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Commercial Delivery Truck and 18-Wheeler Accident Resources
Knowing When to Consult a Maryland Trucking Accident Lawyer
No matter where in Maryland you may live or work -- Annapolis, Baltimore, Rockville or Gaithersburg – the fact remains that hundreds of motor vehicle accidents occur weekly throughout our state and the District of Columbia. As personal injury experts, we know that being involved in any serious beltway or interstate accident can lead to traumatic injuries and emotional scars that can take a long time to heal. This is why the commercial trucking injury attorneys at Lebowitz & Mzhen Personal Injury Lawyers, believe victims should not be burdened with the worry of having to pay bills for medical care necessitated by another driver's negligence.
Motorists and motorcycle riders who are hurt in a collision with a commercial motor vehicle (CMV) that was caused by trucker negligence should consult a legal expert to decide whether or not to file an injury claim. When a traffic-related injury accident leaves an innocent victim with serious bodily injuries and the medical bills that accompany hospital treatment, there is no reason not to hold any responsible parties accountable for damages.
Regardless of whether the accident was high-speed T-bone crash at a busy urban street corner, a frightening side-swipe type of incident on the beltway, or a serious injury-related rear-end collision on the interstate, our personal injury lawyers are ready and willing to apply their legal expertise to help you file a claim. Certainly, many traffic accident victims and/or their families can often benefit from the guidance of an experienced Maryland personal injury lawyer knowledgeable in auto and trucking accident law.
As experts in the field, we know that the potential complexity of a trucking-related traffic accident in which bodily injury or death has resulted can make some people nervous about pursuing a claim against the responsible parties. However, regardless of whether your injuries were sustained in a crash on a Maryland roadway or a city street in Washington, D.C., the services of a skilled personal injury attorney can be invaluable.
There can be a multitude of legal issues tied to any CMV-related injury accident. As a firm experienced in handling traffic-related injury cases both here and in the District, the lawyers at Lebowitz & Mzhen are well-versed in the correct and proper interpretation of applicable personal injury and insurance statutes. There should be no doubt that having an experienced legal advocate on one's side can often make the difference between success and failure of an important injury or wrongful death claim.
Not only can an experienced attorney give you valuable advice and counsel in regard to recovering damages for medical treatment and physical rehabilitation following a negligence-related auto or trucking accident, a competent legal expert can also help victims recoup other losses connected to a bad traffic wreck, such as compensation for property damage and lost wages. In many instances, accident victims must deal with insurance carriers, whose employees are motivated to settle any claim with the least amount of cost to their company. It goes without saying that this rarely works out well for those claimants who have suffered serious physical injury or permanent disability.
We understand that deciding whether or not to retain a legal professional can weigh heavily on some people. Following a bad road accident, if a victim believes that she was not at fault, there is practically no reason not to contact a qualified professional for advice. Many law firms such as ours offer a free no-obligation consultation to help victims understand their rights under the law. This includes insight into whether or not their case has sufficient merit to justify a lawsuit against a truck driver, commercial trucking company or other negligent party.
When considering retaining the services of a Maryland personal injury attorney, it is highly advisable in certain cases, such as those involving serious injuries that may lead to potentially long-term physical or cognitive problems. Another instance that may call for the expertise of a qualified commercial trucking accident attorney can include accidents caused by a negligent trucker who was either unlicensed or improperly trained at the time of the crash. This can be especially important in cases where the trucker or his employer disputes the victim's injury claim.
Retaining a skilled lawyer to represent you or a family member who has been badly hurt in a negligence-related trucking accident is crucial, especially where there is a risk of the statute of limitations coming into play and precluding a settlement claim that the victim may be pursuing on his or her own. As anyone who has successfully won a trucking-related personal injury lawsuit might tell you, there are certainly many good reasons to contact a qualified attorney, but few reasons not to.
For motorists who have been involved in a serious injury accident -- either here in Maryland or over in the District -- the legal team at Lebowitz & Mzhen is prepared to review the facts of your case and help you to understand the process of filing a personal injury claim. While courtroom trials involving personal injury suits against commercial trucking companies can become lengthy affairs, depending on the preponderance of evidence and the completeness of the plaintiff's case, there have been instances where the defendant decides that an out-of-court settlement is a better route to take.
Our legal staff is ready to help. We at Lebowitz & Mzhen believe that there is little reason why any injured party, especially one who has been hurt due to carelessness or outright negligence, should shoulder the burden of his or her medical expenses alone. If a truck driver or his employer can be shown to have brought about the injury or death of another person though carelessness or the outright disregard for the safety of others, it is in that person's best interest to contact a qualified attorney. If you find yourself in such a position, please contact us at (800) 654-1949 for a free, no-obligation consultation; or you may email either Jack Lebowitz or Vadim Mzhen to set up a face-to-face meeting to discuss your trucking-related injury case.
Filing a Baltimore Wrongful Death Claim After a Fatal Commercial Trucking Wreck
General Information Regarding Injury-Related Trucking Accident Claims
Important Points to Remember Following a Maryland Commercial Trucking Traffic Accident
Investigating Liability in Maryland and Washington, D.C. Commercial Vehicle Collisions
Some Steps to Take Following a Serious Maryland Commercial Trucking Wreck
Common Causes of Trucking-Related Injury Accidents in Maryland and Washington, D.C.
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Serious Bodily Injuries Resulting From Maryland Commercial Truck Accidents
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Pennyworth: Emma Paetz Reacts to Shocking Season 3 Finale
Pennyworth concluded its shocking third season on HBO Max last week, and we're still trying to process the ending.
