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Take the Power Back
by Alejandro Schuler
In 1852, the official seal of the newly-established San Francisco Gas Company bore the words fiat lux– let there be light. A century and a half later, the time has come to say "lights out" to its successor, the company we now call PG&E.
California's energy history has always been a fight between those who seek to provide power as a public good and those who seek to exploit it for personal profit. PG&E's current bankruptcy, caused by its negligence in sparking deadly wildfires across California, is only the latest calamity in a run of crises stretching back over a century. Earlier failures include the 2010 San Bruno pipeline explosion, the mass blackouts of 2001, foot-dragging on green power from the '70s onward, and the price gouging of the '20s and '30s.
It's no accident that PG&E has failed us. As an investor-owned utility, PG&E's private imperative to maximize profits for stockholders is in perpetual conflict with its public mission to provide universal, safe, and reliable power. State and federal authorities have tried to ensure access to electricity and to mitigate the abuses of its monopoly power. But regulations haven't been enough to protect Californians from PG&E's predations and negligence. It's time for us to fundamentally rethink our electric system.
The history of the electricity industry in the United States suggests a path forward. The best way to guarantee safety and reliability, sustainability and affordability, employment and democracy is for California to take over PG&E's infrastructure.
A History of the Grid
The US energy grid has always been a battleground between public interests and private profit. It was clear from the get-go that some kind of public oversight for this essential good was necessary, but the debate about what shape that should take has raged for over a century. Today, a failed system, emerging technology, and a changing climate are forcing us back once more to the drawing table. The past shows us what hasn't worked — and what might.
From the First Flashes…
During the first few decades of consumer electricity, hundreds of privately-owned local utilities like SF Gas built power plants and distribution networks in and around major cities. In northern California, early gas-light companies like San Francisco Gas were soon superseded by those providing both gas and electric service, culminating in the creation of Pacific Gas and Electric in 1905. Public co-operatives and municipal utilities sprang up in rural areas where electricity wasn't profitable enough to attract private investment.
But that didn't last long. By the early 1930s, nearly three-quarters of investor-owned utilities in America, including PG&E, were controlled by eight huge utility holding companies.
The monopolization of the private energy market brought widespread abuse, corruption, and high rates for consumers. Some municipalities fought back and built successful public utilities, but not without taking casualties. Sacramento's municipal utility was established by voters in 1923, but PG&E held it hostage in the court system for over two decades.
When federal law compelled San Francisco to establish some form of nonprofit power in exchange for approval of the Hetch-Hetchy dam project, PG&E torpedoed implementation attempts by bankrolling opposition campaigns through the 1930s. Seattle's mayor, the reformer George Cotterill, observed at the time that "the idea of municipal ownership was denounced as populist, socialist, and otherwise dangerous" by banks and utilities.
In 1932, reformers finally amassed enough political power to elect someone willing to stand up to the giant holding companies. Franklin Roosevelt railed against private utilities and their "selfish purposes" on the campaign trail. Once in office, he pushed Congress to create the Tennessee Valley Authority (TVA)— a federally-owned utility covering a swath of the mideastern United States. Besides providing power at affordable rates, the TVA created thousands of jobs, helped establish organized labor in the electricity industry, and jump-started the modernization of the Tennessee Valley. It's still federally-owned to this day and provides power to approximately eight million customers. Meanwhile, the entire state of Nebraska transitioned to public power between 1930 and 1949. It remains the only US state without privately-owned utilities.
Reformers envisioned the TVA as a starting point for public ownership of electrical utilities nationwide. That dream was never realized, but, FDR's administration did break up the large holding companies into pieces manageable by state regulators. Thus began a relatively successful fifty-year-long truce between capital and the public. Utilities were allowed to retain their monopolies at the state level, but under the watchful eye of regulators like the California Public Utilities Commission (CPUC).
This arrangement proved stable, but not impregnable.
… to Rolling Blackouts
In response to the oil crises of the 1970s and growing environmentalism, the federal government created markets for renewable energy generators to sell power to existing utilities. Unlike utility-owned generators, generators in these markets were mostly outside the reach of state regulators.
Neoliberals took note. Bowing to corporate pressure in the early 90s, Congress and the H.W. Bush administration expanded these markets to all independent power generators. Federal rules established that all sales transacted through these markets were inherently fair to the public, eliminating the requirement for direct oversight.
In 1994, with encouragement from a company named Enron, the CPUC called for California to deregulate its electric system and create its own energy market. Free-market zealots claimed that competitive markets would provide cheaper power for consumers; the CPUC took their word for it. Legislators were convinced too. They began transitioning California to a competitive wholesale electricity market in 1996. PG&E consequently sold off a substantial portion of its generation capacity, believing it would be unable to compete when a glut of cheap power flooded the new market.
But there was a fatal flaw in the fairy-tale reasoning that Enron sold to the CPUC. It turned out that unregulated generators were only interested in short-term profits, not the long-term investments in safety, training, and maintenance necessary for sustainable low-cost electricity. Enron CEO Jeff Skilling famously declared that energy companies should "cut jobs ruthlessly" because people "gum up the works." Taking advantage of lax regulation, Enron and other traders concocted elaborate schemes to buy up and hoard power, causing prices (and their profits) to skyrocket in 2000-2001.
No matter how high prices got, PG&E was forced to pay them because it had already sold off many of its own power plants. State regulators, however, retained control of retail pricing and didn't allow the energy giant to pass its artificially high procurement costs on to ratepayers.
PG&E bled out in a matter of months. Rolling blackouts, bankruptcy, and a gubernatorial recall election ensued. The state of California spent enormous sums to buy long-term power contracts that finally stabilized wholesale prices and enabled PG&E to keep the lights on during its bankruptcy. These long-term contracts locked in high rates for many years.
Despite the clear failure of deregulation and the cost to Californians, the question of how to properly regulate electricity was never seriously revisited. Wholesale markets still exist. Responsibility for grid stability is still splintered across the CPUC, regional and federal bodies, and monopoly utilities.
Fanning the Flames
Distributed renewables may one day make the grid modular and less reliant on long-range transmission. For the time being, however, we must contend with the greatest known danger of moving electricity across hundreds of miles: wildfires. This is no small risk. According to the Wall Street Journal, PG&E's equipment has caused about a fire per day in recent years.
Climate change has intensified the wildfire threat, but PG&E's failure to manage flammable vegetation growing around power lines is the real culprit. The CPUC and California courts have been investigating PG&E for tree-related safety violations since at least the early 90s. Memos uncovered in 1997 show PG&E executives praising managers for cutting corners on fire-preventing vegetation management — work PG&E outsources to bottom-dollar contractors with high turnover.
PG&E's safety record in other domains is equally terrible. Audits undertaken in the aftermath of the deadly 2010 San Bruno pipeline explosion outline how PG&E spent money earmarked for safety measures on executive pay. And a shrinking fraction of the money the CPUC asked PG&E to spend on under-grounding high-risk lines has been used for that purpose over the course of the past decade.
The danger for PG&E is that California courts have consistently found that utilities can be held liable for damages resulting from their equipment whether or not reasonable safety precautions were followed under the legal principle of inverse condemnation.
In the wake of the 2017 fire season, PG&E coordinated a legislative offensive to override the courts and exempt themselves from inverse condemnation damages. Then-Governor Jerry Brown supported their campaign, citing the risks that bankruptcy posed to ratepayers. PG&E's proposed legislation ultimately failed, but a compromise bill called SB 901 was approved by a wide margin in the fall of 2017. SB 901 allows PG&E to increase rates on consumers to pay for damages incurred in cases where adequate safety precautions were in place. But even if safety precautions were not followed, PG&E is still allowed to raise rates to prevent bankruptcy.
Critics of SB 901 characterized it as a bailout and a regressive tax. Proponents claimed it was a necessary compromise to avoid a bankruptcy. Both groups sought to avoid a repeat of the 2001 bailout. Neither got what they wanted — the bill passed, but PG&E threw in the towel anyways. The nation's largest utility entered bankruptcy on January 29th, 2019.
Rewiring California
The recurrent failures of unregulated electricity markets show that we need public oversight of this essential good. Strong regulation of monopoly utilities ensured affordable and reliable energy between the 1940s and 1980s, but neoliberals were able to take advantage of changing technology to upset that delicate balance. And now climate change means that failure costs more than money — it costs lives.
