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Global Warming is Now a Weapon of Mass Destruction: It Kills More People Than Terrorism, Yet Blair and Bush do Nothing
by John Houghton
Published on Monday, July 28, 2003
by the Guardian/UK
If political leaders have one duty above all others, it is to protect the security of their people. Thus it was, according to the prime minister, to protect Britain's security against Saddam Hussein's weapons of mass destruction that this country went to war in Iraq. And yet our long-term security is threatened by a problem at least as dangerous as chemical, nuclear or biological weapons, or indeed international terrorism: human-induced climate change.
As a climate scientist who has worked on this issue for several decades, first as head of the Met Office, and then as co-chair of scientific assessment for the UN intergovernmental panel on climate change, the impacts of global warming are such that I have no hesitation in describing it as a "weapon of mass destruction".
Like terrorism, this weapon knows no boundaries. It can strike anywhere, in any form - a heat wave in one place, a drought or a flood or a storm surge in another. Nor is this just a problem for the future. The 1990s were probably the warmest decade in the last 1,000 years, and 1998 the warmest year. Global warming is already upon us.
The World Meteorological Organization warned this month that extreme weather events already seem to be becoming more frequent as a result. The US mainland was struck by 562 tornados in May (which incidentally saw the highest land temperatures globally since records began in 1880), killing 41 people. The developing world is the hardest hit: extremes of climate tend to be more intense at low latitudes and poorer countries are less able to cope with disasters. Pre-monsoon temperatures this year in India reached a blistering 49C (120F) - 5C (9F) above normal.
Once this killer heat wave began to abate, 1,500 people lay dead - half the number killed outright in the September 11 attacks on the World Trade Center. While no one can ascribe a single weather event to climate change with any degree of scientific certainty, higher maximum temperatures are one of the most predictable impacts of accelerated global warming, and the parallels - between global climate change and global terrorism - are becoming increasingly obvious.
To his credit, Tony Blair has - rhetorically, at least - begun to face up to this. In a recent speech he stated clearly that "there can be no genuine security if the planet is ravaged by climate change". But words are not enough. They have to be matched with adequate action. The recent announcement of a large-scale offshore wind generating program was welcome, but the UK still lags far behind other European countries in developing renewables capacity.
The latest report on energy and climate change by the royal commission on environmental pollution addressed the much more demanding global reductions in greenhouse gas emissions that will be required over the next 50 years (in addition to the Kyoto agreement) and how these could be achieved. Given that the UK needs to take its share of the global burden the commission recommended that we should aim for a cut in these emissions of 60% by 2050.
It also pointed out the urgent need for an adequate mechanism for negotiating each country's emission target and advocated a globally implemented plan known as "contraction and convergence". The energy white paper published earlier this year accepted the royal commission's 60% reduction target, but it is disturbing that it provided no clarity on UK policy regarding the framework for international negotiation.
Any successful international negotiation for reducing emissions must be based on four principles: the precautionary principle, the principle of sustainable development, the polluter-pays principle and the principle of equity. The strength of "contraction and convergence" is that it satisfies all these principles. But it also means facing up to some difficult questions.
First, world leaders have to agree on a target for the stabilization of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere at a sufficiently low level to stave off dangerous climate change. Second, this target, and the global greenhouse gas budget it implies, has to form the framework for an equitable global distribution of emissions permits, assigned to different countries on a per-capita basis. Countries with the largest populations will therefore get the most permits, but for the sake of efficiency and to achieve economic convergence these permits will need to be internationally tradable.
This is the only solution likely to be acceptable to most of the developing world, which unlike us has not had the benefit of over a century of fossil fuel-driven economic prosperity. And it also meets one of the key demands of the United States, that developing countries should not be excluded from emissions targets, as they currently are under the Kyoto protocol.
Nowadays everyone knows that the US is the world's biggest polluter, and that with only one 20th of the world's population it produces a quarter of its greenhouse gas emissions. But the US government, in an abdication of leadership of epic proportions, is refusing to take the problem seriously - and Britain, presumably because Blair wishes not to offend George Bush - is beginning to fall behind too. Emissions from the US are up 14% on those in 1990 and are projected to rise by a further 12% over the next decade.
It is vital that Russia now ratifies the Kyoto protocol so that it can at last come into force. But while the US refuses to cooperate, it is difficult to see how the rest of the world can make much progress on the much tougher longer-term agreements that will be necessary after Kyoto's mandate runs out in 2012.
Nor does the latest science provide any comfort. The intergovernmental panel on climate change has warned of 1.4C to 5.8C (2.5F to 10.4F) temperature rises by 2100. This already implies massive changes in climate, and yet the current worst-case scenarios emerging from the Met Office's Hadley Center. envisage even greater rises than this - a degree and speed of global warming the consequences of which are hard to quantify or even imagine.
So Blair has a challenge. The world needs leadership, and the British prime minister is well placed to stand at the head of a new "coalition of the willing" to tackle this urgent problem. He is also uniquely placed to persuade Bush to join in this effort, given their joint commitment to making the world safe from "weapons of mass destruction".
But even if he fails to persuade him, there are other allies who would still respond to his leadership - even if this means opposing the US until such time as it no longer has an oilman for president. If Blair were to assume this mantle, history might not only forgive him, but will also endorse Britain's contribution to long-term global security.
� Sir John Houghton was formerly chief executive of the Meteorological Office and co-chair of the scientific assessment working group of the intergovernmental panel on climate change. He is the author of 'Global Warming: the Complete Briefing'.
� Guardian Newspapers Limited 2003
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Mattioli's Dioscorides illustrated by Cibo (Discorsi by Mattioli and Cibo)
Bladder cherry (Physalis alkekengi), f. 4r
There is also another species of solanum, properly called halicababum. It has leaves like those of the first solanum but broader. Its little stalks bend towards the earth after they have grown. It has fruit in round pods similar to reddish bladders, which is round and smooth, like the grapes used in wreaths. It has the same virtues as the garden solanum and is used in the same way, but not in cooking. Its fruit has a diuretic effect and cures jaundice. The juice is squeezed from either of these plants, dried in the shade and kept for these uses (f. 7v).


Hypocrisy Update August 19, 2021:
#109: Pritzker attends visitation for slain police officer Ella French
If I was a Democrat and especially a bigwig like Illinois Governor J.B. Pritzker I'd be too ashamed and embarrassed to show up at a visitation for a slain police officer. I'd think about the no cash bail law I signed not too long ago. I'd think about my party's anti-police narrative. I might even consider the urban battleground that Democrat-controlled Chicago has become, a city so besieged by criminals and violence that even the expressways surrounding it are no longer safe.
Perhaps these kinds of conscience-devouring thoughts are why I could never be a Democrat. Pritzker is, though. Whatever ails Illinois will never be his fault any more than the sad state of affairs in Chicago will be the fault of Mayor Lori Lightfoot. They know the jargon to spew to the public. They are insulated from the bloodshed. Pritzker certainly has no familiarity with what it means to risk your life for the salary Officer French made. He does know how these appearances work. Make a few scripted comments if anyone is listening. Look sympathetic. Hope you get the deceased's name right.
As much as Democrats like to point their finger at Republicans for being in the same party as Donald Trump, Pritzker is a leader in the party of defund the police. Showing his face at a police officer's visitation is the height of hypocrisy. Democrats' anti-police narrative tells the nation that the police are brutal, racist thugs and opens the door for an open season on cops just like Illinois' no cash bail bill means an open season on law-abiding residents.
#110: Democrats still silent on Biden's 25th Amendment incapacity
What Americans and the world witnessed yesterday was a prima facie example of why we have a 25th Amendment. During his afternoon appearance following the deaths of 13 Americans and an untold number of Afghans President Biden seemed stupefied and was obviously struggling to get his words out. The president was correct. It was a very bad day. Bad days are when we need presidential leadership more than ever. We don't have it.
No leadership from Biden, but plenty of reasons to be fearful
Not only do Americans not have the leadership we need during this crisis created by a stumbling White House, we have every reason to be fearful of what is wrong with our president and what this might mean for the security of our nation. By all appearances President Biden is clearly "unable to discharge the powers and duties of his office."
