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The Firebrand
By the time Abraham Lincoln was sworn in as the 16th President, seven Southern slaveholding states had already seceded from the Union and formed a new national government.
One of the new Confederacy's first acts was to seize most Federal arsenals that were located within their territory.
One such facility that remained in Northern hands was located at Ft. Sumter, South Carolina, on an island in Charleston harbor.
Lincoln had barely finished taking the oath of office when he was informed that a crisis was imminent at Ft. Sumter, which was badly in need of supplies.
Lincoln chose to resupply the troops rather than to capitulate to Southern demands for surrender of the fort. After an ultimatum was rejected by U.S. Major Robert Anderson, the Union commander at Ft. Sumter, the Confederate bombardment began at 4:30 AM on April 12, 1861 – 150 years ago today.
The war was on.
Just as someone squeezed off "the shot heard 'round the world" that kicked off the Revolutionary War, somebody also fired the first shot of the Civil War. Who was it?
History credits many people as having had the "honor" of firing the first shot. One such individual was named Edmund Ruffin, a slaveholder and poster child for state's rights, who was hanging around South Carolina because he was angered that his native Virginia hadn't yet left the Union. (Something the state would do a few days later.)
When he wasn't busy preaching secessionism, Ruffian was a noted agronomist who made valuable contributions to agricultural productivity in the South.
The first return shot fired from the fort came from Union Capt. Abner Doubleday – the same guy who somehow got woven into baseball's creation myth.
The outgunned Union forces were pummeled from artillery batteries located on shore for 34 hours before surrendering. Miraculously, not a single Union life was lost during the shelling. Two soldiers did die later when a cannon exploded firing a volley during the surrender ceremonies. (Within months, formalities like "surrender ceremonies" would be forgotten in the war as chivalry quickly gave way to carnage.)
Four years to the day after Anderson lowered the American flag over Ft. Sumter, he was back to raise it again over the recaptured fort.
The defeat of the Confederacy didn't sit well with firebrand Ruffin. Two months after Lee's defeat at Appomattox Court House, Ruffin wrapped himself in a Confederate flag and blew his brains out with a shotgun.
1 Comment | tags: abner doubleday, abraham lincoln, baseball, civil war, confederacy, edmund ruffin, ft. sumter, u.s. presidents | posted in Polaroids From the Old and New West
One Nation … Indivisible
Millions of American school children begin each day by reciting the "Pledge of Allegiance," never questioning why the phrases "one nation" and "indivisible" (which many believe to be "invisible" anyway) are contained within.
These simple words encapsulate the question of secession: whether a state in the "one nation" of the United States of America could constitutionally "divide from" that country. This question led to a civil war in America that claimed over 600,000 lives.
It can be argued that the first shot of that war didn't come at Ft. Sumter, South Carolina in 1861, but a few months earlier and a hundred-and-fifteen miles away at a church in Columbia, South Carolina. It was there, 150 years ago today, that those assembled unanimously said adios to the United States, leaving the 33-state Union behind.
The vote for secession came about in response to the election a month earlier of Abraham Lincoln, who had promised to limit the spread of slavery during his administration. As the southern state with the highest percentage of slaves, South Carolina led the fight to keep the "peculiar institution" intact. Within two months, lame duck president James Buchanan set on his hands while six other slave states left the Union to join South Carolina in the new Confederate States of America.
The preservation of the horrid institution of African-American slavery was the reason the Confederacy was created, but the restoration of the Union, and not slavery's abolition, was why most Northerners fought in the Civil War.
South Carolina paid dearly for leading the way on secession. After General Sherman's Union troops completed their "March to the Sea" in Savannah, Georgia, they turned their vengence towards South Carolina, the state they felt most responsible for starting the war. In early 1865, Sherman's troops cut a swath of destruction across the state, reducing Columbia, the "cradle of secession," to ashes.
So, the secessionist question was answered once-and-for-all by the Union armies, right? Not so fast. In recent years, large secessionist movements have grown in states like Alaska and Texas where one poll claimed that 22% of the population believed that secession is a right granted by the Constitution.
And how is South Carolina planning to remember secession; an act intended to allow the state to forever keep blacks in forced servitude?
By having a ball.
That's right. In an egregious display of bad taste, the "Secessionist Gala" will be held tonight in downtown Charleston, which will include a play, dinner, dancing, and the display of the original "Ordinance of Secession." The local chapter of the NAACP plans to protest the event, which their president calls "a celebration of slavery."
Just when you thought the wounds of the Civil War had finally scarred over, some folks just had to come in and rip off the scabs.
3 Comments | tags: charleston, civil war, confederacy, confederate states of america, ft. sumter, ordinance of secession, pledge of allegiance, slavery | posted in Polaroids From the Old and New West


