For those keeping track of such things, the tune here, "Theme Time," is most closely associated with Bill Emerson and goes back to that banjo virtuoso's days playing with Jimmy Martin.
We're looking ahead to a boisterous New Year, with profiles and performances from a diverse range of artists— from the Seldom Scene to Joy Kills Sorrow. Here's hoping our paths cross often, whether here in cyberspace, or at potluck pickin' sessions and festival campsites.
Once upon a time, I was walking across the fairgrounds at Jenny Brook Bluegrass Festival. It was late in the fest and a maple glazed doughnut and some aspirin was about all I was up for. Then I heard it: a woman's voice wafting across the field, singing some bluegrass standard in a way that I had only heard on old recordings. You could say that she was belting it out, except her singing had as much color and warmth as it had raw power. I found myself galloping past the concession stands. When I got to where I could see the stage, I discovered Hot Mustard, a group from the frozen north (its members live in New Hampshire and Vermont).
Flash forward a couple of years, and Hot Mustard are going stronger than ever. This summer, they played a number of dates around New England. It's time that the wider world got to know them, so I'm wrasslin' up a new series of Ye Olde Performers Showcase featuring this fine quartet. Here's a quick getting-to-know-you installment that features a performance from last winter's Joe Val Bluegrass Festival.
If I close my eyes and open my ears, Hot Mustard's sound is just as natural as a mountain stream or a Stanley Brothers hymn. But when I take a look— dang! Double banjos, rhythm guitar and bass is their default set-up, with Bill Jubett only occasionally trading his banjo for a fiddle. I need hardly point out that this is not your standard bluegrass line-up. Then there is the gender distribution. While a number of the top bluegrass acts are fronted by women, there remains a substantial testosterone imbalance in the genre as a whole. Not so with Hot Mustard, however, which maintains a perfect male/female equilibrium.
The group is, in fact, comprised of two couples. The Stockwells— that would be bassist Kelly and banjoist Bruce Stockwell— have been married for some time, but the Jubetts— lead vocalist April and banjoist/fiddler Bill Jubett— just tied the knot within the last month.
The rest of the stanza is AWOL, as if the singer has indeed plum lost his or her mind. Who can argue with that sentiment?
Here's wishing the newlyweds all the crazy love they can stand. As for the rest of you, check back for more Hot Mustard in the coming weeks.
Addendum for the Late Edition: This just in from Richard Hamilton: "Elkhorn Ridge is generally attributed to Oscar Wright, a fiddler/banjo player from Princeton, WV. There are some recordings of his playing available. His version of Elkhorn on banjo looks like it is on Clawhammer Banjo Vol 2. from County." Thanks, Rich!


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by Shane McGlaun - Mon, Jul 01, 2019
The Legendary Sony Walkman Portable Audio Player Turns 40 Today
Anyone around in the '80s will remember people walking around with giant boom boxes on their shoulders blasting music to everyone in a massive radius. But there was also a much more discrete way to listen to music thanks to the Sony Walkman, which turned 40 years old today. For those not around in the '80s who may have never heard of a Walkman, it was a portable cassette tape player that launched in Japan in 1979. It was expensive back in its day with a price in Japan that worked out to about $150. Critics of the device said the high cost would keep it from being successful, but it proved very popular selling 50,000 devices within two months. The first Walkman that launched in Japan was called... Read more...
by Paul Lilly - Tue, Jan 06, 2015
Sony's Walkman Returns As $1,200 Media Player Running Android 4.2
Long before there were smartphones and iPod devices, there was the Walkman, which allowed us to groove to Guns N' Roses belting out Paradise City and Sweet Child O' Mine while on the go. Of course, it was helpful to carry a pen or pencil in case those cassette tapes needed adjusting, but whatever, Sony changed the game with its Walkman. Well, the Walkman is making a comeback, though at around $1,200, it will attract an entirely new audience.It's also a different Walkman than the one you might remember (or heard about from your folks, depending on your age). Sony's new Walkman NW-ZX2 delivers High-Resolution audio to reproduce master quality recordings as artists intended for them to be heard.In... Read more...
by Ray Willington - Sun, Dec 09, 2012
Sony Ceasing Production On Portable Cassette Recorder Next Year
An end of an era? Only if you didn't think the era was already over. The famed cassette tape has had one heck of a run, and even though the CD itself is finally dying, the cassette was seemingly still hanging around in some areas beyond consignment shops. Sony's Walkman will forever live long in consumer lore, enabling music lovers to carry around a portable stereo "back in the day." Now, Sony has finally decided that the time has come to move on, and honestly, we can only wonder what took so long. The company is still producing TCM-400, TCM-410 and TCM-450 cassette recorders, but those shipments will cease early next year. That should mark the end of the line for the cassette, at least for Sony,... Read more...
by Ray Willington - Sat, Jul 16, 2011
Sony Continues Walkman Line With Washable NWZ-W260
There are iconic brands, and there are really iconic brands. Sony's Walkman line is easily one of the most famous of all times, and the new NWZ-W260 keeps the lineage alive. It's a new one-piece, water-resistant W Series Walkman MP3 player for sports enthusiasts, which weighs around 24% less (and is around 2/3 smaller) than the prior model. It features a rinsable, wearable and water-resistant headphone-style design, perfect for those who just can't stop exercising. The water-resistant frame ensures it can withstand sweat from intense workouts in any weather condition, and it ships with Content Transfer software that allows users to easily drag and drop music files from iTunes, Windows Media Player,... Read more...
by Ray Willington - Tue, Oct 26, 2010
Sony Killing Walkman Cassette Player, Finally
It's the end of an era. You can shed a tear if you were a child of the 70s or 80s, as you probably grew up wishing for a Walkman cassette player from Santa. Sony's Walkman line still lives on today, with the digital versions outselling the iPod in Japan for the first time last month. So there's no question that Walkman units are still in high demand. But Walkman units that play cassette tapes…are not. Sony has decided to lay to rest their portable cassette player line, and what's incredible is that it lasted all the way until 2010. The only time we've seen a cassette used in the past few years is at a library or other institution where there's no need to make the leap to MP3. There's no... Read more...
