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Politically Motivated Murder
Law enforcement agencies lack the resources and the training to solve politically motivated murders. Moreover, corruption runs deep, and the capacity to pervert and divert the law evidently dominates. Regardless, it would be extremely naive and ignorant to dismiss the significance of politically motivated murders simply because there is no prosecutorial track record to acknowledge them. Like the fraudulent denial of organized crime when it reigned supreme, the fact that organized zealots commit politically motivated murders cannot be credibly dismissed. At the same time, common ignorance and corruption is certainly a serious roadblock which has effectively denied the prosecution of the so-called "patriots" who have established a clear record of getting away with murder. Clearly, when the politically motivated murder of a celebrity like John Lennon is matter of factly ignored by the vast majority, one gets a very clear sense about the incredible power that censorship and propaganda commands. But even as the rest of us slept, Fenton Bresler, an incredibly precocious British lawyer, debunked the nonsensical assertion that John Lennon was just another victim of another deranged gunman. When Bresler convincingly argued, [The Murder of John Lennon] that John Lennon was actually a victim of a massive, illegal domestic intelligence operation, of the sort that Richard Nixon and fellow zealots sponsored, the world should have taken notice. Instead, he was ignored.
When all else fails, history is the retreat that provides the insight and the confidence to make otherwise bizarre assertions like the claim that Vincent Foster was ultimately the victim of Unseen Assassins.Norman Angel, another distinguished British gentlemen, described the bizarre phenomenon in 1933, when he wrote:
The greatest evils which devastate our civilization and at times nearly destroy it are not due in the main either to the wickedness or the evil intention of men... We do not desire to create social or economic evils, to impose injustice and bring about war, but we apply policies in which those results are inherent because we fail to see the implication of the policies. Those unperceived implications are the Unseen Assassins of our peace and welfare.1In the context of Unseen Assassins, Clinton aide Vincent Foster was murdered in order to create a "window of opportunity" to scandalize the Clinton White House. Rumor and innuendo "with a purpose" has a definite source, and while political predators may conceal their identities, the propaganda they disseminate ultimately betrays the fact of behind-the-scenes manoeuvres which lead the media to focus upon absurd speculation and to consequently compromise the opportunity to promote the truth. Intelligent reporters like Anthony Lewis of the New York Times may report the fact that "the political right has tried to use the death [of Vincent Foster] to attack President and Mrs. Clinton", but Lewis also calls Foster's death a suicide, and when controversy and propaganda mix, the ultimate consequence is a one-sided invitation to speculate.2 While the distortion that Lewis promotes is extremely subtle and inadvertent, hatemongers like Rush Limbaugh reflect the glaringly obvious, deliberate purveyors of anti-Clinton propaganda. Quoted in Newsweek on March 21 1994, Limbaugh said, "Vince Foster was murdered in an apartment owned by Hillary Clinton."3 On November 22, 1983, Limbaugh even had the audacity to use his so-called "influential" television show to claim that Bill and Hillary Clinton were the benefactors of Vincent Foster's murder. According to the propaganda that Limbaugh disseminated, Foster was a source of financial disclosures that scandalized the Clintons, and he was murdered to cover up the so-called scandalous, Whitewater truth. The fact that Foster was a lawyer who protected rather than challenged the interests of the Clintons, conveniently escaped Limbaugh's notice. But that is not at all surprising because Rush Limbaugh operates on the level of Richard Nixon's Minister of Propaganda -even now that Nixon is dead.
In retrospect, the media unfolding of the Foster "suicide" is extremely enlightening. After the so-called suicide of Marylin Monroe, J. Edgar Hoover used his personal propaganda machine, the Crime Records Division of the FBI and sympathetic reporters like syndicated columnist Walter Winchell, to promote scandalous rumour about Marylin Monroe and the Kennedys. Hoover even had hollywood at his beckon call through Maurice Reis, president of the Motion Picture Alliance for the Preservation of American ideals, the hollywood equivalent of the un-American activities committee. In particular, Reis fuelled the unsubstantiated, patently false rumour that Robert Kennedy and Marylin Monroe were having an affair. Right wing fanatics like Frank Capell even wrote a book alleging that the Kennedys had murdered Monroe to cover up the alleged affair, and J. Edgar Hoover enthusiastically delivered a copy of the seventy-page pamphlet to Robert Kennedy. It was all lies, rumour and innuendo, but it was promoted so aggressively and so often that many people in fact believe that the Kennedys are indeed responsible for the murder of Marylin Monroe. In a similar fashion, if the anti-Clinton assault persists without challenge, they will ultimately be assigned responsibility for the murder of Vincent Foster.
The press is certainly too confused to sort out the fact from the fiction. On March 14, 1994, Newsweek reflected the general confusion through wishy washy inquiry like; "is Whitewater a chronic case of political ineptitude and inattention to appearances, or the biggest legal mess to enmesh the White House since Iran-contra? Or is it both?" The fact that it is evidently the largest politically motivated witch hunt in American history, was not even contemplated.
In April of 1994, Newsweek's cover story, ironically titled The Mystery of Suicide, was adorned with inset photographs of Vincent Foster, Abbie Hoffman, Marylin Monroe and Ernest Hemingway. Three of the four mentioned suicides are the subjects of Preserving the Legacy, and they certainly did not kill themselves. To be sure, ignorance is bliss, and Hemingway' s own wife had claimed that Hoover's FBI was an "imagined, illusory threat" even though J. Edgar Hoover practised "hit squad Justice". Regardless, suicide is supposed to be a profile free affliction, yet the subjects on the cover of Newsweek shared the fact that they were all fiercely independent-minded individuals. In general terms then, is it not more reasonable to conclude that they were all murdered because their independence could not be compromised? To be sure, generalizations are often unreliable, but the claim that they all committed suicide is absolutely absurd.
The symbolism of the Foster "suicide" is ironic -his body was found on a bluff in a civil war-era park overlooking the Potomac River in Virginia. It took a single day to rule his death a suicide -when a man is found with a bullet in the head and authorities do not have a clue as to how it got there, a suicide verdict is a relatively safe retreat. But paramedic, George Gonzalez, the first rescue worker to see the body on the scene, described how Foster was gripping the gun in his right hand and experts indicated that in most suicides, guns are catapulted up to 20 feet away from the body.4 The obvious implication is that Foster was murdered and the gun was placed in his right hand to make it look like he committed suicide. Compelling doubt has certainly made it impossible to reconcile the evidence with the claim that Foster committed suicide. Gonzalez even raises further doubt when he says: "The face was white and pale, and only a thin trickle of blood oozed from one corner of his mouth. Usually a suicide by a gunshot is a mess".5The mystery that surrounds the death of Vincent Foster has been dubbed the question that "just won't go away", and such intriguing overtones are certainly far more consistent to the fact of a politically motivated, murder/cover up, rather than to a relatively simple, provable suicide. In particular, the outrageous refrain that the Clintons are responsible for the murder of one of their closest and dearest friends, reflects the anti Kennedy-style propaganda at work -complete with the routine, sex scandal addendum -the claim that Hillary Clinton and Vincent Foster were having an affair. Despite the rumour, the innuendo and the official confusion about the murder of Vincent Foster, the unofficial verdict that Foster was murdered, is consistent. Interviewed on Inside Washington, on March 12, 1994, staunch Republican ally Charles Krauthammer said: "I have talked to two very level headed people on the Hill, who are not conspiracy theorists, who think, who speculate, based on how botched the investigation of the Foster suicide was, that it is possible that his body was moved -that the forensic evidence doesn't ad up to the current story."