I've always been a highly-opinionated individual. Being a graphic designer helps me to visually formulate my opinions on the current state of anything in witty, satirical and biting ways that get people's blood pressure up, sometimes my own.
Following is every graphic editorial by Jud Burgess that ran in the El Paso Times paper and online pages throughout 2016. Enjoy...or not.
One of my favorites. A pigeon appropriately relieves itself, exposing Donald Trump's real agenda — Make Me Great Again.
It's gotten ugly and it will only get worse as the Republicans try to derail Trump's quest to be their nominee.
Ted Cruz wins this weeks' round of "King of the Hill." He'll get knocked down soon enough, and when he does, he'll need to clean those boots real good.
A series of graphic editorials where I manipulate Hillary's logo, giving it new meaning, while saying something about the state of their battle for the Democratic nomination.
This first in the series captures the Bernie momentum that pretty much had stopped Hillary in her tracks. What was once the foregone conclusion that she would receive the coronation as the nominee changed instantly in light of the Bernie Revolution.
Second in the HILLARY VS. BERNIE series reflects the near impossibility of Sanders beating Hillary in light of her political juggernaut machine. Bernie has his shield, sword, and the backing of one of the largest grass roots movements not seen in recent times.
Third in the HILLARY VS. BERNIE series. The math just isn't adding up for Bernie but he's staying the course. Hillary is ready for takeoff and Bernie is going to feel the heat to withdraw and call on his supporters to align with Hillary.
Fourth in the HILLARY VS. BERNIE series. Bernie is silently setting the political agenda and Hillary, if she wants access to Bernie's supporters, will have to modify her agenda to accommodate his.
Donald Trump is shoveling something but it isn't coal.
Ted Cruz finally gave up his fools errand trying to be Donald Trump and take it to a brokered convention. Did you know that 5 other Republican presidential candidates in this election cycle claimed to have been instructed by God to run? A lot of heartbreak and compromised faiths.
Hey Einstein! Think you know everything about today's issues? Take a close look at these astounding comparisons of facts and figures...they'll open your mind and maybe even get you to see things differently. You might even see things you don't want to admit are there.
I wanted to create a combination of image and words that captured the horror of what happened to 102 Americans, virtually all part of the Latin LGBTQ community. They were enjoying life in a place they felt safe and accepted. A place absent of judgement and fear for all but one day, June 12, 2016.
Fact – Minimum wage has not much more than doubled in the last 35 years.
Fact 2 – Epic concert ticket prices are outrageous compared to the 80s.
Since December 2015, I've contributed about 25 weekly graphics to the EPTimes and this is the only 100% UNBIASED graphic editorial I've done to this point.
We tend to see "our" candidate as the obvious choice whether it is he or she, while we see the other as the one who MUST NEVER become president because they will bring our America to its knees.
Usher in the Four Horsemen of the Great Apocalypse.
They are working against our country, trying to tear it down, trying to steal our rights. Us against them.
There are two halves to America and each side is crystal right.
And each side is dead wrong.
Every Olympics is a microcosm of the human family. We love watching them because of the dramatic plot lines embedded within every sporting event, every country participating and every competitor who represents the best their country has to offer.
I'm poking fun at the tendency of some people of means who have $$$ to burn and use it to curry favor with politicians.
We all have friends and know people who have that framed picture on their wall that shows them with the elite and powerful, their powerful pretend politician friends that build their self-esteem and self-importance.
And I couldn't help but throw a little shade on the Clintons, the poster family when it comes to entitlement and never-ending suspicions as to what their hidden agenda might be. A conspiracy-theorist's dream come true.
With Donald Trump what you see is what you get, no changing that leopard's spots...incapable of pivoting. An American idiot.
But Hillary is a much more nuanced and complex individual that is intelligent enough to know how to downplay some of the most stupid moves a person with that kind of power can make. Inexplicable decisions that bring on the kind of scrutiny and disdain she finds herself and the Clinton Foundation on the receiving end of.
Inspired by Trump's infamous Cinco de Mayo tweet about Trump Tower's taco bowls AND also by his Latino surrogates' statement about there being Taco Trucks on every corner if Trump were to lose the presidency.
As a dad with a gay daughter and having been a former skater who survived the 70s skateboard scene, hospitalizations included, I'm here to say that Brian Anderson's declaration to the world as being gay is big.
Skateboarding has always been a rebels cause.
Done right it's self-destructive and pushes a skater to the edges of what a body can take.
It's also never been the territory of gay people until recently. All about machismo and guy camaraderie, drinking and raising hell among other vices.
Brian Anderson says he is a skater first and gay second so he will continue to burn the torch and wreck himself but it's great to see him comfortable enough with America to embrace himself as gay and share it with the rest of us.
We are all individuals with different personalities, abilities and persuasions.
Jesus embraces each one of us as his own brother/sister without reservations.
Vince Perez, Claudia Ordaz and El Paso's D.A.
County Commissioner Vince Perez and City Council Rep Claudia Ordaz.
They are El Paso's recently married Power Hungry Couple.
House of Cards meet El Chuco.
I don't know either of them personally but as a bystander watching them in the goldfish bowl of El Paso politics, I can see right through the thin veneer of their political motives.


One was a tragedy, where a family member was struck by a bus and is currently still in the hospital.
The second event was an inner desire to transition my life. Fall reminded me of how its time for leaves to change color and fall of trees. Yes, they were once part off the tree but now they must separate. I too must let go of the things not working in my life and prepare for the next phase.
A year ago, I didn't know the things I know today. A year from now will also be different. I don't know.
The journey is one day at a time.
As an extra, I came across this video of a girl who planned missionary work right after high school for a few months. Her plan changed because "you never know."


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Koehler: Hair-trigger alert
I feel the finger on the trigger. I also feel it on the button.
Koehler: Hair-trigger alert I feel the finger on the trigger. I also feel it on the button. Check out this story on battlecreekenquirer.com: http://bcene.ws/29dhOGf
Columnist Published 4:14 p.m. ET June 29, 2016
Robert Koehler is an op-ed columnist and editor.(Photo: KRT)
"Dear President Obama," the letter begins. It goes on to remind him of something he said in his 2008 presidential campaign: "Keeping nuclear weapons ready to launch on a moment's notice is a dangerous relic of the Cold War. Such policies increase the risk of catastrophic accidents or miscalculation."
The letter, from the Union of Concerned Scientists, is signed by 90 scientists, including 20 Nobel laureates. It continues: "After your election, you called for taking 'our nuclear weapons off hair-trigger alert.'"
Presidential campaigns, mass killings, war . . . nuclear war. Washington, we have a problem.
The time has come for extraordinary change. Who we are — this monstrous, planet-destroying entity called America — needs to be decommissioned and reconstructed on a foundation more solid than the present myths of greatness, greed and entitlement. We need a new vision, a manifestation of the moral intelligence that is also part of who we are: a vision of how this nuclear-armed, gun-saturated nation can disarm itself and, in the process, become a force for real peace.
"We urge you," the scientists write, "to take U.S. land-based missiles off hair-trigger alert and to remove from U.S. war plans the option of launching these weapons on warning. The United States should encourage Russia to follow suit, but it should not wait to act. Taking these steps would have profound security benefits for all Americans by reducing the risk of nuclear disaster."
I think about this in the context of the Orlando murders and see a gruesome similarity between U.S. militarism and the violent forays of armed loners — and the "concentrated horror" both inflict. The main difference, as far as I can tell, is that the human carnage and environmental destruction resulting from U.S. militarism remain emotionally invisible, you might say, to the American public.
In a powerful essay at Tom Dispatch, William J. Astore, a retired U.S. Air Force lieutenant colonel, takes a harsh look at the wars we have waged from on high since World War II, noting that "for all its promise of devastating power delivered against enemies with remarkable precision and quick victories at low cost (at least to Americans), air power has failed to deliver, not just in the ongoing war on terror but for decades before it. If anything, by providing an illusion of results, it has helped keep the United States in unwinnable wars, while inflicting a heavy toll on innocent victims on our distant battlefields."
He adds: "At the same time, the cult-like infatuation of American leaders, from the president on down, with the supposed ability of the U.S. military to deliver such results remains remarkably unchallenged in Washington."
He points out that in the Korean War, in the early '50s, the U.S. pounded North Korea with 635,000 tons of bombs and 32,557 tons of napalm. Cities were leveled, but the war ended in no better than a stalemate; more than half a century later, Korea remains a bitterly divided nation.
Then came a decade of war in Southeast Asia. By the time this pointless war ended in dishonorable defeat, the U.S. had dropped, according to Astore, "a staggering seven million tons of bombs, the equivalent in explosive yield to more than 450 Hiroshimas," on Vietnam, Laos and Cambodia. We also poisoned the jungle with defoliants, having given ourselves free rein to commit environmental carnage with horrific consequences well into the unforeseeable future for absurdly limited tactical ends.
It took a decade and a half for the military-industrialists to overcome "Vietnam syndrome," the public's weariness of war, but eventually they were able to put Iraq in the crosshairs, devastating the country with bombs and missiles — including munitions made of depleted uranium — over the course of several decades, spreading immediate carnage and long-lasting genetic damage, all of course to no end except endless war.
And the War on Terror, which I call the War To Promote Terror, is still going on 15 years later, with no end in sight. The funding for it is unquestioned and seemingly limitless. The point of it is also unquestioned, except at the social and political margins. It certainly is unquestioned in the 2016 presidential race, especially the winnowed down version of it — Trump vs. Clinton — that's left. The military-corporate branch of the American government remains well beyond public reach.
And so I think about the Orlando murders and the unending grief they have caused in the context of all the murders the U.S. and its allies and its enemies have committed in the name of war.
And I think about the congressional failure to enact any legislation in regard to the sale of assault weapons in the context of the letter 90 scientists associated with the Union of Concerned Scientists wrote to President Obama, reminding him that before he was president he expressed awareness of the danger of having nuclear weapons on hair-trigger alert, and asking him to remove the 450 land-based nuclear missiles (but not the submarine-based missiles) from high alert.
And I wonder at my certainty that the request will be ignored. And I wonder what will happen next.
Robert Koehler, syndicated by PeaceVoice, is an award-winning Chicago journalist and editor.
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Amish Kitchen: Eicher family celebrates a winter birthday
A 'really good" artist's first sale for actual money
Mullis: Bringing December into January
Mullis: Greeting the new year in pink
Amish Kitchen: Delicious food and family time
Mullis: Final exams provide early Christmas present