Just when it seemed like all of the focal characters had found some semblance of happiness, a bomb seemingly decimated London, setting the stage for a very different fourth season.
TV Fanatic got the chance to chat with Emma Paetz, who plays Martha Wayne on the Batman prequel series.
Check out the interview below.
It's been a rough season for Martha and Thomas, but they ended things on a positive note. Did you expect that to happen?
I never quite know where the scripts are going. I'm really bad at predicting, but yeah, I agree with you that they do end, I think, kind of stronger and more solid in their relationship than we've sort of ever seen them be actually out of like a huge period of tension.
We saw a different side to Martha as she went inside L7 to help save the world. What did you like the most about that?
It was a nice throwback to season one. Martha and Alfred were teamed up a couple of times going on missions together but didn't really have that at all in season two, so it was nice to go back to that dynamic for this most recent episode.
Alfie didn't take much convincing to go on the mission with Martha to the facility. Their relationship has developed a lot over the years. What have you liked the most about that?
Martha and Alfred know each other very well. I would argue a lot better than Thomas and him know each other. Maybe Thomas and Alfred have spent more time where they see each other more regularly, or at least we see them seeing each other more frequently.
But I think Martha and Alfred have an understanding between them. Over the years, they've gone through a lot together, and I think they're just developing kind of a genuine care for each other.
When you started working on this season, did you expect it to end with everyone at an impromptu wedding watching a missile hit central London?
I think I read it again. I was like, "what?" I went back and had another look. It's shocking. I can safely say I did not see that coming.
It gives a sense that maybe London might not be the location these characters will be on a potential fourth season. What are your thoughts on that?
Yeah, I mean, who knows? I have no idea what could be in store. As I said, I'm very bad at predicting these things. I'm just as curious as you are!
Speaking of Season 4, have you heard anything about that?
No, we will have to wait and see.
What have you enjoyed the most about working on Pennyworth?
There is a lot I've enjoyed. It's been cool to play a character over, you know, three seasons, almost four years. That was new for me.
It's a nice group of people to come back to, both in terms of the cast, crew, writers, and directors. It's cool that by season three, we all have an understanding of what this world is.
We all have a better idea of what we're working towards, which is unusual, especially with filming. We're so in the dark in terms of, like, "oh, what's this going to be at the end of it?"
But once you have a season and you've seen what you can build on, it's really satisfying.
What would your ideal ending for Martha be on the series if the show doesn't come back for a fourth season?
Like a dream ending? I mean, she doesn't have a very good ultimate end, does she?
Yeah, dream ending.
I don't know. I guess I don't like to think too far down Martha's future because it does go so badly for her. People have told me, "oh, you know, it's very sad seeing Martha and Thomas because you know what happens to them."
But I don't think Ben and I really think about that. It would be contemplating your own death very deeply to think about this character's ending.
I mean, it's not the same. I'm not creating mortality for characters, but it is a strange one. I don't know. It is sad that she dies in such a horrific way. So I guess maybe if I could write or change something for Martha and Thomas, it would be that they don't die in that way, but then I sort of destroy the Batman Empire…
Yeah. that would get rid of this origin story.
How familiar were you with Martha's story when you signed up for the show?
I think I knew the basics. I knew about the deaths, and that is what starts Batman's journey, but that's about it. I didn't really know much more.
Stream Pennyworth Season 1 to 3 on HBO Max now.
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Wolf-Cub's Handbook - 1916 - Written by Baden-Powell and published December 2, 1916. The first Cub Book, designed for boys from 9-12 years. Elements were taken from Kipling's Jungle Book. 230 pages.
BSA Edition - 1918-1928 - An American reprint sold by BSA to interested parties. "Price 50¢" in the lower left corner. Two variations are known: one with 1918 on the title page, and one with 1928. 230 pages.
Butte Montana Handbook - 1920 - An adaptation of "The Wolf Cub's Handbook" by John Whitney, Assistant Scout Executive of Butte, Montana. Adapted for American boys, and selling for 5¢ a copy. 12 pages.
Boy Pioneers of America - 1923 - Written by George Keneipp of the Piedmont Council. One of the few Cubbing experiments not based on Kipling's Jungle Book.
The Cub Book - 1924 - Printed September 1924 by Earle A. Sterling, District Cubmaster, Omaha, NE. Approved for experimental use by Chief Scout Executive James E. West.
Bites for "Cub" Honors - This book came from the estate of a man who was known to work on the Culver staff in the summer of 1925.
Handbook for Cubs - 1924-1928 - Written by the Honolulu Council, but authorized for use in other places. The text refers to the BSA but the badges are all British badges. 27 pages.


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Regulatory Focus™ > News Articles > 2020 > 11 > FDA, Industry set priorities for BsUFA III
FDA, Industry set priorities for BsUFA III
Posted 19 November 2020 | By Michael Mezher
At the kickoff meeting for the reauthorization process for the Biosimilar User Fee Act (BsUFA III) program, the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) and industry shared their wish lists for the third iteration of the agency's biosimilars review program.
While FDA laid out four broad goals for the FY2023-2027 program, industry presented more specific proposals, including the creation of a new pre-development meeting and issuance of further guidance on interchangeable biosimilars.
Reauthorization and FDA overview
The meeting, which sets the stage for the monthslong negotiations between FDA and regulated industry, began with an overview of the BsUFA program by Patrizia Cavazzoni, acting director of the Center for Drug Evaluation and Research (CDER) and Andy Kish, director of the Office of Program and Strategic Analysis at CDER.
