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I Early Years
During the years immediately following World War I, the Holy Fathers, Pope Benedict XV and Pope Pius XI, made it their mission to do all that they could to bring material and spiritual assistance to the countries and peoples sorely tried by years of war. They were supported in this great work of charity by the generosity of the faithful of the whole world and in particular by the Catholics of the United States of America. The Holy See's appeals for aid, especially in the years 1921-1923 for the relief of famine victims in Russia, were wholeheartedly and generously responded to by the American people, and various American associations were organized to assist the needy in Russia and other regions of the Near East.
Among these organizations was "The Catholic Near East Welfare Association," a charitable group founded in 1924 by a dynamic priest, Msgr. Richard Barry-Doyle, and Atonement Friar Paul Wattson, a former Episcopal priest dedicated to the cause of Christian unity. An Irish chaplain serving British troops during World War I, Msgr. Barry-Doyle arrived in New York at the behest of Father Paul, who enlisted the priest to raise funds for the humanitarian activities of Greek Catholic Bishop George Calavassy, the apostolic exarch in Constantinople.
The other, the "Catholic Union," legally incorporated in the State of New York on 5 January 1925, was a branch of the "Catholica Unio," organized to work for the reunion of the Ukrainian, Romanian, Bulgarian and, later, all the Orthodox churches with Rome. Subtitled "A Society for the Propagation of the Faith in the Near East," the Catholic Union's ambition was to become a worldwide organization for the support of the Oriental Congregation in much the same way as the Society for the Propagation of the Faith supported the works of the Congregation for the Propaganda Fide.
Part of its mission was "to establish and to maintain the Roman Catholic missions in Eastern Europe" and "to create and sustain a friendly interest in the religious and moral life of the peoples of Eastern Europe." Soon afterward it was entitled "A Society for the Reunion with the Holy Church of the Separated Brethren of the Near East Incorporated."
These two similar yet diverse entities each had its own ecclesiastical and lay advocates and supporters — "The Catholic Near East Welfare Association" advocating the cause of the Greeks and the "Catholic Union" increasingly concerned with the plight of the Russians. However, both variously described themselves as concerned for humanitarian assistance, missionary activity and the promotion of church unity.
Msgr. Richard Barry-Doyle founded an organization that was the prototype for CNEWA. (photo: CNEWA Archives)
Father Paul Wattson, S.A., the noted ecumenist, served CNEWA as its first Vice President. (photo: CNEWA ArchivesCNEWA Archives, Graymoor, NY)
Board of Trustees meeting of CNEWA in New York City, January 1927.
Prior to his selection as the first President of CNEWA, Father Edmund Walsh, S.J., center, served the American Relief Mission in Moscow. (photo: CNEWA ArchivesCNEWA Archives, Graymoor, NY)
Msgr. Thomas J. McMahon, Cardinal Tisserant and Father Rogash on the occasion of the Cardinal's visit to CNEWA's New York offices, April 1947. (photo: CNEWA Archives)
The late Benedict Mar Gregorios, Archbishop of Trivandrum in Kerala, chats with Msgr. Joseph Ryan, who served as CNEWA's National Secretary from 1960-1966. (photo: CNEWA Archives, Graymoor, NY)
Pope John Paul II meets with Msgr. John Nolan, CNEWA's longest serving National Secretary, 1966-1987. (photo: CNEWA Archives)
Msgr. Robert L. Stern joins Benedict Mar Gregorios in a procession for the blessing of a new church in Kerala, India. (photo: Sister Christian Molidor, R.S.M.Sr. Christian Molidor, R.S.M.)
On 11 March 1926, Pope Pius XI decided to unite permanently into one organization and under one administration all the American Catholic associations working for assistance to Russia and other areas of the Near East and in general working for the same goals as the Sacred Congregation for the Oriental Church and the Pontifical Commission for Russia. This new pontifical organization was to be called the "Catholic Near East Welfare Association" (CNEWA). It was placed under the immediate direction of the archbishop of New York, and he was invited to form a governing body selected from the American hierarchy. The funds raised by the new association were to be placed directly at the disposition of the Holy Father, who would disburse them in response to the requests for assistance coming to him from all over the world or recommended to him by CNEWA itself.
By the mandate of the Holy See, the purposes of "The Catholic Near East Welfare Association" and the "Catholic Union" were to be included in the new association.
Pius XI commended the new association and his dispositions for it to the hierarchy of the United States. On 15 September 1926, in keeping with the wishes of the Holy Father and on the initiative of the Archbishop of New York, the bishops of the United States at their annual meeting expressed their full approval and adoption of the pope's plan and declared that CNEWA would be their sole instrumentality authorized to solicit funds for Catholic interests in Russia and the Near East.
Initial organization and operations
CNEWA began to grow very much in accordance with the experiences and vision of its first president, Jesuit Father Edmund A. Walsh. Father Walsh, who had previously headed a special "Papal Relief Mission to Russia," identified CNEWA as "A Society in Aid of Catholic Interests in Russia and the Near East" and saw it primarily as a papal relief agency.
Following the ratification by the U.S. bishops of the Holy See's wishes, the Board of Directors of CNEWA agreed to continue to use the original civil charter and to organize its activities into six departments: Greece and the Balkans, General Relief in Russia and Asia Minor, Religious Welfare (to assume the work of the Catholic Union), Education and Student Exchange, Domestic Interests Affecting the Oriental Church in America, and Business Administration.
Subsequently, by the mandate or with the approval of the pope, CNEWA made grants of assistance for a wide variety of charitable works such as the relief of flood victims in Louisiana, the evacuation of Russian refugees from Constantinople, and medical and relief assistance for earthquake victims in Puerto Rico.
Father Walsh insisted that "the wish of the Holy Father is rather to form a permanent society somewhat like the International Red Cross or the American Near East Relief. It will be a centralized Catholic distributing agency which can materially assist the Holy See to meet the daily increasing demands made on the Holy Father for assistance in humanitarian works, in the field of education, and in social welfare work all over the world, as well as in distinctly religious and missionary activities."
On 30 July 1927, Pius XI wrote to Father Walsh to express his gratitude to American Catholics for their generosity and his satisfaction that CNEWA was now constituted on a permanent basis as a pontifical organization. The next year, on 23 October 1928, the pope sent an autographed letter to the bishops of the United States praising the work of both the Society for the Propagation of the Faith and of CNEWA, expressing his appreciation for the funds raised and transmitted to him by both of the organizations, and distinguishing their respective roles.
Reorganization and clarification of mission
Father Walsh's vision for CNEWA, however, was not universally accepted. By 1929 there was a strong reaffirmation on the part of the Holy See that the new organization was to respond to the spiritual and material needs of the East. It also made it clear that its mission was to be clearly distinguished from that of the Society for the Propagation of the Faith.
Better to clarify the competencies of the two societies and to establish a closer relationship between activities in favor of the home and foreign missions and those in favor of the spiritual needs of the missions and apostolate of the Near East and Russia, on 28 June 1930, Pope Pius XI established new regulations for these activities and for these two American organizations promoting them. He entrusted their implementation to the Cardinal Prefect of the Sacred Congregation for the Propagation of the Faith and the Cardinal Secretary of the Sacred Congregation for the Oriental Church, in conjunction with the American hierarchy.