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March 2017 Discussion
Posted on March 20, 2017 July 2, 2017 by jake
March 2017 was the first month of Text Club, and we played+discussed 'Midnight. Swordfight.' by Chandler Groover, 'Secret Agent Cinder' by Emily Ryan, and 'Magical Makeover' by S. Woodson.
This discussion was originally on Imzy.com (RIP), but here's an archive of comments. If you made one of these comments on Imzy & would like it removed or anything, just let me know!
Jake:
Alright! Some really interesting work here. What did you all think of these three?
Both "Magical Makeover" & "Midnight. Swordfight." included some designers' commentary at the end. I'm pasting each of those below in comments, for reference.
So what did you all make of the "dress-up" mechanics in these three games?
Anyone figure out the mystery of Matilda in "Midnight. Swordfight."? I managed to talk to her & got a bit of background from Dmitri, but I have a feeling her storyline runs a little further, since I can't quite figure out how to integrate it with the rest of the game (thematically/narratively).
ludzu:
Besides the link between the three games of "getting dressed/made up for the fairy tale ball" that Jake mentioned, another related theme I found is the PC is an intruder or at least personal enemy to the upper classes who are throwing the party. Your dress becomes a disguise and tool by which you win out against aristocrats. Using makeup you have no clue of the effects of in Magical Makeover is revealed to be part of your plan to steal from the princess, in which success or failure depends on if you chose right in the beginning, though failures have their value in helping you understand the world you're in. You escape or win the final duel with the countess in Midnight Swordfight through constantly experimenting with costumes and weapons to see how you can interact with and within bizarre and abstracted spaces. And even if dressing up in weapons in Secret Agent Cinder has ultimately no effect on anything, it's a funny little bit that helps set up the revolutionary spy character nicely.
An interesting character in Secret Agent Cinder is the dauphin, because he isn't as clear an antagonist as the other two games but he occupies a similar role, since he's also royalty. However he doesn't want the "choking protocol" of the elite class and is romantically interested in YOU, unlike how the other two games involve the PC having some degree of romantic feelings for the royalty that wants your throat. Seeing the option to punch him after reading his long marriage proposal made me laugh, and it offers a nice counterbalance to the "happily ever after" choice. Unlike the rags-to-riches ideology of the fairy tale, marrying the prince means at best you're going undercover, at worst you may be headed for the guillotine. And the reason why a perfect ending is impossible becomes clear in light of the fairy tale: Cinderella will always leave a shoe behind as evidence.
Reading Emily Short's thoughts on how Magical Makeover succeeds where sorting hat CYOAs often fail, I agree with her that MM works as a "tightly knitted anthology". It feels cheap when these sorts of games have you make choices that correspond to completely different universes, but this game feels like it has one cohesive world. It's the little threads between endings that sell that feeling, like when Millicent receives a premonition that you're in trouble in one ending, and in another you find out that it was your fairy friend/prisoner psychically reaching her to help you. Another thing is that every ending involves fantasy grounded in real life details, so no story feels weirder than another: the PC has magical flight sickness, Amherst exists in an alternate reality that's basically ours but with plant people, the baby cassowary you try to free dreams of going to a normal school, etc. Emily also mentions the satire of the premise, of a world where makeup actually defines your future as much as cosmetics companies want you to believe it does, but I appreciate the way the details of the world seep in anyway. It adds a human touch to the premise that makes the whole experience more memorable and kinder. Also girl games are horrible, I can confirm this from seeing the SA thread the author mentioned.
Midnight Swordfight is pretty dense to take in with a LOT to talk about, but that's what made it interesting. The way space and time fluctuate and run over each other was very cool, I thought it was a clever way to distort how players approach adventure games, time being infinitely at your disposal as you explore a finite space. I thought the sequence in which you fly to the moon as a pig, which was probably my favorite bit in the game, could be compared with Magical Makeover's sense of getting a huge, unexpected result from trying something out of the blue, though the constant, smaller discoveries made in this game are what makes this moment more unique to the rest of it. I don't know exactly how to apply Chandler's commentary to his game on the whole, maybe it relates to perspective or the reality of things being beyond parody or belief, but the paleontologist's find does make me think specifically about the vorpal blade and huge corpse of the beast on the moon. That and Dmitri saying the vorpal blade "can cut through anything simply because it doesn't exist" has got me thinking if there's more to it than just absurdity. I hope other people will add their thoughts about this! There's a lot of facets of the game I wonder about even if I'm completely off about them, and it's my favorite of the three for that reason.
Btw I never found anything else about Matilda, but I think she's the reason the countess hates you, thinking you killed her friend. It's the best guess I have for what the "rumor" could be.
"thought the sequence in which you fly to the moon as a pig, which was probably my favorite bit in the game, could be compared with Magical Makeover's sense of getting a huge, unexpected result from trying something out of the blue"
Yeah, likewise. Also Dmitri's seemingly-huge body of responses to your keyworded inquiries. I love that sense of stumbling into deep water.
Oh, interesting theory! Dmitri is so evasive about the rumor — "if it wasn't this rumor, then it would have been another …"
"Oh, interesting theory! Dmitri is so evasive about the rumor — "if it wasn't this rumor, then it would have been another …" "
I've noticed that, he has a lot to say but he likes to dance around the truth of the more vague subjects, which I guess makes sense thematically. Might be more likely that what the rumor itself doesn't matter. Besides, I don't know if my theory works so well now that I think about it; the countess did say she's dueling you out of revenge, but that's a pretty broad description. The one common thing between the rumor and Matilda's murderer (she does imply she was murdered at least) is that we don't know what/who both are.
Yes me too, that's a good way of putting it!! The dress up parts in all three games are cool in how they lightly encourage you to try all your options for laughs or greater world detail, but as someone who wants to try everything those parts in Midnight were so rewarding.
I'm playing it again and only now did I remember the Red Death reference was from Poe's story! I'm kinda embarrassed I couldn't recognize it even though I knew it was a reference to something. I'm seeing more clearly now the fairy tale/masquerade stuff in Midnight Swordfight, compared to Secret Agent Cinder's French Revolution take on Cinderella and Magical Makeover's own internal fantasy lore, as a hodgepodge of references to Poe and Carroll (and probably others), meant to take familiar gothic and surreal elements and load them with a stranger thematic weight. Reading the description of the beast's colossal size for example, it really strikes a chord and forces you to think about it outside the level of straight literary reference. And I'm pretty sure no one else thinks the Jabberwocky was THAT big in the poem, anyways.
Pseudavid:
Let's see if I can put together some thoughts about Midnight Swordfight.
It's obvious pointing that one of the most important characteristics of the game is its extreme artificiality. The language is baroque; the plot is a convoluted fantasy without the slightest hint of consistency; the setting is a mix of every available anachronism; the gameplay, finally, is the absolute opposite of the naturalistic, simulationist, world-model classic parser style.
I specially like this last point. I've sucked at parser for decades. My mind simply doesn't work that way. I have problems thinking things to do, and often I also have problems finding the correct English word to do that (I didn't start learning English until 9).
So I love games that ease that. MS, with its very limited verb list and its in-game and in-story help system, the script, completely solves the problem for me. I wonder if its solution is widely applicable to other games. The script in MS makes lots of sense in-story; it suggests that this is all a play (ask Dimitri about the script), which has an obvious connection with the dress-up mechanic, and it all fits great in the overall artificiality.
The script is immersion-breaking, but everything in the game is immersion-breaking. That's why I wonder how this kind of thing could be done in a classical parser style, where the player expects to have a world (model) where all kinds of verbs can be consistently used with all kinds of nouns.
"I have problems thinking things to do, and often I also have problems finding the correct English word to do that (I didn't start learning English until 9). … MS, with its very limited verb list and its in-game and in-story help system, the script, completely solves the problem for me. I wonder if its solution is widely applicable to other games."
Right! I think I first heard of "Midnight. Swordfight." in Emily short's column "Text Adventures For People Who Hate Guessing The Verb", which has a few other recommendations in that framework.
I went back to ask Dmitri about the playscript just now, and noticed another detail — he mentions that he doesn't like to go to sleep, because he never wakes up. He just goes to sleep, dreams, then goes to sleep in that dream, and so on, nesting forever deeper in a dream-within-a-dream-within-etc. Meanhwile, the player only ever wakes up! The command to exit the swordfight is "wake up" but it's also the command to return to the swordfight.
"The script is immersion-breaking, but everything in the game is immersion-breaking."
Yeah, it's great! It's like Brecht :]
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hotwateracres	 July 5, 20171:13 am	 Reply
So I should be upfront about my biases here: I grew up playing parser games and they're my platonic ideal of a text adventure. I've seen some things I've quite liked in Twine, and I actually think I prefer this month's Twine selections to the parser-based "Midnight," but in general I don't feel truly satisfied until I'm typing commands.
There were neat moments in "Midnight" but ultimately I wound up slightly disliking it. I don't like fantasy or sci-fi fiction where I can't figure out the internal logic and rules of the setting, and I'd be hard-pressed to tell you what the setting of "Midnight" even is. It's a fancy party in what's supposed to be the 19th century, but a lot more queer. There's a digression involving space travel, there's weird timey-wimey stuff, there's a script dictating everything I do so maybe it's a play? Something like "Counterfeit Monkey" where there are rules and a clearly articulated setting is much more fun for me, even if I like the queer stuff and learning what "angels on horseback" are.
"Cinder" and "Makeover" were fun for what they were, but "Makeover" is very linear and "Cinder" is much more visually oriented. Neither of these qualities are intrinsically bad, but they make me feel a little deflated. Part of the fun of interactive fiction is the idea of many branching paths, whereas "Makeover" almost entirely depends on the first couple of choices you make. The tone of the writing is endearing and I found the setting much easier to imagine, but you don't get to do all that much.
"Cinder" was also clever, but one of my favorite things about IF is getting to read a creative response to creative input, or a fun description of my gruesome death when I make a horrible choice. Another bias I have is that I strongly prefer story to puzzles. I got frustrated trying to figure out "Cinder" and I don't think I ever saw the ideal ending, though I did see multiple endings.


