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3 July 14 - 20 2011The San Juan Weekly

By DANICA COTO

A Spanish law crafted in 1886 still governs development along Puerto Ricorsquos sprawling

coastline worrying activists and le-gislators who say the ancient mandate has allowed construction along ecolo-gically sensitive beaches

But replacing the lawrsquos vague wording and its scant references to environmental protection has been a challenge A bill that addresses those concerns has been stuck in the legis-lature since 2009 while complaints about limited access to public beaches and construction in environmentally delicate areas have increased

ldquoItrsquos time now that wersquore face to face with the 21st century that we stop gambling with the health and safety of our citizens and the resources of futu-re generationsrdquo said Ricardo de Soto who runs a local chapter of Waterkee-per Alliance an environmental group ldquoWe need to create an intelligent coas-tal lawrdquo

The 125-year-old law was decreed

by Spain at a time when establishing settlements and businesses was of ut-most importance and there were few concerns about overdeveloping the 700-mile-long (1130-kilometer) coast or exhausting what were perceived as limitless natural resources

ldquoBecause the law is so old it is very vague and lacks technical and environmental contentrdquo said Miguel Sarriera an attorney who has repre-sented local environmental groups

pushing for new legislationThe lack of specifi c regulations

gives a tremendous amount of discre-tion to state planning agencies some of which abuse their powers when awarding permits according to law-makers backing the coastal manage-ment bill A new clear policy would prevent such problems said Rep Car-los Mendez who submitted the bill

ldquoWersquore supporting a law from the 1800s that does not adjust itself to the

reality of Puerto Ricordquo he said ldquoWe donrsquot have the same coastline that we had in the 1800srdquo

Mendez said the law has allowed homes to be built on public beaches and has allowed some to be blocked in popular tourist areas such as Rio Grande along the islandrsquos north coast and Guanica in the southwest Beach access also has been blocked in the past decade by high-end residential communities in Isla Verde and Ocean

Puerto Rico Coast Still Ruled by 1886 LawA Spanish law crafted in 1886 still governs development along

Puerto Ricorsquos sprawling coastline worrying

activists and legislators who say the ancient mandate has allowed construction along

ecologically sensitive beaches

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Para maacutes informacioacuten llame al

(787) 203-6245

4 July 14 - 20 2011 The San Juan Weekly

Park in the capital of San Juan Sarrie-ra added

One of the more controversial pro-jects has been Paseo Caribe a luxurious condo-hotel built next to San Geronimo a historic seaside fort in San Juan

Opponents have waged lengthy protests alleging the development was built on improperly sold public land and that it blocks access to the fort a public landmark

Dozens of protesters camped in front of the construction site some for more than a year A legislative in-vestigation led the islandrsquos justice se-cretary to declare that the land was public prompting the government to withhold permits

The developers responded with a multimillion-dollar lawsuit against the islandrsquos former government and eventually obtained permission to fi -nish the project

On June 17 the 1st US Circuit Court of Appeal in Boston found that the former administration did not grant developers a proper hearing be-fore suspending the permits but also gave the government immunity from paying any compensation

Frustrated by legal loopholes activists armed with sledgehammers and drills have destroyed walls and torn down fences in recent years in an effort to force developers to comply with ignored court orders to restore access to beaches

But the government is in no rush to reinforce court orders or approve a new law of its own Sarriera contends

He said that because the current law ldquodoes not have a lot of context the opinion of the secretary (of natural

resources) reigns supreme and the go-vernment likes thatrdquo

Natural Resources Secretary Da-niel Galan said his department care-fully reviews development projects but he acknowledged that as a result of abstract defi nitions in the 1886 law some projects that should not have been approved were approved and vice versa

ldquoUnfortunately there have been inconsistencies on both sidesrdquo he said

Currently project proposals are accompanied by the opinions of ex-perts as to what constitutes the coastal zone and which areas should be desig-nated as private

Galan said his agency has been trying to replace opinions with hard data and has just fi nished a $1 million project to delineate Puerto Ricorsquos coas-tal zone using updated technology

By August the secretary said he expects to propose a bill of his own using new data he says will protect against discretionary decisions

ldquoIt cannot be based on personal opinionrdquo Galan said ldquoIt is extremely extremely preciserdquo

Galan said his proposal will not address right of way to beaches which he says is a more complicated issue that his agency will tackle later

Mendezrsquos bill meanwhile calls for greater public access to beaches a concept that Sarriera supports even though he said it is not an ideal pro-posal

ldquoI wouldnrsquot put it on my list for Santa Clausrdquo he said ldquobut itrsquos better than what we have now without a doubtrdquo

The San Juan Weekly July 14 - 20 20115

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Primustrade Flat

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Ultra Siliconizertrade

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precioregular

$15 7 0 0

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$13 9 9 9

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Dry-Coattrade

bull Pintura 100 hidrofoacutebica matebull Impermeabiliza contra el agua y filtracionesbull Acabado ultra duraderobull Alta retencioacuten del colorbull Cubre de una sola manobull Interior exteriorbull No se le pegan las manchasbull Terminacioacuten lisa o semi-lisabull Aplica a Blanco amp Pastel Tint y Deep Base

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Guaynabo (787) 720 6131Gurabo (787) 737 0300Hatillo (787) 820 7266Hato Rey (787) 758 6520Juncos (787) 713-2411

Las Piedras (787) 733 5807Levittown (787) 795 2929Manatiacute (787) 854 7458Ponce (787) 843 0039Puerto Nuevo (787) 793 4855

Rio Grande (787) 887-3000Roosevelt (787) 781 7570Salinas (787) 689 0383San Juan (Maderas 3C)(787) 783 8260San Lorenzo (787) 736 7704

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Con la compra de 10 (diez) pailas de5 galones de Lancoreg Urethanizertrade

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The people of Puerto Rico joi-ned in feeling after the dea-th of one of his most recog-

nized sons Don Ricardo Alegriacutea who devoted his life on behalf the defense of all that represents our formation as people He was a con-noisseur of our history beyond the aboriginal population of this land that the Taiacutenos referred as Borikeacuten He was a scholar of each stone and piece of ceramic that archaeolo-gists identifi ed and categorized between pre and post columbian periods as well as in their customs and beliefs

Also studied our history sin-ce 1508 when Juan Ponce de Leoacuten

began the colonization of the is-land with the Spaniards from the Iberian Peninsula and the ensla-vement of the Taiacutenos until its al-most extinction and its subsequent replacement by black slaves from the african continent creating an amalgam of races that created the criollismo which defi ned us as people all of this was outlined in his works by this eminent historian and anthropologist named Ricar-do Alegriacutea The years that have included the following centuries of our history with its swings and struggles against invaders from va-rious countries as well as episodes that marked each time were also

deeply studied and outlined by Don Ricardo

At the beginning of the second decade of the last century a child was born in the city of San Juan Puerto Ricorsquos Capital he was Ri-cardo Alegriacutea Gallardo son of Joseacute S Alegriacutea founder of the Nationa-list Party of Puerto Rico From a very young age Ricardo was a stu-dent of the history of Puerto Rico its people and its history He beca-me ever since the defender of what he meant were the cultural values of their homeland Through his professional career he created and participated in entities and institu-tions that had the scope of defend the identity of the puerto ricans He participated in the formation of schools and centers for cultiva-ting the arts that are in turn earliest exponents of our idiosyncrasy as a

people His initiative also includes the conservation and rebirth of the Old San Juan while maintaining old structures and remodeling other without altering the architectural lines that were defi ned in a given time

Despite the fact that Don Ricar-do Alegriacutea was one of the guards that watch over the Puerto Rican culture with great zeal he also un-

derstood that the culture is dy-namic and that at some point it is infl uenced by styles and forms of other peoples and nations that interact with us In Puerto Rico we have words from the taino african ara-bic french english and many other languages We also have words and meals of neighbo-ring countries such as Cuba Dominican Republic and the United States to mention only some This infl uences are diffi -cult to control

Don Ricardo Alegriacutea did not intend to shut ourselves up in a cultural bubble but if we are conscious of our roots as a people and feel the pride of the land that saw us birth wersquoll become really internatio-nal

Thank You Don Ricardo by your struggle and your tea-chings Puerto Rico will always remember him as one of most illustrious sons

Julio L Carrioacuten Santiago


By MARK LANDLER and CARL HULSE

President Obama stepped up pressure on Congressional Re-publicans on Tuesday to agree

to a broad defi cit-cutting deal pled-ging to put popular entitlement pro-grams like Medicare on the table in return for Republican acquiescence to some higher taxes

Mr Obama who met secretly with Speaker John A Boehner at the White House on Sunday to try to ad-vance the talks called House and Se-nate leaders from both parties to the White House for further negotiations on Thursday And he rejected talk of an interim deal that would get the go-vernment past a looming deadline on raising the federal debt limit without settling some of the longer-term is-sues contributing to the governmentrsquos fi scal imbalances

ldquoWersquove got a unique opportuni-ty to do something big to tackle our defi cit in a way that forces our gover-nment to live within its meansrdquo he said in an appearance in the White House briefi ng room casting himself as much an honest broker as a parti-san participant in the talks ldquoThis will require both parties to get out of our comfort zones and both parties to agree on real compromiserdquo

Mr Obamarsquos previously un-disclosed Sunday meeting with Mr Boehner suggests that the talks are entering a critical phase There were also intense staff-level negotiations between the White House and Con-gress over the details of a multi-tri-llion-dollar package of spending cuts that could clear the way for a vote to raise the debt ceiling constrain the growth of government and radically reshape the role of government in American society

The two sides remain in a dea-dlock over the presidentrsquos insistence that the package contain tax increases as well as spending cuts While Mr Obama did not retreat from that de-mand Tuesday he coupled it with a pledge to take on spending in ldquoentit-lement programsrdquo a promise likely to unsettle many Democrats

While a broad-based agreement may appeal to the White House nei-ther Senate Republicans nor Demo-crats may be as eager to embrace one Democrats worry that a deal that cuts Medicare could rob them of what they see as their political advantage on the issue Republicans trying to win the majority next year might not like an agreement that is seen as giving De-mocrats credibility on reducing the defi cit

But Mr Boehner while again sa-

ying that higher taxes were a nonstar-ter expressed pleasure at Mr Obamarsquos willingness to single out entitlements ldquoIrsquom pleased the president stated to-day that we need to address the big long-term challenges facing our coun-tryrdquo he said in a statement

The speakerrsquos session with Mr Obama was their fi rst face-to-face encounter since the talks presided over by Vice President Joseph R Bi-den Jr collapsed last month offi cials with knowledge of the meeting said though the speaker and the president also met privately just before those discussions broke up

The substance of their talks was not disclosed But Mr Boehnerrsquos mee-ting was evidently made known to other House and Senate Republican leaders

Mr Obama said the two sides needed to reach a deal within two weeks to pass legislation before Aug 2 when the Treasury Department says the government risks defaulting on its debt And he restated that Con-gress should not procrastinate and let negotiations ldquocome down to the last secondrdquo

Senate Republicans have sug-gested in recent days that a ldquomini-dealrdquo be struck which would allow the government to get past the Aug 2 deadline but leave the larger fi scal

choices to be thrashed out in the 2012 election

The president rejected that sa-ying ldquoI donrsquot think the American people sent us here to avoid tough problems Thatrsquos in fact what drives them nuts about Washington when both parties simply take the path of least resistancerdquo

Still Mr Obama eased his tone noticeably from his feisty news confe-rence last week in which he compa-red the work habits of lawmakers un-favorably with those of his daughters Malia and Sasha

ldquoItrsquos my hope that everybodyrsquos going to leave their ultimatums at the door that wersquoll all leave our political rhetoric at the doorrdquo he said

Mr Obama also eschewed a populist tone making no reference to ldquomillionaires and billionairesrdquo or owners of corporate jets even as he spoke of the necessity of eliminating tax breaks and loopholes

The budget impasse is domina-ting the White House and Congress With Republicans protesting that the Senate should be concentrating on fi scal issues this week Senator Ha-rry Reid the Nevada Democrat and majority leader conceded the point on Tuesday and abruptly called off a planned debate on Libya

After complaints by Republicans that their Fourth of July break had been canceled to deal with the debt-limit fi ght and not Libya Mr Reid es-sentially threw in the towel and said the Senate would instead take non-binding votes later this week on how to address the debt-limit dispute

ldquoNotwithstanding the broad support for the Libya resolution the most important thing to focus on this week is the budgetrdquo Mr Reid said

Senator Mitch McConnell of Kentucky the Republican leader res-tated his opposition to any budget deal containing new taxes He accu-sed Democrats of a ldquocheap attemptrdquo at making Republicans look bad by saying that Republicans refused to consider ending a tax break for cor-porate jets

Senate Democratic leaders last week called off their planned Fourth of July break due to the Aug 2 deadli-ne But the budget talks are occurring mainly off the fl oor in leadership offi -ces and at the White House so Mr Reid scheduled the bipartisan Libya resolution for fl oor debate

7The San Juan Weekly MainlandJuly 14 - 20 2011

Obama Summons GOP and Democratic Leaders for Defi cit Reduction Talks

8 The San Juan WeeklyMainland July 14 - 20 2011

By JOHN M BRODER

In the next weeks and months Lisa P Jack-son the Environmental Protection Agen-cy administrator is scheduled to establish

regulations on smog mercury carbon dioxi-de mining waste and vehicle emissions that will affect every corner of the economy

She is working under intense pressure from opponents in Congress from powerful industries from impatient environmenta-lists and from the Supreme Court which just affi rmed the agencyrsquos duty to address global warming emissions a project that carries profound economic implications

The new rules will roll out just as Presi-dent Obamarsquos re-election campaign is getting under way with a White House highly sen-sitive to the probability of political damage from a fl ood of government mandates that will strike particularly hard at the manufac-turing sector in states crucial to the 2012 elec-tion

No other cabinet offi cer is in as lonely or uncomfortable a position as Ms Jackson who has been left as one adviser put it be-hind enemy lines with only science the law and a small band of loyal lieutenants to su-pport her

Ms Jackson describes the job as drai-ning but says there are certain principles she will not compromise including rapid and vi-gorous enforcement of some of the most far-reaching health-related rules ever considered by the agency

ldquoThe only thing worse than no EPA is an EPA that exists and doesnrsquot do its job mdash it becomes just a placebordquo she said last week in an hourlong interview in Houston ldquoWe are doing our jobrdquo

Although she has not met with the pre-sident privately since February Ms Jackson said she was confi dent that he would back her on the tough decisions she had to make ldquoAll of us are mindful that he has a lot of things to dordquo she said

Attacks on her and her agency have be-come a central part of the Republican playbo-ok but she said she wanted no sympathy

ldquoAny EPA director sits at the inter-section of some very important issues mdash air pollution clean water and whether busines-ses can surviverdquo said Ms Jackson a chemi-cal engineer trained at Tulane and Princeton Universities and a former director of the New Jersey Department of Environmental Protec-tion ldquoNo one knows this job unless theyrsquove sat in the seatrdquo

Ms Jackson said she intended to go

forward with new tougher air- and water-quality rules including those that address climate change despite Congressional efforts to override her authority and even a White House initiative to weed out overly burden-some regulations