If the so-called "reasonable" and the "official" are inclined to believe or to at least promote the claim that Vincent Foster committed suicide, the practise is entirely understandable. Indeed, Fiske hadn't even concluded his investigation when Robert Bartley, the editor of the Wall Street Journal, confidently dictated the claim that Robert Fiske would ultimately cite death by suicide, to explain the fate of Vincent Foster. In the words of Robert Bartley: "Now let me tell you something about the Special Prosecutor. This Special Prosecutor is appointed under the Justice Department and he is bound by rule 6 (e) of the Federal rules of criminal procedure, which you as a lawyer know.. okay, I'll tell you what it is. It says, if you don't indict, shut up. And that means that he's going to have all this subpoena power, all these documents... but he can't produce a complete report."6 Between December and April, Bartley had written sixteen Whitewater related editorials, and the insight that he offers is intriguing, despite his self-admitted, anti-Clinton bias. According to Bartley, "we are a conservative editorial page. I run the editorial page of the Wall Street Journal and kind of fall naturally into the position of opposition to a democratic administration".7 Since Robert Bartley is evidently an ally of anti-Clinton propagandists, he is obviously prone to advance the hidden Whitewater agenda, and his commentary is certainly right on cue, because the flawed implications of the questions he raises are essentially a direct hit that seeks to undermine the credibility of the Clinton White House. According to Bartley, "the big suspicion about the Vincent Foster suicide is not whether it happened at Fort Marcy park and so on -the big suspicion is what happened afterwards. What happened to Whitewater documents in Vince Foster's office..."8That may very well be the "big suspicion" in the eyes of anti-Clinton propagandists, but in the face of a reasonable analysis, the big suspicion is "why was Foster murdered?", not "how can his death be used to promote Whitewatergate?" The suggestion that the Clinton White House deliberately tampered with Whitewater files in Foster's office, reflects the anti-Clinton witch hunt, which is seeking to "develop" evidence of a White House sponsored cover up. Foster had worked on Whitewater as the Clinton's personal lawyer and there is every reason to believe that the documents in his possession protected the Clintons from allegations of wrongdoing -so if anybody had a reason to tamper with Foster's files, it certainly was not the Clintons. Unfortunately for the Clintons however, Foster is dead and he is no longer able to confirm or deny the authenticity of Whitewater documents. At the same time, Clinton's enemies are selectively promoting "big suspicions" because the integrity of Whitewater files is now subject to fraud and manipulation, rather than to conclusive verification. As the Clinton's closing attorney in the Whitewater deal, Vincent Foster was in the best position to defend the Clintons against manufactured allegations of wrongdoing, and now that he is dead, the Clintons are forced to defend themselves.
In the final analysis, the unsubstantiated, widely promoted suggestion that the Clintons are guilty of cover up at best, murder at worst, reflects the pattern of propaganda that aims to restrict focus and to direct attention away from the truth. The confusion, the suspicion, the mystery and the desire to get to the bottom of the elusive truth is all alluded to through commentary like: "Seven months latter, the story won't go away. New revelations continue to dog the White House, threatening Bill Clinton with the death of a thousand cuts. Did Vince Foster really commit suicide? Or was he murdered? The irony is that the man who's hurting the president in death was one of Clinton's dearest friends."9 Indeed, the murder of Vincent Foster threatens to become as mysterious and as controversial as all the other national security-motivated murders -Kennedy, Monroe, King...
Ignorance, rumor, shock and propaganda has successfully created a "frame of reference" which measures every so-called fact through the prism of anti-Clinton bias. If, for example, Foster committed suicide, it was allegedly because Whitewater threatened to destroy the Clinton presidency and he could not stomach the battle. If he was murdered, it was allegedly to cover up the truth about Whitewater. The fact that there is absolutely no substance behind such absurd, conspiracy theories, do not appear to bother the press. In the final analysis, beyond all the absurd speculation and the ridiculous conspiracy theories, Whitewater is the first so-called scandal in American history, where nobody has in fact exposed what is being covered up -and that's what you call an unadulterated triumph of propaganda.
To date, the FBI has fared no better than the press in its tendency to promote absurd speculation. When, for example, a senior FBI investigator testified before Congress on July 29 1994, he said that Vincent Foster committed suicide and that "Whitewater" [as it is popularly misunderstood?] could have been a relevant factor. The FBI conclusion does not exactly inspire confidence because it obviously places the cart before the horse -Whitewater became a national issue after, not before the murder of Vincent Foster. Is the FBI suggesting that Vincent Foster committed suicide in order to give political opportunists the opportunity to manufacture the so-called Whitewater scandal?
At the very least, the FBI should be able to acknowledge the fact that Whitewater is about nothing beyond a politically motivated witch hunt that is targeting the President of the United States. The simple facts of the so-called Whitewater scandal are very clear. In 1978, James McDougal and the Clintons bought 230 acres of undeveloped land in Arkansas and the Whitewater Development Corporation that was supposed to manage the project went bankrupt when interest rates skyrocketed. James McDougal was also the head of the Madison Guaranty Savings & Loan, and since that operation failed, McDougal's dealings were subjected to intense scrutiny. In his own words:
I was tried on thirteen counts after I had been subjected to a four year investigation by the FBI, the Justice Department and five other agencies of government. I was totally and absolutely exonerated on everything I've ever done in my life. Because in four years they spent millions of dollars looking at it. Hale [the Whittaker Chambers of the 1990's?] simply dragged me back into this because he thought I'd be a good patsy simply because I'm a friend of the President.10David Hale was a municipal judge ["an ex-traffic judge," in the words of McDougal] and a Little Rock entrepreneur who, according to McDougal, "stole alot of money from the government." If there is any redeeming value in the character of David Hale, the press has certainly failed to disclose it. According to McDougal:
I'm saying that Hale is a con, a cheat and a forgerer. I've had previous experience where he forged documents and introduced them in court trying to get out of trouble where he had stolen some of his relatives land.11In other words, Hale is evidently the sort of person who is inclined to pervert the course of justice through fraud and deceit. As late as January 1994, Hale was under a federal fraud indictment in connection with his S.B.A. [Small Business Administration] dealings.12In the meantime, Hale is evidently the voice behind "a ton of documents" which will produce "evidence" of a so-called S.B.A./Whitewater scandal. To the surprise of David Hale however, "documented" evidence is as reliable as the credibility of the voice behind it. David Hale does not, by any stretch of the imagination, merit any credibility at all, and the current attempt to "build a case" against the Clintons is the domain of intelligent and honest law enforcement officials, it is not subject to the "ton of documents" that Hale may or may not produce.
In the final analysis, the FBI should acknowledge the fact that Jim McDougal, the head of the failed Madison Guaranty Savings & Loan, was initially indicted and exonerated after an intensive, federal investigation, and the current assault which suggests that Bill Clinton is a manifestation of the corrupt-ridden, coast-to-coast savings & loans scandals, is misleading at best and fraudulent at worst. Instead of taking its cue from the RTC [Resolution Trust Corporation], the agency that directed attention towards the so-called Whitewater scandal, the FBI should perhaps declare war upon the irresponsible, politically motivated witch hunts which are evidently obstructing the course of justice.
