxon operators detected an odor in the East area tank field and discovered a ‘bleeder’ valve on Tank 801 dripping naphtha into a sewer. The leaky valve dumped 411 barrels into the underground system, company records filed with the state show. The liquid traveled a mile before pouring into a separator pit, vaporizing along the way, and releasing tens of thousands of pounds of benzene and other toxic chemicals into the air.”
— Kristen Lombardi and Andrea Fuller, Center for Public Integrity
CLEVELAND – Rachael Belz today begins her new job at Ohio Citizen Action as Interim Executive Director. The organization’s Board of Directors asked Belz to lead the organization after former Executive Director Sandy Buchanan was chosen to be Executive Director of the Institute for Energy Economics and Financial Analysis, a new national non-profit organization headquartered in Cleveland.
Sandy Buchanan said, “Rachael’s 17-year track record with Ohio Citizen Action has been stellar. She brings to the job excellent campaign management and organizational skills, and a deep commitment to our work. I’m confident that Ohio Citizen Action is in good hands with Rachael and the rest of our wonderful team.”
Rachael Belz, 42, was born in Seattle, Washington. She grew up in Stanton, Nebraska, on a farm where her parents still live. In 1992, Belz graduated from Wayne State College in Wayne, Nebraska, with B.A. in Journalism. Three days later, she was field canvassing on national health insurance for Nebraska Citizen Action in Lincoln. Later, she canvassed for Clean Water Action in Denver, Colorado, on water quality and private property rights issues. In both Lincoln and Denver, Belz began to learn organizing and showed great promise. Buchanan heard about her, and in 1996, offered Belz the job of Cincinnati Program Director of Ohio Citizen Action.
In Cincinnati, Belz has been a leader in working with communities plagued by toxic chemical pollution. She pioneered successful “good neighbor campaigns” at Cincinnati Specialties in St. Bernard, Rohm and Haas in Reading, AK Steel in Middletown, and Sunoco Refinery in the City of Oregon near Toledo. As coal program organizer, she traveled to communities across the state in the successful campaign to prevent American Municipal Power from building a new coal plant in Meigs County, Ohio. More recently, she directed the campaign for Cincinnati’s public aggregation law for electricity, which resulted in Cincinnati becoming the first big city in the nation to offer 100% renewable energy to its residents. Belz has also played key roles in statewide coordination, including training and supervising new organizers, fundraising, working closely with the field and phone canvass, and serving as Executive Director of Ohio Citizen Action Education Fund.
She will direct the organization from its Cincinnati office: (513) 221-2100, firstname.lastname@example.org, 2330 Victory Parkway #100, Cincinnati, Ohio 45206.
— Paul Ryder, Assistant Director, Ohio Citizen Action
How one organization is helping communities fight back against industries and a complicit government
Effluent from the Niagara Falls Wastewater Treatment Plant is discharged into the Niagara River near the American Falls in Niagara Falls, N.Y. (Credit: AP/David Duprey)
FALLS CHURCH, VA – “The woman who helped free an entire community from a toxic dump, literally rewriting environmental laws in the process, was so shy at the start of the struggle she tried to hide behind a tree when neighbors called on her.
Lois Gibbs took to the stage that day 35 years ago, in the seemingly idyllic community of Love Canal, N.Y., and began to find her voice. Transforming herself from homemaker to hell-raiser, she helped convince then-President Jimmy Carter to come to town in 1980 and remove 900 families from a 21,000-ton toxic dump. Earlier that year, Gibbs and her neighbors held two Environmental Protection Agency officials captive in a ploy to get the president’s attention. It worked.
Long before Erin Brockovich became a movie, Gibbs helped secure an environmental victory of greater heft. Love Canal’s war against the toxins under its feet prompted the federal government to create the Superfund cleanup program and earned Gibbs the Goldman Environmental Prize.
Today she is still in the fight as executive director of the Center for Health, Environment & Justice, a nonprofit squired in a third-floor corner office in a nondescript building in Fairfax County, Va., a few miles from Washington, D.C. A tiny gray sign hangs outside the door, betraying no sense of the history inside.”
More than 100 people, including first responders, claim they sustained injuries after inhaling vinyl chloride
PAULSBORO, NJ — “A class action lawsuit was filed today relating to the Paulsboro, New Jersey train derailment and chemical spill that forced hundreds of people from their homes and left dozens sick last year.