The next year the Holy Father sent Msgr. Amleto G. Cicognani, the Assessor of the Sacred Congregation for the Oriental Church, to the United States as his personal representative to convey his dispositions for CNEWA and to see to their implementation. On 6 June 1931, a special meeting of CNEWA's Board of Directors was held in New York City for the purpose of reorganizing CNEWA in accordance with the directives of the Holy Father. At that meeting, the archbishop of New York was elected its president and treasurer, and CNEWA was placed entirely under hierarchical control.
The satisfaction of Pope Pius XI with these new arrangements was communicated to the archbishop of New York and to the cardinal prefect of the Sacred Congregation for the Oriental Church. The pope also made some further dispositions for CNEWA. They included the provision that it was to remain under the presidency of the cardinal archbishop of New York, a charge to the Sacred Congregation for the Oriental Church to furnish information to the secretary of CNEWA about the church in the Orient, a mandate to CNEWA also to concern itself with public relations and the education of the faithful about the condition of the communities of the East, and some additional instructions about the apportionment and handling of the Mission Sunday collection.
From this point forward, the role and proper activities of CNEWA were clear. The renewed satisfaction of the Holy See was communicated to the archbishop of New York as president of CNEWA, and the funds obtained from the Mission Sunday collection or procured directly by CNEWA itself, such as Mass stipends, educational burses, designated gifts and other special contributions, were regularly forwarded to the Sacred Congregation for the Oriental Church or to other institutions as requested by the Holy Father or by the congregation.
CNEWA continued to operate under its Pennsylvania civil charter until 14 December 1942, when it was reincorporated according to the laws of the State of New York.
This reorganization of CNEWA and clarification of its mission still underlies the structure of CNEWA today.
Later Development of CNEWA
In support of the Eastern Catholic churches
Following the intervention of the Oriental Congregation in 1931 and the clarification of the nature and mission of CNEWA, the organization began to concentrate its efforts on supporting the Eastern Catholic churches and the persons and institutions under the jurisdiction of the Oriental Congregation.
Initially, the staff of the congregation was intimately involved in the work of CNEWA. An "Ufficio CNEWA" was created within the congregation to coordinate the transmission of requests for funding and the disbursement of funds to and from CNEWA's administrative center in New York City. The names of each donor to the work of CNEWA and the amounts of their contributions were sent to the Oriental Congregation, and the prefect of the congregation himself would send a letter of acknowledgment and thanks to each.
As the years passed, since CNEWA was heavily involved in supporting institutions, especially the seminaries, novitiates and orphanages of the Eastern Catholic churches, a sponsorship program was devised, with great success, to interest individuals in their support and to raise money for them. This, of course, tremendously increased the amount of correspondence and record keeping. The Oriental Congregation decided to leave the acknowledgment of donor gifts to CNEWA's general secretary in New York, while the disbursement of funds in support of institutions and projects continued to be made by the congregation itself.
Emergency relief and social development
On 18 June 1949, out of his concern for the plight of Palestinian refugees in the aftermath of the Israeli-Arab struggle of the previous year, Pope Pius XII decided that the work of humanitarian and charitable assistance of the Holy See for Palestine and all those afflicted by war there was to be consolidated and formalized by the establishment of a special "Pontifical Mission for Palestine." Its direction was entrusted to the secretary of CNEWA, and it was mandated to conduct its activities in Palestine and in the neighboring countries of the Middle East so as to make available to every exiled or needy Palestinian the charity of the pope and of all Catholics of the world.
Because it was only a few years after the conclusion of World War II and at that time the Catholic Church in the United States was in a better condition to support charitable aid than the church in Europe, the Holy See especially sought the help of U.S. Catholic agencies. CNEWA was asked to assist the Pontifical Mission for Palestine in accomplishing its work. Since the mission lacked civil status in the United States, CNEWA made appeals for its work and collected funds for it. CNEWA also provided the administrative and financial support necessary for the Pontifical Mission's operations in addition to most of the means of assistance for the persons it served.
Although originally envisaged as a short-term, emergency program, the work of the Pontifical Mission necessarily continued in the uncertain and troubled arena of the Middle East. By 1967, it had evolved from providing emergency assistance for refugees to assisting an entire population living under martial law with few or weak social institutions. With the outbreak of the Lebanese civil war, the beneficiaries of the work of the Pontifical Mission began to be not only Palestinians but also Lebanese. With the Gulf War, its work extended to Iraqi refugees. By the time of its 50th anniversary in 1999, it was recognized as the Holy See's overall development agency for the Middle East.
While the Pontifical Mission for Palestine is canonically distinct from CNEWA, in practice both organizations are united under one administration. The Pontifical Mission, in addition to its proper activities of emergency aid and social development, also administers programs of CNEWA. In effect, it functions as the Middle East operating agency of CNEWA.
On the occasion of the 25th anniversary of the Catholic Near East Welfare Association, Pope Pius XII, in an autographed letter to its president, Francis Cardinal Spellman, congratulated CNEWA for its work of safeguarding and fostering the faith among the Catholics of the Oriental rites and for its magnanimous cooperation with the Pontifical Mission. The Holy Father expressed his continuous need for assistance for all the peoples of the Near East and Eastern Catholics and his hopes and prayers for the expansion of the membership and work of CNEWA.
New structures for local program oversight
To assist the transmissions of funds for CNEWA's needy child sponsorship program in Ethiopia, the "Ufficio CNEWA" within the Congregation for the Eastern Churches engaged the services of local staff in Addis Ababa. Meanwhile, the New York office of CNEWA was utilizing the part-time services of local Ethiopian staff for project oversight. As responsibility for the disbursement of needy child sponsorship funds moved from the "Ufficio CNEWA" and the Congregation in Rome to CNEWA's administrative headquarters in New York, it was decided to organize in 1986 a regional office in Addis Ababa to assume responsibility for all programmatic disbursements, whether subsidies to institutions or grants for programs and projects.
While D. Simon Cardinal Lourdusamy was prefect of the Congregation for the Eastern Churches, responsibility for needy child sponsorship program disbursements and then seminarian and novice sponsorship program disbursements was transferred to the New York office of CNEWA.
When Achille Cardinal Silvestrini became the prefect of the congregation, he encouraged CNEWA to manage the transmissions of all funds, including grants for projects and programs, directly from New York, rather than through the "Ufficio CNEWA" within the Congregation. Later, on 11 June 1994, these procedures were formalized and, in response to Cardinal Silvestrini's request, the "Ufficio CNEWA" was removed from the congregation and joined to the existing Pontifical Mission office in Rome. The changes were considered ad experimentum for a period of five years. In 1999, they were deemed satisfactory and made permanent.
The same year, another regional office was established in Ernakulam to ensure better oversight of the extensive program of CNEWA in India, and responsibility for much of the operational detail concerned with institutional subsidies and the agency's three person-to-person sponsorship programs was transferred to the new office.
A characteristic of all of these offices of CNEWA is that they are available to assist the dicasteries of the Holy See, especially the Congregation for the Eastern Churches, as well as Catholic donor agencies in assessment of local applications for subsidies or grants, in the administration of programmatic disbursements and in supplying appropriate and supporting reports.