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Last Monday it seemed that a miracle had occurred. The Jerusalem Post reported on Tuesday, August 7, that Prime Minister Ariel Sharon had actually conducted a discussion on hasbara (public relations) with top officials in the Foreign Ministry and in his own office. He told the meeting that "Israel should make a point of emphasizing the Jewish right to the land, because it is too often forgotten!"
One hopes Sharon's idea will do some good. It reflects once again, however, the neglect by successive governments, whether Right or Left, of their manifest obligation to create machinery for spreading knowledge of the fundamental fact of our existence in our homeland. Most specifically, they failed to counter the fantastic mendacities of the Arabs with our truth.
Year after year, day and night, the Arabs, with the "Palestinian" branch as their spearhead, have conducted a many-faceted campaign of denigration throughout the world, openly aiming at the demonization of Israel as a state and of the Jews as a nation. The central message of that campaign is that "Palestine is our country and the Jews have taken it from us." On this slogan, the Arabs, over time, built up a completely fabricated history of a Palestinian nation (which never existed) to replace the history of 4,000 years of Jewish association with the Land of Israel. Here is Palestinian Authority Chairman Yasser Arafat, without a blush telling the UN Assembly in November 1974 that Arabs were "occupied for thousands of years in agriculture and building, in disseminating culture throughout the land, setting up an example of freedom of religion, and serving as a faithful guardian of the holy places of all the faiths." To balance these fantasies, they have developed an anti-Israel ideology equaling, and perhaps outdoing, in text and caricature the propaganda of the Nazis. From time to time, they turn even to the demonic anti-Semitism of the Middle Ages - as Suha Arafat did in the presence of Hillary Clinton a couple of years ago.
The Arabs' propaganda drumbeat has never ceased, and the governments of Israel have failed even to consider seriously the growing problem of a hostile public opinion throughout the world, where even the most obvious nonsense may be swallowed if it is repeated often enough without challenge.
Not the least serious consequence of our governments' failure is the despair of our friends - non-Jewish as well as Jewish - who are not equipped with the needed authoritative response to the Arab propaganda.
To the aid of the Arabs, moreover, have come a host of allies. Classic anti-Semitism - of course - now posing as "legitimate" political anti-Zionism; but also a battery of some of the leading media in the world. Examples: The Times of London, The New York Times, Le Monde, the BBC, CNN, etc. etc. In all of them there are regular distortions or suppression of news - so as to make the Arabs look good and the Jews look bad.
In short, a tremendous problem - and Israel's reply is exemplified by the opinions expressed by two foreign ministers, each in his time responsible for hasbara: Moshe Dayan, who said "We don't need hasbara. It is important what we do, not what we say," and Shimon Peres - who believes we shouldn't trouble our heads with history.
The decision taken at Sharon's meeting bears but minimal relation to the magnitude, the depth and diversity of what should be done. It is a tinkering with the problem, a nibble at its edges; it is not even the beginning of a solution.
When Winston Churchill became British prime minister in World War II, he at once tackled the problem of war information - of hasbara. He appointed a minister of information and - over the protest of foreign minister Anthony Eden - a ministry with a worldwide reach was established. Eden did not realize that no Foreign Office is built and specialized and equipped for the very large task of war information. Indeed, no country at war in our time can do without a separate department for information abroad - and Israel least of all.
The task of Israel's hasbara must be tackled not by occasional sudden sallies but by a separate permanent department in the government. It must be headed by a minister dedicated to the task. He can have no other business. In the debates at the cabinet table he must inject an appreciation of the impact of information. His senior staff, which must maintain a 24-hour-a-day service, must be experts on all the subjects which have a bearing on the dispute with the Arabs: Jewish history in Eretz Yisrael, Zionist history and the British Mandate, the history of Arab claims, and more. To ensure the essential volume of its message, in the US, in cooperation with Jewish and pro-Israel Christian bodies a nationwide monitoring organization must be created - and a special program for dealing with what we are told in the grave hasbara, or anti-hasbara, situation in the universities.
It was a positive move by the prime minister to have that discussion last Monday - but it is most desirable that he should ponder the need for solving the major problem that persists because the information seat in his government remains empty.


