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2012: A Year of Revolt and Social Change in Francophone Countries: Part 1 of 2

Written by Rakotomalala · Translated by Jane Ellis On 11 January 2013 @ 22:00 pm | 2 Comments

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2012 is over, and for Francophone countries a more serene 2013 would be more than welcome.

The year 2012 was marked by armed conflicts in Mali [1], in the Democratic Republic of Congo [2] (DRC) and in the Central African Republic [3] (CAR). There were elections in Senegal [4], as well as in Quebec [5] and France [6]. Demonstrations for change took place in Chad [7] as well as Madagascar [8] and Togo [9]. Debate raged on topics such as immigration [10], the economic crisis [11] and equal marriage rights [12]. All this took place against a backdrop of major changes in the ways of sharing information.

In the first part of our 2012 review, we recap what was an eventful year in Francophone countries with the help of Global Voices contributors:

The future of Mali  (by Marc-André Boisvert [13]

A long chain of events completely devastated the country in 2012 as a Tuareg rebellion [14] was followed by a military coup [15] and the fall of North Mali, which was subsequently captured by Islamist groups [16]. There have been endless political military shake-ups: during this one year, Mali's well-polished international image as a model of democracy and development has been completely shattered, leaving the country destabilised, broken and neglected.

Mali begins Touareg dialogue. Image by Flickr user Magharebia (CC BY 2.0). [17]

Mali begins Touareg dialogue. Image by Flickr user Magharebia (CC BY 2.0)

A year ago in Mali tweets, facebook posts and blogs were mainly personal. At the start of 2012 the only political content was from candidates honing their campaign strategies for the presidential elections (subsequently cancelled) expected to take place that April.

During 2012 Malians took over social networks. More effective than the mainstream media, internet users shared images of amputations committed by Islamists under the hashtag #Mali [18] and exchanged views on the new powers, notably on messaging list Malilink.

The Northern Citizens Collective [19] (COREN) and the Cri de Cœur [20] collective mobilised Malians and their allies to send humanitarian aid to occupied regions. Social networks were no longer simply a tool for sharing people's impotence faced with the atrocities occurring, rather, they were used to organise people [21], to rise up and refuse to accept the situation.

The people of Mali weren't just waiting around for outside intervention – the internet is proof of that.

Passing crisis of transformation of society?

The economic crisis was the central theme of the 2012 French election. After nearly four years of the crisis the question was, rather that it being a temporary crisis, were we witnessing a structural transformation of society and the way it functions?

Innovative ideas emerged on the possible ways society could evolve with regard to the current economic context. Stanislas Jourdan enlightened us with ideas exchanged on various approaches which could transform the existing paradigms. The direct democracy team initiative for a guaranteed basic income in Switzerland [11] was part of this:

L'initiative populaire « pour un revenu de base inconditionnel » propose d'inscrire dans la constitution fédérale « l'instauration d'une allocation universelle versée sans conditions » devant «permettre à l'ensemble de la population de mener une existence digne et de participer à la vie publique ». La loi réglerait le financement et fixerait le montant de cette allocation. Le revenu de base est inconditionnel : il n'est subordonné à aucune contre-prestation. [..] Comment le financer? Par l'impôt direct sur le revenu et la fortune, par l'impôt indirect sur la consommation (la TVA), par un impôt sur les transactions financières, et surtout par le transfert des ressources consacrées au financement de l'AVS, de l'AI, de l'aide sociale et des autres revenus de substitution inférieurs au montant du revenu de base.

The grassroots initiative “for an unconditional basic income” proposes that “the establishment of an unconditional universal benefit” be written into the federal constitution which would “allow the entire population to lead a dignified existence and participate in public life”. The law will address financing and set the amount of the benefit.[…] The basic income does not come with any conditions attached: it is not subject to any means testing. […] How will it be financed? Through direct taxation of income and wealth, indirect taxation on consumption (VAT), taxing financial transactions, and most especially through the reallocation of resources currently allotted to financing state pensions and unemployment payouts, social security and other welfare payments lower than the amount of the basic income.

Human reasons to work by freeworldcharter.org via active rain used with permission

The Occupy Movement [23] was started in North America, and among other aims, worked to remove debt from families and students by crowdfunding, similar to the way that governments aided the banks during the subprime mortgage crisis [24]:

[It] would create fiat money in the same way as with Quantitative Easing, but would direct that money to the bank accounts of the public with the requirement that the first use of this money would be to reduce debt. Debtors whose debt exceeded their injection would have their debt reduced but not eliminated, while at the other extreme, recipients with no debt would receive a cash injection…

Rebels without a cause?

Whether the M23 rebels in the DRC, the Seleka Coalition [25] in the Central African Republic or Islamist groups in Mali, groups rarely claim a clear political ideology or uniformity of operation between their various factions. These armed groups have strongly expanded their spheres of influence in 2012, establishing a definite lever for negotiations in the stabilisation process in their respective regions. As noted by Julie Owono, the timing of the progression of attacks [3] in the CAR suggests that financial stakes have changed the deal regarding short-term objectives of the Seleka rebels. In the DRC, Anna Gueye detailed the complex historical context [2] of the M23 rebellion and its recent evolution [26]. The financial stakes in the Kivu and Katanga regions are extremely high. The tragic new feature in 2012 was the expansion of the conflict [27] and the humanitarian disaster to areas with high potential for intensification of the violence. The remarkable initiatives of the civilian population did much to protect the health [28] and the social cohesion of populations weakened by these conflicts.

The second part of this 2012 review of Francophone countries will follow shortly.

Anna Gueye [29], Julie Owono [30], Abdoulaye Bah [31], Marc-André Boisvert [13] and Stanislas Jourdan [32] contributed to this post.

Article printed from Global Voices: http://globalvoicesonline.org

URL to article: http://globalvoicesonline.org/2013/01/11/2012-a-year-of-revolt-and-social-change-in-francophone-countries-part-1-of-2/

URLs in this post:

[1] armed conflicts in Mali: http://globalvoicesonline.org/2012/05/25/mali-a-president-assaulted-a-nation-in-turmoil/

[2] Democratic Republic of Congo: http://globalvoicesonline.org/2012/12/14/a-timeline-of-50-years-of-conflict-in-the-d-r-of-congo/

[3] Central African Republic: http://globalvoicesonline.org/2012/12/30/who-wants-to-overthrow-central-african-republics-president-francois-bozize/

[4] Senegal: http://globalvoicesonline.org/2012/03/29/senegal-and-neighboring-nations-celebrate-peaceful-elections/

[5] Quebec: http://globalvoicesonline.org/2012/08/28/canada-high-stakes-in-quebec-general-election-after-maple-spring/

[6] France: http://globalvoicesonline.org/2012/05/06/france-reactions-to-presidential-election-results-in-photos/

[7] Chad: http://globalvoicesonline.org/2012/09/27/chad-challenges-to-freedom-of-expression-as-social-protests-grow/

[8] Madagascar: http://globalvoicesonline.org/2012/09/25/madagascar-struggles-to-control-domestic-instability/

