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The Man Who Loved Women and Democracy
by Mary Ann Glendon February 1997
Women and the Common Life: Love, Marriage, and Feminism
By Christopher Lasch
Edited by Elisabeth Lasch-Quinn
Norton, 192 pages, $23
Historian and cultural critic Christopher Lasch occupied a peculiar niche in contemporary social thought. His books, especially Haven in a Heartless World (1977) and The Culture of Narcissism (1979), were widely reviewed, yet his name is better known than his ideas. (What must Lasch have thought when Haven in a Heartless World , with its heavily ironic title, was repeatedly labeled a sentimental tract on the family?) Fellow scholars cited him, but few actually grappled with his challenges to their reigning paradigms. And, except for a brief stint advising President Jimmy Carter, Lasch was never taken into the corridors of power. His critique of the nanny state made him useless to the liberal left; his jeremiads on consumer capitalism alienated the economic right; and his tirades against "elites" made him persona non grata to much of the knowledge class.
Unforgivably in the eyes of these latter, he was an unapologetic defender of the lower-middle-class moral traditions from which many knowledge workers of his generation had emerged and escaped. To make matters worse, he was a leading champion of the good sense of the citizenry as against the nostrums of bureaucrats and so-called experts.
In 1993 and 1994, while battling the cancer that claimed his life at the age of sixty-one, Lasch completed The Revolt of the Elites and the Betrayal of Democracy, and, with the help of his daughter, this collection of essays on women, love, the family, and feminism. Elisabeth Lasch-Quinn writes in her introduction that her father regarded these essays (all but one previously published) as steps in a longstanding search for connections between feminism and the modern ideals of intimacy and domesticity. Their chief value, however, may well lie in the way Lasch relates women's history to his lifelong concern with the conditions for democratic self-government.
Long before women's studies became a fashionable field unto itself, Lasch was writing about women's roles in history. Like Fernand Braudel and others who ventured into the long-neglected territory of the history of ordinary life, Lasch was a pioneer in connecting the history of everyday things to larger economic developments. But his own work was distinguished by a passionate interest in the lives of women and the firm conviction that neither cultural history nor women's history can be understood apart from one another. At a time when leading historians of the family were concentrating on the English and French aristocracy, Lasch focused on marriage and family life among ordinary Americans. His historical vantage point yielded fruitful insights into contemporary American life, which he presented in a highly readable series of books, articles, and review essays for the New York Review of Books .
The overarching concept that, for Lasch, links changes in women's roles and the family to the cultural history of the West in general is the rationalization of everyday life. Lasch-Quinn summarizes his thesis succinctly:
Much of modern life . . . rests on the assumption that all realms of activity should come under intense scrutiny, that science and rationality can best lead to an understanding of human experience, and that only trained experts can direct the conduct of daily existence. The reordering of life according to such principles of rationalization resulted from the tendency of corporate capitalism and the modern liberal state to expand their power, which they accomplished by means of a bureaucratic structure and paternalistic ethos. The service professions, acting on behalf of the state, intruded into the private domain, helping to replace habit and custom with esoteric techniques for addressing everyday problems, causing a situation of dependence on elites that is antithetical to democracy.
There, in a nutshell, is the line of thinking that made Lasch such a blister to many liberals and conservatives: his condemnation of corporate and governmental power grabs, his attachment to a robust vision of democratic citizenship, and his conviction that the social work establishment, educators, therapists, and other semi-skilled technocrats had undermined the competence of the middle class, while subjecting the poor to "new controls sincerely disguised as benevolence."
Also central to Lasch's thought, and to these essays, is the belief that a vibrant civil society (the "common life" of his title) is both a prerequisite for, and a goal of, democracy. In the centerpiece of the collection, "The Sexual Division of Labor, the Decline of Civic Culture, and the Rise of the Suburbs," Lasch postulates that changes in women's roles were importantly linked to the decline of communities of memory and mutual aid.
The essay begins by challenging a standard historical narrative according to which industrialization forced middle-class women into the role of full-time housewives, a prison from which they were freed only by the glorious revolution of the 1960s. In reality, Lasch claims, the misnamed "traditional" household, where the wife is a full-time homemaker, is of much more recent date. It was "a mid-twentieth-century innovation," appearing on a broad scale only in connection with the rapid growth of suburbs after World War II.
Lasch supports his periodization by reminding us that the period from 1890 to 1920 was a time of intense participation by middle-class women in civic life. Homemakers and single women alike devoted much of their time and energies to charitable activities, religious groups, and reform movements, from the township and village level to the state and national arenas. All that is well known, so why does the myth persist that most women were isolated in the home once their husbands became wage earners? Lasch plausibly speculates that many historians overlooked "women's contribution to an intermediate realm of civic culture that belongs neither to the family nor the market" because of a mind-set in which the only work that counts is work for pay.
The era of women's busy and important civic service, however, wound down as domestic helpers grew scarce, and as professional social workers and administrators took over many of the activities that had previously been controlled by unpaid volunteers.
It is Lasch's contention that when one takes all this civic activity into account, and adds the wage work of lower-class women, one has to move the appearance of full-time homemaking on a broad scale from the late nineteenth century to the post-World War II period. To my mind, however, Lasch's emphasis on community service misses the importance of the earlier shift from the interdependent family farm or shop to the wage-earner's household where women and children became much more dependent economically on the husband-father than he was on them. That momentous transition had at least as much influence on the dynamics of family life and the shape of twentieth-century feminism as the later move to the suburbs. Lasch is certainly correct, though, that the homemaker-breadwinner household was far from being "traditional." Its rise to predominance was historically unprecedented.
