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Churches starting to face facts on boarding schools
Government, churches begin to address assimilationist education policies
By: Mary Annette Pember, ICT - January 13, 2022 5:30 am
June 1900, Phoenix. (U.S. National Archives and Records Administration)
Red Cloud Indian School is taking the lead among Christian-run schools in coming to terms with its assimilationist past.
The Jesuits have given Red Cloud a $20,000 grant to help in the work, including conducting searches with ground-penetrating radar for unmarked graves, and have allocated $50,000 to hire an archivist for one year to examine the order's boarding school history at its archives in St. Louis.
School leaders are also working with tribal representatives about searching the school grounds on the Pine Ridge Reservation in South Dakota for remains of students who died there.
"The Catholic Church needs to recognize that honesty, being forthright and vulnerable are far more powerful and more healing than being reticent, restrictive and closed," said Maka Black Elk, Oglala Lakota, executive director for Truth and Healing at Red Cloud Indian School.
Churches are joining the U.S. federal government in facing the often-brutal history of Native boarding schools, which forced children from their families into schools where they were often abused, underfed and used as virtual slave labor. Some died there without ever going home.
U.S. Interior Secretary Deb Haaland (Laguna) launched the Federal Boarding School Initiative in June directing the agency to prepare a report detailing historical records of schools operated by the U.S. government.
Secretary of the Interior Deb Haaland (Laguna). (Photo by Leigh Vogel / Getty Images)
The Initiative, however, has no authority over Christian denominations, which operated about one-third of the approximately 400 Indian boarding schools in the U.S.
With more than 100 schools, various Catholic orders operated most of the Christian Indian boarding schools, some long before President Ulyssis Grant's 1869 Peace Policy formally created the federal school system.
Christians began operating boarding schools as early as the 1600s when Jesuits and Puritans separated Native children from their families in order to receive "civilizing" Christian instruction.
Christian missionaries were paid by the federal government to operate Indian schools beginning in 1819 with the Indian Civilization Fund Act. But the heyday of federal Indian boarding schools came under Grant's policy.
Indian Country Today reached out to leadership in the Catholic, Methodist, Presbyterian, Episcopal and Quaker churches, denominations that operated most of the schools, asking what they are doing now to address the history.
Catholic leadership – including those at the Vatican and in the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops, the highest level of the church's authority in the U.S. – have routinely dodged responsibility for its role in operating Indian boarding schools.
The church has not yet apologized for its role, though officials said they are cooperating with the government's investigations.
"Earlier this year when the U.S. Department of the Interior announced their investigation into the boarding school period in our country, the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops expressed our desire to be of assistance," Chieko Noguchi, director of public affairs for the conference, wrote in an emailed response to questions from Indian Country Today.
Noguchi made reference to a plan to "foster dialogue with the Native and Indigenous communities," but did not provide details.
"The USCCB does not have governance over bishops, dioceses, religious orders, parishes, or schools," Noguchi said. "The Conference, which traces its origins to a predecessor organization founded in 1917, never played a role in running these schools."
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Leaders at the Jesuit-run Red Cloud Indian School, however, aren't waiting for Catholic administrators to create a plan. The school began undertaking what it calls a Truth and Healing process in 2020, seeking to hear the stories of former students, opening its archives and creating a plan to search for unmarked graves on the school's grounds and cemetery.
Red Cloud School, formerly called the Holy Rosary Mission, was founded in 1888 in Pine Ridge on Oglala Lakota lands and boarded students for nearly a century. Today the school, renamed in 1969 after the Oglala Chief Red Cloud, no longer boards students overnight.
Founded in the 16th century, the Jesuits, a Catholic mission order traditionally focused on education, has a long, complicated history with Native people. In 2011, the Oregon province of Jesuits settled hundreds of lawsuits naming scores of sexually abusive priests predominately in Native communities in Alaska, Washington and Oregon.
"We (at Red Cloud) are one of the Catholic institutions that has been a leader in pulling other Catholic organizations forward in facing the church's boarding school history," said Black Elk. "Many Native people want us to move quickly on the ground-penetrating radar work, but we realized it's important to include the voices of tribal leadership, survivors, medicine people and the entire community in any work that is done."
Among the concerns are how to handle the finding of any remains at the site, and addressing the impact that could have on current Red Cloud students and the community.
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An historic cemetery is located at Red Cloud in which some very old markers are no longer visible; there are also stories in the community of bodies buried outside the cemetery.
"We want to make sure everybody understands how the radar technology works including its limitations; unfortunately it's not like an X-ray that will show bones but it can tell us if the ground has been disturbed," Black Elk said.
Some former Holy Rosary attendees look back positively on their boarding school education.
"It depends on who you talk to," said Patricia Catches the Enemy, 80, who lives nearby.
She said she didn't witness any abuse but had "some sadness, having to leave my home and being forced to go into a school."
While Lakota staff, language and ceremony have increasingly become central to Red Cloud, the school has never fully reckoned with its history, which has alienated many Lakota living on the Pine Ridge Reservation.
Critics inside and outside of Red Cloud say the school still has work to do.
Basil Brave Heart, who attended Holy Rosary in the 1940s, still lives on the Pine Ridge reservation where he helps others heal from trauma through traditional ceremony.
The physical abuse was difficult. But when they took my language away, they took my moral compass.
– Basil Brave Heart
The Bureau of Catholic Indian Mission leaders announced they will be meeting to discuss opening up its archives currently held at Marquette University in Milwaukee, Wisconsin. The archives include records from all Catholic Indian mission schools that operated from 1877 to 1977.
In the larger financial scope of the Catholic Church which it is considered one of the wealthiest institutions in the world, the amount allocated for the effort seems quite small.
"Could they do more? Absolutely," said Black Elk. "It is definitely our hope that the Jesuits and church will continue to underwrite more of this work."
He noted that the Red Cloud School is almost totally supported through donations; student tuition is $200 per year with scholarships available for those in need. Five-hundred students attend the four schools that make up Red Cloud, and more than 60 Gates Foundation Scholars have graduated from the school.
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One of the stumbling blocks for the church in addressing its boarding school history, however, is fear of another wave of litigation like the lawsuits stemming from sexual abuse by priests, noted Black Elk.
"There is so much lack of knowledge about this history, especially among White Catholics; it's also true of the Jesuits who tend to look at our history with rose-tinted glasses," Black Elk said.
Despite many calls from Indigenous people in the U.S. and Canada, the Catholic church has not apologized for its role in operating Indigenous residential and boarding schools.
The church has also chosen not to repudiate the Doctrine of Discovery, considered by many to be foundational in authorizing Christian European domination and superiority over Indigenous peoples. First presented in 1452 by Pope Nicholas V as the Papal Bull, a public decree issued by a pope, it establishes legal, spiritual and legal authorization for the European colonization and seizure of lands, and the killing of Indigenous peoples who resist.
Today, there are 26 Catholic day schools in the U.S. that serve Native Americans; none includes overnight boarding.
Presbyterian officials believe there could have been as many as 30 boarding schools operated by the Presbyterian Church, but no one knows for sure.
"Officially, we don't have a number," said Irvin Porter, associate for Native American Congregational Support for the Presbyterian Church/USA. "We need more documentation."
To that end, the Presbyterian Historical Society, the national archives for the church, announced the creation of a list of schools in December. The list is not comprehensive; several entries in the guide link to Pearl Digital Collections where scans of archival materials, including institutional records and photographs, are available.
The church also issued an apology in 2016 to U.S. citizens of Native ancestry, to "those who were and are part of stolen generations during the Indian assimilation movement."
It reads in part, "Our burdens include dishonoring the depths of the struggles of Native American people and the richness of your gifts. Therefore, we confess to you that when our Presbyterian ancestors journeyed to this land, we did not respect your own Indigenous knowledges and epistemologies as valid."
In 1877, a Presbyterian missionary opened Wrangell mission school among the Tlingits in Sitka, Alaska. The church no longer operates schools focused on educating Native students.
In 2016, the church repudiated the Doctrine of Discovery.
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Quakers, members of the Religious Society of Friends, operated more than 30 Indian boarding schools in the U.S.
Paula Palmer, founder of the Quaker ministry, Towards Right Relationship with Native People, wrote that Quakers were some of the staunchest proponents of cultural genocide. They advocated removing children from their families believing, "the whole character of the Indian must be changed."
Thomas Lorraine McKenney, a Quaker, was the first superintendent of Indian Trade in 1816 and a key figure in developing U.S. Indian policy. He advocated for a federal policy of education and civilization through a network of schools run by missionary societies.
Some Quaker groups have repudiated the Doctrine of Discovery, and in 2015, the New York Meeting of the Religious Society of Friends called on all Quaker groups to repudiate the doctrine.
Quaker leadership did not respond to Indian Country Today's email asking if they plan to open their boarding school archives or create any physical response to their boarding school history.
The Quaker church does not appear to currently operate any schools focused on educating Native students.
The Methodist church is just beginning to scratch the surface of its history with Indian boarding schools, according to the Rev. Charles Brower, Inupiaq, pastor of Community United Methodist Church in Nome, Alaska.
The church operated about 20 schools that included boarding and day schools beginning in 1840, and those early Christian Indian schools served as models for federal schools like the Carlisle Indian Industrial School, considered the model for boarding schools that followed, according to Rev. Ashley Dreff of the church's general commission on archives and history.
Dreff and associates are currently looking through the church's archive repository in order to reconstruct Methodist's involvement with Indian education.
Rev. Chebon Kernell, Seminole and Muscogee (Creek) and an ordained elder in the Oklahoma Indian Missionary Conference, expressed concern that church leadership is reluctant to face its history with Native peoples.
"Unfortunately, this reluctance is an indictment on the complacent nature of many denominations in giving full transparency to the church's involvement with boarding schools," Kernell said.
In 2016, the United Methodist Church resolved to condemn the Doctrine of Discovery. The church also enacted a confession to Native people in which it apologized for its sins, intended and unintended, against American Indians. The apology, however, does not include Methodist's work with boarding schools.
The United Methodist Church does not appear to currently operate any schools focusing on Native students.
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The Episcopal Church operated at least eight Indian boarding and day schools.
"While records are unavailable, we know that the Episcopal Church was associated with Indigenous schools during the 19th and 20th centuries," according to a joint statement issued in July by Bishop Michael Curry and the Rev. Gay Clark Jennings, president of the House of Deputies.
"We must come to a full understanding of the legacies of these schools," according to the statement. "We call the executive council to deliver a comprehensive proposal for addressing the legacy of Indigenous schools at the 80th General Convention in July 2022, including earmarking resources for independent research in the archives of The Episcopal Church, options for developing culturally appropriate liturgical materials and plans for educating Episcopalians across the church about this history, among other initiatives."
The Episcopal Church repudiated the Doctrine of Discovery in 2009 but has not issued an apology.
To date, most of the work by Christian denominations in facing their histories of operating Indian boarding schools is being done by individual congregations or religious orders.
Momentum toward facing this bitter legacy may be growing, however, as the public grows more aware of the roles played by Christians in forwarding assimilationist education policies towards Native peoples. The efforts may get a boost from the Department of the Interior, which is expected to publish its findings from the Boarding School Initiative in April.
"We all need to work together on this," said the Rev. Bradley Hauff, a Minnesota-based Episcopal priest and missioner for Indigenous Ministries.
This story was originally published in ICT. It is republished here with permission.
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Born in Leeds, England, George travelled to New Zealand via Canada – where he married young Englishwoman Barbara "Nelly" Hayes (1885-1963) – the couple testing out Invercargill and New Plymouth before playing "pin the tail on the map" and settling in Gisborne.
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Due to time and circumstances we don't have many of George's objects left – especially his marvellous mandolins – though, for a time, great-great-grandson Luke Boyes played an original Moore instrument in the Auckland Mandolinata Orchestra.
This serves as a reminder that we should value what we have for it may one day be gone.
With thanks to musicologist Robbie Laven – reportedly the owner of a Moore octave mandola, a mandolin and a mandocello — for his research into George Moore and the Gisborne Mandolin Orchestra.