We need a new framework that can ensure safety, provide accountability, lower costs for everyone, invest in clean energy, and strengthen economic opportunity for all.
And now we have a chance to get it.
PG&E's bankruptcy is one of the most complex cases to ever face the courts. An array of stakeholders — creditors, regulators, legislators, utility executives, municipalities, organized labor, fire victims, and advocacy groups — are all squaring off, with California's future hanging in the balance. But the underlying conflict remains much the same as it was a century ago: will electricity be controlled by corporate players seeking to exploit an essential service for private profit, or by public institutions for the common good?
Private Profit: PG&E Maintains the Status Quo
If PG&E has its way, legislators will maintain the status quo and approve a ratepayer-funded bailout. This would be a disaster for ratepayers and the environment.
It may take some time, but PG&E will emerge from bankruptcy. By most estimates, the company has enough assets to cover their losses and continue operations. The bankruptcy is in fact a tactic to allow PG&E to consolidate a single legal defense against those claims, pay less to fire victims, and pressure the state to double down on bills like SB 901. It may also allow PG&E to escape long-term power-purchase agreements with green suppliers. If the courts allow this, investors will likely downgrade the credit rating of new green infrastructure and slow down decarbonization.
In the absence of major reforms, ratepayers will ultimately pay for the current damages. No internal restructuring, board shakeup, partial sell-off, or increase in CPUC oversight can avoid the need for rate increases. The CPUC has already allowed PG&E to issue $5.5 billion worth of life-support bonds that will need to be repaid. And, incredibly, other private utilities are already lobbying the CPUC to allow them to raise their own rates and profit margins in light of decreased investor confidence. A repeat of the aftermath of the 2001 energy crisis is all but inevitable.
The court will also have to contend with the possibility of future bankruptcies. PG&E may be prevented from exiting chapter 11 until something is done to address long-term exposure to fire damages. This may force California into expanding liability protections for monopoly utilities à la SB 901 or annulling inverse condemnation. Either way, the result would be the same: a legal framework that forces the cost of future disasters onto the victims in order to protect the culprit.
While most lawmakers in Sacramento seem to have accepted this fate, some want to prevent it. State Senator Jerry Hill has already introduced a bill — SB 549 — that would prevent PG&E from raising rates without approval from the legislature. This power is currently held by the CPUC, which Hill considers too cozy with PG&E.
Cozy or not, the prime directive for the CPUC is to keep the lights on, so they ultimately have little choice but to give PG&E the money required to get the job done. Well-intentioned as it may be, SB 549 only moves the problem from one place to another. The legislature will be held hostage with the same ultimatum as the CPUC: raise the rates or the lights go out.
Keeping rates low is simply not an option without larger reforms.
Public Retail: Community Choice Expands
Deregulation was sold to the public as a way of increasing consumer choice in power purchasing, but real choice only came when California legally established community choice aggregators (CCAs) in 2002. CCAs are regional nonprofit entities which procure wholesale electricity on California's energy market and sell it to consumers, who are free to buy either from them or a traditional utility. The CCA takes care of buying and selling power, but it still relies on the utility's transmission and distribution network to ship the energy to consumers.
Despite PG&E's failed $45 million campaign to defeat CCAs via Prop 16 in 2010, CCAs continue to grow in popularity. Nineteen CCAs currently operate in California, including San Francisco's Clean Power SF. Dozens of other municipalities are considering starting their own CCA programs.
One of the advantages of CCAs is that local communities can opt for a greener energy mix than what the utility would otherwise provide. Though both CCAs and utilities are equally mandated by California's renewable portfolio standards to source an increasing percentage of their energy from renewables, CCAs are smaller and more accessible to decarbonization activists, who have pushed them to purchase more renewables than legally required.
An expansion of community choice programs would be a fast and effective way to combat rate rises, but it's not a magic bullet. People enrolled in CCAs don't buy energy from PG&E, so they are protected in part from rate rises. And networks of community choice activists are already in place across the state. They have a slew of successes to point to: rates for CCAs have remained competitive with PG&E's and their energy mix is greener. If CCAs continue expanding, they could take over PG&E's retail sales market and leave behind a "wires-only" utility responsible only for transmission and distribution.
Besides lowering costs and promoting renewables, CCAs provide the intrinsic benefits of democratic control over power purchasing. Local control may incentivize accelerated development of distributed energy resources like rooftop solar and battery storage. These technologies reduce the need for fossil-fuel plants. They also make the grid less reliant on long-range transmission lines, thus reducing fire risk and increasing local resilience. Community control may also provide local accountability, foster transparency, and help create a culture of participatory energy democracy.
Detractors of CCAs worry that they are too financially insecure to provide stable power. The novelty of CCAs impacts their credit ratings and ability to enter into long-term power purchase agreements. Without long-term agreements, CCAs would be even more vulnerable than PG&E to market manipulation, and incapable of driving future investment in renewables. Luckily, some CCAs have found financial instruments that help ensure the stability of long-term contracts. An increasing amount of CCA power now comes through contracts spanning ten to twenty-five years.
But CCAs by themselves cannot address all the problems with California's energy system. First and foremost: not all communities have a CCA. Sustained activism and policymaking can provide incentives to create CCAs where there are none currently, but for the time being, millions of Californians still pay for PG&E's mistakes.
Nor do CCAs protect ratepayers from all of PG&E's liabilities. At present, PG&E is allowed to charge CCA customers for the cost of electricity that the utility purchased "on their behalf" in long-term power purchase agreements. In effect, CCA customers are locked into paying a for-profit company for power that they will never use. And PG&E also charges CCA customers for transmission costs. A wires-only PG&E might still be allowed to raise these fees to cover liabilities.
A wires-only PG&E also leaves them controlling the asset that caused the current crisis. It's possible that the utility will be able to manage the safety and reliability of transmission grid better if it's their only business, but it's more likely that they will continue profiteering. PG&E's new board is stuffed with Wall Street financiers and ex-CEOs; even Governor Newson recognizes that this "raises concerns" they won't represent the interests of Californians.
Local Public Power: Municipal Utilities Rise Up
Understandably, many activists balk at the idea of letting PG&E keep what has proved to be a weapon of mass destruction. They suggest creating local municipal utilities to take over distribution as well as power purchasing.
Municipalization is one of the oldest models of public electricity. A number of examples exist in California, including in Sacramento and Los Angeles. The arguments for "munis", as they are called, parallel those for CCAs: lower rates are a particularly strong feature. Sacramento's municipal utility, for instance, charges 33% less than PG&E. The reason is simple: like CCAs, municipal utilities don't profit off their customers.
Not all munis are created equal. Some are government departments like any other, some report to an independent public body, others are publicly-owned corporations entirely outside the local government. The jury is still out on what provides the most benefit. Full integration with the government can result in short-term political meddling with the utility, but publicly owned corporations are less directly accountable to citizens.
No system of governance guarantees optimal management, but evidence suggests that placing munis under the control of an independent but directly elected body strikes the right balance. In Sacramento, this model allowed community members to take control of the utility and stop it from reinvesting in a failing nuclear power plant. Voters may not always be engaged with energy politics, but direct election lets the citizens take charge when public consensus arises.
Whatever the structure, getting munis off the ground is not easy. The first challenge is taking control of the infrastructure, which means either negotiating a sale or fighting an eminent domain battle. Sacramento spent two decades defending against PG&E's challenges. Few municipalities have the funds and expertise to stand up to such a behemoth.
The hurdles don't stop there. Organizing an entire utility from the ground up on a city budget can take its toll. Munis often are greener than private utilities, but it takes time and economies of scale to get there. When Sacramento finally got the lines from PG&E, they were a disorganized mess that took another decade to modernize. Boulder CO voted to municipalize in 2010 in order to accelerate decarbonization, but now lags behind in renewables relative to the private utility they declared independence from.
Breaking up ownership of California's energy infrastructure could also mean weakening one of its strongest unions. IBEW 1245 represents over 12,000 PG&E employees who do the hard work of keeping their infrastructure as safe and reliable as management allows. Even if municipal utilities retained these experienced workers, IBEW would have to negotiate separate contracts in each locality, and it's not clear how benefits would transfer over. This issue has driven a wedge between union and energy activists in the past. If municipalization moves forward, complicated provisions would be necessary to ensure justice for workers.
