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Video: Expert Panel on Obama Immigration/Border Enforcement Record
21st Century Border Initiative
With the topic of immigration very much in the news, and the release of more specific data from DHS's Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) this year, NDN/NPI put together a panel discussion on the Obama Administration's immigration and border enforcement record.
Marc Rosenblum, Deputy Director of the US Immigration Policy Program at the Migration Policy Institute, Edward Alden of the Council of Foreign Relations, and Tamar Jacoby, President and CEO of ImmigrationWorks USA shared their latest findings and analyses of the current state of affairs. The discussion aimed to help unpack what this new DHS data means, allow experts to weigh in on the Obama Administration's enforcement record, and take questions from the audience. We think it was a terrific discussion. Please find the C-SPAN and NDN video footage of the event below.
For more on NDN's work in this area of late, please see this recent, comprehensive backgrounder.
Video: Simon on Obama Administration Border/Imm Enforcement Record
On Thursday, April 17th Simon recorded this six minute video offering his thoughts on the current debate over the Administration's border and immigration enforcement record. His basic take: Obama has made the border safer, the immigration system better and more humane, while simultaneously expanding trade with Mexico. On a tough issue with even tougher politics, the current Administration has done a good job.
See here for a roundup of our recent analyses, and links to other helpful news articles, videos and think tank reports.
Note: At one point in the video, Simon says that both sides need to give the President more credit than he deserves. Of course, what he meant to say is that the President deserves more credit than all sides are currently giving him.
Backgrounder: The Administration's Progress on Immigration and Border Enforcement
US/Mexican Border
In light of the current public discussion of the Obama Administration's record immigration enforcement, we offer up the following background materials compiled in the last two months from years of work on this topic. While there is still more to be done, the Administration has made tremendous efforts over the last five years to secure the US border with Mexico, and to smartly prioritize enforcement resources for the removal of unauthorized immigrants with criminal convictions or who have recently crossed the border without permission.
GOP Attacks On Obama's Immigration Enforcement Record Are Ridiculous, 4/25/14
Expert Panel on Obama Immigration/Border Enforcement Record, 4/23/14
An Immigration Reformer Defends Obama on Deportations, 4/18/14
Video: Simon on Obama Administration Border/Imm Enforcement Record, 4/17/14
NDN/NPI Analysis: Total Removals and Returns of Unauthorized Immigrants Plummet Under Obama Administration, 4/10/14
NDN Analysis: Obama Deserves Far More Credit for His Immigration/Border Enforcement Record, 3/21/14
New ICE Data Finds Big Changes In Who Is Getting Deported From US, 3/11/14
Obama Administration Border and Immigration Enforcement Record: Charts and Graphs, 3/20/14
On Trust and "Enforcing the Laws" in the Immigration Reform Debate - A Response to Speaker Boehner, 2/6/14
Administration's Border Strategy Has Yielded Very Strong Results, 2/5/14
US-Mexico: A Vital, Modern Economic Partnership, 1/30/14
The Deportation Dilemma: Reconciling Tough and Humane Enforcement, Migration Policy Institute, 4/28/14
Obama Will Grant Relief to Undocumented Immigrants. That's No Cause for Celebration, Fusion, 4/23/2014
Performance Measures Suggest the Border Strategy May Be Working, Bipartisan Policy Center, 4/22/2014
Moderate Dems Resist Obama on Deportations, Politico, 4/22/2014
Court Deportations Drop 43 Percent in Past Five Years, The New York Times, 4/16/14
Top Obama Adviser Cecilia Munoz Talks Immigration Reform, Fusion, 4/15/14
Obama deporter in chief? Not quite, USA Today, 4/15/14
The Current Record on Deportations: What Underlies the 'Eye of the beholder' Dynamic'?, Migration Policy Institute, 4/14/14
Amid Calls to Halt Deportations, Progressive Group Defends Obama, Voxxi, 4/10/14
Democratic Group Says the amount of Deportations Have Decreased Under Obama, La Opinión, 4/10/14, in Spanish
NDN Defends Obama's Deportation Record, The Wall Street Journal, 4/9/14
Have We Been Unfair to Obama on Deportations?, Fusion, 4/8/14
High Deportation Figures Are Misleading, Los Angeles Times, 4/1/14
Who Should Be Deported, Los Angeles Times, 3/27/2014
Stuck in Immigration Limbo, Thanks to the GOP, Washington Post, 3/23/14
Interior Immigration Enforcement by the Numbers, Bipartisan Policy Center, 3/20/14
In 2013, 59% of Deported Immigrants Convicted of a Crime, Pew Research Center, 3/18/14
Obama Meets with Immigration Advocates, Washington Post, 3/14/14
We hope you find these useful, and please reach out with questions.
NDN Analysis on Deportations Picked Up by the Media
NDN's latest analysis on the Obama Administration's Immigration Enforcement Record got picked up by the media, here are some of the latest stories:
-Griselda Nevarez, Amid calls to halt deportations, progressive group defends Obama, VOXXI, 4/10/14 (also running on La Opinión English home page)
-Laura Meckler, NDN Defends Obama's Deportation Record, Wall Street Journal, 4/9/14
-María Peña, Democratic group says the amount of deportations have decreased under Obama, LaOpinión, 4/10/14
Statement from NDN's Rob Shapiro on New Jobs Report
Submitted by Andres Chong-Qui on 12/9/13
"Today's upbeat jobs news is, simply put, quite good news. Yes, the sharp dip in unemployment from 7.3 percent in October to 7.0 percent in November, with gains of 203,000 nonfarm jobs, reflects in part the return of furloughed federal workers and those whose jobs depend on them. But the November gains were so substantial, because the government shutdown obscured steady improvements in the jobs market through both October and November. That's why the jobless rate dropped three-tenths of a percent even as labor force participation rose, average working hours increased, and the number of part-time workers who want full-time work declined steeply. And this is the second encouraging report in two days -- we found out yesterday that GDP grew at a 3.6 percent rate in the third quarter. All of this helps explain why the largest employment gains last month came not in government, but in consumer-sensitive areas such including manufacturing, health care and transportation and warehousing."
Dr. Robert Shapiro, 12/6/2013
There's Real Economic Development Gold in El Dorado—Arkansas
Submitted by Andres Chong-Qui on 10/21/13
By Morley Winograd and Michael D. Hais. October 19, 2013.
For centuries, explorers searched for the legendary golden city of El Dorado, seeking instant wealth in the jungles of South America. But today's treasure trove may be found much closer to home; cities like El Dorado, Arkansas, for example, that have successfully linked their economic development strategy to improving the educational attainment of their residents.
El Dorado, a city of about 20,000 people that was at the heart of Arkansas's oil boom in the 1920s has been hard pressed to reprise that economic growth experience in this century. Instead of chasing after the fool's gold of becoming cool, it has found a way to attract new residents and increase its economic vitality by promising its public school students a free college education if they graduate from high school with good grades. That promise has the potential to provide the critical glue in holding together a broad based economic recovery not just for cities such as El Dorado but for entire states or even the country.
The El Dorado Promise is a scholarship program established and funded by Murphy Oil Corporation, the town's largest employer. Modeled after a similar program in Kalamazoo, MI, It provides graduates of the city's high school a scholarship covering tuition and mandatory fees that can be used at any accredited two- or four-year, public or private, educational institution in the US up to an amount equal to the highest annual resident tuition at an Arkansas public university.