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Q: Use Block in Objective C to find out if a BOOL has been set? I'm new to Obj-c. I've got a class which sets a var boolean to YES if it's successful (Game Center login = successful), what it would be great to do, is somehow have a listener to that var that listens to when it is YES and then executes some code. Do I use a block for that? I'm also using the Sparrow framework.
Here's my code in my GameCenter.m file
-(void) setup
{
    gameCenterAuthenticationComplete = NO;

    if (!isGameCenterAPIAvailable()) {
        // Game Center is not available.
        NSLog(@"Game Center is not available.");
    } else {
        NSLog(@"Game Center is available.");

            __weak typeof(self) weakSelf = self; // removes retain cycle error

            GKLocalPlayer *localPlayer =  [GKLocalPlayer localPlayer]; // localPlayer is the public GKLocalPlayer

        __weak GKLocalPlayer *weakPlayer = localPlayer; // removes retain cycle error

            weakPlayer.authenticateHandler = ^(UIViewController *viewController, NSError *error)
            {
                if (viewController != nil)
                {
                    [weakSelf showAuthenticationDialogWhenReasonable:viewController];
                }
                else if (weakPlayer.isAuthenticated)
                {
                    [weakSelf authenticatedPlayer:weakPlayer];
                }
                else
                {
                    [weakSelf disableGameCenter];
                }
            };
        }

    }

    -(void)showAuthenticationDialogWhenReasonable:(UIViewController *)controller
    {
        [[[[[UIApplication sharedApplication] delegate] window] rootViewController] presentViewController:controller animated:YES completion:nil];
    }

    -(void)authenticatedPlayer:(GKLocalPlayer *)player
    {
        NSLog(@"%@,%@,%@",player.playerID,player.displayName, player.alias);

        gameCenterAuthenticationComplete = YES;

    }

    -(void)disableGameCenter
    {

    }

But I need to know from a different object if that gameCenterAuthenticationComplete equals YES.