Pelosi: four physicians and four psychiatrists to judge Trump
All Donald Trump had to do was get up in the morning and he faced cries for his removal. House Speaker Nancy Pelosi used the "unable to discharge" language in October 2020 when she demanded the 25th Amendment be used against a clearly competent president. She joined Rep. Jamie Raskin (D-MD) to establish a "Commission on Presidential Capacity to Discharge the Powers and Duties of Office." The anti-Trump duo suggested members of Congress choose four physicians and four psychiatrists to get the job done.213
That didn't happen. Trump was clearly on top of his game.
Pelosi again demanded that we apply the 25th amendment after the January 6, 2021 riot because of Trump's alleged "unspeakable assault on our nation and our people."214 She tried to impeach him twice and would probably do it again if private citizens could be impeached.
Cawthorn letter demands Democrats invoke 25th Amendment
Yesterday Congressman Madison Cawthorn (R-NC) sent a letter to Vice President Kamala Harris and members of Biden's Cabinet requesting that they invoke the 25th Amendment:
When I look to our commander in Chief, I do not see someone who maliciously makes poor decisions. And yet, today we witnessed devastating, heartbreaking American carnage as a direct result of his inept and incompetent actions.215
Will this go anywhere? Will Biden be removed by the 25th Amendment? Absolutely not. Democrats will turn Afghanistan into a victory over terrorism. They will turn the 13 U.S. casualties into heroes which they are, but they will do it falsely to make themselves look good with no admission whatsoever that the reason these Americans died was an incompetent president in the White House.
America's survival should not rely on partisan politics. History will judge the Democrat Party harshly for not invoking the 25th Amendment and removing Biden from office now. Of course, that leaves us with President Kamala Harris and the consequences of another dangerous Democrat Party decision.
Biden never says it, but I will. God bless the United States of America. With Joe Biden still at the helm we need that blessing now more than ever.
#111: was Ashli Babbitt a victim of racism, Trump hatred, or both?
Now that the story of Ashli Babbitt's killing by Capitol Police is out we can see very clearly the hypocrisy behind Democrats' attacks on the police.
In a just world use of force by the police is about right and wrong and protecting the public and the police. In Democrat Land the dividing line between right and wrong is skin color. Nothing hammers that point home better than the shooting of Ashli Babbitt.
Last night I listened to a local news report about the Capitol officer who was cleared for killing "a rioter." This dehumanizing phrase was tossed out several times before Babbitt's name was mentioned. Various news outlets including CNN refer to Babbitt as a "pro-Trump rioter."216 Can you imagine the media or any Democrat referring to George Floyd as a criminal suspect?
Babbitt was a real, live, breathing person. Turning her into a thing makes it a lot easier to accept the hypocrisy implicit in forgiving her killing.
You probably know where I'm headed with this. The narrative in the wake of the George Floyd killing became so extreme that there is never justification for a police officer to use force against a non-white offender. Even when use of force is unavoidable riots break out, stores are looted, fires start, and the unfortunate officer is pilloried by attention-seeking activist politicians, the media, and the court of public opinion long before the facts are revealed.
The police did not have a policy to shoot looters, rioters, or arsonists last summer. They were reined in by liberal public officials wringing their hands over slavery while their cities burned.
What happened on January 6 was different. Granted, Babbitt should not have been where she was but she was unarmed. How many times have you heard the phrase "unarmed black man" since George Floyd's killing?
Babbitt was an unarmed white woman. All Democrats unconditionally agree that shooting unarmed Americans is fundamentally wrong and deserving of punishment if the victim has some political value. That usually means not being white.
Unfortunately, Ashli Babbitt was a "pro-Trump rioter." That entitles her to nothing from the left but derision and hypocrisy from Democrats ready to pounce on the next police-involved shooting of an unarmed person of color.
#112: Biden and Pelosi commemorate Women's Equality Day and forget one very important thing
How do you mock Women's Equality Day? You pat yourself on the back for advancing women's equality while you hope no one will mention what you just did to doom millions of women and girls who can now forget about equality and start worrying about staying alive.
Anecdotal accounts poured in of the Taliban's attacks on women and girls while President Biden and House Speaker Pelosi commemorated Women's Equality Day by insisting we protect voting rights by not protecting them.
Women in Afghanistan don't have to concern themselves with voting rights thanks to Biden's disastrous U.S. withdrawal.
During Pelosi's public appearance on Thursday we heard about "the pride we take in Vice President Harris, that's for sure" and "the Biden agenda for women."217
We also heard from the White House:
I call upon the people of the United States to celebrate and continue to build on our country's progress towards gender equality, and to defend and strengthen the right to vote.218
There was not a single word about the millions of Afghan women and girls under Taliban control. It's not America's responsibility to protect these women in perpetuity, but Biden's abrupt withdrawal and his massive gift of the American military hardware left behind will add to the bloodshed to come.
The president abruptly cancelled much of Donald Trump's legacy in favor of his own damaging policies while choosing to blame Trump for what went wrong when he pulled out our troops. For Biden to shift the blame after he put so many women and girls in harm's way while calling on the U.S. to strengthen gender equality stinks of narrative hypocrisy and the White House's continuing refusal to accept any responsibility for the consequences of Biden's actions.
The president chose the coward's way out and blamed Trump for what has happened instead of standing up straight and explaining to the nation why he didn't do more to make sure women and girls were protected despite our withdrawal. Biden is the command-in-chief. He has already proved he can and will do whatever he wants.
Unfortunately for Afghan women and girls "whatever he wants means not doing anything. Biden didn't even mention Afghanistan on Women's Equality Day. Neither did Nancy Pelosi. Perhaps that was wise. They used the occasion to misrepresent voting rights in America. No need to add another layer of lies to further mock women's rights.
#113: proclaiming Overdose Awareness Week while illegals and fentanyl flow across our border
The president has been signing proclamation after proclamation lately, as if taking a position on something equates to action. It doesn't. Nowhere is this more obvious than Biden's recent "Proclamation on Overdose Awareness Week, 2021:"
During Overdose Awareness Week, we recommit to taking bold actions to prevent overdoses and related deaths, and enhance our support for individuals with substance use disorders.219
"Recommit to taking bold actions" probably sounded clever to White House media hacks, but what does it really mean? According to Customs and Border Protection it means this:
Despite the slight drop for February, CBP is seeing a drastic increase in fentanyl seizures this fiscal year – more than 360 percent higher than this same time last year. For all Fiscal Year 2020, CBP intercepted more than 4,700 pounds. Just five months into this year, CBP has seized nearly 5,000 pounds.220
That was from CBP's February 2021 Operational Update. A few months later the situation didn't sound much improved:
CBP continues to see a surge in fentanyl seizures; seizures in Fiscal Year 2021 through June are 78 percent higher than all of Fiscal Year 2020.221
What's the difference between 2020 and 2021? Joe Biden.
A July 27, 2021 Homeland Security & Governmental Affairs hearing discussed what Biden's border policies brought to the U.S.:
Senator Portman highlighted that Customs and Border Protection (CBP) agents are overwhelmed by the surge of migrants at our southern border as well as the record amounts of illicit deadly drugs, like fentanyl, coming across the border and into the United States.222
The proclamation announcement hit all the right notes. The president even included "racial disparities in responding to the overdose epidemic." The sorry truth is the choice comes down to whether we slow the rush of illegals to staunch the influx of lethal drugs or make empty promises about stopping the overdose epidemic. We already know which one Biden chose.
Hypocrisy Update September 3, 2021:
#114: Biden voters got what they asked for, so why the low approval?
What stands out about President Biden's historically awful approval rating is not how low it is, but the blatant hypocrisy behind the number of disapproving Americans who must also have voted for him.
Pew Research reports that only 26% say Biden "has done an excellent or good job" in Afghanistan. 42% rate his performance "poor."223
So why is the president's overall approval rating hovering just over 40%? Have Biden voters already lost faith in just eight months?
What happened in Afghanistan, what's happening at the border, and what's about to happen to our economy if the president does what he promised during the election is what Biden voters asked for. They got what they wanted. Biden delivered. It doesn't require a woke political scientist to figure out that a Biden presidency was a catastrophe waiting to happen. If you voted for Joe, rest assured that more of the same is on the way.