During the Reagan/Bush years, every government agency, including the FBI, operated on the level of a politically motivated army, and that produced a disturbing legacy which is still largely unspoken. Regardless, the Nixon-navigated Reagan White House had certainly imposed an absolute reign of terror. In particular, the Reagan administration [in true Nixonian spirit] labelled anyone who opposed American military involvement in Central America a terrorist and mobilized the entire government to engage a covert war against the so-called terrorists. In the 1960's they were called national security threats and they were blamed for losing the Vietnam war, so in the 1980's they were called terrorists, to make the fact that they had to be "liquidated" absolutely clear. The assault on anyone who opposed the war in Central America was consequently more violent than ever before. Self-appointed custodians of American foreign policy, Richard Nixon and Bill Casey believed that Central America was the battleground of the war between communism and freedom [just like Vietnam was] and they mobilized both the public and the private sector in the battle to win the war. In the process, they engaged an unprecedented campaign of illegal surveillance, disruption, disinformation and assassination. If the casualties of the covert war against Central America activists are not acknowledged, it is because the illegal operations that targeted them are unsolved crimes. "0f nearly 200 political break-ins and thefts of files reported by Central America and Sanctuary activists, not one has been solved."13 And that is a sorry statistic that does not take unreported crime, death threats and so-called murder/suicides into account.
In North America, the secrecy, care and expertise of politically motivated, criminal perpetrators, dictated public indifference. In El Salvador, the murder of anyone who advocated peace was swift and blunt. When Ignacio Ellacuria begged the embattled government to talk peace with its rebel foes, thirty men dressed in military uniforms dragged Father Ellacuria and five other Jesuit teachers from their rooms at the University of Central America and shot them to death. "The Jesuits' cook and her 15-year-old daughter were slain in their beds".14 By 1985, the US was spending more than one million dollars a day to finance such unwarranted brutality and thousands of innocent women, children and men -entire families were indiscriminately slaughtered because they were allegedly terrorists. Even American nuns, who visited the war-torn country, were commonly murdered, and instead of condemning the senseless slaughter of American human rights advocates, the government suggested that the brutality was justifiable. When, for example, four American churchwomen were butchered to death in El Salvador, Jeane Kirkpatrick, U.N. Ambassador-designate said: "the nuns were not just nuns. The nuns were also political activists."15 The repugnant tendency to promote violence against anyone who was not a right wing ideologue may satisfy the anti-Communist paranoia of Kirkpatrick, but the illegal, brutal covert war against so-called political activists, reflects one of the most obvious criminal conspiracies in world history. Marching to the tune "be a patriot, kill a priest," it is difficult to believe that most Americans supported their government's tendency to support and finance death squad justice.
Given the scope and the breadth of the covert war against dissent, the belief that death squad justice was confined to the borders of Central America is extremely naive. Having mobilized the anti-Communist forces of the entire continent if not the world, the Reagan government had developed an extraordinary capacity to export death squad justice, and the evident proof was in the mysterious crime that confronted every activist, whether at home or abroad. The covert assault was in fact so comprehensive, that it involved the FBI, the Salvadoran Security Forces, the CIA, the National Security Council and a host of private, right wing groups that had developed a well coordinated, multi-pronged assault on political dissenters.16 The existence of this nationwide license to harass, to intimidate and to ultimately murder, is difficult to grasp -a democracy is not supposed to tolerate tyrannical, death squad justice. The fact that the incredible abuse of power that unfolded before our very eyes in the not so distant past, escaped widespread media coverage, does not bode well upon the integrity, the independence and the competence of the press. Ross Celbspan, an enormously brave, Pulitzer Prize-winning investigative journalist with 30 years of experience, reflects the odd disparity between freedom and information when he said: "To this day, I am puzzled by the news judgment of peers who determined that a clear pattern of break-ins, thefts of files and death threats aimed at political dissenters is not a compelling subject of coverage."17 Most reporters were evidently muzzled by indifference and "deference to the overwhelming popularity of the President." Perhaps, if the press realized that good old "Tricky Dicky" was evidently the brains behind the massive criminal conspiracy, they would have stood up and took notice. After all, the veil of secrecy that was imposed to cover up crime, was certainly too sophisticated to even jokingly suggest that it was developed by Ronald Reagan. Indeed, Nixon was so deeply shocked by Daniel Ellsberg, the former bureaucrat who leaked the classified "Pentagon Papers", that he invariably committed all of his energy to a scheme that would discourage future Ellsbergs. Secret presidential orders that tightened the cloak of secrecy and forbade disclosure, reflected the preoccupation of Richard Nixon, not Ronald Reagan, and the genuine architect of a solution is obviously the one who identifies the problem. In 1982, the "President" consequently signed the "Intelligence Identities Protection Act," which, "while it purported to protect the identities of CIA agents, also subjected anyone who exposed illegal activities by U.S. intelligence agents to up to 10 years in jail and $50,000 in fines. The act threatened to silence journalists and government whistleblowers who have traditionally served the country by exposing illegal intelligence abuses". Moreover, the Nixon-navigated Reagan White House "signed an order requiring officials with access to certain categories of classified information to sign secrecy agreements which would require them to submit any speeches, books or articles to censorship boards for the rest of their lives."18 The excessive censorship and the aggressive dissemination of propaganda in fact dictated the course of politics in the 1980's. In particular, deference to a manufactured image accounted for the popularity of the Reagan presidency, and deference to a manufactured scandal is evidently defining the course of politics today. Either way, a triumph of disinformation and propaganda is extremely disturbing.
Clearly, the most disturbing aspect of the Nixon-imposed reign of terror was the unaccountable apparatus that provided the opportunity to get away with murder. In particular, the emphasis on privatizing the capacity to engage a covert, illegal operation, was the pandora's box of the most sinister and ruthless alliances ever conceived. While the capacity to terrorize with impunity would obviously not survive public scrutiny, secrecy provided criminal perpetrators the opportunity to operate through "a network of private, right wing groups which worked in concert with the nation's law enforcement and intelligence agency to terrorize policy opponents."19 At best, this legacy of terror produced illegal mail openings, break-ins, death threats, and file thefts. At worst, the terror culminated in the murder of particular targets. For example, the "most sinister aspect of the FBI's collaboration with the Salvadoran National Guard may lie in unmarked graves and obscure ravines in the small, war-ravaged Central American nation, where refugees, having sought shelter and a safe haven in the United States, were buried after being deported by U.S. officials back to waiting security forces."20 Having developed an international, sinister alliance that targeted and "neutralized" Central America activists, the traceless, borderless murder toll of anyone who challenged or was perceived to challenge American foreign policy was invariably astronomical. Since 1970, Richard Nixon "stressed the need for improved coordination among the agencies to strengthen their capabilities to collect intelligence about revolutionary activists" and by 1980, Nixon's unyielding will to target his enemies was honed to the point where activists were evidently murdered with impunity.21
On Monday December 19, 1988, a twenty-one year old Trent University student Naomi Harder was shot to death. Naomi's boyfriend, twenty-one year old Jose Mejia, had emigrated from El Salvador and worked for Tools for Peace, a relief organization raising funds for Central American countries. Reputed to have made "the greatest single contribution to international studies in the university's history" a politically conscious, straight-A student like Naomi was bound to impact Canadian politics.22Naomi could have been the first female Prime Minister of Canada. Instead, Naomi Harder and Jose Mejia died of gunshot wounds to the head. The crime was neatly solved in a so-called murder-suicide verdict, and the matter was soon forgotten. Jose allegedly murdered Harder because he was jealous of her and then he allegedly shot himself in the head. The fact that Central America peace activists were labelled terrorists, targeted and exterminated like flies was absolutely ignored. In retrospect, there is no question about the fact that Harder and Mejia were murdered. Young people who engage projects that they find to be valuable and worthwhile are not violent and they do not commit suicide. It is people who lack meaning and purpose, who are prone to violence. At the same time, the clandestine, semi-private, paramilitary assault upon dissent victimized idealists like Mejia and Harder, and the sinister apparatus that dispatched the terror has been conclusively labelled and identified by experienced, courageous journalists like Ross Gelbspan. In brief, if the fact that Naomi Harder and Jose Mejia were murdered is subject to denial, it is not subject to serious doubt. Student activists like Naomi Harder are commonly the targets of surveillance because intelligence agencies deem them to be a threat to the national security and they carefully monitor their actions in order to assess their influence amongst other university students.