Finally, the biggest problem is that municipalization does nothing for people in regions where it's not implemented. It thus risks balkanizing the activist networks fighting against PG&E by providing solutions only for some. Furthermore, municipalization is more likely in cities, which would leave PG&E in control of the oldest and most dangerous infrastructure in remote areas where disenfranchised populations lack the political capital to organize their own opposition. Larger reforms would be necessary to prevent the formation of a two-tier energy system.
Public Power for California
Municipalization and wires-only solutions could solve some of California's energy problems, but not all. The best option is a statewide public utility, which would eliminate the cost of payouts to shareholders and prioritize safety and public service instead, while also filling the gaps that local solutions leave. Public power would reduce rates for all Californians in PG&E's service area. It would stabilize precarious rural infrastructure as well as the relatively safe urban grid. It would directly invest in renewable infrastructure at-scale while encouraging local decision-making about green procurement, generation, and distributed resources. It would ensure a just transition for current PG&E employees, keep bargaining units together, and create hundreds if not thousands of new high-paying union jobs. It would ensure democracy and public accountability through independently elected oversight.
Forming a public utility is no small task. All of the logistical challenges of municipalization are also challenges for statewide public power. But unlike most cities, California has the resources to go toe-to-toe with PG&E. The total cost of PG&E's assets and liabilities are within what the state could raise with bonds. Costs to taxpayers could be offset by lower electricity rates in perpetuity. This is money put towards a mortgage, not rent.
A buyout does mean that California would assume liabilities for the 2017 fires. But there isn't an alternative — if taxpayers don't pay, ratepayers will. The difference is more than semantics: as ratepayers, we have no say in how we pay, but as taxpayers, we do. If rates rise, the poor pay disproportionately more of their income than the rich for electricity, but if California takes on the liability, the public can democratically ensure that the costs don't fall on the most disadvantaged.
No system is perfect. There will still be fires to contend with even if we establish clean public power. Sharing the liability means that Californians will have to decide how to provide mutual aid and compensation to victims. That's a good thing. It's time to stop hiding behind PG&E and the CPUC. As Californians, we need to come together and make those hard choices for ourselves or they will be made for us in favor of the rich.
The logistics of the infrastructure transfer will be complicated, but not intractable. The naïve approach would be to buy a majority of PG&E shares and force a selloff to the new state utility. This would, however, require a constitutional amendment — California is currently prohibited from owning shares in private companies. PG&E won't willingly liquidate its assets, but the bankruptcy could force consideration of a buyout offer that would ensure payment to PG&E's creditors with minimal fuss. Alternatively, if the bankruptcy court decides against the state, California could use eminent domain to acquire PG&E's infrastructure for a fair market price. This would surely raise legal challenges, but the state is in a much better position to litigate than municipalities would be.
California should take lessons from municipal utilities and structure the utility as a state entity under the independent oversight of a democratically elected board. Board members should be elected regionally to minimize the impact of statewide special interests. All revenue should be either reinvested in the grid, passed down as incentives to community choice programs, or put against lowering rates for Californians. This prevents shortsighted politicians turning the utility into a source of funds for their pet projects. Meanwhile, the community choice system would remain in place as a foundation for local energy democracy, experimentation, and grid decentralization.
Public power would ensure that California meets its decarbonization goals. While CCAs continue to build strength, the state utility would have the institutional backing to immediately take on existing long-term power purchase agreements, negotiate new ones, and invest directly in large-scale green generation projects. California would be in direct control of power purchasing at all levels, and could use its weight in the energy markets to encourage greening without adding regulations.
If Californians are looking for a Green New Deal, this is it. Statewide public power would mean a just transition for all of PG&E's employees. It would provide an opportunity to keep the IBEW bargaining unit together and expand it by adding new high-paying jobs across the state as part of investments in grid safety and modernization. California will need more inspectors, tree crews, and other personnel to reverse decades of neglect. Jobs would also be created though market investments in green technology and distributed energy resources.
This is power to the people and for the people.
The Path to Public Power
The first step towards statewide public power is to build a coalition that transcends previous boundaries. It will take a united front of consumer advocacy groups, clean energy and CCA activists, municipalists, fire victims, labor unions, grid experts, and progressive political organizations to penetrate the noise in Sacramento. A broad coalition will ensure that nobody is left behind in crafting a strong policy proposal.
Finding a legislative sponsor is the next step. Unfortunately, Sacramento is dominated by big utility lobbyists and the small ideas they peddle. Even PG&E's opponents in the statehouse have so far been lukewarm on any proposal that tackles the problem head-on. Part of that trepidation is understandable– anything that makes big waves carries some risk. But California can't wait. We're staring down the double barrel of rate increases and the 2019 fire season.
It may take continued public pressure and the looming threat of a bailout, but sooner or later we will craft a serious public power proposal in Sacramento. Nevertheless, a legislative majority for public power is unlikely to materialize. PG&E spends millions in campaign contributions to prop up friendly votes in the statehouse.
That is why a bill is just the beginning. Even if it never comes to a vote, a public power bill would start to shift the thinking in Sacramento. It would give the public power coalition access to further legislative expertise and staff. It would raise public awareness and expose politicians who aren't willing to do the hard work needed to protect their constituents. And it would set the stage for a successful ballot initiative.
Public power is a winnable issue. We know voters can beat PG&E because they've done it before. Armed with nothing but sound policy and $200,000 in 2010's Prop 16 race for the future of CCAs, activists squared off against PG&E's $40 million — and won. And that was before the fires obliterated any public trust PG&E had left.
History has already shown us what happens when the electric grid is run for profit, so voters know that public power isn't a radical change that they should fear. Public power is right at home with other big ideas that Californians are already clamoring for — ideas like Medicare for All, the Green New Deal, and immigration reform.
Spark the Change
We don't have to settle for skyrocketing electricity rates and smoke-filled skies. Another world is possible. A world where energy is safe, affordable, and clean. Where power is local, publicly accountable, and creates jobs. A world that can rise from the ashes of PG&E's fires.
A world where the power belongs to you and me.
© 2019 Fog City Rose.


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Advocacy at the heart of practice: Studio-MLA
Studio-MLA is a landscape architecture firm with offices in the California cities of Los Angeles and San Francisco. The firm's team of 40 landscape architects, urban designers, community advocates, scientists, and technical experts collaborates frequently with nonprofit partners, including The Nature Conservancy and local civic institutions, to pursue research and create large-scale plans and design for resilient and equitable parks, greenways, and other developments. Mia Lehrer, founder and president of the firm, is herself widely known as an advocate for the restoration of the LA River. The ethos of advocacy and issue ownership runs deep in the firm as well. Studio-MLA empowers its employees to tackle the issues they see in their community and has incubated two nonprofits, Grown in LA and LA Más, that do just that.
Grown in LA (GiLA), whose mission focuses on urban ecology and native plant life is one of the projects that began in the offices of Studio-MLA. Kat Superfisky, a trained landscape architect and ecologist, launched GiLA during her time at the firm in response to the LA River Ecosystem Feasibility Study. Kat saw that such a large-scale project would require a larger stock of native plants than was readily available in the region. To promote the use of locally-grown native plants for the restoration of the LA River, she created GiLA, a coalition of government, nonprofit, private, and academic partners. As a member of this coalition, Studio-MLA brings expertise and resources that support the creation of new knowledge regarding how these plants respond to the changing climate and how to incorporate their use into initiatives to restore the LA River to its natural state.
The goal of LA Más, which also got its start with Studio-MLA, is to empower lower-income communities to design their own futures through policy and architecture. Working with Studio-MLA, LA Más received its first grant to design with underserved communities in Los Angeles. In addition to its design work, LA Más is a resource for knowledge, providing information about renter rights and landlord responsibilities and showcasing strategies for community-driven change. As development continues across Los Angeles, LA Más is working to ensure that the changes don't displace the people and cultures that have been in places for generations.
Beyond the GiLA coalition and nonprofit incubation, Studio-MLA engages with the public sector more directly through advocacy efforts and design exploration. Mia supports designers at the firm to reimagine their city, even without RFPs or design competitions providing financial incentive to do so. From a disused train yard to intersections of the LA River with different rights-of-way, this concept work sparks new ideas and can offer an opportunity to share design thinking with policy leaders and community members. Recognizing the need for advocacy in landscape architecture, Mia promotes her ideas and values to the people who control policy writing and decision-making. She engages with political leaders and agency heads to change not only design outcomes but to encourage those who write the rules about development to think holistically and with design innovation in mind.
