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REVIEW: Beautiful game by Lainey Davis

REVIEW: Beautiful game by Lainey Davis

Click the image to buy on Amazon Summary Everything comes at a cost. Is love worth the price? Hawk Moyer has it all: fame, fortune…the only thing missing from the pro athlete’s life is family. Half his identity is a mystery, and after a transfer to Pittsburgh’s soccer team, he’s determined to solve the secret of his origins. He just needs to stay focused on his game in the mean time. The only…

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[smallgodseries]

#102 SHH - Serra Hawks-Hitchcock, Small God of Silence. A formally dressed woman sits at table. In front of her a tea set decorated with gilt snowflakes and a plate of cucumber sandwiches rest on a lace tablecloth. She is haloed in gold against a darker golden background. She has a finger to her lips as a she shushes a hummingbird with a tiny crown. This is #54 Hummel - Small God of Not Knowing the Words.

• • • • •

“Ladies should be seen and not heard,” and she is there, just behind the speaker, a smile on her lips and mischief in her eyes.

“Silence is a virtue,” and she is there, pulling faces, fingers in her ears and tongue peeking out to brush her chin, a gleeful obscenity.

“Loose lips sink ships,” and she is there, a cutlass in her hand, ready to sail for the Spanish Main at dawn, the colors already hoisted in her heart.

She doesn’t have a lot to say, but she allows others to speak for her with giddy willingness, bending their pious proverbs to her own ends.   She finds her strength and her divinity in the space between the silence and the sigh, the blossoming room where she can undermine her own ideals and make of silence something screaming.

Ladies should be seen and not heard?  Fine, then, she will make of their precious ladies a spectacle too grand to be ignored.  She will make sure they can be seen from space.  Silence is a virtue?  Then silence enough should make them virtuous; they need not a single virtue more.  Loose lips sink ships?  Then she will build a graveyard all her own, schooners and galleons at the bottom of the sea.

Do not tempt the quiet ones, for their vengeance will be swift and unrelenting.  But she smiles and smiles and sips her tea, and the ones who worship her—either willingly or because they have no given choice—understand that her wrath, when it descends, will be unending.   And they love her for it.  Oh, how they love her.

They do not sing her praises.  Instead, they hold them close and quiet in their hearts, and she is theirs, and they are hers, and all those who fail to understand their bonds will one day see them in the screaming silence of the dawn.

• • • • • 

Artist Lee Moyer (13th Age, Cursed Court) and author Seanan McGuire (Middlegame, Every Heart a Doorway) have joined forces to bring you icons and stories of the small deities who manage our modern world, from the God of Social Distancing to the God of Finding a Parking Space.

Join in each week on Monday, Wednesday, and Friday for a guide to the many tiny divinities:

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Lyrics

Hello darkness, my old friend I’ve come to talk with you again Because a vision softly creeping Left its seeds while I was sleeping And the vision that was planted in my brain Still remains Within the sound of silence

In restless dreams I walked alone Narrow streets of cobblestone ‘Neath the halo of a street lamp I turned my collar to the cold and damp When my eyes were stabbed by the flash of a neon light That split the night And touched the sound of silence

And in the naked light I saw Ten thousand people, maybe more People talking without speaking People hearing without listening People writing songs that voices never share And no one dared Disturb the sound of silence”Fools, ” said I, “You do not know Silence, like a cancer, grows Hear my words that I might teach you Take my arms that I might reach you” But my words, like silent raindrops fell And echoed in the wells, of silence Ip angry scanner for mac os.

And the people bowed and prayed To the neon god they made And the sign flashed out its warning In the words that it was forming And the sign said, “The words of the prophets are written on the subway walls And tenement halls” And whispered in the sounds of silence

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About Disturbed (The band)

Disturbed (from disturb. To disturb) is an American rock band formed in 1996 in Chicago, Illinois by musicians Dan Donigan, Steve “Fuzz” Kmak), David Draiman and alternative metal. Critics attribute the work of the team to Nu Metal. Religious themes predominate in the work of the group Disturbed.

Disturbed is considered the formation date of joining to the already formed band from Dan Donigan, Steve Kmak and Mike Vengren singer David Draiman. He responded to the band’s announcement of a vocalist search. Exactly1996 – 2011, break

Disturbed (from disturb. To disturb) is an American rock band formed in 1996 in Chicago, Illinois by musicians Dan Donigan, Steve “Fuzz” Kmak), David Draiman and alternative metal. Critics attribute the work of the team to Nu Metal. Religious themes predominate in the work of the group Disturbed.

Disturbed is considered the formation date of joining to the already formed band from Dan Donigan, Steve Kmak and Mike Vengren singer David Draiman. He responded to the band’s announcement of a vocalist search. It was David Dreyman who dubbed the group Disturbed.

Prior to joining vocalist David Dreyman, the band was known as Brawl.

Disturbed recorded two demo albums until Giant Records signed to them. In 2000, the group released the single “Stupify” and the subsequent album “The Sickness”, after which Disturbed and gained fame. Many people paid attention to the harsh sounding of the compositions, generously seasoned with electronics and the animal vocal of the soloist. However, in fairness, it is worth noting that David was equally well able, just to yell loudly, and sing delightfully. In 2001, the group took part in the Ozzfest festival. And later in his own tour “Music as a Weapon” (“Music as a weapon”).

In October 2002, the album Believe was recorded, which, like its predecessor The Sickness, soon became platinum. In December 2003, bassist Fuzz left the band. “Holy Place” is empty for quite a long time – 6 months. Finally, in March 2004, John Moyer, the former Union Underground bass player, became a member of the band. John is from Texas, as a result – his attribute in life – a cowboy hat.

After the release of Ten Thousand Fists on September 20, 2005, the band went on tour with 10 Years and Ill Nino. The album debuted in first place in the United States. In addition, two songs “Hell” and “Monster” were available in stream format, the high demand for which indicates a great devotion of the fans of the collective.

Vocalist David Dreiman was embroiled in a scandal involving file-sharing networks: he spoke critically about RIAA claims against individual users of file-sharing networks, despite the fact that Disturbed is under the protection of RIAA. “Instead of spending money on lawsuits against children, they could learn how to use the Internet effectively. I did not ask them to protect me and I do not need their protection. ” – said David Dreyman.

In 2010, the group had 3 releases – a single, an album and a DVD.