The innovative programs of personal sponsorship of the education and formation of individual seminarians and novices and of the care of individual orphaned or needy children developed by CNEWA had great success. Also the membership of CNEWA gradually expanded to include Catholics in Canada and, to a lesser extent, Mexico and other countries, to the point that CNEWA became the principal animator and collector in North America of assistance for the Near East.
Ecumenical and interreligious activities
The restructuring of CNEWA initiated in 1985 under the presidency of John Cardinal O'Connor not only led to a major expansion of programmatic activities and the development of additional regional offices, but to a renewed and greater emphasis on the ecumenical aspect of CNEWA's foundational mission. Although the primary beneficiaries of CNEWA's funding activities continued to be the Eastern Catholic churches and their institutions and programs, increasingly support began to be given to the Orthodox and other churches in the countries within CNEWA's area of service.
This was a conscious and deliberate return to CNEWA's original mandate, inherited from the Catholic Union, to work for the union of the Orthodox churches with the Holy See and to make CNEWA active in the "dialogue of charity." By extension, some deployment of CNEWA's resources also began to be made to assist Muslims and other non-Christians through their participation in CNEWA's works of charity.
Expansion of CNEWA
With the strong encouragement of not only its own episcopal Board of Trustees but also the prefects of the Congregation for the Eastern Churches, first Achille Cardinal Silvestrini and then Ignace Moussa I Cardinal Daoud, plans were developed for the creation of branch, national offices of CNEWA to raise public awareness of the Eastern churches and the countries in which they are located and to solicit funds for their subvention.
Under the leadership of Archbishop Marcel Gervais of Ottawa, "CNEWA Canada" was organized and incorporated. This prompted the separation of a distinct "CNEWA United States" and a restructuring of the governance of the central, mother organization of CNEWA.
In Canada, support and interest in CNEWA's activities grows each year. For financial and operation reasons, however, CNEWA's board of trustees dissolved CNEWA United States and reintegrated its functions with CNEWA effective 31 January 2013.
Catholic Near East Welfare Association, founded by the Holy Father, shares the love of Christ with the churches and peoples of the East.
CNEWA works for, through and with the Eastern Catholic churches to identify needs and implement solutions.
CNEWA connects you to your brothers and sisters in need. Together, we build up the church, affirm human dignity, alleviate poverty, encourage dialogue — and inspire hope.
CNEWA, although remaining one unified institution in accordance with canon law and the directives of the Holy See, utilizes as many civil corporate structures as may be necessary to the fulfillment of its mission.
Board of Trustees. The governing body of CNEWA is a board of trustees. The archbishop of New York is a trustee ex officio; the remaining trustees are elected for terms of four years by the board itself, originally from among the cardinals, archbishops and bishops of the United States and now also from the hierarchies of other countries where national branches of CNEWA have been established. The trustees meet at least once every year on a date fixed by the archbishop of New York.
Chair. The archbishop of New York is ex officio the chair of CNEWA and of the board of trustees. He is responsible for the overall supervision and direction of CNEWA.
Vice-Chair. The vice-chair of CNEWA is elected by the board of trustees from among its members at its annual meeting for a term of one year. In the event of the absence, disability or death of the chair, the vice-chair presides at all meetings of the board of trustees and in all other respects performs the duties of the chair.
Treasurer. The archbishop of New York is ex officio the treasurer of CNEWA. He is responsible for the overall management of the business affairs and assets of CNEWA.
Secretary. The secretary of CNEWA is nominated by the chair and elected by the board of trustees at its annual meeting to serve for such term as the board may determine. His election is confirmed by the Holy See. The secretary is the chief executive officer and president of CNEWA. He is responsible for directing it, under the supervision of the chair, in support of the mission, plans and policies approved by the board of trustees.
National Secretaries. In those countries where national branches of CNEWA have been created, a national secretary is nominated by the president and elected by the board of directors of the national branch at its annual meeting to serve for such term as the president may propose and the board may determine. Each national secretary is the chief executive officer of the national branch of CNEWA. He is responsible for supervising the affairs and operations of the national branch in cooperation with the president.
Other officials. Other officers are appointed by the president to serve for such term as he may designate.
CNEWA, as a corporation incorporated under the religious corporations law of the State of New York State, maintains its principal office in that state. As a public association of the Christian faithful placed under the direction and presidency of the archbishop of New York by the Holy See, CNEWA maintains its central office Rome and considers its New York office as its administrative headquarters.
Any person who approves of the purposes of CNEWA and who agrees to submit to its rules and regulations is eligible for membership in CNEWA. Membership consists of active members and passive members as regulated by the board of trustees.
The active members of CNEWA are the trustees themselves. The passive members are the voluntary donors and benefactors of CNEWA.
The policies of CNEWA are determined by its board of trustees. CNEWA conducts its activities in accordance with the dispositions of the Holy Father and the policies of the Holy See.
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Multi-instrumentalist Matt Weston is a hard guy to pin down. One night you might see him ripping guitar riffs for Thrillpillow, and the next he might be scraping cymbals solo or with experimental outfit Barn Owl. He's worked with legends like composer Bill Dixon and experimental artist Kevin Drumm, and plenty of talented folks in between. The longtime Northamptonite recently moved to Albany, but makes his way back to the Valley often to collaborate and create.
Weston celebrates the release of his latest offering, The Last Of The Six-Cylinders, Nov. 6 at Flywheel, in a show that also features Ben Miller. In advance of his return, he discussed his new CD, revenge, and Aldous Huxley.
Valley Advocate: When did you first get into music?
Matt Weston: I can't think of any point at which there wasn't music and then suddenly there was. I started playing drums when I was 8, bass guitar at 12, and guitar at 13, but before I played drums, I played air drums and tennis-racket guitar. And still managed to get complaints from the neighbors. Am I right, people? Is this thing on?
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The first records I ever heard were The Beatles' second album and the Count Basie Trio's For the First Time. That's about as ideal a foundation as anyone could hope for, and they led directly to the Who, James Brown, Green, John Coltrane, Pierre Henry, Keiji Haino and Bill Dixon.
Could you tell me a little about Ben Miller and the upcoming Flywheel show?
Ben and I started playing as a duo when we both lived in Chicago in the late '90s. He's got an amazing history (and present and future), having been a member of legendary Ann Arbor band Destroy All Monsters. We reconnected a few years ago when we both realized we are now on the East Coast. We've done a bunch of shows as a duo, and one with his brother Roger (from Mission of Burma) which resulted in a recording called Post-Out. I love his approach to guitar and electronics, and it's always fascinating to see how it evolves.
What is your approach to your solo work?
Revenge, mostly. Smiting my enemies. An alternative to breaking into/vandalizing their cars.
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I don't consciously approach it as experimentation or improvisation. Every musician, everywhere, ever, is always experimenting and improvising, if it means putting the amp in a different place or just playing at a different time of day. All music is experimental and improvised.
Matt Weston and Ben Miller play Flywheel in Easthampton Saturday, Nov. 6 at 8 p.m. For more info, visit http://www.mattweston.com.