Lasch is also right to emphasize that women's roles did change significantly with the exodus to the suburbs in the 1940s and 1950s. The small, child-raising family became more inward-turning, and the bonds between husband and wife and parent and child were expected to bear more emotional weight. Moreover, when upwardly mobile men and women shook the dust of villages and urban neighborhoods from their feet, they left behind the civic cultures that had flourished in such places, along with the old informal support systems among relatives and neighbors that everyone had taken for granted. The homemaker was far more on her own in the domestic sphere than she had ever been"and far more dependent on her husband.
Of course, as Lasch points out, "privacy" was part of the appeal of the suburb. Along with advice comes nosiness; material and emotional support from neighbors and relatives entails expectations of reciprocity. The suburb offered an escape from external obligations, interference, and constraints:
[Suburbs] were designed to exclude everything not subject to choice"the job, the extended family, the enforced sociability of the city streets. Americans hoped to put all that behind them when they headed for the seclusion of the suburbs, where they were accountable it seemed to no one.
Ironically, just when women found themselves with unprecedented amounts of time for, and control over, the internal affairs of the household, they began to feel less competent in child-raising and other tasks which their predecessors from the beginning of time had handled with aplomb. The shortage of informal sources of advice and support made itself felt. Barely having emerged from older forms of subordination, middle-class women thus fell into "a new kind of dependence, the dependence of the consumer on the market, and on the providers of expert services, not only for the satisfaction of their needs but for the very definition of their needs." In this way, Lasch connects women's history to the erosion of the conditions for democratic self-government.
Lasch finds support in Betty Friedan's The Feminine Mystique (1963) for his contention that the loss of common life and the decline in women's civic roles fueled the frustration that gave rise to the feminism of the 1960s. Friedan's book was, he points out, chiefly addressed to concerns of educated, suburban women. And the feminism of such women, he argues, was bedevilled from the start by their dependence on "experts""doctors, counsellors, educators, child-raising specialists.
Respecting women too much to see them as passively carried along on the wave of events, Lasch insists that women themselves bear a share of the responsibility for the replacement of patriarchal authority with new forms of social discipline. While homemakers were ceding power in their own domains to experts, the feminist revolution, he charges, was "hijacked by new economic and social elites."
This is consistent with Elizabeth Fox-Genovese's account of how official feminism developed the same disrespect for unpaid work that Lasch criticizes in family historians. The feminist movement's chief prescription for women's emancipation was market work. Official feminism embraced a male model for advancement in which family responsibilities were subordinated to the demands of the world of work. As Betty Friedan concedes in the June 3, 1996 issue of the New Yorker, feminists thus distanced themselves from the concerns of the great majority of women"who were and are trying to juggle work and family life under difficult circumstances.
What Lasch adds to this picture is that married women's large-scale entry into the workplace coincided with the shift to an economy that "depended on work that had no other object than to keep people at work and thus to sustain the national capacity to consume, which in turn sustained production, which sustained . . . an approximation of full employment"all without reference to the intrinsic quality of the goods and services produced or the intrinsic satisfaction of the work that went into them." Under these circumstances, Friedan's 1963 exhortation to middle-class women to find work offering "initiative, leadership, and responsibility" began to sound like advising Biafrans to adopt a more nutritious diet. Regarding the view that religion perpetuates false consciousness, male domination, and female dependency, Lasch observes:
[Religion] is a challenge to self-pity and despair, temptations common to all of us, but especially to those born into the wrong social class . . . . Submission to God makes people less submissive in everyday life. It makes them less fearful but also less bitter and resentful, less inclined to make excuses for themselves. Modern social movements, on the other hand, tend to rely on resentment . . . . They distrust any understanding that would seem to "blame the victim." In this way they discourage the assumption of personal responsibility.
Unlike more timid male academics, Lasch does not hesitate to offer his thoughts concerning a better approach to women's issues. A feminism "worthy of the name," he says, would seek to remodel the workplace around the needs of the family, rather than acquiesce in the opposite situation; it would cease disparaging unpaid work; and, above all, it would "insist that people need self-respecting, honorable callings."
This concern with the human need for decent, useful work is a recurrent theme in Lasch's later writings. In some respects, his thoughts are reminiscent of Freud's apostrophe to work in Civilization and Its Discontents . Like Freud, Lasch seems to write from the very core of his being on this subject. "The only escape from the polarity of egoism and altruism," he says, "lies in the selflessness experienced by those who lose themselves in their work, in the effort to master a craft or a body of knowledge, or in the acceptance of a formidable challenge that calls on all their resources." Lasch describes those fortunate enough to have such work as "blissfully self-forgetful."
But while Freud regarded such satisfactions as beyond the scope and ken of mere common folk, Lasch railed against a social order where opportunities for useful work are widely unavailable. His writing on this subject has many affinities in substance, though not in tone, with the social encyclicals of John Paul II, who consistently insists on the importance of the noneconomic aspects of work, the dignity of unpaid labor, and the priority of human over economic values.
From glimpses provided in his daughter's introduction, it seems that Lasch himself found "blissful self-forgetfulness" in his work up to the very end of his life. Lasch-Quinn writes:
Increasingly we worked every possible hour of the day, my father making an adjusted routine according to each stage of his illness. The sweatshop's compulsion, though, was absent. Instead there was the strangest exhilaration. This was confusing; we seemed to be so content, even joyful at times, yet my father was dying. Somehow, between frightening medical emergencies and worries, my parents created a space of peace and calm. That living room became for me a haven . . . . Sometimes it seemed almost sacred.