"The purpose of this public meeting is to collect a wide variety of stakeholder perspectives as we consider what to retain and what to change in the next iteration of BsUFA," Cavazzoni said.
Under the first two BsUFA programs, "FDA has increased the predictability of the biosimilar review process, increased communication and transparency during biosimilar development and the application review and helped advance biosimilar marketplace competition, product access to patients and consumer choice via product approval," she added, noting positive feedback from industry on the agency's transparency and communication in the current program.
So far, FDA has approved 28 biosimilars since the inception of the 351(k) pathway, 18 of which have seen commercial launches. While the US trails behind Europe in terms of the number of approved and marketed biosimilars, Kish pointed out that the number of biosimilars in development has steadily increased under BsUFA I and II, with more than 100 products enrolled in the agency's biosimilar development program in 2020.
Kish pointed out that the BsUFA program, now entering its ninth year, is much smaller and less mature than the Prescription Drug User Fee Act (PDUFA) program, which has spanned nearly three decades. "Somewhat similar to other programs, user fee revenue has outpaced budget authority available for the program," Kish said, noting that in FY2021 the agency's target user fee revenue for the program is $42 million.
"We are on track to meet our core performance goals for FY2020. We just closed out FY2020 and those numbers are being finalized and from current performance, it looks like we are on track to meet those performance goals," Kish said.
As with the PDUFA program, meeting management continues to be a pain point for the BsUFA program, Kish said, noting that some of the meeting types the agency is missing its goals for are "quite small numbers, so you might miss one or two and you miss the goal."
"It's also important to note that the folks that are managing this and holding these meetings are also on the new drugs side, so their meeting management workload can't be looked at in isolation. It's also the workload that we have on the new drug side," Kish said.
For BsUFA III, Kish said FDA's high-level priorities are ensuring stable funding for the program; enhancing regulatory predictability and efficiency; enhancing operational capabilities, efficiency and agility; and facilitating more efficient biosimilar development.
Industry's wish list
Representatives of industry bodies and biosimilar manufacturers drew up their own set of goals for the upcoming program.
While praising the progress made under BsUFA II, Meaghan Smith, executive director of the Biosimilars Forum, said that improving the efficiency and utility of meetings and communications with FDA is a top priority going forward.
Smith suggested this could be done by creating a new avenue for pre- or early-development meetings between biosimilar developers and FDA and by giving sponsors a mechanism to obtain clarification on advice or comments from FDA during meetings.
Cory Wohlbach, global vice president of biosimilar regulatory affairs at Teva Pharmaceuticals, speaking on behalf of the Association for Accessible Medicines' Biosimilars Council, also called for "more opportunities for biosimilar sponsors and FDA to interact as early in the development process as possible without the need for additional analytical data."
"An early meeting that occurs even before a sponsor has initial analytical data could be useful to discuss early development in order to obtain FDA input on key issues such as clinical endpoints and study design which are currently not as well supported by the meeting structure under BsUFA II," Wohlbach said.
Smith, Wohlbach and others stressed the need for more clarity from FDA on biosimilar interchangeability and postapproval changes for chemistry, manufacturing and controls (CMC) and labeling.
"Industry continues to struggle with the lack of clarity regarding the agency's policy on certain aspects of interchangeability as well as regulatory expectations for certain postapproval changes for biosimilar or interchangeable products," Smith said, noting that interchangeable biologics have been excluded from several biosimilars guidances. "We appreciate that these exclusions may have been necessary at that time because the initial core interchangeability guidance had not yet been issued; however, it's now an appropriate time to fill in those gaps."
While FDA has yet to approve any interchangeable biosimilars, Wohlbach said that "clarifying guidance to industry on remaining issues will significantly facilitate development and regulatory review," and noted that he expects the first interchangeable biosimilars to be approved under BsUFA III.
Smith and Wohlbach also called for FDA to establish a regulatory science initiative for biosimilars, as it has done for generic drugs, and to look into ways to promote global biosimilar development programs.
Smith said she would like to see "a more active implementation of the mutual recognition agreement [MRA] with the EU for preapproval inspections," referencing the agency's MRA with EU regulators for good manufacturing practice (GMP) inspections. (RELATED: US and EU fully implement mutual agreement on GMP inspections, Regulatory Focus 12 July 2019).
While Wohlbach sought more harmonization with other regulators to facilitate global development programs. "We believe that there is an opportunity for global development programs for biosimilars with a clearly understood mechanism of action, a thorough analytical characterization and human pharmacokinetics and immunogenicity data, without routinely requiring clinical efficacy studies," Wohlbach said.
Both Cartier Esham, vice president for emerging companies at the Biotechnology Innovation Organization (BIO), and Lucy Vereshchagina, vice president of science and regulatory advocacy at the Pharmaceutical Research and Manufacturers of America (PhRMA) said they would like to see improvements in hiring and retention and upgrades to the program's information technology infrastructure under BsUFA III.
Sundar Ramanan, global head of regulatory affairs at Biocon, suggested several changes for BsUFA III that would speed the regulatory review times for biosimilars and called on FDA to reconsider the need for biological products to have a suffix following their nonproprietary names. Ramanan said the agency should consider shorter review times for biosimilars that do not require a comparative clinical trial and proposed an accelerated review for biosimilars referencing products with no biosimilar competition.
"To support further competition for molecules with limited or no biosimilars, we request the agency to consider a shorter review timeline for the first biosimilar application," Ramanan said.