by Ray Willington - Sun, Sep 05, 2010
Sony's Walkman Outsells iPod In Japan For First Time
Now this is impressive. In fact, it's hardly believable. SanDisk's CEO was quoted a few years ago as saying that no one could "out iPod the iPod," and over the years, that has been proven true. Even mighty Microsoft couldn't put a dent in the iPod's market share with the now-forgotten Zune, and one could argue that Sony never really tried. But that's in America. Over in Japan, it's another story. Sony has a huge, huge following in Japan, while Apple is still trying to break fully into that market. A new survey on sales from the country recently found that for the first time, Sony's Walkman has outsold the iPod in Japan. Despite the iPod having less dominance in Japan compared to North America,... Read more...
by Jennifer Johnson - Thu, Aug 12, 2010
Sony Introduces Affordable Walkman MP3 Players
Sony recently introduced a new line of Walkman MP3 players that the company says will offer "outstanding sound quality, advanced audio technologies, extreme battery life, and more." What's even better, the company is promising these features for less than $100. The new Walkman NWZ-E350 Series Video MP3 Players will support up to 50 hours of audio playback (mp3 files at 128 kbps) and 10 hours of supported video playback (WMV at 384 kbps). Supported audio formats include MP3, WMA (DRM), AAC (non-DRM) and linear PCM. The supported video format is WMV (DRM). The players also offer Sony's SenseMe technology which will categorize music tracks into a variety of music channels and playlists.... Read more...
by Ray Willington - Tue, Apr 13, 2010
Sony's Walkman NWZ-W252 Climbs On Your Head And Hangs With Sweat
With the glut of portable audio and media players out these days, it really takes a special product to catch our attention. Something unique, something a little off-the-wall, and something that actually differentiates itself from all those other mundane MP3 players. Sony has somehow managed to do that with their latest Walkman, which is tailor made for fitness junkies or those who'd rather use a self-contained unit than deal with messy earbud cabling.The new W250 Series Walkman is designed to worn on the head, and due to its water resistant abilities, sweating it out won't be a problem. It also features quick charge and simple transfers, both of which should keep runners on the track longer and... Read more...
by Shawn Oliver - Mon, Sep 07, 2009
Sony's Walkman Line Outsells iPod In Japan -- Say It Ain't So!
SanDisk themselves have publicly stated that no one can "out iPod the iPod," but evidently Sony did just that. According to a recent survey, Sony's own Walkman brand of digital media players outsold Apple's iconic iPod in Japan last week-- a feat that hasn't been accomplished in four years. Calling the victory "rare" would be understating things dramatically, but the numbers don't lie. Sony's piece of the Japanese market for portable media players was at 43% during the last week in August, while Apple's market share stood at 42.1%. The figures were collected by BCN, a marketing research firm based in Tokyo, Japan. Needless to say the victory was ever so slight, though BCN noted that the Walkman... Read more...
by Shawn Oliver - Wed, Aug 26, 2009
Sony Introduces S Series And E Series Walkman MP3 Players
We haven't a clue why Sony would choose today to introduce its S Series Walkman--after all, the company's Reader Daily Edition was also just announced, and it's undoubtedly the show stopper of the two. At any rate, those more interested in portable music than portable words just might find this tidbit more interesting. As rumored, the S Series Walkman Video MP3 player is real, and while it's definitely no iPod killer, it's unique in its own way. For example, it features built-in stereo speakers, a 2.4" QVGA display, a frame that's under a half-inch thick, video playback of 30fps and a battery life that's downright staggering. The unit can spin tracks for up to 42 hours or videos for 6.5 hours... Read more...
by Shawn Oliver - Mon, Aug 10, 2009
Sony's S-Series Walkman Emerges; It's No iPod Killer
Sony's X-series Walkman (otherwise known as the OLED Walkman) has barely had time to make a splash in the US market, and already Sony is preparing to launch anoher music player. Based on some believable details leaked on Materiel's website (a French e-tailer), the new S-Series Walkman will arrive in 8GB (NWZ-S544) and 16GB (NWZ-S545) models, and while we doubt it'll compete with the heralded iPod touch, the built-in kickstand should make it suitable for movie watching, regardless. The display has a 2.4" QVGA display, stereo speakers, a built-in FM tuner, a microphone, a rechargeable battery and a pretty crazy battery life figure. We're talking about 42 hours of audio playback or 6.5 hours for... Read more...
by Shawn Oliver - Thu, Jul 16, 2009
Sony Ericsson Debuts C905a/ W518a Phones On AT&T
These may not be the second-coming of the XPERIA smartphone, but an 8.1MP cellphone isn't anything to scoff at. Sony Ericsson has just produced two new phones for AT&T's network, and the first of the two is the 905a Cyber-shot, which packs a mighty sweet camera, detection, autofocus, xenon flash and GPS tagging, not to mention 3G data support. There's also a 2.4"scratch-resistant mineral glass scree, a Memory Stick Micro (M2) slot, USB port and PictBridge printing support. The second handset is the W518a, a more simplistic device that falls squarely in the company's "Walkman" range. This one also packs a few unique features, namely an easy portal to Facebook and a 'Shake Control' feature... Read more...
by Shawn Oliver - Tue, Jun 30, 2009
Kid Uses Walkman For A Week, Misses iPod Dearly
It's somewhat hard to believe, but Sony's iconic and downright legendary Walkman turned 30 this year. Three decades ago, Sony's craftsmanship propelled a bulky, one-trick audio player onto the portable scene, sparking a revolution that continues today. But 30 years after its introduction, the original Walkman has little revlence in the world of iPods and other MP3 players. In order to prove such a fact, the BBC decided to give a 13 year old Briton a Walkman cassette player for a week instead of an iPod.The story that ensued is one of the more hilarious that we've seen. Even for an adept teenage boy, he was baffled by some of the peculiarities. For instance, he mistook the normal/metal switch... Read more...
by Amy Vernon - Sat, Jun 27, 2009
Sony May Look To Merge PSP With Cell Phone
A Playstation on your cell phone? The notion might not be so far-fetched. The latest news out of the Japanese electronics and gaming giant is that it's "considering developing a cellphone-game gear hybrid" on Sony Ericsson phones.Once the superpower in portable music - the Walkman, launched about 30 years ago, was revolutionary and became one of the best-known brands of its time. Anyone who didn't own a Walkman owned a knockoff. The Discman, which, as it sounds, played compact discs wasn't as huge a hit, but primarily because it wasn't as huge a change as the Walkman was and because, after all, it was only recently that you could make your own CDs. Who didn't listen to a mix tape at some... Read more...

