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California Latino Capitol Association Foundation
clca.sac@gmail.com
Address: 1017 L St., PMB #443
Policy Bootcamp
The California Latino Capitol Association Foundation in partnership with Brown Issues and the California Endowment are proud to host their 2nd annual Policy Bootcamp.
The Policy Bootcamp is a two-day event for 45 at-risk high school students and community college students for the purpose of exposing them to the policy making process and to key issues facing California.
To equip students with knowledge of California's policy making process so they may be empowered to effect positive change today.
Students will expand their knowledge of the California legislative process and other key policy issues impacting communities of color. Students will have the unique opportunity to assume the role of a state legislator by actively participating in mock legislative hearings and visiting the Assembly Floor. Additionally, students will have the opportunity to hear from Legislators and key community leaders about topics relating to immigration, elections, politics, capitol work, financial aid opportunities, and community organizing. This interactive two-day experience at the State Capitol will empower students to effect positive change in their communities and the world at large.
STUDENT ASSIGNMENTS
Bill Readings:
Read all assigned bill materials. Formulate arguments in support and in opposition to the bill. Students will be assigned to one bill and a committee role during the Strategic Policy Sessions. Students must bring all materials to both days of programming.
Policy Article:
Student must bring a news article/story that discusses a policy issue impacting the student, their family, or community. News article/story must be from a credible source and at least two pages long. Student must print and bring article/story to both days of programming and be prepared to share with peers.
Review program agenda and activities. Students must prepare at least one question to ask at each presentation/panel. A total of 5-6 questions is required.
PROGRAM ACTIVITIES
Latinos in California Policy & Politics: Presentation will inform students of the history and current state of Latin@ involvement in California policy and politics.
Power of Elections & Voting-Why it Matters: While a lot of young people feel disenfranchised and believe that their single vote does not
matter, this couldn't be farther than the truth. Students will understand the importance of elections and why voting is one of the most powerful tools they can exercise to change their communities.
Financial Aid-What Resources Are There?: Students will hear from experts discuss financial aid resources available to them.
Beware! Social Media Distribution of False News: Students will understand the trap doors of the distribution of false news via social media and be equipped with practical tools to discern news properly.
Immigration: Students will obtain greater knowledge of the health and immigration issues impacting communities of color through a robust presentation by subject experts. Students will understand how they can make a positive difference in these areas.
Workshops and Activities:
Capitol Office Visits: Students will have the opportunity to visit democratic and republican offices in the capitol, as well as standing committee offices. This interactive experience will breakdown misconceptions of state government and encourage students to approach their state representative's office on community matters.
Strategic Policy Sessions: Students will meet with their Policy Lead to prepare for the mock committee hearings. Students will be assigned committee roles, review their bill, articulate arguments, and prepare committee speeches/presentations. Students will also understand how laws are passed by learning the legislative process of a bill.
Community Organizing Workshop: Students will learn about community organizing and the tools necessary to effect change in their communities by actively participating in small group discussions, creative projects, and presentations. Student's leadership and communication skills will be strengthened.
Mock Committee Hearings: Students will take the role of a Legislator and conduct a committee hearing. Students will exercise their analytical, communication, and writing skills.
Assembly Floor Visit: Students will be able to visit the historical Assembly Floor chamber, meet the Chief Clerk's staff, and learn more about the Assembly Floor process.
Students are selected through local Brown Issues chapters in Sacramento and Los Angeles who have shown an interest in public policy and stand out as exceptional members.
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Cairn India to pay 10,000 Cr INR Tax, Says ITAT
Direct taxes Cairn India to pay 10,000 Cr INR Tax, Says ITAT
Before the Cairn India IPO, the India operations of Cairn Energy were owned by a company called Cairn India Holdings-Cayman Island and its subsidiaries. Cairn India Holdings was a 100% subsidiary of Cairn UK Holdings, which was a 100% subsidiary of Cairn Energy. At the time of the IPO, the ownership of the India assets was transferred from Cairn UK Holdings to a new company – Cairn India. In 2006 Cairn India acquired 100% share capital of Cairn India Holdings from Cairn UK Holdings in exchange of 69% shares in Cairn India were issued to Cairn UK Holdings. Hence, Cairn Energy, through Cairn UK Holdings held a 69% stake in Cairn India.
Indirect transfer is a transaction wherein the foreign company's shares being sold derives, directly or indirectly, its value substantially from assets located in India. In the instant case Cairn Energy transferred its foreign subsidiaries to Cairn India and the foreign subsidiaries derived their value from assets located in India. As per the provisions of section 9(1)(i) [as amended by Finance Act 2012], a capital asset being any share in a company incorporated outside India shall be deemed to have been situated in India, if the share derives, directly or indirectly, its value substantially from the assets located in India. Hence in the instant case of Cairn Energy, the transfer of foreign subsidiaries qualified as indirect transfer, liable to tax in India as per the amended provisions of section 9(1)(i) of the Act.
Cairn's capital gain tax liability has been confirmed by Indian Income tax appellate Tribunal ('ITAT'). Disregarding the pending arbitration, the revenue authorities stuck to their contention that tax disputes are outside the purview of BIPA. ITAT observed that keeping the issue unnecessarily pending won't be proper since there is no timeline available about the disposal of the application of the assessee for arbitration proceedings and also that ITAT's ruling once passed can very well be applied to the arbitration proceedings.
ITAT rejected Cairn's contention that they have note earned any real income, by observing that there was an increase in the wealth of Cairn owing to the IPO and value derived by book building process. ITAT confirmed the order of the assessing officer in working out capital Gain on sale of shares of Cairn India Holding limited in the hands of appellant of Rs. 24,503.5 crores, levying tax of Rs. 10,000 crores.
Cairn's liability arose owing to the retrospective amendement in the provisions of section 9(1)(i) of the Act taxing the indirect transfer transactions. The current tax demand raised on Cairn India is likely to be viewed adversely by the foreign investors and it may dampen the euphoria of buoyancy of foreign investors doing business in India. Though the government has clearly stated the end of retrospective tax regime and following a non adversarial tax approach, this tax demand is not likely to go down well with the foreign investors.
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Listening to all the Web 2.0 hype, you would think rich client applications have gone the way of DOS and dinosaurs. But it appears that the New York Times didn't get the memo, and they have the killer app to prove it.
The New York Times has released a beta of the Times Reader to critical acclaim. While some question the logic of creating a separate application just to view website content, they cannot actually find fault with the program. The readability enchancements alone are just too good. As Rafe Needleman says. "I admit that if I wanted to take a stand against this type of application, I could simply not use it--the Times' Web site has the same content. But the New York Times Reader really is a better way to read the Times' news."
The Times Reader isn't your typical rich client application. By leveraging Microsoft's ClickOnce technology, the application is updated automatically without user involvement. New features are automatically downloaded and installed whenever the user starts the program.
The presentation is done with Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF), a component of the soon to be released .NET 3.0. This gives the NY Times developers unprecedented control over the layout. Unlike a web browser, which has trouble displaying columns, the Times Reader can freely flow text from column to column as the page resizes. There are no scroll bars, users simply use the arrow keys to turn the page. And because it is an installed application, it can include the fonts used in the print edition of the NY Times. Other features not normally available to browsers include deep support for off-line viewing, automatic tracking of read pages, and the ability to annotate pages with your own notes.
Can this the beginning of a renaissance in rich client applications?
ClickOnce = WebStart for .net?
Re: ClickOnce = WebStart for .net?
Why is everyone thinks rich clients are dead?
Sounds like microsoft has reinvented java webstart. Actually I am surprised that nobody has done this in java before, since webstart has been available for 3-4 years, giving exact the same set of hassle-free deployment benefits. Why not? Because there is no Java Presentation Framework?
Java Desktop Network Components (JDNC) is a project from Sun that combines Webstart and RIA, as I understand it.
Thick Client Applications are not cost effective. I hope we can achieve similar level of usability in a browser based application pretty soon. Moreover, I would not want to install hundrads of application on my laptop or PDA (one for amazon.com, or google.com, or nyt.com or etc.) I do not understand why we have to go backwards?
When all websites I visit follow this great example, I'll only have 300 companies' applications downloaded onto my PC. What could possibly go wrong? And what easier way to switch from site to site than starting a new application from the start menu. Which now takes up the entire screen. Oh yes; and kill another application because, with 300 running, I'm a bit low on RAM.
I am having problems seeing why rich clients should be dead. Granted, less applications need be installed on computers in the future, because many apps work fine as web apps. But not all apps work well as web apps. My screen grabber wouldn't for one. And how do I implement that custom plugin my company needs for that diagramming web app?
It's like people say "Web apps are cheaper, because we can update everybody in one go". But we just wrote a live update for a desktop app we are developing. You know what? It only took 2-3 days to implement! Every app can afford to implement live-update, even if it doesn't use .NET or Java WebStart. It's not that hard to do.
We implemented live-update because Java Webstart doesn't let you make upgrades only available for people with valid licenses. And how do you do that in your web app, by the way? Let peopel continue using what they already paid for, without having to upgrade to the next version? Very easy with live-update, very messy with web apps.
And, it's not like web apps are *always* easier to install than rich client apps. You can just download and run a .exe file without saving it. When you close the app, it's gone. It's the same with Java Applets.
Yes, more and more apps will become web apps, but not *all* apps. Not yet at least. There are still times where people need to be able to run apps offline, or where the app is too big to be downloaded on demand, and where a web app just isn't suitable.
Installed this program, but clicking on an article caused my machine (Compaq 1230NX, XP Professional, 1gig memory) to reboot. I already had .net 2.0 installed but not 3.0. Not ready for prime time, I think.
Maybe we could migrate everything to web app and create a really thin cost effective client... Mainframe X clients ring a bell?
History repeats itself, but there is nothign wrong about it, if we evolve each iteration. So, web is not a mainframe client and smart clients are not old PC app.
Well it is a beta. Once the final cut of .NET 3.0 is released, it should be more stable. You can expect that to occur at the same time as the Windows Vista launch.
I believe a + for Rich Client is that you can target a much simpler architecture, with much less "pure" technical layers which are necessary as soon you start with distributed applications. You basically have your two tier application: GUI + Database.
This does'nt mean that your application isn't well egineered, in contrary : you very well can have your layers and seperation of concern in the "Fat" Client. In contrary, you do not have to start tearing apart layers, because of distribution.
For many a opertioaal Entreprice Application, such a architecture is completely sufficient. You have a application, which is simpler, robuster, easier to develop and maintain.
Deployment issues, which you have for such a "Fat" Client, can be adressed, with other application transparent technology, eg. Citrix Mainframe or VNC Technology. I very much believe, that the Java Community, would be well advised to embrace Rich Client Technology, not "only" through RIA, which really is moving the code to the client again. Sometimes i suspect that the Rich Client vs Internet "fight" is very much a "political" one and does'nt adress "real" requirements of enterprice computer.
What i would like to see, is more technology, which protects your investments in your application code, but let's you "exchange" or develop a new UI more quickly, be it Web or rich. In this area, i think Oracles ADF Technology could be showing a way. But sadly Oracle is also emphazing on the JSF/Ajax Client and not enought the Swing Rich Client capabilities.