Since its inception in 2007, 1239 students have taken advantage of the offer. Over 90% of them have completed at least one year of college. The first high school class to enjoy this benefit has graduated after five years from college at a rate almost 40% greater than the state's higher education student population. These gains in acquiring the skills necessary to be competitive in today's global economy have been achieved by virtually all of the city's high school students, over 90% of whom graduated from high school last year.
Furthermore the culture of a college-bound student population is now permeating throughout the school district, with a recent study finding that students in grades three through eight in the city scored significantly higher than their matched peers in nearby school districts in both math and literacy. The greatest gains have come from those who were the youngest when the Promise was announced.
The goal of the El Dorado Promise was not just greater educational attainment, however. The visionaries who established the program also wanted to use this program to improve the community's economic vitality and quality of life. They have clearly done that. Enrollment in the city's schools was up 5% in just the first four years of the program's existence. As the Promise website says, "the prospect of an increasingly educated workforce gives economic development leaders new tools to attract businesses to the region."
The first such Promise was made in Kalamazoo, Michigan in 2005 by still anonymous benefactors seeking to restore the reputation of a city made famous in 1942 by the Glenn Miller Orchestra's hit tune about a "gal" who lived there. Rather than raise taxes to balance the city's budget, those who established the Kalamazoo Promise offered a fully paid four-year scholarship to any public institution of higher education in Michigan to any student who went to the city's high schools for all four years. Under the terms of the Kalamazoo Promise, students have no obligation to repay the money or even to reside in Kalamazoo after they graduate from college.
The results are very similar to those of El Dorado. Kalamazoo's student population is up 17.6% and dropout rates have been cut in half. Ninety percent of the city's female African-American high school graduates have gone on to college. On the economic front, the proportion of residential construction in the city rose sharply from around 30% to nearly 50% of all permits issued in the greater Kalamazoo area. The community's careful tracking of the results has identified 1600 families who say they are living in the city because of the Promise.
The economic challenges that caused El Dorado and Kalamazoo to up their game in getting local residents to graduate from high school and go on to college are no different than the challenge facing the country as a whole in trying to create a competitive workforce in today's increasingly global and technology driven economy. For example, the Georgetown University's Center on Education and the Workforce estimates that 62% of the jobs in the United States by the year 2018 will require at least some college education – for example a certificate for a specific skill – and that more than half of those jobs will require a bachelor's degree. Unless the nation wants to fill those jobs with immigrants from other countries, it will have to do a much better job of giving each American who graduates from high school a chance to pursue a two year skill certificate or a baccalaureate degree.
A promise that rewards good academic performance in high school with a scholarship that pays for four years of college tuition has demonstrated it can make a major difference in achieving our educational and economic goals. Now it's time for the rest of the country to find the gold that Kalamazoo and El Dorado have already discovered. Just as the country, as part of its overall economic development strategy, once expanded access to a universal free education first for primary schools and later for high schools, it must now find ways to make these two pioneering cities' promise to their young people America's Promise to all of its youth.
Morley Winograd and Michael D. Hais are co-authors of the newly published Millennial Momentum: How a New Generation is Remaking America and Millennial Makeover: MySpace, YouTube, and the Future of American Politics and fellows of NDN and the New Policy Institute.
Shutdown - The Latest from the NDN/NPI Team
Recent articles relating to the shutdown from team NDN/NPI:
- "A Special Note About the Current Crisis in Washington." Oct 16, 2013. Simon Rosenberg. Rosenberg identifies the steps needed to bring concrete solutions and better politics to our country, contrary to the GOP-led gridlock we witnessed this month in Congress.
- "Will Tea Party Insanity Cost America $3 trillion and 2.75 million jobs?" Oct 16, 2013. Dr. Robert Shapiro. Shapir explores the economic consequences of the government shutdown and argues that Congress' reckless behavior threatens access to the low-cost capital on which the economy depends.
- "The Shutdown Endgame: Getting to a Budget Deal, Protecting our Democracy." Oct 2, 2013. Simon Rosenberg. As the governenment shutdown takes on day 3, Simon Rosenberg makes the case that President Obama should focus on getting a budget deal to fund the government for next year and refuse to negotiate on any other item.
- "Are Republican Leaders Suffering from Stockholm Syndrome?" Oct 1, 2013. Dr. Robert Shapiro. Shapiro analyzes the economic implications of the House GOP's strategy of holding normal government operations hostage to a variety of demands tied to the Affordable Care Act.
- "Confrontation and Crisis will Create New Millenial Era Civic Ethos." Oct 1, 2013. Mike Hais & Morley Winograd. Mike and Morley explore how older politicians will have to get beyond their ideological blinders to recognize the opportunity waiting with both halves of the Millennial era civic ethos paradox.
- "GOP's attack on ACA May Harm Party with Latinos As Much As Immigration Reform." Sept 19, 2013. Simon Rosenberg. Simon points out that more Hispanics will be elibigible for health insurance under the ACA than are undocumented Hispanic immigrants in the country. His take: debate over the ACA is going to have a deep impact on the GOP brand with Hispanics.
- "The Biggest Risks to the U.S. Economy Now Come from Congress and China" Sept. 4, 2013. Dr. Robert Shapiro. Shapiro warns us that the most clear and present threat to growth lies in the looming fight over the debt ceiling and China's economic heft to materially affect the path of the American economy.
- "Forward or Backward?" October 25th, 2012. Simon Rosenberg. In a flashback to 2012, we revisit Rosenberg's analysis that a new coalition of progressive leaders must rise to address the political, cultural, social, and demographic changes affecting our nation in response to an aging, reactionary American right.
Confrontation and Crisis will Create New Millenial Era Civic Ethos
By Mike & Morley. October 1st, 2013.
Depending on one's partisan leanings, the desire of House Republicans to shut down the federal government if the Democrats don't agree to repeal ObamaCare may seem to be either a courageous ideological stand or a kamikaze mission sure to destroy its proponents, if not the country. However, from a generational perspective it is not only a predictable but a necessary step in the country's search for a new consensus on the role and size of government.
Nor is it coincidental that the current confrontation is coming to a head just as the Affordable Care Act (ACA) is about to be implemented nationwde. The roles that the legislation assigns to the federal government, states and individuals in securing every citizen access to medical insurance is such a departure from the existing civic ethos it has become the touchstone for the debate about the nation's civic ethos in the Millennial Era. Yet, ironically, the law everyone wants to argue about actually provides a blueprint to any politician willing to go beyond their current ideological comfort zone and solve a range of challenges in ways that respond to the beliefs and behaviors of the emerging Millennial Majority in the electorate.
As finally passed by a Democratic Congress in 2010, ACA creates a relationship between the federal government and the nation's adult population similar to the role Millennials' parents have played in their young children's lives. Parents pronounced rules to guide their children's behavior with consequences ("time outs") if the rules were broken. Similarly, the ACA requires each individual to purchase health insurance and provides penalties (taxes) for failing to do so, an approach the Supreme Court ruled lawful under Article I, Section 8 of the United States Constitution. And, just as parents and other members of the extended community helped Millennials succeed within the boundaries of the rules they established, ACA envisioned a series of state by state health insurance exchanges that would help each state's residents find the type of insurance they wanted at a cost they could afford. As those exchanges open for business in about half of the states this week, this new configuration of American democracy will be put to a practical test, but the fundamental concept is likely to be recognized in the future as the basis for a new civic ethos as distinct from the Reagan era of limited government as was the New Deal from its laissez faire predecessor.