A: You can use a delegate pattern. It's far easier to use than KVO or local notifications and it's used a lot in Obj-C.
Notifications should be used only in specific situations (e.g. when you don't know who wants to listen or when there are more than 1 listeners).
A block would work here but the delegate does exactly the same.

A: You could use KVO (Key-Value Observing) to watch a property of your object, but I'd rather post a NSNotification in your case.
You'll need to have the objects interested in knowing when Game Center login happened register themselves to NSNotificationCenter, then post the NSNotification in your Game Center handler. Read the Notification Programming Topics for more details !

A: If there is a single method to execute on a single delegate object, you can simply call it in the setter. Let me give a name to this property:
@property(nonatomic,assign, getter=isLogged) BOOL logged;

It's enough that you implement the setter:
- (void) setLogged: (BOOL) logged
{
    _logged=logged;
   if(logged)
       [_delegate someMethod];
}

Another (suggested) way is to use NSNotificationCenter. With NSNotificationCenter you can notify multiple objects. All objects that want to execute a method when the property is changes to YES have to register:
NSNotificationCenter* center=[NSNotificationCenter defaultCenter];
[center addObserver: self selector: @selector(handleEvent:) name: @"Logged" object: nil];

The handleEvent: selector will be executed every time that logged changes to YES. So post a notification whenever the property changes:
- (void) setLogged: (BOOL) logged
{
    _logged=logged;
   if(logged)
   {
        NSNotificationCenter* center=[NSNotificationCenter defaultCenter];
        [center postNotificationName: @"Logged" object: self];
   }
}

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Every summer I try and go to the East Coast. New Brunswick is a hidden secret and the Bay of Fundy is magic. Lots of color and drama. Super safe too. This was painted from the car ..lost my pencils under the seat.


This week on Dying Scene Radio, Elena Venetia takes the week off, so Bobby Pickles conducts the podcast from Jersey City, NY with longtime friend Adrien "Stupid Martini" De Martini, bassist of the female fronted horror punk act, Thee Money $hot. Things get personal, as los bastardos spin tales of atheism, Florida, talentless musicianship, and the untimely death of Teenage Bottlerocket drummer Brandon Carlisle. Bobby also openly apologizes for his wasted, unprofessional antics on last week's episode; suffice it to say, Bobby doesn't remember Halloween, but Stupid Martini is quick to remind Pickles of the Halloween two years prior. Have you ever shat your pants at a costume party? FUN FACT: Bobby has! (With special commentary from Mexico City's Anti-Venöm, Cincinnati punk rockers, UnderTipper, and the new, surf-obsessed, totally-from-California punk band, The All Brights).


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Car market leader Maruti Suzuki's latest and peppy offering, Celerio, has become a rage in the IT city of Bengaluru. Powered by the revolutionary Auto Gear Shift Technology, the Celerio is a complete package full of pleasant surprises.
Among several benefits, Celerio comes with a best-in-class fuel efficiency of 23.1 kmpl, for both, auto gear shift and the manual transmission variants.
Launched in February 2014, customers have appreciated the auto gear shift trim over the manual trim.
The IT city too has shown positive response to the new technology auto gear shift.
Launched at an attractive price-point, it puts to rest any argument that superior technology is expensive. Often, the wide price gap between manual and automatic transmission variants prompts buyers to settle for manual transmission cars.
With the Celerio, the company has raised the technology bar. Mated with the K-next engine, the auto gear shift is Maruti Suzuki's newly developed technology that promises superior drive experience to the users. Powered by an intelligent actuating unit, driving is effortless with auto gear shift.
Auto gear shift is a departure from the traditional configuration, as it has only two pedals. The two pedal drive gives immense value to the driver in start-stop traffic conditions.
The celebratory auto gear shift technology was recently awarded the technology of the year award in the first Automotive Technology and Innovation Awards ceremony.


Despite its recent popularity and increased momentum, contactless payments have actually been around for a while. Here's a brief history of "tap & go". Be sure to check out our Digital Press Kit for more info around how we're helping provide safe and secure contactless payments.


During the annual prize-giving ceremony students involved in the Community-based Project Module were acknowledged for their hard work during 2018.
Robyn Ingle-Möller from Lory Park Animal and Owl Sanctuary was specially acknowledged for being involved in the module for the past 12 years. She mentored more than 1200 students.
A group of students enrolled in the Community-based Project Module (JCP), the compulsory undergraduate course of the Faculty of Engineering, Built Environment and Information Technology to designed and built a tricycle for the learner at Opkyk Pathways near Hartbeespoortdam.
Students enrolled in the Community-Based Project module (JCP), the compulsory undergraduate module of the Faculty of Engineering, Built Environment and Information technology upgraded the enclosure of the mongoose enclosure at Bester Birds and Animal Zoo Park in Pretoria.
The University of Pretoria's commitment to community upliftment is evident in the compulsory JCP module for students in the Faculty of Engineering, Built Environment and Information Technology (EBIT).