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Q: javascript dynamic regex vs hard typed and captures I've been at this for hours -- I think I need sleep... but no matter how I alter the expression javascript will only capture the 1st and 3rd elements:
var number = 09416;
var mat = "([0-9]+/[0-9]+/[0-9]+\\s+[0-9]+:[0-9]+)\\s+([A-Z]+)\\s+[0-9,]+\\s+(.*?"+number+".+)";
//          month / day / year      hour  :  min        AMPM      byte size    filename containing number in middle
var pattern = new RegExp(mat,"gi");
var arr = ['09/07/2010  07:08 PM                1,465,536 BOL09416 BOL31.exe',
           '09/06/2010  12:13 PM                  110,225 BOL09416_BOL030.exe',
           '09/08/2010  04:46 AM                   60,564 BOL09416_BOL32.exe',
           '09/08/2010  01:08 PM                   63,004 bol09416_bol33.exe']
for (var i=0;i<arr.length;i++){
     var match = pattern.exec(arr[i]);
     alert(match);
}

It is all spaces (no tabs), I've rewriten the regex to be as explainatory as possible... It correctly matches on arr[0] and arr[2], but nulls on the other two.
Tried looking for possible typo's, trying different .+,.*,.+? etc. All online matchers show that it should be working: Example
Anybody  have any ideas as to what I'm missing?
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Update:
Going through all the awesome suggestions I am stumped even further:
var match = arr[i].match(/([0-9]+\/[0-9]+\/[0-9]+\s+[0-9]+:[0-9]+)\s+([A-Z]+)\s+[0-9,]+\s+(.*?09416.+)/g);

gives match[0] = full string match[1] = undefined. Basically no captures.
where as:
var match = /([0-9]+\/[0-9]+\/[0-9]+\s+[0-9]+:[0-9]+)\s+([A-Z]+)\s+[0-9,]+\s+(.*?09416.+)/g.exec(arr[i]);

DOES return match[0] = full string, match[1] = date, and so on.
So I guess my real question is how to include dynamically made RegExpressions, and have multiple captures? As the only difference between:
var number = "09416";
var mat = "([0-9]+/[0-9]+/[0-9]+\\s+[0-9]+:[0-9]+)\\s+([A-Z]+)\\s+[0-9,]+\\s+(.*?09416.+)";
var pattern = new RegExp(mat,'g');

and
/([0-9]+\/[0-9]+\/[0-9]+\s+[0-9]+:[0-9]+)\s+([A-Z]+)\s+[0-9,]+\s+(.*?09416.+)/g.exec(arr[i]);

is that I hard-typed the number.

A: var number = 09416;
    //          month / day / year      hour  :  min        AMPM      byte size    filename containing number in middle
    var mat = '^(\d{2}\/\d{2}\/\d{4})\s+(\d{2}:\d{2}\s*[AP]M)\s+((\d+[\d,]?))\s+(.' + number + '.*)$';
var pattern = new RegExp(mat);

var arr = ['09/07/2010  07:08 PM                1,465,536 BOL09416 BOL31.exe',
           '09/06/2010  12:13 PM                  110,225 BOL09416_BOL030.exe',
           '09/08/2010  04:46 AM                   60,564 BOL09416_BOL32.exe',
           '09/08/2010  01:08 PM                   63,004 bol09416_bol33.exe']

for (var i=0;i<arr.length;i++){
     var match = arr[i].match(pattern);
     console.log(match);
}

Use string.match instead of regex.exec.
Edited
I've removed the global and it worked like it should be. I've also rewritten the regex but it's quite close to yours (not a big deal).
Look at the output by firebug below:
["09/08/2010 04:46 AM ...,564 BOL09416_BOL32.exe", "09/08/2010", "04:46 AM", "60,564", "564", "BOL09416_BOL32.exe"]

0 "09/08/2010 04:46 AM ...,564 BOL09416_BOL32.exe" //whole match
1 "09/08/2010" //date
2 "04:46 AM" //time
3 "60,564" //bytes
4 "564" // last digit of bytes (i can't take this off. but it's harmless)
5 "BOL09416_BOL32.exe" //name of file

A: Try this regex:
new RegExp('([0-9]+/[0-9]+/[0-9]+\\s+[0-9]+:[0-9]+)\\s+(AM|PM)\\s+([0-9,]+)\\s+([^0-9]*'+number+'.+)','gi')

*

*Time

*AM/PM

*File size

*File name

A: I would suggest you try Regexr to build the expression.
try this
([0-9]+/[0-9]+/[0-9]+ +?[0-9]+:[0-9]+) +?([A-Z]+) +?[0-9,]+ +?(.*?09416.*)