History suggests, however, that the country must go through a crisis as bad as the one it is facing today before this happens. The New Deal was born out of the perils of the Great Depression. Reagan's tough love solution of lower taxes and less government regulation required years of economic stagflation before it became conventional political wisdom. Today, neither of those ideas has proven equal to the task of breaking the country out of the economic doldrums of the Great Recession.
Older politicians will have to get beyond their ideological blinders to recognize the opportunity waiting for any candidate or political party that can embrace both halves of the Millennial era civic ethos paradox. Members of the Millennial generation are as suspicious of large government bureaucracies as any libertarian but as dedicated to economic equality and social justice as any liberal. To resolve the crisis, the GOP should embrace ObamaCare as a great example of how government can encourage individual responsibility and accountability and Democrats should sign up for President Obama's commitment to creating a smarter, smaller less bureaucratic government. Only when the crisis becomes so bad that a few brave leaders break out of their ideological bunkers and discover a new civic ethos that embodies both collective action and individual responsibility will the Millennial Era civic ethos emerge from the chaos created by a Congress so out of step with the beliefs and behaviors of the future leaders of the country.
New NDN Op-Ed in The Hill – A Way Forward in Syria
Bradley Bosserman published an article in The Hill this morning analyzing the implications of the proposed agreement over Syrian chemical weapons. The piece argues that the seemingly contradictory aims of securing chemical weapons and ushering in a transitional government can best be achieved by focusing US policy toward the goal of quickly ending the conflict.
"Effectively securing these weapons in the midst of a civil war will be functionally impossible and setting the precedent that gassing your citizens can be a strategy for extracting powerful concessions would weaken norms against chemical weapons use, not strengthen them. The stated policy of the United States is to aid the opposition, support the transition to a post-Assad government, and secure the country's vast stockpile of weapons of mass destruction. The only way to reconcile these objectives is to actively seek an end to the conflict and usher in a more responsible, transitional government. As the White House has said, Assad must go."


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Gibbs leads effort to insulate Obama from Sestak and Romanoff fallout
Jon Ward Contributor
June 04, 2010 3:41 AM ET
One week ago, White House press secretary Robert Gibbs spoke to reporters on Air Force One as President Obama flew to Chicago after visiting the Gulf Coast to survey the oil spill response. The very first question Gibbs faced was what the president thought of attempts by top aides to lure Democrat Joe Sestak out of the Senate primary in Pennsylvania.
The administration had acknowledged earlier in the day, for the first time, that top aides to Obama did in fact offer Sestak a position – they claimed it was an unpaid advisory board spot – in a memo released minutes after the president landed in New Orleans.
"I've just been dealing with oil today," Gibbs dodged. He then promised: "I will go talk to him about this after this."
Thursday, however, Gibbs said that he had, in fact, not done so. Questioned once again by reporters about the Sestak affair, Gibbs said that he, one of Obama's closest advisers, has yet to talk to the president about the matter.
"I have not talked to him about Sestak," Gibbs said.
Gibbs also said he had not discussed with Obama the news that top White House officials also dangled high-paying government jobs in front of Colorado Senate candidate Andrew Romanoff, in a second unsuccessful attempt to clear a challenge to an incumbent Democratic senator.
"I haven't talked to [Obama] about it today," said Gibbs, who had put out a formal statement to the press at 6:25 a.m. confirming that White House officials did make overtures to Romanoff.
Gibbs did say that Obama "wasn't aware" of the actions of his top aides. Obama has been briefed recently on the matter, since he said last Thursday at a press conference that he could "assure the public that nothing improper took place."
Though Gibbs is a close confidante of Obama's, former White House press secretary Ari Fleischer, who was the first to man the briefing room podium for President George W. Bush, said it is not surprising that Gibbs may have avoided speaking to the president about the Sestak and Romanoff matters.
"That's exactly what White Houses and press secretaries do when you either don't want to know the answer or you want to shield the president for as long as possible from getting mired in the muck. The problem is that it is a temporary solution and it won't hold up over time," Fleischer said in an interview.
"It's inevitable over time that someone will ask a question directly of the president in an interview," he said. "What the White House is hoping for is that it will come up at a time when there is a lot less focus and heat so they can fade the issue."
Another Bush administration official said that White House lawyers might have "suggested" that Gibbs not speak with Obama about the issues, "or requested that he not."
Behind the scenes, Democratic strategists were pushing back hard Thursday against the idea that White House chief of staff Rahm Emanuel and deputy chief of staff Jim Messina had violated any laws by their attempts to influence Sestak and Romanoff.
"They didn't break any law," one veteran Democrat with close connections to the White House said, arguing specifically that a portion of U.S. federal law, 18 USC 600, "does not ban common political horse trading."
"If it does … every president since George Washington was a criminal," the Democrat said. "I can't find a single prosecution under Section 600 … It is just crazy to pretend that this is any kind of a crime."
Numerous Democrats who spoke with The Daily Caller both in and out of government – all of them outside the White House – seemed to be singing from the same sheet of music, suggesting a concerted effort by the administration to stonewall in public while trying to undercut the story in private conversations with individual journalists.
Whether that was the case or not, the reception for Gibbs by the White House press corps during the televised, nearly hour-long daily briefing was remarkably tame. The first questions from the Associated Press zeroed in on Romanoff and Sestak, but then all five of the other journalists in the briefing room's front row gave Gibbs a pass on the matter, asking instead about the oil spill.
That set the tone, and though there were a handful of questions after that on Sestak, most of the briefing revolved around the oil spill. The tone stayed mild, Gibbs never came under pressure from successive questions and follow ups to divulge more than he and other officials have done so far, and he ended the session with an ode to Major League Baseball umpire Jim Joyce for his response to a blown call Wednesday night that cost Detroit Tigers pitcher Armando Galarraga a perfect game.
Gibbs ignored repeated requests from The Daily Caller near the end of the briefing to ask a question about the matter.
Several questions remain outstanding: If the White House offered Romanoff three possible jobs, one of them paying $165,300 a year, how is it plausible that they offered Sestak an unpaid advisory board post and thought that was potentially sufficient to draw him out of the Pennsylvania race, as they have stated? Did they in fact offer him the Secretary of the Navy position, or a similar high-ranking post?
The White House has not said what specific advisory board that was mentioned, if any, by former President Bill Clinton, who acted as a go between for Emanuel with Sestak. What was it? And if he was to keep his House seat, how could he have served on either the president's intelligence advisory board – the panel Sestak has indicated he was offered a spot on – given the PIAB's exclusivity to non-governmental employees.
White House Counsel Bob Bauer's memo last week indicated that numerous conversations were held with Sestak last summer to try to find him a job he could take instead of running against Sen. Arlen Specter. But Sestak said there was only one conversation with Clinton. Which is it?
Will this practice of trying to move primary challengers out of races through job offers remain the White House modus operandi, and does the president think it violates his promise to change the way Washington works?
Gibbs on Thursday rattled off a list of ethics and lobbying rules that the Obama administration has put in place but sidestepped questions about whether top aides would continue to use government service or paid employment as bait to influence political races.
"That's the problem that Barack Obama created for himself when he ran such a noble campaign," said Fleischer. "To the degree his staff does things that are less than noble but work, at the end of the day it doesn't do Barack Obama much good and damages his brand."
