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Volume 26 Number 07 We Are Reread WE ARE ONE And Recyclable July, 2014

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Amanece. El canto de los pájaros saluda al nuevo día. Empieza la actividad en la cocina, mezclándose la fruta y el agua, la risa y la música, los huevos y el pan.

Las enfermeras y ayudantes se dedican a levantarnos, nos asean, visten y peinan. Para ser llevados al comedor.

Good Morning ! Good Morning ! Buenos Días ! mientras vamos tomando nuestro lugar alrededor de la mesa para compartir el desayuno. Algunos también intercambiamos miradas y sonrisas.

Una pequeña siesta nos prepara para las actividades de media mañana: jugando cartas,

Un Día en Casa Nostrarompecabezas, lotería y algunos ejercicios musculares .

Si es martes, un doctor nos visita y se interesa por saber como estamos, examinándonos y haciéndonos preguntas. Pero hoy no es martes.

Algunos vamos de paseo al malecón de Chapala, disfrutamos de un rico helado pues ya hace calor, la brisa que viene del lago nos refresca y le da textura y movimiento a la superficie. La gente y el bullicio nos entretienen mientras es tiempo de regresar, pues la comida nos espera.

Casi todos nos reunimos a esta hora, pues es la comida fuerte. Después del postre nos retiramos a otra siesta.

Mas tarde, nos reunimos en la sala para ver tele, unos caminan por el jardín y alrededor de la casa, otros prefieren leer o quedarse en su cuarto.

La cena se sirve poco antes de oscurecer, aunque algunos prefieren cenar en su cuarto, otros preferimos reunirnos en el comedor.

Después nos retiramos a nuestra habitación, a mi me gusta ver tele y a veces leer un poco hasta quedarme dormida.

En ocasiones me doy cuenta de las visitas de las enfermeras, en otras despierto con la llegada del nuevo día, porque sé que hay ojos que velan mi descanso.

A Day In Casa NostraBy Antonio CárdenasTranslated by Thomas L. Ramsey Dawn. The song of the birds salutes the new

day. Activity in the kitchen begins, mixing the fruit and the water, the music, the laughter, the eggs and the bread.

The nurses and assistants come to get us up and clean us up, dressing us and combing our hair. To take us to the dining room.

Good Morning! Good Morning! Buenos Dias! While we go about taking our places around the table to share breakfast. Some of us interchange glances and smiles as well.

A small nap prepares for the activities of mid-morning: playing cards, puzzles, the lottery and some physical exercises.

If it is Tuesday a doctor visits us and is interested in knowing how we are, examining us and asking us questions. But today is not Tuesday.

Some of us go for a walk along the malecon in Chapala, enjoying the good ice cream that is already beginning to melt, the breeze that comes from the lake refreshes and gives texture and movement to the surface of the water. The people and the bustling entertains while it is time to return as dinner is waiting for us.

Almost everyone returns at this time for dinner. After dinner we retire for another nap.

Later we reunite in the living room to watch television, some walk in the garden

and around the house, others prefer to read or stay in their rooms.

Supper is served a little before dark. Although some prefer supper in their rooms others prefer to return to the dining room.

After we retire to our rooms I like to watch television and at times read a little until I fall asleep.

On occasions I become aware of the visits by the nurses, others wake up at the arrival of the new day, because I know there are eyes watching over my rest.

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NADIOSAN A LAGIP KEN MAKAAYAYO NGA ARAMID

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president AKA

The officers of Annak ti Kailokuan iti America. Installed by Atty Melody Aduja (left) for 2014-2016

Kadagiti oras a panagmaymaysa adu dagiti panunot nga agdaliasat iti isip ket ukagenna dagiti napalabas a napasaran ken kasta met a sukisukenna ket lagtuenna dagiti dipay nadanon a masakbayan.

lladawantayo ditoy dagiti tao a managpanunot ken nasariwatet ti isipna mangabel ti biag ti tao a managarapaap.Umona: ti tao lagipenna a naparsua laeng a rumbeng nga agsaludo ti nakaparsuaanna nga inted ti DIOS. Kadagitoy a panawen ti

Semana Santa ti panawen a panag sukimat ti maysa a tao ti kinasiasinona a pinarsua ti DIOS. Masapul a kada maysa adda bukodna a nakaisangratan ditoy rabao ti daga.