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How to find out if you live in an earthquake hot zone
By Michael Finney and Randall Yip
BERKELEY, Calif. (KGO) -- It's no secret we live in earthquake country. But even in the Bay Area, some areas are more at risk for major damage from a large quake than others. Two experts helped us identify the areas most vulnerable to catastrophic damage.
Here's what you need to know to find out if you're in an Earthquake hot zone.
A building in San Francisco's Marina District collapsed like a house of cards in the Loma Prieta earthquake. Something similar happened in 1964 in Japan's Niigata quake. Experts blame damage to buildings in both quakes on liquefaction.
ABC7 Originals Documentary: 'The Earthquake Effect' provides in-depth coverage on Bay Area's readiness for the next major earthquake
"We have the very soft soils combined with a high water table that is known as liquefaction probabilities," said Brad Aagaard of the US Geological Survey in Mountain View.
USGS put out a map with the Bay Area's liquefaction zones in red -- for danger.
The zone starts at San Francisco's Marina District, goes along the Embarcadero and extends to the Airport and parts of Millbrae and Foster City.
In the East Bay, it's the outer portion of Alameda, along the Oakland waterfront as well as the airport.
Extensive damage is predicted for many buildings there in a quake that's a 6.7 magnitude or higher.
"If you have a structure or a house or any building that is built on that, it may tip or fall over," said Horst Rademacher of the Berkeley Seismological Lab.
RELATED: Hayward Fault - Here's how close you are to the most dangerous fault in America
Rademacher says he's even more concerned about the Hayward Fault which runs from San Pablo Bay to Fremont. It includes the cities of Berkeley, Oakland and Hayward.
Scientists say there's a one in three chance of a quake 6.7 or higher there in the next 24 years.
"I'm not saying there's no hazard due to liquefaction, but if you ask me what has the higher hazard, I would say the densely populated area around the Hayward fault."
But Aagaard of the US Geologicial Survey says liquefaction zones span several faults -- thus increasing the chance for damage. He points back to Loma Prieta.
"In Oakland, we have the Cypress Freeway, where we have strong amplification of the soil. And then we also had a significant amplification and damage within the Marina District," he said.
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The California Conservation Corp released this interactive map.
Albert Chan plugged in his address. The pin indicates where his home sits. The darkened areas are the liquefaction zone. "So it's important to have that earthquake insurance then," said Chan.
Robert Sand of Millbrae also discovered he's in a liquidation zone.
"You just have to take that chance," said the lifelong Bay Area resident.
Corey Topper found out she's not in a liquefaction zone, but isn't breathing any easier.
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"Sorry, I'm just looking around this whole map. It's pretty alarming," she said.
The interactive map is known as the Zap App.
Simply type in your address in the small rectangular box in the upper left hand corner of the map.
Then hit the minus sign to zoom out to a wider view until you see shaded areas. If the dot indicating the location of your home is in the darkened area, you live in a liquefaction zone.
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Jennifer Adams, New York City. David Greenwood, Thunder Bay. Mitchell Thomashow, Seattle. Alex Russ, Ithaca.
Different people perceive the same city or neighborhood in different ways. While one person may appreciate ecological and social aspects of a neighborhood, another may experience environmental and racialized injustice.
Sense of place—including place attachment and place meanings—can help people appreciate ecological aspects of cities.
A place may also conjure contradicting emotions—the warmth of community and home juxtaposed with the stress of dense urban living. Sense of place—the way we perceive places such as streets, communities, cities or ecoregions—influences our well-being, how we describe and interact with a place, what we value in a place, our respect for ecosystems and other species, how we perceive the affordances of a place, our desire to build more sustainable and just urban communities, and how we choose to improve cities. Our sense of place also reflects our historical and experiential knowledge of a place, and helps us imagine its more sustainable future. In this chapter, we review scholarship about sense of place, including in cities. Then we explore how urban environmental education can help residents to strengthen their attachment to urban communities or entire cities, and to view urban places as ecologically valuable.
To see more chapters from the book, click here.
In general, sense of place describes our relationship with places, expressed in different dimensions of human life: emotions, biographies, imagination, stories, and personal experiences (Basso, 1996). In environmental psychology, sense of place—how we perceive a place— includes place attachment and place meaning (Kudryavtsev, Stedman and Krasny, 2012). Place attachment reflects a bond between people and places, and place meaning reflects symbolic meanings people ascribe to places. In short, "sense of place is the lens through which people experience and make meaning of their experiences in and with place" (Adams, 2013). Sense of place varies among people, in history, and over the course of one's lifetime (http://www.placeness.com). People may attribute various meanings to the same place in relation to its ecological, social, economic, cultural, aesthetic, historical, or other aspects. Sense of place evolves through personal experiences, and defines how people view, interpret and interact with their world (Russ et al., 2015). In cities, sense of place echoes the intersections of culture, environment, history, politics, and economics, and is impacted by global mobility, migration, and blurred boundaries between the natural and built environment.
Research and scholarship around the relationship between "place" and learning reflects diverse perspectives, many of which are relevant to urban environmental education. Education scholars point to the need for people to develop specific "practices of place" that reflect embodied (perceptual and conceptual) relationships with local landscapes (natural, built, and human). Further, some scholars and researchers have used a lens of mobility—the globalized and networked flow of ideas, materials, and people—to build awareness of the relationship between the local and global in the construction of place in urban centers (Stedman and Ardoin, 2013). This suggests that understanding sense of place in the city generates an added set of situations and challenges, including dynamic demographics, migration narratives, and complex infrastructure networks, as well as contested definitions of natural environments (Heynen, Kaika and Swyngedouw, 2006). One critical question is how we think about sense of place in cities when places and people are constantly on the move. Given rural-urban migration, sense of place today includes where a person came from as much as where she now finds herself. In one study in a large, urban center in the U.S., Adams (2013) found that notions of "home" and identity for Caribbean-identified youth were largely constructed in the northeastern urban context in which they found themselves either through birth or immigration. Such dimensions of place relationships are vital for thinking about meaningful and relevant urban environmental education.
Sense of place is determined by personal experiences, social interactions, and identities.
Understanding sense of place in the urban context would be incomplete without a critical consideration of cities as socially constructed places both inherited and created by those who live there. Critical geographers such as Edward Soja, David Harvey, and Doreen Massey draw on a Marxist analysis to describe cities as the material consequence of particular political and ideological arrangements under global capitalism. Critical educators (e.g., Gruenewald, 2003; Haymes, 1995) have drawn upon critical geography to demonstrate how cities are social constructions imbued with contested race, class, and gender social relationships that make possible vastly different senses of place among their residents. For example, Stephen Haymes (1995) argued that against the historical backdrop of race relations in Western countries, "in the context of the inner city, a pedagogy of place must be linked to black urban struggle" (p. 129). Although Haymes was writing twenty years ago, his claim that place-responsive urban education must be linked to racial politics resonates today with the Black Lives Matter movement in the U.S. and ongoing need for environmental educators to be in tune with the political realities that so deeply inform a given individual's sense of place. This also resonates with the notion that different people may ascribe different meanings to the same place. The complexity of meaning surrounding urban places and our understandings of such contested meanings make a powerful context for personal inquiry and collective learning.
In the U.S., Tzou and Bell (2012) used ethnographic approaches to examine the construction of place among urban young people of color. Their results suggest implications for equity and social justice in environmental education, such as the damage that prevailing environmental education narratives could do to communities of color in terms of power and positioning. Further, Gruenewald (2005) suggests that traditional modes of assessment, such as standardized tests, are problematic in place-based education; instead, we need to redefine education and research as forms of inquiry that are identifiably place-responsive and afford a multiplicity of approaches to define and describe people's relationships to the environment.
Although not always explicitly stated, sense of place is inherent to many environmental learning initiatives (Thomashow, 2002). A goal of such programs is nurturing ecological place meaning, defined as "viewing nature-related phenomena, including ecosystems and associated activities, as symbols" of a place (Kudryavtsev, Krasny and Stedman, 2012). This approach is prevalent in bioregionalism, the "no child left inside" movement, community gardening, sustainable agriculture, as well as in natural history, place-based, and other environmental education approaches. Place-based education has goals important to urban life, including raising awareness of place, of our relationship to place, and of how we may contribute positively to this constantly evolving relationship, as well as inspiring local actors to develop place-responsive transformational learning experiences that contribute to community well-being.
