Talk of Fairfax County boosting teachers' pay has Loudoun school leaders looking to keep up as they try to attract and retain experienced educators.
Loudoun County Public Schools recruits and hires more teachers than any school system in Virginia, to provide for the additional 3,000-plus students it enrolls each year. But Fairfax County is attracting applicants with more experience, and pay may be a factor, Assistant Superintendent of Finance E. Leigh Burden told School Board members this week.
"We have anecdotal data from our principals that they see a lot of rookie applicants and they don't see a lot of experienced teachers looking to come work here," she said.
What's more, if Fairfax follows through with another round of raises, Burden estimates a Fairfax teacher with a master's degree will make $260,000 more in her 30-year career than a Loudoun teacher with a master's degree.
Superintendent Eric Williams told School Board members during a work session Tuesday that he wants to set aside as much as $27.2 million next fiscal year for pay raises for teachers, in an effort to keep pace with nearby jurisdictions. That would equate to a raise of roughly $4,184 per teacher, on average.
School Board member Jeff Morse (Dulles) agreed that improving teachers' pay is a goal worth pursuing, but said it may be hard to convince the Board of Supervisors, which holds the county's purse strings, to fund a budget that could give teachers as much as a 6 percent pay increase.
"That's a significant increase across the board. That's something we're going to struggle with justifying when we go to the Board of Supervisors," Morse said.
Several board members said that pay is only one factor that will keep teachers in Loudoun. Morale, benefits and providing services like mentoring programs also have proven effective in retaining employees, they said.
Jill Turgeon (Blue Ridge) and Debbie Rose (Algonkian) cautioned their colleagues to be careful to not get caught up in a "keeping up with the Joneses" scenario. "Is it just simply whatever Fairfax does we're supposed to do, rather than a focus on what our needs are here, inside of our budgetary constraints," Rose asked.
The school system has made progress over the past few years to improve pay for educators in the middle of their career. But Chairman Eric Hornberger (Ashburn) agreed with Williams that there is still work to be done.
The superintendent said a request for pay raises will be part of his budget proposal, which he will present in full on Jan. 12.
Before SGP comes along, let me throw out that teachers are not getting rich. Their real wage has not risen of the past several years. College students entering teaching should expect to earn half what they could earn in the private sector even including extended time off an benefits. It is tough to find qualified people to switch from careers in industry because they can easily take a 50% or more pay cut. Desptie what SGP will post here, teachers do not retire as well as those in the private sector.
Now, for SGP to tell us all that teachers do not know what they earn, cannot read their paystubs, are retires and living a luxurious life, and only work half as much as he does.
Hornberger is lying his tail off because he wants to increase his own household pay via his spouse, Paula Hornberger. Paula received a 15% raise over 3 years while the compensation of bus drivers was being cut and Hornberger voted to give pink slips to the math specialists despite noting LCPS needed to improve its math performance. Let's see, give pink slips to math specialists while keep ALL the reading specialists including his wife Paula without ever disclosing a conflict of interest as required by Virginia statute 2.2-3112. Meanwhile the corrupt CA Plowman watches and smiles instead of prosecuting.
1. In the Q&A for last year's budget, LCPS provided data that teachers transfer from Fairfax to Loudoun at 3x the rate that teachers move from Loudoun to Fairfax. Thus, we are flooded with teacher applicants.
2. Maybe if LCPS actually recruited, we could get the best teachers. We pay $20K more per year than Norfolk. One of the reasons I wanted the SGP data was to send blanket offer letters to teachers across Virginia with great scores. We simply don't recruit the best experienced teachers out of Loudoun. Other cities like Houston hold job fairs in other states (like NC) to recruit experienced teachers. LCPS does nothing.
3. It's disingenuous for Burden to quote that $260K number. First, LCPS claims its teachers work beyond age 52. If so, LCPS senior teachers make as much/more than Fairfax senior teachers. Thus, the salary after age 52 is better in Loudoun AND the pension for teachers in both is the same. Very little difference on a per year basis.
4. Also, Fairfax costs much more than Loudoun to live. Compare LCPS to teachers in Clarke county or WV and then you'll see LCPS are among the best paid anywhere.
When you allow political hacks to vote their own families pay raises year after year after year while ignoring real problems (math instruction, textbooks, bus drivers, dyslexia diagnosis), you end up with a broken system. That's what this board has done. Completely inept and totally corrupt.
1. First year teachers earn over $65K/year in private-sector equivalent pay.
2. A married pair of first-year teachers would earn $130K+/yr or more than the median Loudoun household income.
3. A senior (step 30) teacher in Loudoun earns over $130K/yr by themselves, way more than the median male (or certainly female) worker in Loudoun.
4. A pair of step 30 teachers earn over $250K/yr in private sector equivalent pay.
5. At the ripe ol age of 52, LCPS teachers can retire with a $50K/yr pension for the rest of their lives.
6. Teachers work less than 200 days/year. When prorated to what private sectors work, a pair of teachers would earn over $300K/yr.
7. Teachers in the middle steps like Chairman Hornberger's wife Paula received a 15% increase in just 3 years. How many of you receive 5% pay raises year after year after year.
This school board is no different than all the entitled kids in Loudoun during Christmas who believe that Santa will give them anything they ask for while real needs go unmet. When you think your job as a parent is hard and your kids are selfish, think what it must be like to serve on the BOS with this bunch of childish, selfish, inept cronies at LCSB.
Here are the fact that SGP does not want anyone to know.
2. A married pair of first year programmers would earn $180k+/yea or way more than the median Loudoun household income.
3. A senior level IT manager (15 + years, not 30) earns over $160k/year by themselves, way, way more than the median worker in Loudoun.
5. Retirement is a nice perk for teachers but does not make up financially for the deficit in earnings. The numbers SGP touts and those that I found on salary.com already account for retirement benefits. Certainly, anyone who has worked for the same company for 30 years and has earned pay raises, promotions, 401k matching and bonuses like those earned by the professionals in Loudoun has saved enough, even more, than the teacher retirement plan.
7. Teachers have not seen their net pay increase 5% year after year after year. This is simply not true.
8. SGP continually uses the notion of married, PHD teachers who are milking the system but ignores the idea that they do not actually exist but married, two-earner, professional family do exist. This is why Loudoun can have so many huge houses, country clubs, high prices restaurants, and even in-door skydiving. Teachers are not the ones patronizing these businesses.
9. The reason schools have trouble recruiting qualified teachers, especially from industry jobs, is that very few people are willing to cut their earnings in half all while being yelled at by SGP for being crooked and greedy.
CareerSwitcher is woefully uninformed on so many things. It is true I will not tout what I actually do because people couldn't care less. This is about policies, not about how one private citizen/taxpayer contributes.
Next, CareerSwitcher claims there are an infinite number of new positions paying $90K/yr to brand new programmers and any teacher could go get such a job. Let's put that through the fact checker. The median salary for a male in Loudoun is $89K/yr and roughly $68K/yr for a female (due to the types of jobs they hold). That's median for mid-career workers. CareerSwitcher's claim that any teacher could start out ABOVE the median is crazy. Plus, there are a limited number of jobs and you actually have to understand logic to program. By CareerSwitcher's posts, we understand this is a nonstarter for him and so many others.
But what are the actual facts? Could a teacher waltz into a programming shop and get a pay raise? In this WaPo story, the teacher admits she would have to take a $10,000 pay CUT to leave teaching. But yet CareerSwitcher keeps making baseless claims without facts. That's the world he lives in now. The teacher is always right (kind of like Stalin, Castro, Kim Jung Un and all the other dictators) but needn't show you any facts to support their claims.
Next, let's examine the actual dynamics of switching careers. I actually support this for well qualified folks (not ones who can't do anything else a la Bill Fox). I had a great computer science teacher in high school. LCSB could offer them a starting salary commensurate with their ability and experience (say Step 15-20). But they don't. They start all career switchers at the bottom, at step 1. Let's see how this plays out. Dave Palanzi, the current LEA union president, supposedly taught "business" in LCPS even though he knows nothing about actually running a business. Palanzi started out as a teacher and has done nothing since. This makes about as much sense as Kim Jung Un explaining how a stock market works in detail. If an actual experienced business person wanted to come teach classes at LCPS, he/she would get paid 1/2 of what Palanzi earned just last year. So we have know-nothing Palanzi earning over $100K+ yet someone who knew what they were talking about would get half of that. It's the same with teacher-of-the-year John Tuck who earned 1/2 of what Step 30 math teachers earned even if he was 10x more effective. That's how communism works. Nothing else in America works like that but LEA's Palanzi, the "business teacher", supports such a caste system to the hilt. I can only assume his "rare bird" does too.
The fact is CareerSwitcher is so lucky to have a teaching position because in any other field, he would take a pay cut. Yes, I think some very talented teachers should earn more (Tuck and other STEM teachers who are very effective). But none other than Paula Hornberger, spouse of the LCSB chairman, has received a 15% pay raise over 3 years without having to so much as demonstrate an ounce of effectiveness. The system is rigged by the greedy unions and the corrupt politicians. Don't be fooled. Replace the school board, get a merit-based pay system in place, and halt these never-ending and limitless pay hikes.
I do appreciate you finally acknowledging that anyone who switches from an industry or private sector job to go to teaching is looking at significant pay cuts.
Regarding private sector pay, it is interesting that you include all the benefits that teachers earn but no benefits that anyone else earns. I urge people to use facts like those analyzed at salary.com to compare jobs and salaries for the DMV area. So, SGP, I challenge you to show us where you get your facts about private sector pay. You will be surprise how right I am about what a college graduate could expect to earn in IT vs teaching. In fact, you have often pushed for more students to enter STEM careers so I don't understand how you can back off the fact that teachers will earn so much less over their careers.
Bottom line is that I actually agree with you that teachers are paid via a system that needs improvement. The problem is that this improvement must happen nationwide, not just at Loudoun. Until then, you constant attacks on teachers is terrible.
So, a first year teacher with a masters degree is already earning $65K/yr or more than the median female worker. At step 30 (around age 52), a teacher can earn over $130K/yr or more than $35K more than the median male full-time worker. Add in 2-teacher families (or even a teacher and a private sector worker), and nearly everyone is solidly in the upper middle class.
We can change the pay system if we simply put pressure on our school board. It has nothing to do with other districts. In fact, DC has already reformed its pay system. So did Pittsburgh, and Dallas, and so on. Teachers shouldn't whine for excessive salary "market adjustments" when they have received outsized increases in the last few years. This is merely an attempt to give school board members bigger paychecks and placate a greedy union.
Perhaps you should rely on actual data. For instance, a first year teacher with a masters earns 54,952 on the '17 salary scale, not $65k. Unless you are accounting for benefits, then you must include benefits for alternative professions.
The median income you keep reporting includes families and individuals of all levels of education and skills, not just professionals. For instance, you must adjust your thinking to acknowledge a non-teacher earning TWICE what a teacher earns by the time they have a PHD and have worked 30 years. You always forget that part. Somehow, you seem to only want to report that teachers are getting rich instead of what is actually happening.
CareerSwitcher prefers to use made up self-reported salary data with no comparisons for qualifications or experience. The median census data is very reliable and since the "median" is used, it is not skewed by the very low or the very high salaries.
Here is the FY17 teachers' salary (only) scale. But since teachers get very generous health benefits (I don't even include this even though it increases teacher comp) and an 18% pension contribution by LCPS, a comparable private-sector equivalent pay scale is shown here.
You apparently don't even know how to include web links to your source data in these posts. But you suggest that you (or others) could get a programming job? Are you serious? There is a reason so many of you take easy liberal arts majors.
To make a valid comparison between Loudoun teacher pay and Fairfax's, benefits must also be included in the calculus. If Loudoun's benefits are better, then just comparing salary is deceptive.
Perhaps more part-time teachers who would make more money in the private sector can be hired for difficult-to-fill positions, such as in the computer sciences or math. Though not a part-time hire, my advanced algebra teacher was retired military. Former teachers who elected to stay at home with their children may be able to teach one class. I don't know if this type of hiring is being done.
It is not RERay. In fact, many retired military veterans have always been interested in teaching as a second career. They receive 1/2 of their base pay as a pension so you can attract some highly qualified STEM teachers as "career switchers".
The kicker is that school boards can hire them at any level they wish commensurate with their experience. For example, let's say you had a military veteran who actually taught STEM courses in one of their academies/schools/etc. Certainly, that would qualify him/her to start out at step 10 or 15. What does LCSB do even though they recognize they are weak in STEM? Every single career switcher starts at the bottom – step 1. Of course, this is mainly to placate the union. I mean, LEA president Dave Palanzi taught business courses for many years even though he has never had any relevant experience and always worked as a teacher. It's obvious to him that any actually qualified candidate should have to start at step 1; otherwise, the power of his precious union would be diminished.
Other districts are taking innovative approaches. Many have STEM teacher recruiting departments. A friend was recruited by NC schools to serve as a STEM teacher because she had been working as a post-graduate student at one of her university's STEM departments (also had some teaching experience). They offered to bring her in around a step 5 even though she was still young.
And Dallas, TX has set up a position-based system. You get promoted to the next higher position as you demonstrate effectiveness and contribute outside your classroom (e.g. department chair, curriculum committee, etc.). LCPS Teacher of the Year John Tuck had amazing student growth scores and contributed to nearly every org in his school. But in LCPS, this only hurt his compensation. Since he didn't get a piece of paper (NBCT credential), he wasn't eligible for ANY additional bonus even though he is likely one of the most effective teachers in the district. He earned about 1/2 of what LEA President Dave Palanzi earned simply because he had not paid his dues. In Dallas, Tuck could have moved to the top stop within 8 years. And if a "business teacher" with no experience was not effective at teaching his students, he might remain at a mid-level step even after 30 years.
We should pay teachers based on responsibilities and effectiveness like every other business/sector. But when you have no LCSB members with any STEM experience, why should we expect them to improve our STEM performance?
Can't reply to your last dribble, SGP, but you cannot simply make up private sector pay. Take a look at any job posting or the very valid salary.com or any of the many other sites. If a student graduates with a bachelors in a STEM field and becomes a programmer here in the DMV, they immediately earn more than any teacher with a bachelor degree. Compare any education level and experience level and you see that IT jobs pay more. You have promoted this fact for years. Most other professions in the area show these same results. Even when you include benefits for both teachers and non-teachers, teachers earn less starting out and over their career. Now, teachers know this going into the field and accept it. Anyone switching to teaching from industry knows this as well. For you to keep challenging reality is wrong on so many levels.
I've actually never posted to one of these but I thought I would today. First let me say my mother was a public school teacher in a different state for 30 years. I have a very high level of respect for great teachers and I personally understand the amount of time, dedication and sometimes emotional toll teaching can take. Having said that, I am now an IT professional as is my husband. My husband hires programmers all the time and I can tell you he would not pay a fresh out of college graduate 90K a year for a bachelors degree. He would pay more than 65K though. But with that you have to keep in mind that person will only get 3 weeks of vacation. He or she would be expected to routinely work more than 40 hours a week as that is just how IT jobs go. Also, at best, the company would have a 401K but might only match say 3%. Add on to that expensive health insurance premiums with the high deductibles so common in work place insurance these days and I don't know that in real terms the private sector employee is making that much more than the public school teacher.
As teachers get older and start families they don't have to pay for childcare in the summer months or on snow days. I pay about $70 a day for extra day care every snow day and around $180 – $225 a week in the summer for camps because we both work.
Teacher pay should be competitive, it should be fair, and it should in some way account for the intangible things that teachers have to deal with everyday. However, it should also reflect and recognize the benefits of less work days than a private sector employee, and all the retirement and health benefits.
Yes, Loudounmom – $65k before benefits for an entry level programmer. This compares with $49k for an entry level teacher.
Regarding your other comments: I don't agree. You mention that older teachers do not have to pay for daycare so that should count against them or that you have to pay for summer camp meaning I guess that teacher don't send their own kids to day care or summer camp? Or are you only talking about the few snow days we have?
Teacher pay accounts for many intangible things just as all pay does. To berate teachers, as SGP does, for caring about their economic stability is simply cruel.
So much distortion from CareerSwitcher. It is true that our effective math/STEM teachers are likely underpaid. But you have Ivy League liberal arts majors who can barely pull down $40-50k. All majors are not created equally. Many of the non-STEM teachers simply couldn't pursue IT jobs. They still provide a valuable service but are well paid relative to supply and demand.
Also, we sometimes have very effective liberal arts majors. Teacher of the year John Tuck was a liberal arts major but taught most of the 5th grade math classes at Rolling Ridge and achieved stellar results. Yet he couldn't move up (get raises) any faster than an ineffective history teacher. Our system is broken. This is why the US DoE required use of SGP-type scores but LCPS simply defrauded them.
The private market pays workers based on skills and demands. CareerSwitcher has proven STEM teachers should get paid more because of demand for their skills. Why don't you convince the LEA of that now?