[9] Togo: http://globalvoicesonline.org/2012/06/19/togo-save-togo-protesters-violently-clash-with-police/

[10] immigration: http://globalvoicesonline.org/2012/11/12/french-government-eases-strict-immigration-policy/

[11] economic crisis: http://globalvoicesonline.org/2012/05/07/switzerland-an-initiative-to-establish-basic-income-for-all/

[12] equal marriage rights: http://globalvoicesonline.org/2013/01/08/demonstrations-and-counter-demonstrations-surrounding-same-sex-marriage-in-france/

[13] Marc-André Boisvert: http://fr.globalvoicesonline.org/author/marc-andre-boisvert/

[14] Tuareg rebellion: http://globalvoicesonline.org/2012/03/21/mali-facing-secession-and-food-crisis-as-elections-loom/

[15] military coup: http://globalvoicesonline.org/2012/03/22/mali-citizens-stunned-by-sudden-military-coup/

[16] subsequently captured by Islamist groups: http://globalvoicesonline.org/2012/08/31/mali-can-al-qaeda-in-the-islamic-maghreb-be-stopped/

[17] Image: http://www.flickr.com/photos/magharebia/6972875286/

[18] #Mali: https://twitter.com/search?q=%23mali&src=typd

[19] Northern Citizens Collective : http://sahelblog.wordpress.com/2012/02/29/coren-a-northern-malian-group-calling-for-unity-amid-rebellion/

[20] Cri de Cœur: http://www.cridecoeur.org/

[21] organise people: http://globalvoicesonline.org/2012/09/10/mali-civil-society-rises-to-save-the-country/

[22] Image: http://activerain.com/blogsview/2633391/motivational-monday-human-reasons-to-work

[23] Occupy Movement: http://globalvoicesonline.org/2012/10/27/occupy-movement-rallies-for-debt-strike-worldwide/

[24] subprime mortgage crisis: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Subprime_mortgage_crisis

[25] Seleka Coalition: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2012%E2%80%93present_Central_African_Republic_conflict

[26] recent evolution: http://globalvoicesonline.org/2012/12/18/the-elusive-quest-for-peace-with-the-m23-in-the-drc/

[27] expansion of the conflict: http://globalvoicesonline.org/2012/12/18/increasing-risks-of-humanitarian-disaster-in-masisi-territory-of-dr-of-congo/

[28] protect the health: http://globalvoicesonline.org/2012/11/01/d-r-of-congo-human-rights-activist-assaulted-guard-killed/

[29] Anna Gueye: http://fr.globalvoicesonline.org/author/anna-gueye/

[30] Julie Owono: http://fr.globalvoicesonline.org/author/julie-owono/

[31] Abdoulaye Bah: http://fr.globalvoicesonline.org/author/abdoulaye-bah/

[32] Stanislas Jourdan: http://fr.globalvoicesonline.org/author/stanislas-jourdan/

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If you’re looking for gluten-free menu ideas, here is what we ate last week.

Recently we purchased a quarter of a grass fed cow and had our first taste of it last week.  The meat is lean and flavorful.  The burgers were terrific and the roast was very tender.

Hamburgers – Gluten-free son and I had ours on Kinnikinnick buns.  We had salad with the burgers.

Grilled Chicken Sandwiches – Since there were hamburger buns to use from the night before, I grilled chicken and we ate it on buns and had steamed green beans with it.

Mexican Chili and Corn Bread.  I made a large batch of chili and took some to a sick friend whose son is on the specific carbohydrate diet.  We had salad with it.

Mexican Casserole and green beans.  I pulled some cooked chicken out of the freezer to use in this casserole.

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Wednesday, May 25, 2011

49ers need to win A-10 tournament

The 49ers' top-seeded baseball team is practicing today at Penn as it prepares for the Atlantic 10 tournament in Camden, N.J.

Charlotte, which won the regular-season title and is 39-14, will play the winner of today's noon matchup between No. 4 Xavier and No. 5 Richmond at noon on Thursday.

Conference pitcher of the year Andrew Smith (5-2, 1.38 in Atlantic 10 games) will start for the 49ers. Bret Williams, who shut out the 49ers 3-0 earlier this season, will start for the Spiders.

They're going to need to win the A-10 tournament, though, to get a bid to the NCAA tournament. Charlotte's RPI of 89 is too low (although the 49ers have a victory over No. 1 RPI North Carolina this season). You can mostly thank the Atlantic 10's league RPI of 19th for the 49ers' low team ranking.

I'll have a feature on right fielder Justin Wilson, who's hitting .345, in Thursday's Observer.

Anonymous said...

Thanks A-10. Heck, we wouldn't be in this position with 38 wins if we didn't play the A-10. So, hey, thanks A-10. It's fun to be the big bully on the block!

Anonymous said...

True anon 11:10am, we get to be the bully in the A10 like Boise St was in the WAC for football.

If we can do like they did and parlay our success into grabbing better and better recruits each year it will help bring us more national attention in the College Baseball world, and hopefully, a CWS title.

Go Niners!

Anonymous said...

We finished a game ahead of Rhode island who has an rpi 20+ better than us. It isn't just the a10.

Anonymous said...

I don't get it. We were ranked in the top 30 the entire season and that doesn't qualify for an automatic bid?? Something just doesn't seem right. I realize our RPI is low, but that didn't stop us from being ranked 25th in the country. What am I missing???

Anonymous said...

Glad to know you still have job David!

J said...

Geez, I didn't realize the A-10 sucked so bad.

I have an idea: Since the football team is looking to possibly joining the Big South, why not just move all programs to the Big South? It would be an upgrade in everything except men's basketball. And even in hoops that would guarantee we win 20 games every single year since we would go 18-0 in conference games for at least a decade.


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Harvard opens its 37th season of women's basketball on the road at Maine Saturday afternoon.

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The Crimson play its first five games of the season on the road. It's the first time in program history Harvard has started the season with that many road games.

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Kathy Delaney-Smith, the winningest coach in program history, is in her 29th season on the bench for the Crimson. Delaney-Smith, who has led the Crimson to 11 Ivy League titles, recorded her 400th career victory with a 68-47 win over Brown on March 7, 2008. She sports a 439-308 record after 28 seasons.

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Seniors Jackie Alemany and Christine Matera will serve as captains this season, Matera was a captain last season as well making her just the sixth person in program history to captain the team for two years.

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Harvard has two connections to the state of Maine, including one to the Black Bears specifically. Assistant coach Missy Traversi was a first-team All-America East basketball player for Maine. She was a team captain and is a member of the 1,000 point club. Director of basketball operations Kristan Strout is from nearby Bangor.

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The Crimson is picked to finish second in the Ivy League by the a panel of media and league sports information directors. Princeton was picked first, while Harvard was second. The Tigers earned the league's top bid with 135 points and 16 first-place votes.