On 3 compositions from the album were filmed video: Asylum, Another Way to Die, The Animal

Disturbed - Shout 2000

Despite the success and sold-out concerts, in the summer of 2011, the musicians announced that the band was going on indefinite leave – but maybe someday in the future it will return to the stage. They explained their decision by a systemic crisis in the rock industry, as well as a desire to engage in personal projects, while assuring fans that the sudden decision was not the result of an internal split in the group.

Current line-up * David Draiman – vocalist; * Dan Donigan (Dan Donegan) – guitar player; * John Moyer (John Moyer) – bass player; * Mike Wengren – drummer.

Discography (studio albums) * The Sickness (2000) * Believe (2002) * Ten Thousand Fists (September 20, 2005) * Indestructible (June 3, 2008) * Asylum (2010)

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The song “Down with the Sickness” is played in the series “Apologies to Jesse Jackson” “Sauce Park”, in the scene of Cartman’s fight against the dwarf and during the final credits. In the movie “Queen of Damned”, the song “Forsaken” sounds, which is sung by David separately from the group. Also Disturbed music was used in the films “Confrontation” (One), “Dawn Of The Dead”, This Moment “Transformers”, in the computer game Decadence, in the game Need For Speed: Most Wanted, in the game Tony Hawk `s Underground 2 track Liberate, and in the game Guitar Hero 3 Legends of Rock (PS3) there is the song Stricken from the album 10,000 Fists, in the movie” Nikki: The Devil Junior “(Little Nicky) used a remix of the song Stupify. Also in the movie” Dracula 2000 “the song” A Welcome Burden “sounds.

If you can not find sheet music of the requested song it means it will be added very soon. If the copyright of any music sheet or image belongs to you, please report us, we will remove it. Thank you.

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Doing as much as you can do with what little you have

1. Josh Bowman's big forearm

2. Usher's big forearm

3. Fergie's big forearm

4. Isabella Rossellini's big forearm

5. Evan Rachel Wood's big forearm

6. Lindsey Vonn's big forearm

7. Kelly Slater's big forearm

8. Farrah Abraham's big forearm

9. John F. Kennedy, Jr.'s big forearm

10. Scott Baio's big forearm

11. Joel McHale's big forearm

12. Ethan Hawke's big forearm

13. Christie Brinkley's big forearm

14. Stephen Moyer's big forearm

15. John Travolta's big forearm

16. Guy Ritchie's big forearm

17. Mariah Carey's big forearm

18. Jason Sudeikis's big forearm

19. Beyonce Knowles's big forearm

20. Keri Russell's big forearm

21. Liam Payne's big forearm

22. Kesha's big forearm

23. Justin Long's big forearm

24. Dr. Phil McGraw's big forearm

25. Jaime Pressly's big forearm

26. Joel Madden's big forearm

27. Jessica Stroup's big forearm

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29. Ashton Kutcher's big forearm

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fc ideas for Hades 40+?

my time to shine!  idris elba, daniel sunjata, cheyenne jackson, dylan mcdermott, pedro pascal, stephen moyer, colin farrell, ewan mcgregor, jason momoa,  manu bennett, peter mensah, ethan hawke, d.b. woodside,  ricky whittle, hugh jackman, james marsters, david boreanaz, diego luna, keanu reeves, daniel craig, taye diggs, and denzel washington .

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Famous Examples of Stellia

Aries: Descartes, Elle Fanning

Taurus: Ann-Margret, Jessica Alba, Teilhard de Chardin

Gemini: Amelia Earhart, Paul McCartney

Cancer: Anne Morrow Lindbergh, Dennis Haysbert, Nancy Sinatra, Pablo Neruda, Willem Dafoe

Leo: Alan Leo, Billy Bob Thorton, Hale Berry, Michael Jackson, Mick Jagger, Ringo Starr

Virgo: Bill Murray, Blake Lively, Gordon Ramsay, Anastacia Lyn Newkirk, Robert Redford

Libra: Beyoncé, Catherine Zeta-Jones, Eminem, Stephen Moyer, Wendi McLendon-Covey, Zach Galifianakis

Scorpio: Bruce Lee, Demi Moore, Drake, Ethan Hawke, Halsey, Katy Perry, Martin Scorsese, Megan Mullally, Owen Wilson

Sagittarius: Amaury Leveaux, Anna Faris, Britney Spears, Keri Hilson, Nicki Minaj

Capricorn: Freddie Highmore, Josh Bowman, Julia Louis-Dreyfus, Liam Hemsworth, Olivia Cooke, Taylor Swift

Aquarius: Ashton Kutcher, Axl Rose, Booboo Stewart, Clint Black, Jennifer Jason Leigh

Pisces: Kurt Cobain

1st House: Katy Perry, Taylor Swift

2nd House: Amelia Earhart, Blake Lively, Keri Hilson

3rd House: Britney Spears, Descartes, Justin Bieber

4th House: Hale Berry, Pablo Neruda

5th House: Calvin Harris, Gordon Ramsay, Pablo Neruda

6th House: Gordon Ramsay, Michael Jackson, Ringo Starr, Robert Redford, Willem Dafoe

7th House: Megan Mullally

8th House: Demi Moore, Jeremy Renner, Stephen Moyer

9th House: Catherine Zeta-Jones, Kaley Cuoco Jessica Alba, Rihanna

10th House: Anne Morrow Lindbergh, Axl Rose, Jessica Lange

11th House: Bruce Lee, Nicki Minaj

12th House: Alan Leo, Ann-Margret, Beyoncé, Max Milner, Nancy Sinatra, Teilhard de Chardin

Feel free to add, but keep in mind these are four body stellia. This is not going by the three body system. You can read about stellia here.

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Host Segment 1 (S02E07)

Joel & the Bots start by discussing the overly-eloquent dialogue of the main biker character, Jeeter, who does at times seem strangely well-spoken for the type of character he is supposed to be.

This discussion leads directly to a series of drawings, which Joel has prepared to illustrate his explanation of some of the more intellectual biker gangs you might not have heard of. Above, we see Satan’s Sardonics, the lesser-known motorcycle-borne wing of the Algonquin Round Table.

Here we see Truman Capote as the rebellious president of his own M.C., Oscar’s Wilde Ones (Joel: “They were leather boys.”) So, yes, this is another one of those segments where some aspect of the film serves as a jumping-off point for a series of ridiculous puns and other assorted wordplay, combined with pop culture references. Make no mistake, we love this. However, there is a certain pattern emerging in Season 2, and it is our duty to point these things out. 