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Police spokesperson, Thembeka Mbele says the discovery was made near Longmarket Street taxi rank earlier today.
"The baby was recovered, placed in a body bag and an inquest docket was opened at Pietermaritzburg for further investigation," Mbele said.


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'More than a year has gone since the raid on The Pirate Bay. This travesty of justice gets bigger for every day that passes.' Translated from the Expressen editorial of 4 June 2007.
It seems more and more as if those fifty seven police officers didn't primarily tramp into Internet provider PRQ to fight crime but to fight uncomfortable people - the file sharers.
The mysterious game which took place before the raid speaks for that interpretation.
Even if 'IT prosecutor' Håkan Roswall is no whiz at IT he understood from a memo dated November 2005 that The Pirate Bay weren't breaking copyright law: the site doesn't store any copyrighted materials.
But Roswall convinced himself that The Pirate Bay could be guilty of 'accessory to breaking copyright law' because they enabled contacts between file sharers. What the IT prosecutor didn't think about was that in principle all chat programs - including Microsoft's MSN Messenger - offer the same capabilities.
But Roswall understood that an 'accessory' trial could at the very best result in a fine - and raiding The Pirate Bay was therefore not justifiable.
It was now an intricate web of communications began. Hollywood lobbyists traveled to the seat of Swedish government in Rosenbad and told amongst others state secretary Dan Eliasson how much they despised The Pirate Bay. A huge amount of correspondence was sent between lobby groups and authorities in the US and the Swedish department of justice.
Dan Eliasson was evidently impressed with the lobbyists. In a letter to John G Malcolm of the lobby group MPAA he wrote that the Swedish government expected 'immediate results' from their authorities.
Exactly what immediate results he was referring to we of course cannot know. But shortly after this exchange Roswall sent fifty seven (!) police to investigate a crime he'd already said could only result in fines.
And now Roswall's on the hot seat. His original opinion that The Pirate Bay could not be prosecuted seems to have been correct. The IT prosecutor has namely still not been able to specify charges. And he recently asked for an extension for the second time.
And meanwhile the confiscated servers - several of which belong to the opinion organisation the Pirate Bureau - remain in the custody of the police.
This is rather curious seeing as copying servers doesn't take very long at all.
And only Roswall knows why this affair is proceeding so exceptionally sluggishly.
It can be because he is desperately hunting for things to prosecute for - things that simply can't be found - and if The Pirate Bay are exonerated the whole affair threatens to become a scandal.
Or maybe it's a show of power against The Pirate Bay and the Pirate Bureau.
Either way it's unacceptable. Roswall should either present his case or return the servers.
And the events leading up to the raid need to be further investigated.
The former government classified as secret a great part of the correspondence between the lobby groups and authorities in the US and the department of justice right before the raid.
Our new government should release these documents in order to investigate possible ministerial control. Up to now Beatrice Ask has regrettably chosen not to do so.
It should be in everyone's interests to reestablish confidence in our system of justice.
I think he's waiting for the right people to take over in the right places so he can push his 'court decision' through. It's the only way he can save his job.
If TBP are prosecuted and found guilty so reasonably must most of the search engines on the Internet meet the same fate. Yes I'm speaking of Google, Altavista, and Yahoo. They link to copyrighted materials people can download. The only people who lose money on file sharing are companies who want to decide how, where, and when we should be allowed to listen to or view movies and music. The artists get very little money per sold song. And without file sharing they wouldn't reach such a wide public.
Further proof Swedish prosecutors don't cut the muster. Don't forget it's the prosecutors, not the police, who make all the decisions about raids etc. They're also responsible for all the miscarriages of justice. When is this career group going to be investigated?
This is creepy. Seems we have a government inside our government.


Our Lives, Our Stories: America's Greatest Generation opens for the first time ever at the Park City Museum.
Now through March 26th 2011.
Born in the 1910s and 1920s, this generation was decisively shaped by the Depression and World War II. They went on to make the "baby boom" and shape the economic boom of the postwar era.
Drawing on memories and oral histories gathered by the Minnesota Historical Society, Our Lives, Our Stories helps us understand who these people really were.
Check the Events Page for an updated list of programs and events being held in conjunction with Our Lives, Our Stories, or become a fan of this exhibit on their Facebook page.


The following is the JSS Craft Club schedule for October (flyer in Japanese only). Oct. 11, 18, 25: Wednesdays. 10:30 am ~ 12:30 pm at JCCC 2F (Please check the room on that day.) *Please contact JSS (416-385-9200) to sign up if you would like to attend.


Important news items and activity information is sent home in a written form allowing you to know what's happening in the school and what is coming up. The Newsletter is sent home every Wednesday with the eldest child in the family. Please check with your child and also check in school bags. It is also available on the school website.
We have a Whole School Assembly each Monday at which teachers and children give reports, sports results, news items and awards. As this is an important aspect of school life, we ask parents who remain in the assembly area to respect the formality of the occasion.
Certificates are awarded each week at the Monday morning assembly to children displaying the school values.
Students in years 3-6 elect representatives from their grade to represent them on the SRC. These representatives make suggestions regarding student issues which are then taken to the School Council for consideration.
Year Prep and Year 5 students participate in a Buddy Program to assist in the transition of children from pre-school to school environment. The program also aims to assist positive peer behaviour and the development of language, social and thinking skills.


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This commission was for a series of detailed ruined buildings.
These buildings have really seen the heat of battle! They are blasted and ruined and destroyed.
There are 2 full buildings, and 8 building corners which can be joined together to make 4 normal buildings, or two very large buildings.
The rubble has been made separate to the buildings so you can move them around for gameplay purposes (block/barricade entrances, block roads from tanks), and the walkways can be positioned wherever you might need them.