Tags: biosimilars, BsUFA III, FDA, US


Ever since it was launched in 2013, Motorola's Moto G has been heralded as the best budget Android phone on the market. However, Nokia announced a range of Android phones at this year's MWC in February.
Among the three handsets that were unveiled, the Nokia X happens to be the cheapest of the lot. How does the handset stand up against the Moto G? Let's compare the smartphones to find out.
Starting with weight, the Moto G(143 grams) happens to be heavier than the Nokia X(128 grams) by a small margin. However, when you hold it, the difference is negligible. Moto G lets users stay black and sober by default, but you can add a splash of colour by using some of the swapable back covers. The Nokia X comes in some intense colours like Asha and Lumia phones.
In this round, the Moto G clearly beats the Nokia X with its stunning HD display. It offers a 1280×720 pixel resolution that churns out 326 ppi. The Nokia X on the other hand uses a WVGA 480×800 pixels display that churns out 233ppi.
The Nokia X is powered by a dual-core 1GHz Qualcomm Snapdragon S4 SoC and 512MB of RAM. This happens to be less powerful when compared to the Moto G's 1.2GHz Snapdragon 400 SoC and 1GB of RAM.
The extra RAM on the Moto G will make a huge difference when it comes to everyday usage and running resource-heavy apps. In other words, the Moto G is easily the better performer among the two.
The Nokia X uses a 3 MP rear facing camera as its primary shooter. The moto-g competes with a 5MP camera in the rear which has the ability to shoot 720p video (also at 30fps). While the Moto G has a decent 1.3 MP front camera, the Nokia X has no shooter for those narcissistic slefies.
Another department where the Moto G trumps over the Nokia X, Motorola's smartphone uses a 2,070mAh unit, offering a full day of charge. The Nokia X comes with a much smaller 1,500mAh that might not get you through an entire day.
The key difference between the two devices happens to be their approach towards Android. While the Moto G offers a near-Nexus experience, the Nokia X tries something very different.
The Finnish phone maker used the Nokia X OS on its handset, which is nothing but a modified version of Android. It does not have access to Google services like other Android phones and offers a selection of Nokia and Microsoft apps to make up for it.
Instead of the Google Play Store that is seen on most Android phones, users will have to make do with Nokia store and support from Yandex for search. Hence, the Moto G offers a stock Android experience, while the Nokia X strives to give users something entirely different.
The Nokia X+ and Nokia XL arrive in Q2 this year and they will be priced at €89, €99 (X+) and €109 (XL). The Moto G (8GB) can be picked up for £129 in the UK.


It will take around three months to fully implement the Goods and Services Tax (GST) in Mizoram as a number of traders and business houses were yet to register under the GST even as the new tax regime was in place from July one, state Taxation minister Lalsawta today said.
It will take around three months to fully implement the Goods and Services Tax (GST) in Mizoram as a number of traders and business houses were yet to register under the GST even as the new tax regime was in place from July one, state Taxation minister Lalsawta today said. Lalsawta told PTI that while slow internet connection was one of the biggest hurdles in implementation of the GST, the fact that many businessmen in the state were not familiar with computer, not to speak of being internet-savy.
He expressed the hope that the Taxation department had been imparting awareness among the business community and the levying of tax under the new regime would be fully functional after three months. "We have been facing some snags, mainly technical, and we hope to overcome them soon," he said optimistically.


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Q: iPhone Core Data: Initializing Managed Object without a context Is there a way to initialize a managed object outside of a context. I'm basically trying to alloc/init a Managed Object outside of a context first, then figure out if I really want to insert the object, and then inject it into the datastore using an existing managed object context.
Is this possible, or does it go against the intended usage of Core Data?

A: Managed Object are "managed" by the context, therefore you cant really instanciate them with alloc since they are not meant to be.However, instantiating a managed object through the context does not persist it until you call save method on the context, so you would have the same effect using the context to instanciate it and  only saving after you figure out that you really want to use the object.

A: No, you cannot instantiate an NSManagedObject instsance outside of an NSManagedObjectContext (well, you can, but bad things will happen and your program will almost certainly not work as you'd hoped). You can, however, create an NSInMemoryPersistentStore-backed NSManagedObjectContext. It's slightly more setup (not much) and everything vanishes when you dealloc the in-memory store. In the mean time, you get all the benefits of Core Data's object graph management.

A: For anyone who stumbles upon this question, here's how I accomplished what the OP was probably going for:
NSManagedObjectContext *moc = AppDelegate.managedObjectContext;
NSEntityDescription *entity = [NSEntityDescription entityForName:@"MyModel"
    inManagedObjectContext:moc];
MyModel *model = [[MyModel alloc] initWithEntity:entity
    insertIntoManagedObjectContext:nil];

A: What you are probably shooting for is multiple contexts. You can create an additional "scratchpad" context and then merge any changes back into the main context. One of Apple's iPhone sample projects accomplishes this exact thing. You'll have to log into the dev center to find it.

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Many realtors have been using photo slideshows to generate interest in listings for years. The technology is here to offer potential buyers so much more!
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American hedonism closes its eyes to death, and has been
incapable of exorcising the destructive power of the moment
with a wisdom like that of the Epicureans of antiquity.
- Octavio Paz
Death is un-American, and an affront to every citizen's inalienable
right to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.
- Arnold Toynbee
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"As long as such self-serving hypocrisy
motivates America's response, Ukraine will
only sink further into needless bloodshed,
and that blood will be on America's head."