Next, Joel shows Norman Mailer all decked out as the leader of Hell’s Egos, although Joel reveals this illustration a bit late. The timing makes it seem that this is an illustration of Mailer’s rival gang leader, Gore Vidal of the Vidal Sassoons. However, the illustration does bear a resemblance to a specific photograph of Norman Mailer. Honestly, the Editor can’t be 100% sure. Confidently, we can say this illustration is definitely one of the two.

All these gang rivalries only end when all the various clubs come together to beat up poor Dick Cavett, seen above. The final illustration, below, shows Ted Koppel’s gang, in an effort to show that these gangs continue among intellectuals to the (then-)present day. Delivered bluntly, the gang’s name gets a well-deserved giggle: they’re called The Bloods. 

Ted Koppel rides with Stephen Hawking, and rivals Bill Moyers’ gang, Moyers’ Marauders. Bill rides with Joseph Campell, but his toughness turns out to be a myth, making Ted Koppel’s gang the toughest of them all.

At the end, Joel assures his Bots that they can always ride with him, as long as they stay away from his special lady, Gypsy. This is just a little reminder of the ongoing host segment plot in this episode, wherein the romance between Joel and Gypsy is commenced. Of course, Crow has to be all sarcastic about it, and rude to Gypsy, and Joel is disappointed. He’s not mad, he’s just disappointed. With no small amount of pride, The Editor wishes to point out that you can actually see this sarcasm on Crow’s face in the above screencap. These perfect frames don’t just find themselves, you know.

#mst3k #Mystery Science Theater 3000 #Wild Rebels #keep circulating the tapes

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The following includes excerpts from an article I wrote a few years ago.  This has to do with the history of the CIA, and I’m posting it along with some of my other old articles because they relate to current events, and some people have written me and said they’re interested.  

Lately mainstream media commentators have pushed the idea that the public should trust the CIA and other intelligence agencies regarding their claims about Russia’s allegedly “hacking” the U.S. election.  However, all the trustworthy investigative journalists I know, including progressive reporters Glenn Greenwald and Chris Hedges and Pulitzer Prize winning journalist Seymour Hersh among others, have made good cases that the intelligence agencies have offered no real evidence for their claims. 

These journalists have expressed concern and explained why the public should view the intelligence agencies with healthy skepticism.  Here are excerpts from my article on the CIA’s history with some updated editing.

The National Security Act of 1947, and the creation of the CIA as a result of that act, radically changed the direction of this country. This act helped create a secret government within our legitimate government. 

When politicians and journalists today urge the public to blindly trust the intelligence agencies, they act as if they have amnesia about the history of those organizations.  The corporate-controlled establishment shouldn’t push the public to rally around the national security state, pretending the CIA and other intel groups are above reproach.  They know better, and the fact that they act as if they don’t misleads the populace at best.

The CIA often operates outside U. S. law and beyond constitutional restraint, and its activities are often anti-democratic. From the beginning, CIA operations were aimed at overthrowing left wing constitutional democracies, installing right wing dictators, funding torture and murder around the world and repressing peasants while empowering the wealthy.

In a Bill Moyers PBS Frontline special from the late 1980s, Moyers referred to this secret government as "an interlocking network of official functionaries, spies, mercenaries, ex-generals and super-patriots who, for a variety of motives, operate outside the legitimate institutions of government. Presidents have turned to them when they can't win the support of the Congress or the people, creating that unsupervised power so feared by the framers of the Constitution."

Moyers noted that in 1953, the CIA worked to overthrow Prime Minister Mossadegh of Iran, who was popular with the people and held power legitimately. Mossadegh's "mistake" was deciding the Iranian state, and not British companies, should control the oil inside Iran's borders. The CIA hired mobs and bribed police and soldiers to drive Mossadegh from office. The agency helped reinstate the monarchy and placed Shah Reza Pahlevi, who then gave U. S. companies more than 40 percent ownership of Iran's oil fields, on the "Peacock Throne."

Kermit Roosevelt, Jr., the CIA agent who came up with the idea for the coup was later named vice president of Gulf Oil. The CIA also created SAVAK, the Shah's secret police. Kennett Love, a former New York Times reporter, told Moyers that SAVAK tortured and jailed thousands of people and deprived them of property without due process.

Next, in 1954, the CIA overthrew Guatemala's popular democratically elected Jacobo Arbenz, an admirer of Franklin Delano Roosevelt. Fewer than 3 percent of landowners owned 70 percent of the land in Guatemala, so Arbenz nationalized over a million and a half acres and turned it over to the peasants. Because a U. S. firm, United Fruit Company, had owned much of that land the CIA sent mercenaries in from Honduras to try to overthrow Arbenz.

The CIA then bombed the capital using U. S. planes and pilots, forced Arbenz to flee, and replaced him with a U. S. puppet dictator who took the land back from the peasants and returned it to United Fruit Company. Such large numbers of Guatemalan peasants were tortured and slaughtered that coroners said they couldn't keep up with the workload.

Again and again, the CIA has removed democratically elected leaders around the world and installed right wing dictators, always for the motive of controlling oil or land on behalf of a handful of wealthy corporations, and never on behalf of the majority of people. From its earliest days through Iran-Contra, the Gulf War and beyond, the CIA has protected the money and power of the ruling class by brutalizing ordinary people.

During the Cold War, the CIA justified its activities by claiming it was fighting communism. But it usually exaggerated or lied about the threat, often falsely painting legitimately elected socialist leaders as "dangerous communists."

Colonel Phillip Roettinger (Ret.) U. S. Marine Corps told Bill Moyers the CIA recruited him to help overthrow Arbenz on the pretense of preventing the spread of communist influence in the region. Roettinger says that in reality there was "no hint of communism in [Arbenz's] government; no communists in his cabinet."

Moyers pointed out that as part of the Cold War mentality, the U. S. recruited Nazis such as Klaus Barbie, and paid them as secret informants and advisers. Our secret government can't abide leftist Third World leaders, especially when those leaders give a share of power or national resources to the people, but it doesn't seem to mind political figures on the far right, not even Nazis. Klaus Barbie had tortured and murdered thousands of Jews, yet the U. S. allied with him and later helped him escape to Bolivia instead of turning him over to the French to be prosecuted for war crimes.