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By The Caribbean Camera Inc. on December 31, 2021 Comments Off on Time to transition from consumerism and materialism to consciousness
By Carlton Joseph
Carlton Joseph
As 2021 comes to an end, the World Heath Organization reports that over 5 million people have died from COVID-19. Worst, vaccines have been available since the beginning of the year, but more contagious variants, unvaccinated populations, misinformation, and normal activities, are allowing lots of people to get infected.
In 2020, there was no vaccine, most people were social distancing, wearing masks, and being really meticulous, now that vaccines are readily available people have let their guards down. This has led to more exposure and when combined with the Delta and Omicron variant, has resulted in higher transmission, more cases and more deaths.
The pandemic has resulted in closure of gyms, stadiums, pools, dance and fitness studios, physiotherapy centers, parks and playgrounds. People are therefore not able to actively participate in their regular individual or group sporting or physical activities outside of their homes, and have become less physically active, developed irregular sleep patterns and poor diets, resulting in weight gain and loss of physical fitness, and poor health.
The COVID-19 pandemic has had a significant impact on the 50 billion global music industry, where live music makes up over 50% of total revenues. Numerous music events, including music festivals, concert tours, and award shows, were cancelled or postponed, and while some musicians and composers were able to use the time to create new works, there were devastating effects on the many supporting people who relied on performers for their income.
Sports, a major contributor to economic and social development, has been significantly impacted by the pandemic. As a result, the contribution that sports make to the empowerment of women and young people, individuals and communities, as well as to health, education and social inclusion goals have been negatively impacted, especially low-income families. The long-term effects of stay home rules, especially in substandard housing, and lack of physical exercise, will have to be studied, evaluated and rectified.
Supply chains around the world have been negatively impacted by the global pandemic, driving inflationary fears and resulting in shortages of products and materials and slowing down economies. Trócaire programs in 20 countries are witnessing and responding to the devastating triple impact of Covid, climate change and conflict. Due to Covid lockdown measures people have not been able to travel to markets to sell their goods, go in search of daily labor to earn their living, or plant crops, the result is there is no money for food. The United Nations reported that Covid-19 has already triggered a dramatic worsening of hunger with 10% of the global population (811 million people) undernourished last year.
The global supply chain is expected to remain a challenge through 2022, and restructuring it has become the focus of insurance companies. The mismatches between supply and demand for a broad range of commodities from electronic chips, to furniture, bikes, paper and other goods could further intensify if economies pick up, and shortage of labor could also exacerbate the imbalances, leading to higher prices for consumers.
The pandemic has affected people regardless of nationality, level of education, income or gender. However, the poor has disproportionately suffered; students from privileged backgrounds, supported by their parents have found their way to alternative learning opportunities. Unfortunately, those from disadvantaged backgrounds often remained shut out when their schools shut down, potentially widening the education gap and the wealth inequality gap in the future.
It is predicted that the impacts of climate change are going to last longer than those of the pandemic as heavy monsoon rains and flooding have affected vast areas in Asia, including industry intensive regions in China, India, and Japan, complicating production and logistics for manufacturers worldwide.
US Congress cannot pass legislation wanted by large majorities of people, and Democracy itself is under threat with an all-out assault on voting rights by Republicans. Doctors and nurses are being threatened for dispensing Covid shots, and school board members are being attacked for supporting mask mandates. The Supreme Court has agreed to consider legal challenges to President Biden's COVID-19 vaccine mandates for health care workers.
2021 was as chaotic as 2020 but we must welcome 2022 and strive to make it better for everyone. COVID-19 has impacted every facet of our lives and will probably be with us for the rest of our lives. We must now learn how to work, play, achieve our goals and enjoy our lives, in spite of it.
I am encouraged by some of the decisions that young people are making and how they are reprioritizing their lives. The pandemic has made them realize that if they were ever going to get more from their jobs, more money, more freedom, more security, and more happiness, they must take a chance now. They are seeing opportunity in the disruptions.
Youths are recognizing that certain jobs are dead end jobs, not worth dying for, others want more pay but less stress, and/or expect better treatment from their bosses; still others enjoy working with their colleagues, but lack enthusiasm for their corporate jobs, and young married couples are deciding that one person, staying home with the child/children is a better option than paying for daycare. This period is designated as the "Great Resignation," the pandemic-era phenomenon of record numbers of Americans quitting their jobs, more than 4 million a month since July, into a communal online experience.
Hopefully our youths will realize that America's "talking heads" are just part of the system of deception, and that they are highly paid to misinform and channel their energies to keep them tied to the system and their continued exploitation. They are paid to invent narratives of public life that fuels populist politics and partisan divide stories that encourage racism and extremist actions against perceived enemies.
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What Is The Age Limit for A PhD?
By Dr Harry Hothi
There no age limit for doing a PhD. The youngest person known to have earned a doctorate was 15 years old at graduation, whilst the oldest known person to have gained a PhD in the UK was 95 years old.
I have seen and personally worked with PhD candidates of all ages, some older than me, some younger. In all my time within academia, I haven't come across any university that places a limit on the age of an individual that wants to apply for and pursue a full time doctoral degree; indeed the practice of doing so would be rightly considered a form of discrimination at most academic institutions and even against the law in some countries.
However, a quick search on Google is enough to see that the question about age limits for doing a PhD is something that is asked quite often. This leads me to believe that there are many very capable potential doctoral candidates in the world that haven't pursued their dreams of academic research almost entirely because they believe that they're too old to do so.
There is No Age Limit for Doing a PhD
Simply put there is no age limit for someone considering doing a PhD. Indeed, on the opposite end of the scale, even the definition of a minimum' age at which someone can start a PhD is not really well defined.
One of the youngest PhD graduates in recent times is thought to be Kim Ung-Yong who is a South Korean professor who purportedly earned a PhD in civil engineering at the age of 15 [1].
For the vast majority however, the practical considerations of progressing through the different stages of education (i.e. high school, undergraduate degree, a Master's degree, etc.) mean that most won't start their PhD projects until they're at least in their early to mid 20's; in the UK, for example, the average age for a PhD graduate is between 26 and 27 years old [2].