Lasch may not have been a prophet in his own land, but he seems to have been happier than prophets of antiquity. He was blessed with a joyous family life, a deeply satisfying vocation, and a sober sense of hope that he always carefully distinguished from optimism.
These essays are among the best contemporary writing in their field, not only because their author was a fine historian, but because he was a man who loved women. He loved them enough to cherish the details of their everyday lives, to listen to their voices past and present, and to believe that they themselves can shift the probabilities toward a different and better future.
Mary Ann Glendon is the Learned Hand Professor of Law at Harvard University.
Articles by Mary Ann Glendon


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Exploration Forum Today on NASA TV
NASA TV will feature the NASA Exploration Forum this afternoon beginning at 12:30 p.m. The event will lay out the space agency's building block approach leading to the human exploration of Mars. Phil McAlister, director of NASA's Commercial Spaceflight Division, will discuss where private industry advancements fit with the agency's overall goal. The event runs until 3:05 p.m. You can watch it on NASA TV and streaming at nasa.gov/ntv.
Here's today's agenda:
12:30 p.m.- Moderator welcome and opening with video
12:35 – Opening Remarks: NASA Administrator Charles Bolden on agency exploration goals
12:45- Current and future robotic exploration of Mars: John Grunsfeld, associate administrator, Science Mission Directorate
1 p.m. – NASA's Human Path to Mars: William Gerstenmaier, associate administrator, Human Exploration and Operations Mission Directorate
1:15 – Human Exploration Panel: current status and future work on the Path to Mars (10-min. presentations each)
· The International Space Station: Sam Scimemi, director, International Space Station Division
· Commercial Space in Low-Earth Orbit: Phil McAlister, director, Commercial Spaceflight Division
· Orion and SLS: Dan Dumbacher, deputy associate administrator, Exploration Systems Development
· The Asteroid Redirect Mission: Michele Gates, senior technical advisor, Human Exploration and Operations Mission Directorate
· An Evolvable Mars Campaign: Jason Crusan, director, Advanced Exploration Systems Division
2:05 – Break for Q&A with audience, social media questions
2:20 – Current and future Technology work: Randy Lillard, program executive for Technology Demonstration Missions, Space Technology Mission Directorate
2:35 – Benefits to Science and Tech communities from these endeavors: David Miller, NASA chief technologist, and Ellen Stofan, NASA chief scientist
2:50 – Closing remarks: Robert Lightfoot, NASA associate administrator
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Spot the Station
Yesterday, Steve Swanson shared his view of Earth from outside the International Space Station. See if you can view the station from where you are by visiting http://spotthestation.nasa.gov/. Viewing opportunities today include 9:30 p.m. EDT over Orlando, Fla., 8:27 p.m. CDT over Houston and 7:59 p.m. PDT over San Diego, Calif.
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Kathy Lueders, In Her Own Words
Do you want to learn more about Kathy Lueder's, the new Commercial Crew Program manager? Here's the latest interview with her:
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Kathy Lueders Named CCP Program Manager
NASA has selected Kathy Lueders as program manager for the agency's Commercial Crew Program (CCP). Lueders has served as acting program manager since October 2013. She will help keep the nation's space program on course to launch astronauts from American soil by 2017 aboard spacecraft built by American companies.
"This is a particularly critical time for NASA's human spaceflight endeavors as the Commercial Crew Program enters into contract implementation," said William Gerstenmaier, associate administrator for NASA's Human Exploration and Operations Mission Directorate at NASA Headquarters in Washington. "Kathy's experience and leadership skills developed during the ISS commercial resupply contract activity will be critical to safely and effectively leading commercial crew transportation activities for NASA."
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SpaceX: Forward Innovations
Space Exploration Technologies, better known as SpaceX, is one of four NASA partners working with the agency's Commercial Crew Program to develop new capabilities to transport people to low-Earth orbit. Ultimately, NASA intends to certify and use commercial systems to fly astronauts from the United States to the International Space Station and back. Click here for a printable version of this poster.
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Sierra Nevada Corporation: Forward Innovations
Sierra Nevada Corporation is one of four NASA partners working with the agency's Commercial Crew Program to develop new capabilities to transport people to low-Earth orbit. Ultimately, NASA intends to certify and use commercial systems to fly astronauts from the United States to the International Space Station and back. Click here for a printable version of this poster.
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The Boeing Company: Forward Innovations
The Boeing Company is one of four NASA partners working with the agency's Commercial Crew Program to develop new capabilities to transport people to low-Earth orbit. Ultimately, NASA intends to certify and use commercial systems to fly astronauts from the United States to the International Space Station and back. Click here for a printable version of this poster.
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Blue Origin: Forward Innovations
Blue Origin is one of four NASA partners working with the agency's Commercial Crew Program to develop new capabilities to transport people to low-Earth orbit. Ultimately, NASA intends to certify and use commercial systems to fly astronauts from the United States to the International Space Station and back. Click here for a printable version of this poster.
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Partners Thrive on Innovations
Improved manufacturing techniques, simplified control systems and cutting edge computers are some of the advancements industry partners of NASA's Commercial Crew Program plan to employ to make their missions successful. This week, we'll show you some of the notable innovations that each of the CCP partners have included in their designs up to this point in their own efforts to make spaceflight safe, reliable and cost-effective. NASA's role in this is to offer expert advice drawn from 50 years of experience.