So I'll ask again. Why such a low approval, Biden voters? Did you make a big mistake?
#115: Opposing anti-Semitism while your party gives it safe harbor
Joe Biden spoke out against anti-Semitism in today's Rosh Hashanah commemoration. He insisted that America's to-do list includes:
To give hate no safe harbor, and speak out with clarity and conviction against antisemitism wherever and however it manifests.224
Did no one tell the president that anti-Semitism is alive and well within his own party and has been for quite some time with no action from Democrats who refuse to punish the same behavior in their ranks that they condemn in the harshest terms when it comes from anyone who isn't a Democrat?
In June Republican lawmakers introduced a censure resolution to address anti-Semitic remarks from Reps. Ilhan Omar (D-MN), Rashida Tlaib (D-MI), Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez (D-NY) and Ayanna Pressley (D-MA):
Last week, Congresswoman Ilhan Omar compared the United States and Israel to Hamas and the Taliban," said Rep. Tenney. "Sadly, this is not out of character for 'The Squad,' who have made a habit of trafficking in anti-Semitic rhetoric. Their actions have been completely unchecked by Democratic leadership in the House, even as vile attacks against Jewish Americans are rising.225
15 pages of anti-Semitic and anti-Israel remarks supported their resolution. 24 House Republicans cosponsored the effort. Not a single Democrat stepped up.
2019 H. Res. 241 fared no better with no Democrats agreeing to cosponsor language condemning anti-Semitic remarks made by Rep. Omar.
This is not to say that Democrats were silent. They issued weak press releases as if their empty words were the same thing as dealing with their anti-Semitism problem. In February 2019 Adam Schiff (D-CA) said this of repeat offender Omar's anti-Semitic comments:
It's never acceptable to give voice to, or repeat, anti-Semitic smears.226
It may not be acceptable, but it's certainly tolerated by Democrats. Biden talks about no safe harbor for hate. Anti-Semitism found that safe harbor within his own party.


Trump Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross says he doesn't 'understand' why federal workers lining up at food banks
January 24, 2019	National News
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Win McNamee/Getty Images(NEW YORK) — As the partial government shutdown stretches into day 34 and some of the 800,000 federal workers are set to miss their second paychecks starting Friday, Commerce Secretary Wilbur Ross is downplaying the effects on government employees and the overall economy.
Asked in an interview with CNBC Thursday about workers who have been seen lining up at food banks and homeless shelters, Ross, a multi-millionaire, appeared to advise them to take on new debt.
"Well, I know they are and I don't really quite understand why," Ross said. "Because as I mentioned before, they – the obligations that they would undertake, say, borrowing from a bank or a credit union, are in effect federally guaranteed."
"So the 30 days of pay that some people will be out, there's no real reason why they shouldn't be able to get a loan against it," Ross added.
Democratic lawmakers immediately pounced on the comments to frame the administration as tone-deaf, as multiple polls continue to show Americans largely blame President Trump and congressional Republicans for the record-long shutdown.
"Anybody who's at the top of the food chain is totally tone-deaf,' Democratic Sen. Joe Manchin told reporters Thursday. "If that's where they are, they've been out of touch with reality for that long, because I can tell you, I've been all over West Virginia. People are hurting."
Senate Minority Leader Sen. Chuck Schumer admonished Ross from the Senate floor Thursday morning.
"Those comments are appalling, and reveal the administration's callous indifference towards the federal workers it's treating as pawns," Schumer said. "Secretary Ross' comments are the 21st century equivalent of 'let them eat cake.'"
Even Republicans swiftly panned Ross' comments.
"I can't relate to the Secretary's comments because I have been hearing directly from Alaskans and non-Alaskans," GOP Sen. Lisa Murkowski of Alaska told reporters Thursday. "I have been hearing them tell me what it's like to be a proud member of a Coast Guard family … that is proud to serve. And to know that they have to go the food bank in order to get necessary food to tide them over until the next time they get paid … I hear very directly."
"They have Wilbur Ross saying he 'doesn't understand why' when he was asked about people going to food lines and pantries," House Speaker Nancy Pelosi said in remarks at her daily news conference. "He doesn't understand why they have to do that. Is this a 'let them eat cake' kind of attitude or 'call your father for money?'"
Trump appeared to misinterpret Pelosi's comments as he later tweeted attacking Pelosi, suggesting she was referring to the border wall and not the comments by Ross.
In the same interview, Ross also downplayed the effect on the broader economy from the estimated 800,000 workers not receiving pay.
"You're talking about 800,000 workers," Ross said. "And while I feel sorry for the individuals that have hardship cases, 800,000 workers if they never got their pay — which is not the case, they will eventually get it, but if they never got it, you're talking about a third of a percent on our GDP [Gross Domestic Product] so it's not like it's a gigantic number overall."
The comments come one day after President Donald Trump's daughter-in-law and campaign adviser, Lara Trump, faced criticism for her own comments regarding government workers.
"This is so much bigger than any one person," Lara Trump said. "It is a little bit of pain, but it's going to be for the future of our country, and their children and their grandchildren and generations after them will thank them for their sacrifice right now."
The president himself was criticized early on in the shutdown when he was similarly pressed on whether he could sympathize with workers who have to go without pay as he continued to demand Congress fund his proposed wall along the U.S.-Mexico border.
"I can relate," Trump said. "I'm sure the people that are on the receiving end will make adjustments. They always do. People understand what's going on. Many of those people that won't be receiving a paycheck, many of those people agree 100 percent with what I'm doing."


Uttar Pradesh panchayat
UP government to plant 22 crore saplings this season
Sapling distribution will start next week and the whole process has to be completed by August 15.
67 killed in Bihar floods as situation remains grim, over 46 lakh affected
Death toll in the Bihar flash floods, caused by torrential rainfall in the catchment areas of Nepal over the weekend, soared to 67 on Wednesday.
UN's top development official in awe of India's efforts
UN Development Programme Administrator Achim Steiner spoke highly of India's projects like eVIN (Electronic Vaccine Intelligence Network) that helps deliver immunisation to the last mile by digitising vaccine stock data and monitoring the temperature through a smartphone application that were being exported to other countries.
Cow deaths in UP: Yogi Adityanath suspends 8 officials, warns criminal action in future
Yogi Adityanath addressed district magistrates (DM) and other officials via video conferencing on Sunday over the recurring incidents of cow deaths in various districts of the state.
Rajasthan's environment friendly village leads the way with its unique initiative
In a remarkable feat, 111 trees are planted on the birth of every girl child in Piplantri village in Rajsamand district of Rajasthan.
BJP activist beaten for chanting Jai Shree Ram in Bengal, dies
Krishna Debnath, the saffron party activist from Swarupnagar in Nadia district's Nabadwip, was rushed to a local hospital after family members found him lying by the road side on Friday evening.
Updated : July 6, 2019, 5:56 pm
Nitish Kumar's battle against AES
Of the almost 130 children who have died of AES in Bihar, the majority, 85, have been girls, less likely to be fed adequately in poor families than their brothers.
Updated : June 28, 2019, 12:55 pm
Jaagte Raho: UP police siren gets new tune
The Uttar Pradesh Police have now adopted the slogan and all Dial 100 vehicles will play "Jaagte Raho" instead of the routine siren.
2 killed as groups clash during panchayat meeting in Uttar Pradesh's Shahjahanpur
While one of them was shot dead, the other died of injuries sustained after being beaten with sticks. He succumbed while undergoing treatment at a hospital, police said.
Modi, Shah Reign Again | BJP
The duo get their names inscribed in history books by crafting a spectacular win, decimating a determined opposition and proving traditional political theories wrong.
Updated : May 27, 2019, 12:39 pm
Smriti Irani's aide shot dead in Amethi: FIR lodged against 5 persons
Smriti Irani asked party workers to exercise restraint, even as she targeted Rahul Gandhi over his "take-care-of-Amethi-with-love" remark, saying she had got the message "loud and clear".
Updated : May 27, 2019, 9:34 am
Amit Shah: BJP's Chanakya who strategised and delivered Modi wave 2.0
A man with avowed aim of having the BJP rule from "panchayat to Parliament", Amit Shah has built his party into a formidable army that has been forever marching on since he took charge as its president in July 2014, turning India more saffron than it has ever been.