The plaintiffs include more than 100 first responders, young children, and property owners who allege they sustained injuries and damages after the hazardous chemical spill.
On November 30, seven cars of an 84-car train derailed on or near a swivel-style bridge over Mantua Creek. The accident released vinyl chloride, leading to the evacuation of more than 329 families and businesses. Dozens were checked out at a hospital.”
Wilma Subra, a Louisiana environmental chemist, visits Bayou Corne. “You cannot imagine what they must be going through,” she said. (Credit: Ronnie Greene/Center for Public Integrity)
BELLE ROSE, LA – “The sinkhole, triggered by a collapsed cavern operated by salt mining operator Texas Brine Company LLC, swallowed trees and fouled the air when it appeared August 3. Its discovery sent the Bayou Corne community here in Belle Rose into a state of emergency: Assumption Parish and Louisiana officials ordered a still-in-effect evacuation as state officials scrambled to unearth what happened.
…Eight months later, what comes next roils a community so close-knit it hosts its own Mardi Gras parade: The prospect that the entire Bayou Corne neighborhood, all 150 homeowners, will be relocated and not come back; that this haven for retirees and working class Louisianans will be, symbolically, swallowed by the sinkhole.
What’s happening in Belle Rose has played out in dozens of communities threatened by environmental hazards so dire residents feel compelled to demand that industry or government move them out. But as Bayou Corne’s experience shows, winning buyouts is never easy, and leaving is often painful. The community’s travails reveal the human cost of pollution.”
Of at least 200 riverkeepers in the nation, Fred Tutman is the only one who’s black. “I do think we’re invisible,” he said. “The [environmental] movement is inauthentic if it remains all white.”
WASHINGTON, DC — “Today, minority communities — black, Latino and Native American — along with low-income white neighborhoods still bear a disproportionate burden of the nation’s toxic pollution. They are in the shadows of petrochemical plants and coal-fired power plants, the nation’s greatest source of stationary pollution, according to the Congressional Research Service.
…Tutman said that he is committed to monitoring water contamination and going after polluters, that his family goes back for many generations in Prince George’s County, and that the Patuxent River runs through too many black communities he cares about.
But, he said, ‘I do think we’re invisible. The movement is inauthentic if it remains all white . . . if we can’t get a seat at the table unless we emulate their values.’”
WASHINGTON, DC — “When they hear about news events from friends and family, the vast majority of people seek out full news stories to learn more, according to a new survey by the Pew Research Center.
People most often receive news from friends and relatives the old-fashioned way: word of mouth. But significant percentages of people now get most of this news through email and social networks, and they follow up even more often than those who receive news in conversation.
According to the 2013 survey of more than 2,000 U.S. adults, nearly three-quarters—72%—say the most common way they hear about news events from family and friends is by talking in person or over the phone. But 15% get most news from family and friends through social media sites. And that rises to nearly a quarter among 18-25 year olds. Seven percent do so via email.”
INDIANAPOLIS, IN — “The ACLU of Indiana announced Thursday it has filed lawsuits against the town of Yorktown and the city of Jeffersonville because their ordinances regulating the activities of door-to-door canvassers violate the right to free expression under the U.S. Constitution.
The lawsuits were filed on behalf of the Citizens Action Coalition of Indiana, a nonprofit dedicated to issues such as health care, political participation and environmental well-being. The organization routinely uses canvassing in residential neighborhoods to reach out to residents.
Yorktown and Jeffersonville passed ordinances last year that require canvassers to go through ‘lengthy and cost-prohibitive licensing procedures before soliciting door-to-door in those communities,’ the ACLU of Indiana says in a press release.
The ordinances restrict canvassing activity to certain hours and allow a license action to be denied at the discretion of government officials. Those fees and directives violate the First Amendment, says ACLU of Indiana staff attorney Gavin M. Rose.”
Chemical companies treated this N.J. town as a private dumping ground for decades. Here’s how they were made to pay
TOMS RIVER, NJ — “There was another worrisome factor, too. The state health department had just completed a study comparing childhood cancer incidence in New Jersey’s twenty-one counties. The 1994 analysis found that from 1980 to 1988, the overall childhood cancer rate in Ocean County was well above the statewide average. That troubled Berry, and it bothered him even more that the rates in Ocean seemed to be especially high for the category of cancers that Robert Gialanella and others had been most concerned about: brain tumors. Thirty-seven Ocean County children under age fourteen had been diagnosed with brain and nervous system tumors between 1980 and 1988, when the overall rate for New Jersey suggested there should have been just twenty-two. In a county with eighty thousand children, that was 70 percent more than expected. And now Steve Jones was telling him that the Philadelphia nurse was especially concerned about brain tumors in Toms River kids.