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House on 92nd Street (Blu-ray)
Directed by Henry Hathaway
Color Type: B&W
Genres: Film Noir, Mystery, Crime, Thriller
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The great Henry Hathaway (23 Paces to Baker Street) directed this classic film noir set in New York City during World War II - The House On 92nd Street is a riveting spy thriller. Reporting to FBI counterterrorist agent George Briggs (Lloyd Nolan, Somewhere in the Night), William Dietrich (William Eythe, Wing and a Prayer) becomes a double agent in order to infiltrate a cell of German spies gathering information about construction of the atom bomb. Hoping to identify its highest-level operatives, the FBI allows the spy ring to continue operations in their 92nd Street headquarters. As the Nazis close in on the bomb, the tension explodes in this gripping film! The great cast includes Signe Hasso (The Seventh Cross), Gene Lockhart (Meet John Dow) and Leo G. Carroll (Spellbound). Nominated for Best Original Screenplay (Charles G. Booth).
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Audio Commentary by Film Noir Historian Eddie Muller
"The first American espionage film produced after World War II, Henry Hathaway's The House on 92nd Street combines elements of documentary, melodrama, and film noir into a most unique cinematic creation."
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Jacking In: Remembering "The Matrix" on its 20th Anniversary
"The Matrix managed to outdo Star Wars in terms of truly reshaping the zeitgeist mere months before George Lucas' first prequel was supposed to roar into theaters and show everyone how big budget sci-fi is supposed to work." — Zaki Hasan, co-author of Geek Wisdom: The Sacred Teachings of Nerd Culture
The Digital Bits and History, Legacy & Showmanship are pleased to present this retrospective commemorating the 20th anniversary of the release of The Matrix, the popular, franchise-inspiring action/sci-fi/cyberpunk adventure starring Keanu Reeves (Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventure, John Wick) and highlighted by Academy Award-winning editing, sound effects editing, sound, and visual effects.
Directed by The Wachowskis (Bound, Speed Racer), produced by Joel Silver (Die Hard, Lethal Weapon) and co-starring Laurence Fishburne (Boyz n the Hood, What's Love Got to Do with It), Carrie-Anne Moss (Memento, Disturbia), Hugo Weaving (V for Vendetta, The Lord of the Rings), and Joe Pantoliano (Midnight Run, The Fugitive), The Matrix introduced moviegoers to Bullet Time and featured the music of Deftones, Marilyn Manson, Prodigy, Rage Against the Machine, Rammstein, and Rob Zombie. [Read on here...]
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Coppola's Bite: Remembering "Bram Stoker's Dracula" on its 25th Anniversary
"The film may as well have been officially titled Francis Ford Coppola's Dracula, because it so unmistakably bears the stamp of its director." — Dracula FAQ: All That's Left to Know about the Count from Transylvania author Bruce Scivally
The Digital Bits and History, Legacy & Showmanship are pleased to present this retrospective commemorating the 25th anniversary of the release of Bram Stoker's Dracula, Francis Ford Coppola's take on the classic horror icon featuring Gary Oldman in the title role.
Bram Stoker's Dracula, which also starred Winona Ryder, Anthony Hopkins and Keanu Reeves — and winner of numerous awards including three Oscars and five Saturns — opened 25 years ago this autumn. For the occasion, The Bits features a Q&A with film historian Bruce Scivally, who discusses the film's virtues, shortcomings and influence. [Read on here...]
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Free Agent Frenzy fantasy football fallout
The NFL season never ends, it just takes different forms. We're now fully into the next step on the treadmill with teams being able to franchise tag players and start negotiating deals with free agents. We'll update this page with the big, fantasy-relevant deals as they happen. Keep refreshing. It's not like you're going anywhere for awhile.
The Big Moves
Texans trade DeAndre Hopkins to Arizona
You'll have to pardon me while I catch my breath. Like ... what? Just moments after the Texans announced that they were trading for running back David Johnson, they announce that star receiver DeAndre Hopkins was going back the other way. Now that I'm slowly getting my bearings, this has major ripples.
First, it raises the potential value for Will Fuller, Keke Coutee, and the remaining pass-catchers in Houston. That, of course, presumes that those players stay healthy which hasn't always been their M.O. It would ostensibly have a negative impact on Deshaun Watson. You can't lose a receiver that talented and expect things to get better. The upside is that Watson's running ability shouldn't tank his overall production.
Meanwhile, the Cardinals have become the new offense that everyone will want a piece of. The already-out-of-control Kyler Murray Hype Train just had a several truckloads of coal thrown on the fire. You'll have to reach into the early rounds if you're going to draft him in 2020. This will have a mild suppressing effect on the number of targets Christian Kirk and Larry Fitzgerald will see this year but overall, this offense just got a lot more potent. -- Marcas Grant
Tom Brady signs with Buccaneers
It's official. TB is going to TB. We didn't have to wait too long into the start of free agency for the biggest name on the board to make his decision. Tom Brady is leaving New England and joining the Buccaneers on a two-year deal, marking the end of one of professional sports' most remarkable eras. Click here for more analysis. -- MG
Todd Gurley agrees to one-year deal with Falcons
The Rams released star running back Todd Gurley on Thursday, rather than pay him an additional $10.5 million of his contract. By Friday morning, he had found a new home with the Atlanta Falcons, signing a one-year, $5 million deal and returning to the state where he starred in college for the Georgia Bulldogs. Click here for more analysis. -- MG
Cowboys use exclusive franchise tag on Prescott
With all due respect to Tom Brady, this was the biggest quarterback name set to hit the markt this year. But as expected, Dak Prescott won't be leaving the Metroplex. Dak was the QB2 last season after having the most productive season of his career while leading one of the NFL's most prolific offenses.
What would significantly impact Prescott's fantasy future would be whether or not the Cowboys are able to keep Amari Cooper. The two have gone together like chicken and waffles since Dallas traded for the talented wide receiver in 2018. With Cooper, Prescott could be a top five fantasy quarterback drafted. Without? Well ... we'll see. -- MG
Cooper staying in Dalls on 5-year, $100M contract
Jerry Jones was adamant that he'd keep his two big offensive pieces in town and he did just that. After beginning the day by locking up Dak Prescott on a franchise tag, the Cowboys ended it by agreeing to a five-year deal with Amari Cooper. Since joining Dallas midway through the 2018 season, Cooper has racked up 132 receptions for 1,914 yards and 14 touchdowns (25 games). In 2019, Dallas was one of the league's most productive offenses and now has its big three pieces locked up for a run in 2020. As for Cooper, his peaks are in line with the game's elites. The downside is a lack of consistency. That volatility should push his draft value into the second round but he's a solid WR1 candidate. -- MG
Drew Brees agrees to 2-year, $50M deal with Saints
There was never any doubt about this one. Brees said if he was going to return for his 20th season that it would be with New Orleans. The Saints were always adamant that they wanted Brees back if the veteran was willing to return. So for the moment, things stay status quo in the Big Easy. Expect Michael Thomas to be a top five pick in most leagues. Even Alvin Kamara should remain in the first round despite frustrating managers for much of last season. -- MG
Tannehill agrees to $118M extension with Titans
This was one of the bigger names to keep an eye on during this period, though the expectation was mostly that the Titans would be silly to let Tannehill walk. The veteran quarterback enjoyed a resurgence last season, posting the best numbers of his career and helping lead the Titans to the AFC Championship game.
After taking over as the starter, Tannehill averaged 22.5 fantasy points per game -- fourth-best during that stretch -- by being incredibly efficient. The obvious concern for fantasy folk is that he'll have a hard time duplicating a season where he far surpassed his best marks in completion percentage and touchdown percentage while throwing the fewest picks of his career. The upside is that Tannehill is the type of quarterback that's becoming popular in fantasy football, namely one that can run. No, he won't be confused with Lamar Jackson -- or even Josh Allen -- but you mighta once heard that Tannehill was a wide receiver in college. He can scramble effectively when he needs to and it could keep his fantasy production fairly steady. -- MG
Titans place franchise tag on RB Derrick Henry
The Titans are keeping the band together. After signing Tannehill to an extension, Tennessee made sure that El Tractorcito wouldn't be pulling a big workload anywhere else. Henry finished last season as the NFL's rushing champion and helped plenty of people to fantasy titles with his strong finish to the season. With everything staying status quo in Music City, Henry will enter the conversation as a top five fantasy back in 2020. Now if only we could get him to start catching passes. -- MG
The Second Shift
Panthers add Robby Anderson
After a bit of a wait, Robby Anderson is off the board. The former Jets speedster will fly south to Carolina where he joins his former college coach Matt Rhule with the Panthers. It's a bit of a curious signing for fantasy purposes. Anderson's best asset is his long speed, though he never blossomed into the complete lid-lifter the Jets hoped he could be. Now he's paired with Teddy Bridgewater, who's not exactly know for chucking the ball deep. This feels like a mismatch that won't make a lot of fantasy enthusiasts happy. Anderson should be downgraded on most boards. -- MG
Philip Rivers agrees to one-year, $25M deal with Colts
It feels like just about everyone nailed this one. Philip Rivers and the Colts were linked together ever since it was known that the longtime Charger would wear the lightning bolt no more. Now he reunites with former Chargers offensive coordinator Frank Reich in Indianapolis. The upside for Rivers is that he'll be able to work behind a much better offensive line than he's experienced over the last few years in San Diego/Los Angeles. But if the lack of arm strength and turnover-proneness we saw near the end of last season don't improve, it won't matter much. The least we can hope for is that Rivers can re-inject some life into T.Y. Hilton. -- MG
Melvin Gordon, Broncos agree to 2-year contract
Melvin Gordon is leaving the Chargers but he's staying in the division after coming to terms on a two-year deal with the rival Denver Broncos. It's likely a better move for the Broncos than for fantasy enthusiasts. Denver gets a quality running back still in his prime years to pair in their backfield with Phillip Lindsay. For the rest of us, though, it means another heavy running back rotation that severely diminishes the value of both players. Gordon is likely to top out as an RB2 this season with Lindsay on the low-end of the RB2 scale. As for Royce Freeman, well ... it might be a wrap in Denver. -- MG
Bengals place franchise tag on WR A.J. Green
This move was kind of expected. Much in the same way we came to expect weekly tweets last year that asked, "is this the week A.J. Green is going to be playing?" The answer to the latter question was no, as the team eventually placed him on IR at the very end of the year. But Green has continued to figure into the Bengals' plans for the future. And that future could be incredibly bright as the team is expected to select quarterback Joe Burrow with the first-overall selection in April's draft. Green would be part of an offense that is brimming with talent, including receivers Tyler Boyd, Auden Tate and a talented stable of running backs. Green could end up being a great value in fantasy drafts this summer. -- Adam Rank