Meanwhile, the oldest person to be awarded a PhD degree in the United Kingdom is thought to be 95 year old Charles Betty, who gained his doctorate from the University of Northampton in 2018 after completing his 48,000 word thesis on why elderly expats living in Spain decide to return to the UK' [3].
Charles Betty, PhD, at his graduation (Image: SWNS.com)
What does the data say?
According to data published by the National Science Foundation (NSF), a total of 54,904 people earned PhDs at universities in the United States of America in 2016; 46% of all new doctorates were women and 31% were international candidates [4].
Looking at the age distributions available for 51,621 of these new PhD graduates in 2016, 44% (n=22,863) were aged 30 or below, 43% (n=22,038) were aged between 31 and 40 and 13% (n=6,720) were over the age of 40 when they were awarded their doctoral degree.
In this same year, over 50% of PhD students in subjects related to physical sciences, earth sciences, life sciences, mathematics, computer sciences and engineering were below the age of 31, whilst less than 10% of these STEM graduates were older than 41.
Conversely, 61% of PhDs in humanities and arts and 52% in other non-engineering and science disciplines gained their doctorates between 31 and 40 years of age.
Interestingly, the analysis by the NSF found that 94% of doctoral candidates aged below 31 supported their research financially through research or teaching assistantships, grants or fellowships. Only 36% of PhDs aged over 41 at graduation reported receiving similar types of financial support; approximately 50% of this age group were found to have self-funded their studies.
The reasons for fewer doctoral candidates aged over 41 receiving external funding to support their time as research students is not clear. On the face of it, the data may appear to suggest a bias towards funding younger students which unfortunately may be the case in some instances. In Germany, for example, the German Federal Training Assistance Act (BAfG) provides funding support for higher education but places a limit of 30 years for undergraduate degrees and 35 years for postgraduate students at graduate school.
However, another explanation, at least in some cases, may be that non-STEM related subjects are less likely to be associated with specific project funding and NSF analysis suggests PhDs in these subjects are more often undertaken by older doctoral candidates.
What are the Advantages and Disadvantages?
No one should be discouraged from pursuing a PhD program or entering into higher education based on how old they are and indeed there are several (albeit subjective) benefits and disadvantages of doing a PhD in your younger' or older' years.
A perceived advantage may be that gaining a PhD in your 20's can potentially give you more time to develop your career. Younger doctoral students could earn their PhD and enter into academic jobs before starting a family (although many people successfully carry out doctoral research whilst also looking after young children). You could even afford yourself the time and flexibility to implement a career change further down the line if you so wanted.
Conversely, entering a graduate school and becoming a PhD student in later years means that you'll be doing so having gained a lot more life experience and for some STEM research projects in particular, having work experience in industry can be invaluable. As an older PhD candidate you're likely to be better equipped to work independently and the relationships / connections you'll have built over time may be a useful factor in helping you progress faster. I've met several older students at university who had the opportunity to undertake PhD research years ago but have no regrets in having waited and started the adventure in later years.
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Finding a PhD has never been this easy – search for a PhD by keyword, location or academic area of interest.
It's inevitable that the question of age limits for pursing a PhD is going to invite some controversial opinions from some people; this unfortunately may always be the case when talking about differing social and demographic factors.
There's no doubt however that PhD programs can help career advancement or a career change regardless of age however there's also nothing to stop you from becoming a graduate student just for the academic pursuit!
The answer here is very simple: there is no age limit for doing a PhD.
[1] http://scienceandnaturea.blogspot.com
[2] https://www.eui.eu/
[3] https://www.telegraph.co.uk/
[4] https://ncses.nsf.gov/
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One quarter of all deaths in the US are Veterans. That is 1,800 people a day; more than 680,000 Veterans every year.
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Dr. A returned this week with materials for our gerbil condo and we carefully measured, cut, and taped chicken wire for the gerbils' new addition.
Our week featured mime and measuring, kickball and kung fu! And of course, much, much more!
A highlight of our spring term was seeing The Funny Bones Mime Trio perform "The History of Modern Mime" at Lincoln Center.
On Monday afternoon Poppy Luca brought color wheels for each child to fill in and talked about primary, secondary, and even tertiary colors.
Jon Burgos returned for another wrestling class on Tuesday. This time he led the children in breakdowns and escapes on the mat.
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Alzheimer's disease is the most common cause of senile dementia. Since the discovery in 1984 of the amyloid ?-peptide (A?) as the core protein of the senile plaques present in the brains of Alzheimer's disease sufferers, an immense amount of research has gone into mapping out the molecular basis of this debilitating disease. The aim of Alzheimer's Disease: Methods and Protocols is to bring together the main biochemical, cell biological, and molecular biological techniques and approaches that are being used to investigate the molecular basis of Alzheimer's disease. This volume begins with chapters of an introductory/ review nature. Chapter 1 provides a historical introduction to Alzheimer's d- ease with particular emphasis on the central role played by A? and its re- tion to tau. Chapter 2 examines the genetics underlying this neurodegenerative disease, covering the amyloid precursor protein, apolipoprotein E, and the presenilins. Chapter 3 presents an overview of currently available therapeutic agents and prospects for drugs of the future.
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Instead of take-out, make an easy shrimp stir-fry for dinner using steamed brown rice, forzen shrimp, and frozen stir-fry vegetables.
In a small bowl, whisk together broth, orange juice, soy sauce, cornstarch and sugar; set aside.
Heat oil in wok or large nonstick skillet over medium-high heat. Add shrimp and stir-fry for 2 minutes. Add half of garlic and stir-fry, about 2 more minutes. Transfer to plate.
Add vegetables and cook, stirring, until heated through, about 3 minutes. Stir sauce again and add to pan, stirring until thickened, about 2 minutes. Return shrimp to pan and toss to coat. Serve with rice.
Very good, very easy and fast. I served with rice and Stire bought Yum yum sauce. Wonderful.
Wonderful meal, easy to prepare and delicious! I added some chicken and precooked the shrimp in a garlic butter sauce but otherwise followed everything exactly. Might try it with a little ginger instead of orange juice next time.
I made this for supper tonight and my family loved it. The sauce is not overwhelming and has the perfect flavor. My parents loved it and they're not stir-fry eaters. Give it a try!
I loved it! I did add a little ginger. I'll be making this quick and easy meal again.
Just made this for my family and they really liked it. I also added some minced fresh ginger and it was a hit!