The Tigers went 14-0 last season to win the Ivy League title. Harvard picked up 115 points and one first-place vote. Dartmouth was voted to finish third (96), followed by Yale (84), Columbia (73), Brown (50), Cornell (39) and Penn (19).
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The Crimson played in the postseason for the third time in four years and second straight last season. Harvard competed in the WNIT for the second year in a row.
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Brogan Berry led four Crimson players in double figures as she scored 15 points on the points on 6-for-10 shooting, including 3-for-6 from beyond the arc. Victoria Lippert added 13 points and Christine Matera tallied 12 points. Emma Markley scored 10 points and grabbed four boards.
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Head coach Kathy Delaney-Smith is 15-13 in the first game of the season, while the Crimson is 18-18.
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Emma Markley is just 57 points away from scoring her 1,000 career point. Thirteen players have reached the 1,000 point mark in Crimson history.

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Brogan Berry moved into second on the all-time single season assist list with 169 hand outs last year. She is also ninth on the all-time career assists list with 269 handouts, and she is five assists away from moving into eighth.

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Annually, Goizueta Business School welcomes some of the most respected thought leaders in business to be participants in our Dean's Leadership Speaker Series. This series, hosted in conjunction with Atlanta's NPR affiliate station WABE 90.1, offers Goizueta students, alumni, faculty and corporate friends the opportunity to hear from and interact with industry leaders from around the globe. Taking place in both the fall and spring, speakers visit campus to discuss a range of topics and participate in private receptions with selected guests.

Well-known both inside and outside the world of business, many of our speakers have played key roles in shaping the economic trends of the past few decades—and continue to have a direct impact on the future of our economy and the world at large.

Designed to connect our students and alumni with leaders worldwide, the Dean's Leadership Speaker Series gives both undergraduate and graduate students at Goizueta the chance to meet, hear from and interact with those working at the highest echelons of corporate leadership around the world.

Through this series, speakers have visited Goizueta to share their perspectives on the complexities, challenges and opportunities facing leaders in today's global business climate.

Speaker events are closed to the public, though invitations are given to select members of the business community and candidates interested in our BBA and MBA programs. Prospective students can find out more about our programs and request information for details.

Select Speakers Have Included:

Carrie Schwab-Pomerantz

President of Charles Schwab Foundation SVP of Charles Schwab and Co., Inc.

The world is full of ever-complicated financial models and investment methods. Making sense of it all can be a daunting task. Schwab addressed a standing-room-only crowd April 8 at Goizueta, sharing details of her new book: The Charles Schwab Guide to Finances After Fifty: Answers to Your Most Important Money Questions.

Roger Ferguson

President and Chief Executive Officer, TIAA-CREF

Roger W. Ferguson, Jr., president and chief executive officer of TIAA-CREF, and Larry Benveniste, the John H. Harland Dean, engaged in a wide-ranging discussion covering such topics as the current economic landscape, the demographic changes reshaping our nation, and the challenges in funding retirement and other financial goals. They considered what steps individuals can take to better ensure their own lifelong financial security in the current environment. TIAA-CREF has evolved from a national pension fund to a high profile asset management firm with $502 billion in AUM. Previously, Mr. Ferguson served as vice chairman of the Board of Governors of the U.S. Federal Reserve System.

Daniel Pink

New York Times Bestselling author

New York Times bestselling author Daniel Pink gave a humorous talk focusing on the evolution of sales, the role of motivation in selling, and his latest book titled To Sell Is Human: The Surprising Truth About Moving Others. Pink pointed to the misconceptions associated with sales and blamed the prior lack of research in the field. He also complimented Goizueta for offering sales classes, which he described as a rarity at many top business schools.

John Lewis

United States Congressman

Lewis was the keynote speaker at the 2012 Diverse Leadership Conference. The Conference's theme was global business awareness. During his keynote address, Lewis highlighted the importance of courage in leadership.

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  • Sharon Allen, Chairman of the Board, Deloitte Consulting
  • Sara Blakely, Founder of Spanx
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  • Dr. John Maxwell, Author of “The 21 Irrefutable Laws of Leadership”
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Summer Moments

In the midst of packing boxes to move, I am finding a moment to share images of our summer thus far.

Vivienne's adventures in Rama and Sita, her 4th grade class play. She enjoyed narrating and playing the role of a demon. She's third from left. Such a great production, thank you Ms. Laura!

Camping with friends is always the way we bring in the summer season. What a treat to see a majestic Elk so close. Last year we had a young buck visit our campground and play with a frisbee across the field from us.

 Pick-up truck of kids in tow, awe struck by the beautiful creatures.

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 Mia's Growing Goddess camp with Lena and Sarah

Four nights in the woods, and coming away with such wisdom. The best camp ever!

Sacred Mountain- so beautiful!

Happy Summer to all!

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Emily dear, you have an incredible talent for capturing a moment, and such a beautiful, divine family to share those moments with! I will miss you all SO much. No neighbors will EVER compare.

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Aaron Baddeley of Australia reacts after missing a putt on No. 18 during the first round of the 2013 St. Jude Classic, where he missed the cut.
Aaron Baddeley of Australia reacts after missing a putt on No. 18 during the first round of the 2013 St. Jude Classic, where he missed the cut. ( Associated Press )

Tuesday, July 2, 2013

His work over for the day, Aaron Baddeley knew he was also done for the week. Again. Even though it was only Friday.

Still, no one could have expected the volunteers at last week's Travelers Championship to know what sort of anguish was going through Baddeley's heart. So when the Aussie was asked, "How did you do today?" he was polite. "Three-under," he said.

Clearly happy for Baddeley, the volunteer told the Aussie to keep it going, to have a great weekend. Only thing is, Baddeley's 3-under 67 hadn't been enough to overcome the 5-over 75 from a day earlier and so at 2-over, there would be no weekend golf for him. Baddeley had missed his seventh consecutive cut.

Welcome to the side of the PGA Tour world that doesn't get televised – the painful one, the one devoid of big checks and red numbers. Not much fun is there?

"No, not at all," said Brendan Steele. "Absolutely not."

Like Baddeley, Steele has been struggling, and oh, how that is such a ferocious foe to fight in a sport that is such an individual quest. When he arrived at TPC River Highlands in Cromwell, Conn., last week, Steele had missed six straight cuts and concedes that it was weighing heavily on his mind.

"I have been so miserable and so tied up in knots about how bad I'm playing," Steele said. "The problem is, when you start going the wrong way, every week gets harder and harder to turn it around. and until you get it turned around, it gets worse and worse."

Steele opened with 68 at the Travelers and was 5 under – easily inside the cut – through 10 holes. Then he bogeyed his 11th hole, the par-4 second, made birdie at the the next hole, but bogeys at the fourth and fifth dropped him to 3 under. Steele doesn't deny that self-doubt crept in.

"I felt (the pressure) all day. It was the hardest round of golf I've probably had in my career, because of the mental aspect of it, how much I wanted it."

Steele survived the cut at Travelers and that Friday suggested that it was "huge for my confidence" and could set off a stretch of good play, as if all he had needed was a small spark. So far, so good, because Steele had a productive weekend at TPC River Highlands, finished T-13 and then followed up with a T-16 at the AT&T National.

Still, he talked of the heartache that accompanies a stretch of unsuccessful play.

"There are so many intangibles and things going on out there," Steele said. "People don't realize how much pressure you put on yourself and how miserable it makes your life when you're playing bad. It's far-reaching beyond golf.