Adda nagasat ket adda met daksanggasat. Dagita ti pangtingitingan ti Apo. Adda dagiti nasingpet adda met dagiti mapalangguad. Adda met dagiti marigrigat ket adda met dagiti nabaknang a ti kinabaknangna laeng ti ammona a pangparmek ti aglawlawna ket saanan ng ammo a lagipen a ti panagsintir ti Langit ti pannakilangenna iti aglawlawna. Dagiti nasalsalun-at ti pannakilangenna kadagiti naluplupoy ken awanan gaway.

ADTOY MET DAGITI RUMBENG NGA AMMUEN Tl DADDUMANangngegan daytoy iti radio ket rumbeng a maammuan met dagiti maseknan. (No asino dagiti rumbeng a mangituray wenno

agpapili a mangimaton ti grupo wenno organisasion a kalikagumanna. Presidente ti grupo. Adu ngamin ti makarikna ti pannakapaay ngem masapul ngamin a maammo dagitoy). No kalikaguman ti mangidaulo ( Agpresidente) ti kalikagumam a pagserbian). Umana). No adda met laeng panawen mo ken padasmon iti gandat toy a grupo) Maikadua). lpakitam ti anepmo ken naaramidam ti napalabas a dua a tawen a kaadda itoy a Gonglo. Maikatlo). No addaankan iti bukod a piano para iti grupo. Nagbalinka a modelo ken nakaipakitam ti aramid a nakatulong iti gunglo ket mariknam a maitandodo ti grupo a kayatmo nga ipanguluan mabalindaka a tuladen. Maikapat). NAIPAKITAM A SIKA Tl Modelo ken matulad dagiti kameng ti napudno a kameng by not only be registered member but with MEMBERSHIP FEE, be a bonafide Member like everybody. Maudi unay .... Agbalinka a Mannakaawat ken pudno a mannakilangen iti sapasap. Sika ti agpatulad.

Kunada a ti pangulo managsakripisio, naanus ken napakumbaba. Saan a managindadakkel, no diket naanos ken mangidalan. Rubeng nga ammona ti solbar ti problema

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In songs and mythology we like to call ourselves in the USA “The Land of the Free and the Home of the Brave.” In fact the USA incarcerates a greater percentage of it’S population (2,000,000) that any

other “Western” nation including Russia in the world today. Over the last 20 years we have watched exponential growth in the number

of human beings held by privately owned prison corporations. Corrections Corporation of America, Inc., the self-described "nation'S leading provider of correctional solutions to federal, state and local government," made nearly $2 billion annually in recent years.

Corrections Corporation of America, Inc. cautiously reported to our government that "any changes with respect to drugs and controlled substances or illegal immigration could affect the number of persons arrested, convicted and sentenced, thereby reducing demand for correctional facilities to house them."

Corrections Corporation of America, Inc.’S president and CEO, Damon Hininger, recently boasted to shareholders that the corporation is "well-positioned for growth opportunities" in 2014. Many believe however, that over the last 20 years, our public investment in community-based rehabilitation and vocational-training programs has dwindled, and our return on that massive private jail building investment and minimal investment rehabilitation has been unsurprisingly dismal.

According to the ACLU, there are at least 3,278 human beings serving mandatory life sentences for nonviolent drug and property crimes in this country. America will spend over $1.7 billion to keep just those 3,278 people imprisoned for the rest of their lives.

For their part, the recipients of commutations by Presidents Obama, Clinton, and George W. Bush, whom we so hastily threw away behind bars for decades, have become lawyers (Serena Nunn), social workers (Peter Ninemire), nonprofit starters (Amy Ralston Povah), business owners (De-Ann Coffman-Ames), authors (Donald Clark), community counselors (Kim Willis) and teachers (Kemba Smith).

They have become the most eloquent and compelling declaration that when we fail to rehabilitate our nation'S drug offenders, we condemn ourselves as well. They are the best example of what our nation can do when, in the spirit of our collective rehabilitation, we recognize the error of yesterday'S legislative mistakes and commit to being better than we were before.