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1931 Studebaker sedan found in Nova Scotia
Steve Porter of Burlington, Ontario, recently acquired a rare piece of automotive history:
"Hi Bill. For a long time, I have been interested in cars from the '20s and '30s that I have seen at shows and on eBay or Kijiji. Last year, I saw a 1931 Studebaker Dictator on Kijiji. It was pale yellow with brown fenders and looked great. Unfortunately, it was too far away (Cape Breton Island) and cost too much at $29,000. This past September, I was pleased to see the ad appear again. I called and the seller confirmed that it had a '70s era Chevy 250 engine, an automatic transmission, plus the bonus of power brakes (the original engine was a straight eight with 221 cubic inches and 81 horsepower).
"We decided to take a trip to see this car, with a side trip to our favourite province, PEI. We hadn't been there since the early '90s. There were a lot of changes, such as the new Confederation Bridge!
"On the way home, we stopped at Sydney to see the car. We really liked it and decided to make an offer. An agreement was reached, and the car was soon to be ours! My original plan was to drive it home, but it had been raining for six days, plus there was road construction for most of the 2000+ km trip. Hence, we decided to have it shipped. Many thanks to Wayne Hamilton for recommending a good carrier.
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Thousands Protest Closure of Ford Factories in Brazil
Thousands of workers on Tuesday protested the pending closure of carmaker Ford's three Brazilian factories at the cost of some 5,000 jobs.
Some 3,000 Ford employees in protective facemasks gathered at Ford's plants at Camacari in northeast Brazil and another 500 at Taubate in the southeast, both closed with immediate effect.
"It was shocking news, the worst possible," said Felipe Monteiro, a 34-year-old electronic technician and father of two who has worked at the Taubate factory for 16 years.
Ford said Monday that losses exacerbated by the coronavirus epidemic would see it close all three its three factories in Brazil, where it has operated for a century, saying the move was "very difficult, but necessary."
Production at Camacari and Taubate would cease immediately, except for manufacturing of some parts which would continue for a few months.
The Troller plant in Horizonte will operate until the fourth quarter.
Ford said losses continued despite progress made in phasing out unprofitable products, which included exiting the heavy truck business, cutting costs and launching new products.
The Covid-10 pandemic, it added, "amplifies persistent industry idle capacity and slow sales that have resulted in years of significant losses."
But President Jair Bolsonaro on Tuesday accused the company of lying about its reasons for the closures.
- 'They want subsidies' -
"Ford failed to tell the truth. They want subsidies," Bolsonaro said at the Alvorada Palace, his official residence in the capital Brasilia.
"Do you want us to continue giving them 20 billion reais (about $3.6 billion) as was done in recent years? No!" the president told supporters, without giving any context to the amount mentioned.
A Ford spokesperson in the US replied to Bolsonaro's accusations by saying: "The decision by Ford Brazil and circumstances behind it speak for themselves. There is nothing more to say."
Ford said it would continue serving South America with cars sourced from Argentina, Uruguay, and other markets.
New vehicle sales in Brazil retreated by more than 26 percent in 2020 due to the health crisis, the Fenabrave automotive federation said last week.
Car sales dropped 28.57 percent and that of buses by 33 percent.
News of the closures came as a bombshell in recession-hit Brazil, which is battling record unemployment, and elicited criticism of the inability of Bolsonaro's government to create a favorable business environment.
Brazilian media widely attributed Ford's departure to high production costs and a complex tax system, and Julio Bonfim, head of the Bahia Metalworkers Union, said it was largely a product of "economic instability" in the country.
Ford said it would work with unions to develop an "equitable and balanced plan" to mitigate the impact of the closures on workers.
Brazil is the country in the world with the second-highest number of reported coronavirus deaths, with more than 203,000 lives lost.


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The user experience/feedback app would be included with the installation of Ubuntu. The app would automatically create a LP account for the user, provide how to's access for all official Canonical supported apps, setup configurations for network, bluetooth, printers, etc. , allow user to provide feedback through bugs and wishlists.
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I have spent over 20 years in Fortune 100 companies caring for executives. Many go for the same Executive Health Physical year after year and come back with the same information. They get the same package of diagnostic tests or procedures that can give some assurance that they don't have cancer or heart disease. However, their brain function, hormones and productivity may be slipping and will go un noticed until they are too far gone.
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If I don't need or want to own the book, I'll check if it's available in a local library. A search at WorldCat.org can tell me which local libraries have it, in a list sorted by distance from where I live. (If you use the search engine DuckDuckGo, the shortcut is "!worldcat book-title".) I can usually get the book using Interlibrary Loan (ILL). That has a few drawbacks: I have to wait for it to arrive, I have to go to the library to pick it up and to return it, and I can only keep it for two weeks. My local library charges 50 cents for ILL, which is fine.
Software books are often available through Safari Books Online, and my local library has a subscription, which is awesome. It lets me read the books on my home computer, for free (legally). I just enter my library code and pin number.
If I want a book-to-keep, then I try to get it as an ebook or used book.
Go to AddAll and search for that ISBN.
AddAll searches a bunch of online bookstores and returns the results sorted by total cost (including shipping costs, which they can estimate if you give your location).
Shipping costs are often more expensive than the book, often a lot more. It would be great if there were a way to search all local used-book bookstores for a particular book, but I doubt that such a service will ever exist.
What do you do to keep book costs down?
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Q: ASP.NET  not recognized? I'm trying to catch a variable from a textbox in ASP.NET (can that be done through regular < input > boxes?). But with every tutorial they're using the < asp :> tag. When I try to use it, Intellisense doesn't recognize it, and when I try to compile the whole textbox dissapears.
I try to add it through the web.config file by adding <pages>
    <controls>
      <add tagPrefix="asp" namespace="System.Web.UI" assembly="System.Web.Extensions, Version=4.0.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=31BF3856AD364E35"/>
      <add tagPrefix="asp" namespace="System.Web.UI.WebControls" assembly="System.Web.Extensions, Version=4.0.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=31BF3856AD364E35"/>
      <add tagPrefix="asp" namespace="System.Web.UI.DataVisualization.Charting" assembly="System.Web.DataVisualization, Version=4.0.0.0, Culture=neutral, PublicKeyToken=31bf3856ad364e35"/>
    </controls>
  </pages>
but then I get an compile error:

Server Error in '/' Application.
Configuration Error
Description: An error occurred during the processing of a
  configuration file required to service this request. Please review the
  specific error details below and modify your configuration file
  appropriately.
Parser Error Message: Unrecognized configuration section pages.
Source Error:
Line 34:    Line 35:  Line 36:    Line 37:
   Line 38:
Source File: c:\users\mitchell\documents\visual studio
  2017\Projects\WebApp_ProjectManager\WebApp_ProjectManager\views\web.config
  Line: 36
Any suggestions?

I'm trying to catch variables from these textboxes:
Benodigdheden:
< input id="project_benodigdheden" type="text" />

                Locatie van benodigdheden:
 < input id="project_benodigdheden_locatie" type="text" />

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New Cyber and Information Security programs are emerging at a very fast pace. Almost every university has one as part of their curriculum now. This will come at no surprise to anyone who has just vaguely followed the news in recent years. Our society is fundamentally dependent on IT systems, everything is interconnected through the Internet, but vulnerabilities/hacks/breaches are occurring on a daily basis. Therefore, the number of students interested in obtaining a degree in this field is very high, and there is clearly a lack of qualified cyber security professionals.
