Except for the possibility that the F-35 Joint Program Office might complain that the F-35A number might be a little too low, these numbers are about as complete, accurate and authoritative as they can be.
Moreover, each of the other defense committees on Capitol Hill agree or—with one exception—think each model will be more expensive. The Pentagon's numbers for these unit costs—in every case—are higher.
The methodology for calculating these F-35 unit costs is straightforward. Both the president's budget and each of four congressional defense committees publish the amounts to be authorized or appropriated for each model of the F-35, including the number of aircraft to be bought.
The rest is simple arithmetic: Divide the total dollars for each model by the quantity.
There are just two things F-35 watchers need to be careful about.
First, it's necessary to add the funding from the previous year's appropriation act to the procurement money the government allocated for 2015. This is "advance procurement" for 2015 spending, and pays for "long lead" components that take longer to acquire.
Second, we have to add the cost of Navy and Air Force modifications.
For the F-35, these costs are for fixing mistakes already found in the testing process. With the aircraft still in its initial testing, the modification costs to existing aircraft are very low. But the 2015 amounts for modifications are surrogates for what the costs for this year's buy might be. If anything, this number can be an under-estimate.
The Senate Appropriations Committee sent its report to the printer on July 17, and that data is informed by the latest advice from the Pentagon, which is routinely consulted for the data the committee is working with. The Pentagon is also given an opportunity to appeal to change both data and recommendations.
Accordingly, of the four congressional defense committees, the Senate Appropriations Committee numbers are the most up to date. For the most part, these numbers are also the lowest.
The data from all four defense committees, the Pentagon's budget request, and the final 2014 appropriations—all for the F-35 program—are in the table at the end of this article. This data is the empirical, real-world costs to buy, but not to test or develop, an F-35 in 2015.
They should be understood to be the actual purchase price for 2015—what the Pentagon will have to pay to have an operative F-35.
It's very simple, and it's also not what program advocates want you to think.
In a briefing delivered to reporters on June 9, F-35 developer Lockheed still advertised the cost of airplanes sans engines. Highly respected Aviation Week reported on July 22 that taxpayers put up $98 million for each F-35A in 2013.
In reality, we actually paid $188 million.
Some of these numbers are for the airframe only. In other cases, you get a "flyaway" cost. But in fact, those airplanes are incapable of operative flight. They lack the specialized tools, simulators, logistics computers—and much, much more—to make the airplane useable. They even lack the fuel to fly away.
Here's another curious fact. The unit costs of the Marines' short-takeoff, vertical-landing B-model and the Navy's aircraft-carrier-capable C-model are growing.
The cost of an F-35B grew from $232 million in 2014 to a bulging $251 million by 2015. The cost of the Navy's F35C grew from $273 million in 2014 to a wallet-busting $337 million by 2015.
The quantity numbers for the F-35B have not changed, remaining at six per year. The number of F-35Cs to be produced has slipped from four to two, but surely learning processes on the F-35 line have not been going so far backward as to explain a 23 percent, $64 million per unit cost increase.
However, is that what's really occurring in the F-35A line, while F-35B and F-35C costs are ballooning? Should not some of the benefit in F-35A production efficiency also show up on the F-35B and F-35C? Lockheed builds all three on the same assembly line in Fort Worth.
It could be that the F-35B and F-35C are bearing the overheard—or other costs—of the F-35A.
Why else would an F-35B with a stable production rate increase by $19 million per unit, and how else could the cost to build an F-35C—in production for six years—increase by $64 million per unit?
Even those who reject that someone might be cooking the books to make F-35A costs look as good as possible to Congress—and all-important foreign buyers—there should be a consensus that the program needs a comprehensive, fully independent audit.
Surely, an audit will help Congress and Pentagon leadership better understand why F-35B and F-35C prices are going up when they were supposed to be going down—and to ensure there is nothing untoward going on in any part of the program.
The defense world is full of price scams, each of them engineered to come up with the right answer for whoever is doing the talking.
Next time an advocate tells you what the current unit cost is for a program, ask: "What is Congress appropriating for them this year?" And, "How many are we buying?" Then get out your calculator. The result might surprise you.


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Afghanistan- Forced marriages banned in Bamyan| MENAFN.COM
Afghanistan- Forced marriages banned in Bamyan
(MENAFN- Afghanistan Times) AT News
KABUL: Hamida Danish, a student at grade seventh of a secondary school was forcibly married to a man older than her while she was only 14 years old. The underage marriage made it too difficult for her to live a happy life as she was not quite out of her childhood enjoyments. She dreamt of taking higher education at a university and making a good life of her own.
Hamida lives in Yakawlang district of central Bamiyan province.
As she and her husband were struggling to overcome the challenges posed due to early marriage, the couple has been separated. Hamid now has a-two years old, for which she worried not to face a similar destiny.
'We have lived for six years and always engage in disputes and arguments,' she said. 'Now we have a lot of problems, I came to my father's house and my husband took custody of my daughter.'
Hamida is among hundreds of girls in Afghanistan who are the victims of force and underage marriages. However most of them are treated with less respect and rights, and are placed in caves to share their tough stories of life.
To prevent the women being victim of the cultural taboos, the civil rights activists and religious clerics in Yakawalang decided to ban the underage and forced marriages. A number of women also were part of the decision makers.
Head of the district Ulemas (clerics), Rauf Salehi called forced marriages in contrast with the Islamic regulations. 'As the girl doesn't know how to make decisions in underage marriage, so the Ulemas should not conclude the marriage,' he added. He said that the level of force and underage marriages has drawn down by 50 percent.
Head of Bamyan women rights commission, Zakia Rezaye praised the decision made by the Ulemas council to prevent the forced marriages of underage girls. 'To omit the traditional taboos especially force marriage, which is part of the violence against women, such steps are vital important.' She said that the women rights commission paid tremendous efforts to attract the attention of Ulemas in regards.
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Several recent observations suggest that Schwann cell (SC) differentiation, including myelin formation, is dependent upon the development of basal lamina which characteristically surrounds each axon-SC unit in peripheral nerve. This dependence can be tested in a neuron-SC culture system developed in our laboratory in which SC differentiation, including basal lamina formation and myelination, is faithfully reproduced. The use of serum-free, defined medium (DM) with this culture system allows axon-driven SC proliferation but not basal lamina formation or myelination. We previously demonstrated that ascorbic acid, in the presence of a nondialyzable serum factor(s), stimulates basal lamina assembly and myelin formation with similar dose- response relationships (Eldridge et al., 1987). We hypothesized that ascorbic acid acts to promote SC myelination indirectly, by enabling the assembly of basal lamina. We now provide support for this hypothesis by demonstrating the following. (1) Pepsin-resistant triple- helical collagen molecules were produced only by SCs grown in the presence of ascorbic acid, suggesting that triple-helical type IV collagen may mediate the effect of ascorbic acid on basal lamina formation. (2) The formation of myelin by oligodendrocytes, which myelinate axons in the CNS without the concomitant deposition of basal lamina, was little affected by ascorbic acid, suggesting that the biosynthesis and assembly of myelin per se does not require ascorbic acid. (3) The provision of exogenous basal lamina matrix to SCs grown with neurons in DM without ascorbic acid promoted control levels of myelination (and basal lamina formation); the provision of exogenous fibrillar collagen matrix did not. (4) Purified laminin promoted control levels of myelination in the absence of ascorbic acid, but purified type IV collagen and heparan sulfate proteoglycan (HSPG) did not. Laminin caused SCs to assemble basal lamina-like structures that contained not only laminin but also HSPG and non-triple-helical type IV collagen. Thus, several types of experiments demonstrate that SC myelin formation can be controlled by regulating the ability of the SC to assemble basal lamina, illustrating that acquisition of basal lamina is a crucial prefatory step for further SC differentiation.


