Myanmar villagers still struggle year after storm
The Associated Press Wednesday, April 29, 2009; 3:15 AM
OAK-KYIUT, Myanmar -- The boat's owner points to a palm-covered bend in the river where dozens of bamboo huts perched on spindly stilts _ until Cyclone Nargis devastated this remote region a year ago.
"There were many, many bodies," Tin Maung Thein, 57, says through an interpreter, gesturing toward a lush expanse of green where bloated corpses once gently nudged the high tide mark.
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/04/29/AR2009042900394.html
Wednesday, April 29, 2009
"What's fair is foul... and foul is fair" - Gary Ackerman (originally Macbeth)
U.S. Seeks New Tack on Burma
Carrot-and-Stick Approach May Replace Sanctions Diplomacy
By Tim JohnstonWashington Post Foreign Service Sunday, April 12, 2009
BANGKOK -- When Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton announced recently that the United States was reviewing its policy of sanctions against Burma's government, it marked the final recognition of a global failure to modify the behavior of one of the world's most repressive regimes.
"Clearly, the path we have taken in imposing sanctions hasn't influenced the Burmese junta," Clinton said during a visit to Asia in February. "Reaching out and trying to engage them hasn't worked, either."
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/04/11/AR2009041102320.html
Carrot-and-Stick Approach May Replace Sanctions Diplomacy
By Tim JohnstonWashington Post Foreign Service Sunday, April 12, 2009
BANGKOK -- When Secretary of State Hillary Rodham Clinton announced recently that the United States was reviewing its policy of sanctions against Burma's government, it marked the final recognition of a global failure to modify the behavior of one of the world's most repressive regimes.
"Clearly, the path we have taken in imposing sanctions hasn't influenced the Burmese junta," Clinton said during a visit to Asia in February. "Reaching out and trying to engage them hasn't worked, either."
http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/04/11/AR2009041102320.html
the congressman can write... he needs a new car though...
President Obama speaks at National Academy of Sciences
Hey, Prez... what about NIH budget ?
REMARKS BY THE PRESIDENTAT THE NATIONAL ACADEMY OF SCIENCES ANNUAL MEETINGNational Academy of SciencesWashington, D.C.
9:12 A.M. EDTTHE PRESIDENT: Well, thank you so much for the wonderful welcome. To President Cicerone, thank you very much for your leadership and for hosting us today. To John Holdren, thanks, John, for the outstanding work that you are doing.I was just informed backstage that Ralph and John both are 1965 graduates of MIT -- same class. And so I'm not sure this is the perfectly prescribed scientific method, but they're sort of a control group -- (laughter) -- who ages faster: The President's Science Advisor or the President of the Academy? (Laughter.) And we'll check in in a couple of years. But it is wonderful to see them.
( read all at link belwo )
http://www.whitehouse.gov/the_press_office/Remarks-by-the-President-at-the-National-Academy-of-Sciences-Annual-Meeting/
( Now why did they announce all the pig flu news after the President's tour of Latin America ? Is it because there's no HHS Secretary appointed yet ? Who's gonna place the order for all the (Tami) flu contracts ? )
9:12 A.M. EDTTHE PRESIDENT: Well, thank you so much for the wonderful welcome. To President Cicerone, thank you very much for your leadership and for hosting us today. To John Holdren, thanks, John, for the outstanding work that you are doing.I was just informed backstage that Ralph and John both are 1965 graduates of MIT -- same class. And so I'm not sure this is the perfectly prescribed scientific method, but they're sort of a control group -- (laughter) -- who ages faster: The President's Science Advisor or the President of the Academy? (Laughter.) And we'll check in in a couple of years. But it is wonderful to see them.
( read all at link belwo )
http://www.whitehouse.gov/the_press_office/Remarks-by-the-President-at-the-National-Academy-of-Sciences-Annual-Meeting/
( Now why did they announce all the pig flu news after the President's tour of Latin America ? Is it because there's no HHS Secretary appointed yet ? Who's gonna place the order for all the (Tami) flu contracts ? )
Wednesday, April 22, 2009
OK... I get it...