The fi rst of these new rules is expected to be announced Thursday imposing tighter restrictions on soot and smog emissions from coal-burning power plants in 31 states east of the Rockies The regulation is expected to lead to the closing of several older plants and will require the installation of scrubbers at many of those that remain in operation One former EPA administrator William K Reilly who served under the fi rst President George Bush is a sometime adviser to Ms Jackson He said she was taking fi re from all sides

ldquoShersquos got three very large challengesrdquo Mr Reilly said ldquoFirst shersquos got to administer the Clean Air Act to try to accomplish some-thing for which it was never designed the control of carbon dioxide a diffi cult regula-tory challenge in itself Second she has to do that and cope with all these other regulations which are not of her making and have come to land on her desk in a climate of intense po-litical polarization and economic distressrdquo

ldquoAnd the third challengerdquo he conti-nued ldquois that the White House mdash any White House mdash doesnrsquot want to hear an awful lot from the EPA Itrsquos not an agency that ever makes friends for a president In the cabinet room many of the secretaries got along with each other but they all had an argument with me Itrsquos the nature of the jobrdquo

Mr Reilly said the White House had left Ms Jackson out on a limb when it failed to push hard for the cap-and-trade climate change bill that passed the House in 2009 but stalled in the Senate last year Administra-tion offi cials had argued that legislation was far superior to agency regulation as a means of addressing climate-altering emissions But when the bill ran up against bipartisan opposition in the Senate Mr Reilly said ldquothe White House didnrsquot lift a fi ngerrdquo an assertion administration offi cials dispute

The White House said that it fully su-pported the agencyrsquos aggressive standards for a variety of pollutants to protect public health and the environment and denied that it was resisting further regulatory action for political reasons

ldquoItrsquos simply a matter of choosing the health and safety of the American people over pollutersrdquo Clark Stevens a White House spokesman said in an e-mailed state-ment ldquoand doing so in a common-sense way

that allows us to protect public health while also growing the economy mdash which will con-tinue to be a shared goal of this entire admi-nistrationrdquo

One of Ms Jacksonrsquos most vocal critics is Representative Edward Whitfi eld Republi-can of Kentucky and chairman of the energy and power subcommittee of the House Ener-gy and Commerce Committee He has held several hearings at which Ms Jackson served as target practice for opponents of EPA re-gulation of carbon dioxide and other pollu-tants Ms Jackson said that was the roughest treatment she had gotten in her two and a half years in Washington

Mr Whitfi eld who has never met pri-vately with Ms Jackson was unapologetic

ldquoIt is unprecedented the number of ma-jor regulations this administration is putting outrdquo he said ldquoand I canrsquot tell you how many calls and meetings and letters I have asking lsquoIs there any way to slow EPA downrsquo rdquo

ldquoWhatrsquos troubling to usrdquo Mr Whitfi eld continued ldquois that President Obama on the one hand is saying we have to be really ca-reful about these regulations and consider the impact on jobs and the economy but over at the agency theyrsquore just going full speed ahead with minimal attention or analysis on job impactrdquo

One hot spot where Ms Jackson can count on friendly treatment is ldquoThe Daily Showrdquo where she has appeared three times in two years Questioning from the host Jon Stewart was gentle to say the least referring in a recent show to the agencyrsquos ldquounassaila-ble successesrdquo in dealing with air and water pollution and to the ldquotremendous corporate interestsrdquo arrayed against her

Even those most supportive of Ms Jack-son say that the agency has taken on a virtua-

lly unmanageable set of challenges across the range of policy from mountaintop-removal coal mining to wetlands preservation to the control of toxic emissions from power plants and refi neries She is also in charge of federal restoration efforts in the Gulf of Mexico after the BP oil spill

ldquoHave they bitten off more than they can chewrdquo asked Jason S Grumet president of the Bipartisan Policy Center who has close ties to the White House and the agency ldquoYes But thatrsquos a testament to their aspirations and now reality is setting inrdquo

The reality being that there is often political fallout whenever tough policy de-cisions are made and that the timing of Ms Jacksonrsquos rule setting could not be more ino-pportune for Mr Obama ldquoItrsquos always the case that there are confl icts between good po-licy and good politics and the EPA is often the crucible of those challengesrdquo Mr Grumet said

One of the toughest pending decisions he said concerns a standard for permissible levels of smog-causing compounds inclu-ding ozone The agencyrsquos scientifi c advisory panel has recommended setting a high bar that could put hundreds of counties out of compliance with the law forcing them to take action to reduce emissions even though the pollutants may be generated beyond their ju-risdiction

The law requires that EPA make such decisions based solely on the health effects of the pollution not on the possible cost of com-pliance creating a huge political problem

ldquoTelling a government that has to stand for re-election that it should make decisions with no consideration of cost is understanda-bly going to create great agita in the political offi cesrdquo Mr Grumet said

EPA Chief Stands Firm as Tough Rules Loom

NRG Energyrsquos WA Parish Electric Generating Station in Thompsons Texas


Big Business Leaves Defi cit to PoliticiansBy DAVID LEONHARDT

If you want to understand why cutting the defi cit is so hard you canrsquot do much better than to look at the Business Roundtable

The roundtable is one of the more mo-derate big-business lobbying groups Its pre-sident is John Engler the former Michigan governor and its incoming chairman is Ja-mes McNerney the chief executive of Boeing When roundtable offi cials talk about the de-fi cit they use sober common-sense language that can make them sound more reasonable than either political party

But the roundtable is actually part of the problem

Rhetoric aside it consistently lobbies for a higher defi cit The roundtable defends corporate tax loopholes and even argues for new ones It pushes for a lower corporate tax rate It favors the permanent extension of the Bush tax cuts It opposes a reduction in the tax subsidy for health insurance a reduction that was part of the 2009 health reform bill Oh and the roundtable also favors new spending on roads bridges and other infrastructure

Itrsquos easy to look at the squabbling po-liticians in Washington and decide that they are the cause of the countryrsquos huge looming budget defi cit Certainly they deserve some blame The larger problem though is what you might call roundtable syndrome

In short there isnrsquot much of a consti-tuency for defi cit reduction Sure plenty of people and special-interest groups say that they are deeply worried about the defi cit But they are not lobbying for specifi c spending cuts or tax increases They arenrsquot marshaling their resources to defend politicians who take tough stands like President Obamarsquos 2009 Medicare cuts or Rand Paulrsquos proposed mi-litary cuts

Instead many of the offi cially nonpar-tisan groups in Washington are even less fi s-cally responsible than the partisans Public sector labor unions have fought changes to pensions and work rules that could lead to less expensive more effective government Private sector unions mdash along with the roun-dtable mdash have defended the huge tax sub-sidy for health insurance which drives up health costs

Labor groups have at least been willing to push for some tax increases Todayrsquos bu-siness groups struggle to come up with any specifi c defi cit plan Last year the Business Council mdash a group of top corporate exe-cutives headed by Jamie Dimon of JPMor-gan Chase mdash and the roundtable released a 49-page plan that simultaneously warned that projected defi cits would ldquoretard future growthrdquo and called for policies that would add hundreds of billions of dollars a year to the defi cit Thatrsquos the essence of roundtable syndrome

When I ask roundtable offi cials and other lobbyists about this contradiction they show an impressive ability to avoid specifi cs and stick to their talking points Mr Engler by e-mail said ldquoA simpler fl atter tax system can be enacted in a fi scally responsible man-ner that better serves American workers and supports economic growthrdquo

Taken by itself this statement is entirely accurate The corporate tax code is a mess A better code say both conservative and liberal economists would be fl atter mdash that is have a lower rate and fewer loopholes Companies would then waste less time complying with the code and could still help reduce the de-fi cit

But the roundtable is not pushing for the simpler fl atter fi scally responsible code that Mr Engler mentions Itrsquos pushing for tax cuts for its members a lower rate the con-tinuation of existing loopholes and the crea-tion of new ones like a permanent credit for research and a tax holiday for overseas pro-fi ts Mr Engler and his colleagues in other words are lobbying for a more complex less fi scally responsible tax code

Given how much wersquore going to talk about the defi cit Irsquod suggest requiring any self-proclaimed fi scal conservative to give specifi cs Yoursquore against the defi cit Great How do you want to cut it

The fact is naming specifi c ways to reduce the defi cit is no more technically challenging than naming new spending pro-grams or tax cuts To take the current debt ceiling negotiations as a benchmark White House offi cials and Congressional leaders are looking for about $200 billion a year in defi cit reduction They could get it any num-ber of ways

Two different bipartisan groups mdash the Bowles-Simpson defi cit commission and the Sustainable Defense Task Force mdash have ca-lled for roughly $100 billion a year in cuts to the military budget Getting rid of farm subsidies would save about $15 billion So would cutting the federal work force by 10 percent

Allowing the expiration of the Bush tax cuts on income above $250000 a year would raise about $60 billion a year The expiration of all the other Bush tax cuts would bring in another $200 billion or so Various changes to Medicare and Social Security mdash raising the retirement age reducing benefi ts for the affl uent cutting back on some forms of health care mdash could cut spending even more In the long term with projected defi cits well above $1 trillion a year such changes will su-rely be necessary

By the standard of specifi city a few of the most prominent politicians in the defi cit debate end up looking more serious than many outside groups Representative Paul Ryan the Wisconsin Republican who heads

the House Budget Committee has called for the effective elimination of Medicare for everyone under 55 years old Mr Obama fa-vors some Medicare cuts the closing of seve-ral modest tax loopholes and tax increases on the affl uent

There are many potential objections to the Obama plan and to the Ryan plan And neither would eliminate the defi cit But both plans would at least reduce it which is more

than you can say about corporate Americarsquos defi cit plan

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July 14 - 20 201110 The San Juan Weekly

By KATIE ZEZIMA

Sherlock Holmes had the case of the dog that didnrsquot bark but it has taken two dozen apartment

complexes and a testing company in Tennessee to bring the art of canine detection into the ldquoCSIrdquo age

And the evidence is right un-derfoot

Canine DNA is now being used to identify the culprits who fail to clean up after their pets an offen-se that Deborah Violette for one is committed to eradicating at the apartment complex she manages

Everyone who owns a dog in her complex Timberwood Com-mons in Lebanon NH must sub-mit a sample of its DNA taken by rubbing a cotton swab around insi-de the animalrsquos mouth

The swab is sent to BioPet Vet Lab a Knoxville Tenn company

that enters it into a worldwide da-tabase If Ms Violette fi nds an uns-cooped pile she can take a sample mail it to Knoxville and use a DNA match to identify the offending ow-ner

Called PooPrints the system costs $2999 for the swabbing kit $10

for a vial to hold the samples and $50 to analyze them which usually takes a week or two The company says that about two dozen apartment complexes around the country have signed up for the service In 2008 the Israeli city of Petah Tikva created a dog DNA database for the same pur-pose

ldquoItrsquos kind of like the FBI but on a much smaller scalerdquo said Eric Mayer director of franchise deve-lopment for BioPet Vet Lab which makes the kits

Ms Violette said that at her complex which opened in December and has a designated building for pet owners unwanted surprises have sometimes been found on lawns

ldquoWe had a little bit of a pro-blemrdquo Ms Violette said ldquoEnough that I wanted to try to nip it in the budrdquo

Dog owners were notifi ed about the testing last week and most are now taking their pets in to provide DNA samples But not everyone

ldquoIrsquove had some people say itrsquos completely over the top and ridicu-lousrdquo Ms Violette said ldquoIrsquom sure Irsquoll have a few people who wonrsquot come in and Irsquom sure those are the people wersquoll have to chase and those are the people who are doing itrdquo

Tom Boyd the founder and chief executive of BioPet Vet Lab said the company made the kits in response to the large of numbers of the dogs in the United States and to health con-cerns connected to dog feces Accor-ding to the American Society for the

Prevention of Cruelty to Animals there are about 75 million dogs in the United States

ldquoIf you took 75 million Ameri-cans and said they no longer have a commode can you imagine what would happen in a weekrdquo Mr Boyd asked

Not everyone is on board with the idea though

Karen Harvey of Forest Proper-ty Management in McCall Idaho said her company was not prepared to collect canine samples along with the rent checks ldquoIf you allow pets that sort of comes with itrdquo Ms Har-vey said ldquoI guess I would never take the issue of dog poop that farrdquo

Tracing Unscooped Dog Waste Back to the Culprit

Deborah Violette a property manager takes dog waste seriously

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July 14 - 20 2011 11The San Juan Weekly Restaurant Review

By ROBERT WILLEY

Pop out to Lechonera La Ranchera about 30 minutes outside San Juan on a Friday afternoon and you can snack

on crisp pork chunks and fried plantains enjoy the air-conditioning then climb back in your rental car for the drive back won-dering the whole time perhaps why you didnrsquot just order takeout at the hotel

Stop in the next morning however and a visit to this low-slung sports bar mdash a splashy outlier that opened last November on a narrow mountain road mdash makes un-deniable sense

The reason On weekends the real action shifts to the ramshackle outdo-or kitchen next door where Apa Ramos prepares the Puerto Rican-style roast pig known as lechoacuten Mr Ramos arrives at 4 am to slather each 90-pound carcass with a pungent rub of salt garlic and spices before skewering it on a spit that turns slowly over smoldering coals By the time

the restaurant opens at 10 the pig has been transformed into textbook lechoacuten a tubu-lar bundle of fatty meat suffused with sea-soning wrapped in mahogany skin that crunches like potato chips

Mr Ramos 53 learned the trade from his father Bernardo and has been roasting pigs more than half his life His tools could not be more basic a cinderblock pit of his own construction sheets of corrugated metal to control the heat a machete He to-ddles back and forth between the pit and a steel work table streaked with honey-co-lored grease cleaving with his right hand and placing portions into plastic foam con-tainers with his bare left

Back in the restaurant your lechoacuten arrives on a platter ringed with fried plan-tains (tostones) a heaping dish of yellow rice studded with pigeon peas off to the side Therersquos hot sauce and a mayonnaise-ketchup mashup for dipping but the pork does its best work alone with the choicest bites coming from the jowls belly and ribs

basically wherever the fat is The loin though a bit dry and chewy in places re-mains powerfully seasoned and a glossy shard of skin can make it sing

ldquoHe just has a special touchrdquo said Eric Ripert the acclaimed chef at Le Ber-nardin in New York He is such a fan of Mr Ramos that he has fl own him up twice to roast pigs for his restaurant ldquoItrsquos not like I

ate all the lechoacuten in Puerto Rico but every time I do eat the lechoacuten I compare it to his And Aparsquos is always betterrdquo

Lechonera La Ranchera Road 173 Km 60 Hato Nuevo Ward Guaynabo (787) 790-9988 A single order of lechoacuten including rice is $9 The restaurant opens at 10 am on weekends itrsquos best to arrive by noon

Lechonera La Ranchera


By MICHELLE HIGGINS

ALWAYS wanted to visit Cuba Well now you can mdash legally

Thanks to policy changes by President Obama earlier this year designed to encourage more contact between Ameri-cans and citizens of the Communist-ruled island the Treasury Department is once again granting so-called ldquopeople-to-peoplerdquo licenses which greatly expand travel op-portunities for Cuba-bound visitors