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Okay, it wasn't that awesome but when I went to Bristol some time last year (in early December) for a debate competition, I decided to stay over for an extra day to do a little travelling along the way. And as my first sort of 'within-UK' travel trip, I'd say it went really well thanks to my lovely hosts..
I felt like Alice in Wonderland in the big land of Bristol, where trees seemed to grow too tall and fences seemed a little too high.
Why are their fences so large?!
How does anyone ever ask for information??
And okay, fine. I'm not going to question dinosaurs but it really doesn't make sense how everything in Bristol seems so large!
As you can probably tell by now, I love being in photos! Unless you're the patient sort who enjoys taking pictures of the same person over and over again, you'd probably get annoyed with me more than a few times when we're on a trip, especially since I insist on manually adjusting the focus points on my camera.
And so, kudos to Boon Seng, a friend of 9 years who so patiently figured out how to use my camera and very kindly became my photographer and tourguide for the day. Heh.
For those thinking of travelling to Bristol, it really is a nice place! Rather than the flatness of London, you get uphills and downhills all over town, which although exhausting when running to the train station in fears of missing your train, is pretty good for your calves overall!
In a nutshell, it's a mostly urban city, almost London-like, but with pockets of nature scattered about and a river running through.
At the Clifton Suspension Bridge at night.
Where attempting to play with light photography result in a disaster without warm hands and a tripod.
I can't help it if my hands shake because I'm shivering!
By the bridge in the day!
With the worry that some people have been working or studying too hard, this sign is posted along the bridge for those who are in need of a chat.. it's better than going 'splat'.
To be honest, the scenery was pretty dull, but it's probably due to the time of year where trees were withering and the skies were dark.
It was still mostly autumn though which at the moment, is my favourite season! The trees have colours we don't get back home and it was so exciting being able to see the orange leaves everywhere!!
Ahh, autumn. Back when I could just wear a coat and be alright! Just about two months ago, I was complaining of the cold then. But now.. I wear a thick puffy winter coat every day!
This picture was taken days ago! DO NOT LET THE SUN FOOL YOU, MY FRIENDS!
Boon Seng and me! He had to bend down so much just to take a photo with me. And I'm not exactly very small.. Imagine how tall he must be!
Back to my autumn love!
Don't those leaves look so amazing to run through? Or jump in? Or mess up? Or throw in the air, at least?
Because that's exactly what I tried to do..
My love affair with leaves promptly ended there, and after about an hour's worth of walking to a Christmas market, we stumbled across some reindeer in the woods.
To be honest, the Christmas market was really lame. We didn't get anything except a piece of bread, and that was only because we got hungry after the long walk. Heh.
There wasn't really much to do that would take less than a day to get by so we decided to take a visit to the University of Bristol and the Bristol Museum!
A photo with a random garage, in which I realized that I have abnormally long thumbs. Don't they look rather weird here??
I take so many pictures when I travel because there's something very special about doing ordinary things in a new place. May it be walking along streets or just having a meal, when you're travelling, that's a travelling meal and that's a tourist walk. At least for me, I find myself appreciating each moment a little more acutely as than I would if I were to live there all the time. As macabre as it sounds, I feel that I am one that is only really satisfied or appreciative at the idea of loss, and that I really only enjoy travelling so much because I feel that it's something I won't be able to experience on a normal basis.
Which brings me a new thought! Rather than worry about the impermanence of all, would it not be better to embrace its fragility and relish the transient state of things? At least in that way, it is a holiday again and I'm once again a tourist in a new land, where simple things still hold power to amaze and captivate? How often does one get to dine in London, the heart of Britain? Studying is one thing, but studying in an intercollegiate hall where Mick Jagger once walked the hallways, isn't that another?
Hmm. I find that I think more when I type because it forces me to really listen to the voice in my head, and I'm sure this is no novel idea, but I'm pretty pleased with this newly discovered perspective! Even the fact that I'm blogging on my bed that's in the heart of Central London is completely amazing!!
Ahh, but I digress too much!
Ah, before I headed back to London, we squeezed in a little visit to the Bristol Museum, which has free entry to all.
I look like a school kid on a field trip.
The best part of the museum was probably the natural sciences part, with its dinosaur bones and stuffed animals which would be sure to tickle any taxidermists' fancy.
The stupidest bird in the world! That's the one in the middle, in case any of you start making any mean jokes about me. Or Boon Seng!
Yes, King. Keep that hand hovered high!
My trip to Bristol ended in an absolute frenzy, with a mad rush to the train station, with a route that led us running past the Bristol Cathedral (checked off my tourist list, woohoo!) and leaving me to board the train two minutes before it left the station. Phew!
I plan to see the UK, one weekend at the time and although right now, I'm swamped with law work, have been busy working on Malaysia Night, an event most Malaysia Clubs in UK from their respective universities host, and am sick with a bloody flu (literally! – I sneeze and cough out a fair amount of blood), I had the pleasure of dropping by Coventry last week to surprise Baby J for her birthday, which was another fun occasion. I'll try to blog about it as soon as I can because I really do love blogging! After all, I've been doing it for almost 9 years!
SO OKAY YEAH, that was Bristol.
It had nature and it was modern. It wasn't very large and I wouldn't spend more than a weekend there, but it's definitely somewhere worth going. If you're planning on going, it's pretty near Bath (which I've been to before when I was much younger) and Stonehenge so you could consider giving those places a peep as well.


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Many sources of lead poisoning may surprise you.
Chewing gum in the house? Keep it away from the dog.
One of the most commonly presenting emergencies I see is accidental poisoning of cats by their well-intentioned pet owners. They often put "small dog" flea medication onto their "big cat," without appropriately consulting with their veterinarian or reading the label carefully, resulting in severe poisoning in cats.
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The Trump Administration is Disrupting the 2020 Census
Submitted by Robert J. Shapiro on 9/7/17
Shapiro on the Economy
The decennial Census is a genuinely powerful institution in American life. I didn't understand its impact until I oversaw the Census Bureau as it prepared and carried out the 2000 decennial Census, when I was Under Secretary of Commerce for Economic Affairs. Believe me, the upcoming 2020 decennial Census will matter more than you think. Yet, Congress and now the Trump administration have set the 2020 decennial on a course that threatens its basic accuracy. In so doing, they put at risk the integrity and effectiveness of some of the national government's basic missions.