In America everybody is of the opinion that he has no social superiors,
since all men are equal, but he does not admit that he has no social inferiors,
for, from the time of Jefferson onward, the doctrine that all men are equal
applies only upwards, not downwards.
― Bertrand Russell
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"What those 'racists' are reflexively and rightly reacting
to is the soulless chill as the fire goes out beneath the
melting pot. Those who think America can thrive as a
'cultural mosaic' are worse than fools; they're Canadians."
Two centuries ago, a former European colony decided to catch up with Europe.
It succeeded so well that the United States of America became a monster,
in which the taints, the sickness and the inhumanity of Europe
have grown to appalling dimensions.
― Frantz Fanon
What the United States does best is understand itself.
What it does worst is understand others.
- Carlos Fuentes
Poor Mexico, so far from God
and so close to the United States.
- Porfirio Diaz
"Indeed, everything about the American southland was magical
and exotic to the young Canadian musicians, from the sights
and smells to the drawling manner of speech to, especially, the
central role that music played in people's everyday lives."
America is a mistake, a giant mistake.
America is an adorable woman chewing tobacco.
- Auguste Bartholdi
"This is the tone of the China Century, a subtle
mix of Nazi/Soviet bravado and 'oriental'
cunning -- easily misunderstood, and never
heard before, in a real enemy, by the West."
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"And for the others who argued for English-only
patriotism, I note that there are more than
57 million Americans (about 20% of the nation)
whose first-language is not English...."
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"This is the behavior, and the fate, of paranoid
old-world tyrants like Hitler or Saddam, not liberal new-world democracies like America pretends to be."
America is the only nation in history which
miraculously has gone directly from barbarism to
degeneration without the usual interval of civilization.
- Georges Clemenceau
I found there a country with thirty-two religions and only one sauce.
- Charles–Maurice Talleyrand
A people who are still, as it were, but in the gristle,
and not yet hardened into the bone of manhood.
- Edmund Burke
America is the only country ever founded on the printed word.
- Marshall McLuhan
"The removal of racist sports nicknames (and mascots) seems outrageously belated
-- why, exactly, has this civil rights cause
taken so long to gain momentum?"
The atom bomb is a paper tiger which the
United States reactionaries use to scare people.
It looks terrible, but in fact it isn't.
- Mao Tse-tung
They made us many promises, more than I can remember, but
they kept only one; they promised to take our land, and they did.
- Red Cloud
In America sex is an obsession,
in other parts of the world it is a fact.
- Marlene Dietrich
I would rather have a nod from an American,
than a snuff-box from an emperor.
- Lord Byron
One day the United States discovered it was an empire.
But it didn't know what an empire was.
It thought that an empire was merely the biggest of all corporations.
- Roberto Calasso
Americans are so enamored of equality, they would rather
be equal in slavery than unequal in freedom.
- Alexis de Tocqueville
"No one, I thought, could watch those scenes, of young children slaughtered en masse, and so many parents grieving, without thinking that this, finally, would tip some kind of balance in the country."
If you are prepared to accept the consequences of your dreams
then you must still regard America today with the same naive
enthusiasm as the generations that discovered the New World.
- Jean Baudrillard
I am willing to love all mankind, except an American.
- Samuel Johnson
America, thou half brother of the world;
With something good and bad of every land.
- Philip Bailey
"What can be more powerful than disinformation in the Information Age?"
England and America are two countries separated by the same language.
- Sir Walter Besant
Christopher Columbus, as everyone knows, is honored by
posterity because he was the last to discover America.
- James Joyce
Now, from America, empty indifferent things
are pouring across, sham things, dummy life.
- Rainer Maria Rilke
If the United States is to recover fortitude and lucidity,
it must recover itself, and to recover itself it must
recover the "others"- the outcasts of the Western world.
The youth of America is their oldest tradition.
It has been going on now for three hundred years.
"America really is, for most Americans, all things considered, a good place to be, and all they really want is for everyone to enjoy the same privilege and pleasure."
When good Americans die they go to Paris;
when bad Americans die they go to America.
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They're nothing more than traffickers; and as the smart traffickers'll tell you, you don't use the merchandise. They are just inoculating their kids with a tech-drug serum, to immunize them against the very merchandise that put the **** bowling alley in their basement.
America is therefore the land of the future, where, in the ages that
lie before us, the burden of the World's History shall reveal itself.
- Georg Friedrich Hegel
America is a large, friendly dog in a very small room.
Every time it wags its tail, it knocks over a chair.
Americans always try to do the right thing after they've tried everything else.
- Winston Churchill
The thing that impresses me most about Americans
is the way parents obey their children.
- Edward, Duke of Windsor
Americans are apt to be unduly interested in discovering
what average opinion believes average opinion to be.
- John Maynard Keynes
Europe was created by history.
America was created by philosophy.
- Margaret Thatcher
America is God's crucible, the great Melting-Pot where all the races of
Europe are melting and reforming!... The real American has not yet arrived.
He is only in the crucible, I tell you - he will be the fusion of all races.
- Israel Zangwill
American dreams are strongest in the hearts of those
who have seen America only in their dreams.
- Pico Iyer
America: It's like Britain, only with buttons.
- Ringo Starr
The essential American soul is hard, isolate, stoic, and a killer.
It has never yet melted.
― D.H. Lawrence
I have two conflicting visions of America.
One is a kind of dream landscape and the other is a kind of black comedy.