Bills acquire Stefon Diggs from Vikings for picks
Bill O'Brien, look away!
Apparently Stefon Diggs' cryptic social media posts actually added up to something. The Vikings traded the talented wide receiver to the Buffalo Bills for a four-pack of draft picks. Diggs gets his wish to get out of Minnesota and Buffalo gets another weapon for developing quarterback Josh Allen. Look for Diggs' value as a WR2 to stay right around the same but adding another dynamic pass-catcher to the Buffalo offense will add fuel to a growing Allen fire. Oh, and let's not forget about John Brown, whose fantasy numbers were resurrected last season. Having Diggs line up on the opposite side should only make things a little easier for Smokey. The Bills offense could be a nice option for fantasy managers seeking value in drafts in 2020. -- MG
Browns place second-round tender on RB Hunt
After waiting for him to serve an eight-game suspension, the Browns threw Kareem Hunt into heavy rotation last season, much to the chagrin of Nick Chubb's fantasy managers. Cleveland apparently liked what it saw from Hunt because the team placed a second-round tender on him. That means if he signs with any other team, the Browns would get a second-round pick in return. For us fake football types, it means that Chubb's value is capped because he's not likely to see the same level of targets he would have without Hunt in tow. As for Hunt, he'll have value as a pass-catching back but his overall production would be much more exciting if he wasn't part of a rotation. Then again, The Meg would have been more exciting if it was, y'know ... good. -- MG
Cardinals place transition tag on Kenyan Drake
The transition tag will allow the Cardinals to match any offer Drake receives from other clubs, but the Birds will not receive any compensation if they do not match the offer. But this shows the Cardinals are serious about Drake, and why not? Drake is the latest in a long (LONG) line of players who have flourished post-Adam Gase and Miami. Even though it seemed like kind of a head-scratcher that the Cardinals would even trade for him. But Drake rushed for 643 yards (5.2 yards per carry) with eight touchdowns in his eight games in Arizona. Included in that total is his debut against the 49ers when he rushed for 110 yards with a touchdown and added 52 receiving yards for nearly 30 fantasy points. (And most of you had him on the bench, but we won't talk about that.) Drake will be ranked in the Top 10 at the position if he remains with the Cardinals. -- AR
Texans trading for David Johnson
Last year was a miserable one for David Johnson. He battled injuries and was pushed to the background once Kenyan Drake was traded to Arizona. After the Cardinals used the transition tag on Drake, it seemed like a matter of time before DJ was considered expendable. Enter the Texans, who are expected to take on all of Johnson's salary in addition to whatever they're giving up in the deal. On one level, it makes sense for a team struggling to find consistency in the backfield -- IF Johnson is healthy. He adds a dual-threat option to complement Deshaun Watson and DeAndre Hopkins. There's a gleam when it comes to DJ's fantasy value, though I'd avoid overdrafting him. -- MG
The Cleveland Browns agree to terms with Austin Hooper
This might be the first mild surprise of early free-agency tampering, but the Browns have locked in tight end Austin Hooper, the most-coveted player at his position. A lot of teams were expected to be players for Hooper, including the Green Bay Packers. But the Browns have landed him. The Browns currently have Odell Beckham Jr., Jarvis Landry, Nick Chubb, David Njoku and now Hooper. I would expect Hooper to still be one of the most-sought after tight ends in fantasy football, even with all of those options. He did pretty well with a loaded Falcons squad last year.
And I wouldn't expect the Browns to move on from Njoku, either. New coach Kevin Stefanski used a lot of two-tight end and two-running back sets as offensive coordinator of the Vikings and that figures to be the case with the Browns. Minnesota also ranked last in 11-personnel last year (three-receiver sets). Although Njoku's fantasy value takes a huge hit. -- AR
Panthers to sign Teddy Bridgewater to replace Newton
Earlier on Tuesday, the Panthers made it known that they were looking to trade quarterback Cam Newton. Several hours later, Carolina had already lined up Newton's replacement by agreeing to terms with former Saints backup Teddy Bridgewater. Last season, Bridgewater filled in admirably for five games while Drew Brees was out with a thumb injury. The biggest winners in this scenario are obviously Curtis Samuel and D.J. Moore. That Moore was able to finish inside the top 20 while dealing with the combination of Kyle Allen and Will Grier should be reason to be bullish on the young pass-catcher in 2020. Having a quarterback who can get the ball downfield could eat into some of Christian McCaffrey's targets but he's still worth being considered as the 1.01 in most formats. As for Teddy B himself, it's hard to see him heavily drafted outside of two-QB or superflex formats but could have some streaming appeal. -- MG
Steelers signing Eric Ebron to 2-year deal
One of the remaining free agent tight ends is off the board. The Steelers and Eric Ebron agreed on a two-year contract, ending the veteran's short stay in Indianapolis. After a career year in 2018, Ebron came crashing back to fantasy Earth in 2019. A move to Pittsburgh could reinvigorate his production, especially with Ben Roethlisberger back at the helm. With Big Ben leading the way two seasons ago, Pittsburgh's main tight ends (Vance McDonald and Jesse James) saw a combined 121 targets and posted more than 1,000 yards and six touchdowns. Ebron won't replicate his breakout season from a couple of years ago, but he should be far more productive than he was last year. -- MG
Vikings signing WR Tajae Sharpe
It appears the Vikings have zeroed in on their replacement for Stefon Diggs, agreeing to terms with former Titans wideout Tajae Sharpe. Tennessee spent a fifth-round pick on Sharpe in 2016 with the hope of developing him. That never really came with Sharpe's most productive season being his rookie campaign in which he posted a 41/522/2 on 83 targets. A move to Minnesota could mean an increase of targets but it's hard to imagine Sharpe fully absorbing Diggs' role without some competition from Bisi Johnson. -- MG
Perriman signing with Jets for 1 year, up to $8M
A red-hot end to the 2019 season has helped Breshad Perriman line up a new gig for 2020. The journeyman receiver is now on his fourth team in four seasons after agreeing to a one-year deal with the Jets. In the final three games last season, Perriman posted a combined 17/349/4 with both Mike Evans and Chris Godwin injured, accounting for more than 54 percent of his yardage total for the year. Now he goes to an offense that couldn't get out of its own way last year and is still looking for a No. 1 receiver. There's not much here to get excited about.
TE Tyler Eifert signing with Jaguars on two-year deal
After seven injury-plagued seasons in Cincinnati, Tyler Eifert is looking for greener pastures in Jacksonville. The veteran tight end is expected to join the Jaguars with a two-year contract. Eifert's breakout season was in 2015 when he caught 13 touchdown passes. He has just 11 scoring receptions for the rest of his career. The encouraging news is that in 2019, Eifert appeared in 16 games for the first time. The bad news is his on-field impact was minimal. Perhaps better quarterback play can improve that, though we can debate how much of an upgrade Gardner Minshew is over Andy Dalton. Either way, it's hard to imagine the veteran as anything more than a TE2 this season. -- MG
Seahawks signing ex-Patriots WR Phillip Dorsett
Phillip Dorsett is the latest Patriot to leave Foxborough. The speedy receiver is heading west to join a Seahawks receiving corps that is increasingly loading up on jet-setters. Last season, Dorsett was second on the club in targets among wide receivers. That was the good news. The bad news is that he saw just 54 targets and failed to post even 400 receiving yards. Ideally, this signals an intention from the Seahawks to throw the football more in 2020. Otherwise, there might not be enough volume for Dorsett to make a fantasy impact. -- MG
Ravens trade Hayden Hurst to Falcons
The Falcons didn't wait long to replace the departed Austin Hooper. Atlanta worked out a deal with the Baltimore Ravens to bring in tight end Hayden Hurst for what is essentially a second round pick. That gets Hurst out of the shadow of Mark Andrews, who dominated a large share of the Ravens targets. Now he'll play in a Falcons offense that should provide him plenty of opportunity. -- MG
The Cleveland Browns agree to terms with Jack Conklin
The Browns addressed one of their biggest offensive needs as they agreed to terms with Jack Conklin. He's a young (entering his age-26 season) tackle who already has one All-Pro nod on his resume and will be an anchor for the Browns offensive line. But can we have some real talk here? With Austin Hooper and Conklin, the biggest winner of the day might be Baker Mayfield. And I know, we tried to anoint Baker last offseason, but these moves are going to be huge for the third-year quarterback who no doubt burned fantasy enthusiasts last year. I would even suggest that those of you who don't get to overdraft Kyler Murray this summer, should take a look at Baker. I understand your aversion, but he will be worth the risk. -- AR
QB Marcus Mariota agrees to terms with Raiders
There could be a quarterback competition brewing in Las Vegas after the Raiders agreed to a deal with former Titans signal-caller Marcus Mariota. Mariota lost his gig midway through last season to Ryan Tannehill, making it all but certain that Tennessee would move on from the former No. 2 overall pick. Coming out of Oregon, Mariota was a favorite of current Raiders general manager Mike Mayock. At the same time, head coach Jon Gruden has never seemed particularly sold on Derek Carr as the team's future. There could be a camp battle brewing, though neither player is likely to get fantasy enthusiasts particularly fired up. -- MG
Raiders, TE Jason Witten come to terms on contract
It's a meeting of former Monday Night Football color analysts. Jon Gruden will have the chance to coach Jason Witten after the veteran tight end agreed to join the Raiders. Last season, Witten finished as the TE11 -- though was more a product of the state of the position than any kind of lights-out production. After Darren Waller's breakout 2019 season, it's hard to see Witten having much of a role in the offense and looks to be mostly a veteran presence in the locker room. This is the way of Gruden. -- MG
Veteran WR Emmanuel Sanders heading to Saints
After helping the 49ers to a Super Bowl run, Emmanuel Sanders is heading to New Orleans in search of greener pastures. The move helps the Saints fill a void at wide receiver. Yes, Michael Thomas is still there but New Orleans was in need of another playmaking wideout. After Thomas, the receiver with the most targets was Ted Ginn with 56. Last season, Sanders was a vital part o the Niners offense even if his fantasy production didn't always show it. In New Orleans, he should see a healthy number of targets and should have some value as a depth receiver on most fantasy rosters.
Nelson Agholor signing one-year deal with Raiders
Nelson Agholor is getting a little closer to home by signing a deal to join the Raiders in Las Vegas. The former USC standout never truly flourished with the Eagles and got more attention last season for ending up as a meme than anything he did on the field. Don't expect the change of scenery to do much for people playing fake football. The Raiders need wide receiver help but a middling slot receiver with questionable hands doesn't seem to be the best option to kickstart this passing game.