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OTHER FAMOUS PEOPLE WHO DIED
By C L A U D E, November 24, 2012 in The Danfield Tribune
9 hours ago, Freddie2 said:
His passing made me remember something- has anyone else seen his LWL episode listed as both "...Legal Eagle" and "...Legal Beagle"? Was this just a typo that cropped up? I'm not familiar with whatever idiom the title came from.
"Lucy, Legal Eagle" is the official title, according to the original script.
https://www.historyforsale.com/lucille-lucy-ball-script-signed-circa-1986/dc226784
Dame Diana Rigg has passed away at 82
https://www.bbc.com/news/entertainment-arts-54106509
This is a kick in the guts. She was one of the first celebrities I became a fan of as a child. I used to stay up to watch her introductions to Masterpiece Theatre. What a terrible loss.
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4 hours ago, Mot Morenzi said:
The grief surrounding her passing is very palpable and I'm sad to say I'm not super familiar with her work. We were definitely always a Masterpiece household but with her leaving in 2003 I'm too young to remember her hosting gig. Her performance in the film version of A Little Night Music was more than Oscar-worthy, and I consider her "Every Day a Little Death" to be the best I've heard. I was in NYC when she was playing Mrs. Higgins at Lincoln Center and considered going, but was too lazy to walk/too cheap to pay for a cab (on top of ticket prices) and now I regret it.
I think I've seen one episode of the MTM-style sitcom she did in the 70s and am tempted to seek out more.
She played the Evil Queen in the Golan Globus Snow White, one of the more loyal Grimm Brothers adaptations. She was a knockout.
Prolific television star Conchata Ferrell has died at 77.
https://deadline.com/2020/10/conchata-ferrell-dead-two-and-a-half-men-co-star-77-1234596750/
The one and only Sir Sean Connery has passed away at 90
Ruta Lee remembers Alex Trebek.
https://www.latimes.com/entertainment-arts/tv/story/2020-11-09/alex-trebek-jeopardy-dead-ruta-lee-high-rollers
From this interview we can deduce that Lucy's appearance on High Rollers was taped the same day as Lucy's December 1975 Tonight Show appearance (same outfit).
3 hours ago, HarryCarter said:
Pretty likely, they were probably both taped here in Burbank at what used to be NBC Studios, where Carson held court for years. Currently known as The Burbank Studios after being acquired a few years ago by some conglomerate after the NBC / Universal merger and Tonight (with Conan) moved to Universal next to the famous theme park.
David Lander (Squiggy from Laverne & Shirley) has passed away at age 73.
The marvelous talented Ann Reinking as died at 71. Here she is on Merv Griffin with Lucie.
Ann came as a shock. Watching The Prom last night and Nicole Kidmen's number brought to mind how fabulous Ann was doing Fosse's work. Loved, loved her in All That Jazz. "Pretty Pictures".
On 12/5/2020 at 2:32 PM, Mot Morenzi said:
I'm still waiting for MeTV to do an on-air tribute. Looks like it's not going to happen.