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The false promise of primacy in U.S. foreign policy
Obama and his national security team. Photo: Flickr user WhiteHouse
One unquestionable success of the Obama administration so far has been to turn the page on the failed Bush foreign policy framework.
Not so, says Robert Kagan, who reveals a perverse nostalgia for the previous paradigm in his recent writings in which he argues that the Obama administration is formulating foreign policy from a perspective that accepts, rather than fights, the decline of American power.
To understand this yearning for American policy of yore, you have to remember that American foreign policy leaders during the Bush administration clung to the false promise of primacy, the belief that the lynchpin of American security was for it to remain more powerful than all other countries by a huge, fixed margin.
Mona Sutphen and I described why this was a misguided strategy in our 2008 book, The Next American Century: How the U.S. Can Thrive As Other Powers Rise. But the proof is in the pudding. In the end, the primacy strategy didn't deliver.
Primacy tempted our leaders into a reckless war in Iraq. It did not prevent North Korea from acquiring nuclear weapons. It did nothing to slow China's influence, as was its implicit goal. And it wrecked, with Moscow's help, our relationship with Russia. A fixation on primacy paradoxically managed to undermine the influence and authority America did have. Nevertheless, the fact that the Bush administration embraced the notion of primacy was a comfort to the remaining Cold Warriors.
President Barack Obama's approach is different, to say the least. His political allies and his detractors can agree that Obama sees foreign policy not in terms of asserting America's unparalleled might, but of seeking common cause, including with other major powers. On the one-year mark of his presidency, the contours of the new paradigm are fairly clear:
Lead the world in addressing shared challenges
Treat other governments and peoples — friends and foes — with respect
Forge strategic collaborations with big, pivotal powers and demand responsibility from them on global challenges
Reinvigorate and repair existing alliances
Reengage with international institutions and rules, pushing for increased accountability
Make basic political and economic rights available to more people, knowing that democratic government is the best way to achieve this goal
As for primacy, Obama dismissed that as a strategy goal in his inaugural address when he observed, "Our power alone cannot protect us."
Later, in Moscow, Obama elaborated on his view of great power relations, saying, "a great power does not show strength by dominating or demonizing other countries…[G]iven our interdependence, any world order that tries to elevate one nation or group of people over another will inevitably fail. The pursuit of power is no longer a zero-sum game — progress must be shared."
Robert Kagan now accuses President Obama of reorienting American foreign policy away from its WWII and Cold War roots, focusing on how "to adjust" to the decline in American primacy instead of trying to reverse it. He portrays administration officials as naïve ideologues, buttering up autocracies and forsaking our democratic allies.
Kagan's analyses fail to discuss two major developments that demand a new approach—the increased potency of transnational threats and the new salience of domestic policy in America's world standing.
Kagan writes as if the Obama administration is engaging with re-emerging powers to prove an ideological point that great power strife is a relic of history. Yet no staffer that I have ever spoken with would suggest that these relationships are beyond rivalry.
More importantly, Kagan does not reveal the Obama administration's reasons for pursuing strategic collaborations with China, Russia, India, and other pivotal powers.
In fact, these partnerships are necessary to protect Americans from common threats in terrorists, global warming, economic crises, nuclear proliferation, and pandemics such as swine flu — the forces of disorder that can and do affect Americans right here at home.
Kagan barely mentions these threats, but to keep its own people safe, America needs Russia to secure its loose nuclear materials so terrorists cant get it. America needs China — the world's largest emitter — to cut down on its carbon. And America needs India to help track extremists. Moreover, America needs all of them to contain pandemics.
How can we get these big, proud countries to take these steps? Aggressive diplomacy.
Transnational threats also explain why the Obama administration is taking international institutions seriously. It's not because the president is looking to attend more international meetings; it's because international rules and institutions play a vital coordinating role when threats cross borders.
The World Health Organization led the battle against swine flu last year just as the International Monetary Fund bailed out a slew of countries headed toward financial ruin. Fortunately, international architecture and traditional alliances are not mutually exclusive, as Kagan would imply.
It's still early days, but the Obama approach is paying dividends. China has agreed to limit its carbon intensity. And, for the first time last year, China not only voted for tough U.N. sanctions against Pyongyang; it also enforced them, in contrast to Kagan's assertion that the administration has failed to gain "any meaningful Chinese help in North Korea."
Russia has allowed the United States to transport supplies through its territory into Afghanistan. The Global Initiative to Combat Nuclear Terrorism, co-chaired by the United States and Russia, is up and running again. A successor to the START treaty to reduce our arsenal of nuclear weapons is not yet complete, but it's on the way.
And these nations and others agreed during the darkest days of the financial crisis to coordinate their macroeconomic moves. Iran remains a challenge, but Beijing and Moscow did recently join in a harsh rebuke that the International Atomic Energy Agency issued.
Of course, we continue to have differences with these pivotal powers, including on human rights and democracy. Kagan is simply wrong to suggest that administration officials have failed to "continue to press Russia and China for reform." They have, just not in a grandstanding, provocative way that ends up being counterproductive.
Here, for example, is what President Obama said in Moscow:
The arc of history shows us that governments which serve their own people survive and thrive; governments which serve only their own power do not. Governments that represent the will of their people are far less likely to descend into failed states, to terrorize their citizens, or to wage war on others. Governments that promote the rule of law, subject their actions to oversight, and allow for independent institutions are more dependable trading partners. And in our own history, democracies have been America's most enduring allies, including those we once waged war with in Europe and Asia– nations that today live with great security and prosperity.
And here is what he said in Beijing a few months later:
Finally, as I did yesterday in Shanghai, I spoke to President Hu about America's bedrock beliefs that all men and women possess certain fundamental human rights. We do not believe these principles are unique to America, but rather they are universal rights and that they should be available to all peoples, to all ethnic and religious minorities. And our two countries agreed to continue to move this discussion forward in a human rights dialogue that is scheduled for early next year.
Where does Kagan get the idea that Obama is not a champion for liberal democracy? The difference is that the Obama staffers have no illusions about how hard it is to impose a liberal transformation from the outside. Every country has to forge its own future. America can help, but we can't call the shots.