Normally, the Census Bureau spends the first six years of each decade planning the next decennial Census. The Bureau's funding ramps up in years seven, eight and nine of the decade, when it tests and purchases its technologies, conducts a nationwide inventory of residential addresses, orders forms, letters and advertising, and begins to lease local offices and train temporary workers. It is expensive to accurately locate and count 325 million people in 126 million households (2016). That's why, for example, Census funding jumped 96 percent from 1997 to 1998, and more than 60 percent from 2007 to 2008.
The problems began in 2014, when the Congress decreed that the 2020 Decennial Census should cost no more than the 2010 count without adjusting for inflation, or some $12.5 billion. The Obama administration objected, but to no effect – although it's worth recalling that Bill Clinton took a different tack in 1998, when he vetoed an omnibus budget bill and risked a government shutdown to get rid of a provision that would have barred the Census Bureau from using statistical sampling to verify the 2000 count.
The Census Bureau did what it had to do to live within its new budget constraints: it drew up new plans to cut costs by replacing thousands of temporary Census workers and hundreds of temporary offices with new technologies and online capacities. It also had to do what it shouldn't have done: To save money, the Bureau aborted a planned Spanish-language test census and didn't test or implement new ways to more accurately count people in remote and rural area. Census also ended its plans to test a range of local outreach and messaging strategies to get people to fill out their census forms, which are crucial to minimizing undercounts in many minority and marginalized communities.
Even so, the Census Bureau prepared to ramp up funding in 2017 and 2018, as it normally did, under the $12.5 billion cap. Enter the Trump administration, which cut the Obama administration's 2017 budget request for the Census Bureau by 10 percent and then, this past April, flat-lined the funding for 2018. It is no coincidence that the Director of the Census Bureau, John Thompson, resigned in May, effective in June. It's a serious loss, since Dr. Thompson directed the 2000 decennial count and is probably the most able person available to contain the coming damage to the 2020 count. For its part, the administration hasn't even identified, much less nominated, his successor. It is no surprise that the Government Accountability Office recently designated the 2020 Census as one of a handful of federal programs at "High Risk" of failure.
The costs of starving the decennial Census could be great. It not only paints the country's changing demographic and geographic portrait every 10 years. Its state-by-state counts determine how the 435 members of the House of Representatives are allocated among the states; and its counts by "Census block" (roughly a neighborhood) shape how members of state legislatures and many city councils are allocated in those jurisdictions. That's just the beginning.
Consider as well that every year, the federal government distributes about $600 billion in funds to state and local governments for education, Medicaid and other health programs, highways, housing, law enforcement and much more. To do so, the government uses formulas with terms for each area's level of education, income or poverty rate, racial and family composition, and more. The decennial Census provides the baseline for those distributions by counting the people with each of those characteristics in each state and Census block. Similarly, the Census Bureau conducts scores of additional surveys every year on behalf of most domestic departments of government, to help them assess the effectiveness of their programs. Here again, the decennial Census provides the baseline for measuring each program's progress or lack of it.
Without an accurate Census, many states and cities will be denied the full funding they deserve and need, and the federal government will have to fly blind for a decade across a range of important areas. Moreover, many businesses also rely on decennial data, from retailers and commercial real estate developers to the banks that finance them. Data on the demographics and locations of potential customers not only inform their planning and investments. In some cases, the data actually make their projects possible, for example, when an investment qualifies for special tax treatment if it occurs in places with certain concentrations of low or moderate-income households.
The Trump administration cavalier approach to the 2020 decennial Census is evident in ways other than its funding deficit. A draft executive order, leaked but not issued so far, would direct the Census Bureau, for the first time in over 200 years, to "include questions to determine U.S. citizenship and immigration status." The Census Bureau is legally required to protect the privacy of all Census data from requests by anyone, including government officials. Unsurprisingly, many people remain skeptical and avoid answering the Census out of fear that other government agencies will access their information. Requiring that Census 2020 probe each respondent's citizenship and immigration status would turbo-charge those fears among Hispanics and other immigrant groups. The result would be systemic undercounting and underfunding of states, cities and towns with substantial populations of Hispanics and other immigrants.
There is still time for a course correction that could rescue the 2020 decennial Census, in next month's negotiations over the 2018 budget. With some GOP members of Congress exhibiting a measure of newly-found independence from the Trump administration, Paul Ryan and Mitch McConnell could need Democratic support to pass a budget. A wide range of minority advocacy and business groups, along with most big city mayors, have vital interests in an accurate decennial Census. It's up to them to pressure Nancy Pelosi and Chuck Schumer to make adequate funding for the Census one of their top priorities. Otherwise, one of the basic mechanisms for fair and competent governance could be disabled for a decade.
This post was originally published on Dr. Shapiro's blog.
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NDN's Campaign to Stop Divisive Vitter-Bennett Amendment Makes Headlines
Submitted by Jessie Singleton on 10/22/09
Leading civil rights groups joined NDN for a press conference on Tuesday to oppose the amendment proposed by Senators Vitter (R-LA) and Bennett (R-UT). If passed, their amendment would add an additional question to the census forms (which have already been printed) asking about one's legal status. Not only would this cost tax-payers millions of extra dollars but this amendment would discourage minority participation in the census and thus threaten the accuracy of this crucial decennil count. In his statement on the floor of the Senate, Senator Bennett essentially admitted that the data collected from his amendment would influence the reapportionment process. To use any number other than the number of "whole persons" residing in a state when reapportioning powering in the House of Representatives is in clear violation of the text and legislative intent of 14th Amendment.
But we aren't the only one's concerned with Sens. Vitter and Bennett's attempt to stop the census. Our campaign against their amendment is making headlines. Check out some of the stories below:
Battle Over Census Becoming Fight Over Illegal Immigration, Politics Daily, 10/22/09.
How to Waste Money and Ruin the Census, The New York Times, 10/20/09.
Critics Take Aim at Pending Spending Bills, Congress Daily, 10/20.09.
Should the Census Count Illegal Immigrants?, The Atlantic Wire, 10/20/09.
Proposed Census Change Would Reveal Undocumented Immigrants, Scripps-Howard Foundation Wire, 10/20/09.
Eye Opener: Citizenship and the Census, 10/16/2009. Washington Post
Obama Administration Dodges Political Problem as Census Amendment Moved to Back Burner, Talking Points Memo, 10/14/09
Republican Senators Vitter, Bennett Attempt To Force Census To Ask Immigration Status, 10/8/09, Talking Points Memo.
Let's NOT Take A Census!, 10/8/09, The Census Project Blog.