For such reasons many universities have "added" a Cyber Security undergraduate or graduate degree to their curricula. This is often viewed as a "specialization" or "add-on" to a Computer Science degree. Unfortunately, many curriculum designers fail to realize the critical importance of the interdisciplinary nature of this area. Admittedly, cyber security needs professionals who are good at using keyboards. However, the challenges graduates will face in their jobs are much more complex. Cyber Security requires a good understanding of law, human factors/psychology, mathematics/ cryptography, social sciences, economics, security & risk management/IT audit, etc. And even within the technical domains, there is quite a difference in skills required for, say, someone working in network/system monitoring, to big data/machine learning, to someone doing digital forensics for a law enforcement agency, or malware reverse engineering for a security firm, and someone performing penetration tests, etc. Ideally, a graduate out of a Cyber Security program should have a basic understanding of all of those areas, plus an academic background please.
Creating the foundations for a truly interdisciplinary understanding of the subject area.
Making sure we do not loose academic values (such as critical thinking).
The last point is very important, as we need to ensure there is a distinct reason for attending a university. Decay of academic degrees have been reported manifold. Without an academic degree it is very hard to get a job, but as more and more students obtain such degrees there is also no distinctive advantage anymore for graduates. In fact, industry asks more and more for specific skills to be covered in university programs. In the area of cyber security, most of those skills can actually be obtained through vocational education or profession trainings—a university degree is not required.
For several years now, the higher education sector is discussing the changes that the information age has and will have on transforming the foundations of universities. Massive Open Online Courses (MOOCs) are cheaper, operate at large scale, and provide location-independent education. MOOCs also allow students to be more flexible to learn at their own optimal pace and time. Critics ask what the future of universities will look like in the face of this global online revolution, in particular with respect to the raising cost of higher education?
Today universities provide to the student: (1) detailed knowledge of a particular subject area, and (2) an accredited certificate. Online courses, on the other hand, have the potential to provide more inspiring, more career-oriented and more specialized knowledge—compared to already overworked academics. Some institutions already offer accredited certificates, and it will only be a matter of time until industry recognize those certificates as job qualifications. Is this going to be the end of the traditional higher education institutions? Are we sleepwalking into a crisis?
One important aspect has been forgotten in this argumentation: universities are supposed to be more than an accumulation of information. One of the cornerstones of academia was always the transformation of thought, the ability to dissect scientific concepts and to think in abstract forms and structures. Those are values of higher education since Socrates or Plato, but they have changed in the light of large commercialization. This commercialization is slowly leading to a decay of the quality of our graduates. Let me illustrate this at the example of the Cyber Security MSc program at Tallinn University of Technology. We are now in the process of transforming from a free to a paid program. Soon our students will have to pay €12,000 for attending the 2-year long MSc program. Looking at prices that universities elsewhere charge, for example top-universities in UK or USA, the difference is not that large anymore. While the intention of the government and university might have been to get some of the "expenses back", the intake will change fundamentally. Not only will capable and smart students, who are living in poor families, no longer be able to afford to come to study, but also those students who can afford studying will rather go to better ranked universities—especially if the same degree qualification can be obtained in one instead of two years. On top of this, in the future it will be possible to get all the knowledge required to obtain a well-paid job, without the need to pay for an expensive academic degree. What is the need then for a second or third tier university?
We are now at a critical time, higher education is transforming and this can either be a blessing or a curse. If universities fail to understand that we are facing disruptive technology it will lead to the bankruptcy of many higher education institutions. On the other hand we have now the chance to use this new technology to our advantages. "The question is whether current academic leaders have the vision, courage, and decisiveness to position their institutions to be academic leaders in the 21st century".
In 1984 educational psychologist Benjamin Bloom described the 2-sigma problem, which essentially states that a student subject to 1-to-1 tuition will develop from an average student into one at the top 98% quantile of all students. MOOCs can perfectly replace large-scale lectures, but they do not adjust adequately to the learning individual. Team building, communication, and interpersonal skills are vital in a globalized world and difficult to obtain via MOOCs.
Let me try to illustrate the challenges and opportunities that the interdisciplinary nature of Cyber Security poses: Image a MSc-level course on "hardening operating systems", and also imagine one student with 10 years of system administration experience (yes, we do have such students) attending this course, and another student being a graduate from an IT-Law program (without much "traditional computer science" background knowledge). Clearly both students are among the Cyber Security target audience. However, with traditional teaching methods it is next to impossible to teach such a course, as the experienced system administrator will be fundamentally bored; while the law graduate would be lost right after the first set of lectures. And while informal feedback from students typically confirms that they enjoy the breath different backgrounds of their colleagues, it poses unique challenges on the teaching methodology.
However, here is the unique opportunity for "flipped classroom" and "Education 3.0" teaching approaches. The student from our example with 10 years of system administration experience, might have to learn about the difference between criminal and civil law; while the lawyer will have to understand what a bash shell is. For this MOOCs can be an excellent enabler. Students can work in their own pace through areas where knowledge is missing. The quality of the online learning course is often also much better than the quality of a random unmotivated and overworked lecturer. And finally, learning the facts or reading a book is not what needs to be done in a classroom using PowerPoint. Time can be much better spent in smaller study-groups or seminar courses, and on 1-to-1 teaching, which creates a positive feedback loop and integrates Benjamin Bloom's 2-sigma problem as a fundamental part of the teaching strategy.
The overall mix of students with different backgrounds and different future dreams is then creating an inspiring atmosphere, to delve into a discourse and create an understanding for the interdiciplinary problems we are facing. This forms the basis for a constructive transformation of higher education, which integrates disruptive learning and teaching techniques instead of competing with them over the same market-share.
For example, adaptive learning techniques can be used to assess students capabilities and then adjust accordingly. Think of it, for example, in the following way: imagine the task given to the student is to configure a system to only allow ssh version 2 access to a server. Anyone with basic linux skills will be able to do that in less than 30 seconds, while the task might take quite a long time for a student without the required background knowledge. Just measuring the time to solve this task will already be a sufficient metric to assess the skill-level and, dependent on the outcome, the system then either adapt to go and cover more material from the linux fundamental area or just skill the branch completely and move to the next topic area. I-tee could serve as the underlying platform for building such an adaptive learning platform.
Engage students in scientific discourse. Today we have a wide choice of technology that allows us to optimize our teaching, but in needs to engage the student. Technology can not only be used to reduce repetitive tasks, but may also foster academic discourse. For example, blended learning proposes careful mix between asynchronous Internet technologies with face-to-face learning. It is important to appreciate the different cultural backgrounds and teach in a way that suites everyone, and this method also addresses Bloom's 2-sigma problem.
Integrate technology in a meaningful way. Simple role-play tools can create realistic situations, which significantly improve student's motivation. However, technology should never be used just for the shake of using technology. In my teaching I integrate it in the form of role-play scenarios. For example, to recreate the operations of an Internet Service Provider (ISP). Or in simpler forms via online discussion forums. Such simple tricks will encourage quieter students to "speak-up", as the anonymity of the forum can allow students to think first. However, it is important that the technology makes sense to the student, e.g., via replicating the processes of the Internet Engineering Task Force (IETF).