The Canadian Security Intelligence Service [CSIS] has been known to plant agents within peace groups in the hunt for "subversives" and to cooperate closely with the CIA and the FBI, and with respect to the covert war against the Central America movement, the potential implications of that alliance are unhappily sinister. In particular, when intelligence agencies are prone to attract and recruit the sort of violent zealots who seek to eradicate dissent by exporting death squad justice, that seriously jeopardizes the security of every target of surveillance. In a nutshell, if you "play the game" and you jeopardize the intent [to protect the security of Canadians like Harder and Mejia], you are the problem. As late as Friday November 24, 1989, the Globe and Mail exposed the fact that a minority of agents within CSIS were still harassing the peace movement and targeting people simply for "aiding groups involved in social issues," and that was a year after CSIS's counter-subversion branch was demolished.
The tendency to overlook the fact that Canada has not been immune to politically motivated murders has made it easy for criminal perpetrators to conceal their crimes. In retrospect however, a convenient, timely "departure" invites serious scrutiny and in certain, compelling cases, the cause of death should be reassessed. In particular, the Reagan/Bush years promoted a covert, worldwide intelligence climate where anybody who opposed the intent to go to war was labelled a terrorist and dealt with accordingly. Pro-war zealots claimed that antiwar demonstrators were responsible for losing the Vietnam war and they developed the notion that it was as important to target and destroy the "enemy" at home as it was to destroy the enemy on the battlefield. George Bush got his opportunity to prove that the Gulf War was not going to be another Vietnam, and created a climate where "media manipulation and censorship took new and sinister forms" during the Persian Gulf War.23 Indeed, George Bush proved that he was the "perfect propagandist" and the "obedient" media in Canada certainly reflected the fact. In particular, a poll taken on December 27, 1990 indicated that 55% of Canadians opposed involvement in the Gulf War, and that sort of division demanded a lively debate, not a patriotic salute.24 The debate never developed. The assault on anyone who opposed the war was too virulent to entertain reasonable dialogue. Trent University Professor Robert E. Carter reflected the frustration of anyone who opposed the Persian Gulf War when he wrote: "It is hard to fathom the extent to which the call for peace in the world has come to be viewed as subversive and disloyal activity. It is taken by many to be a fact that those who are against the war are disloyal Canadians, and serve to undermine the very lives of Canadian troops on active duty in the gulf and elsewhere... To be for peace is not to be pro-Iraqi. Nor is it to be anti-Canadian, anti-American or anti-British. It is to be for a Canada which keeps the peace, rather than joining military action too soon... War must be thought of as a last resort, not a quick fix."25 On January 14, 1991, journalist Walter Stuart wrote: "1f war comes, our reputation for decency will be among the casualties. And we don't even care." The fact is, Canadians did care, but those who did were evidently denied the forum that military strategists and play-by-play commentators were granted. The ferocious zeal to prosecute the Gulf War overwhelmed critics like actress Margot Kidder, who encountered hostility for their public opposition to the war. Kidder reflected her frustration when she said: "I've been stunned by the amount of hatred that came my way from people in my neighbourhood [in New York State] and people on the street." 26 "Baghdad Betty" was harassed, ridiculed and ultimately dismissed, but what happened to the serious, so-called pro-Iraqi supporters, whose reputation was extremely difficult to challenge? Since December of 1990, when the sabre-rattling rhetoric of George Bush and Saddam Hussein had practically made the Gulf War a foregone conclusion, intelligence agencies identified "pro-Iraqi" activity in Canada in effort to thwart potential "terrorism." According to FBI reports, 100 Iraqi agents were working in North America, including 12 that were working in Metropolitan Toronto.27 On January 16, 1991, allied forces began air and missile attacks on Iraqi forces. On January 23, 1991, Northrop Frye, an internationally respected critic who believed that "wars ought not to start and accomplish nothing when they stop", suffered a heart attack.28 On January 24, 1991, the Toronto Star paid tribute to Northrop Frye, the eminent critic who "believed that truth resides in the imagination." Peace protesters in league with Saddarn, headlined a letter to the editor by a Professor of Sikh studies. Vice-president blasts U.S. media for coverage of anti-war protests, echoed another headline. Frye's "tribute issue" was overwhelmed by the pro-Gulf War rhetoric of ideological warlords like Dan Quayle, whose boast that the demand for control of the mass media was supported by George Bush and "a lot of others", loomed ominous. In particular, reading between the lines, the Toronto Star issue that paid tribute, reflected the anti-Northrop Frye zeal that evidently claimed his life -and that is simply a direct observation, not an unfounded suspicion. Clearly, a legacy of terror exempts suspicion, a casualty of war is not a figment of the imagination and the fact that Frye's death was very timely and convenient, is glaringly obvious. Indeed, even a fool like Dan Quayle did not ignore the unrivalled blitz to control Persian Gulf War dissent, and it takes an even bigger fool, to ignore the consequences.
The tribute that Northrop Frye deserved was never issued. The "imagination" failed to identify the correlation between targets of excessive censorship and the death of antiwar critics like Northrop Frye. In particular, the press failed to explore the ghastly forces of evil that Northrop Frye always warned against. In his own words, Northrop Frye said that "our most dangerous enemies, so far, are within.. Our effective enemies are not foreign propagandists, but the hucksters and hidden persuaders and segregators and censors and hysterical witch-hunters and all the rest of the black guard who can live as parasites on a gullible and misinformed mob."29 In the final analysis, Northrop Frye was deliberately denied the opportunity to lambaste the excessive, insidious, sinister censorship imposed by paranoid warmongers who blamed the press for losing the Vietnam war and who were overcome by the zeal to prosecute the Persian Gulf War.