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Live From Space
Astronauts today routinely conduct live interviews with Earthbound students and reporters from orbit aboard the International Space Station, but that was not always the case. NASA astronauts did not broadcast anything live from space for the Mercury or Gemini programs. The first Apollo mission changed that, however, and the Apollo 7 crew of Wally Schirra, Donn Eisele and Walt Cunningham showed the way to conduct a live show in a tradition that eventually included showing the first landing and steps onto the moon and then daily life aboard NASA's first space station, Skylab. Shuttle astronauts spent considerable time on the flight deck in front of a camera to detail for viewers and chroniclers what it meant to work in space on some of the most sophisticated missions undertaken. Future audiences will see astronauts emerge from Commercial Crew vehicles into the space station. Check out the giant leap that broadcast quality has seen from Apollo 7's October 1968 transmission to those seen today from the space station.
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Hundreds of Afghans fleeing Kabul pictured tightly packed in a US Air Force cargo plane
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A US official told news site Defense One the crew of the military cargo plane made the decision to go instead of removing anyone from the aircraft. Credit: US Department of Defense/ Defense One
Hundreds of Afghans can be seen tightly packed in a US military plane after they were evacuated from the turmoiled capital Kabul late on Sunday, desperate to escaped their now Taliban-controlled country.
The photo from the US defence department and obtained by news site Defense One shows roughly 640 citizens on board the US Air Force C-17 Globemaster III from Kabul to Qatar, according to the site.
It was a much larger number than expected and came near the record for the most people ever flown in the Boeing airlifter.
The full picture showing Afghans on board the US military plane. Credit: US Department of Defense/ Defense One
A defence official told Defense One the plane was not intending to take on so many passengers but the panicked Afghans clambered on board the plane via its half-open ramp.
The official said instead of forcing the fleeing citizens off the military cargo plane, "the crew made the decision to go".
"Approximately 640 Afghan civilians disembarked the aircraft when it arrived at its destination," one defence official said.
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Several other flights also took off with hundreds more people on board, some with even larger numbers than 640, the official said.
Afghans are fleeing the Taliban's extreme ultraconservative Islamic views, which included severe restrictions on women as well as stonings, amputations and public executions
On Tuesday the Taliban declared an "amnesty" across Afghanistan and urged women to join their government, seeking to convince a wary population that they have changed.Enamullah Samangani, a member of the Taliban's cultural commission said: "The Islamic Emirate doesn't want women to be victims.
CNN reporter Clarissa Ward spoke to one woman in Kabul in hiding from the Taliban
"They should be in the government structure according to Shariah law."
But CNN reporter Clarissa Ward, who is in Kabul, said people there were "desperately afraid" and, despite Taliban assurances, were trying all avenues to get out of the country. She spoke to one woman who had worked for several international organisations, including US companies, who so afraid for her life that she is hiding.
None of the organisations she had worked for had offered to help her escape and she was increasingly afraid. "I'm thinking of my future, of my daughters, what will happen to them if they kill me, two daughters with out their mother," she said.
The desperation to leave a Taliban-controlled Afghanistan was brought to the world's attention by chaotic scenes at Kabul's airport, where thousands of people were seen crowding onto the tarmac and clinging onto moving planes in dangerous bids to to flee.
Afghans run alongside and cling onto the side of a US military plane as it begins to take off from Kabul
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Gunshots could be heard at times.
Pentagon spokesman John Kirby said US forces killed two people he described as carrying weapons in the melee. He said 1,000 more US troops would be deployed to secure the airfield and back up the 2,500 already there.
Late on Monday night, hundreds of people remained trapped between American forces trying to push them out of the airport and Taliban forces trying to keep them in, witnesses told the Associated Press.
A US defence official said the United States temporarily halted all evacuation flights from Kabul in order to clear the crowds on the runway, according to Reuters. The Taliban are still negotiating with political leaders of the country's fallen government and no formal handover deal has been announced.
Boris Johnson to unveil Afghan refugee scheme this week
'Here in Kabul, it has taken less than 24 hours to turn back time 20 years'


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A New York man who was having some landscaping done in his backyard discovered a buried safe filled with valuables that were stolen seven years ago.
Matthew Emanuel said he hired Bob Foley and his New Jersey landscaping company to replace some damaged trees in his Staten Island backyard with deer-resistant bamboo. While they were digging, the workers came across a large metal box.
"I thought it had something to do with electricity or something," Emanuel told the Staten Island Advance. He soon discovered, however, that the box had a dial on one side -- it was a safe.
The landscapers opened the weather-beaten safe with a pickax, revealing it was loaded with valuables.
"There it was, all these bags, zip bags with cash, gold, diamonds, it was incredible," Emanuel said.
Emanuel said he and his wife found $16,300 in salvageable cash, while many other large bills had been damaged by water getting into the safe.
He said a slip of paper inside the safe indicated it belonged to a neighbor he knew in passing, so he visited their home to tell them about the buried treasure.
The couple told Emanuel the safe had been taken during a burglary in 2011 and they had given up hope of ever seeing their belongings again.
Emanuel and his wife decided to place a ceramic elephant in the spot where they found the safe, to mark it as a lucky location.