"I am miserable with all of my life when I'm playing this bad. It's not like you leave the course and have a good time and everything's OK. It's not. It affects your family, it affects your friends, it really has far-reaching affects."

Asked if it helped to talk to peers, Steele laughed.

"I've been talking to guys. (But) if you're talking to the guy who is playing good, he thinks everything is easy right now. And if you're talking to the guy who is playing bad, he just keeps going on about how hard it is.

"Nothing really helps. At the end of the day, you just have to go out there and get it done, one way or another. It becomes less about golf and more about having the confidence in yourself."

Tommy Gainey is another who has battled a slump in 2013. He missed seven straight cuts and nine of 10 earlier in the year. For the season, Gainey has earned just nine checks in 22 starts.

"I'm just trying to force things to happen," he said. "That's what golf does to you. There's just so many things you have to think about and if you don't, it can get you. So far, it's gotten me pretty good and it's gotten me down, too."

Reminders are everywhere that it's been a less-than-productive season. In FedEx Cup points, for instance, Steele ranks 88th, Baddeley 114th, and Gainey 128th and time, as they say is slippin' away. Starting with this week's Greenbrier, there are seven weeks to add points and even if you wanted to, you may not be in position to take time off.

"I just love to play," said Gainey, who is entered in this week's stop at the Greenbrier, his 23rd tournament. Steele, playing in his 19th, will also be there, trying to continue his positive momentum, while Baddeley, who missed his eighth consecutive cut at the AT&T, will try again to halt his skid.

Others can coast through the summer, doing their tune-ups for the majors. But for the blue-collar crowd, the weekly quest to succeed at this PGA Tour business remains a challenge.

"If I was in a position to take a couple weeks off, I would. But I just love to play golf and play the game I love."

Then, after a pause, Gainey added, "It's tough to stay positive when you get in a slump, but you've got to."

Though he's only in his third year on Tour, Steele has been around long enough to know this: "If you're worried about making the cut, you're screwed. And that's where I've been. I've been worried about making cuts."

The most successful players on Tour are not thinking that way.

"The guys who are making every cut are going out there trying to win every week," Steele said. "So maybe they don't win; but they finish 15th or fifth or whatever, but they make the cut easily. They're not even worried about that. Then the guys who are struggling are saying, 'God, if i could just get to the weekend, maybe I could play a decent round.' "


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Fourth Annual Meghan Puls Classic to be Held on Sunday, October 19

OWINGS MILLS, Md. - For the fourth-straight year, the Stevenson men's lacrosse team will host the Meghan Puls Lacrosse Classic to help raise funds for the Meghan Puls Foundation. This year's event will take place on Sunday, October 19 beginning at 10:00 a.m.

The 2014 classic will feature six teams, including Stevenson, Cabrini, Franklin & Marshall, Goucher, Virginia Wesleyan and Division II Adelphi.

Cabrini finished with a school-record 17 wins last season, advancing to the second round of the NCAA Division III Men's Lacrosse Championship before losing to Stevenson, 15-9. Over the last four years, the Cavaliers have posted 62 wins, four conference championships and five NCAA tournament victories.

Franklin & Marshall finished the year as the runner-up in the Centennial Conference and ranked 19th in the USILA Division III Coaches' Poll. The Diplomats went 13-5, marking the first time since 74 that they have put together three consecutive 10-win seasons.

Goucher finished the year 7-8 last season, losing to Susquehanna in the Landmark Conference championship game. Since 2010, the Gophers have posted a 58-28 record while winning two conference titles and making two appearances in the NCAA Division III Men's Lacrosse Championship.

Virginia Wesleyan posted a 9-7 record a year ago, advancing the ODAC Men's Lacrosse Championship quarterfinals. Sophomore Josh Currier became the first player in the history of the Old Dominion Athletic Conference to score 100 points and was named ODAC Player of the Year while earning his second-straight USILA All-America honor.

Adelphi advanced to the semifinals of the 2014 NCAA Division II Men's Lacrosse Championship last season, posting a 17-2 record while winning the Northeast-10 title. The Panthers have posted a 60-11 record over the last four seasons while advancing to the 2011 national championship game at M&T Bank Stadium in Baltimore.

The mission of the foundation is to keep the memory of Meghan Puls, daughter of Stevenson assistant men's lacrosse coach Tim and assistant women's basketball coach Cassie, alive by helping families and children through supporting organizations in the areas of health services and research, youth recreation and education.

Proceeds from the fundraiser benefit the University of Maryland Shock Trauma Center and Lions Camp Merrick diabetes camp. Other beneficiaries include The Seton Keough High School Scholarship, Marillac and Focus programs.

Admission is FREE, but a suggested donation of $5 is encouraged.

Since its inception in 2011, the Meghan Puls Lacrosse Classic has featured Stevenson, Adelphi, Cabrini, Elizabethtown, Franklin & Marshall, Goucher, Stevens and Virginia Wesleyan.

For more information on the Meghan Puls Foundation go to or visit them on Facebook at Meghan Puls Foundation.

2014 Schedule

10 AM - Stevenson vs. Adelphi (Stadium)
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12 PM - Stevenson vs. Franklin & Marshall (Stadium)
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2 PM - Cabrini vs. Virginia Wesleyan (Stadium)
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Yahoo Time Capsule

From October 10 until November 8, Yahoo users can contribute to an amazing project called Yahoo Time Capsule by submitting photos, writings, videos, audio that define your world today.

"The Time Capsule (...) is organized around ten themes, chosen to illuminate different corners of the human experience. The ten themes are: Love, Sorrow, Anger, Faith, Beauty, Fun, Past, Hope, Now, and You. Each theme harbors an open-ended question: What do you love? What makes you sad? What makes you angry? What do you believe in? What’s beautiful? What’s fun? What do you remember? What is your wish? Describe your world. Who are you? People respond to these questions in five simple ways – with words, pictures, videos, sounds, and drawings."

So if you have something special to share with the future, a message in a bottle, a prediction, a list of important things for you, send it to the time capsule. The site is almost an work of art, and if you don't send anything, exploring the site will make your day.

The man behind this project is Jonathan Harris, a very talented Internet artist.

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Chrome Web Store and Online Games

1up.com reports that Google Chrome Web Store will be launched in October and online games will be one of its main attractions. "Set to launch this October, the store aims to make a proper marketplace for browser games -- one that solves a lot of the issues of games on the web today, from discovery to monetization."

Google's game developer advocate, Mark DeLoura, thinks that it's difficult to find great online games, so Google Chrome Web Store tries to solve this problem by allowing users to rate games and write reviews. Chrome users will be able to install games, which adds shortcuts to the "new tab" page and grants additional permissions to the games. Not all games will be free, but Chrome users can buy games directly from the Web Store and pay using Google Checkout. Google's platform will support free trials and subscriptions, while developers will only pay a 5% processing fee for each transaction.