My friend, the fund manager of RMH Enterprise Funds told me that my blog sucks because it doesn't offer anything to the reader. He said it's just esoteric news. I see... but I see the way the blind monks see the elephant... but I've thought of a catch - I will post the stock picks of RMH Enterprise Funds on this blog so that the readers can make money... Now, if you can make money because you read my blog, then, I think you will read my blog.
Tuesday, April 14, 2009
Tuesday, March 31, 2009
Chu on this - Secretary Chu’s Visit to BNL
Geez, Prof. your hair got grey... California dreamin ~~~?
New Secretary of Energy Steven Chu visited Brookhaven on Monday March 23 to announce the first allocations of stimulus funding from the DOE Office of Science via the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA) — and to take a whirlwind tour of the laboratory’s facilities, including RHIC. This was the Secretary’s first visit to a national laboratory since joining the administration.
read more - http://www.bnl.gov/rhic/news/033109/story1.asp
read more - http://www.bnl.gov/rhic/news/033109/story1.asp
Monday, March 30, 2009
UVU - Newspapers stolen... more than meets the eye... from the Chronicle of Higher Education
from the Chronicle of Higher Education...
March 29, 2009
Utah Valley U. Student Newspaper's Issue Is Stolen From Racks
Nearly every copy of the student newspaper at Utah Valley University, the UVU Review, went missing last week, and student staff members can’t figure out why. The newspaper prints about 4,000 copies a week, the Deseret News reported, and staffers estimate that 3,500 of them were taken from racks and removed from the campus.
A search of trash bins turned up none of the missing papers. “Whoever it was had to put in some work to get that many papers off campus,” said Jack Waters, the paper’s editor in chief.
Staff members could identify only two potentially controversial items in the March 23 issue, an editorial calling for changes in student-government elections and a letter to the editor criticizing the state regents’ recent choice of Matthew S. Holland, an assistant professor of political science at Brigham Young University, as Utah Valley’s next president. Both items are available on the newspaper’s Web site, and every article in the stolen issue will be reprinted in the paper’s next one.
Chris Taylor, associate vice president for university marketing and communications, said Utah Valley officials were taking the matter seriously. “This is a possible First Amendment issue,” he said. —Charles HuckabeePosted on Sunday March 29, 2009 Comments
It is certainly interesting to hear of an assistant professor becoming a university president. I would like to hear more about what is behind that – not the PR, what is really behind it.
Jim
— Jim Mar 29, 09:27 PM
Jim, not sure about all of the factors that went into hiring Holland (who’s an associate prof., not assistant prof—click on the link at Holland’s name), but Holland is the son of top Mormon leader (and former BYU president) Jeffrey Holland. Utah Valley U. is just a few miles away from BYU. This isn’t just any associate professor, in other words. UVU has expanded rapidly in recent years and hasn’t been a university for very long.
— John Mar 30, 01:50 AM For more on the culture of Utah Valley U (back in 2004 when it was still Utah Valley State College), see the excellent documentary “This Divided State” about Michael Moore’s visit there (http://thisdividedstate.com).
— John K. Wilson Mar 30, 09:53 AM
Looks like the Momans are moving in to take over again…..
— fred1988 Mar 30, 09:59 AM
Oh good… a Michael Moore movie. I’m sure everything in it is 100% accurate!
— scooter Mar 30, 10:01 AM
For the sake of student freedom of the press those who took the papers, regardless of their motivation, should be found and turned over to the student government disciplinary system. Stealing papers is an incidious kind of suppression of freedom of the press.
— Everett Frost Mar 30, 10:05 AM
Oh good… a knee-jerk reaction to the mention of Michael Moore’s name! In truth, this documentary was directed by Stephen Greenstreet and concerns a visit in 2004 by Moore, who was invited by student representatives to speak. Google the title.
— David Mar 30, 10:39 AM
I actually kind of figured that it wasn’t directed by Moore. Still, I couldn’t resist leveling a shot at him though. I’m sure the documentary is interesting.
— scooter Mar 30, 10:51 AM
Utah Valley U. Student Newspaper's Issue Is Stolen From Racks
Nearly every copy of the student newspaper at Utah Valley University, the UVU Review, went missing last week, and student staff members can’t figure out why. The newspaper prints about 4,000 copies a week, the Deseret News reported, and staffers estimate that 3,500 of them were taken from racks and removed from the campus.