You need to be in tune, interested, and open to participating in civic enterprise to be able to offer services.
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The strong advocacy ethic that Mia brings to the firm is something that was instilled in her from her youth. Growing up in El Salvador, she was intimately familiar with social inequity and the impacts of environmental degradation. In her family, if you could help, you did. That mantra has carried through the rest of her life as she moved through school and career from California to the East Coast and back. When gathering community input for projects, that means not only making space for the lived experiences of stakeholders, but also sharing design thinking and educating community members about the importance of specific design features. This knowledge sharing also extends to elected officials and public agencies as the firm works to bring its clients along on the project vision while advocating for the policy and process change that could make outcomes even better. From visioning and education to incubation and advocacy, Studio-MLA takes every opportunity to place advocacy at the heart of its practice.
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Outdoor Weddings are a favourite of ours at the I Do Crew. There is something magical about a wedding reception under the stars or in a naturally beautiful location. But logistically there is also so much more to consider when having an outdoor wedding as opposed to one inside in a purpose build Venue. And today, we are outlining some of the outdoor wedding planning tips we run through with our own clients when helping them to decide if an outdoor wedding is the right choice for them.
When it comes to outdoor wedding planning tips, this one is on the top of our list and it should be on yours too. And I am sure you do realise that weather could play havoc with your outdoor wedding. But what we have found is that too often, couples think about this after they have already committed to an outdoor wedding – which means that it is too late to back out if you don't like the compromises you have to make in case of bad weather.
The better approach is to assess your date against the typical weather at that time of year. Is the weather conducive to an outdoor wedding? Will you and your guests be comfortable in the conditions normally experienced at that time of year, in that location?
Rain isn't the only weather condition you need to consider either; heat, cold and wind can all impact on guest comfort at a wedding. Weather can also affect things like your table settings. For examples, candles can't be set up in the sun and your tall vases on a windy day can be a hazard. The weather may even impact on you being able to get the photos you want.
What is the availability of flat ground in your outdoor location? Whilst you can work around a lot of things when it comes to an outdoor wedding, there is no denying that most set-ups work best on flat ground.
What is the set up; sit down dinner, or cocktail for example?
Is there flat ground for your other rentals to be set up on, for example; restrooms, lounge furniture, games?
Is there flat ground for your off-site caterer and bar to be set up safely?
Are you having a band and dance floor and is there enough flat ground for those things in addition to everything else?
This is an outdoor wedding tip planning tip that a lot of people tend to overlook.
Outdoor spaces are often chosen for their natural beauty, which means you may not need as much décor as for an indoor space. However, if you have your heart set on a certain style or look for your wedding and want to bring that decor into an outdoor space (we do a lot of set ups like this – think vintage lounge furniture and bar carts outdoors), you will need to think carefully about how that will work and whether it is feasible to set this decor up in your outdoor space (time and budget and again weather, come into play here).
What facilities are available on-site and what needs to be hired? Is there power or do you need a generator? Are there restrooms, or do these need to be hired? Is there an on-site kitchen, or do you need a mobile caterer? Does rubbish have to be removed by you? What access will these Vendors have to your outdoor space and will they have enough time for setting up and packing down? And because all of these things can impact on your budget, this is a very important outdoor wedding planning tip to pay attention to!
Very often outdoor weddings require much more set up time. At the I Do Crew we generally allow 2-3 days for a private property wedding; setting up the day before, the wedding day and packing down and bumping out the day after. If your wedding is small and you don't have a lot of Vendors, you may only need access to the Venue on the day of the wedding. But for larger weddings you will need to confirm when you have access from and to.
Will all Vendors be able to get their equipment in and out easily? Do vendors have to pass through locked gates or security? And what about any guests who are in wheelchairs, or have difficulty with movement; is the site safe for everyone on your guest list?
And don't forget travel! If your outdoor wedding is in a remote location or several hours from where your Vendors are located, your costs will go up.
Other things to consider include mosquitos and wildlife. For example, if you are setting up tables outside the day before, could roaming wildlife be an issue overnight (don't laugh we have experienced wildlife destroying floral designs and table settings!). And what about guest comfort on the day? Is your outdoor location in an area prone to mosquitos or sand flies?
Take time to consider these outdoor wedding planning tips before you book a wedding in an outdoor location so you can feel confident about your decision and get on the job with planning and designing the perfect outdoor wedding!
Can you think of any other outdoor wedding planning tips that need to be considered? Please add them to the comments.
For help assessing whether your outdoor location is going to work for your wedding, contact us.


CREW DC has named its 2019 Board of Directors to lead the largest CREW chapter in North America into its 40th Anniversary year.
The new Board members will be joining the remaining leaders to constitute the leadership effective January 1, 2019.
Returning Directors are noted with an asterisk.
President: Lynn Stith Bennett, Executive Vice President, Coakley & Williams Construction, Inc.


6:30: Story of America: From Bloody Sunday to Moral Mondays (20 min-2015) An excerpt from a work in progress that tries to show how that when opposite sides on America really talk to each other, rather than yell and shout, something amazing is actually possible.
Get By (28 min - 2015) looks at two recycling workers, Stanley and Milton, as they bring their struggle for a living wage to the legislature, media, and the streets of Ithaca, New York.
With Banners Held High ( 31 min-2014) celebrates the resilience and humor of miners and women who went through the 1984/5 Miners' Strike.
Blood on the Mountain is a film that exposes the environmental and social injustices that have developed from industrial control in West Virginia by the 1% and the corrupted politicians that do their bidding. This is a stunning new film by the team behind "Coal Country."
Blood on the Mountain. Get your ticket here, and read more about the program here.
The Murphy Institute for Labor Studies/CUNY is hosting #WUFF15 for a gala and we are using this opportunity to focus on the power of global solidarity by screening Blood Fruit. Blood Fruit is a film about workers who rise up and use the power of a worker strike and ask for a customer boycott to reject South African apartheid's products.
Blood Fruit. Get your tickets here, and read more here.
Right to Work has become a major threat to unions across the country. These films focus on the battle that took place in Wisconsin. Find out what can be done to fight against right to work in the future and how the labor movement has responded to harsh organizing restrictions.
Films featured this evening: Overpass Light Brigade, We are Wisconsin.
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On this evening, we will be taking a closer look at how a steel mill impacted the surrounding community and how its closure in 2012 leaves a mark for years to come, followed by an exploration of life as a laundry worker.
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Join us for an evening filled with music, history, and female power and artistic expression. Girls in the Band explores the lives and journeys of female musicians in the 1930s. Th e 7PM viewing will be followed by a performance by The Sherrie Maricle Trio - an all women trio led by Ms. Maricle, who is also featured in the film, and an evening of dancing and mingling. Girls in the Band.
Get your ticket here for the 5PM viewing or for the 7:30 with an intermission set played by The Sherrie Maricle Trio - an all women trio led by Ms. Maricle - who is in this film.
This will be a chance to view a few of the notable shorts from this year all in one block.
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Screenings will focus on work life and organizing efforts in South Asia and in the South Asian Community here in NYC. Both on the production of something New Yorkers see every single day - manhole covers, withing the domestic worker community and a major work on the output of sweatshop employed child labor in Bangladesh.
This is a training for aspiring as well as seasoned filmmakers who want to learn the ins and outs of making an activist political documentary. The bootcamp will be led by documentary filmmakers with years of hands-on experience to help participants understand the inner-workings of making an activist film. Don't miss out on this unique opportunity to learn from the best and get the skill sets you need to make your own film a reality. Show what's happening on your job! Join us!
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A night of poetry, spoken word and short films around the themes of workers, their lives and their fight to build and save their unions. There will also be a teaser preview performance focused on the lives of laundromat workers in NYC because Every Fold Matters.
Films featured: Every Fold Matters, Workers' Theater in NYC, Comedian Lee Camp Tells You What!
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An encore presentation for our Queens audience will be held in the IBEW local 3 Electrical Industry Auditorium. This event is free and open to the public. Two films on electrical workers in Australia, fighting back against a reactionary government and a cautionary tale about the deadly nature of poorly trained temp workers.
Judith: Portrait of A Street Vendor speaks to the daily struggles of a street vendor in New York City. Food Chains follows the food trail from farm to your table and highlights the role of exploited labor in our food chain and what we can do to end that exploitation.