Will users pay for web apps in Chrome's store? More than half of the Android apps are free and paid Android apps are only available in 13 countries because of Google Checkout's limitations. Android Market doesn't make it easy to find interesting new applications and doesn't recommend other applications based on the ones you've installed. Hopefully, Chrome Web Store will do a much better job than the Android Market.

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After moving to Los Angeles in 2005, she began touring as a stand-up comic performing at the LA improv, Laugh Factory and underground alternative venues (super hip). She was soon cast in a co-starring role for a FOX comedy pilot entitled Skyler's Revolution from the Executive Producer of Charlie's Angels and We are Marshall.

In 2006, she was hired as a comedy writer for THE WB, MTV, and VH1. She has written for actors and comedians that have appeared on Late Show with David Letterman, Chelsea Lately, CBS's Big Bang Theory, VH1's Best Week Ever and Late Night with Craig Ferguson. Her television appearances include G4, MTV, VH1, and WB. In 2009, she began editorial work for 944 Magazine which shifted to avid blogging for a site entitled Healthy Bitch Daily from the co-author and creator of the NY Times Best Seller Skinny Bitch.

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Ethel Moore, 90 - February 11, 2009

Ethel Althea Moore, 90, of Blue Hill, formerly of Gothenburg and Ayr, died Monday, Feb. 2, 2009, at the home where she lived with her daughter.
A visitation will be held Thursday, Feb. 12, from 7-9 p.m. at Livingston-Butler-Volland Funeral Home, and also one hour prior to services at the church.
Services will be held at 10:30 a.m. Friday, Feb. 13, at the North Shore Assembly of God Church with the Rev. Tony Anderson officiating. Burial will take place at Blue Valley Cemetery at Ayr.
Moore was born Feb. 21, 1918, at Milton, NY, to Henry VanVallen and Edith L. (Marcham) Mackey.
After graduating from high school, she attended college at Central Bible Institute at Springfield, MO, from 1936-1937, where she met Clifton A. Moore.
On Jan. 1, 1938, she was united in marriage to Moore at Newburg, NY. The couple resided on a farm south of Maxwell until 1949, and then moved to a farm north of Gothenburg, before moving to Ayr in 1991. Her husband preceded her in death in 1994.
?Moore was a homemaker and a member of North Shore Assembly of God.
?She was preceded in death by: her husband, Clifton; her parents, Henry and Edith; a daughter, Betty Stahl in 1980; a grandson, Leo Brauer in 1980; brother, Van Mackey; sister, Iola Smith.
?Survivors include: her sons—Allan Moore of Trenton, NJ, Arthur Moore of Upland, CA, and William H. Moore of Pahrump, NV; her daughters—Elaine Brauer of Nelson and Renee Fielder of Blue Hill; 17 grandchildren, 25 great-grandchildren and seven great-great-grandchildren.
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WALTHAM — The Celtics [1] finally had enough players to conduct a practice on Monday and second round pick E’Twaun Moore [2] took advantage of his opportunity. Doc Rivers [3] said that Moore’s teams won both scrimmages and that the guard hit the game-winning shot in one and ran the show at the other.

“E’Twaun was one of the best players in the gym today,” Rivers said. “Forget being a rookie.”

Moore took advantage of the lockout by playing in Italy with Benetton Treviso with former Celtic Brian Scalabrine [4] and Brookline’s Jeff Adrien. Moore earned immediate playing time and knocked down 44 percent of his 3-pointers while averaging 9.5 points per game.

“It definitely helped me out a lot,” Moore said. “The biggest thing I learned from being over there was the patience of the game. I thought 24 seconds, OK, you have to play faster, but that’s not true. Actually you slow the game down and react faster.”

Moore views himself as a guard, capable of playing both the point and the wing. That versatility will be important for a Celtics team that is loaded with veterans. Keyon Dooling [5] is the likely backup point guard and can play both positions. Rivers said on Saturday that Dooling’s addition will pave the way for Avery Bradley to focus on the off-guard spot [6] and Marquis Daniels [7] can also both the off-guard and small forward position.

“The [backup] two spot will have to be determined,” Rivers said. “Somebody’s going to have to take it.”

Moore and fellow rookie JaJuan Johnson [8] have been unable to practice while the team explored trade opportunities. Rookies can’t be traded for 30 days after they sign their contracts. Moore received a two-year deal with a team option for the second year and the first year is guaranteed, according to his agent Mark Bartelstein.

Their signings, plus free agent Sasha Pavlovic [9] gives the team 14 players under contract, pending the resolution of Jeff Green’s situation [10].

(Click here for a closer look at the roster [11]).

Danny Ainge acquired Bass from the Magic in a sign-and-trade involving Glen Davis [13] and Von Wafer [14]. Bass is a 6-foot-8 forward who averaged 11 points and 5.6 rebounds for the Magic last season, while shooting over 51 percent from the floor. He is particularly adept at knocking down 16-23 foot jump shots where he made 47 percent of his attempts from that range.

“I feel very comfortable shooting it,” Bass said. “I’ve been working on that shot since I was 15 and the last couple of years I’ve been able to knock it down.”

Bass will likely be Kevin Garnett [15]‘s backup at the big forward position, giving the Celtics a big man rotation of Garnett, Bass, Jermaine O’Neal [16] and Chris Wilcox [17].

“I like that he can score, number one, before anything else,” Rivers said. “Great pick and pop player. Not bad in ISO situations away from the basket. We need that coming off the bench. I like that he just plays hard. Low maintenance, just plays hard, and that’s something we were looking at.”

Just as important from the Celtics perspective is that Bass has a solid contract with a player option for next season at $4 million. If he picks up his option, the Celtics will have a rotation player at a fair price and another trade asset. If he doesn’t, they will have even more cap space for next season.

“Brandon is just a real high character, high-energy player,” Ainge said. “He’s athletic. He’s a fantastic mid-range shooter. Just a real active player with a lot of athleticism and energy. He fits our timeline too. We’re trying to have great success this year and his contract length sort of fits into our timeline.”

Pavlovic gives the Celtics another option on the wing and another backup behind Paul Pierce [18] at small forward. Pavlovic saw action in just 17 games after they signed him late in the season, but Ainge and Rivers feel that there is potential in the 28-year-old.

“We wanted to bring Sasha back at the end of last year,” Ainge said. “The coaches loved his work ethic and he played very well for us when he got an opportunity. He’s young. He’s athletic. He’s got some experience. Sasha’s just a good all-around player.”

Pavlovic’s best days were in Cleveland where he saw significant playing time for teams that advanced deep into the playoffs. He’s a career 35 percent 3-point shooter and can guard both wing positions.

“I believe he can be a good player,” Rivers said. “I told him that last year. I told him in our exit meetings his talent is in there, it’s all between his ears. I think he can be a really good player. We’re going to try to get it out of him.”

Rivers said that Pierce participated in most of the practice after sitting out the last two days with a sore right heel. He was on the sidelines during the portion that media were allowed to watch. Rajon Rondo [19] sat out after spraining his right ankle in Sunday’s session. Rivers said he expects to have Rondo back soon.