Berry set aside his reservations and told Jones that he would look into it.”
Then-Connecticut state of Environmental Protection Commissioner Gina McCarthy paddles to shore in 2007 after announcing the opening of summer season at the state’s parks. (AP Photo/Bob Child)
WASHINGTON, DC — “On Monday, President Obama will nominate Gina McCarthy, who heads the Environmental Protection Agency’s air and radiation office, as the agency’s next administrator, and MIT professor Ernest Moniz as energy secretary, according to a White House official.
McCarthy helped usher through many of the EPA’s most contentious rules during Obama’s first term, including regulations curbing mercury and soot emissions from power plants. But she has also cultivated a strong working relationship with members of the business community, dampening much of the opposition her selection might otherwise have encountered.”
A coloring book from the 1920s extolling the virtues of lead paint. According to Gerald Markowitz and David Rosner in Lead Wars, lead paint ‘was aggressively marketed as the covering of choice to millions of young families through jingles, advertisements, and even paint books for children, who were told, for example, “This famous Dutch Boy Lead of mine can make this playroom fairly shine.”’
NEW YORK, NY — “The problem began in the early twentieth century when a spate of lead-poisoning cases in children occurred across the United States. The symptoms—vomiting, convulsions, bleeding gums, palsied limbs, and muscle pain so severe “as not to permit of the weight of bed-clothing,” as one doctor described it—were recognizable at once because they resembled the symptoms of factory workers poisoned in the course of enameling bathtubs or preparing paint and gasoline additives. One Dupont factory was even nicknamed “the House of the Butterflies” because so many workers had hallucinations of insects flying around. Many victims had to be taken away in straitjackets; some died.
By the 1920s, it was known that one common cause of childhood lead poisoning was the consumption of lead paint chips. Lead paint was popular in American homes because its brightness appealed to the national passion for hygiene and modernism, but the chips taste sweet, and it could be difficult to keep small children away from them. Because of its well-known dangers, many other countries banned interior lead paint during the 1920s and 1930s, including Belgium, France, Austria, Tunisia, Greece, Czechoslovakia, Poland, Sweden, Spain, and Yugoslavia.
…Lead paint was the most insidious danger of all because it can cause brain damage even if it isn’t peeling. Lead dust drifts off walls, year after year, even if you paint over it. It’s also almost impossible to get rid of. Removal of lead paint with electric sanders and torches creates clouds of dust that may rain down on the floor for months afterward, and many children have been poisoned during the process of lead paint removal itself. Even cleaning lead-painted walls with a rag can create enough dust to poison a child. Gut renovating the entire house solves the problem, but this too may contaminate the air around the house for months.”


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Two former world champions were in action on Saturday night at the MBS Arena in Potsdam, Germany.
Former WBA interim super welterweight champion “Golden” Jack Culcay (25-3, 13 KOs) scored a nice tenth round TKO over Rafael Bejaran (25-2-1, 11 KOs). Bejaran’s corner threw in the towel with their man taking punishment. Culcay claimed the vacant IBF international middleweight title.
Former WBA super middleweight champion Tyron Zeuge (23-1-1, 13 KOs) scored an eighth round KO over Cheikh Dioum (11-3-1, 8 KOs). In his first fight since losing his title to Rocky Fielding in July, Zeuge dropped Dioum in round eight to end it.