Counting Immigrants Key for Communities, The New Republic, 9/25/09.
Census chief: Bennett's immigration bill not practical, 9/23/09, Salt Lake Tribune.
Our Unconstitutional Census, 8/9/09, Wall Street Journal.
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10/20 Press Conference: Leading Civil Rights Groups Join NDN to Oppose Divisive Vitter-Bennett Amendment
Tomorrow: Tuesday, October 20th at 11 am in Dirksen 406, the nation's leading civil rights groups will join NDN for a press conference on Capitol Hill to announce their opposition to the divisive Vitter-Bennett Amendment aimed at undermining the 2010 Census. The Amendment, proposed by Senators David Vitter (R-LA) and Robert Bennett (R-UT), seeks to add an 11th question to the census forms (which have already been printed) that would discourage minority populations from participating in the census and thus threaten the accuracy of the count.
In his letter to Senators urging them to vote "no" on the proposed Amendment, NDN President Simon Rosenberg wrote,
While the Vitter-Bennett Amendment may appear innocent, its intent and practical effect on the census and reapportionment process is not. If enacted the Amendment would almost certainly disrupt an orderly census count next year, eventually found to be unconstitutional, all the while start ing a highly divisive conversation about race, the Civil War and the 14th Amendment in the very first year of America's very first African-American President.
NDN joins the following organizations in denouncing the harmful Vitter-Bennett Amendment:
AAJC—Terry Ao, Director of the Census and Voting Programs
CAP – Angie Kelley, Vice President for Immigration Policy & Advocacy
Demos – Tova Wang, Senior Fellow
HNBA – Liz Lopez, Vice President for External Affairs
LCCR – Wade Henderson, President
LDF – Kristen Clarke, Co-Director Political Participation Project
LULAC – Brent Wilkes, Executive Director
MALDEF – Claudine Karasik, Legislative Staff Attorney
NALEO – Gloria Montano Greene, Director, Washington, DC Office
PFAW – Marge Baker, Executive Vice President for Policy and Program
For more information on the census, reapportionment, and this dangerous Amendment, check out NDN's backgrounder on the issue.
NDN Backgrounder: Census 2010, Immigration Status and Reapportionment
As the US Senate gears up to vote on Vitter-Bennett SA 2644, NDN offers commentary and information regarding this pernicious amendment.
Earlier this year, several Republican senators expressed outrage over the perception that the new White House Administration was playing politics with the Census. The outrage was so deep that US Senator Judd Gregg withdrew his nomination as US Secretary of Commerce citing concerns over this perception to politicize the Census. Now these very same Republican Senators are resorting to the very same techniques they decried earlier this year. This amendment only serve serves to politicize and delegitimize what is expected to be a very nonpartisan process. The result could cost billions of dollars, and will complicate efforts to inform and prepare state and local governments for the changing demography and characteristics of this nation.
From the NDN Blog:
Senators Bennett, Vitter Escalate Their Attack on the Census, Reapportionment, 10/10/2009. Simon Rosenberg summarizes the proposed attempt by Senators Vitter and Bennett to use this amendment as way to racially charge the debate on Census.
The Latest Attack on the Census is an Attack on All of Us, 10/01/2009. Robert Shapiro addresses the importance of an accurate Census, and the impacts of the Vitter-Bennett amendment.
GOP Senator Introduces Bill to Bar Undocumented Immigrants from Reapportionment Process, 9/25/2009. Simon Rosenberg writes about the impact of the Bennett amendment noting that Senator Bennett's motives are purely political.
The Coming Battle Over the Census, 8/10/2009. Simon Rosenberg discusses the emerging battle that conservatives will mount to politicize the Census.
Other Media Sources:
Our Unconstitutional Census, 8/9/09, The Wall Street Journal.
Senators Bennett, Vitter Escalate Their Attack on the Census, Reapportionment
Submitted by Simon Rosenberg on 10/10/09
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Christina Bellantoni at Talking Points Memo has a must read piece up on the new Bennett Vitter Census Amendment. It includes a must watch video of Senator Bennett making the case for his amendment.
Whatever one thinks of the idea of adding another question to the census short form at this very late point in the process, focus must be put on Bennett's stated intent - to count the undocumented immigrants in the U.S. so as to deny their use in the upcoming, every ten year reapportionment process.
This new Bennett led effort seems to be, among many other things, a direct legal and political assault on the 14th Amendment to the Constitution:
Representatives shall be apportioned among the several States according to their respective numbers, counting the whole number of persons in each State, excluding Indians not taxed
The 14th Amendment was designed, of course, to correct the infamous "three-fifths" clause in the original Constitution, which relegated a class of people to be something much less than the rest of us. It is extraordinary that in the first year of the Presidency of the first African-American President the Senate is seriously considering an amendment which so directly challenges the integrity of the 140 year old legal framework which enabled, for example, Michelle Obama's family to move from slave, to free, and today, to the White House.
There are rumors afoot today that some Democratic Senators and moderate Republicans are considering joining with Bennett and Vitter on this amendment next week, giving them enough votes to pass it. Before they do they and their staffs better do their homework, and come to a better understanding of the real intent behind this seemingly innocent legislation - to attack the legal framework of the modern civil rights era, to discourage immigrants from participating in the census itself, and to launch a divisive and racially charged campaign over who we are today, and who are becoming.
As I wrote in an essay a few weeks ago, Waking Up to the Coming Battle over the Census, the Republican assault on the census and reapportionment will not end next week even if the Bennett-Vitter Amendment is voted down. This is going to be a titantic battle, next year and throughout the two year long reapportionment process. My essay looks at a recent WSJ op-ed which layed out the logic of this fight, which, included, incredibly a reference to the intent of the original Constitution, which of course had been, let us say, not so good on these matters of race and has needed some significant improving. Our own Rob Shapiro, who helped oversee the preperation of the last census, also weighed in last week with his own take on all this.
Those who have a role in ensuring a fair and accurate census and reapportionment need to begin engaging now in this fight, and not allow the other side to score early and significant victories before every one has their teams and plans together. The battle has been joined, and it is time to jump in, hard.
One of the best ways of course the nation has to neutralize this effort will be to pass immigration reform next year, giving the undocumenteds legal status, and thus rendering Bennett, Vitter and all their soon to be vociferous allies mute.
