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Thursday, September 10, 2009

Forbes ranks West Point as nation's top college

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I spent time over the Labor Day holiday with family members who work at the West Point United States Military Academy. They are quite proud that “Forbes ranks West Point as nation's top college.” See this article in “Inside the Army” News…http://www.army.mil/-news/2009/08/07/25619-forbes-ranks-west-point-as-nations-top-college/ Show more results from www.army.mil

I had taken note of the Forbes’ accolades a month ago, yet figure it deserves yet additional attention…

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Forbes ranks West Point as nation's top college

Aug 7, 2009

By USMA Public Affairs

WEST POINT, N.Y. (Army News Service, Aug. 7, 200) - A report released Wednesday by Forbes magazine ranked the U.S. Military Academy as the top college in the country in their America's Best College review.

"Marked by an intense work ethic and drive to succeed on all fronts, the West Point undergraduate experience also allows graduates to leave without a penny of tuition loans to repay," Forbes stated in its release.

In the Forbes rating, West Point outpaced other highly-ranked schools such as Princeton (#2), Cal Tech (#3), Harvard (#5) and the U.S. Air Force Academy (#7).

"All of us at West Point are very proud that Forbes has rated us as the number-one college in the nation," said Brig. Gen. Patrick Finnegan, dean of the Academic Board at West Point. "This ranking recognizes the exceptionally high quality of a West Point education. It is always exciting to be validated by independent organizations."

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West Point was founded in 1802 as America's first college of engineering. Its mission remains constant: to educate, train, and inspire cadets so that each graduate is a commissioned leader of character committed to the values of duty, honor, country and prepared for a career of service to the nation as an officer in the U.S. Army.

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Wednesday, September 09, 2009

Joan Didion “Her prose is her servant”

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Technically, Didion is immaculate and original. As early as 1963, literary critic Guy Davenport could say, "Her prose is her servant" (371). She understands grammar as a source of "infinite power":

To shift the structure of a sentence alters the meaning of that sentence, as definitely and inflexibly as the position of a camera alters the meaning of the object photographed.... The arrangement of the words matters, and the arrangement you want can be found in the picture in your mind.... The picture tells you how to arrange the words and the arrangement of the words tells you, or tells me, what's going on in the picture. (Didion 1986, 7)

“If I could believe that going to a barricade would affect man's fate in the slightest I would go to that barricade, and quite often I wish that I could, but it would be less than honest to say that I expect to happen upon such a happy ending” Joan Didion, Morning, After the Sixties 1979 p208

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The Historical Society of Carroll Co Antiques Appraisal Day is coming

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"Something's coming, something good!"

The Historical Society's

9th Annual Antiques Appraisal Day




Saturday, September 12, 2009 10:00 AM - 4:00 PM
American Legion, Carroll Post 31
2 Sycamore Street at Green, Westminster, MD
Expert appraisers offer verbal estimates of value
$20 for the first item $10 for the second item
$5 for the third item
[Limit of three items per participant]
Our own version of the popular Antiques Road Show but with
· Comfortable seating for you with a table for your items
· Shorter wait times
· Good fellowship
· Lunch available from the Legion's Ladies' Auxilary
· Perhaps some happy surprises on the value of your own hidden treasure
See below for our appraisers and sponsors
FOR MORE INFORMATION CALL US AT 410-848-6494

APPRAISERS

Aloysia C. (Nini) Hamalainen, ISA, AM, ASEA
Montgomery Appraisal Group
Olney, Maryland
Fine & Decorative Arts, Furniture, Dolls & Toys, Pottery, Porcelain, Rare Books & Ephemera

Lyndi McNulty
Gizmos Art
Westminster, Maryland
Paintings, Prints, Primitives, Toys, Glassware, Brass & Tin, Antique Automobiles

Michael Merrill
Michael A. Merrill, Inc.
Timonium, Maryland
Coins, Silver, Watches

Todd Peenstra
Peenstra Antique Appraisals
Annapolis, Maryland
Fine & Decorative Arts, Furniture, Silver, Glass, Ceramics, Toys, Musical Instruments