As of June 2014, just 10 prisoners have won the Obama administration'S commutation lottery. Inspired by President Obama'S recent promise to reinvigorate the clemency process, the imprisoned and their allies are hopeful that more mercy and reason is on the horizon.

Who have we become, America? Last Friday, Rep. George Holding (R-N.C.), a former federal prosecutor, sponsored a House amendment that would defend and derail the administration'S new clemency-review process. Is that our way of reconciling with all those we have ever wronged?

Congresswoman Rep. Eddie Johnson from Dallas, Texas is a former Veterans Administration nurse . Upon hearing of General Shinseki’S resignation, Rep. Eddie Johnson Complained that even her letters from a Congresswoman did not get to General Shinseki, and that he seemed genuinely surprised when she met with him personally and she mentioned having previously sent him letters of concern with specific facts.

Rep. Eddie Johnson a former V.A. nurse was quoted saying “There is a ring of top administrators who blocked communications to Eric Shinseki all around the country. The situation in Dallas is just as bad as Phoenix.” the congresswoman said.

Rep. Eddie Johnson went on to say there is a massive ingrained culture of secrecy and control among the top administrators and their cronies, many times in contravention of the civil service rules that fosters the veil of secrecy in the V.A. This secrecy allows the fudging of reports for the purpose of promotion and raises.

In Honolulu last October, 2013 when General Shinseki spoke to an pre-invited group of veteran’S at least one pre-invited veteran, and African-American veteran and social worker was barred from entering the hall at U of H where the general was speaking by a team of U.S. Marshals.

This action done at the direction of the top Honolulu V.A. administration and seems like not only a violation of the vet’S First Amendment rights, but also a clear indication of the culture of secrecy and quashing of voices

of righteous dissent to discriminatory hiring practices, committed by top administrators who lie to local Congressmen and senators about the wait times for veterans to see a doctor at the V.A. clinic, while pulling down cash bonuses for fraudulent claims of performance.

So it seems to me that General Shinseki’S forced resignation is a case of a good man undone by the intentional secrecy enforced by V.A. administrators and the general’S failure to see through or recognize the veil placed in front of his senses. As much as Congress’S under funding of V.A. doctors.

In the wake of General Shinseki’S firing, and congressional promises of additional funding and Congressional investigations, it will be interesting to see if any real sustained improvements in the speed of care to vest is achieved, and whether the local V.A. hiring practice of failing to publicly announce openings for good jobs and selecting favored non-veteran candidates non-competitively in violation of V.A. civil service rules and Title VII is investigated and remedied.

The attack in northern Iraq by Syrian rebels called the “Islamic State of Iraq and al-Sham (ISIS)” has gotten the usual hawkish subjects to call for American troops to return to Iraq to evidently defend the mistake the US made by invading Iraq under false pretenses in the first place.

Rand Paul'S foreign policy views and his former aide'S pro-Confederate ties are more problematic than potential 2016 rival Jeb Bush'S stance on immigration and education or Chris Christie'S role in the Bridgegate scandal.

"When moderation on a subject like immigration is ideologically disqualifying, but bark-at-the-moon lunacy about Halliburton is not, then the party has worse problems than merely its choice of nominee," he writes.

Rand Paul'S no-interventionist foreign policy views aren't currying him any favor with conservative pundits, who have recently attacked the Kentucky senator and possible 2016 presidential candidate as naive and immature. But it is the same stance Obama is taking with Syria and Iraq. As the “Arab Spring” revolutions have not produced flowers of democracy in Egypt, Tunisia, Lybia, Syria or Iraq. Rather violent warlords and religion using tyrants reign, where democracy attempted to set root in lands with no history or root structure for such governance. .

Earlier this month, Mother Jones surfaced a 2009 video of the Republican speaking to a student group at Western Kentucky University prior to announcing his Senate candidacy. In his remarks, Paul alleged that former Vice President Dick Cheney had his own financial gain in mind when he pushed for the Iraq War after 9/11.