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Forbidden Religion
Reveals the thread that unites the spiritual paths that have opposed orthodox religion over the centuries and the challenge they provide to the status quo
• Contains 40 essays by 18 key investigators of heresies and suppressed spiritual traditions, including Steven Sora, Ian Lawton, Jeff Nisbet, P.M.H. Atwater, John Chambers, and Vincent Bridges
• Edited by Atlantis Rising publisher, J. Douglas Kenyon
Following the model of his bestselling Forbidden History, J. Douglas Kenyon has assembled from his bi-monthly journal Atlantis Rising material that explores the hidden path of the religions banned by the orthodox Church--from the time before Christ when the foundations of Christianity were being laid to the tumultuous times of the Cathars and Templars and the Masons of the New World. Revealed in this investigation of the roots of Western faith are the intimate ties of ancient Egyptian religion to Christianity, the true identities of the three magi, the link forged by the Templars between early Christianity and the Masons, and how these hidden religious currents still influence the modern world.
This book serves as a compelling introduction to the true history of the heretical religious traditions that played as vital a role in society as the established faiths that continuously tried to suppress them. Born in the same religious ferment that gave birth to Christianity, these spiritual paths survived in the "heresies" of the Middle Ages, and in the theories of the great Renaissance thinkers and their successors, such as Isaac Newton and Giordano Bruno. Brought to the New World by the Masons who inspired the American Revolution, the influence of these forbidden religions can be still found today in "The Star Spangled Banner" and in such Masonic symbols as the pyramid on the back of the dollar bill.