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Our Scholarly Future
(Or, SEL's Recent Studies in the Restoration and Eighteenth Century)
Because of my recent experience with a second Studies in English Literature omnibus review, I decided to take a bird's-eye view of the first two decades of the twenty-first century of eighteenth-century studies for the "Eighteenth-Century Studies and the Future of the Profession" panel at MLA 2020. I focused on "the future of the profession" from within the profession; that is, I looked inside to what we have been doing for the past twenty years, and I projected as if we were going ahead for twenty more. That, of course, is both recently and suddenly a big "if," as others in this collection will address. What I found inside that sealed-in-print world, however, was academically (if not institutionally) cheering. And I am always for a bit of cheer. Cindy Sunshine they called me, when I were a lass (see below, note 1).
I reviewed the books and collections of Restoration and eighteenth-century studies for SEL in 2006 and 2018, first as an associate professor and later as full. It's a daunting experience to have a box-o-books landing on your doorstep every week from one February to the next, particularly for a chronic self-over-estimator, but it is also like being Santa Claus's favorite child. (Not that he has favorites, of course.) It rather surprised me that the experience reading the productions of 2017 seemed remarkably similar to reading the productions of 2005. I remembered reading some dire predictions about the future in some SEL reviews, particularly after the 2008 recession, but my recent batch of subjects seemed numerous and healthy. So I decided it might be interesting to look through all the SEL reviews of the two decades of our present century and take a few notes, just to see what I could see.
I did indeed find a common thread among the reviewers: a nearly unanimous celebration of the ways that eighteenth-century studies adopts and refines new critical directions; the best work, critic after critic admired, was "intricate," "subtle," "scrupulous," "granular." I had generally found this true about eighteenth-century scholars—that we particularly favor a combination of historical context and close reading, of attention to the formal as well as the theoretical, the aesthetic as well as the political. The reviews' most singled-out works consistently connected and animated past, present, and future.
Here's a sampling:
In 2001, Jonathan Lamb commented on "a more intricate set of reactions between domesticity and the public sphere than had previously been considered possible" in gender studies; a "growing appreciation of the dialectical subtleties" in genre studies; and "an awareness of how the tide of ideas and practices flowing back and forth between the metropolis and its periphery blurs the starker outlines of national identity and imperial purpose" in postcolonial studies. "These are exciting developments, apt for a new century of literary criticism."
The next year Barbara Benedict noted: "The essential eighteenth-century citizen that walks through this year's Restoration and eighteenth-century studies is an adventurer in search of self." She celebrated the "distrust of sweeping historical generalities in favor of the scrupulous examination of the particular contexts surrounding each source and authorial statement."
In 2004, Steven Zwicker asked the Period Question: "It may seem ungrateful, but I want to begin this review by asking if there were any such age as 'The Restoration and Eighteenth Century.'" But he, too, found the scholarship in our field was continuing, "amply and fruitfully," to insure that "the conventions of literary history should always be under recovery, and reconfiguration."
In 2006, I actually found "every sign of comfort with the idea of 'the Restoration and the eighteenth century,'" that "we understand our own commitment to the 'period,'" "that we know wot of we speak, so to speak." My argument for "keeping a tenure line for the 'long' eighteenth century," lay in the way we seem to "understand the period in terms of Wittgensteinian family resemblances rather than Oglethorpian grids."
The next year, Deidre Lynch readdressed the periodization argument, finding that "in new ways some scholars are led by their inquiries to strain against, or snub, the periodization schemes that others have used without fuss. They are led to postulate alternative periods, subsumed within alternative histories." Yet from a different angle she, too, found that "the best of this year's scholarship in literary studies, far from dissolving literature into (cultural) history, exhibits a close-grained attention to form."
In 2010, Jonathan Kramnick faced most directly the fallout from the economic meltdown of 2008–2009: "Consider the shrinking appeal we seem to have to the major university presses. The result: no books from Chicago, Cornell, Columbia, Harvard, Penn, or Yale; [. . .] The dropoff is staggering." And indeed, where the "Books Received" lists for the first half of the first decade of the twenty-first century averaged 90–100 (Allen Reddick had a daunting 124 books to review, and Michael McKeon 110, although theirs included far more annuals and periodicals that we tend to get now), Jonathan had 81. Although I haven't gone through every year of the SEL in this past decade (see below, note 2), there were a fair number in the 90s, and for my last review I did count the more or less healthy return of the major presses. And Jonathan did find a resilient intellectual energy: "I was happiest, I think, when I heard a certain wavering or crack in the smooth delivery of expected notes: the sound of discovery or zeal. Let's hear more of this. We are lucky to work in this line of business and should make the most of it."
Claude Rawson, on the other hand, had—perhaps not surprisingly—a dimmer view of this "dismal intellectual climate" in 2012. Still, Claude's review was witty ("Professing literature is an easy living. All you need is an opinion (or ideology, or methodology) and a publisher" (see below, note 3). And he did find things to praise. ("This has been a surprisingly good year for editions, which are the single most useful activity in literary scholarship, and were once regarded as such.") His apocalyptic vision was more than counterbalanced by George Haggerty's enthusiasm five years later: "This year's list of books is impressive in its range and inspiring in its depth. I have read books on readers, on diseases, on nuns, and on vermin." He marked a "certain coming of age" in queer, postcolonial, and disability studies in that "they seemed to function as a given." George concluded with the hope of giving "encouragement to young scholars, who should see from this review that, as much as has already been achieved, there is always room for more." (I'll add that George's emphasis on younger scholars echoed the concerns and praxes uttered by Jonathan Kramnick and amplified by Jenny Davidson, who focused on the utility of the SEL omnibus review for graduate students writing dissertations and imagining first books.)
My 2018 review was a miniature period review of the interval between: "Twelve years ago the dominant topics were gender and empire; this year it's print culture and linguistics, along with science and philosophy. [. . .] Perhaps purely coincidentally in this Æra 2017-2018, I noticed a great deal of interest in collaboration and community." Then Jayne Lewis saw a different emphasis at the end of this decade: "[S]patialized thinking once seemed to typify the eighteenth-century worldview. But it's all about time this year. We have new studies of time present (time as habit, time as sensation), time past (decline, nostalgia), and time future (speculative nationalism, the prospects for feminist criticism). Time even shapes how we now think about form, as we do, all the time."
I want to offer a couple of examples that confirm this repeated confidence we have in our eighteenth centuries, from my most recent experiences reading manuscripts for journals. One was for Literature Compass. At the time of MLA 2020, all I knew was that it was by a younger scholar. I wrote in my report: "This is one of the best journal mss I've read in the last few years, and I enthusiastically recommend publication. The essay makes a deliberate end-run around our contemporary (and ossified) definitions of epic to recover what seventeenth- and eighteenth-century writers and critics thought about it, thereby widening our understandings of both genre and period (and ourselves, for that matter). Turns out, the eighteenth century was not a wasteland for epic; we simply haven't been "read[ing] eighteenth-century epics as earlier audiences did." This lovely essay turns out to have been written by Anna Foy, who introduced herself at the panel session.
The other was for ECTI, and it turns out to be by Beth Fowkes Tobin, who gave me permission to share these details. I wrote this in my reader's report: "'Drawing Insects' is in one sense a celebratory defense of eighteenth-century science as not reducible to something 'naively empiricist, as part of an imperialist project, [or] as engaged in commoditization of the natural world,' as is too often projected 'within environmental humanities, eco-feminist philosophy, and ecocritical studies.' This essay is itself a conceptual model of thoughtful, historically based, and philosophically nuanced ecocritical studies. The premise of its argument is that the techniques of observing, drawing, and classifying the natural world invented and practiced by eighteenth-century natural historians were actually techniques to preserve and wonder at that world, rather than exploit and destroy it." She argues that "because of their engagement with Linnaean systematics," drawings by her case study, John Abbot (an English naturalist artist who specialized in North American birds and insects) "possess an aesthetic austerity that is akin to a kind of mindfulness that is capable of decentering the human subject."
While I'm at it, I'm going to throw in a published bit from Jonathan Lamb at the turn of our century and then make my main point. In Preserving the Self in the South Seas 1680-1840 (2001), Lamb takes issue with the kind of reading of ship's logs that characterizes them as inscribing "the imperatives of eighteenth-century discovery": "'shoot! classify! name! describe!'" "So much is taken for granted in these generalizations," he points out.
It is as if no alarms or mistakes disturbed the collection of specimens, and no terrors smudged the cartographic grid. How easy it is to read the log of George Anson's Centurion, perhaps the best known of the British navigations before Cook, and to assume that the laconic references to tempests, freezing rain, and broken equipment, and the daily list of names terminating in D.D. (discharged dead), are heroic reductions of dangers to the level of inconveniences, an impassive assertion of the majesty of a higher purpose.
The point for me is that eighteenth-century studies has pretty much always behaved like the ever-rising Bakhtinian (or J. Paul Hunterian) novel: cheerfully swallowing each new theoretical trend, but not simply disgorging it; masticating, perhaps, certainly digesting, incorporating, refining, refueling. Anyone who thinks the Enlightenment somehow produced the world of Donald Trump hasn't been reading closely enough, declaiming (to go back to Barbara Benedict's 2002 review) those "sweeping historical generalities" in lieu of our more favored "scrupulous examination of particular contexts." As Jayne Lewis concludes: "The moral? We do have a future. [Our] fellow travelers teach us how we might best approach it, and at long last find ourselves at home." Or as the Johnsonians would toast: "Esto Perpetua, Eighteenth Century."
Note 1: These lines were written before the pandemic, the economic fallout, and the murder of George Floyd. But in revising this short piece for The Rambling, I took a bit of heart for the future in Danny O'Quinn's words, from his 2015 review for SEL: "Whether implicitly or explicitly, our present conditions are the real subject of inquiry." In real time, eighteenth-century scholars are, implicitly or explicitly, addressing the tumult, trauma, and—we hope, we work—the transformationof our times.
Note 2: Ah, but now I have. See the accompanying table.
Note 3: And a job, Claude!
Cynthia Wall is the William R. Kenan, Jr., Professor of English at the University of Virginia and the author of The Literary and Cultural Spaces of Restoration London (1998), The Prose of Things: Transformations of Description in the Eighteenth Century (2006), and Grammars of Approach: Landscape, Narrative, and the Linguistic Picturesque (2019), as well as an editor of Bunyan, Defoe, and Pope. She is not the "American journalist and novelist" Cynthia Wall (b. 1944), no matter what Google says.
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The Samsung Galaxy A5, a metal-bodied mid-range device, shows Samsung is keen to work on its looks
Callum Tennent
Frequenters of What Mobile will know how pleased we were with the Samsung Galaxy Alpha. Ordinarily Samsung churning out an identikit device would make us roll our eyes with apathy, but this one was different. The Alpha actually looked great. And it wasn't made of plastic, either. Had Samsung managed to turn a corner in its design philosophy?
Well, we don't want to get your (our our) hopes up but it's looking increasingly like the answer may be 'yes'. Images have leaked (via Samsung fan-site SamMobile) of a device known as the Samsung Galaxy A5. A new suffix for Samsung devices, the 'A' theoretically indicates that it's closer to the Alpha family of handsets than the traditional 'S' range.
The images seem to make it out to be quite the looker too, although there is a slight caveat. Apparently that strip around the edge of the device isn't metal like the one on the Alpha. But then Samsung are claiming that it's not plastic, either. Of course that leaves them rather short of options, and it certainly doesn't look like it's made of wood or cotton or liquorice or any other sort of material, so we're at something of a loss. Carbon fibre perhaps? Whatever it is, Samsung maintains that it will 'feel cold in the hand', which is good, if a little cryptic.
What is certain is that the Galaxy A5 will be a full-sized mid-range device – the first of this generation of Samsung handsets. We're looking at a 5-inch SAMOLED display of unknown resolution (most likely 720p, or so we hope), and a Qualcomm Snapdragon 400 processor, which should be clocked at around 1.7GHz. That's the same chip found in handsets like the new Motorola Moto G, the Sony Xperia T3 and the Samsung Galaxy S3 Mini, just to give you an indication of the power you can expect.
More reassuringly there will also be a 13MP rear-facing camera and a 5MP front-facer, which is good. 16GB of internal storage and a 2,330 mAh battery round off the specs.
We're going to have to wait a while for anything more clear-cut or official than that, but we'll be sure to keep our ear to the ground and let you know as soon as news breaks.
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Attention Nintendo 3DS and 2DS owners: stop whatever you're doing right now and head on over to the Nintendo eShop. The Super Smash Bros. demo is now live. It's unquestionably the release of the year for Nintendo's handheld – in fact it's probably the title that will make or break the platform all-together, and you can […]
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Yahoo has swooped in to the thriving tech startup market in India to make its first purchase. The company reportedly targeted by the online giant is Bookpad; a relatively new firm that hosts cloud-based documents. Conflicting details regarding the financial nature of the deal have surfaced in the Indian media. The Economic Times is reporting […]
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How much would you pay for a book? £1.99 from your local second hand store? £11.99 for a premium best-selling hardback from a high-street chain? How about £229? That's the price of Amazon's fully-specced, top-of-the-line new e-reader. The Kindle Voyage is its name, and the company which revolutionised reading obviously feels that there's a market […]
Motorola's Moto Maker lets you create a purple and bamboo Moto X, and it's now available in the UK
Moto Maker was a privilege previously reserved only for those lucky enough to be born in the US of A. Motorola's customisation suite has now landed in the UK, though, and it's a tonne of fun. A bit like how Nike ID lets you create customised sneakers, Moto Maker lets you do the same for […]