"Dick Cheney then goes to work for Halliburton. Makes hundreds of millions of dollars -- their CEO. Next thing you know, he'S back in government, it'S a good idea to go into Iraq," Paul said. The charge isn't sitting well with some conservatives. But it seems right on point to me.

Ta-Nehisi Coates wrote a well documented and eloquent article in a recent Atlantic magazine called “The Case for Reparations”, citing “Two hundred fifty years of slavery. Ninety years of Jim Crow. Sixty years of separate but equal. Thirty-five years of racist housing policy.” And stating that: “Until we reckon with our compounding moral debts, America will never be whole.”

His recitation of economic facts stemming from African-American landlessness in general after slavery, the acquisition of nearly 20,000,000 acres of farm land in the U.S. by 1900 and the subsequent reduction of African American farm land holdings by 90% frequently through a discriminatory legal or U.S. Farm Bureau process or policy.

And then blacks migrated from the share cropping farms of the south into the “red line” controlled predatory usurious lending system imposed on segregated black neighborhoods in northern cities from 1900 through the 1970s.

Even today predatory lending imposed upon African-Americans was a feature of the “adjustable mortgage crisis”. Which ensnared a greater percentage of minority lenders than white ones, shows the corrosive and inherently discriminatory nature of American capitalism on the 60 year anniversary of the passage of the Brown vs. Board of Education decision which outlawed discrimination in education, and mandated that it be remedied “with all deliberate speed.” Experts say after 60 years school and related residential segregation is worse now in 2014 than it was in 1954. Www.AttorneyAndreWooten.com & Www.AfricanHistoryVideos.com

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Heading into this World Cup, which as I write this is nearing the end of its first round, not only was their an unusual number of wounded players but the tournament was suffering from serious wounds of its own. Many stars of football—this sport we call soccer is the real football—were injured before the Cup began and were ruled out for the entire tournament. Many others have been hurt during the games themselves. Not only

that, FIFA, the sport’s governing body, was plagued by a huge scandal involving its selection of Qatar as the site of the 2022 World Cup (which longtime football god Franz Beckenbauer of Germany even got dragged into), as well as a worldwide match-fixing scandal that threatened to undermine the very nature of the World Cup games themselves. In addition, facilities for the Cup matches in Brazil were in many cases

Wounded World Cup Still a Wonder

USA's John Brooks heads home the dramatic game-winner vs. Ghana.

by Peter Greenhill

either finished at the very last minute or still not entirely finished as the games began. Perhaps most importantly, the months leading up to the tournament were characterized by enormous demonstrations in Brazil, where citizens were rightly incensed by the billions spent on the World Cup while schools, the health care system, and basic transportation went begging. However, despite all these wounds on and off the field, from the very first match to the last one completed before this column, the action on the field has wowed us all.

All of the following star players were unable to compete in the whole tournament because of serious pre-tournament injuries: Luis Montes of Mexico, Franck Ribery of France, Radamel Falcao of Colombia, Riccardo Montolivo of Italy, Alvaro Saborie of Cost Rica, Roman Shirakov of Russia, and Kevin Strootman of the Netherlands. These other stars went

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into the tournament with injuries but would be playing to one extent or another: Luis Suarez of Uruguay, Gianluigi Buffon of Italy, Bastian Schweinsteiger of Germany, Cristiano Ronaldo of Portugal, Robin Van Persie of the Netherlands, Theo Walcott of England, and Didier Drogba of the Ivory Coast. There is also a list of stars who sustained injuries during the tournament, which hasn’t even reached the end of first-round pool play, but either are still able to play or have a chance of returning in later rounds if their teams advance that far: Jozy Altidore of the USA, Clint Dempsey of the USA, Diego Lugano of Uruguay (their captain), Marco Reus of Germany, Samuel Eto’o of Cameroon, Hugo Almeida of Portugal, and Fabio Coentrao of Portugal. We could call them all the Walking Wounded except that some of them can’t walk.