In 2011, the George W. Bush Administration took advantage of the terrorist attacks to renew a mentality of permanent war and perpetual state of emergency.  Even though Obama put a folksy spin on it, he continued many of Bush’s neoconservative policies.  He ordered countless drone strikes which killed many innocent people  Hillary Clinton has a history of acting a neoconservative war hawk.  She pushed for regime change in Libya and a covert CIA program in Syria involving providing weapons to rebel groups.  This Huffington Post article points out, “Clinton’s role in Syria has been to help instigate and prolong the Syrian bloodbath, not to bring it to a close”.

When establishment media and politicians say "we" should stand behind our leaders and suggest that "we" as a nation can do no wrong in our foreign policy, are they aligning us with the same "we" that has butchered millions of innocent peasants around the world in order to control Middle East oil reserves and maintain power around the world?

"We" are not the secret government and its foreign policy errors. We're the people, and our interests often clash with those of the CIA and the corporations they represent, especially at the times when they propagandize us into serving as cannon fodder for their wars. 

When we speak of loving America, most of us are talking about loving our nation’s diverse cultures, our beautiful land with its natural resources, and our peoples’ independent, resilient and generous character. We shouldn’t confuse that with supporting our government’s every foreign policy move.  The agencies of the secret government, particularly the CIA, often corrode what most of us like best about this country.

For example, they disrespect diversity when they make war on Third World populations.. How can the CIA claim to honor diverse cultures at home when it oppresses them abroad? They endanger our natural environment when they invade, pollute and plunder wilderness areas on behalf of the energy companies. They crush human dignity when they manipulate the destinies of the vast majority of citizens in ways that sustain the rich and powerful few, most of whom are not even elected by us.

Where did America go wrong? It started to go very wrong in 1947, just after World War II, with the creation of the National Security Act. Maybe the CIA and other intelligence agencies would have done less damage over the years if Congress had kept a more vigilant watch. Oversight could still make a difference today, but sufficient numbers of Congress members would need to wake up and realize it's needed.

We might remind the public today that the CIA has a history of deceiving Congress and the American people. We might even suggest that the secret government's America has undermined the America we love. 

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Lessons Learned from the COVID-19 Outbreak Aboard USS Kidd

[By Cmdr. Michael Kaplan] 

While USS Kidd (DDG 100) was deployed to the U.S. Fourth Fleet Area of Responsibility, a Sailor began experiencing COVID-19 symptoms April 20, a month after the ship’s last port call.

In the weeks preceding this first positive case onboard, the crew of USS Kidd was already applying the Navy’s COVID-19 lessons learned. In early April, Sailors began to make and wear cloth face masks. They conducted a quarantine and isolation drill to determine how to segregate sick and healthy crew members on a ship with limited space.

In addition, the surface Navy and operational commanders sent COVID-19 mitigation guidance to the fleet and built contingencies in the event another deployed ship experienced an outbreak.

This is the story of the seven-member medical team from Naval Hospital Jacksonville who jumped into action to provide medical care to the crew of USS Kidd.

Be Prepared to Respond Quickly to a Possible Outbreak

On the morning of April 23, my boss, Capt. Matthew Case, commanding officer of Naval Hospital Jacksonville, came over to my office. He asked if we could send a team to a ship in distress, to do testing, isolating, and quarantining of Sailors who may be sick with COVID-19, as well as provide medical support until they can get back to a safe place.

I said, “Sure, when would they need to go?” He said three hours.

We balanced who would be most qualified and available on such short notice without leaving the hospital in a bad place, since every department had been stretched because of COVID-19.   We built a team of seven medical providers: Along with me, an allergy/immunology and internal medicine physician by trade, were Lt. Cmdr. Clifton Wilcox, MD, a preventive medicine physician; the lab technician, Hospitalman Joseph Kim; two preventive medicine technicians, Hospital Corpsman 2nd Class Derrick Hudson and Hospital Corpsman 1st Class Jason Turgeon; and finally, the two hospital corpsmen, Hospital Corpsman 3rd Class Brian Krawsczyn and Hospitalman Jason Moyer.   Within hours of the call, we were packed up with all the equipment and tests. We didn’t have much time to think about what we were getting into, which is probably a good thing. Not too many people would want to run into a burning building. When we left we knew very little about how many Sailors were currently sick.    We took a P-8 Poseidon from Jacksonville, a couple of miles down the street from our hospital. It flew us to El Salvador, and from there we took an SH-60 Sea Hawk helicopter offshore.

Test Everyone, Even if They Don’t Show Symptoms

That evening, we began testing the crew. Within 24 hours of arriving, we already had 25 percent of Kidd Sailors tested. Once we identified someone who was positive yet asymptomatic, we took the initiative to isolate them, so they couldn’t spread the infection. Our goal was to reduce further spread among potentially vulnerable Sailors who were not already infected.

Of all the Sailors who tested positive while still onboard, about 50 percent were asymptomatic.

Testing everyone took a lot of time. One challenge was that our COVID-19 testing machine could only run one sample at a time. We could average about four to five tests per hour at best. Before the ship arrived in San Diego, we tested 100 percent of the crew, but this required that we run the tests 24 hours a day.

We still had days until we would arrive in San Diego and disembark the crew. Until then, we wanted to do everything we could to minimize the spread on the ship, to ensure Sailors could remain healthy and do their job.

I have to give kudos to Kidd’s independent duty corpsman, Chief Hospital Corpsman Clinton Barton, and his medical department. They did a great job identifying which Sailors were likely infected. Barton took it upon himself to isolate those not feeling well before we even got there.

Despite the limited space on a cramped destroyer, he did the right thing: isolating people he had concerns about. That allowed us to rapidly test those people first, make sure our equipment was working properly and try to mitigate the spread. As we continued to test other Sailors who did not have symptoms, we just increased the isolation ward he had created.

Minimize Exposure to Avoid Being Infected

We implemented a number of steps to try to mitigate the spread, such as administering N-95 masks to the entire crew, increasing the cleaning frequency for common areas and making sure Sailors wash their hands or use sanitizer before going into common areas such as the galley.

The location of the ship from where we started was outside the typical range of a helicopter. USS Makin Island (LHD 8) provided an additional resource, should we run into trouble and need to move Sailors off USS Kidd. Makin Island is capable of taking on types of aircraft that Kidd can’t, allowing for longer medevacs.

With an embarked fleet surgical team, Makin Island can also provide Role 2 level of care. Role 2 care includes basic resuscitation and stabilization and may include surgical capability, basic laboratory, limited x-ray, pharmacy, and temporary holding facilities.

While underway, 15 Sailors from Kidd were transported to Makin Island, where they received radiographic imaging and laboratory diagnostic services, as well as general medical services.