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We are led by disabled people and bring tested methods to build up, gather and feed the direct and collective voice of our lived experience into (co-produced) projects with other equality groups.
We have been selected for our reach, credibility and impact gained with many small local user-led organisations and self-advocacy projects building on the principles of the social model, self-care and leadership of disabled people directing care and support for and by themselves.
Examples of our user-led work are in accessibility and co-production leading to user-driven commissioning, peer-led modelling and the co-delivery of the Workforce Disability Equality Standard.
The much wider partnership of the Health and Wellbeing Alliance is intended to help DH, Public Health England and NHS England work closely with VCSE organisations to promote equality, address health inequalities and help families and communities achieve and maintain wellbeing.
By being part of this alliance, DRUK can amplify the voices of our members and networks at national and strategic levels. It means that real issues affecting local communities across England are raised and (hopefully) positive local solutions sought together.
As user-led WWA we hope to see our impact in policy and practice leading to further improvements around choice, control and independent living across all our life domains, including at work (eg in the NHS). These may seem a soft focus compared to seemingly much more urgent policy areas such as cancer, 'out of hospital' care. In fact, co-production is part of the answer to all such urgent policy areas – not a simple add-on. Services and support should be redesigned so that they matter to disabled people (who account for 70% of NHS expenditure).
Disability is NOT a characteristic but a situation we find ourselves in - avoiding the word 'disability' does not end it. So let us all take a holistic and Pan-impairment approach so we can play a greater part in our services and in peer support and we all win.