Just weeks before the action began, a huge story came out about match fixing on a massive scale worldwide that might even have included matches at the 2010 World Cup in South Africa. If you were to read the stories, you would feel very disturbed; there is more evidence than any football fan would want to know. Almost simultaneously, The Times of London broke a story just as big, that bribery was the deciding factor in FIFA’s choice of Qatar as the site of the 2022 World Cup. The Times claimed to have literally millions of pages of documents and e-mails showing the illegal activity at work; the paper alleges that millions of dollars were paid to FIFA Executive Committee members to persuade them to vote for Qatar as the 2022 choice and that the illicit work was led mostly by Mohamed Bin Hammam, a Qatari former FIFA official. The unsavory scandal has even tainted the much-admired Beckenbauer as well as Michel Platini, the popular former French player and manager who has been serving as the head of UEFA, the Union of European Football Associations (UEFA).

Beyond the scandals there also has been the problem of civil unrest in Brazil. It is a country that has made tremendous strides economically over the last twenty years, but in recent years the pattern of progress for all has been replaced by progress for a few, the same type of income inequality that has become the scourge of American society. As this was developing, the nation spent billions of dollars on new stadia and other preparations for the World Cup while too much of the population languished in poverty. The financial gains from the tournament preparations would mostly end up in the pockets of corporations, both in the short term and the long term. When inadequacies in public transportation, employment, education, and health care became too great for the populace to bear, demonstrations started breaking out in cities all over Brazil, sometimes including as many as 200,000 to 300,000 people at a time. Sometimes the demonstrations descended into violent clashes with anti-riot forces. All of it was sad to see, and in a country as joyous about life and as much in love with football as Brazil, it was incredible to see thousands upon thousands of demonstrators saying they did not want the World Cup.

Despite all these problems, which cannot and will not be solved until after the World Cup is over, the tournament has gone on as planned, and once attention was focused on the action on the field, it was rewarded with one of the most wonderful World Cups in a long time. Even in just pool play, we have seen enough amazing sights to last a lifetime. Robin Van Persie’s work of Dutch art, his long-range diving header in a shocking 5-1 trouncing of defending World Cup champion Spain, spread all over the world in minutes. There was also the incredible, dramatic late header by the USA’s John Brooks, who had just subbed in, to give the Americans a crucial win over Ghana, as well as the USA’s brilliant strike from long range by Jermaine Jones in its thrilling 2-2 tie with Portugal. Who will forget the performance of Mexico’s goalkeeper Guillermo Ochoa against the home team Brazil, withstanding the non-stop Brazilian siege with spectacular save after spectacular save? That game was probably the most exciting, dramatic 0-0 draw in history. Then there was the superb goal of Lionel Messi in the 91st minute to break the hearts of a truly valiant and skilled Iran team. The surprising emergence of an outstanding Costa Rica team, which beat both Italy and England, will continue to stick in people’s minds. There was also the game-winning goal scored by Switzerland against Ecuador, the latest game-winner in the history of the men’s World Cup. Google a video of Gervinho’s incredible goal and watch him weave through four defenders to score against Colombia. What a great story it was also to see Uruguay’s Luis Suarez come off the bench after knee surgery just a few weeks before to score both goals in a thrilling 2-1 win over England. We also saw perhaps the most subtle but superb individual performance in the eyes of football aficionados when we watched the master artist and magician of Italy, Andrea Pirlo, control space, tempo, movement, and

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Gervinho of the Ivory Coast outmaneuvers Colombia defenders on the way to scoring.

Argentine legend Lionel Messi launches winning stoppage-time goal vs. Iran.


seemingly everything on the field with the greatest of ease as he led Italy to a 2-1 win over England. Not to be outdone, Ghana treated us to one of the great team efforts so far in conjunction with the fantastic German team in a 2-2 tie that included the most exciting second half of the tournament up till now, a half that saw Germany’s Miroslav Klose score just two minutes after coming off the bench to tie the record for the most career World Cup goals. Both teams left the field literally bloodied but unbowed. And let’s not forget the dazzling display in its first two games of the high-scoring French team, a redemptive performance after they embarrassed themselves in South Africa in 2010.