― Bono
The American mirror, said the voice, the sad American mirror
of wealth and poverty and constant useless metamorphosis,
the mirror that sails and whose sails are pain.
― Roberto Bolaño
2013 State of Indian Nations Address
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Securing Our Futures
11th Annual State of Indian Nations Address
Remarks by Jefferson Keel, President
National Congress of American Indians (NCAI)
Newseum, Knight Studios, Washington, DC
Members of the National Congress of American Indians, members of the Administration and the 113th Congress, tribal leaders, tribal citizens, my fellow Americans.
As President of the National Congress of American Indians, and as one of more than 5 million American Indian and Alaska Natives of the 566 federally-recognized tribal nations and many state-recognized governments of Indian Country, it's an honor to speak to you today.
Native Americans are as diverse as America itself—an array of cultures, each with its own rich heritage, its own proud history.
And all of our vibrant threads, our stories and traditions, our struggles and triumphs, are woven into the fabric of America.
Every day, we are reminded of how far we've come, and the great journey we have ahead of us. And though we've walked dark roads, and overcome great challenges and tragedies, our future holds great promise.
Today, Indian Country is strong.
I could not always stand here and tell you that.
When I was a young boy growing up in southern Oklahoma, there weren't many opportunities in my Chickasaw community. My family, like many others, was poor, barely scraping by. As soon as we were old enough, we started working, harvesting cotton, peanut and corn crops, piling hay onto trucks, hauling them to the barns.
I saw neighbors working hard to build better lives for their families. Parents and grandparents maintaining our culture—from traditional food to name-giving ceremonies to celebrations of life and death. Passing on the timeless values of our tribe.
Even when the federal government told us we had no right to exist, we stayed true to ourselves.
Still, times were tough. Our people sometimes wondered if our best days were behind us.
But through it all, we carried on, forging new bonds with each other to strengthen our nations.
NCAI was critical to this effort—in fact, that's why it was started in 1944, when tribal citizens and tribal leaders stood together to speak as one voice for America's tribal nations. To protect our sovereignty. To affirm our rightful, constitutional place in the American family of governments.
Their work to unify and mobilize tribes rippled through Indian Country. My own community, like so many others, started to organize and advocate for our rights.
And we committed ourselves to carrying out the vision of our forefathers and mothers who signed the original treaties protecting tribal sovereignty.
That vision guided us through a new era in tribal governance: self-determination. Where tribal governments were once again able to run their own nations without interference.
This new era was transformational. When I came home from Vietnam, I witnessed the optimism of leaders shaping their own community. The energy of people making their own decisions. The pride of a tribal nation unleashing its own potential.
In many ways, my own experience, and my tribe's experience, reflect not just Indian Country's advances, but our aspirations. That our communities might thrive in a modern global economy. That our children might achieve their dreams.
And today, more than ever, those aspirations are within our reach.
II. A moment of progress and possibility
Thanks to greater trust between tribal nations and the United States, we are in a moment of real possibility.
In President Obama and his administration we have a partner committed to strengthening tribal sovereignty, who believes in our right to determine our own course, who understands what we've always known to be true: that Indian nations are best governed by Indian people.
This partnership extends throughout the federal government, on both sides of the aisle—because Indian issues are not partisan issues.
The result has had a meaningful, measurable impact on Indian people's lives. Today, more tribes are managing resources instead of managing poverty programs.
Residents of rural Oklahoma drive to our health facilities first, because they offer the best services around. Other governments seek our traditional knowledge of natural resources. Non-Native people come to us for jobs and educational opportunities. And companies partner with us to set up new businesses on reservations.
It's no wonder that more highly-skilled and educated Native young people are coming back to serve in our communities as doctors, lawyers, teachers, engineers, entrepreneurs.
And as we are revitalizing our own economies, tribes are becoming key players in America's economic recovery.
My tribe, the Chickasaw Nation, contributes $2.5 billion to our regional economy every year and employs over 12,000 people. At the same time, we're taking a proactive approach to budgeting and stewardship so that we are more resilient.
The nation-to-nation relationship we enjoy as tribal nations has never been confined to the borders of the United States. And thanks to more international trade agreements developed by tribal leaders, our businesses—and those of many other tribes—reach all around the globe.
At the same time, our people's dedication to America has never been stronger.
Last year, I stood at this podium and called for Native Americans to get out the vote, and Indian Country responded like never before.
NCAI's civic engagement campaign Native Vote was the biggest, most successful in our 70 year history. A massive grassroots campaign deployed huge numbers of volunteers, young and old. They knocked on doors, registered voters, drove people to polls, and helped turn out the highest number of Native voters ever.
They did this even though our people still had unequal access to the polls. Too many Native voters traveled long distances to exercise their right, only to be turned away.
So even as we applaud the efforts of the 2012 Native Vote movement, we know this is just the beginning, and we have much more work to do to ensure that every Native vote is cast, and counted.
Our commitment to democracy stretches beyond the ballot box to distant shores where, every day, thousands of Native men and women fight proudly under the American flag. To the more than 22,000 active duty Native warriors, and to my more than 156,000 fellow Native veterans, I salute you. America salutes you. We are grateful for your service.
Every day, in ways big and small, we are strengthening the unique nation-to-nation relationship tribes enjoy with the United States—a relationship of mutual respect, mutual obligation and mutual trust.
We've come a long way, but there's much more work to do. And I am convinced, now more than ever, that we must protect and strengthen tribal sovereignty. That is how we will meet our three shared goals: to secure our communities, secure our nations and secure our future.