The licenses created under President Bill Clinton in 1999 stopped being issued in 2003 under travel restrictions impo-sed by President George W Bush Subse-quently the number of travelers from the United States visiting Cuba legally dro-pped from more than 200000 in 2003 to less than 50000 in 2004 according to estimates by Bob Guild vice president of Marazul Charters in North Bergen NJ among the largest United States organizers of trips to Cuba The new changes which come on top of loosened restrictions for Cubans and Cuban-Americans visiting relatives in Cuba are expected to push the number of travelers visiting Cuba this year to 450000 this year ldquoWe estimate 375000 to 400000 Cuban Americans will visit this year and another 50000 in other categories of legal travelrdquo said Mr Guild of Marazul

To be clear it is still illegal for ordi-nary American vacationers to hop on a pla-ne bound for Cuba which has been under a United States economic embargo for nearly 50 years True plenty have dodged the restrictions mdash and continue to do so mdash by fl ying there from another country like Mexi-co or Canada (for Americans traveling to Cuba is technically not illegal but it might

as well be since the United States prohibits its citizens from spending money in Cuba with exceptions for students journalists Cuban-Americans and others with legal rea-sons to travel there) And while Washington has also expanded licensing for educational groups traveling to Cuba by loosening requi-rements travelers joining an educational trip must still receive credit toward a degree

But the new people-to-people measu-res make it easier for United States citizens who do not have special status as working journalists or scholars to visit Cuba legally so long as they go with a licensed operator

ldquoAll a US citizen has to do is sign up for an authorized program and they can go to Cuba Itrsquos as simple as thatrdquo said Tom Popper director of Insight Cuba a travel company that took more than 3000 Ame-ricans to Cuba between 1999 and 2003 and was among the tour operators to apply for a license under the new rules earlier this year It received its license at the end of June and has planned 135 trips of three seven or eight nights over the next year

But other organizations including Collette Vacations the National Geogra-phic Society and the National Trust for Historic Preservation are still waiting to hear from Washington ldquoThey are not is-suing them with any kind of speedrdquo said Janet Moore owner of Distant Horizons an authorized travel service provider to Cuba who has been helping organizations apply for people-to-people licenses For example Harvard University which is offe-ring an alumni trip under the new rules was among the fi rst to receive the special people-to-people license Ms Moore said while the Corcoran Gallery of Art in Was-hington which operated four trips to Cuba

between 2001 and 2003 has yet to receive theirs ldquoThe bottom line is yes they have is-sued some licenses but they are doing it at a snailrsquos pacerdquo she said

In all only eight companies had been issued people-to-people licenses by the end of June according to the Treasury De-partment Thirty-fi ve applications were still pending

The trips arenrsquot your typical Ca-ribbean vacation Rather the focus is on meeting local citizens and learning about the culture not beach hopping and mojito-swilling Days are fi lled with busy itinera-ries that may include visiting orphanages or speaking with musicians or community leaders Guidelines published by the Trea-sury Department say the tours must ldquohave a full-time schedule of educational exchan-ge activities that will result in meaningful interaction between the travelers and indi-viduals in Cubardquo But besides the mingling the trips mdash which can range from $1800 for a long weekend in Havana to more than $4000 for a week mdash usually include opportunities to visit historic sites like Old Havana or for longer itineraries a visit to Cienfuegos a picturesque city in the South

In terms of hotels ldquoservice may not be quite as good and the Internet connection is incredibly slow and frustratingrdquo said Ms Moore of Distant Horizons But she said ldquothey have all the facilities yoursquod expect swimming pools little gyms And there are a lot of very good private restaurantsrdquo

Donrsquot expect to stock up on those coveted Cuban cigars however Travelers arenrsquot allowed to bring cigars or rum back to the States according to the Treasury De-partment

Demand for Cuba is so strong that

tour operators say that many of the trips already have long waiting lists Learning in Retirement an educational program as-sociated with the University of Wisconsin in La Crosse which is offering a 10-day people-to-people trip in April said more than 65 people have already expressed in-terest for its 35 spots ldquoThatrsquos just through word of mouthrdquo said Burt Altman a reti-red professor who organized the trip ldquoWe havenrsquot even put out the itineraryrdquo

ldquoItrsquos the forbidden fruitrdquo said Mr Po-pper of Insight Cuba ldquoItrsquos 50 years of pent-up demand for a country that 75 percent of Americans really really want to travel tordquo

Following is a list of planned people-to-people trips to Cuba

HARVARD UNIVERSITYrsquoS ALUMNI ASSOCIATION alumniharvardedu will take a group of 35 to Havana for fi ve days in late October led by Julio Cesar Peacuterez Hernaacutendez the Cuban Loeb Fellow at Har-vard University Graduate School of Design to explore the city and meet professionals including local artists and enjoy a private concert at the Ceramics Museum with gui-tarist Luis Manuel Molina Cost $3880 a person based on double occupancy inclu-ding airfare from Miami

INSIGHT CUBA insightcubaorg is offering several trips that include a wee-kend in Havana that costs $1795 and vi-sits an orphanage Callejon de Hammel a community project promoting art music and culture the Instituto de Cubano de Amistad con los Pueblos (Cuban Institute of Friendship With the People) an interna-tional Cuban organization that promotes cultural relations between the United Sta-tes and Cuba and an eight-night Cuban Music and Art Experience ($4095) where visitors meet the staff at Egrem the Cuban state record company participate in a per-cussion and dance workshop visit local music schools and talk to musicians during rehearsal at a famous Havana jazz club

LEARNING IN RETIREMENT uwlaxeducontedlirindexhtml is offering a 10-day trip in April 2012 visiting a range of professionals from Santiago de Cuba to Tri-nidad including a violin maker and a dairy farm operator Cost $4300 for members who pay a $35 annual fee

CORCORAN GALLERY OF ART AND COLLEGE OF ART AND DESIGN corcoranorg plans to offer an eight-day trip in November pending a license The trip led by Mario Ascencio the museumrsquos library director will explore the art scenes of Havana and Trinidad a Unesco World Heritage Site Guests will attend a coc-ktail reception at the Ludwig Foundation which promotes Cuban contemporary ar-tists and meet local curators artists and gallery owners Cost $3700 a person in-cluding round-trip airfare from Miami for guests who pay $60 for a museum mem-bership

New Ways to Visit Cuba New Ways to Visit Cuba mdash Legallymdash Legally

The San Juan Weekly July 14 - 20 2011 13

LETTERSYour Last Drop of Blood

The banks have contrived a diabolical array of schemes to cheat us silly Everything from usurious cre-dit cards to second-round-of-interest-on-the-same-prici-pal reverse mortgages The Achellesrsquo heel of the vaious set-ups is identity theft So the banks run spots all over the media warning us to purchase protection But isnrsquot it the banks who stand to lose money Yeah Did you too get a card from Mr Carrioacuten last Christmas

Belisario Badillo Hato Rey

Backward Like the CrabEarly in the 20th century it looked like democra-

cy just didnrsquot work Like it was tantamount to anarchy both politically and economically a notion reinforced by the Great Depression But it didnrsquot make sense to go back to kings and noblemen so what minds came up with was organizing society like the military with a sense of unity and honor and the fascio was an appro-priate representation of such a restructuring itrsquos sticks tied together like when we all put our hearts and minds together therersquos no ceiling to what a nation can do But ever since Caesar gave way to Nero and Caligula itrsquos been evident that checks and balances even if they can turn everything into a chicken coop safeguard us from the corruption of absolute power

No penepeiacutestas arenrsquot fascists Theyrsquore just self-ser-ving arrogant thugs in the tradition of Rafael Trujillo and Fulgencio Batista It happens that folks south of the Tropic of Cancer are learning all about democracy these days In particular Ecuador and Chile But here like my grandmo-ther used to say wersquore always backward like the crab

Juan Vega Caparra Heights

The Government You Deseve

Now itrsquos a Bentley Every week a new politician

scandal is on the tube While I have to work my buns off to pay the outrageous salaries and perks they force upon the Puerto Rican people Is this democracy Ought I feel happy itrsquos not for Fidel that I toil Or maybe even the Islamists Whatever Osama bin Laden was he wasnrsquot a thief and a liar

And what about you Whom did you vote for The Blues to boot Aniacutebal The Reds to keep the penepeiacutestas from doing all the robbing theyrsquore doing anyway You wouldnrsquot give a chance to the PIP or even the PRPR You said it would be throwing away your vote That was a joke wasnrsquot it Yoursquore such a nincompoop

Jefferson said that not all peoples can handle de-mocracy that you have to be minimally educated and wield a sense of community of responsible governance that politics might mean more that basketball to you Then Lenin added that a country that starts out a sheer

mess like Russia or China needs ldquodictatorship of the proletariatrdquo for a while to learn how to read and write among other things only that the dictators never seem to fi nd the right moment to step down an undertow only Niccolo Machiavelli fully appreciated

Yoursquod better read the writing on the wall You shouldrsquove done something for the UPR student strikers your son and daughters with hearts you never had strangled and sexually assaulted while you wat-ched on TV and munched potato chips and made stu-pid remarks

Amanda Borrero Altamira

Canine Island Sanctuary In India cattle are sacred in Puerto Rico itrsquos dogs

So you must be mindful of the ethos this entailsbull When yoursquore speaking to a dog owner and his

four little monsters are barking at you furiously and you canrsquot hear him nor can he hear you donrsquot expect him to shut the precious darlings up and itrsquos rude to roll your eyes

bull Be aware that dog turds on your front lawn make excellent fertilizer and if you step on a soft one well how can you be so clumsy

bull In Puerto Rico housecats are acceptable dog food De rigueur for dobermans So keep Pussy inside

bull A dog has a right to bark as much a you have a right to speak and a cop will be the fi rst to point this out to you

bull If a dog is about to bite you but somehow you bite him fi rst yoursquore looking forward to a 12-year jail sentence

bull Stray dogs get sent to shelters Homeless people are sent to med school after they become roadkill for be-gging for quarters at intersections

bull Here itrsquos acceptable practice in condos to leave dogs in balconies over long weekends Where they bark and bark and donrsquot let up to even sleep So if you live in Condado or Hato Rey soundproof your apartment or take off to the country

bull Curiously dog owners have nothing but con-tempt for other species pigeons in particular whom they indict as carriers of all manner of exotic pathogens never mind dog ticks and fl eas and tetanus and rabies Once Delma Fleming wrote that a fellow whose chic-kens were getting eaten by a rampaging mutt shouldrsquove sought ldquoa peaceful resolutionrdquo instead of banging the dog with a pipe

bull On Sundays and holidays Ocean Park beaches are a dog inferno The San Juan Municipal Code says dogs outside must be both leashed and muzzled But this isnrsquot enforced ever unless yoursquore an opposition le-gislator

bull If you feel dog owners are due a measure of re-tribution put your faith in veterinarians who are una-bashed swindlers and veritable butchers

bull You can take solace a dog can only see in black and white But he can smell your adrenalin and he just loves it

bull As 10000-year-young descendants of wolves dogs cull human overpopulation Since World War II theyrsquove chewed to death over a thousand children in the United States And here in Puerto Rico two years ago a pack of strays ripped a baby apart in front of his dad So if you donrsquot want to offend the Church by indul-ging in birth control and more children are beyond your budget a puppy might be in your future

bull Two years ago as well a bitch in France was ins-trumental to medical advancement when she enabled the worldrsquos very fi rst face transplant by tearing her ownerrsquos face off with her teeth

bull Do not write a newspaper a letter like this one if your girlboyfriend an in-law you boss your doctor or an important customer happens to be a dog owner And if you do and Delma Fleming shows up at your home run

Juan Peacuterez - Altamira

Edit Your Handiwork

To Ed MartiacutenezYou go on and on and on and never get to the

point Put yourself in the readerrsquos place I canrsquot read your mind And half a page of words ought to tell me what yoursquore up to but they donrsquot Do you support pu-blic health or do you like Herbert Hoover and todayrsquos right-wing rabid airheads feel onersquos health onersquos survi-val like plantains and used cars is best left to the mar-ketplace

Ana Montes Las Lomas

Vicious Cycle HOW DO WE GET RID OF THE RABID DOGS IN

FORTALEZA AND CAPITOLIO you bellow Hey you voted for them Remember Bit more than half of you for the Blues to get rid of deranged Aniacutebal and the rest for the Reds to keep the penepeiacutesta sharks out Now I presu-me yoursquoll switch And in 2016 switch back I voted for El Coquiacute and you all agreed Irsquom a fool That itrsquos absurd to vote for folks that canrsquot possibly win As George Santaya-na put it ldquoLos pueblos tienen los gobiernos que se mere-cen (Peoplersquos have the governments they deserve)rdquo

Lisa Bay Caparra Heights

The San Juan WeeklySend your opinions and ideas to

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The San Juan WeeeklyJuly 14 - 20 201114

By HILARY HOWARD

SICILIAN CHIC Inspired by the labelrsquos 2011 runway crea-tions the cosmetics division

of Dolce amp Gabbana recently in-troduced its Italian Summertime Collection Available at Saks Fifth Avenue the line includes soft Me-diterranean-inspired femininity (Classic Cream Lipstick in Vene-re $30 Luminous Cheek Color in Sole $44 Ultra-Shine Lip Gloss in Acqua $29) and risk-taking drama (Intense Nail Lacquer in Passione $20 Smooth Eye Color Quad in Vulcano $59) Adding some f l a i r

for the pale-skinned among us is the limited-edition Animalier Bronzer for $50

LASHES THAT LASH To-odle-oo wands and clamps Cry Baby a new semi-permanent mas-cara application process is promi-sing curled lengthened and darke-ned lashes Available in New York at Elke Von Freudenbergrsquos Model Brow (Broadway and 26th Street) the procedure takes about 30 mi-nutes and involves selecting a lash

look customizing a style (the for-mula made with synthetic fi bers also thickens) and the application itself The look lasts 10 to 20 days ($45 for upper lashes $65 for top and bottom)

A NEW LINE This mon-th Nars will introduce its Larger Than Life Long-Wear Eyeliner collection nine easy-gliding sha-des including Rue de Rivoli (me-tallic forest green) Abbey Road (iridescent turquoise) and Via Ve-neto (deep black) A huge bonus for those of us constantly digging through our makeup bags for sharpeners one is built into each pencil ($23) Available at Nords-trom and Saks Fifth Avenue

July 14 - 20 2011San Juan Weekly 15 FASHION amp BEAUTY

By PAMELA PAUL

THE GIST Using Botox decrea-ses a personrsquos ability to empa-thize with others

THE SOURCE ldquoEmbodied Emotion Perception Amplifying and Dampening Facial Feedback Modu-lates Emotional Perception Accura-cyrdquo by David T Neal and Tanya L Chartrand published in Social Psy-chological and Personality Science

Itrsquos no shock that we canrsquot tell what the Botoxed are feeling But it turns out that people with frozen faces have little idea what wersquore fe-eling either

No Botox injections donrsquot zap brain cells (At least not so far as we know) According to a new study by David T Neal an assistant profes-sor of psychology at the University of Southern California and Tanya L Chartrand a professor of marketing and psychology at the Duke Univer-sity Fuqua School of Business people who have had Botox injections are

physically unable to mimic emotions of others This failure to mirror the faces of those they are watching or talking to robs them of the ability to understand what people are feeling the study says

The idea for the paper stemmed from a study conducted in the 1980s which found that long-married men and women began to resemble each other over time especially if they were happily wed ldquoSo we thought whatrsquos going to happen now that therersquos Botoxrdquo Dr Neal said