Kagan also accuses administration officials of squandering American primacy. "Instead of attempting to perpetuate American primacy," he writes, "they are seeking to manage what they regard as America's unavoidable decline relative to other great powers."
The truth is that America's relative decline is, in fact, unavoidable in the short term. That's just a matter of definition when China's economy is growing at 8 percent or 10 percent, India's at 6 percent, and ours not at all. It won't always be this way, but it is now.
Rather than pretending otherwise, the administration is facing and addressing this uncomfortable fact. Because while it is true that our toughest global challenges require cooperation, American power is a vital ingredient to securing the best possible future for Americans.
Kagan declines to mention domestic policy, yet rebuilding American strength is, at the end of the day, a task for us here at home. Behind every great power is a great economy.
We can try to perpetuate our power and influence all we like, but if our economy doesn't begin to grow steadily again in the years to come, all our scrimping will be for naught—we simply will not be able to afford the tools for an expansive foreign policy, not to mention rising living standards for future Americans.
Growing American strength is not about rhetoric; it involves tough political choices. Getting politicians to prioritize long-term success over short-term gain is never easy.
The unifying theme of President Obama's domestic agenda is retooling America so it can prosper in the global economy. That is what the health care debate, investments in basic science, green technologies, and public education are all about, not to mention the banking rules designed to prevent another bubble/bust cycle. All of these investments would be a lot easier if the last administration hadn't committed a trillion dollars to a needless war. Talk about squandering primacy.
America will bounce back. And it will continue to be an indispensable nation, not because of our unassailable power, but because of our ideas, our flexibility, and our leadership–- the strengths that in fact enabled our still vast military superiority.
Fortunately, Barack Obama has proven to be a leader that reads America's virtues broadly, and enlists others in their promise. Perhaps it is simply too inclusive a worldview for those that miss the clarity of a bipolar ideological contest.
But as Obama has pointed out, such clarity is a luxury we can no longer afford.
– Nina Hachigian
Tags: foreign policy, Nina Hachigian, President Barack Obama
The Melancholy Poet Says:
Why not define a sirocco for what it really is?
Then check to see what the landscape actually looks like in such political/idealogical environments. Unheard words become but the virtually silent sighs of those whose blood, continually, is spilled into cold ground whose tunnels lead to other more complex labyrinthine issues better left unmentioned by current standards of human language.
Anyone remember the Minotaur?
02/05/2010 :: 08:15:01 PM
Eunomia » Preserving Primacy Says:
[…] the statements against what Obama has actually done or not done. Thus you can have both Kagan and Hachigian asserting in different ways that Obama intends to manage American decline from its status of global […]
To sum-it-up ,Obama's foreign policy approach is quit simple , a wink-and-a-nod …a bow with a smile pedicable patterns,but the HOLY GRAIL is
Obama's CHARM ??? APOLGIZE , APOLOGIZE ..we must.
un-chinch your fists ! lol, re-set..re..re..re-set !!Dictator outreach…is so not community
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Rosinante Says:
davelnaf, the authors of this article are anti-American. Keep that in mind while you read it. It makes perfect sense from the POV of an America hater. To normal people,it's a bunch of whooie.
Obama is the worst POTUS ever. Worse then Carter. What the clueless 4th worlders that like his foreign policy overlook is that the USA doesn't use it's military for direct expansion.
We use our cultural and economic superiority to expand, then hold those gains with our military.
Classic geopolitics. China is correct when they describe America as hegemonic. Bush's foreign policy was geared to take advantage of that hegemony. Obama's policies will lead to an imperial type military expansion. That is a bad thing.
Jack Kalpakian Says:
Excellent work, it is important to challenge the stupidity that dragged the US into unnecessary wars. Current US weakness is primarily caused by internal factors, led by weakness in manufacturing, health, and education. The problems are compounded by the capture of state power for private use in the form of banking subsidies, a commitment to fossil fuel, and the suburb, all of which cost more than they are worth.
davelnaf Says:
It's hard to see how one can come the conclusions you spelled out in your article when Obama has proven himself to be the most anti-American of presidents. One of his primary reasons for running for this office was to try to change America in ways that would render it unable to decisively impact the world. He actually believes all the trite leftists theories about what ails the planet having a root cause in the US trying to impose its will on other nations in various ways, the primary one being military force. You are seeing something in Obama that is not there and never will be.
Tuzo Says:
This is just pro Obama propaganda. He has not yet proven leadership both internationally and domestically. None, nada, and squat. Kinda pathetic that she is a senior fellow of something and she is pumping out this crap.
joe kahn Says:
Maybe it's just me:American people are under the impression that Obama won his presidency fair and square,i beg to differ.After 8yrs of the crooked Bush govt,how can we even slightly think that Obama was elected by the people,how do we know that he wasn't put there to show the world that we are a true democracy and that a black man can also become a president.He is surrounde by some of the leftover employees of the previous adminstration.He has to deal with enormous challenges leftover from the incompetent and inept Bush administration.My personal opinion:Give it to the Black guy if he screws up he's the only person to blame and then the republicans will take over after 4yrs and muck things up even more(sarah palin).Politics is a dirty game.Mass senate selection of Senator (R)Brown is just one example.
Waldo Says:
Obama has attempted to work with foreign countries where Bush under neo-con ideology believed in the use of force. The UK has a long inquiry going on about why the UK participated in the invasion of Iraq. The US should have a similar inquiry about why we invaded, who was to benefit, why we built a number of large permanent military bases and if we would actually leave if asked. Obama's major foreign policy failure has been the Israel/Palestine issue. Although he talked about treating the two sides equally he has retained the US Israel bias and wasted the good will his election originally generated. Now he blames both sides and says the issue is more intractable than he thought. He should have known the true situation. Israel is not ready for peace and the Palestinians are in a stronger position to say no to an endless negotiation or to accept Israel terms.