With the global population increasingly residing in cities, ecological urbanism requires new approaches to understanding place. How does sense of place contribute to human flourishing, ecological justice, and biological and cultural diversity? Using a theoretical basis from literature described above, we offer examples of activities to help readers construct field explorations that evoke, leverage, or influence sense of place. (Also, see a relevant diagram in Russ et al., 2015.) In practice, urban environmental education programs would combine different approaches to nurture sense of place, perhaps most prominently place-based approaches (Smith and Sobel, 2010), which teach respect for the local environment, including its other-than-human inhabitants, in any setting including cities.
In cities, factors such as rapid development and gentrification, mobility, migration, and blurred boundaries between the natural and built environment complicate sense of place.
Making students more consciously aware of their taken-for-granted places is an important aspect of influencing sense of place. Focusing on places students frequent, educators can ask questions like: "What kind of place is this? What does this place mean to you? What does this place enable you to do?" Hands-on activities that allow students to experience, recreate in, and steward more natural ecosystems in cities could be one approach to nurture ecological place meaning. Another activity could use conceptual mapping to highlight places and networks that are important to students, for example, related to commuting and transportation, the internet, food and energy sources, or recreation. Maps and drawings also might focus on sensory perceptions—sights, sounds and smells—or locate centers of urban sustainability. Such maps can help students learn about specific neighborhoods, investigate the relationship among neighborhoods, or create linkages between all the places they or their relatives have lived. Further, mapping activities may help students recognize how their own activities connect to the larger network of activities that create a city, as well as allow them to reflect on issues of power, access, and equity in relation to environmental concerns such as waste, air pollution, and access to green space.
Other observational and experiential activities to instill sense of place might include: (1) exploring boundaries or borders, for example, space under highways, transition zones between communities, fences and walls; (2) finding centers or gathering places and asking questions about where people congregate and why; (3) following the movements of pedestrians and comparing them to the movements of urban animals; (4) tracing the migratory flows of birds, insects and humans; (5) shadowing city workers who are engaged in garbage removal or other public services as they move around the city; (6) observing color and light at different times of the day; (7) observing patterns of construction and demolition; and (8) working with street artists to create murals. All of these activities could serve to develop new meanings and attachments to places that may or may not be familiar to people. The activities build on seminal works related to urban design, including Christopher Alexander's "Pattern Language," Randolph T. Hexter's "Design for Ecological Democracy," Jane Jacobs "The Death and Life of Great American Cities," Jan Gehl and Birgitte Svarre's "How to Study Public Life," and the rich material coming from New Geographies, the journal published by the Harvard University Graduate School of Design.
Activities that allow people to explore and interpret places together could contribute to developing a collective sense of place and corresponding place meanings. Participatory action research and other participatory approaches raise young people's critical consciousness, influence how they see themselves in relation to places, and build collective understandings about what it means to be young in a rapidly changing city. For example, photo-voice and mental mapping used during a participatory urban environment course allowed students, many of them from marginalized racial and ethnic groups, to experience a shift from viewing a community as a fixed geographic place to a dynamic, socially constructed space, and to describe how they experience and understand urban phenomena such as decay, gentrification, and access to green spaces (Bellino and Adams, 2014). These activities enabled students to expand their notions of what it means to be urban citizens, and to transform their ecological identities in ways that prompted them to take steps towards imagining environmentally, economically, and culturally sustainable futures.
Further, ecological place meaning can be constructed through storytelling, communication with environmental professionals, interpretation, learning from community members, and sharing students' own stories (Russ et al., 2015), as well as through representation of places through narratives, charts, music, poetry, photographs, or other forms that encourage dialogue and reflection about what places are and how they can be cared for (Wattchow and Brown, 2011). Other social activities, such as collective art-making, restoring local natural areas, or planting a community garden, could contribute to a collective sense of place that values green space and ecological aspects of place. New socially constructed place meanings can in turn help to promote community engagement in preserving, transforming, or creating places with unique ecological characteristics (e.g., fighting to keep a community garden safe from developers), and create opportunities to maintain these ecological characteristics (e.g., group-purchasing solar power). Environmental educators who are able to engage with a community over time can watch these initiatives take root and grow, and can observe individual and collective changes in sense of place.
Urban environmental education can leverage people's sense of place and foster ecological place meaning through direct experiences of places, social interactions in environmental programs, and nurturing residents' ecological identity.
In addition to paying attention to social construction of place, environmental educators can nurture ecological identity, which fosters appreciation of the ecological aspects of cities. Humans have multiple identities, including ecological identity, which reflects the ecological perspectives or ecological lens through which they see the world. Ecological identity focuses one's attention on environmental activities, green infrastructure, ecosystems, and biodiversity, including in urban places. Ecological identity in cities can be manifested in realizing one's personal responsibility for urban sustainability, and feeling oneself empowered and competent to improve local places (Russ et al., 2015). Urban environmental education programs can influence ecological identity, for example, by involving students in long-term environmental restoration projects where they serve as experts on environmental topics, by valuing young people's contribution to environmental planning, respecting their viewpoint about future urban development, and recognizing young people's efforts as ambassadors of the local environment and environmental organizations (e.g., through work/volunteer titles, labels on t-shirts, or workshop certificates). Even involving students in projects that allow them to become more familiar with their community from an ecological perspective goes a long way towards adding an ecological layer to their identity and perception of their city (Bellino and Adams, 2014).
The environmental education challenge presented in this chapter is how to embed deeper meanings of place and identity in dynamic urban environments. Because urban settings tend to be diverse across multiple elements, ranging from types of green space and infrastructure to global migration, there are countless ways to proceed. In addition, while environmental educators can design and facilitate experiences to access and influence people's sense of place, it is also important for educators to have a strong notion of their own sense of place. This is especially critical for environmental educators who may not have spent their formative years in a city. Such persons may have a sense of place informed more by frequent and ready access to natural areas, and less by access to urban diversity and the density and diversity of people found in an urban environment. It is important for all urban environmental educators to engage in reflective activities that allow them to learn about their personal sense of place, including what they value about the natural, human, and built environment. Demonstrating one's own continued learning, and learning challenges, will greatly aid in the process of facilitating other learners developing sense of place in diverse urban settings. Through sharing their own experiences with places, all learners can deepen our awareness of and sensitivity to our environment and to each other. Such awareness and receptivity to place can positively influence collective and individual actions that help create sustainable cities.
This essay will appear as a chapter in Urban Environmental Education Review, edited by Alex Russ and Marianne Krasny, to be published by Cornell University Press in 2017. To see more pre-release chapters from the book, click here.
This essay also appears at the North American Association of Environmental Educators site.
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Stedman, R. and Ardoin, N. (2013). Mobility, power and scale in place-based environmental education. In Krasny, M. and Dillon, J. (Eds.) Trading zones in environmental education: Creating transdisciplinary dialogue (pp. 231-251). New York: Peter Lang.
Thomashow, M. (2002). Bringing the biosphere home: Learning to perceive global environmental change. Cambridge, Massachusetts: The MIT Press.
Tzou, C.T. and Bell, P. (2012). The role of borders in environmental education: Positioning, power and marginality. Ethnography and Education, 7(2), 265-282.
Wattchow, B. and Brown, M. (2011). A pedagogy of place: Outdoor education for a changing world. Monash, Australia: Monash University Publishing.