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Home News Famous Hawaiian Koa canoe builder seeks public's help in solving a crime
Famous Hawaiian Koa canoe builder seeks public's help in solving a crime
Bobby Puakea
KANEOHE – A well-known native Hawaiian koa wood canoe builder is asking for the public's help in solving a crime.
Bobbie Puakea, who heads the Puakea Foundation, makes koa canoes for several canoe halaus throughout the state.
On Thursday, all the rare koa wood he had finished for a canoe he was building for Honolulu Pearls canoe club, was stolen from his workshop in Heeia State Park. The wood pieces were about 4 feet long.
Bobby Puakea teaches people of all ages how to make their own canoe paddles
He was building a replacement canoe for Honolulu Pearls Canoe Club. The club lost its koa canoe at Nanakuli beach park when it shattered after a crash landing on the beach at the conclusion of a race.
His son John Puakea, a well known paddler and boat maker, explained "Koa canoes are what our ancestors used to fish, travel, and play in. It's part of our heritage and where we come from culturally in Hawaii. I grew up with Koa canoes in my yard, with my father and grandfather working side by side building and rebuilding them. Sometimes I just have to ask myself, what's going on here. Do people really forget that we should hold on to our roots, what we are taught, and the that we should all respect and support one another."
Anyone with information about incident, please contact the Puakea Foundation at (808) 247-1428 or or the Honolulu police department at 9-1-1.
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A Foreign Policy for the Common Citizen
May 8, 2000 Issue
A quarter-century after the end of the Vietnam War, and eleven years after the collapse of the Berlin wall, it has become commonplace to say that we Americans have no consensus on foreign policy.
By Kai Bird
A quarter-century after the end of the Vietnam War, and eleven years after the collapse of the Berlin wall, it has become commonplace to say that we Americans have no consensus on foreign policy. Across the political spectrum, left or right, most Americans still cling to whatever assumptions they held during our long journey through the cold war. Having inhaled the sweet narcotic of a false triumphalism, Washington's foreign-policy elite talk as if America's "soft power" can prevail in nearly every instance. And where it cannot–as in Colombia's narco-civil war or against the specter of "international terrorism" in Afghanistan or Sudan–Republicans and Democrats alike sanction cruise-missile diplomacy or outright military interventionism reminiscent of Vietnam. Naturally, such behavior reinforces the anti-interventionist instincts of citizens on the liberal-left. But here–as in many aspects of foreign policy–I believe the American left has failed, perhaps understandably, to face up to a new set of post-cold war imponderables. It has also failed to take advantage of this post-cold war period to put forth truly fresh ideas on matters ranging from nuclear weapons to the environment.
It is one thing to be against unilateralism and against nonhumanitarian interventionism–but it is quite another thing to be against humanitarian interventionism. To put it bluntly, the lessons we learned from Washington's bloody-minded intervention in Vietnam have little relevance in dealing with ethnic cleansing or oppression in Bosnia, Haiti, Rwanda, East Timor and Kosovo. And though the victims of these internal wars cry out for our help–and the aggressors are invariably thuggish regimes–the American left remains divided on how to respond.
This is understandable precisely because the duration and intensity of the cold war make it difficult to remember what might have been. Sadly, in our determination to oppose nuclear brinkmanship and other idiocies that marked Washington's foreign policy for forty-four years (1945-89), we have forgotten our basic radical principles and the common-sensical path not taken at the end of World War II. Most Americans have no memory of the designs Franklin Roosevelt's New Dealers had for postwar American foreign policy. Human rights, self-determination and an end to European colonization in the developing world, nuclear disarmament, international law, the World Court, the United Nations–these were all ideas of the progressive left. Even the World Bank and the International Monetary Fund were initially conceived as vehicles for internationalizing the New Deal.
And then in the spring of 1945, Harry Truman became the accidental President. A narrow-minded man–a product of the Pendergast machine in Kansas City–Truman purged Washington of New Deal visionaries. An insecure liberal, Truman felt compelled to protect his right flank by authorizing internal security review boards. The subsequent witch hunt that we call McCarthyism was very much a bipartisan affair, designed to suppress dissent against the growing consensus of cold war liberalism. We can blame Truman and his supporters in the foreign-policy establishment for a host of missed opportunities during the cold war. They slammed the door on nuclear disarmament by deciding to make nuclear weapons the centerpiece of the nation's defense. They militarized the cold war by deciding to divide Germany and rearm West Germany within a NATO alliance, a policy that prolonged the cold war at great cost to life and treasure. By closing the door to trade and engagement, by hardening the lines of cold war confrontation, they postponed for years the very real potential for liberalization within the Soviet Union after Stalin.
Elsewhere, Truman reversed Roosevelt's support for decolonization of French, British and other European outposts in Africa, Asia and the Middle East. Instead, Washington spent billions of dollars propping up any regime of corrupt mandarins willing to mouth the slogans of anti-Communism. In short, the cold war legacy begun by Truman was a democratic disaster. Nor were these policies inevitable. There was a choice. In 1945, at the beginning of the cold war, our leaders led us astray. We need to think of the cold war as an aberration, a wrong turn. As such, we need to go back to where we were in 1945–before we took the road to a permanent war economy, a national security state and a foreign policy based on unilateralism and cowboy triumphalism.
This collection of essays underscores that we on the left, for all our differences, share common instincts. All of us are profoundly suspicious, as Bruce Cumings puts it in his sweeping essay on the America Ascendancy, of what he calls "the celebration of a 'globalization' that is uncomfortably close to Americanization." As Robert Borosage argues, our foreign-policy budget priorities are irrational. We should be spending far, far less on defense against nonexistent enemies and investing far, far more on economic development abroad–as well as at home.
We desperately need to engage with the world–and not just dominate it with our marketplace. The problem, as Sherle Schwenninger, writes, is that the United States is both a revolutionary force in global culture and a status quo power: "A revolution as sweeping as globalization simultaneously creates the need for a new order." Some kind of global governance is necessary–but to be effective and to command any legitimacy it will require "international bodies that pool state sovereignty." As Jonathan Schell has earlier argued in these pages, the United States needs to revisit its first comprehensive approach to nuclear weapons–their abolition, as proposed in 1946 by the Acheson-Lilienthal Plan. That plan–drafted by J. Robert Oppenheimer–was derailed by Soviet-American tensions that would shortly fracture the World War II alliance and bring on the cold war. "The end of the cold war," Schell says, "has presented the most promising opportunity of the entire nuclear age to deliver the world from nuclear danger. The alternative, heralded by the new nuclear arms race between India and Pakistan (the first nuclear arms race having no relationship to the cold war) and the stalemate of traditional arms control, is unlimited, uncontrolled proliferation leading toward what some have called 'nuclear anarchy'–a state of affairs incompatible with any tolerable vision of the world's future."
Similarly, the World Bank and the IMF should not be abetting those governments that spend scarce resources on buying weapons instead of educating their children. We need an authentic UN, a viable International Criminal Court and a standing UN army to enforce recognized international law. And all this means lending pieces of our sovereignty to the global community. We need to work cooperatively with all countries, rather than see them as, at best, temporary allies.
As William Greider writes in his essay, "The choice is not between global engagement defined by the multinationals and right-wing, pull-up-the-drawbridges nationalism. The historic opening–ironically, advanced by the globalizing marketplace itself–is to envision a world without empires of any kind." Mark Hertsgaard argues that we should use our vast power in the international marketplace to penalize those who pollute the environment. And Kumi Naidoo suggests that much of this agenda can be pushed by using our resources under international law to encourage civil society.
In all these issues of global governance, America needs to share its power. On this much we agree. Many of us will remain in disagreement, however, on the divisive question of humanitarian interventionism. This hot-button issue is discussed in a round-table debate by Holly Burkhalter, Mahmood Mamdani, Ronald Steel, Mary Kaldor and David Rieff. Even here, there is more common ground than one might think.
Most of us will agree with Burkhalter's instinct that the prevention and suppression of genocide is a vital interest. In principle, this means we need to aid fellow democrats, particularly those democrats defending a secular, multicultural society from the attacks of ethnic cleansers. In some instances–as in Rwanda's horrifying genocide or Serbia's meticulously planned campaign of ethnic cleansing–this may mean, as Rieff maintains, going to war. But in most cases, I think Kaldor is right to suggest that "humanitarian intervention is much more like policing than warfighting." And in any case, many of us will agree with Steel's and Mamdani's reservations. Foreign intervention may be necessary when a whole nation or tribe is targeted for genocidal extermination. But as Steel puts it, "A humanitarian impulse could, through abuse, become a geopolitical nightmare."
The world is a complicated place, and, as Rieff argues, we can't take the politics out of foreign-policy-making. There are difficult political choices to be made in pursuing a foreign policy based on human rights. Nevertheless, the painful human costs associated with the rush to globalization–as well as the costs associated with ethnic conflict and environmental pollution–can be salved by the messy, even cumbersome, judicial tools of a democratic civil society. Whatever the cultural context, civil society is defined by certain universal principles common to every human community. So maybe, after all, we do have some consensus. Certain truths are indeed self-evident: Ultimately, our foreign policy should be wedded to a radical defense of all human rights. Such a policy was broadly defined by Franklin Roosevelt when he talked about an attainable world in which there would be not only freedom of speech and worship but also freedom from want and fear. We are at a crossroads–much like the crossroads Roosevelt faced in 1945. Our nation's wealth and power are such that Americans can't escape responsibility for good or ill in this new century. We should be making bold, openhearted choices now, in the light of day–lest we be forced to choose a path in the dark crisis of some new and different cold war.
Kai BirdKai Bird is the director of the Leon Levy Center for Biography. He was an Assistant Editor at The Nation from 1978-82 and later a columnist. In 2006 he won the Pulitzer Prize with Martin J. Sherwin for their biography, American Prometheus: The Triumph and Tragedy of J. Robert Oppenheimer—the inspiration for Christopher Nolan's forthcoming feature, Oppenheimer.


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Q: 'this' Keyword is not accessing Intended variable it should. Why? I am trying to access child class's variable through parent's method using this keyword inside method. but its not printing the child's value when the method was called by child's object. Instead it's printing parent class's value even if that method was called by child's object.
Here is my code:
class C {

    int t = 9;
    void disp() {
        // here 'this' shows to which object its referring.
        // It showed me same as System.out.println(b) showed me
        System.out.println(this);
        /*
         But, why this.t is printing 9,
         when this method is called by 'b' reference variable,
         it should print 0, because B class contains instance variable t
         of its own and here this is pointing to the object of B class,
         it shows 9 for 'c' and 1 for 'c1' but y not similarly 0 for 'b'
         as when the method is called by 'b',
         ***this refers to the memory location of b but doesn't prints the value of that object***,
         hows that going on???
        */
        System.out.println(this.t);
    }
}

class B extends C {

    int t = 0;
}

class A {

    public static void main(String args[]) {
        C c = new C();
        C c1 = new C();
        B b = new B();
        c1.t = 1;
        System.out.println("Memory location of c-->" + c);
        c.disp(); // here output is 9
        c1.disp(); //here output is 1
        System.out.println("Memory location of b-->" + b);
        b.disp();
    }
}

Output:
c-->PackageName.C@15db9742
PackageName.C@15db9742
9
PackageName.C@6d06d69c
1
b-->PackageName.B@7852e922
PackageName.B@7852e922
9

A: You are getting confused between overriding method concept with shadowing of variable, since dynamic binding will call child class method at run time , but this is not true in case of 'this' reference of variable  it will not overwrite parent variable even if you have same name variable in child.