A Florida high school apologized after sparking outrage with a surprise appearance by a live tiger at the school's jungle-themed prom. Students and family members said they were surprised when the Christopher Columbus High School prom featured surprise animal guests including a caged tiger, a fennec fox, a lemur and two macaw parrots. Mari-Cristine Castellanos, whose brother attends the school, posted cellphone footage of the tiger to Facebook. "This poor tiger was used as an EXOTIC amusement for the mindless teenagers who were present, it is not the student[s] fault to be so naive BUT it's the CCHS STAFF who arranged this event, therefore they are responsible for this tiger's misery," Castellanos wrote. The school said in a statement that the tiger was not harmed by the experience. "The tiger, which was displayed for a few minutes in a cage, was never harmed or in danger, was not forced to perform, was always accompanied by his handlers."
A group of people in Michigan believe they captured a picture of an angel. "I said 'That's an angel!' And I was just blown away," said Glen Thorman, whose security camera captured the image. "I couldn't wait to send it to my wife and send it to Deneille. And I said 'My camera took a picture of an angel.'" The camera is only activated by a motion sensor. Last week, it emailed him a picture that shows what he says looks like an angel hovering over his truck, then moving out of the frame. One of the first things he did was send the picture to the pastor of his church, Deneille Moes. Moes posted the photos on the church's Facebook page where it has gotten hundreds of shares. "There's no editing on the photo," Moes said. "It's the real thing." Whether the image was a sign from heaven or an insect flying in front of the camera, the people who found it say they feel like their prayers have been answered.


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Richmond Council Fails to Pass Sustainable Marijuana Ordinance
By Tom Butt, Richmond City Council
Saturday September 17, 2011 - 09:26:00 AM
There are clearly different shades of green on the Richmond City Council.
There are those greens who believe global climate change is truly a crisis that we must address at every level of government – and quickly. Then there are those for whom the green of cannabis eclipses the more global meaning of green. And finally, there is the green of money – lots of it – including tens of thousands of dollars from the cannabis industry that has found its way into some council members' campaign coffers.
Failing to pass the sustainable marijuana ordinance was a disappointment for me. The Richmond City Council has been "high" on marijuana for some time, paving the way for three licenses that are now in the application stage. At least a couple of Council members want to increase that to four, on the theory that if three is good, four is better. At least one councilmember touts marijuana dispensaries as veritable police substations, making areas of Richmond in the vicinity of a dispensary the safest of all.
Now, I really don't care who smokes weed or why they do it, other than minors, but I remain skeptical about the hypocritical institutionalizing of an industry that characterizes itself as the epitome of healthy living and natural holistic medicine when it is really mostly about money – lots of it.
I introduced the "green" marijuana ordinance after reading a paper, "Energy Up in Smoke, The Carbon Footprint of Indoor Cannabis Production," (April 5, 2011) by Evan Mills, Ph.D. a long-time energy analyst and Staff Scientist at the Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, University of California.
Mills finds that indoor Cannabis production results in energy expenditures of $5 billion each year, with electricity use equivalent to that of 2 million average U.S. homes. This corresponds to 1% of national electricity consumption or 2% of that in households. The yearly greenhouse-gas pollution (carbon dioxide, CO2 ) from the electricity plus associated transportation fuels equals that of 3 million cars. Energy costs constitute a quarter of wholesale value. In California, the top-producing state—and one of 17 states to allow cultivation for medical purposes—the practice is responsible for about 3% of all electricity use or 8% of household use. Due to higher electricity prices and cleaner fuels used to make electricity, California incurs 70% of national energy costs but only 20% of national CO2 emissions. From the perspective of individual consumers, a single Cannabis cigarette represents 2 pounds of CO2 emissions, an amount equal to running a 100-watt light bulb for 17 hours with average U.S. electricity (or 30 hours on California's cleaner grid). Each four-by-four-foot production module doubles the electricity use of an average U.S. home and triples that of an average California home. The added electricity use is equivalent to running about 30 refrigerators. Processed Cannabis results in 3000-times its weight in CO2 emissions. For off-grid production, it requires 70 gallons of diesel fuel to produce one indoor Cannabis plant, or 140 gallons with smaller, less-efficient gasoline generators.
The Richmond City Council has supported dozens of environmental initiatives designed to make Richmond a leader in sustainability and greenhouse gas reduction. For examples, see City of Richmond Environmental Initiatives. But when being green bumped up against the different shade of green of the marijuana industry, pot clearly prevailed at the Richmond City Council.
For the entire report on this agenda item, see: INTRODUCE an ordinance (first reading) amending Richmond Municipal Code Section 7.102.060 (concerning the operations of Medical Marijuana Collectives) to require Collectives operating within the city to obtain their marijuana from those who grow outdoors without artificial lights, or who grow indoors using only solar-powered artificial lighting>
Vice Mayor Butt (620-6851). Mayor McLaughlin and Jeff Ritterman supported the "green" marijuana ordinance, but it lost on a 3-1-2 vote. In another agenda item, the City Council reversed an administrative decision by the Police Department to allow an applicant who missed a deadline for an application fee to continue to compete for one of the three coveted Richmond marijuana dispensary licenses. This is when it was suggested that going to four licenses would mitigate the impact on those applicants who filed on time.
Last year, I was the author of a measure to allow the voters to establish Richmond's tax on medicinal marijuana sales at 10%, but the City Council knocked it back to 5%. That extra money would have hired more cops, paved streets and kept libraries open longer, but the Council was reluctant to erect too many barriers between a stoner and his medicine. At the same time, Sacramento and San Jose voters passed 10% taxes.
San Jose is reducing its dispensaries from an estimated 140 to just ten, creating a ratio of about one dispensary for each 50,000 people. Richmond now allows three, a ratio of one per 34,000 people. As I said before, some council members want to increase it to one per 26,000 people. There must be a lot more sick people in Richmond than in San Jose.