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January 27, 2012 Chidem Kurdas
Barack Obama sounded a number of themes in his 2012 State of the Union Address this week, all underpinned by the proposition that socioeconomic ills can be solved by interventionist government in general and his administration in particular.
Indiana governor Mitch Daniels, giving the Republican rebuttal, effectively replied to the main claims. He pointed to the failure of the President's "grand experiment in trickle-down government." Programs spend borrowed money in attempts to boost the middle class. "In fact, it works the other way: a government as big and bossy as this one is maintained on the backs of the middle class," Mr. Daniels said.
Mr. Obama's points about regulation drew less attention. Acknowledging that "some rules are outdated, unnecessary, or too costly," the President said he approved fewer regulations than his Republican predecessor did in his first three years and ordered every federal agency to eliminate rules that don't make sense.
Truth, regulatory expansion in the age of Obama has been massive in healthcare and finance, with hugely expensive new requirements imposed on large numbers of individuals and businesses. But in broad terms he is right that regulatory expansion went on unabated under the second George Bush, indeed as it has under many US presidents since the 1930s.
From that perspective, the sprawling healthcare and Dodd-Frank financial regulation laws are additional links in the chain of government controls that bind American society ever tighter in almost every area. Certainly the trend is not new.
The issue Mr. Obama did not address is that much regulation is not just outdated, unnecessary, or too costly; it simply does not work. Case in point is the Financial Crimes Unit he proposes to create. Consider the mission of this new bureaucracy, in Mr. Obama's words: "to crack down on large-scale fraud and protect people's investments." As if there were no law and officialdom that does this until now.
Fraud has always been subject to criminal law. The Justice Department, the FBI, state and local police forces are responsible for apprehending perpetrators and handing them over to the courts for punishment. Besides criminal prosecution, since the early 20th century the US developed an elaborate body of law and regulation meant to prevent financial fraud. There came to be numerous civil bureaucracies to enforce the rules and investigate violations. These range from the Securities and Exchange Commission to the specialized overseer of Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, the government-backed mortgage finance giants.
Close regulatory oversight did not prevent accounting shenanigans at Fannie and Freddie, let alone stop them from playing the role of enabler to the housing bubble, subsequently in effect becoming insolvent. They remain dependent on Congressional handouts of taxpayer money.
Then there are the astounding failures of the Securities and Exchange Commission to intervene when alerted by whistleblowers to the giant Ponzi schemes of Bernard Madoff and Allen Stanford.
Mr. Obama wants to establish a new bureaucracy because the existing ones failed to do what they were supposed to do. Were the existing agencies private entities, they would have gone out of business and been replaced by better functioning firms (if warranted by market conditions). But since they're part of the government, they don't disappear. At most they change their names and get re-organized, as happened to the Fannie supervisor.
New ones are set up to compensate for the dysfunction of the old ones—a pattern public choice economics pioneer Gordon Tullock described in his book, The Politics of Bureaucracy. Adding an extra bureau is the stock response to regulatory failure. Hence Mr. Obama's proposed Financial Crimes Unit.
But this is futile. Tullock pointed out that after a few years new bureaucracies become like old bureaucracies in that they mainly look after themselves while pretending to carry out their supposed tasks. Nothing is achieved, while taxpayers and consumers pay for offices, salaries and other expenses. When failures show up, yet another bureaucracy is created.
Tullock called the resulting system of pullulating government organizations the emerging bureaucratic order. That was in 1965. It is no longer emerging, it is already here and Mr. Obama is adding to it.
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She holds a PhD in Economics from New School University.
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Mar 3, 2016 | Backlog 95, Historic Districts Council, IRT Powerhouse, Landmark West, Landmarks at Risk, Landmarks Preservation Commission, LPC, McKim Mead and White, Watch List, Wish List
Neighborhood Paper CHELSEA NOW has a new article on the LPC Backlog and it quotes our partners at the Historic Districts Council and our very own President, Kate Wood.
The bulk of the article addresses the potential for designating the IRT Powerhouse:
Preservationists across the city rejoiced at the decision to fast-track designation of the former Interborough Rapid Transit Powerhouse on 11th Ave., but also criticized the agency's inaction on a majority of the proposed properties.
"The powerhouse has been on our wish list for a number of years," said Kate Wood, the president of Landmark West! "It's obviously worthy of landmarks designation. It's a monument of the city," she added.
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I've been sort of tired this week. Not really sure why. Jet lag? It's been 8 or 9 days so it seems like I should be pretty over that by now.
Last night I had a quiet night in. After cooking dinner I was just sitting in the front room writing, listening to some nice music, and enjoying the sunset over the bay. And sometime during that, I fell asleep.
I had a bunch of dreams. All of them bizarre. And none of them made much sense. But in the dreams I caught distorted glimpses of my life. Wandering through a fantasy-like version of Salt Lake City. Visiting friends who were either much older or much younger than they have ever been during the course of my knowing them. Sitting in a musty bookstore in Moscow Russia while the sounds of a tropical typhoon raged on outside.
And then hundreds of passing faces, including those I've known long and well, those I've known briefly and shallowly, and those I've known briefly but deeply. I turned corners in a maze and saw these faces as I did. And I was so aware that which turns I made determined which faces I saw. But I didn't know what any of the turns meant so I just made my decisions at random.
I woke up from this, my life feeling more happenstance and chaotic than I can ever really remember it feeling. And suddenly I wasn't sure if I had been in control of my big life decisions or if my big life decisions had always had control over me.
Daniel was sitting at a table painting when I woke up and I could hear a tropical rain storm raging on outside. He's trying to make it big as an artist this week, which I'm being very supportive of.
When someone is dazed and confused and still partly asleep, everything seems like a bigger deal to that person. And, still laying on the couch with my eyes only half open, when I saw him sitting there surrounded by his art supplies, I blurted out exactly what I was thinking.
"It is very strange that you are in Palau with me."
Daniel gave me a look like he had never thought about that before and then shrugged his shoulders and said, "yeah. I guess it is." And he went back to painting.
It sometimes seems like Daniel and I have known one another for all our lives. And sometimes I forget that we didn't grow up as brothers, fighting over batman figurines, or whatever it is brothers fight over.
But we haven't known each other for very long. Not even 2 years, actually. Daniel and I became friends in October of 2011, just after we both moved to the same neighborhood in Salt Lake City. Neither of us really had any friends in the area. Both of us were desperate to make friends. And so we did. With each other. And then with many others that we have both missed dearly since leaving that wonderful city.
Our friendship developed quickly and almost immediately it seemed like I had known him all my life. Six or so months after we became friends, I contemplated my move to Palau. Daniel graduated from college at that time and was unsatisfied with his job. He was looking for any excuse to head off to somewhere in the world, especially somewhere tropical. I told him he was welcome to join me, that I hoped he would join me, and that since the court would pay for my apartment, he had a free place to stay for as long as he wanted.
The next thing I knew, we were both shoving all of our things into a storage unit, into Bob and Cathie's house, and into a number of other places, including 2 dozen boxes that we shipped to the other side of the world. And then, suddenly, we were in Palau, killing bugs the size of our heads, only one year after becoming friends.
Waking up on that couch to "art night" yesterday evening it was like I didn't realize Daniel was in Palau until that exact moment. And nothing ever seemed stranger to me than that did right then.
And I got to thinking about how quickly life can evolve at times if we just let it evolve. Or make it evolve, and keep our fear of change from blocking amazing experiences. I almost did let my fears block me from moving to Palau and having this experience one year ago. Because all along a loud voice inside of me screamed at me to stop.
Take that thing out of that box. Put it back on the shelf. Write to those people in Palau and tell them you changed your mind. Let Daniel know that you appreciate the support but that he would probably be better off not wandering into the unknown with someone who is still basically unknown.
But all along there was another voice, who fortunately is often more persuasive, telling me to take a deep breath.
Let go of the comfortable and embrace the strange and the change. Because every experience you've had in your adult life that made you stronger required you to choose to be uncomfortable.
I wandered off to bed after that and had another long series of dreams, this time, mostly about art night.
THIS is why I read your blog. The funny, too. But watching you (grow? share more?) say what so many of us think -- it's good, Eli.
I like this. We all are going through different stages of change and for me, it's nice to see that I'm not the only one. You rock Eli, and everything will work out perfectly for you!
I am pretty new to your blog. I went all the way to the beginning and read your first post to your last. I took me a little while because i do have a little bit of a life.
You are a great writer, and very funny. I thoroughly enjoy your funny posts. When I'm having a rough day, which seems pretty often these days, i come here and you put a smile on my face. So thank you for that.
But more than that, I love when you share with us about how your feeling and the hard times that you are going through. It helps me. It makes me think about my situation. And it gives me, not only hope, but strength that i can get through these things. So, thank you again.
It seems that you have a great support system, so I'm sure you will figure things out.
I will be a regular here now. You're more insightful than Dr. Phil.
So glad I'm not the only one who does that.
I was wondering if your serious side would show eventually. I like it too. Thanks for sharing yourself with us E.
How did you feel in your dream? Lost, scared? Curious? Calm? Sounded to me like you were calm.
Remember, "not all those who wander are lost."
I love this: "Let go of the comfortable and embrace the strange and the change. Because every experience you've had in your adult life that made you stronger required you to choose to be uncomfortable." Thanks, Eli.
I can't decide whether you should marry Jolyn or Daniel. It's a back and forth every time I read the blog.
I'm not sure whether to laugh really hard at this, or think you guys are extremely creepy, and turning this into the Hunger Games... Capitol people. Ugh.
I am with Anonymous, Jolyn and Daniel both seem so wonderful! I really love you're stories and you're friends, and stories with your friends.
That sounds awesome! I actually had an experience recently where I was doing something (awarding contestants at a local Special Olympics) exactly as a dream I had a couple years ago. Very strange. Anyway one of my best friends told me that was because I was doing the right thing. Living the dream I suppose. I hope this is universal and so applys to you too.
Your post helped me make a major life decision tonite.