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President Obama's first year is a (truly sorry for such a harsh critique regarding his first year?) travesty,period. He has juggled a myriad of one-on-one subjects as if he were the greatest ambidextrous performer "Circ'de'lai" (probably/definitely have the incorrect spelling) on the world's (such vanity) stage. Unfortunately,… it's all come tumbling down thanks to his personel aid Rahm Emanuel,and certifiable personal trainer, via campaign manager David Axelrod,the trilateral "Chicago Connection"? His administration mirrors the "Clintonian Era" to the "T" with absolutely no-change (perhaps some of the faces have changed,but the philosophical mantra is overwhelmingly concentric) which makes all for nought,…a wasted year,…a period of endless polarizing rhetoric! The "Health Care Bill" trashed by the new independent party that shall take it's revenge on both sides of the (who needs term limits,with this no-name referendum) isle,culling this democracy of it's sordid Aristocrats that look down at the deprecate proletariat! Our foreign policy is a joke,…Israel laughs at us,…N. Korea is still playing it's waiting game, with China nodding towards Tibet. What has happened to America's hegemony is a blessing in disguise? The way that Bush #43,and #41,…"New World Order Proliferater's" have squandered our national treasury,is of irrapable ill-repute that President Obama so sadly has been shackled too,for shame. The United States collaboration with China,Russia,and India,and other pivotal powers is a ruse with the smell of blood in the water if China turns the fluid-money-spigot off this sapless dilusional government of inexcusable,blatant ignorance,that leads it's proud american patriots into "World Martyrdom". Just look at global warming,…the world's carbon-footprint,the countries economic crises,nuclear proliferation,and worldly pandemic's, and think ,just for an illogical minute ,or so,of what is real,and what is manifested by the powers to be too harness more power from the live-life-as-it should-be people of the world,…just give it some thought,please? Mother Nature has it's own mind made up,as does the arrogant landlord,with his plethora of warlords,and bio-chemist,…so very much unegalitarian. What about Mexico's "Drug War's" ,South America's unrest with the birthing of fledgling Democracies that would like too keep their natural resources,and money from flowing out to the Imperialist countries of the world all co-sponsered by the IMF,and World Bank,…just ask the Haitian People to explain it to you! I'd be remiss about Russia opening up it's borders to Afghanistan to help America fight one of it's many "America's Perpetuity War's". President Obama does what,…? Yes,…he breaks another campaign promise, and becomes a "Warring President" as his predecessor,never mind the handful of other promises thrown by the wayside,…that would have at least given him some credibility. Yes,we fight in turmoil in Afghanistan with our past,and present adversaries feigning tutelage while ravaging the world's resources throughout the world while America is in a seemingly endless morass. Needless to say, we still are a great country,with a resilient economy,and world power,…but we cannot fund our wars with foreign money,as Pakistan has already said in a non-scripted way,that without American greenbacks their fight with the Taliban is on hiatus,while the al-Qaeda is on sabbatical in La-La Land. There seems to be some disconnects,or questions about who if anyone decides to launch the first nuclear warhead,but if you think about it once again,all sides realize it's a losing cause,therfore rogue nation,or stable nation please stop the incessant fear-mongering,…it will all be decided in the future (communication) cyber-space wars? Finally,…I'd like to mention alittle known fact (perhaps not so little known?) that just happened a few weeks ago,…"The Russian-China-Iran Energy Nexus" is a reality,…yes a reality,so stop spreading rumors Israel? The Kazakhstan-Russian/Kazakhstan-China/South Stream/East Siberia-Pacific new agreement,and signed-off lifelong signatory contract proposed (Black Gold)oil routes;…next we have The Blue Stream [LNG-Liquid Natural Gas,ie)"Blue Gold"]/Russia-Europe/Caspian Coastal/Turkmenistan-China/Dauletabad-Khaniran/North Stream Gas lines,new lines,and signatory signed -off agreements proposed under lifetime contracts. PS. Talk about taking your eyes off the ball,…? Please be advised as a sidenote: Russia,Turkmenistan, and Iran have approx. 75% of the world's LNG known reserves,with approx.35% of it's known crude oil reserves,thusly the United States "Nubucco Pipeline,has virtually been neutered.
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Look up the name Urenco. They sold Saddam Hussien 25,000 units. Iraq had 500 tons of the non-existant Yellow Cake. Industial nuclear reactors. A chemical weapons program that was on going in buying world wide chemicals that had questionable use. It had a Bio weapons program. It had 400 tons of RDX that he paid 3 times the world price. He brought billions of dollars of war material from the Russians as that country fell apart. He could have brought part of the Russian Navy, but Russian officals would have go to war over that. He had no problem getting anything that he wanted including US Congressmen. and US State Department officals.
Bush put a stopped to Europe cash cow.
Saddam brought 250 of Perry's Chemical Handbooks which says that at least he knew a good book to read in his off days.
I hope that world not only Hates America, but also fears America. Similar to Russia who policy is that if you bother Russia, Russia bother you.
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Dolphins' Ryan Tannehill embracing leadership role
All offseason, fans were told that second year quarterback Ryan Tannehill was establishing himself as a leader of the Miami Dolphins. In one moment during Sunday's game against the Cleveland Browns, Tannehill proved it.
By Kevin Nogle@KevinNogle Sep 11, 2013, 9:52pm EDT
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Every team says their quarterback is a leader of the franchise. It's part of the nature of the position. However, saying a player is a leader, even making him a captain, does not mean he is actually a leader. Throughout this past offseason, a lot of rhetoric was heard that Miami Dolphins second year quarterback Ryan Tannehill was taking that step and establishing himself as the leader.
He was said to be organizing offseason workouts, getting all of the team's new offensive weapons together to start working on the chemistry that will be so critical this year. Tannehill was elected, by the players, to the team's six-man "Leadership Council" this year. Player after player has said that Tannehill is more sure of himself and is taking on that mantle of leadership.
But, as fans, there's always a question of a team simply saying the right things about a young quarterback because he is a quarterback. Is Tannehill actually a leader for the 2013 Dolphins?
One moment in the Dolphins' Week 1 contest against the Cleveland Browns answered every question about Tannehill's leadership of the team.
With 4:52 seconds left in the game, the Dolphins ran Daniel Thomas off left guard Rchie Incognito for four yards. Immediately after the play, wide receiver Rishard Matthews got into a shouting match with a Cleveland player or two. Then, this happened:
Jonathan Marin grabs Matthews and says something, Mike Pouncey and Brian Hartline each throw in some words, then Tannehill comes in, grabs Matthews, yells "Get the **** off the field,", and forcing the receiver out of the game. If there's a better example of a quarterback taking charge of his team, I don't know about it.
After the game, Tannehill was asked about that moment, and he explained that, 20-10 game late in the fourth quarter and within field goal range, the team could not afford a penalty and he could not afford to lose Matthews, so he handled it by getting Matthews out of there and let him go cool down on the sideline. Tannehill also said, Matthews is a competitor and that's what you want from your wide receivers, but it boiled over in that instance.
Tannehill took charge of a situation he saw as dangerous for the team and ended it. Then, after the game, he explained what happened, without throwing Matthews under the bus.
Looks like we don't have to worry about Tannehill's leadership anymore.
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A Escola Superior de Södertörn -  - é uma escola superior pública, localizada em Flemingsberg, no município de Huddinge do condado de Estocolmo na Suécia.

