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Title: Legislators Teach Real World Civics.
Author: Jan Goehring
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Date: March 1, 2000
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From the author: To provide a model for assessing the current and likely responses to climate change risks, this Article considers two of the worst flood disasters in American history and applies the same rationale to critical climate change issues facing the nation today. After providing a background on climate change and related policy initiatives, this Article First considers the flood of 1997 in Grand Forks, North Dakota, which caused more than 50,000 people to abandon their homes. The development of the flood preparations, the failures of the early warning systems, and the relief and mitigation efforts once the disaster struck played a significant role in the losses suffered The Article then discusses Hurricane Katrina and its aftermath in New Orleans, reviews the safety plan in place before the Hurricane, and considers the failures in the responses following the breach of the levees. The Article then outlines the lessons (hopefully) learned following the Grand Forks flood of 1997 and in post-Katrina New Orleans and explains how the lessons apply to the present climate change discussions. The experiences of these disasters highlight the risks of failing to mitigate and (at least attempt to) reverse the effects of a looming natural disaster. Finally, the Article concludes that 1) the overall costs of acting are far less than the costs that are likely to follow under a business-as-usual approach, and 2) policies to address climate change issues are well worth the effort because of the potential gains in terms of national security and job creation, even if the predicted losses attributed primarily to climate change are "wrong."

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Title: The rising tide of climate change: what America's flood cities can teach us about energy policy, and why we should be worried.(Greening the Grid Building a Legal Framework for Carbon Neutrality)
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Amazing new book for worship leaders
Hey guys if you are looking to improve on what you do in the house every sunday,this book is a great tool to do so.I'm not just saying this glibly. This book will equip you to know how and why you should do a thing as you go into worship.

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Title: Making educational research more important. (Special Issue: Enhancing the Education of Difficult-to-Teach Students in the Mainstream: Federally-Sponsored Research)
Author: Douglas Fuchs
Publication: Exceptional Children (Refereed)
Date: October 1, 1990
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A perceptive summary of Bismarcks career
This detailed and concise book by Medlicott summarizes Bismarck's foreign and domestic policies. Medlicott shows how Bismarck originally had goals but no basic plan to achieve them. By showing not just Bismarck's strategies but his tactics, and his various options we see how Bismarck was able to gain whatever advantage there was in any situation to gain his ends.

At first Bismarck used foreign policy to gain his domestic ends, Prussian dominance over Germany and pushing Austria out of Germany. Later Bismarck used foreign policy only to consolidate Prussian or German strength.

Medlicott shows Bismarcks good and bad qualities. Medlicott points out that Bismarck had"Much good sense and very little good will, tremendous determination allied to a wonderful grasp of political possibilities, the sensitiveness but also the objectivity of an artist, a lust for success, the driving force of a nervous system infuriated by personal rebuffs, andthe precious gift of a really good brain...but he was incapable of magnanimity" This quote not only describes Bismarck's good and bad qualities but illustrates Medlicott's shrewd grasp of Bismarck. Medlicott also points out the problems in some of the faulty arguments Bismarck's supporters have used.We also see that while Bismarck often changed directions to achieve his ends, he often left bad feelings and eventually distrust, which eventually hampered him.

Unfortunately this book lacks maps, charts or a good bibliography. The great amount of detail makes this book not very readable, but very informative. ... Read more

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Title: Teach your children well about money matters.(PERSONAL FINANCE)
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Title: Legislators teach and learn: when legislators venture into classrooms, civics come alive.
Author: Jan Goehring
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Date: January 1, 2004
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Title: What local climate change plans can teach us about city power.
Author: Katherine A. Trisolini
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Title: Building capable allies, strong bonds the Arizona Air Guard teaches United States allies to fly, fight, and win.(FEATURE ARTICLES)
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Title: GSA Schedule 70 now open to state, local buyers: contractors must teach customers how to use the schedules.
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Title: Democracy works: democracy in action is not appealing, so it's hard for people to appreciate it. It's up to legislators to teach a little "democracy appreciation," and help the public understand how the legislature works.
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Publisher: National Conference of State Legislatures
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Author: Elizabeth Palmberg
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Sremac offers a penetrating look at how media-generated images and ideas reiterated throughout the Yugoslav civil war hindered Washington's ability to understand what was really happening in the region and made U.S.foreign policy a reflection of sound bites rather than sound reasoning. The process and ideology that guides Washington,in a post-cold war era has allowed special interest groups that understand how Washington works to put forth a message that appeals to tte media and receives endorsement by the U.S. foreign policymaking establishment. Foreign governments and thier supporters in the United States have increasingly tapped into this system. The Yugoslav conflict is one of the first and most important examples of how certain Yugoslav warring parties were able to play out a war of words in Washington to ultimately influence U.S. foreign policy toward the region. ... Read more

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War of Delusion
This is the usual self justifying nationalist rubbish Serbed by a energetic and relentless defender of nationalist hate mongering and war crimes. Sremac traversed the country lobbying to prove that war criminals like Radovan Karadzic were really heros and the crazed blood soaked and self defeating nationalist lunacy they skippered was really a noble and heroic struggle for freedom.