A search of trash bins turned up none of the missing papers. “Whoever it was had to put in some work to get that many papers off campus,” said Jack Waters, the paper’s editor in chief.
Staff members could identify only two potentially controversial items in the March 23 issue, an editorial calling for changes in student-government elections and a letter to the editor criticizing the state regents’ recent choice of Matthew S. Holland, an assistant professor of political science at Brigham Young University, as Utah Valley’s next president. Both items are available on the newspaper’s Web site, and every article in the stolen issue will be reprinted in the paper’s next one.
Chris Taylor, associate vice president for university marketing and communications, said Utah Valley officials were taking the matter seriously. “This is a possible First Amendment issue,” he said. —Charles HuckabeePosted on Sunday March 29, 2009 Comments
It is certainly interesting to hear of an assistant professor becoming a university president. I would like to hear more about what is behind that – not the PR, what is really behind it.
Jim
— Jim Mar 29, 09:27 PM
Jim, not sure about all of the factors that went into hiring Holland (who’s an associate prof., not assistant prof—click on the link at Holland’s name), but Holland is the son of top Mormon leader (and former BYU president) Jeffrey Holland. Utah Valley U. is just a few miles away from BYU. This isn’t just any associate professor, in other words. UVU has expanded rapidly in recent years and hasn’t been a university for very long.
— John Mar 30, 01:50 AM For more on the culture of Utah Valley U (back in 2004 when it was still Utah Valley State College), see the excellent documentary “This Divided State” about Michael Moore’s visit there (http://thisdividedstate.com).
— John K. Wilson Mar 30, 09:53 AM
Looks like the Momans are moving in to take over again…..
— fred1988 Mar 30, 09:59 AM
Oh good… a Michael Moore movie. I’m sure everything in it is 100% accurate!
— scooter Mar 30, 10:01 AM
For the sake of student freedom of the press those who took the papers, regardless of their motivation, should be found and turned over to the student government disciplinary system. Stealing papers is an incidious kind of suppression of freedom of the press.
— Everett Frost Mar 30, 10:05 AM
Oh good… a knee-jerk reaction to the mention of Michael Moore’s name! In truth, this documentary was directed by Stephen Greenstreet and concerns a visit in 2004 by Moore, who was invited by student representatives to speak. Google the title.
— David Mar 30, 10:39 AM
I actually kind of figured that it wasn’t directed by Moore. Still, I couldn’t resist leveling a shot at him though. I’m sure the documentary is interesting.
— scooter Mar 30, 10:51 AM
Thursday, March 26, 2009
Notorious Arms Dealer Busted in Bangkok - ABC News
'bout time they caught him...One of the world's most notorious arms dealers was arrested today in Bangkok on allegations that he supplied Colombian rebels with arms and explosives, Thai police said.
Victor Bout, one of the world's most notorious arms dealers was arrested Thursday in Bangkok on allegations that he supplied Colombian rebels with arms and explosives, Thai police said. Russian Viktor Bout was arrested in his hotel room in the capital, Bangkok, on a warrant issued by a Thai court, said Police Lt. Gen. Pongpat Chayapan, head of the Crime Suppression Bureau.
http://abcnews.go.com/TheLaw/Story?id=4399285&page=1
Victor Bout, one of the world's most notorious arms dealers was arrested Thursday in Bangkok on allegations that he supplied Colombian rebels with arms and explosives, Thai police said. Russian Viktor Bout was arrested in his hotel room in the capital, Bangkok, on a warrant issued by a Thai court, said Police Lt. Gen. Pongpat Chayapan, head of the Crime Suppression Bureau.
http://abcnews.go.com/TheLaw/Story?id=4399285&page=1
John Hope Franklin, 1915-2009 - Washington Post
What is "is" ?
Tellin' it like it is.
Tellin' it like it is.John Hope Franklin, 1915-2009
Historian Helped Blaze a Civil Rights Path
John Hope Franklin, left, who was thrust into a role as
Historian Helped Blaze a Civil Rights Path
John Hope Franklin, left, who was thrust into a role as
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