Kim Prehn
Unique Jewelry
Westminster, Maryland
Jewelry

Bob Riley courtesy of Gizmo's Art
Westminster, MD
Rugs

N. Kenzie Smith
N. Kenzie Smith & Sons, Inc.
Frederick, Maryland
Clocks

Fred Winer, ISA, CAPP
Parting with Possessions, Inc.
Towson, Maryland
Fine Art, Toys, Coins, Antiques & Decorative Arts

Gold Sponsors:
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Silver Sponsors:
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Monday, September 07, 2009

An ebullient porch

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September 5, 2009 by Kevin Dayhoff

It was the evening before the annual Sunday family get-together over the Labor Day weekend. The sun had gone down and a slight breeze cooled the broad expanses of the old wrap-around porch that so functionally adorned the centenarian three-story shingle-style merchants’ home.

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Earlier the porch had the scene of kind and matronly aunts, sisters, and grandma scurrying about as they prepared with great anticipation.

They had all retired to the kitchen where they continued planning and preparing.

As I sat upon the porch my thoughts drifted about like the clouds. I’ve been told artists dream of castles in the clouds, writers live in them and psychologists are the landlords that charge rent.

At my advanced age, I’m comfortable with the concept that my cloud is my castle and I own it and I’m too tight to pay rent.

Although fall is just around the corner, the katydids and the crickets are still out in force in a cacophonous chorus of southern gothic musings and it is still hot enough to remind even the oblivious that Maryland still has one foot in the old south.

I thought of the title of the 1989 novel by Kazuo Ishiguro, “The Remains of the Day.” The novel is about post-war Britain. The main character considers his past and is forced to come to terms with the gravity of the sacrifices he has made in the name of duty.

The plot, at the moment, is not why my mind wonders to the novel. It is the title, “The Remains of the Day,” which refers to a quiet evening when a person takes time to reflect the day's work.

It could also reflect pondering being older and looking back to take a tally of life work. In the novel, “The Remains of the Day” is also a metaphor for the last vestiges of England’s grand homes – and its waning position as a global power.

Although I was pre-occupied with the theme “porch,” my thoughts did not include the 1991 grunge tune, “Porch,” by Pearl Jam. I’m not sure I ever understood the song: “All the bills go by, and Initiatives are taken up, By the middle, there aint gonna be any middle any more, And the cross Im bearing home, Aint indicative of my place, Left the porch…”

Whatever.

It’s Labor Day weekend, a throwback to an ebullient era in the United States when one’s labor was the meaning of the person.

I am reminded that the porch – and the home – were built around 1910 at the end of what the local historian Chris Weeks called an “enthusiastic” period in Westminster, from about 1865 to 1910. He wrote in his 1978 architectural reference book, The Building of Westminster,” that it was an era when Westminster and “the entire nation was reveling in itself and its accomplishments…

“The city was beginning to attract heavy industry; there was a marked shift in population and economics…

“The citizens and their fathers had created a town in the middle of nowhere by using nothing but their own will and work…”

Mr. Weeks cites an excerpt of an address by Dr. J. W. Herring, at the Semi-centennial Rally in Carroll County on April 11, 1887:

“This ebullient era was neatly and succinctly summed up in an address by Dr. J. W. Herring… some of the Doctor's remarks are pertinent and valuable today:

‘Prominent, as we think, among the sources of the prosperity which followed [the settling of the county], and perhaps underlying them all, was the conservative disposition of the people…

‘Labor is not only honorable, but it is the legitimate and necessary law of our being… They [the early settlers] exhibited in large degree the virtue of self-reliance, without which no success can come, either to an individual or to a nation…

‘The prosperity which has marked our country's history and which we enjoy today is in great part due to the fact that our fathers depended upon themselves. They did not believe in the doctrine of 'delegated powers' as it represents one's own business.

‘And in this there is the suggestion of a valuable lesson… To produce, and not alone to consume, is the teaching which political economy would impress...’”