Test Everyone Again

Although we’d tested 100 percent of the crew already, we retested everyone in San Diego on arrival.

Knowing who is positive is imperative, and the only way to know is through testing.

Learn From the Experiences of Others

We took advantage of some of the lessons from the outbreak aboard USS Theodore Roosevelt (CVN 71). I think the combination of hard work, some good planning—even though we had extraordinarily little time—and just making sure we did everything we possibly could allowed it to work out.

Having multiple courses of action is always a good idea, because you never know if something is not going to work the way you expect. Fortunately, we had enough redundancy built into the system.

Also, bring the right equipment, and think outside the box. Then you just put it together.

Cmdr. Michael Kaplan, DO is Director of Medical Services at Naval Hospital Jacksonville, Florida.

NOTE: On returning to Jacksonville, Kaplan and his team retested negative, were quarantined for 14 days, and retested negative a third time before returning to work.

This article appears courtesy of Navy Live and may be found in its original format here. 

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NEW AUDIO: BEAUTIFUL GAME by Lainey Davis

NEW AUDIO: BEAUTIFUL GAME by Lainey Davis

NOW LIVE!!! The audiobook of Beautiful game by Lainey Davis is available!!! Blurb Everything comes at a cost. Is love worth the price? Hawk Moyer has it all: fame, fortune…the only thing missing from the pro athlete’s life is family. Half his identity is a mystery, and after a transfer to Pittsburgh’s soccer team, he’s determined to solve the secret of his origins. He just needs to stay…

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[smallgodseries]

“Ladies should be seen and not heard,” and she is there, just behind the speaker, a smile on her lips and mischief in her eyes.

“Silence is a virtue,” and she is there, pulling faces, fingers in her ears and tongue peeking out to brush her chin, a gleeful obscenity.

“Loose lips sink ships,” and she is there, a cutlass in her hand, ready to sail for the Spanish Main at dawn, the colors already hoisted in her heart.

She doesn’t have a lot to say, but she allows others to speak for her with giddy willingness, bending their pious proverbs to her own ends.  She finds her strength and her divinity in the space between the silence and the sigh, the blossoming room where she can undermine her own ideals and make of silence something screaming.

Ladies should be seen and not heard?  Fine, then, she will make of their precious ladies a spectacle too grand to be ignored.  She will make sure they can be seen from space.  Silence is a virtue?  Then silence enough should make them virtuous; they need not a single virtue more.  Loose lips sink ships?  Then she will build a graveyard all her own, schooners and galleons at the bottom of the sea.

Do not tempt the quiet ones, for their vengeance will be swift and unrelenting.  But she smiles and smiles and sips her tea, and the ones who worship her—either willingly or because they have no given choice—understand that her wrath, when it descends, will be unending.  And they love her for it.  Oh, how they love her.

They do not sing her praises.  Instead, they hold them close and quiet in their hearts, and she is theirs, and they are hers, and all those who fail to understand their bonds will one day see them in the screaming silence of the dawn.

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[image description: A formally dressed woman sits at a table. In front of her a tea set decorated with gilt snowflakes and a plate of cucumber sandwiches rest on a lace tablecloth. She is haloed in gold against a darker golden background. She has a finger to her lips as she shushes a hummingbird with a tiny crown. The hummingbird is #54 Hummel - Small God of Not Knowing the Words. Text reads, “#102 Serra Hawks-Hitchcock, Small God of Silence.”]

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Artist Lee Moyer (13th Age, Cursed Court) and author Seanan McGuire (Middlegame, Every Heart a Doorway) have joined forces to bring you icons and stories of the small deities who manage our modern world, from the God of Social Distancing to the God of Finding a Parking Space.

Join in each week on Monday, Wednesday, and Friday for a guide to the many tiny divinities:

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TIMELAPSE OF THE FUTURE: A Journey to the End of Time (4K) Support my work on Patreon: https://ift.tt/2Tvzxu9 | Get the soundtrack: https://bit.ly/2HKl9fi | How's it all gonna end? This experience takes us on a journey to the end of time, trillions of years into the future, to discover what the fate of our planet and our universe may ultimately be. We start in 2019 and travel exponentially through time, witnessing the future of Earth, the death of the sun, the end of all stars, proton decay, zombie galaxies, possible future civilizations, exploding black holes, the effects of dark energy, alternate universes, the final fate of the cosmos - to name a few. This is a picture of the future as painted by modern science - a picture that will surely evolve over time as we dig for more clues to how our story will unfold. Much of the science is very recent - and new puzzle pieces are still waiting to be found. To me, this overhead view of time gives a profound perspective - that we are living inside the hot flash of the Big Bang, the perfect moment to soak in the sights and sounds of a universe in its glory days, before it all fades away. Although the end will eventually come, we have a practical infinity of time to play with if we play our cards right. The future may look bleak, but we have enormous potential as a species. Featuring the voices of David Attenborough, Craig Childs, Brian Cox, Neil deGrasse Tyson, Michelle Thaller, Lawrence Krauss, Michio Kaku, Mike Rowe, Phil Plait, Janna Levin, Stephen Hawking, Sean Carroll, Alex Filippenko, and Martin Rees. Big thanks to Protocol Labs for their support of this creation: https://protocol.ai/ And to my Patreon supporters: Juan Benet, Kalexan, Laine Boswell, Holly, Dave & Debbie Boswell, Abraxas, Alina Sigaeva, Aksel Tjønn, Daniel Saltzman, Crystal, Eico Neumann, geekiskhan, Giulia Carrozzino, Hannah Murphy, Jeremy Kerwin, JousterL, Lars Støttrup Nielsen, Leonard van Vliet, Mitchel Mattera, Nathan Paskett, Patrick Cullen, Randall Bollig, Roman Shishkin, Silas Rech, Stefan Stettner, The Cleaner, Timothy E Plum, Virtual_271, Westin Johnson, Yannic, and Anna & Tyson. Soundtrack now available: https://bit.ly/2HKl9fi and coming soon to iTunes/Spotify/Etc Peace and love, melodysheep @musicalscience melodysheep.com Additional visual material sourced from: NASA Goddard Google SpaceX 2012 Geostorm Into the Universe with Stephen Hawking BMW X1 Journey to the Edge of the Universe Noah How the Universe Works Deep Impact Wonders of the Universe Moon raker vfx reel Voice sample sources: Attenborough Davos Speech https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xuudPum21nE Craig Childs - Long Now Talk https://ift.tt/1avZq3V Brian Cox - Wonders of the Universe Episode 1 Neil deGrasse Tyson interview with Bill Moyers https://ift.tt/293N5Ja How the Universe Works - Season 3 Episode 2 Will The Universe Ever End with Lawrence Krauss https://ift.tt/2YhSwM9 Janna Levin TED Talk https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eLz9TvxGoKs A Brief History of Time (1991) https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=UAfxKExKjVQ What Happens in the Far Far Future https://ift.tt/2TsslPp Sean Carroll TEDxCaltech https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WMaTyg8wR4Y Alex Filippenko - TEDxSF https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-gAtPyEu0G4 To Infinity and Beyond: The Accelerating Universe https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pcKdA2-W0X0 Martin Rees interview https://ift.tt/2YrSXnk Help us caption & translate this video! https://ift.tt/2Wok80f