The toxin might interfere with ldquoembodied cognitionrdquo the way in which facial feedback helps people perceive emotion According to the

theory in the study a listener uncons-ciously imitates another personrsquos expression This mimicry then gene-rates a signal from the personrsquos face to his or her brain Finally the signal enables the listener to understand the other personrsquos meaning or inten-tion

While the fi rst two steps of this process had been established by re-search it was unclear whether facial feedback helped people make bet-ter judgments about other peoplesrsquo emotions

Enter the Botoxed person a use-ful new laboratory specimen And as a control the user of Restylane a skin fi ller that does not alter muscle function

In one experiment women who had been injected with Botox within the last two weeks were offered $200 to look at a set of photographs of hu-man eyes and match them with hu-man emotions Restylane users per-formed the same tasks which were in both cases conducted via compu-

terWomen with Botox were sig-

nifi cantly less accurate at decoding both positive and negative facial ex-pressions than those who had used Restylane whose abilities closely approximated those of plain old wrinkled adults On average the Bo-tox group guessed 2 more out of 36 facial expressions wrong

A second experiment found that people with amplifi ed expressions do a better job deciphering emotions Participants who had a gel on their faces that effectively made their mus-cles work harder to convey emotions could more accurately identify emo-tions in others The gel was similar to an over-the-counter facial mask Ah the trials of beauty

While Botox doesnrsquot go to the brain (the poison doesnrsquot cross the blood-brain barrier) it does seem to affect its users ability to think Such fi ndings might perturb those who have dipped into the Clostridium botulinum Not that we can tell

With Botox Looking Good and Feeling Less

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Beauty Spots

By SALLY SINGER

The Christian Dior haute couture show

saw a studio bra-vely soldiering on without a designer

at the helm Yes the production was every bit what one has come to expect

from the Galliano years mdash a Jeremy Healy soundtrack

makeup by Tyen and Pat McGrath

hair by Orlando Pita and hats by Stephen

Jones mdash but without his wicked wit and

madcap historicisms Was the craftsman-

ship there Sure Here a red carpet

ready ball frock in fi esta pastels

San Juan WeeklyJuly 14 - 20 201116FASHION amp BEAUTY

By SALLY SINGER

Giambattista Vallirsquos fi rst collection of haute couture promised and delivered everything his following of young European monied beauties desire dollops of feathers pearls em-broideries animal prints fl owers ruffl es and bows It all worked even more so than Vallirsquos ready-to-wear because for unapologetic prettiness he is unbeatable especially in the simplest gestures mdash a draped silk cocktail dress in petal pink or this coral gown and cape which made its real-life de-but last weekend in ldquoGrace Kelly bluerdquo on her grand-daughter Charlotte at Prince Albertrsquos wedding supper

By CATHY HORYN

Reed Krakoff used the term ldquowarm minimalismrdquo to des-cribe the changes mdash actually

improvements mdash offered in his resort line Mr Krakoff trying to establish a look with his still-new signature label makes progress with a more feminine-looking bunch of clothes that plays on rounded edges easy volumes and intense colors offset by fl eshy beige tones Those colors mdash ultraviolet blue and green coral and cinnamon mdash are his strength Theyrsquore sharp and speci-fi c with a modern art reference that he likes See a green panel on a slee-veless wrap dress in an abstract blue python print and you think as inten-ded Rothko Itrsquos not all highfalutin

Mr Krakoff also showed a well-done blazer in beige lightweight wool with a double lapel a nice way to suggest layering He paired the jacket with soft red trousers Also strong were a leather shift pounded thin like a cut-let and an electric blue python skirt with pleating at one side

Louis Vuitton held its cruise show Wednesday morning in the Pool Room of the Four Seasons on a turf runway with small fattening treats and that amazing chain-curtain fi lte-red light The press notes referred to Sofi a Coppolarsquos infl uence on Julie de Libran the Vuitton studio director and of course on her friend Marc Ja-cobs I must not be up on my Coppo-la style points because I didnrsquot sense a particular muse glow The clothes

were idiosyncratically Louis I felt with references to the 1960s Paris summers (in the cute prints and even cuter motorcycle helmets) and loafers with gold studs edging the soles I lo-ved the lean lanky variety creamy silk pants with a cropped tweedy jac-

ket longish skirts with a daisy-chain cutout near the hem and most all a set of French-blue evening pajamas shown with a gray-blue cardigan and a matching print helmet At least I think they were evening pajamas They cer-tainly looked fi ne


Giambattista Valli

Christian DiorChristian DiorChristian Dior Giambattista Giambattista ValliValli

By SAM SIFTON

On the docket for today a weekend dinner of glazed lamb ribs hot and sticky off the grill accompa-

nied by a cool minted yogurt sauce that fl ashes with citrus and fi re You could ac-company the meat with rice or salad and certainly with beer or cold tea The dish has the power to transform any porch or garden roof or chalky concrete side yard into Southampton in high summer

The recipe is based loosely on one for a snack that used to be served at DBGB Daniel Bouludrsquos giddy sausage-and-beer restaurant on the Bowery in Manhattan crunchy little nuggets of small-boned breast meat and fat served with a pale yogurt sauce with a mild pepper kick un-der a zing of lemon zest You sat in the restaurantrsquos bar room eating these things with a cold IPA to drink and it was like discovering a new room off your apartment or a secret entrance to an empty highway out of town

Because lamb ribs Holy cats Simi-lar in shape and size to pork baby-back ribs and to veal breast for tenderness they come from the breast plate of a sheep sweet and succulent

You used to not see them much on restaurant menus Now increasingly mdash and with good reason mdash they are showing up all around New York

Andy Nusser the quiet mastermind behind the plancha at Casa Mono on Ir-ving Place serves lamb ribs with Moroc-can lemon pickles and lots of coriander At MP Taverna a new Greek spot in Roslyn on Long Island the lamb-mystic Michael Psilakis cures them in cumin cinnamon sugar salt pepper juniper and cloves He roasts the racks at low heat for almost a day then fi nishes the pieces on a grill

Jesse Schenker the chef and an ow-ner of the inventive and excellent Recette in the West Village serves grilled lamb ribs as well with smoked yogurt fried corn bread and pickled jalapentildeo

You still do not see lamb ribs often in the supermarket at least not in packages marked ldquolamb ribsrdquo Chops and legs pre-dominate there But any butcher mdash even the sullen man in the back of the local IGA or the grumpy fellow down at the Sweetbay near the Beach Road mdash can get a lamb breast and cut it for you often with only a day or tworsquos notice

This is a transaction worth commen-

cing immediatelyFor the ribs at DBGB Jim Leiken the

restaurantrsquos chef cured the meat for a day in thyme and rosemary salt and garlic and bay Then he submerged the racks in olive oil and cooked the result slowly for hours making a kind of lamb confi t After slicing the racks into individual ribs he deep-fried them and bathed the result in a honeyed glaze made piquant with vinegar A fi nal shower of toasted cracked coriander seeds and mild Aleppo pepper with lemon zest salt and parsley for crunch and contrast and the dish went out in pieces to the bar

It tasted incredible of course Leiken could probably follow the same process with a remaindered novel or a worn-out moccasin and almost achieve the same effect

But his ability to layer fl avors on top of fl avors succulence beneath tender crust is just one marker of what differentiates restaurant chefs from home cooks Ano-ther is the volume and scale of restaurant cooking which dwarfs that of the home And for those who cook for families and not hordes for pleasure more than pay-checks the process of confi tting lamb ribs then deep-frying them may simply be too time- and equipment-intensive even for the project-mad

On a summer Sunday then it may be better to follow the lead of Psilakis instead and slow-roast the meat in a low oven allowing the fat on the ribs to braise the meat Then rather than deep-frying the end result the fi nished ribs mdash cut into in-dividual slices along the bone and straight through the chine mdash can be grilled and basted again using Leikenrsquos honey-and-vinegar glaze

(You could even roast the meat on one day and grill it on the next dividing the labor over the course of a weekend or roast it one day and broil it the next re-moving the need both for outdoor cooking space and a proper grill)

The dish does more than hint at the crispness of the original and the cool tang of its accompanying yogurt sauce Its approximation mdash charred and glistening with bits of herb and a few fl ashes of ye-llow brightness from the zest mdash pays real homage It tastes of the best parts of sum-mer in Manhattan sophisticated and cool Debbie Harry swinging soft and punky down the Bowery from a show at CBGB in 1977 say past empty lots where someday restaurants would rise

Aye Therersquos the Rib

Glazed Lamb RibsFor the lamb2 racks lamb ribs2 tablespoons Kosher salt6 cloves garlic peeled and fi nely diced6 sprigs thyme3 sprigs rosemary2 bay leavesFor the glaze1 cup sherry vinegar1 cup honey1 tablespoon fennel seeds cracked1 tablespoon coriander seeds cracked1 tablespoon ground freshly ground black pepper1 tablespoon ground Aleppo chili2 tablespoons unsalted butter coldFor the sprinkle2 tablespoons coriander seeds toasted and cracked or 1 tablespoon ground co-riander2 teaspoons Aleppo chili2 teaspoons Kosher salt or to tasteZest of 1 lemon1 tablespoon parsley fi nely chopped

1 Preheat oven to 275 Trim most of fat from the surface of the lamb racks and place them in a large roasting pan Combine salt garlic and herbs and rub over lamb Place in oven and roast for 2 hours Remove pan from oven and turn ribs then return to oven for 30 to 60 minutes longer or until the lamb is just tender and starting to pull away from the bone Remove pan from oven and set aside

2 Meanwhile make the glaze Combine vinegar and honey in a small sauce pan placed over moderate heat

Add fennel coriander black pepper and Aleppo chili and bring to a slight sim-mer Lower heat and allow the mixture to reduce by half Remove from heat and whisk in the cold butter

3 Light a fi re in grill or preheat broiler in oven Combine coriander chili salt lemon and parsley in a small bowl and set aside Slice ribs into in-dividual pieces cutting between each bone When coals are covered with gray ash and fi re is hot put chops on grill directly over coals or on a pan in the broiler Using a pastry brush coat lamb lightly with glaze and continue to cook turning occasionally until the meat begins to turn golden and crisp approximately 5 to 7 minutes Remove to a platter and sprinkle with the top-ping Serves 4

Minted Yogurt Sauce1 cup best-quality whole milk yogurt12 cup cregraveme fraicircche14 cup mint minced1 tablespoon chives minced12 clove garlic fi nely diced or grated on MicroplaneZest of 1 lemonTabasco or other hot pepper sauce to tasteKosher salt and freshly ground black pe-pper to taste

1 Combine yogurt cregraveme fraicircche mint chives garlic and lemon zest in a medium-size nonreactive bowl then whisk to a smooth consistency

2 Season to taste transfer to small bowls and serve with lamb ribs

17The San Juan Weekly July 14 - 20 2011 Kitchen

Adapted from ElckerlijcMaldegem BelgiumTime 45 minutes plus2 to 4 hoursrsquo marinating

FOR THE TUNA 1 12 pounds tuna loins (about 2 inches across roughly the size and shape of pork loins)1 to 2 tablespoons extra virgin olive oil14 cup each fi nely chopped fresh rosemary basil and thy-meCoarse sea salt and black pepper

FOR THE SAUCE12 cup soy sauce14 cup maple syrup14 cup pear nectar4 cloves garlic peeled and lightly crushed with side of knife1 two-inch piece fresh ginger peeled cut crosswise into 14-inch slices and lightly crushed with side of knife

FOR THE FIRE SPICES AND GARNISH2 tablespoons coriander seeds 2 tablespoons juniper berries2 tablespoons dried rosemary2 tablespoons crumbled dried bay leaves

2 tablespoons dried oregano2 tablespoons dried thyme8 medium radishes slivered for garnish

1 For the tuna Lightly brush the fi sh all over with oli-ve oil then sprinkle with the fresh herbs Refrigerate in plas-tic wrap for 2 to 4 hours

2 For the sauce and fi re spices In a heavy saucepan combine the sauce ingredients Gently simmer until reduced by a third about 15 minutes Strain and cool In a bowl com-bine the coriander juniper ro-semary bay leaves oregano and thyme

3 Prepare a grill for direct grilling over high heat Brush and oil the grate Season the fi sh with salt and pepper Just before grilling toss the fi re spi-ces on the coals (or on the bars ceramic bricks or lava stones of a gas grill)

4 Sear the tuna all over 1 to 2 minutes a side Transfer to a cutting board and thinly sli-ce crosswise Spoon the sauce onto plates arrange the tuna slices on top and sprinkle with the radishes

Yield 6 to 8 appetizer ser-vings

Grilled Tuna With Fire Spices

Time 1 hour plus 10 minutesrsquo resting

2 pounds small new potatoes each 1 12 to 2 inches in diameter14 cup olive oilSalt and pepper1 rosemary sprigA few thyme sprigsA few sage sprigs1 head of garlic cloves separated but not peeled3 tablespoons chopped fl at-leaf parsley

1 Heat the oven to 400 degrees Wash the potatoes in warm water to remove dirt or sand then drain and blot Put them in large mixing bowl Add the olive oil a ge-nerous amount of salt and pepper the rosemary thyme sage and garlic cloves and mix to coat

2 Arrange potatoes on an 18-inch round of baking par-chment Fold the parchment over to make a half moon

then fold and crimp the rounded edge to make a package tucking in the end It is OK if the package is not completely air-tight Place it on a baking sheet and bake for 45 minutes Parchment will puff and brown as the potatoes roast within

3 Remove potatoes from oven and let rest 10 minutes Open the package and sprinkle with parsley Serve directly from the parchment with a large spoon for the delicious oily juices

Yield 4 servings

New Potatoes Baked in Parchment

Grilled Clams With Fried Garlic

Adapted from Etxebarri Axpe SpainTime 15 minutes plus grill preparation

24 littleneck clams well scrubbed34 cup extra virgin olive oil plus more to brush on clams

Juice of 1 lemon8 cloves garlic peeled and thinly sliced lengthwise (remove any green shoots in center)12 teaspoon hot pepper fl akes

1 Prepare a grill for direct grilling over high heat

2 Lightly brush the clams on both sides with olive oil Arrange them on the grate cover and cook until the shells pop open 3 to 6 minutes (You could grill the clams on aluminum foil to catch juices)

3 Pour the lemon juice into a ba-king dish large enough to hold the clams in one layer Transfer the clams to the dish with tongs trying not to spill the juices

4 Heat 34 cup olive oil in a small skillet on the grill When hot add the garlic and cook until golden brown 1 to 2 minutes Add the pepper fl akes and stir for 15 seconds Pour this over the clams

5 Transfer the clams to 4 deep bowls Whisk the juices in the baking dish for 1 minute and pour over the clams

Yield 4 appetizer servings 2 light main-course servings

18 The San Juan Weekly July 14 - 20 2011Kitchen

The San Juan Weekly July 14 - 20 2011 19 HEALTH amp SCIENCE

Pleistocene Treasures at a Breakneck PaceBy KIRK JOHNSON

More than 130000 years ago in the chi-lled depths of the Illinoian ice age an errant glacier left a hole atop a

9000-foot-high ridge near what would beco-me the town of Aspen in the central Colorado Rockies The depression fi lled with snow-melt and for tens of thousands of years the little lake attracted the giants of the Pleistoce-ne mdash mammoths mastodons ground sloths half again the size of grizzly bears supersi-ze bison camels and horses mdash that came to drink and in many cases to die in the high alpine mud