III. Securing our communities
First, securing our communities.
There is nothing more important to tribal leaders than the safety and wellbeing of tribal citizens.
But today, one in three Native women will be raped in her lifetime. Almost four in ten will be beaten and abused by a domestic partner. The death rate of Native women on some reservations is ten times the national average.
The numbers are so high as to be almost numbing.
But here's the thing: violence against women is not a cultural practice. It is a criminal practice.
That's why we don't tolerate it. Tribes can and do pursue justice against Native men who committ hese acts. But that's not enough.
We know that assaults against Native women tend to take place at private residences.
That many Native women live on tribal lands.
That almost 60 percent of Native women are married to non-Native men.
We know all this, yet, we also know the tragic reality: today, tribes do not have the authority to prosecute non-Natives who beat, rape, or even kill women on tribal lands.
State and federal authorities are often hundreds of miles away, without the local resources to investigate crimes. And in recent times, U.S. Attorneys have declined to prosecute a majority of violent crimes in Indian Country—most of which are related to sexual abuse.
No other government would stand for this violation of sovereignty or continued injustice. No other government has to.
The solution is simple. Congress must reauthorize the landmark Violence Against Women Act and assure that tribal governments have the authority to prosecute non-Native men accused of violence against women on tribal lands.
In other words, Congress must allow tribes, like all governments, to protect their own people and surrounding communities, from brutality.
So if we believe that a Native woman's life is worth the same as every other woman's, if we believe that justice should not stop at the border of a reservation, if we believe that tribes are truly sovereign, then it's time for the House of Representatives to step up, put partisan politics aside, and reauthorize the Violence Against Women Act with expanded protections for all victims of violence.
Congress has demonstrated that it understands the importance of tribal sovereignty.
That's why, in the 1970s, they passed the Indian Child Welfare Act to ensure that tribal families have the ability to protect their children.
And it's why Congress recently authorized tribal leaders to directly seek a presidential disaster declaration, a critical tool for our governments to secure our communities.
It's why the United States has joined more than 140 members of the United Nations in acknowledging that Indigenous peoples are entitled to free, prior, and informed consent on decisions that affect our nations.
This respect for our nation-to-nation relationship must extend to other issues that impact Indian Country—including immigration.
What many Americans may not realize is that almost 40 tribal governments are located on or near the borders of Mexico and Canada, which means tribes have jurisdiction over some of the areas most affected by immigration policy. These issues directly impact the lives of our citizens, and tribal nations must be at the table as the federal government considers common sense immigration reform.
Tribes have faced new immigration for over 500 years, and we know it has its challenges!
But to us, this isn't just a policy issue—it's a moral one. We firmly believe that the arc of justice must stretch from the First Americans, to the newest Americans.
IV. Securing our nations
As we continue to secure our communities, we also secure our nations.
Our nations range from more than 200 remote Alaska Native villages where tribal citizens make up 20 percent of the state's population, to the Navajo Nation in the Southwest, with over 300,000 tribal citizens and a land base of 17 million acres.
From Alaska to Arizona, California to Connecticut, tribal lands cover over 100 million acres, which would make Indian Country America's fourth largest state!
This land is held in trust by the federal government. It was supposed to protect Indian land from both infringement and isolation.
Unfortunately, that trust—our trust—was broken too many times.
The funds used to maintain the trust were grossly mismanaged. Not just once or twice. But over and over. For decades and decades. It was a fraud that added up to billions and billions of dollars, and opportunity lost for generations of Native people.
Last year, the federal government finally implemented the Cobellsettlement to resolve the issue. While it doesn't erase the past, or repair the damage, it closes a painful chapter in our history, and turns a new page on our trust relationship.
That relationship continues to grow. After 200 years of disputes, recent settlements are securing tribal rights to water, which are critical to economic development, community livelihood, and people's health.
Much more must be done to restore the trust relationship. The CarcieriSupreme Court decision overturned a longstanding precedent and threatens our economic future by limiting federal authority to acquire land in trust for Indian tribes. This cannot stand. Congress must pass a clean Carcieri fix right now!
Our nations have enormous potential. Tribal lands boast almost 25 percent of America's on-shore oil and gas resources, and one-third of the West's low-sulfur coal.
And yet, they represent less than 5 percent of current national energy production.
Why? Because of leasing restrictions.
Fortunately, new federal policies are addressing this barrier, enabling tribes to develop our own sources of energy. The goal is to transform tribal lands and boost economic growth, while contributing to America's energy independence.
For instance, the Los Angeles City Council recently approved a 25-year, $1.5 billion project to buy solar power produced at the Moapa Band of Paiute Indian Nation in the southern Nevada desert. When it goes online in 2016, it will be the largest solar power plant on tribal lands, capturing the desert rays to power over 118,000 Los Angeles homes. In addition to the plant itself, over 900,000 solar panels will be built on the reservation, creating more jobs—and industries—of tomorrow.
One way to ensure that we see more projects like this one is to promote fair, equitable tax policy.
Like all governments, tribes must be able to collect and manage their own taxes. But right now, tribal governments don't have the same taxing authority or ability as states, local governments, and the federal government.
We will continue working with our federal partners to fix these policies so that the economies of Indian Country grow, and become a source of strength in our family of nations.
V. Securing our future
Tribal sovereignty is how we can secure our communities. It's how we can secure our nations.
And it is how we will secure our future.
This is our greatest challenge.
A quarter of our people live in poverty, twice the national average. And while the country as a whole struggles with an unemployment rate that hovers around 8 percent, the unemployment rate in Indian country is more than double that.