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[3] Doc Rivers: http://media.weei.com/basketball/doc-rivers.htm

[4] Brian Scalabrine: http://media.weei.com/basketball/brian-scalabrine.htm

[5] Keyon Dooling: http://media.weei.com/basketball/keyon-dooling.htm

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[17] Chris Wilcox: http://media.weei.com/basketball/chris-wilcox.htm

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Bill Thompson’s Young Birder’s Guide
The Young Birder’s Guide to Birds of Eastern North America (Peterson Field Guides) is a book that I highly recommend for kids around seven to 14 years of age. (The publishers suggest a narrower age range but I respectfully disagree.)This is a new offering written by Bill Thompson III and published by the same people who give us the Peterson Field Guide to the Birds and many other fine titles. The book includes excellent illustrations by Julie Zickefoose.
A birder since childhood, Thompson says he would have loved a book like this one when he was just getting interested in birds. Now a father of two, he spent many hours over a two-year period with his now eleven-year-old daughter’s class getting their advice on what to include in the book.Bill Thompson III is the editor of Bird Watcher’s Digest, a bimonthly magazine with 70,000 subscribers and the author of Identify Yourself: The 50 Most Common Birding Identification Challenges. He lives with his wife, author and illustrator Julie Zickefoose and their two children on eighty birdy acres in Ohio.

Let me tell you what I think about this book.As an identification guide, it is pretty good. It uses a one bird per page layout, which means fewer birds per book, but lots of information on them. Although you can get a fair amount of info from a Peterson guide, this book gives more yet remains useful as a field reference. Each bird has a “wow” fact associated with it, highlighting something that we presume a kid around this age would find interesting. A random example:

Herring Gulls sometimes carry large shellfish such as mussels, clams, and oysters in the air and drop them onto a hard surface in order to break them open and eat them.

The info page for each bird has a very good distribution map, and the photos (there are often two, one per sex) are supplemented with black and white line drawings.it is slightly disturbing that the loon is not listed as the first bird, but I can get over that.Perhaps the most useful part of this book is the pre-ID guide material, the stuff in the beginning that gives advice for how to watch birds. All Petrides/Peterson guides have a section in the beginning that is oriented towards the beginner, and this is in some ways just another example of this. But it is better than average, more detailed, repeats some of the important stuff in a couple of different formats, and is oriented towards kids in that pre-tween/tween/early teen age group.Sit still. Stop fidgeting, you are scaring the birds away. Don’t start looking up the bird until after it flies away. The birds have wings and will use them. The book does not have wings. Really, put the book away until after the bird is gone. And stop fidgeting, please.You get the idea. The book does a good job of telling the young birdwatchers how to ease into the birdwatching culture, tells them about bi-nocks, bird counts, cats, the whole nine yards.Most importantly, the book encourages the kids to look at the birds, and gives advice on how to see the birds and the key features that help identify them.i-d3aa7e1ca6de110db8da456878e4c1ec-Phoebe.jpg

Phoebe Thompson demonstrating the birder’s stance and birder’s gear. Notice that Phoebe is looking at the bird, and not fiddling with the book.
All field guides have advice on gear. This field guide goes one step further, much to the chagrin of Phoebe Thompson, daughter of the author, who was forced to don her best bird watching outfit to pose for the obligatory shot of the bird watcher in full regalia. Reproduced here. Sorry Phoebe, but the picture is just too cute to not spread all over the internet. Don’t worry, the friends who abandon you because of this photo were not really your friends.People often say, “if you have to have only one bird book, then…” I say this is a really really dumb thing to say (though I’ve said it myself). If you are into birds at all, you are going to have a few books. One of them will be the standard Peterson Guide, and then you’ll have a few others. If you have a kid anywhere near the indicated age range, this book should be one of them.Oh, and I have some excellent news for you. Most bird guides are a bit pricey new. This one is cheap. It is not badly made .. in fact it is pretty well bound and printed on nice paper, etc. But it lists for 14.95, and I think the link above will get you to a cheaper price, closer to 10 bucks. Not bad. Perfect gift for a 10 year old who’s birthday is in late spring or early summer. Maybe your niece.What’s bad about the book? Not much, but there are a couple of things missing that I would like to see in the next edition.First, all field guides need that little 6 inch ruler printed on the cover. No one has ever used this ruler, but it has to be there for the world to not seem all topsy turvy.Second, it might be nice to have bleeds showing the taxonomic sections from the edge of the book. A lot of field guides don’t do that, but they all should. (A bleed is ink that goes to the end so you can see it at the edge of the page.)Third, and most importantly, I like the one-pagers that are often found in guides. Like the one page comparing all the hawks in flight, scaled to each other. I think people use these less often than they should, but they are very useful.These are minor shortcomings, or perhaps they are actually brilliant editorial decisions or decisions made to keep the price down (which is good). These issues do not translate into any reservations on my part on buying this book. Just go get the book. You will be happy. Even more important, your 7-14 year old daughter, son, niece, or nephew will be happy.

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10 thoughts on “The Young Birder’s Guide: A Bird Book for the Middle Schooler

  1. Hmmm… I own a Peterson’s and an Audubon. Sounds like I’ll be adding this book despite the recommended age range.And of course, until someone figures out how to add sound files to a field book (maybe iPod recordings would work instead… there’s an idea…), a good back-up for confirmation once you’re home is the Cornell Ornithology Bird Guide.

  2. Mbwah! That is a big wet Baby Huey kiss for a very nice review of this book. Phoebe is going to cack when she sees herself on your blog. And not in a nice way. But she’ll get over it.Really, thank you so much. The review means so much more for being spontaneous and unsolicited.

  3. Greg:I am most flattered that you reviewed the Young Birder’s Guide! Thanks for all the kind words and especially for the suggested changes and additions. Will keep them in mind for future (fingers crossed) editions.Peace!BT3

  4. Now that photo is on the internet, in a book, and amongst my friends…. Oh joy!Thank you so much for the great review!

  5. thanks for dragging your kid out into the field to look at birds, and i am jealoous that you managed to post that image of Phoebe .. did you scan it? because it certainly was not available on the internet when i was looking for blackmail material .. um, er, looking for useful images to include with my review.and actually … the loons should not be in the front because of the ornithological rearrangement of bird relationships based on recent phylogenetic developments.

  6. Yes, I scanned it. Yea, I know, but it just seems so normal for the loons to be in front.Like they were an hour ago in front of the cabin eating crayfish….Janie, there is a book that has buttons you can press and hear bird sounds. However, it is kind of global and does not have that many sounds. Peterson has quite a few CD’s now, I think a total of either four or eight, loaded with songs. And yes, the Cornell site is great for sounds (and other info).

  7. I just read your chemistry lab book review and now this? You may have an exploitable niche here, reviewing science books and materials useful to parents and homeschoolers in particular.

  8. Dawn: I wish! When I saw the chem book I thought … wow, this is one of my favorite publishers, maybe they’ll have a book in everything …. But they don’t, actually.

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Wednesday, September 26, 2012

UPDATE: Paul Ryan Loves Girls With Guns

Wonder whatever happened to Paul Ryan?  He's been off buying hunting gear and a nice new Remington rifle for his daughter.  Who is age 10.  "I got her a Remington 700 243 junior model – 243 is a caliber – it's a good gun...My daughter she's been hunting with me for years, watching me, but she's old enough this year to hunt on her own.  She's really looking forward to it."  Yes, the legal age for hunting in some states is 10.