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Happy French National Holiday!!!! The July 14th date that we in the United States call Bastille Day is actually more a joyous commemoration of the new French Republic that also honors the anniversary of the storming of the Bastille. The French host the largest military parade in Europe for this day, which takes place along the Champs Elysées in Paris. There are also Fireman's Balls--featuring dancing French firemen!—and fireworks above the tri-colored Eiffel Tower. Here at home there are large, organized July 14th celebrations in New Orleans and New York City, so why let just those cities have all the fun??! Host your own Francophile celebration of independence with a selection of sparkling rosé wines that are perfect for summer.
Rosé's have had minimal controlled contact with red grape skins, and depending on the type of grape they are made with, they exhibit varying degrees of fruit, or even meat, flavors. French grape offerings like Provence and Mourvèdre rosés are fruit-forward with floral notes, and are delightful when chilled and paired with just about any dish, from spicy grilled lamb to briny olive tapenades and juicy charred burgers. Even when not technically sparkling, rosé wines feature a crisp effervescence that make them an ideal beverage to sip while watching the sun set on a long summer night, then waiting for the fireworks to begin. Vive la France!


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Desh is a fortnight traditional literary base Bangla patrika which has been published by Anandabazar daily newspaper ABP Ltd. from Kolkata in West Bengal. The magazine publish two issues on the date of 2nd and 17th in every month. Now I want to share with all of my literary magazine readers an ebook pdf file of Desh on July 17, 2018 edition.
Cover stories- Interview with two of the most popular writers of Bengali literature in recent times, one is Smaranjit Chakrabarty and other is Prachet Gupta, Football, dream and third world. Three stories, serial novel- 'Jonakider Bari by Smaranjit Chakrabarty', Sudoku and many more topics.


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"Criticisms of Christianity Answered'" is an article from Dr. Gordon H. Clark's papers. Both the original scan and a transcribed document are here made available.
Notes: An article of Dr. Gordon H. Clark from the Quarryvillian, Vol. 1, No. 2, February 24, 1946.
Before this recent war liberal theologians and irreligious psychologists often attempted to debunk Christianity and to belittle orthodoxy by arguing that orthodox Christians were conditioned in childhood in favor of such ideas; and if those so conditioned would only grow up and become broadminded, they would put away their childish notions.
This psychological argument against Scriptural religion is nothing other than an attempt to browbeat Christian people. We who learned of Christ at our mother's knee are supposed to admit the fact and be ashamed of it.
There is a very pertinent reply to this type of psychological argument. It should be noted that those who attack Christianity were also conditioned in their childhood. They were conditioned against God and His Word. In their homes there was no family worship. More often than not they read the Sunday paper instead of going to church. God and the Bible were ignored, if not explicity attacked; and the whole course of their parents' conduct taught them that religion is useless and somewhat foolish. Now grown to maturity these people complain that orthodox Christians have been conditioned in childhood, and they browbeat us and deceive themselves in forgetting that they too have been equally conditioned, though in an opposite direction. Let us no longer accept such sophistry as a refutation of our beliefs or as an explanation of them.
Now later with the coming of World War II another attack was made and continues to be made against orthodox Christianity. During the recent months it has permeated the popular magazines. The atack gains plausibility and a sympathetic hearing by first calling attention to Hitler's attempt to exterminate the Jews. From this easily understood atrocity, the argument demands civil and social equality for all creeds and races. The argument then suggests that all creeds like all races are of equal worth and are equally true, or equally meaningless. It implies that civil and social equality depends on the removal of definite religious beliefs. The orthodox churches are disparaged by calling them sects. Note how frequently the popular magazines speak about sects instead of denominations. The cry of sectarianism is the smear technique. And the impression is produced that anyone who believes his religion is better than another's is a dangerous person. The public is given to understand that those who will not admit that Judaism is satisfactory are therefore anti-semitic and want to murder the Jews. And also any Protestant that has any doubts as to the politics of Romanism is pictured as a menace to America. A religion of definite beliefs, particularly Scriptural Christianity, is called bigotry, and to attack bigotry is a social virtue. The attack on the Bible is thus made a social virtue, but the believer's attempt to preach the blood of Christ is fascist and deserves the concentration camp.
But is it true, is it even reasonable to suppose that a man must be anti-semitic if he disagrees with the religion of the Jews? If a Christian wants to convert a Jew, if a Christian wants to persuade a Jew – or anyone else – does it follow that he wants to murder him? The argument is utterly absurd; and had it not ben for Hitler's abominable persecutions, few would have been deceived by it. But the sympathy which Hitler's victims so greatly deserve has led a none too religious populace to the conclusion that all definite religious ideas are evil. Religious differences violate social equality, they argue; and those who originated this argument hope that a godless government will suppress all religious differences. But the Bible-believing Christian must give forth his witness still, for the issues at stake are those of life and death.