Scientists had 70 days framed by moun-tain winter weather and lawyerly fi ne print to search the old lake bed sediments for rem-nants of these ancient animals

That was from Oct 14 when workers on a reservoir dam turned over the fi rst fos-sil bones (of a young female mammoth promptly nicknamed Snowy) to last weekend when work on the reservoir resumed A tight contract schedule dictates that the reservoir which will supply the condos and ski lodges of Snowmass must be completed by late this year The result was a frantic race to fi nd and catalog everything possible before the site was entombed once more by water

The breakneck pace of the fossil dig was matched only by what scientists said was the extraordinary richness of the site one of the best windows into the thundering megafau-na of its time ldquoThe speed of this thing is so unlike normal science mdash from discovery to completion of one of the biggest digs ever in less than nine monthsrdquo said Kirk R Johnson curator of the Denver Museum of Nature and Science who oversaw the project

ldquoTypically you write a grant proposal and wait nine months to hear anythingrdquo Dr Johnson said ldquoWe couldnrsquot wait mdash in a single day we were fi nding a couple hundred bo-nesrdquo

The ancient Snowmass clock was mea-sured in the untold lives of the creatures that roamed and roared in a place and period po-orly recorded in the scientifi c record The high reaches of Rocky Mountains during the San-gamonian interglacial a time of very warm weather around the globe 75000 to 125000 years ago

Other well-known ice age fossil sites by contrast like the La Brea Tar Pits in Cali-fornia and Hot Springs SD have been dated to between 10000 and 40000 before present and no well-preserved site has ever been found scientists said at this altitude in North America

Here at Snowmastodon as the site is called the human clock ran partly on adrena-line with 50 or more shovel-wielding scien-tists volunteers and interns from the Denver

Museum pawing the lake bed on a typical day Their goal sift 7000 tons of sediment mdash 35 feet worth to the bottom of the glacial scra-pe mdash by the deadline

Something very big mdash a mammoth tusk taller than LeBron James a partial mastodon skull half the size of a Smart Car mdash was tur-ning up every few days By the end more than 4500 fossil specimens from 20 different animals were hauled out

ldquoBone uprdquo Dr Johnson shouted on recent brilliantly sunny day as a cheer rose across the pit ldquoArm bone of a slothrdquo Dr Jo-hnson said casually from a practiced distance when the huge humerus was held aloft by its fi nder

Preliminary estimates say the ancient ridge-top lake mdash unusual in having no stream inlet to bring in sediment mdash might have per-sisted for as long as 100000 years before win-dblown dust fi lled it in to become a typical-looking alpine meadow a state it had reached 50000 years or more before humans came to the Americas

The resulting fossil bed thus has a long climate record in its pollens buried plants and windborne particles as well as a long yards-tick of the animals and what might be de-duced about their lives The sediment layers suggest periods when the lakeside landscape was tundra mdash too cold for trees mdash and others when great forests hugged the shore

ldquoI think at the end of the day thatrsquos whatrsquos going to be so valuable mdash yoursquove got this crystal-clear glimpse into the Rockies before humans show uprdquo said Ian Miller cu-

rator of paleobotany at the Denver museum ldquoWersquore sitting here at almost 9000 feet and climate is driving ecosystems up and down Itrsquos a window and you just watch it go byrdquo

A businessman from Wisconsin R Do-uglas Ziegler bought the lake bed in 1958 when it was just an old meadow being used for grazing sheep

The growing water needs of Snowmass Village founded in the 1960s eventually led engineers to look for a reservoir site which led to the backhoes and the fi rst discoveries last fall and which will lead in a grand circling back of history to an eventual restoration of meadowrsquos use as a watering hole The accele-rated pace was partly because the Snowmass Water and Sanitation Department District under its contract with the Ziegler family which still owns the land around the lake fa-ced substantial fi nancial penalties if the work wasnrsquot completed on time The reservoir must be up and running by next spring under the contract but because winter will close down the work late this year just as it did on the dig that means fi nishing up before snow fl ies

The dig partly supported by a grant from the National Geographic Society will be featured in a National Geographic-Nova spe-cial on PBS next year

ldquoWe cross-country skied over where those creatures once roamed and we never had any ideardquo said Peter Ziegler 62 who spent two days at the dig in June laboring with a shovel

There are still many unanswered ques-tions about what happened here mdash most po-inted is when did the animals actually die

Because the site is too old for radio-carbon dating which is only useful to about 50000 years before present other more com-plicated methods all of which take longer to work out will have to be used Ancient po-llen for example was collected from the mud to compare against other climate indicators Core samples will be examined for markers like volcanic dust which might be dated

using radiometric dating techniques based on argon 40-39 or uranium-lead geochronology

Secondly the animals did not march to their deaths in a steady procession over the centuries There are sediment layers with few bones followed by layers with many bones mdash indicating Dr Johnson said that the lake may have multiple stories to tell The remains of young animals found in the pit could suggest for example that through at least through part of its history the lake was a trap with slippery slopes or lethal leg-sucking goo like the La Brea Tar Pits

The third great question connected to everything else is how the great shifts of cli-mate recorded by the mud affected the lives and habits of the creatures that roamed here

Was the climate warm enough in the interglacial period which peaked in tempera-ture around 110000 years ago that elephant-family relatives and other animals like camels and sloths could live year round at high al-titude or were there migratory patterns mdash highlands in the summers lowlands in win-ter mdash that might emerge For instance will the growth rings of mastodon or mammoth tusks found here differ from those of cousins found at low altitude sites hinting at perma-nent mountain residence

Some researchers are hoping the fi nds will yield DNA that might give a glimpse into the genes of ice age mammals Genetic di-versity or uniformity can suggest how big a population was at the time of an individualrsquos death

ldquoThe interglacial period wasnrsquot a great time for stuff to be preservedrdquo said Beth Sha-piro who studies ancient DNA ldquoSo this is not just a window into a time but a whole group of animals wersquove never been able to get be-forerdquo

After the news broke about the ar-chaeological treasure trove his school built a mastodon model to scale 12 feet tall at the shoulder mdash and Mr Faison said the fi rst and second graders he teaches shared his awe

The skull of an ice-age bison shown in a plaster cast The horns A massive

mastodon vertebraspan about seven feet

Among the fi ndings clockwise from top left mastodon teeth a bison jaw more mastodon teeth and a mastodon humerus

A massive mastodon vertebra

The San Juan WeeklyJuly 14 - 20 201120HEALTH amp SCIENCE

By BENEDICT CAREY

Researchers have long known that the brain links all kinds of new facts re-lated or not when they are learned

about the same time Just as the taste of a cookie and tea can start a cascade of child-hood memories as in Proust so a recalled bit of history homework can bring to mind a math problem mdash or a new dessert mdash from that same night

For the fi rst time scientists have re-corded traces in the brain of that kind of contextual memory the ever-shifting ka-leidoscope of thoughts and emotions that surrounds every piece of newly learned information The recordings taken from the brains of people awaiting surgery for epilepsy suggest that new memories of even abstract facts mdash an Italian verb for example mdash are encoded in a brain-cell fi ring sequence that also contains infor-mation about what else was happening during and just before the memory was formed whether a tropical daydream or frustration with the Mets

The new study suggests that memory is like a streaming video that is bookmar-ked both consciously and subconsciously by facts scenes characters and thoughts Experts cautioned that the new report falls well short of revealing how contextual memory and different cues interact some words might throw the mind into a vivid reverie while others do not But the report does provide a glimpse into how the brain places memories in space and time

ldquoItrsquos a demonstration of this very cool idea that you have remnants of previous thoughts still rattling around in your head and you bind the representation of whatrsquos happening now to the fading embers of

those old thoughtsrdquo said Ken Norman a neuroscientist at Princeton who did not participate in the study ldquoI think they have very good evidence that this process is cru-cial to time-stamping your memoriesrdquo

In the new study appearing in the current issue of the journal PNAS doc-tors from the University of Pennsylvania and Vanderbilt University took recordings from tiny electrodes implanted in the bra-ins of 69 people with severe epilepsy The implants are standard procedure in such cases allowing doctors to pinpoint the lo-cation of the fl ash fl oods of brain activity that cause epileptic seizures

The patients performed a simple me-mory task They watched a series of nouns appear on a computer screen one after another and after a brief distraction reca-lled as many of the words as they could in any order Repeated trials with different lists of words showed a predictable effect The participants tended to remember the words in clusters beginning with one and recalling those that were just before or af-ter

This pattern which scientists call the contiguity effect is similar to what often happens in the card game concentration in which players try to identify pairs in a grid of cards lying face-down Pairs over-turned close in time are often remembered together

Recording from the electrodes the researchers looked for a neural fi ring pat-tern that had a very distinct signature mdash it updated continually like a news ticker tape They found a strong signal in the temporal lobe of the brain an area exten-ding roughly between the temple and the ear When participants recalled a word mdash ldquocatrdquo for example mdash the pattern in this

region looked identical to when ldquocatrdquo was originally seen on the computer screen

Moreover the pattern was only slightly different when they recalled the words just before and just after ldquocatrdquo on the list

ldquoHere we have shown in effect that the word before lsquocatrsquo mdash letrsquos say itrsquos lsquotreersquo mdash has colored or infl uenced the encoding for lsquocatrsquo just as lsquocatrsquo has infl uenced the en-coding of the next word letrsquos say lsquofl owerrsquo rdquo said Michael J Kahana a neuroscientist at the University of Pennsylvania and an author of the paper His co-authors were Jeremy R Manning Dr Gordon Baltuch

and Dr Brian Litt all of Penn and Sean M Polyn of Vanderbilt

The way the process works the au-thors say is something like reconstructing a nightrsquos activities after a hangover re-membering a fact (a broken table) recalls a scene (dancing) which in turn brings to mind more facts mdash like the other people who were there mdash and so on Sure enough the people in the study whose neural up-dating signals were strongest showed the most striking pattern of remembering words in clusters

ldquoWhen you activate one memory you are reactivating a little bit of what was happening around the time the memory was formedrdquo Dr Kahana said ldquoand this process is what gives you that feeling of time travelrdquo

The Then and Now of Memory

By RONI CARYN RABIN

Parents often worry when their to-ddlers are slow to start talking but a long-term study has found that

these children have no more emotional or behavioral problems than others by age 5 mdash as long as they are otherwise developing normally

The study published online on Monday in the journal Pediatrics fo-llowed children who were part of the Western Australian Pregnancy Cohort Study including 1245 children whose speech was not delayed mdash they were using at least 50 words and could string two or three words together in a phra-se mdash and 142 who had not reached this milestone

The children were all born to wo-men who were pregnant between 1989

and 1991 when they joined the study The children were tracked through age 17

At age 2 the children identifi ed as ldquolate talkersrdquo were more likely than other toddlers to have behavioral pro-blems But there was no difference bet-ween the groups at ages 5 8 10 14 and 17

The paperrsquos lead author Andrew J O Whitehouse of the Telethon Ins-titute for Child Health Research in Perth Australia suggested that the early behavioral problems stem from a childrsquos frustration at being unable to communicate ldquoWhen the late-talking children catch up to normal language milestones which the majority of chil-dren do the behavioral and emotional problems are no longer apparentrdquo he said

Seen for Late Talkers

21 EDUCATIONThe San Juan Weeekly July 14 - 20 2011

By SHARON OTTERMAN

Catching up to the reality already faced by many of its members the nationrsquos largest teachersrsquo union on

Monday affi rmed for the fi rst time that evidence of student learning must be con-sidered in the evaluations of school tea-chers around the country

In passing the new policy at its as-sembly here the 32 million-member union the National Education Associa-tion hopes to take a leadership role in the growing national movement to hold teachers accountable for what students learn mdash an effort from which it has so far conspicuously stood apart

But blunting the policyrsquos potential impact the union also made clear that it continued to oppose the use of existing standardized test scores to judge teachers a core part of the federally backed teacher evaluation overhauls already under way in at least 15 states

ldquoNEA is and always will be oppo-sed to high-stakes test-driven evalua-tionsrdquo said Becky Pringle the secretary-treasurer of the union addressing the banner-strung convention hall fi lled with the 8200-member assembly that votes on union policy

The unionrsquos desire both to join and to stand apart from a White House-led effort to improve teacher performance represents the delicate situation it fi nds itself in as it confronts what Dennis Van Roekel the union president called ldquothe worst environment for teachers Irsquove ever seenrdquo Amid deep budget cuts and layoffs the union has lost more than 30000 mem-bers this year and is fi ghting back against legislative efforts to curtail its collective

bargaining rights in Wisconsin Tennes-see Arizona and other states

In response union leaders who spent last yearrsquos Fourth of July weekend challenging the Obama administrationrsquos promotion of charter schools and high-stakes standardized testing spent this yearrsquos trying to close ranks and encoura-ging even those union members who are furious at those policies to embrace calls for change mdash if on their own terms

On Monday the assembly voted by secret ballot to give Mr Obama an early endorsement for his 2012 presidential run a move that will allow the union to begin channeling its considerable politi-cal resources to the campaign The strong showing in favor mdash 72 percent mdash was fo-reshadowed by the standing ovations that greeted Vice President Joseph R Biden Jr who gave an impassioned pro-union speech here Sunday

ldquoThere is an organized effort to place the blame for the budget shortfall squarely on the shoulders of teachers and other public workers and it is one of the biggest scams in modern American his-toryrdquo Mr Biden told the educators In contrast to that threat the differences bet-ween the White House and the union he said were like disputes within the same family

Bertha J Foley a middle school tea-cher from Fort Myers Fla said ldquoAll of the Republicans are worse on education than Obama Irsquom not saying I agree with everything but you have to pick the least evil the one who will do the least harmrdquo

The unionrsquos new dual role as defen-der of union protections and promoter of reform created some unlikely tableaus At one point an angel-voiced folk singer

with a guitar took to the stage to lead the thousands of teachers in a sing-along ca-lled ldquoSolidarity Foreverrdquo At another po-int the narrator of a video projected on the hallrsquos multiple Jumbotrons began his report about inspiring teachers with the following sentence ldquoWe have a huge pro-blem of teacher quality in this countryrdquo

ldquoTheyrsquore just shifting back and for-thrdquo said Jana Wells 53 a teacher from Glendale Calif who called herself one of the few Republicans representing the Ca-lifornia caucus ldquoAnd on the endorsement of Obama itrsquos scare tactics mdash itrsquos like if we donrsquot do this right now our enemies will winrdquo

The debate over the new teacher evaluation policy largely focused on the concern that by even mentioning test scores the union would further open the door to their use Some teachers also balked at another section of the policy mdash the proposal that failing teachers be given only one year to improve instead of the standard two But in the end a clear majo-rity voted yes

Segun Eubanks the director of tea-cher quality for the union said the new policy was intended to guide not bind state and local union chapters It tries to close the disconnect between the many local union chapters that have already assented to using student test scores in teacher evaluations and the unionrsquos na-tional policy that explicitly opposed their use Now the union can offer those chap-ters support and conduct research on the impact of standardized tests

ldquoWhat it says is now we are willing to get into that arenardquo Mr Van Roekel said ldquoBefore we werenrsquotrdquo