Whether our great nation still revels with pride in the values illuminated by Dr. Hering is for you to decide and the stuff of another musing for another time.

For now, as I sat on the porch in the dark, I daydreamed about my childhood days – - and the reclusive and enigmatic childhood friend of Truman Capote, Harper Lee.

Ms. Lee was born Nelle Harper Lee on April 28, 1926, in Monroeville, Alabama.

She is best known for her one and only book, which just happened to be a Pulitzer Prize-winning best-seller, “To Kill a Mockingbird,” published in 1960, when she was 34 years old.

Earlier in the day, as I watched a cable news program, I kept wondering what Ms. Lee’s character, Charles Baker “Dill” Harris, would think of the caustic commentary about the breaking news momentary meaninglessness of today.

If you will recall “Dill,” who was based on Ms. Lee’s childhood neighbor, Truman Capote, was “Jem” and “Scout’s” summer friend, with an enormous imagination.

Dill - the porch - is my summer friend.

For those who have studied “To Kill a Mockingbird,” Dill represents the perspective of childhood innocence.

Some will argue that “Mockingbird,” like me, is an anachronism. I suggest that much of her commentary about the machinations of our contemporary society is just as relevant today – just different.

Nevertheless, for those of us who wallow in the loss of innocence five decades later, it is still a sin to kill a mockingbird.

In recent years, the summer months have almost been just as busy as the rest of year. Gone are the lazy southern Carroll County summers. However, growing up in Carroll County in the 1950s and 60s, lazy summer days were the opportunity to sit around and read and write all day.

From those long-gone lazy days, I usually associate “Mockingbird” with short stories like Shirley Jackson’s “The Lottery,” “Rain” by William Somerset Maugham and “Portnoy’s Complaint” by Philip Roth – and why I’m still traumatized by the word spatula – except when Rachel Ray says it on her cooking show.

I think of the film “McCabe and Mrs. Miller,” by Robert Altman – of whom I was initially introduced to when he directed a number of episodes of “Bonanza.”

“McCabe” introduced me to Leonard Cohen – and later his song “Famous Blue Raincoat.” Remember: “It’s four in the morning, the end of December. I’m writing you now just to see if you’re better…”

I think of Carole King’s “It’s too late,” and Carly Simon’s “That’s The Way I Always Heard It Should Be” – “My father sits at night with no lights on. His cigarette glows in the dark…”

It was over forty years ago in the summer of 1967 that I first heard the song, “Ode to Billy Joe,” by Bobbie Gentry on WCAO on the AM dial of the car radio.

Remember, that was when we first learned from “Mama” that the nice young preacher, Brother Taylor “said he saw a girl that looked a lot like you up on Choctaw Ridge. And she and Billy Joe was throwing somethin' off the Tallahatchie Bridge.”

It was also in this time period that I became firmly hooked on the existential - “Southern Gothic” genre of storytelling.

Examples of authors of the Southern gothic genre of writing include William Faulkner, Carson McCullers, Eudora Welty, Truman Capote, and Harper Lee.

Tennessee Williams once described the genre as stories that reflect “an intuition of an underlying dreadfulness in modern experience.”

The stories these writers tell are fascinating as often they involve aspects of unexplained historical events, enigmatic dialogue, and inexplicable characters.

But it is the other prominent theme of the Southern gothic story that comes to mind these days in the cavalier manner in which folks today will often engage in character assassination in the pursuit of a particular agenda.

It is the particularly disturbing dynamic that much like contemporary commentary, the southern gothic tale peels away the layers of indifference that contemporary society shows towards our fellow human beings – or in the case of “Ode to Billy Joe,” the loss of life.

In the song the family of the narrator nonchalantly mentions the gentleman’s death: “Billy Joe never had a lick of sense/ pass the biscuits, please.”

Of course the narrator of the story cares: “Mama said to me, Child, what's happened to your appetite? I've been cookin’ all morning and you haven't touched a single bite.”

Other than that, they may as well been having a dinner conversation about the weather.

One wonders what it would be like to have the likes of a Margaret Mitchell breeze her way across the porch and strike up a conversation.