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Naoko, Destination BCN
Stylish pied-à-terre is a subtle and secluded treat high above the Catalan capital's chaotic streets...
Lisa Davidson • 15 July, 2013
A sleep deprived 72 hours at Sónar 2013 having finally taken its toll, we upped sticks from our L'Hospitalet de Llobregat outpost and dragged our weary selves onto the living quarters we'd be occupying for the next two days; the delightfully small but perfectly formed DestinationBCN penthouse apartment located within a sizeable art nouveau building close to Plaça Catalunya. Founded in 2000 by Dutch designers Anne Nijstad and Miklos Beyer, and dominating its building with 11 one and two bedroom pied-à-terres (and two more close by), DestinationBCN is where couples, groups of friends and business types in the know choose to bed down; innovative and chic, it's city living at its best and not long until we're feeling more as though we're house-sitting a friend's urban crashpad rather than staying in 'another' boutique hotel.
Ours, the one-bed, one-bathroomed Naoko, was flooded with natural light thanks to a floor to ceiling glass door which lets in the Barcelona sunshine whilst making the accommodation feel somewhat larger. Nijstad and Beyer have worked well with the space; the flat screen LCD TV hides behind the doors of a sliding wardrobe where there is also ample room to store clothes and cases, the kitchen is practical and well stocked – tea, coffee, oils, herbs and a bottle of cava are provided complimentary – and we found the breakfast bar the perfect spot to set-up the laptop for a little of the unavoidable W word…
The neutral colour scheme is stylish and subtle, offset by some seductive blacks, pinks and lime greens courtesy of a duo of beautiful armchairs. Crisp white cotton bedsheets contrast the dark woods of the wardrobes, tactile wallpaper and light wood panelling add interest, and the bathroom harks back to the building's history; original floor tiles are a nice little touch. Naoko's private terrace is definitely its crowning glory; the two-tiered wooden decking furnished with colourful rugs, plush cushions and an outdoor shower – ideal for a pair of Sónar casualties to revitalise themselves with a hefty dose of Vitamin D and much needed sleep. Despite overlooking the busy street of Ronda Universitat, it feels surprisingly secluded and the top-floor location turns the noise of the street below into a meer hum.
Don't expect the usual services of a hotel here, there's no regular housekeeping or room service, neither is there a bar or restaurant within the building – but this is Barcelona, the Catalan capital is a world-famous hotbed of gastronomic delights, whilst the apartment's kitchen is more than ample for knocking together a decent bit of breakfast. The DestinationBCN team are only a phone call away too, and there's a nicely curated list of recommendations to suit all tastes left behind. In the age of living like a local, over travelling like a tourist, Naoko is a bona fide gem.
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Have you also ever been fascinated by people who have been creating and selling successful business one after one. They create one today and then sell it in one year; after that they go and create another one and it becomes successful, and then they sell it, and so forth. This is so much common nowadays in business world. People will create a certain business online, run it until it becomes successful and then sell it. And then they will create another one, run it again, and then sell it.
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Venezuela's National Assembly establishing special committee 'for defence of Essequibo"; asks UN Secretary General to restart dialogue with Guyana
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Last Updated on Saturday, 9 January 2021, 10:57 by Denis Chabrol
Venezuela's President Nicolas Maduro.
Venezuela's national assembly will establish a special committee for the defense of the Essequibo region of Guyana, which the former nation claims, BN Americas reported.
The committee's creation is part of an accord approved by lawmakers that rejects the International Court of Justice's ruling in favor of Guyana regarding the tribunal's jurisdiction in the territorial dispute.
The accord ratifies a 1966 Geneva agreement to resolve the conflict via bilateral negotiations, as Venezuela does not recognize an arbitral award of October 1899 in favor of its neighbor.
"It is ours; it belongs to the Venezuelans and we are going to reconquer it in peace, in national union, we are going to achieve it," President Nicolás Maduro said following the legislative body's decision.
Essequibo covers over half of Guyana and runs from the country's coast on the border with Venezuela, south to Brazil. Saber-rattling on the part of Venezuela intensified as Guyana advanced toward first oil and included harassment by Venezuela's navy of vessels carrying out hydrocarbons seismic work.
Venezuela's President, Nicolas Maduro has written to the Secretary General of the United Nations (UN), António Guterres, asking him to intervene to promote dialogue with Guyana on the border controversy. "It is necessary to count from their good will with their good offices, in the broadest sense possible, to restart, with the urgency that this controversy merits, direct talks between Guyana and Venezuela with the aim of advancing towards a peaceful and beneficial understanding for both. parts ", highlights the communication published by the Venezuelan Foreign Minister, Jorge Arreaza, reported El Universal.
In the letter, the Venezuelan president warns: "You have the ability to revive dialogue as a way to avoid decisions outside of international legality, which can seriously jeopardize the peace and security of the region."
The Venezuelan leader said his country never consented to the role of the ICJ in the border matter.
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Lessons to Learn From Israelis, by As'ad Abdul Rahman
In a column in Gulf News, Professor As'ad Abdul Rahman, Chairman of the Palestinian Encyclopedia, has harsh words on the state of disunity and internal conflict in Palestinian society. He praises Israel's "political system [which] is designed to accommodate its political and ethnic contradictions. Hence the Israelis are all concurrent on important issues, and ultimately unified in face of what they call external threats". He adds that there are "no fundamentally controversial issues internally. The Israelis only differ on means of realising their goals."