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Creation Machine
A Novel of the Spin (Spin Trilogy #1)
Andrew Bannister
Creation Machine is a fast-paced, whip-smart science fiction debut from Andrew Bannister introducing the stunning galaxy called the Spin.
In the vast, artificial galaxy called the Spin, a rebellion has been crushed.
Viklun Hass is eliminating all remnants of the opposition. Starting with his daughter.
But Fleare Hass has had time to plan her next move from exile to the very frontiers of a new war.
For hundreds of millions of years, the planets and stars of the Spin have been the only testament to the god-like engineers that created them. Now, beneath the surface of a ruined planet, one of their machines has been found.
Praise For Creation Machine: A Novel of the Spin (Spin Trilogy #1)…
Praise for Creation Machine
"Ambitious, compulsively readable."—Guardian
"[T]he worldbuilding is unusual and inspired."—Publishers Weekly
"Bannister combines succinct world-building with impulsive readability and likable characters. Creation Machine finds frequent parallels with the best of Iain M. Banks's Culture series."—Shelf Awareness
"A beautiful space opera."—SciFi Now
"Great action . . . enjoyable and accessible."—SF Book Reviews
"A colorful debut that conjures up the same kind of gnarly, lurid weirdness that made Iain M. Banks' SF epics so memorable."—SFX magazine
"A thrilling debut . . . delivers in spades."—SFF World
"An impressive debut. This is space opera on steroids.""—Robert J. Sawyer, author of Quantum Night
"An excellent read that ticked the boxes for me."—Neal Asher
"Fast-paced, intelligent SF, action-packed, and immersive."—Adrian Tchaikovsky
Tor Books, 9781250179135, 368pp.
Andrew Bannister grew up in Cornwall. After initial feints towards music and engineering, he eventually studied Geology at Imperial College, London, and went to work in the North Sea oilfields before becoming an Environmental Consultant.
Andrew is an active volunteer, focusing on children with special educational needs. He is currently the Vice Chair of Special Olympics Leicestershire and Rutland.
He has always written and been a voracious reader. He has now discovered that writing science fiction, like his Spin Trilogy (Creation Machine, Iron Gods, Stone Clock) is at least as enjoyable as reading it, but takes longer.


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Smart Regions tours Europe to show how Cohesion Policy projects are helping people live better lives across the EU
More charge points for Swedish cross-country corridor
A European project aims to increase the number of electric vehicle charging points in areas of low population density.
Floating wetlands combat nutrient pollution
Making sure paradise is not lost: protecting Guadeloupe's natural treasures
Combating the impact of manmade issues on the Danube River
Solar cells on roads, a new direction for Europe's energy transition
How Sweden is reducing drivers' carbon footprint
The goal of Ladda i Mittstroket - which means "charging on the central road" - is to reduce drivers' carbon footprint by making electric charging more accessible.
An ecological solution to nutrient pollution
Strictly off limits: how Guadeloupe is protecting its tropical paradise?
Scientists look at how the Danube River can be sustainably managed
Might the roads we drive on soon produce the energy we consume?
More on smart regions
The city giving digital currency in exchange for saving energy
In this episode, Smart Regions looks at a transformational European project saving huge amounts of energy. It's led to several buildings in a district of the Catalan city of Viladecans being renovated. Residents play an active role in managing energy. They also have their own digital currency.
AlpInnoCT: the European project using intermodal transport to protect the Alps
The Alps are an essential transit area for freight transport. But road traffic generates noise, pollution and traffic jams in this sensitive ecosystem. A European project has a solution: the transfer of goods from lorries to trains.
The European project promoting the legacy of an almost forgotten ethnic group
An interregional European project called NemoNet is making sure that a lost ethnic group in western Slovakia will not be forgotten by preserving and promoting their legacy and traditions.
ERMIS II - the project helping people with reduced mobility enjoy the beach
Thanks to a European project, people with reduced mobility in Cyprus and in Greece can enjoy the sea as many beaches are now equipped with wheelchair ramps, devices to get them into the water and much more.
The European project helping to reduce the impact of flooding in Slovenia
In the last decade, Slovenia has experienced reoccurring floods. But since 2014, the basin of the Drava River and its tributaries have benefited from a European project involving the dredging, widening and containment of these rivers to protect and strengthen the surrounding areas.
Eco-design, the way to make products greener before they've even been produced
Before making a product like a kitchen, you have to design it. Eco-design is helping to better respect the environment by reducing the use of resources and by recycling. In Russia and in Baltic countries, a European project is promoting these environmental dimensions of design.
Six endangered species in the Rhine wetlands are given help to survive
It is urgent to protect biodiversity, and there are solutions. Thanks to a cross-border project in the wetlands along the Rhine, concrete action is being taken to develop and sustain the population of six threatened species.
Discover Italy's greenest campus and how it's saving money and energy
The UNICAL in Calabria is the largest university campus in Italy and it is also one of Europe's "greenest". An ambitious energy project has allowed it to go green, lower CO2 emissions and save money.
Fish and poultry try a new sustainable diet of larvae and insects
In Poland, larvae and insects are used as a source of protein on fish and poultry farms. Organic waste is used to grow these larvae, thus contributing to the circular economy. Bio-recycling and technology go hand in hand in this project supported by the European Cohesion Policy.
The European initiative helping tourists to discover nature in a sustainable way
On the Spanish-Portuguese border, a sustainable tourism project is encouraging visitors to discover the natural and cultural heritage of this area with electric vehicles over a distance of more than 1000 kilometres.
Europe's biggest concrete 3D printer creates the home of tomorrow
The first one-piece, two-storey building made entirely using a concrete 3D printer stands as excellent example of how the European construction sector could be revolutionised. It's quick to build, uses less material and is more eco-friendly.
How a small French town became a key transport hub
In this week's Smart Regions, Euronews finds out how Gardanne's new transport hub is helping the region to thrive and easing the commute of thousands of passengers.
Unearthing the little-known ancient theatres of Greece's Epirus region
Greece's Epirus region hosts 5 of the country's most important ancient theatres. Some famous, but others little-known. Could this EU project unearth these architectural treasures and put them centre stage once again?
River'tri: the waterborne waste collection unit helping Lyon recycle waste
River'Tri is a waterborne mobile waste collection point. The river Saône and the barge provide an ecological solution to waste in Lyon, France's third largest populated city.
European software helps fight the pandemic by speeding up drug production
A European software is enabling researchers to speed up drug production by interpreting chemical compounds and molecules on a range of laboratory machines. Pharmaceutical companies working on COVID-19 vaccines use it every day.
This is Europe's first cross-border mobile hospital
The French and Spanish Pyrenees regions get help with medical emergencies from the European project EGALURG. Its self-reliant mobile hospital also brings COVID-19 vaccine relief to rural communities.
How a small village became a reference point for energy transition
Venizy is a small community of less than a thousand inhabitants, located in the French region of Bourgogne. The mayor has chosen to switch its heating system for public buildings from oil to chipped wood.
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Adrinet: an initiative exorcising the Mediterranean's 'ghost nets'
Adrinet is a EU Cohesion Policy funded initiative that is helping to remove 'ghost nets' from seabeds in the Meditteranean. Its goal is to protect marine ecosystems and educate about the dangers of plastic pollution in the sea.