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EU Researchers achieve breakthrough in nano-scale c-Si
A team of scientists representing the photoNvoltaics project, funded by the European Union, has been able to develop a crystalline silicon cell with an effective thickness of just 830 nano-meters.
August 31, 2017 Mark Hutchins
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European researchers have become the first successfully integrate a nanophotonic structure into a crystalline silicon solar cell, boosting its light absorption and greatly reducing silicon use. This breakthrough, the researchers say, sets a pathway for scaling down the texture of crystalline solar cells from the micro to the nano-scale.
Thinner crystalline cells could allow new applications not currently possible with c-Si technology, such as flexible solar modules or semi-transparent cells for use in solar glass and building integrated solar projects.
"We strived to enable the development of a new and disruptive solar cell generation, resulting from the marriage of crystalline silicon PV with advanced light-trapping schemes from the field of nanophotonics," states project leader Valerie Depauw of the Belgium based Imec institute. "The main applications of our thin c-Si solar cells could be in buildings as windows and skylights, where they will bring more freedom for integration, and possibly lighter and thinner module designs."
Adding nanophotonic structures to the surface of c-Si cells has been a major stumbling block for researchers – while the structures boost light absorption, the texturing often damages the electrical efficiency of the cell, causing major losses.
The photoNvoltaics researchers were able to create a monocrystalline cell with 8.6% efficiency at just 830nm thickness. This was achieved by combining amorphous ordered nanopatterning with an advance surface passivation. "This prompts the development of highly efficient, flexible and semitransparent photovoltaics, based on the industrially mature monocrystalline silicon technology, state the researchers in their study Sunlight-thin nanophotonic monocrystalline silicon solar cells, published in the journal Nano Futures.
The researchers used a kerfless technique to separate a micron thick film from a standard mono wafer. The researchers then used reactive ion etching to imprint a nanotexture onto surface of the cell.
Silicon costs make up the largest portion of a solar module's overall costs, so creating thinner cells, and reducing the amount of silicon wasted in production are key areas for improvement in the eyes of manufacturers. Replacing sawing with kerfless wafer processes, and texturing surfaces to absorb more light are already recognized as two methods with the potential to further produce c-Si production costs.
The photoNvoltaics project takes this a step further, and while the cells it has produced here have not yet achieved commercially viable efficiency levels, the breakthrough could be a stepping stone towards new applications for c-Si technology, one that could see the technology applied in growing areas such as energy efficient buildings and transparent solar cells.
Mark Hutchins
Mark Hutchins joined pv magazine in September 2016 as production editor of the monthly global title. Mark also works online reporting on upstream technology and markets, as well as newly emerging solar regions.
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Restaurants with Online Ordering and Take Out
by David Dadekian March 18, 2020
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Due to the ongoing COVID-19 crisis many of Rhode Island's restaurants are trying to promote their online ordering and take out, and even moving to take out only. This page will attempt to be updated regularly with links to their ordering page or menu and phone numbers when online isn't available.
Resource Links for Small Businesses During COVID-19 Crisis including all federal, state & municipal funding options, plus health links.
Looking for local groceries, markets, food, drink, gift cards, apparel and all kinds of other merchandise?
Looking for locally brewed beer? We have a full update from RI Breweries right here.
Concerned about whether take out and delivery is safe during this pandemic? It is safe! Read all about it.
If you would like your restaurant to be added to this page, please send a message through our contact form. I'm happy to add ANYONE, just please send through the form so I don't lose track of anyone.
Here's some tips to ordering from your favorite restaurant:
Check a restaurant's Facebook page/Instagram/web site for updates. Things are very much in flux right now and they may have to stop, start or change hours on take out or delivery.
Always try to order directly from a restaurant first, via phone or their own online ordering before using a 3rd party delivery service (unless they recommend you use the service).
Buy a gift card. The restaurant gets the money now and you get to dine later for "free!" (Don't think about it.)
If a restaurant you love is closed completely, make sure you head in to eat when they open back up. These are hugely trying times for any small business and they'll need sales.
With that in mind, when you do dine-in again one day, tip well and tip often.
Buy a gift card. They make great gifts!
During this crisis restaurants are allowed to sell bottles & cans of wine & beer. Please support that as well.
That's not to say you shouldn't support your small business liquor store either, though I'm thinking we're all doing that as much as we can.
Did I mention buy a gift card?
What's Up Newp has got a page dedicated to places in Newport County, so rather than duplicate that, go check out their page.
Every restaurant in this list offers take out:
A Take Out or Delivery link means you can order online.
A phone number means click on the restaurant name to take you to their site where you can view the menu and call the restaurant take out or delivery.
The entire list is now in a sortable and searchable spreadsheet.
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Due to the ongoing COVID-19 crisis many of Rhode Island's food & drink businesses are trying to promote sales of their products, from food and beverages to gift cards and apparel. This page will attempt to be updated regularly with links to their online storefronts.
Check out the Restaurants with Online Ordering and Take Out page and get some take out or delivery!
Hope & Main has got an excellent #EatStrongRI page dedicated to their members who sell online, so rather than duplicate that, go check out their page.
If you would like your business to be added to this page, please send a message through our contact form. I'm happy to add ANYONE, just please send through the form so I don't lose track of anyone.
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News Bites: Newport Lobster Shack Kitchen, The Pizza Gourmet, Papa Razzi
by David Dadekian September 1, 2014
Grand Opening at the Newport Lobster Shack Kitchen
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Fishermen in Newport Celebrate Grand Opening of Lobster Shack Kitchen at State Pier Nine in Newport
New Waterfront Eatery on the State Pier Offers Steamed Lobster Dinners, Fresh Lobster Rolls, Lobsterman's Bisque and More Made from Lobsters Landed Right in Newport at Pier Nine on Long Wharf
The Department of Environmental Management, in partnership with the Fishermen in Newport, hosted a grand opening and ribbon-cutting event today at State Pier Nine in Newport for the new Newport Lobster Shack Kitchen.
The Kitchen is an outgrowth of the popular Newport Lobster Shack Cooperative at the state pier on Long Wharf, where the Fishermen in Newport have been selling their catch – lobsters, crabs and conch – directly to the public since 2010. Now, with the new kitchen facility, the public has an opportunity to purchase a variety of freshly cooked items made directly from lobsters landed at Pier Nine. Visitors to Newport can now enjoy an affordable, local seafood meal 'picnic-style' under the shade pavilion on Newport's working waterfront.
According to DEM Director Janet Coit, the Newport Lobster Shack Cooperative is a powerful model for the survival of local fisheries. By selling their catch directly to the public, the fishermen can earn better value for their product, while ensuring that visitors have a stellar Rhode Island seafood experience.
"I am pleased that economic and environmental sustainability were addressed with this innovative idea to support Rhode Island's hard working fishermen," Governor Lincoln D. Chafee said. "I thank Director Coit and her staff for their work to support our environment and economy."
DEM Director Coit noted that this collaborative initiative with the Fishermen in Newport is one of DEM's efforts to add economic value to the Rhode Island fishing industry. "All of the Kitchen's menu items including fresh steamed lobster, lobster rolls, lobster bites, lobster cakes, and hand-picked local lobster meat come straight from the lobsters plucked by fishermen in local waters and landed right here at State Pier Nine. You can't get any fresher than that!"
Lobster typically ranks as Rhode Island's second most valuable commercial fishery, behind squid. Lobster landings in Rhode Island (including dockside sales) in 2013 totaled 2.1 million pounds for a value of $9.7 million. Approximately 645,000 pounds were harvested by Newport fishermen for a value of $3.1 million. As Rhode Island-landed lobster are processed and move into the wholesale and retail markets, the total value of the fishery increases substantially – likely approaching $28 million – making it a crucial part of the state's economy. Rhode Island has approximately 250 lobster fishermen, with 45 landing lobster in Newport.