Almost one in five Native people don't have basic phone service. And thousands more don't even have plumbing.
For too long, these statistics have been accepted as the way it is in Indian Country. The goal, it seemed, was just survival.
But we must do better. And when tribes can develop their own priorities and make the right investments, they don't just survive—they thrive.
Throughout Indian Country, from the Seminoles of Florida to the Tulalip in Washington, more and more tribes are driving economic growth for their nations and surrounding communities.
Even in the most remote regions, tribes play a major role in promoting economic development. For example, the Tlingit and Haida Tribes generate $31.5 million annually, and is one of the top employers in Juneau and southeast Alaska—a huge boon to a region with limited economic activity.
And, as I said, many tribes are going global. The Suquamish Tribe of Washington has lived on the Central Puget Sound for thousands of years. Nobody knows how to fish those waters better than the Suquamish.
Today, wearing the latest diving gear and armed with GPS devices, Native divers explore the icy waters to catch gooeyducks.
What's a gooeyduck, you ask?
The gooeyduck is the world's largest clam. More importantly, it's a delicacy in Chinese cuisine. The Suquamish formed a co-op with a number of other tribes to export gooeyducks to Asian markets for as much as $50 per pound. It's an incredible example of how traditional knowledge is being applied in a new world.
That's just one example. Multiply that entrepreneurship by hundreds of tribes, growing, making, providing services or selling products, here and around the world, and it adds up to unprecedented progress, and prosperity, for our people.
We'll continue doing our part to be proactive stewards of our own future. Rather than simply react to the federal government's actions, tribes are thinking and planning ahead, making decisions that allow us to withstand economic uncertainty. And it's paying off.
Now, with the wind at our backs, we need our federal leaders to stand with us.
With the right investments, tribal communities will continue growing stronger, and advancing America's prosperity. We urge Congress to honor the trust responsibility by maintaining support for education, housing, roads, law enforcement, and energy development.
The trust responsibility is not a line item and we are not a special interest group. As budget discussions continue, we urge Congress to acknowledge their constitutional responsibility to honor our sacred trust by holding tribal governments harmless in the sequester and beyond. As President Obama said in the State of the Union address, just two days ago, the federal government must keep the promises they've already made.
Because this moment is about creating opportunity for our children and grandchildren.
And with 42 percent of Natives under the age of 25, we must take steps toward a stronger seventh generation.
That's why Indian Country is investing in education so that more of our young people can receive a higher education and develop skills to access greater opportunities. Gaming, just one example of economic development, has generated funds for tribes to invest in schools and provide talented young Indians with scholarships. In fact, in the past 30 years, the number of American Indian and Alaska Native students enrolled in college has more than doubled.
But we still have a long way to go.
Today, NCAI is releasing a report called Securing Our Futures. It shows areas where tribes are exercising their sovereignty right now, diversifying their revenue base, and bringing economic success to their nations and surrounding communities. The path to securing our future—from education to food security, climate change to workforce development—is illuminated by the proven success of tribal nations. While the circumstances of each tribal nation are unique, the promising practices contained in the report offer a way forward to secure tribal economies and sustain prosperity for future generations.
VI. Conclusion
In my final year as the President of NCAI, I share this vision of a strong future for Indian nations, knowing that it will be carried forward, not just in the year ahead, but for generations to come.
When I look back on our journey as the first peoples of North America, and where we are today, my heart fills with pride.
We are on course to fulfill the promise of those who came before us, of our elders who preserved our cultures against all odds. It is because of their sacrifices that we stand strong today and strong forever.
Our nations have been here a long time. We were a people before "We the people." We signed treaties. We engaged in commerce. We shaped American democracy.
And in some of America's darkest chapters, we stood with our non-Native brothers and sisters. In the depths of the Depression, tribal nations rebuilt our communities. When our homelands were attacked, tribal warriors stepped forward, as they always have, to defend our shared sacred ground, the United States of America. For these reasons, and so many more, tribal nations have been a wellspring of hope and strength for our fellow Americans.
Indeed, our unique place in the American family of governments makes us a model for nations around the world, and an inspiration to Indigenous peoples across the globe.
When I think about our shared future I'm reminded of something the late Senator Daniel Inouye, a great American, once said to a gathering of tribal leaders, "I can't think of anything, not anything, that is more critical to your past, to your present, or to your future than your sovereignty."
Senator Inouye was not a Native person. He didn't come from a tribal community.
But he took up our cause and spent his life advocating for our nations because he believed it was a matter of justice.
He knew that America was at her strongest when all of her governments worked together to advance our security and prosperity. When all her people were thriving. He understood that a sovereign people are a strong people, contributing in turn to a strong United States.
He knew that Native peoples were fighting for the same unalienable rights given to each of us by our Creator. The rights to life, liberty, and the pursuit of happiness.
These are the same principles that formed our treaties, and why our Constitution acknowledges tribes as equal, sovereign governments.
Today, you can see that sovereignty in action in tribal courts, in the classrooms of tribal colleges, and in tribal businesses all over the world.
This is the task at hand, to move together toward a more perfect union. To strengthen our trust relationship with the United States. From Washington to Kennedy, Reagan to Obama, tribal nations have worked with the United States to uphold this promise.
That trust, ultimately, is the principle that must guide us—all of us—as we go forward and do right by all of our children and grandchildren.
And when we do, we'll always be able to say, that the State of Indian Nations is strong, and the future prosperity of America is secure.
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