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Bearing (literal or figurative) children

SHOSHANNA LONSTEIN'S CONNECTED FOREARM

KATY PERRY'S CONNECTED BACK

J-WOWW'S CONNECTED CHIN

AMY POEHLER'S CONNECTED FINGER

COURTNEY LOVE'S CONNECTED EYELASH

BRUCE JENNER'S CONNECTED NOSTRIL

BRITTANY SNOW'S CONNECTED TOOTH

JILLIAN HARRIS'S CONNECTED THIGH

JOE MANGANIELLO'S CONNECTED NOSTRIL

CHRIS HEMSWORTH'S CONNECTED TOOTH

WHITNEY PORT'S CONNECTED BOTTOM

NIKKI REED'S CONNECTED FOOT

LINDSEY VONN'S CONNECTED BELLY

JULIA ROBERTS'S CONNECTED FOOT

ASHLEY TISDALE'S CONNECTED FOREARM

KENDRA WILKINSON'S CONNECTED EYE

DANIEL CRAIG'S CONNECTED CHEEK

ROLLING STONES'S CONNECTED BUTTOCKS

ELISABETTA CANALIS'S CONNECTED LEG

ETHAN HAWKE'S CONNECTED HAND

BRISTOL PALIN'S CONNECTED HEAD

NATASHA RICHARDSON'S CONNECTED BELLY

FARRAH ABRAHAM'S CONNECTED SHOULDER

ROBERT PATTINSON'S CONNECTED SHOULDER

MINNIE DRIVER'S CONNECTED BACK

STEPHEN MOYER'S CONNECTED HAND

REGGIE BUSH'S CONNECTED BACK

KRIS JENNER'S CONNECTED WAIST

ROONEY MARA'S CONNECTED ANKLE

LUPITA NYONG'O'S CONNECTED ANKLE

RICKY MARTIN'S CONNECTED ARM

IVANKA TRUMP'S CONNECTED LEG

HEATHER LOCKLEAR'S CONNECTED FIST

MENA SUVARI'S CONNECTED HAIR

OWEN WILSON'S CONNECTED LOWER LEG

KATE MIDDLETON'S CONNECTED LIP

FLORIDA GEORGIA LINE'S CONNECTED HEAD

MAHENDRA SINGH DHONI'S CONNECTED HEAD

NATALIE PORTMAN'S CONNECTED LOWER LEG

DAX SHEPARD'S CONNECTED ELBOW

CAMERON DIAZ'S CONNECTED LOWER LEG

ADAM BRODY'S CONNECTED NOSTRIL

ELISABETH MOSS'S CONNECTED HAND

HAYDEN CHRISTENSEN'S CONNECTED WAIST

GABRIEL AUBRY'S CONNECTED HAIR

PHARRELL WILLIAMS'S CONNECTED HIP

FRANK OCEAN'S CONNECTED BUTTOCKS

ANNA WINTOUR'S CONNECTED HAIR

CHRISTIAN BALE'S CONNECTED TONGUE

HEATHER MORRIS'S CONNECTED CHIN

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Current Obsessions: Lucky Streak

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Current Obsessions: Lucky Streak

Green has been the focus of our Living Color issue this week (“darkest green functions like a neutral—it’s a black for people who don’t want black—and it hasn’t, in its favor, gained the cult status of blue,” Meredith writes in 10 Favorite, Time-Tested Dark Green Kitchens). As the week wraps up we’re taking one last look at the Emerald Isle, plus a can’t-miss sale, a long-awaited service from Ikea, and a couple of cookbooks. Here’s a look:

Above: In honor of Saint Patrick’s Day, we’re revisiting Ard Bia, serving foraged Irish-inflected dishes alongside tarnished silver and eclectic glassware on Claddagh Bay in Galway, Ireland. (Photograph from Irish Eclecticism at Ard Bia in Galway, our original look at the restaurant; see It Takes a Village: An Eclectic Irish Restaurant in Galway Gets a Refresh for the updated interiors.)

Now at Henrybuilt‘s Mill Valley showroom: “Living with Handmade Japanese Craft” featuring Analogue Life‘s Japanese ceramics, utensils, and other goods (their first West Coast exhibition). March 22-25 from 10 a.m. – 5 p.m. at 356 Miller Ave. (All pieces are available for sale.)

And going on this weekend and next, also in the Bay Area: Rough Linen‘s Oddities Sale, with samples, seconds, and one-offs up to 70 percent off. Sunday, March 18 and Sunday, March 25 from 9 a.m. to 12 p.m. at the Rough Linen showroom, 1925 Francisco Blvd East, Unit #12, San Rafael, CA. (And read up on their tips for a sumptuous bedroom here.)

Margot is looking forward to artist Maira Kalman’s Cake, a cookbook, now available for pre-order.

Ikea assembly no more: the company is now rolling out its TaskRabbit assembly services online (where TaskRabbits are available) and at stores in San Francisco and New York, with at least five more cities throughout the year. (Prices for assembly start at $36.)

And: 3D printed homes (built in 48 hours).

And another cookbook we’re noting: Meredith let us know about Occasions to Gather (which she recently previewed at the launch at Sunset Magazine HQ). All proceeds from the book go to Feeding America.

In Paris? Now through March 31, Merci is selling goods from their latest exhibitions at Merci Déballe (“Merci Unpacked”).

Stay in an Irish farmhouse, castle, or lighthouse: Annie is perusing these historic landmarked properties, all transformed from ruin, all available for rent.