According to a website devoted to the now-historic site where she lived on Peachtree Street in Atlanta Georgia, when she wrote the book, “Gone With the Wind,” Mitchell was born in Atlanta on November 8, 1900. Just like me, as a child, she was fascinated by Civil War stories.

The website biography explains that Mitchell was an “imaginative girl (who) wrote, produced, and directed plays, casting her friends, and inviting the neighborhood to the porch performances.”

It seems that Mitchell was a bit of a “free spirit,” who “scandalized Atlanta society by performing a provocative dance at a debutante ball. Two years later the headstrong flapper married Berrien “Red” Upshaw… a bootlegger…

“Financial pressures led her to begin writing for the Atlanta Journal Sunday Magazine where she earned $25 per week. Their stormy marriage ended in divorce in 1924. Within a year she married John Marsh… an editor at the paper.”

Perhaps it may have been fun to imagine her visit during her “free spirit” days. If I were allow myself a brief farbissiner aside; it would be so refreshing to see Westminster being scandalized in some manner that does not involve narcissistically utilizing the cracked mirror by which much of the town now views its navel, in the name of progress.

Tomorrow – Sunday - will remind me of the scene on the balcony, or porch, if you will, of the Maison Fournaise along the Seine River in Chatou, France as painted in the 1881 classic painting, “Le déjeuner des canotiers,” by Pierre-Auguste Renoir.

Of course, Caroline, Grammy and I once had a had a fête galante attending the “Luncheon of the Boating Party” with friends of Pierre Auguste Renoir on a balcony of the Maison Fournaise along the Seine River in Chatou, France in 1881.

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We went with Aline Charigot, a young seamstress, whom Mr. Renoir married in 1890. She is in the foreground of the above image playing with a small dog.

Behind Kevin in the yellow hat is Alphonse Fournaise Jr., who was responsible for the boat rentals. The woman leaning on the rail, wearing the yellow hat is Alphonsine Fournaise, the daughter of the proprietor.

She is talking with a gentleman, whom we cannot see, who is the former mayor of Saigon, Baron Raoul Barbier. Later he hit on Caroline. Not to worry, Caroline has had enough of mayors, she likes artists and writers.

Seated in the chair with the yellow hat in the right-foreground, is fellow artist and close friend Gustave Caillebotte who is talking with Angèle, an actress, in the blue dress, and Maggiolo, an Italian journalist.

I did talk with him some later. He also likes semi-colons. From right to left across the back is Jeanne Samary, an actress. She is wearing the blue dress and is behind Maggilo.

Hitting on Ms. Samary is the artist Paul Lhote and Eugène Pierre Lestringez, who is some sort of bureaucrat. All the way in the back, wearing the top hat is the editor of the Gazette des Beaux-Arts, Charles Ephrussi.

Editors are pretty cool and he was fun to talk with later. Here, he is talking with Jules Laforgue, wearing a brown coat and cap. He is a poet, critic, and Mr. Ephrussi’s personal secretary.

The dialogue tomorrow will be a collaboration of Tom Stoppard and Robert Altman and will, in part involve aspects of unexplained historical events, enigmatic dialogue, and inexplicable characters. The only thing missing will be the frilly – and manly – hats.

Maybe next year we could ask folks to wear hats… They go well with an ebullient porch. ( I also want to invite Anthony Bourdain – he won’t need an invite or a reservation.)

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Sunday, September 06, 2009

Asediado Obama Aide Van Jones renuncia

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http://link.email.washingtonpost.com/r/ZTVJ68/J1AZY/CKFXFJ/1AGNHS/UHC6E/QR/t Van Jones, special adviser for green jobs at the White House Council on Environmental Quality, resigns following weeks of pressure from the right and a flurry of revelations about his past statements.
Van Jones, special adviser for green jobs at the White House Council on Environmental Quality, resigns following weeks of pressure from the right and a flurry of revelations about his past statements. Van Jones, asesor especial para empleos verdes en el Consejo de la Casa Blanca sobre Calidad Ambiental, dimite tras semanas de presión de la derecha y una serie de revelaciones acerca de sus declaraciones anteriores.