"In spite of being brought to believe there is nothing positive about Jews, we must take the example of Israel and review the values that govern Palestinian (and Arab) society in dealing not only with political issues, but also our day to day lives.
That would enable us underline many a flaw and heel many a wound. Divisions and differences are so abundant in our life that some of us cannot tolerate others. We forget that pluralism is actually desirable.
How long will we be content with words and slogans while the Palestinian people are being slaughtered daily by their own people in both the West Bank and Gaza Strip? How long will the mentality of exclusion and non-engagement persist? Do a few conspirators within Hamas and Fatah aim to transform us into the new aliens in this land?
… we have found shelter in illusions, and have killed each other in the name of freedom and the homeland, and ultimately lost even more through the Hamas-Fatah fighting. …
Let's differ, but in the "Jewish manner" this time: when killing a Jew is forbidden for another Jew. Whereas Israel was fortunate in bringing Jews together, inside and outside Israel, we have failed to unify the Palestinians inside the homeland itself.
While the Jewish state has adopted pluralism, we are still addicted to tribalism, factionalism and blind partisanship. While every corrupt leader in Israel, including its head of state, is brought to justice, we've rejected a necessary building process based on transparency and democracy.
And finally, whereas the Israeli public go to the street demanding the punishment of every erring official, we have refused accountability and collective examination. Jews were the "aliens" in the past, and today we are how they were. Can we accept that?"
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Health Breach Tally: Cause for Optimism?
The Stats Are Improving, But What's Ahead? Howard Anderson (ismg_editor) • May 21, 2013
So far, the statistics on major health data breaches for 2013 look encouraging. And the stats for 2012 showed substantial improvement vs. 2011. But could we see a surge in breach reports after organizations begin using updated federal guidance about how to assess whether to report a breach? Only time will tell.
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First, let's take a look at the latest breach statistics. We've been crunching the numbers monthly since the Department of Health and Human Services' Office for Civil Rights began posting its "wall of shame" on its website. That tally, mandated by the HITECH Act, includes breaches affecting 500 or more individuals that have been confirmed by federal investigators since late September 2009, when the original breach notification rule kicked in.
What's incredible is that the problem of lost or stolen unencrypted devices and media shows no sign of fading away.
Let's start with the big picture. As of May 21, the ongoing tally lists 600 breaches affecting more than 22 million people. More than half of breaches have involved lost or stolen unencrypted computer devices or media. And more than 20 percent have involved a business associate of some sort.
The wall of shame now shows more than 140 breaches occurred in 2012, affecting a total of almost 2.6 million individuals. Only six breaches affected at least 100,000; those incidents impacted a combined total of 1.7 million individuals.
The 2012 figures represent a significant improvement from 2011, when there were about 160 breaches affecting roughly 11 million individuals - including eight incidents impacting an astounding combined total of about 10 million.
Although federal officials continually add incidents - sometimes dating back a year or more - to the tally, it's clear that the breach numbers look a lot better for 2012 than 2011. And that's good news, indeed. But what about 2013?
So far, the tally lists about 29 breaches affecting a total of more than 120,000 individuals this year. That's right, no whopper breaches are on the list - at least not yet. But it's still way too early to jump to any conclusions about how the breach numbers will look for this year.
What's incredible, however, is that the problem of lost or stolen unencrypted devices and media shows no sign of fading away. For 2013, almost 60 percent of incidents stemmed from this cause. Last year, the percentage was about the same. And the lack of improvement in this arena is mind boggling.
Hopeful Signs
Our recent Healthcare Information Security Today survey offers hope that healthcare organizations are taking the right steps to address this issue. The top two breach prevention action items for this year are stepping up training on privacy and security issues and encrypting mobile devices and removable media.
If encrypted devices are lost or stolen, the information they contain is far less likely to be breached. As a result, such losses or thefts don't have to be reported to authorities.
Another important breach prevention strategy, but one that is not always practical, is to ban the storage of patient information on portable devices. Roughly half of the organizations we surveyed prohibit storage of patient data on mobile devices.
But training is also an essential breach prevention step. Folks need constant reminders; let's face it, we're all forgetful. Staff members needs to be reminded not to leave their laptops in plain view inside their parked cars. They need to be reminded to make sure any patient data on their computers is encrypted. They need to be told again and again that that they must use only secure e-mail for transmitting sensitive data. Annual training is insufficient.
Notification Guidance
But even if breach prevention efforts improve, we could soon see an increase in the number of major breaches reported to federal authorities. That's because the HIPAA Omnibus Rule spells out objective guidance for how to assess whether a security incident is a reportable breach. The vague "harm standard" language in the original breach notification rule was far too tough to interpret. The new guidance outlines how to do a more precise risk assessment to size up the threat to patient data. And that guidance was long overdue.
Will the new breach notification guidance, in fact, lead to more breaches making their way to the federal wall of shame? That's the expectation of many regulatory experts. We'll have to wait and see. The omnibus rule won't be enforced until September, and organizations can use the old - or the new - notification guidance until then.
My fingers are crossed that the trend toward far fewer gigantic breaches that we saw in 2012 will carry over into this year. And as federal officials continue to ramp up HIPAA enforcement and publicize hefty fines for violations, that will go a long way, indeed, toward motivating healthcare organizations of all sizes to ramp up breach prevention efforts.
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Howard Anderson
News Editor, ISMG
Anderson is news editor of Information Security Media Group and was founding editor of HealthcareInfoSecurity and DataBreachToday. He has more than 40 years of journalism experience, with a focus on healthcare information technology issues. Before launching HealthcareInfoSecurity, he served as founding editor of Health Data Management magazine, where he worked for 17 years, and he served in leadership roles at several other healthcare magazines and newspapers.