Teach skills beyond "detailed knowledge". We are observing an ever-increasing gap between detailed knowledge and fundamental theory. In particular in cyber security our graduates need to have detailed knowledge, but my goal is also to develop metacognitive processes that transforms thought structures. This often goes beyond the communication of basic knowledge that is required by the curriculum. In my teaching this is integrated by an open-ended question/assignment at the beginning of the course and letting the students workout how to solve the detail. This enables also creative thinking.
Special Topics of Cyber Security (ITC9010 & ITC9020) a joint research course taught at Tallinn University of Technology in-collaboration with University of Adelaide, Hochschule Ravensburg-Weingarten & HITSA.
The objective of this year-long course it to strengthen Estonia's position on international cyber security research excellence. Estonia has an active start-up scene and "can-do" attitude, but is still lacking in research excellence. In the world rankings, the best Estonian university (University of Tartu) was ranked at 314 and Tallinn University of Technology obtained a 600+ ranking. In order to strengthen the cyber security research profile, Estonia needs long-term collaboration with strong research-intensive universities around the globe. Combining research innovation with the existing start-up mentality will be a catalyst for future evolution of the Cyber Security scene in the region.
This course is designed to build the basis for the brightest cyber security students to establish long-term collaborations on an international-level. The starting point for this is solving some concrete problems in an international collaborative way. While targeting Cyber Security PhD students, we also admit MSc students, who have a strong interest in pursuing an academic career, conducting research, and publishing papers. The aim is to develop towards one of the flagship courses of the academic side of the university's program and invite brighter minds to come to Estonia. Throughout the course the participants will be constantly mentored on a one-to-one basis.
It's a year-long/two-semester course, where the first semester focuses on research topic finding, literature review and research methodology and the second semester focuses on research results, and paper writing. The course starts the collaborative research with a two-week face-to-face meeting in January in Adelaide, Australia (hosted by University of Adelaide). During that time small international teams form. After the workshop, the participating students return home, but continue to work together on their chosen research topics remotely. In July, the students meet again face-to-face, this time in Estonia. During that meeting, there is time to discuss initial research results at an Interdisciplinary Cyber Research (ICR) workshop, and sit down together to work on the problems. For the international students coming to Estonia, we organise an "e-Estonia-dream" tour and their visit is also aligned with the C3S Summer School (see below). At the end of the year it's expected that the research efforts have led to an academic paper draft.
This course is a teaching experiment already in the second-year iteration for establishing long-term collaborating research with other research-intensive universities around the world. See course website for more information.
The Cyber Security Summer School (C3S) at Tallinn University of Technology, funded by the Information Technology Foundation for Education in Estonia (HITSA), aims at top-level cyber security education attracting world-leading speakers and using innovative and novel teaching methods to create a week-long memorable learning experience. As Estonia is on the forefront of Cyber Security in many aspects, this summer school makes its contribution by bringing together the young researchers across the world to spread this know-how and culture. I have been in charge of the design, concept and the academic content since its beginning and it has been running for the last consecutive three years.
The theme of this C3S was on Social Engineering—Capture the Flag. Social engineering is one of the major concerns in cyber security. The human factor is often regarded as the weakest link and someone is always clicking on a link they really shouldn't click on. Sadly, the education and awareness in this area is low and for this reason cyber criminals are so successful. We must raise this bar and train our next generation of cyber experts better. Unfortunately, not too much research goes into how this can be done effectively. Teaching and training methods are lacking—and this is for a very good reason: social engineering is a hybrid area covering (among others) psychology, technology and criminology. Furthermore, it includes and targets humans, which becomes quickly borderline ethical. So instead of trying to find a suitable ethical and legal way of teaching effectively the dangers of social engineering, many just shy-away from this area. However, in order to advance education in this space, it's absolutely critical to learn how to teach social engineering topics and discuss them openly within the community of cyber security experts. In this summer school, participants had the very unique opportunity to be able to experience a real-world social engineering pen-test against a real company.
The event was organized jointly with Tobias Eggendorfer (Hochschule Ravensburg-Weingarten). Speakers of this event included Freddy Dezeure (former head of EU-CERT), Kieren Nicolas Lovell (Cambridge CERT), Aunshul Rege, Dirk Labudde, Jeffrey Moulton, Kätlin Konstabel, Ralph Echemendia ("The Ethical Hacker"), Vesselin Popov (Psychometrics Centre, Cambridge University). Participation was limited to 50 students, and we had 22 speakers or mentors. http://www.studyitin.ee/c3s2017.
The summer school focused on Digital Forensic—from a Technology and Law perspective. This interdisciplinary summer school aimed at fostering an understanding between "techies and lawyers". During the week, the students were confronted with a completely fictions scenario (where a minister was murdered while abroad). The students got a laptop that was "recovered from the crime scene", phone records, etc. The techies needed to do the forensic analysis, and extract documents that are relevant for the moot court case. The objective was to create a learning environment that is engaging for lawyers as well as techies and engage them into a meaningful dialog.
Overall, the Cyber Security Summer School and ICR form an integral part of this research excellence course, but attendance is not limited to students participating in this intensive research training. In fact, ICR has typically over 100 attendees, and the C3S is limited to not more than 50 participants.
This module focuses on fundamental problems of network protocols and various design decisions and their implications. It also includes security related protocols and gives a better understanding why it's sometimes so hard to secure the Internet. The course includes "traditional" lectures, but the main focus is on a practical lab in blend-learning-style. The students are tasked to develop and implement their own chat-protocol. Objective of this module is to design and implement a "distributed chat-system protocol over UDP". Every Internet user understands what a chat-system is. The additional requirement in the assignment is to develop a distributed protocol and use UDP. This brings the class across many issues that exists in real distributed networks (e.g., layers, routing, reliability, flooding/multicast, authentication, etc.). One important aspect is to achieve interoperability, this means the whole class needs to reach agreement on one protocol, but still every group has to have their own implementation.
Besides technical learning outcomes, this course aims at levels 5 to 6 in Blooms Taxonomy—trying to foster creative thinking. Besides this the module teaches about the IETF standardization processes, remote collaboration challenges, and has a large software development component in its design (students have to write programs in excess of 2,000 lines of code to pass this module).
Online discussion forums and chat rooms easily integrate in this module. It is interesting to observe the group dynamics and the way students approach this problem. Those communication patterns typically reassemble those dynamics that can be observed in the IETF (besides the nasty politics that sometimes co-exists in the real IETF). Such a module teaches much more skills than just basic facts about protocols. This type of blend learning also lets students answers their peers question, this starts an unbounded educational discourse. In the past I never needed to intervene on peer-discussions that students had. It is actually very interesting to see how students slowly truly understand the problems behind Internet protocols, and it becomes noticeable what they could not learn from books or traditional lectures.
In a fast changing field, such as Cyber Security, it is important for the students to realize how the field is changing and where/how to keep up-to-date as the technology will continue to change over time.