Em 2012, frequentavam esta instituição 13 446 alunos, participando em 60 programas, compreendendo 350 cursos.

Tem o nome de "Södertörn University" em inglês, embora não lhe tenha sido concedido o estatuto de universidade pelo governo sueco.

História
O Colégio Universitário foi criado em 1996  pelo Parlamento da Suécia porque o número de alunos na região de Estocolmo, em especial na Universidade de Estocolmo, foi considerado muito alto.

Estatuto
A Södertörns högskola  é uma högskola (escola superior), e não uma universidade. Quando a instituição foi fundada, a intenção era desenvolver a högskola  (escola superior) de forma a ser uma universidade completa  em um momento posterior. Por conseguinte, a Södertörns högskola solicitou o estatuto de universidade, com o direito de conceder graus de doutorado em 2002, e de forma atualizada novamente em 2006, juntamente com uma avaliação independente em seu favor.  Em 2004, também foi aplicada a uma universidade colegiada, juntamente com Instituto Karolinska e do Instituto Real de Tecnologia, que não foi decidida ainda. Em março de 2009, o governo sueco, que é responsável por todas as instituições públicas de ensino, emitiu uma declaração dizendo que não iria levantar qualquer faculdades mais à condição de universidade no futuro, e que iria recusar todas as outras aplicações  assim cimentar o estatuto da faculdade para högskola Södertörn.

Apesar da decisão do governo, os oito municípios de Södertörn enviaram outro pedido ao governo sueco para que o colégio universitário fosse elevado ao nível universitário completo.  Contrariamente ao seu status legal na Suécia, Södertörns högskola  continua a chamar-se uma "universidade" nas suas publicações em inglês. Além disso, o seu principal campus em Huddinge é nomeado "Universitetsområdet" (área da universidade) em sinalizações públicas.

BEEGS
A Universidade Södertörn acolhe a BEEGS - a "Escola de Graduação do Mar Báltico e do Leste Europeu", um projeto concebido como uma forma de mais estudos sobre a região do Báltico e da Europa Oriental em cooperação com a Universidade de Estocolmo. Alunos de doutoramento que se aplicam são aceitos e são acomodados e recebem um salário integral para concluir suas teses. O projeto é financiado pela Fundação para o Sueco Báltico e do Leste Europeu Studies (Östersjöstiftelsen).  Södertörn não possui o direito de atribuir doutoramentos em si, e, por isso, assinou um convênio com a Universidade de Estocolmo para que os seus alunos de doutoramento possam receber o seu diploma após a conclusão do programa em Södertörn da Universidade de Estocolmo.

Södertörn University Library

A Biblioteca da Escola Superior de Södertörn (Södertörns högskolebibliotek) está alojada em Flemmingsberg, num edifício que abriu em 2004. Além de servir a própria instituição, serve ainda a Escola Superior da Cruz Vermelha e o Instituto de Pedagogia Musical de Estocolmo.

Personalidades de destaque
Ebba Witt-Brattström - Professora de Literatura
Sara Danius - Professora de Estética, membra da Academia Sueca

Ver também
Lista de faculdades e universidades da Suécia

Ligações externas
Site oficial da Universidade Södertöm (em sueco e inglês)