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I'm a Harvard snob!
Discovering Aplysia
Eric Kandel	Scientist
21. I decide to learn how memory works 107 04:04
22. Working with Alden Spencer 64 02:38
23. Thrilling discoveries about intracellular activity 66 02:35
24. Discovering Aplysia 158 02:16
25. I'm a Harvard snob! 106 02:56
26. Goldfish brains 74 01:12
27. I begin to work on Aplysia 88 02:36
28. Using Aplysia to study the neuroscience of behavior 148 02:43
29. Investigating the mechanisms of learning and memory 103 04:43
30. Working with Ladislav Tauc 67 03:41
Alden [Spencer] was a mammalian chauvinist. He would never leave the mammalian nervous system, so he kept on looking for a simple system within the mammalian brain. And he ultimately focused in on the spinal cord. There were various things you could study [such as] reflex habituation, [dishabituation] etc. And he thought he would study that.
I was influenced by Grundfest and the crayfish and, you know, squid, and what [could be learned] from them. I was looking for an even simpler system. I wanted a radical reductionist approach to learning. Now many people thought this was crazy in those days because they thought even though reductionist approach worked in many areas of biology, it wouldn't work for behavior that's uniquely, you know, a mammalian, human phenomenon. I thought, that's silly. In all the anthologies described you can see very interesting forms of learning and memory in simple animals. Not only that, at Harvard I'd read some Skinner and I now read up more on this. People had described simple learning paradigms, habituation, sensitization, classical conditioning that you could see in all animals. So I began to look for a simple system, and one thing about NIH [National Institutes of Health], everybody comes through. It was the mecca of neuroscience in those days.
So I went to seminars about worms, about flies, about all kinds of animals. And what caught my attention was the marine snail Aplysia. Now what's so wonderful about the marine snail Aplysia? It met all the criteria that I thought were important. It had a limited number of nerve cells, the whole nervous system was only 20,000 nerve cells. Your brain and mine is a million million nerve cells. Number one. Number two, the cells, many of them were gigantic. Before I became presbyopic, I could see them with my naked eye. One of the cells is a millimeter in diameter.
Moreover, Arvanitaki had already described it, but it became clear to me this was very likely. Many of these cells are uniquely identifiable so you could return to the same cell time and time again, so it seemed to me this was an ideal thing to work.
Eric Kandel (b. 1929) is an American neuropsychiatrist. He was a recipient of the 2000 Nobel Prize in Physiology or Medicine for his research on the physiological basis of memory storage in neurons. He shared the prize with Arvid Carlsson and Paul Greengard. Kandel, who had studied psychoanalysis, wanted to understand how memory works. His mentor, Harry Grundfest, said, 'If you want to understand the brain you're going to have to take a reductionist approach, one cell at a time.' Kandel then studied the neural system of the sea slug Aplysia californica, which has large nerve cells amenable to experimental manipulation and is a member of the simplest group of animals known to be capable of learning. Kandel is a professor of biochemistry and biophysics at the College of Physicians and Surgeons at Columbia University. He is also Senior Investigator in the Howard Hughes Medical Institute. He was the founding director of the Center for Neurobiology and Behavior, which is now the Department of Neuroscience at Columbia University. Kandel's popularized account chronicling his life and research, 'In Search of Memory: The Emergence of a New Science of Mind', was awarded the 2006 Los Angeles Times Book Award for Science and Technology.
Title: Discovering "Aplysia"
Listeners: Christopher Sykes
Christopher Sykes is an independent documentary producer who has made a number of films about science and scientists for BBC TV, Channel Four, and PBS.
Tags: NIH, National Institutes of Health, Alden Spencer, Harry Grundfest, Angélique Arvanitaki Chalazonitis
Date story recorded: June 2015
Date story went live: 04 May 2016


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using namespace IECoreGL;

IE_CORE_DEFINERUNTIMETYPED( ToGLPointsConverter );

ToGLConverter::ConverterDescription<ToGLPointsConverter> ToGLPointsConverter::g_description;

ToGLPointsConverter::ToGLPointsConverter( IECore::ConstPointsPrimitivePtr toConvert )
	:	ToGLConverter( "Converts IECore::PointsPrimitive objects to IECoreGL::PointsPrimitive objects.", IECore::PointsPrimitiveTypeId )
{
	srcParameter()->setValue( IECore::constPointerCast<IECore::PointsPrimitive>( toConvert ) );
}

ToGLPointsConverter::~ToGLPointsConverter()
{
}

IECore::RunTimeTypedPtr ToGLPointsConverter::doConversion( IECore::ConstObjectPtr src, IECore::ConstCompoundObjectPtr operands ) const
{
	IECore::PointsPrimitive::ConstPtr pointsPrim = IECore::staticPointerCast<const IECore::PointsPrimitive>( src ); // safe because the parameter validated it for us