The objective of this course is to "build the Internet". The students form groups, each group gets three Cisco 2801 routers, three Laptops (which will serve as their "data-centers"), and cables. The role-play scenario is to build and operate an ISP. The course is typically sized around 30-40 students (limited by the equipment). The course includes traditional lectures, in which the students are guided through essential material and ensures compliance with the curriculum. Lab sessions allow "hands-on" interactions with the technology. An open-ended task-format in the assignment forces students to think on a broader level. Students are encouraged to find solutions online and come-up with ideas that go beyond the material. This would be very similar to an upper-management real-life job in an ISP, just with a strong technological component as well. The most important feedback that I received from students was that they feel they are learning something real and relevant and use the equipment to experiment with different ideas. Every year I typically had a few students, who ask me if they could continue to work on the equipment (in their spare time after the module has finished).
The strength of this course was really in the lab-sessions, which again allows respecting Bloom's two-sigma problem: Good students or students with prior background knowledge could progress faster through the material, and will not get bored. The module can easily be organized in a way to always remain stimulating for all students. For example, advanced groups will one day start getting "attacked" and have to face cyber security challenges (in a similar way as ISPs need to consider security related issues); while weaker groups can learn at their own optimal pace. It is important not overwhelm students, but also provide sufficient challenge for intellectual growth. The fact that the students can touch the equipment is actually an essential component. Learning all this in a physical lab adds to the credibility of the course.
The field of education itself is changing fast. It can be expected that the commercialization of higher education (incl. raising cost of education, raising numbers of students) will soon lose students to online versions of MOOCs. Those courses scale better and can offer the same level of knowledge at a cheaper price. However, institutions that stick to strong academic values, will find themselves equipped with a rich learning environment for graduates of the information-age. Those institutions can discover the transformative potential of modern technology, but the high quality of the institution will always have to come from inspired teachers.


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"Professional Courtesy"
I haven't commented in some time on the double standard applied to cops when they're found driving drunk — mainly because it's so common. If a cop is found to be DUI, he's usually usually given a free pass — aka "professional courtesy"; if there's an accident with witnesses, he never gets jail time. See, e.g., The DUI Double Standard, The Blue Cover-Up and The DUI Double Standard 2.
The following account from yesterday's news, however, cries out to be read:
"You Suck": DPD Officer to Silverthorne Officer During DUI Arrest
Denver, CO. July 22 – His blood alcohol level measured three times the legal limit when he crashed his Jeep, swore at officers and demanded special treatment. Now, a Denver Police officer's behavior that was caught on tape is being used as an example by the city's Independent Monitor to call for more discipline in the department.
According to an arrest report from the Silverthorne Police Department, off-duty Denver Police Officer Jesse M. Sandoval drove his Jeep Cherokee off the road in the 200 block of Wildernest Road just after 8 p.m. on Feb. 17, 2010.
When officers approached Sandoval, he claimed he was on his cell phone when he swerved off the road, but Silverthorne officers said his speech was slurred, his eyes were watery and pink and he smelled of alcohol. He also stated he had a gun in the vehicle, which was confiscated by Silverthorne Police.
The report says Sandoval identified himself as a Denver Police officer and asked for the responding officers to "help a fellow officer out and take him home."
One officer recorded the incident on her iPhone as they took Sandoval into custody. In audio recordings obtained by 9NEWS, Sandoval could be heard screaming obscenities at the Silverthorne officers and asking for special treatment.
"I'll tell you what; we used to take care of police when I used to work in Chicago. We take care of each other. You suck. I have never, ever, ever (expletive) another policeman. And I don't know what you guys do up here," he said. "You guys are being over the top because you think I'm a bad policeman. I'm such a bad person. I didn't do anything you (expletive) haven't done in your lifetime."
He went on for almost 40 minutes while the Silverthorne officers took care of paperwork and transported him to the Summit County Medical Center for a blood alcohol screen.
"You are the biggest (expletive) I've ever met. I worked in Chicago. Chicago PD and now I work in Denver. You know what, I've worked in two big cities and you know what, this is not the way we treated (expletive) the police, never. God bless you. I hope you feel good about yourself when you go home tonight," Sandoval said.
Sandoval pleaded guilty to DUI charges and was sentenced to 30 days of electronic monitoring, 48 hours of community service and 12 months of probation in the Summit County Court. He had no prior criminal history in Colorado and was previously awarded the Denver Police Department's Medal of Valor. 9NEWS tried to contact Sandoval by email for a comment but did not receive a response.
It was what happened with his punishment at the Denver Police Department that has the Independent Monitor questioning discipline.
According to Denver Police, Sandoval served a 26-day probation period before returning to the job. The Independent Monitor believes that was adequate for the DUI offense, but stated in his report that officers who use their position to try to get out of trouble should face additional disciplinary action.
"While the discipline imposed for the Driving Under the Influence and the Unlawful Weapon Possession was reasonable and within the scope of post-discipline matrix protocol, the discipline for the officer's attempts to obtain preferential treatment was insufficient," Independent Monitor Richard Rosenthal said…
Hmmmm….Crashed his car, had 3 times the legal limit, tried to get preferential treatment, swore at cops — and he still never did any jail time.
Ignition Interlock Makers Lobbying Congress to Require Them in All Cars
I've posted in the past about ignition interlock devices (IIDs) — those small, cheap breath testers that are installed in a car's dashboard and require periodic breath tests from the driver for the engine to function. See, for example, Will Ignition Interlock Devices End Drunk Driving?. I've also written about how these devices are unreliable and even dangerous on the highways. See, Ignition Interlocks: Dangerous But Profitable.
I've written about how MADD has been lobbying hard for mandatory installation of these IIDs in all vehicles, their CEO even claiming that they will "eliminate drunk driving once and for all". See, All U.S. Cars to Have Ignition Interlock Devices? and Finally: An End to Drunk Driving. And I've shown that MADD's own IRS returns show that three of the six largest contributors to the organization are Nissan North America, Daimler Chrysler and General Motors — all of which stand to make fortunes from installing these devices. See, The Truth About Ignition Interlock Devices.
Following is a Washington Post story from a couple of days ago, showing how IID manufacturers are now also using lobbyists in Washington to get bills passed requiring IIDs in all cars.
Steering Hill Leaders to Drunken-Driver Devices
Wash., DC. July 10 –As House leaders prepare to roll out a massive six-year highway funding bill, among the many interests watching with anticipation are a handful of businesses that have pressed for a requirement that could take them from cottage industry to multimillion-dollar market overnight.
The campaign by the manufacturers of in-car devices to test blood alcohol levels is representative of a particularly successful model of lobbying in which for-profit businesses align with altruistic activist groups to implement government regulations that create a captive market for their products.
A bill that would withhold up to 5 percent of each state's highway funding unless that state requires such as device in the cars of all convicted drunken drivers was introduced in the Senate in February by Sen. Frank R. Lautenberg, New Jersey Democrat, and last month in the House by Rep. Eliot L. Engel, New York Democrat.
For the past 18 months, lobbyists for "ignition interlocks," as they are called, have jockeyed to inject a provision into the crevices of the transportation reauthorization bill, a tentative outline of which was released Friday by Rep. John L. Mica, Florida Republican…
The Coalition of Ignition Interlock Manufacturers hired lobbyist David Kelly, a former chief of staff and acting administrator at the National Highway and Traffic Safety Administration. Mr. Lautenberg's former chief of staff, Tim Yehl, now lobbies for Ignition Interlock Systems of Iowa…
The manufacturers are taking a page from a well-worn playbook: lobbying campaigns in which private companies advocate for government requirements that would make them rich by aligning with activist forces who provide moral pronouncements that are appealing to politicians and – once on the table – the public…
We all know what happens when corporate lobbyists start handing out big money to the politicians. Now add the huge political clout of MADD….