It’s hard to believe that after all this, as I am writing we still haven’t seen the end of the first round. In the 2010 World Cup there were 145 goals scored in the entire tournament. Already in this 2014 World Cup, there have been 101 scored in just the group stage even though there are still several group-stage games still to play as of this writing. Thus, despite the many, many wounds that were inflicted on the World Cup both before and during the tournament, the tournament has been an unforgettable wonder, best captured by one of ESPN’s English play-by-play announcers, aptly named John Champion, who said when Ghana scored to take the lead over Germany, “This World Cup is the gift that keeps on giving!” Robin Van Persie's incredible long header vs. Spain

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We often glibly say parents, other individuals, officials, organizations and institutions ought to be held accountable without realizing what the word accountability or the process really means.

Solutions do not occur if accountability measures are not developed, managed and implemented. The public and consumers suffer directly and indirectly if accountability issues arenâ€™t adequately addressed.

The Wall Street crisis, 9/11, major product recalls, proliferation of arms, and health, food and pharmaceutical issues all point to inadequate accountability. Local problems may be just as pressing.

Generally, accountability is not achieved. Citizens complain for a short time, and a new set of ideas and proposals are introduced and proclaimed be so good that they must be immediately acted upon.

These promises, ideas, policies, products and services are offered as though there are built in protections to insure good faith, performance and positive outcomes. Consequently, practices that should be â€œold newsâ€ and have never been addressed become new again!

Failures in the health, judicial, regulatory, religious, energy, ecological, economic, familial and educational systems all result in our demanding accountability again.

Too often the public and/or its representatives forget or abrogate their responsibility to hold individuals, entities, programs and policies responsible or accountable.

We often fail to hold persons or entities accountable because we expect others to do it, we are ignorant about what we can do or we simply forget. Worst of all we may not care and are not accountable ourselves.

Government, Wall Street, education, health, safety and judicial systems all make inflated promises. President Obama, the U.S. Supreme Court, Eric Holder, Susan Rice, the Clintons, the Bushes and others come to mind regarding national and international accountability.

We assume that they are the ones to be held responsible or that they should hold others responsible for actions in their domain. Yet, we are all responsible for the actions or inaction affecting others and ourselves.

Responses to accountability are often not apparent, simple or predictable. The process is varied, complex and often falls on so many that no one takes responsibility.

Any grandiose proposal ought to contain a transparent and rigorous cost-benefit analysis that all of the stakeholders understand. That process should enable us all to make the best input into the decision-making process and share in the accountability process and outcome.

This is akin to the decision-making that occurs when a family is engaged in planning a daughterâ€™s high school prom experience. Everything possible must be understood so that the best outcome can occur. Everyone ought to be buying into the accountability process with its rewards and penalties.

What then is accountability? It is responsibility, reliability, liability and guarantees of posited outcomes. Actions are often easier to implement than to hold accountable.

Consider the recent release of Sgt. Bowe Bergdahl. While all entities are to be reasonably held accountable, we needed answers about who, what, when, where, why and how accountability can be accomplished.

Many of us think the accountability process starts after an action has occurred. This process ought to begin when the action is being conceived.

When local development projects are being considered, production of consumer items are being planned, health measures are being debated, and policies are being developed or ignored, accountability should be considered early in the process.

Accountability is not simply punishment of some kind. Compensation, forgiveness and resolution are all in the mix when accountability is being considered. Legal actions, removal from office, reparations, castigation and reimbursement might all be considered remedies.

In sports, referees and umpires are expected to hold athletes accountable during competitions. However, sports associations such as the NCAA, the NBA and the NFL are expected to make themselves and those governed by them further accountable.

Politicians and those responsible for policy, as well as others who enjoy the public trust, should have their own appropriate mechanisms to assure accountability.

President Obama, Pope Francis, Eric Shinseki, Chris Christie, the media, our local politicians and service providers, as well their audiences, constituents and clients, ought to all be instruments of the accountability process and hold ourselves accountable.

We should never be satisfied with any less because we are all either directly or indirectly accountable.

Accountability

by Dr. William E. “Gene” Robertson

The Hawaii State Junior Golf Association (HSJGA) conducted the 14 & Under Junior Tour Series Kauai at Princeville Makai Golf Club, May 17-18.


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