	IECore::V3fVectorData::ConstPtr points = pointsPrim->variableData<IECore::V3fVectorData>( "P", IECore::PrimitiveVariable::Vertex );
	if( !points )
	{
		throw IECore::Exception( "Must specify primitive variable \"P\", of type V3fVectorData and interpolation type Vertex." );
	}

	// get type
	PointsPrimitive::Type type = PointsPrimitive::Disk;
	IECore::ConstStringDataPtr t = pointsPrim->variableData<IECore::StringData>( "type", IECore::PrimitiveVariable::Constant );
	if ( !t )
	{
		t = pointsPrim->variableData<IECore::StringData>( "type", IECore::PrimitiveVariable::Uniform );
	}
	if( t )
	{
		if( t->readable()=="particle" || t->readable()=="disk" || t->readable()=="blobby" )
		{
			type = PointsPrimitive::Disk;
		}
		else if( t->readable()=="sphere" )
		{
			type = PointsPrimitive::Sphere;
		}
		else if( t->readable()=="patch" )
		{
			type = PointsPrimitive::Quad;
		}
		else if( t->readable()=="gl:point" )
		{
			type = PointsPrimitive::Point;
		}
		else
		{
			IECore::msg( IECore::Msg::Warning, "ToGLPointsConverter::doConversion", boost::format( "Unknown type \"%s\" - reverting to particle type." ) % t->readable() );
		}
	}

	PointsPrimitive::Ptr result = new PointsPrimitive( type );

	for ( IECore::PrimitiveVariableMap::const_iterator pIt = pointsPrim->variables.begin(); pIt != pointsPrim->variables.end(); ++pIt )
	{
		if( pIt->first == "type" )
		{
			continue;
		}

		if ( pIt->second.data )
		{
			result->addPrimitiveVariable( pIt->first, pIt->second );
		}
		else
		{
			IECore::msg( IECore::Msg::Warning, "ToGLPointsConverter", boost::format( "No data given for primvar \"%s\"" ) % pIt->first );
		}
	}

	return result;
}

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University of the Cumberlands Launches Ellucian Banner SaaS, Completing Strategic ERP Cloud Transformation
The University of the Cumberlands has gone live with Ellucian Banner as its SaaS-based enterprise resource planning system.
Within 24 hours of its launch, the system logged more than 6,900 registrations by more than 2,600 students.
UC's functional units are now be able to streamline processes, better embrace best practices and improve the experience for faculty and students alike.
RESTON, VA – Ellucian, the leading provider of software and services built to power higher education, today announced that the University of the Cumberlands (UC), a private liberal arts university based in Williamsburg, Kentucky, has gone live with Ellucian Banner as its SaaS-based enterprise resource planning (ERP) system.
UC selected Banner SaaS in late 2017 with a goal of managing the university's tremendous growth and integrating data from its multiple campuses and online school. Additionally, by deploying Ellucian's SaaS-based software, each of UC's functional units will be able to streamline processes, better embrace best practices and improve the experience for faculty and students alike.
"The move to Banner SaaS is much more than just implementing a new ERP, with the cloud deployment we're now confident that we can scale alongside our expected enrollment growth—we've gone from 1,800 to nearly 14,000 over the past 10 years—and we're able to provide the best user experience possible to our students 365 days a year," said University of the Cumberlands VP of Information Services Donnie Grimes, Ph.D., CISSP. "Ellucian's experts kept the project on track and served as a wealth of hands-on, higher ed specific knowledge, ensuring a successful migration–they have been a great partner in our move to the cloud."
Within 24 hours of its launch, the system logged more than 6,900 registrations by more than 2,600 students. The new Banner ecosystem, supported by Ellucian Ethos and Ellucian Analytics platforms, will empower users to manage institutional and student data within one dashboard, while enabling insightful reporting that will illuminate trends, highlight progress and inform decisions. The university will also be implementing Banner Financial Aid and Banner HR in 2019.
"We are thrilled to not only provide UC with a solution that will scale alongside its rapid growth, but one that also creates the seamless digital experience students have come to expect," said Ellucian Chief Customer Officer, Chris Collins. "This first registration live on Banner SaaS is an important milestone for UC and we are happy to have achieved it together."
About Ellucian
Inspired by the transformative impact of education, Ellucian develops solutions that power the essential work of colleges and universities. As the world's leading provider of software and services designed for higher education, Ellucian works with more than 2,500 institutions in 50+ countries—enhancing operations and enriching the experience for nearly 20 million students.
Ellucian provides student information systems (SIS), finance and HR, recruiting, retention, analytics and advancement software solutions. With a full suite of cloud ready solutions, Ellucian provides institutions with the choice and flexibility in how, what and when they deploy solutions in the cloud. Ellucian also supports the higher education community with a range of professional services such as application software implementation, training, education, and management consulting.
Ellucian brings power, passion, and performance to bear for higher education, and its ability to better our world. Visit Ellucian at www.ellucian.com.
Ali Robinson | Director, Media Relations Ellucian
© 2018 Ellucian. Product names are registered trademarks or trademarks of Ellucian or its affiliates, or are owned by other parties and are used by Ellucian with permission.
Ellucian Analytics
Ellucian Analytics is a guided business intelligence platform that enables institutions to convert meaningful data from across systems into actionable decisions.
Naropa University Selects Ellucian Cloud Solutions to Modernize Student Journey
Naropa University will implement Ellucian cloud solutions to create a unified technology framework that supports the complete student journey from prospect through graduation.
Chaffey College moves to the cloud with Ellucian Colleague
Chaffey College will move to the cloud with Ellucian Colleague and will be implementing a guided pathways initiative supported by Ellucian CRM Advise and Ellucian Analytics.
The University of the West of England partners with Ellucian for cloud solutions
The University of the West of England will use Ellucian cloud solutions to deliver a fully personalized digital experience for its users and achieve better organizational alignment through data integration across departments.


Hello and Happy Monday. Hey, I'm trying to be positive here. It's the Monday after the Spring time change so that's a double whammy but sewing makes everything better.
I bought the book "Sewing to Sell A Beginner's Guide to Starting a Craft Business" by Virginia Lindsay about a year ago and I have been using it A LOT these past couple of months. I am not a beginner at having a craft business but I am new to craft shows having only done one so far. There is a lot of great information in here. There are also 16 projects that you can make and are allowed to sell.
I made six Kids' Craft Aprons - a slight modification of the Craft Apron pattern in the book. They are modeled here by my daughter.
Craft aprons from the book Sewing to Sell A Beginner's Guide to Starting a Craft Business.