This cross-border cycle path links Spain to the Atlantic Pyrenees
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Nathan Bedford Forrest's Remains Being Moved Out of Memphis Park, Into Confederate Museum
By Rebecca Klapper On 6/1/21 at 11:58 AM EDT
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After a long legal battle and repeated calls for the removal of Confederate General Nathan Bedford Forrest's remains from a Memphis park, workers arrived on Tuesday to begin the process of moving the former slave trader's body to a Confederate museum.
The removal of the statue and remains were approved by Forrest's relatives, and the move is being overseen by the Sons of Confederate Veterans. The remains will be reburied and the statue placed at the National Confederate Museum at Elm Springs in Columbia.
An affidavit from one of Forrest's great-great-grandsons, Bedford Forrest Myers, detailed the plans of the move. Myers also wrote his support of moving the grave from the park.
"Relocating the graves is proper because the Property has lost its character as a burial ground," Myers wrote in a legal filing.
The museum is owned by the Sons of Confederate Veterans and opened to the public in October. It is located approximately 200 miles from Memphis.
For more reporting from the Associated Press, see below.
Members of the Fraternal White Knights of the Ku Klux Klan participate in the 11th Annual Nathan Bedford Forrest Birthday march July 11, 2009 in Pulaski, Tennessee. Forrest, a lieutenant general in the Confederate Army during the Civil War, played a role in the establishment of the first Ku Klux Klan organization opposing Reconstruction. Plans for the removal of his statue and remains from a Memphis park are currently underway. Spencer Platt/Getty Images
Crews prepared to remove the graves of Forrest and his wife from Health Sciences Park in Memphis' busy medical district. The park used to bear the name of the early Ku Klux Klan leader, and feature a statue of the cavalryman on a horse, but the name has been changed and the statue removed in recent years.
Workers must dismantle the statue's pedestal before they can disinter the Forrests' remains and move them to a Confederate museum in Middle Tennessee. A heavy crane was positioned near the pedestal as workers prepared the site Tuesday morning. The entire process is expected to take weeks.
It is another example of how cities and activists have taken steps in recent years to get rid of statues and monuments of historical figures who supported the South's secession and led the fight against the North, from General Robert E. Lee to Jefferson Davis, the president of the Confederacy.
Forrest sold slaves in Memphis and served in the Confederate army as a cavalry general. In April 1864, Forrest's troops attacked Fort Pillow in northwest Tennessee and killed 200 to 300 Union soldiers, most of them Black.
Forrest was later accused of massacring the Union soldiers. Questions linger as to whether they were killed as they tried to surrender. Northern newspaper reports referred to the battle as an atrocity.
Historians say he later became an early leader of the Ku Klux Klan, though some of Forrest's supporters dispute that. Forrest's critics call him a violent racist.
The remains of Forrest and his wife were moved from a Memphis cemetery and buried under the statue of the former Memphis city council member in 1904. The city took down the statue in December 2017 after selling the public park to a nonprofit group, thus circumventing a state law barring the removal of historic monuments from public areas.
A judge in Nashville ruled that the city and Memphis Greenspace, the non-profit that made the park privately operated, removed the statue legally.
The park where Forrest was buried has been the site of protests associated with the Black Lives Matter movement. Activists have long called for the removal of both the statue and the remains. The words "Black Lives Matter" have been painted in yellow by activists on a walkway surrounding the tomb.
The tree-lined park is next to the University of Tennessee's medical school and a community college on Union Avenue, a busy street leading in and out of downtown Memphis.
In this February 6, 2013, file photo, a statue of Nathan Bedford Forrest rests on a concrete pedestal at a park named after the confederate cavalryman in Memphis Tenn. Workers arrived at a Tennessee park Tuesday, June 1 to begin the process of digging up and moving the remains of Forrest to a museum hundreds of miles away. Adrian Sainz, File/AP Photo
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So Mr Gabriel Wolfgang from Adelaide alias Mr Clark Elster from New Jersey and probably many others all use copies of the same mail, they just change the name of the artwork.
SO ARTISTS : BE WARNED, ITS A SCAM!!! THEY'RE AFTER BOTH YOUR PAINTINGS AND YOUR MONEY!!!!
I get these all the time! Years ago it was the Nigeria scam where a woman was setting up her new apartment in London and just had to have one of my paintings. (I actually corresponded back and forth until I annoyed the person with my questions and they gave up!) It's so exciting when someone emails you about your work, saying they love it, how much a particular piece means to them, or especially when they want to purchase something. Then to discover it's someone who probably did a google image search to find a specific painting. I'm so glad you posted this other artists are aware of the sneaky strategies these scammers use.
By the way, I lOVE your work - your watercolors are astonishingly beautiful, your use of washes particularly intrigues me right now. Very inspiring!
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DEFTONES played its new song, "Leathers", live for the first time at the Epicenter festival at theVerizon Wireless Amphitheater in Irvine, California.
DEFTONES played two brand new songs entitled "Roller Derby" and "Rosemary" during their concert at the Troubadour in West Hollywood, California.
The Deftones have made a live oriented music video for their track "Beauty School" available for viewing.
In related news, Deftones guitarist Stephen Carpenter's Sol Invicto side project has now released a new EP entitled "Initium" for free download here. The project also features members of Cypress Hill and more. If that wasn't enough, production is already underway on two more EP's from the project.
The Deftones' new video for their track "You've Seen The Butcher" has hit premiered online. The group filmed the clip in the Toronto, Ontario area this past September with director Jodeb (Despised Icon).
Deftones have debuted their video for their track "Sextape". The group filmed the clip with the direction team of Zak Forrest and Chad Liebenguth (Foxy Shazam, Fang Island). The song will serve as the groups next European single while a video for their next North American single, "You've Seen The Butcher", is currently in the works.
DEFTONES performed its entire new album, "Diamond Eyes", during a live global webcast from Dallas last night (Tuesday, May 4) via Ustream.
Deftones have debuted their new Roboshobo (Metallica, Mastodon) directed music video for their track "Diamond Eyes" online. The song serves as the title track to their new album which will land in stores on May 04th through Warner.
Rocket Skates", the new video from Sacramento's DEFTONES, is available online. The song comes off the band's new album, "Diamond Eyes", which is scheduled for release on May 18 via Reprise.
Checkout the DEFTONES performing a brand new song, "Rocket Skates", late last month at this year's SmokeOut festival at the San Manuel Amphitheatre and festival grounds in San Bernardino, California.


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[ Press Release ] CARSOME APPOINTS MEI HAN AS CEO OF CARSOME CERTIFIED
By Tan Li Wen
CARSOME APPOINTS MEI HAN AS CEO OF CARSOME CERTIFIED
Affirming Carsome's Ambition in Vertical Expansion across Southeast Asia
KUALA LUMPUR, 18 March 2021: Southeast Asia's largest integrated car e-commerce platform, Carsome recently appointed Mei Han as the Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of Carsome Certified, the business-to-consumer (B2C) arm of Carsome's offerings.
Mei is an industry veteran, having spent the last 10 years in the automotive industry. He has also served in China's financial industry, particularly in venture capital and investment banking. Prior to his current appointment, Mei was the Director of Platform Strategy in Carsome, responsible for product development and business intelligence.
Carsome Co-founder and Group CEO Eric Cheng commented that Mei's appointment is crucial in Carsome's bigger vision of expanding Carsome Certified in Southeast Asia. This arises from the company's focus on vertical expansion from the consumer-to-business (C2B) to B2C model in 2021, as part of the Carsome's natural growth progression.