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White House Adviser Van Jones Resigns Amid Controversy Over Past Activism Asesor de la Casa Blanca Van Jones renuncia medio de la controversia sobre el pasado Activismo
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White House environmental adviser Van Jones resigned Saturday after weeks of pressure from the right over his past activism. Asesor de la Casa Blanca, el medio ambiente Van Jones renunció el sábado después de semanas de presión de la derecha sobre su activismo pasado.

"On the eve of historic fights for health care and clean energy, opponents of reform have mounted a vicious smear campaign against me," Jones, special adviser for green jobs at the White House Council on Environmental Quality, said in a statement announcing his resignation just after midnight Saturday. "En vísperas de la lucha histórica para el cuidado de la salud y la energía limpia, los opositores de la reforma han montado una campaña de desprestigio contra mí vicioso", dijo Jones, asesor especial para empleos verdes en el Consejo de la Casa Blanca sobre Calidad Ambiental, dijo en una declaración que anuncia su dimisión justo después de la medianoche del sábado. "They are using lies and distortions to distract and divide." "Están utilizando mentiras y distorsiones para distraer y dividir".

He continued: "I have been inundated with calls -- from across the political spectrum -- urging me to 'stay and fight.' Él continuó: "He sido inundada de llamadas - de todo el espectro político - me insta a" continuar y luchar. " But I came here to fight for others, not for myself. I cannot in good conscience ask my colleagues to expend precious time and energy defending or explaining my past. We need all hands on deck, fighting for the future." Pero vine aquí para luchar por los demás, no por mí. No puedo, en conciencia, pido a mis colegas que gastar un tiempo precioso y energía en defender o explicar mi pasado. Necesitamos que todos manos a la obra, la lucha por el futuro ".

Jones issued two public apologies in recent days, one for signing a petition that questioned whether Bush administration officials "may indeed have deliberately allowed 9/11 to happen, perhaps as a pretext for war" and the other for using a crude term to describe Republicans in a speech he gave before joining the administration. Jones publicó dos excusas públicas en los últimos días, uno para la firma de una petición que se preguntó si la administración Bush "de hecho puede haber permitido deliberadamente 9 / 11 a suceder, tal vez como un pretexto para la guerra" y el otro para usar un término del crudo para describir los republicanos en un discurso que pronunció antes de incorporarse a la administración.

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Who is Van Jones? ¿Quién es Van Jones?

Van Jones is a globally recognized, award-winning pioneer in human rights and the clean energy economy. Van Jones es un pionero reconocido a nivel mundial, ganadora de premios en materia de derechos humanos y la economía de energía limpia. He is a 1993 graduate of the Yale Law School and an attorney. Él es un graduado 1993 de la Escuela de Derecho de Yale y un abogado.

Van wrote the definitive book on "green jobs": The Green Collar Economy. Van escribió el libro definitivo sobre "empleos verdes": La economía de cuello verde. In 2008 — thanks to a low-cost, viral marketing campaign — his book became an instant New York Times bestseller. En el año 2008 - gracias a un bajo costo, la campaña de marketing viral - su libro se convirtió en un instante New York Times bestseller. It is today being translated into six languages. Es hoy en día se traduce en seis idiomas.

As a tireless advocate for disadvantaged people and the environment, Van helped to pass America's first "green job training" legislation: the Green Jobs Act, which George W. Bush signed into law as a part of the 2007 Energy Bill. Como un incansable defensor de las personas desfavorecidas y el medio ambiente, Van ayudaron a pasar primero de América "formación en el empleo verde" la legislación: la Ley de Empleo Verde, que George W. Bush firmó la ley como parte de la Carta de la Energía 2007. He is the co-founder of a number of successful non-profit organizations, including the Ella Baker Center for Human Rights and Green For All. Él es el co-fundador de una serie de éxito de las organizaciones no lucrativas, incluidas las del Centro Ella Baker para los Derechos Humanos y Verde para Todos.