If George Bush is the "perfect ideologue," Northrop Frye was the "perfect liberal," and that certainly reflects an irreconcilable clash of powerful wills. According to Northrop Frye, "I have remained a bourgeois liberal all my life because the serious ideals of democracy -personal liberty, equality of speech, equality of citizenship and tolerance of variety of opinion -are anti doctrinaire ideals."30In particular, Frye condemned what he called the "psycopathic tendencies"' of hysterics and the "horrors of the police state," where scientists, historians, poets and novelists are restricted by ideological or political priorities. Having engaged a war against the socially acquired prejudices of the mob, the censor and the ideologue, Northrop Frye claimed that "on the level of practical intelligence what is demanded of the educated person is not to be able to see facts as they are, but the courage to fight. Whoever pretends that on this level there is still room for detachment and impartiality is merely rationalizing his own cowardice."31 The central principle of Frye's struggle to challenge ignorance, bigotry, superstition and censorship was the need to promote free speech, and his relentless determination is quite evident when he says:
The area of ordinary speech, as I see it, is a battleground between two forms of social speech, the speech of the mob and the speech of a free society. One stands for cliche, ready-made idea and automatic babble, and it leads us inevitably from illusion into hysteria. There can be no free speech in a mob: free speech is one thing a mob can't stand. You notice that the people who allow their fear of Communism to become hysterical eventually get to screaming that every sane man they see is a Communist. Free speech, again, has nothing to do with grousing or saying that the country's in a mess and that all politicians are liars and cheats, and so on and so on. Grousing never gets any further than cliches of this kind, and the sort of vague cynicism they express is the attitude of somebody who is looking for a mob to join .32Frye lived his life like liberalism [social not fiscal] was the only antidote to tyranny, and having defined both the battlefield, the enemy and the likely casualty, he ultimately proved his point. Frye claimed that in all repressive societies, the most penetrating thinkers are accused of heresy and the best that a culture has to offer is destroyed, and he reflected upon the growing evidence that the "enemy" had penetrated the university itself when he said:
I have been facing groups of students for thirty years, and have never ceased to be impressed by the amount of sheer courage it takes to keep on studying and ignore the infinite resources of anti-intellectual suggestion. I have watched students resisting the temptations that came through all the disguises of the second world war, the cold war, the atom bomb, the McCarthyist witch-hunts and have finally seen the enemy enter the university itself. It is students, today, who repeat the formulas of the ignorant and stupid of a generation ago, that the university is a parasitic growth on society, that academic freedom is old-hat liberal rhetoric, that because complete objectivity is impossible, degrees of objectivity do not matter, that the university seeks for a detachment that ducks out of social issues, that scholarship and research are all very well but of course aren't real life. It is no accident that the more extreme this attitude becomes, the more closely its social effects come to resemble those of the youth movements set up by Hitler and Stalin. For the totalitarian impulse is the primitive impulse, the longing to return to the narcotic peace of society's version of truth and reality, where we no longer have to cope with the conflicts of intellectual freedom and social concern.33
The implications of the suggestion that young people of today reflect the socially acquired prejudices of adults in the past, are potentially ominous and reflect a trend of growing repression. Needless to say, an anti-intellectual attitude spells the doom of the university, and the conflict between Northrop Frye and the ever-increasing triumph of propaganda, reflects the fact. The chasm between Northrop Frye the liberal and George Bush the ideologue was indeed so extreme that if you put them in the same room, they could not possibly engage a coherent, rational conversation. Northrop Frye essentially exposed the unbridgeable gap when he said: "I detest arguments. You're going to lose any argument with an ideologue because you can only argue on the basis of a counter-ideology, and I'm not doing that." In a similar vein, the chasm between pro-Gulf War zealots and antiwar scholars was irreconcilable. In the eyes of pro-Gulf War zealots, Iraq was Nazi Germany incarnate. In the eyes of scholars like Northrop Frye, Iraq was the site of the worlds first known civilization, and like Vietnam, which was thousands of years older than our civilization, we were declaring war on a history that was not recognized.
Frye commanded the respect of those he inspired and the wrath of the special interests he challenged, and that is a sort of love/hate relationship which is subject to circumstance. In particular, under the stress of war, it is a historically recognized fact that the voice of reason is typically "exiled" because it does not necessarily focus attention upon the task of winning the war. In that respect, it would be remiss to ignore the fact that Northrop Frye, one of if not the most respected critic of the twentieth century, was involuntarily exiled -murdered. With 38 honourary degrees from around the globe and having taught at over 100 universities, Frye's intelligence was not subject to serious dispute. Frye declined invitations to teach at universities like Oxford and Princeton and taught at the University of Toronto's Victoria College for over 50 years. Perhaps, that loyalty will be fully repaid when the University of Toronto acknowledges his contribution to Canada and to the world. To date, Frye has been successfully buried and forgotten.
1Norman Angel, The Unseen Assassins, p.13-14.
2The New York Times, August 5 1994, p. A-11.
3Newsweek, March 21 1994, p.32
4Toronto Star, February 13 1994, p.A-10.
6ABC News, Nightline, April 19 1994.
9Toronto Star, February 13 1994, p.A-10.
10Larry King Live, March 21 1994.
12The New Yorker, January 17 1994, p.36.
13Ross Gelspan, Break-ins, Death Threats and the FBI, p.23.
14The Globe and Mail, Novmber 18 1989.
15Toronto Star, May 23 1984.
16Ross Gelspan, Break-ins, Death Threats and the FBI, p.3.
21William R. Corson, Armies of Ignorance: The Rise of the American Intelligence Empire, 1977.
22The Toronto Sun, December 21 1988.
23Martin Yant, Desert Mirage.
24The Globe and Mail, January 22 1991. p.A-21.
25Toronto Star, February 2 1991, p.D-3.
26Toronto Star, February 14 1991, p.A-8.
27The Toronto Sun, January 8 1991, p.2.
28Northrop Frye, On Education, p.86.
32Northrop Frye, The Educated Imagination:CBC Massey Lectures Series, p.64.


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“It is our choices, Harry, that show what we truly are, far more than our abilities”
One of my favourite lines from any Harry Potter book. This one appears in Chapter 18 of Harry Potter and the Chamber of Secrets when a troubled Harry is remembering with his headmaster – Professor Dumbledore – an event from the start of his days at Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry.
At the start of a fresh academic year each new pupil is assigned to one of four houses: Hufflepuff, Ravenclaw, Griffindor or Slytherin. As you might expect there is magic in the process, a magic Sorting Hat, to be precise. Placed upon the head of each girl and boy in turn it is the Hat that pronounces to a packed Great Hall of students and teachers the house to which the newbie belongs.
“Not Slytherin, eh?” said the small voice “Are you sure? You could be great, you know, it’s all here in your head, and Slytherin will help you on the way to greatness, no doubt about that – no? Well, if you are sure – better be GRIFFINDOR!”
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“It only put me in Griffindor” said Harry in a defeated voice, “because I asked not to go in Slytherin…”
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It was the choice Harry made in that moment to turn away from “greatness” at any price towards the house of the “brave at heart” that set the tone for everything that followed.
We all make choices every day.
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A system user defines a template for the arrangement of icons (or objects) in a container. The template is a selection of grid cells into which icons may be placed during rearrangement. The user defined template is dropped onto a container causing the container to be rearranged so that icons occupy only the positions selected for occupation by the template. An alternate embodiment displays a grid of cells contained in a container selected for rearrangement, allowing the user to select the final pattern at the time of rearrangement.
1. A computer implemented system for arranging objects in a displayable container according to a user defined pattern, the system comprising:
means for user controlled specification of a pattern of grid cell locations for arranged object placement;
means for requesting arrangement of objects in a displayable container;
means for determining a number of cells in the displayable container;
means for applying said pattern to said cells to establish specified grid cell locations;
means for rearranging objects in said container by placing objects only in the specified grid cell locations.
2. The system of claim 1, wherein the means for rearranging includes:
means for identifying all objects in said container;
means for testing each object to determine whether or not send object is a rearrangeable object;
means for placing each of said rearrangeable objects at one of said specified grid cell locations.
3. The system of claim 1, further comprising:
means for specifying for arrangement a subset of objects in said container.
4. A computer implemented method for rearranging objects in a container according to a template specified by a system user, the computer having a memory and processing means, the method comprising the steps of:
defining a template representing grid locations permitted to be occupied by objects after rearrangement;
repositioning each rearrangeable object in a container into one of the specified grid locations in accordance with said template.
5. The method of claim 4, further comprising the step of:
determining the grid dimensions of said container.
6. The method of claim 5, wherein the step of repositioning each rearrangeable object comprises of the steps of:
building a list in said memory of the objects in said container;
iterating through said list and performing the following steps on each item:
testing the object to determine whether said object is moveable;
if moveable, repositioning the object to the next occupiable cell in said grid;
if moveable, updating the next occupiable position.
7. The method of claim 6, further comprising the step of:
selecting for rearrangement a subset of objects in said container; and
indicating said selected subset as rearrangeable objects.