text: Translated into English nearly 20 years after its original publication in Argentina, Sabato's novel is a trunk filled with primal relationships (sexual, historical, psychological, political), not unlike the South American Goliath-fictions of the Sixties it is contemporary with. On one level, set in the Buenos Aires of the early Fifties, it is a story of a young man, Martin, who is bewitched by a young Lilith named Alejandra; like Marcel's Albertine in Proust (the writer to whom Sabato, with his slowly shifting epigraphy, seems most to aspire), Alejandra is perverse and tortured and secretive. On the second, deeper level, there's a clue as to why Alejandra is like this: in the middle of the novel comes a long, self-contained section entitled ""Report On the Blind""--a man's paranoid/real investigations into the ""Sect"" of the blind, who eventually conspire to return him to an underground-cavern-world of the Unconscious; and this manuscript turns out to have been written by Alejandra's real father, Fernando Vidal. Plus: webbings spun by a philosopher-writer, Bruno; a literary critic's cafe-talk; and interspersed historical flashbacks to 19th-century Argentine history. An ambitious, tapestry-type fiction, then--but there's something a little bloodless about the novel nonetheless. Unlike CortÃ zar's Hopscotch, Marquez's J Hundred Years of Solitude, or Lezama Lima's Paradiso, Sabato's book is chalky in texture, simpler than it seems while straining toward a very opposite impression, and more than a little droning. Perhaps the 20-year wait has done an injustice to Sabato's epic, since it has been eclipsed by literature of its type done with more verve and subtlety; but in any case this novel seems cumbersome and hollow, raised more on its Proustian strivings than its real literary achievements.

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In or Out, Stay or Leave, I’m sure that I’m not the only one who is getting just a little bit bored of hearing these terms. To say that the EU Referendum ‘debate’ has become vapid and tawdry is something of an understatement and a partial truth – in that it didn’t become this – it began in such a manner and has steadily dredged the depths of crass mediocrity ever since. It even fails on the most basic of levels as a debate such is the failure of those involved to engage with each other, much less the British public, the very people who are supposed to be making an informed, and decisive, decision about the future of the country.
This is the case for one simple reason: the sadly familiar blandness of the politicians involved and the laziness of their rhetoric. What makes the situation all the worse is the incessant repetition of the same sound-bite sized nuggets of drivel that are churned out. The whole thing is white noise, that all who have had to endure, wish would go away as it has become depressing beyond all belief. Both groups make pronouncements based on half-truth, unfounded speculation and total fabrication, after which the other counters with more of the same. If this were an actual battle it would be unique in that both sides are firing blanks.
This is ultimately and unfortunately a well-worn sign of the times – proof in favour of the old cliché that you get what you pay for, or rather vote for. The people have helped to create the fetid swamp which serves as such a fertile breeding ground for our politicians to lurk in. Not that we are wholly guilty through our actions (Tory voters, you know who you are), but rather through our inaction. Laziness is the foundation on which they stand and, by not challenging the consensus, the populace has played a major part in its wreaking perpetuation. And so it goes, rather than undertaking even the most basic research online – research I should add that most ten year-old’s could manage – the voting public are happy to be spoon fed nonsense that is designed to prey on their base fears. Anything more than the most cursory of glances of the Leave Campaigns’ output reveals that the route to Brexit has more potholes than an average English ‘A’ road. Too many of their predictions are founded on baseless ifs and buts: take the prospect of increased trade is dangled tantalizingly – an appeal to the nation’s greed. Whom will this trade be with? China’s economy, while still expanding, is according to many beginning to stall. Conveniently the Exit brigade seems to have forgotten the 30 Billion Pounds that China invested in Britain only last year and that UK exports to China in 2014 were worth just under 19 Billion pounds. India is the other bright spot for future trade. Yet in 2014 UK exported goods worth £6.35 billion to India and services valued at £2.24 billion. So why are some of the leave campaign leaflets that I have been given claiming that ‘we’ are doing no business with either?
One doesn’t have to cast the mind to far back in order to find an example of just how dangerous this type of speculative promise can be. Think back to the Scottish Referendum: the SNP promised future financial security on the basis of North Sea oil sales. Yet how long after the referendum was it before the price of oil slumped? Can the Leave Campaign really be certain about its ‘facts’? Can they really be trusted to see clearly into the future when so much of what their campaign evokes harks back to a mythic past when Britain was a standalone global power? Let’s not forget that that past was a colonial one, where what is now, euphemistically, called trade was actually plunder.
And if the nation does leave, who exactly will be in charge of the economy? Can the people of Britain really trust Osborne, Gove, Duncan-Smith and Johnson to do right by them? They’ve done nothing so far – so would anything change? One thing that happen is that they would, with even more license to pursue their austerity agenda, have more money to deny the public.
Then the is the wet dream of many a fascist, neo-fascist, UKIP, Cotswold NIMBY and Tory back-bencher: Britain the island fortress with its impenetrable borders. A dream is exactly what this dire image is. Our geographical frontier was porous long before their political counterparts existed. The historical economies of these islands have featured trade with our continental neighbours’ as far back as the Bronze Age, trade that was both plentiful and culturally influential. From ancient trade, historical invasions and more recent migration, our history from a time before it was ours as a nation, has been shaped by others from “over there”, wherever that is. This semi-isolationist logic, bafflingly, ignores the blindingly obvious fact that artificial political borders are becoming increasingly irrelevant. Even ISIS have worked that one out and they are as regressive as it is possible to get.