Van is the recipient of many awards and honors, including: the Reebok International Human Rights Award; the World Economic Forum's Young Global Leader designation; the prestigious, international Ashoka Fellowship; and many more. Van es el recipiente de numerosos premios y honores, entre ellos: Reebok, Premio Internacional de los Derechos Humanos; Jóvenes del Foro Económico Mundial, Global Líder de la designación, el prestigio internacional Ashoka Fellowship, y muchos más. Van was included in the Ebony Magazine "Power 150" list of most influential African Americans for 2009. Van fue incluido en el "Ebony Magazine alimentación Lista 150" de los afro-americanos más influyentes en 2009. In 2008, Essence magazine named him one of the 25 most inspiring/influential African Americans. En 2008, la revista Essence lo nombró uno de los 25 más inspiradores / influyentes de los afroamericanos. TIME Magazine named him an environmental hero in 2008. Time Magazine nombró a él un héroe del medio ambiente en 2008. In 2009, TIME named him one of the 100 most influential people in the world. En 2009, TIME le nombró una de las 100 personas más influyentes en el mundo.

In March 2009, Van went to work as the special advisor for green jobs at the White House Council for Environmental Quality. En marzo de 2009, Van se puso a trabajar como asesor especial para empleos verdes en el Consejo de la Casa Blanca para la Calidad Ambiental.

Thank you for visiting VanJones.net. Gracias por visitar VanJones.net. This is an unofficial site intended to provide some basic information to people interested in Van Jones, Special Advisor for Green Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation at the White House Council on Environmental Quality. Este es un sitio no oficial destinado a proporcionar cierta información básica para las personas interesadas en Van Jones, Asesor Especial de empleos verdes, Empresa e Innovación en el Consejo de la Casa Blanca sobre Calidad Ambiental.

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Van Jones, special adviser for green jobs at the White House resigns

Washington Post News Alert - 12:55 AM EDT Sunday, September 6, 2009 Embattled Obama Aide Van Jones Resigns –


Van Jones, special adviser for green jobs at the White House Council on Environmental Quality, resigns following weeks of pressure from the right and a flurry of revelations about his past statements.

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White House Adviser Van Jones Resigns Amid Controversy Over Past Activism
Updated 12:53 a.m. By Garance Franke-Ruta and Anne E. Kornblut

White House environmental adviser Van Jones resigned Saturday after weeks of pressure from the right over his past activism.

"On the eve of historic fights for health care and clean energy, opponents of reform have mounted a vicious smear campaign against me," Jones, special adviser for green jobs at the White House Council on Environmental Quality, said in a statement announcing his resignation just after midnight Saturday. "They are using lies and distortions to distract and divide."

He continued: "I have been inundated with calls -- from across the political spectrum -- urging me to 'stay and fight.' But I came here to fight for others, not for myself. I cannot in good conscience ask my colleagues to expend precious time and energy defending or explaining my past. We need all hands on deck, fighting for the future."

Jones issued two public apologies in recent days, one for signing a petition that questioned whether Bush administration officials "may indeed have deliberately allowed 9/11 to happen, perhaps as a pretext for war" and the other for using a crude term to describe Republicans in a speech he gave before joining the administration.

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Who is Van Jones?

Van Jones is a globally recognized, award-winning pioneer in human rights and the clean energy economy. He is a 1993 graduate of the Yale Law School and an attorney.

Van wrote the definitive book on "green jobs": The Green Collar Economy. In 2008 — thanks to a low-cost, viral marketing campaign — his book became an instant New York Times bestseller. It is today being translated into six languages.

As a tireless advocate for disadvantaged people and the environment, Van helped to pass America's first "green job training" legislation: the Green Jobs Act, which George W. Bush signed into law as a part of the 2007 Energy Bill. He is the co-founder of a number of successful non-profit organizations, including the Ella Baker Center for Human Rights and Green For All.