Here's the video of Senator Bennett making his case:
Simon Rosenberg's blog
The Latest Attack on the Census is an Attack on All of Us
Submitted by Robert J. Shapiro on 10/1/09
The latest fight over the Decennial Census is part of a 30 years' war over efforts to count everyone in America, including immigrants, minorities and poor people. It's become an ongoing war, because the results carry such large consequences. The Constitution mandates a census every decade, because the founders saw a regular, state-by-state population count as the best way to determine how many seats each state gets in the House of Representatives. Beyond that, as Washington's role has expanded, the Census provides the data used to distribute a growing slice of federal spending among the states and their cities and counties - nearly $400 billion worth these days - and to build the baselines and updates used to evaluate the effectiveness of hundreds of federal programs.
Until this year, the fights over the Decennial Census have focused not on who should be counted - the answer has always been everyone - but on how hard the government should try to find the one to two percent of us who are often overlooked. It matters, because people who don't return their Census forms and then avoid Census workers trying to follow up - the Bureau calls them the "undercounted" - are predominantly poor minorities, recent immigrants, and American Indians. So, they're not distributed randomly across the states but rather concentrated in certain places - and this undercount costs those places part of their fair share of federal funds for roads, schools, medical care, parks and other things based on population. If the count were accurate, a number of big cities and states might be a little less financially strapped.
I follow all of this pretty closely, because as Under Secretary of Commerce in the late 1990s, I oversaw the Census Bureau planning and operations for the 2000 Census. The fight that time was over our plans to use a huge sample - some 1 million households - to find out exactly where and to what extent the undercounts happen, and then use that information to adjust the head count and make the final results more accurate. That was just what the National Academy of Sciences had recommended for the 1990 Census, which the first Bush White House rejected. When the undercount grew worse that time, the Academy came back with the same recommendation for 2000. This time, the Clinton administration approved, and the Census Bureau did it. But between the counting and the reporting, George W. Bush took office. The sample was discarded, and the undercount grew even worse.
The opposition to sampling in 2000 certainly seemed to be motivated by purely political concerns that counting all minorities would cost them federal funding or even seats in Congress. But that opposition wasn't completely shameless: They balanced their attacks on sampling with support for spending as much as we asked for to assemble the largest workforce of census counters in history and mount major advertising and civic outreach campaigns targeted to communities with large undercounts.
It will be worse this time. The 2010 Census planned by the Bush administration has no sample, and it's too late now for the Obama team to design and carry out one in time. It's also almost certain that the undercount will be even larger: The numbers of recent immigrants are way up, and the advertising campaigns aimed at minorities and the outreach to civic groups have been scaled back.
But now it's getting truly ugly. Senator Bob Bennett, backed by the Wall Street Journal and right-wing cable TV and radio, has proposed to use the census to identify undocumented people, who would then be deliberately excluded from the count. In more than two centuries of the U.S. Census, it has always counted whoever is physically here - "inhabitants" in the term used in the first census of 1790 - regardless of their citizenship or other legal status. One reason is that everyone is protected by the law, so everyone should be counted in determining how many seats a state gets to write those laws. And whether or not someone has citizenship or residency papers, they still put claims on public services which the funding for those services should reflect.
The political and social implications of Bennett's radical idea are enormous. California, for example, may have as many as 4 or 5 million undocumented inhabitants - exclude them and the state could lose perhaps a half-dozen seats in Congress and tens of billions of dollars in federal funds. Texas and other states with large Hispanic populations would lose seats and funding as well.
This change also could destroy the Census process, with incalculable costs for everyone. The Census doesn't collect any information beyond people's demographic characteristics - no names or data about their legal circumstances - and it's so fastidious about people's confidentiality that it won't share any specific data with police, the FBI, or anybody. In 2000, for example, a form came back with a threat against the president scrawled across it - and the Census Bureau refused Secret Service demands to share the address. (It turned out to not matter, since the respondent was safely tucked away in a state prison.) The Bureau also knows that if the census process goes beyond demographics, tens of millions of people may assume that their information might be turned over to other parts of government, and the undercount would skyrocket. People would begin to worry that the IRS might compare the number of people counted in a household against the number of dependents claimed, or that child welfare services might discover that somebody is taking care of a cousin's child and disapprove of it, or, most obviously, that the Immigration and Naturalization Service would come knocking.
The Census is the world's largest scientific exercise and provides the basis not only to allocate federal funds and seats in Congress, but also to evaluate the effectiveness of countless federal, state and local programs. All of that would be at risk if the latest expression of anti-immigrant bias were ever to take hold of the decennial Census.
GOP Senator Introduces Bill to Bar Undocumented Immigrants from Reapportionment Process
Submitted by Simon Rosenberg on 9/25/09
Sen. Bob Bennett
In an essay yesterday (which is still running on the front page of the Huffington Post), Waking Up To the Coming Battle Over the Census, I talked about the very real possibility that the national Republican Party will mount a sustained effort to undermine the Census next year because of the Constitutional requirement for it to count all people, including undocumented immigrants. One could easily imagine Rep. Joe Wilson, for example, leading this effort.
Yesterday we came across this story from the Salt Lake Tribune, which reports on a new bill just introduced in the United States Senate by Sen. Bob Bennett which attempts to identify the undocumented population and bar them from contributing to the reapportionment process. From the news article:
Bennett, a Utah Republican who faces a tough re-election effort, introduced a bill last week that would add an 11th question to the Census forms asking if the person is a citizen or legal resident. He wants to exclude undocumented immigrants from the count used to apportion seats in the U.S. House.
"It does not make any sense for congressional seats and the Electoral College to be determined by a process that unfairly provides the advantage to those communities with high illegal populations," Bennett said in announcing his legislation.
The question Bennett raises, and is raised by the authors in the Wall Street Journal in my post yesterday, is should the undocumenteds be counted? The 14th Amendment says:
The interpretation of this question for these many years is that, yes, everyone must be counted. And certainly the 2010 Census is designed to do just that. But given how the national Republican Party played politics (successfully by the way) with the Census and reapportionment process the last two times the nation went through this, we should expect another run this time too. And my guess is that despite the Constitutional requirement to count everyone most/many Americans would agree with Senator Bennett - why should places like Arizona gain at others expense through the presence of what will clearly be labeled "illegals?"
Which is why this debate could end up being so tough for those elected officials, including the President, required to defend the constitutionality of the current census strategy - because for many it will seem like it "makes no sense."
So how to avoid what could become a very ugly and divisive fight, pitting region against region, community against community, immigrants vs native born?