Battles for food chain justice highlight the issues of workplace rights for immigrants as well as the fight for a living wage for all workers in the U.S. and around the world. The Hand That Feeds is a prize-winning documentary about a courageous effort to empower workers who thought they were powerless to create change.
You can purchase your tickets here, and read more here.
Connected By Coffee: The story of Latin American coffee farmers and how our daily brew is deeply connected to a troubled past and hopeful future. You'll never drink that first morning cup in the same way again!
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Soil, Struggle and Justice examines a cooperative of the Brazilian Landless Movement (MST) in the South of Brazil, which struggled for access to land and then transitioned to ecological agriculture, or agroecology.
Short films from CASA show how tenants organize for their rights. See how faith-based groups and justice organizations are uniting in NYC for a living wage. Then visit Wilmington, NC to see what the effects of the economic collapse caused by the banks has had on working people who lose their homes.
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This is a night to recap the history of Eugene V. Debs, a prominent labor organizer who helped build the labor movement.
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A Time to Care features the daughter of a Long-Term Care (LTC) resident and heartfelt accounts from PSWs and RPNs about the challenges they face providing quality care to residents. Sunset Cruise shows how the elderly and their caregivers often head into uncharted waters as they spend more and more time together in the client's declining years. CARE takes this personal story and expands upon it by following four caregivers, who must not only struggle with their clients' needs, but also with the limitations of long hours, lousy pay and meager benefits for themselves.
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Resistencia: In 2009, the first coup d'etat in a generation in Central America overthrew the elected president of Honduras. This film focuses on the turmoil that ensued when radical farmers of the Aguan Valley, working the palm oil fields of the most powerful oligarch in Honduras, decided it was time to take back their land.
Haiti: The Informal Economy and Poverty, Inc. focus in on the informal economy in Haiti and how the US economically policy negatively impacts developing countries through Non Governmental Organizations and their often misguided efforts at helping the poor overseas.
Films featured: Haiti: The Informal Economy and Poverty, Inc.
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Daughters of A Lesser God and Rise of the Oppressed both focus on organizing in the textile and bangle industry in Pakistan, where child labor is rampant. Mass e' Bhat tells the story of a social worker in Bangladesh, from rural beginnings to urban life, as a way to shine a light on the ongoing exploitation of child labor.
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Cast in India reveals the workers behind the New York City manhole covers which are manufactured in India. Champ of the Camp, a massive production, shines a spotlight on working conditions in the harsh work camps of Dubai, where 17,000 South Asian workers distract themselves from daily hard reality by holding a Bollywood singing contest.
This screening is followed by a discussion and book sale with Erik Loomis, an assistant professor at the University of Rhode Island, who will be facilitating a conversation on "Global Issues of Survival, Cooperation and Bollywood Song".
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Frontline Films from the TWU, A series of short films detailing frontline labor issue and solidarity events around NYC and the nation, from ace TWU national videographer, Mary Matthews.
Fire Lines - In the face of a major natural disaster - the 2010 Carmel Forest Fire - firefighters from Israel and Palestine put aside decades of suspicion and hostility to unite for a common goal. Is this a one-time fluke? Or can it show the path to a possible dialogue on wider issues?
Remembering Salt The story of a small town in Canada that defied McCarthyism with a showing of the blacklisted movie Salt of the Earth.
Pride It's the summer of 1984. Margaret Thatcher is in power and the National Union of Mineworkers is on strike, prompting a London-based group of gay and lesbian activists to raise money to support the strikers' families. A fantastic retelling of some of the most critical moments in labor history - stirring!
With Banners Held High celebrates the resilience and humour of miners and their wives and children who went through the 1984/5 Miners' Strike.
NY Premier Women of the Mine (Mujeres de la Mina) Portrait of three women who live and work in the mines of Cerro Rico, Potosi, Bolivia - a symbol of colonial plunder. Work in the mines belongs to men, yet women are the most precarious and cursed link of the system. Three women open up their lives to us so we can discover their stories of struggle and resistance.
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Can't Wear a Wig Forever is a story of a young black women who was fired from a job and her attempt to navigate the path to further employment.
Claiming Our Voice: Domestic workers, members of Andolan, find their own power by acting out their stories of exploitation and abuse on the job.
She's Beautiful When She's Angry tells the stories of the brilliant and dedicated women who founded the Women's Liberation Movement and have kept fighting for its goals throughout the last 40 years.
Can't Wear a Wig Forever: A story of a highly qualified young black women who was fired from a good job and her attempt to navigate the rocky path to further employment.
Judith: Portrait of a Street Vendor takes us on an intimate journey into the daily life of Judith, a street vendor from Guatemala who lives and works in New York City.
Girls In the Band tells the poignant, untold stories of female jazz and big band instrumentalists and their fascinating, groundbreaking journeys from the late 30s to the present day.
Get By explores the fight by municipal workers in Ithaca, NY to unite their community in the fight to get a living wage for their hard and dangerous work. A Day's Work is a searing indictment of the temp employment industry in the U.S., where workers are hired without benefits or training and left to fend for themselves - often with deadly consequences.


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IARC, a part of the World Health Organisation (WHO), cites evidence in Canada, Sweden and the USA linking workers' occupational exposure to glyphosate to increased risk of non-Hodgkin lymphoma.
The report led to calls from the global food and farming union IUF to keep deadly pesticides out of the workplace and the food chain. The UK Alliance for Cancer Prevention said the use of glyphosate largely to kill off weeds in urban areas was not justified.
It adds: "Health and safety representatives should make sure they bring the information to their attention. Safety representatives must ensure that their employer reviews their risk assessments and share the results with them." Safety reps have a right to see this information, the TUC said.


I love to cook. I love to eat. Truth is…I love cooking more than eating! There is no greater pleasure than seeing people enjoying….TRULY enjoying…food I have made! Don't get me wrong…I LOVE to EAT! Sometimes I feel like even though I love cooking and eating I hold myself back because I don't step out as much as I want to as far as trying new flavors. I look at a recipe and if there is an element in there that I don't like…I walk away from it. I don't embrace it and say…."It is only one part….I need to try it!" I usually think only about the part I don't like and choose not to try it. This….is what this challenge is about! Hubs and I have decided that we need to step outside our comfort zone and try things that we normally would "cull".Okay…I probably decided for Him that we were going to try some new things. But hey…luckily he trusts my judgement…and he likes to eat too!!! So far….we have loved everything we have tried! Again…I am trying recipes from The Pioneer Woman Cookbook "Food From My Frontier". I am committing to cooking at least two recipes a week from this book for the whole year of 2017!!! So far…I am right on track!
Last night I made Crash Hot Potatoes! This is recipe #3!
They are from the cookbook! They are awesome! I will share a link to the recipe!
Tonight we had Chicken and Noodles that I cooked mostly in the crockpot. It is such an easy and satisfying dish!!! This is not a recipe from the cookbook. This is my own recipe!
I just put two Cans of Chicken broth, a can of Cream of Chicken soup, a can of Cream of Celery soup and three chicken breasts in the crock pot. I diced up three stalks of celery, 4 carrots and put them in. Cook on low for 10 hours. When I got home I added three tablespoons of Poultry gravy mix in the crockpot. I also salted and peppered to taste. These are the noodles I use. They are amazing with Chicken and Noodle or Beef and Noodle. You can find them in the freezer section at Wal-Mart!
I didn't cook all of them but honestly…probably 4/5 of the bag. Boil them on the stove and then add them to the chicken and vegetables in the Crockpot. I let them simmer for about 30 minutes once they were added to the crockpot. With that I made some amazing Beer Biscuits! I just lucked up and spotted these the other night while I was at WalMart! But I can tell you…and hubby will agree..they are the BOMB!!!!
I can not even describe the texture of these biscuits! They are so soft, and fluffy and tasty! I can only imagine all of the things I can do with these. I will be buying MANY boxes of these the next time I am at WalMart!
Honestly I had more pictures to share with you but for some reason technical difficulties are preventing me from sharing them with you tonight. Maybe I can post later and catch you up with the pics!
Have a great Hump Day tomorrow!
« Recipe # 2 in the Books!


The United States Air Force uses aerial mind-control broadcasts against civilian population as well as enemy troops. Some of these actions against civilians are done with the intent of influencing public opinion and the outcome of elections.
To the Desert Storm offensive we can now add several other incidents. Alex Horvat, editor of The Probe, calls to our attention the 1998 video, Exotic Weapons of Mass Control, produced by Bob Fletcher.