"I want to congratulate the Newport Fishermen's Cooperative and all the fishermen here at State Pier Nine for coming together to make the Newport Lobster Shack Kitchen a success. This endeavor is really their vision supported by their investment of time, hard work, funding, and resources. I hope it will be a boon to their businesses and that continues to draw even more people to the Newport waterfront to enjoy some locally caught, fresh off-the-boat-fresh lobster and seafood," said U.S. Senator Jack Reed, who has worked with Rhode Island lobstermen over the years to secure federal funding for lobster gear exchanges and an ongoing lobster data collection project led by the Commercial Fisheries Research Foundation. Reed has also been a champion of the "eat local" and tide-to-table movement in Rhode Island and led efforts at the federal level to help local growers, fishermen, and farmers market and sell their products.
Today, Senator Reed, a senior member of the Appropriations Commerce, Justice, Science Subcommittee, announced that the U.S. Department of Commerce will be providing another $190,000 in federal funding for URI, in cooperation with the Rhode Island Lobsterman's Association and others, to design and test new types of lobster and crab gear.
House Speaker Nicholas Mattiello said, "I have focused my energy since becoming Speaker earlier this year on improving our state's economy. The fishing industry is a very important industry, and I am proud to support efforts such as this one to promote our hard-working fishermen and women."
President of the Senate M. Teresa Paiva Weed said, "This is a creative partnership that helps keep jobs in Rhode Island. The Newport Lobster Shack Kitchen supports an important industry, enabling fishermen to market locally harvested and locally prepared seafood direct to consumers. It wouldn't have been possible without Director Janet Coit, and the Senate appreciates her commitment to working with the state's fishermen to help maintain this vital industry."
"I visit the fishing pier regularly and I am very excited to see this new facility being opened that will be so helpful to our local fishermen," noted Representative Peter Martin of Newport. "As a former commissioner on the Atlantic States Fisheries Commission, I truly value the importance of Rhode Island's fishing industry."
Representative Deborah Ruggiero of Jamestown added, "The fishing industry is so important to our state's economy and I am thrilled about the opening of the Newport Lobster Shack Kitchen. I buy lobsters year-round at the pier and it's exciting to see the expansion from retail sales to a restaurant. I encourage everyone in our state to buy local and eat fresh!"
In addition to the Lobster Shack and Lobster Shack Kitchen, Pier Nine is the site of a farmers' market that opened in collaboration between DEM and the Pier Nine fishermen in 2011. Located at the edge of Newport Harbor, the market is open Fridays from 2 p.m. to 6 p.m. through October.
The family-friendly Newport Lobster Shack Kitchen is open daily from 12 p.m. to 6 p.m. and is offering several grand opening specials through Labor Day.
The Pizza Gourmet Kicks Off Season at Fall Venues
Wood Grilled Pizza Stars At Sports Stadiums and Events Nationwide
From Rhode Island across the nation, The Pizza Gourmet is adding to football fans' enjoyment this new season. The Pizza Gourmet real wood grilled pizza is being served from pregame to the final gun at pro football venues including Gillette Stadium in Foxboro, Massachusetts. The specialty pizza made only from hand-stretched dough grilled at 1800 degrees over real oak and maple wood is served to VIP guests at games as well as in the clubhouse.
Baseball fans enjoy The Pizza Gourmet as well at the home of Cleveland's big league club, Progressive Field.
And this fall and winter, hometown fans will have the advantage at the University of Rhode Island where a Pizza Gourmet-themed concession stand will open in the Ryan Center. URI's athletic department and fraternity/sorority foodservice is featuring the real wood-grilled pizza as well.
The Pizza Gourmet and The Catering Gourmet will unveil their brand new food truck, The G Truck, at the Peace & Providence Festival September 6th at the Roger Williams National Memorial in Providence. The G Truck will be at select events throughout New England serving The Pizza Gourmet's original wood-grilled pizzas and a full menu of food that can only be described as casual and fun. At the Festival, the Catering Gourmet will be located in eight food tents and will be featuring BBQ, doughboys, sandwiches such as sausage and peppers, wraps, ice cream and house made potato chips and fries.
At this year's Newport Mansions Wine and Food Festival, the Pizza Gourmet will be joining the scores of celebrity chefs and winemakers who come to this world-class tasting and education weekend. The Pizza Gourmet's wood-grilled pizza will be served at the Grand Tasting at Marble House September 20th and 21st.
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Interested In Something Besides Turkey? It's Lobster Season Too
by David Dadekian November 23, 2011
On Thanksgiving everyone thinks of turkey and then the December holiday table usually revolves around beef or ham (or another turkey!), but what about a very local sea creature that is delicious and in abundance this time of year? The Newport Lobster Shack, a non-profit cooperative built in 2009 by the Fishermen of Newport Association, asks that you consider the lobster for your holiday feasts.
"Lobstering is a more than just a summer fishery and lots of people don't know that," says David Spencer, manager of the Newport Lobster Shack. "We have lots of fresh lobsters coming into the shack from Thanksgiving all the way to New Years! But people aren't thinking about lobster in November."
Though lobstering is a year-round industry, there are peak times determined by the lobsters themselves. Lobsters molt, or shed their hard shells as they outgrow them, twice a year. To gain the nutrients it needs to harden its new shell, a lobster eats much of the old shell and anything else it can find, including bait. These bi-annual eating sprees happen in late June and mid-November, filling the tanks at the Newport Lobster Shack to bursting just in time for Thanksgiving and the December holidays.
The Shack, explains Spencer, is on the commercial pier at the end of Long Wharf. On any given day it can be filled with up to 1,200 pounds of fresh lobster. There are approximately twenty-five fishermen who dock there and contribute their catch daily until the tanks are full, creating a space where the public can buy "off the boat." According to the Shack, their lobsters are not subject to retailer mark-up, making them consistently less per pound than elsewhere. The Shack also claims that the average length of time that their fresh-caught lobsters are out of the ocean before being purchased is about 48 hours, compared to weeks at a supermarket.
Spencer and his peers hope that consumers interested in eating local also remember that in the Ocean State local means seafood. For Newport's fishing fleet to survive, fresh caught items like lobster need to be on plates year-round. Spencer added, "Lobsters were served at the first Thanksgiving."
The Newport Lobster Shack is open the day before Thanksgiving from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. The regular business hours are Thursdays & Fridays from 1 – 5 p.m., Saturdays & Sundays from 10 a.m. to 5 p.m. (closed on Thanksgiving). Updated information, including any extended holiday hours, can be found on their Facebook page. David Spencer can be reached at drspencer1@gmail.com or at 401-465-9669.
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Epa Declares Love Canal Clean
Its discovery 25 years ago led to the creation of the EPA Superfund Program for the cleanup of toxic waste sites. Now, the Environmental Protection Agency says cleanup work is finished at the infamous Love Canal dumpsite in Niagara Falls, New York. The Great Lakes Radio Consortium's Bud Lowell has more:
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Its discovery 25 years ago led to the creation of the EPA Superfund Program for the cleanup of
toxic waste sites. Now the Environmental Protection Agency says cleanup work is finished at the
infamous Love Canal dumpsite in Niagara Falls, New York. The Great Lakes Radio
Consortium's Bud Lowell has more:
The Love Canal neighborhood became a national symbol for the problems of toxic waste in 1978.
Nine hundred families were evacuated. An elementary school and two streets of homes were
bulldozed. The remaining landfill was sealed off.
Today, EPA says the 70-acre site can come off the Superfund List but Mike Schade with a
Buffalo-based group called the Citizens Environmental Coalition isn't so sure. He says about 22-
thousand tons of World War II era chemical byproducts remain buried at the Love Canal site.
"Now, while the EPA and Occidental are monitoring the landfill, time will prove that landfill will
eventually leak. It's really, inevitable."
Schade believes the EPA announcement seeks to defuse criticism of a recent U.S. Senate vote.
That vote blocked reauthorizing a law taxing oil and chemical companies to support the
Superfund program.
For the Great Lakes Radio Consortium, I'm Bud Lowell.
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Cleanup of Toxic Sites in Limbo
Monsanto has agreed to clean up one contaminated site of hundreds that need to be cleaned up. The toxic site cleanups have been in limbo because of a recent bankruptcy. The Great Lakes Radio Consortium's Tom Weber explains:
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Monsanto has agreed to clean up one contaminated site of hundreds that need to be cleaned up.