Van is the recipient of many awards and honors, including: the Reebok International Human Rights Award; the World Economic Forum's Young Global Leader designation; the prestigious, international Ashoka Fellowship; and many more. Van was included in the Ebony Magazine "Power 150" list of most influential African Americans for 2009. In 2008, Essence magazine named him one of the 25 most inspiring/influential African Americans. TIME Magazine named him an environmental hero in 2008. In 2009, TIME named him one of the 100 most influential people in the world.

In March 2009, Van went to work as the special advisor for green jobs at the White House Council for Environmental Quality.

Thank you for visiting VanJones.net. This is an unofficial site intended to provide some basic information to people interested in Van Jones, Special Advisor for Green Jobs, Enterprise and Innovation at the White House Council on Environmental Quality.

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Saturday, September 05, 2009

Cellphone karma

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Cellphone karma

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American Farm Bureau and Ag digest

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The ‘Dirty Dozen’ May Not Be So Dirty
There seems to be this misconception surrounding the “dirty dozen” (the 12 fruits and vegetable considered by some to contain the highest levels of pesticide residue)... read more »

The Omnivore’s Delusion
I’m so tired of people who wouldn’t visit a doctor who used a stethoscope instead of an MRI demanding that farmers like me use 1930s technology to raise food. read more in FB News »

Marketplace Holds Answer to Dairy’s Dilemma
We dairy farmers must remember throughout our current dilemma, the same force that gave us the glory of $20 milk in 2008 is the same thing giving us the grumbling of $10 milk in 2009. read more »

Grassroots Voices Can Help Defeat Climate Change Bill
To spotlight attention on this important issue, Farm Bureau joined forces with like-minded organizations to form “Energy Citizens.” read more »

American Farm Bureau Federation Wisconsin FB member and dairy farmer Brent Sinkula featured on Fox report on the dairy industry. http://bit.ly/IzPHG

America's Heartland - Recipes & Tips
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America's Heartland Recipes and Tips - Baked Egg Custard

Keep your self-righteous fingers off my processed food -- latimes.com
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Just in time for the worst economic downturn since the Depression, here comes a new crop of social critics to inform us that we're actually spending too little for the food we eat, the clothes we wear, the furniture we sit on and the gasoline that runs our automobiles.Never mind that U.S. ...

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Friday, September 04, 2009

The Hotel sitter

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September 4, 2009 by Kant E. von de Betrue, New Bedford Herald

It was just the other night when it happened. You see, lots of kinfolk are coming into town this weekend and Grandma was sittin’ at the kitchen table and she began to frettin’ and a fidgetin’.

It was already Monday, and she was a-wonderin’ and worrying ‘bout what she was going to feed all these people. They usually come quite hungry.

Grandma seemed a bit annoyed as we were just sitting there on the musical-revolving kitchen chairs – just talkin’. When all of the sudden we heard quite a commotion out in the back yard. Some critter was making a whole hechuva lot of noise.

The sun had long-since gone down and Grandma got a big smile on her face and exclaimed, “That’s it. Ronny git ma gun.”

No room to complain. It was déjà vu all over again.

As we sat around the table, we began to remember, that as hunter, Grandma was the stuff of folklore and fable.

So, there really was no cause for alarm. With gun in hand and quick prayer for success, Grandma loaded the firearm and out the back she went.

She was not the sort to fool around and it was only moments later; with a “yee-ha” and “glory be,” there quickly came a loud report.

And then she appeared, with the gun in one hand, a critter in the other and big smile on her face - at the back door looking so dear.

Food for the kinfolk she exclaimed. Now all we need are some wild carrots and free-range potatoes and we’re set. It was nice to see Grandma in such a good mood.

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No animals or vegetables were hurt in the composition of this short literature of the absurd. It is just a silly story, get a life.

Kant E. von de Betrue, a Carthaginian with a Doctorate in Modern Anxiety and a minor in ennui; whose family settled in Westminster after the Third Punic War, has been with the New Bedford Herald since the 1960s (he can’t remember exactly when in the 1960s…). A Pulverized Prize winner for journalism, he writes about issues ranging from the international syntactic semiotic economics to avatars of hyper-theoretical exploding toilets.

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