Universidades da Suécia
Área metropolitana de Estocolmo

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Photo Friday: Plain Persistence
March 25, 2011 | devincthomas | Photo Friday, Photographs | 1 Comment
The "new" Dallas Center, Iowa, church, built in 1947 (Courtesy of the Brethren in Christ Historical Library and Archives)
For many years, Dallas Center, Iowa, was home to a small but committed band of Brethren in Christ. Although the congregation has been closed for some time, a band of faithful members returned to their church home on July 4, 2005, to re-connect with one another and to recall the congregation's past. Today's Photo Friday installment celebrates that commitment to community, history, and memory.
When the Dallas Center church building was re-built in 1947, members placed valuables and other memorabilia into the cornerstone — a bequest to future generations, and a common practice among the Brethren in Christ of that era. Almost sixty years later, a small crowd of former members — many of whom were born and raised in the Dallas Center church — gathered on a drizzly Fourth of July morning to re-open that cornerstone and reveal the "treasures" inside.
When Mark Keller, a former member of the congregation, sent images from the gathering to the Brethren in Christ Historical Library and Archives, he neglected to include an inventory of the cornerstone's contents. But he did provide some telling captions for his images — captions that suggest the persistence of traditional Brethren in Christ practices among this small band of believers, and the power of such practices to link community members over time and geographic distance, despite the pressures of the "modern world."
(Note: For the photos that follow, Mark's comments are in quotation marks. All other captions are original.)
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Look at this photo. What does it say to you? What questions come to mind as you look at the way these people are dressed, at the signs they are holding?
Is there any dissonance here? This is Anglican, but it is perfectly applicable to the Catholic angle as well.
This reminds me of a parade in San Francisco.
If you and I wanted to make fun of the idea of women bishops, could we beat this?
The way they behave suggests that they are mocking the institution to which they demand admission.
At the end of the day, their idea of hierarchy and church resembles the Metropolitan Community Church rather than the Holy Catholic Church.
As mentioned, above, I think these are Anglicans in the photo. But this is hardly different from what some Catholic women do. They claim to be or want to be Catholic bishops. But, in almost every instance of some wymyn pryyst protest, do you ever get these sense that they either understand what a bishop is or respect what a bishop is?
Over at the blog where I found this photo, they have reference to the Biological Solution view of what these oldsters are up to. Fine. They are right to do so. But let's open up another front.
There is something of the post-modern affirmation/negation thing going on here. They want to belong to it and, at the same time, they want to destroy it.
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The Dalek is a nice metaphor for the destructive aspect.
In the back, left, is that a cartoon of a robot?? Of all the (weak) theological arguments they might reasonably make, this is the best they could do?
Surely the fellow with the Dalek poster is a plant from the TLM group at the local university, or some such. He can't be a serious participant.
This reminds me of a presentation I witnessed in a Humanities / Fine Arts class in college. The class itself was excellent, and the prof was very good – covered art, music, and architecture and connected the dots between these things, history, and the church. The students were divided into teams and at the end of the semester had to give a presentation to the class. My team was the "Baroque" team…I took music, someone else took architecture, another art, etc. But there were these two gals who gave a presentation on what an "early Catholic Mass may have looked like"…this didn't sound bad at first, until one of the gals said she was a minister and that she would be "distributing communion" at the end of their presentation. She was dressed like one of the ladies in the above photo. I was surprised, but *gladly* surprised, when not a single_person moved from their seat to receive "communion" from her. Even the prof seemed disturbed by the whole thing! Oh and her pronunciation of Latin was so bad I had a hard time keeping from laughing. If I remember right, she pronounced "Kyrie" like "chi-ree-aye".
oh. doncha know that a woman has no value until she is doing the work of a man?
I can't understand why these types think themselves as empowering the role of women while they ignore the female roles that are specifically done by women. These types hate women, hate what they represent, hate what they are 'stuck' doing. They are full of envy and resentment for what they imagine men are and do.
I just don't understand the whole idea that women should be ordained. This type of stuff is exactly what undercuts what makes a woman a woman. I was not put on this earth to be a priest. I was put here for many other and just as important reasons and I've never felt slighted or left out because I can't be a priest. I was born too late or something. I could go on and on and on and on. These women are the ones who I have to explain my reasons for wanting to be a stay at home mom to, why I feel my husband is the head of our household and how yes, we are a team, and we each have clear, distinct roles to play and the person who came up with the job descriptions for male and female knew what he was doing. Quit messing with it. Ugh. It's so frustrating. Or married priests – I would never go to confession if a priest were married b/c I know my husband and I have no secrets, I wouldn't be able to trust that a priest would keep my confession private if his loyalty were torn between spouse and, well, spouse.
The Dalek community wishes to make it quite clear that we do not agree with the use of our image to promote heresy, we are loyal Sons of the Holy Father and offer him our gooo-felt support during this difficult time.
Furthermore we will be suing roman catholic wymen priests for the damage they have caused the Darlek community by using our image, we will also be running full page adds in the Catholic Herald, the Tablet, the Times of London and the WallStreet Journal to disassosciate ourselves with this movement.
There is no affirmation. They don't want to belong to it. They want to WANT TO belong to it. You get much more credibility as a protester if you can claim that you are being denied something. If these were, for example, a bunch of Methodists who decided to say "your church is wrong because you should be more like us," it would get very little attention. But by claiming they are members of a church, whose rights are being denied, they get much more attention, and get photos like this distributed to more people.
They don't claim to be Roman Catholic. I'd leave issue of their religious leadership within their community. Personally, I think anything but congregational polity is a corrupt leadership model. I am guessing that your interest in the internal politicking of the Anglican/Episcopal church has to do with hopes of a reunification?
Mother Theresa once made the comment that she had never seen a more impoverished country than the USA. When I look at this photo, all I see is an impoverishment of religion. I can't say that this is disheartening, even if it were Catholics standing there. I am really and truly sorry for them. It's as though the beauty of the Christian religion has completely and utterly passed them by. I'm sorry that for them, the Christian religion is such a joke. They are missing out on a reality that obviously surpasses their imagination. It's tragic they are so young (except for the woman on the right), and so deceived.
No, they don't hate what they claim to want to be.
They hate that anyone is allowed to disagree with their position.
Since they think it is 'right' that there are women priests or bishops, it is therefore 'wrong' that any organized religion hold otherwise.
Old fashioned Protestantism was cleaner. When you couldn't hack it you just founded your own new cult – anabaptist, Muggletonian, whatever.
But modern religion is tinged with the pseudo-legal reasoning of the modern state. Nothing is outside of the purview of state sponsored compulsion to right wrongs and triumph over evil – and this means you if you dare to disagree.
infinite grace- married priests and women 'priests' are not the same- it is such a sorrow that they get mixed up.
And your husband tells you everything that happens at work? My husband's work is also a vocation and NO it is not divided loyalties that he would NEVER tell me what happens at confession. Your flippant words are an insult to loyal priests- married or celibate- everywhere.
The subconscious mind is a funny thing, isn't it?
Halloween, after all, is treated like a season, not a day, so, what the heck!
Trick-or-Treaters keep getting older and older, alright grab a Snickers.