The toxic site cleanups have been in limbo because of a recent bankruptcy. The Great Lakes
Radio Consortium's Tom Weber reports:
Monsanto contaminated this one site in southern Illinois with dioxins, PCB's and other toxic
chemicals for 40 years.
Legal questions arose because Monsanto created a company called Solutia in 1997. Solutia took
responsibility for Monsanto's chemical clean ups. But Solutia went bankrupt last year. And it
refused to clean any of the 300 sites across the country while in bankruptcy.
Glenn Ruskin is a Solutia spokesman. He says Solutia can't clean up the site, but Monsanto's
decision to do so offers hope for people who live at the other sites.
"It just indicates that there are parties out there who are still in existence that are willing and able
to do that clean up."
The matter is even more complex because much of Monsanto was bought by Pharmacia. Pfizer
then bought Pharmacia.
A bankruptcy judge will ultimately decide who has to clean which sites.
For the Great Lakes Radio Consortium, I'm Tom Weber.
More about the Monsanto cleanup from the St. Loius Post-Dispatch
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Thou, too sail on, O ship of State!
Sail on, O Union, strong and great!
Humanity with all its fears,
With all the hopes of future years,
Is hanging breathless on thy fate!
We know what Master laid thy keel,
What Workmen wrought thy ribs of steel,
Who made each mast, and sail, and rope,
What anvils rang, what hammers beat,
In what a forge and what a heat
Were shaped the anchors of thy hope!
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Our hearts, our hopes, our prayers, our tears,
Our faith triumphant o'er our fears,
Are all with thee, - are all with thee!
"The Building of the Ship"
What exactly has happened in the United States over the past eight years since the Reagan presidency began? What was this thing that has been called by some the "Reagan Revolution?" Have things really changed that much? Did the presidency of Ronald Reagan really make a difference?
Some of his critics propose that Ronald Reagan just "made everyone feel good." It is true that he was not able to accomplish all that he had hoped for, yet in some respects he accomplished more than he ever dreamed was possible.
Mr. Reagan has remarked that after he referred to the Soviet Union as an "evil empire," he never dreamed he would one day stand on the steps of Moscow State University, in front of the mural of the Bolshevik Revolution, and talk to Russian university students about what it means to be a free nation. It was then, he said, that he sensed on the horizon a great possibility that the nations would indeed one day live together in peace without the threat of war.
Perhaps he was thinking of the age old prophecies from the book of Isaiah: "They will hammer their swords into plowshares, and their spears into pruning hooks. Nation will not lift up sword against nation and never again will they learn war" (Isaiah 2:4). If this was his thinking, his thoughts were flowing along the same stream as our founding fathers. Perhaps nowhere is the idea of world peace expressed so well as in one of early America's best loved carols, "It Came upon a Midnight Clear," written by Isaac Watts:
And lo, the days are hastening on,
By prophets, bards, foretold.
When through the ever encircling years
Comes round the age of gold.
When peace shall over all the earth,
It's ancient splendor fling,
And the whole world give back the song,
Which now the angels sing.
It was the widespread belief of early Americans that their new experiment in free government would replace the old order of tyranny and bring the world into a new order of things - which would ultimately bring the nations of the world into universal freedom, peace, prosperity, and brotherhood. President Reagan showed his agreement with the intentions of the founding father generation in his last State of the Union message. He observed:
"We've seen such changes in the world in seven years: as totalitarianism struggles to avoid being overwhelmed by the forces of economic advance and the aspiration for human freedom, it is the free nations that are resilient and resurgent. As the global democratic revolution has put totalitarianism on the defensive, we have left behind the days of retreat - America is again a vigorous leader of the free world, a nation that acts decisively and firmly in the furtherance of her principles and vital interests."
That belief was expressed by Isaac Watts in another Christmas carol, "Joy to the World":
No more let sin or sorrow grow,
Nor thorns infest the ground.
He's come to make His blessings flow,
Far as the curse is found!
The Beginning of a New World
Concerning the early settlers of this land, historian Samuel Morrison wrote, "doubting nothing and fearing no man, they undertook to set all crooked ways straight and create a new heaven and new earth. If they were not permitted to do that in England, they would find some other place to establish their city of God." America was that place.1
Jonathan Edwards, early America's greatest theologian, wrote concerning this belief that God was instituting a new order of things here in America. He believed that this nation was destined to usher in a new era for the human race. Speaking of the First Great Awakening, he wrote,
"It is not unlikely that this work of God's Spirit, so extraordinary and wonderful, is the dawning, or, at least, a prelude of the glorious work of God, so often foretold in Scripture which ... shall renew the world of mankind. God has made two worlds here below, two great habitable continents, far separated one from the other ...This new world is probably now discovered too, that the new and most glorious state of God's Church on earth might commence there; that God might in it begin a new world in a spiritual respect, when He creates the new heavens and new earth.
"The other continent hath slain Christ, and has from age to age shed the blood of the saints and martyrs of Jesus and has often been deluged with the Church's blood. God has probably reserved the honor of building the glorious temple to the daughter that has not shed so much blood, when those times of the peace, prosperity, and glory of the Church, typified by the reign of Solomon, shall commence.
"And it is worthy to be noted, that America was discovered about the time of the reformation or but little before: which reformation was the first thing that God did towards the glorious renovation of the world, after it had sunk into the depths of darkness and ruin, under the great anti-Christian apostasy.
"It seems to me ... that the light will rise in the west, till it shines through the world like the sun in its meridian brightness. The same seems also to be represented by the course of the waters of the sanctuary in Ezekiel 47 which was from west to east; which water undoubtedly represented the Holy Spirit in the progress of His saving influences, in the latter ages of the world ... And, if these things be so, it gives us more abundant reason to hope that what is now seen in America ... may prove the dawn of that glorious day ... that God intends it as the beginning or forerunner of something vastly great ..."2
Those were heady days in colonial America. It was this divine sense of destiny that enabled the founding fathers to carve out a nation that became the forerunner of a new order of things in the history of the world.
Referring to his practice of drawing on the doctrines and principles of the founding fathers, Reagan commented in his Farewell Address, "I won the nickname of 'The Great Communicator.' But it wasn't so much the style, it was the content. I wasn't a great communicator, but I communicated great things. But they didn't spring full bloom from my brow. They came from the heart of a great nation, from our experience, from our wisdom, and our belief in the principles that have guided us for two centuries. They called it the 'Reagan Revolution.' Well I'll accept that, but for me it seemed more like 'The Great Rediscovery,' a rediscovery of our values and our common sense."
Peace Through Strength
The doctrine of peace through strength is another one of those values which Reagan helped America rediscover, and he made it a principle cornerstone of his presidency. Just how President Reagan applied this "Peace through Strength" doctrine can be readily seen in his own summary of the state of our national defense and the changes he made when he took office:
"Our national defense was so weakened that the Soviet Union had begun to engage in wreckless aggression, including the occupation of Afghanistan ... We had military aircraft that couldn't fly for lack of spare parts and ships that couldn't leave port for the same reason or for lack of crew. Our embassy in Pakistan was burned to the ground and one in Iran was stormed with all Americans held as hostages. The world began to question the constancy of the U. S.; President Carter said our people were at fault, they had lost their confidence, a malaise had set in...
"But in January of 1981 we focused on hope, not despair ... Together we pulled out of a tail spin ... We rebuilt our armed forces. We liberated Grenada from the Communists and helped to turn that island to democracy. We struck a firm blow against Libyan terrorism. We've seen the growth of democracy in 90 percent of Latin America. The Soviets have begun to pull out of Afghanistan. The bloody Iran/Iraq War is coming to an end and for the first time we have the prospects of peace in Southwest Africa. And in the 2765 days of our administration not one inch of ground has fallen to the Communists. Today we have the first treaty in world history to eliminate an entire class of U.S./Soviet nuclear missiles, we are working on SDI to defend ourselves against nuclear terror, and American and Soviet relations are the best they've been since World War II."4
To see that Reagan's strengthening of our defenses was a bedrock principle of the founding fathers, one has to look no further than the Preamble to the Constitution, a small paragraph of introduction which was at one time memorized by every American schoolchild. It states:
"We the people of the United States, in order to form a more perfect union, establish justice, insure domestic tranquility, provide for the common defense, promote the general welfare, and secure the blessings of liberty to ourselves and our posterity, do ordain and establish this Constitution for the United States of America."