UPDATE  Apparently news of Ryan's way sparked wingnuts to post photos of their own daughters with rifles, via Malkin's site and others.  Can't wait for show and tell in school.  Didn't any of these kids see Bambi?  Maybe Disney is really on the outs.  Such as below:

Mayuresh Gaikwad said...

More than seeing Bambi, I think they have tasted venizen when their dads hunted. You taste venizen and then see Bambi - you'd want Bambi's entire family grilled and served on your plate

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Monday, December 17, 2012

Polls, For Now, Show Surge in Gun Control Sentiment

Not sure how much faith to put in this, so soon after a massacre of kids, but first an ABC poll this morning, and just now a CBS poll, put backing for stricter gun laws at new highs in recent years (ABC: 5 years, CBS: 10 years).  The CBS one finds an 18% pickup since spring, to 57%.  In contrast, after the shooting of Gabby Gifford, it was just 47%.

A lot of expected details:  support highest in Northeast and West Coast, lowest in Midwest and South, Dem much more likely(by 2-1) to back than GOPers.

The ABC, while showing some gains, still found that 44% continue to oppose new controls on automatic weapons.

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Dyna-Glo DGE486SSP-D Review

Dyna-Glo DGE486SSP-D Review, 3.7 out of 5 based on 31 ratings
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Dyna-Glo DGE486SSP-D Review

Going by the numerous customer reviews, this grill may not rank as the best but it is still good as it has attracted several four star rankings on many sites. Most customers have given it a score of up to 90% in terms of efficiency. That is not a bad reputation, and you may just want to try and gauge it by yourself. The Dyna-Glo DGE486SSP-D 4-Burner 52,000 BTU Propane Gas Grill with side burner has notable features that make it a utility item in your kitchen or for outdoor barbecues.

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The first attraction to this grill is its stainless steel body and components. The burner tubes which contain 10,000 BTU’s each, and the side burner with 12,000 BTU’s, are both made of stainless steel in addition to the 4 heat tents. That means you will not have to worry about rust if the appliance gets exposed to moisture. The BTU’s number up to 52,000 in total and the control valve gives you the liberty to regulate the amount of heat.

The manufacturers are generous with the cooking space, providing a massive 640 square inches. That is enough to grill several foods at a go, making it efficient for an outdoor get together. The side burner even makes it a better choice for barbecues. The manufacturer indicates that you can grill  massive 24 hamburgers on the cooking space.

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Lighting the appliance is very easy and fast with its push button ignition. You do not need match sticks because the ignition system is electric. 1 AAA batteries are included in the package. No customer has so far complained about its reliability. Assembling the gadget is also not a complicated process.

The gauge of the cooking grates is heavy so that it retains heat that can be used for warming food and for searing. It also contains a warming rack which makes it a multipurpose appliance.

You can easily access the grill trays because of the great cabinet-like design. Its size also makes it easy for you to move it around the home. Its dimensions are 50.70″ x 22.62″ x 46.80″, it weighs 96 pounds, and it has rollers underneath. The appliance comes with a one year warranty with an assurance for replacement in case you discover malfunctioning components. The stainless steel burners carry a different warranty time frame of up to five years.

It does not come with an LP tank, which means you will have to buy that later independently in order to complete the set.
You will also be forced to buy a rotisserie kit if you do not have one already.There may be temperature lapses when you open the hood but it still gets you the right flavors on your food.

Comparing the advantages and the disadvantages, we can easily sum up that purchasing the Dyna-Glo DGE486SSP-D may be a good investment. If you are lucky, you may just grab some discount with some sellers on Amazon.  The grill is also CSA certified to guarantee quality.

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LogoEurochic retailer H&M is launching an earth-friendly spring Garden Collection, H&M shopper Joe Romm reports. No, scratch that, this is from thegreengirls.com. The new line will include recycled polyester, organic cotton, and organic linen. Presumably the expected life of these clothes won’t be any longer than typical H&M items, which aren’t exactly known for their durability.

I think you can look at this the same way you look at Wal-Mart’s recent announcement that it was asking suppliers to reduce the carbon impact of their factory-produced tchotchkes. If we’re going to have cheap, mass-produced clothing, furniture, salad-shooters, etc., that aren’t made to last, it’s good to make them with sustainable materials and practices. And we’re probably going to have Wal-Marts and H&Ms for the foreseeable future, so it makes sense to prod and push and encourage them toward better practices, as the Environmental Defense Fund does.

At the same time, to act as though we’re stuck in a throwaway, big-box world is a colossal failure of imagination. We can do better. As Stacy Mitchell argues in a smart piece, when you zoom out a bit, Wal-Mart’s (and H&M’s) track record just isn’t so hot.

Pricier but well-made clothes from a local retailer are probably the responsible thing to wear. And … now I’m nagging. This is why I don’t write about clothes.

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Monday, October 20, 2008

Tyler paper editorializing for jail in news pages

A bizarre triplet of articles from the Tyler Morning Telegraph awaited me on my news feeds when I got back to the blog this morning after being away from the computer most of the weekend - bizarre because they all seem to overtly promote the jail the way an editorialist or blogger would, though they were portrayed to readers as news stories.

Consider first this odd little feature in which a local historian "said little has changed as the county has grown during the last 152 years. More people means more incarceration, which in turn means more jails." So it's inevitable, like the sunrise - more people means a bigger jail. Simple, huh?

Except that assessment is a fact-free bit of un-historical flotsam, entirely misrepresenting the sources of jail overcrowding in Smith County. Mirroring a trend occurring all over the state, Tyler's recent increases in jail inmate numbers far outstripped population growth in the county - almost all that growth came from expanded use of pretrial detention, especially for low-level offenses. Statewide, jail populations increased 18.6% between 2000-2007, according to Dr. Tony Fabelo, but nearly all of that increase came from pretrial detainees, whose numbers increased 49.2% over the same period.

Half of Smith County inmates have not been convicted yet and are sitting in jail awaiting trial, including (as of Sept. 1) 87 misdemeanants and 75 state jail felons. That means 22% of the county's jail population are people charged with low-level offenses who've not been convicted of anything and are eligible for bond. By contrast, for example, McLennan County (Waco) has a larger jail than Smith and a bigger population but houses only 49 pretrial misdemeants and 57 state jail felons, according to the Texas Commission on Jail Standards.

The line "More people means more incarceration" may sound reasonable, but it doesn't explain Smith County's jail population figures and neither does rising crime. Today's jail overcrowding is caused by policy decisions made by elected officials - including judges and the DA as well as the commissioners court - and has far outpaced population increases. Recent inmate population growth was a volitional choice on their part, not some demographic inevitability, particularly when they've ignored the easiest solutions available to help solve the problem.