We were not at war with the citizens of Haiti, yet the U.S. Government directed military weapons against this friendly, or at least neutral, civilian population. The U.S. Government sanction the "rigging" of the Haitian election by mental control of the people, programming them to cast their votes for the Americans' favored candidate. And they had the nerve to call it "Operation Uphold Democracy". Some sense of humor! Stalin would have loved it. Hitler would have loved it. Why is the U.S. Government doing this? Who is behind this flagrant violation of civil liberties? Is it the U.S. Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) which has a long history of interfering in foreign government politics? Or has this become standard military procedure?
The rationale is always the same: "to make the world safe for democracy". Yet what is democracy if not freedom? Freedom to think your own thoughts;freedom to express your own opinions; freedome to vote for the candidate of your own choice.
The questions arise: If they have used mind-control broadcasts against foreign civilian populations to influence elections, will they use them against American citizens -- or have they already? What other countries may be the recipients of this innovative technology?
"Air Force Mission: Commando Solo conducts psychological operations and civil affairs broadcast missions in the standard AM, FM, HF, TV and military communications bands. Missions are flown at maximum altitudes possible to ensure optimum propagation patterns. The EC-130 flies during either day or night scenarios with equal success, and is air refuealable. A typical mission consists of a single ship orbit which is offset from the desired target audience. The targets may be either military or civilian personnel.
"Secondary missions include command and control communications counter- measures (C3CM) and limited intelligence gathering.
"Air Force Features: Highly specialized modifications have been made to the latest version of the EC-130. Included in these modifications are enhanced navigation systems, self-protection equipment, and the capability of broadcasting color television on a multitude of world-wide standards throughout the TV VHF/UHF ranges.
[powerful microwave, scalar, & ELF waves penetrated deep underground bunkers, created excruciating bodily pain and voices in the head, and caused hundreds of thousands of Iraqi troops to surrender en masse..Ken Adachi].
"The EC-130 was originally modified using the mission electronic equipment from the EC-121, known at the time as the Coronet Solo. Soon after the 193rd SOG received its EC-130s, the unit participated in the rescue of US citizens in Operation Urgent Fury, acting as an airborne radio station informing those people on Granada of the US military action.
"Volant Solo, as the mission is now known, was instrumental in the success of coordinated psychological operations in Operation Just Cause, again broadcasting continuously throughout the initial phases of the operation."
I was told that it was all perfectly legal, having been approved by the U.S. Congress (!). It may be okay by Congress, but I sincerely doubt that it would be approved by the recipient populations.
That conversation also elicited more information concerning the Commando Solo units. For instance, the Air National Guard of the individual states in the U.S. can also operate Commando Solo aircraft, should the Governor of a state request assistance. That means the PsyOps mind-control technology can be directed against U.S. citizens.
Other countries are known to have a similar aircraft, but the PR officer declined to identify them, suggesting that I check out Jane's Defence Weekly for such information. Not having access to that particular publication, I searched through my copy of Jane's Radar and Electronic Warfare Systems 1993094.  The Commando Solo unit was not listed, but a browse through the book was informative as to the numerous types of electronic offence and defence systems available. These include stationary and mobile land units (many housed in large trucks), shipboard and airborne models as well as well as space-based technology. If the military is spending US $100 million per airborne unit (times eight, we're talking US $800 million here), I think it is safe to assume that they have tried out mind control equipment with less expensive, roving land units (trucks), but use the airplanes to cover wider areas and hard-to-reach locations of the world.
And I might add, we can asume that they have tried out the efficacy of this mind-control technology. Even the US military would not waste $800 million on something unless it has been proven to work, and work effectively, even under the adverse situation of military combat. This is an important point.
The next logical step in mind control would be to incorporate this technology into satellite communications. Since other countries are known to have similar capabilities, there could occur a sitution in which electronic mind control warfare is waged against a civilian population, receiving conflicting mental manipulation from both sides. What would be the mental state of individuals so targetted? Would it cause a rise in mental aberrations and schizophrenia? And what are the limits of mind manipulations? Can people be forced to commit suicide? Can physical ailments or psychosomatic illnesses be induced?
It is not a far step from manipulating a person's emotional state to influencing bodily functions. Indeed, much of the literature on documenting microwave effects on biological systems deals with precisely this phenomenon. In fact, studies of the physical effects of microwave exposure (including radio frequencies) generally preceeded studies of mental effects.
"The group will be discussing the essence of future policymaking, for it must be increasingly clear to all that the most effective tool of government and strategy is the mind... If it's any consolation to the weapons-oriented among defense policymakers, the new technologies of communications -- satellites, television, radio, and mind-control beams -- are 'systems' which are more tangible than the more philosophically based psychological strategies and operations.
It is obvious that they found the answer to that last question. If the public does not know about a weapon system, it cannot prohibit its deployment. This is the situtation that applies to mind-control technology.
Later they state: "We must decide whether innovative military capabilities are, in fact, acceptable and desirable. That can only happen through open debate. The military must be a vital participant, but not the sole one."
But there has been no open debate.
It seems that, in miltary parlance, a "prediction" means: "Don't be surprised when you find out we've already got this, but it's classified and we can't admit to it just yet."
Notice that General Jumper predicts that mind control technology will be used against potential enemies. The military and government agencies may apply this term to any group or individual they perceive as a threat to their own interests. Potential enemies may be counter-culture individuals, those of opposing political viewpoints, economic or financial competitors, biological undesirables, etc. It is part of the military agenda to identify potential threats so as to be prepared to meet them. Experience has shown that the US Government (the CIA and FBI, for example) has moved against these people or groups, slandering, harassing, even killing them, without adequate cause or legal sanction.
A weapon that can be used in secret lends itself to abuse by unethical individuals in positions of power. The military and secret services have shown themselves often to be lacking in ethical constraints. After all, the job of the military is war; it is killing people; and so, just how this is accomplished may be considered irrelevant. Lesser evils, like mind control, pale by comparison.
Of course, it can be argued that it is far more humane to brainwash a person via mind control technology than it is to torture or kill them. Others vehemently deny this. They'd rather be dead than a mental slave to Big Brother! That is what revolutions are about. And if I recall correctly, that is the idea behind the US Bill of Rights.
"27. Calls for an international convention introducing a global ban on all developments and deployments of weapons which might enable any form of manipulation of human beings."
"24. Considers HAARP (High Frequency Active Auroral Research Project) by virtue of its far-reaching impact on the environment to be a global concern and calls for it's legal, ecological and ethical implcations to be exam- ined by an international independent body before any further research and testing; regrets the repeated refusal of the United States Administration to send anyone in person to give evidence to the public hearing or any subsequent meeting to be held by its competent committee into the environ- mental and public risks connected with the HAARP programme currently being funded in Alaska..."
As we have seen, the mind-control subliminal messages are carried on radio- frequency broadcasts.
The HAARP facility could be used to broadcast global mind-control messages, or such messages could simply be inserted into existing systems.
"In 1990 the EC-130 joined the newly formed Air Force Special Operations Command and has since been designated Commando Solo, with no change in mission. This one of a kind aircraft is consistently improving its capabilities.
The next few years should see continued enhancements to the EC-130 and its worldwide mission."
Judy Wall is the Editor of RESONANCE, the newsletter of the Bioelectromagnetics Special Interest Group of American MENSA Ltd. Viewpoints expressed here are her own personal views.
2. "Psychological operations" are defined as: "Planned operations to convery selected information and indicators to foreign audiences to influence their emotions, motives, objective reasoning, and ultimately the behavior of foreign governments, organizations, groups and individuals. The purpose of psychological operations is to induce or re-inforce foreign attitudes and behavior favorable to the originator's objectives. Also called PsyOps." From "Joint Doctrine for Information Operations", Joint pub- lication 3-13, 9 October 1998. Thanks to Harlan Girard of the International Committee on Offensive Microwave Weapons (PO Box 58700, Philadelphia PA 19102-8700, USA) for the excerpt.
3. Horvat, Alex, "Commando Solo", The Probe, vol. 4, No. 1, Winter 1998/99, p.44; available from PO Box 905, St. Peters, MO 63376, USA.
4. Fletcher, Bob, Exotic Weapons of Mass Control; video available from The Probe (see above) or Global Insights, A675 Fairview Dr. #246, Carson City NV, 89701 USA, tel 1-800-729-4131.