Allocating money to provide for the common defense to make sure that our military is strong and properly maintained is fundamental to the Constitution and one of the few purposes for which our government was founded.
In his Farewell Address, Reagan said, "I have been reflecting on what the past eight years have meant and mean - and the image that comes like a refrain is a nautical one - a small story about a big ship and a refugee and a sailor. It was back in the early '80s ... A sailor was hard at work on the carrier Midway which was patrolling the South China Sea. The crew spied on the horizon a leaky little boat and crammed inside were refugees hoping to get to America.
"The Midway sent a small launch to bring them to the ship and safety. As the refugees made their way through the chopping seas, one refugee saw the sailor standing on deck and called out to him, 'Hello, American sailor! Hello, Freedom Man!' A small moment, but a big meeting ... When I heard the story I couldn't get it out of my mind, for that was what it was to be an American in the 1980s. We stood again for freedom!
"I know we always have, but in the past few years the world again and, in a way, we ourselves 'rediscovered' it ... The fact is from Grenada to the Washington and Moscow summits, from the recession of '81 and '82 to the expansion that began in late '82 and continues to this day, we've made a difference."
Reagan stated that the two greatest triumphs for which he was the proudest was the economic recovery in which Americans created and filled 19 million new jobs, and the recovery of our morale. "America is respected again in the world and looked to for leadership," President Reagan noted.
Referring to the economic recovery and what it meant to the world, Reagan related the following account: "In 1981 I was attending my first big economic summit held that year in Canada. The opening meeting was for the heads of government for the seven industrialized nations. Well, I sat like a new kid in school and listened. They dropped titles and spoke to one another on a first name basis. I sort of leaned in and said, 'My name is Ron.'
"That same year we began the actions that we felt would ignite an economic comeback, cut taxes and regulations, started to cut spending, and soon the recovery began. Two years later there was another economic summit. At the opening meeting we all got together. All of a sudden, just for a moment, I saw everyone was looking at me. Then one of them broke the silence and said, "Tell us about the American miracle."
To understand why the leaders of the free world called America's economic recovery a miracle we only need to do a little remembering - and look at how bad things use to be. Summing that up in New Orleans this August, Reagan explained:
"Eight years ago America was in economic chaos ... I took office after the two worst back to back years of inflation America had suffered in sixty years. ... Interest rates had jumped to over 21 percent, the highest they had been in 120 years. ...The average weekly wage plunged 9 percent. The median family income fell 5-1/2 percent. Congress had passed the single highest tax bill in our 200 year history. Auto loans went up to 17 percent. Factories shut down. Fuel costs had doubled. People waited in gas and unemployment lines. The misery index, a combination of unemployment and inflation rates, had risen to 21 percent. Inflation was 19 percent in 1980. It has been reduced to 3-1/2 to 4 percent. Interest rates are less than half of what they were ..."5
In a tribute to Ronald Reagan, British Prime Minister Margaret Thatcher said, "Mr. President, the free world thanks you!" Following Reagan's lead, Mrs. Thatcher has led England in deregulation and privatization of many of England's nationally owned enterprises. This alone has transformed England from a failing socialist economy to a nation that is thriving on free enterprise.
Yasuhiro Nakasone, former Prime Minister of Japan, remarked, "I once called him the 'Great Architect.' He put the tumble-down house called the Free World back in shape again, shoring up the pillars and tightening the loose bolts. Finally he managed to persuade the Soviet Union to come out with a new harmonious foreign policy.
"When people asked me why I liked him, I said, 'Because I'm a fan of John Wayne.' Mr. Reagan projects the image of a brave man with great compassion. I also said, 'He is a gentleman who displays all the American virtues and remarkably few of what we might see as negative American traits. I often said to Mr. Reagan, 'You are the pitcher and I am the catcher. Throw me a good pitch ... If the Reagan legacy continues, the pitcher-catcher relationship between the United States and Japan will last, with mutual trust and cooperation for the foreseeable future."6
Addressing the Republicans this August, Reagan explained, "In 1902 Teddy Roosevelt told Americans not to hold back from dangers ahead but to rejoice with our hearts lifted, with the faith that unto us and to our children it shall be given to make this republic the mightiest among the peoples of mankind.
"In 1980 we needed every bit of that kind of faith. That year it was our dream that we could rescue America and make a new beginning, to create anew that 'shining city on the hill.' The dream we shared was to reclaim our government, to transform it from one which was consuming our prosperity ... A dream of making our nation strong enough to preserve world freedom and to recapture our national destiny.
"We made a determination that our dream would not be built on a foundation of sand, something called 'trust me' government, but we would trust instead the American spirit. And, yes, we were unashamed to believe that this dream was driven by a community of shared values, family work, neighborhood, peace, and freedom. On July 17, 1980, we left with a mutual pledge to conduct a national crusade to make America great again. We had faith because the heroes in our midst had never failed us before..."
Change in Soviet Policy
Perhaps the most far reaching effects of the Reagan Revolution and the rebirth of America was the response of the Soviet Union. Reporting on Gorbachev's latest visit to the U. S., U.S. News and World Report correspondent Roger Rosenblatt observed, "Among several stunning propositions in Mikhail Gorbachev's speech to the U.N. last week, the most dizzying was that his country could no longer live a lie. We (the United States) may be stumbling about a bit, having learned that the Soviet Union appears to wish to remove itself from the top of our Enemies List ... but one ought not lose sight of the fact that, if last week represented a brief moment of American confusion, it was also a moment of American triumph. Gorbachev has in effect said to his astonished people: 'Sorry. It's all been a terrible mistake. On to new times and new ideas!'"7
Another reporter commented, "At first, the headlines obscured Gorbachev's deeper message ... But it was his less direct message, emerging between the lines, that was truly breathtaking. Though couched in idealistic, one-world terms, it was directed at the democratic capitalist West: Our system has failed; yours has won. We are reforming. Accept us as a respected partner. Without quite saying so, Gorbachev junked 70 years of 'scientific' Soviet dogma. There was an air of desperation, politely overlooked by official listeners, in the words. But it was a masterful performance, setting the democracies groping for a response that would both test Gorbachev and calm enraptured publics who did not hear the desperation that could foretell his doom.
"Nikita Khrushchev was the last Soviet leader to address the United Nations, 28 years ago, in September of 1960. Khrushchev took off his shoe and beat it on the desk and said to the United States, 'We will bury you!' A comparison of his speech with the one delivered last week by Mikhail Gorbachev demonstrates how unreservedly the Soviet Union's current head of state has buried the 'we will bury you' mentality that dominated the Khrushchev era.
"The drastic change in ideology is apparent. Khrushchev once stated in regards to communism, 'No force in the world can stop this mighty movement ... The socialist system is replacing capitalism.' Gorbachev reflects: 'Today, further world progress is only possible through a search for universal human consensus. Efforts to solve global problems require a new quality of interaction regardless of ideological or other differences.
"On violent revolution Khrushchev stated, 'Ours is the age of the struggle for freedom, when the peoples are shaking the foreign yoke off their shoulders. The peoples want a worthy life and are fighting for it.' Today Gorbachev reflects, 'The understanding of the need for a period of peace is gaining ground and beginning to prevail."8
Reflecting perhaps on all these developments, President Reagan commented in his Farewell Address, "Once you begin a great movement there is no telling where it will lead - we meant to change a nation and instead we changed a world. Countries across the globe are turning to free markets and free speech and turning away from the ideologies of the past. For them "The Great Rediscovery" of the 1980s is that, lo and behold, the moral way of government is also the practical way of government. That democracy, the profoundly good, is also the profoundly productive."
Speaking of the new developments with the Soviets, Reagan advised, "We must trust, but verify; play, but cut the cards; watch closely, but don't be afraid to say what you see."
Reporting on President Reagan's visit to the Soviet Union last spring, and his address at Moscow State University, one correspondent remarked that Reagan appeared to be less a President and more of a preacher, a role the reporter noted that Reagan seems to like the best. In perhaps the greatest speech President Reagan ever made, he explained to the future leaders of the Soviet Union just what freedom means. (An edited text of this speech appears on page 13.)