"Mei Han's new role will act as a further catalyst of Carsome's growth sprint this year. I am confident that his vast experience will give us a more holistic view of consumer demands in the new norm, on top of strengthening our leadership team to drive regional growth," said Cheng.
As the CEO of Carsome Certified, Mei will focus on integrating and elevating consumer experience both online and offline by riding on Carsome's product, tech and data capabilities. He aims to build Carsome Certified into a full-fledged e-commerce platform that gives the best value proposition to consumers, assisted by other new appointments, namely Carsome Certified Director of Operations, Yuan Li Yu and General Manager of Carsome Certified Malaysia, Alan Cheah.
"Carsome is leading the rapid growth of Southeast Asia's used car industry, changing the perception of a traditionally distrusted buying and selling process to a transparent and hassle-free experience. We are in the best position to integrate the consumer journey and deliver meaningful solutions and positive impacts. I am excited to push Carsome's growth through the expansion of Carsome Certified, while introducing an elevated used car buying experience to the region," said Mei.
Carsome Certified provides consumers a used car buying experience that comes with peace of mind and quality assurance. Launched as The New Way of Buying Cars in Kelana Jaya, Malaysia back in August 2020, Carsome opened another two Carsome Certified centers in Petaling Jaya and Cheras, with seven other outlets across the country currently in the expansion plans.
Riding on Malaysia's success, Carsome Certified will be introduced in Indonesia and Thailand next month. In the coming quarter, Mei will focus on strengthening Carsome Certified's regional capabilities through operational excellence, as well as partnerships with established e-commerce platforms across the countries where Carsome Certified is present.
In response to the increased demand and supply of the used car market, Carsome Certified's expansion further solidifies Carsome's proposition as a one-stop solution, offering consumers a comprehensive end-to-end service from selling to purchasing used cars. "We are one step closer to building a complete used car ecosystem. We are excited as this will unlock more partnership opportunities across the tech automotive industry as we continue to scale the business," Cheng added.
About Carsome
Carsome is Southeast Asia's largest integrated car e-commerce platform. With operations across Malaysia, Indonesia, Thailand and Singapore, Carsome aims to digitize the region's used car industry by reshaping and elevating the car buying and selling experience.
Carsome provides end-to-end solutions to consumers and used car dealers, from car inspection to ownership transfer to financing, promising a service that is trusted, convenient and efficient. Carsome currently transacts an annualized 70,000 cars totalling US$600 million in transacted value, and has more than 1,000 employees across all its offices.
For more information, please visit www.carsome.com.
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An innocuous enough way to start the set, maybe, but how can a crowd react appropriately?
We are an amorphous blob that can only respond: "Yeahhhh!" or "Booo!" Answering "Yeahhh!" to the question "How's everybody doing tonight?" makes us feel like pillocks.
Would you like to hear some new songs?
Unless you are an earth-shatteringly important band that hasn't released any new material in years (Brand New, say) then the answer to this is always going to be subdued.
And besides, why would you ask us? It's not as it an apathetic reaction is going to change your setlist. Just get it over and done with so we can get back to the hits!
You're a musician, so unless you're Cliff Richard, of course you're going to swear. Apologising only makes it worse when you inevitably forget and swear again.
Unless you're Paul McCartney, the origins of your songs probably aren't that interesting. But if you really can't resist the urge to elaborate, please stick to one sentence.
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Sudhanshu has worked with several international organisations at the Asia-Pacific level, and has been involved in managing responses to almost all major disasters in the Asia-Pacific region since 2001. Sudhanshu has been engaged in many key global processes defining and reforming the humanitarian architecture. Presently, Sudhanshu is closely engaged in the localisation process, which has been triggered through Grand Bargain, one of the key outcomes of the World Humanitarian Summit, held in Istanbul in May 2016. Sudhanshu is also member of the coordination group of Charter for Change, which is another international process to strengthen local and national humanitarian actors.
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Driving can either be fun or a rather frustrating adventure depending upon how well prepared you are per time. It is however vital to recognize that there are a few things you must have to ensure that your experience is a worthwhile one. It should be noted that anytime is a good time for hitting the road, things such the beautiful scenery, the sounds and many other factors that make driving on road a rather rewarding experience. This article seeks to show you a few of those things that should help make your journey worthwhile and more fun.
No matter how conversant you are with the road, a little extra help doesn't hurt a bit. There used to be a time when people were heavily reliant upon a trick pony device just for them to be able to find their way in and around the city. However, there has been a whole lot of changes in the industry over the past few years. A number of Android and Apple devices are now able to give you concise maps and traffic information.
It is also worthy of note that social navigation apps are seemingly on the increase as well. Here are a few apps you can use to enjoy a self-driving experience: Waze can offer you real time routing based upon traffic and road information while Twist and Glympse are tools which has the capabilities to help your colleagues and friends know your exact location. And there is the Plotter Social Maps which helps you create and CrowdSource maps on your phone to make your ride easier.
Fact is that nothing makes a journey more enjoyable like having good music on replay. Having your favorite music on replay has a way of making the journey less stressful and more fun. It is however pertinent to note that you have to be careful when driving with music because it can in addition to making your journey less stressful it can also make it quite risky. You should have it at the back of your mind that different people respond differently to music. Keep an eye on the music volume and ensure it won't influence safe drive when you are driving on the road.
Without a doubt, sunglasses are great at protecting one from glare while driving which implies better visibility thus ensuring that everyone is as safe as possible while making use of the road. Conditions of extreme brightness as well as reflections can without a doubt impair visibility especially when driving and may lead to unnecessary accidents. Also, if you wind the window down, things such as dry wind as well a dust are some other things you may have to contend with. Sunglasses as simple as they may appear have a way of providing protection from each one of these conditions. Ensure to make the choice of sunglasses that have lenses that resistant to impact and of polycarbonate make. Sunglasses can certainly go a long way to ensure that your eyes do not get tired thus making the drive more pleasurable.
As you travel on the road, there are a couple of wonderful things you are bound to encounter, this makes it imperative for you to get a device that should help you record the events and scenery per time. A HD camera is a must-have comes in very handy in this very regard. As you go from stop to stop, you may want to capture the birds and the blue sky as well as other things that may capture your attention on the way.
When on the road, it may be quite a challenge locating a parking lot while, this is even more of a challenge owing to the fact that more often than not, you are only able to have your car parked outside for a large part of the day. This exposes it to certain conditions such as rain, high temperatures, hot sun etc.. In this situation, a portable car canopy such as those made by Lanmodo will be the best security for your car.
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The Evolution of Responsive Web Design: From Desktops to Smartphones
By Caitlyn Smith Blog Web Design October 24, 2019
Before we had smartphones, tablets, and the rest of the mobile gadgets, websites were presented only on desktop screens. Most monitors were one size. Webpages were designed with a fixed width, meaning endless scrolling and zooming.
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And then everything changed. In 2010, Ethan Marcotte wrote an article titled simply "Responsive Web Design," on A List Apart.
"But the landscape is shifting, perhaps more quickly than we might like. Mobile browsing is expected to outpace desktop-based access within three to five years. Two of the three dominant video game consoles have web browsers (and one of them is quite excellent). We're designing for mice and keyboards, for T9 keypads, for handheld game controllers, for touch interfaces. In short, we're faced with a greater number of devices, input modes, and browsers than ever before." – Ethan Marcotte, Responsive Web Design, A List Apart
While responsive design was inevitable, Marcotte was certainly the initiator of a massive movement. Prior to his article, we already had CSS3 media queries. There was talk of adaptable browser viewports and multiple ideas on making sites that were flexible, fluid, liquid, etc.