Above: In Hawke’s Bay, New Zealand, artist Maria Moyer is exhibiting both sculpture and paintings in her show titled Thisness at Parlour Projects, March 21 to April 21. Visit Parlour Projects for more info. Photograph by Lauren Coleman.

On Gardenista: an Irish castle garden across the seasons.

And, finally: 7 tips for a tidy linen closet.

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America the Banana Republic

Thanks to Trump the tinhorn dictator and those who elected him, this country is no longer a beacon of freedom, but a laughingstock.

via Bill Moyers

BY NEAL GABLER | NOVEMBER 29, 2017

When people call Donald Trump an authoritarian, it almost gives him more credit than he deserves.

You don’t think favorably of authoritarians; they are despicable. But you do think of them as monstrously large, grievously terrifying, as somehow taking the measure of the polity they control and drawing on its stature to puff themselves up, even as they destroy their nation’s moral core. Despots like Mussolini and Hitler epitomized evil on the grandest possible scale. To call them clowns would trivialize the unconscionable horrors they inflicted.

Trump is certainly an authoritarian, but he is more of a tinhorn dictator, a tiny, negligible man who, rather than inflating himself with the nation’s grandeur, has managed to deflate the nation with his own insipidness. Thanks to him, America is now a banana republic. It is no longer a country of soaring ideas and idealism, a beacon to the world, an example of freedom at home and a protector of freedom abroad, an anchor of sanity in a world often bouncing on the waves of madness.

Whatever her failings, America was once majestic. Now she is hopelessly diminished — a wealthier version of the corrupt nations in the developing world that we used to ridicule. And we owe it all to Donald Trump for making America small again.

The meme of America withering into a banana republic is not a new one. Some observers made the claim after the 2000 presidential election, when Republicans successfully wrested the presidency from Al Gore, just the way cabals do in those banana republics. And it was toted out again in 2008 during the great financial meltdown when the economy was revealed to be not some great dynamo but a façade hiding a giant swindle, banana republic style. Citing the inability of the congressional Republicans to do anything but dither in the face of crisis, Paul Krugman called us a “banana republic with nukes.”

In Vanity Fair, the late Christopher Hitchens was more expansive. He enumerated the many ways in which America, the last great hope of mankind, had become a banana republic — primarily the way the government was willing to bail out the oligarchs while letting the general public suffer.

Hitchens wrote:

The chief principle of banana-ism is that of kleptocracy, whereby those in positions of influence use their time in office to maximize their own gains, always ensuring that any shortfall is made up by those unfortunates whose daily life involves earning money rather than making it.

Hitchens added that there is absolutely no accountability for the thieves. This all should sound very familiar this week, as Republicans retool the entire tax system to rob from the poor and middle classes and give to corporations and the wealthy. If that isn’t a banana republic, I don’t know what is. 

But Krugman and Hitchens were writing before we had a bona fide banana republic dictator to rule our kleptocracy. And while America long has had the economic and social characteristics of a banana republic, it took Trump, who has the instincts and temperament of a gangster, to finish the transformation. There is no disguising it now. We are what we are.

Tick down the list. If kleptocracy is the hallmark of a banana republic, Trump is the kleptocrat-in-chief. He not only appears to be using the presidency as his own personal ATM, now promoting a tax-cut scam by which he stands to gain tens of millions of dollars, he also has been petty enough to steer business to his hotels and hawked his “Make America Great Again” tchotchkes. Check.

Apparently not satisfied to have enriched himself at the public’s expense, Trump has brought unprecedented nepotism to the presidency in a way that only tinhorn dictators do, giving his family access to the public trough while placing his unqualified cronies in positions of power. In this administration, everyone may be on the take. Check.

Just about every Trump directive, from health care to the environment to so-called tax reform to trade policy, seems expressly designed to give benefits to a small coterie of the wealthiest Americans while the rest of the country goes to hell. There is no longer even the pretense of concealment as there was in the good old days of Republicanism. Sure sounds like a banana republic to me. Check. 

Like other tinhorn dictators, Trump has no use for the essentials of democracy. He openly attacks a free press and has a house press of his own, Fox News, and soon, quite possibly, Time Inc., the acquisition of which has been partially financed by the Koch brothers. More, there are allegations that he may using the levers of government to punish his press opponents, using the Justice Department’s antitrust suit against the proposed AT&T purchase of Time Warner to try to force the divestment of CNN.

This, too, is unprecedented in an American democracy, but not in a banana republic. Meanwhile, the Voice of America has placed on administrative leave (a reporter whose bias has leaked into his stories and who on the side has been advancing Trump’s right-wing agenda and casting racial epithets at others in the media. Check.

Trump has taken aim at the electoral process itself, not only claiming that his loss of the popular vote was a fraud, but empaneling a government commission whose sole purpose is thought to be the disenfranchisement of voters who might oppose him. This is pure banana republicanism and an affront to democracy. Check. 

Banana republics are often agent states — that is, they operate at the behest of larger states. In fact the phrase “banana republic” first was coined by the writer O. Henry back in 1904, to describe the dependence of Central American countries on American businesses like United Fruit, which ran plantations in those countries and exported bananas.

Now, America itself is one of those agent states, thanks to Trump’s troubling obeisance to Russia’s Vladimir Putin. Let’s not pretend otherwise just so we can save some face. There is no more face to save. American elections interfered with by Russia and a president intimidated by a Russian dictator? Check.

In banana republics, ideology is nothing, policy is nothing, ethics are nothing. Power is everything. Trump is notoriously nonideological. He has no policies or any interest in them. His sole desire is to feed his own inflated ego. In this, he stands with other banana republic potentates. Check.

Tinhorn dictators do everything they can to dismantle a system of checks and balances. Trump has done everything in his power to do the same.

Tinhorn dictators do everything they can to dismantle a system of checks and balances. Trump has done everything in his power to do the same — from dismissing FBI Director James Comey, who was investigating Trump, intimidating the Justice Department and taking over the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau to…. well, you name it. Untrammeled power is his goal. Check.

In a banana republic, power is concentrated in the hands of one man or a small coterie. Trump has been openly contemptuous of any delegation of authority, even calling himself the “only one that matters,” which is dictator talk, not the talk of a democratically elected chief.

What’s more, he actively has worked to damage any countervailing authorities, essentially gutting the entire diplomatic corps, to cite just one example. Check.

In a banana republic, the dictator makes his own rules and lives by his own reality. Clearly, Trump thinks he is above the law, be it legal or moral. He boasts of it. He also is above fact. The latest example of the thousands of his presidency: According to The New York Times, he privately has declared that the Access Hollywood tape was not actually him! Banana republic time. Check. 