Dr. David A. Greenwood is an Associate Professor and Canada Research Chair in Environmental Education at Lakehead University in Thunder Bay, Ontario, Canada, where he now lives in the forest with all of its wildlife.
Mitchell Thomashow devotes his life and work to promoting ecological awareness, sustainable living, creative learning, improvisational thinking, social networking, and organizational excellence.
Alex Kudryavtsev (pen name: Alex Russ) is an online course instructor for EECapacity, an EPA-funded environment educator training project led by Cornell University and NAAEE.
I'm writing a capstone for my EMBA on the social values impact of long term infrastructure projects utilizing the Public Private Partnerships method. This came about when I observe that much of the literature review on the performance assessment of P3s are based on value for money. The Canadian Auditor General's report and PPPCanada's annual report do not include social impact assessment. Your write up on Sense of Place is a breath of fresh air. – E. Rustia, P.Eng.
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Clinton and Morsi hold talks in Cairo amid protests (VIDEO)
15 Jul, 2012 02:15
Egyptian demonstrators protest against the visit of US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton (AFP Photo / Khaled Desouki) © AFP
US Secretary of State Hillary Clinton has held her first talks with newly elected Egyptian President Mohammed Morsi, as well as with military strongman Marshall Hussein Tantawi. Crowds took to the street to protest her visit.
Ms. Clinton said she was in Egypt to push for completion of post-revolutionary change in the country and for economic restoration. She stressed that the United States wants "to support the democracy" achieved by "the courage and sacrifice of the Egyptian people."One of the issues discussed by Clinton and Morsi was whether Egypt would continue to follow its previous foreign policy course. Egyptian foreign minister Kamal Amr told reporters at a news conference with Clinton that President Morsi would continue to respect "all peace treaties that Egypt is a party to – as long as the other party also respects them." Other key issues were the political transition and the resulting tensions in Egypt itself. Clinton said that resolving the crisis between the military and the Islamists, which has dogged the country's political scene in recent months, "requires dialogue and compromise, real politics."
Straddling the fence of Egyptian politics
On the second day of her visit, the US Secretary of State met with Field Marshal Hussein Tantawi, the chairman of the Supreme Council of the Armed Forces (SCAF), who served as the country's provisional head of state from February 2011 to July 2012. He was commended by Clinton for having protected the Egyptian revolution, "unlike the Syrian army." Few details of the hour-long meeting, which was much more low-key than previous talks with the president, were released. However, a US State Department official said Clinton and Tantawi had discussed the political transition and economic matters, including an aid package. Ahead of the meeting, she called on the Egyptian military to give President Morsi full powers and to return to its essential national security function. She also said the US would forgive $1 billion in Egyptian debt and would provide $280 million for the country's economic development. The aid comes on top of the $1.3 billion the US provides to the Egyptian military. Soon after meeting with Clinton, Field Marshall Tantawi said the country's armed forces would not allow a "certain group" to dominate the country. Though he did not specify which group he meant, his words were a clear allusion to the Muslim Brotherhood, who are now in control of the presidency and the legislature.This statement underscored the political tension between the two groups in control of the country: the military and the Muslim Brotherhood. Tensions between the two have been simmering throughout the transitional period that followed Hosni Mubarak's ouster. The Muslim Brotherhood, along with other Islamists, won the largest number of seats in the country's parliamentary elections, which took place over several stages between November and February. Political parties then tried to come to an agreement on the composition of a panel that was to be set up to draft the country's constitution. The Islamists in parliament tried to fill the panel with their own supporters, but that move was thwarted by Cairo's Administrative Court amid a boycott of liberals and secularists. Bickering between the parties ensued, and an agreement was only reached in June. By that time, however, a new political crisis had emerged. Shortly before the second round of the presidential elections, the country's Supreme Constitutional Court annulled the results of the parliamentary poll, effectively dissolving the lower chamber of parliament. Several days later, the SCAF issued a decree delegating itself a number of legislative and budgetary powers and abrogating those of the president. The decree also allowed the SCAF to appoint members of the constitutional panel, with additional powers to veto the panel's decisions.Soon after Mohammed Morsi stepped into his position on June 30, he issued an executive decree allowing parliament to reconvene. The decree also granted the legislature powers to draft a constitution instead of the ad hoc panel. The move appears to have deepened the crisis between the two branches of power, namely the Islamist-dominated legislature, backed by the president, and the military-backed courts. In the latest development, just as Hillary Clinton was meeting with Tantawi on Sunday, Cairo's Appeals Court refused to look into a lawsuit filed by parliamentary speaker Saad El-Katani, who challenged last month's decision to dissolve the legislature. The case now heads to Cairo's Administrative Court.
'US tries new tactics to maintain dominance'
Blogger and journalist Wael Eskander believes the US is not backing either of the sides in Egypt's internal political conflict. "Washington has always been supporting the power structures that serve its purposes, irrespective of whether they are democratic or not," Eskander told RT. "So, currently, they really don't care what kind of forces are there as long as they give the US what it actually requires."He said that what the US is trying to do now is to see who will win the political battle and reinforce the power structure that results from it.Middle East expert and independent journalist Larry Everest says that the troubles of the Egyptians are the last thing on Clinton's agenda."Hillary Clinton claims she is there to help the Egyptian people themselves to determine their future but that's not what's going on," he told RT. Washington is "working in a very fraught situation to make sure the Egyptian military, with which they have deep and long-standing ties, remains the dominant force in the Egyptian state as it remains today."For years, Cairo has been receiving from Washington around US $1.5 billion in aid annually. Most of this money goes to its military."The US remains a dominant power [in the region]. It's trying to maintain that dominance in the new situation, with new tactics in the wake of the Arab Spring," Everest added.
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produces where marginal revenue equals marginal cost.
we can go up to the demand curve to find the price.
What would happen if this market behaved as if it were under perfect competition?
they will produce where price equals marginal cost.
which reflects the price, intersects with the marginal cost curve.
this will be the quantity and this will be the price.
We can see that the monopolist reduces production.
And they do that in order to be able to charge more per unit.
because they can sell the units that they are selling at a higher price.
producer surplus under these two environments.
producer surplus, and total surplus?
Let's start with consumer surplus.
The consumer surplus under monopoly.
As always, is the area underneath the demand curve and above the price.
the quantity is relatively small, so that consumer surplus is this triangle here.
That is the consumer surplus under the monopolist.
because the quantity would be bigger, and the price would be lower.
So the consumer surplus, would be this bigger triangle here.
Clearly, consumers are better off under perfect competition than under monopolist.
they get to buy at a lower price per unit.
They are clearly better off.
What about the producer surplus?
the area underneath the price and above the marginal cost curve.
relatively small and the producer surplus is going to be this trapezoid here.
So, that is the producer surplus under the monopolist.
What about the producer surplus under the perfectly competitive firm?
The price is lower, so it starts down here, but the quantity is bigger.
So the triangle extends a little bit further to the right.
It goes all the way here, so it is this triangle.
So which of these is bigger?
Well the answer is clear.
the reason is is that producer surplus and profits are almost the same thing.
The difference between them is only the fixed costs.
So, if you're maximizing profits you are also maximizing producer surplus.
And we know that profits are maximized under the monopoly output.
Why do we know that the monopoly profits are greater?
The monopoly had the option of setting a lower price and decided against it.
output is indeed an optimal strategy.
It is better than any other strategy.
higher than in the case of perfect competition.
Last but not least let's add these areas together and look at total surplus.
The total surplus in the case of the monopolist is this trapezoid here.
It is bound by the demand curve.
By the marginal cost curve, but only up to the quantity that is actually traded.
In other words, it is this trapezoid here.
the producer surplus under this output.
What about the total surplus in the case of perfect competition?
Once again, it's the area bound by the demand curve and the marginal cost curve.
But this time it extends all the way to the perfectly maximizing output.
So it is this bigger triangle here.
because it includes the previous triangle plus this area here.
This is the area that is lost by the monopoly cutting off production too soon.
And you will not be surprised to learn the name for this area.
This is of course dead weight loss.
Again, what is the Dead Weight Loss?
because the monopolist is stopping production a little bit too soon.
Too soon in terms of the welfare of society as a whole.
Let's think through that just a moment longer.


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