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Evapotranspiration with Plantains and the Effect of Frequency of Irrigation on Yields
Héber Irizarry
Abruña, F., Vicente-Chandler, J., Irizarry, H., & Silva, S. (1980). Evapotranspiration with Plantains and the Effect of Frequency of Irrigation on Yields. The Journal of Agriculture of the University of Puerto Rico, 64(2), 204-210. https://doi.org/10.46429/jaupr.v64i2.10234
Evapotranspiration by plantains growing on a heavy Mabi soil (Vertic Eutropepts) averaged 2.9, 2.5 and 2.4 mm daily. Yields were 15,695, 22,215, and 24,225 kg/ha when irrigation was applied whenever available soil moisture was depleted by 20, 40 and 60%, respectively. Overall evapotranspiration for all treatments averaged 68.9% of open pan evaporation. Evapotranspiration in the most frequently irrigated plots averaged 80% and 61% of open pan evaporation during the period of rapid vegetative growth and during the period from flowering to harvest, respectively.
Héber Irizarry, Ricardo Goenaga, Ulises Chardón, Nutrient uptake and dry matter yield in the 'Gunung' yam (Dioscorea alata) grown on an Ultisol without vine support , The Journal of Agriculture of the University of Puerto Rico: Vol. 79 No. 3-4 (1995): Vol. 79, No. 3-4, July-October 1995
Héber Irizarry, Ricardo Goenaga, Ulises Chardón, Nitrogen fertilization in banana grown on a highly weathered soil of the humid mountain region of Puerto Rico. , The Journal of Agriculture of the University of Puerto Rico: Vol. 86 No. 1-2 (2002): Vol. 86, No. 1-2, January-April 2002
Ricardo Goenaga, Héber Irizarry, Yield performance of two French-type plantain clones subjected to bunch pruning , The Journal of Agriculture of the University of Puerto Rico: Vol. 90 No. 3-4 (2006): Vol. 90, No. 3-4, July - October 2006
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A (Black Panther) Story
Probably the most fun teaching writing I've ever had is with the Insight Program at the University of Chicago's Graham School. The students are brilliant high schoolers who come from all over to Hyde Park for three intense weeks. I think about them all year long because, no matter what else I'm doing, they set a particularly high mark. In fact, I frequently try stuff on them I later use on college kids – they're that talented and that great.
This summer, my Insight kids were their usual brainy selves, but also just a talkative, active, head-spinning bunch overflowing with talent. We did our usual stuff about point of view, conflict and characterization but this time we did something a little different.
Because the University of Chicago is neighbors with the DuSable Museum of African American History (740 E. 56th Place), we got to see an exhibit called "The Black Panthers: Making Sense of History," which marked the 40th anniversary of the founding of the Party, and we used it as a jumping off point – a prompt, if you will – to write stories.
The exhibit, which runs through this Friday, has more than 50 historic photos, news footage, interviews and other artifacts. My Insight kids were asked to get outside their young 21st century selves and dig deep to tell tales from the point of view of someone living through the 1960s and in close proximity to the Panthers. What they wrote was fiction but had to be based on research prompted by the DuSable exhibit.
The truth is, I got nine fantastic stories. But I promised I'd publish at least one. And so that's what I'm going to do. It's written by Jenny Davis, a 15 year-old New Yorker. I promise, she's going to knock you out.
By Jenny Davis
July 4th, 1939, Birmingham, Alabama
I was not a beautiful child. Sturdy and robust, I longed to be tall and thin with legs that extended for miles. My grandmother had passed on to me her straw-colored hair that, much to my avail, refused to curl under any circumstances; I slept with magazines under my pillow for years before I realized that a cutout of Vivien Leigh would not bestow upon me tumbling black locks and creamy skin. From my father I inherited teeth that protruded out of my mouth, making me resemble a bunny, and from my mother vision that required thick, cumbersome lenses to correct.
During cool summer nights I slept under the Alabama stars in the backyard of my parents' suburban home, negotiating with God. The deals we made included exchanging my new bicycle for curly chestnut hair, my dolls for catlike green eyes, even our wood-paneled library for snow-colored skin and a small, perky nose like Vivien's. Obviously I had just seen Gone with the Wind. My friends and I had spent recess under the oaks behind our elementary school absorbing Margaret Mitchell's masterpiece for weeks in preparation for the long-anticipated movie. The four of us had sat open-mouthed in the dark, marveling at Scarlett's Georgian mansion, Tara. I closed my eyes during those nights and imagined myself dancing with Rhett Butler at an Atlanta masquerade, my dress, hand-sewn from the curtains that hung in my living room, rustling on the polished floor.
I stared down at my hot dog during our annual Fourth of July picnic at my grandmother's house, contemplating whether one more bite would make me look like a tomato in my bathing suit. My mother, especially thin in a white cocktail dress, chattered with a cigarette perched between her fingers and a martini glass swishing in her left hand. Like me, she required glasses to see clearly; she refused to wear hers, though, causing her to squint at people as if they were mere specs on the horizon.
Suddenly I heard a shriek from the pigpen my grandmother kept in the backyard. Grandma darted in between astonished red, white, and blue-clad guests, arms outstretched to capture an enormous pig, waddling his way across the yard. His thick pink skin swayed gently as he ran, shiny black hooves crushing the grass below as he snorted along, the taste of freedom casting a small smile on his rubbery lips. My grandmother was an animal lover and did not kill her myriad of farm friends; no, she kept them as pets.
My parents called my father's mother "eccentric" when they were feeling polite and "unfit to live on her own" when they were annoyed by the neighbors' complaints of her round-the-clock banjo strumming. Although she had married a wealthy older man, she insisted on reliving her rural Alabama childhood in her old age. A pond, covered in lily pads, was her favored swimming spot, which she called her swimming hole.
I abandoned my hotdog and stood unsteadily. Capturing the pig was my forte. Huge cottony clouds stretched across the enormous sky, as thin and dispersed as a spider's web. The expansive back side of the mansion loomed over the slightly shaded yard, almost swaying in the whispering breeze. I tore a piece of bread off the bun of my hot dog and slowly approached the pig, who stared at me with small, black beady eyes that challenged every move I made. As I leapt left, he dodged right. Dangling my bread in front of his tongue, which wagged out of the corner of his mouth, I led him to the pond, tantalizing him as only I knew how. His eyes bulged with excitement at the prospect of getting both a swim and bread in one day.
"Come on, Piggie," I cooed, making kissing sounds. I caught my grandmother's face behind the pig, her jowly cheeks nodding up and down in encouragement.
The pig leapt for the bread, his talon-like hooves sinking into my arms as he pushed us both backwards. We landed with a huge splash in the pond, sending a few frogs flying in the air, ribbeting furiously. The water was warm from the sun and smelled like death. I felt it, squishy with algae and microorganisms, sink into my clothes and seep into my ears, nose, mouth and eyes. I swallowed, the thick water creeping down my esophagus and waging war with the acid in my stomach. Head still submerged I flailed my arms uselessly, feet kicking slowly as I began to sink. I was too frightened to even register terror. I couldn't swim, and had refused to learn to even float on my back. The ache of oxygen deprivation shot through my chest and dragged me downwards, nails and fingers frantically searching the surface for my rescuer. I dragged down lily pads instead, crumpling the delicate leaves in my fists. The depths of the ten-foot pond were probably not shark-infested but I panicked, thrashing and gulping in desperation.
Suddenly a pair of hands was around my waist, strong hands that pulled me out so fast I thought God was taking me up to heaven. I quickly reviewed my life, starting with birth. I had been a colicky baby, skinny and allergic to everything but air and water. I mentally passed through my toddler years, all the blocks I had cracked on my sister's head, all the times I had shot marbles under the radiator and forgotten to remove them until Grandma slipped on one and broke her hip. At nine years old I believed myself to be innocent. Surely there was a spot in heaven, a golden chair inscribed with "Minna Lou Levy," just waiting for me. I closed my eyes and breathed in the fresh air, aware of my guardian angel's skillful hands removing a piece of scraggly plant from my cheek.
Hands pushed on my stomach, hard, and I felt a sudden rush as its contents emptied, leaving me deflated, panting on the grass. Groggily opening one stinging eye, I could see that my guardian angel was not, in fact, in a white gown with soft yellow curls, but Gus, the teenaged son of my grandmother's maid, Beryl. At thirteen Gus already had thick dark eyebrows and a sturdy nose that seemed molded from clay. The thirty guests at the party breathed a collective sigh of relief. My sister, Sophie, age seven, snickered. Of course she looked adorable in the American flag dress Beryl had sewn especially for this occasion.
"Minnie?" Gus asked. And it was only then that I was aware that his hand was still under my back, supporting me.
February 28th, 1967, West Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
This morning Willa left for school with dark brown hair and came back a blonde. I didn't recognize my own teenager as she sauntered through the door, dropped her book bag , and started for her room. I honestly thought an intruder had entered the house and was reaching for the extension when my daughter turned to face me.
"What?" she asked, annoyed.
Beryl, who had been husking corn with me at the counter, shot over a look that made my stomach gurgle. Having taken to wearing traditional African apparel in support of Gus's newfound passion, Beryl wrapped her head in a colorful Ashanti headscarf that exposed her huge dark eyes and enormous cheeks. She stared at Willa, her granddaughter, shook her head, and turned back to the corn.