The robot in the sign is a Dalek, bad guys from a British sci-fi series, so I'm thinking this must be a British group since only the nerdiest Americans know what they are. Daleks generally go around shrieking "ex-ter-min-ate" in shrill metallic voices. I suppose the guy with the sign was trying to be cute, but since Daleks are supposed to be evil, using their image to support wymyn bishops seems self defeating.
They really do look like Halloween costumes.
How can anybody expect to be taken seriously while wearing a Halloween costume? The only way they could be taken seriously is if they are really just mocking the people who want women priests!
It's sad. :( Their feminist ideals mixed with their theology makes them think that the role of a bishop is to exercise power over their 'church' (or for Catholics the Church), and since the bishop's role is to exercise power, women should be placed in power over men as often as men are in power over women.
They've got it all wrong though, because the episcopate isn't about power at all.
Dear Priests Wife – meant no offense and wasn't trying to be flip. I only react and speak to what I know and that's not the Eastern right of which I know just about nothing. The idea of a married priest is just so foreign to me just as foreign as a woman priest would be to me so I lumped them together. I'm sorry for the generalization without clarification. I just get so frustrated over there always having to be a fight or a protest over everything.
They want to be a part of the Catholic Church, because the Catholic Church already has power. They know that if they broke off and started their own sect or "religion," they would be one of thousands of others!
or, if Fr. Z. gets the credit (!) : HERE.
InfiniteGrace, while I do agree that women shouldn't be priests or bishops, I hope you weren't saying that women aren't fulfilled or are truly women unless they're married with children. The only trouble I have with the Church sometimes is that it seems to ignore unmarried women, especially virgins, who have no call to religious life. Hense, I had asked about consecrated virgins. I'm 49, my age excludes me from religious vocations even if I were called. It's very hard on a woman like me, when people think that wife and mother is the highest calling for laywomen. And don't say I can mother "spiritual children" either. It's not the same.
Of course they hate the thing they want to join. Great Britain only joined the EU to get inside and muck it up (viz Yes, Minister).
It looks like Halloween costumes.
I was speaking to a priest's wife over the weekend. He was an Episcopalian first. And now as a Catholic priest in a big parish it is terribly terribly difficult. He comes home exhausted and has little time for his wife and the two children left at home who are teens. The kids are complaining because their dad has no time for them. And it is true, he does not have time ever since he took on thousands of spiritual children and the daily demands, full time demands, of a big parish. To have to live this divided life is a big cross.
The married protestants do not have daily Mass and confessions and all the rest and can better juggle the two vocations but they also struggle I am told.
It's amusing to think that these mitred protesters have as much "right" to their attire as Rowan Williams. So long as Anglicans are determined to remain Anglicans, let them consecrate women to the episcopate: their orders will be every bit as valid as their male counterparts, and those who have eyes to see will possess one more clue as to the Church of England's true nature.
My immediate thought upon seeing the photo was that they were pretending to be students at Hogwarts. Then I read the signs.
I would suggest that the Dalek guy hold a sign that says "con-SHE-crate," but I don't want to give them any ideas….
Father, did you get this picture from Bad Vestments?
This is an Anglican group called "Women and the Church". Campaigning in England and Wales for bishopesses. Aside from the fact that you'd think they'd have learned their lesson from the awful example of Mrs. Proudie, they just demonstrate that the Anglicans and Episcopalians have devolved into a collection of political action committees.
And yes, it looks like Hallowe'en. Political street theater always does.
Yuck! I always feel slightly ill when I see a woman dressed as a priest, even more so when they dress as a bishop (and I'm a woman!) You're right though, they don't respect the institution, they just want the respect that comes with it.
Somebody should remember them that good advise: "Don't ever take a fence down until you know why it was put up". But I guess these ladies know why things are as they are . . . as the enemies of Church.
Nothing better (worse) than evil disguised as a right. And rights enjoy of permanent support nowadays! But, dear little Right, where is your father Mr. Duty?
1. Women priests have late-in-life vocations.
2. Women priests like to design their own vestments, with unusual motifs and color combinations.
3. Women priests smile, smile, smile when they administer the sacraments. They smile when they give out Communion, they smile when they baptize babies, and they smile when they ordain other women priests.
Father Z-loved that robot with the biretta! You are so clever!
Denita-I totally agree with your comment to InfiniteGrace. I'm in the same boat as you, as a middle-aged single Catholic woman (I'm a little older than you-I'm 57). And I feel just as you do, that the Church pays little or no attention to those of us who are 'single limbo' and either don't want to get married or are considered 'too old' for religious life.
Going back to the picture in this post, I get so disgusted with women who are always 'butting into' things they have no business being in!
Denita – no I never said that being a wife and mother are the only things a woman should be- they are what my vocation is and I get attacked for not wanting to be more than that all the time. The question is always when am I going back to work. When will I use my college degree etc. It's never good enough to just be a wife and mother. Sigh. Sorry.
As a Single man (and therefore wholly unquallified to speak on the issue) I just wondered if find working (even if it was only part-time) and being a wife and mother (presumably you homeschool) to be mutually exclusive?
I sympathise, even if at 23 I'm slightly younger than you ladies :), I still don't feel at ease in 'not quite sure what my vocation is land'.
Re the so-called Roman Catholic Wymynpriests … Acts of the Apostasy has a Priestess Project ongoing … "adopt a priestess" and pray for her … AofA will match you up with someone.
Good point about how they are dressed, Father. The painted placard of the robot doesn't make them look any better, either.
@ InfiniteGrace do you mean other Catholics ask you if you're working? Because what I meant to say is that The Church often ignores singles with no religious vocation. On the other hand, wifes and mothers get all the attention. Just look at the net! The only thing out there for people like me is ads for young singles and/or ads for finding a spouse- ie Catholic Match, etc. I can sympathize if your friends are secular and bothering you about not working, but the Catholic Church shows you a LOT of attention.
Right again, Denita! And not only the Net, it's the same in print media, too. There's all kinds of meetings and events in parishes and dioceses that are geared to married women and mothers, but absolutely ZILCH for singles, unless one is young. After age 35, and you're either not married with kids or in priesthood or religious life, you're pretty much treated like you're invisible! And all you're good for then is waiting for the seniors' groups!
I've written more than one letter to Catholic papers and magazines about how the Church ignores singles over 35. And still they're clueless!
@irishgirl – Our parish also has such an active, fun-sounding singles group (for "older" singles – I'm almost exactly your age!), that I, as a married woman now, find myself wanting to join in on their activities! Even though it's been 26 years (I married in my thirties), sometimes – when I hear the announcement for "singles" – I have to catch myself, and realize that they're not speaking to me!
@American Mother No, we don't always have "More time." Even though I'm unable to work, there are things I cannot do. I belong to a Latin Mass community, and thus my "parish" doesn't have these things.
Anne c. If the function of that "group is not on "paring up," why did you mention it? I'm not looking for a social group or volunteer activities. I'm looking to be accepted for who I am and for more consideration. You can tell me to put God first, but go home and be with your family. Sorry, but that's how I feel. I'm the only Catholic in my family (parents gone,3 siblings). I have no support from them. I don't want to leave the Church again because of this. I left the last time because I didn't feel accepted.
Irishgirl, I wish I had your email address. I would love to contact you.
That was just a tease from a busy mother who just got the last kid out of the house! Did not mean to hurt your feelings.
You might start something, if your Latin Mass parish doesn't have something. Our local Latin Mass parish has some interesting groups that would be appropriate for all ages — including a sacred art consortium and a Perpetual Adoration group. Talk to your pastor, he may have some ideas.