Reagan remarked that one of the most eloquent contemporary passages on human freedom came from Russian writer Boris Pasternak in the novel Dr. Zhivago: "He writes, 'I think that if the beast who sleeps in man could be held down by threats - any kind of threat, whether of jail or of retribution after death - then the highest emblem of humanity would be the lion tamer in the circus with his whip, not the prophet who sacrificed himself. But this is just the point - what has for centuries raised man above the beast is not the cudgel, but an inward music - the power of unarmed truth."
Concluding that speech, Reagan said, "Your generation is living in one of the most exciting hopeful times in Soviet history. It is a time when the first breath of freedom stirs the air and the heart beats to the accelerated rhythm of hope, when the accumulated spiritual energies of a long silence yearn to break free. I am reminded of the famous passage near the end of Gogol's Dead Souls. Comparing his nation to a speeding troika, Gogol asks what will be its destination. But he writes, 'there was no answer save the bell pouring forth marvelous sound.'
"We do not know what the conclusion will be of this journey, but we're hopeful that the promise of reform will be fulfilled. In this Moscow spring, this May 1988, we may be allowed that hope - that freedom, like the fresh green sapling planted over Tolstoi's grave, will blossom forth at last in the rich fertile soil of your people and culture. We may be allowed to hope that the marvelous sound of a new openness will keep rising through, ringing through, leading to a new world of reconciliation, friendship and peace."
A Christian View of the Future
Those who think that this optimism is unfounded need only read the prophet Isaiah, through whom the Lord assures us, "The time is coming to gather all nations and tongues. And they shall come and see My glory. And I will set a sign among them and will send survivors from them to the nations; Tarshish, Put, Lud, Meshech, Rosh and Tubal and Javan (Meshech, Rosh and Tubal are now the Soviet Union), to the distant coastlands that have neither heard My fame nor seen My glory. And they will declare My glory among the nations ... And it shall be ... that all mankind will come to bow down before Me,' says the Lord."
Columnist George Will recently observed, "Rhetoric has been central to Reagan's presidency because Reagan has intended his stagecraft to be soulcraft. His aim has been to restore the plain language of right and wrong, good and evil, for the purpose of enabling people to make the most of freedom. In his long career of crisscrossing the country, practicing the exacting ethic of democratic persuasion, he has resembled a political John Wesley. Here then is the crowning paradox of Reagan's career. For all his disparagement of government, he has given it the highest possible purpose, the improvement of the soul of the nation.
"Reagan believes the American people are 'lumpy with unrealized potentialities.' The fruits of American talents will be bountiful when Americans are optimistic. When they are optimistic they make the most of freedom ... It is no accident that Reagan rose to the pinnacle of power at a moment when there was a rising wave of intellectual pessimism. Numerous theories were being offered as to why the American experiment has passed its apogee. Reagan's greatest gift to his country has been his soaring sense of possibilities."9
Mr. Reagan once said that the reason he entered politics was not because he wanted to make politics a career but because he wanted to protect something precious. "I went into politics to put up my hand and say stop. I was a citizen politician and it seemed the right thing for a citizen to do. Man is not free unless government is limited."10
On many occasions, Reagan said that it was his dream to see America recapture her destiny. Explaining that destiny, he said, "I believe that God put this land between two great oceans to be found by a special people from every corner of the world who had that extra love of freedom that prompted them to leave their homeland and come to this land to make it a brilliant light beam of freedom to the world.
"Freedom of association, freedom of worship, freedom of the pursuit of happiness ... that's America. That's why we are a magnet for the world - for those who dodged bullets and gave their lives to come over the Berlin Wall and for others, only a few of whom avoided death coming on tiny boats on turbulent oceans. This land, its people, the dream that unfolds here and the freedom to bring it all together, well those are what make America soar up where you can see hope billowing in those freedom winds."
Concluding his Farewell Address, Reagan eloquently summed up his vision for America: "The past few days I've thought a lot about the shining city set upon a hill. The phrase came from John Winthrop, who wrote it to describe the America he imagined. What he imagined was important because he was an early Pilgrim, an early 'freedom man.' He journeyed here on what we would call a little wooden boat and like the other pilgrims he was looking for a home that would be free.
"I've spoken of the shining city all my political life. What I imagined was a tall proud city built on the rocks, stronger than oceans, windswept, God-blessed, teeming with people of all kinds living in harmony and peace. A city with free ports that hummed with commerce and activity. And if there had to be city walls, the walls had doors and the doors were open to anyone with the will and the heart to get here - that's how I saw it and see it still...
"And how stands the city on this winter night? - more happy, more secure, more prosperous than it was eight years ago. But, after two centuries, she still stands strong and true on the granite ridge and her glow is held steady no matter what storm. And she's still a beacon, still a magnet for all who must have freedom, - for all the pilgrims from all the lost places who are hurtling through the darkness toward home."
Meditating on this analogy, one familiar with the Bible cannot avoid the distinct resemblance this city has to the city John saw coming down from heaven in the book of Revelation. In John's vision, he was carried away to a great and high mountain, and shown a city having the glory of God. Her brilliance was like a very costly stone. The foundation stones of the city wall were adorned with every kind of jewel. The twelve gates were twelve pearls. And the city was illumined by the glory of God and its lamp was the Lamb. John wrote that the nations of the world were destined to walk by its light, and that the kings of the earth would bring their glory into it.
It was this city that Massachusetts governor John Winthrop had in mind when he and a band of 50 pilgrims knelt at Plymouth Rock and dedicated this nation and those who would inhabit it to God for the furtherance of His kingdom. The vision for this city also fueled Ronald Reagan's hope and optimism in regards to the future. It was for the establishing of this city that Jesus Christ taught his disciples to pray, "Thy kingdom come, Thy will be done on earth as it is in heaven." Our founders believed that the old world and its form and manner of tyranny would be vanquished, and here in this new world God would create a new heaven and a new earth where righteousness would dwell.
We see the light of that city beginning to shine. But before America can realize her God-given calling, we must have a spiritual awakening and repent from our immoral way of life. While President Reagan did much to restore some of our basic foundations, let us continue to work to see Christian morality and truth become our strongest cornerstones for the future. Ronald Reagan admonished, "We lit a prairie fire a few years back. Those flames were fed by passionate ideas and convictions. And we were determined to make them burn all across America. But we can never let the fire go out or quit the fight, because the battle is never over. H. G. Wells wrote, 'the past is but the beginning of a beginning, and all that is and has been is but the twilight of the dawn.'
"That's a new day - our sunlit new day - to keep alive the fires so that when we look back at the time of choosing we can say that we did all that could be done, never less."
1 David R. Shepherd, Ronald Reagan, In God I Trust (Wheaton, Illinois: Tyndale House, 1984), p.47.
2 The Works of Jonathan Edwards,Vol. I (The Banner of Truth Trust), pp. 381-383.
3 Peter Marshall and David Manuel, The Light and the Glory (Revell Co., 1977), p. 291.
4 Ronald Reagan, address before the Republican Convention, August 1988.
6 Yasuhiro Nakasone, "The Pitcher and the Catcher," Newsweek, Jan. 9, l989, p.20.
7 Roger Rosenblatt, "He Saw the Past and It Did Not Work," U. S. News and World Report, Dec. 19, 1988, p. 9.
8 "Responding to Gorbachev," and "We Won't Bury You After All," U.S. News and World Report, Dec. 19, 1988, p. 17, 20.
9 George Will, "How Reagan Changed America," Newsweek, January 9, 1989, p. 17, 15.
10 from President Ronald Regan's Farewell Address, January 11, 1989.
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How to turn a day in San Pedro into a journey back in time.
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Most people who visit L.A. go in search of Hollywood. They want to see the sign. They want to go to the Pantages Theatre and step on the handprints of the stars. Then they spend two hours on the freeway and can't find parking, or spend outrageous sums to valet. And they can barely see the sign through the smog. What visitors don't know is that there is a better way to see L.A.
When my parents' cruise ship recently docked in the Los Angeles Harbor, I decided to show them. We met up at the singing fountains outside the terminal. While we waited for the performance, we watched kids play in the pools and bought ice cream-stuffed lemons from a peddler's homemade cart.
Old Los Angeles
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