I wiped my hands on my apron and approached my oldest daughter, almost afraid to touch her hair. I could feel the cold breeze from the open door enter the house and creep up the short sleeves of my blue dress.
"Honey, what did you do to your hair?" I peered intently into Willa's face. Her cheeks, the color of pecans, were dotted with faint freckles that skipped over her perky nose. The exact nose I had wished for relentlessly as a child, and later grew into during high school. Suddenly I thought of my childhood, of bargaining with God.
"I bleached it. Can I go now?" Willa shifted positions, her stocking feet barely making noise on the floor. She weighed too little for a thirteen year-old, with legs as thin as a flamingo's and skinny arms hanging off her body as if they were attached by springs. A black skirt and stockings, short-sleeved white shirt, and black beret were required at her junior high school, but like all of the eighth graders she had shirked the beret after fifth period. I noticed her skirt was rolled higher than I would have liked, but I reminded myself that we had bigger fish to fry.
"I know, Willa. Why did you bleach it?"
She flipped a stiff chunk of blonde hair over her shoulder as if my questions were as unending as ones asked in an FBI investigation. "I wanted to be blonde. Why shouldn't I be allowed to be blonde?"
"Sweetie…." I attempted to take her arm, to lead her over to the sofa where we could talk about her feelings. Obviously the poor child was, as all the parenting books and child psychologists had predicted, going through an identity crisis. Before I could touch her a small wail echoed from the nursery down the hall. Willa took the opportunity to escape, swishing up the stairs heavily as the baby's cries grew louder and louder.
I heard Beryl let out a soft "Hmm" before the sound of her tough hands smoothing the yellow silk off the corn resumed. The golden threads, shiny and thin, gathered in a pile near her left elbow.
I wanted to go to sleep on the sofa and never wake up. I had given birth to my third child, a boy, Willie, exactly four weeks ago. After my maternity leave was up, I would leave the baby in Beryl's experienced hands and return to my job at Walnut Hill elementary school. Right now a roomful of rowdy fourth graders seemed easier to handle than my own children.
I felt guilty for letting Willie cry for so long—what if he was choking or suffocating or worse? I reached the nursery and scooped the wailing infant into my arms. Immediately he quieted, emitting a small, contented sigh before resuming his slumber. His soft cheek nuzzled my bare arm and his tiny mouth moved in precious circles, as if he was dreaming about sucking on a bottle. I kissed the baby's silky forehead before laying him down in the crib and slinking out of the room.
When I returned to the kitchen, Wanda, my middle child, in fifth grade at Walnut Hill, was sitting at the counter talking animatedly to Beryl, who looked like she wanted to give her granddaughter's lips a few good swipes with the cheesegrater. Wanda's black beret was perched perfectly on her small head, and I noticed a sheet of homework was spread out beside the unhusked bag of corn. Wanda wanted to be a teacher like me, and she studied diligently. Willa had her heart set on becoming an actress, but although she certainly possessed a dramatic flair, after watching her perform in her school's A Midsummer Night's Dream, I had to admit that odds were not in her favor. My daughter recited Helena's lines like her pants were on fire.
Guilty thoughts. I sucked in my cheeks to erase my smile and smoothed the skirt of my dress before checking the clock. Gus should have arrived twenty minutes ago, but what with the traffic no one could predict these things. I stepped into the bathroom and stared at my face in the mirror. High school had been good to me, turning my hair from straw to gold and allowing my face to grow into my nose and teeth. The ends of my shoulder-length hair still curled upwards but that was the fashion now. Pregnancy had given me a glow that colored my cheeks even in the dead of winter. I dabbed some makeup under my eyes to hide the clownish purple circles and fixed a bright smile on my face. Time to deal with Willa.
I knocked hesitantly on my daughter's door, aware of my shaking hand. It felt ridiculous to be scared of my own children, as if I was disturbing a sleeping lion instead of a teenager. Willa flung the door open to reveal a week's worth of laundry strewn over the floor and a record loudly playing the Jackson 5. Wanda's bed was made up and her schoolbooks were stacked on her desk. A single pair of black stockings dangled over a post on Willa's? bed, a backup should she tear the ones she currently wore.
"Yes?" Willa leaned into the hallway, pressed to the door, creating a barrier in between her bedroom and me.
"Shall we talk?" I gestured stupidly into the room.
"Fine." She scuffled across the floor and turned the record player down slightly. It was a start.
"Homework done?" I asked hopefully. Wrong question.
"God, Mom, I'll do it, okay?" She began to pick at her thumb angrily.
We stared at each other in silence. My daughter was suddenly a foreigner, an exchange student who I couldn't reach through the language barrier. The thought terrified me and I pushed it out of my head.
"Willa?"
"Why did you bleach your hair?"
"God, I already told you."
I waited in silence. It was a tip I learned for disciplining children. The longer you stayed quiet, the more they talked. And just as it had cracked countless hallway runners and gum chewers, it cracked my daughter.
Willa began to speak. "I wanted to be blonde. You always say that because I'm both I get to be whoever I want to be. And I choose this hair."
It was hard to argue with her logic. But how did one tell her daughter she looked like a long skinny stick with an exotic yellow caterpillar perched atop it?
"Biracial means I'm two races. White and Black. And I choose White."
I wanted to put my arm around her shoulders in a show of solidarity. How could I tell her that I understood how she felt? All those ethnicity cards she had to fill out for school. Black, she always chose, because her father thought it was important, but I imagined the poor thing trying to decide. She wanted things to be easy. She wanted a choice, a line that divided, a line that separated and distanced. She wanted to stand on one side of that line and belong to a group, white or black, that lived and breathed together.
I wanted to tell her what it was like to become a parent for the first time, to know that a part of me and Gus had created a cell that was both tiny and enormous. I wanted to tell her that when she was inside of me, I changed because she had lived in me, needed my blood to survive. Only nobody could see that I too was biracial. My children were the most beautiful part of my life. In being neither my husband nor me—nothing—they managed to become absolutely everything. Sometimes they were the only things that allowed our family to stand on the middle of the line that separated white from black. Only this line was a tightrope on which our feet trembled and swayed, forcing us to grab each other to keep from falling. On either side of the rope, underneath the long stretch of wire, battles were fought and wars were waged, but as long as we could keep our balance we were completely sheltered walking in the sky, our feet miles above the chaos.
That night I dreamed I was standing at the 30th street station in Philadelphia, along the yellow barrier that protected me and my children from the approaching train. As if fugitives from a foreign country, we all wielded suitcases and dressed in thick Ellis Island-style tweed coats and colored headscarves like the ones I'd found in Beryl's laundry. Suddenly a black panther approached us, stalking up to us, shoulder blades shifting and yellow eyes glowing. His padded claws clutched the concrete ground as if used to a fertile jungle floor. He was so close I could hear his slow raspy breaths as he approached Willie, in my arms. I saw the wiry whiskers tickle my baby's squashy cheeks and the wet black nose press itself against my child's. Wanda handed me a crowbar stealthily. I had no idea where it came from. It was time for me to protect my family. I shut my eyes and brought down the bar, heart jumping and blood running to my face. Just before the crowbar made impact I jolted awake and shot up in bed, my heart beating out the Black Panther revolution song.
Gus let out a heavy sigh and rolled over in his sleep. He'd come in late last night, after we'd finished dinner, and I served him silently in the living room, pretending not to notice his crooked glasses and slightly cut lip. A lawyer, Gus had recently taken time off work to devote himself to the cause. Beryl approved wholeheartedly, of course.
I reached for my husband's arm and ran my hands over it as if to warm myself although I could hear the radiator cranking out heat. I explored the dark contours of his bicep, the tough elbow that had been pressed into desks and slammed on tables. His hands were strong, too, with thick fingernails cut straight across the tops. I remembered the strong arms that had held me as a child, pushed down on my chest to release the poison that had threatened to drag me down into the dark unknown. They could protect me from a greedy pig lunging for food, but it had become my job to defend my children against the ferocious panther of my dreams. Now his arm looked stronger, more impressive, less inherently and unconditionally good. I was suddenly terrified that the arm, lying limply but powerfully across me, would begin to take me down with it.
I watched his chest rise and fall in the near-darkness before slipping out of bed and creeping through the silent house until I reached the nursery. Willie was limp as I lifted him gently and sat us down on the rocking chair. I marveled over his fingernails, barely big enough to grab at, much less hold onto, anything. Scooping up the baby I carried him quietly upstairs and pushed open Wanda and Willa's door. Both of my daughters slept silently, their heads peeking out from behind masses of comforter. Willie dreaming of pacifiers in my arms, I stood watching my children. The four of us would teeter along the tightrope until the wire gave way to flat earth and all around us was sky.
Jenny Davis is a rising sophomore at the Chapin School in Manhattan. She is passionate about writing, baking, and animal rights and is very interested in the 1960s-1970s African-American movement.