And last but not least, there is the tragi-comic state itself — a kind of laughingstock of governance. America has joined that company of buffoonish nations that keep tripping over their own feet. By one account, when Trump took his first world tour in May, other leaders were aghast at Trump’s ineptitude. One foreign expert commented on how “rapidly the American brand is depreciatingover the last 20 weeks.” Check.

Donald Trump has demeaned himself, but he has also demeaned the country that was deranged enough to elect him. These characteristics speak to a corrupt and desiccated nation, one that is staggering into oblivion.

The “alt-right” insist that until Trump, America was going the way of Rome — rotting from the inside. They are wrong. It is not decadence that is destroying America, but petulance. We are going not the way of Rome but the way of Guatemala or Zimbabwe or the Philippines — the way of banana republics. Thus does this once great nation tumble.

Check and double check.

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How an economic theory helped mire the United States in Vietnam

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Rostow, front right, visited Vietnam in 1961. AP Photo/Fred Waters

Questions of how the U.S. got mired in the Vietnam War and whether it was ultimately winnable have fascinated historians for half a century – most recently in Ken Burns’ new 18-hour documentary.

A little-remembered aspect of the debacle is the important role played by a prominent economic historian named Walt Whitman Rostow, whose theories on economic development helped persuade Americans – and two presidents – that the fight in Vietnam was right and that we must prevail.

The Burns documentary, from what I have seen, does not dwell much on economics, my area of expertise. But this was an important part of why Americans were there.

Rostow’s rise

Rostow, left, looks over a map with Gen. Maxwell D. Taylor in 1961 ahead of their trip to Vietnam to observe and evaluate the political and military situation there and report back to President Kennedy. From his earliest days at the White House, Rostow urged more involvement in the Vietnam. AP Photo/Bill Allen

Rostow came to prominence in the 1960s after his theories on economic development caught the eye of the Democratic Party and John F. Kennedy, who was campaigning for president.

In 1960, Rostow, then a professor at MIT, published an influential book called “The Stages of Economic Growth: A Non-Communist Manifesto.” The book describes how an economy transitions through five distinct stages of development, from basic (little use of technology, like much of central Africa and South Asia in the mid 20th century) to advanced (characterized by high levels of mass consumption, such as the U.S. or France).

Rostow believed economic development was a universal process that would generally occur in all countries albeit with unique national characteristics – that is, except under communism, where he believed the process would be much inhibited. He described communism as a “cancer” of economic development.

Communism, therefore, had to be forcefully resisted to protect a given country’s economic prosperity and freedoms and, ultimately, American national security and well-being as well.

Rostow’s view that economic development could be used to resist the spread of communism attracted Kennedy, who brought the professor to the White House as an adviser on national security.

Sen. Gale McGee shows President Johnson, Press Secretary Bill Moyers and Rostow (second from left) the route he took on his recent trip to Vietnam, in 1966. AP Photo/Charles Tasnadi

Throughout his time in government, Rostow was one of both Kennedy’s and then Johnson’s most hawkish advisers. From the start he urged a prominent American role in Vietnam to thwart the spread of communism, and he remained steadfast even as others, such as Secretary of Defense Robert McNamara, increasingly saw the war as unwinnable.

Rostow, who left the White House in 1969 after serving three years as national security adviser, viewed the American loss in Vietnam as a military failure rather than one of political judgment. Even many years after the war, he believed the U.S. could have prevailed in South Vietnam with just a little more determination.

President Johnson poses with members of his staff, including Rostow, front right, during his final weeks in office in 1969. LBJ Library/Yoichi R. Okamoto

Communist Asia prospers

I met Rostow some years after the war, in the early 1980s, when he was one of my dissertation advisers at the University of Texas at Austin. We’d sometimes discuss the war and his economic theories.

Rostow believed that communism meant unyielding one-party control of key pillars of an economy, which would surely stifle freedom and prosperity. It would also impede transitioning to more advanced stages of development. He argued faster growth would help stave off the threat, which is why he ensured economic aid was part of the White House strategy to win the war.

When I knew him, the rise of Asia’s communist countries including China and Vietnam had not yet occurred, and he saw little evidence that would have refuted his beliefs about communism and the “Stages of Growth.” Their economies didn’t begin their sharp rise until China led the way in the mid- to late 1980s.

He assured me, however, that South Vietnam would have prospered much earlier had communism been successfully repelled, just as South Korea began to flourish after its war.

Perhaps, but the recent success of Asia’s communist economies does show that one-party rule can succeed in bringing about prosperity, at least more than we once thought. And as a result, the global economy’s center of gravity is shifting toward Asia.

Rostow died in 2003. LBJ Library photo by Yoichi R. Okamoto

The consummate hawk

In the end, however, Walt Rostow was unrepentant.

Rostow was of the generation that boasted its willingness to “pay any price, bear any burden, meet any hardship” in the defense of liberty. And he was one of those who really believed it.

This always struck me as peculiar not simply because it is extreme, but because economists are trained to think in terms of optimization or balance, not maximization at the extreme.

His “Stages of Economic Growth” is not widely studied in the United States these days, although some of the terms he coined, such as economic takeoff, are still used to refer to the rapid and catalyzing acceleration of economic growth. American economists today tend to avoid such grandiose socioeconomic theories, preferring instead to appreciate the complexity of forces at work in economic development and pursue more rigorous mathematical methodology.

To me, a significant problem with “Stages” was the subtitle, which I took issue with in a paper I wrote in 1993 on South African economic development. Particularly in light of the success of countries like China and later Vietnam, “A Non-Communist Manifesto” became ideological dead weight, inseparable from the economic theories he forged supported by data.

Despite its weaknesses, “Stages of Growth” had strengths, such as its multidisciplinary nature and embrace of technology, which is what really drives development in the long run. Unfortunately, the weight of his focus on communism ultimately was too much of a liability and undermined its legitimacy. This is true in politics more broadly as well as health care (my speciality), where ideologically driven special interests polarize and paralyze.

Rostow, who died in 2003, would have been better served without the ideological baggage. And this goes for the rest of us. We all too often fail to come together for pragmatic ends because of ideological conflict.

Peter Hilsenrath receives funding from the Human Sciences Research Council in South Africa. I received funding from the Human Sciences Research Council in South Africa in 1984. It helped fund some research referred to in this piece.