8. A computer program product having a computer readable medium having computer program logic recorded thereon for rearranging moveable objects in a container to conform to a user specified format, said computer program product comprising:
computer program product means having computer readable means for storing a user specified object pattern;
computer program product means having computer readable means for rearranging each moveable object in said container in accordance with said user specified object pattern.
9. The computer program product of claim 8, wherein the computer program product means having computer readable means for rearranging each moveable object in said container includes:
computer program product means having computer readable means for determining a first grid cell for placement of a first object;
computer program product means having computer readable means for placing said first moveable object;
computer program product means having computer readable means for testing said user selectable object format to determine a next grid cell for placement;
computer program product means having computer readable means for placing a next moveable object;
computer program product means having computer readable means for repeating the steps of determining a next grid cell and placing a next object until all moveable objects have been placed.
10. The computer program product of claim 8, further comprising:
computer program product means having computer readable means for selecting a subset of objects in a container for rearrangement; and computer program product means having computer readable means for indicating said subset of objects are moveable objects.
The present invention is related to U.S. Ser. No. 08/766,542 entitled "Arrangement of Selected Subset of Objects in a Container", filed on Dec. 11, 1996 bearing attorney docket number AT996-294.
1. Field of the Invention
The present invention relates to computer systems having display devices for displaying information to the computer system user. More particularly, the present invention relates to graphical information display devices that organize objects into containers and allow users to interact with the system by selecting objects within a container. Still more particularly, the present invention supports automatic arrangement of objects within a container according to a format specified by the system user.
2. Background and Related Art
Computer systems with graphical user interfaces (GUIs) permit the system user to select programs to execute or other actions by selecting ("clicking") on an icon representing an actionable object. The Apple Macintosh operating system introduced the use of graphical user interfaces and selectable objects. Operating systems such as the IBM OS/2 operating system, the Microsoft Windows operating system, and the OSF Common Desktop Environment for Unix operating systems provide graphical interface support using objects.
Actionable objects are represented as icons on the display screen.
The user operates a pointing device such as a mouse, track ball, track point, or touchpad to move a cursor on the display screen. One or more selection buttons are provided to select an icon or to activate the program represented by the icon. The icons are typically grouped into containers (often called "folders") with other related icons. For example, all of the icons relating to a word processing product may be grouped into a single folder. A folder is an actionable object that can be opened to display its contents which may include other folders and icons. The full display screen is itself a container containing the folders and objects presented to the user.
The system user adds icons to his or her system when new programs are added or when new files or documents are created. This may lead to a cluttered container or desktop with icons scattered without any discernable order. Most graphical user interface systems allow the user to drag icons into different positions, allowing them to rearrange the icons to suit their taste. These systems also provide an automatic arrange functions that rearrange all of the icons in a container. Automatic arrangement functions arrange the icons in an order specified by the user, for example, alphabetically by the name of the icon. The arrangement places the icons within the folder based on the systems arrangement specification. The OS/2 operating system, by default, arranges the icons in rows, left to right starting at the top left of the display. Windows 3.1 arranges the icons in rows starting at the bottom left, while Windows95 arranges the icons in columns starting at the top left of the screen.
Automatic arrangement has the disadvantage that all objects or icons in a container are rearranged according to a system specified algorithm. The system user may prefer an icon arrangement different than that or those provided by the operating system. Existing systems do not provide an ability for the user to define a pattern in which to rearrange cons in a container.
Thus, a technical problem exists of providing a way for a system user to define an icon arrangement layout for the computer system to use when automatically rearranging icons or objects in a container.
The present invention is directed to a computer implemented system for arranging objects in a displayable container according to a user defined format. The system comprises: means for specifying a pattern of grid cell locations for arranged object placement; means for requesting arrangement of objects in a displayable container; means for determining a number of cells in the displayable container; and means for rearranging icons in the container by placing objects only in the specified grid cell locations.
The present invention is directed to providing a process for specifying a user defined arrangement template for rearranging icons in a container. The user can define a template by specifying which cells in a grid representing the display screen are to be occupied by icons. The system then determines the grid size and extent in the particular container. Existing objects are then placed in the grid according to the specified pattern. An alternate embodiment allows specification of the grid positions to be occupied at the time rearrangement is selected.
It is therefore an object of the present invention to provide the system user with a method and means to specify the layout of icons or objects when automatically arranged in a container.
It is yet another object of the invention to provide a system and method for rearranging icons in a container according to a pattern specified by the system user.
The foregoing and other objects, features and advantages of the invention will be apparent from the following more particular description of a preferred embodiment of the invention, as illustrated in the accompanying drawing wherein like reference numbers represent like parts of the invention.
FIG. 1 is a block diagram of a computer system according to the preferred embodiment of the present invention.
FIG. 2 is an illustration of a display screen according to the present invention divided into cells.
FIG. 3 is an illustration of a display screen and container divided into cells.
FIG. 4 is an illustration of a user defined arrangement template.
FIG. 5 is an illustration of dragging a user defined arrangement template to a container for action.
FIG. 6 is an illustration of the resulting rearranged container.
FIG. 7 is an illustration of the user defined specification of arrangement locations at the time of arrangement.
FIG. 8 is a flowchart depicting the process of the present invention.
The present invention is implemented in a computer system such as that shown in FIG. 1. The computer system 100 includes a processing complex 104 of one or more central processing units (CPUs) and random access memory and read-only memory 102. The central processing units can be of any type including devices such as the Intel 486, Intel Pentium, IBM PowerPC or other processor. The system also includes an input/output controller 108 for managing the interface between the computer system and external devices. Network controller 110 allows interaction with a local area or wide area network.
External devices can include fixed disk drives 112 and removable storage devices 114. The fixed and removable devices can be magnetic or optical devices. A keyboard 116 and pointing device 118 are provided for user entry of data. The pointing device 118 can be of any known type such as a mouse, trackball, trackpoint, touchpad or touch screen. The display 120 displays information generated by the system. The display includes facilities to display a cursor 122 that tracks the pointing device. The display screen displays icons or objects 124, 126, 128, 130. These objects represent actionable objects that are selectable by the user. By actionable objects it is meant that selection of the object causes a defined action to be initiated. These actions can include the execution of a program, the opening of a folder or other container, or the modification of the display environment.
The preferred embodiment of the present invention operates on an IBM Personal Computer workstation having an Intel Pentium CPU. The preferred embodiment works in conjunction with the IBM OS/2 operating system Presentation Manager function. The OS/2 Presentation Manager controls the display of information on the display screen. The Presentation Manager is used by application developers to construct and display information on the screen. The objects placed on the display screen are termed "Presentation Manager Controls" or simply "PM Controls." A subset of the controls are "PM Container Controls" that control the behavior of container objects such as the desktop or folders.
The present invention is implemented by modifying an existing "PM Container Control" or by adding a new "PM Container Control." In the alternative, the invention can be implemented in an application program outside of the operating system. Other operating systems have analogous functions, for example, Microsoft Windows includes "List Controls" which provide similar function. The invention can be implemented in the operating system function that controls the display of icons or objects in containers.
Display screen 121 can be divided into a grid of cells that can contain icons or objects. The entire display screen is divided as shown in FIG. 2. Each cell 202 contains one desktop icon. A container other than the desktop can be similarly divided as shown in FIG. 3. The container 302 is subdivided into cells such as 304.
The size of each cell and the number of cells in the container is dependent on the resolution of the display screen and the size of icons to be displayed. Display device resolution is expressed as a certain number of pixels (picture elements) displayed horizontally and vertically. Common dimensions are 1024 pixels horizontally and 768 vertically (meaning that there are 768 rows of 1024 pixels each.) Another common dimension is 640×480. A container displayed on the desktop will have a dimension that can be expressed in pixels.