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The Importance of Tawheed
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A`udhu billahi min ash-shaytan ar-rajim. Bismillah, ar-Rahman, ar-Rahim.
The single most important subject when understanding Islam. Tawheed. (Unification or oneness of Allah) Why is this the most important subject? Because without solid foundations an infrastructure will fall. We are the same. If we don't build our foundations of Tawheed then we have more risk of falling into haram and sometimes even becoming a kufr.
Weather you are born into a Muslim family or you are a revert, the initial introduction of Islam into your life is the most important thing to define your future. If you are introduced into Islam in a way that allows you to build a strong foundation of Tawheed before you are introduced into the haram and halal then you are far more likely to be satisfied in your religion, and therefore less likely to fall into haram. If you are introduced into Islam in a way that was more strict and forced into following the rules of halal and haram without building a strong foundation of Tawheed then you are much more likely to rebel against Islam, fall into disbelief and even depression. If you look at the way the Quran was revealed chronologically, you'll notice that all the ayats that talk about the importance of worshipping Allah alone came first, whilst the ayats of what is haram and halal came later. As Allah knew that building Tawheed was the most important thing, then he introduced these guidelines to live our lives by, that ultimately are for our own good. It's a shame that we seem to live in a society that cares more about telling you what you can and can't do than actually helping you build a connection with Allah. Build the connection with Allah first, the rest will come later. Having a strong loving connection with Allah is the BIGGEST blessing any of us can receive. Studying the subject of Tawheed diligently, doing acts of worship and never missing a prayer are ways we can help build this connection. Also studying shirk (major and minor) can really help you develop your Tawheed. Shirk is the biggest sin we can fall into so we should make sure we study that also, to understand exactly what shirk is and how we can fall into minor shirk without even realising. The Prophet (pbuh) said, "O Abu Bakr, there is shirk among you more hidden than the crawling of an ant."
Abu Sa'eed AI-Khudri narrated that Allah's Messenger (pbuh) said,
"Musa said: 'O my Lord, teach me something by which I can remember You and supplicate to You.'
Allah answered: 'Say, O Musa, La ilaha illallah (none has the right to be worshipped but Allah).'
Musa said: 'O my Lord, all your slaves say this.'
Allah said: 'O Musa, if the seven heavens and all of their inhabitants besides Me, and the seven earths were in a pan (of a scale), and La ilaha illallah was in (another) pan, then La ilaha illallah would outweigh them."
Saying La ilaha illallah with humbleness, good intention and truly meaning it from the depths of our hearts, represents strong Tawheed. This sentence is not to be taken lightly. It contains the very most important foundations of building a connection with our creator. If said sincerely the affects of this sentence can cure sins bigger than the 7 heavens and 7 earths. Let me just say that again so you can understand the power of Allah's mercy. Saying, and more importantly meaning, "La ilala illallah" can outweigh sins as big as the 7 heavens and 7 earths, on the scale. That is HUGE! That doesn't mean we should go out and sin, feeling like we can get away with it, because sins actually blacken our hearts and weaken our iman and in order to say 'La ilala illallah' with strong Tawheed, you have to have strong Tawheed and someone with strong Tawheed doesn't have any desire to indulge in haram, out of their intention to be constantly pleasing Allah SWT.
Let's take a look at the life of someone with strong Tawheed. A different level of Tawheed that we don't see in today's society but an inspiration none the less. Prophet Ibrahim (pbuh). His heart was completely turned towards Allah SWT. You would never catch him asking anyone for anything. Even Angel Jibreel, when Ibrahim was thrown into the fire, offered him help and ease but Ibrahim didn't accept. He said he will only take help from Allah SWT. Other examples of his perfected Tawheed are his constant state of obedience, his complete reliance on Allah, and his loneliness on his journey that never affected his state of iman. He didn't have many followers, and was even raised by disbelievers. But he always remained strong in his Tawheed. He understood that everything comes from Allah only and that to believe otherwise is shirk. To beg is shirk. If you beg someone for a job, love, money or anything, it's shirk. As the only person who can increase these things is Allah SWT. It doesn't mean that we should be lazy and just say "oh, i haven't got a job because Allah didn't choose that for me" and just sit on a sofa playing video games all day. Yes, we should still work hard with the means Allah has given us but the success of that hard work depends on Allah, solely.
Overall building this strong foundation in Tawheed will help you become stronger in prayer, clean your heart of sins, bring you closer to Allah and maybe even open the doors to Jannah. May Allah make you from among the people of Jannah Al Firdous. Ameen.
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Voters want change, says Bernard St-Laurent
Posted By: Irwin Block September 8, 2018
Bernie's back, and for those among us who are trying to make sense of this weird Quebec election campaign, that's good news.
We're talking about veteran journalist and broadcaster Bernard St-Laurent, who retired in 2015 but returned to CBC radio last year with a weekly political column. During the election he is being featured Mondays and Thursdays, at 7:40am on CBC Radio's excellent morning show Daybreak, hosted by Mike Finnerty.
With his easy laugh and affable personality, everybody, including major political leaders, calls him Bernie. Having covered the political scene since the 1970s for a variety of media — mainly CJAD, the Montreal Daily News, and CBC radio and television — St-Laurent in his reportage and commentary has earned respect across political lines for his fairness, insight, and vast institutional memory.
The proud father of three and grandfather of five is married to now retired CBC executive Patricia Pleszczynska. His work has won him awards from the broadcasting industry, Commissioner of Official Languages, and even the National Assembly, testaments to his journalistic excellence and easy-going people skills.
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His great uncle was Louis St-Laurent, the Liberal prime minister from 1948 to 1957, who used to visit the family's general store in Compton, where Bernard and Patricia spend part of their time. As the campaign was entering its second week, we sat down to get his take on it.
For the first time in some 50 years, the sovereignty/referendum issue is absent from the campaign, he said.
"That is one main reason why the CAQ (François Legault's Coalition Avenir Québec) has been able to get support because francophones who would normally vote Liberal feel it's OK to vote for them, and the same is true for Péquistes who are tired of their talk."
Propelling the CAQ support, which is comfortably ahead in early polls, is a desire for change — "a perception that the Liberals have been in power for most of the past 15 years, and the lingering effects of the austerity measures of a few years ago."
Voters remember the pain, but are not giving the Liberals credit for the strong state of Quebec finances, St-Laurent noted.
"The economy is performing extremely well, unemployment is low, the budget is balanced … all positive for the Liberals."
"As long as the ballot-box question is: Do you Want Change, I think the CAQ is going to win. If the Liberals can change the ballot-box question to something like, Do We Want Stability at a time when the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA) might be going out the window, and other changes coming, it might be an opportunity for them to get back in the game. Otherwise, it is going to be very, very hard for them."
The Liberals can benefit from what Robert Bourassa called the "ballot-box bonus" — two to three points in the polls that account for respondents' unwillingness to self-identify as Liberal, even if that is how they will vote, but it may not be enough to counter the desire for change, he continued.
Can strong candidates make a difference?
"A really super candidate can maybe make a three or four percent difference in a riding, but apart from exceptional cases, who the candidate is does not have that much impact."
When it comes to positives, the Liberals can count on a solid voting base and argue that the pain of belt tightening was necessary because "we were borrowing to pay the groceries."
"They can talk about improvements to health-care services — it is better than it was four years ago," St-Laurent said.
"The problem is that people think they cut too much, too soon, that they could have been a little more humane about it."
When it comes to the CAQ, and its positives, Legault gets credit for building a credible team.
But there are issues with some of their top people: party president Stéphane Le Bouyonnec, a former CAQ MNA, resigned and withdrew as a candidate, after it was revealed he was on the board of an online loan service that charged astronomical interest rates that would be illegal in Quebec. And CAQ MNA Éric Caire was blasted by the National Assembly Ethics Commissioner for accepting a $55,000 loan from a suburban Quebec City mayor in his riding of La Peltrie, which put him in "in a situation of potential conflict of interest."
Still, St-Laurent says, the CAQ now is more than Legault's party and has moved more toward the centre in its rhetoric to broaden potential support.
However, his immigration policy could alienate some. Legault's call for cutting by 10,000 the current annual target of 50,000 immigrants "is a weakness, because even the mayors in the regions are saying they need more immigrants."
Playing the identity card does not work with young Quebecers, and "that is why the Liberals are ahead of the CAQ in the 18-35 year-old demographic."
One veteran campaign worker once told St-Laurent: "When it's going well, it's easy to get out the vote; when it's not going well, it's not easy." One glimmer of hope for the Liberals is if the PQ, floundering in third place, picks up three or four points in the polls, this could cut into CAQ support and help Liberal chances in ridings where there is a close race.
With the most recent poll indicating that non-francophones are returning to their traditional support for the Liberals, this could make a difference in such Eastern Townships ridings as Brome-Missisquoi, Saint François, and Richmond.
Whatever the outcome, Bernard and Patricia are planning to open an art gallery in Compton in the Eastern Townships.
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Dorothy | September 14, 2018 at 9:52 am | Reply
DEFINE CHANGE.
Of course the CAQ leads, because their leader hasn't done anything to tick off voters.