YORK'S bid for Government cash to reopen Haxby Railway Station is competing against 13 other applications from across the country.
The Department for Transport (DfT) said a cross-industry panel was assessing the 14 bids for funding from a £20 million pot, with an announcement expected later this month.
Transport Secretary Patrick McLoughlin said the interest in the stations fund showed the Government was right to introduce it.
"There have already been calls for the scheme to go further and we will certainly be looking at how we can develop it in the future," he said.
A station has been proposed at Haxby for many years, and the last initiative to reopen it foundered as recently as 2010, when funding was withdrawn.
But with increased rail usage nationwide and a heavily congested road network, City of York Council made a bid for a share of the funding last month.
The proposed station would cost between £5.3 million and £7.4 million, with the council meeting about 25 per cent of the bill.
A DfT spokesman said the fund was being targeted at "shovel ready" projects which could be delivered quickly to provide long-term benefits to passengers and the economy.
He said bids included a parkway station near Worcester, and stations at Kenilworth in Warwickshire, Ilkeston in Derbyshire, Low Moor in Bradford and Warrington West.
It is estimated that a new station at Haxby would provide better rail links for more than 22,000 people within a three-mile radius.


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NTEA reports on Work Truck Show 2016
Truck premieres, exclusive ride-and-drive opportunities, and unmatched training drew a record-setting 11,905 industry professionals to The Work Truck Show 2016, North America's largest work truck event.
This breaks the event's previous attendance record of 11,005, set in 2015. Attendees came from all 50 states, eight Canadian provinces and 19 countries.
The Work Truck Show 2016 was held March 1 to 4 at the Indiana Convention Center in Indianapolis, Indiana. It is produced annually by NTEA, The Association for the Work Truck Industry.
"It was a great week," says Steve Carey, NTEA executive director. "The Work Truck Show is the one event where everyone involved with vocational vehicles in North America comes together to share ideas, see what's new and find opportunities for their business operations."
Isuzu Commercial Truck of America Inc. used the Show to unveil its 2018 FTR Class 6 medium-duty truck to a huge crowd. Mitsubishi Fuso Truck of America Inc. debuted its prototype Fuso E-Cell all-electric truck and gave attendees the first opportunity to drive it in North America as part of The Work Truck Show Ride-and-Drive March 2 to 3.
Other truck OEMs making news at the Show included Ford Commercial Vehicles, International Truck, Kenworth Truck Company, Mack Trucks and Ram Commercial.
There were significant powertrain announcements made as well. Cummins Inc. introduced its 2017 B6.7 and L9 medium-duty engines, and Daimler Trucks North America gave the public its first glimpse of the new Detroit DD5 medium-duty engine.
During his keynote address at the Green Truck Summit general sessions on March 1, Reuben Sarkar, deputy assistant secretary for transportation at the U.S. Department of Energy, announced SuperTruck II, an $80 million funding opportunity for research, development and demonstration of long-haul trailer truck technology. He also announced more than $12 million in selections for three new projects focused on plug-in electric powertrain technologies for medium- and heavy-duty vehicles. In other "green" news, Work Truck Show exhibitors highlighted significant propane fleet adoptions and even converted a pickup truck to run on propane right on the Show floor.
The Work Truck Show 2016 was the largest event in NTEA history. Over the last five years, NTEA expanded the exhibit floor by more than 40 percent, but still had a sizable waiting list of potential exhibitors. In response to this demand, NTEA has maxed out all available room at the Indiana Convention Center for The Work Truck Show 2017 and exhibit space has already sold out.
The Work Truck Show 2017 runs March 14–17, 2017. Registration opens in October 2016 at worktruckshow.com.
Source: http://www.hardworkingtrucks.com/ntea-reports-on-work-truck-show-2016/
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Christopher Swordy has an Honours Degree in Quantity Surveying, which has been put to good use managing the commercial departments of a number of private residential developers over the last 20+ years. These have ranged from the luxury product developers, of Banner Homes and St James (part of the Berkeley Group), to the larger, volume style developers of Linden Homes and Prime Place (part of the Willmott Dixon Group).
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In 1968, Peter Deneen took his first pottery class at Luther College and learned how to throw pots. Now, 47 years later, we are on pace to produce over 400,000 custom handmade pottery mugs – WOW. How we got here has much to do with Professor Dean Swartz arranging a workshop at Luther College, in Iowa, by world famous potter Marguerite Wildenhain.
In this post I'll be taking excerpts from An Eye Witness Anthology: Marguerite Wildenhain and the Bauhaus.
Peter recalls, "It was during that workshop that Marguerite had a cancellation for her summer class at Pond Farm, in Northern California. She asked if there were any students that would like to come. I was doing well with my throwing and enjoyed working with clay, so I asked to be considered. Another former student, Dennis Christian, who had taken a week off from his teaching job to attend Marguerite's workshop, also wanted to fill the opening. Marguerite decided that she could find space for both of us to attend.
I flew from St. Paul to San Francisco and took a bus to Santa Rosa, which was as close as I could get to Guerneville. My plan was to hitchhike the last few miles from Santa Rosa to Guerneville and then somehow find my way to Pond Farm. Hitchhiking was not my forte as I stood and walked on the side of the road for hours, not getting one ride. After dark, I went into a local pub on the road for some food, drink, and to look for a kind person who might give me a ride to Pond Farm. After several hours of mingling with the locals, I finally met that stranger who know where it was and offered to give me a ride all the way there. Because I didn't want to be late for class in the morning, I asked him to drop me off at Marguerite's gate. I crossed the road and wandered off in the field, rolled out my sleeping bag and fell asleep.
In the morning, I waited until a few other students arrived, not wanting to be the first, and then rolled up my bag and joined the others. As we gathered around the tree to start class, one of Marguerite's first questions was, "Who slept in the field last night?" I was sure I had been quiet and I was amazed that she knew I was there.
We are not sure who it was that told him he could be a business owner, employer, grandfather or dad – but he does it all with grace and ease. As today is Peter's 67th birthday, we are all enamored with his creative spirit, eye for quality and detail, and above of all – his generosity.


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Q: Azure Service Bus Retry Options Not Working (v5.2.0) I'm using version 5.2.0 of the Microsoft.Azure.WebJobs.Extensions.ServiceBus package in my Azure Function. According to the docs here the new version supports automatic retry on failed operations. This is my host.json:
{
  "version": "2.0",
  "extensions": {
    "serviceBus": {
      "clientRetryOptions": {
        "mode": "Exponential",
        "tryTimeout": "00:02:00",
        "delay": "00:00:02.00",
        "maxDelay": "00:30:00",
        "maxRetries": 10
      }
    }
  }
}

Which - apart from the time values - is exactly the same as in the docs. In my Function that is triggered by a ServiceBusTrigger I throw an exception under certain circumstances. I want the message to be delayed, as is described in the documentation. But it is put back at the head of the queue and retried immediately, with no delay. I've spent 2 working days on this, and the mish-mash of versions, incorrect documentation, and examples I've found online, I've tried all manner of permutations, but I just cannot get this to work.
I just can't see the wood for the trees, any longer. Can anyone see what I'm doing wrong?

A: Seems this question was asked and answered here. Seems that retry only applies to certain errors, namely transient, that it deems is retriable.

A: The options that you're configuring govern the implicit retry behavior of the Service Bus clients used by the Function bindings. When reading or publishing a message fails due to an error that is deemed transient, these settings are applied to client retries.  This flow is invisible to your Function, other than being observable by read/publish taking longer to complete than normal.
Exceptions in your Function code are not governed by these settings.  These types of exceptions are governed by the Functions error handling and retries configuration.

A: Like already mentioned in the other answers, these retry options only apply to internal (transient) exceptions. What you need can be achieved by the new retry policies (preview):
[FunctionName("EventHubTrigger")]
[ExponentialBackoffRetry(5, "00:00:04", "00:15:00")]
public static async Task Run([EventHubTrigger("myHub", Connection = "EventHubConnection")] EventData[] events, ILogger log)
{
// ...
}

Alternatively, specifically for ServiceBus you can achieve a similar behavior by disabling auto-complete and leveraging the lock duration property on the queue. The number of retries can be controlled by using the max delivery count.
Edit: For ServiceBus, these retries are going to be removed soon.

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F ranklin Sirmans and I are both Upper Eastside dads transplanted from major, culturally rich cities. Our first-graders attend school and play soccer together. And we both want our kids immersed in the warm waters of Miami's creative community. I'm a working artist. Sirmans is the new director of the Pérez Art Museum Miami (PAMM).
A successful museum creates spaces where hearts and imaginations catch fire, and the handsome, soft-spoken Sirmans is laser-focused on just that.
Sirmans rightly sees part of PAMM's mission is to be a desperately needed "bridge" our children require in light of the decimation of art programs in the public schools.
I intend to make PAMM an integral part of my family life, where I regularly meditate or bring my kids for a few hours to get lost in whatever exhibition and educational program is current. A place where they're encouraged to interact and indulge their creative whims.
Clearly, with kids in a museum, there must be respect for the environment. They can't be running wild. But at the same time, how do we make them feel at home?
Watch for a new Sirmans-driven program where eight to ten artists populate and ring the museum with different stations, where they'll make art in various media while visitors engage.
As the museum-goers engage in different forms of creating, they'll enter into "some sort of conversation around what it means to make something," says Sirmans. That notion of "what it means to make something" represents the type of wisdom I dream of passing along to my kids.
As someone who spends the workweek in a studio, I love when my kids visit. I seek to erase the sanctity of art-making and replace it with an everyday normalcy, where they can draw on the walls and chase their imaginative impulses. Any of you reading this are invited to join me with your kids to see how a professional artist functions day to day. Contact me at the e-mail below to schedule a visit.
Now that we have a world-class museum, begin to weave it into your family's daily life. At the front desk, PAMM offers the Daily Family Pack, with puzzles, a scavenger hunt, and other playful games that help kids connect to the collection.
Every Thursday "Made at PAMM" features tables for kids to draw and collage in relation to the current show. Every second Saturday is free, with an arts and crafts show from 1:00 p.m. to 4:00 p.m., inspired by the current exhibit. There is monthly story time for kids as well. The PAMM Teen Arts Council welcomes your interested teenagers, with docent and other programs available. Learn more about all these programs at pamm.org/learn/families.
Art delivers its messages without the burden of language or social interaction. Kids get that. And the PAMM team works hard to make the museum available to all children, regardless of economic status.
Let's all bring our children to our stunning neighborhood museum. Add a picnic in Museum Park. A perfect start is the Basquiat show opening August 11. For details call 305-375-3000 or visit pamm.org.