Pass comprehensive immigration reform prior to the start of the census count, making the "illegals" legal and finally fixing the broken immigration system once and for all.
Open to other ideas too. Feel free to share 'em. Anxious to hear your thoughts on this.
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Tonight's reports of the murder of a US Census worker will bring national attention to the emerging politics of the Census count, something that we've long been worried about at NDN.
In August I posted the following about a Wall Street Journal Op-Ed which signaled the beginning of a new campaign by the right to disrupt the vital Census count next year:
For many months now NDN has been making the case that inevitably the right would make a spirited case to prevent the Census, to be conducted next year, from counting undocumented immigrants, or at least using their numbers to influence reapportionment or the allocation of resources by the government (the primary purpose of the every ten year count).
Today the Wall Street Journal is running a well-articulated early salvo in this coming battle by John S. Baker and Elliot Stonecipher. It starts off......
"Next year's census will determine the apportionment of House members and Electoral College votes for each state. To accomplish these vital constitutional purposes, the enumeration should count only citizens and persons who are legal, permanent residents. But it won't.
Instead, the U.S. Census Bureau is set to count all persons physically present in the country—including large numbers who are here illegally. The result will unconstitutionally increase the number of representatives in some states and deprive some other states of their rightful political representation. Citizens of "loser" states should be outraged. Yet few are even aware of what's going on.
In 1790, the first Census Act provided that the enumeration of that year would count "inhabitants" and "distinguish" various subgroups by age, sex, status as free persons, etc. Inhabitant was a term with a well-defined meaning that encompassed, as the Oxford English Dictionary expressed it, one who "is a bona fide member of a State, subject to all the requisitions of its laws, and entitled to all the privileges which they confer."
Thus early census questionnaires generally asked a question that got at the issue of citizenship or permanent resident status, e.g., "what state or foreign country were you born in?" or whether an individual who said he was foreign-born was naturalized. Over the years, however, Congress and the Census Bureau have added inquiries that have little or nothing to do with census's constitutional purpose.
By 1980 there were two census forms. The shorter form went to every person physically present in the country and was used to establish congressional apportionment. It had no question pertaining to an individual's citizenship or legal status as a resident. The longer form gathered various kinds of socioeconomic information including citizenship status, but it went only to a sample of U.S. households. That pattern was repeated for the 1990 and 2000 censuses.
The 2010 census will use only the short form. The long form has been replaced by the Census Bureau's ongoing American Community Survey. Dr. Elizabeth Grieco, chief of the Census Bureau's Immigration Statistics Staff, told us in a recent interview that the 2010 census short form does not ask about citizenship because "Congress has not asked us to do that."
Because the census (since at least 1980) has not distinguished citizens and permanent, legal residents from individuals here illegally, the basis for apportionment of House seats has been skewed. According to the Census Bureau's latest American Community Survey data (2007), states with a significant net gain in population by inclusion of noncitizens include Arizona, California, Florida, Illinois, Nevada, New Jersey, New York and Texas. (There are tiny net gains for Hawaii and Massachusetts.)
This makes a real difference. Here's why:
According to the latest American Community Survey, California has 5,622,422 noncitizens in its population of 36,264,467. Based on our round-number projection of a decade-end population in that state of 37,000,000 (including 5,750,000 noncitizens), California would have 57 members in the newly reapportioned U.S. House of Representatives.
However, with noncitizens not included for purposes of reapportionment, California would have 48 House seats (based on an estimated 308 million total population in 2010 with 283 million citizens, or 650,000 citizens per House seat). Using a similar projection, Texas would have 38 House members with noncitizens included. With only citizens counted, it would be entitled to 34 members."
....You get the idea.
We've been arguing, aggressively, that it is important for the Obama Administration to pass Comprehensive Immigration Reform by March of 2010 (the count begins in April, 2010) in order to avoid what could become a very nasty debate indeed - in the middle of a very important election - about who exactly is an American. To me the need to conduct a clean and accurate census, so essential to effective governance of the nation, is one of the most powerful reasons why immigration reform cannot wait till 2011, as some have suggested.
In launching DropDobbs.com along with 14 other groups this past week, I cited my own personal weariness with the summer's angry talk and the still all too virulent politics of intolerance. We have long believed the debate over the Census would unleash the reactionary hounds, so to speak, and rather than letting them gain the upper hand in a debate over who we are and who we are becoming, it is essential now for reasonable people of both parties to stand, together, to prevent an angry few to hijack what is, in this case, a process so integral to the very functioning of our democracy.
Next year is shaping up to be an extraordinary one in US history.
The Coming Battle Over the Census
Today the Wall Street Journal is running a well-articulated early salvo in this coming battle by John S. Baker and Elliot Stonecipher. It starts off:
Next year's census will determine the apportionment of House members and Electoral College votes for each state. To accomplish these vital constitutional purposes, the enumeration should count only citizens and persons who are legal, permanent residents. But it won't.
However, with noncitizens not included for purposes of reapportionment, California would have 48 House seats (based on an estimated 308 million total population in 2010 with 283 million citizens, or 650,000 citizens per House seat). Using a similar projection, Texas would have 38 House members with noncitizens included. With only citizens counted, it would be entitled to 34 members.
We've been arguing, aggressively, that it is important for the Obama Administration to pass Compehensive Immigration Reform by March of 2010 (the count begins in April, 2010) in order to avoid what could become a very nasty debate indeed - in the middle of a very important election - about who exactly is an American. To me the need to conduct a clean and accurate census, so essential to effective governance of the nation, is one of the most powerful reasons why immigration reform cannot wait till 2011, as some have suggested.
For more on this see my recent essay - Why Congress Should Pass Immigration Reform This Year.
And so the debate begins.
Update: The key passage from the 14th Amendment:
Representatives shall be apportioned among the several States according to their respective numbers, counting the whole number of persons in each State.
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Every woman deserves access to the full range of pregnancy-related options, including abortion care, free from political interference. However, as a result of the Hyde Amendment, Congress has for decades denied women access to abortion care simply because they receive insurance through the government—penalizing women who don't have the income or coverage to pay for it, particularly low-income women. The Hyde amendment also disproportionately restricts women of color's access to abortion care, further contributing to the alarming rates of black maternal mortality in the United States.