Icons can be of varying sizes. One approach to dividing the container space is to determine the maximum rectangular dimension, and then divide the container space into equal cells of that rectangular size. Alternatively, a standard cell size can be defined. For purposes of illustration, the present invention will consider an icon cell of 20 pixels by 20 pixels. Thus, a 1024×768 display screen can be divided into 38 rows of 51 cells.
The present invention implements a user defined container arrangement template. The template defines the grid cells the user desires to have occupied by objects or icons. The permitted arrangement grid can be defined and stored before attempting an arrangement, or, in an alternate embodiment, it can be specified at the time of arrangement.
The user defines the arrangement template by marking a representative grid. FIG. 4 illustrates this step. A user defined arrangement template icon 402 is opened to display a grid 404. The grid information is maintained as part of the "settings" or "properties" of the template icon. The cells of the grid are marked to indicate those cells that will be occupied. For example, cells 406 and 410 have been marked with an "I" to indicate "icons permitted" while cell 408 has been left blank. The marking of cells can take any known form and is not limited to this particular example. The pattern defined in grid 404 is a checkerboard.
A container 502 in FIG. 5 is arranged by dragging the user defined arrangement template 520 to the container and dropping it on the container. The "drag-and-drop" function is a known function of OS/2 Presentation Manager and other graphical user interface tools. The template 520 is selected by cursor 530 and then "dragged" by, for example, holding down one of the mouse buttons while moving the mouse to the new position 530'.
The rearranged container 502' is shown in FIG. 6. The icons have been rearranged to be in the defined checkerboard pattern.
The example illustrates rearrangement of all objects in a container. The present invention can be modified to arrange only a subset of the objects in the container by adding a subset selection step before the rearrangement step.
FIG. 7 illustrates an alternate embodiment of the invention where the specification of cells to be occupied occurs at the time of rearrangement. This method has the advantage of being able to display the actual number of cells available for placement, while the preferred embodiment applies a pattern to an indeterminate number of cells.
The "user defined template" 702 is dragged to the container 706. The template 702 in this embodiment does not contain specific grid layouts. The template contains the information that the container onto which it is dropped is to be rearranged according to a user defined pattern. After the template 702 is dropped on container 706, a grid pop-up 710 appears on the desktop. The grid pop-up 710 contains cells representative of the final container layout. For example, if the container can have 5 cells by 5 cells, then the grid pop-up has a 5 by 5 layout. A larger container would have a larger grid pop-up.
The user then indicates cells to be occupied by marking occupied cells 708. As before, the specific marking method can be any known method.
The process of automatic arrangement according to a user defined template is shown in FIG. 8. After starting 802, the process first detects selection 804 of the user defined arrange template. The process next determines the identity of the container on which the template is dropped 806. The container identity is used to query the container dimensions 808. The container dimensions are used to calculate the number of cells displayable by that container. The pattern is then applied to the resulting cells 810. In an alternate embodiment, the user is queried to supply the pattern on a presentation of the actual number of cells displayable in the container. The system next builds a list of objects in the container 812. For each object in the list 814, the system first test to determine whether the object is locked 816 meaning it is not to be rearranged. If the object is locked, processing moves to the next object in the list. If not locked, the object is placed in the grid cell 818, and the grid position incremented 820 to the next cell selected for display of an icon. Once all objects have been processed, the cursor is returned to its normal shape 822 and the function exits 824.
The preferred embodiment does not check whether or not a cell position is occupied by a locked object. If an object is already in a cell position, the arrangement will place a rearranged icon on top of it. An alternate embodiment of the invention includes the ability to check for an avoid conflicting placements of icons.
The preferred embodiment uses "drag-and-drop" techniques to activate container rearrangement according to a user defined pattern. Other activation techniques could be employed within the scope of the invention. For example, a menu item or pop-up action could be provided to the container. The selection of the menu item or pop-up item would request specification of a template to apply from stored templates or one defined at the time of rearrangement.
It will be understood from the foregoing description that various modifications and changes may be made in the preferred embodiment of the present invention without departing from its true spirit. For example, the user defined template based arrangement can apply to desktop displays that use simple text rather than graphical icons. It is intended that this description is for purposes of illustration only and should not be construed in a limiting sense. The scope of this invention should be limited only by the language of the following claims.


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As vaccine supply continues to increase and becomes more readily available to the public in the coming weeks, President Biden has called for a “wartime effort” to increase the pace of vaccinations to limit the spread of COVID-19. Leveraging the full potential of the private sector and supporting improved mechanisms for public-private coordination will be essential to ensuring more efficient and equitable distribution of COVID-19 vaccines. However, additional work is needed to identify remaining gaps that private sector resources can address and determine how these resources can most effectively complement and enhance ongoing state and local efforts to distribute, provide convenient access to, and support equitable uptake of COVID-19 vaccines. This white paper highlights key opportunities and promising practices for public-private partnerships to support improved efficiency and equity in COVID-19 vaccine distribution, as well as considerations for public and private sector leaders in building multi-sector approaches to address emerging challenges.
To foster further advancement of innovative public-private partnerships for COVID-19 vaccine distribution and uptake, the Duke-Margolis Center for Health Policy and COVID Collaborative began convening vaccine experts, health systems, pharmacies, payers, employers, state leaders, and other private sector leaders for a series of virtual roundtables on opportunities for the private sector to partner with policymakers to address key challenges in vaccine distribution (see appendices for a list of roundtable participants and strategies highlighted in the white paper). The roundtables have been supplemented with more extensive follow up on examples of promising practices. Main opportunities identified in these discussions and described in this white paper include:
- Building bridges between the public and private sectors: Given the demands of the pandemic, states can expand capacity by determining how private sector expertise and resources can fill identified gaps in state and local vaccination efforts. The Washington State Department of Health's Vaccine Action Command and Coordination System (VACCS) Center provides a potential model for collaborative efforts. The VACCS Center is able to assess private sector resources and match relevant offerings with state needs. To support coordination and communication with the private sector, states can establish an identified point of contact or coordination structure to help convene public and private sector stakeholders, develop solutions, and direct resources where they can have the most impact.
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- Promoting equity and engaging higher-risk populations: Private sector organizations, such as health care providers and health plans, can play unique roles in ensuring that populations at additional risk of poor outcomes from COVID-19 have access to vaccinations. As vaccine supply increases, targeted outreach efforts and community-based approaches will be critical to reach people who have not yet been vaccinated and those who may face barriers to access. Through data sharing, for example, health systems and health plans can collaborate with states to engage patients and enrollees have not yet been vaccinated in order to conduct outreach, schedule appointments, and offer transportation. Promising approaches include linking data on immunization status from immunization information systems, and using health information exchanges to share data.

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Canadian Apartment Properties Real Estate Investment Trust has acquired a portfolio of thirteen manufactured housing communities in Ontario, Alberta and British Columbia totaling 1,104 sites. CAPREIT paid $66.4 million for the portfolio, funded by its Acquisition and Operating credit facility.
The Ontario properties total 407 sites in six locations in Port Elgin, Eden, Lindsay, Dunsford, Cobourg and Thunder Bay, significantly expanding CAPREIT’s presence in the Ontario MHC business. A number of the new properties are located close to CAPREIT’s current communities. Occupancy for the Ontario portfolio stood at 100% on closing.
The Western Canada properties total 615 sites in six properties in Cold Lake, Brooks, Wainright and Lac La Biche, Alberta, and one property with 82 sites located in Westbank near West Kelowna, British Columbia. A number of the acquired properties include vacant land on which new sites can be added over time. Occupancy for the Western Canadian portfolio stood at 84% on closing.