The policy calls for teacher practice teacher collaboration within schools and student learning to be used in teacher eva-luations But for tests only those shown to

be ldquodevelopmentally appropriate scienti-fi cally valid and reliable for the purpose of measuring both student learning and a teacherrsquos performancerdquo should be used the policy states a bar that essentially ex-cludes all existing tests said Douglas N Harris of the University of Wisconsin a testing expert

Mr Eubanks said ldquoWe believe that there are no tests ready to do thatrdquo though he added that with the new natio-nal Common Core curriculum standards being rolled out new tests might be crea-ted that could meet the bar

The American Federation of Tea-chers the nationrsquos second-largest tea-chersrsquo union with 15 million members has already stated that student test scores ldquobased on valid assessmentsrdquo should be a part of improved teacher evaluations

But how much these new national policy statements will actually shift sta-te and local union practice remains to be seen experts said assessing the work of both unions

ldquoAt the national level what they are proposing really lacks much specifi city at allrdquo said Sandi Jacobs the vice president of the National Council on Teacher Quali-ty a nonpartisan advocacy group in Was-hington ldquoThere really isnrsquot much to hang your hat on And with so many states and locals already out of the gate itrsquos hard to see what new proposals they are bringing to the table at this pointrdquo

Priscilla Savannah a seventh-grade science teacher attending the convention from Shreveport La said ldquoItrsquos already too laterdquo

Ms Savannahrsquos state is about to start using teacher evaluations that give standardized test scores heavy weight ldquoItrsquos going to take a major fi ght and a lot of money to change anything nowrdquo she said

Union Shifts Position on Teacher Evaluations

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By LIESL SCHILLINGER

THERE are picnics and then there are picnics

Three weeks ago in the golden light of an early-summer evening thousands of Parisians dressed entirely in white converged mdash 4400 in the plaza at the cathedral of Notre Dame 6200 in a courtyard of the Louvre mdash for a feast neither advertised nor publicly heral-ded They brought not only epicurean repasts but tables chairs glasses silver and napery

At midnight after dining and dancing they packed up their dishes stowed their empty Champagne bottles in trash bags sto-oped to pick up their cigarette butts from the cobbles and departed The landmarks were left immaculate with no traces of the revelry of the previous three hours

This annual event called the Dicircner en Blanc mdash the ldquodinner in whiterdquo mdash is like a gustatory Brigadoon equal parts mystery anachronism and caprice Now attended by thousands it began humbly in 1988 That year Franccedilois Pasquier now 67 returned to

Paris after a few years abroad and held a din-ner party to reconnect with friends So many wanted to come he asked them to convene at the Bois de Boulogne and to dress in white so they could fi nd each other

But while in certain circles in Paris everybody knows about the Dicircner many Pa-risians have never heard of it And despite the precision that goes into its planning it retains an air of surprise

For the fi rst time New York will have its own Dicircner en Blanc on Aug 25 rain or shine A thousand people mdash half invited the others drawn from an online waiting list (newyorkdinerenblancinfo) mdash will partici-pate in this refi ned fl ash-mob feast at an as-yet undisclosed location in Manhattan

The New York event is being spear-headed by Mr Pasquierrsquos son Aymeric who lives in Montreal where he inaugurated the Canadian version of the Dicircner en Blanc in 2009 But can brawny Manhattan with skys-crapers from top to bottom innumerable re-gulations and a dearth of public spaces on a Parisian scale possibly approximate the ro-

mance of the French pique-nique The New York organizers Daniel Laporte and Alexan-dra Simoes are hopeful

ldquoThe emphasis is on spontaneity but we are making sure to be in accordance with all city rulesrdquo said Ms Simoes who volun-teered for the Dicircner organizing job

Mr Laporte a Canadian-born architect whom Aymeric Pasquier asked to participate said ldquoEverything is extremely carefully orga-nized because to seat a thousand people at the same moment you need a lot of planning But the most important thing is for everyone to have the best memory of the nightrdquo

In New York as in Montreal the Dicirc-ner en Blanc is being conducted openly fa-cilitated by Facebook and Twitter and other online aids and coordinated with municipal authorities But in Paris despite the tacit approval of government offi cials the Dicircner is private mdash a massive demonstration of the power of word of mouth and the strength of social connections The guest list is made up entirely of friends and friends of friends And despite the dinnerrsquos vast and visible at-tendance it has remained discreetly under the radar Paris is still a class-stratifi ed so-ciety mdash ldquoItrsquos horizontal whereas Montreal is verticalrdquo Aymeric Pasquier explained mdash so unwritten rules of privilege have allowed se-crecy to surround the event Nobody is sure who decides year in year out which people are invited to create tables for the evening

Franccedilois Pasquier calls the party-list formation a ldquopyramide amicalerdquo a friendly pyramid trusted friends invite their own trusted friends The eventrsquos exclusivity was evident just before the Dicircner en Blanc in Pa-ris on June 16 As I hurried with my dinner companions along a bridge to Notre Dame last month passersby stopped us

ldquoWhatrsquos going onrdquo a man asked ldquoHavenrsquot you heardrdquo joked my friend Aris-tide Luneau (who had invited me) ldquoItrsquos the end of the worldrdquo

One tourist asked ldquoDo they do this every nightrdquo If only

At 8 orsquoclock clusters of diners emerged from the Metro or chartered buses to gather at rallying points where they had been ins-tructed to meet their ldquoheads of tablerdquo the

organizers who had invited them The site is revealed at the last moment both to avoid gate-crashing and to preserve instantaneous-ness The guests decked out in white suits dresses skirts feather boas and even wings carried heavy picnic gear and delicacies like pacircteacute de foie gras poached salmon and fi ne cheeses mdash each table brings its own meal

At about 9 with the sky still light the site was announced Guests hurried across bridges and side streets to reach their destination By 930 all the tables had been deployed in orderly rows according to diagrams in the possession of the heads of table with men all along one side women along the other The guests quic-kly covered their tables with white cloths laid out the crystal for Champagne wine and water the plates for hors drsquooeuvres main course and dessert and began tucking in

As night fell on Notre Dame a cler-gyman appeared and blessed the throng and church bells rang out overhead at the Louvre opera singers serenaded the diners At 11 in both places diners stood on chairs and waved sparklers mdash signaling the end of dinner and the beginning of the dancing (to DJrsquoed music at Notre Dame and to a brass band at the Louvre) An hour later the frolic-kers switched off the merriment and packed up their tables to depart like Cinderella on the stroke of midnight

Needless to say New York presents its own challenges As in France the organizers have created a fl eet of ldquoheads of tablerdquo who will collect picnickers at various meeting po-ints around the city and shepherd them to the location But some differences will apply For one thing itrsquos likely that Champagne will not be permitted if the Dicircner is held in a public location For another the proceedings are ex-pected to end at 11

Mr Laporte said ldquoAfter this year the city will know the beauty of the Dicircnerrdquo adding ldquoWe can show them that a big group can be very respectfulrdquo

Guests in New York have a strong incen-tive to uphold the code of conduct Misbehave mdash by bringing uninvited guests getting too rowdy or not showing up or helping to clean mdash receive a punishment worse than any poli-ce fi ne being barred from future dinners


By BETTINA WASSENER

China on Wednesday raised interest rates for the fi fth time in nine mon-ths the latest in a series of moves

aimed at cooling the pace of economic growth and the steep price rises that have accompanied expansion

The central bank announced that it was raising the key lending and deposit rates in the worldrsquos second-largest eco-nomy after the United States by a quar-ter of a percentage point The increase had been widely expected by analysts

The central bank said the one-year deposit rate would rise to 35 percent from 325 percent beginning Thursday The one-year lending rate was raised to 656 percent from 631 percent

Signs that infl ation in China has acce-lerated to levels well above what the Chi-nese authorities are comfortable with have mounted in recent months and prompted Beijing to step up its efforts at reining in the ample lending that fueled growth and helped fan sharp rises in property prices as well as overall infl ation

Data released last month showed that consumer prices in May had risen 55 per-cent from the same period last year and eco-nomists widely believe that data for June due next week will show an even more marked increase of 6 percent or more

The rate announcement came just

weeks after news of the latest in a long line of instructions by Beijing to the nationrsquos banks to extend fewer loans mdash the 12th such move since early 2010

Beijingrsquos gradual cutback of lending mdash by raising reserve-requirement ratios for banks which reduces the amount of money available for loans mdash has had the desired effect of moderating the sizzling pace of growth to a level that most econo-mists here believe points to a soft landing for the Chinese economy

However many forecasters also be-lieve that Beijing now has little room left to increase reserve-requirement ratios much further or to lift interest rates much more Another small rate increase may come later in the year but over all the current round of tightening may soon have run its course many believe

The price rises that have accompa-nied soaring growth meanwhile have so far shown little sign of abating mdash in part because of sharp increases globally in the costs of raw materials Natural disasters in China also have helped push up the cost of food

Infl ation levels could ebb somewhat later this year but are widely expected to remain elevated presenting Beijing with a headache The Chinese authorities are in-tensely aware that soaring household bills could lead to widespread public dissatis-faction

China Raises Interest Rates

POP-UP The Dicircner en Blanc or impromptu ldquodinner in whiterdquo in the Cour Carreacutee at the Louvre in Paris New York is having its own

How 10000 People Keep a Secret

Wine amp LiquorThe San Juan Weekly 23July 14 - 20 2011

Roseacutes of a Different ColorBy ERIC ASIMOV

THE weather is hot and yes indeed the wine is pink If you have even the slightest doubt let me assure you

roseacute madness continuesDonrsquot take my word for it Listen to

what the wine professionals say both retail and restaurant

ldquoWe canrsquot keep it in the storerdquo said Kerin Auth an owner of Tinto Fino a Spa-nish wine shop in the East Village

Victoria Levin general manager of the Tangled Vine a wine bar on the Upper West Side said she continually needed to reple-nish her roseacute supply

ldquoI canrsquot stoprdquo she said ldquoI have six on the list and Irsquom always running out People are going insanerdquo

The occasion for our conversation was a recent tasting of roseacutes mdash make that rosa-dos mdash from Spain Kerin and Victoria joi-ned Florence Fabricant and me to sample 20 bottles from all around Spain But before we even began tasting the discussion turned to the continuing American love affair with pink-hued wines

In a way an element of insanity or at least irrationality has shaped the craze A decade ago wine professionals were deter-mined to persuade American consumers to overcome a shared belief that roseacute was the Full Cleveland of wine as deacuteclasseacute as a se-dan on blocks in the front yard They did their job so effectively that an intervention may now be in order to rein consumers back from their conviction that roseacute equals great

Far be it from me to discourage people from drinking roseacute Thatrsquos not at all my in-tention I love roseacute but some discrimination is in order We had the evidence right there in front of us in the 20 rosados in hues far darker than the familiar pale salmon com-mon in Provenccedilal roseacutes

These rosados were as inconsistent as any group of wines Irsquove recently come across maybe even more so As many of the wines as we did like we found just as many that we did not a higher proportion than or-dinary in our wine panel tastings

What was the problem Perhaps it was a question of expectations We refl exively expect roseacutes to be light dry and fresh not inconsequential but lithe and agile enough for lunchtime drinking Instead we found too many wines that were chunky with powerful fruit fl avors residual sugar or high alcohol that lacked energy and that

on a terrace in the noonday sun would es-sentially go down like a fat splat of overripe fruit thudding onto concrete

That was the bad news But there were a fair number of zesty tangy wines that may not conform to the Provenccedilal ideal but are fascinating enough to deserve recalibrating onersquos expectations

For one thing these wines are often great values Only two of our favorites cost $20 or more (more on those later) Of the other eight only two cost as much as $15 while two were less than $10 Our No 1 bottle in fact the snappy refreshing 2010 Ros de Pacs from Pareacutes Baltagrave was also our best value at the exceptionally low price of $11 This my friends is a good deal

The wine is from the Penedegraves region west and slightly south of Barcelona where Pareacutes Baltagrave has grown grapes for more than two centuries Clearly though the composi-tion of this Rosado from international gra-pes like syrah merlot and cabernet sauvig-non comes from a relatively recent planting As with many of these rosados this one had a touch of residual sugar but the sweetness was so well balanced by the acidity that the overall effect was greatly refreshing

No 2 was the 2010 Garnacha Rosado from Campos de Enanzo in Navarra dark but steely tangy and earthy Itrsquos made out of garnacha (or grenache as the French say) a grape that can easily yield the sort of big powerful roseacutes that we didnrsquot care for but when grown and made carefully a garnacha roseacute like this one can be awfully attractive

Our No 3 bottle was the outlier in this tasting the 2000 Loacutepez de Heredia Vintildea Tondonia a wine that I love and that was instantly recognizable in the blind tasting For one thing how many roseacutes are not even released until they have been aged a decade or so Very very few Most roseacutes are best when they are at their freshest But Loacutepez de Heredia clings almost alone to the traditio-nal Rioja practice of aging the wines before releasing them

The result is thoroughly distinctive a coppery orange wine with a captivating tex-ture and fl avors of coconuts and minerals Despite some discussion that the 2000 was not the best vintage for this wine itrsquos a steal at $24 expensive perhaps compared with the others in the tasting but not for a serious 11-year-old bottle

Almost all the wines in the tasting were from northeastern Spain with two ex-ceptions which both made our top 10 Our

No 4 bottle the 2009 Los Bermejos was from Lanzarote the easternmost of the Ca-nary Islands less than 70 miles from Africa This has to be one of the most unusual pla-ces on earth to grow grapes The vines hug the ground in hollows scooped out of black volcanic soil Half-moon stone walls are constructed on the windward sides of the hollows to protect the vines from the cons-tant blowing

The wine itself made entirely from the listaacuten negro grape is stonily dry and very refreshing with fl oral aromas and rocky mi-neral fl avors that make you feel as if you can hear the sea a wonderful quality in a roseacute This was the $20 wine a price that seems understandable given the cost of labor and shipping

The other wine from outside the nor-theast was our No 7 bottle the 2010 Oli-vares from Jumilla in southeastern Spain made largely of monastrell or mourvegravedre It was big and juicy and almost the color of maraschino cherries yet pleasantly tangy

As part of recalibrating onersquos expec-tations it would probably be wise to think about what to eat with these rosados which are bigger and fruitier than the norm ldquoMay-be not with shrimp or a saladrdquo Victoria said ldquobut maybe with richer food like burgers on a grillrdquo

Why not The market is already satu-rated with light fl irty roseacutes These rosados are for committed red-wine drinkers

Tasting ReportBEST VALUE

Pareacutes Baltagrave Penedegraves $11 frac12Ros de Pacs 2010Snappy and refreshing with an aroma of strawberries and stony mineral fl avors (Broadbent Selections San Francisco)Campos de Enanzo Navarra $12