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Mikumi is the last of the lowland towns along the Dar es Salaam–Mbeya highway before it starts its climb through the Ruaha River gorge up into the hills of the Southern Highlands. Stretched out along a few kilometres of highway, it has an unmistakable truck-stop feel. It is of interest almost exclusively as a transit point for visits to the Mikumi or Udzungwa Mountains National Parks, although it's quite possible to visit both without overnighting here. If you do find yourself here for longer, there are good excursions with the local cultural tourism program.
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Day 1: Dar to Mikumi National Park.In the morning you will be picked up from your hotel in Dar and you will travel to Mikumi National Park via Morogoro town. This trip will take about 6 hours of standard driving speed with a stop in Chalinze breakfast and refreshments break. Will continue with drive and when you arrive at the park you will be checked in and taken to your accommodation to refresh and have lunch. Later on the day will start evening and sunset game drives. • Accommodation: Mikumi Park Cottages Overnight • Meals & Drinks: Breakfast, Lunch, Dinner & Soft Drink Day 2: Mikumi National Park.On this day you will have sunrise game drive starting from 06:45 hours and come back to the cottages for breakfast at around 08:45 hours. Will continue with game drive till lunch time whereby you will have lunch at the Mikumi Wildlife Camp where you have the chance to view animals as they wonder around the camp watering holes while having your meals. After lunch and a little rest you will continue with game drive in another part of the park till sunset around 18:30 hours and that will be the end of full day game drive. In Mikumi expect to see animals such as Lions, Buffalo, Giraffe, Wildebeest, Zebras, Impalas, Warthogs, elephants, hippos and more than 300 bird species . • Accommodation: Mikumi Park Cottages Overnight • Meals & Drinks: Breakfast, Lunch, Dinner & Soft Drink Day 3: Return to Dar es Salaam. After an early morning (sunrise game viewing) game drive, return to your accommodation for breakfast and prepare to check out. By noon, you will start driving back to Dar es Salaam and have lunch at Morogoro Town. Your guide will bring you back to the airport in the early evening.
ItineraryDay 1: Hiking at Uluguru MountainsStop At: Uluguru Mountains, Morogoro, Morogoro RegionDepart from Dar es salaam and go straight on Hiking to Uluguru Mountains, later in the afternoon drive to Mikumi town, Safari game drive enroute. Evening enjoyment and overnight stay at Mikumi townDuration: 4 hoursMeals included: • DinnerAccommodation included: Midland hotel at Morogoro and Udzungwa LodgeDay 2: Hiking at Udzungwa MountainsStop At: Udzungwa Mountains National Park, Kidayi, Morogoro RegionHiking to Udzungwa Mountains and waterfalls, spend a day hiking and later go for swimming. Later in the evening drive back to Mikumi town or Spend a night at Udzungwa townDuration: 7 hoursMeals included: • Breakfast • Lunch • DinnerAccommodation included: Udzungwa LodgeDay 3: Driving back to Dar es salaamPass By: Dar es Salaam Zoo, Dar es Salaam, Dar Es Salaam RegionRight after breakfast go for a visit to a snake park at Mikumi town and later drive back to Dar es salaamMeals included: • BreakfastNo accommodation included on this day.
ItineraryDay 1: Pick up from airport to Ramada Beach resortStop At: Dar es Salaam Zoo, Dar es Salaam, Dar Es Salaam RegionOur driver will pick you up from the airport to your next hotel, Ramada Beach Resort for Dinner and overnight. On the way, you will get chance to see our biggest city in Tanzania, Dar es salaam.Duration: 15 hoursMeals included: • DinnerAccommodation included: Overnight at Ramada beach resortDay 2: Drive to Mikumi National Park and afternoon game driveStop At: Udzungwa Mountains National Park, Kidayi, Morogoro RegionAround 8:00am Pick up from the hotel and drive to Mikumi national park, which takes around 6 hours including lunch break in the middle. After arriving to Mikumi, begin afternoon game drive until sunset and then drive to Tanapa cottages for dinner and overnight.Duration: 1 day 8 hoursMeals included: • Dinner • Breakfast • LunchAccommodation included: Overnight at Tanapa cottagesDay 3: Full Day game drive in Mikumi National parkStop At: Udzungwa Mountains National Park, Kidayi, Morogoro RegionOn this day you will have full day game drive in Mikumi national park enjoy the way wild animals interact to each other and how they protect each other. If you are lucky enough you can see the chase and killing of preys(zebra) by lion. On the afternoon stop over for lunch and continue with game drive until sunset. On the evening return to your lodge for dinner and overnightDuration: 1 dayMeals included: • Breakfast: All meals from breakfast, lunch and dinner are provided • Lunch • DinnerAccommodation included: Overnight at Tanapa cottages on full board basisDay 4: Full day in Udzungwa national parkStop At: Udzungwa Mountains National Park, Kidayi, Morogoro RegionOn this day your will drive to Udzungwa national park, enjoy its very beautiful mountainous scenery and its waterfalls. Uduzungwa is a rain forest with endemic monkeys as the red colobus and some birds who are endemic to the forest Permanent cricks are flowing down from the mountains with an amazing water falls all over the place and natural swimming pools to swim in, a 5 hours trek up and down the cricks. Overnight will be at Tan Swiss Lodge at Mikumi town.Duration: 1 dayMeals included: • Breakfast: All meals are provided on full board basis • Lunch • DinnerAccommodation included: Overnight at Tan swiss lodge in Mikumi townDay 5: Return to Dar es salaaamStop At: Dar es Salaam Zoo, Dar es Salaam, Dar Es Salaam RegionMorning leisurely breakfast and then drive Back to Dar and return to your hotel/AirportDuration: 12 hoursMeals included: • Breakfast • LunchNo accommodation included on this day.
Day 1: Transfers and full day game drives in Mikumi National Park- (B, L, D)You will be picked up from your residence in Dar Es Salaam city at 5:30 am and head out for your first day of game drive to Mikumi National Park. This trip takes you via Chalinze whereby you will have stop for breakfast and then continue through Morogoro town. When you arrive at the park you will be checked in and have time to relax at your accommodation within the park. After lunch, you will have an evening/ sunset game drive until the end of the day. In Mikumi National Park you can expect to see animals such as Lions, Buffalos, Giraffe, Wildebeest, Zebras, Impalas, Warthogs, elephants, hippos, more than 300 bird species and various plant species. You will stay overnight in the park at the park cottages. Day 2: Sunrise Game Drives and Transfers to Udzungwa Mountains - (B, L, D)Early in the morning you will leave for a sunrise game drive from 6:30 am to 8:30 am, then have breakfast and continue with game drives around the park. Later on after lunch break within the park or in Mikumi town, you will be transferred to Udzungwa National Park, and stay overnight at Twiga Hotel in Udzungwa.Day 3: Trekking in Udzungwa Mountains and Transfers back to Dar Es Salaam - (B, L)The purpose of this trip is to show you the Natural habitats of Udzungwa National Park. Early morning you will be picked from your hotel in Udzungwa and start climbing the Sanje route to be able to see the 4 stages waterfalls. Udzungwa is one of 34 World Biodiversity hotspots. Expect to see Primates. Udzungwa has 11 primates species; 2 of these being found no where else in the world. You may also have the opportunity to see habituated Sanje Mangabeys, different endemic plant species, birds, reptiles and Amphibians, Butterflies, waterfalls, etc. Aftre climbing, you will start driving back to Dar Esalaam with a stop in Mikumi/Morogoro town for lunch break. When you arrive in Dar Es Salaam you will be taken to your residence. This will conclude your tour, and you will be returned to your departure point.


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