Expect to have an ignition interlock device in your car in the near future — whether you want one or not.
(Thanks to Robert B. MacLean.)
Wisconsin Approach Confirms Solution to Reducing DUI Fatalities
As I've often pontificated in past posts, the way to reduce DUI-related fatalities on our highways is not to destroy the lives of offenders with Draconian punishment, nor to dismantle the Constitution in the process. Rather, the solution is in recognizing that the danger lies in not the vast majority of those accused but in the "problem drinker" — the person with prior convictions and whose blood-alcohol level is usually very high, typically an alcoholic. See, for example, my recent post A Modest Proposal.
A recent news story about such an approach in Wisconsin is confirming the validity of this view.
DOT Report Highlights Supervision of Repeat Drunken Drivers
Ashland, WI. July 1 – Pretrial Intensive Supervision Programs in 11 Wisconsin counties have saved the state tens of thousands of jail days, according to a legislative report recently completed by the Wisconsin Department of Transportation. The program began in 1993 in Milwaukee County and targets repeat drunken drivers through counseling, treatment, and monitoring…
The Department of Transportation annually evaluates the counties' programs. In 2010, the department reported the following results:
In 2010, 80 percent of the 3,813 drunk drivers participating in intensive supervision programs successfully completed their program, which typically includes: treatment for alcohol dependency or addiction, monitoring for sobriety, a Driver Safety Plan component and compliance with court appearances and payment of fines.
From October 1, 2009 through September 30, 2010 (federal fiscal year 2010), counties with intensive supervision programs that reported totals saved 74,440 jail days. (Total jail days saved does not include information from all counties in the program).
"The pretrial intoxicated driver intervention program continues to enjoy support from the Milwaukee County Court judges, who cite the program as one of the most important resources the courts have for dealing with repeat OWI offenders," said Milwaukee County Chief Judge Jeffrey Kremers. "The court appreciates that pretrial supervision of clients results in better treatment compliance."
Along with the state's justice system, the department of transportation sees program benefits, as well.
"Most traffic fatalities are linked to motorists' behavior such as driving while impaired, speeding and not wearing seat belts. We know that the injuries and deaths caused by the traffic crashes are preventable," said Randy Romanski of the Wisconsin Department of Transportation's Bureau of Transportation Safety. "The intensive supervision programs work to change behaviors and prevent situations where people drive drunk and injure or kill themselves or others."
Maybe it's time to abandon MADD's prohibition agenda and start dealing with reality.
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For Earth Day weekend, students, park rangers and professional actors starred in a modern, Yosemite-centric adaptation of Shakespeare's "A Midsummer Night's Dream."
Majestic. Peaceful. Calming. For many, these are the words conjured by Yosemite National Park. But in the park this past weekend, hundreds of visitors may have borne witness to a most rare vision: Two deaths, a wedding, and a fairy falling in love with a donkey.
Katie Brokaw, an English professor and Shakespeare scholar at UC Merced, co-directed the play with Paul Prescott of the University of Warwick.
It was William Shakespeare's "A Midsummer Night's Dream," performed in the shadows of pine trees and towering granite walls. It was the brainchild of two directors, both English professors and Shakespeare scholars: Katie Brokaw of UC Merced and Paul Prescott of the University of Warwick in England.
Choosing "A Midsummer Night's Dream," they said, was a no-brainer.
"So in a way, what the play does is it mimics the experience that everyone has who goes out into a national park," Prescott said.
The weekend's five free performances were held in the Lower River Amphitheater near Housekeeping Camp and the Half Dome Village Amphitheater.
Shakespeare aficionados would recognize the main characters: The mischievous sprite Puck; Fairy King Oberon and Queen Titania; and the hapless humans ensnared in a web of mismatched love. But they've never before seen this adaptation, which takes place 400 years after the original. Fairies ride skateboards, complain about spotty cell phone coverage, and sing The Beatles.
But environment in this adaptation is even more important than the time period. Instead of Athens, lovers get lost in Yosemite. Their costumes are made from trash collected in the park. And some of Shakespeare's language has been replaced by words used by Southern Sierra Miwok Indians.
"I've been waiting my entire life to say that," Wolpe giggled.
Lisa Wolpe as the sprite Puck (right), with GB Blackmon III as a sulking Fairy King Oberon. Costumes were made from trash, climbing gear and other items discarded in the park.
Devon Glover, who played two characters, had never been to Yosemite before. Known as "The Sonnet Man," he rewrites Shakespeare's poetry into hip hop—which he did with many of his lines.
Dwayne Newbold, a UC Merced music major who played Lysander, said it was easy to feel overshadowed by the park itself.
Organizers estimate the weekend's five free performances drew close to 1,000 spectators. And they seemed enchanted—especially when Puck heckled them. One family said they'd be back for a second show.
In the final scene, the cast gathered to sing "A Perfect World" by the Indigo Girls—a final nod to humans' relationship with their environment.
Sixteen-year-old Jade Jacobs loved the way the characters pointed out the animals and plants native to the area—like pine cones and Mariposa lilies.
"I thought it was kind of a trip to just have them reference things and you could look around and be like 'that's that, they just referenced that thing,'" she said.
It was hard to separate theater from nature. Pine needles rained down on the audience. In at least one show, a bobcat padded by.
Director Paul Prescott said that was kind of the point. "We hope we're telling a really fun and accessible but also profound story about the human relationship with the environment," he said—something maybe John Muir and William Shakespeare could have appreciated.
INTERVIEW: Yosemite Has A Trash Problem. What's Being Done About It?
Yosemite National Park has a trash problem. The more than 4 million people who visit every year and those that live in Yosemite leave 2,200 tons of garbage there annually. The park service is working to decrease the amount of that trash that ends up in the Mariposa County Landfill.
To find out more about the park's Zero Landfill Initiative, FM89's Ezra David Romero interviewed Yosemite National Park Ranger Jodi Bailey and Wildlife Biologist Caitlin Lee-Roney. Listen to that interview by clicking play above.
Over the past month we've brought you stories about how online short-term rental sites are changing the communities near Yosemite National Park. The booming vacation rental market is creating a shortage of places for locals to rent for the long-term and in some cases contributing to the area's homeless problem. And now the growing lack of long-term rentals is causing a hiring issue in Yosemite.


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3.) Indexing Options will open up. Select "Microsoft Outlook"(A) and click the Advanced button (B). Note that this step may require administrator privileges.
4.) Next on the default Index Settings tab click the Rebuild button (B).
5.) You will see an dialog asking you to confim the action. Do note that while the index is being rebuilt searches probably won't work so just wait until the process completes. The amount of time it takes to complete varies depending on the number of emails, file size, and processing power.
6.) Once you press OK you can see the status of the process at the top of Indexing Options window. If there are other apps running in the background, you'll see a notification that indexing speed is reduced due to user activity (A). You can the close the Indexing Options (B) as the re-indexing is happening in the background.
7.) Rebuilding the index depending on the number of emails, file size, and processing power and take some time! So once the rebuilding is complete, you're done!