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The purpose of this paper is to timely control of a construction collapse accident effectively during its development process by constructing a stage model and then aligning IT with each stage to help provide the information for decision making.
Through comprehensive literature review, this paper first identifies the various IT applications in on-site construction monitoring and analyzes the existed disaster/crisis stage models, also the stage models are compared with the causation models to illustrate the strengths. Then, a three-step methodology was conducted to develop and apply the conceptual framework, including the construction of the four-stage model; the establishment of the conceptual framework of information technology (IT) support for management of construction accidents (ITSMCA); and a building collapse accident used to illustrate the proposed framework.
The accident is divided into four stages, which are incubation stage, outbreak stage, spreading stage and final stage. The real-time staged information to support decision making, such as the contributing factors of on-site workers, materials, equipment and workplace, can be provided by emerging IT. Therefore, IT is aligned with the variations of contributing factors’ attributes in the four stages and ITSMCA is constructed to help accidents management.
The focus of the framework presented in this paper is that the stage model is effective for it catches the variations of the attributes whose values can be provided by IT rather than research on the practical application of the IT system. The construction and application of the IT system will be the research focus in the future.
This paper presents a stage model of a building collapse accident and gives a comprehensive conceptual framework of ITSMCA, which align the IT with different stages of the collapse accident. The ITSMCA proposes a feasible ideology and practical method for real-time management of the collapse accident during the process.
The authors would like to show our sincere gratitude for Professor SangHyun Lee in University of Michigan (Ann Arbor) who provided deep insights, ideas and suggestions for this paper. The authors thank the Funding 17692105700 from Shanghai Science and Technology Committee. The authors also would like to express our special thanks to anonymous referees for constructive comments on earlier version of this paper.
Yan, X. and Kim, Y.-C. (2018), "A conceptual framework of ITSMCA for a building collapse accident", Engineering, Construction and Architectural Management, Vol. 25 No. 6, pp. 721-737. https://doi.org/10.1108/ECAM-11-2016-0245
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Employment Insurance ‘regular benefits’ are intended to provide “temporary financial assistance to unemployed Canadians who have lost their job through no fault of their own, while they look for work or upgrade their skills”. Criteria for job losses can include “shortage of work, seasonal or mass lay-offs” (Government of Canada).
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text: "America's Forgotten Founders." In 1762, John Dickinson won the election to the Pennsylvania Assembly, where his very conservative views clashed with the beliefs of Benjamin Franklin. 1], 315. The move also placed Mary nearer her Philadelphia relations. The Pennsylvania Magazine of History and Biography 83, no. John Dickinson - Letters from “A Farmer” - 1768 “Let us consider our, selves as men—freemen— Christian freemen—separated from the rest of the world, and firmly bound together by the same rights, interests and dangers. Dickinson believed that Congress should complete the Articles of Confederation and secure a foreign alliance before issuing a declaration. John has 1 job listed on their profile. Poplar Hall was situated on a now-straightened bend of the St. Jones River. Colbourn, Trevor H. "John Dickinson, Historical Revolutionary." Constitution of United States of America 1789, Understanding The Influence of The Bill Of Rights, What You Need to Know About Proposed and Unratified Amendments. He served as a very large player in the American Revolution by encouraging citizens of America to disregard certain laws like the Stamp Act. In 1777, at the urging of esteemed patriots Thomas Paine and John Adams, leading Philadelphia Quakers were rounded up as traitors, denied habeas corpus, and held without charge for nine months, destroying lives and livelihoods, on the grounds that their religious beliefs were incompatible with the American cause. John Dickinson moved with his family to Delaware where he became a Delaware representative for Congress in February 1779. One of the many things John Locke believed was that everyone had natural rights such as Life, Liberty, and The Pursuit Of Happiness (Deverell 59). Dickinson’s religion was an important factor in his life. He spent those years studying the works of Edward Coke and Francis Bacon at the Inns of Court, following in the footsteps of his lifelong friend, Pennsylvania Attorney General Benjamin Chew, and in 1757 was admitted to the Pennsylvania Bar beginning his career as barrister and solicitor. About" About Us; Dress Code; School's Beliefs & Mission; Administration; Directory" Staff Directory; 9th Grade Academy" IB Program" International Baccalaureate; What is IB? While he never became a member of the Society of Friends, citing his belief in the "lawfulness of defensive war" as his reason, his personal and political priorities and behavior were strongly shaped by Quakerism. 3 (1959): 273. Powell, John H. "John Dickinson and the Constitution." John Dickinson High School was opened/dedicated in 1959 as part of the public schools in northern Delaware. From the original manuscript draft in Dickinson's handwriting, which has given rise to the belief that he, not Jefferson (as formerly claimed), is the real author of this sentence. It was a popular position and enhanced his reputation both in Delaware and Pennsylvania. This was a violent protest of Pennsylvania veterans who marched on the Continental Congress demanding their pay before being discharged from the army. 2015 Dickinson College Student Summer Internship Grant ($1560). What Were John Locke's Beliefs? In his final years, he worked to further the abolition movement, and donated a considerable amount of his wealth to the "relief of the unhappy". In 1997 John Dickinson is portrayed by actor Victor Garber in Liberty! Widowed, with two young children, Henry and Betsy, Samuel married Mary Cadwalader in 1731. John Dickinson. The theme in the poems “‘Faith’ is a fine invention” by Emily Dickinson, “On the Sonnet” by John Keats, and “Love’s Deity” by John Donne weaves in the characterizations of ideas that pertain to our everyday lives. During this term he signed the Articles of Confederation, having in 1776 authored their first draft while serving in the Continental Congress as a delegate from Pennsylvania. John Dickinson’s most famous work was Letters from a Farmer in Pennsylvania, which was published in the Pennsylvania Chronicle. Here we find Dickinson, the former Progressive Christian President of Pennsylvania, writing eloquently on the freedom that is granted to us by God, and the vigilance that is required to retain that freedom. "The Life and Times of John Dickinson 1732-1808." This peremptory action seemed appropriate to many during the crises of 1777 and 1778, but less so in the later years of the Revolution, and the Moderate Whigs gradually became the majority. Anger produces anger; and differences, that might be accommodated by kind and respectful behavior, may, by imprudence, be enlarged to an incurable rage. Dickinson was one of the delegates from Pennsylvania to the First Continental Congress in 1774 and the Second Continental Congress in 1775 and 1776. In Michael Flynn's Alternative History "The Forest of Time", depicting a history in which the Constitutional Convention failed and the Thirteen Colonies went each its own way as fully sovereign Nation States, Dickinson was the First Head of State of the sovereign Pennsylvania. In this way all Loyalists, Moderate Whigs, and Quakers were kept out of government. Here, John pamphlet, Dickinson argued that Britain and the colonies would be affected greatly by trade regulations and that America’s trade should become independent. The program gives no indication that Dickinson would author the petition. "The Life and Times of John Dickinson 1732-1808." Some founders also saw in Scripture political and legal models they believed enjoyed divine favor and were worthy of emulation. John Dickinson was born in Talbot County, Maryland on November 13, 1732 to Samuel Dickinson (1690-1760), whose father had emigrated from England in 1654, and his second wife, Mary Cadwalader Dickinson, who was the daughter of a Philadelphia Quaker merchant. HONORS Dickinson, "Penman of the Revolution," was born in 1732 at Crosiadore estate, near the village of Trappe in Talbot County, MD. ", Following the Declaration of Independence, Dickinson was given the rank of brigadier general in the Pennsylvania militia, known as the Associators. John Dickinson. 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