While I think it is a particularly Leftist’s form of arrogance that ignores the concerns of many working class Britons in regards to the effects of immigration – after all it is more often than not traditionally working class areas that are designated as being suitable for new arrivals – along with the alleged wage lowering effect of cheap labour – it is erroneous to blame the migrants. Let’s not forget that the majority of those immigrants are doing the very thing that people like Iain Duncan-Smith and many other Tories extol people to do, namely get up and find work. If blame can be laid anywhere for migrants ‘stealing’ jobs, it should be laid at the feet of the businesses that employ them over the British-born workforce. It should also be remembered that they are the same businesses which pay all people such terrible wages. I’m sure the migrants in question didn’t arrive and negotiate to be paid less than is the norm; I’m sure it would have been more of a take-or-leave-it-affair and let’s face it, some money is better than no money when you are out of options. Again this is a deliberate business strategy to boost profit by businesses, something that the Tory government has encouraged, not a conspiracy involving the people they employ.
As for the houses that migrants are given almost as soon as they set foot in the country: it is worth considering that the current government has done more to deprive people of the opportunity to buy houses than any migrant. By ensuring that new homes are built at a slower rate than social housing is sold off at, they have created a climate that ensuring that those few new homes are prohibitively expensive. This also ensures that rents are also outrageously high, something I’m sure that the the third of Tory MP’s who are private landlords, are happy about. Just look at Boris Johnson’s lamentable record on housing for evidence of just how bad things are.
The Tory faction within this campaign hasn’t got things totally wrong though. Many people have mocked David Cameron for his comments in relation to conflict in Europe. But let’s not forget that the European Union was created to prevent exactly that and so far it has succeeded. Think back to the breakdown of the former Yugoslavia in the early 1990s, which as a result of a rise in ethnic-religious hatred led to yet another round of genocide. Now picture non-integrated Europe where national, religious and ethnic considerations governed foreign policy and treaty signing. Who would have sided with whom in that fight? How easily it could have spread across Europe – just as it did in both the First World War – and especially when the United Nations had failed so dismally to meet its mandate, which is to prevent this type of conflict. And what of NATO? Though it is not the case for all EU member states, many are part of NATO. If Britain moves, politically, away from the EU will ‘we’ also be willing fight with and for ‘them’, if the need arise? Could leaving NATO be the next referendum? Again, this would only leave Britain in a far weaker global position than it is now.
The most disturbing image conjured by the mind in relation to a Brexit win is that of a country at the mercy of the likes of Boris Johnson, Michael Gove and Iain Duncan-Smith. A clear indicator as to the nature of this embryonic disaster is a sentence uttered by IDS just a few days ago. For reasons that any rational mind must struggle to understand IDS is quoted as describing Donald Trump as a “very decent man.” If the thought of the Brexit crowd controlling Britain, free from the constraints of those pesky EU rules that: give workers rights, protect the environment, prevent all manner of toxins from entering the food-chain, ensure that all people have the protection of a bill of human rights, as well as paying for regeneration programs and a whole raft of local initiatives, and allow us to travel without visas isn’t bad enough, then imagine, if your mind can handle it, a special relationship between Prime Minister Johnson and the walking orange nightmare across the pond who wants to build transcontinental walls, persecute Muslims and every other non WASP, who denies climate change, is ignorant of far too many world affairs, is pro-gun in a country where mass shootings could be considered the national pass time, and is a misogynist scumbag to boot. If all of that doesn’t chill the blood, then you have a far stronger constitution than I.
The future of this country must be viewed on a global level and being a part of of the European Union is by far the most effective way of doing that, especially if Britain is to financial compete against countries with far larger populations than ours. Britain benefits, as does every nation – from diversity in ideas, technology and people – all of which move more fluidly across real and artificial borders than ever before. No amount of nostalgia for the halcyon days, that have never actually existed, should be allowed to prevent that development. An isolated Britain gripped by right-wing paranoia will become nothing more that an outmoded outpost, a backward little island on the edge of a forward-looking continent which will be connected to a much larger world.