Besides, bottom line: Smith County's jail overcrowding problem isn't that urgent. According to the Texas Commission on Jail Standards' September Jail Population Report (pdf), Smith County's jail has a maximum capacity of 755, but as of Sept. 1 only 657 inmates were there and 41 of those were contracted beds (likely filled by federal inmates). So the county was housing 616 of its own inmates on Sept. 1 and leasing another 123 beds from other counties. That still only totals 739, so Smith County doesn't really need to lease those extra beds - there's room for them right now in the jail.

Why would Smith County pay to house prisoners out of county if they don't have to? Is it because it's politically expedient to make a new jail look more attractive? Perhaps that's too cynical, but the numbers don't jibe with the urgency with which the jail is being touted.

The Telegraph's strange little history offers an especially jaundiced and uninformative view of recent jail debates, in which Tyler voters overwhelmingly told the county they didn't want a new jail in two elections running.

The key misreprentation in the story - the line that makes it 100% an opinion piece as opposed to any sort of factual "history," is reporter Adam Russell's assertion that, "By February 2008, the opposition and advocates, both agreeing a jail should be built, came together to plan a bond the community could accept." That's a bizarre and false statement, particularly since there's a well-organized opposition group led in part by a 20-year veteran judge running a campaign against the jail!

A more accurate version of recent events would acknowledge that so many people in Tyler opposed the jail that many different political factions opposed it for many reasons at different points in time. Mr. Curtis and Commissioner Jo Ann Fleming are political allies and their decision to join with jail builders (i.e., her other four colleagues on the Commissioners Court), cannot be credibly described as "the opposition and advocates ... came together."

In fact, Fleming's coming together with jail builders occurred in unpublicized meetings in which the most prominent local jail opponents like Judge Cynthia Kent or Ken Good weren't invited. Even though they're asking voters to pony up $60 million for the project in the midst of a flattening economy and declining oil prices, the county still won't divulge the complete plan that resulted from those secret meetings, even after the Attorney General told them they must.

Where is that "history" as the Telegraph rambles on about jails from the 19th Century?

The same article quotes officials claiming a new jail "would end overcrowding for 22-25 years," ignoring predictions by Judge Kent and others that unless the county funds more diversion programs and reduces pretrial detention, a new jail would be "full on the day that it opens." There's not even a pretense toward journalistic "balance" here, this is a full-blown opinion piece couched as front page news.

Little better was Mr. Russell's offering, "Smith County Jail Bond: What are we paying for?" Inexplicably, Russell quoted the number estimated for interest costs from a financial report produced before the recent credit market meltdown, which means it's entirely fictional and worthless today. That estimate said county taxpayers would pay $100 million in interest for a $60 million jail, but now voters can expect that figure to have increased substantially because of what's happening on Wall Street. (The paper needs to make the same re-calculation for the Tyler ISD bonds.)

Rather than balance spin from jail propoents in the other two stories with quotes from the opposition, Russell stuck them all in a single article titled "Community Speaks out on Jail Bond," published today. Finally in this story, Russell relocates his journalistic reflex for "balance" - of the three, it's the only one where opposing sides are quoted side by side, mostly trying to counter Judge Kent's cogent explanation why the county can't build it's way out of its overcrowding problems.

At least the latter story read like journalism, if bad journalism. The other two read like a high school report from the Sheriff's son titled "Why my Dad says we need a new jail." I don't blame the reporter; that's the kind of thing that happens when your publisher wants the story spun a particular way.

Though the local paper is torturing many facts and ignoring others, new media are picking up the slack. The jail opposition committee has published short essays from voters explaining why they'll vote no, and linked on their blog to a video of a local TV debate between Judge Kent and a jail proponent (highly recommended for those interested).

I'd still bet dollars to donuts Smith County voters will see through these arguments on election day and reject a new jail for the third year in a row.

The diversion programs Smith County tried after voters initially rejected a new jail have worked extremely well, beyond anyone's expectations. If voters reject a jail again it will force Smith County to get serious about jail diversion and strengthening community supervision, while if they just get to keep building, all the urgency for backing those programs will immediately cease. That's my main reason for opposing a new Smith County Jail: I don't doubt upgrades to the jail are needed to improve medical facilities, for example, but they wouldn't need more jail beds if the the county would focus more on diversion initiatives. If voters approve more construction, I fear momentum for such programs will quickly wane despite their proven effectiveness.

Anonymous said...

The Tyler Morning Telegraph is nothing but a mouthpiece for those that run the corrupt criminal justice system in Smith County.

gravyrug said...

Y'know, it seems to me there's a lot we don't know in this story. The reasons why building the jail is a colossal waste of money are obvious. The reasons the county wants to build one anyway are anything but. Somebody stands to make a whole lot of money on this deal, and it's not the taxpayers of Smith County.

C.J. Eaton said...

Well it doesn't help that the owner of the paper basically dictates what's printed. Or that most of the reporters look for the easy road when writing their stories. Mr. Russell didn't dig deeper than "both jail opponents and supporters came together" because it would have taken a bit more legwork and thought process. There's JoAnn Fleming, there's Judge Baker, they're holding hands... There! Oppents and supporters are coming together!

Anonymous said...

gravyrug-If and when a new jail is built, you can look for it to be operated by CEC, formerly known as CiviGenics.

Jailers will no longer be county employees thus saving the county hundreds of thousands of dollars.

Watch and see this happen if the jail is ever built.

Anonymous said...

The information below regarding a Civigenics was found on another website. It appears that what a county may save by contracting with this company could be dwarfed by what it could cost them in lawsuits.

"It may be that humanitarian concerns about the huge number of miles family or counsel would have to travel to see inmates are not a priority, but commissioners should take a look at the financial impact on your county. While Dickens is under new management, the new private company CiviGenics has almost as bad a record as the previous one. Just last week, Texas Jail Project received reports from people with relatives incarcerated at Dickens; those inmates were evidently locked in blocks with gang members who administered beat downs that were ignored until serious injuries (some requiring surgery) occurred. The families are considering lawsuits against the county that put their prisoners here (Taylor County) as well as CiviGenics. Your county government will be liable if similar situations arise with your inmates.

Moreover, upon release, inmates will be returning to their homes in your area and many will then have the infectious diseases, traumatic injuries and mental and emotional damage resulting from lack of care for which the Dickens jail is notorious. They will require ongoing services that will further impact your county."

Anonymous said...

Your rightabout the litigation.

I'm not not for contracting the jail out, I'm just telling you to watch for it to happen.

Too many close relationships between Smith County and CEC.

Anonymous said...

You got it right about the newspaper because J.B. Smith is right in the middle of the owners and that could be a juicy story!

Did you know the jail inmates are regularly tested for tuberculosis? It is nasty in there, but they want to keep it that way. Looks better for a "new jail".

Here is the DL on the new jail... J.B. wants more power and money. Very necessary when J.B. is a full-blown alcoholic$, gambler$, and pays the highest priced prostitutes$. ADD IT UP. $$$

Anonymous said...

A very large percentage of the Smith County inmates are small-time indigent drug users. If Smith County would build a rehab institution instead of jail, they might have a few law-abiding citizens come out of their system. I've heard that it cost the tax-payor less money to rehab these inmates than for a jail cell.

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