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US defence chief: Europe may no longer be worth defending
Posted on June 11, 2011 by Eeyore — 4 Comments ↓
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Bob Gates allowed himself to be 'blunt' with the Europeans (Photo: SDA)
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BRUSSELS / EUOBSERVER – Under pressure to cut its military spending, the US is losing patience with Europe's unwillingness to pay for its own defence, outgoing US defence minister Robert Gates said Friday (10 June) in an unusually 'blunt' speech in Brussels, casting doubt over the very survival of Nato.
On his last trip to Europe before retiring on 30 June, Gates – who has served as defence minister both in the George W. Bush and Barack Obama administrations – allowed himself "to speak bluntly" during a conference organised by the Security and Defence Agenda, a Brussels-based think tank.
Looking first at Afghanistan, he noted that the operation got bogged down in national caveats which hampered the range of actions European soldiers were allowed to do – a hint at Germany's restrictions on its troops to use lethal force, which meant that they could not be deployed in combat against the Taliban.
As for troop withdrawal, with the Netherlands suddenly pulling out after a government was forced to resign last year over the Afghan war, Gates said: "We cannot afford to have some troop-contributing nations to pull out their forces on their own timeline in a way that undermines the mission and increases risks to other allies. The way ahead in Afghanistan is 'in together, out together'."
Nato's flagship mission in Afghanistan has also "exposed significant shortcomings" in the military alliance – both concerning capabilities and "political will."
"Despite more than 2 million troops in uniform – not counting the US military – Nato has struggled, at times desperately, to sustain a deployment of 25,000 to 40,000 troops, not just in boots on the ground, but in crucial support assets such as helicopters, transport aircraft, maintenance, intelligence, surveillance and reconnaissance, and much more," Gates said.
When it comes to the more recent mission in Libya, similar shortcomings made it "painfully clear" that they can undermine the success of a campaign that has broad political support, no troops on the ground and is "a mission in Europe's neighbourhood deemed to be in Europe's vital interest."
"While every alliance member voted for the Libya mission, less than half have participated at all, and fewer than a third have been willing to participate in the strike mission. Frankly, many of those allies sitting on the sidelines do so not because they do not want to participate, but simply because they can't. The military capabilities simply aren't there."
He cited lack of intelligence, surveillance, and reconnaissance assets, which make even the most advanced European fighter jets useless. Italy's ambition to run the air campaign from a Naples-based headquarters in fact meant that "mainly US targeting specialists" had to be deployed there "to do the job."
"The mightiest military alliance in history is only 11 weeks into an operation against a poorly armed regime in a sparsely populated country – yet many allies are beginning to run short of munitions, requiring the US, once more, to make up the difference."
With more security-consuming European allies than partners able to shoulder the burden in Nato, Gates questioned the very rationale of this alliance, born out of America's willingness to protect Western Europe against a potential Soviet invasion during the Cold War.
"Some two decades after the collapse of the Berlin Wall, the US share of Nato defence spending has now risen to more than 75 percent – at a time when politically painful budget and benefit cuts are being considered at home," Gates said.
Frustrated by years of trying to convince European allies to step up their defence spending and upgrade their military capabilities, Gates projected a "dim, if not dismal future for the transatlantic alliance": that the US simply stops footing the bill.
"The blunt reality is that there will be dwindling appetite and patience in the US Congress – and in the American body politic writ large – to expend increasingly precious funds on behalf of nations that are apparently unwilling to devote the necessary resources or make the necessary changes to be serious and capable partners in their own defence."
"Indeed, if current trends in the decline of European defense capabilities are not halted and reversed, future US political leaders – those for whom the Cold War was not the formative experience that it was for me – may not consider the return on America's investment in Nato worth the cost," he warned.
Responding to this doomsday scenario, Nato spokeswoman Oana Lungescu said during a press briefing on Friday that this was in line with repeated calls from Nato chief Anders Fogh Rasmussen to improve military spending and make "smart" defence cuts where necessary.
"There is clearly a long-standing concern about the transatlantic gap in defence spending, there is a risk that European allies may even fall behind in terms of technological development. We all know there is an economic and financial crisis going on and when all parts of budgets are being cut, defence budgets cannot be exempt," she said.
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4 Replies to "US defence chief: Europe may no longer be worth defending"
Richard on June 11, 2011 at 5:28 pm said:
The US needs a free and independent Europe as much as Europe needs a free and independent US, but the US can't continue being the worlds policeman unless we can stop socialist from gaining the White House and destroying our economy. With the damage Obama has done Europe, all of Europe, is going to have to pick up some of the slack as the US falters while rebuilding. The question is are the Europeans willing to start defending themselves after 50 years of having the US defend them?
philipzhao on June 11, 2011 at 8:12 pm said:
I don't think there will be another Expeditionary Force led by another Ike to save Europe !!
Richard on June 11, 2011 at 11:41 pm said:
Probably not, there may be an invasion force to liberate Europe and occupy it until the Europeans are educated about freedom but not one like Ike lead.
David on June 12, 2011 at 7:44 am said:
It is true that the reconstruction of the Transatlantic relationship must necessarily involve the strong military cooperation among Europe and the US. There needs to be a new set of common purposes in this particular area instead of wasting energy on debates about the differencies between the two powers.


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Until the satisfying end. You see, the immigrant has been developing a savage revenge plan, and even though it required years, he executed it perfectly. Scroll down to read why you shouldn't abuse your employees, and let us know if you think the punishment fits the crime!
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Yes...yet just yesterday I read a comment by a reader that immigrants (to America) have caused an increase in poverty, medicare expenses, insurance fraud, lowering wages, increased crime..blah blah blah. And of course, to him the only immigrants were those who looked 'immigrant'. It's ridiculous how much bs sad, uncessessful people toot. They'll blame anything and anyone so long as they don't have to deal with the reality that they are the real failure.
Your uncle is a good man, sir. Not only did he resist the racism, he made the area better for everyone, especially the people who desperately needed a good and fair doctor!!
Not sure this is entirely true, it is illegal to advertise medical practices Australia as far as I know and I've never seen an ad for a medical practice. If this story is genuine, he is a legend. I'm Aussie born and have worked with immigrants from all over the world and they are like anyone else, if not better as they have worked to get here.
Good point, but if you search X type of surgical procedure / specialization you will find results. With varying site size and complexity.
The medical practice near me sends flyers to people in the area. I'm sure that they are allowed to advertise.
I suspect that would not be legal in Australia.... but have not actually checked the laws.
He did say this was back in the 90s, maybe things were different 25 years ago?


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