Garnacha Rosado 2010Cherry red color dry and steely with tangy earthy fl avors (CampP Wines New York)Loacutepez de Heredia Rioja $24 Vintildea Tondonia Rosado 2000Serious and age-worthy with coconut nut and mineral fl avors an unmistakable clas-sic (Think Global Wines Santa Barbara Ca-lif)Los Bermejos $20 Lanzarote Rosado 2009Coppery red with fl oral earthy aromas and fresh stony fl avors (Josradiccopy Pastor Selec-tionsViradicplusmnos amp Gourmet)Borsao $8 frac12Campo de Borja 2010Delicate pink with light fruit aromas and lingering fl avors of cherries and earth (Jor-ge OrdonezTempranillo New Rochelle NY)Castellroig Penedradicregs Rosat $15 frac12Vi de Terrer 2010Dry and full-bodied with light fruit fl avors (CampP Wines)Olivares $12 Jumilla Rosado 2010Juicy ripe and tangy with earthy fruit fl a-vors (The Rare Wine Company Vineburg Calif)CUNE $15 Rioja Rosado 2009Earthy and fl oral with fl avors of nuts and herbs slightly hot from alcohol (Europvin USA Van Nuys Calif)Julian Chivite Navarra $12 Gran Feudo Rosado 2010Light dry and refreshing with subtle fruit fl avors (Spanish Wine Collection Congers NY)Nekeas Navarra $9 Vega Sindoa Rosado 2010A trifl e dense and heavy but with attractive chalky fl avors (Jorge OrdontildeezTemprani-llo)

tors regular fascinating educational events It also features a vast number of historical do-cuments and new discoveries that are made through continuous research Glasses that have been painted with gold and imported from France are also on display - as is the spectacular chandelier that originates from Murano and which is made from hand blown glass before it is decorated and completed

Various artists also get the opportuni-ty to display their work at the Casa Cautino Museum and this helps develop the art and culture of Guayama One extremely popular

and talented artist who had an exhibition in the Casa Cautino in the 1990rsquos is Thomas Batista He now has a permanent exhibition of his work in the museum to be viewed and admired with the rest of the building The Casa Cautino is not just another histo-rical Puerto Rican site but a jewel from the past It has been painstakingly preserved in order to share the past with future genera-tions and to remind visitors of the rich heri-tage that has shaped and developed Puerto Rico


The Casa Cautino is a masterpiece that was built for an extremely rich and well-respected family The home was

the dream and vision of Genaro Cautino Vagravez-quez a colonel in the Spanish Army and a landowner Manuel Texidor was recruited by the Cautino family to design and oversee the building of Casa Cautino in 1887 Casa Cauti-no is located in Guayama and is seen as a his-torical Puerto Rican site The building itself was constructed in a Creole and neoclassical style The architecture of the building makes the Casa Cautino a wonderful treat to see

Casa Cautino was occupied by the Uni-ted States during the Spanish-American war

but the Cautino family was able to return to their home after the troops left The house was constructed in the shape of a lsquoUrsquo with a central patio The beauty and the fascination of this unique home has lived on over the years and it has been renovated into a specta-cular museum

Exhibits in the museum include beau-tifully handcrafted furniture and sculptures that have been carved by the talented hands of local artists There are also some pieces that have been created by Caribbean and Latin artists Detailed paintings adorn the walls and with breathtaking carvings bring the museum to life The museum offers visi-

Casa Cautino - A Museum That Was Once Home of a Spanish Colonel

San Juan Weekly July 14 - 20 2011 25 modern love

By LINDSAY ABRAMS

I DESIGNED my ideal boyfriend in a dorm room vo-odoo ceremony orchestrated by my roommate Such spiritualism was out of character for her practical na-

ture but fi t perfectly with her ego she would believe that the forces of the universe were taking orders directly from her

I wasnrsquot eager to encourage her delusions of gran-deur but I was frustrated enough with my lack of success in romance to give her a chance So I played along closing my eyes and calling out my specifi cations smiling pa-tiently while she conversed with the higher powers that apparently functioned like a mystical Matchcom and promising to wait the prescribed time (ldquosix to eight wee-ks at mostrdquo) before calling her out as a fraud

Now that my order was placed I wasnrsquot supposed to go looking for him I had to have faith that hersquod be deli-vered to me when the time was right In truth I was ready to let someone else (or something else) take over All the usual methods of fi nding love on campus mdash dancing with strangers at frat parties fl irting during class and venting my frustrations online to the Anonymous Confession Board (my schoolrsquos angst-ridden gossip-laden underbe-lly) mdash had failed to get me what I wanted

My specifi cations were that he be tall scruffy and a bit older than me I preferred that he major in math or the sciences to offset my artistic nature and that he like to watch TV with me at night I know that vague charac-teristics like height and age do not true love make but I was warned that being too specifi c on a campus of only 2900 undergrads was likely to backfi re My roommatersquos last client had requested a boy who always wore scarves Two years later he had yet to appear

My order on the other hand was suffi ciently reaso-nable so it seems to be fast-tracked Not long after I was sitting alone in bed on a stormy Saturday night watching ldquoAdventurelandrdquo and getting over a nasty cold Besides those obvious disincentives to going out I was on the mortal side of a campus-wide game of ldquoZombies Versus Humansrdquo meaning that if I left the safe zone of my room I was vulnerable to attack

But in the search for love a weekend spent in your room is a weekend wasted So when a friend called me to a party at a nearby senior house I pulled back my unwas-hed hair grabbed a bag of marshmallows to throw at the undead and headed out into the downpour

Irsquom not saying my roommate actually has an ldquoinrdquo with the forces of the universe I wouldnrsquot suggest it at all if there wasnrsquot something serendipitous about what happe-ned next But I have to admit that my heart skipped a beat when the tall unkempt boy standing near the stairwell introduced himself as a senior chemistry major who lived right upstairs With a slightly sick feeling of anticipation and disbelief I asked him if he liked ldquoThe Offi cerdquo Two weeks later we were Facebook offi cial

The magic lasted for the rest of his time at Wesleyan long after I had been tagged in a drive-by zombie attack while riding my bike and forced to spend the fi nal days of the competition helping my new team stalk the remaining humans

Alex became my fi rst boyfriend and then my fi rst love and he was exactly what I had asked for Someti-mes hersquod fall short of the ideal and Irsquod kick myself for not having designed him to be say less moody and then Irsquod have to remind myself that my roommate and I hadnrsquot actually had any say in who he was

I mostly believed that I mostly believed that Alex and I were just two people who happened to meet over some lukewarm Natural Lights and found each other at-tractive enough to be worth the effort to make more of it But it was also nice to believe sometimes that we were meant to be

Unfortunately at 20 I felt in no way prepared to suc-cumb to destiny Eight months of bliss later Alex gradua-ted and we broke up as I had been planning all along He was entering graduate school in Virginia and I had two more years of college in Connecticut so it seemed the practical thing to do I was still grateful to the universe for tossing me a keeper but I was not ready to settle down with my soul mate

I spent my fi rst semester without Alex in Italy thin-king that I would miss him too much if I were to go back to school But however far apart Charlottesville and Bologna may be on the map a lonely girl in a foreign country and a fi rst-year med student both spend a lot of time on their computers and we ended up talking almost every day I missed his aching kindness his quiet way of understan-ding me The Italian boys I met were way too forward not to mention short

We reunited for a too-perfect week in New York City last December slipping back easily into our familiar comfort with each other One night he asked ldquoDo you think lying by omission is the same as regular lyingrdquo

ldquoNordquo I said ldquoIf the person isnrsquot asking you some-thing directly it can be better to just not bring it uprdquo

ldquoYeah I guess the intention is differentrdquoI had expected him to play devilrsquos advocate and

his quick acquiescence suggested his question wasnrsquot just theoretical Though I didnrsquot ask he soon confessed that hersquod seen someone else for two months while I was abroad

I went back to school thinking that things between us were more ambiguous than ever We were still in love but we avoided saying so and we had given each other explicit permission to see other people Back on my home turf I tried out the idea Staying in touch became more diffi cult as I was forced to question whether Skypersquos vi-deo quality was clear enough for Alex to detect a faint hic-key on my neck

As I continue to sort out my feelings Irsquove left the fairy tale part of my romance far behind and I fi nd my-self in the uncertain present still under the spell of my fi rst love and wondering if Alex and I really are meant to be When I feel like giving in completely and asking him to be my long-distance monogamous unambiguous boyfriend I call my mother and have her remind me that therersquos no need to rush into things

MY parents met in college too in the fi rst semester of their freshman year According to my mother breaking up with my father to see what else was out there was the best decision shersquod ever made she got to enjoy her college

years and they eventually ended up together which was the important part Alex she tells me will be there when I fi gure things out Meanwhile she not so subtly encoura-ges me along suggesting for example that I fi nd a cute freshman and ldquobecome his cougarrdquo

My father as the one who was temporarily dumped sees that period of their lives differently He took me out for frozen yogurt and explained the importance of hol-ding on to a good thing The last time we spoke he offered to fi nance fl ights to Charlottesville whenever I feel like going for a visit

My reluctance to fi ght for Alex has nothing to do with a fear of relationships or their purported lack of exis-tence for my generation Based on the number of subs-cribers to my roommatersquos mystical dating service Irsquod say that most of us do in fact want more than a hookup

Irsquom just afraid I found a good thing or possibly the best thing in my life too early The physical distance bet-ween us makes commitment seem much more fi nal And while I would like to settle down before I can actually be considered a cougar Irsquom decades away from that point For now Irsquod like to get the urge to prowl out of my system while Irsquom still an appropriate age for it

On a recent rainy night I went out with a friend and watched fate dangle potential happiness right in her face the boy shersquod been pining for standing alone at the fi rst party we went to They talked for a while and I spied on them from around the corner happy to see a fellow belie-ver getting a shot at romance But then all too soon he made some excuse and disappeared

She tried to text him to see where hersquod gone and I quietly persuaded her that it would be best to put her phone away On the verge of tears she left and I retur-ned alone to my room Feeling ridiculously ungrateful for what had come so easily to me I took out my own phone and typed a message to Alex

ldquoI still love you you knowrdquoUnable to send it and unable to just let it go I fell

asleep trying to decide


The San Juan WeeklyJuly 14 - 20 201126

Administration Offers Health Care Cuts as Part of Budget Negotiations

By ROBERT PEAR

Obama administration offi cials are offering to cut tens of billions of dollars from Medicare and Medi-

caid in negotiations to reduce the federal budget defi cit but the depth of the cuts de-pends on whether Republicans are willing to accept any increases in tax revenues

Administration offi cials and Republi-can negotiators say the money can be taken from health care providers like hospitals and nursing homes without directly im-posing new costs on needy benefi ciaries or radically restructuring either program

Before the talks led by Vice President Joseph R Biden Jr broke off 12 days ago negotiators said they had reached substan-tial agreement on many cuts in the growth of Medicare which provides care to people 65 and older and Medicaid which covers lower-income people Those proposals are still on the table when Congress reconve-nes this week aides said and are serious options that Democrats could accept in exchange for Republican concessions that raise revenues

ldquoCongress smells bloodrdquo said Wi-lliam L Minnix Jr the chief lobbyist for nonprofi t nursing homes

Mr Minnix the president of a trade group known as LeadingAge is urging nursing homes to ldquobombard your senators with the message that Medicaid cannot be cut by $100 billionrdquo over 10 years as Pre-sident Obama and many Republican law-makers have suggested

A coalition of hospital lobbyists wo-rried about the direction of the budget ta-lks has begun a national advertising cam-paign to block further cuts in the two health care programs which account for about 55 percent of hospital revenues The hospitals have made a commitment to spend up to $1 million a week through August on tele-vision print and online advertising

ldquoThis is white-knuckle time for a lot of peoplerdquo said Bryant Hall a health care lobbyist whose clients include drug and biotechnology companies ldquoStakeholders and benefi ciaries are anxiously watching the budget negotiationsrdquo

They may have reason to be anxiousSenator Charles E Schumer of New

York the No 3 Senate Democrat said ldquoWe

are very willing to entertain savings in Me-dicare Medicare gives very good health care very ineffi cientlyrdquo

In return Mr Schumer said Repu-blicans should be willing to consider some additional revenue

Negotiators said they were seriously considering cuts in Medicare payments to hospitals for uncollectible patient debt and the training of doctors steps to elimi-nate Medicare ldquooverpaymentsrdquo to nursing homes a reduction in the federal share of some Medicaid spending and new restric-tions on statesrsquo ability to fi nance Medicaid by imposing taxes on hospitals and other health care providers

Medicare and Medicaid insure more than 100 million people account for 23 per-cent of all federal spending and are likely to be an important part of any budget deal Military spending which accounts for about 20 percent of federal expenditures is likely to be included as well

Most Republicans have ruled out tax rate increases to reduce the defi cit Mr Obama has rejected the idea of Medicare vouchers Medicaid block grants or any ro-llback of the new health care law But he and the Republicans say they still hope to fi nd some common ground

Mr Obama has embraced the goal of reducing defi cits by a total of $4 trillion over 12 years mdash an ambitious goal that su-ggests the size of any grand bargain

In a speech in April Mr Obama offe-red to slow the growth of Medicare and Medicaid without cutting benefi ts He said his ideas would save $340 billion over 10 years and a total of nearly $500 billion in the two programs by 2023 His numbers quickly became a starting point in the ne-gotiations

As for Medicaid administration offi -cials have indicated that they could accept savings of $100 billion or more over 10 years much to the dismay of many House Democrats The lawmakers say the cuts would impair access to care for the poor and shift costs to the states which are fa-cing a huge expansion in Medicaid eligibi-lity and enrollment scheduled to start in 2014 under the new health care law

While insisting on new revenue at his news conference last week Mr Obama also said ldquoWersquoll have to tackle entitlementsrdquo

adding that ldquohealth care cutsrdquo need to be part of any deal

Senator Joseph I Lieberman the Con-necticut independent described a fi scal and political imperative ldquoWe canrsquot balance the budget without dealing with manda-tory spending programs like Medicare We canrsquot save Medicare as we know it We can save Medicare only if we change itrdquo

The new health care law trimmed Medicare payments to most providers Many states in fi scal distress are cutting Medicaid which is fi nanced jointly by the federal government and the states If Con-gress and the president now make additio-nal cuts hospitals say they will close some services and increase charges to patients with private insurance

Hospital executives from around the

country plan to visit Capitol Hill next week to deliver this message ldquoCutting Medicare and Medicaid payments to hospitals will hurt the ones we lovwe especially the most vulnerable mdash children seniors the poor and disabledrdquo

Mr Minnix the lobbyist for nonpro-fi t nursing homes said ldquoThe issue is not money The issue is the effects on people vulnerable peoplerdquo

The American Medical Association and AARP the lobby for older Americans have joined hospitals and nursing homes in fi ghting other proposals that would li-mit federal spending as a percentage of the gross domestic product Members of Con-gress of both parties have introduced bills that would automatically cut spending across the board if such limits were about to be breached

While details have yet to be decided lawmakers and administration offi cials said they were seriously considering these proposals

para Gradually eliminate Medicare pay-ments to hospitals for bad debts that result when benefi ciaries fail to pay deductibles and co-payments Medicare reimburses hospitals for 70 percent of such debts after the hospitals make reasonable efforts to co-llect the unpaid amounts

para Reduce Medicare payments to tea-ching hospitals for the costs of training doctors caring for sicker patients and providing specialized services like trau-ma care and organ transplants Medicare spends $95 billion a year for its share of those costs

para Reduce the federal share of pay-ments to health care providers treating low-income people under Medicaid and the Childrenrsquos Health Insurance Program The administration wants to establish a single ldquoblended raterdquo for each state The federal government now reimburses sta-tes at different rates for different groups of people and different services in the two programs

Representative Henry A Waxman of California the senior Democrat on the Energy and Commerce Committee and an architect of Medicaid said he was ldquovery concernedrdquo that this proposal would redu-ce the federal contribution to Medicaid and shift costs to states