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How to become a unicorn startup
We're focusing on unicorn startups today, defining what makes a startup worth more than $100 million in 2020. As times change, so does business, markets, startups, and investors. Let's see what key aspects drive startup valuation above the first hundred million in today's business world.
Aspiring unicorns must consider the timing
Like we said, we first need to be very clear that $100 million used to be a large figure for startups at some point. But what's known as a "mega-round" around the valley is no longer such large-scale fundraising, anymore; especially not when it comes to tech companies.
Funding definitely matters
In ideal terms, a company would raise at least the same amount as it seeks to end up making towards its exit. So, to be able to sell above $100 million, a company would've ideally raised an initial round of funding of at least half that much.
The above explains why it's so important to choose investors with a keen eye from a company's very beginning.
Also, consider that a startup valuation of the $100 million range generally takes place during Series B or C of funding. This means a VC will typically need to chip in about $10-$30 million for the 100 million mark to be possible. This is where having a key investor helps more than a handful of small investments.
In fact, the valuation of a startup will be based on whatever the startup and investor(s) agree should be the main goal during initial funding discussions.
As usual, achieving financial objectives for a company will largely depend on market behavior. It will also depend on whether the best has been made of the opportunities that arise in the process, and how much toll the startup must take of whatever risks have threatened the company.
All in all, however, bear in mind that a $100 million valuation is best achieved with strategic funding, especially during a company's initial stages.
What it takes to reach a $100 million valuation
When we ask what makes a startup worth more than $100 million, we need to consider a few key facts that need to work in alignment with solid performance for a company to reach those levels. A startup that reaches this kind of valuation, and has all it takes to back it up, has not only had a potent product or service offer, but also considerable sales with a well-performing sales strategy.
Typically, startups at this stage have not only spread more than a single product across diverse markets, but their sales strategy is certainly aimed at scaling.
A good working team
For sales to boost as we describe above, a great working team comprised of different roles needs to be "kicking it", day in and out.
The above translates into a team that's aimed at production, technical if need be, along with peeps well in charge of product management, in keeping the company's vision aligned with running strategies and, above all, great leadership.
The operational aspects of a company that's worth more than $100 million necessarily rely on a balanced state of all its legal, financial and staffing needs. Throw a solid set of their own tech into the mix or even intellectual property rights, where this applies.
With set budgets and measured expenses, it's for certain that the leadership of the startup has also done a valuable job at keeping headed in the best direction with all considerations in check.
All that glitters is not gold
Don't think a valuation above $100 million is the win-it-all success, either. As with everything, there are multiple sides to every consideration.
Aaron Patzer, the founder of a financial management tool called Mint, lived this out in his own flesh. He, unfortunately, gave birth to a saying that doesn't reflect the best of unicorn startup lights. As such, "pulling a Patzer" is now an expression used to describe a startup that sold out way too early in the game, at way too low a figure.
Brutal as it sounds, and even though walking out with a $170,000 sale on his startup could've been seen as a great outcome to a starting company during his time, the acquisition for this value isn't much of a hype, anymore. The common claim is Patzer could've indeed held out for longer to make way more than he gave up for hastily taking the first big offer at hand.
This should make us wonder if we'll be ready to jump the gun at the first possibility of an exit or whether we'll rest and trust scaling for even more profitable returns to be our move.
Taking business seriously - and doing it right
In general, what makes a new business worth more than $100 million comes from a set of business decisions handled right along with the right risk versus opportunity conditions working to the company's overall favor.
Fortunately, great leadership is a skill that can be developed endlessly. And putting the perfect team together to run a startup should also be a conscious step of getting any company started. This is why having the most suitable team for your startup is so important when learning how to create a pitch deck for investors, for example.
Along with a great business idea, investors need to see you have a superb team who'll know how to drive your company through thick and thin to profitable success.
Managerial strength
We continually stress how you need to do strenuous market research, and research in general. There are tons of very valid reasons for that. And managing a perfect product-market fit, for example, is a part of that. This aspect is highly relevant to a company's overall success, and it's one of the toughest areas to get right.
Even though product management is a rough one to dominate, it should definitely be on any entrepreneurs list of areas to handle well.
Last hard fact
Also, bear in mind that a startup capable of setting on a revolution in a largely sized industry, or even more so one able to generate a new trending market altogether, can definitely be worth large sums.
It doesn't just take a great business idea to create a successful startup, but it's certainly one of the reasons why some unicorns might've scaled quickly in the past, as well.
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Peravurani (o Peravurni) è una suddivisione dell'India, classificata come town panchayat, di 21.025 abitanti, situata nel distretto di Thanjavur, nello stato federato del Tamil Nadu. In base al numero di abitanti la città rientra nella classe III (da 20.000 a 49.999 persone).

Geografia fisica
La città è situata a 10° 18' 0 N e 79° 10' 60 E e ha un'altitudine di 15 .

Società

Evoluzione demografica
Al censimento del 2001 la popolazione di Peravurani assommava a 21.025 persone, delle quali 10.326 maschi e 10.699 femmine. I bambini di età inferiore o uguale ai sei anni assommavano a 2.401, dei quali 1.209 maschi e 1.192 femmine. Infine, coloro che erano in grado di saper almeno leggere e scrivere erano 14.817, dei quali 8.119 maschi e 6.698 femmine.

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Centri abitati del Tamil Nadu

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