5. An item of interest is that the US had a new type of aerial reconnaissance plane positioned over the former Yugoslavia from July 14, 1995, about six months before the US officially intervened. The 10-million-dollar unmanned saucer-shaped spy craft is nicknamed "Dark Star". Information from C-Com (Classified Communications 3(12), Dec 1995; Erich A. Aggen, Jr., (editor), citing CE Chronicles nos. 1 and 2 and Raising Awareness newsletter.
7. Morrison Taw, Jennifer, "Operation Just Cause: Lessons For Operations Other Than War", Rand Corp., 1996, p. vii; quoting from "Some Questions Whether the US Is Ready for LIC", Navy News and Undersea Technology, August 27, 1990, p.7.
8. Morrison Taw, Jennifer, ibid,. p.1.
10. Blake, Bernard (ed.) Jane's Radar and Electronic Warfare Systems 1993-94, Jane's Information Group Inc., 1340 Braddock Place, Suite 300, Alexandria VA 22314-1651, USA; also Jane's Information Group, Sentinel House, 163 Brighton Road, Couldson, Surrey CR5 2NH, UK.
12. Schaefer, Paul, "Experimentation and Warfare", article citing The Kansas City Star, between March 25 and 31, 1990.
13. Summary, The Perth Corporation, Defense & Foreign Affairs, November 1983.
15. Schaefer, Paul, "Psyops: Invisible Warfare", Zuni Mountain Citizen (precise date unknown, late 1998/ early 1999), p.5.
16. "Microwave Weapons", Microwave News, March/April 1998; Louis Slesin (editor), citing Aviation Week, March 9, 1998.
17. Same article as above, citing Microwave News, January/February 1997.
19. For more info on HAARP, see Begich, Nick and Jeanne Manning, Angels Don't Play This HAARP, Earthpulse Press, PO Box 201393, Anchorage AK 99520, USA, Tel. (907) 249-9111.
20. From a German documentary, "Geheimes Russland: Moskau - Die Zombies dr roten Zaren" ("Secret Russia: Moscow - The Zombies of the Red Czars") aired on German TV network ZDF on December 22, 1998. Script translation by Jan Weisemann. The full text is to be published in Resonance, No. 35.
21. Reed, Chris, Lockheed C-130 Hercules and Its Variants, Schiffer Publishing Ltd, Atglen, PA, 1999.


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The home inspection report essentially becomes the owner's manual for your future property. Inside, we outline the important areas the inspection will cover.
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Imperial Valley Christian Center
The Great King Has Come, Video
Bubble Boy Christianity
I've always been amazed at the emphasis that evangelical Christians put on identifying heresy. It seems to be one of the main subjects of their religious education. I sometimes imagine evangelical seminaries and Bible schools having game nights where they play, Name That Heresy. Future pastors, theologians and ministers compete against each other to see how few of a religious opponents words they need to hear before they can identify his heresy.
Game Show Host: This so called minister was from Texas but his ministry headquarters were in Tulsa, Oklahoma and he was close friends with Oral Roberts.
Contestant #1 Future Pastor: I can name that heresy in 10 words.
Contestant #2 Future Professor of Theology: I can name that heresy in 5 words.
Game Show Host: Name that heresy…
Most evangelical ministers seem to be more familiar with the various heresies than they are the Bible. They can tell if a preacher's a Pelagian, or a Manichean, an Arian or a Montanist faster than you can say, "Please turn in your Bibles to…" Why waste time studying the Bible when learning to recognize heresy is a much faster route to all, acceptable, truth.
I shouldn't let the Catholics off the hook, but they've apparently narrowed all the heresies down to one, " Are you now or have you ever been a member of any church other than the one true, Catholic and apostolic church? " At a Catholic internet forum I was reading, someone had asked about a particular healing ministry. The healing minister had been a Catholic Priest and the poster's parents liked one of his books, so the poster wanted to know more about the healing minister. It didn't take long for a Torquemada-wanna-be to come online and assert that the healing minister was teaching heresy because he had suggested that the Catholic Church had missed it in the area of healing. Torquemada Jr. claimed that since the Catholic Church was the body of Christ, it was Christ, and to suggest that the Catholic church had missed it in any area was the same as saying that Christ had missed it. Okaaaay… well there's not much you can say to that.
Anyway, I said all that to get to this: This emphasis on heresy, by Christian churches, is an artifact of Bubble Boy Christianity. I mean "bubble boy" like the "boy" in the Seinfeld Episode who had to live in a
bubble because contact with the outside world would be deadly. Bubble Boy Christianity is Christianity that has lived inside the bubble of government protection for 1600 years and as a result has lost all its power.
Government protection tempted Christianity to exchange the power of God, which only becomes available through considerable spiritual development, for the power of the state; which is much easier to access. Instead of convincing people of the truth of Christianity through the power of God, Bubble Boy Christianity convinced them through the inducements and sanctions of governmental power. Bubble Boy Christianity is religion whose orthodoxy is decreed by government sanctioned authorities instead of being demonstrated by divine action.
The Bubble Boyishness of Christianity is evidenced by its obsession with heresy. Arguments about orthodoxy are the refuge of powerless religions. When Elijah encountered the baal worshipers he didn't challenge them to a debate. When the Apostle Paul preached he was more interested in the show than the blow:
1 Corinthians 2:4 And my speech and my preaching was not with enticing words of man's wisdom, but in demonstration of the Spirit and of power: 5 That your faith should not stand in the wisdom of men, but in the power of God.
But, as Papa Hagin liked to say, "You've got to do something when you've lost the power."
Bubble boy Christianity is bureaucratic Christianity, full of rules, procedures, regulations, enforcement, and licensing requirements, but void of power to heal or deliver or rescue. Like all bureaucratic systems its only aim is its own survival. To this end it has developed an extensive intellectual apparatus to defend its primacy against usurpers. Bubble boy Christianity surrounds its god with huge bulwarks of intellectuals and their arguments in an effort to convince that impotence is true piety. Like all intellectuals engaged in the defense of orthodoxy the arguments of Bubble Boy intellectuals inevitably devolve into irrationality… ad hominem, ad antiquitatem, ad nauseam.
Bubble boy Christianity has no response to the declaration that, GOD IS DEAD, because its theology has been developed to defend a religion whose god acts very much like he is dead. So, Bubble Boy Christianity focuses, as one man put it, on answering questions no one is asking.
Bubble Boy Christianity searches for the costumes, props, and prose which will attract adherents and keep the bureaucracy alive.
Bubble Boy Christianity is form without substance. Bubble boy Christianity is a cheap country club. Bubble boy Christianity is all marketing and no product. Bubble boy Christianity is big hat, no cattle; all mouth, no trousers.
Bubble boy Christianity acts like the skillful conman who assures his "mark" that all will be fulfilled once the "mark" is dead, but can deliver nothing to the living. Bubble boy Christianity is user friendly, post-modernist, missional, emerging, house church, small group, cell church, evangelical, fundamental, mainline, traditional… whatever.
Christianity didn't always live inside the bubble of government protection. There was a time when Christianity depended for its continued existence on the exploits of its God. Prior to Constantine's edict of Toleration in 313 A.D. and Theodosius I's edict of 380 A.D. which established Christianity as the state religion of the Roman Empire, Christianity had been not only illegal, but legally persecuted. The public torture of Christians during this era is the most well known but not the only cost associated with becoming a Christian. Becoming a Christian prior to 313 A.D. was a dangerous proposition, not something entered into lightly. Why then did people become Christians?
According to Ramsay MacMullen, Professor of History at Yale, in his book Christianizing the Roman Empire,: Prior to 313 A.D. the evidence indicates that people were converted to Christianity because Christianity proved itself with supernatural power. Here he summarizes the case:
"As a reminder of much that has been said earlier on the subject, here is how Saint Athanasius in the 350s, writing the Life of Saint Anthony, depicted the old man demonstrating the superiority of Christianity. He had been visited and challenged by 'persons counted as wise among pagans' (§74). In answer to them, he undertook to offer proof (§80) that 'believing, pistis, in Christ is the only true religiousness,' derived not by 'seeking logical conclusions through reasoning' but rather through that believing in itself.
'We convince,' he says, 'because people first trust in what they can actually see, and then in reasoned argument.'