This work dutifully conveys the stock lies of Serbian nationalist delusion: the evil Germans again out to destroy Yugoslavia; the treacherous US hell bent on imposing its evil world order on the peace and freedom loving Serbs; the deceitful western media out crucify the heroic Serbian people and their noble cause. It's a simple message: Serbs good - Others bad. Her psuedo objective language will only fool the converted along with clueless useful idiots willing to side with any one or anyhting seen as at odds with Washington.

For Sremac, the mistake the Serbs made, in their naive and innocent way and unlike those sneaky and nasty Croats and Bosnian Muslims, was not to hire PR experts to promote the "truth" about their "misunderstood" fight for freedom. Unfortunately there were many Sremac's from all sides - zombies blindly defending "their" sides role in the free for all slaughter, destruction and genocide that marked Yugoslavia's self destruction.

The following works should better clarify the record:

Balkan Holocausts?: Serbian and Croatian Victim Centered Propaganda and the War in Yugoslavia

Homeland Calling: Exile Patriotism and the Balkan Wars

Coherent internaly and with other sources
Sremac is perhaps biased by any residual Serb identity but that is irrelevant if the claims and sources used agree with those of authoritative writers on the subject.

That appears to be the case in comparing her book with the NSA's expert during the war (John R. Schindler) and the US Army Intelligence's John E. Sray. Sadly, while the NSA was did not go public with its criticism of the standard interpretation, Sremac could have referenced Col. Andrei Demurenko's report on the Markale Markeplace bombings. David Binder had access to it but used a secondary source instead.

In the broader perspective, the account is accurate in terms of events and motivations seem in line with what is described by other sources as well. The book is in conflict with the popular conception of the war in that it does not believe Serbs to be guilty of Genocide, commencing the war, and other atrocities. That does not mean that she believes they did not exist.

War crimes and atrocities existed on all sides but she singles out the Bosnian government under Alia Izetbegovitch and the Croatian Ustashe government for particular cruelty and for using such as tools of war. Her case in that regard could be stronger but that is due to a perhaps excessive focus on the actual war instead of the propaganda war. She stops only to mention the occurrence without providing the amount of detail of the situation and the comparison with Western media beliefs.

This is understandable in an effort to communicate without boring the audience (Westerners refuse to listen to detailed arguments) but as any lawyer knows, omission is is potential failure unless the weight brings the case down.

A good book that perhaps deserves 4.5 but is given the benefit of the doubt for a still excellent understanding of events on the Washington side.

Poorly written
Nothing in this book references back to the historic facts about the Bosnian right to independence, freedom, and democracy.Book has failed on numerous accountsto provide the overview of true causes of war and agression on Bosnia.

Sremac's Fantasy
War of Words is an amazing piece of racist propaganda matched only by the fantasy-laden accounts of the wars in Yugoslavia which came from Belgrade's state-run media, or the version of the war in Iraq as told by the Iraqi information minister.Sremac is not only a representative of the Serbian government, hardly making her account unbaised, but fails to account for aspects of the Bosnian war (such as the starvation and murder of Muslim prisoners in detention camps) which were confirmed by witnesses from dozens of relief organizations and media groups, as well as thousands of tesitmonials at the UN warcrimes tribunals.Sremac further claims that Washington's motivation for supprting the Muslims was based on some crazy desire to intervene in countires after the cold war (laughable is you know anything about Clinton's record of intervention, or if you examine how long it took Washington to intervene in Bosnia and under what conditions).She relies on the accounts of the war from such indicted criminal murderers as Radovan Karadzic, and subscribes to common Serbian attempts to blame the victim of genocide for Serbia's vile crimes.If you want to know what it is like to read some nice racist fiction, or experience Balkan duplicity firsthand, pick this work up, glance it over, burn it, and then scold yourself for having put money in the pockets of somebody like Sremac.Further, the people on this site who wrote rave reviews of this book are probably either ultranationalist members of the Serbian parliament or themselves indicted war criminals hiding in Pale.

Subjectivity vs. Objectivity
Danielle Sremac was a registered agent lobbying on behalf of a foreign government, namely, the Yugoslav (Serbian and Montenegrin governments) during the wars of the 1990s. This can be looked up in public records, as proscribed by law.
She is more than entitled to write a book about the wars, but one must exercise caution as to the content of her book. If this woman was lobbying on behalf of indicted and convicted war criminals, then much of her case would be higly suspect from the beginning. ... Read more

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Title: Balancing smokers, nonsmokers and health concerns: Delaware and California have banned all public smoking. Other states are looking at requiring separate, well-vented rooms. The problem is no one knows how much ventilation is enough.
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Title: Addicted to taxes: The only tax it might be popular to raise is the one on cigarettes.(Statistical Data Included)
Author: Leslie Teach Robbins
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