So, What Exactly is Responsive Web Design?
Google defines it as such:
"Responsive web design (RWD) is a setup where the server always sends the same HTML code to all devices and CSS is used to alter the rendering of the page on the device. Google's algorithms should be able to automatically detect this setup if all Googlebot user agents are allowed to crawl the page and its assets (CSS, JavaScript, and images). Responsive design serves all devices with the same code that adjusts for screen size."
Fixed vs. Fluid vs. Adaptive vs. Responsive
Fixed, aka static, has a fixed width in pixels. The container of the contents is designed not to move, and the width stays the same regardless of the screen size or resolution. This is how early webpages were designed, as there was only one device to view on.
While fixed layouts use pixels, fluid uses percentages. The container and the content within it are assigned percentages for width, meaning if the screen size changes, the proportion of the elements will stay the same.
With adaptive layouts, you have several versions of the layout which are displayed based on the screen size of the viewer.
Responsive takes the best of both fluid and adaptive layouts. With breakpoints, the webpage is divided at all possible screen sizes in range. It's like a custom experience for whatever screen size it's being viewed on.
The Core Concepts of Responsive Web Design
"Fluid grids, flexible images, and media queries are the three technical ingredients for responsive web design, but it also requires a different way of thinking. Rather than quarantining our content into disparate, device-specific experiences, we can use media queries to progressively enhance our work within different viewing contexts." – Ethan Marcotte, Responsive Web Design, A List Apart
Fluidity and Flexibility
When it comes to responsiveness, fluidity, and flexibility is the number one concept to follow. With fluid grids and flexible widths, images, and text, your website can become responsive and a lot more user-friendly.
Grid-based layouts are superior to fixed grids when it comes to responsive design. Fluid grids flow naturally within the dimensions of its parent container. All page elements are sized by proportion rather than pixels. Setting a flexible width – i.e., max- and min-width – will allow contents to ebb and flow effortlessly within the container. You can also set flexible widths to images and text.
When it comes to setting parameters for flexible width, there are several CSS measurement units. The most commonly used ones are:
Px – Pixels – Absolute values that are relative to the viewing device
Em – Emeters – Relative to the font-size of the element
Rem – Root Emeters – Relative to the font-size of the root element
Vw/vh – Relative to 1% of the width or height of the viewport
% – Relative to the parent element
Each unit can be used differently, so the application of each is dependent upon your usage. There is a great, in-depth guide posted here about each unit versus the other.
A media query is a CSS technique that uses the @media rule to include a block of properties only if a certain condition is true. An example of this would look like:
With media queries, you can change the width and height of the viewport and/or the device, as well as the orientation and resolution. They allow you to apply styles to only those screens that are greater or smaller than a certain width. It's like delivering a tailored style sheet to each and every device.
Mobile phones could access the internet in the early 1990s but could only display basic textual data. It wasn't until the mid-2000s when smartphones could display what we now consider to be real webpages. The problem was that websites weren't designed for these displays, and users had to pinch and zoom to view information, on top of very slow load times.
Mobile-first is the concept of designing for mobile before designing for desktop or any other device. This makes the page load and display faster on smaller devices.
Other tips for designing and optimizing for mobile include:
Don't use Flash
Do use drop-down menus
Don't use too-small fonts
Do make sure your site is tap friendly
Google has a nifty tool that allows you to test if your web page is mobile-friendly.
As it is always changing, technology will have a massive effect on the future of responsive design:
The Internet of Things (IoT): From tech-intelligent cars to smart refrigerators to wearables, the platform on which a site is displayed will need to be catered to.
Foldable Screens, Stretchable Surfaces, and Dual Displays: Samsung has recently announced their tablet with a foldable screen. Other vendors have discussed stretchable, bendable, and rollable screens. Some phone manufacturers have been designing smartphones with dual displays, ie. a screen in its usual place AND on the back.
The Ever-Evolving iPhone Notch: If you're the owner of a newer iPhone, you've likely experienced what they call the "notch." The notch is really just an invasive cut-out that designers have to design around. Apparently, Apple is prototyping an iPhone with less of a notch in the future.
The Increasing Number of Touch Screens: It's no wonder that everyone and everything is adopting the touch screen. Remember when we had actual keyboards on our phones with T9 and a trackball? Laptops, smart refrigerators, car radios – everything uses a touch screen these days. This just means more to design for.
And as it is always has been and always will be with web design, we will forever be designing and re-designing. Especially for responsive and mobile.
What do you think the future of responsive web design holds?
Where do you think web design would be today if it weren't for responsive design?
Why do you think responsive is important for business?
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Should Dustin Johnson Have Won The PGA Championship?
August 16, 2010 August 16, 2010 John Duval 6 Comments Bubba Watson, Bunker, Dustin Johnson, Martin Kaymer, Penalty Strokes, PGA Championship, Whistling Straits
For everyone that missed the finish of yesterday's dramatic PGA Championship, it will certainly be remembered for some time, especially when we speak of the "what if" scenarios and epic blunders in major championship golf. The record books will show that Germany's Martin Kaymer won the 2010 PGA Championship at Whistling Straits in Kohler, Wisconsin.
Coming down the stretch on the back nine, Dustin Johnson made a birdie on the Par 3 17th hole to take a one shot lead to the 72nd hole. Previous to that, Bubba Watson made a great par on 18 and Kaymer also drained a great par saving putt on 18 to tie with Watson. With Watson and Kaymer watching, Dustin Johnson blocked his tee shot on 18 way right, into a trampled down sandy area. Thinking nothing of the fact that the area may have been one of the 1200 or so bunkers on the site, he grounded his club on the hard packed sand before playing his second shot. After a great chip shot from left of the green, he missed his par putt, which at the time he thought was to win the PGA Championship. So, thinking he was joining a three way playoff, he was accosted by a rules official from the PGA and informed that there was an issue. In the scoring room, he was informed and shown on video that he grounded his club in what was at one point a bunker and assessed a two stroke penalty under rule 13-4. The penalty strokes changed his score to 73, he obviously missed the playoff, and the rest is history.
In the aftermath of this incident, several questions remain: Should the trampled, sandy area really have been a bunker under the rules of golf? Should Johnson have been allowed to ground his club in it? Should Johnson have known better? Let me give you my thoughts on this controversial matter.
Should the trampled, sandy area really have been a bunker under the rules of golf?
This question is most open to debate. Some people say it should have been a waste area or just dirt, where you are permitted to ground a club. Others say even if it was a bunker it should have played like a waste area because people were standing in and around it and trampled it all to hell. Yet others have argued that the PGA Championship Committee should have marked all bunkers outside "the ropes" to be treated as waste areas. However, the PGA decided that all the maintained sandy areas were specifically designed as bunkers by course architect Pete Dye, and therefor would be treated as bunkers, meaning players were not allowed to ground the club. This included all bunkers, even if fans had trampled and strewn litter all around them. The PGA posted a "Supplementary Rules of Play" sheet in the player's locker room and each player got the same rules sheet before play, and the first thing on the sheet was the rule on the bunkers:
1. Bunkers: All areas of the course that were designed and built as sand bunkers will be played as bunkers (hazards), whether or not they have been raked. This will mean that many bunkers positioned outside of the ropes, as well as some areas of bunkers inside the ropes, close to the rope line, will likely include numerous footprints, heel prints and tire tracks during the play of the Championship. Such irregularities of surface are a part of the game and no free relief will be available from these conditions.