Bob Dylan Signed 1958 "Hematite" High School Yearbook from Hibbing (Minnesota) High School. An 8" x 11" 150+ page hardbound book with a gold-stamped and padded cover. The future legend has signed this yearbook for his junior year right on the title page: "Dear Don,/ We had fun this year/ in English, huh? I'll/ probably see you this/ summer tho,/ Luck/ Bob Z". Of course, the "Bob Z" is short for his birth name of Robert Zimmerman. His junior class photo is found on page forty-seven. Though born in Duluth, his family moved to Hibbing when he was six. He began his foray into rock and roll while at Hibbing High in bands playing for talent shows and the like. After graduation in 1959, he attended the University of Minnesota for one year during which he started calling himself Bob Dylan (he loved Dylan Thomas, the poet). The rest is history. A truly rare and desirable Dylan collectible. Very fine.
One might wonder why a high school yearbook from Hibbing, Minnesota, would be named the Hematite. Well, it turns out that Hibbing sits right on the Mesabi Iron Range, a vast deposit of iron ore of which hematite is the principally-occurring form. In 1963, Dylan memorialized the region in his song "North Country Blues" (from The Times They Are a-Changin') which laments the hard times due to mines shutting down. It is also mentioned in a Springsteen song "Youngstown" (from Ghost of Tom Joad).


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The Opium Den
The Ship of State 🙂
"You'll have to pass the bill to find out what's in it" -Soon-to-be Ex-Speaker Pelosi.
Sounds a bit like the "Let's make a Deal" and the Zonk was crammed down your throat because it was the right thing to do! 😦
If you want to know why Washington can't control entitlement spending, there's no better example than the regular ritual surrounding Medicare payments to physicians.
It has been going on for more than a decade, and it follows a consistent script. Congress faces a deadline to adjust Medicare reimbursements to a sustainable growth rate (SGR) established in a 1997 law. But Congress has never trimmed payments to anything near the levels demanded by the SGR formula, and it's too late to play catch-up.
The looming cut is alarmingly large — so large that there's no way it can stick. The American Medical Association then makes a fuss, raises the specter of doctors fleeing Medicare en masse, scares the seniors and forces Congress to come up with a short-term patch that holds the line on pay for a year or so and maybe even raises it a bit.
So the can gets kicked down the road, and Medicare keeps eating up a larger share of gross domestic product.
More than 60% of yearly spending is devoted to Social Security, Medicare and Medicaid and Defense apart from war expenditures. Budgetary discipline is impossible without a no-holds-barred discussion of demography, increased longevity and the national-security perils of unsustainable national debt.(IBD)
And then there's Social Security, which the government's main dependency weapon. But also they can't privatize it because they stole the money decades ago but will never admit it.
Then there are the public sector government unions and their out of control, over the top salaries and lavish Rolls Royce pensions and benefits.
Yet, in California alone, nearly 10,000 retirees will get pension checks totaling at least $100,000 this year (that's a Billion dollars a year folks in just 1 state! and these people typically can retire in their 50's so could collect 30-40 BILLION dollars over time!)
And California just re-elected,after 30 years out of office, a massive Liberal, Jerry Brown.
Joshua Rauh, associate professor of finance at at Northwestern University, estimates that 20 states will run out of pension money by 2025.
The pension doomsday clocks in Illinois and New Jersey will strike even sooner, in 2018, he said. (MSNBC)
Social Security and Medicare are also headed for doomsday in the next generation.
In New Jersey, for example, the state is obligated to pay pensions out of the general fund when the pension fund runs dry. In 2018, the state will owe $14 billion in pension payouts, or one-third of the state's annual tax receipts. To put that in perspective, to plug a budget hole like that this year, the state would have to cut all education spending. That bears repeating: It would have to eliminate spending on every elementary school, high school and college from its budget.
Another common pension abuse is "double-dipping" – a practice in which employees retire and start collecting their pension, then are rehired to perform their old job at their old salary. It's a common practice for government workers around the country, despite many rules forbidding it. Workers often argue that they have earned their pension and their right to retire, and if they decide to work during retirement, they're entitled. But the logic there is deeply flawed, said Dean.
"Pensions were designed to make sure government workers were allowed to grow old with dignity, not to make them rich," he said.
And the poster child for that is Phoenix's own Chief of Police (with help from his good buddy Mayor Phil "flash" Gordon) Jack "The Hack" Harris.
He retired as chief in 2007 and began collecting a $90,000 pension. Two weeks later, he was hired for essentially the same job, retitled "public safety manager," and granted a salary of $193,000.
And Mayor Phil is a Pro-Illegal, "soak the rich" progressive Liberal!
Liberals love to dip into other people's pockets and manipulate the system for their own advantage and then blame it on greedy "rich" people and conservatives/republicans.
Well, I guess I wouldn't be poor either if I had a $90,000 pension and a $193,000 job all at taxpayer expense!!
But undoubtedly I'd be a racist! 🙂
A 30-year government worker with a final salary of $80,000 could expect an annual pension of roughly $55,000, or about $4,600 per month for life, under the current scheme. (And could easily be in their 50's)
To earn that kind of guaranteed monthly income, a 401(k) saver would need $1 million in their retirement account, assuming $100,000 in savings can generate $400 in monthly income.
While it's not impossible to grow a 401(k) to those lofty levels, it is rare. In fact, 50 percent of Americans who have 401(k) accounts have less than $35,000 in them. Contrast that with our 30-year government workers who can all expect predictable pension checks.
So expect a furious battle as state governments attempt to reign in pension costs. (MSNBC)
And you get the Unions "outraged" and etc and that's why they support the liberals in the Democrat party, because they will just keep paying them out and blaming someone else ("The rich") for it.
We are on pace to soon owe 100% of our annual gross domestic product in national debt, while compiling the largest annual peacetime deficits in our history.
And what will happen when the pain comes?
Lots of crying and nashing of teeth and blaming "the rich". But mostly, it will be the new NIMBY Principle. Not in my Back pocket You!
"Someone else" has to pay for my sins. Not Me. "Them".
Sorry, but it's YOU. Me. and that Grand Piano of neglected debt, avarice, and delusion staring down at you!
That's the REAL TRUTH.
You aren't required to like it.
It just is.
Deal with it.
The Free Ride is over. It's time to roll up your selves, feel the pain, and get it done.
But first you have to De-tox the patient. And these DT's are going to be a near stoke.
But as anyone who has ever kicked an addiction knows, you have to want to change first. And there in lies the real problem.
The patient knows he's very sick, possibly morbidly so, but when the doctor prescribes the cure the patient is going to wail like a banshee and kick and scream and throw a tantrum.
Think I overstate, just wait and see.
And the Liberal Media and The Democrats will play the head drug pusher tempting you back into the opium den.
And look at it this way: In terms of our collective health and national security, a budget surplus is probably worth more than an expanded federal health care entitlement, another Social Security cost-of-living increase or a new aircraft carrier.
But no pain, no gain!
So do you want another hit of Opium??
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