By STEPHEN CASTLE

In a dispute that highlights growing ten-sion between China and its Western tra-ding partners the World Trade Organi-

zation ruled Tuesday that Beijing violated global rules by restricting exports of nine raw materials used in the manufacturing of high technology products

The case lodged by the United States the European Union and Mexico dates from 2009 and underlines the anxiety in the West about the way China is consolidating its tra-ding dominance

Signifi cantly the ruling strengthens other European arguments against Chinese restrictions on another category of exports mdash rare earths 17 minerals also used in the high-tech industry However the case also demonstrates how dependent technology in-dustries have become on some exports from China

The WTO panel rejected Chinarsquos ar-gument that its restrictions were motivated by a desire to protect the environment and prevent a critical shortage of the materials

The decision on Tuesday concluded that Chinese quotas export duties and licen-se requirements put in place a discriminatory system for the sale overseas of industrial raw materials widely used in the steel aluminum

and chemicals industries including coke zinc and bauxite

ldquoThis is a clear verdict for open trade and fair access to raw materialrdquo Karel De Gu-cht the European trade commissioner said in a statement ldquo Furthermore in the light of this result China should ensure free and fair access to rare earth suppliesrdquo he added

The EU quota of Chinese raw earth elements declined to 30000 tons in 2010 from around 50000 tons in 2009 according to an EU offi cial who was not authorized to speak publicly

The US trade representative Ron Kirk called the WTO decision on the raw mate-rials ldquoa signifi cant victory for manufacturers and workers in the United States and the rest of the worldrdquo

ldquoChinarsquos extensive use of export restra-ints for protectionist economic gain is deeply troublingrdquo Mr Kirk added in a statement ldquoChinarsquos policies provide substantial com-petitive advantages for downstream Chine-se industries at the expense of non-Chinese users of these materials They have also cau-sed massive distortions and harmful disrup-tions in supply chains throughout the global marketplacerdquo

Americans and Europeans had challen-ged Chinarsquos environmental protection argu-ment by pointing out that the raw material

consumption was not being controlled do-mestically

China must now either appeal the ruling or comply with it If it fails to do so the United States Europe and Mexico could eventually be allowed to respond with equi-valent trade sanctions

In a statement issued by its mission to the WTO in Geneva China said ldquothat although these measures have certain impact on domestic and international users they are in line with the objective of sustainable de-velopment promoted by the WTO and they help to induce the resource industry toward healthy developmentrdquo

The nine raw materials covered by the ruling on Tuesday are used in medicines CDs electronics the automotive industry ceramics refrigerators and batteries among other products

Of all the EU imports of some cate-gories of magnesium 95 percent are sour-ced in China as is 91 percent of imports of some categories of manganese while almost 30 percent of EU phosphorous imports are Chinese

European offi cials say the export res-trictions increased the global price for the raw materials and gave Chinese companies a clear commercial advantage which in effect constitutes a hidden subsidy They also made

it harder for non-Chinese companies to sour-ce the raw materials by making them less rea-dily available on the global market

The impact can be to increase the price of some products by as much as 100 percent according to EU offi cials

The ruling was welcomed by Busines-sEurope the lobbying group ldquoThe WTO panel decision clearly stipulates that almost all export duties and restrictions imposed by China are incompatible with WTO rulesrdquo it said in a statement ldquoIf confi rmed this deci-sion will require China to remove all unjus-tifi ed restrictive measures on raw materialsrdquo

WTO Says Chinese Restrictions on Raw Materials Break Rules

By CASEY B MULLIGAN

Another federal minimum-wage in-crease would reduce employment

Many economists expect the minimum wage if it has any effect to raise employer costs and thereby reduce emplo-yment especially among people who are likely to work in minimum-wage jobs like part-time workers

Federal and state minimum wages have changed a number of times over the years and each of those instances provides an opportunity to test the employment-redu-cing hypothesis

Not everyone interprets the historical evidence the same way The New York Ti-mes and the Center for American Progress cited some evidence to alleviate concerns a minimum-wage increase would reduce em-ployment

Those who believe historical mini-mum-wage increases did little to reduce em-ployment still appreciate a minimum wage that was high enough mdash a hypothetical $100 an hour would signifi cantly depress emplo-yment The real disagreement is whether his-torical minimum wages were high enough

for those increases to destroy jobsThe most recent federal minimum-wa-

ge increase on July 24 2009 had the poten-tial to have different effects than its predeces-sors Adjusted for infl ation (and defl ation) by 2009 the real federal minimum wage had been raised to a level 32 percent higher than it had been in 2006 mdash nowhere near our hypo-thetical height which we all agree would be destructive mdash but perhaps high enough to have some of those effects

During a recession hiring decisions may be especially sensitive to employment costs though some economists say recessions

make employment less sensitive to wagesItrsquos also easy to exaggerate the effects

good or bad of the federal minimum wage because seasonal workers employees who rely on tips and others are exempt from it and a few states have minimum wages above the federal minimum

I have been studying the 2009 federal minimum-wage increase and trying to se-parate the effects of the recession from the effects of the wage increase

Part-time and teenage employees are likely to have hourly wages near the fede-ral minimum The chart displays seasonally adjusted national part-time employment by month from the Census Bureaursquos monthly household survey Before July 2009 part-time employment increased by about three million during the recession and that month reached the peak level of part-time employment

To investigate that the July 2009 wage increase stopped increases in part-time em-ployment and other employment categories I estimated a monthly model of national part-time and full-time employment per ca-pita for each of 12 demographic groups dis-tinguished by race gender and age (white and nonwhite male and female and 16 to 19 compared with 20 to 54 and 55 and over) using data from before the increase

I forecast part-time and full-time em-ployment for each demographic group for August 2009 through December 2010 The

aggregate deviation of the part-time predic-tions from the actual was added to the red line to arrive at the aggregate part-time pre-diction shown as the chartrsquos blue line

After falling 93 million during the recession through July 2009 aggregate full-time employment fell another 18 million by the end of the year and remained below July 2009 levels at the end of 2010 People dismis-sed from their full-time jobs had trouble fi n-ding another suitable one and some of them worked part time while they searched

My estimates predicted part-time em-ployment would have continued to increase during the second half of 2009 because be-fore the increase part-time employment ten-ded to increase with full-time job losses

The actual and predicted data depart dramatically in September 2009 with actual part-time employment 12 million below pre-dicted part-time employment by December and averaging 975000 part-time positions below what was predicted over the months August 2009 to December 2010

I fi nd job loss from the July 2009 mini-mum-wage increase to be 800000

If raising the minimum wage reduced employment by 800000 cutting it back to its early 2009 level is likely to increase emplo-yment by 800000 That would add a bit to government revenue as some of those people moved from unemployment benefi ts to tax-paying workers

A coking factory in Shanxi province The World Trade Organization said Chinarsquos export

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HOROSCOPEAries (Mar 21-April 20)Find your inner resistance resolve and resilience Prepare for your patience to be well rewarded Take some pride in your achievements Give yourself a pep talk and do not let circumstances get the better of you Okay you are sensitive at the best of times but now is the time to access personal confi dence and power You will play a blinder

Taurus (April 21-May 21) A swelled head will of course do you no fa-vours at all However you will soon have reason to feel very pleased with yourself indeed Are you ignoring or avoiding someone to whom you should be nice Life is surely too short for such weird behaviour In this day and age it pays to value every connection Modify your expecta-tions

Gemini (May 22-June 21) Life and love take on a new shape Take a chance on a feeling It is better to remain open-hearted than to clam shut amidst diffi culty Develop your attention span and tolerance for the twists and turns of fate Life has some new tricks on offer so be ready and waiting Preserve your equilibrium Stop expecting the worst and lose the panic

Cancer (June 22-July 23) Your lifestyle can be nicely revived if you adopt a laissez faire attitude but there is no time like the present for making a good impression Just do not get too worked up or distressed about the process More trust and faith will serve you well combined with the full force of a smile You can afford to relax a bit and celebrate your good fortune

Leo (July 24-Aug 23) Only if you leave the past behind can you walk towards permanent peace of mind Follow your nose and do not ignore your intuition Think big and live it large Expect a break and follow up op-portunities Promotion and recognition at work are highly likely Make your requests and put yourself forward in subtle ways Time will tell what comes next

Virgo (Aug 24-Sep 23) If you have been in a rut now is the time to get things moving You will need to be focused and careful However it is better to take action than let a situation fester Spend quality moments with loved ones and speak up in the name of love do not falter Frustrated communications should ease You need to make a move rather than wait poli-tely

Libra (Sep 24-Oct 23) You may be a tad introspective so enjoy quiet times and relax Do not allow yourself to get worked up about insignifi cant nonsense Keep your cool Be comforted by the thought that there are no mistakes We do what we do and thatrsquos that Appreciate the good aspects of your situation There really are many reasons to be cheerful

Scorpio (Oct 24-Nov 22) If it can wait let it be for the moment You must be careful not to force yourself on anyone at present Sit back and let them come to you and if they do not well then that is that You can still make a great impression where it counts Use discernment and wisdom for then your infl uence will be more pro-ductive Be temperate and kind

Sagittarius (Nov 23-Dec 21)Diplomacy is cool and opens doors Watch that hot head of yours Do not get distracted by too much of the fun stuff Be practical and sensi-ble There is more than enough to be getting on with You are stronger than you know and can rise above emotional hurt frustration and disappointment More than one person has de-ceived you

Capricorn (Dec 22-Jan 20)Be careful not to get things out of proportion Give others the benefi t of the doubt for the mo-ment Take control of your life You do not need the advice of other people to make progress Things go wrong if you stop trusting yourself and hand your personal power over Indepen-dent victory is yours Channel your impressive creativity

Aquarius (Jan 21-Feb 19)Expect a delay fi nancially as work takes a whi-le to reap its rewards Be independent and ditch insecurities with regard to complex relations-hips Guard against an unexpected hiccup at the moment if it is not part of your game plan Fa-mily links overseas look positive The return of someone unexpected forms part of your destiny Be amazed

Pisces (Feb 20-Mar 20)A delayed message will reach you Give a part-ner the benefi t of the doubt Keep celebrations straightforward If you have had to put your love life on hold do not worry Persist with work and try to leave major stress behind Be careful with money think long- term regarding investments and cash re-turn Free up your energies

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By DAVID WALDSTEIN

Less than two full years into a four-year $66 million deal it seemed at times as if Jason Bay had been all but written

off by the Mets His batting average was low and his power almost nonexistent

But over the past two weeks Bay has showed ample signs of reclaiming the form that induced the Mets to sign him in the fi rst place and if he continues to play as he has during that time the Mets will be more than happy with the deal

A week after swatting the Metsrsquo fi rst grand slam in almost two years Bay hit two home run to help pace the Mets to a 6-0 vic-tory over the Dodgers

He hit a solo shot in the sixth inning and a three-run home run in the eighth gi-ving him six his total all last season Carlos Beltran who continues to have a terrifi c co-meback season also homered as Bay and Bel-tran hit home runs in the same game for the second time in a week On June 28 they hit grand slams in successive innings

As recently as June 19 Bay had only two home runs and looked to be on pace for ano-ther six-homer season Over his last 13 games Bay is batting 353 (18 for 51) with 4 home runs 15 runs batted in and 10 runs scored

ldquoIrsquom just happy lately with the way things are goingrdquo he said ldquoI feel like merdquo

For a team that has struggled to hit home runs most of the season it was strange to see the Mets score all six of their runs off the long ball But with Jose Reyes out with a hamstring injury the Mets need other ave-nues to score runs Power was their path and the Mets improved to 3-0 minus Reyes

ldquoAs a team wersquore not built to hit home runsrdquo Beltran said ldquoWe use our speed steal bases and manufacture runs So any time you can get some of these it helpsrdquo

Beltran broke a scoreless tie in the fi fth when he blasted his 13th home run of the sea-son with Angel Pagan aboard to stake starting pitcher Mike Pelfrey to a 2-0 lead The homer gave the Mets 162 two-out runs which was second only to the Boston Red Sox who had 165 going into Tuesdayrsquos games

It was also the 17th home run of the year allowed by Dodgers starter Ted Lilly and the 275th of his career the fourth most among active pitchers

With one out Pagan singled to center and broke to steal second base with Justin Turner at the plate Lilly saw it coming and threw to fi rst baseman James Looney who made the relay to second His throw was wide though and Pagan slid in safely Pagan would go to third when Turner grounded out to third but the inning was still alive and Beltran took full advantage

He drilled the fi rst pitch about fi ve rows up into the bleachers in left center fi eld After hitting the grand slam on June 28 Bel-tran said that he loves runs batted in and he extended his team lead to 57 on Tuesday

Bay his fi fth home run of the year lea-ding off the sixth a shot to roughly the same location Beltran hit his In the seventh Bay hit one to right-center fi eld off Blake Hawkswor-th with Beltran and Ronny Paulino on base

Pelfrey overcame some mechanical problems to throw six scoreless innings

allowing fi ve hits and two walks and impro-ved to 2-7 on the road

In the bottom of the fi fth he got the fi rst two batters out but hit Aaron Miles on the elbow and Matt Kemp followed with a single to center Loney walked to load the ba-ses and it was only at that point that the Mets scrambled their relievers in the bullpen

But it would be up to Pelfrey to get out of the immediate trouble against Juan Uribe and he did it Uribe smoked a line drive to center fi eld but it went directly to Pagan who made the catch to end the inning

ldquoLuckily he hit a 110-mile-per-hour line drive and Angel was thererdquo Pelfrey said

Pelfrey did not exhibit any enthusiasm as he walked off because he was disgusted with himself for the walk and the hit-batter and the fact he was throwing too many pit-ches (He would require 102 to get through only six innings)

After the fi fth he felt so out of whack that he went into the clubhouse and watched video of the game He noticed that his left arm was not in its proper position causing his throwing arm to come around late When he returned to the dugout he did some prac-tice windups there and returned for a perfect sixth inning

Bay and Beltran Again Power the Mets

Puerto Rican Volleyball Club Borin-quen Coquiacute conquered double gold in the categories 12 and 13 in the

United StatesldquoLast week we played in Atlanta

Georgia the tournament of the USA Vol-leyball GirlsrsquoJr National Championship our teams of 12 and 13 years became high-ly successful when both won gold medals in their respective categoriesrdquo said Mrs

Clarissa Loacutepez the president of the volley-ball club located in San Juan

The tournament organized by The National Olympic Committee of the United Volleyball played from June 25 to July 4 and includes 14 womenrsquos division teams from 12 to 18 years ldquoGiven the lev-el of competition of our club our teams always compete in the strongest category the National League Note that there was a great performance of our coaching staff where several coaches supported leaders of each team it was a collective work and Borinquen Coquiacute has done itrdquo said Ms Loacutepez

ldquoIt was an unforgettable experience

my girls played a few games almost per-fect outscoring off the court the Madfrog Texas in the semifi nals and two hours later we won gold in a close game against the Kansas MAVSrdquo said Rodriacuteguez On the other hand the leader in 13 years catego-ry of Borinquen Coquiacute Danny Peacuterez said ldquoThis team has two undefeated seasons in Puerto Rico then we came to the Jr Na-tionals and got gold in 12 category after-wards the same team this year revalidated with gold It shows the discipline and the compromise these young team have main-tained this is the mission of our club and is certainly an achievementrdquo claimed the youngster

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