Well said!—defining in a few words a distinction (I have called it "proof and content") and a sequence already met with in dozens of scenes. But Anthony adds, as his biographer imagines,
'Look now: here are some folk suffering from daimones' (for there were present some who were troubled by demons and had come to him; so he brought them forward, and went on). 'Either cleanse these men by your logic-chopping or by any other skill or magic you wish, and calling on your idols, or otherwise, if you can't, lay down your quarrel with us and witness the power of Christ's cross.'
And with these words he called on Christ, sealed the sufferers with the sign of the cross twice and a third time, and straightway the men stood forth all healed.'
This moment sums up and sharply delineates a great deal that has been discussed in the preceding pages: emphasis on miraculous demonstration, head-on challenge of non-Christians to a test of power, head-on confrontation with supernatural beings inferior to God, and contemptuous dismissal of merely rational, especially Greek philosophical, paths toward true knowledge of the divine. The learned and intellectual indeed existed, though always few in number. But the church that counted lay, rather, among the simple folk illuminated through ascetic experience…"
Here's an excerpt from an interview with MacMullen again on how Christianity spread and why people became Christians during this period of Roman history when there was no practical advantage to being a Christian and when becoming a Christian could sometimes end with you being served as the main course at the King of The Jungle Buffet. This is from an interview MacMullen did on Mars Hill Journal in 1998, I've transcribed the relevant portion below. (Here's the audio Ramsay MacMullen Interview )
MacMullen: When today you wonder how was it that Christianity made converts, brought people over to its side. The thing you think of first is the preaching of Saint Paul; which is well attested a marvelous story spreads over a very wide domain. And you suppose that that example would have dictated a long process along the same lines, but it aint so. It doesn't work out that way.
My guess is that after saint Paul's death and in a long period of persecution and hostility directed against the church open preaching was a very difficult thing. In contrast what worked best was one on one talk about the proofs of the truth of Christianity and those proofs would lie in exorcism above all. Keyed into the most common concern of people, ordinary people the man in the street the man on the farm when he thought about religion at all, that is, concern with good things in this life, and principally and above all good health.
On this level to solve this sort of problem Christianity advertised its own particular remarkable powers through the driving out of the demons that cause ill health. Driving out of the demonic influences that bring anything bad in life. And the tales of miracles which Christians pass around when you come to look for stories of conversions actual anecdotes and details make up the great bulk of the evidence.
Of preaching there is hardly a word hardly a word throughout all the centuries that I look at in this book and in fact earlier too in the second century on up to the eighth, ninth, tenth. Very very little mention of Christians talking to the entirely unpersuaded and trying to bring them over by reasoning. Instead what is talked about is the operation of wonderful things by holy people as a consequence of which those who hear about these wonders are brought over by self interest. They want the benevolent power the Christians promise. and as part of the bargain they enlist in the church. just as pagans would have enlisted in the service of any deity advertised to them and convincingly
Interviewer: Which ever deity had the best benefits package, in other words.
MacMullen: Yea that's right.
So, prior to the Christian church acquiring exclusive distribution rights for religious products in the Roman Empire it felt the need to demonstrate the superiority of Christ by supernatural acts, afterward… not so much. Instead, it fell back on the tools the pagans had tried to use against St. Anthony, i.e., "…merely rational, especially Greek philosophical, paths toward true knowledge of the divine."
Well, it's a lot easier to come up with an argument than a miracle. Who was going to complain? Who was going to try and prove otherwise? Christianity had a monopoly on religion, it didn't have to prove anything to anybody. In fact, Christianity, with sanction provided by Augustine himself, could now use the power of the state to do to its opponents exactly what the Romans had done to the Christians. If any later day Anthony tried to raise objections, the Church, no longer proficient in God's power but extremely adept at preserving it's own, would quickly identify and then stamp out the heresy. Thus is Bubble Boy Christianity Born.
Bubble Boy Christianity can't flourish in the wild. Its government protected Bubble Boy existence has resulted in the loss of Christianity's ability to demonstrate the superiority of Christ by supernatural acts. Now that government protection has been removed,Western Bubble boy Christianity is on life support, kept alive only by the finances bequeathed to it by prior generations of the pious and faithful. Now, even that is being exhausted.
Bubble Boy Christianity is not long for this world.
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Prints and drawings have been an integral part of the Museum's collection since its founding in 1753. To help navigate this extraordinary and vast collection, our latest exhibition highlights a selection of diverse works purchased, donated or bequeathed to the Museum over the last five years.
Spanning across Europe, the Americas and Australasia, and dating from the 1400s to the present day, New Acquisitions: Gozzoli to Kara Walker showcases around 150 prints and drawings from the Museum's collection. The exhibition reflects the Museum's focus on collecting works from the 20th and 21st centuries – displaying the works of iconic artists including Georg Baselitz, David Hockney, Jasper Johns, Pablo Picasso, Bridget Riley and a monumental three-part print by the acclaimed African American artist Kara Walker.
Tracing over half a millennia's history of graphic arts, the works of contemporary artists can be seen alongside the great names of the past, such as Renaissance artists Raphael, Benozzo Gozzoli and John-Everett Millais.
From fine art to satirical and popular prints, explore the British Museum's extensive and unique collection of prints and drawings in this exhibition.


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Called "ImmuNet," details of the publically available resource were recently published online.
The tool uses information compiled from 38,088 public experiments to predict new immune pathway interactions, mechanisms, and disease-associated genes. With advances in inexpensive computing power, and stored data collections becoming massive in the era of "big data," researchers are now able to combine algorithms and models into tools like ImmuNet that pull previously unrecognized disease patterns from databases. These computational patterns are predictive, and researchers can test them with further experiments.
"This new tool unlocks the insight contained in big data, the world's biomedical research output, to help understand immunological mechanisms and diseases," said Stuart Sealfon, MD, Chairman and Glickenhaus Professor, Department of Neurology, Mount Sinai Health System and co-senior author of the publication. "The goal of 'ImmuNet' is to accelerate the understanding of immune pathways and genes, ultimately leading to the development of improved treatment for diseases with an immunological component."
ImmuNet enables immunology researchers without special computational training to use the statistical techniques of Bayesian data integration and machine learning algorithms to "interrogate" this huge compendium of public data. Bayesian analysis is able to detect relevant information in a sea of often conflicting data obtained from diverse experiments. This form of analysis selects only the datasets that provide new insight about a pathway of interest while excluding datasets that are not relevant to the targeted pathway.
A goal of the online tool is to advance the understanding of the immune system, the network of cells and organs that protects the body against infections and cancer. While the immunity protects against infection, immune cells may also target the body's own cells to cause inflammation as part of many diseases where the mechanisms are not yet known.
"We expect the applicability of ImmuNet to wide ranging areas of immunology will grow with the incorporation of continually increasing public big data," said Olga Troyanskaya, PhD, Professor, Department of Computer Science and Lewis-Sigler Institute of Integrative Genomics, Princeton University and Deputy Director of Genomics, Simons Center for Data Analysis, co-senior author of the publication. "By enabling immune researchers from diverse backgrounds to leverage these valuable and heterogeneous data collections, ImmuNet has the potential to accelerate discovery in immunology."
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Works from the Tikanoja Art Collection
The exhibition Nuances of the 1920s Palette opens on the first floor of the Tikanoja Art Museum. The selected works are from the museum's own collection and they represent the color expression of the period.
The use of earthy colors gained popularity in Finnish visual arts during the 1910s and it continued in the 1920s. Broken colors were considered "Finnish". Frithjof Tikanoja's collection included many works, which were representative of the period, but also exceptional in terms of their color expression. The international influences seen in the colors of Eemu Myntti's works spoke to his contemporaries. William Lönnberg's Ironing Woman, was considered by the critic Edvard Richter to represent a rare "true color culture". The painting also serves as an example of the exhibition's brighter color palette.
The decade was characterized by urbanization, but the connection to the countryside remained strong. After the civil war, efforts were made to create national unity, which in turn strengthened the interest in the peasantry, home and folk culture. The artists captured glimpses of the period in their works: the city and the countryside, the everyday life and Sundays. From Tyko Sallinen's rhythmic Saturday Evening cadence, we move on to Werner Åström's and Alvar Cawén's works that depict the peace of a Sunday. Other artists in the exhibition are e.g. Wäinö Aaltonen, Matti Annala, Arvi Mäenpää, Jalmari Ruokokoski and Ilmari Vuori.
Tikanoja, 1920, Vaasa


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