Note 1: The sand area in front, left and behind No. 5 green in the later water hazard is NOT a bunker (do not move stones).
Note 2: Where necessary, blue dots define the margin of a bunker.
Should Johnson have been allowed to ground his club in it?
This is an easy one, considering the above. No! Obviously under the rules you cannot ground your club in a hazard. There was a local rule in effect that stated pretty clearly that all the sandy areas designed as bunkers would be treated as hazards, so there is no exceptions to this one. Some have suggested the rules official walking with his group should have warned him, but they are not allowed to interject and tell people what they can and can't do. The only way a rules official can get involved is when the players specifically ask for them about rules issues. For example – The official can't speak out and say "Hey Justin, make sure you don't ground your club there, it's a bunker!", but if Justin had called him over and asked if he was in a bunker the official would have quoted the local rules and informed him that he was indeed in a bunker and to proceed under the rules as such.
Should Johnson have known better?
Sadly, I feel Dustin Johnson should have known better than to ground his club in that sand on the 18th hole. Along with most of the television viewers, I hated to see Johnson's major championship hopes end with a rules infraction, and to his credit he handled the whole situation with class and maturity, unlike some other young players who clearly could have learned something from him. However, Johnson should have known better than to ground his club in that sand. Playing tournament golf for years has taught me one thing – When in doubt, don't ground the club. Even so, would I have grounded the club had I been in his place? Probably. It's a damn shame that things had to happen the way they did, but the bottom line is Dustin Johnson had every opportunity to read the local rules sheet and did not. He could have called the official over and did not. He could have decided not to ground his club and did not. He deserves the penalty strokes he got, and he knows it.
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You may recall Johnson was leading the US Open at Pebble Beach earlier this summer before clearly caving under the pressure and shooting a round in the 80s on Sunday and fading into the pack. The media wondered if and how he would learn from that bitter disappointment, and he showed us on Sunday. He used his experience at the US Open to play steady golf at the PGA and give himself a putt to win. He's shown that he can overcome disappointments at major championships, and I think he'll win one some day. He'll need to overcome it pretty quick, because the silver lining in this story is that he's guaranteed a spot on Corey Pavin's Ryder Cup squad later this summer.
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6 thoughts on "Should Dustin Johnson Have Won The PGA Championship?"
Can't argue with your thoughts, John, but there are two underlying issues… First: The crowd gathered around his ball may have prevented Johnson and his caddie from realizing the ball was in a bunker (it is pretty obvious that it is a bunker in photos of the area taken when no people are standing there). Even the TV commentators did not notice that it was a bunker. Second: the PGA rules officials decision to treat every bunker on the course as a bunker was flawed. In the spirit of the game, a player should not have to hit out of a bunker that has been trampled on by hundreds of people. The PGA could have easily avoided the problem by allowing players to ground their clubs in any bunkers outside the ropes. I would bet that a few other players grounded their clubs in places where they shouldn't have by not realizing they were in a bunker.
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Good points Dave, but with a rules official walking with every group, Dustin could easily have asked the official if he was in a bunker, but because of the situation he probably was so focused on trying to win a PGA Championship that the thought never occured to him.
As far as not having to hit from a trampled bunker – he was much better off with a clean, flat lie than if it had been raked. As it was he was able to reach the green. Had the ball been sitting in soft, raked sand he would probably have had to lay up. Doesn't mean he wouldn't have made par that way however!
Freddie Kong
Dave another good article and food for thought. Having been around this game my entire life I have several views on this topic.
According to the rules of the game and local rules there is no arguement in favor of Dustin Johnson. He grounded his club in the hazard and should have incurred the two strokes.
There are a few questions I have. If all the 1200 bunkers were in play, why in the world would the PGA allow fans to stand and trample a third of them for an entire week? In no other tournment does the PGA allow such a rule to come into play. Granted if the player blows it over the patrons heads then he has play the ball where ever it lands. 99% of the time this is just trampled grass or a crosswalk. But I have yet to see fans park themselves in bukers or waste bunkers.
Why would Dustin play a driver off the 18th tee with his length? A long iron or 3W would have been plenty of club to put him into a positive position to score or make par. I feel sorry for him because of the ruling, but everyone seems to forget he put himself there with a poor club choice. Just because you have the power, doesn't mean you have to use it all the time.
Thinking your away around the golf course is more than half the battle. At their level they all swing the club very well and they all know how to score. But what sets The greats apart from the others in the gray matter between their ears.
It's a shame because DJ has had more oppurtunities to win majors than most guys will get to win a tour event. Two in the same year are generally reserved for the PMs and TWs of the world. DJ played in the final group in two major in the same year and came up short both times. Who knows he may bounce back or maybe he will listen to all the talking heads and never recover. I hope he brushes this aside and makes a name for himself insteed or a story for the doubters.
Jim Dauer
The Golf Channel had a thorough interview with the tournament's head rules official last night during which he explained a lot of the reasons why the rules for this event were the way they were. In the end, I agree with John. Dustin Johnson wasn't the victim of a lousy call yesterday. Rather, he was the victim of one of golf's "bad bounces". The only thing that can be said is that had he or his caddy bothered to read the rules sheet, it may have occurred to them that the area they were hitting from might very well be a bunker.
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B Sauter
A couple of things… Before they went to a commercial break after Johnson's drive in that bunker, the announcer said he was in a bunker, so they new. Also, you can see a woman sitting on the huge lip of that bunker right in front of Johnson.
AND an official can tell a player that he's in a bunker. The Golf Channel showed a clip of Rocco Mediate about to pick up a ball that rolled out of a drop zone. The only reason he didn't incur a penalty is because the official told him not to pick up his ball.


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Ferrari, the pony prance team, started strong. They managed to win a double in Bahrain, taking advantage of Vettel 's technical problem. Winning Alonso and Massa in second place. Vettel has ceded his car while almost three quarters of the race he had run.
Sakhir, Bahrain. First race of 2010. First race for Schumacher in F1 now abandoned after 3 years. First race for Massa after the terrible accident to Budapest in summer, when protective helmet saved his life. First race for Alonso to Ferrari and Button's current world champion, McLaren. First race without Raikkonen who went to WRC. And for Hamilton Sakhir meant something. The first race when he reconciled with Nicole Scherzinger, the Pussycat Dolls' girl! We said nothing of Vettel, the german considered to be Schumi's successor.The 23 years old kid from Red Bull qualifying went very well and got pole position.
Yesterday, Vetttel led almost three quarters of the race and probably would have won the Bahrain MP if he had a technical problem. In round 34, his single user started to pink and thus began to lose ground. In his back, Alonso who took advantage immediately, then Massa and Vettel became three. German contacted the technical team and asked for help. He received a negative reply and it remained for Vettel to keep his position. He gave the last place of the podium in front of Hamilton. He completed on 4, before the two pilots of Mercedes GP: Rosberg and Schumacher. Place 6 is grateful for Schumi. The ex world champion said that he feels rusty and the car still needs small adjustments. Means that the result is good.
Great victory, but lucky one for Ferrari! Alonso and Massa on top, with Fernando number 1 and Felipe his right hand.
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